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~. xu,.d rsr,, hundred Rats.

JOHN CARLISLE, Of Talbot county, Ga,
saws that on Thursday of last week he killed
5000 rats, and thus recounts the battle: he
is the possessor Of two fine bulldogs, one oil
them being the finest We ever saw, and with
these and FIVE coiorsd men he began to tear
down the DIRT chimney TO an clubhouse. The
house being located in an open held, the
rats had no means Of escape from the dogs
and men, and as the chimney was torn down
the rats poured down in hundreds and we're
killed as fast as they came. This was con-
tiuued without intermission until the Chin
new was torn down to its foundation, when
it was discovered that the rats had
tunneled into the ground, and had a
tuuel from the chimney-about twenty
yards-to an old hollow stump, This
tunnel was about twelve inches in hight, and
was rnnnd and eDooth, with q large bed
about every ten feet where the young were
raised, and Mr.. Carlisle says that the hole
was jsmmed full of rats from the chimney TO
the stump. This r%at-tunnel was dug out and
destroyed by inches by Mr.. Carlisle and his
assistants, and he says the rats were killed
az they came TO them, the dogs taking an
active part all The way through, and enjoy
log the fun hugely. Some of the rats were
10 large that the dogs had regular battles
with them, and the rats would grab the
dogs by the nose and bring a yell FROM them
every time. 1t certainly musl nave been
great sport for the participants.
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WOMEN EDITORS
Nearly Two Hundred Years Ag0-1he
Annex at Harvard a Great Success
Oscar WiIde's Mother.
Kate Fieids's Failure-The Romance Of
an Irish Bourbon Princess-The
Wig Again in Fashion.

The Portland (Ore.) Men Northpest, in an
article on women journalists. says that the
hrst daily newspaper printed In the world
was established and edited by a woman
Elizabeth Mallet, in London, 1702-almost
200 years ago. In her salutatory she said
she mad established a newspaper ito spare
the public half the impertinences which the
ordinary papers contain" Woman-like, her
paper was reformatory.
The first newspaper published in America,
OF which We have any record, was in Massa-
chusetts. 1t was called the Massachusetts Ga
sete and Neirs-Letter. Alter the death of the
editor, the widow edited it in the most spir-
tied manner for two or three years. 1t was
the only paper that did not suspend publica-
ton when Boston was besieged by the British.
The widows name was Margaret Craper.
In 1882 Rhode Island issued its first news
paper. 1t was owned and edited by Anna
Franklin. She and her two daughters did
the printing, and their servants worked the
printing press. History tells US ths for her
q~uickness and correctness she was appointed
printer TO the Colony, supplying pamphlets,
ETC., to the colonial officers. she also printed
an edition of the Colonial laws Of $40 pages.
In 1776 Sarah Goddard printed a paper
in Newport, R. l., ably conducting it, alter
ward sssociatiDg with her John Garter. The
nim was dhhuuuCCu 0touaiu Wa
taking the partnership precedence, as was
proper and right.
In 1772 Clementine Reid published a
paper in Virginia favoring the colonial
cause, and greatly offending the royal
lists; and two years after another paper
was started in the interests of the
crown by Mrs. H. Boyle, borrowing the name
OF Mrs. Rsid's paper, which was the Vrginia
Gazette, but which was short-lived. Both of
the papers were published in the town of
| Williamsburg. The colonial paper was the
FIRST newspaper in which the Declaration of
Independence was printed.
In 1773 Elizabeth Timothy published and
! edited a paper in Charleston, S. C. After
the revolution, Anne Timothy became its
editoA and was appointed State printer,
which position she held seventeen years.
Mary Crouch published a paper in Charleston
about the same lime, in special opposition to
the stamp act. She afterward removed her
paper TO Salem, Mass, and continued it;
publication there for years after.
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L WAY q HEATING,
Mennk;s TIun.o.
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Francis, and Francis by another Ferdinand,
known as Bomba. This Bomba had a pleas
ure-loving brother, who bore the title of
Prince Of Capus. Having nothing better
10 do, the prince fell in love with
a bright Irish wOmsD, Penelope smyth,
daughter OF Mr.. Grace Smyth, of
County Waterford. They were married in
1886, and the nuptials were performed four
al Rome by Cardinal WAld,
once at Madrid, once at Gretna Green, and
finally, according to the laws OF the English
Church, al st. George, Hanover Square,
London. The princes royal brother tried
his utmost 10 prevent the London marriage,
which was deemed necessary to legslize the
union in all respects; but love finally tri-
umphed over ambassadors protests and ju-
dicial delays. The disgusted relatives of
the bridegroom seem at last TO have acqui-
esced in the inevitable, and Penelope lived
with her princely spouse until his death in
1852. Her closing years were spent at a
villa near Luccs, aud as she left a son and a
daughter, the blood of the Smyths ia likely
to be peFpetuated in regal lines.
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An sctre.s,s HonorabIe Deed.

Sara Jewett has performed many roles upon
the stage that nave brought her professional
reputation, but in none more creditable to
her thar one of which / heard the other day,
related by a citizen Of Brooklyn. This gentle-
man was formerly in the business of bank
note engraving, and became a creditor of
Sara Jewett's father, who was at one time an
expert in the bureau of engraving and print
ing at Washington. Mr. Jewett was taken
i'll, and was affectionstely cared for by his
daughter until his death. Among her
fathers papers Miss Jewett found a letter
from a former creditor, saying that he was
in want Of the $50 that was due him. Al
though Miss Jewett was in no way response
Bile for the debt, as her father left no property,
she at once informed the creditor that she
would pay the claim. The next day she
took a carriage, and, at much personal in.
convenience and the loss Of valuable time,
she found her fathers creditor and
paid the debt. Curiously enough, on
the same day the creditor received from the
son of a distinguished clergyman. whom he
had befriended with a loan, a curt refusal to
acknowledge the debt, which he had ample
means to defray from a legacy left him By
his father. The domestic life of actresses
would make an interesting book. Most Of
them are much like other women of the
stage. / have often wished that some of the
clergymen who used 10 preach against the
Blaek Crook could see Emily Rigl, one of the
leading danseusss, in her coy home. Shs
has been a mother 10 her brother, whom she
has educated and cared for all her life
Brooklpu EroLe.
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Actor. seeing the Ola Year out.

Fifty English actors gave a dinner to fifty
of their American brethren at the Hotel
Dane on Saturday evening. Mr.. Lester Wal
lack presided. The dinner was elaborate,
and was elegantly prepared. Among the
guests were Florence, Tony Pastor, Birch,
John T. Raymond, John Drew, Digby Bell,
Hsrrigap, Crane, Harry j. Stevens, Stephen
Fisk and Osmond Tearle, who appeared with
his eye in a frame from his encounter with
Mr.. Morton in the afternoon. When Lester
Wallack rose to speak he was greeted with
vociferous cheers, and songs were lung in
his praise. He made a pretty response. One
of the incidents of the dinner was John L.
Rsymond's speech and what grew out OF ii.
Everybody who knows Raymond knows Of
his passion for matching money. His speech
was interrupted several times by John Nc
Call. Raymond, to keep him quiet, matched
him for the Christmas dinner for the entire
company, the dinner TO be given next year.
Raymond exclaimed, "Tm stuck; you are
all to be my guests next Christmas"
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The womau,, Annex n, Harvard.

Helen II. Brown writes In Woman s Journal
of the Woman's Annex at Harvard that
there are two recitation rooms, which Mr..
Howells might call sincerely bare" but
which are amply comfortable for their pur-
poses. 1t was at the opening of the after
noon session that l happened to be present.
Through the rooms sounded the happy
schoolgirl chat and laughter. / listened
and looked to see if these young girls had
caught the severity OF their studies, but 1
could not see that they were strikingly or
painfully different from other girls in their
teens. l saw neither Questioning nor but
%terfies, but many earnest young faces, alight
with Intellectual life. In the sunny parlor,
with its home-like belongings, had gathered
Prof. Hilrs rhetoric class. A half dozen
young ladies sat about informally while the
professor read his lecture. He had Just de-
liyered- thS-sam0 leoture TO the sophomore
class in the college, and adapted it TO his
present audience by means of frequent pa
rentheses. 1t was something after this fash
ion: "Unless a man acquires a taste for
reading before he goes into business Tor a
m before she marries), it cannot be
cultivated in after life. = g The
trouble with the writing Of you young men
is that you have nothing to say. (And the
same, l regret to add, is true of young wo-
men). / have seen letters written by graduates
of Harvard College that would disgrace a
boy of ten. (Of graduates of the annex /
am not yet prepared to speak.) Whatever
the literally educated man Tor woman)
should or should not know, no argument is
needed 10 show that he Tor she) should be
able to write good English" Do the annex
girls enjoy the advantages of Cambridge So
ciety? is . question often asked. No; partly
because the students are working women
without leisure for frequent engagements;
partly because Cambridge society is busy and
absorbed, and does not 60 out Of its way Il
offer the annex social culture. Cambridge
England, is said to have adopted Girton and
Newman with motherly cordially, an ex'
ample that might oe gracefully followed by
it's American namesake. Do they see much
of the Harvard students? is a question thai
soon fol ows. No; their work never brings
them together, and they show, on all occa'
sions, Wholesome Indifference to each other'i
presence. The annex students have perfec
freedom in arranging their homes. They
often board in groups of three or four, and
thus enjoy that taste of b~oarding-school life
without which no girlhood is quite complete
The Board of Managers-among whom arr
Mr.. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. Agassiz, and Mis-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES a friendly care over thu
health and happiness OF the students.
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Booth,s Ihea,er sold.

The New York Star, of Sunday, says that
the story was current yesterday that Booths
Thea,er had finally been sold, the price paid
for the ground and building being S750,000
and that it would be occupied by r. H. Macy
& Co., whose lease for their present building
will shortly expire. 1 will be remembered
that a syndicate Of gentlemen attempted TO
buy The thester last year, but were unsuccess.
full, and il is a somewhat curious fact that
Andrew Boyd, the agent Of the Ames estate
in this city in the absence OF Charles Tweed,
said yesterday that the first be had heard of
the sale was through the newspapers. Mr..
Aug. Pitou, acting manager OF the theaier,
was seen by a Star reporter last evening, and
stated that Mr.. Stetson had received no Off
cial notification OF the SALE"
at will make no special difference 10 him,
however," Mr.. Pitou added. "His lease ex-
tends until May LIST, with the privilege Of
renewal so long as the house remains a thea
ter. We shall produce the C0rsicon Brothers
as q spectacle, as originally intended, and
expect that it will run until May. If it does
not, We shall put on nothing else"
"Why is it that Edwin Booth failed here
so disastrously?"
"Thst would be a difficult question TO an
swer. You will remember that l was in the
cast OF Romeo and Juhet when the theater
first opened in 1869, and remained with the
company during the ~revivals of Hamlet and
Richeiieu. There was a succession of crowded
houses, and it always appeared to me that
the profits should have been very large; but
the expenses were Mr.. Booth, in
his anxiety for historical correctness, paid
large sums for archie illogical researches, and
in order TO secure the proper oolors used for
some OF the fabrics in his revivals, set up a
clearinghouse in the theater. This was not
all. He had a gymnasium fitted up, EN-.
ployed fencing and gymnasium teachers, and
| had his actors instructed free of charge. His
! entire ambition seemed TO be TO reach abso.
lutte perfection, and in doing this he often
| spent money for properties that lost theiI
effect beyond the footlights. Wbe-Al ,ai
too late he discovered his errol fand ter
| came disaster"
'Will it not be a difficult matter 10 trans
form the theater into a store?"
"Much more 80 than any architect car
| imagine. The building was so solidly con
structed that it will DE almost like tearing
down one of the pyramids TO alter it."
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kansas not a Tempera.ee state.

An Iowa clergyman wrote 10 Governor
elect Click, OF Kansas, recently, iuquiring if it
was true that prohibitory liquor legislation
had minimized crime in Kansas 80 greatly
that the pe~nitentiary was empty, and if it
had been a moral benefit to the State. Mr..
Click replied that there are eighteen more
prisoners in the p~enitentiary than last year,
and he made the following interesting state
ment: "In the year preceding prohibition
in Kansas the United States revenue COL
lector issued 1882 permits to sell intoxi-
eating liquors, being one permit to S79 per-
sons, showing Kansas to be the first temper
apce State in the Union. The first year of
prohibition Col. Carpenter, the United States
revenue collector, Issued 1888 permits to sell
intoxicating liquors. This makes an in
crease of 6fty-eight per cent, or one permit
10 each 551 persons, and takes Kansas from
the first and places her in the seventh place
as a temperance State. This sad picture is
not the worst, for the 6rst iorty-ive days Of
the second year of prohibition there were is.
sued BY The ssme officers has permits, being
sixteen more in that short time than the
whole last year of license and local Optic,
and reduces Kansas still lower in TIE ranks
of Temperance"
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days, aud her expression is benevolent and
good-nalured. Much mystery surrounds the
present whereabouts Of Mr.. j. 81. Langtry,
who accompanied his sister to America, and
il ia impossible to ascertain what quarters
he has selected 70 occupy during his stay IN
this city. 1t was enormously nounc IN
the evening papers that ne mad secured
rooms at the Westminster Hotel. he Is not
at the Albemarle nor the Brunswick, and
calls at many other hotels did not result in
his discovery. He must have disappeared
a. soon az the Catalonia touched her
wharf. for the clerk al the Abe
marie SAYS that Miss LangTy ar
riyeo accompanied by no n save
her sister-iu-law. The general superstition
appears to be that be instantly begun an in
dignant chase after young Freddie and is
still in hot pursuit. Ii not, he is probably
installed in private apartments. The pres.
ent time is not propitious for further atten-
tions on the psrt of Gebhardt, if it be true
that Mr.. and Miss Lsngtry have come here
With the intention of settling with that Tool
ish young man. After a hasty dinner the
two si~sters-in-law re-entered their carriage
and were driven rapidly over 10 Brooklyn,
where q. least the Jersey Lily had one inter-
ested and sympathetic observer among her
audience last night.
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illegitimate. There will be cases arising as
time goes on where the Legitimate children
will feel heavily the effects of their condi-
ton in the settlement of their deceased
parents and relatives property. Give those
who experience the convictions observation
and experience will bring, firmly repressive
laws 10 give countenaHce 10 their abstsinsnce
from pelygamy, and they will abstain. The
result will be a healtbful general change in
public opinion; then some prophet or revela-
tor will have a celestial communication that
.polygamy, having accomplished all that was
designed by it, is ne longer lawful for the
Saints, and that the precepts laid down in
the Book of Mormon must, thenceforward,
be adhered to. With a strong, decisive law,
firmly executed, the Mormon nuisance can
be oblitera;ed; and such a law Congress
ought 10 enact at an early day, and 50 clear
the couutry's skirts of this dishonor.
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De,ermtued suIcide.

CLEVELAND, January ga Medina spe-
cial to the Herald reports the suicide OF Al
bert Calvert, aged Iwenty-three years, by
shooting through the head. He had been a
student at Oberlin, and was expected to re-
turn last night. 1t is reported that he long
contemplated suicide. Calvert was of a de-
spondent nature, and often talked of suicide.
Once he attempted TO drown himself and
once by hanging. This time he went into
the ~beehouse, unbuttoned his coat and
vest, put the muzzle of sIrevolver against his
side and fred a bullet through his heart.
The deceased's father lives in Montreal, for
which place his two brothers start tonight
with the hodv
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A wise Method OF Teaching.

Miss Harriet n. Morris, an Ohio girl,
daughter Of a woman farmer, and a graduate
Of Marietta College, who supported herself
while passing through that institution, is
making reputation for herself in Brooklyn
and doing good to 1900 children. She has
twenty-six female teachers under her, and
gets $500 a year for her services-about
$1,000 less than male principals are paid in
the surrounding schools. Her institution is
a sort of modified kindergarten, object teach
ing being chiefly relied on, though the pupils
are older than most of the attendants on
kindergsrtens, averaging from eleven to
fifteen years Of age. Boys and girls are alike
received, and seem to enjoy and profit by the
attractive fern of instruction which is given
them. Education is made really amusing
without diminishing its practical efficiency.
The whole enterprise is the result OF Miss
Morris's genius, and it is evident that at least
one woman has found her vocation, and
made il.
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AronI,sH oonIRoxERu.

The Knoxville Tribune and the Knoxville
Chronicle have been INDUCING for some weeks
in a very stupid controversy-such as nearly
all newspaper controversies are. The former
accuses the latter of publishing "slanderous
articles against the Southern people" and
the Chronicle retorts that the 1fibxas has
slandered = great many decent men and
women by asserting that the people who are
emigrating westward from East Tennessee,
''msy Tel be spared as a hrflless set who give
place to new capital and industry" In an
swer to this, and as a sort of c%rusher, the
Chronicle gives the following list of the
"thriftless set" who have emigrated from
Tennessee: "Senator John 7. Morgan,
cs Alabams, was SPARED" from McMinn
county; Senator A. 81. Garland, OF
Arkansas, vas spared fror, Upton
county; Representative G. M. Shelley,
of Alabams, was spared from Sullivan
ounty; Representative I. M. Gunter, OF Ar
kansas, was spared from Middle Tennessee
Representative I. J. Henderson, Of Illinois,
was spared from Haywood county; Repre-
sentative T.. w. hODeIIeouJ Va Loui
was spared from Davidson county;
Representative John H. Reagan, oi
Texas, was spared from Sewer
county, and Representative George
W. Jones, of Texas,was spared from Upton
county" This is, of course, an array OF which
Tennessee can be proud, but it does not re-
lieve this controversy of its Stiffness. No one
doubts for a moment the loyalty OF both
papers 10 the State, and especially to the
eastern portion of it. They differ on thu
question Of emigration because they diter il
politics. They were established and arr
conducted to differ, and these attempts a
conversion by controversy are as idle as tn
wind and only excite the derisio'
of their readers and bring tn
press into contempt. A Newspaper
should represent the dignity of Its readers
and they are not apt rs a body to indulge Al
souabbles that would disgrace sehool boys
There is nothing, 50 Improbable and s,
unrelievably stupid and sometimes disgrace
full. as newspaper controversy.
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The wig Again In Fashion.

A 'wig-maker talked me into a secret the
other day, says the correspondent of the
Brooklyn Eagle. 1t was becoming fashion
able, he said, for women TO wear wigs. Wigs
are not worn to cover up badness or because
even he hair is thin, but to save trouble and
as a precaution against accident. A woman
who has straight hair is just now out Of
fashion as far as her head goes. She must
crimp her hair and paste it into little waves
and pufs around her forehead and down the
sides of her head. This requires great care
and becomes burdensome after a time. Be-
side, hair that is not inclined to curl at all il
apt 10 defy ~crimping pins and pomade and
s~traighten out at an inopportune moment.
The wig-maker has, therefore, come TO the
rescue Of women 90 unfortunate as to have
rebellious hair. He makes wigs that may be
worn on the front of the head, between the
line of the forehead and the crouu. The
false hair is crimped and never straighteni
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LAW WANTED As AN AID TO CON-

While the moral and rejecting people OF
the United States are! strongly DESTROYS that
polyeamy should be suppressed In the
United States, the question arises-what do
the more intelligent and common-sense por'
t;on If the Mormons themselves, In their
own reflections when Withdrawn from the in
anences of the priesthood and their sur
roundings think of their positionf Iney
see themselves cut of from the great mass oil
their fellow-countrymen, from the general
homes and aspirations of the country, and
standing like a foreign people in their natiVe
land. And this, not because OF their re-
lio;ou. but because of the institution oil
polyeamy, which the laws OF their country
declare TO be a crime, and which the BOOK OF
Mormon. which il the recognized standard
of their religious faith, absolutely thousn
implicitly forbids. The Salt Lake 1r1oune'
which advocates Christian 10 opposition
TO polygamistic principles, says upon ihis
spbiect: "We believe nine out Of every ten
Mormons in Utah, including many In au-
thoritv. would secretly welcome the enactment
of a law which would crush polygamy."
This leaders cannot abandon the filthy crime
in which they are involved Of their own
motion, much less the ordinary citizen; but
an absolutely repressive law, one that began
at the beginning by requiring all marriages
to be contracted in public, and in the pres
ence of a civil officer, whatever religious
ceremony follow the civil act, would afford
grounds upon which those who secretly dis
like polygamy could consistently and quiet
Iy refrain from eliminating themselves BY
participating in the evil practice. They
could consistently submit to the inevitable,
and successfully contend against those who
would attempt to induce them to become a
guilty as themselves. There are young men
and young women growing up who will
travel over the country, and there see the
difference between homes where a pure and
honored wife presides, and a home with
half a dozen mothers in lit and
ouly one father, and they cannot
help drawing conclusions that, generally,
will be against a system that makes the
o,saser part Of the children born under il