Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 25, 1888, Page 12

i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY., MARCH 25, 1888 ~S1X1EKN PAGES, A BRILLIANT AMERICAN CIRL. Miss Neally Stevens, the Well- Enown Pianist. A FAVORITE PUPIL OF LISZT. Mementoes of the Maestro Which Are Treasured by His American Pupil-~Pecunliarities of the Great Instruotor. Chicago Herald: A large room, with a great, sunny bay-window hung with Japanose draperies, Walls covored with pictures, chiefly photographs of Liszt in every pose imagineable. An enormous Chickering strewn with music in delightful disarray. A big jar of jacqueminot roses on the mantel catches vour eye next. Then, from a low chair by the open fire place, there rises a charming vision—a plump, fair little maiden, with masses of soft, silken, blonde hair piled highoff the graceful head. The dainty tea gown of pale- blue surah, with n?‘nwild\‘ring mass of Iace and Tndia silk drapery, reveals a well-rounded, shapely figure, the open neck and sleeves show the whitest throat and arms in the world, and the hand she extends to you in _greeting is a8 Adelina said of it—‘‘the hand of an artist”—pliable, creamy, and with a cunning dimple in every knuckle. Such is Neally Stevens, one of Chicago’s best known and most brilliant pianistes. She was a I()uml of Liszt—a real, truly pupil-—not like those . people of sublime nerve who. ]mvinli’ played once for the reat master, and having been tolerated gy him, then went forth to the world and with a great flourish of trumpets announced thomselves as ‘‘pupils of Liszt.”” No, Miss Stevens was for two years a genuine, bona fide pupil of the great maestro. And, morcover, a highly cherished friend. She hasa re- markable collection of notes written by him and other souvenirs of that great genius. She went to Germany a little, unknown American girl, longing to approach the consecrated ground, but not knowing how. Sadly disappointed by the non-appearance of a musical friend who was to present her to “the master,” she felt'sho should have to re- tire from Weimar baffled, when an American lady who happaned to know Liszt said to her: “It's a shame that you should miss all that might come to ou if once he heard you play,” and lorthwith,with woman’s skill, contrived @ plan. There were two angient spin- sters who were devoted to Liszt, and who werein the habit of giving little Sunday afternoon receptions for him, at which sometimes he would conde- scend to Elny himself, sometimes to listen to others. So it was at one of these unpretentious affairs that Neally was presented to Liszt, and with fear and trembling played before him, “‘He evidently expected little from me,” she sard laughingly, “for he told me when I had finished that he was sur- rised at my rendition of the heavy ach selection I had made. From that day he took me quite under his wing. I was with him two years. Not only was I invited again and again to play before him but he admitted me to ‘the privil- eges of his friendship.’ I was often bidden to dine and sup with him and his friends. Often, too, have I risefl before daylight and accompanied him to early mass and then home with him fora breakfast of eggs and honey. I really think I should have changed my reli- gion and become a Romanist save that I should have missed hearing him call me in delicious abuse ‘the little Ameri- can heretic.” What a wonderful nature was his. Bright and sunny himself, he wished only cheerful and happy faces, bright colors, youngxfeo le, flowers and music about him. e detested gloom and abominated ugly faces and dark Fowns. He was generous to prodigal- ty and of a singularly devout and spir- itual frame of mind. I seldom saw him in a passion, but when angry he was like an aroused lion, and woe tothe first person who crossed his track., I rem- ember once when something had oc- curred te specially upset him ie vented his fury upon a stupid pupil with the uestion, ‘Do you prefer to go out by the window or the door, madamoi- selle?”” “Was he really so fascinating to women?” I asked. “Yes, though the stories of his amours have beon terribly exaggerated. Of course, the Vichenstein affair was well known, but a great deal of the rest has been idle gossip. Liszt had a very ca- ressing way with women. ,He used to kiss his favored pupils on the bangs, and,” running her fingers through her fluffy fringe, 1 can tell you I used to keep mine well perfumed, but a kiss on the brow from Liszt meant no more than a handshake from many men. As to kissing him-—why, you couldn’t find a lace for the lovely big warts all over his face. This was his pet,” ponting to a gigantic one over his right eyebrow, “and he used to push up his glasses and rest one side on this wart, Then p ture him, if you can, with his long, l'i n lips curled "upward in his sardonic smile-~the effect was unearthly, fiend- ish, but altogether fascinating., His sarcasm was fine and cool and his wit subtile. A Leipsic critic of the Schu- man and Mendelssohn school, being with him one day, admired the playing of a pupil, and chiefly cemplimented him on the skill he showed in playing a dificult piece without notes. The Leip- - sic critics always nettled Liszt, and he replied, with supremo contempt, ‘Ho, that's nothing; we never use notes here.” But 1 must show you my treasures— l'n¥ souvenirs, Let me see; shall I ad- mit yout to my holy of holies?” suid this animated young woman as she disap. peared behind a screen with a mysteri ous air, flmn my assuring her that I was ready to put the shoes from off my feet, if it*were nocessary, so that I might ba- hold these cherished relics, she came forward with divers boxes and caskets, which she touched with reverence and looked upon with the rapt face of one who sees occult visions, She possesses sixteon different portraits of Liszt, on the back of several of which there aro incriptions in his hand, one of which reads: To Miss Neally Stevens, in most friendly sttachment (anbanglichkeit). F., Liszr. She has notes of commendation and introduction and invitation innumera- ble, one she especially values being a note of introduction to the late Dr, Damrosch, of New York., With great tenderness ehe unfolded a paper and showed me a lock of silver hair which she cut from his head. Next, a tiny box being opened, showed me a half- smoked cigar aud a withered rose-bud she had saved as it fell from his coat lapel. A pack of cards with which he layed at a little party she gave in his honor is a fondly treasured souvenir. Then, with reverent fingers, she un- folded a silk kerchief and took out an- other kerchief on which were three or four large blood stains and held it up triumphantly for my inspection, “QOpe day at class he pricked his finger and did not discover it-until, us he sat at the piano, he had struck a few chords, then seeing his finger bleeding, e held itup in dismay,as he had almost phildish horror of blood. I, standing next to him, wrapped my handkerchief about his finger, and, with a deep sigh, “it has never been and never will be laundried.” But the most valuable souvenirs she possesses are two original manuscripts of the great composer, one a song, “*Sainto Cecilo,” the other an “Elegie” for violoncello, pianoforts, hard and harmonium. The words of the song are in his own hand and there are the erasures and alterations justas he made them. Besides the Liszt souvenirs, Miss Stevens is fortunate enough to have ters from Von Bulow, Th. charwenka and Moszkowski, and the latter, the greatest living com- poser of the younger school, has dedi- cated to her @ superb conception— “Dance Bspagnole”—which she renders in a startlingly effective manner. She also takes great pride in a note from the divine Patti, before whom she slayed in Omaha at a luncheon given the divi, who was enthusiastic in her exprossions of delight. and gave Mi Stevens a cordinl invitation to v: at Craig-y- Nos Castle. Unlike most musicians, Neally Stovens seems not to have one tinge of professional jealousy. She speaks with enthusiasm of her sister pianists, and during the entire conversation did not gi ent to one spiteful or ill-natur iticism. Inspeaking of Mr. Bagby’s “‘Some Pupils of Lizt,” in_ the March Century, she referred to Adile Aus Der Ohe “Adile and I were close friends. Sece, here is a note from her,” showing the littte billet, She was the most simple and unassuming of gitls, considering her phenominal ability. She was in- tensely intevested in America and there secmedl somothing prophetic in her love for our country, ns she has made such a great and pronounced success here, Her playing is wonderful, She is a musician as well as composer.” Her manner in speaking of Mme. Bloomfield-Zeisler’s qualities was marked with the same gentlo jusiice. Miss Stevens 1s a western girl and has made Chicago her home for several years. She has played in ull the large cities of the west, and has made an unquestioned success ateach performance, her press notices being all that could be desired by the ambitious. She traveled one season with Mme. Materna to the Paci- fic coast and created a furore wherever she appeared. She is very young and has, without doubt, a great future be- fore her. She plays with great bril- liancy and dash. Her conception is artistic and poetic, her style self-con- tained, hor tone magnetic. Moreover, she has no unpleasant affections and is thoroughly sincere and painstaking. She has appeared once-this season at the Madison Street theater, and will be heard there again_at the Artists’ club performance March 27. “And now I will play for you,” said this obliging little lady as our inter- view drew to a close. She seated her- self at the grand piano and dashed off number after number of Liszt, Chopin, Moszkowski, Arthur, Foote, and other composers with spirit and poetic con- ception seldom equalled by a young pianiste. As I leaned back in my chair and olosed my eyes to lisien in perfect content there rose before me a vision of memory. Isaw an enormous building—on one side a great hill cov- ered with trees and shrubbery. A glorious June sky bent over me and soft airs played about me. On the velvet grass lay a group of happy-faced girls in vorious attituded, chiefly suggestive of lazy satisfaction. All had books, but they were not studying, for from the chapel windows above them came the straius of the Rhapsodie Hongroisg No. 2.—‘'‘Stovie” was practtcing, and there was no study when Vassar’s pet musi- cian was at the piano. And then the day when she was playing a difficult concerto ata concert and the string broke in_ the pianoand she could not finish. How we cheered her as she re- tired in confusion! Ah me!other times, other manners. To-day she isa full- gcdgcd artist and I am interviewing er. ————— A Noted Priest Coming to Omaha. American Celt, March 18: The fam- ous Stack-O’Hara case is at length set- tled, after sixteen years of litigation. Father M. P. Stack, who was paster of the Church of the Annunciation, in Wililiamsport, Pa., was removed from his position in 1871 by Bishop O'Hara, of Scranton. Claiming that the re- moval was illegal and in opposition to the canons of the church. Father Stack carried the matter into the civil courts. He was successful in the lower courts, but on Bishop O’Hara’s appeal the s preme court of Pennsylvania reversed the judgment. Father Stack recently made at three months’ retreat at St. Bonaxenture’s college, Allegheny, N. Y., and then sent in to his bishop a humble letter of submission and regret for his contumacy. Bishop O'Hard ne- copted the submission, restored the priest’s faculties and then gave him let- ters dimissoral, or an exeat, recom- mending him to the kind consideration of any right reverend bishop who might be pleased to receive him into his diocese. It is understood that Bishop O’Connor, of Omaha, Neb., will accept the services of Father Stack in the event of cortain required conditions being fulfill - - AN ARTFUL EARTHQUAKE. Startling Experience of Several Ne- vada Families. Virginia (Nev.) Entorprise: One day last woek, a few minutes before 3 o'clock, over an acre of ground at the corner of Ride and A streets, near the Divide, covered by five dwellings, sud- denly caved a distance of about eigh- teen inches at its deepest point, which covers about one-half of the area dis- turbed, The inhabitants, which at that time of day comsists principally of women, fled in dismay, spilling kettles pots of soup 10 capsizing fryingpans in their frigh.. They thought at first that the disturbance was caused by an earthqualke, but were not long in realiz- ing the truth when they beheld the at- titude their dwellings had assumed, The residence of Mr. Polkinghorn, on the southeast corner, settled in front. Those of J. MeNally and P. Sykes, on the opposite side, also settled in front and bowed gracefully to each other. The residence of Pat Connolly, along- side of that of Mr. Polkinghorn, settled toward the street and his cellar floor settled in several directions, ‘I'he water pipe on the west side of the street burst opposite the residence of My. McNally and sent a young flood down Bridgestreet. The greatest point of depression is between the houses of MeNalle and Sykes. My, Pendegast of Chollar, over which ground the disturbance occurred, says there isa drift uuder there at a depth of 150 feet, but cannot give any reason why the ground should settle so much here. About 150 feet further west of A ttreet, at that point immediately under a large house occupied by a carpenter named Thompson. there is a large cave, but it is not believed it has extendod s0 far east as the place where tne dis- turbance occurred. The Sharon shaft is situatod about 200 feet north of the cor ner of A and Ridge streets, and the e; cavations undernoath were carried on from that shaft. ‘The 'nervy inhabitants returned to their homes, and propose to sink, witk theship. 5 . MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. Millooker, the Austrian composer of op- peretta, is puite ill in Vienna. Creston Clarke will star. next season in “Hamlet" and other legitimate parts. Joftreys Lewis will shortly start for the Pacific coast, playing her way out there, Charles A, Stevenson has been re-clected vllcnhmmmodore of the Larchmont Yacht club. Mary Anderson denies the report that she Idn going to marry “‘an Englishman from Lon- on." Talma's grandson in the male line lately died st Bordeaux. He was a merchant's clerk. Sydney Rosenfeld's ‘A Possible Case’ will }&o Kyi'vun 1ts first production at Williamsburg, Mrs. John Drew will probably have a week of old comedy in her own theatre early in the spriug. “The Streets of New York," with George Boniface as Badger, is making a great hit this season. Mrs. D. P, Bowers will givedramatic read- ings through the west as far as San Fran- cisco, if possible, Pauline L'Allemand, of the defunct na- tional opera company, is singing with fair success in Germany. Newton I3eers has beon playing to good business in “Lost in London’’ at the People's theatre, Chicago. Mrs. Osmond Tearle (nee Minnie Conway- Levy) has been suffering from a severe at- tack of bronchitis. And now somebody else is reported to have secured the world-claiming Saxe-Meiningen company for America. Alice Harrison will play the soubrette part in “In the Swim,” which has been turned into a musical comedy. De Wolf Hopper, according to statoments generally credited by his relatives and friends, is in his 31st year, John A. Mackey’s starring tour in ‘‘Pop" has come to an end—through the weakness of his backer, 80 1t is said. A. C. Gunter's novel, “Mr. Barnes of New York,"” has been dramatized and presented in London for copyright purposes. Anton Schott, formerly of the Metropoli- tan opera house, is filling an engagem.ut av at the Royal opera house, Berlin. Singular as it may seem, Denman Thomp- son, in ‘“The Old Homestead,” failed to draw at Macauley’s theatre, Louisville. “The Henrietta" is announced for produc- tion in New York shortly, with all the origi- nal scenery, properties and cffects, Beat) Cameron, the leading lady of the Richard Mansfield company, will go to Lon- don with “Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Miss Lenora Brndlo)" who will support. the Knights in “‘Rudolph” at the Walnut, is a fine actress and a great fayorite here. Mr. Louis Aldrich will open the next and regular season of the new Broadway theatre, New York, with *‘The Kaffir Diamond.” Herrmann, the magician, has made an offer for a lease of the Bijou opera house, New York, for a year from September 14. ‘The New York Bijou theatre is for sale; price, $500,000. A ten years’ lease of the house is held by Messrs. Rice and Dixey. Vernona Jarbeau in “Starlight'’ sings a topical song, “That's enough, don't you thin!” m which she has made a telling hit. Emma Juch has been engaged as the lead- ing soprano of the Rutiand (Va.) an- R{m\ musical festival, which will be held in ay. Rumor has it taat Mr. Harrigan will not renew his lease of the Park theatre, New York, and that Mr. H. R. Jacobs will be his successor. Adelina Patti, accompanied by Maurice Grau, sailed from France last Thursday for South America, where she will make an ex- tended tour, “Napji,” by Chassaigne, the composer of ‘‘Falka,” will be the next attraction atthe New York Casino, with Sadie Muartinot in the title part, ““Town and Country,” one of Thomas Mor- ton’s old comedies, is to be revived at Wal- lack’s New York theater for the first time in twenty years, “A* Dark Secret” has been materially improved since last here. A rain storm of real water will be added to the other great effects. M. Hippolyte Raymond and Maurice Or- donneau’s three-act vaudeville, “*Les Noces de Mlle. Gamache,” is the latest at the Paris Palais-Royal. Signor Sapio, the accompanist_of the Josef Hofmann concerts, has gone to South Amer- ica to act as conductor of the PPatti operatic performances. Sir William Young has written a new sketch for Rosina Vokos entitled, “Only a Joke,” which is to have its first production in Toronto, Can. Robert B. Mantell has made the announce- ment that he has dropped the B out of his name and will hereafter be known only as Robert Mantell. Nat Goodwin sold seats and boxes at the New York Academy of Music 1ast Thursday for Tony Hart's benefit performance. Nearly $5,000 was secured. Manager Al Hayman is trying to persuade Imre Kiralfy to accept $2,500 each for four performances of Chevalier Blondin in San Francisco next fall, Rice's beautiful *“Evangeline” is credited with having drawn $1,416,000 since its first production. It must be admitted that “Evan- geline” has many admirers. Salvini, the Italian tragedian, during his American tour of twenty weeks, will play under the management of Wesléy Sisson, formerly of the Criterion theater. Mme, Melba, of Brussels, has been en- gaged at a large salary by Mr. Harris for his season of Itahan opera in TLondon, which opens at Covent Garden on May 20, The Hanlons ‘“Fantasma’ company was a of the striko on the Chicago, Burling- Quincy. 1t lost a night in getting to Denver, and has put ina claim for dam- ages. Colonel McCaull's broken leg has mended thoroughly, but he is not yet able to put_any weight upon it. It has been broken three times in all, each time in exactly the same pluce. Genevieva Lytton's six dresses in ‘‘A Pos- sible Case” will cost §1,500, and will be made by home talent. After this who can say that American plays are not handsomely mounted ¢ Imre Kiralfy has begun active preparations for the production of the big spectacle of “Nero” ‘at St. George, Staten Island, in Juue. In the arena scene 2,000,000 men and wornen will appear, A comedy called ‘“‘Amanuensis” will be produced at Dockstader’s theater,New York, next month, with J. H. Rytey, the Ko Ko of the Duff opera company, and Madeline Lu- cette in the leading parts, Madame Christine Nilsson complains of Continual rhoumatism. She says that she has uot even contemplated another American tour and doubts if she will ever seriously re- sume her profession again, Several English capitalists who think that Barnum is the greatest show on earth have offered to eregt a building in London for P. T, and Bridgeport's possible president is considering the proposition. Miss Litian Olcott's suit against the Franco-American agency in defense of her rights in the play of **T'heodora,” which she claims is her property, will be tried in the great metropolis during this month. Pauline Hall is to leave the New York Ca- sino company on May 1, and she will be suc- ceeded as the leading lady of the establish- ment by Sudie Martinot. "It is possible Miss Hall may be engaged for the traveling com- pany. Joe Murphy is one of the richest actors on the road. He made bis money by saving it. A friend says that when a performauce is over Murphy will wash off the grease and paint, put on his clothes, go out to the bar, {ake a drink (just one drivky, lay down 10 cents, and go to his hotel. It is stated that Mrs. Abbey will shortly rotire permauently from the stage. Mr. Abbey's laudable preference that his wife should act no longer has something to do with this, and she will probably accompany him shortly when he makes a trip westward to look after some of his numerous inter ests. The oldest actress on the French stage, Mume. Cornelle Fauvelle (perhaps the oldest actress in active service on any stage), cele- brated her birthday at the Theatre de Bor deaux recontly, appearing in thesame soubret part in which' she made her pebut three quarters of a century ago. In the audience were several of her.children, granchildren and great-grandchildren, Kiralfy - probably hasn’t heard of hel s 5 Ed K. Vau Vechte L@ S'ogng comedian who is getting ready fo etar, has a mmg backer—a Philadelphian named Michael F. Dallett, and will play & netv farcical com: called “Civil Sorvice/' from the pen of H. Grattan Donnelly. The scenes of the com- edy are laid in Washington. John F'. Harley is business man 4 Van Vechten ‘made something of a :fiu the vacuous English lord in ‘“T'he Little T'ycoon.’ Miss Mary Andopson will terminate her prosent season at the Lyceum, London, arch 24, It began last year, September 10 “A Winter's Talo” nas been continuously ropresented from thet time to this—Miss Anderson impersonating Hermione and Por- dita. At the close of her London season Miss Anderson will fn to Paris on a visit to Lady Lyttod, wifé of the British ambassador, and subsequently she will pass_a little time at Malta with the family of Waits, tho painter. Among the most enthusiastio admirers of Miss Marlowe on the oocasion of her debut as Juliet, were Colonel Robert Ingersoll, his wife and two daughters, who made a central section of the orchestra conspictious and bright, A friend remarked, in answer to the colon question as to how he liked the bal- cony scene, that he had never seen it better done by a beginner, but the colonel quite in- dignantly insisted that it had never been bet- ter done by anybody. The National Opera company is not dead yet, thongh it has gone through a deal of suffering. It has, according to gossip, as sumed a now shape, and its_next appearance before the public will be under the common wealth plan: The four principal artists will make the attempt to “work the oracle.” Mr. Gosche, it is understood, will pilot the ven- tire, and one peculiarity of the reorganized organization will be that there will be no Locke on the door. Augustin Daly has given the use of his company and theatre for an Iaster Monday matinee of ‘A Midsummer Night's Droam’ for the benefit of the Little Sisters of the Poor. The price af seats has been placed at $2.50 and general admisgsion §1. All the boxes ore sold. The committee having the benefit in charge includes Eugene Kelly, Judge Morgan_J O'Brien, Joseph J. O'Donohue, James J. Coleman, John Crane, Robert L. Hoguet, John D. Crimmins and other well- known gentiemen of Now York. The most notable attraction in dramatic circles next season will be _the reappearance on the American_stage of Mrs, Henrietta Chanfrau, who will be associated with her son Henry in the production, upon a magnifi- cent scale, of the beautiful Corsican drama, “The Oath.” Mrs, Chanfrau will be sur- rounded with a very strong cast, and opens the regular season at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia in October, under the man- agement of Mr. A. B. Anderson. “The Mystery of a_Hansom jCab" is the titlo of Miss Grace Hawthorne's new play that is agitating dramatic London at present. A banker’s villa in the suburbs of Mel- bourne is built on piles, as is the ¢ustom in that treacherous soil, and the front being open to the aucience, a dinner party is seen enjoying themselves on the first floor, while the plotters are at work beneath the ground plan of the house. The Australian scenery 18 said to be wonderfully realistic. Mr. Bernard, the new tenor of the Paris opera, was discovered accidentally by M. artmann, who was struck by the beauty of the man’s voice as he sang a careless snatch while workmg at the carpenter’s bench, in Toulon. M. Hartmann saw in this plain man a future model for the operatic boards, and nailed a bargain with him on the spot. 5 Bernard knew not a note of music then, but has since overcome the shortcoming. An enterprising Parfs manager lately asked Moissonier to palnt 4, drop ocurtain for his theater. The old master replied: “I have calculated, and find, that my pictures are valued at 80,000 franes per metre. Your cur- tain would, thereforé, cost you 21,600,000 francs. But this is ‘not all. It takes me twelve months to paint twenty-five cen- timetres. 1t will, thérefore, take me 190 years to finish your ‘ourtain. You should have come to me earliar, Monsier; you should have come to me earlier. Good morning.” Virginia Drener, ‘ot Aufstin Daly com- pany, will leave that organization and the stage at the close of the New York season, on April7, and will“shortly after begin u matrimonial engagement with G. F. Pos- tlethwaite, who 1is at present living in New York at the Albemarie:hotel. The expectant bridegroom says thatihe date of the wedding has not been settled. ;:He is an Englishman, and ib i3 probabie that he and his wife will malke their home in §fy own country. Miss Dreher was born in Louisville and is a widow, and the mother of a girl about nine years old. Her stage career has extended over only six years, and itis said that she mafe her debut with John McCullough in the “‘Hunchback.” i LDUCATIONAL. #% A woman's college, with teachers from England, has been established at Tokio, in Japan. The managors of the Iowa State university modestly asked the legislature to appropri- ate $20,000 for the purpose of putchasing a base ball ground for the students. The university of Bologna will celebrate in June the S00th anniversary of its foundation. All the great educational institutions of the world have been invited to send delegates. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt has lately shown good sense as well as liberality in the gift of £20,000 for the fitting up of a manual training department in the Vanderbilt university at Nashville. A chair of “Darwinism” (or’ Spencerism) has been founded at the College de France by the municipal council of Paris. M. Ribot, the eminent psychologist, has been appointed the first professor, Licutenant John W. Wilki Seventh United States ca has been selected to succeed Licuten . C. Sharpe, U. 8. A., ds yrofessor of military scicnce at the university of Worcester. 5 A notable event in the history of the Uni- versity of Michigan is the election of Dr. Hattic Allen, of Waterloo, Ta., to fill the position of assistant _professor of medicine in that institution. She is tne first woman ever chosen to a_position of that nature in a western university. New Orleans university, one of the freed- men’s schools of the Méthodist Episcopal church, has a fine new building, the cost of which, with furnishings, will be about $50,- 000, of which - §15,000 remain to be raised. The present attendance is over two hundred young men and women. At a recent meeting of the committee 0! in- struction of the Penusylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a resolution was adopted express- ing “gratification in the excellent character of the school work shown in the present ex- hibition, reflecting credit upon the instruct. ors and students of the academy.” n Lord Clifford has left a legacy of $100,000 to the four Scotch universities for the pur- pose of founding courses of investigation re ated to natural theology, or rather the phi- losophy and - history of religions, The sub. jocts are to be approached in a spirit ex- Clusivoly scientific. The nvestigators are not to bo limited to any creed nor to any promise; they may beloug to any religion, or to none at all. They arato be chosen amoug capable and respectable thinkers, who sin- cerely love the truth, snd seek it seriously; “for,” says Lord Cliffoyd, I am persuaded that free discussion can result in nothing but good. The catalogue of Oberlin college gives the number of students enrolled during the year at 1,417, an aggregate of §5 more than ‘any previous year, The enrollment isas follows: department of theology, '85; philosophy and artt, 536; preparatory, 480; music, 483; art, 58. The whele number of gentlemen attend- ing the institution is 621, and of ladies is 706. The total endowment of Oberlin is now $351,771.28, an increase of $108,065.61 since the semi-centennial celobration of 1853, But this amount is entirely too small to do the extensive work required of this old anda e cellent instisution, 1t needs at least a quar- ter of & million more of gudowment to place it in anything like the financial condition which its usefulness deserves. William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va., whose germ dates from 1619, and which is consequently the oldest institution of learn- ing in the country, is to be ro-established as @ state normal school and will get a yearly income of $10,000. Washington, Jefferson, Mouroe, Randolph, of Roanoke, and Tyler were educated at William and Mary, and " its 0ld catalogues bear the names of ‘scores of notable Virgiuia families. The college reach- ed the heighth of its fame w the first half of the eighteeath century, when it beld the sur- veyor generalship of the colony, and enjoyed a large income trom the export tax on to bacco. When the establishment of the fed- eral government deprived the college of these emoluments, no recompense was given, and there has becn a continyal struggle to keep up its reputation on limited means ever since. A state normal school on the old foundation oughtto be s powerful force for education in the new soutk, . A on, of the SINGULARITIES, \ — A petritied blook of oak with the marks of an ax plainly visible upon it, has been found near Dallas, Ore. The question i8, who used the ax. A house in New Jetsey which had been kept insured for eighty-nine years, burned up the other day between the lapse of one policy and the taking out of another. One of the most remarkable things con- nected with the woek’s bliszard was the ne- cossity of getting telegraphic news between Now York and Hoston via Europe, a distance 0f 6,000 miles. Charles T. Rill, steward at the Cadets’ hospital, West Point, who died recently, had doubled’ in weight through dropsy, which caused hls death. In health ho tipped tho beam at 200 pounds. A woman in Harlem, N. Y., has a doublo row of teath, one of her sous has no teeth at all, a daughter has a head of h black on one side and red on the other, and the watch- dog that guards tho variegated family bas ono artificial eye and ‘was bora. without ail. The negroes of Georgia are flocking to the Ocala s\vmn!! and daubing themselves with its mud, in the hope that it will turn them white. This movement had its origin in the fact that a negro who had wounded his leg and bandaged it with the mud of the swamp found when his leg healed that it had turned almost white, The sea serpent that appears periodically off the Maine const is apparently no spring chicken. He was seen there in 1817 and by a minister, too. Mr, Staples, one of the oldest settlers of Prospect, Me., used to swy that ho once saw the monstrous ' creature envelope a schooner in its folds and sink it in plain view of the people on shore, A Louisiana negro, near Bayou Goula, saw a bear in his turnip patch and tried to drive himn out. The bear resentedhe insult,drove the k& egro out a d chased him up the railroad trac . The da ky stepped aside to lot an ex- presstrain pas and the bear didn’t. After the train passed the darkey took a lot of bear meat home for supper. ‘Wind rolled snow balls are often seen on the Dakota and Wyoming prairies, Some- times millions upon millions of the balls are sight at ono time, Many are the size of an orange, some as big as o cannon ball while others reach the proportion of the prize pumpkin of the county fair. These freaks of the storm leave a person under the impres sion that great armtes of school children have been battling over the snowy spaces. Quite a number _of years ago there o from Virginia to Eola, Mo., a new!ly mar couple. Inthe natural course of events a daughter was born to them and made happy ahe young household. That daughter is now t young lady—quite a belle—and the fact has just come to light that she is web-footed. The young lady, however, wants her name concealed. She is a great society belle, and the story of her toes, if found out, would embarrass her not a little. John Battersby, who, in his day, was the thiunest living skeleton in the show business, pegan to gain weight immediately after being thrown out of a wagon near Frankford, Pa., some fifteen years ago. His lightest weight was fifty-two pounds, and after the accident he grndunlli: began' to Increase in ayoi dupois until he has fattened outof the bus ness at 130 pounds. tersby, weighs 630 pounds. buckles her own skate straps. An anatomist in Science is responsible for this statement: *‘On the outside of a per- fectly formed human being there is nothing to distinguish the right hand from the left, and no one can describe it in_words so that an ignorant person can find it.” It is not true, There is a geographical difference easily indicated. Let s man place the hand on a table, palm down, with the fingers to tho north. If the thumb points to the east, it is the left hand; if to the west, it is the right. Nexti ‘What looked like the largest, straightest, soundest and longest walnut log _ever floated down the Cumberland, reached Nashville the otherday. It pbelonged to a green-looking countryman who gave good reasons why he must sell it immediately. It was such a fine log that despite the owner’s anxiety to sell, it fetched almost its apparent value, In due course of time it was taken out of the water and proved to be a sycamoroe log with walnut, bark tacked all over it in the most artistic manner. 'he green countryman has not boen sen since. A bright witted girl in Manchester, Eng- 1and, telephoned to her father at his ofiice, asking if her dog, Curley, was there, He re- plied that he wae. “Well take him up in your arms and hold the receiver to his ear; [ want to tell him to come home,” said the girl. Her father did so. The dog's counte- mnmcuturil{, a look of astonish- ing “‘Come home, Curly! Come home!” in the }(uminine tones of his mistress, but it took him only an instant to understand what was wanted’ and he made a break for home as fast as he could go. et P Lawrence Barrett. As has been predicted by his nd- mirers, Lawrence Barrett, now sharing the honors with Edwin Booth, is upon the top rounds of the ladder of tragic fame, but his road has not been an alto- gether easy one to tra Mr. Barrett was born in Patterson, N. J.,on_Ap and he first at Detr n 1858, in the ster of Murad in the ‘‘French ) He remained at Detroit for a year, playing small parts, and then went to the old opera house at Pitis- urg for a short season. He next peaved in St. Louis and Chicago, until December, 1856, he s an engage- ment at the theatre in Chambers street, New York. In the antumn of 1858 he was engaged for lending parts at the Boston museum, where he_ opened as Frederic Bramble in “The Poor Gentleman” to the Doc- tor Ollapod of the veteran William Warren. He remained heve for two years and then went o the Howard athenmum in_the same city, where he again met Miss Cushman and played with such stars as Barry Sulli- van and E. L. Davenport. The war king out about this time, he distin- guished himself as captain of the Twen- ty-eighth Massachusetts regiment. On returning to the stage My, Barrelt s enguged forthe Walnut street thea- re, I*hiladelphia, where he remained for three months,going thence to Wash- ington, He then went back to Phila- delphia, to the Chestnut street theatre, for a short time. Ho was next engaged by Mr. Booth for the Winter Garden theatre, New York, where he played Othello to Booth’s *‘Togo.” While he was playing this chavacter, his i sonution witnes: by the e Wallack, avho declared it to be the most striking performance he had seen for twenty years, Lncouraged by this Mr. Barrett worked along, experiencing many ups and downs, until, in the autumnn of 1873, he played o remarkably successful en- gagement at San Francisco, and in the season of 1873-74 he toured in the United States., His next important production was “Yorrick’s Love,” at the Park theatre New York, in 1878, Its author is Joaquin Estebanze, a Spanish writer, and its original title was “A New Play.” Its American adaptor is Mr. W, D. Howells, the w known novelist. Barrett produced *‘Pendragon,” in Chicago, in the autumn of the following vear he brought out *‘Francesca da timini” at the Chestnut street theatre Philadelphia, where the tragedy cured an instant snccess, In this play he acted the hunch back, ~Lanciotto, a performance of high intelligence and rare power and it may aid that the latter play caused a turning point in his career which placed him as a great artist in the eyes of the public. Mv, Barrett de- serves eredit for continually bringing hing new, his latest success he King’s Pleasure;” he has 0 I' ed David Garrick’s favorite {:ln_y. ‘““Phe Wonder,” an old com ut'a good one, The old ‘tragedy, ‘A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, RRobert Browning, the great Buglish ‘post. was rgvived. by Mr. Barrett, after being Taid on the shelf for some thirty odd years, My. Barrett otcupics a high position in. me His wife, Hannah But- She nover acted ap- JONES" MERRY WAR! A six day's Baster Carairal of Staughtered Prices: commencing Monday; March 26th. Prices that have nhever beon quoted in Omiaha and ptices that will only bo made on days quoted. Mail orders filled if received on or before dato of sale. Read and Wonder! MONDAY-—Boys' Blue Flannol Sailor Suits, Silk Embroidered Collor 07c; Boys' Fanoy Check Jacket and Pants, Suits $1.24; Boys’ Imitation Scotchi Cheviot Suits, Jacket and Pants, $1.70. Above prices for Monday only. TUESDAY~Men's Braided End Elastic Suspenders worth 25c, at 8c; Men's fine Kid Glovos, Embroidered Backs, rogular $1.50 grade at 03c; Painters’ White Drill Overalls, well made, 850, with bibs 30, WEDNESDAY—Our entire lino of Trunks and Travoling Bags, 25 per cont less than regua lar prices for Wednesday only. THURSDAY-—Two great bargains in Spring Overcoats, Lined, soft finished, Cassimore Coat at #5.05, worth £10.00. Ker FRIDAY—Men suits at §3.75, worth .00 No.1, afine Light Brown Serga No. 9, an oxtra fine, finished, Cassimere Coat, Silk lined throughout, at §10.00. genuine Fur Felt Stift Hats, Spring Style, Satin lined, at #1.25; Boys' fina all Worsted Knee Pants Suits $4.9 ; Boys' fine all Wool Plaid Scotch Cheviot SATURDAY—1wo marvelous bargains; Men's fine Gage Spring Undorwoar, Silk Bmbroid ered, at 89c, worth 75c; 500 pairs Men's Cassimere Pants, strictly free from shoddy, nico Spring styles and well made, at tho remarkable prico of $1.6: All above prices only on days quoted. “Put money in thy purse” by attending the sales, ‘L. O. JONES, American Clothier, 18309 Farnam St., Omaha. GUENMAN & ‘Will open Thursday, March 29 for Eastér. l with a choice line of Millinery Miss Dacy, formerly of 8. G. Joyce, will open our departments, one whose knowledge has been appreciatec. She will be pleased to welcome all her former patrons at tha beautiful new store in the Sheely Building, 419 South 15th St.'& social life; he has been requested to,and in all probability will deliver an nddress at Harvard college, his subject being, “Dramatic Art.” On a like previous occasion the address was delivered Dby Mr. Henry Irving. e A PART OF THEIR BUSINESS. Restaurant Keepers and Waiters Who Oall Customers by Name. New York Sun: The propriotor of an Italian restaurant cordially greeted a customer a few evenings ago and anx- iously inquired after the health of an- other gentleman. “You don’t know me,” said the cus- tomer. “The only time you ever saw me was a year ago, when I dined here with a friend.” “Oh, yes, I remember you porfectly,” said the proprietor. *““You are Mr. —, and your friend whom I have not seen since, was Mr. -—. How is his health?” The customer was pleased, and men- tally resolved that he was a person of much consequence, and that he would dine in that restaurant every night. Many men have been similarly sur- prised. A reporter was called by name the second time he visited a busy res- taurant, and asked the waiter how he learned it. ““You came in here,” the waiter said, “with four other gentlemen, none of whom I had ever seen before. During your conversation you mentioned the names of each other and I remembered them because that is part of my busi- ness. It always pleases a man to think that he is remembered, and it is a waiter’s business to please the patrons of the place where he works. If a man dines alono, it is frequently difficult for us to learn his name. We generally learn it, though, in one way or another. On entering he may nod toan acquaint- ance. If the latter isa steady patron and has a favorite waiter, as he is likely to have, we get that waiter to procure the information for us. “There is a man who dinesalone here every night, He sits at a certain table and I always wait upon him. It was a month before I learned his name, and then I saw it on an_envelope which he laid on the table while he read the en- closure. I called him by name imme- diately, and he was tickled to death. *No, I don’t know that my memor, unusually good or that I deserve any especial praise for carrying the names of a hundred or more customers in my head. Names are easier to remember, I think, than other things. As I said before, it is part of our business. If a person thinks he is known in a certain restaurant he is apt to go there in preference to other places, and it puts him and the waiter on a friendly foot- ing. Ifa waiter has learned your name shortly after he has first n you he is u good waiter, and you can rest assured that he is attending to your wants in a manner proportionate to the size of his tip.” ————— A Narrow Escape. New York Sun: It was at a wedding The guests filed slowly through the rooms where the presents were dis- played, and each gazed in wonder and admiration at the one that lay above them all. | “How good of him!” was echoed. “Oh! father, how could you?” said the bride as she saw it, and fell blushing on his neck. “*Never mind,” he said, in choked ac- cents, “you deserve it.” Three hours later, when all was still and the room deserted, he stole in in his slippers, drawing short, quick breaths as he approached the wonder- causing gift. Then hoe clutched it, crumpled it in his eager, nervous grasp, and threw it in the stove. “Saved!” he gasped. ‘“‘Save from beggary and ruin,” and he went back to bed, 1t was an order for a ton of coal. [POPULAR PRICES!! FIRST CLASS 600DS!! Through our special factli- ties we are able to offer our| customers unusual bargatus n Busiuess Suits, Sacks and Provk Conts—-the best in the market | from $10.00 to $15.00. at prices rauging We make Do assertions that we are not prepared to verify, and gentlemen will Brand Song Recital JVEDNESDAY EVENING MAR. 2. IN THR Now Meyer Music Hatl ARTISTS: FRAULEIN BRANDT. Mr. Nat® Bingham, Tenor, Mr. Revel France, Basso. Mr. B. B. Young, Baritone. Madame Young, Accompanist, Commencing at 8 o'clock. ADMISSION, ONE DOLLAR. Notice vo Contractors. (SEALED Proposals will be recefved by the w dersigned at the office of Union Stock Y Comupany (Limited), at South until Lo'clock p, m. March 31st, 185, 'for the moval of 50,00 cubic yards,' more or less, of carth, near Armour's Packing House, Sonth Omatin. - Profiles and specifications can be soer at the office of Rust & Way, engincers, Room 421 Paxton Bullding, The right is reserved to ros Ject any or all bids, (8 Jonx F. Boyp, Gen. Manager, mh21a7t Omaha, Nebra: Proposals for Army Transportatl; HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PLAT: Chiet Quartermaster's Offico, Omaha, Neb. March'1, 1888, (SEALED proposals, in tripiicate, sibject to the usual conditions, will be receivod at thiy office untdl one o'clock p, m., central standard time on Monday, April 558, a4 Which time and place they will e openéd in tho presence of Didders, for the transportation of such military stores and supplies ns may be turned over by the Quartermaster's Depaitment for that pur- pose on any or allof the following described ;&nz‘e& during the fiscal year commencing July 1. Between Bordeaux, Wyoming, and Fort Laramle, Wyoming. 2. Between Douglas, Wyoming, or other nearer point to Fort McKinney, at which freight can be dalivered on_the Cheyenne & Northern, Iajlroad, and Fort McKinney, Wyoming. 3. Botween Fort Casper, Wyoining, and Fort McKinney, Wyomin, . 4. Botween "Fort Casper, Wyoming, or other uearer polnt to Fort Washakie at which frolght can be delivered on_the Wyoming Central Rall- road, and Fort Washakie, Wyoming, 5. Betwveen Rawlins, Wyoming, and Fort Washakle, Wyoning, 6. Botwcon Carter, Wyowing, and Fort Brid- ger, Wyoming, . Betweon Price, Utah, and Port Du Chosne, ah, 8. Botween points wherever required within the 1imita of the city of Omuha, Nebraska. 9. Betwoen Omaha quarterminster’s depot, or any other points within the limits of the city of Omaha and Fort Omaha, Nebraska, 10, Between Valenting, Nebrasks, and Fort Niobrora, Nebraska, 11. Between Cheyenne City and Cheyenne Quartermaster’s Depot; Cheyonne City and Fort D. A, Russell, and Cheyenne Quartermaster’s Depot and Fort . A. Russell. 1%, Tetween Salt Lake City, and Fort Duoglas, . [ L For transforring from or into cars and iauling stores between raflroad depot and other Dpoints at Ogden, Utal 14. For transfer hauling stores botw, points at Price, Utah. “from or into cars and on ralroad depot und other 15, For tr hauiing st points at Ic nsforring from or nto cars and tw afizond depotand otlior 4. or fnto cars and radiroad depot and otlier ming. hauling stor polnts at Douglas, Wy 7. For transferring from or into cars and hauling stores between railroad depot and other points at Fort Casper, Wyoming, “The Governnient reserves the right to reject any or all proposal Bluuk proposals, forms of contract printed circular, giving full information manner of bid by bidders, and terms.of contract and pay will be furnished on application to this office. inyelope contaning proposals to be marked posals for Transportation on Route No, aud addressed (o tie understined, WM. I3, HUGIES, and fof Quartorinaster, ALS FOR ARMY Bupplie: chasing and Depot Commissaries of Bubsistence, U.8. Army,Omaha, Vel ch 2, 1865 Sealod proposals f tripli* t to the usual condition 1 be re celved ut this oflice until 11 o'clock &,'m., central standard time, on Mon the #ivd’ dny of April, 188%, at which time and place they wifl be opened in' the presence of bidders, for the fur- nishing und delivery at Omaha, Neb., the follow- Army suppli Vinegar; blacking, shoe, row's; cheese, Y. A tlour, family; and 0, smoking, Seal of N. O, The riglit'1s re- 1 {0 reject any or all bids, Blank propo- sals und specifications showin in detail the articles and quantities required and giving fuil information as to condition of contract, will b furnished on application to this oftice. J. W, ARG I Mg, and Cr 8. U B Ar mhziditsap’ JO. 0L, A Bonds For Sale QEALED bids are horoby sollcited, to bo flled B “with . A Gilbert, séeretary of the sehool York, Neb., on or befors April 5d, 1588, ing Bonds, 1 Honds of fchool of York connty, Neb., 188K, due April 20, 1608, " nter wble semi-annually, prineipal and able i New York (ity, denomina. thons, 8600 each. Thie us 1 valuation of said Mool Aistrict 1s #100,557, estitiated valuatiol .45, amonnt of Lonis outstanding, ¥7, Kehool board reserve the right to reject any or all bids. The bove described bonds are leguily issuod by vote of aid school district, and will e registered and ready to deliver Apetl 5, 185, Further information will be fur- nished on application to M. Soverelgn, connty clerk, or 8. A- Nowell, York, Neb., conimittes, 7, 1, A, NO. 8--PROPOSALS FOR ARMY Supylies -Hendquarters Dept. of the Platte, Ofce of Chief Commissary of Subsisten Omaha, Neb,, March 2], 155, Sealed pro in triplleate,'accompaniod by guarautec will e » ed at the ofiice of e coLiLIssary of subsistence at Omaha, Neb. and ghe oftice of the actin missary of subsistence st Fort Owaha, Neb., until 12 o'clock M,. central stand. axd tiuie, and at the oftice of thio' commissiry of subsistenice at Cheyenne Depot, Wyo., aud the of the acting cominizsaries of subsistence rts Siduey, Nlobiara and Robinson, Neb., Forts McK1n A le, sell and Washakie, and Canp. and Forts Douglas aud Du Chesne, Utel 1 Jountain stapdard uue, on vil, 18, at which pened 1n the pres- and deliver d sl ho posiA an ively, durimg tho tis CAl year comuiens uly 1, 1985, The vight 18 reserved to re. ¥ ol i fuforma- 10m as to the quantity of fresh beef to Le fur- nished at any post oF station, amountof guac- antee bond,” Diank - proposals snd guarsitee bonds, and cireulars }ur nformation of bidders, apply Ly awail o 1n person to the ollices Lerein deliuuted to Tocuive propous thoreat, JoW. BAKKRIGEK, Ma). and 0. 8., U.8. A, Chief 0.8 JC hond. esdiy, the it nd plices they wi ence of bidders, for'the fur of the fresh boof SLA1I0Ds we