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The Morning News lias obtained at con
siderable expense a series ot ten illustrated
articles on architecture. They will illus
trate and describe residences of moderate
cist. Those who contemplate building
homes will find them full of interest. The
first of the series will be published next
Sunday, and one will be published each
succeeding Sunday until the list is ex
hausted.
The Tennessee state senators are now en
gaged in savi g the country by paying $5
apiece for having their pictures printed in
the Nas ville newspapers.
Senator Allison says he is still upon the
republican platform, but he talks very
strangely for a republican. Has he really
been made to see the error of his ways?
YVefailto notice a picture of President
Harrison upon Mr. Wanamaker’s now
2-cent stamps. This is an unpardonable
omission. The President is a 2-cent states
man.
It is reported that Judge Caldwell, of
Arkan-as, will decline the circuit judgeship
made vacant by the promotion of Justice
Brewer. His reason is that the district is
twice too large.
Several republican organs remark that
they are glad Mr. Cheadle came to Col.
Dudley’s defense, but it has been noticed
that they are mighty timorous about doing
the same thing.
Now, see here, how many more speeches
Is Senator Biair going to make on his edu
cational bill? Sit down, Senator Blair, and
keep your seat The country is tired of
having you bob up every day or two.
Senator William E. C mndler is still
making newspaper appeals for the wives of
the negroes who were lynched in Barnwell,
S. C. If age ;erous amount of political
capital is dropped into the hat, he will be
perfectly satisfied.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says; “The
olive branch is held out for our southern
friends. Will they take it?” That depends
altogether upon who is holding it out. Very
few northern republicans know an olive
branch when they see one.
Mississippi’s colored politician. Lynch, is
making speeches in South Carolina, and
Eli Perkins has invaded Georgia. The
people of Georgia and South Carolina may
well investigate themselves to find out
■what they have done to deserve these in
flictions.
Mrs. Amelia B. Edwards, the English
woman who is telling the people of this
country what she knows, as well us a few
of the things she doesn’t know, is a lecturer
from “way back.” When she dismisses her
public audiences she lectures her manager
for making suggestions.
The Nr.w Orleans 1 icayune seems to be
drifting toward tue opinion that
the only remedy for section
alism is for the northern people
to attend the mardi gras festivities in that
city. This is probably a scheme of the New
( Orloans hotel proprietors.
Carpetbagger B .ck not only supplies
material for the federal political offices in
Geoigia, but he virtually makes tne ap
pointments 1 r the taking of the census.
>l-.a r - .ginz and representative of the
Hautisoq administration. He is the Vie*
t Cor OaorgU. it M w i i; ,
•ewsver, that when this political tramp
{ets ready Ui tom the republican vote of
ihe *la .. out ui Ham son he will find that
fc nas slipped through a hole in his (locket,
Urt u* hope so.
I Mr. Lodge's Reform Measure.
Representative Lodge, of Massachusetts,
devotes a good deal of bis time to preparing
and advo- ating reform measures. A day
or two ago he introdne. and into the House a
bill to regula e the appointment off. urtli
ciass postmasters. It provides that the
whole country shall be divided into districts
by the postmaster general, and that each
district scad have an inspector, who shall
act as an examiner. Whenever a fourtli
ciass p st. file.- becomes vacant, the inspec
tor for the district in which the office is lo
cated shad advertise for applic itious. Each
applicant must state in his written
application what his qualifications are, and
he must also furnish a certificate,
6igned by three reputa io citizens, not
federal office holders, that he is a suitable
person for postmaster. No questions are to
be a k.ii with respect to politics, the pur
pose being to appoint the best man, regard
less of his politics. The inspector must
forward the application papers to the Post
master General, and he must recommend
that one of the applicants whom be thinks
lest fitted for the vacant office, giving his
reasons for his recommendation. Tne Post
mastor General, however, may appoint
any one of the applicants, though it is to be
presumed that he would appoint the one
recommended.
It is doubtful if Mr. Lodge’s plan amounts
to a reform. It provides for one thing,
however, to which the spoilsmen will raise
no objection, and that is an increase in the
number of cffiee-holders. The inspector
ships would be very desirable offices and
would pay, doubtless, quite large sa'aries.
But would Mr. Lodge’s scheme make
fourth-class postmasterships non-partisau
offices? The probabilities are it would not.
The in poctors would be appointed by the
President, who would appoint men of
his own party, and they in turn would rec
ommend for postmasters those having the
same politics as their own.
If Mr. Lodge's purpose is to serve the
people would it not be a w iser plan to urge
the enactment of a law permitting fourth
class postmasters to remain in office as long
as they give general satisfaction, removing
them only when well-supported complaints
of unfitness are made against them? The
congressman of a district is better ac
quainted with the w a its of the people of
bis district in the matter of postmasters
than an inspector would be, and he
is much more likely to regard the people’s
w ishes, because his re-election depends upon
his ability to please them. Mr. Lodge may
be able to show that his scheme is an im
provement upon the present plan, but the
few points with respect to it that have ap
peared in the newspapers do not show it to
be so.
Democratic Absentees.
The democratic 'congressmen who were
absent from their posts ol duty when the
vote was taken by which Mr. Cato of Ar
kansas was unfairly deprived of his seat,
a..d who were not paired, will probably wish
they had given the proper attention to their
duties before they hear the last of the mat
ter. Particular attention has been called
to their inexcusable absence, because had
they been present Mr. Cate would not
have been uuseated. The official rec
ord of the House shows that on the
occasion referred to nineteen democrats
failed to vote. The reason they did not, is
not, of course, given in the Congressional
Becord, but from other sources it is found
that four of them were seriously ill. The
following wore absent w ithout being paired:
Messrs. Campbell, Clancey, S;ahluecker,
McCarthy, and Wiley of New York, Allen
of Mississippi, Enlos of Tennessee, Biggs of
California, and Ssney of Ohio. Messrs.
Cothran and Dargau of South Carolina
were absent, ami by soma it is said
they were not paired, but Mr. Elliott of
South Carolina thinks they were. Tne cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun says that
Messrs. Spinola and Dunphv, of New York,
Lester, of Virginia, and Skinner, of North
Carolina, were paired, but other corre
spondents say that they were not. These
gentlemen will no doubt hasten to make the
fact known if they were paired. It is
gratifying to note that all of the Georgia
and,Florida members were in their seats,
and that they voted upon every motion.
The constituents of those democratic
members who were ab ient without excuse
should have something to say to them when
the time comes for nominating their succes
sors. The democrats have suffered con
siderably by absenteeism at t le present
session of congress, and there is some indi
cation that the members will be given to
understand that they must either attend to
their business, or make way for people who
will.
John Conrad Hummer, of Kansas, is a
deaf mute, and when he saw Estella
Wyman, of Ohio, also a deaf mute, his
heart went pit-a-pat, and shortly afterward
he went to Ohio on matrimony bent. The
lady had managed to let it be known that
she was willing to marry him, but when lie
got to Cleveland he found an impediment
of considerable proportions in the way.
The lady’s sister, who was neither deaf,
dumb nor blind, vetoed the marriage. She
wouldn’t let Hummer get in sight of his
lady love, and consequently Hummer was
mad, but as he couldu’o express himself
verbally he went around and made light
ning signs to the chief of nolice, who be
came firmly convinced that half of the town
had been murdered. Before Hummer could
make it clear to him what ha l really hap
pened, the 1 tdy love and her Eister had fled,
and the disconsolate lover went back to
Kansas, where he has a valuable and re
munerative farm.
Senator Dolph’s “smelling
that is trying to find out who gives away
the secrets of the executive sessions of the
Senate, isn’t meeting with much success.
The olfactory nerves of its members seem
to be paralyzed in a matter of that kind,
but they can smell a saimon dinner half a
block; and when Senator Dolph himself was
giving a dinner of that kind the other day,
the sergeant-at-arms, who came to call the
grave senators to the secret session, was told
to get out, and he got. The natural deduc
tion is that the senators think that one 30-
pound salmon on the table is worth a dozen
secret* in the bush.
It is seriously stated in some republican
newspapers that Mr. Dudley, of Massachu
setts, is going to reorganize the Republican
party of South Carolina. Does Mr. Dudley
want to come south and be a candidate for
au office, the Massachusetts republicans
having refused to give him one?
“Why not?” asks the Augusta Evening
Newt, io referring to the suggestion of ti e
Morning News that a statement from
Candidate No thou of hi* tariff views would
ho pio|<ar just at this time. The people
have a right to know whether Col, NortLeu
is for pfotccU'.u or tanlf reform. j
THE MORNING NEWS; MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1890.
The Troublesome Chinese.
The Chinese continue to make trouble for
1 the people of the Pacific coart. Not only
are there already more of them than are
wanted, but the number is being increased
by fre-h arrivals right along, notwithstand
ing the Chinese restriction law, which both
' political parties were in such a great hurry
! to enact in 18-38. That measure was thought
to be all that was necessary to keep the
I Chinese out, and, indeed, it contained one
! or two feature* which, upon sober reflec
j tion, were considered rather harsh,
| hut it went through with a rush,
for a presidential election was about to take
place, and each party wanted to commend
itself to the Pacific coast voters. Like a
good many other laws it is frequently
evaded. It is stated that last year there
were as many as 5,000 evasions of it; and
consequently the Chinese question is again
becoming the great is=ue on the Pacific
coast.
Congressman Morrow, of California,
thinks he has found a way to prevent any
further evasions. The bill which he intro
duced some time ago, and which was
favorably reported the other day, pro
vides that the superintendent of the census
shall so enumerate the Chinese population
as to make a complete descriptive
list of all Chinese who may be in this coun
try at the time of the taking of the next
census. To each of these he shall give an
engraved certificate, which shall be num
bered and registered in the census office.
When produced by one who shell establish
his claim to it, this certificate shall be ac
cepted as evidence of the right of such per
son to remain in the United States, but if,
after three m nths from June 1 next, any
Chinese in thi* country shall fail to
produce such a certificate, he shall
be sent back to China, or be
imprisoned five years. The alternative of
imprisonment is intended to apply to Chi
nese having certificates, and the purpose of
it is to prevent them from professing to
have none so as to be seat home at the
expense of this government. Mr. Morrow
does not think that such a law could be
evaded, but the only way to find out
whether it couldor not is to test it, and that
will probably bo done.
America’s Statesmen.
Wbother the public man who hails from
the rural district is called the “hayseed
statesman,” the “rural sage,” or the “cross
roads politic i a i,” it matters not to Col.
Thomas P. Ochiltree, formerly of Texas,
but now of New York, the designation
may either intentionally or unintentionally
bring a certain amount of ridicule upon
the public man from the country, bit it
does not lessen Col. Ochiltree’s high opinion
of him. The colonel says that it is a curious
and undeniable fact that the great cities
have not furnished the statesmen who have
done much to mako this country what
it is, but that, on the contrary, American
history has been made and glorified by men
from the rural districts. Glancing back
over the records of the continental congress
and the war for independence, and following
the history of the country, he asks: “How
many statesmen pre-eminent in ability and
magnificeut in their attainments and suc
cess have the big and populous cities of the
country given to this nation? Of the great
and renowned soldiers whose name are
memorized in storied marble or massive
bronze, and held cherished in the hearts of
millions of their countrymen, how many of
them came from the crowded centers of
population?” And his answer is that they
could be counted upon the fingers of one
hand. He twits the cities of New York,
Puiladelphla, Chicago, and Boston with
having been peculiarly poverty-stricken as
regards statesmen, and among the more
modern public in in of command
ing ability and influence who
were not reared in citios, he
points to James Buchanan, Tbaddeus
Stevens, Jeremiah Black, Horatio Seymour,
William H. Seward, Abraham Lincoln,
Stephen A. Douglas and Jefferson Davis.
The “back settlements” furnish the great
men of to-day, according to Col. Ochiltree,
and to prove the assertion ho mentions
Grover Cleveland, ex-Speaker Carlisle,
Congressman liolman, Senators Edmunds,
Morgan, Gorman, Allison, Voorhees,
Reagan, Sherman, Vance and a score of
others.
Col. Ochiltree thinks that this is a curious
fact, but lie does not attempt to explain it.
Perhaps it is not. The practical knowledge
which a youth gains in the country, tho
opportunity for study and meditation
which he has, added to the knowledge of
the world which he gains afterward, are
conducive to statesmanship in its broadest
sense.
Charles W. Sterling, whose mail is now
sent to the Ohio penitentiary, is a good
looking man and a pleasant conversational
ist, and, besides, he is one of the most nu
merously married men in the west. His first
matrimonial venture seems to have given
him such a good opinion of matrimony that
he thought that too much of it wouid be an
impossibility. He married right and left,
and the women who think they have a right
to his name are scattered over Illinois, Wis
consin, Minnesota and Ohio. There are
eight of them, and if each one of them de
termines to camp about the penitentiary
and wait for Sterling to come forth he will
have no occasion to visit a barber shop
afterward, for they will pick his hairs out
one by one.
Mr. Chauncey M. Depew continues to in
dulge in similes in speaking of Chicago. He
said the other day: “Chicago is like a cow
standing due east and west with her fore
leg* in Chicago and her hind legß iu Boston.
She feeds in the west, but Boston milks her,
and it is only appropriate that those who
derive great sums of money from invest
ments in Chicago mortgages shall pay some
thing to get the fair there.” Chicago has
frequently been likened pictorially to a hog,
but this is probably the first time she was
likened to a cow. There is something ap
propriate about it, however, as the people
who eat Chicago beef will admit.
A Washington special says that Col.
Robert C. Humber, of Baldwin county, may
be brought forward as a compromise candi
date for governor—one who would satisfy
the farmers, and yet not be a farmers’ can
didate. CoL Humber has represented Put
nam county in tho legislature, and he has
beou senator from the Twenty-eighth and s
trict. He is an honest public man of a
high order of ability, and he would make
au excellent govern >r.
Senator Ingalls ha* his hands full just
now. He it fortifying himself for the at
tack Senator Colquitt is goi gto make upon
him ns a military man, and at the same
time tie i revolving iu his miud some way
of answering the very interne mg question*
which the fanners of Kansas have recently
asked him, said of ausweriug them So as to
satisfy the farmer* and the monopolist*.
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
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An ambitious young Englishman announces
that he is about to publish a key to Brow Ding s
works,
EoorARD Rothschild, son of the h<-ad of the
great European banking firm.is visiting Chicago.
He is traveling through the United States on a
sight seeing tour.
Mme. M. Staal, the daughter of the great
Cobe:, has just presented to the library of the
University of Leyden the collection of boons
which he had left her.
The crew of a steamer which arrived in Bos
ton the other day from Germany reported that
they encountered on the passage field ice for a
distauoe ot 40U mites along the edge of the great
banks.
A woman of 77 and a man of 57 applied for a
marriage license at Hillsdale. Mich., the other
day, and were on the point of getting it when
friends of the woman interfered. She has
property.
The following curious advertisement ap
peared not long ago in a newspaper in Paris:
“A lady having a pet dog whose hair is of a rich
mahogany col r, desires to engage a footman
with whissers to match. '’
Bridgton, Me., has at least one absent
minded citizen. He mi t with an accident and
was confined to the house for several weeks, but
forgot entirely that he held an accidental policy
entitling him to $25 a week.
Cigar dealers have been giving away lately,
instead of pictures and other useless things,
patent safely matches in a little book, one of
tne leaves of which is prepared with the com
position upon which tho match m iy be ignited.
Civilization has produced nothing more re
markable than an invention introduced by a
shirt vender of Brussels. To every undergar
ment which he sells is attached a musical in
strument which can be secretly played by the
wearer.
Three children in the Sheffield (Eng.) work
house were done to death a few days ago by the
medical officer, who card -sly wrote a prescrip
tion for twenty grains of Dover's powder in
ten packets instead of for ten grains in twenty
packets.
A northern man who has had opportunities
for watching matters at the south, in discussing
the situation there, says that if the south could
be saved from the Blair bill it would in fifteen
years have a sc.iool system equal to thut of
New England.
In Siam you can get good board for 45 cents
a week, and this includes washing, the use of
two servants to run errands, tickets to shows,
three shaves, and all the cigars you can smoke.
But it is almost impossible to earn 43 cents a
week in Siam.
King Christian of Denmark, who is in his
73d year, still rides daily, and also is fond of
walking. He can often be met in the streets of
Copenhagen alone, save his collie dog Hover, a
i resent from Queen Victoria, and to whom he
is much attached.
A Missouri man, sentenced to a presumably
deserved term of sixty years, was recently par
doned after serving ten, and according to the
recognized way of proving the reformatory
effects of pardon tried as soon as he reached
home to kill his fatb r and brother with an ax.
Aluminum has been growing cheaper, and
there are many scientists who think it will yet
revolutionize the arts. The United States gov
ernment has been experimenting with it for
some time in the manufacture of guns. It is
also being used in the construction of bridges.
The Y'reka, Ore., Union office ran short of
white paper during the recent snow blockade,
but it came out regularly every week. One issue
was on purple paper, another was printed o.i
a light null wrapping, while the next showed
up on regular mauila, such as is used in gro
cery stores.
J. W. Nance, a Texan, advertised that he
would be at Murfreesboro. Tenn., one day last
week, to buy all the hens he cohid get at 25
c-ntA apiece. He cam ■ aiongjn a pouitry car
capable of holding 5,000, and he had to tele
graph for another, as there were 10,000 pullet3
waiting for him.
Dr. Doelinger willed his library to the Uni
versity of Munich, which is to dispose of it by
auction, a full catalogue being made, and the
proceeds are to be devoted to an academical
foundation to bear Dr. Doellinger's name, as a
Srivate collection, this library ranks high among
iuropean libraries.
Dr. Norman Kerr has been interviewed by a
correspondent of Woman upon the increasing
use of narcotics by women. Alcohol, he says, is
the most {recently used narcotic. "But I could
give you a formidable list of narcoiics which
women in all ranks of society are daily using:
Chloral, chlorodyne, ether, chloroform, sal vol
atile, eau-de-cologne, and so on.”
A sensation has been caused in Parkersburg,
W. Va., by a suit for divorce filed by Mrs.
Elizabeth Rector the young wife of Rev. John
Rector. Rev. Rector is 90 years old, and has
been in the Baptist ministry fifty-seven years.
He has grown-up children and grandchildren.
Mrs. R *ctor is his third wife. The bill alleges
desertion, non-support and extreme cruelty.
The cost of the leading daily newspapers in
London to purchasers is as follows: The Times,
6 cents; the Teh graph. Daily Sews, Standard,
Chronicle, Financial Slews, Sportsman, and
New York Herald, 2 cents each. Tho evening
papers are: Pall Mall Gazette, 2 cents; the
Evening standard, 2 cents; the Star, 1 cent,
and the Echo, 1 cent. The Sunday Observer
(dull) sells for 8 cents, Lloyd s Sunday Paper
for 2 cent-, anti tue Sunday Times for 2 cents.
Two years ago the condition of that beauti
ful monument of Moorish art, the Cathedral of
Seville, onee a mosque, excited great anxiety.
A pillar and part of an aren in the nave fell,
and f are were entertained that the whole build
ing might suddenly collapse, it is now believed
that by massive substruction the danger of
further mischief has been averted. The fallen
pillar and arch are being replaced, and other
extensive repairs and restorations are being
carried out.
The library at Hawarden which Mr. Glad
stone is arranging will have a peculiar value,
says the London Times, for Mr. Gladstone is
not only selecting and placing all the books in
it, but he is martting those passages in mein
which seem to him uiost important, and wUich
have nad the m st influence on his mind and
life. Perhaps some ingenious compiler will be
moved to make a list of the books and passages
in question, and publish it under some such
title as “Literary Influence upon Mr. Glad
stone. ” It certainly would sell.
A marvelous lace wonder is reported as
landed in the United States. It is a unique
specimen of embroidery and Irish lace, spe
cially manufactured for the great international
exhibition of 1831. at which it took a first prize.
It took twelve girls twelve months to inane
this perfect specimen of the old hand em
broidery and lace trade of Ireland. The cost
was $3,000. No work of to-day is so fine and
exquisite as the drawn and embroidered border
or mis wonder. Tho main design is a chapiet
of ft-ru leaves, entwined with the rose, the sham
rock, and the thistle.
Carl Hess, the German naturalist.ha* proved
by minute microscopical investigation that the
eye of the mole is perfectly capable of seeing,
an 1 that it is not short-siguted, as another
naturalist (Kadyi) would have us believe. Hess
maintains that, in spite of its miuute dimen
sions—l millimetere by 9.0 millimetre—the eye
of this little creature possesses all the neces
sary properties for seeing that the most highlv
developed eye does—that it is, indeed, as well
suited for seeing as the eye of any other mam
mal, and that in the matter of refraction it
does not differ from the normal sye.
A cannon, even though a small one, is not
usually regarded as a necessary part of an ex
plorer’s outfit. Buch a weapon has, however,
been trundled into Northern Thibet by the ex
pedition which the late (Jen. Prejevalsky
headed. According to Russian reports t ils can
non is expected io serve the very pacific pur
pose of ut-ternuning the rate at whic i sound
travels through rarefied air at bights of li, ooo
feet and upward, lake firearms made for the
African trade, its chief function will be to make
a noise, and it has the unique distinction of
being a cannon with a purely scientific purpose
William 11. has just ordered an important
alteration to be made in the educational cur
riculum of the cadets. German history and
geography and the German language are to be
the main subjects of study in future, ami along
with them tue practical ue- of modern lan
guages. Hut the history ami intellectual Ilf.- of
the most important modern civilized nations,
and tne various examples of heroic conduct iu
ancient a id modiuiva (times are by no innaus to
bs float# . in rati gin in instruction m
ethical eleni n nt is to be in-l*t**i upon more
than doc iMin! theology, and the dadeta are also
taught the virtue of forbearance.
Bass' Ale and Guinness’ Klout, Dog's Jlead
lira mi, bottled m London by Ileal Hi c Her-, is
conceded to lie Uie p-rfe -tion of Burton and
Dublin Uroaiug* lAppmua Bros, and M. Lav
in'* Lslule, Aguuts, bavauuah, Go.
PERSONAL.
Charles fuxjnT, president of the French
Chamber of is 62 years of stout,
short and nearsighted.
Col. Thlkbtoh Wright is working up a quiet
k oo ™ 5 0r granger nomination for President
in I*2. He is Thurston to bo both Wright and
President.
It is reported that Dom Pedro has accerted
the offer of the Empe-or Francis Joseph to
spend tr e summer at the imperial castle of
llitzendorf.
Benzon, the “Jubilee Plunger," who is now in
prison for forgerv. is not penniless. He receives
the interest on $;&0,u00, though he cannot touch
the principal.
Sir Spencer Ponsonby Fane is to become
Black Rod to Queen Victoria, at a salary of
SIu.UOO and a fine house. He will have nothing
to do but draw his pay.
It is a curious coincidence that Postmaster
General Wanamaker, who sprves only apolli
naris water at his banquets, should be sued for
boycotting Mr. Weimnau.
Jay Gould is going to stock with trout a lake
he has bought in the Catskills. The rumor that
he would pasture a lot of lambs from Wall street
on the banns is believed to be unfounded.
Ex-Gov. George S. Boutwell of Massachu
setts is past 72 years of ago. One day last
week he made a ten-hour speech before the
supreme court at Washington in a patent
case.
George W. Childs states that since the intro
duction of foreign and native mineral waters as
table beverages the use of wine has decreased
nearly one-half at dinner parties and entertain
ments.
Charles Emory Smith is the sixth Pennsyl
vanian in late years to be honored with the
Russian mission, his predecessors having been
Messrs, lioker, Curtin, Cameron. Dallas and
Wilkins.
Mr. Gladstone's hats are now fully a size
larger than those he could wear twenty years
ago. A like phenomenon occurs over night in
some heads but the extra fullness is more easily
understood.
Alphonse Daudf.t, probably the most popular
living noveliest. is thus described: “Daudetis
one of the most remarkable looking men in
Europe. His head is one of great beauty,
exquisitely shapen, long, dark locks falling
ovr a white, broad forehead, eyes as black as
any coal, but brilliant with the light of southern
suns, the face itself a perfect oval, a full, dark
beard and mustache, and a delicate, flne.y
chiseled mouth.''
About two months ago it was announced that
at a certain sale of pictures in Paris one of
Rosa Bonheur's best w.rks would be offered.
When at the sale this piece was set up for
vendue, somebody arose in the crowd and cried
out: “That picture is not by Rosa Bonheur!”
The auctioneer resented the interruption.
“No," cried the stranger. “I shall not see the
imposition practiced upon the public; the paint
ing is a forgery. I am Rosa Bonheur, and I
sure.y know* my own woik."
The American Consul at Bristol, John Doug
las Delille, is, perhaps, the most active literary
member of the consular corps, now that Bret
Harte no longer belongs to it. Mr. Dolille, who
was appointed to his present official position
only a lew in nths bac*, has long been con
nected with the English, American and French
press—for he shares with Gibbon the privilege
of writing the language of Moliere as readily as
Shakesp. are’s tongue. Some two years ago
Mr.Delille published a novel. “Canon Lucifer,”
which was favorably received by the critics.
BRIGHT BITS.
The man who depends upon wages will get
rich sooner than the man who depends upon
wagers.— Boston Herald.
A Matter op Color.— “ls the plush a deep
red ?”
“No, it verges on what is called the pink of
propriety.”— Chatter.
“You got off a brilliant thing just now,” said
an editor to a professional humorist, as the lat
ter arose from sitting on a pair of shears.— New
York Alormng .Journal.
“What is ability?”
“Ability, my dear, is knowing how little you
really do know, and keepiug others from finding
it out.”— Commercial Tmvcler.
Biggs—l saw young Follibold to-day. That
fellow's on the road to ruin.
Foggs—EL'ra! Did you overtake him, or did
he overtake you?— Boston Transcript.
Col. Ingersoll says himself that as long as
he is in this world he will smoke. As to the
next, it is the opinion of a eood many he Will
smoke there, too.— Philadelphia Times.
A Helpful Audience.—Miss Ilysee—l was
encored three times, wasn't 1?
Madame L gee—Yes, the company seemed
to recognize that you needed practice.— Puck.
Customer— l’d like to get about 50 cents
worth of these cucumber.', it you please.
Dealer in fine groceries, tropical fruits, etc.,
(with withering scorn>—Can’t you afford to buy
a whole one? —Chicago Tribune.
Ip the person who sent in an anonymous
communication comparing anew convert to a
sore tooth, “because he just aches to beat the
devil,” will call at this office, he may—possibly—
hear something to his advantage.— Terre Haute
Express.
“Was my name brought up last night?”
“Yes.”
“Would you mind saying what was done?”
“I was there. The treasurer was instructed
to buy three quarts of blackballs for the use of
members.”— Life.
Ardent Swain (to object of his affection)—For
several weeks past I have been trying to speak
to you, Fraulein Rosa, but you never gav me
the cbance of putting in a work I therefore
gladly avail myself of your temporary hoarse
ness to make you an offer of marriage.— Flie-
Qende Blatter.
On Loud Professions.—
De bigger dat you de smoke
De less de fire will be.
And de leastest kind of possum
Climbs de biggest kind o' tree.
Do darky at d* old camp ground
Who kin loudest sing and shout
Is agwine to rob some hen roost
Afore de week is out.
—South Carolina Negro Rhymes.
A cocPUßof old salts met after a long ab
sence. and the following animated conversation
ensued:
“'A'ell, old man, how are you getting on?”
“First rate: I have taken a wife.”
“Avery sensible idea.”
“Not a it of it; she’s a regular Tartar.”
“Then I'm sorry for you, mate.”
“There’s no need; she brought me a large ves
sel as her marriage portion.”
“Then you made a go and bargain, after all?”
“Nothing to boast of, I can tell you; the ship
turned out a worthless old tinder-box.”
“Then I'm sorry I spoke.”
“Bah! you can speak as much as you like!
The oi l tub was well insured, and went down
on her first voyage.”
“So you got the pull there, anyhow?”
“Not so much, mate; I only got five thousand
tha ers out of the job as my share.”
“That wnstoo bad.”
“Too bad? Nothiug of the sort! Wife was
on board and went down with the rest.”
Zeitgeist.
CURRENT CQMMEN T.
A Subject for Farmer Rusk.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem
Wnen Uncle Jerry Rusk is done writing tariff
essays, he will doubtless give us something ex
haustive on northern baby-farming.
Two Great Causes.
From the New York World (Dem.).
The two great causes which are making
progress in this country are ballot reform and
tariff reform. The American people are over
whelmingly m favor or both.
Harrison's Unpopularity.
FVom the New York Evening Post (Tnd ).
Next to the unpopula ity of the Harrison ad
ministration, due mainly to the President’s
violation of his reform pledges, there can be no
question that the most powerful cause of repub
lican loss-s is the rro wing popularity of tariff
reform as represented by Mr. Cleveland.
Draw the Reins on Them.
From the Houston (Tex.) Post ( Dem.\
“Christian science” continues to contribute
liberally to the grave and the lunatic asylums.
The latest reported case is that of three “bright
and atmabllllinois staters who have became
raving maniacs. It may yet be found neces
sary to suppress the evangelists of this mind
wrecking “science.”
Luck
Is a word which should have no place in
any voc ihulary. A man roust have ability
to succeed, and a medical preparation,
merit. There is no luck about HOZODOHT.
it was sure to succeed from the rtr*t, be
cause it was good and did all that was
claimed for it.— AiU\
Peter the Mule.
This country has, been sorely troubled for
some t me by muie thieves, says an Elizabeth
town (ivy.) correspondent of the New York
.S’un, “I'll bet I kin stop ’em,” said Farmer
j John Rusk last week. Mr. Rusk lives five
miles from town, and has implicit confidence in
hw old one-eyed mule, Pete. Pete, notwith-
the weight of years and his ocular in
firmity, is a presentable animal, big and strong,
and Farmer John knew that no discerning mule
fkief would be likely to ignore him if there was
a good hance to run old Pete off. Pete had a
mischievous disposition. In fact, he was in
clined to be quite frisky with his heels when
strangers were about, though he never annoyed
the home folks. Upon t ese trails in Pete's
character Mr. Husk built his hopes.
“We'll just let the thieves steal old Pete,”
sad Farmer John to hi* hired man, William.
Wiiliam thought the idea a good one. They put
Pete into an outside stall and left the door uu
locked. Mr. Rusk and William hid in the hay
above and wa te 1.
About 1 o’clock Mr Rusk thrust his elbow
gently into William's side. Will.am wiped the
hay out of his eyes and ears and looked and
listened. The moon shorn* through the cracks
in the ceiling, and they could see distinctly into
tue stall below. Fete was contentedly munch
ing a wisp of bay. Tney heard gentle footateps
outside. The door was s *ftiy opened an l*t\vo
large, rough-looking men entered, and each
earn- and a br.d!e over his arm.
Old Pete looked around at the intruders and
contemplated them mildly with his single
luminous dark eye. He was evidently moved
by curiosity rather than alarm, and waited
quietly to see what the intruders were about.
“Put the bridle over iiie head. * the watchers
heard one of tae men sav to the
a likely looking animal.’’
The one spoken to held out his hand sooth
ingly toward old Pete and moved forward.
Pete raised his head questionmgly, but made
no other motion. He was not a mule to act
rashly upon an impulse. All his operations
were conducted with method and foretho ight.
He male no protest while the man slipped the
bridle over his head.
“I wonder if old Pete’s sick,” whispered tho
hired man.
“Wait,” said Mr. Rusk.
“Mount him and ride off,” said one thief to
the other, w fio held tue bridle.
“Give me a leg,” replied the latter.
He got a leg, and sprang upon Pete's back.
At that moment the cyclone was turned loose.
Pete's hear! went down between his forelegs.
His back arched like tho hump of a dromedary.
His hind logs flew high into the air. and the
thief on his back shot upward like a skyr cket,
a3 if he had been propelled by some tremendous
rr nchine. He struck the ceiling with a lovely
thwack. As he fell back he was caught up u
old Pete's feet and lifted again into tho air.
V\ lion he descended the second time he lay
quietly on the floor.
Pete turned his attention to the second thief,
who had attempt lid to run, and caught him a
biff which sent him hca 1 first against the wall.
His skull must have been very thick, for ho
sprang to his feet just in time to catch a secon-l
kick. This, as Mr. Rusk said, •'kinder struck
him all over,” and he fell in a heap near his
companion. Pete resumed the occupation in
which he had been enga e l when the men en
tered—placidly munched his hay.
Cold water revived the thieves, but they were
in a bad p ight. The one who was first kicked
ha.i a rib broken and was terribly bruised. The
other had a fractured arm and his scalp was
laid open. They were brought to this place and
put in jail. They will be tried as soon as th *y
recover from their injuries. They proved to be
members of a noted gang of thieves having their
headquarters in Ind ana. No mules have been
stolen here since their capture.
Measuring the Baby.
Emma Alice Browne, the author of the fol
lowing poem, died Feb. C, aged 54 years. She
was horn at Reading, Pa. This popular poem
origina ly appeared in the New Y T ork Ledger:
We measured the riotous baby
Against the cottage wall;
A lily grew near the threshold.
And the boy was just as tall?
A royal tiger lily.
With spots of purple and gold,
And the neart a jeweled chalice
The fragrant dew to hold.
Without the bluebirds whistled;
High up in the old roof trees,
And to and fro at the window
The red rose rocked her bees;
And the wee pink fists of the baby
Were never a moment still.
Reaching at tne shine and shadow
That danced on the window sill.
His eyes were wide as bluebells,
HU rnoutn like a flower unblown:
Two little bare feet, like funny white mice,
Peeped out rrom nis snowy gown;
And we thought, with a thrill of rapture,
That yet had a touch of pain,
Wnen June roils around with her ros.s,
We’ll measure the boy again.
Ah. me! In a darkened chamber,
With the sunshine shut away,
Through tears that fell like a oitter rain.
We measured the boy to-day:
And the little bare feet that were dimpled,
And sweet as a budding rose.
Lay side by side together
In the hush of a long repose.
Up from the dainty pillow.
White as the risen dawn.
The fair little face lav smiling,
With the light of heaven thereon:
And the dear little hands, like rose leaves
Dropped from a rose, lay still.
Never to catch at the sunshine
That crept to the shrouded sill.
We measured tho sleeping baby,
With ribbons white as snow,
For the shining rosewood casket
That waited for him below,
And out of the darkened chamber
We went w t th a childless moon;
To the bight of-the sinless angels
Our little one had grown.
They Don’t Save Anything.
As to the cost of living in China,
says the New York World , Col. Denby,
our minister, told me that he could save nothing
from his salary, and there is perhaps less enter
taining done at Pekin tuan at any other of our
foreign missions. The minister to Corea re
ceives only $7,500 a year, and I do not suppose
t at Mr. Dinsmore has saved anything to spe ik
of. r ike colony at Seoul is a dinner-giving one,
and when it is remembered that most of tue
provisions are brought over from London via
shanghai it will be seen that a dinner in China
is quite an expensive it -in. Our minister to
Siam receives $5,000 a year, but he does not
have to entertain to any great extent. The
European ministers spend, as a rule, more than
their salaries, and when Gov. Noyes was minis
ter to Paris the entertaining was largely done
by nis -ecretary of legation, Mr. Hitt, at pres ait
a representative in congress'from Illinois. Gov.
NoyeS oncj told me that Mr. Hitt's expenses in
Paris were s.‘kyXX) a year. 1 doubt not that
Senator Palmer Is spending at Madrid consider
ab y more than he receives as Minister to Spain,
and White.aw Reid will never get through with
his social duties at Paris on $17,000 a year.
A Gallant Young Chinaman.
A secretary of the Chinese embassy in Wash
ington, says the Post , was introduced to a lady,
who among other questions asked him: “What
virtue do you most highly prize in your
women?”
“The virtue of domesticity,” was the reply.
“Then you do not like your women to move
in society much?” she questioned.
“Not at all. Our law even recognizes cause
for divorce when a woman—pardon me
madarne— is inquisitive and talkative.”
“Then I would be in danger of being divorced
if I lived in China?” smilingly asked the lady
“The very day that my country would have
the luck to possess a womanly being like you ”
replied the gallant son of the heavenly realm
every cause for divorce would be removed from
the world. ”
Mark Iwain Not a Ladios’ Man.
On one occasion, says the Boston Transcript ,
Clemens was standing against a lamp post and
holding a cigar box uuder his arm. -Mrs. Capt.
Edward Poole, a very beautiful woman, and as
bright and wittv as beautiful, came along and
stopped and held out her hand, saying: “Why,
Mark, where are going in such a hurry?” “Pm
m-o-o-v-i-ng,” drawled Mark, at the same time
opening the cLar box, disclosing a pair of blue
socks, a pipe, and two paper collars.
He had never cared for the ladies, was. In
fact, a fish out of water when he happened to
be near them. While employed on the daily
Alin, Laving secured employment there after
leaving the Call, be call and ut a dressmaker’.,
establishment and for ten minute, addrt ased a
wax figure of a lady before discovering hi.
mistake.
A Perverse Woman.
The following la from Texan Ni/tinyi:
(iilbooly—Ho Ferguson’, wife la dead,
tins de Smith—Ye, she dlid yesterday.
“she was an awful c mtrary woman.”
“she was that, shout everything, and .he
kept it up to tue last. In fact. I don t think she
would have died at all if It hodu't been for tier
perversene*
"Why, now was tiiatt”
“Kue was lery sk'k, and bar husband, with
tear, m his eyes, said: 'ft ar June, you must
not die.' Then *!.■• looked at him, and salt:
‘lll snow you wbaiber I will die or not ' and
turning her fane to the wall was dead In a
minute.”
SAP EYED WOMEN.
Why so Many Ladies Are Miserable Clearly
Explained—Some Stirring Remark, h
One Who Knows. y
"I feel sad every time I see a woman.” The
above remark was made to the writer by one of
the oldest and most prominent physicians in
New York.
“Is it possible that you are a woman hater
doctor?" *
“Not at all. but I hare seen so much suffer
tng, so many women who are miserable that I
cannot help feeling sorry for them all How
many ladies do you know that are perfectly
well and healthy* How many enjoy life as thev
suould? Is this not enough to make one feat
sorrowful*”
“There must be a cause for all this, doctor ”
‘'There is. Women are weak and theirtr.jubie,
largely arise from weakness is. When a won an
is wear she requires strength. Her body, her
ir.ind and all her functions must be put in a
healthy condition, or she cannot secure
strength. Nothiug does this so easily and surely
as pure spirits taken in moderation, either bL
fore meals or between metis. I k now scores of
ladies that are kept in perfect heaith. strength
and bnliianev, by the judicious use of Ituffy-,
f’ure .Wait Whiskey. Many of tnese ladies are
wives of min sters and professors, and most of
them ere temperance women. They realign
that Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey furnishes the
liest and only positive help, and they are intelii
cent enough to profit by such knowled e f
kno v whereof I speak, and I speak’as
a temperance man. The best temper
nnce people of to-day are the ones
who use pure spirits iu moderation and find
that strength, vigor, color and brightness are
the res Its, rather than weakness, salloiness
und a loss of interest in everything in life.”
I was much impressed with the remarks of
the doctor and, believing their importance re
produce them entire.
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