Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 8, 1888, Page 13

i B At . AND FLOWERS. Beauty and Wealth in the Sanctuary. EASTER SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. A Gotham Preacher’s Opinion—Some Able Bermons—Talmage's Two Watches--Society Gossip =Dramatic Notes. Wew Yorr, April 2.—[Special Correspon rvnw of the Ber,]—No place in the world has Easter Sunday been celebrated with a higher appreciation of the spirit of the day than in this city, For the rich it was a day of new bonnets and fine trappings: for the poor, a day of hard-boiled eggs and pretzels Thero is but one New York, one Fifth avenue, and one such sight in the world as this famous street prosents on Easter Sun day. Yestorday the weather was perfect until the grand promenade was over—a crowded pavement of moving humanity, bright with new raiment, gay. flowers and 1ad countenances on both ' sides the avenue or nearly two miles. ‘There were many handsomo and some beautiful women; but why do 80 many females powder and rouge their faces? By this repellant fashion th neither excite the envy of their own sex nor the admiration of the oth This non-de ceptivo artificiality was a blotch upon tho beauty of the living panorama. Hardly had the sun climbed up the eastern sky when the altars of Christendom twinkled with lights and the swoet breath of flowers mingled with floating inconse be- fore the tabernacle of tho risen Saviour. All the sorrowful wailings of Golgotha were hushed, and the dark trappings of woe were siripped from the temples. — Through her thousand aisles and chuncels went the joicing church in wonderful processions of scarlet and purple, and white and gold, The bells clashed joyously in the steeples, the choirs burst into wild chants, the lamps burned high in the sanctuarics and gleaming chalices were uplifted before the kneeling multitudes. A cloudlcss summer sky greeted the Easter dawn and New York turned out of doors ar- ayed iu the splendors of fashion. The parks were crowded, the stroots were pa geants of variety and the windows bloomed with flowers, Kverybody seemed to take on the spirit of the day. E'rom the godless min who had eaten hard boiled eggs at breokfast and ventured forth in search of frolic to the meek girl returning from mass th > was something suggestive of brightness m_every face. He was a tough pagan who did not wear a sprig of some sort, That Kaster is a social event no man could cafe lions sauntering to chureh, prayey book it hand. ~ Men whose greatest joy is to sit in the window of a club house and talk socioty scandal all the year round, deserted their impious haunts and knelt before the uplifted cross. Men of fin ance, bilious with greed, sat in the front seats of the churches, WHERE THEY W “The families of the fi NT O cremen. shionable world, 1s a rule, attended their own churches in the morhing. At Grace church were Mr. and Mrs David Wolfe Bishop,who inherited most of the Catherine Wolfe millions; the Hon. and Mrs, John Jay, who have onc of the first ws in the center aisle; Hamilton Fish and the Hon. and Mrs. William M. Evarts. “We have some of the oldest families in town in our church,” said the sexton of the Church of the Ascension, on Fifth avenue and Twelfth street. *Easter 1saw here Mr. and Mrs. John Tayior Johnson and their two daughters, Mr. and Mrs, William Butler Dun- yand Mr, and Mrs. Paul Dana. Mrs. {swold Griy, the beautiful widow of Wash- ington squurc; Mr. and Mrs. Anes Van Wart and Miss Van 'Wart, the heiress, you know, and Mr, and Mrs. John Minturn." Old Peter Stuyvesant is buried in old St Mark's church on Ninth street near Second avenue, Among notable people who attended worship in old St. Mark’s were Mr. and Mrs. Beeckmun de Peyster, Mr. and Mrs. William Remsen and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Remsen, Mrs. Killean Van Renssclier aud srs. Muriha J. Lanb, the historiun One of the most interesting congregations in town was at St. George's, further up Sec- ond avenue, at Fifteenth street and Ruther- ford_ place. The Hon. and Mrs. John Bi low had one of the front pews; Coloncl and Mrs. Willie Jay and their two pretty ehil- dren woero there, also Mr. and Mrs. William Hehioffelin, and a hundred pretty girls, who delight in hearing Mr. Rainsford mtone the sory 5 St. Leo's church gathered the most notablo congregations of fashionable Roman Catho- lics downtown, Mr. and Mrs. Adrian isclin, “olonel and Mrs. De Lancey K Mrs. Jules Reynal and Mr. and Mrs. Cordoba. In St Francis Xavier's one might have seen Colonel George M. Bliss, who is a convert to the faith since his marriage, and his beauti- ful bride. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelins Vanderbilt, Mrs, W. H. Vanderbilt and Mr. and_Mrs. Sewar Webb were seen in St. Bartholomew's, on Madison avenue, corner of Forty-fourth street, and Mr. and Mrs, Chauncy M. De- pew worshipped at the same place. Mr. und Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt went to the Churen of the Heavenly Rest, on Fifth avenue, above Forty-fifth street. “Tho millina church,” as the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian, on' the corner of Tifty-sixth stroc called, had an_ excep- tionally interesting congregation at the Sun- dny morning service. Mr. Munro, the pub lisher, and his wife; Robert Bonner, Mr. Willian Jaffray, the millionaire dry goods merchant; Mrs. Josaphine Ayer, the widow of the patent medicine munufdcturer, sons and her dmighter, Mrs. Preston. The Gould family attended worship at Dr. Paxton's church, on West Forty-second rk, and_here was street, opposite Bryant | seen Herbert . Bishopy the oil king, his wifc and a large family of children. Mr. and Mrs. John Rockefeiler went to the Central Baptist church, on Wesl seventh street, of which Pr. Armits pastor, aud Mr. Charles Pratt, the other oil millionaire, was scen in E chureh, St James place, Broc Astor fumily, ingluding M. and Mrs. William Waldorf, Mr. and Mrs, Coleman Dayton, Mr. and ' Mrs Toosevelt and Mr. and’ Mrs. Orme Wilson went down to O1d Trinity on lower Broad way, whe it 18 their wont to assemble every Easter Sunday, Mrs, Higks Ford was seen in St. Fraucis Xavier's on Fift BASTEL DIAMOND “Teeally, I'm giad P a Christian,” sighed a beautiful woman one afternoon last woek Sho was not in church confossing her sins, but in Tiffany's looking with raptured eyes at the great array of fashing diamonds, ru bies, emeralds and pearls, made into flewers and birds and other pretty devicos suggesting the Kaster scason. great cstablishment was erowded with alth and fashion selecting gifts wal Baptist n John Jacob her pew at nth st aster. “Phe Vanderbilts have expended large sums on each other and for various charities this tor. Mr. Frederick Vanderbilt spent several hours at Tiffany’s selecting some protty trifles for his young wife. One of these wus o new card case of Italian enamel little jewellod watch encir forget-me-nots fustened in one corner. ‘These card cases aro among the novelties and a lady carrying one van tell the exaet time without searching for lLer watch extreme ‘This little trifle cost £250 and with 1t went & dainty bracelet of pearls. THE CHURCHES, Faster lillies, hyacinths, rosebuds and smilaxs covered the comminion table and embowered the pulpitat the church of the Mossiah, at the corner of Twenty-fourth street and-Fourth avenue, yesterday, and the baptismal font was likewiso entwined with gracious harbingers of spring. A ten der touch of sympathy wus ewmbodicd in the wreath of immortelles plaved upou tho font in memory of the pastor's beloved daugbter, who dicd a year ago, The haudsome new_ building recently com pleted by the Mount Morris 1aptist_church was opened for public worship. It is situ ated on Fifth avenue, botween One Hundred and Twenty-sixth and One Hundred and Twenty-seventh streets, and is built of brick with bandsome gray stoue froat, in the L manesque style of architec ‘The interic is unusually light and b the front of tho gullery being ‘exte guarded by a brass railing The lectorn 1s -an exact that in the London house’ of cowimons, ‘The platform was decorated with palms and shrubs, und banks of fiowers around it added 1o the cheerful uspec Dr. McGlyan delivered an Easter sermou ntarpart of gilded and | ‘.‘ Y e S PN DRI THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: 1ast night befors the Anti-Poverty séciety in the Aondemy of Music, In the course of his remarks he said “If we have had sorrow, let ns dry our tears and rejoice; If our heart strings have been torn, let us believe it were in justics, nd if_our hearts have been cleft in twain, let us live the better for it. We of this so ciety have pledged oursclyes to a doctrine that is the very essence of His, that1s the very essence of all religion. 1t was not weariness tha the altars of the church to night on the stage of a theater. It was my love of religion. So let us love all mankind ; let us ask the Father to help us. and if there be any misunderstandings, forget them and pray for our encmies.’ Al bright with the beauty of sunshine streaming through radiant windows was St Patrick's cathedral in Fifth avenue yostor- day morning, Scarcely in any other’ chris tian church of the United States could so vast a throng be brought togother. The po lice turned away from the doors enough people to fill two ordinary churches, Num bers of pew owners were unable to roach their own seats, for at the cathodral on im portant occasions a big crowd is never well handled. After mass had begun scores came in_ through the sacristy, but had to stand while strangers filled their pews. All the a were packed, and even the steps around the sido altars were occupied. From five to six thousand people must have been within the building. ~ The Easter raiment, the bright and tasteful costumes of the la- dies served to make the picture still more pleasing What need was there for decorations in such an cdifice’ The broad sanctuary alone had fow. These were tall palm trees and brilliant evergreens, Eastor lilics and groups of white geraniums, and s chaste effect was produced. A cluster of lights flanked the six big tapers on the high alter, and around the tabernacle were a fow vases of glowing cut flowers. The altars of the Blessed Vir- gin and St. Joseph were decorated with the same simplicity and purity The scrmon was preached by the Rov. Father O'Connor, S, J., of St. Xavier's. Beethoven's mass in C is not often heard in this city, perhaps on account of the severe demands it makes on choir and orchestra. Mr. Pecher, however, is equal to anything. This sublime composition, of an essentially , was rendered perfectly. cison,” a grave lllll\ pathetic ongregation to The low strings in the orches- t sent me from reach night after The “Kyrie choral prayer, disposed tho g to devotion. tra opened with a rich and subdued melody, and were Tollowed by the soft, low tones of mingled voice and instrument. Then the clarionets and bassoons took up the melodi- ous strain. When the ‘‘Christe”” was reached the most beautiful passage in the number was finely.executed by orchestra and chorus, The conclusion in unison was full of solemnity. = The music of the chimes floated ont over many a large congregation in_old Trinity yesterday. Itev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector ol Trinity, assistod by Revs. Henry A. Adams, Joscph W. Hill und Henry Baumann, con Queted the various services. The chancel and sanctuary of the church were hand- somely decorated with flowers, among which the calla, lilies of the valloy and white nya- cinths predominated, and the candles in the the two big candelabra at the sides of the chancel wore all alight throughout the morn ing and forenoon. Many persons wero turned away from the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in the morn- ing’ What with ‘the gleaming altar, the wild, sweet choruscs, the swelling organ peals, the rolling kettledrums, the clashing of cymbals, the twinkling tapers, the sway- ing procession, the clouds of incense floating up to the white, saintly statues: the suiden hushes and the solemn tolling of the bells, it would have taken a_hard-hearted pagan to resist the influences of the great christian pagaent of triumph. Dr. Lyman Abbott preached in Plymouth churchin the morning from the text, Ro- mans, vi, 4—Thorefore Are We Buried with Him by Baptism into Death; That Like us Christ Was Raised up from the Dead by the Glory of the Father, Even So We Also Should Walk in Newndss of Life.” “Po the right of the minister's chair, and forming a sort of screen to the little table, was a floral vault, on the door of which were the words, *‘Easter Openod Heaven's Door.” A beautifal pillow of tulips and tea rose rested on the front of the platform, facing the organist. To the right and left’ to the very edge of the platform plants and flowers were arvanged in_almost every imaginable form of beaut ‘The gloomy gray allgorical walls aud pil- lars of the big room in Masonic temple,where Rev. Hugh O. Peutecost preached to ' Unity cgation on the subject of “Leut und ster,” presented a disma ntrast to the scene of floral profusion in almost every other place of worship. There was an appr priateucss about the bare and bald appe; ance of this assembling place, as it quite be® came the mood and spirit of the negative- minded preacher. My Pentecost said he didn't take any stock in cither Lent or ISaster. They are foolish and protentious observances, said he, and give tae unbeliever the chance to use a good deal of justifiable sarousm at the cxpense of For a man to smoke five instead of ten cigars, and for a girl to_hovoically frain during forty days from the use of choc ate caramels and bonbons, he added. is ot a procedure to command the respect of intel ligent people. I can’t seo any more T can in meat,” quoth Mr. Dentecost, with a sidelong shot at tho Lenten cxodus to Florida every year. “I think we aro b christians for being well fed all the round. True, religion consists of modera tion.” The caflas, the tulip, the rose, sweet jessa- mines, japonicas, and almost every beautiful fon in fish than flower which the nursery supplies adorned the Brooklyn tabernacle yesterday. .The most conspicuous object was a luge cross which rested against the center of the orga and formed the background to the preache: Composed of eallas and bordered with tulips, it was suggestive of purity even more than of suffering, Over it were the words, wo w flowers of a darker tint, “He is Risen.” SOCIETY MAKES MERRY. A great attraction, indeed, is the fai the new armory of the Second Battery Broadway, beteeu Fifty-second and Fift third strects., The money made at this fair, which it is hoped will amount to several thousands, i3 to help to build a new homawe pathic hospital and college, and some two hundred matrous and as many pretty maids huve interested themselves in its succoss. They have begged sueh nice big articlos as pianos, sots of furmiture and China-from the manufacturers, and cvery kind of fancy work imaginable_has been donnted for tho various booths. Mrs. William Tod Helmuth is in gencral charge, and Mrs, Henry J. Newton is the sceretary Flags of all nations and brightest deck the entire ¢ are ranged about the roou be decorated differently Miss Beile Peabody Ward pre the floral booth, und drosses to flower, as does also her twenty or sistants. Tobbaceo of every form and kind occupies one entire stand, and among tho fair women who sell this noxious weed at high prices are Mrs. George W. Ely, Mrs. Thomas S Platt, Mrs. George Richardson, Mrs. Rufus 1. Cowing and Mrs. Lucien R. Niles; Music ch evening and afternoon is an attractive feature, A special attraction is an eight-oared rac- iny shell, which is to be voted to the most popular college crew. All the swells in town gathered in Delmonico’s Thursday evening. A num- ber of prominent Catholie ladies, including s Leary, Mrs. Eugene Kelloy, Mrs. E. La Moataguo, Mme. Birrios, Mrs. J il- bert, Mrs. Navarro, Mrs. Montant, Mrs Jules Reynal and others arranged amatenr theatricals and an operetta was given in aid of a F'rench Catholie school downtown It was awful funny,” said the captain of I, of theSeventh regiment, in speaking of the travesty on *'Ihe Taming of the Shrew,"” which was given under the auspices of the company on Thursday evening in the Metro politan opera house. “All the fominine paits were given to the boys, and you should have scon what a spleadid Katherine Mr, Edwas Falew Coward made. 'n bunting of the nory. The booths 1d each one will ides over mble a mere as- The travesty was written by Mr. John Kendvick Bangs, and_most of those playin it were Amateur Comedy club memn A large amount of money was spent for cos tumies and scenery. The procecds are for the endowment of the wilitiamen’s be Hospitals and_prisons will bencfit by a pretty little fote to be held ou April U at Del monico's. There will be music, fancy booths and games, and the fete isin charge of & uumber of women of fashion and cnerg) Every amateur in the city is interested in the Shakospearian festival - which is to be begin i the Berkeley Lyceum on April 12 and continue for six evenings and two matinecs. - A number of plays will be given by well known amateurs, but “As You Like 10" is 10 be the chief oge. Three dollars @ tiocket seems s good price for a Pais fete, which is nothing but a Dutch Eastor fair, but several hundred peo. ple paid that smount willingly. The fete givea in the studio of Mr. Louis Tiffany, in the great house on Seventy-socond street and Madison avenue, every one anxious to soe the studio and at'the same time benefit the iofirmary for women wnd children, Pretty mrls, including the Misses Minturn, Hoe, Porter, Lambert, Villard, Doremus and Mitchell were dressed s Dutch maidens, and they wandered about in their full skirts and peaked caps selling flowers and fresh eggs. Thore wero also many booths, con- taining all sorts of Baster novelties. There was also music and dancing Of the new engagements, that of Mis Banks, the daughter of Mrs. Lenox Banks, to Mr. Charles H. Marshall, is one of the most romantic. The young people met on the old wall of the fort at St. Angustine and fell in love in the good old-fashioned way. Both are young, handsome and rich A mostinteresting engagement just an nounced 18 that of Miss Rdyth Newcombe, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Victor Newcombe, to Mr. Reginald H. Ward, a wealthy young bachelor and banker of Bos ton. Miss Nowcombe isa very pretty girl of twenty and will have a large fortune running into seven numoers some day. She has only been in society a little over a year. VANDERBILT RETURNS, Anticipating the return home of William K. Vanderbilt, at his Fifth avenue patace a staff of servants have been preparing the house for his reception, but the general ap- pearance of things will not have attered very much from what it was before his de- parture. Numberless boxes have arrived, but, they are not opeued, and the priceless treasures which thoy contain—the laces, the bric-a-brac and the pictures collected abroad—will remain hidden until they are opened under the superyision of their owner, In the meanwhile Maitro Josef and his two assistant chefs have not boen idle. The bat- terie do cuisine has been unpacked and the implements of the cult placed in their proper places. Josef has ransacked the markets and declares himself fairly well “acquainted with their resources and ready at a few moments’ notice to bogin oporations. He is disap- pointea in our markots he says. Many kinds of fish which are common, or much prized abroad are not to bo found here, for instance the tarbut und the sajle. Our mutton, he ad- mits, is good but our beef and our fowl are superior to those abroad. To the Blue Point oyster he renders all praise. Josef had last night tried an American dinner, which was not satisfactory. He did not like buckwheat cakes. Yesterday President Depew of the Vander- bilt system of railroads, sent a_special Lake Shore car to Brunswick. It was W. K. Van- derbilt’s private coach, carefully provisioned with everything likely'to comfort the hear of such ancient mariners as Vanderbilt and those sad old sea dogs I*. O. Beach and W, L. Hoy when taken away from salt water. They had a pretty good ernise. They talked of three years when they started People said then that they would get tired of each other’s company in one year—and that if they stood it for three they would have mur- der in their hearts. A cortain famous traveler described an old time sailing voyage as developing human nature in this ratio: First weck— Gentlemen, hair oil¢ hird week—What blankety blank rascal has lugged oft my tooth brush? It may have been this weariness of each other's society that cut short the Vanderbilt trip, and it may have been the gastronomic hopes raised in the Vanderbilt stomach by the seductive $10,000 cook, M. Duquot, that turned the Alva’s prow homeward. Who can telll CORNELIUS VANDERBILT'S DEPARTURE. With the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Cor- nelus Vanderbilt and their two sons and throe daughters on the Cunard steamer Um- bria for » several months’ tour abroad, the annual spring exodus of Americans for for- eign shores commenced and the ball was set rolling in real earnest. ‘The distinguished family arrived on the steamer’s wharf an hour before the sailing time of the steamer, and when the huge ves: sel swung out into the stream upon her long age their costly rugs, chairs, ulsters, ymarkets and all the paraphernalia of a millionaire’s family en voyage were snugly stowed away in the staterooms. MOVING 8,000,000 POUNDS. Everything is ready to start the big Brighton Beach hotel on Coney Island on its wonderful journey. Eight or more power- ful locomotives will begin to snort and pull, und it is expected that 8,000,000 pounds of hotel will follow them. The sight of a build- ing 460 feet long by 130 deep, with uumerous long extensions, and with its four s.ories aug- mented here and there by lofty towers and cupalos moving in one mass along the ground wiil be at least, interesting and novel. The moving of such a_structure in its entirety wus never undertaken befor The engincers have taken great precaution against any racking or wrenching of the walls or floors, and assert that if the pow of the locomotives can be applied equally and very gradually the great great structure will be woved easily and with perfect safety. Itis proposed to give the hotel a ride of 600 feet inland. At that distance, it is thought, it will be safe from its old encmy, the sea, which year after year has been knocking the sand out of it, or rather from under it. The waves have worn away its foundation until only a few spiles stand between them and their long for prey On these spiles immense beams were laid and regulur railroad tracks built to get the hotel out of the wet. The tracks number twenty-four, and on 110 iron flat cars run in under its floor the hotel will make the excur- sion. The building does ot rest directly on the cars but ou great timbers, which, as the tracks are only about ninetcen feet apart, make a firm bed. It is, of course, absolutely level, us an_unevenness would imperil the whole structure. The tracks, except two, run out about two nundred feet, where, if ‘the scheme works, the hotel will take a brief rest before it sits down and laughs at the sea. The two center tracks run out to the main track of the Brooklyn & Brighton Beach railroad. On them the locomotives will do the pulling. On each track there will be four iron horses, or more if nccessary, bound securely to- gether and attached” to the iron flat cars under the hotel by heavy chams, These chains will not lead directiy from the cars to the engines, but will run from the cars to iron pulleys at the onds of the respective tracks and back again to the cdrs, where they will pass through another pulley, and thence to the locomotives. Thus will’ each flat car be pulled aloug its own track as if attached to the locomotive itself. DR, TALMAGE'S TWO WATCHES, At the close of the service yesterday morn- ing Dr. Talmage pulled out of bis pockot a magnificent new gold watch, He had just received it from one of his congregation for an Baster gift. *The story is interesting said the doctor, “and I meant to tell it to the congregation, but I changed my mind Last Monday night, when lecturing at Louis ville, Ky., T'lost my wateh. Ihad placed it on the table to measure the length of my re- marks. When I finished speaking I forgot has anyone secn m to pick it up. In the morning it could not be found. While mourning the loss of an old and bonored friend which had done good service, and which to me had many sacred associations, I received this wateh from a member of the church, who knew nothing of ny loss. While admiring the new watch the béll was rung and an expressman handed me 4 package containing the old wateh.” DIAMATIC NOTES, Monte Cristo, Jr,” reccived its first rep- resentavion in this country, at Dockstader’s theatre on Monday night. > rehearsals of this burlesque have been progressing for the past three 3 rome has been especially engaged for the part of Fernand, and Harry Brown for that of Noirtier, Thé burlesque was considerable of @ success whon it was producec in London, where it had the advantage of a cast which'included some of the cleverest singers and comedians known to the London stage. Little Corinne isto play the part of Edmund Dantes here, which Nellie Farren created m London. 1t had been arranged that the Gavety bur lesque company during iws tour of this country, whice was to begin at the Standard theater n next, would give an elaborate presentation of this junior “Monte Christo.” ~ What effect upon their plans this production by Corinne will have is not known. New scenery and handsome cos tumes are promised for the Dockstader's. Clara Morris will introduce Monay" to Broadway audiences ayvenue theater. It ought to be a very good pluy, for it is nothing more or less than a translation of D'Ennery's “Martyre,”’ which was produced in London by the Kendalls under the title of “A Wite's Sacrifice,” with Mrs. Kendail in the role which Miss Morris will assume in her version of the play "The Casino is the scene of great activity at present with the prepurations for the pro duction of “Nadky.” A staff of scenic art- ists, dressmakors, stage carpenters and prop- erty men dre engaged oh the new production. production at “Renee Do at the Fifth SUNDAY, Fine PI EW EMERSON PIANO, APRIL 8, 1888, ~SIXTEEN PAGES ZIR S SOV S e PRE T TN 13 ANOS HAVE YOU SEEN THE &ORCANS With its double frame and metal pin block and latest improved action, keeping itin the front rank without a superior, and warranted for seven years. 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Horr Elmblad, tho sccond basso of last winter's Motropblitan Opora company, is to give Berlin audiences a taste of his quality If palatable his engagement is to become per- manent. Miss Paddack, a daughter of United States Senator Paddock, possesses dramatic ability and longs to become u professional. Her parents are trying to curb her youthful ardor for the stage. Rosa Sucher, the famous Waguerian so- prano, is to join the operatic forces of Berlin This i5 theonly prima donna that Adelina Patti nas ever spoken of with something like genuine admiration. London musical critics have come to the conclusion that Otto Hegner is even more re- markable as & musical prodigy than Josef Hofman. But there should be no rivalry be- tween the two boys. In fact, they are even now play-matos. Lilli Lehmann, of Wagner opera fame, has worn blond wigs so continuously on the sta that two-thirds of her admirc=s thind she a blonde, but_ she is an ungommonly dark brunctte, with hair turning becomingly and prematurely gray. A dramatized version of Emile Zolu's “Ger- manal” is soon to be produced m Paris. Every seat for the first ton nights of the per- formance has been taken. Paris proudly considers itself the most civilized city in tho world. Sardou and Zola are the high priests of Parisian civilization. The Ladies' Amateur York, was orgaized by oratorio 000 orchestra, in New Miss Hewitt, daugh- tet of Mayor Hewitt, and modelled after Lady Folkestone's orchestra, which has be- come such a brilliant feature of ndon so- ciety, the members of which are titied women, some of high rank. Patti has reached Buenos Ayres. She be- #ht weeks' season there, opening in a Traviata.”) Manager Maurice Grau is with the diva. He will remain until thear- rival of Marcus Meyer, who lcaves in company with Mr. Henry E. Abbey for South America next Saturday. In t hespectular drama “N which will be produced on Staten Island in June, Imre Kiralfy proposes to employ 2,000 participants. “The stage will be 300 feet deep, and all’ sorts of wild animals, including lions, tigers and elephants, will be in the cast, 50 to speak. Ellen Terry celebrated her fortieth birth day, and declured to a reporter: I was born in 1843, in_Coventry, in Shakspere's shire, thank God. My father and mother were born on the stage, They married when both were under nineteen ycars of age.” Miss Terry says she has now but, one wish. “Itis to help Mr. Trving in his great and beautiful work, for it is a grand work he is doing. Herr Ludwig Barnay, the distinguished nan tragedian, will begin o two weeks' engagement in New York next week and ent a redertoire of Shakesperean plays, iing “Julis Caesar,” +Othello” aud ing Lear,” in each of which Herr Barnay made a distinet impression at the time of his former appearance in the great metropolis The eminent tragedian will also present a original_version of “Kean” and *U Acosta. Two years ago a man named Bernard was singing at his carpenter bench, in Paris, when M. Hartmann, the music’ publisher, chanced to be passing. Mr. Hartman stop ped and learned that the singer did not know oue note from another, bat he had a beauti ful voice, and M. Hartmana sent him to the best sehools. That poor carpenter is now M Bernard, the favorite French tenor at the Paris opera house, and is making more money in a week thau he could saw out of pine boards in a ycar. M. Coquelin, being in search part for the Grench provinces of a new 1d his Anies n tour, that of Ragabas in Sardouw's play that name was proposed o him and the statement made that this nineteenth century French political fizure would be a great card on this side of the water. But in Ragabas M. Sarnou, 1t,_is said, iutended to sketch Gambetta, wWho was ' the French actor's friend. So Coquelin would none of it, and still searches for a new part. He makos his farcwell appéarance at the Comedio I ran- caise April 25, Lawrence Barrett is @ remarkably strict disciplinai ian, so,far 4s rehearsals are con and takes an active interest in even the most minute parts. He is also very ob servant, and will often make radical changes on short notige. He instructed a member of his company ore duy in certain “business.’ The next rehearsal he wanted it altered. Tho actor remonstrated, saying he had bees 0 do it differently by Mr. Barrett the day before. 1 know that,' replied the t dian, good humorcdly, *but I have lived twenty-four since then, and this is an age of improvement ‘Mhe National opera company played to large houscs at the New York Academy of Music auring the past k. ' The date definitely set for the production of V s *Owello™ is Friday, April 13 The pew and elaborate scenery, by Magnani, of Milan sixty suils of arme and , besides ‘ali the prop ertics, were landed from the Zeeland ou Thursday. The chorus will number sey picked voices. After the six New York rop resentations of “Othello,” the comp; visit Philadelphia, 1oston, Louis and Chicago. Hhrey Lacy, the e of that lurid melodr: 1y will Cincinnati, St. ergetic fire laddie hero ma, “The Still Alarm,” takes particular pridetin the success which " tas bad in trainiug the stallions Pegasus d Bucephalus that are bamessed to the “real’ engiue. Krow the first the intelligent Arabian equines took kindly ing and were wonderfully intelli the “hitehing vp® part of the performance. They are now full-fled, answer to the “eue” hero, and leave th suasion whate A ac flowers, wreaths and presents upon (e stage. Six_gigantic offercd to la diva, each measur yards in circumference, the g ing members of Madrid societ the fall of the curtain made triumphs, and formed a fittin lec ions from “Crispino,” “L Orthodox epitaph for Bob Ingersoll: Hic jacet a man, His life cord untwisted, Who has gone to i place Which never existed. A Michigan woman, who we has lost faith in christian of teeth. died?” her.” prea deed. Like good wine he “Yes, and his se good wine.” *Why " “A clergyman is acensed of inga tw can to a dog's tail.” b7 Sowe people a expect that boca ought to tie silver zobl A priest is called in 1o see a man who is on his death b lots of peopie t The Rev. Leon threatened to call ol of the services in his church Mr. Bacon comes of the flod with. Ho not ouly in giving the wicked a taste of Walt Whitman, in an alloge: “Nothing is ever lost, or ¢ dently the author of “Leav doesn’t believe in the scripture something about 031 never played the sinful game cither. A woman who keeps a quiet hamlet of Brockton, I1L., celling cigars, pop and lemoni Itissad to find in a rural naught bt virtue and innocen depth of depravity that v St. Lous e, on of a western ned id 1o A pious cit tributed a s church, is when he read in the log low townsman. Seth placed a stained grass church, 1 pape he wido David probably re 1 men are liurs by pticles in the ¢ Dposition press. after such o course of readin nearly arived at the same they were 100 polite to blurt it did The Germany sansago meat Iy examined before it is s as recently arrested for faili with the regulation. He gay the' L that he alwaya sent s suge 1o his pastor first and if ¢ hed the reading vernment or way of advertising, but'an ex antract the ladies’ attention make the preacher envious, that St Peter (consulting erede caut)—Always lived in Philac shut the door after you, never sther it was Lot or cold end never wroto 4 spring poem! this gentleman to Row A. Hol What's that stain on your fi 11 used to smok Iront, show this gen chimney. which is give r stalls without any pe “How do you like our pastor?” s 10 dogs' t rd W. Bacon last Sundu n be lost.” T little plass windo nave fallen alternately Other men - since szarette to 1} nt about for they by the “tors, T, ‘When Mme. Adelina Patti took leave of the Madrilonos at the royal opera house, were showered bouquets w ring over two ifts of the lead- y. The call on up a series of i termination to amemorabie event in musical annals. The receipts at tho farewell prrformance were 50,000 pesetas. Mme. Patti appeared in se- Lucia,” and the “Barbiere,” and sang 11 Bacio.” ars false teeth, N science be: causo it failed to restore to her a natural set “Papa. how old was Methusaleh when he “Nine hundred and sixty-nine Rollo.” ““And what was his business!” “Boy years, “Much in- improves with nons are also They aro extra being seen ty Well, what of @ unreasonable enough to man s a ter he 3. poor_old hack- ed. The priest min (solemnly)—Hive you been in the habit of going to church! The hackman (faintly)— No, but (his face brightening) I've driven on_disturbe at Waterbur stock not to be tri- believes in hell, but f it here. 1 poem, says: i vos of Grass” . wherein wo t souls,” Ho called “poder” store at the is on trial for de on Sunday. village whe ce should exist ild even shock city, who con to the from grace r that “our fel- ‘merhorn, has in St, Joseph's melusion that the aus and the op. his time, 1z, have very spiion, only right out us he must e offici old. A dealer ng to comply 4% N excuse s of his - he pustor was not made ill by them he coneluded that they were all right without au inspection. actress of the People's theater, Lin- coln, lately attended ehurch in that city in a new bonnet, the crown of which was adorned with a beautifully worked adve tisement of the company. = This is a novel cellent one to It might but what of ntials of appli- ohia, always asked any oie gh for him, ront, show d on a minute! ngers! Appli Bt. tleman to the Frontier population ahout all it can attend to in the “here" without giving m uttention to the “hereafter.”” Denver, | ever, is giving some_consideration 1o natters that pertain to the. beyond. The News of | that city says: “An audionce of crowding the seats and_standin wof a house of worship is an inspiring sight in any city. but especially 80 ina frontier capital like Denver, where, in the general estimate, but little thought is given to the things of | the future | - Mr. Cyrus Foss, son of eloquent and learned bishop of the M. £, | tioduced to an eminent church at a e prion Ab," sirid th ‘you 1 know 3ishop Foss, are you! audered toward the lemonadc -~ A Desivabl New Haven News spots in existence One pot ¢: cen 1 Dewoit 2e Pross POt never hoils; but thea th pot boils ovar. L was m hister of that at Minnapolis, are m of vim very well | and am glan'to know you. I suppose you | ng to he a winister, 1o No, sir,” | 1 11h 1z man, promptly, 1 am go Location of the hright vsh he watchod 1e unwatched | PEPPERMENT DROPS, S won't last long at this surplus remarks when it gazes at million river and harbor grabs. Matters are becoming 8o dull in Washing. ton now that the American hog is called in to stir up a little warm personal warfar Boston, Ga., has more than five hundred acres planted in mejons. There will be no o exodus from that neck of woods bofore all A Boston woman who used tospend 875 por year for kid gloves now gets along with three bairs. THor husband bought her a dia mond ring. Arclurologists have just discovered that the ancient Egyptians used umbrelias, They must have come handy during the long roign of the Pharouhs. “Waist not,” said the kind father from front upper-store window to the young man who, ut the front gate below, had his hug- ging arm around his only daughter's waist. Look at her waist! I notice that the ladies generally are wearing hignnecked dresses this year. *Yes," said the old fox-hunter; “they seem to have been driven to cover at last. A Wheeling lady took up the bandbox con taining her best bonnet last Sunday, then dropped it with a shriek and fled. Tho mouse had got in his work, however, and the bounet was ruined. According to the supreme eourt “married person’s property act” docs not comvel a marricd woman to hold her tongue at her own peril. She can slander her neigh s as before, at her husbawl's expense. you, Billy,” called a Bloomington mother to her son, who was playing in the street, Sun vight along 1o school and stop throwing rate''—as the the twenty the new stones, for you are almost certam to it one of those candidates and spoil your pa's chances for getting an oflice, \The oldest convention on record will un doubtedly be that of the Life prisoucrs in the Ohio penitentiary, which is to be held shortly. There will b no #oing out batween the sessions for refreshments und o troub about arranging exeursion rates on the dif- ferent railroads, “Who was that young man here last night?" asked a father to his only daughtey “Why, papa, that v vas my aceepted lover “Your lover, child. Why, I ncver saw him before! What docs he 'do?” Do, papa, do?” she replied in_amazement. *He docsn't do angthing; he has a governmaut posi tion,” Telegraph Editor (1o Chicfy—Here is an interesting dispateh about Albert, the prine of Editor-in-Chief (irascibly)—Kill it; I'm sick of Albert, prmee of Wales, Tele graph Editor—But this dispatch is in_refor. ence to Albert, the prince of pedestrians. Editor-in-Chief —~Oh, puta big heading on it A Chicago man who had erocted « fine res idonce was surprised one day to learn that a rat had been seen in the eollar, The plumber was sent for and given orders to stop up the vat hole without rogar ponse. He did 0 and handed in his bill. It called for 31, 3345, He had found it nocesa: com pletely overhaul and change the sew and drainage system of the premises to keep that rat out. The edit or of a Griges county (Da paper ealls attention to the fact i Grig county coutains room enough 1o seat the cn tive population of the globe in arm-chairs within its limits, o e each person a space of thirteen feet, Unloss the Grigy county editor can offer some other induc ment, it is extremely doubtful if tho eutive popuiation of the glohe will go there 1o sit in chairs, It 1s too infernally cold in Dakota to take such an out-of-aoors loaf during the winter, and too ot for comfort in the s 1 A Most Pr Augusta (Ga.) Chr Athens has been pust two ye most anythin He will ious Cat, vicle: A lady in ining a cat for the nd now he will do al- o at the word of commund. 0 upstaivs und bring her h shawl or handkershief by telltng him 1o do s He is a valuable cat for tricks, but has never been known to cateh a rat, Come and see for Yurselves, and bring the Children with you, ‘ which we & P have made to our stock, li ¥ ¥ in the juvenile depart- 8> [ment. 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