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in the Weekly News.
The sin of covetousness has besot Private
Dalzell. Quay has a chair he wants.
Pistols are popular on the Chicago Board
of Trade, but prices are not shot down.
Walt Whitman appears to possess in his
personality the rugged strength ot his
verse.
American tin will never, never discount
the utility of Amerioan brass as a means of
“getting thore.”
The recently declared peace between
Prance and the Vatican appears to have
been short lived.
The dudes of New York are iu a state of
•’blues” because a snow storm came aud
drove sway the delightful English fog.
In case of war, if the naval officers are
as valorous in battle as they are voluble in
peace, Chile will be whipped "before break
fast.”
Will Mr. Blaine p-opose a reciprocity ar
rangement with Mr. ilarrhon in favor of
those recently excluded treasury clerks in
Philadelphia!
Boston has not developod a single new
fad this year. Leap year, possibly, is the
cause—the sexes are too busy laying snares
and avoiding them.
If “Jacques St. Cere” is indeed sincere,
disquiet reigns throughout Europe in place
of the several monarohs popularly supposed
to be at tho head of things.
Another of the Emperor William’s eccen
tricities was noticed when he left out all
mention of foreign affairs in his speech to
the Landtag, delivered Thursday.
Blindfolded justice holding evenly bal
anced scales is not the stylo that obtains in
Kansas. Justice there wants Doth eyes open
and a Winchester handy. See Botkin.
Superintendent of Census I’orter has gone
to Cuba to recuperate after the exhausting
labor of lowering the population of demo
cratic cities and increasing the cost per
name counted.
Mr. Egan, having at last got rid of his
troublesome guests, partisans of the late
Mr. Balraace la, may now possibly be ablo
to devote a little of his time to the interests
of his homo government.
Quay’s "proclamation of retaliation”
calling for an Investigation of the civil serv
ice in Philadelphia, has been delayed only,
not abandoned. Quay sees Dalzell reaching
for his seat, and knows he must fight it out.
Farmers’ alliance petitions are being cir
culated in the northwest, to be transmitted
to congress, setting forth that the farmers
are more in need of money than the fair,
aud praying that Chicago be made to pay
for her show.
Certain utterances by Thomas E. Wat
son, the Southern Alliance Journal and
other newspapers in this state lead the Now
York Times to aek, "Has Georgia been
sold to Hill?’ The answer is short, sharp
Kaud decisive, No!
Cleveland or Hill?
The New York World has been trying to
find out from the democratio politicians
and oflice-h- lders of New York whether
Mr. Cleveland or Senator Hill will get the
delegation from that state to the democratic
national convention. The Information it
has obtained isn't worth much. Only a few
of the congressmen an opinion,
and Tammany leaders and state officers, as
a general thing, refused to talk. The most
of them who consented to answer the ques
tions asked them said that they believed
that Senator Hill would get the New York
delegation for the reason, mainly, that ho
controlled the political machine.
There is no doubt that the office holders
and politicians will do what they can to
have a Hili delegation to the nati nal con
vention chosen, and they have a great deal
of lower. They want Senator Hill nomi
nated for President, not because they think
he would make as good a President as Mr.
Cleveland, but because they are confident
that if he should tie eleeto-l be would regard
it as his highest duty, in the distribution of
patronago, to provide for those who had
helped him carry out his plans.
For more than a year Senator Hill has
been quietly planning to secure *tbe New
York delegation to the democratic national
convention. He does not depend upon pub
lic sentiment. He has a very poor opinion
of unorganized public sentiment. The good
will of the men who are political bosses in
wards and counties is of far greater Im
portance to him.
At present it looks ns if Senator Hill
would got the New York delegation. He
most certainly will if no outside pressure is
brought to bear against him. The men who
favor Mr. Cleveland are not, as a rule,
political workers. They are business men,
who hove little to do with politics, except
on election days, and they are not likely to
make an organized effort to elect a Cleve
land delegation to the national convention.
Even if the sentiment throughout the state
should be strongly in favor of Mr. Cleve
land, it wouldn’t follow that a Cleveland
delegation would be chosen, bocause the
politicians—the friends of Senator Hill—
will most likely name the delegates.
The New York delegates, however, will go
to the convention probably without instruc
tions, but with the understanding that they
shall vote for Senator Hill if he has a chance
for tho nomination. If the sontiinent
of tho convention should be strongly in
favor of Mr. Cleveland, and there should
be no cbauce for Senator Hill, it is probable
that the New York delegation would sup
port Mr. Cleveland.
The situation in New York may change
greatly within tho next two or three months.
Mr. Cleveland may become so great a
favorite that the politicians will not dare to
ignore him, or Senator Hill may become so
unpopular that an attempt to got the dele
gation for him would be hopeless. The re
fusal of so many democratic congressmen
from New York and of state officers at
Albany to commit thetnselvoe as to whether
Senator Hill will get the New York dele
gation or not indicates the existence of un
certainty as to what the political situation
in the New York democracy will be at the
time the delegation to the national conven
tion is chosen.
Senator Hill Criticised.
There seems to be serious doubt as to
what Senator Hill’s position is with refer
ence to silver and the tariff. Before he
delivered his Albany speech his friends said
he was In favor of the free coinage of silver
and of a radical reform of the tariff. The
advocates of the free coinage of silver
pointed to his Elmira speech and counted
him as their friend, and the tariff reformers
had no doubt that he stood squarely with
his party on the tariff issue.
His Albany speech, however, left th*e im
prossion that he was a friend of neither free
coinage of silver nor of tariff reform. Con
gressman Livingston of this state said that
ho would bavp to do a good deal of explain
ing to make his position with respect to sil
ver clear, and in a recent inter
view Senator Voorhees, speaking
of that part of Senator Hill’s
Albany speech relating to the tariff said:
"I have a vory high opinion of the abil
ity of Gov. Hill and his recent great party
service, but he makes a mistake if be
thinks the spirit of battle or tho ardor of
the democratic masses in their conflict with
tariff robbers, monopolists, and plutocracy
generally now can be checked.”
Senator Hill succeeds admirably as long
as be confines himself to running the polit
ical machine of his party in New York,
but fails disastrously when he attempt to
outline a policy for the guidanco of the
democracy of the country.
One seldom learnß of tho United States
navy as a substantial entity except the re
port be that some section of it is on a reef
or stuck in the mud somewhere. The Bal
timore had just slipped out of the dry dock
at Vallejo, Cal., Tuesday, when she went
into a mud bank and stuck fast. Falling
water left her so high aground that Dme
of her plates may have been strained. If
men competent to keep the navy afloat are
not in the service at present it might be a
good idea to wrap the pretty fiew ships in
scentod pink cotton and tuck them care
fully away until the youth of the land can
learn the craft in foreign ships and grow up
to take command.
An incident that attracted widespread
attention occurred iu Richmond a few days
ago. A law suit between white persons was
tried and each side was represented by a
negro lawyer. AVheu it is possible for a
thing like that to 'ake place in what was once
the capital of the confederacy of slavehold
ing states, it is about time for sectionalists
In the north to shut up about negro oppres
sion in the south.
The "harmony and good feeling” toward
each other, exhibited by Foraker and Sher
man after the Ohio caucus election, con
tinues to be pointed out by republican p>a
pers ns a political object lesson worthy of
imitation. The litany of the wise politician
should contain a request to be delivered
from such place.
A Springfield (O.) medium a night or two
ago materialized the spirit of a departed
Russian official. During the seance a black
smith in the audience became obstreperous
and the spirit fell upon and thrashed him
roundly. The spook being a nihilist, of
course the blacksmith was at a disadvan
tage.
Iron Shoos, a Sioux chief, says his people
have been slandered; they have not been
dancing the ghost dance at all, but merely
enjoying private soirees, hops and germans,
just like white folks. Imagine Poor Lo
leading the german m a ghost shirt!
Chicago is discussing the building of a
new city hall. An anti-administration
member suggested that “Goose lilaud”
would be the proper site.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1892.
A Strong Appeal to Georgia Women
The appeal of Georgia's lady managers of
the Columbian exposition, which tl.e Morn
ing Nrws publish** in this issue, should
reach every man and woman in Georgia.
It is eloquent, tr ng and timely. All
Georgia daily and weekly newspapers will
do the state a service by republishing it and
calling attention to it.
In a little more than a year the exposition
will lie opened, and Georgia has as yet done
nothing toward preparing an exhibit. Tho
governor has been very earnest and active
in his cff .rts to get the people to organize
and collect a fund which will enable the
state to be creditably represented at the
fair, and the newspapers have given him
every assistance in their power. He is not
Vet discouraged. He still believes that there
is enough state pride to prevent the Empire
State of the South from being in default at
the fair. Every Georgian who visited the
exposition would do so with a feeling of
humiliation if Georgia should have nothing
there showing the variety of her products
and the greatness of her resources.
Georgia’s women can arouse so enthusi
astic a feeling throughout the state in favor
of making an exhibit, if they will try to do
so, that the raising of a sum sufficient for
that purpose will be a comparatively easy
matter. And the appeal of the lady man
agers will have the effect of making them
try. Let them, as tho lady managers sug
gest, “give the men no rest until they are
aroused
It would not require a very large amount
of money to make a i exhibit that would be
a credit to the state. A small sum from
each of those who are able to give would
make a fund that would answer every
legitimate purpose.
The question then is, will the women of
Georgia take bold of this matter and make
it a success! They ought to, and there are
reasons tor thinking they will. If they
should they would do a praiseworthy act and
save tbs grand state of Georgia from a
humiliating position.
Lunatics and Cranks.
Chicago appears to be as greatly troubled
with dangerous lunatics and cranks as New
York. Tuesday United States Judge
Gresham had un interesting experience
with one of them. As the judge entered
the court room he was approached by a
man who insisted that the marshal refused
to give him $.5,000 which Jay Gould had
sent him. The judge humored the man.
aud finally succeeded in having him ar
rested by the police. The police had a
great deal of trouble in getting him to the
polioe station. He was a powerful man,
and it required several policemen to arrest
him.
Wednesday Dr. Wilder, one of the best
known physicians of Chicago, was shot and
killed by a lunatic. The lunatic summoned
the dootor to bis house to attend a man who,
he said, had met with a serious accident.
As the doctor entered the ball of tho house
the lunatic shot him to death.
The number of lunatics and cranks in the
larger cities has apparently greatly increased
within the last two or three months. Al
most every day one or more of them do
something to attract attention. There is
not now probably a larger percentage of
insano people in proportion to the popula
tion than there were several years ago, but
the ways in which lusanity manifests itself
seem to be somewhat different.
Nearly all tho insane people who are men
tioned in the newspapers are crazy about
money. They cither demand money from
well-known rich men or they believe money
they are entitled to is withheld from them.
Within the last few weeks as many as a
dozen men have been arrested in New York
for demanding large sums of mousy from
rich men of that city and threatening to kill
them unless their demands were complied
with.
This condition of affairs shows thnt men’s
minds are occupied with thoughts about
money to a much greater extent than they
should be. The poor envy the rich and
are constantly thinking of tho great fort
unes which some men have. Every once
in a while the mind of someone of them
yields to the strain and he becomes u sub
ject for ati asylum. If the desire to be rich
were not so strong tho number of cranks
and luu&tics would be much smaller.
France i* likely to consider that she has
been offered an affront by Germany In the
decoration of Von Albensleben by tho Em
peror William. The act of bravery for
which the general has been rewarded took
place at tho battle of Le Maus, July, 1871,
and the singling out of the officer, after
twenty years, has aroused Freuchmen to
Inquire tho meaning of it.
The activity in tho ordnance factories
and works for tho manufacture cf ex
plosives in various parts of the country, by
order of the government, indicates that
preparations for trouble aro being made,
wbethor the trouble comes or not. It is the
boar whetting bis tusks in times of peace.
A Washington dispatch to the Mornifg
News, published yesterday, said, in speak
ing of Congressman Livingston’s speech,
that he "had tho best voice, at all events,
of any one who spoke to-day.” If the
voice was tho only good thing about it
the compliment is doubtful.
Ohio newspapers are requested to make a
note of Jan. 15, 1802. Thou, when they
again feel like descanting on lawlessness in
tho south, they are requested to refer to
their files, and in their papers of that date
read of the lynching of Henry Corbin
(colored) ut Oxford.
The Uni toil States Pottery Association is
in session in Chicago. So far not a word
has been reported of any discussion of the
newest thing in cbiua —a dinner set from
Fratice, decorated with American flags and
eagles and labeled "Harrison, 1832.”
Ou Jan. 12 the temperature was 49’ be
low zero in Montana, with the cold wave
moving east. This date will come in handy
next summer when the ice dealer begins
telling you about the remarkably mild
winter and the short ice harvest.
President Diaz of Mexioo i9 watching
Garza with more thau ordinary interest.
He was once engaged in pretty much the
same kind of business himself, and would
like to see if thore are any new tricks in the
trade since he retired.
When the banking laws of a state aro dis
covered to be so lax that a cashier oan steal
for twelve years without being found out
and punished, it is time for those laws to be
changed. Such a disclosure bos been made
in New York.
When an exchange editor rips a wrapper
these mornings and his eye fails on a wide
and circling blue pencil mark, be knows at
once that another city is a candidate for
the democratic national convention.
PEPSONAL.
Maurice Barnes is anew French writer who
is sa.i to be oin touch with Henan as to be
called after him.
The Writers* Club of London now has about
members. Mrs. Frances Hodgsqa-Burnett
is one of its vice presidents.
Cham ellor Snow of the Kansas State Uni
versity is fteurin* on anew bacillus which will
exterminate the Hessian fly.
B Andrew Franklin is said to be th a first
nejr ■ student in the University cf Heidelberg,
where he is now taking a course.
Most Rev. Robert Knox, D. D. # LL D„
lYotestant archbishop of Armagh and primate
of all Ireland, is seriously ill with influenza at
Dublin.
Lady Harris, wife of the governor of Bom
bay. is an ardent cricketer, and in a recent
cricket match was captain of the winning
eleven.
Congressman Hatch is said to have cured
himself of a strong taste for liquor ten years
ago by adopting Edmund Burke's cure-all of
hot water.
Th* son recently bom to Prince Frederick
Leopold of Prussia is the twenty-fifth living
prince of the royal and imperial house of
Ilohenzollern.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson is living quietly
at Spring Hill, a suburb of Mobile. The author
of “Beulah” is said to be loath to welcome
Ainelio Lives os a rival in southern literature.
Prof. John K. Paine of Harvard, who is easi
ly the first among American composers, is to
write the instrumental music for the opening of
tho Columbian exhibition buildings next
October.
Emperor William has addressed a letter of
congratulation to Herr von Korn, the proprietor
of the Schlelitc'ie Zeituna. in London, on the
occasion of the 150th anniversary of the found
ing of that journal.
The latest of the “boy evangelists" is Harry
Davenport, a youth of 19, who has been con
verting the dinners of Missouri. He is said to be
successful at it, for he is gifted with e.uquence
and dramatic force.
Felix Volkhopski, the Russian author who
is now iu London editing tree Russia, is aa
es: aped Siberian exile. He was banished for
life m 18TH upon the charge of belonging to a
society which is hostile to the present form of
government.
Maurice Maetterlink, called “the Belgian
Shakespeare," declares the bard of Avon to be
his highest source of inspiration. He is 27, tall,
blonde and florid, and regards I oe's “Tale of
the Fall of the House of Usher*'as the bost short
stury ever written.
Ai.phonso XIII. of Spain, though still a baby,
has had his biography written—probably the
shortest life that ever yet had itself recorded
in a book. The authors of this piece of royal
biography are Frances and Mary Arnold-
Koreter. The title of tho book is “Born a
King."
Mme. Wii.helmine Turqenieff, the widow of
the famous Russian author, Ivan Turgenieff.
died <i short time ago at her castle, Bert-Bois,
near Many. She was buried in the Pere la
Chaise cemetery in Paris, The novelist is
buried iu Russia. The dead woman leaves two
sons, one of whom is a sculptor of talent.
BRIGHT BITA
"What U the derivation of jag ?”
“Jau, I should say, le derived from leg.”
New York Press.
Judge—The prisoner is discharged.
Prisoner—Well, begerra, I didn’t know OI was
loaded— l'exas Siftings.
Miss luenk I don’t know what he was mad
about. He left me without saying a word.
Miss Laura-That was unspeakuhly mean.
Chicago Tribune.
Hojack—Does the man you just spoke to
belong to your coterie of friends?
Tomdik—Centalnly he does. He made my
coat.— Smith, Gray d? Co.'s Monthly.
A curious sion has been adopted at Bombay
by a native baker, proud of his knowledge of
English, "European loafer,” being printed in
large letters over his door.—Tid-Bits.
Fioos—Look out, there’s danger there! Don’t
you see the red Mag in front of that house?
Diggs—What is it—small-pox?
Figgs—No; auction.—ofeul/i'a Monthly.
Primus— Young Dr. Neale tells me that in
his specialty he has nAver made u mistake in
diagnosis.
becundus—What’s his specialty—autopsies ?
Judge.
Although the hour grows sadly late
He lingers in that self-same spot,
Nor heeds her dull, dejected state.
"Time files.” he says, "but I do not."
Washington Star.
I,ady os’ the House (consulting card iu her
hand)—You a singing-master! But we do not
waut a singing-master 1
Herr Pumperuici,el—Bardon; de lady next
door toldt mo you vanted von badly; she sent
me!— Tid-Bits.
Miss Fi.vrr—Do you know, I have decided to
become a lecturer.
Miss Elder—You don’t say 1
Ml.s Flypp—Yes. Just think! Allonebasto
do is to go on the rostrum and talk and talk
and talk.— Judge.
The Secret ok It.—City Sportsman (with SSO
outfit)—Well, boy, you seem to catch more hsli
than 1 do.
Country Boy (who uses an -le-worms)-You
bet. There ain't no flies on my hook— street <t
Smith's Good Sews.
"Ok—of course. Mr. Smith, I feel very flat
tered by your offer; but—but you cau hardiy
expect a decided answer, os I have known you
for so short a time ”
"Well, what am Ito do? AH the girls who’ve
known me longer have refused me."—Buffalo
Express.
“You’ve teen courting six years, you say.
nnci proposed to her last night. Did she accept
you!"
• 'She has taken till to-night to think about
it"
"What did she say when you asked h“r?”
"bbe said, "This is so sudden!’ ”
CURRENT COMMENT.
What Congress Can Do.
From the Cleveland Flaindealer (Bern.).
The demccratic congress will neither make
nor unmake a democratic candidate forthe
presidency, but it will make or unmake demo
cratic chances of success or defeat next No
vember oy the course it pursues at the present
session. Retrenchment and reform aud war To
the hilt on a r< bber tariff Is the policy that will
lea l to success.
Tveu Beards are Taxt and.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal l D m ).
The Cleveland Ia ader mentions tho fact that
beards were at one time taxed in England.
They are now taxed by the tariff, in this coun
try, along with wigs and ether proper adorn
ments, Thero is a tariff tax on mere human
hair, before it ha* been made into anything.
Let every baldheaded man range himself with
tue hosts of tariff reform; that our hairs
may no longer be numbered by the miaions of
the custom house.
Sentiment of the West,
from the Kansas City Star ( Isd.).
It is absurd to say that tho west has enthu
siasm for recognition of its own men. lowa
surrenders Boies to Cleveland. Illinois calls for
Cleveland. S> do Indiana, < >hio and Kentucky,
with available matter at home. The Pacific
coast recognizes no other claims. The Pacific
states indorse the opinion of Montana, which is
that "all our people are for free coinage, but
ex-Presideut Cleveland is undoubtedly the
choice of the democracy."
An Object Lesson for Democrats.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Ohio furnishes an object lesson for Gov. Hill
and other democrats anxious to push the silver
question to the front as an Issue between par
ties. Asa result of this sort of tactics Mr. Mc-
Kinley is governor of Ohio, a republican senator
was elected to serve six years, and the state
will be gerrymandered so as largely to disfran
chise democratic voters. This was a big price
to pay for tho gratification of the whimsey of a
few cranks who desire to use the Democratic
party as an agency of financial demoralization.
Nothing Visionary About It.
From the Chicago Tribune (Dem.).
Happily no visionary tariff plans are pro
posed for the democracy, nor is there any
BUI i lion of such plans. Their aim now is the
enlargement of the free list in certain directions,
the benefit of which is admitted to some extent
by thougmful republicans. If the party is suc
cessful in the presidential election its purpose is
to reduce taxation aud to make a low tariff.
No purpose of entering upon a free trade policy
Is entertained, aud yet in their realignorance of
the lariff question certain southern editors are
endeavoring, wittingly orunwittiagly, to create
that impression and. assure defeat of democracy,
Humor of tho School Boom.
Amid the perplexities of a teacher's life the
quiet, often unconscious. humor of the sohool
room serves to keep the iedagogue alive and
outside of the insane asylum, says Wide
A 'rake.
Young America is great Id many fields, hut in
the role of lexicographer he is probably at his
best.
The following definitions and illustrative sen
tences, culled from the examination papers of
the pupils of a western rcqool, illustrates some
of the changes that Young America de
lights .ff
Magpie—The gir! made a magpie for dinner.
Routine—He has a bottle of routine.
Noxious—She i* a very noxious girl.
College—A place graduates go.
Kei>ei—A kind of hawk
College-Cemetery of learning.
Hydraulics—A dueas**.
Angle—Bhe made a loft angle.
Wampum- A kind of a bee.
Sylph—One's own sylph.
Pecon— A minister.
league—Ten doilars.
Maximum—Surname of an Indian chief.
Guerrilla—An animal.
Tariff - A sofa.
Charlatan—A musical instrument.
Guerrilla—A man-eater
Tariff—An animal found In Africa.
Tr ff—A stuffed seat.
Tariff—A placo for worship.
Creole—A white descendant from black
parents.
Plumbago—A blockhead.
Asa hich school student of history and sci
ence Y'oung America has some peculiar views:
“The time of the best literature of a country
is called the Augustus period.”
“King Philip was a groat hider and seeker.*'
“Artless Ward was an American humorist."
In answer to a request to name three Ameri
can poets, a boy mentions ‘Benjamin Franklin,
Shakeep* are and John B. Gough."
A young high sohool student has made the
discovery that “the spinal cord serves as a sup
port to the back."
During an attemrt to "develop" the idea and
use of the superlative degree of the adjective,
the following conversation took place:
Teacher-I see a pretty girl, and you see one
who is better looking than the first. Now, how
can you describe the second girl by the use of
the word pretty?
Pupil—The second is prettier.
Teacher—Very good. Now suppose you see a
girl who isb“ttor looking than either of the oth
ers, what would you call her?
Pupil—l should call her a daisy.
“Books:” exclaimed a society loving member
of a westtrn high school “why, I never read
books:*'
It is scarcely surprising that in writing an
essay a few days later, the same young lady de
scribed a certain hotel as follows:
“The hotel has rooms for fifty guests all
lighted by gas."
Often, too, “excuses" written by parents or
guardians bear traces of unconscious humor:
“Please excuse Jane, as I kept her home for
a shoe-pack."
“Pleare excuse Mary for having a sore toe."
But the teachers thtmselves furnish no small
share of the amusement by their own blun
ders:
“This class belongs to do kindergarten work
now."
“What are inullusks?"
“Pesoribe the four hemispheres."
These specimens are from the classic lips and
pens of three graduates of a state normal
school. In scientific accuracy they are almost
equal to the following:
“Ev*‘ry poison should have its anecdote
printed on a label."
The principal of a graded high school sur
prised his hearers recently by the following
suggestive aentenc *, uttered in all seriousness:
“1 am teaching at S , and havo acorpso
of eight teachers."
A Song of Lor.fr Ago,
James Whitcomb Riley.
A song of long ago,
Sing it lightly-sing it low—
Sing it softly—like the lisping of the lips we
used to know
When our baby laughter spilled
From the heart* forever filled
With a music sweet as robin ever trilled!
Let the fragrant summer breeze.
And the leaves of locust trees,
And the apple buds and blossoms, and the wings
of honey bees,
All palpitate with glee.
Till the happy harmony
Brings bock each childish joy to you aud me.
Let the eyes of fancy turn
Where the tumbled pippins burn
Like embers in the orchard's lap of towseled
grass and fern.
And let the wayward wind
Still singing, plod behind
The cider press—the good old fashioned kind.
Blend in the song the moan
Of tho dove that grieves alone,
And the wild v\ hirr of the locust aud the bum
ble’s drowsy drone;
And tho lows of cows that call
Through tho pasture bars, wiien all
The landscape fades away at even fall.
Then, far away and clear.
Through the duskv atmosphere,
Let the wailing of the kildee be the only sound
you hear.
O, sweet, and sad and low.
As the memory may know.
Is tho glad, pathetic j*ong of Long Ago!
Crtlled on Burg-lars for He p.
A sea life does not seem to offer an encourg
ing field of operation for an enterprising burg
lar, says the New York Times , but a well
known na\al officer relates an anecdote of
how a considerable number of this shady pro
fession once went to sea.
llis is a reminiscence of the V rrinlus affair
when a war with Spain was looked upon a*
certain. The navy, • tho chief bulwarK of
defense, was found to be hampered by a
deficiency of men, and almost every one who
applied for enlistment was accepted. One
result of this is told by tho officer, who was
then attacned to tho steam frigate Wabash.
One day, he says, the paymaster of tho vessel
lost the combination of anew safe which had
been placeri on beard shir, and was at a loss
what to do about it. The safe contained im
portant documents, which Lad been called for
by the captain, and it was necessary that it be
opened without delay. The machinists were
sent for, and after working unsuccessfully at
the combination, gave it up as a job beyond their
abilities.
The paymaster came on deck and mentioned
his dilemma to the officer of the watch.
“O! I can fix thafc for you," said the officer
confidently.
“l oatswain's mate, pass the word for all the
burglars iu the ship to report to the pay
master."
In obedience to the command a score of men
sought that official, and in a few moments
picked the lock and tho safe was open.
A Landlord's Bluff.
“Proprietors of country hotels sometimes
ring in de-porate bluffs to make their houses
appear a iittle higher-coned than they really
are," remarked a traveling man at the Nicollet
the other day to a dinne ipolis Tribune writer,
and then ho wont on to llluMtraf*: “It was at a
lite station in the southern part of the state.''
said he. * I nad run in there just' before noon,
and, of course, was booked for dinner at tue
only hotel in tne place. I was shown into the
dining room somewhat late by the proprietor,
a burly Irishman, who, after seating me. started
in to Jo th-> grand thing by waiting on me him
self. ‘What Lav.i you got?’l asked, ‘i
bacon and roast dook,’ tie replied with a flour
ish. Roast duck—that isn’t so bad, I thought—
and so I told him I would take some of that.
He was very much disconcerted for a minute,
then he pulled himself together, laid his hand
on my shoulder and said very confidentially:
‘Ab, you’d butner have th* ba-acon. All tue
byes do be takin' it.’ And so I made a meal on
greasy bacon and soggy potatoes Asa matter
of fact there wasn’t a roast duck within five
miles of the house. I had simply called his
bluff."
The Baroness Bertha von Luttner of Austria,
the author of the book “Away With War
Weapons," and one of the principal delegates
to tne recent peso© congress in Rome, has
established a monthly magazine in Berlin for
the purpose of promulgating her views regard
ing the uselessness of war. The magazine will
l>ear the title “Die Waffen Nieder."
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The Cleveland Iron Trade Review states the
remarkable fact that the average vessel of the
great lakes is twice the size of the average ves
sel of the seaboard, and that the ship yards of
the lakes in 18'JO built 40 per cent, more steam
tonnage than was built on the entire seaboard.
I he need or a ship waterway from the lakes to
the ocean does not require demonstration. The
thing to consider is ways and means.
Kino Leopold of the Belgians has greatly
delighted all his subjects by the method which
he chose for inaugurating the new glass ban
queting hall at Laeken. on Christmas eve. In
stead of giving a court dinner, as was generally
anticipated, he invited all the 500 workmen em
ployed in the restoration of the palace to a sup
per, and afterward ordered them to be con
ducted through the whole of the winter gardens,
which were magnificently lighted for the first
time with electricity. On leaving each guest
was present and with a bottle of wine, a ease of
sweetmeats and a purse of money. This has
done more to conciliate the workingman than
a hundred political lectures.
An interesting point as to what may cause,
and what is popularly supposed to cause, in
stant death is brought up by a ease in San
Diego, Cal. W. P. Francis, an engineer in the
employ of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany, was hunting ducks near San Diego. He
partly concealed himself behind a battery. A
young man, J. L. Henshdwood, who was row
ing in the vicinity, saw a portion of Francis’
body, and, mistaking it fora pelican, fired his
revolver at it, and the bullet struck and killed
I rancis. The post mortem examination showed
that the bullet passed directly through the cen
ter of Francis' heart, hut the evidence of per
sons in the boat with Henshilwood, and of oth
ers in the vicinity, was that after he had been
shot Francis raised himself in his boat And fired
two shots at Henshilwood, evidently believing
an attack was being made on him.
The old Pepperell mansioi at Kittery Point,
Me., built over 200 years ago, has probably
sheltered more famous people than any other
house on this side of the Atlantic, with the ex
ception of MouDt Vernon and Monticdlo. The
house was built by the first William Pepperell,
a great merchant and ship builder of his tiino,
who accumulated vast wealth by trade, and his
mansion retie ted the extent of his means.
Facing the sea and surrounded by a great p irk
wln-re herds ot doer disported. The famous Sir
William Pepperell, son of the builder, enlarged
and adorned the mansion at the time of his
marriage, in 1734. This William Pepperall, the
only American baronet, was a remarkable man.
Ho was the richest man in the colonies, and
had at times a* many as 2CO vessels afloat. He
was a successful general, as was seen at Louis
burg, and his political influence was very great.
’ The Vatican, the ancient palace of the
popes of Rome, is the most magnificent build
ing of the kind in the world. It stands on the
right bank of the Tiber, on a hill called the
Vaticuius, b >cauie the Latins formerly wor
shiped Vaticiniiiin. ian ancient oracular dietv,
at that p ace. Exactly when the building ua;
commenced no one knows. Charlemagne is
known to have inhabited it over a thousand
years ago. Th present extent of the building
is enormous, the number of rooms, at the
lowest computation, being J. 422. Its truawres
of marble siatues, ancient gems, paintings,
books, manuscripts, etc., are to be compared
only with tnos *in the British museum. The
length of the statue museum alone is a frac
tion over a mile. Conservative writers say that
the gold contained in the medals, vessels,
chains and other objects preserved in the
Vatican would make more gold coins than the
whole of the present European circulation.
Dr. Arnott says that of air on
the knee-joint is sufficient to keep it In place
without ligaments. Cannon discharges can be
heard nearly twee as far as thunder, if an
elephant was as altisonant or far-sounding as a
nightingale in proportion to his bulk, his trump
eting couid be easily beard around the world.
On like conditions an ox bellowing in Australia
could be heard iu New York about fifteen hours
after making the noise. Cats die at an elevation
of 13.900 feet, even though they are reputed to
have “nine lives" when on 'a level with the
ocean Dogs and men can climb the greatest
known natural elevations. Divers who
helped to lay tho foundation of the
great Fa is bridge found that while they
were under a pressure of four “atmospheres,"
or sixty pounds to the souare inch, the ticking
of a watch was absolutely painful to the ear.
Tho aUo found it impossible to whistle.
Aristotle attempted to weigh air by weighing
in a bag w hen empty and after it had
been inflated The result of this experiment
eain-ed him to announce that air had no weighs.
Without air we could see the stars as plainly
during tho day as we can at night. Experi
ments also show that a person speaking in the
open air as well at a distance of 100 feet in
front, 75 at each side ami 30 behind.
A marvelous tale comes from Dakota of a
discovery which La i been accidentally made in
the mountains northwest of Rapid City, says
Electricity. It is stated that there is a natural
telephone line between two mountains in the
Black Hills range. On each side of a valley
twelve miles in width 6tand two high peaks,
which tower above tho other mountains, and
have long been known as land marts. These
mountains are several thousand feet high, aud
only on ra r e occasions have they been scaled,
s< > but little is Known ot t'ieir topography, Some
wevks ago a party of tourists decided to make
the ascent They divided into two parties, one
for each peak, taking with them heliographs
for the purpose of signaling to ecch other
across the valley. The ascent was made, and,
| so the story goes, while the members ot one
party preparing to signal to those of the
other, one of the party on the north mountain
was surprised t> hear voices, which apparently
came out f the air. He moved his po ition,
and the sound was no longer heard. By chang
ing his position .several times he discovered that
at a certain spot of the moun ain be could
bear the voices, and it was not long before
he discovered that they proceeded from the
party on the other mountain. He called the
attention of tho others to the phenomenon, and
w hen the attention of the opnosite party had
been attracted it was found that an ordinary
conversation in an ordinary tone of voice was
plainly heard from one mountain top to the
other. Thero was only one place on tho moun
tain where it could be heard, and this appeared
to form a natural telephone. No shouting was
necessary, and the words were perfectly dis
tinct. This is rather a tall sioiv to foist on the
readers of Electricity . but, assuming it to he
true, an explanation may be sought for in the
form of the mountains, which might serve as
elliptical reflectors of sound, the speakers plac
ing themselves in the foci at each end of the
ellipse, and in tho low density of the atmos
phere at the altitude at which the phenomenon
was observed The Mormon temple at Salt
I>ake City, which is of enormous dimensions, is
built in the form of a true ellipse, and a person
standing in the focus at one end can carry on a
conversation in a whisoer with another who
places liimseif in the focus at the other end.
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