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Social Functions, China and Glass—
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Capes Cut to Slim Figures—Daniel Ho
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An Open Door—Edward Lovell’s” Sons.
Auction Sales—Furniture, Etc., by C. H.
Dorsett.
Knocking Off the Cents from the Dollars
—\V. E. Wimpy.
Amusements—Francis Jones. In "Old
Madrid,” at the Theater, Jan. 18.
Our New Spring Goods—At Gutman’s.
Conveniences—B. H. Levy & Bro.
The Ladies Will Parade—At Eckstein’s
Bargain.
Last Week—At Kohler’s Old Stand.
The Greatest Bargains of the New Year
—Falk Clothing Company.
Annual January Clearance Bale—Leo
pold Adler.
The Latest Novelty In Wash Fabrics—
Walsh & Meyer.
Mark Down Shoe Sale—Leopold Adler.
Iron Works—Kehoe's Iron Works.
Men's Shoes—Byck Bros.
Financial—DeWolf & Cos., Bankers and
Brokers, New York; Skidmore, Horton &
Cos., Stock Brokers, New York.
The Steinway Piano—<Ludden & Bates’
e m. h.
Gas Heaters—Mutual Gas Light Com
pany.
Medical—Munyon’s Remedies; S. S. S.;
Cutlcura Remedies; Johann Hoff's Gen
uine Malt Extract; Wine of Cardui; Dr.
Krum; Abbo.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Sam Jones preached in Boston the other
day upon the subject: "Give me a Blow
ga!.” A few days previously he had de
clared to the Bostonians that "h— is only
half a mile off.'* How could the reverend
gentleman have expected to find a Blow
gal within half a mile of ?
The announcement is made that Howard
Gould, Bon of the late Jay Gould, Is to
marry Katharine Clemmons, the actress.
Miss Clemmons' real name is Dayan. She
has never made much of a success of her
stage career. Buffalo Bill "discovered'’
her and spent a lot of money In trying to
make a star of her.
The suggestion that Mr. Watson is us
ing his influence to secure the re-election
of ssenutor Pritchard In North Carolina
If. probably without foundation. What
ever else may be said of Mr. Watson, he
1; not double-faced. Ho Is against trim
ming and dickering In politics. It would
probably be gratifying to him to see
.narlon Butler turned down In Norih Car
e.ina, but he would not stultify himself
in order to assist in bringing about that
result.
There Is talk In London. New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago of establishing
a “peace u|>on whicn to celebrate
the conclusion of a general arbitration
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain. The treaty has not yet
been ratified. If it should be, and a
“peace day” should be deemed the proper
thing, it would probably bo well to re
move it as far as possible from the
ypurt^oWuly.
One Member of the Cabinet,
Senator Sherman Is to be Secretary of
State in the administration. Now
that Mr. McKinley has secured the leading
member of his cabinet, it is probable that
this progress in cabinet-making will be
more rapid.
A few days ago it was given out that Mr.
Cornelius N. Bliss would tie the New York
member of the cabinet. It is announced,
however, that he has reconsidered his ac
ceptance of Mr. M .Kinley’s Invitation, and
will not lie a part of the, next administra
tion. Thus far, therefore. Senator Sher
man is the only member of Mr. McKinley's
cabinet that lias been definitely decided
upon.
We are inclined to think that Senator
Sherman did not aceept a cabinet place
from choice. lie will not find tlie work
In the state department congenial. Al
though he is the chairman of the foreign
relations committee, he does not take a
deep interest in the questions which come
before it. It is said by some of his asso
ciates in the Senate that diplomatic, mat
ters have no attraction for him. and that
he has never been known to give any ques
tion relative to our foreign relations care
ful study. Why. then, it may be asked,
has he consented to take charge of the
state department?
The answer is probably that he cannot
he re-elected to the Senate and Mr. McKin
ley wants Mr. Hanna to succeed him in
the Senate. Senator Sherman's term as
senator will end a year from next March.
Even If the republicans should succeed in
electing the next legislature in Ohio, the
chances are that he could not be re-elected.
Senator Foraker is the dominating repub
lican influence in Ohio politics at present,
and he would favor Gov. Bushnell as Sen
ator Sherman's successor. It would not
be gratifying to Senator Sherman to lie
unable to Boeure a re-election, after nearly
fifty years in public life. He is now 74
years of age, and after four years as Sec
retary of State, he could retire gracefully
to private life. He has, therefore, an ex
cellent reason for accepting the high office
which Mr. McKinley has offered him.
As for the duties of the office, care will
be taken that they are not too burdensome
for him. An experienced diplomat will be
appointed to the position of first assist
ant secretary, and thus the senator will
run but little risk of making blunders. The
fact that he will succeed a brilliant official
will make his position a rather difficult
one at first, but it is probable that he will
aim to keep the country out of trouble
with other governments rather titan to
make a brilliant reputation, such as Mr.
Olney has made.
By going into the cabinet, Senator Sher
man makes a place for Mr. Hanna in the
Senate. Mr. Hanna is ambitious to be a
senator, and Mr. McKinley wants him in
the Senate. He will speak for the admin
istration in that body, and will be very
influential, probably, in keeping up friend
ly relations between the Senate and the
administration.
Whether or not Mr. Hanna will remain
in the Senate longer than a year will de
pend largely upon himself. Gov. Bush
nell has agreed, it Is understood, to ap
point him, if Senator Sherman resigns, for
the senator's unexpired term. Senator
Sherman, therefore, is to become the lead
ing member of Mr. McKinley's cabinet un
der an arrangement that appears to be
satisfactory to the principal republican
politicians nf Ohio.
Do Women Hate Women f
It Is probably safe to say there Is a
more or less general Idea that women do
not like women; that they are less kindly
disposed toward their sex than they are to
wards men, or than men are towards them;
that they are ever ready to help a man
up and to push a woman down. It has
been asserted, even, that women hate wo
men. "How you women snub each other!”
may frequently be heard, spoken by a
man. Is there good ground for saying wo
men dislike women, not to put it more
harshly?
It may be that the joker has had a good
deal to do with fixing the Impression that
women do not like each other. Wit and
humor are powerful moulders of public
sentiment. Away back in prehistoric ages,
probably, a Joke was evolved touching
upon woman's spitefulness toward her sis
ters. From that time until the present
the funny men have rung the changes
upon that alleged characteristic of the
sex. No humorous paper of the day can
be called wholly complete If it has not a
Joke turning upon two women rushing into
each other's arms and kissing ecstatically,
and then saying mean things about each
other as soon as possible after having sep
arated. The professional humorist has in
his stock of joke bases nothing that he
uses oftencr than woman's supposed an
tipathy to women. The funny paragraphs
purporting to quote one woman's remarks
about another's bonnet, or drrss, or ago,
or angularity, or adiposity, or the like,
are too well known to need to be more
than referred to.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and sev
eral other prominent women reformers
were asked recently If women hated wo
men, and if so why. Without exception
they denied that there was any sueh feel
ing, or any good ground for saying there
was. They pointed to tHeir lives' work
for women as exemplifying how they feel
with regard to the matter, and. on the
other hand, to the splendid tributes that
have been paid to them by women, show
ing appreciation of the services rendered.
There are certain requlremen'.s exacted
of women by our social customs which
often force them to steel their hearts
against others of their sex, They are
made sometimes cynical and exacting, and
possibly cruel, by precepts instilled Into
their minds generation after generation.
Then there is In human nature a quality
called Jealousy, and another called envy.
That person who has neither of these Is
superhuman. They can be brought under
subjugation, to a degree. But tt Is seldom
If over that they can bo wholly master
ed. In Individual cases these qualities, or
passions, come to the front. At such times
unkind things are said or done. Whether
such things arc done oftener by women
than by men la a question. But it seems
that there should be no question with re
gard to the fact that deep down In the
heart of the Infinite majority of mankind,
without distinction between the sexes,
there is an abiding love of humanity, In
all the term implies.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1897.
A Monetary Conference.
Evidently the republicans intend to make
an effort to carry out that provision of
their platform which favors international
bimetallism—at least they Intend to take
such steps to secure an international mon
etary conference as will leave the silver
ites no room to charge them with having
acted in bad faith. It is clearly their in
tention to pass a bill authorizing the Pres
ident to appoint delegates to an Interna
tional monetary conference if one should
be called, and making an appropriation
for the delegates' expenses.
But what hope is there that such a con
ference will be called, and what chance
would therV be of its accomplishing any
thing if it should be called? It is announc
ed from London, where Senator Wolcott
wont a couple of weeks ago to work up a
sentiment in favor of a conference, that
the bimetallists of Europe are rather in
different in regard to the matter. They
do not think that an agreement could be
reached, if a conference should be called;
lienee they are not giving Senator Wolcott
any encouragement.
Wo are not certain that the republican
leaders are anxious for a conference. It
would not be of any benefit to anybody. It
would simply tend to keep alive the agita
tion of the silver question.
The stiver question will solve itself if
the politicians will let it alone, and the
solution will be far more satisfactory than
any results that could be brought about
by an international monetary conference
or by legislation. The production of gold
is steadily Increasing and that of silver
is decreasing. In the course of a few years
the gap between gold and silver at the
present ratio of 16 to 1 will be practically
closed by the advance in the price of sil
ver. Then we shall hear no more of the
silver question. If the bullion value of a
silver dollar were equal to the bullion
value of a gold dollar there would be no
demand for free and unlimited coinage of
silver, and the nearer those two values
approach each other the less Imperative
that demand wiil become.
The republicans, in preparing for an In
ternational monetary conference, are sim
ply putting themselves in a position to say
they have complied with their platform
pledges. We doubt that they expect or
want an international monetary confer
ence.
A Town Without Sweetheart*.
Scientists say that the process of evolu
tion of the earth is towards the leveling
of all inequalities, so that one of these
days, probably some hundreds of millions
of years hence, there will remain neither
hills nor valleys, but the earth will be one
great, smooth globe with unbroken sur
face. They say also that the social evolu
tion is progressing towards a similar end,
when there will be equality everywhere;
when the rough places which cause people
to fall down now shall have disappeared
and the sexes will be distributed in even
proportion, from Massachusetts to the
Friendly Islands of the Pacific. In tho§S
days, whenever they come, Massachusetts
spinsters and the belles of the Friendly
Islands will not need to hustle for hus
bands, and the "boys” In the mining
camps will not need to import wives;
mates will be at hand for all. According
to the Ideal view of the eternal fitness of
things, the equal distribution of the sexes
Is a consummation to be wished, and
should assist materially in bringing about
a state of contentment, if not positive
happiness.
'Whether the theory would work out Is
an open question. Persons interested in
that line of investigation, however, have
an opportunity to study the possibilities.
For it transpires that there Is In Ken
tucky a town in which the sexes were so
evenly balanced and the temperaments of
the individuals so admirably suited to
each other that the young men and young
women have all got married, and there is
not an unmarried man or an unmarried
woman in the municipality! The town—
Rrookstown—is not large, to be sure. But
is there another town, or village, in the
United States, large or small, which has
neither unmarried man nor woman in it?
It may be doubted that there is. It is re
ported that half a dozen weddings during
the Christmas holidays cleared the Brooks
town lists of marriageable persons.
Brookstown thereupon became unique
among American municipalities. But it
may be doubted that the fortunes of the
place have been greatly enhanced. It may
be that Brookstown has become a Para
dise of connubial felicity; and then again
It may be otherwise. It can hardly be as
attractive a place as It once was. Imagine
a town without young ladies! What
drummer would care to stop there over
Sunday and help “the house” keep down
the profits? Could life in such a place be
extremely happy? Is any society com
plete without its sweethearts, and beaux,
and singing classes, and candy pullings,
or their more swell equivalents? Indeed,
it seems that Brookstown lias precipitated
a social problem, turning upon the query
if it would, after all, be to the happiness
of the human race if the sexes were so
evenly distributed that conditions similar
to those at Brookstown might occur from
time to time.
Minister Willis, w hose death at Honolulu
was chronicled In our dispatches yester
day, succeeded Mr. Blount of this state
at that post In September, 1893. He was
a Kentuckian, and represented the I<ouis
vllle district in the House of Represenla.
lives for five congressional terms. He
was chairman of the committee on rivers
and harbors during Mr. Carlisle's speaker
ship. und was one of Mr. Carlisle's close
personal and political friends. He was
about 55 years old at the time of his death.
Sensational newspapers are discussing
the possibility of a personal encounter be
tween Consul General and Congress
man Money, growing out of the latter’s
indiscretion in publishing a message al
leged to have been Instrustod to him by
Gen. Lee for Secretary Olney. It Is al
leged that Mr. Money has written Gt>.
Lee a letter with regard to his denial of
the message In which ho tells the general
that “no one can brand him as a liar In
the newspapers with Impunity.” Mr.
Money has a reputation for throwing Ink
bottles In committee rooms, but It Is not
likely that trouble will result between
the two gentlemen. The day of duelling
is Past.
Piot. yfclbi o Vienna Is reported to be
dying In poverty. He is the somewhat
celebrated earthquake and general ealam
ity prophet who, a or so ago, was
frequently quoted In the newspapers. It
would seem that croaking of horrora to
come was not a paying business. It is
probable that Prof. Falb was so impress
ed with his own prophecies of evil that he
was not able to get out from under the
influences of them, and hence made a fail
ure of his endeavors.
Spain protests too much that she will
institute reforms of her own free will and
accord in Cuba. If she keeps it up much
longer the rest of the world will feel as
sured that she would not grant a single
concession if she were not obliged to.
PERSONAL.
—Sarah Thomas, a lively woman, 109
years old, In Wales, possesses all her fac
ulties, but is a dangerous somnambulist.
The Princess of Wales annually sends her
on her birthday as many shillings as she
has lived years.
—Menelek, the victorious Negus of Abys
sinia, has ordered from the Russian paint
er Poljaow a picture to represent the bat
tle of Aclua. It is to interpret the idea
that St. George assisted the Abyssfnians
to their victory over the Italians, and is
destined for a plat - in the negus’ palace.
-A French writer Edouard Toulouse,
has examined Zola's mental peculiarities,
and discovered a peculiar weakness of
memory. He could not recognize well
known citations from Moliere, Balzac,
Hugo and George Sand, and in some oases
even failed to remember his own early
writings when passages from them were
read to him.
—Gen. Gourko. the noted Russian sol
dier, formerly governor general of War
saw, is seriously ill. About two years ago
In* suffered from a stroke of apoplexy,
which compelled him to resign his post
at Warsaw. For a year he has been stay
ing at Wiesbaden, but with little benefit.
He is 69 years old and holds the rank of
field marshal.
—Mrs. Hobbs, an intimate friend of the
first Duke of Wellington, has just died in
Ireland at the age of 103 years. Her hus
band was badly wounded at Quatre Bras.
Flvo of her fourteen children and six of
her forty-four grandchildren are serving in
the British army, and she had besides
thirty-two great-grandchildren and two
great-great-grandchildren. On her 100th
birthday the Duke of Cambridge congratu
lated her in behalf of the army.
—The celebrated traveler, Count de Gu
bernatiSj who recently returned to Rome
from America, has been received by the
king and queen, to whom be communi
cated h* intention of founding a perma
nent museum of American industrial and
nattnral products, add their majesties as
sured him of their support and encourage
ment. The museum will most likely be
opened in April, Count de Gubernatis be
ing already well provided with the neces
sary materials.
—The late E. P. Whipple used to tell the
story of Rufus Choate that once while ad
dressing a jury he several times repeated
a certain part of his plea—repeating in
the same words and accent. Certain that
the great Advocate had some reason for
so-strange a proceeding—a reason not ob
vious to others—Mr; Whipple took an op
portunity to ask an explanation. Mr.
Choate's answer In substance was: “There
was a numskull on the Jury who was pay
ing no attention to what 1 was saying; l
would have kept up the repetition until
he listened if It had taken the entire day!”
BRIGHT HITS.
—Brown—What is the nature of the pro
posed amendment to the Raines law?
Jones—lt provides that, in addition to
calling a saloon a hotel, the bartender
must be known as a chef.—Puck.
—Poet—Let me tell you, sir, that poem
cost me a week's hard labor.
Editor (who has read it)—ls that all?
If I’d have had the passing of the sent
ence you’d have got a month.—Tit-Bits,
—Cabana—Did you know Snortious had
applied for a pension?
Lovell—No; on what grounds?
. Cabana—Says he has strained his lungs
yelling for war with Spain.—Philadelphia
North American.
—lntuition.—She started affrightedly
from her slumber. “There's a man in the
house,” she cried. “Impossible!” “Then
it's a very advanced woman.” That was
to say, her intuition could not be wholly
at fault.—Detroit Journal.
—Small Sister—How do you s’pose peo
ples way up norf teep warm in de win
ter. Bobby?
Small Brother (scornfully)—Why, what
does you s'pose de fur-twees is for?—Cin
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
—He was about as black as the tradi
tional ace of spades, and two dusky dam
sels, each of whom claimed the right to
call him husband, sat bolt upright in the
court room and glared at the defendant.
‘Yo'r honor,” said the prisoner, "I want
to apply for a change of venus in this
case.”
“On what grounds?” inquired the court.
“I want a change of venus,” repeated
the defendant, “because one of dese wo
men ts prejudiced ag’in me.”—Troy Times.
cut REN T CO M 91E NT.
Should Not Play Polities,
From the Chicago Record (Ind.).
This general arbitration treaty meets
the approval of the people, nnd would be
of inestimable value to the business world
In giving assurance of immunity from
war. The Senate cannot afford to play
polities with this matter by allowing it to
go over until another administration
comes into power.
On tlie Other Side.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
Edward J. Phelps does not approve of
the arbitration treaty. Says he; “My ex
perience In international law matters will
not warrant me tn approving a treaty of
this kind, because T do not think such a
treaty can accomplish the results hoped
for.” We may add that Editor Dana does
not approve of It, and thus the extremes
meet again.
As to Currency Commission*.
From the Chicago Times-Herald (Ind.).
The Times-Herald believes that the
speediest and most practical way to bring
about the reforms demanded by this con
vention Is through a congressional com
mittee composed, not of outsiders, but of
senators and representatives. That com
mittee, If appointed at the extra session,
could prepare a report and a bill by the
opening of the regular winter session, and
the subject could then have the, right of
way until disposed of. By this method'
currency reform might be made an ac
complished fact early in next year. A
commission of non-partisans and non
members of congress would postpone It
•everal years, perhaps forever.
Old-Tiiue Stenographer*.
They were both old-time stenographers,
employed somewhere by the week, says
the Chicago Dispatch, but the conscious
ness of being able, at will, to produce
pages of hen's tracks which only they
could decipher—and sometimes even they
failed to do so—invested them with a feel
ing of intense superiority to the rest of
mankind.
But this normal feeling was for the mo
ment usurped by one of humility, as they
sat on the sofa, the light turssd gently
down, and the soft radiance of the flicker
ing Jet in the street alone illuminating the
apartment.
It was an hour for confession, and he
paved the way by saying:
“The first job I ever struck I lost through
carelessness. My employer dictated a let
ter to a client, asking him to meet him at
a hotel called the Seven Ravens. I wrote
it out the Seven Elephants.” •
"A wholesale chemist was my first em
ployer,” she murmured. “He used to keep
a diary. One day he dictated to me the
fateful words: ‘Bought a carload of sul
phuric acid. Quite good day's business.' ”
“How did you transcribe It?” he In
quired eagerly, for he had registered a vow
in his Inmost soul that he would never
marry a perfect idiot.
“I didn’t get it quite right. 'Bought a
carboy of sulphuric acid. Good God! it’3
poisonous!
He moved a little way from her, but re
membered his own early struggles and
edged back again.
“Dearest," he whispered, ‘‘do you re
member the convention which nominated
Garfield?”
She thought he was trying to find out
how old she was, but curiosity got the bet
ter of discretion, and she confessed to a
dim memory of that occasion.
“I was hired by the Times then to re
port the speeches. A New Yorker got
up and said the dissensions among their
opponents were very timely, for they hid
fair to create a break in the ranks of the
democratic party.
“Oh, tell me,” cried the fair girl, with a
sudden accession of interest, “how did you
get it?”
His head fell on his breast.
"I cannot. I dare not tell you.”
Rising, she turned the lamp down still
lower. This man said the dissensions
among their opponents bid fair to create
a breach in the ranks of the democratic
party?”
“He did! And I transcribed it ‘pants of
the democratic, party,’ and what is more,
it was printed in the paper that way tne
very next morning.”
Out of It 1m Line.
The commercial editor of the Daily
Bread having been taken suddenly ill, the
joke editor assisted in the compilation
of the annual trade review, says the Chi
cago Tribune. As the result of his first
half day's skirmishing about town he
turned in the following:
“Broom dealers have made some seep
ing changes in their business. Those
who have been able to get in on the
ground floor, however, have gathered
considerable dust during the year.
Straws show which way the wind blows.
“Blacksmiths have had hard pounding
to keep even, and have by no means a
shoer thing for the coming year. With
many of them it has been horse and
horse.
“Butchers make no bones of declaring
the fat to be in the fire. One of them
gave the reporter a roast, and tried to
chuck him out of doors. He accused him
of trying to ascertain the size of the
steak he had made out of the business.
"The saloon business has been unsat
isfactory, in a measure, the majority of
the customers being chronic growlers.
"Rubber dealers report a good year, but
complain that the business has been in
flated. Some of them are tired of this.
“Elevator manufacturers have had a
year of ups and downs, but they know
the ropes and hope to pull through.
"There has been strong opposition in
the butter business, and losses have com
pletely cowed many dealers.
“In the produce line it may be stated
briefly that overproduction has taken the
starch out of the potato crop. Carrots
and onions are in the soup.
“Dealers in fruit claim they have done
business at a loss, no matter what the
Aggers may show. There hasn’t banana
profit in apples, and everything in the
grape line has gone to seed.
"Manufacturers of cheap cigars are in
a bad box. They complain of a lack of
confidence. They are in bad odor with
the general public.
“Furniture dealers have done fairly
well sofa, and hope to do better as the
season advances. Some of the new
styles of hall furniture for this year’s
trade are very hatractlve.”
"There is one thing evident,” growled
the city editor, as he ran his eye over
tho manuscript and grabbed his blue pen
cil. “There has been an overproduction
in the chestnut crop.”
Shrewd in Finance.
All the great financiers of this country,
outside of politics, do not live in New
York, says the Washington Star. One
of the greatest of them, nameless here for
ever more, lives in more or less regal
splendor on Capitol Hill. That is to say,
he lives in regal splendor when he is asleep
and the rest o{ the time it is pretty much
boarding house, except when the mother
of his best girl takes more pity on him
than she ever will after he is married,
and asks him to take dinner at her house.
About a week ago this financial Machia
velli sat in a poker game with a young
man whose reputation for not paying any
kind of a bill is wider than the District of
Columbia at its widest part, and he won
$75 from him, for which he gave his check.
Our Machiavelli from Capitol Hill didn't
want to take the check, because he had
heard how previous checks had not been
available, as there wasn't quite enough
money in bank to meet them, and there
was usually a squabble which didn’t de
clare any dividends worth mentioning. But
he had to take the check, or nothing, and
when he had taken it, he sat down to
think. When morning came he had
thought, and as soon as the hank was
open he was there with his check for
$75.
"There’s not enough money to meet it."
said the paying tellor, with the Invaria
ble suavity of a paying teller.
“I supposed not,” smiled and bowed the
holder of the cheek, "and I was instruct
ed to make up the difference, so If you will
be kind enough to toil me what it is I'll
fix it."
He was Informed that tho Balance was
$62 and the Mnehlavelii at once deposited
sl3 to the credit of his friend and then
presented the check, which was, of course,
honored, and he came out of tho bank just
$62 ahead and no bother to anybody.
The best part of it was that when the
maker of the cheek met him and he told
him that a friend of his had deposited
enough money to his credit to make his
cheek good, he never asked who the
friend was. Indeed, he never asked any
questions at all; he slumped and kept his
mouth shut.
.% Scene at Coart.
The English papers are tolling an amus
ing story about Dord Carrington, to the
effect that at the last drawing room held
by the queen he, In announcing the names
of the ladies present, according to his du
ty as lord chamberlain, got “mixed," and
announced a certain Mrs. iM. as “Lady
M.” Thereupon the queen bent forward
to greet her with the kiss on the cheek
that Is always given to wives and daugh
ters of peers. As she bent. Lord Carring
ton found out his mistake, turned ex
tremely pale and gasped out: "Don’t kiss
her, ma'ani. don't kiss her; ahe'a not a
lady at all!' 1 i
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The chief proofreader of the London
Times is a Cambridge graduate, who has
a salary of fI.OOO, or $5,000; but, then, he is
a great scholar, not only in the English
language, but in all ancient and other
tongues, not excepting Asiatic ones, says
Leslie's Monthly. He is permitted to query
and suggest excisions or additions to the
work of writers and editors.
—The following placard Is displayed in a
Philadelphia barber shop: “For the conve
nience of patrons, brush and comb are
provided for each. No brush and comb
will be used twice without washing. Our
barber will not receive any extras. Please
do not offer any.” Oustide the shop a
colored man has a bootblacking stand,
over which is the sign: “Pedal teguments
artistically illuminated and lubricated for
the infinitesimal compensation of five cents
per operation.”
—‘‘lt has always amused me,” remarked
a botanical expert, according to the Wash
ington Star, “to hear people talking of
their preference for black pepper over
white, and the various explanations they
give for the same. Little do they know
that both black and white pepper grow up
on the same shrub. Over the pepper seed
grows a black covering. The seed itself
is white, or nearly so. To make black
pepper is the seed alone ground up. White
pepper is milder than black, the greater
part of the pungency being in the cover
ing. A Vepper made of the coverings
alone would be such, to use a slang term,
hot stuff that it would burn the mouth.
The black covering of the pepper seed
contains the oil.”
—A Moscow dentist has solved the prob
lem of supplying the human mouth with
false teeth which will grow into the gums
as firmly as natural 6nes. Dr. Zamensky
has performed several successful opera
tions on dogs, as well as human beings.
The teeth are made of gutta percha, por
celain I>r metal, as the case may be. At
the root of the false tooth holes are made,
and also made upward into the jaw. The
tooth is then placed in the cavity. In a
short time a soft granulated growth finds
its way from the patient’s jaw into the
holes in the tooth; this growth gradually,
hardens, and holds the tooth in position.
It is stated that it does not matter wheth
er the cavity in which the tooth is to be
placed is one from which a natural tooth
has been recently drawn, or whether it has
been healed for somo years.
—“I don’t see why Americans should be
so far ahead in so many things and yet so
far behind in the use of compressed air,”
said C. L. Mueller of Hamburg, Germany,
according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. "In
my city experiments have been success
fully made by which persons have travel
ed twenty miles in eleven minutes in a
pneumatic tube, and several lines will soon
be in operation in Germany. The pneu
matic cylinders in which the passengers
are seated are fed with pure air, and no
one has yet felt any bad effects from being
slid thus rapidly through space. In Lon
don there are many miles of pneumatic
tubes for transportating parcels, and yet
there are none in America, except as be
tween different portions of buildings. With
the United States leading, as it does, in
railroads, I expected to see it far in ad
vance of us to the use of compressed air,
a,nd was disappointed at not learning any
thing new about it in this country.”
—The old French convention lasted three
years, one month and four days. It had
749 members and passed 11,210 decrees, says
the New York Tribune. Of its 749 mem
bers, 58 were guillotined—Duray, June 26,
1793, being the first, and Bishop Huguet the
last, Oct. 6, 1796; 8 were assassinated and 2
shot; 14 committed suicide; 5 died of grief;
6 perished in abject misery; 3 died on the
highway, to be eaten by dogs; 1, Armon
ville, the last wearer of the red cap, per
ished in a drunken fit; 4 died mad; 2 were
killed in the armyj*l was carried away by
the Prussians and never heard of; 3 died
suddenly; 1 expired in prison; 1 fell dead of
joy on learning that Bonaparte had dis
embarked at Frejus; 138 perished in ex
ile or in penal settlements; 23 were never
heard of from the date of the eighteenth
Brumaire; 65 vanished after the corona
tion of Napoleon, and 25 died in poverty
and obscurity. The convention had 63 pre
siding officers, of whom 18 were guillo
tined and 8 transported; 22 were outlawed,
and 6 sentenced to improsinment for life;
4 died in madhouses, and 3 committeed
suicide.
—lt has been said that there are no skat
ers on ice in the world as graceful as the
American girls, says the Washington Post.
This may be due in a measure to the dif
ference in method between the skating of
the girl of the new world and her English
sister, but be the cause what it may, the
truth of the assertion still holds. An es
sential feature of the English method is
to skate with a straight knee, which can
not be accomplished to the letter and at
the same time give the graceful, easy
stroke which is so noticeable a character
istic of the American skater. It cannot
be said, however, that the women of the
old country are as prone to adopt this
method as the men, and there are in Eng
land to-day some really fine skaters. En
glishmen, as a rule, execute their move
ments on the ice on a grand scale. They
appear to be flying rather than merely
gliding over the surface of the ice, and
some of their strokes are really marvels
of strength and skill, one stroke frequently
carrying the skater the entire length of
the rink. The American skater, however,
takes the stroke with a slightly bonded
knee, and then coming up to the “straight
knee" movement, makes a most easy and
graceful appearance.
—A suit for damages has Just been
brought against an English provincial,
newspaper by a husband who considered
himself and his wife aggrieved by the
terms in which the coiffure of the latter
was described in the report of the county
bail published in the journal in question,
says the New York Tribune. They recall
the description of the Marchioness of Tavi
stock’s head dress at the queen’s drawing
room, described by the court newsman and
commented on by a volunteer outside with
abominable ideas on the subject of hair
dressing, whom, nevertheless, it does not
appear that the marquis brought into
court for damages. This is the descrip
tion of the court newsman: “The front
hair was curled ala neige (like snow), at
the top an ornament in diamonds like a
peacock's tail; the back hair raised from
the roots, accompanied on each side by
curled marteaux (hammers)." And then
the comment of the volunteer and much
too previous outsider: "A recent book
of travels gives the following account of
the negresses in the interior of Africa:
'The women are satisfied with little cloth
ing, but they bestow much care on the
decoration of their heads. Their woolly
locks are saturated with oil often of the
most unsavory description. In front they
are arranged in massess of frizzy curls,
and the hair behind is drawn tightlv to
the top of the head and twisted Into a
knot, into which is stuck a bunch of pea
cock, ostrich or other feathers. If time
and hair permit, there are other knots at
the side of the head, to which more feath
ers or beads are attached. Suet or chalk
Is then blown through a reed over the
head and face, and the cheeks are plenti
fully bedaubed with red paint.' I ask. sir,
where Is the difference? Which Is the
more barbarous—l assert also the most
preposterously absurd—the headdress of
the Marchioness of Tavistock or that of
the poor savage?” If the said newspaper
contains anything like this, it Is quite time
it was brought before the local cadi and
mulcted by damages heavy enough to be
remembered at least till the next county
i ball comes around.
Jt amalgamate!
Liebig
COMPANY’S
Extracfaßeef
Capes!
Cut
ToSlimFpres
So close, too, \hat actual New
York cost Is not visible. Think of
ltr-plenty of winter* ahead and
Capes at sudh prices as we name
below.
Will offer on MONDVY and dur
ing tlhe week—
Plush Capes, fur trtnimlng,s3.oo; worth
Plufffi Capes, Jet and bral trimming
$4.50; worth $6.00.
Plush Capes, handsomely balded, also
silk lined, at $8.00; worth SIO.O
Plush Capes, with jet trimring, beau
tifully lined, $18.00; worth $22.0
Cloth Capes, braid and fur trimming,
from $1 to $5.
Cloflh Capes, Empire style, trinmed in
buttons, $7.50; worth $9.00.
Jackets from $2.50 to $16.00.
A line of Children’s and Misse Jack
ets from SI.OO to $12.50.
An elegant tine of Laces and Eibroid
eries just received.
Cloaking Velvet, 32-1 rich wide, nil, re
duced from $4.00 to $2.50.
All fall and winter Dress Good to he
closed at HALF PRICE, with a lew of
making room for spring goods.
50 pieces French Percales just rceived,
12'/tc-
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The comer Broughton and Barnard sta
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