Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1888, Page 3

PERFECTION OF LIGHT. — No More G Ixplostons—Individual Gas Is Free From Such Horrol 1 t Is a Brilliant, Steady, Honest and Economical Light, There is no argument advanced favoring any new invention or discovery which so quickly reaches the heart of the public, nor which makes such a lasting impres«- fon, when demonstrated, as that of econ- omy, In consequence, it is the pleasure and Aim of the Nebraska Individual Gas Co., 1o give a few points in vindication of their assertion, that they can furnish the best and most economic light with which the public has as yet hecome acquainted. Perhaps no hetter argument could he used but we do not stop here. Aside from econoryy Independent Gus possesses other advantages which go far toward making it the popular illuminant. In the first place its name bears a point o be considered. Individual or individue ality— each consumer in having a separate and entirely distinet plant, consisting of reservoir and meter, thus avoids the n cessity of any ction whatever with street mains or pivesy as well as a saving of expenses O Coal gas, as those using it well know, is more or less seriously affected by eold weather, thus rendering an unreliable and unsatistactory illuminant during the winter months, when it is most needed, say nothing ahout the annoyance. Here we have a point which please note, As a test of the ability of Individual Gas to withstand the cold, we had the reservoirs of hoth our office and warehouse placed on the 10)f in bold rellef, where for the past 30 days they have heen subjected to the se- verest of tests, our light showing no signs of variation or weakness, It is n common thing to see a once clear and neat ceiling blackened immediately over the gas fixture, or perhaps cansed by a smoking hanging lamp. It is a little thing to be sure, but how annoying to a careful houseke ins gives a pure, clean, voft, and as white a light as conld be desived, and is perfectly odorless, The fecling ags lation me- ter has led us to desive a simple, yet aceus ndicator, which any child can ther- oughly understand, thus reducing that prejudice which has taken such root. We read daily of deaths cansed by suffoeation from eseaping gas, or the careless use of keroseney and it comes home to us, Why not avoid suchi ho ! 2 matter what ount of care is exercised, accidents will d it s to lessen or remove all thing of the Kind that we your inspection, our gas, positive shut off on all gas burners essary o extinguish the light prop- erly, but let the light be extinguished by other means, hlowing or going out on ac- count of a temporn and what is the conseque or perchance explosion—and the question naturally arises, how is it with Individual Gas, Here we have our main argument: We look after the veservoir and keep it always supplied, thus relieving the con- sumer of anyanno; eorcare. From there the gas flows to each and every burner, a match is applied, the heat generates the gas which rikes and ignites, therefore the minute that heat Is taken away, either by accident or otherwise, the gas ceases to generate, hence thoigh the bhurner he turned on full head, no gas eseapes. more practical illustration ¢ g'ven than to call at our office, wh Wwill be pleased to demonstrate and explain the workings of our light and show the comments of those who are now using it, TESTIMONIALS. The following testimonials, Economie Light company, of 'De Col., (the Economic light and “individual wus "being on A the same iluminator, spesk for then by the ] W. R. Rathyon, Liglt Co., Denver careful comparison’of y mination, with gas aml electricity, | vinced that it 1x all that is claimn have declded to have you se 10 pipe my house at Paline I have determined upon for its br'lliancy, its econg which it can be ‘put int but for all thes Iy Interested in cle use 1 prefer very truly, After a £ i1l um_con- 1 for it, and | i« your men down Lake, immediatel; ¥, se with noses already built, ons combined. 1 am large: ricity, but for my p your light ¢ other. W. Fi 3 1 w. R. Itathvon, Light Compan; y : The 1 1ght, recently put in operation in my house, No. M0 Glenarm street, by your company, i civing us great satisfaction and delight, 1 i he admiration of all beholders. 1t mukes no smoke, gives out no bad odor, 15 always ready for operation, requires no filling no clear g, no wick, and’ is easily managed. 1t i powertil and more brifliant than gis, and burn- g, s It does, & pure White flame, 5 1ot (rying to the eyes, wid inmy_judiment is far superior touny clectric Heht known 1t is not ony the Dest but the most economical light of which 1 have any knowledge. Respecttully yours. LENKY O DILLON. PALMER LAKE, Col., Aug. 12 W. R, Rathvon, General' Manager Econonie Light Co., Deuver'-Dear 8ir: The thirly lghts Which yolt have put in the railroad eating house at this poiut have been working very satistie- torily and attract u great deal of attention from the traveling publi y rooms are fully it at midnight as at noon and for econom liancy and conveni- ence, the Hkhit §s far ahead of gus, or any other Weans of (lumination T have ever x ¢ 15570 Wo are prepared to authep incorporation of local companies, with who! would be pleased o contract for city ur county rights, and any pers or company interested in this matter cun obtain full informa- tlon from us. Any such rcquest will receive our fmmediate attention, and we feel sure ofgrand results, o bettersystem ol tlumination has yet been produced, We are also prepared to furnish estimates, explain thoroughly the working of the light, and give practi- strations, as well as show the of those who are usiag it Call and see us at 307 South Sixteenth str. 0N VERY DANGEROUS GROUND. A Minister Who Proposes to Stop Courting on Sunday. MRS. SECRETARY WHITNEY. I nees— Bessie Kittson ~Senator Evarts' Sidewalk A “Shop Borrower'—Clara Belle's Letter, NEW Yok, Jan. dence of the BER. wooing on Sundays? When the Rev. Dr. Walpole Warren was imported to this country by the church where Dr. Stephen Tying preached at For ond street aud Madizon avenue deal of interest wasexci osition to contest the law forbidding the importation of laborers to this coun- try under contract. That matter was eventundly settled, but it ealled such at- tention to Dr. Warren as no other event could, unless it be the proposition that this clergyman has now made to his church: Dr. Warren has proposed that the young ladies in his church shall make an agreement t or re- ceive visits on Sunda, this matter was put to a vote before an eciation of the young people of his parish, they agreed unanimously to put 1t into torce. This undoubtedly, however, was due to the magnetie influence of Dr. W He is about fifty-seven years oid with a moderate supply of silver side-w and a pleasant smile and voice. an encrgetic worker and thorough-going evangelist. When the young people came to think the matter over, the sober second thought began to have its and it is quite doubtful whether arren will find itan easy matter to break in thus upon a well-established Ameriean custom, Oue of the young men in his parish in speaking of it said to the writer: ““When the proposition was first laid before us, we were enthus hout it heeause we felt like taking hold of Dr. Warren and helping him make his work heve grandly successful, but as to this project, we cannot_help looking at it now us something of an injustice, and unnecessary at that. To us who work all the week with no time for social en- ment, Sunday comes as a genuine day of rest, and apart from the religious feat- ures of the day, it gives us opportun for innocent enloyment that could not possibly be had at any other time dur- ing the week, Sunday is recognized as the one day of allwhen a young man is priveleged to call upon his best giri, and inasmoch as thefe is nothing saci ligious about that, I cannot see wh, should be compelled to abandoned It is not like an ordinarvy call neighbors or friends” or who have known each® and been established in relations with each other for a gre many years. It is the cultivation of new relations which are apt to be generally prove to be very saered dear to all parties concerned. 1t matter of good religion that a man should have a good family. and the pro- hihition of doing anything upon the Subbath towards SECURIN ) to establishing a good family is some- thing that & church oughtnot to de- mand. I very much doubt, therefore that Mr. Warren's project will prove successful, and 1 certainly hope that preachers. elsewhere, especially in the country districts, will not be led to imitate his examole Seeretary Whitney i Washington than he This is perhaps natural in the he the United State vy. But he be larger in New York if he didn’t be- long heve, and was as a stranger forced to go to a hotel while in town. As it is, he keeps up an eluborate establishment, and has only to drive home and di pear from view until r his train. His wife doe shopping here, except in tr ters,and frequently on these expeditions the seeretary is her devoted attendant. They are not encountered on the prome- nades, for they drive everywhere. Those who know Mr. Whitney only as the cabinet ofticer should see him while on these little excursions. What a meta- morphosis! H pped on board the Washington express the personification of an energetic busing man: he steps into a fashionable Fifth avenue mill ner’s a beauish attendant to a lady. Away with armored cruisers and seacoast defences. Bonnetsave the order of the any. And to tell the truth, he applies himsell now as assiduously to the study of the latter as he did a few hours be- fore to the form He will pick up a hat, inspect it from all sides, criticize this shape and that curve, and after his wife has adjusted the wouder on her head will repeat the operation of view- ing it from all sides. He is very proud of his better half. and strange to say, she defers unquestioningly to his taste 1 hats and several other matters of per- adornment. He does not insist upon being actually present when she is d for a gown, but this is doubt- concession to the dressmake Move than one milliner in »w York wishes in her soul that he would exercise this consideration in other divections, and they are unani- mous in voting him anuisance. Butthi doesn’t annoy the secretary of the nav, and vesults in his wife drossing to suit her husband. As long as this is so the cure. amount of MRS, L manages to secure of restat her cit) me time keep heeself constuntly artised to the public eye, is in it indisputable proof of the woman* ness. Her latest achievement bring down the wrath of certy neighbors who complain by new English six foot fence, built to defy the curious, rests upon the stoop line instead upon the house line, her dwell- ing standing about thi feet bacl By the v it has been sug with appurent cause, thut the tily i unhappy wife is due not to an ed but to an_inhe ir}wl\lm‘u(‘ A New York sondon recently, eame in one who 1 known M well on the islund of Jerse \ this friend: 4T cannot help thinkin when T read of e domiestie tr certain infelicities in her gi Her futher, n, and he mother’s, This fatal beauty, howev attracted another than elerical huashand to the mother’s and the ssult was unhappiness in home.” Then who shall that the finger of fate has not Langtry's rough road, At a Broadway hotel this week were vegistercd My, and Mrs, J. Buker, St. Puul.” They ure on heir wedding tour. The hride, a charming und hand- some girl of about eighteen, was last spring a pupil at a school in Fifth aves nue, and a favorite among her compan- ions, She was then Bessie Kittson, one of the four Jdaughters of Commodore 25, —[Correspon- hall there be no great d by the prop- other their The privacy which NGTRY during a spell home, and at the indies Kitison, the famous. turfman of the northwest. . At the summer vacation he vetutned home and next appeared heve with the blushing honors of a brand new na upon her. Now her old schoolmates smile, and s CHESSTE KITT30N'S MARRIED! Why the idea—she's only a girl!" The commodore has parted with three of his children b, mar- ringe within a few months, Last fall the eldest daughter wedded Mr. Louis Baker, a_brother of the pres- ent bridegroom, and went off to Europe for the honeymoon. She had also been aschool girl in New Yorke Then his son. L. €. Kittson. took unto himself a houutiful brid The Kittson family in one way and another, have become pretty well known in the metropolis, and Mrs, Kittson resided at a hotel for some time while her girls were in the hands of the teachers, About the same time, it will be remembered. young Kittson was enjoying a rapid time zbout town, and became involved with an ad- venturess old enough to be his mother, His escapnde vesulted “in a marvinge mony. while he was irresponsibly under the influence of stimulants, and subsequently in a suit for a divorce and alimony brought by the womin. The testimony filled columns of the daily press, but the jury threw her case out of court by et ring the marringe fraudulent. The youth got out of a big blackmailing plot at the cost of much scandal. When he appeared here last fall with his young wife, they looked like n pair of young lovers just escaped from the parental eye. Who sags that the rich do not have to clean the snow off their o idewalks? A young lady of Senator Evarts’ house: household had a hard job of it yeste day. Of course, she didn’'t handle a shovel. Butlet us see. The snow of the day before lay frozen on the walk. Two ragged-looking men rang the front-door bell about 8 o'clock in the morning. One carrvied a battered iron shovel and the other had none. The young lady responded to the summons from the beli, but appeared averse to employing these calle She stepped out from the storm doors and saw that the negro man-of-all-work was busy shoveling the snow from the roof. he two men lingered after she had gone in and then one of them went away. The one who remained rang the door bell again ten m s later and this time he wis more successful, as was shown by his immediately starting in to rape the snow from in front of the door. Ilu had rked about three minutes when he lown his shovel and ranoff in the direction of Fifteenth street. He re- turned a few minutes later with his former companion. The latter had no shovel, but rang the bell leading to the kitchen and secured one from the ook, It was a long around the senator’s shovels were both of them poorly adapted for the work. The snow was frozen hard, and the wind was sharp nd biting. The men had neither srloves nor mittens, and stopped every fow minutes and slapped their hands vigorously to get a little warmth into them. All the time they were at work, the young lady stood 4t the window watching them, and seeing that they did it properly. Several times she ap: peared at the door, and ealled to them 10 go hack and attend to something that they had shirked. When they were all finished came for their moucy, she went out with them and looked into the street. sure enough her suspicions were verified. They had not cleaned out the snow from the gutter soas to allow a passage for the water when the snow should melt. It took at leasta minute and a half of argument before the men agreed to attend to this part of the work. Even when they had fin- ished it she did not appear to be satis- fies On each of the otn snow lay on the sidewalk, she had some similar trounle. Once her man of all work started to remove the snow and left it half finished. She walked up and down the avenue and avound into Fif- teenth street in search of him. Another servant was busy removing the snow from the house north of the senator’s where one of the Fish family resides. The young lady was apparently near- sighted, as she at first mistook this man for her own servant. She walked up quite close to him and bend- ing dowh, PEERED INTO HIS FAC This she repeated several before she wus convineed that she had been mistaken. When the man - came . it was evident from the motions of h hands and the shrugs of his shoulde that he was attempting to explain hi. absence, but from the way the young lady shook her head, it was ilso evident that his explanation was not accepted as o good one. The cheeky woman whom T have now in mind is_self-po d, smiling and well-dressed. She is the tervor of store- keepers, Recently a specimen of thi class had a piece of fine needlework that her own sewing machine could not he knew of one in the market uld, and so she went to the office, talked prices and qualit; ked permis- sion to try it on the puhlufl{( a roll from her shopping-bag, and stitched an hour till the job was done, expressed entire satisfaction with the machine and pr gave her name, street and number, with an order for one ofsthe hest, and goes her way. The agent never saw her again, and found no ma- chine was wanted at the street and number designated. She would be horrified at the hint of shoplifting, Her little game is differ- ent. streteh of sidewalk house, and the and times 1T IS SHOP-BOBROWING, This same woman was invited to an out-of-town reception. She wanted a more elegant outside garment than her own for the oceasion, and she got it. Going to one of the largest establishments, she tried on and tried on wraps, trying at the sume time the paticnce of the sales- woman as she always came back to one, the most elegant of the lot, and seemed Just on the point of choosing it. Finally she begged permission to take it home to show her hushand, fecling certain he would approve. The garment was sent home worn at the reception, and returned with a polite note and regrets that it was not found wholly satisfuctory. But the saleswomen get their little revenges. They remember faces and hestow their own titles. *“Here comes a tough,” goes down the line of clerks when one of this class appears, no mat- ter how nvhl)' she is dressed. “I'm for you' is in the eye of the sales- 1 she puuses bofore. It isa coun- ter of ribbon sashes, glowing like a rain- bow in soft colors. The *tough” looks at u score of them: the green one ought to be blue, the pink heliotrope, and so on,and finally she declares they cheap things. -~ *You know I neve cheap goods.” The girl apologize runs her hand under the pile,and draws out several of the same quality and price, names a figure double that, how- ever, und the customer buys three “It is my business to sell goods,” she explains to a friend, *'I have to adapt myself to my customer. The other day « tough was looking at plush at #1.50 She wanted something better after she had worried the life out of me. 1 took from the shelves u piece of the same that for v of it ime the quality, said shé“etild have €250 and she bought a quanti perfectly satisfied. Half of the tough doesn’t knew what she wants nor how much. Thitk ef the mother of o family nsking me how much she wants for a girl of five.! 104s my busness to sell goods, =0 I name a good pattern. AVhen she comes )',:\l'k for two yards more to make a dvess of it for herself and scolds me foe telling her too much, 1 don't care, my business is to seli goods, “Do you k Neve Everything goes™ to the cashier, who makes the change. Some- times we get some of it back in “spiff™ money. That is the per cent we have for selling old goods. But when a lady throws « pair of slippers almost in my face and says. Do you think I've got such big feet as that?” 1 get a little pay for my pains by sending up seventy- five cents more than the pair she buys are worth. 1 don’t want her money CLARA BELL ep the extra money? - “The Regions Beyond." The Burma Baptist missionary con- vention held its thivteenth annual meeting at Moulmein November 5-7. All the work is encournging. The con- vention was preceded by a three-days’ conference. for prayer. On the last eventig of the conference a mass meet- g of all races was held on the Burman mission compound, near where Dr. Jud- son's chapel used to stand., Addresses were given in seven languages—Eng- lish, Burman, Karen, Shan, Talaign, Telugu and Tamil. No one of these languages were understood by all pre- sent, but a hearty christian unity p vailed, The Church Missionary society is supported by the evangelical element of the Church of Englund, aund has the largest income of any missionary socie- ty in the world. This great organ tion is revising its whole missionary policy to bhring it into line with the demands of the times. The general committee has vesolved fivst, not to refuse any candi- dates for missionary service on the sole ground of the lack “of funds; second, to reorganize the present methods for the collection of funds; third, to employ more lay evangelists: fourth, to arrange for more meetings for united and spee- inl yer. The Henvy Reed Steamboat company. connected with the / n Hnl)( t Missionary union, .02 in 1887 for the suppor steamer on the Upper Congo river in Central Afri- ea, One thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars is wanted for 1888, The Equator station of thismission is farther 1\mul than any other from the west const. Baptist missionaries in laboring among peoples speaking se different languages. three of which h never been acquired by a for until the missionaries went there. One station is miles from even a cart rond. Rev. J. E. Clough, D.D., has been laboring on the Ongole field in the Te- lugu Baptist mission for twenty-one vears. In thattime the number of chy tians has risen: from none to 2 More thansix hundred converts we zea in the first eight months of 1 Kyouk-Kai, 4 Karen preacher of the Toungoo distriet, Burma, has been presented with a'silver sword by the Jritish government, for his efforts in suppressing the rebels, and restoring P to the district. This is the only case in which such an honor has been bestowed. 4 An ofticer in a Japanese bank came to a missionary and said: Your religion does something that ours cannot do: it makes men honest. Now we wish our employes at the bank to be carefullyin- strueted in these principles ” s RELIGIOU! valist Moody is trying to reform Lou- , Ky. Dr. Lyman Abbott reccives $100 a week for hing in Plymouth church. ties show that we have 92,000 ministers and 19,000,000 8 in the United States. J. S. Johnston, who has just been con- secrated missionary bishop of western Texas, was a rebel soldier in Stewart’s cavalr, Rev. Joseph Silverman, of Galveston, Tex., will be Dr. Cotheil's assistant in Temple Emanu-El, in New York, for the coming two years. Few of the Protestant ministers in France raceive more than §360 a year from the stute, h a very small sum is added by the ation. George W, Rassure, knewn as the *‘Cow- boy evangelist,” 18 said by an Arkansas paper to be worth §70,0X0: which yields him an income of 150 aday. Archbishop Lamy, the first Catholic bis of New Mexico, is 1y dence in Santa Fe, N. entertained of his rece A A band of Franciscan nuns have, it is said taken vows to devote their lives to mission- ary work among the negroes of the United States, particularly in the south. A lease of 999 years made in the King Alfred, has just expired in En e land was leased by the church to the crown and reverts beck to the Church of En- land, after a mlllennium of years. ‘Within a few days the corner stone of the first Irish church in Rome will be laid, with imposing ceremonies. Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, will preach the sermon. Since the Methodist board of church extel sion, north, began its work in the year 186 it has helped to build 5,805 churches. It has collected and disbursed nearly 3,000,000, The final vote of the Baptist union accept- ing the resignation of Mr. Spurgeon makes the split between the orthodox and liberal branches of that denomination in England complete, Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, pastor of Ply- mouth church, Chicago, has 'been honored, ‘it is said, by a call to the pulpit of the late Mr. Becener, but has declined to consider such a proposition. Rev. A. H. Mackonachre, rector of the Church of St. Albau the Martyr in London, and the leader and most eloquent advocate of the extreme high'church party, got lost in o snow storm in Scotland and perished. Bishop Viadmiy of St. Petersburg, will soon take chargsof the Russo-Greek church in San Francisco, He was for many years en- gaged in_missionary work in Japan. and {has recently held the position as inspector of the theological seminary at St. Petersburg. Father 8. Wagner, a late Catholie priest of Chicago, has renounced Catholicism and all orthodox faiths, and togethe Harris, the evangelist of Newn tablish a new chireh known Christians.” Father Wagni years of age, and for fifty umportant positions in the Prussian ment. Dr. Witherow, who is this year Smith lec turer in Magee college, Londonderry, has chosen for his theme the reformed churches. In the course of a lecture on “The Bohemian Brethren” he made the announcement that the Pan-Presbyterian_council, which is to meet this summer in London, was engaged in raising £50.000 to aid in supporting said brotherhood, and that of this sum Scotland had already raised one-half and the Presby- terians in the United States were raising the other nalf, The Jewish Home Prayer Book, prepared at the suggestion of the convention of Jewish ministers, is nearly ready for publication. It i8 the joint production of Rev. Drs. Gottheil and De Sola Mendes. It is edited by Dr. Mendes. who has also contributed additional ppropriate prayers for various occasions. he Huus-Audacht was contributed by Rev. Drs. Szold and Jastrow. The book is written in the vernacular and will supply a much uceded manual for home worship. hop ill at his resi- v little hope is govern: MUSICAL Christine N health Theodoreg Thomas will make a tour of the principal eftics in Europe in 1888, Captain Marcel Voyer, a well-known French pianist, is coming to this country Perugini, the tenor, has made a hit in with Carl Rosa’s company in London Mary Anderson's American tour will be win on November 12~ She will not have an exclusively English company. Drawatic affairs appacently do not flourish in Gainesville, Texas. Theopera house has been turned into a clothing store. ‘T. Russell Sullivan, who dramatized “Dr Jekylland Mr. Hyde” for Richard Mansfield, the actor, has deserted commerce for liter: ature. Dion Boucicault's new play is called “Cushin Machree.” 1t is to have its first production in Boston at the Hollis street the: Arthur B. Chase, director of the Edwin Booth-Lawrence-Barrett company, predicts that the profits of the tour will reach nearly k), AND DRAMAT on has entirely recoyere her Mrs Jumes Brown Potter needs An actress of her transcend an o wear a play to tatters in a time. Miss Geraldine Morgan, an American girl, won the Mendelssohn prize for violin playing t the recent Herlin recital, 1t amounts to 00 in American money. Rose Coghlan has signed a starring o tract for th ears with Augustus Pt Her new play, “Jocelyn,” will be rese for a New York opening, Sara Bernhardt says that in her American tour of 1800 she expects to up herself for all the expense she went to in giving her son a good matrimonial send-off. The latest picce of sheet music decicated to Parnell is entitled I Cannot Pay the Rent.” It could be sung with pathos by a goud many people both in Ireland and Amer- ica. Bolo righted and it Sau Fi lores. De K ant ability W Kiralfy has originated and copy- new ballet called “Les Coquettes,” been presented with success in ancisco as one of the features of **Do ven and Smith, joint anthors of “the Begum' are about to dissipate some of the wealth derived from royalties on that inter. esting work in publishing o weekly puper in Chicugo. . The managers of Howe's circus are hav- ing u hard time in Montery. They were ar- ted for misrepresentation in not perform ing and showing what they advertised, and fined £300. _ Henry Irving did not come to this countr: in vain, It is said he will make at £150,000 out of his present American tour. Barrett did not do so well when he went to England. _ Joseph Jeflerson is devotiug much of his time in Florida to the preparation of his book of reminiscences, which will be pub- lished next year. He will resume work on March 18, Miss Helen velopment voal tale will adopt the lyric fession. She is a grand-d Blitz and a cousin of Maric Van Zandt. The German novelist and playright, Fried- S igen, has come out with a fero on actors and actresses, and ertt- ics, and _theater-goers, all b use his last play, “Dic Philosophin,”* was a failure, Itis well known that Wagner at one time conceived the vriting amusic drama on the subject s of Nuzarcth. A sketeh of the drama, written in 1548, has just been published by Messrs. Breitkopf and Hartel, An international mysical exhibition, under the presidency of Signor Verdi, will be held at Bologna from the 1st of May' till the 31st of October next. Tt will comprise all obje and publications relating to the art and’ sci- ence of music George Henschel scems to have made a bad bargain in buying for $500 the K for cights months of the Wagner symphony. The work has proved anything but a_suc in England, but on the continent it has been met with more favor, Helen the English actress, will bring ove tire company from London for her American tour. Shé has four new plays from which to select the best and will one of them a trial next month, probably ut the London Comedy. Mme. Adeline Patti will remain in Portu- gl to the end of Junuary, then go to Madrid (her birthplace) for a month, and sail for a month, and sail for South Am td on March 8. She will make her south-equatorial debut at' Buenos Ayres April 6, The motto of the Queen City Opera com- f Cincinnati, is “to givé preference to 1 operas by American composers,” will be sung by the club on Feb- w American operas have been offerea to the club by their composers The musical arrangements of the forth coming Paris exhibition are definity settled. They include three competitions for prizes, to be given to the best libreto of a cantata, the best music to the sume, and the best military march. The contest is limited to French subjects. Anna Dickinson has just put the finiahing touches to a drama upon which she has been engaged for years. 1t is called “Aurelian, and 18-a historical play, as the title implies. Those who h: cad the munuseript pro- nounce it not only a good reading but a good acting play. One of the most curious of the safety ap} pliances for theaters is the iron curtain which has just been put into the theater Francis, in Paris. The curtain is of sheet iron, stiffened by braces of iron and decorated by tached to it. It is worked hydraulically, the valves 80 as to be operated by electricity. Sara Bernhardt is supersiitious. It leaks out that the reason “La Tosca™ was del 80 long was because she woula not act w young Volny on account of his “evil ey She will not have the witches' music pl in Macbeth and turns yellow with fright when she touches anything of saffron tint. As a public recognition of Mr, C.E. Locke’s success in carrying on American opera, and with special reference to the series of per- formances of grand opera in English given at the Boston theatre, a testimonial has been offered to him in that city, which has ob- :nim‘d nearly seven hundred influential signa- ures, leart of Hearts,” by ¥enry Arthur Jones, was brought for the first time last week at the New York Madison square thes trd. The “f rt of Hearts” 18 a big ruby, and the motive of the play 1s the theft of the jewel, a deed unjustly charged upon the h roine, The play was only moderately suc- cessful, @ high order a tage as he, pro- ughter of Signor Mme. Janauschek is superstitious in the matter of retracing her footsteps, which she will not do under any circumstances, At Portland, Me., , when she endeay ored to enter the thy by the regular trance, which was aited until the doorkeeper came rather than go back and around to the stage door. In Germany theater-goers scem to be safe from the dangers arising from fire, but on the other hand are exposed to the risk of being drow At Bonn recently, an_aud- ience was drenched in the middle of an opera, owing to a mistake of the man who controls a huge water-tank to be used in case of fire. The same thing happened at Munster to un unlucky company of concert singers. he latest novelty in the way of - box is an invention by which the expense and limited use of the old-fashioned cylinder is done away with, The steel comb, which gives the rich, sweet tone for which the Swiss boxes ure_celebrated, is retained, and is vibrated by picke ated by pneu matics, their g regulated by perforated mu perforations in which admit the air to the pneun; which operate tye pickers, thus producing the tune Frau Lilli Lehmann says that a_great many singers nurse themselves as if they we house flowers, belieying that excr tion kind will injure their vocal powers. ence is that they grow fat and weak; us for hersclf she has been singing for twenty-one yearf, and it is only in the last five years her voice has reached its best compass and strength > is very fond of fresh air, and delights in tuking long tramps. Adelina Patti never takes ar exercise. She is very much afraid air, and when she goes out for a winter swaths herself in furs, ties up h head, and even puts cotton in her ears. She never speaks in the night air, and when she runs from the stage door to_her carriage her mouth is covered-by the scarf that goes over her head. Madame Patti has kept he in good condition by this treatment, would not do for every one: M. Coquelin's adventures iu the cast ought musi out-of-door of cold drive in voice but it to make French actors ‘think twice before scouring’ the world in_scarch of a fortunc, insiead of being content with moderute gains at home. On leaving Constantinaple, where He had played before (e sultan, he disdained to embark” in an ordinary steamer for Ath ens, but hired & small vessel for himself and his troupe. The vessel encountered a storm in the sea of Marmora, and was ultimate stranded tug i supposed to hav cued it, but the vessel had to put in at the tiny port of the Isle of Imbros. W, J. Florence, the comedian, is the possessor of more than one hundred volumes of rare old plays (hat were given him by th duke of Munchester. He visiting th duke, and in_going about his library ex- pressed hisadmivation for the fine collection of original editions of old plays. *Help your self,” said his grace, who, when the actor Nesitated to take him at his word, filled his arms full of the books, and told him if that wasu't enough to take more. Among them is a_copy of the first play-louse edition of SHumilet,” which was once the property of Betterton, and is annotated on almost every page by his pencil. Mr. Alexander Salvini, the actor, is one of the best athletes on the stage und is an ex pert boxer and fencer. He commenced at sehool, having had many bouts with the sons of the sturdy mountaineers. He learned o flgat Ttalinn fashion in the gymnasium at Florence, where he alsd took lessons in fencing from the most accomplished Italian masters, and finished up in Paris, On com- ing Lo this country he has kept hinself in con stant practice with Prof. Senae, and_about five years ao he commenced boxing in the Amcrican style with Prof. Austin. Salvine once boxed four rounds with Barrymore, and it is said he had none the worsc of the en’ counter, Barrymore, however, was not in fine form. Salvini’s most notable bout was four rounds with Juke Kirrain in b when the latter was on his w urope Mitchell and Kilrain are friends of Salvini, and afterthe performance of *Jim, the Pen! man,” n Boston, they sought him out, and it was arranged that they should have a friendly setto. In these four rounds, which were lively, neither succeeded i hitting the other very much, Kilrain cleverly avoid Sal- vini's terrible rushes, and touching the actor up in good shape on the ear and Young Josef Hofmann, at the Metropolitan Opera house, one of the deepest impi this country upon th public. The wonderful town anew, and that the densely p the conclusion of eaine,” which the lad composed and scored for the orchestra_ since his arrival in this For the first time within' the mem ¢ of ‘any living human being has a musical wenius such as Hofmann vroven himself able to stand before ative audience and conduct his own work. After his splen- did_performance of the Mendelssoln con- certo and the other numbers on the pro amme the lad assumed the baton and onducted the orchestra like a veterau. There w w odry eyes in that great au- dience when he concluded, and the intense excitement could not be allayed until he had bowed and reappeared no less than six times. Not since Mozart's time has so remarkable o performance been witnessed, and Amer will have the right to cla that the great Macstro Hofing X a composition and conducted ‘it in country. A 5 THE COUNTS OF ANJOU. Written for the Sunday Bee, One of the most celebrated families of medieval Europe was that of the rulers of Anjou, a province in north- western France. The history of this family and the influence distinguished members of it exerted on the progress of western Europe during a period of of more than four hundred s, rends like a romance. Their connection with the ruling family of England, by inter marriage, g to the American stu- dent an interest in the origin and stor; of the family, second only to that which attaches divectly to the history of the royal family of England. and yet but few American readers arve familiar with the history of the house of Anjou, or know anything about their achieve- ments. Tortulf—In the heart of Breton. about the year 850, lived one Tortulf, who was known as the Forester. a half-brigand, half-huntc s went, living in free outlawry in the woods about Rennes. Tortulf had learned in his rough forest school how to strike the foe, to sleep on the bare ground, to en- dure hunger and toil, the summer's heat and winter’s frost: how to fear nothing save ill-fame! Following King Charles the Bald 1n his struggles with the Danes, his abilities as a soldier in this unrelenting warfare won for him from the king broand lands along the Loire, and his son. L Ingelger—Fulk the Red, who had, under his father’s tutelage, swept these predatory northmen from Touraine and the land to the west, which in this re- lentless rfare they had burned and wasted into a vast solitude, became the first count of Anjou. It was from the dukes of France (caputs), now drawing near the throne, in the ycar 888, that he received from them guerdon™ the western ]\.m-u.m of Anjou, which lay across the Mayenne, and first consti- tuted the Angevine kingdom. 1. Fulk the Good succeeded his father Fulk the Red. He waged no wars; and the story of hi ign was like & quiet idyl of peace. Louis d’ Outremer, king of France, entering a church where Fulk the Good w or- shipping, remarked of him: **He sings like a priest.” Fulk, ready with his V. Know, my lord, that a king is o crowned ass!” Fulk the Good was a busy ruler, gov- erning, enforcing peace, and carrying justice to every corner of his wasted kingdom. To him alone of all his race men gave the title of **The Good!™ 111, Fulk, Geoffrey Greygown, son of Fulk the Good, was like his grandfather, a bold dashing soldier. But with all his skill as a soldier and his great personal valor, he was unable to maintain his territory against the powerful house of 5 and Champaigne. He was sue- hy his son— IV. Fulk Ne New York y created musically boy eaptured the howas the enthusinsm house fairly ros this Fulk the Black, a cold, eruel, heartle though a very able ruler. Fulk Nerra succeeded to the throne, A. D. 987 and died in 1040, after o long reign of fifty-three years. He was the greatest of the Angevine kings. and the first in whom can be traced that marked type of character so well preserved in his family for the suc- ceeding 200 years Familine as was the age with ra- pine and blood, it recoiled from the cool eynicism of his erimes, and helicved the wrath of heaven to have been revealed against the union of the worst forms of vil in Fulk the Blac But necither the wrath of heaven nor the curses of men broke with a single mishap the fifty odd y of his success. At h sion in the year 987, Anjou wns the least important of the greuter provinces of France, At his death in 1040 it stood, if not in extent of terri- torry, at least in real power, first among them all. Cool-headed, clear-sighted, solve, quicker to strike, Fulk er was o long series of all his rivals, He was consummate general, personally very brave, and in battle amid the medley of contending men and horses, he swept down almost singly on the foe as a storm wind—"s0 rang the pean of the Angevines"—sweeps down on the thicl corn rows, and the ficld won! 0 these pow ies a8 0 war- political aching political tesmanship of his race organization and combinations- which hecame th and lifted them s high ubove the intel- lectual level of the rulers of their time as their shameless wickedness degraded them below the level of man! Fulk Nerra's overthrow of Brittany A Successfal Man, WHEN C MAN starting from the bare grotindy AChieves SUCCOsS i1 anY CRLET, 1Ot by ne but by native strength of arim, his 1if A lesson, People are eurions to lewrn - the methods wherehy he has ttained prominence, when wnder equally encouraging conditions others have faled, 1t is for this son that ne Bem presonts to its readers the portrait of Mr. A. 4 Frunk Riche “Vardson, 14 /und 15 Trie Dune Build- ing, New York, who AL FIANK RICHARDSON s known among leading journalists ax one of the most popular and successtul of special newspaper advertising agents Mr. Richardson is a native of Vermont, and like most nelund boys who have made their mark, was hor on a farm, At the age of 14 he went to Davenport, Towa, where he “hegan on the' space box” on the Democrat, mastered every detafl of the printer's art, and became the foreman of the establishment. There being too much energy in young Richardson, how ‘to Le wasted among type and ink pots, he was transferred to the Counting Room, where his ability wasat once manifested in the increased cireulation of the Observing that he possessed peculiar qualities for business, and especially’anaddress that made him popular among men, his uncle, Mr. J. J. Richurdson,who y the way may be said the father of the sent system of sollcfting wdvertisements, sent him on business tours which extended from Maine to Californin, and were made three or four times a y In this way he became acs prominent business men and advertisers of the countr; Tn 182 M, Richa the eistern brar Unijon, then York and h of the Western . embracing only four Statex, and consisting of four hundred news- papers. Being elected its president and eastern maneger, he began to fnfuse nto its methods som f hiis own charact stie fire,and watiin five years the company handling Nhundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ndver- tisements, and furnishing ready print for upwards 0f 1L10) newspapers in’ the United Btates, T addition to the management of this exten stve enterprise, Mr, Richardson has represented of the leading journals of America of known eireulation as their spectal ngent, and having thoroughly mastered this specialty, ho operative lists to devote toit, which fs more to his taste. ‘The papers of which hie has been thus the representative, have, without exception, tlourixhed, as will ny others he may take hold of: for noman in this line of busineks enjoys stronger popularity with advertisers or agents who control advertising. He is happily consti- tuted for lifs avoeation. A mi wight, full of Vim, vigor und tirelessness; generous, prompt, courteons, and ready-witted, he ix the idenl Gene eral Special Advertising Agent. Mr. Richardson hins well deserved the genuine success he has achieved, He is the best authority in the United States on newspaper cirenlation, having made it a study for 15 years, and his word 15 as good as his bond, on the old ficld of Conquerenux was fol- lowed by the absorption of southern Touraine: a victory at Pontlevor erushed the rival house of Blois; the seizure of Saumur completed his conquest of the south. while northern Touraine was won, bit by hit, till only Tours resisted the conquering Aungevine, His seizare of Count Herbert Wakedog left Maine at his merey. His work of conquest was completed by his son and successor— V. FULK-GEOFFREY MArTAL, who wrested Tours from the Count of Blois; and, by seizing La Mars, he brought his borders to the Norman frontiers, wherd his further advance was checked by the genius of “William the Conqueror.” With the death of Fulk V-Geoffr Martal, the greatness of Anjou came r o while to an end. He left two sons, Rechin, who succeeded to the . throne, and the dean of the cathredal ereu V1 rule and his J dissension RECHIN wasan unfortunate lost Maine to the Normans, ngdom wasbroken by internal He was o weak and prof- ligate ruler, but his son and successor VII. Fulk, of Jerusalem, who came to the throne in 1109, woke his country to fresh encrgy. He joined in the crusade against the Suracens and his cognomen “of Jerusalem™ eame from this co. Before starting to tine he was guilty, in his own opinion, of some conduet unbecoming a Christ soldier, under vows to fight the batt of the sacred cross against th Suracens, and he had us a penitent re- quired one of his subordinutes to scourge his naked shoulders with a withe made from the common broom weed of Anjou, the planta-genista, and while subsequently participating in the erusade, he wore o bunch of this planta- genista in his helmet in commemoration of his penance. He was n ruler of wonderful energy and force,and was the ruler of all others whom ng of England, Henry I, most It was to disarm his re- hostility that led Kin, Henvy to give the hand of his daughe Matilda to Fulk’s son, Geoffre the Handsome (Matilda was the widow of Henry V, emperor of Germany, and had, after the ERE o her German husband, returned to the courtof her father, the king of England). King Henry found too late that he had inereased his danger by this alliance, in the ambitious greed of his newly made son-in-law. ~Geoffrey’s habit of wearing the planta-genista in his hel- met, taken from his fathe gave him the cognomen of Plantagenct. VI Fulk the Handsome—The Plantagenet, intrigued with the Nor- man nobles, and Henry hurried to the horder to meet his Angevine son-1n-law’s invasion, but the plot broke down and King Henry now old and worn out withe drew to the forest of Lyons to die. IX. Fulk—King Henry [, of England. The Plantagenet, was a son of Geoffrey Fulk the Handsome, and Matilda, daughter of Henvy Tund grand-daughter of Willinm the Conqucror, % Proposals for School District Bonds. Seuled proposals will be received at this ofice until Febh 1, noon tor the purs chise of £2 Ldistriet bonds of ' the sehool district Suld hor of the denominution of §1,00 ench, div tary Ist. 1884, Dear interest’ at the Fate of five DOr cent per annum, payshle fannually ot Kountze Brothers. Hunkerd, ew York, principal to become due’ in twenty % from date thereof, ssued by the board of vdnea- lstrict of Omaha under au- thority granted by a vote of the people at the Al election held November Mth, 157, aud will be delivered to purchasers oh payment for at he city trewsury n Omahiu"on Feb= ruary th, 185K, Hide will be wddressed to the undersigned and marked “Proposals for School District Bonds,” and must state tie full name and adaress of the bidder, the amount of safd honds desired and the prit 1o be pald with aceraed ine terost The' right is reserved to re) bids. B Sheriff's Sale, BY,irtue of auarder of sule on attachment txsued by the | . county fudge in and” for count ska, i an action pending in suld county eln Savag 1, copartnership Jusiness in the state ehraski and not incorporated, are plaintifts, and John 8. Tooksbury is defends ant, 1 will on the sh day of Febriary, A. D, 18, at 10 o'clock w. me. at John Mulvibill's stable, on the west side of 121 strect, hetwoen worth and Jones streets. in the city of Gmabi, said county, sell at public suction ta the highest bidder for cash: ron grey horse and one black horse he attuched by mie on i order fron suld county court in the ahove entitied action WILLIAM COBURN, Sherttt of Donglas County, Neb, Omabs, Nebrusas, January 2, 185, j2ike