The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-04

fans that fetched quarter were peddled
at a cent each. and the picturesque
rush hats plugged the market at
a dime each What nextl Why, to work off
the superabIndant cargoes several tr0upes
of japanese acrobats-wonderfully clever
fellows they were, too-were exhibited
through the country at cheap prices and
the trays, vases, fans, dolls and all the other
faldera!s were given away as premiums to
everybody who paid to see the show. |
never ascerlained the precise statistics of
increased bankrupt paupers aud suicides in
Japan about that time, but | guess Henry
George does not need to go to Toxic to
preach a mutiny against the wicked profit
makers of Japan, the mystery land.
Dropping in yesterday upon well-known
man Of letters, himself combination of
literature and commerce, our talk fell upon
stones by the way, pr0fitless If not boOtless
confabu alton about the ups and downs of
these Gothamesque pavements. Jordan, so
say the learned in dark things, is a hard
road to trabel, b'leeve, but the Broadway
that leadeth to the destruction of shoe
leather can give it leagues and licking on
this particular line.
mot to mention, ;" humbly interpolated,
mot to mention the agility required to
dodge your new-shined moccasins out Of
the aim of the too skillful cuspidorist."
True" unused the man of books, "the
problem of watering the streets is not yet
solved, but perhaps it is better the dust
should be laid ia irregular spots than not
laid at all"
'But what Of the letters in the papers
that claim we are the most considerable
males under the sun toward our ladiesl Is
it noble in Us TO make it impossible for their
eyes to look on the sidewalks without dis
gust, or trail their trains without turning
them into mopsF'
LAS to that" said my mentor, as he shot
limpid bullet into the corner cuspidor, 81
say we are over-educating the rising race,
note the ALTERATION, rising race:
and the three RS; style, sir, is everything ia
speech and penwork Yes, we make a fuss
about schooling as an elevator, but, mark
mark my words, sir, the two ms are what
the youngsters of the public schools most
want teaching to-day-Manners and
Morals The rest was silence.
But don't mind telling little story I
was told in the sad long ago by the principal
actor in the farce. New York in those days
wanted to have its streets made clean and
its good guardians honestly tried to keep
them SO. Well, my friend had invented
wonderful machine on wheels-this was in
the smart long ago-which hicked up the
dirt in a twinkling and made no clouds
of fuss about it, as our present
patent cyclone-raisers do. It also saved
the laoor OF ever so many men. he had
sold lots of the machines to cleaner cities.
He gave ample demonstration of its virtues
to the wise aldermen of Gotham. This was
in the dim and misty long ago. Eyes, sir,
yours is tarnation clever machine, sure,
best as ever was seen, but there's just one
thing it KANT dot KANT vote" SO Phil
.adelphia got the clever machine, / think it
was the virtuous Phila, Come to think of
it, Phila didn't strike me as over clean, last
week. Maybe she's 'prenticed that clean
machine to learn the art and science of
voting and that can't be done in a seven
year schedule, mind you.