Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1882, Page 3

Amusements, &c. Natio~at Tueater.—A large and fashionable audience greeted the production of “Frou Frou” at the National last evening. In the role of Gilberto, Madame Modjeska’s character, was Not found wanting In any respect, and the au- i sure by’ frequent ap- Mr. Barrymore as @ience manitest eh . Grifith as MB rd were “Twelfth Night” is to be given next evening, and will be the oceasion of Mme. Moajeska’s debut in the character of Viola. JEFFERSeS ¢ Next week the old fav- pear in his familiar ¢ Poor Gentlemen” on Monday He will —The large number the extravagant comedy of “Le Voyage en 8 evening are mnisied at the show y the Hanlons, and are greatly ed and pleased by the m Of the production. The Hanl In thiei jew! . Harry Rich nd Is well received by He is supp @ good actor a larce audie by a strong varie Maso sic mar school, No. 2 eoneert here this ever The Washington ember il, of New York, on the sand Tue Jean nm songs and dances n costuine, under es of Eri T.. at Willard’s Hal 15th, is un: bly Deceinber sth. to Saturd mber From the nuuber of tickets sold fur this enter- tainment. the indications are that it will be a rand success. —— ‘The Vacant astership. LIEUTENANT Be NOT A CANDIDATE. To the Editor of Tae Evexixe Stan Ww *. D.C., Dee. 7, 1892. Will you do me the favor to con- fement made last night in the ns of your AN O%D MANS PANORAMA, Some Suggestions from Thurlew Weeds Life, From the Detroit Free Press. In one of Louts Figuier’s imaginative ecien- tifle books he places a spectator on a distant star which the reflected light from the earth does not reach in less than 100 years. Equipped with a suMfciently powerful giass, this individ- ual could in the course of a long life behold the pringipal event®and prominent men that have made the history of the world for a century past. He could, asa young child, see the war ach revolution, the of Napoleon, the wonderful mod- ntions, from the steam enine to the 1, the flrures of Washiagton and Bona- ington and Bismarek. Goethe and t Spencer, Byron and Tennison, § les Reed, all, ‘se, 100 years late, d . Were he a this earth, dying on his ou that distant star life and see his career behold their own, passing im like a panorama. the Frenchman's im: of the star could see, the and Ch. inary inhabitant urlow Weed can The $5th anniver- ated last week, cence between 8 ina vision. thday was © ie of remini at two years of age, tod, the account of At seven he could d the report of Jefferson's re-election, son's coronation as Emperor of France, battie of Austerlitz, and of the first steam on the Welsh tramway, id that stream. While he himself er in the war of 1812, freezing in of the northern frontier, Napoleon's y was overwhelmed in the snows of the close of hts military life was simulta | du di he French army at yron had not yet waked on that rning and found himself famous abtieation of ‘Childe Harold,” and the f reading Scott's romances, as th fresh from the press, reserved reed had for some time been a printer at ure ‘Jothes he wo en a boy were home- dh a nt: bin boy, he Alban: the journey from the Atl an. He has seen nearly Spring. Lam in him, and [ belicy to the pay corps his mind. It ¢ Tread the statem night. as never crossed never crossed mine until Tue EVENING STar last Rear Estate been recorded as f onto Mary Martin, lot 26 Mo Ashfore F. infee have s Bank vention characteristic of th red and developed. railroad, the steam loom g machine, the telephone. ¢ nd electric light; even the humbler. but ss useful discoveries—kerosene for ilumi- «I the photograph—hav his personal knowledge. He hi the administration of ever Wasi nto Arthur: seen e from the fir es and two t ; Prussia and as I President from nee travel the republic throuzh two #, back to a republic aly emerge from a con ries of s: ates to a mighty empire Hodes, . Daley to Jen F. ALA 9, 84-2 H.C. Wine ——— @atdone by a Boy. Moral courave requires more fiber than physi- €al courage. It is more difticuit, sometim: do right than to march up to the cannon’s mouth. The boy who could keep from swearing, and was not afraid to stand by his colors in the Presence of a room full of profane men, was a Uttle hero. A lad in Boston, rather small for his years, Worked in an office as errand boy for four gen- tlemen who did business there. One day the gentlemen were chatting him a little about Deing so small, and said to him: “You never will amount to much; you can Rever do much business, you are too small.” ed at them: something which none of you four men can do.” that 2” said they. know as I ought to tell you,” he re- plied. But they were anxious to know, and Urged him to tell what he could do that none of m were able to do. “I can keep from swearin: said the little feliow. There were some blushes on four manly faces, and there seemed to be very little anxiety for further information on this point. z ohn ane ‘The Man im the Case. Referring to the fascinating young bachelor Binted at as being mixed up in the Langtry- Labouchere separation gossip, the New York Morréng Journat gives the tollowing particulars: “He proves on inquiry to have been the well- known and popular man about town, Mr. Fred- erick Gebhardt. Mr. Gebhardt is ane of the Jeunesse doree of Gotham. His father made a great fortune in real estate in this city, Just as the Astors did; and when he died a few years #go he discreetly divided it in two equal , the principal of which was invested in govern ment bonds and each part yielding an income of about £30.000 a year. One half he gave in her own right to his daughter, the beautiful Mrs. Frederick Neilson, of No. 100 5th avenue, a = society belle at one time and, like her jusband, a familiar figure in the lobbies of the Opera and theaters on first nights. The other half was bestowed on the son, Frederick Geb- hardt, at the time in his minority, but now turned twenty three or four years of age. His father had great faith in his son’s ability to take care of the money he lett him, and he has not been disappointed. for notwithstanding young Gebhardt is a free liver, he is of an economical turn of mind and never touches the principal of Bis fortan HIS HORSES. Mr. Gebhardt also keeps a stable of racers, owning the Pelham stable, to which belongs the erack colt Eole, said to ve the best animal of her years in training in America. He also owns, with Mr. Arthur Hunter, Vampire and other well known horses. He has frequently figured asa rider of his own horses in races for “‘gentle- men riders” only, but it is believed that he has Rever passed the post asa winner. He drives four-in-hand and tandem, and is the owner of a variety of coaches, carts and carriages of all manner ke. From tie first appearance of “The Lily” in this city some one of these vehi- eles, with fast trotters and drivers, has been at her command. His sleigh was the first in which the beauty every rode, and his trotters were the ‘first of America she had ever sat behind. There are rumors that she was led to believe also that Mr. Gebhardt had something to do with getting up the first snow of the season while she was here, and wth great foresight and considera- tion arranging to have it fall just before the penal code. restricting fast sleighing on Sunday, ame into effect. All the attentions showered upon the some what neglected Enzlish beauty immediately on ber arrival here naturally awakened her sym- hies, and Mr. Gebhardt’s attentions were paid in the kindly smiles of the lady. When he announced his intention of seeing her safeiy in Boston. and Mrs. Labouchere declined to go as of the same escort, it is hardly to be won- at that the beauty gratefully accepted the effer. ON THE WING. At the Hotel Brunswick the reporter was in- formed that Mr. Gebhardt had gone to Boston em Sunday night. Late last evening the clerks at the same hostelry announced that he had not returned. His absence and his adventure were the talk of all the clubs to which he belongs, in- ing the Union, Turf and Coney Isisnd Jeekey clubs. Inthe ‘course of conversation about the aflair, it was stated that in sending Mrs. Langtry, his “dear friend,” a basket of @hoice “fruit” he had omitted the usual but not ey “Is.” A member of the firm of Mesars. ly & Nichols displayed the follow- letter: Purdy & Nichols. Geentiemen: Pleas to send me two number fifth Avenue seven cases of Pomery seck. Im baste. Fred Genuarpt. —— I is stated in Paris that M. De Brazzar’s ex- Pedition in Atrica will include 300 negroes, who embark on the gunboats Sagittaire and prim, d hep hens - Aes lonna, has an in the United States and betore gaz : s small as Tam, I can do; and a consolidated kingdom. As a boyin petti- she might haye taken the hand of an old man who, while a boy, had seen one ot the pil- stim fathers in eld age, and as an old man him- take the hand of boy in petticoats, who wiil see the 200th anniversary of the inde- pendence of the United States; thus touching on either side zenerations that are separated by nif of three centuries and a half. merican Hepublic. San Frencise Bulletin. ns, who number in Guatemala 890,000, are peaceable, kind and hospitable. It is only on the Atlantic co: where the negroes from the West Indies haye amalgamated with the natives, that the explorer is liable to meet with difficulty. These Caribs, as they are called, are nearly as dark as negroes, are lazy, prone to theft and suspicious of strangers. They are, however, happy, according to the Mormonstand- ard, each man having three wiyes, who support him in all the luxury that the sea will afford, and who, if they wish their lords and masters to do them the slightest service, are obliged to pay them In the current coin of the region, namely fish. The Caribs do nothing but fish, bathe and eat, but the native Indians are com- paratively industrious. There Is little raised in the country, however, except coffee, and this is scarcely a paying product, for it costs on an average six cents per pound, and is sold tor seven or eight cents. Most of the coffee is of an inferior quality, and the area where good cof- fee can be grown is very limited. Although many products might be raised in the fertile valleys, few are grown, and these few are grad- ually becoming less important. In the valley ot Coban, which contains the ruins of one of the old cities of Maya origin, much tobaceo of a quality not to be surpassed by that srown in any other part of the world, was raised. But this year the entire product of the valley was monopolized by one old woman whose stock amounted to about £1,000 and who retailed cigars at three bits per hundred. The interior of Guatemala consists of elevated val- leys surrounded by high mountains rising 6,000 or 7,000 feet above them. The valleys them- selves are 5,000 or 6,000 above the level of the sea. They are generally fertile, and are usuaily the seat of a city or large vil- lage. The higher portions of the country are unfit for cultivation. Everywhere there is the most luxuriant vegetation. An English natura- list who visited the country some six years azo said that nowhere in the world had he seen such magnificent trees or such beautiful flowers. Some of the trees rival the far-famed giants of our own forests. Mr. Elsen measured one that was 30 feet in diameter and fully 300 feet high, Fruit grows in abundance, and only there can be had in perfection the delicions “alligator pear,” as it is sometimes called. The climate can hardly be surpassed. In the interior the thermometer throughout the year stands, in the house, at about 72°. At the old city of Guate- mala is found the finest climate of all, peculiarly adapted to delicate lungs. The atmosphere is as clear as crystal, invigorating and pure. The city of Guatemala contains about 65,000 inhabitants. Itis situated in one of the inte- rior valieys, surrounded by high moun- tains as by a wall. It is poorly built, the streets being narrow and the houses low, and built of adobe. There are many fine churches, but none of such beautiful architecture as is found in the former sites of the city. The present city was founded about one hundred years ago. Itis the third site of the capital. The first city was founded by Al- varado, the great leutenant of the greater Cortez, who conquered Guatemala after the conquest of Mexico, and founded a_ splendid elty almost on slopes of the great volcanoes, Tuego and Agua, whose fires may now be seen from the deck of vessels passing up or down the Pacific coast. But an earthquake destroyed this beautitul city, and another was built some 10 miles distant. There, as in the former city, the architecture was beautiful and the orna- mentation of the palaces and churches was elaborate. The city also was destroyed by an earthquake, and its ruins now remain to show the traveler what the old Spanish conquerors could do in the way ot building a magnificent city among the forests and mountains of the New World. Again was the site of the city changed, and 60 miles distant the prgsent city of Guatemala was built. The bulk of “ts popu- lation is composed of native Indians. The busi- ness transacted is very limited, and there is no apparent desire to develop trade. The com- munication with different parts of the country is maintained by mutes, who thread their way along mountain trails, which are in winter often impassible. The coffee crop of the in- terior is beers serie — for a bent because of e im ibility o! it. to market. Se eae ——___+9.____ She Wanted All the Style for Her Money. A young man of twenty years of age opened & private school in Austin. One of the first Partics to bring hima scholar was one of the most fashionable and intelligent ladles in Aus- tin. She came with her gon, and asked the price of tuition. “Three dollars per month,” replied the youth- fal preceptor. ‘Why you muat be crazy. For that much I can have him taught by ateacher who wears spectacles and has a bald head.” ——_os—___ What the Appointment Means. From the Cincinnati Commercial. The President has made a good appointment of marshal of the District of Columbia to fill the vacancy made by the removal of Captain Henry. Tt may be assumed as a certainty that Mr. Clay- prous and vivid | will | EXPENSES OF CHURCHES. The Amount of Money Spent Annually by all Denominations iu New York. From the Buffalo Courier. New York’stotal church expenses foot upabout. $6.500,0.0 each year. The fizures include the Pay of the pastors, the bullding fund, the cost of running the vartous churches, and the outlay for missions and all benevolent purposes. The Rornan Catholics lead tne list. They have-eome seventy-five churches, and their total annual outlay is estimated at €2,250,000, half of which goes in charity. The Episcopalians come next. They have seventy-nine churches and chapels, with 25,500 communicants. Their outlay is 31,150,000—8600,000 for church expenses and $550,000 for benevolent purposes. After the Episcopalians come the Presbyterians, with sixty churches, having a membership f 21,500 «ad an expense list of $705,000, some- over half ot which is for “ehureh pur- 3." The Methodists have sixty-five churches, bat their membership is only 13.300, | total expenses are set down at €243,000— 000 bein for church purposes. The Bap! with thirty-six churches and membership 0: | 700, expended near! 000 more than the Methodists, their entire outlay being OO The Dutch Retormed and the Lutheran com- bined have forty-one churches, with a m | ship of 16,060, and their expenses foot up | The Congregationalists have only e the Jews. and 1 They have nineteen tabernacles, with a declared member- ship ot 3,000 (the regular attendance though is |at least four times that number) and an ex- pense of over $200,000. Peeve eee Sob = They Thought He ‘Wanted Cats. M. M. Towne, lately appointed superintendent of eating-houses on the Union Pacifte railway, had the following little send-off in Peck"s Sun in | 1880: “Last week the Sun did a great injustice to a man and subjected him to much annoyance, for | which it desires to apologize. We received a letter from Mr. Plerce, the hotel-keeper at Wa- tertown Junction, saying that of Ayer’s hotel, Harv: d, had sent to him to bor- | row a number of cats; and, as he had but few cats, he desired us to request hotel men to send | a number of cats to Mr. Towne. We did so. and the resnit has been all that could be desired, as | about 120 cats have arrived at Harvard by ex | Press, and the returns are not all in, We hereby ask ail hotel-men who have not seut eats to Mr. Towne to refrain from doing so. We k will be bard to keep from cat, but for heaven's gal The whole thing is a I | that Mr. Towne wanted to borrow, | Pierce, either or because’ he not read well, read “cots” * cats,” as the following correspondence between the | two gentlemen will (TOWNE TO PIEKCR.] an- Harvarp, In to loan me for F many can you spa ve you any cats nd 12, n, 28. 1880. y all tho cats Thave on hand. Have s up more. I also send you a 3 he will fill the plice of Yat ta the name of hotets do thing should cus? You Want of s0 many cats? It become generally known It will rnin your busi- ness. Cut off mince ples for a while and let hash rest, or you are a ruined hotel man. N. W. PIERCE. apout writing tht this all upon uch things often People cannot be too care plain. Mr. Towne has broi himself by his carelessness. occur. ————— oe Blind Bridle. The American Farmer, in speaking against the use of the blind bridle, says: “We know not who invented this instrument of horse tor- ture, but we know that he did not understand the anatomy and physiology of the eye of a horse. Human vision is binocular—that ts, we see the same object with both eyes—and go adjust the axis of vision that the object appears single, though seen with both eyes. But the eyes of 1a horse are placed on the side of the head and the axis of each eye is nearly at right angles with the longitudinal line of the body, so that it is impossible that the saine object can be distinctly seen with two eyes. Now, by binding the eye in the direction in which it was intended in its construction that it should see, it is forced to use an oblique vision, as if we should cover the front of our optics and be competled to see only by the corner of our eyes. This unnatural and constrained use of the eye must, to a greater or less extent, impair vision, if not entirely destroy it. The object for which the blind bridle is used is not accomplished by it. A horse is more readily trizhtened when he cannot see the object of his dread than if he can have a fair view of it. But it is surprising an absurd and cruel practice, when a moment's reflection would teach them better. Nineteen out of twenty horses yee see in harness have a blind bridle on, and if you ask the owner to ex- plain its benefits, or why he uses it, he will be utterly unable to give a rational answer. We are not surprised that draught horses are sub- Ject to diseased eyes—we wonder that they are not all blind. ——_—__—_~+e+____ Mothers, Look to Your From the Chicago Herald. The American girl is byno means backward about coming forward. Even when not absolutely Trude she too often manitests an unthinking per- tinacity in pushing her way everywhere and at | all times, which resembles nothing so much as | the disagreeable familiarity of a pet lamb. A few years ago her manner used to extite the astonishment and unfavorable inferences of Eu- Topean communities wherever she might tem- Porarily solourn. Her countrymen were accus- tomed to excuse her eccentricities as the play of a childlike and somewhat exuberant na- ture, unacquainted as yet with the idea of wrong. Lately her manners seem to have deteriorated. She no longer contents herself with going about by herself at ill-advised and unladylike hours, and with regarding every man she meets in the light of an interesting ani- mal, to be studied, contemplated and stared at. She smiles, nods, flirts with her handkerchief, and in every way appears to desire the notice, if not the acquaintance, of the opposite sex. She goes upon the streets at dusk and after, with no protector more potent than a compan- fon of similar age and greater foo1ishness. She is to be seen with a young man, eating late sup- pers, or walking slowly In quiet streets at late hours of the night. Her glances are bright and coquettish. They assume the appearance of knowledge and desire beyond her presumed ex- | perience. This is the spectacle upon which mothers and fathers might profitably bestow their attention. The modest, gentle, affectionate and lady-like girl of the olden time has not reproduced her- self in her daughters. Whether this fact is to be attributed to the father’s influence 1s a ques- ticn which we may safely leave for adjustment within the family. Our present point is merely this, that our young girls are not growing up Into lady-like ways and virgin modesty of man- ner. The fact is unquestionable, and plainly points to defects in the home life and govern- ment which need to be remedied as soon as pos- sible. Mothers, look to your girls, Engiand’s Current Hero. This is the way the hero of the day looked at the royal review in London twenty days ago: “Sir Garnet Wolseley rode slowly up, wearing all his orders, the crimson sash of the Grand Cross of the Bath, three enormous stars, and so Many war medals that they had to be strung along one bar, and nearly covered his breast. Sir Garnet looked uncommonly well. There was the usual pens smile on his bright cheery face as he nodded his _ reeetars to his friends, or received and returned the salutes of his staff. Ashe sat there so quietly, and with such an unpretending air, it was difficult to be- lieve that this slight, small man, still so unde- niably young-looking in spite of the iron-gray hair, had done so much.” f +99 __ ‘The Seal Sack Said to be Fading Ont of Society. ‘From the New London Day. Seal fur ts going out of fashion. This ultra iris. the Day last which was furnished by a een OF long snd been fully verified. Since that time the In value of the best fare is friend Towne, | to observe with what tenacity men hold on to! From the Laremfe Boomerang. |... She may be giddy, but ‘she has just about sized you up in shape, and no dowst if you keep on trying to love her without her knowledge or consent she will hit you with something and put a Swiss sunset over your eye. Do not yearn to win her affections all at once. Give her twenty or thirty years in which to see your merits. You will have more to entitle you to her respect by that time, no doubt. During that time you may rise to be President and wig.a deathiess name. The main thing you have do look out for now, however, is to restrain yourself from marrying people who do not want P marry you. That style of treshness will, in thirty or forty years, wear away. If itdoes not probably the vigorous big brother ot some “young lady of 17° will con- sign you to the the silent tomb. Do not try to promenade with a young lady unless she gives her consent. Do not marry one against her wishes. Give the girl a chance. She will ap- preciate it; and, even though she may not marry you she will permit you to sit on the fence and watch her when she goes to marry some one else. Do not be despondent. Be eous, and some day perhaps you will get At present the horizon is a little bit there. fe 6 she may be 80 giday that she doesn’t want steady company. There is a glim- mer of hope in that. She may be waiting till she gets over the agony and annoyance ofteeth- | Ing before she looks seriously Into the matters of matrimony. If that should turn out to be | the case we are not surprised. Give her a ; chance to grow up, and in the meantime go and learn the organ grinders’s profession, and fix yourself so that you can provide for a famils able to cess of life as a husband forget your sorrow. spoiled ‘Tennyson’s Awfnl Play.” of the damnation of Tennyson's awful play | will pass aw | over. | ears. The pit had for some tim prot The unhappy Ed ‘o proceed with a still more unlucky speech: ‘Marriage in itself! Well democratic deluge, which fs us and ail Europe, shall have washed thrones and chu toms—marriage, one of the most sen-ele-s the rest—why, then, the man and ing free to tollow their “elective fin. te: but with smiles, not with mutual recrimtnation, the worlt’s. ¢c up thé children,” “A shout of derision greeted the I: and it is probable that nothing coul ! saved the play. | of heredity upon himself, and quotations trom the Republic of Plato did not heip matters. The laughter became infecticus and general, and what was worse, it was the pathetic speeches, or the speeciies meant to be pathetic, at which the laugh was most frequent. ery touched was a false one. Dora in the second act, he justifies den fancy for her by’ her his old love Ev: soliloquies with wh vances to the footli T mus: have loved t sentence, then have his sud- resenublat of those peri is stufic hts aud remarks: ) va more than I knew—poor amends, F will wed Miss Dora if possible.” The house saluted this solemn declaration ith shrieks of laughter. New and original be- yond dispute is the notion that a lover who Tuins one sister in the first act is to ma amends by marrying the other in the second. Down to this point the pi enough, had put some sort of curb on its license, out of just respect, let us hope, to the great name and great age of Mr. Tennyson. from this moment the scene became an orgie. | Of all means of damning a play, none is so fatal tween Husband and Wife. says plies, others still, especially the newly-married, from the other. that case, when any confideifce is. proffered to make his or her position clearly understood. has been bestowed in which they cannot share, dence. only of the two people of whom love and law have made one flesh. The very ideal of mar- riage had been realized by that old judge who had knelt for so many vears to say @ last prayer at night beside his wite that when at last she had left him his lips were dumb, and without her he could not even open his heart to God. One frequent cause of trouble in married life is a want of openness in business matters. A husband marries a pretty, thoughtless irl, who has been used totaking no more thouzht asto how she should be clothed than the lilies of the her requests. He will not hint, so long as he can help it, at care in trifling expenses—he does not like to associate himself in her mind with Gisprolnnnents and self-denials, And she,who would have been willing enough, in the sweet eagerness to please her girlish love, to give up any whims or fancies ofgher own whatever, falls Into habits of careless extravagance, and feels herself injured when at last a remonstrance comes. How much wiser would have been per- fect openness in the beginning. “We have just so much money to spend this summer. Now shall we arrange matters thus or thus?” was the question I heard a young hus- band ask his still young bride not long ago; and all the womanhood in her answered to this de- mand upon it, and her help at planning and counseling proved nota thing to be despised, though hitherto she had “fed upon the roses and Jain among the lilies of life.” I am speaking not of marriages that are no marriages—when Venus has wedded Vulcan because Vulcan pros- red at his forge—but marriages where two rue hearts have set out together, for love’s sake, to learn the lessons of life, and to live to- ther tilt death shall part them. And one of he first lessons for them to learn is to trust each other entirely. The most frivolous girl of all “the rosebud garden of girls” if she truly loves, acquires something of womanliness from her love, and is ready to plan, and help, and make her small sacrifices for general good. Try her and you will see. ‘ But if you fail to teil her just how much you have, and just what portion of it can properly be spent, and what portion should be saved for the nest-egg, In which her interest is not less than. acts own, then you cannot justly blame her if she is careless and self-indulgent, and wastes to-day to want to-morrow. There are thousands of little courtesies, also, that should not be lost sight of in the cruel can- dor of marriage. The secret of a great social success Is to wound no one’s gelf-love. The same secret will go far toward making marriage happy. Many a woman who would consider it an unpardonable rudeness not to listen with an alr cesta to what &@ mere tance is saying wi ave no least scruple in showil her husband that his talk earies her. ‘OF course, the best thing is when talk does not weary—when two people are so unified in taste that whatever interests the one is of equal in- terest to the other, but this cannot always be the case, even ina ePPy marriage; and is it not better worth while to take the small trouble of paying courteous attention to the one who de- one on you for hisdaily happiness than even bestow this sour! on the acquaintances whom it is a transient pleasure to p! —_-o-____ Troy, N. ¥., is as quiet as usual. The Murph; police are barrleaded in their station houses, while the reform police are patroling at nicht and making their at the detective office in the city hall. John T. Rinler, of Chicago, who has been in in Louisville, Ky., several Uti- Uigen whie be rat eon 24 wife's throat and then his own. He died almost instantly, and the woman is dying. ‘The postmaster of Philad 8 p. m. mall on Moi mite a northern and eastern vente. The mail was v Sometimes a girl only 17 years old is scern that a young intellectual giant like you is not going to make a dazzling suc- Brace up and try to ‘ou may be happy yet. Mr. Smalley writes to the New York Tribune “When Eva asks Edgar to marry her he re- | plies that marriage is a feeble institution which with priesteraft into the abyss; | that nature’s lesson is the true one, under | whose law the birds pair merrily for the season, and part not less merrily when the season is The brutality of such a speech from a | lover to his mistress brought a storm about his shown signs of impatience; and after this they broke into loud r none the less had when the great owly com ng upon away ‘hes, ranks, conditl ns and cus- among e Woman, be- Will each bid the old bond farewell, not with tears, but with mutual good wishes, with no dread of and no necessity for coneeal- and the children—well, the state will bring. Discussions about the influence note When Edgar’ meets dead Eva, drowned throuzh me, but to make though uproarious | But d so pitiless as that which is known as ‘uy- id Exist Be- Louise between two married people should be those which are confined to either one of them by others. While some people, who call themselves worldly wise, will laugh at the idea of such perfect confidence as this im- | who have had small worldly experience, will Be shocked that I should suggest the keeping of any kind of secret by either wife or husband lam not prepared to say that these last are not the wiser of the two. Only in either husband or wife, therecipient of it should Somewives and some husbandsare large-minded enough and free enough trom jealousy not to be troubled by the knowledge that a confidence and then there can be no harm in such a confi- But no personal secret can fitly belong to one field. He begins by not liking to retuse any of from that for ew York was bused oe valuable, A RESUBREC- ‘TIONISTS, Scenes at Lebanon Cemetery—Opening the Graves to See If Bodice are Mivs- ing. The excitement over the robbery of graves at Lebanon cemetery, Philadelphia, and the cap- ture of the ghouls continues without cessation. Wednesday the cemetery was visited by many Persons who had friends buried there, and seve- Tal graves were opened. In some cases empty coffins were found, and in others coffin and corpse had disappeared from the grave. The mournful work of searching for the dead was systematically begun, and the Inyestigation is to be patiently persisted in until it hasbeen defi- nitely ascertained how many bodies have found their way into the Jefferson pickling vats, and how many remain where loving hands laid them to rest. Some of the colored spectators were noisy and disorderly. The grave of Josephine White, who was buried in September, 1881, was opened, and the noisy crowd were treated to A GENUINE SENSATIO: The men dug steadily until a child’s coffin was reached and the earth removed from around It. Arope was then slipped under the head and the coffin lifted to the surface. It contained the body of Florence Woodson, the niece of Jose- phine White, who had been buried in the same grave. The child's corpse had not been dis- turbed. The diggers went to work again, and after penetrating two feet deeper uncovered th coffin of an adult. The sticky soil was scraped from the Ruste, revealing instead of the name Josephine White, that of Elizabeth Givin, aged seventy-nine years, who died December 12,1881! “My God!” exclaimed a man standing on the gtave’s brink, “what does this mean? Thebody of my child is here! Where is Josephine White, my sister?” “Perhaps,” suggested a bystander. “this body has been buried in your lot, without authorit. and the body of your sister may be underneath. Dig deeper.” Aiter some little consideration the hint was acted upon, and again the men went to work. The coffin containing the cor of Elizabeth Givin was lifted out of the grave, | and the spades removed another foot of earth! A second coftin came to light, and this instead of holding the corpse of W j ered the body of John Givin, an old man. Well,” said Woodson, when this startling discoy ade, “tie thieving hounds were | 1 her body alone, they've taken | This was probably the case, as the presence | of the child's body showed conclusively that there could have been no mistake in locating the grave. ANOTHER CURIOUS DISCOVERY. Following immediately after this was another ; and even more curious discovery. John Lymas, armed with a permit, had come to search for the body of his mother, Leah Lymas, who was buried April 14, 1851. The grave was opened, | and three feet below the surface was found the battered name plate belonging to Mrs. Lymas’ coffin, but the cof itself and its silent tenant had been stok The young man | stagyered back. thro the crowd and hur- | ; Tied trom the place. Ashe did so, a stout col- | ored woman pushed her way in and asked the | diggers to go deeper; that her mother, who had } | died on December 28, 1880, was in the same | | grave. The men obeyed. and in a few moments | their spades struck a ‘hard object. One of them | Jumped out of the hole, andas he did so hiscom- panion’s feet went crashing through the lid of an |empty coffin. The name plate was wrenched | from the lid, and was found to bear the name of | a ouisa Morris, aged 108 years, 6 months and 14 eee” “That is my mother’s name,” said the woman, | witha sob. ‘Poor soui! If the robbers took her, who haven't they taken?” THE GRAVE DIGGER DISMISSED. The cemetery trustees held a meeting and dismissed the grave dizger, Robert Chew. A | | photographer took pictures of the six bodies | that were recovered on Monday night. Lebanon cemetery, so far as can be ascer- | tained, seems to have met the demands of the | body-snatehers so easily and satisfactorily th: the inmates of all the other cemeteries ha) been allowed to occupy in peace their narrow cells. THE SIXTH BODY 80 ruthlessly dragzed from its resting place by the grave-yard vultures, was recognized as that of Ruth Ballard, a very respectable colored woman, whose relatives reside on South Eleventh street. The remains of William Anto- nio have been removed trom the morgue and will be reinterred. News Briefs. The Alhambra Theater in London was de- stroyed by fire last night shortly after the close of the performance. Three nundred persons are | thrown out of employment. Deputy Marshals Davis and Farmer, who went to the mountains in Kentucky to seize an iMicit distillery, were attacked by a party of thirty moonshiners, and driven twenty-five miles to Frenchburg, but escaped unhurt. An attempt was made Tuesday night to lynch a white man named W. S. Sims, who Is con- fined in the Alken county, S. C., jail upona charge of committing a shameful crime upon |his own wife. The jail is closely guarded. by | the state troops under orders from Gov. Thomp- son. The prisoner is a practising physician. A young lady lately banished to ria for complicity in the nihilist conspiracy has killed the governor of the Transbaikal territory. In the case of John Devoy, on trial in New York charged with libelling August Belmont, the jury were unable to agree and were locked up last night. The third game of chess of the néw series be- tween Steinitz and Martinez, in Philadelphia, was played last evening and resulted in a draw. The attorneys for Mrs. Slayback have filed Notice of a civil suit for $5,000 damages against Col. Cockerill for killing Col. Slayback in St. Louis. The body of Capt. Fritz, of the lost steamer Cedar Grove, was found by divers yesterday at the wreck. A snow storm of especial severity is prevail- ine in Scotland. Railroad communication is interrupted. Edward Jacques, the Philadelphia robber, was convicted yesterday morning, and Charles Jacques was convicted as receiver. Thomas Gardiner was also convicted as receiver. Ed- ward Jacques and Gardiner got tive years and ten months each. Charles Jacques was held for sentence, and the woman who claims to be Jacques’ wife was discharged. D. M. Bennett, editor of the New York Truth- Seeker, died yesterday. McCreery & Bender, of Chicago, a stock-yard firm, have failed for 20,000. Allendale, 8. C., by a vote of five to one has declared against license to sell liquor. The St. Nicholas Bank of New York and the National Bank of New York have determined to become state banks. Counterfeit five-dollar notes of the Bank of Nova Scotia and the National Bank of Troy, N. ¥., are in circulation in Montreal and in other parts of Canada. The New York Central Park commissioners yesterday decided to allow all works of neces- sity, and recreation conducive to health, to be continued in the park on Sunday. Mr. Albert 0. Newton, a well-known citizen of New Castle county, Del.. died yesterday, aged 85 years. He was related to Gen. New- ton, and his eldest brother was a commodore in the U. 8. navy, In the case of C. M. Terrel, chief clerk in the pension agency at Indianapolis, charged with forgeries and conspiracy to defraud the govern- ment, the Up nig @ verdict of guilty on the fifth and sixth counts. Maine, which doesnot Ing, has had 11 homici years. penal: murder by hang- les within the past two Aboy under arrest in Wheeling, W. Va., on the charge of incendiarism, curiously enough bears the name of Hotfire. ——_-+-_ ‘The New Geography. How many farms are there in the United States? 4,008,907. How many dwellings in city and country? 8,955,812. farms, and how Which state has the most. many? Illinois, with 255,741. What is the 180,972,673. g ‘What do they com and the number of each? Swine, 47,688,951; sheep, 35.191,656; mich 952, working oxen, 993, = 8,106; horses, 10,357,981; is to deliver a lecture in Balti- more on the of Fer -on Jackson's cam- pain et Pope it august, interest to the friends of Fits Exbausting the German Coal Mines. From the Wurtemberg Bewerbeblatt The coal production in Germany has #0 enormously increased within the last two de- cades that there is reason to fear an exhaustion of the beds at no very distant date. While the production of England in that period has risea from 84.5 miilion tons to 149.3 millions, that of France from 8.3 million to 10.4 million, that of Belgium from 9.6 million to 16.9 million, the German yield of coal has increased trom 12.3 million to 59.9 million—a proportion reached ap- proximately only by the United States, which shows a rise in production from 15.2 million to 70.3 million tons. Considering that the coal fields of Belgium comprise about 900 square miles, those of France 1,800, those et Germany 3,600, those of England 9,000; an’ comparing with these the vast coal felds of the East In- dies (35.500 square iniles) and the United States (200.000 square miles) and China (over 200,000 | square miles), the question of so improving means of international traffic that the small cost of transport may render possible a continuation of industrial work on European soil even with foreign coal, becomes (in the opinion of the writer referred to) most important. ——_—_~+ + —___ Departure of Kowell and Lee. From the New York Herald, 6th. A number of faces weil known in connection with sporting matters were to be seen on the | uion Company's steamship wharf at noon yes- terday. The object of the gathering was to wish good-by to Charley Rowell, who went home on the Arizona to spend Christinas and remain there till news is received from the states that winter has broken up. and to wish good Inck to George W. Lee, who goes over to back up his challenge to row any man in England. With them was Mr. Peter J. Duryea, who was Ro: eil’s backer in the races he engaged tn this year, and will be again behind him whenever the Ii tle Englishman chooses to enter into any pe- destrian contest. Mr. Duryea has perfected | arrangements with Hanlaa and Lee by which he e their match making during the pn, and he stated that his idea in wr Lee over was as much for the purpose of the latter some work to do as anything “It is no use,” said Mr. Duryea, “to take Hanlan over, because there is no to row him Unt Lee will be afforded oppor- wz What he can do with some and they will be accom- 1¢ want to see Lee do some the ast to shake hands with dy Fitzgerald, who had jour- npoint to wish the ex- Rowell was P neyed over fr champion a Fixing the Blame for Queer Finan- ciering in Paris. The trial of M. Bontoux, president, and M. Feder, manager of the Union Generale, which suspended izst January, was begun in Paris Tuesday. M. Bontoux said he was absent when the company speculated in its own shares. M. Feder said if the issue of 10,000 new shares had not been stopped by the downfall of the com- ps and if the speculators who bought shares id for them, there would have been no the company’s treasury. The official nidator of th nion Generale estimated that if the lezal decisions already given were main- tained, the shareholders would recover fifty per cent of their losses. had Another chapter was added to the Tevie-Igle- hart affair in St. Louis yesterday in the form of an application to the court for and the granting of an order of publication in the divorce suit of Rush H. Tevis against Kate R. Tevis. The hus- band charges his wife with marita: infidelity with k T.Iglehart, and makes affidavit that she has left the state permanently. He now has the three-year-old child, Helen, and asks that the control of her be awarded to him. The Tevises were married in Philadelphia June 3, 1878. FRENCH NOBILITY. A Tilt Against the Bearers of Bogus ‘Titles. From the London News. French society is every bit as bad as English in its weakness fora Lord. The only difference is that while British snobbism worships at a dis- tance, French, with the national passion for equality, aims at leveling Itself to the thing adored. The Frenchman often takes a title to himself, ashe takesa ribbon, because he oan not bear to be without such a common thing. Viscounts in the average salon lie thick as leaves Inthe fall. So the salons never had ruder shock than when an “ancient herald,” signing himself *Tolson d’Or,” announced in the Voltaire that he was out on leave from his sepulchere to study the heraldic composition of the French society of to-day. His preface was alarming. To judge by appearances, he sald, one micht think that the revolution had de- stroyed nothing, and, on the contrary, that its chief business had been to make our aristocracy increase and multiply. He undertook to show that the canker of false pretense in titles had spread through all classes, and that, instead of fine sounding names, hardiy one in twenty of the diplomatic agents of the republic belonged to an old Prench house. Every French diplomatist seems to think that he must have a title to keep In countenance among his brother envoys of foreign courte, This, perhaps, would be the sole excuse for M. de Talienay, minister plenipotentiary at Lit for writing his name M. le Marquis de Talle- nay. The truth is, Marquis is merely his surname, and Tallenay Is the - to which he belongs. He fs plain M. Mar quis, of Tallenay, but in no other sense the marquis of that place. Since then, and it is some months azo, * Toison d'Or” has been writing without pity and without stint. He has every qualification for his task—humor and point, and, above all, a knowledge of the subject rare tn the France of ourday. Hence the growth of a despairing resignation on the a of his victims, who walk about as though looking for a corner into which they may drop their bowowed plumes of nobiliary distinction onthe sly. In a second letter to the French ministers abroad be asked whether Baron de Courcel, the French representative at Berlin, would lose anything in real distinction by present= ing hi fat that court as plain M. Chodron. The process by which he has be hough com ned the right to add Co Chodron and to write himself M. Chodron-Cour- cel. Then, In process of time, the Chodron wore away from this appellation; the Courcel only remained. If Courcell, why ‘not De Cour- celles, after one of the old historic families of France? name was actually At length it lost the fi syllable, ok the Baron as dommages- interests. The smaller fry of diplomacy share in this castigation with the great ones. “Tole son d'Or" has eo sooner released a minister from his powerful grasp than ie plucks up & little attache to hold_him to the derision of all | the world. “Take M. de Saint-Genys, at St. Petersburg, who assumes tive title of Viscount, By what right? In virtue ot what decree? Of what order? Of what, customs? Of what laws? I know of none at all? When there is nothing more left to destroy in Paris this most terrible of all tconoclasts takes a turn for refreshment at the spas, where it is @ mere holiday with him to analyze the mixed company at the hotels and tables. “Who is the Countess de ‘botan?” he asks. “Where is that bizarre country to be found? Where does the Countess de Christin derive her iustrious title, and Baron de Valri, and Comte de Barote, and Comte de Tonay, and Comtesse de a and Baron de Duquense, and the Comte Comtesse de Roquet—who be they?” Foreign- ers at these places are just as bad as the French or worse. Madame la Comtesse Craczewska might pass, but why does she call herself Comtesse de Craczewska?” The mark of nobility in Slavonic names is in the termination, and our prefix ae tinds its equiva- lent in their last syllable. “Can you Imagine @ “Honor thy father and thy mother” is the first commandment with a promise. Filial de- votion is one of the noblest sentiments which can animate the human breast. It is creditable to the young and to the middle-aged. In his inimitable manner, Burdette, of the Burlington Harckeye, pleasingly portrays a scene at a rail- road station, where a great warm-hearted Ger- man comes to say “Good-bye” to his mother before she starts for the west. . We were at a railroad junction one night last week waiting afew hours for a train in the waiting-room, in the only rocking-chair, trying to talk a brown-eyed boy to sleep, who talks a great deal when he wants to keep awake. Pre- sently a freight train arrived, and a beautiful, little old woman came in, escorted by a great big German, and they talked in German, he giv- ing her, evidently, lots of information about the route she was going, and telling her about her tickets and her baggage check, and occasionally patting heron the arm. At first our United States baby, who did not understand German, was tickled to hear them talk, and he “snicl ered” at the peculiar sound ot the language Uthat was being spoken. The great big man put his hand up to the good ol lady's cheek, and sald something encour- aging, and a great big tear came to her eye, and she looked as happy as a queen. The little brown eyes of the boy opened pretty big, and his face sobered down from its laugh, and he sald: ‘Papa, it is his mother!” We knew it was, but how should a four-year-old sleepy baby, that couldn't understand German, tell that the lady was the big man’s mother? and we asked him how he knew, and he said: “Oh, the big man was so kind to her.” The big man bustled out, we gave the rockingchair to the little old mother; and presently the man came in with a baggage man, and to him he spoke English. He said: ‘This is my mother, and she does not speak English. She is going to Iowa, and I have got to go back on the nexttrain, but I want you to attend to her baggage, and see her on the right car, the rear car, with a good seit near the center, and tell the con- real Polish noble such as Zamoyski cailing him- self de Zamoyski? It would be just as stupid as an M. de La Tremouille in French.” It is more than half the fault of journals, we are assured: “They must write something, and often they do not know what they are writing about. T have their columns of fashionable announce- ments, and all is fish that comes to that net. They have just told me, for instance, that M. A. de Quill: has just arrived at Valen- ciennes. He done well, for he hase machine factory in that town, and he must look after his business, buthe is a plain M. Quillacq for all the world. The masterpiece of the sublime in this style, however, is in the transformation of the son of the Countess of Caithness into His Excellency le Duc de Bomar.” Before “‘Toison d'Or” had been writing long in this style there came the usual sh; as ot ubdlic discomfort. His table was cove with ters, some abusing him, others containing requests on the part of worthy people that he would “fabricate honest arelimenta™ for them for any sum he liked to name. “I could set Caps good business in human vanity.” e declines all offers, and pursues the even tenor of nis way. Why not? The game is 80 plentiful that he has but to follow the high-road to have it cross his path. $< —____. Life in Chicago. Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer. Chicago is less agreeable asa place to loiter in than Cincinnati, but it has so many people, such almost furious growth, such unscrapu- lousness, yet such wild boar energy, that it seems a hundred years less civilized than Cincin- nati, but a hundred years ahead of any physical ! competitor in the west. It is, perhaps, the only society in the world that had no original mod- esty. Honesty was an afterthought to these people, like Franklin's kind of honesty that he defended on the score of its being good policy. Yet here dwell side by side, almost in the same bosom, generous impulses and a sordid life, the ductor she is my mother. And here's a dollar for you, and I will do as much for your mother some time.” The baggage man grasped the dollar with one hand, grasped the big man’s hand with the other,and looked at the little Ger- man with an expression that showed that he had. a mother tuo, and we almost knew the old lady was well treated. Then we put the sleeping mind-reader on a bench and went out on the platform and got acquainted with the big Ger- man, and he talked of horse trading, buying and selling, and everything that showed that he was a live business mian, ready for any speculation, from buying a yearling colt to a crop of hops or barley, and that his life was a very busy one, and at times full of hard work, disappointment, and hard roads; but with all of bis hurry and excitement, he was kind to his mother, and we loved him just a little, and when, after a few minutes’ talk about business, he said: “You must excuse me. 1 must go in the depot and | see if my mother wants anything,” we felt like taking his fat red hand and kissing it. Oh, the love of mother is the same in any e,and it is good in all es, sees dete tg AL A Plucky Little Fellow, “You are a plucky little fellow.” These words were spoken on board the flagship Portsmouth, of the training fleet, on the occasion of the disi:‘bution of medals to the boys, at Newport, R. 1., a few weeks ago. The speaker was Admiral Porter, and the person hog bound to get his tusks into the money- trough, and the little pig who can tie an affec- tionate memorandum in his tail. Domestic Ife and even social aspirations sprout to some ex- tent in this mighty piggery, where the blood of cattle smokes mutely to heaven, and no man inquires where is the cemetery; where food and drink are gambled in, and war to the death ts the daily riot on ‘Change, and the battle of avarice extends to the corporations, so that they have a war twice a year and massacre each other’s property. All this turpl- tude and gluttony are carried on by nearly 600,000 people, who. do not know their own ori gin, who drifted upon this dead level of prairie like the animals after the deluge, and ney: a prospect to raise their eyes earth _ have pr sympathies exist heretike garden-seed sown in ee which cannot survive the omen, and ing’ is regarded as the Spartans did their sickly babes they dipped in ice-water, not fit to live. When this place was a fort and the Indians captured it, the garrison surrendered and the — children were put into one wagon to em pat Suddenly an Indian boy into that wagon and began to tomaha' and scalp all the white children there. of the spirit of the subsequent Chicagoan was_ in his Pyaey Saat anaes here is con- eidered to have an: ipless. They corner breud meat on mankind, and no wonder this is the only American city where there is a distinctly socialistic = its ticket at elections, Where Tarter addressed was Apprentice Krepps, of the first class. The circumstances which brought about the compliment from sucha distinguished source are as follows: Some seven or eight weeks ago, while the Portsmouth was still far out of sight of land, bound home from Europe, a number of appren- tices were sent up to take in canvas. There a pretty stiff brveze blowing, and the log shows that the vessel was rolling to a considerable ex- tent. Aitef the sails had been taken in, and the boys were in the act of obeying the call to come lurch and over ‘was seen that he was making a for iife.e He made for the stern of the vessel and got hold of some been cut in falling. that h after a little talk they agreed makes the laws the nthilist will defy them. " Jervey Mines Suspending Werk. A special dispatch from Bloomsburg, Decem- ber 6, says: The West End Iron company, of which Frederick A. Potts is president and D. M. Miller general superintendent, suspended op- erations in their mines at West End, near this place, last evening. The company will hold @ meeting in New York to-day, when it will be de- cided whether they shall recommence work 1 ; i Hy i