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Newspaper Page Text4 Cbf Horning Hctos Mcrning News Building Savannah, Ga. ’WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, I*9l. Registered at the Pott office in Satnnnah. The Morning News is published every day m the year, and is served to subscribers in the city at & cent* a week. $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO (X) for one year The Morning News, by mail . one month. Si 00; three months, $2 £0; six months, fft 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sun lay issue, three months. $2 00; ■ix months. $4 0.: one year. 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and bri.ays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail 4 one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail , one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur reccy sent by mail at risk of senders Letters and should be addressed “Morning News.*' Savannah, Ga. Transient advertisements, other than special Column, local or readiuß notices aw.use men ta and cheap or want column, 1" cents a line. Fourteen lines ot agate tyte—equal to one inch space in depth s the standard measurement. Contract rates and discounts made known on application at business office^ ~ OIK YEW YORK OFFICE. Mr J. J Flynn, General Advertising Agent Of the Morning N *ws, office 23 Fark Row. (Jew- York. All advertising business outside of the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro lina wil be managed by him. , " The MormvTne-vs is S® at the following places. Where Advertising Rates and other In formation regarding the pl*r can be obtained. XEW YORK CITY — J. H Bates. S- Fark Row e. P. Howell a ' . >prace street. W W. sharp & C .21 1 ark Row Keam Kiebsav i C . 112 Broadway. Dsr hy A Cos.. 27 Park Place. J. W Thompson. 39 Park Row American Newspaper Publishers'Association. Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA- H W aver & Son, Times Building. BOSTON— S. R. Niles, 256 Washington street P*ttenoii.l <fc Cos., 10 State street. CHICAOO- Lcrd 4 Thomas, 45 Randolph street CINCINNATI- , Edwin Allen Company. 66 West Fourth street. NEW HAVEN- The H. P. Hcbbard Company, 25 Elm street. ST. LOITH- Kai.s > ('HtKAsi Cos.. 112 Y Pine street. ATLANTA- Morning News Bureau, 3*m It hitehall street MACON- Daily Telegraph Office, 597 Mulberry street. IK DEI TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Summer Board, Fried & Hicks: Eyeglasses at Heidi's; Notice to Con tractors; Austin R. Myres, Broker; A Card, W. B Brown. Military Orders—Order No. 49, Savannah Volunteer Guards; Order No. 14, Republican Blues Speaks Volumes—The Savannah Carriage and Wagon Company. Pasts—B H. Levy <£ Bro Educational —Southern Female College, La- Orange, Ga. Steamship Schedule—Baltimore Steamship Company. Chbap Oolites advertisements— Help Want ad; S nplo/msat -VantAl; Fur Heat; For Sale; Lost: Personal. Miscellaneous. Ah Indiana man's conscience struck him for (5 not long ago and he gave it up. Getting the Chilean steamer I Lata out of the clutches of the United States officials appears to be a very slow process. The *IOO,OOO bond her owners have just given will probably release her. But she can be of little use to them. Treason is charged against a large num ber of citizens of the German province of Hanover. Bat the opposition newspapers say that it is only a pretext for confiscating property. Can it be that the young kaiser's travels have depleted his exchequer? That would be too bad. Two minutes of rapid pistol practice and two mangled negroes recently resulted from the flagrant carelessness of one Kentucky negro in stepping upon the pet corn of an other in Louisville. In all, eight shots were fired. One man is dead and the other dangerously wounded. Treading on a Kan’s corns is not a perfectly safe thing to do, at best. Relaxing the former seventy with the Jews indicates that the Russian govern ment finds it a bad policy to hazard the condemnation of the whole civilized world. However powerful a nation may be, it can nob afford to antagonize all the rest of mankind lest an accident befall, as in the case of the prospective Russian famine, when outside sympathy and aid will be needed. Dictator Quay evidently sees the necessity for getting out of the republican national executive committee, but feels very loth to let go his grip upon the heim of power. Just where he would get the “great honor’’ that he ascribes to himself in case he can sud denly dodge out before any one can make any unpleasant remarks upon his personal character is not clear to the distant ob server. Another crash in the London financial world has come in the enormous failure of the English Bank of the River Platte, which amounts to an aggregate of over 500,000, with nominal assets of *54,000,000. What effect the failure will have upon the South American trade remains to be s.>en. But the British investments in South America appear to be turning out rather disastrously all around. French notions about some things are at least a trifle droil. Now that Murderess Berland and her youthful accomplice Dove are sentenced to the guillotine the author ities of Paris have granted them a reprieve in order that they may consummate the object of their crime by getting married. Probably no official in the world except a Frenchman would ever have done such a peculiarly sentimental thing as that. Headsman Clarkson is slated for Quay's place if the Pennsylvania senator can in any way be worked out of the republican national committee. Then we shall proba bly see little republican newspaper* sprout ing up all over the country. For Mr. Clark son is a stanch believer in the newspaper. Therein he shows a level head. But the re publican paper cannot flourish so long as it has nothing to say, and the most capable journalists of the country are democrats. Notwithstanding all the investigating that has been done in the Bardsiey defalca tion case in Philadelphia there is still a deficit of a round million and a quarter of the city and state funds that are unac counted for in any way, It is not even represented by the worthless acknowledge ments of the Keystone Bank. No trace of it can be fouud anywhere. Probably De faulter Bardsiey is getting good pay for the term be is serving in the carpenter depart ment of Pennsylvania. An Enthusiastic Meeting- The meeting yesterday in the interest of the Savannah harbor improvement, the call for which was issued a few da vs ago by Mayor McDonough, was a mo*t en thusiastic one. Nearly all of tA r .oee from outside the city who Lad been invited, were present, and they were profoundly interested in the matter under considera tion. They are not only ready, but anxious to join hands with the people of this city in an effort to get this congress to make an appropriation sufficiently large to complete, without unnecessary delay, the improve ment which will give Savannah harbor a depth of twenty -six feet. The pur *e of the meeting was to out line a plan by which the importance of Sa vannah haroor aui the necessi.y f -*r i.s > immediate improvement couli be brought to the attention of congress in tne most ef fective and forcible manner, and this pur p joe was in a large meaiure accomplished. It is certain that the people of the whole vast region whose seaboard outlet is at this port will be called upon for tneir influence in this matter, and that they will give it freeiy and heartily there is no doubt. It is to the interest of great states that .Savannah harbor shall be so improved that it will accommodate the largest class of ocean steamships. Such an improvement wiil benefit directly an 1 indirectly millions of people. Savannah, with twenty-one feet of water in her harbor, is already the great port on the South Atlantic coast. Some idea of her comxero.al importance is gained frjm the volume of exports last year—exports which had a commercial value of 8153,000,000. But Savannah har bor is not equal to the demands made upon it. These demands are increasing -increas ing rapidly. All the immense section of country, extending as it does t > the far northwest, of whica Savannah is the natural seaport, is having a marvelous de velopment. The necessity, therefore, for deeper water at Savannah is something that congress must be made to recognize. And congress will recognize it if the peo ple who are interested in having deeper water here wili make their influence felt as it should be. And there is every reason to believe that they will do their part. If the meeting i ester Jay is an indication of what may be expected of them congress wiil bear more of Sivannah harbor next winter than ever before. And their petitions for deeper water at this port will be so earnest and so imperative that cocgre s will find it im possible to deny them. But .Savannah must not rest content with w hat she has done. She must work con tinuously and with a determination to win success. It depends upon her to arouse the people to the importance of deepening her harbor. St. Paul and the Sluggers. Civilization in St. Paul has lately dis closed a development that should severely shock the acutely gentle sensibilities of the culavatod eastern editors and cause them to writhe in high-tension agony. In fact the latest St. Paul idea of law as opposed to fairness and fine sport will amaze and amuse the whole civilized world and the rest of mankind. Because the mayor of the city regards the people who are primoting the prize fight that is scheduled to take place to-day as a “high class of business men,” and there fore feels inclined to regard the mill as the "best managed and least objectionable of anything of the kind that over took place in at. Paul,” the fact that tho law prohib its such brutal contests, and that he is not performing his sworn duty by enforcing the law, seems to weigh very lightly in his estimation. What appears to cause this peculiar mayor much more concern is the alleged fact that the Minnesota Athletio Club has obligated itself to the amount of over *15,000 which would be a dead loss. To what extent he would be personally involved in that dead loss is not stated. But this singularly considerate official might as well refuse to close a faro bank because the owners had obligated themselves to a large amount which w.iuld be a dead loss if their game was interrupted. When the sheriff of the county and even the governor of the state positively refused to iniertere with such a disgracefully degrading spectacle the world at large may well understand the intellectual and moral status of St. Paul official society, and how wild the people are to witness this combat of brute violence. 8(111, it is oreditable to learn from the dispatches that out of a population of some thing like 200,000, at least 5,000 church people were found to protest against this relic of the barbarous sports of medieval Rome, even though their protests proved to be of no avail. Amusements of this character cast a lasting reproach upon the intelligence and enlightenment of any community. But if Bt. Paul merely wisheg to surpass the great mills of Minneapolis she would do well to adopt some more effective plau. Advices from Kansas state that Farmer McKay is still continuing his antics as the alleged judge of the Twenty-fourth district of that state iu defiance of the state supreme court. Because the sheriff obeyed the supreme court in preference to his orders he has now put an order into the hands of coroner to arrest the sheriff. What a freak the man is making of himself, to be sure. Why, no one could adequately express bis contempt for such a burlesque court. What the supreme court should do is to have him locked up in the county jail until his ob streperous and refractory spirit is some what calmed and conquered. Explorer Stanley is said to be at outs with his pretty, new wife. Friends ex plain that they bad both become so “sot in fbelr ways,” as Josh Whitcomb would put it. that reciprocal conformity was very difficult. But that ever-present mother-in law always had an ominous look, and she was probably not without influence in their difference!. In order to attract as little atteution as possible to their separa tion Stanley has gone to Australia. Mother-in-law Tennant always assumed rather a proprietary air over Stanley. Galveston claims to have handled over 1,000,000 bales of cotton up to the middle of July, every bale of which grew in the state of Texas. That is a pretty good record, not only for the port, but for the cotton crop of tbe state. But SavaDnah long since passed the 1,090,000 mark, with cotton still coming in. Evidently the cotton crop this year will aggregate something immense when the season closes. That vigorous New Jersey dominie who attacked “the adipose tissue” of the jolly Germans who have beeu attending their an nual sangerfest at Newark must be related to Editor Charles A. Dana. At all events, he appears to have the same intemperate and unreasoning hatred of a fat man. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1801. Fire in Cotton Cargoes. The New York Tribune calls attention to a motion that has been made in the Kngiish House of Lords providing for the appoint ment of a commission to investigate the question whether or not it is advisab.e to to permit passenger steamships to carry cotton, and, in commenting upon it. says: “The transportation of cotton on passenger steamships is not justified by necessity, and experience constantly shows that it is ex tremely hazardous. By what means fire frequently breaks out in cotton cargoes re mains a matter of controversy. It is a well-known fa-t, however, that cotton is handled in a grossly careless manner at southern ports, often bv men who smoke while they work. A spark from a cigar or pipe may es-my bury ltielf in one of the baies and smolder until the conditions for a conflagration at s?a have been provided.” The motion made into the House of Lords is aimed undoubtedly at the great passenger carrying steamships which run from New York and Boston to Liverpool. The cotton they carry is loaded at New York and Boston and is received there from therailv-avs and coast line steamers. The Tribune's statement therefore, that cotton is handled at southern ports in an extremely careless manner, has very little, if any, application to the subject of cotton fires in passenger steamships. If a spark should be dropped into a bale at a southern port and smolder there the fire, in all probability, would be discovered when taken out of tbe car or coast line steamship at New York and Boston. It would be remarkable, cer tainly, if not discovered before the cotton was placed on board the foreign bound vessel. But, as a matter of fact, there is not any such carelessness at southern Dortt in hand ling cotton as the Tribune asserts. On the contrary, the greatest care is exercised. Those engaged in loading cotton are not per mitted to srnoke cigars or pipes while at work. They are not even allowed to carry matches, and smoking on the wharves where there is cotton is strictly prohibited. Instead of carelessness, every precaution against fire is taken, and insurance com panies make it a point to see that the regu lations for protection against fire are en forced. The cause of fires in cotton cargoes has not yet been ascertained, and while it may be a question whether or not it is advisable to permit passenger steamships to carry cotton it is quite certain that to prohibit them from doing so would be followed by an increase in the freight rates on cotton. Those steamships do not carry full cargoes of cotton. They frequently have freight room to spare, and they accept cotton to complete their cargoes, and they generally do so at a freight rate below the prevailing rate. This competition helps to keep down the freight rates on cotton. If passenger steamships continue to carry cotton it is pretty certain that cotton fires that may occur on them will not be due to careless handling of cotton at southern ports. The Briceville Affair. The miners at Briceville, Tenn., are ter ribly in earnest. They do not want to have a conflict with the militia of the state, and their evident intention is to avoid one. At the same time they do not intend to work in coin petition with the oonvicts of the state. It is stated that tho c al companies who lease the convicts from the stato do not deal fairly with the miners. They compel the miners to work on the least productive of the coal veins while the most productive are worked by tbe convicts. The result is that the miners are not able to earn more than $1 a day each. By this method the coal companies are able to make a great deal more money than they would if the miners were given a chance to work in tho most productive mines. The convicts cost the coal compauies only 27 cents a day each, and, hence, it is to the interest of the companies to keep them in the mines in which coal is mined with the least difficulty. It has been expected for some time that the discontent of the minors would take the shape it has. Among them and, in fact, among all classes of laboring people in Ten nessee, there is a feeling of hostility agaiust convict labor. They feei that convict labor cheapens their labor, and to a certain ex tent it doe3. An illustration of how it does is seen at tho Briceville mines. It would not be surprising if this Brice ville affair should bring about a change in the convict system in Tennessee. And a change in that state would bo followed by a change in other states which have the lease system. The system is not a satis factory one. To find a substitute for it, however, that will not be burdensome to the people, is an unsolved problem. It is probable that eventually the con victs will have to be hired out to the dif ferent counties to be employed in making ami repairing roads. They could be em ployed in no other way that would result iu so much benefit to the public, and which, at the same time, would be open to so little objection from the laboring classes. Adherents of Secretary Blaine charge that the irrepressible Elder Editorial Freak Shepard is the individual who is dissemi nating all of those fictitious stories in his Bail of Distress about Mr. Blaine’s proba ble death before tbe next presidential elec tion. But no one should blametbe “colonel." Why, he doesn’t know any better. That’s just another of his cranky notions about how a newspaper ought to be conducted. When he learns something he will probably not act in that way. Actor Kyrle Bellew and Actress Potter got married in China and very soon went so altogether broke that they have since had to play with amateur companies. Rough luck on the great united Thespians. As the walking was so wretchedly bad they did manage to get together enough money to pay fare across the Pacific to San Fran cisco. But they will probably have to foot it to New York unless they work up a benefit or strike somebody for a loan in “ ’Frisco.” Christianity as expounded at the New Jersey summer assemblages at Ocean Grove must be a decidedly entertaining not to say lively sort of a study. Some of the views on marriage and divorce as set frth by the brethren there last Sunday were breezy and original to the last degree. They are said to have made some of the toughest of the assembled hardened sinners look simple and turn red. That is modern "advanced” religious teaching. In a recent divorce suit at Canton, 0., the fact came out that the officiating clergy, man is not an ordained minister. Accord ing to Ohio law that invalidates a marriage, tad the hundreds of others whom he had previously united are in a great flutter of excitement about it. They have reason to be. PERSONAL. M. Tabanel, tbe French portrait painter, says that Mi;S Maggie Mitchell. the -daughter of the Oregon senator. Is the most beautiful woman ever seen in Paris. Senator Barbour of Virginia is trying to re tire from active pulitics. Now that his ancient foe. Mahone. is out of the way the game has lost its interest for him. Col. Patrick Donas of the Fargo Argus says that ha iit nrt been for the confederates, of whom he was one, the world would never have known what heroes tne north had. K - -'Ell Sage has s*iaved oiT his whiskers, and is spending the summer at L. I. He w ears a broad -brimmed, o and fashioned hat, an 1 100 is very much like a Connecticut farmer Whittier is quoted as saying the other day that there were times when it seemed to him that he m ist take up his pen and write, but tf.a’. be felt that he had done en.ugh and that his work was really completed. The only man in the Muscovite empire whose influence on the czar counterbalances and some times overr.des that of the 6tern procurator of the ho y synod. M. Pobiedoutsoff, is a R .man Catholi: abbe, a mere viliage priest, named Zudmowski. Supt Murray of the New York police force is very badly broken physically. He is suffering from shaking pai-y, and has become a shadow of his former robust physique. There is little probability of his ever again occupying his chair at police headquarters. Col. John Hay, one of the joint authors of the famous Lincoln biography, has a trim figure, close y cropped gray whiskers and a mustache and an elegaot way of handling his glasses which bespeaks the rnan of leisure. Col Hay married a large fortune. The King op Belgium has not succeeded in making his Congo investments pay very well, so bally, indeed, that they have well nigh swallowed up bis own fortune, if not also the vast property tnat be holds in trust for his sis ter, the ex- Empress Carlotta of Mexico. Stanley's contract with the American pub lishers of his book called for $5),003 in royalty It is now authoritatively stated that he has re ceived from them tbe additional sum of * 14,000 and that Maj. Pond paid to him ah nit JjO.OOO as his portion of the proceeds of the lecture tour. “ Reflections, Thoughts and Maxims" is the title of the book Gen. Boulanger proposes to In flict upon the world. His maxims and thoughts are perhaps not worth a penny, but if he has the good judgment to properly review his own career his reflections may possess a curtain somber value. Puvis de Chayanxes, who succeeded Meig sonier as president of the National Society of French Artists, is a great painter of frescoes ami has decorated the walls of many public bu Idmgs in Paris and the provinces. He is well advanced in years, tall, intellectual and an ele gant gentleman. It is hardly necessary to say that he does not share his predecessor's un reasonable hatred for Americans. William Lidderdale, who is known as the hero of the Baring crisis in that his financial statesmanship not onlv saved the great firm of Bari -g Bras, from collapse, but also prevented the shock to the business world that must have resulted had the gone down, is a Scotch man by birth and 59 years old. For his assist ance in the Baring affair he has received the freedom of the city of London in a gold casket, which is eight inches long, six inches high and four wide. Andrew Lang ia some years older than the majority of his readers suppose him to lie. He has reached 47, and his hair is turning gray and growing scant. He is tail, thin and dark, and has an unpleasant laugh. He talks slowly and with an effort, his conversation frequently fail ing into what they c li in England the Oxford drawl. Lang is said to be working at a tre mendous pace. He earns a large income, but there is little of it left for tne bamc after his heavy household expenses have t>een paid. Some of his American admirers are inclined to think that he writes too much, for there are evidences of dilution in his later prose pro ductions. BRIGHT BITS. The Colonel—Have you seen Borer since ho returned from his trip around the world? The Judge— Yes; I met the enemy, and he was hours.—-Puck. Rki-cblii ans—l see that the fema'e bathing suit is higher tbfs year than last. Democrites—Yes, that same old McKinley bill. Baltimore American. “Bin you ever go up in a balloon?" “Once." "What were your sensations?” “O, same as usual. I wanted the earth."— Harper's Bazar. JlcAwbeb—l claim that more people drink than do not. Heep And I say less drink. McAwber—Thanks! I don't care if I do.— Binghamton Leader. The Missus—You oughn't to leave the floor in such a condition. Why don’t you take your chips with you? Carpenter—Who do you take mo for, the Prince of Wales?— Life. Bride (just after the wedding)—Alfred, you promised to give me a grand surprise after we were married; say, w hat is it? Bridegroom a widower)—l’ve got six chil dren, my pet '.—Shuman Blatter. Jack Potter—l never wished I was blind but once. Bob Taylor—When was that? Jack I'otter- -The last time I played poker. I saw a man who held four aces .—Puck. “Don’t you think smoking so many cigarettes hurls you!" “O, I have no doubt of it. But there is one consolation. It doesn’t hurt me half as much os it does the cigarettes.”— Detroit Free Press. “Where does this milk come from, any how?" asked Miggles. “Cows, I fancy.’’ said Wagg. "That ace;unts for it,” said Miggles. “Cowes is a famous watering-place."— Harper's Bazar. Sarcastic Fat Woman (at dime museum) - Now that we are alone. Mr. Boneset. can’t you unbend a little? You seem so unyielding, so—so rigid, so set in your ways. Ossified Man (with exceeding stiffness) —You fatigue me, madam Try your charms on the boa constrictor. He’ll unbend for you—Chicago Tribune. Pretty Cousin—Your friend. Dr. Lancet, passed me down-town to day without even a bow. He O, w ell, you know, he's awfully absent minded. He’s so completely devoted to his surgical practice. Pretty Cousin—But that's no reason why he should cut me. Exchange. Farmer Gilson came down from up country the other day and brought his boy along to let him see the sights. ’ Paw." said the lad, amazed at seeing hearse horses trot, “that ain't a funer’l, is it?" "Yes, tis; these city folks hev to burry like sixty to get a man buried ’fore the mourners forgit 'ini. Detroit Free Press. Sino a song of sixpence. A bottle full of rye, Four and twenty glasses, No need to feel dry. When the bottle's opened You begin to sing: When you get outside it You don't know a thing. —Brooklyn Eagle. Eminent Philanthropist—Well, what if it Emily? Wife of Eminent Philanthropist—lf you ex pect to attend that anti-car stove meeting, James, it is time you were starting. Eminent Philanthropist—l have no time to go, Emily. I am preparing a speech on the neces sity for tho painless execution of murderers Chicago Tribune. CURRENT COMMENT. About to Be Fired Out. From the Boston Herald ilnd.). It looks as if Hippolyte would shortly tare to look out for another job. That’s a Good Name. From the Chicago .Yews (Tnd.). Minneapolis is a great agricultural region. Why not call the new consolidated metropolis Farmers’ Alliance. Bringing- the Inhabitants Back. From the Philadelphia Press (Hep.). The Spanish cortes has granted a general amnesty to all political exiles. It is understood that this is the first step toward repopulating Spain. They Should Bounce Him. From the Boston Olobe ( Dem .). The republicans hope to get out of a very tight place by Quay's voluntary retirement. But his voluntary retirement will not morally rehabilitate tbe Republican party. He ought to be made to res.gn. and he should have been made to do so long ago. Kept in Memory by tbe Tin Soldier. Every one remembers the pathetic ballad of the little tin soldi- r—“and one little leg had he " “Gounoa’s March of the Marionette**" 13 in reality the march of a tin sol ner brigade, says the Chicago Tribune. They are very im porrant folk. A State street toy man is a connoisseur in tin soldiers, and has the history down pat. ‘ If you'll come over to the heuse some night,*' he remarked, “1 11 show you the finest collec tion of tin soldiers in tms country. In fact, til* re is onlv one collection in existence that is more complete: that is the famous one in the Trades hall in Nuremberg." The newspaper ihan had heard of any num ber of odd collections—collections of shoes, and hairpins, j*ostage stamps, snuff boxes, and has himself a weakness for old chiua—but tms struck him as about the most whimsical of alt. So one evening he went out to Oak street an and saw 300 odd little tin soldiers in a glass case. Tne gem of the collection was a squat little fel low in a jerkin that had once be*u buff and breeches that had probably been red. He uas no name, but his history is fa rlj' authentic. He was made in Nuremberg and dates from the days of military enthusiasm aroused by Frederick the Great s surprising exploits in the Seven Years' war. Then there were others, rrench guardsmen, who owed theirexistencto Napoleon’s campaigns; Turks and Vaynims, little Italians, and red shirted Garihaiiians, Austrians, and of course any number of little tin warriors tricked out lute the French and Germans of I^7o. "You see," said the collector, “the tin gDldier industry is a sort of war thermometer. Whan bellicose affairs are hot the tin soldier industry goes up; when there is a cool, peaceful atmos phere it goes down. I tell you there have been fortunes mads by 6hrewd men who looked ahead. "There was a man named Getzler m Sonne btirg who foresawjthe last Franco German war and cornered the tin soldier market. When the war broke out the demand for tin soldiers on the part of jatrictic iuvenile Germans was simply immense. Getzler made his fortune, i'lll afraid that his confound-d example has cost me a pretty penny. When our trouble with Italy was threatening, and it looked as though there were a chance for war, I p aced a heavy order for tin soldiers in Nuremburg. They ar* a drug in the market now. Ah well," he added, "we must hope for the best." Tin sol tiers have been made for 130 years. The industry is altogether German. The best arti3ts are hired to furnish models for the s J diers, and fhey are scrupulously careful to c in form to the milita y costume of the perioJ and country to which the miniature warriors are supposed to belong. The designs are engraved upon molds of slate or brass. Then the tin is poured into the molds, and there you are—or rather, the tin soldier is. Of course, he has to be pa nted, packed iu boxes, and—to achieve his ultimate end—sold. There are lead sol :iers. But the toy dealer does not think much of them. He says that lead is a low-down sort of metal and has no military ardor; in addition, it is poisonous. The capital invested in this business is, he as serted, over $1,000,000. By the way, another fact: The workmen who make had soldiers all die of consumption; the men who make tin soldiers don’t. Why Do They? I was having a glass of soda water the other hot day at a fountain in Fourteenth street, says Mr. (quad in the New York World, when a nicely dressed young lady walked out and left her portmonnaie on the marble slab. The at tention of one of the clerks was called to it, and be picked it up with the remark: ‘‘l want you to witness me count the con tents.” There was exactly $2 13, and he noted down the amount and placed the portmonnaie in a drawer. Ten minutes later tbe loser entered an l said; “I left my portmonnaie here— Russian leather —dark silver clasp—B. H. engraved on clasp.” ‘ Yes'm, this is it.” “O, I'm so glad!” she gasped as she received it. “And so much obliged to you for your great kindness! It contains over 8300, and papa would have been dreadfully annoyed!" “Now, then, why did she fib!-” I asked, as she went out. “You tel!,” answered the clerk. “We pick up ten a day here when business is rushing, and I never knew a cose where they didn’t fib. It is done for effect, probably, though 1 can't see whore it helps them any,” "It was very careless of her to leave it." ‘‘Say! Don’t you believe it!" he laughed "The chances are she left it on purpose. She knew it would be seen at once and taken care of, and I’ll bet ten to one she dropped it into some store below here and kicked up a little commotion over its loss. I saw a cheeky thing here a few days ago.” •‘Well?’’ “A young lady left a purse containing just ex actly Her address was in it, and after wait ing two days we sent it home. Meanwhile one of the evening papers had come out, on her say so, and reported that her pocket had be n picked of a purse containing S3OO and some diamond rings! It's all right, but they can’t freeze us with any of their little dodges.” Slow Sale of Paeans. “Recently 1 was in Mexico on business," said A. 0 Bearing to a San Francisco Call reporter, “and my interests called me to San Pedro, which lies but seven miles from Guadalajara, and is connected with the latter by a street car lino. The cars run every hour, and the track is so straight that an approaching one can be seen for at least four miles There is a wait of half an hour at either end of the line. “Well, when I had completed iny errand and was ready to return to Guadalajara I glanced down the track, and seeing that no car was in sight looked about for a place to rest while 1 waited. I espied a fruit stand kept by a woman across the street, and on approaching saw some fine pecan nuts exposed for sale. “Now, if there is anything I like more than another It is a pecan, so I asked the price. Twenty-eight for a cent, 1 was told, and accord ingly I asked for cents’ worth The woman in charge 3lowly and mecoamcally counted out twenty-eight and pushed them to one side. Another cents’ wort h was added, and so on until twelve and a-half times twenty-eight had been heaned together. “This done a recount was begun. A heap of nuts was spread out and carefully placed in, rows and counted one by one with great care and deliberation. While this operation was in progress a car came in, waited the accustomed half hour and moved away. I succeeded in overtaking it by running, and carried the nuts away with me, but it was a tight squeeze.” Crpheus and Eurydice. Jules Beymonde tn Temple Bar. When Orpheus went down to the regions below. Which men are forbidden to see, He tuned up his lyre, as old histones show, To set his Kuri dice free. All hell was astonished a person so wise Should rashly endanger his life, And venture so far—but how vast their surprise, When they found that he came for his wife! To find out a punishment due for his fault, Old Pluto long puzzled his brain; But hell had not torments sufficient he thought, So he gave him his wife back again. But pity succeeding soon vanquished his heart. And pleased with his playing so well, He took her again, in reward of his art, Such power had music in hell! Cinderella’s Uncomfortable Slipper. A dramatic critic, in a desultory conversation the other night, said he wondered why Cinder ella wore glass slippers, says the Chicago Tribune, and he didn’t believe anyone could dance in glass simpers One man suggested that it was a fairy tale. Another man made every one tired by talking of malleable glass He remarked that he once saw a Pittsburg lady in a glass gown. He should have been ashamed to mention it any way. ’ Tbe manager, a distinguished Gallicist—he once went to school with Tartarin at Tarascoa —said she never did -wear glass slippers “You see,” he explained, "Cinderella was in debted to a translator’s mistake for her uncom fortable pumps. This delightful extravaganza was originally French, and the man who Englishel it didn’t know his business. The French words are 'pantoufies de vair’—for slip pers Now, the word for glass is verre, and the English chump got ’em mixed up." BAKING POWDER. O^ljPowder Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard ITEMS OP INTEREST. The best planned jokes sometimes take an unexpected turn, as those of us who are given to making jokes have no doubt all noticed. Mrs. Dean said to a friend the other day, “I am so glad you can stay lor tea. There is to be such a joke on Mr. Dean. He's always criticis ing my co“king. To-day his mother happened in. and I persuaded ner to make some cakes Will it not l>e very funny when he finds fault witn the * s when 1 tell him that his mother made them herself?" Half an hour later Mr. Dean remarked. "My dear, you becoming a jeirfect cook These cakes are as fine as those my mother makes." Some people find it hard, in using the tele phone, to realize that they are not face to face with tne person they are addressing. A prom inent merchant in the capital city of a state sat at his dek one hot day in July, in or .er to secure some degree of comfort he had taken off his coat and his collar and necktie. A clerk came into the room. “His excellency, the gov ernor. wishes to speak with you through the telephone, ' said the clerk, “The governor! l>*ar me ." sa;d the merchant. He rose, hastily put on his collar, his necktie and his coat, gave his hair a stroke, and went to the telephone to answer t .e governor s call. Almost every woman knows the distress oc casioned by a sudden tendency to cry at a time when one wishes to appear particularly un moved and even stoical. Marjorie never cries when any little mishap befalls her. and has bf-en known to sustain, without shedding a tear, severe bumps that have rapidly acquired a black and blue aspect. But the other day. Ara minta, her dearly loved and tenderly cherished doll, fell into the open grate and received a con tusion of the nose, which was most nnpleasant to contemplate. Marjorie winked very hard for a lew minutes, and then, running with her injured Araininta to her mother, she buried her head 111 her mother's lap, sobbing: “Oh, mamma. 1 don't want to cry, but my tears have all come unfastened!" Milton George, publisher of the Western Rural, published at Chicago, claims to be the founder of the farmers' alliance, having estab lished the first organization on April 18, 1880. He looks like a typical western granger, stout and solid in figure, gray-bearded and’ cautious in speech. He left the Colonnade yesterday af ternoon for Washington, and is traveling in the ea.st to forward what is now his favorite project —the establishment of the school of agriculture and manual training for boys on the Rural Glen farm. The property, which is situated near Chicago and comprises 300 acres, is valued at 5100,000, and was donated by Mr. George on pec. 10, 1889, to a corporation formed under the laws of Illinois for the purpose indicated. He is now engaged in gath ring funds for the school in order that its field of usefulness may be extendtd Instruction is free to all pupils. A negro woman in a Georgia back county hoed cotton until midday, and then lay down for a nap in the shade of a tree. She was barefooted. Suddenly a tickling sensation in oue of her big toes disturbed her slumber. She looked sleeuuy in that direction and saw a sight that made her teeth chatter. A huge black snako had swallowed the toe, anil was acting as though he proposed to swallow the rest of her As she gazed along the sleek hack of the undu lating serpent he seemed so long tnat his tail was below the horizon. When she recovered from her temporary paralysis she arose like a sky-rocket fired slantwise, and disappeared in tne pine timber with a blood-curdling shriek After being jerked through the underbrush for a few rods the snake iet go. The woman may be running yet for all that is known to the con trary Eugene Field of Chicago, whose delicate humor and verses of pathos have given him a reputation not bounded by the confines of this country, is about 45 years old In personal ap pearance he is long and lank, and the hair on his head and face is not abundant. Few men probably possess w ider extremes of cnarncter and in nothing is this shown more plainly than in his writing and in his treatment of persons He has made many enemies, his temptation to satirize friends as well as foes being under little restraint, while the propensity to play pranks which marked him while a schoolboy at Mon son, Mass., is still strong in his nature. The bump of veneration was evidently left out when he uas made, and the higher the respect ability of the victims of hi.s jokes and jibes the keener seems to be the enjoyment of the per petrator. But underlying this exterior is a tenderness tor children which is touching Mr Field lives quietly with his family, and his home is filled with books, many of them strange old tomes, which none but a real book-lover could crave. Who is the most beautiful woman of Europe? It w ould he difficult, if not wholly impossible ! to answer that question under any circum i stances, but cable reports and letters from ! European correspondents daily add to the dif ficulty. One asserts that the wife of Prince | Sergius of Russia is entitled to the honor- an ; other claims it for a daughter of the reigning • house of Denmark, and a handsome woman this last is. too, and she comes from a family of I beauties in their day; but still anotner corr.a , poadent nominates a member of English roy- I a ßy. while another favors a Gorman lady ! another an Austrian, and so on to the end of tho chapter. One of the latest claimants is the Cmntesse Aymery de la Rochefoucauld, a Par luau belle, who has attained distinction hereto fore as being a living reproduction of Marie Antoinette, but it is only within the last week or two that her admirers have laid claim to the still higher honor of being the beauty par ex cellence. If her pictures are truthful she is certainly a handsome woman, but whether everybody will unite in granting her this honor is another matter; there is such a difference of opinion as to what constitutes beauty. Miss Emma Eames is among the latest and brightest of the “stars” that shine in the op eratic firmament. Barely a month has passed since she made her debut, and already is the younr American soprano as great a favorite at (Jovent garden, as she is with Parisian audi einees More. Miss Eames made her first essay iu ‘Taust," ana to find a more winning or mote comely and sympathetic representative of Mar guerite Aould beadifficu’ttask. Indeed, no such d'-al Gretchen has be-n seen since the days when Mine. Christine Nilsson adorned the lyric stage, says the Illustrated London .\e"s. Her second appearance was made as “Elsa" in “Lohengrin" and the third as the heroine of Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette.” It was in the latter that Miss Eames. succeeding Mine. Patti made her debut at the Grand Opera two years since, and the triumph won there has been em phatically repeated on this side of tho channel Her youthful assumption of “Juliette” is re plete with grace, charm and tenderness, added to a considerable amount of dramatic feeling in the a er scenes, wherein our portrait this week depicts tie talented artist. Miss Eames is the possessor of a lovely voice, and she has been trained in the best of schools. Her vocalization is remarkable for its purity and brilliancy leaving nothing, in fact, for the critical ear to desire. Philadelphia scientists are making ar rangements to determine how fast the electric current travels. An experiment will be made from the Franklin Institute, over the Atlantic cable, to Liverpool and return A recent test would seem to show that electricity is slow compared w ith light, being able to get along at something like 400,000 miles a minute, while light has a 1,000,000 mile a minute gait. But scieni sts are not satisfied that electricity is the slower of the two. The most recent experiment wa< tried at McGill College, Montreal, says the Philadelphia Record. The current was trans mitted to Montreal, was transferred to the cable at the Newfoundland cable station by means of Thomson’s mirror galvanometer, sent across to the station at Liverpool, and returned to Montreal by the same method. The distance traversed, partly by overhead wire and partly by cable, was 8,000 miles. From tbe time the current left the key in Montreal until it re turned to the receiver in the same office just 1 second and 1 -20th of a second had elapsed; but the conditions were not as good as they might have been. The rapidity with which the cur rent tra -is over short wires witn no delay indi cated unlimited possibilities in the direction of practical tests. 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