Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1888, Page 14

#= *aThen came a delay in the pompous r IN THE WOMAN'S PROVINCE. Btories of Somoe of the Distinguished of the Gentle Sex. A COLLECTED HUMAN TORCH. Mrs. Vanderbilt's Boudoir—Mothers as Wage Darners—A Woman's Wit —Story of a Lady's Reticule— How She Went to Bed., A Dilemma of the F Written for the Sund s eighteen hundred et d met §n the capital’s strec rful sight to see sident take her seat., Then voiced hurrahs disturbed the air With a sound like the voice of crowi And, wistfully eyeing their empty chai There sat in the background a few s men, o Thou wdidate's tardy”’—Oh, wh an sho bet"! “Give her time.” “She's_dressing.” must look just right.” “Here's a note.” Wit is it “Oh, dear!” 't me see “My dears, do pardon my long delay. And can't you postpone for a month or twol A baby was born to me this very day.” “Oh, the horrible woman.'’ “Oh, what shall we dot” B AA Set Fire to Her Own Hair, Miss Mary Elmore met with a serious mishap in Fort Worth recently, says the Galveston, Tex., News, the result of a very foolish freak. She was was ing her head with a solution of w and coal oil, the ln'fllmrliun of o1l by about two-thirds. When through and about to dry her haiv with o towel het little sister suggested that a match be applied to the oil-saturated hair. Appaarently to humor the little one and not thinking of the conse- quences, Miss Elmore struck a match and held it to the end of her long tresses, and in an instant her head was enveloped in a flame. Before assistance could be rendered her luxurinnt tresses were gone and her face terribly scorched. The most serious injuries are to her eyes and 1t is feared both will be destroyed, or at least perman- ently injured. Miss Elmore is about fifteen years old and was a very comely girl. *‘The “She Sextette: A New York Sun sp. cable s The wife of the syndic mayor, Cast nola Ticino, has given birth to six chil- dren. The fact is testified to as abso- lutely correct by an authoritative Bern correspondent. The woman. whos name is Bezzonico, is thirty-eight yesrs of age, and has already had three and four children at a birth. Her husband is married for the second time, and has seven children by his first wife. The six children, four boys and two girls, were born living, but died soon afterward. The news of this extraordin- ary event, perhaps hitherto unheard of 1n'the annals of anthropology. has cre- ated a great sengation, especially in Italy, and doctors are hastening to the scene from Milan, Como,and other towi to satisfy themselves of its truth. A Snake on Her Bustle. The other day as Misses Mamie and Della Moore, two sisters, residing about one mile from Pocomoke, su; he Bal- timore American, were walking ove their farm, supcrintending the farm work, which they have been domng for some weeks past, during the illness of their father, they sat down on a log near a fence to converse on some farm matters. After talking for some mo- ments they arose to reswne their walk Miss Mamie at that moment felt a heavy weight which seemed to drag her dress down behind. She requested her sistor toJook and ascertain what was the mat- ter, and the latter, on looking, discov- ered to the horror of both ladies that a large copperbead snake was coiled upon her bustie. The snake was immediately knocked off and dispatchec by the young ladies. 1t measured five feet one inch in length, and was about as thick as a man’s wrist. A Story of a Lady's Reticule. I have heard on good authority that there is aninteresting relic preserv in Alnwick castle to which a romant legend is attached, says a writer in Notes and Queries. The treasured relic is a lady’s reticule, such was com- monly carvied seventy years ago—more or less—and which did the duty of a pocket. On the night preceding the battle of Waterloo the d\hm of Wellin, ton and his chief officers attended a ball at Brussels given by the duchess of Richmond, and Major Percy, who was present, became deeply interested in a ady whom he met for the first time ‘When *“‘midnight brought the signal- gound of strife,” and Major Percy and the lady had to part, with mutual re- gret, he begged of her some souvenir of their happy meeting, and she resigned to him ker reticule. Nextday came the ve2? ogttle, and Major Percy was se- ected H fl(m\'\:&' o Lord Bathurst the duke’s famous dispatch, with its admir- able duucrisfl.im\ of the contest, dated Waterloo, June 19, 1815. This precious document was conveyed to the minister in the treasured reticule. Thestory, as told to me, ended with the sad conclu- aion that the major searched in vain for the owner of the reticuleand they never afterwards met. She Stood a Living Torch. A woman standing on the elevated railroud platform while her hat was in flames was the unusual sight witnessed by a number of people at Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue, says the New York World. The platform was crowded b{ ladies returning from their shop- ping, Noticeable among the bevy was a richly dressed lady, said to be Mrs, G. M. Allen, of One Hundred and Thirty-first street. As the train neared the station she came out of the ladies’ waiting-room and crowded with the rest of her sex up to the edge of the platform. Suddenly a little scream was heard, and the lady was informed that her hav was on fire. It wasa sight to see her standing there blazing like a torch, and the ladies fell buut from her in wonder and fear, Mus. Allen did not for a moment lose her presence of mind, With as much care and grace as though she were standing before her own mirror she re- moved the hat pins and lifted the bla; ing millinery from her head. She held it for a moment as though loth to lose the handsome trifle of lace and flames, and then tossed it lightly to the floor, and with commendable coolness pro- ceeded to stamp out the fire with her l)relly No. 2 boots, while she seemed in mminent danger of igniting her skirts When the flames were out she kicked the now ruined hat to one side and tak- ing a lace scarf from her neck, put it over her head, and hoarded the train as coolly and gracefully as though noth- ing had happened. The scer eated 8 great sensation and the ladies and guards who were present loudly ap- lauded the action. Pho hat was one of hose elaborate pieces of French art in which the ladies delight, and was com- d of an abundance of flowers. It ad caught fire from a gas jet in the ladies’ waiting room in the station and but for the prompt action of Mrs, Allen, her golden tresses would have shared the same fate as the millinery. Mothers as Wage-Earners. For years the world hus been ou a THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY MAY moral crusade against of children in mines the Py far g mother the employment 1d factories, says ence Weekly, while the evils that result from the going out as wa rners have attracted compa ively ttle attention. Labor within certain limits is good for the child, giving it a wholesome moral discipline, and teaining it for the busi- ness by which it is to earn its liviihood; | | | being propar but, when a married woman has to neg- | lect her natural dutics for the respon- sibilities that properly belong to the other sex, it is time for humanity to protest in the name of her offspring. No one individual can_fill satisfactorily the double, or, T ghould say, the triple function of bearing and ng child- ren, and providing for their mainten- an Iamalaboring women myself, and have met with some su 8 as a bread-winner; and I know that the conditions of perform- ing this function satisfactorily are quite incompatible with those arduous and important duties which make such heavy demands upon every conscien- tious mother, especially mmong the poor. In the homes of the very poor there are no hired servants to keap the household machinery ranning smoothly while the mistress is aw The wife of the laboring man is frequentiy cook. nurse, house-maid, lnundress, all in one; and it she must go out s a bread-winner be- sides, what is to prevent the domestic engine from running off the track and gotting itself hopelossly ditched? ~ Of the two m-i\s. I am persuaded that it is better that the child should go out to labor than the mother. Liberty, an- curbed by the check rain of parental v straint, is a more than doubtful bless- ing, for the loss of which the chila that its mother’s place in the shop or mill ig more than compensated by ndvantage of having her care at home. MRS. VANDERBILT'S BOUDOIR. The Money Queen's Pet Aparvtment Fitted at a Cost of $120,000, New York World: A friend at Paris sends me a description of the work or- deved by Mrs, Vanderbilt for her own boudoir in Ne York and which has just been ed for shipment. She merely mdieated the general character of the room, wishing it to be in green and gold. and gave the contr: e blanche for the rest. The panels of the wall are green, with overlaid work of gold wood. The green wood is of elm, ced in sulphurie acid. the gilding be- ing on the oak wood. The panels stand four and & half metres high, and the whole room is seven metres long by four metres hroad. The room in Nev York, for which these hoiseries are des- tined, is six metres high, so that theve will be a space of one and w half metr hetween the gold cornices of the panel- ing and the ceiling. The interstice will be covered with imitation stone. The 1 of the gilt wood velou oxecuted. The st XV. at its best. Above small panel of gilt oak, carved into allegorical figures. Seroll work i abundantly applied. On the four prin- cipul panels isiet in a panel of Lyons silk with a pattern of baskets of flovwers the silk costing at wholesaloe price yard. The fireplace is of castiron v allegorical figures. The m rose-colored marble, known ntel are s 5 caryatides, two satyrs of green bronze, ench holding aloft a branching gilt can- delabrum. Bach satyr costs 1,000, Above the mantel, and reaching to the cornice, isa he gilt beve mirror,which is in great part concealed by the picture let into the black wood frame. This frame will contain, when the boudoir is fitted up in New York, a portrait of Mme. de Pompadour, hy Boucher, which Vanderbilt bought some time ago for #5.000. In the center of either lateral wall i door of gilt bronze in each luttice. Tnese doors are made to slide open. The furniture of this marvelous room is of gilt walnut, covered with lampas, and counts for $10,000 extra. The panel wood- work, including the mantel, costg So that the whole the furniture, pictures ories, will represent mately a cash value of $120,000. A Woman's Wit. Tt is quite commonly claimed that n woman is not adapted to business pur- suits, and yet there is abundance of evi- dence to prove that in an emergency woman’s ready wit will prove superior to a man’s heavier powe The following incident well illustrates the kind of an occasion that out the keen weapons of a woman Some years ugzo when “‘rond agents abounded in Montana, a woman was traveling by coach to join her husband. One day a fellow passenger said to her, “I have a thousand dollars in my pocket book, and feel uneasy about the road agents, Would you mind conceal- ing it about your dress and returning it at the end of the journey If the high- waymen do stop us they are less likely to search you than me?” She acceded to his request, hid the money in her dress,and the stage droye away without meeting a road agent until toward evening. Then the shout, “Throw up your hands!” was heard. The driver promptly pulled up, as four men on horseback, with masked faces, covered him with their pistols. Two of the highwaymen then rode to each side of the conch and ordered the pussengers to give up théir arms, which they did promptly. “‘Now, shell out!” said the robber: The passengers handed out their pocketbooks; even the man who had called in the woman’s aid gave upa fow dollars, He was congratulating himself upon his caution when he heard the woman say, in a quiet way: [ have got u thousand dollars, but I suppose I must give them up.” Suiting the action to the word, she handed over the man's roll of green- backs, The robbers rode away, and then the man gave expression to his feelings by abusing the lady and aceusing her of betraying her trust from sheer fright, She smiled mysteriously At the end of the journey she asied him to stay all night at her house, and said that her husband would be glad to see him, *Yos, Louis *h panel isa approx ma'am, Iwill come to your house,” he said, in the tone of an in- jured man; “it’s the least you can do, ma'am, seeing that you have loft me without a cent in the world.” At the lady’s house he was treated as a distinguished guest, but neither host nor hostess offered him one word of ex- planation that night, and he went to hed a sad, irritate: N, The next morning, as he entered the dining room, the host shook hands with him and said: “Here are ) which an eme sand dolla me, conc thought by ur thousand dollars, si my wife ventured to borrow in by, She had twe thou- .‘which she was bringing to aled in her dress. She iving up at ouce the thou- sund dollurs entrusted to hee you she would save herself from “being searched by the robbers. “Her quick wit saved heavy loss, and 1 am much vou for the use of the forced loan.” Breakfast was a far more cheerful meal to the man than the supper of the night before. How She W to Bed. She was alone and a passenger on the me from a obliged to boudore Chicago express which left the Grand Central depot at 6 p.m., says the New York Sun. Her quality was not made apparent until within about fifty miles of Albany. Then it became evident that she arded comfort as superior to the proprieties overy time Her berth , with a look of deter- mination, she stood up and drew the curtain benind her; not ele enough, however, to embarrass her movements. Off came he then she stepped out of her dress skirt,and folding both neat- ly, stowed them o Next her corsets came off. Then she pinned a shawl around her shoulders, threw aside the curtain and came forth. Reachipg her bag she secured brush, camb and hand glass and proceedsd cooly to arrange her hoir as was her wont in her own boudoir. Thus far the men in the car had done their whole duty by looking the other way, but they gave it up when she deliberately took out all her hairpins, removed an elaborate switch, attached it to the hook at the side of the berth and combed it out carefully. This done she folded it up, put it awn got into bed, took off the shawl and in ten minutes was softly snoring. Then the men weut into their own compart- ment, lighted frosh cigars, pussed round a flask and wondered who might be the fortunate possessor of such a woman. HONEY FORTH In the month of Ma tion Within a fortnicht we w o wed Within a month I writhed in indignation, And even wished that T were deads; Amelia Was & Churming woman, A graduate of cooking school, of course, But, really, such atrocious pies’ and pud* dings 1 couldn’t stand, and so in May—divorce. The fashionablo strawber short cake is still cut short as to strawberries. The o valar color this summer is green, both in il v and mint juleps. Blood,orange and English primrose are lcaling colors in dress and millinery. § hty-seven vears old and n Kunsas. hairpins represents a ut and supporting a large JADIES h [ popped the ques- Itussian enamel is the in jewclry, and one of as well, A certain sty “Old Maid's ‘We comes o A Bra very newest craze the miost pardonable of shoe button is called ding,” becaus2 it never inches _in by u New zilian bag nearly an odd brooch two shown wife to be healthy make says a Phil- phia doctor. Full bows of ribbon with a_ stiff quill or two, arc the only permissible trimming worn for traveling hat It begins to be whis that the reign of the tailor over women's gowns will shortly be a thing of the darkly mildewed past. Lillie Lin Loy, daughter of a Chines? cap- italist of San IF'rancisco, is one of the most richly dressed women on the Pacific coast. An odd purse has a_cover composed of a silver dollar which tightly closes over a frame from which hang the silver meshes. And now come green kid gloves, in shides, from which, along with envy, mal and all’ un; ableness good Lord deliver us, The female horse thief is the latest fron Ohio, two “pretty and stylishly dresse ones having been jailed at Akvon the other duy It is said that Queen had more than a tho! She: was evi- dently the Berry Wall of the sixteenth cen- tur "There are in England female black- smiths who actually swing heavy ham- mers, and 9,135 women employed” in nail miking. Miss C er, editor ) lec- ,000 by the ¢ mmon Annte MeCormick, a charming ¢ of Huwkinsville, Ga., can pi s on the piano und sing’ o third same time. A calla lily in pure white enamel gold stamen and having a_bri clinging to its side, i in brooches Parasol ung v two at the with a ant dewdrop 1 much admired design handles of twisted silver, twelve to eighteen nches in shown in plain and oxydized great variety. An Atchison, Kan., woman did a big wash- ing the othe day, cooked dinner and whipped a_child, and’ then fell dead from over-exertion, C. I Ritchie, member of the English cabi net is the father of several musical daugh- ters, cqually devoted to art, hurmony and the Primrose league, Stout old lady (to clerk)—You keep good corsets, do you, young wman. Clerk—Yes, ma'am, our g are simply immense. out old lady 12aves in a huff. The daughter just born to Yan Shan Lee, the Chinese Yale graduate who about a year ago married Miss Jerome, of New Haven, is 10 go through life as Jennie Lee. Women have cheek enough to hats on their heads. But there's one thing they dare not do. Notoneof them dare to remove her hat in public and dust off the bald spot. A costly comb recently seen had an ntri- cate lacework pattern in silver at the top, in which the entire tracery was closely set with small brilliants. Ten matched pearls topped the whole. Owls, which have lately become fashion: able in Paris, appeur to be coming into fuvor here once more. Qwl-head scarf pins, in cnamel, with either ruby or diamond eyes, are again being shown The British female, it is smd, fairly revels in the present license of color, and one was scen the other day upon a great occasion wearing a heliotrope skirt, green mantle, violet nat, white vest and black gloves, Caroline Herchel, the discoverer of eight comets, and theaccomplished partner of her brother's astronomical labors, never could remember the multiplication table, and al- ways had to carrs y & copy of it about with her. Of all the mean things said by men, to and about women, commend us to that erabbed parson who told the sisters of his flock that “Christ appeared first to women after the resurrection,jest so as the wews might spread faster.” . Three gowns are being made in Vienna for the future empress of China—sky-blue, purple-blue and darkest indigo—and they are embroidered with the characters that signify “eternal life,” “eternal love,” ‘‘eter- nal happiness.” For the first act of her new play, cillion,” Bernhardt has a gown of eream bro- cade embroiderie in gold and silver wild roses, and worn over a vetticoat of China crepe in Nile green and old rose, to which shades she is more than partial, Mrs. Robert Milugan, of Bridgeport, W. Va., gave birth to her twenty-fifth child, Thirsday. The mother is forty-eight years old, and was married at the age of fourteen. Her children—twenty-one of whom are liv- ing—include five sets of twins. The female half-breeds of Spanish and In- dian blood in Yucatan are said to be by far the handsomest people in that country. They are described as a gentle, docile, pleas- ure-loving race, not altogether lazy, perfect- 1y honest and remarkably cleanly in their hubits, A Montreal lady ordered a cloak from a tailor and refused to pay for it on the ground of misfit. The tailor has brought suit 1o recover the price of the cloak and claims that it did fit until the lady puton an immense bustle. The court will have to de- cide the regulation size of a bustle. Mrs. Lizie W. Champuey, of New York, the author of *“Three Vassar Givls” and the wife of Champney, the artist, is as pleasant 10 the eyc as her ooks are bright. She is brown-haired, slender and rather delicate looking, with'a grave face. She has a won- derfu! talent as a teller of dialect stories, Mrs. Emily Crawford, the eminent Paris journalist, is described as an Irishwoman, who remembers as & child being carried about o O'Connor's shoulders, S has & strong, haundsome face, blue eyes, full of merriment aud expression, heavy - black jushes and very abundant white hair, which she wears with oxtreme simplicity, from length, are patterns in wear men's THE The Quaint Customs of a Strange and Picturesque Sect. NYSTICS O£ CONONY " A DAY OF PECULIAR SOLEMNITY. — They are Wakened With the Strains of Sweetest Music and Spend the Day Weavipg Gar- lends for Grhvis, Harmonists' Memorfil Day. ECoNOMY, Pa., May pocial Cor- respondence of the Bper.]—Of all the quaint customs and ceremonies prac- 1 by the singular community of rman socialists and mystics, known as harmonists or economites, who built and own this peculiar village, where they have observed the most absolute unism and the most rigid celi- for nearly seventy years, that which possesses, the strongest interest is the keeping of an annual meraorial or decoration day, upon which they adorn the graves of all their dead with flowers. This custom was not suggested by the American usage of decorating the graves of the soldiers of the late war. On the contrary, it has been practiced by the harmonists or econo- mites ever since their str 0 sect wis first organized at Iarmony, in Butler , Pa,, 1805, The third Sunds chosen for the ation day, as in the societ v in May is generally Economite’s Decor- by that the flowers 's" beautiful public garden are usually abundant, but the selection of the date rests en- tirely with Father Jacob Henrici, who is the autoeratic head of the community —its prophet, priest and king. Compicte ubmission to his will is regarded by the IBconomites as one of the highest and most imperative forms of christis duty. One good old Economite sister told e only yesterday that o blessing could not fail to follow impl obedi- ence 1o the commands of Father Hen- rici, who is the dictator not only of all the rules and regutations by whioh his people are governed.but of the minutest actions of their li as well, I e si the Harmonists their organization they have customed to bury their dead in the shard. a large enclosure of many s, made beautiful by exquisitely kept velvety lawns and graceful peach and pear trees. [A portion of it has been separated from the rest by a neat fence of white pulings, within which F Rapp, the founder of the society his many followers who have gone to join hini, caimly sleep 1.;,'.-”- last sleep. j The graves of the Harmonists wholly undezignated by mark of kind, and there is no means, of di guishing that of the gréat, Father Rapp from those of the humble brethren who p around him. A and yund plan of this primitive cemetery are s tly kept, however, and the aged Harmonist, of it can,- from memory, give the names and point out the graves of every individual buvied ther t scems strange in the faith *tice of the harmonists is readily ccounted for when it is'taken into con- sideration that ever since the formation of their socviety in 1805, they ve daily expacied the visible, pe second coming of the redeemor. The sun never rises upon a new day that they do not expoct to see in the heavens the signs of His glorious advent and to read there in the—to them—joyful news, that the end of the world is at hand. They hold all flowers in_great venera- tion and invest them with aspecial mys- tic meaning. believing them to huve been dezigned by God as direct types of the resurrection, regarding their rising in the spring from the earth in which, during the severe winter, they scem to have been buried, as direetly of Christ ristng from the It is for this reuson that bhear 50 prominent a part in_ all their religious ana social observances and that they ave cast down upon the coffin when itis lowered into the grave nd are annuaily placed upon the wves themselv In addition to other gifts of prophecy, Father Henrici great skill in fortelling the ud he generally selects forthe annual decoration u day whose sky is fair and cloudless. His choice i nounced to his people the night before, and the long hours of darkness which follow are devoted to meditation and prayer. The eve of their memorial day 15 4 season of peculinr solemnity among mple-minded harmonists and is wrded with feelings of veneration and awe ukin to those inspired by holy week in Lent. The leade or elders, devote themselves to reconciling uny which may have arisen among the members. s0 that all may participate in the solemn observance of decorating the graves of thenr dead in true christian love and fellowship. If any harmoni have indulged in any gross sin or have any heavy burden resting upon their conscience they are urged to make a private confession of it to ,their venerable reli- gious lender, as well as 1o God, for they believe that without this confession to their spivitual adviser they cannot pect that full forgiveness from Jehovah, which will bring them true peace of mind and enable them to perform the decoration in the right spirit. There is less of this confusion practised now, however, than in former years, when, being younger and less firmly estabe lished * in the Christian life were more liable to i temptation or besetting and especially during the lifetime of Father Rapp, whom they devoutly reverenced as holding a direct comm: sion from God as his chesen minister. With the dawn of their decoration day, all gloomy meditation vanishes and the same happiness and joy that are so noticeable among them on ter morn- ing sparkle in every eye apd smile on every lip, for as will havebeen gathered from what has been alremdy written, the harmonists do not regard:death as a thing of sadness, to bashunned and dreaded, On the contrary they deem it most desirable asa translation from earthly sorrow and pain to endless seace and joy, and think that those who ie in the Lord are fobe felicited rather than mourned for, Just as the first rosy hues of dawn are visible in the eastern: heayvens the excellent military, band which has always been maintained among them, wakens the towns with strains of sweetest music from the high church tower., Then all sally forth to rather flowers, and returning well tdun the morning hours are spent in weaving them into garlands. At 2 o’clock 1n the afternoon the whole com- munity, including not only the mem- bers of the society, but also their 800 workmen with their wives and children, assemble in the soviety’s great public hall, After addressing them briefly, Elder Henricl marshals them into’'a quaint procession, which headed by the baud, marches through the principal streets, presenting & most unique ap- pearance as it does s0. There is Father l{enrici, his tall form bowed and his long curling locks, which flow out upon his shoulders, whitened by the snows settled been ac- possesses wenthe 278 o Wy~ :’/\(’/’R‘ ’o(mwn. \ VA ANE e WERS e “\(\\ R A \\9‘ s ST v P S KOI’T. LG Wlammoth Installment GCo, 613-615 N. 16th St., Bet. California and Webster. East Side of Street, Corner of Alley of more than eighty-five winters. Then there are the men in quaint blue cloth- r made in the (fashion of provincial rmany in 1805, and the women with oh pointed caps of biue satin. . The Orchard cemetery reached, there are prayers, stripture readings, remar! and singing, and then all deposit their flowers and garlands till the graves ave covered. Then the procession march back to the great publ 1 for dismis- sion and the Economites’ Decoration i an end. eer ish clergyinan London, cha picces off the He was arrested red with having credence table in wanted them as n knocked Westminster Abbey. relics. The Salvation army has a_dangerous rival in the person of a Scandinavian_woman who lias heen leading a reiigious revival at Men- omince, Mich., for a month past. Her preach- ing hus driven eight persons insane. An evangelist is traveling through Indiana proclaiming that the world will come to an end this If this witl only prevent the Indiana democrats from keeping conviets in their cit s it will do some good. Two young men of Racine, Wis., locked the door of the Methodist church in that city, during the services, and it became n essury for a deacon to climb through a win- dow and unlock the door before the congre- gation could be released. Among Philadelphia’s lawest sensutions is the arrest of threc very good young fellows uite the type of the'Sunday school library hero—for stealing the watches_of their fei- lows at the gymnasium of the Young Men's ian association. aving disposed of the women question, v conference has another puz- man_asks whether converted heathens, having more than one wife can_re- tain their wives and remain good Methodists Such conduct might effcct a Mcthodist's standing in New England. A negro preacher addressed great carnestness on the subject of mir beloved friends, de gre s was 'bout de loaves and de Dere was five thousand loaves and two thousand fishes, and de twelve 'postles t dem all. 'De miracle 1s dey didu’t his flock with Methodist ministers who want to he women out of their conference in New York were also to exclude the fair sex from their church weetings, what would be- come of their strawberry festival? And how many young men would listen to their sermons{ Brethren, without women ciurch service would fall into in—us d—¢ Parson Cushionpounder—I noticed that Brother Blacksheep slept through the en- tire sermon this morning. Elder Yokefellow, encouragingly -0, well, that's Blacksheep. He isn'tafeaid of ‘anything. Iknew him in the army, und I saw him lie down and sleep under the guns at Vicksburg, He'd sleep if you hollered ten times louder'n you do. A “Business Man" praises a New York daly for its new departure of putting a text of seripture at the head of a_column each day. He says it “supplies a decp want, felt away down in the heart.”” The infer i that the “‘Business Man” can find time to read ouly one verse of scripture u day, and doesn’t own a bible, Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has respited William Hoplkins, who was to have been banged in Rabun county to-day. Hop- Kins and his brother stoned a stranger to death because he came to church wearing “'a biled shirt and store clothes.” Whnen Hop- kins asked his father a few days since to come and see him hanged. the old man ex- pressed a willingness to do so if the ground should happen to be too wet to plough. According to the Baptist, an offer was re- cently received from a married man who wished to engage in mission work, The gen- tleman has a “small family of fourteen,” and he expressed his willingness to proces to China and to leave his family behind nim, “for @ large family he found » great hinder- ance to grace.” A family of fourteen is a hinderance to & good many other things be- sides grace, The cheerfulness with which this man proposed toturn his back on his wife and children is an eloquent commentary on his fitness to preach the gospel tothe heathen. e r—— LDUCATIONAL. Boston university has women in its highest governing board, In Japan 123 new schools and societies for girls and women were established auring last year, The Royal university of 1reland lately con- ferred the degree of master of artson five young women, The university of Leipzlg is more than four hundred years old, and the government gives it every year $400,000, The university of Michigan offers a choice of 242 courses of study—fifty-three more than are offered by Harvard. Vassar college has conferred the degree of LL.D. on Mrs, Catherine L. ¥ravklin, a Fellow of Johns Hopkins university. New Orleans has a teachers' benevolent association with 8 good bank socount. Its investment is now a question with the mern bers. Baron Hirsch has deposited in the Bank of London §10,000,000 foy the education of poor Jews of Russia. This is, with one excep- tion, the largest benevolent gift in the his- tory of the world, Yale's new nallege library building, the gift of S. B. Chittenden, of Brooklyn, will be the largest in_the country, and _probably the finest. It will cost §125,000, and be ready for use next fall. the will of the late Captaln Leonard age, of North Leominster, Mass., $20,- Bequeathed to_Olivet college for o uilding, which will soon be At Fisk university, ground has just been broken for the first negro gymnasium and mechanical laboratory the world has ever s Alonzo Stecle, of Grinnell, Ta., has given £20,000 to.endow the chair of mathematics 1d natural philosophy of Towa college, the chair to be called in memory of his duughter, the *“Myra Stecle” chair, Chicago has in her employ 1,605 teachers. > number of pupils enrolled'is 75,000. OF 2 0,60) are in double divisions—that is, ittend school only half adav, There 000 more girls than boys in the schools. Prof. William R. Harper, of Yale, will hold six summer schiools for the study of He- brew this Newton Center, Mass at Philad ; at the University of Vi ginia:_at Chicago, 11L, und twice at Chatau- qua, N. Y. San Diego, Cal., is soon to have an or- phans’ home for both sexes, combined with an_cducational and technical school. The endowment_wmounts to £2,000,000, and was subscribed by four ecitizens of San Diego. The city has_also given 100 aeres of which is estimated to be worth £1,000,000. The Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl- vania had in its graduating cluss, 155, one student from India, onc from Australia, and two of African descent. The last men- tioned were the fourth and fifth colored graduates of that institution. By its 450 alumnie there has now been formed a circle of nativity around the world, including Japan, India, Syr 2, Germany, Switzerland, G n, and the United States from Maine to Oregon and California. Wesleyan university, at Mount Pleasant, Tn, has some enterprising girls among its students, Thirty-five of them appeared in chapel the other morning clad in a very pretty uniform consisting of a short skirt of avy blue cloth, with blouse waist, skirt and waist being eluborutely trunmed with gold braid and brass buttons, A nat cap capped the climax. The propose forming a_military organization, and huy hired an old soldier to teach them the manual of urms. shville, Tenn., Frequently accidents occur in the household which burns, cust, sprains and_bruise in such cases Dr. J. H, McL Liniment has for many years heen constant favorite tamily remedy. ——— (Miss Murfree), the Charles Eg addock the gifted Tennessce writer of fiction, is thus pen-pictured: A small woman; so lame she can scarcely cross tne floor unalded. Slight yet square in figure. A small, white face, with the withered whitencss of one whose ANIMAL MAGNETISM. Mind Over Matter. 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