Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 3, 1887, Page 12

} { GREAT CAS GENERATIONS Beientific Talk on the Illuminating Wells of Pennsylvania gnd Ohio, PALAEZOIC AGE PRODUCTIONS, Dakota's Love for the Fifticth Con- gress—A Conwtituent of the “Tall Sycamore''—Sunday Saloons at the Capital, WAsniNGToN, March 3L—[Correspond- ence of the Bk A few days ago | had & most interesting and instructive talk with Dr. A. Phinney, a well known geologist at Muncie, Ind., about the great natural gas fields of that section of country. The doctor has made a study of this subjeet, and what he sald will attract the attention of scientists inall places. Few people outside Ohio and Indiana have any idea of the extent of the Batural gas finds there and the excitement they have raised and the developments and improvements they are making. There is only one thing to question in all, and that is whether the supply will be exhausted in years of consumption. I asked Dr, Phinney what he thought about it, and he said: *It is reasonable to suppose that the supply will some time be exhausted. To belicve otherwise would be to shut one’s eyes to all past experienees, Leaving out of view the origin of the was, and admitting that the gen- eration of pas is still going on, it would not be likely that the production of gas in na- ture’s great laboratory is caking place with auything like the rapidity with which it is noW escaping from the thousands of open- ings made into the many reservoirs, It is obvious then that so s0on as the suppiy which has been stored away in the formations shall have become exhausted that th bply will fail. Where only a few wellsgive exit to the gas from a large reservoir the supply will probably prove practically inexiiaustible; but where hundreds and even thousands of wells are affording means of eseape we may expect the failure in the supply to come the “sooner. ‘I'he Venango vnd Bradtord oil distriets are now practicaliy exhausted, or soon will be, and it is the common experience that thesup- ply of oil is limited. It cannot be otherwise with the gas. The most noted gas field of Olio has hung out its danger sig- naland is weakening. The rock pressure in the first wells bored at Findlay was 450 pounds ver square inch. Now none exceed 400 pounds per square ineh. ‘I'he loss of fifty pounds rock pressure indicates that just so . much of the supply has been let out ‘of the reservoir, At Muncie. are no ind » tlow and 1 do not belie: is any danger of exhaustion ’l'ur many years,” ‘The rock pressure in the gas field T'here indiana, keeps up full. les: th Iasked the doctor if fle_thought the gen- on of gas was still going on. 0 answer that,” said he, 'L woula have to review all the theories regarding its pro- duction. Howevi s it is pretty generally conceded by those who have had ost experi- ence in the'study of the o1l and gas fields that these products of nature are derived from organic inatter, either vegetable or ani- mal, we may fely conclude that the process is in a great measuro completed, for many millions of years must have elapsed since it was stored away in the strata that were then forming. The sen weeds of fucoids are cellular “in structure, possessing no woody fibre, and it is to this class of our ancient vegetation, which was abundant dauring the Palaezoic age, that we must look for the source ot a very large portion of the gas and oil that we are burning to-day. An- other portion ot the limestone gas and ofl was undoubtedly formed from the soft parts of the animals that lived in the seas ot the early ages. The umount of animal matter in some of our limestones is almost beyond comprehension, In tact, the limestone strata are nothing but charnel-houses, as they are almost entirely built up from'the remains of what was once animated with life, The heat and light that we derive to-day from ¢as and oil and coal 18 but the sunshine of past ages stored away in an al- most invisible fluid—a repulsive hquid, a black and sooty casket, toawait the coming and serve the purposes of man.” Scientists in some parts of the country con- tend that natural gas is an evaporation of oil, and that it is carried underground from the oil fielas by means ot porous rock, and that therefore it can onlv be found where this porous transmitter exists. Of this theory hinney says: *This could hardly be the case where the reservoirs are in a different geological form- ations or widely-separated localities,. No doubt where the rock is very porous over an extensive area, that many wells may derive thelr supply from a comron reservofr, inde- ndent of anv joints or cracks in the strata. 'he gas is probably derived from either the rock in which we fin or from some of the underlying strata.” 1 “Have you any tear'that the supply will Tun “The citizens of Muncie belteve that they have in their five wells found suflicient na- tural gas to heat the homes and suprly fuel for a city of tifty or sixty th people, and there is abundance for ries. 4 belleve three million cubic feet pe a fair estimate of the actual tlow from our five wells. One well was tested and the open ure In a two-incen pipe was one pound. howed that the current of escaping a8 had a velocity of 445 feet per second, and & flow of 845720 cubic feet in twenty-four hours. The largest well at Muncle would auoq,bly give about 1,250,000 cubic feet per 8t week 1 visited the center of attrac- tion in the great natural gas beit of Indiana, I arrived at Muncie on a night train, and ‘was lnpressed with the excitement prevail- ing before I had fairly gotten within the city limits. Miles away from the eity the passen- began to look ahead atthe immense lumination—a great halo of light which ked like a metropolis ablaze. As thetrain came nearer the flaines trom the burning gas eould be distinctly seen, although wniles In the distance, Immense stand pipes, from iich flames of gas were shooting tifty feet in alr,could beseen in almost every direction. tops were removed frow the posts =m| hout the city where artiticial gas has b burned, the tips taken out and natural burning in roaring flames were every- re seen, The signt was panoramic and thrilling. P ¥ty An excitement kindred to that which ex- ists in mining camps on the frontier was found at Muncie. Last summer the city’s mulauon was scarcely 6,000, Now 7,200 is med. and scores of families are daily mul away unable to find tenement houses. conssquence 15 a building boom, an im us to nufacturing interests, and won tate speculations. This city w 1 real \ t Wwith cheap artificial gas—$1,50 per 1,000 cuble feet—but the city buildings and ~ wesidences, churches, manufactories, ete., are ~ actuall pplied frée gratis at this time, ie rivalry of gas companies. The owing to -—ln&pr{u fixed, but not collected, is ar for all a family can use for and {lluminating purposes, The it 3 ‘natu fln has also made the production of ght 50 cheap that they are furnished F’h month for éach incandescent light, operation continuously if desired. The inary stoves, furnaces, grates, etc., are wsed for heating with the natural gas. Fac- which employed two firemen and tons of coal or many cords of wood ly have discharged the tiremen and burn natural gas at five per cent former cost. and lime of the proper grade have been ind for glass manufacturing, and hundreds ‘thousands of acres of land are belns leased oll wells, A board of trade, building as- sociations, new banks and such enterprises ollowing the excitement, and the hotels are ~ are full of prospectors, Governor-elect A. 'C. Mellette, of the »State” of Dakota, has been in the city a few looking after legal business for people s country. He was asked if he thought ith Dakota would become a state by act of nt congress, and sald : [0, I have no hoves for anything for our eountry at the hands of the Fiftieth co . " Nordo I pelieve we will et state- during the prevalence of a democratic inistration, and gf will tell vou why, territorial legislature appropriutad ,500,000 the last winter for the support of nstitutions, Much money will also go the courts. Allof these are under the con- of the governor and president. It is not h:})mmned that the administration will this supply of rllmnnn-. The court are appointed from the states, aud are isonal friends of the presiaent. Those she territorial institutions are the friends the mvamnr nd some come from the Mt 't you soe what a superstructure builds up for the administration? It Isan influence for it in every state in union. In fact I do not recall many 3 B L T ep—— . .4 T i 1 ndirectly, staring us in the face we cannot hope for, lief, although it is our daily prayer.” “‘How about that ‘revolution’ in your terri- fory, that threat to fight your way into state- bodd If congress does 1ot invite you in?” “That is all fol-de-rol” replied the governor, with emphasis. *“That report was started vy an editor up in the northern part of the terri- tory, where nearly all of the few enemies to statehood are located. Lt was sent out by the regular state reports, and then the editor took it all back, said it was talse, but did not niake the correction in the press’ dispatches. It was a great wrong to the peaceable citizens, such as nine-tenths of our inhabitants are. No one thinks of fightlng that I know of, We are simply resigned to our fate: but there will be a (ln{ of rectitude, for we are sure to come into statehood sooner or late “Didn’t the liouse winter offer to take the whole territory 1n as a state?” “Itonly talked of it. But we had rather remain as we come in as a whole state, Our country is too large, even for two states, or a state and a_territory. To make it all one state, when there is little in the tvo sections homowenous one with the other would sim- ply be compounding our misery. No, sume we will be kept out, on purely politic grounds, till the other party gets in power. © s that same spirit of ‘immigration into and enterprise throughout the territory pre- vailing which existed a few years ago! “Yes, and in an increased form. More miles of railroad will be built there this sum- mer than have been built inany year in the past. ‘Towns are springing into_existence, cities are growing up from villages and towns, like magic, We expect an_enormous crop of wheat this year, and it is being put into the ground at this time like mad, Our srlng isopen. Ground has been under the plow for weeks, and the grass is growing in some sections, We are golng to prosper de- spite the refusal of congress to make a state tor us. Itseems that the prejudice against Dakota in the lower nhouse of congress on ac- count of our request for statehood strong that any and all kinds of legi is refused the territory. Measur purely non-political character, of gr terest to us loeally, are refused, 1 pi state,” because we want to ll.l;lt **e April 3 will be a very quiet day in Washington, ‘Uhe authorities have deter- mined to enforce the Sunday law, and two weeks ago bezan witha very good evidence of thieir [ntention to executd their work. Last Sunday wasa_Sunday indeed. There was an absence of the crowds around the restaur- ants, cafes and hotels, not to say saloons, and people who went to ehurch were not at- tracted by congregations of dudes and street hawkers. Washington is not a city of drunkenness, but ot genteel tippling and dram-drinking. At no place in the whole country do people ct 50 nearly s they wish, 1t is *‘resp as the term goes, to do almost thing one wishes ‘in full view. Men d women gn into and out of public drinking laces on Sunday—that is, they have been doing so—and” no one has stopped to call their attention to the im- :lnu]-ru'l)' of it, whether on a Sunday or other ay. [ast Sunday & number of the most popular restaurants took the blinds and screens away from their front doors and windows, so as to give a clear view into their establishments, and demonstrate that no business was being Special trouble was made to ything look all straight, while at the same time their cafes, on the upper floors were open for the ser of meals. There, however, liquid refreshments were sowe- times to be had. The Womans Christian Temperance union began this last work of having the Sun: laws enforced, and it looks as though will come as near succeeding as it is possible. ‘The same organization has also began a war- fare on the rank pictures displayed by eigar- ette, tobacco and cigar dealers, and are hav- ing them taken down by police order wher- OCALISTIC ~ VANDERBILTS, High-toned Trills in Public~The Astors, Progressive Euchre Style. SARAH'S SKELETON STOCKINGS. The Bernhardt's Make-up — Female Fencing—New Gough Wanted— Worshipping Actors—Clara Belle's Spicy Letter, New York, March 81.—[Correspond- ence of the Beg-]—There was a progres- sive euchre party at the luxurious resi- dence of the Waldorft' Astors this week, and it differed from ordinary occasions of the sortonly as one stone differs from another in effulgence. That is o say. everything was in a very high degree of good taste and unstrained luxury. The thing worth mentioning especially was the introduction of a new method of registering the won games. It 1s an awful fact to be set down against the moral sense of fashionable women, that they have small conception of hon- est gambling, even though the stakes be trophies of victory more beautiful than valuable, and the place be the politest immaginable varlor. They will usunlly cheat whenever and however they get a chance. The pleasures of pro- gressive euchre, as you doubtles: ve experienced, are too otten marred by b n dishon The women will beg ribbons or tags or whatever serves to mark the number of games won, and the susceptible men will accede; and so it often happens that the ablest wheedler comes out a first-prize winner against better and luckier players. Well, at the Astor party o simple preventive of cheating was provided 1 aset of punches. One of these cut a round hole in a card for ordinary games won: another re- corded a victory at the head table with a crescent, while a third made s clips for the booby table. The punching was done by the hostess and so each con- testant's card was an unalterable regis- try. e A VANDERBILT VOCALIS T, While much ado is being made about the nothings of Mrs, Jumes Brown Pot- age debut, the appearance of Mrs, ed Vanderbilt'as a public vocalist has been overlooked. But it was not osten tatiously done, and it was not meant as the beginning of a foot-light carcer. The ladies of the family are thoroughly in- stea in charities. Bishop Potter tells t, collectively, they do not dis- > less than a million a year, not taking into account the several heavy endowments of institutions that the Vanderbilts have made. It will be ofno use for any reader of this fact to forward begging letters to them, because they give only to such causes as they person- ally know all about, and pay no attention to solicitations from strangers. Mrs. ever found, All pictures showing figures are being ordered out of the stores. e Oceasionally senators and representatives are very much bored by the verdancy of the men who come here to seek oftic who command their _attention by virtue of being constituents. The statesmen are compelled to 2o about through the departments and to the white house, introducing their verdant constituents who want office, and thelr re- marks and acts frequently bring the blush of shame to their faces. Fred Vanderbilt's pet benevolence sewing school for poor girls, Over in Stanton street, which runs through the thickest tenement district of town, she maintains a house wherein girls are wel- come to the services of competent needle- women, and where they can lit them- selves for domestic sewing or work shop It was here that_she sang. She gav mu entertainment tor the pupil their mothers and o score of invited Senator Voorhees was recently a vietim. A very old fashioned and verdant man from one of the southern counties of Indiana came to Washington for an oftice. e preferred a consulate, and soon had his heart fixed upon a snug little position in England. The sen- ator one morning went with the verdant constituent to the department of state to see Assistant Secretary Porter, who has charge of the consulates. " When the pair got into the elevator the old gentleman drew out his purse and asked the elevator boy how much the fare was. “Not a cent,” rarned the youth. *Oh, don’t say that,” remarked the office seeker, in a moment of generosity, “‘simply because you have a senator aboard. Now, don’t propose to let Mr. Voorhees have to shoulder this fare,”” and he Insisted upon the R:\ylllent till the Indiana senator impressed im with the fact that no fare was charged upon elevators for the public convenience. After the Hoosier had been formally pre- sented to Assistant Secretary Porter he per- sistently blew his own horn and cried his own virtues to the exclusion of the senator, who was there to do that same thing mod- estly. Finally Governor Porter sized up h applicant and frankly said that no more con- sulates could go to the state or Indiana. The last two which were given to that state,” said he, *‘were simply crowded in.” For full half a minute the dazed Hoosier offica-seeker stood as it transtixea and looked hard into the face of the assistant sec- retary. Then, as if awakening from a rev- erie, he turned to Senator Voorhees, and said: “Well, what next?” So frighttul was the utterance that both the senator and assistantsecretary burst into laughter, which the former brushed aside by telling a story. “That reminds me,” said Senator Voor- hees, “'of an incident which came under my personal notice in connection with the law practice of Abraham Lincoln, 1 was pres- ent when the judge instructed the juryina ease in which Mr. Lincoln appeared, and 1t so happened that the court was compelled to in- struct for a_finding, based uvon the law, against Mr. Lincoln’s sidi l'he instruction of the jm‘z was so explicit that 1t had noth- ing to do but return a verdict against Mr. Lincoln’s client without leaving the jury- box. When the verdict was delivered ‘it dazed the client, and as soon as he could get hls| bnlnth he turned to Mr. Lincoln and in- uired: % “'Well, what next?” Promptly Mr. Lincoln replied: *We will o down to the tavern and curse the judge.” **It occurs to me that there is nothing left for us to do but go down to the hotel and kick ourselves and try our luck at denounc- ing the judee.”” PeRrrY S, HEATH. i A New York Scandal, NEW York, April 2,—|Special Telegram to the BrE.|—After three years sensational litigation, the supreme court has granted Edith Desikier Allen an absolute divorce from Col, Vanderbilt Allen on the ground that he has been guilty of marital infidelity. ‘The custody of their little daughter, Edith Bladys Allen is given to her and sufficient allimony added to her income of $1,400a year to nuwmn herself and daughter ina manner of lite to which she has been accus - tomed. Colonel Allen is the erandson of Commodore Vanderbilt, a banker at 5 tthe Union and 1t forty-five Pointin 183, New strect and some uther ol years old, a «ra He served un 1 Sheri- Coank ot t ' o him spieuo 1 in com- any with Ge ivice of he Lhediv e s m the order of Medj.die. 11 o [ . Tele- gram to the Prp Latively stated at the New Yok ) that a syudicate of its wenibirs | tormed to build u yacht to compete with the Boston boats for the honor of siiling against the Scoteh eutter Thistle in October next in de- feuse of th ‘s cup. She isto be de- signed by a N Y ul is to be built in this city or l hood. Utica's Canue © hicken, NEW YOREK, April 2. - Speeial Uelegram tothe BER. | -1t 1s chaiged by the Utiea ress that the business of slaughtering ealves rom one hour to three days old is exten- sively carried on in Herkimer county. ‘They are then .m“wtowu city and put up as cauned chickens friends, The emblage was ex- ciusively feminine, even to the per- formers. Songs were sung, different in- struments were pli and refreshments were afterwards sery Mrs. Vandel bilt sang ‘‘Coming Through the Ry and “Annie Laurie” very sweetly in- deed, and to tumultuous applause. Sxquisite audiences are apt to be more critical of its own members, sometimes, than of the persons at the other side of the footlights. This was at an amateur concert: “This is insufferable,” whispered a womun to another. ), Ithought the singing was rather clever,” was the reply. “I didn't refer to the performance,” the first explained, “*but to the obnoxious people around us. There’s a girl with dreadfully inharmonious green and purple in herhat. Over this way is a horror of a misfit in bodices. And “yon- der, see that delicate pink satin “just killed by the red of the hair that hangs down it.” Who shall say that taste isnot exacting at amateur entertainments. FENCING FEMALES. Our very modest girls, of the set which gives itself up considerably to physical sports, has really gone into fencing spiritedly. Although no_longer of value for 1ts original purpose, fencing will ever remain unequalled among manly sports asun exercise developing quick move- ment, erect carriage, graceful posture and complete accord of cye hand and foot. It can never again be vopular with the select few and espe- cially by those who thinking themselves better than their fellows, wish to be pecu- liar in their sports as in _everything else. Failure to appreciate the fact has led several swordsmen to waste time, labor and money in futile attempts to enlist opular sympathy and obtain support rom the = general public but these misguided professors have one after another been starved out and relogated to other methods of gaining a livelihood and our exisung enci masters adopt more sensible methods—do not try to thrust their game down the throats of people who do not understand or appreciate it, but rather cater only to the chosen few, avoid pub- licity and make th school exclusive and expensive; managed i they can live and do live. its public or semi-pub academies New York city has a fencing club whose mem- bership will include the name of many fashionable women, which has its own building, its own professor, and occa- sionally give private entertainments open only to invited guests, The ladies who accepted these invitations and enjoyed the sport were quick to see that this was above all and the game it exercised most suited to women—a tonie for both body and mind-—a panacea for all sorts of complaints—a sport whose practice was not only enjoyable, but ex- tremely fascinating, "and whose result gave roses to the cf , fire to the vye supploness to the joints, strength and litheness to the limbs, dignity to the car- rinfe, gracefulness to every movement— n fact, almost uvcrfll\ing which is lack- ing in the vhysical development of the uverage American woman. And these ladies one by one found some fencing school, procured clothing wh while both neat and modest, allowed full play to all the muscles, and are to-day the most attentive and most enthusiastic pupils in all our schools. TUXEDO BLACK BALLS, Tuxedo is a question with our richest and most fashionable folks. Shall they affect it during the coming season? It is a contradiction. While it is “exclusive,” in that sense of the abused word which implies a rigid consideration of the social quality of applicants for admission, it is also u place for blazing publicity, where the visitors pose for exhibition to all the world. ‘The Astors have sanctioned it to the extent of building a house thera—a curious structure, grotesquely pictur- esque, in which they will ‘thm awhile when the season opens. On the other hand, several families of less familiarity to fame, but who are far more carefully adverse to the gaze of the multitudes, bave changed their wuuds- about resort- NDAY APRITL, ] 1887.~“TWELVE PAGE = e st OWING TO AN UNEXPECTED INCREASE IN THE SALES OF WALL PAPER Especially of the 10¢, 12 1:2¢ and 15¢ Pattern, we have deemed it necessary to send du, plicate orders to the factories inorder to keep up a well assorted stock. We advise everybody to select at once, and appointa day for papering, as we will have an immense rush. You can buy your —==Room Mouldins Right here. Over 75 patterns to select from: from 3c per foot upwards. we invite the ladies to see our display of LINCRUSTA WALTONS, HENRY LERMAN, et more will be said hereafter. - Next week of which Between 15th & 16th, North side. SPRING BULLETIN For this week we offer the following: A splendidly gotten up Spring overcoat, silk faced, for $10,which cannot be purchased else where at less than $14 A fine worsted Spring Overcoat, satin faced, for $12. Equal to any tailor made garment to cost $25. A fine worsted Spring Overcoat, satin faced, for % Before purchasing, a call and an examination fit and complete Equal toany tailor made garment to cost 35 Light and medium weight Suits at 5, $7.50, 49.00, 410, 50, 14, %15, $17.50, &1¢ , $20, % .50 and $25, any of which we will guarantee cannot be duplicated elsewhere for 20 to 30 per cent more money than we ask. satisfaction would save you money, and we guarantee The New York and Omaha Clothing Company 1308 FARNAM STRERET Men'’s and Boys’ Clothiers, Furnishers and Hatters. ing to Tuxedo, with its rapid life, an- dacious sports and general showiness, At all events there is to be a club-like tem this year of voting on new member- ships, and a_single black ball cast in a committee of ten will mean that the can- didate isn't good enough for Tuxedo. SARAH'S MAKE-UP. Sarah Bernhardt and her costumes are answerable for much female ugliness in New York at present. ' There is a material difference, as well'as a_differ- ence of material, in the make-up of Sarah and the American women—the same dif- ference that there is in an umbrella shut and an umbrella open. Sarah, who could chalk her head and play as a billiard | cue, or braid her limbs and puss for a , is much given to fluffy trimmings, ruchings, puffings and masses of lace and layers of rufles. The ordinary, every-day *‘Yank’ has something more than a vertebral column on which to hang her frocks, and directly she goes to copying Bernhardt's cos- tumes she is wrecked. The advice that Worth, the man_milliner, gave to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is good now as the day he gave it. Mrs. Lincoln had a figure like Mrs. Gamp, but she concluded that Worth should make her some dress- es; so she sent her photograph,a diagram of her prominent places, a map of her boundaries and princical annexations, with a few minor details to the famous woman-maker. That worthy studiced his instructions and rendered this verdict: “Ican do no more for madame than the American modiste. It is with bone- bones I produce the great effect. Abjure all trimmings that are not flat, and avoid all garments thatare not dark.” Sarah wore, the first week of her en- gagement here, a mauve surah, opening over loose loops of lace. Straps of vio- let velvet banded this mass down, and there a glimpse of the great actress’ clavicles gleamed and glinted through. An ample lady in the same hotel saw thi own, and determined to reproduce it. She had a dress made like the great tra- gedienne's, but 1t lacked the soft, cling- ing appearance of Sarah's robe, and a friend suggested that the fault lay in the corsets, ernhardt wears no cors +Of corsets that,” said the plump one, and off hers came. She had been wear- ing that gown up and down the corridors of the hotel and making what the Eng- lish chamber-maid calls, *'An 'oly 'orror hof 'erself;” for between the confining straps there are a series of bulges that spoak well for the cuisine of the estab- lishment. SKELETON STOCKINGS, But perhaps Madame Addie Pose is better off than Miss Emma Ciated, who lately went to a constructorof hosiery for the theatr rofession. “‘Yousee,” ex- plained Miss Emma, to the attendant, I am very slender and the present f: of tying back the skirts so tightly at all becoming to me." The clerk inilud to understand, and suggested that she was in s pair of symetrics, by which stockings of valsity are known. ¥ she said when shown these articles, " 'they would not alter my afileting case at all.’ So the forewoman was called, and iu the recesses of an innerupartment Emma confessed it was her knees that gave her #0 much trouble. When she sat down with tightly wrapped, clinging drapery pulled “over them they stuck out ike knobs on doors. So the costumer is weaving a pair of stockings to be worn under all her others—a sort of skeleton stocking, that hus a stirrup instead of a foot, is filmy about the aukles, but by graduated lumps of Iken tloss gets gracefully bulgin While the sharp knee cap of poor Emma will be securely packed awayin a bed of padding, on which the most fashionable skirt can be stretched without the angularity that has darkened her fashionable season. A NEW GOUGII WANTED. f *I don't imagine women are greatly in- terested in high license,” said a preju- diced observer. “‘She must be a noodle who believes a stop can be put to a man’s drink, and the wise ones know that the heuviest and most disastrous drinking is done in the drug store If every cabi- net-decorated, stained-glass whisky mill mn New York wasshut up the injury done by aleoholic liquors would be ten times as great. Men wou.d patronize the apothecary, and under cover of the med- ical cloak fill drunkards’ graves.” Some of the intense temperance veople are holding meetings and trying to discover anew Gough. They thought they had found him in a pale, intellectual young man, who arose in an up-town church. He was a sad-eyed, meck chap, with a clear, full voice, and he began by saying that he felt impelled to relate his experien For years he had been the sluve of the bottle—for vears he had been under its thrall. He svoke almost with tears of his complete prostration. His mother’s prayers had risen countl times from beside a b where he lay utterly incapable of speech or locomo- tion. ~His auditors wept. He deseribed adual es from the bottle—now his manhoond asserted itself. He burst the bonds that bound him to the terrible bottle. The audience gave vent to great rejoicing. After a glowing peroration, the speaker sat down, and th sters pressed up and shook him by the hand, while the elders glowed with enthusiasm. But cven while the excitement of this thrilling speech was upon them, the pallid man rose and said he might as well mention that the reign of the bottle was during his first ‘ ar of life, and it was always filled with milk, Temper- ance meetings don't like sclls, and the meek speaker was hustled out in a hurry. while the congregation were requested to sing Sparkling and bright in it liquid light, Is the water in our glasses. WORSHIPPING ACTORS. Stories of nctor-worship by senscless New York girls are not 5o numerous now- X s as they were a few years ago. Perhaps that is because the proper ma- al 18 less abundant. But there 1sa great deal of idiotic female adoration running to te over Kyrle Bellew, of Wallack' d its extent would hardly be believed by people who have become incredulous of this sort of gossip. Bel- lew is far from handsome, and yet this is the actual form of a silly young girl's order for seats at Wallack’s box oflice recently: “Are you quite sure Ker-le Bell-you wili act’ next wrday after- noon? Well, you may give me two s and [ positively won't take them unl they are down near the boxes, beeause 1 always have a bunch of flowers to throw at his feet, and I think he is lovely!"’ The words were overhe and they are not in the least distc Boston museum is, so I am told, the W lack’s of the Hub in this strunge respect Its matinees have alw been attended lurgely by girls. Years ago that hand- sonie blonde, Charies A. Stevenson, w their 1deal, and there was some excuse for them, becau his insouciunt bezring was an artistic study. After he went away, married Kate "Claxton, and b , he was succeeded in the came portl beurts by Jack Mason, a Boston girl: | good-looking young man, whose drawling elocution and generally tire movements were accepted as artistic by the Boston fair sex, and he was thoroughly adored. If he seemed sleepy on the stage occa- sionally, romance was added to his per- sonality, and when he and Sadie Marti- not began to play sentimental roles with a great deal of genuine fervor, the mati- nee gossipers were wild with excitement. It must have been a shock to female Bos- ton to know that Mason had never suc- ceeded in attracting similar attention. though he has had good opportunities. Joseph Haworth was at the museum with Mason, and for a time, he too, was in high feminine favor. But he got to doing hard and vigorous work, and he soon ceased to be a ladies’ actor. CLARA BELLE. e Jackson's Duel with Dickinson. In a paper in the Seuthern Bivouao for April, the following conversation between General Harding and General Andrew S on, relative to Jackson’s duel with Dickinson is given: “In conversation with General J son one day I said: ‘General, is a brave man ever frightencd? **I con't know that 1 answer that question. “The world accords you as much br: Z m competent 1o eneral, ‘T y fright- gentleman ought ever to be.’ “I said, "I presume that was in some of your Indian tights?’ LN d he, ‘it was when I went on the field with Dickinson. I knew him to be a cool, brave, determined man, uni the best shot I ever saw, and I never ex- rected to leave the field alive. Iowe my [i(u to the fashion of the day—the full- breasted coat. This and the iliar conformation of my much-sunk were that saved me. Dic bullet struck what appeared to be the center of my body under the nght arm, and the ball grazed my breastbone. 1 had gone upon the field deternined not to fire at Dickinson, but to discharge my pistol in the air, having no ground of quarrel with nhim, and not wishing to hurt a hair of his head. My quarrel was with his father:in-law rving but when 1 felt myself shot, under the impression at 1 had ved a mortal wound and marting under this belief and the phys- ical puin, I tired the fatal shot, and no act of my life have I ever regretted so much t nder the conditions ot the meeting we had a right to reserve the five, because Tknew that Dickinson could shoot so | much more quickly than T could. 1t has | been asserted in the publie prints,” said Old Hickory, ‘that I advanced on Dick- inson to defver my shot and that he gave back, both of which statements are fa sir. Istood in my place when I fired and Dickinsen remained in his, receiving my shot like a cool, brave maias he T VRED eneral Harding said ew, which the I had with Juckson, the latter said to him 'he world is greatly mistaken about my haying an ungovernable temper. 1 never gave an exhibition of my temper without my judgment approved it. | sometimes found it necessary even to prevent the shedding of blood.” " at this same in- the | - The Wolf Arson case 15 still nlm'_’;i{in)( its weary length along in Justice Berka's comt. Yesterday was chiefly oécupi in attempts to impeach the testimony of wiingsses for the prosecution, Chiness Piracy. Piracy on the high seas is now, for- tunately, a erime long since dead among European cities. We must go back to the early period of Marryat and Cooper if we desire to know of the atrocities and miquities committed by the hordes of lawless ruflians who used to infest the sea at the beginning of the present cen- tury and carry on their merciless busi- ness of butchery and plunder. Our cthren in the Celestial empire, how- ever, are slow to remove evils, and pi- racy with them seems to die hard. Re- ports oceasionally reach this country of some Kuropeen vessel being attacked in Chinese waters by the natives; but for- tunately, g to the extreme coward- , O ice usually displayed by the attacking party, these attempted depredations do not often lead to any serious result. The China sea is, principally, the happy hunting ground of these dastartly pirates; and nature seems to have mfi pted 1t epecially for thut particular purpose, Lhe China sea is, in many places, exceedingly shallow; strong currents sweep along its course while numerous islands, with wooded creeks, dotted here and there, af- ford cavital shelter and points of observa- tion for piratical junks to be in ambush until some_unsuspecting merchantman shall heave in sight. Vessels in travers- ing these se except during the season of the monsoons, have often to contend against dead headwinds or calms that last for days and days. During these seriods sailing ships have frequently, if in proximity to land, to cast anchor to prevent being carried ashore by the vari- our awift and-conflicting ourrents, and a6 such times present capital opportunities for the marauders of the seasto carry out their nefarious designs. Although as the Chine rate is, as & rule, a most abject coward where peans are concerned, he is, at le capable of striking terror into the hear of his countrymen; and a couple of pirate junks, mounting but a single two- pounder gun between them, have been known to blockade s port of four thou- sand inhabitants, and to plunder every sh that pas In_ another case a pirate gang of five hundred, who yielded to a rush of twenty or thirty blue jackets, had previously defied n native force of one thousand” five hundred troops and forty war junks Directly, however, a small gunboat, manned by Europeans, appeared upon the scene, their career was at an end, Chinese piracy is, at times, almost & busine: A pirate’ merchant, in the wholesule way, will infest certain villages on the seaboard or slands, He will keep fifteen or twenty junks, with a corr sponding retinue of ruflians, and when he has secured his plunder he stores it in safety, A pirate in a small way of busi- ness, having onee made a good haul, will divide the spoil, o hen his followers immediately dispe tack from another gang. The old saying of “dog eat dog” applies with striking force to the transactions of these plun- derers of the China sea. . B Nature usually makes a gallant fizht against disease, and when helped by Dr, J.H. McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Puritier will eradicate 1t from the system Dol el Robert Browning, who for twenty years has lived with his sister in War- wick Crese ayswater, has bought a house in De Gardens, Kensington, sud will occupy 1t two months hence,