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THIS ISSUE
—CONTAINS 1
TWELVE PAGES.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
Meetings—Brush Electric Light and Power
Company; Georgia Lodge No. 151, O. K. S. B.
Special Notices —Receiver's Sale of A. Falk
A Sons' Stock, C. F, Law, Receiver; Left, W.
K. Wilkinsm, Real Estate Dealer; The National
Assured Building, Loan and Consol Association
of Savannah. Ga ; Japanese Cleansing Cream
at Rowlinski’s; The Pleasure of Knowing and
Keeling. Townsend: Sixteen Lots at Pooler, Ga,
C. P. Milier, Real Estate; Ten Thousand Dollars
tp Lend on Real Estate, J. L. Whatley; Sacred
Concert at Ocean House To-day; Attention, Sa
vannah Militia, Hoadley & Renuitt; It's English,
Y'ou Know. Hoadley A Bennitt; An Old Ad, The
Robinson Steaai Printing Company; Revolving
Thoughts, Savannah Carriage and Wagon Com
pany; Drug Business for Sale at a Sacrifice;
Georgia State Building and Loan Association;
Savannah Steam Laundry; Empire Steam
Laundry and Dye Works; Dr. Elliotts Return;
Visit Vernon Park; Chatham Artillery Picnic.
Excursion —Excursion to Florida Monday,
May 11. via Savannah, Florida and YVeatern
Railway.
Military Orders— Order No. 28, Battalion
Savannah Volunteer Guards; Order No. 15,
Savannah Cadets.
Summer Resorts—Maplewood Institute, Ran
dolph, Vt ; Hotel Tybee, Tybee Island, Ga.
Some Cuts— D. Hogan.
Stoves— Jas. Douglass.
Wednesday —At levy’s.
Selling With a Rush— At Eckstein's.
Our Mr. Gray Has Arrived— C. Gray A Son.
Opr Low Prices— Dryfus Bros.
The De Soto Drag—Savannah Carriage and
Wagon Company.
The Coming Week— At Altmayer's.
Keep the Boys and Giris—L. A8.8.M. H.
Weekly Thunderbolt—At Morrison, Foye A
CO.'6.
A Hit- T. A. Ward.
Leggett's Improved Jelly— J. S. Tyson, Jr.,
A Cos.
Don’t Miss—Famous.
Roacb Destroyer— Massenberg, Macon, Ga.
The Bottom is Out—The Globe Shoe Store.
Special Offerings—Engel A Rothschild.
New Arrival— Jackson, Metzger A Cos.
Automatic Bank Punch— The Morning News,
Agents.
Picnic— Annual Picnic of the German Aid
and Benevolent Society at Wilmington Island
May 26.
Fresh Mountain Butter, Etc,—S, L.
George.
Cheapest Furniture House—McUillis A
Rustin.
Same Old Story—D. B. Lester Grocery Com
pany.
This Week— At Croban A Pooner's.
Cheap Column Advkrtibkments— Help Want
id; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale ;
l<ost; Personal. Miscellaneous.
Now it is our time to ask reparation from
Italy for the flagrant ill treatment of an
inoffensive American citizen in the streets
of Florence. As there was not a particle of
provocation the Italian government canuot
decently refuse the indemnity asked for.
When a man has endured the boasted
felicity of connubial bliss until he attains to
the age of 80 years, it seems that he should
be able to tolerate domestic happiness to
the close of life. But there is a Connecticut
man in New Haven who at that age has
just discovered that his wife’s temper is in
o mpatible with his own and her habits are
disagreeable to him. Hence he has the
hardihood to enter the divorce court. But
as the venerable plaintiff happens to be an
unusually well preserved and good-looking
man, he may contemplate other matri
monial ventures. Of course that would
make a difference.
Jumpers are about to take a jump. That
it to say the goods they are made of threat
ens to go up. All the manufacturers of
cotton plaid in the Carolinas and Georgia
have just effected such a combination as
can beet put up prices all along the line. So
the dray driver and the stevedore will here
after have to chip in a little more for the
jackets they wear, notwithstanding they
are all made out of the staple handled by
them every day the greater part of the year.
Since the majority of the mills ere in the
atales previously named it seems n trifle
s'range that a trust backed by a million
dollars should have its headquarters in
HalUmor* and do business under a New
Jersey her her.
Unrest in Religious Circles.
The differences of clergymen of the same
denomination relative to the Bible and wbat
; it teaches may not he greater now than at
many other periodi of the history of
Christianity, but that they are very notice
able will not be denied. It may be that
tney seem to be greater than they really are
for the reason that the newspapers devote
so much attention to them.
The announcement that a minister of this
or that denomination has views which are
not in harmony with those of other minis
ters of the same denomination is not
unusual, and excites very little surprise.
Long established doctrines do not command
as much respect as they once did. Whether
this condition of aff sirs is the result of
patient investigation in connection with
scientific discoveries and more accurate in
formation concerning matters dealt with in
Bibiicil history, or to a tendency toward
agnosticism, is a question which might be
an interesting subject for inquiry,
it is certain that in the periodical
literature of the day there is a great deal
that is calculated to unsettle long estab
lished religious beliefs. And the fact that
articles of this kiud are printed shows that
there is a demand for them.
Only recently the Rev. Dr. MacQueary
of Canton, 0.. an Episcopal clergyman,
was suspended six months for publishing
what was oontrary to the creed of his
church. Rev. Dr. Bridgman, the leading
Baptist clergyman of New York, has just
resigned his pulpit because his belief that
there is no such place as hell is not approved
by some of the leading memoersof his
congregation. The Rev. Dr. Briggs, a
Presbyterian, who is the professor of Biblical
theology in the Union Theological Seminary
in New York, is regarded by some as a
heretic and, It is understood, is to be called
to account for denying in his inaugural ad
dress last January the verbal inspiration of
the Bible and expressing a belief in moral
regeneration after death and ultimate sal
vation to all.
And there are those who assert that the
teaching of Dr. Haber Newton and Dr.
Rainsford, of New York, are not in entire
harmony with the doctrines of the Episco
pal church. These are only a few of the
clergymen who are conspicuously out of
harmony with the accepted doctrines of
their respective denominations.
It is well known that the election of Dr.
Phillips Brooks to the position of bishop of
Massachusetts does not give geueral satis
faction. Only last week Bishop Perry said
that ho did not believe that Dr. Brooks’
eleotion would be confirmed. It is charged
that Dr. Brooks does not believe that the
episcopate is a divinely appointed order,
though it is not alleged that he has ever ex
pressed publicly such a belief.
Are the differences between clergymen of
the same denominations going to continue
and beoome more radical ? This is a ques
tion that is worthy of thoughtful considera
tion, because if they are it is apparent that
there will soon be divisions in denomina
tions, and the number of religious sects will
be greatly increased.
Perhaps the differences will be productive
of good. Who can say that the ultimate
result of them will not be a common ground
upon which all Christians can stand and
work together harmoniously?
Florida's Senatorial Contest.
It looks as if the senatorial contest at
Tallahassee would continue to. the end of
the session of the legislature. It certainly
will unless a much stronger candidate is
brought out than any one that has yet been
named by the opposition to Call. There is
no indication that Call’s supporters are
going to desert him. There is no reason
why they should. That he is the choioe of
a majority of the people of the state there
is no doubt. Had it not been for the two
thirds rule in the caucus he would have
been nominated on the first ballot. It is
nonsense, therefore, to expect that he will
withdraw, or that his supporters will desert
him.
If the legislature should adjourn without
electing a senator the governor could not
very well avoid appointing Call, because it
has been demonstrated beyond all question
that he is the choice of a majority of the
people. And he would pretty certainly be
the choice of a newly-elected legislature,
because both he and his friends would work
earnestly and continuously to have a legis
lature chosen that would favor him, while
the opposition, being without a candidate,
would accomplish very little.
And it is doubtful if it would be easy to
find any one who would make a more ac
ceptable senator tban Call. He is a good
democrat, and the farmers can depend on
him to look out for their interest.
The people of Florida are getting tired of
the contest. They want their representa
tives to give their whole time to legislative
work—and there is a great deal of that sort
of work to be done. The sooner the sena
torinl matter is settled, therefore, the better
pleast and the majority of the people will be.
The South to Be Congratulated.
The census bulletin just issued relative to
school enrollment in some of the southern
states shows a gratifying condition of the
schools —a condition that will excite aston
ishment among those northern people who
have got the impression from partisan
republican papers that the south is neglect
ing educational matters.
There has been a most remarkable
increase in the number of school chil
dren enrolled, in the number of schools
and a very great improvement in the
schools. For instance, in Arkansas the
school enrollment in the last ten years
shows an increase of 10*i per cent., although
the increase in population is only 41 per
cent. In Texas 411,000 children areenrolled
in the schools. This number is about one
fifth of the population of the state. In
Missouri, altougb the gain in population is
only 14 per cent., the gain in the school en
rollment is 48 per cent.
The south is doing better for common
school education than New England—that
is in proportion to her means. It must not
bs forgotten that ehe is yet comparatively
poor. She has not had time since she was
totally ruined to provide a first-class public
school system, but she is doing remarkably
well—so well that if she keeps on improv
ing at the rate she has improved duriug the
last few years her public schools will be
equal to the beet of those of
the east or west. And it
must not be forgotten that she has
to provide schools for t. e blacks -schools
that are just as good as those for the whites
—and the blacks contribute little or nothing
toward their support. When it is fully
understood how great the progress is which
the south has made in the matter of public
schools, and under what disadvantages she
lias struggled In making this progress, she
will receive praise instead of blame fro m all
fair-minded men every where for what she
I* doing for the education of both black uu l
while children.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 10. 1891---TWELVE PAGES.
Abolish Agrarian Agitation.
In many part* of Europe Mayday has be
come to be considered the chief festal occa
sion of the year for the working people.
For that reason every description of fanatic
whose peculiar political schemes dep nd
upon the approval of the working classes
select that particular holiday on which to
disseminate their personal, eoc'al and
economical doctrines. Every imaginable
vagary known to modern maloontents is
then promulgated.
Whi!e the nihilists are as bold as they
dare to be in Russia, the communists are
haranguing France, and the socialists there
endeavor to proselyte all the balance of
Europe. Had any of the projects they pro
pose the merits of reasonable practicability,
or the possibility of development in any
wise advantageous to the advancement and
improvement of humanity, they would be
worthy of tolerance and patient experi
ment. But they have none of these eh
ments to commend them To all outward
seeming the whole end and aim of the vari
ous theories sought to be introduced is
merely to devise some means by which the
indolent may live upon the exertions of the
industrious and the turbulent may over
come the orderly. It is not in any sense
a movement for the greatest good
for the greatest number. It is simply a
proposition under the conditions of which
the more disreputable elements of society
would tie enabled to dominate the more
worthy and progressive.
What these radical malcontents call pro
gress is simply the revolution of equitably
and satisfactorily eitahiished institutions to
give place to the disorder in which strife
may be fomented and agitators may
thrive.
Giving the workmen of all Europe such
a holiday onoe a year is very desirable if
the day be used merely for healthy recrea
tion. But when the chief part of it is
diverted from its legitimate uses and debased
to the crafty purposes of those professional
disturbers of order the abolition of the
holiday would be for the advantage of the
workmen. It would permit them to pro
ceed with their regular daily occupations
undisturbed by the malignant theories of
the agitators and without coutributiug to
the luxurious maintenance of those idle
and vicious people who do not in any way
benefit them.
Italy Not Satisfied.
The report of the New Orleans grand
jury is not more satisfactory to the Italian
government than were the dispatches of
Secretary Blaine. It persists in asserting
that there is no safety for foreigners in this
country because the government at Washing,
ton is without power to afford the protec
tion which it so freely promises in treaties.
Premier Rudini therefore purposes, accord
ing to a ieadiug Italian paper, to invite the
other nations of Europe to join Italy in an
international agreement to compel this
country to give ample protection to its
foreign residents.
It will be a long time before the Italian
government will see such an agreement.
This country does just what, other countries
do with respect to foreign residents. It
guarantees to give them the same protection
enjoyed by its own citizens. It can do no
more. No country can do more.
Italy has a treaty with this country in
which it is stipulated that Italian subjects
in this country shall enjoy the same security
as to life, liberty and property as American
citizens. That treaty has not been violated
and will not be. The Italian citizens who
were killed in the Ne w Orleans prison
were not dealt with differently
from the American citizens who
were killed there. And the families of the
lynched Italian citizens have the same rem
dies for indemnity as the families of the
lynched American citizens.
Had the demonstration in New Orleans
bean against Italian citizens, instead of
against men believed to be guilty of a great
crime, Italy would have good ground for
demanding reparation under the treaty she
has with this country. But under existing
circumstances she has no cause for mak
ing an outcry or far attempting to
arouse a feeling throughout Europe to force
this country to change its constitution. She
will find that out before she proceeds much
further on the line she now seems inclined
to pursue.
It is worthy of notice that Italians are
not afraid that they will not reoeive ample
protection in this country. They are com
ing here by thousands. If the Italian gov
ernment thinks it is not safe for them to
come it should stop them from emigrating.
If it should adopt that course it would re
ceive no complaint from this oountry.
Notwithstanding the action of the state
department in seizing the Chilean insurgent
supply ship Itata and the pursuit of her by
the cruiser Charleston when she so uncere
moniously “slipped cable and cut” for the
open sea, the federal government at Wash
ington claims to be acting in a perfectly
impartial manner toward the warring fac
tions in Chile. If that be the case, then the
seized steamer may have been allowed an
opportunity to make her escape in order to
relieve our government of rather an em
barrassing predicament. Detaining the
steamer might bring about international
complications in case the insurgents win.
On the other hand, allowing her to go and
trade freely in our ports might subject us
to a claim for damages under the interna
tional law of neutrality. But we avoid all
embarrassments and allow the respective
forces to fight out their differences without
restraint by giving the seized vessel a fair
opportunity to make her escape. That is
the best way to dispose of the matter.
Somebody has perpetrated two very skill
ful check swindles upon the Merchant’s
National Bank of Jacksonville, Fla. It is
not often that a forger is so adept in the art
of counterfeiting a siguature that he can
cleverly imitate the handwriting of the
ostensible maker of the check as well as the
certification of a bank cashier. But that is
what the swindler did in tbit case so closely
that even the cashier of a North Carolina
bank at Charlotte could scarcely
recognize it as a mere imi
tation of his own handwriting.
By this time eo sharp a swindler has prob
ably made good his escape if he is anything
like as bright In other respects as he is at re
producing signatures.
Exposure by the New York Tribun* of
the political actions of Gen. Slocum under
the caption of “Gen. Slooum's Dubious
Methods,” seems to have sorely vexed the
old warrior. Consequently he has brought
into court a bill against the pajier which
virtually claims, “to seriously hurting my
feelings, $.'>0,000,” or words to that effect.
Like most people who bring such suits
against newspapers, be will probably reallz#
very little money. Htill he gets ths notoriety,
which is probably tbs chief object b has
in view.
PERSONAL.
Mr. Foster, one of the newly appointed rail
road commissioners of Texas, is a Georgian by
birth, and removed to Texas about eighteen
y.ars ago a penniless boy. He has since been
iisurance commissioner and speaker of the
legislature.
The credit is in some quarters given to
Whistler for inducing Oscar Wilde to make his
first visit to America, It is said that the famous
impressionist planned every detail of that tour,
even to the amusing item of that iong hair with
which Oscar won half the battle among us.
When Bishop Brooks was askel to prepare a
history of his life he gave it in these w ords: *‘l
have no wife, no children, no particular honors,
no serious mi (fortune, and no adventures worth
speaking of. It is shameful at such limes as
these not to have a history, but I have not got
one."
Ernest Roche, the member of the French
Chamber of Deputies, who called Minister Con
stans a ''murderer" and his followers "varleta"
during Monday's session, classitl-s himself po
litically as "a "socialist revolutionary-republi
can." He was formerly one of the editors of
Rochefort's Intrangsigcant.
I N London recently was sold an uncut copy of
Thackeray's "Virginians" for $l5O. It con
tained the following inscription In the author's
hand:
In the U. States and in the queen's dominions
All people nave a right to their opinions.
And many don’t much relish ‘The Virginians.'
Peruse my book, dear It., and if you 11 find it
A little to your taste, 1 hope you'll bind it."
"Peter Rarka m, Ksg . wit l best regards o/ the
author."
A cable dispatch from London announces
the death of Barry Sullivan. Though generally
regarded as an Irish representative actor, he
was born in Birmingham in 1824, and brought
up in England. He male his first appearance
in Cork in 1840, and alter winning considerable
fame in Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh and
Dublin, made a successful debut at the Hay
market, London, in •Hamlet," in February,
1852 In 1857 he appeared in this country at
Burton’s theater and made a tour of[ the st ates.
From 1860 to 1886 he devoted himself to
dramatic affairs in Australia, where he was
chief actor and manager ot one of the principal
theaters.
Miss Bedle, daughter of ex-Gov. Bedle, is by
long odds the handsomest young woman in
Jersey olty. She is willow-slim and exceedingly
graceful, with big, heaven-blue eyes, a mass of
true golden hair, and features that strongiy re
call Mrs. Langtry in those early mya when the
smart set in London went will over her as the
Jersey Lily. Miss Bedle has lived under the
care of wise parents in a home crowded with
heirlooms and redolent of refined luxury. Her
bosom friend is Mi-a Joy Lindsley of Tennessee,
whose dark beanty, rate and high breeding,
took Narragansett Pier by storm some two
years ago.
Helem Gardner, whose novel. "Is This Your
Son, My Lord?” has created such a genuine
sensation, reaching a sale of 25,000 copies in
five months, is a descendant of Lord Baltimore.
Her mother was a grandniece ot Sir Robert
Peel. The gifted author is a native of Virginia,
her father being a well known clergyman in
that state. She is not a daughter of Julia Ward
Howe, as was reported in the press of the day.
Miss Gardner recently corrected this statement
in these words: “In justice to Mrs. Howe and
my beloved parents, the late Rev. A. G.
Cbenoweth and wife of Virginia, permit me to
say that the Davenports and Peels of Virginia
and England and the Calverts (Lord Baltimore)
of Maryland are responsible for me."
BRIGHT BITS.
Robert Reed— Chewing is a filthy habit.
Why, the pigs wouldn't chew tobacco.
Badboy Weed—No; I know that you and the
pigs don’t, but that's just where I differ from
you.— Hew York Continent.
Mrs. Schokffenstedt—To-night's paper tells
about a minister who has married more than
1,300 couples
Mr. Scboeffenstedt—l wonder if he ever stops
to think.— Somervilie Journal.
Average Woman— What! Not going to church
to day ?
Average Man—What’s the use? Our preacher
is so nearsighted he cannot tell whether we’re
there or not.— New York Weekly.
Millie— l don't mind marrying you, Clar
ence, hut Vhate the idea of giving up my $!5-a
week job at the store.
Clarence—Then don’t give it up, dearest. I'll
give up mine. I'm getting only slo.— Chicago
Tribune.
Mrs. Pohkchop (to art dealer)—How much
do you charge for that picture of the lake front,
with the ice house in the front?
Art Dealer—That is a copperplate etching.
Mrs. Porxehop—Oh, pshaw 1 Haven't you
any silverplate etchings?—A’eto York Run.
"Sir,” said one visitor to another at a recent
swell wedding reception, whose the waiters wore
clothes of the same cut as the guests, “why do
you stand there jingling your pockets at me?”
"Excuse me. sir, ’ said the other, "but I wanted
to see whether you were a waiter or a guest."—
Philadelphia Record.
It is toi.d that one day during the war a squad
of confederates, wearing captured blue over
coats, rode up to a house in Tennessse and
greeted the owner with: “Well, old man, what
are you, reb or yank?” Puzzled by the blue
coats and gray pants, and not knowing to which
army his visitors belonged. Old Caution an
swered: “Well, gentl men, I’m nothin', and
very little of that."— New (Orleans Neu> Delta.
Mrs. Motherhoop—Why is it I have such a
time finding a nurse girl for my children?
Employment Agent.—Well, you see, mum,
some time ago a lady had a baby die, and Rhe
thought so much of that baby tnat after It was
dead she kept the baby’s nurse right along at
the old wages, with nothing to do but walx in
the park, pretending she's got the baby with
her. Since then I can't get a nurfe girl to go
into a family where the baby looks healthy.—
New York Weekly.
Speaking of people who mean well, they tell
of a man down east who felt very bad when his
son left him to take up his residence In Boston
The boy, seeing the old gentleman's grief, said:
"Never mind, father, you must come and see
me at the first opportunity." The father looked
at tho son earnestly, and with a voice husky
from emotion, replied: "William, my boy, if I
live till I die—and goodness knows whether I
will or not I'll see Boston before I leave Bucks
port.”—Lewiston Journal.
Woman’s ideal of man
Is a mixture strangely queer;
And ever since the world began
She sought him far and near.
But Bet!
She
Hasn't;
Found
Him
Y ou Yet.
—New York Telegram.
The following is vouohed for as a fact: A
Hibernian domestic asked leave of absence the
other day of her mistress to “meet me brother
on the Cephelony." When Bridget returned,
the lady asked: "Did you find your brother?”
And the girl replied: "Fair I did. ma'am, an’
glad I was to see him.” Somewhat interested,
the employer asked: ‘‘What does he think of
doing here?" To which Bridget replied: “Well,
ma'am, he's a wakely chap an' niver was
strong at all, so he do be thinkin’ he’ll go on
the perlice.”— Boston Commercial Bulletin.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Freedom For the Feet.
From the Cincinnati Enouirer (Bern.).
Gov. Hill yesterday signed the bill making
free the foot passage on tbe Brooklyn bridge.
Single fares had been one cent; tickets, twenty
five for fl ve cents Pittsburg has ten bridges,
some free, some free on Sunday, women and
children free on others.
They Only Lynch Criminals There.
From the New York Frees, (Sep.).
The grand jury in New Orleans seem to have
omitted something from their elaborate report
They made no recommendation that the parties
they presented for indictment should be
lynched. This oversight is unaccountable, ex
cept on the theory that they thought the
recommendation unnecessary. Or probably
they forgot.
Somethlnfr for the Premier to Study.
h Yom the New York World (Dsns.).
Signor Rtidini states that the perusal of Mr.
Blaine 'a communications "produces tbe most
painful impression" upoa him. which recalls
the story of Dr. Absinethys patient. “O
doctor, 1 ' sad the man. “when I raise my arm
th's way” -emitting as he spoke an agonizing
yell “ft almost kills me ” "Then. 1 responded
the rough old surgeon, “you fool, what do
you raise it for?"
Gorman Doss Poor Ouaeeluff.
From the Philadelphia Press ( Rep. ).
Senator Gorman, according to the Washing
ton correspondent of the Chicago llrrnbt, 7s
said to cherish the belief that Senator
McPherson of New Jersey, will carry tbe
democratic nomination for Preside .t a-ay
I out t leselan 1 sud f (hat si I res ■
happen, we wonder would Mr Cleveland feel
like saying “Hats off to haw Jersey. ' as he
dki on a notable occasion a few years ago.
He Was a Kypnotlzer.
A few weeks ago. says the Pittsburg Pu
pate*, a well known Philadelphian w&a travel
ing through Georgia in an exceedingly slow
train. There was only two other passengers in
th t car, and with one of these the yuaker i itr
man engaged in conversation After awhile
they got talking about mind-reading and Mr.
Hlanke of Philadelphia expressed Lis disbelief
in anything of tbe kind.
"Maybe you don’t take any Btock in hypno
tism, either?" suggested the young man.
Mr. K.anke didn't.
"Well.” continued the other, "I am an ex
pert nynotizer, and can prove it. See tnat other
passenger up in the corner?"
-Mr. B anse looked and beheld a little.old man
wearing a white felt hat, curled up in a seat,
sound asleep
“Now," said the young man, “I can hypnot
ize that old fellow so he will wake up when the
conductor enters, and throw his hat out of the
window.”
“I'll bet you SSO to sls that yon can’t:’’ ex
claimed the incredulous Philadelphian. The
wager was accepted, tbe money was deposited
witu the solitary brakeman, and then tho hyp
notizer crept softly up to the sleeping passeu
ger, waving hm hands over tne latter's head
wuispering th proper u.s'ructions Tnen he
took his seat beside Mr. Blanke
In a quarter of an hour the conductor entered
the car and sung out ••Tickets:" The next
second the elderly passenger awoke with n start
and leaped into the aisle and struck
the conductor under the left ear,
knocking him fiat to tho floor.
Without waiting an instant he seized him by the
throat, and before Mr. Blanke or the brakeman
could come to the rescue the conductor's hat
was picked up and thrown out of an open win
dow. Suddenly thehypnotizercried: "Right:”
at the same time clapping his hands. The old
man started, rubbed his eyes and didn't know
what to make of the conductor’s anger until it
was explained. The money was paid over to
tho hypnoi izar. and Mr. Blanke left the tram at
the next station.
Than the old man and the conductor and the
hynotizer had a.drink together.
"Worked him nicely, didn't we?” observed
the hypnoti7,er, as he whiffed the foam off his
beard.
“Y'ou bet!” ejaculated the old man.
“I'll pick up my hat on the return trip,” con
cluded the conductor.
Story of a Loving Cup.
A Bostonian who has been in London a good
deal relates that not long since be ha 1 the
honor of dining with one of the oldest of the
companies of that city, when he was shown the
loving cup, which was passed at the conclusion
of the dinner, with the date 1642.
He had teen told oarlier In the evening that
the hall of the company had been burned to tde
ground in the great fire of London, and that
everything which the company had had been
consumed, so tnat he remarked that of course
this cup was a reproduction of an older one.
“Oh, no,” was the answer, “this is the
original.”
“But how was this preserved in the great
fire?”
It was then explained that the company was
so heavily assessed at the tune of the establish
ment of the commonwealth—who.i, as every
body knows, levies were made on most of the
city companies—that it had hard work to raiso
the necessary funds.
It managed to scrape along, however, until
the restoration, when fresh demands were made
by the government of Charles II on the ground
that the company had contributed funds to the
support of Cromwell.
The company had already mortgaged its
land, says the Boston Courier, and now there
was nothing left for it but the pawning of its
plate, which was accordingly pledged to the
Lombards, who carried it to France. It was
owing to this state of things that the plate es
ea ed the great fire, and altaough it was a long
time after that event before the company was
in a position to redeem the silver, ultimately
the whole came back to the original owners in
London.
This Dog Understood.
There is a Newfoundland dog, Lion by name,
says the New Orleans Staten, which
gives daily proof of his comprehension
of what is said to him. A lady called on his
mistress the other day. During her call Lion
came in rather slyly, lay down on the parlor
carpet and went to sleep. The conversation ran
on. and the visitor saia finally:
“What a handsoma Newfoundland you
have!’’
Lion opened his eve.
“Yes.” said his mistress, “he i3 a very good
dog, and takes excellent care of the children."
Lion opened the other eye and waved his tail
complacently to and fro On the carpet.
“When the baby goes out he always goes
with her, and I feel perfectly sure that no harm
can come to her,” his mistiess went on.
Lion's tail thumped up and down violently on
the carpet.
“And he is so gentle to them all, and such a
playmate and companion to them, that wo
would not take 81,000 for him.”
Lion’s tail now went up and down, to and fro,
and round and round with great and undis
guised glee.
“But," said the mistress. “Lion has one se
rious fault."
Total subsidence of Lion’s tail, together with
the appearance of an expression of great con
cern on his face.
“He will come in here with his dirty feet and
lie down on the carpet, when I have told him
time and time again that he musn’t do it."
Here Lion rose with an air of the utmost re
jection and humiliation, and slunk out of the
room with his lately exuberant tail totally crest
fallen.
Torturing’ a Oar Conductor.
The funny passenger has evidently had
enough of the engineer, and is now turning his
attention to the brakemen on the elevated rail
way On Thursday afternoon, when he boarded
the train at the ferry station, he was toying
with a large cigar, and no Cuban grandee could
have excelled the smoke clouds with which he
enveloped himself. He boldly walked into tve
car in rear of the "smoker." and the brakeman
was for a timh too amazed at the passenger's
temerity to interfere. When he had regained
his composure, says the Brooklyn Engle, he ap
proached the funnv man and said:
“You can't smoke here, sir. Go into the for
ward car."
“O, you're mistaken,” said the passen
ger.
“Not a bit of it, sir,” said the brakeman, with
some asperity; “this is not the smoking
car and you know it. There is where you must
sit.”
The brakeman turned around to indicate the
proper exit for the offender and when he again
directed his gaze toward the tunny passenger
the latter was placidly fanning himself and the
cigar had disappeared.
“I told you that you were mistaken," said
the passenger “Morning cocktails, supple
mented by midday alcoholic beverages, conjure
up many optical illusions.”
The brakeman s amazement was relieved by
a gasp. It was his first experience with the
recent invention for the torturing of car con
ductors.
While the Angels Listened.
Little Frances is 3 years old.
She is the possessor of a fat rubber doll, says
the Pittsburg Chronicle, which goes by the
name of Edna
Fiances and Edna are inseparable compan
ions.
One day Frances’ mamma discovered the
newly polished window pane covered with
finger marks, and she spoke to the child in this
wise:
"Frances, mamma didn’t see who made all
those finger marks on mamma's nice clean win
dow pane, because her hack was turned: but
the dear Lord up in the sky saw who did it, and
the angels wrote it down in a big book. Now,
tell me. Frances, do you know who marked up
mamma’s window?”
“ Yes'm." replied Baby Frances, looking
mamma straight in the eye.
“Now you must tell me right, you know, be
cause the angels are listening.”
“Yes’m.”
“Frances, who marked up mamma's window
like that?”
“Edna,’’ replied the tot, promptly, pointing
to her rubber doll.
No Cause for Apprehension.
Mose Schaumburg for several weelf past has
been very much depressed. Mrs Schaumburg
Is of a very nervous temperament, says Texas
Siftings, and cannot stand the slightest excite
ment. She is devote i toiler father, but she
received no letter from him in three weeks.
The reason way she has received no letter is
•imply because he died suddenly about tnree
weeks ago. Mose was afraid to let tier know
anything about it, and the tmnlen of apprehen
sion growing heavier every day. he confided the
secret to Ram Levy, hi* cousin, and requested
him to break the ness gently to Relieves Ham
promised to do so. saying that he had a great
d**al of tact. He called the next dey, aud as
Soon as he waa seated Mrs. Schaumburg told
him that aha was very anxious about her father.
Solomon Myers, be not having written in three
weeks; that she was afraid something ha 1 nap
pena lto him “No. I dinks not.” said Mam
“I would not have any apprehension on dot n<-
count Mine fodder has peso dead sixteen
wars, an l I have not bad a letter from thru in
all dose times '*
H laughter sale of straw haw UiU weak at
Kablar’e. i&ff Broughton street. —Ad.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ova Col Irby of Alabama thinks he has
solved the problem of perpetual motion. His
explanation as follows is peculiarly clear: * I
have used the principles of tue overshot wheel,
all the weight a! e.ery revolution being on the
descending line, ti.e weignt on the ascending
being drawn to the descending by each revolu
tion.”
The Grasp Duchess Olga. mother of the Rus
sian Grand Duke Michael, was so strange a
woman in some ways that her suicide causes
little surprise. Her pride was such that she
preferred living in the Caucaeus, of wkicn her
husband was governor, rather than at 8t
Petersburg, because.as she said, in the f’aucacus
she could he the first lady of the nobility and
receive all aloue the honors due to a prim-ess of
the blood royal, whereas in the capital she
would only- he one of the crowd of grand duch
oss-s But it wag also said that her exile from
St. Fe’ersburg was not wholly voluntary, and
that Alexander 11. kept her at a distance be
cause she v-as on such extremely had terms
with the czarina as to render it undesirable that
they should meet.
A telioram went out from Washington city
on Saturday that causeda gleam of satisfaction
to spread over the presidential face on the
Pacific coast, it was to effect that Benjamin
Harrison McKee, who had been ieft in charge
of the government while the rest of the family
went swinging around the circle, had donned
pants. In the exuberance of his delight the
favorite grandson of the President strutted all
over the building, calling upon everybody to
take notice of his manly appearance. All would
have gone well had it not been for the fact that
the youngster met the wife of acabinet minister
in the east parlor, who had several young ladies
with her. Young McKee called out to the lady
in a loud voice: “Do you wear pants? I do.”
There were blushes, a slight scream, and
Baby McKee was rushed off to the cunserva -
tory.
It seems that the nope can be a defendant in
a civil action. Some time ago the Marchioness
de Plessis Bellievre left her property to Leo
XIII., including a very fine house looking upon
Place de la Concorde, in Paris. This was to
serve as anew nunciator in place of that now
situated in the Rue de Varennes. There was
nothing to show that the testator was not of
sound mind; but re.ations very naturally out
up rough when they find money going out of
their hands. Their plea is that the pope, as a
spiritual sovereign, cannot acquire property on
1' rench soil. The matter will soon be settled by
the tribunal of Montdidier. Why the pope
should not have one house in Paris as well as
another is a rather difticu it problem to solve
The papacy has its acknowledged trustees, and
its investments are to be found not only at the
Bank of England, but in house property near
London.
Full particulars of the drowning of four per
sons while returning from a dance near Reno,
W. Va., on the Ohio side, show the wonderful
heroism of a woman. Mary Sheldon, Ella Carr.
Lua Ridenour, M. Krider, T. H. Osborn, Berie
McCain, Smith McDale, Charles Adams and
Charles Frank were in one boat at night cross
ing a small swift stream. When in the middle
the boat capsized, throwing all into the water.
Mary Sheldon, a tall, muscular girl, and a fine
swimmer, started for the shore, takiug Charles
Adams with her. Then she swam back and
succeeded in saving Arthur Osborn, who could
not swim, and was almost drowned. She came
back the third time, when, her st rength giving
out, she was compelled to return alone. Of
the others, two managed to save themselves,
and four were drowned. Charles Frank and
Smith McDale, m attempting to save their par
ticular friends. Bertie McCain and Lua
Ridenour, were drawn under the water aud lost.
The affair happened out of reach of any help,
and it was an hour later before any of the
bodies were recovered. James .McCain, whose
brother was drowned, is reported as losing his
mind from the shock.
A railroad across the Atlantic is on the list
of possibilities for future achievement of
science. Many years ago a civil engineer read
a paper before the French Academy suggest
ing a submarine railway. His theory was that
at a certain depth of the ocean—-100 fathoms or
more—far below any agitation from surface
storms, the water is of such a density that
nothing in tubular form, whatever the
weight. can possibly sink. Having
thus made a foundation iti the very
bowels of old Neptune, he proposed to sink a
continuous line of immense iron tube E—after
the manner of cable laving in which a double
track could be laid between Cape Clear, Ireland,
and Cape Race, Newfound and, and thus send
trains booming through the tubes to the con
sternation of the sea serpent and the mortal
terror of the big and little fishes. The only
serious objections this Academician could see
to the successful termination of this wildest
of all deep sea schemes wan the suffocating
effects of the sraone from engines used in a
sud-marine railway tube; if this could be over
come. he said, then the grand oceanio railroad
only required the necessary construction
capital.
Mrs. J. M. Metcalf- of St Panl arrived at
Chicago from St. Louis Wednesday night ac
companying the dead bodies of three of her
family. Her story is particularly sad. Early
in the fall she aud her husband, son and daugh
ter went south to spend the winter for her hus
band’s health. Mr. Metcalf, a prominent grain
merchant of St. Paul, had been failing for some
years. Instead of growing better in the south
ern climate he became worse. Early last week
his physicians in New Orleans notified him that
he had only a few days to live. As he wished to
die at home among his friends the family started
for the north. Before reaching Jack
son, Miss., Mr. Metcalf died. His daughter,who
has for some years been a victim of heart Dis
ease, was taken suddenly sick just before reach
ing Memphis, and there she died. Overcome
by this double calamity, Herbert Metcalf, 17
years old, was also stricken with heart disease
aud he died aboard the cars a few minutes be
fore reaching St. Louis, and now the widow and
bereaved mother is finishing a journey during
which all her companions have died. She left
last night by the Milwaukee road for St. Paul,
where the funeral services of all will occur as
soon as they arrive.
Joseph Sulton, 60 years of age, of 68 South
Fifth street, Philadelphia, at breakfast Tuesday
last was in particularly good spirits, and while
eating a piece of fish,stepped to speak to someone
at the table. He took a short breath, and sud
denly inhaled the piece of fish he had taken in
his mouth. The particles lodged in his throat,
and in a moment his friends noticed him gasp
ing for breath. For some seconds his suffer
ings were most acute, it seemed as if he would
choke. All known remedies for similar cases
were resorted to, but nothing seemed to relieve
the sufferer’s agony. The fish had lodged in
the larynx and was filling the office of a
valve, almost completely shutting the air
passages. He finally succeeded in getting the
particles of fish out of the larvnx. hut several
fish bones remained in the throat, and although
his sufferings were relieved to some extent, still
he was unable to breathe freely, and the sharp
edges of the bones caused him intense pain.
A physician was called in and upon his advice
Sulton was removed to the Pennsylvania hos
pital The fish bones have been found to be
firmly lodged in the throat, and while there
does not seem to be any immediate danger of
the patient dying, still he is unable to breathe
freely or to su allow any solid food. It will re
quire a peculiarly delicate opsratiou to remove
the bones from the throat now that they have
b come so firmly lodged there, and great care
will have to ha taken for fear the bones, in be
ing taken out, will tear away some of the deli
cate portions of the throat.
Nothing Could Save Him.
When the physician, who had been hastily
summoned, arrived at the house, says the
A t han saw Traveler, he found the patient, a
Strong-looking man, suffering terribly.
“Wnen were you seized?" the doctor asked,
taking out his watch with one hand aud taking
hold of the mans wrist with the other.
“This afternoon.”
“Let me see your tongue.”
The man pok, and out his tongue and the doctor,
after looking at it. said; “Seems to be all right.
How do you feel?”
“As if I could not live another minute,” the
man answered.
“Where do you suffer most?"
“I don't know. I suffer all over. ’
"You have no cold, and don’t appear to be
affected with the grip; you have no fever, and
yet it is plain that you are indeed ill. Have
you eaten anything that you don't think agreed
with you?”
“No, sir, T have been very careful about my
eating."
"I don't understand it. “It strikes me that
your entire constitution has given awav. Was
your appetite good up to the time you were
taken ill?"
“Yes, remarkably so, Even at noon to day I
went from my ofiics and ate a 'New England
boiled dinner.* ”
"What' ’ exclaimed the doctor “Ate a New
F.nglaud boiled dinnsr! is explained.
Nothing can -ave you after going through so
severe a strain, 'S ou are dead Good bye."
<. M. Carter, Ches er, 8. C., writes: “A
negro boy here had a bad case of scrofula.
The doctor said it would kill him. I got
him t > use Botanic Blood Balia, lit took a
dozen bottles aud is now well. He has not
used any of it for four month* and uonlinue*
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