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THIS ISSUE
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TWELVE PAGES
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetinor— Stockholders Chatham Dime Sa
vings Bank; Confederate Veterans' Aasociation;
Division Nos. 1 and 3, First Regiment of Georgia
U. R. K. of P.; German Social Club; Citizens’
Sanitary Association.
Special Notices—lmitation is the Sincerestof
Flattery. Townsend; Notice to Water Takers;
We Aspire Higher. The Robinson Steam Print
ing Company; R. U. 2? A. Hanley; List of
Property to be Sold on June 3, by Rowland A
Myers; Notice. Ehrlich A Cos.; Notice to Car
penters; Notice to Syndicates, Investors and
Others. Harmon, Walker A McHarrie; Nine
Hundred and Fifty Acres of Well Located Land
Near the City, by C. H. Dorsett, Real Estate
Dealer: Card of Thanks; Savannah Steam
1 aundry; Dividend Notice Title Guarantee
A Loan Company; To Investors Title Guarantee
and Loan Company; Great Anheuser-Busch
Beer, George Meyer, Wholesale Agent; Alex
ander Hamilton 5 Cents Cigar, at S. Selig's;
Empire Steam Laundry; Practical Tinner, Etc.,
E C. Pacetti; Tinning, Plumbing, Etc., P. H.
Kiernan; “Georgia State” Building and Loan
Association of Savannah, Ga.
Amusements —Sunday Concerts by Cobb's
Military BaDd at < )cean House ravilion; First
Picnic of the Catholic T. A. Diocesan Union,
Wednesday, June 11; Capt. Paul Boyton at
Tybee To-day; Mammoth Picnic of Catholic
Knights at Tybee, May 23.
The Best Chanc e Ever Offered in Savan
nah—By Laßoche A McLaughlin.
Our Wealth and Success— A. R. Altrnayer
A Cos.
Continue Their Grf.at Sale—At Eckstein’s.
Outing Ring Scarfs— B. H. Levy A Bro.
Self Sellers—Jas. Douglass.
Our Display in Diamonds, Etc.— M. Stern
berg A Bro.
Room We Need —Savannah Carriage and
Wagon Company.
Summer Stoves—Norton A Hanley.
Sterling by Name and Nature—L. AB. 8.
M. H.
We Discount All Competitors— Milius A Cos.
Auction Sales— Dwellings in Southern Por
tion of the City, by Rowland A Myers; Thirteen
Thousand Feet of Lumber; An Attractive
Home, by Harmon, Walker A McHarrie.
Luck and Second Sight— Mrs. Baldwin.
Fire On Our Bloce— Dryfus Bros.
Big Break in Prices—At Morrison, Foye A
Co.'s.
Bookkeeping Versus Shorthand—McCar
thy's Business College.
Wool— Savannah Grocery Company.
New Arrivals in Black Silk Grenadines,
Etc.— At 0. Gray & Son’s.
The Second Summer OpKNiso-At Krous
knff’s
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The people of Oklahoma may be starv
ing, as was reported some days ago, but it
is worthy of notice that the trade in shot
guns is brisk.
The public squares in Savannah are now
very pretty. The people are taking more
pride id Savannah's attractions than ever
before, and they second all the efforts that
are made to increase therm
How soon may the people of this city ex
pect pure artesian water? As the construct
ing of a reservoir at the water works will
take considerable time, would it not be ad
visable to begin that improvement with as
little delay as possible?
The outlook for happier times in Brazil is
not at all promising. The rising of the peo
ple at Porto Alegre the other day indicates
that there is abroad a spirit of discontent.
The revolution by which the monarchy was
overthrown was peaceful, but the establish
ment of the republic may be attended with
violence and bloodshed.
Our esteemed northern contemporaries
ought to take notice of the fact that the
assassin who shot Lawyer Clinton G. R>,-_
nolds in the latter’s office at 59 Wall street on
Thursday was a northern man. He was
born among the Quakers in Philadelphia
and lias lived the greater part of his life in
W York city. A little investig vtion
would show, probably, that there are as
many murderous assaults in the north as in
the south.
Plantation A-annere.
Since the beginning of the tariff debate
there have been some exhibitions of bad
temper in the House, and on one or two
occasions southern democrats, when they
have denied, with considerable show of feel
ing, statements which were not true, and
w hich were intended to create the impres
sion that they bad not acted in a
straightforward and honorable way,
have been charged with trying to
intimidate their opponents by an
exhibition of “plantation manners. ’’
The northern congressman doesn’t know
anything about plantation manners. The
idea he has of them has been formed from
the brutal picture which Nast used to pre
sent in Harper’s Weekly as the typical
southerner, and from what he reads in the
columns of the extreme republican papers.
Asa matter of fact the manners of those
who lived upon plantations before the civil
war, and of those who live upon planta
tions now, areas nearly perfect as those
of any people in the civilized world. They
are the manners of gentle aud
refined people, who love their neighbors and
who are always ready to do kind and chari
table acts. The people who live upon plan
tations not only have a high sense of honor
and a great regard for the feelings of others,
but they are uuequaled in those delica e at
tentions to strangers and friends which
are the manifestations of a good heart ariti
a geuerous nature.
Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, was one of those
who made use of the term “plantation man
ners.” He made a charge against Mr.
Mills, of Texas, which was not true. Mr.
Mills replied to the charge in pretty strong
terms, because his integrity had been at
tacked. But, assuming that his reply was
not as courteous ns it might have been, was
his offense, if offense ho committed, any
where near as great as that of Mr. Grosve
nor? If Mr. Grosvenor had desired to do
only what was honorable he would not have
made so grave a charge upon a mere rumor.
A day or two afterward Mr. Walker, of
Mas ?achusetts, became excited in debate,
and gave an exhibition of what, at the
time, were called “manufacturers’ man
ners.” It is worthy of notice that neither
Mr. Grosvenor nor any other northern man
took exception to Mr. Walker’s manners.
They were ready to applaud that in Mr.
Walker’s manners which they condemned
in Mr. Mills’.
On Friday Mr. Grosvenor presided over
the committee of the whole, and he con
stantly discriminated against the democrats
and in favor of the republicans. Each one
who gained the floor should have been per
mitted under the rule to speak five minutes.
Mr. Grosvenor stopped democrats before
thev had spokeu their full time, and per
mitted republicans to speak longer than five
minutes. By such unfair means he came
very nearly getting into trouble with Mr.
Mausur, of Missouri. Would any southern
man have been guilty of such injustice?
Was Mr. Carlisle, during his three terms as
speaker, ever guilty of any little meanness
like that charged against Mr. Grosvenor?
Two republican senators gave an exhibi
tion in the Senate the other day of north
ern manners. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts,
wanted to have a resolution considered at
once, and Mr. Plumb, of Kansas, refused to
permit the regular order to be suspended. Mr.
Hoar declared that he had never seia such
boorish ness, and Mr. Plumb replied that
Mr. Hoar should consult a looking-glass at
once. What an exhibition of bad manners
and low wit for dignified senators to make!
By plantation manners tiie northern con
gressmen mean southern manners. Those
who watch the proceedings of congress
have no difficulty in reaching the conclusion
that northern manners, as exhibited there,
are in no respect superior to southern man
ners.
Senator Sherman and the Silver Bill.
Senator Sherman appears to take a very
level-headed view of the silver question.
His speech on the silver bill on Friday
showed that he had given the subject of
silver coinage a grea deal of thought. The
fact is that he knows much more about
financial matters than almost any other
member ot the Senate. He has been Secre
tary of the Treasury, and, therefore, has
had occasion to study such matters prac
tically as well as theoretically.
He believes that the country needs a
greater volume of currency and he is anx
ious to provide a way for furnishing it. He
is willing to give the people all the currency
they want, but he desires that it shall be a
sound currency—a currency that will
pass at its face value throughout the
world. He does not believe that the silver
bill now pending in the Senate will do thit.
The effect of it would be, in his opinion, to
debase the currency. If it should become
a law gold would he forced out of circula
tion and out of the country. Silver would
become the standard. That, apparently, is
what a good many of the senators want.
They do not see the evils that would follow
from such a condition of affairs.
Senator Sherman’s idea is that the rela
tion that now exists between gold and silver
should be maintained, aud that the cur
rency should be increased by issuing certifi
cates upon silver bullion at its market
value, and upon gold. He would boy all
the silver that this country produces, but
he would not make tbis country the mar
ket for the silver product of the whole
world. He doesn’t want to make it profit
able for India and China to melt their sil
verware and send it to this country for sale.
Experience shows that those countries are
the most prosperous which have gold and
silver in circulation. Those which have
only a silver standard are non-progressive
aud poor. Mr. Sherman favors a measure
“that will make use of both gold and silver
and keep them together at par with each
other,” and that is the kind of measure that
all sound financiers favor.
Col. Livingston, in his speech before the
ways and means committee in b 'half of the
sub-treasury pian, said that if the plan
w ere adopted it would knock the spots out
of all the bucket-shops in the country. Asa
matter of fact, the bucket-shops are disap
pearing so rapidly that the probability is
that there will be none by the time the sub
treasury plan is adopted. There are a few
people in this stale, particularly in Atlanta,
who would feel better if some of them had
not disappeared so suddenly.
There is considerable speculation as to
whether or not Ben Butterworth will vote
for the McKinley bill. The chinces are that
he will be whipped into the p irty traces.
There are several republicans who would
like to kick over the traces, but they dare
not.
Cornell University has c included to dis
continue its class ia jou ualism. The place
to learn to be a journalist is in a newspaper
office. A man who graduates in journalism
knows just about as much about newspaper
work as be does about running a stoam
plow.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1890-TWELVE PAGES.
“Stop Thief!”
It is a trick of thieves who are trying to
elude pursuit to cry “stop thief!" With
reference to an article in the Atlanta
Constitution a day or two ago we have tbis
to say: If we are not mistaken, the Atlanta
Constitution enjova the reputati n of being
a great “re-dater”—that it takes dispatches
from < ther papers and dates them up with
out giving credit for them. We are under
the impression that the Constitution cribs
more matter than any other paper in the
country. If this impression is an erroneous
one our coctemp rary will doubtless be
swift to correct it, or, perhaps, some other
one of our other state contemporaries will
kindly do so. Wo do not want to do any
one an injustice.
It is true that the Morning News
occasionally uses short news items from it*
contemporaries without credit, but it uses
them in a column devoted to such matter.
About every paper ia the country that
prints such a column does this. Headers
know that it is clipped, and hence no one
is deceived.
Will the Constitution be kind enough to
say if it received direct from Fernandina
the dispatch dated Fernandina, April 28,
printed in its issue of April 28 and headed,
“The Six-shooter?” The Morning News
published a dispatch very much like it ou
April 25, three days before; so much like it,
in fact, as to suggest the suspicion that the
Constitution's dispatch, slightly changed,
is the one that appeared in the Morning
News. W T e give extracts from each, that
the Constitution may see how much they
are alike:
From the Homing From the Constitution,
yews, April 25. April 28.
Mrs. Tilt rpe says that Mrs. Thorpe says that
during a ride yester- during a drive in the
day morning with Mr. morning with Mr. Hub-
Hubby, he drew a pis- by he drew a pistol and
tol and threatened to threatened to shoot her
shoot her if she -id not if she did not at once
at once tc be consent to marry him.
married to him, and, After forcing a consent
after obliging her to he also threatened to
consent, he said he shoot her at the altar if
would shoot her at the she made any objection
altar if she made any or refused to go through
resistance or refused to with the marriage cere
to go on with the ceremony. He then drove
mony. He then drove her to his residence on
to his residence on Sev- Seventh street and sent
enth street and sent for for the Rev. Mr. Cross
Rev. Mr. Cross to come to come and marry
and unite them. Mr. them. Mr. Cross re-
Cross went as request- sponded in person and
ed aud was met by" Mr. was met by Mr. Hubby,
Hubby, who hauded who handed him a h
him a license in due cense drawn in due
form, which Mr. Cross form. Mr. Cross exam
examined, and, finding ined it and finding it
correct, he proceeded correct he proceeded
with the ceremony. with the ceremony.
During this time Mrs. During all this Mrs.
Thorpe sat on a lounge Thorpe had sat hope
withher head resting lessly silent on a lounge,
on her hand and ap- with her head resting
pareutly in deep medi- on her hand and appa
tation, but she stood rently lost in seif
up at the request of thought. She stood up
Mr. Cross and inadeThe at the request of Mr.
re ponse of tne tpisco- Cross, and in low tones
pal ceremony without made the responses or
any sign ot disturbance the Episcopal ritual
till after the ring was to without any outward
be placed on her finger, sign of disturbance till
when she fainted. Mr. the ring was to bn placed
Hubby placed his arm on her ' tiger, when she
around her.aud adjust- dropt* $ a a dead taint,
ing the ring laid her on Mr. Huuoy, with every
the lounge and then sign cf devotion anddis
told Mr. Cross that the tress, bent over her,
marriage was against placed the ring on her
the wishes of her pa- finger, and raising her
rents, CoL and Sirs. E. to the sofa told Mr.
R. Brink. Soon after the Cross, as he completed
ceremony Mr. Hubby the ceremony, that the
went over to the Eg- marriage was against
mont hotel and in- thewishes of her parents
formed Mr. and Mrs. —Col. an’! Mrs. E. R
Brink of the affair. Brink.
Later in the day. Soon after the cere
while Mr. Hubby was mony Mr Hubby went
away, Mrs. Thorpe sue- to the Egmont hotel and
eeeded in getting frem informed Mr. and Mrs.
the bouse and reaching Brink of the marriage,
the rooms of her pa- During his absence Mrs.
rents, when she in- Thorpe suoee-ded in
formed tnem of the escaping from the house
means takento i iduce and reaching her par
her to marry Mr. Hub- i nts told s them of the
by. She was then seized threats used to induce
with mental and physi- her to go through the
cal prostration, neces- ceremony. She then
sitating medical atten- broke down completely
tion. Last night an and doctors were hasti
application was made ly called in. An appli
to County Judge cation was immediately
Schuyler for a peace made to County Judge
warrant against Mr. Schuyler lor a warrant
Hubby, but nothing against Mr. Hubby, but
further has been done no arrest has" been
in the matter tip to to- made. Mrs. Thorpe re
night. Mrs. Thorps re- mains with her parents
mains with her parents at the Egmont hotel
at the Egmont hotel, and Mr. Hubby makes
and Mr. Hubby makes no explanation,
no public explanation Tne whole affair is
of the matter. even more singular than
The whole affair is the facts indicate, inas
veryi singular, inasmuch as the bride and
much as the parties groom, if such they are,
tiad been much togeth- had been much togeth
er an 1 public opinion er,and opinion w-as t hat
was that affairs would a love affair would ter
terminate in a much minate in a much more
more satisfactory man- usual manner. Mrs
ner. Mrs. Thorpe camo Thor}*' came here
here to reside with her to reside with
parents several years her parents several
ago, in her early wid- years ago ia her early
owhood.and her triend- widowhood, and her ac
liness with Mr. Hubby quaintance with Mr.
has been through being Hubby was cultivated
much in Ids society by by being much in his so
a residence at the same ciety at the same hotel,
hotel dnring that time.
If the Constitution asserts that it got the
foregoing dispatch direct from Fernandina
we will be much obliged if it will explain
why its correspondent waited three or four
days before sending it, and why he foliowe 1
with such remarkable closeness the wording
of the dispatch which was published in the
Morning News. When wo have this in
formation we may have something further
to sa'y about cribbing news matter. If the
Constitution admits that it cribued the Fer
nandiua dispatch, changing it in some un
important particulars with the view of
creating the impression that it received it
direct from a correspondent at Fernandina,
We simply suggest that it can find no more
deserving object of contempt than itself.
McCalla’a Sentence.
The sentence of Commauder McCalla is
not a very severe one. It is that he be sus
pended from rank and duty for three years,
and to retain his present number on the list
of commanders while so suspended.
According to this sentence Commauder
McCalla does not lose his chance of promo
tion, and, according to our dispatches yes
terday, the amount of pay he will receive
will be only S2OO less than if he were on
duty. It is said that the Secretary of the
Kavy thought the punishment remarkably
light. That ho thought so is not surprising,
particularly as there was also a recom
mendation to clemency which was signed
by ten of the twelve members of the court.
The court might ns well have acquitted
the commander. They ought certainly to
have done so if they d.d not think him suffi
ciently guilty to be punished. It is said
that the president of the court-martial voted
for acquittal. There is no fault to he found
with him for doing that, though it is diffi
cult to see how any one could think the
charges were not proven.
The evidence disclosed a very loose state
of affairs on the ship which McCalla com
manded. There is no doubt that he
had a bad lot of men in his crew. His
troubles with his crew, however, seem to
have been due to a lack of discipline—that
is, a failure to strictly observe the regula
tions. He does not appear to have had the
respect of either his officers or his crew to
the extent he ought to have had.
Doubtless there is some little disgrace at
tached to the sentence, aud, being a sonsi-
| tive man, he may feel the slight punish
ment inflicted upon him much more keenly
than many another man would feel a
severer one.
P3HSONAL.
King Humbert of Italy affects to be English,
and calls far rare steak and thick mutton
chops.
Mme Dosse. si iter-in-law of M. Thiers, owns
the finest private collection of pearls in the
world
The British Minister at Washington, Sir
Julian l'auncefote, is an expert with the foils
and with the short sword.
Ex-Senator Sawyer of Alabama now earns
his daily tread as a sec und-class clerk in the
war department at Wash Egton.
Jacob Tuttle of Alton, K. K., and his sister,
Sirs. Sallie Kennett. both celebrated their Bod
birthday recently. They are tw ins.
The first Woman to apply for admission to
the bar of the supreme court of Michigan is
Miss Flora W. Tibbits of Ann Arbor.
Sionor Bucci made a great deil o? money out
of his fasting feats aod put it into Italian
rentes. He has suddenly be.ame a bloated
bondholder.
Mr. Stanley’s new home, where fie will
gath r together his imm-nsa collection of Afri
can curiosities, is in De Vere gardens, Kensing
ton, London.
A Chjcago physician named C. T. Parkes has
received a fee of $25,003 for less than a month's
attendance on a patient who was afflicted with
a cancer in the face.
Mrs. Edward Morrell of Philadelphia, form
erly Miss Drexel, has received the gift of a colt
of the i are formerly owned by Gen. Grant and
dow by G. W. Childs.
MissJFoiisythe has secured the rights for Eng
land of M. Victorien Sardou’s new play.
“Cleopatra,” which will he Mme. Sarah Bern
hardt’s next creation.
The czar s qrother. the Grand Duke Alexis,
is going ti> take some friends through Siberia,
and show th in how like an earthly paradise a
Russian prison-pen is.
Elsie Hall Is a 12-year-oli pianists from
Australia who is attracting attention in London.
She has beenc ectei to a scholarship at the
Royal Col.ege of Music.
The Belgian King, Leopold, is said to con
template a journey to this country in the au
tumn, with a view of arranging for further de
velopment of the Congo.
The lata Grn. Gresley, Senator of France,
was in 1879 the minister cf w .rwho ordered
that all military bail is should play tho “Mar
seillaise” on all official occasions.
Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, who wrote, “My
Country,'Tis of Thee, - ’ fifty years ago, is still
in active pulpit service and preached Sunday
last in a New Bedford, Mass., church.
Mahgahetof Savcy, the silver-haired 'duch
ess dowager of Genoa, m 'ther of tho queen of
Italy, despite her age aud rank, walks to church
like the poorest working girl of the town.
Mas. Catharine Sharp of Philadelphia, when
a little girl, sold iniik to Gen. Washington and
his staff from her lather’s farm. She is now
112 years old and her mental faculties are un
clouded.
Ex-Gov. J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska,
father of the Arbor day for economic tree
planting out that way, says that more than
600,000,000 trees planted by human hands are
growing in that state.
BRIGHT HITS.
Few men sow their wild oats without getting
more or less rye mixed in with them.— Atchison
Globe,
Modest.— “ Why are you so determined to
study law? We have plenty of lawyers now. ”
"But not prominent ones.”— F liege nde
Blatter.
It is said that Jefferson carried his simple
taste - into official life. Lots of office-holders do
that, but the trouble is they taste too often.—
ley as Siftings.
Even a hen that misses a couple of her chicks
is not such a beuuMuUy true picture of flurry
ai.d worry as a woman looking for her gloves
when sue is otherwise ready to go tail.—Liver
po l Post.
Husband—Where Is roy wife. Annie?
Maid—She's just gone np stairs, sir.
Husband—Well, just give her this kiss, dear
—I have to catch a tram in five minutes, and
can't wait.— St. Paul Eye.
Fanole— l suppose that well-known tune will
become popular in Rome wuen the next lot of
cardinals is created.
Cumso—What tune?
Fangle—"Where Did You Get That Hat?”
Judge.
“If J saw a woman drowning I wouldn't try
to save her,” said Jeuks. “They are seldom
grateful. I saved a woman’s life once and—
well, she's now my wife.”
“Do you call that ingratitude?”
“Oh, but you se •, she often tells me sho
wishes I had let her drown.”— Philadelphia
Times.
Police Commissioner (tocandidate)— Suppose
you were to arrest a criminal, aud he were to
offer you a dollar to let him go, would you do
it?
Candidate—No, 3or.
“What would you say to him?”
“I’d say to him, 'Tory me wid a fiver.'
Texas Siftings.
First Tramp—Let's go up to this house and
see if we can get a bite.
Second Tramp—Not by a long chalk.
F.T.—Why not? Do they keep a dog?
S. T.—No. but there is a newly married couple
living there, aud the young wife gave me one of
her pies the other day, and it nearly killed me.
Boston Cuui ier.
Miss Uppertehn— l am certain that Count
Olcloraga is an imposter.
Miss Bonton—What makes you think so?
Miss Uppertehn—Well, he is very absent
minded, aud last night when he was in the sup
per room he picked up a cluster of bananas
and started :o walkabout shouting, “Bananas;
bananas: fine ripe bananas I”— Enoch.
Washington Item— “Mr. Wanamaker,” said
the Pnil&delpbiau, “I see ia the newspapers
“Let me tell you one thing,” said the post
master general sole only, “never believe what
you read in the newspapers.”
“Never. Mr. Wanumaker?”
“Hem: Except the advertisements.”—Phila
delphia Society.
Mrs. Porker— What is going to be played at
the open house to-nigut?
Mrs. Wildwest—lt is cot decided yet.
“How is that?”
“All I know about it is what I read in the
papers. It says they are going to play ‘Othello,’
or the ’Moor of Venice,’ but it didn’t say which.
For my part I’d just as lief see one as the
other.’’
“do would I.”—Texas Siftings.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Snakes In the Bananas.
From the New York Star ( Dem.X
Every little while a story is promulgated of
some fruiterer finding a snake in a bunch of
bananas. We expect every day to hear that
the prohibitionists are denouncing bananas.
Necessity the Mother of Luxury.
From the X. Y. Commercial Advertiser (Ind ).
A smart Philadelphia boy has discovered the
McKinley bill is a great thing, since the tax it
places on the necessities of life transforms
them into luxuries, so that the poor man here
after will have the luxuries of life if he manages
to live at all.
Czar Alexander’s Ruby.
From the New York Sun (Deni.).
It seems to us that there is somethin* unkind
in the continual repetition of the fact time the
czar wears “the largest ruby in the world.”
Even if the story of the capacity of Alexander
111. for champagne be fact and not fable, and if
he taks ins capacity to the uttermost, there is
nothing so stupendous about a Romanoff decc
raied nose as toentitle it to be called the largest
ruby in the world.
When Iceland Will Boom.
From the Washington Siar (Rep.).
The indications now are that in a very few
years the island of Iceland will be entirely de
popu ate i. Her emigration has been constantly
increasing, and it is estimated that at least
20.000 people, or one-tilird of t he population, will
leave this year When the last man has gone,
the moment of the real estate boomer will have
arrivi and. and he will swoop down and five years
lati r Iceland will be the garden spot of the
globe.
Dyspepsia’s victims are numbered by
thousands. So are those who have been re
stored to health by Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Adv.
Cash Talks.
"Madam,*' he said, according to the New
York Sun, as he doffed his hat to a woman he
met in Clinton place, “if I could be so bold as
“Take, care, sir!” she cautioned in reply.
“If I dare suggest to you, madam, that ”
“Be caceful. sir, how you suggest!”
“If you would permit me to observe that ”
“Permit nothing, sir: Who are you and what
do you want?”
“I sell infs soap, ma'am—soap which is war
ranted to remove paint and grease. If I might
be allowed to ”
“No, sir: Now what do you want?”
“1 want to sell you a cake for 10 cents,
ma'am ”
“Well, here’s yonr money for it. Why on
earth didn't you say you had soap to sell? Why
all this beating about the bush?”
"I bag to be allowed to ”
“No, sir: If it’s one cake for 10 cents you've
got your money. If it’s two for fifteen here's
another nickel. And now do you goon about
your business. I’ve no time to fool away this
morning."
Made a Mistake.
A few weeks ago, says the Detroit Free Press,
a citizen called upon a well-known athlete and
engaged him to give lessons in boxing, and af
ter about a month the teacher said to his pupil:
“You are in good shape now, and you needn’t
be afraid to pu t up your hands with any of the
boys.”
Two days later the pupil returned with a pair
of black eyes and a nose with the bark all off,
and the instructor exclaimed:
“Great Scott, man, but have you been in a
fight?”
“Yes.”
“And got licked?”
“Yes."
“How was it?”
“Why, there was a fellow I wanted to lick.
That’s what I came here and graduated for, I
met him yesterday and sailed into him, or
started to sail into him, when ”
“When his crowd pitched into you?”
“Oh, no. I found I hadn't the sand. Indeed,
I tried to run away, and he hammered Halifax
out of me. Yo uare a nice man!"
“What about?”
"To take my money and then get me licked.”
“Licked! Licked! Why, you rabbit, do you
think learning bow to box gives you sand? If
you had only told me that you lacked grit and
yet wanted to lick someone, I should have
taken another tack. I should have taught you
to sit on a high fence and punch him in the ey'e
with a long fish pole as he went past."’
When Jay Gould Changed Coats.
While Jay Gould was stopping last week at
the Auditorium hotel Manager Brislin suggested
a trip to the top of the tower, says the Chicago
Evening Post. The "Wizard” thought the idea
a good one,and, requesting Bri3liu to send for his
coat, acquiesced, itri luf went for the coat him
self, slipping his check to the court-room boy
with Jay Gould’s. lie helped Mr. Gould on
with his coat and then donned his own. It was
a little tight, but Brislin wasn’t looking after
his own comfort that day. But Gould's coat
didn’t seem to fit welL It was too large. He
said nothing, however, until thrusting his hands
into the outside pockets he drew forth a pack
of cards.
“Well, now, I know that I have been accused
of many things, but surely no oae can believe
me so low as that," ejaculated Mr. G_uld, show
ing the pack, ace up, to Brislin.
“Of cours - not,” replied the manager, palling
in turn from his overcoat pocket something
which proved to be a copy of Zola's latest work.
“I too,” said he, ‘‘have been accused of charg
ing rather stiff prices for board and lodging,
but not even my most bitter denunciator would
eveu suggest my having sunk to so low a depth
as to carry one of Zola's books around with
me.”
“We can’t have the right coats,” said Mr.
Gould.
“Of course not,” said Mr. Brislin.
“Let’s get the right ones,” said both, and
back they went to the coat room.
“You got the right coats,’ declared the boy
in charge. “The trouble is, Mr. Brislin. when
you took them they got mixed uo somehow, so
that you have got on Mr. Gould's aud Mr.
Gould has on yout;s.”
The two geutlemen saw the correctness of the
boy s assertion, and without looking eacu other
in the eyes made the change and ascended the
tower. While Mr. Gould was gazing toward
the north Mr. Brislin excused himself a mo
ment, and, going to the south side of the tower,
flung the puck to the ground. At the same
time Mr. Gould was observed to hurl from him
over the wall something which a bystander
declared looked very much like a book.
A Sparkling Bit of Comedy.
A sparkling bit of comedy was enacted on
Broadway yesterday afternoon, says the New
York Star. One of Col. Lamont's yellow-bodied
cars passkl by Thirty-third street, having as its
sole occupant a young girl of 20. She was a
very pretty brunette, with dark, curly hair, big,
expressive eyes, and long, drooping eyelashes
Iu her lap Sue carried a bundle, and in her hand
she held a paper backed novel, which she was
reading intently. She was the daughter of oae
of New York’s best known musical directors.
A few feet below Third-third street a middle
aged man, holding a freshly-ligated cigar in his
hand, swung on to the front platform of the
car. Glancing inside he espied its pretty, young
occupant. She was smiung at what she
was reading, and the flush on her checks
made her bewitchingly attractive. Instantly
the man cast his cigar away, pushed back the
car door, entered and 6at down opposite the
fair reader. Site paid no attention to him. and
continued her reading without even looking up.
The man made several futile attempts to at
tract her notice: finally he succeeded. The
young girl looked up. recognized her compan
ion as a well-known singer at the Casino, and
involuntarily smiled. Tne actor immediately
scented victory, hut the giri buried herself
again in her book, and try as he would he could
not cause her to again lift herfeyes. At Twenty
third street she left the car. As she did so. she
shot a sly glance at her persistent admirer. He
arose ad followed her to the rear platform,
standing tiiere wa.ehing her retreating iltrure.
As she reached the euro she turned around and
looked directly at the car. This was enougn.
Tiie singer jumped off and hastened back. The
young girl stood awaiting him. As he ap
proached and politely raLed his hat, she said:
“You evidently don’t know me, sir, but I do
you; you were one of tho guests at my christen
ing. If you will kindly carry this bundle, I
shall be gla Ito have your company home. I
know mamma will be delighted to see you. My
name is The actor turned red, white
and blus; then bracine himselr, hesaid: “Well,
you were the prettiest baby I ever saw, and
years have improved you. Now please let me
apologize, and when you tell this incident at
home, please leave my name out. You may tell
your mother, however, that you have learned
that the proverb, 'There is no fool like an old
fool,’ is pretty nearly true. Good-by.” And
the actor raised his hat and went off to hunt a
fresh cigar.
A Message for Mamma in Heaven.
From the Detroit Free Press.
“Is this the tel’graph office?"
Asked a childish voice one day.
As I noticed the click of my instrument,
With its message from far away;
As it c -used I turned; at my elbow
Stood the merest scrap of a boy.
Whose childish face was all aglo>v
With the light of a hidden joy.
The golden curls on his forehead
Shaded eyes of deepest blue.
As ii a bit of summer sky
Had lost in them its hue;
They scanned my outfit rapidly
From ceiling down to floor;
Then turned to me with eager gaze,
As he asked the question o’er;
•‘ls this the tel'graph office?’’
• It is, my little man,"
I said; "pray tell me what you want.
And I'll help you if I can.”
Then the hlue eyes grew more eager,
And the breath came thick and fast,
And I saw within the chuoby hands
A folded paper grasped.
“Nurse told me," he said, "that the lightning
Came down on the wires some day;
And my uiamma has gone to heaven,
And I’m lonely siuce she is away;
For my papa is very busy
And hasn l much time for me.
So I thought I’d write her a letter.
And I’ve brought it for you to see,
“I've printed It big so the angels
Could read out quick the name,
And carry it straignt to my mamma
And tell her how it came;
And now won t you please to take it,
And throw it up good and strong
Against the wires in a funder shower,
And the lightning will take it along.”
Ah! what could I tell the darling?
For my eyes were filling fast;
I turned away to hi le the tears.
But I cheerfully spoke at last:
"1 11 do the best I can, my child,”
'Twas all tnat I could say;
"Thank you,” he said, and then scanned the sky;
“Do you tbiuk it will funder to-day?”
But the blue sky smiled in answer.
And the sun shone dazzling in ight.
And his face, as he slowly turned away,
Lost some of its gladsome lignt;
“But nurse,” he said, “if I stay so long.
Won't let me come any more;
So good-by. I’ll come and see you again
Right after a funder shower.”
ITEMS OF INTERgST.
The kola nut, recently adopted as belli £ ex
tremely nutritious by the German army, is pre
pared as a beverage in the form of chocolate.
It is said to be more nutritious than either coffee
or tea.
A xew meoaphose has been placed on the
market in England, by which the human voice
can be so magnified t hat it may be heard at a
distance of several miles. On its appearance a
poor henpecked Englishman wrote to the papers
and said that if the electricians had on baud or
in view an instrument that would so diminish
the human voice that it couldn t be heard at all.
he was w illing to pay a good deal of money
for it,
A syndicate of wealthy French Jews has
offered $200,000 for the Hebrew Bible in the
Vatican. For this book, generally conceded to
be the most valuable in the world, the Hebrews
of Europe have more than once made offers in
the century past, one of the offers being its
weight in gold for the famous Bible; but it is
understood that the pope cannot legally sell it
without the authority of the Congregation of
the Propaganda.
A London firm states that the shipments for
warded from the champagne district* for tfb
year ending March 21 (over 23.000,000 bottles)
make the present’stock in cask and bottle eqnai
to five years' consumption. This enormous
vintage could be duplicated, it necessary, too,
from the Jersey cider cellars of New York and
vicinity, so that there will be no immediate
alarm. Tne trouble will be to get the accom
panying cracked ice.
Frederick Spitzer, the collector of probably
the greatest gathering of objects of all sorts of
arts ever brought together by a private person,
died in Paris two weess ago. Born in Hungary
in ;8:5, he went to Vienna to engage in trade,
and accidentally discovered an Albert Durer,
which he bought and sold for a little profit.
Till that time he had known nothing of pictures
or curiosities, but for thirty years he dealt in
antiquities ail over Europe. His present collec
tion is unparalleled, embracing nearly every
foim of art.
A Russian peasant in the Slmperfool distri ct
had two sons, of whom the younger was his fa
vorite. The elder, not liking this, took SI,OOO
that the old man had secreted and hid in a corn
stack. W en the old man discovered his loss
a few days later, the elder son acknowledged
having taken the money, and offered to give it
up if the father would promise thereafter to
treat him the same as he did the younger one.'
The father agreed, aDd both hurried off to the
cornstack. But the mice had been there before
them and the money was destroyed.
The London correspondent of an English
paper alleges that the Prince of Wales has insti
tuted the cust im of weighing both the coming
and departing guests at Sandringham palace.
At the first opportunity after his arrival the
guest >s weighed, and his weight recroded in a
book kept for the purpos *, and he is weighed
again on the morning of his departure, and an
other record made, accompanied by the auto
graph of the guest. One of the latest signa
tures in the book is that of Salisbury, anil h s
weight is put at eighteen stones, plump.
A policeman of New York the other day cor
raie 1 a dog which appeared to be mad, in a shop
in Sixth avenue, between Twelfth and Thir
teenth str ets, and, after shooting it. llung tue
body into the gutter. As it lay there a woman
forced her way through the surrounding crowd
and irently placed upon the dead animal a
bunch of magnificent roses. The bunch was
nearly as big as the dog, and cost more than a
better dog wou and sell for. Woman and dog
were unacquaiated. The roses were merely a
spontaneous tribute to a friendless beast.
Amateur magicians complain that they are no
longer in demand. Tnere is a general tendency
to frown on some of the young performers
nowadays, and the craze that set in some time
ago over this particular form of household
amusement has quite disappeared. The crowds
that gather around Hermann are by no means
as great as they were a year or two ago, when
be gave exhibitions of his dexterity in some
public places, and the manufacturers of sleight
of-hand tools of various sorts, complain of a
constant falling off of their sales. It is appar
ently nothing more than a freak of public
taste.
A Berlin restaurant and cafe is cooled in
Summer and heated In winter by electricity, and
the flood of light from the electric lamps is
tinted a delicate pink, which is so becoming to
the complexions of the lady visitors that the
place is simply thronged. In the center of t e
roo o there are several glass jars through which
passes a spiral platinum wire. The electricity,
on heating the wire, speedily raises the tem
perature of the water in the jars to boiling
point, and p epares the coffee, which a small
electric railway transmits to the various tables,
so that the guests may help themselves at their
pleasure.
The Loch Leven trout was recently intro
duced into this country. It is indigenous to
Loch Leven, Loch Scone. Loch Lomond aud the
River Forth in Scotland. Its back is of an
olive green, and the lateral line is bordered with
large, dark, almost black spots, some round,
some shaped like an X and some like a XX.
The spots are very irregular and very distinct.
Its peculiar habit is to fight under water, never
rising to shake itself out of tb i water like the
winninish of Lake St. John. The Loch Leven
trout is c nsidered, by good authorities, a va
riety of the German brown trout, now becom
ing popular in this country.
In England in 1868-89 there was one known
thief to every 1,000 persons; in 1887-88 the per
centage had fallen by nearly half, and there
was only one known thief to every 1,945 per
sons. The decrease iu the receivers of stolen
goods is still greater. In 1868-69 there was one
to every 8.430 people; in 1887-88 there was one
to every 25,599. Iu 1869 there were 1.962 houses
kept by receivers of stolen goods;.in 1888 there
were oniy 778. The number of suspected pub
lic houses, beer shops and coffee shops has
fallen within the same period from 3,197 to 753.
In 1888-69 there was one policeman to every 858
people: in 1887-88 there was one policeman to
every 769 people. Such are the last statistics.
Probably no simple aggregation of figures
gives such a wonderful idea of the advance in
modern warfare as the description of the new
Krupp gun which has just been ordered for
Cronstadt. It throws a ball weighing 2,000
pounds a distance of twelve miles. The gun is
forty-four feet long, and it can be fired twice a
minute. Every time it goes off it costs the gov
ernment $1,500. It will not be used for the
purpose of firing government salutes. If it
were planted on Governor's Island and used to
salute Secretary Tracy when he passed by,
every such ceremony would cost the govern
ment $31,500. A few trips past Governor’s Is
land by the secretary would bankrupt the navy
in a single day.
Hotels are few and ill-conducted in Brazilian
coast towns, but there are excellent French and
German r, staurants in Bahia and Pernambuco.
When one has the bill to settle he finds that the
score runs into the thousands. The basis of
currency is an imaginary unit, the l eis, 1,0 0 of
whicu ma -e a milreis, worth, apart from ex
change, about 50 cents. The lowest nickel coin
islOOreis, worth about 5 cents Below these
are copper coins, 20 reis being equivalent to
1 cent. If one dines with a friend at a restau
rant the score will amount to 7,500 reis—a result
startling to the uuinitiated. When real estate
transactions are conducted the figures rise into
the millions, and when trade statistics are com
puted, biilions and trillions are brought in. Re
versing the process, one pays 2,000 reis to a
boatman to go ashore from a steamer, 1.000 reis
or a milreis for a bottle of beer and some
c.ieese, 500 reis to a guide for pilotage through
a public bui’ding, 200 reis for a ride on a street
car, 100 reis for a turn on the lift from the
upper to the lower floor, and another 100 reis
for having his boots blacked.
An extraordinary piece of stealing, says the
New York Sun, is reported from Paris. The
administration of the Theater of Yarietes was
very much surprised to find, about a month
ago, that a theft bad been perpetrated to their
prejudice; the battery of accumulators used for
the lighting of the theater by electricity had
been stolen. The battery, composed of thirty
eight accumulators and weighing 1,200 pounds,
had disappeared without a trace of its where
abouts being left. Inquiries instituted by the
directors did not lead to any result. Tue matter
was almost forgotten, when the managing di
rector of the theater received a letter running
as follows: “Sir you must have been very muc(i
surprised at tbe disappearance of your accumif
lators. Do not despair; they will be sent back
to day, without any cost for carriage." A few
hours later a car, heavily loaded, stopped in
front of the theater, and the authorities were
informed that the tbirty-eight accumulators, all
in a perfect state, were ready for delivery. The
carman, being questioned, could only say that
he met in tbe street some unknown men who
were trundling a wheelbarrow containing the
apparatus; they engaged in conversation with
him, treated him to a few glasses and induced
him to undertake the delivery of the goods at
the theater, paving biui 5 francs for his trouble.
That is all the man knew about it.
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