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Newspaper Page Text4 C|c!ponungstetos Mo>i.ng New* Building, Savtnnaa, Os. MONDAY. JAI'AY 18, 1891. Registered at the P.tstoffloe in Sa van a iK. The Mo : ximo New* U published every day io the year, and Is served t > subscriber* in the c.ty at 85 cents a wee* $1 00 a month, $J 00 for sis Months an 1 $lO 00 for one year. The Morxino Si*, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 SO; six months. $5 00; One year, $lO 00. The Monxixo News, by mail, six times s we*k (without Sundav issue', threw months, $2 00; Mi months. $ 00; one year. $8 00. The Morxino News Tri-Weekly, Mondaye, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, thros montha $1 36; six ■Bontls. $■ 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, SI OO. The Wsexly Nxws, by mail, one year, $1 98. Subscription* payable in sdeanoe. Remit by aee'al order, chwe. or registered letter. Cut' fancy sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed "Mornjno N*ws." Savannah. Ga Transient advertisements, other than special aolumn. local or readme notices, amuse ments end cheap or want column, 10 cents a Mne. Fourteen lines of agate type— equal to Dca Inch space in depth--is the standard of aseasnrement. Contract rates rind discounts ■sade known on application At business office. Ul it NEW I'OKH OFFICE. Mit. J. J. Fltxx, General Advertising Agent Of the Morkixg Newh, office S3 Park Row, Hew York. All advertising business outside of the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Mooning News is on die at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding tne paper can be obtained: RE tv YORK CITY J. H. Bates, 38 Park R- >w. G. P. Rowell A Cos., 1> Spruee streak. W. W Sha p A Cos ,21 Park Row. Prank Kiernax A Cos.. 152 Broadway. Dauchy A Cos., S< Park Place. J, W. Thompson. 39 pars Row. American NewspaperPurlishkrs’ Associattok, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA— N. 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Stockholders ina New York country bank recently elected a young miss as a direotor of the institution. Gradually woman is getting among the men, and making it pay. Chile has just bad another “dead smooth” revolution that knocked an “i" out of the name of the republ c. Unlike former revo lutions, it was settled with ballots instead of bullets. Knowing ones sny that Harrison took a sly whack at Cameron with his trusty cheese knife while the excitement was at its bight. But he missed his aim as usual, and only ripped his own raiment, s > to speak. Harrison is a veritable bowlegged hoodoo, who appears unable to see over that hereditary hat. “Sons of Veterans” are now having a small-sized war of thsir own, and the bugle blast of recrimination is beard in the laud adjacent to Albany. No carnage. They will rigidly couflno the fray to that resonant but trusty weapon with which Bamson is said to havo once got 1,000 Philistines more than half slewed. Railroad magnates in the west recently met in solemn conclave and adopted what they call “simply an agreement between gentlemen.” That sounds good. They liked it mightily. Indeed, they wero so utterly entranced with It that they are now toiling over another one of anew kind. Suggestions that it is to be christened “honor among thieves” are mere chanoe conjectures aud quite improbable. Nebraska is having a regular bog-killing time over the final induction of her state officers. All the state miliiary was re quired to repress the ebolutmg enthusiasm and the republican tendency to hold on to the offices. There is a hot and triangular tussle between three willing candidates for governor. But Democrat Boyd will probably hook the official persimmon at long range because he secured the largest poll. Recently a prospective bride in Illinois committed suicide after the groom had gone to all the trouble and expense of buying a license, which he now has on hand and don’t know how to use. As it is a dead loss to him be is willing to sell it cheap for cash. To aggravate his agony an acquaintance has done up his dilemma in very rugged verses. When a man tackles matrimony tnere is no telling what may happen to him before be gets away from it. After administering to their intended Victim a mess of roaked parlor matches, a truffle of boiled I ‘dog'buttoD,” a whiff of “rough on rats,” and a palatable solution of arsenic, two desperate and determined Ohio murderers finally resorted to quick silver and pie. That proved fatal. No one could survive such a deadly dose as that. Then, through remorse for the agony in flicted by that pie, one of the culprits sub sequently committed suicide. No wonder. It must have been horrible. When the forthcoming annual reunion takes place in Baltimore, Col. R. Fret ton Chew, of C'har'estown, W. Va., has been invited to respond to the toast: “The Artil lery,” at t le banquet of the Confederate States Society, at the Carrollton hotel, on the evening of Jan. 19. Col. Chaw is a graduate of the Virginia Militar y Institute and served with di tinctioo in the confed erate army, rising to the rank of ooionel and the command of the artillery of the cavalry corps of the army of Northern Vir ginia. Subsequently he was a member of the House of Delegates of West Virginia, and was chairman of the finance committee of that body. He is said to be a very grace ful and fluent speaker. Forakar Forecasts the Future. Several highly esteemed contemporaries have lately been telling the world .in a terse headline that “Foraker talks.” That's true enough. It’s a habit be has. Thus dis turbing the c untry in times of profound poace seems to greatly delight the ex-gov ernor aud always fierce and hopeful candi date for whatever seems most available That is bis way of crulhing out incipient discussion with the weight of his ponderously mature opinions when he gets them in work ing order. Tbit time he has been talking chiefly of Mr. Harrison, whose accumulated wisdom and dexterous administration of the govern ment be does not seem to hold in bec.mlng reverence. Of course he protests that "it has been conservative, painstaking, honest and patriotic.” That is a part of his parti san duty. Nevertheless he declares that “there is something wrong somewhere. My obker ration is that be dots not get in touch, in sympathy with the people. There is a certain coldress. He does nothing as the individual to inspirebis party.” Further he deliberately crushes Mr. Harrison’s hopes for a renomination by cooliy concluding that he does “not think the republicans of Ohio have decided that a second term is probable.” That is truly dreadful! What is a forlorn presidentiil candidate to do when the Ohio republicans calmly decide against his cherished aspirations! Crushing hered itary hopes in that coldly unsympathetic way is positively cruel. It is ridiculous. Thus departs Harrison. . Unless the secretary’s own future conduct shall destroy his present prestige the fiery oracle of the Buckeye vale solemnly avt-rs that Blaine is destined to get the designed compliment of the republican nomination. But the great volunteer prophet does not seem inclined to eucourage the prospects of McKinley as a gubernatorial possibility in Ohio. He says the ; aritf scientist's chances are not as good now as they were three months ago. Still the prophet firmly denies that he is .scheming to have John Sherman nominated. Concluding his remarks Mr. Foraker takes an uncommonly mild whack at his aggres sively indifferent friends and detractors by saying that he is “not worrying much about Sherman, MoKiuley or anybody, as is charged.” Then he languidly pursued the subject in this fashion: “I sometimes get reflective, end when 1 do I see how readily retributive justice overtakes mankind. I sometimes reflect that of the coterie of men who stabbed me in the back all of them are either now or about to beoome private citi zens. While I take no special delight in any glorification because of this, I cannot but at times think about it.” When Mr. Foraker “gets reflective” he seems to also get ungrammatical, and like wise politically left. Saving Lives at Sea. When the weary crew of a storm-tossed vessel has grown sick and despondent in an unevon hand-to-hand battle with the angry billows, the ship is strained in every timber, the passengers aro in a panic of frantic alarm, aud the care-worn officers in gloomy despair are about to abandon furthor strug gles, what a gloriously revivifying effect it must have upon their jaded spirits to see a bright rooket signal shoot forth from the shore to convey to them the assurance that a hardy crew of life-savers Is pulling rapidly to their relief. Many a (professional os well as amateur) mariner con never for get the sensation so long as life may lost. They can fully appreciate the noble work of the United Stales life-saving servioe. It is indeed a grand institution, and worthy of more general appreciation than it gets. According to a report recently issued by the treasury department, of which this hon orable organization is an adjunct, the ser vice has made a record of unosteu tatiously substantial usefulness that is not surpassed in actual tangible re sults by any other department of the government of even approximately like funotlons and facilities. Duriug the year 1889 nearly 3,500 lives and property valued at about $5,500,000 wero saved. During the twenty years o? the existence of the service 4*1,000 lives and property to the aggregate value of $06,000,000 were rescued from the waves. Only think of it! People enough to make a goodly city and property enough to establish a stale prevented from perish ing? Isn’t that a noble institution? Yet the cost of maintaining this valuable stan chion of the merchant marine last year was less than $1,000,000. With all of its effective good work to oominend it to favor, however, the servioe has always been stinted iu appropriations and cramped and somewhat handicapped for lack of adequate funds to provide es sential supplies. That is not at all credit able to the country. Be-ides, the men are by no means paid what their work is really worth. That is unjust. Congress should remedy these shortcomings without delay. Men who are constantly engaged in saving tne lives of others at the peril of their own should oertainly be justly and liberally, if not generoudy, dealt with. They deserve it. Tradition and anecdote tell us many won derful things of the Emerald Isle and its equally peculiar inhabitants. Many of its natives who come to this country have also displayed a degree of verdancy quite in keeping with the tendency of the ‘‘ould sod." Until lsst week, however, no one had arrived upon whom the national color was so indelibly impressed as the blooming young damsel who was unloaded at the New York barge office from the Britannic Fri day. Reporters of established veracity who viewed the "living curiosity” declare that her wavy tresses were as green as the moss covered stone on which St. l’atrick sat when he ordered the snakes out of Ireland. Possi bly that may only indicate that her locks have not stopped growing. Fully grown they may become as golden yellow as the song-celebrated “Waving Corn of Tennes see” to match her violet eyes. Talking about sportive delights but hasn’t Prophet Greely a regular “soft snap,” so to speak! When a coolness springs up between earth and sky he gets himself ordered to Asheville or St. Augustine or other balmy southern resorts “on du'ies connected with the signal service.” Then when the sweating season approaches he has his “orders” shifted to Bar Harbor, New port, Narragansett or Saratoga. Same reason. Possibly he goes to temper the atmosphere to the fat man or scientific salubrity. Diligent attention to these im portant details of his business is one of Gen. American Weather Greaiy’s greatest weak nesses. Yet it does not appear to fatigue him iu the least. An exchange warbles that “the dream of modern civiliz ition is international omcert.” What’s the matter with that swelling sym phony in which English and Irish artistes are now waking the echoes and all the neighbors! Hey! THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 12,1891 Jewish Vital Stat sties. Under the supervision of Surgeon Bil lings of the United States army. Special Agent A. S. Solomons, of the census bureau, has compiled some very interesting vital statistics cf the Jewish population of the { United .States Schedules were furnished ! to every family kaown to have resided m this country a least five years prior to Jan. 1, 1890, numbering over 15,000 families, and returns were voluntarily made by the beads of 10,618 families, embracing 60,630 persons. No attempt was made to ascertain the exact number of Jewish inhabitants in the country. All that was attempted was to secure sufficient data frum which to draw reliable deductions. Of these 10,618 families the beads of 1,333 were native born, 8,263 had been in the United States fifteen years and over, 221 from ten to fifteen years, 552 from five to ten years, 126 under five years, aud for 124 toe period of residence in the United State* was unknown; 2,413, including 13,818 persons, resided in New York, Brooklyn, and the immediate vicinity;4,4U families, including 25,186 persons, and in cluding these residents in the metropolitan district of New York, resided in the eas tern states and on the Atlantic coast; 1,352 families, including 7,750 persons, resided in the Mississippi valley; 2,719 families, in cluding 15,476 persons, resided in the region of the great lakes; 703 families, including 4,000 persons, resided in tbo extreme w est ern states aud on the Pacific slope; and 1,433 families, including 8,218 persons, re sided in the southern states and on the Guif coast. From the table the ratios of mar riages, births, and deaths in all these locali ties appear very uniform throughout. There fore for the most part totals only are re ferred to. To some extent the social condition of these families is indicated by the fact that 3,996 of them, Including 21,797 persons, or a little over one-third of the whole, ire re ported as keeping no servants, while the re mainder, 6,622 families, including 38,833 perrons, kept one or more servants, and may, therefore, be presumed to have been in easy circumstances. It is somewhat re markable that there should tie so little difference In the vital statistics of these two classes, and this difference Is for the most port in the opposite direction from that which usually occurs under such circum stances, the average death and birth rates being somewhat less in the poorer classes than among those keeping servants. In those familes which kept no servant, and which, therefore, may be pre sumed to have belonged to the poorer classes, the birth rate was lower than it was among those In more easy oircumstances, being 66.92 per 1,000 women between 15 and 50 years of age, as against 68.14 for those families keeping one servant. 89.84 for those families keeping two servants, end 80.79 for those families having three or more serv ants. For those families living in the southern states the birth rate is highest, be ing 94.52 per 1,000 women between 15 and 50 years of age, and rising to 112.22 per 1,000 for those families in this region keep ing three or more servants. To each of the 10,085 mothers the average number of children born was 4.66. Those mothers who were burn in the United States average only 3.56 children each, as against 5.24 for those born In Germany, 5.63 for those born in Russia and Poland, 5.27 for thoie born in Hungary, and 5.44 for those born in Bohemia, indicating a dimin ished fertility in those women born in this country. If accurate, the figures for the births by successive years Indicate that the birth rate is tending to diminish, especially when it is remembered that there is a somewhat smaller population to give rise to births iu 1885, at the commencement of the period, than in 1889, at the close. Among tho Jews the proportion of males to females was larger than in the general population of the country at the tenth cen sus, being 109.53 males to each 100 females, as against 103.57 males to 100 females in the general population. Of 40,666 born in the United States, 36,772 had parents, one or both cf whom were foreign born. For 12,754 of the whole number the mothers were born in the Uuited States; for 1,235 in Engla-id and Wales; for 83,549 in Germany; for 6,355 in Russia or Poland; for 1,465 in Hungary; for 1,759 in Bohemia; for 659 in France, aud the remainder in other foreigu countries. Among the males the proportion engaged in occupations connec ed with commerce is very large. Of the total 18,115 males re ported as having some definite occupation ,14,527 were wholesale or retail dealer-, bankers, bookkeepers, clerks, etc., while only 84 were reported as being laborers and 388 as engaged in agricultural pursuits. Relatively the Jews have suffered greater loss than their neighbors by deaths from diphtheria, diarrhceal diseases, di-eases of the nervous system (and especially from dis eases of the spinal cord), from diseases of the circulatory system, urinary system, bones and joints, and of the skin, while their mortality has been relatively less from the tubercular diseases, including consump tion, scrofula, tabes and hydrocephalus, than the other peoples with whom they are compared. Among the native born of native-born parents, the death-rate was 9.15, and among the foreign-born 7.61. Between the ages of 25 and 45 the death rate among single males is decidedly greater than among married males. For females between the ages of 25 and 35 the death rates are for the single2.4B and married 4.55, indicating the increased dangers due to conception and partu rition ; but among females over 35 years of age the death rate is greater among the single than it is among the married. Among females the average death rate is groater (7.16) than among males (6.47); but this excess of deaths aino g females occurs after 15 years of age, the rates under 15 be ing for males 10.64, and for females 9.15. Among males the general death rate is greater among those whose mothers were born in the United States and least among those whose mothers were natives of Russia or Polaud. When, however, the death rates of the living male population betweon 15 and 45 years of age are compared, it is found that the average death rate was 3.10, while for those whose mothers were born in the United States it was 1.98, for those whose mothers were born in Germany 2.86, for those whose mothers were born in Russia and Poland 1.59, and for those whose moth ers were born in England and Wales 6.32, If the data as to births and deaths re ported for the Jews in the United States were correct, they would indicate that the birth rate among them is decreasing and the death rate increasing with prolonged residence in this country. Rut even from the tables given in the bulletin, from which the foregoing facts are taken, it is evident that the Jews in the United States preserve many of the prom inent peculiarities that bare been noted among them in Europe, and that more ex tended and reliable information relative to their birth and death rates in this country is highly desirable. PERSONAL. Prof. Charus Lee Smith of Johns Hopkins University has been elected to the new chair of his-.ory and political science at the William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. Jacob Kahn, a Cleveland shoemaker, claims that he has invented, and will have in operation in sixty ‘lays, a com pressed air motor that will propel a street car twenty miles an hour at a cost of 3 cents. The pictuke of Editor Stead of Loudon, which he has printed in his review, shows him as a men who looks as if he were more skilled in business than in literature. He is sitting at his his <Lsk. pen in band, and his h gh forehead has the hair well brushed back. The eyes are the most st: Iking feature, the mouth being hidden behind a mustache and beard. The Baroness Althea Salvador, whose letter* from Paris to American newspapers have made her quite well known, is an accomplished nousi cian and her salon is one of tne most charming 1 1 Paris. She is a tali and slender blonde, quite pretty and always elegantly dressed. The bar oness is an American girl, being a decendant of an old New Hampshire family. 3. P. Hutchinson, the big Chicago grain speculator, is about 70 years old. In all his mental characteristics be is a yankee of yankees. shrewd and unyielding in a bargain and most unconventional and democratic in his way*. He >s tall and spare, withs arp features, and, as a result of his abstemious mode of life, he is the equal of n en thirty years his juniors. Mrs. Stanley has not once been ill during her stay in America. She is very fond of fresh air and ke-pi the temperature of her room at 62°. Every day she takes a long walk. She thinks that American women are more hospitable than the women of London at-d the cities of the British isles, but "the English girl i* better w hen you get acquainted with her. She is a little stiff and distant at first, but improves after she has thawed out.’’ Mrs. M. French Sheldon appears to be thor ughly in earnest in her intention of going into ilie heart of Africa. She expects to reach Zan zibar in February. Procuring guides, interpre ters and supplies there she will enter the Dark Continent et Mombassi, and from there she will make her way to the mountain and lase of Kil amajaro, a distance of 10G imlesfrom Zanzibar. 'lrs. Sheldon’s object in uuclrt taking this ad venturous Journey Is to study the domestic hab ia of the black men and black women. Then he will write a novel about them. The enoaokkent of John Jacob Astor, only son and heir of Mr. and Mrs. William Astor, of No. 360 Fifth avenue. New York, to Miss Ara Willing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Willing of Phila lelphia, is an assured fact and the engagement will soon tie formally an nounce 1. Mr. Astor is about 24 years of age, tall and slenderly built, with blue eyes, fair nair and mustacho. He is the youngest of the family. His two sisters are Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton and Mrs. Or ne Wilson. Mrs. Astor is the acknowledged leader of New York society, and her son is considered one of the leaders among the younger sot. Miss Willing, who conies of an ol Philadelphia family, is a b au tlful blonde, with fair hair and blue eyes. Sh) is we 1 known in New Y rk society, having at tended all of the assembly and patriarch balls since she made her debut. BRIGHT BITa. It is raid that a Chinaman never go°s crazy. There is no reason why he should- Millinery bill, are unknown in the Flowery Kingdom.— Texas Siftings. It appears that the Wovnded Knee fight was brought about by the treachery of Big Foot. It is fortunate that Stub Toe was not there. —.Yeui Orleans Picayune. does a train of thought rqn to?” asked Bloobumper qulieically. ' “To Boston, I suppose/ - replied Mrs. Bloo trunnier—Harper's bazaar. "The cold in Riissla is unprecedented at this season,” remarked a democrat. "Has thure been an election there too?" asked a republican.—l Ac Spick. “He referred me to you as to his honesty.” "And I certainly can indorse him thorough!!-. Why, my dear sir, I’d trust that man with—with —why, with au umbrella. —Philadelphia Times. Mrs. Grumps -If (hat jstranger yam werodalk ißg to said nothing about bis wi(h how d<> you know he if niaffi|d?tMr“c;fuufl3#.Oh, he looked so son o’ isfiwialhetio when! told him I was.--Good AVici j ; “I will bet that woman's a terror holding her own," was remarked at the reception. "What makes you think so?" "I never say uie show -more backbone.— 1 iul<uU.h/ua Tin )<(. Thb man who is effusively pleasant with every body usually makes himself a nuisance, but the man who endeavors habitually to make him se*f a nuisance never succeeds by any accident in being pleasant .—Philadelphia Press. Hb (feeling his way)—X—l wish we were good friends enough for you—to call mo by my first iiUnie. She (helping him alongifl-O, your list name is good enough for me.—. Vase York Weekly. So vrry uncertain the weather winds blow, One cannot tell whether to sing The poetry written on beautiful snow Or the flowers that bloom in the spring. H-'us.'iinatnn Post. At the Theater. —But, Mr. Flnkelstein, why applaud the play bo vigorously when it is so ex ecrably bad ? "That maxes no difference to me, my dear fellow. 1 lent the author 100 marks this morn ing.”— Fliegende Blatter. Miss Nancy— l cannot marry you, Mr. Winkle. Mr. Winkle—lf you can be so cruel as to re fuse the unit of one who loves you as much as I do, then you are n t worthy of a love so great as mine and Ido not love you. Eternal fare well!—The Bostonian. The maiden with the rounded form , And cheeks with health agiow, Rejoices greatly when she sees The first good fall of snow. She knows the season is at hind When xhe and he will glide. With both his arms around her waist, Down (ho toboggan slide. —Nero York Herald. CUBRBNT COMMENT. They are Able-Bodied Reducers. From, the Chicago Mail (Ind.X Idaho has three United States Senators. Here is another surplus for the republicans to reduco Down on Dave. Prom the Philadelvhia Inquirer (Rep.). The lesson of St. Jackson's day is that Gov. Hill will never get Pennsylvania's vote for the presidency. Make-UD of a Republican Majority. From the St. Louis Republic (Deni.). With one clerk and fifty polieemee. Buccaneer Bill Chandler amounts to a majority pro tem. in New Hampshire. Fancy Figures for Feed. From the Boston Herald (Ind.X At a dinner given in New York the other night to thirty-three persons the bill was S6,SIX), or just about S2J9 a plate. That will do for reckless gorgeousness. Grover Gta the Goodies. From the Baltimore American (Rev.). Gov. Hill is writ inr the letters, but ex-Presi dent Cleveland is getting the dinners and the applause. Got. Hill ooght to get married. Now That’a a Real Mean Fling, FTom the Philadelphia Press (Rep.). Hiram de Walt, prohibitionist, is the first nominee for mayor. Mr. de Walt will under stand the text. ‘ The first shall be last,” when the returns come in on election night. Gracious Greeting of the Governors. FYom the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.). New Hampshire ha-; been stolen from the party of tne people, but democratic governors smile at each otoer from Connecticut, Massa chusetts, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. O, Isn't That Just Awfull From the Boston Journal (Rep.). In six congressional districts in South Caro lina last November the aggregate vote cast in opposition to the democratic candidates for congress was exactly 95. In the remaining dis trict, where the republicans were in overwhelm ing majority, the democrats have stolen the certificate. To purify Your blood Taka Hood’s Sarsaparilla.—A& Chicago Haa Desperate Hat Crlminae. It is laid that the Arabs, vbo are notoriously the most expert thieves in the world, have been known to steal the shoes from the feet of a runner. Whether this is truth or tradition, save the Chicago Mali the fact remains t at Cnicazo thieves hare little to learn from the liaht An gered sons of the desert either ii audacity or proficiency. The dayl.gbt rob wry of the office of AUrrton A Cos., the South Chicazo bank rob bery, the theft of e mail pouch while in transit from rha dap it to the posteffice. ant the looting of a Are department station while the firemen were abient up in a wild goose chase in answer ing a false alarm wot In Ly the thieves, are still fresh in the minds of all Chicago readers. But bold as were all these criminal events, they are very tame and spiritless when compared with a robbery perpetrated a few days ago at the Palmer house in broad daylight. The many friends of Harry Jones of the Tribun* will be pained to learn that be is th latest victim of the expert crooks who lately have caused the local police much uneasiness. For several years an immacuate tail -ilk hat— or rather a semi-annual succession of them—has surmounted Harry's towering dome of thought as a thing of beauty and a joy forever. For tie last few days this familiar landmark has been missing from the TANARUS, ibun* f>rco while. its erst while proud possessor has been going up and down in the land disguised in a brown derby of vintage of ’69. The caused thereunto moving may be briefly told as follows: The other day Mr. Jones went to the Palmer House to interview a gentleman upon an im portant matter. As soon as the interview was ended the newspaper man lost no time in writ ing out his notes while the subject was still fresh in his mind. He did not wait til! he re turned to the Tribune office to do this, but rushed down-stairs into the hotel writing-room, seated himself at a table, and commenced to convert the interview into “copy.” Ti e air in the room was oppressively warm, and the heavy silk tile felt heavier than usual upon the young man's brow, which was wildly throbbing under the exciting prospect of an important “scoop.” The unnecessary burden was removed from its re-ting plac -and dep sited upon the table close to his eloow. and th j literary work commenc >d It had progressed very satisfactorily for about one minute, when them came an interruption in the sbai* of a messenger boy, who handed him a sealed envelope Tearing it open Harry drew front it a sheet of paper bearing the Palmer house letter heading. Written across it in a round, masculine hand were the words: “Where and el you get that hat?” Throwing down tiie pajier with an ejacula tion betokening "that tired feeling” which pat ent medicine poets sing about, he returned to his writing. But at the sane time he instiuct ively glanced in the directi m of his shining head.ea-. Was he dreaming? Or was it only an optical delusion? Resting upon the table, on the very spot where he had placed his tall silk tile but a moment before, was a battered brown kerby. And taere was no other hat in sight, either. “Where did you get this note?” cried the startled young man, addressing the messenger boy. “A gentleman gave it to me.” "What gentlemai ?” "Indeed, I don't know, sir.” "How did he look ? Can you see him about here anywhere now ?” "No. sir: I don't seo him here now. He wore a tall silk hat. He called me to him—out in the lobby there—gave me a dime, handed me that envelope, and asked me to give it to you.” . “How did you know where to deliver it ?” "He walked with me as far as the door over there and poiuted you out to me.” Then an excited young man. bare headed and accompanied by a small bov, made a hurri and tour ot investigation about the hotel. It proved fruitless. The tile had passed away from his sight forever. The derby is an old-timer—so old that the date is almost worn off—and it his neither hat band nor swest band. A gentleman who was w riting at the same table at the time of the robbery noticed a tall, well-dressed man. who sauntered up to the table, nonchalantly picked up Mr. Jones'hat, and w alked over to a large mirror as if to see how he looked in an aristo cratic tile. Here the chew was lost. The re marks of Mr. Jones upon this occasiou are withheld for revision, since they were not in tended for publication, but were given merely as an evidence of good faith and earnestness. Bound to see the Pun. There was to be a hanging at the county seat of a county in Illinois, writes a New York Sun contributor, and the night before the execution I stopped with a family about seven miles distant. Nothing was said about the matter until after supper, and then the man of the house said to his wife: “You call Bill in, and we’il see what the stranger says about it.” Bill proved to be an ungainly, slab sided young fellow about 18 years of age, who had been too bashful to show up at the supber table. When he had entered the room hisfatner said: "Stranger, there's going to be a man hung at —o to-morrow." “So I believe.” ‘ Going to hang him right by the neck.” “Yes.” “He's my own brother!” “No I’’ 1 ’’ * "He is that. I don’t say it won’t serve him right, but I do say that Bill hadn’t orter be one of 'em to look on. He wants to go, but I say it wouldn’t look right. What do you say?” “Well, I shouldn't want to see any one hanged." “Look-a-here. pap,” said Bill, "am I to blame because he’s my uncle?” "N-o ” "Didn’t I have to work last Fourth of July?” "Yes.” • "Wasn’t I laid up on Thanksgiving, Christ mas and New Year's?” "You was.” "Weil, don't I want a holiday?” "Yos, but he’s your uncle, you see.” ‘‘Sposin’ he is? Hain’t I going to stand back in the crowd where he can’t see me? If any b dy asks if he’s my uncle haiu’t I going to lie about it? When Uncle Jim was hung wasn’t I too small to go, aud when they sent Uncle Dan to prison wasn’t I sick in bed?" "Well, I dunno—l dunno,” sighed the old man, as he dropped the subject. I got away at 6 o’clock next morning, and Bill’s tracks on the frost along the highway were then an hour old. Pleasing Results of Phllanthrophy. Like other great geniuses, Paganini enjoyed an occasional ecceutrioity. At one time, says the St. Louis HepubUc, when he was in Vienna he asked a cabman what of all things in life he most desired. “I most wish I had money to go to hear that fiddler of whom the city talks so much," replied tbe cabman. "You shall hear him," said Paganini. "You shall drive me to the theater to-night, fori too shall hear him. and I will buy a ticket for you.” Imagine the ast nishment and pride of that cab driver wnen, ensconced in the theater that evening, he discovered tuut Paganini was uoue other than his patron! After that the grateful fellow insisted upon driving Paganini to and from the theater every night, and it was with honest protests that hb was induced to accept any fares. But ne got tha great artist’s per mission to name his cab "the Paganini,” aud when it became known that the wizard had real y patronized this particular cabman tbe fellow became the fashion and fairly coined money. Four years later Paganini revisited Vienna and upon his first appearance he was disturbed by the violence and prolixity of the applause which issued from a large party in one of the proscenium boxes. The party seemed to be a family, all dressed to kill, ail smiling aud en thusiastic, and all zealous to manifest their ap preciation both of Paganini's art and of their indeotedness to hioi. When Paganini learned who his noisy admirers were he was greatly amused, and he was willing to pardon,their in opportune an : riotous demonstrations of grati tude. Next day tbe cabman called aud took his patron for a drive and showed him the house he had bought and budded witiun four years all the consequeuce of Paganini's little act of kind ness. Ode to the Stub Pen. Jules Reymonde in the Magnet. Though received with reprehension • By the copy-book pretension. Who call it an invention Of the moat atrocious kind; Yet its pointless bl-partition Yields more mental ammunition Than the sharp and shrill condition Of its predecessor’s grind! Asa source of inspiration, For the ease of its gyration. Asa means of liquidation For genius to tuip.l; Asa tool of malediction. Or to do away with friction. We cry with firm conviction, “It has no parallel!” FO.t DYSPniPdIA Uee Horseford’a Acid Phosphate. Dr. F. H. Welty, H imilt m, Va., says: "I have tried it frequently aud always with most satisfactory result*. Nothing is equal to it for treatment of dyspepsia and va rious complications resulting from disorders originating in the stomach. I consider it invaluable."— Ad. Yoc cannot tell from the number of its fset bow long a run a poem will 1 l*ve.- Norru town Herald. ITEMS OP INTEREST. The young King Alexander of Servia received the other inr a letter from a little Swiss boy i wbo is a pa sionate co,lector of stamps. And who sent tbe sovereign a quantitv c f Swiss ferns ana grasses, and asked in exchange to send mm a compete collection of Servian stamps. Kin- Al-xande- gave orders to have every kind of Servian stamp brought him, so t at be might be able to satn-fy tbe demand of tbe little citixen of free Switzerland, and the young monarch ! a' busied himself in classify ing the stamps which he is sending. Kittie Hxrbebt, a trapeze performer, doing the Mexican adder act At a Columbus (O.) thea ter. met with a horrible accident at 7 o’clock Saturday evening. While balancing herself on s ladder she attempted to spring forward into the arms of her assistant, E l Carr. She missed her hdid and fell to the floor, a distance of twenty feet, striking on her hands and fest. Both wrists were broken badly and she received ot er painful injuries. She was removed to her hotel and given medical attendance. The un fortunate woman is the wife of a conductor on the Hocking Valley and Toledo rah way. She is 81 years old and has one child. Leer Woon la ICS years old, and she lives in Barr', Vt., says the Washington Pint. She is the widow of John Wood, who was a teamster in the war of 181.’, and her' application for a pension has been denied on the ground that she is not the widow of a soldier. The interesting point about the tetition is that it is accom panied by her photograph, evidently taken for tbe purpose of showing oongress her appear ance at the age of 105 years. Her wrir.kled face bears a calm expression, and her white hair is covered with a little old-fashioned lace bonnet, and in her bony hands is a little square of embroidery. She does not seem to be over 75 years oid. The unusual sight of a man with three full sized arms and hands may be daily seen upon the streets of Marbette, British Columbia. He I s a Russian by birth, and ftrst came to America in 1877 as an attache of the Greek church at Sitka, Alaska where he rosidid about 1881. He is a large, powerfully built ma r. but seams to hare no control of this extra bodily member, which hangs down his back from a point al most exactly between his shoulders, and rolls from -ide to side in an unsightly manner, a3 though paralyzed. Besides bein ; well equipped in the way of arms, he has a set of t eth that are and ruble all the way around. It is hardly nec-ssary to add that lhe deformity of his teeth does not detract from a aaturally fero- Cious-lo 'king countenance. Notwithstanding his wicked appearance he is a mild-mannered. Christian gentleman. Opinions differ widely as to whether or not the farmers can “get together.” Judge John M. T.iurston of Nebraska told a reporter the other day that in his state, and m the north western stater generally, a farmers’ alliance ticket next year and in 1698 would mean certain republieanjgucces-i, as it would not be strong enough to carry the day. and would take more democratic than republican votes from tbe old parties. He inclines to the belief that the al liance will be a strong political factor in 1898, and, as presid nt of the Republican Nati nal League of Clubs, has special avenues of infor mation w: ich make him an exce lently’equipped prophet. Yet other able and adroit and widely informed ex-press contrary judg ment. _ Ex-Senator John B. Henderson of Mis souri. is one of those who do ibt that the al lia ,ce will grow. He said: "The farmers’ alliance is like a wasp—as large at birth as it will ever be. By 1892 it will have melted away like snow uuier’a July sun. The alliance de mands impossible legislation. Its wants are too numerous ever to be met with indorsement at the polls. We shall fight out in 1892 the con test between the sane parties that have con- tended for control of the country since 1S80." Before W. Dudley Foulke left Washington to make arrangements to enter upon his duties a president of Swarthmore Ooliege. he received a letter from New York that struck him as being an interesting matter to bring to the attent on of Census Superintendent Porter and to the notice, also, of those persons who had been dis appointed at the defeat of the combination ticket in the fall election. It having come to the knowledge of Mr. Foulke that a gentleman had not been enumerated when the Porter cen sus was taken, he wrote to him for particulars about his residence, bis neighborhood, aDd about his movements on the dav of the enumer ation. This man, who liv -d on Madison avenue, near Madison Square, wrote in reply that he was not interested in politics. But he was a repub lican. who would have voted a straight ticket if there had been one, and tne fusion ticket in lieu of a straight one. When he saw the captious letter of Secretary Noble, addressed to Gov. Hill, “quibbling on technicalities,” and after he had written a respectful note to Supervisor Murray without r- oeiving any attention what ever, "I felt it my duty," he said, "as thous ands of other citizens did, to support the candi date for mayor who had insisted upon a proper enumeration of the city.” "While my wife and I were on our last trip to Europe,” 6aid a gentleman, "we met a middle-aged lady who was going over for her health, and my wife and she beca tie great friends. One day while sitting in tbe ladies' private cabin tne lady said: ’Let me snow you my life-preserver, 1 and, removing her ouler skirt, my wife beheld a skirt that uas a curi osity, if nothing more. Running up and down the skirt, at a distance of two or three Inches, were soft, flexible rubber bands about two inches wide. They were sewed on at the side of each band, and ran all the wav around the skirt, and at the top tiiey were all joined to abroad rubber band six inches wide. At the top of this band was a rubber tube about two feet long, which ran up the waist in front and was left resting on the top of the Cjrset. Said the lady: "You behold one of my own inventions for saving my life In case of an accident all I have to do is to take the end of the rubber tube iu my mouth and In two minutes I can All all the rubber bands (which are hollow and air tight) with air. Then, tying the tube in a hard knot, I am ready for the waves. This skirt, when I strike the water, will spread out in the shape of a pond lily leaf, and I will rest on ir, in an upright position, as ea*y as though reclining on a couch, and I can float around till picsed up. As our voyage was a pleasant one, we did not have an opportunity to see how it would work, but I have no doubt it wiuld work well.” John Philip Socsx, the master of the Marine band, is an editor as well as a bandmaster. In October, 1869, he was directed by Secretary of the Navy Tracy to compile for the use of the service a collection of the national and patriotic airs of all nations. It is always convenient for a bandmaster on board ship to nave suen music on tap, and to have the score supplied by the government seemed to be a reasonable pr -hmi nary. Mr. Sousa has produc'd his collection, and it is in a folio of nearly 3:0 pages. Vv m is printed for the use of the service. It is not a pr.vate publication. In the preface to the book Mr. Sousa says that the impression that there is a poverty of modem patriotic sings and other national music is an error. He hrs found the supply so abundant that he could not undertake to give mativ speci mens, aud has lnoorpiratei omv too familiar and accepted national and patriot! • airs an 1 songs. In cou tries like the Fiji Islands, Samoa, and other semi-barba ous land r, wi ere there could not be found anything that could be described as a national hymn or even a na tional walk-around at a missionary supper, the typical music has been given, and in collecting strange musical express! ms from out-of-the way corners Mr. Sousa has been a si’ted by tbe consular officers of the United S ates. When they could simply supply the melody without harmonic treatment they have done so, leaving to Mr. Sousa the editorial task of putting tne music in shape, to be reproduced effectively without sacrifice of the melodic design. The result is a coll etion of 240 airs, son s, and melodies, some of which are very ourious if they are not lovely. "All the famous people of this world," said a Hebrew banker recently, "are accused sooner or later of having Hebrew blood in their veins. It is not surprising that the mantle of suspicion has fallen even upon the remote and lonely shoulders of the late Sitting Bull. In his in stance it Is said that he had to trace his ancestry back to his grandfather to And the Jewish blood His grandfaZuer was a trader named Jacobs, and Sitting Bull always bore that name. His fath ;r had none of the instincts of civilized life, and >as a savage out and out. Sitting Bull seemed to bo endowed w.th the crafty aud scheming methods of his grandfather. Another of the celebrities whose Jewish a cestry has been much un ler disoussion of late is Mrs. Ken dal She goes back but one generation, her father having married the sister of a famous Hebrew rabbi in London. Intermarriages between Jews and Christians grow more frequent every year. according to statistics. “By the way.” the game speaker continued, “there is some coniusion at times about the meaning of the word rabbi. All rabbis are not clergymen. A rabbi in Russia n eaus a learned man. and a good many of the Russians and Poles wbo tiave been era iting divorces in this city and C licago to their countrymen at prices varying Between $8 and sl2 have done so without the sanction of the Jewish church. A numoer of the regularly q aide! Jewish priests, however, have baen divorcing the igno rant Poles of this city in a wholesale fashion and so the custom may be said to have received religious sanction. It was officially condemned by a convention of advanced Hebrew religion ists In Philadelphia a few months since, but, for some reason or other, the news did not gain publicity in New York. An east side politician told me not long ago that in his own distriot no less than twenty ca es of bigamy had oc curred among Ue Poles within the past year.” Beecham’s Pfll* cure sick headache. Adv. MEDICAL. EG U L A TOR ] - „. TU , U . as much to the process anti nuriiiNe skill in compounding as to like it the Ingredients themselves. Take it in time. 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