Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1883, Page 2

—— POEIRY OF THH TIMES. Oourtship and Marriage. COUNTSHIP MAKKIAGE Moonlight taike, Ore yesr, Midnight walks; Skies cloar; Longing eyes, Years two, Boothing sighs; 3kies blue; Fiont gate, Years three, Very late, (Uan't agres, County Court, “Splendid eport;” Sorrow— sin, f Tury grin; Divorce given, | Fetters riven, Parlor & ene Interview, Worriel wife, Papa to0] Lowely life; Nothiog loth, Hoasband rosme, Happy bath; Wife foams; Couple glad, Care cost, Have it bad, “Love lost.” Organ swells, ‘ MOBAL Marriage bells, | Honeymoon, | When you wed, Euded sooa; | Lok ahend Da ble Brown, | Might fa Settled down, That's all, For lb;s Housekeeper. And now the raral poet eings: Smash, smash, smash, O china, rich and gay, . For the pitcher will never be whole again, That was smashed on moving Allly. % —Puck, What 18 Fiirtation? ‘What is tiirtation? Really, How can I answer that? Yet when the smiles I see ita wiles, And when he lifts his hat. “Tia meoting in the hall room, "Tis whirllog In the dance; With something hid beneath the lid Berides a simple glance, "Tis walking in the hallway, "Tin reatiag on the stair; "Tia bearded lipe on finger tips (If mamma Is not there.) *Tis golng out for i Ty bustoning on A glove? "Tia lips th k of playe Kext weok, And eyes that talk of love, "Tin tucking in & carriage, "Tin asking for a call; *Tis lifted eyes and tender sighs, And that is—no, not all. s parting when 's over, Axd one goes home to sleep; Trala, my friend, best joys must end— But one goes home to weep. —Els Wheeler in Albany Times, EBit 'em Again, The deacon was stingy us stingy could be, An{ his minister wished the ceiling re. moved, Bat could not get his desire, One day a plece of the plactering fell By fato on the hard deacon’s head, And he sprang from his seat and offered & ten To have that thing seoured overhead. “Lord, hit bim agaic!” said the minister een, With waich you and I will agree, Forif plaster will open the heart of & man, The plastor the man should have free. ~Rochester Post-Express. ‘The Dude. ‘Who strol's the Ave. each afternjon; W ho whistles airs all out of tune; -And dons short coats cut quite too ‘‘soon?” The Dude, ‘Obeerve his form. You can, for he Woara panty as ight, as r).ight can be— A t toriety ), (Aud pauta fornotorlety), ‘Who's stiff as statue cut in wood; Can't bend, snd wouldn't if he could; A sort of nothing "twixt bad and good? The Dude. ‘Who wears his hair all nice and banged; And says, By Jove, that Mrs, Laogt- Ry's chawming quite, or I'll be hanged?” e Dude, Who drives a tandem through the p Says, “Life’s, aw, such » jolly lark,” (Perbaps the Dude's the long sought “Snark?") The Dude, Who goes to all receptions, teas; ‘Who ¢mirks a cmile st friends he sees; And, for bis health, sips savgarees? The Dude, ‘Who dreeses in the lateat style; G, Declares, “‘The weath:h's thimply vile;" And lisps some dainty swear the whiie The Dude, ‘Who's neither fool, nor nave, nor sage; This funny speck on nature's page— Couundrum of the modern ag:? The Dade, ‘Who, thev, can work the puzzle through— ‘Tell what it’s for—what it can do? Guess what it is, L'l give it you, The Dude, “—T. N., in Acta Columbisn, Love Repeiled. ‘Within the garden wall he sat, And softly strummed on his guitar, Ard filled the air with dulcat strain, With tenor voice savg this refrain: *‘Thou art so near and yet eo far, The maid—ab, could my pen portray The beauty that mine eyes beheld! Bnt no, I'll bave to let that stand And tell the story I've in hand, How she his love repelled. She listened as his song arore Above her washtub's sullen roa-, ““'Tis awful ead,” she said, ‘‘but then 1 really cannot stand it, when It soun: s so like dad’s enore.” A moment more che listened there And caught the words the singer sang; My heart is sad and pants for thee.” *‘His heart is sad and pants.for me,” And washboard down she flung, Then down the cellar stairs she ran (Sweet 1miles her face chased o'er), Avd, quick returning, brought to view A Ban and dog —s bulldog, too— And quick threw open the door, The moon had rose above the hill— Bright scenes to fill the poet’s heart— When through the night cry of pain, A rush of fect, a full, snd then— The dog has done his part. “What's this you've brought, good dog, Forme? Some clothing from that m *His he:rt was ead'—0), now [ eee, He's sent some of the ‘pants’ to me Oa the installment pla HONEY FOR TH# LADIES, Leather fans are in high favor, Patti used 6,000 different kinds of per- fume, Vermont has two women acting as miil carriers, Chicken down—the color of the newly batched—is the latest shade of yellow. A Maine lady cabled the news of the desth of ber cat to her busband in Europe, A young lady at Hamberg, Germany, has been punished with & fine and costs for the offense of playing the piano at night at an open window, The museum at Reading, England, con. tains among its curiosities e former- ly used to stop the mouths of scolding women in that town. The er pod designs on the new sat- cens come 1 Al stages of coloring assumed by the fryit of this plant, from the green pepper to the full red. : New veilings coge In_lovely shades of oresm and pufo white, with dots, wheels, stars, feathers, flowers and loaves, in small detached silk brocaded figures, Ritbons grow more and more gorgeot:, aod po eolor seems too brilliant to be use by iteelf, or in combination w th severs others, as & trimming { r bonnet or drees Tailor made costumes in tweed, pepper andesalt mixtures, cheviots, in' heat'cr mistures, mottled cloths, snd undefine stripes and plaids are sel n large quas- tities for fatizue costumes, | In New York lives n woman who fs s | entranced with the circus that she has be n to every performance, and always wantato | bet on the races with people reated next to her. She has already won 862, A police judge at St. Joseph remarked, | in diemissing a case the other day: shall dismiss every case of womwan insulting where it oan be shown that the woman first flirted with the accured.” The cloth dresses worn this spring are exceedingly neat, and when well made are verystylish, Some are perfcctly plain, with only three or four rows of ilk atitch- ing to finieh off co lar, cuffs, and pauiers, d.pending for their ornamentation upon their handsome buttons or uckles, Very retty bonuets fo: spring wear are in the Kate Greenaway shape, tho brim formed of 13t rufllsy of cream lace and the crown of dark velyet, which is sometimes replaced by laterlacing ottoman ribbons an inch and a hall ia widih, one strand being of cream and the other or & contrasting color, A Pittsburg girl, who refused a good looking telegraph repair man three times within six months, gave as a reason that he was too much of # wanderer, That he wandered from pcle to pole, from one clime to another, and if he did come home he'd be insulate that the neighbors would be sure to talk. The hair of & girl employed in an east- ern ¢ tton mill was caught in the machin- ery, torn c{f her.head and ground intobits, But the girl dido’t mind it much, ket right on at her work, simply rem: ing that it ouly cost $4 anyhow. Taois is one of the advantages of art over nature,— Norristown Herald, It is_whispered that the glory of the cropped heads of hair is departed, ani the brown ‘“‘nimbus” or flaxen halo of little rings of bair coiled into *‘Marguerites” or “Montagues” all over the head by the magio of bandoline is to be supplanted by the hair drawn up to the top of the hea and coiled tuere like & wavy coronet, laav- ing the nape of the neck en eviden v uyuin, A Milwaukee girl appeared in the street with a dog to match her tur, Her costume waa lavishly trimmed with broad bands of & long-haired, tawny fur, qaite consplcu. ous in iteelf. At her side walked an im- mense St. Bernard dcg of precisely the some color, When she held him by the colar, and the fur about her wrist mingled with the hair of his neck, the match was seen tobe perfect, The most fashionable of the white toilets worn this summer, instead of being re. lieved by the usual colors of rose color, blue, or mauve, will be erlivened by the newer shades of French terracotts, tes rose, thrimp pink, and the like, and a leading toilet will be ono of white nuvs’ veiling or vigogne, with bruad sash and other satin ribbon trimmings of pale prim- rose in the corsnge and hair, and necklace and chatelaioe of amber beads. Ribbon trimmings were never worn in greater profusion, or showed greater va- riety of materials, coloring and derign. The most expensive of these are hand painted, broad silk or satin sashes, with 7mup| of flowers, Cupids’ heads, mosses, ferns and swinging garlaads of strawbe - ries and vines. painted on the ends, These sashes make ¢lsgant tinish to a child’s or young lady’s toilet, The dantiest and most convenlent of spring trifles are the new ‘‘mauchons’ or muffs, matching the costume and trimmed with velvet, lace, fl wers, or, prettie.t of all, with small birds, A littls concealed pocket in the muff eff)rds a hiding place for card case, handkerchief, purse, vinai- grotte, The latest fancy is to attach these manchons to a tiny gold or silver chate- Lfll’:" which is tastened by a clasp to the There lives in a neighboring town a very beautiful and accomplished young lady, who, when eleven years old, being well rown for one of her years, ard mistaken y many for a young ‘lady of sixteen, re. ceived a compliment from a young gentle. man, askiog her company to a concert. She ‘accepted, and when they reached the entrance to th hall she lisped out: **Mith. er C—, you won’t have to pay but a quaw- me, I am unther thwelve yeath Mies Snowball's love letter: Mis Ma. tilda Snowball, having closed the door, approached the lady of the house in a moet myaterious manner aad asked as a favor that her employer write & letter to Sam Johusing, ‘“What do you want me to write?” “‘Write hlm dat 1 was a% de corner at de'pinted hour, anl dat he didn’t come,” ‘“‘Weil, I've got that down.” ‘ Den add to dat ar: “I consoles myself wid de fond hope you was kep’ away by eickness, Your only true Jub, Mrtilda Snowball,’” Hints about Coquettes—Giye the devil his due and the ccquette her dude—Cou- nettes are like cats; they love petting, his accounts for sparks in the dark—Al- ways make & friend of a crquette before you fall in love with her. Then you can corner her when she says, “‘Bat lot me bo your friend!"—A coquette can play her cards just as well when you are hol diux her hacd.” Indeed, thisis her firsttrick—After all, there is one nice thing ahout a coquette, Shbe and lightnivg never strike twice in the same place. There 13 no need of it —All fleuh is grass, but a coquette doesn't object to beiog called a daisy. PHPPHRMINT DROPS, The New Orleans cude wears a plug hat sideways, and walks with his arms epread out, as if driving unruly pigs to market, Inreply to “I don’t want your paper any longer,” the editor wrote: “I would not make it so if you did, It would in- volve & new prei “Put Your Arms Around Me, Dear,” is the title of a new song, Itis a companion piece to ‘Soak Yeur Feet ina Putof Glue."—Pittsburg Leader, A monkey belongiog to & show exhibit- ing in Jonesville was taken eick a few days ago, and a Jonesville doctor pronoun- ced it a genuine case of measler, Cuoumber green is jthe new ¢hade for ties, The man who is tied up in a knot from the cucumber he has eaten will have the intense eatisfaction cf knowing beisin style. Wanted -Two or more able-Yodied su- preme court jadges to declare the amend. ment legally adopted. Call on, or address, with references, State Register, Des Moines, Lowa, The Elmira Gizatte tells of a woman who applied for a place as driver, *‘Can you manuge mules?’ asked an employer, “I should smile,” she eaid, “I've had two busbands,” Canes for dudes, made of siogle straws, are the latest thirg ont. It is feared Lthey will be o beavy as to overbalance their brains, but a trial of them will be made in the cool hours of a epring day, There is a good deal of fitness in the se- lection of Mr, Evarts as the orator for New York at the openiug of the big bridge, He can suspend a sentence in the air longer than any other man in America,—~Boston Herald, A farmers' journal recommends blanket- ing bees in winter, A man should be care- ful which end of the bee he grasps when he goes to put a blanket oa it, or he may Yplank 1t” considerably more than he bar- gained fer, Posters for the annual goat show displayed in & great many windo Some of the goats must be very well trained, for most of the pictures represrnt them sitting on & keg and drinkdng cold l;u from & tuwbler,- ~-Hartford "Evening 'ost . B Yer," said & buran resident. ‘I might have caught I saw bim just as he it was after 2 », m, t chicken thief, for tered the yard, but 'atching him would i have made & noise, awakened my wife, und then she would have wanted to know what T was doing sut that time of night. An Eoglish writer saya that “one of the creat beaution of the Weleh tongne is the consistent method of pronoupeing it. t 80, ‘there is grest beauty in such dans "Dwifwohmaw: ff ldfryne 'dyweh” whett pronounced consistently, snd that is the way we always pronounce ‘em. A countryman from Pohick, Va., having heard that the president was sufferiog from o0 ca led at the white house » fow Iays ago with a bottle of what he ‘'Aunt Sally Hooper's eolic-killer. lenired to sdminiater it to the president, but was of course forbidden entrance into the houre, e left in & rage. 8o many murderers are reported as eat- ing » hearty mesl the morning before be- iog executed that an exchange thinke phy- sicians should prescribe harging for (he persons suffering from loss ot Appetite, The fatal objection to such a remedy is that & man is lisble to choke to death al. st a3 soon Ae his appetite is restored, rei town Herald, “‘Terra cotta!” said & ocuntry woman in o Poston store, repeating the name after the clerk, ‘“Is that French for cinna. mon!” **Not that I know of, madam,” answered the smirking clerk, ‘‘La, you needn’t laugh; 1've known the color betore you were born, but I never heard it cal'ed nuthin’ but cinnamon brown,”—New Lon- don Day, Lonlon Teuth says that donkey is in. finitely better eating than beef or mutton, “There are, however, & good many per. sons who could not eat donkey without ex- posing themselves to the charge of canni. L.li-m,“ says tho Chioago Times, The first thought of a Chicagoan is alwaya for himself, —Boston Post. A London expert blindfolded himself, and [four different kinds of sherry are poured intothe ssme glass, He takes a mouthful and dcclares the component parts of the mixture, u:ualiy without a mistake, Then he experiments with port, and is wonderfully successful, He identi- fies numerous champagnes, even to the year of vintage, When a glass of Chicago whisky was given him he tore cff the ban. dage and wanted to be shown the whelp who had tried to kill him—St. Louls Post- Dispatch, MUBSIOAL AND DRAMATIO, Rafael Joseffy, pianist, will leave for Europe shortly, Adelina Patt! sailed for Rurops by :he steamwer Arizons Last Tuesday morn. ng. Mr, Levy, the cornetist, Is engaged for $500 & week and board to plsy in Phila. delphia during the summer season, Lewis Morrison has been engaged ss leading man next season for the Marie Prescott company. T:in whispered that Max Bruch will be the coming conductor ot the New York Philbarmonic society, King Ludwig of Bavaria has bought Wagner's tomb, in the garden of the villa Wabn'rie f, aud intend, under certain re- strictions, to dedicate it to the public, Eimund Nanporkhthe Norwegian com. poser and pianist, has been engaged as principal piano teacher for the New York Uollege of Music, commencing September 15th, Johan Svenden, the celebrated composer, has been elected musical director of the royal opera at Copenhagen in the place of Kappelmeister Paulli, with a yearly salary of 8,000 crowns. Mary Anderson will visit France, Gor. mapy and Italy prior to opening her en gagement in Londo, Ssptember 1, Misy Anderson will be ompanied by her mother, brother an i stepfather, Miss Ada Cavendish recently made her appearance on the atage of the Globe theater, London, as the heroine in *‘Lady | fl; Cinre,” a new piece by Robert. Buchanan, The performance appears to have been moderately euccessful. Robert McWade, of *‘Rip Van Wlokle" fame, is a native of Canads, and was brovght up in Buffalo, He wears tha Phil Kearney cross of honor for valor displayed at Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, the Siega of Yorktown, Richmond and the Seven Days’ battles. Mile. Marie Van Zindt hasmade anoth- er Parisian cucces« in the new opers, “Lak- e,” libretto by E Gondinet and Phillipe Gille, music by Leo Delibes, which was brought out on'the 14th inst. at the opera comique. The opera is recommended for its many and good melodies, Single voices cover three octaves or mcre, while the whole range of the human voice amounts to nearly five o:taves, Catalani had three aad a haif; Bastardells, beard by Mezart in 1670, had the eame; Carlotta Patti can reach G sharp in alto; Bennati,a teacr, had three full octaves, snd Tamber- lik reached the C sharp of 544 double vi- brations, As N nie Hauk was singiog an echo tong from lignon,” in Bradford, the other day,a hocdlum on the outside caught the refrain and sent back an echo in the same key with horrible effect, Several persons in the audience tittered, and a flush of annoyance was visible on the fair check of the cantatrice. She resented the intersuption #o much that ehe failed to re- spond to an encore a long time. RELIGIOUS A church is being erected by the Baptists n Salt Lake City. A pew in Grace church, New York, was sold ut auction the other day for $2,200, (ieneral Phil Sheridan is a regular atten- dant at St, Mary’s Catholic church in Chi- cBgo, Bishop McNamara hasrecently organized the first Independent or Reformed Catholic church of Chi ago, UnJder the supervision of Father Antc- nucci a Chinese Catholic mission has been founded et San Francisco, The spiritualists claim that from noth- ing thirty-five years ago the number of avowed believers now reached 2,000,000, The centenary of the Protestant Episco- al Church of Maryland wi'l be celebrated n St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, on the 29th of May next. The Baptist annual meetingsat Saratogs, which will begin on May 22, will probably be the largest ever held, The most impor- tant of these meetings will bethe bible convention, & Pre-byterianism still [continues to make rapid progres; in Texas, Five churches are now nearly resdy for dedioation, San Antonio i8 to have a very fine house, Kl Pawo has o desirable placa of worship suited to the demards of that growing city, Next year, 1884, will be the centennial year of Amecican Methodism, Not that Methodism was introduced here that year, the first kocioty being formed in 1706, but in 1884 the Methodist Episcopal church was organized, and mnow the diffsrent branchee of the church are preparing to celebrate the event, During the year 1832 there were 272 churchee consecrated by Lutheran congre- gotions in this country, 114 by German congregations, sixty-ons Eoglish, aixteen Swedish, and eleven Norwegisu—Danish, Of the churches consecrated forty-one are in Pennsylvanis, twenty-sevea in Ohio, and twenty-two in Illinois, The strife has 80 culminated between the High and Low church parties in the Epis- copal church of the Evangelist, Philadel- woman, who kueel for three houra duriog mass, The Norwegians are restoring the oa- thedral (f Trondhjem, the most northern town of itasizs in Kurope, A recent vis- itor writer: * It will certainly be the fineat church in the couatry when completed, and ol v rank with other great Gothi it i« distinctly the church of Norway, anl merits prolonged study, hoth by architect and sntiquarisn. Ln this cathedral was the shrine of St. Olaf, the patron eaint, and it is the place where the ccronation of the Swedish soyereica as king of Norway must be performed,” Of the 1,433,887,10) inhabitants on the earth about 850,000,000 are idolators, 170, 000,000 Mohammedans ani Jews, making two-thirds of the population of the earth who either know nothing of Jesus or are opposed to him, Of those who are called Christians' only 10,000,000 are nomioally protestants, and only 20,00C,000 are mem- bers of protestant churches, There are over 100 protestant missionary societies and over 2600 ordained Furoposn and American missionaries engaged in foreign mission work, aeeisted by over 600 lay missionaries and 1600 juvenile missiona: ries, with over 21,000 native preachers, teachers and helpers, aud about 575000 native communicants IMPINTIHS. An Indianap,lis preacher has challenged an editor to fight. The minister refera to his antagonist as & ““Beaver dam liar,” " asked o little Episcopalian, “4f the big catechism ia & catechism, ain't the ‘amaller catechiem’ s kitterchiem?"— The Drummer, Henry Ward Beecher obseryes that ‘‘when one is religious through fear of hell and hellish remuneration he is apt to carry & goud deal of helt about with him, A Boston bibleist connects Mulhatton’s meteor with a scriptaral prophecy He has not found the pradiction in Gencsis that the same fellow would sell Mammoth cave. The Counecticut house has passed a res. oluticn appropristiog €5,000 for the Storrs sgricultural rohool, The New York lepislature has pasced a bill retirivg school tewchers on half pay upon reaching the nge of severty years, A cn 1 has been fssued for a state con- vention of colored people to be held in Oincinnati in Juno, to g.ve expressicn to the sentiment of tho race on the echool question, Prof, Cobn of Breslau telioves that lend to shortsighteduess, and would substitute pen and ink, or an artificial whito siate with black pencil, manufac- tured in Pisen Black and whity is proved by experiment to stana out st cleatly to the eye, The Zurich schnol board forbids slates, ‘Lhey are noisy, and invite dirty habits in erasure, The prosy ecta for this enmmer's seasion of the Concord Sshool of Philosophy are id to be brighter than ever before, and & wumber of distinguished lecturers have al- resdy heen secured. Frank Sanborn, whom Goveruor Butler lately designatedto take charge of the Towkebury slinshouse, will give throe lectures on *“Tho History of Philosopby in Amerios,’ and Julian Haw- thorne ove on *“The Novel,” Martha Clay Thomas, of Baltimore, hias jast taken her degree of doctor of philoso- phy, summa cuwm laude, at the University of Zurich, ‘Lhis means proficiency in Greek, Provencial, Gothic, old, middieand new high Geiman, Saxon, Latin, modorn Freunch aud English, The examination in all departments were conducted in a fore eign tongue, Miss Thomas was graduate of Cornell, afterwards studied for a year at John Hopkins university, and has just completed & courte at the University of Leipsic, It is well known that for three or four yenrs there has hoen growing dissatisface tion at Cornell University, It {s a great institution, though comparatively new. Its pr p rty is valued at §7,000,000, and its jucome amounte to $100,000. But “I am filled with Holy Ghost powder, and it will explode on somebody,” was the blasphemous remark of one of the female soldiers in the salvation army at Syracuse the other day. The new license bill recently passed by the Ohio state legislature imposes a tax cf $300 upon spiritualistic medinms, This is a unique way to strike the happy medium, --New York Advertiser, The epiritual mejums wh> summon spooks from the nasty deep or somewhere in Ohio, must hereafter pay $300 for a licenee, just like the rest of the showa. The **exposing”’ game will probably grow in popularity in that state, A boy wrote a composition on_the sub. jeot cf Quakers, which he described as a sect who never quarreled, never got into a fight, never clawed each other and never jswed back, The production contained & postecript in these worde, “'Pa is a Quaker, but ma ain’t.” Saven young ministers of the late Meth- odiet Episcopal conference promised to obstain from tobacco, They gave their word also that they ware not in debt ro s to embarrass themselves. A ‘‘voice” in the conference wanted to know if they werelin debt 80 a5 to embarrass anybody else. Point well taken, ‘“Yes brethren,” said a preacher from his pulpit, “you are the passengers on a traiu speeding ite straight and narrow way to glory, and I am the couductor of that train, thank the Lord,” ‘‘You rua her first-class, I should say,” remarked n stranger, looking -over the congregation, i“(nn"m the number of sleepers you're haul- og. The pastor had some plain, homely words for his people last Sunday on the ein of hnllng. says the Lowell Courier. He warned his hearers against talking about their neighbore, against picking in_their friends and acquaintances ond against commenting on each ether's faults and imperfections, After church one lady remarked: ‘‘For goodness sake, what would he have us talk about?” “Sure endugh,” cried another, while several oti. rs joined in the chorus of *“The idea!” w SINGULARITIHES, 1d, cat brooding nine chickens s one of the curiosities of Salt Lake. Joseph Thompson, of Simmons Ga,, has had vine wives and 53 children, A whale eighty feet long recently grounded on the bar at St. Johns, Fla, A York, Pa,lady hos an easter egg 104 ears old. Tt was laid on the farm of homas Jefferson, A Texes farmer made complaint against one of his nelghbura for sewing up the eyes of hiy cow. One of the most expert billiard players of San Francisco is a boy 11 yeara of age, :‘hlrlme fatber keeps o salo.n and billiard all, A Mexican woman residing in St. John, Apache county, Arizna, is said to be 115 years old, Skeis childish and will cry for cake and candy like a child. There is a movement to establish a town at the mouth of the Judith River in Col- orado, to be knewn as Giantville, Tt 18 proposed to cut a quarter eection of land up into town lots, and P "o man to own or hold one unlees he is over eix feet in his stockinge, nor no woman below five feet eight, A furniture dea'er in Bowllng Gresn, Ky., set a lot of Willow chairsout in front of nis store the other day, to attract the attention of those who miglt be lookicg for goods in that line, When he went to take them m at night he found them almost covered with buds and your, spr ute, The willow waa cut last fall an, the chairs built and varnished during the winter, ¢ The Freie Presce, of Santonlo, Tex, tells of a_species of ants found in that stats which make & bonev cqual to any that is prodnced by bees, The little insects store the honey, as they gather it, in a pouch abcut the size of a small pea that is attached to their bodies. When this pouch is full they march into the cells of their subterranesn inhabitatious and there un- load, The Presse says that these ant hills are as full of honey as bee hives, and sug- geets that they could be turned tothe same practical !ood-grodunlnx use if similar care were taken in breediog and culti atiog the ineect. GLoucesTER, Mass,, April 26 —Captain Hall and the orew of the schooner Aunie there has been o marked falling off in the number of students, snd the quality has lowered. Profsssors are not of the eame bigh class &s formerly. The institution has lost in character, standing and influ- ence. And there isgrumbling at the uni- yersity, with no end of complaining and fault-finding elsewhere. At a meeting of the Alumni association held here the other night, ldr, John D, ‘Warner, who has made a therough inves- tigation of the situation, told how the case stands, The University lost a good deal by President White spending two or three years abroad a8 minister to Germany, and it loses a great deal more by his fritterin away his tire and interest in politics an other matters in which he ceaselessly dabe bles. He epreads himself over such a large surface that Cornell gets too thina 1134 /of L1 5 b AGY gucd, A youog woman who graduated at the Paterson bigh echool last summer joined the traiving school for teachers, and, zo- cording to custom, was last week assigned a place as & substitute for a regular teacher who was ill. Iwmediately on her appear- ance at the desk large numbers of the pupils rushed ou’, of school, The others becamns 80 boisterous and unmanageable that she was forced to dismiss the school, Angry parents waited upon the superin- tendent aud insisted on dismissing her He sgreed, but by some misunderstanding she sppearca at the school sgain, when pupils and pgre:t3 were on the verge of a wob, the disturbance being qnieted only by her immg diate disappearance, Whether she will make a good teacher or & poor one is not yet kuown, as she had no chance to try. Owing to her ancestors’ oversight in cnmln[( originally from Africa, her ekin was discolored. O:herwise, for all that nnre.n, she was a well behaved and cap- able girl. Industrial education is the rubject of numberle:a addresses and pamphlets at this time, Within five years, orsinco the cen. tennial exhibition, technical education has received agreat impetus in this country, Beeide the trade echools of the Massachu. eetts institute of technology, an at Wor- cester, there are reveral in'the west, one in conpection with Washington university at St. Louis, one at Purdue university in Indians. Prof, Woodward, of Washing. ton university eays that their school, which wan opened about three years ngo, has a capacity of 240 itudents, for a three years’ courre, in claeses of 100, 80 and 60 respectively, ‘‘Our building,” he says, “'cost about $33,000, tools snd furniture $16,000, and lot 14,400, making the cost of the plant about $63 400, We set out to bave the best of everythiag. plenty of rocm axd light, kond teachers an1 all nec- essary aopiiances,” They bava to pay n good machinist and an expert blacksmlth to get men of the requsite skill and ability to teach. In the first year ome division of the claes hias carpentry from 9to 11 a, m., one from 11 to 1, and one from 1 to 3; each division when not at shop work has grommar, drawing, srithmetic and phys- ical geography. In therecond year o sim- ilar stndy is made of blacksmithing for shop work, and of drawing, algebra, En. glish history and physics, Perhaps under physics ia included the laws of forces, ss usaally teught under the name of me. chanics, It it is not, it ought to be, CONNUBIALLTIES. There were more marriages in Victoria, Australis, in 1852 than in sany previous year, viz.: 5,806, Women have ceased to be rca ce in the colony, and now outnum. ber the wen by 108 to 100, Hindoo marziages at ten years cld or thereabouta are the caure of ruch cvils that the Anglo-Indian prees is demanding their probibition by law, When the clergyman acked at & church wedding in Henry, lowa, it anybody had sught to say why the pair should not be united, a girl aros and said, *‘I have—he is engaged to me.” There was tome con- faeion, but the ceren ony was completed, The question whether a clergyman could marry himse!f was decided some twenty or thirty years ago by the British houre of lords in an sppeal rom Ireland, where a Presvyterian minsster in the County Down had married himeelf, It was decided he could not, A beautiful young New Orleans woman, who came to New York with the fervid in- t ntion of entering & couvent for life, fall in love directly on her arrival with one of Burnum's celebrated acrobats, and was married to him, L. Hall youch for thefo'lowing: On March 30th, while on the Grand Bank, they dis- covered an immense live trunk turtle, which waas at first thought to be a vessel bottom up., The schocner passed within twenty-five feet of the monster. The tur- tle was at least forty feet long, thirty feet wide, and thirty fest from the apex cf the back to the bottom cf the under shell, The flippers were thirty feet long, It was not deemed ndvisable to attempt its cap- ture, Bright's Disease, Dinbotor, Kidnev Liver or Urinary Diseasn Have o four of any of these dla- oaces if you nee Hop Bltters, us they will prevont and care the worst cases, oven when yon have been made worse by scme great puffed-up protended cure, — A young lady passenger on the railroad the other mornicg had a8 pets two live phis, that the Low church members are going to bring the matter before the courta ounthe ground that they have been de- frauded of their place of worship by the ritualists. Several policemen were present at u recent service where trouble was ex- pected, Quite numerous in the City of Para, Br.zil, are Catholic cathedrals, in which no seats are proviled and where the wor- shipers are all expected to kneel thougheut the entire service, The floors of these churches are usually, if not always, of brick, and only on speoial occasions is there any mattingzpread for the wmitigation of what mustjflideed be a severe penance to chaelion lizards, O was fastoned by a ribhon to her shawl pin, and rested on_her bosom ard shoulder, The other she held on the beck of her hand When these die the boys propese to give her s gopher, Be it said she was not # Georgia girl. Georgla girly have good sense,—Camilla (Ga,) Olarion, How Ohlldren Had * Fun," On & summer day they went to play, Dawn the road 10 Doacon Jones' pasty Dick climbe The hours wi he tre, Viclooked 80 gay wll with paio, ‘were of the green spple kind, Gured by Castora. There would be more marrying in the world if there were more girls like one liv- ing near New Orleans, She has chartered a rteamer, and i3 to be married on board After the ceremony the bot will take all present up the Minsissippi for o pro- tricted teur, of which ehe bears all ex- penses, A voung Mormon cou.le who went to the endowment house in Salt Lake City the other day to be married were turned away with the statement that thirty.tive warriages, the full c. i f the inetitu. tion, had already been rusned thry is aaid tha re going into polygamy thsn ever before, Pennsylvania is evidently e place to lay at matrimony. Aboit a year ago Jeunis Cronin and Annio Powers of Al toons, respectively 16 and 1 & looely place and proclaim o married, Cronin subsequently often ace kuowledged Ler as his wite. She becawme u mother and he deserted her. The judge said he must support her, In default of bail, Dennis went to jail, Mayor Michael Nolan, of Albany, has just found out that his daughter was mar- ried to J, B, Carroll, Iast November, by a Catholie priest at the cathedral in that city, Carroll is the son of & coal dealer, and had been forbidden the house several times, The marrisge is now published with » notice of its repudiation by the bride, on the ground that it was without consent of the bride's parents and in a parish to which the parties didrtiot belong, ~ ANHEUSER-BUSCH Brewing Association, - CELEBRATED KIiG & BOTTLED BEER. (4 THIS EXCBLLENT BRER SPEAKS FOB ITSELF. Orders from any part of the 8tate or the Entire West will be promptly shipped: o <, ST.LOUIS,MO. - = v All Our Go ds are Made to the Standard of our Guarantee, GEORGE HENNING, Bole Agent for Omaha and the West. 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