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Lewis Abrams a Neg.-o, dropped
flpail at about 10 n’olnek ■*. m. Thurs
day, out at OiigerS Piioe’s brick yard,
•where he was employed as a burlier,
Lewis was, at the tin)'* fa Ills dentil,
engaged in a quarrel with Jlni Hauon,
a fellow laborer, about the ownership
■of some meal.
Hauon hart niissert the nval from
where he hail left It, anil by*mime
means feu ml that Abrams was the
agent of its disappearance.
Going to Abrams where he was
lying on smile boards, llannn accused
lllin of linvlng taken the meal, which
■was denied. The two then began to
dispute with some warmth, when sud
denly Abrams broke oft In tile middlo
of a sentence, and fell from the boards
on which he was lying to the ground,
and remained there Imniovnble and in
an unconscious condition.
Some of the bauds quickly picked
him up and laid him back where he
had been lying, but dentil came in less
than a minute after he wns stricken.
Coroner Grnndison Winn empanel
led a jury of inquest, and n verdict to
tlio ell'ect that the deceased, Lewis
Abrains, came to his death liy natural
causes, was returned.
Dr. W. W. Bacon wns cnllcd to ex
amine Abrams, but the body wift cold
before he could get to it. The funeral
will take plaoe at the brick yard cem
etery at live o’clock this afternoon.
TUB UAILROAD TAX
blast Be Paid to tlannties nail Cities
Within Thirty Buys.
The Atlanta Qonstltution of Tuesday
says that tile railroads will have to
pay the county tax for two years with
in the next thirty dnys.
With the tax they will have to pay
7 per cent, interest from the time when
the tax wns due. That for 189(1 was
due the 20th of December of that year,
and that for 1891 was due the 20th of
last December.
Some of the railroads paid the tax
for 1890, ns the test case against the
act had not then been made. Among
those who paid the tax for 1890 is the
Central, which is the Inrgest tnxpnyer
of all the roads. The Central Btillowes
the tax for 1891, however, with 7 per
-cent, interest since the 20tli of last De
cember.
The Comptroller General says the
railroads must pay this tax within
thirty days, and he has sent out the
following notice to all the roads not
exempt by charter:
April 22.—Dear Sir: The Supreme
■Court of this State hnvingnlllrmert the
decision of the Superior Court as to
the constitutionality anil validity of
the act of 1879, taxing ■ railroads for
county purposes, you will please pay
the tax colleotor of the counties and
cities through which your road runs
the amounts due them, as per state
ment, previously furnished, within
thirty days. W. A. Wrioht,
Comptroller General.
It will be observed that the Comp
troller general calls on the railroads
for city tax also. This is in pursu
ance of an understanding that the de
cision of the Supreme Court in the
case of county taxation will be ac
cepted with reference to cities.
OK A I.ABK
With bloney Obtained on Another man’s
Pistol,
From TuOBdav’* Evening Herald.
Charley Brown, a Negro train hand
on the Columbus Southern, railroad,
was placed behind the bars this morn
ing, after leading Officer Mooney a
lively chase.
Yesterday, Brown abet up with Dock
Hall,another railroad Negro, and dis
covered that he had a pistol in his
pocket.
“You’d better not go up town wid
dat pistol iu yo’ pocket. De cops ’ll
get you sho’: let me take care of it for
you,” said Brown.
Hall gave up his pistol and Brown
took it to a store in Sandy Bottom,
sold it for $8, and proceeded to paint
the town red. When found by Hall
he was gloriously drunk,and could not
return the pistol.
Brown learned what disposition had
been made of his pistol and B wore out
a warrant before Magistrate Greer,
charging Hall with larceny after
trust.
Officer Mooney was put on track of
Hall and soon located him up on
Mansfield alley. The Negro ran when
be saw the officer approaching him
and took refuge in a Negro house,
Jocking the door behind him. When
the officer finally managed to get into
the house his man was nowhere to be
-seen, but Mooney knew he was there
and continued the search until the
Negro was found secreted in the loft.
He was promptly pulled from his
hiding place and escorted to jail.
Memphis Commercial: A Kansas
man has a skunk farm. He is proba
bly going to start a Third Party.
The Sparta Ishmaelite comes nearer
being red-hot, politically speaking, all
the time that) any other paper in Geor
gia, and no man in the State can put
more pointed paragraphs in a column
than Sidney Lewis can.
ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDA.Y APRIL 30, 1892.
BAD FOB MBI.OK GKO
tut,
Freiahl Blast Be Prepaid, Ho ftnye the
Central Tronic Aasocinfioa.
From tliu Atlmita Constitutin'.!.*
Macon, Ga., April 24.—[Special.]—
Here is apiece of unexpected, infor
mation for the melon growers tf Geor
gia. It was understood by the South
ern Railway anil Steamspip Associa
tion that llie Central Traffic Associa
tion, which controls thirty-six lines of
railway, had or would rescind
their notion recalling tile pre
payment of freight by melon ami
fruit growers, but they have declined
to do so. Freight to seven-eighths
of the markets north of the Ohio will
have to he prepaid. This, of course,
will cause nil of the “collect” markets
to be gutted early in the season. Noth
ing enn be more damaging'to the melon
market than to have one-lmlf the mar
kets prepay and the bnlnnce collect.
The following letter speaks for itself
Atlanta, April 22.—Mr.T.O.Skellle,
Macon. Dear Sir: Commissioner
Stnhimnn advises that the Central
Traffic Association at Its meeting in
Chicago, III., on the 12th, declined to
authorize the handling of melons,
fruits, etc,, oil tile basis of tile past
several years, that is, to accept the
same without prepayment or guaran
tee, hence the Central Traffic Associa
tion will demand prepayment or guar
antee on melons this year. Tills in
cludes practically all points north of
the Ohio and east of the Mississippi
rivers. However, the Southern Dis
patch (Louisville & Nashville via At
lanta, Ga., to Kvansvilie and Evnns-
vilie & Terre Haute and Decatur &
Evansville) will take melons this sea
son as last, without prepay or guaran
tee to Chiongo, Vincennes, Terre
Haute, Dnnville, Peoria ami interme
diate points on the same line. Yours
truly, J. A. Samr."
WOBKIKOB1BK .
Of America and Barope Compared br a
Frenchman.
M. Paul Desohnnel, a young member
of the Frenoli Chamber of Deputies,
who was sent to this country a few
months ago by ills government to in
vestigate the condition and develop
ment of labor organizations and labor
questions generally in the United
States, sailed for France last Satur
day. Of the results of his observations
among the working classes of Amer
ica, he says:
“The laboring oiasses are far ahead,
better fed, better clothed, better taught,
and happier than those of France,
and still more so than those of other
countries in Europe. It is almost dis-
oonrging to me to have to go back to
my country and paint a picture, in my
report, wliich shows such a contrast
between the conditions of things ill
America and France. Why, the per
fection of Inbor organizations in Amer
ica is years, I may say dnzenB of years,
in advance of anything which has
been dreamed of In France.”
Tile young Frenchman further stated
that he had found two classes of
American workingmen to whom his
laudatory remarks did not apply at all.
The workers in Western mines and
those engaged in certain brandies of
trades, such as lh-> making of cloaks
and garments, wore in a condition
quite as unfavorable, if not ns positive
ly wretched, as anything lie had known
abroad. These two oiasses were com
posed almost exclusively of ignorant
foreigners, who had not arrived at a
point of intelligence where they were
oapable of shaking themselves free
from their bondage. The great funda
mental reason for the rapid advantage
of the American workingman was
that of his superior intelligence.
SI9IFLE Icitici TO A FAITH.
FBI. DEBlOfill AT.
THEY NEED MONEY.
TUB NBHRO PRORI.EM AT Tills
NORTH.
THU MAIN RE ANON FOR CAIiMNfi
TIIR STATE ALLIANCE OFFI
CERS TOGETHER AT BIRMING
HAM
h Thnt the Funds Harr Bern Cut Off
•n Account of the Third Parly.
‘E. W. B.,” the Washington corres-
pendent of the Atlanta Constitution,
telegraphs that paper of to-day,as fo!-'
lows:
Tile meeting of the Alliance Presi
dents which has been called together
at Birmingham on the 3d of June is
not so much to get the Alliance togeth
er politically as it is to get some
money for the men who are oonduoting
tile National end of it.
A member of the legislative commit
tee tdld mo to-night that since Colonel
Polk and little Jaok Turner had ( been
trotting around the country making
Third .Party speeches many of tile
States had held back the money they
usually send on to Washington.
They are holding it baok, they (say,
because they do not care to send
money to Polk to pay his expenses
around the oountry to make Third
party speeches. As a consequence,
this man says Polk is running short of
money and needs to do something to
make the States send on that whicli
they are assessed to pay the expenses
of. the national branch of the order.
Of course besides this perhaps Col.
Polk will attempt to oarry the entire
order over into the Third party, but if
all the States are represented lie will
fail.
A majority of the State presidents In
the South will perhaps vote to with
hold all money from the national offi
cers until they agree to stop making
Third party speeches, whether they
are making them at the expense of the
Alliance or not.
TUB WATBBWOBKM BOKDS.
THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY.
Willie Capt. R. Hobbs, in his ca
pacity as Chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee of the Second
Congressional district, is being criti
cised by some for the bold and un
compromising stand that he has taken
agalnBt Ocalalsm, Third Fartyism and
every other ism that seeks to divide
and destroy the Demooratlo party, it
is gratifying to know that his devotion
to the principles of unadulterated
Democracy is appreciated by others—
and those, too, whose confidence and
esteem are worth having. Here is a
little editorial from the Valdosta
Times, which the Herald is pleased to
reproduce:
“E. HOBBS, OF ALBANY.
“There is as much Simon-pure, un
adulterated Democracy to the square
inch in the gallant old one-armed vet
eran, whose name heads this short
article, as there is honesty and man
hood in Grover Cleveland; and the
American people will say that that is
saying a great deal.
“May the Colonel’s shadow never
grow less."
Shake, Brother Pendleton I And.
while we ars at it, it is well enough to
call attention to the fact that Capt.
Hobbs’s devotion to the Democratic
party is conspicuously unselfish. While
he has been a hard worker and a forci
ble factor in politics ever since the
war, he has never sought office or
political preferment of any kind. You
never hear of him as a candidate for
office, but when the Democratic party
is on trial and there is work to do for
the party, its enemies hear from him
and feel him, too. Would that we had
more like him in the Second district.
China is not in it on American soil
—at least, not for the next ten years.
The Senate so decreed on Monday.*
Teach the Negro to respect the law
’and a sentiment will thereby be created
against lynching.—Memphis Annual
Word from Auburn, Ala., says that
an experiment made there of ginning
cotton by electricity was a complete
success. V'
The bonds of the city of Albany to
the amount of one hundred thousnnd
dollars which the people of Albany,
by an overwhelming vote, have author
ized the Mayor and Council to issue
for the purpose of erecting and con
structing a system of waterworks and
sewerage for the city, are now upon
the market. By reference to official
publication made in to-day’s Herald
it will be seen that bids for the entire
issue of the bonds, or any part thereof,
will be received by the Mayor nnd
Council until the first day of June
next.
These bonds will no doubt find
ready sale at par. They arc to bear
interest at the rate of six per cent, per
nnnum, and securities thnt are as safe
as these will be are readily taken at
such rates of interest.
Already inquiries are being received
in the city from agents’ and brokera
representing capitalists In New York
and elsewhere, and When these are
answered by the excellent showing
that is made by the Mayor and Coun
oil as the basis upon which the bonds
are to be issued, bids will be promptly
filed. But few oities in Georgia or
elsewhere can make such a financial
showing as Albany makes to-day in
placing this bonded indebtedness upon
the market, and if our six per cent,
bonds do not find ready sale at par, or
even at a little premium, we shall be
disappointed.
Every Third Party man 1b a leader.
William Astor, the New York
millionaire, died at' Fnris Monday. '
Col. Wooten, preached Democracy
to the people of Worth oounty yester
day.
While the people of the North are
very liberal with the public money
when it comes to pensioning Union
soldiers' and improving the grounds
and perpetuating the graves of Union
dead wherefer they have been found
in the South, they seem to show very
little patriotio appreciation of their
soldier dead when they have to go
down into their own poekets to give
expression to it. No monument has
yet been raj[sed to the memory of Gen
Grant, who nas been dead now nearly
seven years,'and his grave" in'New
York is neglected. The “Neglected
Grave” is-made the subject of a full
page cartoon by Thomas Nast in last
Sunday’s Chicago Inter-Ooean. If the
Republican party could put its hand
into the public treasury for the neces
sary money with which to raise a
costly monument to perpetuate the
memory of Grant, thus making the
South share the cost, it would doubt
less have been done long ago; but it
doesn’t seem probable that the North
ern people will ever reara fitting mon
ument to their greatest General by
popular or voluntary subscription.
Political fun will soon commence.
Big conventions are near.
Savannah is making big prepara
tions for the May week festival.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is seriously
ill at Monte Carlo.
The religious nnd Republican news
papers of the North aro still perplexed
with the Negro problem. If any such
problem renily exists, It Is one which
concerns tile people of the Nortli less
than those of any other section of this
country; and yet (hey insljt, if we nre
to judge by what we read in their
newspapers, In taking the subject ns
one of vital interest to themselves.
Religion and Republicanism don’t
generally altlllnte to ally appreciable
extent at the Nortli, and there is but
one thing upon which the religious
and Republican press of thnt scotlon
appear ever to bo agreed, and that is
up’oii worrying over the Negro prob
lem at tho South,instead of concern
ing themselves about the grent nnd far
more dangerous sooln) problem that is
presented to them nt homo by the mon
grel foreign element that is pressing
in upon them.
The Heiiald tins never seen any
cause for alarm over whnt is popularly
known ns the Negro problem in tills
country; but to those of us who know
the Negro as he is nnd have to deal
with him and the problem that lie fur
nishes as n reality rather than ns a
matter of religious sentiment or polit
ical prejudice, it is a little strange that
our Northern friends should presume
to know so tnuoli more nbout it than
we do and treat it ns a matter in which
they are more directly Interested than
we or even the Negroes themselves
are.
And even the college professors of
tlie Nortli nre much concerned over
the Negro problem and feel called
upon to discuss it in leotures and in
the newspapers and mngazlnes. Now
comes Prof. Jenks, of Cornell Univer
sity, with tile announcement of Boma
doleful conclusions ns to the colored
people. He indicts them for divers
and sundry sins of omission and com
mission; thinks they will never amount
to much ns men or oitizens, anil be
lieves that tlie best they can do is to
migrate to Africa. Of course Prof. Jenks
knows little or nothing about the Ne
gro as he is in his present condition,
and should not be expeoted to know
anything about the Negro problem;
still he seems to take the subject to
his heart and insists upon worrying
himself and as much of the publlo ns
he lias aocess to with wlint lie Imagines
to be an entirely original and sensible
solution of n great problem.
It Is refreshing to us to see n Negro
paper published nt the North take
issue with Prof. Jenks and show a
keener perception nnd a great deni
more oommAn sense in denting with
the subject in hand than the learned
Professor has displayed.
The Freeman, a Negro paper pub
lished at Indianapolis, in commenting
upon the Professor’s solution of the
great “problem,” says:
Ho ohnrgOH tho Negro with running the
Southern States in <loht during whnt is known
ns tho “cnrpot-bng period,” wl»«n “eduemed*'
whito Hdvonturora from Allmnr, Boston, Now
York, Phiindelphln nnd other Northern oltie*
not only took ndvnntnge of the numbers nnd
inexpcrionco of n newly declared rnce of
“freedmen” for solflsti, unpntriotlo purposes,
but of tho holplossness of n conquered, defeated
people of their own nice, to ndd titles to their
names, nnd insert their nrms shoulder dcop in
the public treasuries of that unfortunate w»o-
tion.
This is good 1 And it is made a!! the
better by the fact that it comes from a
Negro paper—and a Northern Negro
paper at that.
Nothing can be truer than that the
whites of the North were responsible
for the villainous “carpet-bag” era.
The Negroes had nothing to do with U
except to be duped and blindly led by
the adventurers that came into the
South from the North. They followed
their professed benefactors, the carpet
baggers, religiously, and were kept in
a state of hopefulness for a long time
by the carpet-baggers’ promise of
“forty acres and a mule,” while the
carpet-baggers themselves were “re
constructing” the country and shame
lessly robbing the Impoverished white
people of the Southern States of every
thing they could get their hands on,
while the “God and morality” element
at the North, now so much concerned
about the Negro problem, stood like a
Bolid phalanx in support of whatever
was done in the naine / of party and
Federal power.
The New York Sun says of Dr. Park'
hurst: “The mischief accomplished
by .the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst’s acts and
example, among the young men of the
country, is something almost incon
ceivable in its extent and truly infer
nal in its quality. Can any repentance
obliterate such sin as his?” The Sun
must have been caught in the cyclone
stirred up by Dr. Parkhurst to so em*
phaticully denounce the actions of a
man who sets hts . teeth hard against
public oplniou in order to combat
public evils.
Col. Wooteh likes to meet the op
ponents of Democracy in joint debate,
and can hold bis own with the ablest
of them.
Democracy takes courage wherever
Col. C. B. Wooten speaks to the peo
ple on the issues of the day. Let the
good work go on, Colonel.
Good news from over the sea—the
demi-train is to disappear.. From
Paris comes the news that walking
dresses are made much shorter.
An Ideul Bridal Trip 8ugge»tod by Frank
Stockton, tho Nuvolint.
It was Frank Stockton who sug
gested to a family the idea of a wed
ding which, though unusual, was
quite tho most sensible one I’ve ever
heard of.
“Why do you want to go nwayt"
asked Stockton of the brido elect, a 1
he sat iiktlie family circle shortly be
fore tlie wedding.
“Oh, everybody must go on a wed
ding journey," she answered.
“And whnt good does it do every
body,” he said, in his quiet, quizzical
way. “You might travel around the
world and come home without hav
ing seen anything but each other.
Send them all off, and you twA stay
hero and keep house," ho concluded,
with n ’ wave of his small, brown
hand toward tlie rait of the family,
who sat listening to tho proposition
in open mouthed umnzemout.
Tho idea WAis then discussed by all
of them from all points, and settled
upon as just the loveliest arrange
ment possible.
“For," said the bride, “mamma
and papa haven't had a real long
holiday since then- wedding tour, and
mamma needs a rest sorely after all
tho bother over my trousseau."
The little boys were in high glee
over getting out of the city so early
in the summer, and the younger sis
ters found some school friendB to
visit.
As to the father and mother of the
family, they both didn’t see how it
could possibly be managed, but they
were overruled at last and packed up
their trunks with a feeling of youth
ful exuberance upon the eve of thb
wedding, whiph occurred in their
drawing room.
A simple affair it was, with a few
intimate friends for gnests. The
bride wore an enobantingly pretty
tea gown and corned a golden key
basket filled with roses. The mem
hereof the family-were all dressed
in new traveling suits, and nt in
o’clock they bade the wedded couple
a jolly goodby and went their way
rejoicing to catch their trains.
Nobody cried. The mother couldn't
weep over the toss of a daughter Hhe
was going to leave safe and sound
beneath her own vine and fig tre«.
and the brothers and sisters were
too gay over going to give way to
tears.
The Result of this wedding journey
wherein the family did the journey
tog was entirely satisfactory to every
one. The young husband suffeied
no inconvenience from had cooktotr.
for his mother-in-law left a cot •
tent and beautifully trained corps of
servants, and the domestic machin
ery moved on golden wheels. '
It wns the beginning of summer
and nearly everybody had left for
the country, so tho happy people
were left unmolested, and I am sure
that the dome of the capitol, if they
noticed it at all, wus greater just
then to them than all the grand
buildingB of the world would have
seemed at some other time; that the
porks were Arcadios, and that even
the many multiplied statues and pic
tures of the father of our country
beamed upon them with a benefi
cence and brotherly love unequaled
by that irradiated from tho elegaic
countenances of foreign Madonnas.
And I am sure, should you ask this
couple's advice about a wedding trip
this very day. they would answer
that the beef way to take a wedding
journey is to stay at home.—Atlanta
Constitution.
■ Crimlui-c* t.r IZublt.
Thovo are tv. o resorts down town
whoro you eon moot almost aiiybody
at some hour during the middle of
tho day—at tho Cafe Snvarto or at
the Astor Houso rotunda. A good
many business men of tho tower city
seem to make it a part of their tidi
ness to drop in at one or both .if
these places every day. It is well
known thnt some are likely to meet
pooplo tliero they don’t wish to see.
I happened to mention this peculiar
ity to a gentleman and he said:
It is bocauso tho set you look for
come boro, that’s all. There am
plenty of other places, each having
its satellites Tho business world 1ms
a boaton track for tho most part.
That is, most business men, being
regular to their habits, do mostly
tho same thing every day. They
can't help it. They may studiously
vary for a short time, hut thoy soon
fall back into tho rut. Most of theso
men lead a life os humdrum as that
of a horse breaking tonbark. Men
of good business habits, ns wo call it,
are as regular as clockwork. Tim
other fellows are equally regular in
their irregularity. And this irregu
larity becomes just os monotoixuu
to them os if it were the exact oppo
site.—Now York Herald.
Y. Unreasonable Male DIpad.
Husband (compelled to write a hur
ried business letter at home)—Where
to creation is the ink?
Wife—In the front left hand corner
of my workbnsket. That’s on the
comer of the dressing table to the
north room upstairs.”
“Where’s the paper?"
“I am just out, but I believe tho
girl has some. I’ll see. ”
"Where are the pens?”
“Somebody stepped on the pen last
week, and I forgot to get another,
but I’ll sond over to Mn. Makeshift's
and see if she has one. Sheisalways
borrowing mine.”
“Huh! Anyone might think no
one to this house ever wrote a letter.”
“Nonsense I There isn’t a more
voluminous correspondent anywhere
than I am. You men can never wait
a minute for anything. I’ll warrant
after I’ve half killed myself getting
all the thf igs together you won’t
write a dozen lines.”—New York
Weekly.
Always Slakes Presents of Pipes.
Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the
New York Herald, is a great pipe
smoker, and is fond of making pro*
ents of pipes to his friends. One of
his novel ideas is to have a pipe case
made of solid silver, lined with
chamois, and costing (100. The out
side of the case is richly engraved
and bears the name of the recipient.
Prpbably every captain ' of every
steamship on which Mr. Bennett has
been a passenger has received one of
these pipe cases. The meerschaum
pipe to the case is of the plainest pos
sible description, and is worth per-
haps five dollars. It is strong arid
serviceable, however.—Collector.
De Chappie Get* a Tip.
De Chappie—Aw. sonny, hovyou
a lift here?
Store Boy (confidentially) — Yep.
That there big feller wid red hair an
freckles is de bouncer. Wat yer
sellin?—Good News.
A Great Collection.
Romonyi, tho well known violin
virtuoso, hna a great collection of
rnro African ethnological specimens
wliich comprises over 1,500 carefully
selected articles. It has been formed
duiing tho Inst forty years, and in
boyond question tho most perfect of
its kind. It is especially rich in tiro
anciont regal symbols in use among
tho Zulus, including scepters, royal
brncolots, which wero used instead of
crowns, nnd othor emblems of hum-
inorod silver, of carved and polished
ivory nnd of rhinoceros horn. Tlio
royal bracelets are especially inter
C8ting. Thoy are hollowed rings
mado from transvorso sections of
Inigo olophnnt tuskB, and until liis
dentil were novor taken off after
onco placed on the arm of tho king.
Thoro are also several splendid
spcchnonB of the exceedingly rare
and beautiful royal mantles of the
sovoroigns of Madagascar 300 and
mbro years ago. Theso mantles aro
curiously adorned with broideries of
metal and of uncut precious stonra
and of fenthorwork. Every speci
men to tho collection iB perfect ni.d
unique of its kind. -Philadelphia
Ledger.
Compnnlon Stenuiom nt Sen.
Ocean races have become ns un
avoidable evils ns Btorms and sen
fogs, nnd n plurality of passengers
may continue to accopt them as pref
erable alternatives, bnt considering
tho protest of nn influential minority
it seems hard to understand why
their risk bus not at least boon modi
fied in tho way proposed l>y Pro
fessor Marqunrd, of Hamburg, and
Captain do la Gardic, of the Belgian
navy, viz., the use of “companion
stoamors." In nine out of tea cases
tho worst consequences of shipwreck
could liavo lieon averted if more offl-
ciont help than that of frail lifeboats
had boon near nt hand, and as tho
chance against tho probability of
both vessels being wrecked at tlie
saino time would be a thousand 1
ono, tho popularity of tho fleet
“ocean greyhound” could he eclipse
by tho plan of letting paasenge
steainors start pairwise and keep 11
communieations by means of si
lights and fog hells.—Felix Unw
in Chautauquan.
Character In Portrait*.
It is hard to roly on portraits,
hnvo seen, in an exhibition in Pa '
a portrait of Robespierre at tho c
max of his influence, and ho 1
like a placid provincial practi'
whoso brow lind not broadened w'
power or wrinkled with respon
ty. I saw at tho same timo two
temporary portraits of Louis
borrowed from somo historic c
teau, as littlo like each other us
let and Polonius. In one Qf
tho artist had idealized the king
face into certain strength anil
ty; tho othor might lie taken as
caricature of a constitutional '
it was such a coarse, commonp
countonanco as tho daguorreo
sometimes unexpectedly reveals, a
a clumsy figuro on which royal m
linery looked quite out of place.— S
C. Gavan Duffy in Contempo
Review.
Feslhers Heavier Tlinn <iol,l.
In ono of Charles Reade’s novels
Jewish tradoris mado to ask, "Whi
is tho heavier, a pound of feathers
a pound of gold?” After a while
explains, to tho satisfaction of
audience of miners, that the feat
aro tho heavier.
Gold, ho says, is woighed by
weight, while feathers are weigh
by avoirdupois; and as tho twel
ounces in a pound troy contain b
5,760 grains, while tho avoirilupi
pound contatos7,000 grains, the po;
of fcathors is of course 1,2-10 gnv
heavier than tho pound ot gold!
Youth’s Companion.
Discovery of m Gutta Porcha Forest
It is reported that a now forest
tho most valuable species of g
perchtt has been discovered n
Singapore. This particular q
of gutta perchn was formerly in
domand for submarine cables,
tho ignorant natives whoro tlio f
csts were located destroyed tlie tr
in their eagerness to supply the in
ket.—Exchnnge.