Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 29, 1884, Page 2

THE DAILY BEE-- OMAHA, SATUR DAY M RCH 29, 1884 P A SPECIFS 7ol Epileper, Spasms, Convuie slons, Falling Bickness, St. Vitus Dance, Aleohole ism, Opiam Eate ing, Syphillis, Scrofula, Kings Pvil, Ugly Blood Diseases, Dyspep- sia, Nervousness, heumatism, Bt N E Weakness, Brain_Worry, Blood Scees, illousness, Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Kidney Trowies and Irrilarities. $1.50. mplo Dr. . v d it gk L 'y'v’.':',fifi?m’i‘fil.:.‘ Clyde, Kansas. Tt eared where P aie, Boaver, Pa. "’ml‘“fl' freely answered. S8 ¥ or testimonials and ;fl':‘fllcl;: l‘e::.:l'w.‘. . 8.A, Richmond " T8 O S vy all Dyagetite. | CTY Tord, Stoutenburg, and Co., Agents, Chicago, Il e Tt i ke IMPORTANT —T0~ Buyers ofal Classes. CANNON BRO'S & CO., Have ostablished themselves In Omaha to tansact & general brokerage and business. We will buy all Inssos of T:nd v wholesalo or retall, and guaranteo rum-u i n in price can buy cheaper han yourselves. You can 800 the advantage of hav- ng your goods bought by one who will work for ~our interest and not trust to a merchant who has ‘omething he is anxious to be ridof, We will also veprompt attention to seling anyEhing cntrusted s, and gooks consigned to us will be carcfully oked to. Correspondencs solloited. s 44 Roferences—Omaha Nationsl Bank, McCague bro's Bank. Addross 111 8. 16th St. PAVE —WITH— 00X FALLS bRANTTE, 2 ad your work is done for all time to time to come. WE CHALLENGE The World to produce a more durable material for street pavement than the Sioux Falls Granite. ORDERS FOR ANY AMOUNT{O} P Blo filled promptly. Samples sent and estimates given upon application. WM. MoBAIN & CO. Sioux Falls, Dakota. 266TH EDITION.PRICE $1.00 BY MAIL POSTPAID, man, po-':??u":".!‘ Tor i akas fono of which is Taveiasnl experionce for 4 brocaded with slightly raised velvet figures; MACADAM ! Why DLicn't the Girls Propose ? Why, don't the girls propose, papa? Why don’: the gitls propose? Each one scems coming to the point, And then away she goes, Though tis their privilege this year, As everybody knows, They flirt in quite an awful way, But, oh, they wont propose. T'vo road the latest fashions T can talk of glait and frill, And discuss the newest. color With a quite consummate skill; 1 am awu fait on bonnets, Know a thing or two of hoss, And T seem to interest them, But they wont —they wont propose, That most feminine of columns In the excellent Bazar, ‘Where the queerest sort of queries About m-\dng dresses are, 1 have studied with attention, Till one really would suppose That my language must attract them, Yot still they wont propose. T'vo practised charming innocence, And wooping at tho play; And 1 can drop my ayelids In o most engaging way; I've studiod hard ¢ blush and lisp My “'yos” en and my ‘‘no” o s, And smiled with sweet persistonce; But they will not propose. 1t really vory hard, papa; There's canie for just complaint, I'm oven trying to teach myself The way to scream and faint; But while I practise overy art, Too fast the leap-year goos. Wiy don'sthe girls propose, papa? Why don't tho giels propose? ~—Puck. i s HOUNEY FOR THE LADIES, Tadies in Parin are wearing blue gloves. Hand painted bonnets are the latest Par- isian novelties, A frizzed top on the hend of a fair maiden is never spun with string, The favorite walking costumes are now of gray and hunter’s greon cloth, At o rocont ball in London a lady wore & skirt studded with dead robins, Bags hold across the shoulders by a strap aro fashionable to carry when shopping. A Now Hampshire lady has worn one pair of earrings, night and day, for forty years. It is called leap year because all that time many girls jump at a conclusion.—{ Boston Budget. Rochebrunne remarks that it is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women. The government envelope factory at Hart- ford uses s ton of gum » week. This beats Vassar college about & quarter of a ton, The man who is waiting around for some woman to propose is ready to declare thac leap yoar exists more in romance than reality. The young women of Groten, Mass,, have Feibivel girlcott any young man that smokes or goes out of the theatre between the acts, ‘White China crope dresses are the most fashionable for ev.nlnfz wear, They are either hand embroidered or Jooped up with natural flowers, “‘Orazy patchwork” has becomoe a mania with many women, just as ‘“‘rick-rack” was a ear ago and ‘‘feather edged braid” some time fore that, Kid gloves are as long as ever, Long gloves of black undressed kid are to be worn with black dreseed; pearl gray, straw color, white, goldea and biege are all fashionable now, A young man at a gay domino party in New York got up a desperate flirtation with a lady, and was at length astonished to detect, (n tones of reprimand the well-known voice of his mother, It has been nux%:‘ncml that the most effective way to ruin the Mormons would be to send out score of milliners to set up magnificont establishments filled with expensive finery for women, A photographer at Brockville, Canad: was recently tined 8200 for placing the phot graph of a respectable Joung lady of that city n studio decorated with a mustache, cigar, and & doegecel rhyme, A favorite combination of coloris fawn- colored checked goods with plain silk and m; 0 plum-colored velvet wi lum-colored s with h d the: » nmlzlw bit of pomem‘blm. e 3 Somo of the new colors are burned cream, baked pears, crushed raspberry, scorched banaua, specked green d cotta, ele) !n.n'fi. breath, mon.l':yq: I:xuflo ::‘:T cnni b B'mfl"fi’ul:." aren't you color hufi The *‘Epaulette” lace collars are something new this season and promise to be much worn. Thoy are little shoulder-capes puffed at the shoulder with a sort of epaulette which gives em the name, They are made of black and white lace of all kinds, fine Irish point em- broidery and jet passementerie. Crepo_bonnets are to be among the most fashionable for the late spring and summer wear, and feathers will form trimming, es- Eodllly for full-dress bonnets, White and lack jot bonnets are far too pretty and ser- viceablo tc cast aside, so they are seen again "1‘,',‘ senson in many now shapes and all the old oves. The fashlon of carrying small doge, pugs and podion s oo Qicarded In the asas. Sinoo sucoess of Daly'a comedy, 7-20-8, the young ladies in New *York, inflienced by the axample of tho horotue In tho play, Appaat I the stroets accompanied by large nastilts and Bloodhounds, Thoro. s 'no. & counting for Many noveltles are introduced thin season in materials a3 woll as the fashion of mak- them up. Ono is & Mexican_cloth, not to as thin as Mexican gauze, with a ground blue, salmon pink or musk dotted with of crimson and pold, is used {n the make-up of mlk and cloth dresses, and lends a very rich effect to costume. . Al the springhats are of straw, although many of S oot qurew. it Toath. ers, velvet and gauze that it would be difficult to tell of what the frame was made. The fa- vorite shapes have all high crowns and rather brims. They are to bo worn quite o e, LR e Uy of le or in my , A will not find much favor until very warm weather, Tn tho oartiost apring silks shot aud shaded wto. Tho shot, or oh n shot or changeable #ilks show two distinet colors—porcelain-hlue shot with ' coral, moss-green with faded blue, brown with lilac, aud dark blue with dull red. The new failles have a satin lustre, and are are China Velvet designs on shot Fgeon ably suited for dinner mn‘n‘ velv renading npear Gl vod uiados, instond of La black Satoons in all shades and many curlous do- are )‘i’m‘:‘ extonsively worn for summer or Pampadour -tiuted grounds mv;d ‘\:ld\h plnl{oru "n:';m Io:uh-l are c‘r’l‘q pretty, those in tint A o son and lavender are cq:df;::{ pt::‘x. l::t o | teatival, is . In bonnets the small sna front, alf h some few in about two years, and snipe as a pastime, to be share of the receipts at the Grand O) Bt 1a B Lovis s waat " aad Opera Texan wilds, soat there is no power on earth that will fn- duce her to budge. B e e Not too Previous. Don't Iay aside your nlater yet, Or tako your duster out of pawn, You'll need the first—don't you forget— For several weeks—winter's not gone. [Somerville Journal, SINGULARITIES, Morschaum has been discovered in some parts of North Carolina, A shark thirty-thres feot long was killed Inst week in Panama Bay, At Pompeil combs have been found exactly like the modern fine-tooth kind. Tho most ancient of all receipts known to us comes from Egypt, from an ancient papyrus roll, and it is & receipt for hair-dye, Charles Onkley has lived in New Ycrk city for ninety-seven yoars, and is now approach- ing his one hundred and second birthday. A bill has boen introduced into the house of commons to humanize the children, computed at 60,000, who live on barges and in traveling vans, The lotus flower of Fgypt, is naturalized on o mill pond. nsar Dover, Del., and the flower waa in full bloom last snmmer near a lawn in the charming Chester vallay in Pennsylvania. Jumbo, Barnum's elephant, s in his twenty- third year—a youthful age for an elephant. Sinco lant summer ho has gained groatly in flosh, s five inches taller, and his tusks have grown eight inches, Did any one every think how much space is required to bury the dead? If one would be content with grave 236, 3,630 bodies could be interred in one acre, allowing nothing for walks, roads or monuments. On this crowded theory Londow’s annual death, numbering 81, 120, would fill 234 acres, Sovoral capitalists are sald to have Iately ex- tablished & ‘‘goose farm” at Wallop's Neck Accomac county, Virginia, about two acres of iand, inclosed by & Aemly bullt pianic farios, and containing 1,900 whito 0. The nests are laid off into sections, with avenues run- ning through parallel with each other, Ina fish hatohery at Nashville are large numbers of axilott " fish, a fish having head, body, and tail similar to o lizard, with black oyosaud four logs, Thoy aro véry ravenous and destroy brook trout in n very unsatisfac- tory manner to tho breeders, The axilott varios from throo to seven inches in length, There is_a remarkable infant in the small town of Bilech, Bosnia, He was only a seven month's baby, yet he looked as if he were two years yoars old. He was born with two large teeth, and his strength is so great that his mother cannot manace him alone. The peo- plein the village think that he is suro to be- come a second Marco Kraljevich, the groat Slavonic warrior, A rat tamer says: ‘“Take the most ferocious rat, throw it into a pail of water, and leaye it there until it become exhausted and is about to drown, Then take it out, roll it wadding, and put it in o warm place, When the rat comes to it will evince the deepest gratitude. It will lick your hands and lulfiow you about the house like a dog, and can be taught a number of tricks,” There is a large deposit of white earth, or “white mud,” s it is commonly called, with- in the corporate limits of Greensboro, Ga., which has the property of extracting grease from the floors, and has been used from time immemorial by the housewives of the town for that purpose. It is also used quite exten- sivoly for whitewashing hoarths, and in some instances has taken the place of whitewash for fonces, A veritable natural curiosity is in the pos- session of a St, Louis editor, It is the head of a two-year old rattlesunke preserved in spirits, the lines and tracings on the back of which formed a very well-dofined picture of the head and bust of a woman, The gentle- man states that he and a party of friends were resting under an apple tree in Cleburne, John- #on county, Tex., when they perceived the reptile on a branch aboye them, and knocking it down with a whip, kilied it. ————— A Boom of Booms. BY A BOOMER, There's the election boom, And the elub-room boom, And the boom of electrio light; The saving-fund boom, Aud tho bullding And tho boom for achools at night; Out of all the booms that are booming sure, And to beom in the *'sweet bye and bye,” T the boom of water both plenty and pure And should not in ita infancy die. There’s the sidewalk boom, And the crossing boom, And the postoffice boom as well, And the Avenue boom, ‘The new depot boom — 'hen ’twill be built none can tell— But above all the booms that are booming aloud, And should boom and crowd other booms bhoom, lown, Is the l:utér Loom, and may its advocates shouf Until water is brought te our town. There's the pike closing boom, And tho church building boom, And the boom for the opening of Vine, And tho connty bridge boom, And the Goosetown boom, And the boom of working half time; But a boom that will prove a boom to all And the want of it troubles us most— Ts the boom of water for which wo now pino— But of water works soon we can boast. There's the now look-up boom, And the engine house boom, And the boom for keoping a store; Tho Camptown boom And the trade dollar boom And the boom of » house of the poor. All merit a share of the public concern, And have friends to argne each case, But water's a boom that all will agroe Is the boom that should lead in the race. —{Mt. Carmel Nows, —— MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Nilsson says she will retire from she stage Joe Jefferson is in Florlda shootiag duck Gounod's opera, “Tribute von Zamora, is produced at Hamburg, Faony Davenport pockets 86,000 as her A Rome correspondent pronounces Marini the greatest actress that ever lived, and equal- ly great in farco and in tragedy. Mr. Fred Warde will appear on Mr. Edwin Booth's off-nights, commencing aa 'V ieginius” in Erookiys aa Bavarday nlgrr " siolus Edwin Booth's busines in Brooklyn the bast weok has ‘boen uniformly Iargs, . The ‘ool's Revengo appears to be the greatest af The Viotoria Loftus Female Mastodons waro treated to stale eggs at a performance in Houston, Texas. troupe is stranded in Miss Laura Don, ol s e ;:;‘ “N“"I“an o in Frank Mayo's new Mme. Materna, who will a) at the M. considered the nfimw nui:: oprano. As an actress she is said to be very superior, and all impersonations bear the stamp of genius, Among the new cowic a8 $0 be mfif’m i this country are A Nishe 'y "‘VG )" b) hskclull'hl‘lnd'. w&k entitled 9," by Carl J of *“The Baygar Studeat, 1 10 PR ilhelm, Germany for his violin nlay performed a ra, from s j bas been winning much praise in o S, A 3 oar Wagner's **Parsifal,” which delig] ed his sudience, critics remark th-w::v derful besuty of his tone, and of the great per- foction of his interpretation of the mystical character of Wagner's music ‘The dates for the Olucinnati Dramatic fes. tival have been fixed as follows: Cwsar, April 21: Twelfth Night, 22d; Ro. weo and Juliet, vors, 28d; As You Like As You Like It, 20th, The artists who and Comed, 4 oury 1V, olpate ara | Julius | the Fanny Davennart, Modjeska, Agnes Booth, T. W.JKoone, Frod Warde, Rolert Mantell, Stuart Robson, W. H. Crane and John Jack. Franz Suppe opera, “A Trip to Africa,” which has lately heen produced in the east, has attracted considerable attention, Itisa work of the light and popular order €0 much admired by the people at the present time. The scene and character of the operretta is orlental, and rives plenty of apportunity for a brillisnt display, The music is said to be bright and pleasing and fall of vivacity, being also rich in melodies of a taking character, The German opera company, under the di- veotion of Hana Richter, will produce the fol- lowing works during the spring season at_Co- vent Garden Theatie, London: “Der Fli gende Hollander,” ** Pannhauser,” “‘Meister- winger,” and “Tristan and_Isolde,” by Wag- by C. V. Stanford; “Die Heiligo Flisabeth,” by “Der Frei: schntz” and “Euryanthe,” by Von Wober,and ““Fidelion,” by Beethoven—a fine list of grand operas, Mr. Daly's comedy company will be taken abroad next summer for a two months’ season at Toolo's theatre, London, This will be the first American stock-company ever: taken to Tingland, The departure will b made July 8, after o _soason of five weeks in New York, The members of the company who will go are Miss Ada Rehan, Mrs, G. H. Gilbert, Miss May Fielding, Miss Virginia Dreher, Miss Trwin, Mr, James Lowis, Mr. John Dret, Mr. Charlos Fisher, Mr. Charles Leclercq, Mr, William Gilbert, Mr, George Parkes, Mr. Thompson, and Mr, Otia Skinner, who is to bo a new member of Mr, Daly's company next senson, and will join in time for this tour, ner; “/Savonarola e e— e A Crown of Sorrow. “Oh, tell me—if to mortal ears You may your grief confide— What heavy sorrow brings those tears That roll in rapid tide, “Init for some dear friend you mourn, Just left this world of care? Ot _some relation rudely torn? Or elso your aweetheart fair? ““Or, worse than all—in earth orsky There's no such grief as this is— Has pretty Agnes been too thy, And careful of her kisses?” “Ah, ot Though sach and ev'ey view Ts sorrowful, that you take, This grief to me is nothing new— T'va got, alas, tho toothache!” —[Texas Siftings. e ——— IMPIETIES, Cain was the first follow that tried to paint the town red. Tho Japanese word for hell is “jigoku.” looks awif it might fill the bili. Tt is a curlous fact that many alleged reli- gious papers advertise revolvers, Talmoge's salary lst yoar was 12,000, but some circus actors get more than that. Father Walters, of Lafayette, Indiana, re- fused to accopt for the church a purse of ‘S50 derived from a dancogiven on St. Patrick's night. A clergyman says that the baby that pulls whiskers, bites fingors and grabs for overy- thing it soes has in it the elements of a suc- cessful politician, The Congregatienal church in Wallingford, Conn., has ndopted a resolution forbidding its members to drink intoxicating liquors, but explicitly excepting hard cider. ““Are you keeping Lent?” asked Miss Dudine of Slim. ““Yas, I'm keeping all that's lent unt then someono hit him on the head umbrella cover and she fainted.— It witl [Peck’s Sun. ood country priest sald to a dyln A drunkard: *‘My son, you must_be reconcile with your enenies.” ~*“Then,” groaned the pour wretch, ‘‘give me a glass of water!”— [French Fan. There is never any roduction in the wages of sin. The Cincinnati people did not wait till May to move. It is said to be dangerous to defy Jersey lightning.—[New York Com- mercial-Advertiser. Rev. George H. Hepworth calculates that ho has made more enemies by telling tho truth at funorals than in any other way. It ought to draw crowds, though, Telling the truth at funrals is great novelty.—Philadelphia At arevival in Louisville last Sunday the class-leader urged those who were present to get up and tell what the Lord had done for them. A tall, matter-of-fact specimen of the granger arose, and in a loud, earnest voice said: *‘He ain’t done nothin’ for me, and I'm about tuckered out. The factis I’m a stran- ger and need help right off,” The ltorf came from Paris that a lady, who attended four churches in one day, missed her umbrella on returning home. She imme-. diately revisited all four churches, and found her umbrella in the last one. When the um- brella was handed to her she thankfully said to the sexton: *“The people at this church are much more honest than those at the others.” e —— The Secret of Success. He asked her wed, Tn tones sweet and low; Bu; tho girl shook her head, And started to go. Ho reached in his pocket, d smiled very bland, Then drew forth & locket, And placed in her her hand. Again did he plead, n accenta of woe; But her heart wouldn’t bleed, And sho promply said *No!” He showed her his money, His bank-book as well, His stocks and his bonds, And at her feet fell. She saw his condition, And was forced to confess ‘That she really did love him, And, laughing, said “Yes!" WiLn M. Cresess, e — OONNUBIALITIES, Mr, Dick Gravely and Miss Mollie Bluck of Gordon county, Ga., were married on the ad in Gordon county receatly, Under the bill which has just been passed by the Maryland legislatars a marriage license will cost only sixty cents. At a resent fashionable wedding in Boston the bridesmaids osrried baskets of white lilacs and wall-flowers, while velvet was the domi- nant dress, Society in Gotham is soandalized because a widow of less than a year haa sent out dainty ittle blask-edged cards aunouncing her en- agewent to & youth nearly twenty years her fiior, Clelia Garibaldi, the youngest daughter of the general, was recently married at Turin to Professor Grazialdi, King Humbert seut the bride a haunsome diamond bracelet. Some beautiful lowers were offerod by Garibaldi's voterans, Lord Kildare, who was married a few weeks ago in Englaud, gave the bridosmaids watches, and Truth romarks tnat they could hardly have kept good time, as one of the brides- maids did not arrive until the ceremony was ended, The jury system: ‘A recent ‘high life’ mar- riage in Baltimore is the result of a flirtation begun in a court room, wi Was & {lu.kury-m and the bride interestod i t to a relative’s will. Before the close of the trial they were engaged, and the verdict was all the young woman eould as! Quite & party had assemhled at the residence of & young lady in Rabway, N. J., lust Thurs- marriage. day, to witness her She had driven , a8 she stated, to the residence of the min- ister b bring him around, They waited for three wt:l'halu-. aud no bride came. In- vestigations showed that she and the minister had been married. On Christmas Day Bert Thom; of Bares, aud the protty Miss Miauio Hance, of Nu.rt.h"u Ohio, were nufl:d. Bh-l: now vores, charging mean: brutalit; .nv’Nr"ln‘ her even on the vodd.ln! day. He has NLn‘-lhnud religion, an the charge isthat would go home from noisy “u'fldpn\hn at a prayer meeting aud pound his young wife because she did not be- come meek and good like himself, A dreadfuf rumor is warching around ths thmdh‘{olnpwm John Q. Cannon, Mormon elder, if he will put away the four seals which have already been sewled onto this much married man. We don't be- lieve & word of is, but Kate is a business wo- man, and if she wants & husband at all, she way want one who has had & broad experience in the business, which the old Utah rmocth. bore certainly has had. A blessaa ¢lu tield piece the elder would make, anyhow, Says The Athens Banner-W; . ert Hahlston and Miss Vashti Echols, of Dal. ton, had for some time been engaged, but the parents of the young lady objected. The lovers rosolved on a clandestine union,and ap- pointed the Northern Methodist church the trysting place. But the hopes of the anxions couple were dissipated when the enraged father appeared on the scene and carried his daugh- ter back home, Not to be outdone the gre elect procured a justioe of the peace,and go %0 ths hotise of the young 1ady wi ‘80 ferste: tent in his suit for her hand that the parents finally consented to the marriage, and the pair was happily united. Inithe gloaming stands & maiden, With a wealth of warm-hued hair; On her rosy face is graven Treland's map in lines so fair. Grace deplcting, as she stands thus Outlined 'gainst a leaden sky; ‘Who would think her eye so lustrous Looked for aught but lover nigh! Searchingly she glances round her, And methinks I hear her say: “‘Come, my love! Oh, come, my lover!” As she turns her face away. Tut what words are these she mutters, As she turns her face again, On tho breezo they,re wafted to me: ‘‘These clothes are dry; they must come i ~[CHanug —— EDUCATIONAL. Prof. Green of Princeton college was a pro- sessor at 18, Eightoon colored teachers are employed in the Nashville, Tenn., public schools, Four ladies are candidates for county super- intendont of schools in Pennsylvania. Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody, of Boston, now noaring hoer S0th yoear, was tho firt o fntro- duce the kindergarten system in this country. Charles Francis Adams' suggestion that Greek and Latin should b dropped from the college cirriculum has met, with: littlo opposi: tion; but what a howl would goup if he should advooate the dropping of base.ball. Two thousand of the elementary teachers in France receive only from 600 to 700 francs a year; and there are nearly eighty thousand others who are renumerated on different scales, but who in no tases receive more than 1,000 francs a year, A Maine girl, who is a graduate of Vassar, has re-shingled her father’s house herselt, just for the fun of it. Her father probably thinks she learned to do carpenter work at Vass: and we cannot say that she didn't. Ther no telling what a girl won’t learn when she is away from home at school.—[Lowell Citizen. The Oakland, California,board of education is thinking seriously of attaching to the public school department of that city an industrial training sehool for boys and girls—the former to be grounded in the ‘elementary use of tools. and the latter to be instructed in cooking and sewing. The special committee on the sub- ject have reported in favor of establishing two classes of twenty scholars each, for boys, ;;vl two classes, also of twenty scholars, for 1 Two young msn of Ida township, Monroe county, Michigan, have been arrested for dis- turbing the district school. The *‘disturbance” complained of seems to have consisted of a persistant inclination to attend the school as visitors and sit with the pirls and ‘‘spark” during school hours; also a habit of being Jat the school at recess and noontimes, to engage in the same pleasant occupation. The boys wealcened on being hauled up before the jus- tice and promised to quit. There is considerable agitatien in Belgium over the lace-making schools, They aro chiefly in the hands of different reli(lnus com- munities, as the Apostolines, the Maricoles, the Jonag:linen and Collectines, and are under- atood, while teaching the art of lace making, to give some primary instruction. It appears that less than an hour is devoted to reading and writing, the rest to the Litany and the loom. The age of admission is as low as 5 or 6 years, The regulations issued by the bishop of Bruges fix the school hours from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m., but these hours are nearly always ex- ceeded, and the children are kept at work from half-past 5in summer and 7 in winter, to half-past 8 in summer and 8 in winter; their health is consequently very bad., They are robbed in addition, A child is mentioned in the report who, after working for two months, took home thirty centimes, or at the rate of half a centime a day; another, 12 years old, received for three years' work five francs, or one centime a day. Spring Delights. The merry spring is coming, The bizds s hers again, And prompt on time we hear it The organ-grinder’s strain. Suns of sunny Italy Are up betimes each day, And late into the night they work, To drive our sleep away. The little birds are singing, The air is soft as June, And on our ear thero falieth The old, familiar tune. 0, Fenian dynamiter, ‘Hasten thee hero we pray, Start your infernal machine when The organ begins to play. —G1L” in Boston Star, lu;:mmous. The Episcopalians will build a $500,000 cathedral a¢ Albany, N. Y. The Buddhist craze has spread from London Paris, There are now 300 Buddhists there, and probably their demand for & temple will be granted. The annual incomo of Trinity Parish, New York, is $500,000. The total expenses of the porish are 818,032 1t hus 18 clorgymon, 342 unday school teachers, and 4,621 scholars, The Episcopalians are doing work among the Chinese in Philadelrhia. It was begun years ago by a woman. About forty Chinamen are now under instruction in three Sunday schools, and a number will soon be ready for baptism, A new lamp has been placed in St. Francis vier’s church in New York. simile of the one in thechurch of St, Sulplice, in Paris, It is twenty-eight inches in diamo- ter, and hange from the ceiling by & brass chain sixty feet loug. The lamp cost, includ- ing duties, $1,800, The Baptists of Maine are not prospering. In 1844 their membership was 23,860; at pres- sent it ie 20,030, In 1846 they had 300 churches; now they have but 232." In other words, their membership has decreased 2,721, and 45 churches have been compelled to elose their doors. These facts ware brought out at the fifty-ninth annual Meeting of the Baptists the Chureh of of thatstate, B in Ci en outstripped by the other Protestant denominations, so. far ns Rain in numbers is concerned, The rate of in- creaso of the Methodists has been 35 per cent, of the Presbyterians 24, of the Baptists 24, butof the Church of Bngland 164 In the diocese of Ontario the total incroase of the Protestant population from 1871 to 1881, when the last census of Candana a was taken, was 36,000, Of them the Methodists had gained 19,000, the Presbyterians sbout 7,000, thes Ohurch of Euglm-ronly 1,500, During the recent Ohio flood, Dean chapel, about one mile from Worthington, Ky., was about half under water, After the watars had withdrawn, pictures of bible events, according to thostories of several truthful citizens, began o appear upon the four walls. The cruel tion, wv-rl:mn #pace of two by three feel vl‘:lml;'uudl yi:’ulld;ul.d'l‘wo dhu‘l’l’. o s on ocoupi half of one wall, & Gethsemane and the Lled an- other half, Thero wi scription, and & would be difficull to s o fhe "B, the shabel b nomena unt the cha) then used for the first tiwe since mh&; when the pictures gradually disappeared, | re- sumably, aa some suppete, frow the effect uf the heat of the stove, wonderful pictures bavo been the cause of fifty-two conversions and sanctifications since their appearance, an the entire community wrought up to a high state of excitemet. o Tells What He Knows. “‘Best thing for burns I have ever tried. Heals up grandly.” L. P. Follett, Marion, Okio, speakiog of Zhomas ¥ clectric Oil, The Largest Stock in Omaha, and Makes the Lowest Prices Furniture’ DRAPERIES ANC MIRRORS, CEIANMBRER SETS ! 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