Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1886, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERYS OF 8¢ Dafly Morniae Edition) fnciiaing Sunday 810 M o Bm 260 dny Tre, mailed to any . 20 For Throe Me The Omnba address, One Yeur. AN STREET. HELTNG. i STREET OMATA Oppic CEW Y ORI 0P ASHINGTON UFFICE, No. 5 FOU KTERS INDENCE: Al communieations relating to news anded- torial matter should be widiessod 10 the Kb TOI OF THE BEP. SIVESS LETTRRS: A1l brwiness Jettors and remittancos should be i Tk B P o_COMPARY, o orders THE BEE POSLISHING COHPANY, PROPRIETORS, ROSEWATE 170! THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oir State of Nebraska, 1o o County of Douglas, {* * Geo. B, Tasehuck, secretars of The Bee Publishing company, solemnly Kwear that. the actunl ¢ f the Daily Bee for the week ending Oct. 20th, 1556, wns s follows: Saturday, Oc Stniay. 2 Monday, 2 Tuesday, Wednes Thursday Friday, Average. . . REXIE) Gro. B. Tz8c1CK. Sworn toand subseribed In’ my presence this 30th day of October, A. 1), 1880, N. T Frin, [SEAL) Noiary Pubile. pichuck being (st duly sworn, depox ) says that he 18 secretary of the Bee Punlishing company, that the actual av- erave daily eircnlation of the Duily Beo for the month of Jan S copies, for Fubr 3 for March, 1840, 11 1886, 13,101 | tors and five members of the house | been won. copres: for June, 18%) copies: for ) L 1856, 13,464 Subseribed and sworn to before me this 24 day of October, A, D., 1856, N, P. Frir, (SEAL Notary Pubile. Witkre was Jobn Sabler when tho lights went out? THE worst tived out men are the judges and clerks of election. Tur Nem: fraud will not have a chance to divido his salary with any one T political firm of Boyd & Miller are trying to appear hilarious,but their looks belie their feelings CHARACTER in eandidates does have some weight with the republicans of the First district after all. Mr. SimeraL 18 probably elected county attorney. Ie made an able and manly canvass and polled a heavy party vote in consequence. Trar tremendous reaction in favor of Church Howe which was predicted as the result of the Bre’s opposition failed to put in an appearance, @ Tuar Pawnee county rooster which Howe's hoodlums carried in triumph through the strects of Beatrice will not put in another appearance CoLpy, as was to have been expeoted, traded Church Howe liberally for votes for himself. Ina tie up between two frauds one or the other is certain to get leit, ACCORDING to the Republicun “‘Church Xowo, in a threo weeks' campaign, has ahown the capacity, the vigor, the man- Jnegs, and the courage nccessary in the make-up of an able leader. Judgment day will come.” Judgment day has @me, ‘W are not likely to hear in the future duch about *‘a yaller dog” being able to carry the First district, ‘‘provided always he 18 endorsed by a republican conven- tion.” Party sentiment will count for semathing hereafter in making purty nominations. S—— Cuuren HowE and prohibition are re- sponsible for the result in Douglas county. The Beatrice nomination was a fatal mistake. The folly of the prohibi- tory resolution at Lincoln made the re- sult all the more certain. The foreign vote with few exceptions protested in the most effective way they knew how by casting their ballots for tho democratic oandidates. It is remarkable that any- thing has been savod from the wreck which this combination has wrought. ——— 80 far as returns have been reccived from the 818 congressionsl districts in which clections were held on Tuesday, « tha indications point to a continued dem- ocratic control of the house by a slightly decreased majority. The legislative tickets elected in the various states where elections will bo held this winter for United states senators will maintain republican supremacy in the senate, E——— Tae most recent reports regarding the European wheat crop indicate thut there will be a demand this year for more than the usnal amount of American wheat and that with the prevailing low prices in this country the demand should be very large. The statements from abroad show the crops for the current year in the European wheat-growing countries to be considerably less in amount than those of last year, when the importations of American and Indian wheat to make up deficie) s amounted to about 151,000,- 000. It is estimated that the requirements of Great Britian alone before the next harvest, in excess of her home supply will be quite 160,000,000 bushels, while France will have to import from 50,000, 000 to 70,000,000 bushels, India and Aus- tealin will export less wheat than last year, owing to diwinished ner and shorter crops, and consequently the Eu ropean demand must be directed chiefly to the United States. Fortunately this country has an ample surplus from which to moet any de d, and will be able to supply Europe with bread and put money in the national purse by doing so. For the first three quarters of the current year, ended with September, the receipts for Americun readstulfs were con- siderably lorgor than for the sawme period last year, and it is expected that the last quarter will show a greater proportionate inerease. The situation offers present encourage- ment to American wheat growers, which may be increased und extended in the event of & Europeas - war, which if entered upon at wll will ‘be general and vrolonged. ge N JTHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, he Kesult in Douglas County. With Church Howe buried beneath an avalanche of five thousand votes, the re- publicans of Douglas county have carried a majority of their legislative ticket in the face ot heavy odds. The two sena- have* When placed side by side with the overwhelming and stupendous majority given to the democratic ecandi- date for congross, the result cannot but be regardod as & surprising republican victory, The candidacy of Church Howe, eombined with folly, is responsible for the uprising. Hundreds of republicans, disgusted with Chureh Howe's candidacy and unwilling to vote for a den mained at home. Many foreign born re publicans alarmed by the prohibition s voted for democratic eandidate: e friends of Senator Van V and e working men irrespective of part) in support of the republican nominees who have secured their election and saved the legislative ticket from the crushing defeat which was adwministered to the preiensions of the Nemaha frand. ‘The vote polled for Church Howe was pitifully small. Hundreds of republicans declined to be whipped into line to sup- vort the trickster and the fraud. The inboring element voted solidly against him in spite ot Burlington money and B & ol. bosses, His defeat was the most stupendous and overwhelming which has ever visited & republican candidate in Douglus county. It was not a tribute to the popularity of his opponent but a ve- buke to the audacity of a candidate whom the people believed to be thoroughly cor rupt and dishonest. All the mceans at McShane's disposal would have failed in defeating an honest and eapable republi- can who had the confidence of his party and could have united them in his sup- port. The Next Congress. Tt will be several d yet hefore the relative strength of the two pacties in the popular branch of the Fifticth con gress can be aceurately ascertained. Tho dispatches at hand at this writing give very little information upon which to found a judgment or claim that would be of any value. The democratic majority in the present house is forty-three, and the probability 18 that this will be re- ducea by at least one-half in the next house. \e domocratic congressional commitieo have virtually admitted for sowe time past that they expected a re- duced mujority, and all the indications have been plainly in that direction, but it secms not unlikely that it will be less of areduction than they had probably apvrehended, or than the republicans professed to expect. But with the little information at hand, the only statement that can be safely made is that the next house will undoubtedly be democratic by a good working mujority. There is nothing in this result that should cause serious regret minong republicans, unless it be with respect to the possibility of the next house having to choose the presi- dent—an extremely improbable con- tingency. Regarded from a purely party standpoint the continuance of the house in democratic control will undoubtedly be to the advantage of the re- publicans in the next national campaign, if it shall maintain, as almost certainly it will, the course and character thatr have distinguished the present house. 1t 18 in- evitable that another Lwo ycars' experi- ence with the factional antugounisms, the contentions, the disregard of pledges, the indiffcrenco to the public welfa and | eral, as it is snid to have boen. the prohibition | goods would ho addressed to amr officer who was a friend of the person ordering them, who would send them home at the first obportunity, either by roturn- ing naval vessels or through other naval connections, Such an ar- rangement is by mo moans incred- ible, though of course it would necessitate collusions-—not very diflicult to estab lish, of course, if the practice was ¢ It is also notentirely improbable that certain naval officers had recourse to these means to increase their emoluments, but it is questionable whether smuggling for was carried on to any such extent been intimated. The solicitor of the treasury depart- ment has just given an opinion that wines | purchased abrond by naval officers for consumption aboard the vessel are not dutiable if retwned on shipboard for use, but articles brought by the oflicers for the use of other persons as gifts or other- so are dutiable, while wines, gloves, cl , brougnt for the officers’ own use, if in fact wearing apparel and personal effects not merchandise, are free of duty. It should be said that these disclosurcs refer chiefly to offenses committed several years ago, but they are none the less valuable since they have afforded the opportunity for an offi- cial decision as to the class of goods whick naval oflicers may bring home without violating the customs laws and While Russia is pressing her claims for ascendancy in the Balkans and Europo hesitates to dispute her progress the old report of a strong alliance of the Empire of the czar with France to hold German influence in cheek is once more revived on the French boulevards. The policy of revenge formerly urged into prominence by Gambetta is aj cussed and th probability of a conflict with Germany is openly eanvassed. About the fitness of France to cope with Germany opi differ. Tt would scem, however, as if the best and most mature military minds, both French and otherwise, haye serious doubts about it. Tacticians of eminence consider that, although Fran has made vast strides in advance in_her mib- tary ation and discipline, the ans have done the same, and, starting in 1871 from a point im- measurably ahead of France, Germany, by keeping step with the s still in the lead. Although the been tne pet of French legislators ever since the war, and although the most unheard- of appropriations never begrudged for the improvement of the army, in some essential points the French soldier is still wofully deficient when compared with the German, notably in discipline. A recent writer in the Nowwvelle Revue, a French military man of some prominence, gave it as his opinion that the French sol- dier still lacks discipline and vespect for his superior, and all the popular m ures, modelled more or less after € patterns, such as the boys’ battallions, the “turner’ companics, etc., were Fren fied, and lost their usefulness in the pro- cess. Still, France as a whole probubly belicves herself now strong enough to whip her neighbor, and it would be sur- prising if that belief did not engender something tangiblo before long. So far ns we have obscrved, Postmaster General Vilas is the only member of the cabinet who was publicly active in connection with the campaign just closed. That gentleman reached Madison, Wis., from Washington, at an carly hour Mon- the generally unwise and uns like conduct and policy of the democratic majority in congress, must convince the country of the perilous folly of entrust- ing power to that party, and arouse the people to the necessity of its complete overthrow and the restoration of the gov- ernment in all its branches {o the repub- lican party. Looking to that result as the probable and almost incyitable out- come of two yoars more of democratic supremaoy in the popular branch of con- gress, we cannot see in the failure of the republicans to get the house at this time any causo of regret. Having the senate, which will in all probability continue in republican control, there is in the situa- tion no reason for apprehension or dis- trust on the part of republicans. ‘The senate, we think there1s hardly a ground of doubt, will remain republ though with a reduced mujority. consists of 76 members, of which at pres- ont 43 are republicans and 84 democrats —a republican wajority of 8. The terms of twenty-five senators close on the 3d of next Maroh—sixteon of whom aro repub- licans and nine domocrats, Of these, twenty-one are yet to be chosen, The nive democrats will be suceeeded by men of that party. Of the twelve republicans the chances of six have beon regarded as doubtful, but the returns indicate that ag least five, and probably all of these, will be re-elected or succeeded by ropublicans. If such should be the case, the senute of the next congress will contain forty-ono republicans und thirty-five democrats, the latter having gained the seat of Muiione, of Virginia--a republican majority of six. 1t is still possible that the republi- cans may lose the seats of Harrison, of Indiana, and Sewell, which would reduce their majority to two, but the indieations are favorable to the retention of these sents, with all the others that have been regarded as doubt- ful. With the senate in its control the re- publican party can very well be content to havo the house remain two years more under democratic control. Naval Smuggling. The statements recently sent from Washington of the disclosures of smug- gling by naval officers appear to have been well founded. The fact has been virtuully admitted by one ofli in an interview with a newspaper represent- tive, who, however, endeavored to belit- tle the matter by saying that there was simply & little wine brought over. This admission was suflicient to establish the fact of smuggling, and justities the pre- sumption that the offense was not lim- ited to this. A Washington correspond- ent who has been investigating the mat- ter with evident industry, says the real facts are that some oflicers bave made a good thing out of smuggling when or- dered abroad, and others have turned thewsclves into commission merchants with a view of obliging numerous friends. It very often happened that after an ofii- cer was ordered to o ship the vessel would not for three or four months, and pending its departure orders would be sent to Paris and elsewbere for goods, with directions to forward them to a port where the vessel was to call. LThese day morning, and was active throughout the day in behalf chiefly of a candidate for assemblyman, in whom he appears to have a particular personal as well as po- litical interest. He is saud to have puta thousand dollars into the campaign fund and to have gone about freely among the “boys,”’ ending up by making the prin- cipal speach at a mass meeting Monday night. It is to be supposed that Mr. Vilus recoived a special dispensation per- mitting him to thus violate the presi- dent’s civil servico order, or is it to bo understood that the application of the order does not reach to cabinet ofticers. Prrer Cooren’s son-in-law will be the next mayor of New York, Mr. Hewitt's name was a tower of strength among the business men of Manhattan, and thou- sands of ropublicaus seem to have voted for him through tear of the possibility of Henry George's success, Editorial Meeting At Orleans, Nov. 12, 1886. The second semi-annual meeting of the editors and newspaper men of the Repub- lican Valley and tributary country, will be held on Friday, Nov. 12 next. Ample arrangements are being made to make it one of the most interesting ever had, The lulluwinfi partial programme has been arranged: AFTERNOON SESSION. 1. Address of Welcome, L. J, Cleaver, 2. Response, C. L, Watkins. 4. Roll call, 4. Judge Isreal. 5. W Lindse, 8 F.M. Kllllll\u{ 7. Will N. King. 8. A.J. Graham. 9. A. C. Husmer, 10. Business meeting and impromptu specenes, VENING SESSION, Music—Orleans Glee Club. Oration—Life of Abraham Lincoln.— Colonel Pickett, of Bloomington Guanrd. Music—Orleans Glee Club. ‘This will be followed by a grand ba! Those parties whose nmmnes appear in the programme are requested to choose their own subject, It 15 to be hoped that every editor will be ou hand, as much good can be accom- plished by gotting acquainted and ar n be m: to get v passed at the coming legislature that will he of benefit to the craf Parties from the west will have to drive from Oxford down and can return by train in the mort Everybody is in- vited to bring their wives, A grand banquet will be served at one of the hotels. H. M. Crane, Pre R. B. WarQuist, Se PROMINENT PERSONS, Ella Wheeler Wilcox half-confesses that sho contemplates writing a play. Harry Gariield, tho oldest son of the late President Garfield, is soon to marry bis cousin, Miss Mason of Cleveland, O. Charles A, Johnes, the great Wall street scalper, is worth $1.000,000, and he started iu lite as a boy in & broker's oftice, Mrs. General Grant may recoive anywhere froin $300,00 to $700,000 fron: the sale of her noble husband’s book, Cousin Bou Folsum is & poet. At least, e has written verses, and his family think he iy & sceond Tennyson. Cousin Hen Foisom will take a bride with bl to Sheflield, the gossips say, and & very prudent mau he is, too, Col. sohn 8. Mnsby 1s going on the platform this winter with a lecture detailing his ex- poriences daring the war, 1o reecives $300 ver night and all expenses. Clarles Francis Aduns. jr., )8 about to beautify Boston by erecting a_lovely house on the corner of Commonwealth avenue and Gloucester strect, James C. Flood has just finished a $2,00, 000 dwelling in San ¥tancisco. Mrs. Langtry Jumps into an lce-cold bath as soon as she wakés up in the mornine, Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines' five erandchiidren will get a million ench from her esta‘e Ex-Minister Cox is lecturing in New York on Turkey Senator Edmunds is only fifty-eight years old, Mo began his public life as town repre- sentative from Burlington in the Vermont legislature in 1855, He has been a public man for thirty-one years, and if he completes the senatorial term for which he has just been chosen, he will have served the people about thirty-eight years, and will be only sixty-live yenrs old. Mrs. Jossie Benton Fremont, who is now sixty-two, preserves the strong intellectu | tastes of lor vouth. She is possessed of great physical courage, and she greatly desired to follow her husband in his early western ex- plorations, and was only doterred by the f of making himn ridiculed, about the only fear of which shie is ca pable. phovl. ot - How He Can Get a I"ension. Louisville Courier-Journal. If Mr. Gladstone should get no pension from the British government, he can anply to the United States, Novody 18 reiused a pension over here. i Doing Well, New York Sun. *‘Has prohibition vroved a failure in this town?™ shouted a temperance orator, “No, sir,”” eame a voice near the door, “Two new drug stores were opened last week.” —— To Bartholdi. Gearge Alfred Townsend, ‘The son of France bis kindl; i ¥ v o'er this radiant a Buayara of rom; Kuelt to the strength ol Fre dow; e saw arise athwart the skies A Goddess ev er living, Iuminacon in her eyes And flame to darkuess giving. Lift high thy torch and forward mareh, O dame of Revolution |— All beaven thy triumphal arch, ALl progress thy solution And trom tie earth and all its dross z glanco May man behold the story— Friendship is precious as the Cross, And only Art s gl - ART BY THE YARD. acture of Oil faintings. ew York Commercial Advertiser The production of chcap paintings has ) equully large amount of ) wit, but'to the sts who ate’ the pictures and to the public which buys them they are anything but aughing matiers ¢ desire’to b sur- rounded with color is inmate with man, and if he has not the money to buy the anvases of old and modern masters and has not the acquired good judgment to know that bad coloring 15" worse thun none at all, then he will be quite sure to invest §5 ina picture that was done by the yurd. One sces these marvels of artistc cheapness displayed in many large sho and the infer s that some one b the poorer cl must buy them. Any one who has e looked ahout New York for board knows that the best board. g houses often depend largely upon xl\nm foc the decoration of their walls. all the furniture shops in the and many others in Grand street avenue haven judicious sprink- m among their stock, and in may be found auction nd 1pon their sale for ex- ek that is resorted to in European citics is seldom practiced 1 New York. Abroad one may go to some quict, out-of-the warter of o ity, hoping to pick up a bargain, and at y turn_the eye will be met with ous daubs purporting to be signed by Corot, Millet, Doubingy, Ronsseau and other well known but unconven- tional artists. That anyone should be for . moment deceived scems impossible, but the presence of those pictures prov that some onc must nibble at the hook that is even not baited. But the New York deulers ither too honest or clse they are too modest to attempt su game and a picture of the cheap orde usually allowed to sell on its merits. There are 2 multitude of pls in New York where these paintings manufy tured, but the headquarwers for the bu ness—the place recognized by the ti in other cities—is in Cortlandt street. It had 1ts beginning 1n the brain of & sharp English born Hebrew, who started with ono room, and now he oceupies a block. He buys his nd prepar it for use himself. The frames are all made iv the house, and even the rough outer “cases for packing are sawed ont and put together on the premise Some sixty men are at work producing tho paintings. Taey work i small rooms and for small pay, some getting $1.50 and others as high as $3 & day. These wovkmen turn out the » ntings at @ lightning speed ‘hey do not stencil the designs, as many suppose, neither do they «‘fl-.u-nd upon nature nor upon other pictures. They simply use their brushes nearly hap- hazard, and in thirty minutes a new anvas comes from their easels,. A $2 8 y young man can turn out twenty of these daubs, thus making the average cost for the work 10 eents; the materials, in the shapo of paints, canvas and streteher, represents 30 cents more, and a good-looking Dutch metal frame N be added at a cc #1.00, making grand total of 3 hus the picture may be sold at any price between §3.60 and %5, and the dealer will make as much as most people o in business ctions, But this is the very cheapest kind of painting, the grade liner takes an hour to complete, and from this they pass to those that consume an entire day. Many of the latter pictur are copiud from photographs and 1 some littlo pre- tension to perspective and _color. The are ofte by: men who onc 1 some little idea’ of drawing, but who found insurmountable difticultics in the waty of becomng first eluss artists, Their pictures, wh they duplicate ndeti nitely, do not cost ove , and framed from $8 to $12, and sometimes they sell as high as §35. The small pancl pictures, done on wood and often copied from some populur French or German pamt- ing, requently v Emuy and orly done. Muny of them are imported ~and cost . almost nothing at first hand, though Broadway houses, which buy them cheap enougl, often ask §10 for. them However, whethier of New York or continental o igin, they pa through the Cortlanat street depot.” This p is u species of foster parent for improvident artists, many of whow send their work here un- signed and are glad to get a $5 bil turn. As the proprictor says, mgny the profession leave New York early in the summer with pockets well hned with greenhacks, but a season of idleuess and extravagance finds them well reduced in purse in the autmmnn, and they struggl ek to the city, glad to lay in the pric of a few woeks' board by tirning out a dozen or more hastily’ done pictures These are the paintings that are afterward signed by any number of wmythical persons and are sent eut in the ¢ ot a sharp auctioneer to Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville and other western ecities, and are sold for $76 to §100, and oftentimes double these sums. W ith these oil paint- seyeral str rooms that istence. A tri ings water-color sketches are frequently mixed. They may be bought in [taly for asng, and cven when duty 1s pad, which is not always the case, they n bo sold at low hgures. But the o not, fer so wopular have they become that in Fifth avenue anction rooms sketeles that cost in Europe three or four franks apicee sell for $15 and £20. Had they any beauty or were t characteristic of any school of art they re mere hasty water color sketehes, and beeause there is a popular clumor tor this Kind of pieture they find ready sale I'ihe demand for crayon portraits is great that, in addition to lundseapes and figure the eheap art house is or- ganizing a portrait departmen artist will work by the pie ting on an average $4 for cach portrait As theso | placed at are all orders tha $15 aud $20 cach, the p is bad, even after an agent, who may solicited the work, has had 25 per given him. Water color portrats also mude, but the same percent of rolit ean not be had. No artist the house could hire oan paint without hav- ing n faint solar print as a foundation, and this costs 4 good deal, and work must nece ily be slow and ak ing. In the mdst ot this temple e voled 1o the arts it wves shock to find that the wholesale abiding place the chro o oats o dil varities, Here are those 10 Zeord works of uart in bronze frames, senting Ralvigh av tne court of beth, Charies . on his way to ox and others ke them that look so tempt mg when displ bearing w card stat ing that they huve been reduecd ach, As the pictures can be bonght at bout § sLminimum ot bron brown naint, and shipment do not 1 cun rendiy Lo reck rdicnlously Tow i is not making e probu goll leal s o put a g have n not have are s pre 1 told esent over $8.50, it ned that even a rure of $10 the de 1f hoor: best work done zold deat, and at they golid deaf moulding around anicture, is they often do when espe cintly ordered, ey charge mueh than up town prices. Oue iundred fitty men are Lusy in this one pl TWEnty-five more are Working tirm outside. Fhenadd to this the people who are working for ather houses, and it w.l be seen that they constitute wsimali army in themselves, One house has 50,000 tinshed the nd nid for stowed away for this radi Wiere they will go to or them is & mostery, but not worvied abovt the size of his and unless one has good reason to sup nose that some time he will be compelLid 10 &z on one or more of these eany there no eause to bori about them. season's who 15 W The Habits of & Cen ‘Chevreeul at o Hundred, Larrabee, in for Noyember siderable lil has been regularly in cession of valuabic b a bibliophilist like him to tind. His aged in thonwnt the studies from which sueh useful dis coveries have resulted. He has himself in good condition und L work and moderation. has now been dead for more than twenty ¥ L attended to s comforts with devotion which such minds are able 10 His only son, a_ retired trate liv D.jon. The man lives, therofore, alone, with books for companions, by the a'd which he is able 1o converse with brethry at ones of muakind, the Newtorsand Galileos. Wi his books he s at his laboratory in the Gobelins, where he goes on with his ex artan, ‘by W. H AL Ci ry it the vreul has ased by oks which his son jmselt, has helped and life has been en ad cone py by superior invoke magis ul poss \gmented ds o1 his se.entitic L therefore, passes along placidly, enlivened by the pleasure of secing the closing years of his carcer emphasized by ovations to his merit. He has wit nessed the bicth of all the s ries of our century, bors. ment of modern industry. M. Chevrenl is tall, and bears to t dav an ercet body. Of elegant maun and incomparable affability, fails to receive you with a” smile. His head is a very fine one, with a broad and sive_forehead, shaded with cks. Heis aman of wit genius, Recently, when engaging o new eparator for his lnboratory, he said to him: “You must havea good deal of courage to take this place; we have killed four preparato V'e recol- leet, says M, | ta ball'in the Elyse midnight of a win- tor night, fresh and lively, surrounded by Indies whom he was gaily entertaining. with an exquisit rming grac M. Chevreul is very sober. He drinks nothing but- water and beer, except that, by specinl request of Minister Goblet, he for the first time in his life departed from his abstinence to drink a glass of cham- pague in response to the sentiment “Vive la France!” at s century ban- auet; and to his temperance, with his robust constitution and h prudent regular, and andustrious life, he doubts less owes his survival to so high an age, _-~— some Short Men, New York Sun: Abe Hewittis barely five t four. Inan average company of men he is obliged constantly to ook up while in conversation. A ten min- utes talk with him compels the brainest men to look up to him. His force ana power are all above the shoulders. The handsome and vivacious ‘Theodore Roosevelt 1s b in stature, but he is well proportioned In crowded assem bluges he seeks n chair or beneh to stand upon while speaking — In gatherings where such informalitics would be - dignificd, Mr, Roosevelt speaks under some embarrassment, though he con- ceals it Sunset Cox will measare bhack to back just ubout even with Abe Howitt, Yet in congress he has so often proven u David to republican Golizhs that no one ever thinks of him asa small mun, My Cox I8 uble to make his prese fuit without such adventitions adds as inch 58 on his boots or w ehair or desk for a plattorm. Governor Dayid Hill’s eyes are cast up- ward as he talks with most men for he is short. But ho is one of those who appear shortest when first seen, and he scems to grow In size whenever one mceets hon That is because he impresse with u forceful manner, a cl suggestion of great power held i x and complete control, Dan Lamont earries an old young shoulders aud short legs. dent Cleveland could almost butto mside of one of the capucions exe overcoats after he had himself put coaton. Dan's influence in the whit house, nowever, is to be measirod inver sely to the inches of his beight T or Spooaer, of Wisconsin, is « five fect shree, but he thinks it lucky 1 he is no taller. Had he been he u not have made the efforts necessary to overcome the prejudices of the Wiscon sin lumbermen aguinst little fetlows Jay Goald is so short that youth in trousers fit him. Yet he Joc Sumson before the Philistines smonys the Dusiness giants of the world Phil Sheridan is only five feot four ]--I the people in the Shenandoan valley twenty odd years ago thought that mighty warrior was rushing dows to overwhelm them. sizes it would be different,but they are not; to §10 Vicdozen, and the frames have ind amaximum of hoxed for I'he frames the number paintings will buy their ownor i3 ocks o8 trounle opular Science Monthly con- muscum, which the ac- Hrated upon kept ths wife, who all illustrions old his of s 1ol among alarze fortune, rom year to year by His ontilic dis- and bas bebeld Jlons spectadle of the develop- he rarely white as well as Parly Statistios The Paris municipality publishes tach | month a pamphlet devoted to vhe statis- | tios of the city. The following article is condensed from the number giving the | resnits for the year 1885 I'he pumohlet opens with tables on the climate of Paris. During the year 1585 it rained or snowed 195 day more than half the year. The average twelve years is 210 days, which bri out still more strongly the pluvial natue of the Parisian chmate. July scems to be the driest month < six rainy days—and October the wettest—twenty-four davs | The highest the thermometer rose was 432 centi te, n nd in the shade; the | \ average for twelve vears gives 16 mer and 8.9 in winter, which heit would be about 11 in the and 16 below the second. The coldest spot in ms to be Mont maltre, which is very nutural as this hgn hillisas “windswept” as any spok of by Homer. The warmest pact of the city is near the uvperend of the Luxem bourg Gardens,--.f we are (o belicve thuse statistics I tigures concerning married life are very interesting. More men get mar- vied ot d between 30 and 55 than at any othir i Karly marriages ure ry rare on the part of the No boy under 15 was. marcied at Paris in 1535, while only 51 were married at that agre, B1at 14, 125 ag 21, 272 at 31, 52 at 22, 863 and so on. But old doos & the mateimonial fever among Several hnndred wodded v they had passed their (it 89 hetween 55 and 60 years old, between 65 and lor after he "W nsum Fahren- rst ¢ ro in ris 1y L year G5 between 6) and 63, 0 and one forlorn old b had wot beyond @5 Freneh womon bogim under sixteen, There w such foolish wirls in 1886, A whole hun- dred ventured in atjusi Ssweet sixteen, ™ and from noncteci o twenty-six they married at the rate of abont one thousand for cach ago, Women who have passed their prime have no trouble in finding husbands in Franee. Thus from torty {ive to ity not less than 248 were weddod masingle year in 3 123 from filty to fifty-lilty five; sixty from fifty-five 10 sixty; nimeteen trom sixty to_sixty-five, and thiee after seventy-tive. Two thou- sand, three hundred and seventy-four widowe ¢ ready to try matrimony a second but only LE3S widows, which shows perhaps that Frenchmen do not muke wore perfect husbands than the men of other nations. Bat the di- voree table would n to contradict this last statement, for waile 142 were granted divorees ) ;\'nv- succeeded in obtainmng the same avor, There wore over 20,000 marriages Paris in 1835 v 61,000 births hich number 41,438 were lo, illegitimate. That is, ne { the children in Paris are of wodlock. These ligure Amerie During " the y were immediat acknowledzed paronts to be their children, and about 5,000 mor leitimized later, making a grand total of alittle over 8,000 leg: d durin the year, to be sef against the 16,922 illc gitimate births. That is, about one half of the illegitimate childven are acknowl sdized sooner or later, leaving some 8,000 o throwzh the world withouta known or mothe) When Jeflerson was minister to France he wrote home that he had not seen drunken man since he landed in the conntry. During the year 1835, 177 per- sons died in Paris alone from aleohol ism, and of this number thirty-six were women. More than 10,090 died of con sumption, (o oall P cre were 54,616 saths in wyear . In this numbe: undor one year., nocents! “The progross of frec-thinking in France is shown Dy the 11 teivil” burials, t is, interments without the y when nty-two born will b iths outsid startle 3,851 e rly melndued 0, What a slaughter verbial fru; the total saving bauk depe rly sixty-two millions of francs in Paris for the sinule yeur 1385, There were 601,749 depositors. The pawnnbroking table re- veals. on the other hand, considerable impecuniosity in the Parisian population, for over two million objeets were pledgod on which more than fifty-live wmillion trancs woro drawn, There were 2,17 failures during the year, iabilities being over fifteen miflion f The omnibus and hor; are interesting. They show thal 4 a twelvemonth all thé lines make 4,480,716 trips, and carry 191,218,501 passengers. does ot include nearly s ind on the ne bouats and severni other millions ansported by the stenm éars that eiren- Iate inside the walls. Fhe busiest omni- bus line is that which runs from the Madeleine to the Bastille. the whole length of the grand boulevards. It alone arried - nearly 14,000,000 people in 1955, The line of horse-cars that follows the Boulevaras Sebastapol and St. Mich- carvied over 11,000,000. The traing brought into Puris 1,234,779 travel- ers, and took out 1,217,978, of which numbers 494,683 were provincial French- men und 140,445 foreigner The fire department has some cuarious things to tell. OF thz 832 fires only 30 re- quircd to be put out by the steamers, while 540 were extinguished by buekets: The o3 would alone show that o flagrations are almost unknown at Paris. But it further appears that in 236 of these 882 fives, thore wius 4 loss of 1,000 franes or over, whila in 616 the loss’ was only 1,000 frunes or less. [nsurance eom- smes siould thrive in tho Fronch capi- tul, he Barber in Pickwick I’ Ol stropping the r y after day, fecling the sharp edge, and thinking of the gash one oke of its thin, bright point would make Lord Chief Justice Cockburn is no trade which furnishies such ste % of roady ining information and of ageeeable manners, One + most intimate friends I have ever n the world was Diek Dunby, who kept a e dresser'’s shop under the oloisters in the Temple. * * * Poor feliow, he anly, and his th ll-nlhrw-\ u gloom over Westmin- Washings roin§ 15 o $i nthe custoniers ) that might bt it w be iy he other %3, ondon Daily News amorous lines on rber Bearded” Consider what their trade had made in the w and how it iad grown since the , and afterward statesman, Joseph ted the notion of opening Sundays, down pest the quair, who was fond of razor L 10 Arabi Pasha, at one period of hair dresser. Ihe bigaest wey taken an by any barber in” Washington on insuguration day was 819 or £20, and down-town bar beis did that it man took in over £30 inauguration week, but, great heay ens, how he had o work. He started in about 8 o'clock in the morning, when people who amd been ont an the street all night tlocked in 1o get shave und a Hath, He wus going unti rmidnizht wo, %0 Ndn't gt much sleen that week, There is one san in the Ebbitt ‘hw shop who taras in a great deal more money than any of the ather He 1isalightning shaver, but he can't et { hair any better than an ‘apprentice. Yet therd is always & erowd waiting for hiu who think Lhiat le ean eut bar as well | e osu shave tie shop There is ono ive $15 worth of wori Ay hustling 10 & Tom the pro ay of Barner, in Hood had < barbi Huwe lirst us have produced the change. [HE AMERICAN COWBOY, His Life is One of Excitement and Romantio Interest, Organization, on the Dosoipline and Ordor orthern RRangoes, eph Nimmo, jr., in Harper's Maga- zine for November: Fhe cowboy of to- duy, vspecially on the northern range, 18 of entirely different type from the origi- nal cowboy of Texas. New conditions The range cattle busiess of Ka , Nebraska, Cole orado, Wyoming, Montana and Dakota is, ns already stated, & new business, ‘Those engaged in it as proprictors are chiefly fro the states situated east of the Missouri viver and north of the In- dian territory. Among: them are also muny Englishmen, Scotehmen, Frenche men and Germans of large means, em- bracing titled men who ve embarked i the business quite extensively. Many of these ecamo to Ame originally as tourists or for the purpose of hunting buflilovs, but the autractivencss of the cattle business ested them, and they have become virtually, if not through the act ol naturalization, American herds- men. Some of this elass have, from the foree of romuntic temperament and the exhilaration of range life, themsclves selves particip ated actively in the duties ut the cowboy. Organization, discipline, and ovder characterize the new undertakings on the northern ranges. Ina word, the cattlo business of that section is now and has been from the beginaiug been carried on upon strictly business prineiples, Undor such proprictorships, and guided by such mothods, & new elass of cowboys hns been mtroduced and developed. Some have come from Texns,and have brought with them a knowledge of the arts of their alling, but the number from the other states and territories constitutes u lurge ority of the whole. Some are gradu- of American colleges, and others of collugiate institutions in Europe. Many have resorted to the occupation of cow- boy temporarily and for the purpose of learning the range cattle business, with view of eventually engaging in it on their own aceount, or 'in the interest of irous of investing money in the enterpris s lite of & cowboy is always one of nt and of romantic interest, i iding on trail’® are spent in the saddle, and at night he akes his bed upon the lap of mother great herds which driven out of Texas to ranges usually embrace 4,000 young eattle each, and the mov ment has 1ee its beginning, about riiteen years ago, mmounted o about 4,000,000 head, worth nearly §50,000,000. Lach herd is pliced in charge of a bos: with from eight to ten cowboys, a prc vision wagon and a cook. VFour horses are suppiicd to each cowboy, for the duty is an arduous one. ‘The range eat- e when aw trom their aceustomed haunts ure suspicious aid exeitable, and ced Lo be managed with the catest to keep them from stauipedi When “on il they are “elpse herd- t nighttall, and all e down within aspace of about two acies. The cow- boys then by watches nde avound them wll night long, ‘I'he sensible pr 1D TPPCTS Lo ive the snimals arity. y from southern Texas to from four to six s are <0 driven from Or nd Washington territory to Wy- oming and eastern Montana. It is im- possible tor one who has not had netu experience in *riding on il to imag- ine the dilliculties volved in driving a Jurge herd of wild cattle over mountain Falgos, across desert lands where in some cases lood and water are not found for wany miles, and where streams must be crossed which are liable to dangerous freshets. A large part of the northern rang embraced in the area which Silas Be accomplished met ie birthplace of the tornado.” der and lghtaing, are hero frequent, and they ave especially tervifying to range cattle. The most thrilling incident in the life of n cowboy occurs on the occusion thunderstorm at mght, Such an oc- currence is thus described from personal observation by Mr. William A. Baillie Grohman, an English writer: “On the approach of one of thess vio- lent outbursts the whole force is ordered on duty; the sparc horses —of which each man has always three, and often as many a8 eight or ten - arefully fed and te thered, and the herd is ‘rounded up, thut is, collected into us small a svace ns possible. while the men continue to ride around the densely massed herd. Like horses, cattle derive cournge from tho close proximity uf man, The thunder peals, and the vivia lightning lashes with amazing brillianey, as with lowored hends the herd eagerly watch the slow, steady puoo of the cow-ponies, and no doubt derive from it n constorting sense tion. Sometinies, however, will bo uuuble to control 3 nd will make a dash tougzh o nL opaning. I'he orisis s at id, for the exnmple will surely be fol- lowed,und in vwo minutes the whole herd of 4,000 hwad will have broken through the line of horsemen and be away, one surging, bellowing m: of terrvified hensts, | Fo a piteh dark night, a pouring torrent of rain, the grouna not only strang men, but very broken and full of dangerously steep water courses und hollows, and you will have o pictore of coswhoy duty on” such a night. hey must head off” the leaders. Onco faiely off, they will stampede twenty, thirty and even foriy miles st a stretch, and many branchos will stray from the main | Not ulo the wreckless rids dlong at breakneck pace’ over dangerous ground in denso durkness, but also the horses, small, in- sign ticant hensts, but matehless for hardy yluranee and willingnoss, ave perfeetly are. how mueh depends upon ther specd that night,if it kills them, Unused il the last moment remains the heavy cowhide ‘vuirt,"or whip and the powerfiil spurs with rowels the ) five-shilling Urgon on b the horses o the terrilied until to reach the leaders, when, swinging around, and tearless of * horns, they pross buek the bellowing brutes till they turn them. All the mén pursuing this manwuvre, the headliong vush is at last cheeked leaders, panting and lashing their sides with their tails brought to u stand, and the wh 18 azain rounded up.' Throughont the north: bricty, selforeatraint, faithfilness to duty ar the cowboys. A great also observable in the ¢ s of Texas Deeds of violencg among them are now for T'ne morale of the entire range and ranch cattle business of the United Btates now compares favorably with that of other large entorpr - who was found dead Mayne's baek yard ha s Heury Lowis, & Iaborer of Ihe cuuse of his death is no’ are the from Montana montl n et behavior,and enjoined upon improvement 15 s man inC k identlicd this ciny Kuown supper is. to Thursday night t . the church, the proceeds to b purclisse of un oigun; An oystor he given . Widnut 1! I used for the