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Newspaper Page Text4 C|c||lflrntn§|lttos News Building, Savannah, Ga. TIU'RSDAT, OCTOBER 16, l*Mk Registered at the Pattofflcc in Savannih The Mornimo News is publish*! eiery Jay in •h- year, and is sers ed t • subscribers in the city at £5 cents a wee* $1 (X) & month, 85 00 (or ail months and $lO 00 for one year The Morn;. \o News, by mail . one month, $1 00; three months, $2 &0; si* mouths, $5 (X); ona year, $lO <X). The Morning News, by map, six times a wees (without Sundav issue . three months, %'l 00; air months. $4 00; one year, $h 00 The Morning News. Tri- Weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs day a and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. SI 50; one year. $5 IM. The Sunday News, by mail, one rear. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advanoe. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. tetters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News." Savannah, Oa Transient advertisements, other than special Column, local or reading notices, amuse ments and cheap or want column, 10 cents a Une. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to ana Inch space in depth--is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discounts mace mown on application at business office. OCR NEW YORK OFFICE. Mr. J. J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent of the Morning News, office 23 Park Row, New York. All advertising business outside of the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Morning News is on file at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY- I H. Bates, 38 Park Row. G. P. Rowell 4 Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W.Bhahp4 Cc.,21 Park Row. Trank Kikrnan & Cos.. 152 Broadway. Dauchy .4 Cos., 27 Park Place. J. W. Thompson, 39 Par* Row. American Newspaper Furlishshs - Association, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA— It. W. Ayeb & Son, Times Building, BOSTON 8. R. Niles, 256 Washington street Pbttknoill 4 Cos., 10 State street. CHICaGO- Lord 4 Thomas, 45 Randolph street CINCINNATI— Edwin Alden- Company, 66 West Fourth street. NEW HAVEN— The H. P Hi bbard Compart, 25 Elm street ST LOUIS— Nelson Chesman 4 Cos., 1127 Pine street. ATLANTA— Morning News Bureau, 3% Whitehall street MACON- Daily TeUEoraph Office. 597 Mulberry street. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISKMBNTT Meetings— Solomon's Lodge No 1, F. and A. Jf.: Haupt Lodge No. 58, LO. O. F.; St. An drew’s Society; Georgia Lodge No. 245, B. L. F. Special Notice—As to Crew of Spanish Steamship Marquesa de Santruce. Steamship Schedcle— Baltimore Steamship Company. Auction Sale—Sundries, by J. McLaughlin 4 Son. Proposals— For Furnishing Material, etc. Cheap Column adyertisemeni-s Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous. Some of .the newspapers around the coun try are saying something about one Maj. McKinley. Someone suggests a music teachers’ trust. Several teachers have tried that, and we understand they erf. get the money. Secretary Blaine is going stumping abou, Ohio. He expects to be a presidential can didate pretty soon, and he is in favor of reciprocity. Merchants announce an increase of over 400 per cent, in the c ist of pearl buttons. So the poor man will have to button his shirt with a peg. What is this country coming to? A man in Alabama has been arrested for feeding poison to his mother-in-law. Is the free born American to be shorn of every liberty ? Say ? Recently a western paper headed a roar in? philippic: "Real Democrats Will Not Scratch.” It that’s true, then it’s because bloodthirsty mosquitos don’t tackle real democrats. Should the United States supreme court pronounce the New York electrocution law unconstitutional that would leave the late William Kemrnler in rather an embarrass ing predicament. Mrs. Hammersley’s little Duke of Marl borough says he doesn’t like reporters. He is baldheaded now, aud ho ought by this time to have accumulated sufficient dis cretion to keep his antipathies to himself. Once more Gen. Ben Butler says he has left politics forever. That’s something like the fox leaving the poultry after they have all jumped through the cracks. It is always best to leave anything that isn’t handy to get at. New subtleties of the law are cropping out every day. In Kansas stealing whisky has been officially pronounced not unlawful. Presumably that is because in the blind eye of the law Kansas isn’t supposed to have any. Nevertheless James Jams frequents that clearing. .l ■ ■ ii .. Some of the most “prominent ladies” of Canada have threatened to intercede with a large display of maudlin sentiment, on behalf of Birchall,the condemned murderer. They seem to think he is just too sweet to kill. If that’s so about two hours’ cold soaking and a tonsorial scrape will fix him about right. Dr. Mary Waiker has secured a feminine nomination for congress in a New York rural "deestrict” in which she is only a visiting statesman. Now she will probably buy a salt-and-pepper suit, a plug hat and a big cigar and canvass the district. Such a trifle as non-residence will not trouble her in the least. Bhe will just roll up her manly breeches and run for it. She may get a vole. Once in a groat while a minister gets surcharged with a few liberal ideas that he feels bound to divulge that they may light up the atmosphere. Rigid doctrinaires seem to think such a departure destroys bis theological usefulness. But that U not neces sarily the case. Now here comes the Rev. Myron W. Reed, of Denver, who used to preach to Mr. Harrison in Indianapolis,with fresh ideas. Ho thinks it a good plan for ministers to find out what people are think ing about, if they can, aud adds: "A man fixed up in one of Wauamakor’s uniforms for clergymen, 10 nor cent, off, cannot know what the people thiuk.” That’s so. Stand ing aloof doesn’t discover thoughts. Minis ters should mingle with the m<b as he sug gests. That’s right. Hit a man in the stomach aud you And Out right away what he thinks. The President’s Western Trip. The President's western trip could not (have afforded him a great deal of satisfac tion. Hefnrf he started it was intimated that the purpose of it wai to find out [ whether tie had such a hold upon toe people I as would justify him in hoping for a rernmi nation. He wa< very kindly received at all the places at which he snipped, and at some of them there was considerate-> enthu- .asm, but there were plenty of indication* that the demonstra ions were not intended as ex pressions of admiration and affection for Benjamin Harrison, but os marks of re spect for the President. It is barely possi ble that the President interpreted them as meaning that his administration was ap proved, and that bo had only to announce hints If as a candidate for a second term to arousoa strong popular feeling in his be half. The probabilities are, however, that be is too shrewd a politician to permit him self to be so deceived. Nowhere in the west are the republican loaders thinking of him as a candidate in 1802, and the republican press of that sec tion has nothing to say in hts praise. In deed, the republican papers of the west failed to show any special interest in his trip, and none of tho leading ones of them hinted that it was probable that he would be the party’s next presidential candidate. He could not, therefore, have got a great deal of satisfaction out of his trip. The truth is, tho republican leaders look upon him as a failure. His administration is conspicuously weak. It has not helped the party in any particular and is not likely to. It has no policy. It has simply drifted along ia a weak sort of way, making more enemies than friends. Blaiue is the only strong man connected with it and the President has suppressed him be cause he is afraid that if Blaine were permitted to have his way the country would regard him as the real head of the government. The contrast between Harrison and Cleveland is striking. Harrison does not lead in anything. He is virtually a non entity. Cleveland was the real leader of his party. He had a policy and his party respected and followed him. Harrison is afraid to take a decided stand with regard to anything, and he refuses to permit members of his cabinet to do so for fear that they will gam a little more credit than is acoorded tq him. Cleveland not only had confidence ib himself and acted upon his judgment, but he permitted the fullest free dom to the members of his cabinet. No, Harrison will not be renominated. It is doubtful if his name will be presented to the nominating convention. The Repub lican party has stronger men than he—very much stronger—and one of them will be chosen its standard bearer in 1892. SudL Baker’s Suggestions. Mr. Baker, superintendent of the public schools, in his annual report, a synopsis of which is published elsewhere in this issue of the Morning News, makes some sug gestions for the improvement of the public school system of this county which are well worth careful consideration. One of them is that the time required to pass through all the grades of the schools shall be short ened one year. At present the time is eleven years. A child who enters the lowest grade of the? grammar school at 6 years of age is 17 at the time of graduation from the high school. On account of tho length of time re quired to pass through all the grades to graduation only a small percentage of those who enter the schools graduate. This is the case particularly with respect to the boys. The assistance of the groat majority of the boys is needed in maintaining the family before thoy have reached the age of 17. The suggestion of the superintendent is that tho course in the grammar schools be shortened one year. He thinks this can be done without any appreciable loss to the pupils, and that if it were done the number entering the high school would be larger. The board of education has appointed a committee to report upon this and other suggestions. It may be that the committee will inquire whether the time from entering the schools to graduation cannot be shortened more than one year. Ten years is a good long time for a boy, who doee not intend to take a college course, to spend at school. A boy who purposes to become a mechanic should enter a workshop by the time he is 16 years of age, aud it would be better for him in some respects, if he should enter it at 14 or 15. After 16 he will not find the entrance into the workshop so easy as he will at a somewhnt earlier age. As the percentage of the boys who enter the public schools intending to become me chanics is much larger than that of those who intend to study professions the school course sh mid be so arranged as to give them the greatest possible advantages with in the time they have for attending school. A boy who leaves school at 14, or even 16 years of age, has not much of an education, but if he has been wisely guided and assisted he will have a good deal of that kiud of informa tion which will serve him in the practical affairs of life and, if he is studiously in clined, will be the means by which he can explore any field of knowledge. Pittsburg handles some hundreds of bar rels of coal oil every day, and yet the course of true love doesn’t ruu smooth there. For a series of summers Albert 1,. Day and Lizzie Fitzpatrick have loved each other at the rate of a mile a minute—Pitts burg time. After dodging the old tnan, who wears a murderous lo iking foot, for a long time they tired of the perils of court ship and decided to simultaneously skip. They were duly wedded by Justice Lincoln, of B iff do. When they returned they found the old mao tolerably hot under the collar. He imme diately proceeded to make life exciting for them. He refused to believe that they ba i been married at all. But now that the young man and tue chief of police have both written to the justice and he has forwarded to each a copy of his certificate of election, his authority to perform marriage ceremo nies, as well as copies of the marriage record, it is barely possible that the irate dad may be satisfied and take them to his house and give them his blessing and tnreo meals a day. Their tumultuous devotion Is worthy of reward. In those crafty times that was rather a remarkable thing the widow and daughters of a 8:. Paul millionaire aid when they burned bis will, which devised to tWn $4,000,000, because it disinherited his only son and they wanted him to have his full share under the common law. Very unusual, that Yet it was oulv just Politics in Ohio grows interesting, and the newspapers begin to describe one another in the most fervently picturesque language. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1890. The City's Water Supply. The cloudy appearance recently of the j water furnished by tho city has been the subject of comment, and tho suspicion has been eatertainol that the percentage of wa ter pumped from tho river and mixed witn tho artesian water had been increased. The superintendent cf the water works, how ovor, says that such is not the case. The cloudy appearance of the water is duo to tho fact that the river water, ovring to a freshet, is carryit.g an extra amount of silt. The superinto ident says that as soon as the now wells are finished ho does not expect to pump any water from the river. The superintendent make3 a statement, however, that ought to arrest the attention of the city authorises. It is that when the question of adopting the water meter sys tem, which would require people t> pay for the amount of water they used, was being agitated, tho consumption of water notice ably decreased, but that when the agitation ceased an Increased consumption was at once apparent, and that now the consump tion is greater than ever before. It is evident that the only way to prevent water from being wasted i to adopt a sys tem that will insure economy in the use of water. If the water rate for each house holder taking water should ba based upon the amount used, there would baa falling off at once in the amount of water used, and the amount consumed would not be less t han is necessary to secure good sanitary condi tions. It is safe to say that a very considerable part of the water which the city furnishos is now wasted, and there is likely to be an increase, rather than a decrease, in the wastage as long as the present system of adjusting water rents is adhered to. The city can go on sinking artesian wells, but the artesian water supply will never be suffi cient if no effort is made to check the wastage. There are those, who are careful not to waste water. If there are leaks in their closets they have them closed at once There are others, how ever, many others if reports are to be cred ited, who are wholly indifferent about the wastage of water. A water meter system is the only one that will compel this latter class to practice reasonable economy in the use of water. Cotton Fires on Shipboard. New Orleans has had one cotton fire ou shipboard this season. It was a small fire, only four bales of cotton being damaged. It occurred oa the British ship Wileysike, and while no cause couli be given for it, the investigation which followed seemed to support the theory that most of the cotton Bros on shipboard are caused by spontane- oils combustion. The cot tin damaged on tho Wileysike was found to bj saturated with linseed oil. Of course no one could explain how the oil got on the cotto.i. No vegetable oil is used on the ship nor on tho wharves. The theory was advanced t .at the cjiton had boen car ried to New Orleans in cars in which linseod oil had bten transported previously. One of the in trine surveyors of the board of underwriters said, in speaking of the Wileysike fire, “that cotton saturated with vegetable oil, when exposed to the sun or confined iu the heated hold of the ship, will ignite from spontaneous combustion. Even cotton seed oil itself, being a vegeta ble oil, will cause a fire in that way, although not in as short a time as linseed oil.” This oil theory relative to cotton fires on shipboard may be tho true one. There are enough facts in support of it to justify a close examination of each bale before it is stored in a ship's hold. Such an examina tion would consume a little time, but time thus consumed would be profitably con sumed. Astounding improvements are going on all the time. While we have been wrang ling over the price of barley, stone mugs, cold potatoes, foreign mules, barrel hoops, alien eggs, inedible bulbs and cotton ties, Sir Nathaniel Barnaby has formulated the outlines and internal arrangements of an ideal ship that would carry a whole colony. It is to be a big floating island of iron or steel, built about 1,000 feet long, 300 feet wide and drawing 36 feet of water. It promises not to roll. It is especially de signed to sustain the property rights of a good dinner. It will simply sit down upon the tea and let the elements squirm. It cannot get close enough to hitch up to any dock, so the cargo will float around in its interior, something like the four oysters iu a barrel of evangei\eal soup at a c lurch fair. When a port of destination is reached, the gates in its side will fly open, and slick little black tug boats with shrill whistles will steam out loaded with pipe stems, black molasses or ballet dancers, as the case may be. When the monster is emptied she will proceed to fill up with the same schoon ers. Bang-up scheme, eh i Full of bright promise and solid provisions for the future. G.od place to cool a watermelon. Undeniably New York is a hnrd town. So is Brooklyn. From the former comes a very sensational account of a physician who is alleged to have taken advantage of a widow’s anxiety about her deranged and imprisoned son, to extort from her a large sum of money under the false pretense of liberating the youth, who is still in prison and said to be rapidly sinking into mental and physical wreck under his confinement. Now that the medico has been arrested the poor fellow may be liberated. But there is little likelihood that the guilty impostor will be punished. About the same time comes a harrowing story from the City of Churches, which recites that a rich man is making brutally strenuous efforts to sum marily eject his own daughter from his house, (although she is a poor and indus trious widow with several children) simply because of the ill-will of a newly acquired daughter-in-law. This seems peculiarly un feeling when we take into aeeouut that the poor woman is said to work hard to supoort herself and childron and to pay her inhu man father rent for the meager shelter she has had. That man should have a ripe-egg ovation. Russiau journalists have a characteristi cally summary way of disposing of rival publications. At least one journalist has. Prince Messhshersky, editor and proprietor of Orashdanin, the official journal of Rus sia, makes a serious proposal to his govern ment to forbid the publication of all news papers in Russia —excepting his own. He would spare his own for the reason that it is the official organ, and therefore a necessary evil. Possibly the czar may adopt the sug gestion. Then the prince will get all the circus ads and a wad of comps for the Patti concert. Sharp fellow, the prince. Congressman Crisp is booked to speak in Indiana. His utterances should bo short, sharp and decisive, or they will not justily bis nama. PERSONAL. Senator Wade Hampton, in spit© of his cork leg. is an expert horseman. Mhe. 3!odjeska owns one of the largest farms j in Los Angeles county. California. Gen. Spinxrh's vi-ion is completely gone and his general health is extremely precarious. Charles Kean, the artist, chiefly known by his excellent work in i*unch % ia dying in Lon j don. Mrs. Oscar Wilde i3 one of the patronesses of a children's dressmaking establishment in London. Mrs. M Edith Howcott of New Orleans is the owner of over 50,000 acres of selected timber lands in Louisiana and Mississippi, and is still buying. Col. Inoersoll is said to have an income from his law practice of 5250.0u0a year. The genial agnostic made no mistake in the adoption of u profession Tiiomas B. Ballentine has a truck farm of 350 acres near Norfolk, Va., and this ytar he has shipped between 27,iJ and 18,000 barrels of spinach to New York. RiDkk Haggard is said to look like the Em peror of Germany. He has the same bine eyes an l light brown hair and the general physical apj>earance of the kaiser. Mrs. Tbrhcne (“.Marion Harland") was Miss Mary Virginia Haw**-, a Richmond, (Va.,)lady, and a descendant of Cupt. Smith, whose life was saved by Pocahontas. Gen. E. Burd Gbul3, the new minister to Spaii, received notice of his appointment in an autograph loiter from Mr. Blaine, winch he con siders quite a Compliment. There is a popular belief in Germany that the empress will have nr. fewer than seven sons, all in all; at any rate l , an addition to the imperial family is expected in February next. Mr. and mrs. Kendal, the distinguished En glish comedians, and their daughter arrived at New York on the steamer Etruria Theyop-ned their American season at tne Fifth Avenue theater on Oct. 13. Mrs Owen Connolly, widow of a wealthy Irish-American, has just given her splendid residence, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Isiand, Canada, to Lhe Sisters of Charity, to be used os a boarding house tor ladies. Mrs John W Mack ay and her sister are sail to be the originals of “.Mr*, Scott" and “Bet tina,’ in Ludovic Halevy’s charming "L'Abbe Constantin- " It is possible that they may have suggested the characters, but that is all. Elizabeth Ney, who lives near Hempstead, Tex., is a grandniece of the famous Marshal X yof France. Sle is both pretty aad tal ented and is a sculptress by profession. Her father was a Frencuman and her mother a Pole. Dr. Mary Walker has accepted the inde pendent nomination for congress in the Twenty seventh New York district. She will conduct her canvass in a Ohe-oerlle and coat and a derby, and may make breaches in the regular vote of the district. Senator Stanford, just home from Europe, is anx ous to get back to Pal > Alto, his great California establishment for the breeding of thoroughbred horse He found that his re putation as a horse-breeder had preceded him to Russia. It is said that the tombs of George Rand and her son offer a sad spectacle of forgetfulness. The graves are ill-kept, whitbered flowers lie on the marble slabs and the s|*ectator turns away with a melancholy conviction of the shortness of human memory. BbIG IT Bi t’s. Hep grace she no more displays _ Among the waves at play; Now in an envelope she lays Her bathing suit away. —Boston Courier. Some of the loud -s‘ advocates of protection for home industry are never engaged in any in dustry at home.— Texas Siftings. When you see a small boy dividing his cake with anotli-r it is safe to say that a stronger bond than brotherhood unites them.—puck. Clara—My dressmaker seem3 to understand my figure perfectly. Maud—She is probably up on geometry.— Racket. Miss Toi'ittsv—And who are those men with black eyes and bruised faces’ The Guide—Those, miss, are congressmen. Tne Jester. Dyspepsia and disappointment in love seem to produce tne same outward effect. The differ ence between them is that dyspepsia is very hard to cure. —S merville Journal. “Well, is your visit to the seaside having the desired effect, madam?* “O, yes, doctor; one of my daughters has already b.-co.ne engaged;’’— Le Journal Amusant. Her Father—What, you want to marry my daughter? Why, sir, you can’t support her. I can hardly do it myself. Suitor (blankly;—C-C-Can’t we chip in to gether. -Puck. “Ya-as.” said the Anglomaniac, “the Fahls of Niagawa would be truly gwand, you know, but for one drawback.” * What is that?” “They ah hauf Amewican, ah.”— Puck. Wipe—Dear, dear! What can you be dropping oil on your best coat for? Husband- I bought a bottle of stuff to-day to take out grease stains with, and I wanted to see if it was auy good.— Clothier and burnisher. Miss Dinoi ebattes —I said I would marry him on condition that be should go into busi ness. Miss Hautegomme—But aren't you unreason able? If he goes into business he needn’t tnarry you—.V lunsey's Weekly, “Floooed at school, and I don't know whether papa won't punish me when I get home for it. I wish I knew. Oh, here's ada sy; let me try. He whips me; hedoesD'twhipme; he whips me; he doesn’t whip me I Oh, hurrah!”— Fheaende Blatter. Stage Manager—Mr. Heavy, you will take the part of Alonzo. Mr. Heavy—l have never seen this play. Do you think I can please the audience in the part? Stage Manager—lmmensely. You die in the first act.—Aeto York Weekly. A Friend (to Z.. a widower since twenty-four hours)— My poi r friend, you seem dazed by your misfortune Z Ye*. indeed, I was married sixteen years, and it seems as though I have come out of a long nightmare.— From the TYench. First Local Statesman (looking over anew ticket)—McMoriarthv. OMooligun, McOoogan, O'Roork, Smith—Phwat did yez nomynate Smith fur? Second Local Statesman—Phwist: That’s to cotchth’ Amerykin vote.— Puck. “Henry!” cried Mrs. Voc Toodles, grasping her somnolent husband by the arm. ' ‘Heury. there are burglars in tne house! Get up and go down!” “Utter nons me. my dear,” returned Henry “You wouldn't have a man of my social posi tionassooiatmg with burglars, would you? You astonish me'.”—Chatter. Bobby (at the breakfast table)—Clara, did Mr. Spooner take any of the umbrellas or hats from the ball last night? Clara—Why, of course not; why should he? Bobby—That's what I'd like to know I thougtit he did, 'cos I heard him say when he was going out, “I’m going to steal just one,” and -why, what’s the matter, Clara?— Boston Herald. CURRENT COMMENT. Ask the Tariff Pandits. From the Atchison Globe </nd.). How do people feel when they are contented? John Doesn’t Sell Them. From the Cincinnati Enquirer (b)em.'i. No more rings can be placed in cakes at a church fair. Joan Wanamaker is against it. He Has the Key to the Surplus. From the A~ew York World (Pem.). The President is dispensing taffy oa his tour as freely as if confect onery was not taxed 50 per cent. No Preparation for Winter. From the Chicago Herald ( Dem,). Bob Ingersoll and Mrs. denness-Miiier are soon to lecture in Philadelphia. Poor Philadelphia' No God and n > underwear. Slim John Strikes it Rich. From the Kansas City Timm diem.). It is said that the mortgage indebtedness of Kansas will be reduced in the aggresram 810,000.000 dur ng the present year. * My wife cured of malaria by Simmons Liver Regulator. .1. A.Thompson, pastorM. E church, Liegb, Neb. Encased with a Watermelon. I You have scon these wire slings which some ingenious fellow has contrived for tho carry ing of watermelons, inquires the Pittsburg Di&- ■ patch. V* oil, one of them assisted in a very in , teresting fare* comedy the other day. Two men starting from their several homes at opposite enos or the city, in the morning, foil I wed each hn chosen path all the fo ecoon, every minute bringing them cldser together. * 1 DOOn the y not af the corner of street. Tne first vra from the East Lnd, and h© was vyy carefu.ly attired. His pat, his coat, his trousers and his shoes were ail that wealth or fashion could deeire. He carried a cane or the largest pattern, and he insisted on plenty of room as he walked along. The other man came from the Southside. He had been paid off tho day before, and he catne aen ssthe river with the idea of pain:ing the paie blue air with one ensanguine i red. lie was the mo.t amiable fellow that ever went on a spree, and never lost his good temper all the way up. He bought a watermelon from a ven der and came on up town carrying it in his hand, and stopping to get acquainted with some loiterer aad invite biw out ’‘in tho clearing" to cut the melon and celebrate a feast. On a crowdel street he saw the exquisite tripping along and snouldering women out of his way. and all the chivalry or the workman was roused ia au instant. He followed him with his eves for a moment, the first baleful glitter of the day creeping into them, aud then the climax came. As the well dressed man frisked along, swing ing his cane regardless of passengers, sumo one threw a plum ?eed and hit him in tne ear. He turned ana saw a newsboy—the only person smaller tnan himself then within reach, and, without a hint of warning, he cuffed him soundly on the ear. The boy roared, dodged, and then cried out: ••What you do that fer*" “For hitting me. I saw you." *T never done a thing." "Don’t you he to me. Take that!" and the gloved hand grasped an ear and a shock or hair and wrenched them soundly. A score of men start 'd to protest. A score of women voiced their indignation. But tne man with the melon was the first to act. He said nothing. Words were cheap. B:t with one sweep of tne water melon, held at leugth by the wire sling, he de scribed the arc of a circle that ended at the very apex of that high hat. and shattered a glory of ruby core and a torrent of ruddy juice over every inch of the tailor made clothes. The boy was avenged. The man from the East End was conquered. And the man from the Sonthside was happy; for he walked away, a piece of rind trailing along in the meshes of his wire, aud the benediction of t wo score men and women, with one boy following in his erratic wake. Cnly a Half. “One day ten years ago,” said a western mil lionaire, to tlie Pittsburg Dispatch, “X stood without a nickel and without the door of a res taurant in San Francisco. I was indulging in an optical feast, gazing at the display of un cooked roasts, chops and steaks, garnished with water cress and alto tether lovely in the win dow. The sone—or rather its refrain-‘ Thou art so near and yet so far,” was whispered to me by tho giant brownie of hunger. Then a prosperous looking man who was flipping a naif a dollar in bis hand, dropped the coin, which tinkled through an iron grate and fe l into the subway below The man gave an al most unconcerned glance in the direction the coin 1 ad gone, and then walked away humming an >pular tune. "I have always possessed some resource and I was determined to possess that coin. The oc casion was what is frequently spoken of as a groundhog case.’ I was ‘out of meat'—also br.ad. I spoke to the proprietor of the place. Told him 1 had dropped a So gold piece through the grate and asked him if 1 might go and re trieve it. ‘Certainly.’he said, and gave me a hatchet with which I might remove a wooden bar that had been nailed across a door leading from the basement to the oiiening under the grate. "There was much litter and dust down there, and searching for the lost coin I found many other things which had been dropped in a simi lar way. Tnus I c.eaned up $S from that pros pect drift. The amount supplie 1 me with a place to put the able-bodied appetite which I had concealed about my person. It also gave me the entree to a clean shirt and a proportion ate supply of self-esteem and self-reliance. I visited men of influence whom 1 had not heen sufflciently courageous to meet in the immedi ate heretofore, and I have not been seriously insolvent since that date. Thus you may see on what a slender thread oft hangs a chance in life. "I have since become acquainted with the man who dropped that half, an I have several times requited him from ancient vintages of champagne, and he will never become so hun gry as I was on the day I first saw him—not while the Gunsight lode does its duty.” Yellow Jackets Hayed Circus. The anecdote is of Chancellor East of Nash ville, Tenn., and is told by him. When the chancellor was a green country boy he was in formed by a lawyer that there was a good de mand for yellow jackets at Nashville: that tho druggists of that city manufactured them into dye stuff, which was sold by all grocers every where. So young East got a Gather bag and. stretching it over many a yellow jackets’ nest, got it full of the pestiferous insects. Ha thought he had a fortune in the bag, and he went to Nashville to sell this raw dye stuff material But no druggist wanted the yellow jackets. One would send tne hornet peddler to another, and he to another, until the circuit of ail the drug gists in the city had been run by the boy, who was compelled to hold the hag all the time. While he was walking about in a disconsolate way, he met Dan Rice, whose show was in town that day. He tola to Dan the story of bis adventure, wh ch awakened the funny man "s sympathy for the humbugged boy, to whom he gave a ticket to the circus, and from whom he bought the hornet bag and its contents for a quarter. “Do you know the lawyer who induced you to bag these stingers?” asked Rice. East said that he did. “Then find him to night under the tent,” said Rice. “Sit near him, and t 11 him that you have sol 1 the yellow jackets to me, and that I hav • instructed you to drop the opened bag u n der the seats. And drop them. ’’ “1 acted,'’ said Chancellor c.ast. “upon these instructions, and when I showed the lawyer the bag, fml of hornets as it was, and opening it let it fall, and theyellow jackets came whistling up under his wife aud cdildren, clapping tneir little daggers into people's legs and crawling up under their breeches and dresses, that laivver who had ‘sold’ me was hirnself the angry victim of his own joke, hoist by his own petard. He shouldered nis two fat daughters, and, telling his wife to run for her life, ht turne 1, consigned my soul with a dreadful imprecation to perdi tion, and fled across the circus ring. Then women shrieked and men swore and the yeliow jackets were in ecstacies. They made that the liveliest of ail the show-s ever presented by Dan Rice to the good people of Nashville or any other town.” Her Taste Wa3 Classic. John Kernel], the Irish comedian and one of the principal fun makers with “The Hustler,” was sitting on the window sill in the corridor of a hotel one morning last winter, says the Chi cago Time. s, taltiDg a lungful of fresh air, when a colored chambermaid with a heap of merri ra nt in the white of her eye approached him with a cheery "Good mo’nin', sah.” "Say, Tildy.” John called after her. ‘ wouldn't you like to go to the theater to night?” "What kind o’ theatah yo’ all got down dak”' asked Tildy, plying her duster vigorously. “Oh, any kind you want. Do you like a minstrel show?” "Minstrel show! Whah dem white men com out wif black stuff on da' faces and make out da's cullud. No. andeed! Dem’s frauds. T don’t like frauds.” "Well, er—a burlesque show?” “A wna*?” “A burlesque—a variety show “What? Wbah dem ordacious things show da selves in tights? Well, I guess not! I was bning up diff'ent.” "Well, what kind of theater do youlike?” "Now, I tell you, man,” sai 1 Tildy, dropping her duster and walking toward the comedian with her arms akimbo, “I tell you. when Mistah Shakespeab he brings his plays to town mail pahrenis got to chain me to de flo .” Now Redeem It. From the Boston Courier. When the autumn leaves are falling and the nights are growing loug: When the bobolinks and orioles have hushed their summer song; When the beauty-blighting breezes wilt the 6rrasse*s and the flowers, And ih * geese are dying south ward to a warmer clune than oars; When the smiling iceman's counting o'er the profits be has won, And the wily coalman adds another dollar to the ton; When the patrons of horse railroads ride no more in open cars. And tW-aH b ,r whisky punches is Increasing at Then go and pav the principal, likewise the in terest due, And get the ulster out at once your “uncle” keeps foryou. A faded and discolored beard is untidy and a misfortune. It may be prevented by sing Buckingham’s Dye for the Whiskers a never fouling remedy.—Ado. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The native Alaskan may not be much in civilization, but he has found it just as easy to manufacture characteristic ornaments, curious relies, etc., for the exc irsion trade as the effete European does ;n bis absorbing practice of multiplying tne ooaes of the sain:s. Tne thrifty Alaskan sends down t..e coast, to San Francisco even, to r-t made the article* that the impulsive summer vis.tor dotes on aud buys at native prices. This at least is the report of i a ship captain. Belfast has a lawyer who deserves success. He not only has an eye to present busiuess, but one of th * future. He does considerable mar rying. and was heard t*:e other day t o say to a young couplo wnom he had just married: •‘Married life in the b >st Emulated families has its troubles, and should either of you c'>me to the conclusion tnat you hive made a m-stake, just ca‘l on me and Fll get you a divorce cheaper than any lawyer fc town. That bal ance ot 75 cents you owe m3 for marrying you you can band in an 7 time.’’ The young couple departed in a doubtful manner, as if they were naif-inclined to bo divorced at once aad save costs. W. Fairley, mining engineer, of Rugeley, has compile j from the reports of her majesty’s in spectors of mines, a table showing the number and ratios of deaths from mining accidents in Great Britain from 1851 to 1889, those occur mg in Ireland being included since 1872. In tne first-named year the deaths numbered 984 and the persons employed 216,217, or a ratio of one in 210. In 1980, 1.034 lost their fives out of a total of 503..35 men emplojed. the ratio thus being one in 530. The casualties in 1889 were mad* up cm follows: By explosions, 138: by ‘ a i * roo £* aQ ' l -id*; bv miscellaneous accidents, 401. The average ratio of deaths throughout the period 18 1-1889, is estimated to b-i ono in 369 A very fine church was recently built in Cin cinnati’s wealthiest suburbs. A well known gentleman wished to put in a memorial window to his pioneer ancestors. The subject waft that of Ruth gleauing iu the fields of Boaz. It was beautifully executed by New York artists. The w indow was a eein. But tho gentleman was not quite satisfied with the sheaf that Rtth was faring under her arm Ho wrote to (be New York artist, and said that overvthing was all beautiful, but to did not like thesneafof wheat People would never take that fo? a ®ri? i: wheat - Th artist replied prompt*: 1 belie*© we are told in the Scripture ihit Kuth gleaned in the barley fields of Boaz. Sfce would not need to be carrying a sheaf f wheat." Christopher Coll'iibcs was the son of % weaver, and also a weaver himself. Claude Lorraine was bred a pastry cook. Cervantes wras a common soldier. Homer was the son of a farmer. Demosthenes was the sou of a cut ler. Oliver cromwell was the son of a brewer Howard was an apprentice to a grocor. Frank lin was a journeyman printer, and sen of a tallow-chaudler and soap-boiler. Daniel Defoe was a hosier and son of a butcher. Cardinal v\ olsey was the son of a butcher. Lucian was the son of a maker of statuary. Virgil was the son of a porter. Horace was the son of a shop keeper. Shakespeare was the son of a wool stapler. Milton was the son of a money-scriv ener. Pope was the son of a merchant. R ,bert Burns was the son of a plowman in Ayrshire. Lord Hartingto?* has recently been spending a few days at] Balmoral, an honor he by no means appreciates. The etiquette of court life is not at all to his taste, arid he revor takes the trouble to hide the fact that he finds a visit to Windsor or Balmoral, as he expressed it, d—d dull—almost as dull as his own speeches. When he was in the cabinet, he used obstinately to re fuse to take his turn as minister in-attendance, because his dog, he sail, was uot made welcome’ He once took his favorite hound with him to Osborne, and was obliged to wander out late at ntcht to find for it a sleeping-place. The royal attendants a-surod him that they hid fUr majesty’s orders not to allow any dogs to sleep in the palace. Since teat day Lord Hart ington has never slept there himself, if he could avoid it. Dr. Hollix B. Gray of Saratoga' gives, without fee, this prescription for escaping the hypnotizer: “First remove and remain out of tne physical presence of the person who ex erts the power to control. Then submit to the hypn .tic influence of another hypuotizer, who should gain as complete.suggestive control as possible, and th in dissmiss tho subject—by his power restoring to the hypnotized his own per sonality and will function. Th is the victim is slipped from under the control of one superior will (which it is assumed is understood) to that of another, who in turn restores to hun his own personal sovereignty and bolsters dim up in it. But the subject must ever thereafter avoid the presence of the first hypnotizer.” One might also hypnotize a too familiar hypnotizer with a small club or something. The reverses op fortune are well illustrated among the descendants of the old French nobility. According to M. Leg cure, a grandson of that sain ± Marquise d’Haut eroche who chivalrously requested the English troops at the battle of Fontenoy to “fire first” ended his days as a common policeman. One of the noble family of Babou de la Bourdai siere, is now a washerwoman. Representatives of other noble families equally famous in their time, are. or were, according to the same au thority, occupying the humble places of game keeper. carpenter’s apprentice, house painter cab driver, miller's assistant, innkeeper, con ductor of an omnibus, box-opener at a tneatre, gasman, bathing man, maker of mouse traps' chorus singer at the opera, and wood-man; while one. who is a great grand-cousin of the illustrious Cardinal de Retz, unites in his own person the lowly offices of grave-digger and village fiddler. Very pew have a just conception of our earthquake liabilities, gays the Arena. The crust oftbe earth. floating upon a fiery sea of molten matter, might be compared to a micro scopic pellicle on the surface of an egg w.thout a shell. A coiupara’iveJy trivial disturbance In this would wreck a continent, as Atlantis was wrecked. A wave agitation, the hundredth part ot 1 per cent, of its depth, would shatter the entire surface of the globe, even if it did not make a convulsion by the inpouring oceans upon the fiery mass. The phenomena of earth quakes illustrate this. They resemble the agita tion of a floating-crust producing a shock and wave which are transmitted with sudden rapidity hundreds of miles. All earthquakes send out the quick vibrations which would be impossible if the earth were a solid body. The continent lies floating on a bed of fire, and exists only because there are no storms to disturb the Are. The continent is not like a ship floating on the ocean a compact body—for the continent has no connection worth mentioning, and would drop to pieces ilke a flooring isl .nd in a storm The convulsion may be produced by astronomic irregularities, or by the explosion arising from the access of water to the subterranean Are as recently in Japan, or anywhere else, to disturb the equilibrium. The immense exhaustion of oil wells and boring for gas, which flows forth in enormous power and quantity, cannot go on for hali a century without a serious disturbance of equiliormm. Equilibrium is constantly be ing disturbed. A change of one inch in the ba rometer represents a variation of seventy-two pounds to every foot of the earth beneath it making a weight of over of pounds to the square mile. Three feet of ocean tide represents an additional weight of more than i!,380,000 tons to a square mile. This is a very trivial amount compared to the attractions of the sun and moon over the entire surface of the globe. Hence this supposed solid globe is continually quivering and shaking An average of two sha ings, or earth quakes, daily is reported by seismologists aside from the special allowance of two a day to Japan, ana according to Boussingault the chain of the Southern Andes is never still. There is a terrible earthquake belt along the northern coast of South America (which systematically responds to the valley of the Mississippi) and along Central America, which is even surpassed by the volcanic belt from Java along the eas tern coast of Asia, and between the two the Pacific ocean is anything but pacific, and we shall realize about twenty-four years hence when its foundations will be agitated to our Tne Old Game. A certain eminent and dignified justice of one of our courts, who was spending the summer at a popular resort, say* the Boston Transcript met one day two O per eminent and dignified gentlemen, citizens of another commonwealth and after the customer/ salutations his honor remarked: ••Gentlemen, I donot often indulge myself, but at this time of day it is customary as you are aware, t partake of a little somethin-*. 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