Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 23, 1885, Page 4

YHE DAILY BEE. Opwron Mo, 914 awp 018 Famwax By, Yonx Owrion, Roou 65 Tarsowa Borio- e, morning, Sunday. The I e R A i R A WERMS BT MAR. . <1000 | Thres Monthe 10 'l':&- ‘ 5,00 | One Manih. 0 ¥he Woakly Bes, Publihsed every Wednesday WRRMS, POSTPAIR 1T , with premium. ::;:'v without ‘nnhn 18 #tx Months, without premium. One Monih, on rial. . ‘conaasroND: feations relating miers whould be addrossod [ FUSDNRSS LETYERA. » All Bustness Letters and Remittanoss should rossed Brn PURLISKING COMPANY, OMARA e oeks and PR ofis orders 40 be made DAY Whls 40 the order of the eompany. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Props. B ROSEWATER, Eorron B o Y und— Nows and Editerial 3 0 the Edrron or s Max 1st has beon selected as Arbor day tn Vermont, The Vermonters will on {hat day plant their favorlte tree— the maple. — — Tur Republican 1s just now engaged in making explanations. It s not half 80 necezsary, however, for it to explain ita recent strong endorsement of Grover Cleveland as it Is t> explaln its bolt of the republican candidate for mayor.; Tur effscts of Dr. Millet's vislt to Washington sre not yet visible to the naked.eye, but we expect to hear at any moment that Dr. Bear and ““‘Ool.” Frank P. Ireland have both been appolnted Unlted States marshal. Each has a sol- emp promise of the place. SoMe of our business men evidently do not appreclate our pavements, They continue to dump rubbish and loose pa- pers up in the streets, and partioularly In the alleys. Now that the alleys are paved, there is no reason why they should not be kept as neat and clean as the streots. — Mg, J. B. SourHArp, the new city clerk, has been a resident of Omaha for many years. For some time he has been deputy county clerk, previous to which he was in the postal service. He Isin every way qualified to fill the position of county clerk, and will no doubt give satisfactlon to the public. GENERAL GRANT continues to astonish the doctors. On Tuesdsy ‘afterncon he took quite a waik, from his resldence to the center of Sixty-sixth street and Madi- son avenue, and return. He was accom~ panied by his son Col. Grant, who, how- ever, did not find 1t necessary to assist him in any way. His only assistant was acane. He exhibited no feebleness, and his appoarance was a pleassut surprise to thoze who met him, THE city council has passed an ordi- nance prohiblting oplum joints, and making the penalty a fino of $5 to $100, or imprisonment for not more than ninety dsye, or both, This is a timely ordinance, as thuse dens have increased toan alarming extent in this city, and the number of patrons of the pipe Is much larger than the public has any idea of. Now then let tho ordInance be strictly enforced, without any delay. THERE are several clty ordinances that have been allowed to becomo dead let- ters, owing to the neglect of the officers, One of theee ordinances is that which prehibits the obstruction of streets. No attentlon whatever, seems to be paid to it. House movers loave framo houzes in the middle of a street for wecks ata time. Lumber is left plled up in the streets the year round. Contractors,who aro permitted to coonpy a portion of the street while they are erecting bulldings, leave their rabbish for weeks efter a building is completed. There is hardly a street in the clty but upon which there cannot be found some dangerous or annoying obstruction. This is a matter thet deserves the atten- tlon of the city marshal, who should sce that tho ordinanze is enforced. A Ngeprasga Crry paper complalns about the lack of courtesy on the par’ of the Bk because we failed to credit the source whence we derlved csrtain infor- mation upon which an editorial In this paper was based. This only shows what queer notlons country editors have con- cerning editorlal courtesy. It ls proper and always customary to credit original articles, letters and dispatches which are clipped from other papers, but it would be the height of absurdity to extend the courtesy 8o far as to refer to the source of Informationupon whichthe editor baseshls opinlons, If that were the case we would have to credit the New York papers for {nspiration concernlug some law proposed in vhe legislature of that state, or the Chicago papers about the Illinols eenato- rial contest, and so on. —————— We have recelved & communication, sigued “‘mauy citizens of the Third ward,"” calling attention to a saloon which {s denounced s a resort of thieves and robbers, and & nulsance which ought to be suppressed. We know nothing about the place, and Inasmuch as the partles do not sign their names we are unable to judge as to the reliability of the charge. At the same time It s well and proper that the marshal, to whom the matter should be referred, should make sn investigation, and if the saloon 1s such a den as is charged It onght to be immediately closed. The sum of fifty cents, which accompanied the cemmuni- caticn, awaits the order of ‘Many Oitlzevs,” and unless called for within the next thirty days at the B counting room it will be donated to the Statute of Liberty pedestal fund, HE OANNOT PROVE IT. A temperance reformer by the name of Montague has taken It upon himself to pronounce high licenze a failure, and has gone #o far as to demonstrate to his own satisfaction that there Is more drunken- ness In this city and state now than there was before the high license law went Into effect. Now we would like Mon- tague, or any other man, to come forward with the proofs. We have no desire to encourage drunkenness and in suppress. ing the evils that spring from intemper- ance we would go just as far ny ra- tional man could go. We maintain, however, that high license has been the means of very materlally decreasing drankenness, It has done more to di- minish deunkennees in Omaha than any other possible sgency could have done, unless there could have been an entire euppreeslon of the liquor drinking habit. When high 1lcense went Into effect threa years ago, Omaha had 170 saloons with a pop ulation of 35,000. To-dsy with a popu- Iatlon of 65,000 we have less than 110 ealoons. It is safo to say that under the former law we would have had no less than 250 saloons, 1f the theory is correct that every sa- loon affords an Incentive to intemper— ance then surely we have diminished the evil of Intemperance by at least one hnn- dred per cent. But this is not all. Every intelligent and impartial observer must concede that high license has had the eftect of ralsing the standard of saloons and their keopers. In the first place the law prevents irresponsible bar- room loafers from opening saloons, Un- der the old system any man who could command $100, and obtain & keg of beer and a gallon of whisky could start a saloon in Omaha, Now a man must have at least fair oredit and an amount of capital that makes him responsible to a certain extent. He must have a bond signed by bona fide property owners, whereas formerly he had no bond to give,and was not compelled in any way to be responsible. Under the high license law the saloon-keeper and his bondsmen are responsible for the damages resulting from the sale of liquors, and especially to minors and habltual drupkards. Itis only when the present high-license law is not well enforced that its benefits are diminished. A rigid enforcement of the law would do away with moat of the evils which atill remain, There is no reason, for instance, why the keeper of any low dive or disorderly house should be able to get license under any pretext. Itls entirely optional with the license board to grant a license. The board is really in duty bound to refute license to any place that s notorlously disorderly and disreputable, Of course the prohibition- isws will respond that all dealers in liquor are disreputable, and that every place where liquor is eold is a discrderly house. That {s merely a sentimental assertlon. The only question for the practical re- formor and philarthroplst is what can be done to serve humanity from the moat pernicious evils of intemperance? The ropeal of the high license law certainly will not cause any abatement of those evlls, neither will the enactment of a prohibitory amendment to the constitu. tion 8o long as prohibition does not prohiblt. Towa and Kan- sas afford examples enough iIn that direction. In Council Bluffs and Sioux Clty, Iowa, there are more saloons to the population than there are in Oma- ha, and they sell more polson than s dealt cut under high license. At the same time they pay nothing but s pop license, and contribute nothing to the public revenues. In Leavenworth, Kan- sas, a clty of 20,000 people, thers are 150 salocns ruoning with doors wide open and paying nothing but a lemenade license. We know this from personal observation. If Mr. Montague desires to mako con- verts to his temperance vlews ho is at liberty t> make any moral plea that he secs fit, but he ehould not demand the repaal of a good law until he can glve us a better one. Nebraska hasset an exam- ple in this matter which older states are trying to follow, and although their llcense is cnly about one-third as much as that of Nebraska they tnink they are achieving a great reform. Tuae eficacy of prayer was recently trled in a Kaneas City jury rocom. One of the jurymen indulged in prayer, and the defendant In the case, against whom averdict was given, moved to eeb sside the verdlet on the ground of ‘‘undue in- fluence exerclsed by one of the jurymen by means of publlc prayer in the jury room,” The defendant's counsel, while admitting that there could be no objec- tlon to *‘a private petitlon to the throne of grace earnestly offared by a consclen- tious juror with the motlye of freeing his own mind from prejudice and patsion,” but he strenuourly maintained that a public prayer in such a place was ‘‘a horse of another color,” inasmuch as “‘one long-practiced in the wielding of this subtle Influence can play vpon the foelings and judgment of his weaker brother, and the more gifted In prayer is the leader the more powerful will be his influence.” Upon this polnt the supreme court of Kansas has been called to de- cide, Its opinion has not yet been an- nounced, but it Is awaited with a great deal of interest, Perhaps the supreme court itself will indulge in prayer before formulating Its opinion, Omana s to be congratulated upon the return to this clty of Mr. A, U, Wyman, late treasurer of the United States, Mr, Wyman began his career in this clty in the early daye. He was for a time the teller in the Weatern Exchange and Ma. rine Insarance company’s bauk, which was situated in the bulldiog now oceu- pied by the Unlted States National bank, sad which did » very large business, He THE DAILY BEE--THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1885, next ocoupled the position of cashier in the Omaha National bank, and retained that place until he was appointed treas. most responsible offices In the govern- ment service. As the falthful custodian of Uncle Sam's cash box he has enjoyed a national reputation, and, with the exception of the late F. E. Spin- ner, he has attached hils name to more paper, representing wealth, than any other man in America. He has fre- quently signed his name to checks of from one to five millions. Mr, Wyman's reelgnation was a voluntary act, and he steps down and out not only with honor but with the full confidence of Secretary Manning, who regrots hia departure, Mr. cently elected president of the new Loan and Trust company, organized in this clty, and also was elected vice-president of the Omaha National bank. As an officer of that Inatitution he will add to its dy well-established reputation. A KNOTTY QUESTION. Worr Sterrk, W. T., April 20, ‘Will the Ber please decide the following wager: A bets that a child born of American parents traveling in a foreign country Is eligi- ble to the presidency of the United States. B bota that the child is not eligible, as he is not of American birth, J. C, Barnrus, The above {s a difficult question to answer. No such case has ever occurred, and probably never will, although { Is porsible. The constitution of the United States in article 11, sectlon b, says: ““No person except a native-born citizen, or a cltizen of the the Urited States at the time of the adoptlon of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of presjdent.” Section 1,003 of the statutes of the United States, wunder the title of *‘cltizenship,” says: *‘All children heretofore born or hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be cltizens of the United States.” Exactly what is meant by the term ‘‘natural-born,” we are not fully prepared to say. According to Webater the synonym for natural is ‘‘native,” and this would lead one to conclude thata natural-born citizen s one who Is born on the soll of the United States. would be native-born, The children of Americaus traveling in a forelgn country are foreign-born, but the statutes, above quoted, make such children citizens of the United States. But are they citizens eligible to the presi- dency? Are they ‘‘natural-born” ac- cording to the constltution? We are, however, Inclined to the belief that a child, born under the circumstances stated, Is eligible to the presidency, and one of the mcst eminent attorneys in this part of the country, is of the same opioion, although he admits, as we do, that it is an open questlon. Under the clrcumstances we cannot positively decide the bet., Incidentally, it might be well to state that the sons of ministers pleni- potentiary and consuls born abroad are eligible to the presldency, because the diplomatic headquarters and consulates srefunder ‘the American flag and are re- garded as domiciles for Americans, thus making their resldence there equivalent to a residence on American soil. That Tue American Bell Telephone com- pany has petitloned the leglelature of Massachusetts for authority to Increase its capital from ten to thirty millions of dellars, on the ground that the money is needed to stretch new wires for long-dis- tance telephoning, Whatever reason the Bell telephone company may glve for this remarkable inflation, the public will regard it as nothing mora nor less than a gigantlc stock-waterlng job for the benefit of the original stockholders, whose stock has slready been Inflated from $100.000 to $10,000,000, an increase of a handred fold, and they now want an In- crease of three hundred fold. It ls no wonder that the chief manipulators in the Bell telephone company have grown im- mensely rich In a faw years. Now that the Missouri Pacific, Wa- bash, Chicago & Alton aund Barlington lines have entered the railroad freight war, aud have cut rates from St Louis to Omaha and Council Bluffs, the fignt has become docidedly interesting. Mean- time the mercbants In this part of the country are taklng advantage of the re- duced rates. ln all probability the fight will be comprom!sed in a day or two, as 1t is too disastrous to the railroads to last much lorger. The benefits derived from such a war are only temporary to the shipper, and upon the whole are not very profitable, as such variable rates, which are liable to be abandoned at any hour, unsettle commerce. AcAIN we are led to remark that it 1s an {1l wind that blows no one good. A Troy knlt-goods man {s congratulating himself that the ramors of war between Russis and England brought to him an order for 25,000 undershirts to keep the Russian warrlors warm, 1t will keep the mill-bands busy tor elght months. Now turn the dogs of war loose, and let the fight begin, This country stands ready to farnish efther side all the supplios that sre demanded. Wk take It all back, Dr. Miller has not been to Washington lo consult Grover Cleveland, The hungry dem- ocraoy therefore must hold themeclves in patience for a fow weeks longer, It was Dr. Miller's father who called on Cleve- land. The venerable octogenarian, who had not looked upon & democratic presi- dent slnce the days of Bochanan, wanted to foast his eyes ence more upon such a rari'y before he died. IA gaog of hlnm-thlam fl causing great urer of the United States, one of the T M R SR ey KITG Wyman would in all probabllity have been retained in the position, had he de- sired to remaln there. He had, how- ever, contemplated thls step for some time, and was anxious tomake his per- mtfih;'rlr'x;“l;:m ?‘:iald umfi- make the independ. manent home in Omaha. He was re- | bring pflve;t; “;'::l?n.fl'[}:‘:;d'kl:n"l{,:‘:‘;‘;fi: BYATE JOTTINGS. —_— The bald-headed eagle recently killed near Fremont was shipped to Oarter Harrison, D, 8. Draper, of Oass, would saccept the receivership of the Valentine land office. The contract for building the ecientific de- rntment of the state university has been lot for $28,700, Grand Islanders are passing around the hat to ralte 81,600 for the fireman's tournament to be held there next August. Grand Tsland will do an unusual amount of buildine this season, and the structures will 58 mostly of the better class, The demand for tesms at $4 per day is re- ported good on the White river extension of the Sivex City & Pacific railroad, The Dakota Stook and Grazing company has secured & judgment of $564 783 against Price} & Jenks in the Sidney courts. John McOarthy was arrested Friday at Falls City for stealing oattle from John Friedburg, who lives south of Dawson, George Freeman, the York county horse thief, was sentenced to seven years in the Lincoln state prison, at York,on Saturday, The Lincoln councll has extended _ths time of closing the saloons from 10 to 11 o'clock. This makes a_very seasonable hour for night caps. Poter Mathias, o Fremont man who had his foot crushed some months ago while moving a building has just died from blocd Poisoning. The rush of eettlars to Narthwestern No- braska is crowding cattlemen to the wall and many of them aro preparing to move to Wyoming. 7The Nebraska Stock Yards company at Lincoln are making preparations to put their long contemplated yards and improvements in operation at oncs, Deacon Champion, a freckled pillar of the Presbytorian church at Firth, wan_arrested for pullivg the wool over the éyes of one of the innocent lamb of the fold. Tho West. Point creamery association re- quires the mille of 5,000 cows to ran its four establishments—2,000 at West Pointand 1,000 each at Creigton, Madison and Stanton, Petor Rapp, a grader on the B, & M., stepped between two flat-cars at Ln Platte. His remains were tenderly pathered u bourne friends. _The G. A. R. reunion committeo at Beat- rice urgently roquests all owners of tents who can spare them for the use!of the coming union in Septem| il unlon in September to s0 notify the committeo Herbert, son of Dr, Kerr, of Falla City shot himself in the leg with a self-cocking re— volver on Friday afternoon. The ball frac- tured the bone near the knee, and fears are entertained that ho may lose his leg. Elder Van Doran, formerly of Boone, Towa, claiming to have been injured by a fall through a defective sidewalk in Hastiogs, hae sued that corporation for 810,131 dam. ages—§5,000 of this amount the reverend gentleman thinka will repair the bodily in- juriea sustained, $5,000 will repay his loss of time, and $131 will reimburss tual cash out on the investment, . The track layers on the Sioux City and Pa- cific cxtension_had reached a point sixteen miles beyond Valentine last Saturday even- ing. The graders are strung along almost every mile of the new work between Gordon and White river, and some light pieces are al- ready done. The forces are well in hand, the weather excellent, and every indication that the track will be completed to White ri before August 1at, b —————— FERSONALITIES, and to by sympathizing Plattsmouth m for the ac- Bret Harto now wears a red necktie. Campanini bas a class in Sunday-school, Poot Whittier is fond of buckwheat cakes, Ingersoll, the infidel, is too fat to be an angel, . Theodore Tilton posos befere a Paris look- ing glass, Bismarck s so bald that if i PRDIsArol il at if he loses a single _George C. Miln, ex-preacher, is still strut- ting on the stage, Private Dalzell is reported to have fallen heir to two fortunes. Lulu Hurst, with all her abnormal muscle, lets her mother do the washing, General Butler has a bewitching swile, but his wink is somewhat puzzling, Emma Abbott’s kiss is reported as having been frost-bitten in the last cold enap. Belva Lockwood likes to lecture in Boston, becauso tho audiences thero are o apprecia: ve. Covgressman Hitt, of Illinois, is worth $3,00,000, Ho.must'be a good man tostrike for a loan, . Jay Gould grows melancholy while yacht- ing. "It grieves him eorely to sea so much water going to waste, Mr. Edison is in such danger of being taken for a clorgyman that he has to cock his hat like a commercial traveler, George_Winfield Soott Hancock Garfield Pattiron Yerks is on unfortunate infant in an interior county of Pennsylvania, _Buffalo Ghost Spirit and Lame Knee are given as the names of the leaders of an Indian insurrection on the Winnebago reservation in Dakota. Dr. Mary Walker said a few days ago to o ‘Washington interviewer that she would wear pantaloons or nothing, The Doctor must be let alone, Tho czar of Russia is sid to be growirg quite gray and to bear cn his face the wrin- kles of premature old ago, induced by worry and anxioty. Olive Logan says she knows of swans that are 100 years o'd, “Ollie has doubtless ob- served them ever since her chidhood,” says a cruel slanderer, Sam Pinkerton was killed at Greenville, Ala,, while trying t, win a bet that he could walk on the ende of tha cross ties while a train was passing, Charlotte Stansbury, employed as & cook by Jacob Pusey of Contreville, Md., died re- cently. She was a sister of John M, Riley a1d weighed 587 pounds, Gail Hamilten sa; ‘When 1 see a young man just starting out in life I always feel like being confidential with him.” It's no use, Abigail, no use; you are too old, Miss Cleveland, sister of the president, speaks four languages fluently, but confines herself to English except when she sits down suddeunly in & skating rink, —[ Detroit Post. Ludovic Halevy, the new French Acaderii- cian, haa written & novel which does not need fumicating before it can be read. Halevy will die in a French poorhouse if he is not careful, “Minnie Maddern has been sweeping through the country like a forest fire,” an enthusiastic admirer of the charming I actress. Minnie's hair is the hue of a sum- mer sunset. 0'Donovan Rosss says that Yaeulte Dudley has gained more subscribers to his Flpor than # hundred avents could have gained, Her revolver was sort of ‘‘Rum, anism and rebellion” affair. It is eaid that Cony son, when a prosecuting attorney in Ken- tucky, once asked his twin brother to try a casa For bim. Ho did 8o, aud the sourt did not know the difference. John B. Stetson, of Philadelphis, is one of the Jargest 1nsurance policy holders in the world, payibg & premium on $720,000 It will be just his miserable luck to live a bun- dred years,~ [Norrlstown Herald, Mr. Sidney Dillon, of Union Pacific fame- is loxuriating in the country, Cracked hom* iny diet avd two-mile walks over rough roads before breakfast are putting him in trim for another campaign a6 Washington acd in Wall street, The late Baron Rothscbild would emplo; 0o cook who could not make three hnm‘rlex and sixty-five different kinds of woup. The supposition is that the baron in his youth worked an extensive free-lunch route snd be- oame fond of the diet. Tom Matthews, 8 famous clown, is living st Brighton, England, eighty years old, hale and hearty. The jokes bo used to get off are also hale and hesrty, and much older eighty years.— [Boston Transcript. We notice in & New York paper,that ‘‘Bill” snian Phil Thomp- McOlure, the son of & wealthy plumber, has mysteriously disappeared, He will tarn up a8 the giant in a dime musenm, that is if he is like other plumby hills, ~[Lowell Courier, The Rev. H, Moment is the n minister in New York City, and it that all the girls of his congregation are now very desirous of improving their oppor- tunities b{ ‘seizing the passing Moment,"— [Lowell Citizen, John C, Eno,' the absconding cashier, is fqu to build a monument to himself, in the orm of a summer hotel on the Island ;of Or- leans, Canada, If he can secure the patron- (,8“ of all the men of his class sojourni n anada, his enterprise will prove a profitable one, Mr., Lawrence Barrett has just given a considerable sum of money to the monument fand of the Twenty-eight Massachusetts regiment of volunteors who served in the oivil war, Mr, Barrett was captain of Oom- pany B in that regiment from October 8, 1861, till August, 1863, IOWA ITEM», The_oclty council jof Oskaloosa bas fired Dismond,Dick, the quack doctor, with a $26 per day ordinance, The Baptist charch at Creston is mak- ing a grand spring round.up of slnners, the result of a long-continued revival meeting. Cedar Rapids and Marlon are propoeing the purchase of a tract of land on the motor line, midwsy between the towns, for a park. Keokuk’s new mayor Inslsted on his right to vote in the council without re- gard to the question of a tie. The result has been an appeal from hla action to the courts. Mra. Wolf, whose husband recently charged her with the myaterlous Des Molnes murder in February, 1884, had her hearing on I'riday last and was dis- charged. A ton of rock dropped on Samuel Beaver in a coal mine near Albia, and crushed all the gumption out of him, His fellow workmen turned out at the funeral. A religious awakenlng has sup- planted roller skating in the Cedar Rap- s rink. Sinners congregate there as of yore to plead for salvation, No Back- sliding 1s permitted. A Des Moines gun club fines any mem- ber found guilty of getting In or out of a wagon or boat, or over a fence, with his gun cocked; that is, if the offender lsn’t too dead for a hearing. The Iowa Rowing assoclation, at a con- vention in Cedar Raplds last week, or- ganized by electing a fall board of offi- cials. The associatiun will hereafter be known as the Iowa Amateur Rowing as- soclation, The Indian school at Houghton, Lee county, is attended by sixty-three Indlan glrls and twenty-six Indlan boys. The school has a farm attached of 1,280 acres, 320 acres of which {s farmed by the achool attendants. An actlon has been brought enjoining Typographical Unlon No. 131, at Cres- ton, to discontinue the publication of all papers, posters and hand-bills, in any way boycotting the Advertiser, or S. A. Brewster, or his employes. A sable Romeo and a dusky Juliet have been detected in the bootsleg and petti- coat saloon industry a% Creston and Leon, and Romeo Is now in the tolls, having been taken before the United States com- missloner at Council Bluffs, charged with selllog whisky on railway trains, Jennie Kelley, the keeper of a house of bad shape at Red Oak, was racently tried, convicted and sentenced to two years In the Anamosa penitentiary. This is the first conviction in the state under the new law, and s expected to make a fluttering among the soiled doves roost ing In various towns and citles of the state. In the Untted States court at Dubuque Sadle McConkie secured a verdic’ sgainst the Travelers’ Insurance company for $5,600. Plaintiff's husband held an accident polley in the company, which it refufed to pay, alleging suicide. The plaintiff claimed her husband had been murdered. To prevent the case being appealed, the plaintiff remitted all over $5,000 of the verdfct. —— RUBIES NOW IN SIYLE. Not Worn in Greal Profasion Leading All Other Gems in Popularity. “The fashlon in jewelry aboat once a year undergoes & decided change,” sald a jeweler in Broadway to a New York Mail and Express reporter. “These changos first take place in Paris, and & few months after reach America.” “What 1s the popular style in jewelry nowi” ¢ Rubies are the most fashlonable of all gems that 2r> worn now in_profuslon, butin moderate dlsplay. At evening parties the ladles who foilow the fashlon generally wear a small dlamond and ruby eet together, The effect cf the two brill- isnte blending is beautiful. Of course after the ruby comes the diamond in favor. It will never grow less in popu- larity, Immenss sized dlamonds are con- sidered vulger to wear. and the small ones have the run. Pea:ls, sapphires and emeralds are worn mora than usual. In the flush times immediately afier the war none but dlamonds were fashionable, but the taste has chapged of late years and other gems are consldered beautiful and atylish, Some of the lace pins for ladies are of exquisite design and have imbedded in them diamonds, pearls, and other gems, The most popular designs are those of birds, flawers, crescents, and splders. In bracelets those made of links and jolnts set with various kinds of stones have superseded the old style of bands. ““Tho chatelaine, once so univeraslly used, has given place to a short chain, with a ball and frequently a vinaigrette aa a penda The pendants are very atyllsh and exqulsitely wronght, ‘The bangle bracelets that slip over the hand have not entirely ceased to be tashionable, but they are no longer the rage they were some years ago, The en- flgement bracelet with a lock attached s stlll sold for that purpote. They are graduslly going out, snd the plaln wed- ding ring is taking its old place again. The eudden changes of style in jewelry fre. quently causes a loss to the jeweler by haviog an unsaleshle stock on hand.” e e—— Considers Himself at Liberty. SemiNorieLD, I, April 22— Representa- tive Gieorge Terrence, who has heretofors supported Gen, Logan, as republican caucus nominee for United States Senator, this af- ternoon sent te the republican steeriog com: mittee & long communication ng: “I shall consider myself at liberty after this date to act as my judgmeat dictates, be. lieve there is a conspiracy to defeat an elec- tion, and I don’t intend, so far as I have power to avoid it, all succeed,” The s Exposition, New Onveans, April 22, There is & gen- eral desire on the part of citizens and ex- hibitors to reopen the World's Exposition next October. Last night at # meeting of cltizens at the St Charles hotel, & committoo was | is unlawful to promote a prize-fight in ONE OF NATURE'S FREAKS, —— A Baby Which Resembles a Sea Lion and Bellows When it is Hangry, Mrs, Linder, the wife of a respectable meechanlo of Jackson avenue, Greenville N. Y,, gave birth to her fourth child la Thuraday. The child Is an extraordinary freak. ;‘hern is no bony structure In the head, and {t Is like a rubber ball. The head clozely resombles that of a ssa lion, There is an entire absence of nasal bones, and the lower portlon of the frontal bove is undeveloped. The nostrils are only rudimentary, The under lip falls below the chin, {‘hs baby has no eyes, al- though there are cavities or depressions ocorresponding to the erbital space. Un- like other infants, Mrs. Linder’s baby does not cry. 1t bellows when it is hun gry, and becomes qulet and feeblo as soon as fed, It refuses to take natural nourishment, bat, although 5 days old, thrives and growa fat on thick oracker- pap, which would be refused by the stom« ach of a much older child. The rest of the body and Internal organs appear to be nominal, and are well formed. The mother hoped that the child would dle, but it has grown stronger with each hour of life. A friend of the family told reporter to-day that one day last sammer Mra., Linder vitited the aquarlum on Staten fsland and became much interest- ed In the antloa of the seals and sca lions. While visiting the place on eeveral other ocoasions she always spent a long time before the cage. ——— A Dagger in & Lady's Fan, New York Sun. Two handsomely dressed ladies left an elevated train in which Billlardist Joe Dion’s room keeper was a passsnger on Friday evening. After they had gene the keeper saw what he suppored was an elaborate Japanese fan lying on the va- cated seat. It had a s‘ring entwined about It rear the end. “‘Here, Joe,” the room keeper sald to the veteran expert yesterday, ‘‘see if you can open tbe fan. I'll be blowed if 1 can,” Dion took hold of the string and tried to spread the fan with his left hand, but couldn’t. Then he tugged the string. In an Instant the upper part slipped off and the keen edge of a long dagger slid across the middle finger of his left hand, cattlng it to the bone. “‘Well,” cried Dion in amazement, as he hurrled to stanch the blood, ‘*I wonder woman wanted with a 's a fine thing to ran sgalnst on the eve of the tournament.” Dlon was to have opened the balk line tournament on Monday night with George F. Slosson, The accldent necessltates the substitation of William Sexton, Dion won's be able to play for several nights. . — e —— A Passion for Diamonds, Tba forthcoming memoirs of the Comtesse de Castiglione, seys the London Figaro, are likely to be read almost as much in London as in Paris. The Comtesse lives In an eutrenol at 25 Place Vendome. Although now 50 years oid at least, she continuss to lead a most ec- centric existence and shuns the public gazs, The blindsof her apartments are continually clcsed. She never goes ant except in a brougham, with carefully drawn cartains @ Whenever she gces to the theater she sita concealed In a back seat of a prescer- fum box. She wesrs at least ten diffar- ent drestes daily. Her hair, althougha golden cloud, ltke Titian’s Venur, in the mornlog, is often jet black at night, its tints varying in the course of twelve hours as frequently as the colors cf the ca- meleon, She has a passion for diamonds, wearing them on her dreer, in her hair, on her slippers and round her ankles. In the days of her glory Comtesse jdn Castigliona was the perfection of statueeque besuty. Tho comteese capti- vated the emperor when she was a wid- ow of 20. She sppeared in bal costume at the Tuileries as Salammbo. The story Isthat the emperor placed his hands on her shonlder with the worde, ‘‘*oar beauty Is more exqnisite than all the pages of Flaubert.,” The emperor used to call upon her ia the evenings in a closed brougham, which he left in front of a well known commis- slon agent’s office in the Rus Castiglione, *‘One_day,”s the countess states, ‘‘Piet:] discovered that Or- sini planned to Intercept the empercrin this corridor. Pietri werned the aides- de-camp and court officlals, bat nob.dy dared broach tho subject to the empzror. Piotri, as a last resorr, informed tho em- press of the danger. Eugenie demanded an audience of the emperor, and told bis mejeaty to beware both of the llaision and the plot of assasmslnation. The em- peror absolutely denied thelisislon. That evening, however, his majesty did not call to see me,” A Wonderful Piece of Mechanism, E. M. Calkine, of Warnerville, Schoharle county, N, Y., has ju:t com- pletad one of the most wonderful pieces of mechanism ever produced, Ha has worked on it twenty years, and like Darins Greeno's flying machioe, “‘at last 1t is done,” On a large platform, 712" feet, constructed as to represent moun- taln scencry, rocks, trees, lawne, rlvors, cascades, caves, and lakes, there are several hundred moviog figures of mon, birds, and bessts, In the centre isa life like facsimlle of Wasl Iogton’s resldence at Mount Ver- pon. On the roof are two beautiful fig- ures, carved and painted so as to repre. sent sculptared marble, guarding with drawn swords the historlc mavsion, while a gllt esgle perches upon the porch. In a room Washington is Jylog on his death- bed, surrounded by Weeping frlends. In the kitchen are colored servants at work. In the yard are men sharpening thelr soythes and chpplng and sawiog wood. several Incidents connected with In- an life are vividly plctared. Rall- way cars sre ruonipg, and a ship with salls unfarled and laden with pas- sengers floats in a minfature river. Even Noah's srk Is represented, with Noah at the head of the procession marching into it, while up on the hilitops surrounding ¢ men and women awestruck at the rising ra. A perfect grist mill in operat'on is represented; also a ccuntry home, with the father and mother sitting by the fireside, reading by the light of pine knots, The figures are all kept in motion by a small overshot wheel, less than ten inches In diameter. All of the figures were carved with jack-knives, Mr. Galkins having worn out several knives slnce he began the work, e Bullivan and Ryan, Chicago Times Special. New York, April 21,—Arother casualty has befallen the contemplated Sullivan-Rysn fight, The newspapers persisted in calling it » prize-fight, although Ricnard K, Fox, wko put up the diamond belt, and, as he expressed it, “‘other inducewents,” regarded it as a boxig-match for scisntific points only. It ow formed to visit the board of nmnt‘i(‘vlnant and | York, and to go from this state to Montana request that body to take steps lookiog to the opening of the Exposition next autumn, to promote_even a \gxing-inatch which was desoribed in the owepapers as & prize } fight might make trouble for a citizen the district attorney took the newspaper Mr, Fox announces that since this confusion of apeech in persisted in he rotires from all connection with the match and withdraws the bo't and the other induce- ments—understood to be in the nature of a stako or purse of $2,500 or a subscription thereto, Ho writes to Sulli It i not only & general impression butan_actual pop- ular conviction that a violation of the law was intended Rather than be kept in this utterly false position and to relieve you also of the unjust imputation that you contemplated aven the suspicion of a breach of the peace, T have decided to put an end to all of these false statements and inferences by withdeaw in in toto from the matoh. Tho diamond belt and other inducements held out by me to promote lawful boxing competition are there- ore withdrawn by me, and the event, 8o far a8 1 am concerned, must bo and is now ‘off,’” Mr, Fox says that he will never again give the faintest justification for a_suspicion that he proposes to violate the law in the matter of glove encounters, et ——e Killed While Adjusting an Kleotric Light, Onrcaco, April 22,—People who were in the vicinity of Madison and COlark streets early this evening were horrified by an acci- dent of w peculiar and most painful character Chas, B, Shultz, electrician, stood on the top round of a ladder fourteen feet from the sidewalk adjusting a dimily-burning electric light. Losing his balance ho grasped both rods which support the lamp, and through which a current was passing. He was unable to let go, and hung writhing to the swinging lamp until some ono had stopped tho engine which supplied the current, when he fell to the tidewalk, Death of the Rev, Loonard Withing- ton, NEWBURYPORT, Mass,, April 22,—Rev, Leouard Withington, D, D., the oldest Con- gregational clergyman in the United States, died to-day at lus rosidence in Newbury, aged U6 yoars, He graduated from Yale col- lege in 1814, and at the time of his death was the oldest surviving graduate of that institu tion, — Sharpsburg, n Flames Prrrspure, April 22, 1:50 a, m.—A tele- thne message is just received from Sharps- urg Pa,, asking for aid, and reports a dee- tructive fire ragiog. One square is in flames, and it is feared the whole town will be des- troyed, Tho fire departmenta of Allegheny Pittsburfi have been eent to the soene, ———— The Billlard Tournament, . NEw York, April 22,—In the billiard tour- nament to-night the game was 14-inch balk line, Sexton finished his 500 points in the fiftieth inning. Dion had only scored 344, e ——— Patch han just recelved a fine nssort- ment of ladies and missessilk, 1xffata, and lisle gloven, all fitted to the hand. ———— INDIANA, WYOMING AND COLORADO COAL —COUTANT AND SQUIRES — 213 80, 13 st ———— ‘The Animals at War, The Russian Penr now shows his claws, And with an agry roar He raises 1) hs pond’rous paws And fieresly growls for gore, Tha Britirh Lion shakes his mane £nd lashes now his tail; He'll go for Bruin on the plain And fght bim gooth and nail. The Chinese Dragon rolls his eye And, us ho shows his teeth, The Gallic Rooster fain would fly Back to his native heath, Th® Egyptian Crocodile, in tears, At wicked warfare winke, And as EI Mahdv's host appears He smiles upon the Sphinx. Meanwhile our great ang glorious bird, The Yankee Esgle bold, Looks on serenely, tho' he's stirred With hopes of gaining gold. Then let the Lion and the Bear, Tho Dragon, Crocodils, And Rooster, all each other tear — Our Esglo still ehall smile. ——— It is the Season, 1t is the season now to go ‘About the country high and low, Among tho lilacs hand in hand, And two by two in fairy-land, The brooding boy, the sighing maid, Wholly fain and balf afraid, Do meet along the hazel'd brook, To pass and linger, pause and look, A jour ago, and, blithely paired, Cheir rough and-tumbte play they shared They kissed and quarreled luughed and cried A'yeur ago ot Sastertide. Her,"'whom with rude, uplifted hand He did bethreaten’or command - Her in a somewhst longer drers, He now would tremble to caress. 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