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Newspaper Page Text4 £|e|ponung^Lth)3 Morning News Euilding, Savannah, ua. TUESDAY, AIGI>T 12, IS GO. Registered at the P atofilc- in .-'steonn ih. The Mokning News is publishe.t every day ic the year.and l- ser.ei t i subscribers in the c.ty at £5 oe.its a wees $! 00 a month, $5 00 for six mouths and $lO 00 tor one yea. Tr.e Mornivq News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months. $2 50; six months, $5 ft); one year. $lO 00. Tne Mormno News, by no six time* a week (without Sundav i„s iv . three months, $1 ft), six months, $ i 00; one vear. $8 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fri lays, or Tuesdays, Tburs days and samrdays. three months, $1 25; six months, S3 5): one year. $5 IXI. The SrsDAY News. by mail, one year. $2 ‘XV The Weekly News, by mi,/, one year $i -35. Pubacrlutiona payable in advance. Remit hy pos.al order, cbecK or registered letter. Cur rency sen- by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah. Ga Transient a ivertiseme its, other than special column. local or reading notices, amuse ments and cheap or want column, 10 cents a fil e Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to or.e inch space in depth is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business cilice. OCR NEW YORK OFFICE. Mr. J. J. Flvnn has ben appointed General Advertising Agent of the Morning News, with an office at 23 Park Row, New York. All adver tising business outside of the states of Georgia, Florida aDd South Carolina will be managed by falm. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings— Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1, I. O. O. F ; Savannah Rifle Association; Chatham As sembly No. 136, Royal Society of Good Fellows: Yemassee Tribe No. 23, I. O. R. M. ; The South ern Mutual Loan Association; The Southern Land and Improvement Company; Catholic Library Association. Special Notices— Dissolution, Harmon A Cope; Notice, A. C. Harmon; Notice, Geo. L. Cope; An Easy Matter. M. Tracer, Proprietor Savannah Steam Laundry; Lucky Numbers in Fliot's Watch Club; Bargains at Tuberdy's; Real Estate, W. K Wilkinson, Real Estate Dealer. Military Order- -Savannah Cadets; Chat ham Artillery: German Volunteers. Ami - ments— Annual Picnic of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Wednesday, Aug. 13 Steamship Schedule—(hcean Steamship Com pany. Auction Sale—Grand Closing Sale of Crock ery. etc., by Harmon, Walker A MeHarrio. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; F'or Sale; Persona!: Miscellaneous. THIS TRADE REVIEW. For years, on the opening of each suc ceeding season, there has been presented evidence of a large increase in Savannah's business. Heretofore this increase has been due bo the natural growth of Savannah's tributary territory, a better uudorstanding of her commercial advantages, and the gradual enlargement of her two great rail road systems. These things will continue to contribute to her growth and prosperity, and, in addition to them, there are others, which have recently come into existence, that will make the business year of 1800-91 more notable than any preceding one in her history. Since the last trade review of the Morn ing News there have been built three new and important railroads to Savannah, or to connect with her railroad systems. They ore the Alabama Midland, the Savannah and Western, and the Savannah, Americui and Montgomery. These railroads have already brought hundreds of buyers to Savanuah and increased her trade greatly. But the number of buyers and the amount of trade which these new railroads will contribute to her markets when the crops now in the fields tributary to them are harvested will be many times larger. The people will have money then and they will seek Savannah to supply their wants. The advanced condition of the cotton crop justifies the opinion that the business season will open early and with great activity. The people ara already thinking, probably, of what they will buy with the fruits of their labor. They are scanning the columns of the Morning News to seo who are the live aud progressive business men of Savan nah and what they are offering for sale. There is a large and lucrative trade to be secured from the territory which the new railroads have made tributary to Savan nah, as well as from the territory which has heretofore been tributary to her. If our merchants are wise they will not neglect the only proper method of getting this trade. That method is liberal advertising. The Morning News proposes to make a special effort to reach every buyer in the new field that has been opened by Savan nah's enterprise. The agents of the Morn ing News are traveling through the coun try, and the people are taking the paper just as rapidly as the mail facilities which are being established permit them to. It is proposed to send a copy of the trade review to each subscriber to the Weekly News, as well as to each subscriber to the daily, thus giving advertisers the benefit of both editions at a little more than the usual price of one. An advertisement in a newspaper is an in vitation to buyers to call. It virtually says, “When you are in town please call on us. We have all these things to show you.” The annual review will contain the usual resume of the business of the city for the last year. It will be sent to thousands of people who are interested in Savannah’s welfare and prosperity. The Trade Review edition will be issued Sept. 4. Sjx.ce in its columns can be ob tained upon application to the business office. * Mr. Grubb wants to be United States senator from New Jersey. Ha can Sewell enough that the pa pie of New Jersey are i.ot hungry for Grubb. A number of confideucj ooerat rs tried to swindle Russell B. Harrison by the "green goods” game. The> addressed is letter to U B. Harrison, H lona, Mou:., but did not Wn i who be was. They found out, how ever, and are now jn jail, sadder and wl er *i n. But such is fan e. The Future cf the South. No one, wh .so opinion is of value, doubts i that there is a great future for the south. Before the war of secession and directly after it, th-> condition of affairs in the southern states were such as to prevent the extent of her resources from being gener ! ally known. In the time of Slavery the at -1 tentiou of the people was almost wholly j occupied with agriculture, and when j the civil conflict ended the people were too much engaged in res oring their fco nes arid making a living to attempt to develop new sources' f wealth. Within tie last few yours, however, the world has be gun to see how great a id varied the sources of wealth in the south are, and nearly all the southern states have entered upon a peri dof prosperity that promise; to be greater than that enjoyed by any other sec tion of the c unify. While the New England and Middle states are virtually at a stand still, or are increas ing in wealth and population so slowiy that the change in a decade is scarcely percept ible. the southern states ara growing with a rap dity that is wonderful. A Washington dispatch in Sunday’s Bos ton Journal says: "A statement as to the results of the census pre pared here from accurate data indicates that the returns when complete will sho w that there has been little or no increase iu the rural population of New England and the Middle states in the last d-cude. The six New England states will, it is expected, lose six or seven members of congress at the next apportionment, Massachusetts, where two-thirds of the population live in cities, is not affected as much as other states. New York suffers almost os much as New England. There are four counties iu New York state where the rural population is not only less than iu 1880, but less than in I860.” Of course the cities in the New England and Middle states are growing, but not so rapidly as those In the south. In the rural districts of those states, however, particularly in the New England states, farms are being abandoned and the people are goine to the towns or are seeking homes in the west and south. How differ ent is the situation in the southern states! Mines are being opened, vast tracts of laud are being brought under cul tivation aud factories are being built everywhere. A salubrious climate, in which extreme heat aud cold are un known, and a soil that yields abundantly, invite immigrant-', aud inexhaustible riches in mines and forests invite capital. New England is either on the down grade or soon will be. The south and west, the cen sus that is now bmg take.i will show, are advancing with vigorous stride; towards a greater future. But oven the west is not wholly free from jealous fears of tho south’s superior attractions. It is only beginning to be understood how great the possibilities of the s ,utli are. Hor advancement iu wealth and population will increase in pro portion as tho knowledge of these possibili ties becomes diffused. A Lawless Region. That is a remarkable story which comes from Perry county, Kentucky, where a judge is holding court guardod by soldiers to protect him from 400 outlaws. Over 300 murders have beau committed iu that county within the last twenty years, houses have been robbed and burned, and the court house and its records destroyed. No taxes have been c illocted in two years, and there is not a church or school in the county. But how little restraining influence religion exerts iu that region is illustrated by the conduct of the clergy in Martin county, near Perry. The clergymen have been in t! e habit of getting drunk, and the Gazette, published in the town of Inez, servod notice recently that it would in tho future expose all offenders of this sort. In its latest issue appeared the following, the name of tho clergyman being charitably suppressed by tho Louisville Courier-Journal in reprint ing the paragraph: We promised our readers to publish the names of all the preachers who should get drunk from that time forward. Little did we think that in so short a time we would havo to give the public ihe sad intelligence which is now being rumored about the town, and, so far as wo can learn, not denied, that Rev. was drunk last Tuesday. The bla k population in these counties is very small. Foreigners are evon scarcer. Illiteracy and republicanism predominate, for both Martin and Fe ry cunty are re publican strongholds. In 18SS) Perry cast 516 republican again 124S democratic votes, and Martin 367 reptibl can against 164 dem ocratic votes. Judge Lilly, who has under taken to restore law and order in the dis trict. has made his will. He expects to be assassinated. Civil government has col lapsed, and civilization has vanished. Such is the condition of affairs iu that benighted region. And a republican stronghold, too; a stronghold of the party of boasted intel ligence, high purposes and pure morals! It seems hardly credible. It appears that Pension Shark Lemon’s pull extends beyond the pension bureau. Judge Tyner, the law officer of the post office department, decided that Le noa’s organ, the National Tribune, should not be admitted to the mails iu wrappers having printed matter thereon prohibited by law. The Postmaster General has persistently ignored the opinion of his law officer, and the mailing of the papers has continued. But now the Attorney Geueral has come to Lemon’s relief and rendered a written de cision to the effect that Judge Tyner’s opinion was not good law, and as there exists no reason why Lemon should not continue to mail his papers containing the unlawful notice on the wrapper, he will therefore do so at the rate of 150,000 copies a mouth. It looks as if this whole adminis tration was taking too much Lamon-aid. It is hard to get at the true inwardness of the anti-Jewish crusade i 1 Russia. But whether or not it was the inten tion of the czar to enforce repres sive measjrts, it is known that ibe necessary authority for the utmost per secutions suggested exists in the shape of five edicts passed as long ago as ISB2. No new law is required to drive every Jew in Russia from his home. What is certain is that a wholesale movement against the race was intended. The government, it is said, abandoned these intentions under the pres sure of tho denunciations in the American and English press. If this is true it is a geauiue cause for congratulation ns show i ig that Russia is not indifferent to outside public opinion. The ojiening of the cotton season is clo'e at ha .and, and the cotton factors and buyers and their clerks who have been enjoying life in the mountains an l by the seashore are beginning to make their appearance on the streets. And now we are to have a coffin trust. As monopolios generally have the dead wood on a man, this one ougut to lie suoce sful. THF. MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1890. The Railroad Stride. Ttc strike on the Vanderbilt system of railroads seems to be ill-advised. The gri va-ices and demands of the roep appear to have had very little to do with causing it. The strike was a mere punctilio, bseause somebody was augry. The New York Cen i tr.il railroad dismissed two Knights of ' Labor, who, it was claimed, were | too freely meddling with the busu- I ness of the corporation. Then a I committee called oa Vice President Webb, and attempted to consult wit a him in regard to these dismissals. He would not talk,butorderel them to leave his office, with the curt remark that the road would manage its own business. It was perhaps this discourteous conduct of Vice President Webb that rous:-d the knights to prompt action. But the men were as precipitate iu their action as Vice President Webb, and it is therefore to be regretted that President Depew, who is in Europe, was not at home. He knows bow to and -al with men and incis ures, aud would probably have prevented the trouble, which has resulted in great in convenience to the public aud com merce. While the officials and directors of the road may approve Vice President Webb’s action, the general public will not. The public are opposed to strikes Jike this on principle. The circum-taoces which led to it do not justify the complete stoppage of transportation aud the prostration of commerce. The burdens and inconvenience do not fall on the railroad alone, but on the public who must use railroads as common carriers. More than 1,000,000 tons of freight are locked up on side-tracks. This will occa sion serious loss to business men, most of the freight being perishable goods. There is apprehension that the strike may extend to the engineers and firemen, though the engineers are independ ent of the knights. During the strike on the Reading road a year or so ago the engineers were specially involved, and they felt hurt because the knights, they claimed, did not back them up suffi cle itiy. Tuis strike on the New York Central is a move of the Knights of Labor to secure recognition for tbelr order. They base their ultimatum upon two very extreme, not to say unreasonable, pioposi tions. One is, that certain employes re cently discharged be reinstated. The other is tbe establishment of a rule that in minor branches of the service promotion shall bo made by se liority, a recognition which would be equivaent to establishing the principle that merit and faitnfuluess shall no longer be factors iu determining promotions. Tho company, on the other hand, through Vice Pi es.deut Webb, has also declared its ultimatum. “We shall select our own men,” he said, “aud we do not propose that they will be designated by tbe Kuights of Labor or iis cmmnntee. When men are dismissed we shall rid ourselves of the ineffi cient, most vicious, and those least iu accord with our interests. When promotions are to be made, we will not bo bound by tbe seniority rule of the Knights of Labor.” Thus the situation stands.. Both sides are firm. The railroad officials, how ever, say that they have the upper band, and that the strike will soon be at an end. The kuights should have followed the plau of the Brotherhood of Engineers—settled their differences by arbitration. It would huve boen tue wisest aud easiest way out of the difficulty. Give the Soldiers a Chanc?. T. e bill pending in the House to revive the grade of lieutenant general is exciting a good deal of comment in army circles. It is not a bill that is calculated to com mand tho unbounded admiration of army officers, for the reason that its purpose is to honor some particular officer rather than to eastablish permanently anew grade in the army. It provides that the President shall select an officer for the grade of lieutenant gen eral “from among those in military service most distinguished for courage, skill and ability,” and it further provides that that “this grade shall continue during tbe con tinuance in office of the officer appointed under and by virtue of this act, after which such grade shall cease.” Every once in a while the grades of lieu tenant general and general are revived for the purpose of complimenting someone of tho major ge.iernls who was particularly prominent in the civil war. Tbe purpose of the pending bill is dou ltless to honor Gen. Schofield. He i; an excellent soldier and a worthy gentleman, but he did not come out of the civil war with as great a roputation as either Gen. Hancock, Gen. Meade or Gen. Toomas, neither one of whom was raised to tbe rank of either lieutenant general or genera!. The three generals who were given b th of these ranks were Gens. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. Why not make the grade of lieutenant general, or even general, a perma nent one. The cost to the country would be very little aud theu congress would not be importuned constantly to raise this or that officer to one of those grades. Besides, why shouldn't the chief officer of the army, even though tho army is a small one, have the ra k and pay of genera!. Tbs highest rank now is maj >r general, and tbe senior major general has command of the army. His position compels him to do a great deal of entertaining, and the government and oesn’t provide him with any money for that pur pose. The entertaining consists chiefly in showiug courtesies to foreign officers of high rank visiting this country. Under the circumstances it would seem to be no more than just that the commanding offi'orof the army should have the rank aud pay of general. “It will really be interesting to read, when it shall appear, the account of Consul Folsom of ihe recent anti-American tariff demonstration at Sheffield,” says toe Boston Advertiser. On account of his close per sonal relation to Mr. Cleveland and the well-known tariff reform opinions of that gentleman, the Advertiser thinks, he would naturally sympathize with the disaffected Sheffield cutlers, and it adds: “His em barrassing situ ition is appreciated and his report is awaited with interest not unmixed with curiosity.” We all under-tand the disinterested solicitude of the Advertiser for Mr. Fols >m, but why attach any more importance to Mr. Folsom’s report on this subject than on any other! He will simply state what occurred, not what he thinks of it or its political effect in this country. His opinion and political sympathies do not, and caunnt figure in the matter, and there fore have n > significance. From the favorable view President Har rison takes of reciprocity it would appear that Mr. Blame is not “a back number” yet. Reciprocity has taken root in repub lican oil. PERSONAL. Joaquin Miller. It is declared, writes the wor t hand ia the “ait -T States. Searing Taylor, the largest surar planter In Louisiana, never uses suiar in his coffee. Senator Sherman s large fortune is sad to yield ti n an annual income of 12 per cent. .'•!*. U. 6. Grant is srendiag the summer months wits her on Ulysses in Westchester r aunty. New Yoi k Princess Beatri-e is writing a work on lace, and will illusirat -it herself. It will be printed for private circulation only. Dr- Sheldon Jackson of Princeton has sailed in the United States st-amer Bear for the Arctic regions for the purpose of establishing thieescuooia forthe Esquimaax. The German Empress occupie; three villas at Sassnitz. wuich are furnished very simply. They ju t suffice to accommodate only herself with her sou* and tbe nece.- -ary r -ti-ue. SiEorRiED Wagner, {... hard Wagner's only son. ba> made bis debut as a pian.st at a pri vate conceit given at Wainfried villa, Bay reuth. Apparently be is not much of a young man. ARCHDrKE Franz of Austria has a large and very interesting collection of relics of criminals wbo have b ;en extern -! Among the relics are porti mg of tbe ropes used in bauging tne Ch.- cago anarchists. Browning had a marvelous memory. He always could tell the ex ict place of any quota tion or fragment of quotation referred to him. and was vexed gr-atiy whenever he heard his own hues misquoted. Mrs. Edison, the great electrician’s wife, is a woman of 21. whose graceful figure is a trifle above the average bight She has brown hair, hazel eyes, a clear olive complexion, and is an unusually pretty woman. Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, has as sumed editorial control of the American Catho lic Quarterly Revi ic. a high-class periodical. Circulars have been addressed to leading Roman Catholics of New York appr.siug them of the fact. Lord Wolselev is at present busy with an elaborate life of Marlborough, written from a mili'ary point of view He is engaged iu col lecting materials concerting Mari borough's suc cessful but almost forgotten expedition to Ire land. The young American Actress, Marion Lea, who has made a remarkable hit in London as the heroine of a play called “Illusion,'' is the sister of the artist, Mrs. Lea Merritt, whose picture, "Love Locked Out." is one of the successes ot' this year's British Royal Academy. Dr. Waldstkin says that a considerable por tion of the money needed for the work of excava tion at Delphi has been subscribed in Boston, but be adds that the terms of promise irom the Greek government tor American privileges of exploration are fast coming to an end. The Baroness Klara von der Deceler of Tiflis has issued a circular to the “beautiful women of the world.” asking for tbeir photo graphs iu order to place them before a com mittee of artists winch shall Choose tuose to be placed in an album entitled "Types of Female Beauty in the Laiteriiaif of the Nineteenth Century.'’ Charles Nordhoff, the well-known and ac complished journalist, has retired from the New York Herald, and will reside hereafter with bis wife in California. Mr. Nordhoff has been informed by Mr. James Gordon Bennett that his name will still remain on the Herald's boo;<s at uait pay for the remainder of his life. Mr. Nor iho.f has served the Hoa and brilliantly arid energetically for a number of years, and Mr. Bennett’s gracious a<" to a faithful employe will be applauded by all. BRIGHT BITd. Down went the boycott to the bottom of the s >up. And it must I e very wet. For it s staying down tl ore yet; That selr-same boycott that was started with a whoop, Dropped with a dull, sickening thud. —Chicago Tribune. Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Made him shave his whiskers olf to disappoint the wind. —Chatter. Lying in Fui.—The women of Fiji have to do all the fishing. The men swear to the circula tion of the daily papers.—.Yo rristo'cn Herald. Not That Kind of Slave.—“ Drinking beer. Why, I tliougat you were a temperance man.” “So I am; but I am not a slave to the cold water habit.”— Puck “Let's cross over, here comee Bunker. He’s the sleepiest man I ever met.” “You can’t blame him. Remember that he is with himself all the time.’’— Harper's Bazar. Colicky Joke. Briggs Why is the new American navy like Jamaica ginger? Jaggs— (live it up Why? Baggs—Because it is good for the Cramps.— Philadelphia Society. A Si BSrm’rE.—“You are not the young lady to whom 1 give lessons,” saui the piano teacher. “No. The youug lady to whom you give lessons is siclc-and she has sent ms to practice for her.”— Boston Courier. They had been talking ab rut feats of strength, when Fatsy. the trirnp, said: "I once jumped my board bill at aB5 a day house,” “And I,” sai l the incendiary, “once tired a whole hotel with one hand.’’—of. Joseph (Mo.) News. Astonishing Development. Visitor I’ve not s -eu any of you for ever so long How is your little brother coming on. Tommy? Tommy First rale. He can whistle for him self and wear uiy pants.— Texas Siftings. Fmsr Citizen (at a street row)—ls that man lying in the ambulance one of the fighters? Second i tiizen—No, be w-as passing at the time and tried t > stop the fight. There go the fighters walking off Dow.—Boston Herald. Wofld Suffer By It.—“ Yes, it would ruin me, financially, if the whisky business should be wiped out.” “Are you engaged in the business, sir?” “No, no. I'm a temperance orator."— Racket. Where the Gorgeocsness Was.—“ Your circus doesn't seem to b - pariicularly attractive this year,” remarked a visitor. “No,” replied tae mana-er; 'bur. you ought to see my advance advertising car.” — New Yorx Sun. Had Heard of Them—Train Robber (board ing parlor car. western express i—Quick, now, if yer knows wot's best for yer Git yer valybl.s ready. Mr. Hayseed—Land sakes! Marier, here comes tae porter.—Good Hews. Wife (revisiting the scene of her betrothal!.— I remember, Algernon, so well when you pro posed to me. How painfully embarrassed you were! Algernon—Yes, dear; and I remember so well bow kind and encouraging you were, and how very ea-y you made it for me, alter nil. —liar pe>’s Bazar. The time may come when politics will mean all that is noble and good; when a small ooy will break a i apple in two and give his little sister the bigger half; when a tramp will work, and astray dog won't bite; but the day will never dawn when a fly can tickle a drowsy man’s nose without ma ting him jump.— Indianapolis Ham's Horn. Not Likely to Forget It.—“ They are not paying muck attention to you. Uncle Pete," said the little rirl at the party. “I guess they have forgot you're our le.atioa.” “No. cnild.” answered Uncle Pete, crossing one leg over the other seas to hide a small patch on the under knee, ••no; they se,-m to be remem bering it right along.”— Cnicago Trihune. CURRENT COMMENT. The Great Impoverishes From the Atchison Globe. For every cent a man has he has 2 cents' worth of desire. A Tip for the Political “Sports.” S‘. Paul Pioneer Press (Pep.). In sporting parlance. McKinley is getting to be a "rank outsider,” tvmile Blaine is a "favor ite.” This is a pointer for tariff plungers. A Good Time Coming. From ihe Augusta Chronicle (Den t.i. The New York Tribune warns the people that if the Lodge bill doesn't pass no* S' me "other and stronger measure” will come up next ses sion. But next time there will De a democratic House and a democratic speaker. Quite Natural. From the Fort Worth Gazette (Dem.\ J Fireaway Foreaker nobis firmly the opinion that we have reached a point in the progress of time and events when it is our dutv to ce.us lookiug backward." Considering the reuiara able dull thud wnich Col Koru..e met with some montbi ago.it is not tob- wondered at that be is so loath to “look backward k nu will seldom need a donor If >ou hate M jmiuni l.lier Regulator handy. Adv. Evdrtsand the Able Eater. Up la Vermont a short time a I heard a story of Wilham M Evarts, the senator, states man and lawyer who dazzles Xew England every summer vith fci agricultural abili yas muon as he does New Yorfc ar and V a shingio i in the winter t me by his p finical profundity, jays a *riter 10 the B ;ton o'i be. Ooeoftie han e e s-on around fci* immense stocK farm was Ivory Hail, a bi* fellow, who could eat more and do lesr w->rr than air otLer maa ever Known m that region. Stores about Ivory's womieriul capacity for food came to to the ears of the senator, who, discrediting them, ma eup bis mind to put tne reputed champion to a test. H accordingly the gormandizing rant for a day. and rat him down to the break:a t tab.e preparatory to ko ng afield. Food enough for five men was brought on, anl Hall had no trouble in clearing the board. ‘.'low, Ivory,” said the polvsyl aoic orator. we have a 1 ng wavs to go to tue field, and if you don't mind I should like to have you eat your dinner at this time, so you need not come c ear back t > the house.” "Jest ez leave take my dinner now ez eny time,” was the willing response. Again the table groaned ucd r the load of provis.ons, an J again Ivory svrepi all before him. "See here. Mr. Hall.” said rho admiring states man. "our supper hour is 5 o'cl >ek. ar.d I want yoj to work later. Do you think you coul l your supper now, too. so as to work until sundown?" ' Martin," came the quick answer. "Supper and dinner and breakfast are all the earns to me. I can alii s eat'em." For the third time fresh dishes were pro duced and g eat roasts acd stews forthcoming Plate after plate of Vermont beef and cabbage and onions and potatoes went down the greedy gullet of the hired man; and after these came puddings ac t pies and cake* enough to stock a oa o shop Not for a m >ment did Ivory relax until every dish was cle n. "If you are reaiy now, Mr. Hall.” suggested the dumfour.d and orator, "we will go to the field, and I will show yo i where to work.” Then Hall looked at his employer for full* a minute, rubbed his abdomen lov.ngly, and said: "Naw, I guess not. I bean't in the habit uv work n' arter supp r.” The Baggageman's Little Mistake. I always have an eye out for my trunk when I travel, says a writer in the Detroit free Press. After I have received a check and seen it dumped into the baggage car I am quite sure it will go a certa.n distance, but when that dis tance has been covered my anxiety is again aroused. When I changed railrua is at Phila delphia the other (lay I realized tnat I had a contract by which my trunk ough to change with me, but nevertheless the fear that it would go astray and finally bring up in New Orleans or ban F. ancLco started me over to Camden at an early hour t-> watch the transfer. I ex pected to see inv trun c conie over at the last momeut. and be left on the platform I moved off, but a great surprise was in store for me. It (*a;ne over an hour ahead of time, along with a big load of others, and I stood around to see it come off the wagon. A gentle word or a uickle cigar will sometimes have great influence with the men who are hired at so much per month to damage your trunks. They were dropped off, one by one, each one receiving more or less injury in the fall, and by-and-by tne two fiends on the wagon came to my trunk. 1 had two cigars in my open palm, and was about to step forward witu kindest smile when the depot baggageman suddenly sung out: "Here, now, be mighty careful of that trunk!” "What for?” " Because 1 say so. Let it’down as gently as if it were glass. " ‘ The trunk was lowered with the utmost care, and I approached the man and asked to what se.aiiuent on his part I should attribute tue great favor. "is that your trunk?” he bluntly demanded. "Yes, sir.” "Let's see your check. ” I produ ed it. He compared the figures, and then called out in au awful voice: "Get 'lit o'this or 111 kn >ck your blamed head off: I thought that trunk belonged to my sister!” Made a Fortune la Frogs’ Legs. The following story was told the Boston Globe: "About twenty-five years ago,” said an old at tendant in the big Washington market, "sev eral men made fortunes at catchiug frogs and sending them to marnet. The hind legs were cut off, skinued, washed and, after being mildly salted, were sent away in barrels. Prices used to range from 10 to 75 cents for a dozen pairs of le :s, and, as sales were quick, there was a pi.e of money in the occupation "One old fellow, a blacksmith by the name of Weld, down in Ureenbush, Me., suppli ed all of New England for yearn He lived bv the side of very extensive swamps that were fiile 1 with wigglers and cattails. The former furnished food for the frogs, while the latter gave them shade. I have seen bullfrog legs that were nearly big as the legs of a chicken. "Old man Weld used to hire boys to kill the frogs for him, giving them 5 or ri cents a dozen. To-* frogs were so plentiful that inauy of the children earned good wages, even at that small price. Weld dressed the frogs, corned them and shipped them to Boston in barrels, like herrings. He kept up the business for years, and, though he slew hundreds of tnousa ids every year, the supply did not diminish at all. "by and by the prices went away down, and as the old man had cleared about SIOO,OOO out of the scheme, he retired, built hiuisfif a fine, man sion, and lived at his ease He is the only man l know of who got rich by catching frogs, but I have heard of several others.” Poetry vs. Proso. From the Lawrence American. Scene: A bosky dell (whatever that is). Dramatis Person®: A poet and Humorous insects. Poet (speaking his lines as he writes them). How pleasant'tis when warm th ' day, (Hy Jove, these flies are awful thick!) From city's strife to steal away! (By George, I killed him. See him kick!) And in some sheltered, cosy nook, (A caterpillar's down my back!) With cigar :tte and pba-aut booa, (I'll smash that horse-fly this time. Whack!) To sit upon some grassy mound, (Whew! See those grass stains on my sleeve!) Where verdant foliage doth ab mnd. I'Twill spoil my coat, I do believe!) To watch the hapay birds that play, (I wish that robin’s song would stop!) And thus to while away the day, (If I'd a gun I think he’d drop!) Ah! that is pleasure! Happy man. (Great Scott l It has be, un to rain!) Is he enjoy these things who can! (Rats! 1 must walk! I’ve lost my train.) A Japanese Election. “It doesn't take a native of Japan long to adapt himself to anew order of things,” re marked Paul Schramm to a Chicago Tribune re porter Mr Schramm is a German business man who is on his way to New York from Yokohama. He had just been speaking of the recent election in Japan, and was detii.i g the matter-of-fact way in which the Javanese deposited their ballots for the establishment of a national house of representatives, although it was the first election under universal suf frage. "It was laughable,” continued Mr. Schramm, “to see the diguifled way in which the'Japs' deported themselves. T.iey would go to Ihe polls in squads, every raan carefully watching one who had been selected as a leader. What ever he did the others did also. One leader whom I was watching took out a big silk hand kerchief and blew his nose, and immediately every man following him did the same. And so it was with every little motion the captain chanced to make Everybody was exceptionally well behaved, and from what I hear about your elections in Chicago lam convinced that some of your politicians could take a few lessons with profit from their Japanese brothers” Humors of a Calamity. It is undoubtedly wrong, says the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, to find anything comical in a terrible castrophe like the cyclone that caused so much suffering and death at Lake Gervais, ana were it not for the fact that the following incident was related by one of the principals in that tragedy, it would not appear in print. One of the occupants ot the Good cottag an • ider y lady, was very fond of taking care of fowls, and had raised nearly 100 chick et!B and ducks. These were all killed by the cyclone. The old lady had aso mads a nice lot of soft soap, of w. ich she was very proud. The soap had been left on a board by the side of the house, and of course was ear ried away by the wind. Tne occupants of tne house, it will be remembered, took refuge iu the cellar when the storm was seen coming. All were more or less injured and their clothm.- torn from their bodies It was nearly i alf au hour before all were released, more dead thun alive. Tne lady spoken of was naif unconscious aud the moment sue was taken from tue cellar she took one glauoe at the work of the eye one, threw up her bunds and exclaimed: “O. wher are my ducks and my eoickens, and where is my nice soft soap!" A Boom is on in ROUGH OS DIRT SOAP.- Adt • ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Los Angeles pickle factoby bought eighty tons of cucumbers at Anaheim recently for 1 cent a pound. A London bookseller recently received an order fr .m New Zealand for worth of books tor the use of tue nttive police. A CB'TEKV fellow waat-xl a PaDnaylrat: Ia railroad conductor to bold the train *e i minute at Burge tstown wuile be got married. David Marshall of Lapeer. Mich., who has been a demo rat for eight t* fou r yea’*?, has fi ed a request thit his old collection of democratic tickets be placed in his c Mfin and buried wit j him. m A Sumner ‘Kan county man went into the country to collect a note which he hddona fanner. Tue farmer was not at home, but h:s wife was and she LopceJ onto the hoi ler of the note and took it from him and gave hm a good drubbing into the bargain. The New York and New England railroad hat been brought up standing by t! e village of Waterbury, Conn . for Plowing its whittles w.triin the town limits It is the general wish in that town that nothing shall inte fere whh the merry clatter of the Waterbury watch. Smallpox holds sway at Colon and Cartag na. United States of Colomb a, the steamship Samara h iving arrived at Boston with one of her crew dean and five others down with the dreaded disease. Smallpox ba* also broke i out anew at Guanta a-uo and Sa .tiago de Cuba, and ail shipmasters must be on the alert to prevent long detentions at Quarantine. Fifteen years ago when a gentleman began the culture of bees he suffered severe!}* from stings, but tne}* have now lost their force. For several years past tney have caused only a slignt and rather pleasurable sensation, and that lasts for only a lew minutes. But this thorough inoculation against bee poison leaves him ass isceptible as ever to the sting of a wasp. The visit of the German emperor to Copen hagen and Caristiana is said to have revived the old idea of a great Scandinavian empire, to embrace S .vede i. Norway, Denmark, and the former Swe lish provinces of 1* miaul Tnis is thought to be the reason for t e czar's change of plan an t decision not to visit Copenhagen. Perhaps, also, it is from expectation of such an effort that the czar has suddenly begun a more decided Russianizi.ig of Finland. Recent investigations in Indian prisons have revealed a curious physiological condition induced by thieves for the purpose of secreting valuables. They allow a heavy lead builrt to slide down the tnroat, and k *ep it in position for half an hour at a time. In about a year a pouch is formed into which anytning s nail may be thrust without interfering witu speech or breatn. At present there are in Cal cutta jail twenty prisoners with these throat pouches. Extreme ugliness is on the list of disqualifi cations laid do wn b>* the medical department for French conscripts. “Excessive ugliness,” says the chief of the department, ‘ makes a maa ridiculous, prevents him from having authority over his comrades, and leaves him morbid and sensitive.” "Male hysteria" is another valid plea for excuse from military service. The army doctors say it exists among French con scripts. and it is the more objectionable as it is contagious. Tiiey teil a story of an Indiana judge who was trying a thiof who stole bank bills of the face value of sis—this was in the days of the wildcat currency. The lawyer who defended the crimi nal argued that as the actual value of the notes was a KOod deal 1 ?ss than the face value the of fense did not constitute grand larceny. But the juJge knocked him out by saying that he did not prop se to establish the principle in his court that a nan could "steal at par and be tried at a discount” Postmaster General John Wanamaksr can be polite under difficulties, says the New York Star. Not very long ago a lady wrote to him from this state, asking if he could not devise a peculiar stamp tor the use of persons in mourn ing. She pointed out the absurdity of affixing a giddy red, blue or green stampY> an envelope edged with black, and begged him to consider the interests of the widow and the fatherless. The postmaster general respond**! gravely ac<fowlddgt gtha . us:ieoof the ady's observa-, tions, and promising co give Her question serious consideration. There is to be a "Greater Vienna ” A com mittee, composed of the mayors of the different suburbs of Vienna, have for the last few months been considering the uuion of Vienna proper with the suburban municipalities, and the plan is ready, lh ? mayor of tne new city will be elected by the town council tor six years. There will be nineteen districts, and the local affairs of each will be managed by a council elected by the ratepayers as before. There will also b; a central council of twenty-one members elected by the local councils. Kahlonberg an l Schoen brum and m >re thau a dozen villages hitherto regarded as summer resorts will be taken in, it is thought, by a yea.* from next January. Tiie latest examination of cheese shows that the population of Emmenthal, a sort of Gruyere, to be as follows: In each gramme of the cheese, when fresh, from 9>,03u to 140.000 mi crobes are found. This number increases with time. A cheese seventy-one days old contains hOJ.OOO bacteria per gramme. A soft cheese twenty-five days old and much denser than the preceding * as 1.200,000, and a cheese forty-five days old 2,000,000 mierolies per gramme. The center is freer than the outside. A cheese, near the periphery, has from 3,000.00> to 5,600.<)00 microbes. According to the mean of these two figures there are as many living organisms in in 3CO grammes of such a cheese as there are people upon the earth. Will a hair from a horse's mane or tail de velop into a snake if placed in the water? Scientific men say not, but J. H. Pierce of Mount Heaaant. Conn., says that the scientific men don't know everything Mr. Pierce claims that under certain conditions he can and has produced from horsehairs periecrly forme l snakes, the head beiug fully developed, with eyes and mouth, the reptile having life, motion and growing in length and thickness. He has at pro-eat three in process of evolution, with which he expects to silence all doubt as to the truth of his statements. A few days ago Mr. Fierce obtained two hair snakes, as he calls them, and exhibited them to several persons here whose opinions appear to be evenly di vided as to whether they are a species of water snake or really produced by a horsehair, it re quires about three months to develop the snakes, Mr Pierce says. A stalwart Hungarian, who had been in this country but a few* days, applied at Schenley park. Pitts on rg, on Saturday, for employment, and ran against some jokers. They gravely in formed him tnat the position vacant was that of hostler to the bear, which is now quite a chunk of an animal. He was furnished wfith a currycomb and brush and sent in to fix up bruin. Neither Han nor bear flinched f;om the encounter. The bear enjoyed being scratched with the currveomb, and showed it by rolling in dirt as fast as he was cleaned. He also evinced his appreciation by playfully clawing his valet, and by the tirn.i the latter had completed lus job he had no clothes on worth mentioning. The jokers had to buy the a new suit of clothes, and, being unable to furnish him with a situation, the city having made no pro vision for a bear keeper, they made up a purse as an acknowledgment of his pluck. A meteor of prodigious size, and blazing like a lost sun, fell in the western sky at Norwich, Conn., a few nights ago. It made au astounding and splendid spectacle. A reporter, strolling along a country road in the western part of the town, had au unobstructed view of it. He was looking down w:.en the moteor suddenly blazed out in the dark night. Its descent began near the zenith, exactly in the west, and it fell slant ing into the northwest. It appeared to re nearly as large as th* full moon, and diffused a bluish white light that, was quite as powerful as that orb is aud w*hich lighted up the country landscape as a mighty flash of lightning does in a murky night. For an instant fields, woods, crops, houses, walls and roads blazed with dazzling splendor, while the whole west ern sky was trie hue of a glowing opal. Exactly in the northwest sky was a small round, purp e, and hard-rolled cloud into which the meteor fell, dragging furrows of blue white light in a long wake on each side of its track. When right in the center of the cloud the fire ball ap parently exploded, though no report was heard, and instantly the whole cioud turned scarlet! while jets of fire gushed through it. So start ling was the career of the meteor, so amazing its inag’dtude, and ro overpowering the radiance, that the beholder was bewildered tor several seconis. for ordinary meteors are no more than sparks when compar and with this monster. Tnere is no record in the history of Connecticut of another meteor that is at all comiairable in size and splendor with the giant of \\ ednes lay evening. 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