Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 28, 1887, Page 12

N THE FEMININE DOMAIY. Bolation of Women With Money Matters, MAID OF ALL WORK IN SOCIETY inine Industries—A Sharp Luna- #lo—Gotham's Tall Girls—Fe« en Who Fenco—A Girl's Tri- umph—Womanalities, Two Wooers Washington Critie. ik Blunt once loved a maid whose hair terra cotta might compare, heart beats for you.” he said; matter If your hair is red, me the color has no heft”’— And he got left. e Smoothly later came to wee. e with passion teuder, too, love you, and all that i3 you: ose locks of dainty goldén hair e sunlicht kissed and lingered there— give my all for one wee curl.” % He wot the girl. Women and Money Matters. @ail Hamilton in Cosmopolitan: The Pelation of money is butone of the many tions that should feel the venign and iping touch of woman. It is chiefly portant because of its ministering ower, because it isservant of servants its brethren. It isnot to be disposed by setting up a separate purse, any ore than by setting up a separate child. If a man counts an woman fit to be the nother of his children, 1t 18 little that she hould be fit to expend money for th eAring. It a man is gentle and soft mough to come into tender contact with his little children, he must be malleable nough to be shaped rightin regard to the money that they and their mother require, Pf course, if a man is over brutal, and he woman over silly.there must be disus- er,whether there be one purse or twenty, pr none. ‘There may well be women who Ve no sense about money, just as the; women who do not know how to bring up children. 1t is a defect of char- eter. Such women are a failure in pro= Iportion to their defeets, and their defec ive work, it cannot be denied, is evil., [But if both husbund and wife are of the pogunon type, honest, sincere, devoted il fairly sensible, a patient, continuous nd not unlovely proc of consultation ind conciliation and compromise will ng them eventually into a clear under- nding of relative values. gnirements of a Society Woman, Saciety is not the place in which to preach woman’s rights or temperance, nd she who should” undertake to set a flinner table by the ears, 8o to speak ith an expression of her deepest con: pions, worild be pretty certain to receive osecond invitation. There are those ho go 8o far as to say that the socicty rl should have no convictions but the ponvictions of her own aceeptability. She may have interests, but no hobbi at he samo time she must not be shallow. 11, the girl who ignorantly aspires to ociety puts clothes first and’ culture last, a8 more or less contempt for everything but her fallals. It is manner that earries he day, and good-nature and kindline ven 1n society—the art of making others havpy, of amusing without apparent effort, of being invariably agrecable. 00ds should not belong to a society rl if she would be a su she must llow herself to be bored with a smile,she ustsubmit to disappointments with a onmot, for society has its price li bther worldly things. Feminine Austries, London (iraphic: Feminine industrics of the world are to be cxtensively repre- ented at the Glasgow exhibi ear. ‘Ihere will be a special women's ection, as the lady presidents wantto how exuctly what share women bear in he manufactures of the present time. ot only needlework is to be exhibited, but such mechanical branches as leather fdressing, bookbinding, fishing le manufacture, glovemaking, and the like. iDecorative industries, including carving, brasswork, painting and engraving, will find a piace as well as female hygienic plothing. A Maid of All Work In Society. Detroit Tribune: *‘Last season m, pf all work asked early in the spring if he might not have the month of July. I id yes, not runlizmg the trouble there as in getting help,” said a prominent roit Indy, * “As T could not find a ser- ant I decided to close the house, and go r a month to one of the fashionable enches near home. While watching the bathers the morning after I arrived, I ticed one, a pretty-looking girl, pict- nresquely dressed, who struck me famil- ly. Asshe came near I recognized her as my maid Jula, notwithstanding he had changed her hair from dark brown to pale gold, and I spoke to her. o my surprise she entirely ignored me, pever showing by even the rising of an brow that she recognized me or the pbildren. On returning to the hotel I ound that she was registered under the me of a friend of mine, a well-known ociety g"mlng lady, whose name she kept fluring her stay there. Why didn't I xpose her? What would have been the 6? She wore better clothes than T did, a8 bright and pretty, and had gathered ound her the cream of the society re. The probability is that if I had d anything no one would have be- me. Pretty Sharp for a Lunatic. Baltimore Su An elderly married n Bytield, who possesses property ler own right, had frequently ex- D ed a desire to make a donation to jhe church with which she is connected ien A suitable occasion offered, snd ac- ordingly when the society determined rep;lrln*‘nml remodeling meet- house, the minister, as chairman of nlicil‘lng committes, called on her a contribution and was presented check for $500. The good clergy- m went home highly elated, buf was bly taken back the next day when lady's husband and son called to pro- against her muniticence. declured that she had not been in e right mind for a long time and didn't mow what she was doing when she ded to the undue influence brought to bear upon her. Though the minister w that she was us sane as her hus- nd, to say the least, and the contribu- was perfectly yoluntary, yeta dis- ination to become mixed up in legal poeedings, which were hinted at, in- weed him to send back the money. So Jar 80 good, but now comes the sequel, husband recently sold tract of nd; the deed was duly drawn, signed d sealed by the ‘;rnutor. who pagsed it D his wife to sign for relinquishment ot ower, but to his astonishment she inter- 0 hght objection. “No, I am not { n‘y right mind, you know, and my act ould be void,”” was her reply, and in te of ull solicitations she refuses the rtesy of her uulufirnnh. and the old tleman still has the land on his hands tead of the monoy is his pocket. Tall Girls of Gotham. New York Sun: Are the young women this town at the Erawnt time taller d stouter than its belles of twenty or yeurs ago? Old fellows say they and the height and weight of the dence which they introduce cannot to give strength to their assertion. these far-seeing old philolorhcrl 0 want us to believe that our girls are leas beautiful than the dames of ner times. We can't. The law of ntry forbids us. Our girls are im- e, and are still progressing with t\c strides: but that they are in any 3t less lovely than the little ures of long ago we must deny. foes two iuches, we believe, is the THE OMAHA DAILY. BEXK exact heicht of one of the famous stat- utes of Venus. If that statute, like some of the imuges that we read of in fairy tales, could come to life now and get rigged up in all the fascinating toggery ofmu present fashion she would only be a mite among the tall and stately beau- ties of Broadway. Five feet two may have been the standard height of long ago, but not of this time. Every evening we empty out shopfuls of girls from five feet six to tive feet ten, and every one of them carved like the statue of liberty. Tall old gentlemen can't see this fe- male encroachment upon the stature of man, but short and middle-sized old fel- lows are constantly remarking that they have to look up or straight ahead now, where in former years they looked down. The fact scems to be that the modern New York belle isa great big girl with an enormous hat, small feet, and a tournure like the overhang of the volunteer. Girls Who Fence, San Francisco Chronicle: It is said that Grecian women would enter the arena in the old Olympian days and wrestle with one another to encourage their children and strengthen themselves. Thus Spartian mothers had Spartian sons, and the name to this day i3 synony- mous with bravery and physical endur- ance. In these modern days ladies, as & rule, consider that their constitutions are too delicate for any greater physical exercise than a gentle stroll or a little shopping, and s0 many a physician has devlored the absence of proper bodily exercise among the fair sex and has preached wise though incffectual ser- mous about the need of it. hion, like a miracle, wiil do wh ching will not do, and, as in the east fencing has become fashionable, und the fashions travel with the star of the empire, so fencing is now being introduced in this city. An American Girls Triumph. Pittshurg Dispatch: ‘Tl remony of defending a thesis is the final exercise which is exact of a Parisian medical student preparatory to receciving the college diplor The oceasion draws together the friends of t dent, and 18 generally fringed and va gated with fun and frolic, with gifts of flowers, and with a complimentary din- ner to the new-made doctor of medicine, But the chief feature of this day severe examination of the candidates by the college bigwigs, who sit in solemn e, arrayed in red silk gowns and aring searlet caps. ‘I'he candidate, whether male or female, is dressed in a black gown with a white fichu, And when Miss Bradley stepped into the na, clad in this traditional garb, the general comment of the nudi w “How like Portin 1 the trial scen the *Merchant of Venice.' " It was known to Miss Bradley's college mates and other friends that her thesis would be on *lodism,” and that she had taken a year te write' an_elaborate book on the subject, wh will soon be repub- lished in_ English from the original French. Foran hour and a half she was questioned with great shrewdness and wbility by four of the leading professors of the” Ecole de Medecme — Drs, Fournier, Gautier, Porchet and Robin. of these gentlemen had p sly recetved u copy of Miss Bradle: bold book and they had bought their copies at the examining room, with multitudinous interrogati the margins, showing that the new treat ise had not only been carefully read, but had excited much curiosity and atten- tion. Miss Bradley had the great advant- age of an unhackneyed theme, which she skilfully illustrated by a numerous array of unfami facts. Her triumph was of a peeuliar char- acter. Her four examiners said to her, with admiring frankness ou have been working a new field: we ecannot agree with many of your conclusions; further Investigation “may laad either yourself or us to dillerent views; but, meanwhile you have presented to the college a thesis which does you uncom- mon honor, and for which “we unani- mously award you the maximum mark of ment.”” After the announcement of the award, Miss Bradley was entertained oat dinner Miss Augusta Klumpke, the first physicizn who has ever been ad- mitted to practice in the hospitals of Both these ladies are Americans —Miss Klumpke from San Franc Miss Bradley from New York. D granfather of the latter, Henry Bradley, was once a candidate for the governor- ship of the Empire state; her father, Og- den Bradley, is a banker, and the Right Reverend Bishop Nealy, of Mame, is her uncle. Fanny Kemble Still Alive, Albany Argus: The other day I drove from Pittstield to Lennox a charming ride, and at the head of the hill where stands the old Congregational chureh, 1 ave the horse a breathing spell. The day was hot and still, and the graveyard, with its turf closely cut and its towering trees, wore an inviting look. In the dis- tance was the sexton, sickle in hand, levelling the struggling tufs of grass that were climbing about the old headstones. He proved to be a remarkably agreeable intelligent man, and 1 accosted him: Jan you tell me whether Fanny Kem. ble is buried hoere?” I asked, glancing around for such an imposing monument as should mark her final resting place. “No, sir,” he answered, and after a pause, which somehow piqued my curi- osity, he added: “*She isn’t dead yet sir.” *‘Not dead!"’ I stammered. *No, sir. For the past three or four years I have been asked this question a dozen times every season. Some people tell me that they have come a long dis- tance to see her grave, and a few have appeared not over pleased to learn that she was stillalive. Miss Kemble is quite old now, seventy-tive or seventy-sixth at least, but she is living in England. Not long ago we got a letter from her saying that very likely she would visit Lennox this fall. This created quite a flutter, but since then we have heard nothing further. We have had the old clock 1n the tower there, which Miss Kemble pre- sented to the church, overhauled and re- paired. If she comes here she will geta warm reception you may be sure.” of Nellie Gould’s Lover. New YORrk, August 20.—A young fel- low, said to be employed on a rallroad at King's Creek, W. Va., and who ealls him- self J. M. Tiaber, has been tryin, captivate Miss Nellie Gould, cldest daughter oi Jay Gould, Some time ago he called at Mr. George Gould’s oftice with a letter of introduction, purporting to have been given by Frederick Geb- hard,. His letter did not appear to be genuine, however, and he left suddenly. Very soon after that Miss Gould r ceived marked copies of papers in which Traber had contri to have favorable notices of himself printed. He followed these with letters of a crazy nature, all of which were confided to the waste bnlnxet to R nll, he got the following notice of himself printed in a western paper: ‘The enzagement {s announced of Miss Neluie Gould, eldest danghter of the New York milllonaire, to Mr, J. M, Traber, a bright ‘{'onn' rallroad employe at King's Creek, W. Va. It issaid that the nuptials will be solemnized early next year. ‘This was copied nto the Graphic and called forth this card from Mr. Gould yesterda, Dear Sir: The inclosed canard crept into yesterday’s Graphie: This Traber 1s un- doubtedly a half crazy erank, who has been writing letters for the past year or two to my daughter, though a total stranger. I should like to know how such a report was set afloat. Yours, truly, JAY GouLp, Mr. uld’s reply to inquiries last night was that he had nothing more to say than he had said in his note. Gentlemen re for Pastime. As 10 alowing gentlemen to call merely as pastime there can be no ous ques- tion raised. Every lady has the privi- lege of choosing her company, and if she finds among her mntlemor acquaintanced 1wo or threa who are able entertain her she certainly has the right to encour- age them to call. If, however, she leads them to think thatshe is in love with them, and is playing for keeps, she will be doing wrong. No sensible lady would do this, but would =0 conduct herself that the gentlemen would understand that they were merely calling for the pleasure there was in it, and that whenever they found something worthy of more serious attention they would be excused. How Women Talk of Each Other. Women are never satisfied. They are forever picking at each other, eriticising and finding fault. When one gets a new gown nearly every other one jumps on it and metnKhorIcally tramps itin the mud, So it is when she gets a beau. Her dear girl associates will tell her awful things about him, make remarks about his feet and his hands, criticise the style of hi clothes, smile sweetly before his face and laugh at him behidd 'his buck. You know {ou do, and there is no use denying it. ou may not mean any harm by it, but now would you like to have your best young man treated in this way? Were women a little more philosophical they would find it possible to get slon among themselves without so mucl clashing. Their glasses appear to be adjusted to see only the faults in each other, and none of the good traits. This adjustment is quite fortunate, no doubt, for the men, as it shows their follies quite dimly and 8 their virtues shine with great brilliancy. Dear knows! May be it is best as it is. Were women able of seeing all the virtues in their own sex the poor men might have no show at all. HONEY FOR THE LADIES, Blotting paper vink 13a new color. Sailor hats are all the rage in London, as they are with us, Crepon is a new French fabrie, like crinkled veiling. ‘The latest fad in Michigan is to wear a ther mometer for a breastpin. Women will be interested to know that the bustle is of Persian origin. “Twelve women do inspectors’ duty in the New York custom house, A favorite French combination of tints is that of ligh blue with lavender. A pretty Polish girl is the ofticial inter- preter in ‘a Buffalo police court, “Lhe rough cottons of last year, with bouclo and frise effects, are entirely out of syle. A new trimming is made of six or seven rows of extremely narrow ribbous, called the baby ribbon. e is a fashion of feather stitching the leey plastrons of many light looking v of artistic taste who make a iving by painting screens nowadays. They are done on satin. Mrs. Ole Bull is in New Hamnpshire for the summer. She is fairly well-to-do, and is growing old gracefully. ‘The first exclamation of a belle ing the eathedral at Milan was, chureh to get married in,” The leg-of-mutton sleeve, it appears, Is simply the result of a conspiracy among fashionable dressmakers to drive out the jer- seys. White muslin vest or plastrons are made very full in puils across the chest, separated by tucks throuzh which narrow ribbons are drawn. ‘The tirst Danish lady physician, Miss Neil- son, has just begun to practice at Copenha- gan. She took her degrees with the highest honors. Miss Pickett, a sister of the famous leader of the charze at Gettysburg, has been pro- moted toa $1,000 place in the interiorde- partarent There The @ women on ente “Oh, what a only one woman employed as station agent on the whole Grand “"I'runk road. Butshe is described as a *“‘hustler’” at the business, Sailor coilars, combined scarf ends, are made of y ecarlet silk and worn with China silk dresses. One of the prominent people in Paris is Rosina Vokes, who 1s there to secure a stun- ning wardrobe. When Jack Frost vegins to colo: the leaves ghe will return. *Can it be true,” said a female friend to a female medical student, “that you have act- ualiy dissected a man?” * “Oh " was the reply, “but it was an old man.” Nine hundred and nfty women in own and manage tarms, Six more have stock farms and twenty dairy farms. lowa owen propose to keep the pot boiling some wav, ‘The Prineess Pignatale i girlin a second Vienna cafe, She quarreled with her relatives last winter and tried life in a London music hall for a brief period. The elegant Indin woman, ‘“‘Bright Eyes,” now Mrs. ‘Tibbles, is makin rangements for a series of lectures in Lon- don on the wronzs of the Noith American ludians, The young man who wants a cood wifa should “skirmish around Welles colleve, ‘I here are L00 brevet wives in the institution, and they are all taughtto sew on buttons and boil potat Cocks’ plumes are arranged in most varied ways tor tritninin : autumn hatsand bonnets, and there are also some ostrich real clusters ot tips and demi-long plumes which will be used later for winter hats. Mrs. Lena Hall of Louis, nas applied to the health commissioner of that city fora burial permit. She says she is 107 vears old, bannot live a great while and anxious to make her funeral preparations during lite. ‘The very last changes of fashion are being made for the summer of 1887, which is going into history asa season of which dressers need not be ashawmed of, save in the one mat- ter of bustles. Already the dimens.ons ot that monstrosity are dwindling. Ribbons will continne to be used for bon- net trimmings in widths varying from two and a half to four or five inches. Double stripes of satin are along the edves of double gros-grain ribbons, while others represent ladder stitches, aud others have crepe-like boerders. The following advertisement appeared in a recent number of the London Morning Post. “Young ¢irl, who cannot obtain em- ployment and desires to keep respectable, needs help (about £10 for outtit ana passage) to o to Awmerica, whereshe is enzaged to be married.” Eumlyn A. Stewardson, son of ‘Thomas stewardson of Johnstown, Pa., has just won the high distinction of ranking first at the examination for admission to the school of Sculpture in the Beaux Arts at Paris. I'here were seventy contestants, gathered from al- most every civilized country on_the earth, ‘The latest craze among the ladies is a ‘‘hair album.” Young men are besought for a lock of hair, and the request is such a flattering one that they are only too happy to comply when the right damsels apply. The contribu- tion is tied with a blue ribbon and goes into the hair album along with the hair of a crowd of other fellows, ‘The triwnph of the quick-actin z camera is complete, A successful photograph has been taken of a lady's features at the instant she was telling another iady ot her trouble with the new girl. The outlines of the speaker’'s lips and chin were clearly defined, although the movement made by these must have been inconcelvably rapid. Amateur dressmakers are azain advised that three breadths of silk are a¢ain used for the entire back of the skirt, drapery and lower skirt being thus combined. These are cut half a yard longer than the founda- tion skirt, are set in many lapped plaits, meeting in the miadle at the top, and are then turned over in two pointed ends in the tournure. The greatest latitude is allowed In arranging such araperies atthe top, Miss Kate Elder is a bright, brave Kin- mundy, .11, girl. 8he has taken up two claims near Santa Fe, Kas., and is living upon one. Her residence is a sod shanty. She is enduring a deal of hardship to get her Iand, but she knows It will pay and 'is de- termined to win. She is about twenty-four zelrs old, tall, plump as a partridge, and a runette whose ready wit never fails her. She is known as “the Princess of Tinney county.” A London correspondent writes that she has been much struck when attending wed- dings and other afternoon celebrations at which smart costumes are the order to observe that jeweiry is being worn again on all ocea- sions. The fashion has been running in the direction since the beginning of the seaso and now that the Princess of Wales has uounced her intention of - encouraging it, with a view to stimulating the manufacture with a fichu or blue cotton or white wool o1 Towa now a _waiter- SUNDAY, ot jewelry, the fashion will spread more rapialy. Ladies wear jowels literally morn- Ing, noon and '"J‘ For some time past thediamonds and pegrls and otner gems worn tor personal adorniient were only produced on Atal asions. Now, howevef, 8t con- ventlal dinners among }hn well-to-do_classes one sees the Iadies blazing in the glory of jewelry. 7The most notable incident of ‘the new departure is the fashion of wearing costly brooches in bonnets and in dresses for ammln: wear, and jewelled rinps at all mes, Ever since Eve first put on corsets there have been flippant allusiens made to a sup- fondness that young ladies cherish of aving their waists squeezed. No visible Toof of that weakness has ever ten offered 0 the public’s ?ze unul recently. But it's here now, and the girls can’t dodge it. The sliver irdle business hws become fashion- able, and young men who are addicted to the armn act are as blue as policemen, It's hard nnou{h to make an impression through corset armor, but when a silver log chain is added humanity gives up and takes to Inmg- posts. Naturally, it is worn around tl Waist, because It's too big for the neck,and a girl couldn’t grab her skirts with one hand and her back hair with the other if she wore it around her arms. A smelling bottle, a box of carainels, a powder puff, or, in fact,almost anvthing can be hitched to the front end of the gitdle as an excuse for wearing it. It is a convenlient place to carry surplus hairpins. Within the last week or”two Fifth avenue and Madison avenue girls have bloomed out ;uhklalmle:. They are an expensive hackle, London tailors and importers furnish hints of the cloth gowns in preparation for the first cool days of autumn and for early winter. Smooth cloths will be used again for dressy suits, two colors in rather marked contrast appearing in one costume. For these combination cloth costumes the lighter color will be used for the lower skirt and vest, with a dark basque and drapery; the trimming is braid on the vest and lower skirt of the dark color used for the upper part; thus serpent green cloth will be draped over a skirt of gray cloth which is elaborately braided with green like that of the overdress; another gown has a skirt of tobbacco brown cloth with a polonaise of dark blue cloth, and the braiding on the light brown vest and the skirt border {s of dark blue like that of the ise. When a jacket is added it the color of the upper part of the all mantles and still smaller shoul- aro made of combinations of the softened by the use of braid in ted designs, and of fringe made of Pinked edges are again seem on imported cloth zowns, forn le bands, yolks, borders and vests, made of alternating rows of dark and light cloths, as pansy color with fawn, or Hlavana brown cectus red. — . SINGULARILLIES. Itis reported that a woman sixty years of age, at Roseville, Ark., recently gave birth to twins. A Paw Paw, Mich., hen, nineteen years old, is_complacently sitting on twenty-two eges of her own production, A young lady in West Greene, Ala., is seventeen years oid, weizhs forty-one pounds, and measures thirty-nine inches in it den trout are found in but one place in the world—that is in the brooks of Mount Whitney, up near the banks of everlasting now. ‘They have a golden stripe down h side, and are the most beautiful fish t swim. ‘Tne toads of Westticld, Mass., run & risk f dyingof stavvation. ‘They eollect at night t numbers u rie lights on more quict street there chase the dows of the countle sects that flutter i the light above them. During a conflagration whieh raced in the woods near em, 1L, a flock of sheep of about 150 were feeding in a whicha fire was sweeping, pell-mell to an elevation in the neid and im- mediately bunel themselves with their youns in a cir began moving in a elr- Zrass into the 4 il tho fire was out, A Rochelle (111.) has a false tooth set on a pivot, and sneezed out the other day while feeding the ch ens, ‘The old hen thought it was nof corn and swallowed it as soon a8 it struck the grou After a long chase the 1owl was tured, beheaded, its crop opened, and the tooth found and re- stored to the young lady’s mouth, where it arterward helped to mastieata the old hen, An Orlando (Fla.) firm, while having a number of lemons s Iriday, camo f/eross a very peeul ik of nature in the shape of a perfectly tormed lemon growinz inside of annther, " The inside fruitis about the size of a walnut and is perfect in_ every respect, the only differen between it and the outside fruit beinz that the color of it: s&in is of a lighter and clearer yellow than its outside or parent, A novel contest is reported as having oe- curreda few days aro at Merrimacport, Mass. urrier has a duck pen on the river, in which are o e day referred to a large rat v sited the pel an attack on the inmates, wh pulsed by the old bird, who won several rounds,but atter nearly { hard lighting the rat ot a hold on neck and wounded it so that it on exhibition in ew Yorka flower called the “insect-catehel Iis petals are white and it is about the size of an upple ssotn, whieh it somewhat resembles. 1ts interior Tormation is such that the proboscls of any insect, searching for tue flower’s honey, once inserted cannot be withdrawn, and the harder the captured inset struggles thetighter it is held. Oune of the plants on w held cap.ve a butterfly which, unless eased, will be held till it starves to death, 1t will then dry up and be blown away by the wind. The county eclerk of Lonoke, Ark., says that on going into his carden iately e no- ticed a jaybird cutting queer antics.and soon discovered that it was lizhting a snake. Ho watched. and as the bird darted at it the snake, which was lying at full length, would tuck its head under its body. ‘This continued some time, until at last the bird raisca the snake up—that is, about six feet of it—and it fell dead. He describes the stake as some twelve teet lonz and eight inchesin diameter and uite green. Frank Barker, of Providence, is the pos- sessor of a litter of kittens whieh can well ain: front rank among the freaks of nature. he four living are sort of imitation of the Siamese twins,the quartete bein gattached to- gether by a ligature, which couneets the ab- omens of the four little creatures, The spaca between the Kittens is about one inch and a nalf, and the cords form two triangles Joined at the apex, the four ends connecting Wwith the kittens, Three of the felinese are of the color known as Maltese, while the fourth is jet blach and swmaller than his brethern. Three miles from Monroe, Georgia, is a log house, the home of Dennis and' Betsy Brou hton. Seven we ago a child was born to them, which weighed at birth barely two pound: he child’s full name is Mar- tha Ann Mary Magdalen Frances Cleveland, At tirst sight the little one's features seemed slichtlv drawn, but form and features are alike perfect. ‘'ne head is the size of an or- dinary apple, the hand not as broad asa man’s thumb, and a small coffee pot would make a cowmmodious abade for “1t. The mother says there is nothing the matter i small, dat's al h, Conn., basa bull-dog that is not in any sense stylisk. Externally and eternally he makes but one impression on the mind, and that is that he is & typical relie of sav When he xets ready for business he slips his muzzle off his nose and casts it around near his ear and goes in, and when the conflict is over he slips it back with his paw, replaces his nose ia the loop and trots along so demurely tuat no one would dream that he ever had a cutning thought in his cranium. Since his trick has been dis- covered by his owner, he has felt a harder pressure on his nose, and he travels now ike a dog that docs not think “‘that life is wortk living. As George E. Hobbs, brakeman on the 8:30 a. m. train from Portsmouth to Boston, was !\Dllhl!lhrulfllh the cars one morning he hought he heard the twitter of a bird, which he tinally traced to the stove. On unlocking and opening it he discovered an English s}unow‘» nest, on which was asparrow sit- tingon four eggs, He took the bird out in his hand, and, un putting it back, it settled down on the eggs again as though the inter- ruption were the most common thing in the world. The car, No. 20, is in constant use, and the stove has been locked since the ad- vent of warm weather,so the birds must have carried the material for the nest down the &mnul and tlown hundreds of miles in doing g One of the four first prizes awarded at the Vienna conservatory was taken at the recent annual exswmination by an American singer, Miss Ida Schuyler, of this state. Miss Schuy- ler went to Vienna two years I{ fter study- lng with Max Maretzek at the College of Music 1n Cincinnatl. She is 8 dramatic so- aunn and her register reaches up to D in AUGUST 28, 1887, ~TWELVE PAGES: w—" QANT STTRORDONAVON. |+ JUMBO IS DEAD - And Maud S. Has Retired fromthe Track But we have the L«rynl and Finest line of Carriages, Harness, Robes, A Bee Correspondent’s Visit to the Tomb of Bhakspeare, THE POET'S BIRTH The Old Cemetery—The Kenilworth of Victoria—A Glimpse at Oxlord — Franz Sepel Abroad. PLACE, Loxpow, Aagust 10.—[Special Corre- spondence of the Bek.]—My last letter ended with an account of our visit to Warwick. Thus far in our sojourn in England we had made stops only in the towns. We were now very glad to get a good opportunity to see English country and village life on an excursion on foot from Leamington to Stratford- on-Avon. The distance is about ten miles, but the temptation was so great to ride the first two miles on a train, that we really walked only eight miles. *‘It's not well to walk immediately after breakfast any way,”’ the professor said, und I was not slow to sgree with him. Our breakfast was perfect! (Polly looked particularly sweet.) It was chops, of course; every other meal is chops at an English inn; but they were excellent: I never before knew why English chops were 8o famous. And the morning was beautiful; too beautiful to last Polly said, 80 we took umbrellas. We enjoyed the train ride to Warwick all the more be- cause we had laboriously followed the map over the same road the day previous and we knew the principal buildings and streets perfectly. English train cars are shorter than our hosre cars, but they are s on the roof, so that no less. We took scats on top to get a better view. Toe walk to Stratford was somewhat tire some, but we enjoyed it little less on that account. Lt is more of u pleasure to Ik through the country here than at home, beeause the roads are provided with gravel walks for persons on foot Settees are also provided at conveni- ent intervals and on the whole the path of the Englisi tramp, or of the Ameri- can tramp in_England, is not altogether unpleasant, There are many inns along the road where a prim miss would slake one's thirst for a two pence. We walkes leisurely, often resting under a fine old clm, or stopping to watch the farm hands make hay with their clumsy old seythes and quaint looking two wheeled carts, with three or four horses hitched tandem. STRATFORD AT LAST! Stratford-on-Avon, where the immor- tal Shakspeare lived and where his re- mains he buri The village, wh containsg about 3,000 people, like most villages in England, is old and quaint. 1t has the same mouldy looking stone buildings, the same crooked streets, the ne poky inhabi ame number of ale houses nothing to distinguish 1t Shakspeare. The — people Stratford ought indeed to love Shakspeare who has doue s0 much for the If the great poet ever did a charitable act it was to be born in that town where the great great grand- sons of his neighbor’s descendants might cke out an existence from the pockets of the unwary pilgrim. Hundreds of people, and many of them are Americans, visit Stratford every W On the day of our visit the inns were all crowded and we had a difficult time getting a dinner. The RED HORS which Irving has made famous 1n his Sketeh Book was espeially well patron- ized. 'The most intesting building in Stratford, ot course, the house in Shakspeare was born. The pic- s of the building give a very good of it, There is nothing to mark it trom other equally old buildings in the vieinity, except the earringes and throng of visitors usually seen at the he indows of the room in which the poet was born are covered with diamond- scratched initi. To me the barely leg- ible W. 8., placed there by Walter Scott, was most interesting. ~ We bad the pleasure of watening Shakspeare’s voor old chair while it was gently “'sat upon’’ by about one hundred and Ii‘hy CHATTERING YOUNG LADIES. from a neighboring boarding school. 1 must also mention the old desk whlchthe poet used when attending the grammar school. There were numerous pen knife engravings on the desk, but Sha peare’s own name was no where to be n. This shows that William either s a good boy and duln’t do the earving or that he did do it and didn’t want his name to be known. Leaving the house we walked down past the tumbling old grammar school to Stratford church where the poet lies buried. His grave is in the chancel of the cliurch, marked by & plain flag-stone on whigh is written the famihar inscription winch has kept it un- disturbed so many years. The bust near the grave is the best one known and rep- resents Shakspeare as more of a ruddy, round-faced Englishman than do most of his pictures. 1 have not time to mention many interesting little relics which are shown in the rooms of the house or in the different parts of the town. Our visit to Stratford was highly satisfactory and it is a visit which no one going to England snould fail to make. We waited until train time on the banks of the Avon in THE CEMETERY. near the church. There is room for much of the sentimental in writing of a delight- ful rest under the branching elms of such a hallowed spot; but I am not much ven to sentiment now, especially when I remember how quickly our condition was changed ‘‘from the subline to the ridiculous.” [ said we waited nntil trawn time; and we did most literally. In other words we saw that in order to cateh the Leamington train we must get to the station in less than no time. In a second we were giving the villagers an exhibition of a good 220 yards dash. They were horrified at the Ameri- can way of “catching’ a train. English- men don't “catch trains” as a rule. They walk lesurely to the station an hour ahead of time and wait. Next day we took our accustomed train ride to Warwick. This time our objeo- tive point was Kenilworth castle, the ruins of which are on the Strat- ford and Coventry road, four miles from Warwick. We were again advised to walk, being assured that we would enjoy the walk exceeding- ly. The road from Stratford to Coventry has long been famous. I'wo Englishmen once betthat each could name the most delightful walk in all England. One named the road from Stratford to Cov- entry, and the other the road from Cov- entry to Stratfora. From WARWICK TO KENILWORTH is but a part of this road, but it is enough to give one an iden of the whole, The road lies between two historic laces, and through the most beautiful of inghsh farming country. Itis as clean and well paved as the streets of any city, while rows of well trimmed elms and sycamores stretch away in graceful curves for miles on either side. A wide, shaded walk on one side 1s reserved for pedestrians, and on the other side the turfis kept soft for riders on horseback. From the road could be seen farm housées of every description, including the lowly hut of the commonest laborer, the neat cottage of the small farmer, and the lordly mansion of the earl. Amidst all this variety we could not but notice on every side: unmistakable signs Blankets, Horse Cloi hing and all kinds of Turf 'oods, ever carried | by any firm in the city. 200 Sets of Team, Farm, E.r"n!:n. Coupe, quht. Double Sinjle Hari M:a for Agents for the celebrated Toomey ready to buy call on None genuine unless stamped, wlky. st;f'am'mml and when e, regardless of cost. Sole agents for the California Horse '"Jo Av McKerron, S, 00 Western " are CHELL & HAINES, 8. W. Corner 16th St. and Capital Ave., Omaha. BEAR IN MIND WE ARE DBL;I G Furniture, Carpets, Stoves and Hoausehold Goods Of every Description, on Credit at Cash Prices. PEOPLES' INSTALLMENT HOUSE 613 N. I6th St., Beiween California and Webster. ROSENTHAL & CO Proprietors. RILEY & McMAHON, HOWE & KERR, FURNITURE 1510 DOUGLAS STREET, (Opposite Falconer’s.) Real Estate and Loan Brokers, 310 South Fifteenth Street. oll5 lulbs in Patrick’ add, from §1,000: $400 cnsh ¥ anco to suit Corner36th and Caiifornia , 180x150 Several cheap lots in 8outh Omaha Nice acres in Bonfield cheap. HILL & YOUNG, 1211 and 1213 FARNAM ST. URNITURE Carpets, Stoves, House Furnishing Goods. Weekly and_Mumhly Pay- dowri of thrift. Everything looked clean,neat, and inits proper p The walk over this roud was so charming that the live miles seemed no more than two. Passing through the one long strect of the village of Kenilworth we eminence to the left, the maj the castle. So many far worthier pen than mine have written the past glori of Kenilworth that I feel abashed at mentioning the place at all. If the reader would get an idea of the former magnificence of this castle let him read Scott. The history of Kenil- worth in glory is the story of Eng- land for that period. just as the history of Versailles is the history of France dur- ing the times of Ma Antoinetts, But the Kenilworth of Victoria is not much ike the Kenilworth of Elizabeth. Noth- ing is left now but IMMENSE BARE WALLS which lift their battered towers to the sky and cast a gloom over everything which surronnds them. 1t's court differ- ing from that of Harwick castle, is divided into an upper and a lower part by an abrupt hill which rises in the centre of the yard. This makesthe castle walls very uneven, and adds to the sol- emn grandeur of the scene. Notwith- standing the rough treatment it rece d from Cromwell, the old pile 15 stately magnificent even in its ruins, and will probably stand the storms of centuries to come. ‘To reach Leamington was but a matter of one hour by coach, and the next morn- ing, st ten found us locked up in one of the stuffy old carriages of the (ireat West- ern company, thundering along for Lon- don. Of the many noted points along the way, Oxford was the only one at which we had time to stop: and indeed our wvisit there scarcely deserved the name, since our hours might have been changed to weeks and then we should not have scen it all. Hawthorne truly says that it would take a lifetime, and more than one, to comprehend and en- _}uy Oxford satisfactorily. He had, however, the thought that no one square feet of Oxford per we did. ‘I'ne buildings of the various colleges of Oxford university are so vast zuuho numerous that [ shall not attempt to de- scribe any one of them. First let me say that the Enghsh or European idea of a university means something more than the American. Ox- ford university is an immense institution comprising fifteen fully equipped col- leges. Each college has i separate build- ing or set of buildings, built like most Kuropean res:dences, only much Iarger, 1 the shape of a square, with a large arched gateway which leads from the street to the court-yard. ~ The dormi tories, recitation and Ainiufg rooms in the various parts of this building, all facing the court or quadrangle. colleges are larger, some smal of them greatly reseibling the oint of age, si and architeetu beauty. Sometimes there are more than " one court, the extra buildings consisting of chapels, libraries, labra- tories. halls, ete. The ehapels of some of the colleges were extremely beautiful and were even as grand as the old gothic ca thedrals we had seen at the beginning of our tour. One can get something of an iden of the vastness of Oxford from the statement of one of the proctors who one consoling ever saw more minute than Some desirable trackage lots, 6 ncres good truckage, cheap. l Good bargains in ull parts of the city, A fine acre in Washington Hill said that the town wasnot so full by 7,000 a8 when the colleges were all in session, We left Oxford in despairat being unabla to spend more time in her noble old hally where 5o many men of letters have spent their student days and where the only Tom Brown cut eapers which are familiag to every schoolboy. Then we thought of the comparativa insignificance of our institutions of higher education in America,where every other school house is called a collega and every other college a university, FRANZ SEPEL. e RELIGIOUS, The Rev. Dr. Edgehill has declined the bishopric of Nova Scotia, Australian Presbyterians are raisin $250,000 tor church extension and educations The African Methodist Episcopal church proposes to celebrate the centenary of its or- ganizetion in November, As many as twenty Congregational cl hes have been orzanized within two years in Southern California, A force ot 2,000 colporteurs distribute ser- mons among the non-church-going people of Berlin, Germany. More than 100,000 sery mons are thus distributed each week. Bishop Tuttle, who has been missionary bishop of Utah, Idaho and Montana fot twenty years, has become bishiop of the Mis¢ souri and will hencetorth reside in St. Louis ‘The archdiocese of Philadelphia has con- tributed $11,007.04 to the negro and Indian misslons, the largest amount collected in an diocese, New York coming next with Of the 276 Lutheran churehes built in 1886, 152 were German, 62 English, Swedish, 22 Norweglan, 2 Danish. Besides these there Slavonian, Finnish, Iceland and Bohemian Lutberan houses of worship. A banker at Sendia, Japan, a non-christian has given 10,000 yen |over $5,000] to the school established by the American Board in that eity, with the'distinet understanding that itis to be a thoroughly christian insti- tution, The great camp m ¢ of the season opened at Ocean (Grove on ‘Tuesday, and will continued during the following ten days, These meetings have been attended in former vears by upwards of 100,000 peovle during the sessions, and the attendance this year promises to equal if not surpass that of the last few years, A couple of P'rinceton students have been canvassing ninety-two colleges and semi- naries for the naines of students willing to becon missionaries. The volunteers in- clude twenty-five from Amherst, Williamg nineteen, Andover fourteen, Harvard nine, Coanell thirty-five, Oberlin 110 and Princeton seminary and college forty-eight, The Catnolics of Lawrence, Mass,, con- nected with the Augustinian churehes, have formed & churel debt society, which' now numbers upward of fifteen hundred members, who pled. e sums ranginz from $3 to $25 each anuually toward paying the depositors in the band ot the Augustinian Lo became bankrupt in 1883 It 15 expected by this mieans to pay off the entire debt in ten years, - - Sarah Bernhard’s objeet in making a potof w tiger cat has at length been made public. It is announced in the Pavisian papers that her tiger is a most intelligent animal and has learned to tell a creditor as soon as it sees one. Itis further remarked that the ti is gener- ally at large in Mme. Bernhardt's draws ing-room, The post-mortem examinstion in the case of the famous Kussian editor, Kat- Kof aled the fuct that he died of cancer of the stomach.