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THE TIMES-iOURNAL.
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EASTMAN. GEORGIA.
Of 10') samples of “safety envelopes,”
to prevent r fling in t e mails, which
were submitted to the conference of
postcffice inspire on at Washington, all
were rejected.
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A new company, in which Thomas
A. Edison, * the in venter, ’ i, large y in
terested, ha» been organized to m&nu
facture dolls on a large scale. It will
turn out 250,000 the first year.
Not many people are aware that any
one who feed* a sparrow in any part of
New York State is liable to imprison
ment for thirty days and to be fined
fifty dollars. The law was potted in
1887.
Professor Behrend, an English medi
cal authority, . points . out that in a prac
tice of thirty years, largely among He
brew patients, ho has not met a single
ease of phthisis in the members of that
faith, . , , therr / immunity from , its . attacks ,
being undoubtedly due to the Hebrew
method of examining and slaughtering
tattle.
The Russian naval manrauvres in the
Black sc i narrowly escaped being o
direct failure. Owing to the impossi
liility of procuring effi-ient stokers
thiee of the largest ironclads were pre¬
vented ftom leaving their moorings to
take part in tlio affair. It is impossible
to find Russians enough to fill theso
places, while for various reasons the
seivico is uot particularly inviting to
foreigners.
Klaiber, the. man who attempted to
assaxsiuatc Prince William of Wurtem
burg the other day, has been pro¬
nounced sane by physicians. And yet
he belongs to an anarchist society, th#
members of which are sworn “to kill
hJI princes.” This is a variety of :an
ity which the New York Commercial
Adrtrfiser thinks should bn looked after
by the hangman, yet it is doubtful that
it it a veritable sanity, after all.
Probably the smallest republic in th#
xvorhl is the one which recently de
dared its independence at Franeeville,
one of the island* of the new Hebrides,
and elected M. Cheviliiar 1 its presi
dent. Tiie inhabitants consist of forty
Europeans (inc'udiug a solitary Hag
lnhman, , . a ratssioner), . , and , 500 black , , ,
workmen employed by a French com "
paay. The new flag of the republic
having been duly hoisted, tho French
gunboat Saone lauded a detachment and
minted tl»e flag.
A test of metal railroad ties will soon
be made iu Chicago. It ia predicted
that metal tiei will be used before long
on all railroad) In tho country. Beyond
tbeir ttc’mical value, observes the New
York WorUL these ties suggest tho pos- 1
sibiliiy that our American forests may
be saved from total destruction. The
greatest drain uj>ou our forests has been
made in tho construction and repair oi
railroad trucks. A wooden tie has only
a short lease of usefulness and has to
be replaced very frequently.
The charges made with regard to the
treatment of recruits ut J.-tf.rson Bar
racks, Mo., have been investigated by
an at my court of inquiry 1 and a re
pert made to the Secretary of
war. A number of the charges
of cruelty against en’idel men
wo.o proved to ha exaggerated, al
thougn the cooking was found to be bad.
A number of non-commissioned effi
cers, it was discovered, had been
running games of chance whereby ra
ctuits lo)t a considerable pirtion of
their earning). More desertipns occur
from this post than any other. This
is attributed to the fact that the post is
so nciir a large city. M my men enlist
in tho Eist merely for the sike of
getting sent out West. Many chronic
deserters from the artillery and infantry J
enlist 4 and gc-i soDt to this cavalry just,
where the chances of meeting their
former off!-ers become very slight. In
this way they m-iuage to desert, in
many cases, for the third time.
Tne latest scheme of foreign engineers
is a bridge between England and France
extending from Folkestom to Cape
Grtsncz. _ . The undrrtakmg ... was soberly . ,
projio*d at a recent meeting of the Iron
and Steel Institute at Paris. Should
the bridge be built other great bridges
would sink into complete insignificance
eompsred with it. It would be thirty
two miles long, and the plans, which
the author of the enterprise has a ready
prepare 1, contemplate a structure of a
height from the foundations to the top
of 600 feet, carried on 120 piers and
containing 1,000,000 tons of steal. It*
cost would be about $175 0 )0.000. With
the enormous advance that the last
doten year# have effected in molAi
engineering it would hardly be safe to
say that the project is not feasible. The
English Channel is a “nawsty” body of
water, as the Englishmen would say,
for even travelers with pretty good sea
legs, and the scheme of crossing it by
rail has long been the dream of engi¬
neers. But these schemes have come
from Fiance rather then from England.
The tight little isle, observes tho Chi¬
cago Herald, is proud of its insular to¬
pography and hostile to the smallest
break in it It never took kindly to
the tunnel scheme, and it is not sur¬
prising to learn that it regards UK
bridge enterprise with disfavor.
Th* area of the unreolaim. d sw amp
and marsh land in the Unite! State*
Which can 1 e drained and brought under
cultriaticn is eciual to that of all tha
cultivated lands, o- nearly 300,000,000
a -res. Much of this land eould le re
claimed writloBt d great difficulty farm-) and or ex- of
pease, end w, n n ake
■•rat vwine.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
ORA PH AXI) CABLE
things that happen from pay to day
THROIUHOLT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Adelina Marquis de faux, formerly husband of
Patti, is dead.
Ind., A pay car was wrecked near Covington. official
Monday, and two railroad
were killed.
C. 1.. .1. Mver, Sons A Co., dealer* in
mantels.g rates, etc., in Chicago, ill.,
have made an assignment.
Three thousand miners employed in
t;olleries at Oldbury. England, have given
are ^ granted that they an increase will -trike of ten miles percent Huy in
their wages.
Patrick Sullivan, employed by the
Manhattan Electric Light Company, •was
instantly killed Saturday morning by an
electric shock, while at work in the com¬
pany's building.
VV. F. Camp, the most extensive nier
j„ Polkton, N. V.. made an assign¬
ment Saturday. His liabilities and assets
v <‘ l ’ ,,t U ' rtl ,,r ” * ,kl 10
-
be heavy, and nerr the same.
A passenger train on the Missouri
pacific railroad collided with a freight
iraiu near Pleasant Ilill. Missouri, Friday
njght, ;J nd two tramps stealing a ride bc
tween the tender and mail cars were
crushed to pulp.
One hundred and engaged thirty printers take from the
Berlin r have been to
„ f th( . glrikers j„ Herne. The
Rand arid three other journals have eo ti¬
solidatcd and will be issued under the
title of the Normal (tazelte.
Warren Lelaud, Jr., hotel proprietor made at
Long Branch, -V J., on Friday an
assignment of all liis property, including
the Ocean hotel, Ocean theater, Ocean
dub house, etc., for the benefit of his
creditors. His liabilities are $225,00(1.
At a mass meeting of Knights of La¬
bor held at Wilkesbarre, Pa., on Satur¬
day, a resolution was passed to the effect
that a demand of 20 per cent, advance
in wages be made February 1st. The
meeting was largely attended and emu
posed of miners and laborers only.
John It. Rauch, Jr., who has for some¬
time past conducted a 'livings bank at
Baltimore, was on Saturday reported to
have disappeared with all his depositors’
money. The depositors in the hank were
composed mainly of poor persons, and
the average amounts were from $:S to $2A.
Warehouse 14. at Baltimore, Md.,
owned by the Sadtlcr estate, was dam¬
aged by fire Saturday morning to the ex
ient of $13,000. Martinez «fc Co., cigur
manufacturers,, John R. Korb Jc Co.,
jewellers, and George R. Willig occupied it Co.,
dealers in musical instruments,
the building.
Monday afternoon at New York, two
hundred and fifty white men, employed
us 'longshoremen at the National Line
pier stopped work suddenly because m-
groes were being employed by the hands same
company. A week ago three negro
and one white man were burned to death
in the big fire at this pier.
Th(( p ott -Dispatch of St. Louis on
Monday morning, printed, under flaming
headlines, a five-column expose 0 / alleged
legislative ^ corruption „' at Jefferson Citv,
h dahlls iat th( . Uve rt0( . k inspec
lion bill, introduced by the St. Louis
Butchers' union in the last legislature, was
defeated by the absolute purchase of state
senators.
In a blinding snow storm at Little
Ferry, N. J.. Saturday, a heavy eoal train
plunged into the Hackensack river,
through an open drawbridge. The cii
gine went out of sight, carrying with it
the engineer, fireman and one brake-man.
The snow prevented the engineer and from
seeing the danger signals, nothing
could be done to stop him.
At New York Saturday morning the
commissioner of public works, Gilroy, down
sent out four gangs of men to cut
the juries and wires of tlx- electric light of
companies. Inspectors of the hoard
electric control accompanied them to jioint
out the jiolcs on which the dangerous
wires were strung. The companies are
actively seeking another injunction.
The Exchange elevators at Buffalo. N.
Y., with a storage capacity of 830,000
bushels, the jiroperty of Greene & Bloom
er, together with 230,000 bushels of bar¬
ley, were totally destroyed by lire Monday
The elevator was most elligibly
located aud the best equipped of anyMu
Buffalo. Tho barley was valued ut ft85,
000 and the elevator at $ 100 , 000 .
Delegates New representing and the the New mule England - pi 1 :
net's of Jersey convention Fall River,
states held a at
Mass., on Sunday, aud formed a confed¬
eration to lie called the National Mule
Spinners’ Association of America, An
endeavor is to be made to obtain uniform
standard wages throughout the United
States, as the organization believe that to
t«- the fairest plan for both manufactur¬
ers auil operators.
Three separate glycerine magazines
blew iiji Monday morning at North Clar¬
endon. Pa. The amount of glycerine ex
ploded was over ten tons. The maga¬
zines were owned by the Rock Glycerin)
comjmuv, John Kutin and a Mr. McKay,
N ” for as can lie learned, w as in
lured. Nearly every window w Clart'n
j on W as broken, and much damage done
to surrounding jiropcrtr. The loss is
estimated at if 100,000. Oil men claim if
to be the largest explosion ^ of the kind iu
the lustorv of the oi! regions.
PHOSPHATE BEDS.
A SCHEME ON FOOT To SKI 1. THEM TO A
SYNDICATE OR TRPST.
The of .... the development of a tiro
news
j n Columbia, s. C.. looking to the
outright sale by the Ntate of all its right,
title and interest in the phosphate tests,
for a sum not less than seven muh on dol
iars. has caused a stir in the phosphate
exchange at Charleston. Tho first inti
mation of the project the introduc¬
tion of the bill in the legislature Friday, by the
wavs and means committee on
-p; u . phosphate industry is the principal
industry of Charleston. Millions ot dol
lars are invested iu it by nativ-'. north
k^of Et^pe Most of the fer
r and America get
their supplies there. The deposits on the
streams are moved by companies dollar who }>ay
the State a royalty of about one a
ton. the revenue to the State- amounting
to about #200.UOO a year. Should the
State dispose of its interest, the pur¬
chasers would be at liberty to incrcaie
this royalty to any figure, us there is no
restriction in the proposed bill.
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.
a RAILROAD W ATCHM AN CAI SKS KOI I!
MSN TO LOSE THAIU LIVES.
When one of the fast New York and
Washington express trains on the Balti¬
more and Potomoc arrived at Washing¬
ton Saturday night, the dead l»*ly of a
man was found on the cow-catcher of the
engine. It was subsequently learned that
the train had run into a wagon filled with
countrymen on the •ttekirt' of the city
Four men were killttl— two white and
two colored—and out- colored man was
badly injured. The men were in a cov¬
ered wagon and drove across the track
without concern, as the guard gates were
open The watchman at the crossing.
whore duty it was to dose the gate at the
approach of a train, was arrested ou the
charge of manslaughter
^ ion of ancient Russtan curios
^eld at Moscow by the Russian
Arcii»oiogicai Society The -hur.-h digni¬
taries have refused to send their treasures.
THE JURY S VERDICT
ME CttOM V CASE BROl GB J TO .1 CLOSE ;
THE VEMJICT “Cl1LTV
■ u> tin iii..-t in. niiirih 1 !.- iri.iW in th '
criminal history of America. ■losed at j
Chicago Monday afternoon, vvneu the jury
impanelled three months ago rendered its
verdict in the Cronin case. That there
turn of this jury is a verdict, and not a
disagreement, is a source of much con
gnttulation in the public mind. and.
although there is naturally much division
of sentiment on the qued'ion of approval which is
of the verdict, the sense of relief
experienced at flic final culmination ot tlie
ease is unanimous.
On last Friday the CUM.’ was given to
tin jury and up to Monday morning nc
verdict had teen agreevi upon. Humor- of
all kinds had been afloat Monday. How
ever erroneou- it may be. arrived the public ap¬
peared t<> have hastily at tin
conclusion that there wa> to be a disu
greement. convened 2
A' the court at p. m. to re¬
ceive tin- verdict of the jury, there was a
momentary silence as tin* vast audienet
breathlessly awaited tie first words oi
Judge McConnell us he mounted the ros
truni. The verdict, whs as follows:
• We, the jury, find the defendant,
John F. Beggs. not guilty. Me, thr
jure. Hud the defendant. John Kunze,
guiltv of manslaughter, as charged in im¬ tlit
indictment, and fix in's penitentiary punishment for at tin
prisonment in the
term of three years. We, the jury, find
the defendants! Daniel Coughlin. Patrick
O'Sullivan and Martin Burke, guiltv <>!
murder in tlic manner and form as charged
in the indictment, and fix the penalty at
imprisonment of their in natural the penitentiary lives.” Simultn- for the
term
ll eous with the announcement of the ver
diet. Coughlin. O'Sullivan and Burke
turned deathly pale, white Kunze started
suddenly from his seat, and a moment
later dropped his head upon his breast and
burst into tears.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON¬
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PKKKIDRNT IlAItltlSOS—
MEASt.P.KS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENEHAL INTEREST.
All of .Monday’s nominations, evcral
hundred in number, were of persons ap¬
pointed to office during the recess of con¬
gress.
The House join! resolution for print¬
ing agricultural report for with 1889 amend¬ W i. -
passed in the Senate .Monday eop'ei
ments fixing the number <f for at
410,000, and appropriating $200,000
expenses.
The de.iciencies sub committee of the
appropriations committee began to work
Friday by preparing an urgent deficiency
bill to meet a difleiency of about !>1.10,000
In the government printing office, and of
$050,000 for the printing needed by the
census office,
The Pan-American coul'eraiee, on Fri¬
day, completed the work of formulating
rules and appointing committees, and ad¬
journed until January 2. Meantime the
delegates will visit New York and other
points. It is said that several or the com¬
mittees expect to report upon the subjects of
assigned to them at the re-assembling
the conference January
The house committee on elections
held its first meeting and effected
brganization Friday morning. A sub
Commit tee on rules wa- selected, consist¬
ing of the chairman. Messrs, llonk, Coop
er. Chrisp and O'Ferrall. This sub
committee will be charged with the nr
rangement of the seventeen
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report.
Mr. Platt offered re- olutions making
changes and additions in th ■ p Tsotmol of
committees, agreed to in caucus, and
which have bmi publish, d. AH (which agreed
to. Mr. Call Offered a resolution
was referred to the juuieian committee)
as to the constitutional right of Charles
Pwavne, appointed district judge ot the
northern district of Florida, to
exercise the duties of that office, with
ent confirmatory action by th- Senate,
The senate then proceeded to the eonsid
eration of executive busimss. The eon
current resolution offered bv Mr. Ingalls
last week for a holiday recess from Thurs.
dav Dee. tuber 1<9, to Moudav, Edmund's January
8,was taken up for action, Mr.
demanded the t eas and navs upon it. ex
pressing his own oppositimi to it. The
resolution was agreed |o—yeas, 47; nay -,
12 .
The annual report of the commissioner
of internal revenue shows that the num¬
ber of saloon keepers jn the country is
much less than it was three years ago.
More than that, it shows that exports of
liquor are also reduced fully twenty per
eeut as compared with five or six years
ago. Tile number of persons dealing in
malt liquors exclusively has also fallen >>11
within the past two or three years, the
reduction of these being fully forty per
cent. The reduction in the number of
dealers in liquors has been especially the
marked in the south, In every one of
southern states excepting Maryland, there
has been a decrease. Jn Georgia there
hits been a reduction of nearly forty per
cent, and in Tennessee about twenty-five dealers
per cent. The number of liquor retail,
in the United States, wholesale and
is about 180,000. Three years ago they
numbered about 203,000.
Where It Ia Fun to Be a Boy,
In every Mahometan country it is
more fun to be a b iy than body to bs a girl.
When a giri boy is b mi e .'el; rejoices;
win n a is born everybolv is disap
poinel, even di# u ted. Ill- fi*th -r
pets aud fo. dloi ii s wn; he will uot
speak of his da :ght< r. If be is c m
p l.e 1 to men ion 1 is having a da tight r,
lie will 1 eg your | ardon fur in reducing
the aubject l;e is sent to
As the boy grows tiji
sell vfi. He 1< a- tis t i re d and w it • and
atr,dies the Koran—the Arab's Bible—
and is taug.it ihe duties of liis religion. ;aid
Not many yea-s rg-o a Mahomet in
to Dr. Jessup, of Heimt, wl.en t ie nis
sionarv suggest'd thit his daughter
should 1 e sa nt t) school: “ Educate a
girl! cat!" You might a- well educate a
The difference betw ( n the treatment
of a boy and girl is continued until the
lx y is ))r -pared to take Iris place as a
man am-mg dib:i, and tli: girl becomes
the slave of s nne nia i.
One of the youngest mouarchs in the
world is King Ti a ita , po'enLt - il
At:»am. He is nine years of ag -, vc y
preco -ions a id fully coire io s of t e
importance of his position. Be is
grienn and tho g’utful, dsd-its chid
ish sports, .- ml s ’< nds all hi- time in
tdu s c’usi-ju of hi' p ila: e, stu lying,
conversing with ag.d and ciun-el.ora -iip anl He
poring o .cr books tuanus s.
is learning Chine>e and Fte.c’i, anc
shows remarkable aptitud in th a qui
sition of foreign t ng e-. He is yerj
arbiffl-y and to a t ng. a-.d h:s txc’ er
stand in greet awe of him.
Both in appro a ,e - and in ma irev
th - Czai- of Ru i . h a beeo ne a Mi s o
x it o' tie ill CoS'a :'x typ-. He is a
ro os'iii figure, bring a ii rot bath in
height and in girth, quite bald, with a
Art uose, and a : immci se sweeping
mmstacl.e, aid a s‘t:dwuiot-.s be.rd,
which flows iver his ihes .
A coup any of Hollanders w’ao have teen
growing celery in Michigan find th ■ industry
amplifying Urgs so toa. they Aew now propose Jersey to tyjy
dp sections of t'as swamps
and to turn them iate celery fields.
SOUTHERN NOTES
/-V TUBESTING NEWS FROM ALT.
POINT' IX THE SOUTH.
PROGRESS and OecrLRv.NCES
WHICH ARE; HAPPENING BELOV MA¬
SON'S AND DIXON S LINE.
The Virginia senate, on Friday, passed Is¬
a bill repealing the law opening Hog
land Flats for planting oysters.
The jury in the Kilrnlu rase, at Purvis.
Mi-s., on Saturday, returned a verdict of
not guilty of prize ligh itig. but guilty of
assault and battery. T.iev were out five
hours. -
Hou. Thoin.j- F. J Javan), -secretary
of state, has accepted nn invitation ot the
Huguenot society, of South Carolina, to
deliver the anniversary oration of the so¬
ciety at Charleston, April 13.
A large tubular boiler at Randall
Bro.* saw mill. Covington, demolishing $ nn., ex¬
ploded Saturday, completely Fireman Jone*
the building and killing five
and Mr. Stuart, oae of the tirm.
other employes were seriously hurt.
Western nail manufacturers to the num¬
ber of fourteen mills met in Wheeling,
\Y. Yn.. Friday morning and after a long
discussion over the condition of trade,
advances in raw material, etc., concluded
to advance the price of nails to $2.*25
net.
A strike occurred at Chattanooga,
Tcnn., on Saturday, of eighty-five brick¬
layers in the employ oi 0. J. Chandler,
and sixty-three Chattanooga stonecutter* in the employ marble
of the stone and
cutting company. A difference of five
cents an hour on Saturday was the cause.
Half a doz.cn farmers, who were return¬
ing to their home from Dallas. Texas,
after selling their cotton, were robbed by
highwaymen on the road near White
Rock. Bloodhounds were put on theii
track, and a report has reached Dallas
that two of the robbers were captured and
hanged by the enraged farmers.
Ceneral Manager Bond, of the Tennes
see Coal. Iron and Railroad company,
returned from New York Friday morning,
at d. after conferring with a committee
of Pratt Mines miners, all differences
were arranged, and the miners agreed prices. to
return to work at the present
Their wages are to be raised as the price
of iron advances.
Advices Saturday from Key West indi¬
cate that the cigar stiik>- is further front
settlement than ever. The men are better
organized and are receiving organizations. daily large
suras from other labor
They lose nothing but tluir wages, while
the manufacturers ,-ire losing their profits,
having their trade broken up and being
subjected to monthly expenses laugh of ovei
$1,00(1 each. The strikers now at
at every attempt at a compromise.
A successful test of a new fibre decorti
eator. in v *ent(*d Viv Mr. J. J. Green, ot
Jai kron, Mi'S., was made Saturday. 1“
principle is to split the stalk of ramie 01
hemp, and then strip the fibre the length
of the rt ilk without loss. The machine,
in crude form, was tested in Paris, in
1 H 8 H, nud was awarded four hundred
franc# prize money. It decorticate s greet:
or dry ramie, separates fibre from herbs,
and with two men will work about loo,
000 stalks in ten hours, or half an acre a
day.
OVATION TO COL POLK.
nE IS GIVEN A GRAND DECEPTION BV THE
PAIt-VIET)* 1 IF SOH l l! CAROLINA.
The Farmer’s Alliance had a demonstra
lion at Ibtlejgh, N. ('., on Friday, upon
the arrival of the president of the Xa
and Laborers’ Union, Col.
Colon.-1 Polk
’
nffi
State and county Alliances,
and a mounted escort of members of Oak
ndge Alliance of which he is a charter
member. A. C Alliance,{.resided, Green, president and ot Col. the
Wake County
> L'meted accompanied with great by app ause
v. .icu lie entered, Acting
Governor Holt l resident Green wel
corned him, aa did also Governor Holt and
Mayor ! wmoson. Addresses were made by
State Labor Commissioner bcarboro, Pres¬
ident Tonnoffskte. oi the Knights of La
Lor, Trustees Broughton and W. H. and b.
Burgwyu, of the Mate Agricultural
Mechanical college, and other prominent
men In response Col, Polk delivered a
forcible ‘' lid eloquent address, among
other things saying, this demonstration
»t approval by his neighbors wtw more
pUtymg tu Inn) than Ins election to the
high position.
THE LABOR FEDERATION.
MEET IN BOSTON, M Asa., ANI) ELECT OFFI
t CBS FOB THE ENSUING YEAH.
The National Federation of Labor, at
Boston, Mass., on Saturday, elected the
following officers; New President, Samuel
Gompcrs, of York; VV. II. Matin,
of the Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers, first vice-jiresident:
P. Maguire, of the United States Brother¬
hood of Carpenters and Joiners, second
vicc-jiresklent; Mine Christopher Evans, of
Miners and .Laborers, Secretary;
Henry Einrich, of Furniture Makers un
ion, treasurer, After selecting Detroit as
the place for the next year’s meeting, the
federation adjourned.
THE INFLUENZA.
THE DREADED DISEASE HAS APPEARED IN
THIS COUNTRY.
The influenza has appeared disease in New is
York citv. It is stated that the
the same" as that which has spread over
Europe. Thus far eight cases have been
rejorted to the health department, and
they are all in one family. In all cases
the symptoms OJX' said to la-identical.
Health officers say they arc not surprised
at its .-ijijK-arance here. It is not danger
ous. but if it tends to become epidemic
nil cases will spraying lie quarantined. of the affecti«l The treat¬
ment is the ; rneni
lirane freely and frequently with a solu
tion of quinine and internal administra¬
tion of quinine, belladonna and camphor.
Poetry of Motion.
Dr. Xaehtiga 1 , tire celebrarid African
expb r -r, v as on e th * gacst cf a rich
Hamburg merohent. The m r.-liaut a
S-. n. a y, ting man of asm -vlii.t senti¬
mental t< mji rament, sa d, a-m ng other
tilings, that his dear -1 ntsh was to ride
across the des t on the baakof a camel.
H*- thought sucli a ride must bo verv
p eticiadc 'd. “Myd -ar vt ungfliendl,’’
tepliind the exp’o er, “1 iau tell you
haw yon (an get a pa tia! id -a of what
riding a catuei i n the deserts of Africa
is lik -. Take an office stool, screw it
up as high as poi s b e, a .d put it in a
wagon without any springs, then s at
yours -If on the stool, and lui'.e it driven
th over li. to ky at d uneven ground, during
ttei-t wea'her of July o.- Aug 's:,
after you hue not 1 al any hing to eat
or dr nk for 24 hours, aLd then you will
g t a aiut ide i ..£ how deaghtfull"
poet’c it is to ride on a camel in the
»il's of Africa.—[Siftings.
The town of Ckt’.nth, M ■ , is preud
in trie posres ion of a young n an who
u av truly be call, dalir.man pincushion.
This remarkable ( '■ riuthian sti.k- pins
and netdies all through Iris li s flesh, and
jab- horseshoe n liis into breast »i!h
ont apparent p i:n. He also sri ks
ne%ll;s through his -his aud puiis
them out of hri mou it He does thia
sort of thing “for the fun of it,” and
never saw a dime mn.-aom ia h:a life.
CITY WAIFS.
Takinor Care of Lost Children in
°
the Metropolis.
Dflrpnts . arents Cpeking beeking their rneir ,
Ones at Police Headquarters.
A great policeman, big enough and
strong enough to have felle 1 a horse
with a single blow, carrying in liis arms
a little goldca haired girl, upon whose
sleeping face the tear3 had w ished clean
places ia the dust and grimy walked
bri'k'y toward Police Headquarters in
New York city. The child was slumber¬
ing as comfortably as though she had been
in the little crib at hom?, and the offi¬
cer was as tender as if the little one
was liis own and helped mike sunshine
in his homo on liis dips oil duty. Half
a dozen children of tho street, quick to
catch sight of the pair, followed close
on the big policeman’s heels until, says
a Sun scribe, lie went up the stop s to
the marble building in Mulberry street,
and was lost to view behind the swing¬
ing door 5 .
Bluff Sergeant Kellcher was on duty,
and when he saw tin little bundle of
humanity brought in, he sat down at
hiidc.sk and began to turn, in a busi¬
nesslike way, the leavci of an enormous
book which lay in front of him. He
kept turning until he came to the page
where he ha l written last. Then, after
carefully a 1 j isting his eyeglasses, and
dipping his pen in the big inkstand, lie
queried:
“Boy or girl, offi’er ?”
•Girl.’’
‘ How old
“ ' Bout four years.’ ’
“W here did you get her * ’
“Sixty.fifth street and Third avenue, ”
‘•Take her upstairs.”
‘ Upstair.,'’ meant to the top floor of
the big building where Matron Webb
presides and acts the part of foster
mother to th; waifs and strays aid
foundlings of tills leg city who arc
pieke I up by tin prime.
Tue- same scenes are enacted every
nigh’, and eac i d ly sees the pages of
the big booh which Sergeant Kellcher
k(C(p fi 1 up i ne by one with the br.e
stories and records of lost children.
lively night in the yea fi hers and
mothers visit I’-lien Headq tarters and
r.sk for the chi dron who have boon lost
during the day. Oa pleasant evenings
they sit on the stone steps and wait, if
the child Ins not already bjen foun l,
and on storm.- nights they go home, to
return again la <r on.
A woman comes running down the
street. She is one of the Eist side poor.
A s'...:xv! answers the purpose of cloak
and hat. She stops long enough to ask
of an idler oa the corner:
“Where is th: headquarters?’
“Down where you >00 tin green
lighV > s alwiys til; an wer anl sir- is
off again. Up the stejr, she run) eager¬
ly. ,As she passes the swingiug doors
she almost runs d wn old .1 re, the door
man, who keep; a little private record
on a slato of tho children who are
brought in during the nigh*, Joe’s
voice i ■ giuff, but it belies hi) nature.
“What’s the matter?’’ he growls.
"Have ye found me baby?” and the
toil worn hand i clutc’.i nervou ly at the
irayed clg.-s of the old rod shawl.
“Boy or gir. i”
“A little girl with light hair."
‘ G > ujisfair) and look—toj) floor.”
The sin rs arc steep anl tiresome to
climb, bat mothers on such errands
don’t tire easily, and up sh: goes. Fivo
minutes later a step is heard on the
stairway. She is coming down again
and the rel shawl i-> the backg ou-.id for
a head of golden hair. Two dirty,
chubby hands are ahou: her neck, The
woman is smiling now. S ie isabout to
go out to the s:rjet, but 0 .1 Joo again
is in the way.
“Go in there and g ve your name,”
and i.c points to S rgeant Kellcher, and
chirrups at the baby.
The sergea it takes ths woman's name
and aldress, and, Lugging the lost one
tightly, the woman parse) cut into the
street.
The Crows of Norway.
B rds of tl c crow trib -, eqieeially the
raven, ihe carrion-crow, the hoodie and
ti c magpie, are in iff-repute in England
for steal ng eggs, aid, when opportu
t i y s rvei, for murdering chickens,
duckling), etc., but in the north of
Norway thoie depreda'ori are much
bolder. They will cvei attempt to cir
ry a way the eggs and the young brood
of t ie cici.-r duc:c, and too often sue -
cecd in their foray; but if the drake is
um. a* ha id they a-e frequently defeat¬
ed. He seize) the c ow by the wing or
he neck a id plunges down with
into the sea. B.-i ig goo 1 diver he
fecli no inconvanien-e, -whilj the car
rion-crow. however brave in» t strong in
the air, is helpless in the water, and the
en 1 of the s rugg.e is soon shown by his
ifeiess bidy fl atir.g on tho surface.
S mi-times even the raven is disposal of
in the sam • manner, It is a carious
fact that young sea fowl, when swim
mmg or div n; in wa ers which lix-ra -
ly swa:m with cod, halibut and other
grecly and hungry fishes, are not often
snapped up a id swallowed. Yet vet
eran lobitcr fisherm.-n, no small part of
whose life Uni been spent in d scm’iow
eliag such fishes, dec are that trey
tiever find a young b’r 1 in the st< mu;a
of .heir pr y.— Popular Monthly.
The E.t-f finli -s
The nam E j: Indies is now goner
ally disused; it was former y applied
vaguely to that part of Sju hern Asia
lying e ist of the r ve Inlui an 1 to the
islands adjaceit Tnui it took in oa
the mtinlan 1 II ndostan, B t m ih. Slam,
Annam and Malacca and the island; of
Ceyloi, Sumatra, Jivi, Borne), the
Celebes, the Philppiiz; aid the re)t of
the grea Rrchipe’.ago. M)ra rcccnt’.y,
according to Cj ton’s atiai, th - name
wav appheJ to these place , excluding
Hindostan aad Ceylon. So the term
i takes jc both mainland and island?.
Stowaways.
The ship was hardly well out on the
ocean when two stowaways male their
'
appearance, and later in the day five
mor '’’ The ” CI ! m t rnins si * more ■
came up, and during the two following ,
da r 3 the ? ke P l com ' n - U P 111 tw0? and
threes until they numbtred 25 atl toU. '
I ho ship seemed to l>e teeming with
stowaways, and the effirer on watch
was fairly bewildered. There was a
plaintive plead n g in his voice as he
said to the last comer: “Sty, hadn’t
you better send the rest up at onea?
“They are all up now, sir,” replied the
stowaway with repressed cheerfulness,
and the officer gave a sigh of !
relief. When the vessel arrived at Que¬
bec the captain seat a dispatch ashore
with the pilot boat to be forwarded to
Montreal, asking that a detachment of
the harbor police be at hand when the
vessel came alongside, to arrest the
men. The police were in readiness on
the wharf, but the steamer stranded in
midstream, and lighters had to be sent
o<T fo relieve her of part of the cargo.
Oae of the lighters was alongside when
darkness came on, and the had to lie to
until sunrise. When the lighter was
fully loalel she drew to the wharf to
discharge, but hardly was she moored
when there was a movtmeot among
some sacks and a stowaway leaped out
and made a break for the wharf. An¬
other immediately sprang out from the
other side, an l in another instant the
whole deck of the lighter was alive
w ith stowaways, running up the wharvei
and leaping over the obstacles that came
in their way. The captain was power¬
less with amazement, and did nothing
but stand ami look on in a daz.-d sort
of a wav. When the last of them had
ciearcl the vessel’s side and things had
quieted down a bit, he recovered him
sc f, and, walking over to the sacks, he
poke 1 carefully about among them, but
finding nothing he resumed liis form?r
position. Suddenly another stowaway,
who had been unable to get out with
the rest, jumped up an l cleared, This
was too much, and the captain shouted,
"If there’s any more passengers going
ashore they had better go now.” But
the whole consignment had esc sped Irtz 1
of duly. — C ’/iainb:r*' Journal.
A Joke That Turned Oat Well.
“I will tell you how a youth fell into
a soft snap and finally got to the head
of a big concern,” said an old-timer the
other day. “It was all the result of a
joke and happened in this way: Myself
un i a friend were one day accosted by
a boy < f about 14. who said lie had just
come from the coun'.ry an l was looking
for work. I asked him whit he coull
do, r.nd he replied that lie was xvilliag
to do anything lor an honest dollar. 1
thought over everyone ot my acqnaint
ai-.ces in butineis but was in doubt,
feeling that none of them needjd a b iy.
Finally I told the young man that I
couldn’t think of any one to recommend
him to. My companion, who was a wag
uf the fir A water, here put in his oar
and^aid:
“ ‘Se; d him to—. He i) going to
discharge las boy, aud I guess he’ll hire
ym. Keep a stiff upper lip; tell him
you won’t take no for an answer; that
ym must have work and arc willing to
work bird. II -'lt try to put you off,
but don’t let him. If necessary, tell
him I said ho wanted a boy.’
“My friend gave the boy his naim
and the lad departed. When he was
gone my friend informed tne that he
felt sorry for deceiving him, as he wa)
a bright and honest- appearing young
fellow. I gave the matter little atten
ticn. save to reprimand mj wagg-sh
friend.
“About ten years afterward my friend
was sitting in the waiting-room at Par
ker’s, when a young gentleman ap
pronched Mm and said:
1 I believe your nama is—3”
“ That’s my name’, said my friend;
d)u t you vj tho advantage of roe; 1
don’t know yours.’
“ ‘U ° you remember telling a boy
once about somebody who wanted help?’
‘“I believe I do,’ said my friend,
after some hesitation. ‘I wai speaking
about it the other day. I lied to you,
sir, I know, and have felt pretty sore
for it since.
“‘Oh, no; you didn’t lie,’ said the
young man. ‘That is to say,
did want to hire a boy. He hired me
and now I’m his manager. Here is unv
card. I shall be happy if I can repay
you.’
“My friend showed me the card a
few days later. The firm whose name
was on it is doing a I unities, of several
hundred thousand dollars a yeir in this
city .”—baton Gl- hi.
A Dog Thler. *
When the othor afternoon wc saw a
great dog rocrive an umbrella in his
mouth from the hands of his mistress
and then bound off with it across the
lawn to the station, where the train
from the city had just left liis master,
we thought what an intelligent animal
i s B ;t, alas, that very day s
paper containcl nn item going to show
to what base en Is the intelligence of
e Vcn the brute3 laly b e debased,
It sa:mi that a Newfoundland dog i
had j :st been arrested and taken to the
lock up in 11 otimare, charged wi;fi
robbing a house. A polieeman had
seen iutn Hotting out of an alley with a
handle in his mouth
l.e a soft cushion.
t.,e dog, aad soon saw li?m return for
alley, the door of which had been left
open. The articles were deposited at a
certain corner three blocks off, where
it was surmised, the thieves who had
doubtless trained the dog ( or j,j s j
criminal career, were in waiting to re
ceive them. — Goblin Argosj. i
Anabgy. ;
Reasoning From .
Father—“Y'ou will never be tall,
you smoke, my son.” I
Son—“Why, P°P, our chimney
-mokes anl it’s over twenty feet high.”
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