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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES. VOL. VI. The maintenance in the field of the French, German and Russian armies would cost §200,000,000 per month. England probably is the only great power which can point to a decrease in the total strength of its military estab lishment during the past twelve months. The British army is less numerous by about a thousand men than it was a year ago. __ The Anti-Slavery Society of Great Britain is organizing an armed expedi tion to proceed to Lake Tanganyika, in Central Africa. The object is to police the lake and prevent the passage of slave caravans. The country to the west of Tanganyika has for years been the chief source of slaves. A French electrical journal estimates that the total length of the telegraph wires (including submarine cables) of the world in use at the present time exceeds half a million miles. Four-fifths of the land wires are in Europe and America. All the submarine cables together give a length of 80,050 miles. ' Idaho is making strenuous efforts to secure admission to the Union. But the New A T ork Telegram thinks that “Idaho ought to be made to wait a little longer. The voting population of the Territory is about 15,000 as against 45,000 for AA'asli ington, 40,000 for Montana, 41,000 for North Dakota and 70,000 for South Dakota.” A bridge across the English Channel is not among the improbabilities of the future. The project is pronounced feas ible by competeut engineers, and a late number of the Scientific American con tains the plans aud estimates for such a structure, which were discussed at a meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute at Paris during the past year. The numbers of cloisters and monks iu Spain have increased with astounding rapidity of late years. Spain now has 29,220 monks and 25,000 nuns in 1330 ■cloisters and 179 orders. In Barcelona alone there are 163 cloisters for women. In the last fourteen years the number of monks in Spain has been sextnpled and the number of nuns has been doubled. Railroad speed is increasing, but, according to the New York Press , not railroad safety. Five thousand two hundred and eight-two persons were Rilled in railway accidents in the year ending June 30, 1888, and 25,888 in jured. Defective heating and lighting apparatus was the cause of a great many of the fatalities, and defective couplings of the injuries. AVith the adoption of improved methods of lighting, heating and coupling cars these figures would be •cut down one-half at least. A magazine rifle is to be served out to the English volunteer force. This, ob serves the Philadelphia Press, leaves our army and National Guard the only troops belonging to any civilized power which are unprovided with a magazine gun and r.till use the antiquated breech-loader— to-day as far behind the times as the muzzle-loader was once behind it. France uses a gun with nine charges, Austria one with five, Italy with twelve and Germany one matching the rest. Russia is still experimenting and so is Turkey. Every one of these powers has adopted a smokeless powder and a bullet about one-third the weight of the one still used by our army,with its antiquated ideas. Our staff and the AYashington au thorities will probably wait until a war is upon us before taking these plain steps. The last edition of the United States ■Official Register, or “Blue Book,” con tains a list of all the employes of the Gov ernment, with the exception of those in the general post il service, together with the officers of the Army and Navy, the total number of names amounting to 58,000. The voiume shows that 16.234 persons are employed in the city of Y> ash ington. 12,215 being men, and 4021 wo men These are divided among the several . Departments as follows: Treasury. 2334 men 130S women: AAar. 1749 men. <9 , women: Navy, 1430 men. 27 women; Interior. 2308 men. 801 women; Post ■office, 481 men, 147 women: Justice, 82 men, 15 women; Agriculture, 156 men, 120 women: Labor. 44 men. 9 women; Government Printing Office. 1504 men. 709 women: Washington City Govern rr.ent, 906 men. 667 women: Totai 11,081 men and 3S94 women, The re maining 125 are employed chiefly in the smaller Executive offices of the Govern ment and at the CapitoL BLACKSHEAB, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1890. AT THE CAPITAL. WHAT TEE FIFTY-FIRST CON GRESS IS DOING. APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON— MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Among the bills introduced for refer ence, on Tuesday, was one by Air. Pierce to create an agricultural commission to in vestigate the present depressed condition of the agricultural interests of the country. Air. Hoar introduced a hill to pre scribe in part the manner of the election of members of congress, and it was re ferred to the committee on privileges and elections. It provides that in all states of the United States representatives districts to congress shall be for the now prescribed by law, until an made apportionment by of representatives shall be con gross according to the census to be taken in 1880. The object of the bill is to pre vent gerrymandering in the states. The bill appropriating §100,000 for a passed. public building at Burlington, resumed consideration la., was of The senate the bill to providea temporary government The for the territory of Oklahoma. Blair educational bill was then taken up and Air. Blair continued his opening With speech in support of that measure. out concluding, Air. Blair yielded business, to a motion to proceed to executive and after a session for that purpose, the senate adjourned. Wednesday morning in The house met continuation of Tuesday’s session, Do bate on the proposed code of rules wns continned. Air. Morse, of Massachusetts, iu the course of a defense of the proposed the code said: “The business men of country arc demanding business legisla tion, and that the “do nothing policy" shall of congress lor the last ten years change, and how shall you change it without amending the rules that bind the body, hand and foot !’’ In the senate, on Wednesday, Air. Sher man called up the concurrent resolution heretofore reported by him from the eom mittee on foreign relations, congratulating Brazil the people of the United States of on their adoption of a republican form of government. The resolution is in these words: “That the United States of Amer ica congratulates the people of Brazil on their just and peaceful assumption of tlic powers, duties and responsibilities of sell government, based on the free consent of the governed, and on their recent adoption of a republican form of unanimously. government.” The resolution was and passed Between 1,300 1,500 persons as sembled in the house galleries Wednesday evening to listen to arguments upon the proposed code of rules, and had the pleasure of looking down upon about thirty representatives: Afcssrs. Alanseur of Missouri, Lane of Illinois, Rogers of Arkansas, Springer of Illinois, Brookshire of Jndjana, Shively of Indiana, Wike of Illinois ,.mi Pierce of Tennessee, de nouced (la ridings of the speaker, while they were defended by Messrs. Aloore of New Hampshire, Dannell of Minnesota, [Iouk of Tennessee and J, D. Taylor of Ohio. As usual, on Thursday, the Democrats objected to the approval of the journal usual, ; ns usual, a roll-call was needed; ns the Democrats refrained from voting,and ns usual, the speaker counted a quorum, and declared the journal Consideration approved, by of a vote yeas 141, nays 1. the code of rules was then proceeded with. NOTES, The senate on Thursday confirmed the nomination of Blanche K. Bruce to be re corder of deeds for the District of Co lumbia. It was not Atlanta’s colored lawyer, C. H. J. Taylor, as was reported, but II. C. C. Astwood, ex-minister to Ilayti. whe created the sensation at the Riggs House Monday evening. All members were present at the cabinet meeting Tuesday, including Secretaries Blaine and Tracy, This is the first tinn there has been a full attendance in several weeks. At a secret caucus of the republicar onpriv members of the senate committee ileges and elections Thursday the republican afternoon, it was decided to seat two senators from Montana. Senator Blair has been consuming the time of the senate for four days speaking >*n his educational bill, He has tired the senators out and the chances of the bill passing are waning every day. Indeed, the opponents of the bill are working vigorously to defeat it. A bill introduced by Senator Edmunds Tuesday to provide a public school system fof Utah is a most elaborate and compre hensive measure and with great minute ness provides about all the legislation affairs ne in C essary for the conduct of school the Territory. One of the objects of the bill is to diminish Mormon influence. The secretary of the treasury, on AA'ednesday. issued a second call on tin national bank depositories for a reduction of public balances held by them, to bt paid on or before March 1, 1890. The call is for about the same amount as the first call, except tliat banks having but small amounts to transfer have been a-ked for the full amount in order to close out the transaction. The house committee on patents Thurs day, by unanimous vote, instructed Mr. Simonds, chairman of the sub-committee, to make a favorable report on the house bill, 3914. known as the international copyright bill. The bill allows foreign withers to take out a copyright in the l nited States upon the same footing as is dlowed American authors, provided the rype-setting. pnnting and binding is done j wholly in the United States. j On Saturday last Senator Ingalls' mail itamed a small pine w rapped and box. little four inches long, two inches wi de a trict; Joseph Ounsley. third district. Georgia Christopher C. Ilaley, first dis trict : Joseph II. Thibodeau, third dis trict; Marion Bcthune, fourth district; Isaac Becket, fifth district; AYilliaw A. Harris, sixth district. The senate, on Tuesday, continued tlic following nominations: Robert Adams, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be envoy extraor dinary and minister plenipotentiary to the more than an inch thick. On being opened the box was found to contain one of the Union Metallic' Company's “Blur cartridges, with the following inscription cull In black ink: “Election pills for old or for Ingalls, from Jackson, Aiiss. Come md sec us, Old Nutgnlls.” The President, on AVeduesday, nomi nated to be census supervisors: A ir ginia—Frank AV. At inst-on, third district. Alabama—Jack R. Wilson, fourth di s trict. South Carolina—Samuel J. Poinier, list district ; Delevan Yates, second dis trict; F. AV. Macusker, fourth district. Mississippi-—Edward Aldrich, first dis united States of Brazil, now credited to the empireof Brazil. To be l nited States attorneys: Samuel AV. Hawkins, tor the western district of Teniies see; Hugh B. Lindsay, for the eastern district of Tennessee; John Rubin, forthe middle district of Tennessee. To be United States marshals: .1. G. Watts, for the western district of Virginia. Post masters: C. L. Pritchard, at Front Royal, Vu.; C. Guirkin, at Elizabeth City, N. C. The senate has confirmed R. O. Bush, collector of customs at Charleston, S. C. United States Marshals—A. E. Buck, northern district of Georgia; B. AN. AValker. middle and southern districts of Alabama; John C. Slocum, surveyor-gen eral of Florida. Postmasters—Alabama —L. Cornish, Demopolis; C. AY. Childs, Marion; II. Perdue, Greenville. Florida —J. II. Harden, Bartow; O. S. Oakes, Fernandina. Supcrvi sore Census—Missis sippi—J. W. Chandler, second district. Florida—J. AV. Tompkins, second dis trict. Tennessee—W. C. Hunt, first district. COTTON STATI8TIC8 NINK-TENTH OF THE COTTON HAS LEFT THE PLANTATIONS. Cotton returns of the department of agriculture for February gives local esti mates of the proportion of the crop which has left the plantation. The consolida tion make 90.4 per forward. cent, leaving About 9.0 nine- pet cent, to still go tenths of the crop has, therefore, been reported in sight, or in small stocks unre ported iu the hands of country merchants, or in transit. The stnte averages are as follows: Virginia 87, North Carolina 89, South Carolina 90, Georgia 90, Florids 93, Alabama 90, Mississippi 91, Louisiani 89, Texas 92, Arkansas 90, Tennessee 87. The average date of the close of Georgia, picking is about the same us last yeur in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, and is earlier in the Cnrolinns, Florida and Arkansas and later in Alabama and Texas. The average of county dates is December 12, ranging from November to January. The proportion of seed sold to oil mills has been found difficult to estimate,but is apparently not much over twenty-five pet cent, of the crop, possibly The between largest 900, 000 and 1,000,000 tons. pro portion reported is in Louisiana, followed by Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and the Carolinas. The average state prices, as consolidated, are: The Carolinas and Georgia, 18 cents per hush el; Tennessee, 17; Florida, 16; Alabama and Mississippi, 15; Louisiana, 14; Texas and Arkansas, 13. Returns of quality and are Very high, except in Virginia North Carolina, and in Tennessee and Arkansas. It is superior in all states of the gulf coast. The per centage of lint from seed cotton is as follows; Virginia, 39; North Caro lina, 31.5; Bouth Carolina, 82.7; Georgia, 32.2; Florida, 32.3; Alabama, 82.6; Mis sissippi, 32.3; Louisiana, 32.5; Texas, 32.4; Arkansas, 82.2; Tennessee, 32. The damage by insects was the greatest ir Arkansas and Texas. In Florida, Alaba ma, Alississippi, Tennessee and North Carolina it was general, but less severe. Georgia and South Carolina suffered less. The loss from the boll worm was in Geor gia, Alabama, Lousiana and Texas greatei than that from tne caterpillar. THE MORMONS DEFEATED. I ALT LAKE CITY IS NOW UNDER CONTROL OF GENTILES. A dispatch from Balt Lake City, Utah, concerning the election there, says: Ev erything is now quiet. Business has re sumed its normal condition, and were it not for the decorations upon the houses of the Gentiles, there would be no incs cation of the great political battle which closed Tuesday night. Official returns give George A. Scott, Gentile, for mayor, a majority of 809; Louis H. Yams, Gen tile, for recorder, 539; J. B. AValton, Gentile, for treasurer, 659; E. R. Ciute, Gentile, for assessor, 466; J. M. Young, Gentile, for marshal,773. The remainder of the general ticket, including majorities fifteen eouncilmen was elected by gives ranging from 300 to 400. This them control of the municipal council for the first time in the history of the city. Mormon organs while they concede their defeat, specifically charge that it was accomplished by frauds of the most flagrant character, and these they de scribe in detail. There is no suggestion, however, of anything but submission. A PLUCKY WOMAN During the third act of the opera of <qije Ro#e of Castile’’ at the Academy of M|aic in K jchmond, Va., while Emma j^u,h>ott was singing a solo, an alarm of fire raiged in tLe crowded house, by the fume8 of burnlDg paper. Miss Abbott continued her song, however, during the consternation that ensued, Ty ie alarm soon subsided and the opera proceeded. SOUTHERN NOTES. INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL POINTS IX THE SOUTH. GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES WHICH ARK HAPPENING BICl.OW MA SON’S and dixon’s line. A general strike is threatened in the Alabama mining region. The twenty-sixth Buudes Suengerfest with at New Orleans, La., was op.ened great eclat Thursday night. Ed Johnson and Jim Butts, murderers of Captain Miller, who was killed last October, were hanged at Perry, Ga., on Thursday. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is in Charlotte, N. 0. He is there to examine the mineral lands of that section, and says lx; may invest in some mine. Benjamin F. Lendhart, a general mer chant doing business at Lowell, Gaston county, N. (A, made an assignment Wed nesday to Alfred Andrews. Liabilities about §11,000; assets §2,000. A dispatch from Richmond, Ya., says that the bill to incorporate the Pan American Railway and Navigation Wednesday, Com pany and passed the legislature without amend went to the governor ment. The Atlanta, Ga., Chamber of Com merce held its first annual banquet on Thursday night. Among the guests Speeches were many prominent northern discussion men. South’s were made in the of the interests and progress. There is a strong movement to have the study of agriculture introduced into the public schools of the rural districts of the South. Hon. I*. J. Berckmans, of Augusta, Ga., and lion. Daniel Dennett, of Mississippi, are pushing the matter lie fore the public. President E. T. Barnes, of the Alliance Peanut Union, who resides at Newsom’s, in Southampton county’, Va., announce! officially that the union has resolved that the minimum prices of farmers’ stock of cleaned peanuts shall lie OJ cents pet pound. The directors of the Tampa, Florida, Branch Alliance exchange met recently in that city to transact important busi ness, and a general invitation was ex tended to all the suh-Alliances in that county to be present and discuss matters pertaining to the welfare of (lie order. Citizens of Mobile, Ala., on Wednes day, completed a quarter million dol lar subscription to the preferred stock of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad, the amount needed to secure the building of the road from Mobile to Jackson, Aiiss., in one year from date. Wednesday night all (lie prisoners in Durham county, N. (!., jail made their escape. During the night a rear window was broken, and a key was handed in tied to a long pole. The key fitted the door if the cells. The combination luc k was unlocked and the prisoners released them lelvcs. A dispatch of Wednesday, from Pied mont, Ala., says: A great crowd is here from many states. The sales of lots came to §125,000. In addition to the work* heretofore announced, a hundred ton furnace is secured Main street lots were sold up to §125 a front foot. President E. T. Htoek house, of the South Carolina State Alliance, has been to Charleston to organize a sub-AUiancc in that county, and now there is only one comity in tlic state, Beaufort, that has no Alliance. The total membership steady now amounts to over 80,000, with a in crease every month. The trustees of the Wednesday, State Baptist decided Fe male university, on Raleigh, N. C. by ballot to locate it at Durham had offered §50,000 and a site for the college; Oxford offered §30,000 and a site; Raleigh offered §25,000 and S site; Greensboro offered §10,000 and a site. The Willingham Lumber company, of Chattanooga, Term., was, on Thursday, served with processes praying exceed for §100,- a re ;eiver. The liabilities will 100. The assets are not yet known. The company became embarrassed by endors ng for the elevator company which failed «mc months ago. A convention of southern ice manufac turers, representing three million dollars of invested capital, was held at Chatta nooga on Thursday, and an ice manufac turers’ exchange was formed. Officers-— president, W. J. Rushton, Birmingham, Ala.; vice-president, C. AY. B< iz, ( hatta nooga; secretary, Abe Ellis, Macon, Ga.; treasurer, Louis' P. Hurt, New Orleans. A shipping rate of §6 was fixed. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., says: A11 efforts to settle the strike at the Birmingham rolling mill have failed. President AYeib, of the Amalgamated Association, returned to Pittsburg been Wednesday, his mission having fruitless. The company refuses to rec ognize the association in any way, and the men refuse to give up their plan to organize a local lodge. Hie fight now promises to be a long and bitter one. A south bound special train, on the Alabama Great Southern railroad, colli ded with a north bound passenger train, on Wednesday, forty miles south of Bir mingham, Ala. Engineer Ed Doolittle, of the passenger train, iv a killed in itantly. Several passeng< w ere severely bruised, but none seriously injured. filled I he special was composed of sleepers with German singing soc ieties en route from Chicago aud Cincinnati to tlx sangerfest at New Orleans. The Celtic literature is of very an cient origiD, all the old Celt* having a literary class called “bards.” The an cient Irish wrote in a rude alphabet called the Ogham. The people of Gaul have left comparatively few inscriptions, and these are often much Latinized. THREATENED TROUBLE. A GREAT STRIKE EMINENT IN THE AI.A HAMA MINING REGIONS. Dispatches Teun., to the from Tradesman, Alabama of Chat tanooga, the min ing regions indicate that a general strike is threatened throughout the state, in volving thousands of coal miners and causing fifteen or twenty blast, furnaces to close down, Tradesman represen t n tives have closely investigated the situa tiod, and state that the strike inaugurated a few days ago, when COO miners of the Debardeleben company qut work threat ens to be the commencement of a gen eral strike. The Debardeleben miners quit work because the company declined to accede lo tehir demands. First, that they be furnished posts, ties and rails. Second, that no boy under seventeen years of ago bo permitted to work in the mines. Third, that a com mittee be permitted to regulate working referred hours in each mine. Atiuers have the matter to a committee of the Knights of Labor, and await their decision. CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TELE GRAPH AND CARLE. TIMNOH THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Another ballot for speaker was taken in flic Iowa legislature Monday without re sult. The first session of the fourth annual meeting of American newspaper AVeduesday. publish ers, was opened in New York The men indicted for attempting to bribe the Cronin jurors pleaded guilty been on Wednesday. Sentence hat not yet passed. that the The Paris Rouvier announces total government revenue for 1H8I) was §(114,200,000, and total expenditures, §021,400,000. The Philadelphia and Heading compa ny’s North Ashland, Pa., colliery, shut down indefinitely Tuesday, throwing live hundred men and hoys out of employ ment. Emperor William, of Germany, has caused an order to be issued prohibiting his the exhibition of portraits of himself, ancestors, or any of his family without his sanction first being obtained. His pictnr.es were being put up with cigarettes, A dispatch from Pitsburg, Pa., suys: Thursday morning the boiler of a locomo tive exploded on the Pittsburg, McKees port und A'otighiogheny railroad, thirty miles south of there, killing one man ana 1ms injuring four others, one of whom since died. A dispatch from Todden, North Dako ta, says: Between 800 and 1,000 Indians, credited to Devil's Lake agency, are whol ly destitute of clothing, and in furnished the Inst stages of starvation. Unless with food, elothingand-medicine at once, the: Indians will die like dogs. At Now York, Tuesday. Judge O’Brien handed down his decision in the celebra ted sugar trust ease. He decided in sub stance,that t lx- company should be allowed to continue its business, but continues the injunction restraining the trust from transferring its property, or doing any other acts that might interfere with tin rights of the plaintiff. A committee of flic Canton Oyster.ex change, of Baltimore, was before the committee of the legislature Wednesday, having cure of the Chesapeake bay and its tributaries. The oyster men favor the passage of a law which will stop the catching of oysters, for any purpose, after April 1st. Baltimore and neighboring towns are becoming alarmed about the possible loss of their oyster crop and trade. At a session of the American News paper Publishers’ Association in New York, Thursday, the following resolution was introduced: “That the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association is in hearty sympathy with the efforts now being made by American authors to ob tain from congress fuller security for lit erary property, and we believe the pro posed international national copyright honor bill and to be wel in the lntbrc.it of the fare.” THE TICKET AQENT8. MEETING or THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIA TION IN JACKSONVILLE, FLA. The International Association of Rail road Ticket agents held its second annual session in acksonville, Fla., on Wednes day. Two hundred and sixty delegate! were present, with at»out 100 ladies who accompany them. They come from every state in the union and from Canada and Mexico. The officers of the association arc: Mr. Brown, ticket agent Atlanta, Ga., president; station, M. Cleveland, G. Carroll, Ohio, union passenger secre tary, and T. AY. Venneman, union station, Evansville, Ind., treasurer. The associa tion decided to hold its next annual meet ing at Denver. INDIGNANT FRENCHMEN. THE MANITOBA LEGISLATURE ABOLISHES OFFIt IAI. USE OF FRENCH LANGUAGE. A special from AS innepeg, Manitoba, says the Manitoba legislature on Thursday decided to abolish the official use of the French language in the country by a vote of 20 to 10. The 1 reach speaking people are very indignant over this action and «enou* trouble is feared, particularly il Premier Green way carries out his propo sition to abolish Roman Catholic s set parate schools. The Catholics are loud iu their threats against the government. NO 20 THE WORLD IS A.LL RIGHTVJ^ We way rail at the world just as much as wi please, Claim that life is unfair in distributing pelf; Rut the fact becomes plain, when reviewed! at our ease, _ That the world is ail right, and the fault's in one’s self; For it’s certain, however its favors are shown. That this world is the best one we’ve ever yet known; And unless we act moro and growl less here below. It may prove the best world that we ever will know. —New York Press. PITH AND POINT. Dime museum freaks, unlike poets, are not born but made. “Where are you going, my pretty maid?” I “Pm going to sneeze—atehno,” she said. — Washington Star, t When the milkmaid is awkward and fretful the cow generally turn pail.—. Chicago Sun. Barber—“Excuse me, sir, but did I cut you?” Victim—(feeling the blood trickle down his cheek)—“I didn't hoar any fire-arms go oil.”- Time. “What is sweeter than to have a friend you can trust?” asked Sawkins. “To have a friend who will trust you,” re plied Dawkins .—Hartford Times. Mr. Crook (to chum)—“So you’ve been getting married to Maria during my ab sence? Who was best man?” Woeful Husband—“Maria .”—Pick Me Up. Molly lias her sealskin sacque And Willlo has his sled, But dear papa’s pocketbook abed. Is almost sick -Kearney Enterprise. The poet says that “’Tis love which makes the world go round.” It also makes the young man “go round” quite frequently Sunday nights.— Toledo Com mercial. The weary brain will shirking, plot and plan Homo way of duty It's queer how hard a lazy man Will work to keep Washington from working. — Capital. Census-taker—“What is your age, madam?” “Ancient Madam—“I am twenty-one, sir.” Census-taker— “Madam misunderstands me. I want to know your ago now .”—Lawrence Ameri can. Friend^ ■ “'You received a good many presents, didn’t you?” Bride—“Yes, and just think how nice—most of them are from married friends, and we won’t have to give them any in return.” Yankee /Hade. Mine eyes fill have seen the coming of the woe« Russian grip, It is going through the country on a kind of j flying trip; the people above the It is seizing all just upper still lip, And it goes sneezing on. Chicago Tribune. Kitty—“Why did you accept Mr. Hautboy? You surely do not love him, do you?” Maud “No; I just became engaged (■> him so that he wouldn’t have a chance to propose to Minnie Smith, whom 1 hate, und who would be sure to accept him."— Lawrence. American. Cutting Off Money For Use. A tall, black-whiskered man was lean ing over tlx* desk at the Continental Hotel last night conversing with several friends. Pulling a plethoric wallet from his vest pocket fie took therefrom a long sheet of flve-dollar bills, just us they came from the Treasury Department. His friend inquired what they were. “Only advertisements,” was the reply. “They're given away now with tea in stead of Ilia usual chrumos.” By this time there was quite a crowd around the black-whiskered man, eagerly examining the bills. Home thought they were genuine bills, while others, who had never seen hills in this shape before, as there was nearly a yard of them, really und thought they were advertisements would not have bought the whole lot for five cents. “You’re all just like the fellow out in St. Louis. He was a clerk in astore.and when I had made a purchase I asked him for a pair of shears and proceeded to cut off a bill. You should have seen the man’s eyes. They stood out so that you could have knocked them off with a stick. The outcome of the matter waa that he refused to take them, Just at that minute the proprietor came from the office and, seeing the status of the ease I after I had ’• discharged the man, hut, had good ex plained tho case, we all a laugh. them in that way? “Why do I carry little I guess—well—I suppose to have a fun; that’s all. I have a friend, a cashier in q bank,aud he lets ine have them."—• Philadelphia Inquirer. A Queer Trio. Philip AValker, of Salt Creek, AV. Va., during tue first summer months had an old turkey hen come up with one young turkey and one’quite young and small quail. Both the young turkey and young quail continued to follow and feed with the old turkey hen, who manifested equal maternal care and tenderness over eachJ and now both are full grown, and attwi-1 light the old turkey hen flies up to her r(rte t on the apple tree in the yard, and young turkey takes a roost on one side of her, aud the full grown, beauti f(j , an(1 fat * u on the other . This trio quitc h app v an J content, as il from . the same consanguineous on#*, j 4 Paris sends to foreign countries annu ally §400,000 worth of bonbons.