Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1887, Page 22

SPRINGTIME'S SUNNY SMILES. A Kavsas Man Explains How to Achieve Fame and a Title in That State. ENTERTAINING BILL NYE. Behind the Times—Trombones Killed Him—Bulling Maple Sugar—Why a Legislator Voted for Woman Suffrage—Witticisms, The Farmer. Oil City Derrick. Once on a time he used to plo And riso at dawn to milk the couch And drive with merry song and Lo pasture Brindle and her caugh. Then for the pigs he'd fill the trough And for the matket he would be ought Sometimes his mare would bruise her hough Against a fence-post or a rough, kh And there he'd switeh her with a bough To teach her better anyhoughy He planted wheat to make the dough Which, 1o a drought, was harda to ;(ruugh. In winter, when his work was through, A little sportin he would doughy He'd wander with his zun and shough And aim at crows he couldn’t knough, Sometimes he'd hunt along the elough For birds that do not live there nough And shioot a sea-gull or a clough Which he with Joy would proudly stough. From wampland, watered by a lough, He'd l.lmku jod pasture for his stough ¥ here and there a sough, Whild pefspiration wet his brough. Sometimes a snake that shed it's slonzh Would scare him so he'd run and pough PTill stuck knee-desp within a slough, He'll yell until he raised & rough. But nongh work makes thl' farmer cough 4\ carcless ough much peoble seough, ¢ lives on boarders rough and tough Whuuml vough theigh dough not eat enough. Way Behind, Wall Street News: They were talking about the progress of the country, and how it had gone ahead in the last fifteen yvur« whcu the man in the corner ob- “Yean't quite agreo with you, Wo could have gone ahead much faster.” , somebody might have discov- ered l‘ ars ago that no hops were necessary to make lager beer, and that a good 5H-cent cigar could be made of cab- bage leave: Wina and Dust, rrovidence sends the wicked wind ‘That blows our skirts knee-high; But God 1s zood and sends the dust That blows in the bad man’s eye. Clear at Last, Dnlnln Bell: ‘““How about these titles now?” said a new resident of Kunsus to a native; I want to know something about them, There's Colonel Wood chuek, for instance, how did he get his title?” “Don’t know, but he registered that way at the hotel when he first came, B0 we suppose it's nll right.”” “‘And Captun Duster?” “He's captain of a base ball nine.” ‘There's Judge Snoozenberry?’ ‘‘He was judge in a hog-guessing match once. “Commo- dore Sandbarr?’ ‘“He_ runs the ferry boat.” ‘‘Huw about Professor Bilk?" “He's a pugilist. And Senator Mec- Tufly” *'Oh, he gets mad and wants to tight 1f we don't call him that”’ “And the Honorable McBribe?’ *‘He ran for the legisiature once.” ‘‘And General Carpetbagg?” “Well, you see he is a leading citizen, and we kind o’ give it to him in recognition of his public services. Oh, we came by our titles honestly. L hey call me captain because I've lived in the state twenty-five years, and if i(m Il just walk around sort of straight nd givo itout that you're a major it will be all right.” He Couldn't Stand Everything. With cnt n resignation n1s nervous prostra- ion He bore without grumbling or moan, Hie swallowed his physic and suffered the phthisic ‘Without a complaint or & groan; When the medical lancer probed around for his eancer 1le gave out o utterance of pain, And lie lctunfly urged on the hospital sur- To prnbe m the base of his brain. His twinges sciatical were sharp and emphat- cal, But he mnde no moan or complaint, And mu keun meningitis, the choking bron- Ne bnre wnh the grace of a saint. He lived through the astima and through the miasma, Malarial ills he defied— But at last came his slayer; the new trom- bone player Moved iuto his house--then he died. A Few Gems of Composition. St. James Gazette: Gems of composi- tion for aspiring London school teachers underfinmg examination: Walking--My favorite walk is when I do not haye far to go to it. The Beautiful—It is beautiful to sit upon & stone in the muddle of hoary ocean, Joan of Arc—She was rather pious and very genteel, Samson Agoiostes—Samson in agony. He dealt doles with the jawbone of a dead ass. Monastery—A place for monsters. In the line from *‘Lady of the Lake,” “Fierce Roderick felt the fatal drain,” the last word was detined as “'a sewer or eonduit.” Now They Do Not Speak. 1 suppose you blushed profusely dur- ing the ceremony,’ effusely said the hand-painted beauty to the young bride mlw was congr.\lulntmg “Oh, no,"" was the calm reply. “I never use rouge."” The conversation was broken off' so suddenly that the edges were sharp enough to cut stone with, . Worth sore, Wall Street News: An old-fashioned chap who keeps a dingy grocery in Cleve- land. had about three hundred pounds of maple sugar on hand in April, and one morning & drummer, who had been pmted by the boys, entered the store and I am a_man who goes ight to business. D'Il give you 40 ents & poun: { for that muple sugar. Orl oents? , say forty-five.” ““The old man turned white as death, lost his voice for a minute, and then hoarsely whispered: “You can't have it. War's broko out somewhere and that sugar is worth sey- enty-tive,” They Draw the Line ut Butter. We are having a good time her the South enjoying the climate and mukin, -l;xnurlmuuu with the butter produced ora., As warm weather approaches tho mountain butter of North Carolina is get- ting 1ts hair cut short, and I can truth- fully say, that, n.thoughl am no epicure 08 & general mlo. I have had my palate tickled mum since I came here than I over did before, Butter mude in the fastncsses of tho hills in Buncombe county is mostly of a vale pearl gray, with & pin-stripe in it of ultramarine. Ihla does not look badly, nnd it sets off a hoceake first-rate. ‘I'lus butter 18 not eaten by the people who manufacture it. They are poor sometimoes, and have te eat most anything that will sustain life, but they draw the line atthis butter, ‘They all know how it is prepared T wént out into the brush fast week to a gentleman who | cottage on the other sido of moun- tains. I then discovered that these peo- vle do not emt their cwn butter 1did not agtice any butter, but they had gravy as a substitate for it. Corn dodgers in and of itself will not melt in the mouth, so 1 looked around for a means of lubricating my own, At that time the rm-hearted and hospitable host made the following remark: “Stranger, you musn't be squeamish, Just waller” your dodger in the dope. That's the way we do.” 1 then procecded to waller BirL NyE. The Weather G The discontented man He makes the 2 He says the snow in Jan- ry 15 too deep, He weaves a constant web Of quernious complaint, 1o sads the winds of Febe Ruary makes Lim faint, He says the storms of March Arcvery hard to bear, That they would make an Arch: Bishop curse and swear. T pril winds have l. n- pnmbler, Dencies to colds and cough, AlllllIuII]N and influen- pick all the people off. The fickle airs of May Ho calls a feartul bore, On them he'il oft exva- te and grumble sore. perfect” days of June— "heme of the poets’ lays e says no one but lun- Atics would ever praise. He says that he abom- Inates and hates July, And August makes him com= Pletely resizned to dic, 1o #ays the fogs of Sep- tember are worse llmn death, 1led rather suffer Jep- Sy or want of breath, he equinoc- ‘I1al storm has spent its force The beastly moniii of Oc Tober begins its cours And then the cold Novemn- Ber comes with i lm-.mx. And blustering Di Ber makes him [nm.' !nr death, He wnimpers like a babe, And makes a con nt din, With himn the angel Gab- Riel would get as wad as sin, The Gamut of Theft, Washington Post, l'aLlnL' $1,000, wu is lallul ienius., 10 Shortage. “ Litigation, Insolven Irregular hu leation, rruption. o ement . Dishonesty, ing al depravity. one ham War on soclety, Wilbur Voted Aye, Minneapolis Journal: Everbody in Dakota knows Wilbur k. Steele. He was a member of the legislature from Stecle county. There is an incident in Steele’s legislative curcer that goes very far to show his characteristic regard for his wife. He has one fault, however. e takes no stock in woman sufirage--ex- cept when he is obliged to. On the oc- casion in_ question the wo suflrago bill was before the house. Major Pickley was championing the cause of the fair sex in eloquent words when & eall was made for a vote, and the clerk proceeded to call the roll. When Stecle’s name was reached he arose with the dignity of a Demosther and commenced: *Mr. Speaker, I am sorry that I cannot support this bill, but— Atthat moment a well-dressed lady 'was geen to bend over the gallery rail. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Wei-l-b-u-rt” He glanced up He turned and sai “Mr. Speaker, 1 vote The lady was Steele” The Circus at the Butto, Dalcta Belle, We kludor calkilated—thet’s Bill an’ 1ke an’ me— We'a all go down to Sentinel Butte and hev & 50Tt 0 Spree; Thet day the Greatest Show on Earth were thar in one vig teut, We jedged ’twere something in our line, so natur’ly we went. Inside wo(slruck a table with a cur’ous sort o’ creeter, An’a mT“lm sald Lis namo were Pharion ter: An’ that he was'n 'Gyptian kingas long ergo went henze— The show had got the mummy at stupend- ous expense ! We stood an’ sized it up erwhlle. ‘when Ike turned round to me and said: “It’peers ter look erbout ter me, 'sif tkis Kentloman were dead ; An’ us l'm cor'ner 1’low without no further We'd b ter stop and see what killed the ornars cuss!” ‘Then Bill remarks: good idee, An’ I chimes in with: %l\t erbout hit me;” n’ then we sot upon the corpse of I’harioh Salt Peter, An’ fixed a reg’lar verdick in surprisingly short meter ! “Whereas, this P. 8. Peter, bein’ thar layin’ dead’s a stone, ‘Therefore, this jur finds ho croaked uv causes quite unknown 1 We ’lowed flml fifty dollars were what the job were worth, An’ coilected from the treas’rer uv the Great- est Show on earth! Not Quite Alike. “Good morning, Mrs. O'Raberty. Where have you been so early?” “Faith an' I've jist come from a bornin’ down at Mrs. Murphy's."” “Ah! A new buby there?'” “Two, faith, She has two twins, and they be so near aloike that ye couldn't tell one from the other to save yer loife." “Boys or girls®’ “One’s o huy m\d lhe other's a girrul.” Eeonomy a xncesllly. I though! you were engaged to be married to Miss Beauti, who is so di vinely tall ana fair, as you used to tay.” ‘1 was; but that was before the real (-stnu boum began. I havemarried Miss “I reckon it’u'd bea Ao inquest would Pettite, 'l lml 's the littlo lady scarcely four feet “\el- you see, when a man's wife dies a grave must be bought for her, and with land at present prices I could not afford a full-sized womun.' Postal Item, “Is there anything for me?" said a sweet voice belonging to a charmin young lady, whose pretty face appearc: at the general delivery wiudow of the postoffice. asked “Who k. 1’'m Gladys Cummin No doubt you're g.anl he's coming - most young ladies are—but what is your namet” 15 me?” the prosaic e, sir, is Gladys Cumming." ainly. Beg pardon,” - BINGULARITLIES, A Birmingham (Mich.) 850 gun with woieh to cent & head. A s1x-months™old child weighing on!v two and a half pounds attracts .ny visitors to" :#Io x’hunn' of David Glassford “near Capac, eh. A wountain rat ten inches high and about & foot long, captured on the isiand of Trini- dad, has been added lo the Ceutral Park (N. Y.) menagerie. A wren bas bulit a nest under the eave of a car on a Sonth Carolina railicad. It s the best tiaveled bird in Awevica, makivg foar trips over the road every uay. A kind hearted resident of Westport, \Vll.. rl\ lied up seven wild geese which bad fallen 0 the ground elll-ufled after a fong flight. He fed them and thon ict them fly away. A Stoux Falls (. ‘I\) man exhibited to hll friends a large pickersl which he bad cavkht. man purchased a kill sparrows at one was discovered that the fish had been stufted with stones to increase its weight. It never rains but it pours on the farm of Myron Huskings, of I'fic other day Mrs. Huskings wave birth to ets, two of his ewes to five lambs, and amlly cat to seven kittens. tev. John Webb and a_big plack bear met recently in the woods of Pocahiontas county, West, Va. Mr. Webb spent the next five lours in dodging around the beast, and finally killed Liim with a pocket-knife. At Davisville, Cal., the wild geese gather in immense nnmbers on the farms adjoining the tules, and their ravages are alarming. Herders are regulrrly emploved on some farims to keep them off by shooting at them. The recent strike of log-drivers at Chip- wa Falls, Wis,, developed a novel way of creating sentiment. Dogs were turned looss bearing placards on which were printed: “A man 1s a dog that will work tor less than §3 a day.” One day last week a span of colts ran away in Portland, Ore., and coming to a railrond bridge, ran out néarly nifty feet on the ties, before stopping. ‘Tlien both went down in a m-‘u;, imd were afterward puiled out un- seathied. gles have plaved havoe with young s in Grant county, Oregon, this spring. One farmer lost nine lambs in one day. The metliod of the eagle is to swoop down Upon & helpless little Inmb and knock him over, and then with another swoop pick nim up and carry him away to be eaten at leisure, A citizen of Beaver Falls, Pa., has a dog that used to answer to the name of Snipe. Once the family went visiting and left Snipe Tocked up in the louse. It was forty-thiee days before they returned, but they found the doz alive. — He recovered trom lis long !“hk. and since then he has been called Tan- her! rof corn was shipped from Temple- Maich 25, and tirst opened in Fon du L April 16, _In the car, when the broken at Fon du Lac, was found In'~||((- the corn a fine Insh setter dog in n ry emaoiated condition, but in very good m»lr ts. e had nothing to eat during his long ride. A miller moth flew into the earof J. G. Staib, a Wilmington (Del.) baker three years azo and was notdislod zed titl the other day, having been snugly ensconced just inside the drum_of the ear during thattime. Milk poultices and salt water baths drove the in- seet out and it flew several teet before it aropped dead. A natural curiosity has been discovered at Solothurn, Switzerland, the center of a large watch-manufacturing district. It 1s the n ot & wag stail, built wholly of long spiral steel 18, without the least part of vegetable or animal fiber used in its construction. The nest has been preserved in the museum of natural hist A mechanieal xpert given to curious in- vestigations estimates that the tooting of ]n(lv)lmll\("l on the N York, '0w lln\n'u 4 waste of steam requiring the consumption of 230 pounds of coal to renew. He estimates the whistling expenses of that particular railway at $15,000 per year. Near Arzentine Republ ot of stones, A pl.um were covered bodies of geese, ks and other birds and animals killed ny the stones. One inhabitant of the place carried forty-eight head of geese home in the space of half an hour. loss was sustained. Many animals were killed and crops and trees were destroyed. In 1830 Amassa Gillett bought a lot of standing walout and _whitewoud trees in Washtenaw county, Michigan, giving a busbel of wheat for each tree. He cut the trees and rafted the logs on the Raisin river to Clinton to be sawed. Sowme of the walnut lozs sank in the water and remained there about {ifty years, when they were taken cut .u-xl found to be solid as thie day they were —— CONNUBIALITIES. Bayard Taylor’s dauchter is reported to be gaged to a young physician of the Univer- of Halle, Fifty-one wmarriages were announced in one day recently in a IPhiladelphia paper. Those Quaker maidens are as prettily modest and demure as vour Aunt ‘Tabitha's cat, but they seem to ‘‘get there” just the same. souri girl waved her hand at a ree days they were mar: vs later the young lady waved a flatiron at her husband, and the next even- ing he came home waving & divorce, What are the wild waves saying? A territorial editor says in “Yesterday we were again married. 1t be remembered that both of our eloped with the toreman of the oft avoid any future incouvenience of the Kind e have this time married » lady who is herself a compositor, aud she will set the type while we hustle for the ducks who still owe on subseriptions.”—Dakota Lell. A young eastern farmer was engaged to be marfied to a neighbor’s handsome daughter, procured a license on the day set for the ce mony and proceeded to the residence of h aflianced. On arriving he learned to his astonishment that his intended had been married afew months beforeto an old sweet- ‘The happy groom had arrived from st that day, gone at once to the lady's residence, gained her consent, procured a license and married her, all within the brief space of three hours. An eastern man stands no chance atall alongside of an energetic westerner. Some women are never contented. One of this kind has gone before a magistrate in England aud asked for & divorce on the wgound _that in forty years of her married ll ¢ Lier husband had bitten her every day, and thatshe was ready to swear to nearly 15,000 of those love nips. A young woman of Detroit has refused thirty distinet offers, and prefers as yet the cold companionship of her quamter of a million of dollars. In Maryland n blooming widow of thirty has just buried her slx\lhuhlmnd. and scores of eager suitors are yet willing to be immo- lated on the altar of her Deuul.y. That while there is life thers is hope has been demon- strated Dy a Massachusetts —maiden of seventy-two who got married last week, and by a Chicago husband who got his_seventh divorce while in search of the model wite. Al .:elller, the matrimonial market is lively his vaper: iar, the native Indian lady, whose wronys aroused a general feeling of sym- pathy in England and India, was married, according to Hindoo usage, at the age of eleven to & youth some years ber senior. She remained at her parents’ house,was carefully ciucated and grew up, according to all ae: couuts, into a refined and highly educated Indy. Soma eighteen months ago she pub- lished in *“T'he Times of India,” under the nom de plume of **A Hindoo Lady,” a series of forcible and striking letters on the miseries entailed on her sex in India by the barbarous customs of infant marriage and enforced widowhood. Last year her hus- band tried to get her to live with him, and on her refusing he instituted a suit for the restitution of conjugal rights in the Bombay high court. The case was tried, and it havs inz been proved that the husband was too POOT to Support lwr was utterly ignorant and unedueated--in fact, a mere coolie, the judge expressed the opinion that It would be a bar- batous, eruel and revolting thing to compel lor- 10 live with such a man, He fur- ther held that such a sunit could not lie under Hindco law and dismissed it. The husband appealed, and the chief justice and A judge ruled that the tirst judge was wrong inlaw and sent the casc back to the lower courts (o be tried on its merits, On this triei it was urged as before that the wowan haa never consenled to the marriage, and had never regarded the wan as Ler husband ; that lie Was poor, lgnorant and unhealthy:' and that If ordered to return to him she should be forcod to discboy nnd take the conse- quences. Ske was ordered to join her hus band within a wonth or undergo six months’ imprisonment. ‘I'no L‘lh'tl has axcited much sympathy awong ¢ Aaglo-Indian com- munity. ‘The English newspapers are pub- Ilsh‘mz Jetters and articles on the subjeet, and staps are belng taken in Bowmbay to raise @ fund In her behalf, Among the native commumty, however, hardiy a single voice, except that of Mr, Malavarl, a Parsee gentle- wan, has been raised in Ler favor, and the 80-called reforwers who agitate loudly for representative institutions ete., say no word for the alteration of \heuurlan which the Bombay eourt has been reluctantly compelled to enforee, . EDUCATIONAL. ‘The Mennonite college for tne United States has been located at Newton. ‘The trustees of Columbia colloge have re- fused to accept tLe memorial lire place the senior class proposed 1o place in the library of the college, ‘The university of Goettingen isto cele- brate its 150tn anniversary in August next, on which occasion the Kmperor Wililam's nephew, I'ri Alby will flourish as ulversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor G( )HJ aload ol wood and L ook tes willy u we.gle\. PWenty-tlive pounds, hutllyllll wul m»umq 13 sewmi-ceutcuuial during laple Grove, Mich. | the commencement week, June 26-30. In- stead of the usual baccalaureata sermon, there will be an address on the 26th by Prof. Henry S, Frieza on *“The Itelation of State Universities to Religion.” "The morning of the 20th will be devoted to addresses by Austin Blair in behalf of the university re- gents, and by Principal Sill, of the State Normal _school iu belialf of the State Teachers’ assoclation. In the afternoon there will be addresses before the various societies of alumni by Senator Palmer, Jus- tice Miller, of the United States “supreme courtand others, ‘The university musical so- ciety will sing Mendelssohn’s "Hl{lh n the evening. Commencement day is the 50th. and President Angeil will givethe commem- oration address, Addresses from representa- tives of other universities and colleges are expected, vither in connection with the exer- cises or at the big commencement banquet in the evening, Former students of the ll||lvnr~'1[r who wish further information, should address J. H, Wade, Aun Arbor. In Russia there are 32,000 schools, having each an average of 36 scholars. ‘This is one sehool for 2,500 inhabitants, at a cost of less than a cent o head of thn poyulation, 1 Austria, with 87,000,000 of infiabitants, thore are 20,000 schools and 5,000,000 seholars, “The averaze number at each school is 104, and the cost per inhabitant 19 cents, In Italy for 28,000,000 inhabitants there are 47,000 schools, one school for every 600 people, ut a cost of 17 cents a head. ‘Tlie avera nper of pu- pils at the schools is 40. In Spain there are 3,000,000 scholars, 20,000 schools, giving o ot 3 1n eacli sehool, and’ one scly very 000 inhabitants, as in Italy. The number” of schoois i for England is 55,000, which is one for every £00 inhabitants, attends of 52 per school, he Germans have a riving a total of 60,000 bils in each, and 88 cents ance has 70,000 scho 500, with 63 in_eachi France woild, thercfore, seem to wve inore schools than any other great Eutopean conntry, ‘These schools cost the country 29 cents per inhabitant. - — AND DRAMATIC. Haverly pays the voeal corps of the Masto- dons the neat sum of $550 a week Henry E. Dixey's burlesque on * said to be in shape for production. “The Black Flag” is one of the few Enelish :m-lmlmums that liolds its own in this coun- ry. The Princess Deatrice writes music and plays the piano and organ with marked school for every 700, schools, with 100 per inhabitant. being one_for every MUSICAL Mme. Pauline Lucca has received the medal tt and science from the Prince Regent varia. he ‘Thalia Opera company has made such a Lulm-:- ||| ~1n Francisco that it closed Pretty IA(Il“ Ida Malle is_singing th of Rose Maybud in John Stetson’s gore” company.” Ernest Legouve, the veteran author, alled the Dr, Oliver Holmes of France. Chicago 1s to have a new theater catled the Haymarket. It will hold 2,000 persons with prices to suit everybody. Colonel Frank Burr has rewritten *Miz- ah,” Kred Eustis' cof opera, ard thinks nhat it will be a success in_its new form. Minna Gale will be the leading lady of the Booth-Barrett company next season, ana k. J. Buekley will have the leadiug juvenile roles. Emma Abbott sang iu W1 Trovatore! the president and Mrs. Cleveland on Tue: day night at the National theater in Was| ington. 1t is said that Eliz Russian tragedienne, has rancements for a tour in next fall. Haverly cleared 150,000 on the Mas todnm the tirst two vears the troupe istence, aud Ris profits this season T4 ve beall very larze. Lizzie May Ulmer, the soubrette star, is looking for an engagement for the coming seajon. In the meantime she invites offers for a new play. Charles Overton has cavled to America for the Baelish rights to Clay M. Greene's den Giant,” but negotiations have not yet been entered into. Billy Emerson, of Havel ‘) s Mastodon minstrels, is to have invented more successtul speeial acts than any other comedian in the business. Kine Milan, of Servia, has taken to writ- ing plays and having them enacted on the publie stage. Close upon the heels of this announcenient comes the news that Queen Natilie has left her lieze and will not live with him any more. Miss Freda Nardyz, who was so succesful in the part of Mathilda in “Led Astray,” re- cently urmluoed by the Drew Dramatic asso- ciation, will play the part of’ Mary Meredith in “Our American ousin,’’ at” McCauli’s Opera house on May 20 Beforo the inter-state commerce law into effect Colouel McCaull could take company from New York to Chicago for about §500. " Thelr latest trip from Chicago to New York cost 81,000 for railroad tickets alone. Thisdid not include sleeping car fares, which the members of the company paid themselves. Henry Irving intends to add to his reper- tory the character of Robert Lan in the drama_of “The Dead Heart.”” “The Dead Heart,” old, has long remained disused. ate Benjamin Web- s highly distinguished in” it on the Lnglish stage, while in America it was the chief feature in the repertory of the late Ed- win Adams. The Philadelphia Press states that l'IN‘, Boston fdeal Opera company has gon smash after a good old-fashioned row, Cin vhich every member of the troupe took a part. 'Ihe completeness with which this once harmonious and prosperous organiza- tion has been destroyed by jealousy, bad management, and general cussedness shows plainly_enough tiat the age of spectacular lundering is not yet over.” ‘The clever people at the Jum.mw Village, No. 1217 Chestnut street, Phila,, have nn\h- a hit with their performance of a real anese play. It is certainly a most iutel ~|- mu afl as wellas a truly novel exhibition. ‘The play i1s interpreted to tie audience so that every one can understand what it is about. The actors wear vorgeous costumes, aud their pantomimic action s certainly re- markable. ‘The piece is quaintly put itpon the stage of Temple hall, and the scenery and costumes excite wonder and admiration. The New York Mirror has this little anec- dote of a railroad man and a manager: *J. R. Wood, the general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railroad, applied at the Arch street theatre, Philadelphia, for four seats for the “Parlor Match.” 1e was given them by the house manazement and enjoyed the play, though Harry Mann states that he would have been refused admittance had he known of it. In spite of the fact that he liked the plece, however, the company were charged an excess for baggage on their wip to this city.” While Carl Rosa was working himself up to the successful position that he now occu. pies it was to be noted as a singular coinei dence that his prineipal soprano, principal contralto and prineipal tenor were all Ohio EW l& Miss Gaylord, Miss Yorke and Mr. Packard aid nota little to put English opera on a firm basis in England. Naturaily, Mr. Rosa has confidence in dramatic Wendell | Gorewa.the fainol n making b the United States went his Lo artists, and he has Indieated it by engaging Miss Amelia Lowse Groll, born in_Cleveland and music- ally edueated in Cincinnati and Paris, tor his London season. Mme Bernhardt’s jewels are probably more valuable than any collection in the worid, both from a finaneial as well as historical standard, She has pearls by the pint; dia- monds from every field and court in the in the world and in e of setting 5 and desiens symbolie of ancient and medieval time are among the treasured ornaments, und sor the most exquisite specimens of Exyy Hungarian, in.lmn and Persian workman- ship are used on the **Theodora” costuimes, Two new operas to be produced in New York during the summer months by Colone McCaull are “Jacquette” and ““I'he Bellman, The former under the name of “La Ber- naise,” is thé great sensation in Paris and London. ‘I'he music is by Messager, and the nglish libretto by J. 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