Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1887, Page 12

THE - ELECTRICAL ~ WORLD. How to Become an Elcotrical Engineer— 8ome Practical Hints, GOT HER FOOT ON THE BUTTON. Incandescent Sights — A Telephone Btory—Eleotro-Plating the Dead —Electric Rallways — Tall Chimney as Conductor, “What course would you advise for a young man who wishes to be a first-class electrical engineer?'’ an amateur asked of a weil-known scientist, “I would advise you to pursue the studies of onc of the leading technical schools in this country, paying strict at- tention to mechanical engineering. Next & year's study abroad in one or more of the polytechnic schools. During the en- tire course time should be spent on the- oretical study, at the same time by no means neglecting practice in mechanical branches. Therefore, combine shop work with practical and theoretical study.” Itis » common fault in the scientific schools to burden the student’s mind with description of machinery and proe- esses now entirely out of date, on ac- count of the progress in the arts and sciences. 'The mind is taxed to remem- ber A'smachine, and B's process,and O's system, and D’'s operation, and £ method, and F's device or contrivance, and the purpose in view which brought to light all these is entirely lost sight of. On graduating, he finds himself ealle upon to give advice or direction to others. He often fails; he has not learned to rely on himself, or had practice in adapting means to ends, mechanically speaking. When he first began scientitic study new methods and processes suggested them- selves to his mind. Some, perhaps, were foolish: the rest may have been imprac- ticable, and occasionally one of som merit. The instructor, :\lrcudg over- worked, has cynically smiled at him; his wurnfa is gone, and he 18 now content to be fed on the husks of old harvests. The fundamental principles of the pnys- jcal und mechanical should be_taught experimentally, the pupil handling the apoaratus himself, and be given prob- lems to work out experimentally, which have not yet been solved, and enough there are of them, and simple ones, too. Frequent exercises may be given in in- venting, devising methods and means to accomplish a desired eud. An electrical engineer, while not an inventor to a great extent, should have the learning and traning to devise all necessary de- vices and perfect all details, for it is on such apparently unimportant matter that the success or failure of a system de- vends. Electric Transmission Through Air. M. J. Borgmann has succeeded in trans- mitling static electricity through the air for a distance of one and one-halt meters. One terminal of A Wiedemann galvan- ometer was connected to earth, the other 10 a platinum wire placed in the flame of insulated Jamp. At a distance of one and one-half meters from the lamp an ordmnr{ Bunsen burner was connected to » Holtz machine, the other conductor ut being to earth. When the lamp was highted the galvanometer showed no cur- rent, but when the Holtz machine was worked there were distinct indications of ® current, which were steady when the disk of the machine was rotated at a uniform rate, and reversed when the disk ‘was turned the other way. Got Rer Foot on the Button. Chicago Journal: A lady friend of mine told me of her first experience with an electric bell, She was visiting the house of a gentleman widely known in the electric manufacturing business, and whose house is well iitted up with all the modern electric contrivances. My friend noticed that the servant never remained in the dining room, but always appeared 8t the exact moment anything was re- ?ulrnd. without being summoned, as my riend supposed. She began to think the model servant girl was discovered, but one duy the hostess was indisposed and my friend was requested to pour the coffee in her place. iverything was going swimmingly until my friend accidentally aud unconsciously set her foot on the electric button fixed in the floor just at ber feet. The servant came in and stood awaiting an order. My friend shook her head, and the maid departed only to re- turn 1mmediately and ask what was wanted, This ocenrred a couple of times, much to the lady's x\nn()rulcm when her host laughingly explained things, and she found she had been M: the bell ever since she had d herselt, An Elcctric Globe. New Orleans Times-Democrat: The op- e heat o Saturday night, and the condition of the sky yesterday moraing at an early hour, indicated not wa‘n n but a surcharge of electricity in atmosphere. During the early morning the fitful tlashes of lightning played acutely around, seemingly with- ont regard to nervous dispositions and tive constitutions. About 11:32 o'clock the few pedestrians wending their '“ID St. Charles strcet were regaled with an electric phenomenon rarely wit- messed except at sea. The raindrops were falling at random, alone breakm, {nlg flasl the quiet of the hour, when a_ viv ‘was noticed, immediately followed by a globe of golden hue, which, exploding, an vent to a Ennd shower cf spray-like pations that dazzled the few ‘spec- tators of this gratuitous though beautiful pyrotechnio. 'he {Iob« descended at an angle of "".l; ive degrees, just abowe the inter- section of Poydras and St. Charles streets, and seemed about four feet in_di- ameter, and exploded within twenty feet of the ground with a detonation equal to & thirty-pounder. The electric display _will be hardly forgotten by the specta. tors, as the sight was exceedingly rare and brilliant Incandescent Lights. Brooklyn Litizen: When the Chicago press started from the N York nd Central depot last eveing at 6 ) k& the last car of the train attracted i tion from the bystunders by the i of soft, mellow Hf it which radiated ; its windows. This was due to the ten incandescent lights which were manged on either side of the car,the eleo- current to which were lunrlied by rivs invented bg a Brooklyn man, E Kookugi\(v of No. 414 Van Buren . streot. Mr, Kookogey has succeeded in solving the problem of non-polarization of primary batteries, and this at the ex- ! of JY“" of patient toil. Hereto- the difticulties in producing a steady continuous current of electricity by of a combimation, of chnmlcn{u in hhllve been wmany and apparently rable. great obstagle was the tendency to or form ealts, which finally he battery working entirely. By atient endeavor at lunfi:x umphed, practically, Kookogey b 'y has placed eleetric U lighting Wwithin the reach of the multi- The apparatus last night was placed be- the two middle wheels of the car aud occupied a space of about four fect It consisted of a battery of forty- cells, The last was intended for tualties which might arise, but was needed. total weight of the sixty-three cells 950 pounds; the ordinary storage bat- which in the past have been usea for illuminating vehicles, wmghinf nearly two tons. Twelve lights can be kept buining rfor twenty-eight consecutive hours at a cost of $5.63. The light is very pure and white, and, in hue, totall yun- like the yellowish color of the ordinary incandescent light in which the eleetric current is derived from dynamos, The car in question was lit when the train started. It arrived at Albany at 10 Q' m, and restarted on its trip back to New York at 2 a. m., reaching the Forty- second street depot at 7 o'clock. ~ All this time, including the four hours’ detention at Aibany, the h,iht was burning with undimmed luster. “In the car, to witness the experiment, were Dr. J. N. Thayer, Colonel W. R, French, Dr. E. M. Kellogg, and about a dozen representatives of the pross, . A company has been formed to work the invention under the title of the Household Electrical Manufucturing company, of No. 18 Dey street, New York. It is the intention of the company to apply the batteries to a variety of domes- tic services. Altogether the test was eminently satisfactory. A Story of the Telephone. Hartford (Conn.) Courant: Not over ten years ago there was a little amateur- ish entertainment of a new and curious toy given in this city at the opera house. Many people believed that the advance stories of the thing must be gross exag: geration. Those who commented inclined 1gh at the whole notion, and these ded as ameng the most amusing de- tails of the performance when it came about the seriousness and zeal of those who were connected with the exhibition, We can recall a few, a very few, who pronounced it one of the wonders of the world, but they made a very small minor- ity. Here copy of the “dodger” or notices, printed on blue paper, that were scattered about the city: ' it RoBERTS' OrERA Housk, April 27, 1877, Frederick oA. Gower will deliver Prof, Alexander Graham Bell’s lecture, describing the wondertul iustrument, the telephone, il- lustrating the same by receiving and trans- mitting vocal sounds to and from New Haven opers H(HNU. Vocal and instrumental musie will be transmitted by telephione from Mid- dletown, which will be heard simultaneously in all parts of both New Haven and Hartford opera houses, Opportunities will be given ersons to converse with friends who may be n attendance in New Haven. ieonar H. Col J. W. How' Managers, The exhibition was held just ten years ago y . The voices from New Haven and Middletown were let loose in the opera house here and heard, though not very ciearly. Conversation between varts of the room were carried on through long coils of wire, and the fact was made clear that the curious game of ct\llmF through a piece of wire could be played, Mr. Gower visited the Courant office, then in Pratt street, during his stay in the city, and carried the wires around throuuih several rooms so that some of us could ta'k with each other, although not in sight at all. g But look at the development of the last ten years! In that time the telephone has become an institution of civilization. It is now found everywhere. A genera- tion of children has grown up who use it as naturally as they use the horse cars. 1t is a part of the domestic and social life, as wulYns absolutely essential to busi- ness, and yet is going to be still further developed. Mr, Gower, the enthusiastic reporter of the Providence Journal, who brought the invention to this city, has had since then a most romantic carcer, Following his faith he invested in the telephone and made millions of dollars, He had the whole Paris business for one item. Be- coming a man of great wealth,he amused himself with ballooning, and finally he sailed out over the English channel one day on a voyage, the ¢nd of which is not yet known.” He has disappeared, and 1s supposed to have drdvngd, Tall Chimneys and Lightning Con- dugporm Electrician: At the last meeting of the Socicte des Ingenteurd:Civils, M. Debar gave a very graphic description of a case in which a tall chimney unprovided with a lighlnin%’nonduclor had been suddenly destroyed by a sort of spontaneous out- bust of atmospheric electricity. ‘The oc. currence certainly seems to have been one of a very remarkable character. At Frecamp, a village on the French coast, the weather being perfectly calm, no wind, a smooth sea, about 10:30 p, m. on the night of the 0th of January,M. Debar was standing a short distance from the chimney of a factory, which rose to a height of thirty meters,when suddenly a vivid blaze of light flashed forth, a tre- mendous explosion was heard, and the chimney wasseen literally to burst asun- der at & point about six meters from the base,the fragments being thrown inall di- rections,intlicting great damage upon the building within a radius of 160 meters. The place looked as if it had suffered from a severe bombardment; happily no per- sonal injury was sustained. Large quan- titiesof the bricks scem to have been completely pulverized, and the ground was covered with brick-dust for a dis- tance in one direction of more than 400 meters. We are much surprised to find that M. Debar, after stating that there were many tall chimneys in this district unprovided with lightning conductors, expressed the opinion that the effect would have been equally disastrous:n any case, as no conductor could possible have proved a chunnel for the safe passage of such a terrific discharge. This might easily be true, but surely M, Debar is aware that the function of a lightning conductor is chielly to avert the attain- ment of such tremendous difference of potential as 18 here indicated, In the present state of our knowledge, the moral of the catastrophe is certainly not that a lightning conductor would have been un- availing, but rather that the owners of the factory have been guilty of the most culpable negligence. Electro-Plating the Dead. Cassell’'s Saturday Journal: The dis- position of the body after death has been a subject of interest from the earliest re- corded era. The classic writings are filled with references to this m the various kinds of burial or i lent, and the ceremonies attendant upon the last rites, form no inconsiderable portion of both Greek and Latin litera- ture. The ancient kinds of burial were chielly four—burying, burning, embulm- ing, and storing; the latter having refer- ence to catacombs, vaults, and similar receptacles. All are too familiar to need more that a passing reference. The cus- tom of the Jews seems to haye been to bury the bodies of the dead; the Egypti- ans were the great masters of the urt of embalming: the Romans excavated the great catacombs, which are one of the wonders of the Eternal City to-day;while the practice of burning bodies seems to have obtaned generally among most ancient nations. Modern science, on sanitary grounds, has determined positively against the common practice of inhumation. Wherever the population is dense —as in ull great cities—t is seen at once that the custom of burying the bodies of deceasca persons is a certain and fruitful source of disease. Water and air are alike pol- luted and rendereddangerous to life by the placing in the earth of the lifeless lumps of clay which will in time be re- solved into the original elements, bui which, in the meantime, give forth nox- ious exhalations. For this reason the practice of intra-mural burial has been done away with, and modern cemeterics are placed as far as possible from muni- cipal centers, In lieu of inhumation, the scientists of the present day have de- vised four methods—namely, cremation, cementation, coking, and electro-plating. Cremation is only the classic funeral pyre, without any of its unpleasant and revolting attendants. ‘The body is re- duced to » hundful of ashes by intense heat in a furnace so arrunged (hll noth- P S A T A 3 S AR AT A, R N T HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY JUNE 5, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES. ing disagreeable passes off during the process, ‘Lhe process of coking is “sim- lar; but instead of being burned, the body 1s exposed to flameless heat and re- duced to a hard, brittle substance in- stead of to ashes. Cemenattion docs not deal directly with the body, but with its environment. 1t con- sists in hermetically sealing the coflin b; placing a coat of the finest ccment al ind it. The advantages of a rcophagus are 1n this way secured without much expense. But the latest method, and oue which 1s growing imto vopular favor, is_electro-piating. It is the application of a perfectly eyen metal- lic ~oating to the surface of the body self by the same process as that which produces an electrotype plate, ‘The method is briefly this, The body is washed with alc gul and sprinkled over with fine graphite powder, to insure the perfect conduction of electrieity. It 18 then placed in a bath of metallic solution containing a picce of the metal to be used. To this is attached the positive pole of a strong battery; the negative pole is applied to the corpse, and a fine tilm of the metal at once begins to cover the body perfeetly and evenly. ‘This may be_kept up until the coating attains any desired thickness. To this process there would secem to be no valid objection. In effect it transforms the corpse into a beautiful statue—form, fea- and even expression being per- preserved, The body being her- metically led within its metal in- closure, merely dries up and assumes the aspect of & mummy. This method ob- viates muny objections which have been urged against cremation,and at the same time mects the wishes of those whose sentiment, if nothing , inelines them to favor the ordinary way of purial. The feeling of the desecration of the human form divine, which its reduction to a andful of ashes causes to many people, is entirely done away with no rude kand is laid upon the once loved form. No change is brought about in appear- ance except that face and figure are covered with a shining veil, through which the familiar lineaments appear with alltheir well-remembered character- istics and expression. Electric Railways A contract has been closed by the Sprague company with the Richmond Union railway company to run the road by electrieity.” The service will include forty sixteen-foot cars, each equipped with two seven and one-half horse power motors, sb as to be absolutely free from danger'of any break-down. Overhead con- auctors will be used, and there will be in all about thirteen miles of track. The road is to be running this summer, and the work of electric construction has already begun, The North Chicago City railway com- pany are now engaged in laying their loop line and putting in the conduit for the new cable road in the business center. To expedite this work, as it interferes greatly withordinary traflic, the company has put up, at intervals of about a hun- dred fect, posts somewhat resembling gibbets 1n appearance. From cach o these posts an eleetric light is suspended, and by the aid of this light some five hundrea men are working every night. R RELIGIOU A church society has bought the site of a skating rink at Tomah, Wis, ‘The next Episcopal church “congress will meet in Louisville October 18, Bishop Ilare, of Niobrara, has conflrmed 1,500 Indians during his episcopal Bishop Ninde will preside at th conference at Porsgrund, Norway. Topeka, Kas,, is to have a new ecathedral, the old building having at last been sold. ‘he Bible society has distributed nearly 1,500,000 volumes of the seriptures within a year, Rev. Samuel McBride has been called to the pastorate of the Centennial Baptist church, Brooklyn. Subseriptions for the new Christian col- lege in Chicago have reached $100,000— enough to begin work on, ‘Tne next convention of the New York and Philadelphia synod of the Reformed Episco- pal church, will meet in Scranton. Professor J. M. Stifier, D. D., of Crozer Theological seminary, is to succeed Dr. E. G. Taylor as editor of the Baptist Teacher. Dencon Georze White, of Seymour, Ind., has been expelled from chureh for declaring his belief that the world i8 a million years old, and that it is likely to stand for another before the judgment day comes. The Brooklyn Examiner.a Roman Catholie paper, says it has nodoubt that a majority ot the priests in the city of New iork, and nearly half of those in Brooklyn, believe in the land taxation theory of Mr. George, It denounces the Freeman’s Journal for repre- senting the theory to be that “private prop- erty Is a crime,” ‘The Sunday school seems to be in disfavor with Jews as with christians. The Ameri- can Hebrew says: *“*With some slight modi- fications with regard to degree, these schools are lamentably ineflicient. I'hey are not iving the younger generation an adequate Kllow edge of Judaism, They are gradually displacing the chieder and the house teacher, but they are miserably poor substitutes.” Methuselah was contemporary with Adam some 243 years, and also with Shem some 98 vears; Shiem was also contemporary with :'some 50 years, so that during this period of some 2,100 vears between Adam and Isaae, Adam could have told the story of Eden to Methuselah and Methuselah to Shein and Shem to Isaac. Were the antidiluvian longevity still prevalent. a man might say to his grandson to-day: “I was Erfla(-'ul at the crucifixion of Jesus of Nuzareth.” The Jewish Messenger says: *It s a deli- cate matter to discuss the position of the American Jewish pulpit, or rather the Jewish pulpit in America; but nany reasons, not entirely the preache:’s fault, combine to rob it of its utility. These exist partly in the cur- rents of our age and partly in the circumstar.- ces that the serton has become in t00 many cases n mere moral preachment, a lecture on some ethical theme of no relation to Sabbath or synagogue, It 1s no longer acontinuation of the service; and Its specifically Jewish tone 1s often lost in the maze (f prétty senti- ment, which might just as well be delivered before the First Unitarian society of Timbue- too or the Methodist chureh of Drawltown, ‘The Independent has compileda statistical account ot the churches of Christ in the s, showing the number of their t3 to be as follows: % U3 Roman Methodist “—total Episcopal polity—Bapt ationalists, &.my— 530,550, German hristian Leader says: “What de- termines the ‘importance’ of any question? We constantly hear some people “lamenting that some otber people waste time and en- ergy on unimportant points. Creed questions and fellowsnip questions—speculations as to the essence of matter or ot mind, inquiries into the being of God, the nature'of Christ, the polity of the Apostolic church, the truth of the doctrine of evolution are all regarded by soue people us unpractical it not trivul. Yet each of these 18 an important_question to many good people. Is there any test to determine what subjects are important and what not? Can we do better than to let those who are interestad in any question discuss it so long as they do so with intelligence and courtesy?”’ A wealthy brewer of Liverpool having of- fered £50,000 toware fund for a cathedral (Angelican) in Liverpool, much comment was excited, ‘The Christain suggested that Bishop Itvie should refuse it: seeing that every shifiing of it represented misery and degradation of the people. Caton Wilber- orce said he would sooner see catherdrals rot upon the ground than that they should be rebuilt by the colossal fortunes that Lave been raiséd from the arinking idiocy of the inglish " “The Christion ~ Leader attention to a recent pastoral of i0p Ryle, in which he mentioned temper- ance as the first of hve points on which the standard of religion should be raised. The nself, in his letter acknowledging deep grati- and the cpurchien of the diocess “hearty thanks, ” SOME HINTS TO HUSBANDS. Men Who Make Home Happy by Apprecia tion of the Wife's Labors, MARRIAGE IN NEW GUINEA. Discontented Wives—Enduring Love— Cupid’'s Pranks With a MerryB Maid — The Bridegroom of Bengal, The Baby, Who makes the home of the poor man so bright? Who llils l(hL' palace of wealth with such ight? Who, when you kiss him,will give youa bite? e baby, Who in one moment can laugh and ery? Who at the same time can yield and defy? Whois it one can’t but love, though he try? ‘I'hie baby. Who has opinions which no one gainsays? Who naughity pranks with impunity Who is the monareh of all he surveys? The baby, Some Hints to Husbands. One often reads or hears it said, writes Clara de Vere in the Cincinnati Commer- cial-Gazette, that the peace and happi- of the household depend upon the or mother. This assertion 1s not strictly true. As the mother 18 or should be with her children more, her influenco is greater than any one's else; but does not the father’s daily example sometimes counteract that intluence? Children, the Golden Rule, are close observers, and are apt imitators of their elders. Should the father be addicted to the babit of fault-finding, especially in re- gard to the food set before him™ at m time, and the weary, discouraged wif in the vain attempt to defer repu- tation as cook—arouses hisire by making excuses, then the children of the family will be listeners to an angry tirade, or, what is worse, a quarrel, if the mother has not complete control of her temper; and, of course, thl-,)' will be apt to !n]‘ln\v the example set before them, and discord will reign in the family. ‘That is not an attractive picture of home life, yet in some families such a scene 18 enacted almost ev day. Men often mar the happiness of wives and children by fault- finding, and surely they add nothing to their own peace of mind by indulging in it. It is just as much the husband’s dut to sit down to the table with a cheerful, sunshiny face, and make the best of the food set before him, as it 18 the wife's duty to keep the house in order and pre- pare the meals regularly. Woman's efforts to please i matter of cooking are rarely appreciated. or, if 80, she hears no word of commendation. Men do not seem to realize how much a woman’s heart hungers for words of praise from her husband’s lips. If she prepares some dainty dish to tempt_his appetite, he is too carcless to note how y ehe waits to know if he likes it. Appreciation is one of the best incentiv the world affords. After the labors inc dent to the preparation of a meal, how it seems to rest a wife to hear her husband : “How nice and light your biscuits are,” or “Wife, this meal is cooked to suit my taste,” or words of ecommenda- tion. A few words of approval repay her for her trouble. Just try this for once,careless husband, and see 1 your wife's face doesn’t light up and all traces of weariness disappear on the instant. O, think of the many things you can do to brighten her life. A little appreciation by one she loves good way toward making a woman Many a weary wife drags out nappreciated, searcely finding a word of sympathy from her husband. He has careful words for the stranger, And smiles for the sometimes guest, But oft for his own the bitter tone, Though he loves his own the best. That such a man’s home i8 unhappy is mainly his own fault. Discontented Wives, New York Sun: Why is it that so many women of social culture are un- happy in their married life 1and discon- tented with their husbands? Is it not because the pursnits and oc- cupations of husbands are apt to untit them to share the tastes and pleasures of wives who have the ambition and leisure to perfect themselves in the graces and accomplishments of our elegant society? As many u foreigner of cultivation has observed, and as everybody familiar with our social life must be aware, the women here are generally superior to the men in polish, nicety of adaptation to their surroundings, and even in educa- tion, especially so far as concerns the refined tastesin art and_literature. i wse the women have more time and so many more opportunities to acquire what s requisite to cultivation and refinement. Tl‘m husband must rush down-town early in the morning and spend his day in the rough-and-ready contest for money, while the wife re- mains _at home with ample leisure to expend the money he wins for her use in gratifying her desires for solid or superficial accomplishments and social pleasure and experience. Of course he 18 likely to fall behind her in such cul- tivation, and the longer he dclves and she profits by the opportunities his wealth secures for her, the greater the gulf between them in that respect. She is an elegant woman - of society, and he only a hard-working man of business, whose daily toil leaves its mark on his mind and his manner. Society is the sphere in which such a woman_ should shine. Her only chance for a brilliant career is there, and the impulse which drives a man to seek fame in politics or affairs is in her an ambition for power and consequence 1n the social world, But whou sho secks to gratify it she may find that her purpose is balked because her work-a-day husband has exhausted his energy before the hour of her activity comes. He is tired out at the end of the day, and not until the day1s over does the great business of social pleasures begin. With us, too, men are apt to have satistied their desire for such occupati at a period of life when social e: ment may be most attractive to wome Is it surprising, then, that conjugal dis- cords oceur in a social sphere where the 2 absorbed in work and roughened by aflnirs, whilo the women have ac- quired the tastes and aptitudes of an elegant leisure? Enduring Love. Springfield (Mass) Republican: A story of Lm continued love hap nly‘cnlmn— nated by the marriage of N. M. Goodell, seventy-two years of nge, to Miss Sarah” Holbrook, sixty iyears old, at the house of the bride, in Monson, recently, the Rev. E. H. Bying- ton officiating. 3 Many years ago when Miss Holbrook was a {il!le girl, she attended school in Sturbridge with Nathan Godell, He was a somewhat bashful young fellow, who used to carry her dinner pail to and from the small district schoolbouse, A feeling of interest, to say the lemst, sprung up between the children, which has appar- ently never died out. Nathan wandered away after u time, working asa farm hand till he had saved enough to buly a place of his own in Crimfield. He had meanwhile met another woman who en- gaged his affections, and to whom he was married, a daughter being born to them. Mrs. Goodell and the daughter died two years ago, leaving the oid man alone,and 80 he remained until riding through Monson a few weeks ago he met his early love, who had lived in single blessedness for lsixty years, never having forgotten athan. he sequel was the mamage. Our Wives. Ruskin, in speaking of the wife, says: “A judicious wife is always nipping off from her husband’s moral nature little twigs that are growing in the wrong direction. _ She keeps B in shape by prunin, It you say anything silly, she will affectionately style you so. if you declare that you will do some absurd thing, she will tind some way of prevent- ing you from doing it. And by far the chief part of all the common sense ther isin the world belongs unquestionablo to women., The wisest things a man commonly does are thuse which his wifo counsels fiim to do. A wife is a grand wiclder of the moral pruning-knife. 1f Johnson's wife had lived there would have been no hoarding up of orange peel, 5o touching all the posts in walk- ing along the str no eating and drinking with disgusting velocity. If Oliver Goldsmith had been married he never would have worn that memorable and ridiculous coat. Whenever you find a man whom you know little about oddly dressed, talking absurdly, or exhibiting eccentricity of manner, you may be sure that he ismet & married man: for the corners are rounded off, the little shoots L‘nrml away in married men, Wives ave much more sense than their hus- bunds. The wife's advice is like the bals lust that keeps the ship steady.” Cupld’'s Pranks With a Merry Maid. Chicago Herald: There is a young woman on umet avenue who has lost conlidence in the efficacy of wedding cake. About a week ago a friend pre- sented her with a goodly chunk of that delectable food known “as bride's cake. The young woman wrapped the white, fluffy stuff in a picce of tissue paper and thrust it into her pocket, intending, as she said, to place 1t under her pillow that night and dream about hor future hus- band. Somehow or other the little pack- age got mixed up with a parcel of about the samo size and \\'rnlming which con- tained pumice stone. When night came the pretty girl stowed what she supposed was the wedding cake under her pillow and then luly down to struggle with some slumber. The dear creatare slept, but it was u troubled sleep. She beheld allsorts of hideous monsters and writhing rep- tiles, and once or twice during her night- mare (for it was nothing clse) she made involuntary plunges into dark abysses When morning came_the young woman got out of bed in a huff’ and forthwith declared a boycott on all wedding cake. Marriage in New Guinea. M. Reclus says in All the Year Round the isanders of New Guinea are married, not according to their own incligations, but those of their parents. They are most frequently aflianced at a very tender age, but ave afterward foridden to as- sociate with each other; indeed, thisis carricd so far that the girl may not even look at her future husband. Both must avoid all contact with the members, mas- culine and feminine, of the family into which they are about to enter. ‘I'he wed- d ceremonies are characterized by a reserve and a modesty very remarkable in a savage people of the tropics. Adorned with the most beautiful or ments, the bride is conducted at night in a grand torchlight procession through the village. One woman carries her on her buck, while another binds her as though she were a captive, and leads her by the rope to the house of her be- throthed. This is a symbol of slavery, a souvenir of the ancient servitude, which the aristocratic served There 8 nothing of this in the of the poor. On reaching destination the bridegroom is presented: o the brid s relatives, who lead him into her chambe She awaits him with her back turned, in- dicating that she does not dare to meet his conquering gaze. The young man approaches within two feet of her, turns on his heel, and then they are back to back in the midst of a numerous assem- bly, the men on onc side, the women on the other. After the entertainment the bride is led into her own room, still not daring to meet the terrible glance of her husband, and keeping her back turned io the door; secing this, the husband also turns his back on her. The whole night is spent in this manner; they sit there motionless, having some one "to brush away the flies, and without speaking a word. If they grow sleepy some of the ts, who take turns in doing this o, nudges them with his elbow. If they kce{) wide awnke they are assured of a long life and green old age. In the morning they separate, still without look- ing at cach other, in order to refresh themselves after the fatigues of the prey- jous night. ‘This performance is con- tinued for four nights, and on the fifth morning, with the first rays of the sun, the young pcople may look each other fullin the face. ‘That suffices; the mar- riage is considered nccomplished, and the newly wedded pairreceive the customary congratulations. The Bridegroom Market in) Bengal, A complaint of a very singular charac- ter comes from Bengal. Our educational system is said to be creating a marked effect upon the native marriage market throughout the presidency, and the price of bridegrooms is said to” be rising—ris- ing, it appears, moreover, in proportion to the young gentleman’s successes at the university. ~ At least such is the asser- tion of n Hindoo pundit who has recently written on the subject to a Calcutta journal. A boy who is fortunate enough to pass his entrance examination at col- lege is now rated at 300 rupces, while bachelors of arts aud those entitled to place the mystic letters “M. A.” after their names are fotching fancy prices as prospective sons-in-law. The resuit, of which the learned Bengalce comrlnius,in certainly one of the oddest that has ever been attributable to a system of educa- tion in any land, and those who are re- sponsible for the university competitions troduced into our great eastern de- pendeney will assuredly be acquitted of ever havingentertained the idea of corner- ing the marriage market,or making their examinations a means of running up the price of bridegrooms. It must not be orgotton that the Hindoo has peculiar no tions as to the marringe of his daughters- and can not possibly be as philosophic in the matter as the less prejudiced dents of the west. On the contrary, in- d. To a Hindoo father who firmly be- ieves in Menu and his preseriptions as to marriage, a seareity of bridegrooms price beyond his means, may prove very serious matter indeed. The Bral min code of laws regards matrimony as one of the means of rebirth, and fora girl to remain unmarried after attaining the age of puberty, is not only a sin, but an unpardonable sin. It curtails dis- grace upon the ancestors of a family and upon the descendants. So far is this idea carried that a marriage contracted after the bride is of mature age—that is to say eleven years old—is regarded by many native legalists as invalid. Hence the anxiety of every Hindoo parent to be- troth his daughter before, if possible, she is of age. There are many districts where the non-marriage of a girl within a reasonable period of her attaining re- higious edolescenze is regarded as ng 80 disgraceful a stigma upon the parents thatthey will commit suicide. Among some of the subordinate cascs a girl is solemnly married to an Ashwatta tree—— the so-called ficus religiosa--when all other devices to secure her a husband have failed. It is easy enough, therefore, to understand that n rise in the price of bridegrooms is regarded by orthodox Hindoos as anything but a trifling matted. CONNUBIALITIES, A man named Stevens at Oswego, N. Y, aged twen ven, eloped with & woman aged forty-nine, Mr. and Mrs. Robert G, Aftieck, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their niacria,c last Sunday at Bolivar, Mo. A North Carolina clergymen not only re- fused to marry an_eloping couple, but ar- rested the bride and telegraphed hér father that he had held her subject o his orders. An English statisticiun has discovered that “ h- married men live longer and better lives than bachelors, Among every 1,000 batchelors there are 58 eriminals: among married men the ratio is only 18 per 1,000, A man in Cambria county, Pa., 1ast week persuaded his wife to have ber hair cut short, telling her it was now all the fashion, He then took the shorn locks to a neighbor- ing store and traded them oft for whisky. he Equitable Marriage Assurance assocl- ation, of Pennsylvania, has collapsed. The safest marriage assurance association has but two mem with unlimited drafts on the bank of good nature and mutual forbearance. Six widows live on six adjoining farms in the town of Venango, Pa., and, what is more remarkable, they are all ‘tendersons, being the widows of tiie late Henderson brothers, ‘Thomas, Samuel, Andrew, Stewart, William and Alexander. ‘The marringe license law in_ Pennsylvania before it wis amended by the legislatura that has just adjourned, required the applicant for a license personally to appear before the clerk of the orphans’ court in the county where the ceremony was to take place. As amended, the law confers on the police mag- istrate the power to hear applications and to forward them to the clerk of the court, who grants the license if the proof is found 'sufti- cient, It also enables either applicant to l\L pear by proxy before the magistrate and sub- mit the necessary affidavits, - —— MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. A London correspondent writes: There is nothing going on in theatrical circles but marriages and divorces. Sol Smith Russell, who recently bade farewell to the footlights, intends to become a plumber and rake in shekels. Lotta's cottage at Lake Mahopae is be the most notable and elegant of the summer homes of the theatrical pe ondon Globe ences, The picturesque scout is rapidly becoming a so- cial favorite in London. Hary Anderson appeared on last Saturday nizht for the first time in England as Bianca in Milman's tragedy of *‘Fazio.” This i3 another of the pieces which the lady pro- poses to produce during her London season. Josef Hofman, & ten-year-old pianist, who lias been astonishing the continent with his wonderful precocity, has been pronounced by Anton Rubinstein to be the wonder of the age. All over the continent the critics com- pare him to Mozart. Considerable difliculty is being exper- fonced in securing eligible time for the te mes Brown Potter next season. B weeks have been filled definitely. The lady is not regarded as an attraction by managers of sound judgment. Edwin Booth distributed valuable gifts among his company when it disbanded r cently. He gave his property-man and the se eral other minor employes $100 apiece, and the members of the ballet and the carpenters were substantially and unostentatiously re- membered. ‘The sale of the **Aloha Oe"” march, written and dedicated to Queen Kaplolani by J. Thomas Baldwin, of Boston, Lias been unpre- cedently large, the number of copies dis- vosed of reaching well nigh 15,000 within a week of its publication, ‘I'he town council of Bologna offers for next year a prize of 5000 lire for the composi- tion of an opera. Only Italian composers under thirty years of age will be allowed to compete. The successful work will be pro- duced in the theatre at Bologna, ‘The Prince of Wales visited the Princess’ theater last week and expressed himself hignly pleased with “lleld by the Enemy. His Royal Highness inquired who Mr. Gil- lette was, and asked that he be congratulated on his behalf on his excellent play. Sol Smith Kussell and family have gone to Minneapolis, where they will Imrmmwlllly reside. Mr. W.T. Adams (*Oliver Optic’’) Mrs. 1l's father, will live with them after his visit to Euro) for which he will sail from New Y ork city on May 25, Henry Irving Is very indignant_at Coque- lin’s article in Harper's magazine on dra- matic art, and has prepared a paper for the June number of the Nineteenth Century re- plying toit. The Euglish actor considers Coqeulin’s reference to him as insulting. Rober Hilliard, who it is said will play leading man for Mrs. James Brown Potter during her American season, is a Brooklyn- ite, and was once president of the Amaranth Cliib, 1le 18 no~ _playing thé Tple of the Gambler in McKee "Rankin'd ““Golden Giant.” Al o The English foreign office Is kMg stons to obtain, through the embassiesin London, correct coples of all the national anthems in use throughout the world, for the use of mili- tary bands called upon to pay compliment to members ot foreign royal families who may :ilm England for the gueen’s jubilee celebra- on. Mme, Emma Nevadaand her husband, Dr, Palmer, have a pretty little eight-months old daughter, named Mignon. The child was born In France, hier mother is an Ameri- can and her father is an Englishman. Mme, Nevada will talk French to her, Dr, Palmer will talk English, aud the nurse will speak only German, so the litile one bids fair to be quite cosmopolitan. Minnie Maddern will sail for Europe this month on a curious mission, Her luxuriant red hair has been one of her charming fea- tures, but within the last six months it has been turning darker, and in streaks it is nearly black now. Dr. Mauvin-Picard of Paris, says he can restore the sprightly sou- brette’s curl to their original color, and so Miss Maddern will go to Iaris for the sum- mer. Overwork is supposed to have pro- Guced the phenomenon., Colonel Sam B. Chiambers, who died in Greensburg, Ind., last week, was once the Pruprlulnr of the old Chambers circus, and had a reputation as a clown. He was known as “Old Silver Top,” and after the war, in whien he served at the head of a Pennsylva- nia regiment, he became & temperance lec- turer, and as' such was known throughout Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. ‘The Bartram & Burbridge Comedy com- any, which will goout next season "in “A ight Off,” has hitupon a new method circumvent the action of the inter-state com- merce law. and at the same time present their comedy with handsome settings, All of the scenes of the play take placo 'In drawing- rooms, and for these the organization will carry handsome tapestry curtains, with rings and poles combplete, — Although these do not weigh more than fifty pounds altogether,they are suflicient to make several very eflective ana pretty scenes, . Wild, of Baltimore,in the course lelivered in that city recently, he stage must meet the level of those who o to the theater and give what they demand, 15 there any way of elevatin g it? " Most certalnly! ‘lurn the best men into it. Let the deacons and elders and those who should be best attend it once a week, 1f men were taught to look upon it as a neces- sity it would soon fultill its function and be- come active for good. The most powertul agent for the temperance cause I know of, more so than lectures or | abstinence laws, is_a play called **T'he Ticket-ot-leave Man,” What can be more instruct thy for young persons to “Othe!l “Lear” or “Hamlet,” and re while seein 5 themn the hieight and depth of life?” ‘The body of Grace Leslie, the actress who was Killed last week on the Denver & Roi Grande railroad, was buried in Brooklyn on Wednesday last. One of the Kate Cusile- ton company says of the aceldent: “\We were all in the sleever. Miss Gilpin was in the same berth with Miss Leslie. When turning one of the mountain curves the train snapped In two. In my opinion we were going too fast around those curves, and the ;IY of the first train caused a bowlder to oosen and roll down the wountain siae. It struck our car directly where Miss Leslie was sleeping, broke In and struck her on the breast, killing her. The strangest thing of all is that Miss Gllpin was not hurt,” Dramatie News: It is a good story which is being told at the expense of Vierre loril- lard. In his capacity as proprietor of the fashionable ‘Tuxedo Park Mr. Lorillard is sald to have declared that no actress should set foot upon the sacred retreat of fashion. Now, It just happens that Mrs. James Brown Potteér was one of the fust to take an Interest in the park, and she uot only lmnit:lp)\lcd in the amateur performances which were given there with such a tlourish of trumpets, but she bought a cottage there. Sineo she has become a_professional actress Mrs. Potter has caused the exclusive Mr. Lorillard some uneasiness. Inasmuch as she owns a house within the park it would not be easy for any- body to keep her out, and the rule w.ich has” hitherto been rigidly enforced will hardly be carried out in this instance, Etwlka Wardell, whose real pame is Eva Heaton, and who belonged in 1577 and for tive years to the Wheatley dramatic associn tion, of Philadelphia,playing under the stage I name of Miss De Costa, will get & balm for & wonnded heart from §.eon F. | Tracy. She loved him once, became en- 1'to him azd loaned him & great deal of woney. Hesailed o Europe, met Helen Dauvray, forgot Miss Meaton, tand married Miss Dauveav, When he came back to New York Miss Heaton contronted him with the demand that he cover his borrowings her by anote for £5,000 due on demand. Suel A note, dated January 10, 1582, was part o the evidence on which a New York jury Ias week rendered a verdiet awarding “Miss Heaton $5:400, her full elaim. — Mr. Tracy 18 about torty, and was not an _actor, although he belonged to the Wheatloy when he firs§ met Miss Heaton. Julius Hulfish says thag he does not believe Tracy to be the busband of Miss Dauvray. - EOUCATIONAL The sweet girl graduates have been busy the past week. Mr. J. Randolph Tucker of Virginia, whe' will deliver an address at commencement week,has chosen for his sube jeet, *“The Federal Convention of 1780, “The majority of the school children, it has recently been discovered, are taught German history only down to the year 1812, Theg remain ignorant of all contemporancous hise tory Jean Bennetto, of the Yale senior clas has been awarded one of the Townsen prizes. Mr. Benuetto is a compositor, an has piid n part of his college expenses by setting type during vacation. President Gilman of John Hopkins unis versity authorizes a denial of the report that the presidency of Governor Stanford’s unie versity in California has been offered to him, and that he has suggested any candidate for the post. ‘The German government has closed the school at Strasburg, established by Miss Wust daughter of a former professor of mathematic at the D'rotestant gymnasium. The I offense lay in teaching little French girl read and write their own language, The chart of the heavens which the inters national astronomers are about to prepare will ‘be composed of about 2,000 sheots. With the aid of this chart it will be possible to “dingnose,” 80 to speak, the 100,000,000 stars which are said to exist in the tirmas went, The senior class at Harvard is having & composite photograph taken. One man pros noses taking the sentor picture and the \'vll--sh? ‘compo’” which will_soon appear, and making a grand composite of the two which will be the national average type of the coming American, ‘The recent legislatura of Minnesota passed alaw providing for state assistance in the establishmentof public school libraries which, the St. P’aul Pioneer-Press thinks, “may vrove to be one of those apparently trivial acts which sometimes produce consequences of the first magnitude.” Tt adda: “In carry- ing out this plan,the committee to whom was conlided the selection of representative vol= umes appear to have done excellentl TTHE PERFECT Self Revolving Churn Dasher Quickest Selling Article Ever Invepted, PRICE OF DASHER, $1.23 Needs o talking. but really is the Prottiost Showiag ‘Krticlo on the Market. 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