Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 26, 1887, Page 10

g THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. JUNE 26, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES, e e e _§{— GEN. BRISBIN IN WYOMING. “ He Wents a New Kind of Oompany Organ- izod for Developing the West. GOLD SEARCHING CORPORATION. Bome Valuable Suggestions—Interest- ing Btatistics About Gold— Where the Precious Stuff 1s Found. Once more our prospectors are busy gecking for new mineral fields in the Big Horn basin. There are numerous tradi- tions of gold finds in the Big Horn moun- tains in earlier days, but the Indians have always been so bad, and so much opposed to mines that it was dangerous for prospectors to go out into the moun- tains. Now, however, the Indians them- gelves have become prospectors, and are anxious that their country should yield up all of valuo that is in it. This change in their views is partly due to the sever- alty law fixing definitely the amount of land an Indian may have, and partly to the progress the Indians are making in the ways of white men, The Rattlesnake mountains this spring are full of prospectors both Indians and white men, and some very good finds have already been made. The Schoshonee Indians are prospect- ing the Bad Water and ores of a high grade and very satsfuctory to work are reported. The history of gold 1s so interesting L cannot refrain from speaking of this precious metal in detail, Not long since Mr. Jacob, a competent and r(-linlfin authority, told us that the addition of uncoined gold to_the wealth of the world was about $25,000,000 per ; but soon afterwards the discov- eries in California shot it up to $100,000,- 000. Then came Australia witn_its gold, and men began to wonder what we should do with all the precious wmetals. Mr. Jacob said in 1847 there was not over $1,900,000,000 gold coin in the whole world, and although he may, and prob- ably did, put it too low, he fixed the limit of this metal at $06,000,000,000 beyond which it could not go without affecting its general value. The discoveries of California, Victorin und South Wales bad not then heen made. Of these enor- mous products the following figures will slhow: Victoria, South Wales +£0,300, 04 £3,000,000 2,400,000 8,000,000 3,800,000 800, 1867, weensesen 7,800,000 2,600,000 1y, ‘khe race between Califorpia and Vie- Yorin was for ong time close, ine ofie Pproducing in nineteen years $785,000,000 and the other in seventeen years $680,- 000,000. These vast additions to the world's wealth completely upset the cal- culations of such men as Mr. Jacob, and they withdrew from business. At the close of the year 1875 there was gold coin in the world equal to $4,643,087,305 and the value of gold was not affected. Of this vast amonut the United States had deposited in its mints from 1703 to 1884 $1.237,505,193 in gold. In 1880 the whole world’s production in precious metals was estimated at $107,- 000,000 in gold and $98,000,000 in silver, and of this amount our country produce $36,000,000 in gold and $42,000,000 in sil- ver. In 1883 the production of twenty countries was estimated at 155,226 kilo- grams 1n gold, worth $103,161,532 and of silver $109,416,586. Of this amount the United States produced #32,600,000 in gold and $46,800,000 in silver. This vast amount was distributed as fol- s Ggld. Bilver. 1,005,000 8 7,500,000 16,500,000 5,000 3,360,000 16,500,000 8,300,000 175.000 250,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,550,000 4,370,000 2,000,000 6,750,000 150,000 1,800,000 100,000 25,000 830,000 85,000 25,000 190,000 6,800,000 ] 15,000 Washington Ter. 120,000 Wyoming Territory 000 “The other countries Bn;)ahwlnx werg fil old, ver. e 1,993,800 ‘enezuela. 2,274,003 Dominion of Can- ada... soe 1,004,000 Add United States 82,500,000 Total...... +.8103,161.532 $109, 446,595 ‘This was for 1882, The gold and silver product in the mnincteen coun- tries ubove named abroad, is esti- mated to have fallen off in 1883 fully $10,000,000, and to have increased in our own country, $11,000,000. I have not the official figures before me, but 1 know in 1883 the states and territories produced Gold and Silver. nearly as follows: lifornl evada regun s Washington. laska.... no correct reports from eorgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, |'r inia or Wyoming; but it is likel, whole other parts of the world. Now, if we take into account the great Butte, Couer d' Alene, Clark’s Fork and Helena, we roduced in 881, one-half of all the procious metals An exam- ation of the coinage of the different pountries will give us a better insight In 1880 the United ates comed in gold, $62,308,279, and all $37,416,803 in gold. In 1881 the United States coined in old $96,400,708, and all he other coun- f In 1883 the United States coined $05,887,685 in gold, and all §34,022,801. the case we ave coined so muc}'.!ml that we have so It will be remembered we so completely overdid the silver business, that there u glut of silver and it was not worth exporting.. Many foared, for a time, it srould borrnducod n such vast c‘u.nu. ue at d of lieved discoverics made at may say the United States roduced in the whole worid. to this matter, e other countries onl ries only $40,848,117. the other countries onl we consider silver, still worse; not that gmuch to coin, that a few yoars ago tles that it would not retain 1ts val home: but the decrease in the the Comstock lode temporarily re. tl‘f. market., i his relief, however, was for a short 'he wore recent discoveries , Butte and Helenn load time ounly. at Ulnrlyn For 81337 2,525,000 the old and silver product of the Umted States for 1883 would figure up in the neighborhood of $86,000,000,48 against $105,000,000 to §108,000.000 produced in us to fear that a production greater than Comstock has been found. have long believed there was more silver at Butte and on the head of Clark’s Fork than in the whole state of Nevada; aad the ques- tion arises—W hat are we to do with this vast wealth? We can digit out and smelt it, but it we coin it will it not become a base metal? Silver in the west is found like lead and iron in the east, and I suppose if we have more silver than lead or iron, lead and iron would be as valuable as a metal as silver. Wonld it nott If any body supposes the precious metals in the United States have all been discovered, they are er much mistaken, Not one mine in ten s yet worked. All our gold mining so far, I believe, has been but the working of nullyinfi spurs to a great central deposit which existssomewhere in the basin of the Big Horn mountains. and it _will be discovered one of these days. Itis likely one of the central de- posits of silver that was struck at Com- stock, but others will be found, and think Clark's Ford and Butte are central deposits of this metal. We, however, do not need any moro sil- ver mines, and I think it would be un- fortunate for the country, in a measure, it we were to %o on finding them, as we have lead, and also copper, coal, and iron. When the great central deposit of gold in the United States is struck, the world will probably shake with excite- :nen‘: and I believe the time to be near at hand. There are probably onlv three great central deposits of gold in the whole world, viz: In Africa, Australia, and the United States, The African and Australian deposits have been found; but the one in th United States. as_yet remains undisco ered, except a small portion of it at Alder Gulch, Montana. Follow the geological stratas of the carth, acrossthe globe, and you will find three great dips, or basins in them; one in Africa, one in Australia, and one in the United States. The lowest dip in this country is in the Big Horn mountains, and there is where I think the grert central deposit of gold is— somewhere in the Big Horn basin. This was Professor Aggasiz and James Gard- ner Austin’s opinion and careful observa- tions of miniug for so many years in all parts of the west,has confirmed me in the helief that they were correct in their opinion. There is one kind of a com- pany in the United States that has never been organized; but which will some day be organized and I should like to see it. 1 mean a “Gold Searching and Develop- ing Company.” All our mines have so far been accidentally stumbled upon by such men as Comstock, Sutter, Pritchard and others, and 1t 18 simply astoundin that no systematic search for gold, aided by capital, has been made in the United States. I'think it highly probable that if a company with a million dollars capital were organized, and expert prospectors employed with a contingent interest in their discoveries, before the company had expended judiciously $100,000 of “their capital they would find themselves the possossors S mings worth §1,000,000. all events the experiment is worth tryir g and it is strange it has not been tried be- fore this. The nearest approach to & gold search- ing company we have ever had was when two or three merchants at Denver clubbed together and grubstaked one or two poor prospectors. Senator Tabor of Colorado, grubstaked three miners with about $200 in provisions and implements, and_got $10,000,000 out of his venture. Mrs. Edg- erton grubstaked Pritchard with $100,and of they had not cheated the old lady out of her just dues, would have got $50,000 for her $100 venture. JAMES 8. BrissN, MUSICAL AND DR:MATIU. Aimeo will stick to burlesque next year. Emma Thursby is expected back from Europe in two weeks. Christine Nileson pays taxes upon $123,000 of Boston real estate. Efme Elssler will make 8a specialty of “Egypt,” Laura Don’s play. Mrs, Dion Boucicault (Agnes Robertson) proposes to star next season in “My Ger- aldine.” Charles Wyndham and his London com- edy company propose to tour this country next season. They say that Mrs, James Brown Potter means to act next season in Dumas' risky drama, **Francillon.” Miss Bodington, an American girl, has just been awarded the Moschelle prize at the Leipsic Conservatoire, Despite the financial troubles of the Na- tional opera company, the management talk of going on another year. “Hazel Kirke” and Couldock may be seen this week in New York lfifllll. There is taik of taking the play to London. Mrs. Langtry has inyested $200,000 in real estate in New York. Her acting may not be of the highest order but it seems to pay. Miss liffie Ober, manager of the Boston leal Opera company, lately made $30,000 by a speculation in Wasnington real estate, ‘The Muurice Girau French opera compan will include, among others, the Krencl rima donna, Mile. Barnatti, of the Bouffe ’arisienne, and Mlle, de la Renaissance. The support will be new, except perhaps Mezieres and Duplan, the old favorites. By decision of the will of the composer, Flotow’s until now unknown opera, is to be brought forth at Mannhelim. Its title is “‘Die Musikanten.” Its history is founded upon an episode in the youthful “life of Mozart and err Richard Genee has fitted a lhibretto to the score. Another hitherto unknown work has also recently come to light in the shape of a three-act opera by Lortzing, entitled “Mozart.”” The score, which has never been engraved, is in the hands of Herr Angzelo Naumaun. Neow York’s sensation this week is to be the “Fall of Babylon” production at St (Morxfiishlen Island., The staze Is to be 400 by 230 feet, and will e' lighted by novel electric devices. The dressing-rooms will be under the stage, and will be lighted with in- candescent Lights. The costuines were made in London and Paris from special designs, numbering in all 2,300, ‘Lhere will be about 1,000 living characters, elephants, camels and other beasts, moving tableaux, and other notable features. In the fete of Bnbi'loll gladiatorial and anclent pastimes will be seen, ‘The city will bo eventually destroyed :p‘y the Persians, who will use in the execu- jon of that purpose huge catapults, fireballs, battering-rams and other curious weapouns of the aays of antlquity, In Kuerschner’s “Richard Waguner Jahr- buth” it 1s shown that in twenty-tive German towns and cities, during 188 , “Rienza” had 24 performances. the “Flying Dutchman” 75, “I'anabauser” 109, ‘‘Lohengrin” 125, **T tan” 25, “Meistersinger” 48, “Rhaingold” 33, “walkure” 71, “Siegfried” 19, “‘Gotterdam- merung, 10, No other composer reached a tigur a3 high as “Loheugrin”’fand **Tann- ahauser.’, ~Bizet comes next with 105 for Then comes ber's l“nslmlmu.&fl.Meyerbeer’u“lluguennls" 82, Flotow's "lll"ht 74, Mozart’s “Don Juan,” 71, Rossiol’s “Barber, o '3, ete, which owes its vogue entirel ularity of th and which, dieting, will the repertary in tivo years. ———— CONNUBIALITIES, Al (Mich.) wedding were eight pickle castors. her wedding day. eloping last week. hisr atched. ington, there belug more eug: tho city’s history. It is sl '‘Carmen, Beethoven's “Fidelio,” 98, Verdl’s “Trovatore,” 2, Web- Ness- ler's “Trompeter von Sakkingen,”which had 800 performances, is omitted from this list becanse it s a work of the flimsiest kind, 10 the popu- poem on which it is based, re is not the least risk in pre- @ entirely disapoeared from mong the presents at a recent Adrian The two most importantdays in a woman's life are sald to be her graduation day aud A blunderbuss and an Infuriated parent were unable to prevent a Georgia girl from Her alu was better than Amon the wedding presents recelved by a Brooklyn couple was & bronze grayhound, which was an accurate representation of a dog to which the groom had been much at- Sunset Cox showed me the other day, as a curiosity, tue announcement of the marriage of adaughter of his paternal great-great grandfather as it was published In the news- papers of New Jersey 136 years ago. It reads as follows: Matrimony is sald to be In the airat Wash- ements in the aIr there now than at any rr" ous period of | very easlly ex- Iained. This I ing administration, Rhined, o marming it pres| Lamar both set the matrimonial example, May 14 Charles Sage and Catherine Brost of Duncansville, Pa., were married. All went well until the other day. He sent home a plece of veal and a keg of beer. The rats ran off with the yeal and all the begr leaked out of the kew. ‘r'hen he put on his coat and abandoned wife and home. At a recent gypsy wedding at Macomb,I1l, it is stated in a’local paper that ‘“‘when the ridegroom was asked it he took the woman to be his weddea wife he answered, ‘Just as you say.' After the ceremony the man went out of one door and the woman out of an- other, and they did not appear to be m the least Interested in each other.” On Thursday last ¥Francis llnpklnsnn,Eml., was joined in the velvet bands of Hymen to Miss Nancy Borden, of New Jersoy, alady noted both for her internal as well us external accomplishments, and, in the words of the celebrated poet— Without all shining and within all white; l’umI H the sense and pleasing to the sight. . Jabez Hall, an aged and reputable planter, living near Mariana, Ark., advertised for a wife, and cthe answers were 8o numerous that he wasat a loss how to choose- His gigantic intellect came to his rescue, how- ever, He gave each applicant a numbver,and, writing the numbers on_separate cards, put them in a box and shook them up well. Then he blindfolded his little grandchild, and had her draw a card from the box, ~He is now corresponding with ady to whom the card had been allotted, and it is probable that a wedding will result, Miss Nancy Borden was a daughter of General Bo , who laid out the city of Bordentown, N.*J., and he was alsothe randfather of Sunset Cox’s grandmother. rancls Hopkinsou was one of the scholars of revolutionary davs, ~He wrote a number of humorous and vatriotie ]woelh'nl Dleces, among which were the “Battle of the Kegs" and others. He was a graduate of Princeton, asigner of the declaration of independence, and a member of congress, His son Joseph was one of the ablest lawyers of his time, and was the author of “Hail Columbia.” "The Bostonlians had hardly ceased gushing over the wedding of Miss ‘Helen Awmes to Robert Hooper, which took place last week at North Easton, the summer home of the bride’srich father, Frederick Ames, when they were again thrown into a flutter by the wedding of Miss Pauline Reyere and Na- thaniel Thayer, on Saturday. Miss Revere had been bridesmaid to her friend Miss Ames just four days before her own mariiage. There is a feeling of intense satisfaction to the yood Bostonians in the unjon of wealth and historic name in the Thayer-Revere match. Annle Foutz, a pretty girl of fifteen, re- cently,at Wabash,Ind.,met Clinton Carothers on a corner in the northern part of the city and, entering a buzgy, they drove furiously to North Manchester. She was observed to join Carothers by persons who notified her mother, Mrs. Kimmel, and she induced her husband and other men to give pursuit. The latter party arrived ip North Manchester an hour behind the elopers, and found Annie sitting in & room in a hotel and Carothers. who was under a bed, fled through a back door. Annie was finally persuaded to return home, but Carothers has not as yet shown up. Mrs. Kimmel has_opposed Annie’s as- sociation with Carothers, and it 18 supposed the intention of the pair was to take the train for Michigan and get married. .- __ BINGUL e ~mooran A live Iamb with two bodies and one head 18 the latest Tuscarora, Cal., *‘freak.” A big owl whipped three dogs that attacked it in the woods near the county jail at Scran- ton, Pa., the other night. In Laredo, 'Tex., they raise onions welgh- ing two and one-half pounds and measuring 20 Inches In circumference. B A mammoth tooth, four inches long and weighing one-fourth of a pound, has been found on the banks of the Mackinaw. A buttonwood tree supposed to be 150 years old has just been telled at Burlington, N. J., that was twenty feet in circumference. A silver maple sixteen feet in circumfer- ence, in Middletown, Ill., was grown trom a twig which a traveler stuck in the ground while passing through in 1840, A mirage has been distinctly seen by sev- eral citizens at Perhamw, Minn.” It lasted ten minutes. ‘The picture was Devil's lake, seven miles west. Buildings and farms were nized. The fruit and foliage of the buckeye of Arkansas is death to cattle. Indians tish with it tied in & bag,which they drag through the water, and in an hour the lish rise w the surface and die. ‘A cat at Hayes, Tex., takes great delight in walking over the keys of the piano. She seems particularly fond of the high notes and executes u regular dance on the ivoriesat that end of the key-board, An owl and snake, both dead, were found by Edward Schwartz, of Gila Station, A. T. ‘The snake was tightly entwined around the neck and left wing of the owl, the latter hav- ing the tall of the snake in its beak. A gooseberry bush is growing amazingly fiftean teet from the ground in the forks of a Iarge elm troe at Newton, N. J is now two feet in height and subposed to be ihe product of & seed deposited there by birds. J. N. Clingan, of Blue Mound, Ill., has cow that gives three large pail fus of milk every day—one in the morning, one at noon, and one at night. She has the advantage o most cows, as she has five milk-giving teats. D. B. Girubb, of Melbourne, Fla., has a to- mato vine over ten feet In length, one and one-half inches in diameter and covered with blooms and ripe and green fruit. He also has a rose bush two and one-half feet high ‘Wwith 175 roses on it. A grey eagle was shot near Frankfort the other day at the outletof Crystal lake. When shot the bird was skimming over the water for fish, and its mouth and throat were crammed full. The bird measured seven feet across from the tips of the winys. Henry M. Kepler, of Middletown, Md., found a turtle on his farm the q{ller dn)" and on the shell of the turtle was cut ““C, 8., 17617 Mr. hepler looked over some old papers, and finding that in 1756 the farm was deeded to Casper Soaf, is confident that the letters and date were cut on theshell 126 years Ij’m Mrs. John Chandler, who lives about six miles east of Marietta, Ga., set a goose in the spring. ‘The goose sat on the eggs about a week and died on the nest. She was taken off the nest and a filnd“l‘. mate of the goose, ook her Tluce. and sat three weeks,whien the egus hatched, six in number, He cares fox the little orphans just like a mother goose, hovers them a night, and during the day leads them where the grass is the greenest. Ll Ll PEPPERMINT DROPS, Nothing succeeds like success. except the Delaware peach crop, ‘That Is only success- ful when a failure, A Capadian has shot an American sewin, machine agent; but shooting nnl)‘one Amer{- can sewing machine agent won’t settle the fishery trouble. Chief Justice Cole of Wiscensin, pretty clearly expressed the functions of s court when he said in reply to the question of what he was busy at. *‘Oh, guessing out cases. We have the last guess, A quantity of whiskey and a number of Apache Indians have started another war on the southwestern border. Itis believed the Indlans would lay down their arms at once if they had their way, but the whiskey will not surrender on any terms. Before marriage the question a girl asks her lover mnost often ‘Do you really love me?’ After marriage the query becomes, “llnlmy haton straight”’—Journal of Edu- eation, love has been settled by marriaze. question of hats will go on forever. *Where shall we asked Mrs. Flyawa vlied the _husband, laria in Florlda?’ *Yi t r pointer dog.” “And uug we got rhenmatism in the moun- tains? *“We did, and the bears got my fittle Skye terrier,” *“And the summer befoi we went to the seashore, and got bled mosquitoes and the landiord?” *Yes." +And the summer before that we went Into the country, and the children wore lald up all smnmer with ivy poison?’ “1L remem- ber.”” “Well, if 1 felt as strong as [ used to, I'd like first rate to take a vacation this sumn- mer, but I'in feeling kind of weak and list- less, and I'm afraid [ couldn't stand it. Let'a stay at home and rest this year,"”—Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle. ———— An 0id Fashioned “Fourth.” Cinemnati Enquirer: ight? That is l"'l’ighL ‘The question ot The Philadelphia is making great exertions for a tremendous Fourth of July; but her city government has decided to have no fireworks and no firecrackers. Go to! Who cares for plum pudding without plums, or mince 310 without mince meat! A Fourth of uly without fire crackers is- a mon- strosity. $ NATURE'S MAJESTIC WONDER, The Achievements of the Electric Fluid in Various Parts of the Globe, NEW YORK'S NET WORK OF WIRES, = An Electrical Street Car—Tuning an Organ by Telephone—Death at the Wires—Electricity in Railroading—Flashes. Cost of Electric Lighting. Pottsville Miners’ Journal: ‘The Balti- more newspapers are making a tlourish over the fact that the mayor of the city has succeeded in having the cost of elec- tric lighting in that city reduced to 50 cents per lamp per night. In Philadel- phia the cost is 53 cents per lamp per night. Both of these cities have a very large number of lamps—Baltimore about 1,800, and Philadelphia many more. In Pottsville, with only fifty-cight lamps, the cost is only 20 cents per lamp per night, and yet there are some people who are not happy. Electricity in Railroading. Galveston Nows: Several papers of late have contained accounts of a new invention adopted by the Atchison, To- peka & Santa Fe raiiway. 1t is an elec- tric system of signals that will entirely do away with the bell rope now in use. It consists of a small whistle placed m the engineer’s cab and a small gong in each car. When the conductor wishes to signal to stop or go ahead he touches a push button which blows the whistic in the cab. The engincer answers by push- ing n button that rings a gong in each of the cars. The wires are conducted_ the length of the train by separate rubber tubes or hose similar to those used to set the air brakes. The invention most highly prized by the engincer, however, is an arrangement by which the air brakes can be instantly released by elee- tricity. This is important invention, and if it proves satisfactory on a long train its use will become general, New York's Network of Wires. New York Mail and Express: There are about 20,000 miles of telegraph and telephone wires in New York City. Of this number the Western Union Telegraph Company operates and controls more than 5,000 miles, 500 miles of which are already placed in conduits underground. The same compuny operates over 430,000 miles all told. Its wires, if stretched in one continous line, would go around the globe nearly eighteen times, and they would reach from the earth to the moon and almost back again, The 20.000 miles of yire 1 this s-n)i wowd make oyer 2,220 lmmnyl Jjnés {roill the battery to i siar- lem River, and oyer double that number from the East to the North River at the greatest width of Manhattan Island. This length of wire weighs compara- tively little. The wiges of the Western Union company yary in weight from 330 to 650 pounds per, mile, Taking the smallest sized wire ad a basis for calcula- tion, one ton of melal would make thir- teen and one-third miles of wire, while 2,000 tons would be sufficient to stretch around the world, with plenty to spare. The cost of the ywires is about 6c per vound. They n;u yery durable when stretched through an open country, last- ing from twenty-five to thirty years, At- mospheric clmnsz‘us aflect them but little. Repairs are chiefly made in towns where chemical substanges are used for manu- facturing purposes, the smoke from the factory chimneys baing very destructive to the metal. | Tuning an Organ by Telephone. The Electrician: A Birmingham paper says that a novel experiment was tried there last week with a telephone, A let- ter was received by Messrs. Rogers and Priestly, musical caterers in that town, asking them to send an organ to suit a pianoforte to a room at Morseley, where a concert was to take place that night. ‘The firm were totnlli at a loss to know the precise tone of the piano, and con- sequently despaired of being able to comply with the demand in time. How- ever, much to their surprise, they found that they could communicate with the rooplo at Moseley through the telephone. forthwith Messrs. Rogers asked that one of the notes of the piano should be struck. When this was done the sound cculd be distinetly heard in Colmore Row, and by gradually reducing the pitch pipe the tones of both instruments were made to correspond. An Electrical Street’Car. Boston Advertiser: Onein the series of private tests of the electrical appli- ances for running street cars, the adop- tion of which i8 contemplated by the Cambridge railroad company, = was held in_ the company's repair shops on Dunster street, Cambridge. The car1s the ordinary box car used by the company. A Julian storage battery of 104 cells farnishes the power. A part! of the current passes to a motor of the Wes- ton pattern, the normal capacity ot which is tive horse power, but which™ can be speeded above that should occasion demand. The car is lighted by five in- candescent lamps, the electricity for which is conveyed from tho battery. Over each window is a push cushion for the convenience of passengers, which rings & bell for the stopping of the car and beside each door 1s a similar button for the use of the conductor. The car is started, stopped and: backed by a lever placed on the platform where the driver usually stands. The maxi- mum spead which the car will attain is ten miles an hour, The car was operated last night by Electrician Stevens. Tha test was satis- factory in every respect, and in & short time a public test outside the shops will be given, s (e Killed by an Electric Shock, Troy (N. Y.) Times: Albert Lowell, who resides at No. 60 River street, ha been in the employ of the Troy tric- light works for several years. His busi- ness was to trim the street electric lights, and see that theyl burned properly. He worked nights.” He' not only cared for city lights, but he trimmed commercial lights also. At '2:30 o'clock one morning Officer Coughlin found Lowell fiinz on- the sidewalk in front of W, & . Gross' store, on Congress street, near Fifth. Lowell wasmoaning and attempt- ing to speak, but he dould not be under- stood. Dr. Archambeault wassummoned, Lowell was takeh to/the Second precinct station house, but he was dead when he was taken from the carriage. Coroner Foy took charge of the case, and will hold an’inquest at the bdourt house Friday night. The remhins were removed to, Joseph Burn's undertaking rooms yester- day. Drs. Prondergast and Cipperly made a postmortem examination, They decided that Lowell evidently ascended vole in front of Gross’ store fo adjust one of the commereial lamps. The circuit of commercial lights is turned of at mid- night, and the lamp was not burning. It is supposed that the city light wire be- came crossed with the commercial line, and when Lowell took hold off the. lamp he received a shock which knocked him from the pole and caused his death. The seat on which he was sitting at the top of the pole was found there, and the small ladder used to reach the steps on the pole was leaning against the pole. Lowell leaves a wife and three children. Red streaks could be seen on Lowell's back. Flectricity for Street Oars. Naw York Commeroial Advertiser: W, W. Laman, president of the North and East River Streot Railroad company, Inughed when he was asked how he ex- vected his company could make any money, if it paid to the city 85 per cent on its gross earnings, according to the terms of the bid made yesterday for the fran- chise along Fultoa and Cortlandt streets. “I'l1 tell you," said he; “our company will use electricity for motive power. The construction account will be larger than for a horse tramwav, though not nearly as large as for a eable road, while the operating expenses will be decidedly less than those of either of the other sys- tems--at least per cent iess than a eable road and per cent less than o horse road, 8o if either of the other roads would pay under any ecircum- stances, our road will pay even with the 85 per cent paid to the eity. ‘L'hen, ain, ours is a new system, and one that eventually must be adopted by every street railroad in the city and country, as a matter of economy, slthough of changing from the present electricity will be very large. pense we will be relieved from, of course. The Eighth and Third avenues are wait- ing impatiently for us to get to work, and are ready, in case of our success, to adopt the same system. “The Bently-Kmght system is the one we have adopted. One engine, with gen- erators at one end of the road, will sup- ply power for the whole line. ' The clec- tric current is carried by a wire in a conduit not more than eighteen inches deep, running between the ra Cars smay be sent forward,stopped or reversed by one lever, and aspeed may be at- tained all the way up to tifteen and eighteen miles an hour. *“The persons who bid aganst us and forced us up to so high a figure have es- tablished a” precedent that will worry them in the future more than it will us, for all new companies that are formed hereafter will have to pay enormously for their privileges, while those_that now in existence will be forced to pay handsomely to change from the anti- quated horse motive power to either ble or eleetric power. We are all ready to begin the building of our line, except some preliminaries which are tobe set- tled 1n a few da 1 think the construc- tion will begin inside of a month.”" A Simple Telephone. Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette: Cut with a circle saw from an inch board two circu- ar rims, 12 inches in diameter, the open space in the center being 7 inches in diameter, one of them for cach end of the line. Then glue on one side of the rim four thicknesses of heavy manilla paper, drawing them as tightly as possi- le. (It would also be well to drive in a few large head carpet tacks about an inch apart.) On the other side of the rim glue on two thicknesses of paper, having in the center an opening 3 inches in diameter, The wire to be used is copper, about the thickness of a knitting needle. To fasten the wire to the poles, nail a short crosspiece to the top, from which to tie the wire with a heavy cotton cord, leay- ina it lonsg enongh 80 that tho wirg will not touch the wood. The opening in the side of the building should also be large enough not to interfere with the wire, Then make an opening in the centre of the four thicknesses. ufi):\per barely large enough to receive the wire. Draw the wire tight and give a few twists around a nail laid flatwise on the inner side of the paper. Between the back of the transmitter and the side of the room place near the edge four small blocks of spools, To call tap on the nail with any small piece of iron. By this arrangement one oan communieate from his house to that of a near neighbor with but small ex- pense. Electric Ecls, Philadelphia News: Don Miguel Santa Mezzito, a weualthy gentleman living in Achaguas, Venezuella, now stopping at the Girara House,tells a wonderful story alleging that he has succeeded in util zing electricity generated by electric cels, and that his_residence is ighted by electricity from the strange fish.” Scnor Mezzito is a well educated man, gradu- ated from Heidelburg university and speaks several languages, including Eng- lish, quite fluently . . “Yes," said he, “I have my residence lighted throughout by electricity gener- ated by large batteries of electric cels. The cis suflicient electricity wasted in the streams of the northern portion of South America to light a city as big as Philadelphia, could it be properly util- ized, The town of Achaguas lies on the bank of a small river of that name, which empties into the Orinoco 100 miles to the southeast. 1t is in the state of Apure, about 150 miles from the eastern boundary of the United States of Co- lumbia. ~ The city 18 reached by boat up the Orinoco to San Fernando, and by rail from that place. Achaguas isan old town and has been the home of my family for many fienerntiuus, I give you thg) in detall becaure I have met scientists since I came to this country who_ evidently disbelieve that I have electric lights run- ning by electric eels. “Lgov my first 1dea of utilizing the gymnotus electricus while studying eloc- tricity in Germany. Living us{ had for years, near streams in which the cels abounded, and knowing personally of men and animals that had been pros- trated and were killed by eels in water, I was especially interosted in Faraday's account of the torpedo and other fishes. I was particularly impressed by the great scientist’s statement that a full-grown electric eel contained ~electricity equal to fifteen Leyden jars of 8,500 square_inches. Upon returning to my home I at once hegan experimenting, und was both surprised and delighted with my success. I tound that by hold- ing a small eel, the head in one hand and the tail in the other, the shock was much stronger than in any other way, and soon discovered that the positive and negative cells are divided, the negative near the poctorals and the positive next the tail. I also satisfied myself very quickly that the eclectricity from the eel was the same as common electricity, 1t rendered the needle magnetic, decom- posed chemical compounds, and by 1t heat was evolyed and a spark was obtained. On these points, however, the scientists readily agree with me, wis satistied that the power was there if 1t could be utilized, and after two years of further experi; “u“F I succeeded in gotting a battery by which a_small light was run nearly an hour: Then it was merely a question of time and stml{. 1 have had ‘the lights running, eight of them, eight-candle enach, tor ~three months. My success has brought me to this country, and I propose to expiain my invention and discovery to the mem- bers of the Franklin Institute before I re- turn to Venezuela. “I first tried the placing of & number of the eels in one large rubber tank well insulated, but I afterward discarded it and tried the forming of a strong battery by the connection of fifty cells, with two or more eels in each, The result was more than satisfactory. L may state that no ground wire 1s used. Each cell 15 s0 connected as to complete a circuit through the wires run- ning from either end of the row to the lamps, which are all in one circuit. The only secret is the manner in which the electricity is conducted from the cells. That I belicve to be an nnu‘rul,}' original discovery, and I shall not divulge it until it is protected by patents both in Europe and America, The cel, 1 learned, makes heavy, involuntary dis- churges of nlcclriulty when its eirculation is increased, or when unnaturally ex- cited. ThisT learned by sceing the In dians, under wmy orders, driving ecls into our nets by the aid of horses and mules, Vith half a dozen horses lhrou*h the water the eels throw off quantities of electricity that the ammuls are prostrated and “sometimes kil ‘This without actually coming in contact with the fish. Inan hour the ecls will have discharged their store of oleetric flufed, and coming to the surface li still. They are entirely helpless. T in by the nets the eels are placed in re- coiving tanks, and in half an hour their electric cells are as strong and as nctive as ever. The Indians and ignorant peo- ple in the vicinity of Achaguas regard me as a wizard, and my life has been threatened becanse & minor chief of a small tribe living a fow miles west of uas was killed by an electric shock ilo taking cels for me. “But I was telling you of the batter- fes. Ifound it necessary to keep the cels excited in order to compel them to throw off their store of electricity steadily. 1 tried several ways of keeping a wheel re- volving in each cell, but afterward learned that the feeding of strychnine to them, or rather the placing of strych- nine in the liquid in which they are kept, accelerated circulation by producing tetanic contraction of the muscles, and did all that was required, “How about whon the store of elec: tricity is exhausted, you usk? “Well, that is casily overcome. I do not aliow a battery to ‘work moro than half an hour at a time. By a very simple clock work contrivance I have o fixed things as to instantly and at regular in- tervals, throw one battery off and an- other on, I keep these batteries of thirty cells each all the time ready. Relieved for an hour the eels are as sctive as ever. During the half hour of service the stryothnia has become absorbed and tho fishes quickly recover their mnatural W er. “Thirty cells of two eels each are equal to 1,000 volts, and strong enough to kill three men should the current pass through them. Each cel is a perfect battery with- in itse There are two positive and two negative eels one-thirteenth of an inch in diameter in each cell, and each cell has many minute cells within it keep a large tank full of the eels on hand all the time, and am compelled to replenish the batteries every day or two. I have attempted to propagate the cels, but thus f: ve not been successful. do not see that my discovery and invention will ever benelit the world very much, because these ccls are not found much cutside of northern South America, but it 19 interesting from a sci- entific standpoint, and I consider my time, labor and money well spent’? Senor Mezzita will remain in Philadel- phia for a few days inspecting woolen :nill machinery, and will then go to Bos- on, RN HONEY FOR THE LADIES, Garnets are becoming fashlonable. The crest-shaped bonnet has reappeared, Etehed silver girdles are rather a novelty. A new shade of red is ealled *Ruddygore.” “‘Peach colored gold”is a new notion in Jewelry, Very fashion. Man was created first. Woman was a sort of recreation, Qald stlvar hraid is much used as a stylish decoration, Parasols are moro startling in shape, color and price than ever beforo. Carmelite in gray or fawn color is a favor- ite material for traveling wear. Basques are all short on the loose and long pointed fronts, Braiding is still immensely popular 1n ricn dress as well as utility toilets. White Suede gloves for summer wear are elaborately embroidered with gold. It 1s said that three-fourths of the women in New York city are wage-earners, The Norfolk jacket styleof bodico is popu- lar for both cotton and tiannel gowns. Large poke bonnets for wear on_afternoon drives are picturesque and shade the face. Some very dressy capotes are made of tulle or lace sewn over with smali gold spangles. Fine checks are fashionable, but very fine ones only, Checkerboard patterus are not worn. ‘Tho scarfs with hoods which were so popu- lar some years ago, are stealing into favor again. Turban hats, the crowns of which are eov- ered with puffed twilled silk or faille, are in favor. ‘Ihe newest eolor is honeysuckle, paly yel- low in one light and pale pink when viewed from the opposite side. Bebe ribbon of black velvet Is worn about the throat and tied behind, This ribbon is of the narrowest width that is sold, Of Iate there has been a revival of coral of the pink variety in the shape of rows of beads and plainpolished ear drops. Narrow-shaped lace fichus In black, white or pale tints of color_are again worn with summer dresses cut V shape in the neck, Str are arranged in many wavs. The almost plain round skirt, made of velvot- striped fabric, is often cut entirely on the bias, ‘There are some women who wouldn’t be lupply in a mansion in heaven unless they could clean house about once every three months, Memorandum tablets of etched silver, fre- quently ornamented with gold-applied bugs, beetles and other insects, are used as clate- laine pendants. Every rcallf' fashlonable dress now-a-days must huve a long pointad waist, full front, clinging skirts, puffed sleeves, high-shoul- ders and a girdle. “T'he semi-precious stones, such as the hya- cinth, tourmaline, tovaz, acqua-marine and golden beryl are in much better taste for or- dinary wear than Rhine stones and paste, ‘The Bernhardt girdle consists of single or double braids of spiral wire in dark oxidized tinish. ending in a ball and chains, to which afan and a flask or other pendants are at- ched. The newest design for a bracelet is now of coffee beans. ‘The inside ot the kernel in ex- posed and every bean, or rather halt bean, is of a different color, from a delicate green to a rich purple. Yokes and yoke effects are In\llll[nl)'lllz for hot weather toilets, and take on all “sorts of shapes, pleated, pointed, square or scalloped. A novel stylo shows a pointed yoke, the cen- tre of which extends to the waist in front and terminates at the middle of the back. The oftice of arch-deacon has been estab- lished in the Kpiscopal diocese of Long Island. ‘The arch-deacons, threo in number, will have general oversight of missionery work in their districts, and will aid in their proper sphere the bishop and missionery committee, Two younz belles appeared at a Boston dinner a few days ago wita serpents appar- ently tattooed on their arms instead of brace- lets, and a circle of strawberries and straw- berry leaves around the neck, exquisitely doné both as to color and_ drawing, and pro- ducing a striking effect. Though it resnm- bled tattooing, it was, of course, sume thin substance excellently palnted and made to adhere to the skin. ‘The chief element of present fashion ap- pears to be a continual exneriment in odd combinations, whether of two or three colors of the same fabric or of two or three differ- ent materiuls, one figured, one plaip, another striped, the one in sharp contrast, yet har- monizing with the other two. ~ Red, for in- stance, In the hands of a skilled needlewo- man, i3 made to appear and disappear, to gleam forth and then be lost again, thus proving, with spare use, a charming and ef- foctive addition. With the new pretty summer skirts, which are full and but slightly draped, many odd corsages will be worn that are made of a dif- terent fabric from the skirt. There has ap- peared one kind that Is calisd an overskitt corsage, because the bodice is attachieil to an large feather fans arc in high hips, with end of the overdress, which i3 scarcely visi- ble except at the bael This is u varlety of polonaise, but much léss enveloping thin a olonaise usually is, leaving aim iro skirt exposed instead of hidin, there are the gracoful beited eorsas different fabrio from the skirt, ‘hese ha their side forms prolonged beyond the belt in two long peplum_points, which are hand- somely decorated, The fronts are replaced by n pleated plasiron wade of light silk or gauze, ‘The Creole lady would fill a long felt want in'some communities, Here is a description of ner: She is an obedient and rua{wr-llul daughter, a faithful wife and a devoted mother. 'She Is soft of speech, and has a vace of manner which gives a_ehanm to all hat she does. Well educatea and accom- plished, with keen wit, sne makes a brilliant figure i soclety, but 15, nevertholess, an ox- ceilent manager of her household, and gives A most careful supervision to every “'L'fl! that will enhiance the comfort of' her I Sno looks diligently after the. physical and intellectual welfare of her children: espes clally are her daughters trained under hee own eyes in_all that goes to make women lovely in mind and person. Their tasks for school are conned by her side, thelr musie lessons ure practiced’in her lu-urlng. that she may detoct the least false note. She shares in all their am'sements; she is their coms panion, their confidante, their friend. e RELIGIOUS. Twenty out of the forty-nine Episcopal diocesses of the church have archdeacons, The last Sunday in June will be used by many Sunday schools for a temperance daye The Evangelical association of Wisconsin has a mempership of 11,6003 nearly all Ger= mans, Cardinal Gibbons Is to revive the Catholle propaganda amoni the colored people of the south, llM\(\\\ Warren, of the Methodist Eplscopal chureh, is on his way to China to look after tho missions there, ‘I'here are in our own country soriewhat more than 100,000 Sunday schools, with an enrolliment of 8,500,000 scholars. ho Hebrew transtation of the New Testa= ment, made by Prof, Delitzsch, 13 accomplishe ing wonders as a wissionary agency among h ws. Not tess than 30,000 copies ot the ork have been scattered among the Jewish blo of Siberia, and are read with great avidity. The Buddhists continue to make most vigs orous efforts to counteract the epread of christianity in Japan; and the Honganji sect was never 8o busy, One school in Kioto i8 to_bo rebuilt at a cost of $13,000 and other Buddhistic seminaries s are being started in various parts of the country, At Mr. Dwight L. Moody’s two schools in Northtield over five hundred young men and women are being educated to become issionaries or teachers and workers in branch of christain _effort, ‘Ihey ate sed and taught in well-appointed bulld- ings, all of which have been paid for by an outlay of over §500,000. W As for union of the Duteh Reformed with ie Presbyterians, the Christian Intelli- ; o'one has a right to agitate this project nnless he is sure ot its accom- plishment. Unsuccessful revolution becomes crime. And there is no more possibility of carrying over the Reformed church to the Presbyterians than there I8 of removing the stato of New Jersey to the Mississippi valley, Among the men who have been mentioned as possible suce to Honry Ward Beecher in Plymouth church, not the least note- worthy 1s the Rev. Myron W. Reed, at prese ent pastor of a church in Denver, Colo, Nr. Reed is a unique character, and while not an orator, he is 8 man of great power in the puls pit. All that he says I3 distinguished b} originality, His sermons are like Emerson’s essays in one respect. iven in numvers Christianity now stands at the head of all the relizions in the world, according to Sir Monier Williams, professor of Sanserit, who says: “Next td iv Lam inclined to place Hinduism (includs ing Brahmanism, Jainism, demon and fetish worship), while Confuclanism should proba= bly be placed third, Mohammedanism fourth, Buddhism fifth, Taoism si:(il,ll. 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