Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 22, 1887, Page 10

MAN'S PHANTOM OF DELICHT. Woman Oreated For a Helpmate and No & Rival of Man. ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND The Female Age—Pittshurg's Miss Van Zandt—=Women as Invente ors—Gossip for the Ladies, ‘Woman, D. A, A, in Temple Bar, Most flattered and least trusted of the Dropt for a whim and followed for a Loved for their follies, their devotion scorned, In presence wourned, Their hearts, their characters, Who never think their hel fused; Seated by kings and_trampled fn the mire, “T'he best and worst they equally inspire. Cursed for their weakness, hated when they're strong; ‘Whatever hl']\pnns always in the wrong. Tact is thefr genius. Add yet one thing slighted and in absence by men abnsed ;. should be re- more, » ‘Woman is lost, when wom an proves a bore Woman, a Hel ate, Not a Rival London Queen: The old contest re- specting the relative intellectual powers of the members of two sexes has been revived in the journals of the last week in consequence of a lecture on the sub- ject delivered at the Royal institute, Al- rmarle street, It cannot be said that any new light upon the mental distine- tions between men and women by Mr, Romanes; but the careful consultation of authorities and examination of evidence necessary to the compilation of a lecture on the subject precluded his accepting the be now current in some quarters, that men and women are equal in mental powers,and that nothing but the tyranny of custom and the inequality of education has established and continued the mental differences associated with sexual dis- tinctions. The natural distinctions between the ntellectual faculties of men and women cannot be ignored by any impartial ob- scrver. It is mere childishness or fatuity to maintain, as1s done by some of the persons who wish to be regarded as strong-minded women, that, if equal educational advantages were bestowed on the two sexcs, and the result of the long tyrannical reign eliminated, equal intellectual powers would be possesse b{ equal numbers of the two sexes. It ‘would be no less absurd to argue that equal bodily powers would result from equivalent training. The distinctions, wmentally aud bodily, are the results of natural causes beyond the control of man. In those countries, such as Scotland, in which boys and girls are educated to- gether, every experienced and observant teacher knows that the girls have quicker perceptive powers and learn much more rapidly than boys of a corre- svonding age. They are more pleasant and easy to teach, and are much more satisfactory as pupils, but, arrived at a certain age, this pre-eminence isat an end, for, arrived at adolescence, the wower of amassing knowledge 1sgrerter on the part of the male, In many intellectual pursuits, more- ‘over, women in civilized society have ad- vantages over men of which they could have availed themselves had they pos- sessed the power or the will. The num- ber of girls taught music is out of all e‘rollortmn greater than that ot boys. ¢ have constantly a vast number of dadies who are briiliant executants, but ‘Wwe seek in vain amongst the great com- posers for the name of even a single woman composer, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, to say nothing of scores of others, can be matched with no names of women. Again, women are highly emotional, and lovers of poetry and iio litera- ture; hundreds have essayed the art, but with a single exception, and that nota atrongly marked one—that of Elizabeth Barrett Browmnxil—uono have ever taken A position in the highest rank. n oneintellectual pursuit alone can they be said to have equaled the other sex—as delineators of character in works of fiction. As novelists women are un- questionablv in the front rank. To say nothing of the numerous lesser lights, Miss Evans (George Eliot) and Charlotte Bronte may be glnced alongside of Thackeray and Dickens,and lose nothing by the comparison; and at the present timo our most popular novels are in great part written by women. This faculty for writing fiction may depend upon two conditions, The sharp, Txick perception of a clever woman giyes her a great in- sight into character; she appreciates more readily than & man the hidden springs which actuate motives, and she delincates with greater accuracy the finer impulses which escape the more ganeral observation of writers of the other sex. Then, again, as portrayers of female characters women have the im- mense advantage that they understand the motives which actuate their sex, which are. as they say with a-great amount of truth, ‘inscrutable to wen. Such characters as that of Mrs. Poyser could not huve been conceived or deline- ated by a masculine writer. So well is this fact recognized that if a female nov- elist of high class clects, as did Miss Evans,to publish under a musculine title, the very accuracy of her delineations of female character betrys her sex. But the contest as to the relative intel- lectual superiority of the two sexes is one or the most yain and useless charac- tor. Natore never intended that there should be this contest. Woman is the complement, not the rival of man; they are respectively equal in their own spheres. Tho one is the helpuate of the other, and 1t would be an ovil day for the world at large, and for the happiness of the human race, when men and women were pitted agninst the other as rivals; @ach sex would suffer, and it is difficult %o say which would be the greatest loser. Manis pre-eninent in bodily strength and physical superiority, no less than in strength of intellect and concentratiop of power. Woman excels in quickness of perception and in the higher moral qualitics of the mind, no less than in phy- sical beauty and grace. Viewed as a whole the true nature of woman 19 fully equal to that of man, but at is on other lines; and those are no real friends of the sex who seek to place one- 4alf of the human race in opposition to «he other, and to set up an unnatural and Impossible rivalry, which would nnl{ be #uccossful in fiplflmnw the avils of life that already e in too great numbers. Concerning Rewmarkable Women. New York Sun: The best wishes of hundreds of thousands of mwhifiem men and women follow Miss Rose Elizaboth Cléveland from the editorial desk to the schoolroom. Miss Cleveland has won an enviable roputation in hterature, particularly in the department of historieal eriticism. Sbe has guined something better thun thut—the honest respeet of everybody ea- pable of appreciating earnestnoess of pur- pose, independence of judgment and un- swerving loyalty to high intellectual aims. And she has earned somethin; Dbetter even thun that—the sincere grati- tude and good will of a multitnde of readers who have come to regard her as almost & personal friend, without ever baving seen hor facc or heard her voice ‘The last Is the best treasure within the author's reach. This scntiment of per- sonul esteems and friendliness is inspired by no writer who dues not write from the soul. 1f it is true that Miss Cleveland’s future work is to be chiefly in the field of study and exposition, wherein she has already hown herself At her beat, we congratu- e the young ladies who wmay now look forward to her teachings in the lecture room as a source of profitable instruction and keen intellectual enjoyment. The Age of Women. When does a woman cease to be young, or rather to be entitled to that epithet? ‘This is the delicate question which a French prefect hasundertaken to answer. Some years ago a certain will left the sum of 10,000 francs.the interest of which was to be given annually to a young un- married woman of the working classes, who, by her capacity and good conduct, should be in a position to marry with the help of a litdle money. In carrying out the will, it beeame necessary for the pre- foct of the Seine to determine the exact significance of the words ‘‘young wo- man,” and he has decided that tiey in- ude the period between 21 and 30. At 30, then, an unmarried woman may bid adieu to youth, and resign herself to be an old maid. This extremely ex cathedra pronouncement may win a feigned or forced assent from the candidates for the Barbet-Batitol prize, as this kind of prix Monthyon is called, but 1t will meet with only contemptuous rejection from the sex at' large, at least that portion of it which has passed the fatal linit. A wo- mwan is as young as she looks. just as a man is as young as he feels, and a really capable woman is never 30 until she is 40 or married. Pittsburg's Miss Van Zanat, l‘nllahurg has a nearly parallel e to that of Nina Van Zandt. During the trinl of W. T, Lavelle, who was convicted Tuesday of robbing the Pan Hand!e freight cars, & pretty gitl numed Vanaie Hill, his aflianced, sat by his side in court Yesterday she applied for a license to marry him. Thé register refused the license beeause Lavelle was in could not be present when the license was granted. iss Hill will now try to secure a new trial for her lover, so that he can be released on bail and thus be enabled to get a marriage license. Fail- ing in this, she will patiently await the expiration of his term of imprisonment. which, it 1s thought, cannot exceed three years, and marry him then. She 1s thoroughly determined to marry him sooner or later. Women as Inventors. New York World: The world has not iven woman due credit for her inventive faculties. Few ize what an important role she is playing in the de- signing of numerous articles, useful as ornamental, The records of the patent oflice show that fully 1,900 patents are claimed by women. Moreover, not a small number of patents granted to men are really for ingenious devices and ideas that have originated in a feminine brain. The women of New York have been granted more patents than their sisters in any other state. The women of Massachuseits, Ohio, Indiana and V consin rank next in order, ln machinery women have done much. Almost dul:g improvements in sewing machines col from her brains. In the model-room of the patent oflice, side by side with Elias Howe's machine, 18 one made by a Miss Rosenthal. It is'a handy little contri- vance which ean be put inalady’s pocket and screwed on to any ordinary table. It is so dainty it looks fit for the work- room of a fairy. It will be a boon to Ecraons traveling where it is impossi- le to take a large machine. Ma- chinists pronounce it practically perfect in construction, but it has not yet been put upon the market. The first submarine telcscope was the roduction of Mrs. Sarah B, Mather, of ew York. Mrs. Montgomery shows a section of a war vessel provided with a series of iron plates so constructed as to resist shot and shell. There is also in the model-room an engine of offense as well as defense, in the shape of a breech- loading gun, credited to Miss Ruth Goshan. Among the more peaceful i veutions by women are a car coupling- pin and an improved railway for street cars. A life raft is a contrivance of a Mrs. Beasley. An appliance for raising sunken vessels has been patented by Mrs. Emily Taney, of Pennsylvania. She has also contrived a syphon pump. Mrs. krackelton, of Milwaukee, *claims to have made 200 women self-supporting by means of a useful little portable kiln for firing decorated china. ‘This can be at- tached to any gas-pipe, and is an im- rovement in the usual method of heat- ng, nll‘ordlng a much more equable tem- erature, liss Mary Byoughton, of New York, discovered a new mode of forming air chamcers in dental plates for artiticial teeth. Miss Amelix Bird de- sired to makea noise 1 the world, and her genius soared to steam whistles. Mrs. Caroline Brooks, of Arkansas, has patented some lubricating molds in plas- ter. Mrs. Brooks will be remembered as the butter artist atr the cenntennial, her lovely creation of Iolanthe attracting muchattention, She now bas astudio 1 New York. Mrs. Sarah Ames, of Massachusetts, patented the bust of Abraham Lincoln. of what the patent right consists does not clearly appear, as artists generally con- sider such things creations rather than inventions. Mrs. Cornelia Beaumont, of Ohio, has a patent lifeboat to her credit. Mrs. Martha J.Boston has been very suc- cessful with her pyrotechnic night sig- nals. She is an example of what pluck and perseverance cun do. At the death of her hueband his papers were in a chaotic condition and his designs not fully perfect. Unaided she brought them to a point where they were practi- cally valuable, and she remamed almost ten years introducing them in the vari- ous foreign ports. She has been rewarded for her perseverance by a fortune. Among the queer inventions is an instrument for restoring facial symmetry h{ Miss Fannie Batchelder, of Massachustts. ‘The numerous patents granted to women include fire escapes, dust brushes, baby wenders, devises for killing mosquitoes and other inseots, window washers.glove fasteners; food preservers, washing ma- chines, cow milkers, cooking stoves, corpse preservers, bustles, face lotions all kinds of garments, Gonsip For the Ladies. * Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is at work on a woman suffrage novel. Miss Frances Willard will take up dréss reform at the end of the temperance sea- son. Mrs. Mar; and well yivacity. Miss Mary L. Booth, editor of Harper's Bazar, is rather large. Her com'pklexiun is dark, and sho is detiberate talker. Miss Jeanette L. Gilder, the editor of the Critic, is tall, dark, and masculine in her dress and gait. She has a brusque was of talking. The Crown Princess of Germany is very benevoient, and her chief delight is in promoting schemes for the education of the unfortunate classes, Queen Natalie,of Servia,was accounted the most benutiful woman in the King- dom. Her husband, from whom she has separated, 13 a marvel of ugliness. Mrs. 8. 8. Conant, who is the tempor- ary editor of Harper's Bazaar durin Miss Booth's absence, is rather stout lllfi dark in complexion. talker, A woman teacher in the New York Normal college dectares that she can feel already the influence of the appointment of 1wo women as commissioners of the board of education in the greater respeet shown to women, There is a printing house still in pros- perous operation in France whicn was established in 15 with girls for eom- positors. The we ‘& is chicfly on Greek and Latin classics. ‘T'wenty-four deaf mutes are among tha skilled type setters. Miss Middie Morgan, live stock reporter for the New York Times, is very talt and slender. Her complexion is neither hflc nor dark, She dresses with great plain- an Mavpes Dodge is ;:.rnccful ressed. She talks witl h great She is a pleasant ness, and s & delightful talkor. She spenks French and Italian with a charm- ing Irish acoent. Mre. Agnew and Miss Dodge, the lady members of the New York board of edu- cation, pay particular attention to the sanitary condition of the schools they visit. They attend especially to all mat- ters relating to the comfort of the build- ings, and notice little defects which es- eave the attention of men. The janitors are said to be dismayed when asked to show the cellars, Harper's Bazar tells of a clergyman dying who left a widow and two daugh- ters. One of the daughters was an in- valid, and the other undertook to pro- vide for the little family. Hearing a nuraber of housekeopers regretting that they could not have nice fresh cakes for breakfast. she called on her friends and took orders for muffins, for the making of which she had a good receipe. ‘The muflins were baked and served promptly in time for breakfast. Her orders in- creased, and she now has a large estab- lishment and a comfortable income. HONEY FOR THE LADIES. The bang, In hair dressing has resumed its sway. J Large hoop earrings are again getting into tavor. Picot-edged ribbons excel all others in pop- ularity. Corduroy is a favorable material for tailor- made jacket A Nobody who 1s anybody wears lisle thread gloves this spring. “There |s something very lady-like about a hand of four queens. ‘The really proper reds are two only, Am- aranth and old Boraeaux. Ladies shoes inust match in tint the pre- vailing color of the gown. Malze Is asserting its claims to be consid, ered a fashionable color, Miss Rosina Emmet, the artist, 13 soon to marry ason of Mrs. John Sherwood. Beads, or to speak by the card, jets, are fashionable foundations for bonnets. Velvet is used either pldin or in soft, irreg- ular folds on the brims of round hats. . Satin-finished, eros grain, gauze and taf feta ribbons are much used in millinery. Mrs. Spricging remarks that she would rather fool with a bee than be with a fool. ‘The newest additions to flower jewelry are the “Bermuda lily,” and the “*New Zealand” rose. A mother of male twins enthusiastically- w‘ex;: to her treasures as her “'sweet boy and Indians never kiss each other, and no one whnlhns ever seen an Indian can blame them much. Work and Leisure suegests rent collecting a proper and remunerative employment for women. If vou wish to see a zrass widow in clover, watch her when she grabs a rich widower by the arm. Puce always was an unbecoming color,and rechristening it ‘“‘heliotrove” does not im- prove it 1t is said that the tan shades of gloves have lost their popularity, and that coal grays are in favor. Basques are daclared not suitablo tor young women, and are consequently not worn, even by grandmothers, 1t is said that a sermon Is always short to a woman who wears a new bonnet at church for the first time. Skirt draperies tend to long, limp and straight llurne-Jonesism poufles and watteau are out of fashion. Bonnet ribbons are coming in again. They are nottied, but caught bow down with & Jewelled bar of gold. ‘The Iatest novelties in bonnet and scarf pins for ladies’ wear are a cowmbination of pearls and diamonds. The very latest thing in sleevelinks simu- lates the coffea bean; each bean must be ot a different colored gold. ‘Tliere are tifty female school supervisors in Maine, and they all perform the duties of thelr office in an efficient wanner. Mme. Melba, the young Australian prima dona, has been engaged by Max Strakosch. She has created quite a sensation in Paris. The Bombay Gazette has broken the ice by employin¢ sixteen Anelo-Indian givls as compositorsand a woman as proof-reader. Ella-Wheeler Wilcox wears no color_but white indoors. She particularly affects the Kate Greenaway style of cut in these Kowus. ‘Women portrait-painters are becoming so ponular in New York city that those ot the other sex are preparing to seek more prolit- able fields. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ woman suffrage novel is delayed h‘y the Il health of the writer. Sue is troubled with insomnia and nervousness, Although curlous combinations of all sorts of colors are allowable this sprln&q‘ women should not dress as if they were lmperson- ating harle juins. The man who reports tornadoes for the sig- nal service has just been married. His re- ports will be founded largely upon personal experience hereafter. A woman doesn’t know half as much about voting as a wan does about rocking a cradle, {et there are more women who want to vote han men who want to rock cradles. One of the strongest pointe in the loveabil- ity of a woman is that she doesn’t whistle, It is the husband who has to whistle when she hands him the bill for her bonnet. Mrs. Whitnay wears no jewelry except a diamond comb. She hrgulg regulates the fashions of Washington. She may make the profusion of jewelry unfashionable. ‘The streets of Canton are only three or four feet wide and when & woman with a bustle ou gets Into one of them she has to go clear through before she can turn around. ‘The rage for silver handles for canes, um- brellas and parasols has reached such a stage that designers are almost at their wit’s end for new and novel patterns to satisfy the public. ‘The mgfier the paresol the more stylish its bearer. 'he parasol of to-day needs an athletic to carry it. They should match the tollet, even if 10 do 8o they must be made of Scoteh tweed. Mrs. Susan Bullivan, who was recently left 8 penniless widow at Pierce, Mo., walked from that place to Chattanooga, Tenn., with her five children, the youngest a babe, whom she carried in her arms the entire distance. A California woman, In trylni to make a cradle for her baby, hit on an idea and in- vented an orange box. She now runs and owns the factory which makes nine-tenths of the orange boxes for the Pacitic slope. Miss Mary Tllllnl;hut. who has just com- leted a wonderful memorial window for irace cliurch, New York, was once paid 30,000 by Vanderbilt for designing an originial tapestry hanging for his houses. ‘The honored guest of the Women's Na- tional Press association at Its regular meet- ing was Miss Holley, the author of “'Joshua Allen’s Wife.” 'The originality of this writer’s style is attracting considerable de- served attention. When Jacob Schoelkopf, the miliionaire tanner of Buffalo, took his wife around to look at 500,000 residence which he recently bought, her only critiscism was, that she was afrald that it she lived there sue “‘would have to keep a girl.” Fifty thousand copies of Mrs. Cleveland’s ortralts have been sold Such is the rage of them that the orlzittal photographer has acall for about two hundred a day. She is rezarded as the greatest beauty the white house ever containeds Ilere is agood word for the women: An English statistician has discoyered that m: ried wen live longer and live better live than bachelors. Among every 1,000 bach- elors there is 33 criminals; amoemg married men the ratio is only 18 per 1,000, A young married woman in Iowa goes out every moonlizht nhihl and takes long strolls with'the ghost of a former lover, who “talks as naturally as he did on eartn.” Her hus- band finds it impossible to become jealous of a thing he can’t see; so the posthuinous love affair means Do trouble, A Now Lisbon, Ohio, girl, while disrobing recently, was pulling off her stocking with considérable exertion, as her foot was dawmp. 1t caie off unexpectediy, and her band was released with such sudden force thatit struck her under the chin and c%uud her to uearly bite her torgue in two, There is a moral ro this tragedy. Mrs, Gertrude Garrison, editor of the American Press association, Is of medium heigh fii h slender, graceful fig well, the round” woman news, writer in the profession. s . The newest styles in scarf-pinsare very #mall and include nfi. iders and others of the inseot tribes, witli 1uminous eyes, wings and backs of pearls, diamonds, or rubies. dainty pin is shown of fopals in a cluster of diamonds. A brilliant pin _and destined to be very ular 18 set, with jacinths andl dia- monds. most unigquepin uu‘-ms o Hower ©of moonstone set with diamonds. Itis nowadays quite the rr per_cqper for oung women to make their own gowns. 'he fashion obtains particularly in Eneland and even extends to the royal family, the princess of Wales herself setting the ex- ample. The young, princesses are being trained to a complete’ understanding of the nd not only make gowns but wear. the gowns they miake. The “Society of hady Dressmakers” is meeting with marked suc- cess. 5 PO — MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Miss Fanny Davenport closed her season last night in Brooklyn, Day R. Young has written a comedy called *"I'he Age of TafTy."” Edwin Booth played to 84,470 one night last week in Indlanapolis. Harry Askin has been engaged as box book- l;ywrr for Colonel McCuljas’ season in New ork, ‘The sum of 4,200 clear went to C.W. Coul- dock as the result of his benetit in New York last week. Clara Morrls travels with a doctor in at- tendance, Nightly this physician Is on duty in the wings. Walter 8. Sanford, the star in *‘Under the Lash,” is a Philadelphia boy and a son of the minstrel, Sam Sanford. There is to be a new eonservatory of music in Paris, [ts funds will come from individ- u not from the government, Her Atonement” will be the Decoration weeck attraction at the National theatre. There ‘ill be an extra matinee. Mrs. Langtry has had her hair cut in boy fashion. ‘Theexperiment, in the opening ot connoisseurs, has not proved a success. Minnie Maddern's company recently cave the first dramatic performance ever seen in Prescott, Ariz. The receipts were $700. Pattl Rosa is the only soubrotte Lotta ever found sufliciently to her liking to entrust with her bright comedies, **Zip” and “*Bob,” Mr. Robert Buchanan's play of “Sophia,” based on “Tom Jones,” has passed_its 300th consecutive representation at tue Vandeville theater, in London. Emma Abbott will add “Ruy Blas” and “Aida” to the repertoire_ot her opera com- pany for next season, The compony will not travel west of the Mississippi river. Marcus Mayer will be tendered a benefit in San Krancisco during the engagement of Sarah Bernhardt. San Franciseo isa great place far freaks, sud this is one of them. Although the season is practically over and the inter-state commerce bill has reared its. horrid front, there are 100 companies stili on the road—the usual showing at this time of the year. ‘‘Hypocrite™ Is the title of a now comedy- drama written by Mr. Lawrence Marston, which I8 to be produced at the Fourteenth Street theatre in New York on June 6, at the c10se of the run of the *'Old Homestead.” A proposition has been made in a London paper that the words “wWay Out” be painted in large letters with luminous paint near the exits of theatres toguide the audience in case the lights should be suddenly extinguished Mine. Pattl has diamonds enough to adorn half a dozen European sovereigus, but the jewelry she wears with most delicht and never parts from are two inexpensive bangle bracelets, from which depend small, golden disks with Hebrew wopds engraved there- upon. . Genevieve Ward and W. H. Veruon have arrived in London. Miss Ward is at her country house at 'Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight, She will start on a tour of the pro- vincial theaters of England, in company with Mr. Vernon, about the middle of August. *:H Eight principals of the company that Col- onel Mapleson has arranved for his season of Italian opera in London are American— Emma Nevada, Mme. Hastreiter, Marie Engel of Chicago;: Minnie Hauk, Louisa Dotti, Lilian Nordica, Teresina Adams, and Vetta of Philadelphia. Maurice Bernhardt, who was to have joinek his mother at Qmuha, and accom- panied her thence fo Catifornia, appears to prefer the pleasures of New York to the dusty delights of a transcontinental trip, lie may be seen late every afternoon in Central park riding in a hansom and industriously pufing a clxaretto as he indolently leans over the apron of the vehicle. Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, has composed a festival can- tata, “The Sunny Month of May,” in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of her mother’s accession to the throne. This is not the first attempt of the princess at musical composk tion. A “Kyrie” written by her has been given in St. George's chapel, Windsor, and St. Paul’s cathedral, London, Signor Verdi has been fulfiilling a promise made to the children of *St, Agatha—his country home—that he would write some music for their favorite songs and eames. “Itis no easy task,” declares the veteran composer, *‘to Many of the most famous passages in my operas have cost me far less trouble than tha ‘Song of the Doll’ and the ‘Little Soldier’, which I have just finished.” ‘The Pall Mall Gazette makes the statement that the melody known as “Home, Sweet Home,” can be found, note for note, in Cur- zon’s *Monasteries of the Levant,” published in 1848. Curzon was secretary to Lord Stratford de Redeliffe, when he was British minister at Constantinople, avd the air is set down in the book named as an ancient Arablc love song. Sir Heary Bishop’s music ot “Home, Sweet Home,” as set to John Howard Payne's words, was published be- fore 1823, Mme. Selina Delaro, an artist who has won distinguished success on both the Iyric and the dramatic stage, has been in failing health and in want for a long time past. Her {riends have been preparing to give a per- formance for her benetit, which wiil probably take place at the New York Madison Square theatre on next Tllllnlllr'. Thehrhly will be “Fashion,” a comedy written by Mme. Delaro that has never been ‘acted; so the evant will have a double interest. Encouraged by his London season of Ital- ian opera, given at reasonable prices,Colonel Mapleson has rrepnml to come down like a genial and smiling wolf on New York city next fall. He will'bring with him the greater past of tie compan which is now singin n Loudon, and will probably settle down af the Academy of Music, where he intends to give a season of opera Of two months’ dura. tion, at prices calculated to draw the mass ot the people. His highest price will be $2.50, and from this the rates of adwission will run down to 50 cents. Over 115 women and girls belong to the ballet corps of a Paris theatre. There are threo stars, ten first subjects, twenty-two second subjects, three divisions of coryphees, or leaders, two fiuunrllles. divided into four sgctions, the “walkers,” and the infant cl or “rats,” The pupils receive 40 cents e: time they appear, the young ladies of the quadrilles fromn $20 to 840 a month, the cory- phees trom $50 to §6), the subjects, or those who dance steps outside the “ensemble fig- ures, 860 to $300 a year, the stars from 35, to 86,000 per year. These last named amounts are less n the salaries paid in former days. The vrgapization of the grand opera ballet dates frem . and was de- creed by Louls XIN. The grand monarch even wrote the regulations for the first ballet corps with his own hand. —tr———— SINGULARITIES, The remains of a mastodon of the larzest size has been discovered about twenty miles from Atlanta, Ga. 1t takes the tusks ' of 75,000 elephants per {m to supply the world’s piano keys, bil- lard balls and knife handles. A bald headed Italian and a red headed negro were among the curiosities in an Al- bany police court a few days ago. A colored man, who I8 105 years old, and who once blacked Washington’s shoes, wus discovered the other day in Nashville, Tenn, ‘The Santa Catama mountains in Arizona are covered with petritied turtles, lobsters and clams. The mountains are 10,000 fees above the level of thewsex. A monster shark thirty-fivo feet long, twenty feet in eircumference and weighing over four tons, was cantured recently in Monterey bay, on the Pacitie coast. A peculiar storm occurred at Bedford, Pa., one day last week. For fitteen minutes hail, rain and xn\ulmrwn fell together, and in such quantities that tne_earth was' eovered over nearly a mile square, In Chestertield county, Virginia, recently a colored candidate for office was defeated use he wore a white shirt. It was the only immaculate rag of that kind in the dis- rrict, but it was too mueh for his fellow citi- zens, and they “scratebed” him. X six feet deep were filled with sea and allowed to evaporate under the sun satisfy my little friends. 1308 FARNAM_STREET. _ maha Clothing Co. 1308 FARN AM-ST. EACH PURCHASER OF GOODS TO THE AMOUNT OF $2.50 TWill ke Presenited ~vitlhh a Ticlzet THE NEW YORK AND OMAHA CLOTHING COMPANY NK! 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WH CARRY IN STOOK RUBBER “Pish Brand" Coats, Bulbs, Alr Plllows, Brushes, e o8, Brewer's Hose, Ci 'a) Capes, Atomizérs, Ohrtri Bands, Catheters, Bandage Gum, al Pants, Bed 5 Qombs, B.B.& P.Co. Belting, Comb Cleaners, Corks, Belt Hooks, Bellows Cloth, Bib, D Biankets, Booth & Shoes, oys Oaps, Boys Coats, Dougles, Bracelets, Bre Pamps, Br Buf Boston Beltin, Guspado ar Chair Tips& Diapers, . Lenther‘!emng; Pure Oak Tanned. Garriago Cloth, ge Bags, Clothing, Face Copy Book Sheets, Fingor Cots Carpeting, Fl Cork Screws, Curry Combs, Shields, N Door Bauds. Douches, Drill & Duck, Door Mats, Dresa Shi€lds, Hair Crimpers, Hair Pins, Co Elastio hands ouplings, S Iiose Pipes, Hose Reels, 8, Hot Wi ower Sprinklers, Floor Scrapers, Force Cups, Frutt Jar Rings, et Gap “"Cloth, Buffers, “ Coats, ats, Waterproots, Matting, Galter Straps, Mirrors, Gun Cove: Gutta Perc Gymnasium Hair Curlers Martingalo Mats, Nipples, Nursing Bibs. Nursing Botties, Nursery Sheeting, Nav oie vers, Packing, Drinking Cups, 1. B, &P, Co.Palls, Bypho Perfaction Box Syrings, Spittoo Poncils, Wi Pen holders. e’ Bottlos, Pessarios, ", Plano Covers, Plpos Do Stems, ut Sprinklers, Furo Rubiber, s, Pistol Pockets, Rattles, Rubber Dam, ds, Rulel Repairing Cloth, Shatt Rubbers, Bhoes & , Sink Scrapers, Seoops, Bhooting Coats, Bling shots, Rolf Bpo PI! Pla; ng, nko Bags, Spoculums, !llnxn. 8 men's Goods, lothing, Sta ps, Stationer's Gum, wimming Jackote Syinges ‘Parfection Bogy ‘Thimbles, Throat Bags. Tabing, Tamblérs, . leeth'gRings Tobacco Fouches, Trotting Rolls, Urinaln Umbrell Ventiiating Soles, Wagon Apro Wagon Cover Toots, Wakon Spring, Wonthor Strips, Wabbing, Wadlug Pant wator Botlle Window Cleatiers, Wringor Kolls, «(0%s, Rubber and Cotton Belting, Packing and Hose. Sole agents in Omaha, Manufacturers of “‘PERFECTION BOX SYRINGES." Manufacturers of “FISH BRAND RUBBER GOODS.” OMAHA RUBBER COMPANY, Sollcited and will Recelve Prompt Attention. 1l Ord there would be two inches of salt on the bot- tom. Taking the average depth of the ocean to be three miles, there would be a layer of pure salt 200 feet thick on the bottom of the Atlantic, Seventeen years ago Mrs. Rossana Dennis, ot Tiftin, O., died of dropsy. The other day when the body was disinterred it was found to be thoroughly petritied, with the exception of the feet. 1t was so beavy thatten men were required to move it. A ‘plece chipped from the pody resembled flinty limestone. During a severe storm at Hecla, Penn,, large flocks of wila geese and ducks flyiny northward were driven down, and then they were attracted by the light of the coke ovens., Many birds fell upon the ovens and flound- erod around, dazed by the light or singed by the heat and about ten geese and fwenty ducks were captured. ‘The Americus (Ga.) Recorder tells of a pet- ritied strawberry which was grown on the place of the Messrs. Heys, near that city, and which was watched carefully by them during the stage of pertritieation. ~ After it had be- come hard it was taken to a jeweler's and made into a breastpin, It is beautifully col- ored, aud weighs two ounces. “Twenty years ago John Flynn shut himself up in his house near Marquétte, Mich., and remained there for twenty years unril taken out by ofticers the other d.’\‘y. He lived with his sister, and has a son who hasn’t been out of doors In nine years, The R man was hidden and couldn’t be found when the ofticers searched the house. Filynn was ul kfi'.llupl d dirty, and fought the pfticers like a tigel Au old cavalryman-says that a horse will never step on a man intentionally standing order with cavairy that should a man become dismounted he must lie down and be perfectly still. 11 he docs 5o the en- tire company will pass over him an i he will not be injured. A horse notices where he is going and is on the lookout for & tion to put his foot on, Itis an instine him, therefore, to step over a prostrate man. The injuries caused by a runaway horse are m-nrl)'ul\\-n(ys intlicted by the animal knock- ing people down and not by epping on them, Mr. Trotter of Charlotte, N. case of a eat adoptingyoung ra ing for them as her own ' offspring. Trotter’s little boy found a nest of rabbits and ried them into the when they were taken in care by the which had lost her kittens tae day before. This motherly feline nursed and” nutured the youne rabbits with as much care as she had” bestowed upon her own kittens, and they seemed entirely at ease under the care of the foster mother. Unfortun v, how- ever, another eat about the house found the young rabbits and Killed them, ‘Tlie waiis of the mamina eat were touching for several dayf after the 10ss of her adopted family. Mrs. Atkinson, of Alleghany, entered her nursery yesterday and was horritied at wi ‘Ihe fawily cat had atf d her old ehild, who was lying sick on the The cat was sitting on the breast of the Each of its fore paws was firinly tixed in'the child’s eheek and its mouth was glued to that of the boy. He was struggling as much as he could, and with one hand was trying to push the cat away. As 800D as the animal saw the lady i§ showed wught. It reports'a and ear- r. oung house, 1008 Farnam St., OMAHA, NEB. ing upon the mother bit her n She finally beat it off by stabbing it with a pair of shears. The mother found the child " unconscious, Her cries brouzht assistance, and after restoratives had been ad nistered the child was able to talk. He knew nothing except that the ca$ had wakened him up, trying, as he ulltli ‘0 take my breath.” The little fellow Isin & precarious condition. the shoulder. ———— Operates in Back Numbers. New York Tribune: I\c:xrlrv everyone m New York has heard of “‘Back Num- ber” Budd, who puts away every day fifty copies of each New York newspaper to sell them to customers yeurs hence at 500 to 5,000 per cent profit, It 15 reported that he once received $700 for a single newspaper. Recently he was called upon by some Kansas men, among whom was Senator Ingalls, who asked his assistance in procuring a compiete file of the Leav- enworth Journal for the two years that 16 was under the management of John Hen- derson, during the agitation that resulted in the Lecompton constitutional connene tion and the establishing of Kansas as a free state. The file was desired for the Kansas Histor! society, and they wera willing to pay 10,000 for it, e For sick headache, female troubles, neuralgic paing in the head, take Dr. J. H. McLean's Litttle Liver and Kidoey Pillets,. 25 cents a vial, | 7 i