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There are very few men seeking the presi
dency ; most of tbc-m are scrambling for it
This is tip-top weather for small boys to
practice the "Steve” Kyan specialty. Kit
ing is at its best.
Tbe Bering sea situation has become hot
enough to Frye the indignation out of tbe
senator from Maine.
The Washington climate needs drying out
and disinfecting, it seems, from the num
ber of invalids there.
Quay and Clarkßon ore exchanging com
pliments, which means that some political
chicanery is batching.
Lent Is a great propagator of fish stories.
Daily communion with the subject whets
tbe imagination, but not the appetite.
Mrs. Sarah Althea Hill-Sharon-Terry is
Insane. She tried to retain all of the names
•he ever acquired and the strain was too
great. -
Harter and Hill appear to be having lots
of fun with each other over the silver issue.
Hut the public fails to see where tbe laugh
comes in.
It is now said that Keeley’s bichloride of
gold cure for drunkenness has long been
known among the Fronoh, who considered
At dangerous.
Ex-Gov. James E. Campbell, of Ohio,
•ays the “Hill boom” in his state is a case of
mstaken identity;, that the face in tbe
gjicture is Gorman’s.
Rube Burrows the Becond was caught and
lynched in Alabama tbe otber day. He was
not interviewed by an Atlanta reporter, so
tbe precedent is unbroken.
The luxuries of life appear to be monopo
lizing a good deal of the attention of the
administration just now. There are seal
•kins and silver, for instance.
Secretary Foster went to Europe on the
Spree, and is coming back on the Spree.
Judging by bis talk, one might suppose
that he was on a spree between tbe trips.
Gen; Alger has appealed to the Michigan
•enators in behalf of bis presidential boom.
If the case is promptly docketed it may
get a hearing duriug the next administra
tion.
Some of the newspapers are printing in
too close proximity items about caßes of
paresis from the effects of the Keeiey cure
and Mr. Blaine's illness. The juxtaposition
is suggestive.
Mr. Jay Gould’s hurried dsparture from
the southwest for New York may mean
another donation to a worthy institution;
but the chances are in favor of its meaning
a railroad squeeze.
Jackson (Mich.) young ladies ere agitated
because there is a well-founded suspicion
that Dr. Slade, tbe famous spiritualist with
the lovely mustache, ought to be wearing
skirts instead of trousers.
There is more fun ahead. Gen. R. A.
Alger, who received a cruel wound in the
reputation from the ciaws of tbe office oat,
announces that he has a "surprise iu store
tor Mr. Charles Anderson Dana,” editor of
the New York Sun, and that it will be a
“regular bombshell when it is made public."
The novelty of tbe situation will be de
cidedly interesting. Alger has been forced
to take the defens, ve ever tiuce tbe bee first
struck bis bonnbt, and it is a lit le puzzling
to know how he isgoingtodo “the wind-mill
act” with both hands and throw dynamite at
the same time.
A Troublesome Question.
The brief correspondence between Senator
Hill a; and Representative Harter, published
in the Washington dispatches of the Morn
ing News yesterday, shows that the silver
question is a very troublesome one to the
Democratic party, and that it promises to
become even more troublesome m the near
future. Representative Harter asked
Senator Hill whether or not he was in
favor of the Bland bill. He
asked him this question because
the senator Is a candidate for
the democratic nomination for President.
Senator Hill replied by asking Representa
tive Harter if be would support the presi
dential nominee of the Democratic party if
that party should put a plank in its plat
form in favor of the free coinage of silver.
Representative Harter answered that he,
would not.
Senator Hill refused to give a direct an
swer. He does not want to go on record as
being for or against the free coinage of
silver. He caunot afford to do so. And
yet it is difficult to see bow he U going to
avoid taking one side or other of the silver
question. All the indications are now that
the Bland bill will bo passed by the House
end be voted on in the Senate. In the
Senate be will have to vote on it or remain
away from the Senate when the vote is
taken. If he take# the latter oourse
he will Injure his prospects for the presi
dential nomination, because the Democratic
party would hardly dare to nominate a can
didate of whom it would be said la the cam
paign that he was afraid to take a decided
stand upon one of tbe most important ques
tions before the country.
But what do those democrats of tbe House
hope to gain by forcing a vote in
that body on tbe silver question)
They know that tbe Bland bill will not be
come a law during this administration. If it
reaches the President he will veto it. He
has said as much. By vetoing the bill be
would ttrengtben his party in tbe doubtful
eastern states without endangering its hold
upon any ot the western states. The passing
of the Blaod bill, therefore, by the House
is simply playing into the bands of tbe
Republican party.
In New York and other itates there are
thousands of democrats who would not vole
tbe democratic tioket at the presidential
sleotlon if they had reason to believe that
by doing so they would be helping to make
tbe coinage of silver free. Representative
Harter, in his answer to Senator Hill’s in
quiry, expressed their sentiments.
It looks, therefore, as if tbs silver demo
crats of the House were making a great
mistake. Evidently Senator Hill thinks
they are, or else be would have stated
frankly to Representative Harter that ha
would vote for the Blaud bill if an oppor
tunity to do so should be presented.
Tbe Democratic party can eleot tbe next
President on tbe tariff issue, but if it forces
tbe silver issue Into tbe campaign its ability
to do so Is doubtful
Action of the Central Directors.
There never was any good ground for
thinking that the Riohmond Terminal
would not defend tbe lease of the Central
to the Georgia Paolfle. Tbe action of the
directors of the Central company yesterday
Indicates that the Terminal does not intend
to permit the lease to be broken without an
effort to maintain It. Gen. Thomas and
Mr. Inman have been represented in the
public prints as being indifferent ss to
whether tbe lease is broken or not. If they
gave out such an impression they bad a
purpose in doing so.
It is probable that the question of tbe
validity of the lease will not be settled as
promptly as it was at first thought it would
be. It looks now as if there would be a
long legal battle. When it first became
known that an attack upon the lease bad
been made it was predicted by many that
tbe ftiobmond Terminal would make no
defense for tbe alleged reason that a de
fense would be useless—the Invalidity of
the lease being generally assumed.
But all the points that are made against
the lease iu Mrs. Clarke’s bill were known
to the Richmond Terminal Company before
the lease was drawn, and it it reasonable to
suppose they were submitted to competent
lawyers for advice with regard to them. If
they were not, and the lease was made with
the knowledge tbat it was not binding, the
Terminal people have a very loose way of
doing business.
But if the lease should be deolared void
may not the Terminal still retain control of
tbe Central! Can the oonrt take from it
all control over iu 40,000 shares of Central
stock! That is an interesting question and
one that is likely to command a good deal
of the court's attention.
In the meantime Mr. Olcott says his plan
of reorganization bos been abandoned and a
new plan is being considered in which the
Central may or may not be included. No
hint is given as to what the plan is.
A “wild and woolly” fool somewhere out
west has written a novel a loug way “after
Edward Bellamy’s ’Looking Baokward,”'
in which John L. Sullivan figures as the
hero. In tbe first chapter the author pro
ceeds to elect Sullivan to congress, where
“he gets bills passed appropriating fIOO,-
000,000 for the relief of the farmers, making
instruction in physical culture a branch of
the war department, etc. He is also nomi
nated for President, but is shot while making
a fight against syndicates and trusts on the
floor of the House. A revolution occurs
and an empire is about to be established,
when John L., who bas been nursed back to
life, reappears, reeaues liberty and saves tbe
republic. Then he retires, after making
Chauncey Depew President.”
The Morning News’ correspondent,
“Wheeler,” whose communication wss pub
lished yesterday, suggesU an attractive
novelty in a bicycle-mounted military com
pany. Whether or not the suggestion oould
be carried out is a question tbat would have
to be canvassed by the owners of wheels;
but tbere cannot be doubt that such a com
pany would attract considerable attention
and prove very interesting to its members.
A series of evolutions would have to be
formulated, founded, prohably, on the oav
alry tactics, or a oode might be devised by
the bright young men ia the movement.
The reports last week were that W. B.
Taicott, tbe murderer, bad been seen in
Cuba; now it is learned that he is in Alas
ka, 800 miles northwest of Jeneau on tbe
Yukon river. If Taaoott will return to
civilization and give up the secret ot bis
flying machine tbe courts may be influ
enced to clemency in behalf of ecience.
To-day, March 12, is tbe anniversary of
the birth of Joseph Francis of Boston, the
•’father” of the marine life saving service,
which Las grown to be almost as solidly
fixed in tbe estimation of sea-going people
as tbe light house service. Mr. Francis is
91 years old, and was a seafaring man.
TnE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1892.
The Free Wool BtlL
The debate on the free wool bill is bring
ing out clearly the fact that the wool grow
ers have not been benefited in tbe least by
the extraordinary high duties on wool im
posed by the McKinley Is iff. The flgur-s
that Mr. McMdlin presented in his opening
argument in behalf of the bill stow that the
price of wool bas declined since the enact
ment of tbe McKinley tariff, and that
sheep growing is less profitable than ever
before in the states in wh'ch It had become
established under a low wool tariff. There
is no reason, therefore, why the sheep
growers should insist upon the existing high
wool tariff be.ng maintained.
And it does not appear that the McKinley
tariff has helped tbe manufacturers of
woolen goods. They have not been able to
get a supply of raw material at such prloes
as would enable them to oompete with for
eign manufacturers of woolen goods, and
hence their business has been stunted. In
other words, their foreign competitors have
been able to undersell them in the markets
of the world.
Who, then, has been benefited by tbe Mc-
Kinley wool tariff) Not the consumers,
certainly. The farmer and the laborer, al
though their Incomes have not been in
creased, have had to pay considerably more
for all kinds of woolen goods. The Increase
in tbe cost of woolen blankets and clothes
has been very marked. This increase is
not, of course, a matter of much conse
quence to those who have large incomes,
but it bears heavily upon those whose earn
ings are so small as to meet only the de
mands for the necessaries of life.
Tbe effort of Mr. Dlngley to answer Mr.
MoMilUn’s speech was not a successful one.
He evaded tbe points that were of real im
portance and tried to make it appear that
tbe people were more than compensated for
the higher prices of woolen goods by the
lower price of sugar. The whole tenor of
his argument was a virtual admission that
the McKinley wool ddties Imposed a heavy
burden upon the people without doing wool
producers, wool manufacturers or the con
sumers of woolen goods any good. The
House will pass the free wool bill, and if the
Senate refuses to pass It the Republican
party will be placed In a very unoomfortable
position.
Keep An Bye on Flower.
Gov. Flower, of New York, is beginning
to attract the attention of demooratio
leaders in that state, and now and then a
whisper is heard that he is a dark horse in
tbe raoe for tba presidential nomination of
his party. For a time after be entered
upon the duties of his office he
was sneered at by both democrats
and republicans because he acted as if he
had no will of his own. He is beginning to
assert himself, and consequently respect for
him is growing. Within the l ist few days
he has taken a most decided stand with re
gard to a number of important measures
wbioh, in his opinion, are not for the benefit
of the public, though their promoters pre
tend they are.
The truth is probably that when be be
came governor he was not wholly free to do
as he pleased. But from present appearances
he has paid his political debts and is now
able to show wbat sort of a man he is.
It bas been hinted to him a number of
times recently that his chances for getting
the nomination for President are good,
and it begin* to look as if these hints had
made an impression upon him. The breaoh
in the ranks of the New York democracy is
growing wider, and the May convention of
tbe anti-Hill men may be of sufficient im
portance to convince tbe national conven
tion that it would not be advisa
ble to nominate either Mr. Cleveland
or Senator Hill. In that event Gov. Flower
might be pushed to tbe front as tbe man
who would be satisfactory to both factions
of the New York democracy. It would be
well to keep him in mind in making a list
of those available for tbe nomination.
Some of the northern newspapers are
making extremely funny paragraphs about
the escapade of a man named Coon, at
Fairfax, S. C. The most laughable thing
about it, however, is tbe fact that there is
no such place in South Carolina, and the
chances arethat the whole story is a “fake.”
The flood gates of debate have been
opened in Washington for the purpose of
irrigating and freshening public apprecia
tion of the tariff issues. If the torrent of
oratory is allowed to flow too long, how
ever, tbe Irrigation will be attended with
irritation.
The czar has passed another birthday
without being “pulverized.” To oelebrate
tbe event ho launched a monster iron-dad at
Sebastopol and is now better than ever able
to resist the pugilistic attentions of neigh
boring potentates.
Mrs. Potter Palmer is trying to arrange
to have a woman's paper published in con
nection with the world’s fair at Chicago.
No name has been selected, but it will be
The Fair, of course, as a compliment to tbe
sex.
Senator Frye’s “retaliation” utterance
was not intended to be heard by the rail
road magnates “down east." Retaliation
against Canada, through her railroad inter
ests, is not what the New Englander desires.
Miss Belles sat on Mr. Smith’s knee while
she shaved him with a razor. That ia the
ground of a suit for damages brought by
Mrs. Smith in a Pittsburg, (Pa..) court.
Moral; Do your shaving with the beaux.
Miss Ma ther, tbe actress, established a
precedent in a divorce court the otber day.
She truthfully declared that the reason she
desired to be separated from her husband
was that she no longer loved him.
Sure of Her Ground.
“I don’t wish to influence you, Mabel,” said
the mother, (in tne Chicago Tribune) “In any
way that would do violence to your own feel
ings or inclinations, but does not young Blan
nerman appear to be partial to your society of
late?”
The queenly young girl bowed.
"I thought I had obaerved an inclination on
his part,” persued her mother, looking with
pride and tenderness at the beautiful face and
figure of her eldest born, “to pay rather ex
clusive attention to you. He is a man of excel
lent habits, well connected and of good pros
pects, is he not?"
Again the young girl bowed her lovely head.
“And he seems to be intelligent, well edu
cated and unassuming, besides being handsome
and of good address.”
"Yes.”
“He is not personally objectionable to you, is
he, Mabel?”
“He is not."
"Do you think, my dear—you will pardon the
question, I am sure—that he aeeks to win your
love? Do you thiuk heiuteuis to offer you tbe
highest honor that a high-minded mau can
tender to the maiden who has won his heart’s
best affections?”
"Ye e-oe mamma,” yawned the beautiful
girl, “If 1 want him he’s my pudding."
Friend —l know you are a proud and happy
father, and Ive no doubt that baby is a regular
cherub, andall that; but I don’t see why you
need hold your need so high.
Y oung Father—That’s to keep from dropping
asleep.—. Veto York It cekly.
PERSONAL.
Pxrs Hyacinths, it is sail, has become a
tbe sophist.
Miss Mauds Gonxe, the well-known Irish
r strict, is possibly lb<* most beautiful woman in
that land of green bills and shamrock.
The ENGAOEHCNt is snnounoed at Milwaukee
cf George H. Russel of Milwaukee to Miss Lollis
Kustis of New Orlea s. a niece of United States
Senator Kustis.
J. R. Hopper of Detroit is negotiating for an
interest in the Chattanooga Evening Press, and,
if tbe deal is made, will become managing edi
tor of that paper.
J udge 1 HAM, who is Robert T. Lincoln’s law
partner, expresses tbe opinion that the latter
has no aspirations for the presidency, and no
taste for politics.
Secretary Tract says unless he finds It
thoroughly inexDedient to finish the Raleigh at
Norfotk there srlll be no change whatever in
present arrangements.
M rs. Edmund Russell, who knows all there
is to learn about sßstketic gymnastics, says that
there Is a whole science in knowing how to en
ter and leave a room properly.
Caps and gowns will soon be the regulation
uniform at John Hopkins University. The
practice of adopting these distinctive vestments
is, by the way, growrng in American colleges.
The new villa of the Empress of Austria in
Corfu lias been ransacked by brigands, who
made sad havoc In the place and walked off
with a I it of bric-a-brac and art treasures which
money cannot replace.
Kino Humbirt’s approaching visit to England
Is sail to be due to the gratitude he fee Is when
he recalls that Queen Victoria was the first
of Eir uean sovereigns to recognize the young
kingdom of Italy thirty or more years ago.
Potter Palmer is said to have a great fund
of quiet humor. When he was In New York s
short time ago a Chicago man met him and
said: "What are you doing here?” With a sly
twinkle In his eyes he answered: "Mrs. Palmer
and l are down here destroying the prosperity
of the last few years
A singular friendship bas sprung up be
tween Bourke Clockran and ex-Bpeaker Reed,
who occupy seats in the House just across the
aisle from each other. There is a perennial in
terchange of stories and anecdotes between the
two, and when they bring their heads togelher
the aisle is effectively blocked for traffic.
The late C. A. White’s song, ’’Put Me in My
Little Bod,” was suggested to his mind one
night as he was going home by seeing a picture
of the prophet Samuel in the window of s Bos
ton shop Samuel was kneeling by a bedside
with his hands clasped in prayer. Mr. White
wrote the melody and the first verse is about
fifteen minutes. Over 2,000,000 copies have been
sold.
A hundred thousand children of Denmark,
with penny coatrlbutions, have procured a
crown of gold, to be presented to the king and
queen on their golden wedding day. The gift
wrought to represent corn ears and clover
1-aves, and interlaced with a ribbon bearing the
inscription; "The ohildren of Denmark have
woven this crown for the occasion of the golden
welding of King Christian IX. and Queen
Louise, on May 22,1892 ”
BRIGHT BITS.
“ONKOfthe greatest triumphs of dramatic
realisms,” remarks Footligats, "is ths realiza
tion of ones salary l"—Puck.
The Yowth—l love you fondly.
_ The Boston Girl-Let me feel your pulse.
You do not object to my making a scientific
analysis, do you?— Puck.
“What is the hardest part of joke-writing.
Whittix?”
"Punctuation. That’s the reason so many
jokes lack points.’’— Epoch.
“Ever notico how i aturally military men
drift into speculation?”
“O, yes. Take our old friend. Col. Lateral,
for Ustance.” —lndianapolis Journal.
Dolly—O, mamma. I met a little girl to-day
who had never Heard of a cow.
Dolly's .Mother—That was strange, wasn’t It!
Who was the little girl, Dolly?
Dolly—She sold her father was a milkman.
Life.
Young Gentleman (drops on his knees at the
feet of a ladyi—My and >ar Miss X , our re
npeciive fathers having come to terms on the
money question, I now vsntuie to inform you
that I love you to diitractloa I— Saphnt
Witiblatt.
Cumso -Old Soak had a terrible fall last night
and was taken home Insensible.
Burnso- What did his poor wife say when he
was brought in?
Cumso-She simply said; “Chestnut.”—New
York Herald.
Friend—l see you are still giving large sums
to charity. If you keep oil much longer you
will have nothing to leave to vour relatives.
R ch Man (who is weary of reading about will
contests; - They can apply to the charities, you
know. —New York Weekly.
“I ask for no retention fee,”
Quoth Counselor O’Quirk,
“No money sir, unless it be
Reward for honest work.”
Ho tried the case and won the same.
And when It did befall
A thousand for his client came.
He just retained it all.
—Boston Courier.
“What’s the matter, Parker? You look
blue.”
”1 am. I asked MiS3 Morrison to be my wife.”
“Ah! Rejected?"
“No. Referred me to her mother, and—well,
her mother rejected me herself last September
at Narragansett.”— Harper’s Bazar.
Viritor—l un loritood that the public schools
of i his city are models of ninteenth century
progress.
Little Boy—Yes'm, that’s wot every one says.
I go to ’em.
"'Vhat do you study?”
“O. everything—free-’and drawing,’ an’
cookln,’ an’ bacteriology, an’ music, an’ spect
rum analysis, an' sewin’ on buttons, au’ agri
cultural chemistry an’ diahwashin,’ an’ every
thing.”—.v eel and: Smith's Good News.
Doris on Bowlixg (after a long explanation!
—O, yes! I see it all now. Y'ou roll three halls:
and if you don’t roll three balls, and only roll
two balls or one hall, and get the pina all down,
you have a ball to spare, so it is called a strike;
nnd then when you come to the next frame,
and only roll one ball instead of three bahs. all
the pins you get on the second ball the third
time are counted in with the pins you got in the
first frame if you didn’t roll more than two
hails, and then you add it ail up together be
tween times. O, yes! it’s awfully easy after
you understand it. Not so stupid as 1 seemed,
am I?— Harper's Bazar.
Mrs. Grumps—You remember the last time
you drauk too much, and was so awfully sick,
you put all your money in my name, and made
me promise tbat if you ever took another drink
I’d put you right under the Keeiey cure.
Mr. Gumps-Yes, my dear.
“Well, you were drinking again yesterday,
and so 1 went right down to Catchem & Cheat
eu's aad invented the money in Keeley’s
stock. ”
“Stock?"
"Yes, Keeley’s motor stock, you know. They
said all you had to do not was to take another
drink till the motor began to mote, and you’d
be cured "—New York Weekly.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Mads Their Hair Curb
From the Netc York Press (Rep.).
Mr. Crisp was crispness itself in bis reoent
rulings.
A Seasonable “Don’t."
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.i.
Let no democratic congressman vote to unseat
a republican who has been elected. Republican
methods ore not necessary in the Democratic
party.
Tbe Mafia is More Reasonable.
From the Nets York Homing Advertiser (Dem.).
If the heirs of the late Mafia gentry claim os
big an indemnity as the sailors of tbe Baltimore
demand ot Chile, and get It, the New Orleans
people will be reduced to beggary.
Commissioner dement#.
From the Washington Post (Ind.).
His final selection os commissioner disposes
of a somewhat troublesome queetlon satis
factorily to the Democratic party, and will, no
doubt, prove acceptable to the country at
large.
Should Prove a Useful Member.
From the Philadelphia Record find ).
Judson 0. Clements of Georgia, who was
yesterday appointed a member of the Interstate
commerce commission, has had good traioingln
public affairs st the bar and in the iegffclature of
his state. He also served several cons 'culive
terms lu congress, * hers his abilities earned him
a place oo the reapmalbie appropriation com
mittee. Thus equipped, he should prove a
useful member of this important comm is
■ion.
Very Strong Iced Tea.
People wondered at seeing the old lady helped
so frequently to the rum punch, says tbe Wash
ington -fa-. It was rather strong then oth r
wise, but she would finish off a glass cupful at a
gulp and ask each time for "some more of that,
if you please.” Under the stimulation of the
beverage she became decidedly garrulous, and
more than one of tbe guests observe 1 her with
curiosity, wondering how an elderly person
from the country could stand so much
heady stuff. It happened that at tbe time her
nteoe and hostess was receiving in the front
drawing room and two young gentlemen were
listening to her chatter amusedly wnile supply
ing her with whatever she asked for from the
table.
Having drained her fourth cup to the bottom
she giggled in a youthful manner and said to
one of the young men:
"It’s the finest iced tea I ever drank in my
life. Would you mind nelping me to some mere
of it*' ’
The two wicked young gentlemen looked at
each other and exchanged an expressive wink.
"With pleasure. Mrs. Pigeon,” replied the
one who was addressed, addin?, as be handed
her a fresh cup. “and how many of the little
Squabs did you say there were?”
“Squabs?" said the old lady, mystified. “I
said nothing about squabs. It was of my grand
children I was speaking just now.”
"Theyoung Pigeons,” assented the youth.
‘There are seven of them named Pigeon.’’ex
claimed the old lady, "without mentioning three
Smiths and four Shorts, What beautiful iced
tea this Is, to be sure”’
"That isn t Iced tea, madam,” said the other
young man mischievously.
“What is it, then?" asked the old lady.
"It Is punch, madam ”
“Punch? I have heard of punch, but I don't
know what it is made of.”
“This punch is mode of rum,” explained the
second young man,
’•Rum:" exclaimed the old lady with horror.
“Jamaica rum, madam.”
The old lady clasped her hands in undisguised
anguish.
“I come of s temperance family.” she said
mournfully. "This is what comes of visitin’
the city and indulgin’ in Its dissipations What
would they say in the Four Corners Sewing
Circle if they knew that I, a Christian woman,
had been swiggin’ rum ny the quart? But the
Lord knows I didn’t mean it, and its a mighty
cheerin’ beverage.”
When the two young men looked for her fif
teen minutes later, having exoused themselves
for a brief space, she had disappear^.
Diamonds In the Bouquet.
In a box at Koster & Bial’s, in New Y ork, on
Thusday last there was s gay party, says the
Philadelphia Telegraph. It was composed of
Harry Rosenfeld of Chicago and his friends.
Mr. Rosenfeld Is world-worn and blase. Some
time ago the oables daily told of his remarkable
luck at Monte Carlo, where he plunged to such
an extant on the games as to be the talk of the
Besson. He is a smooth-faced chap, apparently
not over 22. with keen gray eyes, a small, well
defined nose, and a firm mouth. He dresses
quietly, and one meeting him in the lobby of
ttie Hoffman house, where he is stopping, would
probably take him for a down-town clerk with
no more than $1 in his pocket. But Mr. Rosen
feld's promenade roll is probably hundreds of
times that amouut.
On Thursday night Rosenfeld had in the box
a bunch of flowers as big as a fellow s head the
morning after the Arion ball. It was tied with
a great streamer of lavender ribbon. When
Jennie Joyce, in ail the discomfort of a long
gown, came upon the stage Rosenfeld bright
ened up. The whole Tenderloin knows "O,
What a Difference in the Morning.” Jennie
Joyce sings it. The song was new to Mr. Rosen
feld. Of all the varied ditties he had heard this
was the most striking.
“That's a corker,’’ said he, as he oaught up
the huge bouquet. Thun ka drew two uncut
diamonds from bis pocket and wrapped them in
a piece of a programme. He then thrust them
into tbe mass of flowers.
The singer came in again and sang a verse
about a young man who met a lady at a ball.
The Arion was to bo the following night, and
p-rhape the song bad in it something of
prophecy. The Chicago man chuckled, and
hurled the flowers, diamonds and all down to
the stage. They didn't land at the singer's feet,
but nearly caused her to lose her balance by
striking her fairly on the side of the head. She
smiled as though she were saying, “It never
touched nie." The house so vociferously ap
plauded t hat the great pall of tobacco smoke
was broken into olouds like a mackerel sky
Then Jennie finished the verses, kissed her
finger tips toward the box, and with the flowers
and the two crystallized dewdrops vanished.
"Those stones weighed about a carat each,”
said one of Kosenfeld’s friends.
An Old-T.me Pleasantry.
Bill Cook and Elmer Thadamy are two old
time cow punchers of the South Platte region,
says the Denver Ncrs:
a few days since these two reminiscences of a
bygone Colorado cattle era met on the highroad
near the town of Evans, Weld county a Mr.
Sherman, proprietor of a local creamery and
checsemaking establishment. Mr. Snerinan
was in his wagon, and before he had fairly time
to realizo what was taking place, was roped by
Cook, j rked out of his wagon and tied down
on the prairie by the two lawless range ridera.
After perpetrating the outrage Cook and
Thadamy left Mr. Sherman still tied down,
while they attended some cattle herding duties.
During their absence Mr. Sherman managed to
release himself, and repairing to Greeley,
secured a warrant for the offenders, which was
duly served, the oowboys being arrested and
roundly fined. Cook was In Denver yesterday
and was duly interviewed by a News reporter in
regard to his exploit. •
The wild cowboy evidently looked upon the
matter as a Decs ol very pardonable old-time
range pleasantry, and laughed loudly and
proudly when speaking of it.
“What did you rope Mr. Sherman for Bill?”
inquired the reporter.
“O," was the reply, “I wanted to show the
cheesemaking what a cowboy could do
with a rope.”
"Did you chase him after ha had got away
from you?” asked the reporter.
"You bet I did,” was the reply. “He carried
off my best lariat, but he got to town before I
oould ketch him.”
"How long was it before you were arrested?”
“Three or four days," was the answer. “You
see." continued Bill, "the warrant was got out
on Saturday morning, and I knowed If I was
took on that day I would have to lay in the
Greeley jail over Sunday, and so I sur took to
the hills. I cummed in Monday and give my
self up."
Oa Seeing His First Grandson.
John Kendrick Bangs in Harper's Bazar.
'Tis stranga to me to think that I
A grandpa have become;
Indeed I cannot well deny
It strikes me almost dumb.
Bat what is stranger far than this—
Most truly singular—
O, partner of my woes nnd bliss,
It makes you grandmamma!
I find it hard to realize.
E’en when this babe 1 see.
That you, so youthful in my eyes,
A grandmamma can be.
For though we’ve dwelt together now
Some twenty; years and more.
Time rests as lightly on your brow
As back th sixty-four.
And yet he’s here, this little boy.
How he will bill and coo
When he discovers, to his joy.
His grandmamma in you!
And how he’ll laugh to look at me.
His funny old granddad!
Ah! little one, you seem to be
A lucky sort of lad.
A Wife Worth Having.
A good story is told of a certain man in
Franklin county, says the Bangor (Me. i Com
mercial. He one day told his wife that he
would give her all the silver pieces she found
in bis wallet which was coined the year she was
born.
Asa result the lady in due course of time hod
quite an amount of silver money on hand -so
much, in fact, tbat she went to the bank and
deposited It in her name.
Then, speaking to the cashier, tbe lady said:
“My husband tells me you are going to pay him
some money to-day. Won’t you please par
him in this silver I have just deposited ? I will
be so much obliged to you if you wiil."
Of course, the cashier, being noted for his
courtesy to the ladies, quickly replied tbat he
would be happy to please her.
Asa resu.t tbe lady has still more birthday
money.
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Almond If Economy In their use
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The ordinary life of a ship is, in the United
States, 16 years, in France 29 years, in Holland
22 yrars, In Germany 25 years, in Great Britain
29 years. In Italy 28 years, and in Norway 30
years. The annual death rate of the world’s
shipping is about 4 per cent, and the birth rate
6 per cent.
There are most beautiful butterflies lathe
Malay Archipelago, of an exquisite blue and
other iridescent hues, which measure 8 inches
from wing tip to wing-tip. In South America
tbere is a beetle even bigger than the Hercules
beetle. It is over a foot long, legs and all,
though its body is not so heavy.
Yama, the Greek Pluto, tbe Christian satan,
is 249 miles high. Tbe hairs ot his body are like
palm trees. He punishes the damned by put
ting them in beds of boiling oil, sawing their
bodies in two, pouring molten lead into their
ears, pulling out their toe-nails and tongas and
a vast number of other varieties of torture.
Thkrb were no less than 953 suicides in Paris
during the year 1891—231 sought watery graves.
113 blew out their brains, 89 hanged, 71 stabbed
themselves, 62 usod poison, 84 enjoyed asphyx
iation, 75 threw themselves from high eleva
tions. 154 deaths were from unknown causes,
and 73 were crushed under trains or machinery.
A modern complication of engineering max
ims states that a horse can drag, as compared
with what he can carry on his back, in the fol
lowing proportions: On the worst earthen road,
three times; on a good macadamized road,
nine; on plank, twenty-five; on a stone track
way, thirth-three, and on a good railway, fifty
four times as much.
An almost incalculable number of skins are
used in countries where the rigors of the climate
necessitate the wearing of fur of some kind
daily. Even the poorest serf has his sheepskin,
the frozen Laplander his reindeer coat and fur
n cousins, while in the same regions the wealthy
cla ses wrap themselves in the costliest furs
and use rugs of enormous value.
Takino the whole of the married men and the
whole of the unmarried men from the age of
20 to the olose of life, it is computed that the
lives of the former average 59t£ years, while
those of the latter average only 40 years—a dlf •
forence of 10L£ years in favor of married men;
that is. marriage increases the average duration
of man’s life by one-half, lacking six months.
Rehenyi, the well-known violin virtuoso, has
made application for a space not less than 400
square feet at tbe world’s fair, in which to ex
hibit his great collection of rare African ethno
logical specimens. The collection, which com
prises over 1,500 oarefnlly selected specimens,
has been formed during the last forty years, and
is beyond question the most perfect of its kind.
So stupendous is the scale on wbioh the visi
ble universe is framed that a ray of light which
would travel round tbe earth in 0.1336 of a sec
ond of time, does not reach us from Neptune
under a period of more ti.au four hours; while
from tut' nearest fixed star i alpha Ontaurl) it
occupies 6’a years, and from a little stai called
ma in Cassiopeia its journey occupies ninety
years.
A family has abandoned a first-class farm
near English, Ind., which they swapped for
property worth scarcely $209. Tbe Bennets
claimed to have been worried almost to death
by one of their neighbors, who assumed the
shape of a biaok cat, with a white ring about its
neck. Tbe animal haunted them at most Inop
portune times, and all efforts to destroy it were
iu vain.
The color of tbe shark's egg is black, of
leathery texture, thin, tough and in form simi
lar to a hand barrow, the body of the barrow be
ing represented by tha middle of the egg and
the handles by the four projections at the
angles. These projections, which are called
tendrils, are of use to enable tbe egs to cling to
the growing seaweed at the bottom of the ocean,
thus preventing it from beiug washed away by
the currents.
The Channel Islands, as represented by Jer.
sey. are Indisputably the sunniest spots In the
United Kingdom. The average amouut of sun
shine there during the whole year is 39.9 per
cent, of the interval the sun is above the hori
zon. The nearest approach to this is 35.7 per
cent, at Falmouth, then follow in order St.
Anne's Head. Milford Haven, jli.T; Geldeston,
near Beccles, 34.5; Southampton, 33.5, and
Southbourne, 33.2.
There is a good deal that is weird about the
Galapagos islands, which it has been proposed
that Uncle Sam shall buy for a coaling station
in the South seas. They are sixteen ia number
—five big and eleven small ones, without count
ing ever so many little islet*—and tbe linn of
the equator runs directly through the group.
Nevertheless the climate is not very hot, ow
ing to the remarkably low temperature of the
surrounding low waters.
Most of the big spiders of the new world ore
of the sort which build nests with trap doors
lining a hole dug In tbe ground, with silk, fit
ting it with a door so artfully made os to hinge,
beveled edge and spring that it is almost im
possible to detect the fact that there is au open
ing, anJ, in some cases, actually planting seeds
on this dainty portal for the purpose of conceal
ing It with growing plants. Some of tho largest
spiders catch birds, and individuals have been
known to capture good-sized fishes, lying in
wait for them at the border of a stream.
Another stone has been cast at the alumi
num as an efficient substitute for better known
materials. According to Ilerren Lubbert and
Roscher, it cannot he used for articles which
have to withstand the action of water at its
boiling point, and consequently Is not suitable
for vessels intruded to hold preserved foods, as
these have commonly to be heated in order to
sterilize their contents. The sameexperimenters
also find tbat such mildly corrosive liquids as
claret, tea. coffee and herring brine act on it
appreciably. As it is also attacked by pheeol,
salicylic acid and boric acid it is unavailable for
many surgical purposes On the whole, there
fore. Its utility appears limited.
If thx conclusions drawn by late experimen
ters are sound It would seem that were an eel
provided with an apparatus to Inject its own
blood into a wound as the serpent injects his
venom, an eel in the mud would be even more
objectionable than a snake in the grass. Prof.
Masso, the Italian scientist, In experimenting
with the blood of eels has discovered by inject
ing it under the skin of rabbits, frogs, mice,
guinea pigs. etc., that it is rank poison, bring
sim lar in action to the venom of snakes of the
viper kind. The viper’s bite, it is well known,
causes death by paralyzing the action of the
respiratory organs; death from eel-blood Doison
is similar in nearly every detail. In regard to
the cure of a person or animal injected with
eel s blood Prof. Masso says that stimulants
usually given are wholly useless, and that the
only hope of a cure lies in tracheotomy and the
artiflolal pumping of air into the lungs.
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