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ODEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—Confederate Veterans’ Asso
ciation.
Special Notices—A Good Horse Wanted;
H. Logan; We Can Supply, Abercorn Gro
cery Company; Ship Notice, Georgia Ex
port and Import Company; The Drayton
Company’s Price List for To-day; Van
Horne’s Supply Depot; Notice to the Pub
lic, H. A. Fountain; State and County
Taxes, 1898; Attention, Citizens and offi
:rs, Jas. J. Joyce; Fat Partridges, Wild
Ducks, Etc., M. S. Gardner; Good Fresh
Soups, C. H. Monsees; Notice As to Sun
day Schedule Savannah. Thunderbolt and
Isle of Hope Railway; Money to Lend,
People’s Savings and Iyoan Company.
Business Notices—Huyler’s Cocoa and
Chocolate, Henry Solomon & Son.
Suburban Schedule—Savannah, Thunder
bolt and Isle of Hope Railway.
Amusements—“My Friend From India.”
at Theater Tuesday, Dec. 6, Night and
Matinee.
Memorial Services —Savannah Lodge No.
182. B. P. O. Elks, Sunday.
Clothing Department—Leopold Adler.
This Will Bea Great Day at the Big
Store—Levy’s.
Auction Sales—A Good Business Corner
on Jones street, by C. H. Dorsett, Auction
eer.
Lest You Forget, My Store Will Be Open
Late To-night—M. S. Brown.
Every Purchase I*rafltable—The Metro
politan Clothing Company.
Mineral Water—Hunyadi Janus; Apoli
earis.
Legal Notices—Citation from the Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
County.
Medical—Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Reme
dy; Cuticura Remedies; Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla; Alligator Liniment; Erie Medical
Company; Ayer's Cherry Pectoral; Dr.
(William's Pink Pills.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The United States of Central America
did not last long enough for all of Ihe
office seekers to get their petitions Hied.
Some Chicago reformers are agitating
the whipping post as a legal punishment
for wife-beaters, inoorrigibles and danger
ous vagrants.
Alaska prospectors report the discovery
of an active volcano about fifty miles
eouth of Atlin City. Atiin is one of the
latest sensation spots of the gold fields.
If the volcano’s action is constant, the
neighborhood of it ought to prove a good
winter camping ground, in which the min
ers could save fuel.
Representative Livingston, of the Fifth
district, has a plan for governing the Phil
ippine Islands. It must be a mighty poor
eubject, by the way, which the represen
tative from the Fifth has not a plan to
cover. His idea is to get around the lack
of constitutional authority for holding
colonies by making the government per
manently military. By governing whh the
eword and bayonet we should, he says,
escape the necessity of either putting the
Islands into line of promotion to statehood
or of going beyond the constitution and
governing them as colonies.
The agitation of the Erie canal scan
dais by the New York Democrats in the
recent campaign has had the effect of
screwing the Republicans up to the stick
ing point, and prosecutions are now being
Instituted against those suspected of be
ing responsible for the canal steals. Tiie
Governor has instructed the attorney gen
eral to bring criminal proceedings against
State Superintendant of Public Works
Aldridge and Stale Engineer Adams. The
Governor's instructions are that the cases
shali be pushed to a conclusion at the
earnest practicable moment.
Miss Helen Gould has done many things
that have won for her warm praise and
respect, but nothing that she has hereto
fore done is more worthy of commenda
tion than her defense of the name of her
father, In which she is now engaged. She
is prosecuting certain persons who have
tried to blackmail her to pay them aunts
of money to conceal certain alleged se
mis of Jay Gould's life. It Is not so much
M ss Gould’s purpose to secure the con
viction of the persons us It is to keep free
the iiamii of her father of the stains which
■*''> have endeavored to place upon it.
IBC'ABTAH \ ALGER'S SUGGESTION.
A feature of the annual report of the
Secretary of War is the suggestion that
it would be a good investment for the gov
ernment to build a railroad from one end
of the island of Cuba to the other. Only
a few days ago Gen. Longslreet, one of the
Pacific railroad commissioners, recom-*
mended the building of a double track rail
road from Kansas City to San Francisco—
an air line railroad. Both the Secretary and
the Railroad Commissioner seem to forget
that the people have a very lively recol
lection of tin government’s experience w ith
the Pacific railroads. After years of effort
it has succeeded in getting some of the
money it pul into those roads, but there
was no lack of effort to cheat the govern
ment out of all of it. It certainly will
not be with the consent of the people if any
more of the public money is put in rail
roads, either in this country or in Cuba.
The Secretary says he thinks the invest
ment would be a good one; that it would
eventually pay a good interest. It would,
probably, if it were honestly managed. But
It would hardly be built before some of the
smart financiers of this country would
want to build branches to It, and put mort
gages on it to get money with which to
build ihe branches. It would not be long
before the shrewd financiers would have
the road mortgaged to the full extent of
its value and they would own the bonds
and the branch roads. The cost of the
branches would be something enormous.
That was the method adopted to cheat the
government out of its interests in the Pa
cific roads.
The Secretary says that if the govern
ment doesn't build the railroad which he
suggests it will have to furnish the Cu
bans employment in some other way, or
else supply them with food free for an in
definite length of time.
It can hardly be so bad as that. Food
crops can be grown in Cuba in two ot
three months, and there ought to be plen
ty of work on the plantations even now.
Besides, if the railroad scheme were to be
adopted it would bo several months before
it could be undertaken on a sufficient scale
to afford employment for any considerable
number of men. Asa matter of fact the
Cubans are not anxious to work, if the
reports received from Cuba are to be relied
upon. If free rations were to be distributed
among them it would be impossible to get
the plantations cultivated or the ruined
towns and plantation buildings rebuilt.
But if a railroad the whole length of the
island of Cuba would be such a good in
vestment why not let private capital have
a chance to Invest in it? There is any
quantity of idle money in this country
awaiting safe investment. There are ex
perienced railroad men looking all the
time for promising openings for new rail
roads. If this Cuban enterprise is all the
Secretary ■thinks it is, it will not be long
before a company will be formed for build
ing the road. It is better from every point
of view that It should be built by private
parties. If the government should under
take it there would lie scandals. If the
government wants tq keep clear of scan
dals, like the credit mobiller scandal for in
stance, 4t should have nothing to do with
building railroads in Cuba or anywhere
else.
A TROUBLESOME INSURGENT.
There are indications that Agulnaldo,
the chief of the Filipinos, is going to
give our government a great deal of trou
ble. It is admitted now that a mistake
was made when he was called from his
retirement in China and asked to take a
hand in the war agaihst Spain. It was
well known that he was unreliable, and
would not hesitate to sell out to any par
ty. Our government will have no trouble
with him, provided it is willing to buy
him ut his price. He seems to have an
idea that there is no end to the wealth
of this country. Therefore, he is prepar
ing to put his price high for getting out
of the way.
He hasn’t a great deal of influence
with the better class of Filipinos, but he
has a large following among the ignorant
masses, and he can induce them to give
us an immense amount of trouble in our
efforts to establish law and order in the
islands. Some of our higher officials seem
to think that he will be satisfied with a
small office under the government which
we shall establish. Those who know the
man well say that, besides demanding a
big bribe in money, he may insist upon
having a controlling place in the new
government.
Agulnaldo will soon find out. however,
that dealing with the United States is
quite different from dealing with Spain.
At the very outset he will be Informed
that no nonsense from him will be tol
erated. If he is not disposed to be rea
sonable, he will be dealt with in a way
that will quickly make him understand
that anew order of things has been es
tablished in the Philippines. It will not
do to adopt a weak policy in treating with
him. If he is given the least bit of a
chance he will stir up a war that may
cost us thousands of lives and millions
of money. Just now he is demanding a
very large sum from Spain for the re
lease of Spanish prisoners. It is safe to
say that his demand will not be complied
with. And the prisoners will be released,
just as soon as our government has au
thority to act in the islands. Aguinaldo’s
scheme to make himself rich by black
mailing our government and the gov
ernment of Spain will not be quite as suc
cessful as he hopes it will.
There is a movement on foot to have
the legislature of Alabama pas® a general
dispensary law,' modeled on the South
Carolina 'institution. Many of the lead
ing papers of the state are protesting
strongly against the proposition. "The dis
pensary is wrong from start to finish, and
the assembly will do well to let it alone,”
says the Birmingham News. "Alabama
wants no dispensary riots, n-j spies to in
sjk'oi private dwellings, no dram shops in
■ mall towns which have now elected to
have prohibition, no increase in the crop
of drunkards, nor any of the other in
numerable evils which the dispensary
creates." The very best system ever de
vised for controlling the liquor traffic Is
that Which obtains in Georgia at presell,—
local option.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1898.
SAVANNAH’S SPLENDID TERMINALS.
Mr. J. H. Marshall, city editor of the
Charles'on News, and Courier, who spent
several days in Savannah endeavoring to
find out why this city handles more than
1,000,000 bales of cotton a year, while
Charleston handles abut one-third os
many, and why Savannah leads Charles
ton so far in commerce and trade of all
sorts, publishes in his paper a well digest
ed and unbiased letter in which he reaches
the conclusion that Savannah Rads the
procession because she has better facili
ties for doing business. Savannah has
more railroads and more cotton merchants,
says Mr. Marshall, and “two splendid
terminals,” in the docks of one of which
there were recently “sixteen big ateamers
and I don't know how many sailing ves
sels” berthed at one time.
Of the Central terminals he says: “I
could not describe them in a column.
* • At the present time $703,0(0 is being
spent in enlarging and improving them.
* • It goes without saying that a rail
road with such accommodations can offer
better rates, as it offers better facilities,
to exporters than could a road that has
a limited room, or no room at a!!, at its
terminus.” This latter, of course, refers
to conditions at Charleston. The termi
nals of the Plant System also aroused Mr.
Marshall's admiration. He notes the num
ber of cotton ships taking cargo at one
dock, and refers to ”a forest of masts”
both up and down the river, bearing “ir
refutable testimony to the business which
is being done” in Savannah.
Mr. Marshall might have gone on to say
that not only has Savannah, at the pres
ent time, “two splendid terminals,” but
that arrangements have been perfected
under which a third “splendid terminal”
is to be built on Hutchinson's , Island,
across the river from the city, by the
Georgia and Alabama Railroad. It is
expected that this terminal will be well
on towards completion, and that some of
its docks will be ready for business, by
tiie opening of the next cotton season. This
terminal, according to the plans, is to be
one of the most perfect in the United
States, and second in size only to the
terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad in
Jersey City. The money for Its construc
tion is in sight, concessions have been
made by the city, and the engineers are
now at work upon the site. And what is
more, there wifi be business enough for
this great terminal without hurting the
business of the terminals of the Central
and the Plant systems.
Mr. Marshall’s letter ought to prove an
inspiration to the people of Charleston. He
has visited a real, live, bustling, hustling,
busy city, and he has described a few of
its features to his readers. We hope that
they will profit by the information he has
given them.
SOME OF GEN. BLANCO’S OPINIONS.
There are two or three things In Gen.
Blanco’s interview in the Herald that are
likely to attract attention. One is that
he thinks Cuba and Porto Rico will be
more prosperous in the future than they
have been in the past, not because the
United States will deal with them more
wisely and liberal than Spain did, but be
cause their groat varied resources
have been widely advertised by the war,
and. therefore, capital and immigrants
will rush to them as they never have be
fore.
It Is doubtful If the lack of prosperity
In Cuba is due to the want of knowledge
of the resources of the island. It is due
to the lack of a good and stable govern
ment there. If the island had had a wise,
liberal and Strong government it would
now be three times as rich and populous
as it is. If it becomes prosperous it will
be because this country gives it an en
lightened and stable government.
Another point that Gen. Blanco makes
is that Spain will reap benefits from her
defeat. The colonies which she has lost
are, he says. Spanish in sentiment, and
will continue so. Under the new order of
things their commerce will increase great
ly, and it is Gen. Blanco’s opinion that
the greater part of it will go to Spain.
Gen. Blanco says frankly that he was
not in favor of suing for peace. He was
satisfied that with the 70,000 loyal Span
iards which he had in Havana, and others,
that could have been readily brought
there, he could have resisted successfully
an attacking force of at least 350,000 men.
It is natural of course for him to feel
that he could have made it extremely diffi
cult for our army and navy to take Ha
vana. He has a very good opinion of Ijim
seif as a soldier. His government, how
ever, was too to wise to follow his ad
vice. "It knew after Manila and Santiago
that it was folly for Spain to continue the
war, or even to think that Spanish sol
diers and sailors were capable of meeting
in battle successfully those of the United
Stales, if GDi. Blanco lives a few years
he will be surprised to learn that all that
Cuba needed to become very prosperous
was good government, and he will be still
more surprised to find that notwithstand
ing the Spanish sentiment, the trade of
the island will be with this country and
not with Spain.
Roughly estimated, the claims of Ameri
cans against Spain for damages done to
their properly in Cuba and as a conse
quence of the rebellion In Cuba, amount
to some $27.00),000, and there are probably
still other claims that will be forthcom
ing. These are the claims that have been
taken over by the United States as one
conskleration in the terms of peace. This
sum. therefore, must be added to tne sum
of $20,000,000 to be paid Spain for the Phil
ippines, making our liabilities $47,000,000, on
top of the hundreds of millions which we
shall have expended on our army and
navy as a consequence of the war by the
time the volunteers are mustered out.
—u
The miscreant who attempted to set afire
John Wanamakor's store deserves no sym
pathy, even if he was In destitute circum
stance*. The building was crowded with
shoppers, the great majority of whom
w< re wofnen. A conflagration would in all
probability have been attended with panic
and great loss of life. The fellow was a
murderer at heart, and should be punish
ed to the limit of the law covering his
Offc'h!l. | ■
In the days of the presidency of Capt.
W. G. Raoul, the Central Railroad had
under consideration a project for increas
ing the harbor facilities, which was ap
parently so great an undertaking that
some persons thought those who proposed
it were fit subjects for the lunatic asy
lum. The project was to move all of the
buildings on the river front southward
to the proper building line of Bay street,
and to utilize the space thus gained for
wharf purposes. The scheme is more
feasible to-day than it was when first
contemplated. It is well known that in
most of the buildings along the bluff the
floors below the level of Bay street are
not used. The valuable parts of the
buildings are the top stories, on a level
with Bay street. These top stories could
be separated from the lower glories and
moved to the proper line of the street,
anil the space left could be used for rail
way tracks and wharves, In some places
there would have to be considerable ex
cavating to reach the level of River
street. The earth removed from such
places could be used in filling-in on Hutch
inson's Island, just opposite. There are
many persons who think ihe improvement
will have to be made one of these days,
and that the sooner it is done the better
it will be for the city.
The action of City Council in refusing
to permit an encroachment upon the Duf
fy street sidewalk will doubtless meet with
the approval of a majority of the people.
The petitioners in this case represented a
church, and the concession requested was
for the purpose of enlarging the church
edifice. Of course, every right-thinking
person wishes to see all of the churches
large and prosperous; and if any special
privileges are to be granted the churches
ought to have them. But the time has
come when there should be no further en
croachments upon the streets permitted
under any circumstances. Savannah is no
longer a litt'.e town, in which it does not
matter if building goes by rule-of-thumb.
Many thousands of dollars have been
spent for the purpose of improving and
beautifying the streets, and it would be
inconsistent to make this large outlay and
then block the sidewalks. Property own
ers crowd houses on lots that are too
small for them, and then wish the city
to give them a part of the streets in order
the builditigs may be rendered com
fortable. There should be a law passed
denoting the street lines, and then there
should never be a step or a stoop built
beyond that line.
Those esteemed contemporaries of ours
that have been making humorous para
graphs about the transport Chester’s be
ing aground in the river, and advising the
government to change the port of em
barkation to their cities, have really been
doing Savannah a great service. They
didn’t mean to do it, of course, but they
have advertised the fact that the Chester
came into this port drawing 21 feet of
water and went put drawing 25; and there
is no other port of the South Atlantic
where this could have occurred. The mon
ster steamer, as a matter of fact, could
not have gotten in at the so-called rival
ports, much less have gotten out drawing
a foot more water than when she arrived.
The Chester went from the city to the
sea drawing 25 feet, and never touched
in the channel. She will discharge her
men and supplies and come back again.
Meantime other great transports are pass
ing up and down the river every day. And
thus it is demonstrated beyond question
that Savannah is the best port of the
South Atlantic.
Returns from the great storm so far re
ceived indicate that the loss to insurance
underwriters will not fall below $1,000,000,
while it may be somewhat above that fig
ure. The insurance loss, therefore, will
not exceed the losses that are sometimes
sustained by large cities from a single
conflagration.
It is said that Gov. Tanner of Illinois
always has a cat sitting on his desk. Then
he ought to change his mascot. The
mascot that permits its owner to be in
dicted for malfeasance in office is a fail
ure.
CUHHENT COMMENT.
Catches 'Em Going; and Coming,
From the Wilmington (N. C.) Star (Dem.).
It Is said that Mr. Croker squeezed the
brewers before the election and now Boss
Platt proposes to squeeze them after the
election, taking them fore and aft as it
were.
AVnrni Debates Ahead.
From the Richmond Dispatch (Dem.).
In truth, there is going to be a great op
portunity for the constitutional lawyers in
the Senate when the treaty of the Presi
dent and his commissioners with Spain
comes before that body.
Time of Reckoning; Comina.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.).
The time is not unlikely to come when
the President will not be anxious to have
all the credit for the annexation of the
Philippines, or the responsibility for the
consequences of that fateful act.
How Blanco Saved ■•Honor.”
From the Norfolk Pilot (Dem.).
Gen. Blanco seems to have had his res
ignation accepted before the terms of the
new Spanish-American treaty were accept
ed, which indicates that he had been given
the tip and permitted to save himself the
humiliation of making the final and formal
surrender of Cuba to the United States au
thorities.
l
fnm|ialitn Material in Texas.
From the Houston Post (Dem.).
Matters look bad for the Texas Populists
now, but they will probably be able to
have some kind of a walk around two
years hence. If found necessary they can
furnish the Hon. Marion Williams with an
ivory handle six-shooter and a bunch of
cigarettes and he will see some sort of a
campaign properly inaugurated.
—Tenant—”You call our flats the Klon
dike because they are so cold in winter and
so hot in summer. 1 suppose. Ha, ha!”
landlord—No, because there’s no such
money in them as people Ihink.—Detroit
Journal,
NluJ. He 111 (.kill's Humor.
In view of the forthcoming appoannce
on the stage of the editor of the Charles
ton News anJ Courier as a humorist, it
becomes of interest to note his style of
humor. The following, taken from a
cent Issue of his paper, may serve as il
lustrating his best funny vein:
“The following advertisement, which ap
peared in The News and Courier a few
days ago. caused considerable amusement
in the city:
“STRAYED, from my home on James
Island, my wife, Mary. Reward for in
formation that will lead to her recovery,
if alive; if dead I don’t want her. J.
ROOKS.
"An effort was made to discover the iden
tity of J. Rooks, but without success. The
advertisement had been handed in at the
business office by a colored man, who paid
the charge and left.* Yesterday a com
munication came to The News and Cou
rier, with the advertisement clipped and
pinned at the top. The writing is very
fair, but the spelling and composition ere
good specimens of a 'Jeems Island' 1
darky's lingo. The ietter is as follows;
“Editor of The News and Courier: I take
the f>leger of write you a few line, hope
it won’t line you as it leave me for I am
in big trouble, my wife is leave me an I
can’t fine she, an I done spen fifty ct on
abbletise for she, an she ain't come yet;
an I ain't got no mo money to s-pen on
t he, but de people say as how you know
< bry ting, an what you ain't know you
meek you i>ota fine out for you, an I ax
a big faber, an dat is for you to git some
of you pota to look out for ray wife, dey
will know she soon as dey cass eye on
she, case she is a tall, light cullud cullad
Oman, name Mary, an he got a blister
looking place on he left han jaw, but dat
ain't from my slap, it come from teet
ache, no mo to say at dis time present not
till I year from you. Your oblige
his
“Jerry (X) Rooks,
mark
“I send the abbletise back, as e ent bring
de gal.”
The Bishop of the Diocese.
Li. story is told of an old commodore at
the Boston yard whose method of meas
uring religious affairs was with the same
inexorable rule, says an exchange. One
Sunday morning he was aroused from his
nap by something out of the usual routine
being"hnnounccd from the pulpit, and he
sternly addressed the chaplain with:
“What’s that? What’s thot?” The chap
lain demurely repeated th<> notice that
“by order of the bishop ol the diocese
divine service will be performed in this
chapel on Thursday evening n<sxt,” etc.
"By whose order?”
“By order ol the bishop of diocese, sir.”
“Well,” thundered the commodore, “I’ll
let you know that I am bishop of this di
ocese, and when I want service in this
chapet.ril let you know. Pipe down,”
and he cleared the chapel.
On one occasion he heard a different
voice in the pulpit from usual, and look
ing up, he asked: “Who is that up there?
Is that you, Billy McMaSters?”
"Y’es, sir.”
Billy was a religious foreman in the
yard, who sometimes helped the chaplain
along.
“Come down out of that,” thundered
the commodore. “When I want a relief
for the chaplain I’ll appoint one. Don't
you ever let me catch you up there again,”
and he cleared the chapel again.
Tales of a Famous Fiddler.
The grand oak tree of the famous fiddler,
Neil Gow, has lost one of its “giant
trunks,” says the Westminster Gazette.
The tree stands near the village of Inver,
not for from Dunkeld, where Neil was born
and lived and died. He was a great favor
ite with the Duke of Atholl, who, indeed,
paid him a salary as family fiddler; but
he had scant respect for Dukes and Duch
esses as such. “That lassie o’ yours has
a good ear,” he remarked to her Ladyship
of Atholl one day. Somebody who over
heard the remark ventured to suggest to
Neil that the Duchess might he offended
ot having her daughter called a lassie.
“What would I call her?” said Nell. “I
never heard she was a iaddie.”
Neil, like too many others, was fond of
whisky. The Duchess of Gordon once com
plained to him of a giddiness and a “swim
ming” in her head. “Faith,” ifaid Neil,
with a twinkle in his eye, “an’ I ken some
thing o’ that, your ladyship.” And so he
did, no doubt. Another story is of a gen
tleman meeting him walking home from a
Perth ball one morning. “It's a very long
road you have befbre you,” remarked the
sympathizer. "Oh, it's nae the length o t
that's troubling me, but the breath,” said
Neil, as he passer! on. Gow is buried in
the churchyard of Little Dtmkejd.
German Justice Reversed Himself.
When George R. Peck first became an
attorney for the Santa Fe, says the Topeka
State Journal, he went to a small town in
Western Kansas to argue a case ihat had
been brought against the road for damages
to several head of cattle that had been
killed. The case was tried before a judge
who was decidedly German, The witnesses
were examined and the case gone through
with, tfnd the attorney for the prosecution
arose and made a strong plea for convic
tion. He waxed eloquent and the judge
paid close attention.
“Are you troo?” asked the judge when
the lawyer stopped.
“Yes, your honor.”
"You vins de ease,’* said the judge.
■'But I want a chance to argue my side
of tHe case,” said Peck.
“No, he vins,” stoutly asserted the
judge. But Peck commenced to talk and
gradually his talk led up to the case, ind
before the judge knew it Peck was argu
ing the defense. The judge listened closely,
and when Peck had finished he said:
"You vins de case.” .
“But you have already decided in my
favor,” said the other lawyer.
“Dat’s all right. I reverse my first de
cision. Dis man vins,” and the judge
stuck to his last decision and Peck won
his railroad case.
Her Deductions.
“I believe that you used to know Mrs.
Brown, did you not?” asked the new wo
man, according to the Chicago Post.
“Brown? Brown?” returned the old
fashioned woman thoughtfully, “I don’t
seem to place her. What Mrs. Brown was
it?”
“Mrs. Mary Mehltable Brown,” an
swered the new woman. “Oh, you must
have met her.”
"Mrs. M?lry Mehitabel Brown ( ” repeated
the old-fashioned woman, “N'o, I don’t re
call her. But Pm sorry for her Just the
same.”
"Sorry for her!” exclaimed the new wo
man. “Why are you sorry for her?”
“A widow always has my sympathy,”
replied the old -faah i oiled woman.
“A widow!” cried the new woman.
“Why, she isn't a widow.”
"Then more than ever am I sorry for
her,” returned the old-fashioned woman,
“I don't think then- is anything more piti
ful than a woman who Is ashamed of her
husbajid.”
“But she isn't ash toed of her husband.”
"Then .why does she Insist upon being
known as Mrs. Mary Mehitabel Brown?”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—The most costly piece of railway line
in the world is that between the Mansion
house and Aldgate stations, in London,
which required the expenditure of close
upon $10,000,000 a mile.
—The great Armstrong shipbuilding
yards of England have just turned out
the most remarkable vessel afloat. It is a
giant ice crusher to be used in keeping
open the trade routes of the Baltic sea
in winter. Ice-crushing boats are used in
several of the harbors on the great lakes
in this country, but they are insignificant
when compared in size and power to this
giant.
.—An American soldier and a native cab
man were killed by coming in contact with
a fallen electric wire in Honolulu the
other day. An inquest developed the fact
that the interior of the wooden insulating
pin by which the wire was supported had
been eaten away by- ants, and the thin
shell which remained had given way under
the stress of a wind storm.
—With a very few exceptions, all the
great industries and branches of commerce
in Germany show a phenomenal expansion
during the last decade. For example, the
tonnage of steamships belonging to Ham
burg, which in 1875 was 88,173, was in 1879
481,699. Those belonging to Bremen In
creased in the same tinfte from 65,070 to
226,000, while the tonnage of sailing vessels
belonging to these two ports has since
risen over 60 tier cent.
—A London magician, Maskelyne, who
has given entertainments many years in
Egyptian hall, kept up an offer of $2,500
reward for a duplicate of his box, which a
man gets in and out of mysteriously. A
clever mechanic solved the problem and
demanded the money, but Maskelyne re
fused to pay, as he claimed that, though
this box did the work of his, the mechan
ism was different. He would not disclose
his own in court, however, and the jury
rendered a verdict against him.
—M. S. Prime of California is a rather
remarkable person in that he is the presi
dent, secretary and treasurer, board of
directors and manager of the Paso de
Roblas Street Railway Company. He is
also the driver and conductor of the single
car run on the road and is perfectly hap
py when the outfit brings him $1.50 a day.
The road, three miles in length, runs from
the railroad station to a locally famous
mud bath and Mr. Prime traded a house
and lot in Alameda county for the whole
outfit.
—Forty sheep belonging to William
Arndt gathered under a maple tree in Van
Wert county, Ohio, and among them were
eighteen black ones. A blinding flash of
lightning seemed to penetrate the earth
in the midst of the flock and killed all the
black sheep, leaving the white ones un
hurt. Each dead sheep had a round hole
in the back of its neck, as if from a pistol
ball, and around it the wool was burned
away. This remarkable happening fur
nished several weeks’ text for exhorters
in neighboring churches.
—The natives of Kottiar are in the habit
of digging every year in the summer, the
dry banks of the Vergel river for fish,
which they dig out by hundreds just as
they would potatoes. The mud lumps are
broken open and the fish, perhaps eight
or ten inches long, will always be found
alive, and often frisky, as if just removed
from its supposedly native element—the
water. In the dry bed of several African
rivers a similar practice is often pursued.
A kind of mud fish buries itself whilst the
bottom is still moist, and remains there
all the summer, waking up when the rains
commence again.
—An elderly man who calls himself
“Judge Milton” and "The Promised Shi
loh” has again made his appearance in
the Wakefield district, England. The old
man contends that he is entitled to the
mansion on the Wakefie.d and Bradford
road, at Carr Gale, built by the late
“Prophet” John Wroe, a leader'of the
followers of Joanna Southcott. The claim
ant, who is a working carpenter, has fre
quently crossed the Atlantic to enforce his
claim, and on some of his visits he has
trespassed on the property, been given into
cusiody, seni to prison and deprived of a
flowing beard, which seemed, to be a great
source of trouble to him.
—lt is a common custom among the
native traders of India to do business un
der the name of some distinguished An
glo-Indian soldier or statesman, and such
firms as “Havelock & C 0.,” "Elgin & Cos.”
and “Outram & Cos.” are quite numerous.
Even the name of Viceroy-elect Curzoti
has already been utilized. Recently a Mr.
Greenwood protested against the use of
his name by a firm with which he is not
connected, and the High Court readily
granted him an injunction. On the next
day the judge, having occasion to pass the
shop, was astonished to find that the name
of had been erased from the
sign and his own substituted.
—Andrew Levi of Brockton has a full
grown cow with five legs. The animal ap
peared to be a cross between the buffalo
and the ordinary cow. Heavy tufts of
hair between the horns give it the appear
ance of the buffalo, and the extra long
horns are the distinguishing marks be
tween the two breeds of quadrupeds. The
extra legs projects from above the left
bind leg, and is nearly, if not quite, three
feet long. It hangs limp, but is not bone
less, and the owner states that at limes
the animal will move the limb. At the
place of jointure there is an extremely
large and soft bunch. The hoof is pecul
iar. It is not cloven, and is nearly nine
inches long, tapering to a point and being
harder than the ordinary hoof. The en
tire leg is more the color of that of a
moose than of a buffalo or cow. The front
hoofs are also peculiar. They are divided
all right, but are extra long and overlap
a little. The animal is 3 years old.
—A college professor tells an interest
ing story of animal intelligence. The pro
fessor recently took into his family a fine
fox terrier, not quite full grown, and con
sequently possessed of a good deal of mis
chievousness. A few days ago the profes
sor was writing at a desk in his library,
when the dog brought from an adjoining
room a slipper that he had chewed to
pieces and completely ruined. The master
whipped him and put him in the cellar,
where he left him until the next morning.’
After breakfast the professor went to the
cellar door and called the dog, but there
was no response. He went into the cellar,
found the animal and attempted to co.ix
him out. The dog not only would not stir,
but actually would not look at his master]
The latter thereupon picked the animal up
and carried him to a dish Upon which was
his breakfast. The dog would not touch
the food and then the professor took him
into the library, put him in a corner and
sat down to his desk to work. For a long
time the dog did not stir and then, sud
denly, as thought it had Just thought of
something, it ran Into the adjoining room
and brought back the remaining slipper.
The article was laid at the feet of the
master and the dog, for the first time,
looked into its master's eyes. A moment
’Her all trouble > vanished and the two
were again the best of friends. It is easy
io believe thut the intelligent animal got
the second slipper loaihvtk that ihere still
Wua one left.
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