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vannah and Atlantic Railway.
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by C. H. Dorsett; Nathans Bros. Entire Dam
aged Stock, by Harmon, Walker 4 McHarrie.
Steamship Schedules Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Legal Notices—Application for Incorpora
tion of the Robinson Steam Printing Company;
Libels for Divorce.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The bucket shop man is disappearing
from the land, and the only mourners are
those whose cash has disappeared with him.
It is curious that people will trust their
money with concerns known to be fraudu
lent.
And so Kemmler, the New York mur
derer, must die a shocking death, notwith
standing Lawyer Sherman’s efforts in his
behalf. It seems that the supreme court
does not think an execution by electricity is
cruel.
The Louisiana Lottery Company has
opened its fight in the legislature of that
state for a renewal of its charter. It has
a majority of the members on its side, but
the opposition is strong and firm. Will
there be any boodle distributed!
The way the McKinley bill helps the
farmer is shown by the increased tax on
cotton ties. As far as wo know the farm
ers’ alliance has not protested against the
increase of the cotton tie tax. If it should
do so it would do something Dractical.
The Kansas farmers are beginning to in
quire about Senator Ingalls’ Southern Kan
sas 8 per cent, mortgage company. They
seem to be of the opinion that if the senator
has gone into the money loaning business
he is rich enough to retire from the Senate.
New Jersey has passed a ballot reform
law, and it is expected that it will prevent
effectually the uro of boodle at the polls.
The republicans being the purchasers of the
floating voters there is no doubt that the
democratic majority will 'be increased
under the new law.
A West Philadelphia lady cadis the Chris
tian scientists “anew breed of impostors.”
They are hardly anew breed, but they are
certainly a dangerous breed. They find
their victims among the weak-minded.
They arc likely to flourish until a number
of weak-minded people are killed off.
A writer in the New York Star says that
Senator Colquitt finds himself equally at
home in addressing a prohibition meeting
or presiding in a colored church pulpit.
There is no doubt that the Senator is a man
of versatile talents. Asa Sunday school
orator he can give Mr. Wanamaker points.
The United States supreme court has
knocked repressive dressed beef legislation
into innocuous desuetude. Minnesota has a
statute prohibiting the introduction of
dressed beef into that state. The supreme
court says that it is unconstitutional. Thus
another barrier to freedom of trade has
been removed.
It is alleged that New York’s Four Hun
dred are inexpressibly shocked by the dis
covery that a caterer, who has a moaopoly
in furnishing suppers for their entertain
ments, and whom they thought was a
genuine Frenchman, is a plain down east
yankee. It seems that yankea shrewdness
is equal to any emergency.
It is allegod that the meanest whisky in
the country is to be obtained in the restau
rant of the House of Representatives. The
speaker, coming from a prohibition state,
hasn t probably a cultivated taste. He
ought, however, to have some regard for
the members who know good whisky when
tney tas.e it. He may be able to put up
with bad whisky, but how about the Ken
tuckians!
Bank Wreckers.
Both Sew York and Philadelphia are
having an interesting experience with bank
wreckers. In New York several rasca's
; are beirg tried for a conspiracy to wreck
j three bank;. The hist >ry of the conspiracy
has been tc Id in our dispatches, and the
prospect is that the conspirators will all be
sent to the penitentiary.
In Philadelphia there is at present extra
ordinary excitement over the wrecking of
the Bank of America. Hundreds of depos
itors have lost all ibeir savings, ar.d many
people who were in comfortable circum
stances bare been almost ruined. The
means by which the bank was wrecked have
not beau fully explained. It is known that
the wreckers go: tomething over $1,000,000.
\V ben the bauk directors turned the bank
over to an assignee there was just 8 cents in
cash on baud.
As far as has been discovered the men
who got the funds of the bask were the
president of the American Life Insurance
Company, an employe of the American
Financial Association, and the president of
the wrecked bank. The president of the
American Life Insurance Company ap
pears to have got tbe most of it, ad he
cannot be found. It seems that the direc
tors of the bank were mere dummies. They
km w nothing of the condition of the bank
until it was too late to save the institution.
The American Life Insurance Company
and the American Financial Association
were mixed up with the wrecked bauk in a
way that has not yet been made clear. That
the money was obtained from the bank by
improper means there is no doubt. The de
positors have organized ami will prosecute
the guilty parties just as soon as they
get sufficient evidence.
The holders of policies in the life com
pany and the stockholders in the financial
association are also sufferers. It has been a
long time since tbe staid and steady Quaker
City has had so much excitement as it is
now having. If there is anything that will
make the people there step around lively it
is the loss of money.
A Victim of Overwork.
There are more victims of overwork than
is generally supposed. Many of the diseases
with which physicians now have to deal
are the direct result of overwork.
The farmer, blacksmith and mechanic are
apt to think that the lawyer, doctor, editor
and business man have an easy time of it.
They are greatly mistaken. The burdens
and worries of mental work are much more
exhausting than thoss of physical labor.
An instance of mental over work occurred
recently among the officers of the New
York Central railroad system. Mr. Walter
Webb, vice president of the New York Cen
tral and Hudson River railroad, left for
Europe the other day on a long vacation.
Although a young man he is almost a
physical wreck.
Mr. Webb is a very ambitious man and a
hard worker. He rose from a subordinate
place in the Wagner Palace Car Company
to his present position. He has very influ
ential friends, it is true, in the New York
Central system, but he has never depended
upon them. He has depended upon himself
wholly.
W hen he was promoted to his present office
his responsibilities at once became very
great, and the strain upon him was im
mense. He realized that ho was taxing his
power to the utmost, but, being young and
strong, be did not apprehend any danger to
his health. One day not long ago, while
sitting at his desk trying to solve some
troublesome problems, he was suddenly
stricken with blindness. Without warning
and with the swiftness of lightning impene
trable darkness separated him from the
world. His eyes were wide open but no
sight reached the brain through them.
Under careful treatment the sight of one
eye has been restored, but there is not much,
if any, hope that the sight of the other eye
will ever be regained. The doctors said that
he was the victim of overwork, and they or
dered him to take a long rest. It may be
that he will be able to resume railroad work,
but he will never be a strong inau again.
The burden which he undertook to carry
was too great for his strength. Mr. Webb’s
case is only one of many. The victims of
overwork are innumerable.
There are some things which college pro
fessors do not know. There is a professor
named Carhart at DePau w university, which
institution is located somewhere in the
wilds of Indiana. There was an interstate
collegiate oratorical contest a few days ago
at Lincoln, Neb. Ex-Gov. Crittenden, of
Missouri, was invited to bo one of the
judges, and he accepted the invitation.
When he arrived at Lincoln Prof. Carhart
objected to him on the ground that, being a
southern brigadier, he couldn’t decide fairly
relative to the speech of the DePauw con
testant, the speech being a northern view of
the southern question. Carhart is reported
to have wept bitter tears when he discov
ered afterward that Gov. Crittenden was a
northern brigadier. Thus are the narrow
minded punished for their short-sightedness.
A Washington shopkeeper thought he
saw $5,000 within his reach the other day.
A man Whom he took to be Silcott, the
fellow who absconded with the salaries of
so many members of the House of Repre
sentatives, came into his store and made a
purchase. As soo:i as the stranger left the
store the shopkeeper hurried away to a
police station, totd his littlo story aud put
hiQiselt on record as a claimant for the
$5,000 reward. He hasn’t got the reward
yet, however. The police took no stock in
nis story.
A writer in the New York Star, who
alleges that he saw Senator Joseph E. Brown
at the Fifth Avenue hotel tne other day,
says that the senator’s beard reaches the
fifth button of his vest. This statement
might be believed had he made no other.
Like most liars, however, he gives himself
away. He asserts that the senator has been
governor of tbe Palmetto state several
times. The Star's readers must be wofully
ignorant to swallow such stuff.
It seems that Surgeon General Hamilton
cannot get into the American Surgical
Association. His name was presented for
membership recently, and was “turned
down.” Tne reason he was rejected is said
to be the hostility by Dr. John S. Billings,
of the Army and Navy Medical Museum.
Billings, it seems, has an old grudge against
Hamilton. Is the grudge based upon the
fact that Hamilton “knocked out” the
national board of health?
The big democratic politicians of Penn
sylvania are gradually coming to think that
ex-Giv. Robert Pattison is the man who
can knock out in the gubarnational contest
in that state any nmn Boss Quay may nom
inate. Pattison is not a great man by a
long way, but he is an honest one, and an
honest governor is more needed in Pennsyl
vania than a brilliant one.
THE MORNING NEWS; SATURDAY. MAY 24, 1890.
‘You're Ac other.”
Twice recently the Atlanta Const it u 'ion
has charged that tbe Morning News took
news items from its columns without giving
it credit for them. The impression it sought
to convey was that it never did anything of
that kind. We called its attention, the
other day, to a dispatch of a sensational
character which was published in the
Morning News April 25, and which, in
almost the same words and without credit,
appeared in the Constitution April 28. We
asked the Constitution if it received that
dispatch from Fernandina. In reply it
charges the Morning News with ‘‘shuffling
and evading,’ and asserts that tbe only
answer the Morning News can make is,
“You’re another.”
We should like 1 1 know if the Constitu
tion's answer to our question is not a clear
case of “shuffling and evading.” It virtu
ally admits that it cribbed tbe Fernandina
dispatch, and dated it up to make it appear
as fresh news. It says it didu't see tbe dis
patch in the Morning News. What differ
ence does it make, from a moral standpoint,
whether it cribbed it from the Morning
News or a New York paper? The corre
spondent who sint it to the New York
paper clearly cribbed it from the Morning
News.
Yes, we virtually did siy, “You’re an
other” to the Constitution's charge that we
cribbed its news items. That paper is the
last one which should complain of anything
being taken from its columns without
credit, because we know of no paper that
does more of that sort of thing. If it will
take the trouble to look at its issue of April
2 it will find about half a column cribbed
from the Morning News of March 31.
There is no pretense of giving credit. If it
wilt look at its issue of April 15 it will find
more matter cribbed from tie Morning
News of April 1L We might easily call
attention to other instances of thefts of
news matter from the Morning News by
the Constitution, but it is unnecessary to
do so. The foregoing are sufficient to show
that the phrase, “You’re another,” fits the
Constitution exactly. It more than fits it.
It shows that the Constitution tried to hide
its practice of pilfering news by making
charges against a contemporary. It may
consider that a smart trick, but it
won’t find many people to agree
with it. We do Dot call that sort of busi
ness contemptible because the Constitution
seems to have a patent on that word, and
we don’t want to infringe its patent, but
we think it exhibits a degree of moral rot
tenness that is deplorable in a journal that
pretends to be respectable.
The Constitution now pretends that it
made its outrageous assault on the Morn
ing News wholly on account of a “Plun
kett” letter. It knows better than that, or
else it has a short memory. If its memory
is faulty it would be well for it to refer to
back numbers before rushing into print. As
for the “Plunkett” letter, our offense with
regard to it was jast about on a par with
that of the Constitution in purloining the
interview it published April 2.
We have the satisfaction of know
ing that whatever other offense
may be alleged against us, it
cannot be said that we have ever tried to
hide our own offenses by trying to blacken
the fame of a contemporary.
Why This Discrimination.
Mr. Blaine’s letter to the President, rela
tive to the construction of a railway from
this country to Patagonia, which the Presi
dent sent to congress with his approval, is
the subject of considerable comment. It
will be remembered that the pan-Ameriean
congress recommended the building of the
road, and Mr. Blaine, in his letter asking
for an appropriation of $65,000 to make the
preliminary survey in this country, says:
“Avery important feature, to which I
especially direct your attention, will be
found in the international declaration that
the line of the proposed railway shall be
forever neutral territory; that the material
necessary for the construction of the pro
posed railway shall be admitted free of
customs dues, and that its property and
revenues shall be always exempt from all
forms of taxation.”
1* not this strange sort of talk from the
chief of the protectionists? He actually ad
vises that materials for the construction of
this railway be admitted free of duty. If
protection is such a good thing, and if, ns
the protectionists assert, the railroads in
this country are the result of the protective
system, why should the proposed interna
tional railway be built under free trade
conditions?
Mr. Blaine has always prided himself
upon being consistent, but he is not so in this
instance. Perhaps he is beginning to see
that there iB little hope of gaining the South
American trade as long as the country is
cut off from the rest of the world by a
Chinese wall of protection.
So Mr. Blaine wants to get back into the
Senate, does he? Well, it has bean sus
pected for some time that he is not very
comfortable in his present position. The
President is afraid of him—afraid to lot him
have his way in any important matter—
and therefore ha* virtually bottled him up.
The President doesn’t intend that Mr. Blaine
sbal be a candidate for the republican pres
idential nomination in 1832 If he can help
it. and therefore he is not giving him a
chance to make a reputation as Secretary
of State. This condition of affairs ;s by no
means pleasant for Mr. Blaine, and it is not
to be wondered at, therefore, that he would
like to get into the Senate.
Senator Cullom of Illinois is a candidate
for the Presidential nomination of his party,
his main hope of securing that honor being
that he resembles Abraham Lincoln.
Doubtless he expects that when the colored
delegates to the nominating convention see
him they will think “Masia Liukun” has
returned, and will give him an enthusiastic
support. The senator ought to know, how
ever, that Gan. Alger’s bar’i will have more
influence with*them than any likoness to
Lincoln can possibly have.
Notwithstanding the fact that California
wine is adding much to the wealth of the
people of that state, the prohibitory spirit
has broken out there with a viruleuce that
threatens to closa all the saloons. How
ever, the wine producers are not greatly
alarmed, a? prohibition does not mean that
wine made in the state shall not be shipp'd
to other states.
Stanley is giving the English some plain
talk about their failure to take advantage
of their opportunities in Africa. Perhaps
the opportunities of which he speaks
are not tempting enough for them. They
prefer to put their money in this country,
because they are pretty certain of getting
a handsome return on their investments.
“He 's a good ball player—but why do they
call him ‘Spider?’ ’’
“Because he is death on flies.”—CArwfian at
Work.
PERSONAL
Mis* Mart Howe of Brattleboro. Vt, is
snoken of by a Boston journal as another
Gerster.
George Meredith has been suggested as
Lord Tennyson's successor as poet laureate of
England.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, one of the surviv
ing herces of the lost cause, is 84, but as bouy
ant and as active as a man of 50.
P. S. Gilmore, tbe band leader, has purchased
an interest in the comic opera called “The Sea
King,'’ written by Richard Stahl, author of
“Said Pasha.”
Mrs. Mary H. Milleh, who hR Served as
state librarian of lowa for two years, will be
reappointed. The governor has refused to put
her on the shelf.
One of tbe-best known men in Washington is
ex-Secretary Belucap. He is famous as a wit,
* story-teller and a gastronome. He makes
about $!5,0l0 a year as claim agent.
Dr. Gatling, inventor of the sulphur shower
bath gun which bears his name, is 86 years old
and lives at Hartford. Invemlng deadly
weapons must be conducive to longevity’
Mayor Job Male of Plainfield, N. J., who is
80 years old, has an umbrella that he has car
ried for thirty-five yea s. It has been re-covered
four times, though nwer lost or mislaid once.
Mrs. Maxwell Scott, owner of Abbotsford,
has a revenue of about $2,000 per year from
the fees paid by tourists who wish to see Sir
Walter Scout's bo.’ks, curiosities, and personal
relics.
The opinion of the genera! public, as opposed
to the few critical of W. D. Howell's works, is
not shown by the enormous sales of nis
books. His income is said to be nearly $25,000
a year.
Ex-Speaker Carlisle occupies a large and
handsome house on tbe fashionable part of K
street in Washington. It is handsomely fur
nished. and some of the pictures on the walls
are rare specimens of the painters’ art.
Hugh 0- Pentecost, who no longer uses the
prefix “rev.," announces that he is an “an
archist”—not, indeed, of the bomb-throwing
variety, but of tire kind who believe that the
world is to be reformed by talk rather than by
deeds.
Carl Schcrz Is said to be growing old fast.
He has almost completely dropped out of life
in New York. Occasionally he is seen in Wall
street, and once in a while at the theater or
public dinner, but he no longer mingles in the
great whirl of tuetown.
Judge Cooley, of the interstate commerce
commission, is in Washington. His health has
improved somewhat, but he still stays close to
his room, and wilt probably be unable to
actively participate in the work of the commis
sion for some time to come.
Hon. Return R. Thrall, said to be the oldest
practicing attorney in the United States, died in
Rutland, Vt., last Sunday in his 95th year. He
had cases on the dockets of the county and
supremo courts at the t inn- of his death. He
was state attorney in 1836, and an old-time
abolitionist and co-worker with William Lloyd
Ghrrison.
Robert Lons Stevenson (though himself a
Presbyterian) has addressed to the Rev. Mr.
Hyde of Honolulu a letter defending the late
Father Damien from Mr. Hyde's defamatory
charges, and reminding him that he is not likely
to incur leprosy by contact with the lepers, as
he keeps safely away fr ui them, living in ele
gant ease as a swell missionary. The attack on
Father Damien appeared so gratuitous that
there are few who will not feel gratified at Mr.
Stevenson’s defense of him.
BRIGHT BIT 6.
* —
The man who promptly pays his bills.
Is lonesome.
The ice that comes from the rippling rills,
ls lonesome.
Tbe woman who never is one bit vain,
Who never gets mad when there comes a rain.
And who says that her beauty is on the wane.
Is lonesome, O awfully lonesome.
Clucaao Inter Ocean.
Critic— You wouldn't mind if I criticised your
work adversely, would you?
Artist (coolly >—Oh. it doesn't make a particle
of difference which way you criticise it. - Jury.
Minister —You say several of your compan
ions were fishing in your father's mill pond last
Sunday? lam very much surprised.
Small Boy—So am 1. There isn't a fish in it.—
Detroit Free Press.
He (tenderly)—Do you know what makes me
linger here, and why J have not left this village
two weens ago?
She (archly.i—Perhaps you are waiting for
money to pay your board.— Drake's Magazine.
The Russian exiles are becoming so well ad
vertised through the efforts of Mr. George Ken
nan tnat gome of them will De coming over as
dime museum freaks, if the czar will kindly give
bis consent to the establishing of such an infant
industry.—Puck.
* ’Poor woman I Have you no husband to help
you earn a living?"
• I have a husband, so-called, but he is deeply
engaged in something else,”
“Of what nature?”
“Trusting in Providence.”— Chicago Times.
Lawyer StanleY—You’ll have to sign your
maiden name to the document, madam.
Mrs. Hooley—Be gorry, we’se hovbeen mar
ried thot long Oi forget it. Ffwhat was it,
Pat?
Mr. Hooley—Sure, Oi used t’ be that attintive
t' yure cousin Kate, Oi'm forgettin' mesilf
pfwliich one o’ yez Oi’ married.—Puck.
Editor— Doctor, 1 fear that I have paresis or
ha* dening of the brain.
Doctor—What is your occupation?
Editor—l am a journalist.
Doctor—Then you haven’t the disease.
Editor—Why do you tuink not?
Doctor—Paresis is caused by the restless push
of those engaged in accumulating money.—
Chicaoo Times.
“How came the jury to acquit the prisoner?"
asked the astonished stranger. “The evidence
all went to show, did it not, he killed the
man?"
"Yes,” replied tbe juryman, “but it also ap
peared in evidence before you came in. that the
man he killed always persisted in saying, 'ls
that so?’ when anybody told him a bit of news.”
—Bos on Journal.
“Doolittle is a very eloquent man. You
know he stumped the agricultural districts for
Harrison and protection. He did splendid work
in the campaign, and his speeches tickled tbe
farmers.”
“Yes. I know that. Put how did he make all
his money? He’s very rich!’’
“Oh, he made the most of it by 10 per cent,
loans on farm mortgages.”— Puck.
Nellie—But I don't like strawberries this
time oi the year, auntie; I'd rather wait a
month until they are sweeter and better.
Auntie—Yes, i dare say you would prefer to
wait until they are hawked about the streets.
Well, child, it you do uot like sour berries now
better thau sweet ones (when they are to be had
by the commonest sort of people you are sadlj
lacking in the first elements of exclusiveness.—
Life. _ - -
CURRENT COMMENT.
Great Ecott, What a Whopper?
Prom the New York World (Dem.).
A Georgia colonel named Scott—evidently a
doscende it of great Scott—has taken warning
from tbe “absorption” of estates by crafty
executors and the quarrels of ungrateful heirs.
He made half a million dollars last week and
has already bestowed liberal gifts upon educa
tional institutions. He has declared his inten
tion to leave his heirs only a modest legacy, and
let each of them “paddle his owncanoe." Scott
has probably heard how the Stewart estate be
came the Hilton property.
Foreign Substance After AIL
From the Albany Express (Pep.).
Although less than one-seventh of the wine
that is drunk in this country comes from across
the sea, yet only one-seventh of the remaining
six is s. Id honestly as domestic. The rest is
put on the mari.ee in bottles and other original
packages bearing foreign labels. Perhaps this
is excusable, though, when it is considered how
many foreign substances are often mingled with
grape juice to produce wine.
Ingalls’ Brass.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Rep.),
The bill introduced by Senator Ingalls for the
abolition of metal money is possibly aimed at
the missionary basket button. Some good
would be secured by tbe relief of the public
from a bewhiskered joke. If this isn’t what the
bill is intended for it is difficult to see what pur
pose it has.
Bynum Wouldn’t Object.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.).
Late events in the House threatened to dem
onstrate the necessity for anew set of rules
modeled after the Marquis of Queensberry’s.
Look to "ttnnion. Liver Regulator for re
lief from all sickness resulting from a dis
eased liter—Adv.
Violets.
From Vick's Magazine.
Blue and white, in soft array.
Over the meadows the violets lay.
Lowly and meek, as If kneeling to pray.
A little brook roetb murmuring by.
Singing its tenderest lul aby,
Wbi.e softly the violets stir and sigh,
And to the mosses gently cling.
And dainty bits of color fling
Over the meadows wavering.
List, as they whisper, soft ar.d low.
To the warm earth-heart below.
Where all sweet treasures spring and grow.
An 4 the sweet bird, in yonder tree,
Kings to tbe violets merrily.
Sending bis heart out cheerily,
And fleeting shadows come and go
Over the grasses, swift and slow,
Down where the blossoms bloom below.
Little violets, dainty and fair,
This one brief hour, O. let m i share
The spirit of your sweetness rare.
The Inebriate's Oath.
Judge Corwin's famous temperance address,
which wes printed a few weeks ago, says the
Washington Rost, recalls an incident which
occurred during one of Francis Murphy's blue
ribbon addresses A drunken man eat in the
audience and listened with owlish gravity to
the remarks. Murphy was telling of a fearful
occurrence alleged to have happened in a dis
tant state, whei e such things always happen.
“And, my friends.” said he, "this poor
wretch was so filled and saturated with alcohol,
that one night when he tried to blow out a
candle the flames set the alcohol fumes afire,
and the miserable sot was burned alive.”
The drunken man aros;tobisfeetaadhuskily
demanded:
"Ish thassho?”
“It is most assuredly so. sir!”
“Got er—hie—got er book?”
“Yes; right down here in front.”
The horrible example walked useertainly
down in front. The audience was on the toes
of expectancy. Here was another brand from
the burning.
“I solemnlvshwear," said the inebriate, "that
never, sho long's I live, will I—hie—will I ever
blow out another candle.”
Gilbert’s Aptness at Retort.
W. S. Gilbert is remarkably quick at repartee,
say? the Chicago Tribune, and numerous stories
are related illustrating hrs aptness at retort.
One evening as Gilbert w as leaving a uarty. and
was standing in the vestibule waiting for his
carriage, a snobbish young nobleman emerged
from the house, and, mistaking him for a foot
man, said sharply:
“Call me a four-wheeler.”
Gilbert calmly adjusted a single eye-glass in
bis eye, and surveying his lordship replied,
blandly:
“You’re a four-weeeler. ”
The young nobleman spluttered and wanted
to know wbat he meant. Gilbert said:
"You told me to call you a four-wheeler. I
couldn't call you hansom, you know.”
On another occasion when seated in a club
dining-room Gilbert was approached by a per
son who said:
"Have you seen here this morning a man with
one eye called Jones?”
Gilbert answered in his drawling way:
"What was the name of his other eye?”
At one time there were two American attrac
tions at the London theaters. These were Nat
Goodwin and a play by the late Bartley Camp
bell. The public ignored Goodwin but seemed
to enjoy the play by Campbell, and this moved
Gilbert to remark that he thought it was
"straining at a Nat and swallowing a Camp
bell.”
Not What Sho Wanted, Anyway.
A woman stopped in front of a hardware
store on Michigan avenue the other day and
began to examine a gasoline 3tove, says the
Detroit Free Press. A clerk speedily appeared
and queried:
"Were you thinking of buying a gasoline
stove, ma’am ?”
"Well, I didn't know. Which does it burn,
wood or coal ?”
"Neither, ma'am; it burns gasoline.”
“O. I see.”
“One of the handiest, nicest stoves in the
world, ma’am, au be placed in any room,
and it is warranted not to smoke nor Rmell.
Cooks just as well as a regular stove, and it
costs you only 5 cents a day to run it.”
“Doesn’t it run by natural gas?”
"O. no, ma’am. It burns gasoline—a fluid.
Here is the tank.”
"Has it a refrigerator attached?”
"Why, of course not. Whoever heard of a
refrigerator being attached to a stove?”
"Isn’t there no electricity about it?”
“No, ma’am.”
‘‘Doesn’t it save gas bills?”
"Hardly.”
“Just simply a stove to cook by?”
“That's all.
“Well, I don’t want one. Can’t amount to
very much, I guess. I'm looking along here for
a second-hand cloth*-s-horse. Good morning.”
Keeping Moses Down.
The colored people in a .small town in Georgia,
says the New York 6n. had gathered at their
church to hold funeral services over the remains
of a woman who had died a couple of days be
fore, and the ceremonies were about to begin
when the bereaved husband, who was a large,
corpulent man. b cko oed to one of the men
standing in the vestibule to follow him to the
horse shed iu the rear of the church. When
they had arrived there the bereaved turned on
him with:
"See beah, Moses, I wants an understandin’
wid yo’ befo' dis funeral goes any furder.”
“What is it. Julius?” asked the other.
“Las’ week, when we buried Henry Carter’s
wife, yo’ was right at hand. Yo’ crowded
yo'self up in do front. When de weepin' b *gun
yo’ sot yo’self to work an’ moaned an’ took on
until Henry hadn’t no show ’tall. Some of da
white folks reckoned yo’ was de bereaved
yo'self.”
“I dun couldn’t help it, Julius.”
“Yo’ couldn’t? Well now, let me give yo’ a
pinter. Lucinda was my wife an’ nobody e'se’s.
She libed wid me an’ died wid me. an’ I’ze got
to foot all de 'spenses. Now den, when de sad
ness ba. ins I’ze number one from start to fin
ish. I’m de bereaved, while yo’ is oniy an out
sider who feels sad 'cause I’ze left all alone in
dis cold world. Yo’ has got to keep snet. If yo’
go to takin’ on like yo’ did last week I’ze gwine
to forgit my great loss jlst long 'nnff to turn
around an’ gin yo’ such a lift under do ear dat
you’ll reckon yo’ is de subjeok of do funeral.
Do vo’ h’ar me. Moses?”
“I does."
“Den cum along, and recomember what I’ze
bin sayin’. Better take a seat in de bick row
an' hole yo’self down, fur at de werry fust
whcop of sorrow I’ze gwine to light on yo’ wid
a fo’ce of fo’toen boss power!”
Let tho Performance Go On.
The presence ia the city recently of Col. W.
R. Holloway of Indianapolis, at on# time a can
didate for the office of public printer, writes tho
New York Tribune s Washington correspondent,
recalled to the memory of one of the Indiana
delegation a story about the colonel which was
st one time quite popular ia the rural districts
of tho Hoosiar state. Col. Holloway was a
devotee of the circus, and “Buck” Terrell, at
onn time pension agent, now dead, was his con
stant companion wnenever a “ring show” came
to town. Moi.y years ago a big circus was
billed to appear for one night only in
the town of which Col. Holloway was
aa honored resident, and the interest iu
its appearance among the members of
the community ran high. When the time
for the opening of the show caraef the canvass
was packed. The ringmaster appeared and
made nis bow, the band struck up an inspiritin z
quickstep for the "grand entree.” and the audi
ence craned its necks for a better view of the
dressing-room exit. When the excitement was
at its highest t point the canvas flaps of tbe
doorway flew apart and the clown in all his
gorgeous array of yellow and red ran into the
ring. Throwing his arms wildly into the air he
stopped the music. There was a silence through
out the audience so dense that you could have
heard a peanut drop. Looking around the
great assemblage the clown cried out:
“Is Bill Holloway here?”
Col. Holloway, as usual, was in the front row.
He arose with a white face and answered
quirkly:
"i'es; here I am." For a moment he thought
some great misfortune must have befallen
some of his people. The inquiry had all the
awfulness of the cry in the crowded theater:
“is there a doctor here?”
The audience looked sympathetically in the
direction of Col. Holloway. The clown looked
that way too.
"Have you got Buck Terrell with you?" ho
said, impressively.
"I have,” said Col. Holloway in a tremulous
voice.
"Then,” said the clown, as his hands dropped
to his sides, "let the performance proceed.”
And, as a roar of laughter went up from the
great assemblage and Col. Holloway dropped
blushing into his seat, the band resumed its
lively quickstep and the gayly caparisoned
cavalcade came Into the ring.
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Annie Reeve3 Aldrich, the writer, is 25. of
medium hight and attractive appearance, with
clear gray eyes and brown hair.
Ths English Admiralty say that the total
abolition of masts and sails in all future fighting
ships has become absolutely necessary.
A prisoner in the Albany penitentiary, whose
term is about to expire, has asked permission
to remain for a year and care for the flower
beds.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage is a drawing card
upon the platform. He is to receive SIO,OOO for
twenty lectures with Chautauqua assemblies
this summer.
Japan has celebrated the 2,555 th anniversary
of the coronation of the first emperor of the
country, an affair which mikes our little 250th
anniversaries seem insignificant.
A fond mother In Baltimore, after searching
over nearly the entire town, Monday, for her
missing 4-year-old child, went into the bedroom
and there found the little one sound asleep.
■‘Marion Hari.and,” the author, is Mrs. Mary
V. H. Terhune iu real life. She is the wife of a
Brooklyn clergyman, and is a tall woman, with
gracious manners and a dignified presence.
A shoemaker mined Foikers, who belongs to
Portland, Me., is the champion tramp. He
boasts that he has traveled 20,000 miles a year
for ten years on railroads and has never paid a
cent of fare.
A well on the premises of C. V. Fuller, at
Elsie, Mich., began boiling and is exciting the
people of the village. The water is ice cold,
but the hissing and bubbling can be heard half
a block away.
Austin Corbin’s wedding present to an old
friend in Philadelphia was the use of his mag
nificently appointed private car for a trip to
Mexico. The car was provided with everything
needful, including a corps of servants.
Eli Foraker, a cousin of the late governor of
Ohio, is sel.ing fruit trees at Brooklyn, Mich.
In the evening he turns au honest penny by
posing as a nephew of Sitting Bull, connected
with a traveling medicine company.
An official statement sets down the number
of wolves in Russia at 170,000; it is further
stated thit the lo*s caused by the destruction
of sheep and swine by wolves is so great that it
cannot be even approximately estimated.
A ranchman at Antelope, Cab, being annoyed
by the coughing of his cook, hauled him from
bed and thrust him headforemost into a barrel
of water and drowned him. For this ungentle
freak he has been found guilty of murder.
It nss been figured that there are in Denver,
Col., thirty-one millionaires whose aggregate
wealth is $46,500,000. and thirty-five semi-mil
lionaires wnoso wealth aggregates $17,500,000
making in all $64,000,000 owned by sixty-six
men.
Eugene Field derives the inspiration for much
of his delicious humor from a fantastically
carved French briar pips that formerly belonged
to Thackeray, the novelist, and which afterward
passed into the hands of Max Lemon of Punch,
who presented it to the Chicago wit,
A N*w ocean danger is pointed out by silk
importers. It appears that died sponge silk,
known technically in the trade as French silk,
is, under certain conditions, exceedingly prone
to combustion, and is well known among the
steamship companies as dangerous freight.
According to the results of an inquiry insti
tuted by the French government, there are at
present in France 2,000,0)0 households in which
there has beo i no child; 2,590,000 iu which there
was one; 2,500,000, two children; 1,500.000, three;
about 1,00'.C00. four; 550,000, five; 330,000, B.x,
aDd 200,000, seven or more.
Sanilac county, Michigan, has a school dis
trict with only one family in it. The home
steader built a schoolhouse, used it as a dwell
ing, taxed the non-resident landholders for
nine months’ school each year, hired his wife as
school teacher, and elected himself, wife, son
and daughter as the school board.
The lattest addition to Oil City's zoo is a
blooded Maltese kitten which is the possessor of
but two legs. Where the hind legs should be
are two small stumps about half an inch long,
but they are apparently no aid to it in walking.
The kitten is only two weeks old, but is as lively
as any other of its kind having four legs.
Nashville’s (Tenh.) curiosity is aroused as
to what becomes of the ’pennies that are sent
there. They are not used in trade to any con
siderable extent, and it is surmised in some
quarters that most of them fall into the hands
of superstitious people who toss theai over
houses or cover them with stones “for luck.”
Capt. W. a. Knilans of Whitewater (Wio.)
lost a valuable Altitude filly, two years old, by
a rather uncommon accident. While having
her hoofs trimmed at a blacksmith shop she
became frightened and rearing, fell over back
ward, breaking ber skull. The captain had
some time since refused an offer of S3OO for the
animal.
President Carnot visited the old home of
Napoleon Bonaparte and gazed with admiration
upon the sranlte grotto in which, according to
tne 1 gend, the little corpqral during his child
hood spent long hours in study ahd meditation,
thinking very likely of how he would pose for
that St. Helena picture of him which h3s be
come so familiar.
A young, intelligent and wealthy Frenchman
by the name of Crampcl has started for Africa
with the intention of making an exploration of
sections which Stanley has not visited. He
takes with him a young woman of the tribe of
Gabon, who was brought from Africa some
years ago. She is highly educated, but Btill
retains her native tongue.
The Prince of Wales wears bell-shaped silk
hats. He pays 25 shillings each for them. He
has a remarkably even shaped head, the hatters
say, and his size is 7%. Prince Albert Victor
only takes a (% Tne brims of hi3 hats are
enormously arched to take off the effect of his
long face. His brother, Prince George, takes a
6%. The Emperor of Germany, who has a very
uneven head, takes 6%. So does the Duke of
Teek.
Count Arthur Potocki, who recently died
at Cracow in hi3 40th year, was one of the
largest land owners in Galicia, and he has left a
fortune of £’Boo,ooo, which he acquired by spec
ulations of various kinds. His estates and tbe
bulk of his fortunes pass to his younger brother,
who is also immensely rich, and whose wife is a
member of the Liechtenstein family, and one of
the most popular aud beautiful women in Vien
nese society.
Henry Villard's fondness for studying lan
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day, but nearly all of his evenings are given
over to the erudite and careful study of some
of the more interesting phases of the different
tongues with which he is acquainted. But, like
many other liDquists, he got through with the
Volapuk craze a long while since, and his time
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