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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices—Coal Famine Rroken, G.
I. Tgart; Notice of Dissolution, Durness
# Wlnton: Kiieht Ter Cent. Guaranteed
on Deposits, Getrpia State Building and
l.oan Association; Dr. Amos Knorr. Den
tist: It I* Time for You to Contemplate.
( . F. Daw, Receiver; Every Day This
Week at Beckmann's Cafe; A Cottage and
Ten Acres on the Salts. C. H. Dorsett;
We Have Just This to Say. Faweett Bros.;
Dyeing and Scouring, New York Steam
Dye Works; Our Work Speaks for Itself,
Savannah Steam Raundry Company;
l/ook to Your Bedsteads, Solomons & Cos.;
Butchers. J. E. Creamer* Son; Mr. W. H.
Hoffman, Photographer; Balloon Ascen
sion To-day at Wheelmen'H Park; New
Y’ork Meats Fsed at Hinckley's Restau
rant; Fish, Wm. G. Cooper.
The Only Reliable Buggy House In
Savannah—H. H. Cohen.
For Gentlemen Only—Appel & Sehaul.
Make lip Your Mind—Appel * Sehaul.
Coma and Make Your Selections—at
Gutman’s.
Medical—Munyon's Remedies.
Patronize Home Industry—At Collat's.
Spring Dress Goods—Crohan * Dooner.
Notice the Weather—B. H. Davy * Bro.
If Miss Annie Gould—Deopold Adler.
"From Runnun, Me Boy.”—B. H. Devy
& Bro.
Amusements—'The Country Cirrus, at
the Theater. Tuesday and Wednesday,
March 5 and G.
Savannah Dyceum Decture, Guards’
Hall, March 'f.
Facts—Deopold Adler.
The Spring Is Here—Meyer & Walsh.
Is It Not Better?—West's China Palace,
ace.
Generally Gets What He Wants—Dud
den & Bates Southern Music House.
All But the Horse—Savannah Carriage
and Wagon Company.
The Good Work Goes On—Dr. Broad
foot.
Retiring from Business—James Doug
lass.
Now and Then—Daniel Hogan.
Clothes—Falk Clothing Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Hell
Wanted; Employment Wanted'; For Rent;
F'or Sale; Dost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Mr. Cleveland is going to start on a
ducking; trip to-morrow or the next day.
If his trip shall result In as many dead
ducks as ho will leave In Washington. he
will enjoy a remarkably successful hunt.
If the people of the southern states are
wise they will agitate the building of good
country roads, as well as the building of
cotton and other factories. With good
roads and factories, the south would soon
outstrip every other section in industrial
and commercial prosperity.
Jacksonville is to be congratulated upon
having Joined the ranks of those pro
gressive towns which run their street
cars by electricity. Charleston is notv
the only big town on the South Atlantic
seaboard in which the tintinabulation of
the carhorse's bell is still heard. Charles
ton is afraid of electric cars, because
they will hurt people who haven't the
sprightliness to get out of the way.
A cable say3 Mr. William Waldorf As
tor has sold his London house. Is offering
Clfveden, (which he bought from the Duke
of Westminster), for sale, and has given
the large literary staff In the Pall Mall
GAzette office three months' notice to quit.
He is said to be preparing to shake the
dust of Kngland from his feet, to take
up his residence in Paris. The sudden
death of his wife is said to have influenced
the millionaire to these movements.
A bill to make voting compulsory' is
ponding in the Massachusetts legislature.
It provides that within thirty days after
an election the registrar of votes shall
compile a list of all names not checked
rs having voted, and the assessors are
then to collect a fine of $5 each from all
who have, not voted, unless It can be shown
before the trial justice that the failure to
vote was due to inability to go to the
polls. Leaving out of the question all of
the numerous objections to compulsory
voting, it may be said that a law in this
state similar to the one contemplated in
Massachusetts would have the effect of
greatly swelling the democratic majority,
and wdping republicanism and populism
out of consideration.
Gov. Atkinson hardly observed the code
of ethics that should govern the guest
in the presence of the host during his
visit to the capitol at Washington the
other day. The Fifty-third congress paid
him the courtesy of extending to him the
privilege of visiting the floors of the two
houses, yet he expressed the opinion that
the Fifty-third congress was a disgrace
ful affair, and said he would be glad
wwhen it was dead. At the same time,
F here is no doubt that the governor voiced
mj very general public sentiment.
Ilr>an*s Silver Moumml.
We have no doubt that Representative
Bryan of Nebraska, who has inaugurated
a movement to commit the Democrat!!
party 10 the free and unlimited coinag* of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, is very much
in earnest. He is enthusiastic in what
ever he undertakes, but he is not always
successful, llis enthusiasm and earnest
ness make him an interesting public
sjeaker. but he has never yet succeeded
in intpirin? much confidence in his ability
to solve public questions. He is not a
leader, because he is not a thinker. The
speeches he has made in congress have
had very little weight and have been for
gotten almost as soon as delivered. If
the silverites were to choose a leader they
%vould not give much consideration to the
claims of Mr. Hrjan.
If we are not greatly mistaken Mr
Bryan will not get a majority of the
democratic senators and representatives
to say that the policy of the Democratic
party on linancial matters ought to be dic -
tated by the silverites in the party. There
are many silverites who would not make
such a mistake as that.
Mr. Bryan takes it for granted that the
great majority of democrats are in favor
of the free and unlimited coinage of silver
by this country alone, at the ratio of 16
to 1. It is pretty safe to say that he is
mistaken. The silver sentiment is no
stronger now than it was four, or six, or
even ten years ago, and if the silverites
were In the majority the last national
democratic platform would have contained
a free silver coinage plank.
Mr. Bryan has no Information that Jus
tifies the belief that they are in the ma
jority. He is in the habit of indulging
in statements that lack the support of
facts, and that is why his oratory is more
pleasing than convincing. If he could
only understand that facts and logic have
much more to do with the settlement of
questions like that of silver than words
and ebulitlons of feeling he could see that
he is not the man to take the place that
is still held by Mr. Bland.
Thursday's debate in the Senate on Wal
cott's resolution, providing for commis
sioners to an international silver confer
ence shows that even among the leading
silverites there are differences of opinion
us to the proper basis for the settlement
of the silver question. Senator Stewart
wanted the commissioners instructed to
accept only the ratio of 16 to 1, and he got
but nine senators to vote with him.
If the silverites undertake to run things
to suit themselves, as Mr. Bryan wants
them to do, they will find they are greatly
In the minority. The opponents of free
silver coinage have never undertaken to
convert the people to their views as the
silverites have. They have simply' re
mained on the defensive, trusting to the
common sense of the people to see the
evils of free sliver coinage, but If they
should bo forced to make a campaign to
sustain their position they would very
quickly deplete the ranks of the silver
forces, because they- have the facts and
the arguments, while the silverites deal in
assertions and glittering generalities.
If Mr. Bryan wants to split the Demo
cratic party he is pursuing the course to
do so. It is certain that the Democratic
party will never consent to have its i>olloy
in financial matters dictated by the sil
verites. A leading plank In the platform
of the Populist party calls for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver. It Is not
likely that the Democratic party’ will make
such a concession to that party as to
adopt one of its chief doctrines.
Perfume as u (ierm Killer.
From time to time those stern realists,
the scientists. Invade the realm of ideal
ism and attack the romance of something
therein that has been regarded as entire
ly beyond the province of cold science.
They have turned the honey dew of the
kiss Into a germ-bearing moisture to be
avoided instead of sought. They have
even brought color and music under con
tribution to therapeutics; and now they
are trying to reduce perfume to the
ranks of the germ-killers. It is a Phil
adelphia doctor who is leading this latest
attack upon the ideal. Instead of finding
in the perfume of the rose, the violet,
the geranium, etc., merely a language
of love, beauty and poetry expressed
through the sense of smelling, he finds
something he says will kill germs of cer
tain kinds! Could anything possibly be
more obnoxious to an ideal and poetic
Intellect?
This iconoclastic Philadelphia doctor
says that ozone, the great purifier of the
atmosphere, is supplied in Its most po
tent form from blooming flowers, and
that various pungent odors, such us the
exhalation of cloves, will positively kill
the most virulent microbes In twenty
five minutes. Continuing along this line
he says: "Cinnamon will kill some spe
cies In twelve minutes; thyme, in thirty
five. In forty-five minutes the common
wild verbena is found effective, while
the odor of some geranium flowers has
destroyed various forms of microbes in
fifty minutes. The essence of cinnamon
destroys the typhoid fever microbe in
twelve minutes, and Is recorded as the
most effective of all odors as an anti
septic. It Is now believed that the flowers
which are found in Egyptian mummies
were placed there more for their anti
septic properties than as mere ornaments
or elements in sentimental work.”
It is Just like a scientist to try to lay
this alleged discovery upon people who
have been dead thousands of years. Af
ter a while it may be claimed that when
the Egyptian mummies were alive they
smelled tuberoses for the cramps, and wore
violets for the grip, and held bouquets
of peonies for the measles, and so on.
Dr. Buchanan, the New York wife pois
oner. has been almost forgotten by the
world, notwithstanding his trial was al
most as sensational as that of Carlyle
Harris, and occurred only last summer.
Buchanan was sentenced to death by elec
tricity, but sentence has been suspended,
because of technicalities. The court of
appeals, however, has brushed aside the
legal barriers between Buchanan and the
chair, and another educated and refined
white man will shortly be executed with
lightning.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. MARCH 3. 1893.
The Fifty-third (ongrcia.
After to-morrow the Fifty-third con
gress will cease to exist. Its ending will
not be regretted. It has not fulfilled ex
pectations. The opportunities It has ha l
to confer great and lasting benefits upon
the country have been wasted. Those
who compose it will not refer to their
membership in it with pride. \
It has given the country anew tariff,
but it Is not such a tariff as w’as prom
ised. While the new' tariff is better than
the McKinley tariff was it is a long way
from twdng !n accordance with the tariff
doctrines of the Democratic party. And
it In not a carefully considered tariff, as
Is shown by the fact that pending bills
tarry amendments to perfect It.
The Fifty-third congress has not kept
its promisee* to practice economy. Its ap
propriations will likely exceed in amount
tho*e of th> lamous billion-dollar repub- j
I* an congress. It Is alleged that bills
that have been rushed through during the
last few days, and some of those which
will be acted upon to-morrow, contain
many' apropriations that will not be ap
proved by the people.
But the chief ground for complaint
against the Fllty-third congress is Its
utter failure to deal with the banking
and currency' question in a broad minded
and intelligent manner. When the demand
for the repeal of the purchasing clause of
the Sherman silver law was urgent, be
cause of the ruin that was threatened
to nearly all kinds of business and indus
tries, it hesitates for W'eeks to act. Had
it not been for the pressure of public
sentiment It would not have repealed the
clause at all.
In respect to the currency it has done
absolutely nothing to better the situation.
Three times the administration has had
to sell bonds for gold in order to main
tain gold payments., and because of the
absence of wise legislation the bonds re
cently Issued had to be sold much below’
their real value. The majority have been
wholly’ unable to come lo any agreement
in matters relating to ranking and cur
rency, and the country, so far as its
finances are concerned, has been permit
ted to drtft ft*>m bad to worse.
Both democratic and republican con
gressmen have been more anxious appar
ently to cater to the silver sentiment
In their respective districts than to do
what they must have known the best in
#of the country required. Th< %
have been trying diligently to keep on
good terms with both the silverites and
the sound money' people, and therefore
they have done nothing. There are, of
course, many honorable exceptions. There
are men In congress who have at all tfcnes
been ready to do their duty, but have
been prevented by those who are afraid
to do anything.
The silverites are thinking of flocking
by themselves and starting anew party'.
Should they do so the way w ould be open
for those who believe in sound money,
economical government and a fair tariff
to get together under able leadership and
so direct public affairs as to speedily cause
a return of prosperous times.
The t'rsml.
Recently observers in this city have had
several opportunities to study thut always
Interesting aggregation of Individuals
commonly referred to as "the crowd.”
The crowd Is a curious thing. It gathers
without order, and most frequently has no
definite purpose In view, except to gratify
curiosity. It Is made up of all manners
and shades of belief and Intelligence.
There Is no semblance of organization, and
possibly little community of Interest be
tween the Individuals, yel there is al
ways more or less of sympathy running
through the vthole mass. Something a
little out of the ordinary draw's the crowd;
and then matters drift. Sometimes the
drifting is rapid and in a dangerous direc
tion, and needs to be promptly checked.
For the crowd, while it is usually good
natured and moved by a harmless impulse,
may quickly be changed from an Inoffen
sive crowd into a how'llng mob, ready to
commit excesses. Half a dozen hot-headed
and 111-advised persons may influence a
crowd to bloodshed and riot. The cry:
"Lynch him!" "Kill him!” will send a
thrill through the crowd, and although
ninety-nine In every fOO may be ignorant of
what Is actually' occurring, the whole
mass will be more or less moved by the
cry to obey its command. Voices rather
j than men become the leaders under such
. circumstances. Excitement is instantan
j oously engendered, and becomes conta
j gious. And at that moment cool-headed
! and lawful authority Is in demand, or the
I crowd, made up in a considerable part
of Intelligence, becomes a mob blind and
furious. A stampede is likely to occur,
in which the wehker members of the erst
while crowd may be borne down and trod
den to death. Property may be destroyed,
as occurred in Chicago and Brooklyn not
long ago, or a lynching may put an end to
some unfortunate.
The crowd may have gathered to view' a
j procession of soldiers, or the unveiling of
a monument, or to witness a big fire or
for some other purpose; but it is often
as dangerous as it Is Interesting.
Ex-Gov. Tillman and Congressman Bry
an are In pretty close touch politically.
Tillman was in Washington a few days
I ago. It may' be that he had something to
do with Bryan's manifesto, advising the
silverites to seize and use the democratic
organization. It sounds very much like a
| Tillman scheme. Tillman did something
like that in South Carolina. It may be
that Tillnrvan and Bryan are figuring on
having their names at the head of a sll
verite national ticket, provided they can
help the silverites capture the democratic
machine. It is noted that an effort to
launch a Tillman presidential boom Is be
ing made in the news columns of certain
silverite newspapers in this state and else
where.
Pink-eye, thp peculiar disease that some
years ago became epidemic in various sec
tions of the country, at first among the
horses and later among humans, has again
made Its appearance in New York. In the
disease the balls of the ey'es become a
light pink, and while It lasts the sufferer
is almost blind. The effect of the sickness
Is a general debility. In many cases It is
accompanied by cerebrospinal meningitis.
PERSON %L.
—Brownson Howard, the playwright,
says that the profession of an actor is
rot very different from what It was 2,000
year* ago.
—Dr. Lombard of Geneva. Switzerland,
who has just died, was for many' years
regarded as the leading medical climatolo
gist of the w’orld.
—The Princess of Wales is an accom
plishod skater, and thougii a gandmothar,
can still do fancy work <>n the ice, which
would delight & professional.
—lt is said that the income of
McCarthy from literary work has shroik
from sls,<jo to $3.0u0 since In* U*gan to de
vote himself so closely to politics.
- The German emperor's mustache is
curled every morning by a barber who
makes this operation his specialty and re
ceives a fee of five shillings for each
visit
—John P. Rockefeller has recently lost
$1,500,000 on the Monte 'rlsto mine, but
the erection of hla little sj.**Vi.Uoo Adiron
dack cottage will go on just as if nothing
had happened.
—ln connection with the announcement
that Mr. Gladstone wear- red stockings
comos the information that the Empress
of Russia employs yellow and green in
these garments.
—M. Hertz, whose name is well known
in connection with the Panama scandal,
began life as the holder of German pat
ents for the Incandes • 1 im;*. an i al
•
a surgeon in the French army.
—Jules Verne is 78 years old. His first
novel was published when he was 35,
and he had been producing them at the
rate of nearly two h year ever since.
Verne is very fond of English literature,
and he thinks Charles I'd kens the great
est of all British novelists.
—The late President Carnot is to be
rammemorated at Angouleme by a stat
ute, which is the work of M. Raoul Ver
let, a clever y’oung sculptor, who carried
off the prize at the Salon in 1887, and a
medal of honor in 1889. He also did the
monument of Maupassant. The Carnot
monument is twelve feet high.
—lt is said that only one sovereign in
the world has ever been up In a balloon.
This exciting event occurred some three
years ago, when the Queen Regent Chris
tina of Spain happened to drive near a
field where some experiments in aerial
navigation were being made, and imme
diately stopped her carriage and asked to
be permitted to make an ascent.
BRIGHT BITS.
—The first thing a man does usually,
after buying a finished house, is to go and
hire a carpenter.—Somerville Journal.
—“She says she is wedded to her art.”
“Well if that is the case it looks to me like
a big case of Incompatibility.—Detroit
Tribune.
—lf the milkman and newsboy didn’t
come around so early in the morning
lovers could court longer undisturbed.—
New York Recorder.
—Hoax—l hear Trilby is to be translated
in French.
J ax—Why don’t somebody translate it
In English?—Philadelphia Record.
—Wlfe( at breakfast)—l didn’t hear you
w’hen you came in last night.
Husband—l guess fbat’s the reason I
didn’t hear you—Philadelphia Record.
—Ethel—She would have married him
were it not for one thing.
Marie—What was that"
Ethel—He had no bad habits for her to
break him of.—Detroit Free Press.
—Mrs. Houser—Have you any Idea what
the papers mean when they say a man is
dabbling in stocks?
Houser—Kr— that he "has gone into a
pool, most probably—Buffalo Courier.
—Walter (reading)—And as a huge wave
broke across her bow, she ”
Governess—Now tell me w’hy ships are
spoken of in the feminine gender.
Walter—’Cause they n**ed men to man
age them!—Wonder.
—'Tom—lf you had the privilege of kiss
ing a prettv girl on the right or left cheek,
which would you do?
Dick—lt w ould be bard to make a choice,
but between the two 1 should probably
find a way out of the dilemma.—Boston
Transcript.
—Mother—Oh, doctor, I’m so glad you
have come. We hav.* had such a scare!
We thought at first that Johnny had
swallowed a sovereign.
Doctor—And you found out that he
hadn’t?
Mother—Yes; It was only a shilling.—
Tit-Bits.
—Lawyer—This case Is likely to go hard
with you, for the jury has accented Dig
ginton’s plea that you hypnotized him into
the commission of the crime.
Prisoner—Oh, 1 guess not. I can prove
that another fellow hypnotised me into
hypnotizing Digginton. As to hypnotise.l
the fellow’ that hypnotised me, that is his
lookout —lndianapolis Journai.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Strikes Do Not Pay.
From the Hartford Times (Dem.)
The question whether strikes ever pay
is answered in the negative in the report
of the Massachusetts Board of Arbitration
ami Conciliation. The precise statement
is that even when strikes have seemed to
be successful, they* have "cost the winners
far more than the results were worth.”
Tile Country Is Pleased.
From the Chicago 'Herald (Dem.)
The country will applaud the firmness
and patriotism of the mayor of Savannah,
who neither parleyed with a committee
assuming to speak for a mob, nor hesi
tated to call out the militia to preserve
the principle of freedom of speech even
when morally abused. It would be well
for the south If every time constitutional
doctrines were assailed by violence public
officers should have the nerve and Inde
pendence of the mayor of Savannah.
More Senatorial Courtesy.
From the Boston Transcript (Rep ).
The spectacle of the United States Sen
ate purchasing real estate at an extrava
gant price to please a single senator, and
the House voting an extra month's pay
for clerks for members. Is not one to de
creast*ihe general disgust with which this
congress is now viewed by the country. A
chance, perhaps, exists that the salary
grab may not go .hrough the Senate, al
though that body has more than once
acted as If the public treasury were at its
absolute command and It was the chief
duty of senators to serve private Inter
ests. Is this real estate business another
Illustration of the “senatorial courtesy”
doctrine?
It ceil and Ilie Silver Question.
From the Brockton (Mass.) Times (Ind.).
Teller Is said to have Informed ex-Speak
er Reed that his past record on the ques
tion makes him unsatisfactory on any
platform to free coinage republicans, and
that unless lie squares himself with the
free coinage element in the next congress,
there will be a bolt In the national con
vention In the event of his nomination.
The story further goes that Henry Cabot
Lodge, who Is Reed's nearest friend in the
Senate, Is negotiating with Teller for a
compromise which may make Reed satis
factory to the silver men. It Is not Im
probable. indeed there Is very strong
likelihood, that the story Is true. The
great test of Reed's attitude will come
when, as speaker of the next House, he
will be called upon to make up the coin
age committee.
XVr.gc* ami Cheap Money.
From the New Y'ork Advertiser (Rep.).
How any wage earner can be Induced
to favor free silver and the reduction of
value to a silver basis, it is difficult to un
derstand. Money, doubtless, would he
plentiful, but commodities, including rent,
would cost more than twice as much as
they do to-day. And what does experience
tell us of wages? Do they keep pace with
the doubling up of prices? Nobody who
has been through a period of inflation
needs to bo reminded how slowly wages
rise to meet Increased prices. It would
probably require five years for wages
to adjust themselves to a silver value of
commodities. And after the crash has
conic, how swiftly wages fail, first to zero
for millions of workmen, to crawl slowly
back to a true adjustment! That is what
the mine, owners of the west are preparing
to inflict upon the country in order to get
two prices for their product. If the coal
or iron miners should do the same, what
an outcry there would be, to he sure!
Jiikins* Automatic l.irker.
"The most curious labor-saving device
I ever heard of,” said Col. Calliper, ac
cording to the New York Sun. “waa an au
tomatic linker that was Invented by a
school teacher named Socratea Jllkins.
who was well known at one time some
yeans ago in fttorkvflle Center, Vermont,
and in that vicinity. Mr. Jiikins was a.s
gen tie-hearted a man as ever lived, but
he believed in whipping, and he never
failed to whip the boys when he thought
they deserved it; in fact. I’m not sure
hut what he whipped them rather of
tener than that. In order to keep himself
square with his conscience.
“It was a pretty big school and a pretty
lively lot of boys, and lickin’ ’em took up
a good deal of Socrates’ time. So he in
vented this automatic lh-ker. It was a
very ingvnious contrivance and at the
same time extremely simple. It was just
a wooden post with clockwork inside of
it near the top to turn a horizontal spin
dle which projected out beyond the side
of the post. To the outer end of this spin
dle was attached, at right angles, a ruler
or rattan which, when the clockwork was
in motion, whirled around in a vertical
plane; it was something like a small ein
gle-armed windmill.
“Mr. Jiikins set this post up on one cor
ner of the platform, and when a boy was
to be licked he would call him. wind up
the licker. stand the boy at such a dis
tance that at every revolution It made the
ruler w’ould come down on the boy’s ex
tended hand, and when he had got it
nicely started Mr. Jiikins would go back
to the other side of the platform and go
on with his teaching. You can easily see
what a great saving of time was this.
“But Mr. Jiikins. ingenious as he was.
had overlooked one thing; he had failed
to provide the machine with an adequate
governor. He had figured out that the re
sistance offered at regularly recurring in
tervals by the hand of the boy would be
sufficient to keep the machine from run
ning too fast, and so it was as long as
the machine was a novelty; but after that,
when Mr. Jiikins had gone over to the
other side of the platform, the boy being
whipped would as likely as not take his
hand out of line, ami then the licker
would race, as u screw propeller sometimes
doea when it is Jfted out of water, and it
wasn’t long before the licker had racked
itself out of working order. Mr. Jiikins
fixed it once, but It soon got out of repair
again, and then he went back to the old
way.
“But for years after that the post of
the automatic licker still stood on the
platform; its arm was removed, but I re
member well on** day tearing my Jacket
upon the still projecting spindle.”
Wanted.**
The new song, “Girl Wanted,” is the
latest claimant for popularity among the
motto-slmgers of she variety theaters
within such of the farce comedies as keep
away from hailing distance of New York,
says the New York Sun. Gus Weinberg is
the author of the song, which tells of the
marital troubles of a young couple having
their origin in the attempt of the wife to
do “some plain cooking.’’ The pecularity
of the song is that tne chorus in each
case is longer than the verse which it is
designed to epitomize. This is the cho
rus of the first verse following the attempt
of the young wife to do the cooking:
Girl wanted, girl wanted, next day this
sign appeared upon the door;
Girl wanted, girl wanted, and wifejr Is
not cooking any more;
She said It was like mother used to
make it;
He told her if it was she ought to shake
it;
So at the break of day, those who chanced
to go that way,
Saw’ the sign, “Girl Wanted.”
The second paragraph tells qf the w ife’s
Jealousy of a newcomer; the third has for
its theme the familiar subject of all Ameri
can humorists, song writers, almanac
makers and newspaper paragraphers, the
use of kerosene is an aid to the combus
tion of kindlng wood in making the morn
ing fire. The third applicant for a situa
tion in the culinary' department wan a
colored woman, the subject of the fourth
paragraph. This is the last verse of the
song, the ultimate popularity’ of which is
uncertain:
The next girl was an actress, she’d been
upon the stage;
She posed in living pictures when they
were all the rage.
One day she put her costumes on for
Brown’s special delight.
And wifey, w ho had been dqwn town, flew
In ana saw the sight.
Girl wanted, girl wanted, next day this
sign appeared upon the door;
Girl wanted, girl wanted, that actress
isn’t working any more.
She nearly broke their home and all the
fixtures,
For wifey drew the line at Living Pic
tures;
So at the break of day’ those that chanced
to go that way
Saw the sign “Girl Wanted.”
Merely by the Way.
The chairman, says the Worcester Ga
zette, suddenly started the brethren by
breaking into a rhymed invitation, as fol
lows:
Brother Bolton,
Of Colton,
Will you step this way
And pray?
Brother Bolton promptly responded, but
as he passed smiling up the aisle, he said
good-naturedly:
My dear brother Strong,
Y ou do very wrong
To be making a rhyme
At such a solemn time.
To this the chairman responded with a
good deal of satisfaction:
My dear brother B.
I’m very sorry to see
That you're just like me.
Then all the good brethren present had
a hearty laugh, but that in all probability
did not at all interfere with the success
of the fervent petition which Brother
Bolton put up a few minutes later.
Justice Harlan null His Tobacco.
I have been in small country churches
where the farmers chewed tobacco during
the sermon and spat through auger holes
lu the floor, says a writer in the New Y'ork
Press, and I have heard the old hay
seeds say that they would rather give up
their religion than their tobacco. These
recollections were forced suddenly upon
me on Sunday, when I noticed that the
stanch old Presbyterian and associate
Justice of the supreme court, John M.
Harlan of Kentucky, had his private cus
pidore in his pew. I wonder what the
justice, now 62 years old, would do If his
church voted down tobacco. The situa
tion reminds me of that which confronted
Sam Jones on the occassion of a Metho
dist revival. Sam Is an inveterate chewer.
As he knelt on thh front bench the good
old elder passed by and inquired:
"My brother, what shall I ask the Lord
to do for you?”
"Nothin’." muttered Sam between his
teeth; “just pray for me and my tobacco.”
Misunderstood the Telegram.
There’s one man In Westbrook, says
the Lewiston (Me.) Journal, who prob
ably will carefully read over all his let
ters and telgrams before he sends them,
hereafter, to see if they contain any hid
den meaning. He is a clergyman, and
desiring a Portland ministerial friend to
preach for him last Sunday, sent a hasty
telegram, which he worded as follows:
“Grant to preach for me Sunday morning;
I will explain." Supposing that this would
effect the change, he gave out word that
the Portland minister would occupy the
pulpit on Sunday, and left his flock with
a clear conscience. Sunday came, and a
big congregation assembled in the West
brook church to hear the Portland cler
gyman. a favorite with them. But no
minister came, and after long waiting
the people went home, bewildered and
disappointed. The Portland minister has
since explained, by a card in the papers,
that he received word that a minister
named Grant was to do the preaching.
A Joke on Mascagni.
The Philadelphia Record tells a good
story of Mascagni, the composer. During
his recent visit to London, while in his
room at a hotel, he heard an organ-grind
er play the intermezzo from “Cavalleria
Rusticana." The man playing the piece
entirely too fast exasperated Mascagni,
and descending Into the street the com
poser addressed the organist, saying: "You
play this entirely too fast. Let me show
you how It ought to be played.” "And
who are you?” asked the wandering min
strel. ”1 happen to be the composer of the
piece." replied Mascagni, and then he
played the Intermezzo for the astonished
organ-grinder In the correct tempo. Im
agine Mascagni's surprise when on the
following dav he saw the same organ
grinder In front of his house with a
placard on the organ, on which was In
scribed in large letters: "Pupil of Mas
cagni.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The poorer of freezing water is one of •
the greatest in nature, and under Its force j
the hardest rocks are ’cpnstantly dteen
tegrating. When the water in the crevices .
bowlder* from the side of a cliff. It Is >
said that in the neighborhood of Hudson’s
bay rocks often burst from freezing “with i
a noise equal to that of heavy artillery'.”
—During one of the late severe storms ;
in Northern New York a Central switch
man, near the Batavia plow works, emp
tfta i his dinner pall on the platform cl
his shanty to feed the hungry sparrows.
While the birds were eating a poor, half
starved mouse ventured into thqtfr midst
to get a crumb of the* feast when the
whole flock of sparrows pounced upon
him and killed poor mousy in the twink
ling of an eye.
When you ouy a pair of new shore
never put them on a shelf higher than
your head, unless you want to bring
bad luck; and if you blacken them before
you have had both shoes on. you may meet
with an accident, or even have a sudden
death. This is. an old Irish superstition.
The Scotch girts believe that if they drop
their shoes before they are worn trouble
will ensue, while a French lady losing her
heel is sure of some disappointment in
love, and a German mother in the same
predicament feels that she will soon lose
one of her children. You must not put
your rjght shoe on yoqr left foot or your
left on your right, nor must you put your
left shoe on before the right unless you
want bad luck. This superstition dates
back to one of the emperors of Rome,
who, it is recorded, put on his left shoe
first one morning, and came near being
assassinated during the day.
—Let us see what richness of stellar dis
tribution is implied by this number ot
100,1*00,000 of visible stars, says the Gentle
man’s Magazine. It may be easily shown
that the area of the whole sky in both
hemispheres is 41.255 square degrees. This
gives 2,424 stars to the square degree. The
moon’s apparent diameter being slightly
over a half a degree (31 deg. 5 min.), the
area of its disc is about one-flfth of a
square degree. The area of the whole star
sphere 1s consequently about 200,000 times
the area of the full moon. A total of 100,-
000,000 of stars gives, therefore, 500 stars
to each space of sky in area to the full
moon. This seems a large number, but
stars scattered over as thickly as this
would appear at a considerable distance
apart w hen viewed with a telescope of a
high power. As the area of the moon’s
disc contains about 760 square minutes of
arc, there would not be an average of
even one star to each square minute. A
pair of stars half a minute or thirty sec
onds apart, would form a very wide dou
ble star, and with stars placed at even
this distance the moon’s disc would cover
about 3,00*), or six times the actual number
visible in the largest telescdpes.
-VThe difference between an egg and
milk, says the Rural New Yorker, is that
milk is a production, and while the same
is true of an egg, it is also an embyro
chick; that is, it contains all the ele
ments for producing young. In round num
bers the white weighs about 600 grains,
though all eggs are not of the same size
and weight. Of the white, 84 per cent, is
water, and about 124 per cent, albumen,
and there is also mineral matter, sugar,
etc. Hence there is in the egg albumen to
the amount of 75 grains. The yolk also
contains some albumen. 45 per cent, of
fat and 52 per cent, of water, as well as
mineral matter, etc. The total egg con
tains about 80 grains of sugar, coloring,
etc., and the line of the shell, which is
really about 50 per cent, pure lime. The re
mainder is carbonic acid, water of crys
talization, etc., as the shell is a salt-car
bonate of lime. It will be seen, then, that
the albuminoids are more than equal
to one-half of the fat, oil, etc., and hence
the ration should be about two to one, as
has been stated. Of course it is difficult to
feed the exact proportions. The hen will
lay on any food that contains sufficient
albumen, but the excess of carbonaceous
matter is stored on the body as fat, and
as she will eat a large quantity of food
daily she can always secure sufficient al
bumen if the food is not exclusively car
bonaceous, as with grain. A variety will
provide sufficient albumen. .
—ln the year 1884 a law of divorce was
passed in France. The French people had
had to wait a long time for it, but since
they got It they have certainly taken
full advantage of its provisions. .Up to the
end of the year 181)1—a period of eight
years only from the date of the passing
of the act—nearly 46,000 divorce suits were
instituted by dissatisfied husbands or
wives. In about 40,000 cases decrees of
divorce were granted, and the unhappily
married couples set free to try their luck
again. If there were, on an average, 5,700
divorce cases every ear in England, it
Would mean that cases of conjugal infi
delity were very much more numerous, or*
were irere often brought to light, than at
present. In England an applicant for a
divorce must be able to prove adultery,
whereas only 21 per cent, of the whole
number of applications in France were
based on this accusation. Cruelty and
desertion were alleged in 7G per cent, of
the cases heard. No doubt most of the
disagreements which led husbands and
wives into court were due to “incompat
ibility of temper,” which is quite a rec
ognized ground upon w’hich to obtain the
equivalent of a “decree nisi.” Most of the
divorces were pronounced between couples
who had been married only a few years,
but there were five curious cases In which
the parties had lived together—happily or
otherwise—for upward of half a century.
In the department of the Seine, which, of
course, includes Paris, no less than 272
out of every 100,000 married couples ob
tained divorces last year. For the whole
of France, the proportion was 81 to every
100,000.
—lt is only possible for animal and veg
etable organisms to maintain their func
tions when the temperature is ranging
between certain limits, but the ability
of either of the classes mentioned to with
stand abnormal heat or cold varies great
ly. For an instance, we are told that
Sir George Nares and party, as well as
the dogs which .they took with them,
withstood forty-eight hours of cold equal
to 81 degrees below the zero of Fahren
heit, w'hile Prof. Chaubert, the French
“Fire King,” has often remained for a
considerable length of time in ovens heated
to a temperature of 500 degrees. The low
er orders of animal creation, such as
fishes, reptiles and insects, may be frozen
l-erfectly hard without harm, providing
they be slowly and carefully “thawed
cut.” The various animaculae may be
dried until absolutely void of moisture,
and then restored to life with fluids, as
many as a dozen different times. Seeds
which have been kiln-dried may be kept
in the lowest artificial temperature known
for an indefinite period without being in
jured in the least. In growing plants
there is, however, a minimum tempera
ture, and below this life ceases to exist.
Most plants and vegetables become inact
ive. when the mercury sinks to near the
freezing point of water; -but assimilation
will take place in turnips, cabbage, mead
ow grass and a few hardy plants at
a temperature ranging between 34 and 38
degrees, which is only slightly above
the freezing point. Then, again, each spe
cies of plant has its maximum as well as
its minimum temperature. If heated
above this minimum (which ranges from
95 to 130 degrees in the different species),
death almost instantly results, whereas
a few degrees below the minimum tem
perature simply suspends the activity of
the plants for the time being.
Awarded
Highest Honors—World’* Fail;
DSt
CREAM
BAKING
mm
MOST PERFECT MADE.
/pure Crape Cream of Tartar Powder. FrSt
him Ammonia, Al jrr.orany other adulterant
40 YEARS <HE STANDARD,
Pare rood*
Bntterine is a much abused product
Asa matter of fact Kis pure, sweet,
wholesome, and infinitely preferable to
ordinary country butter. A special
correspondent of this paper recently
visited the factory owned and operated
by the Armour Packing Cos., of Kansas
City, manufacturers of the widely ad
vertised Silver Churn Butterine. A
five story building is perfectly fitted
for the "scientific preparation of this
food product. Everything is spotless, v
clean; all appliances are the latest and
most improved, and every precaution is
taken to secure the production ofan
absolutely pure and wholesome food
All processes arc under the direction of
a foreign chemist who has made the
skillful combination of pure sweet fat.
the study of his life.
Prof. Charles Chandler, of New York
City, says: “The product is palatable
and wholesome and I regard it as a
most valuable article of food.’’
Prof. J. 8. W. Arnold, Medical De
partment, University of New York,
says: “A blessing for the poor, and in
every way a perfectly pure, wholesome
and palatable article of food."
Prpparot Solely By
ARMOUR PACKING CO,
Kansas City, V. S. A.
Wholesale by
Armour Packing Cos
SAVANNAH. OA.
JJANIEIT HOGAN.
NOW THEN.
We don’t want you to rend this
nnl think Hie conipnrlso rt below is
made with price* in vogue fifty
year* ago. 01. no. Thene compara
tive figure* are lunt week and this—
Ju*t the re*ult of our watchfulness
anl care Ia huy lug at the right time
and knowing what a bargain In nail
especially when It I* adapted to the
trade we mo highly esteem and ever
lastingly protect. Webster define*
bargain a* “An advuntugeou* pur
chase.** Sorely then this week’s of
fering* are bargains, indeed.
LAST WEEK AND THIS.
India Linens that were 18c yard now 124 c.
India Linens that were yard now I.V.
India Lfinetifl that were 25c yard now 20c.
India Linens that were 30 and 40c yard now
25 aid 30c.
Persian Lawrs that were 20c yard-now 15c.
Persian Lawns that were 25c yard now 20c.
Persian Lawns that were 30c yard now 26c.
Persian Lawns that wore, 35c yard now 30 •
Persian Lawns that were 40 and 50c yard now
35 and 40c.
Dotted Swiss Muslms that were 18c yard
now 124 c.
Dotted Swiss Muslins that were 20c yard
now 124 c.
Dotted Swiss Muslins that were 25c yard
now 2uc
EMBROIDERIES.
We hear so many nice things snld
of oor Embroidery stock this season
that we can’t help telling you more
about It. Borne new arrivals of Ham
burg Embroideries, consisting of
Cambric, Nainsook and Swiss Edg
ing". Insertions and Flounces, with
all over to match. A special line of
Edgings from 3c to 50© per yard.
Remnants of Embroideries on a spe
cial table. We display a superb line
of Torchon, Medici, Normandy, A'nl
and Renaissance Laces with Inser
tion* to match.
75 dozen Ladies* Linen Embrolil
ered Handkerchief* 25c, that were
35 and -fOe.
100 dozen Ladles* Hemstitched at
12 1-2 and 18c, cheap at 18 and 25c.
SILKS.
One lot Spring Silks just received,
50c. You would have gladly paid 75c
last season for same quality.
One lot Spring Silks 05c, cut down
from Ssc.
One lot Spring Silks $1.23 a yard,
but tills week they go at 85c.
DANIEL HOGAN
The Corner Broughton and Barnard Sts.
PERRY’S
Smash in Prices.
All Goods Must Go.
*- .
Dress Goods Half Price.
French Challies, all wool,
30 cents.
English Challies, 20c.
Hermsdorff Black Hose,
worth 30, at 20c.
Children’s Hose, worth 25c
to 30c, next week 15c and 20c.
Table Linen at a sacrifice.
Fine Laces at your price.
Ribbon at less than half
price.
Fine Silk Grenadines,
worth $3, this week at $2.
Who will reap the benefit
of this sale? All line of
goods must be sold.
166 Broughton.
RESTAURANT. --
ANEWPLAGEf OEAT.
ALL WHITE HELP,
Everything 5c Per Plate.
KITCHEN NEAT AND CLEAN.
Np USE TO EXPLAIN.
Give u. ONE TRIAL is all we ask.
OPEN NIGHT AND DAY.
NO LIQUORS SOLD.
I NICKEL PIUTE RESTIIURIIT.
Near Press OSce.
between Pul iski House and Market House, oa
St. Julian, alsQctraer i, hltjker and Bryan.