Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 24, 1887, Page 10

: SUNDAY JULY 24. 1887.~1TWELVE PAGES THE TIE WHICH CUPID BINDS., How Marriages aro Celebrated in Green- land, MONEY MAKING MATRIMONY The Name of Wife—Marriages That Are Pecullar--Baffalo Bill Officiate ing—Pin Moncy For Wiv The Name of Wife. Arthur M. Eastor. “'Sweet wife!" blessed word of fond content, The tairest gift kind heaven has sent, Or man can know on th: Dear wifo ] love you even more Than in those haleyon days of yore, Wiien loye first had its birth, “Wife,” only wife could ever be As dear and precious unto me ' elight instil; rt” once held the fondest charm, e mind to please, the heart to warin, But “wife" is dearer still. 1 love you, wife, 1 love your smile, Sweet wite, so innocent ot guile, 1 love each word you speak. 1 love the motion of your lips, 1 love you to your finger tips Bright, loving, wise and méck, Your sympathy is true and sure, For you all things I can endure, And overcomne all wrong: Your gentle smile to lizit the way, Your faith to encourage day by day, Would make the weakest strong. “My wife,”” 1 love the lingeriag sound, In itall tenderness is found, Precious to me as life; Dearer than “sweetheart” or than *‘friend” All charms and virtaes in it blend, Sweet, precious name of “wife.” Marrying for Harper's Bazar: While it is degrading to see a man marry for money simply, it is still more degraaing and foolish for a woman to marry merely for money, thus showing herself willing to sacrifice all that is most sacred to woman for what moncy can buy. How many a woman do we see dragging a rich, vulgar hus- band about who is merely an appendage to her diamonds. How many an educat woman blushes for her hushand’s gran Who shall portray that mo: partan endurance with which ¢ women hide the vulture despair which is preyiug upon their vitals? “With what pardoaable artifice will they blandly smile—a smile like that of St. Agnes at the stake, or lik sunshine at an overflowing voleano!” The suflerings of women who have married uncongenial men would fill volume: The English aristocracy is full of tls sort of thing, A pretty,portionless Lady Sarah must marry money. How well Mrs. Oliphant paints the picture in her novel, *The Ladies Lindores!"'—the vul gar, dreadful man of whom his delicate wife is afraid, and who does not learn how to treat her, but who has enjored the double triumph of humiliating ‘the poor aristocrats and seeing the dowager thrust her elegant girt under his dread- ful nose. American parents have been known to force their daughters to marry men they did not love for money. We sce their pale faces in the avenuc. We have Awerican mammas who call drunken- ness ‘‘youthful escavade,”” vulgarity, “bonhomie,” and licentiqusncss ‘‘the sowing of wild oats,” ifaman hasa great deal of money. There 18 no such golden mirror as_money: it transmutes everything into virtue. "However, some- times the money disappears and the man remains, then the unloving wife is, in- decd, to be pitied, for matrimony is a very hard road to travel at the best. gumo one has lately wnttena funny 00k, ‘“‘How to be Happ hough M vied.” And the man who has married an heiress whg turns out to have no money, where is he? Calenlating Romeo must now work and work hard, Very few men who have possessed a fortune who lose 1t late in Ii}q-. can make another one. It1s the man whose energies have been stimulated early by necessity who makes the fortune, and if that i Jost can make another. Dame Necessity ‘_s a great school mistress, but she can do ittle for a circulating Romeo who has been disappointed. A circulating Romeo ‘who marries a vulgar he generally fnts his punishment in his life, — He will be perpetually shocked with her manners her voice, her style of dress. She may @ven take him to Europe, flict with hor sourier, and elope with & French warquis who turns out to ve a barber. Such is the worldly view of the mar- ringe question, such 18 the matrimonial money market, such the ealcuiating Romeo. Human nature is not all venal. But we must recognize the growing dan- gor of things. In America, where ry man has a chance, wheve estate and title aro not inherited, we should have no such thing as the marriage de conveni- ence. It is, however, becoming too much of a recognized institution. No doubt the buman heart is the same in all ages—frivolous, tragic, romantic, sellish, eald, everything by turns. There will alwaya be che elo}»um\:nt. the lovo- mateh, the marriage for money, but the last is the: worst for the republic. Marriages in Greenla: One of the Danish missionaries in Greenland states that since the mission- aries have won the confidence of the na- tives they have had a duty laid upon them which they never contemplated at the beginnmg of their mission. The proacher is not only the mimster of the gospel, but is invariably resorted to both by young men and maidens, as the mat- rimonial agent. A young man comes to the missionary house and says to him: “I want to marry.” “Whom?" asks the mussionary “ilave you any one in mind?’ “Yes,” answers the {oyer; “'but she wiil not havo me. I want you to speak to her.” ‘‘Have you spokon for ourself? any times; but she always No! No!'” “That is nothing," says t astor; “'you know the way of maidens. oes she like you?' *Itis diflicult to find out. She will tell you.” The pas- tor accordingly sends for the girl, who comes willingly enough, knowing what the message m ‘Well,my daughter,’ he observes, it is time that you should think of marriago.” “I never mean ot marry,” i8 her invariable and con- yentional answer. ‘“That is a pity,"" says the minister, “becaunse I have a good husband for theo.” “Who is he'" she asks, The missionary then tells her his name,—although she’knows it as well as he does,—and launches out in the lover’s raise. He stro! good-looking, indly; he caught two tine whales when bis comrades took none, or whatever else can be said to his repute, After the oatalogue of his merits has been recited the girl repli “But T think him a good-for-nothing.” *Ah, well," suys the mussionary, *Thou art not wise, There 13 no lad can fling a harpoon as he can. I shail soon find him a wife.” He then wishes the girl a good day, affecting to believe that the nterview is over. But she is sure to linger,and aftera blush and a sigh, she whispers: “*So it is par- ticularly your wish, Herr Pastort I do not qui Yllm him,” with a deep sigh, “but if you—-—"" At this point she virtually Lands over the business to the minister, who has to tell her that she knows she loves the lad, that she would not have come if she had not “thought of accepting him, and that nothing is want- ing bat to ask the blessing ot God upon their union. The marriage, curiously enough, usually takes place upon the very day on which the bride has em- ically protested that she will never s the bridegroon Buffato Bill Marries a Pair. London Giobe: [ have found a place in the Nebraska legislature, I have been in the cattlo business, acted as hunter to the Grand bu exis, and performed & marriage ceremony. This last feat 18 not withont its humorous aspect. I had been elected a magistrate for the state of Nebraska, and was one evening aston- ished by the visit of oneof the sergeants of the post who desired to be married. ‘There was no clergyman in the country, and I, as the representative of the law, was therefore empowered to tie the lov- ing couple together. There w one awkward point, howev I had never performed a civie marriage or even us- sisted at one, 1d the statutes of N braska contai nothing in the way of form or directions. Itherefore had per- force to rely upon my ingenuity on this occasion, and felt somewhat confused. The time arrived, and with it the pair of Jovers. | turned to them and said to the bridegroom “Do yon take this women to be your lawful wedded wife, to supvort and love her through life?"’ “I do,” repl the man. “And do you,” I said to the bride at this man to be yout lnwful wedded husband " I do,” smid the woman. “Then join hands,und know that I pro- nounce you two to be man wife, and whomsoever Buffalo Bill joins together let no man put asunder.” It was not perhaps strietly formal, but 1t did well enough. The pair were mar- ried and were contented, and 1 believe lived very happily together ever after. Pin Money for Wives. Harper's | Among the poor, par- and industrious poor, ouschold, be she wife s much more control 1n dispersing the daily or weekly wages than women on a higher social plane; men of brawn, when sensible and kindly, prac- nerous ruie of eonjugal oartnership than 1s usnal among men of rain, though thess lat carnings are on such a le of plenty that unless we look below the surface regniations and equipments of the home we fail to dis- cover the false financial relations that exist between band and wife. ¥or wives, as a class, have no spending money, and_arc rarely cog- nizant of their husbands’ true business situation. 1s this just to the being a d to honor as well as to Women are accused of being pan,” and any one who has ever served on a colleeting committee knows in formmg a list of possible sub- seribers, name aft name is omitted with the remark, “No use going to her, she never gives,” or ‘‘She has no mouney,” and yet the husband of “‘she” is invariably a man of means or ample professional income, who pays extiava- gant houschold and personal bills for family, usually with wiilinx good na- ture. Itis only when money is asked for that a tightening ot the purse strings in- stinetively takes place, and the unblush- ing qui is made: *‘Why, little womun, what did you do with the $5 I gave you last week?” Ve have he: uch o question put to a beloved wife by a man whose yearly expénses were at least 20,000, and who the next week gave the valuable diamond oar-rings, and always encouraged her to dress extrava- gantly and live luxuriously. CONNUBIA LITIES. Secratary Lamar's daushter Jeannle is going to marry her cousin, W. I1. Lamar, a young lawyer of Washington. Mrs. Riegel, formerly abeth Nicholson, a celebrated ~ Philadelpl belle, recently married Baron Frederic Blane of France. Senator Evarts has only one unmarried aughter, and several fellowsareafter ner. Her married sisters nnmber half a dozen. ‘The avernge aze_of Kuropean zirls when they marry, accordipg to a German statisti- clan, is twenty-six years, while that of men is twenty-elght years. “Kind sir, yoar daughter 1 would wed.” “(30 to, g0 to,” the father said. And ’twas no sooner said than done, For they went two and caine back one. Charles Hoyt, author of the “Rag Baby,” “A Bunch of Keys,” ete., has just married ip Charlestown, N. I, It is not believed that matrimony will lessen his with rag babiesand bunches of ke Another American gi about to becomo a European princess. Miss Winn: Singer, daughter of the late Mr. Sinzer, of Singer sewing machine notoriety, is going to wed the Prince de Montfellard, whose title dates from the thnes of the crusades. His fu- ture mother-in-law, now the duchess de Camposelice, was the daughter of an English confectioner. 2 e SINGULARITIES. A philologieal curiosity has been published in St. Petersburg, a glossary in 100 languages. Of these, scventy aro spoken in the Russian ewpire. A grown turkey belonging to Mrs. G. B. Beecher, of Griftin, Ga., swallowed a bee o few days ago which stung its vitals, ana in less than an hour it was dead. A Houston, Tex.,, woman has a pet alliga- tor that waes his tail when his nawme is ealled. Owing to the lougz carvers he carries in his jaw he is named Bowie. Sixty-two sheep huddled together under one tree in Oshtemo, Mich, during a recent storm were kitled by dightoine, Josiahi Roberts, of Peterboro’, Canada, is proud of his nen, who celebrated Dominion day by laying an egg six and one-half inches long and eignt and one-halt inches around, Josiah Roberts, of Deterboro, Canada, Is proud of his hen who celebrated dominion day by laving an egi six and one-half inches* long and eizht and one-halt inches around. 1 Mays placed on exhibition in efferson, lutts county, rgest rattlesnake that section for many days. 1t measured seventy-eixht inclies and had twenty-one rattles and a_button. Mr. Mays Kkilled 1t in Florida. A hen belonging to a farmer near Rolla, Mo, is said to bave laid her first exg May 10, 1588, and to have laid one every day sineo thattime. She sits on her nest continually, and has hatched one egg every day except the tirst three weeks of her carcer. She is now the wmother of 345 chickens. Hot water from arteslan wells is one ot the looked for boons, 1t is thought reasonable to suppose that hot water can bo obtained almost anywhere if wells are bored deep enough, ths feasibility of this source of supply being already hr{ely demonstrated by the snccess of the great artesian well project at Pesth. Jim Ponce, of St. Augustine, Fia., going throngh tihe woods heard tremendous squaw!s, vells aud roars, and cautiously fo- vestigating, caiue upon & seven foot panther fighting with an alligator, which had the panther fast {n its ponderous jaws, Ponce sided with the under d nd shot the alliga- tor, whereupon thie panther freeing himsclf, made for the hunter, who had a hard fight before he killed the ungrateful beast. Mrs. Annle Raush of Letart, va. whose 100th birthday has just been celebrated, is said to be the mother of the lufiosl fawily In Anerlca, She was married when she was fifteen, and bore thirteen children, eight of whom are I'ving. Her oldest child was born when she was sixteen, and her youngest liv- m“mm Is seventy-eight. Her oldest grand- child is sixty-elcht years old. She has fifty- two great-grandehifdren,and her descendan! altogeler number over (0. Artificial clouds were recently made for the protection of vines from frost at Pagny, on the Franco-German frontier, Liquid tar was ignited in tix boxes and pieces of d tar on the ground near the vines. Ll{'fi clouds of smoke arose and protection the ineyard for two hours. Although vines in the neighborhood were injured by the frost, all that remained under the clouds were left uninjured. Of course this coutrivance can succeed only In calm weather, but it is only incalm weather that white frosts occur, A Newton, La., man was mulmu‘l apples recently, when an old cow ran up to him and then away, acting very strangely. that she an unusually intelligent cow,he suspected that something must be the matter, and coming down from the tree followed h She led him to a cow in another part of the orehard that was n ki Knowing 0! sufferer profusely, and was driven into the barn-yard, where she would be out of danger, refused to leave her. SPARKLING GEMS OF JEST. An Arkansss Man Who Relishesand Delights in Chestnuts. ONE RULE ENOUGH FOR HIM . Improved Arithmetic—A Millionaire KFailure —Home HReminders—An Unwilling Kate—A Second Washington, The Bill of Fare. Arlansaie Traveler, iimme me the huinorous rnpor. Jim," aid a hoary old man to his son “*And let me go back to the ages dim And revel in gray headed fun. ““I'he mule an’ the mother'n law, the pie, The wasp and the hornet’s nest: An’ %m- lrnm:r that’s broken by a ball on the fly, Ha H peared again dressed in thelr best. nt the minister down on a pin, An' the deacon has trod on a tack, A’ the rheumatic man with a horrified grin f1as a big yaller cat on his back. "'l'h‘r‘ Illmu black ant with the hot tempered all, 18 worrying a man in the grove, An' '.Imnlclu;mpll boy, with the speed of a sna Is deliverin’ the lightnin’ o’ Jove. A cat on the woodshed is humpin® ber back, At a bootjack which some one has ‘ared,’ Au’ that nabobish man " w ith the gold ina sack 1s only & phunber retired. The soot from the stovepipe has blinded a man, An’ the 'barrow has broken a shin, “The dog runs away with an old oyster can, An’ the editor’s mournin’ for tin. *I'hey are monldy an’ old an’ not very high, But they lighten a newspaper’s gloo, An’are very much better'n a political lie, Or the news of the ‘Hog Wollow boom.” Oune Rule Enough, Philadolph A man with a pur- ple nose was fi ¢ porgies off South street whar wday and suddenly fell into the water. A fellow-fisherman of benevolent aspeet promptly hauled him out, laid bim on his back, and then began to seratch lis head in a puzzed goat an atter?" asked an excited don’t you revive “There are sixteen rules to revive drown persons,’’ the benevolent man, “and I know 'em all, and I can’t just eall to mind whieh comes first. At this point the drowned man opened his nd said faintly: :In‘)'lhing:llumt giving brandy *“Then never mind the other fifteen.” Adjourned. New York Comms i3 said that in 3le. "The gitls are all pie., And that in Ct. No girl wears a pt., “Thongh girls down in Md. Remind yo Who courts in k. Will surely be Iv “Iheugh gitls in No fover koes no. Whilegirls In M Al love men like fo., ‘And girl in Neb. Will kiss If sou ach. Improved Arithmetic. Atlanta Consiitution: Macon b one of the most erudite professo mathematics to be found in the Unired Staty lle published a series of arith- matics that has been adopted in many schools throughout the length and breadth of the land. Recently u teac! in the backwoods wrote to the professor: Dear sir: - Will you please send me the e of a key to your third grade arith- ». I have been using it in my school and I like it, but I wantna R spectfully, BircHrop Wisga 5 ‘The professor received the evistle and wrote on a postal card: Birchrod Wiseacr: Sir—It bas key. 1t is a stew-winder. Failureof a Dakota Millionaire, Bismarck Tribune: ‘‘One thinz I am glad to see,” said a good natured visitor in a Dakota town, as he addressed plain-spoken_citizen, “'you havo a larg number of rich men in this country. ‘‘Yes, lots of 'em:in fact the woods is full of em.” A good many miilionaires out this way, I understand.” ‘‘Piles of ‘e dead loads of 'em; one of iled this week.’ culated the prisoner with surprise “What was the cause?” “Well, it was Colonel Hellovaman; you see he endorsed Joe Goodfellow’s note for §25. and it_fell due last Monday, and gol blame Joe’s skin ef he didn’t skip out and throw the whole darn burden on the celonel.” Reminders of Home, Krys in the Judge. Celeste, piano-pounder, Was torturing the keys, ‘When in a stranger walked and saia, “Excuse me, i you please; “But I, alas! am homesicl And when 1 heard the din t crashing hammers, blow on blow, I thouglit U'd venture in. 1 pray you keep on pounding, 1 wish you would not stop. It makes me feel less lonesome, for 1 own a blacgsmith shov.”” But Kate Wasn't Willing. Washington Hatchet: It was in the gloaming. The hokoy-pokey man had just unchained his nocturnal yawp, and Charley Vere de Dude sat in the gloam- ing with one who had just eonsented to be his for better or worse. To him the gloaming had never gloamed more gloamingly. *Charley,” she vleaded, as his manly arm tightened around her waist in the first sweet, glad rapture of mlmwd love, harley, you'll suffocate me." AN he cried, *are you not willing to stffer-Kate on such an oceasion as this?”’ It is said that the engagement has been declared off, A Second George Washington. Merchant Traveler: ‘There goes a second George Washington,'’ said a trav- eling man to his companion, asthey passed a quiet-looking gentleman on the street. ‘‘Never told n lie?" ever in his life.” )h, say, 1f you want to tell fairy tales, at least fix 'em up so a fellow can be- e "om. " “But I assure you it's a solemn fact. The man has been deaf and dumb since hus birth." The Conscientious Cow, Puck. 7L he old cow walked by the dalry shed, And shlod sald, in her ruminant way, she said: “I'm feeling about as fine s silk; But 1'd like a driuk of my own sweet milk.”” And, looking around, she presently saw A pail n-cundln{ beside the door, It was buttermilk, about two days old; But the aged vaccine hadn’t beén told ; So she only remarked: ‘‘It's mean to bilk An industrious cow of ber own good milk.” And she took & drink, and she looked sur- prised, And she walked away, and that cow sur- mised; She surmised about half way down the lane, And mel sald in astonishment, mixed with n: “To gmn by the flavor of that there milk, 1 can’t be feeling as fine as silk, 1 must be bilious, 1'll bet a hat, When 1 get to giving down milk like that!” Bhe was Ready to Die. Traveling Magazine: A queer story comes from an [lLinois town. A woman, sup) to be on her deash-bed, ‘‘made & request to hear a brass band,and in the ed snd played several airs, after which the Invalid ex pressed a willingness t6 die.” The titles of the airs played by the band e not iven; but if one of them was ““Tit Wil ow'’ it will surprise no’'ono to hear that the poor woman expressed a willingness to die. She was too week to et out of bed and scald the band,and she was anx- ious to go henee before it returned and layed, “The Flowers that Bloom 1n the Spring.” Itis pretty certain that the woman’s mind was not affected. An Intelligent Agriculturiat, Texas Siftings: “Got any cow bells?"’ “Yos, step this way.” Those are too small. any larger?'’ t *No, sir; tho largest ones are all sold.” Rustic started off and got as far as the door, when the clerk ealled after him: “Look here, stranger, take one of these small bells for vour cow, and you won't have half the trouble i finding her; for when you hear her bell you will always know she ean’t be far off.” The farmer bought the bell. No Chance to Kick. Wall Street News: :“‘George,” said the president of a Virginia railroad to his ~ secrctary, ‘‘are those pamphlets descriptive of the scenery along our ready to send ont yet?" Yes, sir; all ready."™ “Very well, George. Have the passen- ger ngents distribute them next week,and after I'll change the schedule, 80 as to have all the trains run through by night.” Haven't you She Was a Sweeper. “‘Denrest. @ a.fond but practical lover, after the wedding day had been set, *‘ean you—er—eo you know how to sweep?” “Sweep replied the girl with a vroud glitter in her eye. “At the party to-morrow night, Geo dear, just watch me as I sweep into the The Engineer was Puzzled. Dakota Bell: “What's the trouble now, asked a nervous passenger on a new D ato road, as the train came to a sudden halt “Oh, nothin’ mueh,” s brakeman, struggling to_get away, *‘the freight ahead of us got off the track and run into the depot, knoekin' it clear out o’ time, and our engineer can't tell just where the town site is.” An Intelligent Crab, Boston Courier: *“Would you believe 1t,"? she gurgled, “while I was bathing in the sea the other morning a nasty crab ened itself on my toe.” 'Quite an intelligent crab, I should think,” her lover replied. “Intelligent! Why do you think so®" Becanse it knew how to catch on to a nice thing.” Tuen_she blushed, and when he at- tempted to take a kiss she made scarcely any resistanc s TIONAL 5 en £20,000 to the uni- versity of Melbourne to found a chair of musie, ‘The University of .the €ity of New York has conferred this year 227 degrees. including seven honerary decrees, Canada is represonted at John Hopking university by ten students, Japan five, and England Germany aud China one each. Willis 1. Bocock, who was last week elected professor of Greek in Hampton Svd- ney colle, Virginla, is said to be the youngest college protessor in the Uniwd States. 1o is twentg-two years old. The University of 'Miehigan has just been commenmorating the ‘eompletion of ‘the first haif century of its lesal existence, Festival ceremonices of one Kind or another continued through four or five days, the most memor- able feature of all being the tine commeuor- ation address by 1 fent Angell, President Hopking' ideal of a college was “an institution where a young man. during the critical period of transition from boy- hood to manhood, and even later, G an opportunity to do for himself t can do; and also one that shall do fu such young man tne best that can be done tor him,” A New Yorker, Harold Fries, recently of Columbia eollege, has greatly distinguished himsel Bertin is a notoriousiy dificuit unive ty at wlich to pass aun examination, but Fries took the degree of doctor of phil- osophy before a board of thirty-ive profess- ors. In granting the degree the rector called attention to the fact that the university never before granted this degree in chem- istry to so young an applicant. Co-education of the sexes is a prominent feature in the policy of the University of Tex About one-fifth of the students are g wowen whoare in classes with the Young men. Among the vraduates ot the in- stitution at the last commencement were three bachelors of art, one of whom was Miss Minnie G. Dill, and five bachelors of letters, two of whoimn were women—Miss Lizzie Carrington and Jeaneite 8. Stone. The girl bachelors stood wellin their classes ‘The bill introduced into the Gieorgia lez- islature making it an indictable oifense to adit white pupils into colored sehools amounts to an attack upon the colored in- stitutions of the state--notably the Atlanta university, ‘The claim Is that the white pu- nils deprive colored pupils of their privileges, ‘The factis that the faculty ot that university is composed of white professors who find it convenient to enter their own children there. Hence the trouble. A little cool sense is needed in Geol Mr. R. W. Gilder, 1n his _recent address at Wesleyan umiversity and Wells college, re- marked that but few of the younger genera- tion ot writers in this country have been graduated at college. le doubted whether the publie “'yet realizes how little, compara- tively, the colleze has done for present liter- ature,” “Stedman,” he said, *was at Yale, but was not graduated; Bret Harte, Jame: Howells, Stoddard, Aldrieh, Cable, Marl “Twain, Joel Chandler, Harris, Burrougns, Bunner, Lathrop, Edward Eggleston, Julian Hawthorne, Janvier, Marion Crawford, Stockton,—a few of these started upon, but not one of them finished a college course, while most of them never even started. Nor have the women who are prominent in Anerican literature enjoyed the advantage of the higher collegiate "education.”” We have little doubt, however, but that nine- tenths of them 1egret that they did not com- plete a college course, and would advise every young person having lfterature in view to do so. e MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. “A Red Hot Stove' is the name of a piece recently played in Chicazo. Kiralfy is talking of taking the “Fall of Babylon” to Paris in 1899, Miss Agnes Huntington, the prima donna, with her mother and sister, Miss Eftie Hunt- ington, has sailed for Europe. Mrs. Dr. Iglehart, of Vicksburg, Miss., is ronounced the “Cantatrice of the South.” 1er volce Is said to be alinost as melodious as Pattr’s. Another German ginger has found favor in Spain. The tenor, Alfred Rittershaus, has n engaged for the Madrid opera house. He is a son 6f the poet Rittershaus ‘The Parisian newspapers place on record an event of importabce—the completion of a new operetta, in thred acts, by Audran, which has been equibped with the euphonlus and sentimental title of “*Chou-Chou,” 1t isstated that the treatment Sig. Peru- ginl is now undamoln‘:ln Vienna promises to entirely restore his hearing, and thus enable hiin to make & successful return to the operatic stage. A telegram from Mrs. Jeannette M. Thur- ber, at Tannersville, N. Y., is authority for the'statement that the 'National Opera ‘com- r’any will continue to exist next season. rs. Thurber is in a position to be well in- formed in this matter. According to Edmund Yates Mme. Patti looked ‘“*her former self” when she sang in London the other night. *The crowds flocked to the temple of xg(ldvsu ready to stand the crushing heat. Nobody moved until the last note was heard.” At the New York Metropolitan Opera house next season twenty operas will be pro- duced, five of them novelties, 'These last will be Wagner's “Siegfried” and_*Die Goetter- daemmerung, Spontini’s “Ferdinand Cor- tez,” Weber's “Euryantke” and Nessler's “Der Trompeter von Sakkingen.” = *“Tanu- hauser” will be given in the Parls version, introducing the Venus music and the bac- chanal scene usually omitted. ‘I'he company will include Lehman, Brandt, Selul-Kranss, Niemann, Alvary, Fischer, and Anton Seidl, and several new voices. WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY. The Important Part the Fluid fa to Play at the Toronto Exhibition. LICHTNING-KOD. THE FIRST A Message for Para—Death by Elece tricity—Losses by Lightning—An Electric Freak—Sparks and Flashes. Klectricity at the Toronto Exhibition. Electricity is to play an important part at the combined Dominion and Indus- trial Exhibition to be held at Toronto from the Hth to the 17tn of September, next. The railroad conneeting the street car terminus with the grounds will be again operated by electricity. The loco- motive, designed and constructed under the supervision of Mr. J.J. Wright, manager of the Toronto Electric Light company, and which did such good ser- vice last year, will again be wsed. Ime provements suggested by the experience of former years will be introduced and the generating power increused, so that a speed of at Jeast forty miles an hour is expected to be attained. High speed ie rendered necessary owing to the great number of passengers to be carried in a limited time. The electric engine per- forms the service in & manner that no othier motor could possibly do. Horses are out of the question, and the smoke and dirt of the steam locomotive, on a road of this d ption, would make it decidedly unpopular. ] The grounds { buildings will be lighted by 250 are lights, des in, deseents, furnished by the Toronto E tric Light company, the Ball Elect company and the Roval Eleetriec com- pany, of Montreal. Previous to the ad- vent of eclectricity as an illuminating agent, the exhibition was essentially a8 daylight one, the grounds and buildings ving to be elosed at sundown. At the resent time, however, the aspeet of afluirs is entirely changed. The diree- find that the evenings are the most popular, especially with those whose oc- cupations make it inconvenient for them to visit the exnibition in the dav time. Some of the best attractions are resery for the evening, and, indeed, often re- quire the aid of the eleetric light to property display them. The sp picee, *“The Last Days of Pompe duced last year, was rendered intensely realistic by the flashes of light from four powerful ares placed in parabolic reflec- tors and focussed on the scenery, which, with the performers, extended a distance of a hundred and sixty yards from wing to wing. Another feature of the exhibition, which will be peated this year, was the ated fountain.” The columns of arranged to shoot into ti rockwork base, and are intermingled with hundreds of sprays from revolving sprinklers. Concealed in the rockwork is a chamber for the operators, who are rotected from the lul\inz water by glass enses, opposite to which are placed the electric lights in powerful reflectors, each with a slide in front composed of strips of variously tinted glass. The ef- feet isymarvelously beautiful, the col- umns of waterappearing like liquid fire, and the sprays are illuminated with con- tinually changing rainbow hues. The Toronto Electric Light company have also on the ground a Star iron tower, 125 feet high, which earri: wwelve 2,000 c. p. lights, and besides casting a brilliant glow over the park below is a conspic uous object for miles around, and can be seen across the lake for a long distance. The main tower of the principal building, composed of glass and iron at an attitude of 150 feet, is illuminated by lights in ruby tinted globes. These produce a novel offect through and around the bnilding. Ventilation by Electricity. One of the most novel systems of venti- lation yet devisy ntly been in stalled in t e, Boston, t the American Ventilating company. Fresh air is carried through” small pipi to every seat by the aid of a Spraguc electric motor, located under the audito- rium, connected with a large blower which furnishes the supply of air. The Iargest restaurant of Messrs. Russell & Sturgis, on Washington street, 1s supplied with_ the seme system. The supply of air can be regulated by the occupant of each seat, The First Lightning Rod. La Lumiere Electrique: If we are to believe an Austrian paper, the first light- ning rod was not constructed by Fran lin, but by a monk of Scuttenberg, in Bohemia, named Prohop Dilwisch, Who mstalied an apparatus June 15, 1354, in the garden of tho curate of Prenditz (Moravia) The apparatus was composed of a pole surmounted by an iron rod, supporting twelve curved branches and termindting in ns many metallio boxes filled with iron ore and “closed by & box- wood cover, traversed by twenty-seven ints, which plunged at their base All the system were united earth by a large chamn. Th of Dwisch, jealous of his suce the eourt of Vienna, excited the pe of the loeality against him, and under the pretext that " his lightning rod was the canse of the great drought, they made bim take down the lightning rod whic he had utilized for six years. What i most carious is the form of this first lightning rod, which of multiple points like the one which M. Melseu af- teward mvented. Cost of Eleotric Light Baltimore American: Mr. . W. King, superintendent of lamps, has ~coilected data from oflicial sources.in reference to the cost of electric lighting. Various matters, such as the number of lamps, the ownerstip of plant, candle-power, ete., must be taken into convsideration in figuring up the cost in the various cities. The candle-power in all the cities is 2,000, except in Brooklyn, where it is 1,200, New York has a contract for one year with the Brush and United States compnnies, and has in use 711 lamps at 70 cents each per night, Philadelphia has lamps, for which an average of 54 cents per night is paid under a_one ear contract, and the Brush, United States, and Houston systems are uscd, Brooklyn has 995 lnmam at a cost of 50 cents each (1,200 candle-power). The contract is for one year, and the Thom- son-Houston system is used. Boston has 504 lamps at a cost of 75 cents each, furnishcd by the Brush, Western, and Thomson-Houston com- panies under a three-year contract, and the city owns the posts, extensions, and hoods. Newark, N. J., has 150 lamps at a cost of 50 cents, furniched by the United States and Western companies under s three-year contract. Providence, R. L., has 175 lamps ata cost of b0 cents furnished by the West- ern and Thomson-Houston companics under a one-year contract. Albany has 481 lamps at 50 cents each, furnished by the Brush company under a five-year contract, and owns the lamps, posts, poles, and lanterns, Rochester, N.Y.,has 336 lamps, 300 at 45 cents and seventy-seven at 30 cel —furnished by the Brush company a contract for five years. Albany, Boston and Philadelphia, which pay 050 cents, 65 cents, and. ocents, respectively, own: more or less of the plant. 3 New York recently rejected a bid of 63 oents, but the city is about to have an electric ight war, and, it is stated, stfers m-l:mde to furmish the lights at 25 cents each, A Message For Para, New York Correspondenc: In the general cable oflice on Broad streot, the cable man was complacently examining his moustache by the aia of a vest pocket mirror, when a man walked in and said: I want to send a cablegram. ™ “Where to?' “Para, Brazil. How mucht" “Three doliars and forty cents The stranger paused reflectively, and then suggested: “‘You ullow ten words, I suppose “Ten fiddlesticks!” retorted the e man indignantl) “You cau send as many words as you like, but you will pay $3.40 for each and every word, in- cluding address and signature,” “Great heavens!” shrieked the stranger, “That’s highway robbery!™ “Not at all,”" ealmly returned the other, brushing an alleged bit of dust from his sleeve, “'On the coutrary, it is dirt ch You never sent a cheaper message in your life.” This astonishing proposition provoked the reply: should like to have you prove that statement." “*Easiest thing in the world.”" And the cable man renched for a map. *“*Suppose vou send a ten-word message at that rate, let us sce where she goes. First to Newfoundland, and there gets ready for a bath. She jumps into the Atlantic, and in less time than I can s:s{ it pnrs her head up off the Irish coast. Hureshe takes n breath and dives soutuward. She winks at the Fr iman, throws a kiss to the lazy operator on the Spanish coast and brings up on the Madeira islands. At the Cipe Verdes she possibly takes o little refreshmnent, for she has to swim the Atlantic again—this time west ward. Splasht The ripples haven't set- tled off the Cape Verde shore before she i3 passing the time of day with the DBr: zilians in Pernambuco. Another long breath. a last plun nd the cable man in Para calls out, ‘Message from New York." Time, two hours; distance, 9,000 miles. “Now, sir, the message cost you §34.40, or about two-fifths of a cent a mile. It you telegraph the same to Houstan street, one mile, the ten words will cost you fifteen cents— just thirty-seven times as much., Send it up by a messenger and it will cost you forty cents—one hun- dred times as much. Se The stranger looked a_little staggered and thoughtfully rubbed his nose. “Logic is logic,” saul the eable man, gracetully donning his business man ners, like a new coat. “Shall T send Your mess But the stranger said never a word. He eyed the cable man sadly and slowly walked away. Death by Electricity. London Tunes: A number of very in teresting experiments have just been made with such electrical machines as are employed in_ industries, with the v of determining under wi ondi - tion they may become dangerous. These have been conducted by M. D'Arsonval, who has alrcady established the fact that what is truly dangerous where these ma- chines are used is the extra current that oceurs at the moment the current is broken, and in order to annul this extra current he prososes to interpose a series of volta-meters containing acidulated water along the conductinw wire. The new arrangement now employed isat once more simple and eflicient, It con- sists of a V-shaped tube made of an in- sulating substance, which, atter being filled with mercury, i interposed in the main current. Inorder to close the lat- ter it is only necessary to turn s tap, which is arranged similarly to the tup on agas pipe. In this way the machine is anprimed with- out its being ablo to give an extra cur- rent spark. Another arrungement is also made use of, & glass tube being filled with mereury and dipped intoa reservoi containing the same substance. tube is provided with a ground stopper. this not only permitting tha suppression of the extra current, bus also interposing any sort of resistance in the current. Al- though theso details appear rather tech- nical, they relate to a most important matter. The use of electrical machines is incroasing. and it is of practical use to know that currents are not dangerous until & power of 500 volts is reached. It is also of interest to know that the m anism of death, varies with the nature of the electricity used. Thus, with an extra eur- rent, or with alternating currents, there is no anatomical lesion, and the patient can usually be brought back to hfe through the practice of artificial respira- tion employed in cases of drowning. T ischarge of static electrictty from b , on the contrary, causes a disor- tion of the tissucs that renders all attempts to restore life. Gas and Electricity. Boston Herald: Ina paper read beforo a recent meeting of the Ohio Gashgit as- sociation, the point was made that the gos men inight as well acknowledge that thegtime has gone by when they cun,with any scrvic ility to themselye down the use of eleetrici medium. History, it was said, testifies to the fact that nearly all new inventions havg to pass through the ordeal of dis- coutagement and opposition before the world is willing to admit of their stabil- ity; but as the electric lighting of to-day gives better satisfaction to the public than it dic four years ago,it is evident that this form of lighting has come to stay, and that imnrovemenrts and economies 1n it likely to continuously go on. Realiz this, the author of the paper referred to insists that the gas men should lose no time i ilizing the demand for elec- tricity. They are in the lighting business, and must supply the desires of their pat- rons, what ever else may be. As a manu- facturer who had been making a spocial kind of goods for a large customer for series of thirty years would, at the end of that time, deem it the best policy to change the form and style of the goods if his patron required it, rather than let him go elsewhere to purchase his sup- pliet, so the gas companies, if the light. consuming pubhie desire to have electri- city, should be ready to meet this new demand. Indeed, the authority that we have referred to seems to be of the opin ion that this is only the beginning of a change that must take place in the gas business; that the time is coming when all light will be by one form or another of electricity, and that the com- panies will nse their pipes, mains and gas plant generally for suppiying fuel gas to the publie; for the steam gencrated for electric lighting only oceupies a* portion of the twenty-four hours, und the same Loilers can be used during the balanee of that time in making water gas for fucl purposes. By this combination, it is be- lieved that the dwellers of large towns and cities will be supplicd with the best and most convenient forms of light and and heat at & minimum of expense Losses by Lightning. St. Louis Gtobe-Demoerat: The number of losses of life and prope lightning cvery y sts a to the at 1o acen mately complote statis daumage by lightning he lished, Mr. I F. Kre is at work npon sueh a_cor when the record of 1857 is complated he proposes to publish what he thinks will be.the most complete v Mr. Kretzer has just cived a from the state hoard of health of Massa chusetts in_ verification of his siatistics. They report seven deaths from lightning during 139, Lightning dimages in the east are not as heavy as they are in' the large y by ciition \nproxi each year aggrogates an immenso An Etectric Freak. Special Corrospondence of ‘the Globe- Demoerat: Yesterday afternoon Mr, Harry Pemberton, living about ten miles southwest of this eity, Hold Mo., started & youth by the name of Smith to Holden with a mule team to haul out a load of lumber, the wagon having no bed on the runmnggear. When the boy passed by tho Neal farm, a fow miles scuth of Holden, he noticed a rain storm off to the northwost, apparontly ten miles away,but overhead there were only a few seattering clouds. Without any middle ana western states. “The loss to Life and property throughont the United premonition whatever a bolt of lightning from the heavens struck oneof the mules and kiled it in its tracks, and stunned the other one, knocking it down and laming it for a few hours. The boy was not hurt, and the only damage to the wagon was the breaking of the coupling pole. The electric ball passed into the ground under the team, tearing several holes in the earth A Boy's Head Impervious to a Rolts Middietown (N. Y.) Special to New York Herald: A wonderful escape from death by hghtning occurred on the farm of John W. Cowser, six miles north of this place, at 4 o'clock yesterday after= noon, Farmer Cowser's fifteen-year-old son was ut work in the haytield, a heavy thunderbolt being close at hand, when & Jightning bolt descended among them striking the lad on top of the head, aud Ieaving him unconscious and apparently dead on the ground. ft was found that the bolt had made & hole an inch i di- ameter in the crown of the boy's hat,and had then divided, passing down to thg carth on each side, splitting open one leg of his trousers and on the other sido tearmg the shoe from his foot. About an hour later the boy returned to con- sciousness. ‘This morning he is around the farm apparehtly fully recovered from the shock and compiaining only of 115 slight soreness of the muscles of his ogs. Cheapness of Electric Lights, Western Electrician: Rochester, N, Y., has just contracted with three electric light companies to light the city for ftive years. ‘I'ne cost of lighting the city for a serics of years past has been #u the neigh- borhood of %00,000 to 100,000 annually. Until 1881 the lighting of the city was done by gas and kerosene. Since that year clectric hghting has gained a strong foothold, and year atter year has scen larger and larger districts of the oity il- luminated by electricity. The total amount of the contracts with tho three companics, without figuring on any in- crease in the namber of lights, is $291,288.25 which is an average of %6, per annum. These figures are significant in the showing they make in the steadily increasing popularity of the electrie light, and are especially” signili- cant in view of the fact that the three electric light companics have been in competition with three gas companies. ————— Fibbing About Their Waist Sizes. 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