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I): Twelve Months 00 Six Months 1 00 MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1804. OUK PICAYUNES. Negro Winship found it was up hill to down Dale. Market reports say that cordage is strong and holds up well. When reformers are about the fast young man should go slow.

A man has mistaken himself when he thinks his faults are virtues. People in the real estate business cannot accept the will for the deed. Genius goes for nothing when it is constantly in the company of a jag. The bang of William Walter Phelps will be heard no more in this world. Tennessee is all right.

She has a militia adjutant general whose name is File. There are 1000 good talkers to one good thinker. Herald.) Rot! The good thinkers are not heard. Hepublicans will never be able to railroad a man like Chauncey Depew into the office of president of the United States. The comedian who makes his audi ence explode with laughter should be suppressed.

Some other actor may want an audience some time. A woman's hair is said to weigh on 'the average 14 ounces. It sometimes c. weighs more than that on the chair back. (Boston Transcript.) It is false.

It has been remarked on ther.New York bridge cars that the great Amen can hog stands in the doorways and hogs all the breeze, some of which be longs to other people. The Camp street track layers are on right lay now. They have tackled 'the St. Joseph street crossing, where the Illinois Central belt has given so many Street car passengers the grand bounce, It is capital idea to move the Beat of the state government to New Orleans. The.

statesmen aro bound to come here any way, and they might as well do their legislating here and save lobby expenses. According to a late report, a red skinned fraud is being exhibited at the Antwerp exposition as "Sitting Bull." The genuine old chief, it will be remembered, went to the happy hunting grounds many moons ninee. (Atchison Globe.) The understudy will do just as well for Antwerp. A Frenchman of some literary distinction, after studying English for a few months, wrote to an American friend: small time I can learn so many Englisse as I think I will come the America and go on to the scaffold to lecture." (Exchange.) Ine scaf fold does not deserve such a man. He should be electrocuted.

The members of the city councils should hold indignation meetings and protest at once against the very low price that is being fixed on votes by some of the city council of New Orleans. "It will ruin the business," said two Mobile eouncilmen, "if an intmediate stop is not put to these cheap sales." (Mobile Herald.) Men Jonging to be bribed and cc rrupted will eventually form a bribery trust to regulate prices. professor in Yale College has carefully compiled and composed the statistic of commercial financial panics in this country, and has somewhat surprised the fellows who play on the calamity calliope by showing that the present is far frcm being the worst panic ithe country has passed through, says an exchange. We regret the disappointment this will be to many ill meaning people. These peopie enjoy misery, and any kind jf good luck seems to be a personal injury to them.

The Glasgow, Times is responsible for this: "Benjamin Franklin was lately whipped for stealing chickens, Thomas Jefferson sent up for vagrancy, James Madison lined for getting drunk, Aaron Burr had his eye gpuged out in a fight, Zachary Taylor robbed a widow of her spoons, John Wesley was caught i breaking into a store, George Washington is on trial for attempted outrage, Andrew Jackson was shot in a negro barroom, Martin Luther hung himself on the garden palings while stealing a basket of vegetables, and Napoleon Bonaparte is breaking rock for a fine in New Orleans. What's the matter with the old boysV" The old boys are not standing out for unuus to induce them to do their duty. Kosciusko Murphy has been paying his addresses to Miss Birdie McGinnis, the belle of Austin, says Texas Sift Ings. He called yesterday at the McGinnis mansion, and Miss Birdie ro ceived him iu the parlor. "Do you know that an eligible gentleman asked your father this morning for your hand In marriage?" asked Kosciusko.

"Was It old Judge Smith, who is rich?" asked MissBirdie, her eyes sparkling with anticipation. "No. Guess again." "Was it that handsome young bank clerk, "No, it was a better looking man than he ever dared to if Hp' fev i i 1 Ml 6 Ikl s'f, Wj 1 v': was," said Miss Birdie. "It was me, Birdie." "You!" she exclaimed, twin herself a few times around his neck. "Oh, my dearest Kosciusko! l've loved you ever since I first saw you." N.

B. Kosciusko has lately fallen heir to some money. A writer in the Utica, N. Ob server relates the following humiliating experience of a reverend gentleman who must have been a trifle careless in his habits. "I have read with much amusement," said he, "the accounts of various queer occurrences in some of our churches, and 1 want to tell you of an amusing thing I saw happen some years ago in one of the largest churches Miji dils picayune.

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Twelve Months. tXOO SUNDAY PICATCNK BT MAIL. nere. The minister was preaching a sermon which drew forth the deep sym pamy or nis hearers und caused the tears to well up in his own eyes, lie reacneu tor bis handkerchief and shook it out preparatory to wiping away the affecting tears, when a long, white woman's hose took the form of the eup posed handkerchief! Imagine the mirth the congregation and the horror of the, dignified speaker, whose handkerchief got mixed with his wife's stock logs." There could be no great harm Jus wife's stocking; darn THK bUGAE SCHEDULE. It is now more than likely that another week will bring the debate on the tariff bill before the Committee of the Whole in the Senate to a close, and the bill will then be reported to the full Senate and pushed rapidly to final passage.

A final vote Is, therefore, expect' ed in about ten or twelve days, after which tho bill will go back to the House of Representatives. That the sugar schedule will again attract attention when the bill comes before the Senate proper, after leaving committee, is more than probable Efforts will be made to lop off the ex.tra discriminating duty of 10c on German sugar, and it is also possible that an effort will be made to change the date on which the schedule will go into effect. As the bill now stands, it is evidently the intention of its framers to grant a bounty to domestic producers on all sugar manufactured prior to Jan. 1, 181)5. actual wording of the schedule, will not permit this.

The schedule reads: "It shall be unlawful to issue any license to produce sugar or to pay any bounty for the production of sugar of any kind under the said act after Jan. 1, 1SU5." While; the members of the Finance Committee admit that it was their intention that the producers should receive bounty on all sugar manufactured prior to Jan. 1, 18D5, the law as it now stands would not permit this, as the stoppage of all bounty payments on the date mentioned would shut out this entire crop, as it is a fact well known that there is no bounty paid prior to Jan. 1 in any year. It has been reported from Washington that the Finance Committee have assured our Senators that when the bdl comes before the Senate, after passing through the Committee of the Whole, the wording will be changed so as to insure the payment of the bounty on the coming crop.

It is highly important that Louisiana's representatives should watch this matter closely and remind the Finance Committee of 'their promise. Should they fail to carry it out, measures must be taken to have the schedule rectified in the Conference Committee. It is also to be hoped that our Senators will oppose any effort to change the date for the taking effect of the schedule to Oct. 1, as 6uch a change would be a grave injustice to the domestic producers, as it would force them to market a crop under the new conditions which has been planted and grown under the provisions of tho old law. TO FOUSD A GREAT UMYERS1TI.

To establish a great university was the intention of the founder of Tula ne. There has been heard an outcry in some quarters for the recognition of the Alumni of Tulane University in the Board of Administrators and the faculty of the institution. Naturally, young men are ambitious and are eager to move to the front and sit in the highest places, and their friends desire to see them advanced. Every laudable ambition is to be commended, and the Picayune will be as glad as any to see the sons of Tulane winning the highest honors in every department of life, much more in their university. The young men who have the good of their alma mater at heart will pos sess their souls in patience and bide their time.

Their school is very new, dating only from 1S84. In the single decade of its existence it has turned out seventy one bachelors of arts and science, most of whom are young men, all under middle age. Already several of them hold assistant professorships in the university, and, if they will only wait awhile, there will be others of them in the faculty, and some will have places on the Board of Administrators. But it should be understood that a great university is not a mere ecouomic institution to work up domestic material. It is intended to be a light to light up the world of progress, and it needs the ablest managers and teachers that are to be had, without regard to where they are to be found.

An old university enjoying a large pecuniary incomc, and with a thorough organization and a long established and eminent record, stands in a very different position from a school that is really in process of being created. It requires wise counsel in every department. First come its financial needs. Youthful enthusiasm and lofty aspirations merely will not carry it through. It needs in its board of management financiers as well as scholars, men who can maintain its credit and give it the greatest solid support, as well as others who will be charged with framing its laws and organizing its departments.

A very pardonable mistake, but one commonly made, is that all the professors should be of homo production. This would not be wise, even if none but Louisiana boys were to be educated in its halls. As has been said, the best teachers in every deparment are required, and these should be taken wherever they are to be got. When Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, in 1811), he brought all his professors from Europe, except those who were to teach law. Those he chose at home.

He knew that the highest standards of education were maintained only in the best universities of Europe, and for men to teach languages, science and philosophy, he must seek them abroad. But the laws, the principles of American liberty, and tho free institutions of this country, he well knew were only understood and fully appreciated by those who had been brought up under their influence, and so his law professors were Americans. In that way the great apostle of American democracy sought to build up a school that would, while essaying to be truly American, be free from every narrow and provincial peculiarity, and stand forth as a dispenser of the best and broadest learning then attainable. Among the students that attended Mr. Jefferson's university during the present session, thirty two States and foreign countries were represented, which shows that a university to be great must be broad in its scope and free from provincialism, and employ able men without regard to any line of narrow 'prejudices.

Tulane is too yonngjto have attained for its academic departments any wide reputation; but its medical department, under one name or another, has been in active operation for sixty years. It is widely known and highly celebrated, and in the list of its 377 students of the session of lS5Kl i)4 there were 173 rom States and foreign countries other than Louisiana, Tulane University is not exclusively for the young men of Louisiana. It is a light to illuminate the nations round about, and, If, conducted vv THE DAILY PIC AYUNE on grand and broad principles, it will one day become a great center or education, not merely for the States nearest it, but for the foreign countries south of us, countries which send a few of their sons to our schools, but the largest numbers of them to the schools of Europe. Tulane can command that patrona go if it be so willed by those who profess to love it. But no mistake must be made.

Grandeur means something real, something big souled, lofty, broad, generous and noble. Great men only can make great universities. THE DRIFT OF BRITISH FOUTICS. Matters have been decidedly tame politically of late with our British cousins. The winning of the Derby by Lord Kosebery and tu denunciation of the Premier for his horse racing proclivities have attracted more attention than jioUtical matters.

In Parliament there have been no active tilts by the op posing but, on the contrary, there have been mutual concessions made with a view to oxpediting the final dispositicn of the budget. The only measure before Parliament on which there has been an interesting division for some time past was the bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister, in the House of Lords. This same bill has been introduced in every Parliament for the past fifty years, but has always failed of passage, although on several occasions it was passed by the House of Commons, The majority by which it "was recently de feated in the Lords was only nine. The only interesting feature in connection with the vote was the fact that the Prince of Wales, who has heretofore been counted on as in favor of the measure, voted against it. The most important political event mapped out for the near future will be the Liberal conference at Leeds, aimed against, the House of Lords.

This conference is giving the Liberal leaders much uneasiness, because they do not favor an effort to secure the entire abolition of the hereditary upper house, whereas a good section of the rank and file of the Liberals desire an uncompromising war against the Lords. The radicals, with Labouchere at their head, are determined to make trouble for the Government over this question, and they will undoubtedly seek to secure an unequivocal denunciation of the Lords by the Leeds gathering, thus making the ending of the upper house the main issue in the next electoral campaign. Although the Rosebery Ministry has succeeded in pulling itself together and carrying the budget, it is not believed that the general elections can be long delayed, and preparations are actively in progress for an appeal to the people not later than August. THE BABY BOND BILL SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN. Ihe more the measure providing for the funding of outstanding baby bonds into consolidated bonds of the State is considered the greater the inexpediency of adopting such a measure appears.

In the first place, the bill would cause an increase in the bonded debt of the State and do away with all the advantages secured by the recent reduction of the debt by the purchase and retirement of bonds. Secondly, the bill, if successful, would cast a doubt upon the bonds by at once calling into question the constitutionality of the measure. The law creating the State Board of Liquidation, and describing the class of securities that must be funded into consolidated bonds, specifically limits the benefits of the funding to obligations created prior to 1874. The baby bonds represent obligations created subsequent to that date, hence there is no warrant for the issuing of consolidated bonds in exchange for them. Lastly, the Legislature is especially debarred by.

the constitution from creating a new bond issue. While there is general opposition to the present bill, there appears to be practical unanimity of opinion in favor of some arrangement for the retirement of the baby bonds. 'The most plausible proposition yet advanced is that the bonds be actually purchased with the surplus remaining in the State treasury to the credit of the different funds. This would not increase the bonded debt a single dollar, nor would it give rise to new litigation as to the status of consolidated bonds. EVOLUTION DOWNWARD.

The "self made man" is always and justly proud of his success in the world. He did not enjoy the advantages of a liberal education; but, in all probability, whatever of intellectual culture he was able to get was in spite of the greatest difficulties and by his own extraordinary exertions. He did not have wealthy or influential friends to help him along in business; but, on the contrary, he started in the lowest place, and by his own pluck and devotion to his work, by his energy, industry and almost incredible exertions, he has attained wealth and distinction. Such is the self made man, and there is no wonder that he feels his superiority to all who may have had vastly greater advantages of assistance and opportunity and yet have not been able to reach anything like the measure of success attained by him. It is impossible to contemplate the examples of men who have made themselves great without expressions of the greatest surprise and admiration on the part of those who know how difficult it has been, with the aid of every advantage they could employ, to gain even the moderate success they have attained.

The man who is made by adventitious and specially favorable circumstances is a mere creature; but the man who makes himself is a sort of god. It is very much this pleasing reflection which is enjoyed by those theorists who hold that man in his highest intellectual estate is the result of inherent and potential forces which he was able to use through a long course of evolution in raising himself constant ly to higher and higher pinnacles, always resolved on the attainment of a higher position of excellence, congratulating himself that he is self made, that all his progress is the work of his own hands, so that, while less ambitious spirits may be willing to accept the humbler lot of having been made, by God, the evolutionist enjoys the greater distinction of being a god who has made himself. Such a proud reflection is a source of satisfaction to the discoverers qf the self creative power of matter and mo tion. With the power of self creation the power to propagate and perpetu ate, and this system of perpetuation all leads, on to a higher state of develop ment and perfection, or, at least, it NE ORLEANS, MONDAY, JUNE 18, ought to do so," But nothing is. more disgustinz to the creator of a beautiful system of scientific development than to have to contend with a lot of facts that persistently refuse to.

fit into the general plan. The best way in such cases is to disregard them, ignore them, cast them out bodily. Facts in such cases must be considered foes to what ought to be true if it is not, and, therefore, a beautiful system should not be bothered with facts. In this enlightened age it is taken for granted that all progressive thinkers believe In the power of matter to create itself and to develop itself, always making things better and journeying on by a sure and undeviating road to perfec tion. Matter having created Itself, and man, having started in a cell of jelly, having developed himself by the monkey route into the state of the highest of all animals, arrives at a point where it is necessary to reason and to possess a moral nature; He proceeds, of course, to supply those wants.

But everywhere along the route he is beset with opposing forces. The development is not all in the same direction. Ihe laws that govern it are often confusing and contradictory. The confusion and contradiction are introduced as soon as the moral and intellectual powers which man has cre ated for his own use come into play. They refuse to work in harmony with the physical evolution.

If the law of physical evolution is that those physically fittest always survive, then, in harmony, those morally fittest ought also to survive. But they do not. Crimes, such as murder and robbery, do not have any natural punishment attached to them, and no punishment at all in many cases. The moral pun ishment of remorse is by no means uni versal, but is only the result of par ticular moral or religious teachings. Actions which are immoral and wicked do not necessarily cause any pain or trouble to those who perpetrate them.

It is only when a vice, like drunkenness or debauchery, damages the physical constitution that there is any necessary sting to it under the rule of evolution. The vicious and criminal classes not only are not exterminated by the laws of physical development, but they grow, increase and thrive. This fact becomes extremely inconvenient to the material theory of morality, and the conviction forces itself on tho observer that moral and spiritual laws are not identical with physical laws. The self made man is confronted with the fact that, although he is so much of a god as to have created himself, he cannot rule and control his own creation. He cannot govern himself.

It is hard to have so perfect a system as physical evolution marred by the insuperable difficulties of harmonizing it with the moral principle, and unless some way out of the difficulty be discovered, it may become necessary to discard the entire moral element. After all, a mere animal has no business with a moral nature. The Parrot Talked Back. A Washington parrot eucceded la stopping the services of a colored church la that city the other day. He belongs to a hotelkeeper there, aud is said to be the best talker of his kind In the country, Instantly Imitating every thiit he heara with amazing accuracy.

It happened that last SuuJay morning his cage was hung at an open window close to the most fuliinoable negro church in town. The parrot listened gravely to the exercises until the minister gave out his text. The word had but fallen from his Hps when they were shouted back at him from the next house in precisely liia own tones aud inflections. The congregation tried hard to preserve its dignity, the minister tood solemn, but the effort was not a great success, and many of the younger worshipers tittered audibly. The preacher started up again, and again the bird sent back his utterance with the faithfulness of a grapuophone.

A song was tritu and Poll got In his work just the same. Hy this time it was evident that either "that parrot had to be suppressed or the meeting would hnve to break up. A little conference was held, and it wa decided to hold up the proceedings long enough for a committee to wait on Mr. Cake, and ask him to. remove the cause of the trouble to other part of the hotel.

That gentleman wlhiugly acceded to the request, and the religious exercises were resumed. Communion Cup Microbes. The Christian at Work pours well deserred contempt and ridicule on the lately announced "discovery" that the deadly microbe, driven from one refuge to another, had at last taken up his abode In the communion cup, aud is only to be avoided by each communicant having a separate cap of his own. If this bo so, it asks, why do agnostics, deitsts aud atheists have these deadly diseases as well as Christians? The paper scores that action recently taken by a ISaptlst church at Rochester, In providing individual cups for the members. "No doubt," it says, "each commuuiou cup is 'washed beforehand In au antiseptic solution of one two tuouandth of a grain of chloride of But our Lord ate with publicans and alnners from the same dish they didn't use forks then they drank rrom the same cup, but now two disciples must have two cups.

But, further, what If there be a microbe, or many of them, In the cup? asks this aggressive weekly. Man takes in scores and hundreds of microbes at each breath; but it takes tens of thousands of them to do any harm, so used and adapted is the system to foreign 'bottles. A nd microbes can be transferred by handshaking, by speech, by visiting the 6'ckroom end even by pastoral visitation. And 6hall all these, together with the prevailing mode of one cup, be discarded on account of the terrible bacillus tuberculosis?" Frightful Facts. Dr.

Justin Herold, who has had exceptional opportunities for observation as coroner of New York city, the World some statistics on the subject of suicide In that city and other parts of the world, which may well cause reflection. He says that suicides in that city are alarmingly frequent, sometimes averaging four a day for a week at a time, and the average yearly number for the past five years Is 122, though during the past six months they number 176. There are more suicides In New York than In any other eastern city, in proportion to the population, but la San Francisco there are neary three times as many as in New York. Dr. Herold says that while there are more suicides in France than in any other European country, averaging about 20 a day, the American average far exceeds The largest numbers of suicides occur between the ages of 20 and 30, and three times as many men commit suicide as women.

The causes of suicide. In the order of their importance, are: Domestic trouble, reverses of fortunes, sorrow, physical suffering Insanity, the weather. Suicides are commoner among educated than Illiterate people. Religion seems to have a good deal to do with It, as statistics show that In Catholic countries suicides are Dut fifty eight to the million of while, in mixed Catholic Protestant countries they are nlnety slz to the million, and la purely Protestant countries 190 to the million, She Gave Him, a Mrs. i a shrewd old Irish woman who ha lived many years In Bay St.

Louis and Its vicinity She Is gifted with a goodly supply of the humor for which her country folks are famous. It seems that some time ago she became Indebted to a merchant there for more than she could readily pay at once, end he began to urge a settlement. She put him off from time to time, and finally he told her that if she would give him a lien on her house, he would give her all the time she wanted to pay It oft Mrs. Is a thrifty person, and owns a nice little property, but she had no idea of endangering her hold upon it "Oh," she said, "It's a lien on my house you want?" "Yes." the merchant replied, "that will be perfectly satisfactory." "All right," she returned, "Just come over to the house and I'll give you a lien." Promptly the next day the gentleman presented himself, and announced nhat he was prepared to take his lien. Without a word Mrs.

caught him by the shoulders and pushed him back Into a corner "There!" she exclaimed, "you may. lean there as long aa you You want a lean on my house. Just lean on it till you're tired. That's all the lean you'll get out of me." A Strange Birthmark. The New York Recorder says that there is a little two year old Italian girt ln! the wards of Bellevue hospital that has the appearance of a snake colled around her neck.

The child was brought to the hospital with a brokenT; leg. and all who saw her were horrified, to see the mark on her neck, though the parents seemed to think It all right Some of the surgeons have examined it with a view to Its possible removal, but they agree that the operation would prove too dangerous, so. the unfortunate girl will probably have to wear horrible thing all her life. It Is said that the snake is brown and scaly, and Is raised something like a tenth of an Inch above the surface of the skin. The bead of the snake looks like that of a rattlesnake and rests just below the collar bone, the colls pass twice around the neck, and the tall Is under the lobe.

of the rlgljt ear. The tmng Is 18 Inches long, 'ihe mother Is an Italian and was married four years ago. She says that when she was a girl her father was a boatman, and she used to help him unload fruit from his boat. One day a great snake darted from some fruit and colled Itself around her arm. She went into hysterics.

Even after that frightful visions of the snake have haunted her. They appeared to her nearly every night before Beraphina was born. At the birth she bad an awful vision, and she thought that the snake had colled Itself around her baby's neck and was trying to strangle It The birthmark has continued to grow more distinct instead of disappearing, as the child's parents thought it might She Could Handle Her Fists. An elderly lady, whose snowy nair and clear, bright complexion showed to great advantage in a hacdsome suit of black silk, was walking quietly along the street in New York the other day. She carried a small leather pocket book In her nan'J.

Just as she was passing a big ury goods store a burly, rough looking fellow walked quickly up behind her, and placing his hand on her shoulder, grabbed hold of her nocketbook. Sue Jerked it out of his band, and springing away from him, said: "What are you doing?" His only answer was to strike hec a heavy blow on the chest with his fist She did not scream, or faint or run away. She quickly put up her hands In pugilistic attitude, ami before he coukt prevent It struck him a blow In the lace that staggered him' backward almost knocked him Before he could recover himself he was in the nands of a policeman, who had seen the whole affair, 'x'ha lady declined to give her name, or to make sny charge against her assailant, but demurely walked away with unruffled serenity. He Carries a Passport. .11.

L. Benson, of New York, according to a reporter of a St. Louis paper, takes pains to be always provided with a passport He says that it costs him but a Mollar and a little trouble to get It, and that it saves him a gieat deal of trouble whenever he is where he Is not well known. Says he: "With this passpoit 1 never have to be Identified at a bank, post office or other institutions where strangers transacting business always have to be vouched for by somebody known to the officials, xou see that the body of the paper contains a most minute and unmistakable description of me, together with my age aid residence. The whole bears the great seal of the United States government, thus making deception or" imposture almost impossible.

My description was sworn to by notaries puo lic who know me before the state aepart uient at Washington Issue! the passport. With this affidavit, and another one certifying that I was a good citizen, 1 In clost'd $1 with my application to the secretary of state and received the passport." A Safe Trolley System. An English electrical paper describes a new system of overhead electrical propulsion, which claims manifold advantages over the ordinary trolley. It is called the Jex system, and In It the overhead wires run transversely across the street at intervals equal to about the length of a car; above the middle of the track the wires are cut and joined wi. an Insulator, all the wires at one side being positive and those on the other negative; ther are two contact aevlcea on thi car, one for each polarity, anU they are of sufficient length to touch one wire be fore leaving the other; by this means r.

ground return Is required. In another issue of the same paper a modification of this system is described in which an insulated conductor is by a conducting tube In insulated section? with means for connecting these sections the conductor, by a magnetic device carried by the car. It is suggested that this device wouM be of great use In temporary military lines to be laid in case of war. Neither of the methods have yet been used in practice. Some Interesting; Relies.

Among the old ruins In the state of Oaxaca. which have recently been explored, have been found a number of moat Interesting Images, made of metal. These images represent people of oriental appearance la physiognomy and drees, and prieets in their robes of office. They are marked with hieroglyphics of unknown character, and are said to be very elaborately wrought and to show most artistic treatment. Most of them are made of gold, either whofiy or In part and they are coated with some unknown enamel, which has preserved them perfectly through the long periods of time that they have been buried in the solL A Curious Monstrosity.

St Louis papers mention a curious monstrosity which is now in that city. It is a 2 year old hull, with a head exactly resembling that of a monkey. There is no indication of horns, and the mouth presents anything hat a pleasing appearance. The head la nearly' round, and about the size of an ordinary water palL The eyes, which are of a sky blue, bulge out of their sockets, presenting quite a ghastly appearance. The.

month bears a striking resemblance to a monkey's. There are only nine lower teeth la Its head 'and the tongue Is not much larger than the tongue nmaa belnj 1894. Hard. on the Cramps. The Cramps are troubled about the difficulty which the government has gotten into about the manufacture of its armor plate, and complain that It hampers their work very greatly.

They have the two battle ships, Massachusetts and Indiana, all ready to receive their armor, but the makers cannot finish It, although it la because at the late test at Indian Head the plate tested proved not up to the requirements. The makers think that the officers shot too hard at the plate, and do not want to put up another one to be knocked all to pieces. They are trying to get the testing olh eers to promise to be easier wlm the next one. Meantime the Cramps' work cannot go on, and they have asked the government to allow them to take the ships out for trial without their armor In place. This the government declines to do.

The Cramps fcay that, unless the armor la forthcoming at once, they will be compelled to discharge the greater part of their force of 4000 men, who are at work on the ships, end they complain that the trouble about the armor is keeping them out of their pay for work done. Interesting Relics Found. A report from Egan. s. tells of some interesting archaeological discoveries made near there by A Ha tch.

He con eluded to Investigate the contents of a huge mound situated on the top of a hill. and started at it with a spade. He soon uncovered a tomb, which was about ten feet square, and was divided Into several compartments. ll was lined with a cement in which Js large, proportion of feldspar, a quarts rock not found la tale portion of the state. In these com partment were found twenty two skeletons and several additional skulls were exhumed, besides many curios In bronze.

At one side of the tomb was also found an altar on which the supposed prehis toric race offered Its sacrifice and performed Its worship. The skeletons were those of males averaging nearly eight feet In beighth, of massive bone, well shaped head, indicating considerable in teUigence. Dra. Bryan, of this place, and Evans, of Dell have been ex amining the foseli remains aud bronze curios found aud pronounce them of very aaclent date. Further examination will bd made by specialists, both of the skele tons and tho tomb, and more remarkable discoveries are yet expected.

Who Were the Marshals? The Chlpley correspondent of a Pen sacola paper relates a pitiful Instance of the shameless abuse of authority on the part of deputy United States marshals that fell under his eyes recently. He says that a wagon drove Into town with a man about 45 years old, who weighed but 60 pounds. He was a paralytic and seemed to have ossification of the joints. He was utterly unable to help himself in the slightest degree. The negro who brought him in set him in a chair outside a drug store and left him to take care of himself.

There he was left without fur ther attention, until noon the next day, when he was put on the train and taken to Pensacola. He would probably have died, but the town marshal of Chip ley, pitying his condition, brought him food and drink and wrapping him in a blanket laid him on the platform of the depot to sleep for the night He dare not put the unfortunate Into a house, lest he should be thought to be Interfering with government officials and get into trouble, as he did on some former occasion. The unfortunate cripple was wanted In Pen sacola as a witness In an excise case. The Boy Went Off. Principal Weed, of the Brownsville, public school, had occasion the other day to discipline a 0 year old pupil named Abraham Elkwiae.

He drew pupil over hi knee, In the good old fashioned way, and with a nice flat ruler began to Improve his understanding, when suddenly there was a loud explosion, parts of the lad's trousers flew up into the principal's face, the startled man sprang to his feet, and the boy lay howdng and squirming on the floor. An examination Showed the remains of sundry pistol cart ridges, which the youth had bad in bis plstoi pocket a dilapidated pair of breeches, a powder burned eat and a badly frightened boy. Fortunately the damages were not serious, and the boy was sent home for repairs la a long tailed coat borrowed for the occasion, and was admonished to be careful where he carried explosives about bis person. Finds Flaws in Metals. A Frenchman, named Captain de Place, has Invented an Instrument, according to the London Iron, that it would be well enough for the government' to have to examine with It the armor plate manufactured by the Carnegie Company.

It is said to be able to detect at once any sort of a flaw in any kind of metal work, and to locate it iufalllbly. It is called a schlseophonc. It consists of a small pneumatic tapper, with which the piece of metal to be tested is tapped all over. Connected with the instrument is a microphone, which exaggerates the sound, and a telephone in another apartment at which an expert listens to the sound of the tapping. As long as the sound Is normal, he does nothing but listen.

Directly a false sound, which Is very distinct from a normal. Is heard, ha Instantly signals for the spot to be marked, It is asserted that this Instrument will locate blowholes and other defects, of which no sign appears on the surface. PERSONAL AiND GEEKAL KOTES 3. W. Keeler is in the city, a guest at Hotel Schmitt H.

Stern, of New York, has' taken rooms at Hotel Schmitt H. A Mullalley, of Kenner, la stopping at the Gruuewald. T. J. Clay, of Donaldsonvllle, la a guest at the Grunewald.

Russia proposes to tunnel the Caucasus for a military railroad. O. M. Nllsoo, of Bayou Teche, Is in the city, registered at the Grunewald. Oregon Is to have a lord governor.

William P. Lord was elected the! other day. Oscar S. Well, of New Yprk, has returned aud la registered at Hotel Schmitt J. P.

Williams and J. P. Skinner, New York advertising agents, are at the Grnnewald. Mexico taxes all Protestant ministers, not natives, at $1 a month. Natives have, to pay only 50 cents.

Three young women graduated at the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College at its late commencement Canadians are preparing to harness up their side of Niagara Falls now. They know a good thing when they see it QJr. and Mrs. W. H.

Brown and two children and maid, of Bolton, arrived in the city and are guests at Hotel Schmitt The Republicans of Kansas have put op Major Edmund N. Morrill for the governorship, but the populists say that they will down him. George Bunbary. of Dublin, enjoys the reputation of being the fastest stenographer in the world. He can take 230 words a minute.

Dr. Olaus DahL professor of the Scandinavian languages and literature at Yale, has accepted an offer of a similar position In the University of Chicago. Congressman C. J. Boatner arrived in Monroe, his home, a few days ago, and Is expected to be In New Orleans In a short time.

He will return this way to Washington. Willie, Jefferson, Joe Jefferson's son, was run away with by his horse at Bus sard's Bay the other day and aarrowly uu avoided a collision wlthTT carriage. Nobody was hT Stewart H. Moore, steambo, at Chicago, did not thinkltt so much as to answer a ollt which he received the Secretary Carlisle, requester trw of his resignation. 016 Pors Chauncey M.

Depew says lh.t friends are urging him to governorship of New Yorkao tw may be directly in ilBe to h' tional ticket in 1SIKJ. He mav Hill In the road. 7 that the election funds contruWr.tW north for the purpose of Democratic party in Alabtma. win 7 1 push nothing, as it takes too ZL' pockets or me heads of th pITv. party.

1 Kolbl A new three Inch ten pound hreech.L. LDg J' the of Ut uuh just Dcen completed St the Twr? Whitney shops, at Hartford! ao? 1 been sent to the Indian Head proW grounds for a final trial by aTal The keynote of Mrs. Burton HarrW latest serial. "A Bachelor begins In the Juiy number of the fw; tury. Is the remark of a Glrton giri "Tn might yet be well with ns wj three generations of single women T.

heroine wishes to devote herself to tU Interests of the higher womanhood, she believes that domesticity torrni a Insuperable barrier to successful effort A western Kansas genius claims to bars discovered a remedy for the prairie dot nuisance. The remedy Is not very ei. pensive, being merely an empty tia eta. The can, he says, is to be driven, ojw end down, Into their holes, and toe iaji irampea sotiaiy ronnu about It The ioei come up Into the can and work nBUl. hausted, and finally smother, at leatt says they do not trouble him inj mora.

Merchants are selling cheap ctnt, nude for this purpose, la many towns of weifc. ern Kansas. A most remarkable march wis mtii the other day by a company of the Fourth march was made under full weight Of to coutrements, baggage and arms, and wu over twenty miles of mountain paths todi twenty one miles of high road at thai rate of three and three quarters milei aal uuui, a. nv untba wasouuicu CIA UVJUlS (SCI fifty minutes. Considering that the company reached an altitude of 500 feet and met witn a storm ot wina, rain and snow on the way, the march will hard to beat Htel Denechaod airlrala: A.

Bkos. Cincinnati, Ohio; A. Waltham, Nev Tort; A. Wnltnrs. Baton Rouee.

TC fi Montgomery, A. H. Harper and wlfa, LoulsvUle, R. T. Pucb, Baclae, WS.i H.

I. Davis. Monroe. J. T.

Oocu, Nashville; William T. Snaat 'Farif, Tea. P. it. Terrell, New York; Ceo.

Canton. Pitta, burs. Pa. Hotel Schmitt arrivals: F. I.

Wilm, Omaha; J. W. Keeler, Chicago, J. Edklns, Evansvllle. Iud.

C. T. Conrun, Imu. vUle, W. T.

Jackson, St. Irali; A. Sickles, Paris, Tex. Oscar S. Yelt, New Tcrki Mr.

and Mra, W. H. Brown and twff ehUdrca, Bolton, Tex. 11. Btern, new xors; i.

Da woon, Cincinnati. Ohio; J. P. Beitnad, Boston. W.

W. Arnold, Dtoaldaoarlll D. C. Wormaeh, Columbus, HV Schrlebcr, Evansville, P. J.

Clements and wife. Milwaukee; H. Beinmaa, Atlanta, 3. T. Bockman, Borne, Ttwa.

Hoffman and family, Philadelphia; H. Hoar. Galveston, Ter. D. F.

Klchardaon, Baltimore. Hotel Royal arrivali: J. IX Kaymuna, Atlanta; Martin Dunn, Nashville; Mla Alice Moorman, Montgomery; Mrs. Ctmmlngv Lafayette; J. B.

HamiL ose M. Peeotl, Cardenaa. Cuba; WlUon Brooks, Chicago; J. C. Burruss, Carroll ton, IlL i 'Oea.

Haws nler, Vlckaburg; Jn. Klrby, T. and K. V. Lewis and wife, Misa K.

Lewis. Jack) A. .1. Denny. Moss Point, E.

CTttav Acadia; It. E. Bbuoomb, Avoyelles; Oea WV Prebnry, Concord, X. Chat. E.

MaOorr? Tucson, T. Thos. D. Parks, Georgetown; D. Mrs.

rierre Rembant. Paris; Jn. Kyle and wife, Misa Dora Kyle, Blaster Walt Kyle. Notches; II. G.

Casoo, louiaUsA; B. Atwater, Mobile; K. Perrett. Jaeksoaj Lew M. Bandell, Mississippi; Toon.

B. Ejrss, New York. 'i VT 1. cosmopolitan uoiei arrivals: jo a. Philadelphia; V.

B. Coe, New York; D. Roger, Nashville; S. Vaoder Wheeler. NeW.

Tork A F. Vandeventer. UUlt Bock, Ant J. II. Tinnell, city; M.

J. MoCormldt, Jones, Philadelphia; S. jonnson, iew ai Bobt. K. Amea, Philadelphia; Albert P.

Bon ertson, Pittsburg; Stephen B. Brown, SW York; A. S. Jones and wife, B. P.

Crane, Boston: Samuel B. Roberta, London; Cnrr Sydney, Albert P. Johnson, Atlanta; John B. Smith, New York; Bobt. B.

Brown, Sew Jer" aey; Samuel B. Jones and wife. Col umbos, Ohio; Jag. B. Price, Andrew Albert.

Chicago; P. Hancock. Atlanta; W. Ham, Bald" more; J. S.

Smith, Mexla, Tex. Hotel Grunewald arrivals: Frederick Chicago; H. E. W. Palmer, Atlanta; Win, T.

Gray, Meridian; James Gebert and wife, Se Iberia; M. Hey man, New York city; A Smith. New York Jty; Ml Floninee Beat, El Pao; n. CL Dudlev. Slaughter, J.

Hooch, Buffalo; Horace L. Morton, Cincinnati Mra. Thornton and daughter. Mrs. Win.

Ms Coilom. Louisiana; Saml W. Clipp. Boston Alex Harris. New York; J.

Evtrretta ton. Chicago; Hugh B. uay, dosu, rv r. iPh. New Vork: Captain W.

vuv lett. Chicago; 3. II. Edwards. Lelpslc.

M. D. Johnacn. New York; Felix Kahn. Vr Orleans; El II.

TenEyek, Geo. New York; Chris. Ouby; Dr. Joseph I Chicago: W. A.

Koner. Lelpslc Ohio; 1 II. Cause. Glendale. O.

M. Teche; Louis Cox. Mobile; Mlas Josephine Mobile. DIED. BEGTjE On Sunday, June 17.

o'clock p. Mrs. AMtua Yr A. I of the late John Bemie and daughter Hasling. aged 33 years and 2 months.

nt th family "Ti respectfully invited to au which will take place This (Monday) 4 clock, rrom ner iaie street. Algiers. 1 rIV XVCV. Auvru (JOB born Tberese Belter, part. vent or A erpeiuai rf rears, a native saa, 111(7 Sb; va, a Schlettstadt, Alsace.

neetfttl The friends and acquaintance ly invited to attend the funeral. take plaee Monday. June 18, at J. p. from the cwivcoi i tkm, 661 Mara la street.

WHITNEY On Saturday. J. Jla 11:50 p. Captain II Y. and 81 years, a native of 7ea resident of this for toe i a avmalntaar The relatives, ineou 4M the family axe respectfully invited to ar the funeral, which will take pUee Morning.

Jnne 18, at 10 oc residence of the deceased. No. Vtv street, between Montegut and Clooel Phlladelphla, Baltimore ana please copy. KNACKFCSS At BlrmlDgbam. nrday, June 16.

1S4. fetTOnJ veara. a native of Saxony, oenu, The relatives, friends ana aeot the family are respectrui (M tbe funeral, which wai tbe; day) Evening. June 18. at 9 JT' igt late residence of the di cee4.

Dorgenola street, between trsulines pitt vT.rNON On Soodar. June 1 o'clock D. MARIE a rT0sth of W. T. Calongne, ai a native of New Orleans.

cak The friends and acquaintance. Lebiano families are plac attend rMonday)Eve ing. Jue Sirf; This o'clock. xrom me rreet a No. 665 Customhouse, near tbe Picayune CmUaf? 0 SoUoes will b.

"'T" ZJZt After Funeral torlal looms. second floor, or jnatsi fourth floor, till Aft Department, to 'clock every. Jaornuuj. (1.