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Miller Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The state of matrimony is proving quite
an attractive summer resort.
There is a world of good advice to the
third party people of Wayne oounty In the
name of the chairman of the recent third
party mass meeting at Jesup—Kicklighter.
It is reported that Mrs. J. Coleman
Drayton, who was absolutely disinherited
by the terms of the will of her father
(William Astor), will contest the will when
it comes up for probate in the surrogate
court, N'ew York, on July 21.
Senator Quay is going to Florida to rest
Kme more. Resting in Florida is Quay’s
strong hold. He has dono moro of it late
ly than any man ill congress. But, as it
pleases Quay and does not hurt Florida, let
him rest. He also promises to do some
swearing when he goes down there this
time. He says he harbors a lot of “exhu
beraut wrath” that canuot be gotten rid of
auy other way. While fishing in Florida
he can direct his remarks to the fish that
don’t bite while bis mind is on Harrison.
Henry S. Ives, who won fame as a
meteoric financier some tew yearß*ago by
the way he handled certain railroad securi
ties, which resulted in his being indicted
for ‘‘railroad wrecking,” is now as free a
man as Ferdinand Ward, another famous
financier, with whom Ives was connected in
business. The eight indictments pending
against Ives in New York have been dis
missed, and the young Napoleon is at liberty
to re-enter Wall street and “hang out his
sign” whenever he pleases.
There is not a particle of doubt that the
"saddest words of tongue or pen” to Miss
Louise Bowrnau, of Madison, Ind., are, “it
might have been.” But she Is no Maud
Muller. She is a self-possessed young
woman, one of the kind who “looks out for
No. 1.” She was “looking out” when, six
years ago, she refused to marry the Rev.
Mr. McClain becau ehe appeared to be as
poor os the proverbial church mousS. But
Mr. McClain found another lady who did
not “look out” so carefully as Miss Bow
man, and that other lady is now the Widow
McClain, worth $1,030,000, which was left
her by her late husband. And Miss Bow*
man might have been the widow.
The Situation at Chicago.
About all the delegates to the national
convention of the Democratic party are in
Chicago and there are very few, if any, who
doubt that a-majority of them are in favor
of the nomination of Mr. Cleveland. If it
were not for one thing at least nine-tenths
of them would be in favor of him, and that
is the doubt entertained by many whether
he con carry New York. But would there
be any such doubt if Mr. Hill were not a
candidate! If Mr. Hill were to withdraw
and announce that he and his friends would
give Mr. Cleveland an honest and en
thusiastic support the doubt would no
longer exist, and Mr. Cleveland
would ba nominated by acclamation. It Is
apparent, therefore, that Senator Hill and
his friends are responsible for the doubt.
They created it and they are doing their
utmost to keen it alive. If it were believed
that they would be faithful to their party
and do their utmost to elect the ticket, who
ever the nominees might be, there would be
only one ballot taken by the convention, so
overwhelmingly in favor of Mr. Cleveland
is the sentiment of the country.
Hr. .T. L. Robertson, a Tammany man,
in a letter to Senator Hill says: “It must
be evident to you that you cannot be nomi
nated," and asks him if he does not think
the true Interests of tha De mocratio party
require his withdrawal as a candidate. The
New York Herald aDproves Mr. Robert
son's letter, but suggests that Mr. Cleve
land also ought to withdraw, for the reason
that it would be unfair to ask Senator Hill to
retire In favor of his rival, Mr. Cleveland.
The Herald clearly misunderstands the
situation. Mr. Cleveland has not sought
the Domination. He hasn’t even announced
that he would like to have it. It is probable
that he wouldn't be greatly disappointed if
be shouldn’t get it. He baa not attempted
to work up any sentiment in his own behalf.
He has had no agents working for delegate*
for him in the different states. He has
simply attended to his business affairs as
any other private citizen. All that has
been doue for him has been done by the
people, who believe that he is the molt de
sirable and the most available man for the
nomination.
On the other hand Senator Hill is an
avowed candidate. All the delegates who
favor him have been obtained by the
hardest kind of work by his political agents.
He obtained the New York delegates by
methods that are condomed by at least half
of the democrat* of that state. And the
few delegates in other states that favor him
were eecured by the skillful aud persistent
effort* of shrewd political wire puller*.
There I*. therefore, a vast difference be
tween the candidacy of Mr. Cleveland and
Senator Hill. One t* the candidate of the
people. The other 1* limply the candidate
of hi* own ambition and a few politicians.
There are. therefore, many reasons why
Senator Hill should withdraw, and none
whatever why Mr. Cleveland should with
draw. Senator Hill may prevent Mr.
Cleveland from getting the nomination, but
he cannot get it himself. But by beatii.g
Mr. Cleveland he will not help his party.
He will simply gratify the feeling of enmity
he entertains for Mr. Cleveland.
The River and-Harbor Bill.
The conference oommittoe that ha* oharge
of the river and harbor bill has found It im
possible thus far to agree. The Senate con 4
feree* reported to tho Senate on Friday that
an agreement had beeu reached on all but
two of the items of the bill. These are
items that the Senate added to the bill In
the shape of amendments. These Items are
tbe Dalles boat railway project and the
Washington canal to oonnect Lake Wash
ington with Puget sound. With reference
to these items the House con
ferees contend that tbe oommittee
on railways and canals of the
House has exclusive jurisdiction of them,
and that that committee was already con
sidering oue of them. They also say that
the Dalles railway project is altogether too
costly, and that the Washington canal is
not required tor commerce and would not
be convenient for that purpose.
These schemes, however, have strong
friends in the Senate who will not
give up the chance of having them pro
vided for in the bill if they can possibly
help doing so. Tbe Senate reappointed its
conferees and instructed them lo insist upon
keeping the two items in question in the
bill.
It is probable that the diipute with re
spect to the canal and the railway will con
tinue in the committee until toward the
cloe of the session, but it is pretty certain
that an agreement of some sort will be
reached in time for the passage of the bill
this session. The Senate would recede from
its position, doubtless, rather than permit
the bill to fail. Whether tho canal and
railway projects are meritorious ones or
not is a auestion about which there is a
great difference of opinion. Those con
gressmen whose constituents have not a di
reot or indirect iuterest in them contend
that they have not merit sufficient to
justify the expenditure of the largo amount
of money they would cost.
The Morning News' Special Service.
The special dispatohes from the Min
neapolis oonvention to the Morning News
were the best by a long way that were pub
lished In the south. They supplemented the
Associated Press dispatches admirably be
cause they touched upon features of the
great contest to which the Associated Press
dispatches gave no attention. In no paper
in the south was the fact brought out so
soon aud so strongly that the leaders of the
Blaine boomers wore not particularly anx
ious to nominate Blaine, but were using
him to defeat Harrison.
The same correspondent who reportod
the Minneapolis oonvention for the Morn
ino News is reporting the Chicago con
vention. He is the Washing ton corre
spondent of the Morning News and Boston
Herald. His dispatches in yesterday’s
Morning News gave a very clear and
comprehensive idea of the situation at
Chicago.
The Morning News does not boast of its
news system. Its patrons, however, know
there is none so good in any other south
ern paper.
A series of heavy blows have fallen upon
ex-Secrotary Blaine since the time he
entered President Harrison’s cabinet. First
his favorite son, Walker, died; then his
daughter, Mrs. Coppinger, and now another
son is dead—aud this last misfortune right
upon the defeat of the ambition of his life
in the republican national convention.
The dem crats of Kansas have been taught
how much (or rather bow little) dependence
is to be put in third party promises. The
third party promised to support a fusion
ticket in the state convention, but when it
cauue to the test the democratic candidate
for justice of the supreme oourt was thrown
over for a third party man.
TITE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1892-TWELVE PAGES.
A Friendly Receiver.
Borne of the reasous given by the Rich
mond and Danville people for seeking a
friendly receiver are decidedly interesting.
One is that they regarded Judge Speer as
hostile to them, and they didn't want to
get into the hands of an unfriendly re
ceiver.
This practically is an admission that the
ground on which the Central ajks for the
appointment of a receiver for the Rich
mond and Danville is a good due. The
Richmond and Danville people would
hardly say that Judge Speer would appoint
n receiver for their road uuless it was satis
factorily shown that there were good reasons
1 fordoing so.
But the Richmond and Danville people
I would like the public to believe that all
tLeir troubles come from attempting to
operate the CentraL In a long article pub
lished in the New York papers giving thoir
reasons for asking a friendly receiver, they
point out that they paid on behalf of the
Central a very large sum that was due when
they took charge of the Central system,
but they do not say they took the Central as
a running road, and reoelved with it, in
money and property, fully as much
as they paid out. Neither
do they call attention to the fact that
although they agreed to pay all the fixed
chargee of the Central and 7 per cent, on its
stock they didn’t do anything of the kind.
They took the road on June 1, 1891, and the
Central had to borrow money and pay the
fixed charge* and stock dividends that
came due ou July 1 following. They
wouldn't even pay the January charges and
dividend until the Central put up collateral.
They complain of the decision which ties
up the 42,000 shares of Central held by
the Richmond Terminal and they complain
of the decision which gave the steamship
stock back to the Central. In faot, they
seem aggrieved that they lost oontrol of the
Central before they had sucked it dry.
The truth,doubtless .is that the Riohmond
Terminal and the Richmond and Danville
were in a pretty had way when the Central
was turned over to the Riohmond and Dan
ville to be operated. The Riohmond
Terminal had already managed the Central
so as to greatly increase its floating debt,
and all the Riohmond and Danville could
get out of it was not sufficient to meet the
demands of the Richmond Terminal and
the Richmond and Danville.
It is, of course, impossible to say what
Judge Speer will do with the Central’s ap
plication for a receiver for the Richmond
and Danville, but it is pretty safe to say he
will do what he believes to be right. The
hollowness of the claim whioh the Rich
mond and Danville sets up against the Cen
tral’s olaim is shown t>y the faot that it is
not even itemize 1. These lump-sum claims
are open to suspicion.
In the Hot Season.
The most widely circulated and lavishly
illustrated literature of the day is from the
pen of the oircus poster writer’s only rival,
the summer resort boomer. When the sum
mer resort boomer’s pamphlets get os thick
on hotel and ticket office oounters as mos
quitoes at the average summer resort, and
mosquitoes at the average summer reiort
swarm as thick as the boomer’s books on
the counters, it is pretty safe to bet that hot
weather is not far away. And when the
mercury bobs up serenely Into the neighbor
hood of tbe nineties, and the ice dealer
appears on the street in anew
mackinaw bat and russet shoes, people
know that it is summer, whether the
almanac says so or not.
The change from winter to summer in
this climate is about complete. It is a rad
ical change, but it does not follow that hot
woather should be unhealthy, if proper
care as to dress, diet and deportment is
taken, and there is no local oause for dis
ease about one’s premises. Just now the
newspaper and magazine writers on sani
tary topics are having a brilliant inning.
They are laying down all sorts of iron
olad rules as to dress, eating and drinking,
which, if followed up, would in seven cases
out of ten, tend to make the obsorver misera
ble. Tho best dictators of summer
hygiene in the world are com
mon sense and good doctors, and
common sense frequently rebels against the
rigid regulations that are laid down by
theoretical writers for the guidance of
people during the summer months just as
though they were spending the time in a
gymnasium or sanitarium. If health and
strength are to be built up, consult a phy
sician ; if not, disregard every particle of
the gratuitous hot weather advice that is
not consistent with your own ideas and go
in to keep cool and have a good time. The
only thiug that needs systematic study is to
avoid irritation; don’t get angry. Go
down to Tyboo as often as possible and take
a dip in the ocean.
Those who cannot run down to tho ocean
or up to the mountains will find a ride in
the evenings on the eloctrio cars pleasant
and benoflcial. There are several splendid
routes for a pleasant ride on the streetcars
of this city. But more open cars are
needed to accommodate excursionists. The
hermetically sealed closed cars are not
pleasant in warm weather, and ought to be
put away. There are dozens of ways of
spending the summer pleasantly at home.
And about the only rule that need be ob
served is keep clean, keep cool and do as
you please, so long as you do not interfere
with auybody else’s privilege to do the
same.
Some of the newspaper men assigned to
report the Chicago convention are not at
all pleased with the wigwam, in which the
meeting is to be held. One of them de
scribes it tiius. “Imagine a dry goods box,
500 feet long, 350 feet wide and 60 feet deep,
open at the top, but without any aperture
in the four sides. Mentaliv saw three or
four holes two feet square close to the
ground in the ends and on one side. This
will give you, if you will fill the interior
with piles of lumber, stacks of chairs, and
a dozen or more poles running up to the
roof, a fair idea of what the wigwam looks
like." The correspondent is rather inclined
to think that the convention will not hold
more than one session in the wigwam, and
will then adjourn to the Auditorium.
When Controller of the Currenoy Lacey
resigned the other day Secretary Foster
wrote him a letter in whioh he testified to
the controller’s ‘ ‘zeal, integrity and indus
try.” It was all right, of course, or the as
tute Secretary of the Treasury would not
have done it. But does it not sound odd to
hear of one of the government’s high officers,
on resigning, being given a “good charac
ter” by bis last employer, just like a coach
man or a cookj
Jerry Simpson prediots that the People's
party will carry Kansas by 20,000 major
ity. But then It was Jerry’s bare ankles
and not bis powers of prophesy that made
him notorious.
PERSONAL.
The German emperor has graciously sanc
tioned the eleotlon of Sir John Everett Millais,
the English painter, as a knight of the “Ordre
pour le merite,” the highest Prussian order for
science and art.
Undaunted by the third refusal of the acad
emy to elect him to membership, Zola an
nounces i ls intention of not only offering hlm
selr at the next vucanoy, but of continuing to
offer himself indefinitely.
Queen Victoria casually encountered a circus
the other day while she was driving up the Dee
side from Balmoral, and at once commanded a
performance. She remained two hours on the
ground looking at the performance from her
carriage, wRh several other illustrious dead
heads.
The latest story of Count Herbert Bismarck’s
ill manners relates that while In Rome recently
he pushed rudely against an Italian officer of
high rank, who turned to protest against such
treatment. Without a word of apology the ex
chancellor’s son retorted angrily: **l am Count
Herbert von Bismarck.’’ "That, sir," re
marked the Italian, ‘is an explanation of your
conduct, but not an excuse.’’
W. S. Hobart died the other day in San Fran
cisco, worth 84,000,000. In 1870 he was a car
man in the Chollar mine. He received $4 a day
for pushing an ore car in the lower levels. He
made a little money in stocks and put it into
teams with which he baul9d ore to tine mills.
He prospered at this and finally got a contract
t 1 extract ore from the Chollar mine on a cer
tain royalty. This was cue foundation of his
fortune.
Senator Brice of Ohio says that though a
newcomer to the chamber of which he is now
a member he feels much at home there. He
had a personal acquaintance with mauy of the
senators before his own election. Besides, he
has been iu Washington a great deal in the last
twenty years. Mr. Brice was a student at the
same from which President Harrison
and Whitelaw Keid wore graduated, Miami Uni
versity, although he was first sent there when
he was only 13 years - It—too tender an age, he
a '* | mts. Two years latter he enlisted as a union
soldier for three months, and upou his return
completed his course; but he then re-enlisted
and served through the last half of the war.
Gov. James Hooo of Texas, now stumping
the state by means of long railway trips, in the
interest of his own desire for a reuomination, is
a picturesque polit cal personality. He bas lots
of whiskers, a long, tawny brown mustache
about 250 pounds of flash and bone, and feet and
voici in due and corresponding proportion. Gov.
Hogg is a man who has waged a war on railways
in iexas, and who once threatened to clap Jay
Gould in jail. Those things have given him a
national reputation. The governor of the Lone
Smr state is very desirous of being known in
his campaign for a renomination as one
of the people. That is why he drinks
water out of a gourd at his public meetings and
eats various things with a knit -at the hotels
During one of his recent speeches, after he had
quaffed from the usual gourd.he said that when
he was a boy they used to raise gourds bigger
and of much bettor shape than was the head of
a reporter sitting on the platform, and at whom
he pointed. The governor is quite fluent of
speech, and delights as being known as “Jim”
by the farmers, to whom he alludes as “thp
boys from the forks of the creek." In his
fluency of speech he recsntly alluded to a man
who had taken issue with biui as a distorter of
the truth, or words to hat effect, for which he
has been sued for $50,000.
BRIGHT BIT:?.
"This is a giddy world,” said Bangle.
“Well, ana why not?" put in Moodies. “You’d
be giddy if you uid as much twirling as the
world does.’’— Harper's Bazar.
“George,” she said just after he had kissed
her, “I’m an advocate of reciprocity."
"Yes," he answered; “but your father is a
retaliationist. ’’ — IKasM ngton Star.
“Is this a healthy portion ot the state?"
asked a traveler in Arkansas.
"Well, I should say it is. There has been
nobody hanged about here in three months."
Texas Siftings.
Satan— Did you torture him well?
Asmodeu* Y es.
Satan -What did you do?
Asmodeus—l asked him if It was hot enough
for him.— New York Herald.
Ella —Do you believe in signs, Algy, dear?
Algy—To tell the truth, darling, I always was
a little superstitious.
Etla—Wqll, there Is a sign over there that
says "Ice cream,’v- Heuruard Latnpoon.
Georgia, the mother of magnetic girls and
other freaks, now comes foi ward with an Irish
Chi: aman who talks pigeon English with a
brogue. Tbe new south is bound to keep up
with the procession.— New York Herald.
Judge (to ragged tramp)—ln your pocket has
been found a pocket book with S2O. Can you
account for tnat?
Tramp - Certainly, your honor, I had put It
there to pay my tailor. —Fliegcnde Blatter.
Teacher— You have written statesman with
a possessive case sign—state's man. That is
incorrect.
Boy—Doesn't the state own the man?
Teacher—No; the statesman owns the state.
Good Sens.
U>cle Anpre (to his nephew)—You should
always be modest, my child.
Nephew- I have thought that matter over,
uncle. There is just one objection to modesty
—people are apt to take you at your own valu
ation.—La Figaro.
“Why were you discharged from your last
place?"
“It was just this way. The boss said it was
time to take stock, and I took all I could. He
went back on what he said and threatened to
have me arrested; so I left.’’— Puck.
“Ip I were to ask you to marry me what would
you say ?"
“Why, Mr. Jonesby,’’ she faltered, “really
this is so sudden."
"I thought so.” he answered; "that's about
what they all say. Much obliged.” And then
he said it was time for him to go Washington
Star.
‘’William," she sighed, and he hung upon
her words with the grip of a freshman testing
his strength for an anthropomctrical chart,
“William, why am I like a broken locket?”
“Ah,” he said. "I cannot tell."
“Because, William," she murmured, and her
voice had the far away sound of the wind moan
ing on tbe freshman fence, “I need a clasp.”
And then, hung it, Abe Hibernian liebe came in
to light the lamps.— Yale Record.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Republican View of It.
From the New York Press (Her.).
With Pols and Stackhouse gone, there isn’t
much left of the allianc; movement except old
Mr. Peffar’s whiskers aud a few Irresolute reso
lutions.
Mr. Cleveland and New York.
From the Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.).
A canvass of the democratic voters of New
York at the present time would, we are confi
dent. s tow as general and as cordial a disposi
tion to fight the battle of next November under
the leadership of Mr. Cleveland as that, shown
in any state which has instructed its delegates
to support him in the convention.
Carlisle tor Chairman at Chicago.
From the Nashville American (Dem.).
Carlisle for presiding officer at Chicago is not
a bad idea, Grover Cleveland will be nomi
nated, and with Carlisle's speech, as presiding
officer, shattering to fragments McKinley’s
weak sophistries uttered with so mucu gusto at
Minneapolis, the great Democratic party will
start in a winning cumpai .n from the jump.
Whitney Not a Candidate.
Prom the New York World (Dem.).
Mr. V,\ C. Whitney is not a candidate for the
Chicago nomination. He does not want it, He
will not take it under any circumstances. All
this Mr. Whitney, in reply to inquiries, has set
forth in a letter to the Lowell (Mass ) Evening
Star, which is writt-n with a manly straight
forwardness that can leave no doubt in any
mind as to the writer's sincerity.
What Harrison’s Means.
Commenting the renomination of President
Harrison The Voice, the organ of the Prohibi
tion party, goes farther than any democratic
paper has done when it says: ‘fit is an Indorse
turn' of debauchery at the capitoi, pollution in
the home, corruption in politics, lechery In
society, hypocrisy in the church. And the oon
vention that indorsed these was well fitted for
its work.”
The Cleveland Vote at Chicago.
From the New York Post (Ind ).
The first vote for Cleveland at Cbloago, ac
cording to all accounts, will be so large that the
others can oniv be accounted os scattering.
Even Hill's vote rises to respectability only by
reason of the two-thirds rule. If majorities
governed In democratic national conventions as
they do in all other political assemblages of all
parties under free government, Hill's vote
would be not only included among the scatter
ing, but It would be so scattered before reach
ing Chicago that there would be nothing left
of it.
Building Up Calves’ Tongues.
A drummer told this story to a party of as
sociates in the hearing of a New York news
paper man: At Mion I was surprised at seeing
some enormous calves' tongue* offered for sale
In the market place. They were marvels. Each
tongue was at least four feet long and weighed
not far from ten pounds. The cattle whieh
could produce such linguistic organs must be
veritable Titans. 1 was told by one of the in
habitants of the place that these tongue# were
raised at a farm not far from the city, and,
having an hour to spire, I determined to pay
the plao i a visit and see the monsters. I found
the owner of the place a very pleasant fellow.
He took me back Into his barn. To my surprise
I found that the enormous tongues came from
very ordinary looking animals, not above the
average size.
“Is this a peculiar breed of cattle!’’l asked.
"Are they long-tongued Instead of long-horned ?”
“Not at all,” explained my guide “They
are the ordinary breed 1 early discovered that
calves had a fondness for salt, and determined
to use this discovery to the bast advantage.
Tying the calf when quite youug in Its stall, I
suspended a piece of rock salt within bare reach
of it* tongue. It will naturally exert Itself to
reach the tld-bit. In a week I hang the salt an
Inch higher, and tbe calf will stretch Its tongue
until It can reach the lump. Each week 1 in
crease the distance, and the tongue lengthens
In proportion. At the end of the year 1 have a
tin - healthy tongue, ranging in length from
three to four feet.
“But,” I said, "after awhile the animal's head
must become too small for it* tongue. How
does it get back into its mouth?”
"As you Ray. the head becomes too small. I
have, therefore, invented an artificial mouth,
with which 1 incase tbe organ when not In use
I have made quite a fortune out .of my scheme,
as the ton-u-s are of fine quality. Being im
j reg ant dw t > salt they can bejshipped to ong
distances sl<l will stand any cduiate. lam now
looking ror a partner with capital to work a
scheme for increasing the size of porter house
steaks by the application of electricity to the
animal. If you hoar of anybody with more
capital than brains just let me know. ’’
A Week of Misery.
Tbe tramp struck the respectable citizen for
a dime, say* the Detroit Free Frees.
“You shall hare it on one condition," said the
citizen.
"Nominate your bond,” responded the tramp
with airy confidence.
"It is this. If you won’t drink any liquor for
an entire week I'll give you the dime now and
$1 at the end of seven days."
"Done,” said the tramp, and he pocketed the
cash.
A week later he was on hand, looking much
more respectable.
“I came for the $!, sir," he said respectfully
and contritely.
"You haven't drank anything for a week?"
"Not a drop.”
"Well, you look so much decenter that I'll
take the chance on you. Here’s your dollar.”
The tramp took it with an effusion of thanks,
and started off.
"Hold on," interrupted the donor.
The tramp turned in the doorway anxiously.
“I’d like to know what you are going to do
with that much money?"
“There’s nothing mean about me. mister."
was the response, “and I ain’t hidin’ behind the
bush a bit. I’ll tell you what I’m going to do
with it. I'm going around here to a place I
know of and ketch qp with that last week. O,
reservoir.” anil he slammed the door and
whirled off around the first corner.
Queer Oases of Hypnotism.
French newspapers are discussing the ques
tion of using hypnotism in tbe detection of
crime, and many learned doctors have voiced
their views on the subject. In the Paris Figaro
Dr. Montet tells of two instances In which
hypnotism has been used in the restricted aud
special manner approved by Dr. Brouardel for
furthering the ends of justice. Iu one case a
servant girl was accused by her mistress of
stealing ner jewels. The girl denied the charge
with every appearance of sincerity. Wbil.-she
was in prison it was discovered that she was
liable to spontaneous somnambulism. A doc
tor having reproduced this state by hypnotism
she acknowledged that she had’ stolen the
jewels, and told where she had hidden them.
The expermsnt was re) rated before the court,
and tbe proof was considered conclusive that
she had committed the theft while iu the som
nambulistic state, and it was only when this
condition returned that sue had any concious
ness of what she had dons. Her moral irre
sponsibility was, therefore, held to be estab
lished. in the other case Dr. Moutet himself
obtained the acquittal of a man charged with
a serious offense by proving that he was liable
to fall involuntarily Into tbe hypnotic state aud
then commit various acts of which he had no
recollection whatever when his normal condi
tion returned.
The Singing In God’s Acre.
Eugene Field in Ladies' Home Journal.
Out yonder in the moon tight, wherein God’s
Acre lies.
Go angels walking to and fro, singing their lul
labies;
Their radiant wings are folded and their eyes
are bended low.
As they sing among the bads whereon the flow
ers delight to grow:
"Sleep, O sleep!
The shepherd guardeth his sheep!
Fast speedeth the night away,
Soon cometh the glorious day;
Sleep, weary ones, while ye may—
Sleep, O sleep!”
The flowers within God’s Acre see that fair and
wondrous sight.
And bear the angels singing to the sleepers
through the night;
And lo! throughout the hours of day those
gentle flowers prolong
The music of the angels in that tender slumber
song:
“Sleep, 0, sleep 1”
The Shepherd ioveth hi* sheep 1
He that guardeth his flock the best
Hath folded them to his loving breast;
So. sleep ye now and take your rest—
Sleep, O, sleep!"
From angel and from flower the years have
learned that soothing song.
And with its neavsnly music speed the days and
nights along;
So. through all tune, whose flight the Shepherd's
vigils glorify,
God’s Acre slumbereth in the grace of that
sweet lullaby:
"Sleep. o,sleep!"
The Shepherd loveth his sheep!
Fast speedeth the night away.
Soon cometh the glorious day;
Sleep, weary ones, while ye may—
Slsep, O, sleep!”
She Found the Cupid Interesting.
One of the cleverest things from an artistic
standpoint at a recent art exhibition at Wash
ington, says a writer for the Washington Post,
was Will H. Low’s oil of a cupld aud maiden.
Theyareboth.it is needless to say, natural.
Cupids always are. Tuat is a peculiarity of
cupids. Low, the artist, was presented to the
daughter of one of the most prominent officials
in the United States, and they stood for ten
minutes before it while Low pointed out its
peculiarities, and tbe girl admired it. Then the
girl presented the artist to her mother, saying:
"Mr. Low has just been explaining to me his
picture, and ltis splendid, mamma.”
Mamma asked where it wa. "There,” said
the daughter, guiding her parent's eves in the
direction of Low’s masterpiece. As the moth
er’s eye took in tte seductive cupid and its sur
roundings the shocked look that appeared on
her face could never have been produced' by
anything short of Cupid or electricity.
Under the direction of Prof. Putnam, chief of
the department of ethnology and archaeology at
the world’* Columbian exhibition, an effort is
being made to ascertain whether the various
noted people who were here when Columbus
came were all one race, or of two, three, four or
possibly five different races. This is done by a
number of assistants sent to various parts of the
country to measure the Indians, to secure those
measurements of body, head and face which are
used by anthropologists to determine racial
types. It Is this work in which about forty
students from various colleges will engage this
summer These observations will be tabulated
and arranged for careful comparative study,
which, it is hoped, will solve this problem of the
unity or non-unity of race of the American
Indian.
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ITEMS OF INrsai .t,
A pair of infants has been presented to Har
rison Breedlove, who is 70 years old, by his wife,
who is 63, who live at Carson, Ner. They are
believed to be the oldest couple on record who
have been favored in this way. It is proposed
to send the father, mother and children to the
world's fair as samples of what it is possible to
do in the far west.
The custom of placing orape on the door of a
house where there has been a recent death had
its origin in the ancient English heraldic cus
toms, and dates as far back, at least, as the
year 111 K) A. D. At that period hatchments or
armorial ensigns were placed in front of hous -s
when the nobility and gentry died. These
hatchments were of diamond shape and con
tained the family arms quartered aud covered
with sable.
The Mohavf.s believe that all who die and are
not cremated are turned into owls, and when
they hear an owl hooting at night they think it
is the sp rit of some dead Mohave returned.
After any one dies they do not eat salt or wash
themselves for four days. Taey ha 1 formerly
an annual burning ot property, and ail would
contribute something to the flames in expecta
tion of its going up to their departed friends in
heaven, or “White Mountain,“ as they call it.
When the queen opens parliament in person
she proceeds in state to the House of Lords and
commands Black Rod to let the commons know
“that it is her majesty’s pleasure that they at
tend her immediately in this house.” Black Rod
proceeds to the House of Commons aud form
ally commands their presence, on which the
speaker and the commons go up to the bar of
the House of Lords, and the queen delivers her
speech, which is read by the lord chancellor
kneeling ou one knee.
The empire of China, according to the * 'Osta
siatischer Lloyd,” covering an area of 4,000,000
square kilometers, now has a population of
360.000,000, or about 88 inhabitants to the square
kilometer. Ho-Nan, it declares, is the most
thickly populated province of the country,
having about 210 persons to the square kilome
ter. fcdian-Tung follows Ho-Nan. with 172 to
square kilometer. The boundary terrlt ry of
Thibet numbers the least people of any district
of trie empire, there being only three persons to
the square kilometer.
A curious present recently given to Prince
Bismarck is a gigantic bouquet of flower* three
feetinhigut. But they were not real flowers
with the perfume of the garden and field upoQ
them; the thousands of little leaves and blos
soms. sprays aud grasses were made of the fin
est (sheet iron, as fin# and thin as letter paper.
It had been rolled in the Bismarck foundry in
Upper Silesia and formed into flowers, leaves
and garia ids in the factory of Christian Jauph
in Breslau. Not one unnatural line disturbs tue
eye; the oak leaves aud laurel branches, the
roses, pinks and all are as natural as you please.
The iM-AdES of the gods in India are not made
by a separate caste, but the carpenters aud
masons respectively make the arge wooden
and stone idols set up in the temples, the pot
ters the clay idols consumed in daily worship,
and the braziers, coppersmiths and goldsmiths
the little images in brass, c *pper, mixed metal
and gold and silver that are always kept in pri
vate homes. The East Indians regard an alloy
of brass, with six other metals, gold silver,
iron, tiu, lead, making with the copper and
zinc of the brass, a mixture of light metals, as
a very perfect alloy, and this highly prized as a
material for sacred images.
For practical purposes the Mediterranean
may be accepted as being what is popularly
supposed to be, a tide ess sea, but it is not so in
n a ity. In many places there is a distinct rise
and fall, though this is more frequently due to
winds and currents than to lunar attraction
At Venice there is a rise of from one to fwo feet
in spring tides, according to the preval rice of
winds up or down the Adriatic. In many straits
arid narrow arms of the sea there is a period
ical flux and reflux, but the only place where
the tidal influence, properly so called, is unmis
takably observed is in the Gulf of Gabes, where
the tide runs at the rate or two or three knots
an hour and the rise and fall varies from three
to eight feet.
The remarkable stone houses of Easter Is
land were thoroughly explored by an expedi
tion from the United States steamer Mohican,
and have been described in the report of tha
United States National Museum for 1889. These
houses are built against a terrace of earth or
rock, which in some cases forms the back wail
of the dwelling. They are built of small slabs
of stratified basaltic rock, piled together with
out cement. No regularity of plan is shown in
the construction of a majority of them. The
average measurement is as follows: Hight
from floor to ceiling, 4 feet 6 inches; thickness
of walls, 4 feet to 10 inches; width of rooms, 4
feet 6 inches; length of rooms, 12 feet 9 inches;
average size of doorways, bight, 20 inches;
width, 19 inches.
The great fire of Boston, which occurred
Nov. 9, 1872, started at the corner of Summer
and Kingston streets and spread over sixty
three acres of the business part of the city,
leaving the entire district bounded by Summer]
Washington, Milk and Broad streets a heap of
smoking ruins, and destroying over $100,000,009
worth of property, sa>s the Bost n Commercial
Bulletin. Many of tue buildings, although of
solid g anite, seemed to be no barrier to the
spread of the conflagration. Boston recovered
with rnarvejous speed from the terrible b ow,
and tbe burned district wasreiaiiiout in greater
regularity aud tho buildings erected were of
much more substantial character and under
strict regulations with regard to greater safety
from similar disaster. Indeed, the beauty of
the great avenues of warehouses in this quanter
of tho city is now frequently commented on by
strangers.
A German statistician recently published
the results of his investigation of the relative
ages of husband and wives in the various capi
tals of Europe He found that the conditions
in Berlin, where the bureau of statistics does
excellent work, corresponded, upon tho whole,
with those iu other cities. He discovered that
marriages are most freauent where the hus
band is 2 or 8 years older than the wife.
Women under 20 years of ape, however, usually
take unto themselves husbands 6 or 7 years
oiler than themselves. The cases in which the
man was 1 year younger than the woman
were aimost as numerous as those in
which he was 6 or 7 years older. The first
condition was true of 6.7 per cent of all
married couples, and the latter condition of 6.4
per cent. The cases where the husband was 6
or 7 years younger than the wife were also just
a=4 numerous as those where he was 13 or 14
years older. Only two cases were discovered
where the husband was 35 years the senior, one
case where he was 47 years older, and one case
where he was the older by 46 years. One case
was discovered where the wife was 34 years
older than the husband. Twelve and three
tenths per cent, of all men who marry women
under 20 years of age, according to the statis
tician, are between 26 aud 27 years old.
I CHRISTOPHER GRAY & g<>N
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