Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1888, Page 9

PART IIL E OMAHA SUNDAY BE PAGES. 9-16 SEVENTEENTH OMAHA SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 27. 1888, —~SIXTEEN — S PAGE " NUMBER 344 N. B. Falconer. White Goods. Another grand bargain in White goods for Monday; Canvas Checksin white at 8j¢, reduced from 15c. Lace stripes at 11c, reduced from 174e. Special. Cream Lace Batiste nt-XOc, worth 8bc. Cream Springtide Checks at 15c, reduced from 25c. Victoria Lawns at 10¢, worth 135c. N. B. Falconer. ‘Wash Dress Goods. Crinkle Seersuckers in a large line of stripes, at 5c; regular price, 121c. Batiste in all the new figures and colorings, at 8}c, regular price, 124c. Zanzatar and Puritan Suitingsin a beautiful Jine of stripes, 124¢, worth 174e. ' Striped Sceisuckers new stripes 6c, worth 124c. Dress Ginghams 5¢, worth 10c. N. B. Falconer. Corsets All sizes in fine summer Corsets at 69¢, reg ular price $1.00; and French woven Corsets at 69¢; all the other stores sell them at $1.00. N. B. Falconer. ]:1. B. ]"xllc(:nvr. Lace - Flouncings. We have always made a great Specialty of black Lace Flouncings, and we will open Monday a lot of goods that we know are cheap; the patterns are cheice and new; the black Spanish Guipure Flouncings, at $1.19, $1.50, 81.65, $1.75 and $1.85; we know are worth at least 25 per cent more than we ask for them. The black Chantilly Flouncing at 95¢, $1.25, 81.50, 1.75 and $2.25, are just as chenh as the Spanish Guipure; These goods we have just bought at special sale and much helow the mar- ket value. N. B. Falconer. ‘Wool Dress Goods. We make special inducements on colored Wool Dress Goods for Mon- day. A lot of 24-inch Dress Goods at T4, regular price 15c. A big lot of Checks, Plaids and Brocades at 12}e, regular price 20c. 40inchOuting Flannels at 29c,reg- ular price 45c. 42 inch French Novelty Dress goods with plain to match at 89¢, re- duced from $1.35. 42 inch Cashmere Serges in all the new colors at 65¢, worth 85c. N. B. Falconer. PEN-PICTURES OF DAGO ALLEY. Inhabited by Beings in all Conditions of Squalid Distress. A FIELD FOR THE SLUMMERS. A Stroll Through its Unsavory Pre- cincts by Daylight—Its Sights, Sounds and Bcents—Some of its Legends. Dago Alley. A spot as such not laid down in the city’s plan, neither are its neopie mentioned in tho city's directory. Yet for all that, the alley has long been'a festering sore right in the heart of the city, and its urid wastes are within rifle shot of the Paxton. Geograph- ically defined by metes and bounds, its terri- tory is belted by Thirteenth and Fourteenth and Jones and Leavenworth streets. It is o gulfy stream of vice and wickedness, and the wrecks along its shores are the hulks of fallen humanity. It is & bad place after nightfall for the stranger, for the universal command, “Let there bo light,” was nover intended broad enough to illumine the alley after dark, and the stranger must trust to the bulls’ eye of the saloons, opening on either ond of it, for guiding stars. The sun glaves flercely on the alley by day, as though it would like to strike all menand women in it at once, and then as if in_ revengo for the existence of the place, contents itself with exhaliug deadly migsma from the able refuse strewn about i dumps and ing it in disease throughout the air, Jdttle stagnant pools lie in sliwy stillness on every side, and ihe only time their turgid rest is broken is whop fresh refuse is added, or a rain shower gives them life and motion.” Under one_di- lapidated shanty thereis a cess-pool of filth enough to breed Aslatic cholera, and the policeman who acted as my guide, said, it is tradition that the pool is hullmnl,. , which accounts for its continuance batlling the ef- forts of the health authorities to abate the nuisance, . ot And the mansions “of Dago alley?! Well, thiere is a painful architeetural symmetry aud likenoss in them all. They have an uncer- tain way of standing. liké n man recovering from a protracted spree, and glass for tho Not most part 8 wantmg in the windows, gaps being filled with cast-off clothing. that the people need the filling in sumuer, for tho spica 1oft in the shattered window fraines affords ventilation, but in winter the cold must be kept out some way that the people may live, . And the people who'live in Dago Alley, what of them! They ave & vicious set and claim the place as their own by right of pre emption and graduation in erime and mis- fortune. A residence in the is the last jumping off place in the wretched run of a Iniserablo existenco. Negroes with razors and Italions as dark, with stilettoes, lie about the open doorways and amuse thew- selves 1 sleep, or the hermless diversion of ating the misearable women who cling to nd scem to thrive on their blows; or, wance the claiws of hunger demand food, with "0"“"1’ in sight to steal, the negro sallies forth in search of chores and the Italian roams about with plaster images. One of the Italians was arrested on my visit the alley—a swarthy, muscular man, with a handkerchief about his forchead and brasé pendants in his ears, and while the fellow protested his innocence with much gesticulation at the station, a dirk a foot long was taken from him. Me good ceetecaen; me 1o anything bad; sell de nice poppy corn and de big banan,’ he 8aid in response to the usual inquiry regurd- his occupation. oc ""l‘hen what yer doin’' with the great big | cheese carver!” asked the jailer. ““Why use him to cut de ‘big bunan, seei” the fellow answered. SRy Wicked meu of every maticuality are there, who respect the law as they do each other, and value human lifc only at the worth of thé contents of a_vietim’s pockets. Just the men are they, found in_every large city, to follow adeader and join in the mob. “We don’t have any trouble to speak of now with the alley,” said _the policeman, ‘“for we've got it pretty well under control, but there was a time when there was hell and robbery in the alley every night, and toen we had our hands full.” “How did you manage to obtain the system of order prevailing” 1 asked. “Clubbed ‘em,” replied the poheeman taconically. ““Them fellows is afraid of a clubbin’, and yer got to treat ’em like yer would a'wild beast.” And the policeman in other words simply announced Napoleon's axiom: “Kill the mob first; read the riot act after,” The women of Dago aliey are the cast- aways of a life for which disease has unfitted them. 1 grew interested in the story of one of them, us she told me of her former life, over the drippings of stale beer sent her from a neighboring dive. ~ She was not old, suve in sin, and in her features, as much as was left in their regularity from many a beating, one might trace the lines of former beauty. She had been in her day of the “scarlet sisterhood,” and worn diamonds, and she contrasted her present day of cast- off beer drinking and poverty with that other day of champagne _cork-popping and jewels and carcsses. Step by step her downward carcer was swift and sudden und with scarcely breathing time, 1o realize the transition and the rounding of her lifo is the inevitable story in the end of the exist- cence of the “'siren Who lures men’s souls to nell.” Poverty and diseases, with a brutal Bill Sykes for a protector and_a shamble in Dago alley, then Potter’s field and the dis- secting table, the last records of tho woman of the town who survives her youth and beauty. Children sometimes play in the alle; ash heaps as @ play ground things whose v e disgrace 1 the s 1ooking at their blear, expressionlc man kindness tha their lives of mi with ned prove their future r parents and one seased-racked frames and sish in hu- carly death m’ght end " A romance came upon the alley a few months ago in the shape of a suicide, There is one house along its wastes more gaudily furnished than the rest, in that showy red curtains hang at its windows like the splen- dors of the cabin of a canal boat. Aud seck- ing the shelter of this den, came a young girl whose life for years had known no purer at- mosphere than the air of a dive, no kinder words than the curses of alover, She came with her sins fresh u}non her in the very last stage of destitution, for she had been cast off and spurned by her protector. She could bear his reproaches and his blows but not his neglect, for in it the woman's pride, lost though she was, asserted itself in the re- membrance of her sacrifices and what she called herlove. With no eye to watch her, no word left to tell of her coutri- tion she drank laudanum in a room in the red-curtained house in the alley at the dead of night and in the morning was found with her wide-open eyes staring wildly at the pg sunlight and the gaping crowds wildly av her. Decent people, came down to the alley tian burial, for in the purity of death they could touch her. And 50 pass the days and pights. the sin aud 1wisery, the wretcheduess aud poverty, the merry-go-round of discase and despair and death in Dago alley. But civilization is com- ing to obliterute al! vestiges of the place in the brick and mortar of the great buildin, in contemplation upon its site and soon the alley will be but @ memory recalled by the historian, —————— Boy Burglars in 'Frisco. Youthful depravity is causing the de- tective branch of the city police force more trouble of late than any other causes of erime, says the San Francisco Examiner, and the art of catching hoy burglars and bringing them to justice 5. by hraotios, making severel of Ca ) Leos’ detectives particularly skill- Nearly every week for thé past two months an organized gang of boy iminals huve been arrested, and: last N. B. Falconer, Torchon Laces. Three special lots of hand made Torchon Laces will be placed on sale Monday; the prices are 10¢, 12}c and 15¢. These laces will be found a lit- L tle dirty, but they are all perfect with that exception, and are worth double what we ask for them. We also show a lot cf Cream Lace Remnants at wonderful prices. N. B. Falconer. Pearl Buttons. Weimported an immense quant ity of Pearl Buttons, and can in conse- quence sell them cheaper than they can be bought wholesale. Pearl Buttons 10c a card; 2 dozen on each card, and all sizes. Fine Pear]l Buttons 15¢ a card, of 2 dozen, all sizes. Super Pearl Buttons all sizes at 20c per yard, of 2 dozen, N. B. Falconer. Hammoceks! Hammocks! 1 bale Children’s Hammocks at 40c worth 65c, 1 bale full sized Hammocks at €1, regular §1,50 quality. 1 bale full sized Hammocks at $1.35 worth $2, N. B. Falconer. night four more youthful robbers were placed behind the bars at the city prison. The last gang, like the others, 1s the result of reading cheap and vicious lit- erature and smoking cigarettes. The boys are thoroughly hardened and de- praved, and the youngest, a lad of twelve years, is the worst one of the lot. They ail live with their parents in the Potrero, but never go to school, and lead an idle, vagabond life, which finally leads them to steal. They con- fessed to several reporters last night that they had been stealing things for some time and dividing the booty. The charge the police have against them is burglary, and each of'the boys has two charges to answer to. — HORACE GREELEY'S DAUGHTER Living a Useful Life at Her Quict Home in New York State. From time to timgreports creep into the newspapers thiat Miss Gabrielle Greeley isto tuke up one cause or an- other and plead it in a public way be- fore New York audiences, says the New York Press. Such areportmay be true, because Miss Greeley is o young woman of great intelligence and ‘with decided opinions on the prominent questions of the day, although she has not made a study of them. It mightbe expected, 100, that the daughter and only surviy- i child of Horace Greeley would holding a prominent position in siety, and one which it would be so easy for her to attain; but such a report is not true, because she has chosen other duties and a vocation that does not in any way place her before the general public To have known Mr. Greeley was at ast to have heard of his country home happaqua, and to find mention of that simple little village nestled among the hills is to hear now of Miss Greeley, great man’s daughter. Ask the in the fields flowers along the rondside and they will have some- thing to tell you of the loving kindness of this gentle woman, Without a dis- senting voice her face is called beatiful, Her features in repose are classic, and when animated-—-the eyes glancing beams of sunlight, the mouth opening over teeth of dazzling whitene they produce an imprint on the mind of the beholder that is not easily effaced, No bangs or wavy locks of hair ave needed to enhance nature. The brown tresses are drawn back in the simplest manner and form a knot just behind the ears, This is the sort of face thata wide- brimmed Gainsborough hat with float- ing plumes becomes s0 well, and Miss Greeley wears one sometimes, Her garb in the country is plain and com- fortable, but everything shows to ad- vantage on this well developed and strongly built young woman, The Greeley farm is only a bi five minutes walk away from the village, and its land borders the high road. The house, which is merely a spacious cottage; was built for a farm house, but has been used as the family dwelling siuce the originai home was burned, an event which took place several years ago. The hn})piness being deprived Miss Greeley of sharing her home with her sister’s three children—they hav- ing been entered nnaxupils at the con- vent of the Sacred Heart—she and three other ladies live together in the utmost peace and harmony. FEach car- cies on her own pursuit, sharing equal and sharing alike the burdens and joys of housekeeping. There is a shoe fac- tory at Chavpaqua which employs 300 ‘hands, and these people live in and about the village. A settlement of Quakers in the vicinity adds to the pop- Pi. B. l"ldcn;mr. Surah Silks. Surah Silks in stripes and checks at 50c, werth 95¢. Changeable Surah Silks at 89¢, reg- ular price $1.25. Plaid Surah Silks heavy weight at $1.00, reduced from $1.50, b Black and white striped Surahs, also Sheppard checks at 95¢, would be good value at $1.25. Black beaded Grenadine at $1.50, reduced from $2.50. Black beaded Grenadine at 82.50; reduced from §3.00. Black beaded Grenadine at $3.50, worth 84.75. Black beaded Grenadine £5. worth $7.25. Black beaded Grenadine $6.25, an elegant design, covered with beaded drops, worth $10. N. B. Falconer. - Embroidery Department. To reduce a stock of Embroideries that we find larger than we want at this season, we make special prices for Monday ;these pric s will be found lower than any yet made at any special sale. At 540 we will sell a lot of ‘embroideries that are really worth 124c. At 8ie, the lot we show would be a big bargain at 15c. At113c you will find some elegant goods that would sell readily at 20c. At 19¢, in this lot you will find bar- gains which will be a surprise to all; we only sell them at 19¢ to reduce stock, They are worth from 30c to 35c At 274c. Thisis one of the largest lots we have, and to sell them fast,we make this ridiculous price; many of them are worth 50c. N. B. Falconer, ulation another and quaint species of mankind. The country isbroad enough to admt of more than one creed, and so there is room for the pretty little church with ritualistic services. which has helped much toward providing for Miss Greeley her vocation. In her own words it is “higher than the Roman church,” which might mean that it was more full of symbols and ob- servances than the other, or that it led to a higher and straighter road to heaven. Certainly those who come in daily contact with Miss Greely, unite in thinking that any road that she might choose to take must naturally lead to heaven. She is a kind of high priestess or bishop in this church work, and it is mainly through her endeavors and the co-operation of her friends, with the assistance of the clergyman, that the little edifice stands free of debt, and that the seats are open absolutely free to the congregation. It would be trespass- ing on sacred grouund to give a more detailed account of the good she is constantly doing. the heart full of sympathy that she gives out to all claimants, whether men, ¥omen or chil- dren, and the good seed that is being scattered by her in every direction, If she lived in New York her sphere would be broader, and she would undoubtedly be aleader in some of the advanced movements of the day. Sheloves her country home and her retired though busy life, and finds little reason for studying the rights of protection or the wrongs of free trade, except that she lovingly leans a little more perceptibly toward” the tree her father helped to foster, and she has a womanly and in- stinetive sympathy with the claims of working women most of all--- who desire to better their own condi- tion. mokless Engine, English mechanical engineers are de- voting much study tothe thermody- namics of the gas engine, and radical improvements in the present types of such engines seem probable as the re- sult, Mr. H. Guthrie recently exhibited ata meeting of the Manchester Associa- ‘tion of Engineers a model and diagrams of an engine intended to dispense with the water-jacket and to regulate the cut-off and power without cutting out whole strokes—two features in the “Otto” engine which, itis claimed, cause a loss of 60 per cent in the efficiency and creatd unsteadiness in the work, My, Cuthrie claims ‘‘to save half the present loss caused by water jacketfng and to get out of the cylinder of a giyen size just about three times the power of the ordinary Otto-type engine,” His model is designed for the use of the ordinary city gas supply but is claimed to he equally well adapted to the self-containing type (the so-called “Caloj by attaching to it a gas-gen- erator, By this means one would not only be freed from the monopoly of the gas companies and **trusts,” but the en- gine would have a much wider field of usefulness. A generatorno larger than an ordinary vertical boiler would con- tain fuel enough for a whole day’s work without recharging. For street rail- way use such a self-contained gas en- gine would posess the advantages of be- ing practically neiseless, of emitting no steam, of making no smoke, and of put- ting into the aymosphere ouly one- fourth the noxious vapors per horse- power now sent from the present steam engine furnaces, e e g An English avthority has computed that in the last three or four years more pigs have died in the United States from cholcra than Lave been raised in the British isies. N. B. Falconer. Ladies” Hosiery. We have a few odd dozen of Ladies” Silk Plaited Hose in colors that have been sold at $1.25; on Monday to close out the lot we make the price 590 a pair. Another lot at 79¢ with white split f eet comes in tans, navy blue, brown, wine and cream; 81.75 is the regular price, but to close out this lot we sell thgm Monday at 790 N. B. Falconer. Opera Hose. Ladies’ Silk Plaited Opera Hose in cream, pink, blue and blacks that are worth $3.50; Monday's priceis$1. N. B. Falconer. Black Silk Pluited Hose. At one dollar. We will sell Monday an elegant black Silk Plaited Hose that is worth 81.75. N. B. Falconer. Black Lisle Thread Hosiery. Ladies' black Brilliant Lisle Hose at 42c, would be good value at 65c. Ladies’ black fancy ribbed Lisle Hose at 49c, they would be a bar- gain at 95¢. At 33c a pair we will elcse out a lot of colored Brilliant Lisle Hose. N. B. Falconer. Fancy Lisle Hose. 0dd lots of Ladies’ fancy lisle Hose that have heen selling from £1.25 to $2.50, we close out the lot at at 68ec. N. B. Falconer. N. B. Falconer. Curtain Department. Fancy Colored Serim Curtains, On Monday we offer 50 pairs of fancy colored Scrim Curtains at the ridiculous price of $1.35 pair. These goods are shown in two colors and are very desirable as a cheap summer drapery. Monday, $1.35. Remember the price on Nottingham Lace Curtains, The finest line of medium priced Lace Curtains at 83, 84, and 5, ever brought here. Also for Monday 50 pair full taped edge Nottingham Curtains at 85c per pair, Madras Curtains, 81.57.—36 pairs Madras Curtains at $1.57 per pair, worth #3.00. N. B. Falconer. White Lawn Suits, We make special mention of two numbers of Ladies” White Lawn Suits for Monday; we have the finest stock and the lowest prices of these goods ever shown here. The prices are$3.75 and $6.75. #3.75.—Ladies’ White lawn Suits pleated Blouse Skirt at #3.75. 86.75.—Ladies’ White lawn Suits, Basque waist, full trimmed Skirts at $6,75, These are two of the greatest bar- waist, full tucked gains ever offered at the prices quoted. N. B. Falconer. N. B. Falconer. Linen Department, 25 dozen Turkish Dusters (slightly soiled) at 85¢ per dozen; worth $1.00, 100 dozen importad Turkish Wash . Cloths, (bought at auction) at 55¢ per dozen, worth T5e. 50 dozen large Turkish Bath Towels at 15¢, regular price 250, 65 dozen Fancy Turkish Towels at 25¢, worth 40c. 25 dozen extra large white Turkish Towels at 85¢, worth 50 100 dozen elegant Damask and Huck Towels at 25c, (Broche Borders) worth 35c. $1.00 Per Dozen For Monday's Sale. 50 dozen red bordered Damask Doylies at $1. worth $1.37} per dozen, Lap Ropes! Lap Robes! We will continue our sale of linen Lap Robes on Monday at the same prices quoted for Faturday’s sale; these goods were bought at less than cost to manufacture and are almost worth double wlat we ask. Linen Lap Robes, 42¢, worth T5e¢, B M e O e, 85¢, * 8135, $1.00, 32.00.{‘ “ “ “ “« “ 0dd Lots Bed Spreads. We will sell all our odd Bed Sprcads at special prices on Monday to clean up the stock. There will be bargaing amongst them. N. B. Falconer. Eiaaee—————— A PRECIOUS-NETAL HUNTER. He Goes From Place to Place in Search of It. UNEARTHING HIDDEN TREASURES Scraping the Floors of Jewelry Estab- lishments, Digging into Crevices, Displacing Boards and Buying Workmen's ash-water A Lucrative Business. A Ber reporter strolled through the cor- ridor of the Millard one evening last week, taking in the personnel of the guests and ob- serving the sights and scenes so invariably fleeting and pleasing in this busy hostelry, Meeting an acquaintance, and lighting a cigar apicce, the reporter and his friend dropped down into the comfortable rockers to test the quality and quantity of their weeds, and put a final quietness on the vexed problem as to who shall be named the republican standard bearer at the convention to shortly convene in Chicago. About this time a well-dressed, well-fed, dignified gentleman strutted apast and nodded politely, to which there was a re- sponse from the friend of the reporter. The inquisitiveness of the latter prompted the question as to who the stranger was, and received in reply, “That man is in a business I never heard of before, and I doubt if you ever have.” No objections being raised to the queer assertion, the gen- tleman continued : “I came in to-night with him from Minne- apolis, and he is a jovial, hail fellow, well met. We boarded the train together at Min- neapolis, and in the course of the trip we struck up an acquaintance. He smoked my cigars, and I quaffed with him, when it was necessary to cut the dust in our throats. EFrom social talk we drifted into the charac- ter of our respective pursuits, and 1 told him Isold lumber. He laughed, and jokingly re- marked: ‘I raise lumber sometimes.’ His reply puzzled me, and when I pushed him for an explanation he told me that he bought the floors of jewelry —manufacturers for the SCraps and refuse of gold and silver that finds its way into crevices in the floor and becomes imbedded in the boards, But here he comes humself, 'l introduce him to you and you can hear from his own lips.” Mr. Grotlenschen, was the name of the gentleman cited as being in @ curious ‘busi- ness, and while he was polite, affable and jolly, he was not much inclined to speak on the subject. Nevertheless he answered questions wh ¢ were advanced, He said he represented @ New York firm that had made a discovery by which they could work the dust and scraps from gold and sil- ver manufacturing establishments, the re. fuse of such places, the aprons worn by the workmen, the water in which they washed their hands and the erucibles used for melt- ing the metal into bars and cakes of the precious stuff and resell them at a large profit 1o be again worked over into jewelry. The works are situated somewhere in New Jer- ey, and have wade a mint of money for the proprieto “I am continually on the road buying the floors and appurtenences to jewelry inanu- facturing houses,” continued Mr. Grotlen- schen, “‘and I have just come from Min- neapolis and St. Paul, where 1 bought two floors and the washings from the haods of employes. 1 paidin the main nearly $5,000 for the two outfits. and I think I have se- cured a most excellent bargain. The refuse is of long years standing, and the older the | premises the more valuable the prize. 1 am | on my way to Kansus City from Lere, where 1have in view a very promising plant, and 1rom there 1 will journey through the south.» In response 1o @ auestion if his mission to the city was to make 8 purchase of a like description he answered that it was, ana Le said that be bhad just closed. a bargain with clry establishment at the co r of Eleventh and Farnam streets, What was the price he paid for the floor, or how much gold and silver he ex- pected to harvest from the plant he refused o state, desiring toleave it to the firm to tell themsclves. Next day the reporter called upon Messrs. Max and Moritz Meyer at their new store, and the gentlemen stated that they had not sold the floor, but only the scrapings therefrom, and the fillings in_the crevices. For this’ the firm had received v $400, and Mr. Max Meyer volunteered the information that during the short time they had been in il anufacturing of jew- elry they had received the sniiz little sum of over §4,000 for the refuse from tncir estab- lishment, “No, we didn't sell the floor outright,” claimed Mr. Moritz Meyer, “for the reason that we were not prepared to take it up, There is, without doubt, a mine of gold and silver dust bencath it, and it will some day ¢ in a great dealof money. We consume a large quautity of gold and silver in our business, and at the end of the year box up the refuse and sell it.” “How do you save it?" quired the reporter, *In various ways,” was the reply. *‘First of all te floors are carefully and thoroughly scraped betimes, and tho scrapings are dumped into barrels, Then there are the hands of the workmen.” ““‘What of them ("’ “Before leaving their benches and tools they thoroughly wash their hands and clean their finger nails, While they are at work a certain amount of the gold and silver adhere to the flesh and finds its way under the finger nails. The wash water is saved and after a night's stand the metal sinks to the bottom of the dishes and in the morning the water is drained off and the sedinents thrown into the waste barrel, which in time is sold to the men who deal n'it.” ““What else is there that is valuable?” “Many things. The aprons and caps worn by the men find a ready sale, 8s do the ecru- cibles in which we melt the'metal. The lat- ter we never use but once, then break them up and throw them into the refuse barrel, A large amount of gold sticks to them, and they bring a large price,” ie working beuches workmen money, and " and chairs of the bring sometimes large sums of in_all probability when Meyer's get ready to tear up the floor of t discarded building aneat little bonanza be brought to them. — The O1d Curlosity Shop. In a currentnumber the London Tem- ple Bar will say: One of the most amus- ing characters in the “‘Old Curiosity Shop” is that of the small slipshod_girl who wore a *‘dirty coarse apron and bib, which left nothing visible but her f and her feet,” and who was called “The Marchion ? by that choi Richard Swiveller, in order seem more real and pleasant.,” The novelist took his firat impression of this domestic young person from a maid-of- all-work possessed by the Dickens fam- ily when living in Bayham-street, Cam- dén Town. She was an orphan from the Chatbum workhouse and continued 1o wait upon her employers during their incarceration iu the Marshalgea. Like young Charles Dickens, she had a lodging in the neighborhood of the prison, that she might early on the scene of her dutie and when Charles met her, as he would do occasionally, in his lounging place by London bridge he would upy the time before the s opened by telling her most astonishing fictions about the wharves and the tower. *“But [ hope I believe them myself,” he would say. The room which young Dickens then oceupied a back attic in the house of an insolvent urt agent in Lant street, Borough, where Bob Sawyer lodged many y afterward, His laudlord was ‘‘a fat, good-natured, kind old gentleman. He was lame, and had a quiet 0ld wife; and he.had a very in- sent grown-up son, whowas lame, wo.”n '}he elderly - couple and their only son were dead when these particu- lars were related by Dickens to his bio= grapher, who informs us that they lived still very pleasantly, in another forn as the Garland family in the “Ofli Curiosity Shop.” Turning to a minor character in the story, it is said that the first study for the poet of Mrs. Jar- ley’s wax-works was made from one of the rhymesters regularly employed by Robert Warren, the blacking manufac- turer, whom Dickens remembered so well. ——— Telegraphic Communication Between China and Europe. New York Commercial Bulletin: The conventich recently concluded at Chefoo between the representatives of the two telegraph companies having cables landed in Chiva and the Chiness tele- graph administration has created some alarm among the foreign mercantile communities in China, and it has not yet been ratified by the Chinese govern- ment, although the agents of the cable companies concerned spent the winter in Pekin for the purpose. The Great Northern Telegruph company of Copen= hagen and the Eastern Ixténsion coms pany of London, it will be remembered, have divided the territory in China. The lines of the former run north through Japan to Vladivostock and Eastern Siberia, while the English company’s lines run south through Singapore and India. Telegraphing to and from the interior is done over the Chinese lines, and, under arrangements hitherto existing, the Chinese tele- graph administration g interior. Under the arrangement pro- posed by the convention the Chinese would receive 70c. The companies, savs the minister, charge cable rates, although most of the service is by land. nch Rifle, dence London graph: had abundant evis dence during the past few manths of the pains taken by the authorities to prevent the secret of the “*Lebel rifle” and its cartridges from falling into for- eign hands, Avrrests have been made from time to time on the faintest suse picion of foul play, and it is affirmed that officers-have been so carveful that not a single French soldier knows the color of the ‘m\\‘xlcr which he is using, The number of rifles and cartridges supplied to the different regiments has been accurately noted down and not a day passes without a scrupulous examination of the storves, At interva during the twenty-four hours the rifles are counted to ascer: ) that none ave missing. Lists are of the cartridges dealt out to v3 of those d off and of manding of- ficer afte In short, if each cartridg ve & pricoless dins mond it could not be kept with greater solicitude, while as for the rifles, one would alm imagine that the fate of an empire depended on their retention within the walls of the barracks, Frenchman still maintein that what- ever the mishaps whick may have be- fallen other inventions, no foreign govs ernme yet succeeded in prying into th ies of Colonel Tebel's i their new n the world, —.———e Tele= those r the day’s worl, posiug of refuse, soda, muck, weeds, ete., ihan o rot them down in & compost heap. Surely dead animals are best disposed of in i . The most common fermentin agents used in the compost heap are M‘ manure and night soil, d .