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City Market; Levan’s Table d’Hote. Business Notices—Coffee Connoisseurs, The S. W. Branch Company. We Said See, Stop, Look—B. H. Levy & Bro. Salt—The Favorite Table Salt. Time to Eat Fruit—Munster’a. Down # Goes the Prices of Men s Fine Shoes— At Byck Bros. Grape Nuts Food—At the Groceries. Educational—Shorter College, Rome, Ga.: Pantofs Academy, Near Charlottes ville, Va. Corsets Thomson’s "Glove-Fitting” Corsets. Mineral Water—Appolinarls. Medical—Lydia Pinkham Pills; Dr. Wil liams* Pink Pills; Hood’s Sarsaparilla; Tutt’s Pill?; Mother’s Friend; Hoeford s Acid Phosphate; Bar-Ben. Auction Sales—Elegant Property, by I. D. LaJJoche, Auctioneer; Administrator*? Sale, by C. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer. Legal Notices—Notice to Debtors and Creditors, Estate of John H. Smith. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted; Employment Wanted, For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. The "Weather. The Indication? for Georgia, to-day are. for generally fair weather, and light to freh southwesterly wind?; and for East ern Florida, local rains in eouthern por tion. fair In nothern portion, and fresh southeasterly winds. Theae are days in which man cats his bread in the sweat of his face. The param unt question in politic* now i*, what is the paramount Issue? Pennsylvania and Maryland have agreed to share the expense of having the old Mason and Dixon’s line between them re aurveyed and marked with monuments. The work is to be performed by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and will be begun early in September. When Li Hung Chang has disappeared Into the Cimmerian darkness of Pekin, to what Chinaman may we look for Informa tion with any sort of confidence as to its truthfulness? The American people would believe Minister Wu Ting Fang, but un fortunately he is not in a position to fur nish information that he can unhesitating ly vouch lor. “You may fix his sentence,” said Judge Davis of the Cortland, N. Y., court to Mis. Cookingham, whose husband had been convicted of assaulting and beating her. "1 think thirty days in Jail would be about the right thing,” said the woman. "The sentence is confirmed," said the Judge, and Cookingham went to jail to serve the sentence imposed by his wile. It is believed in Washington that Sec retary Gage would not consent lo be a member of the new cabinet in the event of President McKinley's re-election de siring to engage In private business. Should it devolve upon Maj. McKinley to select a successor to Mr. Gage it Is said his choice would fall upon Charles (J. Dawes, at present Controller of the Cur rency. Amos Musser. of Chambershutg, Ta , is a follow* r of an w religion which teaches that with faith one may accomplish any thing desired. Amos thought he would try how flying felt, so he went up to his sec ond story window and Jumped out. The thump with which he struck the giound nearly broke his bones. He remarked when he gat up that it was Just as he had expected. Five hundred years ago, according to Dr. Haslep, a returned misstqnary. It was prophesied that 50tt years thereafter five yang <sheep) would come to divide Ch na, but that a teoong (beat) would come forth and devour them. "Sheep” also means for.igners, and "bear" means s general. The story inn rpreted means thatjive for eign nations would seek to divida China, but that a g*n, ral would arise and de liver the country. The time for fulfilment of the prophecy ha* now arrived, end Dr. Hashp believe* that It is this legend or superstition that is moving the ce S**se to action. A REJECTED ADDRESS. It is nor surprising that the convention I of the Southern Industrial League which j met in Atlanta last Wednesday rejected the I address to the public which had been pre pared by a committee appointed by the league at its convention last year. The : ground on which it. was rejected was that j it was, in effect, a Republican campaign locurrsnt. The address was not rejected : without debate, and it may be that if this ■ were not a presidential year the opposi tion to it would not have been so pro ' nounced as it #as. There is no doubt that the address, if it had been adopted would have been made a campaign document by the Repub licans, though it is certain that ir> prepar ing it the commlttee had no intention to offer aid and comfort to the Republican*. They simply set forth in the address the things they thought essential to the busi ness Interests and prosperity of the South. The fact that the address was rejected, and another committee appointed to pre pare an address to the. public to be pre sented to the convention next year, show? that the committee that was discharged did not express the views of Southern business men as represented In the South ern Industrial League. The address favored the gold standard, a ship subsidy, a tariff for protection and the permanent possession of the Philip pines, though the retention of the Phil ippines tvas not expressly advised. The establishment of trading stations in those I islands was advised, and the inference ffom the language used was that the lh- | terests of the *South would be advanced by the retention of the islands. 'There is no doubt a strong sentiment in the .South in favor of holding on to the Philippines. This sentiment has shown it- j •self more than once in the meetings of Southern cotton manufacturers. Southern cotton mill men look to the Far East as a great market for the products of their mills. Indeed, for several years, much of the products of the mills of North Caro lina and South Carolina have been sent to China, and the trade with that coun try has been a growing one. It is not a matter of wonder that the address contained an approval of the gold standard. Many Southern Democrats favor that standard. Indeed, in the towns the gold standard sentiment te quite strong. The most surprising feature of the address was the approval it gave the ship subsidy scheme. Asa rule Democrat? are stongly against all subsidy schemes. There are many manufacturers among the members of the League, and that fact accounts no doubt for the approval given the doctrine of tariff for proteotion. It is not Improbable that Southern manufac turers will support to some extent manu facturers of the North In demanding pro tection. The Southern |>eople, however, stand by the Democratic doctrine of tariff for revenue. And it is probable that the sentiment for protection in the South will never become as pronounced as it is in the North, because, for various reasons, manu facturing can be done cheaper in the South than in the North. No doubt the rejected address will be the occasion of some comment in Republican newspapers, but it will afford the Re publican party very little comfort. There is no immediate prospect that that party will gain any stronger hold in the South than it has at present. What little move ment there was towards a white Republi can party In the South was checked by Mr. McKinley’s policy of filling many of the principal offices with negroes. THE I’IIBSIUIDTS REASON. Speaking of the decision of the President not to call an extra session of Congress the Philadelphia Times says: “President McKinley has erred seriously' in decid ing. after a conference with his cabinet, that Congress should not be summoned to deal with the exceptionally grave prob lems which confront the government. It Is idle to resort to hair-splitting on the question as to whether or not we are at war with China. We are actually involv ed in war, and the wise thing would be to call it by its right name and look the appaling fact in the face. The fact that the President has declined to summon Congress gives a bad flavor to his attl ♦ude before the country. It greatly strengthens the accusations of his imper ial purposes, and certainly impairs confi dence among many who sincerely desire to support the administration." It may he that the real reason the Pres ident decided not to call Congress togeth er at this time is the difficulty there would be in getting a quorum of Republi cans. The Republican majority in the House is a very narrow one. The Presi dent would not like to have Congress in session at this time with the Democrats In the majority. They might take steps that would result In some decidedly un pleasant revelations. The most of the rich men in Congress are. Republicans. The Plutocrats are on Ihe Republican side of Ihe House and Sen ate, rot on the Democratic side. They can afford to go abroad when Congress is not in session, and it is the understanding that many of them are now In Paris at tending tlie exposition. It would take quite a long time to get them to Washing ton. It is certain that the President would not call Congress together unless he were assured of <he presence of a Re publican majority, except there was an emergency that admitted of no del*)'. He is not going to give the Democrats a chance to make campaign apeechcs in Congress while a procidentia 1 campaign Is in progress. The Textile World publishes a sum mary record of textile machinery now in the United S ates oompated with wh at was to be found here ten years ago. It shows that the growth has been very large. The per centtige# of igcrease are as follows: Cotton spindles, 48.4; cotton looms, 50.5; woolen sets of cards, 7.9; worsted combs, 76.6: woolen and worsted looms, 19; knit ting machines, 107.6; silk spinning and twisting spindles, 95.5; silk looms, 131.7. Massachusetts still leads in the cotton industry. While cotton spindles have In creased in the Northern states only 19.8 per cent. In ten years, the Increase In the Southern states has been 217 per cent. "To Shanghai” is a verb that is known to every deep sea sailor who speaks the English language. It describes the process of getting a sailor drunk, or knocking him senseless, and carrying him off to sea while In that condition. Will current affairs In China give us other verbs to describe the butchering of helpless for eigners, and the sending of stupendous and cruel falsehoods to the civilized world a* authentic new*7 THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1900. TIIIS MESSAGE FRO>l CONGBIt There does not Appear to be any good reason 4o doubt the genuineness of the j message delivered to the Secretary of State yesterday by the Chinese minister, purporting to be signed by Mr. Conger, our minister to Pekin. It was \p the slate department cipher. That cipher is not understood by anybody in Pekin ex cept Mr. Conger or members of our lega tion there. Still, there have been so many reports respecting the foreign ministers and their families at Pekin that there will be hesitation in accepting the truth of this message signed with Mr. Conger’s name untli it Is confirmed. According to the date of the message it was sent on last Wednesday, and was in response io the message sent by Minister Wu, at Washington, at the request of Sec retary Hay. The statements made in the message, however, are similar to statements made in messages relative to the legations at Pekin received through other sources. Some of the messages, it is true, slated that the members of all of the legations had been massacred, and be fore being killed had been subjected to all sorts of indignities. The most of them, however, contained statements to the ef fect that the foreign ministers and their families were at the British lega tion. which was being bombarded, and that all of them would be massacred unless there was quick relief. Jt the message that came through Min ister Wu is genuine, why is it that the Chinese soldiers have not been able to batter down the walls of the British lega tion long before this? And why is it that the occupants of the legation were not starved out long ago? These are questions to which there is no answer. Again, it is remarkable that Mr. Conger was not permitted to communicate with Washington until Minister Wu requested a message from him. And why was Mr. Conger’s mes&age so short? The Chinese government sent a mesasge to Washington a few days ago that contained many hun dreds of words. It would seem as if Min ister Conger would have been permitted to send as long a message as he pleased, and that the ministers of other nations would be permitted to send messages. The power than enabled him to send a few words ought to he sufficient to enable him to send a full explanation of the situa tion. There is a great deal of mystery in th ? whole matter. If it were not that the message received by the Secretary of State was in the cipher of the state de partment there would be excellent rea sons for doubting its genuineness. POINT NOT WELL TAKEN. The N< w York Sun is trying to make a point against Mr. Bryan by quoting from a speech he made in Madison Square Gar den in 1896, in response to the formal no tification of his nomination for Presi dent. In that speech he said that the paramount issue was the money question, and declared that “uniil that issue is set tl'd, all other issues are insignificant.” That issue is not yet settled, but the paramount issue now is not the money question but ami-imperialism. The Sun wants to know how Mr. Bryan reconciles his statement in 1896 relative to the money question with his attitude now respecting the issues of the pending campaign. It does not stem to us that the point is well taken. What Mr. Bryan meant by his statement in 1896 was that silver was the paramount question in the campaign of that year. He could not foresee what would happen before the next presiden tial campaign; hence his remarks had reference only to the campaign which was then in progress. If Mr. Bryan could have foreseen the Spanish-iAmerican war it Is probable he would have taken care to make his meaning so clear that there could he no doubt about it. No doubt he said a great many things in the last pres idential campaign which the Republicans w.ll undertake to use against him. There is very little that he said, however, that can be so twisted out of its true meaning as to do him harm. A CHANCE FOR DEWEY. It begins to look as if Admiral Dewey would be called on to accept a nomina tion for President. Until within the last few days it was not thought tha4 there would be a Gold Democratic ticket. It is the understanding, however, that it is the purpose of Gold Democrats to put a ticket in the field. If those who will meet at Indianapolis on July 25 fail to make a nomination Gold Democrats in New Y'ork will do so. It was the Gold Democrats who ap proached Admiral Dewey sometime ago on the question of accepting a presiden tial nomination. At that time they were quite sure they would make a nomlna lion. Sometime afterwards, however, the opinion prevailed that Gold Democrats would be left to vote as they pleased— either for Mr. McKinley or Mr. Bryan— or not vote at all. For some reason or other the determination has been reached rather suddenly to nominate a presiden tial candidate. No doubt Admiral Dewejs would make as good a run as any other man the Gold Democrats could nominate, hut there is uo probability that he would get as many votes as were east for the Pal mer-Buckner ticket. There is some hon or. however, in being a presidential can didate, and it is probable that Admiral Dewey would he glad to have a chance to be one of tho presidential candidates In the contest of 1960. The growth of the pineapple industry in Florida has been little shor t of marvelous, and It is quite certain that the limit of its possibilileis has not yet been ap proached. In our dispatches of yesterday it was stated that pines grown from plants raised at Orlando had been sold in Lon don for fancy prices. It is within the range of possibilities that a considerable business In Florida pines In the English market will be built up. Like the Florida orange, the Florida pine is winning a rep utation for ite excellence. How great the money value of the crop of the season now ending has been may be seen from the statement that the production on the Florida mainland has been about 130.000 crates, and that the growers have netted for them about $2 per crate. There Is money In raising the fruit at such figures. The crop of the next season will no doubt be considerably larger, but there is little danger of glutting the market. The Florida pines, being the best, practically make a market for themselves. The late Gov. Goebel was a native of Pennsylvania, ns is also John W. Yerkes, who has been nominated by the Kentucky Republicans for Governor. What Is lhe matter with Kentucky, that she has lo itn port her gubernatorial timber! The province of Chili, China,,which is now in anarchy, is only about 8,000 square miles larger than the state of Georgia; nevertheless Chili has of prpula tion to Georgia's 2,000,000. One is apt to think New York a poFu:ous state, with its 6.10;,000 of inhabitant, until it is compar ed with the province of Ngan Hwuy, of about the same area, which has a popu- j lat'on of 21.0X1.C00. The population of the United States as a whole is about 20 per sons to* the square mile. The population of the Chinese empire is about 3)0 per , square mile. Not only was it a woman who first gave man apples to tat, but it is said on the authority of the federal Department of Agriculture that It was a woman who gave the United States seedless oranges. These oranges were first produced in Brazil. An American woman traveling in that country noticed them and wrote to the Department of Agriculture about them, suggesting that they be tried in this j country. From that suggestion eventually j came the gr*at seedUss orange industry of California and Florida. Police regulations in Philadelphia take no note of temperature and humidity. It Is the rule that the coats of policemen j shall be buttoned, and from that rule • there must be no departure. Several but- j toned-up policemen have fallen on their | beats from the heat during the past few days, and one has died. Nevertheless the policemen are still forced to wear waist coats and keep their coats tightly but toned. The authorities insist on a neat appearance of the policemen, heat or no heat. PERSONAL. —Morton Russell Cotes of Bourne mouth, England, has presented to the United States, through Ambassador Choate, a bust of George Washington made of black basalt wedgwood. Presi dent McKinley has requested Secretary Hay to write to Mr. Cotes thanking him for the gift. —EI wood Hofer, who has made a living for many years as a guide and hunter in Yellowstone Park, has gone to Kadiak Island, in the Gulf of Alaska, on a diffi cult errand. He has been commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution to capture one of the monster bears which live on the above named island, none of which has ever been taken alive. The animals are of the polar variety, perfectly white, and when full grown are twice as large as the ordinary black bear of the Rocky moun tains. The average Kadaik Island bear weighs from 2,400 to 3,000 founds, and stands as high as a cow. —A great deal has been heard lately of Mr. Gilbert’s autocratic 6tage manage ment of his own plays. Ho has a caustic method with actors and actresses who dif fer from him. The New York Tribune re lates that at a rehearsal of. “Trial by Jury,” in which the plaintiff has to pro duce from her pocket a stocking, which is •npposed to form part of her trousseau, the lady who represented the plaintiff ob jected on the grounds of the impropriety of the thing. “Very funny,” Mr. Gilbert retorted; “whenever any one shows a stocking on the siage it is considered im proper unless it has a leg inside it.” BRIGHT HITS. —Fair Painter—“l hope you don’t mirul my sketching in your field?’’ Farmer— “lxml, no, missie! You keep the birds off the peas better'll a’ ordinary eoarce orow.”—Tit-Bits. —“Grafter must have turned over anew leaf. He tells me he’s working night and day.” “Yes, that’s the firm he’ with now.” “What?” “Knight & Day.”— Philadelphia Press. —At a Disadvantage.—“ David was a good fighter,” said the professional pugi list, “but he had some hard luck.” “You mean the David who slew Goliath?” “Yes. He could have made a mint o’ money out o that fight if moving pictures had only been invented then.”—Washington Star.' —Preparatory.—Ethel—‘"Mamma, don’t you think women should know how to cook so that they may be able to look after their husband s digestion when they marry?” Mamma—“Certainly, dear.” Ethel Mayn t Igo to the kitchen then and practice making butter scotch?”— Brooklyn Life. -“Higgins, I’ve come to you for ad vice. What ought ft man of my capnhi!-' ities and opportunities to do in order to achieve the greatest success in life?" Gurnpy, I wish you had come to me with tliai question about five years ago. I could have told you all about it then. I was just out of college.’W-Chicago Tri bune. CI RBKM' f'OSUIEXT. The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: "The problem in China is not one to be settled in a spirit of vindictiveness. It requires the most careful deliberation and should be approached in the spirit of exact jus tice. To force this government into war with China would be a crime as well as a calamity. When the sober second thought of the American people asserts itself they will pay no heed ’to those who would carry the sword and icrch imo China in the spirit of hatred and*revenge Mr. McKinley and his advisers should adopt as their rule of conduct in lhe crisis which has arisen in China the good old maxim: ‘Make haste slowly.’ There is no reason why this country should hurry into trouble." The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.) says: “There is no question that the great est development of the negroes can he gained only by distributing them among the higher races, so that they may be Improved by association and compeiltlon. To maintain great, compact negro populations in the Southern Slates of the Union must operate as an obstruc tion to the progress and development of the South and an injury to the superior race in contact with them. Any great movement that will distribute the nagroes among the whites and other superior races will tie all the better for them and for the Southern States.” The Philadelphia Times (Ind.) sast>: "The hour that decided the President lo send the army and navy to Invade China for the defense of American citizens should have tinted n call for Congress to meet In extraordinary session, and so far from relieving lhe President of com plications In the campaign *he probabili ties are that Imperialism will be given new and additional consequence in the contest greatly to his disadvantage It | H always safe for a high official to do the right thing and to do It In the right way. and above all an American President should mist the American people and their representatives.” The Hartford Times (Dem.) says: "The thing that the United States is now call ed upon to decide is not whether It will go to war with China, but whether it will adopt a policy which will require an army of Untied Stales troops to lie pc r . manently maintained In China. The who j will haul down the flag?’ argument will be a good deal more forceful when ap plied to Chinn after we have begun to I water the soil of China with American I blood, thnn It has proved 111 regard to ihe Philippines. " \ I'ainfitijji at n Song. “The pecret of true art.” said the sreat French painter Millet, “is to paint what one does not Bee.” On one occasion, says one who knew’ him well, he put before a friend a canvas he had just finished, says the Youth's Companion. “What does that tell you?” he asked. It was only the edge of a country lane, with a few dandelions and four-o'ck>cks growing amid the gras?. The friends, vho was also an artist, stood for some mo ments silent before this simple scene. Presently he said “I don't know what I see, but I hear the nightingale.” And it was, in truth, the song of the nightingale that Millet had painted. \\ liut Troubled Him Most. The young man and the maiden were standing together in the gloaming, say? London Answers. He look her lily-white hand In his, and. fitting on a rustic seat near by, drew her gentiy toward him. “My darling,” he said, “can you gue®? what is in my mind?” “X-no,” faltered the maiden, gazing at her shoes. “W-what is it, Dick?’ "I’m eitrlng on wet paint!” he shriek- springing madly into the air. The maiden gazed at him in horror. “Alas! now I understand what papa meant when he said he would leave his mark on you,” she faltered. “Oh, what ever can I say to him, the wretched man?” Her companion answered not, but strode into Gie night, murmuring: Whatever shall I say to the wretched dresssuit agency?” A Specter Hand. The ghosts which are said to frequent the precincts of Hampton Court Palace are more or less known by reputation, but their ramblings have been promiscu ous and uncertain, says the Golden Pen ny. Great interest in their movements has, however, been newly aroused by the strange experience undergone by an ar tist who. during the past few weeks, has been visiting certain rooms of the palace for the purpose of sketching the old Flem ish tapestry on the walls. W'title engaged in the guard watching chamber in broad daylight this gentle man, Mr. HJVynes of Surbiton, positively asserts that a specter hand, white and delicate and richly jeweled, has persist ently intruded between him and the tapes-* try. At first he imagined the disturbing element must be one of the many hands so beautifully inscribed on the tapestry, but the limb, he says, moved slowly from one stage to another, and pointed down ward. Mr. Hayes was much agitated, and told several friends of this curious visitation. They, not unnaturally, per haps, advised him to dismiss the subject from his mind and return to the chamber und his work. Rut the hand reappeared before his startled eyes; and on the last appearance of the phantom the artist made a hurried sketch of the outstretched hand, the rough outline of which depicts a brilliant marquise ring on the forefinger. The ef fect of these continued visits of the su pernatural on Mr. Hayes is very visible; he is unnerved, and he has suspended his sketching. These are the plain facts, but there is, j it would seem, a weird and historic con | nection between this hand and the hand | of the Queen Catherine Howard, one of I the wives of King Henry VIII. Forgot All About Hi* Horne*. Congressman Littlefield of Maine, the successor of the late Nelson Dingley in the House, who has twice distinguished himself by brilliantly taking a firm stand against the “machine” majority of his party there, was at the University Club the other night, the guest of a party of New York friends, Bays the New York Commercial. There was little doubt of his nomina tion last summer by the special Repub lican convention that had been called, but Littlefield thought it best to Iqok very closely after his fences. So he “shook” his office and practice for about a month in order to “nail” delegates. During this period he was traveling over the district a good deal, and his family didn’t see much of him. On the evening following the adjourn ment of the nominating convention Little field was besieged at his home by hosts of callers, who came to congratulate him. While the punch was going around at the liveliest pace and the room was blue with cigar smoko Mrs. Littlefield appeared at the door. She shook hands cordially with all h* r husband’s assembled friends and neighbors, and then, turning to the hero of the hour, paid: “Well, Charlie, you got the nomination, did you?” , "Yes. It was more than unanimous. It was overwhelming. I really needn’t have fretted over the thing at all.” “You are quite sure that you are all through with politics for the present?” "Yes.” "Then, please, before you settle your self in the office again, go down to the stable and water the horse. I’ve been do ing it myself for a month back, whenever I happened to think of it, and I’m tired of it!” It was necessary to explain to the club men who heard the story that there are i good many thrifty people in Maine owning elegant private “turnouts” who never dreamed of the luxury of a groom or a coachman. The Sword at the Gate. Fr< m the Baltimore American. Oh, red with fire, And hot with ire Is the sword at Pekin gate. And it chants a song; “1 will right the wrong.” But the sword Is swung too late. ****•• • Mon and Eagle and Bear stand by, A-waech at the Dragon's cave. Lion and Eagle and Bear all cry: ' Our children we’ve come to save.” The Dragon writhes his awful rage. And his side* with anger swell. His fangs, all sharp for the. coming feast, Are bright with the glint of hell. 4 I.lon and Kagle and Bear, and all. A-halt at the cave’s dark mouth. One claims the North to him must fall. Another would have the South. \ Another would bravely assail the Beast, Could he have the treasures best. And one would lor plunder control the Uast, And one would have all the West. Another would none of the Dragon's land. And none of ihe Dragon's gold. Another would have what the first had claimed Or nothing at all he'd hold. /* And the children wept, and the children called, Till the Dragon stilled their cries. Thtn Dion and Kagle and Bear, appalled, heft off from thtlr talk of prize. And out from the cave reared the Dra gon's head. And he roared with his burning breath: ”Lo! Under my claws lie your children dead. Come, battle me now to my death.” •••••. Oh. red with (lame. And hot with shame. Is the sword at Pekin gate. And It chants the song Of avenging wrong. But the sword is swung too late. —Josh Wink. "My mother-in-law has gone to the mountains.” "You look plrased.” "Yes; she 11 have to admit she has found some thing that she can’t walk over."—lndian apolis Journal. ITEMS OF INTEREST. —"Pilgrim's Progress” was recently translated into Chinese, with illustrations by native artists. Before the Boxer out breaks the volume was in great demand in Pekife. —The largest steamers in the world are about to be built at Stettin, in Germany, by the Vulcan shipbuilding firm for the Norddcutsclie Bloyd'e service from Brem en to New York. Their length will be 700 feet, horse power about 40.00 U, speed 23Vi knots. —The Kentucky Legislature evidently does not believe in the "didn’t know it was loaded” excuse, as it passed an act some time ago which reads as follows: "It shall be unlawful for any person to fire or dis charge at random any deadly weapon, whether said weapon be loaded or unload ed." j —Artificial stone steps are becoming popular in Germany. A design imitating a staircase carpet of any desired color is pressed into the steps when the ma terial of which they are made Is still soft. The figures penetrating to a consid erable depth, and last as long as the steps. —An ingenious Frenchman has invent ed a tobacco pipe which has a whistle in the stem in order to enable the smok er to summon a cab without taking the pipe from his mouth. The inventor thinks that when his device shall be put upon the market people will wonder how they ever got along without it. —Two well-knpwn and well-to-do men of Washington city were arraigned in a po lice court there the other day for swear ing. Both of them were overheard by a policeman on the streets. One confessed he was a frequent sinner and was fined $5. The other blamed it on the weather and was released on his personal bond. —ln the window of an old curiosity shop not far from the British Museum in Lon don may be seen an elaborately carved ivory toothpick, with the following inti mation attached: "Toothpick formerly the property of Oliver Cromwell; supposed to have been the one he picked his teeth with before he signed the death warrant of Charles I.” —Among the few good results of the ter rible fire at Hoboken is unwonted ac tivity by the police authorities of Jersey City, in connection with the precautions against loss of life by fire. Factories, theaters, halls. hotels, lodging-houses, tenements and flats are all to be Inspect ed, to make sure that the proper fire es capes ore attached and are kept ready for use. —lt may not be generally known that publicly to insult a Jew is punishable by French law. In Paris recently M. Gus tave Kahn, a well known writer and rel ative of the chief rabbi, lodged complaint against his concierge, whom he proved to have assailed lime. Kahn with vile epithets. The accused was fined 15 francs and ordered to pay Mme. Kahn 25 francs damages. —The Paper-Hangers’ Union In Phila delphia has passed a resolution warning the public that health “is jeopardized by allowing old wall paper to be covered with new, thereby permitting all dirt and filth to accumulate and remain, and with it germs of disease.” Some ugly testimony is presented in relation to the papering of rooms in which contagious diseases had occurred. —A collie dog named Major was laid in a hardwood casket covered with heavy black cloth and liner) with white satin and buried with great pomp and many symptoms of grief in the new cemetery for dogs at Tarrytown. The deceased ani mal belonged to Mrs. John T. Stephens of New York, who paid an undertaker's bill of several hundred dollars and is now in deep mourning. —Mulhall, the statistician, says that dur ing the year 1897 British shipping earned $279,000,000, over a half of the total earned by the world's shipping. Germany came next, with $41,500,000; Norway. $25,000 000- France. $21,000,000; Canada. $17,000,000; tho United States. $16,000,000. The total earn ings of the world’s shipping were $509,000,- 000, of which $467,000,0(0 is credited to Eu ropean countries. —About 150 prominent Chinese business men met in the hall of the United Chi nese Society at Honolulu recently and or ganized a political good government club. It was not decided which party the or ganization would affiliate with. The main purpose is to secure the rights of the mem bers as American citizens. The present members are either naturalized citizens of Hawaii or native born. —Vic'tor Hugo's great-grandchild is now the subject of litigation. The boy, who is now in his tenth year, is also the grand son of Alphonse Daudet, by the marriage of Leon Daudet with Jeanne Hugo, who, after her divorce, married Jean Charcot, the son and successor of the distinguished professor. The ex-husband demands the educational control of the child, al lowing the mother free access. —A pathetic sight was witnessed in the Soldiers’ Orpheans’ Home at Atchison, Kan., a few days ago. A poor mother came to see her child, a boy 2 5-ears, old She was allowed to put it to sleep with the understanding that when the child was asleep she was to go asvay. The child soon went to sleep and-The mother wak ened it, she was so anxious to be with it. She did this half a dozen times. —Cutting the sudd on the Upper Nile has released a mass of long stagnant wa ter which is working it ways down the river, killing tho fish as it goes. At As souan, where the great dam is being built, the dead fish have been cast ashore iti mllliona and the odor is unpleasant. Thu Nile water Is all the workmen have to drink, and though, when filtered, ft seems to have no ill effect upon them, eels plunged into the filtered water are suffo cated in a few moments. —A peculiar but very serious difficulty besets the operation of telegraph lines in the Argentine Republic. The small spider, of the variety that spins a long cobweb ami floats it in the air. is so plentiful there that the floating webs settle on the wires In enormous quantities. . As soon as • lew falls or a shower of rain comes up every microscopic thread becomes wet and establishes a minute leak. The effect of thousands and millions of such leaks is practically to stop the operation of :he lines, and the government telegraph de partment. especially in Buenos Ayres, has l-crn put to t va.-t inconvenience b5-' the •• hi webs. A number of expedients have been tried, but to no avail. —A young officer of the United States army, now in Manila, In a letter o a friend in Washington speaks about the amazement caused by our horses among the Filipinos, says the New York Mail and Express. The officer says: "I tb'nk ihe horses we are getting here are having as great an influence on the natives as our bullets. The native horses do not reach half as high as our average size horse, and *ho natives stand aghast at the sight of the Kentucky and Oregon product." He adds that the horses arp doing very well In the Island, and that great Improvements have been made in Ihe transporting of the animals across the wafer. Two years ago ll was consid ered almost Impossible that horses would last an ocean voyage across the Pacific, and only a few months ago It was ed ns Impossible to transport any with out unloading them. 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