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SI'N DAY . JANIWHY 17, I*l*2.
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THIS ISSUE
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TWELVE PAGES.
INDEX tO m ADVKKriMMKNIj.
Special Notices— Notice of Dissolution, Hall
R Thonnosen; Any One Can Buy a Home, etc.,
M. J. Solomons. Secretary and Treasurer; Or
ders, Savannah Carriage and Wagon Company;
Barroom for Sale. S. Guekcnheimer & Sons;
Savannah Board of Trade; As to Crew
of the British Steamship Serapis; Fine
Shoes, at Tuberdy's; Tinning, Guttering,
Etc., E. O. I’acetti; Coughs and Colds Can
be Cured at Livingston's Pharmacy; Tweuty-
Five Dollars Reward, H. Logan Beef Market;
Notice to Superior Court Jurors; Barbour &
Cos., Furniture; Notice K C. Thonnesen; Try
“Purity" Nursing Bottle' R. C. McCall; Reli
able Man Wanted; Just Received at Engle &
Rotnsc hild’s; Encouraged, Falk Clothing Com,,
pany.
Military Orders— Circular, First Volunteer
Regiment of Georgia; Order No. 38. First Volun
teer Regiment of Georgia; Republican lilues.
In Waiting —D. A. Alticlc's Sons.
No One—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Amusement— Cosgrove & Grant's Comedians
at Theater Jau. 19 20.
Easier to Count Money Tuan to Carey
Goods— At Collat’s.
Medical— The Doctors In Savannah; Johnson’s
Tonic.
Mark Down Shoe Sale— At The Globe Shoe
Store.
A New Year’s Grkbtino— L. &B.S.M. H.
And Stili. They Go— Dryfus Bros.
Annual Sale ok Ladies' Muslin Underwear
-At Altmayer’s.
Housekeepers—Jas, Douglass.
Special Dress Goods Salk—C. Gray & Son.
China Silks, Etc —At Eckstein’s.
Table Damasks— D. Hogan.
Our Carpet Department— Emil A. Schwarz.
Auction Sale— Cottages and Lots, by R. D.
Laßocbe.
They Have Their Hands Full-Estate 9 W.
Branch.
Read Our Ad—Collat’s.
Harness— The Savannah Carriage and Wagon
Company-.
Fertilizers— The Wilcox & Gibbs Guano
Company.
On a Solid Basis—The A. J. Miller Com
pany.
Extraordinary Values— Falk Clothing Com
pany.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Bale; Lost; Found; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The government stoauier Qallatin Is to be
sold at auction. Prospective purchasers
will find her where the pilot lost her.
The “grippe.” it has been discovered, de
scended from the anoieut Greek. That ac
counts for the ignorance of many doctors
regarding it.
Fifteen wives have appeared to claim’
priority of lien on John Anderson the Ohio
bigamist, and there are still other counties
to hear from.
Quay and Alger are accused of holding a
conference of war looking to an assault
upon the white house. Let the administra
tion Quayke!
Inasmueh as Depew cannot be President
of the union, he will try aud worry along
with the presidencies of the Union League
Club and some railroads. •
The governor of Indiana divides bis time
between executive and advisory duties. He
“governs” all the week and preaches an
average of two sermons on Sunday.
Senator Hill, diked in his “best suit of
clothes,” beid a levee in the House of Repre
sentatives Thursday, and had a flood of
congratulations poured out upon him.
Incongruities of nomenclature do not
bother the Chileans. El Capitan Prat aud
the O’Higgins sail the same waters and
fight for the same cause as well as if both
were Spanish.
Assistant Secretary of Interior Bussey has
ruled that the civil war began March 4,1861,
when Lincoln was inaugurated, although
the Star of the West had been fired upon
two months before that time.
Unscrupulous telegraph operators tapped
a “live” wire between and the
poolrooms in Newark one day last week
and turned an alternating current of false
race reports on the bookmakers that made
them squirm.
Speaking for Georgia.
Some of Senator Hill’s Georgia friends
are undertaking to apeak for this state la
- the matter of the presidential nomination
iof the Democratic party. They are telling
the northern democratic politicians and
nowvps p.rs that the Georgia delegation to
the democratic national convention will
not te instructed, but will vote for the
nomination of Senator Hill.
There Is no one who Is in a position to
speak for Georgia in this matter. Thoee
who undertake to do so speak only for them
selves. If there is a strong sentiment in
different parts of the state in favor of the
nomination of Senator Hill it hat not shown
itself. Indeed, it would he much safer to
say that tho feeling in Georgia is against
Senator Hill rather than in his favor. In a
general way he it known as an exceedingly
shrewd politician, but he has done nothing
that it calculated to make blm favorably
known to his party outside of his state, or
to cauie him to be regarded as tuch a leader
as the Democratic party is looking for.
Because Mr. Cleveland’s letter against
the free coinage of silver was not popular
with alliancemen it is asserted that there is
no probability that Mr. Cleveland will have
the support of the Georgia delegation in
the national convention. But why should
nllianceinen who object to Mr. Cleveland’s
views on the silver question favor the
nomination of Senator Hill? If the correct
interpretalon is placed upon the
senator’s recent speeches, he does
not favor the free coinage
of silver. Asa matter of fact it is difficult
to discover what he does favor so far as the
silver issue is concerned. His recent
speeches on that issue were apparently con
tradictory. Even his friends failed to
comprehend them, and CoL Livingston, the
president of the Georgia alliance, said that
the senator would have to explain them.
Is It reasonable to suppose that Georgia
alliancemen will assist in nominating for
President a man who is to looking In frank
ness that his utterances on so important a
question as that of silver cannot be under
stood ? They may Dot approve Mr. Cleve
land’s views on the silver question, but they
canuot help admiring him for bis honesty in
stating bis views so clearly that there Is no
possibility of misunderstanding them. They
are muoh more likely to give their support
to a man who troats them frankly than to
one who apparently seeks to mislead them.
A day or two ago the Morning Nbws
quoted Senator Voorheos, of Indiana, as ob
jecting to some utterances of Senator Hill
with respect to tbe tariff. If the Indiana
senator is right, Senator Hill is not likely
to be a favorite with the tarltf reformers.
Under tho circumstances, what reason Is
there for saying that the Georgia delegation
to the democratic national convention will
favor the nomination of Senator Hill?
What is there in his public career that
commands the admiration of Georgia
democrats! Is it possible to point out one
good reason why he should be the demo
cratic standard-bearer!
It would be much nearer the truth to say
that if the Georgia delegation does not favor
the nomination of Mr. Cleveland it will
support a western man. Senator Hill is
enjoying a little popularity at present be
cause of his success in defeating the efforts
of tbe New York republicans to capture
tho legislature of that state, but such popu
larity does not last long. If Senator Hill’s
following in other states is no greater than
it is in Georgia his prospect of getting the
nomination is not promising.
Tho Naval Stores Market.
The naval Rtorog market is suffering from
the same nauseas the cotton market,namely;
over-production. The prices for spirits
and rosin are lower than they have been
for many years, and the outlook for better
prices is not promising. Domestic and
foreign markets have ample stocks, and of
the crop of the present season there will be
a pretty heavy surplus to be carried ovor to
next year.
Tho crops of 1890 and 1891 were unusu
ally large and the indications are that the
crop of 1892 will bo fully as large as that of
1891. Indeed, according to the reports from
the naval stores operators, as many boxes
have been cut this year as there were during
the corresponding period of last year.
Those interested in the naval stores indus
try feel that something should he done to
lesson production and also the cost of pro
duction. As long as tbe supply exoeeds, or
Is fully up to, the demand there will be lit
tle it any advance in prices. It is about as
difficult, however, to get naval stores
operators to cut fewer boxes ns
it is to get farmers to plant
a less number of nores in cotton. Each one
thinks that the low prices will influence
others to cut a less number of boxes, thus
reduoiug production, and that, therefore, it
will be advisable for him to increase his pro
duction and get the benefit of the higher
prices, which he thinks will prevail be
cause of the expected decrease In the supply.
Asa oonsequo'ioe the produo ion is greater
than ever.
There isn’t much use in advising either
naval stores operators or cotton planters to
reduce tbe am ount of their products. They
will not take the advice. The only thing
that will bring about reduction of the sup
ply is the falling of prices below the profit
line. Manufacturing naval stores or grow
ing cotton for two or three years at a loss
will have more effect in reducing produc
tion than all tbe advice that It is possible to
give.
Wise Action of Fruit Growers.
The orange growers of Florida have ac
cepted the advice of the Morning News
ar.d organized a fruit growers’ organization.
It is made ud of local unions and county
conventions. The aim Is to put the orarge
industry upon a paying basis. The union
will have many important questions to deal
with—questions relating to transportation,
commissions aud methods of distribution.
The orange growers have not reoeived
profitable prices for their fruit this year.
Fearful that prices would be low because of
the reports of an enormous crop, they hur
ried their oranges to market. The result
was that prices fell to almost nothing, and
they themselves were largely responsible for
that condition of affairs. If their crops had
been marketed with some regard to the de
mand profitable prices might have been ob
tained for good fruit.
The union, it it proves a success, will
remedy the mistakes the growers have been
making. The crop will be judiciously dis
tributed, and will not be sent to market
faster than it is wanted. The great diffi
culty will he to get the growers to abide
strictly by the union’s regulations, but that
will be accomplished iu time. With the
organization of the union, the prospect for
the orange growers becomes more promising.
However weak Chile may be as a nation,
in comparison with the United States, it is
a fact that the Chileans are splendid fight
ers, good talkers and very clever diplomats.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1892 —TWELVE PAGES.
Cows In Politics-
It is a toss-up whether Farmer Tillman, of
South Carolina, wins a second guberna
torial term or oblivion in the state cam
paign tnis fall. Avery unique feature has
been brought into the fight, one which has
never heretofore been made tbe subject of
burning eloquence on the stump, nor yet to
adorn a tale of political ambition. It is
cows—just plain, ordinary, every day go
as-you-please oo*, hence the tots-up.
The Morning News in its telegraphic
columns Friday printed an interesting
addition to the history of this bovine cam-
paign, an incident which U depended
upon to assist materially in precipitating
the governor into the bouillon. The facts
were. In short, that the governor, who has
always been a violent advocate of a “just
and equitable assessment of values
for taxation,” recently sold twelve cows
to the state lunatio asylum, of the
board of regents of which institu
tion he is ex-officio a member, for
s36each. An inquisitive reporter, by haul
ing over the Edgefield tax books, discovered
that these cows had been returned for taxa
tion only a short while before their sale at
$lO each. That’s one horn of the governor’s
dilemma.
About the time the free pass agitation
was made interesting by the discovery that
Gov. Tillman had accepted one, somebody
had the hardihood to ask him where he had
been on a certain occasion, when he
traveled on the pass. The inquirer was
told that he had only run down to Ninety
six to hold a conference concerning some
cattle with John Irby. It later developed
that the "cow conference” was a political
meeting. Irby is the chairman of the state
executive committee, and United States
senator, and since then the cow conference
has been on the slate for campaign pur
poses. Another horn to the dilemma.
Cattle have so frequently crossed Till
man’s path during his administration that
he has come to regard himself a boss, and
therefore entitled to pull the teats of the
treasury for pictures and flower seeds at
pleasure, even to the overdrawing of tbe
fund provided for tho executive residence.
During his campaign it was his custom to
•peak of his auditors as “bellowing bulls”
and “bull-headed simpletons,” and the
cream of his rhetorical flights frequently
referred to his opponents as men in whom
the milk of human kindness did not exist.
Another horn of the dilemma—whioh, by
the way, has as many horns as a Savannah
swamp buck—is the fact that the governor is
accused of, and has not denied, so far as is
known, sending butter from his farm for
sale in Augusta and Columbia on an ex
press frank, and having bis supplies re
turned in the same manner. That is also
down against him, to be accounted for this
fall.
Altogether, Capt. Tillman’s penchant for
cows is going to prove a source of great an
noyance to him, and if he is tossed out of the
governorship, it will be by the cow with
the orumpled horn that gave the milk that
made the butter that went to Augusta on
tbe express frank.
Disheartened Cotton Planters.
The cotton grower* are very much dls
oouragod by the low price of ootton, and
many of them are ready to say they will
not cultivate any cotton this year. In let
ters to their factors they give accounts of
a very unhappy condition of affairs in their
respective localities. They say that bank
ruptcy stare* them iu the faoe and that
there is nothing promising in the future.
One ootton grower, writing from Madison
county, Florida, declare* that very little
cotton will be produced in that county in
the future. He says that over 1,100 farm
laborers have left his immediate vicinity
and that thousands of acres of good land
will not be cultivated this year.
This is only a sample of many letters. It
is apparent, however, that the coLton grow
ers regard the situation a* inuoh more se
rious than it is. The price of ootton is not
going to remain as low as it is at presont.
Next season, it is pretty safe to predict, it
will be higher.
The ootton growers must expect to meet
with misfortune once in a while. Thoy are
certain to have good year* and bad years.
This Is one of the bad years.
The truth is, too much cotton is being pro
duced, and the low price this year calls at
tention to the over-production in a way that
must be heeded. If the cottou growers
this year will plant a portion of their laud
in food crop* and give some attention to
stock they will be in a better financial con
dition at the beginning of next year than
they have ever been before. They will not
have to buy food supplies and their cotton
will bring them what cash they need.
It is clear that they cannot cultivate cot
ton at its present price, because there is no
profit in it, but if they reduce their cotton
acreage one-third, the price next season
will be satisfactory. They should not re
gard the present condition of affairs as
destroying all hope cf future prosperity.
That would be a groat mistake. The present
season of gloom will pass away and the cot
tongrowers, if thoy will give some atten
tion to food crops, will become much more
independent than they have ever been.
Trust to a woman for expedients. May
Hewitt, of Philadelphia, married Edward
Murphy. Finally she decided that she
wanted a divorce, but when the legal separa
tion was not forthcoming as quickly as she
desired she took the matter into her own
hands; renounced her husband’s name and
said she "just wouldn’t, so there now!" And
there you are.
A sporadic fever against Sunday newspa
pers has broken out in Pittsburg. But to
long as men are intelligent and broad
minded enough to assimilate the w holesome
instruction contained in the Sunday news
paper it will live and prosper. This is a
progressive age, and the Sunday paper is an
outcome of that progress whioh has grown
to boa necessity,
Mr. Depew is a man of wonderful for*
Bight. Ho has given $20,000 for the com
pletion of a music hall at Peeksville, N. Y.
The acoustios will be perfect, and Mr.
Depow will have the pleasure of hearing his
own voioe rolled hack in mellow cadence
from the sounding boards whenever ha feel*
like it.
The Dickey bird of Harvard flits grace
fully down from the high perch assumed
some time ago, aud promises not to burn
any more young men on the arms with
lighted cigars as a means of explaining the
mysteries of three Greek letters.
John Sherman and Mme. Patti have been
making farewell tours for 10l these many
years, and they are with u> still. Sherman
announces again that he has made bis last
race for office.
The B’s will enter largely into the next
campaign on the republican side: Ben,
Blaine and buncombe.
DA'
PERSONAL
Rev. Da. Theodore I* Ct-tlxe of Brooklyn
has passed his Tilth b.rthday
M trat Halstrad will sail from England for
j New York by the Majestic Jao. 20.
THE l Ot-NTESS d’Eo will shortly bring out tbe
autobiographical memoirs of her father, the
late Dorn Pedro.
The deafness of the Princess of Wales and
her sister, the Czarina of Russia, was inherited
from their mother, the Queen of Denmark
It is said down on the Rio Grande that Garza
obtains the sinews of war through the bishop of
Monterey, a relative of his father-in-law. Gon
zales, who is a rich ranchman.
Mlle. db la Ramee, better known by her
nom de plume of “Ouida,” is cn the point of
leaving the beautiful palace in Florence in
which she has now passed several years.
Lady Dudley, who is still being feted and
dined and wined as a bride, has a favorite cos
tume of white satin, profusely trimmed with
I’••aria. This aho wears with a aupberb diamond
tiara.
A son of the poet Longfellow is of the firm
Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, that is to build
the Carnegie library, museum and art gallery
at Pittsburg. There were 105 contesting archi
tects.
Gov. Russell of Massachusetts is cow 35
years old, and qualified by the constitution to
accept a presidential nomination If his party
wish to present it to him within the next twenty
five years.
Dr. Kate Mitchell, the English temperance
worker, who is now visiting America, says she
thinks the time is not far distant when the
women of England will be granted the right of
tree suffrage.
Another woman has started on atouraround
tbe world. This time it is a French woman.
Mile. Elise St. Omer, who, although GO years of
age. intends to begin her journey by way of
tbe southern hemisphere.
One of the confederate soldiers who crossed
over into Mexico at the conclusion of the civil
war w:is Gen. H, M. Greenwood of Louisiana.
He is now engaged in business in the City of
Mexico, where he has accumulated a fortune.
Lady Sandhurst, who died in England Fri
day, was a leader in the woman’s rights move
ment In England. She was elected to the Lon
don county council three years ago. although
the courts held afterward held that she was in
eligible on account of her sex.
William E. Mac-Master’s celebrated portrait
of James Buchanan, which was painted at
Wheatland in 1866, has been sold by Sirs. Mac-
Master to the President's brother Dr. E Y
Buchanan of Philadelphia. Tbe purchaser Is
the only surviving member of the family and
is now more than 80 years old. He was form-
? rI Y fo tor of St. David’s church, and retired
in 1883.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutte has not only
been oonsplcuous for setting the fashion among
her countrywomen against the use of birds and
blrdplumage for the adornment of millinery,
etc., lut she has succeaafully promoted tbe
manufacture of artificial bird# for tho piypow,
a now industry that employment to sev
eral hundred Rirlg and women in Uaris.
BRIGHT BITfl.
Backwoods BtTßScßrn*R—We want ter git a
look at the editor. Wbar ’bouts is he?
Office Boy— That's him 6leepin' with his feet
on tbe desk.
“That’s such a big tooth, too. I should think
you would hate to lose it.”
“Yes. It will cost mo a pang to part with it ”
Chicago Tribune.
Sunday ScnooL Teachkr (sadly)—l’m afraid
Johnny, that I will never meet you in heaven.
Johnny—Why? What have you been doing
now?— Harper's Bazar.
“I am wedded to art," said Parley.
"Well," said Criticus, gazing at Parley's pict
ure, ‘l’d get a divorce if I were you. She has
deserted you ."—Brooklyn Life.
“ Why do you go to a concert if you don’t care
tor music?’’
"To amuse myself. You have no idea how
happy I feel when it's over.’’— fliegende Blat
ter.
Not Alarmkd.— Romantic Miss (addicted to
poetry)—O, I’m just in love with Lcigar Allan
Poe.
Practical Adorer—Well, that’s all right. He’s
deal.— New Yorle Weekly.
Wood— I This electric execution law must be a
great disappointment to a certain class of
men.
Van Pelt—What class’
Wool—Those who were born to be hanged
New York Herald.
JsssiE—What a pretty face Kitty has, but a
little sorrowful, don’t you think?
Ned—Yes; that sad expression is her strong
hold, no man ever sees it without feeling a
fierce desire to spend tho rest of tis life in mak
ing her happy.— Puck.
“He is a very sick man.”
"Yes, but the fact that he hangs on so long Is
favorable to his recovery."
“I think the contrary-, He grows weaker
every day, and the longer he lives the greater
chance there Is of his dying.”— New York Pres*.
Mbs. Si’OTCasu (entering her husband's count
ing room in great agitation)—O, William! Who
is that rough-looking man just outside your
door with a queer valise in his hand? Is he—is
he one of those terrible dynamite cranks?
Mr. Spotcash (pale as a sheet)—Worse, Caro
line I He’s a plumber '.—Chicago Tt ibune.
Teacher— Now, Mamie, tell me how many
bones you have in your body.
Mamie—Two hundred and eight.
Teacher—Wrong; you have only two hundred
and seven.
Mamie (triumphantly)—Yes, but I swallowed
a fish bone at breakfast this morning.— HEarn
er’s Bazar.
"Don't you,” sa’d the earnest young woman
• sometimes have thoughts that are beyond
your powers of expression?”
“Ya'as; I fwequ.-ntly have thoughts that ahe
verwy hah'd to expwess; and the worst of it is
that when I get them expwessed I cawn't help
wonderwing why-1 went to all that iwouble "
Washington Star.
"What are you doing in my house’" asked a
man who surprised a burglar in his unlawful
work.
"Your house!" exclaimed the burglar, as he
commenced once more to put silver spoons in
his Dock-1. "You seem to imagine that I don't
know the title to this property is in your wife’s
name." — Brooklyn Life.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Question Before the Democrats.
From the Richmond State.
More than two-thirds of ihe city and country
newspapers of Virginia declare for Mr. Cleve
land s nomination for tho presidency, and that
the south is for him. Area few politicians who
are personally offonded with Mr. Cleveland to
force a great party to throw aside its bast
o lance for victory, just to grntify their enmity
to Mr. i lev land? That is the question before
the democrats of this country.
Ideal Legislation.
From the Washington Post ( Ind .).
All legislation should be considered upon its
intrinsic merits, and there is uo iron-clad rule
by which these merits can be determined. Con
gress simply owes it to the country to do the
bast that can he done with means at its disposal.
It is not a part of its duty either to make;or reject
an approprlat on.simply because of the political
capital to be derived from such a proceeding;
and the House should bo careful not to let a
spirit of partisanship take precedence of its
obligations to the interest of the people,
The Death of the Duke of Clarence.
From the Few York Evening Post.
The death of the Duke of Clarence has really
little importance except to his family and
friends. From the political point of view it may
lie considered a distinct gain for the British
monarchy, a the next brother is very much
superior in force of character and mental
ability. The possible succession of the Duke of
Ularsnce, in these days of radical criticism, has,
in fact, ever since he rrached manhood and
came under popular observation, been viewed
with more or less anxiety even by the stanch
est supporters of the throne.
A "Straight Tip" to the President.
From the .Veto York Freest Rep.).
The appointment of ex-Senator Henry W.
Blair as minister (o China should be withdrawn
without further delay. The persistence of the
Chinese government in its objection to reoelve
him as the diplomatic representative of the
United States should settle the matter. China
does not want Mr. Blair. She has said so with
unmistakable plainness The United States
government has no right in equity or accord ng
to the rules of dlDlomatto usage to seek to force
upon a friendly nation a minister whom that
nation is uuwiillagto receive. There are plenty
ot Americans well fitted in every way to repre
sent the United States in China who have never
used offensive or unfriendly language regard
ing the Chinese in public. Anew United States
minister to China should be appointed at once.
The Genuine Bookworm.
So seldom is a bookworm to bs seen that when
ooe is captured it is fairij regarded a# a threat
oouiosity, says tbs Chicago Yetrs. In his
charming volume entitled ‘The Enemies of
Hooker.’* Mr Blades devotes a chapter to this
hitiputian pefit, and he speakr Inteliigently. fur
he experimented with several live bookworms.
One of these worms he kf pt for a period of
eighteen months, an unusuail loner time for a
bookworm to live outside the covers of a book,
sinoe. as Mr. Blade truly says, “when freed from
restraint (which, indeed, to them is life> they
eAt ' surrounded with food, for
they have no le,n to keep them steady and their
natural leverage is wanting.”
In a volume of “Hogarth Moralized," recently
received from Ixjndon. Mr. Millard, presiding
genius of the Saints’ and f- inners' Cori.er at Mc-
Clurjt's. found a genuine bookworm some days
The worm nad evidently ended bis trav
*# °l b**un to spin a web about him
self when Mr. Millard captured him andclapned
nun incontinently into a vial of alcohoL This
ittle fellow is about one-third or an inch in
length, and he looks very much like the worm
round in apples peache# and other fruit. He is
tipped with black at both ends, differing in this
particular from the book worms Blades met
ij B andinel of tbe Bodleian Library
told Blades in ld6l that he frequently found
bookworms and that they sometimes had black
a Blades. repeating this information,
adds: “I never heard of a black-headed book -
worm before or sluce.”
Mr Andrew Lan* remarked to the writer
once upon a time that he had never seen a book
worm. and that he had actually beyun to doubt
the existence of the pest; he seemed very much
interested in bearing our description of one
captured in Chicago— at Maxwell s book store,
as wo recall. It seems pretty clearly de
termined that the bookworm is not a native of
America; the few specimens found here have
j en brought hither in English or other for
eign books. We have, however, a lively little
silver coated buff that is frequently met with
between the covers of our books. This used to
be and still is retarded by many as the genuine
bookworm, but it Is in no respect like the siraon
i ls w * ia *’ entomologists call the legiema,
and is comparatively harmless. The book
worm is properly either the anobium or tho
oecophora; to the former class belongs the
tiny depredator now salted down and on exhi
tion at ilcClurg’s.
Rather Embarrassing.
A direful experience recently berell a young
man, and the worst of it is he can’t seem to fiud
anybody to blame for it but himself .says the
Boston Trantcript. It happened in this way
His hostess sent him out to dianer with a very
pretty and girlish-looking woman, whose name
he dliin t quite catch, and as It was a rather
rormai affair, he found no way to enlighten
himself before going to the table. Presently,
however, in wandering ebout couversa tonally
he discovered that she was an old friend of one
of his own cousins, and this bond of sympathy
—together, perhaps, with the loveliness of the
unnamed she—lnspired the wretched youth to
to was confidential.
. “ NO c u w , eren ' t JOd surprised at her mar
rlagei he inquired In a lowered tone, and speak
ing still of the relative under dlsoussion “For
(py 1 always thought that she would take
Jo ~P Blank *r. Perhaps you know Blanker?”
The young woman admitted demurely that
•he did.
••Wen,” oontinued this successful diner-out,
I m morally sure he could never oare for any
one else as he did for her, although I once heard
a rumor about some other woman—and that ehe
wnsn t much of a beauty or very attractive
either.”
Now there is such a thing as not letting had
enough alone, and that was what this young man
did, for when the ladies were leaving tho dining
room he ventured to ask his fair companion her
name.
"Why, certainly,” she replied sweetly, “lire.
Blanker. ”
Obscure Martyrs.
Sir Edwin Arnold.
They have no place in storied page,
No nsßt in marble shrine;
They are passed and gone with a perished are*
I hey died and made no sign.
But work that shall find its wages yet,
And deeds that their Got! did not forget
Done for their loved divine -
These were the mourners, and these shall be
The crowns of their immortality.
O seek them not where sleep the dead,
Ye Bhall not find their trace;
No graven stone Is at their head,
No green grass hides their face;
But sad and unseen is their silent grave—
It may be the sand or deep sea wave,
Ora lonely desert place:
For they needed no prayers and no mourning
They were tombed in true hearts that knew
them well.
They healed sick hearts till theirs were broken
And dried sad eyes till theirs lost light;
We shall know at last by a certain token
How they fought and fell in the fight.
Salt tears of sorrow unbeheld,
Passionate cries unchronicled,
And illent strifes for the right—
Angeis shall court them, and earth shall sigh
That she left her best children to battle and
die.
Pusey Wen the Fight.
A novel and fatal combat occurred late on
Monday night at H. Grossman's California
wine house In Cincinnati. An old family cat,
noted for her gentle manners, killed without
any ceremony a lively alligator. She simply
nipped its neck and the alligator died. A rail
road man Just from the south came into the
place with an alligator almost two feet long
It bsgan by biting the finger of its owner so
badly that its jaw had to be pried open with an
iron bar. It was then placed on the floor,
where it began hissing like a snake. It was
crawling toward the stove when the cat raw
~s h° ra “ toward the alligator and sniffed
at it. The little reptile resented the liberty
by opening its jaws and lashing its tail
m a threatening manner. The cat jumped
back somewhat scared.and for a moment looked
at the thing iu a puzzled manner. She seemed
to collect nerßelr in a moment, and began
crouching for a spring. Then began a lot of
maneuvering, which ended in the cat springing
Into the air and landing fiat on the alligator's
baok. The sharp claws of "Nigger" sunk into
the leathery hide of the sauriau and the cat
burled her fangs into the neck of her opponent
A deep red stream of blood responded to the
crushing jaws of the enraged cat and ran in a
little ttream along the floor. There was a brief
struggle, hardly of ten seconds' duration, aud
the alligator ttnnad up its claws. The cat had
broken its neck.
Tha Queen's English.
The Lewiston tMe.) Journal tells this story
about a somewhat illiterate Maine woman who
bad just returned home after a visit to Now
York: “O," she fsaid to a friend, "I had such
a perfectly lovely time! everything was so con
vened, you know. We stopped in a house
where we rode up to our room in a refrigerator
and I always had my washing done' at the’
foundry, right there in the house. It was aw
ful nice. Then there warn't no store and no
clutter in the rooms. There was one of these
legislators right in the floor and the heat poured
right up through."
"How did it happen that you came back so
quickly!”
“O, well you see, Satry didn't have no apper
tite. I had the hardest work to get her any
thing that she could realize. Honestly, when I
got her home she was almost an individual.”
Perhaps it was this woman's husband who
said that "Hen Peters got killed this morning
and the corner hes just gone out to hold an in
sect on him."
The really famous fan painters of Europe are
Albert. Cheaeviere, Houghton, Eugene Ciceri
and Lassallez. Albert is a painter of miniatures
aud his training shows in his work ornfans. His
figures have a remarkable beautv of Anise.
Cheneviere is strong in costumes. He delights
in depicting gay groups of Parisians. Hough
toil’s work is noticeable for delicate flnisb
Ciceri is almost ai ne in painting Alpine land
scape. and one easily r cognizable by those
familiar with the Alps. Lassallez is peculiarly
rich iu coloring. Fans painted by these artists
are sold for $l2B to SBOO each.
George Kknnan, Siberian traveler and expert
in nihilism, is one of the best, telegraph opera
tors in the country and pounds the keys right
and left with ambidexterity.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
2Thi Egyptians had a very remarkable ordi
nance to prevent persons from borrowing im
prudently. An Egyptian was not permitted to
borrow without giving to his creditors in pledge
the body of his father. It was deemed both an
impiety and an infamy not to redeem so sacred
a pl-dge. A person who died without dis
charging that duty was deprived of the custo
mary honors paid to the dead.
Focr tears aoo no white man was permitted
to enter Matabeleland without a speoial permit
from the king, and missionaries were advised
not to attempt to settle In his country if they
valued their lives Lobengula has just made a
now treaty with tho British South Africa Com
pany by which lie cedes to them a large tractof
country in addition to Mashonaland, and gives
them ail the powers and privileges they require.
The company now controls 400,000 square miles
in Matabeleland and Mashonaland.
The annua! mortality of ths entire human
race amounts, roughly speaking, according to
a French medical to 83.000,000 of per
sons. This makes the akrage deaths per day
over 91.000, being at tbe rate of 3,730 an hour,
or 62 people every minute of the day and night
the year round. A fourth of the race die before
completing their Bth year, and one-half be
fore the end of the I7th year; but the
average duration of life Is about 38 years. Not
more than 1 person in 100,000 lives to be 100.
The people of Paris consumed within the
past year 21,291 horses, 2*9 donkeys, and 40
mules, the meat weighing, according to the
returns, 4.615 tons. At the ISO shops and stalls
where such food is sold the price has varied
from 2 sous vo a franc a pound, the latter
being the price of tho best horse steaks. Only
about one-third ot the meat Is sold fresh and
undisguised; the r-st Is used in making sau
sages, 402 borers having been seized and con
demned as unfit for food before being turned
into sausage,
A cedar tree near Arlington, Snohomish
county, Wash., measures C 8 feet in circumfer
ence. Around the knotty roots the tree meas
ures 99 feet. About 75 feet from the ground it
forks into four immense branches, and just be
low the forks is a big knot hole. Fiva men
climbled into the hole and explored the interior
of the tree. It was found to boa mere shell,
and about 45 feet down it would afford stand
ing room for forty men. The tree is still groeo,
and a remarkable feature is said to be that it Is
barked on the inside and out3ide alike.
When all the particulars of the census are
out it will probably be found that there are
nearly 20.0C0 women in the United Kingdom
who earn their living by nursing. The number
seems enormous, yet becomes comprehensible
when we consider that the nursing Rtaff of the
largest hospital in London numbers 250, and
that the nursing staffs of the seven largest
hospitals reach a total of 1,002. And there are
123 hospitals in London, besides the numerous
institutions which supply private nurses, of
which several employ over 100 women.
The King of Siam is said te have in one of bis
country places a wonderful pavilion. It was
built by a Chinese engineer as a refuge for the
king during the extreme heat of the summer.
The walls. ceilingß and floors are formed of
pieces of glass an Inch thick. They are so per
fectly fitted together with a transparent oenisnt
that the joints are invisible, and no fluid can
penetrate. The pavilion is 28 feat long, 17 wide,
and stands in the m ddle of a huge basin made
of beautifully colored marbles. When the kiDg
enters the pavilion the single door is closed and
cemented. Then the sluice gates are opened
and tho basin is filled with water. Higher and
higher it rises until the pavilion is covered, and
only the ventilators connect it with tbe open
air.
Among the birds which my children raised
this year, sajß a writer in Forest and Stream,
is one which gives us more pleasure than I ever
expected. It is a blue jay. and he is the most
cunning, plumed fellow you can think of. I had
to clip i is wings because he would not stay in
his cage, but likes to hop and flutter about the
house. He is not afraid of the doge, will hop
around and about them, sit on the head of a
big blood-hound .and yell at the top of his voice
just for inischier. He defies all the chickene If
they try to take eome food away from him. I
suspect his terrible war cry scares them. He
will sit on our bands and shoulders and beg for
food, but at soon as his appetite is satisfied he
takes what more is offered him and hides it
away in some nook. Sometimes he will put It
down In my vest pocket or under the collar of
my outing shirt. Water he likes exceedingly
well, and shows signs of disgust if without his
regular bath; and lo! he will jump in when the
dlshpan is filled with fresh, cool liquid—drink
dive, splatter and yell for joy. Then out he
goes to 11 e sunny lawn and lies down on one side
first, spreading the opposite wing, then he
turns o\ er to spread and dry the other one. He
will also take dry sun baths iu the same
manner.
In the wild district between the Hana and
Haiku during July and August the most beauti
ful and largest apple orchards in the world are
to be seen. The wilderness of Koolan, as the
district is called, contains a forest of native
wild apple trees, countless in number, stretch
ing from the sea far up the mountain sides
The trees vary from forty to fifty feet in bight!
and in the harvest season, from July to Septem
ber. are loaded down with fruit, some white,
but mostly red. A person standing in the midst
of this orchard can look around him for miles
up the mountains and toward the road, and the
only thing in view will be one vast
grove of apple trees literally red with
ripe and ripening fruit, the branches of
the trees bending to the ground with the boun
teous harvest. The crop of this extensive ap
pie oronard which nature planted in the solitary
waste would flit a fleet of 100 steamers. The
orchard stretches over a country of live to ten
miles by tweuty miles long, and many of the
larger trees bear at least fifty barrels a piece.
The fruit is delicious for table ure, and will ap"-
pease both thirst and hunger, but as yet no one
has taken the (rouble te make an commercial
use of the apples. When ripe they will not keep
m.re than a week, but they make excellent
jelly and jam, and simply for the lack of a little
American enterprise millions of barrels of ap
ples are permitted annually to fall to the ground
and rot.
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Special Flannel sale.
Special Blanket sale.
Special Cloak and Cape sale
Special Cassimere sale.
Special Black Goods sale.
Special Wool Underwear sale.
Special Gloria Umbrella sale.
Special Shirt sale.
Special Bed Comfort sale.
Special Bedspread sale,
Special Lace Curtain sale.
Special Table Linen sale,
special Napkin sale,
Special Table Cover sale.
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SUBURBAN RAILWAYS.
SUNDAY SCHEDULE!
CITY AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY
AND
COAST HUE RAILROAD CO.
The 8:00 p. m. train leaves from Second a'*®’
du© and Wnitaker st eet depot. All other trams
leave from Holton street depot for Bonaventure,
Thunderbolt, and Isle of Hope, Montgomery*
and Beaulieu, city time.
For Bonaventure and Thunderbolt—9:oo,lo:(X*
11:00 a. m., 2:00,3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 and 0:30 p.
m.
For Iste of Hope— 10:00, 11:00 a. m., '3:00,
6:30p. in.
For Montgomery— lo:oo a. m„ *3:00 p. m.
Returning, leave Montgomery 7:30 a. m..
12:50,5:10 pm ..
Returning, leave Isleof Hope 6:00a. m..
1:30.6:40 p.m. „
Returning, leave Thunderbolt 8:20, 10:00 Hi
32:30. 2:30, 3r50.4:30, 5:30,6:00, 6:30p. m. -
Arrive In Barannah 6:40. 10:20 a, m„ l* 3 " 1
•3:40, 2:60, 8:50, 4:50, 8:50, 6:20, 6:50 p. m.
•Second avenue and Whitaker street Oep'Jt-
Trains for city leave Bonaventure cemetery
Bve minutes after leaving Thunderbolt
G. W ALLICY. Supt
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