Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1881, Page 6

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, — The season in Boston, New York and Phil- adelphia is doing remarkably well. — Genevieve Ward has Invited two lights of “Soroets,” Fanny Barrows and Mrs. D. G. Croly @Wenny June). to spend the summer with her as guests In England. — Daly’s Broadway Theater (N. Y.) company played this week at the Novelty Theater, Brook- lyn, in Needles ana Pins, —Sarah Bernhardt talked exclusively in French, but she understood those marks (5 $$ $) in English, — Anew opera will take the place of Billee Taylor at the Standard on Monday next enti- Ued Elfins and Mermaids, which 13 said to be replete with musical beauty. — After a very prosperous season of opera, Emma Abbott is resting at her home in New York city. A strong lyrical organization Is being formed to support her next season. —Before his departure for England, Dion Boucicault presented hts friend, Stephen Fiske, ‘with the fiddle which he had used as Conn, dur- ing the run of the Shaughraun, — Miss Jenny Lee 1s coming to America again eo season under the management of Mr. ‘arte. — The Vaudeville Theater at Ramsgate, Eng- Jand, has been destroyed by fire. — Mrs. Scott Siddons will appear at the Lon- = Haymarket next September for a short Tm, — Mr. Burnand {s writing a burlesq1e drama on the subject of Whittimgion—an excellent theme for this purpose. — ‘rhe little Folies- Marigny Theater, on the Champs Elysés, where Offenbach produced his first works, 1s to be demolished. — Sarah Bernhardt Is destrous to produce the Dame aur Cametias at the Galety during the ‘Season of French plays, and the English mana- gers have opened negotiations with the licensor Of pisys. — Mr.Theodore Thomas continues to examine Candidates at Stetnway Hall, New York, for his Festival Chorus, to participate in his projected musical enterprise, — Clara Weston, widow of the late J. L. Sef- ton, and stepdaughter of Edward Falconer, died recently at Kennington, of consumption, aged thirty-nine. She was the original “Mary Grace,” in Falconer’s Irish drama, Peep-o" Davy. —The opera of Donna Juanita 1s drawing full houses at the Fifth Avenue Theater, N. Y. ‘This piece has been very prettlly mounted, and it ts @ most agreeable work. ‘It will hold the Stage for some time, and will end the season at this house, —The Hanlon-Lees company, which Is to appear in New York city, at the Park Theater, In September, has recently met with much suc- cess, at Glasgow, in the spectalty entitled 4 Journey Through Siitzertana, —Mr. Irving, says The Court Journal, has re- ceived an offer of $100,000, all expenses paid, for a seven months’ theatrical tour in America. Since, however, this would derange his present engagements, and scatter his company, he nas declined the offer It is practically the largest Offer ever made to an actor. —Mr. Robert Buchanan has written another play, and it ts called The Eriles of Erin. Most of the exiles are on Staten Island, and a fine mess they have made of it; but whether the sympathetic Mr. Buchanan has laid the scene of bis piece in that favored region we are not informed, —There fg no {intimation of the retirement of The Wor'd trom the stage of Wallack’s Theater. Strong scenic pictures and exciting theatrical Incidents make this play attractive and satis- factory to the vast multitude of theater goers, and, financially, it 1s the foremost tneatrl- Cal success of the season now closing, — The visit of Signor Rossi, the Itallan tra- gedian, is likely to be our next dramatic sensa- tion. He will probabiy be here early in the fall, and though he {!san old man now and Jong past the meridian of his powers, our peo. ple will be asked or begulled into going into Taptures over his wonderfal acting; and what 1s more important to his managers, paying ex- travagant prices for the privilege of seelag him tear 4 passion into tatters. —The fact ts generally conceded by the Uneatrical managers of the metropolis that the Beason just closed has been, artistically and financially, one of the most satisfactory they ave experienced In several years. Good plays, Supplemented by good attendance, have been the rule. and where failure has occasionally Occurred subsequent success has recovered it. — The London (England) Times’ estimate of Beoth’s “Iago” is as follows: “On the whole, as @ work Of art and as a piece of technical skin, ‘Wesbouid be inclined to place the American’s ‘Iago’ above the Englishman's; the parts co- here better; the colors are more skilfully blended; 1t ts less starting, less brilliant, per- haps, to minds imbued with the Atnen:eum Jearaing for novelty, and there are so m0: such to be met with inside the theater. It may Sem tamer, less Spirited, bu’, as a whole, it 1s, Wwe tuink, more artistl — Miss Kos® Coghlan isto recetve a beneit, at Wallack’s theater, on the first of June, oa which cecaston she will appear in the character Of Comite, This will be the first benefit that this popular actress has ever taken In New York, and, Since tue occasfoa will preseat her ib an entirely new line of character, the eveat Manet be regarded as of more than usual im- tance. This benefit ha3 been tendered by r. Wallack, in recognition of faithfal services, and In graceful compitment to brilliant talents and to the kindly and winning disp sition ¥hich makes Miss Coghlan 80 great a favorite With her professienal comrades and the public. —The New York Union Stare Theater will begin its next season in November, and tt ts mysteriously stated that the piece will be a comedy of an American author on aa American pic. — The rumor that Campantni was to control the new opera house at New York has no foundation In fact according to that singer, who says that he has not been approacned on the subject. He doesn’t want to go into operatic speculation; but still he would like to manage ab opera house, apparently meaning that he should want to do it. — The Emily Meivilie Opera Company, about Whose superior excellencies San Francisco has ‘Deen bragging for the last year or two, and Which has been given ont as a lasting and virlle institution of the Pacifle slope, has suc- cumbed to Rard times, and there are thdica'foas Of & row with the slogers about their ungald ries. —‘There is 4 movement at New York, and sald to be likely to be carried out, toform an English opera company headed by Gerster and Brignoll.” Doubtful, as Gerster does not speak Enyiisb very well and Brignoll has often falled Yo sing tn tt. — Jules Clatretie asserts that he once saw the late journalistNazet go on as one of the guests in the ball scene of L’Honneur dela Maison, at the little theater of the Rue de la Tour aA Yergue, at Paris, now the Theater Ecole, Noo courent with being @ mere “super,” Nazet tended to be a John Bull, and to talk,and talk tn English, too. The actors, disconcerted in thelr parts, became annoyed; but the aud!- eLce was delighted,and applauded vociferously. The Englishman was a great success, but on Subseijuent representations the character was Conspicuous by its absence. The audience then complained that they were hump bo- cause the part had been cut out, aud it was actually hecessary to make an apology, on the ground that there was no member of the com- pany capable of fling the part. — Those who howl about the adulterous drama whenever Cumit and kindred plays of Freneh origin are produced will doubtless ba Gelighted with the purity of the plot of So- phocies’ Greek trageay, “Etipus, which was, presented with such ecia: at Cambridge last Week by the professors and students of Harvard College. Here is lis theme :—It was foretold to Lalus, King of Thebes, by tne oracie of Appollo, ‘Usat he was destined to perish by the hand of Bisson. Toavert this prophecy he commanded his wife, Jocastggto destruy her Infant as s20n as it came into the world. Tae mother accord. ingly gave the child to a servant, with orders toexpose him on Mount Cithaeron. Here he Was found by ope of the shepherds of Poly- bus, King of Cortnth, who having no chil. dren, determined, by the advice of hig Queen, to keep the boy in iguorance of tne circumstances Of bis birth, and to edacate bim as their own son. When (Edipus had arrived at years of maturity he went to consuit Dphecy thar ne would coumntt parricide and’ be. phecy that he wot 2. come the husband of his own mother. ‘therefore resolved to fy from Corintn, and trev- elipg toward Phocis met Latus, ana in a dispure which arose siew bim. (i tpus, ent nor- SLL Of the rank ard quauty of the man whon De had Killed, was attracted to Thebes by tae sufferings caused there by the Sphiox. Tae Overthrow of this monster raised him to the ‘throte, and the prophecy was completed by Bay with the widow of Latus, by whom he bad fourebtidren. The play begins at the ima ‘when the Theban territories are degolated Plague which the oracle declares shall cease when the murderer of Lajus s banished from i} ® E Baotta. After @ minute investigation, Corpus himself is tue most active senten, tbe dreadful secret becomes known, Jocasta puts an end to ber oWn existence, while d:iipus, Caking the gold clases tron hee arms, ‘With them destroys his ey ‘bt, aad a: his own Ereon, the brother of Jocastar wo eam, eon, Who is made king. THE RAT. [Beston Transcript.) ‘Tke rat belongs to the genus Mus; conse- quently there is always a Mus where the rat is, The rat is fond of sweetmeats. He isa mam- Mal, and when he goes in search of food, the Other rats in his family give him all the mam- mal-aid that 1s good for firm. ‘The rat is a quadruped. If you will notice tt, quadrupeds generally have four legs. Not ali rats, however. The printer rat has but two. He 18 probably the exception which proves the rule. He furnishes bis own ruie, by the way. ‘The rat 1s likewise a rodent, and you will in- variably find a row of dents where he has been. Our Hibernian assistant si that you will also flud poison where the ratabane. ‘There are many kinds of rat. There ts the black rat, the brown rat and the tan-colored Tat. This last is generally called the rattan, SThe brown a Delonges onetealy 1 rown rai origi in Asia. Again our Irish friend says you can aize yer mind on that score. ‘The young rat when at home was a youth in Asia. “When he died he preferred euthanasia. The brown rat crossed the Volga in large troo) 7. These belonged to the Volga herd. You have all heard of them. The brown rat always drives the black rat before him. He does his work up brown. ‘Then there is the wharf rat. These are the kind which go wharf to sea. Also, the water rat. Water rat is he, to be = Another variety is the Norway rat. He will Norway through a big timber Tone nignt. You remem! — the young rat says, “Hear me gnaw, The Chint it is sald, eat rats. But this 1s The Chinaman ese, probably a traveller's tale. says, “I oplum above such things.” ‘The rat i3 something of a traveller, but he never brought this tale from China. Some people hate a rat as bad as agnake, The rattlesnake a woman out of her seat {n an eet ‘This variety is probably the jumping re aah ata aS 7 Tee will fin re] n'a . Then there Is the musk rat. People often speak of smelling arat. It musk kill a fellow to smell this rat foran hour. ‘Such are hour Sentiments,” all readers say. The scent I meant 13 the scent of the musk rat. The cat 1s a great rat catcher. She never leta the rat catch her asleep. The cat talks in her sleep, but let a rat_ come near, and she stops right in the midst of her le © female cats are all Mah- Fattag, There is also & German rat. He 1s cousin German to the Norway rat, and therefore germane to the subject. You can watch germ any time in Germany. .Therat takes toll of everything edible, You have seen the rat hole. after the =e Tat has disappeared, the rat hole re- mains, There is @ kind of cordial called ratata, but it 1s intoxicating. Itisthe only rat I fear, and I hate it cot ly. = ‘The rat will steal anything he can get hold oe ‘The rat tail 1s all steel, and makes a good le. ‘¢he rattall makes a hoarse, grating soun It_1s also found on the great horse. Rats are fond of cheese, but when they get caught in 4 trap, they find it is’ not just the cheese, after The rats are the original ‘Trapplsts, ‘The rat will eat pie. Hence he Is called a pie 1 ra 1. It 19 sald that rats will leave a sinking ship, They keep up a rattlin’ aboard all vessels, I think P’'veshown no little ratiocination in wae this subject, and hope my readera will ratify all that has been said. But let me add a few words about the mouse, He Is necessary to the grand mice en scene. The mouse comes from Europe. Would that he might va-mouse back again. The mouse {s immortal. He hagasoul. You have all heard of the mouse hole. tee wears no whiskers; simply a mouse- che. Mice are born six to ten at a litter. They are essentlally a litterary race. Mice are classed as vermin. Our Teuton friend says this {8 because they verm into every house. They are fond of grain. In fact, amouse 18 a rogue in grain, When firstborn, mice are naked and help- less, Dut in about fifteen days they are able to shift for themselves. They are never shiftiess after that. After putting on their new dress they never again put on their nude aress. ‘The mouse has a scaly tall. There are many Scaly tales told about him. There are fleld mice, rock mice, meadow mice and white mice. There is quite a lot of them, but the worst mouse is the mouse quito. He 13 quite a host in himself. How Needles and Pins Work in and @ut of the Body. {London Lancet } Htdanus related an instance of a woman Who swallowed several pins and passed them Six years afterward; but a more remarkable in- Stance of prolonged detention was recorded by Stephenson, of Detroit—that of a lady of 75, who last year passed, after some months’ symp- toms of vesical irritation, a pin waich ehe had swallowed while picking ner teeth with it !n the year 1835—forty-two years previously. M. Silvy recorded some years ago the case of a woman who had a penchant for pins and needles so strong that she made them, in effect, part of her dally diet, and after her death four- teen hundred or fifteen hundred were removed from various parts of the body. Another case almost as striking has on Tre- cOrded by Dr. Gillette—that ot a girl in whom, from time to time, needles were found beneath the skin, which they per- forated, and were removed ‘by the fingers or forceps. Concerning the way in which they had got into her system no information could be extracted from her. Sue was carefully Watched, and in the course of eighteen montis Ro less than three hundred and twenty needles Were extracted, al) being of the same size. The largest number which escaped in a single day was sixty-one, A curious phenomenon pre- eedie, For some was severe, and there wa3con- She then felt a sharp pain, like lightning, in the tissues, and on looking at head of the needie was generally found’ pro- jecting. The needle invariably came out head foremost. No bleeding was occasioned, and not the least trace of inflammation followed. The doctor in attendance extracted three hua- dred and eighteen. That little welght 1s to be attached to the place at which the needles es- Cape, a8 proof of their mode of introduction is evident from a case recorded by Villars of a girl who swallowed a large number of pins and needies, and two years afterward, during a Derlod of nine months, two huadred passed out of the hand, arm, axilla, side of thorax, abdomen and thigh, all on the left side. The pins, curiously, escaped more readily and with less pain than the needies. Many years ago a@ Case was recorded by Dr. Otto, of Copenhagen, in which 495 needles passes throug’ the skin of a hysterical girl who had Probably swallowed them during a hysterical f setent dete) ‘but these all emerged in the regions low the level of the diaphragm, and were | collected in groups, which gave rise to in‘lam- matory swellings of some alze. One of these Contained one hundred needles. Quite recenti: por Bigyer described before the Soctety of Sur- gery of Dubjin @ case in which more than 3) Deedies were removed from the body of a wo- msn who died !n consequence or their presence. It tg very remarkanle tn how few cases the needles were the causeof death, and how slight an interference with function their presence and movement cause. Bound to Outspell the School Dis- trict. A Detroiter, who bad occasion this winter to visit Gratiot county, was invited to a spelling- School in a district school-house, and he reachea the place to find it crowded, and deep interest apparent among the audience. The spelling soon began, and in a little time only six or elght Contestants were left. One of these was a giant named William Jones, and it was evident that he came there to conquer. When he spelted “jealousy” with a “‘g,” they tried to make him -#it down, but he rapped on the desk with his big fst apd replied: “I don’t know nuthin’ ‘bout Webster or any other foreigner, and I don’t care. I've allus been to spellin’ It ‘gealousy,’ and I atn’ goin’ to knock off to please a few woodchucks. As he would not sit down he was allowed to and, while the latter was struggling with the word “sympathy,” a win- Gow nearthe former opened softly anda man whispered: 2 Say. stranger, kin you spell ‘ chromo?’ ” Of course, I can.” “Well, is goin’ to floor Bill, and don’t you forget it, ‘andthe teacher sent me around here to say to you that you'd better climb out ana skip before the elimax comes.” ‘What climax?” ‘Why, the one we had a month ago. That "ere Bill went down on the word ‘euphony,’and the chap from Iowa who was lett standing had to be carried home in a bianket. Waen Bill vets through with ‘sympathy,’ the next word ee Pe Sy hee an eo — hats it - ‘k-r-07 or be ready to jump through this win- der and "nake for the woods, for that ‘ere Sill is bound to ou this deestrick if he has to lick every human bein’ in it!” ‘The Detretire 3 had & good eye ee be chromos, Wisely permitted n the last one standin; troit Free Press. . ws and Nicces! “I'm a newspape: Perpetual Motion Keely’s Riva’ Keely has not the entire field to himself. ‘There {s a man residing in the pretty village of Ridgetown, Ont., who also believes that he {$a difference, however, between the manner ofthe wooing of the capitalists by the two. Woile Mr. Keely seeks to mystify everything, the Ridgetown man tries to make all as clear as Croton water. The other day a reporter of the Detroit Free Press drove out to interview him. His name is Peter Phillips, and the fol- lowing is the report of the conversation that took when Mr. Phillips was found: ance you pave @ perpetual motion ma- ine?” “I have it, sir, as sure as there 1s a Goa in Heaven,” cried Mr. Phillips earnestly. “Any objection to our seeing ft ?” “Not in the least. Come this way,” and we were led into @ small outhouse, with a mud floor, from which the water oozed as we stepped around. In the center steod an intricate arrangement of cogwhcels. “Do you psd ai cos Hee cept geometry, philosophy, algebra, trigonometry bea! aay force of nature?” asked Phillips abruptly. “Certainly,” said I, with becoming modesty. rman, you know.” “Well, then, you see, this 13 founded on irre- futable and undeniable principles.” “All such machines are.” “No, sir; this is the only one. Now, what are the obstacles to perpetual motion?” sald P--ll- lips to my Tr.end, who was critically examiniog the aombination. “Principally that the machine doesn’t go,”’ he answered. “Not atall. The things tobe overcome are gravity, friction ana the finding of a center 10 the system. Now there is one example of per petual motion that every inventor has over- tockid. Can yu tell what It 1s?” We gave it up. “itis the solar sysiem that goss perpet- ually. Ifyou make a machine on the same principle as the solar system you have per- petual motion, Don’t you see, don’t you see?”’ Then this rig of fanning-miil whzels repre- sents the solar system?” “ The exact counterpart. This center wheel is the sun; these four cog-wheels coxuected with it are the four great planets. Below ts the earth, with the moon revolving around 1b this bolt 1s the moon), next is Venus and next ars, all connected together by the cogs, as you see, One above the other.” Three uptight double bars of tron punched full of holes stood from floor to celling, in a line, were ar- about two feet apart, and the wheel Tanged as Mr. pate described. The four great planets, which, y the way, were much teger jan the sun, had each of their halves filed in with lead, which made one hemisphere much heavier than the other. “You see,” sald Phillips, taking one lead- loaded wheel and fixing it so that it would re- volve, "I put the lead above and let it swing. The jead Carries the wheel past the center to within Lega oem of the top again. Now, it we can geta force that will carry itover the one-eighth the lead will go over the top and come arourd again, and then we shall have per- petual motion, don’t you see?” an Tight; how do you overcome that eighth?” “Well, when this wheel {3 just ready to cone Up, these others are just ready to fall, and their Welghfvarries the Mrst over the center, don’t you see? Then, when the next wheel comes up ‘the first 1s ready to help it over the dead point, don"t you see?” “Why doesn’t the machine go, then?” “Now, don’t you see,” Phillips rattled on, upheeding the question, “I have overcome gravity by the arrangement of the loaded wheels. I have found the center of the system and there Is enough reserve force to overcome the friction, don’t you seet” We didn’t see, but Mr. Phillips showed how with this perfect instrument he could take bis longitude and latitude at sea and then went on: “Another thing to be found was a perfect number. Can you name a perfect number?” “ ‘Number oue’ 1s generally looked on as a Perfect number.” “No; 96 1s the perfect number. You can divide it four times and not have an odd num- ber, don’t you see? 96-48 24-12 6, don t you see? Now on the large wheels there are 96 cogs, on the sun there are 45 cogs, on the next wheel 24, Dext 12 and next 6; don't you see? Why, it can’t fall; its founded on mathematics.” But why doesn’t the machine—” “Now, this was shown tome ina vision. I went to Dr. Monroe, of Brucefieid (he lives in Detroit now), and when you go back you can ask him, and I said, ‘Doctor, I’ve found perpet- ual motion,’ and what do you think the doctor said? Would you belleve that he sald I would go crazy If 1 hunted after perpetual mction?” ve expressed astonishment at such a medical opinion. ion. “T am fifty-six years old and I work four hours every night on this machine, and I—” “Just one question, Mr. Phillips Why doesn’t If go?” “It wil go—pretty soon. It will revolution- Ize the world, it—” A “How s00n do you expect it to revolutionize sel?” “It would go now if it was well olted up.” During this conversation Peter Philitps every now and then turned the crazy conglom- eration of cogs, which rattled and stopped the mcment ois hand was removed. ‘The City Farmer. When formerly a city man, who haa made his “pile,” and. as he drove through the coun- try became fascinated with the beauty of the growing crops and things in general, would make up his mind to try his hand at so pleasant @ business—his acitons were carefully watched by the old farmers and his many biun- ders heartily laughed at. He was not satistled to have things after the fashion of the general farmer; he must have them all much nicer and better, and then he couldn’t help but succeed. He bought imported cattle, sheep, swine, chickens and what-not, the finest and most expensive of implements and farm machinery, Some of which had scarcely been read of by agricuiturists generally. He hauled his ma- Lure from the city by scores of loafis; guano was applied profusely, and everything done on & scale that threw all his neighbors entirely in the shade. When they protested against a great deal of this uscless expenditure and ‘waste of labor, he would reply that he had his own jdeas about matters ard things, and as he AROURRE they were an improvement on the old fogyisms of the day, he would try what he could do, having no doubt of his entire suc- cess, and others would b2 glad to follow him. But no success followed; at least not in the sbape or to the extent expected. The next year was still less satisfactory, as several of his fine cattle died trom over-feeding. The following year the fly got into his wheat so as to leave scarcely more than one stalk standing where there ought to be twenty- The worms destroyed his apples. His potatoes rotted. Some roving, worthless dogs Killed or mangled twenty of his Southdown sheep in a single night. The lMghtbing burnt down his barn. Hence, at the end of five years, he found that there was neither pleasure nor profit in farm- ing—in fact he was quite sure of it. His Tumily complained, too,of belag away from the city, from their friends, trom parties, operas #nd theaters, and were terribly tired anyhow of the country. Papa, therefore, backed by his family, who had come out with such eagerness into the pure atmosphere of the nilis and vai- leys, sold out everything at half its value— houses, lands, stock, crops, household goods ana everything else, root and branch, losin; from fitteen to twenty thousand dollars, ani Went back whence he came, a wiser, if not a richer man. But he was followed by others, who did not entertain his extravagant ideas and hopes; and If most of them fe Ured and retiredin a few years, contiderably out of pocket, their ex- Pe was probably worth all {t cost them. 't taught them at least that @ man cannot in middle life, or in the decline of life, take upon himee)t ee [reed oes of a new busi- ness, which, howeve! er he may rush upon them, are like all Other duties to which every one, before he can understand them thoroughly and Batistgctorily, must serve an appreniice- 1 Nevertheless, 8 population, business and the number of wealthy people multipited, the In- Nux into the country grew more numerous,and some of those who entered upon extensive farming operations did sq with a perfect Knowledge that it would cost them someth! clever to euler the pleasures of the fleld ani forest toa degree which their tastes and per haps lack of health stimulated them to persist ip. Still there are some who, in spite of some. What extravagant expenditures to have every- thing nice in the line of a model farmer, have actually made money by their farms. We know Of several who have not only supported their families—which required no sniatl sum— but laid by from one to two thousand dollars regularly a year, ut in another sense these so-called “fancy farmers,” however dear the school of expari- €Lce may have been, are valuable to a com- munity. They are almost always kind, gener- ous neighbors. In many, many instances that We could name, they have done much solid good In introducing fine stock into their dis- (ict, and never dream of charging anything to those around them. They can afford and ave willing to make expensive experiments, which sometimes result in much benefit to’ others without their rucning any risk or loss. Alto- fue dade car attae teeta ae in the cultivation of tha soil breeding of chi vat “I OBJECT, your honor, to this witness's testi- mony.” pon what ground?” said the judge, “My point Is, your Rovor, that evidence from a 3 rotess! son OCCU! ‘th lonal ition of Eke witness is unreliable.” d stant wil wo MR. VENNOR’S PREDICTIONS, Their Success Thi Far—Are They Guesses, : The following, from the New York Nation of May 5, is commended by the Signal Service de- partment: ‘The sem!-annual change of weather probably occurred on Sunday, April 24, and the six montbs’ summer has ‘commenced throughout, the northern hemisphere. This event has thus happened ten days ahead of its average time, erhaps in some relation to the fact that last fall the opposite change occurred three weeks fore its average time (on October 17.) The Present is, therefore, a suitable occasion for Doticing the success thus far ot Mr. Vennor’s redictions published in his Almanac for 1831, he majority of these announcements are brased in a diction so loose that entire non- Ufilment would be impossible. Of such it is idie to treat. In this category we include the following extract from the “probabilities” for January last: ‘The second quarter will open with heavy snow falls and terminate in a cold snap.” Now, since snow or cold snaps occur every three or four daysin our winters, and the word quarter is a Ces open safe method ft predicting, it would be almost impossible to refute such a forecast for apy “quarter” what- ever. But definife announcements possess a test value, for in these a guesser would be cor- rect exactly half the time. Now, in this class Of forecasts Mr. Vennor has not had the luck of AD average guesser, as will appear from «hat follows: *I expect Diockades of snow in the United States about the ith aud Sth of Janu- ary.” Both of these days were fair. The an- novncement for February contains the most signal failure which 1i1 chance could con- coct, Thaw (which will be Interrupted by a brief [!} cold ot will extend from about [1} the isth of January up to the 13th of Fetruary, with balmy, spring-like weather prevailing in many pi and snow rap- idly disappearing.” In many winters the cunning ambiguity of ‘briet” and “‘abouv” would have eaved him; but tho past winter bad DO mercy on prophets, who prated of thaws and. spiipglike weather, located they their warm spelis definitely or indefinitely. We doubt whether anybody whose avocation called him out of doors during the above twenty-five days. will have any hesitation in asserting that a grosser error could by no possibility have been committed. Recurring to ths actual figures of the thermometer, as recorded dally at sunrise, wefind that from January 15 till February 7 the mercury was not above freezing on a single day, and on no morning during January, Feb- ruary or March did it reach 40deg. So much forthe long thaw and the balmy, spring like weather. “This term will be followed about the 16th by storms, [eter to the setting in of a colder term.” The coldest day in February was the 2d. For March most of the announcements are vague, and in ordinary times would, therefore, be accepted as correct LE tees disposed to be lenient. But not even Mr. Vennor’s cautious “the month will probably end lambiike” con- tained a particle of truth. There was not one mild day inthe month; and on the last two days snow fell. ‘On the 9th and 10th gales are probable.” Almost any breeze or.weather, except a drizzle, might somewhere be thought a gale, “ probably;” but on the 9th and 10th of March it drizzled. The only day on which a gale actually occurred was the 27th, of which day Mr. Vennor said nothing. * There will Be a sharp frost in the beginning of April;” (there was nothing else from the 1st to 13th but frost ) “But the Sai ee open favorably, and everything will pretty well advanced by April 15th, Farmers say differently. ‘* Floods may be expected in Chicago about the first week in April.” Rivers are usually high in April. The only question 1s, which week, and the freshet In Chicago dates only from april 20th, “There will be warm weather just fol- lowing the 20th.” The weather bezame warm. on the 24tb; so this might have been claimed a6 an approximate hit ad it not_been spotted by the mistaken prediction of snow oa the 25th and 26th. The season chan} for good, we believe, on the 24th, rendering snow storms out of the question for six months, The Cruise of the Ferret. The doings of Cooper's “Waterwitch”—ana they were uncommonly artful as well as dell- clously romantic—have been emulated just now in real life. The tale is told on the au- thority of a London periodical. that usually speaks by the card and Is highly interesting. Toward the end ot last September, we read, @ mysterious stranger approached tne di. rectors of the Highland Ratlway Company an@ hired from them a lovely steam yacht of 350 tons called the Ferret. He called himself plain Mr, Smith; but it was shrewdly suspected that he was a nobleman in disguise, His purpose, he sald, was to take asix months’ yachting cruise up the Mediterranean; his wife and some friends were to go with him; and he wanted to get off as soon as might be. In due tme Mr. Smith satled from the Clyde in the Ferret, which had been made as fresh as paint forthe cruise. Mrs, Smith was there in ‘Ube sweetest of ene costumes, and it would have made Mr. William Black’s mouth water to have seen the pretty craft all ship-shape and a-taunto, alow and aloft, with beauty and vaior on tie quarter deck end trusty tars at their posts, tkimming down toward the sea. But after this for a long time notutng definite was heard of the Ferret. Sne put into Milford Haven for a space and wa3 Known to have Cleared with 270 tons of coals in her bunkers. But eubsequently, if heard of at all, it was as we hear of the Fiylng Dutcaman or the sea serpent. Now people saw her and now they didu’t; and, fearful that even this fugitive joy would soon be dented them, the owners of the yacht sent to the different Eogiish consuls at the ports of the Mediterranean, begging then, if possible, to detain the truant Ferret, Ali_was in vain, it appears, until late in March, when a dispatch was recelved at Licya’s from Melbourne, Australia, sayiog that a vesscl under the name of the Indla, but an- Sweripg the description of the Ferret, had just been seized at that city. Mr. and Mra. Smith had been having a most charming time. They bad bought cargoes &t various ports and sold them at others, revleeesl| as they went with Gelighttul Impartiality, and changing the name of the yacht from point to point a3 conventenca served. They took in coffee at Santos and sold {t at Cape Town for sixty thousand dollars, the Ferret tben being the Banter. ‘They drew bills on London with the utmost prodigality, and these, of course, were never honored. And, as “Mr. Carylon,” the sailing master, observed be- tween the puffs of a regalia when questigned by a Melbourne reporter, he and “‘a young lady. friend and Mr. and Mrs. Smith had lived lke fighting cocks all the time.” ‘ne Whole tale is almost as spicy and pictur- eeque as the most romantic of the sea stories, and were it not that if closely followed it would involve the risk of inculcauing more kinds of wickedness than one—to say nothing of its ad- Vantage in being true—it would make a capital basis for a modern comic opera.—N. ¥. Post, The Lime Kiln Club. The committee on scientific research having been requested to furnish the club with a lst of the various motive powers in dally use, and suggest aby new ideas on the same subject, re- ported as follows: “Motive power am de power which makes fipgs move. Steam am a motive power, kase it makes de engine in a aistiliery move, an’ ward pollytishuns am thus furnished wid capital Stock to pack caucuses an’ pull wires. ater am a Motive power, kase it turns de wheels of de saw mill, an’ thus us wid sidewalks full of holes. & motive power, kase it lengthens de sessions of Congress an’ de varus legisla- churs. “Lectricity am a motive power, put de Tates am so awful high dat we didn’t in- vestigate. De bite of a dog, de sting of a hor- ‘Ret, de toe of a boot, an’ de squint of a man’s left eye am numbered among de minor motive owers. Gunpowder, when properly used, has en known to blow up hoss barns an’ kill ele- phanta. Dis committee feels safe in sayin’ dat de next decade will bring forth yet oder mo- tive powers, De time am comin’ when our butes will be pulled on an’ off by machinery; when de chiid’en will be put to bed with four revolushuns of de big fly wheel; when de sar- vint gal who doan’ come home in time to get supper will be snaked along at de rate of a mue a minute; when a Tom an’ Jerry will be mixed sn’ stirred up by simply pressin’on a button let into de bar, an’ when de man who comes at midnight an’ can’t open de front gata will be lifted up frew a second-story winder an’ sobered off in about twenty ticks.” At this juncture the Hon. Sawnee Taylor made his appearance from the ante-room and announced the arrival of Judge Rhody, of West Virginia. The President went out to greet him, and upon his return explained tothe meet- “De Judge adwised me by letter seberal days ago dat he would like to appear befo’ dis club aud deliber a lecture entitled: * Some Light on de Dark Ages.’ Heam heah, but he gioa me to understan’ dat he has lost his notes on the Dark Ages, an’ wants to substitute a halt-hoar’s ad- arees on: ‘Why Doan’ Cabbages Grow on Bushes?’ Cabbages may belong to de dark ages, ab’ dar may be fur mo’ in a cab! head Gan we eber dreamed of, but I deemed it best to reuse bis offer an’ ax him to lie down on a beneh tll I kin igeor thirty degrees of temperature Widout feelin’ much cut up, but de jump fron de dark ages to cabbages, an’ last year's cat- bages at dat, am a Jeetle too fly. tus pur- ceed wid de purceedins’.—D-troit Free Press, A GRATIOT AvENDE Doctor recetvcd a call the otter evening from a couple who had not _been in this country over a year, and who had de- hela his right arm. “One arm is enough,” replied the doctor. “But oe, I takes two of ’em,” was the reply. ‘What fa?” “Why, dis one ta for te, and der odder one for my frow. It ish Detter dot I cotches all der smallpox myself. Go akesd mit your stabbing!” Tne docror did not suececd in conv! that ae could not be Vaccinated for both, and the woman sullenly peach bid Jet the lanczt tough her arm.—D.- CROQUETERS ON THE CRIsIs, How the Political Sensation Strack the Femmnine Portion of the Community. BS [Utica Observer. } @ Hight before last the Utica Croquet ¢1ub—composed entirely of young ladies —neid its Becond meeting for the season of 1SSl. Two new members were admitted. and proposals for Membership were made. The committee on Teeolutions made ¢heir expected report. The Tesolutions were written on scented paper and Pened with violet ink. After the Dualness of Uhe evening had been finished, the young lady sitting on the ottoman suddenly exciatmed: “On, my! Girls, did yeu hear about Conk- ung?” “No. What ts it?” said the four misses on the settee in one breath. “Why, he’s resigned!” “Resigned to what. Has he been dangerously sick?” sald the secretary, no. Can't you understand? He has hig senatorship. “Goodness gracious! Ain’t that too bad?” “How much did he get for it?” queried the girl with the album tn her lap. “Why, you silly thing; you ought to read the newspapers. Senator Conkling got dissatisfied with something in Washington and hed bis office into the hands of Gov. Cornell: There was a misunderstanding between him and the President about some man named Rob —Robert —Roberts—Let me see. Rodinson—No, that ain’tit. Ob, yes—Robertson. Dear suz! They gay the whole country ts in a crisis.” “TI read all about that,” sald the President of the club, knowingly. ‘Senator Conkling and this Robertson had some kind of a fais—wh they were trying a law sult. Come to think, M. Conkling wanted to give him some instractions and Rovertson wouidn’t have it. Then the President appointed Robertson to collect money 1n some ward in New York city —” “That wasn’t it,” Interrupted the first speak- er. *'The Presideat told Mr. Robertson to stand at some lock—a dead-lock, they call 1t—and see that the canal boat captains pad their tolis. ‘The man who was put out of a job by Mr. Rob- ertson getting the situation used to go to school with Mr. Conkltng. “What I want to know,” sald a young lady, “Ig how could the President order these men around 80? Didn’t I read in a poe the other day that Mr. Conkling was the boss?” “My sakes! that’s funny,” ejaculated the Secretary: ‘I heard my brother say it was a man named Blaine, who came here from Canada, and wanted to run the whole country, who caused the disturbance. The Presi- dent made this Blaine a present of a cabinet organ, and then he never stopped begging until he had got a whole set of furniture, too. That jealou the other men who didn’t get anything jealous.” “What were the guns firing for to-day?” asked the girls on the settee. “You see, the Senate helped Robertson to get this job,” answered the first speaker, “and the Halt Breeds were so glad they borrowed some cannons.” ‘Who are the Half Breeds? Indlans?” ‘Lam hot sure, but I dog’t think they are. They jannse have come here when the canai opened.” “Girls,” exclaimed the President of the meet- ing, “do you know 1 think that firing wasa real battie? I read in the paper last weck about the ‘War on the President.’ Isn't it awtul?” “And I saw ‘ How the bomb struck ” ‘Oh, those horrid Half Breeds!” efaculated five voices at once. “Yes,” continued the President, “and I believe they are going to be commanded by that Gen. Mahone, who came to Washington with a red sbirt on and tried to scare everybody.” = going home,” faintly said the Secre- Let us all go,” satd the girls on the settee, ‘Ob, I hope we won't meet any Half Breeds!’ Henry Ward Beecher on the New 5 ‘Testament. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was inter- viewed by a reporter of the Chicago Tribune as night, revised New Testament last Saturaay ce the and in reply to a question as to the ne- tossity for the revision, replied: “There was a necessity for it..I have been indignant at the American Bible society for backing off the track. Years ago they went to the great expense and labor of correctii simply the typographical errors which hi crept into the text—they amounted to thous ands and thousands—and published an edition. | And Bishop Coxe got up on his hind legs, and some of the Presbyterians asserted that the Bible Society were attacking the church, and 80 OD, and the society backed down, let the edition go out of the market and went back to ‘the old notoriously erroneous version. It wa3 an outrage, It would not have been for men who didn’t believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, but for men who did believe— without that fo stand on we have no ortho- doxy—to admit that in the version whicn is given to the common peopie the mind’and will of the Lord as expressed in the text is per- verted 18 an outrage. The text ts obscure, and they know it. [tis a misstatement of them, and they know it, no matter how small the particulars are. It was not only inconsistent but it was an outrage for men that really be- Meved In the divine inspiration of the Scrip- tures, as they did, that have any church or Bible. Now then comes a sober, well regu- lated, thoroughly organized bandof men in England, representing all Christian denomi- nations, and America representing the same—as able a body of men as ever could have been secured in any period of the world’s history—anda they have given ten years anda half to the study of this question, not for the sake of making a new version but for the sake of a revision of the old version; and it is not | Possible, of course, that their work can be periect, but that it is @ great advance on the former verstons I have no reason whatever to doubt. They have thrown out of the text that Which scholars, without exception, have for along time admitted was folsted into it, and did not belong to it.” Do you think it will be adopted by the Congregational churches?” “Yes, generally, put some will hold out. But some would hang back if the trump of the resurrection sounded. I think, generally Speaking, the churches will very soon see their way to adopt 11?” “* Will you adopt 1t?” “That will depend upon the action of church. If the congregation want it I will.” “* Wil not general action on the part of otner denominations be necessary?” “In the highly organized ones; but I think the Congregational and Presbyterian churches will take iu up. Presbyterles and synods will doubtless give utterance on the subject, Many Presbyterian churches, however, will do as they see fit. Tney are not bound to a3k the Synod or Presvytery what hymn book they shall use.” “How about the Episcopalian churches?” “My impression 18 that they will accept it. ‘The revision comes from headquarters—from the Province of the Archbishop of Canterbury— and some of those eng: in the work are the most eminent Episcopalian scholars there and here. It has been developed under Episco- pallan auspices,” i ae lo you think of the Faith, hope and lover?” “Itis eminently proper. I hive used that form twenty-five years In reading and in Speaking. When you use ‘Charity’ you will put a veil on the real thought; you cannot see the face ofit. Charity originally meant a gen- erous disposition,;but the meaning has changed So that It has become a specttic line of action. Love comes nearer the meaning—would be ab- solute if 1t did not include passion as well a3 beneficence.” “ Well, how do you regard the substitution of “Hades’ for heli?””” “It ought to have been subatituted. I don’t think our modern idea of hell existed in those a” ay! “* Where is ‘Hades?’ ” “IT hope I shall never fiod out. It 1s one point of ay about which I am more than ig to be ignorant.” * Doesn’t “Hades” destroy locality?” “Thope 0. I belleve in a atate rather than @ place.” Let Us Talk About the Weather. [Detroit Free Press } = More than a year ago those who travel by the Woodward-avenue car line entered into a sol- emn agreement not to mention the weather to each other when they met oa the car. No mat- ter how hot or cold it was no one was ig Of it, and each one was to infer that the others had trains enough to Lo aged 10 degrees delow in January: and 85 above August, AS & result of this agreement a nutsance was abol- ished and thofsands of citizens put in a way to street epjoy themselves as well as one can in a car. Two weeks the organization was revived, and scores of new names added to the ord. dered 8 car at Adelaide street, and had hardly taken @ seat when he sald to @ man across the lez— * Nice little shower we've haa?” He was given a freezing oor in reply, but he continued: * Curious that we don’t have more thunder One of the orgintzatio hy nted hit 8 e zation here prese: on. with an engraving of acofiin, ‘Dude after a brief summer?” Ote more effort was madeto save him, but he bist wing oe nha here and shall “Pm ce Uy} anc use this line four ‘times per ; . Did any of you gentlemen notice bow the thermometer The car was pe - oe Orda. The coroner ‘4 fo juest, and the chief of BOOTS AND SHOES. BURT'S FINE SHOES, . —_— GUINNIP, DAY & CO., 820, 823 and $24 Seventh su, WILL OPEN A FULL LINEOF EDWIN C. 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