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Morning News Buiidmg Savannah, Ga.
WEDXESHAV, OCTOBER 14. 1891.
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Mketihos—Young Men's Hebrew Associa
tion; Savanunh lodge No. 52, K. of P.; The
Merchant* ad Mecuaaies' Loan and Building
Association; The Commercial Club.
Special Nov ces—Everything in Season at
Yriei & Hicks ; Circular Sawyer Wanted, the
Liberty Manu Company; Stockholders
Savannah Savings Bank; English Brown Derby
Hat*, Fdk Clothing Company.
Rsaeavto—For A. R ALraayer & Cos.
Yo Got a Fit—B EL Levy & Bro.
Amusements— Herrmann at the Theater
Oct. 17.
Mpdical—Radway’s Ready Relief.
Noodp.s. Etc.—A. M. &C. W. West.
Pass, Etc.—'V. D. Siinkins.
Auctios Bu.es -The Italian bark Lottero,
with Cargo of Lumb t, by R D. Laßoche & Cos.;
Two Hors s. Buggy, etc , by I D. Laßoche &
Sjn; Tooacco. by J. J. up eoheirn.
New Raisins—Est. S. IV. Branch.
Cheap Oopl'KN AuviKTi.sM.xra—Helo Want
al; Uao.ovtmt Viitd; For ct.ut; For Sales
Lost; Found; Person ol; Misoelian-oiw.
It is a big thing, the Vicksburg Herald
tbi’.ks. that the low price of ootton and the
consequent “pinch” fur the last ten months
have not at ail shaken the confidence if
n rthern investors in the touth. They real
ize thit their investments are on a lower
end safer valuation than in the west and
that our crop of cott n at anything like a
fair price will make things easy in this sec
tion. Aid-d by the big corn yield the
present crop wid make money plentiful here
and encourage southern investments again.
Bids are soon to be invited for 450,000
square feet of sidewalk, for the Chicago ex
position grounds. For the most part these
walks will be forty feet wide. No re
strictions are to be put on bidder, for the
work. Every contractor will be allowed to
bid on his own kind of work, and from all
the differ*..t kinds of walks proposed what
is thought to be the cheapest and best
adapted to the purposes of the exposition
will be selected. Now the enterprising con
tractors of Savannah who wish to make
fame and fortune might take a whack at
this work.
Saturday iast Chicago was agitated by a
genuine sensation caused by the announce'
ment that ex-Mayor Carter H. Harrison
proposes to purchase the Chicago Times
and turn it into a rattling free silver and
protection, farmers’ alliance, democratic
paper. Harrison is a m.liio'jalre, and the
price of the paper is f400,000. His ambition
is to become toe alliauce candidate for
President next year, and incidentally to
cross out scores against Senator Palmer and
William M. Springer. But when Mr. Har
rison tackles u newspaper like the T.vju be
•will find that revenge comes L.gh.
Once more it is broadly ict mated by the
friends of President Harrison that tb latter
has received romo iutimation, d.rectiy or in
directly, from Secretary blair.e which makes
him feel certain that tbe (secretary will not
return to the state department, and at the
same time that bo wiil not be a candidate
for Preside it, but will retire from public
life. Before long an authoritative announce
ment to this effect is expected from Secre
tary Blaine. Yet the Washington corre
spondents Sad it impossible to get President
Harrison to talk about the matter. So it
may ultimately prove to be only another
rumor similar to its many predecessors.
Water can now be had In the great hog
metropolis of the west at reduced rates. In
the old days whon water was carried arpund
on carts the price per barrel was 9 cents.
That puce did not seem exorbitant, the
Chicago Herald thinks. In fact it was
tbonght cheap. Now the cost to tbe con
sumer is about one-third of a cent per bar
rel-thirty barrels for 10 cents. And at
that rate the city makes large profits. Out
of these profits is paid the cost of
pipe extei sious and renewals and
of various other matters, and
still there remains untouched revenue
amounting to nearly 00.000. Inasmuch
as o grout deal <>f piping has boon done In
advance of population tbe rate of profit
will rapidly increase in tbe future V acant
spaces will henceforth !e filled tn with im
provements and people rather than now
spaces acquired. Extension* of the water
service in n.uy direction# and lo extreme
distances ore lb ;of ore i. early c mploie end
petnanet. but the perennial and ever
blooming saloon hat grown so numerous m
* hi ’ego “sens then* days” Uisv there .s not
much domend for water—except to scald
Away Behind the sgs.
Another outrage has just been committed
on au English railway which furnishes ad
ditional testimony to the dangers attending
the separa e compartment system.
Asa great western train was pulling out
of the siation at Oldoury one day last week
an unknown young man suidenly dashed
across the platform and jumped into a
second-class carriage. At the time no one
except the daughter of a .Birmingham
merchant was in the compartment.
When the man who had so unceremoniously
entered the compartment found himsoif
safely landed and in the presence of au un
attended young woraa i he glared at her
with insane fury and to her utter consterna
tion she found horseif alone with a maniac.
Ti.ere was no mistaking thoglitter of those
eyes. Though terror immediately prompted
her to scream for belp no one seamed to hear
her cries and sae was left completely at the
mercy of a madman in an apparently vio
lent mood.
When the train had attained full speed
the intruder suddenly threw open the door
on the side near which soe bad orouched in
a corner fairly paralyzed with fear. Seiz
ing her about the waist he violently hurled
ber from the carriage while the train aped
swiftiy aiong.
Though sue struck the ground with great
force the youug wotntn was not killed. But
she was vory severely bruised. Stull she
managed to reach the nearest station and
toll her story.
D.spate es sent in every direction failed
to secure toe arrest of her assailant because
he bad left the train before the officers re
ceived the alarm. Search in every direc
tion likewise proved unavailing. With
true manaic cunning he had made good his
escape.
Yet European civilization tenaciously
clings to a system that not only makes such
crimes possible but actually iuvites them.
In that particular, if in no other rospect,
European railways are fully a quarter of a
century behind the age.
New Prison Reform Needed.
For fifty years philanthropists have beeu
trying to change the old system of prison
management by substituting a reforma
tive for the purely primitive method. It is
natural to suppose that the change has been
for tbe better. But the author of the strik
ing article on prison reform in tne October
Forum, Mr. William P. Andrews, who ha.
been tor more thau forty years clerk of tbe
criminal court of Salem, Musa, and is,
therefore, an authority on this subject,
thinks that this change has been u step back
ward. Mr. Andrews puts in sharp contrast
tbe two systems.
“From the report of the attorney gen
eral for the year 1639," he says, “it appears
that in the dark ages of 183b-’3b, when the
primitive idea was still esteemed as valuable
end in accordance with immutable law,
England and Whales, with a population of
•4,000,000, had but 14,771 prisoners, or one
to every 943 inhabitants; New York, with
a population of 3,300,000, had 1,086 pris
oners, or one to every 3,035 (the reformer
not then active in New York); Massa
chusetts, with a population of 700,000, bad
853 prisoners, or one to evsry 822 inhabi
tants The last report of tbe commissioners
of prisons, which has continued this portion
of the reports of the earlier attorney gen
eral, shows that this proportion of pris
oners to population has vastly changed. The
population has only trebled, but the number
of prisoners has increased fifty-fold.’’
This is a seri us showing, and one that
must needs make the prison reformers stop
and think whether they are or are not really
working in the interests of society. Surely,
there is a danger iu making prisons too at
tractive.
That Massachusetts has already ex
perienced this danger is proved by the cases
which Mr. Andrews cites of the old garduer,
who has had himself committed to the
hou*e of industry more than a hundred
times, and of the Salem you hs who wished
to Lave their sentences increased from four
to eight months, as well as by that of the
physician imprisoned for malpractice, who
remarked one day that he enjoyed prison
life so much that he should not be sorry if
the pardon for which he applied was refused
him. When such a condition of affairs as
these indicate can exist in our prisons, it is
time to reform tho reformers who have
brought it about.
Frequently tho most singular incidents
o cur at religious services. Suuday after
noon last the Newman Rescue Mission of
Jersey City held a “recognition” service in
the tabernacle. After the president of the
association had delivered an address upon
th© good work being done by the mission
and another brotuer had spoken of “rescue
woik from tbe standpoint of the citizen,”
and Rev. Cornelius Brett related the ex
periences of an evening spent in the mission,
a collection was taken up, during which
on© of the collectors handed a check to the
Rev. J. L*ster Wells, assistant pastor of
tn© tabernacle. Mr. Wells glanced at it
and exclaimed: “A check for $500! Glory
to God 1 Everyone stand up and sing t e
doxology.” Though the collector who had
paased up the check began to gesticulate
wildly and tried to attract th© clergyman’s
attention, Mr. Wells was too enthusiastic
and started the doxology with a vim.
When the congregation bad sung lustily
and taken their seats Mr. Wells listened to
what the collector had to say. It was then
discovered that the check was for $5, in
stead of SSOO.
Although the President has ostentatiously
conformed with the law down on
the scheme to allow republican clerks to go
home to Tote at government expense in
time lost, it does not follow that the admin
istration is not in other ways doing all it
can to help along the cause in the close
states. Lately a number of “left over”
democratic postmasters have been removed
before the end of their terms in Ohio, lowa
and Massachusetts. No chargos have been
preferred against them except that their
places were wanted for republicans. Up
to quito recently those few postal re
mainders of the Cleveland administration
had been undisturbed, because, in some in
stances, there wete no applicants for their
places, aid in others because the local
political magnates could not agree upun
their successors. As t> e campaign has
warmed up, however, the local bosses have
gotten together, and Fourth Assistant Post
master lienerel Kalbboim bus selected os
their successors persons who, it is thought,
tan help the parly in those very close
•tales. Ho it will be seen that the lb ••sidedt
is quietly hustling pi held on to his own
job by Or tug others out.
Down In New Jersey the wind got up and
h'wled at the rale of thirty-eight mites an
hour iiuudaf lest. Lucky for him that
bridegroom Itsgle burd tirwbb bad >sited
hb flowing whugtrs out of tlie country
bWurs that Urns,
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1891.
Scientists and the Spooks..
Spiritualism and theosophy and other
kindred mystic sciences have lately taken
such a hold upon tho public attention that a
number of learned eastern divines of var
ious denominations as well as physicians
ad scientists have lately formed what they
call the American Psychical Society in New
York for the purpose of subjecting these
occult isms to a close scientific scrutiny in
order to test their real merits.
With a view to giving the mediums and
oracles a chance to demonstrate their powers
of manifestation in the mysterious manu
facture of ghosts the secretary of the so
ciety has addressed to a prominent spirit
ualist a note in which he depre
cates the recent tone of tbe spirit
ualistic press in unanimously
“jumping upou” the scientific society
and adds that you may “talk with the
uverage spiritualist and you will find that his
chief grievance'against the world is that it
will not investigate the phenomena upon
which he bases his beiiof. He glows with
righteous indignation when descanting upon
the bigotry of the ministers who ‘preach
against spiritualism without knowing any
thing about it.’ ”
Continuing the secretary writes that
• one would think then that when an as
sociation like the American Psychical So
ciety is organized f >r the express purpose ot
instituting a scientific investigation of mod
ern spiritualism there would Le rejoicing
all along the line, and that spiritualism
would help on the work by offering the so
ciety facilities for study and by contributing
money to support it. The two prospectus as
issued to the public have weloomed spiritu
alists as well as others to membership. Yet
the first word upon the subject published in
a leading spiritualistic journal was an edi
torial headed ‘War Against Spiritualism.’
“Under date of June 6, last, an announce
ment inviting all persons interested to be
come members was sent for publication to
over 600 religious newspapers, including all
or most of the spiritualistic organs. Have
tbe spiritualists responded.’ Next to none.
“They notice the names of a few clergy
men connected with the society, and—since,
of course, no good thing can come out of
Nazareth—straightway they assume that
tho whole movement was got up as a par
tisan attack upou spiritualism. Ho far as
the principle is concerned, we do not see
but it is just as inconsistent for spiritualists
to condemn our society without a hearing
as for ministers to dismiss psyc.ncal pheno
mena as the work of tbe devil without a
areful study ot the matter. This is all
wrong. There will be time enough to con
demn the society when i. has proved by its
rep rts that it does not wish to find tbe
truth. Until then fair play demands that
it should be given the benefit of the doubt.
“Upou which horn of the dilemma do spir
itualists wish tbo skeptics of this couutry
to impale them? That they are afraid of
tLe investigation that, iu their own opinion,
the rselves having ail the truth, they are
utterly laoking in that missionary zeal
which deliguts to educate others? They
will draw the one conclusion or tbe other if
spiritualists stand aloof with their hands in
their pockets casting suspicious glauces at
us. An investigation is here; it has already
begun; nothing saall stop it!
“The society wa its to find tbe truth.
Where are the spiritualists who are ready
to meet us in a sympathetic spirit, as they
wish us to meet them in approaching thetr
phenomena, to listen to our plans and to
help us forward in a work of deep concern
to the whole human race? Where are tuey
and what are they willing to do to bring
befoie the world In their true light the
phenomena to which they pin their faith?”
With these few frank remarks the
scientific aud inquiring secretary blandly
states that he now pauses for a reply, and
then proceeds to part bis name in the mid
dle and sign it J. Ercest Allen. But the
spiritualists do not appear to greet the Rev.
Mr. Allen hal: as earnestly os he may have
expected. Really they have been eloquently
silent up to the present writing. From that
we are left to judge that the production of
good and reliable spooks is no easy matter.
Law and the police are bearing down
rather hard upon the gamblers who have
been attempting to pursue their calling in
St. Louis in defiance of law. They have
received a severe blow. When the chief of
police declared ia very emphatic terms his
policy to the effect that he would stop
gambling or run every gambler out of town
the gamblers hired lawyers and ran their
games. Thereupon the police raided them
and arrested proprietors and players. Bond
was promptly offered. But the chief ordered
them looked up under the Missouri law that
gives him power to hold prisoners for
twenty-four hours without a charge. This
was a staggerer. Efforts w ere then made
to punish the chief for contempt of court in
refusing bond when ordered by the judge
of a court. That faded. Then it was tried
to punish him for oppression in oißce. That
also failed. Then the chief became the ag
gressor and surprised the gamblers by
charging chem with being vagrants. On
this charge one of the biggest fellows was
convicted and there are similar
cases against others. It is thought this will
drive them cut of town or iuto the work
house. Such a system might also work
here. It is worth trying. These be bard
times for the chip professor. But he has no
business being a chip professor.
Late Vienna dispatches report that ex-
ICing Milan is iu rather bad financial
straits. He has made arrangements with a
Russian bang for a loan of 3,000,000 francs
at 3 per ceut. interest and % P er cent, more
for a sinking fund. To do this he mort
gages his share of the property of the royal
family. This action of the Russian bank,
it is said, means that Milan is to receive a
Russian subsidy for political services to be
rendered. Another question agitating the
minds of the people is how he disposed of
the large fortune inherited from Prince
Michael. He has ioaned large amounts in
former years. But tbe present one is bis
last resource! Very likely the ex king has
fallen into the Prince of Wales’ habit of
carrying around his own counters with
him. That seems to come pretty high.
When the mill men of Southeast Texas
and Southwest Louisiana met at Now Or
leans last week the association adopted
resolutions setting forth that the depressed
condition of the money market bal so cur
tailed the consumption of material by rail
roads and improvement companies that
freight rates and railroad commissions kept
matters unsettled and that commissioners’
rates have shut thst section off from a
large part of the trade. Moreover tbe
present ruling prices are below Die cost of
production. Therefore U was resolved that
all mills In tost ee -tion reduce the output
one-half until the preeent pulley is changed.
Then a coiu uitPw en appointed to confer
with tie boulheru Lumber Association to
> try awl adjust a gauge.
PERSONAL*.
Henry Villard is off on a month's trip to tho
Pacific coast.
John Scott, the general solicitor of tbe Penn
ey! vania railroad, was a United States senator
from !#O9 to 1575. He resides in Philadelphia
and is 67 yearn old.
Mrs. Sewell, president of the American
Federation of Women’s Clubs, is at present at
Pans studying the women s societies and or
ganizations of that city.
Bishop Coleman of the Episcopal diocese of
Delaware has just returned from a twenty
days tramp through Maryland and Virginia, in
which he walked 375 miles.
Alexander Sutherland of Denrer cairns to
have been the trumpeter who sounded the
charge of the IJg A Brigade at Balaklava, lie
is a we 1-preserved veteran of 80 years.
B. W. Hanna, ex-minister to the Argentine
Republic, who died recently at Crawfordsville,
Ind., was probably the most remarkable talker
aud story teller the state ever produced.
Charles Brad laugh's daughter offers his
library for sale. It consists of 7,000 volumes
exclusively of pamphlets and blue books. It is
not a collection of rarities, but of books worth
having.
Col. Henry Inman is busy preparing manu
script for the history of the old Santa Fe trail.
TLe book will b* published in March, and
wid be a ic nistory of tne pioneer times of
the great desert.
James Lane Allen, the Kentucky author,
lives in a little frame house on the Tate's
Creek pike, just out of Lexington. He is now
at work on anew story, the scene of which will
be laid in Kentucky.
A. J. Balfour, who will probably succeed
Lord Salisbury as leader of the British tones, is
a man of letters, possessed of ample means,
fond of s. ciety and devoted to art. His Lon lon
residence is rornarkab.e fur its picture gallery.
Kino Humbert of Italy is candid enough to
acknowledge his in .biiity to sing acceptably,
and so when Queen Margherita wears specta
cles, which he detects, it is said he
threatens to vocalize unless she immediately
removes the obn aious glasses.
The President's salary is paid to him in
monthly installments of $4,196 67. The warrant
is brought to the white bouse by a special mes
senger from the treasury department, and after
the President has indorsed it an ne would an or
dinary draft, his private secretary deposits it at
the Columbia bank.
Capt. D. P. Dobbins of Erie, Pa., the super
inten lent of the district of the life-saving ser
vice embracing Lakes Erie and Ontario and the
Ohio river from Pittsburg to Louisville, is own
er of the Niagara, the government ship suuk
for preservation in Misery Bay in 1814. It is
his intention to have the vessel raised and taken
to Chicago for exhibition at the world's fair,
A peachy face, a sweet, girlish expression, a
lass in her earliest twenties, and not lo >king out
of her teens—this is what her portrait shows
Miss Jeans to be. She is the English girl who
is first to win the Gulden Club pr:ze of £6O,
< ffered in rotation a: Oxford, Cambridge, and
the Victoria Univer-ity Her name is Victorioe
Tiiis tremendous little economist is president of
a factory girls' club. She save, modestly, that
she learned as much from the girls as from
books.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Speaking of the democratic nominations."
said Bacon, “I understand that Flower has
boodle, but Sheehan lias none."
“Well, then, it is only a ‘single-barreled’
ticket,” replied Egbert.— Yonkers Statesman.
First Youth (at railway depot)— Traveled
far?
Sacond Youth—Not yet, but I expect to before
I s:op. lan goin>? west to seek my fortune
First Youth—Just got back. Lend me a dim©.
Miluaukee Journal.
“I hear that sold for 25 cents a
the newly opened lands of Oklahoma. Is it
so?”
“Quite likely," replied the returned boomer.
“I don’t know, though. I didn’t, have time to
wash when I was there."— Buffalo Express.
“Le’s play war," fail little Tommy.
“How do you play >ar?” asked little Eddie.
“O, It’s easy enough. You taw© th© bread
knife and rfl.tokr jhf io*fting fork. ”
“What’ll we ©w tnNr?”
“Nothing but Jt&nd and look at each other
and botn be afraid Detroit fYee Press.
Mr. R. Kansaw—Yes, sir; whnn I stopped at
the Palmer house in Chicago the waiter gin me
a napkin, an’looked at m-* much aster say:
“Bet yer don’t know what that's fer."
Mr. Morris—But you did. eh?
Mr. R. Kansaw— Wal, I guess so; I just kept
my eye peeled for a minute, and then I tucked
it under my chin and sailed in like the rest of
them.—Fuck.
Five or six persons saw him pick ud a ten
dollar piece from the floor of the street car,and
two or three said simultaneously: “I dropped
that."
‘Tin an honest man," replied the finder,
“and if I knew who lost this l would restore it,
but none of you fellows own it. Toe mau who
droppe I it got off the car three squares back."
Smith-Gray Monthly.
“By getting your tickets over our line,"
urged the traveling passenger agent of the X.,
Y and Z. railway, “you will save sixteen hours'
time on the trip.' 4
“On the A., B nndC. route.'Vaid the agent of
the rival line,“ytm get 297 miles more riding for
the same money." The agriculturist from
Hawcreek bought his ticket over the A., B. and
C. route.— Chicago Tribune.
Bishop Vowlkr Short of St. Asaph was
very fond of school inspection, as all who re
member him know. He tried day to explain
th© meaning of “be-’etting sin." When he
thought he had rucceeded, he went on: “Now
you see that I am a bishop, living in a line
house, with horses and carriages, and many
servants. What do you suppose my besetting
sin likelr to be?" A little girl, who had but im
perfectly unde stood his explanation, promptly
replied: “Drunkenness, please sir.” “No, mv
dear, no; I 'nimbly think not." said the bishop,
gravely, while everyone else was convulsed with
laught: r. —Church Times.
From Clara's soft lip her fond swain by surprise
In a moment o' pi ’O boldly ravished a kiss.
“I lpiver—how dare you!”offended cries—
“Was there ever such impudence heard of as
this?"
“O, pardon, sweet maid, on my knees I entreat.
Nor frown so severe," urged the terrified
swain;
•‘lf e’er the sweet trespass I dare to repeat
May tl e smile of those lips never bless me
again."
“Then see that you don’t," said she pardoning
fair,
“For I cannot endure such a beard on my
skin;
And if ever you do so again, I declare,
I wish you'd bo sure that you have a smooth
— Judge.
CUBB3NT COMMENT.
Better Blunder Than Plunder.
JVo.nt the Providence Journal (Ind .).
The Boston Journal thinks that, with the
lar*e democratic majority in the next House,
'it is certaiuthat there will bo continuous ami
b utitlering.” That may be so. Bnt if
it is more coles *ai than the blundering of Mr.
Pweed's majority in the last congress, which
cause l the unprecedented overturn of last
November, it will be a marvel, iudeed.
Falx, But *lllo7*ll Have Fun!
From the Philadelphia Telegraph (Rev.}.
The public mind in Ireland is completely at
sea as to a successor to 1 aruell The would-be
loaders themselves will have a Kilkenny time of
it before they settle the question. Thre is no
one anion* them capable of taking his place,
for, with all his peculiarities and his recognized
weak points, in his time, be wielded an in
fluence which will be the curious study of fu
ture historians.
Increasing the Crop of Intelligence.
From the Chicago Times (Ind.).
With the president of Harvard University
telling the exactly how to cure the evils
of municipal government and the president of
Leland Stanford University explaining pre
c aeiy how the farmers may extricate them
selves from their troubles there seems to be no
dauger that the annual crop of college-bred
men with unfailing remedies for imaginable
diseases of the body politio will fall off.
Won't Work.
h rom the Richmond State (Hem.)
The persistent attempts of certain republican
organs to luivrepresent ilov. Campteii and Mr
Flower will he.p these gentlemen Because
Mr Flower's coach has a coat-of arms on it the
New York managers of the Kenuhluao party
have taken that as an issue. This shows the
weakness of the fight on Flower. What has %
l aimed panel ,n a carriage to do with a man's
gubernatorial quail fixation*? Th- fail 'hat
Flower is a ricti mao ha* b***u uar<J against him
by i.le was tales, but the force of that foot is
parri'-d by tee ot *r fact that Fassett is the
son in law of aru n man, whose beret is at his
service Flower is a true type of the American
seif made man. If he is rich tie carved out bis
own fortune honestly and bravely. No man
has oupcaOkCd integrity.
Tried Bis Best to Please.
Not very long ago a good pianist who had
made arp itatiou derided to locate in a certain
city—in Chicago I will s lj. says a writer in the
Chicago Evening Post. Here be met an old
newsoaper friend, who, m his capacity as mu
sical crit.c of a morning daily, determined to
help him.
So when the pianist gave his fl'-ft recital after
pjning his studio, the critic, true to his rrieud
smp, attended it. He went to the office after
the performance and wrote a flattering notice
in which be said that “the programme was one
of many difficulties and that it's equal bad not
l *oen presented in Chicago for several years,and
that it had been artistically inter, ret-*d.”
A few days after pianist and critic met on
the street. “Thank you for the nice notice you
gave me.'' said tDe pianist, “but w iy did you
spoil it by making comparisons? You say that
not for several years has so difficult a pro
gramme be**n played. Pray, when was a pro
gramme like it ever played in Chicago?” The
critic admitted he might have made a mis-ake.
Soon after the pianist gave another recital, ami
the critic was again an auditor.
He wrote another notice, and. remembering
what his friend had said, he thought he would
be sure to avoid comparisons aud picase his
acquaintance. This time tie wrote that “not
since the days of Rubenstein and Von Bulow
had sucu piano playing been heard in Chicago.
It was great.”
Shortly aiterward the two met again. “That
was a lovely notice you gave ©f my last re
cital,” said the musician to the critic; “but
why is it that you must make comparisons?
Now, it is a well known fact tn t Rub *nsrein
strikes false notes by the handful, and Von
Bulow is little more than a maonine. 1 don’t
ce why you should drag the r names in and
compare me with them ”
Tne cr.tic again admitted that he might be
wrong, and he mentally vowed that he Wouid
satisfy his finical friend if he ewr got the
chance again. So when the next piano recital
was given he went there, an l after it was over
he wended his way to ins office and wrote an
except! nally good uotlce, in which be stated
that “Mr. Smith's playing was wonderful,” and
that he (the critic; “doubted if the Almighty
could do as well.”
This the newspaper man thought would
surely satisfy Smith. When the two met again
Smith said: “Teat was a very beautiful notice
you gave me the las time. But I see you still
keep up your comparisons. Why, man, what
did you drag in the Almighty for? What does
he know about p.ano playing, aud haven't I
been studying music for over twenty years?”
Just to be Sociable.
“I had a peculiar experience the other day,’
said a friend of mine at the club. “You know
I'm a little bit near-sighted, and I have a very
poor memory for faces and voices. I was walk
ing along Washington street about 0 o'clock iu
t he morning on my way to the office when I was
accosted by a well-dressed man who calloi me
byname. I couldn't rememb-T where, but I
was sure that I nai known him somewhere. f< r
his face and voice were both perfectly familiar;
but for the life of me I couldn't place him."
says the Cincinnati limes.
“Have you ever been in a similar fix? Well,
you know how cheap a man feels and how em
barrassed ho pets as he tr.es to talic preasantly
without giving himself away. I would have
given JICO to remember my friend’s name, aud
as no rattle I on anout the weather one indis
tinct impression chased another through my
puzzled brain No good, though, I had to give
it up.
“ ’Well,’ I thought. ‘l’ll hide it from him if I
can; but if the worst comes to the worst. I’ll
tel: him I’ve had brain fever and it has affect and
my memory, aud if he'll tell me his name I'll
write it down aud promise never to forget it to
my dying day.'
“Ail this time ray friend and I kept up a
lively conversation, in the course of which ho
displayed considerable famdlarit/ with my pri
vate affairs. He even asked me how that boil
on my baby girl's leg was getting on.
“ Ctesar!’ I exclaimed to myself, ‘have
I last my mind, and is this my brother or my
father
“ ‘How did you come out on that wheat deal?'
he inquired with tender solicitude.
“I told him. Ye-, I told him all about it.
Then he asked me to have a drink, and we sat
down at a table, and first 1 drank with him and
then he drank with me.
“ ‘You're a mighty nice chap,* I thought, ad
dressing iny friend “What wonderful conver
sational powers! Funny I never found you out
before. I'll take you to call on nty maiden
aunt, and perhaps I can get solid with her
again through you.’
“All this time he was telling me about his
wife wuo was suffering from the beat a good
deal, it t-eemed. Tie-: he remembered that he
had an engagement, and said he was sorry, but
he'd have to leave me?
‘Guod-by, old man,* he said, clapping me
affectionately on the back, ‘take care of your
self.'
’* ‘Good-by, old fellow,' I replied, shaking his
hand warmly, *be good. By the way, I've had
inflammation of the brain lately. Did you
know it?’
“’No; is that so? I thought you hadn’t
been around at the shop lately,’
“ ‘At the shop?’
“ Yes. the shop. Don’t you remember I used
toshavo you every morning?”
You Need Eye to Enjoy a Cigar.
As the gentleman wbo serves me with cigars
handed over a box of the usual brand the other
day. says a New York Herald man, I noticed
that they were not quite the right color, and
said so.
“My dear sir,” he remarked with a smile, as
he handed me another box. “if you were to
close your eyes as you smoke them you couldn t
tell the difference.”
It was now my turn to smile at what I con
sidered a bit of pleasantry.
“O, yes,” I replied.
“O. no," he said, and growing serious. “I'll
wager you a box that you couldn’t toll what
you were smoking if you could ,’t sec.”
I laughed now, and he went on:
“Don’t you know that the imagination is as
potent a factor in the enjoyment of a cigar as
auytbing else. Seeing your smoke is what
manes the sensation something pleasant ”
I was still incredulous.
* ‘Did you ever see a blind man smoking?” he
finally asked.
Well, that was a poser. I never have. Have
you? 1 admitted as much and wondered why.
“It is simply because he can’t see,” said the
tobacconist. “A blind man can smell and taste
as well as anybody else, probably better; but
no m ttter h .w great a smoker a roan is if he
loss his sight he i.o longer enjoys smoking.”
Now here was a bit of intelligence that I ven
ture to say very few smokers know—that sight
is a prime requisite to the enjoyment of a pipe
or cigar. I asked a friend who smokes about
it. lie was equally as surprised as I had beeu
to learn that this was always so.
“But,” he added almost immediately, “here’s
an experience that bears it out,” and he told me
of a close acquaintance who had. through an
accident, become blind He had been a great
smoker, and was a stickler for a good cigar.
Thinking to console him somewhat rpy friend
called and took with him a box of choice cigars,
which he presented with a few emphat.c re
marks.
“Thsnks, awfully, old man.” said the blind
man. “you’re very kind, but I don t smoke now;
don’t ©Djoy it, ia fact.”
The Kino of Siam is said to have in one of his
country palaces a wonderful pavilion, says the
Chicago Times. It was built by a Chinese engi
neer as a refuge for the king during the extreme
heat of the summer. The walls, ceilings and
floors are form xi of pieces of plate glass aa
inch thick. Tnes* are so perfectly fitted to
gether with a transparent cement that the
joints are invisible, and no fluid can penffrate.
The pavilion is 28 feet long and 1< wide,
and stand; in the middle of a huge basin
of beautifully colored marbles. When the
King enters the pavilion the single door is
closed and cemented. Tneu the sluice gates
are opened, and the basin is filled with water.
Higher and higher it rises until the pavilion is
covered and only the venthators at the top ccn
nect it with the open air. When the heat or'
the sun is so great that the water almost boils
on the surface of the freshest fountains this
pavilion is deliciously cool. And this is the
way the King of Siam cools himself off in hot
weather. It sounds very delightful.
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Rats have multiplied to such a degree in
Brazil that th© Inhabitants rear a certain kind
of snake for destroying them Bays th© Chicago
Herald. The Brazilian domestic servant is tho
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feet in length and of the diameter of a man's
arm. It is sold at from $l to $1 50 in tbe mar
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of tiling, it becomes so accustomed to its
master’s house that if carried toadis a ceit
escapes and finds its way back home. Every
house in tho warmest provinces wher rats
abound owns its giboia a fixture by destination,
and the o vner of which pra ses its qualities
when he wishes *o sell or let his house.
A gentleman who has recently returned from
abroad said the one American over there who
is enjoying himself to bin heart's c ntent is
Albert (i Porter, United States minister to
lia’y. Mr. Porter left Rome shortly after
Boron Fava left Washington, and the feeling
seems to be that not until Biron Fava leturns
here, or some other man is assigned to tbe post,
will Mr. Port *r return to his official duties. Mr.
Porter is spending his suinewnat indifferent
leave of absence traveling aud gratifying his
taste for collecting bnc-a-brac. He was en
gaged on a history of Indiana when
appointed minister to .Italy. No man is
better fitted for such a work, but a
long absence from home spent in duties so very
different from those of collecting and arranging
• lata for a local history is likely to permanently
change the.wuole current of his life and en
deavors. Mr. Porter never was able to remem
ber the names of the people he met on his
stumping tours. So when he found himself ap
proaching a town for a second visit during a
campaign ho would telegraph ahead to som 1
personal friend living there, who would meet
him at the train, take him in charge and whis
per the right name as the people came up.
How strange it is that so many of the prom
inent statesmen of Europe should be foreign by
birth to *the country whose government they
help to administer and direct, says the New
Yo k erorder. In Germany quite a large
number of the leading ministers have been ot
French origin, such as for instance the late
minister of |war, Verdy du Vernois, Gen. Brou
s&rt, and several others—Gen. de Canrivi, the
present chancellor, being of Italian descent. In
France, on the contrary, many of the most
powerful ministers bear names that are dis
tinctly German. M. Spuller, the late minister
of foreign affairs, is a case in point. Gam
b Hta, too, was an Italian, Wad lington an
Englishman, while Marshal Mac Mahon was of
Irish origin. In Russia there are many
Poles, Armenians, Swedes and Ger
mans among the advisors of the emperor. Thus
Gen. Loris Melikoff, the most powerful Russian
prime minister of his time, was an Armenian,
as is also D linanow, the present rainist r or
public instruction. M. Grote, the secretary of
Ftate. is a Swede. Count Palen is a German.
So, too, M. de Glers. In Holland the ex-pre
mier, Baron Maclcay, is a Scotchman. The
ex-minister of finance, M. de l eaufort, bears
! a France name. Iu Austria the prime minister,
j Count Taafe, is of Insn descent, and in Eng
| land the chance lor of the exchequer, Mr Gos
chen. is a German Hebrew by descent, although
not a Jew by faith.
Fortunately there are few American women
who would exchange places with the prdhdest
sovereign in the w .rid, says the Troy Times.
But if any daughter of Columbia envies the
Empress of Germany she wiil cea-e to do so
when she lias real tr.is narrative of that
amiable woman's daily duties. Fhe rises at 5
o'clock in the morning, a ><i has accomplished
half a day's work bef re naif the women who
are not queens are out of bed. No wife of the
present eye e is supposed to look at <er her bus
on is linen; she is too busy with studying
B owuing and political economy. But the
faithful kaisurin has personal charge of
the linen belonging to her royal spouse and
the honor of sewing on a button or putting a
few stitches in an imperial sock is one rarely
coveted by the maids of honor When one re
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of the royal shirts. And what is the Empress
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wife has sent tier children to their grandmother,
or ha 4 left them in charge of maids while she
dances from one delight to another? The em
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gate, tho noble art of swimming, at which she
is au expert.
“!’m left,” she sighed, when the young man
she wanted ina ried another girl.
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the you ng man who w anted her, and she wan
so pleased with his writ that she let him, and
t ey were happy ever after .—Detroit Free
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