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Newspaper Page Text4 C^cillcrakgllctDS Nwt Building, Savannah. oa WEOSESDAV, SOV. 13, ISW. Registered at <hc P.ntogice in 'lN''’ l *' Toe Mo.txnto Nr> is pjLlsh—l every nay in the yea.-, and is served to suns. ribers ; • the - I at 25 cents a s! 00 a in nth. 5$ CO *or m ■Booth* an ! Sio 00 tor one year The Mosjriss Sxw*. y mad, one month. $1 80: three months. ! 50; six month*. 55 00-. on* year. 5 oa , The Moft.vmrj Nstv, by si . si* times a week (witbou. Sunday issue tire- to a:-a <W; Hi months. St </>: one year Jo 00 , Tie Morning Nts - ri-ikott.?. * £?* T *- Wedaas-tays an t Fridays, or Tuesday*. Thare days and Saturdays, -hr*— month*, Si 25; stx Breaths. SS 50 me ?ear. $5 ®L The (-rvD.v Mn. by i n', one year. S9IOO. The Wars; Ness. ■>; mi l. one y t ar. 85. Sutwcrii: - paya.o- ißadraaoi. Remit by poat&i orrr cheer or registered tetter. Cur rency sen: by* mat at risk ot senders Letters snd te.egra-ns saou.d be adireased Mousing N*w&. " Savannah, Oa Transient ai.ertcerneita. other than special toiI: mn. local or reading not,o ara iae tneota ar.d cheap or want cedumn. 10 cents a Ire. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to | s-e inch space in dap* h -i- the stanlard of i measurement. Contract rates and discounts ma de xoown on application at business office. Ol K >E\V YORK OFFICE. Me. J. J. Flynn. General Advertising Agent td the Mohnisg Nrws, cfP.ce 23 part Row, Pew York. All advertising business outskir of the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Morning News la on Pl* at toe fol'owmz Flaoes. where Advertising Rates aod other in (ormauno regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J R Bites. > Park Row. G. 1 R* tm * Cos., 10 Spruce street. V. w Bbi-p A Ce, *1 Park Row. Psanx Kiernan A Cos.. 152 Broadway. Davcht 1: Cos., 27 Park Place. J. W. Thokpson. 59 Pare Row. AlftHirAS Newspaper PtsLlSHEas' Asaocianos, Fatter B ill ling. PHILADELPHIA— N. w Area A Sos. Times Bullding. BOSTON B. R. Nr lev. 2V, Washington street. pETTreo.lk. St Cos., 10 Slate street. CHICAGO— Lear. A Thoxas. 45 Randolph street c ncinn ati- Epwis Aid?' OonpanT, <VS West Fourth street. NEW HaVEN- Tee H. P. H-sbart. Goar art. 25 Elm street 6T Lours- B'elsov ' hesna.v A Cos., 1127 pine sUeeC aTLaNTA- Mornino Saws PraiAC, BV4 Whitehall street MACON r>AU.r Telegraph Omct 597 Mulberry street. Index to new advertisements. Mexttn'v*—Golden Rul- lsylf* No. 12.1. O. O. T . The Merchant* and Mechanics irean and Building Association: Catholic Library Associa tion; Clinton Lodge Xo. M, F and A. M.; Va roocne* Tribe Xo. 24, I. O. R- M.. Savannah : Ca*!l Xo. 7.K.5.E. Special Notices—Janitna* Wanted for Chatham Academy; Nonce to Water Taker*; A* to Crew of 6teamship Sunt A-ath; As to Bills Against British Steamship Strathyre: Notice of Application for a Bill to Amend an Act a- to Board of Education: State and County Tax<-s. iA) Pane -sals —For Sheet Piling, Etc., in NVmyaa Bay, 8. C.; For Dredging in the Har bor at Beaufort, N. C. Arcno* Sales- Crockery, Hated Ware. Etc., byj. McLaughlin A 8on; Grooerle*. Etc., by L t>. LaKoche & Son. Tbe Marshall Barr at rant- For Ladies and Gentlemen. Silverware Etc.—Samuel Kirk & Son, Balti more. HI New PcßU^ATtoas—“Mi Nobody of Ko mbare," for sa-e by Eetell s News Depot. Wedvedat— At A. Ehrilcb 4 Bro. AurhtxtsTS— “The Clipper," at the Theater Nov. 14 and 15. Cheap Colchs A overt! sekints—Help Wantoi, Employment Wanted. For Rent, For Rale, Boat. Personal. Miscellaneous. At tbe latest reckoning the democrats have about twenty candidates for speaker aai a full two-thirds majority in congress. These members begin their term from March 4. next, but tbe new congress does not organize and enter opon its duties until toe first Monday in the following Decem ber. Democratic success had a disastrous effect on one man, at least. Isadora Cook, elected sheriff of Ean Claire, Wis., Tuesday, on thi democratic ticket, died at 2 o’clock on Thursday morning from collapse, following the excitement caused by the success of his party. He was far gone with pulmonary consumption. This shows that when a man is short of breath he should not run. Congress lias passed an appropriation of 5.350.000 for the purchase of the Portage -eke and River Improvement Com pany's canal and tne Lake Su perior Ship Canal Pail wav and Iron Company’s canal. These works connect Portage lake with I-ake Superior, and will now he made free from tolls. By this legis lation the cooper mining industries will be greatly benefited. One would hardly suppose that a locomo tive cab had to be invented, it is so ob viously useful, but the death of John Scotti, an old Baltimore and Ohio engineer, who first devised a cab for the protection of the engineer and fireman from tbe weather, is a reminder tbat the earlier locomotives had no cabs, and tbat English locomotives are still built without them. That Is only one of many ways in which we are far ahead of our British cousins in railroading, as in other things. Finally the mysterious woman who shot Rev. Dr. Bright, president of University College, Oxford, England, has been dis covered. She proves to be Miss Catherine Roirdon, of Brompton. who claims that she was engaged to Dean Haines, who is now about to marry the daughter of Dr. Bright He declares the woman insane and insists that he never saw her before. But his reti cence on the subject induces the suspicion that he has seen her before, and that she was actuated by revenge for disappointment Bbe now declares* tbat she didn’t do the shooting and knows nothing of it It is quite mysterious. Meanwhile the doctor is im proving and the woman is held in bail for trial. Thanksgiving day comes with great regularity on the last Thursday of Novem ber, but it is not a fixture, and no one can say in advance of the President’s proclama tion what day may be chosen. President Harrison has followed the usual custom, however, and Thursday, Nov. 27, has been set apart "to be observed as a day of prayer and thanksgiving.” Sometimes, but not always, tbe governors of the states also issue proclamations appointing the same day for thanksgiving. In some states Thanksgiving day is a legal holiday, whether appointed to be observed by the President of the United States or the gov ernor of the state, or both. But it is not,so here, and many young people who want to get two holidays are clamoring for a dif ferent date. The Speakership. Mr. McClure, of the Pmladelphia Tim?*, a reported to bßresaui the other 1b r :z At lanta that for pofitita! rt-as oa a outhem mas ought not to be chosen speaker of the next House of Representatives, and several southern newspapers have said toe suae thing. 1: istlifficul- to see whs: good rea son there is for ruling out eligible southern men in making a selection for that or any other puhlic office. If the north does not draw sectional lines when great public of fi es are to be filled, the south certainiv ooght cot invite her to do eo. Except among extreme republicans there is no setrtlmect in the n.rth against south ern men. The civii war ended a quarter of a century ago. and i: is high time that sec tionalism was dead and buried. That would have been its fate long since had :t not been for a few irreconcilable, wb never permit any issue to be settled if they can help it. The meet caoabie re an of the majority should be chosen s:aker. And the ques tion whether he is a northerner or south erner should cot be oons.ie.red. What dif ference does it make whether the speaker is from Georgia or New York so long as he is a fair-aunied man who aiminiiters his office from a national standpoint Let us cease saying that a southern man should not aspire to this or that office, and let it he understood that ability and fitness alone are the qualifications to be considered in choosing public officers. If in the ma jority of the next House the man who ought to be speaker is a southerner, the fact that he is a southerner should not be raised against him. If the sou h continues to make concessions the country will begin to think after awhile that a good reason for making them exists, and will insist upon them. Asa matter of fact, however, there is no such reason, and the sooner all the suggestio .8 that southern men should keep in the background esase the better it will be for this>uth, and, in fact, the whole country. The good of the country require* that the best and most capable men shall be placed in the positions of greatest trust and responsibility without regard to the question whether they are residents of the south or the north. Last Night's Celebration. Savannah never dae3 anything by halves. Her celebration last night of the unprece de;, ted victory whici the Democratic party won on Nov. 4, was on a grand scale. She did not simply call amiss meeting, as some of her sister cities did: she had a big torch light procession, an illumination, a literal display of bunting and a number of first class speeches. Half the town was in the streets and there was an amount of enthusi asm that is seldom witnessed when the party victorious in a presidential campaign is giving vent to its joy. Savan nah knows how to conduct a celebration whatever the nature of the celebration may be, and she has the generosity and en thusiasm necessary for a successful one. If the Dem cratic party wins a victory In 1832 that at all compares with the one won this year. Savannah will have a celebration that will command the attention of the en tire oouutry. Stanley Sustained. William Bonny says that the statements Stanley made with regard to 11aj. Bartte lot. who had charge of the rear column of Stanley’s African expedition, are true. He tells some things about Maj. Barttelot which leave the impression that that officer was insane. Some of his acts, according to Mr. Bonpy, could hardly have been committed by a man in his right mind, they were so cruel, rev< lting and outrageous. Wili am Bonny was an officer of the rear column, and he is the only white one who is personally acquainted with all that happened in the camp at Yambnya where Maj. B&rttelot was killed. No reas mis now known why en tire confidence snould not be placed in what he says. And if w hat he says is true it would have been far bettor for Capt. Barttelot, the brother of the major, not to have attacked Stanley in the book he re cently published, which contiins the major’s diary nnd numerous letters the major wrote. Now that the whole horrible story of what took place in the Yambuva camp has been told, it is probable that Stan ley will be permitted to resume his lecture tour in peace. Such a tidal wave as wo had last Tuesday renders a comparison with past congres sional elections somewhat interesting. Com mencing with the Forty-fourth congress, elected in 1874, the composition of the House of Representatives were as follows: Forty-fourth congress, democrats 107, re publicans 186; Forty-fifth, democrats 155, republicans 138; Forty-sixth, democrats 149, republicans 131, greenbackers 13; Forty seventh, democrats 130, republicans 149, greenbackers 9, readjusters 2, independents 2; Forty-eighth, democrats 196, republicans 116, readjustars 5, greenbacker 1, independ ent 1; Forty-ninth, democrats 184, repub licans 141: Fiftieth, democrats 1(37, repub licans 153, independents 4; Fifty-first, dem ocrats 151, republicans 175, independent 1. With tbe exception of the democratic tidal wave which gave tbe democrats a plurality of 80 over the republicans in the Forty eighth congress, elected in 1883, tbe Demo cratic party has never had a majority In the House comparable in numbers to that se cured ou Tuesday last. Another fact of interest is that the democratic representa tion from the north and west will boas great as if not greater than the representa tion from the same sections ia the Forty eigh h congress. But this is the first time In the history of congress that any party has ever held a two-thirds majority. Prof. Koofa is too much of a scientist to indulge in such roseate promises for his consumption cure as some enthusiasts would have him make. He asks his friends to refrain from discussing the subject until his investiga ions shall have giveu more reliable results. This is not to be taken as a sign of failure, but as indicating that Dr. Koch, as an investigator, is possessod of a proper degree of caution. On account of his reputation ho cannot afford to declare tbat he has found a cure until he has made very sure of the fact. But his latest ex periments seem to leave no room for doubt. They are described as little short of mar velous. One patient showed marked im provement within twenty-four hours. Its success would save millions of lives. ■ Not long ago Mark Twain went to New York and was heartily jostled around by a street car conductor and otherwise wel comed to the city with such unaffected and generous freedom of greetiug that It sur prised his cold-blooded New England mind. When he went to the company to protest be was still further surprised at the undue fa miliarity of the officials. 8o he weut to the newspapers and spoke his mind very freely about his enemies. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1690. A Prohibition Movement. A sweeping prohibition bill has been in troduce lis to the legislature. It prohibits the sale of inroxicat.nj liquors in quantities less than one quart. The legis-ature is c moused largely of farmers, acd the farm ers are pretty generally ;n faTor of pitting i a stop to the sale of intoxicating 1 quors by * the drink. The main reason they object to dramshop* is that they demoralise farm hands. And other employers of labor, such as lumbermen and naval store* operators, also object to them because of tneir demor alizing influence, and. hence, t„ere is iixely to be a pretty strong sentiment throughout tn state m favor of the bill, even among j those who are not prohibitionists. Even in ■ the cities it will b? a bard matte* to get u p | opposition to it, becanse of the persistent violat.on of the law requiting arinkicg I places to be closed on Sundays. It is true that m the proh b: ion counties there is a great deal of w hisky consumed. It is not sold in them, of court •, but it is carried into them iu jugs. The farm hands and the laborers of the luniberu.es and naval stores operators, howerer, do not get much of the whiixy imported in j lgs. and, fcenoe, are not demo-a.ieei by it. The blacks m the prohibition counties present a prosperous appearance in comparison wi h those of other counties The r-asoa is that they use the greater part ot their wages in feeding and clothing themselves and fami lies. The Morning News has always c*n ter.ded that iocal option is greatly prefera ble to a general prohibitory law, and it still holds that opinion, because it has been found impKesibie to enforce prohibition where public sentiment is not strongly In favor of it, and the whisky evil is greater where there is prohibition which is not en forced, than where there is no prohibition. So little effort is made, however, by the autnorities to enforce the existing laws for keeping the liquor traffic within satisfactory limits, that it would not be surprising if public sentiment should be found to be strong enough to force a general prohibi tion bill through the legislature. So Further Use for Quay. The Republican party has no further use for Quay, the chairman of the national republican committee, and it is understood that be will be asked to resign that position very soon. H.e is not, of c nurse, teld re sponsible for the recent disastrous defeat of his party, but it is believed by other repub lican leaders that his party would not have been defeated in Pennsylvania if he bad not insisted upon the nomination of Dela rnater for governor. He brought about Delamater’s nomina tion by using the party machinery for all it was worth. He knew that Delamater was unpopular, aDd also that grave charges had been made against him—charges which were pretty generally believed—and yet, in the face of them, he insisted upon making him the party’s standard bearer in the gu bernatorial contest. He expected, doubtless, to oiect him by a liberal use of money, and, from all ac counts, he used a vast amount of money in his behalf. He not only used all that was allotted to bis sta'e, but much that was allotted to other states. He staked all on Pennsylvania and lost. And when he lest that s'ate he lost his position as the na tional republican boss and as the boss of his party in Pennsylvania. His use of money that was i itended f r states other than his own produced a groat deal of dissatisfaction among the party leaders, and it is now expected that Mr. Clarkson, recently First Assistant Postmas ter General, will be chosen manager of the party very soon. Quay’s political career may be considered as ended. Having lost bis hold upon Pennsylvania, ho has lost everything, and when his term in the Sen ate ends ho will drop back iuto the obscu rity of private life. After breaking into congress on the Langston plan, by the aid and conuivanee of an unscrupulous republican ma.jori y, to misrepresent a Florida district one “Colo nel” Goodrich has been complaining to the New York Tribune of the exemplary “iguorance,” ns he is pleased to call it, of Floridians in general and legislators in par ticular. Still, It appears that the “colonel” is not sufficiently superior in point of in tellect to impose himself upon them ns a statesman nor even as a creditable repre sentative, and he only got iuto congress by the connivance of outside accomplices without the consent of those he claims to represent, just the same as he might contrive to got anything else that belonged to them. In view of these facts, his statements concerning relative in telligence, nor anything else cannot be ac cepted without corroborative evidence. Notwit standing their alleged saturated condition of benighted illiteracy, they still manage to scuffi i along without the aid or counsel of the “colonel,” and they also know enough to vote against him with systematic regularity. Possibly that accounts for his very discreet course in going to Washington to begin his campaign * ‘arguments” after tho election was over. Beside manifold other indications of progress and prosperity, Florence, Ala., claims to have under way tbe largest cotton mill in the south. It is to contain 53.000 spindles. Southern cotton mills are ex tremely prosperous, eorning dividends from 12 to 35 per cent. At first only the coarsest class of goods were turned out, but the grade is now equal to any. In fact, according to the Textile World, the goods of the Clifton mills of the finest grade are being imitated by New England mills. There is no reason why the soath cannot manufacture cotton goods equal in every respect to the New England product. This investment of half a million dollars by New England parties shows that they believe this country offers the best field. A great deal of cotton is raised right around Florence, over 9,500 bales being raised in Lauderdale county alone. Water power is abundant also, be sides an unlimited quantity of cheap coal. And the Tennessee river, in addition to her numerous railroads, gives Florence cheap transportation to the markets of tbe world. Alabama seems to be forging to the front in every branch of industry, Those who are disposed to sneer at the blue stockings will doubtless derive some satisfaction from the latest census of Vassar, which shows that only 36 per cent, of the young ladies who have been graduated from that institution have married. It appears, however, that a very large majority of these girl graduates have been euabled, by reason of their education, to engage in pur suits that have brought them handsome pecuniary returns. And as soon as they feel able to support husbands iu tbe luxury to which they have been accustomed, no doubt but they can get married. There’s hope in the old girls yet. PIBSONA'u Traorvsex contemn-a* -< s sea wvazv for his health Bast K:n Aisoxso c Spaia has a private income of fI.OXS. -re a y* >r. Jobs Moaxrtis Lake! .e"grandyoung man" to Log -And. He is only 54 years old. It xs riARSD is VVah.ngton that Gea. Bel knap's estate will prove t: amount to but Terr lit’.te. 1 Rxiss of John Yressjn have presented the lnvrn-or's mw!e ,to the Metropolitan Museum 11 New York R’iujam Thobxx of ivsheo. list, was refVi tnanded is church, ar i felt so cut up about it tnat h * committed suic te. ""rtUAX E. Rrsstu tbs newly elected dem °eraUc govem-T of Vvs>ca .sett*, is only 33 F**™ of®, and this IS r* - third run for the place. Crabuottz Ri'Biitx • of London is the only woman in the world n: .s permitted to write "Art Decorator to her Mi.reiy" on her card or shop-door. Cot a-j ton Moltxe- eyesight has become affected from rea-i.nr e~ery line of the thous ands of congrstulator messages he received upon his birthday. Gkx. S. p. Banks and wife are spending a few dart in Port land. Me lur.ng tbe engagement of iheir daugnter, JZ: - Maude Banks, at the PortlanJ theater. f AeTSLan has written to the Spanish papr-rs to deny ibe rumors of sis - ngagement to Mme. Ratazti. He sat hh> a fitter subject for an 1 storment than for a irr.nse. Mr Tennant has :a>**i refuge upon his ranch inT-xas from the imrortnnlttes of officious people who persecute.! sim with attentions be cause he is Stanley's brither in law. The Holland Soc ety of New Y'ork gave a din - ner Friday evening a* tie Lawyers' Club to fi-n. Joubert. ex pres. .mt of the Transvaal Re public, who is on a v;s : tc this country. The v*n needed to five Jes.de Benton Fre mont ;b ■ cottage a: Los Angeles, where tbe widow and dlughte- q.- v reside, and clear up some debts, is aooi* *:0.0u0. This will prob ab ybe ra'aed With : - pension lately granted her the • Rathfini-rV survivor will then be in most comfortable carco Apropos of a pred -i on which Col. Robert G. Inzersoll made ten years ago. Chaplain Mc- Cabe. the well-known Methodist clergyman, sent the following note to the doughty unbe liever the other day Devr Colonel—Ten years ago you made the following prediction: ' ‘Ten years from this time wo theaters will he built for one church. Th time is up The Method ists are now building four cnurche* every day— one every six hour? Please venture upon another prediction for the year ;!MO. " Florence Blithe. ag*d 15. of San Francisco, Who lately came, fay way of the very toughest Wnd - X litigation, into an estate worth nearly Sl.faOO >■ , has asked the court for an allowance ofa mon h. o* :n aU about ?103,000, dat ing from her father’s Gitb in Apri . lahS Tne girl plea ie-1 that she needed about Si,ooo a month for her main’--nance and education. The court finally allowed her a bac k allowance of s*o a moctn, or about S 10,000, and a future allowance of JROO. BRIGHT BITo. Str cat to say. everybody likes to see a square man "round Heston Commercial Bul letin. Bew are of the under-tow—when you see a blonde young woman in a black wig.—Texas Siftings. "B* fllrtuous and you will be happy.” as the young lady remarked to her triend.—Lawrence American. For every industrious man there Is an idle one wanting to borrow money of him.—Atchi son Globe. Darkey Vagrant- Dat's good; but. 'fo' de Lawd. I don t cot de face ter do it.—. Veto York Morning Journal. Thuvoh there are cycles of time, it is reason able to ass rt that the old gentleman never rode them.— Jewelers' Circular. Happiness is ago I deal like butter in one respect—it goes farther when it is spread on thin —Birmingham Leader. Some pkoplk wb ■ are sure that they could never tell a lie have never had an adequate temptation,— Souia mile Journal. "Plcnkitt.” said Ducketts, “if you had a mblion, what would you do?” “Wish 1 had another,” replied Plunkitt.— Puck. Before election tbe candidate finds your but ton-bols almost as useful a thing to hang on as he afterward finds t ;ie pigeon holts into which he stows your requests.— Puck, When a wise man said “Fine feathers make fine biras," he put a saretsm in the mouth o: every scarecrow in the country to fling at everv bird of paradne that flies by.— Atchison Globe. “Bears live mostly on plants and fruits,” re marked the teacher. “In New York they live on lambs,” inter rupted Tommy,j who reads the newspapers.— Backet. Maude -Do you believe that “the course of true love never runs smooth? Mabel Hni Well, I don't know. There’s a hitch at every marriage, anyway.— Boston Traveller. slit. Youngman (after long thought!—ls there any way to find out wnat a woman thinksof you. without proposing? Mr. Benedict (absently)—Y'es; make her mad. —Good Me ics. “Thins that young doctor understands his . business pretty well?” "I think not. I heard several of the older physicians praising him yesterday.”—lndian apolis Journal. Mrs. nt Bort— Dear, 1 think Mr. Corral, who receutly made his fortune in Texas, is a veri table rough diamond. Jeweler de Bort—Then, my dear, we ought to cut him. Jewelers' Weekly. "Hello: Patching up j'our togs?” asked the light comedian. "No; I am just taking a little lay-off.” answered the end man. a? he continued to scrape the egg from his costume.—lndianapo lis Jou na'. He (looking dreamily into his cup)—What's this—a miracle? She (indignantly)—Why, no; that’sooffee, and good coffee, too I He—Well, isn't that a miracle?— Pittsburg Chronicle. Distressed Young Mother (traveling with weening infant)—Dear,slear, I don’t know what to do with this baby. Kind and Thoughtful Bachelor (in n°xt seat) — Madam, s tail I open the window for you?— Boston Courier. New Spirit— Was that a very bad man you just turned away? St. Peter—No; bis record is good enough; but he’s been the head man in a small town all his life, and I know there’ll be no living with him.—-Vetr York Weekly. “The difference between an embezzler and a Napolron of finance is practically naught." "How do yon make that out?” "Weil, it s a matter of one or more naughts. Steal thousands and you are an embezzler; steal millions and you are the other thing.”—S;. Joseph heus. “What, my child! You danced last night with the colonel? And be goes to balls while he yet wears mourning? What a light man he must be?” “Oh. but. mamma, really you should have seen how beautifully sadly he danced!’’—Flic gende Blatter. Mr. Tices— Adam was certainly in great luck. Miss Wickles— How was that? Mr. Ticks—Why, when he got a wife he had onlv to give up a rib, and now it takes all the backbone a man has just to think of getting married.— Boston Courier. CURRENT COMMENT. A Chance for Talented Counting. From the Washington Star (/ad ). If the elections committee of the next con gress is real careful there will not be any re publican, a; ail in the House. It Was Principle, Not Pearl. From the Philadelphia Record (Deni.). It isn't, that the people care so much about a pearl button; bnc they don’t approve of 1,400 per cent, taxation On anything. Come and “Jine the Union.” Fr om the Washington Post (Ind.). New Hampshire and Connecticut will not be fairly in the union until they amend their constitutions so that the people can elect the officers. That tired feeling, now so often heard of, is entirely overcome by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which gives mental and bodily strength.— Adv. How a Kansan Paid a Vortgage There is in tbe office of the Merchants' Ns ! t tonal Bark of Kansas City a fragment of a I meteor which has e peculiar history, says tbe Kansas City Ttmesi A farmer in Western Kansas had borrowed • cu re m- oey on his farm than he found himself able to repay. Wbi.e meditating over bis bad fortune, but, with the u-ual energv of the Kan sas fanner, still tilling his sort be turned up this meteoric stone end examined it, but discovered nothing peculiar in ita make-up until a relative from the test, who was visiting him. noticed it and told him that it was of great value. .The farmer communicated with Prof. John ! Bajq state geologist, at Junction City. Kan.. “jh o netted the piece and cooflrmed the opinion I ot tbe relative and caused collectors of such stone* to compare for its purchase. It was s-Id. tor a turn largely in excess of the amount required to redeem tb Lome from the money-lender. Feared Yankee Ingenuity. The distrust of things American which ob tained in England until not so very long ago, was well illustrated in a recent speech of E. H. Johnson, says a London letter. Hr was describ ing an exbih.tion of the Edison electric light, wnich was about to fake place at the Crystal palace, London, and fer which be had made great preparations. “A large party of prominent people were in vitel an l had begun to arrive I was going to tu ™ fai 1.200 lamps and astonish t e Brit.sher*. "Finally everything was ready, and the switch was turned, but no light. I hurried down to the engine r ooi to see what the trouble was and found tl a a plug had blown out of tbe boiler, which, oi course, stopped everytning. "They don't do things in as great a hurry over there as we do at Home, and th- English engineer sail repairs could not be made bet ore next morning. "But I insi ted on repair? at once, and the re suit was thar in a short time my efforts were successful and tbe lights gavo forth their bril liancy." "But," concluded ?-’r Johnson, "there wasn't a man in all England that didn't believe that it wa? a Yankee trick. " A Quiet Little Lynching: Bee. C. J. McClinchy. says tbe Pittsburg Time?, one of the delegates to the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers' convention, said: "Tpe coolMt tiling I ever saw was on the Hannibal and st. Joe road, some fifteen or twenty years ago l was going from Hannibal to St. jhe and was sitting in the smokinz car. At one of the little stations a party of nati as got in. They all sat down ouietly and ebattad pleasantly among themselves until the traA reached a little grove Here tbe settlers stopped tbe train and they all waikelever to a convenient tree. At this point one of the psrty tied another mans bands behind his hack, while another placed a rope around the necx of the man who was having his wrists tie! together. All were as unconc.-rned as though they were at a vendue. M hen everything had been arranged satisfactorily an end ot the rope wa? thrown over the limb of the tree. The dootnei man was asked if he had anything to say. He bad evidently put on a clean white shirt that morning, and, glancing over his per son to see that everything was in propper shape, he happened to get a glimpse of h.s shirt fren:. He looked up, and as he smiled grimly, replied Boys.l wish you wouldn't muss my bile,! bosom when you shoot.’ A few sharp, short jerks left the Tellow dangling between earth and heaven, and as soon as the end of the rope had been fastened the settlers fille i his body full of lead. Then they returned to the train, rode on a few miles further and got off. The** never referred to the episode, except to say, in o casual way, that tne man they had just lynched was a ho:e thief. Hero of a Practlpal Joke. A young man of about 25 is just now the hero of a secret circle of triecds in the southern sec tion of this c ity, says tbe Philadelphia Inquirer, and. in view of his peculiar history, be quite de serves to be lionized. Five years ago he was a clerk in a bank on a meigei salary, and one time some of the same devoted friends of these days thought it would be a good joke to pretend the bank had been r °hbed, and warn nira that he was suspected This a numbir did, only they called him up about midnight so as to eive the joke a more natural appearance. After telling Mm that two hours before burglars had stolen $ 50,000 iD bank notes, they added that the police were now on the way to arrest him as a suspect. It so happened that lie had but two hour? be fore been in the vicinity of the bank, and fear ful of not being able to prove an alibi ho gatb ered his available belongings together and caught an earlv morning train for the North. Of course there was a big row in the vicinity of the young fellow's hoiue, and his funny friends had to leave town. Fortunately the young fellow was a bachelor, and he was not hunted up. Recently he wrote to an old acquaintance here from Canada, and the latter. In replying to tho long-lost youth, told him the truth about the bank joke. Then, tbe young fellow came back, but not as he went awar. t He rode in a parlor car and'swelled around in a hack. He had gone to Montreal, and, after tho first shock, had settled down to work and gradually, by lucky speculation, had grown rich. The Man With a Patent. There were only half a dozen people in the palace car all day long, says the New York Sun, and after dinner, when the man who had been sleeping and reading in seat No. 12 came over to me ror a chat X welcomed him with open arms. He said his name was Saunders and that he had a patent or improvement on some part of a locomotive. He was going through to Cin cinnati to have it perfected or or some thing of the sort. He had been in partnership with a mean man—a man who had tried to swindle him out of a fortune. To get even he had stolen tbe l atent and run away. He had it with him in a valise. That was all he said just then, but later on he confided to me the fact that at a town about thirty miles away this wicked partner of his might possibly be on hand to board tne train and attempt to wrest the treasure from his keeping. He wanted ray advice and I offered to take charge of the va lise. He thanked me with great effusiveness and ns we ap reached the town he shut himself into the smoking compartment. As the train drew u i I saw an old acquaint ance on the platform, and while we were talk ing a pc se was hunting the train for my friend. They didn't find him, as he had dropped off and struck out for the country. I went on to Cincinnati, taking his valise along, and although I was there four days he didn’t show up. I arranged to leave it wit i the landlord, and it was carried to tbe office to be opened by a meddlesome clerk. Instead of a patent it contained wedges, drills, a brace, fuse, and other neat little devices for successfully work ing a burglar's job, and it cast me two days of tbe hardest kind of talk to satisfv the chief of police that 1 wasn’t la it. I had rode over one hundred miles with a full-fledged burglar, and one who had made his mark, and I must say he was a better talker and more of a gentleman than any governor I ever met. "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.” From the Pittsburg Dispatch, In the quiet nursery chamber. Snowy pillows yet unpressed. See the forms of little children Kneeling white robed for their rest. All in quiet ndrsery chambers. While the dusty shadows creep. Hear the voices of the children— “ Now I lay me down to sleep.” In the meadow and the mountain Calmly shine the winter stars. But across the glistening lowland Sla it the moonlight’s stiver bars. In the Silence and the darkness. Darkness growing still more deep. Listen to the little children Praying God their souls to keep. “If we die”—so pray tbe children— And the mothers’ head drops low (One from out her fold is sleeping Deep beneath the winter's snow). “Ta<e our souls,” a id past the casement Flits a gleam of crystal light Like the trailing of his garments Walking evermore in white. Little souls, tbat stand expectant, Listening at the gates of life. ' Hearing far away the murmur Of the tumult and the strife; We, who fight beneath thosp banners. Meeting ranks of foemen there, Find a deeper, broader meaning In your simple vesper prayer. When your hand shall grasp the standard Which to-day you watch from far. When your deeds shall shape the conflict In this universal war, Pray to Him, the God of battles Whose strong eye can never sleep, In the warring of temptation. Firm and true your souls to keep. When the combat ends, end slowly Clears the smoke from out the skies; "When far down the purple distance, All the noise of battle dies; When the last night’s solemn shadows Settle down on you and me. May the love that never falletb Take our souls eternally. Beecham’s Pills act Ilk© magic qq a weak stomach.— A du> ITEMS OF INTEBKBT. Tax Old Colony Railroad Company has com promised with tbe Louisville people injured in the accident la-t summer. It witl pay Louis ville people in *ll about SBO,OOO. The F-'ir.eSAN of one of the largest barber shops in NeW Y'ork is author.ty for the s'ate ment that tbe number of men who part their hair in the middle is increasing every day. Tux French grape crop is not good this year, but the Missouri apple crop will see to it that there is no failing off in the supply of imported ciampagne, if tbe Frecclm -n will only keep up a supply of corks and labels. The Beethoven house at Bonn is now open to the public. A large number of portraits, bus’s and autographs, the composer's violins and other instruments, his last grand piar.o. -till in good co dition, and the aura! appliances be u?ed a. e am >ng the mo3t interesting relic3 on view. Farmers attending the market say that the coming winter will be a mild one. and tbeir reason for the prediction of this is: Tne hornets are bu 1 ling small n- sts and low down on the trees, lower even th in they did last year. This, the farmers say, is an unfailing sign ot a mild winter. rsor. JcLtr- Pohlman, of the Buffa’o Med ical College, says that it wi,l be necessary 'to build the Niagara Falls tumel par ly under water o-line it with brick, because the fr-ist, atmosp ere an l springs w*,ul i disintegrate the soft shale in whicn the turn 1 is binv fa red. The expense of this work would be $1,003,000 or more. Alono the West African coast there are now about 2JO churches, 35.000 converts, 101,000 ad herents. 215 schools and 30,000 pupils. Thirty rive languages or dialects have ben mas’-red, into wnich portions of the scripture and re ligious bonks and tracts and genera l educa tional b :oks have bteu translated and primed, and some knowledge of the gospel nas reached about 8,000,1.01 of benighted Africans A marriage by phonograph has taken place. A man waited upon the minister with a phone graph. The minister spoke into tbe apparatus the questions and the bridegroom the responses of the marriage ceremony The impress on was then posted to the bride some hundreds of miles away, and she and the minister of her village went through the same process, the last minister pronouncing the couple man and wife. Natives or Africa refer to whisky as "shame water,” but it appears they are not ashamed to drink it. Agents of the German government are accused of carrying large sup pi es of “shame water," which they can readjly trade for ivory ar.d other article; of value. There is said to be a degree of thirst in Africa at tim*'S which would induce a native to barter a whole elephant for a quart of this “shame water.” A lady of Lexington, Ky.. while walking home was disturbed by an article in her shoe, which she thought at first to be a cinder which bad got In while walking along. She went limpinz home, and on removing her shoe found a diamond earring Her dress skirt had ap parently caught it up in some raann-r and dropped it into her shoe. The lady is ar a Joss to know who who lost the valuable, and cannot tell where she found it. Pierre Lortllard and his friends, who have organized a society to reform the evils of the turf, are confronted with anew combination. At Kempton park there appeared tbe other day a female bookmaker, clad in a plush cos tunie., who harangued the betting crowd in dulcel tones, giving and taking odds, cashing up tbe checks at the end of each race, and creating a sensation generally. It is estimated that the female jockey will be next turf innova tion, and it does look as if the reform club w ould have plenty to do. 81-rmese children-, especially littte girls, are very fond of a game which consists in throwing a tamarind seed into the air with one hand and seeing how many more can be picked up by th same hand before it falls and is caught. The rot al children used those made of gold and sil ver, and King Mindon used significantly to im press upon the little princesses the importance of keeping those that he gave them a rainst a rainy and y. They have now been mostly sol I or melted down, and are already exceedingly rnre, They are toke is. owing to their weight and fineuess being assumed, and when, as sub sequently happened, the majizis assumed a uniform and conventional shaioe. size and fine ness, we are brought to a point very near the true coin. The metropolitan police force in Ixmdon is not under the control of ary lo al authority, but is directed hy commissioners who are re sponsible to the home office of the general gov ernment. There is a strong demand in Igmdon for th-transfer of the police authoritytot.be county council, and th estibject has provoked much discussion. It is urged that the concen tration . f imperial and national interests in London is so vastly important that the higher authorities should maintain control of the police in protection of all those central con cerns that p-rtain to the greatest capital In the world. Ultimately a compromise will prabably be reached. The county council ought cer tainly to have some share in the police adminis tration of the metropolis. Western Missouri was perhaps the greatest bee country tbat ever existed. It was here that the tree growth found its last expression in the sparse and scrubby oak openings which, in happy alternation of tree and grass an t sun light. afforded vast fields for bee ambition to unfold itself. It was here, too, the bee said good-by to the white man as he pushed out on the prarie. Here the trees ceased, and here, perforce, the bees ceased also. They could go no further. So. as year followed year, with new communities of bees following hard the old, and all checked and held by the eastern bound ary of the treeless plains, there came at last a day in these parts when a bee was swinging on every clover bloom, and every hollow tree pos sessed its buzzing commonwealth. China supplied 97 per cent, of the tea supply of the world in 1864, and India 3 per cent.; but in 1888 Cr,ina stood at 43 per cent, and India at 57 per cent. In 1821 tea plant was discovered growing wild in Assam, and in 1834 the Indian government caused experiments to be made by bringing plants from China and cultivating them, and it was not until 1854 that tea planta tions were opened up. There are now 300,000 imported laborers working 1,000 tea gardens in the province of Assam. There are four other places where tea is raised, and the tea growing possibilities of India are unlimited. The Chi nese find they cannot compete by the old methods, and they are building railroads and taking steps to l-ssen the export tax. It looks now- as if India were too far ahead to be out done by China on the tea question. The order for waiters to shave off their mustaches in Vienna recalls to my mind some incidents apropos to those appendages in Eng land. It is not so long ago tnat Coutt’s ban ~ issued an edict against them, which was fi-rcely resisted. Tnere is now a bank in Q the city wherein no official may wtr them, a.id it is but recently that barristers and clergymen have taken to doing so, whilst no judge or bishop would think of sporting a m ustache unless ac companied by a full beard. In the royal navy no one can wear a mustache alone without the beard, the mode being either whiskers and no mustache, tota clean shaving, or the whole of the hair on the face; in the army no one can go without it ex cept tbe chaplain. while the pioneers of the regiment alone may wear a beard. It is only of recent years that the police have been allowed to grow the hair on their face, and an actor with a moustache twenty years ago was almost unknown, the late Mr. Sothern being one of the first to wear it regularly fir tv years ago no soldier even wore any hair on his face, while, so strange are the chang s of fashion, it is now becoming the style in London for the using generation to again s lave clean. On July 19 last Henry Breen of Indianapolis, then a brakeman of the Wabash railroad, while coupling cars at Cecil, Ohio, was caught be tween the steps of the caboose and a saw log which extended over a fiat car, and his skull was fractured. For weeks he hovered between life and death, but his strong constitution saved him, and he was finally able to be out though his skull was cracked in several places. It was also found that tbe cords of the eye were paralyzed. This affliction grew worse, and two weeks ago Breen went to Springfield, 111., before the convention of Illinois surgeons, which was in annual session in that city. They pro nounced his case “aneurism of the eye.” and the only case on record. One fracture of his skull just above the eye grew wider, and there was danger of a blood vessel bursting, which would cause Instant death. By holding the ear to the fracture of his skull one could distinctly hear the pulsa tion of the brain. Breen was placed under the influence of opiates and an iron collar was placed around his neck, to which is attached a thumbscrew, which was pressed over the orbit to stop the rush of bio: and. Tbe ph3'sicians pro nounded his ease hopeless. Breen still walks the streets, however, and, with his fine phys ique, looks the picture of health. He has bad innumerable offers to place himself before med l.al colleges for examination and study of his remarkab e case. It is believed that Breen is the only man alive who wears a callar made in blacksmith shop. Van Houten’s Cocoa—“ Once tried, always used.”— Adv. MKDXCALs * IFake Up. If you wake up in the morning with a bitter or bad taste in your mouth, Languor, Dull Despondency, Const, ir-a tion, take Simmons Liver Regulator.- It corre ts the bilious stomach, sweetens tbe breath and ciea uses tbe furred tongue. 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