Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 13, 1887, Page 12

OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 13. 188 ~~TWELVE PAGES. FISTIANA'S FAIR FEMALES, Beanties Who Box, Bowl Fence Like the Profesh, PRESERVED IN A PHONOGRAPH. Beecher's Voice Bottled for ure Use—His One Regret—A Great Tea Party—Souvenirs of Prominence, ‘ Bullion and New York, March 10.—[Correspond- ence of the Br “1 feel just ag if [ was an angel wading chin decp in a per- fumed cloud.’”” That is a remark by the late Mrs. A. T. Stewart, reported to me by Madam Corore, who used to have charge of a department in the Stewart store. The occasion was Mrs. wart's first wearing of woven silk under-gar- " ments, which were then new luxuries, even to the richest. Madam Corore was reminiscent because she was taiking wbout,the semi-private sale of Mrs, Stew- art's wardrobe, which contains the fin possible assortments of costly under-gar- ments. The exhibition of the Stewart wictures is nccessible to anybody with half a dollar, butth i lady's clothes is restricted to a compara tively few invited persons. HenryWard Be ves some things, the m glimpse of which would make women'’s eyes sparkle. He had a pint of precious stones of m Kkinds, though neither he nor Mrs. Beecher ever wore any of them, and few were set into jewelry. They camo from eastern coun- tries, principally, and were gifts, in most instances, from friends who knew of his singular fad, and who picked them up whiletraveling in the orient. The gres preacher had many feminine tastes fancies, and was notably urbane and polite in his treatment of women, Few pastors ve ever commanded a nicer balance veen dignity and urbanity in social intercourse with the adulatory gistevs of their congregations. One of the last oceasions of especial lionizing of Plymouth’s pet was a charity fair. Beecher was there every evening, as in duty bound, and his adroit courtesy i receiving homage, repelling si demonstrations of admiration, ting through the ordeal in comfort to himself and the spectators, was worth study. FE A Onee upon & time it w. *‘manly art of self-defence, longer entitled to that m: tive, for the girl of the period boxes. " At least, she is learning to, and she may soon be able to knoek out with her littl fists whoever refuses to succumb to her smiles and glances. She has learned to fence, nad to bowl and to bet on ho races, and then she sat down and cried | for more masculine worlds to conquer. As boxing was nbout the only onesh didn’t think herself mistress of already, she concluded she would take that with'a As the quickest y of accom- 1re she is ta and ¢ expert pugilist in a_wec two. does not take them in bevies, but separ- nwlly at the residence of each pupil. “L take theso pupils just to keep in good trim myself,” he said in answer to lflllusthm as'to how many he has, “‘and | Idon’t want any more than will give me sxercise enough tokeen meingood order. don't like to give more than one lesson a day, although 1 sometimes give two. DPve just now come from giving a lesson | to a little girl ten or twelve rs old. he is.the daughter of wealthy parents i and they are having her take boxing les- 8ons on account of her health.” HOW GIRLS PUT UP THEIR DUKES, “Is that the motive that inspires most of your pupils?'’ I asked. 3 0; they have a good many different motives. Those from the wealthy, lei “ure classes—and I have a number of these—learn to box for the sake of the xercise, or because they want to know how. Then T'have some theatrical ladi “who go into it ad'a matter of b They learn t9 box b s0 it will i | them more graceful, and because as a matter of business it will be profitable.” . “What do you think of boxing as a | means of exercise for women?™’ *Unquestionably it is the very best that & man or woman either ¢ ta! ‘A great deal better than fencin, b eause it developes only the right side of ‘ the body, while boxing brings into play L every muscle from the toes to the brain | for you huve to keep on the alert, with ur eyes on your opponent, and your t:o\l hts concentrated so that your brain but it uline adjec- s well as your body gets stivred up."” " “What kind of pubpils do you find the "girls? Do they learn as easily as men.” *I tind them quite apt, but they do not b as quickly as men, because it hasn't “been bre into them. Blows como kind (0 natural to men, you know, but girls “have never had anything of this klmfbe wlnd it takes them longer to learn.’” hich do they learn d or attack?” i BEST ON ATTACKS, “Well, I generally find that my pupils & good deal betier at attacking than ding. They are not so quick about ding, but attacking secms to dome them naturally. But then, there isn’t to boxing, anyway. You teach them how to lead out, and stop, and af- they get the hang of that once at’s about all there is to it, except to jeep up the practice. It's the constant Ppractice that makes perfect.” " “Of cou you use soft gloves with " your pupils? *No, for the most part we don't use because 1 don't intend to It them d, but just barely touch them. And 4t they do ‘get a littio tap on the chicek, it hardens the flesh, *How long can the to a bout with you? *Ob, that depends on how severe [ D iflzo about it very gently they keep up for an hour or more, Lut if I a little bit severe they will get ded in n quarter of that time.” dress worn by theso fair New fers in their contests with this very nt and mild-mannered gentleman always the same thing. Some boxing lesson in thoir ordinar but that puts them to great disad- e. Somec uso a sort of bathing with a blouse and knee skirt, and adopt the f ng costume, Jer- and Turkish trousers. P SWEARING GIRLS, . In the way of shocking things, fashion- profanity among wealthy and retined may be mentioned. While it has gone to the extent of the worst oaths fenunine lips in good society, the r expletives have come into piquant The evil began last autumn with a for quaint expressions. These were at lirst merely original and curious, ind the girl who could make unique lations was thereby distinguished in @irele, Gradually the demand for nger, riskier language arose, and the of fashion extended to almost but quite outright oaths. Now the gen- damn is not unheard in the bou- and parlor of the belle, and she ex- ns My God!" on the slightest ocea- The latter offense 13 excused by in_consequence of French prece. Parisian ladies of the aristocracy *Mon Dijeu’ commonly. But the has reached its limit_here; revul- .’ come, and profanity from sweet may bo expected to cease this quickest, to auwl stand nild " QREAT ORATOY SILENCED. ody who ever beard oue of Beech- eny that the gre American orator of the ageis lost. This encomium does not apply to his leetures. He was far from being at his best speaking a picee over and over. He ex- celled on occasions of arousal, when ideas came right along with the words to express them; and his most powerful elo- quence was without premeditation. Prob- ably no pastor in the world ever earned a big salary with less effort. He would donone of the drudgery of his office Pastoral calls he never mado, The sic of his congregation were minis- tered to by his assistants. He very rarely thought ot hiz Sunday sermon” befor Saturday, and then confined himself to a on a single sheot of paper. Of anguage to be used he took no care until in the pulpit. This habit was what rendered him so poor and slow at writ- ing books and stories. His “Life of Christ” remained unfinished for ten years, thongl a few months of his death he posi greed to set abont the sccond volume, — But with all his great feats of orator ed the op- portunity of his life. ast that was the way he felt about it. The jury in THE FAMOUS SCANDAL TRIAL failed to agree on a verdiet, Beecher ever afterward belieyed, d said so to his intimate friends, that if he had ad- dre the jury i his own behalf he would have won them over unanimousl, The specch by Evarts lasted six day and though exhaustive and able, lacked the test spark of moving eloguence. The suggestion that Beecher himself should sum up for the defense was sest friend, Deacon How took to it strongly, but he allowed himself to be dissuadea. To his death he firm believed that he could h \Ie got a verdict, and doubtless he was right. No more curious memento of Beecher exists than that owned by Edison, the in- ventor of the plionograph. That instru- ment for impressing on a soft metal sheet the utterances of the human voice, and then emitting it again by the turning of seauk, conld never be put to any very valuable use, and Edison has only gained a few thousand dollars in from exhibitors. But he uti 1 X collections of famous v ince he became famous his veincluded hundreds of celebrities. Instead of ask- ing them for their autographs, or photo- graphs, he has in two or three hundred instances requested them to speak a few sentences mito a phonograph. He has kept the plates in a cabinet, and ocea- sionally e runs some of them through the machine, which sends out the words exactly as uttered. Edison is probably the only man who i Y The prous has been varied by a kaffe Metropolitan opera house. thatis anybody was there, three to sev a most enj ten season atch at the Everybody and from :n in the afternoon there was able, not to say lively time. s redeemed from levity by t the procceds were devoted to charity—i H“”Q"“ of a free library in South Orange, N. ., that refuge of w York swelldom, The names of the who managed the klateh would ba mply the list of the th crowned heads of so , as_may be belioved from this half dozen: Mrs. W. W. Astor, Mrs. Cornels Vanderbilt, Mrs. L. P. , Mrs. C. V. S. Roosevelt, th Countess de Molke Hvitfeldt, M wallader B It was a brilly and successful oceasio Everybody who came . paid a déllar for the privilege and received in addition on a china cup and and all he or she could eat of cake and drink of coffee and t. There was a band in one of the great parlors that played Hungarian — dances, Vienna EN-KNOWS WHAT MARCHES with such persistence that hundreds of ladies and scores of men could chatter at the top ot their voices without being beard by those at the next table. The talk was limited by the natural but un- written laws of society to the occasion, 3 per cent; the tea and coffee, 2 per cent; dogs, 1 per cent; politics, 1 per cent; the South Orange library, 000 per cent; and one another 93 per cent. The oceasion and the tea and coffeo were discussed to- gether when the recent arrivals took re- freshments at one of the numerous tables where such ladies as Mrs. Wildmerding and Mrs. Eugene Kelly presided. Both were pronounced successful after this minner, Table girl in a splendid blue dress with a pink rosette to denote her temporarily menial service—""Will you have tea or coftee. Mrs, Blank?™? Elderly Mrs, Blank V ““Tearf you please and have it trong with one lump of ery successful, isnt'tit»” Table Girl—*"Just lovely. Cream?” Elderly Mrs. B.—-“Yes, I think we are to b d, don’t you? Thanks, this is very nice tea. Ishouldn’t wonder if we made a thousand dollars. Did you sce Mrs. Smithkins? She has her niece from Atlanta with her. Mr. Blank will be here soon, and I am just going to make him buy me a dozen of those lovely cups and saucers. That will be proper, considering it's for charity, won't it? tee hee?"’ HOW THE TALK RAN. And the balance of the 3 per cent of talk about the occasion was made up by an enthusiastic lady who had discovered that 500 tickets had been sold at the door in addition to the many hundreds sold by the managers on the days previous, and overcome with this intelligence she flit- ted about the halls imparting it to every one of her numerous acquaintance. Whenever two or three men found them- selves together they folded their arms and talked about the next presidential ecampaign, nodding lheirhoml‘s with som- bre gravity when they decided that the derocrats must nominate Cleveland, or that the republicans would have to choose between Biaine and Henry George. The 93 per cent. about one another cannot be even hinted at, but the discussion of dogs is worth preserving, 1t was a lady who might be considered as still young who began it. She entered the refreshment room from the corridor, and recognizing the lady in charge of the tabl the door, ran up to her and exclaimed vivaciously *Oh! 1 have just seen the lovliest dogs, two of them trotting along just as sweetly, and under the nicest” covers, to.” “Ah!” was the interested response, “but I don’t approve covers, you know. Only children should be covered.” There was some more in the same vein, but nothing further of importance in the recognition of canine qualities, or in the appareling of them for a Broad- way promenade was developed. I'could not help remembering as 1 watched the goings on of these very l-rn_nr,r people that the last time I was in he nssembly rooms, on the oceasion of the Arion ball, they were ocetipied by a very difierent cluss of pleasure seeker: the tables weve dripping with spilled wine, the air was thick with tobacco , and the women who graced the ne were more or less drunk. It was if a Salvini-Booth combination had de- cended upon the stage just quitted by a variety show, CraiA BELL, — Sensible Advice to Workingmen, American Catholic News: Working- ot there be justice all around. secking it for yourselves, do not y it to others. Do not attempt the impossible—to make every man believe aceording to your code. Uive others the right of opimon and free judgment. If a man does not believe us yoa do he is guilty of no offense, and never prevent a man from putting bread into his child's mouth, hecause in trying to. do so you are vielating the strongest law of human nature, signed, sealed and dehvered by God Himself, and engrayen .on every buman heart.. : SOME STEWART *SKELETONS” Adam Badean Uses His Rominiscant Bcalpel on a Family History. MILLIONS AND MAUSOLEUMS. The First Store and First Partner— ful Wife and Wealthy Widow Secretary of the Treasury =Their Old *“Clo's.” New York, March 9.—[Corre- spondence of the Bee.]—'The Lord shows what He thinks ot wealth by the people he gives 1t to,” says an Italian proverb. But some times the people earn it themselves, and even then, don’t know what to do with it. The “History of a Fortune” would be a good nime for a novel, of which A. T. Stewart shou!d be the hero, and his wife, or widow, rather the heroine; and Balzac never had char- acters more worthy of his sealpel or die- secting table. Since both are past all rthly feeling, and nothing remains of what was either, but their memor not even descendants--the reality perhaps, be laid bare, I can remember when the Washington hotel in New York was burned down on a Fourth of July, forty odd years ago. It stood on the site of what was afterward Stewart’s famous “Store,” on the corner of Broadway and Chambers streets, and when th ins were removed the already prosperous merchant erected the marble palace of trade, the prototype and foun- other palace he more than a quarter of a century in the Fifth avenue. It is needle of the lowly origin and small beginnings of the Scotch - Irish immigrant; or of the apple woman whom he looked upon as his mascotte, and whose stand followed his own, crossi Broadway with him, and remained for years undisturbed on the pavement fn front of his gr lishment, where wealth and fort scended from their carringes to dissipate fortunes and time. When I was o young with the son of STEWAL PARTNER, Frank Wi n, . liter: ateur who wrote play translated French novels, but I ellow- ance made him by his father. ‘The elder Warden member of Stewart's firm, who resided in Paris, and ordered French silks and French gloves for the great shop in Chambers street. In those days no one with pretensions to fashion could wear any gloves but Alexandre! and Stewart had a monopoly of ther sale in America, Warden had another son, who wus a fashionable aspirant, and in time achieved an entrance_into the most exclusive circles in New York; but his father first put him behind the counter in Stewart's establishment, where the fu- ture beau for awhile sold gloves to the belles he was avds destined to dance with er has_ since mar- ried into a noble family in England, and ay one day become a peeress, for the English think that wealth quite loses every taint of trade, ifit is amalgamated to the nobility. Young Warden was in society long be- fore A. I, Stewurt dreamed of becoming fashionable. When the wealthiest 1 mate merchant of our time be; build his stately structure on the corner of Thirty-fourth strect, he removed into the large mansion opposite, while the other was in progress; and I can remem- ber a woman bf fashion telling me that MK WART SAT DRESSED every day in her splendid parlor, expect- ing the exclusives of the neighborhood to call on her; but they never came. New York society never “‘took up” the Stew- though hundreds with no better pre- sions, and scores with less claim, have succeeded in that mysterious sphere. Stewart, himself, I fancy, never c: to be in fashionable life, except as an indi cation of his_success, and when 1 first knew them, Mrs. Ste t seemed entirely different to what ealls ‘society.’" I made their acquamtance when” Gen- eral Grant first visited New_York, after the close of th L war. Mr. Stewart had been staunchly loyal, liberal wi his wealth and his influence and his in the cause of the nnion, and he be one of Grant’s most devoted friends. The stand he took brought him into greater prominence, and first made him more than a great lesman, It showed him, indeed, in his largest aspect: for he was narrow in many things. The lack of early advantages were more ap) entin him than in many of the self-made men of Americ 1t was notonly that he had the true merchantspirit—that he was munificient with millions and mean about 2 penny; not so much that he showed the lack of scnolarship or deliciency in other acquirements; but there was a smallness about his ideas, a pettiness at times about his feeling, a lack of many sides of his character— all of which betrayed the life of application to business he had lead for more than forty years—so close indeed, that he had time for nothing else. And ffl it was this very life that resulted in his mammoth fortune and the importance and opportunities it gaye him. This for- tune and the patriotic course brought him into connection with General Grant, and thus made his name national. During the winter preceding Grant’s first inaugu- ration, I remember DINING AT STEWART'S HOU with the president elect, The company was composed exclusively of men, but of as much distinetion, socisl or personal, asone often meets under one roof in New York: Hamilton Fish, John Jacob Astor, Joseph Harper, Edwards Pierr- pont, Judge Daly, Judge Hilton, all were present, and others, perhaps, as emi- nent. ‘The table, of course, was sumptu- ous and all the uaccessories Mr. Stewart called attention especially to the Johannisberger wine of s pecial vintage, which, at the close of the dinner, was served by the thimbleful; he only brougnt it out, he said on extraor- dinary occasions; it had cost him thirty dollars a bottle. Nobody dreamed then that Mr. Stewart was to be appointed secretary of the treasury; but before the 4th of March the place was offered lum. ~ As the world nows he was appointed and confirmed, and then it was discovered that he was ineligible. A forgotten law prohibited anyone interested in imports from hold- ing the office of sccretary of the treasury. Stewart had been immensely gratified at the offer and was anxious to hold the post. He proposed to turn over his great business to trustees for the space of four years, the entire profits to be devoted to some Kubhc or charitable purpose in which he should cot be interested. But the device was insuflicient to obviate the difficulty, and unother secretary was ap- pointed in his stead. Thus STEWART LOST HIS CHANCE of becoming a statesmen. The president could find another secretary of the treas- ury, but Stewart had no other president to turn to. He beeame a plain dry goods’ man again, without pluce, or power, or public career. To be so near a great po- sition, and yet to lose it; to be appointed and confirmed, and even congratulated, to have madé his arrangements and doubtless, determined on Lis appoint- ments in advance and yet to be dashed down to private life, was hard. But be- sides this, Stewart thought that some of the importance or mfluence which had been offered him should have been al- dowed to remain. He even wanted to re- tain a litte of the patronage which might have been his, had he entered office. have, more than once seen men go out of government on friendly terms- with its chief; but after they left. they could not er and pesition they once secmed always to feel that they should possess somo of the official .lxrlvilm,:vs and relations they had enjoyed hefore, When this proved impracticable, their feelings were apt to change, and their friendship cooled. Something like this occurred with Stewact, I went out of the country in May, 1869, and returned in the next September, On arriving at New York [ went to Mr, Stewart'sgreat store, as I had been used to do before Grant was president, and spent an hour with him in private talk, I was amazed at the tone of his conversa- tion; he did not expect, he said, to_enjow the infleence he had once anticipated, but even the few favors he asked, had been withheld. The personal friends he had expected to advance were overlooked or their elaims belittled, if not ignored. JUDGE HILTON, his life-long nssociate and intimate, he had hoped would be appointed collector of New Y und a relative of his w he wanted made consul at | e cols lectorship was . ly to an- other, and inste his relative was offered Bordeaux. He wanted me to represent this to the government: But the government was made up; the ear- ringe was full; the train had started, and those who had not suce e in entering could hardly expect to bo treated like reg- ular prssengers, Stewart was out in the cold. He saw the president oceasionally after this, and entertained him when he came to New York; but their intimacy was at an end. Meanwhile his g house went on building. But he had lis superstitions and I was told he dreaded entering the mansion he had beguu, beeause of the fear that he would be the first to die after entering it. So the house was finished years before he could prevail on himself to take possession. It was furnished elaborately, but stood awaiting its master, who looked upon it fiom his dwelling on the opposite side of the anxious, yet unwilling to inhabit y structure that so resembled a foeget the po had held; the: of SURE PROFIT. dogs. Its strange lot, that of this modern rolling in wealth that he could yy: unditted by his simply habits education to relish the sumptuous s new life: with no children to his colossal fortune, or per- his i in person of fness, and unable to c to den 3 the two living—solitary one great house, and staring at the other, still grander, the years rolling by, till they were old people before they trod its lloors as inmates, Mrs, Stewart never seemed to have much influence with her husband. She added nothing to his importance; the children she had borne him all died vears before his alth became so er mous; and if their ma d life was free from scandal, it seemed to th who obsevved it, cold, cheerless, silent, in th iust of the midst of their magniticency Stewart it was said, NEVER ALLOWED HIS WIFE the command of money; and,surrounded by her splendor, she often unable to gratify some simple wish for the want of means. She had a few fine jewels, which she deco her plain person, and helped proelaim her husband’s mi lions,but her own nd e were ignored 1n the distribution of her income, or her allowance At last they established themselves in the marble monument, and within two years Mr, Stewart died. He left one grent y of & million to his triend and sociate in all his affairs, Judge Hilton, and several immense bequest: hyr spec objects—the cathedral at den City, the hotel for shop women, ete., but the bulk of his property, of probably FIFTY MILLIONS, —the largest fortune in personal estate that had ever been bequeathed in Amer- ican—he willed to his wife; the woman who had been stinted in her expenditures for seventy years. And then the double mockery began. A splendid mausoleum was erected for the millionaire’s remains, more magnificent than any ether on the continent; but before it was complete the bones of Dives were stolen from their temporary resting place. " The cathedral was finished, but whether he in whose memory 1t was built 1s placed beneath— whether the shrine is a sepulehre or a cenotaph—only one or two ha ever known. All the gold of California could erve the ashes of the dead from ion, and his very. wealth made ie less undisturbed in that last home, where the poorest ‘and humblest rth's unfortunates hope for repose. Then came the story of the estate. Judge Hilton had been Stewart’s most intimate friend tor twenty years, the companion of his daily lite, the confident, of his s . He had given up an im- vortant position on the bench to devote his Jife an<d labor to that intimacy. He was the man whom Stewart, in the prime of his days and the vigor of his intellect, sclected for thi lation doubt- less with the pledge of amply remuner- ating the lawyer and the friend who made the sacrifice. ~ Upon Stewart's death the remuneration eame. Not only a million as a legacy, but the executorship of u vast estate, was bequeathed to Hilton, and no one who had known the connec- tionof the men for u generation could have surprised. Mrs. Stewart shared the contidence which her husband reposed in Hilton. The intimacy be- tween them became greater than that be- tween Stewart and his legal friend. THE POOR OLD LADY, emancipated from the parsimony of her hushand, revelled now in such enjoy- ments as age still left possible. S -"uul few friends; sho could not, after seventy | h: years of comparative simplicity, begin life of fashionable frivolity; but a st d he It was found that ater thun even the ordy vanity of woman; a love of dress, whi had ‘been starved or stifled so long for ck of food or fuel, now burst out with positive fury, like the appetite of the aunished, when suddenly provided with profusion. Living in the midst of almost unpled wealth, she had yet be hibited from expending 1t as si red, and now, superannuated and decrepid, she indulged her feminine fancy for fine clothes! were of ineredible size and wardrobe rivalled that extent and quality; the rarest satins and laces were her ordinary ar. She is said to have decked her ancient frame in all the gauds of the jeweler and milliner and heirdresser, and stalked alone along the corridors in that empty house where ‘Who, without an years for ONE world. The very wigs and underwear of an old woman are to be hawked in the halls that were built to glorify her hus- band, and those other sacred things of sentiment and feeling and privat history flung broadeast into the muark place. Thisis a time when wealth is ipped more madly, they say, than before in history, but the httle that Ith ean accomplish or secure was never more notably manifest, Avam Bapeau. LARITIES, A Georgia hen distinguished herself the other day by laying two eggs at one time. o hundred pounds of wild honey y found in a hollow treenear Utica, In an orange grove near Apopka, F few days ago was found a pipe of n gold. A colt born near Ward, Ark., afew days ago came into this world without any fore- legs. Otherwise it is perfect. A cross-eved cat, one of the few known to be in e: nce, is owned by Mrs. George He- bard, of Hartford. The cat has a large bushy tail and double paws, e has never been able to catch a rat, but is fond of appropriat- ing the vietims of other cats, The farmers ot Alameda county, Cali- fornia, are trying to keep their crops from being totally destroyed by the ducks and geese by burning here and there candles, which are protected from the wind vy sacks. It is said the device works satisfactorily. Jim Arbuckle, of Missouri City, Mo.,thinks agreat deal of Tommy, his pet cat, who is able to talk a little and to hum “Sweet Vio- lets” in perfect time and tune. He can pro- nounce the words “yes” and “no” so as to be understood, and_ seems to comprenend ordinary questions that are addressed to him. Forty-nine years ago the father of Harrison Gilbert, of Chili, IIL, bought a two-year-old ony from the Indians. When thé war of lie rebetlion began the pony was twenty-five years old, but Mr, Gubert rode him all through the war. and neither was hurt, ‘The old fellow still lives, tenderly cared for. He n’t a tooth in his head, lives on n and b wiash, and is probably the oldest horse in Americ, if not in the world. Mr, J, K. Ritch at Sheflield’s mill, Bi Y1 his ”doe barking o ~istance ! [ from his house last week, but did not pay much attention to it ‘The next day the dog went to the same piace and commenced to bark again, when ' Mr. Ritehie went to see what was the matter. On reachinz the spot ne found a very large black snake wrapped firmly around a large hawk., They we both alive, but with a good stick Mr. R. soon Inid both out. It is supposed that the hawk stritek at the snake and failed to carry it off, it being so large. Last season while Mr. W. J. Wilbur and his' wen were pressing hay at Mr. Case's barn, south of Troy, N. Y., they found a live lien down about the middie of the mow next to the side of the barn, She must have been confined there over a year, as thers was no chiance tor her to get in or out of the piace where found and must have been covered up when the hay was put in the mow—over a Omaha and South Omaha. year before it was taken out for pressing, Che hen had tramped down a place larze enough to turn round and stand up in, and eighteen ezes were found in the hole’ with her, Bhe was very week and poor and died soon after being fed. The above is a tact that can be proved by several who were there when she was found, and it is a won- der how she could live overa year without anything to est, b AT e Ll At last death snatched her from her RELIGIOUS. fineries and Z . HER WARDROBE 18 TO BESOLD German evangelical dignitaries are form- at private auction. Not only her owns | ing a league against the increasing power of and her jewels, but the most secret por- | Rowe. tion of her attire, and the extravagancies Fifty thousand dollars has been given of her ancient vinity all are ) towards establishing a missionary bishopric ; while the wor}is of art lxu m Fijl. i SR which her husband aceumu Canon Farrar says that i dia picture of Napoleon that Meissonier ring::;:“".l,nru made 100 drunkards for one painted for him, the statues, and porce- | christian. At WO A ain and faence for which neither he M_Mn(l aulo "l\".5”.',’,'""'.,?‘."'“',”,'"“ ;::’1'!': nor his wife hud any real taste, but | & wift of ERKN fowar <78 boy's which were the appurtenances and | training A 4 s 5k i i The agents of the Bible society in Tokio, insignin of their wealth-nre to bo |y, 000 Siivebheen unable to meet the deuiand chaffered and bargained for, and eriti. | APt Fave SR AT cized and pronounced inferior and out of The Chinese branch of the Evanelical date, by the curious erowd. At the samo [ e Chinese brtcs b e ol By cr time the will ot the widow for the young emperor of China. puted by the heirs, and the great fortun Canon Basil Wilberforeo has been —the result of so many years toil, and od by the bishop of Winchester tor re; ¥ 3 . D patience, and effort and skill—is tossed aching in a Congregational chureh. into_the courts; all the scerets of the Berlin has lost apother of its ce her husband had beed afraid to live, and to which he had only come to die. Thus she lingered a few yeurs, unable to spend a tithe of her income, and devoting her last days to the study of fashionable attire and the mysteries of the toilet, neither of which could giye her charm or elegance to age which even youth had hardly enjoyed rities in family and the friends are to be exposed, the person of Dr.. Gustave Lisco, a famous and wade sport and study for the vulgar l protestant preacuer and theologian, who ‘ THOMASON & GOOS’ ADDITION Lies just south of Hlanscom Park,only 2 miles from the court house, on high and sightly ground. 176 beautiful residence lots. 27 1LOTS SOI.D, Events are shaping that will make these lots an investment 27 800 to $1,000 will Buy Lots Now, but one Year from Today You will Pay $1,800 $2,000 and $2,500 for Them Ten months_ago we told you there was big money in SOUTH OMAHa, property. You were skeptical and waited, and what did you miss? Some people say, "Oh! its all luck, this making moneys’ Luck to the oresight, Judgment and Send. These are the elements that go to make up the sum of prosperity. Take a square look at the case of Thomason & Goos’ addition, who own the 600 acres adjoining it on the south. A RICH AND POWERFUL SYNDICATE further effort, could peddle it out in the next two ILLION DOLLARS. Do you su{fi:ose they are Idiots enough to do this?, No! They will either bu CABLE LINE and realize three millions from it. TRAKHE & TUMBILKY to yourselves, do a little investigating and figuring and you will see that there are the ‘‘Greatest Bargains on Earth, in lots in'this “Key to . Remember that this choice suburban res- idence property, situated on the eyerlasting Hills, midway between two cities.that are tast closing in to one solid mighty metropolis. ild or subscribe to A M. A. UPTON & CO. son rine: sl I dogmas of christianity. Professor Creizhton has completed two more (making four) of the eigit volumes he ojected of his “History of the Papacy the Period of the Reformation,” ve been issued from the press of man, Green & Co., London, At the beginninz ot the year 1583, there were 2,795 ordained foreign missionaries in the world lay missionaries 0 wome 3,008 ordained native preg ers: 56,042 unordained native helpers and 802,028 native christians. The year's income of inissionary socleties was $10,571,102, An old chureh in Utieca, N. Y., which is s00n to be torn down, belongs to' a_society which was organized by the reformed Duteh in 1625 and chartered 43 o ongregation by William 111 in 169, The present building was erected in 1539, and during its erection a riot arose because Ay tarble was cut by Sing Sing convict ' “The present southorn tour of Re Hall and a similar tour to be male pr by the Rev. Dr. I L. Cuyler, are Ked y the Atianta Constitution to be in the in- térest of a union between the northern and southern branches of the Preshyterian chureh, to effect which an attempt Will be made at the next general assembly. “The idea of & theological sewmi Arbor, Mich,, long mooted b fons, has at last tak yterians ave making active p establishment. A s d to that end, and a w ed them ono of the besides giving them in will a fine house and lot adjoining. Fifty thousand dollars is to be raised in tho stat¢, of which $15,000 will he d for a building, Cardinal Jacoblni’s gifts as a politician rivaled his qualities as a churchman, He served the Hol brilliantly,ashis predecessor A ntonelli served during the pontificate of Pius IX. To his address and talents the present pope is large- ly indebted for the success of some of his most delicate diplomatic negotiations, At the time of his death Cardinal Jacobini had not completed his fifty-sey In person he was short and rotund. spirits were exceedingly lively, and in humor he was a mateh for Leo X111 himself. John ntly ‘paration lus been locations 1n EDUC Twenty-five thousand np[un]ln.;lwl to th bill which passed th 4 Dr. Waldstein i t Harvard a series of lectures on the “Various Intluences At- fecting the Development of @ reek Art.” Russia and Bulgaria are representod by one student tho post-graduate départ- ment year at the University o fght Catholie eolleges in the Unif adno two of themm have the sume cours tudios, or require the same attainments from their graduates. A careful statistician roports that there are in Ameriea 1,51 institutions devoted to higher education. Attending those are 55,570 male and 50,557 female students. ¢ meeting of the National Educational association, of Chic next July, proimises to be the largest educational gathering ever Ttis expected that 15,00 toachors will attendance. “MY Horton, a gradiade of the Bos- ton high school, has been elected and sworn in as recording clerk ot the OhLin state sen- ate. ‘This is the first timoe that a woman has been chosen for that position. ; In the Sandwich Islands all ehildren be- tween theaxes of six and filteen arc obliged to attend school. An inspeetor-gen- d of the scliool department, but no elergyman is eligible to fill the oflice, The Journal of Edueation, London, thinks vould be a puzzle to nwme twenty-three lishmen who know enough of the litera- tion to give any valuable adviee 0 a list of books teachers onght ir of the ¢ "Ises at Ith annive y of the ty §8 s00n to be noany, of Bos- ih anuiversary edi- “Harvard and its A substantial souy lebration of the ing of Harvard univer and Avery ¢ ton, in ¢ Y M tion” of Moses Surroundings.” Professor Matthew Brown Riddle, D. D., of the Blartford Theological ses 3 Jias been elected to the ehair of New Literature and Exegesis in the Theological seminary, in place of Warlield, who has gone to Princeton. The Yale News contains statistics as to the oceupation of the fathers of the fresh- men. It was found that me ts, I physicians and laborers sead the gr cent to the academic deparfent, while eral business wmen, manufacturers, baukers, King's See as faithfully. if not as | 1 $736,000,000 Pharcmacy Building, South Omaha and 1509 Farnam, Telephone 73 clergymen, teachers, and mechanics favor the scientific school, ‘The Boston Pilot estimates the number of children attending Catholic parochial schools in the United States at 600,000, of whom 500,000 are in the lower and 100,000 1 the higher grades. “Itis not rash to prediet,” it Says, at before the close of this decade the number of Catholie sehools in the United States will be doubied.” One of the most important of the annual assemblies of ed is that ot the “de- partment of superintendence” of *The Nas Lducation association.” which will e its recular meeting in Washington thé ‘The members of y, may besaid to include the leading educators connected with the public school system of the United States. Professor 8. A, Saxman, who had charge of the United States Government school at ing, Alas as drowned last Decembe C its, Southeastern Alaska. ts are dangerous in winter, but the pro- $50r set out to cross them in a canoe with two natives, A storm came on, which lasted several days. A search party the wrecked canoe, but no trace 8 pants, Prof an’s wi ow in San Francisco, She expects to be aprointed to the position that her husbas «, u3 she has had much experi e Proverbs Relating to Clouds, There ean be nodoubt that those who observe the clouds can make pretiy shrewd guesses as to the weather for the next twenty-four hou Proverbs re- lating to clouds are very numerous, and we give a few of those which are applic- able at this time of the ye: i sed clouds are yory hikely to be followeda by a gale of wine If the sky becomes ker, withe out much in and divides into two layers of clouds, expect sudden gusts of wind. Brassy- colored clouds in the west at sunset indicate wind, If you sec clonds goin geross wind,there storm in the When on drive over th side, storm and twenty-four hours 1f the clouds be of different heights, the sky being grayish ov dirty blue, with hardly any wind stirring, the wind, how- ever, changing from west to south, ex- pect a storm e i 3 clouds in the north in winter in- ching snow. day in winter a white ise in the south, expect . r days 1solated clouds uth from the rain-wind rain follow within i dicute appro; If on a fair bank of clouds snow. Small black clouds drifting from the southwest 1s a sign ot rain, if in winter the clouds appear fleccy, with a very blue sky, expect cold rain or SHOW. 1f clouds be dark "Lwill rain, do you hark? 1t clouds be bright, "Twill elear to-night. If a layer of thin clouds drive up from the uunhwu.l. and under other clouds moving more to tue south, expect fine weather. Clonds in the east obscuring the sun, te fair weather. 1t the sky beyond the clouds is blue, Be glad, there is a picnie for you If clouds at the same height drive up with the wind and gradually become thinner and descend, expect tine weather., Enough blue sky in the northwest to muke a Scotchman a jacket, is a sign of approaahing clear weather, When the clouds hang on the mountain side after a raun, and the sun shines on top of the mountains, the storm is over, PR The Precious Motals, Of the amount silver in existence £4,000,000,000 15 estimated to be in coin and bullion, $1,200,000,000 in watches,and the remainder in plate, jewelry, and or- naments. Of the amount of gold in ex- istence £4,745,000,000 is estimated to have been obtained from North Ametica, from Sonth Ameriea, $03,000,000 from Eurove, $17,000,000 from Africa, and $31,000,000 from Asia, in- welnding Austria, New Zeland, and Ocean- ca. ‘I'he amount of precious tuls inex istence 15 estimated 10 be §18,974,000,60(