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Newspaper Page Text4 C|e|Ponrijtgsletos Morning New* Building, Savannah, La. iHTJBfiBAY, FKHIU ARY 6. 1891. Registered at the Postofflee in Saras nrh The Mohmsu Niw is publishe i every tlay in the year, soil is lervel to •übs.'ribera in the city at 25 cents a *et. $1 00 a month, $5 00 for sir months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morsi.no News, by mail . one month, $1 00; three months. $2 50; six months, fa 00; one year, $lO 00. .... . The Mc.km.no News, by mail, six times a weelc fwithoni Sunday issue', three months. $2 0; six months. $4 00; one year, $8 00 The Mormno News. Trt Weekly. Mondays, ■Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by m til, one year. $2 00. The Weeei.t News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions parable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sen by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed **Mornino News,” Savannah, Ga Transient advertisements, other than special column, local or reading notices, amuse ments and cheap or want column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one inch space in depth—is the standard of measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office. “ UiH MUI lOKk UFFICK. Mr- J. J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent (C the Morxdis News, office 23 Park Row, Mew York. All advertising business outside of the state* of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina will be managed by him. The Morni.no News is on file at the fol.owing places where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW YORK CITY— J. R Bates. 88 Park Row. O. P. Rowell & Cos., 10 Spruce street W. W. Sha Pi C0.,21 Park Row. Frank Kikrsan A Cos., 152 Broadway, Dacchy A Cos.. 2T Park Place. J. W. Thompson. 89 Park Row. American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, Potter Building. PHI LA DELPHIA— N. W. Ayer A Son. Time* Building. BOSTON— S. R. Niles, 256 Washington street Pbttenoill A Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO- Lord A Thonar, 45 Randolph street C.NCINNATI- Sdwin Alden Coup any, 66 West Fourth street NEW HAVEN— The H. P. Hubbard Company, 2B Elm street ST LOUIS— Nelson Cheshan A Cos., 1127 Pine street. ATLANTA- Mornino News Bureau, B<4 Whitehall street MACON- Daily Telegraph OmcE. 597 Mulberry street INDEX tF m ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Haupt Lodge No. 58, L O. O. F.i Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F. and A. M.; The Workman's and Traders’ Loan and Building Association; Fidelity Castle No. 7, K. G. E.; Workingmen's Benevolent Association. Special Notices— Notice of Copartnership, Edwards A Trenholm; Office for Rent, Herman Myers; A Cdp of Van Houten's Coffee Free Thursday. Friday and Saturday. Our Greatest Success— Dryfus Bros. Tourjee's Excursion to Europe— E. Tour Jee. Boston, Mass. Steamship Schedules —Ocean Steamship Company; Baltimore Steamship Company. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale: Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous. Gallant Col. Bob Ingersollsays that “Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland” are sure to bear tbe democratic standard in 1892, But tbe colonel omitted to add that they will also grasp the victory that is easily within their reach. Despite the first stories of fatal results from his fall, Lieut. Schwaika is said to be fairly on the road to recovery. But his physicians fear dhat he is maimed for life, notwitbstandiug his rapid progress toward convalescence. Chilean ei.izens still continue their inter necine scuffle with somewhat bloody and disastrous results. How much people can damage themselves and one another when they allow temper and obstinacy to get the better of them! Replying to a protest from Cherokee chiefs against being dispossessed of their stone quarry ou the Cherokee strip Secretary Noble insists that they are beyond their boundaries and must skip off the strip. Such a decision must make the peaceful Cherokees feel disposed to up ise and swat the secretary. Richmond promises to erect an imposing monument to Jefferson Davis if Mrs Davis will allow the dead leader’s remains to be removed to the Virginia capital. Still Richmond would probably contribute liber al y even thougu the body should rornaiu at New Orleans. Removal should not be made an indispensable condition to properly honor ing the dead. Hardening steel plates has been attempted and proven successful at Sheffield, England, by the use of oil in the annealing experi ment. Such a plate resisted a shot whioh shattered a similar plate not so treated. While the oil-hardened plate smashed the shot the untreated .plate was readily punctured. Making impenetrable ship’s armor is progressing rapidly. Since the New York Star became a Con tinent it is naturally somewhat reduced in Bize from a whole planet; but it U much brighter than that nocturnal luminary over was, and it’s as crisp and breezy as a Sep tember morning. No dpubt but Editor Frank Munsey will make a "go” of it if there is any go in it For he is one of those bustlers who know bow to bustle. Western prohibitionists are said to be just as dead broke as if they had been out on a protracted spree. Zealous leaders are now trying to devise a scheme for the pur pose of pulling the organization together and raising funds for another campaigning excursion for the orators. Raising political enthusiasm without any toddy in it is rather a difficult operation, however. South Dakota appears to be drifting into demoralization early in its youth. Ap parently it has fallen into the hands of old political backs from the east, who believe in the thrifty methods of practical politics. Bribery seems to be one of the most con spicuous influences employed in the choice of United States senators. Votes seem to range at present from SSOO to SI,OOO, with a strong market and an upward tendency. Vivid imagination but imperfectly de scribes the fantastic fancy of the romancer who started that Topeka story of the Louisiana negro who is alleged to have only recently discovered that slavery has been abolished, and finds himself regretting that he remained a slave over time. If the enterprising chronicler was very hard up why couldn’t be tell us something more about the latest fabulous sums offered for that Cherokee strip. By the exercise of some ingenuity te might have made that a pass ably plausible story. Commercial Union With Canada. When Mr. Erast us Wiman wrote his article advocating commercial union be* j tseen tbe United States and Canada, which , was published in the January North j American Heriev. it is hardly probable : that he tb night that steps would he taken so soon to bring about such a union. He favored agitation in be half of a union of that kind at once, so that the people of Canada would be ready to express their views with regard to it whenau election for anew parliament should be belL He did not expect, however, that there would be anew parliament in less than eighteen months, because the term of tbe parliament then in existence would not expire sooner than that. According to our dispatches yesterday, however, tbe Dominion govern ment has dissolved parliament and ordered an election for anew one. The date of the election is March 5. The issue of the election will he commer cial union between the United Slates and Canada. Tbe Dominion government has made propositions to the government of this c untry looking to closer trade rela tions. aud that government thinks that if negotiations based upon those propositions should be bogun, Canada should have a parliament fresh from the people to act upon any treaty that might be made. There is undoubtedly a strong feeling in Canada in favor of freer trade with the United States, and the peop’o of this coun try would like to have freer trade with Canada It might not be a very difficult matter, therefore, to negotiate a commercial treaty that would be beneficial to both countries. Mr. Wiman is confident that Canadians are willing to make very great oonoessioos to get free entrance into Ameri can markets. They would, be believes, sacrifice tbs interests of Great Britain to do so. He does not believe, however, there is any probability of a political union between the two countries in tho near future. The Canadians, he says, are loyal to England and have no complaint to make of the treat ment they receive from her. There are eminent Canadians, however, who favor political union, and they are satisfied that such a union will take placi at no very distant day. Mr. Goldwin Smith belieVes that tbe political destiny of Canada is union with this country. In an address delivered at Toronto last Monday, after pointing out tbe advantages of commercial union, be said: “Great Britain will see at last that she has no real interest here bat amity and trade. The unity of the race, and the immense advantage of a settlement which would shut out war from this conti nent and make it one economical whole, will prevail, I feel convinced, in the end over evil memories and the malignant ef forts of evil men. That such a consumma tion will come In my time is unlikely, though a government of monopoly and cor ruption is driving it ou apace.” At present there is no very strong desire in this country for political union with Canada, the feeling being that this country is already large enough, and in Canada there is strong attachment to Great Brit ain. But if commercial union between the two countries should be brought about it would be a lung step in the direction of po litical union. If the Canadians should bo come couvmced that their interests are in tbe direction of political union they will not let loyalty to Great Britain be a barrier to such union. And although the people of this country are not now anxious that their territory should be increased they would not stand out against political union with Can ada, especially if it should appear that the union would be ad7antagoous to them. Ingalls' Irreverence. Although the lean statesman from Kansas didn’t make a very resounding crash when he tumbled off his perch, the Rev. Dr. Dixon, of New York, drew some orthodox deductions of a wholesomely pious tendency last Sunday from the incidents leading up to the senator’s overthrow, and the circum stances attendant thereupon. Describing the Kansan’s recent political utterances the good doctor dwelt upon them with rather bitter severity. ‘‘Some time ago,” he said, "Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, went out of his way to expre-s the opiuion Vat the Decalogue and Golden Rule are out of place in a political campaign. He also took, occasion to heaD his unmeasured contempt on those who were pained at the corruption of m d ern politics. Tnese people he character ized with withering gall as sexless senti mentalists. "In a later speech of Senator Ingalls he exhibits a wonderful change In tone. In a speech on the silver question he goes out of his way to record a feeble deathbed repent ance of the vile sentim nts formerly ex pressed os a sort of desperate attempt to propitiate the angry divinity assembl and at Topeka, then pondering the question of his successor.” To those irreverent utterances from a public man the doctor seems inclined to ascribe Mr. Ingalls’ ultimate defeat. Eventually, contends the minister, the peo ple at large are conscientious aud swayed by Christian sentiment; and he insists that they do believe in the Decalogue and the Golden Rule. This he maintains they have conclusively shown in Kansas. On that poiut, however, even the better class of woll-iuformed politicians will not be able to quite agree with the divine. They will attribute Mr. Ingalls’ dismissal to more practical reasons. It was probably far more due to his crafty course in politics and finance. His constituents would not longer tolerate bis selfishness. Wnils not generally disposed to approve his tendency to scoff, the people probably dropped Ingalls because his political and pecuniary views and pur poses were away out of harmony with their own. They were tired of his constant and senseless attacks upon the south. It is said that the hostility of the members of the farmers’ alliance to Senator Ingalls is something that nobody seems to understand. But that they have an intense dislike for him there is no doubt. This sentiment is even felt by the wives of alliaucemen, who frighten their children into quiet by the threat they will lot Ingalls catch them. And this is Ingalls’ reward, after eighteen years’ servioe in the Senate 1 But the southern people have no reason to offer him sympa thy. He has seldom had a kind word to say for the south. London law makes aged Editor Duncan of the Matrimonial News pay pretty liberally for trifling with the 21-year-old affections of Miss Gladys Knowles. She is to get $32,500 from tfae giddy old flirt If the court can find that much money belonging to him. Young Kaiser William is turning bis beck upon all of the old advisers of bis father and grandfather. Count von Waldersee baa only gone along with the rest. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5,1891. Senator-elect Brice's Residence. Tbe enemies of Senator-e’eet Brice of Ohio, will give him no rest until he has taken his seat in the United States Senate. When he was elected senator they made tbe point that he was not a resident of Ohio. It was satisfactorily shown, however, that he was. The evidence be presented left no room for a reasonable doubt that his legal residence was in Ohio. On Monday a resolution was introduced into the Ohio legislature to prevent hit admission into the Senate aa a senator from that state. AH the allegations that bare from time to time been made to abow that he was a resident of New York are contained in the resolution. It is no doubt true that Mr. Brice has spent tbe most of his time in New York city for a number of years. He has large business interests there which require bis constant attention. He has always been careful, however, to have it understood that bis residence was in Ohio. He has kept a house in that state and his leisure time has been spent at his old home there. There is no one of the allegations in tbe reeoiution introduced into the Ohio legis lature that cannot be satisfactorily an swered. The Ohio republicans do not of coune ex pect they will bo able to cheat Mr. Brice out of the senatorsbip, but they hope ta weaken bis influence by raising a doubt as to his right to the senatorial office. At one time they charged that be secured his elec tion by bribery, but not being able to prove tbe charge they abandoned it. And tho resolution in question will be abandoned. The republicans p etend that it is a serious mat ter but the democrats treat it as a joke. It is safe to say that Mr. Brioe will take bis seat in tbe Senate, and that be will be come very quickly one of the most useful members of tbat body. He is a man who can do a vast amount of work, and do it well In tbe Senate be will be known as a working member, not a talking one. The time to have pressed tbe charge now brought against him was when he was a candidate for senator. To press it now indicates a purpose to aunoy him, not a desire to further tbe ends of justice. A Mistake About Sarab. The New York reporters were greatly astonished when they saw Sarah Bernhardt at her hotel in that city on Monday. They had been told that she had grown fat. They found that she resembled a darning needle as much as ever. Her arrival in New York was expected on Sunday, but advorse winds delayed the ship on which she was a passenger thirty hours, and Sarah was sick nearly the whole of the voyage. She therefore appeared leaner than usual on her arrival. The re porters gathered about her in her parlor at her hotel and gazed at her with something like amazement expressed in their faces. At last one of them ventured to say: “Madame, we have lately beard that you have accumu lated a great deal of fat. Where is the fair’ This question appeared to put the great actress in a rage. She has a terrible tem per. Springing to her feet, widely waving her arms, her eyes dancing and her fine thin nostrils dilating, she exclaimed. “Who said I was futt Have I ever been fat? Am I fat now? Look at me and tell me if it is possible that that I should ever become fat! I have beard of that before, and Ido not like it. It makes me furious. Everyw here Igo now I hear nothing but fat, fat, fat!” The reporters were partly paralyzed at her vehemence. Assooaas they recovered they oriea out together: “No, you are not fat. ” And then Sarah appoared to be paoi fied and talked to the newspaper men in an interesting manner. Sarah is not fat. She doesn’t want to be fat, aud she never will be fat. Aud yet, if sbe had a reasonable amount of fat she would be a much more comely woman than she is. Passes Should be a Perquisite. Lately the free pass has come to be con sidered a factor of no small importance in its bearing upon legislation and the proper discharge of their regularly assigned duties by state officials. Yet the matter does not seem to merit so much consideration at a casual glance. Surely no man of sufficient respectability and standing to secure such a nomination and election would be so wholly lacking in dignity, not to say fidelity and principle, as to be swayed by so trivial a matter as a pass. Still wo must in candor admit that such is all too frequently the case. \ To see what ordinarily dignified and grave men of affairs and even wealth will do under the seductive influence of the vanity-inspiring pass is positively amazing. It makes them feel important and gratified with themselves and mankind. Under such circumstances we all know that the most reliable and careful of men is likely to do injudicious things with the most cor rect intentions if properly approached by one who has contributed to the amiable frame of mind in which he is placed. It’s human nature. Thoroughly win a man’s personal esteem and his professional or official friend ship is not difficult to secure. Therefore every man occupying an offi cial station in a state should be entitled to a pass over the transportation lines as a pre rogative of office. Thus he is relieved of all obligation to the companies and cannot be held to owe them any unusual “courtesy.” Instead, his whole obligation is to the state where it should properly rest Relieved of the burden of such tacit reciprocal arrange ments he is left free to do his dnty without favor. Such an adjustment could but prove more satisfactory to all interests involved. Concensus of opinion among the New York newspaper reporters seems to agree that the ever unique but never oorpulent Sarah Bernhardt is just as bright and chic and charming as ever. She also carries around with her the usual number of wild beasts and reptiles that she calls her pets. She bad quite an enthusiastic greeting of thespians and journalists down the bay from New York, and is actually charged with conforming to the usual theatrical rule by saying she “was glad to be In America.” That’s the way the advertising usually begins. Admiring friends say that sbe is so much improved that she actually looked full. Evidently drama with snakes in it agrees with her. Probably it is just what she has lacked all these many years. Ex-Gov. Bullock, of this state, is reported as saying that ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes might be the most available repub lican candidate for President in 1892. What sort of an opinion must the ex-governor have of the presidential timber of his party! South America n republics seem inclined to regard Blaine’s reciprocity scheme as a great idea. They like it mightily and talk of adopting it. PERSONAL. Senator Wolcott La handsome man with blonde hair parted in the middle and a silky mustache. Senator Squire of Washington is rich enough to spend $l5O a dav. and sensible enough to be content with a $1 dinner. Mrs. Philib D, Armour, tbe wife of the Chi cago millionaire. Is a notable housekeeper, and prides herself upon her culinary successes. Robert Garrett appeared the picture of health at the large reception given by himself en l his wife last Wednesday in Baltimore. Col. J. H. Maplmkcn will be Henry E. Abbey’s right-hard man during the opera season next rssr. At present he is a musical agent in Lon don. Marion Crawford is so worn out by brain work thee be Law been compelled to seek health at the hot baths of Tiflia, in Asiatic Ku-sia. Mrs. Schliemank, in addition to her other ac complishments, has a talent for tapestry that would have made her a fit companion for Penelope. Alfred Russell Wallace, the distinguished English naturalist, writes to Prof. Ely of John Hopkins university, that be has become a con vert to Bellamrism. President -Edmi?- ,f university started ou bedurday fer a six-weeks western tr.p. if MS son. Rev. Samuel A- Elicit of Denver. ” Mrs. Emily Todd Helm, Runt of Robert Lin coln, and widow of a confederate general has been reappointed for her third term as post master at Elizabethtown. Ky. A. L. TiLDF.n of Erie, Pa., who was beaten for congress lost fall by Matthew Griswold, will this week become deputy secretary of the com monwealth under Gov. Pattison. George Meredith's daughter is said to copy all her father's manuscript for the printer. The novelist does his writing in the morning in a study cottage built in his garden. Albert H. Ladner, the democratic candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, is a German by birth and 45 years of age. He is a war veteran and since 1880 has been one of the city magistrates. W. Clarke Russell, whose sea stories have such remarkable dash, breeziness and out-of door freedom, has long been a hopeless and well-nigh helpless invalid, chained to an indoor existence in an inland town. Until quite recently the old Essex Head tav ern on the Strand, London, which was one of Dr. Johnson's favorite resorts, has been kept by two Misses Fielding*, who were defendants of the author of “Tom Jones.” Now, however, the old building is to be pulled down. Judge W. L. Looms of Sheffield, Conn., is indulging in au ancient sleigh which he asserts belonged to his great-grandfather, and is be tween ninety and one hundred years old. He alto has for music during his rides the sleigh bells owned bv his grandfather, who died in 1812. Mur. Julia Ward Howe, who Is still a beau tiful woman, with finely modeled features, trained voice and gracious manners, adds to her reputation as a poet and prose writer, a philan thropist and grande dame of society, the unique honor of having been president of the Boston Woman's Club for twenty years by the unanimous choice of the members. The home of Miss Olive Schreiner, whose “Story of an African Farm” made her famous, is in a beautiful suburb of Cape Town. It is an oasis in a veritable South African desert, but skill and thrift have made the few hundred acres that comprise the town's site blossom like the rose. Outside there are flat and desolate wastes of never-ending sand. BRIGHT BITa. Teacher— Why does Great Britain support royality? Pupil—Because royalty cannot support itself. Epoch. Judge— Hem! Your ver dot seems decidedly mixed. Foreman of the Jury—Y'es, your honor. It’s in accordance with the evidence.— Good News. ‘Why do you call the boys in the galleries the gods. Mr, Tragedicus?” “To distinguish them from the devils who sit in the orchestra chairs and write criticisms," St. Catherine's Journal. Ethel— Do you think there will be marriages in heaven? Maud—For your sake I trust so, dear. Etern ity may furnish you the opportunity which time refuses—iVeio York Herald. Bt. Peter—What’s the matter at the portal? Spirit—One of the Four Hundred has ar rived and refuses tri go In by the regular gate. He wants to know where the stockholders’ en trance is.— New York Herald. “Do you know," the preacher asked, in low, earnest accents, “that money takes wines?” “I am not sure of it,” solemnly replied Fayro, “but I’ve often seen it brought down on long shots.— Milwaukee Sentinel. Mr. Cokntikb (to visiting friend)—That gen tleman yonder Is one of our most prominent society leaders. Mr, Dearborn—lndeed—and what is his soci ety for the prevention of?— Puck. “Let me fly to your bosom,” she said in most tragic tones. "I don’t want any files on me.” he protested. "But I am only a little fly,” she urged. “I hope not ” he said critically, and she scolded him for being so smart.— iPisshington Pott. Georoe—Give me a kiss? Lucinda—Yes, if you will give me what you haven't got, never had, never will have, and yet can give. George—Jerusalem 1 Lucinda— No-a-husband. Echoes of the Week. Let the g. o. p. wear mourning. While the bloody shirt it tears. Vitriolic John Jeems Ingalls Hath crawled up the golden stairs. —AYic Orleans .Veto Delta. “I understand there is a company in New York that will furnish dudes for escorts, or for use at gertnans and cotillons, when there is a shortage of men ” “I've heard of that. I saw one of their signs the other day in Harlem—‘Flats to let. Harper's Bazar. Attend Christians, to a savage heathen’s cry ; We are tired of tough missionary pot-pie; With the next one send a wife both young and tender. That we with good grains and rice may sweetly blend her. Conversion is now simply out of question When sufl ring from this dread Indigestion. —Puck, “I suppose,” observed the exchange editor, with a withering look at the financial editor's new cross-barred coat “you thought that gar ment would be appropriate for your depart - ment because it’s in checks," “No, sir." retorted the financial editor, scorn fully defiant. "I got it <o protect myself from the draughts.”— Chicago Tribune. Mahua (coaxingly)—Come, Bobby, take your medicine now, and then jump into bed. Bobjy—l do not want to take my medicine, ma Rather ftvho knows how to govern children)— ydtt don’t take your medicine at once you Will be put to bed without taking it at all ■ - , r r—e • Wi Bobby takes It promptly.— Chicago Setis. CURRBNT COMMBN T. It Is to B a Snort Fnsragrement. From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.\ With four years more of republican rule no Secretary of the Treasury would be needed. There would be nothing for a secretary to do. Perspiration Is What Tbey Propose. From the Chicaoo Inter Ocean (Rep.). The spirit of Tippecanoe is not dead yet. The old Tippecanoe Club has decided that there is work for it to do so long as the elections bill re mains unpassed, and the veterans are going to get out and hustle. Gallant and Correct. From the New York Continent (Ind.\ Recent events have shown the urgent neces sity of a law compelling medical students to practice only upon themselves. If young Harris had taken the morphine he prescribed for Miss Potts the world would he better off to day- That's His Plain Platform. From the Boston Herald Kind.). Senator Teller doesn't wish to be misunder stood. His explanation that he never promised to support the force bill; that be neve bad sup ported it. and that he never will support it. Is sufficiently explicit to solve even Senator Hoar's perplexities. Nobody nerd suffer from languor or melan choly If tbey take feimmons Liver Regulator. -Ad. Loyal to Els Chief. Uncle Jerry Rusk's declaration a day or two ago that he was very sorry to see his name mentioned in connection with the presidential nomination has brought out a good story, writes a Chicago Herald correspondent. It is pretty well known among Jerry's friends and admirers that the little bee is buzzing most in dustriously under that big crop of white hair of his. but be bis to be a little cauiious as he is a member of the cabinet of a President who is simply crazy to be renominated. Secretary Russ's chief clerk is a Mr. Rook wood, wLom be brought from Wisconsin, and Rock wood, know ing wnat was nearest to his chief 's heart, took advantage of the secretary's absence a few weeks ago and sent out a large number of letters to editors of agricultural papers in Wisconsin and elsewhere, sug gesiing the advisability of starting up a boom for Uncle Jerry for President. When the secretary returned to the city and found what had been going on he was furious, and for a day or two it was an open question whether the luckless, but well-meaning Rockwells bead should fall in the basket Fearing tnat Harri son would in some way hear of letters being sent out on agricultural department stationery by the chief clerx thereor. booming the Secre tary of Agriculture for the nomination which Mr. Harrison expects to get for himself, Uncle Jerry concluded that the best thing he could do would be to go up to the white house, make a clean breast of it and threw all the blame on Rockwood. He d.d this and felt better when the President said it was all right—if it did not oc cur again. Whe i the result of the farmers’ vote for choice of preside tial candidates came out in a Massachusetts agricultural paper and Husk saw that be bad almost as many rotes as the President himself, he became alarmed again —actually trembled lest Harrison should sus pect that he and Rockwood had worked the wholn thing up with their letters, and cone uded to come out in a formal interview expressing his great sorrow at the use of bis name and de claring bis undying affection for and loyalty to the President. Equal to the Occasion. A Rush street belle was surprised the other day to receive au invitation, of which the fol lowing is the substance: “Mr. presents his compliments to Miss , and request* her company to the char ity ball at the auditorium Thursday, Jan. 8, 1891. Awaiting and hoping for an early and favorable reply, we are, yours very truly. “Blank <S Co.’’ The writer of this most remarkable effusion is a young business man, who is a partner in a big down town concern, says the Chicago Mail, and who does a large proportion of the corre spondence, of course signing the firm’s name thereto. So absorb*; 1 was he in business that he concluded his invitation with the stereotyped sentence quoted above, and, to cap the climax, signed the firm’s name to it. The fair recipient, however, appreciated the situation, and the young man was thunder struck to receive a letter addressed to him personally, but contain ing the following reply to his invitation: Mess 3. Blank <£ Cos.: Yr. favor of recent date to hand and contents noted. In reply will say we accept the proposi tion therein made, and hold the goods ordered subject to yr, further instructions. Very re spectfully, Miss & Cos. Explanations and apologies followed, and the invitation was duly accepted, but the matter was too good to be kept a secret, and for the last few days life to that young man has been made a burden. Even the stereotyped and meaningless query, “How’s business?'’ suffices to drive film frantic. The Farmer's E truest Prayer. “The funniest thing I ever listened to,” said the oldest parson in the group to the New York Evening Sun, “was the prayer of a sly old farmer in my first congregation, a hard headed, hard fisted fe low. with a strong sense of humor. The old man was a mad free trader, and it happened that congress had just passed some highly protective measure, which had brought down the heaviest displeasure of this man. Very soon after the passage of the bill the M. C. for our district returned to his bo me in our town for a few days and came to prayer meeting, as he always did. Old Farmer X was there also and saw his chance. He couldn’t argue with Congress nan L. because the congressman could beat him out of his boots at argue lent, and he knew it. But he got up after awhile and began to pray. He prayel for the church and for foreign missions, and for the President of the United States, and then h gathered nimself together for a last effort. ’And now. O. Lord we beseech thee,’ he said—then he hesitated—"we would not put too hard a task even for omnipotence, but we do beseech thee, if thou canst. put a bale common sense into the heads of some of our legislators.’ ‘ And the little rustle and ripple of amuse ment that came to his ears as he sat down brought aglow of proud gratification to his face that all the consolations of religion never pro duced.” A Dodge of Hia Own. During a crowd the other day on Fourteenth street, near Fifth avenue, says the New York Sun, a very solid man was pushing his way through the mass of human ity, when he encountered a pale, thin young man with the look of a consumptive. The big man did not swerve a hiir, and the thin young man’s elbow, which was held out at an angle, took him in tho left side. The big man gave a ga~p, followed by a curse, and nearly lost his balance, while the other passed on as cool as ice. tie had turned aside to gaze into a window when the big man came up and said: “Friend, I want to feel of your right elbow, the one you gave me a dig with back there.” “Oh, certainly,” was the reply, as the elbow was exteuded. "Why—why—it’s hard as iron!” “Yes, it is iron. That is, I have an iron cap made for it. Just a fit, as you see, and padded with ilannel. It’s an invention of mj’ own. Haven't long to live, and don't want to surren der any of my rights and privileges. You are No. 22 to day—all big men. American hog vs. the iron elbow, you see. Elbow always comes out ahead. Good day.” A Child’s Laugh. Algernon C. Swinburne. All the bell, of heaven may ring. All the birds of heaven may Sing, All the wells on earth may spring, All the winds on earth may bring All sweet sounds together. Sweeter far than all things heard. Hand of harper, tone of bird. Sound of woods at sundown stirred, Willing waters’ winsome word. Wind in warm, wau weather. One thing yet there is that none Hearing ere its chime be done Knows not well tue sweetest one Heard of man beneath t ie sun. Hoped in heaven hereafter. Soft and strong and loud and light, Very sound of very light, Heard from morning's rosiest hight, When the soul of ail and light Fills a child’s clear laughter. ‘‘Too Thin” a Classic Phrase. A correspondent writes to the New Y’ork Tribune: “You state the case very mildly aB to the English origin of the phrase ’too thin,’ wnich, perhaps, isn’t a slang phrase at all. The fact is, it is English from 'way back.’ In Smollett’s ‘Peregrine Pickle’ the hero informs Emillia that he is going abroad This brings tears to her eyes, but she says they are caused by the h t tea which she is pouriug. Which leads the author to remark that the excuse was •too thin’ to impose on her lover. The phrase is also found in Shakespeare’s Henry Vlli., Act 5, Scene 2, with the same meaning.” Judge Severin', and United States Attorneys Palmer and Stevens go to Marquette, Mich., to open court July 82, and there is a large grist awaiting them. Among the cases is one which is knowu among tbs officials as the ‘‘.sausage case.” In July of last year the postofflee at Calumet was broken into by would-be burglars, who were frightened away before flnisaing their work. A number of citizens gave chase and followed them for some distance, but th-j escaped. During the flight one of the fugitives dropped a package of sausage, and this was picked up and held as evidence. Two men were arrested a flay or two later, corresponding with the description of the burglars, and tne butcher identified them as the men who had purchased the sausage. They were to have been brougnt up for trial last September, but on the night before the trial one of the prisoners broke jail and is still at liberty. The trial of his co-respondent was put off until the coming term of court, in the hope of catching the escaped prisoner. He has not been found, however, and the oase will proceed. The sausage ha. been held a. evidence and will be Introduced in court aa such, notwithstanding its age ana gray hairs. Loving Mother—Do you still kneel down every night and say your prayers* Son (who lives in the city)—l say my prayers, mother, but I don’t kneel. Mother—Can it be possible that you have so far forgotten my early teachings? Son—No, mother; but I'm fraid the folding bed might double up with me.—Life. To overcome the marks of age, all who have gray beards should use Buckingham’s Dye for the whiskers, the best and cleanest dye made for coloring broum or black,—Ad. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The sn.TAN very rarely or never leaves the grounds of Yildiz Kipsk, except to go once a week to a mosque just outside, when the very striking ceremony known as the Se lam lie it taxes place. Once a year, also, he pays a visit to Stamhoul, but the route there and returning is never known in advance. He is in constant fear of assassination. Some grand dueness whom be received at hia court, on his complaining that his health was indiffereot, advised him to take more exercise and change of air and to drive about ttte country. On her departure he is re ported to have said: “What harm have Id me that this woman should desire my death* Why does she advise me to run into such dangers f” A Boston lawteb who resides in the suburbs is the owner of a dog that certainly possesses the instincts of an attorney. Th - other day ho saw another dog carrying off a tempting-look ing bone. A second dog followed at a short distance. The lawyer's dog quickly conceived a plan of action worthy of an eminent legal mind. He imni diately brought an action against the dog with tne bone. The third dog at once quickened his pace and lost no time in instituting supplementary proceedings in his own behalf. This assistance proved equivalent to a decree for tne plaintiff, for the lawyer’s dog left the third dog to bear the brunt of the litigation, and, seizing the bone, tied to bis own kennel, where possession was truly nine points of the law. Because the Bell telephone patent expiree in 1893 a great many people think that after that date there will be a number of rival companies, and rates for service will be comparatively cheap, s: least very much cheaper than they are to-day. This is a very pretty idea to entertain, but practically it “doesn’t go.” The original patent was for the simple principle of telephon ing—the transmission of sound waves. Many patents on improvements have since been tiled. In fact, each detail of the modern telephone is covered by a patent which the Beil company owns. The patent on the most important feat ure of the telephone, the Biake transmitter, does not expire until 1895, and it isowaed by the Bell company. The company also owns in numerable valuable patents on telephone mechanism, and controls enough others to make it almost an Impossibility for any other com pany to on er the field and endeavor to compete with it. Telephone rates will not be reduced for many years. By the by, there has never been so much vogue given to milk as there is just now. In fact, there are hundreds of clubmen who have never seen as much since they went from one bottle to another. You are asked to have a glass of hot milk or a glass of hot vichy just as you are asked to have a cup of tea or some creme de mentbe. In a cut-glass gobler, stand ing on a bright-hued plate, the milk and vichy is particularly appetizing, and it is marvelous how much of it the men drink. Now. this isn’t the result of preaching a temperance sermon. It is the result of offering a simple drink in an attractive manner. Service in this world means so much, and really it seems to be more appre ciated by men than by women. A boiled potato and a piece of beefsteak on a hot plate, with a glittering silver fork and a bright steel knife, with the butter in a dainty littie pat, and the bread in a smooth-cut piece, with the whitest of napery, is more appetizing than a dinner of twenty courses served in a careless fashion. Dr. James O. Green, the gentleman who re ported having found the dead body of Robert Ray Hamilton in a river in Wyoming, is the oldest son of Dr. Norvin Green, president of tne Western Union Telegraph Company, and is well known to the members of the Union Club where he spends much time when in New York. He is about 50 years old. 6 feet 3 inches in bight, and of very slender figure. His face is strik ingly handsome, and the brown curls which used to curl tightly on his head are now some what grizzled. He has most pleasant and amia ble manners, and his accomplishments are such that he is a man of mark in whatever company he happens to be He gave up the practice of medicine when he left Kentucky, fifteen years ago, to be his father's secretary. While in the service of the Western Union he got in on the ground floor of the Edison Electric Light Com pany and bought shares at |3B. He is said to have sold out his holdings at something over $3,000 per snare. At any rate, he retired from business some tea years ago with a comfortable fortune. Since than he has spent much of his time abroad. He Is a famous hunter, and there are few better horsemen in America than he. It was to him that Pierre Lorillard gave that famous gelding Parole for a saddle horse. A few years ago he married the daughter of Abram 8. Hewitt. There has lately appeared in Marseilles, France, says the New York Times, a machine of the velocipede type that can be used either on the land or on the water, as the rider may desire. The mechanism is very simple and looks very much like tuat of an ordinary tri cycle whose wheels are formed of two iron plates placed opposite eaoh other and held in place by cross nari, The wheels are grooved on their circumference and have a thick rubber band for use on the roads. For use on the water the wheels have on their periphery a dozen little copper paddles similar to those on the wheels of a side-wheel steamer. The ma chine is capable of high speed ashore, and afloat it has made nearly three miles an hour with no greater exertion than is needed for a tricycle on a good road. Its stability is re markable, and its efficiency in rescuing people in the water has been fully demonstrated. A man has clung to it while in the water, and has carried along without upsetting the machine. Two men have bean kept afloat by depending entirely upon its buoyancy. Experiments, so far, have been sufficiently successful to warrant a greater perfection of the machine. Air-tight compartments are to be added, the paddies en larged and the wheels made lighter. In this manner it is fully expected to increase the speed in calm water by 75 per cent. In rough water this excellent showing is naturally not to be expected, although it still remains true that it can take one person easily on the dry land or in the water. In one of Mr. Depew's recent speeches, says the Sun, he referred to the fact that British papers give but slight heed to American affairs, and said: “You will see columns about British politics in the New York papers, but hardly ever a line about American politics in the Lon don papers When I was abroad last summer I spoke of this very thing to the editor of a British daily. He made answer by pointing to a map near at hand on which the British posses sions ail over the world were marked in red. ‘We deal mainly,’ he said, ‘with European affairs in which we are conoerned, and witn the affairs of the countries under our own rule in every quarter of the globe. We take up ques tions that interest hundreds of millions of British subjects in India, that concern our powerful colonies in Australasia, that affect our North American dominion (whch is bigger than the United States), that bear upon our territories and protectorates in Africa, from Cape Colony to Egypt, and that need attention in a hundred other regions and islands under the British flag. Our papers must look after such business, and it is hard work to do so, while at tne same time watching for danger sig nals in Europe. We are, of course, deeply in terested in the United States from a commercial point of view, but the general course of Ameri can politics and the questions under debate in the United States do not concern us, and it is difficult to comprehend them. There is no other empire In the world like ours; there is no other government with as many interests at stake as this, and the British editor must be excused if he does not closely follow all the affairs in which Americans are absorbed.’ Thus spoke the editor of a British daily paper to me when I was abroad last year, and pernaps his remarks will serve as an answer to questions that are often asked here." English play goers of sixty years ago had reason to feel thankful for the visit which Fanny Kelly made to Paris during the autumn of 1819. Much against the wishes of her father, the captain, this young girl of 16 had taken to the boards at Cheltenham in the June previous. After much difficulty her worthy parents re moved her from the t ieater and packed her off to Paris, ostensibly to improve her pronuncia tion. the real intention, however, being to weaken her dramatic bias by an entire change of surroundings. Unlucky project! Not long after her arrival in Paris Fanny became ac quainted with the great Talma, before whom a.ie gave recitals from Shakespeare, receiving such unqualified praise in return as to make assuranoe doubiy sure that she had not mistaken her calling. Thus it was that the loss to the domestic circle proved a gain to the stage. No withstanding the social ameni ties o representative actors like Edmund Kean and Talma, the artistic relationship of England and France sixty years ago and later were on anything but a stable basia For instance, when a band of English players attempted at the Porte St. Martin theater, in July and Au gust, 1822, to perform several of the plays of Shakespeare—some four or five of whose works had previously been vilely adapted to the French stage by Duels—they met with violent oppo sition from an organized gang of tur bulent spirits. Night after night they were hooted from the stage amid a storm of jeers such as "Speak French!" and “Down with Shakespeare; he is one of Wellington's aides de camp!” English play-goers before and a ter that period were equally narrow-minded. This much in all fairness must be noted when we bark back to the storm of indignation which assailed Garrick for daring to present some French dancers in “The Chinese Festival," and when, coming to more recent times, we remem ber us of the famous “Monte Cristo” riots. Nobody will suffer from liver disease tr they take Simmons Liver Regulator.—Ad. BAKING POWDER. Always Ahead. A Series of Tests to deter mine the keeping qualities of leading baking powders, made at the request of the New England Grocer , by Dr. Davenport, Massa chusetts State Analyst, and pub lished June 27th, 1890, shows Cleveland’s Superior Baking Powder highest in keeping qualities, highest in leavening power. mjluioau. NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS. ®WM. 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