Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1887, Page 10

R ——g- S—) TR L ANERIGAN PICTURES Acor A View of tho City of Mexioo, Oacs Oalled the “‘Venice of America.” INTERESTING STREET SCENES. Chapultepoc—Dueling Grounds—Fix- cursion in the S8uburbs—The Ball Iight — Theatresi—{National Muscum. Written for the Bee by Grace Deane Hunt.] My heart grew lighter as 1 thought of the grand journey before us. Before nightfall eool breezes would come to re- fresh us, and we should behold what was once called the “Venice of America’ —the City of Mexico. As she was then she lay a fair city, surrounded by water, a gleam- ing jewel watched over by grand, grim mountains, one mighty monntain guard- ing her with fire, steam and lava. He wore himself out in the task, and now only a sigh, an occasional groan escapes him as he brocds upon the loag-dead, ill- fated races of early Mexico. 1 will not describe the grandeur of that upward ride of between seven and eight thousand feet; but forever will the depth of its tropical growth be imprinted on my mind, forever the brilliancy of its flowers gleam before my eyes, forever their fragrance sway my senses, for- ever shall I behold those mount- ains in their grandeur rise high and still higher, while yet higher still rises on llly%uewfldvn:d vision the snowy out- line of Orizeba. Over and above them all this white mountain is outlined against the azure sky. ¥ But the afternoon and evening grew long spent in a_car filled with cigar smoke and, to us, unintelligible Spanish words, and black syes. We slowly en- tered the station at THE CITY OF MEXICO while eagerly I looked about me for a air of honest, blue Baxon eyes—and lound none. But a night's rest wholly restores our jaded spirits and we awake to dazzling sunshine, bright blue sky, clanging o many befls, and to the charm of the Mexican capital, which lies mellowed by the sunshine, rich in_ycars, mpystical in apcient rites and legend—a city dis- tinct from all others. As we walk the well-worn tlagstones, we are conscious of great enthusiasm, strange sights greet the eye, stranger sounds smite the ear. Flap, flap go the nwmnfis in the morning’s delicious breeze, the sun sparkles on the windows of elegant shops bearing, to us, strange names,such as La Ksmeralda (the emerald) for a jew- elry cstablisnment: El {Jin de Venus (the foot of Venus), La esclava de la Moda (the slave of fashion), for prominent shoo stores. We swr to *nzu at the pretty Spunish_boots here displayed, but soon turn to look upon the passing crowd so national in character. The glittering black eye looks at you restlessly, the ‘women,many of them wearing the grace- ful Spamish lace mantilla, or without any head covering,display to advantage their well dressed, glossy hair. Crowds of eons jostle you. La fler de San Juan’ the flower of Saint John), sings a high voice, and an Indian woman, holding tightly pressed agninst her brown bosom a mass of delicate white blossoms,pauses a second beside you, then passes on with her fragrant burden. All i8 not rush here asitisinthe United States. That the restless spirit of haste does not ubide here is quickly noticed, Ono wonders why he has ever hurried himself in life, why he has never en- joyed before the iniluence of the sun and the flowers. ‘With a ‘‘peep-peep’’ comes the chicken vender, rather a dirty figure, to be sure, but picturesque. W hite cotton pantaloons over which he wears leather ones,slashed at the side, allowing the white cotton to escape in a full fold. ~ A white shirt con- fined at the waist by a red sash or belt completes the costume. Over his sloop- ing shoulder he balances along pole, trom either end of which dangles a bunch of chickens tied by their feet. He passes on to make way for the courtly fruit seller who,with the air of a hidalgo, lowers from his stately head a basket of sunny mangos, and placing them at your feet, bids you buy. ‘The Plaza Mayor is sparkling in the morning light—in its center stands the rncclu'f and-stand, mported from Paris by the Emperor Maximilian. Well kept walks surround and extend from it. The grass plots are carefully tended, and tlowers add color to the scene. Copies of fine statuary please the eye, while the whole is surrounded by a fine marble walk, Benches of open-worked iron ive happiness to the footsore. The na- jonal palace being opposite to this charming spot brings the government ofticers through these walks, and distin- guished-looking men many of them are, aristocratic in feeling and bearing. Though never willing to soil their hands with a paper parcel, yet on any morning they can be seen bearing to or from the bath house their towel. They will be closely buttoned to the neck in an oyer- coat, hardly in condition to meet their fair friends. A pathetic little gronp advances, poor and rn‘;god, trailing their rags in the dust of sorrow, afew women and a man, bearing in_their midst a litile blue coftin, painted with silver stars, the little figure within is exposed to view, veiled only with wayside flowers. Weary with street scenes and the hot sun, wo hail the cleanest of many wait- ing hacks ana order the bright- eyed driver, with his silver trimmed sombrero, to drive us at once to the most interesting spot in Mexico, Chapultepec. Rattling through the prin- cipnfi’s(n’cls of the city, Plateros and San Francisco, on past the alameda, we soon enter the broad, well macadamized Paso deo l1a Reforma, through which the pure air blows, blows from yonder white e-‘; »d _ Popocatepelt (the Smoking Hil ISK Already we feel inyigorated and soon behold at the terminus of the drive, on commanding ground, the noble cattle. Well it stands, high above the dark forest surrounding it, its sturdy walls painted in white and in Pompeian colors, its wide balconies overlooking the country, A sense of pain creeps over me as [ "think of the ill- stared monarch of Mexico, Montezuma, who lived and flourished on that spot, falling at last, in the prime of 'manhood, at the height of gmflury A victim to the rapacious Span- are Soon we enter the grounds; peace secws to enter with us as we roll under the great cypresses. These fine old trees were hundreds of years old at the time of the Spanish conquest; they whisper and #igh of the rise and fall of nations, of the fuel demo htion by strangers’' hands, or an _untaught race, and of the then richly cultivated grounds around their jagged roots. Upward we guze into their tender green (!Flhl, shadowed ‘by grey, trailing moss; soft,sighing winds float over and about us permeated by a delicious odor as of cedar. A whisper floats here and there that at night oan be seen, flitting from tree to treo, the x‘hoat of long dead Marina, the faithful interpreter and mistress of fifteen feet in di- ameter, is named “*Montezama.” Under this tree he walked in his feathers and k‘uh. Still exists here the bath of lontezuma,remarkable only for its clear, limpid wal In these historical {I‘Dlllldl the duels of to-day are fought. Why allow this soil, once colored with the blood of heroes, to bear such cruel and unworthy stain? Suddenly breaks on the air the sound of a bugle: it comes from the castle; obeying it a5 noall we begin the ascent of the upwinding road. The higher we rise,the more cnchanting grows the view, A walk of ten or fifteen minutes over this road, lined with tall vases which are ra- dient with flowers, brings us to the castle entrance. We present our permit to en- ter, cross the stone paved court where the military students are exe ing, on to the front and old part of the building. A slender, graceful, marble airway leads us onto s wide marble por- tico facing the old eity. W hat a scene lies before us! beautiful to the last degree, Against the azure sky rise the grand old mountains, the loftiest of which are snow-crowned Popocatepetl and his near neighvor Iztaccihuatl, (the white woman), while lesser mountains are gradually lost in the blue distance. The y with her many domed churches nestles at their feet; the sound of a bell from one of the tiled domes is wafted on the air and that is the only souna that reaches us. To the right,” through broad lands shadowed by quivering aspens and curi- ous pepper-tre stretches o fine black line; it is the street railway running to the lovely suburban village of Tacubaya and San Angel, of wyich one can cateh a glimpse through the trees. We turn from this view silently and enter a veritable hanging garden, created here above the lower apartment The corridors sur- rounding the garden are decorated in Pompeian colors and figures, exquisitly furnished apartments opening onto them, and in these I can sce the ghost of long dead nobles. I tread softly and re erently throngh them lest I rudely awaken a sigh from out the past. Here lived Maximilian and Carlotta; here, the latter planned the paseo, lead- ing from here to the city, with many other improvements. In those days court beauties, swept, with their long trains through these balconies to wait upon their majesties, who did, it scems to me, more good for Mexico than has ever been done since. These old rooms of the castle have lately been altered and refurnish for President Diaz _and the coming presidents. A beautiful outer balcony surrounds this story from which one can look and look again at this fair country peopled by a strange, fascinating race—a peovle gov- erned by emotions, one moment loving Iittle children, or charmed by a bright blosson and the next—but step with me to the balcony on our left and look on what they love quite as well—the bull ring. There it lies, THE ONLY BLOT IN THIS PICTURE. There, on Sundays,flock the gay crowd, 1n tally-ho coaches, park phietons, cabs,in every kind of conveyance. Smilng eyes and lisfl.gny music, lures one on to behold the most cruel sport in the world. Sit with me & moment_in yonder ring, listen to the shouts of the excited people 1mpregnated with love of this cruel sport! Look at the trembling horse! listen to the bellow of the enraged bull as he adyances, pawing the dust, to toss out the life of the tortured horse. 1 put up my fan to hide the horrid act, and the little boys, seated in the box with me, drag it down that I might onjloy the sight of the entrails of the mute, dving horse as they dangled around his poor, stumb- ling feet. A sickening scnsation over- wers me, and the shouts of the de- ighted people die farther and farther away. A ripple of mirth is spreading around, what is it! a cowardlv bull has jumped over the enclosure, is running over the seats, up into the boxes, for his life; in a tumbling mass the crowds vanish be- fore him when whiz! goes the reata, down rolls the bull and the people joyfully re- seat themselvese The bull is dragged into the ring, whereibe stands to meet the much waunted Matador, a man in this instance in possession of seventy years. And these seventy years have brought hit skill to kill a tortured ani- mal 1n a reélly muoh approved manner. He deftly drops the maddeningly red cape, #nd cold steel flashingly enters the quivering flesh of the brute. Applause. The blood spurts from nose and mouth and one of God's creatures waveringly sinks on his knees while life expires. But turn from the ring, linger a mo- ment over the garden, the eye will rest upon a low fence enclosing & mysterious black hole, or rather, a subterranean pas- sage leading into tha gronnds below. Iit is just large enough for a man to creep through and was used in time of war as asecret passage. Isometimes wondered, however, if positics, or the light of love led the wanderer through it. Added to the old part of the castle 15 a new building devoted to an exception- ally fine military college, corresponding to our own at West Point. Reluctantly retracing our steps down the delicate staisway and through the court yard we tarn our faces homeward. A tropical sighlis peginning to spread her mantle about us, luminous stars shine in a soft sky, soon to be lost n the full- ness of the moon. Silently we travel through the gaily filled paseo, a fuir world about us. Here, in passing, one sces many handsome women, who, ac- cording to an old custom, were formerly not allowed to walk on the street. but happily, owing to the influx ot strangers the custom is fast becoming extinct in the City of Mexico. We reach the streets brightened by electric lights, a band fills the air with sweot music. Proud horses with their finely dressed riders prance by us--thus we reach the hotel. THE THEATERS OF MEXICO. as well as many of the hotel, strike a new-comer as being well marked by the soiled fingers of time, but one becomes so accustomed to it that this 1s soon overlooked and many a bright evening can be spent in them. Last night at the theater Nacional we saw a Spanish zarzuela (light overa) entitled, *“El Testamento Azul.” It is filled with sparkling music, the most attractive fea- ture being a danza, sung and danced b the three principal charactes Th - lowing very churacteristic incident lent piquaney to the play: One actor is made to ask another if he will go to the circus with him, at which the invited one asks him what the attractions are to be; he 1s answered that the attractions and curiosi- ties consist of so many riders, lions, bears and thirsty Americans. This theater is a remarkably fine, old building, the en- trance and interior capable of bLemng made very handsome. I should say that its seating capacity was equal to that of the Boston theater, or even greater, and its stage quite as large. Modeled after European theatres, it has no balconies, but tier unon tier of boxes, which are taken by families, and the prescenium boxes by the fushionable young men of the city. When Grau’s French Opera company is here the theatre, especially on Sunday nights, presents a brilliant spectacle; the ladies beautifully dressed, many of them remarkable for their fine jewels. In the parquet a crowd of men, who, between the acts stand opera lass in hand, hats on, and ‘‘play the bear'’ to their lady admirers. ey used to smoke at this time, but that custom has fallen out of use. ‘This French company is a great favor- ite with the Mexicans, who,for six weeks, or more, everg winter, nightly fill the house to see the voiceless, but vivacious Theo, or the insinuating Judic. After the theatre,to be fashionable, one must goto the Concordia, Mexico's aristo- cratic restanrant, eat ices, drink punch, or wine, away into the small hours. The belles and beaux will flock about you and their pretty Spanish words will enter the right ear and more than probable meet & French word coming in at the left. Noxt in size to the theatre Nacional is the Principal, then follow the Abeu and Hidalgo. To the Mexican, quife as attractive as any of the theaters, is the prefty circus erected by the energetio THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY JUNE Orrin brothers. In its center lies the ordinary ring, cncircled by rows of raised chairs and buck of these a row of boxes. It is gmily decorated and lighted by electrie lights. The best performers of Europe and the United States are en- fi"k“‘l- in the summer, to perform here uring the winter months, Each actor is given a benefit at the close of the sea- son, the Mexieans loading their favorites with mouey and costly presents. One of the great attractions of the city, is THE NATIONAL M M, a massive building enclosing the custom- ary courtyard filled with tlouring plants, shrubs and palms; across this courtyard, facing the entrance is the room_ devoted to the Aztee gods, the calendar stone; the awiul, but fascinating sacrificial stone— here 1t lies, eight or ten feetin diameter, perhaps three feet in thickness, belted with carved figures, Afsplendid block it is. What a merey that it is voiceless that it may not recount the agony of the thousands of victims yearly sacrificed on it. Inits center is a small excavation an inch or two in depth, and leading from it a narrow drain through which the blood flowed into an urn placed at the base of the stone. Here, too, 13 the carved yoke of stone by which, placed over the neck, the priests held the victims down. A priest with a sharp flint then tore the flesh from over the heart, and with his hand drew the ‘mlpnu(infi smoking member out, offering it, with a loud er to the hideous god. Weird musie, be ing of drums, and dancing, accompanied this butchery. The urns for recciving the blood are beautiful in design and work- manship. Attached to the temples 1n which these sacrifices were made, were orders of priestesses, resembling closely the Romish religious orders, who, ac- cording to an historian,entered the sister- hood at the age of twelve or thirteen, taking vows for one, or more years, or forever. They were actuated by devotion to religion, or a re to purify some fanlt. They were subjected to the severest conventual diseipline, suffering pain of death for any glmn! error. In the reli- gious dances they took part their hands and ankles adorned with plumes. Dur- ing time of penitence they would wound the soft part of the ear, and paint their checks with the blood, as a sacred rouge. The great Aztec calendar stone, was discovered at the depth of half a rod, or more, on leveling the great plaza in 1770. This greatest of Aztec relics waighs, ac- cording to Humboldt, 24,400 kilgramos, which 15 equal to sabont twelve tons. From it the Aztees caleulated their relig- ious fiestas, and the sun clock that it bore told the priests when to prepare for their ceremonies and sacrifices. The Aztecs possessed great astronomical knowledge. From the top of their temples or teo- calli, in the form of pyramids, the priests observed the course of the heavenly bodies to determine the time of ihe fies- tas as well a8 the hours of the day and night, heralding them to the people by means of horns, or trumpets of gri power. At the basc of the temples, two perpetual fires were fed with incense night and day, the firepans, guarded by the ever watchful priests. Ascend the broad stone stairway, halt- g, to look uapon a spirited life-size por- trait of the emperor Maximilian; it por- trays him on horseback, where, I am told, he appeared tothe best advantage. In these upper apartments are scen many Aztec musical instruments; one will give an idea of all: the huehuett, or great drum, an ugly affair, a cylinder of wood some three feet in height, curiously carved and painted, at the top its head of dressed deer-skin, adjustable to in- crease or dimfnish tho sound. It was played with the fingers, and capable of being played with great skill. Like many other of their instruments it is said to have been heard a distance of two or_more miles. Here are funcral urns decorated in hieroglyphics 1ndicating the name and denth of the deceased, whose skull and skin boues, or ashes only, repose within, A belle of to-day would hardly wear an Aztec ornament, yet they are not so far removed 1 design from those now in fashion. Imagine those feather bedecked, gaily attired warriors of the old race, with not only ear-rings, but nose-rings as well, collurs, bracelets and rings around the arms and ankles,and the nobles,alone, aring in the under lip. They followed in their workmanship various styles, or manners, some of the ornaments and amulets being formed of geometrical fig- ures, others portraying skulls or the hends of birds and animals, and similar fantastic designs, and some symbolical :Ig‘tll'fls apparently, whose signiticance is ost, ‘The Aztec felt the charm of smoke like the Mexican of to-day. This is said to have been his method of enjoying the delicate luxury: he ‘‘rolled the” tobacco leaves tightly together, mixed with aro- matic herbs or perfumes, and arranged them in the hollow end of a reed.” It is not known when the Mexican first n;fltoptud the pipe, or the universal cigar- ctte. There are here some very interesting pieces of ?irmre writing. "The Aztecs had no alphabet; paper was made of the tiber of the magury plant finely dressed, or hides were used; the instrument em« ployed for the work comparing with the toman stylus. The colors bright and varied, were made from vegetal mal and mineral dyes. A faint display of the old time teather work can be seen; curious coins as well as_armor of hides; the shiclds formed of skins adorned with a plate of metal and plumes. and strengthened by yards of reed-grass, Bows and arrows,and lances, that must have executed cruel work with their flint and copper tips. One apartment is devoted to the silver and china gathered from the table of the Emperor Maxmilian. Another room to stuffed animals, birds and an interesting collection of tropical insects and reptiles. Having passed down the stairs take one more look around the court yard, and behold through the open door ‘of a room, the coach of the Emvpress Carlota; a ponderous conveyance surely, of gold, red velvet and white satin. Passing out of the building we stop to to buy fruit of the old fruit seller there stationed, how refreshing it is after hav- ng passed a forenoon with the musty relics of a dead race. A SPECIMEN FROM SPACE, Analyzing a Chunk of Metal That Fell From the Sky. Pittsburg Dispatch: A rarely interest- ing analysis is now being made at the laboratory of the Edgar Thomson steel works. It is an analysis of a large mete- oric mass founa in Mexico, the major part of which is now in the famous Yale collection. Some time ago Professor Brashear delivered an address upon meteors before the congregation of Dr. Swift's church on Arch street, Allegheny. Among his adudience was Mr. Henry Phipp, of the firm of Clmefiim. Phipp & Co., who expressed himself as being much interested in what Mr. Brashear told him in regard to this particular meteoric find. He asked the latterif it would be possible tu get a specimen of the mass for his private cabinet. Mr. Brashear answered that it would, “but it would come high,'* at the same time giv- ing Mr. Phipps the address of the parties who might be able to furnish the rare specimen. Professor Brashear thought no more of it for some time until there came te him one day a carefully wrapped package and letter from Mr. Phipps, It was a three pound piece of the Mexican mass, and the letter informed Mr. Brash- ear that if he could cut it in two he could keep halt. The operation was success- fully performed, and the filings or dust made in cutting it were taken by Mr. Phipps for the purpose of analysis, which bas not yet been conclu e, ani- THE FUNNY FELLOW'S FORUM, One Man Found Too Mean for an Abode in Satan's Domain, HER LOVER MADE THEM WEARY. When My Dream Comes True—A Club He Forgot—Too Much Insurance —He Drew the Line at Hair Dye—Funny Clips. “When My Dream Comes True." After James Whitcomb Riley. \When my dream comes true, when my dream comes true; You ean bet your sweet existence 1 know just what Il do, When my ship comes sailing into port as full as she can hold Of silks and laces, jewels rare, and piles and piles of gold, Iwill l;\nlll»w her example and will get myself “full,” too, In the saccharine hereafter--when my dream comes true. When my dream comes true, this shabby cont I wear Will be chaneed into a brondeloth, and I'il have a dozen pair Of the finest striped breeches that your eyes did e’er behold. And every pocket in them will be filled with sterling gold, And L'l spend it like a nabob, and my glrls both old and new, Will say, “He is blooded; he's adandy”— when my dream comes true. When my dreamn comes true,when my dream comes true, T'll paint this town of carmine hue and leave not a streak of blue. I'll drive the fastest horses and own the finest yacht, And thefellow who keeps up with me will find the pace is hot; Oh, I'll spend my money freely and be rich as any Jew, And “'buck the tiger” in his den—when my dream coiues true. & When my dream comes true, I fear 1'll do such things, My riches all will vanish sor wealth, 'tis said, has wings; And when at last 'm stranded on sity's cold shore Say, will 1 ery and whimper and ask for just one more Such chances to use my riches to show what I can do? Perhaps. But I won't spend them-—till my dream comes true. W. Brow —Dhiladelphia News, May 12, 18 The One He Forgot. ‘“John, 1 would like to mvite my friend, Mrs. Smalley, this evening. Will you be able to be in?” “No, my dear; 1 must attend a meeting of the Kmghtsof Honor to-night.” “Well, to-morrow evening?'’ *1 have the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and vou know—" *“What about W ednesday evening' *0, the Odd Fellows meet that night, and on Thursday I bave & meeting of the Chosen Friends to attend; on Friday the Royal ‘emplars; on Saturday there's a special meoiing of the Masonie lodge, and I couldn’t miss that; and then Sunday—let me see—what is there on Sunday night, my dear?” “The Grand and Ancient Order of Christian Fellowship.” *‘Why, I had forgotten; am I a member of that— let me see—"" “But you have forgotten another society, John, of which you were m“l“ a member.” “What's that?”” “Your wife's.” Adver- The Jubilee Ode. Ena'ish Humorist. Fifty times the Laureate sharpened his pen- cily Fitty times he turned over the rhyming dic- tionary: ‘Then he decided to give up rhymes altogether. He, the Patriot Laureate, He, the Lord Manufacturer, Shnl,}ed a stately memorial, Made 1l'rozlll¥‘ zorgeous After Walt Whitman's pattern, Rieh in blackness, in duilness, Which might soeak to the centuries ‘Throuzh the M zine Maemillan, Of this year ot our jubiloe. He Didu't G Wall Street News: 'Going aboard this steamer, sirt” asked the captain of a gentleman who wis surveying the boat as she was making ready to leave the wharf in Buffulo. ‘“Ihat depends. Captain,what is your boat insured for " Sixty thousand dollars, sir.” “Abh. " Sixty thousand, and she's worth about $35,000. Captain, you needn’t wait on dmy account. 1 will take the rail- road.” The Song of the Mosquito. @Grace Denio Litchfield in » t. Nicholas. Hum! hum! Um coming, coming, Don’t you hear me humming, huinming, Like some distant drummer drumming His tired troops to sleep? Rat tat-tat, and hum-hum hum, Near, more near, I come, I come, With'some to dine to sup with soine, With all a feast to keep. Hum!hum! You eannot say and dine and do not pay. Behind me, when I go away, Just here, and here, and here, 1'1l leave a tiny round bright spot-- brand new comn, laid down red hot, In full return for all I got. I pay most dear, most dear. Hum! hum! I've supped and rarely ; And you still are sleeping fairly, Hum-hum-hum! We twain part squarely, All my dues I pay for. One more taste. and one more s1p, ¥rom your eyelid, from your lip, Then away L'll skip-sKip-skip— There’s nothink more to stay for. Left Out in the Cold. His Satanic Majesty (to applicant for admission), What may I call your name? Applicant. I haven't got any. I'm the man who has been writing anonymous contributions to the newspapers. His Satanic Majest7. ho sent you to me? Avpplicant. Peter. « His Satanic Majesty (indignantly). Well, Peter ought to know better. You can’t got in here, my friend; this place is too good for you. t Couldn't Stand That. _ D etroit Free Press: Two Brush stree, boys ab out ten years old were rubbing against ea ch other the other day andex- hibiting e very anxiety to come to blows but still wanting a reasonable excuse when one_of them called out: “Your father is bow-legged! “And yours has a turn up nose,” hotly repliud the other. 'Thp_y sny your brother has been ar- rested! “‘And your sister’s husband has run away and_left her a grass widow!"’ *Its a lie! You don't own the house you live in!" “‘And you've gota rag carpet on the parlor floor, for I've been in there and seen it!" *Pooh! I know something!" “No you don't!” *Yes, I do, Your mother dyes her hairt" “Take that back?"” I won't!" “Won't you? Then ——!" And they closed in mortal combat and rolled 1n the mud. — They Meant Business. Girl's brother (while girl is dressing to receive company.) ' What is a snide, Mr. Jones? Girl's bean (who had just called.) A snide? Well, my boy, 1 can hardly tell you. Girl's brother. Well, I guess I can. Girl'sbeau. Well what is a snide? Girl's brother, Well a snide is a fel- ler that comes up -to. the Louse every night and burns coal oil and coal in the stove and never says'to Mamie when ghall you name the day, that's w Mamie says a snide is. Ih(url'- beau. And does Mamie say Aty Girl's brother. She does, and she told pav last night to give you & booting if you don't propose to her. Girl's beau. She did? Girl's brother. She did, and you should see her eyes flash when she did so. Girl's be: Good heavens! Well, 1 must be goin. Gurl's brother. I wouldn't advise you to go, the bull dog's untied and pap's in the yard with a shotgun. Girl's beau ] must I do? Girl's brother. Prcyose to Mamie Girl's beau. Andif [ don't your father is to boot me, the dog is to bo set on me, nn’nl L am to run the risk of being shot be- sides? Girl's brother. Yes. You have been teaching Manue the various delinitions of kissing fora long time. Pap says there is only one definition of marriage, and that definition i splice. 1f you don't splice to Mumie father says he will break your back. Girl's beaux. Let us have piece. Let darling Mamie come in and we will hay the ceremony performed at once. An Irishman's Wit. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette: Judge Stowe, M. A, Woodward,John H. Hamp- ton, George W, Hazen, and a number ot other attorneys were standing on Dia- mond street, near Grant noon in conversation wh T gentleman from Ireland came along, and upproaching the judge with 1 mammoth smile, held out his hand and in a refresh- mgly familiar and cordial tone, ex- claimed: “Low are ye, judge? yer honor.” His honor, although not_being able to identify his admiring friend, shook hands, and then the latter continued: “Yer honor, it's my opinion that yer the foinest man on the earth.”” The judge blushed inwardly at this flattering tribute,and the lawyers laughed consumedly, “Yes, yer_honor,” resumed the man from the oul’ darth, * pointing to the court house, “‘that's a fine place ye'll have to sitin. I'was standin’ lookin® at it the other day, yer honor, admirin’ its lovel Wntiful a—archy—archy tecter “Why you are quite poetic,” done of the attorn, _“ThatIam. I in me, so I have. was shtandin’ there, whin a man along—an’ he wore shpecks, judge, too— an’ he was a lukin’ an’ a lukin’ this way at at the court house, an’ he sez to he, ‘What's that buildin’ fur, 1 ‘Doan’t yer.'sez I ‘Well, 1l tell yer. That, sor, is a monument put up by the peaple of Allegheny county to the niemory o' that great lawyer, Jimmy Kilday, an’ that great o-ra-tor, John ¥ O'Malley,'" At these words Judge Stowe almost collapsed and doubled up with laughter, while the assembled attorneys laughed until they woke the echoes farand near. ‘The old Irishman then ambled on, richer by several quarters and dimes which ipped into his hand asa reward for his wit. Glad to sce ye, inter- History of Millions, Wilksbarro (Pa.) Leader: A resident of this ity returned the blank sent him under the personal property tax with the following endorsenent: bid and silver 1 have none, pent long ago for women and rum; Sllver plate and watches in pawn, My property, real and personal gone. oever thought to this it would come? Nobody now but an Ameriean bum.” A Husband Already Staked Out, Esmerelda Longeoflin to Birdie McGin- ms—*We girls are getting up a picnic at the Bee Spring, and we i nvited Gil- hooly, Hostetter MeGinnis, Koskiusko Murphy und several other youni men to take partinit. Don't you want to go along¥” “Tam engaged to a young man from Houston, and he might object.” “I didn’t know that you were engaged. Of course, 1f you haven sure thing tor a husband you'don’t need to go on picnics at all. I'wouldn’t want to go on a pic- nic either if I had a husband already staked out.”” Mr. Pullman’s Ryar. Wall Stry ws: “Is Mr. Pallman aboarti?” he asked of the porter of a )ing car on an Ohio train, 0, 8ah; he an’t.’” “Do you represent Mr. Pullman?"’ “Well, suh, Misser Pullman built dis kyar an’ de rigular conductor runs de train; but in case you want valuable in- formashun 1 on you'd better inter- view me. 1'ze a sort of middleman, I 'apose How She Knew He Was Falling. “You are not as strong as you used to be, John,’" said a fond wife to her hus- band;"'I think it is about tiune you were getting some insurance on your life.” “Insurance on my lifc! ‘What are you talking about? I am as healthy as 1 ever was: insurance, indeed!”’ *‘Well, my aear, [ only mentioned it, you know, out ot respect for yourself; I thought you were failing.”’ “And what in the world put it into vour head that I am failing? Me failing? Why, 1 am as strong as a horse, and can run up three flights of stairs without taking a breath,” “Weil, it may be so;but I am afraid you are deceiving yourself.” “Deceiving myseif! Goodness gracious woman, what do you mean’’ “Don’t be so impatient. What makes me think you are failing is this: when you were courting me you could hold me on your lap three hours; now you eannot hold the baby on your lap three minutes.” What “Bride” Comes From. “Mother, why do they call a girla ‘bride’ when she gets married?’’ Because that't the right name for her then. I suppose.” “I'll bet L know."" “Well, why?” “*Cause ‘bride’ is took from ‘bridle,’ and they call her that 'cause thenis when she begins to put the bridle on her husband. Was it a bridle or a halter yvou put on pap?’ ““That'll do sir.” T AN OLD TIME SHOWMAN GONE. Lewis B. Lent, Circus Propriotor and Manuger—His Checkered Career. New York Herald, May 21: Lewis B, Lent, for fifty years a showman, died sud- denly Thursday evening at his residence, No. 246 Lexington avenue,in the seventy- fourth yeur of his age, leaving a widow, one son, L. B. Lent, and one daughter. - Mr. Lent was very stout,weighing over three hundred pounds, but enjoyed good health,save that he was for yearsafilicted with a cougb and labored respiration. He began his career in the show busi- ness when only about nineteen years old. His father, Benjamin Lent, was the or- iginal owner of ““Bett,” which, it is said, was the first elephant exhibited in Amer- ica. He heard of the avrival of the ele- hant in New York when at church one Sunday and went straightway to New York, bought the wonder and took it bome. A stock company was im- mediately formed among the neighbors to boom the elephant. Trick horses were then bought, and what was then the “'greatest show on earth,” created a furore of enthusiasm and made consider- able money for the proprietors. Benja- min Lent bought an interest for his son in the circus of Brown & Fogg, with whom he remained two scasons. 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I gained 30 poundy ve kepta s and cheerfull d Have found immes 1 enjoyed the first Ved B fis soothing el DANILL SHINE, Osage Mission, Kansas, Trndo supplicd by Riche maha. RILEY & McMAHON, REAL ESTATE, 310 South 15th Street Bargains in tho following additions: BEDFORD PLACE, CLEVELAND PLACE, BRIGGS PLLACE, ETAINSCOM FPLACE, Some choice property on Farnam, Dougla and 20th street 195 all modern improvements, on Georgin ave. Lent and exhibited in th land. Mr. Lent was a partner the originial bhippodvome known as Franconi's Hippodrome, which about tharty-four years ago was located on the site now occupied Dy the Fifth Avenue hotel. Avery Smith and others were in- terested with them. Mr. Lent was, later, a_partner in Bar- num’s traveling show; afterward formed a artnership with General Rufus Welch, of Phladelphia, where they ran Welch' & Lent's national @circus and amphitheater. Alsy’ congerped in an- other theater and circus in the Quaker city, where “horse dramus” were pro- duced, such as “‘Herne, the Hunter,” the *Ca ot of the Ganges,” th ‘Bronze Horse” and *“‘Putnam’s Ride.” hen the war began Mr. I P. Christy went to the Wi the National circus and exhibited there two seasons. On his return to New York he took Wallack's old theatre, known then as “The New Idea,” at Broadway and Broom streets, and ran it as a eircus, He afterwards bought the **Hippothea- tron,” a circus on Fourteenth street, op- posifo the acadomy of music. It was successfully run by Mr. Lent until August, 1872, when he sold out to Bar- nuw and then went on the road with the traveling New Cork circus. In 1873 Mr. Lent ran a circus and menagerie in the Madison Square garde Among the long li ich he was connected us po director were Howe & Cushing’ States circus and trained lions ron’s French and American circus; Lent's Now York circus, combined w J. M, French’s circus and menagerie; Van Amburgh's go'den menageric; Adam Forepaugh's aggregation, Batch- elder & Davis' inter-ocean shows, Rob. bins & Covlin’s railroad shows, John O'Brien’s_circus, museum and menag- erio, and Frank A. Robbins' circus and menagerie, with which he wound up_ his career in the show business in 1982, since ry'hlch he has led a comparatively quict ife. He accumulated and lost fortunes, but died a rich man. Some of Big Kd Rice's Work. One of the nerviest picces of work ever attempted by a professional crook was that performed by big Ed Rice eight or ten years ago, he being assisted in the work by Tom Bigelow of Windsor, On- i0. A pal of Rice's had been arrested in Indiana and sentto prison for attempt- ing to pass a forged check on a bank, The sentence was for three years, and the name of the man was Stettson. More than $1,000 was paid to lawyers to pre- vent his conviction, but it was a clear case, and nothing would save him. It was claimed that it was a case of mistaken identity, - and the newspapers discussed the af- fair in & manner to convince many of their readers that Stottson was a much- injured man. The sentence was no soorer in operation than there was talk that the governor would be appealed to to grant a pardon, and the convict had only served six weeks when it was an- nounced in Indianapolis and Chicago papers that the governor had agreed to grant a pardon, This was the sly work of Ed Rice with newspaper men. He claimed to be a New York lawyer and a cousin of Stettson’s. Bigelow claimed to be a r-in-law and a Chicago broker. was inserted in the papers atter the trial was for the benelit of the prison oflicials. It was published “only in pavers which found their ‘way into prison, and Stettson took good care that all should know that he was in daily expectation o a pardon. He had been in prison about soven weeks when Rice appenred one day and stated to the warden that the gov- ernor had issued and mailed a pardon, and, indeed, he was in the oflice when the mail was received and the pardon taken from the envelope. The warden prepured for the reception of the document. He believed that the gov- ernor had been abpealed to, and that he looked upon Stettson as an innocent man, The document was in perfect form, the siguature all right, and but for a trithng incident Stettson would haye walked out of the prison inside of an hour. Some one from Indianapolis who had business at the prison came in just as the warden was looking at the document, and re- marked that the governor had been ab- sent from the stafe for several days past and his signature could not be had to certain documents. Here was his signa- of shows with Dodge, California, Cumin t kood trivekage on Nicholus strect. country and BROOKEILINI, REDICIK'S 24, REEDS 24, AW TEIORINE. 10th, 16th, 16th A large, nt house ‘with Fino T-room house, 1zard, near 15th st. cheap. b-room house, 2ith noar Burdetto st., very cheup. nature to the pardon, attached only the ay before at Indianapolis, and the war- den would have been a poor stick not to see that something needed explanation. Rice was cool and coilected and had the other party not been a friend of the war- dan’'s his statement would have passed for a mistake. As it was the warden de- termined to investigate before glving Stettson his libe said to Ric ay, this signature 18 a forgery. wus there, then the document is all right.” “You can escertain by telegraph in an hour,” replica Rice, *I have some busi- ness at the bank, and I will return in three-quarters of an hour. While I do not see how this document can Le doubted, I yet desire you will take every precaution to render yourself safe.’” He went out to take u train out of the city and be heurd of no more, and inside of an hour it was known that the who'e paper was a forgery. Bigolow had nc- complished his part of the work in a suc- cessful manner, but Rice had failed through a trifling circumstance. Thera was an oflicial investigation into the matter, or rather, one was begnn anid then zealously hushed up, There was no question about the forgery of the governor's signature, but as to how Bige- low got the blank pardon and the seal of state was quite another matter. There had been no breaking and entering, and those who knew of the case came to the conclusion that bribery had brought thinge about. A certain” employe of the state who had access to the governor's oflice suddenly left for Texas, or some- where else, and the matter soon died out., Stettson served thirteen months of hig sentence, and then shammed sickness and escaped from the hospital. This same Rice and Stettson did a very bold piece of work in Philadelpmia about 81X _years ago, the lay being entirely different, Rice had some stolen bonds he was anxious to dispose of. They wero the public improvement bonds of some Ohio city, and for some renson the partv losing them had not notified brokers ar.d bankers of their loss. Rice, dressed as a enterd u stock broker's ofiice d he had taken the bonds in ex- change for some Virginia coal lands, and was only a fow minutes conyerting them intocash. Atthetimeof higvisitawealthy widow was in the oflice inquiring if she had not better sell certain United States bonds and re-itvest in land mortgages. Rice heard her name mentioned, and ho heard the broker advise her to seil. When she went awav he piped her home, and that afternoon he called at _the house as the confidential clerk of Bond & Co., looked over her sccurities, and gave her receipt, and took away with him $14,. 000 worth of honds, which wera negoti- ated before noon the next day, He was all alone in both jobs, and now, having sbout $25,000 in his possession, he determined on He changed gold and" secured @ pREsage Liverpool. Luck had singularly favored him in his undertakings, but now it as strangely deserted him. He desired to keap his ' money under his own cye, in- stead of placing it in the purser's safe. With the exception of a few hundred dol- lars he stored it away in his trunk, and on the fourth day out this receptacle was opened by means of false keys, and every dollar taken, The ship was raided from stem to stern, and various people kept under surveillance during the voyage, but Rice never recoyered a dollar of it. Two weeks after he landed in England the police arrested a swindler with a large amount of gold in his possession, but Rice dared not seek to identify it for fear of being arrested himself. — What Becomes of the Planos? Rio (Brazil) News: An_ American ex- change is very anxious to know what be- comes of the pianos, as the United States alone manufactured 919,000 from 1790 to 1855 inciusive, and the output in 1886 was about 48.000. We cannot say what be- comes of the American pianos, but some years of personal experience in Brazil has given us a notion of what becomes of a great many European pianos. They are polished up very nicely and shipped to Brazil, where their ‘j:mglmz. discord- ant sounds are slowly but surely filling all the asylums, hospitals and poor houses of l}m country with lunatics and hopeless invalids. R The palace of the mikado has been hghted for some time by eleetricity, and the Edison company has closed a contracg to lluminatw the cily of Tokio, to money to