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The attempt to revive the Panama caual
scheme will hardly meet with success. It
would be difficult to And anybody who
would advauce any more money for that
undertaking.
Depew is still a shining mark for Mr.
Powderly and his friends. In the moantime
the striking Knights of Labor are going
back to their old places oa the New York
Central aud Hudson River railroad.
Minister Mizner is rather slow about
letting the state department know what
connection he had with the Barrundia
aff air. The testimony of those who were
on the steamer oa which Gen. Barrundia
was killed is by no means complimentary
to Mizner.
Representative Cannon says that the re
publican absentees from the House have
not been called back to do any thinking,
but simply to sit in their seats and be
counted. Reed, Cannon and McKinley do
the thinking, the House haviDg ceased to be
a deliberative body.
Is it the purpose of the republican leaders
to drop Mr. Quay? It is said that it is, and
and that they are going to put Mr. Clarkson
into the place now occupied by Mr. Quay.
The Pennsylvanian boss tnay not be willing
to give up his place, and if he is not it will
not be an easy matter to drop him.
The St. Louis Republic calls attention to
the fact that $130,000,000 a year for pensions
means 120 days’ labor of 1,000,000 men at $1
par day. If the Republican party remains
in power much longer it will require a sum
equal to the earnings of about 3.000,000 of
men to meet the demands of the pension
burden.
Gen. Alger, it is alleged, wants an organ
in New York to boom him for the Presi
dential nomination of his party, and he is
willing to pay a very handsome price for it.
It is the talk that ex-Assistant Postmaster
General Clarkson is to be the head of it. He
will only be a figure head, but he can be
depended upon to publish an organ of the
bloody shirt stripe.
The New York Times doesn’t study Geor
gia politics very closely. It says that * ‘it
is believed that outside of Crisp, Blouut and
Turner, who have been renominated, Geor
gia’s delegation in the next congress will
consist of allianeemen.” It seems to forget
that Lester was renominated without any
fight in his district and with but little or no
opposition. His nomination was a straight
out democratic one.
The Pasteur institute of Paris is still ex
perimenting with the view of settling tbe
question whether human beings can be
made consumption proof by means of vac
cination with a virus prepared from tuber
culosis baccillus. Some of those who are
connected with the institute seem to enter
tain the opinion that consumption can be
not only prevented, but cured, by the
inoculation method.
The German authorities spoil a great
many sensations. In Berlin the other day
an aeronaut announced that he would go up
among the clouds on horseback. A great
crowd gathered to see him perform this
feat. He had arranged to have a horse at
tached to his big balloon. The balloon had
been connected with the horse, and the aero
naut had got upon his back and was about
to order the balloon to be freed whea the
police interfered and stopped the perfor
mance. Hid not the police interfered
Berlin might have been treated to a first
class seqsation.
The Tariff Bill in Conference.
The confers ce committee on the tariff
bill has a difficult task to perforin. It won’t
find it an easy matter to reach an agree
ment on all points of difference between
the House and the Senate. Some of the
differ# ices are very radical, and the prob
abilities are that the House will insist upon
the bill as it was when it was sent to the
Senate, and the Senate will insist upon its
amendments.
The sugar schedule was change! in very
important particulars by the Senate. Some
of the leading members of the republica i
side of the House have already said that
they would never agree to the changes.
The reciprocity amendment will also be
stoutly opposed in the House, though
it has many friends there among
the republicans. The democrats in neither
the House nor the Senate are opposed
the policy of reciprocity, but they are op
posed to the reciprocity amendment, loecause
it gives to the President the power which,
they think, congress alone has the right to
exercise. They voted against it because
they think it is unconstitutional. It is prob-
able that they will continue to oppose it
unless it is changed to meet their views.
The Senate put binding twino on the free
list, and that amendment will lind opposition
in the House, because it strikes at the pro
tective principle, which the McKinley bill is
particularly noticeable for upholding. There
are a few republicans, also, who feel that it is
discriminating against the south to make
binding twine free and to tax cotton ties
and jute bagging.
Congress talks about adjourning by Oct.
1. but unless the conference committ se gets
through with its task much sooner tbau it
is expected to, the chances are that ad -
jourinent will not take place before Oct,
10. It is said that the President is think
ing seriously of calling an extra session. It
is pretty Lafe to say that he will not do so.
Representatives wish to canvass their dis
tricts, and they would not have much
time to do that even if congress
should adjourn by Oct. 1. As for calling
an extra session immediately after the elec
tions, that would be folly. Congress would
do little or nothing in the four weeks be
tween the elections and the time for the
meeting of the regular session. By the time
the tariff bill is disposed of congressmen
will have had enough of legislative work
for a time, and will stand in need of a little
vacation. Few of the republicans feel
enough interest in the force bill to favor an
extra session to discuss that iniquitous
measure, and the majority of them probably
regard it as virtually dead, anyway.
Was There an Understanding?
A day or two ago it was said that Ken
nedy’s bitter attack on Quay was his own
work, aud that he was lad to make the at
tack by hiß desire for notoriety. Now a
different story is told. It is that Reed,
Cannon, Lodge and other leading republi
cans who are extremely hostile to Quay,
becauso he succeeded in having the force
bill postponed, induced Kennedy to make
the speech.
Is there an understanding among some of
the republican leaders to get rid of Quay ?
Do they think he is a heavier load than the
party can carry with any certainty of suc
cess? The charges that Kennedy made are
not new. They had been published long
before Q :ay was made chairman of the
national republican committee. If, there
fore, there is an understanding among cer
tain of the republican leaders to get rid of
him they must feel that the Re
publican party is much weaker than
it was two years ago. It carried
him then, aud is it thought that it cannot
carry him now? The truth is, probably,
that the republican leaders who want to get
rid of Quay are afraid of his influence and
power. As for the Republican party, it
doosn’t make any difference to it, appar
ently, whether its leaders are men of good
or bad repute. The charges against Quay
won’t hurt him in the estimation of his
party, but they may bn used by other
republican leaders, who are not iu harmony
with him, to get him out of their way.
Capt Iliter.a commander of one of the gun
boats that were in the harbor of San Jose at
the time Gen. Barrundia was shot to death
on the American steamship Acapulco, has
sent to the navy department an account of
the affair. He seems to have thought the in
activity of the commanders of the gunboats
in connection with the affair would be
pretty severely criticised iu this country,
and so he hastened to tell the Secretary of
the Navy all he knew about it. While the
Secretary of the Navy refuses to make
public Capt. Riter’s statement, it is under
stood that he says * ‘that the oommanders of
both vessels would have interfered had not
Minister Mizner overridden their wishes
and personally assumed the responsibility
of delivering the fugitive into the hands of
his countrymen.” It is certaiuly time that
Minister Mizner should be heard from. If
he did not commit a great fault then the
American people are greatly mistaken.
The Paris correspondent of the London
1 imes sends that paper a remarkable in
stance of jury logic. Sometime ago in Paris
an entire family, named Hyam, committed
suicide to escape death from starvation.
The affair created a great sensation iu the
French capital, and was the talk of all
classes of people. Recently a man named
Moch killed a debtor of his who refused
to pay $350 borrowed money. On the trial
Moch admitted the crime. Tnejury, how
ever, acquitted him on the ground that he
had a wife aud five young children, who
would in all probability commit suicide, as
Hyam and his family did, to escape starv
ation if Mooh were convicted and executed
or transported for life. According to this
verdict the Hyam family, by taking their
own lives, put an end to punishment for
murder in the French capital in cases in
which the murderer has a family depend
ing upon his earnings.
About seven years ago a man named
Coleman, a wealthy joweler of Erie, Pa.,
wanted to marry the younger daughter of
a New York widow named Hoffman. The
widow told Coleman that he could have the
elder (laughter, but not the younger, be
cause she was determined that the elder
should be married first. Coleman did not
take the widow’s view of the matter, and
so eloped with the younger. The elder then
made up her mind to win Coleman from
her younger sister. It took her seven years
to accomplish her object, but she finally ac
complished it, and the other day she ran
away with him to Europe. There is nothing
like persistency in matters pertaining to
the heart, as well as in other matters.
It iook3 very much as if the lottery bill
would be passed by the Senate. If it should
become a law the lottery companies would
have to find other moans for advertising
their lotteries, as the mails would be closed
to newspapers printing tboir aivertise
meuts.
THE MORNING NEWS : WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1890.
(A Lawless Congregation.
The warring factions of the Greene square
Baptist church ar • bringing the cause of re
ligion into disrespect in the estimation of
those of their race who have been accus
tomed to look to that church for guidance
in religious matters. Tne scenes at the con
ference on Monday night were simply dis
graceful. They were of a kind seldom seen
even in barrooms. Drunken roughs could
hardly have been guilty of worse conduct.
Men who profess to be law-abiding and
order-loving Christians showed no respoct
for the sacred character of the buildiug in
which they wore assembled, and endeavored
to do each other all the injury tney could
with their fists aid with various kinds of
deadly weapons.
The people in the neighborhood of the
church are tired of being annoye i and dis
turbed by the rows in which the congrega
tion frequently engages. It was after 2
o’clock on Monday night when the rioting
in the church was at its hight, and many
people were aroused from sleep by it. Up
to this time only members of the congrega
tion have demanded police protection, but
now the people who live in the vicinity of
the church demand it. If the congregation
cannot conduct itself in a decent and or
derly manner it ought not to be permit
ted to meet, or, if it is permit
ted to n.ee‘, all who assist
in making ad sturbance should be arrested
and so severely punished as to deter them
from making nuisances of themselves again.
There is no reason why a whole neighbor
hood should be kept awake the better part
of the night, every week or two, by a lot of
of fighting men and women who ought to
be at home and abed.
If there are those in the Greene Square
Baptist Church who have a grievance, why
don’t they state it and have it settled in a
proper, dignified and decent w ly. It is
said that there is a faction in the church
that is opposed to the minister. If this is
the case why don’t those who are dissatis
fied either withdraw from the congregation
or prefer charges against the min
ister? If the charges are such as
to justify his removal, and are
sustained, there will be no difficulty in
getting rid of him. Indoed, if he has any
self-respect he would resign if shown
to be unworthy without being asked
to do so a second time. But it is
hardly probable that he will resign because
someof his congregation are hostile to him
and want to force him out of his position as
pastor. To resign under such circumstances
would be to admit that he was either guilty
of wrong-doing of some kind or was lack
ing in some respects as a minister.
Gordon’b “Something Better.”
Gov. Gordon objects to the sub-treasury
plan, as about all the leading democrats of
the country do, and he is now explaining
why he is opposed to it. He is not hard
pushed for reasons for his opposition to it.
There are plenty of them, and they are
very convincing ones.
It seems, however, that Gov. Gordon has
“something better” than the sub-treasury
plan to offer the farmers. He explained
what it was in his speech at Decatur, De-
Kalb county, on Saturday. The report of
his speech on that occasion, however, was
not sufficiently full and clear to enable one
to understand just what his “something
better” i.
In view of the fact that there must nec
essarily be great interest in his substitute
he ought to have it written out aud pub
lished, so that there could be no mistake
about it. A matter of suoh importance will
be commented upon, and in order that no
injustice may bedone him he should see to
it that his “something better” is placed be
fore the public in a way that it will be im
possible to misunderstand it.
His suggestion of an alliauce warehouse
at some point on the coast big enough to
bold the entire ootton crop of Georgia is
one that ought to be considered carefully
before being adopted. At first thought it
would seem to have emanated from someone
who has very little practical knowledge of
the handling of cotton. It might appear
differently, however, after it had been ex
plained by one who thoroughly under
stood it.
If we are not mistaken it was shown at
the recent convention of the state alliance
at Atlanta that it cost farmers more to get
their supplies through the alliance exchange
than it did to get them direct from dealers.
Might it not cost the farmers more to have
their ootton handled in the big warehouse
which Gov. Gordou suggests than it does to
have it handled by the present methods?
Representative Boutelle of Maine, whose
recent article in his paper, the Whig, rela
tive to the purpose of Speaker Reed to have
something to say in future about the fed
eral appointments in that state, excited so
much comment, says that he was not strik
ing at Blaine, but at the Maine senators,
Frye and Hale. He insinuate! that these
two senators are trying to escape the issue
he has made by hiding in the shadow of
Blaine. There is a very pretty fight going
on among the leading republicans of Maine,
all growing out of the fact that Ro “and was
re-elected by an increased majority. It
begins to look as if it would have been bet
ter for the Republican party in Maine if
Reed’s majority had bean smaller.
It seems that Hon. Thomas M. Norwood
has taken the stump. Ha spoke at Talbot
ton last Saturday iu company with ex-Gov.
Smith, aud he speaks at Statesboro,
Bullock county, to-day. Is it the
intention of the alliance to make
a choice between Norwood, Smith
and Liviugston for senator, or is it its pur
pose to let tne legislature follow its own
inclination in choosing a senator? There is
a rumor that the leaders of the alliance have
determined to make Mr. Norwood the
alliance candidate, but it cannot be traced
to any authoritative souroe.
It s-ems that the Georgia and Carolina
Melon Exchange proved to be a rather un
fortunate enterprise for those who were
financially concerned in it. The Commer
cial Bank of Columbia, S. C., has Drought
suit in the commou plea-i court of Philadel
phia to recover $1,173 97 from Brown &
McMahon, of that city. It appears the
bank paid a draft drawn by the Georgia
and Carolina Melon Exchange on the above
named firm.
It seems that the Ocean Stoamsbip Com
pany would be the pioneer in direct trad!
between the south and Europe if direct
trade could be made to pay. If direct trade
can be carried on successfully between any
southern port and Europe that port is Sa
vannah. She has the best harbor on the
South Atlantic coast and railroad systems
that reach a territory that is an empire in
extent.
Bennett’s London Herald has suspended.
It Co6t Beunett a good deal of money to find
out that the people didn’t want it.
PERSONAL.
Boulanger's mother was an English woman.
Cardinal Tascberau entered the priesthood
in 1842.
Modjesea will return to this country in No
vember.
Lord Wolseley began life as a clerk in a sta
tionery store in Dublin
Mai. Wilham G. Moore, chief of the Wash
ington police, was private secretary to Presi
dent Andrew Johnson.
Mrs. Wkstinohoure. the wife of the airbrake
millionaire of Pittsburg, is a blonde, and
dresses elegantly. Her diamonds are worth
$30,000.
Miss Sibyl Sanderson, the young American
singer, appeared in the opera of Esclarmonde,
in Brussels, Saturday eight, and scored a bril
liant success.
President Herreri y Obes of Uruguay has
no palace, and lives modestly in rooms over a
milliner's shop oa one of the principal streets
of Montevi leo.
Charles Gibson of St. Louis, Mo., upon
whom Emperor William bestowed the order of
the crown, has gone to Berlin to thank the em
peror in person.
Gen. Gkeely's name was proposed for mem
bership in the American Ass .elation for t', e
Advauc-ment of Science at the recent meeting
in Indianapolis.
Col. Evan Smith. British con ui general at
Zanzilar, has presented medals of the Royal
Geographical Society to many of Stanley’s
former followers.
Abbe Le Pailleur, who founded the order of
the Home foa the Age! of the Little Sisters of
the Poor, has resigned his superintendency. He
is nearly 80 years old.
Lieut. John M. Finley, United States Army,
who has recently published several interesting
meteorological theses, was formerly clerk to
Senator Butler of South Carolina.
Isaac T. Smith, a wealthy New Yorker, who
represents the Siamese government as consul at
that porl. sailed for Siam, via Suez, Saturday,
to visit the oriental monarch by special invita
tion.
Oeorob Ticrnor CrßTis will contribute to
Harrier's Magazine tor October some recollec
tions of the early days of N. P. Willis, and also
of Mrs Lydia Maria Francis, afterward Mrs.
Child, whose literary career began about the
same time.
The indefatigable Shakespearian scholar and
editor. Dr. William J. Roife, has prepared anew
edition of Shakespeare's poems, which will soon
be issued by Harp r Brothers. This will be the
first thoroughly annotated edition of the poems
published in this country.
Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who is travel
ing in the strictest incognito as Mrs. Nicholson,
arrived recently in Paris so unexpectedly that
not even the personnel of the Austrian embassy
were at the station to receive tier, and the em
press, as well as her suite, drove in cabs to the
hotel.
Readers of the journal of Maria Bashkirtseff
will be interested to learn that her painting,
‘‘The .Meeting,” has been purchased by the
French government ami placed in the Luxem
bourg palace. Here it will remain, according
to the rule, until the tenth year following the
artist's death, when it will be placed either in
the Louvre or at Versailles.
Col Henry Page, democratic nominee for
congress in the First Maryland district, was ad -
milted to the bar in 1864 and has practised for
many years at Princess Anne, Somerset county.
He was a member of the constitutional conven
tion of 1867. He married Miss Virginia Dennis
of Worcester county, and one of his sons is
now a member of the senior class at Prince
ton.
BRIGHT BITS.
Since every ill must have ending.
Let us calmly await the day,
Wnen the mercury, thus far ascending,
Must travel the other way.
Washington Post,
When you're strolling in the evening
With your best girl, ‘neath the trees
That line the moonlight promenade
And murmur?n the breeze;
Oh, do not be discouraged
If she makes your life a wreck—
It's nothing but a catorpil-
Lar crawling down her neck.
Washington Star.
The bootblack, without being a magician,
shines in the black art. Washington Post.
Life is very costly at the seaside. Even the
waves go broke as soon as they touch the shore.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Jack—l say Marie, if thirty-two degrees is
the freezing point, I wonder what the squeez
ing point is?
Marie—l don’t know, Jack; possibly two in
the shad a.—Life.
“ ’Tis love that makes the world go round,”
he quoted softly, taking her hand.
“Yes, Harold," she murmured, withdrawing
her hand with inexpressible sadness, “but it
won’t keep the pot boiling.”— Chicago Trib
une.
Tramp—Will you kindly assist an old man
who has seen better days?
lady—Would you like a little work?
Tramp—No. miss; the memory of better days
prevents me Irom doing any manual labor.—
Munsey's Weekly.
Guest—l'm glad there's a rope here in case of
fire; but what is the idea of putting a Bible in
the room in such a prominent position?
Bell Boy—Dat am intended foh use, sah, in
case the tire am too far advanced foh you to
make yoh escape, sab.—Puck.
Enraged Proprietor (to tramp)—What are
you doing in the ash-bin? You ought to lie
ashamed of yourself.
Tramp (abashed)—l am ashamed of myself—
that’s the reason I crawled in here—to repent
amonk the ashes.—Pan Dorn's Magazine.
“I understood you to say that your charge
for services would lie light,” complained the
client when the solicitor handed him a big bill.
“I believe I did say my fee would tie nomi
nal.” was the lawyer's reply, “but ”
“Oh, I see," hastily interrupted the client,
“you meant phenomenal.— Chatter.
“I've lost the key to the cedar closet,” re
marked Mrs. Hojack.
"We’U have to send all the way to Florida for
another,” replied her husband.
“How’s that?” A
“Florida is the only state where you can And
Cedar Keys."— Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Where in the world is the chalk drawer?”
asked the drug clerk.
“What do you want it for?”
“There's a customer here after powdered
borax.”
"Well, he'll have to wait. Pillbox has the
chalk putting up an order for magnesia."—
Philadelphia Times.
“How much are lima beans this morning?”
inquired the customer as she laid down her
basket.
“Twenty cents a half p-ck. ma'am "
"Why they were 30 yesterday. What causes
such a reduction ?”
“Just sold the last half peck, ma’am. They'll
be 30 again to-morow.” —American (rrocer,
CURRENT COMMENT.
Married Women and the Lodges.
Prom the Chicago Mail ( Dem.x
If the women could vote how the Lodge bill
would be snowed under! Married women are
opposed to lodges on general principles.
Windom ns a Bull Fighter.
From the Philadelphia Record ( Dem.).
The Secretary of the Treasury, bv special re
quest, wiil once more appear in his'daring act
of upholding the bull of Wall street by the tail.
Home-Balsed Elephants.
FVom the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
One of the greatest drawbacks to our pros
perity is that we cannot raise our own ele
phants. If the American farmer could raise
elephant • not only would prices of admission to
the circus come down, but all farm mortgages
would be speedily paid off.
Solution of the Negro Problem.
From the Chicago Daily .Vews i Dem.).
Cardinal Gibbons tbinx-i that, negroes should
be taught useful trades, and that the solution of
the negro problem will take the form of such
practical education as will make the colored
population useful citizens in the best sense of
the term. This is in line with many recent ex
pressions of .pinion from leading representa
tives of the colored race as to their ov n greatest
needs. The attention of the doiniuani political
party should be called to these real needs of the
Degro. The southern blacks, egpzcl illy, desire
education more than they do the ballot.
The peculiar enervating elToct of summer
weather is driven off by Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
which "mokes the weak strong.”
Humoring a stranger.
A stock broker who was on his way to the
city, say* the London City Press, observed that
one of his fellow passengers in the ’bus was
closely regarding him, and after a time the
man leaned over and asked: "Didn't I see you
in Liverpool in 1879? ’
The broker wasn't in Liverpool that year, but,
thinking to humor the stranger, he replied in
the affirmative.
‘Don't you remember handing a poor shiver
ing wretch a half crown one night outside the
Royal hotel?”
"I do."
•‘Well. I’m the chap. I was hard up. out of
work, and about to commit suicide. That
money male anew man of me. By one lucky
spec and another I am now worth £5,000.”
“Ah, glad to hear it.”
"And now I want you take a sovereign in
place of that half crown I connot feel easy
until the debt is paid.”
The broker protested and objected, but
Anally, just to humor the man. he took the £5
note offered him and returned the £1 change.
The stranger soon left the bus, and everything
might have ended thin and there if tne broker,
on r ac ling the office, ha in t as ertain -i that
the “fiver' was a counterfeit, and cuat he was
£4 out of pocket.
A Fishy Stcrv.
A. J. Haskell, who lives at Greenport. L. 1.,
and is one of the officers of the Mallory steam
ship Colorado, says the New York Star, con
tributes the latest and most remarkable fish
story to the already long list of startling dot
ratives of fishermen:
“While tne Colorado was anchored in the
mouth of Mobile bay,” he says, “on its last
voyage, under the guns of Fort Morgan, loading
lumber for New York, with the heat way up in
the nineties, a monster fish was sighted off its
bow. A boat was lowered and manned woth
the first officer in charge. A harpoon and a
good, sound rope were put on board. Tuen the
boat was rowed close up to the flsh, and
a well-directed shot sent the harpoon into
its vitals. The monster sank, and the boat was
rowed back to the ship, and the rope got on
board. Fifty darkeys were set to work to pull
in t le line, and the fish was brought to the top
of the water. Another rope was made fast to
him and then the ship’s steam capstan hauled
the fish on deck. He measured 14 feet across,
was 10 feet long, and had a mouth that mens
ured 21e, feet, backward toward the tail. On
either side of the mouth was a head, with an
eye in each. The monster weighed two tons.”
Mr. Haskell added that of the scores of per
sons who looked at the monster none bad ever
seen anything like it before. This part of the
story is, probably, that which will be most
readily believed.
The Little White Bible.
“We will send him a little white Bible, John,”
slid the mother. “It won’t cost much and it
will please the boy, for he will know his mother
sent it.”
The parents were looking through a little
book store for a suitable present for their boy,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. It would have to
he inexpensive, for they were poor. A little
white Bible was the thing, then. It meant a
great deal to the mother’s heart, and it same
how seemed all right to the father.
"I guess you’re right,” he said, "it looks like
a poor sort of birthday present, but I guess the
boy’ll know.”
It was sent away in its little brown pasteboard
box. with a line on the inside of the cover, "A
present from mother." Two weeks passed
away, and one day a man who worked by John's
side in the big factory brought him a paper.
There was a piece marked in It—a little ten Tine
notice with a "side head" Here is the item:
“A Bit of Pathos—At the inquest to day over
the body of the youth found in the river last
night, a small wuite Bible was taken from the
coat worn by the corpse. It w.is wet through
and through, and the gilt letters and delicate
tracery of it overs were worn off, but a line in
ink on the ini ids of the cover was still plain.
‘A present from mother.’ it - aid: and while the
jury and the coroner looked at it their eves
became as moist as the leaves of the little book
that lay before them. ”
A Precocious Infant.
Of course there is no limit to the stories told
of bright and mischievous children, and bright
ness and mischief always, somehow, seem to
go together. I have two anecdotes of a little
4-year-old, who was taken to the country in the
spring to help leaven existence somewhat for
her grandmother, and at the same time gather
a few roses for her own dimpled cheeks, says
the New York Star. The second day after the
little tot’s arrival from the city the grand
mother missed her great bunch of Keys. Where
could they be? Nobody knew. Strangely
enough, nobody at first asked the youngster
about them, and she played with her dolls dur
ing all the excitement of the general search,
looking up occasionally in an interested way,
but saying nothing. Finally someone sug
gested that "Daisy” might know where were
the keys.
“O, yes; I know,” said the child; “why didn’t
you ask me before?"
“Well, where are they?”
"O, I just throwed them in the rain barrel this
mornirg.”
After the rain barrel was emptied and the
Keys were recovered, “Daisy" was asked what
on earth made her throw the keys in the
barrel.
“I don’t know ” she replied, “unless it was
just ‘pure cussedness.’ ”
And now her pious parents wonder where
she picked up this particularly apropos expres
sion.
* *
A few days later a package of brass-headed
tacks was missing. This time “Daisy" was
called in at once and asked if she had seen
them.
“O, yes,” she said; “I took them out and fed
them to the chickens.”
Flirting With Death.
Wednesday afternoon about 3:80 o’clock, says
the Washington Star, Undertaker Harvey's
gloomy w agon drove hurriedly up to the en
trance of a well-known photograph gallery,
aud two men carried a black coffin Into the
building and up to tne third floor in the oper
ating room. It was met there by the photogra
pher and a number of newspaper men, and
shortly afterward a woman, youthfui and
beautiful, clad in cashmere and lac->, with
flowers at her feet and her white hands folded
peacefully across her breast, lay in the somber
box, with her long brown hair streaming over
the crumpled satin lining as pale as her cream
tinted skin. The men stood about the coffin
whispering as the undertak -r touched a flower
here, a leaf there, and tucked in a
careless wandering curl, while the photo
grapher moved a hand out of its stiffness or
turned the face where the light would fall upon
it to better effect before the iense of t be camera
It was au uncanny scene, and if the sunshine
had not taken the chill off of the place it would
have been as ghostly and ghastly as a charnel
house. Wnen all was ready the photographer
caught the picture on his plate and then the lid
of the affair was removed for the friends of the
family to ship forward and take a last look at
the body, for it immediately sat up in her case
ments, shook hands all around and jumping
gracefully to the floor laughed merrily and
talked chernly of such a lark and gave the un
dertaker and the photographer her authority to
perform the same sad rites wnea she was dead
in earnest aud not merely flirting with the king
of terrors. The ruling passion, strong in death,
it will be observed.. The corpse for a minute
was Miss Lillian Lewis, tne actress, and the
pictures, when they are done, will be striking,
even if they are not particularly cheerful.
The Two Lovers.
FVom the Washington Post.
Two lovers by a moss-grown spring;
They leaned soft cheeks together there,
Mingled the dark and sunny hair,
And heard the wooing thrushes sing.
Oh, budding time!
Oh, love's best prime 1
Two wedded from the portal stept;
The bell made happy carrolings.
The air was soft as fanning wings.
White petals on the pathway slept.
Oh, pure-eyed bride!
Oh, tender pride!
Two faces o’er a cradle bent;
Two hands above the head were locked;
These pressed each other while they rocked
Those watched a life that love had sent, ’
Oh, solemn hour:
Oh, hidden power!
Two parents by the evening Are;
The red light fell about their knees.
On heads that rose by glow degrees
Like buds upon the lily spire
Oil, patient life!
Oh, tender strife!
The two still sat together there;
The red light shone about their knees.
But all the heads bv slow degrees
Had gone and left that lonely pair.
Oh, voyage fast!
Oh, vanished past!
The red light shone upon the Aonr
And mude the space between ihem wide*
They drew their chairs up side by side.
Their pale cheeks joined, and said “Once more!"
Oh, memories'
Oh, past that is!
—Georoe Eliot.
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It is a well known tact that persons grow
somewhat shorter as they reach advanced
years, owing to a "settling” of the bony struct
ure. A noted ease is reported from Harring
ton, Del., where a man died on Sunday who.
owing to a contraction of the spine had become
a foot shorter than he was when he stopped
growing.
Bricks impregnated with tar are said to be
hard, durable and water-proof The process
f Impregnation is ex remely simple, ordinary
bricks, or, still better, machine brick being
boiled In tar for twenty-four hours. Bricks
thus treated are claimed to be especially well
adapted for paving w-ork-rooms. depots, etc.
Toey are also recommendei ror the construc
tion of sewers, cesspools, the insulation of
foundation walls and similar purposes.
Thk English syndicate which purchased the
Philadelphia brewery at San Francisco for
$3,000,009 has failed to make the pavments due,
a id Mrs. YVeiland threatens to break the agree
ment. Tue sum of 3150,090 was paid on deposit
to bind the agreement, $300,091 was to have
been paid July 1 last, and the remainder Aug
15. Mrs. YVeiland says the purchasers askel
thirty days’ time, which was granted. Unless
the money is paid by Sept. 15, tne $150,000 will
be forfeited
One of the most successful rose-growers in the
country gives the following list of roses that
will blossom in the fall s well as in the sum
mer: Abel Grand, Alfred Colomb, Auguste
Mie, Baroness Rothschild, Baroness Prevost,
Beauty of Waltham, Captain Christy, Boule de
Neige, Coquette des Alpes, Fisher Holmes.
Gen. jacqueminot, Gen. Washington. Queen
of Queens. La Fi ance, La Reiue. Madame
Victor Verdier, Mabel Morrison, Pierre Notting,
Prince Camille de Rohan.
The gas department of the Birmingham E g
land) corporation have under consideration the
“penny in-the slot" scheme for the supply of
gas in small tenements. The idea has been
tested and proved feasible. The system would
involve the fixing of a machine in the house of
each consumer and doling out gas by penny
worths The price now cnarged to small con
sumers is 6 ceuts per 190 feet. Under the new
principle the proposal is to supply twenty-live
feet for one-third of that.
A Certain Babaykff of St. Petersburg has
invented a fireproof cement, which is said to
excel all hitherto inveutea in that line. A com
pany to rear fireproof buildings with this
cement has been formed, and some fir * insur
ance companies nave pledged themselves to
insnre such buildings at a premium of no more
than 10 per cent, of the rate charged on ordi
nary buildings. Wood boxes filled with this
cement between the boards are said to answer
all tbe purposes of ordioary safes.
Philanthrophic and wealthy Hebrews are
likely to be addressed from Pailadelphia by the
promoters of a movement now stirring in that
city It is a quickening and extension of the
Jewish Alliance of America, organized some
years ago in Philadelphia to respond to the rush
of Jewish exiles from Russia and Roumania. A
national organization of local lodges and
societies is now contemplated. Membership
fee will be $25. Thus far eastern more than
western colonization of these exiles has been
successful.
Through the stupidity of an engrossing clerk,
unable to write the English language gram
matically or 6pell correctly, the laws recently
passed by the legislature of New York are full
of absurd blunders and contradictions. They
are a disgrace to the first state of the union,
and will, no and oubt, result in costly litigation.
A specimen blunder is an amendment to the
charter of Saratoga, which declares: “No con
tract for sprinkling shall, however, be made for
a longer period than four years, except horses
and more than six sprinkling carts.”
Any one who passes by the great Edison lab
oratory at Orangj, N. J.. by night, is apt to And
the lights burning, no matter what the hour.
Edison is an indefatigable worker, and he pays
little h-ed to the passage of time when c c u
pied with anew experiment or some fresh in
vestigation. To this spine of perseverance he
owes much of his success A day or two ago a
gentleman who was visiting his laboratory, and
whose son was about to enter upon his first e n
ployment, asked E iison to give him a motto for
tbe boy, so that he might have it as stimulus
and guide. Mr. Edison laughed a little at the
novel request, and then said: “Well: I’ll give
him this: ‘Never look at the clock.’ ”
The most gigantic member of the British
peerage is the Marquis of Drogheda, who is 65
years of age, and who stands six feet five inches
lu nis stockings. The marquis is tho life and
soul of the merriest of the merry parties at
Punchestow'n races. Though he has given over
racing himself, he still breeds a thoroughbred or
two at Moore Abbey, county Kildare. Ho is an
excellent and therefore a resident landlord, and
owns some twenty thousand acres, worth some
$50,000 a year. A stanch conservative, he re
sembles Mr. Gladstone in one point, in bis love
for wieldin the ax. He is, moreover, second
cousin to Mr. Parnell, for the marquis' grand
father and the nationalist leader’s grandfather
were brothers.
A most extraordinary fad has been develop
ing Itself since the death of Carninai Newman,
and that is the desire to p assess some relic of
the great ecclesiastic. Tne most sought-for
souvenir is a lock of his hair. During the last
twenty years the cardinal was waited on every
day at the oratory by a hairdresser, who made
a point of preserving all the cuttings of his
“subject’s" hair, expecting all the time to
stimulate a demand for it when the proper
time should come. He has collected a consider
able store of this batr, and since the death of
the cardinal he has been busily occupied in the
distribution of the precious relics, and is coin
ing money as a result of his foresight ami care
in storing these locks.
Prince Bismarck has a stong supersitition
concerning the number 3, which he considers has
always played an important part in his life.
The arms of bis family bear over the motto
"In trinitate robur” three trefoil leaves and
three oak leaves: all caricatures of him repre
sent him with three hairs on his head; he has
three children, Herbert, Wilhelm and Marie; he
has three estates, Friedricnsruhe, Varzin and
Schonhausen; he has fought in three wars, and
signed three treaties of peace; he arranged the
meeting of the three Emrerors, and established
the triple alliance. Finally, he has under him
three political parties, the conservatives, the
national liberals and the ultramontanes, and
he has served three German Emperors.
Apropos of the recent numerous tempests
aud cyclones all over Europe, the Boston Tran
script gives some interesting facts about the
great tempest of 1703, which extended over the
whole of Europe, and continued for a week
with unparalleled violence—more especially in
England. It reached its culminating point on
Saturday. Nov. 27, of that year. The losses in
London were computed at £2,000,000; thestreets
were eucumbered with the ruins of houses; the
number of persons drowned in the rivers Severn
and Tharn-s and in the vessels which broke
away from the.r anchorage and which were never
heard of afterward was bv estimation 8,000 be
sides which 12 ships of war. with 1,-00 men and
5.4 cannons, foundered within sight of land
-1,700 trees in Kent were torn up by the roots’
and on one estate in Gloucestershire 600 trees’
averaging 80 feet in hight, were uprooted in a
space of five acres. The Eddyston • lighthouse
was destroyed, and a large number of oatlle
perished.
Among the art treas ures which used to adorn
the drawing-room in his marble palaoe, now
occupied by the Manhattan Club. A. T.
Stewart cherished a block of Mexican onyx
twelve inches square and about seven-eighths
of an inch thick. He gave S7OO for it, and it
was considered an unusually big, rare pisce of
what was then a precious stone. So rapidly
have the onyx deposits of Mexico been de
veloped since the day of the merchant prince
however, that a piece of ovnx the same size as
the one the great trader valued so highly can
now be purchased in New York for about *5
or for a good deal less than one-hundredth Dart
of the price he paid. Blocks of onyx of eight
feet are now shipped here, cut up to commer
cial size in Brooklyn and sent to the New England
factories to be polished. For interior decora
tion onyx black African marble, so long used
almost exclusively, has been almost superseded
by the mottled stone now- found in such abund
ance on our own continent.
An English parliamentary paper containing
a return of convictions for drunkenness in
England and Wales during the year 1889 has
been published. In a population of 25 974 4x4
there were 160,242 convictions, of which 15’ 093
cases occurred between noon and midnight ’ on
Sunday. This means, says tne London Times
that in every 10.000 of the population about
sixty-two persons were convicted for drunken
ness, and that 9.4 percent, of these convictions
were for Sunday drunkenness. ’taking the
countries separately, we And that in England
alone, with a population of 24,613.926. the
convictions were 151,425, of which 13 912 were
In w ales, with a population of
1,360,513, there were 8,817 convictions, of which
1,181 were on Sundays. The proportions, there
fore, are taat in England alone the number of
Convictions in 10.000 persons is rather over 61,
In wales alone rather under 65; while in Eng
iand alone 9.1 percent., and in Wales alone
13.4 per cent, of the convictions were for Sun
day drunkenness.
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