Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 7, 1886, Page 11

AMONG THE WITS AND WACS. Polished and Pointed Paragraphs and Poems of Mangled Metre, THE STUNNING TILE OF DAD. Three Whoops and Bang for Enlight- ened Liberty in Dishabille—The oet's Wail and Abon Hen's Tale. To the Bartholdi Statue. Washington Critic., Hail, thou Statue ! . Thiot lareest-sized specimen of concrete lib- 1y extant, AUl Hali; and repeat! “Thow art a zoddess in very fact; But why art thon a female? Do wornen in this Broad Land of Freedom Have rights of citizenship and suffrage And other prerogatives of the (ree, Including running for congres: To sichdegree, “Lhat a woman must be selected To give us an imitation Of Liberty Enlightening the World? Shaces of Susan B, Anthony And ministers of Belva A, Lockwood, Likewise Colonel Kate Field eval., Jetend us! Wihat does a woman know about liberty Exceptin the abstiact? Mighty darn littie, and don’t you forget it! She lias Liberty of Speceh, of course, And she gives it all the exercise 1t can stand, Or anybody else can stand. But thiat has notiing to do with you, For you can’t talk ! . Which may be aceapted as competent testi mony i That Mr. Bartholdi is a marriec And knows what is artistic in s Being in New York. O. Statue! We presume vou couldn’t very well HMave been a man, Lest he should rip himsel U Kk and down the seams, e bronze to the highest bidder In this counection we ms % Remark as a guaranty of_eeod faith, And not necessarily tor publication, Tliat being a womnan has the bulge On being a may rus ‘The perpetuity of your statueship ¥ 15 concerned, and you should be thankful! However, 0! Statie, permit us to Return to the original subject, And reassert our previous statement of All Hail You are consjderable on a pedestal, And we don't care who kuows itl You have come to stay, And if our little dab of Hail Will do you any zood, You ean have it and welcome. Here it goes again: Hail, all Hail, Thon great big sister of Yankee Doodle! Whoop! Wh You may need this Pair of whoons, 3 But take them with our blessing! And onee again: All Hail! L He May Get 1€ AIL Wall Strect News: *‘So you want my duughter,” queried a Chicdgo capitalist as the young man_ finished his address and stood with folded arms. 1do." “Ethel is used to luxury, yon know s, sit, and she shall "have all that heart can wish.”” 5 “But you are a joor Soung man, just getting a start in Dako “Awr 1t 1guessnot. Our county has issued bonds to the amount of $250,000 for internal improvements. Iam county urer and let all contracts.” ke her, Willinm, and remember that integrity is the key-note to suceess.” The Landlady Laughed Not. Statesman: “Will you ask Mr. Longface?" said the arding-honse mistress at dinner after a hard-visaged chicken bad been placed before hun. “Al; then this is a bird of prey,” re- marked the solemn-looking individual. Some one was heard to remark some- thing about its being tough enough to be, and then the netive campaign was begun. Qualifications of a Millionaire, Pittsburg Dispateh: *“What makes a millionaire?” asked a man. “Energy,” responded one. “Perseverance,” said another. “Opportunity and ability,” responded a i *Striet attention to business,” hazarded another, “I should say all these things and add one or two more in the sume line,” said a fifth. “All'wrong,'’ remarked the first speak er. ‘Wrong!" chorused the five, “Yes. “What makes a millionaire, then?' “The neeessary milhons.” Who Columbus Was, Hartford Times: To the question at examination, “Who was Colimbus?” little girl replied: “Columbus was a large bird." The answer being received, per- haps paturally, with somewhat vociferous Luughter, she’explained that she had read in an eldersister’s book a_piece of pootry ahoutthe eges of Columbus, and she did not see how he could have laid eggs un- less he was a bird ‘The Philosophical Picayune, New Orleans Picayune: There is no ace like home, afte spent all his moncey traveling The cheap bonnets all come ligh enough when they are taken to a th The weak man who makes a bad m would be sure to make a worse Governor. Wiggings now predicts that his next almanie willsell well, Something may oceur to shake his belief. Fashion has many times decided to sit down on the bustle, but it still holds its own and 1s bigger than eyer. The soda fountain that keeps up with the times keeps something stronger and warmer than soda when cold weather comes. M who barely exist by borrowing small sums of moncy eannot be expected to pay their debts. They consider them- selves lucky to liv Uncle Tom’s Cabin is now played as an opera. 1 makes no differcnce to the don- keys and bloodhounds that play in the icee, but it is rough on Uncle Tom. o looking old hat. Which for twenty y her before hini Sported it For twenty years or more, t was intended to hand it down Straight from sive to son. 'Twas mentioned in my father's will, But 1 guess it is done. You'll notice its shape ixalittle odd. But it was once in style, And its fur vy napand color of gray Would be sure to make you smile "Twas \lrmq,’l\‘ built, and there isn't a dentTo be seen in the vim or crown, which shows the former proprictors 1 No habit of vainting the town, It was n mashed o'er clection wews, Nor kicked in an opera hall, “Twas gul lantly doffed to the dames of old With a grace that would now appal Its years en- deur at, I~ will not wear it 0 8¢ me airing the ol gray kat father and grandfather wore! A Nerve Tonie, Poysician—Your husband, Madamw, is sullering from nervous pros Madam—Yes, sir. Physic quiet him W hat is his business? Madum-—Ho is a detective, sir THE OMAHA DAILY into his hand wnen he fsn's looking cvery | 1 call | best girl, two hours during the night, and again in the morning. od day. Needed More Than One. Pittsburg Dispatch shn, do you re member when we used to swing ‘on my father's front gates" “Yes, Marin, [ do." “And the moon used to look £o beauti ful, John Tt did, Maria s were so bright “They “I wonder if the moon is so beautiful and the stars just us bright now as they were then, John? 1 prosume they are, Maria.' “Then why can’t we swing on the front gate now and Ihok at the moon ana the stars and the blue night skies, fleecy clouds, as we used to do then “We can, Maria, if we want to. ““T'hen, John, let us go out to the front | ate for awhile and see if it will scem iything like it used to.” “All right, Maria. Ycu go out and try it awhile, and if you like it maybe I'ii take a furn at it But Maria thought him too much of a brute todoanything of the kind, Sympathy for Berli Pittsburgh Chronicle Janiel.” Yes, sire, " “Has the Missouri de tion gone?"’ It has, sire.”’ ] “And the crowd from Maryland?” And that gang from Indizna?” “Ye “How many people were there here to- ¢ after the Turkish mission " : hree hundred and twenty-oue, sire, and 1 several coming up the path now.” “Daniel, T saw in the paperst is still in 1 minor state of sicge.’ Berlin “1know how that is myself, Daniel, oniy minc is not a ‘minor’ state, by any menns.” Miss Anxlous Suffers a Sigh. Merchant Traveler: “Here is a book mentioned in this paper entitled ‘Hints on Hushandry,™ said Miss Smiggie. 1 think U'll go down town and buy me a copy Her brother to whom the remark was addressed, smiled and said nothing. That evening at the supver table he in- quired: “Did you izet the book you spoke of to-day, Miranda?” “Ye-es,” was the somewhat reluetant And how did you enjoy it?" “Well, I reckon its good enough book, but the utle is Kkind o disap- pointin’.’ The Poet's Wail. Tul-Bits. Ol the autunm days are coming, when the bees have stopved . their hunming, and the patric is drumming in the copse upon the hilly When the leaves are slowly falling, and the sable cr Hling o his mate to stop hier squalling witt:a wild and mourn ful trill, Autimn winds the boughs are_ rustling, and the towns again are bustling, while the countryman is hustling with his ap- ples and his corn Days of johnny-cake and bacon, when the the woods ar n, and the ris have taken (light across the tields forlorn Pis the season melancholy, days when na- ture is not jolly; soon the welcome Chiristinas holly will be hung i the ban- quet hally Snows of winter will be o'er us, and the s son soon will hore us wheh in_manner quite decorous we must seek the eve ing ball. For the summer days are_over, withered are the tields over, and each merry woodland rover on his haunts no more can dote; And the question now. make my feel so \veary, is the old one, dark and dreary, can 1 wear last win- ter's coat! Webster Was O Wall Street News: I see, James,” re- marked n New Jorsey grocer as ho was looking over his books the other day, “that you constantly leuve the ‘h’ out of shugar.” “Certainly, sir; that's according to Webster. “Webster, Webster! Young man, I've been n this business for 28 years, and I don’t propose at this late dayto let no Webster come around and dictate to me. Putin the *h,’ sir, and don’t you leave a single 's” out of sinnamon if you wish to keep your place here.” Abou Ben Folson, Albany Eapress. Cousin Ben Foisom (may his tribe inerease!) Awoke one night from a deep drean of peace And saw, with the moonlight of his room, Making it rich and like a Jily bloom, A fat man writing with a pen of old; Exceeding luck had made Ben Folsom bold, And to the nresence inthe room he said, SWhat writeSt thou?”” The fat man raised his head, And in a voice madeswect by Its aceent, Answered: “The names of tiose who Tove the President.” “And ismine one?’ asked Benny, * not so.” Replled the fat man. Benny spoke more low, Hllllt'lmvnl,\ stilly and said: L pray if not too ate, . Write me as one who'd love a consulate The fat man wrote anavanisbed, The next night Ho came ngain, with a gre And showed the names, And lo! for Sheflield, booked. He Was Not an Umpire, Pinnhurfi Dispatel: A dilapidated- looking individual limped painfully along Fifth avenue. One eye was draped in a cloud of gloom. One arm reposed in a sling. One foot was clad in a roomy siipper. A stout cane aided his slow pro- gress, and an unmistakable odor of s rhics emanated from his person, permeated the atmosphere and trailed behind him oun the breeze. ‘Charleston sufferer,” suggested some one in a little group as he approached, and as he got abreast of the party one of them facetiously remarked: W ne did yen umpire to-day “Shut up!” exelaimed another. SN chestnuts. The man’s been in an acei dent.” ‘No [ haven't,” responded the subje of the remark, “and 1 ain't an umpire either.” “Thien what are you? What's the mat- ter? What have you been doing®™ ¢hor- used the group. I belong to the dandiest football team in this section, and don’t you forget it. We had the best game of the season yes terday, and it beats any fun you ever saw, . Wo nood & ouple-of good mon for substitutes. Don't some of you fellows want Lo joiny’ Waghington Critic Oh, Charlie. suid Mrs. Beebesee to her husband, “I've goua puzzle. Can you spell ‘hard water' ith three letters?” “I think Lean,” replied Charlie, pull- g down his vest. ‘‘How is this: i-ce?’ ‘Pshaw,"” she said in a vexed tone; n't a bit hard, was it¥” 'y, he answered with soine degree of pity. *“Now L've got one for or how would the people roar a—And he needs something to you." “What is it*"’ and her face with anticipation, Can you spell ‘the-world’s-base-ball- championship-ser with ten letterss” “'My goodness, Charlie; how many let ters are th N “Only thirty-five. And I mustspell it but's the puzzle 1 give it up. Tell me.” Casiest thing in the world Hei-p-p-0-d-r-0-m-c. - Beet” And she knew enough about base ball beamed 1 ten®”! Listen Physiolan—Well, slip a five dollar bilt | 1o see. with their | HONEY FOR THE LADIES. A labor of love—dressing to call on one's Silkand cut feathier pompons are mounted | upon sitver wire or pins. Fur panels and edging are features ot the newest tailor-made custumnes. There are lots of young men who have ong purses who also have long ears. When a young man is paying attention to a young lady he is a sort of court plaster. Flax and Irish gnipure cotlars of medinm and very large size are worn by ehildren. There js talk of establishing in London a club for ladies on the wodel of the university clubs, You eannot expect @ girl of the period to stand fire because she is ustomed to face powder. An Anierican lady's idea of a_ballet girl is an_open mu umbrella with two pink handles,” Swandown in all the cvening colors is to be used for trimming ball and evening dresses, Dainty breakfast caps are made of full £r1lls of Jace, with loops of DATTOW Tibbon ar ranged on the top. Brussels net for draping evening dresscs Nas half inch stripes, and 18 to be had in ail the evening colors. k A girl who habitually bangs her haie won't be very likely to get a husband’s hair to crinkle and frizz and festoon. A Texas girl has killed a laxge, nineteen vear old rattlesnake, With a litile practice St will e able to tackle a mouse. A bonnet with a plaited erown of black and pale yellow velvet the_puffed brim trimied with & mass of fluffy feathers. The heart of a man is bigeer than the rt of a woman, But don t look so jealous, gitls: you ean beat us to death on tongu A dark red velvet bonnet ias a soft crown. It'Ss trimmed with black velvet and with a clusterof red plumes and pompons mounted on silver pins, Crepe de chine scarfs, with tiny embroi- dered tigures, in all the light colors, ate still worn, and may be arranged according to in dividual fancy. A hat for a little witl is of Burgundy felt, with a rolling brim. 1t is trimmed with folds of velyet about the base of the crown and drooping with ostrich plumes. When a young man starts to visit a younz Jady who has a couple of pet pugs it may be strietly true to say that e is going to the dogs, but yet it isn’t good form. An linois glrl who had received a decla tion of love ina type writer letter, replicd that she was “not 1o e wooed by mach inery.” Girls prefer the old style. 2 Combs for millinery purposes are shown in every sort of desizn in metal and torioise shell. Bonnet pins are also varied in pat tern, and are wade of metal, jet, wood and beads, A hatof brown silk jersey cloth has the brim turned up on one side and taced with gold brown satin. A eluster of ribbon 1oops in the two tones of brown forms the tiim- ming. f Jersey costumes are now sold with the ready made jersey bodice and material for skirt and dray Phe jersey is trinmed With the fabric of whicli the”skitisto be magde. i It girl is mean enouzh to_jilt you, don't burn her letters in diszust. Sell then (o tie junkman, after cutting out nersonai reter- ences to yourself, Y ou couldw’t get sweeter revenge. Shaded feather trimming, in all the fash- fonable tints, is in high favor. 1t is now manutactured in_ beautitul quality and is ex ceedingly beeoming, owing o its soituess and coloring. Young man, it is well cnongh to be neat and tastetul m your dress but it is better to be more concernied as to the social set in which you move than about the set of your coat or pantaloons. Seme of the new velvetines have a bold went ors in plush for Is. ruby ficure on a eream signs can only be worn by stately persons. young man who h ood d > Time on ) suething that will keep him occupied,” Ays an advertisement. Ie might try wak- ini up elorks in stores where they do ot ad- vertise, Georze Gould and wite live at the Windsor el, having live rooms on the second floor, which I pays S20 per week. In this the shrewd young man saved probably a thonsand dollars In i week 'in expenses ot keeping house and entertainiig. Many reasons have been given for Mrs. Cleveland’s failure 1o visit hmond with Jer husband, the president. ‘The real one is that the lady s in a delicate and interesting physical condition, and it was thought best o save her the fatigue of tiavel and the ex- citement of receptions, A tea gown ot dove colored fallle francaise, broeaded with ruby-tinted plush_ figures, has the frouts trinmed witl: rs of Tuby vel- vet. 1topens over a blouse and petticoat of embroidered muslin and is conaned by a gir dle of ruby veivet. The back falls in long full folds and 1s made with a short train. Vest fronts of escurial lace have the de- sign outlined with jet, plomb and pale red beads; for mourning dull jet beads are el ployed. They are full from the high collar to the bust, whence they conform to the outline of the figure. ending in a point below the waist line. Collareties of jet, eut as well as jet, have riehly jetted jabots' made tull and short. White tulle is embroicered with dots of pink chenille, rays of suall dots surround ing the large ones. 1L is also shown inall the evening colors, sprinkled with beads, or overed with roses, corntlowers or for nots in silk em . Colored tu studded with rl beads of tho same tint, black tulle being niso covered with zold beads. An evening dressof ivory white plush and embroidery has a full petticoat, e front is coverea with a cefully arranged drapery of embroidery. ‘The long square train 1s of plush and embroidery and is mounted ai the waist, falling quite free from the petticoat, The low, pointed bodice | en cour, and is trimmed with alternate folds of plush and cwbroidery, which are heid in position on the shoulders by knots of satin ribbon. ther belts are worn with jerseys end with round-waisted bodices. ‘Tliey are to b had in all the eolors corresponding 1o the fashionable woolen materials, Belts of white undiessed kid are worn with white serge dresses, Ivory leather, hitherto employed for portfolios, bags aud the like, is no vogue for bélts, The ground Is gray or brown, with oid iron-colored figures, and they are worn with gray or brown dresses, From present indications 1t would seem that there is hope of & recreation against the wanton slaughter of song birds for millinery purposes, ‘The “maniac patehwork” in ther ornaments will cause women of te to abjure them. When the goldiinch is “tricked out” with bird of paradise plunies and humming birds have the tails of parrotts the incongraity shocks even those Womey who have no “compunctuous visitings, of nature” at wearing songbirds upoy, thelr hats or bonnets, Guinituies of beads for dresses are more luxurious than ever, Some 0fhe newest ure of jet orof the so-called In€ian beads, The er are eut beads made of iridescent glass, 1 which shows all the eolors of the rainbow, upon a peliucid ground, One of these is of milk white, iridescent glass and erystal beads, It has four graduated points falling below the bust, at the back it sreaches below the waist line. It is wrouvht by hand in conventionalized designs, and cost 850, The points in front are made 'separately, and are astened by the high collar so that “they fall gracefully, adapting themselves to the con- tour of thie fizur — CONNUBIALITIES, The engagement is announced of Miss Prescott, granddanghter of the historian, to Mr. Herbert Timmins of Boston, A young man found a hand bag at 1L "It contained $15, and belonged to 8 widow in Antwood, and when the young man returned it she rewarded him by marry- ing him the next day, Editor Haskell of the Pittsfield (Me.) Ad- vertiser, who bas just marricd a lady in Al bama, sent up from the south_to his paper this feicitious dispatch: “No nortl, no south, but & happy union. ‘There is talk of a marriage between Vietor nacl, crown pringe of Hals, and Vie: 1, second daughter of the erowh prince of Germany. Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilelu and Prince Bismarck are siid 10 approve of it. Af it takes piace, it will be the first mar riage of a Protestaut princess into the house of Savay. . A curious marriage eeremony took pla recently in Nuerenburg, Germany, the br ing the well known armless artist, Fraul ismany. — She wedded her impressario, and signed her marriage contract with her feet. Rings were exchanged, and the wed BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, ding ring of the bride was placed on the fourth toe of heg right foot. From varigossources it is learned that the wedding of Miss Hewitt and Dr. Green has been fixed for the midale of Novewber, but this was before Mr. Hewitt's nomination ns mayor, and thewards are not yet out nuirerons fremds of the family are regrettin that their town residence will not be ready in time for the wedding anyway. and that it will have to tak cat Ringweod, which will be a_little inconvenient on ncemnt of the distance from the citv, notwithstanding the proximity of Ringwood to Tusado p 1 New Jersey. AGIOUS, Of the 1 Rev. Dr. Hopkins says that about ong alumni of Williams co'l | have been ministers of the gospel Albert Custis esa., has offered to conyey a proverty at_ Worcoster, Mass,, valued at S1200 to S15,000, to be nsed Tome tor | disabled ministers The Sunday night meetings of the Salva tlon army in_Bombay are addressed in live languages— English, * Mabraiti, Malayalam, Gujarati, and Hindoo:tanes Missionary Diaz (Baptist) writes that about | 8,000 converts are waiting for an opportuniay to elude the priests and be baptised by night at Havana, Caba, and vieinity. The Congregational Sunday-school cone mittee averazed one new sabbath-school each day of the last year and tiese have developed into churches at the rate of one e K. Mr. Moody received at his recent Northficld conterence contribations for his sehool rang: ing from between $45.000 and S30.000. One contribution was $35,000 for a new dormitory for girls and another $20,000 for library. the receipts of the Home Mis- slonary society were £525,000: 1,500 mission- aries were under commission. oceupying 3,000 stations, not including 2500 churches planted and brought to society’s heip. Bishop McLaren, of the Episcopal ehureh, who i8 popular with all_denominations, was in carlier days @ NCWSDAPRT TEPOILEr, SePVing ral years on the Clevolan t Plain’ Dealer, and afterward s city editor of the paper, when he was a co-worker with Artenus Ward, to whom the bishop frequently refers in words of praise. The Home Missionary society had last year 1,47 missionaries i forty-eight states aind térritories, ministering (o A0 congresa tions and_ 115000 Sunday-school members: ’ new churches were organized, gathering in 8,73 members. In fortv-nine yerrs 4,661 chutehes were organized; 2,501 reached seli- Lo and over 2 members were re- f Support by tue A wonderful exporience in the publication of Bibles has been realized by the great Bible publishing establisiment founded at Ilaile carly lastcentury by Baron von Canstein. “The thousandth edition ot its octavo Bio) of which 2112700 copies_have now been pub- lished, is about to be_issued. Ihe frstim- pre: pn dates from 1785, when 5,000 copies were printed. In this eentury %90 editions have been published, and up to the present time the V'on Canstein depothas published seven and a half willion copies of the Serip- tures, “The growth of that remarkable institution, the Salvation army, is stated by Commis: sioner Howard to have been a thousand-told in four years in the colonies, Four years thad only 100 soldiers inall the colonies ; .on a moderate caloulation it_has on the 0 real o and women. Four years ago, on nights, about 2,000 people used W assemble’in their meetivg hails to take part in the scryices: now the number has, swelled o 120,000, Duting six months no less than 11,000 souls have been brought to the penitent torms, - EDUCATIONAL. The Metliodist university at Chattanooga was opened only a montii ago, but now his two hundred stadents, Itis one of the finest institutions'of learning in the south. action of 'the trustees of Cornell uni- versity in deciding to confer 1o more honor- arv dégrees may bo considered as a vietory for the alumni, and is rather signilicant for that reason,. Miss Susannah Whitney, a New York school teacher, has_just resigned after fifty yeors of service, forty-five ot which were assed as te prinetpal of publie sehools, and thirty-five in a single institution, “Tlie chestiut gong was rung so cont'uu- ally in the puvlic schools of Portland. Ore, that it ame an unbearable nuisance, and now any pupil who earries one to sehool is rmanently expelled if the teachers discover it. “The following college presidents have ac cepted invitations to be present atthe Har- vard anniversary. Barnard, Columbia: Rob- inson, Brown:” Adams, Cornell: Gilinan, Johns Hopkins: MeCosli, Princeton ; Dwigut, Yale: Seelye, Amherst! Carter, Williams! Capen, Tufts: Pepper, Colby ty, and Stuart, University of 'Virginia, ‘The students of Wellesley college had what they ealled a genuine, old fashioned huskiug bec the other evening in their gymnasium, “The girs were rigged out in what” thoy con- sidered the proper country style, and looked mighty fine, and the doughnius’and cneese and pumpkin pie wore ood. Bt after all the husking couldn’t be considered a success without young men and the regulation red ¢ performance. “The report of the superintendent of educa- tion in South Carolina has been issued for the year 1855-85, and shows a gratifying in- crease in the yerage attendance t the . But the outlook for educating the sses is 1ot bii<hit when the average length of the school session for the year is only three and_one-half wonths, and there s no compulsory law to bring into the sehool lotises the tens of thonsands of children who are growing up illiterate, The Yale freshmen number 27, an increase of 2L overthe number in the Tast freshman class, The other classes have the following nember: Seniors, E 55 sopho- nd (reshmen otal being Tiis year the total number equals fying increase. Besides these regular mewliors of college elasses, there are a- large number of special_students attached to no particular class, Fora tew years the special students have inereased very rapidly, the number reaching 110 last year. Beginhing with this vear, however, & new regulition went into effect in reard t spocial students, which hias had the efféet of deereasing, 1o a slight extent, their number. This now amounts to 65, thvs making the grand total of students in the collexiate departmert 1,077, against 1,065 last year. IMPIETIRS, A clergyman exho¥ied his congregation to “vote as you e’ and later on he advised them o “*pray fiten,” A gentlewan was awakened in the night, und Wis “told that his wife was dead. 1o turne over, drew the coverlet closer pulled dovin his night-cap, and murmured, as he t to sleep aain: “Oh!how grieved [ 1i be in the mormning ! “Yes,” sald Mr. Hendricks to the minister, “Lam proud of that dog, Why, he knows the different days of the weel.'" Just then the dog began to run to a gon in the corner, then back fo his master, and wag his “lie's made a mistake this time, Bobby: “he thinks it's Sunday.’ A church organist in a Pennsylvania town, all bent with age, atthe weddmz of an antique bello whom he knew years before, astonished everybody by playinga fan the air, “When You ‘and’l were Y “Thiis s ibout g% good as a D rganist, who trilled, “I” Ama Pirate King," as theé deacon was taking up the collection, Ata tecelit convention of faith-healers a brother testified that the week before he had praved to God- for some knitting machin which he gregtly needed. He then said *“There must hive been some misunderstand- ing, because ) answer we received sewing machines.” L closed, however, by shrewdly observing that he still expected the knitting wachines, 1t will ba rémembered that the Hebrews sent tospy ont tie land in Moses tine tound something rather larze in ibe line of grapes, A wrape Crower near Sacranento is trying, evidently, to surpass tne record of that time, He shows a cluster which weighs nineteen { pounds. iele is one main stem, hieen inches m length, and atiached re liuge branches, One of Maine's many eranks is Elias Gove, of Lewiston,who thinks that he is the Sayior, Heis over' sixty, and has long white hair and beard, wears a long coat or cape of bright 1'white hat with a broad white band and flowing ends, white trousers and_mocea- sins. He also carries o white umbrella and a very gorgeous horse blanket for eold weather, Ie make an occasional dime by selling his photograph, on the back of whic is this in- scription: “Elas Gove, Emanuel the Prin of Peace, Sesus Christ, who baptized himself with the aid of the Holy Ghost, and is the son of Dorothy yane Gové, who ‘translated his spirit from God.” e — In Paris light opera is decreasing. In Lon- don, however, it is 43 popular as ever, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Fanny Davenp it is writing the life of her | fatier The American opera company t season with 400 people ‘The fashion of eoloring the ears is becom ing vrevalent among netresses, Patti sanzat a concert in Albert hall, Lon don, fast Wednesday to over 12,000 people. Chri ne Nilsson's bronchitis has cansed her to abandon her European concert tour 1t is reported in Cl o that Miss Alice Harrison and George Lederer are o be mar vied soon Mrs. Georgle Drew Barrymore wi the leading female role i “Odd, to Least of It. Electile lights Grand opera house. will be used, Aimee is an inveterate smoker chimney, but unlike Aimee, it has no dia matic ability Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is going to dramatize her story, ““Ile Fortunes of Phil lipa Fairfax,” Campanini, the tei , is to have an opera tion performed on his throat, in order to give greater purity to his voice, Anna Ward Tiffany hias the star fever, and thinks of breaking away from *Tlie Shadows ot a Great Ciuy™ and going it alone, Fay Templeton s undet the doctor's eare in London, while it is reported that Howell Os born " is’ entertaining Olga Brandon with quail on toast Over seventy-five tons of scenery, costumes, 1roprieties and other st arapliernaiia will be carvied by the Aucrican opera com- pany on their tour, sina Vokes has pneumonin at Chieago. ie was stricken down by lieart disease in her dressing roow, and the lung difliculty is areminder of that untoward event Mis, Langtry 1 an expert with the foils, She fences an hour every morning, She knows how to handle a pistol, too, and ean clip a eard every time at fifteen paces, “Llie first chamber of the eivil tribimal of the Seine, Paris. has granted to 3. Raoul Mudier de Montjaua decree of absolute i vorce fron his wite, betier known as Madame Furseh-Madi. Miss Emma Juch and Madame Pauline 1.} Allemand, leading sopranos of the American opera company, are in great demand for con corts, and will make many appearances in advanee of the opera season. The plays in which Miss Mary son appeared - Dublin, October 11-16, for the Charleston sufle: were “As You Like Ity omeogand Julict,” “Pygmalion and ¢ tea,” “Comedy and Tragedy” and “The Lady of Lyons,” Even Hungary is not to be leit out in the coldas regards” Wagner, as a eyele of his works is to be given in Buda-Pesth this win- ter. Buda-Pesth has as fine an opera house asany in the world, and itis especially rich stage appliances. rtley Campbell’s removal from Bloom- le usvlum to the insane asylum for pers on Ward's island is being wooted in w York. Ilis maintenance at Blooming- dale costs 325 a week, and - the tund for his benefit is exhausted. The Ameriean overa has issued its official vrospectus, from which it nppears that the seeond season will begin at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, on November 15, and wly close early in June in San On November 22, a season of one wee the ‘music hall, Cin- cinnati. unati there will be one weck at the exposition music hall, St Louis, and two weeks af the Columbia thea tre, Chicago. The company will not be heard in New York until February 25, when the <011 0f flive weeks opens at the Meiropoli- au_overa louse. Milan papers report that the praparations v the pertormance of “Otello,” at the are nearly completed. The'leader of the orehestra, Signor Faceio, who studied the seore with Verdi in Sant’ Ag that the maestro is quite nervous. committed a folly,” he exclaimed: “1 ought to have remained contented with ‘the succes of *Aida.’ Wiy did L onee more surrender wy name to the erities and tho public for dis- Cussio Faccio, who is chiarmed with the work, vainly seeks to reassure the compose The principal singers in_“Otello” will s o to Sant” Agata to study their roles under Verdi, The text of the opera is i and thie verses are said to be very fine. action follows Shakespeare closely The costumes at_the Theatre Francais are puid for by the management. During the reign of M. Perrin, when Croizefte was at the heieht of the voue, she introduced into tie theatre a famous dressmaker of the Fau- boure St. Honore, and contrive him appointed stage costumer. Then burst forth the rivalry between her and Bernhardt, It was all very well for the actresses, but the ury of the theatre was being dramed. coree wa d, o sumptuary do —that limited the miliner’s license.”This bears date Mareh, 1851, and s still in force. Bail dresses are ot 10 cost more than £45 each. Velvet costimes are limited to £40, foulards and merinos to £20, and all these are o include trimmings, ete.” A bonnet or hat is limited to 100 franes, satin shoes to £1 & pair, and whenever these'regulation prices are excended the artists have the privilege of paying their own bitls. to be put inthe Paris Over 000 cont S0 is our -~ THE UNFORTUNATE CLAIMANT. fe is M and Poor, With Little to Cheer Him Except a Faithful Wif New York Sun: The: Tichborne elnim. ant was found yesterday in a pitiable state of iliness and poverty. He was in o little room ov small optician’s shop in Fourth avenu He has been lying there on his back for more than two months, suflering the pains of blood poi soni nd all the thousand nameless ills of poverty. Whether ke be Sir Roger Tichborné, grievously unfortunate buro. net, Arthur Orton, or Themas Castro, the Australian butcher, this man’s life has 20 & Strange ane istory. The se in which he tigured as the elaimant was one of the most celebrated on record, and fiftor rs ago it made a great stir in the world. But the world soon forgets. Last. Jul W poople remembered thé crse reely o corporal’s guard could be mustered’in a New York thea- ter to hear the claimant tell his story. His friends were soon exhausted, and no manager could be found to take the risk of piloting him through the country, So one morning the claimant paid his hotel bill and disappeared. Misfortune fol- lowed him to the humble lodging to which he retived with his wife. A child was born to them, and in a month it died. Then the claimant fell ill, and was dis ubled from doing anything for a_living He made a few dollurs by writing, or providing the facts for somebody else to write, stovies of life in the Australi diggings for the newspapers, but his were not successful Then the claimant’s wife, & young woman, who had been a singer 11 London, sought an engagement under an assumed name,and for u few weeks she sung and danced in the concert halls of the Bowery, earning just enough to live upon. Sne yesterday admitted the reporter to the room which seryes as badroom, parlor and kitchon, where the ponderons form of the clann’ ant was strotehed upon the bed., Disease and worry have loft their marks upon the man, but he is still anything but emaci ated. A thin growth of gray hair and beard surrounds his heavy countenanc but he bears his sixty years as well as most men. The claimant’s wife is a slight dark woman of the type commonly scen on the variety stage, Her accomplishments consist of the knowledge of a f songs and the ability to dance, She scems v voted to the elephantine enigma, whose misfortunes she shares. All the work of the humble housekeeping falls unon her. She takes eare of the sick man, cooks the meals, and does all the little thmgs that fall to the lot of a poor man’s wite, ihe heavy, somewhat stolid countenanee of the claimant lights up with a Kindly smile when he speaks to her, He was di vorced from his first wife in England, but in the variety actress he seems 1o have found a congenial mate A singular thing about the claimant is his ability to make one opeheve in his earnestness, If he be the greatest hum bug of the age, he is the most persistent and consistent, Fourteen years in prison have not dampened his spirits or turned him from his purpose. He talks us though Re were the undisputed heir to the estates, and asserts that he will re. open the case a5 scon as he can collect the necessary funds. sths | lLoving Ones | Joyous at he A Tnssie stands by the meadow way, ks at a face that is very dear And wonders in words that know notiing of SWill you be true, loye!? Will you be true, love? Will you be true, love? “You have b bod Advice ed People to Consider, One of the very first things that you rried couples should think of getting of n_howe of their own, a whicliis theirs *-to have and to hold" for lifetime, if possible, one that shall their children a place avound which all ther youthful memories ng i glow to thewr heartg, no matter come to them in after years; room will, in process of time, bocome endeared through its as- It may seem far away in the first but persistent thought and eflort in that direction 88 in time, and much sooner than at first seemed possible. Necessity hiency may make renting the only aseason, but Istill adhe one in which eac I thing to do fo to the opinion that it is the nomy and highest wisdom to got our own at the earliest moment that an make it p so peripatetic v much of value that they can call in the ver y'could not have. The famil -the’sense of permancney in ¢ home, whicl is always $o desitable, and especially when people are upon down-hill side of life vigorous, with brains bu going on'm the world, its absence 15 not felt 'so much, but the day must come interests will be gradually with the waning ~ strength from purely outside matters and cenfer within the home, and it is then that the and is best satistied what long babit has made dear and fa- withdrawn t longs fo ringe, then ning in debt. home of the yantage of the insta business, gave builder, monthly instalments, caused “a-complete change in their way Without being niggardly, ly after expenses, found that they could enjoy life just nd even’ better, because ite object in vicw which thoughts, and for which e planning from day to day. They go without many little lixurie which they were nccustomed, but they do deprivation in the comfort take in what is to be reall not justsimply a tempo they looked clos they had « defi absorbed thenr ary of $75 no chen chairs. ... 10 and stand. Kitehon table............ Tobl:1oisinnass You see he can furnmish for 400, and allow §13.50 for in and if he only knew how much h he is losing [think he wounld change nis dollars a month will' keep if not too extravagant, and 15 for clothes and othe; can go to the theater oo casionaily, and | hope he will always tak his wife with him. My hushand without m them nicely that leaves home of my own menced with our housekeeping Rosaprr 1880.~-TWELVE PAGES. - | TRUE HEARTS AND HAPPINESS Figures on Living Eipenses A Tragedy of a Hulv—Be Liberal Words to Dear Attachment Notes, Will Youn Bo True, Love e Weatherly L as a summer’s day, 0 me a8 1 love you? TOW stronger as years roll And be truest when youth and beauty Joyous at heart on their wedding morn, Husband and wite watked home through the s to hear the old time song, As, hand in hand, they wander along SWill you be true, Toye Will you love me Will love grow stronger as years roll on? And be truest when youth ‘and beauty have Will you b Tove you? Joyous atheart when their hair is gray, Husband and wite togethor stray s And hand clasps hand as they piss along And the hieart of each is glad with song en true, love! You liave Loving well as 1 have loved you'! And time und el Have linked us ¢ Hearts ever true, love! hearts ever tene! cticanle. While Another thing is true. Your tures are much more likely to be care- fully looked after if you have such an ob- view. I know a couple who ome years after their mar ited’a house and went to housekecping. They lived up to every cent of their income, though neve Finally they concluded to own, and took ad ment plan; that ada house built for them by pe sons who make that sort of thing their mortzage upon it to . and_ paid for The undertaking Cheering Up Bachelors. BufMido News: I read and have been thinking about that young man with rmonth who is afraid 1o Why, it won't cost nearly as after he is married as h w support one on that aly ean take carc of two about furnishing a house man of it.” He can furnish a house for about half or a little more than the sum he mentions begun house furnished and carpeted a list for his benefitand for the benefit of others matrimonially inelined: rlor furniture........ 00 Suit, . r0oin suit, Carpets for house Stove and utensils. .. x-foot dining-table (wilnt) Ouly a Hair. Corpus Christi (Tex,) Caller, Husband comes Home at night Gets a kiss, That's all right, Playtul wife O his knee, Sits and talks, Waitiug tea, Sudden start, And a stare! On his coat Sees a hair! Colored red. Her's is black, b and tears, Fury—"thwack, 1ushand oes Out at night, Won't ¢ Loving Words, Ewily Burton in Toledo Blade could auly hear him & | used to in the early days of onr married THE STATE OF MATRINONY, | The Importaaco of Young Couples Getting Homes of Thbeir Own, | never tells me <o, | scems to notice what I do, ‘nev Will you be true Will you be true Will you be trues™ vod and ill and eloser still or Youug Mar gather; will bringat truest veople have rarcly nature of things oung and with what a home, ary place to live unount he His idea absurd, I have just ng,and have five rooms T will give you a house nicely We are marr ver two yoars. We have been boarding, but for good, sound happiness give me & Our honeymoon com Iife, that he loves me, I beliove [ eould go to work again without feeling that every- thing is such a dreary failure,” said ' WeArY woman to me once “You do not doubt his affections'’ I usked “Oh, temppose he cares, but he never, she replied with & passionate sortof wail in the tones of her voice We just go on week after week, eating and drinking, dressing, working and sleeping, and that is all thete i8 of ity | Toften think he would not care if I should pass entirely out of his life, for ho never spoaks one tender word to me any more. And yet lie did eare; but it was simply L habit he had fallen into and unless shocked into a realizationof what he was domg, the days would go on and on, and the conviction of his indifference would grow decper and deeper, until the loye would go out 1nher heart for aye. And then it would be too lato! I shali never forget the glow of pleas- ure that used to irradiate the plain, stern face of a man Iknew, atsome inexpected word of fondness or caressing aetion from the wife he loved, whose only sin was omission from sheer carclesshess And then, suddenly, he folded his steon, s across the stilled heart, and his, ears were deaf to her voice and her touch had no power to awaken him to life. Flhen how she regreted the lost opportu- nities Liiis is the cruel eross of 1ife, to be Fult visioned only when the ministry OF death had been fulfilled, and in tho place Of some dear presence is but empty space. What recollected services ean then Give consolation for the might have been?® Surely the poet who wrote the lines [ have quoted aliving realization of the pain which “the silence™ had cost. Itis not only those who are wedded who forget to 'keep the fires of aftection burning by words and deeds., The gay youne wirl, that strong vigor- ous youth, both full'of the luxury of liv- ing that health and animal spirits give, ofttimes forget tho loving word, the ten- der caress, to the mother whose heart has beaten all these years a full measure of hope and pride for their future. When you feel inclined to be earcloss, O fale maiden and brave youth, and to give more of thought and ecare to those who have never denied self for your sake, as ghe has done, remember that the day is coming when you will stand “‘full vis- ione sside her still form and think bitterly, 1 have aheart of the *might have been.’” And yetit is not only young men and maidens who forger 1o make the lhome herrts glad by loving words and tonder actions. For is this earelessness contined to the home cireles. Friends hold fast to a reticence, so expression is con- cerned, of th Kindly feehing toward each other They go-on weck aftor week, meoting often, conscious of the exoel- lencies of which they do not seek, full of Kindness of thonght, which may some- times, when chance arises, be put into deeds, but too often letting “‘silences” multiply when it would be so easy and so rming to break and to throw them away. Be not chary of loving words to dear ones, nor ot pleasant appreeintive ones to those around you. It is hard to tell what the mfluences of those utterances be upon the future of the latter,even though they be not of those whom you hiave gathered mto your heait of hearts. Faith in the present good, hope tor the future, cournge to do and dare—these are all often inspired by a ¢hance expression of kind apprecintion that costs the speaker absolutely nothing. 1 do ot mean that we should overflow with phrases that are meaningless, or utter what is untruthful and misleading, but that we shall be alert and thoughtful, that no moment when kind words ray an shall slip by and leave them forever unsaid, W ire ail too prone to take tiings for granted, to “live besida ach other day by day, and speak of myriad things, but'seldom sy the full sweet words™ that would have brought rladness to the heart and sunshine to the ife of those who may, perhaps, scem to have the least need of our ministrations. 1 Complications. German Joke I_am_going to your wedding, a2t 177 said one girl to another. “T ain’t sure about your coming to my wedding. My folks are m such a rage about my wedding that 1 ain't sure they will even let me go to it A Good Hnsband. New York Sun: “Ah, yes,” sighed 8 Chieago lady, “John has heen' ngood huse band to me.’ “I thought you separated yearsago,” “We did. But he is always so promp: with the alimony.” A Lottery-Won Bride. San Antonio, Tex., Special: A novel wedding took place lnst week at the Cens tral hotel, the parties to the contract never having seen each other until thirty minutes before the ecremony was per- formed. The bridegroom. William Cas rothers, aged seventy, is o resid the neighhoring connty bride was Mrs. N. N. Kuiser, aged sixtys four, a widow from en’s int, Wis, They were bronght together by means of a Chieago marringe lotter! I'his mar. vinge lottery isa new scheme in Toxas, Mr. Carothers states that every purchaser ot a ticket in the lottery sends an aceus rate deseription of s’ or her personal poearance, which is duly recorded opposite the number of the ticket issued to the purchaser. Carothers drew a ticket, the number of which corre- sponded with that drawn by Mrs, Kaiser, After & short correspondence he con- 50 + cluded to send for her, rather than pay. the forfeit for refusing. She arrived on . the evening-train, and by appointwent met Carothers at the Contral hotel, where they wore marrvied within twenty min- utes. The bride, notwithstanding her sixty-four winters in the bleak North, looked rosy. Her face was encircled in awreath of silver Tocks. The groom 8 worth over §0,000 in land and sheop. He is the surveyor of Aticosa county, Baving held that oflice for fifteon yenra, He has been a confirmed bachelor al) these years .~ They were tell- about’ big games of poker, and the 1y man sighed for the flesh pots of Egypt’ as ho said: “Thoy are gone," 10 he went on to say that since the while poker had been popularized, poker pots had been minimized, ungil now the game was scurcely worth the candle you play it by “Why," said he, “nowadays it 15 big thing to see. §5,000 chunge hunds in a nigot’s poker playing. But T remember one night befors the wair, when 1 was going up to Albany on steamboat with Commodore Vander- bilt Dean Richmond, George Law and some others of that erowd, and they sat down to a game of poker, [satdown to waleh and not to play, for Thadn’t moncy enough for their ante. I sat besude George Law, and he turned to me as the ue begun and said: *Don’t you be seared 1f 1 loso a log of money to-night.’ 1 responded forei- by, if not elegantly, that Ididn't care & i f he lost his whole fortune. But I confess it stirred me tosee him losingand old Vinderbilt winning $1,000 at 4 chip, until foward morning Law had lost §15.000 to Vanderbilt. Law took it eaoly, and so did_the 1 L did not under: stand Law's coolness, for [ knew he wis not as rich as all that, until | et him a day or two later in New York. . *Well,! he said, with o wicked wink, 1 made $X35.000 out of it ‘Out of whut? I wsked, “That gane of poker with old Vanderbilt,” sd he. ‘1 sold iim my ay ouce, just Steniers the next duy for §000,000." "