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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAirJEL* TUESDA1 MORNING, APRIL 2G, 1887.—TWELVE PAGES.
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THE TELEORAFH,
Macon Oa.
■ tier order* tkicU etc .tbonli b* made paya-
B 0. Htnor Manage
Throwing; Sand.
When a Southern newspaper starts ont
to attack the protective tariff and ends with
the whine that the tariff it a bad system
because it does not thoroughly protect the
Southern farmer, we are reminded of the
little boy who finding himself without
weapons or muscle in a tussle begins to
throw sand. No such policy ever saved
any one from a thrashing. These funny
fellows usually complete their engagement
with the declaration that there is no tariff
npon cotton; and one declares iu addition
that upon such other things as the farmers
raise they get an average protection of 25
pir oent, while the average upon what
he bnys is forty-six. Of course, if all this
were idmftted, it would amount to noth
ing. There are no importations of foreign
raw cotton into this country, and the com
petition between our own producers and
tho nearness to market coutrols other prioes.
Goods made from Egyptian and Indian cot
ton ore taxed upon entry, and thus the pau
per labor does not come into serious com
petition with the Southern farmer.
But suppose the Southern farmer had no
protection, as is Maimed, would it be the
fault of the principloor of Southern Demo
crats iu Congress? If a fanner of Jones
county, or of Bibb, or Baldwin, or Monroe,
or any county in this % district
feels that the tariff does not offord
him ample protection, that be should have
a forty-six per cent, tariff upon what he
produces as well as upon what he buys, is
it likely that he will get itao long as the
Representatives he send to Congress fights
the wholo principle of protection and
strives for free trade? The history of tariff
addition will show that the sections most
interested have secured what they wanted
by aotire and intelligent Representatives in
Congress. With the South in the Demo-
oratio party and this party in power, it is an
sasault upon the Southern Congressmen
when free trade journals complain of in
sufficient protection.
A Watch Free.
You can get an improved Waterbury
Watch, with a chain, and the Weekly
Txt.xoiurn one year, for 13. For particu
lars, see advertisement elsewhere in this
issue.
Internal Disorder.
While Georgia is being threatened by
an unpleasant complication with South
Carolina, it is not at all consoling to know
that she has an internal .rouble on her
hands, a Bort of internecine strife, as it
were, a war for revenue only.
It will be remembered that a few weeks
since Revenue Agent Chapman invaded the
office of Revenue Collector Crenshaw and
choked him. It was charged at the time
that Agent Chapman had an open knife in
his coat sleeve. Thinking that the dignity
of the office might be imperiled, Colleotor
Crenshaw refrained from taking Agent
Chapman by the scruff of tho neck
with one hand and the slock of
his trousers with the other and
throwing him out of the most convenient
window. The emeute was adjourned to
Washington City, and it would appear from
subsequent events that the administration
either failed or refused to settle the matter
satisfactorily.
On the day before yesterday Agent Chap
man again invaded the precincts of Colleo
tor Crenabsw. Collector Crenshaw had a
right to BnppOBe thaf Agent Chapman had
advanced .o reopen the ahoking campaign
where it had been left off. It is to be pre
sumed that he took this view of- the ease,
for be immediately cuffed Agent Chapman
about the head and ears and proceeded to
wipe up the floor with him. During the
melee wbioh ensued, Collector Crenshaw
came uncomfortably near gouging out the
eyes of Agent Chapman, and hedidsucceed
in hauling a handful of Agent Chapman's
whiskers cut, and ail the o!a*a were en
gaged on the occasion.
Whether this can be considered a long
or a short haul, may be conveniently left
to that portion of the administration em
braced in the Inter-State Commission,
which will sit (in secret session, perhaps)
in Atlanta in a few days.
The mournful part of this episode ie sug
gested by the Granger on our staff, who
knows all about growing things, and who
declares that Agent Chapman's whiskers
cannot possibly be forced to a sufficient
growth to beoome a feature of the Pied
mont fair now about to open, even with
the aid of Trioopheroua or Magio Balm.
Itis useless to say that this is simply fear
ful.
It may be that this internal disturbance
comes of an attempt to run a Democratic
administration with Republican officials,
or it may be a natural outgrowth of the in
ternal revenue system itself, by which men
have not only lost their eyes, character and
whiskers, but their lives. So long os this
system is kept up to support the pension
roll and freo trade, it ought to be conducted
decently and In order, and it should be
clear at headquarters that the service would
not suffer from the absence of one or the
other of the belligerents.
Tue well posted Washington correspond
ent of the New Orleans Picayune has this
to say of the Inter-Slate Commission:
"There is very good authority for the state
ment that the Inter-State Commissioners
will in tho near future absolutely decline to
suspend the long and short haul clause in
the law tor any of the railroad companies.
Whilst the commissioners will not make
any statements at preaent regarding their
contemplated action nor will they say much
leg tiding their proposed visit to several
Southern points iu the near future, they
have been talking privately here and there
until it baa leaked out that they intend to
pursue an entirely different course from
that already taken regarding the long and
abort haul clause*. It la understood that
they will in the futnre . simply
allow tbs roads to go ahead without
attempting to My to their ; managers what
they may or may not do. Iu other words,
it will be left entirely with the railroad peo
ple to determine whether or not they will
charge leas for a long ban) than for a sham
one, and when the law aa it stands is ova&•
odor violated, then it ia presumed that
shippers will be quiok to lodge complaints
against the railroad companies. The com'
mission in that event will take op these
oases separate and pass upon them, just aa
aoourtoflawdoeewheucMeaare brought
before them. The commissioner* think
that this will be the easiest and ‘quickest
say o( getting through with the work be
fore them. Aa matter* now stand they are
up to their ears in work, and it is becoming
more complicated every week, end it is
therefore necessary fox them to adopt the
line of action indicated above.”
Arbor Hay.
Tree planting to the North and West of
us is about to be vigorously pursued. The
custom started in the West.
"The example of Nebraska was followed
by the neighboring prairie States of Kansas
and Minnesota, and Arbor Day celebrations
soon became general throughout the
country. The celebration is now held in
no less than twenty States, at different
dates in each according to the temperature
and the climate; in Colorado, Wisconsin
Iowa, Missouri, Indiana and California in
the Western States; New Jersey, Fonnsyl-
vanle, Massachusetts, Vermont iu the East,
and Keutucky, Alabama and Florida in the
Sontb.”
Referring lo the subject, the Philadelphia
Times says;
'The farmer who would be independent
in his old age, or who would leave a more
valuable inheritance to his children than
he oould now do, can have bis with by
planting a lot full of such valuable trees a*
tho walnut and others that bring high
prioes in tbo lumber market. The man
who has a country house which he may
some day wish to soli, will add to its value
by surrounding it with the means of shade
and fruit There are few better perma
nent investments than well aeleoted trees.
Let every one prepare for Arbor Day,
Our State Agricultural Society should dis
cuss this subject at the fair. And speaking
of the fair, we would again counsel, that
the ooutraot be signed, sealed witnessed
and delivered accord lag to law, as soon as
possible.
Propositions to Consider.
If the new South is to abide by tho polit-
oal economy of the old South, the labor of
the new must submit to the conditions that
governed the labor of the old. That is, it
must be content to surrender Us freedom,
and take in exchange bare food, clothing and
shelter.
If the new South is to join the North end
compete with the world os a manufacturer,
it must meet the advantage which the
world has In its organized labor, iu capital,
its technical skill sod its systematized trade
with a tariff on imports, just as the North
did.
If the South has natural advantages ever
the North they rest upon natural laws
whioh, while they have been suspended in
effect, have not been destroyed, and will
become operative as soon as the two sec
tions are united in one policy.
If the South wants ospitsl and labor to
come in and build up manufactories, it is
her true policy to guarantee this cap tal
and labor protection and conditions equal
at least to those they enjoyed elsewhere.
These may probably come anyhow, relying
upon the good sense and preponderating
influence of the other sections for security.
They will be hastened by an assurance
from the Southern people.
The Teleoiuph holds that the principle
of protection in this country is res adjudi
cate; that in the propositions laid down
above is the question as now presented to
the Southern people. Some of our readers
have perhaps fretted over the attention
given in these columns to the subject, for
getting that while the South has not the
power to change the national policy, her
attitude construed as hostile to it
affects investments, since capital is
notably timid. The high rate of interest
that our people have been paying, was based
upon distrust; and it is as clear as the rela
tion between warmth and life, that the
mortgages npon the Southern farms grew
out of the assaults of Southern Congress
men upon the business policy of the conn,
try. To hasten the day when through her
press, her publlo speakers, her legislative
bodies and Gongressional representation,
she will speak dearly and assuringly upon
the tariff has been, and is, the aim of the
Teleobaph. The work has extended
through nearly six years. When be,
gun there was no Democratic
paper in the State openly advocating pro
tection. To-day the weigh* of press influ,
ence is for protection, and prominent men
in all sections give assurance of a growing
tariff sentiment. The same healthy and
encouraging growth is noticeable in many
other Southern sections. When the day
comes that pledges the Southern people to
that policy which underlies the prosperity
of the Northern States, then indeed will a
boom in rest estate, and business and man
nfaoturing enterprises of eTery description
sweep this long depressed portion of the
Union.
Not Bo.
The esteemed Banner-Watchman says:
The Macon TstKosara want* to know why the
Bonner*Watchman claim* President Cleveland aa s
tariff reformer.
The esteemed Banner-Watchman is sim
ply mistaken. The Teleobaph has not the
slightest desire to know why the Banner-
Watchman claims Mr. Cleveland for any
thing. It might claim him for a Democrat,
and we ahonld stand unmoved. It might
claim him for astateman and we would utter
no sound. It might claim him for a double
song and dsnee artist or a performer on the
aocordeon, and we would refrain from smit
ing the esteemed Banner-Watchman. We
will give a quit claim on Mr. Cleveland, and
the Banner-Watchman may even claim him
for its cousin.
What the Teleobaph desires to know is
wbst are the peculiar, personal views of
Mr. Cleveland on the tariff. The esteemed
B. \V. vapored about iu such a way as to
create the impression that it held this great
secret. We notice that it is not the
custodian of tho conscience of the admin*
istration, or that it has been sworn to
seereoy. So far as tariff reform is con
cerned the Teleobaph ia the original tariff
reformer. It does not need to be told who
Is a tariff reformer, or why. It can tell a
tariff reformer by the same process by
wbioh ;8ir John Falstsff was enabled to re-
oognize the true Prince.
FATAL FENCING BOUT.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Wife—"Will you take me to the open to-night,
dear?” Husband-"Yes, go end undrew.”—Boston
Courier.
A Hindoo Invented the fiddle. But fiddlers ere
very scene in Hindoiten nowadays. The Hindoo
■aw the error of their ways long ego.—Philadelphia
Call.
Neither wine, ale, porter, brandy nor coneti
have ever been manufactured In Japan. They
make nothing there to get tight on.—Ban Francisco
A'ta,
The grateful editor—"Major Henry Perkins has
the thanks of the editor for a pair of breeches that
have not been worn ta hurt”—BateavlUe (Ark.)
Gourd.
Visitor—Who is that fine looking lady that Just
went out? Boarder—That's my landlady. Visitor-
Looks healthy. Boarder—Yes. She eats all her
meals with a married lister across the street-
judge.
•Pa,” said little Jimmie, *•I was very near going
to the head of my class to-day.” "How la that my
sou?” "Why, a big word came all the way down to
and if I could only have spelled it 1 ahonld
have gone clear up.”—Wide Awake.
A little four-year-old iu New York created a ripple
by remarking to the teacher of the Sunday-school
class: "Our dog’s dead. I’ll bet the angels were
■cared when they saw him coming np the walk.
He’s awful cross to strangers.”—Rhoe and Leather
Reporter.
Erastus Wlman has bought a machine that re*
duces the hardest substances to fine powder by the
use of no other sgency than concentrated wind,
The invention suggests that wa may yet •*
■tamp mills of the country run by Congress power.
-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The claim of the New York Timet* to
Bftnk for the New York Democracy will
canst the New York Democracy to smile
aloud.
You can boy your oyitem cheep end fresh
next fell if yon establish here a market
bouse. Give U your vote. Don't be a
clam. _______
another
Tbs Mexicans have arrested
American editor. We hope they will hsng
this ooe» end atop the foolithnees.
Presidential Pointers.
When Mayor Hewitt, of New York, was
recently asked what he thought of President
Cleveland'g administration he replied:
bava scarcely time enough to think what
think of my own administration.”
Mr. Adame, a member of Congress from
New York, Mye: “Mr. Cleveland will be de
feated la New Yuiia City by 30,000 votes,
if Blaine ia the nominee against him. Mr.
Cleveland has not met the expectations of
the Democrat*. The Irish vote is implaca
bly arrayed against him, and in thi* great
city of Democratic majorities it is my can,
did opinion he wonld be enowed under by
a large Republican majority.”
Of Mr. Cleveland Senator Vance says
'He will not be the choice of true Demo-
orals. He may, by tho manipulation of his
friends, secure the nomination. If he doe*
I shall support and advocate his election
on party principles. Hi* administration
my etete has not given the satisfaction that
our kind of Democrat* like.”
G exmax frontier polio, have arrested
French prefect qermtny will have to re
lease him end apologise or fight
Tax North may net assy. Jefferson Da-
wia will not etteod the CeUumn monument
dedication.
Two
DuAsrxx now threatens the army,
of our noble defenders have been hurt play
ing polo.
fixaifAX Catholics nave put Bismarck
under a bond for good behavior.
Sons tronbie it feared with Japan, grow
ing out of the fact that Capt Thomas O,
Selfridge, commanding the United Stahl
steamship Omaha, used the cliffs of the
bland of Ikeahim* as s backstop in bis tar.
get practice and caused the death of five na
tive* and the maiming of many more. The
target practice was in violation of Japan cm
1st, but while cognizant of this fact no
official notice had been conveyed to the
squadron. The natives picked np several
nnexploded .hells and in trying to open or
caused an explosion, with the rc.nl: stated.
| A schoolbosse was also destroyed.
The Washington Star thns discourses
about the colored vote: "The politician*
are at s loss to decide whst is the most ad.
vantageous method of handling the colored
vote, and there is a lnrking suspicion that
after the politicians have made np their
minds on the suhjeot the oolored vote may
refuse to he handled. The uttaranoes of
the speakers at the emancipation oelebra-
*' Ligu, till* wuiiuaui, A ue
President made o irpet-bsg appointments of
oonple of his Northern colored strikers to
office in the District of Columbia, ignoring
the resident colored popnlstion which hid
hithert} been aopposed to contain man^of
the beet representatives of the rice, lie
did this, he aald, "in just recognition" of
the oolored race. The Democratic party
did not approve his aetion. A part of the
Repnblieon party weloomed the appoint
ments, and the President's attempt to
break down the ooior line, and with a sup.
posed party advantage in view endorsed
the President’s policy, in tho expectation
that a division of the colored veto in the
South would cause the white vote of that
section to divide also, npon ecoaomio ques
tions, end that a number of 8tates from
the solid Son'h wonld thns be won over to
the Republieen party on the isane of pro
tection. Other ltepnbliesns took the view
that the President’s aotion, unindorsed by
the Democratic party of which the princi
ples and platform were violated by the ap
pointments, would have no appreciable
effect in winning Democratic votes among
the negroes, especially in view of the sup
pression ot the negro vote and alleged out
rage* In Democratic States. They were
not ready to say to the Southern' negroee
that the only way in which they
eonid secure the rights ot American
citixens wm by voting the Democratio
ticket. They believed that it the white voters
ot the South were converted to the Repub
lican side of the protection issue they would
vote in national affairs-the Republican
ticket, and, desiring the tuceeee ot the pro
tection party they would welcome fellow-
votera of whatever color, and wonld laugh
at the idea that some needed votes must be
east against protection aa a condition ot
their vote* for it Concerning the
condition of the colored vote in
the South they hell to the views
expressed by Blaine alter bis defeat
The opinions of the first class of Republi
cans are suggested by Sherman, in a very
cautions and guarded manner, in hie Nash
ville speech. There is tome confusion
among the colored people. A few are ot the
opinion that they might vote for Cleveland,
bnt not a Democrat or that they would
vote for Cleveland if he were not a Demo
crat; while others view the Northern color
ed men who accept D.mocntic appoint
ment a* traitors to their Southern brethren
and deserving Uis fate of Judas. It will
be hard fnt the colored people to accept
even a Republicm invitation to leave the
Republican pirty.”
•■Hare you 'Hour* of In<U*ue*a‘ her* J" th*
maiden asked a* aho eanatered Into the second-
hand bookatore. ' No, we haven't, mlaa,” eald the
youth behind th* counter. “The bo** I* an old
•kinflint, and wh*n wo ain't doing any bn*tn<
ktep* ue duating th* book*.-—Boston Coulter.
"No, sir,- he eald emphatically. "I have traveled
for 40 year, on th* road, and I never yet went
through an accident." "Bow do yon account for
tl?" "Well, eomettme* I think U'e Providence, and
sometimes I think It*, became I never happened to
get on a train the! we* wrecked."—Tib-Bit*.
rierced to the Brain With » Buttoned Foil
-Sait Kml of a Friendly Contest.
New ObleanI, April 18.-A party of
young creoles drove to the Charity Hospital
early in the morning and demanded admit
tance for one of their companions. They
were all drank, and they raised a row with
tho watchman and students on duty. They
refused to give the name of the man whom
they sought to have admitted, but said he
bad received a slight wound and needed
assistance. One of the students made a
oasual examination of the man and found a
slight cat under bis left eye. With the
exclamation that the wound amounted to
nothing he refused the roysterers admit
tance.
The party then drove to the Hotel Dieu,
where they created another disturbance,
but where the wounded man, who by this
time had become insensible, was admitted.
Dr. Janieson made an examination of the
wound and pronounced it fatal. The man
died about on hour later. It then trans
pired that he was John T. Fernandez, and
hat the party were members of a creole
club on Danphine street, in the French part
of the city, called tho “Gercle de Grandie-
sime.”
Fernandez, with bait a dozen others, met
at the club last night and bad a celebra
tion, winding np with a wine Bapper. All
drank freely, and at midnight all were
drunk. In the oinb room were a pair of
fenoing foils, and in jest Fernandez and
Henry Bernard picked them np and began
fencing. Fernandez was the better swords
man of the two, and held*his opponent
well down. Bernard became excited and
made a vigorous lunge at Fernandez, wbioh
the latter parried, but iu the act the point
of Bernard’s weapon entered the eye and
produced the wound.
Very little blood was visible, and tho
wonnd appeared very slight—in faot, so
much so that it was not until bleed began
to flow freely, and Fernandez complained
of terrible pain, that bis companions be
came alarmed, hailed a cab and took Fer
nandez to the hospital.
At the autopsy to-day it was found that
the point of the foil had entered one-half
inch below tho left eye, piercing the optical
bones and passing through the base of the
brain, the point of the weapon penetrating
tho inside surface of the top of the skull.
In being -withdrawn the weapon tore the
brain, making a ent of four inches, causing
excessive internal hemorrhage and even
tually death. Snrgeons declare that, consid
ering the nature of the wound, Fernandez
lived a remarkably lODg time. Tbo foils,
when examined by the police. Were found
to have tho buttons still on the heads, show
ing that tho weapon must have been driven
with terriffic faee. Bernard surrendered
and was locked np on a charge of murder.
personal chat.
Mrs. Langtry will pass the snn„» . I
Yosemite Valley. met tati.l
Senator Collom has been iariUA, I
dress the merchants of Milwaukee ** *1
inter state commerce law. 8 0L " *
Ex-Senator Fair, of Nevada, who*,
has just expired, did not pas* a single .^l
during the six years in that State. 8 *‘<k|
Tennyson has been England's .
rests since 1850, a longer period k '-1
honor was held by any of his preie^, Ul |
Miss Ethel Diekens, grand-datuAt Ja |
Charles Dickene, has started ataS&’A
o t oe for the copying of parts andoi^l
books. t Mvoapij
Walt Whitman is not the
seventy-Bix years,’’ whom some of th?
TIPM lifiVA lrtfnlv ilzxAtnpitki-,1 IT. t
'". v -I
pera have lately described. He is oni! !*l
ty-seven. * #t.|
Senator Vest thinks there is notti 0g ,.
good as Bass's ale, and always wuh<Tp k l
hu lunch with copious potations 0 fUl
favorite liquid. 1 •"I
Senator AUison never smokes bn> * ■
cigar a day and that is after dinner it 1
he indnlRes in o single higUly-flavoied iSl
ported Havana leaf. uai
Mrs. Charles W. Peterson, of Pmlj , 1
phis, widow of the founder of Petennil
Magazine, has decided to pnblisb and I*. I
tho magazine herself. *“* I
Mrs. Henry G :orge is one of tho e nun I
plump, cheery bodies that never get dom I
hearted, and is devoted to her husband anil
their four children. * 1
Deacon White is to purchase Mr. BmaI
er’s Peekahill farm for $100,000 and pr«, t nil
it to his son when the latter marries Colo JI
Beecher’s daughter. '■
It is thought at Washington that Colim.il
Merritt, of the West Point Aoademv s a|
be appointed to Bucoeed Bricailier-Gm.iil
Wilcox, who will bo retired to-day. -
DOG-KISSING COURTIERS.
Mr*. l!off*nd*ff*r bought a tlsorakln rue to *nr-
prlee her In;,band with on hi* birthday. Mr.
Iloffendeffer (returning from club congratulations
a lUtl* late) thus addraaavd hit: "bhay. ltelay. olo
gal, coma down ■btalrah. Tharo'ak 3)001 forty cat*
got Into e'houM'ather’eh only one heed 'n th' lot
of 'cm (Me).”—Exchange.
flow, llclng Rebuffed by the Czar, They
Fondle III* Mastiff.
Part* Utter In London Truth.
The Czat was here incognito last winter.
He bad with him an aide-de-camp, s secre
tary, a valet and a dog. As he gave strin
gent orders that his incognito was to be re
spected by his suite, the gentlemen fell
back upon the mastiff as an objective for
the reverence whioh they were in the habit
of lavishing on the mastor. Tbo aids-de-
camp of the late Czar astonished the
French generals, when that ill-starred sov
ereign was lodged at the Elysoe, by kissing
bis arm from his wrist np to the
shoulder whenever ho said any
thing to them which was kind
or gracions. Alexander III. does not
suffer auob dose contact; and, as old habits
cinnot be rooted ont in a day, the courtiers
paid to the dog the homage they nsed to
render to his master. The Caar, when
here incognito, lodged in the line de 1*
Boette in a fiat lent him by s Rnssian. An
English friend, who resides in ths same
house, wstohed olosely the movements of
bis imperial fellow lodger and hi* suite.
He tells me that Alexander was just like s
freshly emancipated schoolboy, so over
joy ed t was he at being freed from dynamite,
and that ho r*|>iee«)u hi* state ot reelings
in gleeful manifestations and boyish prac
tical jokes. Tbo dog shared bis joy, and
the two eourtlers followed, not the Czar’s,
The official title of tbs Governor of Rhodal
Island is "Captain-General of Rhode hUndl
and Providenoe Plantations.” Gov. Bjtu I
therefAe, possesses a title worthy olhal
great victory. 1
Sit Lionet Saekville West and his daugb-1
tern will pasg the summer (in Engitoi I
Baron d’ltajuba, the Brazilian Miniitn I
will go to Paris. Washington will eoonbtl
diplomatically empty. I
Tbo remaining unprinted papers of Long. 1
fellow, now preparing for publication, I
sist chiefly of letters from and to ftiendi I
including Oliver Wendell Holmes, £ I
Lowell, Dickens, and other well knon I
writers, some prose thoughts, nudaitij
fragments of poetry. I
Malviri Bey, the new Turkish minister t« 1
the United States, is a very accomplish! I
man. He speaks six languages, inclndiu I
the best English and French of Paris, when I
he was educated. He likes English so much I
that,like other Turkish gentlemen, he mail I
often in his private correspondence as well I
as in his conversation.
Seven years ago a woman bought forty-1
three acres of land in Pasadena, Los As-1
geles. Cal , for $40 an acre. She has since
sell off ten acres in smalt lots at prices I
ranging from $1 000 to $12,000 an acra, and
has been offered $250,000 for the thirty-
three acres which still remain in her po*.
session.—New York Sun.
Jamer H. Marr, oblef clerk in the office
of the First Assistant Postmaster General,
and in length of service the oldest of the
government’s employes at the capita!, ii
lying at tho point of death. Mr. Marr vu I
first appointed to a olerkship in the Port-
Office Department June 1, 1831, r.nd hu I
been conneoted with the department in one |
ospscity or another over sinoe,
Agassiz revolutionized American seitnet I
by a (ew words soon after ho came to this
country. At a scientific club in Boston a |
discussion arose on Dr. Hitohcock’s new
book on “Bird Tracks" The praises hid
been warm when a young foreigner, s
alranger to most of those present, store
and uid: "The defect in theeae book ie
that it-ia deescripteeve, and not comput-
teove ” That sentence marked aerial* in
bnt the dog’a lead.
Th* Only IHffaranca; HuabauU tihoaa wit* ho*
unauccoufully **ked tor *om* uon*y)— Do yon
know, my dur, tbo dlffmnco between myxlf and
e mule? Wit* (promptly!—No; I do not. Von
mail **k m* •omething «ut*r. Well, th* differ-
«no< l*. my dear, th* mul* U well tutted, while 1
am not—Drake'* M*«**ln*.
Firat thl*t—"Well. It'* qOMrhow Uu world took*
at thins*." Second Uilet—“What’* Uu matternow,
BUB" "Wart, yon know l work &* hard aa anybody
at tatarln' an’ I icarooly make a Brins." • 'That'*
•o." "An' yet my brother Brb hu aarad a million
on a a alary ot $1,50) a year, on* they call him a
■latum**."—Omaha World.
On* ot the moat tender-hearted men In tbl* coun
try live* In an adjoining county. For n*uly two
yaanho kept th* cremated remain* ot hi* Ant wit*
in a handaotu* Jar on th* mantelpiece. A tew day*
•so, during ilMty weather, ha got down tb* Jar and
•prlnkled th* aahta on th* tront.atep*. tor tear hi*
••oond wife might *Up and brash her n*ok.— Nor-
riatown Herald.
B ink pmldont-Sorry, bnt I can't accommodate
yens your paper I* not sood. Indignant cuatonur—
l remember when yon w are a poor man, 20 yean
ago, I tent yon a thonaand dollar* without Mcnrlty.
Bank pruident IplMaantlyl-I remember th* ctr-
cumetance, and I alio remember how I wondered
at yoor greenneee. Yon probably have more
now, and eo hare I. Oood-mvrnlng.—Philadelphia
Call.
Tile Cauw of a Society Nrnaatlon la AVoati-
* tngton,
Wuhlcgton Special to ltetrntt Tribune.
There U n good deal of talk in cabinet so
ciety about the President annbbing Mr. and
Mrs, Whitney et the christening of th ir
Dsbjr daughter Dorothy on Monday last.
The conapicnons absence of both bimstlf
end Mrs. Cleveland from the church, and
the afternoon tea could not lead lo another
conclusion than that it was s studied snub.
Heat* were specially set apart for them, and
it is no secret that the Whitneys wore verjr
much chagrined at their absenoe. But
while the grand event was taking place,
almost within a atene's throw of tbo White
House, the President stood et the back
window all dsy with his hands in bis
breeches pockets and a cigar in bis month
looking ont on the Euter egg rolling. That
we* eacene that pleased him better. The
atnpendous magnificence, si it were, of the
occasion was more than his Democratio
stomach conld stand. There was a chord
in hi* executive bosom that responded
more to one than to another. It is well un
derstood that all thia display and abanrd
•ping of royalty, inch as hu never been
known in Amerioa before, kept the Presi
dent awsy, bat .it did not ssitiege the
chagrin of the parent# and there is society
talk about >t-
Tux hate cf it* enemies is very compli
mentary to the Now York Sun. An n
I journal is net published m America.
Wu that Uu door boll rang. Non?” ukod Mr.
Sorter of Uu hotuemaid. "Yu, *orr. Thayer**
stnttemnn at thw dear - - m* letke ter spoke vsiA
year ton.” "Who U It!" "DlvUubltdoOlknow,
He talk* loth* er thramp." "Well, tell him
we have nothing for him to eaL aad no old clothe*."
I beg pardon, <tr," eald a vote* from Ute doorway,
'but Mr. Ferqntelte, the head welter at the hotel,
•ent it* with bla drea* anltyon wtetud to borrow
to w*or at the reception thi* nonlng.*—Oarl Pretz
el'* Weekly.
Lively Time* At a Sconce.
Hartford Time*.
They seem to have festive times at the
Boston "materializing” seances. Thursday
night Mr*. Rosa was again "exposed ”
Borne police officers went in with the ei'
poeers, and when the performance began,
they began. In the acrimmsge which en-
■ued, Mrs. Ross’s three stalwart*, who were
on guard, defended the ghoets, and there
was s general choking, clawing and pound'
ing, One "grizzly b'er” of e reporter,
from the wide, tree Weal, got e "resounding
whink nn (h« uw uLi 'h Mttlml him "
whack on the jaw, which settled him.
Each one got bruises, bnt the offleen got
Mrs. Roes, neatly naked, and a lt-year-old
girl in white who was personating a delicate
“spirit." This breaks np the Boas estab
lishment.
Probably True.
New York Herald.
There ia an old aaw that the darkest hour
isjoat before dawn. If that be true the
dawn of Ireland must be close at band, for
in a hundred years she hts bed no darker
period than the preacn'.
SIRS. WHITNEY’S BABY.
Vnklndeftt Cut of All.
Cincinnati star.
The horrible etory that tlim Sara fell on
s New York hotel waiter and ent him in
two is probably a cruel canard, devised for
advertising purposes.
SMALL SHOT.
He wee a little lawyer men.
Who eweeUy emlted ea he began
Her dear,dear hnaband'a will to scan.
Then eald to her eo tenderly.
White thinking what to nuke hie tee,
"Yon hue a nice fat 'legacy.'"
And ae he lay next day In bed.
WUh plotter o'er hte broken heed.
He wondered what on erath he'd said.
—Beaton Olobe.
Biibop Potter, during hi* East, rn visits,
(ions, confirmed no fewer than 1,000 per-
■on*.
American scientific progress.
The old silk hat worn by Abraham Lin
coln when he left Springfield, III., (ot
Washington to be inaugurated in 1861 ii
carefully preserved by Mr. George Gibeon,
of New York. It is a badly battered old
‘•stove-pipe,’’ and has on the inside lining
the autograph of "A. Lincoln." Lincoln,
when he reached New York, wan presented
with a new hst by an enterprising barter
and gave him the old one In return. Ur.
Gibson obtained it from his father, who
was a well known antiquarian.
One thing in particular struck me aboat
Miss Anderson et the time, and that wot
the fact ot her being leas like an actress then
anyone I have ever met in the theatrical
profession. She waa almost entirely devoid
of that stage "make-up" that ie used to
such excessive extent by profesiionsU.
Her pretty, gracefnl, clinging, robe, with
its low cortege was sblszs with diamond*
about the nook and shoulders, and her
slim fiogen sparkled with jewels and oho
had s way, I remembered, of running one
hand through her loose, waving brown
hair, that fell in enrling ringlets about htr
shoulders. She was quite nnliks
the Maty Anderson with which
the theatrical world—that is, tho part that
constitutes snandienoe—ia familiar. Stand
ing betide her this same night was a vary
ardent admirer and intimate friend of UiM
Anderson, from whom l have heard mash
of the latter's charaotar end personal attri-
bntea since, and much that I have heard
enhances an opinion that I have long held,
that all professional people, whether actor),
artists or authors, lead two distinct livts-
the one for the public, the other for them
selves and friends. Sinoe I have known
Mias Anderson I have met many of her
friends, and there is not one who will s)1
that this beauttf ol actress is as cold as tbs
ia invariably represented to be by a dis
criminating public How little tbe public
really known, though, **fter *1L—London
Letter.
A Pennsylvania legiilstor has been bang
in effigy et Bradford. History may ask
Why in effigy?—Pittsburg Penny Post
Twenty years from this year, Cincinnati
newspaper* will be printed on type made
where now are only "spans Confederate
populations.”—Courier-Journal.
A German dentist pulled teeth free ot
charge all day on the Emperor's birthday.
Well may the angry Frenchman hesitate be
fore patriotism like this.-Courier-Journal.
We learn from the Savannah Newt—and
a moat excellent paper it U—that “the hos
tility to Mr. Rtndall ia increutns, not only
outaide of bis State, but also in it" We
notice this statement only to suggest to our
Savannah contemporary ths sage remark of
Josh Billings, that it U better sot to know
so many things than to know so mtny
STRAY FACTS.
Moore was paid £3,000 for "Lalta Rjokh.”
Rich strikes of coarse gold are repotted
from Alaska.
The first Sunday newspsper wu pub
lished 107 years ago.
Buffalo gnats have killed a $2,100 Jeti*7
bull in Memphis, Tenn.
In the lut twelve years tbe United State*
has received 4,600,000 emigrants from tha
Old World.
Laplace died in 1827, end a memorial tab
let is now to be pnt on the bouse, in Pari*,
where he died.
There was an average of 4 71 railway ee-
cidenta per day in the United States during
the month of February.
Anew office in PitUylvsnta county, Vif'
ginii, has been named Piggs, nnd.Hezekiah
Pigga baa been made its postmaster.
The doctors have condemned the por
tiere. They any it absorbs dnst, odor*,
malaria and other iufections, and is deeta-
• ly nnheslthfai in its prcient multiplier
condition.
The Navy Department is informed that
the United State* stesmer Galons left A*p-
Bead advertisement headed
j Free,” elsewhere in this Lsne.
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