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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 6, OF BEAUTIES. York Society Knocks its Ashes Off the Lenten Cigar. COURAGEOUS COPS CARESSED BENCH-SHOW | How New ‘Pemand for Loug Haired Maid in the Alr—Unfinished _ Nrw York, March 8.—[Correspon- dence of the BEk.]—Lent doesn't gloom wociety altogether. Various things are “going on blithe This week we have had a show of feminine beauty. It was for charity, of course, but the daughters of Fifth avenue were none the less on | view in the multitude. The acknowl- edged prize beauty, among the score who posed in booths, was Mabel Wright, whose charm is largely that of perfeet health. Her freshness and vitality quer almost as much as the sympathetic expression of the pink and white oval gountenance, with its broad brow, clear blue eyes, small ears, regular nose and a radiant smile that displays faultless teeth. | The fair hair is worn knotted. She isa picture of pure Saxon beauty. Her voice is rich and pitched low, her manner frank and cordial, and she has a charm- ing laugh. Her invitation beguiled many men into purchasing the roses she had to sell. nce her introduction into the inner circles of New York socicty, peo- ple have been asking the usual question: “Who is she and where did she come from?"” The answer is in every respect gatisfactory. This girl's 1other was a member of a highly respectable family, the Peabodys, of Lowell, Mass. Her father is an architeet and a designer ot 2 She is an accomnplished artist, MUSIC IN Music isn't_under taboo we are having a gn. wealth’s parlors. rots are in vogue for private gatheri the musical activity is chielly for Hun- arian bands. Why that is so nobody The simple re several g sin town, composed of instruments, and le for good harmony time. Three or four others are really made up of German, Italian and Norwegian playe dressed in Hungari, costumes and with beards of Hungarian But on several occasions the war- ras had born y. The demand and why should Idle_ and bow er make-up will ble Hungarian, ed if the leader of n and the rest of it 1. lm Lent, and New Yorkersin a majori has got to be supplied 8 Yankee hang up his when silence and a turn him into a Thus society is sati the band is Hunga doesn’t betray itself. : LONG-HAIRED MAIDS, Bre king of humbug, a Fifth avenue belle’s maid, a trim, pretty ture, sud- denly disappeared tly, and it was a wonder, because the girl well paid in Kl’o[horfiml to her good looks---for it is deliciously swell now to have a pretty body servant. She had not seemingly been dissatisfied with her work or wage: Her emvployer feared that some s mental harm had come to her charitably went so far as to hire a p detective to hunt her up. Where do y think he found her? She was an adver- | tising exhibit in a hair-wash establish- ment. Thereis a boom on in that in. | dustry. Phenomenally long-haired women are posed in the windows of stores where hair tonics are on sale, and competition is hot. mely maid | luxuriant tresses which grew so “heavily and rapidly that the went riodically to a hairdresser to huave | them cut short. *How much wages do you get?’ he - asked her. . ‘““Twenty-four dollars a month,” she lepllml. t you double that,” he said, at all to do except be a on’t be alarmed-—there's no Messrs. Blank & C ~well-known makers of Cerulian Glory, want to boom their stuff. You are j thnlglrl ey desire. You will have * head shaved cluse. Then they will show m!reel to their customers, telling them ou lost your hair ?'enrs ago by fever nd have given up all hope of regaining b it; you have tried many preparations in 'yain; they are going to experiment on ou. Your hair grows fast and fine; 1t is fon view from day to day; it becomes a arvel; the fame of it spreads by word and outh, and by the time your head has ed its usual beauty they have sold sund extra bottles of Cerulinn, and ou hvosrecuwml three months excellent ee?"’ aw; and that was how the Fifth ‘avenue belle lost her pretty braids. F STAINED GLASS CRAZ . There is just & chance that the com. nnltymn be afllicted with a stained g mania before the next season. Art L0 stained glass is ancient enough, and pectable enbugh, and greatly ad- ‘mired,but the craze, if it comes, will be di- reoted to n novelty nevertheless. Some ki ths ago a lady who lives in one of the | big bouses on Fifth avenue took it into | her head to have her windows decorated " with portraits. She chose the library as A convenint room for experiment and summoned one of La Farge's most sue- [ l pupils to execute her commission, S8he presented him to her children and fordered that their portraits be placed “in the the windows. Three windows, iree children, three ctury was lovely and it only rem: F 8o see how well art would utilize it. " Alas! in spite of the fact when the artist ‘was most fuithful, that he held sitting af- ter sitting with the young subjects, that h‘llfll work when complete was es- sentially beautiful, the pictures were no ‘more portraits than poems. The mother b and father looked long and anxiously at ‘the brilliant windows, and had to turn _Away, admitting that th 1d not :uown that 1t was their children who there repre. d they would not e been able to recognize” their faces, FBtill they cherished the hope that other e might have better fortune. Alas % . Not one of their gu failed to 'f pleasant th the Fgellent quality 3 hing nfluence, and not once failed to amid usly that he or she could not precisely pfemember what classic or mythologi me wae depicted in the window Not one hinted that the three cher- might be the children playing about It now a question how long the Iy and mother will keep the windows I place, and it the innocent queries of ends relative to the antiquity of the bl.eot continue, it is to be feared that the lib: will be lightod through plain Jass once more before summer. But re is just the chance that patience lust till winter, and in that case new riments be made and a eraze rs of about the and the . 3 POLICEM “The police have got into e llnfi the masked ball ly beaded by the captain of the pre- et, who swells aronnd the hall, hov. near the entrance i the eay! , And making sure t ithout knowing that he is on hand, New York police captain is u se individual, but he is not without anmnsing peculinriti However, as I8 amusing be can be forgiven; s of- 0 are committed - after the o habit of They are ball has begun. Then he, with his half hundred and more patrolmen, digtribute tnemselves about the hall, keeping their hats on stupidly staring at the seenes before them. The swell chappies who attend these balls must feel the indignity of the ofticers, but they do not show it. They do not even exhibitany repugnance when a patrolman with a leer recognizes and accosts the belle who vpromenades on chappie’s arm. But this is tclerable to what happens in the course of the dance. Just when chappie by dint of patien kicking np his heels, by providing liberal potations of wine, by inducing the throng of spectators to move back a bit and giy him room, has persuaded his belle to try her hand, no, feet, at a canean; -just’ he has inspired her with some of his own excitement, as she_has plucked at her skirts, as the music hits itup with a strongly accented rythm and the belle begin to caper and appear; then the policeman in all the valgar obtrusiveness of his club, helmet and uniform, pushes througl the crowd, bids the belle sternly to stop, seizas chappie by the shoulders and pushes him unceremoniously off dancing floor. If chapoie is too obst perous he 18 arvested and perhaps has to pay something for his release. Recent masked balls that drew great crowds by reason of the freedom that characterized them in the past have been dulled this season by this interference of the police ‘HELLO, BLONDY." But the guardian of the peac times hors du combat at the: nts. The capts jor is; he is too grand, and if he ry trouble, ori tion, he with- I and stately and sends a patrolman to finish the job. A case to show how the policeman’s lot may be rendered unhappy is the following: It was about halt past two by the clock in the wine room when a group of half a dozen, including both sexes, rose from a table and staggered to s the main hall. At the entrance to the latter was a patrolman on duty He was a tall, good ooking fellow with a heavy flaxen moustache. One of the girls as she passed him suddenly slipped away from her escort, put one arm round the police- man’s neck, and with the other carressed his moustache, as she said: “Why, hello, Blondy; when 'are we going to sec you on the ola beat aguiny awful dull there without you Business roing to the bow-wows” (Butshe hidn'l say the “bow-wows.”) The blonde policeman seemed wofully em- barrassed; it wasn’t so much that the crowd made fun of him as that his ecap- tain stood there beside him and heard it The patrolman perhaps feared that ptain mightdetect a suggestion of I impropriety in the words of the intoxicated dance Another policeman near the ladies’ cloak room was annoyed by & young woman in pink stockings and a brief skirt who 1nsisted upon falling into hisarms, She was hopelessly drunk and needed taking care of, but the policeman was not anxious for the task. Ay 1 n he pushed her from him only to receive her the next instant. He had to support her ecach time or she would have gone to the floor. The crowd found it good sport, and, the poot fellow could not leave his post, he had 1o stand it till a brother oflicer hap- pened along and took the girl in charge. UNFINISHED HEADS, T wae in aSeve t picture store yesterday look some of the late things in ctchings when the dealer was called away a moment by the en of an artist with a picture to sell. dealer made an excuse to show n work. It was a child’s he sion mischievous and rollicking, thorough keeping with a bit of teath which the child had thrust into hls hair. The copper plate from which the single proof had been printed looked almost are, so faint is'the impression made by eteher’s lines. I thought the iden a good one, but I asked the dealer innocently enough if artists were in the habit of bringing proofs of their work before the plate was finished, as if to save them- selves the expense of finishing a work that would not find a purchaser. He smiled wearily. “Yes,” he answered, *‘but not in order to save themselves any work. The artist in this case thought his work was done.’” As a matter of fact it seemed impossi- ble that any one however ignorant should have made such a mistake, least of all the artist himself. The head and face were so dim in the proof that the lines were invisible at a short distance, and across the room one could not have told that there was a picture there at one could have seen the feather; was done, and it stood out with odd inct- iveness in the proof. When the artist had gone, the dealer said: ‘It is an astonishing fact that ver; fow arti know when their wor is done. That picture would have been absolutely unsalable in the form 1n which it was offcred to me, and before he left the artist scemed to realize 1it. It isby no means an excep- onal case. Day after day I have to tell tists to take their work home and fin- ish it. [ very rarely accept an etching on its first presentation, and solely by reason of the need of more work on it in some respect or other. BIG DOCTOR BILLS, ’l"llle Eub]ic often marvels at the price lm“ is some- sing situ n The th )y rich persons for art object. uter surprises might be caused by the sums given to physicians, tor the preser- vation of heall t has been said thag sless invalid owner of ten millions, pays Dr. Wm. Todd Hel- muth 5,000 a year to doctor her. She s these figures. Mrs. Alexander I. Stewart retains three doctors at an aggregate cost of at st $40,000 and callea in one of them y every h She had what seemed like - syst which she abided by the decisi two out of the three in of diet and medicine. Mrs. Wil Astor pays to Dr. Forayce Barker per- sonally an avernge of ~$20,000--always sending a check for double or treble the mount of each 5ill rendered. Her idea is that, by rewarding his skill and vigi- laneeitberally, she will get the very best ice of which he is capable. = Mrs, Cornehus Vanderbilt's physician is Dr. W. 8. Belden, and althongh her health is excellent, he is consulted often—preven- tion being preferable to cure, doubtle and the beliet is that the prevention costs not less than §10,000 annually. CrarA BeLn —_— A Dress of Pure Silver. A regal robe of pure silver, once the wedding gown of a royal princess of of Prussia, and lately purchased from n Lat Durmstadt, who held it as an heirloom, was presented on New Year’s eve to Mlle. Marie Decea, the new American soprano. The donors were some enthusiastic friends of the charm- ing Decea. 'The folinge and the flowers ot the embroidery zre of solid bullion, and the petals of the flow with exactitnde, £700. e Albany, N. Y., the winning carried twenty-ore men, who, together with the machive, weighed nearly 6,500 pounds, It had new bobs, five and one-half and six and one-half feet long, with fine steel shoes, —_—— Of five veople, who on their dying beds last year confessed to great erimes, ouly one told the truth, In the other s it was shown that the *‘confessors” could not possibly huve had anything to do with the crimes Itis reported that eastern eapitalists have formed a corporation in Canada for the purpose of working ten farms, each containing 19,000 acres, in the northwest- ern territories along the line of the Caua- dian Pacific railway, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES QUEEN OF THE MIMIC WORLD Adam Badeau's Brief on the Stage Career of Sarah Bernbardt. STAR OF THE FIRST MAGNITUDE Without a Living Rival in Modern Romantic Drama—Her Triv EW York, March 3.—[Corres of the Big.]—This month Sarah Bern- hardt returns to New York. 1 first saw the greatest of living actresses in Paris ten or twelve years ago. She was playing Berthe de Savigny in the Sphynx, at the Theatre Francais, It soon after Croisette had made her success and es- tablished herself for a while asa rival of Sarah, who for several years had reigned supreme on those classic boards. All Paris was talking of the competition, and of the rage of Bernhardt that any one should dare dispute her supremacy. But the tickle erowd had turned from its for- mer idol, and the new star was nearer the zenith, Sarah led her uneffectual fires. Both actresses were in the cast that night, and Croisette was certainly more congpicuous, more applauded, more the versonage of the scene. The women were rivals in the play as well as in re- ality. One snatehes from the other what she prizes most in the world. Blanche thinks for a moment of murdering Ber- the; and Berthe threatens and taunts, and finally conquers Blanche. It was strange to sce these two simulating je ousy and wrath and hate and fear towards each other in their mimie rela- tions, and to know that they felt the same emotions in their actual The Parisians said at the close of the play, when Berthe pardons and kisses hor dying enemy, and tenderly covers her face with w veil, SARAH TRIED TO PINCH ind even to bite her in the mali- which to the audience seemed so full of pathos and pity; while the expiring Croisette could only murmur curses in reply. 1 not so much impressed with either as 1 had expected to be. Sarah did not scem to me so full of the di i as 1 had been told; perhaps subdued by the ascendency of her rival and felt as only the artists’ of the stage can feel the hateful repression of a cool- ing audience; no doubt the plaudits that stimulated one diminished the ardor of the other. Croisette, however, disap- pointed me even more. She was already stout (us is known, her inereasing obesity finally compelled her to leave the stage), and I'saw no mark of the e i ahility that P: was just then extoliing. s, like New York, has its caprices and fashions even in rt. The Due d'Aumale had not long nefore returned from his Enghsh exile, there seemed a chance of the Orleans princes recovering the throne, or of the Due himself being elected president; his assion for Croisette was. well known. 1e had been able to thrust her into sition more fortunate than her own ities could have ured in the sacred precints of the theatre Francai t- er triumph of political and personal in- than is ever el in America. The advocates o 1 service reform if our theatre ubject to such control, Mr. Suton would find gre o than now, and Carl Schur; might even stay away from the play. ‘The next time Isaw Bernhardt was at HER DEBUT IN LONDON The company of the Comedie Francaise was to perform, and the_ little theatre in Strand was crowded with the most dis- tinguished people in England in rank and fashion, literature and art. - ‘The play was Phedre. 1 had watched Rachel often in this role; and had been more impre by that great tragedian in her perfor ance of the passionate stepmother than in any other of her parts. The wmemory she left was still vivid. In Phedre she bade farewell to America, and tl and horror conflicting that covered fragile frame as with a garment, the scorn with which she clutched her robe from the grasp of (Enono; the st ing in which she uttered HER GUILTY FASSION for Hippolyte, the mingled meaning sho infased into the two words, J’ amie, and the meaning greater still with which she looked into Hippolyte's eyes—all wer P ent to me as if I had seen her the night vefore. After nearly twenty years all’ came up vividly when the same scene and the same words were presented by another French woman, not without her own share of the dramatic fire. But Bernhardt was not Rachel. She Iacks the swtucsque grace, the air of classic antiquity, the severe and inimit; ble dignity of her great predecessor; she cannot bring to fifis as Rachel did the creations of Euripides nor the herol wouwen of ancient Rome. In the classic plays she only recalls memories which she is unable to realize. But in the modern romantic drama_ Birnhardt has no Nhving rival. She is the only actress who can throw the passionate thrill into the last words of Dona Sol; the only woman who can k:lny L’Etangere; the best Frou-Frou on Marguerite Gautier on the stage; the only one who transcends her author and cre- ates a party; who makes the artist and and the theatre, forget to criticize and even admire, beeause you feel; transports you to the gardens of Aragon or the chamber of ~Adrienne: looks, moves, glan implores, imprecates, adjure o that you think nathing of Sarah Bern hardt or yourself, but you only feel the power and pussion of ‘the situation and the play. She had a great triumph in London, She took the town by storm. The theatre was crowded night “after nignt, and the blaze people of fashion discovered a new emotion. She created, some of them told me, that peculiar SENSATION ALONG THE SPINAL COLUMN which gets rarer as you grow older, but so_long as it recurs” is a proof that you still can feel, They were delighted to find that she could transform not only herself but her auditor: They were not satisti her in the theatre, but insisf herin their houses. It is a strange freal of English fashion, but English have their whims, and enthusiasms li body els 50 stolid and impassible me the mode. ~ She was adwitted to most exclusive circles, and made much of by women of irreproachable character, though everybody knew her flaunting history. Even the wondertul barriers of rank and precedence were broken down for her; she was taken in to dinner before duchesses; Mr. Glad- stone, the primmest of premiers, went to mieet her at afternoon dinners, and the prince and even the princess tried to find out if she was as fascinating in pri- vate as on the stage. Then they took to having her play in society. I remembor getting an At Home” from Lady rassey, with *‘Mademoisclle Bernhardt” in the corner, just as you put ‘‘Musie,” or a at faur o'clolk.” I['went early, hurrying away from dinner, but found the drawing- rooms alread, crowded, everybody seated who could find a place; and’ very exalted company it was, indeed—ambas- sadors and royalties, and cabinet minis ters, aud no ond of the nobility, [A litte stage was built ane end of the larg room with hardly space enough for the people to move about on it; no chanee for tragic | stalking and gesticulation. Bernhardt was piaving at the theatre the same night, and had to ehange her dress for ui.- new role. so the company wuited an hour or more. Finally, she eame in at the ordi ary door, for there was no *behind the scenes,” The stage amere platform between the windows, She was the part of a boy of sixteen, in lov was dressed in the costume of Louis XV's time-—long hair, long coat,breeches, and low shoes. ~ As she made her way through the fashionable throng, her tall slim figure and not alwuys graceful bear- ing, were very conspicuous, The dress, of course, was not at all becoming; breeches -~ as everybody who has seen her knows—are the last costume that she should ever choose. But she stepped upon the stage before us all, and every- body lauglied a little, and wondered that she was at LLING TO SHOW 11ER LEGS, 9 began, and sie conquered both her ience and her natural dis- advantage You forgot the tall, 1ll- made woman in man's disguise, and saw and heard only the awkward, earnest boy, fighting a on he hardly under- stood, utter, sentiments that fright- ened himself, but carried away their object, and the listeners, It was a downright triumph of genius, and worked the cold and critical andience into genuin rth. I saw more than one of the worldings wipe their eyes, and the cynics breathe short, and the great and the little people for a time forgot them- selves. After it was over, she w among her audience in her brecches, received her compliments, The rage lasted through all that season, Nothing hke it _had been known for twenty years: and at that time the Eng lish world of fashion had not taken up with players as it nas since The gr est actors and aetresses were not ceived in society. Irving, perhaps, had begun to make “his way u little, but I re- member how people talked when he 5 invited by a bishop. But Bernhardt went e vhere. You can do things with French people that you could not with vourselves you know, just as you can 1wy things in the ‘renen lang that in inglish would be i sible. Apropos of which ELL YOU A STORY. vearortwo before or aze, another 3 me to London,Madame Chaumont, who sang with the exquisite expression and i, but had the most at- tenuated slip of a voice imagi who sang, and said, and sugge ng things I ever saw or heard e, Judie was nothing to he She, too, was imme) hion—on the stage. The gr in Lon- don went regulari which, if one of their nequs repeated to them, there would ha an end of the acqua people began to s; charm- g to hear Chaum ivate ow, there was an aspiring Jewess going about a little, rich and handsome, who nad been noticed by the and it oceurred o her was hier opportunity. Frenchwoman was her i I the Bernh: ench woman been it once, prince of Wales, tiiat Chaumont Accordingly the engnged to sing chansens, and mpossible puntomimes lect company, and to piquant stid, on & Sunday evening. ‘The most ultrafashionable people wore asked, and had determined to go: and it was supposed that the Jewess would secure her position in the highest socie But the t concockul schemes of women of fashion, as well as mice, ng aft agice.” The duchess of West- minster determined to gircumvent the intention ter the Hebrew cards were out for Sunday, the duchess asked all the e people for Saturday, and hired Chaumont. Of course, the world went to the duchess, and was satislied, and the Sunday was a tatlure, to Bernhardt. cinl suocess was not perennial. turned to London, and FOUND H ¢ FORGOTTEN. ‘The audicnees were perhaps as erowded and enthusiastic as ever, but her noble friends now had other favorites, and had suddenly grown moral. No prinee nor prime minister, in her second season, were found to pay her homage, and the great ladies could not possibly overlook this year the piccadilloes which the summer before had beed quite ignored. She played at no private houses, and din- ners were not made to meet her, she was the same Bernhardt. When she came ew York genius was recog thought that, perhag might repeat her original London experience. A num- Ler of mvitations were sent out to meet her, but no ladies accepted them, though there were many men of literary, or political, or fashionable i who were glad to make he they did not introduce their Still, the private life of an artist, if it is not obtruded upon the publie, need not de- tiact from the ple that _genius af- fords. What play do oft th may be correc y, ng to their caprice or character; it does not affect the play. Bernhardt's h all the world knows; it is not very ent from Raclicl's; and whether the tine Iadies visit her or not, she will give us Phedre as no one else aiive can do'i © personates Dona Sol as Victor Hugo him- d no one else had ever done it; {fords the most splendid rep: 5 0f passion and art combi neither the or the English or the Her so- She re- her — CONNUBIALITIES, ‘The preachers of Chebovgan, Mich., have decided not to_perform the warriage’ cere- mony for any person who has been divorced. A man down east says that he doesn’t see varticular fun i Sin went tobogganing with his w! 1t is said that somnambulism is on the in- se in this country among married women, The only way to break 'em of itis to hide your wallet outside of your bedroom, A voung woman Buatrsiem, who has been warried for only five months, has applied for a judicial separation because her husband will not cut his toenails, which are of abnor- length, and she complains that she is ed from head to foot by them. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in one of Ler passion poems, portrays a touching little connubial episode when she says “0ne lies awake in the night to weep: And the other drifts into & sweet, sound sleep.” heory was true that Eve was created Adam was lonely and wanted some one to talk to. how disappointed our first ancestors must have been when he realized how difticult it was going be for him to get a word in edge ways. Philadelphia Record: Tuesday James A, Beard.s wealthy cattle of Nebraska, married M 2 They had only known eaeh other by espondence until Mr. Beard arrived in ertown a few hours before his marriage. Wa think that Gilroy can claim the oldest marriad couple in California, Mr. and Mrs, Blodget, Mr. I his wif In Boyertown on ried seventy-nine ys oo _health, and the hap! son, Mr. Blodget, who resic A Sheboygan, Mieh., widow, ing ten days for her dear depart consolation in a second marriage. She didn’t find it, though, for it is said that ever since the wedding the ghost of the dead hus- band has been msking shings iively for the honeymooners, who have already moved sev- eral times, but are unable to escape the spirit, which rattles windows, groans, shakes the doors. and makes himself gen- erally very disagreea! guests of their r that city. ter mourn- The demand for the recent published edi. tion of the Chinese testament, revised by gy ith John, averages about 1,000 l capies & NOW ON THE MARKET. THOMASON & GOOS' ADDITION. The Finest Residence Sites in Omaha Just two miles from the court house. There is not a nickel against this property. A WARRANTY DEED AND ABSTRACT Will be furnished with each lot sold. The parties that own this and adjoining lands represent over the sum of Fifty Million Dollars! A CABLE LINE will Run Through this Tract This Beautiful Addition is the Key to Omaha and South Omaha. The BELT LINE runs along the entire west side and the southeast part nearly corners on the crossingof the Bur- lington and Union acific railways at the summit, where there is S~ A Depot in Course of Erection. ~Gad A thorough examination of this ]n-ulu-.ly will convince all that there are the Greatest Bargains on Earth in it, at prices we have puton the lots, M. AUPTON & CO,, 1509 Farnam St., Omaha, Nen. Telephone 73. Pharmacy Building, South Omaha. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. begin until autumn, The latest talk about Mary is that she is going to become & nun. Chas, H. Hoyt has_purchased a residence ive town, Charlestown, H. M. be surrounded by the ade famous in his farc At a near e Eagle hotel, used as a back- ground for a **A Bunch ot Keys,” near by is the drug store wbich figurés in “A Rag Baby,” on the street a few blocks off is the re: lun‘ce where it is claimed the scenes W in to frighten them away, at last hit upon the project of burning candies during the night. I'hese are protected from the wind by sacks, and the fields are kept comparatively clear of ducks. Quite a natural curiosity was an object of considerable interest in the office of th superintendent of the poor In Chicago, was nothing more nor less than a bright little girl, three and a half years old, who was gitted, or afflicted, as the case may turn out to be, With two tongues. A little tongue about half the regular size had grown on top of the natural orzan, Thig did notin any way affect the child’s speech or prevent her eatinz a hearty meal, Some Ohio parties while fishing at Dixon’s 1 one night last week left their kuns at 1. During their absence a couple of ntered the house, and dog like,engaged ina fight. During the scufiie one of the Funs was knocked down and the contents klsrhmx d into the hindquarters of one dog. The other, though master of the situation, fled incontinently, leaving poor Tray to the mercy of the fishermen, who wera soon on the spot to ascertain the causc of the report. RELIGIOUS. One-fifth of the entire population of Eug land Wales ar ated to be in Sunday shool there being 600,000 teachers and 5,200, scholars, Lord \Vm. Cecil, second son of the mar- quis ot Salisbury, is about to be ordained to a curacy at the parish church of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, ‘T'he Rev. Frank Russeli, of Oswego, N. Y., o talented minister, elegant speaker, and classical gentleman, of the Congregational church, is in the | ecture field. Messrs. Moody and Sankey will attempt to evangelize Chicago, and to that end they will erect a building in that city to cost $250,000 for the training of Christian workers. ‘The American board of commissioners for forelgn missions has |1?u‘ted the application ot R, C. Morse, of the theological school, who has recently been licensed to preach. The reading of the “Lives of the Saints” caused Ignatius Lovola to form the purpose eating a new relizious order, wh t-ha)ur- ntuated in the powerful society of the The tenor Sylva is now engaged at the St. Petersburg opera. *“T'en Nights in a Bar-Room” didly in Kansas towns, Anna Kribel, a Norwegian cantatrice, re- cently made a debut in Paris. ‘The P’aris conservatory eoncerts are in the sixtieth year of their existence. Stuart Robson’s favorite poem is said to ba Longfellow’s *Hanging of the Crane.” High-crowned Lats at theatres are now al- most exclusively worn by homely ladies. Richard Mansfield, it is said, will occupy the Madison Square theatre next summer. Excise Commissioner Andrews, of New York, is an ex-scene shifter and prompter. Augustin Daly’s company will bezin its engazement at tha Boston museum, May 17. Kyrle Bellew was, twelve y ago, re- porting for the selbourne (Australia) papers. The demand for photographs of Mary sndorscn has fallen off very greatly in Lon- on. Mrs. W. IL. Courtney, a Brooklyn amateur- nts. ald o has decided to beome a professional act, | mirage, distinctly saw W essington hills, fifty ress. miles away, one day last week. “‘Sophia” has passed its 200th night in Lon- S S s Killed by a gentle don. 1t proved a failure at Wallack’s, New | man living on’ Cache creck, Lake county, York. Cal., and in its crop was found a large quan: tity ‘of gold dust. A Georgia hen belonging to Mrs. News laid an egg the other day about two inches long and shaped exactly likea sodawater bottle. Wonder if the freak has anything to do with prohibition? In cutting ice on Lake-of-the-Woods it was found that the heavy cakes contained many fish that were canght during the cold snap and frozen in the ice. On this account the ico cutting on the lake was abandoned. he other day while William Cole was driving the stage between Nevada City and North Bloomfield Lie saw by the roadside six quall that appeared to be snow-blind. He jnlmued out of the sleigh aud caught them alive. A doctor of Odin, I, whisky to be usea as medicine for a sick child.” He left the bottle on his table for a few minutes, when it exploded with a loud report. ‘I'ne bottle was broken, and the qullor falling on the table clotk burned 1t like acid. One day last week a hen at Mr, Cosb: Cuthbert, Ga., while looking around with a view of going into business, lost her foothold and fell into the well. She remained in therea day and night, and when found had appropriated a cave in the well to her own use and was making herself at home. A young lad in Kingston, N. Y., is the pos- sessorof a tame pigeon which follows wherever be goes. On Thursday it fc him on his way to sehool. As soon as h it he carried it back to his house, After had been in school some time the l!:‘ilm'hl'r } i the pigeon makine its way into the sehool- @The latest social craze in Iurone fs the | roo; '..'}uul the boy had to cirry the bird home mandolin. The nstrument has captivated | g socond time. l‘[u» .~kuc|e|) people of Washington and New A farmer living near Quiney s: that iy 8 i wiiile out feeding his chickens one morning “The Private Secrotary” has made such | yocently, four At S A marked success in English that it is being | yowards' his barnyard, and after circling ed in Boston in its original version in | ahout him several times lit among his an. chickens. e caught one of them, where- Marcella Sembrich is likely to succeed Bi- [ upon the others attacked him vicious| He anchiatthe Vienna Court” opera. She is | finally managed to secure a second one, and said to be negotiating for a permanent en- | after a sharp encounter drove off the other gagement there, 1 ‘The chorus glr]fl in the Metropolitan opera company are bound by contract to give the managers two weeks' notice betore they rush into matrimony. Irene Curry Is the name of a musical won- der in San Franciseo, She is only six years old and her performance of piano solos is highly spoken of, ‘The first score of Verdi's *“Otello” has arrived at New York from Milan, and was to Mme. Furseh-Madi with the composer’s compliments. “Ruddyzore,” it is asserted, is a deliber serib” from & comie opera entitied *T Crimson Mask,” written twenty year by the late Jelin Brougham, Miss Eleanor Calhoun, the American tress, has returned to New York from Europe, not to marry young Hearst, but to look atter a play prepared for her. Emil Thomas, the celebrated G edian, is on his way to this col . He will bezin'an engagement at the Thalia, New York, the second week in Mareh, “Nym Crinkle’” says that he ean rem the time when he used to taink Kose 1an was the handsomest woman in the workd; and he addss “1've kot & son who Is besin: ning to think the same way.’ Miss Mary erson will m trance on the Engl on April 11, and subsequent other p cial cities, this spring engagement. Mr. C. . Abud will act as ler business manag 5 Ander son’s scason at the London Lycewn will not in his 3 took splen- | Hoyt will cenes that Parlor Mateh” took place,while away is the depot of the Connec- , in the station room of which ‘enes in his new furce “A Hole in the Ground” are laid. — SINGULARITIES, A gray eazle shot at Fort Pierre, D. T., had a jack-rabbit in its tallons. A resident of Chester, 111., that talks quite as well as any parrot. A Yokezon (Mich.) man tound aboar's tooth in the center of a solid log recently while chopping. Residents of Vilas, D. T., by the ald of a a pet crow Frederick de Belleville has been offered a two-years' engagement at the New York Ly- ceun, Robert L. Scott will take out a new play ']"‘l”"'fi!‘“"' It is called *'A Chip of the Old ock. Ernesto Vanuccini, the maestro of vocal art, died recently at Florence, le was 92 years old. Kate Tierney made her first appearance at the age of eight as the Dukeof York, in Richard 111 A Texas youtn, after buying his ticket wanted to know if Booth appeared in trag- edy or opera. ‘The Baltimore Oratorio society will pro- duce Max Brueh’s “‘Lay of the Bell” at the Mareh concert. Candidus, the tenor, it Is said, receives a bigeer salary than did Brignoli in the prime of his career, Lady Colin Campbell contradicts the state: ment that she inteuds to become a profes- sional vocalist. The **Vice Admiral,” Millocker’s latest suc- cessful operetta has been secured for America by M. Conried. Bernhardt gave ten performances in the City of Mexico, and it is claimed that the re- ceipts were £47,000, Mme. Marchesi written and published abook on the voice, entitled “Methods et Critique de Chant Theorique.” Lucea is engazed to sing three times as Carmen at the Royal theater, Copenhagen, durimg the coming month of May. urchased some “The two copies of the bible used at Queen Vietoria's eoronation are still in existence, One is a heirloom in the family of the late Dr. Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, and the otlier is preserved in the cathedral of Nor- wich, It is reported that Father Charles Turner, lately professor of theologzy at Bishop Bag - shawe's Diocesan Seniinary of Onr Lady and St. Hugh, Nottingiiam, fias seceded from Koman Catholie church, and has been received into the Church ot England. The Un : 1\'uxk, Is en waged in | Ling towards holding, next win hall of the Cooper union, service W prominent Universalist preachers shall expound in simple and popular manuer the principles of their belicf. “The old family bible that belonged to *Mary, the mother of Washinzton,” is still in exist- ence, and is kept in abranch of the Wash- ington fanuly in Virginia. It contains the [t 0 ecordin the birth of (icorge \ 1332, T'he binding v the hand of his tern array of facts and fizures, at this boasted century of missions, 000,000 _converts,” nominal and ) won by ehristianity in pagan- ‘n and Mohanimedan are 200,000, v were at the behinning of antur of these fiiths in- ase seventy times faster than the follow- ers of Christ, A sermon both short and good is pe and needs no apolozy, A short, poor seruwon v for its poorness in its breve ool sermon has an u!m{n‘_{y for it v loni, POOE sand the attenpt i longer and poorers 1o business without WO, Morrls Shelland, of G wild goose of Mr. Harris, who had c t eighteen years before, 1t has r There is an uncertainty about its age, as no as when caught, 1 to be overrun by It, Canada, bought a it tly died. one could tell how old it Casey county, Ky.. i rats. the their own way. ther ; Wiile the recent storm was atits liefzht, Ir . who resides near Prattvili birth o triplets M two girls. gh tive or six fe made 1t im- possible to procurc medieal at the time, the mother and all t new ar- bl s thougn four and Uy tormed and 1l of rivals are doing staily the largest weigl It pounds. a and vizor, ues Lyon, ¢ graph of liis tin the dog saw th supposed that boited out of th and posed agal Aca the door being shut,jumped out of a swin fell on an awning, broke through, feli two young men. sinashed a bt it and ter- ribly seared a smadl colored bootblack. The dog weighs 150 pounds, | After nightfall wild ducks infest the grain fields in the vicinity of | Al meda county, California, in ereat number They have nearly devastated 400 acres on the | Carey farm, Henry Goodman, the foreman, after experimenting witl numerous devices of B ssippi | st by olidest i top William Mereer t Sunday, the ¥pis- 1 one of her was horn in By the death Green of M man com- R By opening of the gene Aol went 14 towar door, Wi [ as couxed b . took alary e her re-en- t Birmingham v she will act at fultitling It was no only the first b ! | arst bishoy 1 b torn this s ar Episcopalian s Chreh of course, there the Aweriean terested, i

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