Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1886, Page 19

THE OMAHA DAILY Branch Store 15th and Douglas. PHARMACISTS. A job lot of Cards, regular price, 60c, 75¢, $1, $1.256 and $1.50, at a uniform price of 60c. BEE: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1886.-TWELVE PA( KUHN & CO Have the Choices Line of Christmas Cards in the City. All of this Year’s Designs of Prang’s and Worth Bros’ Cards at a uniform price of 25¢. A limited supply. On separate tables in center of store. Most Elegant Feather. Fans, in Pearl, Shell, Ivory and Wood. Prices Cheaper than in New York Gauze Fans, Satin Fans, Pearl Sticks, Ivory and Satinwood Sticks. Russia Leather Fans, CELLULOID Sets, Plate Mirrors, Comb ,and Brush in plush case for $3.50, worth $5 elsewhere. Remember the place for new and original Christmas Cards in great variety. KUHN & CO'S. PRESCRIPTION PHARMACY, Fifteenth and Douglas Streets, IAY GOULD GOES 10 CIILRCH The Grem Ruilroad Wreckflr Begius to Take Stock in Religion. HE BUYS A HIGH-PRICED PEW \ And Askuwnes the Appearance of a Oevent and Long Habitual Churchman, New Yori, Dee. 16, —[Correspondence of the Beg.)—Jay Gould has become a church-goer. For six consecutiy days he has attended services in a Pres- byterian church where he owns a pew. This is such a novelty for the financier that many of s friends cannot help speculating upon the possible chang indicates in his life. Dr. John R. Paxton is the preacher who expounds the serip- tures to Mr. Gould, and the church edi- fice is on Forty-sccond street very near the corner of Fifth avenue. It is getting to be a popular resort of a Sunday morn- ing, for Dr. Paxton, although a man of considerablé learning and vigorous piety, has an unrestrained, not to say free and easy style of disconrse and delivery. His scholarship erops out every minute, but in no stitted phrase ven when he drops momentarily of English to pick up a word from the Greek, as he did in one of his pray- ers this morning, it does not sound pedantic or uninteresting, however unin- telligible it may be to his high-toned but not nee ily learned audience. HMe 1s hearty and cordial in personal inter- course, not at all adyerse to the vleas- ures of socicty, and one who gives the typical elub man the impression that here 15 & parson who can meet us on our own ground. So a good man: shionable men who would not_be li to go to church at all find themselves regularly at Dr. Paxton’s and pay handsomely for their entertainment by hirmg a pew. Mr. Gould paid $1,800 for his. It 38 in the center 'nisle about half way dow The schedule rate for this property is #1500; it is as much property as the loase of a house or lot, and may by disposed of, sold, given away,mortgaged, Juul like any other commodity. Owing 1o its favorable situation, Mr. Gould hac to pay a bremium to obtain ne s and in the competition which ensu bid of §300 cleared the field and secured the prize. His lease of the pew dates from the first of November last and holds for a year, when it may be renewed or abandoned, as he DR. PAXTON'S CHU hl " is & very interesting structure. It not an imposing exterior, for it forms simply ong featurein e middle of a long block of buildings deyoted to dwellings and trade. There is not even a narrow arating it from the houses on side, and the modest spire and astical orname ion 11 that sa place of rehgious worsiip. Butthn'nmx v is delightful. There are groined arches supporting the richly dee- orated roof ; soft thick carpots in the aisles; handsome brown plush hangigs back of the pulpit, partly concealing th expensive quartette of sing, ful baptismal bowi near the pulpit; dark woodwork, an the pews; soft cushions at the buck of thesame; all these very nice, but not to be thought of ¢ pared with the baleony that runs round three sides of the auditorinm. The ap pointments on the floor of the house are such as to make tl dinary meeting prison , every- thing that scienc AN Suggrest has been done to make religion comforta ble. It is for all the world just like the dress circle of some of our “fashionablo theaters. Instead of stiff, formal pews broken here and there by short aisles, there is a series of private boxes, minus the high partition oh box is railed off from the others, and the raul glows with the soft, rich shades of brown plush every box are six arm Spholstored and cushionud, the backs which incline from the 5 at exactl; the angle of comfort. But the chair all wn row like pews; there are thre front chairs and a rail just behind them like a theatre box, And ou the gate lead ing into each box 15 a silver plate bearing the owner's name. When the man has hung his coat over the brown plush bal ony rail, and has nestled gracefully cown 1nto one of the easy ‘chairs, he dpoks at the opening under the ;.,rnmwl arch at the front of the auditorium, and thinks that the of that scene is very cloyer imitation of u churen, albeit somowhat original in arrangement. Il dullest 1 of a sermon from the pulpn at the froni of that ecclesi astical stage would be tolerable that balcony. But Dr. Paxton is not ¢ jtod with dullness. His church FULL EVERY SUNDAY, and after the pew holders have their 8 two or th strangers are left standing up at the r of the balcony and tloor.” Most of th ubofore the servicos out has taken have v rom pew m W \‘1 B0 10 bas where® vaeancy the cou and hospit: du\ of th nts in be half of visitors. oecu s ME. GOULD was among the early arrivals last Sun day morning. W ith him came oue of his oung sons, and shortly after George Foum and his wife eame also. His daughter Helen, who is credited with ef: fecting the wcipient reformin the finan cier's life Was Lot prosent Shortly after she services began Mr. Gould beckoned to a passing usher and ealled bis uttention “§o the vacant place in the pew. The usher bowed and presently conducted a 1089 FRIUTIL B lady to the place. When the aundie 5t00d up to recite the confession of faith Mr. Gould conformed to the movement, but kept his lips closed during the recital. During prayer he bowed his head upon the back of the pew in front of him and in all other respects conducted himself so that the casual observer would have supposed him the most devout and long habituated churchman. TWO INTERESTING EPISODES occurred in the services before Dr. Pax ton began his sermon. At the proper cue alittle procession entered from a door under the baleony at the right of the pul- First came 2 tu vith his o t on, holding in his arms a’very small baby in a long white d Ihe mother followed close hehind, and after her came a mob-capped servant girl leading a prettily dressed little girl of about Tive vears.” These two paused on the steps just inside the door, where they could command a good view of the bap- tismal bowl. Dr. Paxton met the father and mother at . this point and ded_to read the appropriate Mr. Gould, with everybody else, watched the proceedings infent and his interest was at least equalled by Mz, and Mr Gould. e\hpn the drops of cold water were sprinkled on the baby’s brow. the little fellow remon- strated mildly by waving his arms, but he made no improper remarks about it. Then the procession withdrew and Dr Paxton resumed his place in front of the singers According to the Preshyterian custom the regular Sunday notieés were read by the parish clerk, and Dr. Paxton en- larged upon one of them with much stness. 1t an appeal for funds i Missionai k among the Bo- hemians of this ¢ mong other things Dr. Paxton said work has been un dertaken by the Presbytery of New York to ch tne poor. It deserves your hearty support on general principles, and as Pisek is an energetic missionary and a capital fellow, I have no doubt you will support him. 1t is uscless for me to tr to preach to the poor from this pulpit: God knows nobody is ever denied sion here or made to feel out of vl m of his poverty; the chure pews have always been opened any whose demeanor was devout poor won't come hel Fifth avenue. So we ha must go to them and hav in Cooper union for them. You rich who cannot bestow the of your pews upon them, them personally, n reach your money. Pisck has ¥11,000 for the building of needs some §30,000 more. The amount apportioned to this church to raise is $700, and the collection will now be taken up. If you don’t happen to have fifty dollars with you, W your name “and the amount you wish to contribute on .~I|p of pap Wd put at in the box. tronsurer will collect to-morrow.” ‘Thero Was a g hod deal more of this direct, per- id at its conclusion there al diving of hands for pockets I men were in- competition to who should get his coin and serip out first. Mr. Gould contributed a coin, but whether silver or gold only he and the deacon among mortals know, Dr. Paxton drew the text for mon from the story of Jonah Itwas an intensely “‘practical” ed straight at his supporters and abounding in unique, bold phraseology. s first sen- tence Icd him mto a long digression about Tolstoi, the Russian writer, and the intellectual debility that, nccording to the doctor, attends high eivilization The man who reflects,” he suid, coward. He who can see all sides of a question finds it harder to make up his mind than he who sces only one side, It is not reason that makes cpochs in’ the world’s history, but passion: and convic- tion. Who inspired and conducted the movement t convulsed the Ameriean republic? The polished Edward Everett? No, it was Garrison und Phillips, [ and " the © homely president and | modest soldier from the we Possibly the preacher forgot that Phillips and his | family represented the super-refinement of Boston “‘culture,” but he went on to deery the methods and matter of the American noy and uphold the intel lectual vigor shown by the men of half civilized Russia All of which seemed to mpress his hearers favorably. Re turning to Jonah he demonstrated that that recalcitrant prophet was a very type of the modern eivilized man. Joonah had bett spiritual hight than the people ¢ his time, especial: ly = bette that the Ninevites, and the Lord desired him to shed it upon his benighted contemporarics. Jonah W n to this; he wanted anex clusive possession of his superior adyan wantéd to think himself the one rood man of the age. This same spirit 18 10 be seen everywhere to-day You .mlll all of us,” exelaimed the doe- tor, Jonuhs! 'Would it not be pleas m'(ul me to feel that I was the most ar preucher in town? for you to know that you are the richest man ¢ the cleverest versitor § the mos successful writer ¥ -~ We don't wi share our gifts with the ordinary w But all these things are for the servic God; the giit of cloquence, of money, of verse, all of these are for divine ser D, and if you and [ do not nse them so, we | will get into trouble just as Jonah did, Look out, rick man ! you are not gifted with power to preach, hut you “have money and if you do not let that speak Iur ou there will be trouble ahead Gould looked straigh the doctor while these sentences were boing uttered Fue finaocier's Drow was )y wrinkled. As if to come down easy on his mullionaire heavers, Dr. Paxton in- cluded himself in ail his eriticisms upon the tendencies of the age,but bis aliusions o 1ly to but the at the corner of hired rooms for services wmen, then, hospitality or go to them with ady about hurch and his ser- and the THE POWER OF MONEY were very frequent and emphatic, He found the Jonah - spiit remarkably rife awong the churches, S ® MM WAV, Yy AT = ve found that we | “is usually a Infants’ Toilet Sets, setting themselves up as the on tolic churches, the exclusive possessors of the truth, and looking down from their high vedestal they would consign the rest of us to the—well, I should say to the uncovenanted mercies of a Divine Providence.” After this happy eircum- Jocution he suggested the better way for the rich to serve God with their gifts, | he Andover people have an idea that the heathen have another chance to ac- 'pt salvation through Christ after death; 1 hope that is the case; I don't know; but I' do know tnat every age is responsible to God according to its light God has been waiting a long time for the Hindoos and the Chinese, and he can wait a good deal longer; in the meantime they have the light of Brahm and Confucius, ording to which God will judge them. lll\' men - of civilization have only the light of Jesus and there 18 no escape from the respounsibilit; [ duet in accordance with 1t ‘That light us to bear its rays to those in ionary work, then, upon to do, sone ching, others by giving money.” did not; announce another collc tion at the ‘close of his discourse, but read the old “‘missionary hymn” for con- i was much discussion of the ndiend slowly left the church. A young lad, to avisitor that one neceded to h Pixton a good many times to re: scholarly he was. +'He neye aches twice alike,” she declared. One of the rich men who was aimed at seemed to he graciously amused by the sermon and characterized its conclusions as “‘far etched DIt PA on Forty called to n sibility g 0 XTON LIVES IN ELEGANT STYLE ixtn street, When the writer inquiries about the pos of Mr. Gould’s becom- member of the chureh, he s admitted to a luxurious drawing room k colored butler, The doctor appeared like anybody but a conven- tional parson in s home. His wavy brown hair, just streaked with g in disorder, his smooth f adorned with a moustache of fashions cut, and he wore a short, velvet- lrm\luwl stud 13 Mr. ( ““he said frankly, not i member of the church and has ven me no sign of intention to_become one. There are . number of rich men who are members of the congregation just beeause they fancy my style of vreaching. They own their pews, but do not join the chur Mr. Gould became interested through his daughter Helen, a most estimable young lady, who sub- seribed to our confession of faith and be- ¢ me a member some time ago. or her suke, Tsuppose, her father bought a pew (h\, beginning of our fises and for her sake | presume, determin to oceupy it. Atany rate he has cometo | church and sat at'the head of his pew pvery Sunday like a man sinee he took 1 Wi v the intluence of the serviee or make him philanthropic seen, But Mr, Gould man, a man of ideas, and moreover t and aflectionate man, Itisa continual pleasure to talk with him, be- 150 I\. is so_thoroughly abreast of the ht of our timesin_ all mat , scientifie, socinl and religions, 1 ot sce anything terribie about him at all. People his ruthlessly — wrecking and the lik Well, now, 1 think re is a possibility that'the lass house proyerh izht be quoted to Some people. That England road mutter, for instance, wher Gould has been acensed of zuing with Mr. Field against the in tercsts of the property and its owners 1t seems to me that some of the Boston eacons have been shown up in i most deplorable light. No, Mr. Gonld is not a member of the urch, and I have no specitie information pointing to his com- ing even anotier Sunday, though | pre sume he will,” OMAR JAMES, remams to be an advanced | is - gular Admission New York World, Mr. Jay Gould 15 reported that Judge Gresaam's Wabash suit was due to the “suffering from a severe | of the presidential fever.” Mr. Gould | remarks: “From what 1 hear, 1 think Greshar’s opinion in the W case Was owing 1o the buzzing of the i his b o) uld, then, believe that denuneiation and obstruction "of iliar methods in railvoad manipu- ailable capital tor a pres ant? It is no doubt true | that the people are well pleased to find United States cireuit or district judge adering a just decision on o railvoad case despite the influences which have ome years held too much power over | udiciary, But is it not a little si | | as saying decision in the fact that the jndge attack cial lation iden Mr. Jay Gould expressing t opinion that such decisions are ping-stone to the presideneyt Does not the admission carry self-condemnation i e Badly Frighte New Yors Sun: A drove that were being G gheny beeame frightened and s About a dozen ran into A bleeding and covered with mud. Two ladies who were waiting for preseriptions sercamed with fear. One of them spra on the counter, und the other u\:mh” d | upon the soda fountain, Aftee upsetting | every article of furniture in the store, the fattest of the afivighted hogs tried to get Behind the prescription counter and oyer turned the siuve. The stove is heated b natural gas, and when it was upset the pipe was broken and a sheet of lame shot | up almost to the ceiling. A disastrous | conflagration would have resulted but of 100 hogs | [ women of my acq | president’s side. | Rawlins ¢ for the prompt action of the proprietor, who turned off the gas. Two of the hogs were badly burned. owners of the “Some of thew,” | hogs were compelled to carry them out. PR 20 styles. bCEVb I l’LBLlL CAH‘S { New York Restaurants Compared wuh' Those of Enrope. DURING The Rare Dishes Set Our Amid the Whirrof Cannon Balls—High Times With Americans Abroad— Adam Badeau's Letter, PARIS THE SIEGE. NEW York, Dec., 17, 1886.—[Corres- pondence of the Bek.]—1 strolled into Delmonico’s the other night af*er the play, and looked around at the well-dressed women, half of them that night without theiv bonnets, many of ttem people in the most tashionable soctety; and I could not but think how different it all w from what one sees at any other cafe in the world. There was the air of a draw- ing room more than a public restaurant. Half the people knew each other; they were bowing and smiling, and visiting from table to table; you might aimost suppose they were nvited guests who hsd come down from a dance, except that the women were not decollete: but the opera cloaks and the carcful fures and the men in dinner dress 1o the scene not only gay, but cha ew York is the only great I have known where resident women of fashion frequenta public e: I recall London, P Madrid, New Orleans, Washington, snce, Veniee, Rome, Brassels and Havana—when 1 speak. More oriental experience 1 can- not claim, but let me tell what I ean tell of. LONDON TIAS XO CAVE worthy of the name. ‘Lhe clubs absorh the men, and the aristoeratic women never go to any place to eat in public. ‘Uhere was an cffort a few years 1go to establish a house where women of fash- jon would take a dinner or a supper, and the “‘Continental,” as it/ was ealled, in nt str between Pall Mall and Picadilly, had s v months' popularity. I recollect meeting the daughters of am- bassadors and a few other well-known lames gomg in and out to'supper or din- ner in private rooms, but Ineversaw any ntanee in the public riments; and that was the nearest ap- ch to a fashionable cafe that ] BNER n London in forty or fifty year great avistoeratie dames think it undign fied to go to table where any who choose ycan come in on equal ground. the men of the nobility share the prejudice. They think themselves too far above the rest of !h- world to be seen atsuch times, The ish have never learned o take their pleasures in any wiy but serionsly, and this particular pleasare privately. BUT PARIS—TIE TOME OF THE CAFE, where the word and the idea originatod! Well! L knew Paris in the days of the ond Empire. 1 dined at the 7rois res before the Palais Royal was de- vastated by the commune. 1 went first to Paris in 1869, when Burlingame was minister from China to all the re of mankimd. He was fond of me, and good to me; and his friendship was an advan young Ameriean wanting to Jearn the Evvopern world, Many a night he took me to dinner at the Cafe Angls, which wasone of the choicest at that time sked me to his own apartments to mect diplomatie personages, and kept me after the compuny had Separated Ihen we talked for hours, or tout on the pavement in the wched the ussed American politics ¢ of Grant’s adminis. was fresh from the new and Burlingame wanted to return and enter the eabinet. When he was willing China to become seeretary of war tis a great pity he didn't. ~ 80 he talk over (he mattér and the prospeets w me. And long after midnizht—ofies 2 and almost 310 the |uwl|l\l & he toc for a new supper to the Cafe Riche nearly Killed me; not \\nh actual frautic dissipation, but with the excitement of the life and the hour and the taik and the birds and the wine that unusual time, For with all my younger experience, i knew little of such a life as this; of a din ner at 7 with important people, and an elaborate supper at 2, with the thealr Francais perhaps, between; with high pol itics and personal ambitions spiced nto the game and the Burgundy THE PARISIANS of course understand suppers and din. ners better than any one else and every one else besides; but they eno such caf Delmonieo’s a of a cafe 1s either a place wh a perfeet meal in privat rooin where men may dine at separate tables like gentlemen. The rooms are <« comparatively small, with four or ab 117 or eight tables in asingle apartment wen, perh in evening dress, but ne essarily and the women who occa sionally accompany them, women of the demi monde, or the widdle sort, or for- cigners. Awerican ladies go 1o the pub lic rooms in Parisian’ cafes, and English women of position, perhaps, once in & great while, but French women ot rank, Dever. Our countrywomen also go to the Mabille to see the ean-can in its home, women of highest position and unblemished character: but tuey do not st the fasbion for the iubabitants, I have dined at all the cafes in Paris in Sentember crowds and di 1t was the first y tration, and 1 or a public alwa, five, o ast, 8 | was ill for a walked the | | ed my time; the Trois Freres, the Vefour, Hn- Voisin, the Anglais, the Riche, and 50 on to the end of the list. 1 never saw, at any one of them, a great Freneh lady, Ldoubt if a great French lady ever dined the public room of a French eafe. The class below the highest often do; respeet- able women, doubtless, and others who never meet :\nwl‘h')ln Iadies; charming, nting women; actresses, of every sort, but mot women of society, not women of the Fanbourg Saint Germain, nor of the great official world. Perhaps, during tho siege, when even these could get nothing to en home, they may have gone to the T 1 to see letters all through those terrible times from men of the highest names in_France, reciting their sufferings. 1 ne: \l them tell their own stories afterward those mo- ments when the horses ul the Rothsehilds were seized by the famishing Parisians, when PET DOGS WERE MADE 13 : nd rats into ragouts, it is not impossible that the grandest dames went out to the es; but under no other cir- In Italy, Ry wny, Belginm, Switzer- land—English women and others of the highest class, of every nation- y dne in public—but as travéller. ric and Lugano and Baverno, on the Swiss and Italian Iakes, E peans of rank eat in public because they must; they feed better thus than m p vate. They go to the tables d’hote Hamburg Kissingen and Carlsbad and Badens but it is @ necessity, not for pleus- emoney. Delicions breakfasts I haye eaten with English women look ing out on the L Maggiore and the distant Alps, In Venice [ have scen them in those delightful rooms that ove 0ok the p of St. Mark, throwin bread to the pigeons wh they waite In Florence and Rome they find ont how luxurious and easy life may be made if they will oniy put aside the trammels that besetand confine them at home; they take their coffee on the g’ Arno, looking up at the Pitti val 1d the Pouto Veechio, the Boboli ardens and the statues ot Michel An gelo; or they dine in the Piazza di e the marble stairs, and feel y have not lost easte. But “tis the for gners, not the Italians of im- portance whom they see around tnem, IN SPAIN stoeracy are as narrow as in You 1 eat well in the Pue ol at Madrid as in most places in this world, but you cannot do this in the company of the nobilit Sometimes the and their wives go into the fes for an ice after the opera, but | the ludalgos will not dine in the presence of the multitude, 1 was sent_to Madrid wl.lnxl dur ng the France-( had o successful fes on the road. I was he ches from the state denartment, ong the west of France to From St. Mal to Dij, ey eafe to Nantes and Poiet and Bordeaux, and though it was time of war, the national cuisme, even in the provin was worthy of its fame. At the frontier I tirst cxpe the hor vors of genuine Spanish Tever forget my introduction and garlic? Itis only two m Hendaye, the last town in F Irun, the first station in Spain, but what an interval in civilization! — After, Pyrences we came to Burgos and where a little improvement s and at Madrid 1 spent General Sickles ad he w im, “Teney | Bel then Amc mindful of the diplomatic bonne table et 1sogner les dames” (Ked a good table and cultivate the ladies) Adee too, the secretary of legation, now one of th retaries of state at Washington, took me to more thin one good cafe and to more than one masked ball ay Lwent to Toledo and week in consequence; tl diplomatic tabics, however, brot n about agam. On my return 1 and - thore the with Bordeaux crowd for stopped at tables were French ladics, the mbly, driven from Pans, was in session then. Bordeans was for a while the capital of France. Thiers made ceh whieh 1 heard in favor of sub- | IIII«~\IIH to Bismarck’s terms, 1 had a let ter to him from our Minister Washburne, well s one to Lord Lyons, the Britizh mbassador, from his own government. So I staid for @ few days, and saw the crowd of delegates und their wives at the cufe nightly Then I went on by way of Blois and Cunenonceaux, both in the possession of the Gy ans, 1 remember avTours also | totl the helmets and the Uhlans, 1 ( wan in sympathy, but when I saw tl rman sentinels over Chenoneeaus, the | palace of Francis 1, and Henry of Navarre, my heart rebetled; besides | which the barbarians took all the proy ender from all the nns on the Loire, AT OBLEANS, called the Maiden City, “be it never baen captured, 1read i book that no woman of Orleans yor scen the smoke of an cnemy's eamp; but when I was there the German camp-fires blazed on every hill around, and " their oflic wied every inn and foraged on every farm. 1 had hard work to get enough’to eat; my ofliciul passport car- ried we through the lines, but did not s cure me sustenance. However, Lhad cam paigned befor At last I r day the Ge to the Place chango?, he Burlingame wer cooks hiad no material ture even then of the besieged. A chasse a diner a dintier. A cat was chasin hungry man chasing the eat, each with the same intention. They clarged enor wously.for every stick of waod 1 burned 2t the Hotel Briatol, and my fare was a3 had iide ‘ched Paris, cntering the an emperor had pencirated | Vendome, But ah! how cafes I had known with | + all_deserted now; the ! faund a carica. sufferings of the a hunt for arat, and a weagre as wy fire, W AbaM BavEAU, A job lot of Gards, regular price 25c¢, The latest styles in Ladies’ Pocket Books. THE DIXEY BALL IN BOSTON, A Somewhat Inflated and Disappointing Social Event, SOME OF FASHION'S CRAZES. Tobogganing and the Banjo Captiv- ate Society—The Will of the Boston Miser—Scenes in the Common, BostoN, Dee. 14.—[Col the Be absorbing topic last week, ing many accounts of i clude that the would be such 1. aim of the committee to make th eclipse any previously giv try in point of eleganee, refinement be: The floral and otl tions wercto be very elabor: tistie ¢ seale. The lights cpondence calomm and be strikingly gas, were to exhibition hall comprising over o engaged assured success. the grand and comple music this feature an tion wiich would tend to make the oc sion one long to be remembered competent and well known eatere the courses would be served in an v ceptional manner. Railroad ments would be complete embrace accommaodations for s well as suburban nelude spec unless in full dress, and militar Such were e of the many, accordin reports their EXPECTATIONS Dixey vall, GILDED s of the most sanguine filled to the lette It must be admitted however that bare truth will not uphold the fter the 7th of Decembe Itis « y that the few who wisited ries as speetators got more real ment of the affair than the and to Being of so pubhie a nature, the char ters of the persons who remained end nced no further comment. The attendance was small, thing which assumed anything like derful proportions was the number emptied botties of the spa Champragne. There wi and women in the usu Jowing the general effeet. The whole r tising seheme on the part of Mr. mar nd the aetual losse failure of the little way drunken ratio, aws of sment, almost tots vrise reach not thousanas. TOBOGGANING 1S THE LATEST CIAZ Phe elass of money andd le have to go clear to Montreal for good slide on the orthodox Car toboggan, But the cluss of money leisure like o have things conveni when they enjoy themsclyes, it is now no longer wy 1o trip to the dominion o get ‘n vide. T m Boston has been nal, and it may be s firmly established or ericket. The line toboggan have been lished with memb psof and the old time cousting totally eclipsed by the ne was ot long when w tobog shop window attracted attention the passers by; but this time has pas and it is not an infrequent see @ young man attin knickerboc and tuque, walking briskly along the Brookline or Carey Hill gracefully drawing his toboggan mpanicd, of course, by the fair his choice who is also arrayed in tume which is at ones fortable. It is indeed a hundred ladies neces ti omethin idton e mong us as laero Hill and Bros has method nd one ety sight see m'l", T th down the slide at others clumbe all this g night undg i nerad e ing merrily on ot a beantiful he flicker of many « I'he sport is an admirable both for pleasure and exereise, and custom will spread rapidly to tho we a very short time 1 1,000 10 2,000 feet in vand o generally has three chutes, with a Louse at one end which serves penser of warmth and refresi STON'S MISK the late Ezek miser millionair ton, wi ve a million doll vard university has been the many thoughiful comments past. Provision is made for the eh disposal of the money in cuse ident and fellows of Harvard do ive 1t. But there is no doubt that th gentlemen will accept the gift any other corporation, would 1 very inoh of the will if n There is neither any doubt that en The Greenle will of the sary is & source of extreme of i—The Dixey ball was the all nd in read- one would con ¢ never had been nor ever It was the boasted ball nin this coun- and decora e and ar nd upon an extremely extensive clectrie unique The music would be continuous, both in w | forefinger of the right I 200 to make Many odd and artistic conceits were i prepar a- | clined y The supper room would be in charge of a , and X- | of piano ange 1 would ew York atrons, and would al parlor cars for the former. No person would be admitted to the floor d naval oflicers would uppear in uniform. and to the majority of newspap: hopes we realized, and their predictions were ful n the glaring pictures which were painted both befo the gal re 1 enjoy ueipants, and that both were greatly disappointed 1o the nd the only won of rkling Vin du men i fol aise and was an adver Dixev's owing enter into the ure used to real diun srowth of this excellent sport phenome st hundrods, I peen | yesrs as the it | on nin a from occurrence 10 | Wi woolen perii-colored towards chute of gaddy and com 10 N in v gnly colored tuques come shootin to the top and winter's d | representing a sailor one the stin Branch Store_. 18th and Cuming. PRESCRIPTION 40¢, and 50¢, Omaha, Nebraska national welfare that she is to dex much benetit from the wealth of id not spend it selfishly di lifetime, but who worked and sav, sacrificed for the banefit of others, from the teachimgs of hums must conclude that there y “tired” persons es of Mr. Greenl Itry hundreds, sity in_ America a cool million. It is unfortunate that » last net of a man's life verv fre- quenty causes the most troublé, THINGS GO BY FITS AND STARY in Boston as well as anywhere o Among the lesser musical instruments the mandolin is fast coming into vopulae use. The banjo eraze may be said to have died of old age, and to ofiset this the num- ber of professional und amateur mandol- inists i8 increasing very vapidly. Most of the mandolins used in” this _country are imported from G ny, but they are generally somewhat renjodeled by kee ingenuity, which is a greatimprov ment over thie proverbially” mconvenient German way of doing things. A good mandolin costs from %15 Lo $10, depend g, of course, upon the quality of the mstrument and the amount of extia or- namentation. It is smuller than a guits and is strung like a violiy rept that it has double steel strings. The strings ure touched by a small thin picec of tortoiso shell, held firmly between the than nd nd. The instru- \nm be played singly with any a piano, or better still a guitar, beautiful accompans iment. The tone of the mandalin 15 heans tiful and ¢! and many musically in- sons, includingg your and gentlemen of the better cla fallen in love with it as a and altizether pleasing substituty for the old and universal custonf and voice pract Teuchers mandolin all have their hands andthe old banjo instructors are fast’ adding o “mandolin_ instruction” clause to thew shingles, The introdu tion of the instrument into this conntry is already an sured cess, amd in fow years we shall be ready for other new and odd conceit TIE COMMON of the most interesting features of Boston is that somewhat or, more properly sy al miece of ground in th Kknown Boston common. boast of more pretens grounds, but a park of r natural beauty or of more inte wd - pertinent” historie ce tions uld indeed be very hard 1o ¢ I'here is nothing in the Hub of “|.“u its inhabitants may . be more traly or justly prov nthe common, s his- tory is lul nd interesting, but a fow answer our pur a common from the beginning, being ¢t oft by the first settiers as training ground, 1t was carly put o th joint use of w pasture, and a trainin, Id on muster days. Another use for the common is found in the following quotation from . book published by an ¥ lish traveler in 1675: “On the south there is a small but pleasant common, where the g little before sunset, walk with A melet madams il 0 bell rings them home to their pective habitations when presently constables walk theie rounds to see good order kept and to pick up loose people.” earlier history the comme L] a place of execution, and n were tho murderers, pir: deserters — amd witches who met their doom under the shadows of its mammoth elms. Even to this day the common is used a purade ground, and here the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery company, the oldest mil- itary organizaion in the United States, hold its annual parade and drum - head eleetion. The common is characterized by the extreme simplicity and nness of its appearance. There is litle at tempt at- artificial ornmmentation, “‘the velvety psward and the o h ing fol seeming to (il the vill com- pletely. Fine old trees shade the paths sl walks of the place, and seem to add dignity us well as raral simplieny to it. T old clm 1 was biow) [ in 1876, was the most notea trec (i common . It was the oldest tree ew gland, and could number winy city of Bostn itself, 1w this venerable tree that tie supposed witeh Hibh hingzed 1615 L FROG POND in the early days true to ivu( it hus since heen an art nd supplicd by the water 'lll most conspicnous - objeet on the common is the Soldiers and Suiors monument, on Il west of the frog pond. 1 ‘was designed by Martin Mil- more, and dedicate the 17th of Sep tember, 1877, when the mlitia foree of | the state paraded on the common and | was reviewed by the president of the | United States, "The monument rests on | & platiorm cight feet square. On f pedestal nding the m monument are nze statues, two ind a soldi wl in- ancient suce and History, Toe main shaft Roman Dorie col umn of white gramte, ou the top of which is a brot tatue of Liberty The following inscription, whici written by the president of Harvaed uz cars on the mo I man ing hig fand But, ) natire, wo wre some’ ox- among the tbut W richest its thanks ment c: ood ¢ of the full One histori i tious public \un in its name, icial ih e city eful f eostiime 1) two 1k YOt IRE} i od wit ) congratulation 1o | J. 1 Mek those wio feel uu imterest iu Huryard s 2ccts