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THURSDAY MAY 2i>. 181)0.
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Savannah Cadets.
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Gazan, Pulaski House; Notice, Barbour A Cos.;
Special Notice, M. J. Egan; Memorial Day, May
.30: Auction Sale of Fine Furniture To-day by
C. H. Dorsett; Artesian Shower Bath, etc., in
the Two Cottages at Tybee for sale by C. H.
Dorsett; Special Notice to Vegetable Shippers
per Steamship IV m. Crane; To Those Looking
for a Comfortable Home on Easy Terms, Har
mon, Wa’ker A McHarrie; Several Live Agents
Wanted, G. B. Whatley, Director of Agencies
Georgia State Building and Loan Association;
A Grand Entertainment by Fleming Dramatic
Club for the Benefit of the Colored Orphan
Girls Attached to St. Benedict’s Church, Thurs
day, May 29.
Railroad Tampa
and Key West System.
Auction Sales —Household Furniture, by J.
McLaughlin A Son.
Outing Goons—A. Falk A Sons.
Riverton Holds the Key—Riverton I,and
Company, Sheffield, Ala.
For the Babies— Solomons A Cos.
Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
Amusements— A Calico Hop at Catholic
Library Hall Friday Eveuing, May 30.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Caesar bad his Brutus, Speaker Reed has
his Ca-sar. His other name is Burrows.
Headsman Ciarkson is an expert in the
1 1 of decapitation, but for delicacy and
Mspatch in that line Secretary Windom is
tat it led to the ax.
Are not the liquor dealers overdoing the
riginal package business in prohibition
quarters? If they are not careful they may
turn victory into defeat.
A widespread plot to bring about another
revolution iu Brazil has been discovered.
The conspirators proposed to put out the
present rulers, just as the latter ousted the
imperialists. The revolutionists have found
out that overturning governments isn’t all
it is cracked up to be.
Edward Bellamy will probably have the
satisfaction of putting some of his peculiar
ideas about government into practice. He
is talked of for the first mayor of the new
city of Chicopee, Mass., which, although an
old town, is just now assuming the vesti
ture of an incorporated city.
There is a lurking suspicion that there is
another motive besides the lawful one for
collecting and compiling the names of all
the living ex-union soldiers and widows of
soldiers. These volumes when printed will
be a great convenience to pension agents,
and who is most to profit by this job if not
the pension agent?
The Spanish cabinet has decided to give
an English syndicate the contract for the
Cuban Central railway, because it offers
better security than the American syndi
cate, but will stipulate that American firms
shall supply a portion of the material. The
contract for building the Cuban Central
railway is for millions of dollars, and it is
surprising that the Americans did not look
more closely after their interests in the
matter.
The disclosures of rottenness and corrup
tion in New York city before the Fassett
investigating committee expose the low
state of political morals in the metropolis.
The revelations made sustain the view of
affairs taken by the Rev. Dr. Heber Newton,
in a sermon preached last Sunday, that the
city government is a combination of the
tiosses for jobbery and political dodges to
escaj e responsibility and to permit all sorts
of rascality.
The unsettled state of affairs about the
tariff is a bar to the negotiations for the
proposed commercial treaty between this
country and Mexico. If the Senate should
accept the free sugar provisions of the
House bill it would remove a great difficulty
in the way now, as it would not be neces
sary to stipulate for it in the treaty. The
duty on sjjver and lead ore may prove the
stumbling block, however, but a treaty
conceding the free entrance of Mexican
ores in return for free entrance for Ameri
can products into Mexico might solve the
difficulty. *
Delayed Tariff Legislation.
Ther. is a pretty fair prospect that there
will be no tariff legislation at this session of
congress. The Morning News suggested
some time ago that the cutlook was not
favorable for the early passage of a tariff
bill. Senater Plumb’s resolution, calling
for a table shewing the changes which the
McKinley bill makes in th* present tariff,
and also giving the reasons for the changes,
cannot be prepared under a mooth or two.
There is another thing that will delay tariff
legislation. It is the determination
cf the finance committee to open its doors
and bear what those who are directly in
terested in the tariff have to say with re
spect to the changes which the McKinley
bill makes. It is evident that these hear
ings will consume an immense amount of
time. They will take so much time that it
will be rather remarkable if the Senate
reaches a vote on any tariff bill during this
session.
The republican organs pretend to be en
tirely satisfied with what is understood to
be the tariff programme of the Senate.
They declare that the more the McKinley
bill is discussed the more popular it will be.
In view of the fact that debate upon it in
the House was practically denied there is
reason for suspecting the sincerity of this
assertion of the republican organs. If they
are so anxious to have the bill discussed,
why did they not permit ft to be debated in
the House?
The Philadelphia Fress, which follows its
party upon about all matters with slavish
fidelity, says: “The McKinley tariff in prin
ciple and in its policy will profit by every
hour in which it is explained, advocated
and debated, and become immeasurably
stronger before the country.” And yet
this same party organ favored the means
by which the McKinley bill was put
through the House—means that were the
very opposite of free discussion. Indeed, it
is quite certain that the bill would not have
been passed at all if it had not been made a
caucus measure. The pretense of the re
publican organs, therefore, that they want
the bill discussed is a very hollow one.
The Carpenters' Victory.
The Carpenter , the organ of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America, sufnming up the eight-hour move
ment in its issue of this week, declares that
the eight-hour day has lieen secured for
carpenters in twenty-seven cities and towns,
affecting 23,355 men in the trade. Nine
cities are still out for the eight-hour day
and six compromised on nine hours. The
nine-hour day, the same authority asserts,
has been established in seventy-two cities
and towns, with the addition of eight hours
a day on Saturday in many instances. The
concession affects 14,180 carpenters, while
gains are claimed to have been made in the
shape of increased wages in eighteen other
cities, affecting 2,682 men. In round num
bers 40,000 carpenters have been benefited
by the movement.
This is certainly a great victory for the
carpenters. They were chosen by the
American Federation of Labor to inaugu
rate the eight-hour movement. Eight
hours work, eight hours play, eight tfours
sleep, is an ideal division of the day, and a
division which may ultimately find a place
in the more complete and perfect organiza
tion of society. But it has not by any
means been established beyond questioning
that such a division is expedient under
existing conditions, and certain it is that, at
present it has not been deemed
desirable by more than a limited
number of trades into which the laboring
class is divided. No argument is needed,
however, to prove that for the development
of an individual leisure is necessary—not for
idleness, but for improvement in those
things that will enable him to earn a better
livelihood and to enjoy what he earns. Nor
is argument needed to prove to the fair
minded that the laboring class, on the
ground of manhood, is entitled to such
freedom for such purposes.
The carpenters have demonstrated that a
large proportion of the employers are ready
and willing to concede this, and others are
only waiting until it will be deemed expedi
ent to follow their lead. It is also note
worthy that the concessions made were
secured, except in a few instances, without
strife or trouble, and where extreme dif
ferences of opinion existed compromises
were made for nine hours or an advance in
wages. But in all cases where an issue was
made the workmen gained some concession.
A great deal of adverse criticism is being
made in the north because the promoters of
the world’s fair have discovered that it Is
necessary to amend the constitution of Illi
nois in order to have a state appropriation
of $5,0110,000 made for the exposition. The
men who were opposed to the fair being
given to Chicago say that this is
tantamount to a confession that it will not
be nearly the grand show which was
projected. This method of warfare is
usually resorted to by rival jingo boom
towns, but such talk coming from New
York and Philadelphia is in bad grace.
It is almost a confession that those cities
are jealous of Chicago; and well they may
be, but it should not engender ill-feeling
and strife. Now that the Windy City has
been chosen as the site of the fair, every
citizen in the country should take a pride in
it and help to make it a success. The
money will, no doubt, be forthcoming. It
is an obligation which the people of Chicago
cannot afford to let go to protest, and there
is every reason to rfclieve that they will
not.
Post McPherson, G. A. R., of Brooklyn,
N. Y., made a lamentable exhibition of its
superloyal idiocy in a set of resolutions con
demning the use of the confederate flag at
the unveiling of the Lee monument at
Richmond. The resolutions teem with silly
utterances, and are full of venom and hate
toward the south. From the tenor of the
resolutions it appears that the members of
McPherson post are the kind of men who
would delight iu persuading heretics to
their way of thinking by the gentle influ
ence of the rack and stake.
Headsman Clarkson’s explanation in ans
wer to Henry Cabot Lodge’s reply to his
Boston speech doesn’t explain. Clarkson
turns loose bis lingual artillery on the
Massachusetts reformer, and tries to create
the impression that he was misinterpreted.
Whether misunderstood or not, Mr. Lodge’s
reply is manly, courteous and logical, while
the imprint of the blatant demagogue is
plainly marked all over in Clarkson’s speech
and his interview.
Who placed the dynamite at the base of
the Haymarket monument in Chicago
erected in honor of the policemen who were
killed in the anarchist riots is still a mystery
to the officers. "Ben Butler,” declared
Mrs. Schmuller, a female anarchist, “is to
1 blame for it all.” Is Butler a candidate for
President, and fishing for anarchist votes I
THE MORNING NEWS : THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1890.
Gov. Gordon and the Alliance.
The Farmers’ Alliance of Georgia has no
moro enthusiastic friend and supporter than
' Gov. Gordon. At an alliance meeting sev
i eral weeks ago it was decided to ask these
wfcr wore kuown tc be candidates for office
certain questions. It is understood that
t Gov. Gordon is a candidate for the United
1 States Senate. A letter containing the list
of questions was, therefore, sent to him. In
the last issue cf the paper published by the
alliance the letter to Gov. Gordon and his
answer appear.
The governor’s letter is an eloquent one.
He always writes and speaks eloquently,
but on this occasion he seems to have made
a sort of prize effort.
He bints tbat there was no occasion to
ask him whether or not he favor* the alli
ance because for fifteen years he has been
urging the farmers to organize. He has
been firmly convinced duriDg that period
and longer, that an all-embracing brother
hood of the tillers of the toil could exert a
powerful influence in behalf of the farmers.
It could protect them from unfriendly leg
islation—particularly hurtful discrimina
tion—and it could influence the shaping of
the policies of the government so tbat they
would be favorable to the farming interests
Gov. Gordon’s letter bears the marks of
sincerity, and there is no reason to doubt
that his utterances are sincere; but the
question arises, what does the alliance gain
by addressing letters of inquiry to the can
didates for office? Does it suppose that any
candidate is going to oppose the alliance,par
ticularly as there is no sentiment anywhere
against the alliance? If a fight were being
made on the alliance, as is the case in Ala
bama, then jts action in sending out letters
of Inquiry would be regarded as timely and
wise, but as it has no opposition it could not
reasonably expect that the replies of the
genuine candidates for office would be other
wise than strongly favorable to the alli
ance.
Although Gov. Gordon approves the
alliance he does not promise to support
every policy the alliance may adopt.
“With wise counsels to guide them to con
servative action,” he says, “and with full
recognition of the rights of others, * * *
the success of this great movement by the
brotherhood of farmers will be doubly
assured.” If the alliance is guided by wise
counsels the governor thinks it will be a
success. Of course it will be, and it ought
to be.
The men of whom the alliance should be
suspicious are those who want to use it to
advance their ambitious purposes. The
counsels of such men should be received
with hesitation, because they care nothing
about the alliance except in so far as they
can make it helpful to themselves. There
are plenty of such men. It would not be
difficult, perhaps, to spot some of them
now. The alliance knows them, doubtless,
and, if it hopes for success, it will not put a
great deal of trust in them.
The Physical Wreck Questions.
The superintendent of the census has noti
fied the census supervisors to instruct enu
merators not to insist upon answers to ques
tions relative to mental and physical disa
bilities and to farm mortgages. He says
that the enumerators must make a record
of those who refuse to answer these ques
tions, and that all legal proceedings will be
instituted by the department of justice at
Washington.
From the foregoing a fair inference is
that the superintendent ot the census has
concluded that the ques ions referred to are
too inquisitorial in their character—tbat
they are such questions as ought not to be
asked nor answered, and that if they were
asked the probability of getting truthful
answers is so remote tbat the information
that would be obtained, if answers to them
were insisted upon, would be virtually
worthless.
It is quite plain that no citizen is going
to admit that he is a physical or mental
wreck, nor are his friends going to make
such an admission. Comparatively few
sick people know the nature of the disease
from which they are suffering, and very
often the doctors who attend them do not
know beyond a doubt. Those who are
suffering from chronic troubles are not
likely to tell a census enumerator about
their ailments.
Many farmers would have no hesitation
in answering with regard to farm mort
gages, but others would. If a farmer had
mortgaged his farm and wasted the money,
he would not like to admit to a stranger
tbat he had wasted it.
IS is hardly probable that many of those
who refuse to answer the questions to
which the superintendent calls attention
will be prosecuted. If there are those who
don’t want to answer them it might be well
to take legal advice before finally deciding
not to do so.
Clarkson thus unbosomed himself to a
reporter for the Mail and Express in New
York; "Holding office is a wild delusion in
many respects. We hear of honor and
glory being attached, but somehow the in
cumbents never appreciate them. It is a
fallacy that exisis in the minds of those
who do "not hold office. I get up early in
the morning, and have to see about 1,200
visitors daily, besides seeing that some 2,000
letters are answered. Then I have to look
to the distribution of some $26,000,000 an
nually, so my office-holding is not a sine
cure. I forget the glory of the office in the
hard work, and I believe many others are
similarly situated.” What martyrdom this
great and good man must suffer! And if it
wasn’t so well known that Mr. Clarkson is a
pious deacon, besides being a leader of the
party of great moral ideas, it would make
people believe that he had been drawing on
his imagination for some of his facts.
An incident that serves as another striking
illustration of the administration’s con
tempt for civil service reform is the order
just issued by Secretary Windom to Col
lector of the Port Erhardt of New York
to dismiss from the surveyor’s department of
the custom house nineteen weighers, whose
places are to be filled by Harrison’s hench
men. The collector has been directed to
report at once “the name of the employes
selected for separation from the service.”
Separation from the service is a delicate
way of announcing to the victims that their
heads are about to be cut off.
The Memphis newspapers are having a
regular monkey and parrot time over the
contest for the governorship of Tennessee.
This will be a memorable day for Vir
ginia, as it will be for the whole south.
For two centuriei tne Turks have forbidden
the celebration of Palm Sunday in the Holy-
Land, In the days of the crusades the guardian
of the Holy Land with the religious orders and
all the Catholics of Jerusalem went in the
morning to Bethphage, where, taking palms in
their hands, they entered the city in a great
S ecession aad proceeded to the Church of the
oly Sepulcher and there carried out the ritual.
PERSON AU
The youngest professor of modern languages
in the country is A. T. Aberaetby, in Ruther
ford college. North Carolina.
The author of "A Fool's Errand,” Judge A.
W. Tourgee, has been given a pension at the
rate of $6 a month from 1863 to date.
Walter Besant. the novelist, will come to
this country next summer, going to the Pacific
coast and carefully exploring the west.
Emperor William of Germany has had an
electric railway built for bringing dishes from
the kitchen into the state dining room.
The former viceroy of Ireland. Lord Spencer,
is mentioned as a probable successor to Glad
stone in the leadership of the Liberal party.
Prof. Huxley’s deafness is growing on him,
and now when he at temps to speak at any
length he becomes very tired and loses control
of his voice.
The Rev. Anna Shaw is one of the best speak
ers in the service of the Woman’s Temperance
Union. She was for a time pastor of a church
on Cape Cod.
The secretary of the Chinese legation at
Paris. Geo. Teheng Ki-Tong, was married re
cently to a country girl at her village home in
the South of France.
Gen. E. Kirby Smith, th© famous confederate
soldier, claims the unique distinction of being
the oldest living man born in Florida. He is a
native of St. Augustine.
Archdeacon Farrar says he desires to impose
a limited period of celibacy upon the English
clergy, being of the opinion that it is a choice
between celibacy and beggary.
Sam Jones is going to “stomp on the devil’s
tail feathers" in Richmond, beginning
This is only the Sara Jones way of saying that
be will begin a revival on tbat date.
Mlle. d’Albe, n ece of ex-Empress Eugenie,
at her wedding received gifts which were valued
at 81.800.000. The guest who gave a paper
cutter must have felt small and mean in that
crowd.
Annie Besant, who is soon to visit America
to preach theosophy, is a most interesting plat
form orator. She is not a particularly pretty
woman, but her face is attractive and full of
force.
During the summer holidays of each year
the Duke of Westminster takes in about $5,000
in sixpences and shillings, paid by sightseers
for admission to his country seat, Eaton hall.
He gives every penny of it to charitable institu
tions.
Stopford Brooke and his brother, together
with Prof. Knight of St. Andrew’s and others,
are making an appeal for the saving of Words
worth's cottage at Grasmere. It can be secured
with the orchard and garden for the modest
sum of £650.
Miss Virginia Long, granddaughter of Gen.
Sumner and daughter of the confederate Gen.
Armistead Long, the biographer of Robert E.
Lee, is a brilliant brune ar,d one of the dis
tinguished beauties of Charlottesville. Va. She
is an interpid horsewoman. Her father is quite
blind and she acts as his amanuensis.
BRIGHT BITS,.
Uncertain is our human lot
There’s change where'er I look.
The place where change, aye, cometh noff
Is—in my pocketbook.
—West Shore,
Fond mother (anxiously)—My dear, you al
ways snub young Mr. Rich so. I don't see why
you won't let him talk to you.
Maude (calmly)—lt's very simple; for the
same reason that I don't wear ear-rings. I will
not have my ears bored.—Boston Post.
Mrs. Gazzam—Fred, is Mr. Snively a Christian?
Gazzam—O, yes.
"How do you know?"
“Well, I’ve heard him talk through the tele
phone every day for six months without the
assistance of profanity.”- Bostonian.
Landlord—Lon- rent, Splendid locality, and
all the modem improvements
Flat Hunter—Very good. Let me see, are
there any children in the house?”
Landlord (irritablyi— I said, madam, that we
had nothing but modern improvements. Ameri
can Grocer.
Managing Editor- -What’s this. Mr. Scooper?
Ten dollars for a magnifying glass? I sent you
to the beach to write up the ladles’ bathing
dresses — not to study natural history.
Reporter—l know i% sir; but I had to get the
magnifying glass to see the bathing dresses.—
Lawrence American.
His Stock in Trade.— Jones (delightedly)—
Browuson's friends aye all so bright!
Snapperly (dryly)—Yes. He can’t afford to
have any others.
Jones—What do you mean?
Snapfierly—Why, he makes jokes for a daily
paper.— Boston Post.
The Law.—" Hold on, my friend, don't shoot;
I'm a judge.”
"Waal, s posin’ ye are? Judges ain’t no more
’count than de law is nowadays. Ye can t hang
a feller, ye can t 'lectrify him, an’ my lawyer
kin appeal s fast, as you kin sentence. Shell
out!”— Harper's Weekly.
Mr. Chugwater (reading his morning news
paper)—Horrible! Over five hundred thousand
lives lost:
Entire Chugwater family—Where! How?
Mr. Chugwater—Burning of a hotel in St.
Louis. Some more coffee, if you please,
Samantha.— Chicago Herald.
Farmer (to clerk) —What time do you have
dinner?
Clerk—You can get dinner any time you
wish it. ,
Farmer—Sakes alive, don't have dinner just
to suit my fancy; some of these other folks
may want it at some other time.—The Jester,
McFingle had taken the landlady's daughter,
chaperoned by her mother, to the circus. They
were watching the tumblers, who, leaping from
the spring board, turned one or two somersaults
over an elephant.
"Wonderful, eh?” remarked McFingle.
“Yes,” replied the old lady, “and do you
know they remind me of yon?"
“Of me. Why I’m no athlete.”
“No,” was the reply, “but you do jump your
board so easily.” -Loiurence American.
His New Dodge.—Housewife—Go on! Y'ou
can’t get anything here. This is no harbor for
tramps.
Hungry McCluskey (drawing himself up)—
Madam, I am no tramp. I am a census enumer
ator, an’ if yer don’t gimme somethin' ter
stop ther cravin's of my stummick the law'll be
on yer. Thanks. (Departing with a roast
chicken): Smotherin’ Jacob, ain’t it a great go!
I’ll keep the scheme dark or the rest o’ the
fellers’ll git onto it.— Lawrence American.
A New Y'ork druggist, who spent the winter
in a Texas town for his health, was asked by
the genial clerk of the hotel:
“Stranger, what might your business be?”
“I am a pharmacist.”
“A what did did you say?”
“A pharmacist.”
"O yes. a pharmacist. Well, you can buy as
good farming lands iu this neighborhood as you
can find in Texas. You have struck the right
locality, stranger, if you want to farm. I’ll
take you out this afternoon ins my buggy and
show you one I’ve got to sell.”— Texas St ftings.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Superloyal Idiocy.
From the St. Louis Republic (Dent.).
The superloyal idiot who introduced the bill
in congress making it a misdemeanor to print
a picture of the United States flag on the
ground that it is sacrilegious should lie in
formed that the people of this country are the
government, and that they are not to be com
pelled to uncover to any Gessler's cap. The
United States flag is entitled to reverence only
as it represents the idea of the inherent right
to liberty.
A Tariff Definition.
From the Philadelphia Times (Bid.).
The high tariff folks claim along with high
duties will go increased consumption. Of
course, consumption here is synonymous with
decline.
What a Time They Will Have.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem..).
If the McKinley bill should become a law the
Republican party will have tied a tin can to its
tail.
A Wise Precaution.
From the Boston Herald (Lnd.).
Census takers will do well to provide them
selves with heavy padding in the seats of then
pantaloons.
A Terror to France.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
It was plain that an apology would come from
France for the beating of a Georgian by- a Pa
risian policeman. Frenchmen have all heard of
the Georgia militia.
A medicine Indorsed end used by physicians
and druggists—©millions Liver Regulator.—
Adv.
Where He Left tne Baby.
“Charles, have you seen anything of the
baby?” asked a distracted woman about noon
last Thursday, according to a wild-eyed Buffalo
C’c wrier reporter.
“No. How'n thunder can I take care of a baby
and see that this erockerv is put on the wagon
without being smashed to flinders:’ ’
“But I’m 6ure I hear the darling crying
somewhere. Are you sure she is not in the
clothes basket with the preserves?"
“No, she ain’t. How d'you s'pose she’d get
in there?”
“But I hear her just as plain as esn be. Why.
Charles Smith, I do believe she’s in this roll of
caraet:’’
It was true. The baby had been left in the
middle of the sitting-room floor, and the men
who took up the carpet t sseu a breadth over
her without observing her, rolled her up in it,
and stood the carpet In the hall.
The child when rescued was punctured here
ana therrt with maty tacks, and its mouth was
partly stuffed with carpet dust, but otherwise
it was quite hearty.
What My Love is Like.
My love is like a tender flower,
Sheltered from the world's rude glare,
In some fair and shady bower, ,
Blooming there so sweet and rare.
Her pure life well worth the living,
Sweet perfume around distilling.
O, would that I could worthy prove.
And win this little maiden's heart)
I’d be content to win her love.
Content with riches all to part.
And work for aye—yes, day by day)
Result of toil before her lay.
But this I know can never be.
She is to me as some bright star,
That I, a wanderer of the sea.
Behold, and worship from afar.
Praying that I yet may he
Half as pure and good as she.
Barley, Ga. Mrs. W. C. Parker.
He Needed a “Guide. ”
A small, decidedly English young man, says
the Chicago Tribune, came down from his
apartments in the Richelieu yesterday morning
and asked to see some of the hotel officials. He
was taken to Manager Davis, to whom he said:
“I say, cierk, won’t you let me have a guide?”
Mr. Davis tossed a directory to the guest, who
is registered as “Sir Stuart Beresford, Eng
land.” Sir Stuart looked through the direc
tory, slammed it on the counter, and said to
Mr. Davis:
“Pardon me, but I did not wish to see a lot of
names.”
"That was ray fault,” replied Mr. Davis, “I
misunderstood you; look at this.” and he
handed over a book of all the railroads running
out of Chicago.
This did not suit the Englishman, who said,
with considerable emphasis, to the man behind
the counter:
“I say, clerk, you are not sufficiently ac
quainted with me to act as though we were old
chums, you know. Kindly keep your jokes and
treat me as you should. Politely 1 asked for a
guide, and you throw me a lot of old books.
Now, will you give mea guide, or will you not?”
“Certainly, if you will tell me what kind of a
guide you want,” returned Mr. Davis.
"Any kind will do so long as he is alive guide.
Y’ou must have them about. Chicago is like a
new word to me. Never saw your place before.
Cannot you get a man to walx to the postoffice
and back with me. I don't feel like going over
alone.”
A bell boy was sent out with Sir Stuart to
bring him home, and the guest was satisfied.
The clerks at the hotel fear the young English
man may be robbed of his accent, so a guide
has been placed at his disposal.
One on the Doctor.
A newspaper man tells this on his physician,
according to the Chicago Tribune:
“I was sick and he left me some medicine.
The intention ot the medicine was to relieve me
of my ailment, of course. 1 took it as he
directed. The next day he called and asked me
if I had followed his advice. I said 1 had, and
begged him for more of the same kind. I told
him it was the best stuff I ever tasted, and so it
was. He looked at me and inquired carefully
again. I repeated what I bad said.
" ‘That medicine,' he replied, ’was for the
purpose of relieving you. but before it reached
that period you should have been quite sick
from the effects of it.'
“I told him I had experienced no sensation
such as he referred to. He scratched his head
and then remarked that he was almost ready to
admit that he had made some mistake or Chat
the prescriptionist had. I had taken all the
medicine, so that there was nothing for him to
analyze. He took the bottle, however, and went
to the drug store where the contents had been
compounded. In an hour he came back and said
it was the prescriptionist’s mistake.
“ ‘However,’ he went on to say, ’I don’t under
stand it, even with this admitted mistake; for
the medicine which he sent you and which you
took was put up for a sick horse, and the clerk
got. my label on the bottle.'
“That was the way the doctor got out of it.
But I got even with him by telling him that I
didn’t propose to pay him a man’s fee for being
doctored like a horse. He said he would like to
know how his medicine affected the horse, and
he went out to see if he could ascertain. I
haven’t seen him since.”
Nothing Extraordinary About That.
Some ten or twelve years ago an incident
happened at Gibraltar which illustrates the
practical views of a certain class of people,
says the New Y’ork Tribune. A subaltern
named O'Donohue was the officer of the guard
at the Elphinstone Guard. At this point of the
world-known rock there is a sheer drop of over
1,000 feet. A lieutenant who had taken too
much champacne at a mess dinner walked over
the rock and undoubtedly was dead before he
reached the rocks far below. When the officer
of the guard upon being relieved made out his
report of his guard he made no mention of the
fact. Indeed, when he came to fill in his report
and reached the question, “Has any tiling
extraordinary happened while you were officer
of the guard?" he wrote in the blank space re
served tor the answer, “Nothing.”
Of course, he was summoned before Lord
Napier of Magdala, the governor of Gibraltar.
When he appeared. Lord Napier asked:
“You were the officer of the guard at Elrihin -
stone Guard yesterday?"
“I was, sir.”
“And this is your report?”
“It is, sir.”
“Lieut. M was killed by walking over the
rock?”
“He was, sir.”
“Y’ou knew that when you made out your re
port?”
“1 did, sir.”
“That be was killed?”
“Y’es, sir ”
“And yet you said in your report that noth
ing extraordinary had happened on your
guard?”
“I did, sir.”
“Well, Mr. O'Donohue,” said Lord Napier,
sternly, “don’t you think it Is extraordinary
when a lieutenant walks over the rock, falls
1,000 feet and is killed?”
“Indeed, sir,” was the prompt reply, “I
should think it was extraordinary if he had
fallen that far and not been killed.”
Electrical Love.
Said a Maine telegraph operator to a writer
in the Lewiston Journal the other day: “Y’ou
wouldn't think that spoony lovers would re
sort to such public means or correspondence as
the telegraph for the transmission of their
sweet little messages of love and devotion,
would you? They do, just the same.
“Very often a certain young man in this
place, if he does not regularly receive a letter
from the future source of his joy and happi
ness, rushes here with a crestfallen counte
nance and files a message like this;
“My dear, why did you not answer my last
letter? Yours, devotedly.
“Perhaps you don’t believe that such a mess
age as this was ever sent, but I would show some
of them to you It it wasn't against the rules.
“We fellows on the wire enjoyed quite an
amusing incident not very long ago. in w hich
Sophia sort of gave away John’s brilliant
scheme of popping the question by wire. We
surmised that this brace of folly’s victims bad
been conducting a correspondence for some
time, which the artful John culminated with
the following dispatch, which was evidently in
tended to draw forth an answer to an entirely
different question:
“Sophia;
“Did you receive my last letter? John.
"Sophia, iu ber ecstatic delight evidently un
derstood the query in a different sense from
that which the ordinary reader of the epistle
would, and with joy and exultation depicted in
every lineament of ber countenance, she pro
ceeded to the telegrapher’s sanctum, and left
the following to be forwarded to the flower of
her affections;
“John: Yes. How about next Christmas?
Sophia.
“This gave the thing dead away and John was
much chagrined when he received it. It ac
complished its purpose, nevertheless, and now
the couple are soaring in the rapturous realms
of double bliss.”
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ITEMS CF INTEREST.
Miss Jennie Fox, aged 16 years, of Clark
county. 111., has received a check for $1,000,000
left her by an uncle who died in Texas.
A novel way of raising money to build a
church has been adopted by a congregation in
an lowa town. They borrowed $120,000 and
gave life insurance on a number of the mem
bers, which is to be applied on the debt as fast
as death ensues. 7 - -
In Europe iron slag is cast into blocks and
used for street pavements and in house build
ing. In Cleveland there is a factory which con
verts it Into mineral wool. It is a mass of very
fine fibres fi led with glassy particles. It is soft,
pliant and inelastic.
The British museum has received a Ch'nese
bank note issued from the imperial mint 300
years before the fl ret use of paper money in
Europe, showing that the Chinese were profi
cient. iu the art of printing long before its in
vention by Guttenburg.
The great cantilever bridge at the Needles.
Cal., is finished. In its construction 40,000,000
pounds of steel and iron we - © used, and the
ceDter span—363 feet—is the lou rest in the
world. Three men were killed and 25 injured
during the work of building.
Jay Hill a 70-vear old modern Samson, with
the head of lunatic, but the body of a hercules
—a fierce and dangerous fellow, who had been
for fifty years stoutly chained to the floor of the
old Hill homestead, near Trinity College. N. C.,
died with his shackles upon him oa Wednesday
last.
A Finland paper mentions a curious stone in
the northern part of that country which serves
the people instead of a barometer. This stone,
which taey call ■Timakiur,” turns black, or
blackish gray, when foul weather is approach
ing; fine weather has the effect of turniDg it
almost white.
Shakespeare’s birthplace, at Stratford-upon-
Avon, was v.sited by 19,414 persons during the
year just ended by the anniversary of the poet's
birth. These visitors represented thirty-nine
nationalities. The executive council will now
consider the question of opening Shakespeare’s
house on Sundays.
In the corner-stone of a Protestant Episcopal
church, whose erection was begun last week in
Brooklyn, there was placed a phonographic
cylinder, incased in tiu, upon which a member
had spokeu. in the name of the congregation, a
message to those who shall at some future time
uncover the stone.
A family in Dover, N. J., who have long been
missing valuables, were amazed a day or two
ago to find them in the secret nest of a pet
goose. Among the articles which the bird had
appropriated were two gold thimbles, a tortoise
shell comb, scarf pins, spools of sewing eilk,
silver lace and a Waterbury watch.
One of the best paid stenographers in Wash
ington is President Harrison's secretary, who
receives SI,BOO a year. Washington is a para
dise for shorthand writers, for it is said that
there is hardly a room among the thousands in
the government departments that has not one
or more stenographers connected with it.
The state department at Washington has re
ceived a report from the consul at Mannheim,
Germany, upon the workings of the accident in
surance societies of Germany known as trade
societies. They include over 5,500,000 members,
workmen, enrolled or insured against accident,
and paid to parties for injuries in 1888 over
8,500,000 marks.
At the beginning of the year it was estimated
that about $600,000,000 was invested in the elec
trical industries. The telegraph companies had
$120,000,000; telephone. $80,000,000: electric
lightning and power companies, $300,000,000:
electrical supply companies, $100,000,000. There
is no doubt that another year will show $1,000,-
000,000 invested in electrical industries.
There is trouble in the First Congregational
church in Lockport, N. Y., over a refusal to
admit candidates to membership unless they
promised to abstain from dancing, card-playing
and theater going. The result was the with
drawal of seventy five prominent members, in
cluding a good share of the wealth of the
church, and the formation of anew church.
It is said that the common cowcatcher at
tachment to locomotives is about the only arti
cle of universal use that has never been patented.
Its Inventor was D. B. Davies of Columbus, who
found his model in the plow. Red lights on the
rear of trains, it is further said, was adopted at
the suggestion of the late Mrs. Swisshelm after
a railway accident, in which she had a narrow
escape.
New Y’ork city has found out, after a three
years' trial, (hat milk inspectors really inspect.
The president of the health board of that city
reports that the quality of the milk sold in 1889
improved 46 per cent, over that of 1888 and 64
per cent, over that of 1887. The amount of
milk brought into the city increased from 226,-
528,400 quarts in 1887 to 243,047,680 in 1889 and of
cream from 4,427,320 quarts to 5,436,680.
A few days ago three families of Finlanders
settled on farms in the northern part of Beadle
county. South Dakota. In one of the families
there are niueleen children, in another seven
teen, and in the third nine, the parents of the
last family having been married but ton years.
These families will soon be joicec by four
others, all relatives, numbering forty-six per
sons, making a total of ninety-seven persons iu
nine families.
The wife of Ignacio Martinez, a poor laboring
Mexican, who lives at Puente, Los Angelos
county. Cal., gave birth last week to male trip
lets. whose total weight was twenty-three
pounds. The mother and her three babies are
all in good condition and the father is happy.
The couple have been married twenty-two
years, and Mrs. Martinez is only thirty-Dine
years of age. She has given birth to fourteen
children in all. Four of them were twins.
Last week Judge Hare of Philadelphia sen
tenced John McManus to death. Notwith
standing the fact that he has been on the bench
thirty years the judge has sentenced but two
men to be hanged, and the most singular thing
about the matter is that both men quarreled
over the same woman which led to the murders.
Jealousy for this woman was the motive for
both murders, and, with one of her victims iu
the grave and the other sentenced to the gal
lows, the creature goes back to her haunts of
vice and iniquity.
At Myersbale, Somerset county, Pa., is a
family hard to match. Edward Deal, the
father, is 90 years old. reads without glasses,
and labors at bis trade, that of a miller. The
mother is several years his junior, reads with
out glasses, and can pass any of her girls on
the road. The children were all born and
reared on a farm iu Somerset county. The sons
have all mastered the trade of the father, but
four of them are engaged in milling. The old
est member of the family was 18 years of age
when the youngest was born, so at that time
time there were eighteen places at the table
daily, without company.
That peculiar religious denomination, the
Drunkards, have been holding a love feast at
Reading, l’a. Among the ceremonies they ob
serve is that of washing each others feet. One
brother knelt down and washed both feet of
three or four brothers sitting on a bench in a
row. while another brother, girt with a towel,
followed, and wiped the feet. The women, ail
of whom wore white lace caps, washed each
others feet in the same way, while an appropri
ate hymn was being sung. Loaves of bread
and tin dishes containing soup made of rice and
beef having been placed on the table, all the
members partook of the Lord's supper.
The West Indies brig Lutzburg has arrived in
Bangor, Me., for ice. She was built in Germany
twenty-five years ago. is about 300 tons burthen
and seems but a cockle shell alongside the big
three and four stickers of American build, but
the captain declares she has been all over the
world. In February the captain arrives north,
purchases 300 tons of ice, pays for it, and then,
with his crew cf coal-black negroes, he sails
away for Gaudaloupe. He disposes of about
one-third the luxury to native dealers and the
wine-drinking creoles and planters for Scents
pur pound, or $'X) per t in. Then the skipper
sails for Antigua, and here there is an ice com
pany who purchase of him regularly, and when
the brown-skinned gallants and girls of this
burg sip their wine, iced with the Maine prod
uct, it costs them 10 cent3 per pound or S2OO
per ton.
Buildings eight and stories, and some
even twelve and fourteen stories high, are no
uncommon sight in our large cities. And
among these mammoth structures is one which
is now being erected in Chicago. It is to be ten
stories in hight above the basement, and the
frame is to be entirely of steel—a novelty in the
way of building It will contain fifteen miles of
steel railway, twelve miles of steam pipe, seven
acres of floors, the boards of which, if laid end
to end. would reach from Albany to Boston,
som“ 200 miles. If the cement used in the
building were in barrels piled one upon an
ther, the pile would be two miles high, and
the plaster used in the building would cover an
ordinary street for more than a mi e. In the
whole structure there will be some 3.700 tons of
steel. The building, when finished, will prob
ably be unequaled in the west.
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