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The Daily News.
denisox.
SUNDAY MORNING.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.
—Miss Clagett, daughter of the late
Judge Clagett, of Keokuk, Iowa, is
about to make her first literary venture.
It is a novel, entitled: “ Her Lovers,”
and will ,be published early in the
spring.
—Albert F. Webster, one of the most
promising young magazinists of the
day, died at sea, on the way to the
Sandwich Islands, last December, and
news of the sad event has just been re-
ceived.
—“History repeats itself,” says Miss
Grundy in a Washington letter to the
Graphic. ‘ ‘ Henry Watterson, who was
born in Washington while his father
was a Representative in Congress, has
had a son born to him here under simi-
lar circumstances.”
—Here is another illustration of wom-
an’s inhumanity to woman: Susan B
Anthony has alluded cuttingly to Mary
Clemmer as “ an innocent ineffectuali-
ty,” and Mary sweetly describes Susan
as “a withered pea, forever rattling in
a dried-up pod.”
--Miss Emma Abbott, the young
American songstress, made her first
appearance in New York on Feb. 8,
and was enthusiastically received by a
large audience. The critics agree that
she is one of the most promising Ameri-
can singers.
—Burdette, the Burlington Hawk-eye
humorist, pronounces the rumor that he
was about to start a paper of his own
as a base invention of his enemies. He
makes an emphatic denial, and says:
“ lie has had it He had all he wanted
of it. So had the Sheriff.”
—Marie Prescott is the stage-name of
a new candidate for histrionic honors
who has just made her debut. as Lady
Macbeth, in Cincinnati. The Louisville
Courier-Journal says she is a Kentucky
girl, of rare personal beauty,, highly
educated, and belongs to one of the
most aristocratic families in the blue-
grass region.
—Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Clad in
have conceived the ambitious project
of making an appearance on the stage
in London. They have had a play,
entitled “ Napoleon and Josephine,”
specially written for the occasion; and
it is said to bo the intention of Miss
Tennie to personate Napoleon, while
Victoria shines as Josephine. A daugh-
ter of Mrs. Woodhull will undertake
the part of IlorUme.
—A correspondent of
Journal says: “ Justice J.
—Mrs. Cady Stanton relates how she
with other ladies educated a young man
for the Presbyterian ministry, had given
him a new suit, a beaver hat, and all
the etceteras pertaining to the minis-
terial garb, and, of course, were agog
to hear their protege preach. Imagine
their dismay and disgust when the
young man announced the text: “Let
your women keep silenoe in the
churches, for.it is not permitted unto
them to speak.”
—Dri Adler, the radical Jewish phi-
losopher of New York, has shocked
many people of his nation by preaching
a sermon against the rite of circumci-
sion. He characterized it as barbar-
ous in itself and barbarous it its origin,
it being derived from the bloody reli-
gious rites of races but just emerged
from animalism. The preacher—who
is still a Jew and the son of a Jewish
Rabbi—was heartily applauded by an
audience mainly composed of Jews.,
Haps and Mishaps.
—Helen Gray, a young girl residing
near Arkansas City, Kan., committed
suicide on the 9th. Her lover, Joseph
Harrison, had basely betrayed and then
deserted her.
—At Memphis, the other day, a little
daughter of Wm. Nudes, Clerk of the
steamer Garland, while burning leaves
in a yard, set her clothing on fire and
burned to death.
—At Toledo, 0., on the 14th, John
Jones, a wealthy farmer, from Riga,
Mich., while walking on the railroad
track, stepped out of the way of a train
approaching him in front only to step
in front of a train approaching from the
rear, which threw' him against a car
and fractured his skull.
—At Des Moines, Iowa, a 5-year old
sen of Henry Minos found on top of a
closet a loaded revolver, which he pro-
ceeded to examine with childish curi-
osity. His brother, a year or two old-
the!
A Decision b; Instinct.
“ This is, indeed, a difficult case to
decide,” said Judge Duffy at the Tombs
Police Court yesterday, twirling his
mustache reflectively and gazing at a
huge Newfoundland dog which pant-
ingly straggled to free itself from the
chain held by the Court policeman.
“You, John Koler,” he addea, “claim
the dog as your property, and you, Paul
Kanitz, say the animal is yours. Now
it stands to reason that one of you is
making a false statement, and, under
the circumstances, I am at a loss what
disposition to make of the animal.”
“ Give ’urn to me,” cried an irreverent
Baxter Street youth of 8 years, dodging
under the arm of an officer to avoid a
well directed cuff. The Judge looked
up scowlingly, aud the slight titter oc-
casioned by the urchin’s temerity in-
stantly subsided. The subject of dis-
pute ceased his struggling as if in sym-
pathy with the gravity of the Court,
and, giving a final wag to his tail, sat
quietly down to await the judicial deci-
sion.
“ It is clear to my mind,” resumed
Judge Duffy, fingering a law book and
fixing his eyes on the dog, “that Kanitz
is the primarfade owner, because the
animal was in his possession at the
time of arrest; yet if Koler’s statement
is correct the apparent owner is in re-
ality but a trustee, and the dog the
property in trust.”
At this the animal again grew rest-
less, but an admonitory twitch of the
chin by the officer caused him to re-
new his attention to the exposition of
the law.
“ In the absence of evidence further
than that already adduced, ’ Judge
Duffy continued, “I can decide this case
only on the intelligence of the proper-
ty itself, and as the animal is capable
only of indicating its former proprietor
by instinct, by instinct shall I decide
, , , | the case.” The words were evidently
er, was standing near by, when the well woighed, and theJudclosed the
weapon was discharged, the ball pass- iaw book indicative of his determina-
father was a charcoal burner in
Schoharie County, N. V. Joseph carted
charcoal. He employed his> leisure in
study, and while the cattle were rest-
ing and the men enjoying their recrea-
tion, Joseph was digging away at the
law. When a young practitioner he
made a digest of the New dersey laws,
which is still authority.”
.ing through tho right hand of the child
who had possession of it and just graz-
ing the forehead of tho other as it pass-
ed into the floor.
—A young lady of Atascoso County,
Texas, by the name of Acres, about 18
years of age, became entangled in the
rope of her horse, and was dragged by
the frightened animal a distance of
three-quarters *f a mile. When the
animal was stopped, nothing of her
wearing apparel remained but her col-
lar and shoes, and, singular to say, she
was not killed, and by now has entirely
recovered.
Foreign Notes.
—Rudolf Meyer, editor of the Social-
ist newspaper, has been sentenced to
nine months’imprisonmentfor publish-
| ing a libel on Prince Bismarck, charg-
the Boston ! ing him with stock-jobbing.
P. Bradley’s I —A number of Germans residing in
Science and Industry.
—The Sutro Tunnel at Virginia City,
Nev., is now 15,865 feet long, and the
mineral belt is fairly reached.
—A surprising amount and variety of
American manufactures, especially of
cotton, are beginning to go to Chili
and other west-coast regions by way of
Panama.
—Tobacco is now successfully culti-
vated in over 50 counties in the .State of
Missouri. In 1876, the State had 383
tobacco manufactories and she pro-
duced 19,000,000 founds, occupying the
sixth rank among* the tobacco-growing
States of the Union.
—A distressing condition of things
prevails in the coal mine districts of
Westphalia and Riueland. A great
number of workmen have been dismiss-
ed, and there are over 40,000 unem-
ployed persons, among whom the dis-
tress is fearful. No signs in the im-
provement of trade or commerce are
perceptible.
—At the annual meeting of the Shef-
field Chamber of Commerce, the l’rc-i-
dent said Sheffield manufacturers and
workmen had only themselves to blame ! pal residence
for loss of trade with America and sue-1
cessful American competition with for-
eign countries. Sheffield workmen had
not come up to the make and style re-
quired by customers. Mandella, mem-
ber of Parliament for Sheffield, said
American competition was successful
because the Americans excelled in the
rapidity of their adoption of labor-sav-
ipg machinery.
School mud Church.
—The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology has several Japanese stu-
dents.
—Rev. Asa Countryman, pastor of'
the Universalist Church at Dubuque, j
has resigned his charge and joined the
Congregationalists.
—1The Free Library of the Friends at
Germantown, Pa., does not contain a
work of fiction, aud the Librarian never
read a novel in his life.
-- The Bishop of Iowa desires $700 j
without delay, to save from immediate j
loss to the church, by foreclosure of |
mortgage, the churches at Farley aud j
Cascade.
—A. W. Muna, formerly a teacher in
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Flint,
Mich., was ordained to the Episcopal
ministry in Cleveland, last week, by
Bishop Bedell. Mr. Mtinti is the second
deaf mute who has been admit ted to the
priesthood in that church.
France have received, since the begin-
ning of the'year, an invitation from the
German Government to return to their
country before March if they wish to
avoid serious legal consequences.
—The Duihess of Geneva is dead.
She was the tenth Duchess, and was
worth $30,000. She was a cow. She
belonged to Lord Bectine, of England,
and was purchased in New York in
1873. It is something to be a $30,000
cow, and have a notice of your death
sent by the Atlantic Cable.
—The Empress Eugenie will return
to England in February. Her Majes-
ty’s visit to Rome does nos appear to
have given her so much satisfaction as
she anticipated. The Empress is grow-
ing rather stout; it is to be hoped it is
a healthy sign. The Prince is popular
with all classes.
Oilils nntl Kurts.
—Little drops of water,
Lii Us grains of Cora. •
Make tiie mighty .Jersey lightning,
Ami the pleasant morning horn.
■—Heading Review.
-Let us invest slowly in blue glass. ! shouted:
law book indicative of his determina-
tion.
“A decision by instinct,” whispered
a fat boy in the first row of seats, play-
fully nudging an elderly man by his
side. “A decision by instinct,” said a
jolly British tar, who had come with
vengeance in his heart to see a fellow
seaman sent to the Island for assault-
ing him the night previous. “A je-
dishion by (hie) instid," hiccoughed a
a drunk-and-disorderly at the prisoners’
pen to the officer having him in charge.
“A decision by instinct,” murmured
the general audience, and all breaths
were hushed in admiration of the Sol-
omonlike wisdom of tho magistrate,
and all eyes were turned on the dog.
“ The claimants will take up posi-
tions at the furtner wings of the court-
room, opposite each other,” ordered
the Judge. The rival owners, looking
mystified, placed themselves in the po-
sitions required and scowled at each
other.
“Now,” said thq Judge, “when I
give the signal each of you will whistle
simultaneously and the officer will re-
lease the dog, and the animal, thus free
to choose for himself, will, as a matter
of course, go direct to his lawful own-
er.”
“As a matter of course,” approv-
ingly muttered the fat boy, the British
tar, the simple and the general audi-
ence marveling at the simplicity of the
Arrangement and wondering why it had
not occurred to them.
“ Officer, art1 you ready?”
“Yes, your Honor.”
The audience rose to witness the de-
nouement, and the simple drunk by a
stupenduous effort checked bis hic-
coughing. The Court looked around
to see that there Wag no foul play and
then took up a cross-legged position on
the magisterial chair, the better to see
the result. Every eye was riveted on
the animal.
All being in readiness the Judge
Let the poor buy Hour and meat aud
clothes, for these are certainly good for
health; and let the rich, who have a
One, two, three—time.”
Koler set up a whistle, long aad loud,
that sounded like a locomotive’s, try-
few spare dollars, work out the prob-! ing to emulate the Centennial foghorn.
lem for us all. Meanwhile, nature’s
old-fashioned white light is an awful
good thing and amazingly cheap.—Pro-
fessor Swing.
—Governor Bross illustrates the mar-
velous growth of Chicago by saying
It filled the court-room, tingling the
ears of the Judge. Kanitz puffed, pant
ed, and whistled short aud shrill by
jerks. Never was such music heard in
temple of justice befpre. The standing
audience strained forward with intense
that in 1850 he saw a wolf pass his door j interest, and even the point arose spas-
on Michigan
Avenue, now the prinoi-
street in the city. His
friends amuse, themselves by telling
him that he had better luck than the
general run of Western editors. The
wolf generally squatted in front of their
doors and howled.—N. Y. Tribune.
—Robinson is his name. He is a
Boston lawyer, uncommonly pious, and
extremely high church. He thinks it
needful to sow seed by all waters, and
so has his note paper branded with
Scripture texts. The other day he had
occasion t# write for a favor from the
court to Chief Justice Gray, and he
Unluckily used a sheet of paper which
was headed, “ Ye are all bought with a
price.” Some slanderous wag has been
telling that the application wasn’t
granted.
CATS.
Hear tho yowling of the cuts—
Dash the cats!
What galore of disputation in their conf’rcneo.
hi oath these slats;
last their doleful 111111111100,
And their screams of exultation—
Yea, their ghostly incantation—
And their spats I
Why, it's worse than yell of greasers,
Or than backwoods Etienc zers,
Or than forty thousand Wheezers
Stowed 111 vats I
O, for pail, or jack, or pillow,)
Or a raging, mighty billow—
E’en that basket luade of willow— •
Even mits;
To hurl with deadly aim,
And a force that's far from tame,
At said eats,
Cats, eats, vats,
1 ats. eats, eats,
At those yowling, prowling, growling Thomas
eats 1
medically front its cross-legged position
and leaned half way over the bench.
The dog, released from his chain,
lifted his head and stepped briskly in
front of the railing. lie looked first at
Koler, then at Kanitz, wagged his
tail at the Judge anti darted through
the open front door,'down the stone
steps, and up Centre Street with the
speed of the wind.—New York Herald.
Detroit’s Mean Man.
A Detroit doctor yesterday met an
ex-patient of his on State Street and
called the man’s attention to the fact
that he had a bill against him for medi-
cal services.
“ Can’t pay,” replied the man.
“ Do you want to pay P” sternly de-
manded the physician.
“ Of course I do, but I’d like a little
time.”
“ How much?”
“About twenty years.”
“I’ll sue this bill,” exclaimed the
Doctor.
“Sue away, for I ain’t worth but a
shirt and a half, aud am growing poor-
er every day.”
“ Well, sir, you are a blamed mean
man!” continued the Doctor.
“IIow mean am 1? Please state
what grade of meanness yen mean.”
“ I mean,” said the Doctor, as he
got more color in his cars, “ l mean
that you are mean enough to pretend
to die, so as to spite your creditors and
make your wife trouble. You are mean
enough to let them bury you in due
form. Then, if I came at night, dug
you up and carried your cadaver on my
back for a mile and a half, you’d be
mean enough to come to life, pick my
poekets, and want me to hire you to fill
up the grave again!”
“Is that
your candid opinion, Doc-
tor?”
“Yes, sir, it is!”
“ Well, Doctor, you may now drive
on. If you have time during the day
please write me out a chart, for you
beat Fowler by a length and a half.
Good-by, Doctor; seems like spring,
doesn’t it?”—Free Tress.
The Boss Rat Killer.
A tall man with a nose like a muiin
went into a Main Street boarding-house,
one day last week, and asked for a din-
ner.
“ Owing to the general deoression of
business and consequent scarcity of the
rhino,” said the proprietor, looking the
tall man over, “ a dinner will cost you
thirty-five cents, in advance. ”
“ I have nothing with me but a check
on a Boston bank,” observed the tall
man.
“ Checks on Boston backs ain’t worth
a copper,” remarked the landlord; “I
guess you’ll have to dine more sumptu-
ously elsewhere,”
“Can’tI do something for my din-
ner?” asked the tall man, as a hungry
pang gripped him.
“ You can pay,” said tho proprietor,
impressively.
“ You give me my dinner,” said the
tall man, “and I’d agree to clean youi
house of every rat in it. I have per-
formed the feat in many hotels through
oui the country, with the most satisfac-
tory results.” 1
The proprietor accepted the bargain,
as a most advantageous one to himself,
and the tall man seated himself at the
table, where he did f- arful execution
among the victuals. He finished his
dinner in half an hour, po ked his teeth
with a cigar,and proceeded to enjoy it.
“Now then,” said the proprietor,
when the tall man had finished his
smoke, “let’s get to business. Go for
the rats.”
“Ah, yes,” returned the tall man;
“ with pleasure. Procure me a light
iron bar, about four feet in length,
and 1 will proceed to business.”
The bar of iron was produced, and
the loafers gathered around to witness
the interesting proceedings.
“Now begin,” said the proprietor.
“ Where’ll you commence first?”
“ Right here,” replied the tall man,
as he carefully rolled back his cuffs,
spit on bis hands, and grasped the iron
bar firmly, while the proprietor stood
by, with great anxiety depicted on his
countenance.
“ Now,” said the tall man, impress-,
sively, as he slowly elevated the bar,
“ are you all ready?”
“All ready,” replied the proprietor,
excitedly.
“Then,” said the tall man, “ bring
on your rats.”
For the space of five minutes the ex-
citement of an entire presidental election
filled the room. When it subsided the
tall man was nowhere to be seen, and
the proprietor was standing before a
glass tying an oyster over his left eye.
1'he rats still revel in their native free-
dom.—Rockland (N. Y.) Courier.
His Valentine.
Big English, the boot-black, is not
whtu might be called a boy of beauty,
but he is a good boy. Ilis heart is lo-
afed just* right, and it beats the tight
number of times per minute. As he
yesterday stood in front of a window
tilled with valentines he was heard to
muse:
“Two cents apiece, and comic at
that. Well, I’m the boy who has four
cents laid away for this occasion, and
here goes to make two souls happy.”
He entered the store and looked oxer
a large number of valentines, and final-
ly selected one for his mother
It was printed in seven beautiful col-
ors, and represented a woman holding
four children in her arms and rocking
three more’in a cradle.
“ That represents our happy family
in the days gone by, before any of us
were able to sell papersor black boots,”
explained the boy. “Mother and I
don’t always agree on certain points,
<• nd there are days when I don’t feel
like going home to dinner, but I can
rise above partisanship on such an oc-
casion as this.”
it took more time to select the next
one. It was smaller anti neater, and
represented a sad-faced girl sitting up-
on the sad sea shore.
“Is it for your sister?” asked the
dealer as he put it in an envelope.
“I—I can’t say as it is,” replied the
boy. “ She’s kind of a lame girl, you
know—father failed—mother com-
mitted elopement—family sort 0’ dis-
organized, but she’s A
I’m kinder lending her my influence
till the family comes up again.”
“Case of love, I suppose!” said tho
dealer.
“ P-purty near it,” faltered the boot-
black. “ I kinder hang out around her
house a good deal, and she kinuer ap-
pears on the front steps, and I kinder
feel weak and shaky. ’Tain’t nutbin’
to be ashamed of, and I know it, but
there comes little Pete, and l want you
to tell him that I’m gift in’ these valen-
tines on speculation. He hain’t got no
wealth nor culture, and he’d be mean
i tough to lafcerate my feelings afore a
hull crowd.”—Detroit Free Tress.
The Third lleuse.
A Detroit boy, aged 12, whose uncle
is a member of the Legislature, was
permitted to make a Drip to Lansing a
few days ago in order to visit the State-
house. He came home yesterday noon
chuck fall of importance, and when his
little brother ran to meet him at the
gate William eoldly waved him back
and said:
“ I refer you to the Committee on
Fisheries, bub, and how’s my dogP”
His mother was glad to see him, and
when she asked him if he had enjoyed
himself he replied:
“ Oh, I suppose so, though I now
move to strike out all after -the enacting
clause.”
“What sort of talk is that, Willie,
dear?” she asked in great surprise.
“ Never mind the talk, mother, but
move the previous question and bring
on the pancakes.”
The hired girl came in with the din-
ner and wanted to know how he liked
Lansing. He looked at her with great
duality afid replied:
I now move to lay your petition on
the table, Hannah, for future consider-
ation.”
She got mad about it, and William
slyly informed his mother that it was
his opinion that Hannah’s title snould
be made to conform to the body of the
bill. He went out to see the boys after
dinner, and a house painter asked him
where No. 657 was.
“ We’ll have a call of the House and
see,” replied the boy, as he looked
around.
“Whose house?” asked the painter.
“Or, you can rise to a question of
privilege,” continued the lad.
“I don’t want no sass!” said the
painter, who thought the boy was mak-
ing fun of his red nose.
“Of course not. Let’s pass the bill
to a third reading, or else go into
oommitte of the whole and debate it.”
“1 think you need dressing down!”
growled the painter, and he banged
William into a snow-bank and pushed
a heap of snow down behind his collar.
“Have the minority no rights?”
yelled the hoy, as he kit; iced tho painter
on the shin.
He would have been wolloped had
not his mother appeared. The painter
moved away at the sight of her, but
called out:
“ I'll see you again, boy!”
“ I refer the whole subject to father,
with instructions to report a bill to
walk you into the Police Court, ’ ’ replied
the Representative, as he went in to
tell his mother the difference between
suspending the rules and rushing a
bill, or referring it to the Committee
on Cornfields till some one came around
with the cigars.—Free Tress.
A Widow’s Way.
©no case came under ray observation
in which the principal actors were a
member of Congress, aged, I should
judge, upward of sixty, and a bright,
fresh, sprjghtly widow, a sparkling and
irresistible type of the’class of which
the elder Weller so solemnly counsels
his son to “beware.*1 The sly twinkle
of the old gentleman’s eye and his ex-
pression of studied indifference to the
tender glances and alluring airs led me
to seriously doubt whether he beard one
word of the manufactured busiu • -s be-
ing poured into his ear, and my inclina-
tion to examine the document in bis
hands was almost irresistible, so firmly
was 1 convinced that it wa> bottom-side
upward : but, when 1 saw her rest her
beautiful hand so tenderly up in his
arm, and gazing up into his face with
bewildering eyes, inquire in tones of
sweet perplexity: “My dear Mr. -,
what shall I do ?” we rang down the
curtain. We were willing to wager our
head on the success of that woman’s
petition if it lay in the power of our
venerable friend to bring it about.—
Washington Letter.
Gone t« Hear Moody.
A Dedham business man wended his
way borne to dinner the other day, and,
arrived at the house, was surprised to
find all the doors locked. Fi-arirg that
some serious mishap had befallen the
partner of his joys and sorrows, and
none of the neighbors being able to give
him any information, he procured a
hatchet and broke an entire window-
sash to fragments. Upon crawling
into the room he found the following
note ly ing on tho table: “ Dear Hubby,
1 have gone to hear Moody and Sankey.
You will find the key to the front door
on the left-hand corner of the porch,
and some eolef Lam in the pantry. I
will pray for you .'"—Boston Globe.
—The present King of Greece is a
j young man of exceeding modesty and
f ankness. He talks good English, and
with the freedom and joyousness of a
boy. The Queen is famous tor her
beauty and the sweetness of her man-
1) sh® u% aD|! | nets; the whole nation seems to be in
love with her, she is so gentle and good.
The pair have four ruddy-cheeked
children, who are always jumping about
like squirrels in the royal carriage, so
that, tho King says he has them fasten-
ed in with leather straps lest they
should throw themselves overboard.
The King likes America, and he seri-
ously s-ys that the chief revenue of
Greeco is derived from tho plum-pud-
dings of England and Ameri a, the cur-
rants of Corinth forming its principal
article of export.
—Sir William Ferguson, President of
t he Royal College of Surgeons aud Sor-
n ,, geant-Sergeoff to the Queen, died on
—At Omaha, on the 12tli, Caroline peb. 11 a^ed 69.
Lambert, aged 101, while dressing a ’ —
sore arm with kerosene, spilled some —Nebraska pays male and female
on her clothes, which acccidentally ig- j teaohe rs exactly the ante wages for the
tilled, and she was burned to a crisp. 1 same work.
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