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Holger Danske Florenre Peacoe The Aen Holger the Dane sits T'here in Kronent Cen past, but he Sounds Wihat res 2 nult of wa and thrones are shaken, sleepeth by Helsingor, Bat t Calmly he Holzer the Dar armor of might, In Kronen t ose by t a, 5 ( ea beara is white, table down to his An | there Yetdeep is his sl and he waketh him We hear not his fe Holger the Dan In Krone z Cat When Denmark seein: saken Then will the time of his et on the 1t stalr. 1 one day lost, and lias Lope tor- waking be, "N the on sound of his footstep ringeth the stair, from that chamber th, leep. v bring that long, lor To Holger the Dane, each Yule-tide nights In Kronenburz Castle close by ometh from Heaven an ¢ o bid i sioe pon in the year to be. Still we know he will one day waken From that decp sleep on the northern shore, 1 we kilow we are not forsaken, That he is watehing by Helsingor. HONEY FOR THE LAD Rich eoiffures are probably dying out. Pink pearl ornaments are in high fashion. Flat, tiny bonnets of tlowers decorate festi- val fans, Some fair Parisians pu\\'\lur their hair for full dress. Black and white silk hose m pin checks are im porte Canvas—Dbl; mourning, lwr)Hun" Japanecse in fashion. Dotted mustins are much worn by girls in their teens, Epaulettes of flowers are sometimes worn on the left shoulder. The Russianbang and basket coil are the new features in coiffures. Chantilly lace may be worn mourning, but not Spanish. Red is the fashionable color for leather ar- ticles for writing tables. Corsage bouquets are now worn in the center of the bosom or wais A \11]\ kerchief is the prettiest kind of dra- or a tarnished photograph frame, Plaid surah is used for paniers and scarf on costumes of plain silk or Sicilienne. Fashionuble dinner tables are of late orna- mented with exotic leaves and leaf plants. ‘The skirts of pongee dresses have a broad band of colored velvet at the bottom Spanish and Breton jackets are worn with full ehemisettes wlich fall over the belt. The Spanish combination of black and scarlet plays an inportant part in tennis cos- tumes. Black lace skirts are worn with bodices of colored crepe de chine, silk, satin or moire antique. Maids of honor at Queen Victoria’s court are hidden on pain of dismissal from chew- ing gum, Tw k, of course, is worn for and East Indian is in second lace is much worn on cotton Turkey reds and colore m s, especially on dark blues, “Royal red” note paper of a very brilliant hue is” used by fashionables, but it is in very bad taste. eIt Derby hats are the only rivals of the time-honored stilf black silk” hats worn by equestriennes, The latest fancy in chean bedroom furni- ture for country hiouses 1s to paint the picces a brilliant red. Normandy “Val” and marquise laces are the correct trimmings tor young girls’ dotted muslin_frocks. Turkish ¢ s are among the prettiest in- expensive_cotton dress goods. Laces trim wem admirably, Hangings of thin bamboo reeds and beads, jnstead of curtains indoors, are favored by the fashionable few, Golden mushrooms dangling on golden w fonable wrists in Pa 1ssian bang 1s lighter than the Lang- 115 in light flat rings in a point on ad, leaving the temples bare. S Anu frequently framed very re made w hide the plain white pine ok othier cheap wood rames. One mmportant diflerence between a man and a woman is that a man_puts his clothes on him, while a woman puts herself in her Alothes, The basket coiffure consists of many small three-plait braids wound round and round the b: of the head very flat, 50 as not to in- crease its size, Labouchere sa ‘) eldest daughter of monly spoken of as * in London.” Gulmpses, chiemisettes,plastrons, and vests are as much in d are likely to so continue; mad |:L surali, foulard, satin, and ol many airi little girl lately wrote to her |nend “Yesterday a little fi.\m sister arrived, and apa is on o journey. It was buta picce of H that mamma was at home to take care of Rl An Ohio female teacher who Is but twenty- eight years of an talk seven mn,umn . et shie may wink and wink at the clerk at he soda fountain and he wouldn’t under- stand her, Flora Falrbanks, of Sewanee, Tenn., will have charge of a new hospital which is about to be establisued in Nashville through Ler ex- ertions, She is training to become an Epis- copal Sister m . ‘The pretty fen fell overboard and ne lover leaned n\ erthe side of the boat as she Tose to the surface and said, “Give me your “Pleaso ask papa,” she said, as’ she tor the second time. *‘Have you heard s Simpson sing since she returiied trom Europe?” “Several times,” Do you think she has impioved®” “Very muceh,” *In what particular?” She doesn’t sing as much as she used to.” The one haby that is said to have been born in the white house was christened Henry Walker, is now torty years old and lives in Montgomery, Ala. & i5 mother, 8 niece of Tresident Polk, was visiting her uncle when Henry was born. An English lord awaited_anxiously a long expected event in his family, When the re- sult was announced to him he exclaimed: “A girl! Bles 6! 1 thought my wite was 1ully info of my wishes in this resp ect.’ Prophecies from the highest authority herald the fact that black will be in supreme favor the coming autumy season. Many superb toilets of this sombre color are alread: being made of fabrics both heavy an dlnlllnmuux& “Charley,” sald young Mrs. Tocker to her nhusband, “I don’t “mind you drinking onece in a while, as long as jou éat plenty of cloves, but 1 du]m'm you ll always drink ‘nice, pure, swoet whisky, 1 sawa in the street the other day which says, ‘Whisky sours, and [ know the stufl must be unhealthy after it sours.” The editor of the Censor, offers his paper the rea a special premium at orthern Chautau- qua fair to “the girl who has got up and Lelped her mother get breakfast the most Toriiugs since January 1."—[Jamestown Journal ‘T'he Buffalo Express thinks it violates no conlidence in saying that there are Buffalo a few case, lea mm{ high desks all (l.n) long, y tind that the corset supports the body as 1 contrivance will. Muleahy? Has you_ again, the B speak of himself as a brute, Moichel is as tinder heartod a eratchier as iver drew bre: It's Lis way, vou know. e jist knocked me down an raniplod on we. \\ hen he's himself he's as entle as a lamb, but he's so lwmpulsive, yo now, ‘he following directions are 'ih‘!n to fllld a sweetheart: Visit a cemetery after nul pit upon mel- @ graves aud repeat the rayer backward, Unravel a woolen st mx -ml bury the yarn in the back yard, \v|u| on which your desire has been in- unbud l\lll a black cat aud diink a portion its warm life-blood aud then repeat some liehistic jargon. o the pendeloques bracelots from fash- prescnt. in_ Truth, that the the princeof Wales is eom- Le worst dressed girl of Fredonia, ader of the year a3 MONDAY, AUGUST lst. BARGAINS SILKS. Brocadc Silks 43¢ rse sold before our inven tory for §1. Colors-brown, blue, drab, grey. About 1000 yards for 45¢. Lace Buntings, foc Colors — cream, pink, ecru black, navy, blue, drab; doubl width, worth 25c., reduced to ke, Turkish Towels, Damask Tewels, Huck Towels, Crepe Towels, Size 23x45 Inches, 28 c. Fach. Knotted Fringe Towels, Fine Damask Towels, Broche Border Towels, Rennaisance Towels, Regular 75 Cent Qualitics, 50c. Dinner Napkins, $3.00 Do, Very large and best size made, These are extra heavy German Damask, and have never sold less than 85. S. P. MORSE & CO. BM0R%S LAWNS, 3¢ Mondny we will oifer 150 picces Crgandy aw cream, pink and ecrn grounds with Or- gandy figu EFhese have sold all the season for 6 1-d1c. Next week, de. Nun's Veiling, 5¢. Nice printed figures N Veils the season for 10c. Monday morning for 5¢. PERCALES,5c¢ 25 Picces light Summer Per- cales, worth and usually sold for S and 10 cents a yard, Monday for 5c. Mail Orders Filled. S. P, Morse & C NEW CALICO, . 1000 yards very finest and best new Arn 1d, American, Windsor and other Calico, regular 8 1-3c¢. quality, reduced for day to Se. mpany. New Crinkled Seersuckers, 17%ec. 25 pieces very finest guality, new style Crinkled Seersucker. All this scason these have be: 25¢. Our price next w 17 1-2¢. adelphia newspaper says that in instance where o marsied man The l|~u.Ll answer to t)u- coroner’s aaton “Well, T just question why she wanis it is: want to keep it.” As it has repeatedly happened of late that women in men’s clothes lave attended exe- cutions in Paris, the police prefect lias iv orders to enforeé strictly the law of 155, pro- libiting the diseuise of women in_men’s clotles, Exceptions have always been freely ted, aniong them according to the ly who Is in the ding on borscback in men’s clothes. T, Picnic Hilarity, Boston Courier. Again to lake and woodland shade The Sunday scholars hie, To drink the picnic lemouade And eat the custard pie. They’ll sport beneath the leafy trees Explore fair nature’s bower. Be bitten by frogs, ants and fleas ‘And drenched | by thunder showers. Be stung by nettles, fierco as darts, As through the meads they run— What of it; bless thoir little hearts— 1€ they believe it fun? When wints grim resumes his sway, round them lie, e MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. Margaret Mather begins work in San Fran- cisco on August 12, Mel is golng tostar in a mod- ern spec sion of **Macbeth,” Lisa Weber, the old-time Lydia Thompson blonde, will head a company of legs next season. Ella C| beaut Goodwin, W. J. Fleming, the orizinal Phineas Foge, has organized a strong *Around the World” company. \ll\ Maud Bank: dnllg]hmr of General N, Banks, will make her debut as an actress ll Portsmouth, N, H., August 28, Sarah Bernhardt cul her Riode Janeiro season short in the midst of money making business. Yellow fever scared her away. ‘The stalwart English burlesque actress, Edith Blande, has been en for a print cipal part in the next Drury Lane pan- tomime. The Russian f‘hunnfamp.\uy of Slavlansky Apreneff has left France, after a most suc- r‘.-;-u(ul tour of concerts, to appear in Lon- on, Gounod apman, once famons as a burlesque coming back to America with Nat completely finished the scoro been busy upon, and the work is ed tor production at the Paris opera, in The necessary deposit of 10,000 on_ ac- count of Miss Fortescue’s a nrommn{ visit to this country, has been lodged in Loths- child's bank. Mme. Sembrich has just signed with Pol- lini, of Hamburg, for & tour of Europe, to begln next October and to terminate in the May following. Osmond Tearle is sald to have the most zorgeous assortment of one night stanas for \is coming starring tour that the United States can provide. Mr. Michael Brand, who has lonz been ent up in thdlmuu will be first violoncel. Theodore Thomas' orchestra uext suceeeding Mr. Hatdegen, wedish opers compuny will give repre- sentations in Loudon With the repertoire of one Swedish opera, “The Pirates,” composed by Hailstiom, and works by Gounod, Masse, Adaw, Bizel, Wagner and Verdi. Mr. and Mrs. W, J. Florence have a new play by Messrs. Louis Melbourne and Will- m GIL It is called “The Flirt,” and will have a trial performance in Toronto early in the autumn. Mime. Julle s ongaged to zivo 130 repre- sentations at the Parls Varieties iu the av- tumn. She luu.mu besides going through her long repertoire, to appear in a new piece, Thomas W. Keene begins Ms stairing tour October 4 in Pittsburg, and will 6ill euam:l ist in wents duriug uext season i Cleveland, 220, 8t Louis, Cincinnatl, Louisvilie, Phila- delphia, Boston and New York “The famous Swedish_nighti Lind, has given up her London mission anit is now living in_sweet_ contentment on the Malvern hills. She is sixty-five vears old,and her grand yoice still retaius much of its old power. Before going to her ¥'rench chateau for her annual loliday, Marie Roze will give three court concerts at Copenhagen, the Hague, and Brussels, by express cominands ot the Kings of Denmark, Belgium and the Netber- lands. During her forthcoming operatic concert season Minnie Hauk will be supported by Chevalier Antoine de Kontski as _solo_pian- ixt; Mathiide Muellebach, contralto; George o ritone: Signor Spigaroli, tenor, and Charles Pratt, accompanist. Miss Sadic Crosby, of Roundout, N. Y., and several years a student av the Beriin con* seryatory, 15 said to be one of the finest vio- linists in America. She is a near relative of Jay Gould and lLier father is a prominent citi- zen of Koundout. The musical festiv; directed for the nand_Hiller, cale, Jenny 5 of Cologne have been ty years by Ferdi- ssor s Professor Franz Wullner. ' ear the festival opened \\Nh Brahw’s foi m{vhfln) aud “*Bettha- sar,” by Handel. The chorus contained 500 singers, and the orchestra forty-eight violins. twenty violas, eighteen ’cellos and fourteen bass-violins. Madame Modjeska’s testimonial to the Native Sons of the Golden West was given at the Baldwin San Francisco on Wed- nesday evening under the patronage of Gen- eral Wm. T. Sherman, Governor Stoneman, General W. H. Dimond,Hon, John S, ll.ibl‘ General R. Hammond, General W, Barnes, Colonel C, F. Crocker, Hon, .IINII;:E ¥. Sullivan, and ofners. Patti’s American concert tour has been ar- ranged by Mr. Abbey, The diva will give forty operatic concerts in the United Stutes AI\A! Mexico. The first of these coneerts will in New York at Ste \\1{ hall, on the mr‘ulu-'n{ November 15, It is intended to ive at each of these concerts one act of a popular opera in costume. Patti will be sup- vorted by Mme. Scalehi, Galafsi, Navarro, a new tenor, and Guille, who sang last winter with Patti in Madrid. Signor Arditi wiil be the conductor. There will be an orchestra of about twenty-five, but no chorus. The Patti season will continue until about the 25th of April. 1t is not nn‘nemll\ nown that Rose Cogh- 1an orginally came here as a member of the Lydia Thompson Burlesque company—not the first one, but the second one that ar- rived in 1870, From Lydia Thompson’s com- Wn[) she was transferred for a short time to Wallack’s ~ theater, where she supported Sothern in “Lord Dundreary.” From that time she boclnlsll‘t{ltlmm actress, for she returned to Encland and adopted the career of a leading lady, returning this country at a salary five imes as ereat as when she left. Alms Co gmnn will resume a tour as a star earl he fall. Frederick del Belle- ville wil be Imr leading man and not Charles Barron as was first announced. ‘The latier will support Edwin Booth, News from Berlin conveys the intimation that Herr Pollini, the director of the Ham- burg theater, has offered Fraulein Marceila Sembrich $100,000 for a tour of fifty nights performances in Ameriea for the fall season of next year, ‘This millionaire lady has just excited Berlin to 8 complete furore with her bewitchingly rich tones and bright face— Kroll’s spacious theater being without even standing room every night for seven weeks, Her generosity is on a par with her abilities, she having given 6,200 marks for charitable purposes after her appearance at the royal opera house of Berlin, at the emperor's spe- clal request. She has wade a contrack with Herr Pollini for sixty repnwnmlwua in the capitals of Europe, at'the price of 4,000 marks 1or each appearan o .— CONNUBIALITIES, Nina Boueicault is shortly to wed a wealthy Australian at Melbourne. A Philadelphia girl recently married a leg- less man. Wl&n ‘. asks for uylumuu he c:‘:: not kick. ‘The youn, J emperor of China, who assumes the reins Wer next year, has just se- leeted three brides rmm -mung the maidens of naNa Manchu fawili 1 hun- wmilos distanee 107 bis ingpection, lmm ’llwmpwn 16 years old,the daughter l BROCADE SILKS, 89 OTS. Monday, August 1st. col AUl choice ground, neat figure broe navy, brown, wine, drab, gendarme, myrtle, Jersey gular $1.50 quality. At 89¢ a yard. MORSE & COMPANY. High Grade Col'd Gros Grain Silk, $1.27. These were bought to sell for $2, but having proved much too fine for spring trade we have decided to offer them next week for $1.27 Colors light and darkymode, light and dark drab, myrtle, tan, navy, gen- darme, wines, ete, worth $2. for $1.27. GRENADINE Brocades, $1.25 These are made of the finest Italian sewing silk, are suitable for sum-= mer and fall wear; the vegular price has been $1.75; now $1.25 Remnants. DRESS; GOODS AND We have an' _enormous accumulation of Dy MLKS. ss Goods and Sill: Rem~ nants; of course these ave fronr our most desivable selling goods and will be closed out ofa \w.\lm) New York tailor, eloped on F rge Coats, n zood-looking ars old, emploved as a Englishman, 30 3 let by a gentleman in that coachman and city. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser: A young man advertised for a wife, his sisier an- swered the advertisement and now the young man thinks there is no balm in advertise- ments, while the old folks think it's hard to @ two fools in the family, married one Miss Hubert i builder, 'M‘xg Blossom™ Mazinley’s company. The engagement between Miss Minnie Smitk, er of Mrs. Wm, K. Van- derbilf, and Count Moram, an Italian noble- man, llas been broken off because it has been found that the count’s estates are owned by money-lenders and the family jewels are in pawn, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch alleges that in portions of Minnesota men are offering from 810 to §20 for wives and further out in Dakota and Montana they even o so far as to offer a horse or a mule in exchange for one of the gentler sex, T'he following occurs tract between Patti and retan their private lur!l if children are born, the surviving party is to have only a lite interest in the v»ll(k‘ of the other; if there are no children born, the survivor in- herits the whole estate. Frank Kag of Matoon, I11,, last week married Miss Harrison, a great erand dangh- ter of President Harrison, —Their wedding was of a romantic turn, They had not met e to face until they stood up before the minister, who married them. They made each other's agquaintance through the mails, A queer pair were married in Lowell re- cently, the groom being a Yankee, unable to speal any tongne but his own, and his bride French girl, who could not \]lo'll\ English, heir rnurxshu:, as described, “consisted of cach staring the other in the face and laugh- ing. A romantic marrizge was solemnized at Kerhonkson, N The groom was Jnlm Ward, ot Wolf Trap, Vi, and the bride M Sennie Lansing, of Kerhonktol the newly wedded couple had ever another until the night preceding Ilw wed- ding. ‘The courtship had all been carried on by letter, Mr., James M, Stout and Miss Polly Mickle, of Rockingham eounty, N. O, accompanied by a party of friedds, Started’ one day this week to get marrled, Jones' Crevk was swollen 50 heavily it lhe) could not cross, but Tony Bush, the groows’ best ma, swani across, and soon Lad Parson Hazlett'on the opposite ban! Tl parson shouted the mar- r u @ service, ang Uw couple were made man wife, Aul-rge and'wolld-be fashionable wed- ding recently in & Massachusetts town the solemnity was rudely disturbed by a mather unexpected answer. ‘The bride bad entered on her uncle’s atm,and was met by the groom at the chane: Ahe uncle then retived and took a seat in lhq bedy of the house. All went on well ungii the "lflg)mnn asked the uestion, * \Vh(fll\ th this woman to be wed- 460t this mansh ' fie paused for An answer, and the uncle aigse, and, placing his namh on the pew in froutlof hin, said, in louder than are cosimon at weddings, A Bloomington, 411, dispatch s quite a sensation was created there in both Jewish and Christlan so week before Miss Ida Clark, estimable young lady, renounced Christian- and ai the simazogue, In the presence of a large assemblage, Bhraced the faith of Moses aud A aron, This she did in order that she might marry an English Jew mamed Holland. The wedding was set, but the bride to-be was doomed to dlsllllpullll' ment. Molland sent her word that he had changed Lis mind, and that the engagzement was off. No explanation conld obtatned from bim, and nothing could alter his deter- mination, c ork, ¢ of a wealthy She s to play on with Ben icolini: lzm'h is to B ! % that - - RELIGIOUS, Tulum‘;ga gets $5,000 a year for an advance copy of his sermons. Unitarian churehes will hold thelr bien- nial conference in Saratoga September 20-24. The auuual couvention of the Natoual Women stian ‘Temperance Union will be held in Minneapolis, Minn., October 23, An Iowa woman has been installed as a Congregational vpreacher. Hitherto Univer- salist and Unitarian pulpits have been the only ones open to women. In luumlnm iscopalians number 600,- 0001 155,000 Methodists and .md Congregationalists, minor denominati ians, uou yterian women's board of foreign of (he northwest has 1,500 subordi- nat@ societies, which contributed $60,000 to the mission cause last year, and sustained sixty-one missionar The largest church in Washington, D, C.. is the colored Methodist church on M \ll('m between Fifteenth and Sixteenth stres s 2,500 people, and all but $40,000 of lhc cost ($116,000), has been paid. At the Methodist conference just closed in Dublin, Sir William McArthur gave $75,000 toward the erection of a new building on the Methodist college grounds at Belfast, where young women may be educated. The Waldensians, atthe general confer- ence at Florence, Italy, have decreed that hereafter femala members who have reached the age of 21 shall be allowed to vote, but not to speak, at church meetings. The New Chureh is the name by which the Swedenborgians choose to be known. It ap- pears from the various reports of this ye.r that the church has for the past twelve months been singularly active, and that labor has not gone unrewarded. retreat for ests of the bout one-half of ldiocese of New Joseph's Provinci seminary at Troy, beginning on August 23, the feast of St. Philip Beniti, and_closiug on the following Saturday, which will be' the festival of St. Augustine. The report of the Baptist missionary union reyeals remarkable activity and growing power on thie part of the denomination. Iu lie Inst seven years the receipts of the union have been §3, merease of 66 per centover the' receipts of the prévious seven Lie number of missionaries has in- ver seven hundred ve been organized ana 4 been bullt. church It is now elaimed five-sixths of the Baptists in the world nn, in the United States, ~'Tho impression seems to be gaining ground nd that the quarrels in the Salvation e threatening the disintogration of organization, As an indleation of this It is statod that ab tho recent “inoustor meeting” in Exeter hall, London, General Booth ealled for & colleetion of £2,000 and re- ceived only £17, "The rise and progress of the free churchies in Scotland is something remarkable. In 1543 there were 500 Free churches, in 185 there were 1,100, a gain of 600; in_ 1545 there ted Presbyterian churches, in o 350, & gain of 115; in there were 100 Conuregational churchies here were 1503 in 1843 there were 0 Bap- Wesleyan, ot chuwl in 153 there zain of i a1 of churches The Presoyteri northern and southern, are to [ ’l!‘lllhhl in I\\! th Itw lll be the one hunc y of th Presbyterian gen y in thie United States 'Pho hasthern brethson propose (o honor the occasion by bringing an offéring of $1,000,000. The southerners come to frater- nize, but the pposed to an thing bein said or done lool u £ 10 an or e union. I 12 lionod Dy many thas "the taeetiag wiil b produetive of good R Au evangelistic conference for Bible study and upon methods of work in home and foi- eign evangelization, and for the ’rrumollnn of individual conseeration to Christ, will be hiield, Mass., for ten days from August 4, 10 Fridav, August 15, inclusive. The meetings will be conducted by Evangelist Moody, and most of those who ha n present s speakers, teachess and singers in past years may again be expecte Rev. Marcns Rainsford, of London, of the reh of England, will be present. Three years ago the American Home Mis- slonary soclety inaugurated fi{\kmnuc work the immigrant population. Since is said, the number of Gerwan (u ;mlllounl churches has doubled. Thi man department of the soclety is now u 1 ing its euergles toward an endoywet of the German school at Crete, Neb. Tweunty-four NEXT WEEK. Silk Umbrellas, $3.50. 26.inch, quality Silk iragon and Natural Handies, t the thing for hot wenther, Next week 83,50 ench. Mail Orders Filled, S, P Morse & € choice Fra The demand for a more per- fect fitti ¥ duced u stock celebrated Corset that we offer at POPULAR PRICES. Parasals Reduce We have made still further re- ductions in prices and our PARASOLS, $2.50. These were considered cheap at $4.00 less than 60 days ago, nd we now offer them at $2.50. PARASOLS, $3.75. Reduced from §6. Al have choice handies and are first qual- ity. Parasolsat $2.00. Parasolsat $3.50. Parasols at $2.75. That have been sc fa le all the season., Our p rons will understand that it is not now a question of profit wi us in seiling these goods., They must go at g S. P. MORSE & CO. housand dollars is wanted. Youngz G mans ate being induced to eater tiis seliool or the Theologles Chicago, to be "to be bishop of ipiscopal churel good |('.’1~0|\'- The gre: hops, instead of nglishime he Wordswaorlhs. that even in Scotland and among is called the English st become thor- ter and in popular recoznition if it is to amount to anything. The total number of Sunday schools of al evangelical denominations in New York Is 0. Of this nu it Episcopal support 83, Presbyterian are next with 66 sehools, Mefhodists 49 and Baptists 41, Chinese misslons number 25, The re- maining 95 schools are scattered among churches of various dedominarions, The seholars in-all the scliools number 103 over whom there are 10.152 teachers. Five B B KO oot Lwith the churches during the year, and was taken up in collections in the blluddy seools, For good or for evil, the Congrezationalists are gradually ylelding to the influence ol wealth and llop\rhng from the simplieity of their fathers, The meeting house is evi where giving place to the gaudy and gorgeous temple. One of the latest manifestations of the spirit of this new departure is a Congre- gational cathedral at West Croydon, a sub- urb of London. 1t has just been opeved and it is sald to be one of the finestspecimens of recent ecclesiastical architecture, It boasts 2,142 pipes, blown by two hy- n exquisitely painted west windows tble and onyx clock towel The church peo- ple of West Croydon are indignant and they made efforts to have the authorities prevent the ring 4hl||1hl|m Rev. J. W/ openine services 1 the pulp! Of this At the arac terized asa “beautiful dream, —_— 2 Ky, “olumbus Dispateh, Oh, the fly’s a riser ealy Nowad VS And he makes the sleeper surly With his lags ; He is very, very fresh, And he hias an‘eye for flosh To amaze. He's a most persistont fellow— 4 A You may kick the bedstead mellow, Or may try, But you cannot frichten him; He'll return with greater vim By and by. Well he knows a perfeet sleeping From pretense: And he knows, when he is creeping, How Inimense 1s your rage, hut still he goes O'ér the ield that you expose And through rents. 1f e thouzhit that you eould strike him With your fist, O3 if you were up just like hin, ' sl oS of lazy men with a pen Ou his Iist, His Large Goodalt's Chieago Sun. Mr. Brown,” said the clerk, with a how, “I've worked a long year for you now, And, sir, I desire A salary’ higher— T've got 10 exist, sir, somehow.” *And why, eried the mer “Should you have your sal; can live On the wazes I give, And save something, too, Are you erazed?” ant, amazed, raised? “No, sir," Mld the clerk: l\uu Lnow 80D, 10 Bhort,' s 1 eaunot support’ My family, sir, and not owe, family be? My wife, ¢ us iy ife Two servants aud ¥ido and me ey 8. P, MORSE & CO. HOUSEKEEPERS. Monday Morning we will offer rd——N BED SPREADS Fun t size, soft finish and thick, Sold ali the past season for 81, WHITE PRSP IAI ARIATH “l\llll been nuble ®1.25 price, FINEST Honey-Comb Bed Spreads, Damask patterns, regular 8$1.75 quality, at $1.25 each. s Filled. P, Morse & Company. CHILD'S WAISTS, Insite st sh £ i O‘lm_yw Xt Tommy, T haveon THEMOTHERS FRiEND \msr THE CELEBRATED Child’s Waists for wi sole agents in Omaia, Wlull Orders Filled G.A.RPE'I‘S- NGRAIN, PESTRIE BODY BRUSSELS, HOTELS, CLUB ROOMS, PRIVATE HOUSES, Will find the best assortment of NEW PATTERNS, In Omaha and oblain mu Tower ligures than eisewhere. ch we are 'l‘ll'(‘ LY Boston Budget. I took her away to the sports of the West, Where Buffalo Bill presides: I bought lier « bouquet of roses, the best My Broadway florist provides. I found her a seat in the very front row, Where all could be seen and heard, From Cody, the eagle of all the show, To Dalsy, the Texas bixd. Itold her the name of the Pawnee chief, And the number in full of his squaws: 1 explained the ¢ Andtue Winchester con’s flight in brief, 110's laws, I felt her tremble and eronchingly stoop, While hur and graspe (2t iy own When she heard the iendish yell and the whioop. As the pu‘.im-d tribes charged down, 1 noted the blush on her modest cheelk, As past theso warriors raced ; For hereyes observed, though she didu’t speal That some were undrest to the waist. “The E(l"[(‘ that Screams,” and “The Bull Sits, And "2 Bear that loves Groen Corn,” With otlier chiofs. nearly gave her fits, And I fancy they roused her seorn. But all the ome with a silent stare, She would neyer vonchsafe a wor Thouglh 1 found her the ferrybo ehair, And calléd her my Prairie Bird. Yet though we both dined on Delwonico’s softest ety With chiampazne our glasses full, he only would say, when hardest prest, “1'm thinking of Silting Bull.” ——— Buby Tigers. Philadelphin Times: In Forcpaugh's ] are as _lithe and < anybody ever ylight the keep- One morning at ¢ s were surprised by motion among the got ont strong ropes, I Delieving th ble of the w The men ssoes and nets, some of the more formida- sts were out of th approached the wide stairs ith caution and entered the room den was a seene of fierc the other animals shar excitement. men advauced to the front of the den, and were met with dem- onstrations of anger. Lying close to the wali in one corner was a huge Ben, nl tiger, and at her sid pair of beaetifull, marked cnbs, with eves closed llk(- young kitten's. With cries of womlu the men gazed at the treasures which I been born during the night. Still they could not understand why all ths wil beasts should seem so restless, One of the k rs following the eye of a huge panther, shouted: “Boys, look! One has got out and 15 on thedloor!” One eub had crept through the Eas of the caga and tumbled out and wafdered around until it had tired out and gone to sleep. When one of the men earefully picked it up 1t uttered a feeble . The sceno that followed made those men, used to danger are, white with fear. The the bars of their cages the lions roured in unison the shricks of the other animals. It was a little pandemo- nium. To attempt to put the cub lmuu Zh um bars into the eage from allen was cortain death to sver undertook it, for with theiv long vins and their curved claws the gers would have torn to shreds what ever had been in reach, Finally one of the cooler-headed keepers took the little bent speckled, sightless be mbing end of the den, opencd & sma entilation and dropped the Ihu trouble at the foet of ity tenderly plaeed it Leside her other olupring, las dowa honsolf, aud in two minutes the cunning-looking kit- ten was taking its nourishment and everylhing soon quited downe.