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4 uS fhnw. ? WRITAKER STREET. SAVANNAH. G A. TIK'DAY. JA rARY 11 ISX7. , ' rxinnak, Murmnu News ib pubislicd e.tdy, in- -g surilav. It ip served to subscribers t%\ by newsdcnlftrs i.rd carriers. or. thf'.v own account., at 26 cents week, $1 (JO 6 Itionth, 45 CO lor an months and i0 OuXor Be*' veer. vT he Mohntvo Nira. by mail* Including ■Olctrdhy, on* month, $1 00; six months, $5 60; ©tic tear, $lO 00 BBet'be Morning News, by mail. six Pmes a p'jftef< k (wirhont Sunday issue),six months,s4 00; ©tn ysnr. $8 00. . News, by mail* one year, *2 00. |ppf\ FEKt.Y News nnc year, $1 26. In club*of five, one year, $6 00. Hg&ubecriftions payable In advance. Ilcmit postal order or note, check or registered letter. Currency sent l>y mail at risk oi tenders. 1 ettor* and telegrams should be addressed •‘Morning News. Savannah. Ga.” Ad eriising rates made kuown on applica tion. 3m to sew umtßMun Meetings—Georg t T ru N >. J, I. O. of R. M.; Omens Conservative Association; An cient La olmark Lodge No. S 1. F. A. M. Special N TICES— Bills Against Hr. steam ship Kernlands; Raffle of Prof. Mehrtens* or gan; Instruction in German, Adolph Setig m.m ArcTioN Salks— Schooner Louisa A.: Horses and Mules, by J. MeLauglilin & Son; Horses, ity I D. Litßoolie’s Sons. REDUCTION IN Wool UNDEKOLOTfIKS--At La Par's. Sknocr’S Paint-At Hanley’s Paint and Oil Store. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Warned; Kmpioyment Wanted; For Rent; ¥• rSale; Boarding: Miscellaneous. Conklins: is ta'ked of as a possible dark horse in the New York Senatorial fight. It would not be at all surprising ii be desired another term m l he Senate. The conscienceless Hour says hat Mr. Cleveland is trying to boom himself mr second term by givin:: awav nis photo graphs. Could any cut be ut.kinder than that? Dr. McGlytin’s Iriends are divided in Opinion as to whether bo will obey the command to present himself at Koine. Tbedooior certainly hesitates long enough tojusuty a doubt as to nis course. The annual appropriation lor pensions isagood many millions more than the en tire expenses of the gov rnmenl were just prior to the war. but the patriotic states men at Washington continue to inoiease the pet s on burden. Senator Beck is heginuing to be uneasy shout his re-election to the Senate, and well he may be. It is said that Mr. Car lisle is a candidate to succ m i him. It *his report is true Mr. Beck’s days iu the enate are numbered. Ciuvenus, the murdero- ■ r ladison, seen''- ■ i liouue! v >s .iiy ,s a ,g --wtlfi cm. u, and -f is as yet ignorant of th • of degradation, judicially, in "• i being a Muuwump. • p te sale by auction ol the choice ot aksjH r> Plymouth Cburcn went SI,OOO MMk r bast year. Ttie “voice of the charm at any rate a paying institution. It to decide whies draws the best— et-mned Adellns l’alli or the divine ol Plymouth Church. SSSBbf Bodwed, of Mnine, g.-es a chance to remedy the fisheries troubles by lev>- ing a tariff upon Canadian fish, and tnu exoluduig Canadian fishermen from our markets. When, as a result, thy people ot ilaine have to pay jus. and üble for their fish they will wait on the Governor, no jtaubt. _ 'Mile Philadelphia Press says of Atlanta new drink, “agaric” by name, has prohibition era. and that igario is ;p#belior to whisky, in that it does not *3Hnpi only converts a man into an idiot. As none but an idiot would (Inns such sniff, however, it does not prove the ten dency ol agaric to make idots, they were so bylore. Keokuk, la., has a peculiar charita ble institution styl and the “Sinners’ Fund,” to which none but sinners is per mitted the privilege of contrmutiug. Thu und is devoted to the purchase of wood and other necessaries lor pair widows. The movement nas not been a success, jowever. Wuen the average contributor .o public subscriptions loosens his purse ilrings, anti allows his uame to bo used, le does not expect to be considered a tinner. An article la the last Century on “FyDcine amt New York Fencers” prom -e* to be productive of a little war. riore are two fain ms fencing tna-iers in ■few York, Capl. Nicholas, who is teach ng the Fencing Club, mentioned in the Jentury, and Re is senae. Seuac is the encinv master ol the Now York Athletic Elat), anti that club is ready to back bun or any atnou' t that he cun punch Capd. Nicholas and bis pupils full of holes. Many persons erroneously suppose hat those sanitary precautions so essen iai iu the summer to the preservation ol inallb, may be relnxcd In the winter willi mpunitv. This is a mistake. AlCler nont-Ferrand, in France, a town of 10,- KV) inhabitants, 1,800 persons have been •trtpken down with typhoid fever, and In ho&urracks there uie 400 cases among Ijist and dirt accumulate, there are t:u :erm ot disease. Cleanliness can ncvei .edispensed with safely, and iu the ob ervnnee of the rules which >ertmn to tbe general health each Itizen dlwcoarves a public as rell'dts a pri*ath duly, it *• me -1 ; i , tti I- V '• HD ’ n, 0 ' '.ifliiy lit i ' '<• .tit ii ind it. Tlie Surplus Problem. Tt is not probable that anything will be done by the present Congress to reduce the revenues. Indeed, it. is doubtful if the nest Congress will grant the relief from the evi!s of a rapidly increasing sur plus until the cry of distress is heard. TbisAtiy-cannot bedeiayed very long, in a time all the 3 per cents, will be paid; and then the currency wiil he contracted at the rate of $125,000,000 a year. Ip doesn’t rt quire a financier to determine how long u will then be before business interests and enterprises ot all kinds w II begin to suffer serious injury from the scarcity of money. Congress is aware of ihe danger of de lay in grappling w th the surplus ques tion, but tne danger will have to be much nearer than it is before it. will be possible to so far harmonize differences of opinion respecting the best method lor getting rid of the surplus as to make legislation possible, Ali agree, of course, that the only satis, factory way to deal with the surplus problem is to reduce the revenues. The Democratic party, with the exception of the small faction led by Mr. Randall, in sists upon lifting, at least, a portion ol the taxlrom the necessaries and luxuries of life. The Republican party, with the assistance ot Mr. Randall’s following, blocks the way or the Democrats, and tells them that nothing shall he done that is not approved by the great monopolies which have bean built up by protection. This is the situation, and it is likely to continue to be the situation until the cries of distress from all over the coun try, occasioned bv the contraction of the currency, forpe the Republicans and Mr. Kandali’s following to stand aside and permit such legislation as the common senseof the country dictates. In the meantime the Republicans and Democratic prop otiouists will introduce bills for the reduction of the revet.ue. with the hope of deluding the country with the belief that they are striving t avert the evils which are sure to flow from a contraction of ihe currency, and that they are hindered by the Democratic nartv. The people are too well informed, however, to luisiake their enemies lor their Irionds. They know who are pre venting the legislation tnat is needed to give the country relie! anu will hold them responsible- Representative Iliseoek, one of the Re publican leaders, Introduced into the House on Saturday a revenue bill Hint hasn’t near as much chance of passing as ne has of being elected S nator from New York. It, cuts down the sugar duty and provides a bounty tor sugar planters. It also makes a considerable reduction in the whisky and totiacc > tax is. It is re markable that ibe Republican® a, so - sistent in their eft'-- ■ , and tohac", \ -, in' '. p oaeni , U: I> ■ • • ’ .ft n® haute anti * ■ c.mti u n iMir.kets the poor , ,;o I’M.'. Toe '• naif • ■ vver, !<• ii i, in Ii : • lie <.\p '' > -” ■ It wil man! lb® Inter“sis >i the rich rathcirfhah - •oft: t. t ne when 'i v u me is near at .ilitl ■ .. uiion be seen whether -iv,.ui)licans and Mr. KauJali’s fol lowers will have the c nt age to resist the just demands ot the masses. Col. Rawls’ Interview. Col. Morgan Rawl’s, in an interview in the Guyton Chionicle, defends bis posi t on in favor of repealing the law estab ishing the technological school. He is no doubt very sinoero in Ihe course he is pursuing, but would it not have been much wiser to have shown this enthusi asm and activity against the school while the bill authorizing It was under discus sion? To make a fight for a repeal of the law he I ore it has ever been given a trial, and, that too. after half a dozen towns worked ihenis- lves almost into a frenzi n their efforts to s 'cure the location of it within their re-pective limits, seems very much as if the people of the State, or their representatives, don’t know their own minds. The technological school was docided upon alter a committee had been sont to Boston to view similar schools in that city, and after the question of the advis ability of establishing it had been thoroughly and exhaust vely discussed I’ne wise thing to do now is give the school a fair trial. The State can spare the money that it. has agreed to appropriate to it. It the school proves to be a lailure then the State will have an excuse tor hot helping similar schools, and for ex tending no more aid to mis one. It is true that the common schools of the State are not what they ought to bo, bui Col. Raw s very well knows that if the appropriation for the technological school were canceled the money would not be given to tile common schools, those schools would be no better off thau they are now. Tbe technological school is simply an additional echooi, and it will boa school that will turn out teachers. Tbe graduates from it will scatter all over the state, and while it is not possible to locale it so that every county will stipid on the same footing with respect tolls advantages, these graduates will bring its good influences home to ever , town and Village. The graduates will ‘be teacher*-, and the people, without realizing it, will he their puoi Is. Col. Rawls savs that M issaehus-'tts is f can afford to help such schools. TTrft%4s true,hut how did site get rich? Why, by the a tlof tae men o luoutad la hl'j She educated her sons and tneV made her rloh. If she had tried to get rich first ane might have fail <l. If Georgia wants to get rich let her educate her children, and thev will show her how to develop her mines, build rail toads, establish lactories and make her lands twice as productive as they are. The constitutional point which Col. Rawls raises was satisfactorily settled before the law was enacted. If It wasn’t, the place to settle It now is in the courts. r !.. v l' • ' , Obi • l • . SAVANNAH MUKNiliMjr JNJi.v> &: iII&UAY, JAMJAKY 1L 1887. Good Officials Wanted- It is reported that the organization known as the Citizens’C' liservaiiveClub w ill hold a meeting to-night to receive the report of a < rmmiit.ee ot its own choosing to seb ct candidates for May or and Alder men. It is also reported i bat the commit tee will recommend the renominatiou ol ■ tbe present incumbents. Yesterday several of the best momb'rs of the present hoard slated that they wnnld not accept the nomination undir such circumstHncf s, for the very good rea son that it was p. v aste of lime to bold an < ffleo where their ties), efforts were of no avail by reason ot the efforts of certain other members, it is a generally accept od opinion that certain members of the present board have lost the con lid once ot a very large, class ot people by reason ot their vote on the license question, and this class will only support them under pro-. test, if at all. Ii several of those who are generally recognized as tli•> best \l dertnen decline, it will boa difficult matter to induce other gentlemen ol equal fitness to become candidates. If certain of the Al dermen refuse to stand for re-ebetion what docs the Conservative Assoc ation propose to do? Does it propose to insist upon nominating those who are willing to be re-elected? If that association In tends to name a ticket, whethei all the present Aldermen are willing to accept another term or not. it couldn’t do a wiser thing than to name such men as it knows will be approved by the best sentiment of the city. It there arc those w ho don’t like tbe ticket lei them name one ot their own. If the Con servative Association will put up the right sort of ticket—one that, merits pub lic confidence—lt will ne very generally supported. The people want good me;.— men who, in every instance, wiil do what is for the interest of the whole city. A Pertinent Inquiry. A correspondent, whose communion Moo is published this morning, wants to know what the City Council is doing to secure an increase in the appropriation for the Savannah harbor. So far as we know It is doing nothing. But it ought to do something. It ought to he so jeal ous ol the interests of the eity as to he ready lo take such st 'ps promptly as are r,< o issary to guard, protect and promote tboe interests. There may he those who think nothing can be done to increase the appropriation for tbe harbor, and that we must, bo con tent to so® tbe harbor virtually abandoned for a whole year. They are mistaken. It it were clearly shown that the • ment of tbe harbor i and that acv . , is “ ■ i’ I ..el’, .< i reason to doutv. i. a our amount if pi : r -op< i i *re -1 U: .: ,1 : 1 jp f, , t i. . cad ... What then I, work Is steppe 1 for a . year, beginning with next Seplem lier? It will bo stopped at that time, and for the period named, If only tbe am uin' at present in tbe river and harbor bill is appropriated. Now is the time to act. A month, or even two weeks, hence may be too late. There are now, says Mr. Charles F. Wingate in tne Sanitary Engineer, 12.000 raod>'l dwellings in London, accommodat ing some 00,000 persons, mostly built bv the aid of tne funds contributed by Mr. l’eabody and the Industrial Dwelling Company, founded by Sir Sidney Water low. The rents for these dwellings vary from four skillings to eight shillings and sixpence per week, one-eighth oftbeir av erage wages being al! toe laboring men eau afford for rent Ainongthe tenansof the Peabody buildings are 504 laborers, 389 porters, 250 needlewomen, 228 police constables, 129 carmen, 129 charwomen, 123 messengers, 98 printers, 73 let ter carriers, 70 tailors and 70 waiters. Tbe rents vary from two to four shillings a room. Bur, says Mr. Cross, the manager, “the cos termonger, nevertheless, has no place for his barrel, and no provision for .wash ing or keeping his vegetables or shell lish or for his donkey. A washerwoman has no plan • lor carrying on her bu sines*. A jobbing workman has uo room lo carry on his trade at home.” In Dublin 24,000 families, averaging five persons, live in siugle rooms. In Glasgow, forty-one out of every 100 families occupy a slng'e room, while tbirty-s-ven In every fO Uive in two rooms, many of them or the small est proportions. In P.iris tbe tenement population amounts to 243,561. One block, with 1,800 persons, lias uo water supply. There are, in ail France, 219,- 2*o houses without any windows. In Purls also there are 4 000 persons living In single rooms which are without means of beiug warmed. A. M. Cernuschi has published a pam phlet eolithd tbe “Anatomy of Money.” M. C'erntiscbi has been engaged for many yi at * in tbe study of bimetalisra. and the pamphlet r.ow issued is tbe eleventh of a series. Tne salient feature of M. Cernu*- chi’s monetary theory is that the power of money iscreated by law—statute law. He showstbal thereare lS.ooOculno metres of silver to 500 of gold. He coins some new phras s for introduction into tho termi nology of the science—pretiograph and pretlopbore, the former meaning price indicating and the latter pi ice-pay ing. Now tho 500 cubic metres of gold are the pretiograph of tho commercial world.and are so made by law. Such is M. Cernusebi’s funda mental argument. But is it sound? History points to another pretiograph than that created by law, and it is nec essary to go hack to the Infancy of com merce to ascertain how a medium ot ex change came to he established, t’sage, and not law. it will lie found recognized ihe two precloua metals as the most available exchange mediums. The mer , • . . 1 W| ’Vi • ha> > OUla V .’. . , AT CURRENT COMMENT. Correct. Front the B t n be {De-e,) IToncst l-*bor is ahvt.s welcome to our lioren; convict ami pauper labor must be kept out. A Dillii uil Job, From the Stic Yo k W >rld “It i* eas or for a came’ to po through the •ye of a reivlle” titan for a poor man lo enter the United stales Senate. Look at. Hom-*. From the Bro khj'i Union ißejr).) True the National Democratic outlook is not suflicit nt v che rfu ! to make a banquet, vi ejv it> memories and its chance* are dis ciisaed, as merry in on some preceding years. Qu t** So. From the Brooklyn F>tgfe (Dsm.) The m in who originated the tory that Scc ct *r'- Lamar is a onl 10 res gn in obedience o ;ix* wishes of h s newv wedde I wife has a > ry inadoqu c . e. pti >u of the patriotic spirit of Georgia lau es. BHKiIIT HITS. “Young men* believe iu nothing nowadays,” yn Mrs. Katnsb Miam, with a deep sigh. • Why. the ru’d ruy nephew. Torn, who was on if it upas n< uridtiau, ami now lie’s an acrostic.” —Exch >nge. In Germany teaehera are very poorlv paid vi a teacher’s festival somebody proposed the oast ; “Long live <ur schoolteachers!” •What on?” a-ko a cadaverous-looking 'ccimen, rising in hmseat.— ‘ex-n Bijtmj*. Sportsman—l’ve been in this o'ank to un or ten days now, and haven’t seen a thing to Root at. Drummer—lf you’ll put Yourself under in* mdance for about iifteen minu'es I’il furnish i target. There’* a man oown here who v ants sfood* seui on * xiy da, h’< relit. Jo per i- ii >t for ca*h, fru.jvrut toll paid and theatre tickets wheu lie comes to the city.— Marv Ann, h highly esteemed domestic in i Michigan avenue hou>e, w.tiked into ihe • rl r Use other morning ho -nug a hand grenade in her hand, vno the fob owing re narks “parsed” between tier and her mis rcKß: Mary Ann—Ma’am, didn’t ye cay ihea wus |.r fire.-? M i stress—C'er tai n1 y. Mary Ann—Well, Oi’ve been thryin* to °iht Die lirv* wid w>n av them. Jmi t denn’l vdine to wurruk, ma’am. —Cine y > ii nub er. Uncle Sam -Have you tried the new cruiser A’ anla yet. Naval secretary—Yes. “Jla'in’t you better name her Terror of the *ea or some hing like tha ? AHruta is rather "o pe i< c!ul a name it scums to me.” “Perhaps ko. Those aboard her were in ter ror of the f-eus.” ‘•Hey ?” ““he l*rokc down six* times.” •My -t. rs! What are \ou goiug to do ab.mi it ?” v% •• 11 f wae thinking that in case of war wo might, let the enemv capture her and irown themselves.” “F see ” a*d f h<“ professor. hting ofl' three quarters of hbs rnufTin ami dipping the rest in o c, ha l lie new- a pert are dis us na ih • quoHrion ‘Does L\ing Pay?’ What do oil ihink of it. Mrs. Fogg?” **\v. ’ r*p)ie i the landlady, with a snr * ligtiting u i her severe features, ii nothing but lying trom you or ur week-.and it doesn’t pay me. had h tcr board olsewliorc.” Id the profess r. pouring he con cream jug over his oatmeal, “I mvo.” iu have wiiat?” asked Mrs. Fogg. :r board elsewhere,” replied the >lne*s which then arose between. Tenant was so severe that those ieu them had their ears frost marked the President the other ua. as his faithful ecr< tary wA rubbing :i- ' nee** with a sandpapur pad “Yos, sire,” responded D nieJ, “Do you know why this confounded rheu matism is like my civil s rvice reform p 1- icv?” The Secretary scratched his head with the pad. “Give it up, sire.” he said after a minute’s bought: “why is it’” “Leenu-e, Dtniul.” and the President aughed even in his pain, “because it has got ui** down.” “Lvcellent, sire, excellent,” applauded D niel. “Sol thought Daniel. So I thought. But it. isoolv lot private use, Daniel. For hev en’s sake dou’t let it got into :he newspa per-.” “Never, sire,” said Daniel, with emnhasis. as ho resumed hi* rubbing.— Wuekinyt n ’ itiC Who is this stout EJ-der-lv gen-tie-man, do vou a-k. Children? I did uo ree-ogniz • h;in At nr-t. Let 11 k late a Wai- rtr* u and rhehiocu and escape him \Ve are in Luck; h Did not -ee us. If we hail given him a harr.i* he would have bm-ton-tiol-od us and told us a slory About two li-ursin length. It won’d na e Been about his K-my s:rigglus. He Would have told us tiow He u-ed t * get up at Four in ih * morning when he i\ a a i>oy, ,tn i how he 1 n-va-ria-biy hi * to rack tour • c.hcs of ;< e u the pail Before ho could Get water t* wash with. It r/.* bird n Tho-e da\ s. Ilf would have as * In - forni-ed us that nis Youth wan *pcnt m h e-iug po-ta-tnes and sn% tig wood, a id That he has Had only -ix moirlh sdi Miking Inina life. He would have iur-mdi-e iu-dH-im-ta-blc proof of tae Latter ht uement. Ho calls himself n Seif mad in sn. Has lie ever done \ n-y-iliing of my account? nothing; but he Has mad. a ti-odib-al of money, and that, whit Ai’s him. If I had taken as Much trouble to m.tku mi self as lie Says he has and had n t Panned • hit nutter I should be Deeply dis-ap-poini- Od —Tid Bits. PHiU^AL. One of the )>opular concert and oratorio singers in Eg ad to-<lay i-. Miss Hope Glenn, wno formerly lived in Chicago, Michael Davitt h s traveled over 10 000 niiJetf, lichvered lorty-eiglit speeches an l**eu married ali in a period of lc*s than ten weeks. aoMkiiODY h ts discovere i tliat Oliver Gold snmh’a gr \e an ’in uinuent are mi a sad state of ueg ect. HU fame, however, is very wed lire erved Mu. ftonr.BACt is the latent member of the II moU l.egu attire to return hin r&ilrotd pass. Till• is a Kina of roorb&ch that is not often found in po itics. Cousin Bkn Folsom has already vindicated his thorough Americanism ami th* wi-dum of his i ppoini ie t a** Consul at fehulliel 1. Jle has organi/. and a bue hall uiue. Mias Lillie Scidmork. the Washington eorresiHindutit, a lauums traveler, and u aid to have been anmud the word more than once. Her mother now lives in .Japan, Prof. Burt U. Wilder, of Cornell Univer sity, ims iiveu lecturing t• liih c as*ei* m anat omy ou the head of tho K mUa murderer. Menken, winch he has i received in aleolml. It is sai<i that the Prince of Wales would like t* g • to Australia io open the Centeu nia Exhibition next spring, hut the tjuuon haw said uo. and therefore he will tairy in London. Mary Dickinson, a widow,of Abingdon, Vn„ was yesterda. arresteri lor competing neriiltie -ou to put tier new-born child into a kettle of ho: water und scald it to death. Lynching is talked of. Col T. B. < tiEYBS, a temperance lecturer from Kentucky, has instituted suit iu the l tuted M i’es Circuit Court against the Mayor ol Greenville, Ala., for 9.’> ,000 dam ages for iujurics received to Ins person. Miss ViimiNiA West, eldest daughter of the British Minister, is sod io be the most beautiful woman in diplomatic circles in Washing on. Envious gossips wonder why him d*;e, noi marry, as she is by no means “u bird.” M arif. Prcca I® tho name adopted by Miss .I.tlniMiu, of Washing on. who is to make he debut m Italian opera in London next season. Tho decay fainilv is already largely n’presented upon the stage, especially in the ballet. Adelina Patti-Nicolini will take back to • - ia.% efir-o and nice •, C rlina. who .. ved j ie •’ x- b • at Cr.*’w •lug.drt tlO’ F'atr uv w;*> married. - j ; • tad Altelfe “H'd b.l -T, \ “S* p /t it* * \i a 111. i'i ■ .. mo pu b * u • ■ , f c w .c If li ,-a. r “K ,-f Uiphl ' , un * Mt Utidvd* * t ■ r. ■ .•, dy ~ou ' ’ • * "ilid The Devi! in Quest of a Wife. From the B stoic B - 'eon. Mias A Ron recited “The Devil io Quest of a Wife.** a satirical poem which seems to he the r igniiig avonie in New ork. ft is tai l thataXi-w' York belie with coquettish and 11 ft a ions endench's stole a lover from a Phi ad.-lphia girl, who lias sought to avenge her-cii in veiae. 1 will quote enough to show the idea: His majesty Satan one morninc awoke And found that hid wife was dead. A 'id ) e said io himself: This ir r*-tl’.y no joke. For ray hou eh dd requires a head. And where shall 1 On-lon ?his limited earth A creature to till such a difficult berth? He states the mul itud: ous ouHliflcfttions n rchsary, then ets JVr h “on* his anxe us quest for a lady to go below.” lie tried his various fortune in Jfiogtaud, France, Spain, etc,: Hut why should I tell of his lengthened walk And of a i the countries he tried? Till he suddenly thought, one line day, of New York, And insfanth hitherward hied. Hut quick as he was, the w men were ready. Their heads were clear and their hands were steady. They took one look, and they looked him through. And knew what he wanted at orn-e. And innocence beamed from their orbs of blue, \ nd candor was queen for the nonce. Oh, you should have seen how theircyelids fell As they timidly asked him the news from The Devil was flattered and flurried aud i leased. “What grace, what refinement, what sense?*’ How quickly hie huli’-oxpres ed ideas were seized, And nothing ho said gave oflVn°e. He never icII so much at home before Aud .iked and admired them more and more, Hut time was pressing, he could not wait, Mio’ he scarcely knew how to choo-o. • he offered his crown, his ro.ai state, Himself and ms dead who’s slims, To a damsel whose candor and virtue and tact Were all that the Devil himself could exact. She accepted the offer, and did not repent When ill-.* day of her wedding drew nigh. For sue Knew that to was an e sy descent And her friends would ali come by and by. So the Devil declared him-. f more aud more blessed. Ah the innocent creature he tenderly pressed. Hut when she was married and safely installed A< queen in the r*gi him <>> shade, Tus said iliat the Devil was somewhat ap palled At. the b rgdn he found he had made. And thought, on the whole, ’twould have been as well Had he stayed at home and married in . Hogan's First K **c ion h h> ntor. Ft ii the W is/iinyt n Post. It was hint about sixteen vears ago that I first met Hogan, amt the occasion wasoharac i>ristic. of him. I wai mana.iog editor of Hie Chicago Evening Post and was iu full charge, the cditr--iu-chief being in Europe. Due m-ruing <; -n. Ho van came in, inquired me out, walked up to my*b*skand introduced hiinse i. Seating hiinseif he said, ‘Tvecouie io to gi v * you an i era .*’ “Yes?” J answered, with the slight rising inflection which denotes the inquisitive nimd, “what can ou do for us?” “I can give you a joint. You want to be on ttie winning side, don’t you?” I rather resented hi , a?*d told him that we not only wanted to be, but expected to be, .and usu II v were, as a matter of fact. “V ery wed,*’ he said, twirling his hat on his hand. “I jtut dropped in to tell you that I am going to ue the next Senator from Illi nois.” I was astonished. Dick Yates, the incum bent, was believed, to he sure of succeeding him-elf, and I had hardly heard Login’s name mentioned for the place. <gle-by was for Yates, the Journal was for Ya cs, the T ibune was ‘for Yates, aud Yates was the manifest destiny of the State. It was t wo or three minutes before I recov ered rnv breath, for I thought that mv visitor was not Logan at all, bur an impostor using his name to guy me. But he seemed to correspond w th Ula<"k Jack’s tawny pictures and long haired reputation. * Want io announce i*?” he asked. “I am certain goirw io win. No < hicasr- paper has mentioned it Perhap they won’t. You have always treated mo square.‘and I have come in to ted von tie news and give you the chance.” I thanked him, and he wen out Then I dropped around to see Charley Far well, i hicago’s favorite Congressman, and tell him atamttho appa ition. “n van’s all richt.” he said. “lie is on the r cr M 1 guess he’s going to bringdown thecoon.” i rei ii ned to the office and wrote an article noinina'ing Login in formal >n, A few days afterward 1 got a short note from him saying, “All right, I see you got the news.” I went down to Snr nglleld and witnessed his canvass It was unique. His headquur i ts wee iu one suite of rooms, and those of his energetic and spiriie t wife were at the other end <>f ihe hall She nad a bevy of hand oineaud accomp ished girls to help her. The rooms were crowde i till lute at night. Mr . I.ogan waft more th u an agreeable enter tainer: she was a polit cian. She kne v th** politics of diff-fent counties and tow* a and who ihe influential nun were in different Inc.alities; and she seeme to understand the status of a vis tor intuitively. It was a short, sharp campaign, and Logan was elected. Ihe Placid Bermudian. Bermuda Letter to the Hartford Timet. Chatting with Mr. M en the other evening, I made n e remark that nothing wou and g ve me greater plca ure than to take a native Bermudian, who had i ever left his home, aud set him suddenly in the nrddleof the Bowery, With the elevat and trains rushing over his head, the lia't dozen surface roads noisily tinkling throngn he street, ihe endless crowds of people on bo’h sides of the way. the sparkling and glittering shops on either side, tiic electric 1 mps making an art*fleia raooi.- ligh , the jam, “go.” stir and biisi.eof that wouderfm ih troitghfare would certa niy drive h;m usanoou the spot. “Vo. it would not,” said the Consul, with \’ank< e dire tness; “he wou dn’t be moved a hair—you couldn’t surprise him or- nia e him with thegrea *i*a jandrum* him self. All B-rmudiaus are nonclisluut in the extreme. They tane nothing with surpn e! You would suppose they had traveled from birth I’* Ho said he took a farmer 35 years old to the States with him one Mine. He anticipated grea' amusement at thow nder and astonish ment the nan would express alter seeing New York, the railroads, and in ‘act the mil lion new things to aslouud him. But the man was absolutely stolid. Be expressed no sur prise, wonder or admiration at anything whatever, and seemed us calm and uncon cerned as if at home, until going out on an expre-s tram tie (-wept by a huge pota <> patch, when, thrus iug his body half cut of the window, and watching it ms far as he could sen. he sank buck. overcome, into his heat, and remn* ked. “That beats in me!” A funny conversation lie overhead between two farmers here: “Had year lor crops this year! I don’t know wh.v wo are coming to.” “Bad ye mi? Why I never had b tier onions since I was born.” “Nor 11 But what goodwill that do? We c i**t --pH anyth!' g.” “What? not iu New York?** “No!” “ w hv, yes we can! What’s to prevent it?” “I tel! yo i xve Oftu t!” “Why not?” The o and man turned solemnly about, and sho<*k his fingers at his neighbor: “We can’t sell anything in New York, because all the Americans are down hero!*’ Another farmer said wisely one dar, with a knowing countenance, “They’re havin’ a lively time up in Now York to-uay!” “Mow’s that?” “Why, the steamer must have got unloaded to day. All the shopmen will ho down to the dock. But she was full, clear up. I am afraid she will glut the market!” These anecdotes are positively true, and in dicate the estimation in which some Bermu dians ho and i heir little island. They know ab solutely nothing of h g cou nrica. The? can* M“ 'dea of auv dljco being ITEMS OF INTEREST. According to a German correspondent the widow of the late Councillor Wcrtheim is so deeply affect and by her death that when she plays the piano now idle only strikes the bl ck keys. Miss Katk Field ha* Hie last me mentoes of the Tate Senator, I- a DOte of regret deploring his inalbb': ’o'ritt°nd tier b eture before the Grand Army of the Repub lic at Washington. Every year the municipal at Paris award a prize of 42.000 to them oat meri torious, beet eonbu *t.©a and * ieve-eat voting ncedlewi man. A Mile. Eugenic Breton got the prize this yea*. 11. Behnaf.d Carpf.ntkr, the author of “Liber Amoris,” a long p cm which has re cently attracted much comment In Boston, was born at Dunlin, Ire and. on April 22, 1840. an‘l was graduated from Hr. genus© Col lege, Oxford, in 1861-2. lie has lived iu this country since 1874 According to a recent authority there are 600 women writers iu Germany, or these 30 are at Dresden, 20 at Leipzig, 7 at Stutt gart , 50 at Vienna. 80 at Berlin, 1? at Cawel, Hu cover and Fran fort-on-the-M in. The remainder, among wlmm are many princesses and countesses, arc disseminated iu the small tO'vnH and provinces. Sonoma, Cal., farmers have experimented with white men and Indians during the har vest season, to the exclusion of Chinamen, and are well satisfied with the result. The cod to the farmers axnounied to con*oderab e more, but the crops were harv steel s * much better that they are satisfied the increasc<l expense pays them iu the end. A RECENT mail from Singapore brings news of the death • there, ou Nov. *29. of Mr. William Cameron, explorer and goolo. ist to the government of the straits Settlements, at the age 53. Mr Cameron was well known* throughout the native states, espec ially among the Malays amt Silkies, of whose language a* and oust uisheiataid to have had a most a curat** knowlcige, aud over whom he had great influence. The usefulness of asphalt paper appears to be demonstrated by its constantly multiply ing applications. In thin sheets it is found admirably adapted for wrapping sibes or other fabrics that ne and protection trom mois ture, also for lining eases, packing boxes foi pianos, etc., and, • oiled up into pipes, for con veying water. Asphalt tunes are bu r . in - fifth tne v eight of ir n, will i.ot rust, and are quite tough and strong; the> are si t piv sheeic of paper, of a peculiar quality, dipped in melted a>i)hait, and then robed upon a cylin der. A man was killed on the railroad near Pitts burg the other day,and ms body was taken to the city. In lifting the mangled remains trom the baggage ear a silver watch, still run ning, fell from the vest pocket. One of th* railroad employes grubbed it, opened th* b cod-stained case, pulled out a penci l and took the on in her. ‘•What are you doing that for?” was asked. “Folicv.” he t**rse v re plied. It is a popular superstition among • obey players that the number of a watch found on a man dying a vioieut death is sun to come out. George Washington Child’s obituary journal, tho Public Ledger, publishes some interesting stat sties regarding longevity in Philadelphia, tin* figures being taken from it.- own in.rivalled obituary columns. During the year !B>6 the t* tai number of deaths of persons td vears old and over was 883, and o> these 5T4 were women, or thc-e pe son 6 109 were 80 years oul, 86 were Bi, 85 were 82 88 were 88, M wn-r 84, '7 were 85, 79 were 8( 57 were 87. : 4 were 88, 25 were 89. 34 wee 90, 28 were 91, 22 were 92. 18 were 93. 9 were 94, ii> we. e 95, 12 were 96, 8 were 97. 3 were 98, 5 were 99, 5 were 100. 1 was loi, I was L 2, 2 were lui aud 1 was 19. “The characteristic features o* the chris tening of his highness Prince Alexander Albert, of Batteuberg, at Windsor,” 6ays the London Worid, * were ihe coldness of Ihe weather, the radiant si>lr l l3 of the Queen, the extreme smalluet-s of the subject of tin ceremonial, thn peculiar attention paid i" Prince Alexander of Bulgaria (bis uncle and godfather), and the rigor with which the in vitationft were curiaiud. Lord Onslow (iu the newest and most artistic of wigs) con duced the sponsors to their places: and few of those present will forget the look of par donable pride w:th which the Queen received the child from the arms of Dean Davidson.” A Philadelphia doctor who was morti fied once because remarks were made on ac count of Ins taking a little nip from a pocket fi:t-k, ha j invented a me hod for carrying re freshm-mts that is likely to l e popular in prohibition .States. His inven ion is a little caU'Uieof rubber, looking much like a grape, which is filled with wi eor liquor and dis tends until it assumes the form ai.d s* molance of a large aud juicy fruit. These grapes are flbed with a variety of bibu'ints—old rye, whisky, brandy, Holland gin, port.si erry, or cot dials—to the extent of about a pony glass fu I. The thin rubier breaks as easily as a .rape skin between the teeth and no one would thiuk they were not real grapes. A fast train on the East Tennessee, Vir ginia and Georgia railway ran into a big bf'd eagle near Chattanooga the o’her day, anti threw him upon the cow-ca cher, where lie clung Before the bird had time to re cover from <he sho k of his collision with the • ow-caicher F reman Fortune climbed a'ong the footway to the pilot and endeavored to capture the eagle, * Inch fought vicioudy for his liberty. The tram was going at the ram of foriy-five miles an hour. The man bad io 1m and i y -ole hand to keep his foiling, and manage the eag e with the either hand. Bin ho bird wa- 11 .ally secured after be hud rear y lorn Mr. Fortune’s overalls to shreds with his p"voiul talons, and was carried ba-k over th • footway flgti ing li e a dern ui. He measured 7 feet from tip to tip of the win g *. The Century Magazine prints forthefiret time these wor's of Abraham Lincoln, given in an official reprimand t a young officer who had been court-niaitialed for quarreling: “The advice of a fai her to his so >, ‘Beware of entrance to a qua*re', but being in, bear it i lint he opposed in a*, beware of rheeP is good, but not the brt Quarrel not at all. No mau resolved to make tie most of himself can spare time for person 1 o intention. .Still 10-s can he aiford i* take all the consequences, in -Iu ling the vitiating of Ins temperand the loss of t-e t-control. Yield larger things io which you can show no more than equal right, and yield le-ser on* s. though dear y 'our own Better give yourpatu to a dog tli n be bitten by him in coute-tina for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.” William M. Shelton, who has just died on the Bayou Bartholomew, in Arkansas, was a New York man by birth and graduated from the University of Virginia with honor. Soon after his graduation lie was dis tppointed in love ami became a wanderer. He finally lo eatediu Arkau as, keeping away from popu bus districts, living by hunting. Occasion ally a belated traveler found u haven in She - ton’s cabin, though he resolute v shunned communication with mankind. The hou-e was furnished in the rudot manner. The-e was a Mg oid-fa-hioned lire place, and the puncheon kr v,a- covered F re and there with bear .-k n . ILit wba* attrac el most Attention was a bookea**o contAßiinc works of the greatest air hors .f the past and present e#n f urtaft—KuulUd, Greek, Latin, German and French, Bome recent cxcnvutiOfis which have been made in the south AuiHfot thOehoir of Lincoln Minster, Eng., from the Cctrocholr laid bare a portion of the founduiTqp of the original eastern terminalib yl the Cathedral as erected by Jt. Hugh, taken dowu for building Hie angel cimir. They hit? • abo brought t- light th * * tom!) in which the b- dy of in t canonized bMiou was atone time apparently deposited, with rome small re iiiitlnH of its ' ontcu -*. The sepulchre of st • High was discovered where it was looked for! beneath ti e bln k marble table on carv* and supp*>*ts, ere ted by Bishop Fuller about 10i*, bearing a Latin inscription of elegur verses of consld* rai'c elegance, stat ing that tho sa m’s body lay below Tue original place r>f th.* Mirlue was tho cen’ro of the space behind the rcredos. B* - neotli tills memorial, a short distaure below - *'M fim* nnon a to * M h. i ■♦* * n th • ■ • ■ alc* f . ■■■AW v *V v - *■ • '.V'Aa' i-- ; - ‘ • pig I' h 1 mruM-nun 1$ ; FLAVORS , MOST PERFECT MADE ‘reparpfl with strict resard to Purity, Strength, am jealthfalnesa. Dr. Ihiro's Baking Powder contain to Ammonia,Lime.Alum or Phosphates. Dr.Price' ixtracts, Vanilla, Lemon, etc., flavor deliciously. Prt) (6ool>o. CBOHAI l DOONEP SUCCESSORS TO B. F. 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