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THK MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, FEKRUARY lit 1886.-TWELVE PAPES. THE TELEGRAPH, |vim>uu strrv r»r re ran tsak axd wevslt II TUI Telegraph and Jlesviiifer l’aMLdihig Co., *1 Mulberry Street. Macon, Os. The Northern Negro. | manage machinery, rad to mould Into . the scaffold with a cigar in his mouth. Five The Philadelphia Times hire been review- i wealth the rich resonrees of the State, hith-! minutes later he was dead. This is dead ing the modern wrongs of the negro, and i t-rto almost untouched, and to (scatter xonerates | throughout the border* skilled and intelli gent workmen in all department^ of me- Tte Dally Is delivered by carriers In the city mailed poetatfe free to euiiecrlliete, for It per month, (I SO for three months, 19 for all months, Sr $10 a year. Tss Imula malted to subscribers, posts** free, et 11.3$ a year and 75 cents for sis months. Transient adrertlsements will be token for the Dally at $1 par square of 10 Unee or leas for the gist Insertion, and BO cento for each siihseqnent In* sartlon, sad for tba Weekly at $1 for each Insertion. WoMcee of deaths, funerals, marriages and births, $1. Rsjectad communications will not be returned. Correspondence containing Important news and discussions of living topics to solicited, but must be brief sod written upon but one elds of the paper to bare attention. Remittances should be made by eipreee, postal aete, money order or registered letter. Atlanta bureau 17 K Peachtree street. All communications should 1m addressed to THE TELEGRAPH, Macon. Oa. wo tirs pleased to note that it the South and bring* home to its own sec- thru the truth relative to this race over | chunk*, which no many crocodile tear* have been shed. The Telephone War. The a*nault try the Bell Telephone Com- It i* a remarkable fact," nayn the Time*, I |, aJ1 y upon Cleveland'* cabinet officer and that with nearly 20,01)0 colored voters in I {,[„ command wan almont military in it* in- Vennsylvraia, generally voting in solid ception and danh. The whole force wa* phalanx for the Republican party, there ha* thrown forward in a mighty charge against not been a single representative of the cob I this exposed point and around it the battle ored race appointed, elected or even notui-1 i-agetl until many of the administration' nated for a responsible or lucrative office in friend* grew hopeless. Heavy editorial ar- the State. Even in this lb-publican Oi- I tiller; thundered upon it; the smaller guns bralter of Philadelphia, where election | threw their shot into the focus, and the Money ordes*. checks, etc.. shonW be made paye es hi H. C. Hanson. Manager. Don't be a telephone dam. Atlanta in getting in a bail wny again. Several recent highway robberic* on the public street* of that town suggest tba Judge Hopkins be called to administer the criminal law. " He live 1 campaigner* from General Bearer up and deadly paragraphic sharpshooter from down pour out burning eloquence in defense his far away perch tingled of the rights of the colored brother, it out prominent figures and drove them to required a reform Democratic mayor to cover. But the assault failed. At tke crit- elevate the colored citizen to the dignity of cul moment the adminiitratinn brought up a policeman. While Philadelphia has a reinforcement* and the sttadung column, number of colored men of conspicuous in- routed and scattered, have disappeared, telligence, culture 2nd character, not one Only desultory firing is beam nit now. of them liaa been so much a* thought of for The counter-attack is forming; the whole any office of honor or profit. A few glib- power of the administrasion is to be brought tougued mercenaries are hired from year to I to bear upon this public enemy. We may year to run the machine among the colored expect the countercharge to be eqnally vig- voters, but who has ever proposed a Purvis orous and more successful. or a Still for the Legislature or for any other The determined support by Cleveland of Gas, Hancock was fortunate, twenty years after the war, stood the fire of a fierce political campaign, and yet the ■word lying across his breast and the heart under it are without stain or blemish. position that a pale-faced politician wanted}” Mr. Garland will gain for himself the re- Wliat a retort this would have been, fired spect of many Democrats who have not •IT just after the speeches of Blaine, Hher-1 been bis enthusiastic friends. In view of man, Logan & Co. I the fact that so far the opposition has failed But not alone in Philadelphia is the nc- to develop any wrong doing on the part of gro a fallen idol, licccnt'.y tn Penn- the Attorney-Genera! and that after a most Cincinnati claims 2110,000 inhabitants. 8am Junes is making converts at the rate of 500 per night. It will take Jonea just four hundred nights to convert Cincinnati, ■ad start orer again on the backaliders. An Erie, Pennsylvania, man has been ar- vested upon the accusntion of his wife for ■mothering his baby because it ciied. Iu Erie they believe that the densest ignorsnee and consequently the crime center is loeuted in the Booth, Toe Wizard Edison is soon to visit Florida with hia bride, now Miss Miller, daughter of Buckeye llea|>er and Flower Miller. The next generation of Edisona in twenty-five years will be cutting grain with ohained lightning and binding wheat with telegraph wire. sylvania, one of the race fined for shouting in chnrch—the was searching inquiry, entitles him to the back ing of the whole Democratic party, and Mr. gro's Invariable method of expressing his Cleveland will be closer to the party when religious fervor—and another was allowed joined to this support. Plenty of fighting to starre and freeze within call of comfort- just now may be the best thing that conld able and opulent homes. In Ohio recently happen for the Democrats. But the fight- n negro has been forced to go into the | ing should be outward and not internal, court* to establish his common rights, and recently also a negro who had purchased Independence or Ignorance. The Courier-Journal has this to say of Lo tus ticket at full price was kicked out of a gon ' g B j, C e C h: Connecticut skating rink because he was a I ••Logan spluttered over a good deal of negro. To this may bo added the nnccre- Krotmd tbe other day in his speech on the luonions hustling that a negro received who Dakota bill, aud of course fluttered the applied to a Boston hotel for lodgiugs. We hare steadily opposed the efforts to I bloody shirt, os usual. ‘It was not north of the lino that it was elevate the negro beyond hU natural level in KOngbt to deprive the people of,their votes, the South, but with the liepubUcan North | be exclaimed. And yet while he spoke it is different. The party should be made t i, OHO wo rds, the only place in the country live up to its promises and professions. wberc them was a conteat over attempts at has promised the negro office, and de- BUcb deprivation was in Ohio, which is de clared an inordinate affection for him. If, „idedly north of the lino. Tiik' Sun's argument is that if the suit against Belt succeeds, Gray or some other man will come in and create another monop- oly. But then why does the Sun and the Bell Telephone Company want Garland retired? Home other representative ol the govorm moot will press tho suit just as vigorously. North from Connecticut to the Mississippi, VO cating the enactment of a prop then he should press his claim*. The location for voting. There, he campaign of 1888 is to he fought out upon proposition to deprive the mass of the peo- alleged suppression of the negro vote in pi e n f the right of suffrage. ‘The| Senator the South. Let the negro see to it that the (rom South Carolina laughs,' said Kepublicun North enters the fight consist-1 gan> <j j 0 u't see why you sh Florida has been pretty roughly handled by a brace of blizzards, but she can prowl ly point to the possession of an intellectual jackass who carries the mail and does the milling tor a neighborhood, and acts as watch dog over his owner'a promises. The frozen orange may fall, bat the intelligent donksy lssteth these many years. ntly. If the standard adopted by iff. j laugh; because that is the only wayhrou are Blsino is good, then there should ho a (air I going to control that country after awhile. Northern Htates, and upon the bench. Let Massachusetts wero decrying the pioposi- the Northern negro look to hi* interests tlon o( Democrats to extend suffrage to the more carefully. Tiik Indian Medical Gazette describes the death from hydrophobia of a man who had never beeu bitten by a mail dog. Hia at tending physician stated that the man, be ingaatrict Brahmin, bad never hail any thing to do with dogs, bnt the symptoms of his disease were identical with those ot whies. A similar oase occurred in Baris some weeks ago. Tbk New York Tribune lays: “ ‘I rarely carry more than three revolvers at veution ot the Agricultural Society we who gained their aeata by a system ot re notice the following: "Mr. Fannin, of stricted suffrage baaed on this very ‘prop- Troup, introduced n resolution indorsing erty qualification,’ the very mention of tho technological school, anil recommending which in South Carolina la considered so that the conimiisioners who shall have I atrocious. charge ot the inatltntion do include in the curriculum the study of practical ogricul tore." member of the aociely, and so influential whi „ kyi u u OQ ber Jelicttte gpprecig . that hi* name has more than once been can- 1 time,' frankly remarked a gentleman who was brought before a Rochester judge a few days ago. There ia so Uttle engaging self- restraint at the fore just now that an inci dent like this deserves • wide circulation. We think so, and, in proof, forward it through the columns of the Tei.eokai-h, all over the South. Tub executive committee of the State Agricultural Society among other things re port: "The lest State fair waa e grand auo- oaas in all its departments, except financi ally—and ia this not s failure. As evidence of this we state that when the preaent ad ministration went into office there waa in the hands ot the treasurer a sum of leas than $6,000. Now, after two State fain and three consecutive yean of crop failuree, we And in the treasury over S8,OUO.” With $8,000 in hand the eociety ought to be able to bold a fair without financial aid from any ) to r in A Waiuinoton special shows bow a rich Senator dines bis guests: "A dinner fourteen coven waa given by Senator Stan ford this evening to Senator Evarta and the following members of the Pacific Coast delegation in Congress: Senators Bowen and Teller, of Colorado; Senator* Dolph and Mitchell, of Oregon; Senator Jones, Nevada; Representatives Louttit, McKenna and Morrow, of California; Byrnes, of Colo- ndo; Woodburn, of Nevada, and Hermann, of Oregon. The residence of Senator Stan ford, on Famgnt Square, has been trans formed by its occupants into a repre sentative California home. The drawing, room furniture waa manufactured there order, even to 'the poitieres, which ■domed with Japanese hand embroidevy gold. The guests of the evening sat down to a banquet whose wines and traits were all from California. The tea aud coffee service wen of solid gold from California mines, on a massive golden tray, forks and spoons were of hammered silver, wrought in rich designs, and the china hand-painted Dresden, Vienna and Pari* ware. Each plats was distinct in itself, containing some historic portrait or scene or some odd design. ‘The Raid on tho Sabine Women' adorned the plate of Sena tor Everts; the face ot Mary Queen of Hoot* looked up et Henator Dolph when he re versed hi* plate. The table waa spread in the finest of white datiaak, relieved in the centre by a large basket of roses, flanked on each side by an oval plaque of Jsequent) sure proof that tobacco is unhealthy.—Phil adelphia Chronicle. An up-town man sent twenty-five cents to learn how to make $50 a week at. home working on a capital of $1, and received the following printed slip; “Fish for fools, as I do. "--Butler Citizen. The demand of women that husbands shall pay wages to wives arises from the fact that many husbands have learned not to leave any money in their pockets on re turning at night.—Philadelphia Press Somebody should persuade the home mis sionary societies to undertake the work fit converting the Salvation Army. The idea of sending men and money to enlighten the foreign heathen while these people are run ning wild at home is preposterous.—Phila delphia Press. Would it not be well enough to spend e little money in fortifying onr great sea ports, so that they should not be at the mercy of any third rate naval power, before throwing away our surplus on a harum- scarum scheme for carting vessels across the continent? N. Y. A musty old bachelor met a woman on a bad crossing the other day and she crowded him off into the mud. He writes, saying: "Is it any reason because a man is a man that a woman should lie a hog?" We re fuse to answer this ungallant questioner and refer him to the woman herself.—Chi cago Merchant Traveler. A mysterious package was sent to "George M. Pullman, inventor and propri etor of the Pullman car," and after due pre cautions had deen taken, waa opened in vacant lot. Its contents proved to be a newly devised car-conpling, a machine al most as dangerous, on general principles, communist's oyster cen.-Cbicago News. The claw hammer coat dude now wears black necktie to distinguish him from the -aiters who wear the same style of coat and white necktie. The brain of the dnde has for Borne yean been straggling with this question, and the poor brain became quite weary before solving it. Last season it was agreed that the waiter must carry a towel on hia left arm that he might not be mis taken for a gentleman; but the waiters rebelled and could not be forced to the tow. el act New Orleans Picayune. it." "Are they frozen too?" “I dunno, but the woman on one side is mad at us be cause we've put a bay window on our bouse, and max mail at the other because she's got a sealskin sacque. I guess wo are in a fix."—Detroit Free Press. A Cure for Cold Feet. School Girl, in Clevel*nd PUindealer. I suffered so much with cold feet when I started to skate that l found very little fun in it, but tome one told me that before starting out I should bathe my feet in cold water, drv then, perfectly aua give them a good nibbing with a crash towel: then put on a pair of woolen or heavy cotton stock ing., and my feet would be comfortably warm for three or four hours in the coldest weather. I tried the scheme, and found it worked admirably. POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. —Signor Salvini no* nulls full houses in San Francisco. —Mine. Modjeska's real name in Mine. Modrzejewska. —Robert C. Winthrop, now migratory, is wintering in Georgia. —Erastns Corning, whose 1,100 orchids have cost a fortune, bos also a collection of 50,000 butterflies. the Times states, tho negro really holds I "Again, he expressed his indignation over balance of power in every State in the „ gU g geg tion of a South Carolina piper, ad- rinkling of negroes iu Congress from the .. Uat „ no spoke Republican paji i by abolishing tho educational qooli I fication, and there sat under his voice two A Wort! lo Our tlrkoger Itrctliren. Among the proceeding* of the late con-1 Kepublicun Senators from Rhode . bland 'In thin sort of thing to be attributed to igm ranee or impatience?" Dropped Stitches. Arry—“I say, ol* chappie, I’ve been wol- ling tempin*. Ever twy it? Jolly good exercise; don’t you know?” Algy—“No, FLOAT BAM. COHXOPOUTA* AMERICA*. How Rir$t and cosmopolitan 1$ tliat we call America! Our kaffc kUtcbe aud y urn-yam tea* We uet from moon-eyed Japeneae; There’* * boycott.” hut an Iiiiih word. The *parrow i* an Kn«li*h bird: Tbe "mugwump” and toboggau, wo Ht ile from the aborigine©; Dreadbydrophobta come* from dogn And trtekinooia from tbe bog*; And there’* the dude who came, but none Know* whence—a mortal underdone; Our fashions come from Frauce aud Worth- In abort we scour the rolling earth. And. be It worst, or be it beat Wo take our oholc© and leave tho root. -Mr*. Mark Hopkins, of Great Barring- , Mass., has giveD $1,000 to Zion school, at .Salisbury, N. C. —Louise Michel, the Anarchist, has aban doned her intention of going to Russia. She pro|>oses to start an Anarchist poper, called tbe Terrre et Libcrte. —Tbe opening by Queen Victoria of tbe leveuth Parliament of her reign is a cir- eleventh Parliament of her reign cumstanco a parallel to which cannot be found since the time of Henry VI. -Ex-Minister fi'ashbnrne, who was called as a witness recently tn the Storey will case iu Chicago, was asked if be con sidered Mrs. Storey a young woman. He replied diplomatically: "Ail women are supposed to be young." —Dr. John P. Gray, of Utica, N. Y., A California nurseryman is writing to Orange county, Florida, for j onng orange trees. A sled with seventeen riders illustrate, the manner of double-runner coasting along the Hudson river, Thb stenographer’s fees in a prolonged contest over a will in a New York court were nearly $8,000. Dealers are purchasing oranges on the trees at Orange, Los Angeles county, Cal, for 50 and 75 cents a box. United States officials in Wayne count;, New York, have discovered a baud of moon- shiners, and mode several arrests. The copy of the first book on arithmetic, of which only another copy is known, fetched $2110 at a sole in Lbndou the other day. A prominent member of the charitahls society at Allegheny, Pa., is charged with pa; ing his wash bill with charity orders for coal. The Toronto Musical Festival Association has made arrangements for holding a grand musical festival in that city about tho mid dle of June ne.xt. The singular phenomenon of u rain-storm in midwinter occurred at Mazutlau, Mexi co. recently. This is the first instance of the kind on record. At a Baltimore charity ball a few night, ago one buly wore a necklace, bracelets, and fan-chum composed of $2.50, $7, $10, anil $21) gold pieces. The editor of the Danseith Herald took a Sporail in Thom A thre wick has Sot a i Cutliber There attendin Mr. J. fion of e Thirty Dawson Peters | ceived t lloust I over sev I ury. Lulu I ot Komi 1 self. Eggs I ket, am | dozen. The 1 I from I 1 Friday Wild I day las 1 was she Mr. I in lrwi | The fir Wor! Iroilroa |hands On < I be exc |tcn d« The Isidern lAnas! Th. Kind enn Dr cone Lunatic Asylum, rad a recognized wedd j ng , onr „f miles in a sleigh in the authority on mental diseases, “ ““J 111 imerm weather of the past month, and nashington on his way South, accompa- . . . h on.need ;» Died by his wile. He was one of the expert cl “ m,, to ba™ “joyed tt. witnesses in the Gniteau trial Although Glasgow is the wealthiest city ... .low. i,a„. of the world in proportion to lte popul* in an o?d^ashiormd*play ^ e in New York. Mho hai I the streets demanding bread. —Joaquin Miller's daughter, Maud, now the attraction it in a Bowery theatre a soubrette part and evidently does not Pious Rochester, N. Y., people are hor- the levity of tue pleasure- nutation, who have ing. ,™._ ._ Ateleph ne company was incorporated and - oil- I > n Tennessee with a capital of $5,UjU,0uu. ol which tbe incorporators only paid in 91,375, forget for a moment that her nunio bos been ror-stricken by the levity of in tho papers a good deal of late. »«>viug P»rt of the populate —Mine. Christine Nilsson is elleged t o I tak . eu to SnQdft y alleged have refused $30,111)0 for fifteen concerts iu | Russia solely because the country and cli mate are so cold; but then, with her ad- .. Jei she finds her receptions rather cold every where. —Mmo. Reutersgold, the wife of the notices on four leading business men of vancing years and decreasing attractions, *bieb they more than recovered in the first • - - • - - 'dividend The Chinese at Carson, Nev., haveserved Swedish minister, is now the reigning ‘hat town that they will cease to trade with beanty at Washington. She is a woman of | men who take part in the anti-Chinese dear boy, but 1're wollowed dgarwettes fine height and figure, with dark brown | movement hair and a nose just a trifle “tip-tilted," but with boautiful, soft eyes, a pretty mouth, | limestone rock from Rock Point, Jackson and a fascinating smile and manner. for exercise, fwequcntly; ya-as"— Rambler. Angelina!" “Roderick!" “Yon know— you must have seen—that I love you. Will you share my lot in life?" “It depends, dear Roderick—it depends." “Depends?' "Yee—on the size of the lot’’—Detroit Journal "Is Jim Bullard hangin' ‘round these parts nowadays?” naked a passenger from a cor window of a Dakota citizen. "Jim was hangin' 'round last week, stranger.” "Did you aee him?" "Oh, yes; I had hold of the rope."—N. Y, Sun. A clever Albany girl who was at Ridge field the other night waa asked what her sensations were when she shot down the t jhoggan chute for the first time. "It waa delightful,” she exclaimed enthusiastically; —The late Paul ltoudry, being asked why, in hi* famous decorations of the Paris I *** made profitable. Experiments have been made in burning mnestone rock from Rock Point, Jackson county, Oregon, but, owing lo the cu.-t of fuel, tbe production of lime is not likely to Th land I lis ex. |oows Mr Ivlo 1 week Jbility Mr Iftt 3 < 1 in-vi I well Do I farm 1 m'li 1 l.SII Tt I beloi I Hull | veel Ti I into I bolt ■ pist lvitl opera house, he chose the daughter of Ho-1 Rochester, N. Y., Romanists havo anew rodias aa tbe embodiment of the art of I cure for diphtheria. At the celebration os dancing, replied: "Because her dance ended St. Dinaras' day, Wednesday, a large Dunl in a demand for John the Baptist's head; ber of tho faitbfm had their throats blessed and, for my part, I have a prejudice against at a mass aa a preventive. dancing; the end ie always bad. phin, for the past eighteen yean has been I year for keeping the large hi aa much at a wanderer aa the gypsies I the rodents. They employ I about whom be writes so well He has rets. The ferrets run tbi terriers and fer tile rats out of gone fioui town to town, and country to I their holes and the dogs catch and kill country, staying in one place a month or a I them. year, as he liked, and never, as he says, | Canadian lumber dealers are now glad to „ i Ip Kentucky pride* herself on anything Mr Fannin 1* a prominent and active p|ltob , flD „ o( .. ... ,. ., tion of parliamentary etiquette. Here's a v ““‘ l in connection with the presidency of , peclnien . .q) wcns eMtA for the , eM , nd the body. nays on a motion, bnt Hpeaker Offut ruled W. are pleaaed, therefore^ to have hi. In- hlm ont otder> „ he heard no <tcond to dorsement of the technological school AU 0weB , laid spaldiug seconded I. — >. . .. & ■ .L-mU t. n Mtnsi.v B.lvAaaliia loe ilia I thought I was dying.”—Albany Journal Old Mr. liently (reading tho paper)—"I see that in a recent storm at sea a ship load- with passengers went ashore." Old Mrs. Bently (placidly)—"How fortunate! I can imagine just how glad those passengers most have been to get on dry land. 1 ’—New York Bun. farmer* should be warm advocates for the ^ ^ and wonW no , ait dowDi ujiog e*Ubli*hnicnt of sncli hq inititution. It U , . that be did not care what the npeakcr ruled; the nearoat and hrattoing at hand to offer heknewU4righu inUmled tohaTe The ran rad th# non ere mllee apart— MilUon* and millions too; Bat if thoae old bodfee had half a heart. They never could *tand U to far apart,— 1 know 1 could'ut—could you? an opening for their boys. them. Speaker Offutt and Owens glared at All the hoys cranot rad will not be farm- ^ oth „ ud the formor ^ ^ R(Q . era. It to questionable, if we do not have tIemaQ ft0In ^ u ont of otder> He v[U too many farmer, in proportion to onr peo- ^ hU Hat Jf ho r#u . to ^ hi , „ ati pie engaged in other punnito, mercantile th# MIgMIl L, Umi wlu compel hlm ta ^ rad mechanical seated.’ Offut spoke with vigor rad deter- But if the fermera .hall inalst that prac- min , Uon . Owens' toe. Hushed deeply. He Heel agriculture should be taught in a tool)* responded quickly: -I .hall not take my Dological school, we fear that the school I ^ until 1 have had ray rights as a member rad agriculture would both he common raf- ofthe Honae . , def , ^au to touch rae . X U’a ni.ltf •vw.xvi.la^ H.aan. I.. I J ..... torers. We have only provided mean, to I def y tb , „, rgeaQt . at . UD1 ., and X >ha |i HtaIld make a limited experiment toward* the tabltobment of a technological school hero rad assert my righto. If there are forty atrgerat-at-arma they can not remove The enterprise has yet to contend me from tbU pU ce, nor make me take my ignorance rad prejudice and other formtd- ^ Thu defiance of the Homo pro- -LI. —I. .A Ta —. ..I- ..11 ilaLJ.. ib. I able obatructions. It needs all the help the Juced , tre mendoua ronaaUon. The lobbies farmers era give it, bnt the school cranot wcre bre . thIna . u o„ne stood there, pey for this, by attaching to it a branch for with bu bead lhrown a UttU Uc k bu the teaching of practical agncnltnro. t I. L bth|Ddp<|i|||(d|t the Speyer, for the notpr«umableth.tboy.wiUgotoat«ffino- l om , nthehlldthe ,, ou „. tb . y . oa , ltt logical school only to become fermera. If calIed relM! ,tedly to Hergerat-at-arm. Colli- ra, w. had beat not go farther in the enter- ^ to ^ 0weDI . Owen, paid no atten- pnae. It will take all of the time «Je»o»ed ^ fetMe It , iarat of the sergtaut- to the course in a technolopcal rohool to I ud fiD|dl y the 8peak „ tUt u perfect boys in the variona branches lo be tanght there. It to expected that when graduated the boys will know how to make tools, imple ments rad machinery for the fanner, to lighten and cheapen his labor, to bnilil the farmer cheap rad substantial torn* rad homes, and to engage in the various branches of mechanical and manufacturing busi ness. so aa to vary tbe industries of the State, rad to add to her power rad wealth. Already there to an agricultural school attached to the State University. This should afford boys who wish to make farm lug a life business to prepare themselves. We are not yet far enough advanced for a scientific agricultural school What need now to a practical one. We are not inaenaible to the influence the farming in terest united era exert upon the Legisla ture, rad this influence should not attempt to hamper, probably to defeat, a technolog. leal school by attaching an agricultural branch to it. Georgia his boys ready and willing to carve ont their future in life,by work. They have the brains end the eonnge. The State has been asked to giro them the op portunity to learn how to handle the tools which shall build mills and factories, to Owens's call (or the yees rad nay* had been seconded he would allow the roll to be called. Owens said it had been seconded, rad the roll was called. Owens aat down, rad peace spread her wings over the House.” Miredaand Patches. Queen Victoria to getting thin on Irish stew diet—Phitodelplito Times. Open chorus singers can have their lives insured without medical examination. They do not die.—New Orleans Picayune. It's a catch-as-catch-cun affair between the Presidential Backbone and the Sena torial Dignity.—Philadelphia Times. Home to whoro the heart to, bnt it is the man’s liver that makes home unhappy when it to ont of order.—Picayune. Boston hat never yet quite recovered from the loot of the poet Bqnire. New York has not yet recovered from his gsin.- Ttibnne. If a boy dare not talk back to his school master, he can get some satisfaction through sending him an ngly valentine. Picayune. A great many people who torn np the whites of their eyes and cry "God help tbe poor 1” never try to help God.—Phitodel- phta Record. In Nevada a few days egos man mounted without trunka in bis bedroom. I blly lbe black wa i nut ( eQm rail, "which —Mr. Lawrence Barrett's closely shaved I farmers split and used aa they would any face, with deep-set, thoughtful eyes, serious | other timber twenty or thirty years sgo. earnest expression, rad his dignifled and The long exposure has seasoned the wood almost pompons bearing, suggest, tint au 1 thoroughly, rad it to valuable at material intractable jurist, and then a leader of some I tor chair lege, spindles, and other small revolutionary movement, or perhaps a dud-1 articles. tab college proferaor. There to nothing of A WBIX „ in tbs British Medical Journal the actor abont him excepting on the people to be careful not to slice np Rta 8 e - a pincapplo with tho samo knife they use At Tampa,Florida, tbe other night,Gen. iu peeling it, aa the rind contains tn acrid 1 Harney had a reception from hi* old com-1 organic substance which ia likely to eanse a radea. Harney wea in tho Keminole war, I swollen mouth and tore lipa. In Cuba salt rad one night escaped from bis tent in bis to used as an antidote for poison of pine- night shirt and saved his life by running at I apple peel full speed. Afterward, the Seminole chief, Cou Habx o{ PaUtka. as soon as he as- spealung of hie fast ponies, said they conld cer , aiuwJ , bat the oranges were frozen in But I have ]nat heard (sad I think she's rt|ht) What tbs dear old earth opines; That tho eon eh lose down oa eomo stars each sight. And shoots them off, *heo they're polished bright. To tho moon for volentineot —W. tV. B.. in bt Nicholas for Fsbruery First Tramp—"I’ve got a brilliant scheme to raise the wind.” Second Tramp—"Let'i have it’' “Yon rad I go along the street rad when we get in a nice benevolent neighborhood yon fall down with spurns or heart disease, or something of that kind, rad I’ll strike the neighbors for money to buy medicine. Bee?" “Y'es, lies, bnt— hat do I get?" "Oh! you get sick."— Philadelphia Call. Husband (who has just returned from hia office)—"Well, Maria, children all well?” Loving wife—"Never better, dar ling.” Husband—"Not a blamed one ot 'em sick?" Loving wife—“I am happy to say no, my dear.” Qnsband—“Hnmpb Jnst the way. Here I pay Dr. Pighead $20 a month to look after the family health, ’cause 1 thought it would be cheeper, anil not a darn one of ye have had even a cold since I made the agreement. Bah!”— Rambler. These are professional rat-catchers to —Charles Godfrey Leland, of Philadel-1 New York who get from $100 to $200 a hotels free from Ivhn I It. ■ inn Idled T (Til beat a railroad train and beat anything »• eept Gen. Harney. —Mr. Henry M. Stanley, the African ex. other parts of Florida, sent a man down in the Indian river section to buy up all the oranges be could. He purcbaaM about plorer, now narrates in his lectures that he one-half of the oranges on the river before started on hia tour through the Dark Con- the people were aware that the oranges tinent with quite a library for his own pri- were frozen in other parts ot the state. rate reading, but one by one he was com- _ polled to throw the books away, though he I youngwoms" gm^out^ clung to Carlyle a* long aa he could But £ rn A “ tbeM , (o slippery ?*«?“«! 1»‘“ »° UP with UM.prtb.ttc yin, Wllb ber » smallbi Ailed with writes. trtom’nhsnlbr ttfrntiLd^tlMientirrt'Liifin vfmVn 1 Wb *° ‘ j" Boston has anew agony. Whenever a ont walking in tho mod- weather, she car- triumphantly through the entire long route. Sir Arthur Sullivan has enlisted the ser a corner of a bag is torn open, and, as tbe Boston Advertiser, with scriptural ambigai- vices of Hr. Joseph Benuett to write the | ty, puts it, "you may walk across as tri os si - * ’ * . .. .. . ... . . 0TU tba libretto lor hia cantata founded on Loug-1 utupbsntly ss the Israelites did fellow’s “Golden Legend," to lie performed Red Sea." at the Leeds Musical Festival next October. I , _ . . . . ... Had the theme been comic, of course it.... _ would have been given to Gilbert, who has »b««ut;mlndeunea*. He was to mats lost none of his humor, though occasion- * cal1 *‘»h hto wife one evening. He with- si s a a • • 7 1 ? . . ... I llrnw tn lilts vnnvit tn nhaitiva Kim nlnthas A Troy lawyer is charged with a curious fit of ubsent-mindedm*w». He waa to make idly li closes hto temper; but that he is still I *»htoroo» tocbrag."bi. cloth* very funny to evidenced in his recent letter ?“ d - K 0 . nB “ ntm»ti*llir long time, ' e llarnere. which is eioesaiveiv smos. hi * ««*> »«“ to see what detained him rad tolhe Harpers, which to excessively sinus- ^dbim in Ito Wt^n o3 Z B st., 1 .. . -, . . , .1 bnainess suit, forgotten what he was going iblLbeT I * do ', ' ro “, ‘ff* ° f b » b “‘ P~ Ub ^- pnblished, Benjamin Disraeli wrote, anent a party at Unlwer’s: “1 waa introdnceil, ‘by particular desire,' to Mrs. Wjndhaiu Lewis, retired for the night William Rowlet and , r and a gang of men a pretty little woman, a C.\ rad a rattle; I were working in a navel-pit of llidderord, indeed, gifted with a volubility 1 should | Ma., when a cave-in began. All managed Killed with a volubility 1 should Ma., when a cave-ii _ think uneiinalled and of which I can con- to jump out except Rowley, who, as he wu vey no idea. Hbe told mo that she ‘liked I caught by the tolling gravel, threw hit silent, melancholy men.' I answered ‘that I shovel aa tor at be conld. This act saved “What do you mean by a gentleman's game of poker?" asked a western citizen, who to in town buying hardware; "ray different from the nglar game?” “We take each other's word for what we've got and don't have to show down.” “Ia that so?" said the westerner, beginning to get excited; "give me $20 worth of chips.”— Life. A Malay gentlemen regards the use of a fork at table ss dirty and disagreeable. Yon don't know into how n ray mouths it baa been inserted. It may have been wished and scoured, but you don’t know that some lazy servant has not neglected hia work. On the other hand, he soya; "I know that my fingers are dean, because I wash them myself, and I au sore they have never been ia anybody's mouth but my own.” We ■mile at the Malay's way of eating, bnt hasn't he a pretty fair chance to smile back?—Bpringfield Union. "Water's frozen np,” said e boy as he en tered a Woodward aveine plumber’s shop yesterday." "Very well" “Me wants yon to come right np.” “I’m afraid we eaa’t get then for a day or two. YonH have to borrow of joor neighbors." "We can't do ur n I bad no donbt of it!'" And yet in a few his file, for every other shovel was buried year* Mr*. Lewis rad Ur. Disraeli "were I by the slide; but, working with Rowley's uisrried rad lived happily ever after,” ss aud their hands, the men ting him out, not tbe story books say. much hurt, but very badly sea red. —Ex-Marshal Bozaine, "of Mexico rad I Henry C. Davis, nasiatrat general pat- Metz," appears not to be a pauper, after all. I senger agent ol tbe Northern 1‘acific, who He baa not ran through with allot his r> turned to St, Haul a day or two ago fr m wife a money. He Uvea in Madrid, bnt to the I'acifie coast, tells of a rather remark- not recognized in good society. His person- able accident which occurred near Palouee London I “ •d appearance, lays Tbe London Daily News, Junction. As the train, westbound, wss bis much altered, rad he to so aged, so passing Wushtuena lake a coyote started stout rad bloated, so neglectful of bis at- across tbe ice. A Mr. Msuriti, who sat be- tire and outward appearance, that he to a side Mr. Davit in the car, saw the raimsl wretched sight ss he shuffiea along the Re- He drew hia revolver, a 15-calibre Colt's colitaa promenade or a sidewalk in the aud fired at the beast. The boll struck the Retiro. rad this leads many people to fancy iee anJ glanced fully a half mile, striking he to tn won# ciicumstancea than in re-I ' ' r - ality by - Tal I . , , —dieting a seiioos almaoe to a hard worker, ile unite* wound. The unfortunate Celestial *** the occupation ot preacher, lecturer and taken aboard the train and sent to Wall* editor. He breakfasts every morning at a Walla tor treatment Mr. Mauritz paid stud’ while "“'I ouuusy iiuiruiug gets me expenses consequent upon tbe acetaene clock, rad may be heard pacing Mr. Davis, on hto return tnp inquired the F floor. He think* on hi* feet | condition of the Chinaman, who*# name be and down the room. | learned was "Who,’ He was informed the _ np ai— ... __ When idle for a day or two be becomes 1 wound was not dangerous. The ball had wretched. He to of an intensely nervous entered toe left shoulder to the scapula. iudv floo walking 1 perement, rad to only happy'when :k- Chang only rec year hto family were glad to keep him in ! meekly ea a child, rad smiled blandly after Germany—for there, at least, he could not the operation wee performed. | and then glanced downward four or A** temp _ work. Change of occupation 'teems to be j inches into the niusclwT wnere'it wea cut hto only recreation. When abroad this I out. Tbe Chinaman took chloroform ** preach. The moment he set foot in Eng land be was deluged with invitatb ns to I - talk and lectors. When in England iu 187!) saw —General Butler to the picture of th* ; — —ivage beast of Christmas pantomime to he spoke nmety-eu times in ninety days, hto shaggy, brown fur-coat rad cap •*> eb. Tbe coat almost conceals bint tru* Hto audiences w.ra immense. 10,(110 peo- match. K b* »nd upwards being no uncommon num- hto eua down, while the cap permits th* **• face to be visible.