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Newspaper Page Text4 £|e^lflndng|JetDS Moni ng Now* Building, Savannah. ua. ’ MONDAY. FKB. 18, 1891. ' Registered at the Pustofflf* in ikiranmk Mount*'. Hews la publiabad every day la toe year, and is served to subecribere * the city at cents a wee. $1 00 a month, to 00 for ox Months and $lO 00 for on* year. The Mon.vo.-o New* *> mail, one: moaith, $1 00; three months, $2 50, six months. $4 00; try mail, sis times imk (without Sunday issue., three months, $1 uo; Six months, $1 00; one tost, to W. The Morning Nm, Tii-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays Thurs days and Saturday* three months $1 to; six Months, to 50: one year, $5 ' The Sunday >'ix by mail, one year. $2 00. The Wxxxi-r Sews, by mail, one year, f 1 25 Bnbecri|.tions pavaole in advance. R-mlt by postal order, check or registered letter. Car yency sent by mall at risk of senders Letters and telegrams should be addressed “ Morning New*,' Sarsnnah. Os Transient airertiseme te. other than special column. local or readmit notices, amuse ments and cheap or want column. 10 cents a Hoe. Fourteen fines 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. “ UIK .1E \V \ OKKOFFICB Un. 3.3. Fltnn, General Advertising Agent •f the Moutno News, office 23 Park Bow, Hew York. AU advertising business outside of Me states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro Bra wOl be managed by him. The Hoavivo News is on file at the following places, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained: SEW YORK CITY— -3 R Barns, to Park Row. G. P. Rowell £ Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W Sha r 4 Cos., *1 Park Row. Frank. Kikrnan * Cos., 152 Broadway. Daucht £ Cos., 27 Park Place. J. W. Thompson, 39 Park Row. American NcwktapeePuulubese' Association, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA— K. W. Ayer £ Sov, Times Building. BOSTON— R. R Nileb. 256 Washington street. Pettexoill 4 Cos.. 10 State street. CHICAGO— Loan 4 Thomab, 48 Randolph street. CINCINNATI— Edwin Amiss Company, 96 West Fourth street. NEW HAVEN- Tbx H. P. Hi bbard Company. 25 Elm street, ST LOUIS - Kelson Cbesmax 4 Cos., 1127 Pine street. ATLANTA— Morning News Bcrxai', B>k WbitehaU street. MACON— Daily Telegraph Orrtrz. 507 Mulberry street INDEX TO NEW ADYKRTiSfcMENTi Meetings— Executive Board Merchants’ Week; Citizens' Sanitary Association. Special Notice— Notice as to Indebtedness to Pbil.ips Bros., John E. Dowling; Notice to Wster Takers; As to Bills against British Steam ship Boskerma Bay; Notice to Subscribers to The Concert Season. Auction Sales Sundries, by J. J. Oppen fceim. Franco- Am eric an Soups—A. M, 4 C. W. Wets. Mineral Water— Buffalo Lithia Springs Water. Steamship Schedules —Ocean Steamship Company; Baltimore Steamship Company; General Transatlantic Company. Cheap Column advertisements— Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Bale: Personal: Miscellaneous. licetou has just witnessed a Chinese play, and the imposing array of culture that througel the theater must have almost par alyzed the sensitive nerves of the meek eyed celestials. Whitewash doesn’t appear to stick well on Pension Commissioner Raum. Under the calcium light of the minority report of the congressional investigating committee he still looks decidedly soiled and smeared with corruption. Fire him out. Two more countries have been brought into the reciprocity compact, and Secretary Blaine must bo all aglow with admiration of himself. With Newfoundland and Venecueia on his list the secretary probably feels that success is within his eager grasp. Newfoundland undisguisedly declares her desire to be aunexed to the United States. No doubt Uncle Sam fully reciprocates her coy affection; but the chances are that her British mater would not approve the alliance. Nevertheless we may get her yet. __ _ Fitly enough the first sod was cut for the Columbian exposition br an Italian. But so far from haying any ceremony attending the important occurrence it was dons by a man so densely ignorant that he didn’t know what he was digging for,and probably never heard of Columbus. Chicago is just now engaged in express ing well-bred amazement at the sloth and Illiteracy of Boston in that the great bean town has just organized a Psychic Phe nomena Society. Such a simple and essen tial institution as that the hog killers have had for 10l these many years. Studying phsychic phenomena is their “best hotd. n Oppressed by terror of the dread Mafia ■a Italian recently went all the way from Virginia to Minnesota for no other purpose than to kill a country man whom the secret band of nzsastins did not approve of. This is only one of many similar crimes that have lately occurred. They only serve to accentuate the necessity for wiping out such organized conspiracies against law. Calling dentistry a trade and asking for minute statistics of the tooth-pulling in dustry has brought down upon Census Superintendent Porter the violent wrath of some 30.000 dentists or more. They wltheringly pronounce Secretary Noble a Crusoe and Bupt. Porter his man Friday and threaten to leave them severely alone to survey themselves. Realty the census man’s Ufa is not strewn with japonicas. Republican partisan newspapers are try ing to make their readers believe that a strong revulsion of feeling against Cleve land on account of his opinions anent silver •oinage is likely to result in his defeat for the presidential nomination in 1892. They might as well undeceive themselves and squarely face the situation. When the next presidential contest comee on they will have Cleveland and no one else to fight, and they may as well know it now as later on. Ever since the Preeident had that tilt with the commissioners he has had blood in his eye for civil service reform. Sympa thetic party friends of the administration are now threatening to strangle the whole institution by shutting off the necessary supplies and assistance for conducting busi ness. Throwing actual work upon the com missioners would wreck the great concern immediately. KeautKul theories are all they agreed to furnish in return for their munificent salaries. Real toil would utterly prostrate them. The Inspection of FertlilEsra Do toe farmers of this state realize that they use 300,000 tons of fertilize-* an nually! Commissioner of A?n culture Xee b.tt says they do. This immense amount of fertilizing material costs a great deal of money. It is safe to say that a very large part of the profit of the cotton crop is used to pay for fertilisers. And the farmers, or at least a majority of them, do not appreciate the importance of saying fertilizers such as are to be found upon their farms. There are very few farmers who could not save, with intelli gent care, a large quantity of fertilizing material every year, and this material would be superior to manufactured fertil izers. It is believed that a very considerable part of the fertilizers used in this stale is not what it is represented to be. The farmers pay for what they do not get. Commissioner Nesbitt has a plan for secur ing a more thorough inspection of fertiliz ers. The plan appears to be a good one. It is certainly well worth a trial. It is alleged that there are fertilizer manufacturers who do not deal honestly with the farmers. They represent their good* to be what they are not. And it is difficult to detect the fraud. There ought, therefore, to be a more rigid method of in specting fertilizers, and it is such a method that Commissioner Nesbitt wants the legis lature to adopt. Honest fertilizer dealers.doubtless, favor a more searching investigation. Such inspec tion as Commissioner Nesbitt advises would protect them against dishonest dealers. A good fertilizer cannot be sold in competition with a bad one. The fertiliser inspectors have more to do now than they can do well, and so has the state chemist. The farmers pay the in spection fees and. therefore, they ought to insist upon inspection that would leave them no room to doubt that when they buy a fertilizer they get the worth of their money. The members of the legislature ought to think of Commissioner Nesbitt’s ■uggestions.and pass a law in harmony with them—a law that would be beneficial to farmers and honest fertilizer dealers, and that would force inferior and worthless goods out of the market. India Repels Innovation. Lately India has adopted a very mild sort of law slightly modifying the olden custom as to marriage of children. Under the en actment the age of consent is raised from 10 to 12 years. That is certainly not a very radical innovation. Yet it lias already met with a spirit of the most strenuous resistance by Hindoos of the orthodox faith. They evi dently regard It as a dangerous precedent, forming a basis for other changes of a more radical nature. Therefore their objection to this decree is not so strongly directed against the proposed reform as a manifesta tion of apprehension that this is but a fore runner of further encroachment upon the rigidly maintained seclusion of Hindoo domestic affairs. What most surprises the government is tbat the most vehement protests and deter mined opposition should come from the women. Thu uncompromising hostility can only be ascribed to the natural con servatism of these women and their entire subserviency to the priesthood. Yet every one must know with what tenacity women cling to their convictions in the matter of sooial customs. Knowing that we cannot fail to foresee what a potent influence these women are likely to wield in sustaining their preferences in snob affairs. Although this measure is supposed to be for their emancipation from a sort of semi serfdom, women who are not willing to be emancipated cannot be so benefited very readily. Notwithstanding the wise moder ation shown in the adopted measure, the present trend of public opinion in India in dicates that the course of the government was not wholly successful nor judicious. Oriental customs do not brook any sort of innovation. Reduce the Railway Kates. Continuing his discussion of the Austrian sone-tariff of railway fares in the last num ber of the Quarterly Journal of Eaonom tes, Prof. E. J. James concludes that as railway revenues are greater in that em pire since fares averaging less than 1 cent a mile replaced a much higher rate, there Is no reason why the same result would not follow in America if the railroads should be compelled to adopt the plan in case they are uot willing to try it voluntarily. Com menting upon the subject in a general way, be says tbat American, as well as Eurojiean railways, give a slow service at a very high rate of fare—when they could and ought to give a faster service at a much lower rate. Lacking the necessary incentive of close competition he thinks the public has no other alternative than to legally oompel tbs corporations to advance more rapidly in the line of speed and lower rates. By this means the average Ameri can passenger train of 200 seats may reason ably be expected to carry more nearly 200 passengers than the average of forty-two computed to it by the estimate of the inter state commerce commission. That the high rates of fare reduce the average of American train loads to forty two passengers for 200 seats may be ques tioned. There is force in the assertion of the Railroad Gazette that public demand for better and more frequent trains has done much to redace the average number of passengers. Sweeping reductions in rail way fares in Hungary were speedily fol lowed by an enormous increase of passen ger truffle,in many cases amounting to over 150 per cent. In view of these facts there Is no apparent reason why a reduction of rates In this state and on all trunk lines should not operate to the ultimate advantage of the road. Carrying a train load of 200 passengers a given distance at 1 cent a milo would certainly be more profit able than hauling forty-two passengers the same distance at 2 cents a mile. While the population of Hungary is far more danso and less particular about accom modations than the people of America there is no question that a groat number of peo ple who cannot now afford to travel at all would pay in frequent fares if they were fixed at a lower rate, and many people who go very seldom w ould travel much more uuder favorable conditions. Such an ex periment is at least worth a fair trial. Should it prove oven moderately success ful it would redound greatly to the ad vantage of the railways as well as the public. Those poor girls tu the Clark thread mill at Kearney are not so much to blame for becoming almost riotously demonstrative, considering bow desperately poor they are and how they’ve been badgered by the New Jersey polioe. Yet they did very little harm by tbrowiug stones, because a woman can never bit anything she throws at. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1891. Troubles of tbs Doctors. Physicians are not wholly free from an noyances. and sometimes they annoy each other. A bill has jutt been introduced into the legislature of Missouri which provides that they shall not charge more than ooe dollar a visit If it should become a law a good many physicians in Missouri would not fare sumptuously every day. In the opin ion of the lawmakers of tbat state the good the doctors do doesn’t amount to a great deal. Perhaps the me nber who introduced the bill has had an extensive experience with quack*. In New York the stats board of malical examiners is considering a matter which has for its object the getting rid of quack*. The Erie County Medical Society has asked the board to decide the extent to which physicians shall be permitted to advertise. It seems That in Buffalo there are special ists who are making fortune* by advertis ing for patients and calling attention to their medicine* When the state board of examiners was created it was thought that the quaccs would bare to stop business, or lose their diploma* Under the law a diploma is necessary to practice medicine. The quacks still do a flourishing business, however, for the reason, chiefly, that the regular physi cians have hesitated to call attention to their violations of the law. The law it to be enforced at last, it seems, and some flourishing quack establishments are in danger of being closed. Thera is no use of a law against quacks unless it is en forced. But ia the enforcement of the anti quack law in New York there is likely to be a lively war of words between the regular and irregular doctors. Perhaps in this war the public may get bold of a fe w grains of truth that will be highly beneficial. If the quacks are driven to the wall in New York war will be waged against them, probably, in other states. Brace Up the Banks. How very shaky the banks in the large cities are becoming of late. Immediately following the immense crash in Kansas City came the three disastrous wrecks in Chi cago. Then followed financial embarrass ments and failures in various parti of the country, involving amounts of greater or less magnitude, but usually running up into amazingly large totals until a few days ago, when a bank in Brooklyn, claiming the fabulous capital of $200,000,000, and less than a year old, actually collapsed and completely fell to pieces so softly tbat the tenants in tne same building where this opulent institution was located on an upper floor did not even de tect a jolt when the catastrophe occurred. Just to tbiuk that suoh a magnificently equipped institution should fall into rapid decay for lack of the paltry sum of $200,000 is positively astounding. But it’s true if the cashier’s statements are correct. Where a bank fails confiding depositors are always more or lass victimized. Still it is supposed to be the duty of the state gov ernment to protect them. Where it is pos sible for a syndicate of adventurous and acquisitive spirits to band themselves to gether in the torm of a legal organization for the purpose of handling other people’s money tboss who are by these pretensions of financial accountability induced to entrust their savings to suoh an institution should be giveu some reasonable assurance that they are to get back their money. Lott they may through oversight or inexpe rience fail to make the Investigation and re ceive the necessary tangible assurances of safety the state should reqaire that they be made secure against loss. Relative to this polut the banking laws of several states conspicuously defective. Such a flaw only encourages the reckless and unscrupulous to enter into all sorts of plausible wild-oat confidence schemes to impose upon and defraud the unwary. It also tempts those of naturally honest pur poses, but restless ambitiou to acquire woalth, to enter into hazardous enterprises that entrap innocent Investors because of the roputable character of the principals, and result In disaster and serious loss to all who are induced to entrust fuuds to its keeping. If the banking laws were sufficiently rigid and carefully framed and impartially enforced these stupendous failures that we now hear of so frequently would be made impossible. Naturally enough Editor VVatteraon re sents Gov. Hill’s peculiar method of dealing with the letter the Kentuckian wrote, Nor was the missive couched in such language as to reasonably give offense to the gov ernor. Therefore it sounds rather silly of the governor’s friends to say they are “in clined to think that Mr. Watterson may have written the letter when under more or less mental excitement, and then forgotten to mail it,” That isn’t at all probable. In any event it places Mr. Hill in rather an embarrassing position, from which he is making frantic efforts to extricate himself, and with very poor success. Killing a man merely “to oblige a friend," as a New York tough is said to have re cently done, is carrying fraternal loyalty a step too far, and especially when that friend wants the victim murdered for no better reason than because he owed 40 oents he could not pay. Human life is coming to be rated altogether too cheap in the great center of modern American civilisation. Negro missionaries should be sent to these barbarious districts to teach enlightened Christianity English radicals are making life decidedly exciting and somewhat uncomfortable for the Prince of Wales about his frequent con nection with such disreputable scrapes as the Sir Gordon Cumming card cheating af fair. Meanwhile the fat monarch pre sumptive is iu a tremor of nervous dread lest he may be summoned to testify in court. That would oertainlv not be a very becom ing role for a prince to appear in. Expert knowledge of gambling cheats should really not be expected of him. Failing in bis lofty ambition to rule La Belle France, the young Duke of Orleat.B baa fallen to chasing a beautiful prima donna over the surface of Europe. Infatu ation seems to be stronger than his hold upon the mythical crown his father has so long had his eye upon. New Orleans newspapers are wasting a great deal of pathetic coin misoration on Mr. Cleveland which they might, with advantage, hoard up for judicious applica tion to Gov. Hill in the hour of his need. There is nothing wrong with Cleveland. He’s all right. Identification of Ray Hamilton’s remains was expected to be effected by means of a broken leg, which had never wholly re covered its original perfect contour, and was marked by a scar. But the chaucet are now that the search will be Indefinitely deferred. PERSONAL. Mme Bernhardt, ia an article on the drama, leploras suit reahsm and would have only the ideal Piers* LoaoxAßD ia at Jacksonville. He is recovering from hie illness and preparing to go tarpon tuning. Henry Georoe writes from Bermuda that he is getting along famiusiy, and. save when asleep, is la toe open air c mttnualiy. Ewing Cockrell, son of the Missouri sena tor, it a high school hoy aed an accomplished stenographer, who does much work for Lis father Patti sang in Berlin Friday evening, but It is understood that Emperor William U of the opinion that he could have done much better himself. Jtsttm McCarthy the younger ia going to give up his seat ia parliament, it is stated, and devr.t* himself exclusively to literature and dramatic art. Benatoe Dawes U much interested in a project for a free circulating library in Wasb lr.gt □. Mr. Wanamaser oas also heartily ap proved the scheme. Senator Sherman has abandoned bis idea of er cling a handsome dwelling in Washington, and has decided t* build a residence at hia old home in Mansfield, O. Jay Gould said to an Atlanta reporter: “I .don't know why it is, but I have never had a good picture taken. I can't wear my usual nat ural air in front of a camera, it seems. ” Sir Everltm Baring will shortly be ap pointed British ambassador to Constantinople, in succession to Sir William White, who is to retire from the Uip.omatic service on a pen sion. Samuel M. Clemens (Mark Twain) has invented nearly $17.6.000 in bis type setting machine, and that is only a small part of his wealth. It ha* evidently paid him to be hum orous—and to be hit own publisher. Gen. Shsrean used to tell that while traveling in Ireland ho was once serenaded by a local hand in Cork To hi* surprise and delight the musician played "Maroning Through Georgia " he inquired where they had heard the tune, and was further surprised to hear that it was a very old Irish air. the origin of which was lost in the nnsts of antiquity. The tragic death of her daughter, the Count ess Waldsteln Wartemberg. has caused the Princess Metternica to close her salon. The prmoess is still famous for her beauty and wit. Many of her extraordinary escapades and galiantrl--s have been forgiven her of recent years because of the strain of insanity she in herited from her father. She hat lately spent a good part of her time in France. Miss Lilli A. Long, author of the strong and bright novel, “A ’Squire of Low Degree,” is a western woman whose years are under 30. She was born in St Paul, is of Swedish descent, and numbers, as she says, among her ancestors "a changeling, a soliier, a musician and a wizard, but no viking," The early years of tier life were spent in various country "settlements” in Min nesota and lowa, broken by a year in Oregon. Luttle Mr* Ye, the Coroan minister's wife, is a tiny, dark-syed, solemn-looking woman. She is a favorite in Washington society and is undeniably prettyr Asa matter of fact, the ladies of the Asiaiic legations are usually very good looking, while the men are often as ugly as men can be. Mr. Ye s beauty is not enhanced by the practice he makes of wearing on every possible occasion a queer glazed hat strapped tightly under his chin. BRIGHT BITS. Passenger—ls this ticket good to stop off? Conductor—Yes’m. But it won’t be good to git on *.ain.—ffeu York Weekly. Amy—How becoming tnat garland is to Miss Autumn: Effle 'jealously)—Ye* Ivy always does look well on ruins.”— Harvard Lampoon. “What Is the cause of the sudden coolness between Tom Jones and Susie Brown?” “Tom sold her father a horse. Epoch. Portland Police Judge—Come, you’d better plead guilty,. You’ll get off easier. Pat?ey, the Tramp -Aw. I'm dead on to yer. Yar want sto go to dinner, don’t yer?— West Shore. U Young Wive—John, mother says she wants to be cremated.- Young HUsband—TeH her If she'll put on her thin** iql teke bsr dove this morning.— Texas StfUngs. j., , UJ , d "John," said a lady to her new coachman, as he was on his way to the pulls to vote, “are you going to exercise toe franchise to-day?” “Which of the horses U that, mum?" inquired J ohn. - -Excria nge. “Yes,” said old Aunt Wisdom, “I cut out every good thing tba; I see in the papers; but what puzzles me is that the best articles end by mentioning gome Cure. One of the new lit erary fads, I suppose.— Society. Foreign Visitor—Does it cost much to live in New York? Host—No, sir. It doesn’t cost much to live In this city, but It costs like Sana Hill to keep ud appearances.—A’eui York Weekly. A love match? It wa* That's what they all say. The youth didn't marry the maiden for pelf. He gave her his seat In a horse car one and ly. And the damsel was grateful and gave him herself. -Cape Cod Hem. Dk Mascus—Why do you always lie abed all day when you come west? You're an early riser in New York. St Agedore—Don’t you know, old man that the son can’t rise In the west?— St. Joseph News. “Please, sir. I am starving; I’ve had nothing to eat in lour days. Won t you give me a do'lar?" “A dollar? That’s a good deal, isn’t it?" “Not to keep a man alive for four days, your honor.”— Harper's Bazar. It was In the South Hill street car. “What Is your occupation?” he Inquired of the feminine passenger on the opposite seat. “I am aales lady at Blank s store. And what do you do?" “I am the gentleman janitor at the church ” was the courteous reply.— Burlington. Howkeye. He pound a hornet’s nest, this lad, And brought it to the lire, Considering only that he had— Not what he might acquire. But when they tampered with his bites And hummed rejoicing low. He sat and Bobbed, and murmured “Lfst- Kn to those tails of won.” Washington Bost^ A rousbkeepir complained to her coal Sealer of the man who bad been sent to put In her coal, saying that he behaved very rudely at the bouse, and was “uot a gentleman. ” The dealer promised to send another man the next time but said: “We are finding it very hard to get gentlemen to put in coal thl year."’—.Boston. Past. SirriNT, upon a hotel piazza, Judge Virgin was ftske i by a member of the Oxford county bar regard ng the legal qualifications of a practitioner in another part of Maine. Said he: “Mr. might sit in this chair while an elephant and mouse pass up the street before his eyes; of the mouse he could tell you the length of the tail, the texture of the coat and the color of the eye. but it would never occur to Mr. that he had seen an elephant.”—Leun's ton Journal. CURRENT COMMENT. They’re Solid for Toddy. From fhe Louisville Courier-Journal ( Dem.\ When it comes to the protection of their dis tilleries from dynamite, the people of Illinois will rise in their might—every thirsty soul of them. Making Ben Miserable. From the Chicogo News (/ad.). It is said that a New York composer wifi dedi cate a number of songs to Mr. Benjamin Har rison. This event coupled with the defeat of the force bill will make lffe in the white house seem a dreary blank for several weeks to come. Still “a Brave officer” Might Be Civil. From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.). Mr. Dana's personal testimony to the effect that Mrs. Jefferson Davis is mistaken in charg ing Gen. Miles with keeping her husband in a "vermin-infected cell" at Fortress Monroe dis poses of the matter. Mrs. Davis has been led by careless or malignant report to do an in justice to a brave officer. Such a Nuisance Should Be Sup pressed. FVom the Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.). Nearly three-fourths of the states in the union have passed laws restricting in some way or other the sale of cigarettes. The hope may be indulged that the time will come wnen the actual criminality of smoking the abomiuable thing* where innocent people are compelled to smell them will be recognised and established by law. Vas Hutkn’s Cocoa—The original moß t salable.— Adr. A Singular Coincidence. A t reet car Incident which hu come to an Eastern exchange, seems to illustrate the un consciousness of apparent age. An old lady, on entering a crowded tram, caught the strap, aad by chance took her stand directly in front of a lady pa monger apparently a a old as hermif. says tbs Chicago Pott. The poeseaaor of the seat was on her feet in a moment. "Haee my teat, madam,'* she exclaimed, with audible courtesy. “You are older than I tm" ••Older than you.” retorted the other. "I beg a tboueaad pardooe for contradicting my elder, but. indeed madam, you are mistaken. Ke p your seat ** "But 1 ana sura that you are older than L" "And lam equally sore that lam not. Will you be good enough to resume yeur place?’’ "Not while an older woman stands." The situation was growing interesting. But though ail smiled no one seemed moved to re lieve matters by offering a second seat. Both old persons were pretty well warmed up by this time First one sniffed then the other, as old ladies sometimes will when sorely tried. The vacant seat was still before them. Finally an overture of peace came from the owner of the seat, the last speaker. “I don’t want to be disagreeable, malam. and If I’m older than you I’ll sit down. Let s tell our ages, and the older yields." The aggrieved woman did not relish this much, but the pressure of an audience forbade a retreat. "Well, madam,” she replied, forcing the sem blance of a smile, "1 shall be most happy. Will you announce your age? Then I soall take pleasure in telling mine." "I was born in March, 1817. And you?" "What: March, 1817? Good heavens' So *- I? And what day did you arrive, pray?" “The 7tb. And you?” There were bright red spots on the cheeks of both old ladies, now. ‘‘l have nothing more to say," was the reply. My birtr.day is the Gul lam much older lor the seat." And with admirable dignity she sat down amid considerable laughter. Sba Got Bid of the Man. “The fact that American girls go anywhere and almost everywhere without escorts has long been a matter of wonderment to me, ’’ said a member of the French nobility the other day, to the New York Telegrapm. “I was coming down in an elevated train yesterday, and the reasen was made evident to me. As we neared City Hall station almost every pas senger made a rush for the door and stood for five minutes, eacu anxious to get ahead of the other in leaving the train. “One of the crowd was a very pretty young woman carrying a long-handled umbrella in one hand and a big bundle in the otter. Just be hind her was a short, very fat man, who was rudely crowding the pretty girl. As I had not left my seat I saw the performance that fol lowed. “Once the girl looked over her shoulder and the fat man stopped crowding for a moment, but began again and trod on the skirt of the pretty girl. Her eyes grew dark with anger. The long-handled umbrella assumed a horizontal position aad shot backward, point first, catch ing the fat man just about at the bottom of his vest. He gave a gasp of terror and caught his breath just as the pretty girl looked over her shoulder, smiled sweetly and said: ‘O, pardon me; but you are on my skirt. ’ “Then she smiled even more sweetly, and the fat mac dropped into a seat and groped about as though the air in the car was suffocating him. The girl marched complacently out of the car, head up, the dainty feathers in her hat nodding defiance to all masculine humanity.” Sold Hla Dead Cats Too Cheap, It was the man on whose land natural gas was first struck in the Findlay (o.) district, says tberNew York Sun, and he was telling some of us about it as we waited in the depot at Colum bus: "Wall, vou know," he began, "my son Bill was a great hand to road. One day he laid away a book he had been reading and says to me: “ ‘Dad, I’ve been reading up on minerals and I’m goingfto find sunthln’ right here on our farm.’ “‘Shoo, Bill," says I, ‘but you won’t strike nothin' outside of oobble stones and worms. ’ “But he went at It and began to dig and bone and fool around and leave me to hoe the corn, iind one day he struck somethin’. There cuui iich an infernal smell that both of us was drove to the house, and then the smell got bo bad that we was drove to a neighbor's, and we had to let the bogs out of the pen or they would have keeled over. “ ‘Bill,’ I says, when I got where I could breathe again, you said you’d atrike sunthin', and you have You’ve wasted three months’ time gittin’ down to whar Christopher Colum bus buried about 1,000 tomcats, and we’ve all bindrivoff the farm in consekence. It's my turn now to strike suntbin' and you kin git ready for the all-ftredest lickin’ a boy ever got.’ “1 give it to him, gentlemen, and then I went spookin’ around to find somebody who'd buy the farm at about the cost of the barn A feller who seem to have catarrh and didn’t mind the smell closed up a deal with me, and I had to grin as I walked of with his money uuder my arm. 1 kept on grinnln’ fur about a week, but then I heard some news that stopped me, and I guess It's three years since I’ve opened my mouth sideways. Them dead cats was worth SIOO,OOO to me and I sold ’em for SBOO and walked around patting, myself on the back fur hem’ so all-fired cute.” The Mugwump Tariff Girl. From the Bottom Transcript, I talked of things of interest. The facts of every day— Of fashion, church, the newest song, The opera, the play. With languid interest she heard— -1 marveled much until Bbe stopped me in my talk to ask, ".Had I read the tarifT bill!" I said that Carmencita danced Like aspen on the wind; She askea me what the duty was On plush cloaks, satin-lined. I spoke then of MacQutary's book. And was he orthodox? She said it was a shame to charge Such tax on woolen socks. I praised the coloring shs had made. The etching she had drawn. She urged the tax on frames, and sighed Beneath her bosom's lawn. I sved the swaying chandeliers. She caught my revtug eye. And whispered. "Were the tariff low, The glass carabine would die.” The floor of marble she explained, Bweekly, as was her want. Was taxed to aid a man who owned A quarry in Vermont. I leaving, something on the stoop Impeded my decant: She said it was an English rug. Taxed elghty-flve per cent. Frightened the Waiter. "My wife and I were taking dinner at the Wyoming Valley hotel, and a great, big. strap ping darkey was waiting on us," gays Magician Keller in the Hazleton Sentinel. “I was in a hurry, and told him I wanted din ner as soon as possible. So he hustled about for my order of fish and soon brought it to me. • I caused the fish to disappear, plate and all before his eyes, and then said, 'I thought X told you to bring me some flsh in a hurry." ’ "The darkey insisted that he had brought it, but as it could not be found be was Anally brought to believe that he had not. By this time the attention of the whole room was drawn, so as soon as the darkey would bring me anything I caused it to vanish, until that poor old darkey was Dearly wild. “Finally I asked for a cun of coffee, and he had scarcely set ft before me when I looked at it and said: ‘Why, I asked you for coffee; this is tea.’ That was the last straw, and the old darkey, with eyes almost starting out from his head, staggered up to the head waiter and, throwmg up his arms, cried out: ‘Foh de Lord sake, lemme go home; dat man is de debill’ Imagine the laugh that went up in that dining room." Vigorous Men and Women. The vigorous are they who pay attention to the laws of health, of which one of the fore most is, take care of your digestion. Should a temporary attack of the enemy, dyspepsia, sur prise you, foil his subsequent assaults witn Hostetter'a Stomach Bitters. From the stom ach come the fundamental supplies which min ister to vigor, and, thoroughly transmuted into blood actively circulated, are the main tenance of the system. Pallid in countenance, nervows, attenuated in figure, appetiteless, poor sleepers, are the dyspeptic. Reinforce and build up by the great stomachic, the wan and the thin increase in color and bulk, appetite im proves. nervous symptoms disappear, sleep k* kH tranquil and refreshing, and the intran quillity of mind and despondency notable in in valids give place to light-hearted ness, a capac il7 [? r r * c J r enjoyment of the good things of this life. Lee tbe bitters for malarial, hil lous, rheumatic and kiduey troubles.-.id. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Horseshoes of compressed paper have been introduced into the artillery and cavalry of the German army The shoe la made of abeets of parchment paper cemented with a preparation of turpentine. Spanish white lac. and boiled linseed oil. The separate layers are stamped out, cemented, and consolidated by a hydraulic press. When dry the shoe is rasped to lit each horse. Da FraxiTAU. in speaking of Ruekin as ke appeared forty years ago, says "I never met any man whose charm of manner at all ap proached Ruskin a Partly feminine it was, no doubt; but the delicacy, the evmpathy. the gentleness, and affectionaia-ass of hla way, the fresh and penetrating things he said, the boyish fun, tbe earnestness, the interest he showed in all deep matters, combined to make a wboie I have never seen equaled.'' The Brunswick (Germany) Tagtblalt says that Count Civry has just discovered among the archives of Kensington palace a long lost docu ment whereby Charles, second Luke of Bruns wick, recognizes the Countess Civry as his daughter. The Tageblatt reproduces the docu ment, which is dated Dec. 31, 1836, and it may play an important part in a suit which the countess intends to commence against the city of Geneva for the restoration of her heritage. Miss Lillie Kenney. one of the most beauti ful girls in Parkersburg, W. Va., and a lady noted for her refinement and accomplishments, has just been received Into the convent in that city. Her future name will be 3ister Angelia. Her parents, who are Protestants, sent her to the convent to be educated, and when she had finished her education she was so impressed with the life therein that she renounced the world and joined the sisterhood. It is also alleged that unrequited love partly actuated her to the move. It is Amazing, but nevertheless true, that Charles Keene, who, within the memory of man, never treated himself to anew coat, whose sole indulgences was the art club and the shag tobacco which he stuffed into hie little black cutty, and who had no shyness in owning that he did not spend £2OO a year, has died, worth no less a sum than £30,000. His executor is his nefdiew, Mr. Corbould, and the legatees are that gentleman and Ke.-ne's brother and bis two sisters, one of whom is unmarried and the other a widow. Queen Victoria, in consequence of the recent duel between Count Deym and Count Luetzon of the Austrian embassy in London, has asked Lord Salisbury to request foreign governments to refrain from appointing so many honorary secretaries of legation. It has become cus tomary for many continental countries to allow members of distinguished families to act as honorary attaches to their embassy during residence in foreign capitals. The qu’eeu has decided that in the future diplomatic privileges shall not be accorded to such attaches ia Lon don. One of Senator Vance's peculiarities is that he smokes thirty strong imported cigars a day, ten of them before noon. He rises every morn ing at 8 o'clock, and smokes three cigars before breakfast. He is also a worshiper of the mem ory of Andrew Jackson. “Since I have been in Washington," he said the other day to Con gressman Mansur of Missouri, “I have not failed a single morning on getting out of bed at the Ri ;gs house, where I live, to light a cigar, walk over to Lafayette park, pause in front of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson and rev erentially lift my hat.” The largest bell in America is that of Notr e Dame cathedral, Montreal, which hangs in the south tower. It is 6 feet high, 8 feet 7 inches in diameter, and weighs 24,780 pounds. It is orna mented with images of the Blessed Virgin and St. John the Baptist, together with emblems of agriculture, commerce and industry. It was cast iu London in 1747. In the opposite tower hangs a chime of ten bells, the smallest weigh- pounds, the largest 6,01:; total 21,896 pounds. The largest bell in the United States in the alarm bell on city nail. New York, whioh was cast by Blake of Boston. It is 6 feet high, 8 feet In diameter and weighs 23,000 pounds. Dr. Nachtigal. the celebrated African ex plorer, was once the gueet of a rich Hamburg merchant. The merchant’s sen, a young man of somewhat sentimental temperament, said that i-is dearest wish was to ride across the de sert on the back of a camel. He thought such a ride must be very poetical indeed. “My dear young friend,” replied the explorer, "I can tall you how you cau get a partial Idea of what riding a camel on the desert of Africa is like. Take an office stool, screw it up as high as peeai ble, aud put into a wagon witnout anv springs; then seat yourself upon the stool and nave It driven over uneven aod rocky ground during the hottest weather of July or August after you have had nothing to eat or drink for twenty four hours, and then you will get a faint idea of how delightfully poetic It is to ride on a camel in the wilds of Africa” A few weeks aoo a German physician, bear ing the name of Kooh, innocently subscribed his name in the register of a hotel in Milan, Italy. A few minutes later a wise Italian made an interesting discovery—the great Prof. Koch was a visitor in Milan! The nows spread with marvelous rapidity. An hour later the dignified officers of the city drove up to the second class inn to welcome the great benefactor to Milan. Crowds soon filled the little square in frout of the hotel; hundreds of cards were sent to the poor man's room. “Evviva Kooh!" “fcvviva Koch!” echoed and re-echoed in the street. In vain did the owner of the hotel declare that Prof. Koch was not Sts guest. The assertion only excited the people the more, and they de manded the privilege of seeing the renowned physician. Not until the police appeared and ordered the throng to disperse did the people believe they had been mistaken. "What will become of the poor man," asks a Milan journal in writing of the inckjent, “If he really attends the International medical congress, to be held in Rome in 1808?” Sarah Bernhardt, immediately prior to her departure from Europe for the United States, told one of the editors of the Ech ,s de Paris what remuneration gee was to receive during her two years’tour of the new wor.d. “I shall have,” said she, ”3,000 francs ($600) per representation aud also a third of the receipts, which will give me an average of 6,000 francs .$1,200) par represen tation. I shall have besides 1.000 francs ($200) per week for hotel expenses." This will give Sarah the sum of $1,600 per week, princely pay no doubt, but not too much when it is consid ered what amount of cash the greatest living actress in the world can put fcto the man agerial treasury in the same time. When she played in Philadelphia last, at the Chest nut Street theater four years ago, her receipts were as follows: Original engagement of seven performances, $31,000, the highest rate charged for a seat being $3; return engagement in June, two nights, prior to sailing for France. SB,OOO. Taking $21,000 a week as the average of Bern hardt’s draft in this city, her share would be $7,800, leaving $4,200 Aor Nlxoc and Zimmer man, and $9,000 for Messrs. Abbey and (Iran, out of which, of course, the troupe's expeiAet would have to be paid, probably $2,000 all told. 8o Sarah, while in Philadelphia, would put into Abbey and Grau’s pockqts a clear gaia of Jt.OOO per week. Good pay that in these days of theatrical uvicertainties. A special palace poultry car is anew wrinkle in transportation business. The first one of these cars that has come to Indianapolis was loaded at the Bee Line freight de pot t'.-day. It is intended exclusively for the shipping of poultry. Hitherto poultry has been hustled into wooden coops and placed in an ordinary stock car. The new Jenkins car. in a general way, represents an ordinary freight car. Its sides, however, are fitted with wire screens of a texture just fine enough to prevent the chickens and geese seen inside, from thrust ing their necks through in that painful way they have, aud mistakenly choking out thetr ambitious Ufa The oar is neatly divided into 188 permanent coops or cages about ten inches high, with wooden floors and wire doors. Each coop has a galvanized iron water and feed trough. An aisle runs through the length of the ear, and in the oeuter at the doors is an apartment tank, holding about 750 gadons, to be filled at various stations, and b -low the floor is a place to stow away feed. The chief claims for the oar are that there is less likelihood of suffocation, and that with the improved system of feeding there is less shrinkage in weight, and the advantage of holding the poultry for the market. The cars, it is said, will contain 5,040 ohickens. Arthur Jordan is trying the car passing through this city for a shipment east. The cars have been used extensive.y in the northwest. The Boy Knew It Well. He had a sealed envelope in his hand, says the Detroit Free Brest, and he stopped a news boy and asked: “Sonny, do you know where the Moffat block is?” "Noap.” "You don’t? How long have you lived here*” “Ten years." “Well, you must be a smart one! What’s that building up on that corner?” “The Calamity block.” "No, it isn’t.” "Yes, it is. 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