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'INDEX TiHEW ADVEKIISKMENfi -
Meetings—Board of Road Commissioners of
Chatham County; Georgia Historical Society.
Special Notices—An Open Invitation, Falk
Clothing Cos.; As to British Steamship Eglantine,
A. Minis' Sons.
X. L C. R. Appel 4 Schaul.
Legal Notices-Application to Sell, Levy J.
Myers, Administrator of Solomon Cohen; Let
ters Diemissory os Guardian of Mary E. and
John H. Bowden.
Railroad Schedules -Central Railroad of
Georgia; Charleston and Savannah Railroad.
Auction Salks—Clothing, etc., J. H. Oppen
helm 4 Son.
Slaughtering Carpets—Lindsay 4 Morgan,
Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company; Gen
eral Transatlantic Company.
Bilk Handkerchiefs -Falk Clothing Cos.
Railroad Commission of Georgia-Circular
No. 223.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wants I; For Rrnt; For
8$le: Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
Lieut. Peary informs the public that he is
not a pole hunter, though be would not ob
ject to bringing back a chip off tbe north
pole as a trophy. His purpose is to bound
Greenland.
Congressman Holman bus already begun
to whet his cheese knife on his boot leg la
anticipation of tbe appropriation bills. It is
said tbe army, navy and military academy
bills will be sure to feel its edge.
Nearly a month after the election there
are several states in which the results are
still doubtful. In California, tor instance,
it is not yet known whether asoltd or a split
delegation will be sent to the electoral ool
lege.
The arrival in London of the first cargo
of oranges shipped direct from Florida, with
the fruit in good condition, may open the
way for a large direct trade in southern
fruits. It is to be hoped that suoh result
will follow.
Dr. C. U. Shepard, whose tea farm at
Summerville, S. C., was receutly uoticed
in the Morniso News, has sent some of
his tea to Baltimore for examination. It
was tested by an expert who pronounced it
equal to the best English breakfast tea. If
suoh tea can be raised in South Carolina
why can’t it be raised in Georgia also?
Minister to Chile Egan was reported, two
or three days ago, as being on the eve of
sending his resignation to the President.
But the minister told a reporter who asked
him about it that all sued stories were
“bolas,” which he explained was the Span
ish for “fakes.” Egan has apparently been
apt in aoquiring language and things dur
ing his residence in Santiago.
Mr. Cleveland did not escape all the of
fice seekers by going into temporary exile at
Hog Island, It seems. The Hog Islanders
have long wanted a postottice, but hereto
fore have never beeD able to present their
request direct to “headquarters" with any
assurance that they would get a hearing.
During Mr. Cleveland’s visit he was made
aware of their desires, and circumstances
compelled him to listen.
Charles Buddenseiek, who was convicted
of manslaughter in the making of rotten
buildings, some of which collapsed and killed
several persons, has been released from New
York state prison. He was sentenced in
18115 to ten years' imprisonment, but g lod
behavior reduced the term of actual im
prisonment to 7)4 years. Buddenseick’s
name has become, in house building, almost
a technical term to describe cheap and badly
constructed buildings.
It was a toss-up between the republicans
and populists of the Kansas legislature as
to which party should control that body.
The republicans won. The democrats were
“out of it” from the first. The attorney
general has given an opinion that tossing
a coin to settle such a question is not con
stitutional, and some other method will
have to be adopted to settle the matter.
In the meantime the republicans may elect
a senator.
When Jim Corbett face 1 the man whom
the public regarded os the greatest fighter
and hardest hitter in the world he retreated,
charged, daaced and laughed like he was
having a good time and would en joy the
occasion still more if he could punch Sulli
van’s head clear off his shoulders. Yet
when he visited his old frisnd, poor “Billy’
bcanlsn, the demented actor, the other day
he broke down and wept like a child. Hu
man nature is a Queer thing.
Mr. Springer Heard From.
It Repreeentative Springer, tbe chairman
of the ways and means committee, has his
wav thro will be an extra session of eon
: greas He has arrived in Wasbington, and
1 has already made himself heard throughout
tbe country. He give* the reasons why
tbore should be an extra session. One is that
there will be a deficiency in the treasury of
$50,000,000 or $100,000,000 next July, and it
will be necessary to make som* provision
foi meeting it. The other is that the Demo
cratic party has promis and the people to re
duce the tariff, and it is its duty to do it
without delay.
Mr. Springer thinks also that tbe Senate
should hearken to the voice of the people
and pass tbe tariff reduction bills which the
i House sent it at the last session. Tbe bills
are those framed in acoordanoe with Mr.
! Springer’s plan for reducing the tariff.
If the Senate should pass tbe pending
! tariff bills and the Preeident should sign
them there would be less reason for an ex
tra session, so far as the tariff is concerned.
But there is not the least chance that tbe
Senate will pass them, or that the Presi
dent would sign them if the Senate should
past them. The Republican party is going
to stand on its high protection record.
There will lie no reduotion of the tariff un
til tbe democrats get control of tbe govern
ment.
Tbe question of an extra session will re
ceive a great deal of attention within the
next few days, because the members of
congress will be anxious to get each other*’
views. But they will all understand that
whether there will bean extra aeesion or
not depends upon Mr. Cleveland, who,
while be will listen to what the party lead
ers have to say, will be guided by bis own
judgment.
It is evident from what has been pub
lished already that there is a great differ
ence of opinion on tbe subject. Unless
something occurs to change the situation
greatly tbe democrats in congress will be
pretty evenly divided in regard to it before
March 4. In that event, uulees the condi
tion of tbe treasury should demand it, it is
extremely probable that an extrs session
would not be called, notwithstanding Mr.
Springer’s opinion that it should be.
Solving the Silver Problem.
Tbe members of tbe Colorado Silver
Club at a recent meeting passed resolu
tions denouncing the two leading political
parties, the Brussels monetary conference
and a number of other things, and demanded
the free coinage of silver.
They have not yet arrived at the “or
something better’’ stage of their disease, as
have the alliance people, which denotes
convalescence, but are still red-hot for
financial “reform.” And while they, or
other money reformers elsewhere, are in
that condition they might do well to con
sider the scheme of the Martha's Vineyard
Herald to do away with the fluctuations of
gold and silver. The bright editor of that
journal proposes to stop them from playing
Bee-saw —one being up wbeu the other is
down—by welding the two metals to
gether into huge blocks, tbe proportions be
ing sixteen parts of silver to one of gold,
depositing these blocks In the treas
ury and issuing paper against the
bullion. The physical impossibility of
gold, under suoh conditions, going
up without taking silver along with
it is at once apparent and must commend
itcelf to the financiers of tbe Maoune-Slmp
so n school.
Or if that plan does not meet the ideas of
the radical silver advocates, what ie the
matter with this, from a correspondent
of the New York Post: That the various
governments represented at the Brussels
conference pay a good round snm to the
owners of silver mines to stop mining. The
free coinage boom was gotten up by tbe
mine owners for their own beueflt, and if
they could get the money they are after
without the passage of tbe aot they would
be satisfied. Besides, that would effectually
stop fluctuations in silver. For how could
silver in the bowels of the earth fluctuate!
When the silver miners bad been satisfied,
then the reformers, provided they bad se
sured control of the government by that
time, might adopt Jerry Simpson’s famous
plan of getting government engineers to
estimate the probable amount of silver in
the mountains of this country and then issue
paper against It.
The tendency of some newspapers to
credit any unusual happening to the state
of Georgia in the absence of Information
positively fixing the place of ocourrenoe is
sometimes gratifying. And sometimes It
isn’t. A few days ago, at Sparta, Ky„ a
man named Constantine shot another man
who failed to pay a debt, according to
agreement. The tragedy was commented
on in the Morning News at the time.
Most of the newspapers reported the matter
correctly, but a number of them that re
wrote the dispatch, the Washington Star
among others, obarged the Sparta in Geor
gia with having raised up a Shylock iu the
person of Constantine to demand and re
ceive bis pound of flesh.
A society reporter of the New York Press
has stumbled on an explanation for the re
cent rumor that Mr. Cleveland would
probably appoint the Hon. Charles S. Fair
child Secretary of the Treasury.
The reason is a rather unique one, viz.,
the reouest of Mrs. Cleveland. The reporter
beiieves that he has also found the in
fluence that will dominate the next ad
ministration. And that will also be Mrs.
Cleveland. Mrs. Cleveland is very foud of
Mrs. Fairchild, who Is known as a culti
vated and charming womaD, and it is be
lieved it would delight the wife of the Presi
dent if Mrs. Fairchild should he again in
the cabinet circle. But talk of Mr. Cleve
land’s being dominated is bosh.
Tbe letter carriers, for whoee benefit the
eight-hour day was made lawful by con
gress four years ago, will probably get their
rights shortly after the democrats assume
control of the government. W anamaker
has succeeded iu keeping the men out of
their money up to this time, notwithstand
ing tbe decision of the court of claims in
their favor. The eupreme court, to which
the matter was appealed from the coart of
claims, has been requested t> advance the
the cose and will very probably do It, so
that a decision during the next two or three
months is expected.
In the case of Congressman Ben Clovsr,
of Kansas, it appears that there is very
little iu hie name suggestive of the char
acter of the person who wears it The wife
of tbe congressman, instead of living in an
atmosphere pungent with tbe perfume of
flowers, resonant with tbe buzzing of beei
ana warmed by congenial sunshine, says
she finds life with Clover unbearable be
cause of bis extreme oruelty, and has sued
for a divorce. So there is a lotof difference
between living in clover and living with
I Clover. *
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1892.
The Harnessing of Niagara Falls
The greatest hydraulic engineering feat
ever attempted will be accomplished during
July. 1893, it it thought, at which time it ie
proposed to put Niagara falls to work at
spinning, weaving and making Itself gen
erally useful. It has been tbe dream of
engineers for years to utilise at least a email
part of the enormous power going to watte
over the brink of the cataract; at last that
! dream Is to be realized.
An immense tunnel with It* mouth jnsl a
little above the lower level of the river baa
been driven back into the bank parallel
with the upper river on the American side
to a distance of several thousand feet.
From this tunnel great shafts 18 feet in
diameter pieroe the earth 160 feet perpen
dicularly to the upper level of the river.
The shafts are connected with the water
above by a canal; and thus, with tb* neces
sary galea, flames, wheels and other tech
nical apparatus, has the problem of har
nessing Niagara been solved. It puzzled
tbe engineering world a long time, yet the
solution is easily understood and must, to
engineers, appear very simple.
The work has been a stupendous one,
however. More than $3,000,000 baa been
the money cost of the work up to date,
while several livee have also been sacrificed
to it during tbe two years sinoe it was begun.
It it anticipated that almost as much more
money will be needed to complete tbe work.
When It is finished it is estimated that the
gigantic sum total of 146,000 horse-power
will have been made available. The largest
and most powerful turbine wheelt In
the world will be used to gather the
power, which will not only be utilized
near at hand, but transmitted in the shape
of sleotrical energy to faotorle* many miles
distant. Each of the great wheels, oper
ating in the 160-foot shafts, will be of 5,000
horse-power. Heretofore the highest horse
power ever developed by a water wheel is
3,000.
It is believed that the development of this
stupendous water-power will make the
vicinity of Niagara Falls ona of ths manu
facturing centers of the oountry. The
works on the American side are to be dupli
cated on the Canadian side in the near
future.
Damages for a Lover’s Death.
A young woman living at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., has brought suit for $40,000 damage*
against the New York Central railroad for
tbe loss of eomething she never possessed—
a husband. Bh# was engaged to be mar
ried to a young man who was so unfortun
ate as to be killed in a wreck on tbe road,
which accident, the woman says, lost bar a
husband, thereby depriving her of visible
means of support during her life.
The unfortunate widow, who was never a
wife, will have plenty of sympathy in her
suit: but it is hardly likely that she will get
any money out of it. There Is a law in
New York which fixe* the value of a life
lost in a railroad disaster at $5,000, and that
goes to the persons directly dependent upon
tbe deceased tor support.
If sentiment was law the court might be
so wrought upon that it would award the
pre-nuptial widow tbe amount she demands.
But as statutes, not sentiment, ’’go,’ with
the courts In these days, it is extremely un
likely that any amount will be awarded her.
If the prospective bride should recover
damages for loss of a supporter who had
never supported her, why should not tbe
prospective mother-in-law recover damages
also! Indeed, why should not the whole of
tbe bride-elect’s family enter suits for
damages, if the departed groom-elect
chanced to be well-to-do, and the aforesaid
family had intended to go and live at bis
home after tbe wedding! And onoe
it had been established that the pros
pective ownership of husbands entitle the
prospective owners to damages in case of
tbe death of the prospectively owned In
railroad accidents, at the rate of $40,000
apiece, how long would it be before every
railroad in the country would be bank
rupted! There would very likely be more
engaged men killed on the road than one
could "shake a stick at,” and, in the cases
of drummers and young candidates for
political offloe, there might be a dozen
claimants for each cadaver. Then who
would deoide between them! Or would
they all be entitled to remuneration, and
take the railroad for pay!
Last week 500 Italian laborers sailed from
New York for Italy, to get away from the
severe winter of the north, it is alleged.
They had all saved money at SI per day for
wages, and one of them said he had S6OO
which he had saved from 2)4 years’ work.
A few day* subsequent to the sailing of this
lot of Italian laborers about 1,000 .Scan
dinavian laborers sailed for home. They,
also, had been able to save money out of
the wages received as oommou laborers In
this oountry. If these people oould have
been induced to come south to invest their
little savings it would have been a good
thing. The Italians would, in this state
and Florida, have found a climate very
much like that of Italy, aud both Italians
and Scandinavians, for a comparatively
small amount, oould have purchased tracts
of laud on whioh to raise grapes, fruits and
vegetables for market. They will most
likely engage in such pursuits at home,
where neither tbe land nor the markets are
as good as they are here.
Tbe supposition that Lizzie Borden was
insane did not have much weight with the
grand jury investigating the Borden mur
der mystery, and the young woman must
stand trial on the obarge of having brutally
murdered her father and step-mother. It
Is bard to (relieve that a young woman of
refinement and previous good reputation
would have committed two euoh atrocious
murders. There was either tha cunning of
iusaulty displayed, or the crimes were long
premeditated, for every traoe that would
lead to the identification of the murderer
was removed. The evidenoe against
Lizzie borden is very strong, but It is all
circumstantial, and many an Innocent per
son hat gone to the gallows on that kind of
evidence. However, there may have been
testimony before the grand jury of whioh
the publie know nothing, and whioh may
tend to olear the mystery.
Tbs citizens of Tallahassee have sent out a
general invitation to the people of Florida
to he present at the Inauguration of Gov.
elect H. L. Mitchell. They promise
to make tbe oooasion an enjoyable one to
those who aocept the Invitation. An at
tractive programme has been prepared. It
iDcludae a parade. In whioh the etate militia
will take a prominent part, inaugural cere
monlee, a barbecue, fireworks and a ball.
The arrangement for aaoomiuodatinc visit
ore are ample. The mayor of the city has
undertaken to secure accommodations in
advance for those who desire them. Tal
lahassee will show the people of the state
whet she oan do toward making her vis
itors bare a good time,
PERSONAL.
Col. Robert Inoersoll is an enthusiastic
collector of bric a brae.
There is a colored prisoner working in the
Alabama mines who can speak twelve lan
guages.
Firms presidents of the United states have
bad smooth faces and onl j two of them wore
side whiskers.
At Brubsels a few days ago Mile. Marguerite
GomDari was awarded her d-gree as doctor of
philosophy and letters She Is the drat young
girl who has obtained this degree.
Gov.- elect John H. McGraw of the state of
Washington Is a native of Maine and years
of age. Sixteen years ago he was driving a
bobtail street car In San Francisco.
Vick President-elect Stevenson will stay in
Washington during sessions ef congress, but he
and his family will occupy their old home at
Bloomington, Ili„ the r-et of the time.
Dr. Elliott Conkb, the ornithologist, says
the feather of a bird is merely the scale of a
lizard or serpent modified. This establishes at
once the connection between science and mil
linery.
Mrs. Macbeth, an Englishwoman and the
wife of a member of the Royal Academy, prac
tices riding after fox bounds astride of her
horse, clad in knee breeches, gaiters and a di
vided skirt.
On the same dat that Grover Cleveland at
Broadwater Island hurt his thumb while trying
to lock his gun, Baron Hirsch, who was hunting
near Fontaineble iu, hurt bis hand while trying
to do the same thing.
Kev. Dr. Miil of Philadelphia was in St. Sul
spice College at the same time that Renan and
Gounod were studying there, the musician in
the next higher and the young Breton in
the one next lover than Dr. Miel.
Dr. Herman Stre' ker of Reading. Pa., has a
collection of butterflies which is commencing
to attract attention. It numbers over 100,000
specimens and represents pom* thirty years of
ooiiectorship on the part of tbe proprietor.
LABorcHBRE's Truth, denies that there is any
truth in tbe rumor that the Prince of Wales
contemplates visiting the Chicago exposition;
nor is it true that there has been any idea of the
Duke of York crossing the Atlantic next year.
Mr. Preece, the new engineer-in -chief and
electrician to the British postofflee depart
ment (which has charge of the telegraphs as
well as the mails) has what is said to bo the
finest collection of Persian antiquities in Eng
land. They were picked up and sent to him by
a brother, who ia an officer of the Indo-Euro
pean Telegraph Company.
Bishop Kopp and Archbishop Krementz, who
were raised to the rank of cardinals last week,
came near receiving red hats tnree years ago
At that time it was probable that at least one
German would be honored. But while Pope
Leo favored Archbishop Krementz, Prussia
wanted Bishop Kopp to be appointed. The re
suit of this complication was that neither of
them became a cardinal. Now both receive
the distinction together. Krementz antagon
ized the civil government at one time, but was
finally restored to favor
BRIGHT BITS.
A senior in a western college proposes to de
liver an oration commencement day on “The
Relation of tbe Wheelbarrow to American Elec
tions. ” New York Tribune.
Bhe— What did papa say when you told biin
you wished to marry me. dear?
Hk—l don't remember what he said darling,
but I know I felt hurt. Brooklyn Life.
Hunker-Go Miss Keedick at the ball)—You
are the reigning belle here.
Miss Keedick (%earily)-A.nd I would like to
gel in out of the reign. -Detroit Free Pre* s.
Tracher—Well, Tommy, I suppose you had a
very pleasant time Thanksgiviug day?
Tommy (not feeling welly-Yes, and an awful
nice time after dinner.— Chicago Inter l)cean.
Hr—You seem to look upon a proposal of
marriage as an every-day affair.
She—Well, no. Hardly that. Every other day.
I never give my answer the game day.— Life.
First Boy—l wish my pop waa a democrat
'stead of a republican.
Second Bov—Why?
First Boy—l know three republican boys I can
lick. — Good Xeus.
Mother-—So you wish my daughter for your
, Wires f. ~L
He (gallantly)—'Partly that, madam, and
partly that you may be my mother-in-law.
Detroit Free Press.
The Lawyer—The witness will now please
state his vocation. You raise chickens, do you
not?
Rastus H. Ola.v (with marked emotion)
'Deea I doesn't, yo’ honah, only oncet, an’ den
I clean forgot myself.—Chicago News-Necord.
Trotter— So you had all your wife’s relatives
to dinner at Thanksgiving, eh?
Barlow—Yes, and 1 was thankful that I mar
ried a couutry girl. Her uncle supplied the tur
keys and her mother the pumpkin pies, while a
Jersey cousin gave the cranberries.— Harper's
Bazar.
Friend—Given up housekeeping and gone to
a hotel, eh v How do you like hotel life?
Firstrate. Never was so happy in my
"Indeed 1 And how does your wife like it?’’
“First-class. ’•
“Where are you staying?”
*Tm at the St. Charles and she's at the St.
James.”— Beta York Weekly.
The astronomical editor of an Arizona paper,
after carefully observing the comet through the
bottom of a glass tumbler several nights in suc
cession, is prepared to make the following bets
touching the striking of the earth by said
comet: (1.) That the earth can knock the
comet farther than the comet can knock the
earth nine times out of eleven. (2.) That after
the comet has got through striking the earth it
will never want to strike anything else. (3.)
That all strikes by the comet will be declared
off within thirty days after striking. Bets to be
taken singly or all together. All bets to be de
cided by the supreme court.—Acta York Post.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Plenty of Advice to Act Upon.
From the Washington Post (IndX
If the congressmen who meet next Monday
do not acquit themselves ably it will not be
for the lack of an abundant accumulation of
advice,
The Immigration Question.
From the Sew York Times [lrut.).
The suspension of immigration for a year
would very possibly divert to other countries
some considerable part of the emigration from
Europe, and our imtnigr ition question would
thereafter be easier to deal with than it has
been heretofore Meanwhile, it will be idle to
demand of the members of congress who may
favor sucb a suspension whether they favor it
on sanitary or on social grounds.
As to Office Holding.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.).
Patriotism and the hope of reward are not
incompatible motives. The man who stands in
the ram all election day with emocratic tickets
in his hands is not necessarily a had man. He
is no worse if he rattles through the streets fa
au express wagon after tardy democratic
voters He may be forgiven even if he fract
ures his throat addressing audiences in the
treacherous October atmosphere. These men
are always wanted before the election. Let
them not be forgotten after the victory is won.
Let us have a fair deal.
As New York Views Gould's Death.
From the New York World (Dem.).
The public has no deep interest in the death
of Jay Gould because Jay Gould in his life had
never shown any Interest in the publio, except
to make of its franchises mills to grind money
into his coffers. The city does not mourn for
him because he has given It no reason to la
ment his loss. He leaves a great fortune, buift
upon the ruin of his early benefactors, and
Increased beyond the dreams of avarice by tne
remorseless saorifloe of later associates and
frienila. He leaves it all, to tbe uttermost
nickel. “There are no pockets in the shroud.”
There Will Never be Another Gould.
From the New iork Commercial Bulletin Undi.
The death ef Jay Gould removes a remark
able figure from tbe field of American railroad
affairs His was a history that will never be re
peated in this country; for conditions have so
changed in the last twenty or thirty years that
Wall street is not likely to ever again entertain
tbe fear of a single individual that it did of Mr.
Oould in the day* of his greatest activity There
Is no reason whatever why his death should
cause any uneasiness .on the stock exchange.
Mr. Gould has apparently not only left his af
fairs lu such shape that they would be least af
fected by bis death: but. having been generally
regarded as a disturbing factor in tne stock
market, bis demise takes away that feeling of
uncertainty and distrust wf ich, whether real or
unreal, always attached t> the properties in
which be was prominently 1 ntereeted. The man
was feared rather than admired, except by the
fsw.
Three Good War Stories.
Col. John L. Burleigh, who served In the
army of the Potomac, and is said to have been
the youngest commissioned offlc-r in the serv
ice of the union, was introduced yesterday to
I Col._John 8. Chiles, who fought for the south
in i orrest’a cavalry. Bemtniscenoes were in
order immediately, *ays the Brooklyn Ekigle.
“I was at a grand army reunion the other
evening/’ said Col. Burleigh, “and a man who
was a private in my oompany and whom I had
not seen since the war heard me called by
name. ‘ls that Burleigh that was captain of my
company ?' he asked. He was assured that I
, was the man in question. ‘I swore that if I
caught him after the war was over I would give
j £lm the most all-fired licking he ever got in his
j life.' ‘Well, go in and do it,’ said one of his
companions ‘No, I guess not. I m getting a
bit old now, and lord: how he has grown When
I last saw him he was a little slip of a fellow
only about five feet high, weighing 110 pounda
I guess I'll let him off " ”
Then Col. Burleigh told about an encounter
he had with a southern woman who liad just
routed the major of his regiment who had ap
prosched her house with a petition for food.
“Why, sonny,’’ she said, “you ought to be
with your mammy. (The young officer tearfully
agreed with heri. Give you a meal? Of course
I will, and you can bring that sneaking yankee
major with you, too.”
A bountiful meal of corn bread, bacon,
chicken, potatoes and other dainties was soon
spread and partaken of. Then the northerners
pulled out greenbacks and asked to be allowed
to pay for the meal.
tid the woman, "we don’t take money
for feed here. Beside*, we don’t call that green
stuff money here; we burn it.’’
“And that was true,” said Col. Burialgh; *‘the
north made tons and tons of money by the
southerners’ burning currency issued from our
treasur v They were so sure it would never be
redeemed.”
Col. Burleigh’s story reminded Col. Chiles or
a morning when Gen Magruder awoke and,
going up a hill, saw a white house in the dis
tance. He sent an aid to ask the mistress of
the house if she would oblige him with a meal
for himself and staff.
“While the woman, who was a southern syra
pathiier, was preparing the meal a private of a
v irginia regiment came along and asked for
rood,’’ continued Col. Chiles. “He was in
formed that ttie meal was being prepared for
the general and his staff. ‘lf there’s anything
for you after they finish you are welcome to it.’
said the hostess. The \ irginian, who was a
man of good family, waited humbly till the ex
pected guests arrived and then crowded in be
side the general and began to eat. Magruder
turned to him a little sharply and said: ‘Do
you know with whom you are eating, sir?’ *No,’
said the private, *1 don’t Before the war, sir, I
was very careful with whom I associated, but
now I don’t give a- ”
A Thoughtful Little Ohap.
Kenniboy is sometimes vfcry thoughtful of
other people's comfort, although sometimes be
is not, says Harper’s Young People. He has
one very bad habit, his papa says, which is
waking up at 5:110 o'clock or earlier every morn
ing and insisting upon making remarks. His
papa is usually the one to whom these remarks
are made, and, of course, listening to what Ken
niboy has to say makes it necessary for him to
wake up and brush the cobwebs off his wits.
Once or twice Kenniboy has been scolded for
interfering in this way with other people’s sleep.
He has been told that he may talk all he pleases,
but that it must always be in a whisper, so that
his papa and mamma shall not be disturbed.
Having this little lesson in mind one morning
about two weeks ago, Kenniboy, having waged
at the usual early hour, was rather curious to
know how early it was. Leaning over his papa's
ear he whispered softly into It, “Papa, what
time is it?”
So sofo was the whisper that papa never
seemed to hear it, bift slept peacefully on, and
so Kenniboy tried it again.
“Papa, look at your watch and tell me what
time it is, please, 1 ' he whispered.
This time papa was awakened.
"O, dear, Kenniboy,” he said, rubbing his
eyes sleepily. “I’U never grow beautiful if you
wake mo out of my beauty sleep this way every
morning.”
‘‘l didn't mean to wake you up,” said the
boy.
“But you were talking in my ear,” returned
papa. “How could you expeet to do that with
out waking me?”
“I wasn't talkin'—l was only whisperin',” said
Kenmooy ‘‘l wanted you to tell me what time
it is, and I whispered so's you could tell me with
out wahin' up."
Jewels In a Waste Basket.
Mrs. Joseph B. Moore lost a jewel casket
containing a marquise diamond ring with em
erald center, two gold rings with solitaire dia
moud sfttiug and a diamond bracelet, th* whole
valued at SI,OOO, say. the Jewelers' Revie in.
It had been her custom every night upon re
tiring to place the casket at the bottom of a
waste paper basket which stands in the bed
room. the theory being it is there safer from
burglarious Intrusion than if hidden
elsewhere. In the morning she takes it out
again Thursday morning the chambermaid re
moved the basket while the case was still io it
and upon her notification the coachman oarried
it out in the rear and emptied It. He then
came back into the house, seoured a match and
burned up the small pile of papers and rubbish
Ten minutes later Mrs. Moore discovered her
loss, hurried out and raked over the ashes, but
round no trace of her missing jewels. The
servant and coachman denied all knowledge of
having seen or taken the jewelry, and the sup
position is that while the coachman was hunt
ing a match some person or persons saw the
box and made away with it.
The Likeness of Criminals.
A curious story Is told by the Newcastle
(England) Leader In Illustration of the likeness
of criminals. At a London olub frequented by
men of acknowledged Intellect the editor of a
metropolitan newspaper produced a photo
graph and handed It to an eminent physician
who was sitting on his left, asking him wbat he
thought of the man it represented, and if he
could guess who it was. After studying the
photograph for a minute, the physician replied
that it represented a man of deeply criminal
character, and was probably Deomlng. The
photograph was then sent down to the other end
of the table to an eminent sculptor, recently de
ceased who was asked if he could guess who it
was, and who, knowing nothing of the physi
cian’s guess, at once exclaimed, "O, it’s Deem
ing.” Afterward the photograph was passed on
to an eminent Q C, who, while ignorant of the
verdicts of the physician ani sculptor, said,
after a careful insi>ection of it, "I am Inclined
to think it is Deeming.” The photograph was
really a portrait of Dr. Neill Cream.
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
It is a fact well established by students of
heredity, says the New York Sun, that children
are apt to inherit not only the physical, mental
and moral traits of their parents, but to be in
fluenced by their age as well. Children born of
very young fathers and mothers never attain
so vigorous a growth of mini or body as those
of older men and women, while ohildren of old
people are born old. One of the most surpris
ing cases in medical history is that of Mar
guerite Cribsowa, who died in 1873 aged 108
years. When 94 she was married to a man aged
105 Three children came of this union, but
they had gray hair, no teeth, were stooped, yel
low and wrinkled, decrepit in movement, and
could eat only bread and vegetables.
It is said that a small Instrument has been in
vented by which an orange may be neatly peeled
without soiling the hands. This good result
can be readily obtained without anything spe
cial if one only knows bow, says Meehan's
Monthly. The fibres of plants, including the
fibres of oranges, ail fork from the bottom up
ward, and it is the attempt to split anything
against the grain which makes sp fitting diffi
cult. If one wants to peel an orange without
soiling his hands, all that is necessary to be
done is to cut with a knife a very small circle
around the stem end, and then mark dividing
lines from the stem to the summit —at points on
the sur. ace of the orange. The skin can then
lie drawn off just as easily as one may draw a
finger from a glove. This suggestion may not
only apply to the peeling of an orange, but also
to the splitting of a stick Those who make
hoops for barrels split tne top in order to make
them, but they do not commence with the top
or slender portion of the pole and split down
ward. They could not do this, hut hv taxing the
thicker end and working from the thick to the
thin no trouble is found—the pole splits easily.
Thi oensus returns give a very interesting
picture of the relative density of population in
the great cities of this oountry and abroad
says a writer In the Washington Star. Taking
the average. ( htcago has only thirteen inhabi
tanta to each acre of ground. People are muoh
more orowded in New York, ninety-four of
them being packed into each acre. Hut In Paris
there are 184 persons to each acre, and Berlin
stands at the head of tne list of European cities
with 1155 individuals per acre. It seems rather
curious that New York averages eighteen peop
ple for each dwelling, whereas London figures
out ODly eight persons for each house
This is because London Is very much
spread out and most of the dwellings are
small In Paris, where the houses are mostly
big and tne people live in flats, the average is
twenty-seven for tach house, and in Berlin, tor
a like reason, it it fifty-one. No other oily in
this oountry has so large a graveyard area as
New York, its thirty nine cemeteries containing
*t present the remains of 1.368,672 dead people
The metropolis on Manhattan Island Is also the
beet-lighted city, having forty-seven
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street lamps to each mile of
street. Boston comes next with thirty
four lamps to the mile, and Providence next
with thirty lamp#. New Haven is the town
which has the greatest area of parks in propor
tion to its size. New York being a dose second.
St. Loris is waxing enthusiastic over a pro
ject to swing a monster bell in the new city hall
tower. The world's fair year is thought to be
the appropriate time for such an enterprise,
and the bell is to be the biggest in the United
States and to be christened the Bell Columbia.
Its position will be 250 feet above the attest,
and of course the question corns up whether
an additional weight of 28,000 pounds—so heavy
is the bell to be -will not be too much of a strin,
for the city hall tower. A prominent architect
thinks it would be, but is sure tee bell might be
swung safely at a hight of 190 feet without
further supports. Mayor Noonan enters
heartily into the plan, of which he says. "I
should think that the amount necessary could
be easily raised by popular subscription. It
would be something the people oould be prou 1
of. Every visitor that came to St. Louia would
want to hear the biggest bell in the nation.
Another good thing about the bell is that it
could ring the hours and would thus be a valu
able aid to travelers. A bell of 25,000 pounds
would be heard, I should think, for several
miles in every direction.” President Burnet of
the board of improvements sees difficulties in
the way. **A bell weighing 25,000 pounds.” he
says, '‘would be eight or ten feet in diameter,
and th re Is the problem of getting up such a
monster after it is on the ground beside the
building. It wouli cost an Immense sum to
construct derricks and false work around the
tower, and something would be likely to give
way ” After all, St Louis would need to cast
a hell of nearly 30,000 pounds to have the biggest
bell in America, for the one in Notre Dame
cathedral, at Montreal, weighs 29,100 pounds.
How many people are there tn St. Louis who
know that the popular air of “Ta ra-ca Boom
de-ay" originated here in St. Louis, and bow
many who hum it know what that origin was?
asks the Globe-Democrat. There are few in
deed- . Iq fact ’ th ® orikin or authorship of the
air and song is a matter whioh has been dis
cussed at length without any satisfactory con
clusion being reached The facts were given
to a reporter yesterday by a gentleman who
knows whereof he speaks. The air,
he says. was composed by an old
blind musician named Hanley, who, as one way
of making a living, played the piano in several
questionable resorts. The "Ta-ra-ra Boom
de-ay" was an imagination to which there was
a very exciting dance, and it at once became
a favorite among the habituea of these places.
Then the bootblacks and the messenger boys
got it, and it was whistled around tne streets.
The respectable young man or young lady who
unwittingly hummed it, however, was rewarded
by a paying glance only, or was admonished
not to repeat it, aa It wasn't nioe or respectable.
It wouldn’t go in polite society. It was
through hearing a St. Louis bootblack whistle
it that the attention of Alexander Spencer, a
theatrioal musical director, was attraoted to
ward it. He at once noticed its catchiness, and,
taking hold of It, got words to it But nobody
seemed to think anything of It. Nobody
wanted it, and when it was tried on the public
It fell as flat as a pancake. Then it rested in
Mr . Spaucar's trunk a couple of years, during
whioh time he mourned the public's lack of ap
preciation. Suddenly it loomed up and gained
a prominence and popularity that even Mr.
Sjienoer had not dreamed of. much less tne
blind piano player who bad really originated it.
Thi starfish has been unusually destruohre
to the oysters of Narrsgsnsett bay this season,
says the New York Post. Th Is pest fastens its
rays around the oyster and slowly destroys the
outer fibrous edge of the ehell, and. having
made an opening, fnaats upon the contents
The process Is supposed to take a week, but as
the starfish move over the bed by thousands,
the work of destruction is almost incalculable'
It Is estimated that four-fifths of the oyster
crop in the bay would have been eaten by the
starfish but for the use of remedies, one of
which, the invention of an old dredger, is par-
ticularly effective It consists of a triangular
framework of iron an inen or m re in diameter
with the sides about six feet in length and the
rear bar a little ahorter. Iron braoes extending
in all directions strengthen the frame. Solid
iron wheels six inches in diameter are placed at
the ends of the rear bar to prevent the dis
turbance of the oysters. Two chains are at
tached in loop form to the rear of the dredge
to which are appended from sixteen to twenty
ropes, interwoven with ootton warping, which
trail behind the dredge and form a mop that
covers all the surfaoe passed over by the dredge
The starfish adhere to the fibrous surfaces of
the mop, and are taken out of the water and
destroyed. All the principal planters use Bteam
b.ats in dredging, and on these crafts a hot
water tank is utilized in killing the fish. Some
times a peck of the Osh are taken out at a
single haul. When a sailboat is used for
dredging purposes the fish are piled up on the
shore in heaps and subsequently used as a
fertilizer. The work Is begun in May and
steadily prosecuted at frequent intervals umil
the first or second week of December, or until
the cold weather causes the fish to cease work
The starfish are said to be de (truetire only to
the oyster beds between Martha’s Vineyard and
the mouth of the Hudson river, the tempera
ture of the waters of this latitude being favor
able to their Increase. In bavs fed partly by
fresh streams they do not seem to thrive which
accounts for the preservation of the natural
beds in the Taunton and Providence rivers.
North of Senegal is a verdant region sur
rounded on all sides by desert. White men
have known very little of this region and have
never until now entered into relations with the
country, says the Now York Sun. It is known
as Adrar and is separated from the basin of the
Senegal river by massive mountains. The
country is rich in pastures, and It the center of
supplies of the nomad tribes which wander
through the desert from Senegal to Morocco
and from the Atlantic ocean to the wastes of
El Juf, the part oi the Sahara north of Timbuc
too. Mr. Fabert reoently received orders
from the French government to en
lue if v .ojoi KIA tw* a—. t
ter it possible into relations with the
King of Adrar, and it he found that
he was disposed to make a treaty with France
to profit by his friendly attitude. In Decem
ber last Mr. Fabert entered Adrsr and received
a hospitable welcome from th. influential Mar
about known as the Sheik Sadl-Beou, who gov
erns the southern part of the country The
sheik promieed to use hie influen -e with the
king and induce him, if poesible. to entar into
relations with the French. He said he tfiouxfit
the king would be favorably disposed, particu
larly as he was engaged in war with desert
tribes that had been plundering some parts of
the country. So Mr. Fabert went north to the
chief town of Adrar, where ha
had long negotiations with the king
which resulted meet favorably for France
A treaty was signed by| which France and
Adrar agrrad to live upon a footing of friend
ship and to encourage the development of com
merce between the two countries. Franoe agreed
not to Interfere with the Internal affairs of
Adrar and to do all she could to protect the
country against her entmles. The king engaged
not to make any similar treaty with any foreign
power, but to content himself with the protec
tion offered him by the French government
To encourage the king to send caravans south
for the purpose of opening trade with at. Louis
the capital of Senegal. France agreed to pay
him an annual subsidy of 400 pieces of sloth
The treaty Is to continue for thirty years, and
t° go into effect upon Its adoption by the
French government. The government la ex
pected to act upon the matter at once. Thus
Franoe is the first oountry to obtain a foothold
in the southern part of the Sahara not far from
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