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15DEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notice—lmportant to Retail
Dealers, Henry Solomon & Son; All
Kinds of Insurance, John T. Rowland;
As to Bills Against Steamship Suther
land; A Grand Ball to the Children of
Hotel Tybce and Their Friends, Wednes
day Afternoon, July 10; Fancy Crawford
Free Stone Peaches, Mutual Co-opera
tive Association; New York Laundry;
Bound Money Men and Free Silver Men
AH Eat At Fried's.
Auction Sale—Last Day of the Sale of
Furniture, by J. M. McLaughlin & Son.
Straw Hats Are Heavier—B. 11. Levy
& Bro.
Car\'t You See—The Globe Shoe Store.
Surf Bathing by Moonlight at Hotel Ty
bee All This Week—Bohan & Cowan.
Educational—Washington and Lee Unl
versity, Lexington, Ky.; Law School.
Washington and Lee University, Lexing
ton, Va.
How to Spend *s.oo—Appel & Schaul.
Amusements—Grand Opera Festival
Concert at Guards’ Hall, Friday Evening,
July 12.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship
Company.
A Hot Day Yesterday; Get a Gas Range
—Mutual Gaslight Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost Personal; Miscellaneous.
These are Cleveland times! Wages are
going up, mills arc running on full time,
the treasury reserve Is intact, populism
and socialism are dying, trusts are being
smashed, commerce is taking on new life,
crops are boumiful, and there Is anew
baby at Gray Gables. These are Cleveland
times!
It is probably just as well that Minister
Breckinridge failed to provide aff offifcial
reception at Si. Petersburg for the officers
of the cruiser Marblehead. As It Is, there
are no dislocated Jaws among the Mar
blehead's officers, as might have been the
case had they been forced to attempt to
pronounce Che names of the Russian gran
dees they would have met at an official re
ception.
Not quite a year ago the people of Geor
gia and other Atlantic coast states were
called upon to send aid to the suffering
farmers of the northwest; and they re
sponded liberally. It is gratifying to note
that there is no present prospect that the
northwest will see such hard times this
year. The advices are that South Dakota
is making ready to harvest a bountiful
grain crop, the yields of both wheat an l
corn being almost unprecedented. Similar
Conditions are reported from nearly the
whole of the northwest, hence there will
be no cry for bread from that section this
year, unless it should be brought about
by some terrible calamity as yet unfore
■een.
The New York Sun reports that since
June 1 there has been an Influx of colored
workingmen, chiefly laborers and plaster
ers, into the New York labor market,
coming from the British West Indies.
This is not as it should be. If there Is in
New York a demand for colored mechanics
and laborers, It should be supplied from
the southern states. There are in the
south plenty of colored plasterers and
bricklayers who are fair workmen that
could be spared to New York and other
northern citie3, and they would make a
more desirable addition to the population
of those cities that the quarrelsome and
dissolute West India negroes. The em
ployers in Pennsylvania who have given
the southern negroes a trial in their mines
and at their coke ovens have found them
good laborers, and we have no doubt that
New York employers would be pleased
with their work as builders under com
petent supervision.
A Chicago paper publishes the outlines
of a plan, said to have the indorsement
of Senator Tom Carter, for the republican
delegates from the silver states
to dictate the nominee of
the next republican national con
vention, and failing in that to make
overtures to the democratic convention,
and failing in the purpose of Iheirvover
tures, to form a party of their own. Ten
northwestern states are said to be into
the scheme. They will demand the nomi
nation of some free silverite, Cameron
preferred, of the republicans. If the de
mand should be refused, they would go
to the democratic convention and offer the
electoral votes of the states in the scheme
in return for the nomination of Senator
Morgan or somebody as radically a sil
verite as he. Should the democrats decline
the dicker, a separate party will be formed
and the tree silverites in the old parlies
be Invited to join the new party.
An Engagement Risen here.
The announcement which Senator Ba
| eon makes in his letter to Hon. J. J. Hunt,
j chairman of the Spalding County Btmetal
j lie la ague, that he will not be present at
the convention of the silverites at Griffin
on July 18, does not surprise us In the
[ least. We took occasion to say several
days ago that the wise democrats of the
state who have an assured political posi
tion. and who have an ambition to at
tain to greater (lOlitical prominence, would
take good care to keep away from the
Griffin silverite convention. We do not
mean to say, of course’, that the engag
merit outside of ihe state, to which Sena
tor Bacon calls atte’ntion, is not a genu
ine one. We have no doubt that it Is, but
if he were particularly anxious to lie at
the convention he might find it possible
to bre’ak the engagement.
If we arc not mistaken somebody sug
gested that Senator Bacon would be an
admirable chairman of the convention. We
do not knew what the Senator thought of
that suggestion, hut we are Inclined to
think that with the overwhelming defeat
of Senator Blackburn of Kentucky before
liim. he is exceedingly glad that he will
not be In the state when the convention
meets.
We have not seen It stated anywhere that
ex-Speaker Crisp will be at the conven
tion. Has he not gone to Europe? It looks
very much as If the convention would
have to get along without the presence
of any of the great lights of the'democrat
ic parly. In the absence of any of the
very prominent democrats, the populists
may ask the privilege of naming the chair
man of the convention. They would be Jus
tified in doing so, in clew of the fact that
tlie purpose of the convention is, practical
ly. to indorse the silver plank of the na
tional platform of the Populist party.
While there is a very considerable senti
ment In the Democratic party of Georgia
in favor of the free, unlimited and inde
pendent coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1, we don't think there will be a great
deal by the time that the party is called
Upon to express itself on that issue. Anil
we are inclined to think that tile cautious
democratic politicians of the state
also hold that opinion, and
will, therefore, take good care
not to have any closer connection with the
Griffin convention than they can possibly
help. The time may not be far ofT wh-’n
many of the democrats who will he thero
will not care to have the fact recalled.
Tin’ Truth Alionf Silver.
Hon. Josiah Patterson told the large and
attentive audience which greeted him last
night a good many trpths about silver.
It is pretty safe to say that those of his
audience who were inclined to regard free
silver coinage with favor are now firmly
convinced that this country could make
no greater mistake than to open its mints
to the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 1G to 1.
Mr. Patterson went into the history of
silver as a money metal pretty thorough
ly .pointed put the part It has played in the
currency of different countries and made
it very clear that free coinage in this
country, as proposed by the sliveritoß,
Would bring about great financial disas
ter.
Mr. Patterson aimed to convince bis
auditors by arguments addressed to their
reason. He made no appeals to prejudice
or passion. He did not attempt to lead
those who listened to him away from the
subject under consideration by telling
them that the "money sharks” of Wall
street were trying to enslave them and en
rich themselves by opposing free silver
coinage. He had too great respect for
their intelligence to make such statements.
He talked common sense, and the state
ments he made and the conclusions he
reached were supported by facts drawn
from experience with gold and silver as
money metals in the past.
Mr. Patterson made It clear—absolutely
clear—that most of the silverite ,argu
ments, if they can be called arguments,
are based upon erroneous statements and
are presented with so much sophistry' that
it Is often difficult for plain people to de
tect their falseness. It was easy enough,
however, to see their falseness when he
turned the light of truth upon them.
Mr. Patterson's only purpose is to get
the truth in respect to silver before the
people. He is satisfied that when they
know It they will not hesitate to take a
firm and unwavering stand in favor of
sound money. He has rendered Georgia
good service by the three speeches he has
made within her borders.
Ex-Secretary of S'ate Foster's comments
upon the policy of this government In
respect to the Japanese-Chinese war must
make the republican fault finders ashamed
of themselves. "Of all l'he countries diplo
matically concerned in the contest," said
Mr. Foster, in tun interview published in
our dispatches, "the United Stales have
come out of it with better grace than any
other." Mr. Foster Is a strong republican,
and was a member of the last republican
adminstraition; nevertheless he gives
credit where it Is due. The time is not far
distant when all fair minded republicans
wHI acknowledge also that the Cleveland
administration did precisely right in the
Hawaiian and the Nicaraguan affairs, not
withstanding some of the leaders of their
party so roundly denounced the adminis
tration for its policy in the matter of
those affairs.
A cable says the German emperor is
going to take a part in some theatrical
performances, in which he will interpret
jedding characters in Prussian history. It
is to be hoped that his majesty will make
a better showing as an actor than he has
been able to make as either a poet or a
painter. IVe shall hear next probably
that the emperor will try his hand at run
ning a newspaper. He has taken a turn
at just about everything else.
It begins to look as If the Texas author
ities would have to move aga'ns; the Cor
bott-Fltssimmons fight, if they move
against it at all, upon general principles,
and not according to the law. There was
anti-prize lighting law enough In Texas
■some years ago to keep Sullivan and Kil
rain out of the etatc. but it seems that a
new law opens iue doors to the sluggers.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1893.
Transmission of Electrlml Power.
A few days ago. in the presence of 150
, members of the Ameriran Institute of
■ Electrical Engineers, a 5,n00 horse-power
I dynamo operated by the waters of Niag
ara falls, was put to the test. Owing to
1 the incomplete condition of some of the
machinery, the dynamo was not driven
■ to its full capacity, but it developed 3,'MiO
horse-power, and the test was pronounced
by some of the foremost electrical engi
neers of the world to be a complete suc
cess. They said the machinery worked
much better than new steam machinery
ever does.
The matter of the successful generation
of the power at Niagara Falls having thus
been settled, the only open
question In connection with the
enterprise is that .of the eco
nomic transmission of the power to dis
tant points. The experts say that 30,(00
horse power can lie sent to Buffalo, twenty
miles from the falls, at 2),(MU volts pres
sure over three copper wires three-fourths
of an inch in diameter each, and delivered
in Buffalo at a cost per horse-power very
much below the cost of steam power gen
erated locally. Some of the experts
say that there is no reason to doubt that
every mill wheel and every electric rail
way within a radius of 3UO miles of the
falls can be economically operated by
power from the falls distributed through
wires, and Nikola Tesla is quoted as
having said that 100,000 horse-power can
be put on a wire and sent to New York
on the east and to Chicago on the west.
The harnessing of Niagara and the dis
tribution of its power ovor a large area
by means of electrical apparatus are mat
ters of importance to the whole country.
The cheapest and most reliable power in
the world is that obtained from the natural
flow of water. When such power can lie
distributed at pleasure and at a low cost,
for the turning of wheels and Ihe running
of ears, there will come about a revolution
in the manufacturing and transportation
systems of the world.
The city of Savannah Is. or should be,
greatly Interested In the transmission of
power by wire. It has been calculated by
an expert that more than *300,000 worth of
power is used in Savannah every year fbr
the running of machinery and street cars
and the lighting of the electric lamps.
There Is no doubt that the demand for
power will increase from year to year as
manufacturing plants are established. If
electrical power, generated from a natural
flow of water, could be brought to the city
and distributed at a cost say 15 or 20 per
cent, below the cost of steam power, it can
be seen wiiat an immense saving there
would be. One-half of the amount now paid
for horse-power in a year would pay good
Interest on quite a large investment.
There is within twenty-six miles of Sa
va n nah an Immense water power awaiting
development whenever the captains of In
dustry get ready to lay it under contribu
tion. The Morning News has several times
called attention to It. It is on the Uannoo
chee river, and expert calculations, based
on a survey, have placed Its capacity at
no less than 10,000 horse-power. The kind
of apparatus that will send Niagara's en
ergy to Buffalo would most likely also send
the Uannoochee's energy to Savannah. The
difference In distances Is not great. When
the trolley builders found the current
would operate cars live miles from the
power station, they added another mile,
and it worked. Then they tried more and
more miles, and still it worked, though
not so well, because of the “leakage" of
the current. Similar experiences will prob
ably attend the experiments of the elec
tricians in long distance distribution of
power from Niagara, and the chances are
that by the time Savannah gets ready to
develop the Cannoochee's power, there
will he no problem in sending electrical
energy in great volumes 100 miles.
The Defender Gives Sn<lsfnelion.
The Defender that is to defend the
America ctip against Valkyrie 111, the
English vessel, Is vvhoty satisfactory to her
builders, the llerreshoffs. She is described
as a “wonder." She was given a trial on
Sunday last, and her performances awak
ened the greatest enthusiasm among those
on board of her.
She did not sail alone, but against the
Colonia, a very fast yacht, anil she sailed
away from the Colonia in every kind of a
breeze the yachts encountered. The Coio
nla is a fast boat, and tn a race with her
it was easy to see just what the Defender
could do. Says one account of the race:
“In two brushes to windward down Nar
ragansett Bay with a good club topsail
breeze, the Defender romped away from
the Co'.onta in a style never before seen
in the racing of b!g sloops on this side of
the water, and did it with such consum
mate ease and certainty to give promise of
a much larger margin in victory when she
shall be in full racing trim."
American yachtmen are confident that
the Defender will beat Valkyrie 111. From
her performances on Sunday it Is safe to
say American money in large amounts will
be wagered that the America cup will not
be carried to England this year.
English yachtmen have been trying for a
number of years to capture the cup, and
they have spent a great deal of money to
accomplish their purpose. They are very
determined, and will not confess the su
periority of American boat builders as long
as they can raise enough money each year
to build anew boat. They are placing
much dependence on Valkyrie 111. That
vessel did not do as well as was expected
of her on her first few trials, but a recent
trial raised the greatest expectation of her
ability to defeat the Yankee yacht and cap
ture the cup for England. The race will be
an event that will interest a large part of
the civilised world.
A New Jersey young woman has taken
a prize at a church fair for sawing wood.
Her feat has brought her considerable no
toriety, but it will hardly bring much
else; at all events it will probably not
bring to her feet the kind of a husband
that the average church fair young wo
man sighs for. Husbands of the ideal
kind do not marry wives to saw wood,
however much they may value the ac
complishment that in these days is usual
ly mentioned in connection with sawing
wood. ,
PERSONAL.
Richard Reddicks, colored, of Pitts
burg. says he is lie years of age. lie
claims to hare seen Gen. Washington.
—The New England Magazine thinks
that Boston ought to have a monument
to either Cromwell or Calvin, to repre
sent the spirit of Puritanism.
—Papt, R. R. Rice, the distinguish and
turfman and Arkansas cotton planter,
has whiskers so long that they extend be
low his knees and endanger his equili
brium when he gets excited.
—Crispl's coat of mail recalls the fact
that Bismarck wore a steel shirt for some
time after iie was fired upon in Berlin,
many years ago. The joke about him
was that he got his linen at the iron
mongers.
—The Prince Regent of Bavaria has ap
pointed Herr Posskrt, the famous Ger
man actor, who was an attraction at the
Irving Place theater a few yars ago, in
tendant, or chief, of the royal theaters
of Bavaria.
—Prof. Rudolph von Roth of the Uni
versity of Tubinge n,' Joint author with
Boehttingk of the great St. Petersburg
Sanskrit dictionary, died recently at the
age of 74. He had taught exactly fifty
years at Tubingen.
—Gen. A. W. Greely takes little part In
the social life of Washington, spending
most of his leisure time on anew book
about his explorations that he is writing
for the Public Knowledge series. His
wife says he will do no more exploring.
—ln these times of a Napoleonic craze,
when memoirs, books and articles abound
in regard tp the imperial epoch, and brie
a-brack of those days are so much “ a ia
mode.'* U 'ls curious to have an evi
dence thauNapoleon busied himself with
small details of administration, even when
he was in the midst of one of his great
campaigns, says the New. York Tribun-.
M. Leblanc, an old French resident of
New York, has in his possession a family
relic bearing the signature of Napoleon,
and daied from ihe imperial headquarters
at Dresden, June 14. IMS, some time lie
fore the famous "Battle of the Nations"
i/t ladpslc. It is a passport granted to M.
Lablano’s father, a publisher, and permit
ting him to embark in any "licensed"
vessel starting from Moriaix, Caen or
Havre. The signature consists of the sin
gle letters “Napl." written in'a vertical
rather than horizontal line, as it is well
known that at that epoch Napoleon had
reached the third of the different ways lie
had successively adopted to sign his name.
His signature was rather plain at first,
th<n confysed, and finally quite hiero
glyphic.
BRIGHT HITS.
—l>ent4t—The nerves are dead; that's
what's the ma'ter.
Celtic Patient—Thin, Ire th' blessid Vir
gin, th' dom tooth must be houldin' a wake
over thlm!—Puck.
—Even the Moon Hid Her Face.—First
Girl—A dark cloud just then covered the
moon—by that time qiy heart was in my
throat.
Second Girl—Gracious! how he must have
squeezed you!— Boston Budget.
—Unjustly Blamed.—Mr. Figg—What
were you kept In school for?
Tommy—Cause 1 dldn t remember the
name of the Y.ce President.
"H'm! Half the time 1 can't remember
It myself.”—lndianapolis Journal.
—“And Ulo new man ” began Jones.
"What of him.’" snapped Mrs. Jones.
"Well, I'm afraid the lemimne traits will
go to nim. the conditions be reversed,
and ”
■ Jones, what do you mean?"
"Oh, that man will be embarrassed,
basiiful, ashamed in the presence of wo
uun-—"
"Good heavens! He ought 8o be now!"
—Cleveland Plalndealer.
—She Silenced Him.—" Matilda,” said the
Boston man; "you are passing a good deal
of time art the bicycle."
"What of it?"
"Ncifjiing, In particular—only—er—that
Is to say—do you think that the wheel is
properly woman's sphere? ’
"Of course. 1 don t,” was ihe decided
answer, "jt isn't a sphere at all. It’s
a circumference."—Washington Star.
—When a boy writes a composition the
result is no* always a gem of thought and
literary style. But it is generally Inter
esting, and the following chet d'oeuvre on
"Breatljlng" is na exception:
“We breathe w.th our lungs, our lights
and our livers. If ft wasn't for our brtalo
we would die when we slept. Our breath
keeps the life a-going through the nose
when we -ire asleep.
“Boys who stay in a room all day should
not breathe. They should wait until they
get out in the frrsh air. Boys in a room
bad air, called earbonielde. Carboni
eido is as poison as mid dogs. A lot. of
soldiers were once in a. black hole in Cal
cutta, and caj-bonicide got in there and
killed them.
"Girls sometimes ruin the breath with
corsets that squeeze the diagram. A lug
diagram ts the best for the right kind of
breathing."—Boston Budget.
CIHHEXT t’OMJIEXT.
All Opportunity for Wild William.
From the Washington Post (Ind.).
Senator Stewart might don his linen
sweaters and make a dash into Georgia.
We understand there is an Immense free
sliver convention to be pulled off at Grif
fin on July IS. Don't forget the date.
The Bull and the Locomotive.
From Birmingham Age-Herald (Dem.),
The applause that greeted Mr. Brvan
when he said he wouldn't vote for a gold
standard democrat was not the applause
produced by approbation of his sentiment,
but the same sort of applause that greets
a bull when he tries to butt a locomotive
off the track. We admire such bravery,
but—such Judgment.
With Republican Compliments.
From the New York Press (Rep.).
The next place where the able cornstalk
financiers will assemble for the purpose of
giving expression to their views, is Grif
fin, Ga. The Atlanta Constitution has
called a convention to meet at this Geor
gia metropolis on July IS, and it is ex
pected that the usuti compliment of pop
ulists w ill bo promptly on hand. William
Jennings Bryan has promised to be press
ent with his usual supply of financial toy
balloons and Senator Stewart's voice has
already been loaded on a flatcar and way
billed tor Griffin.
Alabama Politics.
From tho Nashville American (Dem.).
Alabama political matters are getting
In a tangle again, and the indications seem
to promise that next year there will be
three tickets In the field for state officers.
'1 he populists and republicans. It is said
arc getting ready to trade, the free sil
ver democrats will put out a ticket and
tho sound money democrats will also have
a ticket. With these three tickets In the .
field the campaign In Alabama will tie
hot and exciting, and tho cause of sound
money will gain strength the more the
financial question is discussed.
Knocked Out by Better Times.
From the Brooklyn Eagle (Bern.).
There is reason to believe that improved
business conditions have had quite as
much to do with stifling the silver move
ment as with sounding the death knell of
McKlnleyism. However this may be, it Is
certain that the extreme demands of the
silverttes contributed materially to the
weakness of their cause. Not bimetal
lism. but silver monometallism was their
cry. They insisted that we should try
the experiment of unlimited coinage at the
IB to 1 ratio, not In co-operation with other
nations, but by ourselves, assuming all
the risk and establishing a standard
which is rejected by the business senti
ment of the world. When times were at
their hardest. the silver movement
reached its zenith, showing that the un
employed classes and the large element
in every community which is animated
by dissatisfaction with existing condi
tions. helped to swell the demand for a
change. Asa matter of fact, it mav be
doubted whether the silver contingent ever
really possessed the strength claimed, hut
it was nevertheless formidable enough to
create apprehension that it might succeed
In frightening one of the two great parties
into compliance with Its programme. The
ease wnth which great bodies of voters
can be stampeded by argument so mani
festly delusive as that of the free silver
school is one of the curious phases of I
modern political life.
Why He Didn’t Propose.
"Rachel Hamtagg, listen. You must and
shall hear what I have come this even
ing to say!" the St Louis Republic man
heard him say.
"1 fear it will do no good, Mr. Hankln
son. I "
"Don't interrupt me. Miss Hamtagg
When the heart of an impetuous man is
overcharged it must find vent or some
thing has got to give way. r am a lone
ly being. Six weeks ago 1 was contented
with my lot. I knew no woman on earth
for whom I cared a hill of beans. I met
you. All was changed. Something seem
ed to say to me: 'There's your rate! There
is the young woman with whom your
destiny is linked! You must win her!’ 1
said to myself: '1 will!’ I sought your ac
quaintance. I studied your disposition,
your tastes, your antipathies. The resolve
to win you grew stronger. I am not
easily balked in any achievement I un
dertake. Miss Hamtagg. I have come to
night to offer you the love, the devotion,
the protection of a man deeply in earn
est, and ”
"But, Mr. Hankinson ”
"Although you may not have antici
pated this "
"I certainly did not, Mr. Han ”
“Yet I am confident ”
" and I will not listen ”
"1 say you will! Dock me in the ey,
Rachel! Do you imagine I will yield tame
ly to an adverse decision before I have
fully presented my case? Do you think I
am going to allow my suit to be thrown
out on a technicality? You little know
me if you do! It is my firm purpose, my
unalterable resolve ”
“I can’t help v.hat your unalterable re
solve is, Mr. Hankinson. I have some
thing to say in this matter and I am going
to say it."
"You will not say It, let me tell you,
until I ”
"I say I will."
“I say you won't."
"Do you imagine, sir, I am going to
let any man on earth browbeat me in
this ’’
"Who is trying to browbeat you?"
"You are!"
“1 deny it. Burning with a high re
solve, I came here to tell you ”
"1 know exactly what you come to tell
me, sir.”
"To tell you "
"I repeat it. sir, I know exactly what
you want to say.”
“Well?"
"And you needn't take the trouble."
"Book here ”
“Stop, sir!"
"Have a care, miss, how you provoke
a desperate "
"Sir!"
“Rachel Hamtagg,” said the young man,
drawing himself up and Speaking in an
altered tone, "! was about to ask you to
marry me. After this unseemly exhibition
of temper on your part 1 feel that it
would be a mistake. Whatever I may
have said that sounded like a proposal
of marriage 1 withdraw. We should not
be happy In the wedded state. Good
night. Miss Hamtagg!" he continued,
drawing on his gloves, picking up his hat
and cane and moving in a stately manner
toward the door. "Henceforth we are
strangers!”
Tnnglu llie Yankee* to Buntcli.
Discussing the late Oliver Wendell
Holmes, an eminent frenchman once
said that it was he who had taught the
yankees to laugh. The poet's wit was
such as put every one around him in the
hi st of humor, says an exchange.
It was Holmes who said that although
it was Eve who tempted man to eat he
had an idea that she had nothing to do
with his drinking, for he undoubtedly
took to that on his own account. Then
the poet removed his cigar from his lips
and remarked:
“I really must not smoke so persist
ently. I must turn over anew leaf—a to
bacco leaf—and have a cigar only after
each"—and ns most of those present Im
agined he was about to sav ..meal,” lie
continued—"after each cigar." Eeamrg
back in his chair, he added: "A foreigner
is an alien; a foreigner who drinks too
much Is an acchabian; and why should not
a foreigner Who smokes too much be
called a tobaconalitfn?”
When dining wilh I.ord Coleridge the
subject of lawyers came up and. refer
ring to the American man of the bar
Holmes said that the poverty of the
American lawyer and the wealth of his
client was his glory.
On another occasion, Mrs. Stddons was
being discussed and someone said th it
the statesman fox had been smitten ba
the great actress. To this the poet re'-
plied by saying that from all he hail ever
heard of her he couH not understand a
man falling In love with her. Ills reason
was that she was sp grand that a m.v.a
might as well wall in love with the pyra
mids. She might have been loved by the
worshipful company of coachmaker* or
a board of aldermen, but it wap beyond
the range of possibilty that one man e'ould
ever love her.
After he had been lionized by a delega
tion of westerners, someone asked him
how he liked It. “Bike ft!" he said, 'I
felt like the small elephant at the Zoo
with a cheap excursion party on his
UQ C K!
A Man With Hope.
Near midnight the other night says a
w riter In th<- Detroit Free Press, down in
the City Hall park, a minute before tack
ling the long flight of steps to the Brook
lyn bridge, and I hadn't drawn half a
dozen breaths before a chap came over
from another bench and "struck” me
for a dime. After 1 had given it to him I
said:
"You must go hungry at least half the
time?”
Yes, sir.”
"And you seldom sleep in a bed?"
“Very seldom."
"And your clothes are badly out at the
elbows?”
“I need anew suit, sir.”
“On the whole, you haven't much to live
for, I take it?”
"Not very much, sir, and if it wasn't
for toy hopes I'd take a header into the
river.”
"What hopes have you?”
"Well, sir, I’ll put your ten with forty
cents more and play the races to-morrow
and if I win I’ll sit down to a champagne
supper, take in the theater and buy my
self a box of clear Havana cigars. That's
what I hope for, sir, and I thank you, and
good night.”
I yelled at him to come back with my
dime, but he vanished in the gloom m
the direction of Broadway, and a police,
men came along and ordered me to shut
up. '
A Tableau Spoiled.
The crowd was climbing up First street
from the river, where they had been on
an excursion, and under the very dark
skies the young women and their beaux
talked softly and behaved in a manner af
fectionate, says the Bouisville Courier
Journal.
Suddenly someone whispered, "Book!”
A glance in rhe direction indicated showed
a young man. It was his left arm that
was causing the commotion, a left arm
whose position awoke envy among the
spectators. That arm was colled around
the waist of a fair companion, whose ap
pearance was that of a young woman.
There was a general titter.
"I wonder who thd girl Is,” said one
young woman.
"I wonder who the boy is," said a young
man, envy telling in his voice.
"The girl ought to be ashamed of her
self.”
Then there was a dash forward in order
that the gossipers might see who the ultra
affectionate couple were.
They managed to secure a good and full
look at the lovers. One peep brought a
show of disappointment over their faces.
“Pshaw!” said the Inquisitive young wo
man, "it's Frank and his mother.” The
curiosity seekers then turned In disgust.
Motherhood.
My sweetheart's eyes were pansy-hued.
Bike sweet spring violets, freshly dewed
Deep, tender, soft and true,
I thought I’d never seen before
Such eyes, such beauty-spots, galore
With all the beauty blue.
That nature uses in the skies
Spangled with stars; that her sweet eyes
Could nature's work undo.
• •***
But when our baby boy was born.
One Joyous, sunny, summer’s morn,
I learned a lesson true,
Her eyes shone with an Inner light.
That outshone any star at night.
And deeper grew their hue.
I wondered that a love so new
Could change, enrich their beauty so
But those who understood.
Said the new glory In her eyes
Need cause me only sweet surprise-
That Joy of motherhood
Outshines all loves and stands confessed
Queen of them all, supremely blessed
JL ,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—There will be good deer hunting in
Maine this year. In many districts re
cently numbers of the animals have been
seen on farms and in fields very close to
the settlements and villages, which the
hunters take to indicate a great plenty
of the game in the woods.
—According to a recent lecture of Pror.
Schuster of London, the safest course
for a human being in a thunder storm is
to get thoroughly wet. Benjamin Frank
lin remarked that he could kill a rat when
dry by means of an electric discharge,
but never when it was wet.
—Old salts down east are trying to as
certain which is the oldest schooner at
present in active service. The schooner
Polly, built in Araesbury, Mass., In 19(5,
Is the oldest so far discovered. The Good
Intent, built in Braintree, Mass., in IXI3,
is another stanch old craft still doing
good service.
-Twenty-four carat gold Is all gold;
22 carat gold has 22 parts of gold, 1 of sli
ver and 1 of copper; Id carat gold has 18
parts of pure gold and 3 parts each of sil
ver and copper In Its composition; 12
carat gold is half gold, the remainder be
ing made up of 3tg parts of silver and S'*
parts copper.
—Acids in lubricating oils may be de
tected by putting the samples to be tested
in a clear glass bottle! with a copper wire
running down through the cork, air
tight. Stand the bottle in a sunny place
and leave for two or three weeks. If on
removal verdigris or green rust is on the
copper, there is acid In the oil.
—While conducting a series of tests with
a 100-ton testing machine at the York
shire College in England, which Includ'd
the testing of a steel wire rope. Prof.
Goodman stated that such ropes were not
a modern invention, and that he had re
cently seen a wire rope one-half inch In
diameter and from twenty to thirty feet
long, which had been found burled In the
ruins of Pompeii and which must have
been at least 1,900 years old.
—Mme. Ida Bane Ney of Vienna, Aus
tria, has discovered anew use for cigar
ribbons. For the past five years she has
collected the narrow, yellow bits of silk
used in tying cigars together, and to each
of these she has "joined” a strip of black
dress silk of equal length and width. Bate
ly she found that the pleea of goods was
large enough to make a dress, and acted
accordingly. There are 3,000 cigar ribbons
In the dress.
—The giant water plant of the world Is
the lily called the Victoria Regia, which
was discovered by Haenke In Bolivia in
1801, but not named until 1838, when John
l.indly dedicated It to Victoria. The leaves
of this gigantic water plant often grow to
be 12 feet in diameter, when In Its native
South American home, but seldom attain
a greater width than seven feet when
under cultivation. Each leaf is surround
ed with a rim five or six inches in hight,
and tw o men have floated on one in perfect
safety.
—"l'noda,” writing from Philadelphia, In
English Notes and Queries of July 8, 185-1,
says; .* * • "In Massachusetts the law
makes the Sabbath only IS hours long. It
commences at midnight between Saturday
and Sunday and ends at 6 p. m. on Sun
day evening. In that state work may be
done or amusements or political meetings
may be attended on Sunday evening with
out breaking the law.” Gan any reader of
the Republic say if such a law is still on
the statute books of the old Bay State?
—Most people imagine that the nec<nr
of flowers Is pure honey, but such Is not
the ease. This nfectar is gathered up by
the tongue of the bee and passes direct
to the so-called “honey-bag.” This bag
Is a laboratory in which the nectar under
goes a wonderful chemical change—one
which could not he fully described In a
"note" suited to this department. After
undergoing this chemical change the nec
tar is regurgitated by the bee on his re
turn to the hive and is deposited hi the
little waxen tell in the shape of pure
honey.
—Dr. Robert H. Thurston, In a recent
article, discusses various materials in
which comparisons of interest are mad,
says the Scientific American. At the out
set he gives the following generally ac
cepted figures: Cast iron weighs 445
pounds to the cubic foot and a 1' inch
square bar will sustain a weight of 16,a<)0
pounds; bronze, weight 525 pounds, te
nacity, 30,00(1; wrought iron, weight, 480.
tenacity, 50,000; hard "struck" steel, weight
490 pounds, tenacity, 78,000; alum'num,
weight, 168. tenacity, 2fi,oou. We are ac
customed to think of metals being strong
er than wood, and so they are, generally
speaking, if only piee’es of the same size
be tested. But let equal weights of the
two materials be compared, aqd it will
then be found that several varieties of
wood will prove stouter than oudtniry
steel. A bar of pine just as heavy as a
liar of steel an inch square will hold tip
125,000 pounds, the best asli 175.00<J ami seme
hemlock 200,000 pounds. Wood Is bulky. It
occupies ten or twelve times the space of
steel.
—A pathetic incident of the recent
breaking of the long drought in Kar.sar
is told by a traveler who was in that
region at the time the rain came. There
had been insufficient rain in this par
ticular part for several seasons, the
crops had been failures or meager and
unprofitable, and many of the farmers
were utterly despondent and sick at
heart through hope deferred. But the
copious rains brought actual salvation
to very many. The traveler was driv
ing across a bridge over a creek that
was running bank full after being dry
for months, and noticed an old settler
sitting on the bank with his feet hang
ing in the stream, bailing up the water
and letting it trickle back Into the creek.
The traveler spoke to him, but the old
man seemed not to hear at first, and
continued to bail up the water as though
in a dream. When he did finally hear
and look up his face was wreathed in
a happy smile and tears were running
down his cheeks. The traveler made some
remark in the way of inquiry as to the
man’s actions. The old settler balled up
a double handful of water, and in a voice
that trembled with the intensity of his
realization of all it meant, he cried: “It’s
water, friend! it’s water!”
—A correspondent of the St. Louis Re
public, who resides near Quincy, 111,,
writes as follows to that paper: “Two or
three years ago, when I was making a
visit in and about Wilkesbarre, Pa., I
heard some wonderful stories about a
queer-looking tree which stood on Frank
lin street, in the most aristocratic quar
ters of the city. According to current re
port, it was a Chinese tree of a species
connecting the sensitive plants with the
terrible “Cannibal Tree.” It was not of
the true blood-sucking variety, but its
queer actions and the horrible stench that
its leaves emitted were such that the resi
dents of the portion of the city in which
it was situated called upon the mayor in
a body, requesting that the malodorous
thing be cut down and destroyed. On per
fectly quiet nights, when leaves were not
stirring even on cottonwood and aspens,
all that was necessary to set the ‘Chinese
Dragon tree,' as it was locally called. In
violent agitation, was simply to sit down
under it, or throw a club up among its
branches. The tree gave forth a foul odor
at all times, but when in a state of agita
tion it was perfectly horrible, causing
Franklin street people for blocks around
to close their doors and windows. I never
heard what the final outcome was, and
send this with a hope that Its publication
will cause some scientist to clear up the
mystery by telling what kind of a tree it
was, and why it behaved so peculiarly."
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