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Morse Reckoning.
A Russian doctor has been experi-
tuenting to find how far some of our
domestic animals can count. The in
telligence of the horse, as this is shown
in mathematics, seems to surpass that
of the cat or the dog. The instances
given by him are interesting, but be
fore they are accepted as authentic
they should be verified by the obser
vations of naturalists whose skill and
care are unquestioned.
He found a horse which was able to
count the mile posts along the way.
It had been trained by its master to
stop for its feed whenever they had
covered twenty-five versts.
One day they tried the horse over a
road where three false milo posts had
been put in between the real ones, and
sure enough, the horse, deceived by
this trick, stopped for his oats at the
end of twenty-two versts instead of
going the usual twenty-five.
The same horse was accustomed to
being fed every day at the stroke of
noon. The doctor observed that
whenever the chick, struck, the horse
would stop and prick up his ears as if
counting. If he heard twelve strokes
he would •' ro off contentedly to be fed,
but if it were fewer than twelve he
would resignedly go on working.
The experiment was made of striking
twelve strokes at the wrong time,
whereupon the horse started for his
oats, in spite of the fact that he had
been fed only an hour before.—Ex.
The Old-Fashioned Girl.
She can peel and boil potatoes,
make a salad of tomatoes, but she
doesn’t know a Latin noun from Greek.
And so well she cooks a chicken that
your appetite would quicken, but she
can not tell wliat’s modern from an
tique.
She knows how to set a table, and
make order out of bable, but she
doesn’t know Euripides from Kant,
Once at making pie I caught her
Jove, an expert must have taught
her—but she doesn’t know true elo
quence from rant.
She has a firm conviction one ought
only to read fiction, and she doesn’t
care for science, not a bit.
And the way she makes lier bonnets
sure is worth a thousand sonnets, but
she doesn’t yearn for culture, not a
whit.
She can make her wraps and dresses
’til a fellow fast confesses, that there’s
not another maiden half so sweet.
She’s immersed in home completely,
where she keeps all things so neatly,
but from Browning not a line can she
repeat.
Well, in fact, she’s just a woman,
gentle, lovable, and human, and her
faults she is willing to admit.
‘Twere foolish to have tarried, so we
went off and got married, I tell you
I am mighty glad of it. - Farm, and
Fireside.
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of $35,500,000 arc now on hand in the
treasury vaults.
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THE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS
Tbe flonse anil Senate Called to Order
in Regular Session.
Daily Summary of Routine Business in
tbe Two Houses.
THE HOUSE.
Monday, Feb. 5.—Iu the house,
Monday morning, the Hawaiian de
bate was resumed by Mr. Morse, of
Massachusetts, who had five minutes.
Before he had proceeded for a minute,
however, Mr. Outhwaite had called
him t-o order for unparliamentary lan
guage. “To what language do you
refer?” asked Mr. Morse. “To the in
sulting, impudent and unparliament
ary language just used,” answered Mr.
Outhwaite. Mr. Morse, according to
the rules, took his seat and the words
excepted to were read at the clerk’s
desk, as follows: “And yet, strange
to tell, at the command of their mas
ter, Great Grover Cleveland, his
cuckoos in the house and senate,
staunch southern democrats, loud
est shonters for a white man’s gov
ernment, disregard all their ancient
traditions about the white man’s su
premacy and the white man’s govern
ment.” The speaker ru],ed that the
language was unparliamentary to speak
of members of the house and senate
as being controlled by their master—
the president. Mr. Morse explained
that he had, in reading his remarks,
omitted several words from his manu
script, and he said if the words ob
jected to were offensive, he would
withdraw the words “controlled by
their master, the president.” Before
Mr. Morse could proceed after his ex
planation and withdrawal, his time ex
pired. Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, took
the floor and made a strong speech,
arraigning the course of the present
administration in attempting to restore
the deposed queen.
Tuesday,Feb. 6.—The house at 10:11
Tuesday morning took up the consid
eration of the resolution of tbe For
eign affairs committee, censuring Min
ister Stevens, and Mr. Outhwaite ad
dressed the house. Mr. Turner, of
Georgia, defended Mr. Blount from
the charge which had been made
against him, and attacked the provis
ional government. Mr. Sickles, dem
ocrat, of New York, created a sensa
tion by attacking the president’s pol
icy. He was the first democrat who
had not upheld the resolution of the
foreign affairs committee. Mr. De-
Forest, democrat, of Connecticut, de
fended the foreign affairs resolution,
while Mr. Hepburn, republican, of
Iowa, spoke in opposition, Mr. Hook
er, of Mississippi, was the last speaker
and in a long speech he defended the
resolution of the foreign affairs com
mittee.
Wednesday, Feb. 7.--When the
house met Wednesday morning it be
came a question whether the majority
had been successful in the effort to se
cure a quorum. Some little time was
consumed by a parliamentary wrangle,
and after this was settled the house
took np the Hawaiian resolution and
the ayes and nays were called. The
vote stood yeas 174, nays 3—no quo
rum. Half a dozen democrats on
the floor were restrained from Voting.
These were Geary, of California; Sick
les, of New York; Straight, of South
Carolina; Swanson, of Virginia, Lati
mer, of South Carolina—sufficient to
make the 179, necessary to a quorum,
When the vote was announced, 174 to
3, Mr. Springer raised the point of or
der that as there were four vacant seats
in the house 177 instead of 179 should
constitute a quorum. After some de
bate the point of order was sustained
and the resolution declared passed.
Thursday, Feb. 8.—The resolution
presented just before adjournment of
the house Wednesday evening, that
the sergeant-at-arms be directed to
bring in absent members, did not ap
pear to have borne fruit immediately,
for at the hour of meeting Thursday
morning there did not seem to be a
quorum of democrats on the floor.
After an unsuccessful attempt by Mr.
Reed to have the speaker correct the
journal to show the absence of a quo
rum Wednesday and prevent arrested
members from voting, ho demand
ed a vote on the last proposition.
Mr. Bland moved to lay on the table.
On a division, the vote resulted: Yeas
121, nays 68. Mr. Reed asked for the
yeas and nays, and they were ordered.
The result of the vote on Mr. Bland’s
motion to go into committee of the
whole was: Yeas, 167; nays, 6. No
quorum appearing, Mr. Bland moved
a call of the house, which was agreed
to. The call was interrupted to re
ceive a message from the senate an
nouncing the passage of the bill to re
peal the federal election laws, which
announcement the democrats received
with applause. The vote resulted:
Yeas, 162; nays, 80; and Mr. Reed’s
resolution was tabled.
TIIF. SENATE.
Monday, Feb. 5—A feeling reference
to the death of Mr. Childs was made
in the chaplain’s opening prayer in the
senate Monday morning. Mr. Hale
offered resolutions reciting that the
tariff bill has come to the senate; that
the reports of many great industrial
interests and many laboring men
believe that no opportunity has
been heretofore given to be heard
upon its provisions, and they
now desire to present their ob
jections to it before any action is taken
by the senate and instructing the com
mittee on finance to give opportunity
to all parties who believe their inter
ests affected to be heard before the
committee reports its action to the
senate. The resolution was laid on the
table by request. Tho house bill to
repeal the federal election laws was
again taken np and Mr. Chandler ad
dressed the senate in opposition to it.
Mr. Palmer supported the bill. Mr.
Frye, republican, of Maine, said that if
the states could be depended upon to do
what is just and fair they ought to be
allowed to administer the election
laws, hut that if the states could not
be depended upon the federal election
laws should be retained. Mr. Frye
did not believe any such dependence
could be placed upon the states. The
discussion on the relative restrictions
of Mississippi and Massachusetts con
stitutions was carried on for some time
with _ considerable warmth. Finally,
the day’s debate closed with the decla
ration by Mr. Palmer, that the elec
tion law was a miserable abortion.
The bill went over till Tuesday and
the senate, at 4:15 o’clock, after a
short executive session, adjourned.
Tuesday’, Feb. 6.—The bill repeal
ing the federal election laws came up
immediately after the preliminary bus
iness in the senate Tuesday morning
and Senator Hawley took the floor
in opposition to the bill. Mr.
Perkins, republican, of California,'
•made an argument against the bilL It
seemed to him that those who had
spoken in favor of its passage had
done so from a feeling of partisan
prejudice. Mr. Daniel, democrat,
of Virginia, replied to Mr. Perkins,
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favoring the bill. Mr. Frye, republi
can, of Maine, spoke in opposition.
Mr. Frye yielded at 2:30 o’clock in
order to allow a proposition to be made
for an extension of time for debate,
several senators having indicated a de
sire to speak. After many obstacles
a proposition was agreed to that the
general debate on the bill should close
at 3 o’clock p. m. Wednesday, and
that the vote on the passage should be
taken before adjournment.
Wednesday, Feb. 7.—The attention
of the senate was occupied for fifteen
minutes . Wednesday morning by Sen
ator Cameron, of Pennsylvania in
the presentation of fifty or more
petitions against the Wilson bill and
the reading of each petition by
its title. They came from man
ufacturers, operators aud em
ployes, representing nearly every Penn
sylvania industry affected by the pro
posed tariff reduction. At 12:30 the
house bill to repeal the federal elec
tion law was taken up, and Mr. Hoar
addressed the senate in opposition to
it. Mr. Gray, of Delaware, replied to
Mr. Hoar. Mr. Bate, of Tennessee,
c'osed the debate. He made an argu
ment in support of the bill. At the
close of Mr. Bate’s speeeh Mr. Chan
dler withdrew th« amendment hereto
fore offered by him and moved another,
the purport of which was to make the
proposed repeal effective only to the
extent of prohibiting the employment
of deputy marshals at elections. This
amendment was rejected. Other
amendments were also rejected and the
bill was passed—yeas 39, nays 28—a
party vote, except that Mr. Stewart,
republican, of Nevada, and Messrs.
Allen, Kyle and Peffer, pepulists, vot
ed with the democrats in the affirma
tive. The senate then, at 0 :15 o’clock
p. m., after a short executive session,
adjourned till Thursday.
Thursday, Feb. 8—A discussion
took place in the senate Thursday
morning on the resolutions of
fered by Mr. Stewart and Mr.
Duboise, denying the authority of the
secretary of the treasury to issue
bonds, except for the purpose speci
fied in the resumption act, the redemp
tion of legal tender notes. In the
course of the discussion Mr. Teller de
clared that it was morally certain that
no more five per cent, bonds on three
per cent, basis could be sold. The
hour expired before any action was
taken on the resolutions.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs oi Government M News
tte Departments Disenssei
Sotes of Interest Concerning the Pe3-
ple and Their General Welfare.
On account of the pressure of pub
lic business the. president could not
attend the funeral services of Mr.
Childs in Philadelphia.
Once more action on the nomination
of Peckham was deferred by the judi
ciary committee at Tuesday’s meeting.
The matter went over for one week.
The senate finally disposed of the
election bill Wednesday. It passed by
a majority of eleven. The populists
voted with the democrats to repeal the
laws. The bill now goes to the presi
dent as no amendments were added by
the senate.
The senate committee on the judici
ary Monday took no action on the case
of Wheeler H. Peckham, nominated to
be associate justice of the supreme
court, but permitted it to go over un
til a special meeting Tuesday morning.
The bill to restore one thousand
railway mail clerks dismissed from
service in the spring of 1889 to their
former position was ordered favorably
reported by. the house judiciary com
mittee Friday by a vote of 6 to 3
strict party vote.
The president Tuesday sent to the
senate the following nominations of
postmasters: Alabama, William O.
Monroe, Eutaw; Mississippi, Lucy E.
Harris, Hazlehurst; Tennessao, L. W.
Bates, St. Elmo; D. C. Morris, Mor
ristown.
The executive committee of the
National Association of Democratic
Clubs, organized July 4, 1888, for the
purpose of aiding in the promotion of
party success, met in 'Washington at
noon Thursday. The sessions were
private.
The pension bureau at Washington
has been notified by Special Examiner
Davis, of Jacksonville, Fla., of the
arrest of Ben Davis, of Pensacola, Fla.,
for conspiracy, transmitting false pa
pers, and making false affidavits in a
pension claim. He has been commit
ted to jail in default of $2,000 bail.
Perhaps the most important fight in
the senate will be over the sugar sched
ule, both Louisiana senators having
declared that if a duty is not placed
on sugar they will vote against the
bill. The hill can be adopted without
either of tlieir votes, for all three
populist senators will vote for it.
The secretary of the treasury sent
to the house Monday a communication
from the secretary of the navy, sub
mitting an estimate of an appropria
tion of 872,365 for the construction of
a fire-proof warehouse at the Norfolk,
Yn., navy yard. Tho building is to
replace one destroyed by fire in De
cember last.
It is not probable that the treasury
department will receive the money from
the sale of the bonds before the 15th.
In round figures it will take in $58,-
000,000 unless gold is drawn out of
the treasury in redlining legal tender
notes in large quantities between now
and that time. The sale of bonds will
increase the gold reserve to something
near 8120,000,000.
’ A Washington special says: Effort
to repeal tax on state bank circulation
was beaten in the committee on bank
ing Friday by a vote of eight to nine.
The vote was taken on the bill of Bep-
resentative Clark, of Tennessee, which
relieves state banks from any tax on
their circulation, but does not extend
the relief to circulation issued by pri
vate individuals or corporations. The
result is regardsd as cutting off the
possibility of favorable state bank leg
islation in the present congress.
The olfj corvette Kearsage was
wrecked on Roneador reef February
2d, while en route from Port An
Prince, Hayti, to Bluefields, Nicara
gua. The officers and crew were
saved. This news reached the navy
department at Washington Thursday
morning iu a cable message dated-Co-
lon and signed by Lieutenant Brain-
ard, of the Kearsage. Immediately
on receipt of the cablegram the secre
tary sent a message toLientenatBrain-
ard directing him to charter a vessel
at Colon and proceed at once to the
assistance of the shipwrecked men.
Hill’s Sentence Reduced.
The sentence of Harry Hill, con
victed of forgery at Atlanta has been
reduced from seven to five years und
all the other indictments withdrawn.
As soon as this was done Hill withdrew
his motion for a new trial.
SOUTHERN HEWS ITEMS.
Tie Drift cf Her Progress ant Pros
perity Briefly Note!
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
The Dublin, Texas, Cotton Compress
was burned Tuesday. It was complete
ly destroyed. The property was stock
ed up to about $150,000, though the
orignal cost was only about $40,000.
The insurance is unknown.
A Columbia, S. C., special of Tues
day says: The state dispensary is evi
dently feeling the effect of the compe
tition with the blind tigers, and Com
missioner Traxler has announced a re
duction of 50 cents : gallon on all
whiskies.
Asa Ray, a leading merchant of
Albertville, Ala., was burned out Tues
day night, presumably by an incendi
ary. His store and stock are a total
loss. The little city had a narrow es
cape from being totally destroyed, but
was saved by hard work.
At Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday morning
Judge Lumpkin granted a charter to
the “Cotton States and International
Exposition Company.” The charter
Brants the company a lease of life for
twenty years. It was presented to the
court by Judge Palmer.
The strike of the ’longshoremen at
Brunswick, Ga., has not resulted as
disastrously to shipping as was ex
pected. Several gangs are at work
for less wages than the ’longshoremen
struck for, and all shipping will pro
gress without serious consequences.
Tho union men, however, are sti 1 out.
Fred Gerding, who created quite a
sensation at Knoxville, Tenn., a short
while ago by attempting to hold np
and rob an express train on the Knox
ville and Ohio railway, was found
guilty and sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary by the Anderson
county court in Clinton Wednesday
morning. His accomplice in the crime,
Will Smith, was killed when the at
tempt was made by the officers who
were on the tram at the time.
Bill Harden, Charles Fennell, color
ed; John Mongazor, Jordan Cassady,
white, broke jail at Swainsboro, Ga.,
Tuesday nigbt and made their escape
They burned the lock out of the door
up stairs and broke tho lower jail
doors with crowbars. Wednesday
morning the jail doors were found
standing wide open and all the prison
ers were gone. Three of the prisoners
were charged with robbery and Fen
nell with murder.
The Birmingham, Ala., Rolling Mill
Company signed wage contracts with
its operatives Tuesday and will begin
work in a few days after a cessation of
six months. Between eight hundred
and a thousand men will thus be given
employment, and there is great rejoic
ing among the laboring element. One
of the furnaces at Calera will also be'
fired up at once. The trade in the
iron district of Alabama is gradually
resuming its normal condition.
In chambers at Augusta, Ga., Tues
day morning Judge Roney passed an
order allowing Receiver J. H. Averill,
of the Port Royal and Augusta rail
road, to issue $50,000 worth of receiv
er’s certificates. The certificates will
bear 7 per cent interest. They will be
issued to raise money to build a new-
iron bridge over the Savannah river,
three miles below Augusta, to improve
the physical condition of the road and
meet maturing obligations.
A Savannah special says: Receiver
Comer and Mr. George J. Mills left
for Macon Tuesday night to attend the
Southwestern railroad stockholders’
meeting. They are members of the
committee on proxies. Mr. Mills will
represent nearly 2,000 shares and Mr.
Comer about 3,000, besides the 1,198
to be voted for the Contral railroad.
A large number of stockholders from
Savannah‘will attend in person and it
is believed that there will be a majori
ty in favor of the Southwestern remain
ing with the Central.
A convention of orange growers met
at Ocala, Fla., Tuesday to consider the
depressed condition of business in
Florida, and also the effect of the Wil
son bill on fruit. Speeches were made
by ex-Congressman Bullock and other
members in favor of a higher duty on
oranges than is fixed in the Wilson
bill. Opinion was divided as to whether
the law or high transportation charges
had brought about the present de
pressed condition. A committee was
appointed to formulate some plan by
which the fruit growers might be thor
oughly organized and make themselves
felt in legislation affecting them, and
also by the transportation companies.
The Savannah Grocery company and
M. Ferst’s Sons & Co., wholesale
grocers, and the Wilcox & Gibb’s
Guano company, manufacturers of
fertilizers, occupying nearly an entire
block of five-story buildings, on Bay
street, in the heart of the wholesale
section of Savannah, were burned out
Monday, and other property suffered
heavy damages. M. Ferst’s Sons &
Co. are the lieaY’iest losers. Their loss
on their grocery stock is $150,000.
Tho Savannah Grocery company’s loss
on stock is $130,000. Wilcox & Gibbs
Guano company lose on the grocery
buildings $75,000, on the guano com
pany’s stock and buildings $15,000,
making the total loss $370,000.
Colonel James Monroe Meek, of
Knoxville, one of the leading capital
ists of Tennessee, made an assignment
Monday for the benefit of his credi
tors. His assets are placed at $282,-
000 and his liabilities at $102,900. In
ability to realize on his holdings and
a desire to protect himself and credi
tors, are the reasons for the step. In
the list of assets, two blocks of build
ings in the gilt-edge portion of the
business center are put down at $190,-
000. His residence is put down at
$35,000, and his one-third: interest in
the Duektown copper mines, on the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad,
is listed at $25,000. This Duektown
tract contains 1,000 acres of land.
Other smaller real estate holdings and
personal property 6well the total to
nearly $300,000.
McLAURIN WINS.
humiliated as Walthall’s Successor by
Ihe Mississippi Legislature.
A Jackson, Miss., special says; Tho
friends of Taylor, Campbell and Low
ry held a conference Tuesday afternoon
to determine which was the strongest
man. After several ballots, Judge
Taylor developed the most strenth
which resulted in the withdrawal of
the names of Lowry and Campbell from
the senatorial race. When the caucus
met afterwards MeLanirn aud Taylor
were the only names presented. The
sixty-seventh and last ballot resulted:
McLaurin 78, Taylor 62. The nomina
tion by the democratic caucus insures
the election of Hon. A. G. McLaurin
as United States senator to succeed
Walthall,
KOLB NOMINATED
For Governor or Alabama by Jefferson-
ians and Populists.
A Birmingham special says: The
Jeffersonian and populist delegates
joined forces Thursday and nominated
Captain Kolb and his ticket. The
populist delegates held a meeting be
fore the convention assembled and
after endorsing their national platform
resolved, with practical unanimity, to
co-operate with the Jeffersonian dem
ocrats in the election of Captain Kolb
and his ticket. About noon the Jef
fersonians marched into the convention
hall in a column. They were cheered
as they entered, aud they returned the
cheer most heartily. Things soon set
tled down to business. Judge Zell
Gaston, of Butler, was made chairnftu,
and Jerre Fountain, of Jefferson
county, secretary.
The details of the organization of
the convention were soon disposed of
and speeches were made by P. G. Bow
man, Jndge Street and others, de
nouncing the election methods of the
organized democracy and showing up
the alleged shortcomings of the state
and federal administrations.
kolb’s ticket.
The following ticket was then nom
inated:
For Governor—R. F. Kolb.
For Secretary of State—J. C. Fon-
ville, of Crenshaw.
For Treasurer—Thomas K. Jones, of
Hale.
For Auditor—W. T. B. Lynch, of
Macon.
For Commissioner of Agriculture—
S. M. Adams, of Bibb.
For Superintendent of Education —
J. P. Oliver, of Tallapoosa.
For Attorney General—Warren S.
Reese, of Montgomery.
OUR latestHspatches.
Tiie Happenings of a Day CflronicM in
Brief and Concise Paragraplis •
And Containing the Gist of the Jfeirj
From All Parts of the World.
The Grand Army of the Republic
department of Florida met Thursday
at Sanford for its annual encampment.
There was a verry full attendance.
The Godey Publishing Company, at
New York, publishers of Godey’s Mag
azine and various books aud periodi
cals, assigned Thursday.
A fire at Rockingham, N. C., Thurs
day destroyed two saloons, livery sta
ble and grain depository. Seven
horses and mules aud a number of ve
hicles were burned.
The Galveston Feu's publishes re
turns from the Texas railroads show
ing the cotton crop of the state in
1892-’93 to have been only 2,025,066
bales, and the indications for the sea
son of 1893-’94 to be 1,750,000 bales.
The Birmingham, Ala., city council
has appointed a committee of five
aldermen to confer with the Birming
ham Waterworks Company and take
certain steps looking to the purchase
of the company’s property by the city.
The sentiment of the citizens appears
to be largely in this direction.
Advices of Thursduy from Bombay,
India, state that serious religions riots
between Mohammedans and Hindoos
have occurred at Ycola, near Nassick,
ninety-five miles from Bombay. The
Hindoo temples and Mohammedan
mosques ivere destroyed. Many of
the combatants were injured. The
troops were summoned and quelled
the disturbance.
The will of George W. Childs was
admitted to probate at Philadelphia
Thursday morning. The document is
very short, and was executed August
1st last, one month after the death of
Anthony J. Drexel. Mr. Childs be
queaths his entire estate to his widow
absolutely. The executors are George
W. Childs Drexel and James W. Paul,
Jr., and they place the Y’aluation of
the estate over $100,000 real and over
$100,000 personal.
A cable dispatch of Thursday from
London states that a violent hurricane
prevails along the coasts of most
of the countries bordering on tho
North sea. Many casualties have been
reported. Some have'occnrred even in
the generally safe harbor of Hamburg.
In Great Britain a gale is blowing,
accompanied in some places by heavy
rain. Reports from Inverness and
Perthshire, Scotland, state that floods
have occurred there.
The supreme court at Topeka, Kan
sas, Thursday rendered a decision in
the case of Mary Ellen Lease versus
Governor Lewellyn. The decision of
the court is that the governor is with
out the authority to remove Mrs.
Lease from her position as a member
of the state charities board. Mrs.
Lease will at once begin an, investiga
tion tour of the state elemosynary in
stitutions. It is stated that Governor
Lewellyn is satisfied with the decision
as it relieves him from an embarrassing
political situation.
At the annual commencement exer
cises of the Meharry Medical co liege
at Nashville, Tenn., Thursday night
there were fifty-six negroes graduated
in medicine, dentistry and pharmacy.
There were three female graduates in
pharmacy, the first women iu the
south to graduate in this profession.
The address to the graduates was de
livered by Bishop Walden, of Cincin
nati. The graduates represent thir
teen states and the West Indies.
There were forty-one medical gradu
ates, three dental and twelve pharma
ceutical.
A bill has been introduced iu the
Massachusetts legislature entitled “An
act for the suppression of indecent
dances in public places.” It provides
that “no woman shall appear at a
public performance in a dress the
skirts of which to not come within at
least fonr inches of the floor and the
waist of which is so constructed that
any part of her person is exposed be
low the neck.” The second part says:
“No woman shall appear in tights or
appear at public performances in high
kicking, serpentine, hip or skirt danc
ing.”
A Raleigh, N. C., special of Thurs
day says: The populists are thus early
beginning to hold county meetings for
the purpose' of organizing clubs. At
each meeting a letter from Chairman
Taubeneek, of the national executive
committee, is read urging the imme
diate organization of clubs in each
township. It is said these clubs are to
meet publicly and have no sign or
passwords, such as the populists used
in their organization two years ago,
and that their motto will be an honest
government and a fair count.
At Great Falls, Montana, the mer
cury has been known to drop twenty-
five degrees inside of five minutes.
Statistics show that’England annu
ally spends $80,000,000 for foreign
butter and cheese, ■■ ,
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Condensed mi Our Most Important
Telegraphic Advices
And Presented in Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
Fire Wednesday morning destroyed
the greater portion of the business
houses of Montgomery, Mo. Seven
teen stores and office buildings were
burned. The loss is $130,000; insur
ance, about half.
A dispatch of Wednesday from San
Luis, Patozi, Mexico, states that Lewis
F. Lawrence, a mining man who came
there from Pennsylvania about eighteen
months ago, was attacked by a band
of robbers near Guadalcazar, a small
town northwest of San Luis, and
murdered and robbed.
At New York Tuesday morning, in
accordance with the decision of United
States Judge Lacomb, entered in the
case of W. P. Clyde and others, Re
ceiver Oakman, of the Richmond and
West Point Terminal company, sold
the stocks, bonds, judgments, claims,
etc., belonging to the company at the
real estate exchange.
A Chicago dispatch of Wednesday
says: W. W. Winchell, the local head
of the Salvation Army, has summoned
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll to show
cause why he is the “Prince of Pagan
ism.” It is to be a mock trial. A
jndge and jury will be selected, aud
the plaintiff aqd the defendant will be
represented by counsel.
The death of Mr. Childs will not al
ter the policy of the The Public Ledg
er, nor will any changes be made in
the management of the paper. By an
agreement entered into by Mr. Childs
and the late Anthony J. Drexel, and
in accordance with a provision of the
latter’s will, the Drexel estate will
now purchase from Mrs. Child’s the
interest Mr. Childs held in The
Ledger and will accordingly own the
paper absolutely.
A meeting was held at New Orleans
Monday of delegates from the Louisi
ana Sugar and Rice Exchange, bureau
of freight and transportation, stock
exchange, Mechanics, Dealers and Lum
bermen’s exchange, Wholesale Grocers’
Association, clearing house, cotton ex
change, Steamboatmcn’s association,
produce exchange, board of trade and
trunk railroad lines for the purpose of
giving expression to their views con
cerning the legislation of congress in
reference to sugar.
According to advices uf Wednesday
the Brazilian government has decided
to decree that martial law shall cease
on February 26th, and that the pres
idential election shall take place on
March 1st, in accordance with the con
stitution. Dr. Prudente de Mornes,
president of the senate, is the only
candidate yet named for the national
presidency. He is a civilian, from the
state of San Paulo. It is possible that
he will be acceptable to both side.
A New York dispatch of Tuesday
says: Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage will
deliver his farewell discourse in the
Tabernacle on the first Sunday in
March and will start on a tour in the
far east with his wife and two daugh
ters about April 1. An overland jour
ney will be made to San Francisco,
after which Honolulu, New Zealand,
Australia, India and the Fiji islands
will be taken in. He will return by
way of the continent of Europe and
expects to reach Brooklyn again about
October.
Advices of Wednesday from Berlin
state that the members of the reiehs-
tag, who attended the parliamentary
banquet given Monday night by Chan
cellor von Caprivi, are gradually di
vulging in the lobby of the reiehstag
the details of the speeches made on
that occasion. It said that Emperor
William fulsomely praised the czar,
saying, “He is a prince of peace, like
myself. ” He is also reported to have
said that the relations with the czar
were excellent and of the most inti
mate nature, yet should the reiehstag
reject the commercial treaty enemies
would immediately damage Germany.
Advices of Tuesday from Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, state that President
Preisoto has offered to pardon privates
belonging to the insurgent forces who
apply for clemency within two months.
Extraordinary, but unsuccessful ef
forts have been made to induce
members of the regular army to
desert the government aud to
join the insurgents’ forces. When it
was thought the regulars would turn
against the government the in
surgent fleet was brought close to the
shore in order that a force might be
speedily landed to co-operate with the
troops. The insurgents were confident
of success, but the plan to get tho aid
of the regular troops failed absolutely.
REX IN HIS GLORY.
The
Mardi Gras Carnival Opens at
Yew Orleans.
His majesty, Rex, was in full pos
session of his royal carnival city Tues
day and New Orleans turned aside
from business to pay homage to the
king of mirth. Mardi gras is legal
holiday in the state and all the
banks, exchanges, public buildings
and stores were closed. The weather
was all that that a fustidious mon
arch might require. It was bright
and balmy, the chill of the early morn
ing giving way as the sun came up
from the east in all its warmth and
splendor. There were present in the
city many distinguished strangers, in
cluding General Schofield, Senators
Manderson and McMillan, Phil T.
Harrahan, and a large delegation of
railroad men; Dr. Keely, of bi-chloride
of gold fame, and a host of military
and lay strangers, who watched the
parade from tne clubs and other points
of vantage along the route.
It was 11 o’clock when Rex appeared.
He came out from his den on Calliop,
street with his long train of beautiful
cars aud with gay courtiers, a royal re
tinue and and a host of bands making
martial music. The king was greeted
with the utmost enthusiasm on all
sides. There were nineteen floats in
the procession. The carnival came to
a close at night with a brilliant page
ant and a series of balls that were so
cial triumphs. The day passed with
out a single serious accident and in
that respect the carnival was an excep
tion.
TWELVE THOUSAND KILLED.
Horrible Story of an Earthquake in
Persia.
A San Francisco special of Tuesday
says • Additional advices by the steam
er Belgic, from China, announces the
annihilation by an earthquake of the
town of Kutschan, Persia. Twelve
thousand persons were killed in the
awful disaster. Ten thousand bodies
had been recovered to date. The once
important and beantiful city of 20,000
people is now only a scene of death,
desolation and terror. Fifty thousand
cattle vere destroyed at the same time,
Highest of all In Leavening Power.—Latest U- S. Gov’t Report.
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How to Live Two Hundred Years.
Mr. William Kinnear writes to the
.5 orth American Pevicw regarding
longevity, and thinks some practical
rules may be observed with the result
of greatly prolonging life. He says
that seventy per cent, of the body is
water. Calcareous salts and earthy
matter are held in solution. When
these become excessive and resist ex
pulsion the system becomes blocked,
the stiffness and dryness of old age
come on and in time death ensues sim
ply by the stoppage of the delicate
and exquisite machinery which we call
life. In the first place he thinks that
by a judicious selection of food and
drink it is possible to minimize the
amount of calcareous salts and earthy
matter taken into the system. Cereals
and nitrogenous food abound in these
elements. Beef and old mutton es
pecially are overcharged with salts and
should be avoided by persons of ad
vanced years. Fruits, fish, poultry,
young mutton and veal contain less of
the earthy salts than other articles of
food, aud are therefore less harmful.
Summing up, then, the art of living
200 years, Mr. Kinnear says that physi
cal decay may be kept at bay and the
approach of old age retarded by avoid
ing all foods rich in the earth salts, by
using much fruit and by taking daily
two or three tumblers of distilled wa
ter, with about ten or fifteen drops of
diluted phosphoric acid in each glass
ful.
It will be seeu that Mr. Kinnear lays
special stress on the liberal use of
fruit iu the daily diet. All dietary
authorities concur in the opinion of
the high value of all ripe fruits, such
as arc so extensively grown in Califor
nia. Whenever tho time shall come
that the masses of American people
discard to a great extent the greasy
compounds they now call food and
make more liberal use of fruits in their
daily living, the period of longevity
will almost certainlv be increased.
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You must climb by your own
strength and will power. The whole
world will help when you are going
down.
The cause of woman can’t advance
as it should until the kitchen is made
perfect and the American stomach
made sound.
Find the cause of each wrinkle on
a man’s lace, and you will find it was
put there by worrying over something
that worrying could not help.
The sad consequences of defection
in principle is corruption in practice.
The most delicate, the most sensible
of all pleasures, consist in promoting
the pleasures of others.
Never reason against what you don’t
know. If you do you will soon believe
utterly against reason.
One sneers at curls when one has no
more hair ; one slanders apples when
one has no more teeth.
One rule for winter is never to lean
the back against anything cold. New
skaters should try and keep this law.
We have no words except praise for
the dead. This is natural, as we usu
ally exhaust our whole stock of blame
on them while alive.
Charity of speech is as divine a thing
as charity of action. The tongue that
speaketh no evil is as lovely as the
hand that giveth alms. We should
strive to judge of no one harshly, to
misconceive no man’s motives, to be
lieve things are what they seemed to
be until they are proved otherwise, to
temper judgment with mercy.
Each one of us is bound to make the
little circle in which he lives better and
happier; each of us is bound to see
that out of that small circle the widest
good may flow; each of us may have
fixed in his mind that out of a single
household may flow influences that
shall stimulate the whole common
wealth and the whole civilized world.
Queer Subject for a Monument.
Cholly—“Who was the Nathan Hale
they’ve been erecting a monument
to?”
Algy—“I’m snre I don’t know, but
he couldn’t have amounted to much.
I happened to pass during the unveil
ing and one of the speakers, who was
said to be related to him, had on a hat
that’s been out of fashion for months.”
—Neiv York Weekly.
Prejudiced.
Mrs. Gumpps—“My husband says
my new bonnet is not a bit becoming
to me.”
Friend—“Oh, he’s prejudiced. 1
suppose he’s seen the bill.”
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Mortar and paint may be removed
from glass with hot, sharp vinegar.
Don’t shut the lids of pots, boilers
and saucepans when putting them
away. It retains the odor of cookery.
Never piit your stovepipes Away
without rubbing them thoroughly
with linseed oil or something similar.
This will prevent an accumulation of
fust.
To remove tar rub in grease (lard is
as good as anything) until the spot
seems pretty well loosened, and then
wash in plenty of hot water and soap.
Some housewives say that the colors
of cotton fabrics will become “set” if
salt and water is employed, three gills
of salt to four quarts of water. The
calico is dropped in the water while
hot, and there remains until it is cold.
An Ungrateful Teacher.
Little Boy—“They won’t ever get
hie to give another ten cents towards a
present of a book for the teacher. ”
Mother—“What went wrong?”
Little Boy—“We got tho principal
to select one for her, and he picked
out one that was just crowded full of
information, and Hhe's been teuehin’
it to us ever since.”—Street & Smith's
Good Feu-s.
.Mistress—“Did you learn how Mrs.
Upton was?”
Servant—“Please, mum, I polled at
the door-bell half an hour, and couldn't
make anybody hear. I think the bell
had been muffled.”
Mistress—“The idea: How is tho
poor invalid to know that all her
friends are anxious about her, if her
heartless relatives have muffled tho
door-bell?”—Few York Weekly.
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