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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. The instru-
WtiJ,n, reC T* 1 w,la *? the form of musical se
T ie sound naves are etched into a
zinc plat* .but it is expected that stee! and glass
that 6 h' *‘ ne dl ' ltß so small
that they maj bj sent in an ordinary envelope
for two cents. The ttim used allows arti* t's
etching to be accompusned with a brush an 1
the hues can be shaded. As the s m pmc pl'
applies in the-dching of sound wave. P t hb£s?
be expected from the graraapbone
in the shading of sounds and distinguishing of
voice quamy.-spec, ally in loud sounds, Tuom
Traoh’Tui?^ 1 *? P r in ttie phoiK?
jzraph. It has been ileni zuttrate.l that ttmt th*
plates may be co pi jd aoa prints taken Ex
pcriments are also being made to " 1 ,h
--sound Unas etried la tut pUti, .aJ
engraving processes, to ,„ r set them so tu!t
the volume of sound will bs increased.
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