Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1883, Page 2

The Wichita “Poker Craze.” ‘Which I says for the hesthen Injun, ‘Who hasn't civilized wavs at Yellsw Dog of the Wichitas Was a regular draw-poker ‘‘craze,” ‘When we camped on the Canadian, Down low on the SouthornFork, Missouri Dan had s greisy deck, And we rettled down to work, Dave Cealt the papers to Baltimore (Which Hal was aleo his name), Hal “antied,” Yellow Dog “stayed in,” As likewi:e T did the same; Then Dan * blind, And *'throwed to the center,” to ''draw,’ And Yellow Dog st o the raise of Hal, Which the same I &lso saw. T drawed two card and Hal drawed one, And Yellow Dog he drawed three, Aud I koew that Hal had “filled his haul, By the wink l'e wunk st me, i Then she fun began and the “h, ” And 1 saw Missouri laugh; He knocked whoever won the *'pot,” That we all was “balf and half,” When all the “rocks” which the party bad Had been put up on the board, And all the fixin's about the camp, And even the stock we rods, 1 rnlle: for a “‘sight,” throwed down my and, When, as sure as T'm alive, Baltimore Hal he hilt four ones Whilst the Yellow Dog he hilt five, Stranger, of course, we was surprised, But the rules of the game doclare . That “whenever the redskin cheat white He must ‘climb the golden stair,' " And there he was a wicked Injun, For he tried to *‘raise a gale’ By “ropin’ " us inaocent cowboyn; 8o we ““tuck him off the trail,” ‘Way down the Southern Ci Where the water wildly # ‘Where the osier sichs to the The Wichita Yellow Dog sleops. ‘Which is why I sy the Injun, Who hasn't civilized ways, Fur to tackle a cowboy at poker He must have n “‘poker craze,” Dinah Might, Do hoeoske’s a burnin’ i1 do pa Dar’s a thief in de olo melon patch. Dar's mensles & comin’ out on Ann, Dat my Ssmho he's bound for 0 catch. De rheumatiz makes de ole man sore, And I hain’t as I was in a fight, ‘When I tumblod de darkeya on de floor— Bat Dinah might. Do hog's in de bed of water cress, De tomeat's a Isppin’ up de milk, And Jake is a tearin’s Dinah’s dress, And a makin’ kite-tail of de silk; D> dorg’s got his paw on de parrot — Ob, golly! won't my ole wife show fight? I hain’t got strength to frow a carrot, But Dinah might, De cows am toothin’ 'round ds corn, Dey won't leave bressed ear for me, And one has tossed Chloe on her horn, Dar'll be a dead nigger, I kin see, Dars aly fox got in de hen,coop, For ds chi-kens am yellin’ wid fright; 1 can't flsh de mouse from de bean soup, But Dinah might, In_rhematiz dar's neffin’ but ruin, For in do ole oabin I must stick, And see all de mischief dat’s a-brewin', Widout enongh strength to shy brick. Golly!,When Dinah comes from meetin’ Dar ‘will be some lively scenes to-night, Blowin' up ia not a kind sort o' greetin’, But Dinah might, Pavt Pror, Mother’s Growing Old. 0 is not 8o lustrous, Her voize has loss of cheer, While in her hair, once dark as night, The threads of gray abpear. And ab! I am reminded, When I her fuce behold, That though she still is besutiful, Dear mother's growing old, Her oheeks have lost their glory, 8o like the bluth of morn; Her swiles are flown that used to bless The heart when sorrow worn, And whep I mark her step that Was buoyant once and bold, I cannot help the thought, ro kad, That mother's growing ald. Turn back the yoars, O Father! And make her young once more, Just as my soul remembers her In hawpy days of yore; When st her side my hfe in Full gladness did unfold, And], » little child, drenmed not Dear mother woula grow old, Beyond these houra so flseting, Beyond o/ rth's toils snd tonrs, Tn that sweet land I hope to gain Boyond these mortal yosrs, Nothing shall waste her pure life, But beauty manifold, With happiness shall crown her lot, Aud mother ne'er grow old. —George Newall Lovejoy. EEeee——— HONEY FOR THH LADIHS, French dresses are again made with the high puffed sleeves, Orange end flame colors in vanishing ef- fects are seen in wany of the new silks and mnovelty gooda, The dressiest eilk wra) ites and mantles of rich or brocaded, Large puff crowns and plaited brims are features in some of the most becoming spring bounets, An eccentrio fanoy is to cut the ends of all ribbon bowe, strings and sashes into long forks or notches, Oats are the fashionable animals at pres- ent, and cat-head and cat-paw ornaments are in high favor, Brown and dark, almost inyisible, green aro favorite colors for spring wraps when of woolen cloths, The new wrape, pelerines, soarfs, dol- mans ¥nd virites are all made beuffant on the too of the shoulders, Merinos are sgain in favor, and, com- bined with velvet, bid fair to rival cloth for dreesy street costumes, Tte loog vurre apron front,with paniers above 1t around the hips, is a favorable style for spring costumes, Amovg the new designs in the new sat- eens ate red and green pepper (capsicum) pods,with foliage snd stems. Embroidered costumesof black cashmere will be etill more dreesy with trimmings of the new roatache laces, A Japanesegirl student, now at Vas:ar, is going to take home with her eixteen boxes of chocolate caramels, New China crapes of the finest quality are beautifully embroidere ! (by hand, of cour:e) in palm leaf and other Oriental fig- ures, One of the lovliest dresses for mideum- mar or spring festival wear is of white veiling, closely dotted with silk brocade dots, Coru-flower and royal French blue, orange, flame and gold-yellow,ox-blood an cardinal red crop cut in most of the new fabrics, e palm loaf patterns appear in in- volved designs, covering the entire surfa: of new cashmere broches of the finest qual. ity. The new fraises and ruches for the neck are dolman vis. ttoman eilk, plain are very wide ‘and full, are are nesrly a ard long, so as to form s jabut down the front, For 85 an ambitious young woman can assed out,” Hal ‘‘raised the Iajun the OTADES, RLrAW erry, tomato red, primrose and bronzs d'or, at Connecticut woman who lost her voice by falling from a_chair in her sleep bas regained it by falling down cellar in her wide.awake senses, There is a female harber in Haley Tdsho, who makes from $20 to 825 & day. She is protty, and charges four b [y ehave, while the male tonsorial artists get but two, There is o ramor floating around to the effect that it will be quite the thing this summer for fachionable ladies to claim to have robust health, They may even call for pork and beans, The new discovery that kissing cures freckles may be all right, but the difficulty .| of & youth who has the ‘complexion of an African leopard ia that he can'c_get any girl to kisy bim, —1ochester Post.Kxpress, A woman in Galveston has a baby that is torever getting into mischief, #ho hangs up her wash she hangs the baby the clothes line with clothes pins, so she can keep an eye on it. “What 18 o lady's sphere?” asked the lady principal of a public school on exami- nation day, And a little red-headed urchin the " corner rqueaked: ‘‘Mice!' In the dreadful confusion that f:llowed the freckle faced fiend e caped, A New York milliner ,has set the coun. try in a flutter by discovering that only one woman in ten wears the plume on the fashionable side of the hat. When you #ee & woman with two plumes just admire ber sharpnees, ‘Whi e a New York woman was passing a quarry & blast was fired, When she re- vived after being struck with a stone woighing fifty pounds the first words she utterad were od Jaws! how glad I am that I didn’t have on my new bonnet!"— Philadelphia Chronicle, A beautiful woman f Troy, N, Y., works in the iron foundry, She has been crosse { in love and says the din of the iron shops is the only thing that keeps her from thinking and i She has to make herself as ph y miserable a8 pos. sible to keep her brain alert, Woman, in reading s newspaper, has distinet method of her own. Ehe takes it up hurriedly and begina to acan it over rapidly, as though she was hunting rome particular thing; but ehe is not, She is merely taking in the obscure paragraphs, which she believes were vut in out-of-the- way places tor the sake of keeping her from reeing them, Every article of wear as the soring nd- vances #eems to /increase in tizs, except perhaps the boot. Plaids are getting Iarger, crinolettes threaten an increase of dimensions, hats take on more circuwnfer- ence, and the flower patterns on brooaded silks, satine, and sateens are come of them large enough to cover the back of any ordi. nary sized woman, A new d corative effsct is given to crenm white grenadine .dresses by trim. ming them with an appl'qus work of large brillisnt teaves and flowers cut from rich brocaded fabrics, T'he outlines of the blossoms and foliage are chain stitched down .with white rilk, Florentine cut work is appliqued to materials like India muslio, French organdie, and the like, Registration of women voters in Boston: “I wish to regiater, sir. *‘Your name, please?” “‘Almira Jane Simpson.” * age?” “Bog pa " “Your age?” I understand that I must give my age?’ ‘'Y os, miss, the law requires it,” "‘Vorhl-, sir, would not tempt me to give it. Not that I care. No; I had as lief wear it on my bonnet a« a hackman does his number, but I'm a twin, any if my sister hos wenkness, it is that she dialikes any refer- ence made to her age, and I could not give you my own, because 1 do not wish to offend her,” There is & rage just now for the Oriental, Table soarfs are made of heavy yellow fabrics, trimmed with eastern embroider- ien, cut out of chair backs made in Cairo, There is » mania for Egyptisn ribbons, in brilliant_colorings and unique designs, and incredible prices are given for ‘real” Oriental laces ten inches deep, which is really fine imitation lace artistically dyed in many different colors nicely blended. Ultra-fashionable women have gone 8o far an to make up garden party dresses out of 'Syrian curtains; but these dresses, to do them justice, look botter than they read, if arranged by an artistic hand that addsa :;nlv;nhg of vellow Indian silk by way of uish, H HEDUOATIONAL NOTEHS. Mr, Frenerick Marquand, of New York, has giveu $60,000 1o endow an art school at Princeton, Paul H, Hayne, of G eorgia, will be the Rm! at the Smith college commencement, Northampton, Mess, 3 Philadelphin now has general superin- tendent of school for the first tiwe in its history, MacAlister from Milwaukee; and some decided improvements in the schools are looked for, A plan for tne education of women by thesame course of instruction as that af- forded the male students, but at a different place aud time, is being considered by the trustees of the Penusylvania University, Germany is astonished to find that at loast sixty por cent of the pupils in every school are near-sighted or otherwise dofec- tive iu vision, Keeping one eye on the toacher and the other on the lesson is aw- ful hard work, The new compulsory "education law of Rhode Island requires that every ohild be- tween the ages of 7 and 15 years shall have sixtera weoks of echooling each year, No child under 12is to be allowed to work in any manufactory, and no one under 14 wno cannot write his name, age, and place of residence, or read some part of the atate constitution, Cornell university resents the imputa- tion of some of its alumni that it is not ex- pending its rich heritage for the promotion of “‘the_ higher eduoation,” eto. The de. fense offered by two of the trustees see) conclusive, ’1’ E:opmtz of the unives ity is sald now worth $7,000,000, and its annual income $400, J00. A:prauhnon of western lands has in » very short period made it one of the richest institutions of learning in the world, Buffalo hes two *‘compulsory examiners” constantly at work but still school trusncy increases, and 1,520 oases were reported by theee men, by parents and by the police in 1882, The offending children are gene: wlly the very poor, and sometimes it found that they ar or without proper clothing or necesearily at work, but in most cases they play in the streets, learn to steal and what not, and the officers can do comporatively little be:ause there is no place to keep them for any time when ar rests are made, Fr Y Among the varieties of college life at Yale, none are more foolich than its sys. tem of secret woxietios In renfor yenr the memberof the scciety of the Skull'and Bouee, and of the Scroll and Key are con. sidered by the underclassmen as ( Moguls, These two societies are extr , never mentioning the name of w03 ng to it in any way. Amng the other pec: rities show is that of the member always carrying his socioty ‘)in. even while ba hing ‘sud disrobing, st night & very prominent member while disrobiog, placed the secret symbol of bis membership to *F " in his mouth, The pin, quite emall in size, in an unlucky moment lodged in his stomach, (| Soon the news wpread, and clasmates, anxious for his welfare, sought the room of the disturbed member, Medicines of all kinds, from Mrs, Winslow’s soothing syrup to Mrs. Lydia Pinkham’s vegetable compound, were brought, but all to no avail, Fioally an ewetic relioved the dis. tressed student, A movement is on foot to establish a school of electric engineering at Brattle. boro, Vt,, in connection with the old Nor- wich university, which it_is proj to remove to that town from Northfield, The university was founded in Norwich, Vt., learn to spoil the best “photographs ever | iy 1509, and was granted a charter of in- taken, by voloring them so usly & t0 | corporation in 1834, A pumber of well- shame nature, Lawn tenunis stripes display the new solors of French terra cotts, sorrel green, known New Yorkers are among its alumni, The school has always had & military character, and was in fact founded s & When || military achool by & soldier, Capt. Allen Vartridge, who resigned his commiseion 10 mppolntment as ruperintendent of W st Point Military academy for the pur- p#e, During the war the school did no proeper, although the name was glorified ty the heroio conduct of many_undergrad. 1upon tha battlefield, o 1866 the uvriversity was removed to Northfield and re-eatablished under the name of Lewis lege, _ At & reunion of the alumni living in New York, some time ago, & committee ith Gen, G, M, Dodge as ures to place the <14 school upon a sound financial basts, 1f Jrattleboro citizens will subscribe $25, it is thought that the college will be re- woved to that city, and with its old name of Norwich uniyersity restored, ocombined with the elestric engineering school. The plan t) estatlish sn electrical achool in New York is not revarded as feasibls be. t of living there, and idison nn“ officers of the Western Union Telegraph company boro scheme, favor the Bratf IMPINTIES, Noah was pretty well fixed on poker, He had at least a pair of everything in the pack, The original dude was Goliah, He is the first man on record who had a bang on his forehead, The aisle of a church is not the proper place for a sexton with rqueaky boote, He should try some other kind of *‘ile. ‘‘No, fatber isn't a drone, either,” said & bright Iad; “he’s a philanthropist, and col- lects money for the heathen in Africa to pay for our house and things,” It anyone has lately succeeded in writing the ten commandments on a grain of corn it has somehow skipped our notice and we have failed to do justics to his mem. ory “Init & sin,” asks a fashionable lady of her epiritual director, *‘for me to feel pleasure when a gentleman saya I am Llndnm 2 “Itis, my daughter,” he re. ru... gravely; ““#e should never delight in alsehood.” An old colored preacher In Atlants, Ga,, was lecturing a youth of his fold about the sin of danciog, when the It rotested that the bible plainiy said ere Is 8 time to dance.” Yes, dar am a time to davce,” waid the dark divine, ‘'an’ it's whena boy gits & whippla’ for golng to a all, It Is serlously stated by more than a score of contemporaries that fashionable milliners ark each of their clients on which side of the aisle her pew is, in order that the chief ornamentstion may be on the congragation side of the bonnet, At one of the churches of Danbury, Conn , on Sunday, the opening piecs on the organ waa from the *‘Pirates,” and the cloring piece from *'Pinafors,’, and, accord- ing to the “little hatchet”' acrite of the Bosten Post, nobody found_any fault ex- cept the deacon who parsed the plate to the music of *'I am a Pirate King.” A story Is told of two Irishmen, one & zealoun Catholic and the other an equally zealous Ozaneeman, who worked together in the same thop, The Catholic was irri- tated and annoyed I:( what he thought his comrade's unfair girdings at the mass, and at last persuaded the Orangeman to attend the Romsn Catholic service and see for himself. It had not exactly the effect he intended. The Orangeman fidgeted with ur(vwlng excitement and indignation through the earlier part of the service,snd at last could contain himeelf no long Leaning over to his comrsde, he mutter *'Pat, this bates the divil!” “Jimmy, ’ waa the whispered repiy, “that's the in. tintion!” SINGULARITIHES, A lligator steak is gettiig to be a luxury in Florida, A Dresden manufacturer has manu. factured a paper watch. He exhibits i and claims it is as serviceable as ordinary watches. The 1argest object glass in use is the 96- inch lens at shington, with a fccal length of thirty-three feet, Its light. gathering power is 16,000 times that of the uasided eye, The borera of an artesisn well in San Barnardino, Cal,, have encountered at the depth of 280 feet n tree which stands per. pendionlarly, Great pieces of the wood, which appears to be sycamore, are brought up in the pipes, Millardet, a Swiss mechanician, exhib. ited ia London in the last century, s femalo figuro that played eighteen tunes on the piano with all_the motions of na- tural life, the eyes following the move. ments of the fingers on the keye, the press. ure of which produced the notes. A remaranble botanioal specimen is re- portad to- exist in Podur, Tdin, inthe orm of & date palm, which changes its porition moruiog and evening. The treeis eloven feet in height, and in the nfternoon in Inclined o noar the ground that ohil- dren may pluck its frait from branches which, in the morning, are far above their reach. A man by the name "of Charles Moon, who is ¢ employed in a Denver billiard saloon, " swallowed a live bullfrog on a "hursday evening, after which glass of whisky. and said he folt remarkably well. The frog is reported to have been six inches lo.g and two inchen across the breast, The oldest tree in the world, says Knowledge, 80 far ns any one knowe, is the Hotree of the_sacred city of Amarapoors, in Burmah, It was planted 288 B, 0., and e, therafore, now 2,170 years old. Sir James Emerson Tennet gives reascns for wonderful age, and refers to historic docu- menta in whichit is mentioned at diffarent dates, as 182 A. D, 223 A, D., and 80 on to the present day, “To it,” says Sir Jumes, “kings have even_ deaionted their dominfons, in testimony of bellef that it is a branch of the identioal fig tree under which Buddha reclined at Urumelys when ho underwent his apotheosis,” Its loaves are osrried away as streamers by pilgrims, but it is too sacred to touch with a_ knife, snd, thorefore, they are only gathered when they fall. The King oak in Wind- tor Foreat, England, Is 1,000 years old, There is & curious clock in Japan. This in & frame three feet high and five , represents & noon landscape of great lovelinees. In the foreeround were plum and cherry trees and rich plsnf full bloom; in the rear a bill, gradual in nt, from which flowed & cascadn admirably imitated in crystal. From this plant & thread:like stream glided along, encircling in its winding rocks and tiny islands, but presently losiog itself in » far-cfl stretch of woodland. Inthe sky turned a golden sun, indicating as it passed the striking hours, all marked upon the frame below, where a slowly-creeping tortoise served at & haud. A bird of exquisite plumags, resting by its wings, proclaimed the expira- tion of ésch, When the.song cen mouse spravg from s grotto near by, and runniog over the hill, hastily disappeared, Vaucauson, a mechavical genius, made an automatic flute player wnd piper in 1788, which were the wonders of their time, ~The flutist was a figure of five feet, standivg on a pedestal, within which were uive pairs of bellows, worked by clock- work, The motion of the lips, fingers and tongue were all imitated by this figure, which, by various arrangements of valves, tubes, levers and wheels, is said to have produced music little inferior to the per- ormance of a ekilled flute-player. The piper was constructed much on'the same principal, The bellows of his [nstrument required & 56-pound weight to produce the ol believing that the tree is really of thus|I PHPPHRMINT DROPE, ons to call a men juuste that he talks agent of a theatrical ever be ro imr Gently An Towa editor, being asked by a cor- respondent if hogs paid, has looked over his sabscription li:t, and decided that they do not, Fighteen cows were killed in one day cn the line cf an Ohio railroad 160 miles long Unfortunately, they had no refrigerat.r ©oars on the trains, 1t in wrong to poach ch fectly proper to poach there is & difference 'twixt tweed:lium and #weedeldes, — Boston Transceipt, Dr, Ott,_has_lesrned thet the rattle- snake's tail makes vixty vibrations & sec. tens, but per- $) you see being just trifle slower than & wo- m Jugiie at a sewing sooiety, —Boston Post. Tkere is an_**Tchthyophagous” club in New York. Its name must be hard on the tongues of convival members, about 2 oclock 1n the morning. But perhaps they dun’t try to pioncunce it, The h ngman’s rope used in Missisaippi inthe eame ~izs as is purchased for tying up cows, If the victim prefers a log-chain he is told [that a man in thisa world can have everything he wants, It is a breech of etiquette never to be forgiven to sneeze in the presence of roy- alty, but royalty has never bothered iteelf to tell a map what to do with his nose when he feels a sneeze working along up his sus. penders, T got three hens this seaton, but they all left their nests before the hatching time, Can any use be mads of the eggs?” Certainly, Save them until next winter, Oscar Wilde is coming over to play omeo, ‘When an Arkansas man let it be known that he was going to ride over to the cor. ners o slay a man who had sold him a spavined mule, four of his neighbors went along to ses the killing and have a chance to deaw pay a8 witnesses. A soda fountain in Syracuso blew up, the other day, and killed one man and serious- ly injured another, If the nihilists should introduce sods fountains and shrimp salad into Russia, it might be the end of des- potism in that unhappy country. Base ball fashions for 1883: Fingers will covered with cotton cloth, cut a la mode, and held in place by splints; eye- patches will be dark blue in color, and without fringe; baudages will be cut bias, and courtplaster will be worn on all occa- sions, A dentist in Plattsburg, N, Y., recently received this order for aset of teeth: ‘'My month in three inches acecss, five-eights inchea through the jaw. Sum hummocks on the edge, Shapsdlike a horseshoe, toe forw It you wich me to be more par- ticklar I should hav to come thar.” Tho pistol which a Oincinnati woman said was the one with which her husband threatened to shoot hor proved tobe a beer faucet. Any ‘man who will carry a beer faucet ab ut his person is a dangerous character and should be watched, A b.er faucet, when loaded, is about as dangerous 8 & pistol. —Norriatown Herald, At this time, when May showera are making themselves numerous, it might be wel! to understand ‘‘umbrella flirtations,” To leave your umbrella in the hall means “ don’t want it any mors,” To purchase sn umbrells indicates ‘1 am not em.rt, but honest.” To trail your umbrella on the sidewalk means that the man behind you thirsts for your blood, To lend an umbrellas indicates “Iam a fool.” To put & cotton umbrella by the side of a nicesilk one means ‘‘Exchange is no robbery.” To urge a friend to takean umbrella, saying, “Oh! do take it: I'd much rather you would than not,” eignities that you are lying. To return an umbrella means— nevermind what it means, No one ever does that,—Yale Record. His furrows long enough: A land agent wanted & Kentucky farmer to emigrate to Dakots, as he was not making his living in the old’ commonwealth, *What induce. ments do you offer?” asked the farmer. “‘We have the richest lande, the finest wheat, the best water, the fattest stock. andthebiggest farms in the world.” * Yes,” doubtingly interrupted the farmer.* Why, man, on one of those big farms they plow a furrow five miles long.” ““Whai?" "¥hny plow a furrow five miles loog.” “That ends it, stranger. Don't talk Dakots to me! It’'s all Tcan d> to plow one of these little tifty-yard furrows here in Kentucky, and if it was five miles long I never wouid get to the end of it. Gee, whoa Buck, get up there!” and he started across the patch, leaving the agent eitting on the fence, OONNUBIALITIES. A Chinaman and » Mexioan girl were married in Tuoson, Arizons, a few days 830, A coal dealer in s Connecticut town pre- senta half-ton of coal to every newly mar. ried couple in the place. Robert Grant, the young Bostonisn who wrote ‘‘A Frivolous Girl,” is soon to marry o daughter of Sir A, T. Galt, The negro, George Hazard, who has just warried Alice Flagg, the daughter cf the richest man In Boylston, goes in for the Awerican Flagg and an appropriation,— [Boston Transeript. A certmn_shoemaker of Lynn, having been divorced four times, has just married his fifth wife, and people are nuw adyising bim to stick to his laat. After a young couple had eloved from their angry parents from the Kentucky side to Jeffersonville and were united, the groom remarked to his bride: ““Now the old folks can fues as mnch hey please, don't care a continental,” “Ithink it perfectly disgraceful,” ex- claimed Mrs, Fogg. “Fianderson's wife has beer dead just six weeks, and he's go- ing to be married next Sunday. Only think of it!” “I don't see anything to make a fuss about,” grunted Fogg; ‘‘he couldn't very well have married before his first wife died, To be sure, he lost six weeks of happinese, but I don’t see any- thing #o disgraceful about that.” *'80 you are going to marry that small, h ive-looking specimen of aid one girl to another. 06 what you can see in ‘Mary,” said her friend, your father is & small mi 't Yes,” was th: reply; ‘‘what of “‘Nothing, except thatif he wasn't smallit would be donbtful if your mother would be the boss. I'm_going to marry that small man because I'm fand of having my own way and wou't accept sny risks,” ¥ I really don't him to love,’ M RELIGIOUS The Mennonites in this country now number 410 churches or orgsnizations, 250 wioisters, and about 50,000 communi- cauts, The international convention of the Young Men's Christian asso-iations of the Uuited States and British provinces will meet in Milwaukee, Wir,, May 16th, snd continue to th nclusive, Bishop Riley, iscopal bishop of Mexico, bas never received any salary, and has given about §159,000 during the past ten or twelve years to the Christian work under his carc, He has exhausted his pri vate fortune, These facts are now made knowa by the reports of a special commit- tee representing the committee on foreign missions of the Episcopal church and the house of bishops, At the ancual meeting of the Salvation h d th higheat note, ~ As the fatigne of playing the pipes usually cansed the performer, when playing rapidly, to slur over some of the notes, the mimio piper, imperyious alike to weariness and shortness of breath, w acoredited with having excelled & living one in the clearness of the notes. e— Majoe H. W. Hines, Boston, writes: ‘‘Samaritan Nervine cure? me of fits,” $1 50, drugglst, army in London, Gen. Boot! at the army had now 491 corps, with an in come derived {rom them of £121,000. The rental of barracks entailed an expenditure of £21,000 & year, and the army had prop- erty its own worth £150,000, upon which there was a dobt of £34,000. About £10,. 000 was contributed during the day. Among those who took part in the meeting was & Yorkshire woman 84 years old, who snid she had been in prissn 280 times for drunkenness, proper 6f the Germaa Baptist, or “Dunk- from the states rylad, Virginis, Ohio, Indisns, uri, Kansss, Ne: braska, Colorad. Oregon will be' pres ent, k) that from 15,020 to 25,000 person may be expeeted to meet again in their an. nusl assembly, The ev Dr. A. A. Miaer completed on Sunday Ias: the thirty-fifty snniversary of his settlement as |u-urv-{tl|- Colnmbus- Avenue Uaiverealis’ chuich in Boston Mass. In & rermon suggested by the event he s1id he had durivg his psetorate per- formed the marriage ceremony 2,565 times and cfficisted at 1,904 funerals, Ths church membership has increased and the #ciety is prosperous, but a moctgage of 830,000 yet hauge over the church, and he hopes 1t will be raised ere long 80 that otter important missionary Wwork can be attended to, MUBICAL AND DRAMATIO. Lawrence Darrett's Inst week's receipts in Denver were 812,000, Jobn McCullough made a marked inno- e ————— ANHEUSER-BUSCH v, Brewing Association, CELEBRATED KiG & BOTTLED BEER. (4 THIS EXCBLLERT BRER SPEAES FOR ITSELF. Orders from any part of the 8tate or the Entire West will be promptly shipped: vation on stage precedents at the Oincin- natio dramatic festival Iast w ek, In playing the ghost in **Hamlet” he discard- ed the gauze in which it is customary to dress that rancous character, and wore a habit of gray, For this reliet much thanks, Mile, Etelka Borry is describ+d by her enterprising American manager as & Hun- garian actress who has performed in Rus. ria with very brilliaut success, and as the fortunate poesesaor of an unlimited amount of jewelry and wardrobe, Salmi Moree annoonces that he will pro- duce in his temple & play entitled “‘A Bustle Among the Petticuate,” 11 1says that “it is a clean, pure play with not a bt of vulgarity ih the whole thing except in the title which I chose mycelf because 1 thought it attractive,” Vienna has just heard Gerster—thongh + tance, she was born near by—and the ciitic Spei. delsaye: ““There is little that is brilliant in her meane; the need time to rthow what All Our Gouds are Made to the Standard of our Guarantee, GEORGE HENNING, Sole Agent for Omaha and the West. Office Corner 13th and Hama; Street STEELE, JJHNSON & C0., WHOLESALE GROCERS AND JOBBERS IN she cando, and her acting—which knows no repose, and advances through a com. plete series of parlor gymnastics to spasms —in disquisting, and ot pleating.” The opera at Vienna is giviog a series of performances of Mezart's operas in their chronologioal order. Apropos of this tact, a list has been published of the perform: ances of these works in Vienna since the first production, on July 12th, 1783, of “Die Entfubrang aus dem Ssruil,” It ap- peara that “Don Juan” has baen giver43) times, ‘“‘Die Zsuberflote” 66, 812, ie Eatfuhrung” 151, §" ttu.” 83, 1 fan tutte” 75, * Der Schauspil-dizes tor” 38, and *Toomeneo” 18 time, Mr. Murdoch’s Hamlet was a desided triumph for the veieran tragsdian, whose interprotation of the character twenty yoars ago waa one of the best of the day. The Cincinuati papers speak of it in the warmest praie, aud The Commercial: Gazette of Sunday prints a hal’.page cutof the castle of Elainore, where Mr, Mur. doch, with drawn sword, is seen beneath & gloomy array of alleged 'battlements talk- ingtoa gentlemen who appears to be dresced up for a pillow-case, whilo what seems to bo the Ohio river ut high flood rolls beneath the creacent moon in_the dis: Tho whole s very enchanting, and Mr. Aurdoch could scarcely h.ve done otherwise thn acquit himuelf nobly as the central figuro in ruch a “‘settiog.” WTA"II UNFA”lf.INO o Tits, ms, Falling ness, Cone ulsions, St. Vit- us Dance, Alco- holism, Opium Fating, Seminal Weakness, Impotency, Syphilis, Scrofula, and all Nervous and Bllood Dleease\s{. ~To Clergymen,Lawyers, Litcrary Men, Merginnmn, Bankers, Ladics and all whose sedentary cmployment causes Nervous Pros- tration, Irregularitiesof the Blood, Stomach, Bowels or Kidneys, or who require a nerve tonic, appetizer or stimulant, Samaritan Nervine 1s invaluable, =" Thousands, proclaim it the most wonderful Inyigor- ant that ever sus- tained a sinkingsys- tem. §1.508t gists. 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