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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
* Meetings—Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1,1. O. O.
F . Workingmen's Union Association.
Sptcur, Notices—Tho Le Panto Cigars;
As to Bills Against British Steamship Eden,
■tore and Norwegian Ship Chipman; Dr.
Royal! Resumed Practice; Notice of Copart
aership. Hull A Peeples; Notice. A. B Hull
&Cos ; Applications for Liquor Licenses; As
to Crews of Norwegian Barks Herman
Lemkuhl. Elektra and Lakme. Austrian
Bark Mie Figlie, and Italian Barks Gaele and
Vedovaß.: Jr if ty Cents, B. H. Levy & Bro.;
For Sale. John T. Rowland; 11,200 to Loan.
John T. Rowland.
amusements— Illustrated Views of the
World s Fair. Trinity Sunday School Build
ing. Jan. 29 and 30.
Splendid Suburban building Sites for
Sale—D. G. Purse, President Merchants'
and Mechanics' Land Company.
Auction a Sale—Trustee's Sale of the
Southern Cider and Vinegar Company, by I.
D A R. D. Laßochc.
Human Nature—Appel A Schaul.
Thebes a button gone—B. H. Levy A
Bro,
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted: Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The governor of Chihuahua, Mexico,
asserts that the reports of a revolution in
his state sprang from the antics of a band
of cowboys from Texas, who went over
into his precincts, got full of pulque and
6hot the air full of holes.
From Maine to Maryland there is com
plaint bf the mild temperature, which
precludes the gathering of a crop of
natural ice. The conditions, however,
are favorable for an extraordinary crop
of plausible explanations, to be delivered
at yopr door next summer, along with a
nugget of machine ice for a dime.
A San Francisco dispatch of recent
date begins, "The worst snow storm for
twenty years,” etc. That language has
the right ring about it, and strengthens
the belief that this winter will not be
radically different from other winters,
after all. ‘'The worst snow for twenty
years” falls every winter regularly on the
Pacific slope. /
The Senate committee on rules will re
port back the Blackburn resolution, pro
viding a change in the rules so as to per
mit of closure, with tho recommendation
that nothing be done in the matter until
the next session of congress. This will
shatter the hopes of those senators who
hoped soon to see majority rule firmly es
tablished in the Senate.
The Kolbites. of Alabama, have ap
parently determined to try their heads
against the same stone wall they butted
in the last state election—they are going
to run the same state ticket that ran be
fore. It must be admitted, by tho way,
that the county conventions of last week,
by declaring against the convict lease
system, prepared a good plank for their
forthcoming party platform.
A Topeka dispatch says that Mrs.
has grown tired of politics and will be
come a fruit raiser in California. The
lady's efforts at raising official plums in
Kansas have not been attended with the
most brilliant success, it is true: probably
because she acted on the line of tho ad
vice given by an eminent populist to the
southern farmers some time ago, to
"raise more h and less cotton.”
1 In the gymnasium of the Young Men's
Christian Association hall at Rarens
wood, a suburb of Chicago, two members
of the association, with the approval of
the other members, settled their differ
ences under Queensberry rules. In case
the governor of Florida proves too much
for them, Corbett and Mitchell might ap
ply for accommodations to the ltavens
wood Young Men's Christian Association.
Mr. Robert L. Cutting, of New York,
who died a week or so ago. left a fortune
of *500,000. Robert L. Cutting, Jr., the
society young man who created a sensa
tion about a year ago by marrying an
actress and attempting to become an
actor—which attempt, by the way, ho
has abandoned—is the son of the deceased
gentleman. But his father’s will,
it is understood, makes no mention of
the son’s game. The young man was cut
off without a cent for marrying against
the wishes of his parent.
A merry church row is going on at Du
buque, la. At a praise service last Fri
day night the organist played and the
choir sang "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay'’ as a re
cessional hymn. A visiting preacher
stopped the music and the departing con
gregation and denounced the singing of
"such an ungodly tune" as a “profanation
of the temple.” The pastor, thereupon,
replied hotly that the brother would ob
lige him by attending to his own business,
that he had ordered the tune sung, and he
was “running this church.” The older
folks in the crowd took the vis
iting preacher's part and the
vounger folks stood by their pastor.
The matter ended for the instant with an
interchange of spicy comment, but the
spirit of the thing has continued and is
growing, to the imminent danger of a
divided congregation.
Dole’s Defiance.
Mr. Dole, Hawaii’s provisional presi
dent, does not appear to be the high
minded and concientious individual he has
been represented to be. His letter to
Minister Willis, in which he charges that
Minister Willis and the United States
government are responsible for a very un
happy condition of affairs at Honolulu,
is hardly the kind of a document to be
expected from a man in his position and of
his alleged high character. If he is to be
believed the whole provisional govern
ment and all the men, women and chil
dren at Honolulu were in a continual
state of alarm from the time Minister
Willis arrived until President Cleveland's
message was received, because of the con
duct of Minister Willis.
As far as is known in this country Min
ister Willis did nothing calculated to
make anybody apprehensive of danger.
He certainty sought to create the im
pression that nobody need be uneasy on
account of anything he might do. He
simply undertook to carry out his instruc
tions to restore the queen by peaceable
means. He did nothing that should have
caused uneasiness to Hawaiians or the
Dole government.
President Dole's letter will not do him
or his government any good. It is not
defensible from any standpoint from
which it may be viewed. He seems to
have realized that he made a bad
blunder. When Minister Willis asked
him for a bill of particulars
he refused to give it on the ground that
having read President Cleveland's mes
sage he saw no reason for carrying on the
correspondence.
The truth is, doubtless, that he couldn’t
furnish a bill of particulars. His letter
to Minister Willis was evidently written
with the view of influencing public opinion
in this country in his favor. His refusal,
however, to name any one who had been
alarmed, or who had suffered business
losses by Minister Willis’ conduct, justi
fies the conclusion that his letter is lack
ing in sincerity. He has created the im
pression that he is not quite the high
minded, straightforward man his friends
have represented him to be. Congress
will notice his letter when it takes up the
Hawaiian question, and will probably
reach about the same conclusion the
President did in respect to it.
The Movement Towards Palestine.
There is undoubtedly an understanding
among the leaders of the Jews that Pales
tine shall become theheadquarters of their
race. For several years there have been
quiet efforts made to prepare the way for
a movement of Jews to the Holy Land.
Very little has been done as yet, but un
dertakings of that kind are not pushed
vigorously. Time is expected to aid
greatly in bringing about the conditions
that will make Palestine desirable to the
Jews.
The Jewish leaders in Europe have, it
is said, definitely decided that it would
not be advisable to send colonies of Jews
there at this time. The first thing
that they are preparing to do is
to establish order and discipline among
those Already there. A cablegram says
that the Rothschilds have already done
something in that direction by inaugu
rating a system of technical training and
by establishing schools. To invite immi
grants to go there under existing condi- :
tions would increase the difficulties of
preparing the way for a large Jewish pop
ulation. Until such a state of affairs is
secured as would make the country an at
tractive one it would bo folly to encour
age Jews to colonize there, but when ev
erything is ready for colonists there will
be no difficulty in increasing tho present
population of Palestine rapidly.
Only a small portion of the Jews that
are now scattered throughout the world
would ever think of giving up their com
fortable homes and profitable occupations
to begin life anew in that country, but
those who would not go would contribute
liberally to help those who would. The
immigrants who would consent to settle
there are the poor, who would make the
change of residence with the hope of im
proving their material condition.
Palestine hasn't a rich soil and there
are comparatively few who could make a
living from any business they might en
gage in thero, because the business oppor
tunities are limited. These oppor
tunities would increase, however, as tho
population increased. Asa rule Jews do
not take much interest in agriculture, but
they might take more in it in Palestine
than elsewhere.
The indications now aoe that within
the next ten years much will be done
towards establishing Jewish colonies. To
give Palestine as large a population as it
could satisfactorily support would not,
take very long after the work of coloniza
tion was begun. It is safe to predict that
there will be some interesting develop
ments before tho colonization scheme is
carried into effect.
The news that Mr. George W. Childs,
the universally admired editor and phi
lanthropist, of Philadelphia, is seriously
ill will cause geueral regret throughout
the country. While at his office, in the
Philadelphia Ledger building on Thursday
Mr. Childs was seized with an attack of
vertigo, and for awhile his life was de
spaired of. He was unconscious for two
hours, and was removed to his home.
His condition improved somewhat under
medical treatment, as our dispatches
reported, and the physicians spoke
hopefully of his case. The bulle
tins issued later by his doctors, however,
indicate the probability that the wish of
all yvho know or have heard of the emi
nent editor, that his recovery may be
speedy and complete, will be in vain.
Milan, the disreputable and dissolute
ex-king of Servia, who sold his throne,
abused his wife and blackmailed his
people, having spent all the money he got
for his crown and through his machina
tions, is going back to Belgrade to try to
raise another pot. Under cover of an al
leged plot on the part of tho radicals to
overthrow the dynasty, Milan will, it is
believed, endeavor to have a military dic
tatorship declared, with himself as
dictator. The king, Milan's sou? is a boy,
and is under the influence of his father,
hence the plot may be carried through,
unless the Servian ministers strike upon
some plan to prevent either the ex-king or
the radicals from making any demonstra
tion.
It appears that this government is still
engaged in the business of suppressing
slavery, to a small extent. It was re
cently called on to pay 8103.83 as its share
of the cost of anti-siave trading opera
i tions in Africa.
THE MORNING LEVY’S: TUESDAY, JAN UARY 23, 1804.
Not That Kind of a President.
The mischief makers are trying to
make it appear that the President
vetoed the New York and New Jersey
bridge bill because Senator Hill is deeply
interested in it, and was chiefly instru
mental in having it passed. While it is
true that Senator Hill brought about the
defeat of the nomination of Mr. Horn
blower. or at least had a great deal to do
with defeating it, there is no ground for
saying that the President vetoed the
bridge bill with the view of punishing the
senator for the part he took in defeating
the Hornblower nomination. If Mr.
Cleveland were capable of an act of that
kind he would not be fit to be President.
The reasons the President gave for ve
toing the hill are very good ones. There
are several of them, but one of them —the
one that the bill does not prohibit tne
putting of pillars for the support of the
bridge in the channel of the river, thus
obstructing commerce—is sufficient to
justify the veto. It was not the inten
tion of congress, probably to grant the
bridge company the right to erect pillars
in the river, but the bill does grant that
privilege, and the company might have
obstructed the channel of the river if the
bill had become a law. The President
did simply what he thought it was his
duty to do. He may have thought that
a veto of the bill would not be
pleasant for Senator Hill, but
it is certainly unjust to say that
he vetoed it for the purpose of strik
ing a blow at Senator Hill.
It is to be regretted that the President
is not in accord with the New York sena
tors on the really important questions.
It would be better for New York and, in
fact, the whole country if they worked
together.
Traffic on the Mississippi.
The government is spending millions of
dollars in the improvement of the Mis
sissippi river. The improvement has two
purposes in view, namely, to deepen the
channel and prevent overflows. The main
purpose is. of course, to deepen the chan
nel, and thus benefit commerce.
It is a fact, however, that the com
merce of the river is steadily declining. No
such an amount of carrying is done upon
it as there was twenty-five years ago,
and the indications are that less will be
done twenty-five years hence than now,
even though its channel should be greatly
improved.
The reason is, that the railroads are do
ing the greater part of the transporta
tion that naturally belongs to the river.
While it is true that river freight rates
are lower than rail freight rates the
railroads manage to get the bulk of the
business.
It will not be long before railroads will
be paralleling the river on both sides from
St. Paul to New Orleans. From St.
Paul to Dubuque there is a railroad on
each side of the river, and they do nearly
all the shipping that is done between
those cities. Thetriver is closed by ice for
four months in the year, when the rail
roads do all the business. The railroads
have taken advantage of this annual
closing of the river to bulldoze the
largest shippers into making yearly con
tracts with them. A few held out against
such contracts for awhile, and they were
made to pay higher rates when the river
waa closed, and were discriminated
against in other ways. They found it to
their advantage to make annual contracts.
From Dubuque to St. Louis there are
railroads on each side of the river, and
from St. Louis to Cairo there is a rail
road. There is a road from Mem
phis to New Orleans, and other lines of
road are being constructed along other
parts of the river. Within a very few
years there will be roads on each side of
the river from the head of navigation tc
New Orleans.
Old steamboat owners and captains see
that the time is not distant when there
will bo very little use for steamboats on
the Mississippi river. The splendid fleet of
steamboats that once made a magnificent
spectacle along the levee at New Orleans
has, to a great extent, disappeared. A
good many steamboats can be seen there
still, but there is no such number as there
once was. The day of steamboat traffic
on the Mississippi virtually belongs to
the past, and the steamboats will not re
gain their supremacy however much the
navigation of tho great river may be im
proved.
It may be true, as some critics allege,
that Patti has long since passed the zenith
of her glory as a singer—that fs, from an
artistic and ideal point of view. But
from tho point of view of the box office,
which, at her age, Mme. Patti probably
considers of first importance, she con
tinues to be a success. At Chicago the
other day 2,000 people more than the Au
ditorium could hold tried to fight their
way iu to hear the diva sing, and the
police had to be called to quell the dis
order. Women predominated in the tur
bulent throng and were, it is said, more
unreasonable and violent than the men.
So long as the madame’s drawing power
remains potential it matters little about
her singing power.
Last week the mayor of Chicago issued
orders to the police to clear the city of
tramps who, in the guise of unfortunate
unemployed workingmen, begged and ac
cepted charity but refused to work. The
effect has been that the “army of unem
ployed” in Chicago has decreased
to an appreciable extent. The tramps,
however, are moving eastward in bodies
and not scattering over the country.
Buffalo, N. Y.. is now full of them, and
they are said to be working their way to
New York city. As soon as the tramps
struck Buffalo the number of burglaries
in the residence portion of the city began
to increase. The mayor of the city will
issue strict orders calculated to make the
tramps move on.
A bill has been introduced in the Ken
tucky legislature which prohibits the
organization or existence of any society
which aims to make any discrimination,
or arouse any antagonism, between
Christians of different sects because of
their denominational differences. It is
understood that the bill is aimed at the
American Protective Association, au anti-
Catholic society that is causing consider
able stir throughout the country. But if
the friends of the bill are not very care
ful they will hit some of the churches as
well.
The life of Peixoto’s government would
be a bad insurance risk, if it were true
that reinforcements of 8,000 insurgents
had arrived at Rio de Janeiro.
PERSONAL.
Gen. Sickles, of New York, when asked a
few days ago If he intended to make a speech
on the tariff auestion, answered: "I don’t be
hej'* I will participate In the debate. 1 am
still studying the question. I have been
studying it for forty years.
Capt McDougall. of Wisconsin, the origin
ator of the whalebatk ships, predicts that
within the next ten years the shipments
from and to the head of Lake Superior will
amount to fully 2D.GUO.OX) tons yearly, or more
lhan any other port of the world.
Edward C. Ashley, of Providence, Special
Collector of Customs, died last week of pneu
monia. Mr. Ashley was appointed a customs
officer during President Buchanan s adminis
tration in 1867, and was one of the oldest
government officials in Rhode Island.
Messrs. Moody ind Sankey have opened a
series of revival meetings in Providence that
is to continue a month. Their Hrst meetings
were attended by throngs of people, several
overflow meetings being held to accommodate
those who could not Und admission to the
hall.
John A. Becker, president of the Baltimore
Cactus Society, and the owner of one of the
finest collections of cacti in the United
s ’^l eß - 's negotiating with Gustave Schribc.
of Mexico, for the purchase by the society of
the Mexican exhibit of cacti at the world s
fair. The exhibit Includes one specimen
valued at *I.OOO.
The refusal of the German emperor to con
fer the “Schiller prize" on Ludwig Fulda, the
Oerman poet, has caused considerable com
ment in Germany. The committee decided
so to honor his work. "The Talesman." It is
now said that the emperor objected because
of the youth of Fulda, who was born in 1862.
The emperor was born in 1869.
There are now two German representatives
at Rome bearing the name Von Bulow. One
I s 'be German ambassador to the King of
J' a *T. Bernhard von Bnlow. and the other is
the Prussian minister to the Vatican. Otto
von Bulow. Although the two men bear diff
erent titles, considerable contusion results
from their presepce in a diplomatic capacity
in the same capital, and it ts possible that one
may be transferred to another city.
M. Zola, in reply to questions put to him
last week aboqlt anarchists, made the fol
lowing answer: "To tell the truth. I think
all the means tried insufficient tp stop the
rising tide of anarchistic doctrines. What
lam asked, will be a preventive:- Well, I.
who have fought for positivism, after thirty
years of struggling, And tliat my convictions
have been shaken. Religious faith would
prevent the propagation of such theories: i ut
has it not almost disappeared nowadays?
Who is to give fis anew ideal -”
BRIGHT BITS.
Husband (triumphantly )—l've done it- I
have played two gomes of chess blindfolded.
Wife—Well. Id like to run out for half an
hour. Kuprose you mix the bread, mind the
baby, stir the pudding, baste the roast, watch
the vegetables and answer the door hell for a
while. You needn't be blindfolded.—New
York Weekly.
"Which was the greater general of the two,
Caisar or Hannibal?" was the question put to
young Schwefler at his last examination
He replied as follows: "If we consider who
Ciesar and Hannibal were, ond ask ourselves
which of them was the greater, we must de
cidedly answer in the affirmative."—Lustige
Blatter, Vienna.
The English newspapers relate the follow
ing story of Btsbcp Tcmpie. of London. A
lady was narrating to his lordship how her
aunt liad escaped from a railway accident.
"Five people In the samt compartment were
killed, und my aunt alone escaped; wasn t it
providential?” • Humph ’' said the bishop,
“don't know your aunt; cant say!”—Ex
change.
Mr. Norris (at the restaurant)—Yes, sir; a
small tenderloin steak and a bottle of Hass
have been my invariable lunch every day for
the last twelve years.
Mr. Norris (at home)—Great Scott: This
is the second piece of roast beef we've had
this mon’h: I'm sick and tired of this same
ness. I don't see. Maria, why on earth you
can t manage to Introduce a little more va
riety into our dinners:—Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. Father- -Norah. what became of those
cards Mrs. Van Alstyne and Miss de Morti
mer left here yesterday?
Norah-1 tuk them. Mrs. Parker; I didn't
think they was of unny use to you.
Mrs. Parker—And what did you-do with
them?
Norah—l sint them to me cousin in Jersey
City; she does a great deal of callin’, an'l
thought she inoight use ’em.—Harper s Ba
zar.
Landlord (of the "Travelers' Rest”) —See
that feller over there? Dooriri' the past year
he has plugged no less than six men right on
the street.
Tender Foot—l should think the commu
nity would not allow so dangerous a man to
run at large.
Landlord—Lord bless your soul, man:
There ain't a bit of danger in him to the com
munity. He never hits anybody but the man
he shootsat:—Puck.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Morton and the Alliance.
From the Chicago Record (lad.).
It is no answer to his charges to call for his
resignation. Rather let the alliance set dili
gently to work to accomplish so much good
for the farmers that the secretary will lie put
to the blush by the brilliancy of its achieve
ments. That is the only fitting answer for
criticism spoken with sincerity, if not with
good judgment. '
Mr. Dole’s Bad Manners.
From the New York Times (Dem).
It is not worth while to take Mr. Dole's bad
manners and want of tact too seriously. The
poor man hux evidently become nervous and
Irascible, and has not even yet got used to
being ono of the -Dowers of the earth. He
may yet conclude ihxt it is better to be civil,
and that if he Is to lecome a peimanent gov
ernment, it might be useful to cultivate
friendly relations with the United States,
whose people do hot really enjoy having their
government insulted, even by the most insig
nificant of potentates.
Faots to Be Remembered.
From the Chicago Herald (Dem.).
It was not the last democratic House that
created an annua) charge ofJIO.OOO.UOO for sugar
bounty. It was not the last democratic House
that added some Bfio.ooo.too to the annual pen
sion charge, and, at the same time, cut off
al Out 860,000,u0J of revenue bv putting raw
sugar on the free list. It was the last repute
lhan House—the House of Reed, McKinley &
Co..—that did these things. It was the same
House that created a charge for shipping
bounties and that voted to return to the
States some $15,000,003 of direct taxes paid by
individuals thirty years ago. It was not a
democratic House that used up the large
surplus in the purchase of bonds not due at a
high premium. It was the last republican
administration that did that. It was not the
last democratic House that brought ou the
silver panic by passing the Sherman silver
purchase and inflation bill. It was the last
republican House and Senate that did that,
and so cut the revenues aivay down below the
ordinary figures. It was a republican con
gress that made It necessary for a democratic
congress to appropriate over t1.000.u00.u00.
That Is the truth of the matter.
The Demands of the Alliance.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
The National Farmers' Alliance asks for a
great deal. It wants the bullot given to
women. It demands the election of Presi
dent, Vice President,' United states senators
and postmasters by the direct vote of the
people. The first demand nocessilates the
change of state constitutions, and the latter
of the federal constitution—a very slow job.
The alliance demands in the interest of farm
ers the adoption of the Hatch-Washburn anti
option bill, a measure which wo Id be most
injurious to their interests, it wants the
farmers to elect thoir pro rata share of the
legislators of the Country in iheir respective
parties. It is iheir own fault If they do not
get their share. A progressive reading
course for farmers is recommended, to be
under tho control of the various
farmers' organizations, agricultural ol
leges. and experimental stations. This
is an excellent idea. It would
lie better for the farmers if they read more
than they do The alliance demands 'ln our
monetary systems regular and equitable dis
tribution independent of selfish and greedy
combinations, free from private manipula
tions. with stability as well as flexibility, and
value as well as volume.” Just what is
meant hy thts is not s nted. It may mcau
anything or nothing. These are confirmed
without opposition. Then when the leglsja
lature meets next January the subject can be
discussed and It will be seen what can be
done. It is useless to look to a constitutional
convention for relief, firstly, because two
thirds of the members of the general assem
bly will not vote to call one, and secondly
were they to do so a majority of the people
would not vote to have one.
The Colonel's Missing Hand.
Col Streeter, a Floridan, told the zoolog
ical reporter of the Washington Star a good
one the other night. One of the colonels
hands was missing, and knowing the section
from which they hailed, the reporter nat
uaraily expected to get a firs'-class war
story. But he didn t. ihe hand was not lost
in the fratricidal struggle. It was the work
of an aligator.
"Well it happened a long time ago." said
Col. Streeter, and if i had not told the
story so often I think I should have forgotten
it When 1 was a young fellow, chuckful of
dazzling dreams and ambitious schemes. I
used to hunt 'gators for a living. The h.de of
one of these brutes is worth all the way from
*1 to *4. according to size, condition, and
age. I had a big flat-bottom boat, sort of a
compromise between a batteau. and a sand
scow, and X used to cruise at night on a lake
not far out of Tampa.
One dark night I shoved off. After I had
reached the most alligatorial part of the lake
I lit a fire on the end of the boat. These craft
are arranged especially for this, so there ixn t
much danger of the whole thing going up in
smoke. Well, when my rosin knots began to
blaze and sputter and sizzle as rosin knots
will, it wasn't long before a big 'gator raised
his head out of the lake to see what the illu
mination meant. To a newcomer there isn't
any more horrible sight this side of the other
world, than a great long gator lying close to
you and grinning at you with his ripsaw
ivories under the weird glare of pine knots.
But I didn't think of this, for I was an old
Jiand at the business. Bang, and a Sharpe
gun relieved that gator of all earthly care
and trouble. I hauled him in and stretched
him out in the bottom of my boat It was a
good night for the sport, and the 'gators
seemed to be especially inquisitive as to the
meaning of that fitful light. That trusty rifle
spake again and again, and one by one I
landed the victims in the old boat.
The last one came to the too prettv close to
daybreak. He Was a savags looking old
timer. He was what with propriety we might
call a hard-shell gator. He looked at me in
an insulting sort of way. and I resented his
impertinence. I hrought him Into the boat.
There ts just where I made my mistake.
That alligator wasn't all the wav dead. He
seemed to have lots of energy stored up some
where. and he turned on me. We had a fight
rl.ht there in the boat. Before I could pump
some pills Into him he had me. What
a wrestling match it was Young man,
that s what s the matter with the end of that
arm."
How a Compass Was Bewitched.
The story that a deviation of her compass,
resulting from the presence ijf steel in a
cork leg worn by the man at the wheel, caused
the steamer Susan E. Peck to strand near
Bar Point, Lake Erie, in September last,
with a lose to the underwriters of- upward of
t.u.000. has brought out ar o'her quite funny
one. says the Milwaukee "Wisconsin.
According to the narrator on one of the
trips of the fine steel steamer Castalia down
Lake Huron the last reason, the second mate
reported to Capt. Allen that the compass had
suddenly gone wroqg . that the needle would
swing three or.four points to the right or left
at intervals, and that be.ause of these erratic
movements it had become utterly impossible
to steer a course—itrfact. he had lost track
of the steamer altogether. Capt. Allen ac
companied the mate to the pilot house and
found matters just as they had been reported.
Besides the man at the wheel two lauy pas
sengers were in the pilot house
when Capt. Allen entered. Turning
to them, after rheditatlng for a
moment, he asked if they wore steel
corsets. A reply in the affirmative led
to a further question as to where they had
been, and this elicited the information that
the ladies had paid a vist to the engine room
and that while there the engineer had
afforded them an opportunity to inspect the
dynamo which supplied the electric lights of
the steamer.
“That settles it: you must get out of here:”
next greeted the ears of the ladies as Capt.
Alien opened the prtot house door for their
exit. And while they were walking to tho
cabin in a maze of surprise and astonishment
at Capt. Allen s exhibition of bluff sailor like
authority that compass got right down io
staid business again and showed the man at
the wheel the way with its usual precision.
It is hardly necessary to explain that the
dynamo had magnetized the stell corsets
worn by the ladies, and that thus the corsets
became responsible for the crazy race the
needle of the compass ran as the wearers
moved to and fro in the pilot house.
The Foreign Girl.
From Outing.
Her gown is made hy Felix.
Her chapeau by Roues;:
Her suedes of tan and point lace faa
Are from the Ban Marche,
She skims the Anglo Saxon.
And punctures It with French;
Affe. G the works of Moliere, and
Derivatives by breach.
As table d'hote all cater
To her gastronomic taste;
The menu (hieroglyphic s art.)
In foreign lingo's graced
Vienna serves her roll,
Madeira yields its wines—
Figs and dates from foreign states,
And grapes from Tuscan vines.
She chats of dear old Naples.
Gondolas and guitars;.
The mule l a ,k rile—the Rigis hight->
The Vatican and Mars;
The violets she gath'red
From lasso s lonely tomb:
The lion of Lucerne. and bits
Of keepsakes in Iter room.
She has a charming accent,
A shrug that's h renchy. too—
She dotes on ballades and rondeaux,
And triolets, a few.
But should you probe one query
r-he 11 answer you. my man.
With quite a saucy, injured air.
Why, I'm American: '
He Got Even at Last.
"That "all things come to him who waits"
has been proven to me more than once," said
Judge Henry McKinney to the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. ‘One day when I was a boy of
9or 10 years I was sent on an errand a long
way into the country. On my way home,
being hot and thirsty. I climbed over a fence
and began picking some wild strawberries.
All of A sudden the owner of the farm came
rushing up behind xaa and struck me a brutal
blow with a heavy ox gad. almost cutting my
bedy in two. As I sturted to run away he
hit me again, a most vicidus blow. Old man.'
said I. i ll get even some day.’ X did, but it
was thirty years later. I was called upon to
defend the property and rights of some
orphan children. As it happened the op
pressor was the man with the ox gad. In
summing up I told the story of the brutal
blows that 1 had received in that meadow
thirty years ago. There is the man that did
it.'said Ito the jury. Do you wonder that
such a man would rob or; han children ” The
jury didn t seem to wonder a bit. for 1 got a
verdict in my favor in less than five min
utes.”
She Discharged the Servant.
The young husband was somewhat sur
prised when his wife came into the office,
say 9 the Indianapolis Journal. She opened
the conversation at once.
"I want enough money to go out of town
for a few days,” she said, "and you will have
to take your meals down town for a few
days.”
"Why. what doesthis mean?”
“It means j st this. I got a messenger-boy
to come to the house for alary Ann. to tell her
that she was wanted at her aunt’s, and as
soon as she got around the corner 1 shut up
the house and locked it and ran away. When
she comes back she won t find any one there
We don't owe her anything, so it is all right
and I wanted to discharge her. but you know
I never would dare to tell her to go, and I
know vou-wouldn’t dare, and don't vou think
your little wife knows pretty well how to
manage? Say yes. now. or I’ll break down
and cry right here in the office."
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Minnie Jefferson, who was a slave In the
family of Thomas Jefferson while he was
President of the United States, is still living
in New York. She is 107 years old. Her hus
band belonged to Daniel' Taylor, who was
one of the largest slave owners of revolution
ary times.
The death rate in London has averaged
about 22 per thousand for the past two or
three years. Bronchitis kills more than any
other disease, from 1 1 010 to 12.000 annually,
consumption not less than 8.000 and pneumo
nia about 0,000. Influenza carried oft over
2.U00 people in 1892. while in 1888 only three
deaths were reported from that cause, and in
I*B9 five. Cancer causes the death of more
than 3,000 annually.
A woman went into a jewelry store in New
York and asked to see some diamond rings
As she was looking at them she directed the
clerk s attention another way for a moment,
and ponped one of the rings into her mouth.
She did not notice beforehand that the ring
had a lag attached to it by a long string, and
when the clerk turned to her. he was sur
prised to see the tag hanging out of her mouth
by the string, which she was making the most
extraordinary faces In her efforts to swallow.
The string had gotten tangled in her front
teeth, and refused to go either way. The
clerk disentangled it for her. and also disen
tangled several pocket books which were found
in her pocket.
Yet Lee, a wealthy Mongolian of New York,
some two years ago thought that he had done
a great stroke of business when he persuaded
Louise Shroeder. of Hoboken, to become his
wife. She was white, and young, and comely,
and he thought that she was a prize in the
matrimonial lottery, though It is said that, as
he was a good catch, the Chinese women of
Mott street did not look on her with favor,
and whispered among themselves unspeaka
ble tnings arout her monstrous feet. Yet
Lee paid little attention to their talk, nor yet
did his bride, but she did pay attention to his
behavior, which seems not to have been to
her liking, and after living with him for a
year she forsook his bed and board and hired
herseif out to another Chinaman in Hoboken,
where she worked In his laundry. Yet Lee
was not worried very much about that, hut ho
was very much worried when the other day a
large bill was presented to him for goods that
his recreant wife had bought, and when he
was made to understand that he was legally
liable for her expenditures he was very much
wroth indeed, and proceeded-at once to in
stitute proceedings for divorce.
In the northern part of Limestone county-
Alabama, says a writer in the Pittsburg Dis.
patch, is a tract of land consisting of more
than 1,000 acres which is noton the map of
the state, nor can it be found in the register s
office of that county. No one claims It and
no taxes have ever been paid on it. It ts a
vast wilderness. Inhabited by snakes, deer
and razor back hogs. It is a free hunting
ground and thousands of thrse hogs are killed
every year, more for the sport than for any
thing else. The hogs are wild and cannot be
domesticated. Their yield is said io be enor
mous. Tom Booth, of Pulaski. Tenn., se
cured a male and female and did all in his
power to tame them, but failed. He
kept them a year, and at the ond of that
time they were as wild as at first. The
more he fed them the thinner they be
came. Within the year they consumed
100 bushels of corn and were as lean as church
mice. During that lime the sow had five lit
ters of pigs, numbering 210. Mr. -Booth could
not tame any of these nor get them iat
enough to make even soap grease. Finally
he gave them to a negro, who now considers
himself under no obligations to Mr. Bcoth.
The flesh of these hogs resembles horse flesh.
It Is as tough as coon skin, and a large-sized
hog of this species rendered would not make
grease enough to fry a skillet of batter cakes.
Ihey go througd a garden like a shovel
plough, and no vegetable escapes them. Thev
can crowd through a crack that would hardly
admit a mouse, and their sharp noses act as
levers for garden gates. The Tennesseeans
make great fun of Alabama's razor-back hogs.
“Without dogs the larger portion of the
great Eskimo family peopling the barren
northern coast of America would find it im
possible to exist in its chosen home." So
writes Mr. E. W. Nelson, in his “Mammals
of Northern Alaska,” says the Y’outh s
Companion They are use! in the
winter for hunting, sledge drawing and the
like, but in summer are mostly lett to shift
for themselves. They receive much hard
usage, as well as do much haid work, but are
described, nevertheless, as a rollicking set
full of play, fond of human society, and quar
relsome as school boys. Mr. Nelson credits
them with a vein of humor and declares that
their varying characterristics can be read in
their faces. They are worth from 82 to sls a
piece, according to age, size and Intelligence.
For sleilge-drawing they are harnessed in
teams of either seven or nine—three or four
pairs and a leader. The load is from 3i 0 to
700 pounds, and the course is mainly through
unbroken snow or over rough ice. With a
1 am of seven dogs an,d a load of more than
300 pounds. Mr. helspn made a journey
of more than 1.200 miles in about
two months. The last 60 miles were made
over a had road in a continuous pull of twen
ty-one hours. They are much affected by the
moon. During full moon half the night is
spent by them in howliDg ifl chorus. 'Dur
ing the entire winter at St. Michael s,” says
Mr. Nelson, "we were invariably given a tho
rus every moonlight night, and the dogs of
two neighboring villages joined in the sere
nade.” He speaks of its "wild, weird har
mony." and seems to have found it agreeable
rather than otherwise. The influence of the
moon is also very apparent when the dogs are
traveling. They brighten up as the moon
rises, and pricking up their ears start onas if
they had forgotten their fatigue. The fur
traders take advantage of this fact, and some
times lie over during the day and travel at
night. The dogs endure an astonishing de
gree of cold. Mr. Nelson saw a female with
two newly-born puppies lying upon the
snow near a hut, with no sign of shelter, when
the thermometer ranged from 30° to 35° below
zero.
It is about four years, says the New? York
Tribune, since the epidemic influenza began
its ravages in this country, having been origi
nally imported from Europe, and, having be
come domiciled, it has now entered upon its
fifth season of mischief In the United States,
althorgh. fortunately, not with the same se
verity that has characterized Its previous
prevalence. An official report on this malady
by medical officials connected with the local
government board of Gie3t Britain has re
cently made itsappearance. Therein the exist
ence of an influenza bacillus is reaffl med. I)r.
Klein sa;s that this microbe “is always
abundantly present in the bronchial s.cre
tions of patients." and "diminish in number
as the disease Is abated.” The germs are
disseminated, according to Dr. Parsons, by
bringing the affected and healthy together, as
in public vehicles and places of meeting, and
especially by the poison being present in con
fined and viliated air. Dr. Caldwell
Smith says: "An individual is affected
by breathing at once the expired air
from a person suffering from the di
sease, and I believe this to
he the oulv method of the infection." Num
erous stories are told to show how the
malady is carried from place to place. A
music teacher visited two relatives who were
victims of it. and three days latter was him
self attacked. However' he made a round of
his pupils before succumbing, and two days
afterward ten of them also developed the
disease. -The ordinary intercourse of a
household or business office, letter written
and sealed by sufferer s fingering account
books whose leaves have been turned with
moistened finger-tips by affected persons, and
riding in close and crowded railway ears, are
among the most common methods of propa
gation. Isolation of patients, disieeqfon of
rooms, and ample ventilation are strongly
urged as preventive measures. At Brighton
the inmates of the borough sanatorium “were
protected effectually by such precautions or
for two-successivejseasons. and during a third
season the-only case was that of a servant re
t rning from a distant place where the dis
ease was prevalent. When she fell ill she
was promptly isolated, and thus no one else
was affected.
Scientific
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Prof. Johnson of Yale Colle-e
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large proportion of butter unfit
for human food.” Good butter
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HOTELS.
OPEN UNTIL MAY.'
HOTEL
60RD0VA,
St. Augustine.
One of the group of Spanish-Moresque
palaces (Ponce de Leon, Alcazar. Cordovas
American plan- Rate—l3. 83 50. £4 per day
C. B. KNOTT. Manager.
Hotel Ponce de Leon wIU onen Jan. 10, IS3V
DANIEL HOJAN.
■SI
The subjoined linos will ba
offered during the ensuin? week
at half price, with a view of mak
ing room for our Spring importa
tions, the first installment of
which will be opened within the
next week.
Fine Cloth Jackets.
Beaver, Kersey, Melton anJ Cheviot, black
and colored, tight, loose and reefer, medium
and full skirls, plain or trimmed with braid
and fur; hundreds of styles.
Fine Cloth Cloaks.
Black and colored, with capes; high collars
and full sleeves; best shapes perfect fitting,
with and without umbrella skirts, with and
without fur trimming. $3 75, were $6; $5,
were $8 50; $7 50, were $10; $9, were
sl2 50.
Ladies’ Plush Jackets, finest linings and
fin'Sh, real seal loops, sizes 32 to 33, were
sls, S2O and $25, now $5, $7 50 and 510.
Fine Table Linens.
Table Cloth and Napkins to match, both
colored borders and pure white, plain and
knotted fringes, $4 50, were $6; $5, were
$7 50.
3cs! Doub'e Damask, bleached aid un
bleached, 63 to 72 inches wide, new designs,
fresh, clean goods, 45c, were 60c; 65c,
were 75c; 70c. were 85c; 80c. were 95c.
Fail lines Turkey Red and Cardinal Dam
asks at prices from 25c to $1 yard.
Bargains in 5-8 and 3-4 Napkins.
Thousands of Towels in all sizes and af
all prices from 10c each to sl.
200 pairs Boys’ Odd Pants at half price.
DANIEL HOGAN.
LEATHER GOODS.
TLEHovAir
On Feb. 1 we will occupy
the store 144 Congress
street, corner Whitaker st.,
where we will carry a large
stock of Harness, Saddles.
Bridles, Collars, Rubber and
Leather Belting, Packing,
Hose, Belt Hooks, Lacing,
Trunks and Traveling Bags.
Any one wishing to buy
Harness and Saddles cheap
will do well to call upon us
before the Ist.
in i in
154 St. Julian and 153 Bryan Sts.
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
50,000 HIDES WANTED.
•MMsiALSO trKS. T- ;Ti
Highest cash prices paid. No tom mil-
Mon charged.
M. V. HENDERSON, - 101 BAT #T