Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1887, Page 17

- FIRST LADIES OF THE LAND ‘Bome Tales o) ’d;:_Q:e-enu of the White House and the Empress’ of Homes, MR. GLADSTONE'S DAUGHTER. Strayed or Stolen—Peraian House- wives—A Girl Who Catches Snakes =A Finished Woman's Success — The Southern Gimh Strayed or Stolen, Joln Ernest MeCann, $las any one seen n pair of eyes As blue as the sea "neath Grecian skies, And sweet red mouth and teeth like pearl? Well, they belong to my littie girl. he strayed away with a pretty pout, nd I don’t know what it’s all about, 1 would give my life, were my life all bliss, T'o feel again on my cheek her kiss, jhe strayed away on a sninmer morn, hen only the ghost of astorm was born; And it was born In her eyes of blue. 1 don’t know what in the world to do Without her snile and her soft caress, And her presences my days and life to bless, She was so fair, delielous, and sweet, TI.\n'l my heart never knew ‘twas beneath her Teet. % she was so sweet—and she was so falr, Ith her lovely eyes and soft, warm hair! And her dear little bands that fluttered so, henunl’u': opened them wide or shut them ht, ‘When love or storms made her pink or white- There is only this: I must prav to [l To send her back in the twilight dim, First Ladies of the Land. Philadelphia Times: Mrs. Pierce gave the surroundings of the houschold of her husband in the home of the presi- dents a digniticd grace which willl ever remembered with pleasure. There seemed, however, to be a lull in social affairs during her regime. 1t was the following administration of Mr. Buch- anan which was the most brilliant in the whole lList since the of “Dolly” Harritt Lane was in every re- spect qualified for the high duty of pre- siding over the social environments of ber uncle. She had been trained in her duties in the stately school of the court of St. James, and brought to her difficult task at Washington that equanimity and sffubility which was especially necessary when sectional bitterness was fast ap- proaching a culmination i secession, vebellion and war. In the social enter- tainments of Mr. Buchanan's administra- tion, leaders of all shades of pohtical beliet and prejudice mingled in pleasant accord. No one would have supposed that the nation was fast drifting into a war which would take the dimensions of the greatest conflict of arms in ancient or modern times, Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln entered upon Rer delicate duty of presiding lady of the rst republican administration with a gacy of discord in political circles which had been prepared by the chief canspirators against the perpetuity of the Union. The uncertainties and anxieties of the war marred the enjoyments of the social life of the executive ‘mansion dur- ing her regime. The faithful stewardshtp of Abraham Lincoln carried lum tri- umphantly through a second campaign, but the bullet of an sin cut short the brillinnt seasons which were to fol- low the return of peace. Mrs. Eliza McCardle Johnson was too much of an invalid to participate in the filye!h-s of her husband’s administration, er daughter, Mrs. Patterson, relieved her of her sociul duties and made An- drew Johnson’s administration one of tho most enjoyable and popular which ever beld sway in the mansion of the presi social Ifo which surrounded him in his ofticial home went far to allay the bitter- mess of partisan persecution, disfavor and controversy. The queenly social qualities of Mrs. Grant made the social life of the great soldicr, during two administrations, at- tractive and influential. The animosities ngendered by the war were still rife, but by her dignified ana conservative control and influence, before she surrendered her trust to her successor, a greatchange had taken place. Pnrlfi' and sectional lines no longer limited the character of Ruests &t stute or public entertainments, The social regimes of Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia kudoli:h Garfield, even brief as it was, and Mary Arthur Me- Eiroy, maintainea the tigh standard which had been the characteristic feature of every preceding administration. There were no great issues, however, to orystallize personal and partisan rival ries and antagonism Persian’ Houscwives, Bt. James's Gazette: The Persian hd% is & good housewife. She rises with the dawn, she is liberal in her housekecping, kind to her servants— 8 little profuse, perhaps, but then living 38 cheap in the east. The koys of every- ing are in the keeping of the mistress the house, and she is usually exact in her accounts, All the vast stock of con- serves and sweetmeats, syrups for the m‘nnuon of sherbets and pickles in endless variety, are either prepared by Ber own fingers or undcg her eyes. Nor does she diadain to be a confectioner and maker of pastry, As evening approaches =the long, elaborate Persian dinner being partaken of among the upper olasses by the sexes apart—she prepares fo entertain her husband; she will play to himupon the lute or harmonica; she will #ing to him, or read him to sleep with mry; or she will play with him at gammon or chess, or recite to him gn%nwr s in the style of *‘The Arabian ights.” When he 18 sick she nurses b, and it is her pride to see that his wardrobe is well supplied and his ser- vants well clad. She will intrigue for him, plead for him, lie for him, and has been known to die for him. She will even carry her complaisance so far as to find another wife for him. A Girl Who Catches Snakes, Boston Transcript: Shelivesin Maiden; she is seventeen years old, or there- abouts, and she is an ophiologist—that is to say, her specialty is snul Yery often, in pleasant summer weather, this young girl, with hands clad in high buck joves and armed with a bottle ol”chluro- jorm, lurks about the fens, and pools, and thickets, watching for snakes, a girl fair to look upon, sauntering, one might i ine, with eyes upon the ground, in lon meditation, fancy free. She isin maiden meditation, indeed, but not fancy free, because her fancy is bound to suakes and she is searching intently for some variety not yet added to her collee- tion of several hundred. Presently she stops; with an eager gieam in her eye she erouches along a step or two, her glove- clad right hand drawn back asif to cateh some object; she springs forward toward the ground with a swift motion, and then stands erect with the body of a snake writhing about her arm in desperate She has it by the neek and pro- ceods calmly to thrust its head into the neck of her bottle of ¢hloroform. Not many days ago this young s after a rather desperate contest, captured in the fells a black snake so large and Powurlul that when it wrapped itself in {Fu mad grasp of 1ts body about her arm strained her cords and muscles so se- werely that she was lame for a week. It did not prevent her, however, from sallywng forth again, ahd when she hap- pened to perceive, at the margin of a l, 8 big water spake of a varioty she not secured for her collection, she an wait for it. _ As the suake pounced Epon o frog she peunced upon the snake; ut the reptile ‘was in his element and escaped her. Was ghe to be batiled in that way? Notatall. She managed to webor & frog in some way upon astone at ntist, the edge of the pool, at a spot where the bank was overhung with bushes. 'Lhen she stealthily laid herself flat upon her face under the bushes st the brink of the water, and there she lay in ambush for a lunfi time, while the snake curiously eyed the frog. At last the snake, wit sudden resolution, made bold to seize the frog; but as he did so a gloved hand, swifter than his own sinuous motion, darted from the bank, and he was a pris- oner, splashing the water of the pool in his vain_eflort to escape. The girl has one grief—she has not been able to eap- ture with her own hands a rattlesnake. Mr. Gladston Daughter. Miss Gladstone, who stood upon the right of Mr. Gladstone during his fa- mous speech on the occasion of the pre- gentation of the American testimonial, is taller even than her father, She is a blonde, with luxurious, clear-combed hair twisted high upon her gracefully shaped head. fiflr eyes are blue, her complexion a dainty pink and white; her nose is a delicate retrousse; her mouth is small, with a most pleasant eerension, She wore a summer dress, the yellow lace work revealing the shape of her ghoul- ders and the rounded lines of her arms. She was the most attentive listener in the group, She felt every word of her father’s address and paid the same un- flagging attention to the speech of pre- sentation, A Finnish Woman's Success. Fraulein Sohr’s “Record of Woman's Efforts” gives an interesting nccount of the struggles of a poor Finnish girl, who, in the teeth of every privation und difli- culty, has achieved the distinction, unique in her country, of a diploma as the first female doe of , philosophy. Irene Alstom, as she tended her father's cattle in the *land of a thousand lakes,"” dreamed and pondered over all the 1 of science and learning, which secmed forever a sealed book to her pov- erty and ignorance. Yearning to be wise yet seeing no hope in a gray life of toi and struggle, at last she prayed to die, that she might reach a sphere where her cravings would be satistied. Ahumane pastor, divining her longing, sent her toa good school, where she passed as fourth among forty-six young girls at the age of eighteen, though only prepared by her own self-help. She took work in earnest here, often sitting up all night thinking over the day’s tasks while her companions slept all around her, and afterwards when as a day pupil she haa to provide her own meals, she sometimes went to the classes fasting, save tor the fresh snow she picked up and ate on tne way. For her father was totally ruined, and she must soon leave school and begin earning. For a while she bravely sup- pres: her longings and submitted to the drudgery ot teaching, yet never los- ing sight of the goal she had long had at heart—her matriculation. At last, having saved four pounds, with the scantiest of luggage she journeyed to Helsingfors, and in defiance of opposition, chiefly feminine, such as a more advanced society can form no conception of, Irene prepared for her ordeal. She paid her odging in advance for the whole winter (three pounds) and invested in four loaves of the hard round rye biscuit of Scan- dinavia and Finland, which keeps many months, dividing them methodically so that she had a piece for each day till Christmas. In the depth of winter she worked without a fire, at a temperature of thirty degrees. Celsius, a kind pro- fessor, taught her Latin, moved by her assurance that unless she learned it she could neither live content nor die happ Her progress was most rapid; she matric- ulated, taught awhile again for the sake of her family, renewed her own studies took a brilliant degree, and at last, recog- nized by her nation for what she is, the daytless pioneer of woman's progress, she now lives honored and appreciated, still educating her brothers, suill thirsting insatiably after truth, The Southern Girl. White Sulphur Springs Letter: The southern girl is a type peculiar to the soil. She resembles no other young lady in the country. In thought, manner and methods she has a distinet personality, and could be picked out with ease in & multitude, As a rule she is slender and strong. She 1s reasonably well modeled, a tendency to tight lacing among the traditions of her people having had its natural effect to some extent upon her figure. She is generally good looking, and ig, a8 a rule, high sp{r“ell and some- what self-willed. She 1s harder to con- trol than the northern girl, and when she makes up her mind to get married, and the old people object, she usually carries out the programme if it takes'a saddle horse and a railroad train to accom- plish it. None the less, however, she is unusually shrewd in determining her choice and does not usually make mis- takes. She reads men cleverly, and is herself somewhat difficult to read. ‘The southern girl's particular specialty is dancing. She can dance every dance under the sun, including all the tie-ups, kicks and running races which have been invented by the dancing muaster since dancing was taken from the polite arts and raised to a place among athletic sports, She is the most graceful of dancers, and would rather dance than eat. The oftice of chaperon seems to be apurely perfunctory one, for the southern girl knows her world and needs nobody to guard her. At all events, the chaperon usunlly keeps discreetly out.of the way, and her churge is allowed most per- fect freedom. This freedom she utilizes in the most enjoyable manner and with the wisest discretion. I[n fact, the south- ern girl is a most clear-headed as well as companionable young person, and takes all the uncommon events of life, from a torn dress while dancing to a proposal of marriage, with a coolness buordering on ice cream. - iven Eve Wore a Bustle, New York Graphic: Bustles date from the beginning of the sex which is at- tached to them. They exist at this date because of n correct rule of art which objects to a straight line beyond a certain length. They are necessary to a recogni- tion of the comeliness of the entire figure and to the development of the outer view of the dividing line between the waist and the hips, and the necessity for this will be apparent to the individual who has seen an otherwise dressed woman without any bustle. The first adornment worn by Eve, if the historians of her period are to be blieved, was a bustle, the same composed lurgely of pulpy matter left by the deluge and properly eurved and largely nnmmnmcnl‘ with roses and the various other botanical productions of the new world, Girls to Have a Business Trainiug, Baltimore Sun: The school commission- ers of Louisville, Ky., have decided upon a post graduate course for the female high school of that city, the subjects to be hmf;m to be book-kceping, short hand and type-writing. The course will he one year, and graduates from the high school will have the option between this and the noru class, and can either fit them- selves for teaching or for mercantile pursuits, She Was at Home in the Water, Pall Mall Gazette: Miss Florence Mac. naghton, of Runkerry House, Bushmills, North of Ireland, has just performed a swimming feat under very peculiar cir- cumstances. Sceking to persuade a local fisherman to become temperate, the latter promised to do so provided that Miss Mucnaghton undertook to swim the bay between Blackrock and Port Ballantrae, a distance of about one mile. The young Indy accopted the challenge, and accom- plished the undertaking in thirty-nine minutes, with the result that the fisher- wan douned the blue ribbon, ar Pretty Women, Privtad flannels make cony pretiy costumoes for young ladie: Viclet wood § usc\i cles for the toilet, and also for the han- dles of fans. Belts made entirely of gilt braid are stylish and are worn with white costumes. The tournure is narrower, but hardly perceptibly smaller in the Sll‘i] fall styles. Fancy hairpins are generally worn and continue to be ornamented and elaborate. The gilt and sitver braid trimmings form an attractive garniture for tailor- made costumes. The eailor jacket with a blouse waist underncath is a favorite model to wear with a kilted skirt. Shepherd's checks form the uppers of some of the fashionable walking boots for summer wear. Brier stitching, as well as feather stitching, is used on children’f clothing, both dresses and jackets. Bengaline is yet a favorite and will con- tinue to be for fall costumes of heavier cashmere and cheviots, Large buttons enter into the trimming of many fall costumes, and are of very beautiful workmanship. ‘The soft, warm knitted silk underwear promises to take the place of the Jersey weaves, as it is healthful, The plain skirt has come to stay with- out doubt, and it is therefore carefully finished and generally lined throughout. The morning costume, to be stylish, is in white chuddar cloth trimmed with bright-colored velvet. Yellow is stylish, Low-cut shoes have an embroidery of cut jet beads, and the more ones cost from $8 to $10 per pair. - HONEY FOR THE DIES. Link bracelets are ali the rage, A corset is nothing more than a waist bas- ket. Low cut-shoes have an embroidery of cut Jet beads, Round hats will be more worn this winter than ever before, Royal purple will be the fashionable color for the coming season. Many of the new passementaries are mixed with silver, gold and steel, Colored handkerchiefs are but little worn and silk ones are entirely done away with. Pansies and daises 1n_enamel goods, with diamond center, are the favorite lace pin. Sailor kuots, Roman knots and lovers’ knots are the prevailing fancies for hairpin tops. ‘The woolen goods for street wear during fall and winter show unusual brilliancy of tone, Large buttons enter into the trimming of many fall custumes, and are of very beauti- ful workmanship. Sealskin will continue to be the most fash- fonable, as well as the most popular, fur for street wear next winter. ‘The old and eraceful fashion of wearing long veils of gauze wound about the head and shoulders is to be revived. An open rose, the centre pink, enamelled petals and tips of leaves set with diamonds, is a rare and exquisite lace pin. Nothing is more appropriate for second morning wear tHan sardonyx lace pins, sct in flower designs, with sprays of pearls. Blouse fronts are so popular that they will continue to be used all winter in plush, sealskin, and a: han on plain corsages. Mufrs will be very small this winter and and will oftener be made of the dress mate- rial, trimmed with fur, than of fur entirel. Two shanks fastened together sido by side, one set with a sapphire, the other with a diamond, are the very latest design in rings. Bronze, golden brown, beige, tan andall the tawny yellow tints of wood are very fashionable, this season, both here and abroad. Mrs. Cleveland keeps a_sewing-woman employed all the time in making alterations and changes in the trimming of her various costumes. Very low ecrowned bonnets have appeared at last, but it is sate to assert that it will take fully two seasons ana perhaps more to make them general, The covert Jackets for the fall season, in- stead of being made of the one pretty color, as of the past, will be made in cloth to match the costume. Four folds of black and white silk muslin make a pretty substitute for ruching to be worn in the neck of a mourning frock, The white is set next to the skin, Miss Octavia Hill, of Boston, recently en- tertained all her tenants to the number ot 700 or 800, Miss Hill will be remembered as the pioneer in tenement-house reform, Deautiful sle S s are made en- m There are plain black and white ones, and both black and white mixed with old or silver. The brooch has taken the place of the small eravat pin, and is worn generally with th ere tailor-made costumes, and is in harmony with the plainness of the effect. 1t is now claimed that the head of the sul- tan’s harem 1S a christian woman, a Span- iard, beautiful and cultivated. She believes in the aoctrine of polygamy. Vests and waistcoats of every description long and narrow, short and full, and ample and expansive, like the old Continental gilet, are all in high vogue again this sevson. Buffalo has a_woman contractor. Her name is Mrs. A. M. Holloway, and she has just secured the contract for cleaning the streets of that city for five years by a bid of $447,000, Gloves of light gray and mastic kid, with the reams lapped, and finished about the wrist with a strip of black leather, and hay- ing several rows of black stitching, are quite the newest. The puffed and bishop sleeves, which the Athenians wore ages ngo, continueto be popular, and will be worn during the fall quite as much if not more than during the summer, A rather alarming result of the higher edu- cation of women is the tendency of thos who have secnred a mecasure of literary cul- ture to shower advice and instructiou upon other women. A new servant having been engaged at an aristocratic residence was informed they usu- ally had breakfast about 8 o'clock. She re- plled unconcernedly: “Well, if I ain’t down to it, don’t wait.” “Which do you prefer,a girl or a woman*” asks Luey Rigden, in her own peculiar, 1n- cnius manner. Well, that depends, Lucy, Ve like a girl before she gets womanish, and a woman before she becomes girlish. ‘The rage for white toilets, which has lasted all summer will continue through the autun, and costumes of veiling, nun’s cloth, serge, ete,, will be worn out of doors until'the weather grows decidedly chilly. Dress skirts now appearing have the ap- pearance of uneored, full gathered skirts, They are in fact, just that, (the front and sometimes the sido breadths being slightly gored) mounted on aell gored foundation skirts. Mrs. Christian Strachan, *and her daugh- ter of Melbourne, Australia, have arrived at Chicago on a tour of the world, Itisthe first instance on record where two women set out alone with such an ambitious object in view. Mrs. Joseph Solomon, whosa husband is running for alderman on the republican ticket in Indlanapolis, isout in an interview in the republican organ of that city request- iug her frienas to vote against her lord and master. Mrs. Solomon says she does not de- sire her husband to hold offiee, and tnat the right to vote should satisfy him. The jewelry of theolden tume is again com- in the case of the brooch. larzely worn this season, and when small are very pretty, as when in the ear nothing i s seen excepting the diamonds, the setting being very light. Very large hoops will be worn, but not such much probably as the smaller ones. ‘'he latest “fad” fs the Interest attached to the finding of an old button shoe. We were told, with great sincerity, that if a young girl on finding one would count the fmuaua remaining on it she would be able to tell exactly the number of years which would elapse before her martiage, each button rep- resenting one year. Itis looked upon as a great piece of ‘misfortune (by the creaulous) to tlud a shoe minus buttons, Ladies’ visiting cards this fall will be almost square as usual, but it anything a trifle larger. Letter paper will be embel- lished with the wonogram and the street ad- ina vnrxeli of arti- dress directly under tho monogram, instead of slightly to the right, Where street ad- dress is used only, it will also be placed in the center. In stationary white wave will be used, and if tints at all, the most delieate. Seals have gone entirely out and it is de- cidedly bad form to use: one. Fashionabie stationers censider them so much bad stack. Mauy of the Qew open house jackets ml L s AL i worn above loose vests made of Spanish net, At each side of this blouse, under the jacket and at the belt, are sewed the endsof two long lengths of moire ribbon. The one fastened at the right side 19 brought down to int several inches below the belt, and bl n front run through a silver buckie or slide, and then fastened securely. The rib- bon Is then carried up to the left side and tled in with the second length and there fastenod, the loops inclining towards the front of the skirt, above which thay fall. Basques and bodices are gradually being lengthened to cover the hips' more deeply. The vest, the plastron, the separate waist- coat, the pleated shoulder-pieces, the demure nun's corsage, with fold’s lapping each other over the chest: the surplice front, lapping from right to left, and revers of all sh and kinds, are seen on the newest Paris dresses. It is almost impossible to make the front of the bodice too dressy in efTect, or to o far astray in the design, as the variety of models is now so limitless that any style be- coming to the wearer is in good taste. A voung lady of Austin, Tex., who has much time to spare, and who 1s very skiliful with the needle and excels in all fancy crochet work, has made a unique dress, The material is common spool thread, white, and the entire dress is hand-crocheted work, beautifully flowered and strongly made, and about ten thousand vards of thread were used in its construction. The slecves are crocheted in the proper shape and are fastened in by a lock-crocheted stiteh, Itis a very beautitul drese, and the young lady told us that it took her three months to complete it. The dress worn by Mrs. Cleveland at the reception at the white house given the dele- gates to the medical congress on Tuesday evening last was an elezant robe of blue satin, covered with tulle of the same shade, soft folds of which were draped across the front of the plain petticoat, the back of rich brocade, falling in a graceful sweep to the end of the train. The bodice was cut mod- esty low, both back and tront, and trimmed w th exquisite old point applique lace, fas- tened Wllll a diamond pin. A necklace of the same werms encircled her throat, they be- ing, as usual, wora high and caught through with a handsome tortoise shell pin, Mrs. Cleveland carried a loose cluster of the lovely ]n\lo pink Catherine Mermet roses. A pretty neident was the courtesy paid ter by two of tha forei:n doctors, who, in passing down the line, stooped and kissed her hand. Ascnath Miller has just celebrated her 100th birthday at St. Char] N Robert-Crotty died in his oid home at Prospeet, Ohio, on August 20, of the heat, at the age of 10: John R. Guy, of Paynesville, Mo.. is sev- enty-three years old, and yet he says he can jump and crack his heels together twice. ‘The postinaster at Cleveland, Ga., Uncle Edward Stephehs, is ninety years of age, nd spry enough To do all that is required of him, James Preston of ghanandoah 1s enjoying the society of his third wife. He is ninety- two vears of age and is the father of thirty- six children. Sixty years ago Dr. and Mrs, Harpwell, now of Decatur, 11L., were married in Phila- celphia, Now at the age of 85 and S4 they bid fair to live to celebrate their diamond wedding. Probavly the oldest person in Texas was Grandma Mitchell, who died recently at Pilot Point, a. 105, She never wore glasses and she walked half a _mile to churen the Sunday betore her death. The eightiethiwedding anniversary of Man- uel Barriant and his wife of Matamoras was recently celebrated. The husband 1s in the best of health at 102, while the wife enjoys the same blessing at ninety-six. A colored blacksmith who works every day his forge, and who is 100 yeare old, isa resident of Ozan, Ark. llis name is Per- kins, He wassold on tl k in New Or- leans, and taken to A sin 1840, Willis Blackwel! s the oldest man in Kan- sas. Ho resides ut Great Bend, and thinks he was born in Fauqnier county, Virginia, in 17 He can chew two ounces of tobacco per day, but abstains fromn alcoholic drinks, Mrs. Clarissa Sidener of Adamstown, Ky, made her own clothes and did her house- vork until she was 110 years old, She died recently, in her 115th year. A1l of her teeth, excepting four, were perfectly sound at the time of her death. The oldest man in Kansas is a negro, who is said, ‘‘on good authority,” to have been born a'slave in Tauquier county, Virginia, November 20, , and is, therefore, 112 years old. He 13 an inveterate chewer and insists that it he were to leave off he would die. Mr. Adolph Parent, an ald man of ninety- six vears, who has been acting as _bailiff at Pierreville, Canada, for the last fifty years has just left for the United States, with a view, he says, to perfect his knowledge of the English language. here is living on the Welsh hiils at Ty- maen @ venerable widow Mns. Frances, who 15107 vears old, having been born on Au- gust 15, 1780, She is in excellent health and can thread her needle without using her glasses. She moves about with ease and is enabled to attend to domestic duties, “Thomas Anderson of West Haven, Conn., is sairl 10 be one of the oldest descendants of the Mohawk Indians. [eis ninety-six years of ageand in a fine state of preservation, He hat he was born at East Hempstead, L. ., and that he and his brother, who lives at Fleming, L. L, are the last of the Mohawks. Seventy-two years ago. Robert Tirrell of Rhode lsland, then a soldier in the British army, deserted and came to America. The old man, who Is ninety-thres years old, has just received & pardon from the grand- daughter of the king he deserted,and is going back to the old country to die among his kinsfolk. ‘The oldest man in the world is Jones, a negro and citizen of the States, now residing at Santa Rosa, aged 135 years. He was born before Franklin experimented with lizhtning and kites, was forty at the time of Washington's election to the presidency, engaged in the revolutionary war, outlived three slave-masters, and at the ave of 130 was still able to_do chores enough to partialiy support himself. M. Chevreul, the French cantenarian savant, was 101 years old August 21, Hesays: “There can be no rule of life. What is good for one may not be good for another. V. must study what is best tor us individually. For example, my parents lived to be more than ninety years old, and they drank wine. From my ehildhood wine has been disagree- able to me. Like Locke and Newton. I have never cared for any beverage except water,” Artemus ‘Tucker, and his wife Narei who live on a plantation near Am are a remarkable couvle. He is eighty years old, and is still holding an important post on the' plantation, Narcissus is nearly sixty years old, and tips the beam at 420 pounds in her stockings, while the old man weighs scarcely 100 pounds, She once tried to enter a railroad coach to go to Americus, but the door was not large enouzh to admit her, and she was compelled to ride on a flat car. In Hungary there lives a man who is over one hundred and thirty years. Ie enjoys good health, and, what is mo till retains full possession of his mental faculties, Franz Nao was born in 1756, Ilis parents were serfs, and died soon after hisbirth, Up to the age of twenty he perforimed the duties of shepherd. He then became a soldier, and took part as old hussar in the great battle of Leipsie in 1513, Being taken prisoner by the French, he atterward returned to Hungary in 1515, where e took service as a coachman. He now lives on the bounty of the inhal tants of his native village Esoknya (Somo Comitat). Nago does not remember havi had a day’s illness, Jeffrey Wilson, who died near Mechanics- 0., was boro a slave in Virginia in 1 nd had entered on his 115th year when he died. He was asiave for ninety-two years, He had two wives. By the first he had eight children, threeof whom are living, the aver- age of their ages bsing eighty years, the eldest being eighty-seven, and the youngest seven-nine. By his second wife he liad nine children, six of whom are liviug, their aver- age being fifty-two years, the cldest being fifty-elght and the youngest forty-one. He nad seventy-six grandellldren, thirteen great-grandchildren, and one great-great- grandehild, his offspring extending through tour generations, there being 106 souls. In his veins flowed the blood of three races— white, negro and Indan—and to this fact is attributed his longevity. ———— RELIGIOUS, ‘There are 120 Congregzational churches in California, with 5,000 ehureh wemb The %0,000 Hebrews who reside in New York have twenty-six synagogues and over fifty meeting houses. ‘The conference of Congregationalists and Baptists for the purpose of promoting co- operation and union 13 to be held in London this month, Dr. Joseph Parker of London the late Beecher's pulpit on S 1, when he will deliver -his this country. James United Merico, will eccnpy nday, October Urst sermon in Portland, Me., has declded to bulld a temple, Work will Mfiunne‘l as fast as possible, and the temple, when completed, will cost about 840,000, At the 1ast relizious census of Switzerland taken in 1850, the little republic contained 1,067,100 Protestants, 1,160,781 Cathoiics, ‘:1‘73 Jews, and 10,538 of other religious afiii on. The 20,000 estimated membership of the Unitarian body in the United States remains the same as it was four years ago, while the 6,935 of the Universalists of that date have fallen to 35,550 It has been definitely settled that Bishop Ireland, one of the trustees of the proposed university, will be created an archbishop next year, and the present see of St. Paul over which he presides elevated to an arbh- biscopal position. The question of securing a permanent pastor to succeed Mr. Beecher has been placed in the hands of a committee, the mem- ers of which have been scattered during the fummer 8o that nothing in that direction has been done. No one In the church has ex- pressed any choice for a pastor. The Protestant Episcopal eathedral pro- Jectin New York has been in partial abey- ance during the hot months, but itis to be vigorously pushed with the coming of au- tumn. The ?Ill‘stlnll of a siteis yetunde- termined, although it seems to have narrowed down to two plots of ground. ‘The very highest church in Europe is tho pilgrimage chavel of St. Maria de Ziteit, above Saluy, 1n the Canton of Graubunden. It lies lle.'\rli)' 8,000 feet high above the forest, near the limits of perpetual snow. It is enly open during the summer-time of that region—or, as the folks thereabouts reckon, from St. John the Baptist's Day to St Michael’s Day—and is used only be the Alp herds, who remain through the summer with their cows and goats, and occasionally by hunters in search of the chamois and mar- mot. All the inhabitants _of Salux elimb up thither on Midsummer Day to assist at the first mass and hear the first sermon of the year, and there is also a crowded congrega- tion on Michaelmas Day, at the last service of the year. e i sl MUSICAL ND DRAMATIO. “Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde'" was played at the i\'l‘\v York Madison Square theatre last week, Minnie Hauk has signed an agreement foran American tour, to comuence in the autumn, Cincinnati’s pageant *‘Rome Under Nero,” has failed completely, and was brought to'a sudden clos _Cappa’s Seventh_ Regiment band, of New York city, will ma%e a concert tour of the states, beginning in October. Marie Roze intends coming to this country at the close of her present tour,with the Carl Rosa opera troupe in {reland. According toa veracious British chroni- cler, the scenery for Henty Irving's Ameri- can tour will fill'sixty freight cars. A new drama fn London ecalled “‘Pleas- ure,” introduces one of the most realistic and sensational stage earthquakes ever seen. Charles Gaylord has made a new historical play called “*Daniel Boor and Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout will act in it. Arabs and their beautiful horses have been tbe attraction at the Paris hippodrome all summer, Butfalo Bill and his eowboys will succeed them. Miss Flora Benjamin is the latest musical vrodigy. She never took a lesson in musie, but plays almost every instrument, beine especialiy proficient upon the violin, tlute and piano. ‘The New Court Theatre. London, to he built for John Clayton, Dion Boucicault's son-in-law, will have a covered roof, under which patrons may walk from the railway trains into their seats, For many years Russia has interdicted the pertormance of Vietor Hugo's dramas in that v, The boycott on these plays has at ised, and ‘“‘Hernani” will be given at Moscow in the near future. Marion Manola—our first visitor on the comic opera staze from Lapiand—is pleas- antly greeted every night in ‘‘Bellmon” at Wallack’s, New York. De Wolf Hopper is very funny, and the general novelty attracts full houses. Tua, ayoung lady violinist who furore in_Europe, by her ex- quisite playing will be heard in this country during L6 coming seasol. . Bhe s only twen: ty years ola and is said to be as beautiful as she is accomplished. Mabel Sterling, the young Kentucky girl who Is preparing to blassom. out as a star, in a musical coedy called *Three Corners,” 18 eighteen years of ag d is descrived as ex- ceedingly handsome in face and form. She makes her debut 1n New York during the holidays, Sarah Bernhardt has Jost her voice, the re- sultof a eold caused by exposure at her country placein the south of France, She is now'in Paris. Rehearsals of Sardou’s ne appear, were com- alue of the play is Mlle. Webber, the new rival of the immor- tal Sarah has scored a great triumph at the Comedie Franceise as Donna Sol in “Her- nani,”” one of Saral’s roles. Bernhardt is devoting her attention to reading Sardou’s new play yet unnamed, in which she is to ap- pear at Porg Saint Martin. Hans von Bulow, who now resides in Hamburg, will during the cominz season di- rect thirty operatic performances in the Stadt theatre as well as the subscription con- certs In that eity, the philharmonic concerts in Berlin and some of the subscription con- certs In Bremen. Julius Cohn, of Atlanta, Ga,, thinks that he has the oldest flute in America. 1t isan ebony, eight-keyed German flute, and bears a silver plate with the words ‘“Julius Cohn, Dresden, 1738.”” This is the present owner’s g groat-great-grandfather, T'h kzood tunes in the old flute, One of the funniest scenes in Von Suppe’s opera, Bellman,which is the latest New York crace, is the entrance of De Wolf Hopper in the second act, which is located in :a cave on the borders of the North sea. A severe storm israging and the comedian is blown in sus- pended to an umbrella, which temporarily acts as a balloon, but suddenly collapsing he Is thrown 1nto the sea. A real cotton-gin, costing $2,500, will be introduced in a farcical comedy entitled “The Judge,” will be seen upon the road next season, There is sald to be a scene in it in which the hero, impersonated by a party known as Odell Williams, is cast by the vil- Iain into the ginning machine, and effects a thrilling escape from its clutches, Victory Bateman will he the leading lady. Messrs. Conried and Hermann have en- eaged auother high-priced star for a short Auerican season In the person of Madame Niemann-Rabe, who will appear at the Star theatre, New York, January Madame Rabe is the wife of Niemann the tenor, and has long been considered the most charming exponent of modern drawing room comedy on the German stage. She i3 a beautiful as well as talented woman. and her cominz ap- pearance is_already looked forward to by German residents, of “Home, swoet home,” F. writes to the American Musician: Bishop heard it in Sicily, and nobod v knows who composed it. Sicilians living to-day in New York have told me that their grand- fathers said their grandfathers knew it. Bishop introduced it into his Clari, the maid of Milan.” Pasta, the onr’mnl liked it, and took a copy of it. In 1830, Donizetti was composing his ‘Anna Bolena. for her, she asked him to introduce the mel ody. Hedid so tor the final scene, but made avariation of it. The second part differs almost entirely from the song as it is sung to-day. Admiral Porter sat in a_proscenium box at the Fifth avenue theatre, N. Y, last week and witnessed the tirst pertormance of a dra matization of nis naval “Allan Dare,” Sit ting by the hero of Fort Fisher was the gal lant old warrior who once went warehing through Georgia, and both the old gentlemen seemed to enjoy the play of the night, Brave men are always modest and it was observed Admiral Porter’s face was frequently cov- ered with blushes when some good point in the play brouzht down the house, and the old "hero was conscious that thousands of eyes were fixed unon him, ‘I'he Edwiv Booth-Lawrence Barrett com- bination has begun its tour _in Buffalo, pes to Detroit, Minneapolis, ston, Philadelphia, New Otleans, all of the large s of the coun- wncluding San Francisco. season of N has been arranged and the fol wing will be the complete repertoire: Julius Cwesar,” *Othello,” *Hamlet,” **Mac- TR VY t of e arestill ing play in Buffalo will be “Julius Cwsar,” with Mr. Booth in his old part of Bi 15, and Mr. Barrett in his familiar personation of Cassius, ‘T'he stars will tra 1n the newly constructed palace ear, Junius Brotus Booth,” attended by a retinue of servants. Mr, Booth has never been in better health and spirits than at the present tine, and both Le and Mr, Barrett are sanguine ot a prout- ‘The Mebréw congrogation Beth lah\.‘lul‘ able scason, MENAGERIE, Omaha, Thursday, Sept. 24 Gouncil Bluffs, F{i_tl_any,_s.q. 23d. ITINTEX AINTINTUTAL TOUR, Twenty T es Greater, Grander and Bigger than er. Dornis and Colvin's Colossal Shows Combined Circus, Museum, Grand Wild West and Roman Hippodrome. Grand Tripple Circus of 200 Performing Stars, Fall and Complete, GRAND NEW ROMAN ith Whole Troups of Daring Riders in Ancient and Modern Rac Star Featu TWE tian Scouts and Cowboys. PPODRO! . The Bright Particula litorous Aggrogation Ever Organizod. 8- A BAREBACK Led by the Invincible Quartette, DUTTON, < hampion First time in Americ: of thevens, O’DELL, THE ONLY LEON, TWENTY PEM Bareback Rider’ 7 World Famou( ixtiaoraiary, LOWRY, Worly, T Only 31 Horse Rider in the World, BAREBACK RIDERS, Lod by the brave, the bewitching, the beautiful Quartette, Miss ELLA STOKES, Miss ANN(E (,‘x\r‘l|{I{()IAl,. The four fair 200 —Two In as many acts, Aerig A MONSTER 50-C. Anunuls. representi ing, Roman Stecple Rnce: , Riding, Leaping, Tumbl kinds known to ciicus enter 3 MENAGERIE with Dens, Lairs, Droves, Herds and Cages ot wu; Brawny Riders, Blooded Steeds 'and ig of milo track. ALICE McDONALD, Miss INEZ INSON, 18 omen who (lr:si m|v|ur|v. charm complotoly, and ride nstonishingly. red st-Class Cirel , Contorti winm; ars n, Gymnastic, Athletic and af \ propor. ach und every fumily of Geolog HIPPODROMIC ACTS without nimber, Roman_Chariot, Roman Standing, Romun Vaul Exciting Spectaculur, Dramatic, Thrilling and Astounding Wild West Spectacular and Remarkable Hippe drome features of ull' kinds, GENERAL CUSTER AT LITTLE RIG HORN. Personated by the groat LE ROY, the uttack; the i the ( T LEON, Riding ' the iy of & mile cirele. T} fca. "The whole the Tndiung, Cowboys, Cowboy G Redoubtablo o grread The massacro's masterly re, uise: the defeat and death o act of ancient or modern d satest performance ever wiven on carth. g ¢ , Scouts, Frontiersmen, Mexicans, and Crack Shots led by thy resentation. The ambuscade( our Hero Custor. rty-one Horses at Fullest Speed nround never before given in Amen CAPTAIN ELMER E. 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