Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1894, Page 13

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The program will consist not only of interesting read- ings, but also of music rendered by mem- bers of the club and informal addresses by the rector and members of the faculty. ‘Thanksgiving was observed as a holiday in the university. Mass was celebrated at 8:30 o'clock in the chapel of the divinity building, followed by the singing of the “Te Deum” and. recitation of prayer for public authorities. In the absence of the rector, Bishop Keane, Dr. Garrigan, the vice rector, officiated. Two Dominican fathers from the new house at Sherman Park, near New York, have been guests at the university. One of these fathers 1s a brother to Dr. H. Hyvernat, the professor of oriental lan- guage and biblical archaeology at the uni- versity. A large collecttoa of old and_ original portraits of different popes by Italian mas- ters have lately arrived at the university. This collection was exhibited at the world’s fair and is the property of Col. Da Vecchi of Rome. The portraits have been hung :n the corridor of the university. Howard University. Rev. C. H. Small, professor in the theo- logical department, has sone to 1iudson, Ohiv, and will make his home there. He has beer succeeded by Rev. M. Ross Fish- burn, lately assistant pastor of the First Congregational Church. The university chapel was well filled at the exercises on Thunksgivingz day, which took piace at 4 o'clock p.m. Mr. G. S. Mur- ray presided. Music appropriate to the oc- casion. was rendered by the university choir, and the President's Glee Club. The afdress by Elmer C. Camp ell was forcible and interesting. The preparatory depart- ment was well represented by D. OG. W. Holmes, in his fine recitatioa, and Mies Wright of the normal department gave an interesting reading. : The “Howard Standard” of this month contains the baccalaureate discourse de- livered by President Rankin last year. The discourse is entitled “The Differentiating Power of Christianity.” The new memorial chapel is nearly com- pleted. It will be a substantial addition to the university group. Columbian University. A cholce program was rendered on Wed- nesday evening by the University Mandolin Club, in their first concert of the season. The members of the club had the pleasure of seeing the hall well filled with their friends, who called for many encores. ee Short Story Club. This club enjoyed the hospitality of Miss Estella Farnham and the Misses Harvey cn Wednesday, the 28th instant. President F. I. Willis was in the chair, Miss Leila Roome, first on the program, rendered with finished taste a banjo solo. “Womanhood in Shakespeare,” by Prof. R. Grant Barn- well, was an original paper previously read before the Unity Club last winter. Dr. W. A. Croffut was accompanied during his entire reading by peals of laughter. His original story was an imaginative flight to the north pole. There, the doctor explained, we can find eternal youth. “Youth Once More” was its title. Mrs. H. H. Miller sang an old English ballad. Miss Facius was her accompanist in this number and also in the duet of Miss McKee and Mrs. Mills, “O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast.” This was a rich blending of two contraltos. Miss Mattle Wade and Miss Carlotta Veitenhelmer, two youthful’ so- pranos with graceful presence and sweet tones, also sang. Miss Carrie Kidwell ac- companied Miss Wade. Reaging by Mr. Whittaker, on the variety of men and wo- men, was'a hit, Mr. John Tweedale re- cited Rudyard Kipling’s “Mandalay” and Joaquin Miller's “Mr. Willlam#Brown.” Mr. Duncan Heywood gave Hamlet's soliloquy with finish and originality. Miss Jennie Ditto recited “The Sioux Chief's Daughter.” Mrs. Mary Heywood, chairman of the gram commitice, in answer to repeated calls, gave a short selection, “Hush! Don't Cry, Lite Girl.” Reward for Deserters. General orders have been issued by the War Department announcing that a re- ward of $10 will be paid for the apprehen- sion and delivery to the proper military authority of any deserter from the mill- tary service, except such as would have the right to claim exemption from trial and punishment under the lav ‘A reward of $10 will be paid by the quar- termaster’s department for the capture of an escaped military convict and for his delivery at any military post. For the apprehension and delivery to the prison authorities of escaped convicts from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., a reward of $10 will be paid from the rrison appropriation. COL. R. G. DYRENFORTH Had no faith in the ELECTIOPOISE until he used one bimself, and so became convinced of its’ curative powers. ‘A trial will (not MAY) prove bene- ficlal to rou. Indorsed by thousands. Call or - write for leaflets. (Agents wanted.) JOUN N. WERK 728 LITH ST. N.W. 020-tm 1, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. NAGASAKI STREET. AN ORIENTAL FAD In China One Learns the Decorative Value of Lanterns. MUCH USED IN JAPAN AND COREA A Swell Dinner Served in the Native Style. SOME GARDEN EFFECTS eee Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HE EASTERN LAN- tern of commerce has been used in this country so extensive- ly, so decoratively, we might easily im- agine that we could see nothing new in lanterns if we should trot round the world, but a stroll through a Chinese city on the night of the national “Feast of Lantern: a@ glimpse of a Pe- king bridal or official procession, or an ac- ceptance of a mandarin’s dinner invitation would afford convincing proof that, in our civilized philosophy, we have not dreamed of the possibilities of the “Light of Asta.” By the decoration of the Chinese lantern we are informed of the rank of its pos- sessor; by Its size and beauty we are com- after nightfall, occasionally meeting a Corean peasant in his ghostly white gar- ments, creeping about from house to house, guiding himself with his wan lantern, does not inspire the feeling of gayety that the capital of a kingdom—even a conquered kingdcm-—is supposed to bestow. / But in China lanterns are on a colossal and magnificent scale. The same party of Americans that were so impressed with the lantern decoration of their first Japanese dinner were still more fascinated with the lantern feature of their one mandarin din- rer. Although they missed the captivat- ing daintiness of detail, they had admired in Japan, they were compensated by the splendor ‘of entering the mandarin’s com- pound between two rows of “house-boys, who wore long gowns of rich, gray bro- cade, with short sleeveless jackets of scar- let velvet, and held, in honor of the guests, trembling, iridescent, beautiful silk lan- terns—immense fragile globes. Grotesque Chinese Lanterns, These admiring travelers received one more lantern surprise arranged for their entertainment, in the park of a Chinese seaport, where the branches of the trees were luminous with representations, In shape and color, of countless varieties of birds. Among the quantities of lamps apd lan- terns, of all kinds of materials, used by the Chinese, the most remarkable are gro- tesque lamps. To see these in all their glory one should be in a jarge Chinese city on the night of the feast of lanterns. This is a tradition of the universal joy ex- pressed for the use of fire at the annual = = the ancient Athenians. ere is another legend connected wi this Chinese festival. We are all patie that the birthplace of the fan was “in far Cathay,” but the story of its origin is not well known. This runs that a very powerful mandarin had an extremely beautiful daughter, who was named Kan- Si. When asststing at the feast of lan- terns she became stifled with the heat, so that she wes compelled to take off her mask; but as it was illegal, not to say greatly improper, for her to expose her face, she still held the mask before it, and gently fluttered it to cool herself. The court ladies present noticed this, and in another minute two other damsels were CHINE E WITH TARTAR LANTERNS. plimented as guests; and by {ts design and form we are amazed as tourists. The Japafiese are as dependent upon lan- terns for use and ornamentation as are the Chinese; but, while theirs are ex- tremely pretty, they are emaller than Chi- nese lanterns, they offer less variety and we are more familiar with them in this country. However, when the Japanese use lanterns to add to the brilllancy of a pri- vate entertainment they have them de- signed especially for the occasion, and they have the advantage of prettier back- grounds, with picturesque gardens which present so great a contrast to the bleak court yards of Chinese residences. At a dinner given in Nagasaki by a wealthy Japanese nobleman to a party of distinguished American of all the novel- ties spread before them the lanterns in the form of a chrysanthemum—the mika- do's crest—seemed to make the strongest impression upon the guests. As it was the first Japanese dinner these foreigners had ever taken, or had even seen, one would suppose that some other features of the hospitality extended would have produced more effect than the lanterns; as, for ex- ample, the tal fish served in the way con- sidered quite epicurean by the native taste. It is brought in at ceremonious dinners completely dissected, though living. The flesh is cut off the bones in slabs, then laid on again; and when it appears the poor fish is still feebly flapping its tall, while its flesh can be served round to the guests without any further cutting. It {s not a nice thing to see, and raw fish, not at any time tempting to foreigners with no par- ticularly ghoulish tastes, does not become any more appetizing when served in this way. Stil, it certainly 1s a remarkable way. A Culinary Poem, More agreeable than this was the fried chicken, which, cooked and served in the highest Japanese fashion, was a culinary poem. A brazier of artistically carved bronze was filled with glowing charcoal and placed within the room of the ban- quet, in the full view of everybody. Kneel- ing before it was an exquisite little six- teen-year-old maiden, in a pale blue crepe kimiono and scarlet gold-embroidered obi, her glossy, black hair coiled simply, thrust with long, ornamental pins, and embellished with tinseled flowers. The rites of this presiding household priestess were performed with smiling archness. She held over the coals the daintlest of frying pans, and deftly turned the delt- cate white bits of sputtering chicken meat, which had been brought to her from the Kitchen region by another cherry-lipped maiden as elegantly robed as herself. When these savory morsels were crisped to the proper shade of golden brown they were served to each person in infinitesimal quantities, the process being repeated as long as enthusiastic appetites would ac- cept the course. Nevertheless, to sit on silken cushions instead of chairs, spread on the finest of matting, and look through the drawn sliding doors—which supply the place of windows—beyond the veranda’s polished floor upon a dream garden, lght- ed with soft, pink chrysanthemums, was the crowning pleasure of this dinner party. A Fatry-Like Scene. The bungalow of the host stood on the edge of a temple garden, and was former- ly the residence of a temple priest. The garden was on the Japanese diminutive scale, but planned with the native ingenu- ity that produces in a small space the effect of an extensive landscape; so that looking out upon it on this memorable even- ing the lanterns, instead of being so very manifest as they usually are at American fetes, seemed to be twinkling through the vistas of a vast, wooded park. After a jinrikisha spin through dim, crooked streets, passing through the gloomy gate- | way of a thick wall, and coming suddenly upon a fairy-Hke scene of deep velvety shadows thrown into relief by tho illumi- nation of radiant blossoms, may in this case have accounted for the fervor that so often accompanies first !mpressions. ‘The Coreans, also, rely upon lanterns, al- though theirs are totally unlike those of the Chinese and the Japanese, in that they are flat and always small and white. The king’s palace gt the capital has electric lights, but the rambling streets of the city have no lamps of any kind. To move through their silent, mysterious darkness waving their masks, and this was th of the fan. se cate An ancient writer, Lacian, gives a quaint description of the city*of lamps, which he etends to have seen during his travels: n this city there were no men, only a number of lamps running to and fro in the market place and round the port; some Mttle ones, the poor of the town; others, the rich and great among them, very large, splendid and bright. Their death ts to be put out.” If Lucian could return to earth and visit old Tientsin on her “lantern night” he would see, illuminated and prominent, every form that the most fantastic imagi- nation can devise; pagodas, roosters, fishes, frogs and rabbits, constructed of silks, glass, gauze and’ paper; cats made of porcelain, painted after nature—the light coming through the eyes supposed to frighten the rats, and blocks of ice, cu- riously and beautifully cut, the candle in the aperture throwing out charming erys- tal effects; children and grown people car- rying them through the streets—a kalel- doscopie masquerade. palohate cede soo Lincoln's Views on Assassinatia Noah Brooks in the Century, “That night as we walked back to the White House through the grounds between the War Department buildings and the house, I fancied that I saw in the misty moonlight a man lodging behind one of the trees. My heart for a moment stood still, but, as we passed in safety, I came to the conclusion that the dodging figure was a creature of the imagination. Nevertheless, as I parted from the President at the door of the White House, I could not help say- ing that I thought his going to and fro In the darkness of the night, as if ft was usually his custom, often alone and unat- tended, was dangerous recklessness. That night, in deference to his wife's anxious appeal, he had provided himself with a thick oaken stick. He laughed as he show- ed me this slight weapon, and said, but with some seriousness; ‘I long ago made up my mind that if anybody wants to kill me, he will do it. If I wore a shirt of mail, and kept m lf surrounded by a body guard, it would be all the same. There are a thou- sand waye of getting at a man, if it is de- sired that he should be killed. Bestdes, in this case, it seems to me that the man who would come after me would be just as ebjectionable to my enemles—if I have any." — 0s. SERVED HIM RIGHT. How a Woman Treated a Man Who Talked to Her Maid. A man of the world was wont to call, not infrequently, upon a young widow, says the Illustrated American. One day the pretty maid at the door announced that her mistress was out of town. On some pre- text, however, the man entered. He also talked to the maid. Some days later, knowing that the lady had returned, he called again. He was a bit surprised when a strange maid met him at the docr and showed him to the little reception room. While she darried his card up the stairs he reflected that she was not so dainty as her predecessor, and she was not so pretty, though her uniform was similar and her cap was as stiff and her apron as spotless. He was realizing how much more the woman is to the dress than the dress is to the woman, when the maid returned and announged promptly: “Mrs. ——— is not re- ceiving.” The man of the world bit his lp—it was the first time he had ever been dented admittance—and moved toward the door. The maid held it open for him, and as he passed through it she blurted out: “And she says, if you pleasé, sir, the maids receive in the kitchen, sir.” —<0t:. One More Unfortunate. From Harlem Life. Jackson (meeting Dobson, with whom he was out all night)—‘Hello, old boy; get home all right?” Dobson—‘Yes. speak to m Jackson—“Lucky fellow. Mine did!” eee A Suggestion. But my wife wouldn't From Life. Chubbs—“I'm going to have a yacht built this winter. Going to call her the Mer- maid. Appropriate name don’t you think?” Dubbs—"Fair—might be still more appro- priate, though, to call her the Bar Matd.” —- see A big event next week at Moses'.—Advt. ART NOTES. Much interest 1s manifested in every part of the country where any interest is taken in art as to the probable disposition of the valuable collection of paintings and other works of art brought together by the late Mr. Walters, of Baitimore. Although it is generally conceded that its destination can- not be known until tne provisions of the will of the deceased, if he Jeft one, be made public, a studied effort seems to be made to create the impression that it will or should go to the Metropolitan Museum of New York. But just what grounds exist for such a surmise it is not easy to understand. It would seem to be far more natural and fit- ting that it should be bequeathed to Mr. Waiters’ only son,—with whom many tastes were held in common, and between whom there were strong bonds of attachment,—or remain in Baltimore intact, as a gift to that city, to serve as a suitable permanent me- morial of the liberality, 400d judgment and catholic spirit of its founder. . oe —A portrait of Satolli, the eminert Catho- lic prelate, by Mr. A. Muller Ury, has re- cently been placed on temporary view in the Corcoran Gallery. The distinguished churchman is represented at full life size, seated in an arm chair, and wearing a rich crimson robe partially covered by another of white, trimmed with heavy lace. As a mere likeness it will doubtless be re- garded as fairly satisfactory, though the expression is hardly what one would like in a bosom friend, and as a work of art it is not likely to take a high rank. The flesh tints are far from good, and the treatment of the drapery is little or no better. oe —Mr. H. H. Kohlsaat, late proprietor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, has givea a com- mission to Thomas Nast to paint a his- torical picture representing the Surrender of Lee at Appomattox, which he intends to present to the City of Galena, General Grant’s place of residence when the war commenced, and also Mr. Kohlsaat's birth- place. The painting, which will be ten by fourteen feet in size, and contain ten life~ size figures, is to be hung on the walls of the Grant Memorial Hall, recently erected in Galena, and it is intended that the for- mal presentation shall take place on Grant’s birthday, April 27. This 1s not Mr. Kohlsaat’s first benefaction of the kind to the same place. A few years ago he gave to Galena a fine full-length statue of Grant in bronze, by Gellert, which was inaugu- rated with appropriate ceremonies, and now stands in a public park of that city established for the special purpose of pro- viding a proper site for it. oe "Old Masters” bring fabulous prices in the old world, at either public or private sale, but they don’t seem to count for much when put under the hammer in this country. At the sale of a collection of this class, so-called, in New York the other evening, the catalog of which contained many famous names, one hundred and fourteen canvases, all told, produced only the comparatively insignificant total sum of $2,613! Of these “A Spanish Nobleman” claimed to have been by Velasquez, real- ized $225; a portrait of Sir Joshua Rey- nolds, said to be by himself, went for $20: and a smaller canvas, credited to the same distinguished artist, was taken at $10. An “Adoration,” bearing the magic name of Rapheel; a “Lot and His Family Leaving Sodom,” and a “Portrait of His Son,” both said to have been painted by Rubens, were knocked down for an even $10) each. These prices are calculated to give rise to the suspicion that either the colfector of this group of alleged masterpieces was aw- fully duped when he bought them, or that New Yorkers don’t know a gem of art from a daub when they see it, An irrev- erent Chicago person would very likely ex- claim “Both!” . oe —No more do pictures by the once favor- ite Bierstadt bring such prices as they for- merly commanded, One of his canvases, of very considerable size, representing the “Farallone Islands,” showing a lively sea with groups of sea Hons in the water and cn the rocks, sold at public auction In this st week, after heing well advertised, probably not ten per cent of his asking or studio price. ‘There are some fine zes in the picture, notably the match- color in the high curling wave Just about to break into foam in the fore- ground, and in the light and cloud effects. But as‘a whole the work is not of his best, and the subject or composition is not a pleasing one. The latter special fact doubtless had an influence in determining the price, but the general fact remains that Bierstadt's paintings are no longer prized as they once were. Fashion changes in art as in other things, and so also, hap- pily, it may be said, does the taste of the public, . ee —The colossal statue of William Penn, to crown the high tower of the new city hall building in Philadelphia, was placed in pesition last Wednesday, without any cere- monial observance, and fortunately with- out accident of any kind since work was commenced upon it. The figure, which is some thirty-seven feet high, stands on an elevation about 517 feet above the street level. Save the statue of “Liberty,” in New York, it is the largest figure on the western hemisphere, and is undoubtedly the largest In the world on so lofty an artificial elevation. Unfortunately, the architectural conditions of the building re- quire that the statue chould front to the nerth, instead of southward, in which post- tion the features would be properly lighted ing the entire day. As It is, the face will remain in deep shadow constantly, so that much of the artistic effect must be lost. . oe ~The very respectable sum of $40,000 was contributed some ten years ago by the peo- ple of New York for the purpose of erect- ing at some appropriate point in that city a statue of their eminent fellow citizen Peter Cooper, bui,though the work has long been execute it has never been set a fault has heen found with Not that any the quality of the statue, so far as can be learned, but for the reason that the city authorities have so fs efused or failed to designate a site for it. Had Mr. Cooper been a any magnate instead of one of the mest distinguished philanthro- pists of his time his effigy would doubtless have fared better. * oe —The grand jury of Philadelphia county has done itself credit and the public a service in bringing in a presentment against the display of vulgar and obscene adver- tising posters in the windows and on the fences and dead walls throughout that city. Like bodies in other cities might well follow this example, for many of the de- signs used for this form of advertising throughout the country are an outra; all sense of decency. Some of the theater or variety show posters are vile enough, but the worst offenders are those used in the tobacco or cigarette interest. Not a few of these, while not unattractive in drawing and color, are to the last degree disgusting to sensitive minds, and appar- ently purposely prurient in suggestiveness. The abuse has grown up so gradually as to attract little attention, for the eye becomes so accustomed to easy approaches in any wrong direction as to become tolerant of what would otherwise be grossly offensive, whereas, had the present condition been projected suddenly, it would at once have been stamped out by the stern united de- mand of public sentiment. . oe —A young Norwegian named Axel Herstad, who has been serving as a common sailor on a yacht belonging to one of the Vander- bilts, is attracting notice in New York Just now for the promise he gives of becoming a marine painter of more than ordinary merit. Some of his work done during spare moments while cruising was so clever as to attract the attention of Mrs. Vanderbilt, who took measures to provide him with proper instruction, and he has already painted several marine views which have been greatly admired. ° oe —An occasion of mere than ordinary inter- est to lovers of art will be presented in the sale next Tuesday evening of the collection of paintings, engravings Wbronzes, curios, books, art furniture, bric-a-brac, ete., be- longing to the estate of the late James Claghorn of Philadelphia. Mr. Claghorn was an fntelligent and enthusiastic con- noisseur in all fields of art, and had brougnt together a large -collection of rare and C. G. Sloan & Co., Auctioneers, 1407 G Street. On Exhibition MONDAY and TUESDAY, Dec. 3 and 4, 1894, The Comte Du Mer d:au’s Collection CERAMIC ARTS. Authentic Old Marseilles, Porcelains, Chelsea, Rouen, Mayence, Imperial Sevres trasburg, Lowestoft, Crown Derby, Worcester and Capo-di-Monte. THE ROYAL SEVRES PORCELAIN, IVORY MINIATURES, ETC., From the Josse Collection, also a large collection of Empire, [larqueterie, Buhi and Chippendale Furniture, Etc., Will be sold at auction within our Art Gallery, 1407 G Street, without limit, on WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and FRIDAY, December 5, 6 and 7, 1894, At 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. each day. al-4t Cc. G. SLOAN & CO., Auctioneers. beautiful objects, both old and modern. Of choice engravings and etchings alone it is said that he had as many as 50,00), and among other prized treasures is one of the first fifty copies of the Vortland vase made by Wedgwood, specially mentioned by the late Wendell Phillips in his popular lecture on the “Lost Arts,” and also a replica of the celebrated “Milton Shield,” exhibited at the Centenniai Exposition,and purchased by the British government for the South Ken- sington Museum. Mr. Claghorn was for many years president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and laid the corner stone of the new building on Broad street, to which the institution was removed from its old site on Chestnut street. In recogni- tion of his valuable services to it, the sale will be allowed to take place in the lecture room of the Academy. IN LOCAL STUDIOS. Mr, Hubert Vos has been spending the past week in Washington, obtaining a short rest before commencing active prepara- tions for the exhibition he will open in New York on December 24. It will include a number of his more recent portraits, among which will be that of Mrs, Barney of this city, which has created such a sensation in the exhibition of “Portraits of Fair Wo- men,” now being held in New York. Mr. Vos, who is visiting Washington for the first time, is enthustastic over the beauties of the city, saying that in his travels over the world it is the only city in which he has felt he “could take time to breathe, and smile and be happy.” ee ye ik a Mr. Collin Cooper, whose exhibition in the Veerhoff art galleries closed last Wed- nesday, expects before long to remove his residence and studio from Philadelphia to this city. TIRES Mr. Henry J. Ellicott is rapidly bringing the model for his equestrian statue of Gen. Hancock to a point where it is possible to gain an idea of what the completed statue will be. The model, which is twice the size of life, presents an odd appearance—the ficure of the rider being still in skeleton form. The sketch model from which the artist Is working stands close beside its colossal counterpart, and shows exactly what the bronze will be like. Occupying one corner of the studio is the model for the pedestal, which is to be cut in-granite. ee ee Mr, Max Wey!l's studio is being rapidly filled with canvases which have been fin- ished from sketches made during the sum- mer. With a very few exceptions, the sub- jects have all been obtained near Wash- ington and through Maryland and Vir- ginia, representing nature in all her vary- ing moods, interpreted with the rare ar- tistic perception which is such a charming characteristic of the artist's work. . . The Art Students’ League hes added to its classes a special department for the study of pen acd ink work and drawings in half-tone. The new class has already assumed most encouraging proportions, and Mr. Siebert, who has it under super- vision, expects to make of it one of the most attractive features of the league. Se ee ae Mr, Edwin Lamasure opened his exhibi- tion of water color work in the Veerhoff galleries last evening. A reception was held from 7 to 10 o'clock, and a number of the studies have already been marked “sold.” ‘The coliection numbers about forty studies, nearly all the subjects being obtained within the immediate vicinity of Washington. se © wo Mr. Hinckley has just completed a strik- ingly life-like portrait of Judge Wm. H. Brawley of the United States court, South Carolina, and will very shortly commence one of Gen. Draper of Massachusetts. Both Mr. Hinckley and Mr. Andrews are work- ing industriously to bring about an early consummation of their plan to establish in Washington an annual exhibition of stu- dent work. Contributions of representa- tive work will be asked for from each pub- Ne art school in the United States, and medals and diplomas awarded. In order to successfully formulate this project it has been found necessary to organize a “Society of Friends of Art,” at a fixed membership fee of one dollar, In this way attendant expenses will be defrayed and a widely extended personal interest aroused, which might otherwise be lacking. The proposed exhibition, which will probably be held early in the coming year, will con- sist of studies from the nude, paintings from life, drawings from the antique and portrait studies, and will be held in the Corcoran School building, on 17th street. ee 8S Mr. Hobart Nichols is busily preparing for the exhibition which he expects to hold in January. Mr. Waggaman has very recently re- ceived from abroad a number of paintings which make his already fine gallery one of the most valuable private collections in the country. ‘The new pictures are an oil by Kever, quaintly named “Amusing the Baby,” in’ which the color Is exceedingly rich and attractive; a water color by N. Bastert of an “October Landscape;” a homely bit of peasant life by Wm, Maris; an exquisite bunch of pink roses by Mar- garet Roosenboom; a small landscape, “Late Evening,” by Wassenbreich, which 1s particularly ‘beautiful in sentiment and successful in its clear olive-gray tone; an interior by Offermans, and a snowy land- scape by Irena Hugerholz. The gallery 1s open to any one who wishes to visit it on Sunday afternoon from 3 until 6 o'clock. * 8 oe Miss Juliet Thompson has completed the portrait in costume of Miss Gaston, which she expects to send to the Philadelphia exhibition. oes 8; © The Sketch Club met last Thursday even- ing at the home of Miss Blackford and, as usual, held an enjoyable session. — He Follows Their Tr From the Cincinnati Tribune. ly friend,” said the solemn-looking man tment. to the other solemn-looking man, “are you | not a follower of the Christian science treatment?” In one sense I am. I am an undertak- <i se —— He Was Insured. From Trath. ‘The Wife—Why don’t you play foot ball, John?” The Husband—“Why, my dear, I might get maimed for life.” The Wife—"Yes, darling, but you might get killed.” VANDALISM IN EGYPT. Relics of a Vanished Civilization Be- ing Ruthlessly Destroyed. W. M. Flinders-Petrie, in a letter to the London Times, bewails the destruction of monuments and historical records which is going on continually in Egypt. He says | that “every season sees buildings ruthless- jy destroyed for the sake of materials, | ana a host of objects plundered by the natives. from towns and cemeteries, in or- der that they may be scattered without name or record among the tourist flock. Even those objects which pass into mu- scums have lost most of their importance and of their value in losing all record of their original place and circumstances. The laws of Egypt may be excellent in theory, but in practice tt is perfectly well known that hundreds of persons juin in this destruction—yet no man is punished for it. There is, thon, the most urgent need of saving all that is possible py com- plete and careful excavation, in which the history and meaning of every object shall be traced and recorded as it is found. To any person not acquainted with the practical work of excavation it might seem that so long as things are not actually destroyed it does not matter whether it be an Arab or a trained observer that may find them. But there is generally more history involved in the position and details of a discovery than in the object found, Fossils are worth but ‘little if their strata aro urknown. More scientific material has been destroyed than preserved in many, or most, excavations—even by Europeans and Egyptologists.” He then proceeds ta solicit for the Egyptian research account which, he says, has been established “nol to undertake great clearances or exploits in the country, but to fit men for work of the highest class archaeologically, and at the same time benefit our Kknowicage and our museums, as far as may be, by means of their excavations.” ———-+e+ WOODS OF GREAT VALUE. South American Countries Rich With Lumber Practically Unknown. From the Lumber World. Many of the finest woods in existence are yet unknown, or only slightly known, to the manufacturers of wood in the civilized world. The woods of Central and South America are, perhaps, the most remark- able as well as the least known. In the yet untouched forests of this continent are many woods far finer than any of those now in use. These woods range from pure white to jet black in color, and many of them are most beautifully marked and veined. Some of them are so hard that they turn the edges of axes, chisels and other tools, while the band saw cuts them only slowly. In the Columbian exposition there were many displays of little-known woods, and the finest of ‘them were those from Argentine Republic, Brazil and other South American countries. Some of these southern woods yielded to the teeth of the band saw not the ordinary sawdust, but fine powder, fine as the finest flour, so hard were the woods. Some of them burned out slowly, Others possess qualities that keep them free from insects. Some of them seem to be practically indestructible by air and water. All along the eastern slopes of the Andes, up to the snow line on those great elevations, throughout all the great river valle; and in some of the wide areas of level country in South America, are great forests of fine woods that are especially fit for the finest cabinet and furniture work, and also for shipbuilding, carpentry and other industrial arts in which wood is the “raw material.” These great forests are now an unknown quantity in the commercial world, but they will come rapidly into the knowledge of men and into industrial use when once the rail- road has reached them. Before many years, t is safe to predict, the South Amer- jican and Central American republics will be threaded by railroads, and then those | wonderful woods will be drawn upon to | supply the demand for new and fine woods in all the civilized countries, Wittily Acknowledge: From the Youths’ Companion. A laughable little story is told of a woman on the witness stand in a French court. She was asked her age, and she an- swered that she was thirty years old. “But,” said the magistrate, “did you not tell me you were thirty when you appear- ed before me two years ago?” “I think ft very likel; she replied, smilingly acknowledging her falsehood, and not at all abashed. “I am not one of those women who say one thing today and another thing tomorrow.” — Champagne for the Mow Parts Letter to London Telegraph. An epldemic of suicide has been raging in Paris of late. Many of the cases of felo de se have been caused by the inability of unfortunate people to pay their refit on quarter day, which falls during the first week of October in the poorer districts. One of these suicides was carried out in peculiar circumstances. A Mile. Aubert, who lived in Levallois, outside the city, laid in a small stock of champagne before she lighted the fatal charcoal which was. to suffocate her. She also neatly arranged her rooms, prepared a winding sheet and placed flowers on her bed. In a letter left on a table she said she was sick of life and its troubles, and that she left the champagne, together with some biscuits, for the per- sons who were to conduct the arrange- ments for her burial. -_ — = ad A Little Girl Can make Treo Ornam au Materiols at J. JAY GOULD'S, 421 9th st., for Tree Toys, Paper Flowers, Tatterfites, ete., Ginse alls, Tinsel, Snow, Angela, Fairies, Gold and Fancy Paper, Gold Paint, Gilt Stars, Bordera Favors, Paper Napkins, Wonders for Children: we