Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1888, Page 9

S i e TWELVE PAGES IN THE FEMININE DOMAIN. A Woman's Question — Young ‘Women Handigepzsd, ANNA DICKINSON'S NEW PLAY A Library for Girls Cossacks Routed by Women - British Barmaids— Refractory Wives — A Woman's Scheme. ‘s Question. Lilira Whiting. Which will you bet 4'me to vourself, dear: and true, too, to me: Will all § arc and your tenderncss Or shall'T be wakened to find my dr past? . Will you make my life blessed, or bid happi ness fleet Which will it bet What do you think? Ab, wonder not that from the shrink. These days are so fair—can fad The mag shade Will my feet ever tread, future 1 the witehiery dissolve, the light change to love, on sorrow's ark brink What do you think What will you suy, If, beside you I walk through éach beautiful day ! Will you draw me with gou to heights dis- tant and fair, Will you lead me to rare! Will your love make mé purer and wedler cach day What will you sa What will you do, happinoss, sacred and Tt T tell you my faith rests on faith, love, in you! That I'm yours if you hold me, your sid That ¢lse Tamn gone, like the sea’s changing tide! You can make me inconstant, or loving and truc beloved, by Which will you do? Young Women Handicapped. Havper's Bazar: Living in a college town and having opportunity to observe both young men and young women, [ can honestly suy that the sacrifices here made by young women for the suke of knowledge ave greater, their opportuni- ties of aid far less, than those n; young men. It has been repeatedly said by the very able head of the university that the'only way to keep down the rent of rooms is to hive college dormitor since the open competition in the com- munity would not reduce them suf ciently. For this purpose a new dorm tory, larger than-any now existing, is soon to he erected. All this for the thousand young men, but for the hun- dred young women no such provision made, and they must stili obtain their rooms by t open competition which is found insufficient for economy in case of their brothers. Again, there is for young men a public or cdommons table, where the expense 1s not e pected to exceed $4.50 per week, whereas there is for women nothing of the kind. In both thesorespects, the fore, the expenses of a young girl stud ing at Cambridge is almost inevitably s of a young man, and 1+ hardly bo claimed that her other personal expenses are less than his. [n point of dress her outlay must inevita- bly be greater, Mrs. Siddons is reported to have said when approaching death that she hoped yet to live in a world where some jus- tice was done to women. If this could be said by one of the most admired members of that profession in which women are more nearly equal with men than in any other, what can b d by those who in youth and inexperience simply wish, ‘modestly and unobtru ively, to be allowed to study. Th deséription applies as a rule, to the young women who come to college for an edueation. The class of those who come simply to amuse _themselves, or because it is “‘the thing™ to come—this class so largely represented among men, finds few representatives among women. These last enter college, if at all, either from the love of study or the necessity of self support. Ineither cases it is not mevely ungenerous, but un- manly, to leave” them struggling with greater obstacles than men encounter. If they learn less easily—which nobody pretends—they should be helped the more, not the' le But to call upon them to undergo greater privations, to economize more strictly, to receive less help than their brothers—this is some- thing more than unmanly or ungenc ous. In the words of Dicken’s dissatis- fied prize-fighter: “It's mean, you knowi that’s what it is—it’s mean!” Anna Dickinson's Play. Scranton Letter: There is in the life of every man and woman some jowel of achievement that sparkles ‘with a ghtor lustre than all the rest, how- ever luminous they be, evon as a precious stone outshines all the other gems in a richly-jewelled crown. 1 was forcibly impressed with this thought vesterday during a brief conversation with Miss Anna L. Dickinson, who is now at Honesdale convalescing from an illness which almost proved fatal, and 1 felt it more keenly last evening as 1 read her latestand most lasting 1i work, the four-net tragedy of **Aurel- ian,”'a priviledge not accorded to many persons. Miss Dickinson has concen- trated in this superb play the essence of her best thought, her most eloguent expression and her most_epigrammatic wit. [t moves forward from the start h the majesty of a grandriver and sparkles with the brilliance of a clea starlit, midnight sk To speak of this production as it deserves will scem to those who have not read it the language of extravagant eulogy, but its ar at and its defects, lie in the direction of the emby 8- ment of riches. Much as this talented woman has said and written that is worthy of praise and preservation, none of it in any way approaches in literary excellenee this grand dramatic ation, which will unquestionably live as classic of the stage long after all her other books and plays are forgotten. For years Miss Dickinson has devoted her energies to the perfection of this tragedy, and as she polished and re- polished its stately lines, she doubtles: felt what she makes one of her charac- ters say, that “*what is worth possession is_worth patience.” Aside from the scholarship and historical knowledge manifest in the play, it impresses one by its vigor and the str nJ;lh of the terse-telling Anglo-Saxon® sentences, sharp as Damascus blades, upon which the majestic and the tender story of the stormy conflict and the burning love of the noble-souled Aurelian and the no less noble and bra enobia is hung. The Roman hero and the Palmyrenean heroine are clear-cut creations, drawn witha master hand that shows no sign of faltering or weakness in the por- teayal. Aurelian is every inch & man,a soldier, an emperor. In him patriotism, courage, tenderness, honor and truth combine. He ispatient as the unrufiled lake under great provocation and ter ble as the voleano in his wrath, I know notof a greater character in all my range of dramat ading or in any of the numerous plays that I have seen yresentod. The play presents opportunities for yreat pietorial effect, but no wealth of stage setting can ever dim the lustre of its lines by contrast or weaken the force of its splendid action, I can imagine nothing that would so muc ‘mble proper presentation of this tragedy as some grand poem illustrated by the peneil of a Dore or a Mactise, Give the Girls a Library, Baltimore American: No pe do better than to give his 1{(1 substantial library. Her mind must be stored with knowledge if she is to take her proper position in life. A part of a woman's education is to make a good loaf of bread, We men must eat. A girl is not fit to be alled a girl unless she can make bre and the world is finding that out. Every girl be i good housekeeper.” If she is not, the young man who marries her will have to keep house himself. Woman POSSess great deal of substantial 1ife If she stands by her father and mothe and home, if she keeps the parlor in order, and now and then slips into the kitchen and has atalk with the cook, she will be giving herself atruly wom- anly edu 1. The women of the land need a little waking up to thi The women of America are not so active as those of Europe. In Germany they are requested to have a trade. In England they help their husbands in business and accounts. Let me ask. do you help your mother? Does your father think his home happier because of your pr ence in it? Can you make a good bi cuit? These are home questions. You must feed the body as well as the soul, and woman must know all about home he must govern her house. Itis empire, where she can re her friends and show them her handiwork. Don’t reach old age and say you never mude a single life happy. Go into your homes to adorn, refine and beautify them. Go to your homes to make them happy. Cossacks Routed by Women, A squadron of Cossacks were quar- tered at Tatio, near Yelisavetpol (Gendje), in Armenin, Russin, They said they were come to draft the whole of the male population of the village and make them soldiers. That was too much for the patience of the females to stand. They took up sticks, brooms, hoes, hatchets, poker, anything they could lay their hands on, and marched against these wholesale manufactur of grass widowhood. The Cossacks, d clining to fight the women, were put to flight.” The women encouraged by their success proceeded to lay seige to the government building, and the mayor was not able to appease their wrath, He telegraphed to the governor, who despatehed a few more squadvons of horse. to restore peace. During the night, howeve he excitement of the women had cool down and there was nomore fight in them. A Remarkable Girl There is a young lady in St. Joe whom Barnum would give half his fortune to get hold of for exhibition as a curiosity, But the entire fortune of forty I wouldn't induce the young, lady's reli- tives and friends to part with her. She been excellently educated and pluys exquisitely on the able charaeteristic ked if she plays, she replic sivs [ play quite well,” and procecds to proveit.” Then if asked to sin doesn’t say & word about having a eold, or being hoarse ov anything of that sort. but just hits the kéyesa harmoni- ous dab and starts in to win and _does, with as sweet a stong as ever tickeled from rosy lips or ripvled over pearly teeth. British Barmaid. London barmaid”—that is. 4 young woman who serves drinks in man’s restuurant—is thus deseribed in letter from the British metropoli She was slightly above medinm height and very plump. She filled a close fitting black dress nearly to the point of bu ing. Her face was round and clear in its lines, Her complexion was naturally fair, and, if sne_had been content with what nature had given her in the way of a complexion, would have looked very well. But she was not. The red and white of the theatrical paint-hox were laid on in thick stripes and with- out the least pretense of disguise. Her eyes were the intense dark black head color so common among the women of the it class, Her features were regular, and when she laughed. as she did at stated inter . she displayed snowy white teeth, Her intensely black hair” was curled tightly around very round head. She represented the very sunniest of barmaid: good nature and lively spirits. She smiled upon the lame, the halt and the blind with the same unction when they came for an or- der, as she did upon the most resplen- dent of the gilded youth. She laughed with unwearying fortitude at jokes that were old, weary and moss-grown when Ciesar invaded Britain with his Roman hosts.” A New Dose for Refractory Wives, The sultan of Moroeco has discovered anew use for bicycles. He has found them to be admirably suited for the pun- ishment of refractory wi and he, no doubt, feels very much obliged to the French government, which presented him with a handsome mach ear or two ago. for introducing so u an in- vention to his imperi It is obviously beneath the dignity of a sul- tan to ride a bicycle himself: and until quite recently ‘Muley Hassan havdly knew what to do with his present. But a use was found for it at last. The la- dies of the imperial harem seem to have taken advantage of the recent iliness o) their lord and master to have a series of quarrels among - themsely When the sultan recovered. the delinquent wives were brought before him for pun- ishment: and there is a truly Oriental savor about the sentences which he passed, According to their degrees of guilt they were compelled to ride upon the government bieyele until they had fallen off a given number of times. The old and wrinkled wives had to submit to twenty-five falls, while the young and pretiy oncs e aped with only half a dozen. So happy an idea ought to take the fancy of other polygamous poten- nd we may presently hear that cle has become an indispensable adjunct to every well-condueted harem. Another Woman's Hotel Sheme, . Candace Wheeler, who has had a wide experience with women and girls of vefinement who arve obliged to work for their living, has a plan on foot for the establishment of a woman’s hotel in New York which has many of the ele- ments of practicability in” it. She de- sires to form a stock company, with a capital of $200,000, to build a fire-proof house in an e accessible neighbor- hood, which will be so arranged as to give each occupant a room with an open fire. One hundred boarders at #6 a week wonld make the hotel self-support- ing. There is one suggestion of Mrs, Wheeler's which proves that she under- stands the people for whom the hotel is designed—that is, to have it managed i club, with & house committee of the inmates and the stockholders. The greattrouble with the experiments that have been made in this direction isthat their rules and regulations have been made by outsiders whodo not appreci- ate the position of the class of women for whom they are intended. Mrs. Wheeler's long association with art stu- dents and art workers has shown her that they are young women to whom life is something more than play, and who are infused with a serious purpose, and ought to | who do not need 1o bo treated with the restrictions of senool girls. A Girl's Power Over Wild Animals, Cineinnati Telegram: Tipton county Tennessee, hag u phenomenon in th person of o young lady who has remark- able power over animals, She is able to conquer and ride in a moment’s time horsss and mules that no one else has ever been able to handle. The we dog in the neighborhood quails nd never offers to molest her. s and birds come to her in the and eat from her hand, and many times she has been known to pick up rabbit in the path, She that from he has had this remakable over wild animals, but only within the past few years was she aware that she wasalsoa “horsetamer.” She says she is not conseious of putting forth any effort in this line, but it just “comes natural.” The only explanation that she can offer is that she has an in- tepse sympathy and love for wild birds and animals, In r rd to horses she 18 perfectly fearless and they by their animal instinct must know These, she says, are the only reasons she can give. Mannish Young Women. Waterbury American: ‘The fact is very apparent to any one who will walk up and down our avenues of promenade that there is a growing “*mannishness™ of our girls. Instead of the retiving, modest, shrinking, soft and gentle woman. with tender sensibilities and a fragile frame and womanish dress of a few years ago, the female sex has ve- vealed itself into an improper and un- becoming representative of masculinity. It has been said that a man can become accustomed to almost anything—but that utterance came from the man who averred that when away from his wife’s snoring he had to have a coffee-mill ground by his bedside to lul! himself to sleep. Perhaps! The companionship of & mannish woman roughens man: and if this is doubted let me refer to the youthful barbar- ians who assume to call themselves English young gentlemen. I might perhaps ‘qualify my statement that, while these masculine maidens may not roughen their male associates, they the inability to exert the faintest int by their presence. To man man she has ed to be a woman. From the waist down the woman con- tinues to be a woman, but from her waist up—with her tailor made jac her high, stiff collurs, her scar horseshoe pins, her short-cropped hair her linen shirt front, and -her derby hat, she is a man. Will the woman be content with this, or will the insiduous sansformation creep down o trousers? Some of these, T may say many of these manish maidens hunt, shoot, fish, row, play tennis, go in for billiards, smoke cigarettes, and are judges of horses. The sprawling. pranding, and ungrace- ful twists and strides do not show them to the best advantage. Let women be women, and girls be girls, and then men will appreciate them move. A Roston Way of A new way of earning money has been adopted by the women in Boston. It to organize classes inliterature and his- tory which to meet and listen to readings. reader receives mem- bers into the cirele at a stated price for wh person. Thy re not lectures, you will observe. There qmay be now and then a thread of comment, but not much of it is heard. The instructor selects 1 topic: and then reads extracts relating toit, and elucidating it from sources which she finds in authorship. There islaborin this, and when the work is well done the result is some- what equivalent to lecture. Large classes are gathered in thi and there are more than one of them. The members read by themselves at inter- vals between the readings by the structor. Ladies known in soc adopt this method of adding to the comes. rning Money. A Chicago Girl Boxer. Chicago Mail: There is i young women of North iciigo, who have u neat gymna- sium fitted up. One of the fair pugilists is a remarkably clever boxer and a hard and sharp hitte Her knowledge of the art of self-defense of great ad* vantage to her the other night. She was returning alone from La Salle avenue, where she had been calling on a friend, at 11 o'clock. On approaching the corner of Clark street she was accosted by a strange man. The young woman only walked on the faster for this, was obliged to confess afterwards that she grew nervous. As she crossed Clark street she observed that the villain was following her. After having llnmm-d('lzn‘l\' street, in the comparative d ness of a cross street, the villain hurried forward and accosted heragain, at the same time laying his hand on her shoulder. He got a response this time. Quick as a flash she turned, shot out her left and planted her delicately- gloved fist, as firm and true as steel, square in the wretch’s face. This stag- gered him, and before he could recover she had swung her right upon his_ear and he dropped into the gutter. Then the brave and lovely boxer gave a shriek and ran for home, nerveless and pale as a ghost, and arrived there in a state of collapse. It wasdays before she recovered from her fright. But she still keeps up her boxing. HONEY FOR THE LADI Blondes choose very light colors for their street toilets. Braiding on tailor suits will be more fre- quent and more elaborate next season. Cloth gowns of pale suede have white moire vests and a trimming of golden beaver. Very pretty new jackets are made up of ihe new imitation braided dolman cloth, Call a Chicago girl large-hearted and gen- erous, if you choose, but never refer to her us big soled Polonaises grow more and more in favi aud are preferably of wool over silk or v vet skirts. Cloth of gold, subdued by brown chenilie fringe woven over it, is a rich novelty for carriage wraps Plaid woolens of very light tints, rough surfaced and softly woven, will be worn the winter thrd®gh. Epaulettes of fur, as well as wide Russian turned over collars and broad pocket flaps, appear on new coats, Dolman cloth is the newest fabric for wraps, is covered with a pattern in relief that simulates braid. Metalic threads, braids, and tinsel spangles are worn on all sorts of indoor dresses, ball gowns, and dressy visiting toilets. The most approved toboggan suits are made of blue, gray or red blankets, with stripes or ball borders of contrasting colors. Green cashmere frocks are in favor for girls of twelve to_fifteen, and these are fre quently piped aud trimmed with pale blue silk. Very young women wear as a finish to high corsages, wide high collars of silk muslin or narrow puffs of crepe lisse, ending in a bow behind. Dr. Mary Walker's dress this season con sists of a half beaver hat, a thick blue over- coat, a dark suit with a cutaway coat, and a walking stick. The degree of M. A. is one thatany learned female may be proud of, but many true women have probably found as much comfort in the plain title of ma. 0If you have the right kind of a girl, the walk up the toboggan slide is just as exciting @8 the ride down, And sometimes more so. 1t's @ glorious sport both ways. Some of the new polonaises have pointed yokes of Lyons velvet, with a deep-powted club of most | | kirdle of the same atithe waist. These are | is worth #0,005 John B. Dorris, pretty only upon slandaee figures. With costumes of light tan camel's hair, nothing is so stylishgs a long twrap of gray blue cloth, edged with mouflon fur and ac companied by a elothibenuct of like hue. A Wellesley girl has almost paid her way through college by sewing on shoe buttons for her mates, She g and devotes two hours a day to her trade. Flowers bloom all over evening gowns, a8 a finish to the corsage, or garlanded from shoulder to waist, or berdering the drapery, us panels or bouguet upon the train Grumps wants to know if it is -a proper p-vear custom for women to give up seats in the street car to man? No: this is one_of the customs more honored in the breeches than otherwise. Collars, frills, jabots, fichus, plastrons ests—every shape, form and color of net, lace, ribbon or muslin, is now admissible for. neckwear, but care must be used to fit thom to their occasion. A freakish fancy in furs this ecason is to have it match the wearer's hair in texture, Some devotees of fashion, if they can't match their hair in fur bleach or dye their hair to the desired hue. A Boston woman has hit upon the novel scheme to make a living, She posts herself thoroughly on the news of the day, and reads her notes to a class of wealthy women who are too lazy to read Some sleeves of house dresses and tea gowns are made full above the elbow and and tight below, Others are made in full Bishop form, with a tight slashed cap cover- ing the upper part of the arm. A Kansas woman thinks of starting & children’s rights association, and her princi- pal object is to make mothers more attenti to their offspring. Many fashionable mothers forget that they have children, Two New Orleans young ladies who find it necessary to work for a living have opened a dairy and sell milk. They have a little cart, and ev morning may be seen driving be- hind their bright tin cans and pails. Cashmere bonnets with pinked edges, and caps sewn inside, are being worn by babies and little girls, and also by grown up women, The latter are for theater wear, and have no caps, but full gathered frouts, They are very becoming. ns are neither large nor small but ap- nearly the Irishman's “middle ex- and those of feathers, besides being immensely stylish are in hands that know how to use them, anong the most dangerous of Cupid’s weapous. Round-waisted bodices, arranged with a scarf fichu on one side of the front and loops of ribbon tapering to a point on the other decided favorites A tasteful manner also of ng the style of a plain bodice—a re- is the wearing of shoulder braces. Suede brown, Niletand absinthe green, wahoguny red, obelin blue, ashes of rose, and other qpaint colors are preferred by some girls for their tulle ball gowns, and quaint flowers, orchids, mignonette, hops, chry santhemums, and other flowers in colors that match the dress are used for trim- mings. Tuarbans in graceful sh o exceedingl) popular this season. There are a variety of styles and many becoming models. Turbans are appropriatély worn on nearly every oce sion, the simple or the ¢luborate style of their garniture deciding the question of their ap- ateness for visiting, promenade or ng wear. may be called a pink winter in fash- ionable parlance, all rosy tinted fabrics, rib, bous, flowers, meny, cards, dancing cards: bisque and po in figures, fancy glass ob- jects, and even the ices and cakes at lunch cons, diuners and suppers partaking of the rose in one or another shade of s sun-dyed magtie, Russian polonaises of resed ahily draped over closely gored n white German broadeloth hed at the foot with a na ka sable fur, wish arich bord; show- this bund made of heavy silk and metal passamentric iy arabesque desizis. The polonaise has a tough of fur and mentrie on bodice cnd sleeves, but the s vortion is unadorned. The Chicago Women's: clu! b members, Three sub- arisen under its Physiolog free lectures on physiology for wouien scii- wonthly during cight months of the year. Second, the Protec Agency for Women nd Children, the purpose of which is to se- re fair dealing for helpless women and chil- ‘I'hird, the introduction of industrial art teaching in our schools. They instruct free of expense such women as are’ willing to give thei s for a time in_transmitting this knowledge to classes of children. - MUSICAL DRAMATIC. AND Perugin abroad to sing with Carl Rosa's pera. compan y An Amti violin which originally to King Lowis X1V, has recently at Buda-Pesth for $,500. Nicmann Raabe, the ( in Chicago after her New Y g and then returns direet to fatherland Clara Louise Kellogg will sing for just one on and will then quit. Her last ap 1l be devoted to English opera. In her new piece “Town Lots,” Marguerite Fish will be a cowboy and in one scene will dash upon the stage mounted on a mustang pouy Modjeska is to appear in ten_picces during her engagement at the Hollis Street theatre, Boston, several new plays being inciuded in the number. M. Guille, the diminutive tenor that companied Mme, Patti in her last year's tour, is singing in opera at the Grand theatre, in Marseilles, Boston's new Grand Opera house is claimed to be fire-proof, has twenty places of cxit, wiae ailes and lobbics, and ‘seating capaci of about 3,000. Victor Nessler, the successful and opulent composer of The Trumpeter of Sackin engaged on u new opera, the scene of which is laid in Strasburg. Eben Plymton has been engaged by Mme. Modjeska. He will join her company for the New York engagement, be Fourteenth street theatre on Janua Mrs. Langtry’s success this season has been greater than s vipts of her recent two weeks’ engagement in Boston amounted to over 23,500, Mrs. Potter's tour under the management of Harry Miner has been extended, und she will appear in San Francisco and along the Pacific coust, returning in June. Miss Lotta has offered to put street signs on all the gas lamps in Pittsburg if she shall be allowed to add also the word “Lotta" on cach tablet below the name of the street, Signor Campanini's conc company has taken on chorus and orchestra attachments and given a grand opera in San Francisco, “La Favorita,” opening the season quite suc cessfully. M Rankin is looking about for an opening for a new fonr-uct drama called *“fhe Kanuck,” in which he will portray a ter entirely new to the stage—that of a French-Canadian. Marie Van Zandt seems to have made peace with the Parisians. Shewill make her re. appearance on the Paris stage in a new oper: which Massenet is writing for her. The lib- retto is by Victorien Sardou. Emily Winant, the popular contralto, has returncd to New York from a visit of nearly a year in England and Germany. She s in London and throughout the and also in Germany sid was everywhere kindly received. Nat M. Brigham, of Omaha, the tenor, ar- rived in Beston last week. Mr. Brigham will be heard in concert shortly, wh the repn. tation he has made n the west, together with his former high musical standing, will be fully sustained. —HBoston Globe, They had to ring down the curtain theother vening during the performance of *“Michuel Strogoff at the Paris Chatelet from a curi- ous cause, Mme. Marie Laurent, one of the actress, was taken with 8 violent' bleeding at the nose. The between act wait was a long one. Edwin B, Price has returued from Paris, bringing with him the prompt-book and scene plotof Sardon’s “‘La_Tosca,” and it an- nounced tyat Fanny Davenport will make her first appearance in the title role at French & Sanger's new Broadway theater. New York, in February, when the house will first be opened to the public. A Berlin artist, Ernst Tepper, is said to have devised a method of securing incom- bustible scenery for theatres. Instead of canvas he uses fine_wire gauze and covers it with a peculigr kind of paste, which makes a good material for printing. 'Machinist Lau tenschlager, of Munich, has already ordered specimens for trial in the Royal theatre, Circus men are wot paupers. E. D. Colvin cloth are skirts of that are ow band of belonged been sold 1 actross, plays | Robinson, the circu-rider, harges 10 conts an hour, | | musicians still 000 ¢ John Robinson, of Cincinnati, $250.000; Jus S100,000 and a paugh, from 200,000 to Barnum, from 4,000,000 to HOM.0005 W. W. Cole and James A. Bailey, 2,000,000 each: Jam E. Cooy 00,0005 James Hutchingon, £1,500,000, A New York pianomaker is putting the action into a case that will cost, when com pleted, between #4,000 and #5000, 1t is of hard wood, enameled snow lorned with golden arabesques in work. Fancy cases, increasing the a piano from £100 upward, ure g in favor with wealthy purchers, buf ing to rosewood aud cbon arm: Adam ,000; P, 1 ized material. Giuseppe Russitano is the name of a young tenor now singing in Italian opera at Con stantinople who has a great future before him. His experience on the stage does not exceed a year, His graceful acting and sin- gularly beautiful voic o charmed the musical world in Constantinople, whither he has come after much success at Lodi, Pavia, Brescia, and Palermo. Signor Russitano is only twenty-two. His voice is a veritable treasure, and connoisseurs agree that its timbre and quality are of exceeding sweet- ness and delicacy. Patti refuses to acknowledge that rauk elevates any other woman higher than her. self. The Southern expre: and Nicolini were journeying to Lisbon, a short time ago, met with an accident. Among the passengers were the ex-queen of S and the Duke Fernan-Nunez, forme Span- ish ambassador at Paris. Qucen Isabella had a drawing-room car to herself, and when she heard of the accident she invited the duke and his sons, who were traveling with him, ocontinue tha journey in her car, leaving Patti and Nicolini to find quarters in the or dinary con This made the diva and her spouse furious. colini raised a_great row and asked the conductor why the railway company was more attentive fo the ex-queen than to La Patti? “Because Queen Isabella is the grandmother of the king of Spain,” ed the official. “But Patti is a queen, roared N She is queen of the song.” It made no difference, however, for “the queen of the song” had to continue her journcy with the common passengers. Patti The Catholics in the United States are estimated at about eight million. Mr. Spurgeon will celebrate at the nacle the publication of his two thous sermon. Mr. D. L. Moody will spend two or three months on the Pacific coast, commencing about February 1 . The Methodist have crossed the million dollar line and have pledged £1,200,000 for mission work during the coming year. There are only three protestant churches on the island of Havana, Matanz and Cienfugoes—all recently organized. Archdeacon Farrar objects ot his sermons being published verbutim for the papers. He is unlike most clergymen, They complain usually because the report is not verbatim, About twenty of the richest residents of the city of Mexico under the law forbidding religious ceremonies and observances in the streets, they having placed small altars with lighted candles on the balconies on the occa- sion of the feast of our lady of Gaudalupe. There is a remarkable coincidence in the lives of Protestant Episcopal Bishops Talbot and Leonard, life-long friends. They were boys together in a little mission im Missouri, startific to school the same day, sitting at the ne desk. They were confirmed together together were ordai id priest cach celebrating matrimony the other and now they are appointed bishops ov neighboring jurisdictions. The Adventists in the United States have ninety-one churches, 107 ministel communic: ond churches, ministers cants: Day Adventists church 13 minist 3,111 communican total—1,472 churche 1 ministe i communicants. In polity these branches, ex cepting the Seventh "Day, which lodies ecelesiastical power in its annual and general conferences, are Congregutional, "'o popularize the synagogue it is not neces sary o transfer in effect the Jewish Sabbath to Sunday, nnd p lecturer £15,000 a to give you his views on topics of the May not the better plun be to break down t between rich and poor, restore the o services of old—when noone came empty 's tabernacle! A free synagoguc is NOL A PAUPEr SYRAZOLUC, NOF A SYUULOL A free synagogue implics a ynagogue which shall rely upon volur, 1, not pew rental system.—Jewish Messenger. nmmary of the Roman Register g the following figures of the chief ecclesi- astics subordinate to the pope in the g ment of the church. Th are now SIXty rdinals in the sacred college and the o five v o Bight cardinals died ar undseven new ones avdinal Priests Vann- Glordahi, de Rende Rampolla del Tindaro, all ‘elected on March 14, 1587z and the Cardinal De s Louis Pallottii and Augustine Bausa, fay 1587, The oldest ¢ f Mertel, created born Febraary 9, 1506 the senior in_years, having been born ruary 21, 1801. He made cardinal May ‘ardinal Manning is now first on the list of cardinal priests, the senior being Cardinal Hohenlohe, ¢ L 1866, —— . IMPIETIES. aber- ndth Advent A 68,500 communi That's right Brother Jones, go for the “bung-tung” and the Jum-tum of Kansas City. They need it. If somoe one who knows would explain why there is 8o much more coughing to the square inch in a church congregation than in_a thea- ter audicnce he would solve a much vexed question of the hour. Country minister (to deacon)—Deacon Jones, you have a reputation of knowing Something about horses. I've got an animal that's balky. What do you do in such a case? Deacon Jones —Sell hin. There is no reason why a minister should not ride- on a_bicycle as well as_anybody else, but @ minister labors under the d vantage of having his tougue tied,s0 tos| when he is trying to learn. “The ark was built in a warm_country, wasn't it, teacher?” asked the bright girl of Ces; what is now known as Asii Then where did Noah get two Polar bears from?" *“Go down foot 1" A church in a country town had been erected and a dinner was given, at the con clusion of which the health of the builder was proposed. Thereupon he rathe enigmatically replicd that he was “me 1 for the scaffold than for public spea Country Minister—Owing to a pressure of work last week, deacon, T was compelled to substitute a published sermon for one of my own this week. Uid you hear any remarks about it. Deacon Jones—I heard Brother Smith say that it was the best, by all odds the very best effort that he had ever heard you make. 0A colored minister in Meadville recently took for his text: “And the multitude came to him and he cured them of divers diseases,” id he: My dying congregation, this is o terrible text.” Disease is in the world. The diphtheria slays its hundreas, typhoid fever its thousands, but.in the language of the text, if you take the divers you are gone. FEarthly doctors can cure the little lls if they get there iu time,but no one but the good Lord can cure the divers.” It is said that a Maine c great simplicity of ¢ the great difficu! i youngest child to go to sleep. try one of your asked the fr parson, seriously getting their *Did you ever mons on him, doctor nd, jokingly. I the ST never thought of that.” A few days later, again meeting his parish oner, he said: “Oh, do you know, T adopted your suggestion of reading one of my ser- mons to my boy, and it worked like a chiirm.’ I wants ter 'nounce ter de congregation dis mornin’ dat yo' parsture accepted de sexton’s resignation yistidy wid conside Hit peared ter my 'serv usin’ de Sundy school annex fi coop, an’ lodgin’ his plymet rocks an’ br ooters in dar willy-mus, nillymus, rent free 1it warn't so much de rent dat I minded, but de dentity er dem chickens warn't so clarly *stablished in my mind dat 1 kycard to be *sponsible fer dé nabors comin’ in an suin’ dis church fo' "lowing poitery ter lay outer de deestrick whar dey'm registered. In ‘mer- gencies like dat wese gotter be honest an’ de law ‘lows, 80 T tuk ‘casion ter experdite de sex’on wid @ barl stabe ahd hand de chickens over tode parish morgue ter wait ‘denti faction, white, and | GREAT SPECIAL SALE OF Dress Goods To becontinued until February Ist, the follow= ling Special Prices on Dress Goods to reduce stock before invoicing. NOTE THE FOLLOWING SPEGIAL REDUCTIONS At 5c we have put in a complete line of colors of Dress Goods, never sold for less than 10¢, and are worth that to-day: for this sale at 5S¢ per yard. At 10¢ we have put in all of our half wool Tricots, worth 18¢; for this sale 10¢ per yard. At 20c we have putina full lineof colors in all wool Tricot that we have sold as a drive at 80¢; for this sale 20¢ per At 30¢ a complete line of Plaid Dress Goods, worth 43¢, for this sale 30c per yard. At 40c we have made np a big job of goods ranging from 50ec to Tie, and make the entire lot 40¢ for this sale. At 60c we have taken goods ranging in price from T5¢ to $1 per yard, and put them in this sale at 60c per yard. $20 Pattern Suits at just half price, $10 each. It will take but little time and trouble to visit our store and see what we will sell you in Dress Goods at 5¢c worth 10c; in Dress Goods at 10c worth 18c; in Dress Goods at 20c worth 30c; in Dress Goods at 30c worth 45c¢; in Dress Goods at40c worth 50c, 60c and 75c;in Dress Goods at 60 worth 75c to $1.50. We show goods with pleasure and if you can= not visit our store we will send you samples gladly. THONPNOY, -BELDEN & (0, 1319 Farnam Street. OVERGOATS. {11 FARNAM STREET