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The morning call., 1891-07-26
A SHOWER OF RICE,
A Bridal Couple Repay a Practical Jok,
With Interest.

A Bridal Couple Repay Practical Joke
With Interest.
An Allegheny man in business in this city
was married some time during the winter,
and went away on tie customary bridal
tour. Among other places they stopped at
one of the large hotels in an Eastern city,
He was acting as deceitfully as he knew
how. and endeavored to delude even the
hotel clerk, whose long experience in the
business made him en- adept at discerning
the relationship between people, and could
tell bride and groom at first sight and never
make mistake. The young business man
was getting along swimmingly, he thought,
and even the old-time hotel clerk was be-
ginning to doubt his own ability in the study
of human nature.
One day letter came for the young mar
rled man which gave the whole thing away.
1t was addressed "Mr. and Mrs. -, bride
and groom" To say the young married
couple were chagriued but mildly expresses
it. They had by this time made a number
of friends at the hotel, and when they heard
the news they had no mercy on the two.
The bride and groom swore vengeance on
their betrayers. and vowed they would wait
till the time came when they could repay
the practical jokers with interest,
lew days ago young banker took un-
to himself wife and went to Atlantic City
on their wedding trip. 1t happened that
they were the ones who perpetrated the
Joke on the young merchant and his wife.
One day as they were passing the Office On
The morning call., 1891-07-26
A Veteran wayfarer's Advice.

At the junction of Third and Fourth ave-
nues is lamp post. About the lamp-post
Is brick dais protecting 1t from the traffic
of the street, and upon the dais yesterday
sat an elderly and squalid man with shiny
black leather handbag at his side The sun
beat down upon his barred head, and his
eyes were cast down. A policeman ap-
preached. The elderly and squalid man
raised his eyes.
Move on" said the policeman, but the
wayfarer moved not " Yer drunk" con-
tinued the strong arm of the law. Ii yer
don't move on. Pll pull yer.'
You are Mistaken" said the elderly and
squalid man. in gentle voice. ~ was
drunk. Now anu resisting temptation"
Doing what?" said the policeman.
on are comparatively young man,"
continued the wayfarer. rising to his feet
and replacing his hat, and this is the ad-
vice of q man who has seen life upon many
sides. When tempted, yield; satiate. and
then resist" and the wayfarer walked
YEARLY away.-N. 7. Sun.
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give the hand better grip. There is
another strap equally business like with
which Joseph Burke, IA years old, was
lashed by his brutal father Tom. There Is
the rope with which Mrs. Wolf tied her
stepchild Annie, who was found with her
nose and arms broken, her spine injured
and her little bocy mass of bruises from
head to foot. Most horrible of all there is
the poker which was heated hot in the fire
and used to burn the flesh Of tiny Nettie
Gardner, years old.
A six-year-old child scared and burned
with hot ironI Middle age fortunes went
no farther.
II there are so many people who GO
methodically about their cruelties, there are
others who are overcome by sudden passion
and use whatever comes to hand to strike,
70 beat, to MAIN and mutilate those whom
God has Entrusted to them. Here is 8 piece
OF barrel hoop, still armed with its sharp
nail, which was used by one man; the club
thrown at an undoubtedly mischievous boy
py Waterman; the stone which came near
killing two-year-old Ellen Hendricks when
thrown by grown-up Mary Graham. There
above 1t Is the triple strap, with two great
rivets in one end, used by human wretch
On his twelve-year-old daughter, and the
baseball bat which was used to beat Annie
Burtell SO that she lay at deaths door.
There is Ratchet which was used to
assault an officer by some sbuser of inno-
cence, whose rescuers have their own
special dangers.
Less CHASTITY are the violins taken from
the lures of street musicians, the cups thew
held out to beg for pennies, the bags they
used for gathering cigar stubs. Most cheer
ful OF all, decidedly funny in fact, after SO
much evidence of blood ana suffering. is A
queer crutch improvised by one little sound
limbed rascal, who had seen what success
ful begging business was transacted by an
older fraud by means of crutch Tho
children whose acquaintance the society
makes are not all little angels by any means.
1t is charged with the care OF all children
arrested for whatever offense, and has many
duties beside the prevention Of cruelty in its
worst form.
There is in this museum a whole case de-
voted to opium smoking apparatus. The
hardest, the most erplexing task attempted
by the society is to keep Young women from
becoming the prey If Chinese purveyers of
vice through the seductive medium of opium.
In the first place it Is hard to make raid
and catch any one at home. John China
mans watchers are igilant and at hurried
warning every occ: pant of a joint can be
spirited away in al incredibly short space
OF fine, even the half-daZed creatures under
the Influence of the drug catching the ex-
ample Of flight. Even when John and his
ysctim are caught il is not easy to convict
the one and rescue the other, as the girl In
the case always swears she Is over 16; II so
tbs law can do nothing for her. But m agis-
tfates arg accustomed to hold such oaths
Ifry lightly aDd 10 Judge by appearances.
u the eiyt DOGS pollock 16 1t goes hard with
JohG HIS enne Ia one that aD1s little
The morning call., 1891-07-26
A NOVEL THINKING BOX.
The Theater as Place to Lay Plans TO
business Schemes

The Theater as a Place to Lay Plans for
business Schemes.
A certain active business man has discoy-
cred new use for the theater. He is an
inveterate theater-goer and we'll known
first-nighter at both dramatic and operatic
events, says the New York Recorder. 1t
has always surprised his friends, however.
to discover that he knows comparatively
little about theatrical matters despite his
generous patronage of the drama. He ex-
planned this to questioning friend the other
night. Il never go to the theater," he said.
Ito hear the play or the opera | simply 90
there to think over my business. There is
something in the performances, of whatso-
ever character they may be, that enables me
to distract my mind completely from ali NV
surroundings. No ole can break in upon
me as they can do If l am at home. aud
can sit and give myself over completely to
the consideration Of business while the per-
formance is going on. tell you" he added
enthusiastically, =" / have thought out some
of my best business schemes while sitting
In the glare of the footlights. owe great
deal of my fortune TO the advantages OF The
thoaters"
The morning call., 1891-07-26
DRUNKENNESS.
Heavy Doses of Petroleum After q Spree
Said to Cure 1t.

Heavy Doses of Petroleum After a Spree
Said to Cure 1t.
The number of remedies, not to say nos
trums, which have from time to time been
Wanted as specifics for alcoholism is legion,
some of the latest being red cinchona,
strychnine. ichthyol, phosphorus, hydro
bromate of hyoscine and hydrastis, says the
London Lancet.
The most recently suggested remedy is
petroleum, or paraffine oil, to which the at
tentiOn Of the st. Peters burg medical author
tiles was called by an accident.
1t appears that labOring man, who had
been drinking heavily for tour days and
nights, entered into a complete state of
intoxication in grocer's shop without
being conscious Of where he was or what he
was doing.
Unnoticed by the shop-keeper he stag
gered up 10 an open cask of petroleum and
began drinking from it. With difficulty he
was dragged away from the cask. and, see
ing the large quantity of petroleum lie had
imbibed, it was expected that he would fall
down senseless and be seriously i'll.
Instead of this, however, it is related that
the petroleum had cured him of all of the
ill effects of overdrinking-the nausea, IN
steadness of gait and headache disappear
ing as if by magic.
In fact, 1t is stated he left the shop sober
and quite another man as compared with
what lie was before he took the draft of
Detruleum.
The morning call., 1891-07-26
TORTURE MUSEUM
OF new YORK.
Bow Little Children Are Cruelty Beaten,
Scared and Manned
A Peep at the Collection CT the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children-some
Hellishly Ingenious Contrivances
Special to THE SUNDAY CALI

NEW YORK, July 90. 1S91.-The Nurem-
berg maiden imprisoned the doomed crlml-
nal in its cruel grasp; impaling him upon
thousand piercing steel points, prodding him
remorselessly at every hand, not reaching
any vital part, but wearing the victim to
death by slow torture.
On, but that was in the middle ages.
They don't use such things now.
Come with me. l will show you instru-
ments of torture as hellshly ingenious em-
ployed, not in the middle ages, but now,
turned not against criminals and malefac-
tors, but soaring and scoring and bruising
the delicate flesh of little children.
The outer room Of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty TO Children is little
Office where suffering humanity thrOngs all
day. from early morning till nearly mid
night. A little wicket guards the desk,
where the clerk in charge stands recei wing
complaints; driving away parents who have
been deprived OF their children for neglec t
or abuse, but who want them back to earn
money for their petty needs or greeds !;
counting the pennies brought in by those
charged 0y the court with the payment of
weekly Gums for the support of some child
in better hands; sitting, sorting investi-
eating, questioning, discriminating. a little
gate in the wicket and door in the parti-
ton Just behind admit one TO larger square
room, where two or three clerks sit writing
down in big ledgers the record of a great
city's shame, and then, ranged against the
wall, one sees the society's museum-a col
The morning call., 1891-07-26

hands to the most marvellous extent, and
yet some OF the hands SO well looked after
are capable of an enormous amount of
work. Look at this hand, for example. 1t
is hand which has been wrought In
plaster and marble, photographed in every
conceivable fashion and written of by
every Photographer in the country 1t is
like baby's hand-soft, tiny, dimpled and
OF satin smoothness. 1t is the hand of
Neatly Stevens, the celebrated pianist.
Adelina Patti said of her hand, at is the
hand of an artist. Miss Stevens is justly
proud of her beautiful hands and arms
and always dresses to emphasize their at
Effectiveness.
Perhaps Lillian Russelrs hands are as
perfectly shaped and groomed as any In New
York. They are plump. ivory-tinted, pink
nailed, and glitter with gems. She has a
pretty trick, in gesturng, of curling the fin
gers until the hands look like dainty cups
The student of palmstry would find much
Of interest in the lines that cross Lillian
The morning call., 1891-07-26

are the toes of Annie Davis How did the
society come by Annie Davis toes? Very
simply, and honestly enough. too. so far as
Its agency is concerned. Annie was found
by the society men freezing to death on the
street one bitter night, turned out by those
who should have cared for her. She was
taken TO the New York Hospital, where 1t
was found that her toes were SO badly frozen
that they had TO be ampu ated 10 prevent
gangrene and blood poisoning. And so
The hottest impulse in nature is the pa
rents love for child. The most heroic
deeds are done every day to save children,
the most patient toll and sacrifice endured
to feed, clothe, educate them. The bruteS
of strap and club and rope and red-hot iron
are few in the mass of man. 1t does no hurt
to remember that OWEN LANGDoN.
The morning call., 1891-07-26
ParaIyzing a Chicago Liar

The Chicago man was talking to plain.
nnassuming man from Detroit about the
have there, says the Detroit Free Press.
Don't you forget it," he boosted. that
we are going to have something that will
overtop the Eiffel tower clean out of sight"
Yes" assented the Detroiter in a meek,
inquiring tone. '-'0'A'
on the back in Chicagoesque style. ma
Il know it." continued the Detroiter. 81
saw the plans the other day."
Did you. though" inquired Chicago.
with Interest and surprise; WHEREOF
In lineage printing house, they we're
The Chicago man got up and went n tho
water cooler for five minutes. " VIZ
The morning call., 1891-07-26
To Keep Rid of Flies.

Inc secret OF success In keeping these in
sect pests out of the house is in beginning
the battle early in the season, says the Scot
fish American. Go over the house in the
morning and with wet cloth kill every fiy,
which Is certain to seek the warmth of the
sunny window panes. This will prevent
the matching OF hundreds later on, for natu-
ralists assert that 900 is only the average
brood for single fly. The other places
where they are most likely to deposit their
eggs are In the dust which gathers, even in
the most cleanly houses, behind books in
bookcases. in the space between double
windows and behind the weights and cords
Of the windows. These are places, too,
where other insects are apt to Turk, SO that
1t will pay to keep a sharp lookout for every
possible pest while In search Of the harm
less but annoying fly.
The morning call., 1891-07-26
THE HANDS OF
NOTED WOMEN.
How They Indicate the Character Of
Their Owners.
Pen Pictures and Sketches Of Those You Have
seen-A Glimpse Into Futurity-Fair
Lillian's Lifeline Unbroken.

In all ages poets have written. musicians
sung and artists painted woman's hand.
Man loves the hand of his sweetheart-the
dainty. perfumed, white wonder; the hand
Of his wife, that smooths his tired brow
and rocks his children's cradle. ard the
memory Of other hands, wrinkled, faded,
lying white and cold across a pulseless
heart-the hands of his mother.
Manicuring and palmistry have brought
the hands OF women into great publicity of
late years. Then there have been the fads
of photographing and sculpturing the hand.
Women have petted and pampered their
The morning call., 1891-07-26

moreover-that hand that slapped
naughty, naughty man at the last French
donna face and Mephistophe.ian heels.
Aud here is the sort of hand in whose
hollow man might safely lay his life and
honor 1t is strong, noble banda hand
that could battle fate or smooth a weary
brow-the hand Of one who loves flowers
and children, home and husband. 1t is both
The morning call., 1891-07-26
STAMF URD HHlGHTA
BEAUTIFUL VIEWS!
NO SANDS OR DUST!
ELECTRIC ROAD, Sc FARE!
WATER PIPES ON TRACT!
TITLE GUARANTEED!
ONLY ONE-FIFTH CASH!
STREETS GRADED!
BLOCKS FENCED!
LOTS LEVEL!

Where is it? Directly south
and adjoining the Twin Peaks.
In all cities the most valuakS
residence property is on the
heights. 'Tis SO in San Francisco,
and always will be SO. Nowhere
in all the residence portion Of
the city can such a magnificent
view be obtained as from Stan
ford Heights. It is destined to
be the gilt-edged residence por-
ton of San Francisco! Thia
magnificent property is put on
the market in blocks and sub.
divisions.
Terms, only one-fifth CASH.
balance, six, twelve, eighteen
and twenty-four months, at 4
per cent interest.
Title guaranteed by the Cali.
fornia Title Insurance and Trust
Company.
The Joost Electric Road vii
extend through the tract and a
five-cent fare is guaranteed.
Market street when extended
will run through Stanford
Heights, making it the most ac-
cessible of any tract on the
market.
Pure spring water is already
in pipes on the ground. Streets
are turnpiked and lots level and
ready to build on. Free convey
ance to Stanford Heights from
Castro and 25th streets.
Where in all the city is there
such promise of rapid increase
in values as in Stanford Heights?
Call at the Office, 7O2 Market
street, and get a map showing
the exact location of STANFORD
Heights.
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hand OF voluptuary like Sarah's. yet it is
quite unlike the severe hand Of Mrs. Ma
varro.
Here is a hand of inimitable grace
dropping like Cluster of flowers. IL Is
hand which reveals subtlety. poetic feeling
and ideality 1t is hand which has
charmed us with its woven graces and
wreathing fancies-the hand Of Carmen
cita.
The morning call., 1891-07-26

rosy palm, especially the fate and heart
who admire the charming artist the writer is
glad to state that Miss RusselPs lifeline is
unbroken and extends to good old age.
Here Is Mary Anderson's hand-as white,
as cold, as chaste. as Greek as its owner. See
its extreme length of thumb. See its classic
repose. 1t is the hand of the student rather
than that. of the artist. Compare 1t with
The morning call., 1891-07-26

The constant smoking of a Short CLAW nina
Is given as the reason why William Syriss.
Clear Lake (Mich.) farmer, has lost half III
his lower jaw bone. A cancer formed and
his life. 'n' oone 70 save
The morning call., 1891-07-26

this hand, which Is the embodiment of fire,
passion and nervousness. See the abandon
expressed in the droop of this little hand.
hanging Imply under its load of barbaric
rings. Love of life and its pleasures Is
plainly indicated by its shape. 1t is hand
which kings might trembls kissing-the
hand OF Sarah, the Divine.
The morning call., 1891-07-26

Next to It put this hand-quite as grace
full and well-shaped. but one which in every
curve Of its 1.-the fingers tells another story.
This hand indicates good business ability,
shrewdness mingled with the love Of pleas.
The morning call., 1891-07-26
Hand Of Bernhard.

And. here Is the hand of the American
CleOpatra-a hand whose lines show great
determinati and will power, and indicate
love Of life and stormy fate. 1t is not the
The morning call., 1891-07-26

and s-Rafe and D,allet used In assault cases;
bat Icith Which Annie B,ttee nearly killed;
k-Strcp used IN bedtno tloetue-yedr-old Girl;
t-Hdtchet u ed on officer; 6-Poker used 10 burn
6ettte Gardner; 7-Stone which nearly Killed Ellen
ReHdrtckJ; aud S-7om Burke and Biddy HeaIy's
srdps.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-12-15

The prices Will please all comers. Our
patrons Of last year Will be sure to come.
BABCoCk'S, 9Od MARKET EAST SIDE.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-12-15
TUESDAY, DEoEMBER 1S, 1891
The Pcnsion Bnr.an.

Only a year ago the whole Demo-
cratic press was bowling in dismal
manner over the amount of money
that was going out OF the treasury to
pay pensions. The nation would be
rendered bankrupt sure and unworthy
persons only were resplng tho benefit
OF it. The late report of Secretary Of
the Treasury Foster has thrown needed
light upon the ibject but we 10 not
hear OF a single Democratic paper al
luding to the report in any other man
ner but to crl!icise and condemn it.
From the Secretarys report 1t is owl
d-nt that the pension expenditures arc
expiring by limitation.
They are still very large. but for the
ten months ending October sOth, they
were sS, 800, 600 less than for tho same
period OF 1890. This comes about by
the pension bureau having caught up
with its work and having decreased
the amount OF back pay to something
like ESQ 100000 during the period nam
cd. II is thus evident that the new
law extending the benefits Of the pen
sion privilege has not resulted in an
actual increase OF expenditures. Sec
retary Noble also states that the gross
annual payment ior pensions will have
drobped te $3.50, 900, 900 within three
years, and that a rapid ami continu-
ous decline maybe confidently expe ct.
cd thereafter.
The fact that tho National Treasury
is still in solvent condition after 81
many prophecies to the contrary, Is {
matter of no little sa tlsfaetion to the
people, though 1t prove Democratic
prognostications false.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-12-15

REPUBLICAN poll tax payers should
try and pay their taxes this month
The hours for paying taxes are between
2 and 5 o'clock in the AFTERNOON and Z
and o'clock in the evening. Trouble
some as it is to get 70 pay taxes this
month, II may be more troublesome
after the delinquent tax collectors are
appointed, which will be on the first
of january. MIR. Diekey for the pres
ent month has his ofrice In the front Of
the second story of his clothing store
No. 226 Market street, and can be found.
but when the delinquent collectors are
appointed it is hard TO tell whers they
will be found, as the law, it seems,
does not require them to havean Office
anywhere.
Under these circumstance Republi
cans pay your taxes this month. Make
your way up into the second story OF
MIR. Diokey's clothing store. He viii
not cheat all of You out OF your votes
though it is not likely lie will permit
you all to pay unless a great change
has come over him. At any rate rur
the gauntlet, he can no more than re-
fuse you.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-12-15

VIZ MOST respectfully suggest that II
Tax-Receiver Dickey intends to set up
spelling school I'm his Office that he
gets certificate from some competent
source, showing that he is qualified to
teach spelling in all its branches. II
the receive: would require the colored
poll taxables to sing instead of to
spell the results would, we are sure, lie
more harmonious and gratifying.
While the colored voter, as a general
rule, may not be much on a spell, he
is most invariably good on sing"
Substitute singing for spelling Mr
Diekey.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-12-15
Change of Landlords.

@. NJ. Jordan, No, gil King street, re.
llnquished keeping an eating house
restaurant yesterday, and Major A.
Smith steps in to take his place. Mr..
and Mrs. Jordan have been tho most
successful eating. house keepers
In the city, They have worked hard
to accommodate their customers and
provide for them the best In the mar
ket. Nobody can say that they ever
went away from their tables dlssatis-
fled. The beauty of 1t is that they
have made enough to keep thnm com
Portable the remainder OF their lives.
They own tho houss they live In and
the one adjoining into which they will
remove and keep trimming store.
They gave superb dinner set out
yesterday and. everybody who dropped
in got dinner free. Major Smith
thenew landlord graced the head OF
the table and was introduced by MIR.
Jordan to the large number Of guests
that surrounded the we'll spread board.
Mr.. Smith eays it will be his endeavor
to keep up the reputation of tho es-
tablishment by doing as MIR. and Mrs.
Jordan did before him. The dinner
was a most agreeable event which all
enjoyed and the outgoing and incom-
ing landlords were heartily congratu-
lated.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-12-15
snnaay seaooI Annivsrsarr.

The seventeenth anniversary OF the
Kingswood Sunday School was OBJ
served on Sunday. The school has
been growing prodigously OF late un-
til our register points to three hundred
and siSty-iive. Apecial program was
prepared for the occasion: organ. cor
net and Hood OF voices poured forth
praises TO God. Sister Rinkin, the
originator of this prosperous Sunday
h. uppreciatiye friends. May the
evening Of her life be crowned with
richest and brightest experiences
Brother George W. Todd, the efficient
Sunday School superintendent, is
happy amid this prosperity.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-12-15

WILMINGTON has not the only imagi-
native preacher In tho country. Out
at Berwick, Pa, minister thought he
had swallowed his false teeth and in
stead of preaching from the text Pre-
pare to meet thy Godi' lie began to
prepare by bidding his family farewell
and lying down to dla. While he was
choking to death his little daughter
found his teethln lureau drawer and
he got we'll.
The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-12-15

IT suited Taq Receiver Dickey to be
very busy in his Office receiving taxes
Inst night between : and s o'clock,
when he was wanted at the Municipal
Court as witness in the case Of the
State VS.. John A. Mitchell, his deputy
charged with committing an assault
and battery on Horace B. Groves, by
putting him out OF the tax.onice. 1t
will now be Saturday morning before
Judge Bail will decide whether the
place for receiving taxes is IL public or
private Office.