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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1.1. O. O. F.
Special Notices- Something Extra Fine for
Lunch To-day at Sillivan's; As to Bills Against
British Steamships Evelyn, Washington City,
and Cyprus: Bluefleld Bananas. Kavanaugh 4
Brennan; For R-liable Drugs, Etc., Go to
Heidt's; As to Crew of British Steamship Inch
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from the Wood.
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Auction Sales— Old Established Saloon. Etc..
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tinued Sale of Groceries, Etc., by La Roche 4
McLaughlin.
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Cheap Column advertisements—Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted: For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Personal : Miscellaneous.
The Ohio republicans are said to be really
alarmed at the prospect of Foraker’s defeat.
If Foraker should be defeated the country
would survive.
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt has subscribed
SIOO,OOO to the world’s fair guarantee fund
in New York. Mr. Vanderbilt is said to be
wort i SIOO 000,000. He could very well
afford to subscribe what he did.
Ge i. Alger, tells the Chicago A 'ews that
he doesn’t intend to use the grand army for
hi* political advancement. This is a plain
statement, but it will hardly ease the mind
of President Harrison, who wants the grand
army influence himself.
Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, thinks
that Gov. Hill is “all right,’’ but he says
that he hopes that in 1893 the Democratic
party will elect Grover Cleveland Presidpnt.
Mr. McPherson thinks that the country
begins to need a return to the Cleveland
methods very much, and he is quite right.
Young Otto Hegner made his first appear
ance in New York last Saturday night, and
his piano performances are pronounced
very fine by the New York press. In one
composition in particular, his playing is
said to have be6n “astounding,” and to
have elicited “the most spontaneous and
hearty applause.”
A]though ex-Senator Thurman was pre
vented by sickness from finishing his speech
in Cincinnati the other night, he said enough
to convince the people that he is still one of
the ablest men and most effective speakers
in the couLtry. In his palmiest days he
never did better, and it is to l e regretted
that his peroration was not delivered.
The last number of Vanity Fair, pub
lished in London, prints a picture of Mr.
Chauncey M. Depew, and in the sketch
of his life which follows it, it is stated
that he is the coming President of the
United States. English newspapers are
proverbially ignorant concerning American
politics. It is not probable that Mr. Depew
•will ever be President of this country.
In 1871 Samuel White was conditionally
pardoned out of the Ohio penitentiary. He
was serving a life sentence. The condition
of his remaining out was that he should not
take a drink of whisky or any other intoxi
cant. For eighteen years he abided by the
condition, but a few weeks ago bo went on
a protracted spree, and when he became
sober he was returned to the penitentiary,
to remain until he dies.
A republican, who was formerly a high
public official, is represe ited as having said
that all that Mr. Wanamaker had done for
the postal service wai to issue square postal
cards to gratify the dudes, and smaller post
age stamps to please the anglo-maniacs. That
is to say, Mr. Wanamaker is a failure as
Postmaster General. Such an opinion is
not far from the truth, in the light of the
results accomplished by Mr. Wanamaker to
date.
Mr. Cleveland will not vote in the com
ing municipal election in New York, hav
ing very recently changed his residence,
and not haviug lived in the new district
long enough to entitle him to vote. The
republican nen spapers of that city charge
that he changed his residence when he did
in order to avoid voting, but that is hardly
true. Mr. Cleveland is a man of convio
tions, and be generally lets the people kuow
where he stands.
Some of the republican organs say in
effect that the appointment of Col. A. E.
Buck as United States marshal for the
Northern district of Georgia is the Presi
dent's comment upon the action of the
Atlanta people in burning him in effigy
‘‘for preaching the dreadful heresy that a
black skin should not of itself debar its
possessor of a place in the public service."
The republican organs might try to answer
this question: If the President waoted 1 1
reteiks u*> people of Atlanta for the matter
referred p,. why didn’t he appo.m a black
•wpuuucau tuetoed of a white one! The
• resident s "omimiwnt" doesn't seem Ut be
ssedv t... .1 i,
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Georgia Has Made No Choice.
There is quite a notioeatle effort to make
it appear that the democrats of Georgia
favor making Gov. Hill the democratic
candidate for President in 1892. Gov. Hill
was received certainly with great cordiality
in Georgia, and he made a very favorable
impression upon those with whom he came
in contact. The speeches which he delivered
during bis southern trip, and his utterances
on southern questions on bis return home,
tended to increase the regard which tbe
southern people have for him. Doubtless
Georgia, and, in fact, all the southern
states, would give him a very hearty sup
port if he should be nominated in 1893 fur
President.
Tbe fact, however, that Gov. Hill is popu
lar with the democrats of Georgia doesn’t
necesarilv justify the conclusion that her
delegation in the national convention in
1892 will favor his nomination. The prob
ability now is that Mr. Cleveland will get
the nomination if he will accept it. The
leaders of both pai ties are of the opinion
that he will.
The gieatest of the issues upon which the
two parties are divided is that of tariff
reform. It will overshadow all others,
judging from the present outlook, aod no
one is so well fitted as Mr. Cleveland to be
the leader of tbe party in a tariff reform
campaign. Gov. Hill is a sterling demo
crat and a tariff ref Truer, but be is not so
conspicuously identified with tariff reform
as Mr. Cleveland.
A few Georgia newspapers, in speaking
of Gov. Hill’s visit to the state, Lave de
ciared their preference for him as the next
democratic candidate for President, and
several Georgians of more or less prominence
have done the same thing, but they do not
speak for the state, and their preference
now is no indication of what the prefer
ence of the state will be in 1893.
Of course a great deal of t l >e talk in favor
of Gov. Hill is very sincere. It is based
upon tbe belief that the chances of his
election would be better than those of Mr.
Cleveland, but the most of it—particularly
outride of this state—proceeds from a feeling
of hostility to Mr.Cleveland personally. It is
therefore hardly worth considering. It will
be no more genera! two years hence than it
is now.
Mr. Cleveland is not being forgotten. Ho
has as stfong a hold upon his party as he
ever had. He is very popular with the
people, and, although he avoids appear
ing, as much as possible, upon public oc
casions, it is noticeable that when he does
appear there is a demonstration that shows
that he is still a popular favorite.
The Montana Fraud.
It is very positively asserted that the
affidavits upon which the canvassers threw
out the Silver Bow precinct in the recent
election in Montana, and thus, on the face
of the returns, made the legislature re; üb
lican, were fraudulent As is well known,
nearly all the ballots cast in that precinct
were democratic. If the courts should sus
tain the action of the canvassers, the repub
licans would have a majority of the legis
lature, and Montana would be represented
in the United States Senate by republicans
instead of democrats.
In specials from Helena, the capital of
Montana, the information of the way in
which the fraudulent affidavits were ob
tained is furnished. It seems that the Sil
ver Bow precinct was held back until it
was known that the legislature was demo
cratic by a very small majority. It was
ascertained that if that precinct were
thrown out the legislature would be repub
lican. Affidavits were obtained from men
who voted thedemocatic ticket at that pre
cinct, and whooould neither read nor write,
that they voted the straight republican
ticket. For these affidavits it is alleged a
great deal of money was paid. In other
caave, men who voted tho straight demo
cratic ticket were induced to make affi
davits that they voted that ticket, and in
those alii la vita the word “democratic” was
changed to “republican.” The whole
number of affidavits obtained was much
greater than tne number of republican
ballots found in the ballot boxes. These
affidavits were presented to the canvassers,
the majority of whom were republicans,
and they decided to throw out the entire
vote of the precinct.
If the story of these fraudulent affidavits
is true, those who concocted and carried
out the scheme to defeat the will of the peo
ple ought to be severely punished. Indeed,
Btate prison would be too good for them. It
is stated that the grand jury of the county
in which they reside has been instructed to
inquire into the charges against them. The
success of the great fraud of 1876 has in
fluenced republicans iu many parts of the
country to undertake to accomplish by
fraud what they failed to do by fair means.
The Philadelphia Press has the brazeu
effrontery to sav that if the proper measures
wore taken to do away with the condition
of things in Harlan county, Kentucky, (the
scene of tne Turner-Howard fights) that
state would not be so strongly democratic.
If the Press doesn’t know that Harlan
county is a strong republican county, its
ignorance is inexcusable. The attention of
tbe republican organs has been called to
the fact several times lately. As was
pointed out by the Morning News the
other day, the localities in the south most
noted for lawlessness are those controlled by
republicans; and yet republican organs go
right on trying to create the impression
that whatever lawlessness there may be in
the south is al ways in some way the out
growth of democratic rule.
An ex-convict named Thomas Shea
started out iu Boston the other day to find
John L. Sullivan, with the supposed inten
tion of murdering him. He finally found
him in a barber’s chair. He seated himself
near by, and kept up a running fire of
badinage, curses and insults, which Sul
livan returned. In the barber shop was
one of Sullivan’s admirers, an old-time
lightweight pugilist named James Kelly.
Kelly was very drunk, aud be took it into
bis head that he must protect his friend
Sullivan. Consequently he picked up a
razor, walked up to Shea, and inflicted
upon his neck a cut from tbe effects of
which it is thought that he will die. Sul
livan ordered Kelly out of the shop, paid
all possible attention to Shea, and remarked
that it wasn’t necessary for any one to do
his fighting.
Republican organs are yery anxious to
stop the talk about the forgeries In that
state by which Candidal* Campbell’s in
tegrity was assailed, but neither the demo
crats of Ohio nor thuee of other stales are
dlsp eel to drop the tastier. The Oslo
republicans should be laughl that if a mans
character is *l,ec*#d ui t at uneTup iluu<
wanner, the pohuooi party for whoso U-ue
fit the attack was wade will be the luerr
rather thaw ti; T gainer.
THE MORNING NEWS* TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1889.
Invite tbe Pan-Americans.
Secretary Blaine announced several days
ago that the delega'es to the Pan-American
ci ngress would visit the south, and it is
tow pretty well understood that they will
start from Washington, southward, in
January. Peri apt something has already
been done toward arranging the programme
of the visit. Quite a number of cities have
extended invitations to tbe delegates to visit
them and partake of their hospitalities, and
others, doubtless, will do so.
(Savannah, of course, will be one of the
cities visited. Her commercial importance,
and the fact that she is one of the most
beautiful cities in the country, make that
certain. It would be a courtesy to the
delegates, however, which they would un
doubtedly appreciate, for the city and the
exchanges to unite in extending to them a
formal invitation. Indeed, such an invita
tion, extended ttirough tbe Secretary of
State, might assist the state department in
making tbe programme for the projected
tour.
New Orleans expects the delegates in that
city during the carnival season, and 6he is
preparing to so entertain them that they
will retain a pleasanter impression of her
than any other city. The carnival is ex
pected to be a very brilliant one, and New
Orleans will depend largely upon that and
the social features of that occasion, rather
than upon her industries, to make the visit
of the delegates an agreeable one. No
doubt the delegates will find New Orleans
a very attractive city, and they will dis
cover customs there that w ill remind their
of their own countries. They will not be
hurried from one point of attraction to
another, but will be permitted to follow the
bent of their own inclinations.
Because the majority of the delegates
said that they would prefer that the world’s
fair, on the 490th anniversary of the dis
covery of America by Columbus, should bo
located in New Orleans, the people of that
city think they stand an excellent chance
of monopolizing the trade of Central and
South America with this country. Doubt
less her chance for getting the lions share
of it is very good, but she will
find a strong competitor in Savan
nah. Savannah is already getting a
good deal of fruit trom Ceutral American
countries, and distributing it through the
west. If she takes the proper kind of an
effort, there is no reason why her com
merce with Central and South America
should not be as great as that of New Or
leans. It would not be surprising if Tampa
should become, within a few years, a
very popular port for the South American
trade.
The trade question, however, is one that
will not be settled yet awhile. Tbe im
portant matter at present is to make the
visit of the Fan-American delegates to tue
south one that will be pleasant to them. It
will not take them long to see that the
south is the section of this country with
which their trading will be done. When
they see the south's cotton fields and iron
deposits they will understand that the time
is not distant w.ien she will manufacture
the articles they want. Let them be in
vited to Savannah, to see the port through
which so large a portion of the products of
the south pass on their way to market.
A Blundering Official.
Secretary Noble seems to have a genius
for blundering. He tried to make ex-Corn
missioner Tanner the scapegoat for the
pension buienu scandal, but when Mr.
Tanner came back at him with statements
that permitted the inference that the
pension bureau was being run in the in
terest of the Republican party he concluded
he had made a mistake, and he has not
been heard from since upon that subject.
He became offended at the wording of the
resignation from the pension service of Mr.
Thompson, of Albany, N. Y., and wrote
that gentleman a very undignified letter.
If he thought that his official position
would protect him° from an indignant an
swer, he was mistaken.
Gen. Noble’s last blunder was the removal
of Mr. Charles F. Conrad, a useful employe
of the government, appointed in 1887 to ob
tain information concerning the Benson
syndicate land survey frauds in California,
Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, New
Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Washington, and
Utah, by which frauds John A. Benson and
others are said to have gained possession
of hundreds of thousands of dollars
to which they were not entitled.
If the charges made against Secretary
Noble in this connection can be substan
tiated, he is guilty of something more than
a blunder. The Harrison administration
had been in power only a few days when Mr.
Benson was informed t iat his services would
be dispensed with, but it was shown that
he was an efficient officer, and ho was re
luctantly reinstated. In August he was
again dismissed, only to be again reinstated,
and the other day Secretary Noble dis
missed him finally. It is known that Sena
tors Stanford, Stewart, and Jones and
other wealthy public men demanded Mr.
Conrad’s removal, and Mr. Conrad states
that these gentlemen were mixed up iu
the frauds he was investigating. It was
very natural, therefore, that they should
want bins out of the way. Secretary Noble
admitted t! at Mr. Conrad did effective
service, and the best excuse he could offer
for removing him was that he was “getting
up suspicions against everybody connected
with the administration.” This, it will
strike the public, was a Yery lame excuse.
Mr. Conrad may return to California as a
witness in the cases be has worked up, but
the secretary has sought to destroy the
effect of his testimony by broadly iutim.it
ing that nobody should believe what he
says. Is the secretary trying to shield his
wealthy friends from exposure?
The Rev. John Jasper of Ric imonl, Va.,
has been ridiculed a great deal because of
his as ertion that the “sun do move,” but he
isn’t so greatly lacking in sense as one might
suppose. In fact, he has recently shown
himself to be one of the most seusible col
ored men in the country. A good many
colored preachers in Virginia signed a let
ter calling upon the colored people of that
state to vote for M ihone. It was in their
line of mixing very bad politics with what
ought to be religion. The Rav. John Jas
per did not sign tbe circular. He said that
his mission was to preach the gospel, and he
added: “The church is no place for politics,
as it is the house of the living God, and I
have never allowed polities to he brought iu
my church. When lam away some of my
brothreo may gat up aud give their views,
but they don't do it when I am tliar."
Tbe Chicago Tribune estimates that ss
matters now stand, Mr. Real way count
upon 90 votes tor speaker, Mr. McKinley
&4, Mr. Cannon 81, Mr. Burrow* 18, aud
Mr. Henderson 12. The votes of New York
and I'eonsylvaui* are given to Mr. Used in
CURRENT COMMENT.
An Opinion From Texas.
From the Houston Post (Dem.).
Gov. Hill did not make many friends in the
south by his recent speech at Atlanta.
A Very Peculiar Affection.
From the Nets York Star (ftw.l
Senator Cullom says he is on good terms with
President Harrison. They have that same sort
of deep affection for eacn other that Senator
Sherman has for Gen Foraker.
Harrison’s Herculean Task
From the New York Herald (Ind.).
Senator Hiscock’s declaration that President
Harrison would prove to congress that Cleve
lani’s administration was worse than Bu
cha ari's was male for publication and not as
a guarantee of good faith. The sound of his
own big. round sentences falls pleasantly upon
the senator’s ear.
A Crime and a Blunder.
From the New York Sun ( Ind.).
Probably there is a good deal of conscious
humbug in the republican talk about passing
an election law It would l>e both a crime and
a bin ider. A crime, because it would be nothing
less tnan an attempt under the forms of law to
intimi late or harass voters. A blunder, because
it would still further Imbiiter the south aga n.t
the Kepub ican party, anl because it might be
used against the Republican party under a
democratic administrati m. A hau l of demo
cratic officials bossing congressional elections
in Vermont would fill Mr. Edmunds with such
sorrow asho hasn't known since the nomina
tion of Mr. Blaine.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Do you see mb?” said the colored man boast
fully, as he passed behin 1 the mule.
“Yes,” replied the mule, “and raise you.”—
Washington Capital.
A fireproof pockbtbook is one of the latest
inventions. It is probably intend'd to Drevent
money from burning holes in the pockets of the
owners. —Boston Hera and
"Tommy, don’t you want to go sailing?”
“Naw.”
“Why, we’ll have a spanking breeze.”
“That’s wot’s the matter.”—.Yew York
Herald.
Insurance Agent—Now that you are married,
I suppose you will take out a policy?
Young Higgs—O, no. I guess not. I don’t
think site's going to be dangerous.— Terre Haute
Express.
Wago (to Bowser, who has his finger done up
in a rag)—Hello, how did you do that?
Bowser—Trying to hammer a nail.
Wagg—You succeeded, didn't you?—A’eto
York Sun.
ConwiotiEß—When your wife found those
pool tickets in your pockets, did she say any
thing before she threw them in the tire?
Brown—Yes. She asked if any of them were
winners.— Life.
First Ci-a^ueur— Why do you clap and hiss
at tne same time?
Second Ditto—You see, the new actress has
Said me to clap, and her rival has paid me to
iss!— L'lnditstriel.
Greenan Barrett—Sick? Of course I’m sick.
The doctor says I'm booked for an attack of
nervous prostration!
Takitt Ooolley—Been working too hard?
"There are five babies in my boarding house.”
Boston Times.
First Critic—You ar<? in error when you say
Mme. Sylphide is 17 years old. The woman is 47
if she’s a day.
Second Critic—Haven't you found out yet that
there are professional ages as woll as 6tage
names?— Boston Times.
Mr. Smart (as the church-goers pass?—-I’m
surprised that Miss Sweet |>ennits Bodworth to
accotupnay her, sta's about the freshest youn.-
fellow 1 know, j
Mrs. Smart—Petbaph that's the reason why
Bhe lets him carry her rsalter.— Boston Times.
Indistinct but Reliable.—Borrowit (in Chi
nese laundrylriVV hyan you say Fli-day, John,
wnen you nieafi Frltl y*
Chlriaiuan—l slay Fit-day 'cause I mean Fli
day; not like pelican man, who slay Fli-day
and come to psy jme week afteh next:—Texas
St flings. r|, ) 1
Kentucky Guide—Over in that small house
lives the moat remarkable man iu Kentucky.
Tourist—You dunk say so. Who in the dickens
is he. , <SJ
Guide (solemnly)- He the only man in the
whole state that isn't called colonel.—Philadel
phia Inquirer
“Uncle Petk. t&fo yog ever 4 Slave?”
“Befo’ dewah, yes, chile."
“What is your last name?'’
“Harrison, sae.y- -
“The same AS the president's!”
“Yes, chili; -ISfttTha ain't ho relation ob
mine.”—Soc.efy.
It has been demonstrated in scores of in
stances that a river will carry the germs of
typhoid fever sixtv miles before they are ren
dered barm logs. IS offer o i a glass of water,
and you havend ti jtWto figure how far below
Pittsburg you are, Just tell ’em you always pre
fer ehampagui tknit Free Press.
No End to Jt;—.“l’m an insurance man, sir.”
"What do 57. hi want now? You’ve made me
insure my life, insure the title to my real estate,
insure my plate glass, and everything else I
own.”
“True, sir, but the next thing to get insured
is your policy of insurance.”— Societr/.
PERSONAL*
Jam is. Redpath, the distinguished litterateur
and lecturer, is at present a guest of Jefferson
Davis at Beauvoir, and is supposed to be assist
ing Mr. Davis in some literary work.
Gen. Case y, chief of the United States en
gineers, says the congressional library building
is being pushed rapidly, but that some delay
has been caused by a failure to get materials
fast enough.
Mr. Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette is going
to Rome to investigate anil write up the condi
tion and prospects of the uapaey. He is armed
with a note from Cardinal Maiming, introducing
him to the pope.
On a repent occasion, George Bancroft, the
historian, t> >ld a bevy of young girls that ;.,e
secret of long life lay in never losing one’s tem
per. “If you will never get angry,” said the
historian, "you will live to be 90.”
The trial of J. Frank Collom of Minneapolis,
for forgery, will prove one of the most famous
in the annals of Minnesota. His victims are de
fending him so as to prove there were no for
geries. and that their pater is good.
Austin Corbin returned from Europe Sunday
in the steamer Umbria. He was met at
Quarantine by the tug Monitor of the Reading
railroad and taken to Hunter's Point, where a
special train on the Long Island railroad carried
him to Babylon.
Samuel Wilkkson, originally a staff writer
on the New York Tribune, but for the last
twenty-one years secretary of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company, has been grauted an
indefinite leave of absence at a salary of §4,000
a year. He is now in the 73d year of his age.
Mgr. Francis Satolli, titular archbishop of
Lepanto and president of the Academy of
Noble Ecclesiastics, is the full name and titles
of the papal delegate who has been designated
to represent the holy see at the inauguration of
the catholic university at Washington and the
celebration of the centenary of the establish
m -nt of the Catholic hierarchy in this country.
On his arrival in New York he will be met down
the bay by a delegation of prominent Catholics
and escorted to Washington. The archbishop,
for nine years, held the chair of dogmatic the
ology at the Urban college of the propaganda
-In Rome.
The agricultural bureau is a powerful institu
tion. bays a Washington correspondent: “Sec
retary Rusk is quietly laughing over the pre
dicament of two gentlemen who called upon
him r. cently. There was quite a company of
lad! sin the party. To the first gentleman he
introduced seven of the ladies as his wife. The
second was even mure embarrassed than th •
first. In one hand he held his hat, and in the
other bis umbrella. He had a cigar in his
mouth, and as both hands were occupied he did
not know what to do with 1L Finally ue reached
up and placed tne lighted cigar behind his car.
The secretary asked him if he was a book
keeper, and ho said he was.” Husk is a very
funny fellow.
Amonu the distinguished people who were st
the Hiratford yesterday wss Mrs. W. P. Hamp
ton tin- wife of the son of Senator Wade Hamp
ton of South Carolina. Mrs. Hampton is inak
lug a pleasure trip in company with Mr. anl
Mrs. Leslie Warren of Nashville. Mrs. Warren
and Mrs Hampton are sisters. They are very
handsome young women, and have not before
made ao complete a Journey of tbe northern
cities as that in which they are now engaged
Near them at dinner sat Mrs. Luce, the wife of
Hear Ad uiral J. H. Luce of tne navy, and
ijeorge A Richmond and his three daughters.
Mrs Luce and the Richmond family nad Just
arrived from Newport. Mr. Kichitu nd. who is
the owner of oue of the fiueat ooitages at Ihe
swell summer resort, is so Invalid, aud Is ou his
"I cannot praise Hood's barsapartita half
enough," says a mother whose sou, almost
him i with acru'u a, was curwl by this iuml-
Tho Summer Gi. L
From the Boston Courier.
The summer girl—O where is'due.
The sweet, the rare, the radiant maid?
Gone; but her form we ll abortly see
In glossy sealskin robes arrayed.
And when the snow begins to whirl
And eddy in tbe ambient air.
She’ll blossom out a winter girl.
As fascinating and as fair.
She draws us. sways us as she wills;
She smiles, an 1 to her side we fly;
We'll run up livery stable bills
To take her sleighing by and by.
A Man to be Avoided.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
It is not safe to tell a story in the hearing of
James A Meade, the manager of the “Bluebeard,
Jr.,” shoe, at the Broad Street Theater, for
fear that he will recognize it as a back number.
Mr. Meade is so much of a veteran that he has
heard pretty nearly every yarn that is swapped
among the theatrical folk. A day or two ago
L>e VS olf Hopper, wbo is an inimitable raconteur,
was working off what he called a “corker” to a
group in the Continental cafe. It was a good
one, and Hopper made it even better by a way
of narrating it that was a* clever as anything
he does on the stage He had got it from
“Adonis” Dixey, ana was pretty sure that it
was quite anew thing.
“Think that's not a chestnut. Hopper?” Mr.
Mea e asked in his quiet fashion when the story
had been finished and everybody in the group
had laughed.
“Certain,” answered Hopper.
‘‘Well.- aaid Mr. Meade, between the puffs at
his cigar, “Eph Horn used to tell it somewhere
near thirty years ago.”
Silence fell. Hopper was paralyzed for per
haps the first time in his life, and when he re
gained his breath he employed it to ask every
body up to tne cigar stand.
A Losing Business.
From the Chicago Mail.
Tom Prior of the Chicago opera house lost a
chum a short time ago. The chum went to New
York to stay, and, inasmuch as Mr. Prior and
the chum were much given to shaking dice in a
social way of evenings between acts, Mr. Prior
was disconsolate. Then about the fourth even
ing after his friend's departure he received a
telegram from the New York man. It read:
“r irst horse: Three fives to beat. Shake and
answer.”
This tickled Mr. Prior immensely, and the
duties or the evening having been discharged
he borrowed a dice box, went over to the West
ff? Union office, shook out four fours, and sent
this dispatch to his friend:
‘‘Four fours. Horse on you. Your turn.”
He went back to the theater and had only
been in the house about fifteen minutes when a
boy came along with another message. It read’
'Second horse: Aces full on fives. Shake!”
Mr. Prior left several gentleman with whom
he discussing Corsican folk lore and its
eossibilities in a literary and dramatic way and
ustled over to the telegraph office, where he
called on the clerk to witness that he shook
fairly. Then he rattled the dice a good deal
and finally shook sixes and trays. This occas
ioned the following dispatch:
“Two pairs. Sixes and trays. Horse on me.
Shake!
Ho was considerably excited by this time,
and paced the foyer with a look of abstraction
on his face until the next dispatch arrived. This
came just before the close of the performance
and read:
“Last horse: Four aces and a six. I’ve cot
you."
Mr Prior made a rush for the .Veste-n Union,
clutching the dice-box as he went. He roused
the clerk, who was getting sleepy, and told him
to act as lookout. Tnen he pounded the little
ledge in front of the clerk’s window with the
bottom of the dice-box and rolled out the dice
Two deuces appeared. Mr. Prior generally
threw away deuces on principle, but he thought
n© would stick to tQese. He threw again. Two
more deuces. One more shake for the last
deuce. He pounded the box quite vigorously
and rolled out the die. A deuce! Five deuc s!
He grabbed a blank and wrote.
“Five deuces. You lose. I’ll take a cigar.”
This lie sent to his f.fend in New York and
went gleefully around to a place where be knew
t ley ke t cigars and things, and gave up 15
cents for a cigar. There were a lot of friends
there, and he told them all about it in great
glee. a 6
“How many telegrams did you send?” asked
a friend.
“Lemme see," said Mr. Prior. “Three, of
course. There were three horses."
"How much were they apiece?"
“Forty cents. Why?"
“That made gl 20. Then you came around
here and paid 15 cents more. A dollar thirty
flve tor acigar Do you reckon you go. much
the best of it?”
Then Mr. Prior said something about some
fellows who would "kick on the streets of gold
and call ’em plated,” and went sadly home.
The remarks of the analytical man had acted
on his cup of joy as a spoonful of acid phos
phate would in a cup of milk. It was curdled.
A Bitter Misanthrope.
Burdette, in the Brooklyn Eagle.
People who have met me on the train say that
lam of all men most morose, unsociable and
unaccommodating; that I never offer toopen
the window for any one, never close the door
alter the brakeman has gone out and taken the
end of the car and a crashing noise with him
never offer to turn a seat for two ladies who
wish to mon polize tour sittings with a trip pass
and a scalper ticket; never, in short, offer any
of those little attentions of my fellow-travelers
which tae fresh young man and the simple old
one are so ready and glad to extend. I plead
guilty. I never do. I will do anything I am
asked to do. if I have time, and feel just like it
and there seems to be no good reason why i
shouldn't, but I won't volunteer to do anythin-"-
on the train. 1 used to—some. lam older now”
and know so much less than formerly that both
my neighbors of tne road and myself get along
mucu more comfortably. Years and years ago 1
one day picked up a shawl which fell from a
lady’s lap into the aisle of the car. As I picked
it up sucn a miscellaneous assortment of arti
cles. mostly of an edible nature, fell out of that
shawl that I was paralyzed with amazement
and nothing but the lurid language of the
owner brought about toe reaction that was
necessary to save my life. For the largest fee
I ever was paid I never afforded a car full of
people so much amusement as I did for nothing
by that little act of kindness. With the excep
tion of the lady wuose lunch basket the shawl
was, and myself. I think everybody in the car
was pleased. And passengers in the
other cars, all the way from the
smoker to , the sleepers, hearing
the sounds of mirth, came into our car anti
asked about it. And the people who had the
loudest and clearest voices told the incident re
ferring to me as "that man," or, to avoid tau
tology, as the st ry had to be repeated many
times in the course of 145 miles, “that fellow ’’
or “that chap,” or “that man settin’ there ” ’i
sawed wood very conscientiously for a long
time after that, but on auother evil day I enter
tained another traveling audience by tugging
at a car window which had never been opened
since the car was built. I wore a porous-plaster
on the plinth of my spinal column for a couple
of weeks, and reformed again. I burned the old
resolutions on the tablets of memory, and en
graved them with a pen of iron on my heart I
also made up my mind that I would endeavor
to remember them.
Well, a week or two since I was thundering
along through the miles of exquisite landscape
gardening that mark the suburbs of Philadel
phia. A young gentleman sitting just in front
of me leit the train at a local station, and just
os we started again half a dozen female voices
shrilled out upon the startled air- “Oh'
Ohl Oh! That-youug-man-bas left-his-umbrella!
Oh! He’ll-never-see-it-again! Call-him-quick 1
Oh! Throw-it-out-to-hiin-do-do-DO-throw-that
young-man-his-uuibrella!" And as they pointed
at the young man aud shrieked at me I hastily
raised the window, the powers of darkness
assisting me, yelled at the young man, hurled
the umbrella at him, like a javelin, and we were
gone.
In about two minutes a young man two
stones and a mansard taller than any member
of my whole family came down the aisle of
that ear with a darkened brow, and looked
long aud earnestly into the vacant seat whence
I had just tired a silk umbrella with a ham
mered silver bead. He looked under the seat
and then he looked into the rack. Then be
looked at me. I didn't look up, but I felt his
eyes go clear through me, as I gazed fixedly
out of the window and tried hard to think of
tne form of prayer to be used for a man who
expects to spend the rest of the winter in the
hospital. Before 1 co ild remember it the
athletic looking stranger saldkinaiy but very
firmly; “I left an umbrella in this seat a few
minutes ago." For one moment the ghastliest
silence you ever beard settled down ou
that car, and then those shrieking
w omen giggled as though It were a light thing
to I.le when you had a return ticket in your
pocket that would be wasted. 1 tried to tell
the stranger that the young man who was sit
ting in the seat took it with him. but I thought
1 bad done enough wickedness and folly for one
trip I own dup aud told hiui the truth. !{
was a magnanimous man. and ha spared me
But it was a moment of agony, and today
i lie re are white hairs on the back of my bead
mat I never saw fedora, and I never pass
through Merton.stall n without a shuffler
Aud 1 never again will offer to extend tb -
Slightest Helpful court**) to a stranger, tin; It
S train should jump off a bridge fast high
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The question of the larger introduction of
tbe lance into the French army is under serious
consideration by tbe French war authorities.
The Fifth brigade of dragoons has been sup
plied with tne new and improved lance for
some time past, but upon the arrival of the
dragoons in Paris these lances have been taken
away, for fear that foreign military visitors to
the exhibition should obtain & knowledge of
their construction.
The statistics of the Protestant Episcopal
Chorea, presented to tbe general convention,
show 51 dioceses and 14 missionary jurisdictions,
6® bishops. 3,632 priests and SCO deacons.
ioo° J? um * )er communicants is given at
4w,16i, an increase of 63,743, or 15 per cent.
7“ e “ umber ot baptisms during the year was
I*l. *uo, and of confirmations 112,781, an in
crease of 2i percent. The number of c jure ms,
chapels and missions is 5.777, and tne offerings
for the lait year were $33,316,514.
What would happen if people in hotels and
boarding houses could follow their launiry
work to the places whore it is done? The trav
eler into town by any railroad observes that
the Outer edges of New York and of tne suburbs
are whitened and set a flutter with myriad
pieces of cost y linen flying from lines in the
yards of the mast squalid tenements, and amid
unwnoiesome surroundings of marah
and filth and goats and disorder. This is tl.e
linen of people who would not spend an hour
m such a quarter for anything short of what
tneir laundry women would consider a fortune.
A recent Peking Gazette contains a memorial
from the chancellor of the Hanlin or Imperial
college on the necessity for ro-editing the great
encyclopedia compiled 100 years ago in the reign
of Klenlung, and of which only four copies in
manuscript are now supposed to exist. T iis
work, the iudex alone to whica consists of four
teen volumes, contains a c unpiet© com
penaium of the classics, and includes also a
collection of everything written and revised by
the emperors themselves or published under
imperial authority. It embraces, savs the
chancellor, ail knowledge under heaven, and
reflects, as in a mirror, the past and present.
The admiration aroused by the recent per
formances of the rapid firing Elswick guns,
w hich can discharge in a given time twice the
weight of shot and shell that can be fired by the
largest war ship afloat, armed with other kinds
of ordnance, is somewhat qualified by the dis
covery that these guns cannot be discharged
more than two or three times without being
allowed to cool. The heavy rifling and exces
sive friction of the projectiles in the bore soon
nut them hors de combat from overheating.
They are not, like the Maxim, surrounde 1
by a water jacket, and. after a few rounds, the
operator has to wait till they get cool enough
to begin again.
The new French chamber consists of 92 land
owners or farmers, 15 doctors of laws, 116 bar
risters, 57 manufacturers or traders, 40 journal
ists or authors, 43 doctors, 14 engineers, 6 ship
owners, 15 ex-magistrates, 2 generals, 2ad
minus, 21 retired officers, 1 naval officer, 11 ex
prefects, 12 ex -diplomatists, 5 ex-councillors of
state, ? notaries, 4 druggists, 2 academicians, 12
bankers, 5 professors, 11 solicitors, 5 clerks, 0
workingmen, 2contractors, 3 ironmasters 1
railway inspector, 2 bishoDS, 1 Protestant pas
tor, 1 tobacconist, 1 dentist. 1 painter 1 com
positor, 1 veterinarian, 1 designer, and 1 com
poser. There are also 2 princes, 1 duke, 8 mar
quises. 16 counts, i viscounts, and 66 nobles.
There is a queer new club building in Phila
delphia that looks strikingly like a white mar
ble chimney. It is the Manufacturers' Club,
and its wealthy members, who have established
a roof garden ala Casino, are said to have an
organ in a Quaker City publication called tne
Manufacturer. This interesting publication
has rust made the discovery that Pmladeiphia
is the place in which to hold the world’s fair of
’92, and announces in pursuance of this dis
covery that she is composed so largely of for
eign elements that she can scarcely be called an
American city; that New York-rs mismanaged
the centennial of Washington's inauguration,
and that they haven’t any room for an exposi
tion, any way, on “their narrow, overcrowded
island.
John Emslie, a farmer’s boy, 15 years old,
who lives in Darien, N. Y., about two weeks ago
went coon huuting. His dog treed a big coon
in tbe pasture of his neighbor. John climbed
the tree, but the coon was very savage, and he
did not dare to tackl > the coou It was also too
dark for him to see to use his gun. The boy
told the neighbor about it, and said he would go
home and try to get the coon at daybrea c.
After John went away the n ighbor took his
dog and gun, went down to the tree, built a fire
under it, and by the light saw the coon and shot
it. John has now brought suit before a justice
of the peac for 50 cents, which he claims is the
value of the animal’s pelt. Tle neighbor savs
the coon was on his pr mises, and refuses to set
tle. At last accounts the justice was still con
sidering the matter.
“How do armv officers so often manage to
keep young shoulders under old heads?” was
the question a friend asked Capt. William N.
Tisdall, senior captain of the First Infantry of
New York, a few years ago. on the occasion of
one of this geniai veteran’s rare visits to civili
zation. No man can be senior captain of an
infantry regiment of the United States army
without having served Uncle Sam a long time.
Tisdall looks as spry, as handsome,and as young
he did ten years ago. “Not long aro," said he
"I marched two companies of men from Fort
Ringgold, on tho lower Rio Grande, to Fort
Liavis, in Northwestern Texas, 660 mi es I
walked right along with the men every foot of
way, too, and never lost a man.” It was unnec
essary after that for any one to ask where he
got his clear color and uu wrinkled cheeks.
The owners of boxes at the New York Metro
politan opera house have received a circular to
the effect that arrangements have been con
cluded for the season of opera, and that an
assessment of $3,000 lias been levied on each
box for the purpose of meeting the attendant
expenses. This demand has brought about
however, arrangements whereby many box
owners now divide up the use of boxes for the
week, taking them for one night themselves
and renting them to oth-r people for the re
maining performances. Those who want to
rent out their boxes altogether for the season
ask S6O a performance, and as there are nearly
seventy performances, this would be $4,000 in
all. Four thousand dollars pays the assessment
of $3,000 and leaves SI,OOO as a return on their
investment. The boxes cost the original holders
$18,500.
Rather a touching illustration of the mock
ery of human charity occurred a few after
noons since during the convention at the Broad
way Tabernacle, says the New York Sun. It
was a cold and blustering day, and the solous
of the church, as well a3 the directors of the
missionary societies, who disburse large sums
of money in various quarters of the earth had
been in council all the afternoon. As they filed
out in the street they were a snug and healthy
looking lot of men. Crouching along by the
railing which surrounds the church, w-here the
crowds of clergymen were almost o diged to
brush against her to pa-s by, was a woman of
gerhaps 30 years nursing an infant at her breast
be had scarcely enough clothes on for de
cency’s sake, and her face was pinched with
hunger and privation. The child looked sickly
The wind blew her scant drapery around her
and her shawl was wpund around the child to
keep it warm. The clergymen passed her by to
a man; not one stopped to say a word nor to
bestow a penny upon the unfortunate woman
and long after the enured was locked she con
tinued to sit there, until the police sent her on.
There is a growing feeling in Wall street,
says the New York World, that additional leg.s
lation is absolutely necessary for the proper
protection of railroad security holders. When
a man has a first mortgage on real estate he
knows what ha has got, but when he has a first
mortgage bond on a railroad the question very
frequently arises, what has hef While he is
away in Europe enjoying the comfortable con
viction that his property is increasing in value -
all the time, and h is sure of interest payments
indefinitely for the tuture, the real managers of
the property may be building useless branch
fines, and issuing additional first mortgage
bonds to pay for them. The branch lines
are often made to cost twice as much as
they are worth, and for a long time perhaps
don’t pay operating expenses. The conse
quence is that some fine day the road fails to
pay interest on the second or third mortgage
bonds anil is put iu the iuuids of a receiver Tne
receiver runs the road extravagantly and issues
receivers' certificates, which the courts declare
shall take precedence of the first mortgage
bonds, anil the gilt-edged security is gilt-edged
no longer Thereupon the first mortgage bond
holder threatens to foreclose on the road and
the lawyers who represent the other securities
calmly snow the would-be litigant that they can
pul the matter in sucn shape before the courts
as to tie up the whole business fur tnree years,
and ths bonds will be of no use u> him during
that time nl all and pay no interest. Then ns
comes io terms and makes a compromise. No
woud-r tbst first mortgage femanoi iers. who
py from IS to 50 per cut above par for their
bonds, warn soma more legislation
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