Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 10, 1886, Page 11

ARE WONEN FAIRLY PAID? al Sides of the A CONSTITUTIONAL Opinions of Van Wlake An Devereux and B Interesting Denslow Discus. sion, It discriminate respective of to make a prel tatement first cite a few general statements from men who have studied the industrial classes. Mr. Charles F. Pec commis: sioner of labor for the state of New York, 1n his report on the condition « working that their wages, in all trades and avoeations, aver nge very much less than by men, and where men and women compete in any oceupation, as in book and even in ing-machine work, they are invariably paid unequally for an equal amount of labor. Mr Charles Wyllis Eliot, in “Women's Work and Wages, ’ states the average amount earned by women in this country to be four dollars a week, that earned by men fiftcen dollars. The Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton, in his sesmon “‘Labor’s View of the Situation,” asserts that *‘women work on an average for half the wages given to men.”” Somuch for general conclu- clusions; now for special illustrations In ull the eastern states women of minary will women, declares those received binding . ool teachers are paid less than men in simi Jar places, although it and iin admitted that women ter teachers ot the young than men, not only beeause they have natural qualifica- tions for the cure of children, but be- cause this profession is about the best and most honorable open to women, and therefore attracts persons of superior ability Yet the salaries paid to women range in amount from one-half to two- thirds those paid to men instructing classes in the same grade. Thus the male principals of grammar schools in New York r ive from %0 to $3,000 per annum, the female principals from $1,200 1o $1.700; the male assistants_in the same departments from $1,068 to $2,000, the fe- male assistants from £573 to §1,116; and a similar iequality cxists in all depart- ments, In telegraphy we find a repeti tion of the same injustice. At the time of the great strike of the telegraphopera- tors two or three years ago, it was asscrt- ed that female operators, without regard to efliciency, were paid forty-five cents for work for which male operators re- ceived ninety eents. In stenography and type-writing, a proficient woman receives fiftcen dollars a_weck, while a man gets twenty dollars. Here again it is admitted that women are superior to men, their greater quickness ofperception and mo- tion giving them obyious advantages. In type-setting, women gettwenty-five cents per thousand ems, while men receive thirty-five cents. In a recent article on the condition of women, which appeared in the Albany Press it was asserted that, “if paid according to the type they sct, they would carn as much s men; they arc much quicker workers, their hands are more nimble and dextrous, and the apply themselves more closély to the work."" Behind the counters of our shops, even where women and men are in similar subordinate positions, hand- ling the same class of light goods, as ribbons, laces, ete., where the man’s greater strength counts for nothing, and the woman's _superior knowledge of the fabrics should count for something, the saleswoman is given only six dollars a week while the salesman gets ten dollars. It would seem usel to cite further illustration: Those here named prov the aflirmative of the proposition, th: women are diseriminated against because they are women. LiLue De has been EREUX BLAKE. Mrs. Blake's contention is, that if a woman gets less pay than a man for doing similar work, that one fact is suf- ficient to prove that “woman is discrim- inated against because of sex, irrespective of her efliciency as a laborer.” On the contrary, this very abatement of pay for a specific quantity of work must be due either to the fact that her work is less profitable to her A-mfinlu)vr in the long run than the male labor, or else that working women themselves, for their own reasons, diseriminate against so many occupations as to leave their wage smaller in those 10 which they resort, If employers are animated by any other motive than the desire to employ those workers who will do the best work for the least money, such other motive, as respeets a choice between women and men, is always a desire to help women. It is ns natural for a man to desire to help a woman, where he can, as for a woman to desite to be helped by some man, irrespective of the value of the service considered as a commodity. So far as human society is a success, woman’s work will neyer go into the market a8 a commodity at all, to be paid for on competitive principles. Every social influence hu-L to render her carcer as a wage worker unprofitable. social instinet stronger than any human judgment secks to drive her, if need be, into the more natural, possible, and healthful career. This instinet finds ex- pression in many ways 1. Except from motives of philan- thropy, employers of any sensitiveness are painedin t tof employing women for wages. Their presence reminder f misfortune and lure. uccessful men instinetively keep at a distance all speetacles that mean failure and mis- fortune. 2, Women mstinctively repel and de spise n man who will employ them only at the competitive wage rate. It is un- natural and hateful to them to be em- ployed at just what they can earn and no more. Their hearts yearn for favor, love, affection, and they prize every little wproof of these, such as compliments, not on the work they do, but on qualities that help to identify them with the non workers, such as their grace, delicate hands, and tasteful dress. Women care more for flattery than for wages, and hate most cordially the man who with- holds their proper meed. But flattery which is the proper wagze of woman, is the most costly one a man can_pay, and ends, if he is single, in marriage or a quarrel; if be is already married, in di- » or scandals. In either case the employer may lose more on the work of one woman than any profit he would derive from the work of a bundred. In seeretaryships ana confidential oceupa- tions male labor 18 cheaper than female, as steam as & motive power is cheaper than gunpowder, because it involves less danger of explosion. 3. Female clerks draw lower salaries than male in all mercantile employments where the buyers are women, especially women of wealth, because such wowmen prefer to buy from men, and men can sell them more goods. A discrimination In wages basea on the fact that custom- !nuxrelsr male salesmen is one based on profit, not on sex. 4 as to female eompositors. Mr Storey, of Chicago, caused force of women to be prepared to take the place | INVALID. | THE OMAHA D ({3 “Since Thou Art Not Sure of a Minute, Throw not Away an Hour.” of hisforce of men. He e Jarge sum 1n their instruction, they were T displaced favor of these girl graduates. but must enough to act Thoy were righ conquest was far wmore them than getting out a daly As school teache swell as men, but the themselyes, friend n. went also. are le havstion married, to the indeli their continuous service marringe. Hence they the efficiency that comie: perience. ike that of Chi women from teaching, that is ination against them ed ail objects to pregnant and nurs as tenchers in public schools, Women t the. fow they prefer, the supp maims after considering the o their employment, Engineer ing, mining, and fishin and_dangerous, Ou too arduous. The light, is deemed ndelicate; thy or scavenger’s i is gloomy. The ra birds, though both delicate able, is unsocial. So far as w trades that they n own desire to preserve the manner and habit associated and ease, and so far as they crease the ing, teaching, and in th disy pations by women might live equally claim their powers are their diserimination against trades is justified by the fact powers are not e equal ags. sie Voman is a constitutional the extent that the healthie lie or with thm the painful ma in the unequal struggle demands. condition_is man’s would be Physiologically, if he total vital power. He might wages in this condition, but h earn them. dition of the world the female sex are unfortu: can or ean not earn the mean 'll')w)' are liko passengers siking ship. the rope thrown longest possible. quacy of the rope that may them can hardly be called s tion aguinst thém on aceoun being overboard to them o ~ A young man out of work He went and, as the proprietor good hstened, praised his pencils figures on & bit of paper to good they were. His method ——— J. H and Blood Purifier. very well until the first ball dispersed them. They not only must go to the dunce see important to women valuable than those of men who teach no better, because they must be more frequently changed, owing to ex- | mazy of the new autumn fabr v i1l health, to mayria cy connee s teachel with long ex- When a board of education 2o excludes married but on the public fastidiousness which hemselves discriminate nst so many employmonts that, in sarily in excess of the demand that re- are too Inborious of-door farming, lumbering, building, biacksmithing are rber’s trade, though s gross; the undertaker's ag of flowers and ight follow, upply of women for 1 clerking, lure to obtan as high wag Iatter occupations is not due to a mination of their employers against them on account of sex, bul to their own discrimination against most of the occu- which men live, and by whieh well i these al, then, lacking equal power, they naturally lack power to carn by nature untit for work one-sixth of time, and nine-tenths of the women who attempt #n industrial career bear around vietims to the exhaustion induced by its entially that which sustained every four weeks a drain of one-fifth of his In the present imperfect industrial con- small proportion of pelled to live or diefaccordingly as th aped overbourd in mid-ocean from a Everybody desires that But the actual inade- be thrown to Vax BUurex DexsLow, dling lead pencils about Norristown, Pa into 8 manufacturer’s office, and precision of touech led the manufac- turer to question him. He proved to be a designer of ingenuity and ski before he went out had secured & place. W HEN nature falters and requires help, recruit her enfeebled emergies with Dr. cLean's Strengthening Cordial AILY LI LS BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1 8R6:~TWELVE PAGES, GRAMMERCY PARK ARHEH SHILILIING RAPLIDIL X. Prices will soon be advanced and you should SUBUR AN UNTIL THIS IS SHOWN YOU. HONEY FOR TH xpended n . und when his men in They did Drides wear sued gloves of w and cloaks, Green, blue and combination. hat every substitute t. Social demi-saison mantles. Plush is the fas visites and pelerines. Peasant bod worn over blous Kensinzton r. often oir services pay e bodices. embroidery , or, if d with s after to acquire Juive sleaves of close fitting sle: the dress '8 of lace ben: teri; The for the bride's travellng ¢ fashion for trimming Some bodices ave several trasting ¥ clovi 1k on the back are wo a diserim- not on sex ng women nterie, are ly is neces- than ever, Patti knows how to keep a Queen Victoria in all her glor finer than Crais-y-Nos. Colored lining and tigured silks in bright employed for this purpos biections to ing, lor- blor e butcher’s lined with some bright color. and proflt- omen avoid from their delicacy of with wealth thereby n ine- their res 4s men upon mantl plastrons, vests. sleeves and be Pansians are wearing tartan entire dress or in binaii colors, A hat of gray straw taced witl: gray velvet. has the Ostr Cloth dresses are trimmed lier, bodice and sl Princesse effects ave not bridal toile front or hack dictate. Fur is to oecupy a leadinz p sory to home and street co: if, equa; other that their to is ing bills for taken si Bodices of velvet lia with them and form ) some_combination and draper. invali woman e pan :s incurred fall early to be worn, quarte soon to be abandoned. Mrs. Lydia Hayn, and it is woman's a of Cand! need more e could not A mantle sleeves and of blue plush h eollar trimmed w beads, It 15 lined with ately Miss Oelrich com- 3 of hving S who have ers, They eall her “'the lady o with beads of coriesponding shall be the front. t n pletes the trimming. discrimina- nt of their bordered with woolen with rich jes ornaments. began ped | onlly contirmed. at Lundy visiting British bishop of naturedly and drew show bLow of drawing a agreeable and pleasing young terwards took her the spring, she sal Liere is very and then you X Her friend was Lorritied. A dus! ill, and . fronk, cut lion basquas at tie D3 “suede” are The plaids, however are st ixeter, BOR SAadul 1BX [ LADIE hite Fichus are the present fancy upon dresses Blue velvet is & Parisian faney for smail rite material tor mantles, , corslets and bretelles are Is simulated material have eath. Cheviot with fine cheeks is the correet ma- costunie, brown dresses with black braid is still in favor. crests of con- olors opening one over the other. with broad embroidery of blac] 1 with black tolets. paulets and “ropes” of beads, or e used upon Bodices and sleeves are in endless variety: but, in spite of this, jackets are more popular 1stle. y are in high vozue, striped ing largely _Cireular _cloaks are revived in London. They are made of materials of neutral tints 7 Embroidery is in great favor and is seen 1d redingotes as well as upon ts. 1 pl ion rolling n feath, with s an ae- .5, and will Iy employed upon mantles and 1t cost a fashionable Iady who was sojourn- it Saratoga this summer 5500 for doctors’ ttendance on a pet dog whieh was els Wide, low collars, exposing the throat, are 1 edicted 10 certain s that high collars and full ruches are ia, th tint. A mantle of ottoman cloth is made short in the back and has square ends in front. guipure lace. sling sleeves, neck and the back are finished Miss Heaven is the name of a young woman Island by the If there Is ything in & bame she onght o be a most person, An estimable lady, who had been going through the cure at Mout Dore, was describ- ing the systemn to a friend, and wishin, explain that she first visited the bath ans . dustcolored camel’s halr dress has & plain skirt with full drapery falli straight folds The bodice is nl high over the hips, n_llld as Le col peau a favorite cloth | woolen Even annot run a 13 for the | b th plain brim ers and gray velvet loops are the tasteful trimming narrow sillc braid, forming vertical stripes upon tab- sves, terminating in loops. 4 in some of the s, but these are confined to the as the taste of the wearer m t in one | @ exceedingly hand- with striped wool skirts . H., who s about to celebrate her ninetyninth birth- day. attends to all her houseiold duties aud reads and knits without using spectacles, the basques, passemen- terie wrought with gold, green and blue irinip pink silk. the young New York lady whao recently shot a stag in Inverness-shire, otland, has won the hearts of the highland- f the stag.” A bonnet of beige straw has the brim F«)!zv;l A high coquitle of beize lace is arranged directly in A eluster of deep pink asters com- It is d af. of mineral water at “My dear, the treatment imple; you take your bath first rink the water afterwards.” | AARON CARN, SON & (0, 1322 Farnam St., Ground Floor iich the bod- and square plastron, beneath : r buttons, fastened with wrought sily © of deep blue velvet, and the basques just show a tiny line of dark blue veivet lining. Miss Mary Dewey, daughter of the late Charles C. Dewey, onie of the most eminent members of the Rutland county (Vt.) bar, 18 on her way to castern ‘Turkey to engage in i work. The younz lady will be two months in ¥eaching her destination, and must ride 500mles on horse back after leav- ing the steamer;” This is a most beautiful il- lustration of seif-sacrifice for the good of a Taraway peopic They have joined the ladies after dmner, and the conyersation had gradually turned to matters dramatic, and from thence to dis- turba during a_performance. Do yon know,” said the hostess, “I think children at a theatre ate & nuisance, [ was at Wallack's the other night, and a_woman had a baby in the parquette And then the slecpy one in the corner awoke and exclaimed: ~ “Dear me, how awfully embarrassing; bet I supposé there was a doctor there.” ae in October divides the honors with June as a wedding mouth: None will dispute that the days in’ these two months are ordinarily nearer perfection than those of the other ten, and us the bride is blessed upon whom thé sun siiines thiese months are naturally chosen, Satin and faille combi red with velvet, gauze or mousseline de soie, and trimmed_with pearl galloon and orange blossoms, are the tashionable fabrics for wedding robes. Bod- ices have one or two points in front and have plastrons or plaited fronts. Panels are formed by pear] galloon or aré ot silver bro. caded velvet or silk, The Freneh fashion of wearing the vell to fall away from the face is tobe generally adopted. 'The train is usu- ally. very long and without drape te CONNUBIALITIES. Henry E. Abbey was married on Tuesday to Miss” Florence Gerard, of Modjeska’s com- 1de West, the cireus clowr wmarried to Carrl ut Johnstown, Pa. Mrs. Harry Becket, widow of the comedian, Iias remarried, The groom is awealthy Eng- lishiman with a military title. Miss Monte Aldrich, daughter of Lonis Al- drich,was married in Boston to Abbot Graves last Thursd: in presence of 300 invited guests. Miss Amy Viete was lately Harris, serio comle singer, ne Putnam, danghter of Y | the late Georze P. Putnam, the publisher, was married in London a few s ago o Robert Spottiswoode vinney, of Kurrachee, Ind Katow Unosoke, a member of the Japan- ese village in Chicago, was married on Mot day to Liru Ishuwara, of Yokohoma, who was formerly emplayed in a Japanese' store in Chicago. but who now dispenses tea at the village. The marriage 1s said to be the first ebrated in America between two Jap- red- anese, It is reported that Governor Henry Lloyd ed on Monday,October 10, one of Can v's retty_daughters, The young lady is Miss Betuié Staplefoot. She is a blonde, and Is yery popular. A relative of the young Indy is authority for the report. The eyent has long been looked for by people in Cam- brid se. In Potter county. Penn., a dudish youth was marrieda few (days ago to astout, héaithy country girl, The dude was perfumed, wore £rills 10 Lis Shirt, bad his hair eurled and he presented such a feminine appearance that the clergyman said: “I don't want to mak any mistake about thiis business, so which of you is the bride, anyhiow is It has been de quainted with the facts t more years of ehronic into which the Malagasy bave 1 plunged with France, butare now happily freed done no pereeptible injury to religious agencies. It threw the people more enti; cl“ on thewr own re sources, and, a8 in bygone times, their faith has shoue bright in time of trouble There is now, unfortunately, some reason to fear that France resents the efforts of Ma: fiu;cu to pay the fine imposed upon her, and thus to free lerselt from French political dependencze. - President Adams, of Cornell, advocates the erection on or near the campus of dormitories for the accommodation of the students. He also appeals to the students to make the atmosphere about Cornell more seholarly, more like that about the English uuiversities, where the nfluence til. ©Of the stidents upon each otberisas 1, (1 i great as the influence of the professors. best thre ac- or I e to in MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. The compositions leftby Liszt number 64, Mme. Patti will begin hier season in New York, Novewber Joln T. Raymond’s new play is called the Wowan Hater.” Charles Bennett will be Ade leading man thisscason, Mr. Cnarles H. Hoyt's new alled a “Texas Steer,” The hymn of music of Brooklyn is said to be of the serio-comle order. The school of the musical soclety of Inns- bruck has 438 pupils this year. Katherine Rogers has been ack’s company this season, Thero are musical folks in Kansa has a choral society of 250 member . Annie Pixley has met with marked succes in ber new play, *“The Deacon’s Daughter. Clara Poole, the Boston contralto. is en- gaged for the Ttalian opera season at Genoa. Bijou Heron (Mrs, Henry Miller) is likely fo Invest in an additional cradie ut an early day. Kate Claxton, unable to find a new play to suit_her, has' made use of Boucicault's “Arrah-na-Pogue.” de Moore's farce will be engaged for Dttawa, Oleomarzarine is the name of a new fareical pie Tiie production is designed well to Tun in the dog days. Steve Brodie, the - Brooklyn devil, has been’ enzaged for W Ieap in *Blackmail, Fred C. Bryant, of Lester and Allen’s min- strels, lafely became insane daring a perform- ance at Williamsport, Pa. After Miss Thursby visits Bohemia fora bricf rest, she will return to Paris. quite a faney for the Bohemians. Mrs. Langtry will play a California en- gagzenient next spring, and may probably leave San Francisco for Australia. 1t is stated that Mr. Henry E. Abbey offel ed Mrs. James Brown Potter 850,004 to star thirty weeks nnder his management. Sauret, by invitation, Is to play at two Col- onne concerts in Paris, 1t will be his tirst appearance in that eity in thirteen years, Clara Morris lost a diamond broach, at $2,000, while playing at Erie, I'a, Thursaay. Detectives are looking for it. Next senson Henry Irving will produce Faust in this country, whieh i3 said to be the wrcatest of ail his remarkable produetions, thel Lynton, the comic donna, who was reported to in Philadelphia of well, “T'he idea has gone abroad that th Edwin Bo i3 not the longer, ‘The announcement is again made that Mr Keene will act this season, the beginning of his tour being fixed for the latter part of No. vember, Charles Wyndham has just recovered from a severe illness, whicl, by the way, may pre- vent his being seen on the London boards this season. Le Clair and Russell's “A Practical Joke” combination, under Peter Rice's live man- agement, is doing & very large businessin the southwest, Wm. Winter has in hand a life of Adelaide Ison, & memoir of John MeCullough and a biographicalaccount of all the members of the Wallack famity. Fanny Davenport will play Beatrice in “Sluch Ado About Nothing' for the first time on_October 11 at the Union Square theater, New York. Ml the title role in a new play writien for b a prominent English author, to produce it in Lonaon, Helene Dauvray was called before the tain fve times at the end of the first “One of Our Girls,” at the Park theater, Bos- ton, on last Monday night.” 1t now turns out that Margavet Mather Is not & descendant of Cotton “Mather, but an Irish eirl, who formerly resided i Detroit Her name is Margares Finlayson, The latest humorous musical news Turkey is that the sultan has for alued opera prima have lately died heart disease Is aliveand s s is to be 1’s last season on the stage. Such ot Mr. Booth will play a year r by 1t s proposed from den the representation of Rigoletto and the Hugue- | nols, because, as he asserts,they are immoral. Mrs. Dion Boueicault. (Agnes Raobertson) lately arrived in New Y ork city w0 collate testi- mony for her divorce suit in London against Dion Boucicault, who claims that they were never matried. John Rogers, husband of was lately arrested and fined fnstiga train in whieh that aetress was traveling. Rogers’ objeet was to get some free advertis- ing out of the ineident. The celebrated premiere dauseuse and in- struetress, Muse, Kathi Lanner, was lately presented in Londen with & magnitcent innle Palmer, %0 for Baving Tast | thea has been offered the creation of | some hoodlums to fire into the | ) | } and others at the Improve the PRESENT OPPORTUNITY Of Securing a Rare Bargain in the Choicest Addition to Omaha PROPERTY, No Other Will then satisfy Youl E. T. PETERSON & (O S. E. Gor. I5th and Douglas Sts. UP STAIRS. [ e T. B. WILDE, I512 Farnam St., Up Stairs. Maltese eross, surmounted by golden laurel, as the birthday gift of her pupils. The atlair was marked with great enthusiasm. Mr. Palmer has again taken up a_dramatic idea that he practically favored last season— namely, of giving extra perform- ances at the Madison nare theater for the of testing the merit of new plays by nauthors. It is designed that thes ances shall be given in the after noon. ‘The tirst of them will occur in No- vember, when a new play by W. D. Howells will be tried. perfor e IMPIETIE irst Minister—oust think of it, they gave me but $20 for my sermon. Second Minister —Why, I wouldw’t have preacned that ser- mon of yours for §100, Neenah, Wis,, does not take the back seat. It is probably the ouly eity in the United States where they ring the church bell for people to attend the skating rink. Jane, did I not tell you, if you were a; tempted to eat the currants, yon must say, t thee behind me, Satan?”” ~ *“Yes, mum, an’ 1did, an’ he got' bebind me and pushed me right into the curran® bushes.” An old deckhand on a New York excursion steamer chanced to enter a_French cemetery and saw a number of wreaths of immortelles on agrave. “What does that fellow want witha life preserver now?” he asked. The story comes from Boston of a dude who, having been asked to say grace at a formal spread at which he took a_leading part, bowed his head slightly, languidly low- ered bis eyelids, and murmured: *Ob, Lord, thanks—awfully ! Minister—I suppose you have seen me in chureh, haven't you? Little Dot—No; mamma never takes me to church. Minister Well, it would be rather tiresome for you yet. But 1 guess you will love to zo when you get older. Little Dot—Yes, indeed, £ am beginning to like to look at bonnets now. “Who 1 you?” asked the Sunday school teacher, addressing a little boy from he slums of Boston. “I dunno,” answered the boy, as he scratehed the shin of his right lez with his left leel. “Well, God made you,” said the teacher, “I'hat’s so ! replied ihe boy. Then he added: *“l guess L kinder heard o' that betore, but Ui like my old man, —L never was good at rememberin’ names.’ A young physician had just settled in a counitry town.” One of his visitors was a nan very neatly dressed. *Doc id, “would it be eeable to you to make the same arrangement with e that your predecessor did? I gave him so much for every patient he sent me.”” “Oh, you are the druggist, then?” “No; 1 am the under taker,” te —~—— FDUCATIONAL. The I T Taryard chapel bell calls no longer to ulsory prayers. e experiment of glving the eolored youth of the south an imlustrial education has shown results of the most gratifying nature. The university of Michizan opened with an attendance of 1,35—fully up 10 last year at the same date, ' hese uen bring in $40,- 000 in tees. Mrs, Elizabeth Thompson has given Pro. Maria Miteliell $1,000 toward the fund for endowment of the observatory of Vassar eollege. Thirty different institutions in the south, even of them eolored universities, have u aided financially the past year by the John ¥. Slater tund. Since the war more than been given by individuals or el north for educatian in th of patriotism could Lave or more effective. Dr, Mendenhall, of the seientific ¢ zoal service bureau, who s cars in organizing the polytechinic do runent of the old university of Japan and ted the presideney of the Rose polytechnic institute at ‘Lerre Haute, Indiana. The president of the Prussia has issued an order imposing a fine upon parents and guardians of sehool ehil dren for each day of the latter’s unjustifiab absenee from sehoo!. Employers of ehildren of the school age during the hours of stud are subject to heavier pe . For some time a Te dissatisfaction has existed on the part of some of the cadets Maryland Military and Naval academy at Oxtord against the assoc ate superintendent, Prof, 1. . C. Johns It culminated last’ Saturday nizht, wi 000,000 has rehes in the south, No form been more worthy provinee of West n a | bumber of masked eaduts entered the profes held | sor's roow, and while some of them him prostrate on the floor, others with shears removed fiom his face a luxuriant growth of red whiskers. 1t is rumored that the profe sor left for parts unknown early on Suuda worning. Colonel Burgess, the prineipal, bemg absent, it is nob known what result will follow. E 11 RELIGIOUS. More “misslons™ are to be v the Episcopalians 11 next wine plans for make Libetia sel & Meth in ted St t 8 hin thiss rs of the Lut nt language nasd. Carr, DD Galway, Irela Roman Ot lias been aps n who attended ¢ Moody have t t n n India is ine b ¥ ent & year,and ourne v This is the nof the order in Australl ns by all the Eu is $115,578e raises A mon fathers 19 Hrst foundat The m ropean an missions | ool Of N iited Kingdom 0,005,000, An ing ry addrossed to the postmaster of a town in Kansas, brought back the startlin “There is not_a church nor a churel mber in our town,” sy terian ehureh, built from petrified wood found in_Allen’s creek, is one of the curiosities of Mumford, Montoe county, No Y. et and moss fossils are to be piainty scen in the petrifactions. om - statisties just published it appoars that the Baptists in' the United States have 20,4653 churches with & membership of 2,57 235, an increase of churches during the yoar of (145 and of members 64,455, I'he Roman Catholic residents of Intarbog, near Wittenber ting (unds for thd renovation of St. Hledwi’s cliapel, in whiclf “the pious Dominiean monk, Tetzel,preached and refuted the thesis of bis faithless brother Luther.” The receipts of the American board for the year now closed from donation 554,218 as against &N 1 the preeeding 100, ngains year; from legacies, 8107 475, being a total of $401,438 this yeary (401 Tast year. irst negro to be ordained in the Roman c eliurel in this country is Augustus Tolken, who was born a_slave in Missourl in 1854, He has spent six_years in Rome studys ing, and is to hiee charize of a colored coit grezation in Quiney, 1l The Methodist willion for been pledged exeept £50,000, MeCabe, from his sick bed asks if. fif and Sunday school teachers will riise v doljar for the fund, \plete before November L. Tev. Immanuel M. Kosonwitz, professor of Hebrew in the German Presbyterian semin- ary of Bloomfield, N. J., has renounced Pro« testantism and professed the Roman Cathos fic taith, He wasa convert from Judaism,of Russian parentage, and educated at Basel, ceording to the last number of The Mis- slonary Review, it appears that during the Tast year 159,500 members were added to the churches on missionary ground, which 8 only 25,404 less than uccessions to the churehes in all Christendom, with their manifold vantages. “The statistics of the Protestant churches of Japan have just been published. The follows ing is a summary of the principal items: Number of loeal ehurches, 1515 wain_during ar. 15; number of baptized [602: number of bAptisms in 1585, 19083 contributions, $25,406; increase over 1884 | $6,41 e first synagogue in this country*to be ovoted to the use of Hungarians was dedis ated last week in New York. The buildin is on Norfolk street, near [louston. It wi hold 1,500 people. It was purchased from ans other Hlebrew congregation for $55,000. ‘The orzan has been removed, and the editice wilt be strictly in keeping with orthodox Jewish places of worship hereafter The first of the autum ferenees in the west this : the 1linois state conference. which is to ba held in All Souls’ church, Chicazo, October 13 and 14. The prozramme will be enriched by the dedication of the new church and the recognition of the semi-centennial of Uni= tarianism in the state, In addition to the usual invitation of the conference, All Sonls” church extends a Learty invitation to all friends., 1 v has placed the sum of §200,000 in ds of Rev. 11 S. Hoffman and C. M. ¢ the purpose of establishing in | Iphia a_divinity sehool for the Reformed Episcopal church. ~With the semi- nary achurch is to be established, and the parish and semnary are to be so connected that the pastors shall be professors, and the young students are to assist in parochial wor 1t is said that 100,000 will be spent. upon the buildings, which are to be erecte ready purchased at Chestnut and d streets, sions lias all and Chaplain v thouss not each to make it m Unitarian eon= ar will be that of |f AMERICAN OPERA. Voices and New Productions i Which the Provinces Are to | | New Get the First Of. New York Sun: The second season of the American Opera compaay will begin. at the academy of music, Philadelphia, on November 15, and will probably closs’ y in June in & ncisco. On No vember 22 a season of one week, Thankss giving weck, will be commenced at the Music hatl, Cincinnati, of which the en- || tire profics will be handed over to tna j Cincinnati College of Music. Following | Cincinnati there will be one week at the Exposition Mustc hall Louis, and two wecks at the Columbia theater, Chicago. The company will not be heard in New York until Febru 28, when the season Hi of five weeks of American opera opens Metropolitan opera house; but for beginning December 27, # company will appear at the ademy music, Brooklynt Mmeé. Cornelia Zanten, a European artist of the first rank, Las heen e for leading contralto and mezzo-soprano, and Miss Bertha Pierson has also been engaged. Mme. Fursch-Madi, the well known dramatic prima donna and direes tress of the ional l'.nncr\morynfi, Music, will be heard in certain speck roles.” Among other additions to the il company Miss Carlotta Pinner, a3l young American soprano,and Miss Laura $8i Moore, a young dramatic soprano, who' left America some y to study’ at the Paris_ conseryatory. She recently gained the first prize there. There are three new American tenors, Charles O, Bassett, Henry Bates and Charles M, Wood. Othe tractions arc John E, Srand, an American baritone, who has appeared with success in several overs companies, and D. M. Babeock, the basso. Miss Emma Juch will remain the lyrie prima donna of the company, and the res cngagement of Pauline L'Allemand will 1 as another pleasurable feas he works that will be added to the repertoive and are now being prepared | for most eluborate production” are § “Faust,” **Aida, “The Huguenots,' “Tannb ' “Oberon,” *Nero,"' Hals | evy's clair,” Masse's *‘Galathee," the grand ballet “Copnelia™ by Delibes, § “The Corsair” grand ballet, by Delibes | and Adam, and the “Bal Costume,” byl Rubinstein, which will be given in 16 entirety for the first time in this eountry, | The " Thomas orchestra has bessi il strengthened for this scason. Mr.Thomas | will 1 the musical director and | cord , and Pror. Bouny, the voesaf) director of the national conservatoryg will have the same post in the Americatis opera company. i T'he enorus numbers 100 voices, and 188 very much stronger than last season's:f The ballet has been inereased and wi number ninely-six dances, ‘I'he pres mieres are: Mlles. Ginri, De Gillert, Carel ozz1 and M. Cammarane. The first quas) arille consists of Mlles. Riccio, Vio, Astes giana and Maverofer T'here will be also four in the se quadrille, fifty-two coryphee: advanced pupils of the Ameri operi ballet school, and twelve male pantomis mists. The bullet will be the largest ey seen in this eountry Thirty-six nes coryphees have been cially sele from t various opern houses nee he new seenery is being painted the best available American artists, the estimated cost of the scenery, 00 tumes and stage paraphernalia for works which are being prepared for season exceeds $150,000,