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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Alpha Lodge No. 1, A. and A.
6. R.
Special Notices—E. & W. Laundry; Fine
Yellow Chrysanthemums, Wolf & Cos.,
Florists; Lecture on Gettysburg by Gets.
P. McGlashan, at Guard's Hall, Nov. 15;
Savannah and Havana Steamship Line,
C. W. Howard & Cos., Agents; For the
Fruit Cake, A. M. & C. W. West.
Business Notices—E. &W. Laundry; R.
D. & Wm. Lattimoro, Hardware Dealers
and Agents for Dayton, Sterling and Wolff -
American Wheels.
Amusements—Leeture of Gen. McGlash
an on the Battle of Gettysburg, at Armory
Hall, Nov. 15; Baldwin-Melville Company
at Theater four night 9 and four Mati
nees.
Auction Sales—Old Hoss Sale, by Ocean
Steamship Company.
Legal Notice—ln the Matter of F. J.
Dudley & Cos., in Bankruptcy.
Three A'ery Good Items To-day In Cloth
ing Department—Leopold Adler.
Steamship Schedules—Baltimore Steam
ship Company; Ocean Steamship Company.
Medical —Cuticura Soap; Johann Hoffs
Genuine Malt Extract; Hood's Sarsapa
rilla; Ayer's Cherry Pectoral; World's Dis
pensary Preparations; Castoria.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent,
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
It Is fortunate that Europe has been
bo busy with affairs of her own for the
past few weeks that she has not had time
to look over towards Virden and Pans,
111., Wilmington, N. C., Phenlx, 9. C., and
Seymour, Ind.
Brig. Gen. Whittier, now acting collec
tor of customs at Manila, sends back a
word of advice to his countrymen. In
dealing with the Philippine question, he
Bays, "celerity should be contempered with
cunctation.” If the collector does not come
I'ome a major general, It will not be be
cause he is afraid to tackle the dictionary
The Massachusetts Reform Club is tak
ing steps looking to the holding of a great
meeting of political reformers in opposi
tion to “imperialism." If the people of New
England had not been so much In favor of
the annexation of Hawaii, the proceedings
of the Massachusetts Reform Club would
probably have more weight in olher sec
tions of the country than is now likely.
“What docs Gov. candler of Georgia
mean by decoionellzing his staff?” asks
the Chicago Tlmes-Herald. But the Gov
ernor hasn’t done it. The fact is that the
new Governor has enhanced the value of
the colonel by changing the ratio from 1(H
colonels to 1 governor, so that It now
ptands $4 to 1. It is understood that press
ure was brought to bear upon him to
make it 16 to 1.
Jerry Simpson is a philosopher. He
knows precisely what hit him on election
day. He says it was the war racket, the
prosperity racket, and the whoop-la bus
mess,all of which were on “the other side."
The combination seems to have been too
strong for Jerry’s poverty racket, money
devil racket and middle-of-the-road busi
ness. But he will try them over again next
time, probably.
In a New York police court a day or two
ago a 10-year-old girl told the justice that
Bhe did not know what an oath was unless
It was “cussin,” that she had never heard
of the Bible, and didn't know who God
was, and was not aware that she had a
soul. And still the people of New York
continue to take up collections io send red
flannel shirts and stomach hands to the
natives of Borrio-Boola-Gha.
Would it not he a good idea to arrange
a contest at marksmanship between a
squad of Savannah military riflemen and
o squad from the Seventh Army Corps?
Such an event would arouse great Inter
est,among the citizens and the soldiers. We
have here the famous Sea Girt team, ihe
winners of the international championship
at the lost meet in New Jersey, and it i.s
quite probable that many members of that
learn would go into a contest with the
soldier boys with their customary inihu-
Biasm. And then it is more than a prob
ability that there are a number of first -
class rifle shots among the men at Camp
Onward. There, for one, Is Capt. Gonzales,
of Company I, First South Carolina Beg
in,ent, who is a superior marksman and
an enthusiast, and there are no doubt
many more like hkn. ,
THE I"HEbIUKM' , S PHILIPPINE
POLICY.
It is evident that the public has not yet
been Informed of the chief features of the
President's iiolicy respecting the Philip
pines. For weeks the foreign dispatches
l av's contained statements that our peace
commissioners would make, or had made,
this or that demand in respect to the isl
ands, hut nothing i.s known certainly as
to what the* policy of the administration
in respect to them is. A little while ago
it was said, and apparently on good au
thority, that the aelminlsiration had au
thorized our commissioners to offer Spain
$(0,000,000 for them. Later It was said,
with the same appearance of authority,
that not a cent would lie offered for them,
and that the United States would not as
sume any of the Philippine debt. A dis
patch in Sunday’s New York Herald from
Washington declares there is the best of
authority for saying that the administra
tion has as yet made no positive demand
relative to the islands, and lhat
It is considering the advisability of
keeping only a small |,ortlon of them.
The truth doubtless is that the commis
sioners have succeeded remarkably well
in keeping their affairs from the public,
and that pretty nearly all that has ap
peared in the foreign dispatches in respect
to the real work of the commission has
been mere speculation.
It is reasonable to suppose that the Pres
ident gave our commissioners nd iron
bound instructions in respect to the Philip
pines until he knew the result of the re
cent elections. He wanted to know
whether his administration was sustained
before taking steps that might result in
reopening the war with Spain, particularly
as Spain might have the moral, if not the
material, support of one or more of the
other nations of Europe if the treaty nego
tiations were broken off by her on the
ground that our demands were excessive.
Soon after the election it was said that
the President had sent a notice to our
commissioners that the negotiations must
be brought to a close speedily—that is,
that our demands must be complied with
without further unnecessary delay. The
inference was that he had become satis
fied that he had the support of the coun
try in demanding the whole of the Philip
pines. Doubtless he sent instructions of
some sort to our commissioners, but there
is nothing definite known as to the char
acter of them. No doubt much of what
has appeared in the dispatches of the do
ings of the commission was substantially
true, but it cannot be said positively that
the public knows what the policy of the
administration relative to the Philip
pines is.
The most remarkable thing in connec
tion with the negotiations is the state
ment that J. B. Y’oung, a son of the late
Brigham Young, as the agent of a great
syndicate having a capital of H 00.000,000,
has offered to Si>ain $175,000,000 and to the
United States $125„000,000 for the entire con
trol of the islands for the period of twen
ty-five years, and that the President has
instructed our commissioners to consider
the proposition. Il is eloubtful if the Pres
ident has given such an Instruction. The
United States couldn't afford to be a party
to any such scheme. The purpose of a
syndicate would be to make money out of
the islands. It would not attempt to bet
ter the condition of the natives. It would
not be influenced by any motive that n
Christian people could approve. The Young
scheme may be dismissed as being nothing
more than an effort of Mr. Young to get a
little cheap notoriety, or a movement on
the part of Spain or Spanish bondholders
to create the Impression that the Philip
pines are worth a great deal more than
they are generally thought to be.
AY HERE LIFE IS CHE AP.
A few days ago In Louisville, Ky., one of
the judges of the criminal court made
some statements from the bench relative
to the escape of murderers from justice
which are applicable to other places than
that city. He said that he frequently left
the court room completely broken down at
the failure of justice. Continuing, he said;
“If the verdicts were added up in murder
cases and averaged with those who were
convicted of stealing during the last year,
since I have been on the bench, it would
be found that those accused of murder es
caped with lighter punishment than those
who have taken property. This court is
forced to the conclusion that human life,
therefore, on an average is worth less than
S2O. It does seem that human blood is a
drug on the market. If a poor devil breaks
a show window and steals a loaf of bread
lie is sure lo get the full extent of the law.
but a man may blow off the head of a wo
man or a quack may kill some poor girl
and go free or get off lightly.”
This is a severe indictment of a great
city like Louisville, but it is not the only
city of which Ihe same thing can be said
with equal truth. The judges are not to
blame, neither are the prosecuting officers.
The blame rests with the people from
among whom the jurors are drawn. The
communities which permit murder to be
committed almost with impunity are lack
ing in moral tone. It Is a question whether
the ministers and newspapers of these
communities do their full duty. The mur
derer, be he white or black, should be
punished promptly, and when such is not
the case It is pretty certain that the com
munity in which the murder was commit
ted holds life cheaply.
It is announced that the German Em
peror is to return home by way of .Spain
merely for the purpose of giving the Em
press needed rest from the fatigue of a
long sea trip. The explanation may do well
enough for diplomatic purposes. Meantime
it will not he overlooked that the vessel
in which the Emperor and Empress arc
traveling is one of the largest and most
elegani and convenient yachts in the
world. Ii has all of the comforts and lux
uries of a palace, and even an invalid
mighi live aboard for an indefinite time
without experiencing fatigue.
The stale government of New York
changes hands on Jan. 1. The date will
this year fall upon a Sunday: notwith
standing which, however, Col. Roosevelt
w.li be sworn in at ihe date and huur
named ia the law. The inauguration cere
monies will be held the day following
THE MOKXING .NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBEK 15, IS9B.
A\ INTERESTING POLITIC AL SITI A
TION.
The country outside of Pennsylvania is
not deeply interested in the polities of that
state, and yet there is much in that state's
political affairs thal is deeply interesting.
It is well known, of course, that the Re
publicans of Pennsylvania are divided as
to the advisability of returning Mr. Quay
to the United Slates Senate. One faction,
led by John Wanamaker, regards him as
the most corrupt politician that ever fig
ured in the politics of the state. The
other faction is in doubt whether he is the
had man his political enemies say he is,
but they know that he is the most astute
politician In the whole country, and they
want to keep in the political arena.
It is well understood lhat Mr. Wana
maker wants to succeed him in the Sen
ate. Mr. Quay ha.s announced that he is
a candidate for re-election. The other
day he offered a reward of SIO,OOO for infor
mation that would lead to the conviction
of any person offering to bribe members
of the legislature to vote for senatorial
candidates of the person offering the
bribe. This was a shot aimed at Mr.
Wanamaker. Two years ago the Quay
faction declared that Mr. Wanamaker at
tempted to gel the senatorial seat that
was finally given to Senator Penrose. Of
course Mr. Wanamaker has always strenu
ously denied thal he ever undertook to
bribe bis way into the United States Sen
ate. But, not to be outdone by Senator
Quay, he has offend $20,000 for information
that would lead to the conviction of either
bribe-taker or bribe-giver in connection
with the approaching senatorial election in
the Keystone State.
Political morals must be at a low ebb in
Pennsylvania when the political leaders
have so little confidence in the honesty of
membe rs of the legislature of the state that
(hey offer rewards in order to keep them
from accepting bribes. If the members cf
the legislature had a spark of pride they
would repudiate both Quay and Wana
maker and elect someone who didn't re
gard them as bribe-takers. They will do
nothing of the kind, however. It may be
that Quay and Wanamaker understand
them much better than they are under
stood by the people outside of the state.
EMIGRANTS FOR CUBA.
A dispatch says that the first Anleri
can colony to go to Cuba will be composed
of negroes from Kansas, and lhat the
colony will leave Topeka for Santiago in
about thirty days. Are these colonists
some of the negroes who emigrated from
the South to Kansas a few years ago?
It is pretty safe to assume that they are.
It Is evident,* from the fact they are
about to seek homes in Cuba, that they
have not found Ihe state of John Brown
altogether satisfactory. It Is doubtful if
any of the negroes who have emigrated
to the North find that section as satis
factory to the people of their race as the
South is. Notwithstanding the race trou
bles which crop out in the South once in
a while, the negroes find the South and
the Southern people more congenial to
them than the North and the Northern
people.
Is It probable that this Kansas colony
will be the forerunner of a large negro
emigration to Cuba? It would not be sur
prising if it should. There are those who
would like to see the whole island turned
over to negroes, followed by a large move
ment of the negroes of the South to It.
While it is true that the negroes are ex
cellent laborers, the South has more of
them than she needs, especially in the
cities. She could spare a good many of
them without feeling their loss seriously.
But there is no probability that they
will be permitted to have Cuba. There are
too many white people who are looking to
wards Cuba as a land where a living is
to be made easily and where fortunes
may be won. There will be many negro
emigrants to Cuba, bur they will bo great
ly outnumbered by the white emigrants.
If the leading negroes of this country
are thinking of getting possession of the
island for people of their race by en
couraging them to emigrate there in large
numbers and setting up a negro republic,
they are indulging in a dream which they
will never realize.
WHY THIS DIFFERENCE f
There is no doubt that Gov. Tanner of
Illinois violated the constitution of the
United States when he used the militia
of his state to prevent citizens of Ala
bama from settling in Illinois and earn
ing a living there. Why was it that the
attorney general of the United States did
not inquire into this violation of the con
stitution?
It. is noticeable that he was prompt to
inquire into the question as to whether
any federal law had been violated in
South Carolina the other day, when an
election riot occurred near Phoenix in that
state. Why was he so prompt to attend to
his duty in one case and so neglectful of
it in the other? Is it not, just as neces
sary that the federal laws' should be re
spected in one state as in the other?
He found that no federal law had been
violated In South Carolina, but would he
have found that the Governor of Illinois
did not violate the constitution if he had
made an investigation of the tragedy
which occurred in that state? The chances
are he would not. Still the affair in South
Carolina has his attention, probably be
cause it is a Southern stale while the af
fair In a Northern state—an affair much
more outrageous from any point of view—
is allowid lo pass unnoticed.
The organization of the Fifty-Sixth
Congress is still a good ways in the fu
ture, nevertheless there is a good deal of
discussion of the probable leaders of the
parties in the House of lhat Congress, it
seems to be a foregone conclusion that Mr.
Reed will be the Republican candidate for
speaker, to succeed himself, but it is by
no means certain that Mr. BalJe.v of Tex
as will be the candidate of the Democrats.
However, there is no shortage of available
timber on the Democratic side. There is
talk of De Armond of Missouri and of
Stallings of Alabama, besides others; and
then, 100, Mr. Richardson of Tennessee
may always be counted on as a candidate
tor the speakership.
The recent death in London of Harold
Frederick, the novelist, followed by the in
dictment of two Christian Science healers,
who attendee! him. has served to arouse
interest in the queer sect. What is Chris
tian Science? John Lathrop, one of the
leaders of the sect in New Y'ork says it
is "applied Christianity; Christianity car
ried Into the daily life and exercised at
all times and In all works of man.” Of
the alleged power to heal |ssessed by the
Christian Scientists, Mr. Lathrop says the
power is derived “from a spiritual inter
pretation of the scriptures. 'Go ye forth
• * heal the sick,' said the Saviour to His
disciples. It must follow that in issuing
this command He delegated the power to
heal to them. We read in the scriptures
that the disciples did heal. And there
Is no record that ttie power to heal has
been taken away from those who believe
and follow in the foosteps of Christ.” With
lespect to the curing of diseases, Mr. La
throp says that Christian Science starts
out with the hypothesis that bodily ail
ments are the effects on the body of err
ing causes in the soul, and "by removing
sin and fear, we heal the bodily ailment."
Space cuts no figure in the operations of
the “healers.” The patient may be pres
ent or a thousand miles away; It is the
power of prayer, and truth, and Christian
ity—it is the Divine power, which makes
the cure. That, in short, is what Mr.
Lathrop says about it.
At Seymour, in the state of Indiana,
a night or two ago, a negro was mobbed
and severely beaten because he had ex
pressed his political opinions upon the
stump. To borrow an expression which
we have often seen in Indiana and other
Northern papers respecting the South, this
shows a very low state of civilization and
makes it questionable whether the mob
bers are the kind of people that ought
to be entrusted with the ballot.
PERSON AL.
—Col. Joseph Henry' of Vanceburg, Ky.,
is the great grandson of Patrick Henry
and the only living direct deecendent of
the patriot.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, though In the
seventies, is a well-preserved woman and
a fine type of the Old-school Southern lady.
The routine of her life has for years re
mained unchanged, but her famous wit is
as brilliant as ever.
—Miss Laura Cannon, daughter of Attor
ney Michael Cannon of Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
has been admitted to the bar of Luzerne
county, in which she is the third of her
sex to be so honored. In extending con
gratulations Judge Woodford expressed
the hope that some day Miss Cannon
would grace the bench.
—Gov. Otero of New Mexico, in his an
nual report to the Secretary of the Inte
rior, renews his arguments for the early
admission of New Mexico to statehood. He
estimates the total population of the terri
tory now at 282,900, including an Indian
population of 25,900. The report lays spe
cial stress on the possibilities of irriga
tion.
—William Haggard, brother of the nove
list, has made himself "persona non gra
ta” in Venezuela, where he is the British
minister, through a process identical with
that adopted by Dupuy de Lome in this
country, but the Venezuelans have so far
been unable to secure his recall. Mr. Hag
gard is remembered in this country by his
marriage, while secretary of the British
embassy at Washington, to Mrs. Carrie
Hinney', a well-known divorcee, from
whom he has since been divorced.
BRIGHT BITS.
—He: He that courts and runs away,
will live to court another day.
She: But he that courts and does not
wed, may find himself in court instead.—
Tit-Bits.
—“What is the brink of war, Pa?"
“The bring of war? Well, it is the feel
ing which seems to exist all the time be
tween Bridget and your mother.”—Detroit
Freo Press.
—A Matter of Business.—Pater: Do you
think you can support a wife?
He: With the help of Providence I hope
to.
Pater: Providence has no rating in Brad
street’s.—Life.
—“And these places where you vote,”
said the gentleman from Europe, "you
call them the polls.”
“Yes,” answered the North Carolina citi
zen, “we call ’em that. But the warmth
around here makes ’em seem a good deal
more like equators.”—Washington Star.
—Mrs. Green: I hear that Sarah Jun
son is going to get a divorce from her
husband.
Mrs. Brown: Yes; and I don’t blame
her one mite. He's a monster. Would you
believe it, he actually used one of her golf
sticks for a poker the other morning.—
Boston Transcript.
—Trouble in the Camp.—" There seemed
to be a rather acrimonious discussion go
ing on as I went by headquarters.”
"Yes,” said the Salvation Army captain,
sediy, "Brother Jones, who beats the
drum, happened to say to Brother Smith,
who does most of the preaching, that ac
tions spoke louder than words."—lndian
apolis Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
An Exploded Hoodoo.
From the Birmingham News (Dem.).
Thirteen is no longer a hoodoo. Roose
velt made thirteen speeches the day before
election, and the Republicans have :arried
the House by a majority of thirteen, ac
cording to Mr. Babcock's claims.
And QuigK AA’ns Henten.
From Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.).
The prize joke of the election In New
York was the Tribune's designation of
Lem Quigg as the upholder of sound
money and national honor. A year ago the
Tribune though Quigg was more kinds of a
darn fool than anybody else on the planet.
The Fever t Havnnn.
New York Mail and Express (Rep.).
Dr. Brunner, the United States health
officer at Havana, is known as a most con
servative and conscientious official as well
as an expert physician. His request to the
surgeon general that immune physicinns
and nurses be sent to Havana to care for
Americans who may' be stricken with yel
low fever is a wise precaution calculated
to save many lives. It is difficult to be
lieve lhat the United States military com
mission has been guilty of indifference, as
is charged, to the care of one of its at
taches when attacked by fever
HI.) She Called Him Bark.
The other week a collier living at Wigan
left off work early and hurried home to
tell his wife that his mates at the pit were
going to have a trip to Blackpool in the
afternoon, and had invited him to go with
them, says Spnre Moments.
Not being possessed of much money at
the time, he entreated his wife to lend him
half a crown to add to his own store; but
his wife said:
“No I shan’t gie thee owt; tha mun stop
at whoam.”
"If tha dusna, A'll goo an dreawn mis
sel.” he replied.
As she still refused, he at once set off
down the street, but he hadn't gone far
wnen his wife went to the door and shout
ed out for him to come back. Thinking
she intended to give way, he walked
cheerfully back to her, fully expecting the
half crown, but judge of his surprise when
he got up to her to find her with two seven
pound weights in her hands.
Before he could speak she said he had
better put them in his pockets to weigh
him down a bit when he went into the
water.
Idpton \m an Advertiser.
Sir Thomas Lipton was a passenger on
an Kast Indian steamer, bound for Ceylon,
about a dozen years ago. While in the
Red sea the boat was disabled, and it be
came necessary to throw overbard a part
of her .cargo. Lipton was an interested
spectator of the preparations for lighten
ing the ship. He suddenly bolted 'he
scene, and by a f5 dicker with the chief
engineer secured a stencil, a paint brush
and a pot of black paint. Then, to the
astonishment of the captain and passen
gers, he cheerfully labelled each box and
bale thrown overboard, “Use Upton's
Teas.” The cargo, of course, floated
ashore, and for miles in Araby and other
lands the natives saw that legend. Sub
sequently the passengers of the injured
steamer were compelled to abandon it and
take to small boats. On reaching land Sir
Thomas was the first to make a cable of
fice and wire the destruction of the boat
and safety of the travelers to London. The
message was signed “Lipton.” Of course,
his name was in every English newspaper
the next morning signed to that message,
and he was the best advertised man in the
kingdom.
Itiitht, By the Card.
The Chicago Journal says that when Mr.
Perry left his office he put on the door
this notice: “Will be back at 1 p. m.”
He had been gone some time when Mc-
Guire, one of his acquaintances, came to
see him on business. McGuire read the
card, pulled out his watch, sniffed con
temptuously, took out his pencil, wrote
something on the card and went away.
It was not long after that when an
other man came up, read the card, smiled,
looked at his watch, wrote something and
then went away.
Inside of a few minutes a third man ar
rived, examined the card, added something
to the writing upon it and grinned as he
walked off. A fourth, fifth and sixth man
did the same thing.
When Perry returned at 2:15 o’clock this
is what he found written under his prom
ise to return by 1 o’clock:
“You’re a liar by the watch. J. B. Mc-
Guire. 1:15 p. m.
“You lie again. George E. Smith. 1:25
p. m.
“Amen. B. D. S. 1:30 p. m.
“Ditto. R. M. Montgomery. 1:45 p. m.
"That'll do, Ananias. John Himes, 1:48
p. m.
“Don’t let It occur again. John M. M.
Comstock. 2:10 p. m.”
He hasn’t.
Findluter’s Ordinary Feat.
The other evening, seated in the Empire
Music Hall in Glasgow, says a writer
in the London Sporting Times, I noticed
Piper Findlater was hissed by some of
the audience. Being a visitor from the
other side of the Atlantic, seeking for
information, I turned to my next neigh
bor, a remarkably stolid-looking specimen
of the genus Scot, and said to him:
“Why do they hiss him?” #
He replied: “Because they don’t want
him.”
“But,” said I, “he is n hero, is he not?”
“What did he ever do?” was the re
joinder.
“Why,” I exclaimed, “he was shot
through both legs, and then sat down."
“Couldna’ help it,” he answered.
“But,” I urged, in extenuation of the
hero idea, “he went on playing the pipes.”
"Second nature,” said he.
I stared in blank astonishment at this
view of the whole affair, when my friend,
observing my look, said:
“I’ll just tell ye. The man did nothing
unusual! Take the first ten Highland pi
pers you meet with. Start them playing;
shoot them through both legs; down
they’ll sit and keep on playing.”
Thus did a practical Scot shiver In a
few words the glamour surrounding the
hero of Dargai. Hitherto we on the other
side had thought it grand to think of a
man shot through the legs sitting down
and keeping up the tune. I now see, to
the Scotch mind, at any rate, it was but
a natural sequence of events. But the
hissing was caused by the dislike of a
hero appearing upon the stage.
The Wee One's Wishes.
From the Baltimore American.
I wlsht I was a drate big King,
The bigges’ ever seen!
’En nights ’at wasn't Christmas Eve
I’d make ’em Hollow E’en.
An' 'en I’d go an’ tell my Pa,
“See here, you, Pa!” I’d say,
“Now, you jus’ dare to call me In
When I go out to play!”
I wlsht
I was
A King!
I wisht I was a drate big King,
I’d buy some tickets so
’At I could see the circus, an’
I dess I'd let Pa go.
But ef he made me study at
My jogerfy I Jus’
Would leave him home, ’tause like as not
He’d aggervate an’ fuss—
I wisht
I was
A King!
I wlsht I was a drate big King,
I know what I’d do with
A boy 'at always chases me;
His name is Bobby Smith!
I’d buy a big perliceman’s club,
A dog an’ 'en a gun,
An’ 'en I’d say to Bobby Smith:
"You dasn't make me run!”
I wisht
I was
A King!
I wlsht I was a drate big King,
I’d bring my Mama here;
Pa says she’s up 'ere in the skies,
An’ ’en he calls me “Dear;”
His eyes gets full of tearses, too,
'En he don’t speak at all.
I dess I’d go an' get my Ma
Ef I was not so small—
I wisht
I was
A King!
—G. V. Hobart.
—Mrs. Newed: Was 1 nervous, dear, dur
ing the ceremony?
Her Friend: Well, a trifle at first, darl
ing, but not after William had said, “Yes.”
-Tit-Bits.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A banana diet in typhoid fever is rec
ommended by Dr. Ussery of St. Louis.
The banana, he says, is almost wholly
absorbed by the stomach, easily digested,
and very strengthening. '
—All code books carried on warships
have leaden backs, to make them sink If
lost overboard.' The letters in the book,
moreover, are printed with peculiar ink,
which fades away when it comes in con
tact with the water. To make things still
more safe the letters are changed every
few months by the navy department.
Even on the warships few officers knew
their vessel's official signal code.
—Perfect and unvarying cookery is only
to be achieved, think some progressive en
thusiasts, by the use of electrically gen
erated heat. Cooks who learned their art
in conjunction with the manipulation of
coal or gas heat, says one of these cham
pions of electricity, wiii, at first, naturally
be embarrassed by the novelty of eiefctric
heat. But the discomfiture will only be
temporary. They will soon find that of the
two methods the new is infinitely superior
in every respect. It gives an accuracy of
calculation and a certainty of results never
before possible. All rule of thumb and
guesswork is eliminated; the process be
comes strictly scientific. The degree and
quantity of heat needed, say, for roasting
a joint of a certain size, are known ab
solutely, subject to nicely balanced modi
fications, based on differences of texture
of flesh and other conditions, and the re
sults are invariably uniform. There is no
heating up and foul-scenting of the kitch
en, no burning or charring. The habits of
the cook may be uncertain, but the elec
tric stove never goes wrong. It is adjusted
to cook the joint or dish It contains with
in a particular time, and when the hour
arrives the current is shut off automatic
ally, and the ringing of a bell gives warn
ing that the cooking is completed. More
over, meats cooked by electricity have a
flavor and a distinction which it is said to
be impossible to attain by any other meth
od.
—The Washington correspondence of the
New \ r ork Sun quotes from one of the
government annuals for 1898 some inter
esting statistics of population of leading
cities of the United States. The estimates
were made by the Mayors of the cities
enumerated on Jan. 1, 1898. The estimates
for the fifteen leading cities are here given
in their order, and also their population
in 1890 according to the United States cen
sus. The Greater New York of course in
cludes Brooklyn, Long Island City, Wil
liamsburg, etc.:
Estimated Pop. Population
City. Jan. 1. 1898. 1890.
Greater New York ..3,350,000 *2,600.000
Chicago 1,800,000 1,099,850
Philadelphia 1,250,000 1,046,964
St. Louis 650,000 451,770
Baltimore 625,270 434.439
Boston 550,000 448,477
Cincinnati 400,000 296,908
Buffalo 339,000 255,66-4
Cleveland 385,000 261,353
San Francisco 350,000 298,997
Detroit 320,000 205,876
New Orleans 300,000 242,039
Pittsburg 290,000 238,617
Milwaukee 275,000 204,468
Newark 250,000 181,850
•Partially estimated.
Among the capitals of all nations, num
bering fifty-seven of autonomous states,
Washington stands twenty-sixth.But there
is one peculiarity about this matter that,
while the capital of the United States is
merely one of our fourth-rate cities, the
capitals of all -the other countries of the
world, excepting seven, are the principal
cities of those countries in the items of
both population and commercial scope. The
eight autonomous countries of the world
whose capital cities are of secondary im
portance to others therein are the United
States, Canada, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Italy,
Holland, China and New Zealand. It may
not be uninteresting to give a complete list
of the autonomous governments of the
world, with their capital cities and popu
lation at the last enumeration:
Nation. Capital City. Population.
Great Britain London 4.231,431
Prance Paris 2,447,957
Germany Berlin L 677.361
Austria Vienna 1,364 548
Japan Tokio 1,214,113
Kussia St. P’burg ...1.035.439
China Pekin 1,000,000
Turkey Con’st’n’ple .. 873,560
British India Calcutta 840,130
Brazil Rio Janiero .. 800,000
Argentina ~...Buenos A’r’s. ..700,000
Belgium Brussels 507,986
Hungary Budapest 506,380
Victoria (Australia). .... 490,000
Spain Madrid 472,230
I*aiy Rome 451.000
N. South Wales Sydney 383,399
Kgypt Cairo 368J0S
Mexico Mexico 329,540
Denmark Copenhagen .. 312,859
Portugal Lisbon 307,661
Sweden Stockholm ... 264,585
Korea Seoul 25o!oo0
Chili Santiago .. .. 250,000
Roumania Bucharest 232,000
United States Washington . 230,392
Uruguay Montevideo .. 220[662
Persia Teheran 210,000
Siam Bangkok 206,000
Cuba Havana 198,270
Netherlands The Hague ... 180,454
Philippines Manila 160,000
(Morway Christiania ... 15L239
Morocco Fez 14o|ooo
South Australia Adelaide 133,320
Colombia Bogota llo'.OOO
preece Athens 107,250
Peru Lima 103,952
Zanzibar Zanzibar 90,000
Ecuador Quito 80,000
Venezuela Caracas 71,000
Guatemala Guatemala .... esiooo
Cape Colony Cape Town 60,000
Afghanistan Cahul 60,000
Queensland (Aus) ....Brisbane- 49^000
Canada Ottawa 44,000
Switzerland Berne 44,000
Servia Belgrade ... . 42,000
Haytl Port a’Pr’ce . 35,000
New Zealand Wellington . 32,000
Costa Rica San Jose 30,000
Bulgaria Sofia 25,C00
Dominican Rep S. Do’mingo .. 20,000
Salvador S. Salvador .. 20,000
Nicaragua Managua .. .. 15,000
Honduras Tegucigalpa . 15,000
Abyssinia Gondar 10,900
West Australia Penh 9.000
S. African Rep Pretoria 5,000
Liberia Monrovia 3,500
Orange F. State Bloem-f’tein . 3,810
This list is believed to include every au
tonomous government in the world; but
there ore a number in doubt, like Nepaul,
in India, and Monaco, which are said to
be independent principalities. There are,
no doubt, still other obscure governments
in the interior of Asia, which are Inde
pendent, but there are no statistics at all
trustworthy concerning such. A number of
capitals, like Calcutta, Budapest. Havana,
Manila, and ierhaps one or two others, are
not technically capitals of autonomous
governments, but they are the seat of the
government which administers the affairs
of those peoples. In fact, Budapest is as
much the capital of Austro-Hungary as
Vienna. Calcutta, also, is perhaps as much
entitled to be called the capital of an au
tonomous government as Melbourne, al
though the Indian government is on a dif
ferent footing with the home country
from the regular Australian colonics. But
all of them, together with Canada, have
really autonomous governments; that | R to
say, they govern themselves.
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