Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 2, 1887, Page 12

RS J . the MRS, GRANT'S OPPORTUNITY. Offered a Obance of Becoming a Bocial Lioness She Declines the Honor. VANDERBILT'S PRETTY WIFE A Disappointed Social Set=Our Ath- Jetic Givls—Belles Who Don the Gloves—Clara Belle's Letrer, ot. 28.—|Correspond- The widow of General Grant has determined not to become a soeinl power. 1 have no meuns of know ing how much she was inclined that way nor how long she really considered the question before deciding it in the negative; but it 19 certain that the Astor- Vanderbilt clique of wealth and fashion gave to her the opportun nd that she has declined to come out her quiet re- tirement intosocial actiyity. The talk at Newport all summer and in Fifth avenue this fall was that Mrs, Grant and the younger members of the Grant family would figure conspicuously in next win- ter's swelldom. It was understood that Mre. Nellie Grant Sartoris and Mrs. Fred Dent Grant were gotting extensive ward- robes ready for the campaign, and the tendency was to welcome those attra tive ladies right into the inner circle, The historical distinetion of the Giunts, their fair deg of wealth, and their plessant personalit combine; to it them to shine as acquisitions to *“‘our best families.”” The thing was regarded as being settled. But this week Mrs, Grant has put her Sixty-sixth street residence into the hands of a real estate agent to soll, and she intends to go to live mn & Fifth avenue apartment house. Her es- tablishment will there be comfortable, even luxurious, but not suitable for the giving of notable entertainments. She might have become at will a social lion- ess in New York. She nas preferred a calmer life. Bachelors have suddenly come to the front as entertainers. Two wealthy beaux are rivalling each other as hosts to Fifth avenue ladics and gentlemen, One is Duncan Cameron, son of Sir Roderick Cameron, who has just had a resplendent party at his father's residence, in the absence of his parents in Europe. The other, Francis M. Jencks, who dem- onstrated that money, adroitly used, will NEw Youk, S ce of the Bek. | buy admission for any decent, polite fellow into what is considered an almost impenetrabl Jencks had neither family descent to be proud of, nor ac- comphishments above those of the aver age of educated young men. He went mto West Side real estate booming, and within the past five years cleared a mil- lion or two. Whnen a bachelor gets rich to that extent, and has pieuty of time on his hands, he is apt to get a hobby. Jenceks decided to become a socjety man. He has no acquaintance in Astor cireles. But he went down to Newport, rented a fine villa, behaved well, but conspicus nusly made his way slowly but surely at the Casino, and before the end of the season was ‘‘recognized.” This automn he is the biggestsocial magnate at Lenox, where his house holds the most intensely stylish assemblag and _he is a much- sought bachelor. All of wh proves that exclusive society is net very ex- clusive. WILLIE VANDERBILT and his pretty wife are having a gr trip around the world in eighty wecks That is the time which they have allotted to the tour. Their start in a splendid steam yucht, as big and complete a resi- dence as the one they left in town, was chronicled three months ago. They are now stopping in Scotland. an inn, do you suppose? h, no, indeed. They have hired Lord Lovat’s castie at Beau- fort for the autumn, ‘The house is only thres hundred feet long by eighty wide and no more than three thousand acres of hunting lands go with it. The structure is a restoration and extension of that Castle Dunie which Sir Walter Scott de- seribed in “Tales of a Grandfather.” Well, Willie has something hke a hun- dred millions, and his wife is the gentle boomer of the family. When they encir- cle the world why shouldn’t they do it handsomely ¥ Courtice Pounds has come to New York again,ana the hearts of susceptible girls from Madison square to Harlem are ina fiutter. Hessupposed to be a very handsome man and a sweet singer Let us critically see ju what sort of a ~ young man it is that commands the admiration ot New York girls. 1was at the theatre when he he made his first reappearance the other evening and found myself in the thick of his admirers, He played the part of a French prince of the last eentury, a role that required most of all, grace and dignity of movement and the exhibition of the manners of a pol- ished courtier. When he made his entrance upon the scene there was a smattering of applause, and after that an unéhding cackle of gushing comment. “Isn't he handsome ‘‘How nice he looks now that his moustache is shaved off " “Hasn't he a beautitul ftigure” *‘What a lovely smile “Dolook at that lovely smile! Ido think he's just dread- ful nice!”’ These came from all dire tions, only too audible, and the uttered them were handsome, v dressed girls, whose escorts sat silent try- ing to swile polite agreement with the verdict. They were not of the immature school-girl type,but young ladies who had had plenty of experience in society to make them know whercof they svoke, Whether Pounds deserves the gush poured his behalf everybody must judge for him or herself, but that he is a weak actor, and awkward at that, undenia- ble. Considerably unde¢ medium size, his beauty of i s more the productof enthusiastic imagination than of nature’s gifts. He has a round irlish face with liguid eyes and 1 moutt. that is ever ajar, like a ballet dancer’s in a pleasant smile. He is given to assum ing graceful attitudes, and when once he gets his limbs into repose the eff well enough, but the transition from one pore to another is marked by awkward evolutions His favorite atti- tude, for instance, is one that might be called gentle horror if it were not for the reassuring presence of his elastic smile. He stands with the left foor forward and the right leg bent at the knce and the foot thrown so far back, that he ean lean away in the same direction until would fall 1ar outside his heel are raised and haif extended in either direetion, his fingers folded nto his hand to express intense earnestnes: WHVES picturesanely, After main- taining this vose for 4 mine ute or two he drops his arms and his shoulders flop as he does so, he Jounges forward on one leg and sidles his m oue hip to the other. Then d comes up to a le alf weight fr the hat h head again, he swings his left, lifts the left hand to corre; with the right, smiles, throws by K body, and there he is o the reverse of his tiest attitude. There are others, and he gets at them all inmuch the same way. ‘Phe orchestra has to play softly when b simps beeaas : HIS VOICE 18 TOO LIGHT 10 be heard above an ordmiary paniment: But he irls dote on'him, character this week put forward sfully for public wditication, is in anew play. He is a vacuons innocent son of a rich father, and his time is spent | in being a club man, He is as_innocent as a bube, o far as amatory guile is con- corned, but he and similar chuppios at the club wink Kknowingly over actresses pietures, which they carry i their pockets, or hang n their rooms; he resorts to numerons other devices to make the impression that he is adevil of a dangerous fellow; but to the girl to whom he proposes mar- ringe he confesses that his reputation is false—that he is blameless. Thereupon she overlooks his deception and declares that she loves him‘lun as well as though he were wicked, But it is as a Wall street operator that he 1s most amusing, His father cuts him off’ wit ulf 4 mil- lion. 8o he decides to go into specula- tion to multivly his paltey fortune, He is ignorant of even the merest usages of stock gambling, but fter a course of instruction in faro banks and roulette dens, he goes into the street, He makes all his moves there on the flip of a coin, and that method proves so successful that he soon beats s own father, who is a heavy and thoughtful operator, swells his own half million to many millions, and becomes known as the Young Napoleon of Wall Street. The town is laughing at this funny personage of the stage, An unconscionable lot of nopsense is hu:ng written about what the doting men call OUR ATHLETIC GIRLS, ious a strasght line from his head to the floor His arms hough one of his hands usually holds a hat which he el with his ound on his hips, thrusts out his right leg, withdraws pond his You would think that we New York women had given up housework and se: ing and shopping and read! and all the other femining forms of exer- cise, including the Gonsumption of candy, and that we are all boxing and pla; tennis in summer, badminton in winter, riding horses, fencing, swimming, wal ing ten miles before breakfast, and good- ness knows what all. 1 have been read ing it again, and [ made up my diminu tive mind that I would sce whether what 1 have been taking for padding in the shoul- dersof somany gowns is muscle, atterall, and whether the avoirdupois that T sup posed came from general beer drinking and wine at dinner, was what the dear men call feminine physical development. Of course 1 couldn’t go up to all the other women like a cus- tom house inspector and say, “*Madam, please let me see what you have in your sleeve,” pardon me, but I 'suspect you are smuggling stoutuess 1 your dress and making beliey muscle.” 1 couldn’t do that. Not Inspector Byrnes is enough of a detective for that. But 1 found out all the sume. I found out that the lady has a swim- ming school here three or four months in the year; that she hasanumber of little girls to teach—though nothing like 80 many as used to crowd the baths along the river front before they grew common, say ten years ago. I found that aman on Murray hill has a swimming school and gymnasium_ for calisthenies which is also for little girls and does not seem to be over-burdened with business, 1 found that there are two riding clubs and six riding schools in town attended by about two thousand persons, only about one«third of whom are ladies, 1 found that there are two fencing clubs and two or three fencing masters, with parlors for teaching the noble art of self-defense against a sort of attack now out of style and never resorted to by ladies except in a picture first hung in the Paris salon two years ago and now hanging in half the tobacco shop win- dows. I went to these clubs and fencing rooms, or rather to some. Othe know about because my faddish fr have tried that like everything else. V what result? That there are not forty women learning to fence in this town. Half of what there are seem to be ac- tresses who think it clever and stagey be- cause mule actors have to lex one of my friends how she liked fencing. “Why,” she said; “half a dozen of us all tried 1t with the same experience. We could not get our clothes on the next morning, The feminine wrist, is built for gentler doings. One night's exercise rendered it as useless and limp as a dust- rag. Four of us girls are in a club and have a flat together, and the morning after our tirst lesson all four of us had to stay in bed till the landlady came at noon to see what was the matter, and learned that they could not put their clothes on.” It is just so with all the tulk about pe- destrinmism. Why, the average New York girl always rides from Tiffany’s to the shop id from Macy's to O'Neill's our blocks. he'd be all pains—like a hot-house—if she had to walk that far. But Mrs. Langtry and her devoted and athletic admirers are said to walk five or ten miles of a morning, for health and beauty’s sake, and so the men who write about women take it for granted that all the other women do the same thing. It's utterly absurd. Mr Edison is a great inventor,but I will def; bim to take a modern pair of shoes, i average bustle, a glove-fitting corset, the new-fangled stocking supporters and a tailor made gown, and build any kind of a machine inside that collection, that will walk live feet without breaking down. It takes 1 woman—and a smart one at that —to walk at all, now-a-days. As for hoxing. Well, now, I consider that a little too silly for even a man to, accuse women of doing. 1 know that men say that there is noth u woman won't do if it is fashionable but some things aren’t fashionable and never wilt be. Boxing is at the tip top of the list. ‘There are women who bex,or rather who have tried it with their brothers or their brothers’ tramers,but it is a perfeet farc in which no blows are e There are only two places w! N ean be hit with safety—he arms, and those are the very places sl nnot ow herself to be hit upon for a b K eye would be worse than death to one of our sex-—and what woman who goes to the opera or dresses for dinner, without sleeves, could aflord to have her arms all biacked and blued? I hate to spoil & good story, especially one so complimentary to our sex; that 1s, if it is complimentary to think of us as a lot of Amazons. But we are not more athletie than formerly. I do not think we are as much so as we used to he. The growth of population in eities, the in creasing tendency toward hook cuitiva- tion among women, the constantly strengthening demand of our hege lords, the men, that we shall be pretty and gen- tle and dressy and witty, all are tending to repress those impulses that make what the world calls *“Tom boys’’ Let any man who has a sister or wife go home and ask her to go through even a dumb- bell exereise for him and see what she will say. I will wager a pippin g nst a pair of gloves that she will say “What? in one of these dresses! Why,my dear, [ iad to hang a picture to-day and in order todoit] obhiged to undres: We women can't raise ourarms in the clothes of to-day. We may be angels but our wings are pinned down. CLARA BELLE. - Funey work is a “fad” with most wowmen. ‘Those who have not time for it sigh for it, Many who have so waste it in nisdirected effort that the product of their labors are ut terly unadapted for any purpose of use or or- nament, and lie around until;a demand for contribitions fron: some church fair or charit- able bazar presents a weleome and engerly seized opportunity to et rid” of then Mr. F ¢ reputation as an actor is well est . will begin a starring season about October 17, He has seeured the right from Mr. ace Barrett to produce Mr. Boker's ‘rrancesea da Rimini” and Mr, Barrett's version of Miss Mitford's “Rienzi.” Fred Lubin proposes to open a_Chinese theatre in New York eity February 1, with a accoms @ strong . vard, for play by “a Ccolestial | company - called ‘Filial Love.” I'hisis in nve acts and will take twenty-six men and twent i women and children five nights 1o et through with its mlvt‘ll&ln‘_fi. 1f you spit up phluFm and are troubled with n hacking congh, use DroJ. H Mo- Lean's Tar Wing Lung Balm, | bottle. 20.cents o THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH, A Talk With W, H. Proece, the Eleotrician of the British Telegraph 8ystom. HOW THE WORK IS CONDUCTED Women.Employed in the Commarcial Department—Review of One of the Greatest of Government Enterprises. LoNne Sept. 28.—[Special Corre spondence of the Bee.|—~A few days ago I reported a talk with Mr. Lambe, sec- ond assistant postmaster general, on the subject of Great Britain's postal tele- graph system, which congress proposes to introduce in the United States. Mr. Lambe told of the tarifls, the special lines and something of the general opera- tions of the system. Here is what Mr. W. H. Preece, known as the practical man of the British system, and the gen- NEW YORK & OMAHA CLOTHING CO T - T . This heading in of Underwear for £1.00 K 1,25 per suit, 0 per suite $1.75 per suits 2,00 per suit. 0 per suit ~SUITS. _— We have this season the larjest as- sortment of suits in all grades ever put on sale. We quote a few pric first class serviceable suits §4.50 $35 and $6. A 1ip-top worsted suit, $7. A fine worsted suit, §10 to £20. Our line of nobby cheviot suits can’t be beat, in style and price, eral electrician, said about other fea- tures: “In 1877 I was sent by parliament to America to investigate the telegraph sys- tem there, for the purpose of improving our own, [Ivisited the various scctions of the country and the large offices, and inspected their lines and their opera- tions. With all due regard to the ex- cellent telegraph service in the United ates, and the great amount of ingenuity that country possesses, I mus: say it is standing still in the matter of telegranphy, It is now just where it was a decade ago. One would think at the first glance that in- genuity would be stunted when the gov- ernment assumed absoluce control of the telegraphs anda made & monopoly ot the system, and when the operators were given positions during good behaviol This is not so. We have made more rapid progress within the past fifteen years than any other country, and have greatly outstripped America. This, 1 think, is largely due to the fact that we have sa- perior operators and a superior system of telegraphy. We offer a standini pre- mium tothe men in our employ and out- side the service for improvements. Pro- motion, vacation and money are the in- duc nts. With the security that a li positioy attaches, you can see, if you will think of it & moment, that our system of employment will bring about more ad- vancements than any other. ‘The opera- tors in the employ of the Western Union Telegraph company or the Baltimore & Ohio company—the two big corpo: tions of \nmri('a——lm\'u no securi whatever; their employers dismis them upon any pretext, and there is no stability about the organization of the seryice in its details. Here a man is res tained as long as he performs s duty well, and when ne attains the age of 60 years he can retire on a pension. The ‘)cnmun is about two-thirds of full pa; but is graded on a basis of f s vice. L have served thirty six yi an retire in sev years. v P would be in the proportion thy to 60, of full pay, or 46 46 stands 30th of full pay. “We have a complete system of ofli- cering the telegraph service. There are seventeen general superintendents or engineers, Ireland has three districts, located at Dublin, Belfast and Cork; cotlund two districts, at Edinburgh and Glasgow. The remainder are divided between England and Wales. Each dis- trict has sub-districts, with inspectors, numbering cighty, Then each inspector’s distriet is divided into ‘lengths.” Each lineman patrols thirty miles of line or route, and all messengers and govern- ment employes are specially instructed to haye a serutiny over the telegraph propertyy An inspector is-next - rank above a heman; an engineer is over un nspec and communicates to the gen- eral postoflice department. “We employ the Wheatstone instru- ment and are enabled to handle mes- suges for the press very rapidly. Our se vice is exceedingly prompt. Our general oftice here, employving 2,000 operators, has handled 2,000,000 words of matter in one night, ale operatorsare in the vice for press matter, and femules are C_aployed in the commerc artment, Our employes get from two weeks toa month of vacation every year. We sups ply all our operators with medical as- sistance and medicine, free. The hours of their duty are ecight aday. Thereis extra pay for overtime. The gross returns from postal telegraph system lo Ane FO,874,260 §1,8 the English year was, in which was nditures, but the government paid $1. interest on the telegraph ndebte und franked for OwWn service messages amounting to ¥4, and lost about 1,000,000 from the press and other sources where exceptionally low rates were made and contracts entered into. It is scen, therefore, that the English postal telegraph system, exclusive of the nterest on the bonds ereated to pay for he lines, is a very paying investment A gentleman expert inand experienc in telegraphy aad telegraphic business ys that the Enghsh rates to the masses average something like 45 per cent lower than those in Ameri and that 70 per cent of the burdens of over charges in America rest with the common people those living in rural districts and small village: n’h scal year ending March, 1886, there was in operation in this Kingdom 170,196 miles of wire and 89,285,513 mes- sages were received and transmitted. ‘T'he local traflic in London 1s_enormous. ranging from 12,000 to 18,000 messages per day. In 1588 theve were here sixty offices open; bt now there are 480 of- fices, handhing an average of 15,000 mes- sugres nd The pueumatic tube system, by which several oun of telegraphic or mail matter ean be shot about the eity of London at the rate of thirty miles an hour, 18 also under control of the govern- ment and 18 a great suceess. 1t would be immensely popular in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, ete., where vast expanses of business are conducteds} A great many comp are heard in Englind even to this day about the price paid for the telegraph lines now owned ;{ the government. Especially the leg- islators hold that the sum was extremely exeorbitant, 1t has been suggested by several high oflicials in the general post- office department here that the congress of the United States should pass a law practically confiseating the lines by ap- pointing & commission to praise the property in existence,and by some means forcing the owners to sell at the stipulated by the commission. observed inall of my conversations with the officers of the government here that there is not that high sense of property rights that exists in America, and there is talk about its being the proper thing for the American government to force private corporations and individuals to turn over their telegraph property a ce the government might stipuls With the greatest impunity the offi- cers in the postoflice department here k of confiscutions for her majesty’s rvice, and declare that sooner or later the American congress will lose ats squeamishness in reference to m}.m.f forcible control of the telegraph. asked one ofticial high up in the depart- ment whether, considering tne form of government in America, he would rec omwend the condemnation of private property for the public service, and this 1; what he sald, as near as I can remem e “Your goyernment already does that thing. It has &« monopoly of the mails. ranging from $10to $16.50, UNDAY. OOTOBER 8. 1887.—TWELVE PAGES, CHATS. Our line of hats is five times ruJ large as itwas last season, and we show over 100 different styles of hats The Knox Bloch and Dunlap at the following prices: Boys' Hats,25¢ to £1.50. Crushers from 50¢ to $2.50, Fine Soft Hats, 75¢ to Fine Stiff Hats, §1.25 to $4. And we guarantee that our prices and goods go ahead of anything in the mark Youman's Miller 1308 FARNAM STREET Congress under your constitution can vass n law creating a commission to ap- praise telegraph property. That com- mission can make a return of the assess- ments, and the money can be tendered to owners of the property, and the propesty ean by force be taken charge of. The only question will be the price If the terms fixed upon by the commis- s10n are not liberal enough the owners can sue and the courts will determine, There will be uo question of the legal right under the constitution to do this thing. This we looked into before the government of Great Britain took charge of the telegraph. You have recently passed an inte; e commerce law which practically amounts to tne same thing [ vropose and we took in reguard to con trol of the telegraph.” The telegraph scrvice here is very much more pgompt than in the United States. [ have filed messages from sev eral parts of the kingdom, and a num ber of times in London, for various portions of this vast metropolis. Ordinarily a telegram filed in any part of England will be delivered witihin thirty minutes, One which was sent over three cireuits reached its destination within ecightcen minutes, and 1 am told this 19 but an average time. There is no such thing as an operator being crowded with work, out of the oflice, or having any one of the theusand and one excuses for not getting off a message. And private telegrams have the same right to the wire and delivery as corpora- tion or government service. ‘T'here is no favoritism, There is complete uniformity. The operators the best in the coun try. ‘There ar . and no errors on aceount of inexperienced operators, ‘The most capable men are at the instru- ments. In the entire system of large oftices the Wheatstone instruments are employed, by which 400 or 500 words 2 minute are rushed through on a single instrument, and there is no possibility of error. I am told that so excellent 18 the condition of the hnes that very scldom ¢ the wires down, andt is nackably infr quent that a report is delsyed. Only the best of everything is u But there “are drawbacks to the ser- vice, and some of the most serious ones are encountered by the newspaper: which are the largest customers of th egraph. In another letter on the Eng lish postal telegraph system I will repeat a most interesting conversation I had with Mr. John Moore, the general man- ager of the Central News, which is to the old world what the United and 0- ciated _presses are to America, and in which Mr. Moore recites the advantages and disadvantages to the vr service encountered in - a tem of telegraphs owned and controlled by the government a8 against telegraphie service in the hands of corporations and ndividuals. [ will also tell something of the pract workings of the wires and the posta telegraph offices, appiying them to_or contrasting them with those in America. Pr. S Heari - SINGULARITIES, An lvy vine has grown through the wall of the house ot Arthur Westeoat, of Atlantic “ity, and ornaments his sitting roon. B F. Davis, ot Harrison, Kan..a lady seven vears old, had all her teeth ¢ tracted three months ago, and now nature is furnishing her with a third set. A Frenchman rode into Waterville, Me., with a big Newfoundland dog hitched to a two wheeled cart which the animal had hauled in three days 150 miles. fhere is a white horse at Roscommon, Mich., that visits a saloon daily forits glass ot beer and gets it. - Another white horse at Bay City takes trips on a toboggan slide and enjoys them. Mr. 13, H. Freeman, of Toomsboro, Ga..has a moceasin snake that he cau:nt when young, placed itin a bottle, corked it up per- v fectly air-tight, and for tw rs 1t _has had nothing to eat or drink and is yet alive. ‘The twe oldest trees in the world are sup- posed to be tho one in Calaveras county, Cal., that 18 sup}m.\l'd to be 2,%5 years old, and the cypress of Somma, in'Lombardy, Italy, that 5 1,011 years old, or planted forty-two years L. While a train load ot excursionists from Los Angeles, Cal.,, was spending the day at Port Balona, a swordtish fifteen feet long ventured within the lines of the breakers and wasthrown up on the sand. Within a few nutes the excursionists had carved up the big tish with their pocket knives and they all carried a supply of sworatish steak back to town with them. Atafox hunt near Tolona, IIL, the dogs forced a gray fox up a tree, but the hunters would not “shoot, “preferring to have him taken by the hounds. A boy elimbed the tree to force Reynard out, but when he dropped he eluded the dogs and found shelter in a hole. One dog followed nhim, got the wame by the nose, and pulled him out, but the fox watched his chance, made the dog lose his grip, dashed away, and made good his escape. A young gray squirrel founda by a party of children at Ivoryton, Conn., was cared for until it had grown large enough to helvitself, when it was set at liberty. ‘The children had no idea it would ever come back, but the same night the squirrel came to the window and tapped upon the pame. It was ad- mitted, and the next morning whisked away again. It has built two nests, using which ever 1t chooses in the night time, except when it rains. Then it always asks for ad- mission to the house. « L4 A real Yahoo girl isat present on view in- the panopticam _(dime museum) at Cologno’ on-the-Rhine, Germany. It 8 a little * eirl from Laos, in Siam. Mer skin, that of the face, is covered with hair half as inch to an inch'in length, except on the sole’ of the feet, the elbows and the inside of the hands, She has bakentaschen and thirteen dorsal vertebre instead of twelve, In every other respect it 1s like a human being with a common amount of intelligence and feel- ing. The Kraos are a Siamese trib them, it seems, possessing the same | ities as this little girl. A gentleman walking on the beach near Oakland, Cal., was struck violently upon the head by d substanee, and, looking up, was startled by a ghostly fluttering of wings not a foot away., A great gray gull just es- caped lighting on his shoulders, With a half- frightened cry it rose the air, Lying on the sand was an immense black mussel, off which the gull was trying to make his din ner. The gentleman stepped & short dis- tance away, when the gull darted down, seized the mussel, soared to a dizey heght FALL, . OVERCOATS 0. A full tine of light weight over- coats, in new nobby designs, light, | mediwm and dark colors, A good worsted coat for § A fine cassimere coat from $Sto%135. An extra fine coat from §15 to $25. We can truly say our line of over- coats was never swrpassed, and that our prices are away below other | houses, needs only an inspection of and dropped it unon a rock, which broke the shell, and the gull descended and dined. At East Saginaw, Mich., Richard Rose, a well known farmer and bee culturist,has jist been through a singular experience. A< he was taking up a hive of honey last Saturday he was stung on the end of the middle finger of the right hand. In a few minutes he be- came insensible, while his tinger and arm swelled up to enormous size. s condition appeared to closely resemble ecatalepsy, and during the succeeding twenty-four hours all efforts to restore him to consciousness proved futile. “Atthe end of the time mentioned he regained his senses and about the same time the swellinz began to subside and has now almost entirely disappeared. He feels pecu- liarin the hand and arm, but otherwise does not mind his exper enc e had been stung many times before, and experienced ittle trouble. —_—— BRIGHT LI FOLK! Little ¢ Adam the first human bein ‘Yes, my dear, “Well, him in his Daby car- rlage?” Minister (makinga eall) And do vou al ways do as your mamma tells you to, Flossie?” Flossie (emphatically)—1 do, and S0 does papa.” A little boy who had been used to receiving his elder brother’s old toys and clothes, re- cently aske “*Ma, shall Ll haveto marry his widow when he die “Sav, maw,” said a stuaious little African, tof Chiny am straight down fro on_de odder side, and we are all whizzin’ roun’an roun’ on_ disher ea: what am de reason dat we nebber its dhal A six-year-old Chicago boy, whose father is A cornetist, was very restiess the other night and couldn’t go to <leep. Finally, as a last resort, he catlled out: “Papa, please play your cornet; that always makes me tired.” ‘T'his is the composition & new teacher had the pleasure of hearing read in a school not tar from Concord: “Going to School.—1 like to goto sctiool when we have a good teacher. I'don’t like to o to school this term.” A three-year-old Calitornia boy who had never seen a large body of water except in the irrigating canals, was taken to see the ocean. llestood a motient in silent astou- ishment, and then burst out with: *“Who turned on dis water? A few mornings since at breakfast, in a rich Clifton home, a little tot paralyzed his maternal prozenitor by excl Mama, I love you better thn L love Do you love that much, dear? the tender rejoinder. “Well, 1 ain’t stuck on it.” Freddy had been repeatedly told he must ' Mothef who shoved not ask people, for money. One day ne met Mr. Williams, who could n resist an_appeal fromthe small boy. “Mr. Williams,” said Freddy, do you ever give five centses to little boy what don’t ask for'em?” He got the mone: Little Julia is in the habit of i “Amen” to the grace her papa nsks and she usually says it hear unction. But she failed to say it altozether at breakfast a few mornings ago, and sat ltmkinlf gloomily at the table, which had rather less on it than usual, and nothing that Julia liked. Some one at the table asked why Julia was silent. “Pul.” she said, with finé scorn, “I don’t think I'll say amen for such a breakfast as this.,” ————— i EDUCATIONAL Within the last tive months Harvard col lece has received gifts amounting to $3,000, 000, “Hazing” has been abolished at most of larzer colleges, but still survives at neeton, In the freshman class at Yale are sons of Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, and Evan- gelist Moody, of Chicago. A college for women, mo od after Wel- leslev and Vassar,is to be established at Den- yer. Colo., as soon 'as possible. Eighty vears ago, society in Turkey for- bade women to learn to read. ‘The sultan has now started schools for women, A state university for colored peonle is to be built in Montgomery, Ala. ‘The ity has given $5.000 and three acres of land to the institution, John Hopkins university holds shares of Baltimore & Ohio stock, wh! steadily yielded $136,000 in income. 'The stitution may really be much crippled by the depreciation of this investment. Among the recent graduates of the Women’s medical college in New York city is Kin Yamei, a Chinese girl, who had taki the highest position in the cl She i accomplished scholar, able to converse and write accurately in five languages. 17,000 has The Vienna university was-attended dur- Ing the past summer semester by 5,45 stu- dents, 2,668 of whom were on the medical facully, an increase of 579 over last year. The number of foreigners studying in the university shows also a steady increase, the United States furnishing 71, almost all of whom attended medical lectures, A colleze for the training of teachers has been opened inconnection with the New York Industrial Edueation association. S the law has its mock courts and tne medical school its dissecting room to combine prac- tice with theory, 8o this college will have its model sehool.””” Dr. Nicholas Murray But- ler, of Columbia, has been elected president. The anatomist, Wenzel Graber, celebrated recently the fortieth anuniversary of hLis con- nection with the university of St. Petersburg. Prof. Gruber is seventy-three years of age and a Bohemian by birth. Heis one of the most popular teachers in the university,t.av- ing had more than 20,000 students. He com- pletely reorganized the Anatomical institute and although delivering annually 500 Jectures found time to write mora than 50 treaties and prepare numerous anatomical objects. e has dissected 20,000 bodies, - D DRAMATICAL, MUSICAL AN nise Kellogg Is returning from Clara | Carlsbad, Johann Strauss has written an opera called “Simpliciu ‘Mme. Fursch-Madl has been engazed for concerts and operatic performances, com mencing in Boston, Octot It is almost settled that Pauline Lucea will begin an American tour under Ienry K. Abbey’s management next sprine. Signor Campanini sails for America on the sth of next month. ‘The company he will bring with him s said to be an excellent one. ader Strakosch, the great German tie reader, has arrived in Now Yorg to begin & six wonths' tour of this coun- Robert B. Mansell bezins his second star ring tour in Reading, Pa. appearing for the first time in a new romantic drama entitled “Monbars.” Sibyl Anderson, & Clilef Justice Anderson, of daughter of the late Califurnia, s to | our goouds to prove itis so. $1. make her debut as Juliet in grand opera thi powerful plays s¢ yeal s, deiphia, lre Ki “Lagardere with month in Brussels, e Lewion of Honor," one of the most en in thiis country for many will'in November be bronght out in icreat style at Forepaugl'’s theater in Phila- y's spectacular production of or the Hunchback of Paris,” its great cast, splendid scenery and beautiful ballet, is still crowding Niblo' theatre, New York. bt Ve Marion Booth, who plavs the leading fe- mal e role in he Domini s Daughter," possesses much of the thoughtfal expression of her uncle, Edwin Booth. She is a dauehtey of Junius Brutus Booth, All who love good plano-playing will be glad to welcome Teresa Carreno on her turn from South America. inz arrangements for a series of concerts in New York and other cities. The new vlay that for tin theatre, Paris, M M. o- She is now mak- Sardou e. Bernhardt is named has made ) *Deborah,” and it will be produced at the Porte St. Mar- December. It relates to the period of the reign of terror. Manager Gustav vicinity of Fifth stree! No detriment {rom the yetapparent in business on the road. Soldene, M aze Lulu Marie Edwards, Operatic company, cornet virtioso: M James, K in, inter-state law Prescott, Lillial COmpPrIsing ine. St Amberg, with the aid of Ilian Steinway and a number of wealthy nans, proposes to build a theater in the avenue and Forty-second New York, for German plays. is nily 0 Lewis, Lillian Oleott and others, whose pians were doubtful during the summer, ure at work . manager of the lLevy Levy, the ella Lovy, Lithgow irico Battistini and Max Hirsehtield, will shortly begin a tour of the country. 1t ‘Teresina American all that M ropean s violin crities have said of just, her plagi debut at Chickering T hall, New York, on October 17, should prove to_be one of the most interesting musical events of a season big with prom to secure the of the 1,233 known work Bar nay ciety” ances in this country, in New York. B s about to be formed in especial cbject of w roduction ch will be in & befitting man- ner of the master’s works. It appears tha t \ of Liszt, only 208, or about one sixth, have yet been performed n Vienna. Conried and Herrmann will play Ludwig 81,000 a night for thirty perform- ‘I'welveof them will There are eight or t en cities in the United States in each of which a large certain’ manager of a (ierman star. Paris paper the new iron Kigantic affair. Accordin, curtatn toa late of the Theatre Franc: It neither rolls up aor i8 olds v ean be arranged for by the a tozether, but assends in a solid sheet into the upper rezions, which have had to be height- ened to make room for it pies a minute and a quarter. Mme. ma de Murska has been engaged by the national con- the board of dir servatory of musi cipal eCtors, of singing teacher of The ‘The ascent occu- of New York as the prin- that institution. Mume. de Murska will leave London for N York on October 1. W engagement will not interfere with the artist’s concerts. J. H. Gilmour threw up his contract with ean been nilled actor 'y thus h of Wi the liam Morris, Modjeska togoto “La:ardere” and the va- sed along to Modjeska b engagement as her chie a Boston 1 of twenty-seven or so, with a profound voice, a wood ph sique. and agraceful stage pres- ence. Maurice Strakosch is reported to be illin His newly discovered Paris. very | prima donna, Nikita, for whom he prophesied a furture more brilliant of Adelina Patti, has appeared in London at the promenadeconcer ts under son's managoment and gained o very success. One of the wonders of the se: even than the care gy Colonel Maple- wild will be Boetl, Manager Awmberg’s thousand dollar slightish man, ut he can emit a high C with terrific force priz and sem M grown stronger and richer, that she has done with sowing wild oats in the form of “Lucia e tenor. volume. bles I8 Heis a short, . In heudore Wachts cedents furnish another point of resemblance for, like Wachtel, Boetl only a tew years ago an ordinary cabby.” mma Abbott says that her voice has this latter respect he re- His social znte and Amina,” and that she will sing dramatic roles or nothing ason she will_sing She with ten_genuine ill also sing "k which truly regal costume. crown that blaz diamonds. S ‘The first performance the Hebrew operetta company, which took place last night at Pythian hall, nessed by a large “and very enthusiastic composed audience. of a fri speak @ m Rouman be with him. will be given to preparation and His New York engazement will be pl and The beging The Novem arrive the betore, at the Star theater, five weeks, with “Faust” as . ‘I'heold tariff of $5a seat In his tour throngh the country will spend most of his time in B3oston, 'hila- delphia and Chicago. tion ‘I'hie melograph of M. Ci hencetorth will also company tors who recently came to this cou a, Russia and Poland. Hebrew-German I'ne approachinz Ameriea Henry Irvin ving himself will month, or thereabouts, and his intervs is W at all. For “Ruy Blas” Par a litaire Isa.” Philadelphia of was wit- t; T'h Ty oy dialect, which is common to all the Hebrews in lurope and America. rpentie writteni down or musical compositions are registered, has “melotrope’ from th abies them to be For this purpose perforated, and eaused to operate e any b the is still in its exper mental stage, ke melotro been ¢, an supplemented ame Inventor, which played automatic: ng two re son Mr. of hy of Ir- next anpany witl weeks ars yed as will last for sole attrae- wi Mr. hold. Irving Iy . by which by & the melograph ingenions melegraph and melotrope it to register an classie musie and W com the tralto. fect should trut W poser wh weans of Lis of improvisation produce it automatic instrument which we need not fully describe, and which With the is now possibie or A pivce of I agnerites manage to enioy considerable tort, notwi Mme. time, upon be hiand very W writes Musik-Zeitung: Jos totl It e voce ding | ay, dramatic expression. I'he spe 8 ther the simulated re also the heroine s Jow ret,” see supon Crotor o115 plad and say tacniar the silly notion concerning ot abandoned 1 maintain that erier's operas tends to_y t. I'his reverse Wasner's m, supports estra, whicl and even melodrama s time that anding the prejudices of operas 15 the autic of s to depend larse wale 1ot Attt s es her 1 ot startling dramatic real water ouly the and the slery 75 t Anen st as and I'liere is not imueh | I'here is no the si t 1 Ve ates th rve the voire, coni \zer by A Dark rits ous tauk | \ero and on this | nto this | novelty abeut this. but e but s Spias! i ody th | | louse to howl with delight when the piece was presented Jefferson the pie ) per suit, And up to the very best of imported goods that can be purchased. Edwy died of gr Chatles 1, was beheaded. Henry 1. died of ov Wilbam Rufus was killed by an arrosw. Richard Carur de Lion died of wounds, Eleanor, Ricnard 1iL's queen, died in » monastery. James I1. abdicated by flight and died in exile Hardicanute died of repletion at a mar- riage f t Harold 11, was killcd after a nine-months’ reign, William 1L was killed by a fall from a horse, ) an affray. _ Sophia Dorothea, of hi teen days befor Henry V1. was mu of Gloucester, in the 1ehard 1L ! Bosworth Field, 11e poisoned his first queen, order to make way for a secon 1. Aune. in marriage. Edward Avorit t her i quest. Richard 11, I1sabel queen, her. Ironside was ven months, Lady Elizabeth Grey, queen of Edward (V.. died in prison, Zdward the Martyr was murdered by order stepmother, Flfrnda. Q! was ben eaded reien, and when only s ward V. reigned two months and thir- he was murdered. d by Richard, duke Tower of London. was slain ard was deposed. He first wife, Cathe, his second, was ecured, Ann. in was bella, uponi the death, by the gibbet. of her Mortimer, was confined for the re: in her own house at her own re- Anne suit, Philadelphia. who has purchased an interest in hias sote comical stories to the tank at the Philadelvhia theatre. HOW SOM - - NGUISH KING 1. wife of George L, died ludes every grade ating. dmund 1. died from a wound received in murdered. leyr B was murdered, a, danghter of Charles V. of France, was seven years old when he married She returned to her tather when Rich- y V111 repudiated and divorced his ineof Arracon. and married before the divores syn, Queen Henry mar- beth’s mother, wis beheaded ried his third wife, Jane Seymour, the day after the executioner of whose maid ot honor she had bee sdward V1. s, was divorced and her suc- Howard, was Henr, died in i | fourth wife, six months after the ma cessor, the fitth wife Catherine wife, outlived him and martied again, beheaded : HOME India handkerchiefs of r make most effective table covers it tastefully enibroidered and edge Palin-leaf bracket backy . and enamel occupy a gr E well draped pictures. ng birth to Anne of OV D - CORATIONS. nbroidered scarfs ot the top of It you must dr drape the lower part of the Any amount of ti beautitul effects produc a needle) designs in etening silk on the gold- coloved muslin now S0 window half-curtains. Piano scarts are rather a waste of and upright pianos fn& now. i sellea Th brass or greenery. ing, wh Both e larger draped cove muslin, edied with ully drabed Is very efleetive. regularly rural three-leg stool, hand painted, is a favorite holding e+ jars hide most of h, as a rule, is rather an advantage. jortieres can be made on Very handsome the old “‘rag be of rich silks, view to_color eflect, sewn silk rags ought to make a yard of ma- et in width. carpe! terial about two f Other handsome can be mad tint, plush. silks, and finished Just above this conventional serolls in wile with nare ca ars her I beautiful mantel and 5 handsomely paintod he process will at deal of idle time. India much silk plan, but the razs must refully arranged with & A vound able and piano covers of silk sheeting of a golden ceru a band » this embroider & band of brown and yellow tiny sprigs of the sawme of embroidery all over the surface. Don't place an upright piano with its back ot it across o corner, mieror draped on cither side with embroidered Groupa collection ants in tront of this to the wall. t) the room. ental S0 and you parlor waid HEALTH. DR. OTTERBOURG, Lan. 11 uslin. y potted Orient il have con uily piece of furnit tyand a joy forever” Place a 1 and Dodge Sts wi | A RegularGra 1 Special Authiorized to troat il s (Whether eaused Contayion Sem nal cn I SeRsCS. by Linp Wewknoss Sexuul Debility, (oss of ous Debiity, Blood b guarantced o money Theusunds of ¢ wre importunt PAFed Lor ewch indivi pjurid N No time distu Bent oyerywh No De i cents printed lites L which State your ask s ntrinl. Secre 800 or by mul LT 240 12 m i eludet, Con 108t Leeted by ro fro chay i e, WSS CUr All e from V und busin etter i from & 1 te in Mcedicine ctl nic, anee, 1. Ag ticines fmi cu HOU RS 0 < p. 1t Wing room wurdered after after abrief venteen years o Predecessor, easel-supported hung pictures be spent and 1 by drawing (with in favor for EALTH. Omaba, & Orders,