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The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-22

Fashions mandate that purses, retlcules. travelling bags and foot wear must be made of alligator hide has made alligator hunting an in- dustry in Louisiana and Florida, and the monsters are rapidly being exterminated. So marked has been this destruction that the police jury of Pluquemines parish, La., have been compelled to prohibit further hunting. It scene that alligators feed largely on musk-rats, and since the lessehing of the number of the former the rats have increased enor- mously and have seriously damaged crops.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-22
His Faith Returned.

Look a-here," he said, as he ap- preached Officer Button at the Third street depot the other day, "have you any faith left in human nature?"
 "Very little, sir" was the prompt reply.
 "You look upon most people as dead beats and sharpers?"
 II do."
 "Beat you if they can?"
 "They will. They'd steal my teeth if they weren't solid in the jaw"
 "You have lent money once or twice, presume?"
 II have, sir"
 "And never got it back?"
 "Never."
 Well, I've got to tackle you just the same," continued the man. Do you see that woman with the red bowl"
 "Yes."
 "She's my bride; married last. week; came in on our bridal tour. We toured too long for the size of my wallet, and now I lack just four cents of enough to buy our tickets home."
 "Only four cents?"
 "That's all. If any fellow in Michigan can plan bridal tour closer than that I'd like to meet him."
 "So would I. Here's a quarter, sir, and that will give you twenty one cents for peanuts and apples on the train. Car is now ready, sir, and there's the ticket office. Go home and be good and happy Detroit Free Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-22

One often reads pathetic stories of pet birds that dle simultaneous ly with, or shortly after, their child owners. It sounds pretty, but the simple prose of this matter often is that the owners infected the birds. Canaries and other songsters will catch scarlet fever, measles, diph- theria, or almost any other human disease, and if left in the sick room they are almost sure to be infected. Pet cats and small dogs, too, are oftan sacrificed in the same way, and in their cas there is also the risk that they will go out and be- come the unwitting instruments of disseminating disease.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-22
Only a Suburb.

Speaking of the Sioux reserva- tion," said a drummer at the Palm CT last evening, reminds me of a frightful experlence 1 had in that country during the last real estate boom. The railroad terminus was at Rapid City then, and we had to make several towns by stage or by saddle. As knew nothing about that wild land I engaged a guide. He had been in every Western real estate boom for forty years, and knew the land as we'll as 1 knew Chicago. We were about twenty miles from Rapid City one day when snow storm overlook us. This was followed by a blizzard, and the binding snow made it impossible to see our horses heads. We aim Iessly wandered oyer the prairie un- til darkness came. Then we seem ed no better off than twelve hours before. We could not stop for the night as there was not stick ot wood in sight. So we kept on rid ing. We were about to give up, when the guide discovered what he thought was a trail. He started his horse on a brisk run, and 1 closely followed him. Suddenly the old settler waved his sombrero and gave regular cowboy yell. It was the most joyous sound l had ever heard for I supposed he could see Rapid City. Riding behind him 1 asked ::
 "What's the good news, Bill?"
 "Ken yer see that white spot over yonder?"
 "Just below that prairie dog town?"
 ''Yes. Wall, that's sign what belongs ter some city store, an we be near home"
 "We made quick time to that signboard, while visions of a hot supper and a roaring fire warmed our hearts. Presently we came to the board and leaped from our sad dies. Bill lighted a match and scan- ned the letters. Then uttering a heart-rending shriek, he fell to the ground, dead as a door nail. I struck a match, and when I read that sign I fell in a swoon. About midnight some cowboys found me and took me to their camp"
 What was on that signboard?' asked one of the listeners.
 "Choice town lots staked out for Eastern investors. Only days ride from town. n."-Chicago Tribune
 There were 40,32l physicians in the Japanese empire at the begin
The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-22

A Chinaman who had been in Tombstone for year or more, was arrested and taken befor U. s. Com missoner English yesterday for coming to the country against the edicts of the restriction act. He was taken to Nogales this morning and turned loose on Mexican soil. Chinaman who came up from Oso Negro few days ago on the stage, skipped by the GUS tom house and did not give the au- thorities a chance to get him. Prospector.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-22

till he turns off the steam.
 The homes of rich Mexicans are said to be palaces, and the grounds around them are gardens. There is an Oriental splendor around them that is not found in the United States. There is an expanse about everything and a retinue of ser- wants that is bewildering.
 A German scientific paper esti- mates the worlds use of steam at ten million horse power. The coal used for steam is put at 12,OOO tons an hour; for gas, 14,000 an hour; iron smelling, 5000 tons, and do- mestic heating, 10000 tons, making a total of over 5O,OOO tons an hour, and the output is 65,OOO tons an hour.
 New York pickpockets have in- vented a new scheme for robbing people. It is to pour kerosene or alcohol over the back of mans coat and touch match thereto. Then, while helping to extinguish the flames, they lift" the victims watch and whatever money or val uables he may have.
 F La Nature gives an account of an alarm girdle for men-of-war or har- bors to protect them from the sud- den attack of torpedo boats by night. The girdle is made of wire with floats and is supported by buoys at intervals all round the ves- sel. When the enemy breaks the line light flares up and indicates the spot.
 An official of the Court of Swe- den is about to set out to Teheran to carry to the Shah of Persia the insignia of the Order of the Sera- phim, the highest decoration that King Oscar has to offer. The Shah is being generally decorated by Eu- ropean sovereigns-perhaps in the hope that he will stay at home here after.
 The subjects of the King of Da- honey are a bigoted and supersti- tious people, and all over the coun- try there are innumerable 'fetiches' consecrated to some pagan deity. Individuals who desecrate these fe- tiches by touching them are inva- riably put to death, but before they are executed they have to undergo the most painful tortures at the hands of the Amazons, those fero- cious female worriors which consti- ute the nucleus of the Kings army.
 John Deutsch, thirteen years old, is employed at basket factory at Baltimore, and during dinner, while taking a pull at his coffee flask, his tongue was drawn into the nozzle by euction, so that, try as he would, he could not get it out. It was drawn further and further in until the flask was forced into his mouth. The tongue, to make matters worse, began to swell, and, after vainlv trying to get it loese himself, he hur- ried to the hospital. Dr. Warfeld, after some difficulty, released the disfgured member.
 Captain Bond Shelton, who was present at the recent wedding of his nephew, Lord Louth, is-or was the young cornet of dragons, who, when the ill-fated Birkenhead struck on the rock (1852), helped to save the women and children, and, when this was done. marshaled his men on deck, formed them in line and went down with them, firing a royal salute, The men all perished, but he was picked up by stray boat, after long suffering in the water.
 A stockman just in from the Catarac range reports large num- bers of cattle dying in that country.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-22
Miscellaneous Items.

London Zoo" the other day. They are the first of their species ever born in England.
 The Japanese government has sent two engineers to Berlin to study the telephone system, with view of establishing a line in Japan.
 A man named Schmittschmitt was chosen town clerk in the South Town district of Chicago the other day.
 Mayor Lewis Ginter of Richmond Va, is said to be worth quite ST. 100000, all accumulated out of the cigarette business.
 The Emperor of China is making a close study of railroad construc- tion. He is said to have consider able ability as a scientific investi gator.
 The German Emperor and En- press will go to Norway about July 1st to spend few weeks. During their visit the King and Queen will live at Christiana.
 King Malietoa of Samoa has be- come quite "chummy" with Robert Louis Stevenson, who seems to be enjoying himself very much on the far away Pacific Island.
 Marshall Pass, on the Denver and Rio .Grande railroad, 10.851 feet above the sea level, is the highest point crossed by a railroad inside the limits of the United States.
 From November to May the ex- portation of cut flowers from the little town of Came on the south coast of France reaches the sum of $713,S65.
 Berry, the English hangman, has Softily declined to appear in the provinces as executioner in a play to be written around him for the purpose, at $25O week.
 It is proposed to reduce cows wilk to a dry powder, as being bet ter for transportation and superior to condensed milk. The idea orig mated in Switzerland.
 The returns of the pensioned vet erans who fought under the great Napoleon, who now receive $50 a year, put their number at 112, in- stead of 180 as in 1888.
 A man in Collins, Medina county. Ohio, has piece of pine board seven-eighths of an inch thick which had wheat straw driven through it by the recent cyclone.
 Salvini indulges in a game of pal lone, a species of handball greatly ly resembling racquet. He has be- come an expert at it, and has not yet met man able 10 defeat him.
 Printing in Germany keeps it's 450th birthday this year, and the Teutonic Printers Union intend to celebrate the anniversary right 
 President Carnot of France has lost thirty pounds since he assumed his present office. He cannot af- ford to grow mach thinner, as his natural figure is very slender.
 French engineers propose as- cending the Jungfrau by a success sion of slanting roads, forming a zigeag to heighth ot some 12,00O feet, landing nearly ar the summit of the mountain.
 There has lately been a plague of locusts in the province of Gizele, Egypt. In five days the authori- ties destroyed six tons of them. to the sun is said to be fatal to their eggs.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-22

were taken from the White House grounds after the children's egg rolling picnic an Easter Monday.
 Londoners have just come into possession of a new playground, the Royal Victoria Gardens at North Woolwich, covering nearly twelve acres, for which the city paid $95,OOO.
 The Kansas crop report for 1889 shows that the product is worth $105, 100000, or twice the value of the product of 1879 or 1880, and onehalf the total value of the farms by the last census.
 The medical department of the University of Pennsylvania has an- nounced that hereafter a course of four years duration will be neces- sary to entitle a candidate to the degree of doctor of medicine.
 Blue soap, rendering the employ ment of bluing in laundry work un- necessary, is made by incorporating with ordinary soap a solution of aniline green in strong acetic acid. By the action of the alkali of the soap, the green is converted into blue, uniformly coloring the mass.
 A man recently hanged in south ern state was born on Friday, was married on Friday, presented with twins on Friday, committed his crime on Friday and was hanged on Friday.
 In making soundings for the new railroad bridge at Astor, Florida, the engineers struck an artesian flow of sulphur water in mid stream. It comes from a depth of fifty feet and is quite a curiosity.
 Mrs. Ann Hyde, the oldest per- sioner of the United States, cele- brated her one-hundredth and first birthday at Fishkill Landing,on the Hudson. She is the widow of a veteran of the war of 1872.
 The lpresent King of Dahomey, who was educated in Paris, speaks French fuently. His anxiety to defeat the French in Africa is said to be due to an unfortunate love af- fair which he had in Paris. He has become a barbarian because he could not marry the woman he loved.
 The Paris old soldiers home, the Hotel des Invalides, will very likely soon be closed. The number of in- mates has sunk from 5000 to 280, and the Government thinks of clos ins the half empty buildings and letting the old soldiers shift for themselves on pensions of 300 or 400 francs a year.
 Five CT six years ago a chimney on a house in Covington, Ky, be- gan to smoke and a mason was em- ployed the other day to look into the matter. He found the fue blocked with nine dead cats and a couple of old hats, and the smoke once more scoots it's merry way along the sooty tunnel.
 A military commission was re- gently issued at Chicago by the Ad- jutant-General of Ohio to a grand son of the late John Logan. The child was born on the 18th of Feb ruary last and is the youngest com missioned officer in the world.
 Herr I. P. s. Estrupp, Prime Min ister of Denmark, is consumptive, weakly looking, little man of un- prepossessing appearance. During the fifteen years that he has held the Premiership he has ruled the country with an iron hand,
 An Englishman who insulated his bedstead by placing underneath aonh pOSt a hrokon-off.ho bottle says
The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-22

If there is any thing in the world which the republicans are afraid of, it is free speech. They dare not enter into a discussion of the vari- ous schemes of fraud and theft which they are endeavoring to fas- ten on the people. As a result, they are now proposing to limit de- bate in the senate a thing never heard of before, and to pass their measures under gag law. The measure has been proposed by that two legged cur from New Hamp- shire who goes by the name of Chandler.--AlbuquerQue Democrat.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-22

There were 40,321 physicians in the Japanese empire at the begin ming of the year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-08
SCHOOL WORKERS TO MEET
CoYvENrIoy OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SUPER
IxTHNDEN0E OF THE NATIONAL EDU-
CATIoNAL ASSOCIATION.


The convention Of the Department OF Supern-
tendcncc Of the National Educational AsSocia'ion VIII
he hold M The College for the Training Of Nurses, NO
@ University Place on February Is, - ana ~ Inc
officers Of the association ;. Draper pesldehO'
j. A. &. Lovett first viccDrcsdent; h. h. MohHoJ'
second vice.pesdent, and L. W. Day, secretary Inc
oueDug exercises Will begin at 10 a. m on tho hrst
day and al 10 80 Harvey NJ La Toilette etatc super
intendent Of Indiana VIII talk on school statistics rs
tbc basls Of legislative or official action and how they
shonld lie collected. The discussion will be opened
by Frederick Dick state superintendent OF ColOiaoo
A i wirship Journal II Education" Boston; and
L. r. KIcmn. Of Cincinnati. At 80 y. M VIII come
up the subject OF state school systems "hdt Is te
Best Plan Of Organization}" J. W. Patterson. state
su,erinteudent OF New Hampshire; discussion, John
hancock state superintendent Of Ohio T. O. Chap
man, state Superintendent Of NewJersey; d. L.
gichlc state superintendent Of Minnesota ana r. H.
Cook Rutgers College Grammar school, Nc"-Biuu'-
wick, y. j. "1he American Educational EAhoi' Nv
the international position of 1872 viii Ie consul
,red an ul lucr o. these mcu will BE- dist 16ut'0
John Eaton eN-Ja.icd states Commissioner Oh hdn'E
ton James H. Canielt president Nation" |auC"Io'''
Association: Alber, i. Marble, cA president Nauoh"
Educational As,ocia,ion Aaron Grove another eA
president: T.. Z. lIighDee Gccently dea'p' OH'''cs
Kendall Adaus president Cornell University; Henry
habn, OF Iowa, James McAlli>ter, fhadeIp'"a'
George Rowland. Chicago; Charles W. Bardeen' O}ra-
cuse and G. Weman Parks, commissioner III charge
of educational exhibit at Paris The discussion VIII
be opened by William L. sheldon, Nicholas Murray
Bu,ler Thomas 3. stocawc and Jesse H. Ihayer
The programme for the second day will be 10 a. m
CITY school systems What Is tie Best ran OF
Organization: ." William II. Maxwell; discussion bV
Horace :. Tarbcn. ". T. Slaton. :. y. DuIton ana
J.. ". Day; go p. m.-scparaie conferences : 30
D. M. Popular CRITICISMS and Suggestions concerning
The Work CT the schools Merrill f. Gates; discussion
Inv Jose6h Estabrook. Charles ID. lIine and Jerome
kllena 9 :3O-RcccptiOn. by trustees College Tor
Training of Teachers. -
This will be The plan Of work on the last day: 10
a. M" The General Government ana Public Educa-
tion Throughout the Country William I. Harris,
United states Commissioner of Education, discussion,
J. W. Dickinson Thomas J. Morgan. Commissioner
of Indian Affairs; NJ \. Newell. f.. +. White; : 80
j. H." The Education Of the Negro in the South
J. A. p. LOvett. discussion. W Il. Powell, W. II.
bartholomew, Lewis II. Jones' w. A. Blair; p. M
g. The Relations OF the Colleges and Secondary Schools
Charles w. Eliot. president OF Harvard University
discussion. v c. DOughcrty John + Bradley and j. ".
Johnson; 80 p. m.-ActiOn on reports. election OF
officers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-08
Great improvements.

I. T. rot many ycas. ago people travelled on horseback
~ by stages nowiny miles hour i not fast enough Tor
them Formerly people wrote letters that were weeks
iu reaching their Destination now the Telegraph ta'A's
toourbt around the world Formerly doctors blcd their
,,teurs for nearly every complaint they use adj
yncol iencc Of The highest order. Prof Austin fht
OK bellevue College says The judIcous use Of alcoholic
smuants is one OF the striking characteristics OF posrs
I'm the practice Of medicine during the last
laf century % Prof Henry Mott Pm D.. i. c. s., says
.'}y most careful analysis have found Dnhys Pure
Malt whsacy free from adultcstons or foreign sub'tances
and Il deser,csI % meet with great success" The we'll
known Dr. K. W. Hutchinson. of New-horh' e'!s
hi,lv recommend Duuys Pure Malt Whskey and pre-
scribe it extensively In my practice" Rev IS Mills OF
Princeton Iowa says: IL have used Dufys Purr Malt
lilv with great benefit 10y WIFE, VINO II cOnurttd
,,,t.,tI know from experience 10 IS pure and most
valuable medicine. also using IL ia INC case Of my
son who is threatened with consumption. an ffes.
Lyterian Clergyman aud doctor OF DIVINITY bu AN not
Ibid ~ recommend Dury's Malt Whisky a. the pureSt
and most trcicnt tonic that know or ana ny experience
ls . large one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-08
VORK DONE FOR CHARITY'S SAKE.
vENTIoN OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
AND t. ANIMALS

The New York society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
o. Children has Just ssue1 its fifteenth annual report.
In it the president Ebridrc T. Gerry. describes the
success Of the society. which, since its organization.
has taken Of looked into the Of 1881
children. lie also called attention TO the fact that in
recent years several societies had been organized and
legislation secured for the protection Of helpless chill
drcn in England. In France Mr. Gerry's report con-
tnues, the Government has established six institutions
for tie reformation ard improvement Of juvenile
delinqUcnts.
The report Of Dallas B. Pratt the treasurer, shows
that the expenditures for 1859 Amounted 10 $523J2 49,
of which $4,000 went to pay part Of the mortgage
the house OF the society, no 103 East Twentythrd
It. The receipts were $5j,0O3 -. leaving cash
balance Of 1880 7G. OF the receipts Ss14G % was
deposits made by order of court by parents to pay the
board Of children who are in institutions.
The statement Of superintendent f. Fellows jenkins
showed that in 1889 the society received and invest
gated 02 complaints prosecuted o3G4 cases secured
1881 convictions and relieved and rescued 3,271 chill
drcn, of whom 115 sheltered, clothed and fed in
its recepon-r0Oms. Besides 600 case, were Hvesti
gated by direction of police justices and courts in
v0lving 3462 applications to commit children, LIZ
were committed and the rest. were found 10 De undo
serving. Thus sl7J.7GO. the cost u caring for the
clildlen at Sl04 apiece was saved to the city and
society is doing its work by giving the history OF
number Of cases which il has Investigated.
ventiOn Of Cruelty 10 Animals viii be published soon.
The president. John p. Hane. reports that the build
ins 0f the society hls been Icmodelcd ana It's am
lulance ard derrick service much improved In lo-J.
j, shown by tie records Of superintendent Charles
j. lank $50 cases were prosecuted n the courts,
.3j7 disabled animals were temporarily suspended
from work. ..tl2 horses and 7OJ all animals d--
HblcI past recovery. killed 4O1 disabled horses
removed from the streets in The Ambulance and
9,7g3 complaints received and invcotIcat
Among other things done the officers of hc society
have made raids on several dog and cock Sighting
dcns. have arrested persons engaged W rabbit batting,
have inspected stables. have seen that horse, and
mules unfit for wOr!. have not beer allowed 70 he
harnessed 70 canal boat and have done much for The
comfort and care Of dogs IN the city pound.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-08
R1rs OF LEnAL NEWs.

Chief Justice Larremore IN the Court Of Common Pleas.
Yesterday granted an absolute divorce TO Jacob IT, kern
from AIyina Kern They married October 30 1851
and have two children girl. age four. and boy. ago
one. The custody Of tho CHILDREN was given to Nh Kern
There defence.
William Stelnit7. the celebrated chess player, won a
victory in suit brought against him IN the city tout
Yesterday by j. A. Sacktt Nj. Stcnitz contracted WIN
Henry W Ormsby for the printing Of chess aaRaHno
and Ormsbv tuned the contract TO Sacsett Ih"
latter brought suit against Stcnitz for sso alleged 70
be due on the contract. The jury decided that Mt.
Scinz had PAID Sackett all he owed him. The case "a-
tried before chief Justice NcAdsm.
The Ncw-YolG and Long Island Telegraph Company
was Incorporated Yesterday with capital OF 81 GOO Tho
managers are Thomas T. Jennings. John W. Robson,
Charles Shirley and Simon +. O.trom.
certificate OF incorporation Of the Union Prisoners -
War Memorial Association was filed In 'hc County
Clerks once vestcrday The object OF the association -
the erection u a monument suitable memorial '0 iH"
non prisoners OF tie Cyu War The coIpor.'or- at'
Alexander s. webb Horato G.. King, Clinton D. ll'N.
Alexander Shser Wager Swayue, George NJ Van llo.'n
John W. Jacobus Ira NJ. HeG-cs Henry NJ C.-t. Aonto
T. Decker. Ezra II. Ripple Jane, Grant Wilson. FLOYD
Garrison. James j.. Boil Charles l.. Hyatt. james L.
Kiieorc. H. D. Ma'tcn. Charles II. Barney Augustus
{. Tate and Frederick a. Rove.