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Morning News Bui ding Savannah, Ga.
" THURSDAY, JULY 2. 1891.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetisqs— Excelsior 1-oin and Savings Com
fiany; Solomon's bodge Nc 1, F. and A. M.;
Fidelity Castle No. ?, K G. E.
Military Orders—German Volunteer*.
Special Notices—Notice, R. Goode; Notice
to Taxpayers; The Savannah Cottage and Im
provement Company; Grand Excursion to War
saw. Friday, July 3; Dividend Chatham Real
Estate and Investment Company; Notice, Henry
Hobenstein, General Agent Manhattan Life In
surance Company of New Yorx; Ye Ia test
Drinks at Heidt's; Clothing Opportunities at
Falk's Old Stand; Purest and Best Ice at Geo.
Meyer's.
Railroad Schedu.es—Tybee Schedule.
Base Ball—Chatham* vs. Mutuals.
Educational—New York Military Academy.
Auction Sales—Executor's Sale, by K. D.
Laßoche. Auctioneer; Furniture, Etc., by J. .1.
Oppenbeim.
Lutses Beltino, Etc.—Patmoi Hardware
Company.
Attention—D B l-eater Grocery Company
Cheap Colltsh Advertisements— Help Want
•i; ISaploymaut vVaitjd; For Rent; For Bale;
Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Work on the great Paris Island dry dock
for the United States government promises
to be quickly completed if it progresses as
well all along as it has at the beginning.
Agreeing upon that great international
anti-slavery agreement appears to be no
easy matter, it is rather a slow process.
It may yet prove a failure. Hut it should
not be allowed to tail for want of sympathy
and encouragement from the United States.
Even the Apache Indians on the Pacific
coast have no use for Chinamen. Every
one out there thinks it his moral duty to
hate the Mougol as hard as he know* bow.
But he is a shining mark for the Indians.
They want nothing neater than the handle
that is formed by the queue of the serene
Celestial.
At last Cuba has managed to get rid of
the notorious bandit, Arturo Garda. But
the authorities do not know who killed him.
As he was found dead and full of wounds it
is most likely that ho was murdered by hu
own followers. Nevertheless honest Cubans
will probably feel greatly relieved to know
that he is gone.
Qiebec is still more French than En
glish. When she needs money Bhe goes to
France to borrow, while the other Canadian
provinces always go to K igland to float
their loans. It is doubtful if Quebec bus
any strong feeling of loyalty to the British
crown. Such sentiments would not be
natural to French people.
Mexico has an epidemic of smallpox at
Campeche. But as that is a long way from
the Texas border it is not likely that the
scourge will be brought this way, unless it
might be in am mg the crew of some vessel
coming from there. Therefore it is but the
part of prudence to keep a sharp eye upon
all Mexican vessels landing along the Ameri
can coast.
Keening up a prohibitory duty on corn
while the poor of Germany are in such
■wretched destitution is positively inhuman.
Temporary suspension of the tariff would
admit corn enough to somewhat relieve the
great and increasing distress. Should the
destitution be allowed to go unrelieved, the
people will be driven to desperation, as
•were the women in a quarter of Berlin u
few days ago.
Inventor Milbourne is still astonishing
Ohio people by the mysterious workings of
bis alleged ram machine. If the contriv
ance really doesn’t cause the fall of
moisture, then the man is a much more ac
curate guesser at the weather than the
sharps of the weather department. In case
he should fail in his forthcoming tests at
Springfield he should be taken into the
guessing bureau.
Indians want to be a feature of the
forthcoming world’s fair, and it is only
fitting and proper that they should. They
would be a drawing card to foreigners who
probably would think that they came from
their native forests just outside of Chicago.
Possibly a few might be found in their
native fastnesses if one should travel all the
way to the outskirts of Chicago. In any
event the Indian met Columbus when he
first visited this country and we are In
debted to him for allowing Chris to get
back in g >od shape with bis hair all on him.
As the Indian doesn't often get a fair show
he ought to have some sort of a show at
this fair.
South Carolina's Prosperity.
In its Wednesday’s issue the ,\>i is and
Courier of Charleston prints a review of
the industrial progress of South Carolina.
The review is evidently the result of careful
inquiry and observation, as it shows no
tendency toward exaggeration or a desire
to make the industrial situation appear to
be better than it really is. Those who read
it will be surprised at South Carolina's
progree* in everything that makes a great
and wealthy state.
The condition of the farmers is particu
larly good. New farms are being opened
and the old ones are being made more pro
ductive by careful cultivation and the lib
eral use of fertilizers. The farmers are
gradually getting out of debt and are be
coming better able to affo-d the comforts
and even the luxuries of life. And there is
a strong movement in the direction of di
versified farming. Grain, hay, fruit and
vegetables ore receiving a great deal of at
tintioa, and the result is that the amount
of money sent out of the state for farm sup
plies is gradually decreasing.
The growth of manufacturing within the
last year has been so great as to excite gen
eral comment. A large amount of money
has tieen invested in factories of one kind
and another. In thirty different localities
more than #2,000,000 has been invested in
cotton mills, and canning plants costing
nearly #50,000 have been erected in fifteen
different towns. The growth of small indus
tries is as surprising as it is gratifying. And
the movement toward manufacturing can be
said to have only fairly begun. It is cer
tain that tne showing that will be made in
this respect within the next few years will
far exceed that which has been made dur
ing the last few.
And there is activity in the mines of the
state. Gold mining is carried on with
vigor and profit, and phosphate mining
affords employment for a very large num
ber of people, and yields a splendid revenue
to the state, as well as large profits to those
interested in it.
In railroad building the state is not be
hind her sister states. Within the last year
large investments have been made in rail
roads and many miles of road have been
built. A large number of roads are pro
jected, making it certain that before very
long all parts of the state will be brought
Into close communication with the larger
markets. Mention Is made in the review of
the South Bound as follows: .
The South Bound railroad has been built
more rapidly than any other line ever con
structed in South Carolina. It is expected
that the entire line will be open by Sept. 15.
The bridge across Savannah river is nearly
completed. As soon as this is done a part
of the road will be opened. A branch of
this road is to be built to Monroe, Ji. C.,
eighty miles from Columbia, to Roanoke,
connecting with the Baltimore and Ohio.
The track of the South Bound is laid
In Hampton county, and engines are
running almost the entire distance from
Savannah river to Campbellton.
The towns of the state are growing
rapidly. And their growth is substantial
and healthy. They are not like those towns
which are given a transient prosperity by
land speculators. They stand upon their
merits, as it were, and for that reason their
increase in wealth and population will be
steady.
The people of South Carolina have little,
if anything, to complain of. It is doubtful
if the people of any other state are better
off. Certainly the people of no other state
have a brighter future or more reason to be
satisfied with their material condition.
Dr. Palmer and the Lottery.
The indications are that the political
campaign in iAJUriiana next fall will be the
bitterest in the history of the state. The
chief issue will be the amendment to the
constitution providing for extending the
charter of the Louisiana Lottery Company
for twenty-five years. If the amendment
is adopted the lottery company will pay the
state 11,250,000 a year.
A few days ago a big meeting of those op
posed to the lottery was held in New Or
leans. Ihe principal speaker was the Rev.
Dr. Palmer, who is well known throughout
the whole oountry, and who is, perhaps, the
leading pulpit orator of the south. His
speech, which was a strong attack upon the
lottery, is being bitterly criticised by those
of the New Orleans newspapers which
support the lottery company. Speak
ing of the doctoi’s speech the
Tinus-Democrat says; "Dropping from
the cool bights of his vocation into the hot
arena of politics Dr. Palmer delivered a
discourse which, on its ultimate analysis,
is a conditional injunction to the shedding
of blood. He, a minister of the gospel,
whose all-pervading doctrine is love, de
liberately sowed the seeds of animosity and
of strife. He, who in virtue of his high
office is the conservator of peace and the
upholder of organized justice and of consti
tutional law, explicitly counseled his fol
lowers that, if they could not have
their will in the way and by the
means appointed by the constitution
aud the laws, they were authorizod
to trample laws and constitutions under
foot, and execute their will by the hand of
force. And against whom is it that he in
invokes this illegal force; Against the
fathers, sons, brothers and fellow-citizens of
those who are thus invoked.”
The foregoing is the interpretation which
the Times-Democrat puts upou the doctor’s
speech. No doubt the doctor spoke his
mind freely about the lottery, but it is
difficult to believe he counseled those op
posed to the lottery to use force to accom
plish their object if they could not accom
plish it by peaceful means. That he favors
using all lawful means to defeat the lot
tery party theie is no doubt, but it is
doubtful if he said anything that justifies
the statement that he is an "instigator of
violence and revolution.”
The campaign is going to be a memora
ble one in the history of Louisiana. It is
certain to bo marked by a great deal of
violence. Eaoh party is determim i to
carry its point. It will be impossible to
prevent the use of intemperate language,
and blows will follow hastily spoken words.
The charncter of the campaign is pretty
fairly indicated by I>r. Palmer’s speech and
tbe comments upon it.
It is impossible to predict with anv degree
of certainty whether tbe lottery or the
anti-lottery party will win. If it were not
for the money with which the lottery com
pany is so abundantly supplied the proba
bilities are that the anti lottery party would
be suaceasful. And it has a good obance
for success notwithstanding the lottery com
pany’s money.
<tabor leaders are rapidly falling into the
poetical ranks in a way that indicates that
their Drevious labor enthusiasm has been
largely for a purpose. Such leaders are
as# to lose prestige among sensible labor
organization* very soon. They will prob
ably object to being led aronnd by the nose
and have their politics chosen for them.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 2,1891.
: How International Copyright Helps.
Even so early as this the big publishing
i houses of New York are ‘'banking'' upon
j the prospective international copyright as
I they anxiously await the proclamation of
its becoming fully operative with England.
Meanwhile they bold back a lot of English
works that they have secured a "corner” on
subject to the operation of that copyright
bill, which still ‘ hangs fire" owing to some
unyielding rigidity of certain provisions of
the English law. In that exc.ting interval
the book magnates for whose benefit the
law was really enacted fill in time by send
ing their agents abroad to buy up Ameri
can rights to all the available books that
are at all salable. They may then be ex
pected to pat up the price of them so
high as to place all the books really worth
having beyond the pecuniary reach of the
average reader.
So far as fiction is concerned the world
will be much the worse for the monopoly
thus given to the rich booksellers. And
fiction is the greater part ot the book trade.
When the booksellers make a contract with
an author they don't pay him any money—
except in unusual instances. They simply
promise him a royalty of so much per
centum on what the sales of his work
amount to. This is subject to their own
count and estimate of the necessary attend
ant expenses, whioh are never put any too
low, you may be sure.
After these magnates have secured a firm
hold upon all the English books in the mar
ket they will promptly shelve such as are
not readily salable, which are usually in -
trinsically the best. Then they will put up
the price on those for which there is a brisk
demand to eucb a figure as will Day them
an enormous profit and exclude all but the
comparatively rich from the privilege of
novel reading and give them ths largest
possible return for a small outlay of trouble
and money. This essentially curtails the
labor necessary to make many books and
disappoints the strong elements of labor
and supply manufacturers who were the
potent factors in the recently adopted enact
ment.
Under the protection of his international
copyright the publisher can shelve the ma
jority of English writers altogether, in or
der to give scope to those he wishes to push.
Thus he measurably benefits the few at the
expense of the many. Beside he is thus
placed in a position altogether independent
of the American author. Without the in
ternational copyright the American author
was his only salvation, because he could
absolutely control only the copyrighted
works of Americans. With the inter
national copyright in force be needs take
no chances at all. Works of American!
can be passed by or laid aside for English
books that have been introduced and ad
vertised and approved all at lomebody
else’s expense.
With all of these facts before us, it is
slightly difficult to see how international
copyright is to help either the American or
foreign author—unless every one shall be
come his own publisher. Really It doth
appear that the adroit publishers have
played the native and foreign authors one
against the other with great skill and force
and effect. This is In reality only another
phase of the Injustice to the many for the
benefit of the few by the operation of "the
great American system of protection.”
Florida’s Experimental Station.
Florida doesn’t appear to be altogether
satisfied with her agricultural experimental
station. A year or two ago, if we are not
mistaken, some dissatisfaction with its
management cropped out. A legislative
committee visited the station during the re
cent session of the legislature, and, not find
ing an altogether satisfactory condition of
alfairs, made some charges against Dr.
James P. DePass, the director, and others
of the officers.
The experimental station is maintained
in connection with the agricultural college,
and some of the trustees of that institution
met at the college, in Lake City, on Tues
day, for the purpose of investigating the
charges, which relate largely to the manner
in which the funds of the station have been
expended.
It seems to be unde-stood that the Inves
tigation is not a formal trial of the officers,
but only a preliminary examination for
the purpose of finding out if there is suffi
cient ground for the charges. If the testi
mony seems to sustain the oharges the
officers will be given notice that they will
have to stand a formal trial.
Director DePass was examined at con
siderable length. Nothing in his.teetimony
showed that he had been guilty of any
wrong doing of a serious character. It ap
peared that his business methods were not
of a very commendatde kind. The ap
parent discrepancies which appeared in
the accounts of the station were due, ac
cording to the testimony, to the practice of
diverting money to objects other than those
for which it was originally appropriated.
Unless something more serious should
come to light than anything yet discovered
the trustees of the college will hardly re
gard a more formal investigation necessary.
Apparently some things that have been
done at the station have been made to seem
to have a character they did not possess.
However, the investigation will doubtless
have the effect of making the officers of the
station a little more careful in the manage
ment of its affairs.
Because Inventor Campbell’s airship re
fused to sail that was scarcely sufficient
reason for mobbing him, as the disappointed
Ohioans at Columbus attempted to do the
other day. Undoubtedly he was quite as
much disappointed as they were, and their
unfeeling proceedings in hooting the poor
man must have made him feel exceedingly
“broke up,” as it were. At the same time
the great and hopeful profeisor should not
have charged the populace 25 cents per poll
for seeing him flit a balloon that refuged to
flit. That was wrong. It was thoroughly
reprehensible. It was altogether too thrifty,
fetill the calculating professor may have
ciphered it out that the people were get
ting the worth of their money by hooting
him, and possibly it was for that reason that
he didn’t give it back to th em.
Indiana negroes have organized a Har
rison hoodoo. They claim to have the bal
ance of power in the state, and they have
just effected at Indianapolis a thorough and
complete organization to down the Presi
dent’s second-term aspirations. They are
reveling in red-hot indignation because the
I resident has not officially recognized their
race. Yet, with all their bottled and
fuming wrath, the chances are that if Mr,
Harrison should hold out a medium-sized
and ostentatious office to them, thev would
all fairly break their necks tumbling over
one another in a wild race to get at it.
When one did get it that would be the last
of the organized opposition. Probably he’d
make all he others bis deputies.
PERSONAL.
D. A. McKinley, wbo represente Hawaii as
consul in Sac Francisco, is a brother of Maj.
McKinley.
The Marque of Salisbcrv recently sent a
magnificent lot of strawberries, with flower#
anl other fruits, to the Royal Horticultural
Society's show in London
The King of Ashantee is allowed 3.333 wive 9
Many of them are the daughters of the chiefs
of tributary tribes over which the king has
jurisdiction, and are sent to him as hostages.
Col David Dyer a Georgia horse-trainer,
was a soldier in the war for Texas independ
ence and the Mexican war. and during the late
unplraantness served as a colonel in Pickett s
division.
Tbe wife of Joel Chandler Harris, “Uncle
Remus.' is a pretty brunette woman, with
beautiful teeth and a charming smile Sheisof
French ‘ anadian descent, and is an aocom
plished linguist.
Jrno* Ri ssell, Henry Hilton's son-in law, is
reputed to be one of the ben story-tellers In
New York. He possesses a fund of wit and
humor that has made him as noted as has his
knowledge of the law.
A. M. Henry ow ns the farm on which the first
battle of Bull Run was fought, and owned it at
the time of the fight. He was away from home,
but bis m ther was killed in her bed by a shell
from a Federal battery.
J. R Calhoun has been appointed to con
tinue the work of collecting Philadelphia's in
dustrial census, begun by Mr Thompson Mr.
Calhoun was chief clerk in the latter's office,
and is a son of Admiral Calhoun.
Emteror William of Germany has commis
sioned ‘ he celebrated artist, Anton von Werner
to pairt a picture representing the emperor, tbe
German princes and the army officers in the
act of e ngratulating the late Count von Moltke
upon the completion of his noth birthday
Madam Col* had made arrangements to start
on a trip to the United States, when she received
the command of her majesty the queen to sing
in the 'Golden Legend" at Albert Hall in July,
on the occasion of the visit of the German em
peror. Her visit to her native land has been,
therefore, indefinitely postponed.
Ex-Senator Mahone was in Washington a
day or two ago, wearing a Panama straw hat,
with the brim turned down in front, white flan
nel trousers and a black broadcloth coat. His
shirt was of the outing variety, and a big black
cigar stuck out of his mouth. He was in fine
spirits and as picturesque as ever.
Mis- Lot ise Nicolson of Washington, better
known as Nikita, has lately finished her third
tour in Russia, which has lasted over a year
and a half. She has visited the principal cities
of Western, Soutnern and Eastern Russia.
Nikita is now in Germany, and will take a well
earned rest at Ems previous to resuming her
vocation.
The reported arrangement for the marriage
of Pension Attorney Lemon and Mrs. Gen.
Logan was denied in a card issued bv a prom
inent G. A. R. man of Omaha, a close friend of
the Ivogan family. Before sailing for Europe,
Mrs. Logan wrote him a letter denying that she
contemplated marrying Lemon, and saying she
wouid never marry.
Baron AirafiL during the past
week, entertained a nuujMr of distinguished
people at s moat uniquflgpriv&te concert, at
which Adelina Patti, VrfsDyck, the fashion
able tenor,, Maurel andJlAssaile. Edouard de
Reszke, the violiowtand Hollman, the
cellist, contributed to <h fund of enjoyment.
It ia estimated the artists' services alone
cost the haxon e-ter for the evening's en
tertainment. 1 f
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BRIGHT BITS.
A New York pkvtr has discovered that “a
man has rights inf a New York horse car.”
We've known that for a long time, and that
there is where lie has to stand up for them, too.
Yonkers statesman.
Pugilist—l want you to design me a crest
with an appropriate motto
Designer—Here's just what you want- Two
dukes rampant and the motto, "Blood will
tell.” — Harvard Lampoon.
Green .Servant(to Mr. Stillman, who rings
the door-bell Just as au express wagon stotis in
front of the house)—'Yis, sorb; Miss Ward is at
home. An - shall be after telling her yez have
brought yer ruak nfo yet}—Pock.
"Tbebe is plenty of room at the top,”
So the well-known saying ran.
And the summer thermometer hotly said:
“I will get there if I can. ’’
—Griffin News.
Jones—How does it happen that Robinson
never does anything. He seems very lazy
Brown—No. he comes near the Biblical stand
ard He earns his bread by the sweat of his
frau. She keeps a board,ng house.— Detroit
Free Press.
Salesman (selliqg a fishing rod)—That one is
a little defk-etire. Of course we will give you a
straight tip.
Buyer- Thanks. want any "straight
tips." They’re tdb Afpensive.—A'ufe Field's
Wash ing ton.
Van Dt-der—Absenco makes the heart grow
fonder, they say, Miss Amy. Do you think you
would care forme if I were away?
Amy—l don’t know. Mr. Van Duder, but we
might try. inpposiur you go away for a few
years, and then I could tell you.— Chicago Her
aid s i
Pott sit —Yes. sir; that man is a hypocrite, if
there ever was one. While professing the
wannest friendship for me, he was for a
whole year stabbing me in the back, and I never
knew it.
Irwin—Goodness'. What kind of a back have
you got.- Brooki/n Life.
A bright lb-year-old girl, whose father is ad
dicted to amateur photography, attended a
trial at court the other day for the first time.
This was her actonnt of the judges charge
"The judge made a long speech to the jury of
twelve men, and then sent them off into a little
dark room to dtvelop.— Christian Union.
Minerva looking up from her reading!—
Aunt Fidelia, the ACseuiapean attributes rheu
matism to a radiogenic micro organism which
under certaic favorable conditions is received
and propagated,
Auni Fidrha-,1 don't believe a word of it. I
have had the rheumatism twenty years, and I
never saw a sigh of thecreature vet .—Pharma
ceutical Kra
Deacon Joke*—l don't know. Brother Smith
doesn't ap;irto me like a conscientious man;
not what yot'dcall consistent, vou understand
He's well encufh Sundays and meeting nights
but he never juts any religion into his busi
ness.
Deacon Bros*—Very true: but, then, he puts
a good deal of business into his religion.—Bos
ton Transcript.
"You dress that dog of yours too loudly,” ob
served the exchange editor, scowling at the
ammal.
“You mean,l suppose." answered the flnan
cial editor, finitely, “that he ought not to have
that brass ban! round his necK.”
"No, 1 don't ” rejoined the exchange editor
waving his {Spars defiantly. "I mean that i
can hear his pints." Sew York Advertiser.
A musical hAn, accompanied by a band or
gan and a chili, has been giving performances
for the pp st wlek on the streets of New York
After he had Fisted one of the Beethoven roul
stirring symphonies out of the instrument of
torture, the atist sent the child among the
crowd A gentleman disgorged a niokel '‘l
vants ano l rSickel," lisped the child.
' What for;}
Dot nickeijyou put dot cup in vas for de
moosic, but dine fadder ish a professional beg
gar pesides. ’{-Texas Siflings
CUfcRENT COMMENT.
They M:fbt Get McKinley Rattled.
From t* Cincinnati Enquirer. (Pent.)
Why no! have the McKinley ballots en
graved on th plate ?
tugar and Vinegar.
From fie Few York advertiser (Ind.)
I-ondon lAncA is celebrating its fiftieth birth
day. May t live to be as old as its .jokes:
Did He leave Our Dusky Douglass?
FrontPittsburg Disitatch (Ind.).
It might t-r well for the state department to
inquire wnpher Hippolvte actually did beard
the Dougls*. to the extent of making him turn
pale. If si the United States navy should in
terfere. N( such violent bleaching of our diplo
matic repitsentatives can be permitted.
Wires Rsin the Weather, Says Wiggins
Fiptn the Chicago -Vetos (Ind.).
Now coties Prof. Wiggins with anew weather
theory, submitting that telephone wires and
wire fences are the cause of drought. Thev get
1“ tb way Of rain clouds aud break them ail up.
It would stem to the common mind that any
ram clouijthat got so low down as a barb-wire
fence ouglt to be able to sins a few faet lower
and go inker. May be Prof. Wiggins has not
reflected that wire fences over half a mile high
are Tery inusual.
Heathen Polly at the Sunday School.
The Lutheran church in the Fifth wa-J held
j its children's day exercises on Sunday says the
; Philadelphia Press, and they were a success in
j every way The occasion was made particu
larly joyous by the presence of a parrot belong
mg to a restaurant keeper on Broad street. The
Sunday school room was lieautlfu ly decorated
with flowers, and hung at intervals through the
room were cages of birds. Thera were canaries
1 and mocktDg b.rds. and. as a curiosity, the
I parrot It was a good parrot for talk, and on
this occasion it seemed to enter into the spirit
of the affair
There were a number of addresses delivered,
but the parrot was not on the programme "or
an address. Its voioe was heard all the same.
The school had just finished that touching song
from Gospel Hymns, No. 2, called "Still There's
More to Follow, when the parrot thought it
was time to say something. Poking its head be
tween the bars, he looked sharp!, at the super
intendent and said ina clear tenor voice: ' Two
beers, there, and a pretzel." The children
laughed and thought it was a good joke, and
some of the smaller boys interrogated the bird
concerning its desire for a cracker. The super
intendent succeeded in restoring order, and the
minister was about to say something when the
bird now wound up. shouted: "Get on to the
bum eatin' lunch!" The boys laughed some
more, and their hilarity was further increased
wnen the parrot laughed a funny "Haw, haw,
haw"’ and said, "Have one with tne!”
There w as a pause in the hilarity engendered
by the bin's quaint and entirely misfit remarks
shortly afterward, and a young lady, wearing a
new spring bonnet, came to the front of the
platform to smg a solo As the organist touched
up a few notes of the prelude the parrot caught
sight of the sweet singer, and said in a tone of
theraost ravishing delight: "O, mamma, buy
me that!”
Ali during the exercises thereafter the bird
kept calling for "papa" and "mamma," and
conversing in a confidential way with the boys
near the cage, telling them to "pay for that
sandwich,'' and "there are flies on you. '
Asa last resort the parrot was removed to the
ante room, where it had a good time whistling
"Annie Rooney" and the "Razzie Dazzle" from
"A Brass Monkey ” It wound up by yelling.
"Fire : fire! Here comes the Good Will! Jump
her, hope-ieo!" "The Red Rabbits will get the
first plug stream on," and similar pet phrases
it learned at a firemen's conversazione, and
then it went to sleep.
It was a great day for the Sunday school.
A Delightfully Frank Young Man.
A GOOD story is going the rouifds of a bright
but unsophisticated youth from the country,
who had influence enough to get him a good
birth in a New York agency, says the Brooklyn
Citizen. The managing partner was much
pleased with the youth's manliness, and after
giving him full instructions as to his duties,
sent him to canvass in New Englaud.
"Of course, 1 ' said the manager, "we expect
you to be economical iu your expenses, and to
ke-p a detailed account of them.''
It was not likely that the youth from the
country was going to escape guying by his wily
co-employes.
"It's a great thing in our line,” said one. “to
be well dressed. Good clothes, well made, go a
great way with our customers.”
“Well, i’m all right in that respect," said the
youth, "am I not?"
"I guesa you'll do for this journey,” said
another, "for, of course, you'll get a suit of
clothes out of your first trip."
Tne youth accomplished his journey, and on
hia return presented to the manager an item
ized bill of expenses. The manager glanced it
over and said:
"I don’t understand this last item: ‘One suit
of clothes, $35. ’ What does that mean ?' ’
"Whv, I understood 1 was to put that in the
bill," was the reply.
"O, dear, no!" the manager said "We can't
§o so far as that. The other items are oil right,
ut that must come out.”
On the youth's return from his second trip he
gave the managers bill of expenses. The man
ager looked it over and said:
“Ah! That's all right. There's no suit of
clothes here.”
**o. yes, there is," the youth exclaimed with
a smile. "It's there, but you don't see
Ee Was Battled.
On Wednesday evening a young man with a
pretty woman on hia arm entered the Hotel
Boyer, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. At the
door they parted, she remaining in the vesti
bule, w here her rustic beauty caused a sensa
tion , -while he went up to the desk and regis
tered. He was evidently nervous, for he nearly
put the wrong end of the pen in the ink, and
finally wrotQ .Mr, and Mrs. Blank and wife, and
forgot to set down tbe place he came from.
The clerk, however, was used to sqch vagaries
and assigned the newly-married couple to a
room. Tne bridegroom taking the key. stiil in
a state of flusterment. forgot ali about the
bride he had left upon the threshold and hur
ried upstairs.
When he reached the room of course be re
membered his life partner, end returned head
long to the office to find her. But in the mean
while tbe clerk hal observed Mrs. Blank’s
plight and sent a hell-boy to take her to her
room. So when the bridegroom landed in the
lobby he found no trace of his hatter half, and
his consternation was indescribable. By this
time a good many people about the lobby bad
got wind of the singular comedy that was being
played, and bets were offered as to whether the
bridegroom would throw himself into the Alle
pheDy or call for the police Before any such
tragic ending to the drama could take place,
however, the clerk informed the husband w here
his wife was, and a reunion of a most affecting
nature was soon brought about in the corridor
above.
John Chinaman.
Rowe Livingston.
“At dinner, when you fall to work.
They give you neither knife nor fork;
But, armed with tittle sticks, you dine—
That gay with paint and lacquer shine.
More than enougn there was to eat.
All, if you like it, exquisite
Patties of earthworms first were brought.
Shark-fins, as good as e'er were caught
Came next, with shoots of bamboo green;
Leeches in jelly next were seen;
Then a compote of caterpillar;
Then, in a bowl of porcelain fine, a
Dish of boiled eggs, much liked in China—
That had lain buried in a cellar
For years 1 1 am not a story -teller),
Roast crickets, perfect of their kind.
With gooseberry salad close behind.
Came next. Thev served to every guest —.
To crown the feast—a swallow’s nest.
Easy to eat, with thick sauce dressed.
And, for a fillip after meat,
A cut o£ pig's lard hot and sweet.”
The ‘‘Cracker” Girl.
CoL "Arp” of Georgia talking to a Kansas
City 'far interviewer about the “Georgia
Cracker,” said: “A gentleman recently told me
of an experience of his up among tne moun
taineers My friend was an unusually hand
some man, and the daughters took a great
liking to him. The girls flew around and got up
the best supper the houte afforded, which was
poor enough at that. After we had seated one
of the girls turned to my companion and said:
"Stranger, will you have your eggs one-eyed
or blind ’
‘•lt took him some time to think out wbat
was meant, but he finally managed to make out
that the girl meant done on one side or turned
over. “I'll take mine blind,' he answered.
"Well, do you want’em loose or tight in the
middle?”
“Again he was confnsed, but after another
mental effort he surmised that the girl meant
done through soft or hard.”
Rare Plant.
A year or two ago there were, among the
boarders at a mountain summer hotel, writes
“Bill Arp." a celebrated botanist and a certain
pretentious woman who liked to make it appear
to the guests that she was very well informed
on all subjects The pretentious woman
affected to lake an interest in the researches of
the botanist amongst the flora of the moun
tains.
“1 suppose, Mr. Caylix," said the ladv. "you
find almost all the mountain flowers around
here?”
“I have found a great many, ma’am," said
the botanist.
“Well, there's one kind of flower that I’ve
read a great deal of as being always on the
hills, and I've always wanted to see it. Per
haps you could pick me some."
“What is it ?”
“The purple gloaming.' you know
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ITEMS OF INTBRBBT. \
In one of London’s iashiocabla churches the
preacher made an appeal to the effect that a
certain taronet was. through ti, fault of his
own, imdebt to the amount of 1A ), and had no
means of paying. Conaequenlly the congre
gation was called upon to provide the amount
required.
The present theological ferment is to be put
into a novel, as witness the following announce
ment: "The agitation in the religious world
has now come around to the point which is
treated in a novel of more than ordinary power
by . published by . The trial of Dr.
Briggs, tbe investigation of Dr. Heber Newton,
and the condemnation of Macfjneary, as well as
tlie excitement aDout making Phillips Brooks a
bishop, are all reflected in this work. Indeed,
one of the principal craracters in me book is
said to be draw n directly from Dr. Newton.”
Onf of the African envoys of King Gungun
hama, in London, the other day, was nearly
frightened to deatn by a phonograph. He
talked into 'he instrument, and when it re
peated his words to him he fell on the floor in a
swoon. It was s me time before he gained
courage to ask questions, as he thought a witch
doctor was in the phonograph. He proposed to
silence the witch by stuffing a dried frog's leg
into the instrument, along w ith some other
charms he ha i with him. Having been dis
suaded from this, and the matter explained, he
sai lit was no use for him to tell lies, all his
words w-ere recorded.
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boffing water to maze gooi fruit punch. Add
the grated rind of one lemon and one orange
Grate only the yellow rind; the least bit of
white will make it bitter. Stir in two table
spoonfuls of gelatine that has soaked for an
hour in halfacuptul of water Simmer for
five minutes until the gelatine is thoroughly
dissolved; take from the fire, and when cold
add three gills of orange juic-, one of lemon
and one of pineapple. YVhen cold put into a
freezer and stir until frozen. Do not stir rap
idly. but slowly and evenly. Any juice or com
bination of juice may be used. Raspberry and
currant juices make an especially delightful
fruit punch.
Being out on a prospecting tour in the moun
tains, and having some knowledge of birds and
beasts in their native haunts, writes Naturalist
George Mitchell, I was on the alert for any
thing I could see. One day while we were
wading a mountain stream in Skamania county,
Washington, I saw a water ousel leave a water
fall some twenty feet above the stream we
were in. By helping my companion up the
rocks he was enabled to reach the place where
the bird had left, and was rewarded by finding
the nest, a splendid waterproof nest, built in a
crevice of the rocks wnere the water was pour
ing over and partly onto the fore part of the
nest. I now have it and one egg at home in
\ ancouver, Washington, as a relic of our trip.
An eye witness of Tuesday’s flood in lowa,
states that it was necessary for one to see to
have the lea-t idea of the great amount of dam
age done. “Why.” he exclaimed, "it is simply
w onderful the way that immense body of water
swept things before it. Houses were but bubbles
on its crest. I was at Cherokee when the cloud
burst came, and in less time than it takes to tell
it a flood was upon the town. Houses were seen
to tremble, swing half around and be carried
along by the torrents. Trees were bent and
broken like reeds, and nota thing could stop the
terrific onward rush of the water, and all this
occurred before the people could possibly realize
wtat had happened. The most remarkable
feature of the disaster is that any people in the
track of the flood escaped with their lives. The
storm rendered between 300 and 400 families
homeless in and about Cherokee.
A movement has been inaugurated at Kansas
City, Mo., for the organization of a novel mili
tary company intended to be one of the mili
tary features of the world's fair. The company
is to tie called Company A, First Regiment,
l mted Blue and Gray It is to be composed of
fifty ex-umon and fifty ex-confederate soldiers,
the former uniformed in blue and latter in
gray. The company is now- nearly full, and the
officers have been elected as follows: W. F.
Wilkius, captain, and ex union sold er of Com
pany C, One Hundred and Twenty fifth Illinois:
John TANARUS, Ebbs, First Lieutenant, an ex-confed
erate and a member of old Joe Shelby's famous
brigade; John Pigeon, second lieutant, an ex
union veteran, who fought in the Twelfth
Michigan; Joseph M. Haszett. orderly sergeant
an ex-confederate, who served m the secret ser
vice ail throught the war.
It is interesting to note that Count von
Moltke. who was always a great whist player,
should have had special luck in his last rubber
His partner, who usually held bad cards was
also more fortunate on tuat fatal Friday even -
ing, while the field marshal himself was in high
spirits. “Nun haben wir sie!"—"Now- we have
them!'' he said, smilingly, as be played hts last
hand; and, Indeed, he won the rubber by scoring
what is called grand-schlem—that is, he and
his partner took all the thirteen tricks. It is
true that he complained a little during the
course of the game of asthmatic uneasiness
but as he was subject periodical!v to this com
plaint in later years he neither paid much at
tention to it himself n- were his relations in
fluenced by any apprehension of sickness or
danger. He spoke of pains in the region o - the
stomach, which he attributed jokingly to
having taken too much cake with his tea.
John Quinn of Danville, IU., an old gentle
man, died about two weeks ago. Immediately
after the funeral his family removed from the
house where he died, and it was soon occupied
by another family. A few days ago the occu
pants locked up tbe house and went to spend
the day with friends. About dusk they came
home, and were amazed to find Mr Quinn fully
dressed, walking up and down his former bed
room Several neighbors were called in to wit
ness the strange spectacle Mr. Quinn's ghost
came twice to the window, bowed to tbe people
gathered in the streets, and then sat down in
the window. Suddenly every trace of him dis
appeared. Mr. Spreht and Miss Wilmer
mustered up courage enough to enter tbe
house. Not a lamp in the home would burn.
Lights were obtained from the neighbors, when
an exhaustive search was made throughout
the house. Everything was found securely
locked, and there was no trace of any one
having entered the house. The neighborhood
is greatly excited over the occurrence.
On a pleasant afternoon last week a party
of factory girls held a picnic in a grove near
Scranton, Pa. They had a day off, and they
hired a fiddler, and were having a nice time
when a gang of rowdyish young men marched
into the grove, stood around the platform and
made ill-mannered remarks about the size of
the girls'feet, the color of their stockings and
various other things. The young women
coaxed the loafers to go away and attend to
their own affairs, but tbe intruders continued
to make themselves obnoxious by more unpleas
ant remarks and by spitting tobaco
juice on the platform. The girls
stood the insult as long a, long as they could
and then held a consu.tation While one get
was dancing fifteen of the pluckiest girls In the
party acted with fine effect They gathered
clubs in the woods, stole up behind the row of
loafers, and began to club them over the heads
and shoulders. The attack was a complete sur
pnse. The roughs started to run in every direc
tion. Ail the girls joined in the chase, and drove
them from the grove. They had sense enou -h
not to return, and the giris had a good time the
rest or the day
In regard to the recent election of Phillips
Brooks to the bishopric of Massachusetts, it
now a pears that thirty-seven dioceses have
voted in favor of him against fifteen in opposi
tion The bishops are now voting, but the re
sult of their action will not be made known for
some time. Consent to the consecration of Dr.
Brooks has been received from the standing
t * le following named dioceses:
Albany California, Centra! New York. Central
Pennsylvi*)* Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,
Fast Easton, Florida, Georgia, Indi
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Dmisiana, -Maryland, Massachusetts
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Island, South Carolina. Southern Ohio. Tennes
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ivest ' ‘rgi da. The following named standing
committees have either refused their consent
or have not replied to the communication od
this subject sent to them by tbe standing com
mittee of the diocese of Massachusetts- Ala
bama. Arkansas, Chicago. Fond du Lac, lowa,
Maine, Milwaukee. Mississippi, Newark, New
Hampshire, Quincy, Springfield, Texas. Ver
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