Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 10, 1887, Page 10

Gl b THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUTY 10. 188 BENNISON BROSS., MONDAY. - Grand Mid-8ammer Olearing Sale For All Next Week, We Will Offer the Coming Week " Great luducements For the Ladies to Come Out Even If It 1s Warm, Next Week—Grand Sale of 1,000 Cro ehet and Marswulles Bed Spreads, A Full-size White Crochet Bea Spread, 86c worth $1.25. An Elegant White Crochet Bed Spread, $1.00 worth #1,50. An Elegant White Crochet Bed Spread, $1.25 worth $1.75. And Marsailles, Extra Sizes, $1.50 $2.25, $2.75, $.00, $3.50—These have no - Competitors. Monday—25 pes. Elegant Plards, - Btripes and Check White goods; Sold all the Season at 25c to 40c per yard, We will close them all at 18¢ per yard. 25 pes. Extra Fine Quality Plaids, Stripe and Check White goods; Sold all the Season at 40c to 60c per yard, We will close them Monday at 25¢ per yard. 00 pes. White India Linens, 6ic per yard, worth double. 10 pieces Extra Fine Bleached and Un- bleached Table Damasks, Monday, 50¢ yard, worth 85c. Monday, 200 doz Ladies’ and Chil dren's Fancy Bordered Handkerchiefs, Be each. Monday, 200 doz Ladies’ Linen Fancy Bordered Handkerchiefs, 8jc each. Monday only, 25 picces Fine Imported Tennis Zephyr Lawns, striped and plain, to match; sold all season at 85¢ per yard; ouf price to close the lot, 15c yard, Monday only, 50 pieces Renfrew Dress Ginghams, 6§c per yard. MoTlnsy only, 12 yards Fancy Stripe Crinkle Scersucker for 75c. Monday only, 25 pieces Nile Green and Buff Chambrays, 8ic yard, worth 15c. Monday only, 1 bale 36-inch Unbleached Maslin, 16 yards for $1.00. Monday only, 25 picces Domestic Sat~ teéns, Pinks, Blues and Reds, 5¢ yard. Monday, 6 pieces Black Spanish Lace Flouncing, 40 inches wide, $1.50 yard, worth $2.50. Monday, 50 doz ¥'rench Woven Corsets, 756, worth $1.50, Great attractions all next week. Watch us, BENNISON BROS., 1519-1521 Douglas st. GRAND EXCURS! TO CHICAGO. $14.50 For the Round Trip. Commencing on July 5 and continuing on sale until July 12, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway will sell round tnix‘) tickets to teachers and ALL OTHERS that wish to take n trip to Chi- sago at $14.50 for the round trip from Council Blufts. Two_ through express Irains are run daily, leaving Omaha at )15 a. m. and 6:05 p. m., running new plegant Pullman Palace Sleeping and Dining Cars. Ample accommodations will be provided for every one. Reserve gour Pullman berths and secure your tickets at the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ticket oflice, 5 Farnam street. Tickets good m;Jg on all through express trains from July 6th to 13th in- olusive. 8. 8. STEVENS, General Western Agent. et LT Henney Buggies at Armstrong, Pettis & Co.’s 1308 Izard st. L Dr. A. 8. Billings wishes to announce Lo his friends and patrons that after a vacation of three months he is now in his office again prepared te do all kinds of dental work. — Engincers’ transits and levels at Good- man’s, ——— Painters’ Supplies. Goodman’s, 1110 Farnam. — —————— Physicians’ Supplies. Goodman’s, 1110 Farnam. o —— UBICAGO & NORTHWSTERN R'Y Excursion to Ohicago. $14.50 FOR ROUND TRIP, Commencing July 5 and continuing on sale to July 12 the Chicago & Northwest- orn railway will sell round trip tickets to teachers and all others who wish to take & trip to Chicago or points in the east for $14.50 from Council Bluffs to Chicago and return. Two through express trains run daily, leaving Omaha at 9:15 a. m, and 6:05 p. m.,, running palace sleeping and dlnlni cars, Ample accommoda- tions will be furnished for everyone. Re- serve your sleeping car berths and se- cure your tickets at the Chicago & North- western ticket office, 1411 Farnam street. V. N. BABCOCK, General Western Agent. e Surveyors’ Rods, Tapes and Chains at Goodman’s. e — The Summer School} Will open next Monday at the Omaha ymmercial College on Farnam street, 'he branches taught will be bookkeeping, arithmetic, grammar, spelling, penman- ship, short-hand and type-writing. The term will continue six week, and be from 0 a. m, to 4 p. m,, each day. Chil- dren above ten years will be admitted. Tution: Penmanship, $3.50, English branches $3.50, twpe-writing (two weeks) $5.00, short-hand $7.00. Ronrsovau Bros. ———— Architects' Supplies, Goodman's, 1110 Farnam, — “Over 150,000 Happy Thought ranges in use.” For sale by C, F. Garduer, 719 North 16th st. e An Unknown Friend. Yesterday morning Mr. AuchMoedy the deputy county clerk, found upon his desk one ot the most unique cigar and match stands which ever originated in the mind of a silversmith. It consisted m' the mamn of a hollow ot egg, with fractured end at the other extremity of which was a Senegambian of huge dimensions in bronze and oxidyzed silver looking as if h1 were coming to life at two places, and with both his hat and boots on. The egg was engraved with Mr. AuchMoedy's inftials, though the generous giver is unknown, —_— Dropped a Rock. Jerry McCormick, one of the street El‘onc‘ on west Farnam street, dropped a block of granite on one of his h'(-lf'cs- terday morning, fracturing several of the small bones and making u very pain- ful hurt, —— IMPORTANT MEETING, That Every Contractor and Material Furnisher Shoulill Attend. There will be a regular meeting of the ing Contractors and Material Protective association at Monday afternoon “at 2 o'glock. Matters of vital -importance will eome before the association. All contractors and material furnishers, whdther members of the association or are urgently requested to be pres- ent. T. W, REAb, Sceretary, : e Gilt Edga Dairy Butter at Hanley's, 20 sents. . LABOR NEWS, Sewer Laborers Demand an Advance in Wages. The sewer laborers employed by Messrs. Mount & Griffin, to the number of 108 men, have for some time past been dissatistica with the wages they were re- ceiving. Matlers eame to a crisis yester- day afternoon, when the work on Thir- teenth and Leavenworth streets, on which some thirty-nine of the men were @ nployed, was rendered much more dis- agreeable and dangerous through the presence of water in the ex tion. The balunce of the men have been engaged constructing a seweron Twenty-fifth and Harney. The strikers, with some f exceptions, have been receiving 175 per day and $2.00 per day was the amount asked for. As the de- mand was refused by the contractors the men resolved to strike. ““We think what we are asking for is only fair and reason- able,” snid one of the strikers to a BEE reporter. “We work ten hours per day and are often subjected to great danger in the trenches, The contractors them- selves have recogmized this by giving $2 aday to a few of the men and as we hive to do just the same work there is no rea- son why we should not receive the sy pay.”? Carpenters Meet. A largely attended special mecting of the union carpenters was held last even- ing at the Metropoli hall, corner of Dodge and F enth streets. A discus- sion took plage. in the course of which the several speakers cxpressed them- selves as thoroughly satistied with the action of the contractors, and the utmost good feching was manifested. The following notice was unanimously for publication: Norice 1o BuiLbERs.—You having ac- ceded to our dem: of nine hours per day and eight hours on Saturday, with saine pay, ;’;‘(i:l'll'"w standard wages of thirty cents per Wé hereby wish to assure you that there will be no further demands made upon you this season by our organization. 1ue C NTERS UNION. B AMUSEMENTS. THE GREAT BARRETT CIRCUS, To-morrow morning at 10 o'clock the great parade of the Barrett circus will make the streets put on a holiday appear- ance, and in the afternoon the first of the great performances will be given, to be followed, if possible, by a better one at night. The reputation of the Barratt circus is 80 well established that it is needless for us to do anything more than simply an- nounce its coming. It is as well, though, to call attention to its wonderful qualled feature, the great Jo Jo. Much speculation has been entered into of late as toJo Jo's nationality, appearance, manners, ete,, and, it is only fair to say that were people to ao nothing for an en- tire day but clothe Jo Jo with mysticismn they would then fall far short of doing the enigmatical creature justi as he is surely the greatest wonder extant, and s consequently a fitting feature for the greatest of shows, DORIS & COLVIN CIRCUS. Omaha is to be doulbly blessed this season in the circus w:\,}', for soon after the appearance of the Barrett show we are to be visited by the greatest and big- gest of all big shows, the Dors & Colvin show, circus, menagerie, museum, wild west and Roman hippodrome. The long- looked-for advent of the colossal show 1s near at hand. ‘The press throughout the entire country speaks in glowing terms of this great amusement en- terprise, and, indeed, its magnitude is something to be wondered at. The show—or properly speaking, the great consolidation of shows—consists of a hugh three-ring circus, a monster me- nagerie, world’s museumn and elevated theater stago, combined with a collossal Roman Hippodrome, in which Roman stanaing and chariot racing, racing, steeple chasing, running racing, ete., ete., will be exhibited, There are whole tribes of Indiuns in the ‘New Wild West," who together with frontiersmen of all kinds, scouts, cowboys, guides, hunters and trappers, will give realistic scenes of life in the wild west, surpas; ing anything of the kind ever seen here. adopted The pastor of the First United Presby- terian church will preach this morning “Right and the Duty of the State to Pro- tect the Sabbath.” “This church has been undergoing extensive repairs and is now, with its ndfiition, vaint, elegant decora- tions and new carpets, a very neat and attractive place of worship. ——— Coming Back to Omaha. The following extract from the Buffalo Courier of a recent date will be read with interest hece where Mr. Cooley re- sided for a number of years before going east: ‘There is soon to be another break in the local railway circle. General Agent W, P, Cooley of the Union Pacitic, has tendered Ins resignation to take effect August 1, he having accepted an appointment from Owaha’s most prominent real estate dealer, W. G. Albright, which will give him full charge of the newspaper and advertising de- ‘mn nent of that gentleman’s business. When it is known that Mr, Albright spent about $40,000 last year in this branch of his enterprises, it will be readily understood that Mr. Cooly will be a very busy man; but then he is well known as a hustlér, and will »rlu'n'a avaluable man ¢in nis new field of abor. Mr. Cooley has been In railroad life seven- teen years beginning as a wachinist in the shops of the Union Pacifie. ~ Afterwards he became division clerk of the Pennsylvania company, but returned to his old love as a traveling passenger agent and was stationed 1 Chicago. Later he took to the plains and was interested in the life stock traflic, and finally drifted back once more to the Union Pacitic in the capacity of traveling passen- ger agent with headquaoters at Philadel- phin. A year ago last January, the agencies of Buffalo and Philadelphia” were consoli- dated with Mr. Cooley as general agent. He established his headquarters here aud was a general favorite “‘on the street” from the day that he first set foot in the booming city. Mr. Cooley is known as one of the shrewdest, most active and capable men in the business, and his nuwerous friends here will part with him with sincere recret, but at the same time will wish Lim every possible success in Omal Wanted.—A double corner lot inside two mile limit. Must be nicely located. 1 want to put improvements upon it in- side of one year worth $3,000. Will pat $500 upon it atonce. on't want to pay any cash down. Address Box U. 53, Bee, e ————— There will be given a musical enter- tainment at Gaynor’s hall for the benefit ot the Excelsior bund, Tuesday evening, July 12, All are invited to have a pleas- ant time, Admission 26e. Brevities, A meeting of Castle Omaha No. 74, Knights and Ladies of the Golden Ruie will be held in St. George's hall Monday evening, July 11, at 8 o'clock, sharp, By order of the commander. Edward Holden, of Iowa, who has heen working for over three years in the mines near Ouray, Col,, was killed last Friday morning. His remains are now en route to this city and will be buried from his brother-in-law’s residence, Frank X, Lemieux, 406 Walout street. Time of fune MEAD- Eaturdag, July & at7 o'clock p. . Charles G, infant son @f Arthur J. Mead, age ¥ months. Funeral will take place from the residence of A. J.. tunt, No, 9725 Hamilton street,Sun- day, July 10, at & o'clock p, m. THE BOOM IS NOW HERE. South Omaha the Future Porkapolis of the World, Armour & Co. Have Rought and Are Now Here—The Most Unprecedent Boom Contemplated inSouth Omaha Investments, Nothing has occurred during the years of constant vrogress in the prosperity ot Omaha and South Omaha that has had the significance that the purcnase of Ar- mour & Co., of the Lipton packing es- tablishment, is developing. The pur- chase, announced as complated yester- day, is followed by the extensive and claborate preparations by Armour & Co. to enlarge the plant by an expenditure of a half miilion dollars into one of the greatest packing houses on the conti- nent. The result {8 apparent already, and other large packing firms of Chicago are coming and are here negotiating to follow the great lead of Armour. One thousand men will find employ- ment at Armour’s, nearly quite as many more at Swift's new packing house now in course of construction. Then followed the American Provision Comvany and other large firms, who all announce that the bulk of their killing and packing in the futare will be done in South Omaha, South Omaha is now the third pork packing mart of the world and bids fair to soon becorae the tirst. TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND Inhabitants will live in South Omaha within twelve months ® as the numerouns packing houses and manufactories will absolutely demand this influx of people, thereby convineing proof that no prop- erty for sale offers the quick returns and large profits ag does South Omaha. Lots sold there last year at two and three hundred dollars will now as readily bring as many thousands. Men foolishly pay $800 for lots in wild- cat additions when they can purchase elegant lots within six blocks of the Ex- change building for §500. Three thou- sand laboring men will buy property and build homes necessarily near their places of work. To capitalists this is signifi- cant. Those who cannot build will want to rent, and what better investment could be made than building on these lots houses for rent? Parties buying lots now get them from firft hands and get the benefit of the in- crease in price. Now is the time to in- vest. Don’t wait until the_most desira- ble lots are gone. The C. E. Mayne Real Estate and Trust company, corner Fif- teenth and Harney streets, are sole agents for the South Omaha Land Syndi- cate, and will send out in carriages, free of charge, any person contemplating purchasing this property. il ety SO RESTING AT DAVENPORT. ©C. E. Mayne Thinks Omaha 1s Good Enough Place to Live In. ‘When Mr. C. E. Mayne, the far-famed real estate dealer, went on his summer vacation to Davenport, Ia., several Omuha papers took it upon themselves to say that he would make his permanent residence there and look in on “Omaha oncein a while. Such, however, is not the truth, for Mr. Mayne, whose health has not been very good for some time, has only taken the advice of fricnds and physicians and will rest a short time, not more than six weeks at the most, in the quiet little town on the Mississippi. He will then return, h, it is to be hoved, much better health, and his ac y in the market will make a number of those who are holding off wish they had bought before the boom is on. Inaletter to Mr..E. A." Benson, Mr. Mayne states that he is feeling first-clas: and that when he decides to leav Omaha forever he hopes to go to heaven, but never to Davenport. New Life Insurance. Pure Life Insurance unmixed with In- vestment. No Assessments. Premiums Paid Quarterly, Semi-Annually or An- ually. The Life Indemnity & Invest- ment company furnishes a coutract of Life Insurances that for brevity, concise- ness, liberality and cheapness is behieved to be unexcelled. W & Wi IEEL General Agents and Local Tre; Omaha, Neb., Mr. C. H. Baker, General Agent Life Indemmty & t Waterloo, Towa, is_des seeuring some good men in Net a to work this company. Address Omaha, Neb, Remember about one dollar a week in- sures a middle age man for $3,000 life in- surance in The Life Indemnity & Invest- ment company. e —— The_entertainment of St. Philips’ Mu- sieal Nucleus Thursday evening at St. Barnial Guild Haltl was a very enjoy- able affair. This society is composed principally of children, vnder the direc tion of Mr. Cyrus D. Bell, and the exer- cises of th last concert, as well as all previous ones, speak volumes to their credit. Interesting speeches were made by Messrs. Gamble, Scroggins, and the Rey. Williams of St. Barniabas aud Philips: Miss Bakers' E: , “‘A histor- i ketch of African literature and ion,” was a well prepared paper h she was highly comphmented. The next concert will be given on the evening of August Oth, We, the undersigned dry goods and clothing merchants do hereby close our respective places of business at 7 o’clock p. m,, except Saturdays, Mon- days, and the Oth, 10th and 11th day of each month, to commence on and after Tuesday, July 12, and to terminate Sep- tember 1, 1887, |Signed. | ‘Will Picnte. xt Thursday the Young Men's Hebrew association will give a picvie Ruhl's park, a pleasant resort southwest of the city. As the grounds are attrao- tive, the society large and influential, there will probably be a large attendance. Kountze Place. Two choice lots at considerably below present prevanling prices. Must be taken soon. Also some other good bargains, A. H. COMSTOCK, No. 1523 Farnam street. ——m——— The Adelphian society of the Christian church hold a lawn festival at the resi- 3. T. Gadd, 833 Park avenue, evening, July 12, Cake and ice cream for stimulants. e ——— For fine harness and carriages, lap robes, ly nets, and horse clothing eall on Mitchell & Haines, southwest corner 16th and Capitol avenue. ———— The young people of the So. 10th street chureh will give a social Thursday even- g, July 14, Refreshments will be served, —— Bnal Brith, The Bnai Brith society, an organi tion of Hebrew citizens, will hold o pi nie to-day at Preis’ lake. Wagons will Jeave Max Meyer's at 8o'clock this morn- ing. Try the Omaha Sulphur Springs water. %) 0ice 205 Nor. 10h St. Telophone, 200, e —— Attention is called to a lost watch ad- vertised in the lost column of this issne. VR PAGES. THE TIME HAS COM FOR A GRAND CLOSING OUT SALE Commencing Monday, July llth, ‘87 Mans’ all wool suits, made and trimmed in the best shape possible, former price, $20 and $25. Our price Monday, and until sold, $15 and $18. Several lines of Mens’ wool suits, well made and trimmed former price, $12, $15 and $18; our price Monday, $7, $10 and $12. Boys and Childrens' Suitsat Equally Low Prices. We ask Your Inspection of Our Entire Stock. THIS IS A GENUINE BARGAIN SALE. ROBINSON & GARMON, Clothiers Hatters and Furnishers, Ramge’s Old Stand, 1311 Farnam St, Doings 1n Police Court, Nellie Wuson and Eva Morgan, for various offenses, were tined $6 and costs each. They paid. John Keme, a chronic drunk, sent up for ten day James Fischel, alias Harry Kimball, was assessed o fine of $8 and costs for peddling dry goods and notions without a license. In explaining the situation to the court, he said the reason that he had changed his name was because he had been rich and powerful in the old coun- try, and he had yet a limitless stock of pride, and was ashamed of his poor rela- tions on this side of the pond. Kimball wasarrested by Chief Seavey. Charles Wilson is back again. He was run in by special Officer Mulhall, who found htm prowling about the lumber yards in the bottoms. Wilson is a well known crook, and a dangerous man. Last February he was seen to plant a set of burglars tools under the sidewalk on Howard street. Captain Cormick was made acquainted with the matter, and he laad for Wilson and captured him with tools upon his person, and evidently just starting out to do some work. He was sent up for sixty days, half of them on bread " and water. He served his time, and on the day he was liberated he entered the cathedral on Ninth street during services, made his way into the sacristy, opened the safe, and was about to make a sneak with the gold and silver chali when he was discovered and caught by the sexton,but he pulled a gun and made s escape. In he was pinched by Oflicer Tom . who has a better knowledge of crooks than any man on the force, i Wallaces on Douglas street, and wa sent up for ninety days, forty of which re on bread and water. e was re- rday morning only to be the mght. Heis nant of the notorious Murray and thugs Wiltson, John Davis and John Conner, vagrants, were sent up for ten days each. ‘Tom Reynolds stole a coat from the rack in the wash room of the Union cific hotel on Tenth street yester afternoon, and had the gall to try to veral men in front of the 5 ment belonged to Pete Casey, s tossing a ball just back of the hotel, and on coming in of course he missed it. He was t about the fellow who hed ‘usl been there with a coat to sell, and the crowd started off in pursuit. The thief was overhauled just around the corner. Relieving him usl the coat, Casey jumped upon him and beat him up in horrible shape, then turned him over to a policeman. He got fifty in jail, twenty on bread and water, Wants Better Car Facilities, OymauA, July 9.-To the Editor of the Bre: The accommodations furnished by the street car company for North Eighteenth street is simply outrageous. One half of all the passengers going north in the evening are compelled to stand crowded together inside the car, or hang on the steps and platform. Think of seventy-five people being jammed together 1 a box car twelve feet long and hat asn bake oven, to roast for half an hour after a hard day’s work, and pay for the privilege of stand- ing or hanging onto the outside of such a conveyance! ‘Then see the commotion 1uside and out, when passengers b unload. Last evenming there were teen persons on the platfarm, three of whom were ladies, and two of these ladies were compelled to step from the platform into the street, to allow passen- gers to get out of thecar. In fact, the gang of cars are so fill at times, it is_1mpossible to get on the car, especially if there is a rain falhing. There ought to be some way to reach the company and compel them to provide more zample means of transportation. One method practiced by certain persons on such oceasions, is to withhold the nickle, Of this I cannot approve, but if it should become general the company would certainly see their way clear to furnish more cars. Happy day it will be for us in this section of tue city, when the cable car company brings us relief. . A. BrobRICK. A Colored Plasterer’'s Story. Christopher Field is an_elderly colored man who presented the following griev- ance to & Bek reporter this morning. He said: “Iam a plasterer by trade, ana came to Omaha about three years ago. On arnving I tried to get work at my trade but was unable to do so, as the union plasterers refused to work on the same job with me. As I couldn’t get work in this way I contracted for plas- tering jobs, and have succeeded in mal mg a living. 1 have had a good deal of difliculty with the union tradesmen, but here 15 a letter which I think goes a little too tar, and I wish you would let the public know about i THE LETT Oftice of Corresponding S layers Protective Benevolent Union No. 1 ot Nebraska—). F. Martin, Dear Sir: Youare hereby notified that if you do not take all work out ot the hands of the colored con- tractor, Field, that no union bricklayers will be allowed to lay brick on your work. Respeetfully, O. P. Sunrow, Corresponding Secretar “That’s just what 1 call too " con- tinued Lield. “Although I working for nearly two yi Martin, he has given m couldn’t employ me after the completion of my present contract unless this mat- ter was settled.” The reporter, however, made a few in- quiries among the officials of the Brick ayers’ union and found that Field is not altogether the downtrodden 3 that he protesses to be. these men, Field since his arriv Omaha has been ting regul prices. He has done this not only making his contracts but with employes. They farther claim that they have not opposed Field beeause he is a colored man. On the contrary, “"lf en- tertan the highest respeet for colored masons, and this is shown by the fact that they aflihate with colored unions south. It is true that Field was not ad- mitted to the Plasterers’ union, but that was because of tl utting rates at which he was doing his work, The Brick- layers' union, in justice to the cause of reasonably paid labor, was compelled, they claimed, to take the action r ferred to, cretary, Brick- Accord ‘What Do Yo At their old 1ricks cor. 19th and St. Mar, L y 11, Coover & Watts, the ['4 will cut the rice of best Minnesota Patent Flour Prnm $8.00 Lo § Tomatoes. Beans. . . 27 bars best laundry First-class Baking 2 good Brooms. . . Cottces, Teas, prices, e Come and see us, Coover & WATTS, N, E. Cor. St. Mary's ave sud 19th, Soap 5 Powder, Ib ¢ ces at lowest cash ng. To-morrow evening, July 11, at 8 o'clock p. m., thére will be a meeting of the board of trade. Monday is the regu- lar monthly mecting night of the board. | arival in matchloss colors. A MIGHTY INSECT HUNTER. An Entowmologist and Specimens. “The most eminent authority on_butter- flies and moths in Ameri is Strecker, Ph. D., of Reading, Pa. the one man who has made this place familiar to scic $ in every known quarter of the globe. He has just been created a doctor of philosophy fry Frank- lin and Marshall college, of " his native state. The title is worthily bestowed, for not only being a man of” scientific ' re- search, he is pre-eminently a scholar of exact learning in most of “those popular brnlnt'hu.'l that fall to the great student. he is versed in some ot the dead lan- guage nd has mastered many of the living foreign tongues in which the books of his special pursuit are writ- ten. Mr, Strecker is of German parant- age, and was born in Philadelphia on Tarch 24, 1836, Ho inherited his fond. Y tudies, nud evinced this inclination at a very early age. The great depository of this'lepidopteral col- lection is in u fine three-story brick man- sion, with skylights, and built in the shady suburbs of the city. Up two flights of stairs and we have entered mto a room where the largest and rarest collection of butterfhies in America is de- ited—over seventy thousand different specimens. Here ~our distinguished entomologist is happy. Itis night and the shutters are thrown wide open; dur- ing the day they are barred, for sun- light soon’affects the lustre of his treas- ures. On the north side of the wall a pin case 15 placed, looking much hike the arrange- ments of a large postoflice. We are told that that 1s the filed rondence of all distinguished scientists of entomo- Lfame in this and forei coun- covering thirty years. world 18 laid under tribute by this man of ar tistic genius and scienti ch to gain the newest and formation of butterfhes and moths in - every corner of the globe. This collection of inscets was forty years in gathering, and in the work more than $20,- 000 have been expended. Some of the specimens cost §100, several $60 and $59, and scores of them and 10, There is no private or public collection in all this western hewisphere cau equal it. The London museum has & some- what larger colleetion, but in order and rarity of arranged specimens this private collection would not be cxchanged for two of England’s kind, aud for none in the entiae world, 1f fire should sweep it up something in America would have been destroyed that no century could re- place. The butterflies might be had—if the entomologist should just happen to be born and be also endowed with perse verence and blessed with capital for the task. There is no country, no climate, no altitude, no solitude that has not been penctrated for the odd and beautiful specimens of butterilies here gathered. Some are as tiny as a mosquito, and others as large i half "l'l’[_'l‘lll pigeon The owl-moth of Brazil weusures a foot across the wings. Where do Illl'f come from, these wmuny different little cres tures¥ When the second Ross exvedi- tion was made in ses of northwest passage in 1527-20, & new species of Colins, afterwards called Boothil, was found in o few specimens, the anly ones known to this day, oie of which cume later into posses- sion of Strecher's collection. It 'is the mple of the species i America, s of the great Papilio Autimachus from equatorial Africa, can be scen here. Only about a dozen are knowd. Suites of the golden feraesus and - lydius from Halmelbeira, the curious parnassus but tertlies, from 18,000 feet elevation in the Himalayas and other mountaing, the enormous Cossus from Australia, which are eaten by the natives; the gorgeous rhipheus fties from Madigascar, without Then vame His 70,000 monster curiosities, half male and half female; those of one wing, partly of one sex and partly of another sex; ulbinos, hybrids, melinos, and extra-winged and other freaks, Indians, Esquimaux, ex- plorers, travelers and missionaries, have all helped to this wonderful colleetion of buttertlies. Among the curious speci- mens may be anentioned the ‘‘bee moth,’” so named from its exact resem- blance to the bee or wasp. He Is a very counterfeit of the honey-mak- inginscet. What a freak in the illumated Oiketicus pair! The female has no wings, never sees light nor takes food, ged gentleman goeth as he aseth, Then look at the eccentrie re- semblance to the ‘‘anchor-moth.” On the creamy buff-color & black anchor is marked like the tattooed are of the arm with the tar symbol. Here, also, isa resident of the azon rviver forests kinown to the native i righths'! because of the figures urk the silvery white ground of the under side of its hind wings. Then there is the ri: ous moth in Sierra Leone in West Afric known us the *'yrgus moth.”” It is re. markable for the unparalleled len the tails of the hind winds 1n th Then there is world famed butterfly” of na, India s islands.” When the wings are ope! a surface of grayish blue crossed by an orange band, but when closed as the ani- 1al 18 at rest, the resemblance to a dead leaf is perf Tho aay butter(lies num- ber 8,000 species, the night fles are ten times as many. To attempt a description of the bewil- dering effect as case after case is drawn hiding and samples of the 70,000 specimens are displayed under the gaslight is simply futile. The endless variety of their forms, th Ousness of their harmonious dress, hive no equal among any living thing of the domain of It is pretty in emerald or sap- hat is brilliant in mond or is rich in plun leaf ot flower, what 15 glorious in rain- bow or sunset—all bu found in this array of insect ereation,dazzling, ¢listen- i gayly disporting under the lush of t of preserving them is also somewhat tedious task. ftom distant entomologists i sured in boxes. p must be put into u wooden press of ticular design, must be poised on pins and rendered pliable in' a moist sand-jar and ti arranged with mathematical pre in their respective cas Exchauges are made by the lepidopterists the world over, which go the rounds, and speci- mens of insects are n and caken a8 the collections may lack kinds. Cocoons even are reeeived from distant lands, and are nursed into life u vear afterward. Reference should be made to the sci- entific works published by Herman Strecker. 1o 1872 he began his *'Lepi- dopte: Indigenous and Exotie,” with life size illustrations of unknown species of butterflies in North Asucrica. That book has gone into other editiong and has reached subseribers in every part of the globe. His “‘Butterflics and Moths of North America” iy an indispensable contribution to scienes, and a delight to all scientific students of Furope, 1t clearly places Mr. Strecker at the hend of the l¢ puh.yten-n in the new world, and makes him an unguestionable au- thurity the world over. — e ——— A Correction OMAnA; July 7.-Mr. Pelie— Dear . Sir: 1 see by an article written in the Ber of July 2 that you are accused of having { threatened me with a shotgun und com- pelted me to vetive from doing some work y Stult & Humel, T desire W no shotgun nor atiything of the kind, and the report g without foundation whateyer, Frank M. WooLey, Joux E, RUssiLly f.