The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, January 05, 1891, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextC|e Anting 3 bins Morning hews Building, Savannah, Gl MONDAY. JASI AUY ft. 181. Registered at the Pestofflca in Saoonm A. The Morning Ntoi is published every Jay in Mm year, and U served to tubccrioers in Pi* e-stf at 35 rents a weex $1 00 a month, $5 00 tor eia Month* nnl $lO 00 for one year. The Morm.ho News, fcy mail, one month. §1 00; three months, $o SO; tlx months. $5 00; ne year, $lO 00. The Mokm.no News, by mail,six times s week (without Sur.dav lane , three months, $1 00; Mx months, $4 00; one year. $8 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays, Wedneaiay r and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days an I Saturdays, three months $1 DO; six ■tenths $• 50; one year. $S Oft The Sunday Niks, bu mail, one year, $8 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 A. Subscription* payable in adrauoe. Remit by ■oats] order, cbecs or registered letter. Our- Mncy ten. by mail at risk of senders Letter- and telegrams should be addressed "Morn!no News' Savannah. Ga TranM>-!d advertiseme tit, otoer than special Solemn. local or reading notices, sm.iee- Esnte and cheap or want column, 10 cents a e. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to One inch space in depth-da the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at bualnen office. OIK NKW YORK OFFICE. Mil. J. J. Fittjn. General Advertising Agent Of the Moa_Ni.No News, office 83 Park Row, Mew York. All advertising business outside of Mm states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Morning News Is on hie at the fol owing place-, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paperoau be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. H. Bates. 38 Pal i Row. Q. P. Rowell 4 Cos., 10 Spruce street W. W Sha p <fc 00., 21 Park Row. Frank Kikrnan ft Cos.. 153 Broadway. Dauchy A Cos., ST Park lhaon. J. W. Thompson, 39 Pars Row. American N i.wspapkr Pi rushers’ Arsociatior, Pot U-r B gliding. PHILADELPHIA- H. RV. aver A Son, Tlmea Building. BOSTON- B. R. Niles. aae Washington street Pkttrnoili. A Cos., 10 State street CHICAGO— Loan A Thomas, 45 Itan io)ph street C NCINSaTI— Edwin Ai.de-.' Oompant. M West Fourth street NEW HAVEN— The H. P. lie bb arii Comp amt. 24 Elm street BT LOUIS- Nelson i merman A Cos., 1127 Pine street ATLaNTA- MoRNtNn News Bureau, 1(4 Whitehall street MACON-- Daily Tkleoraph Omn 597 Mulberry street INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meetings— Clinton Lodge No. 54, F. and A. M-; Sto kbolders Savannah Brewing Company; Stockholders Mutual Gas Light Company; Workinrmen’s Union Association; As to Claims Against Savannah Soap Works; Georgia Historical Society; DeKolb Lodge No. 9,1.0, O. F. Special Notices— As tp Bills Against British Steam bip Lowlands; Dull Times Prices at Heidt's; A Card to the Public, Joan Schwarz, Mayor, Etc. Auction Sales— Unclaimed Freight. Furni ture, CTotblug. Etc., Commissioners' Sale, by C. H. Dorsett. Auctioneer. Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship Company; Baltimore Steamship Company. Railroad Schedule— Central Railroad of Georgia. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Waatei; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal: Miscellaneous. Ex-Congressman Hoar has boon engaged to write a tariff article for the New York Tribune. He is tho champion joker of the Republican party. He will not, therefore, be expected to deal with facts or sail close to the truth. The Herald continues to boom Mr. Dana, editor of tho Hun, lor United States senator from New York. And Mr. Dana utters no ■word of protest. Evidently Mr. Dana thinks that a senatorship is more desirable than an editorship. Representative Blount says that the postal telegraph bill will be taken up to morrow and that if It is laid over without action nothing will be done with it by this congress. This is a pet measure of tne General. Senator Cullom of Illinois is getting pretty rough treatmeut from ajina of the republi can papers of bis state. One of them, the Press, charges him with crookedness in con nection with the Joliet prison. If the sen ator isn’t careful his presidential boom will be damaged. Messrs. Parnell and O’Brien appear to be arriving at an agreement. But if O'Brien is to succeed Parnell as a leader be will have to spend a six months in an English prison before he can assume the responsibilities of the position. During that year, however, ke will have plenty of time to make his plans. The sugar planters of Louisiana are pre paring to make the best of the altered con dition of the sugar industry. They don’t like the 2 per cent bounty provision of the McKiuley tariff. They prefer the protec tion which the old tiriff gave them. How ever, they are not going to abandon sugar planting because they can’t have what they want It look* as if some of Commissioner Eaum’t witnesses were about ic tell a tale that will make life a burden to him. One of them, a woman, who is sick, says that if she gets well she will tell a story different from the one she told the investigating com mittee some time ago. Doubtless Raum would be glad if she should be slow in re covering. Chicagoans rre very mad because articles are sent all over the country and to Europe from that city stating that the world’s fair is certain to be a failure; that it is in the hands of speculators and that it is a money grab' ing scheme. It is not to be wondered at that they are mad. They ought to hunt down the slanderers and make them take back the slanders. A New York physician says that there are over 100 lepers in New York oity. Most of them are being treated privately. Ex periments with Dr. Koch’s lymph are being made upon some of them, and, it is said, the disease yields slightly to lymph treat ment. It is too soon, however, to say whether or not tho lymph will prove to be a remedy for the disease. Chief Justice BlsckJey, of this state, has little sympathy with those who do not pay their preacher. In deciding recently that a certain church must be sold to pay the salary of the preacher he said: “If any debt ought to be paid it is the one contrac:ed for the health of souls for pious ministrations and holy services.” The chief justice has very correct ideas about tho payment of debts, particularly the obligations to preachers. There are a great many people, liberal in other respects, who will not pay their preacher or for their newspaper as locg as they can avoid doing so. Edmunds' Change of Base. Politicians iu Washington are wondering what caused .Senator Edmunds to change his opinio* with regard to a closure rule. Be ha; al srajrs been an advocate of tho freedom at debate, and >ntil hi* interview in the Washington last the other day he was counted as one of the republican sena tors who would speak and vote against any measure to out off debate. It is said that he b s been taking lessons in practical politics trurn the President It is known that he has no love for Mr. Blaine and the man from Maine has no love for him. Mr. Blaine has always been an op ponent of a closure rule, and he is against the foroe bill. If reports are to be crelited tie President hua laid Mr- Edmunds that the surest venjf tiVjeien the influence of Mr. Blaine is to tavog aA the party measures which the latter opposes. Mr. Edmund* ap pears to have taken this advice. In his inuirview in the Pott he came out squarely in favor of a closure role, and it i> now ex pected that that rule will have his support. Without his support ft c uld not have passed, because quite ft number of other re publican senators, who don’t like the rule, and who would have voted against it if he had opposed It, will, in all probability, fol low his lead. It looks as If the President and borne of tue moat influential of the republican lead ers are afraid of Mr. Blaine’s influence. He has forced his party to do several things It didn’t waut to. For instance, it didn’t want to incorporate his reciprocity scheme into the McKinley tariff bill, but it had to. Mr. Blaiuo is still the great power in the Republican party, and other party leaders would like to sue him pushed into tne usek ground. On* of the reasons why some of them insist upon the passage of the force bill is that he is opposed to it. They don’t know whom he favors as the party’s candi date for President, but they nrequi.enure that his candidate will not be their candi date. • But it must be rather galling to Senator Edmunds to follow the lead of the Presi dent. He has never hat a very high opin ion of Gen. Harrison, and it must have cost him an effort to abandon the position be has maintained for years in order to anslst the President in passing his pet measure. And he must kn >w that his change of base will lessen bis own influence ii his party. In f liowing tho Pres.dent he ceases to be a distinguished leader. Politics makes some strange bedfellows. Sorghum Sugar. The department of agriculture has in vented a process for the manufacture of sugar from sorghum which, it is claimed, gives some surprising results. The chemist of the department is the inventor, and it is said that by means of the new process the amount of sugar obtained from 1,03d gallons of juice is increased from I,OJO to to about 2,000 pounds. Aud the new process is not a costly one. For the man ifaciure of sorghum sugar the difficulty has always been the separa tion of the gummy amorphous bodies from the jui e with iut precipitating the sugar. By the new process alco hoi is used to eff *ct the removal of the gums, and but li:tle of the alcohol is lost, because it is almost wholly recovered by subsequent distillation. The department of agriculture Is very much elated over its ex lorirnents with sor ghum, and its secretary talks as if he thought the time was not distant when this country would be able to meet the demand of the home market for sugar. There is no doubt that great progress is being made in the northwest in the manu facture of sugar from sugar beets. In Florida and Louisiana the ain >unt of sugar produced from cane is steadily increasing. If the new process for manufacturing sor ghum sugar should prove to be as valua ble as the agricultural department thinks it is, it is reasonable to expect that before the end of the century an immense amount of sugar will ho produced in this ooutitry. In most of the southern states a large yield of sorghum can be obtained from good laud, and sorghum yields well In quite a number of the western states. There is a probability, therefore, that sorghum will become a great and protltable crop in both the west aud the south. If it should there would lie no occasion for regretting the money that has been spent in maintaining the agricultural department. The death of Sitting Bull calls attention to the claim whioh has been pending in con gress seven or eight years, and which promises to remain pending for a good while yet. It is very difficult to get con gress to pay atiy claim, other than a pen sion claim. The claim to which Sitting Bull’s death directs attention is that of Jean Louis Legare, a Canadian. It arose in this way: After the Battle of Little Big Horn, in 1876, in which Gen. Custer was killed, Bitting Bull and his followers, being pursued by the army, crossed from the United States Into Canada, where they were not only an aunoyance to the Canadian gov' rnrnent, but were a constant meuace to this government by their raids across the bonndory. Repeated efforts were made fr >m 1877 to 1881 to secure their surrender. All were failures, however, until Jean Louis Legare, wno was particularly fitted for the work by his life among the northwestern Indians, was solicited by Maj. Brotherton to try to secure the return of the Indians to this country and their surrender to the army at Fort Buford, Dak, Maj. Brother ton assured Legare that the government would pay him for his services, and on this promise tbs French Canadian undertook the work. He was sucoegstul, bringing in Sit ting Bull and 300 of the latter’s followers, providing feasts to put them in good humor and feeding them as they traveled 150 miles across country to Ui- fort. Legare has never received is cent for his services. He brought suit in the court of claims, asking $13,412 for h!s expenses in transporting feeding the Indians, and for his services, but the court dociiiod against him. Then be appealed to congress Congress will proba bly do nothing about it this century. There mu t be "something positively wrong with (Johnny Davenport, who is sup posed to have drafted tho force bill, whea senators like Teller of Colorado attack him. About the only thing the matter wjth Dav enport is that he has not yet succeeded in getting his arm us deep into the govern ment’s money chest as he would like. He has been a steady feeder at the public crib a long time, and if the force bill should be come n law Johnny weuld soon become one of the moneyed men of Gotham. The trust known as the American Har vester company, which has a capital of $35,000,000, and whose object is to make the farmers pay high prices for harvesters, is likely to have a rival. The farmers’ al liance p opose to erect a rival factory. The farmers say that they will not submit to beiug robbed. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1891. British Gold In Business- Home ooaception of the magnitude of John Bull's investments away from his own tight Uttle island may be conveyed by the conservative estimate that British loans on South American securities aggregate more than *7u0,000,000. Beside* this, over $380.- ! 000,000 of British gold is Invested in South ; American railways, and not lea than $25,- ; 000,000 more in nitrate rallies. Theu there iis over $150,000,000 iu ruled in South i African minus. As.de from all these enormous in vest seen la it the immense sum of $. < *XJ,OUO,OOO tied up in trust funds. Added to these almost fabulous invest ments are further investments in Mexico and Central America, which, in point of magnitude, very nearly equal the amounts placed in South America. Up to this time the Mexican and Central American loans have provsn entirely satis factory. But for some time before the re cent financial strain those In South America had exoited no little apprehension. Within the short space of uiuety days or so just preceding the late financial flurry theoe 1 an* sustained a shrinkage in value amounting to over $20,000,000. Railway securities shrank fully $45,000,000 and tbo nit: ate mines diminished all of $10,000,000 more. Shrinkages in the South Africa i mines aggregated considerably more than $110,000,000, and in trust company values it amounted to fully $55,000,000 additional. So It will lie seen that these depressions, added to the losses on “cedulas,” mount up to a total loss very closely approximating $450,000,000 that will fall upon the investors whose money has so freely flowed through the channels of the London money market. Taking all of these facts into account, no one can have cause for wonder that even such bulwarks of financial strength as the Bank of Eugland and the Barings bad urgent need to sk the aid of the Bank of France, and to be quick in getting it, too. Nor can we feel surprised at tbo Impend ing collapse that was so narrowly averted in Wall street. On the contrary, it now appears almost marvelous that a general crash throughout the financial world did not ensue and revive the distressing scenes of seventeen years ago. That it did not come should afford us good cause for no little satisfaction with the growing tendency to conservatism in our own business methods that is thus clearly evidenced. To that extent wo seem to have profited by the se vere experience of past disasters. Such reckles ness as those usually careful British financiers have lately shewn would surely have brought us back to the harrow ing scenes of 1873—and probably in greatly aggravated form. Nevertheless, the Britons have “pulled themselves together” with wonderful skill and celerity, and will probably soon be quite as financially stro .g as ever. With all his hoard of gold and manifold resources it is not at all strange that John Bull should wield some Uttle influence in the world. Proeparo’s Equity Principle. Verdi, the famous composer has discov ered a modem Prneperoof rather a pictur esque aid peculiar character who has attempted to est tblish a somewhat novel precedent In equity for the disgruntled opera auditor. This discovery has cost the great composer certain moneys that only a fair-minded man would have paid. After he had taken an excursion to Parma esnecially to hear a rendition of the now famous opera “Aida,” he felt so uncer tain as to its aotual merit* that after invit ing himself to partake of a very satisfac tory supper he returned to bis home and agaiu returned to hear the music. This time either from indigestion or hiscomputa ti u of de! i: side of the column or from his own peculiar views of music he became so thoroughly dissatisfied with himself and the composition that he wrote to Verdi giving full vent to his plaintive distress of mind that he should have disbursed an aggregate sum of s3l 80 to hear music that afforded but little, if any, solid satisfaction, and sug gested that the composer should refund the aforesaid amount, in good and lawful money, inclosing an itemized statement of his expenditures for car fare, a imissiou and supper*. All of this Verdi instructed his publishers to return, except the suppers. He drew the line at suppers In that par ticular he seemed to think that Prosparo was disposed to become just a little too Prosperous. As he made no complaint of dissatisfaction with the supper Verdi argued that he should pay for them; else he should get them at home. Prospero acknowledged the rebate in this wise: “I, the undersigned, do declare that I have re ceived from Maestro Giuseppe Verdi the sum of 27 lire 80 centesimi, in payment of my expenses for two trips to Parma to hear ‘Aida,’ whose author con siders it just to refund me, as I did not find tho opera to my taste. At the same time it is agreed that I 9hall not go to hear tew operss by Verdi unless I take the expenses entirely on myself, whatever my opinion of their merits may be.” Unlike Shakespeare’s Prospero, this modern descendant of the family raised a small-size 1 tempest for something to which his claim was very questionable. But he would have a great deal of trouble establish ing that sort of equity here. Few American managers are there who would not have heartily invited him to migrate to the torrid zone of the hereafter aud with very scaut ceremony. Last year was a pretty good one for de faulters and embezzlers. . According to the Chicago 7"%> tint the stealings amounted to $8,632,95(5. In 1889, however, the stealings were cplv $32,956 less. Pennsylvania led all the other states in the amount which her thieves got away with. The total sum of their stealings was $3,336,837. Now York was next to Pennsylvania in the sum lost through defalcations and embezzlements. She figures in the list with $1,939,270. The Missouri and Illinois embezzlers got their hands pretty deep into other people's rook ets. In the first named stato their stealings amounted to $596,304, and in the second named to $406,738. In Utah only SI,OOO was lost through embezzlements and defal cate s. Andrew Jeff, ie, a South Carolina con vict, in the convict camp at the Clemson Agricul.ural college, escaped the day be fore ICnristmas, and the authorities, after makiDg a vigorous search for him, con cluded that he would never be caught. Three days after Christmas, however, he a' peared in the camp aud said to tt) guard: “Pse come back. I’se only gen# home to spend Christmas with my family, and I'ae bad a good time. I'se come back now, you see ” He has two yean more to serve and it is not probable that any other punishment will be inflicted on him for enjoying himself during the Christmas holidays. PjtßStmyu Rrv C. H Syuß'Eoir writes from the loath O' Franc* t"M be i Mowly *>ut sural v recover in; ia* Le*ltß| _ r ; f Jat ii# u> ia ha* 3? hie portrait painted by a Fene i artist ItfUJ that he is aratuarka bly quiet subject. Got A. IftLoßf fhief of artillfry on Gen. Lee'* staff Turin; the war, ia very ill at hia houie et Ohmriotteerlia. It is annockc* ‘hat Julia Rive-King is to make her irsne in aicagn, where her husband baa booms fngage i la, busings*. Miv. Maggie Mcboweix, one of the belles of C! ad Ate. N C.. ha become the wire of a Ger man nobljmfn, tbe Baron von Maltzahn. Fsor. Walter tiunrm of the Maine Btate College a} goon visit western collezes to study tbe variouSaystem* >f looTrucUon in agriculture, Gen. Casing M. Clat, Jrho has been seriously ill f r son* time -t hie home, at White Hall. Ky.. ia convalescing. This is his first sickness in forty years. Mrs. Miles, the wife of the general, who is looked on as tbe nation s best Indian fighter. Is a n’ece of’Gen. a . Senator Sherman, and a sister of Senator Cameron's wife. Marshal Booth gives this succinct statement of the salvation methods: "Scrubology and soapology, Ins ead of theology, are dealing with the submerged twen i ‘th of society." A rino which Gen. H. J, Hunt lost near Fair fax Station, Va., during the war was recently found imbedded in the hoot' of a cow owned by a dairy far i-r in diat> locality, and was re turn and to its owner in Washington. It is the opinion of Edwin Arnold that the Old Te-taulent is not tnorafnterwoven with the Je-* Ista race nor the New" Testament with the civilisation of Cun-tendoth than is the K iran with the records am: destinies of Islam. Miss Ray.Faank is one-of the few Jewesses who in rcoaet times have preached in a syna gogue. On the day of aMWeraert she spoke at Sp .kane Fa Is. Wa-h . and so interes-ei her hearers that they decided to establish a perma nent congregation C ere. Dr. Helen L. Bftts of Boston is the first woman physician chct *n td visit the laboratory of Pr *. Koch of Berlin, fd§ the purpose of in vest gating his discovery. *-he has been dele gated hy tbe Woman s M (Ileal College of Penn sylvania, of which she is a , ra ,uate T. E. G iRRf.TT, the St. Louis critic and author, who is one of Mrs. Navarro’s (Mary Anderson’s) correspondents, says; “There Is no doubt of her returning to the stage. She can never e happy in a dome-tic life usjra- she directs her ene: gv entirely to s ciety. She will i.e on the stage in a little while." Miss S.F. Frick, who hat collected, under the title, "Songs of tbe So ithland," published by D. Lothrop Company. Boston, some of the choicest po-ms of renrosentative s >ut iern wrt rs. is a resideo* of Bowling Green, * Ky. She has drawn from t e wi i mgs of Timrifcl, Hayne, Prentice, Poe and Father Ry an Miss FLORtiJfcE WiNboH,The daughter of the secretary,has rec ntly visited New York for the Surpose of obtain,'n r- u t.es for new pictures. [ins iVindom-js more tnan an amateur artist. She has been studying in übston tor some time, and has done work w icb .Critical judges have pronounced mope,than ordinary. The Prince o> Wales, it is reported, intends next season to introduce, a reform in the dinner hour. Tie fashionable boar of dining has in recent years been gettiq • later and later, and It is now generally 8:30, at) 1 often o’clock. The prince will, it is said, fix the hour f >r dinner at 8, and, of eouree.wnat t e prince d'les “society," in the exclusive sense, will follow. The late f.x-Jodok Cyrus C. Hines, for many years the law partner of President Har rison, and stinguished himself for personal bravery in the war as the commander of the Fiftv-seventh Indiana reglm nr At the hatile of Stone river a cannon ball ploughed away the flesn of his leg a ore tbe knee, an i he never fully recovered from the wound. Judge Hines, though nrcessart y thrown much before the public, wa< of a retiring disposition. He never sought political pnefrment, and when urged by his friends to do so stead (y refused. BRIGHT BITS. Mistress—Have-you any references? New Girl—No, mum. Have you?—Good Hews. So regular the life ha led That System seeined his very God; And whe i he died the people said “He ne’er did that before—how odd!’’ — Puck. Mr. W’rinklws—Whit's the matter, Mosef You look puzzled, Moses Coonsticker—Ye y sah; I'se been study in' ober this t'ing in der noospaciah, but I kain't make niiifln outeti it. Mr. Wrinkles—No wonder, poor fe’low, it's a negro dial ct story —Puck. “Marik," said ScriShleton, as heawoke in the mi idle of the right, “do ybn hear that mouse ratting the pap jr in the waste basket?’’ ' Yea. Is there auythiug that you wrote in it ?” ‘Yes.’’ "W 11, I’m going to get up and rescue the mouse."— Exc antje. Weary Reporter—Any assignment for me to day ? v City Editor (briskly)—Yes. Go to Delaware and get a job in a powder mill, and when an ex plos on occurs write it up. Repor'er-Write it up? City Editor—Well, you can wait till you come down.—BrooWt/a Life. Exchange Editor—Do vou think that the McKinley bill will increase the price of foot gear? Ardent Free Trader—l am positively sure of i . Exchange Eiitor (with tears of joy in his eves)—Tha ik heaven! There will be’endtothe 53 shoe man at last, —Chicago T> t bune. His Idea or Ir.— Aunt Furhy Lowe— How thin that city c’>an looks that’s staying over to t :e Smiths . They say he jest got back from Ku- Ijncle 8i L&Sb— T should think he would look thin ef he’s b*fen over there. I staved at one o’ them European hotels in the city t'other day, and they charged me 82 a day; and I didn't get a bite to eat the hull time.—Puck. Father ax Bon.—Mr*. Brokyrre—John, the principal writes that CJ’.arl s has been sus p uded for haiiti e. J * Mr. Brokyrhe—Toe rniaerabl ■ cub! Just wait until he gets h ime. I'll show him whether he can't learn to act as a gentleman— Mrs. Brokyrre—Oh, how did you tear your coat so? Mr. Brokylfo—We had a little fun down at the board this afternoou initiating anew memuer. — lnd.anapotis Jjii nal. He Was Whipsaweo.—“Can you drive?" asked a fair young Bast Bnd dairsd, as she stood by the side of her adorer and gazed out of the window St the snow. “Oh. yes." replied the young man, unthink ingly; "I'm quite a good driver." "And it loqks like good sleighing,” the girl went on. "Y-ee-s.” „gt The young man relapsed into silence, whicn was occupied chiefly in mental calculations as to how many sleigh rides at current rates he could afford on his JiO a-w.-ek salary. "You said you could drive, didn’t you?” asked he girl, resuming the subject "Well—er—it's be-n a long time since I did much driving, and I'm afraid it would hardly be safe for nie to undertake it" “Oh, I'm so sorry; I was just going to ask papa to have the Cutter hitched up so we could take a ride" —Pittsbur g Cht onicle. CUHBENT COMMENT. Thei.PdTiorce .Storm Cantor. } romjOi * Washington Past ( Ind.). The bogus dlvcrue storm center seems to have moved IromChicago to New York. A Pertinent ’nquiry. Prom (he jPkdadelphia Inquirer (Rep.). So Parnell J*bpos“s to step down ad out If O'Brien can f/k?e his place. And now, what is Mr. weakness? A Suggestion to Congressmen. From the Xew York Advertiser t Rep.). When a Wall street house with a Washington branch goes into liquidation it is ti ue for con gressmen with speculative records to lie low. Tin re are too many uncomfortable stories to be told. A Good Rec&rd for a) Sleepy Town. I Prom tm/IXetc York try ktms ( Rep. ), twsohe who are fon i of pueerfeig at Phiiadel pb a would do well to keep away from the statistics showing her grvVtn-during the last year She has erected over 12,000 new buildi igs in that time at a cost of over 136,000,000. Sleepy towns do not maze that sort of a record. “It leads them all,” is the general reply of druggists when asked about the merit or sales of Hood’s Sarsaparilla —Ad. He’ll Be Millionaire Some Day. "Bub be calls iat the market one morning, ■aye the Philadelphia P eu. after he had dis posed of all of hi* potatoes. 'is there any toy ■tore near here? - ’ “Yes. sir.” ’•Ju*t show me the way. will y:u? I’ve got to buy a few things for Christmas. ’ “tiot children*’’ ’’Yen.” “Got a boy aa big as me?’’ “Just about your age “What are you gang to buy him for Santa Caus ?*’ *'l iunno yet. I was thinking I’d git some sort of toy. “Say, 1-mme rise you a bit of advice," said the lad, as they wallte i alvng t ogether “Let to s alone. Steam engines are dan er /ns, toy mulee won't kick for shucks, and Christmas jact knives fall to pieces in a week. If you've got a boy, and you want ‘o tickle him most to death. 1 11 sell yon my roller skates for half prioe, cause we ain't got no place for s at ng this winter, and I want to sell ’em and spend It all In cocoanut caniy.” • She Guessed It Bight the First Time. Mr. De Monnkay. says the Kansas City Timet, who has just returned from a trip abroad, is at a party and is asked by his city hostess to be kind enouga to assist In entertaining a very pretty but ingenuous little cous.n from the country. Mr De Monnkay consents, fel mg sure that be can amuse her with a number of back-number joke* Mr. De Monnkay tan hour Inter, talking to the ingenuous little cousin Margaret): Really. Miaa Kemp, I have seen some very curious things and made some startling dlscovoriei abroad. Two years ago, w-b'le traveling through the jungles of Afr cja. 1 lost a hand some diamond ling. :-tx months ago. while tray lin 'through the same country, my black man idl el a long-tailed monkey, ttie meat of which they ate with great relish. Wnile they were preparing the animal for the tabl \ what do you suppose they found in that old monkey? Country Cousin (who has been out a little berseif and knows that sue is expected to soy “the ring,” wnereupon Mr. De Monnkay wll gleefully respond “bone3“): I hope you did not hod in the old aniuial an Mr. De Monnkay. What Makes a Man Old. To himself, a man is as old as he feels; to others, as old as he looks. There Is nothing strikingly new, gays the Boston Trantcript, in this obs rvation. hut it applied well in an amus ing case the ot er day. On a train that was coming into Boston there were tw o gentlemen Kitting in coutigu us seats. One of them was gray and bent. As the train approached the otatiou tne white Lured man rose, took up his overoat, hesitated and glanced nervously around. Tnenhesail: "Young man, I will be much obliged if you will help me on w.t i my overcoat.’’ The other rose quickly and gars him the as sistance that was asked for. “Tnere—ow! I’m a little stiff. Thank you.” said the old man. “Y'ou are kind. Some time you may be old yourself and then you will be glad of a young man's assistance." The other laughed. “Per..aps, sir,” he said, “you wouldn’t object to telliug me how old you are.” “I? Oh no!” said the old man. “I’m 63 years old-almost 64.” be said, with a sigh. “Indeed!’’said the “young man,” “and now 111 tell you how old Ia n. I shall be 71 years old my next birthday.” It was his actual age, but the first man flatly r -fu >d to believe it, and went off with an air as if he thought the other were trying to play a rather bad joke. An Absent-Minded Man. Clerk Shaver of the Sherman house, says the Chicago Post, war following with his eyes the form of a young man who had hurrieJly lift the hotel desk and wag headed for the Clark street door. As he disappeared from view t lerk Shaver remarked: "Th re are absent-minded men in this wood, and then again tuere are are alwent-minded meu. Not a few of them are composed of those who. in a moment of aberation, leave the hotel without paying And there are any number of others. But the man who just left here is the first of anew sp-cies He came up here a few moments ago, regis tered for himself and requested the best room in the house. I asked him if he bad any bag gage. He looked at me, surprise t like, then tbruatin ' his naad into his pocket exclaimed that he rather thought he had, and laid four trunk checks on the do.sk. As he turned to go he stopped, a s if he was trying to fr? shen his recolleotioL’, an 1 gazed aroun > ths rotunda. ‘ ‘I dunno wnat it is,’ tie said half to himself But seems to me I've forgotten somethin*.' He counted tne checks he had given me, looked at his umbrella and cane, felt for his pocket-book, and, upon finding it, he tuned bis *a/.e on me. But there was no speculation in my eye, and he was about to follow ttie b 11-boy to his room whan his memory performed its duty. Ho thumped his fist on the register an i cried: “ ‘Hreafc Scott, It's my wife! You ee, I was thin kin* of soinetniu* when the train got in. and I left the car without ever noticing her Just have a fire built in my room, will you, and 1 ii run back to the to get her.’ ” Courtship Among the Sioux. The Sioux method of eourtshlp, says the Chi cago he’aid. Instills in a lovelorn buck the viriue of patience, if nothing more. When a young Sioux warrior seeks a sweetheart he paints his face in man) colors, envelops himself so completely in a hlanket that nothi ig of him but i.is eyea are visibl • and lets his br ecu clout drag along on the round behind. This b eech clout, bv the way, is tne most extravagant piece of the young warrior’s raiment It is often made of many colors, and is bespangled with looking glasses, small coins, bells and beads. Arraved in this attire, the young man takes his position where the shy maidens of his tribe are sure to pass him. He may stand there half an hour before he receives any encouragement and then again ne may have to wait there for a whole week. But he never despairs. Tne girls know why he wears that cloak and w yhe peers at them Irom beneath ite folds. Usual y there are from two to five squaw hunters to gether. If one of them is noticed favorably bv a young girl 1 e immediately joins her and begins to make the most ardent love. If after his story has been told, the girl rejects him, the next young buck leaves the party, with his breech clout Jingling behind him, and tries his hand. Thus the lovers follow one another until the girl tln.ls a promising buck who hes either d,ne some groat deed or who is rich enougn in ponies orteers to reimburse the father for the loss of his child or who is in a position to earn some sort of fame in war or in peace. The agent usually ties the mar.tal knot. Whatever may be said about the barbarous practices a id the unci-‘anliness of the Sioux and Cheyenne women, it is nevertheless a fact that they are,' with rare exceptions, ndustrioue and virtuous When they nave married white men they have proved to be economical wives and good mothers. Jocko Went to Church. "Where did 1 get Jocko, my monkey? Well, sir, thereby hangs a tale as long as Jocko's own," said Mr. Brown of Altoona, Pa., recently to the Ol be-Democrat. “Jocko belonged to a lady I call Aunt Jessie, who lives in the next county, and was very fond of him for all his tricks, though her daughter, Miss uizz e, hated hi.n intensely because of tne same. The monkey seemed to understand this a id in re venue would tease the girl in every way po-s - hie, steal her things, j Tk her hair, mimic her gestures, until her die was fairly a burden. Slid her mother was so attached to the animal that she did not insist on his being gotlen iid of till one day last summer, when I was on a visit to them, ard Jocko was guilty of a trier teal made Mis* Lizzie rebel at last. “She had dressed hurriedly for church—it was Sunday—and had gone off leaving drawers and boxes opeu, and without securing her door which was necessary to keep Jacso from in soec.ing the contents of every nook a id cranny For all uer haste, however, sue was detained on her way, and was some m. u es late wnen she reacned ihe ohnrch. As she entered a burst of laughter greeted her, so involuntary and pre press ble as to nearly cause her to s nk tnrough the tl ior with mortification Hast ly glancing be .in 1 her sue saw .Tacko y -s, you rogue, you know I’m talking about you—prancing after her with an absurd mimicry of her rather stiff carriage, on his head one of her bonnet*, wtncU had eclipsed one eye, and wabbled ridiculously as he walked, with one pa v noid ng a large neck hanuk rchief about his slim waist, like a sweeping skirt, whil - in the otner he carried a Japanee fan. But, worst of all, the scamp had found the box of water colors, and bad daubed his face a bright scarlet, and had powdered his wicked head with chalk. “Poor Miss Lizzie, in her mortification, tried to catch tne monkey, who fled from her up the aisle, where he was attackei by the ushers with canes and umbrellas; but, flying from them, he nought refuge among the heavy oak beams ornamenting the ceiling of the church, and sit chattering there during the rest of the servioes. Poor Miss Lizzie was so ULconce ted and nervous over the affa.r that aha did not remain, but went home at once to i ,sist on Jocko's be ing gotten rid of. On my s goifying that I would lisa to have him, hi was very lovingly given over to me, a-d here he is. Mis; lizzie says sue could have forgiven him all except tne for she can never convince bar friends, especially her lady friends, that the material use ! was a water color, not rouge. Come off my shoulder, bad Jocko, and bow to tne gentleman.” IT3MS OF INTEREST. A clock stand noted recently was In the form of a raiib t raised on its ha inches and munching contentedly a green carrot top. As odd trifle for the smokers' table is a sliver ash tray eoatain n an enameled cigar stump lying beside tee wo ds “Mv last." Sons very a'tractive hairpin tops have been davis-d as globes, withs Grecian border out lined with aiamo dsendr. ling each. “"amp B jyto include- a ladies' small band sachrL When the caich is slipped one side drops open asd Ui>c:oe, t. a stamps. A brooch that claims attention is formed by two mo j-tstoie hearts set beside eaeh other in a gold rope uteri* wits overlapping ends. Silver xtPxi.N nrsos acre seen in imitation of low butter rqbt with fbe bottom knocked out. a series of hoojSs ei, ere dug the entire ring. Thk sport-lovin’ public will bail with p’eos ure horse-oollsr scarf pin. which has its outer edge set closely witu pure white diamonds. A char aiso contrivance for holding pens and ink is an oxidized silver figur- with old-fash ioned yoke and milk pails fitted to his shoulders. Ntw-i comes from Washington of a highly commendable innovation, which. It may be hoped, w 11 soon become the fashion In London Tne invitation cards to a "snarl” wedding, which recently took place there, bore in the lower left-hand corner this pleasing intimation, “No presents.” The recent sale of relics at Philadelphia which were once the prope ty of Gen Geoige Washington has awakened anew interes! in curiosity ss-ker. A Mid letown (Pa.) editor has tie in shown a brass flmt-iook pistol (a regu lar old-time ) bv F. H. Barr, which was ovnod by the fat :er of his country, havi g the name G. Washington, 1749. engraved on the barrel. “Minot House” (fof Thoreau was bom In the home of his maternal grandmothe , Mrs. Minot, in Ju'y. 1817,) stool on the right han i side of the "Virginia rod.“ as you come from Lex ington to Concord by t hat route. • * * Tbo reau only lived in this bouse eight mon’hs, yet such wa his memory that he could remember a Hock of duck, which his baby eyes rested on tlgare. The late Joseph Edgar Boehm, the Viennese sculpt r, who was so great a favorite of Queen Victoria, was very food of horses, and trained his own to pose as models for bis equestrian work, one of these animals, a thoroughbred mare, having learned to piefc her way about ihe studio without disturbing a tool or cast, and to rear or hold a leg immovable in air at her mas ter's command. Gen. Sherman goes about town almost in variably in the street cl -s. says the New York ■Sun. Asa rule one of his daug tersacc m pa ies him, and the old warrior, in jumping on ad off the steps, is as young as many men forty years his junior. “Cabi are al! right to look at," he said the other night as he sank in the corner of a Broadway car at Fifty n nth street, “but they are te rible things to ride in. The piveme its are so bad that on? is jolted about from side to aids, and the noise drowns all a-tempts at convesation. Tne street oars ar c ean and comfortable, and they roll smoothly over the rails. In this way it is a great improvement on auy carriage in New York.” A personal meeting with Capt. Edgar Allen Poe, of the Princeton football t am. says the New York World, when that red übtable player is in s reet attire is a g od deal at e nature of a surprise. On the field he seems an engine of force, stren th and power, and he throws him self with indomitable pluck against such a giant of strengt > as Heff lfinger wltn vis ble effect. In private life he is a short and not particularly robust-lio.inr young man who appears only a y ar or t >colder thin the average schoolboy. He has a frank, easy and pie isant manner and tis face would look poetical if it were n t for bis historical y abused nose. T eswrilinrof that member has subsided, but there are evi dences of t e wound of no mean proportion. He is called Peter Poe. probably necause that is not not his name. He bears the famous name of his great uncle, the poet. Considerable excitement was ereat'd in Elba, Tex., recently, when It was learned that an ancient s ‘jpulch r had been discovered near there by Dr. Fears ad Maj. Fidter of thar place and Prof. Ashley of Springfield, 111. The doctor mad- his first di c iverv six ye..rs ago. since which time he has sent much of his spare time in the region making investigations Some months ago he took Maj. Fidler into his confi dence. The exhuming of the ancient resting place of the dead began in a very quiet way. it was roon discovered that something of an his torical nature bad been brought to light, when Prof. Ashley was wired to come at once The catacomb co tains many pet.r fl and remains of human beings, some very ancient sculptures and weapons of war. Tue professor claims there is some clu' to dates that will ne of reat his torical importance. It is further wuispered that considerable treasure has been found. Local applications over its seat bring relief in some cases of neural tic pain, while in otheis they do no good whatever. Among the many domestic e nedies commonly resorted to are heat, mustard plasters, the half of a 1 mon, laudanum, and sometimes ice. These occa si nally act well. Medicines to stupefy the uerves of ttie affected parts are also frequently self-prescribed. Chloroform liniment is one of these; and s< metlm s pure chlorofo m is used Tills burns like mustard if. after being freely rubb ‘d on the spot, it is quickly covered with oiled silk or several f Ids of flannel. But, as a rule, none of these applications are as effectual as m-nihol in a solution of alcohol—one drachm to an ounce. And this is especially to be pre ferred to t e other preparati ns mentioned, for t ere iscn that it is perfectly saf •. It can be applied with a small sponge, or a thin cloth be wet with it and laid onto the paiuful parts. The mu h-wronged S rvian queen, Natalie, has at length been persuaded to withdraw the memorandum which she intended to submit to the Sfcuptsohint. It was represented to her that she would be doing a serious injury to her son and to the dynast if she raised a parlia mentary discussion of the events which pie ce led her and vorce. and she a >pears to have yielded to this consid ration. In return the re gents hav> promised t at tnev will do t eir ut most to procure for her more frequent inter views wltn ner son thau had been arranged tor her by King ilan It is not to b ■ expect 'd however, that Queen Nata ie should eras alto gether fro n attempting to gat her div ,rce quas led. Toe opinion expressed bv tie Metro politan Michael as to the invalidiiy of Arch bishop Th-o io iu s' decree has eoper.ed the whole question, and the uueeu has miny mare parti ans now than 6he ha 1 a sort time ago. Compared with natural gas paid for by meter, artificial fuel gas is not by any means the ex pensive fuel that many people imagine it to be. The gas apparatus at the Beaver Fails Mill of Carnegi-, P iipps St Cos. is said to produce gas at a cost of 1 cent per 1,000 cubic fet, using coal at $1 ner ton. About 159,0.0 cubic feet of gas have been obtained from a ton of coal There are eight prod ac rs. each consuming five tons of coal every twenty-four hours ths entire set yielding 8,360 000 feet of gaa per day By the use of this gas the fuel con sumption has been brought as low as 300 pounds per ton of iron. In some rolling mills where coal is used in the heating furnaces ti e fuel consumption runs up to nearl • the weight of iron made. To puddle a ton of pig iron re quires about 65.000 feet of natural gai. or one tou of coal. Producers gas at 1 cent per 1 000 feet shows a wide margin of advantage over coal at $1 per ton. One of the Springfield (Mass.) hotels occasion ally has a queer lodger. He was formn-iy an engineer, but is now a United States boiler in spector. While an engineer he was severely scalded on one side, and is unable to sleep com fortably when Ivin,- upon that i art of his b >dv Whenever he happens to turn noon the twider place be make, a great disturbance in his silep but is difficult to arouse. Ths otuer evemag was one qf his n thts, and he awoke half the guess in the house. The landlord was just upon the point of oitmbln - through the transom to awake him when the man fell out of b*d Wheu heuauers ood the atat- of the case he explained that all that was necessary to bring him out all ngbt at *uch a time was to yell “Turn Over, John,” he having become so fa miliar wit i such a command in his sieen that he invar ably obeyed dt unconsciously. The plan has since been triad Rni fou id to work admira bly. The boarder! hoy* the clerk will never lose the combination. An improved oraphonhonical instrument, so to speak, has lately been exhibited la New Y’ork. It is called the gramophone, and the exhibitor was Prof. E. Bertraer. 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