Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1887, Page 12

MAE. PATTI'S INCONSISTENCY. A Qostame of Beventy Ycars Ago Adorns # Bustle of the Present Day. BACRELIGIOUS STARING, Hospital Aasoclation Festival—The Woman in the Bux—An Abbrevi- ated Skirt—Domesticity at Sea ~Clara Bell v York, April 21.—[Correspond- enco of the Bek.]—The newest affecta- tion of the Fifth avenue girlsis called the baby stare. It takes the place of the roguish glunce and the shy droop. The operator of a pair of eyes opens them to their widest, tixes them directly upon a man, or any other object.and calmly keeps thewn there so0 a8 long as circumstances permit. Neither ogle nor wink is recog- by the cool orbs thus employed in the infantile aot. They seem aware of nothing beyond the merely ocular mani- festauon. It is & curious freak. this baby stare, and 1t puzzled all observers for a week ar two, until it became com- paratively common among the very swell maidens of the Hill, The most remarkable foinine staring has been lately done in the church of the Rev. Dr. Heber Newton, whose ad- vanced doctrines have geveral times brought him into fanous collision with his Episcopolian bishop, but whose con- gregation was formerly more intellec- tual than modish, But fashionable girl strangers become more numerous from Sunday to Sunday, and these visitors sweetly requested the ushers to seat them in tie gallery. The reason was simple and silly. Courtice Pounds, a pretty tenor of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, is an alluri the choir, and the girls desired to turn their BABY STARES ON HIM as he sang. The pustor has put_a stop to that sucrihgious sort of adoration, how- ever, by issuing an order to admit no outside girl to the gallery, except as the &nest of some pew owner. ‘The irmnly observed vocalist is Patti, whose Carmgn is something of a relief to those who have been accustomed to her in other roles. She wears no dresses with immensely 1 rains, which have to be swung and kicked into recumbent, retro- gressive submission. I noticed that the meu in the audience were not unmind- ful of the fact, and viewed the adoption of an abbreviated skirt with true operatic interest. And yet it was simply a walk- ing dress, and when in repose” gave no more thau a reasonable suggestion of the div I am inclined to think shat the superficial masculine observer woulid have said, that Patti dressed with refer- ence solely to the natural demand of the role. As the cigarette maker in the first act THE COLORS OF HER COSTUME were chosen with the nicest taste, and the fit of the dress to her tigure was per- fection; but nevertheless it was in violent contrast to the commoner costumes worn by the chorus women, who were sup- vosed to be her associates in the factory. ‘The same geueral effect was maintained in the gypsy scene. The star never shining to the superficial obseryer bfl the undue brilliancy of her clothing. ButI think U may be allowed the claim of looking dcul:er than the mere surface of dress, and the first giance at the diva led me to consult my libretto. The first ine of the introduction was this: “The action of the opera takes place in 1820."" And yet underneath the Spanish exterior of Patti’s 1820 costume I detected the l:mwnco of ufully developad 1887 Parisian ustle. And the same bustle, or one just like 1t, extended the grace of Patti’s form beyond nature's limits when she donned o gypsy drass. Kor my part, I think that this costuming was eminently proper. Hang anachronism? One must look as attractive as possible when so much de- pends upon it in public life. The fact that Patti was sing a role new to her made it an ullra-fashionable event, and every wealthy body felt bound to go. Among them was the wife an out- of-town millionaire. She came near making a bigger sensation than Patti herself, and for a time at least eclipsed the diva. She came twenty minutes late. Her box was next that occupled by the Astor's, and therefore in a position to show off its occupants to the best advant- e. When this lady came into view, she had on a gorgeous crimson wrap, the fhshing brilliancy of which it would be diflicult to equal. She was evidently not aware that there is an ante room to each box provided for the special purpose of removing wraps, and putting the finish- * ing touches to one's toilet, before enter- jng the auditorium. Or, perhaps, she knaw this, and 1ignored it, and adopted her extraordinary coursein order to seen of all. It secrs hardly probable that she should be deliberately so ridiculous, but the effect was the same. With her bril- liant wrap over her shoulders on which poisea a head that ran over with short curls of the blondest blonde, she MARCHED INTO THE BOX and proceeded rapidly to the very front rail. There she paused a moment and surveyed the house and the stage with an expression of haughty interest. Then she took off her wrap, and n so doing she throw her arms out wide on either side, and flourished them, and the wrap with them, until it seemed as if she were waiving a_crimson flag at a passive bull. The attention of everybody in the house was directed to her, though there could be few who were not astenished observ- ers of her dramatic entrance. Her es- cort, a pale slender young man, hastened to take her wrap and retire it to the ante room, but that did not end the show. Up to this moment the lady had been stand- ing, looking, coldly about the house alf the time, and now she sat down with an extravant swaying of her body, intended to brin, her tourn- ure nto safe bearing, and then frightful to relate, produced from some- where a pair of long gloves, twenty but- toners, and deliberately put them on. In so0 doing she stretched her arm vigor- ously to its full length, with many a wry 1ook as the gloves pulled on hard, and buttoned. buttoned, one after another, until her costume was thus far complete. ‘I'he house looked op 1n amusement, but the lady, far from being disconcerted, actually scemed to enjoy its It took more than ten minutes for her to prepare to attend to the opera, and then the curtalm wont down on the first act, pnd all through the lobbies, and in the boxes and the orchestra chairs, this extraordinary hehavior was more discussed than the performance of Patti. [he femine section of tall society gave an Easter fote in aid of the Hospital and Prison association at Delmonico's. Tick- ets of admission cost 2 each. The fete was held in the ball room, in which flow- ers were sold, nne inthe little rooms ad- oining ice cream ,and coftee were to be ught. There was musie in the balcony, but nobody minded that because it was made b;x stringed instruments and was not loud enough to intortere with conver- sation. Three hundred and sixty women and fourteen men bought tickets and went to the fote. A lot of men bought tickets and didn't go. There was great :drnuil{ of t&)lnlon among the waumn concerning the proper costume be wora u| such an occasion, Some ap* veared in stroet dress with cloaks and ALL MANNER OF OUTSIDE WRAPS. and kept their wraps on. One young woman had a red and blaek rig that wottld bave done very well at a fancy Aress ball, A large ‘triangular absence -5‘ portion of the quartet in | t THE OMAHA DAILY BEE of clothing on her back exposed her shonlders and most of her spine. She had a mole too, although it was pretty well down below her shoulder blades and cbuld have been concealed easily. A lady behind one of the booths seemeod to have made a mistake and put on the tri- angular cut bodice a wrong side to. The mistake was partially concealed by a bit of lace and some powder. Everybody walked around the room and chattered, and when each one had bought a flower and put it in her dress, there was aothing more to be done at the booths, und the ladies behind them joined in the general clack of tongues, Mrs. Pargn Stevens came in, walked througlr the crowd at one side of the room and took refuze behind a cake stand in the corntr. She remmned there, talking with people and looking at the crowd from under her heavy eye- lids, Two very distinguished leaders of society entered and were greeted by the managers ot the fete. They were on the, list of patron- esses, A table was brotight out and sct in the middle of the hall for the two pa- tronesses, and coffee was served to them there he table was in everybody's way and so were the patronesses, but the middie of the hall was the best place to sit and be seen, When the peoplo tired of the guy rev. elry of walking about, they stood still, ahd when they tired of standingstill they moved about and collided with each other. They didn't tire of talking, and so they didn’t stop that at all. There was noth- ing else to do except to listen to the music, and nobody did that One of the fourteen men had gray hair, a very red face and a single eye glass. He wandered about alone in solemn si- lence and had a joyous time. It was a society affair and he was discharging his duty 'by showing himself. The other thirteen were very subdued and kept in the corners. Some of them were aquite pretty and talked all the tim of them seemed either frightened or frightfully bored. 1t was intended to have some dancing, but when everybody was there the floor was too crowded, and when the floor was available the men had escaped. The fete lasted throe hours and was a great social success. “The great deuteronermy is com menced,” gaid Mrs. Jimmerson, (she was referring to the summer exodus from New York), “‘and we aro all interested in pacifics for sea sickness.” A pacific for the Atlanti something much needed in this day and generation. Every one going to sea has a theory, and usually some panacen, for the woes of mal do mer; but along about Barnegat light house they throw up all idea of cure and just submit to fate. Under no circum- stances, perhaps, do we sce so much of the resources, the churacter, and the inner nature of our friends as at sea. They get past dissimulation. The petty hypocracies of life seem to get beyond their reach. A man may live twenty years ON LAND WITH HIS WIFE, and get really introduced to her the sec- ond day at sea. A woman may view tho head of her husband opposite her seat at table, and on the adjoining pillow, -for ‘‘yeahs and yeahs.'” as Mrs. Fiorence says, but she confronts tho real ichabod for the first time when he turns his de- spairing gaze toward her from over the rail of an ocean steamer. Un an_ontgo- ing vessel there was a floating hospital of these sufferers, and day after day the ship’s company sat down with about six of the 260 cabin passengers to dinaner. There were a party of tourists on_board, under the temporal and spiritual guid- ance of an old Baptist minister from some western state. He had adozen young and pretty girls to_take care of, and a well-worn article of wife 88 assist- ant. Poor old man had been fixed up for foreign ports, nnd after going tooth- less for years, a brand new upper and under set of stors teeth had been put in. Pa had given his mind to_ the art. of vanquishing sea sickness. H: got his }m-ty up on deck, he rattled the stewards or mattresses, and by the time we got to Sandy Hook, he had them allin reclining positions. Lemons, champagne, parched corn, chloral and clam finino had been variously recomended. e made the rounds with a lemon and gave every one of the girls a squeeze. He followed it up with a “‘small bottle” and a tea spoon. He tramped up his row of girls with a paper bag of nor corn, and he tramped them down the line with clam juice. “As some one had ndvised them to keep their eyes on a stationary object, most of them read their last lotters from home. *“This sea sickness is more » matter of the mind than anything else,” said he. ‘*Mens agitat moiem," said Iin reply. “Very true—the great Latin poets were generally correct,” assented Pa. Just then Ma, who had been sitting on a camp stool telling me olxolnz to New York on board a Perry Anger in '49, made a ghastly face at me and described a helpless circle in the air with a limp arm. She was TOTED TO THE SHIP'S SIDE as the first contributor, ~There was a click, a glint in the sunlight, a gurgle, and the upper and under set of teeth were in the “bosom of the ocean buried.’ She made the rest of thg passiage behind a hindkerchief, and whistled her lamen- tations for $75 ‘‘just thrown away.” fashionable couple had the next tato room. The husband was the only man outside the ship's crew who was not sea sick and he took a villainous advan- tage of the woman. y Tknow 1 can't live, Heunery," she said one day. ““I can't say as [ see how you can," re- turned the teuthful spouse; “don't die with any secrets between us, or anyting on your wind." I'didn't think there was anyting left for that woman to give away, but directly I heard her faintly confessing that she expected to meet an old beau, of whom the husband was suspicious, in London. An admonitory kick on the partition was no earthly sort of good. She’d got to telling and there scemed to be no end of it. But silence after a while announced she had got to the ter- minus of the confession. Then the harsh brute of a husband had his in- nings. .. ‘'YOU POOR, SILLY IDIOT," he said, *‘after telling me that, yofi'd bet- ter catch something and die as quick #: possible. No one ever did die of s sickness. J wish to the Lord they did. You can stay rightin this stateroom, and o back on tho ship, for I never will take yon offit.” “Wow! wow!" wailed M aria, will become of me?" And I often wonder what does become of the women after a sea-sick passage. Certainly it scems they are of no earthly attraction to their lawful owners, after the disclosures of those iconoclastic days at sea. Miss Fluta Magilder came on board with a large Saratoga trunk, and had it toted into the state room which she was 'y b::shue with a woman who had travele “Why, what can_you be thinking of:" groaned her Niriuvml shipmate, who could hardly get in or out of bed with the big trunk filling the room. I am going to make toilets and wear decent clothes,” replied Fluta. She sat down to eat a big dinner while yot the bay of New York lay tranquilly about her. She turried over the nuts and wine till the merry little breakers outside Quarantine thrilled the ship to the centre. Fluta then grew gray round the gills. She was escorted to the state- room. Under the bows of the big trunk, she did up one side her front hair on a crimving pin. Tire opposite lock was in her nerveless tingers when sho fell off the stool and into her bunk, She nuvei moved sgain till the steamer struok thi Mersey. Then she was carried off the ship on a litter with one side her hair erim| like a darkey's wool—the other straighter than a loon's t!:f . R “‘what A LLE. CITIZEN JORN SHERMAN, How the Ohio Btatesman Dispenses Swoet Charity for Sweet Oharity's Sake, EMANCIPATION DAY DOINGS. Senator Sherman's Lovely Foster Daughter—A Bashful Congreas- man = Sitting Down on Opera Sharpsrs. WasmiNaron, April 18.—[Correspond- ence of the BEe.]—To read the press dis- patches sent out of Washington to ‘‘lead- ing daily papers,” one might infer that we were holding a continual political con- vention for nominating presidents, hav- ing at our disposal several innoeent men totorture on the political gibbet. We read that Senators Allison and Sherman were locked up, like fighting cocks, for two mortal hours in the committee room hav- ing a regular bout over who shall be the the next candidate for United States pres- ident. Strange proceedings for two prominent statésmen with two such cool heads! Now 1 have my professional doubts about the heavy door of Senator Allison’s committee room ever bein g locked while the committce's are in session, or at any time whiie being vublicly or privately occupie (The ower committee rooms sometimes hive locked doors while giving wet lunches). In the first place, the appropriation com- mittee room is well gnarded. There is always a grim messenger sitting at the entrance with a *“be watchful and be- ware'’ expression on his sad face, to keep out intruders. No brass-clad press re- vorter would ever venture to walk over that grim messenger’s live boay—tbe ex- pression of his * sphinx-like face would melt the brass at once. We have to have thera here in Washington—these sphinx- like fellows —for several reasons. If Allison and Sherman were in close em- brace in that committee room for two weary hours, no _doubt they were dis- cussing the coercian bill and fixing up the feasibility of not attending other people’s funerals. We have quite enough cause for shedding honest tears at home. SENATOR SHERMAN AND HOME RULE. Senator Sherman showed his devotion to the Irish cause and ‘‘home ruale”, by attending the theater tosee Dion Bouci- cault in *“The Jilt." He had sent his re- grets at not being able to be present at the anti-coercion meeting neld the sume evening. Not liko his celebrated nephew- in-law, Don Cameron, who always sits boxed at the theatre, Senator Sherman sat midway of the orchestra chairs, ac- companied by his adovted daughter, Miss Mamie, and’ two other pretty girls. Sherman’s name being prominent before the country as a possible - candidata for the presidency in 1888, all eyes and opera glasses were leveled at him, and how mindful he was of this marked at- tention his face did not betray, save that he gazed about smilmily, Of all im- movable faces, Senator Sherman’s is the most steadfast, usually, but when he does smile we are reminded of our youthful delights over a_jack o' lantern in a dark night. After letting his grey eyes wander about the theater to see who was there—everybody likes to know what kind of company he is keeping— Sherman discovered ex-Congressman Amos Townsend, of Cleveland, O, sitting stark alone by himself, and so the dis- tinguished senator leisurely pulls him- self up and walks around the circle, shaking hands with several en route, and nabs the bashful Amos and brings him all covered with blushes to his party where there was an.empty chair to be filled, Mr. Townsend bfiinf a ‘“lone man’'—in Ohio it is the French for “NOT TIED TO A WIFE," in other words an unfortunate bachelor (of arts), modestly seated himself beside the fair Ohio maiden, with Sherman on his right standing guard. Sherman always looks ~well after the people of own state, is indeed a stronf believer in ‘“‘home rule.” As the play progressed Sherman became so absorbed in the scenes on the stago that he lost all thoughts of Amos Townsend and the side 1ssues. It was in- teresting to watch the staid old senator. Those who believe Sherman to be a cold, unfeeling man, should have seen him with lower jaw dropped, eagerly watch- ing the love-making on tho stage. “Why, I never did supposs that John Sherman could be worked up tothat kind of a l)ilch.“ said an unbeliever at my back, ‘Why, just look at him, his face really grows sublime with cimotion of the tender kind. It is as good as a circus to see him Iaugh. It ll»punr that the old coon hasn't lost all “of his sentiment for love romance after all. How horrible it is to misjudge the inner lives of these men in public life.” By this time Boucicauit, as Miles O'Hara, had the audience wrought up to the highest ‘-ilch of excitement over the supposed '0ss race going on behind the scenes, and the players thamselyes, all enthusiam, carrying the audience with them in the wildest excitement and interest, and none seemed more excited and inténsely interested than the . HCOLD HE LD JOHN SHERMAN,"' ed more loudly to bring the fam or before the curtain than he. At times it wasa tie which we en- joyed the must—lhc}!lx\y on the stage or vatching the play of emotional feelings ator Sherman’s face, John Sher- er did pose for society, and never hus been renowned for his™ social attainments. His personal attractions are not especinlly winning, A baby would hardly hold out its little hands to be taken and kissed, on short acquaint- ance, and yet he can be, and is, one of the pleasantest entertainers, in his own house, in Washington. He ® fond of having a friend to dinner in a homelike way. Although at times he wives “swell dinners," theyare not to his special liking. Senator and Mrs. Sher- man’s evening receptivns this past sea- son, have been among the most agree- able; the senator hasa way of slipping around among his guests, in a gracious, graceful- yes, ul, after each one, especially the strangers ina way to put them at their enso. have recently heard many things of Sen- ator Sherman’s private and domestic life which give the lie to his being such a seltish, cold man. From one who knows, being on the most friendly terms with the senator and his famuly, 1 am told that he is really a generous man, giving away lacge amounts in dollars to all kinds of charities and helping the deserving poor generally. In his own state HE 1S MOST LIBERAL inFi\'inz to all suffering humanmty. He helped most generously those who suf- fered from the overflowed districts along the Ohio river. But, L asked, why is it that the public do not know of Senator Sherman’s generous deeds of charity? “Simply because he does not wish to have those things talked of. He i?.truly & modest man 1n private life and does not wish to be overwhelmed with public thanks for private deeds.” ‘‘There is no mistake that Sherman is after the white house?" I asked. ‘Nota bit of it,” re- plied . the Ohio friend and devoted tollower. ‘‘Sherman fully believes that he can make a good president and so do we who know him best. [ nave just come from New York where I have been feeling the Pulse of Wall street, and when I - Wall street I mean the linancial partof New York and that is the hrxu‘ half and to a man they have fuil contidence in” John Sherman's ability to conduct the finances of our cquntry with safety.” *‘Is Senator Sher: the ich that he nnofln‘d ln‘%sl" q i m.“ “'No'' replied the Ohio political wire his SUNDAY APRIL 24. 1887 ~TWELVE PAGES. n N ONLY ONE -MAN IN OMAHA Who has any connection with the American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association | and hence he possesses facilities for buying ~ - v, - WALL PAPER Over all others, and now he proposes to give you the benefit of this advantage. We | open for sale on Monday a large invoice of goods just received, comprising numer- ous patterns for parlors, dining rooms, and halls, for 3 TEN CENTS PER ROLL. P Hundreds of New Designs from 12%c to 15¢ Per Roll. A large assortment Rich and Artistic in Designs, suitable for fine residences at 25¢ to 35¢ Per Roll. We invite special attention to the wonderful d ecorative material callled LINCRUSTA WATLTONS : Unexceptionally beautiful and artistic in design and finish. logue of this material FREE; HENRY LEHMAN, puller,” he not. Mr. Sherman has often talked with me about the over esf mate of his wealth. He has had a good many irons in the fire, in a business way, way louking The flash of and at times he hy DRIVEN pretty closely Washin TO THE WA h His style of li ton docs not suggost a nia gol mine, or a never failing o1l well.” Ireplied: “fHe seems to live well but not extravagently. And if he does donate to charity liberally itis all to his credit that ne does stand on the street corners and throw dollars to see the gamin scramble for it, as one of our distinguished public men of Washington!did year ago last winter, the son-in-law df Ohio’s other senator. Society is all agog over the coming of | the diva Patti, the 3d of May. As she is to be here byt oue night in Opera, tickets will be sold from seven to five and 23 at tho very loWest, and these will fall into the hands of sharpers so that to hear Patti will mead starvation to me who would ratheg hear her than own a corner lot in Paradise ! The sharpers got a black eye when Sarah Bernhardt was here ; they bought up the choice seats for the best plays and held them 86 high that they grew mouldy on their hands. While we are in the protection business here in Washington, it is to be hoped that our district govern- ment will protect the poor man's pocket from sharpers ! Lafe is a howling wilderness to the average housckeeper to-day for our colorea servants are all on the streets, emancipating midst thunder, lightning and a perfect sheet of rain flooding the streets. Mostdismal day for celebrating, but what oares laberty for thunder, lightning and ran? It is a good thing for people to cook their own dinners sometimes ; then they will know how easy it is to burn the meat and spoil the coffee. Cox. 2R MUSI0AL AND DRAMATIC. Wilson Barrett will sail for London May 10 Helen Stanaish, it is married to Sam Sothern. Dion Boucicault wrote he Colleen Bawn” in five days. Dion says he will end his days in Ameriea. Baron Von Tavera, the new Austrian minister at Washington, is a fine musician. Camille Muori, a )‘mm{‘ soprann of Chi- cago, will sing with'the Boston Ideal com- pany next season. Captain Paul Boynton, the rubber-suit swimmer, has been engaged to travel with the Barnum cireus. Vida Croly, daughter of “Jennie June” will adopt “the stage—or be adopted by it, if she has the ability—next season. ‘The old Stongton, (Mass.) musical society, now in its second hundred years of exist- ence, celebrated easter by a concert. The debut of an American singer In Milan is announced. She is from Sau Francisco, her stage name is Anita Alamedo.and she ap- peared as Amina in * Sonnambula.’ Hon. Chas, F. Crlsp, congressman from Georgia, i#he son of William 1, Crisp, an actor who had a wide reputation thirty years ago and was very well known in Bostou. Emma Hayden Eames, soprano, of Boston, has successtully passed the preliminary ex- amination at the Grand opera, Paris, and expects to make her debut there within a year. Admiral Porter's sensatlonal novel, “Allan Dare,” having been dramatized and produced in the West, will be forthcoming at the Fourteenth street theater, New York, next season. Jennie Yeamans boasts of wearing a piece of Liama lace in the last act of her new pldy, “Our Jennie,” which i3 seventy-two years old, beiug a present from her grandmother, who is still living. Savs the Hour: Nobody can teach Mary Anderson how to make love, eseapting Love himselt. Even Patti was comparatively cold until cupid cameto her dres quis de Caux. Kate Claxton is to produce a new play from the French entitled **“The Brain Stealer.” The translation is by Cazauran, who is traveline with the company and re- hearsing the play. It is to be tirst played at McVicker's wuul‘. Chicago. < id, is engaged to be sed as the Mar- Charles Mapleson’s health has been run- ningdown of late. Fora ehange of air, ad- vised I){ his uh*’slrlflm\ he will hie himselt to Brazil, aceepting an 'offer from Dom Pe- dro to assume the duties of intendant to the Royal Opera houso of Rio Janeiro. It America boutd 01l all her singers home what an operatic stage we might have. Has- treiter, Nordica, Dotti, Marie Engle, Minnie Hauk and Nevada—this does not begin to ex- haust the lls} of lyric artists of high rank whom our sta%ze claims as its own. “‘Anarchy,” the play by Mr. Steele Mackaye, will havo its first presentation at Budfalo,on May 30, that being M lackaye's birthday, and iiufl'ulo the place of his birth. ‘The production there is in response to an in- vitation of 2,000 citizens of the Lake City, Who wish to tender a compliment to the Buf~ falo play-wright. Queen Victoria has informed the dean of Windsor that she will accept the dedication of a collection of jubilee hymus with new tunes. Among the authors of these hymns arethe bishops of Iipon and Exeter, and Revs. John Ellerton and 8. Baring- Gould. The 1ist of cumxom-u includes tha names of Drs. Bridge and gtalner,Sir George Elvey and Messrs. Barnby and Parratt. A rémarkable accldent oecurred 1ecently In the theater at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng- E:d‘l- the course of a performance by Carl 58’8 troupe of Nordisa. The storm ‘scene ‘The sound of thunder was made by rolling slo-“‘luflan lined with iron, twenty feet above | was dl immediately after & lightaing, aad fell amid agroupin not | the wings, on the head of a stage carpente who has since died. Campanini used to become so realistic in certain passages that wemen with whom he sang were balf atraid of him. \hile he was tender and natural as a lover, it was in scenes of anger and joalousy that his dra- matic Instinct had most sway over him. lle was s0 splendidly ferocious once as Don Jose, about to stab slinnie Hauk as Carmen, that she had to break the spell with a smile, and to whisper, “Remember, you are not really to stab me.” ‘The new nursery spectacle, “Snowflake,” by Howard P. Tavlor, to be brought out at Niblo's, New York, at the beginning of next season, is sald to contain effects entirely new to the American stage. There is one scene where the large stage will be tilled with moving animals, from the elephant to the frog, all dancing under variegated calci- ums to the music of an animal orchestra. In another scene it is converted into a bower of gold, the human figures, animals, birdstrees, etrl.& presenting a moving mass of animated gold, e EDUCATIONAL. Professor Todd, of Amharst colleze, will g0 to Japan to obserye the total eclipse of August 18 Senator Payne, of Ohio, has given $$1,000 to the School of Techuology at Emory college in Georgia. Evelyn cullefia for young women, soon to be opened, will be under the direction of Princeton professors. Miss Charlotte Lane, of Braintree, Massa- chusetts, has been appointed assistant libra- rian of Bowdoin college. Eight girlsnow in Wellesley colle ‘e intend 10 ba.missionaries. Happy cannibals! The Wellesley tlavor is delicious. ‘1he report comes from New Haven that Willlam Walter Phelps has given $25,000 to Yale university as a_fund for the study of civil governthent and political economy. Over $23,000,0000 has been contributed to the collezes of this country by twenty men. Three of these twenty—Stephen Girard, John lmklns and Asa Packer—gave over +§14,000,000. A teacher inone of our grammar school® was giving her class a lesson on_the art of putting words into sentences. The words selected, with their deiinitions, wers, *‘aque- duet, a conductor,” and *‘effervesce, to work. One of the sentences handed in read: *“My father is an aqueduct and has to effervesce very hard.” “But auntle,” said a Vassar girl, “all the researches of modern sclence convince us that evolution is the only theory to which we can attach any confidence.” Amiable Aunt —*“Well, iy dear, it you won't disturb my ancestors in the Garden of Eden, I will prom- ise not to teed peanuts to yours as the 00- loglcal garden,” ‘T'ha trustees of the Coe Colleze, at Cedar Rapids, Ia., have clected Professor Samueld. Kirkwood, jr., president. He is a nephew of ex-Governor Kirkwood of la.. is lorli’-st‘\'_en years old, was educated at Indiana university and for seventeen years was professor of mathematics and ~astronomy in Wooster, 0., University. Columbia is the first of the old-fashioned colleges to conferan lonorary degree upon a woman. No 'woman’s name appears in the long list of such honors distribured by Har- vard ana Yale. Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the lady so distinzuished yesterday at the centenial celebration of our local university, is the English novelist whose works of tiction were familiar in the youth of men whose grown-up sons and danghters have read themn over ay She I3 not yet eixty years of age, but she began to pour stories into the Lon- don magazines when she was scarcely twenty. 1t is not, however, on Miss Edwards as a novelist that the Columbia bestows the compliment. Her parchment specifies that she is made'a doctor of letters as being an ‘archiologist” and secretary to the Ligyptian exploration fund. el SINGULARITIES, A man in [llinols has made a curious col- ection. He has a little dirt from the grounds of every state house in the union, An Oil City boy has a pair of Cochin C| rooster of enormous size that he hitches to a small wagon of iis own construction, and drives them about the premises, Charles Johuson, of Griflin, .’\i‘fl that he has a cat that turned fron black' to rrny from grief at being separated from his " ohildren, to whom it was greatly at- tached. Acitizen of Albany. Ga, who has an Iy manteled oak in his yard in which English sparrows nest, made'a rald on it the other day and captured sixteen ecgs and two bush- els of nests, ‘The birds have gone to work repairing damages with great industry. Juno, the huge dromedary which fora number of yvears in the Woodward gardens San Franeisco, has been the chisf attraction to the children, who rode her in througs, is dead. She was sixty-one years old, and left an interesting infant nearly one-year old. Near Oakville, W, T, 18 the burnt stump of a cedar tree, nmlmblf' the largest on record. It is a hollow shell, 50 feet high, 57 feet in glrcumference 1 foot from tha ground ; 73, 2 feet 6 Inches from the ground, and 54 fect 5 Inches, 6 feet from the ground. ‘The cavity is 23 feet at its largest diameter. Rochester, N, Y., boasts of a girl child with two tongues. v Maryland is proud. The wite of one of its oldest citizens has given bitth to twins who are splendid specimens of babydom. ‘The happy father, Severn 1’ Mason of i years old. ‘The air of the island should be ought by desponding husbands and wives. Evidently, it has a rejuvenating quality. Henry Ray,of Gilmer, ‘fex., has discoyered the secret of the quail’s being able to hide so well, He was walking in a field when a covey was flushed. Oue alighted near him, and the moment it did soselzed a dead oak leat, crouctied to the ground and threw the leaf over its back, 8o thatit was hidden com- pletely from view. Mr. Bay said he had to no turn over the leaf before he could be- eye his own eyes. A gentleman from Amdrew county, Mo;, uith’s Island, s seventy-threo A descriptive cata. 1508 Douglas-st., Between 15th | and 16th, North Side. hiree months ago Mrs. Emanuel Barrows, ot Andrew county, gave birth to a male child, and at the time of its birth halt of its body was white and half coal black. One part of the body, that is from a line drawn stralght down from the middle of the head being white, while the other was black. e parents at first thought it only a tempo- 'y freak, and that the child would soon havo its natural color, but there is still no change, nor is there likely to be, for the color on both sides remains the same as at thie birth of the peculiar being. quner McGlynn is to speak in Boston on May 8. Plymouth chureh, Brooklyn, will dispense with its 85,000 choir after May 1. Mr, “Sam’” Jones will soon begin ‘‘re- vival” work in San Francisco. There is much commotion on thesand lots. Rev. Dr. Henry M. Scudder has resigned the pastorate of -the Plymouth Congrega- tional church at Chicago, and will 2o to Japan as an independent worker in the mis- sionary ftield. . Qne of the oldest preachers in the country is Elder Pniilip S. Fales, of the olg Camp- bellite church in Nashville, Tenn. He has preached there since its dedication sixty-six years ago, and his age is eighty-nine. Archdeacon Farrarsays that ‘*he whotalks of missions as a failure uses the langzuage of iznorant error as an excuse for unchristian sloth.” In nine cases out of ten the men who speak of the work of missions as unpro- ductive know next to nothing of what has been done. B “There is no unbelief, Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod And waits to see it push away the clod, He trusts in God. Whoever zees "neath winter's field of snow, ‘The silent harvest of the future crow, '3 power must know.” John Ruskin denies that he 1s.a Roman Catholic. He says: ‘‘I was, am and can be only a Christian Catholic in the wide and eternal sense. 1 have been that for five and ““""K, yenrs at least. Heaven keep me from Deing less as I grow olde: ut 1 am no more likely to beceme a R Catnolio than a Quaker, Evangelical or Turk.” * Rev. Robert Collyer, the popular and gifted preacher. discussed **The Moral Intluence of the Secular Press” at a meeting ot the Bap- tist Social union, in New York, In his re- marks he admitted that he read his Sunday morning paper at breakfast before he re- touched his sermon for chureh, and thought he got some good ideas that way. ‘The Independent says that,,“1f Evangeli- cal Christians should come fenen\lly and practically to beiieve that another probation awaits in the future those who here have not heard of Christ—a probation longer and ap- parently more promising thau is offered in this life"—its *most serious judgment” is that ‘‘enthusiasm for Christian missions would fail, effort would decay, contributions would come only of a matter of traditional habit, and the stimulated brain and heart of the church would no more be devoted to vast endeavors on behalf of those for whom betier things were believed to be prepared in the great and near hereafter. e DAKOTA'S MISFORTUNE. The Evil Influence of the Railroad Lobby in Dakota, Editorial Cor. Minneapolis Tribune, The Farmers’ alliance in Dakotu hasn't yet got through passing resolutions of censure against the last legislature be- cause of 1ts extravagance. The farmers are both surprised and disappointed at the result of the winter's work. They expected to see the expenses cut down and certain laws passed for the taxation and regulation of railroads. But a dif- ferent result followed. Notasingle anti- railroad law was passed, and the appro- priations exceeded anything before known. This possibly could not have been avoided. RBut the farmers are not iooking at any dilliculties which may have been in the way. They sce only the result, Tne Farmers’ alliance voted to send its president, H. L. Loucks, to Bismarck to look after the interests of the farmers, and some are inclined to censure him be- cause of the failure to get anything done. Those who do this, how shat their eyes to the real situati Gach of the railrond companies which enter the terri- torv had at least one lobbyist at the eapi- inl. What could & farmer—even one of the best and most intelli against the odds which agninst some of the k and possibly the most unscrupulous men, whose business it is to *‘get there,” quite rogardless of the means used to do so, and especially when these men had eral acknowledged supporters in the gislative halls, ‘Indeed it would have been surprisin, any important anti- raiirond bili had passed. It so happened then that the farmers’ movement in Dukota, so far as it con- cerned results last winter is a failure, But let no one suppose for a moment that the movement hus failed or that the furmers are discouraged. On the con: trary, new alliances are being organized everywhere, and the movement is_ gath. ering a degree of strength that is full of import for the future. At present the farmers are groving along in the dark in search of relief. They haven't yet learned ,luut pxactly to get what \m% want. They know that togother wit taxes and high interests and small re- ceipts for their produce they have httle or nothing left from their y after meeting all uhlir(ntion& cloarly the evils w. exist, but the remedy—there's the 3 ~in their offorts to bring about reform hey are apt to spread over too much ground. At a meeting of the territorisl alliance last year a long list of grievances was drawn up, and the result 15 that no- thing has been done. The firing alo: the line has been done too loosely and al too long a range. After the farmers huve decided upon two or three things which need to be done most of all, aud devote themselves exclusively to these, success will crown their efforts. High taxes, high interest, high transportation® charges, unjust grading of wheat, are in- juring the farmer, and aremedy will sur(-l{ come, As has been said the farmers are or- anizing in almost every county im Jakota, and it will not be surprising if bF the time the next legislature is to elected they include in their membership the great majority of the voters of the * | territory. Granger legislatures do mnot always accomplish all that is expected of them, but the agitation is beneflcial all the snme. 1t serves to show the power the farmers have if they care to exerocise it. Iv1s pretty early to vredict, but still the provheey 1s ventured that Dakota's next legislature will pass so called anti- railroad legislation, though the character ; of the legislation is not herein ejther out- lined or endorsed. Whilethe farmers have failed so far as the passage of laws is concerned, the{ ] have accomplished, through their all unce, a fow things which are vary grati- = fying to them. “At many places they = have established co-operative ware- houses, and this has gencrally been the meaus of increasing the price of grain— in some cases ns much as five cents per || bushel. In the purchase of coal, blnu‘E’ | twine and barbed wire,they have effect a decided saving by buying in carload lots. In this way,they are saving at both i | ends. 1f to this they could mannge to keep out of tho clutches of the 2, 3and 4 = per cent. per month throat-cutters,and,in fuct, avoid all high interest and mort- | gage foreclosures, with the attending ex- = cessive attorney's foes,the farmers would prosper, even if they failed in the legisias i ture. B 7 4 Wholesale and Retail, | Bole agents in Omahs for the celebrated 4l BWEET'S NOVELTY CARRIAGE. 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