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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

June is the month in which, it is said,
that there are more marriages than in any
other, and this year June seems to be main
tanning its reputation in this respect. The
number of marriages is already large, and
under our loose divorce laws the number of
divorces of people married this month will
probably be large also in few years.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

Some of the republican newspapers are
asking whether Mayor Grant. of New York,
wants to be governor or President. The
question is easily answered. He would like
to be President, but if he can't. then he
would not object to being governor. Every
man in this country is more or less ambi-
tious TO hold high office, and all of them
have right to be.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10
CURRENT COMMENT.
Very True.

From the ST. Louis Republic DENY
Before Mr. Wanamaker b,so-ins reforming the
postofhces on Sunday he should reform them
during the week.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

The pleasures OF the table cease,
Whenever the teeth begin to fail;
The beauties of the mouth decrease;
The breath's no more spicy gale;
And all must soon in ruin lie,
Unless to SOZODONT we fiv.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

Tie popular blood purifier. Hoods Sa,sa-
parilla, is having a tremendous sale this
season. Nearly everybody takes it. Try it
yourself.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

The Philadelphia Press thinks that the
warning factions of the Republican party OF
Virginia are spending too much time quar-
reling over the spoils. OF course they are,
and the same thing might truthfully be
said about the republicans of every other
state. As rule, republicans think that the
chief aim of life is to hold office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

The rain yesterday caused general re-
joicing in this section. 1t was greatly
needed. 1t was the first rain worth men
tioning that has occurred IN this locality
since the drought began, more than six
weeks ago.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

There is at least one person in West
Virginia who, probably, doesn't care a Goa
tinental if it takes all summer for the legis-
tive committee to count the vote for gov
ernor of that state. That person is Gov.
Wilson, who will remain in office until the
result of the election is declared and one of
the candidates inaugurated
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

In about six weeks the MORNING News
will begin the publication of a new story
entitled 1.-THE CURSE OF CARNE's HOLD"
a story of adventure. The story will be
enjoyed by all classes of readers. Their
sympathies will be at once aroused in the
characters first introduced to their notice,
and in the circumstances attending a
lamentable catastrophe, which breaks up a
happy household in grief and despair. The
hero of the story, broken-hearted and de-
spairing, fees to the Cape, determined, if
possible, to lose his life in battle He joins the
Cape Mounted Rifles and in active service
finds the best solace for his detected spirits
Romance is again infused into his life by
his success in rescuing from the Kaffirs a
young and beautiful lady, whom he gal
lantly bears on horseback beyond reach of
their spears. From this point the story
takes up novel and startling developments
The hero's affairs in the old country are
adjusted by a surprising discovery, and
1.-The Curse of Carne's Hold" is brought to
happy and satisfactory conclusion.
The author of the story is Mr.. G.. A.
Henty, who possesses in an eminent degree
the ability to produce stories full of thrilling
situations, while at the same time preserv-
ing and intoxicating a high moral tone
throughout. AS a writer of stories fitted
for the home circle he is surpassed by none.
He has vivid and picturesque style of mar
rative. and we have reason to say 1.-THE
Curse of Carne's Holdn.-our forthcoming
story-is written in his very best style.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

Mr.. Blaine was in New York the other
day. He did not go in the interest of poll
tics. He went to take his wife, who wanted
TO do some shopping. But he hobnobbed
with Mr.. Steve Elkins aud ex-senator
Platt most of the time, and it is safe to say
that go ID deal of politics was talked. 1t
would be interesting to know what the
Maine statesman said about President Har.
f1S0n
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

One of the Philadelphia newspapers has
found it necessary to warn charitably dis
posed people in that city against irresponsi-
Bile persons, who visit private houses during
business hours and solicit subscriptions for
the food sufferers. Impostors are up to all
sorts Of tricks to get money.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

Mr.. O'Key johnson, one of Judge
Fleming's counsel in the governorship mat
ter in West Virginia, says that the evil
dence viii probably show that Fleming had
a majority of the legal votes, but that if it
does not, Fleming will gracefully retire.
The republican organs have for some time
been saying that the democrats of that
state were bent upon stealing the governor
ship. Probably this is the republican way
of admitting that il the illegal republican
votes were thrown ont, the democratic
candidate would get the Office.
One or two of the New York newspapers
assert that the law now in force in that
state, to prevent the sale or gift Of cigarettes
or smoking tobacco in any form to boys,
should be entitled an act to encourage smok-
ing. They think they understand a boys
nature, and understanding it, they say that
there is nothing the American boy enjoys
so much as a chance to defy authority.
Perhaps, however, the cigarette dealers
won't be as anxious as the boys to defy
authority, and it is difficult to see how the
hoys are going to buy unless there is some
one to sell to them.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-10
Etiquette of Paris.

IN this Partisan world of fashionable form
uas the first lesson i'll the science of life is
that Of etiquette, that the dead things of
vuigar.,y nay be wrapped IL a Stroud of
pOllIeICSS form and custom. The second les
son Is given when the perceptions are SO de-
vClOpel as to command and control the mys
terry of illusion, which is the Supernal art in
this sphinx like domain of exclusive customs
and antiquated formulas. The efforts ofCa
whole lifetime are devoted to this study
which, once begun, never ends. The next
lesson is in discretion or tact, which brings
the ambitious aspirant into universal field
of social effect and action. And thus it is
that the basic principles Of fashionable life
are formed, which render the student of hui
man nature capable of graphing with the
most entangled forms of etiquette, the most
mystical methods of illusion, and the most
subtle devices of diplomats.
Yet in these three requirements the es-
sence of each is woven into the other in
all their varied rules, modes of application
and hypocritical assimilation. Etiquette is
the foundation Of policy and illusion is its
framework; yet the mystery of illusion be-
longs more to the female mind, for the phys
biological fascination of this strange influence
only finds its proper element i'll the endow-
mentS of feminine grace and brilliancy. To
know how to entertain a dinner party, how
to begin soiree musicale, how to receive
ones enemy with uncompromising sang
froid, how to render a company of antipathic
individuals at once comfortable in spirit and
smooth Of tongue, belongs to tact and ETH
quette; but a fine sense of perception is re-
quired to comprehend it.-Amorican Nigga
zine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-10
Civilization and Suicide.

1t has been generally accepted as true that,
in proportion to the population, the number
of those who commit suicide is rapidly in
creasing, and the common theory has been
that the increase is due to overwork, the rest
less activity of Americans in business But
recent scientific Investigations into the sub
ject of suicide in foreign countries, NOR,
thorough than have been made in this, show
quite conclusively that self destruction is in
creasing as rapidly in other civilized coun.
tries as in this. In England, from 1880 Ia
1910, there were 62S suicides out of every
million of population, while in 1876 the pro-
portion was IS. In France, in 1927, the sui.
cides were 4S in a million. twenty-five years
later the proportion was 1902 OF all the gov
ernmcnts in Europe, Saxony leads il the
matter Of suicide. In 1S49 the proportion
was l49 to million, and in 1877 it had in
creased to SOL. If the result of this inveStiga-
ton can be relied on it would certainly appeal
that there is some injustice in attributin3
the increase in suicides in this country to tho
overwork of mind and body to the extent
that has Eeen customary. There is not in
Saxony or in England that habitual nervou
strain il business affairs that there is in thi5
country. The inhabitants of both these
countries are moro easy going than tho
American people. When it is considered IL
he generally true tia suicide is most common
nmong people Of the highest civilization, the
first ard most natural inference is that it is
all duo to tie mental activity required to
keep ,",e with human progress. But it is
quit, as l.oly that mental end physical
lrr@.Iou"s, which are largely the cause Of
suicides, &c due largely to peculiarities in
the modes Of living imHosed by higher civil
:ation Industry of itself is conducive to
health of body and mind. Providence Jour
NIL
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-10
Drumming in Early DAYS.

at amuses me, said the white haired head
of large St. Louis iron house, ito hear
travelling men nowadays complain of the
hardships of the road, the taking of late
trains, travelling in cabooses and such like
Inconvenience. Lord bless you, they should
have seen the 'drummers' of old days and
heard their experiences, and they thes would
have known something about the woes of the
travelling man. Thirty years ago l was
young, ambitious, full Of energy, and went
on the road for a st. Louis iron house. When
could not travel by river-and that could
be done only in going through certain por-
ton of our trade-stage coaches and horse
back were my only means of travel Many
a cold and weary winters day have
passed in the saddle, starting out early in
the morning, going through snow or rain,
fording creeks and half frozen all the
time, until could hardly dismount when my
DAYS journey was over. And then there
were no banks or collection agencies through
the country to facilitate the collection of
debts, and the 'drummers' had all of that
work to do. We travelled with old fashioned
valises which could be used as saddle bags
when we had to ride horseback, and these
were the receptacles for what money we col
lected. 1t was sometimes pretty ticklsh
work, stopping at lonely country taverns
with saddle bags filled with good hard money,
Mexican five franc pieces, worth then about
ninety-ive cents, and gold and silver coin,
but it had to be done. slept on the floor in
a little tavern office one winters night, with
my valise under my head for a pillow, con.
tanning over 81, 500 cash. 1t was hard pill
low, but | felt safer with it there, and slept
quite soundly. The drummers of today don't
know what hard travelling is. They should
have frozen or half drowned or starved with
us of the old school back in the SOS. st.
I,ouis R6bublic.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-10
The Daily eight.
THURSDAY. JANUARY. 10, 1889.

the common peopleS anGr highest Of all the
slaves. The stones Of which it is built are
enormous laid one upon another without
any cement. The dungeons for captives and
the places where wild beasts were confined
are still there.
We saw recently striking painting Of a
Christian family being led forth from just
such cell up the stone steps from the dark
ness below into the light and roar of the
arena above, whose crowded seats are Just
visible, all thirsting for the victims blood.
The mother falls back fainting, but the chill.
dren are led ON. We stood where the very
group might have stood, and fancy easily
brought back the scene. OF course, martyr
doms like this occurred but seldom, while the
brutal gradiator combats formed the staple
amusement of the arena, the joy and recrea-
tion of the Roman populace that filled these
streets 1900 years ago.
To my mind the most impressive ruin in
Nismes is the so called Tour Magne, which
stands little apart from the city upon a
slight hill Antiquarians have been much
divided in opinion as to its nature, whether
tomb, watch tower or fertilization. 1t
was most probably tomb. A most melan-
choly and imposing pile, utterly alone and
ueSOldUe, III lOOhS OuO over Iuo
country landmark from afar 1t is about
100 feet high, octagonal in form above and
six sided at the larger base. The sarcophagus
that must have stood within and the bones
inferred thus magnificently disappeared ages
ago.
The people of Nismes utilize the arena for
sports, actually holding bull fights there
once a year, in May, bull fights to which the
renowned ''toradoros" of Spain condescend
to come, and among the relics Of antiquity
they have one that their little guide book
designates as their pet" A pet ruinl How
charmingl This one is called Diana'S temple,
a pretty, Ivy covered cluster of broken
arches and cells. In reality it was a Roman
bath, a Nymphia, but the Nimois do not
thank the savants for telling them so; they
insist that it was a temple, and show the
place where Diana's statue stood, and where
the priest concealed himself to make the
goddess speak We listened gravcly, and be
lieved and paid the pretty girl who showed
the place. Believing is so much more
amiable than doubling We even gave
credit to the little book above referred &c
when it said that Nismes was built like
Rome on seven hills, though the only hill
that we can find is that Of the Tour Magne,
and when looked down from the top of the
tower the city lay before US as fat as
checkerboard Cor. San Francisco Chron-
icle.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-10
Topographic SURVEYS.

The surface of the earth presents great
variety of forms and features. Land is fat,
undulating, broken, billy, mountainous,
swampy, desert, etc. The free movement of
men and traffic over this uneven surface is
much affected by its form; hence, for the
general information of those interested
directly or indirectly in travel or transpor-
tation, a knowledge of surface form is
valuable. Hence arise topographic surveys
organized and carried on for the purpose of
collecting, publishing and distributing infor,
nation respecting the surface forms and
features of a country; i. e., respecting its
topography
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-10
The Dudes Confidantc.

1t is the proper thing for the fashionable
young man or dude of Washington to have a
confidante. 1t is not a chum or claSsmate
who has grown up into all his secrets that he
needs; not a boon companion, a lively young
fellow, who goes out with him o nights Not
at all His confdante must be young lady,
and the younger and prettier the better, OF
course. She is not his sweetheart, nor has
she any idea of being. She is somebody's else
sweetheart, perhaps, and his beloved may be
the confdante Of yet another She is a nice
young girl who is a sister to him. He lisp
into her ear his little troubles tells her of his
love affairs, etc, and she sympathizeS with
and advises him. She may be the sister or
friend of his beloved; then she acts as a 90
between when necessary. She serves him in
a number of ways, in return for which he
shows her the delicate attentions that are ex-
pected of brother-but not always received
from him. He dances with her when she has
no other partner, takes her to the theatre oc-
casionally, remembers her birthday, and
gives her his neckties for patchwork. Natur-
ally a man, especially a dude, is selfish
brute, and he gets more comfort from her
than he returns compliments for; but the
young man and his confdante generally get
along pretty well-better than they would if
lovers. The dude who has pretty conf
dante is anxious that every one should know
it, and he is apt to tell her his secrets in u
tone of voice to be heard by others.
The other day heard one lisping his grief
into the ear of a very sweet looking girl
somewhat his junior, but Of that striking
type of which he was a male representative
'You know" he said, 81 love her dwedfully
much; and, you know, she likes me. The
trouble is her parwents have a shocking
i-deah that | am dissipated. Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-10
Giving a Clew.

Silas is a son of Ham, whose complexion
has been deepened by the suns of twelve or
fifteen summers.
He was building my fire the other morning
when | asked him how old he was.
He paused to think, but a look of blank
helplessness settled upon his face, as he slow
ly replied, Il dom know"
. The next instant a smile of triumph illu
mined his dark features as he added, but
las year my burfday coined in cherry time
YOUTHS Companion
Rearing Babies in Arabia
\ royal baby'S frs toilet, in Arabia, con
sists in winding a bandage about its body,
after it has been bathed end perfumed The
little creature is then placed On its back, its
arms and feet are Strengthened, and the en-
tire body is~swathed to the shoulders. In
this position it remains motionless for forty
days, but the bandages are removed twice a
day that the child may have bath. The
Arabs believe that this process will make the
body straight for life. Under such cncum-
stances, it seems fortunate that babyhOod is
not a period which can be remembered in
after years, for nobody would choose to suf-
fer such days of misery again, even in recol-
lection. If the child be girl, on the seventh
day after her birth, holes, usually six in
number, are pricked in her ears, and when
she is two months old heavy gold rings are
attached to them, to be worn throughout her
lifetime, except during periods of mourning
for relatives.
On the fourth day the baby's head is shaved
"a ceremony which could scarcely be per-
formed in our own country, where thick hair
is usually of a later growth. This operation
Is considered a very important one, and
thirty or forty persons are witnesses Of it, for
the performance of certain rites. This dis
posal Of the first hair is reGard@d- as a very
c ETINUED ON NEXT PACE
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-10
---Ose |SUcr shells.

III SSsaA:GS ciit the lower levels of the caves
at Dordogne, in France, along with some OF
the most rudimentary arrow heads yet dis
covered there were found great many oyster
shells piled in such manner as to show that
the Neanderthal man used the bivalve as a
common article of food. The oyster is thus
demonstrated to be the oldest domesticated
deiicacy known 10 man. The relics are sup
ooSed to ha over $1,000 years old,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-10

DYSPEPSIA, DESPAIR, DEATH.
These are the actual steps, which
follow indigestion, Acker's English
Dyspepsia Tablets will both checI-
and cure this.:most fearful of disease :;
For sale Bly,. RAGLAND & Co; =
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-05-30
THE SURPLUS Is GOING.

There need be no further anxiety as to
the disposition of the treasury surplus,
with Messrs. Tanner and Bussey in charge
of pension affairs. If the sisters, the
cousins or the aunts Of any who CHANGED
to have been, IN any way, connected with
the northern sOldiery caught cold either
during or since the war, let them apply to
those distinguished officials, either in per
son or by letter, and their wants will be
supplied. The surplus must go-and
among whom could it, with more pro-
priety, be spent than these afflicted ones
coming out from the rough usa ges of
grim vseged war? Truly is the republi-
can party a sympathetic machine, and
the chiefs OF tearful-eyed engineers,
Tanner and Bussey, have charge of
the steam guage. 1t Is reported the boil
ers of our ship of state will stand an in
creased pressure of fifty per cent, and
that $120,00O,OO0 instead of $SO,O0O,OOO
can be expended in pensions. AS the
south in taxes raises about one-third of
this, she can be regarded as looking on at
the luxurious pension policy of these phi
lanthropic gentlemen with some degree of
interest. Diversified and devious are the
ways of political finessing.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-05-30

msnifestIy unfair to allow Mr.. Gould, or
apy other man, to draw on the attorney
generals office for ammunition with which
to fight business rivals, and yet there are
not wanting those who believe that such
thing is being done at the present time
Following close upon recent Develop
ments and publications with regard to the
position of Mr.. w. S. Herndon between
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas people
and Mr.. Gould, come suggestions ot the
close social and political relations subslst-
ing between Mr.. Herndon and Attorney
general Hogg. OF course, some people
are putting this and that together, and, as
Mr.. Herndon is charged with suddenly
transferring his allegiance to the GouId
side, Mr.. Hogg is not spar ed in the sum
ming up of what may be regarded as logical
deductions. And it is right that Mr.. Hogg
should know of these things. 1t is init
mated, if not openly charged, that collu-
sion exists between Gould, Herndon and
Hogg, by which Herndon is to manipulate
the International into Goulds hands and
Hogg into the governorship. This charge
may not be true, but at any rateit Is cause
for regret that any occasion should ever
arise for distrust of public official, espe'
cielly one SO high as the attorney general
of the state. The Post believes Mr.. Hogg
to be an honest man aud incorruptible of
fetal. Is would be difficult to shake this
confidence; but the Post is apprenticeship
that, like many good men before him, the
attorney-gener is permitting political
ambition to get the better of good com
m0n seOse