Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1888, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, Tdehtning va, Gas. Provided the city council grants the fran- chise petitioned for, the Brush company pro. poses erecting a plant of about 1,000 lamps capacity. Part will be run on the three- wire system and part by the altornating method. The three-wire, or straight incan doscent system will be employed chiefly for store lights and for runnir claimed 10 be more reliablo than the alternating, The current will be on every hourout of the twenty-four. Resident Aights will pay full price for those lamps which are in constant use, such as in the hall, parlor, etc., and half price month) for those in use in bedrooms and where they are in use only a part of t evening, They also propose 1o furnish metres, 80 that (f customers desire, an accu rate account can be kopt of the amount of curront used The plunt will be in operation as soon after the franchise is given as possible, The price they offor this incandoscent light, 70 conts a mouth, from early candlelight until 10 o'clock p. m., is said to be the same as gas at $1.50 a thonsand. All parties desiring the light will have the necessary wires put in free of charge, regardiess of the number of lamps required. Mr. Thomas Ofticer, who has been giving the matter much attention for two years past, is thoroughly satisfied that for this city the alternating system is the true or adopt. His opinion is worthy of much woight, for he is a close observer, an honest and impartial investigator of the several sys. tems, — sterday evening between the nd Hardin's gun J case containing shells and oil can. Finder leave at Hardin’s gun store or return toJ. G, Tipton, real estate broker, Council Bluffs. - 1b. Candy 10¢ per at Baird’s, Broud way. S The largest assortment of baskets and boxes at rd’s candy Dop’t the fine lar il to o to Baird’s and line of Christmas goods. vt Sistvedting Buy Useful Prosents. he most acceptable ents for Christmas are those ch combin utility with b r daily usc keops the giver in constant remem- brance. We have full lines of Down Comforts, Down Pillows, Carpet Sweepers, Foot- stools, Blacking Cases, Fanc and Rugs, and many other things which are valuable as Christmas Souvenirs, We ave anxious to close these all out, and will make prices to suit the purchaser, Our Remnant Sale still continues and with bargains for all who come, Call and sece us. CouNCIL BLu g The Pulpits and Pews. The following announcements are made of church services to be held to-day Broadway M. E. Church—Preaching by the pastor, D. C anklin, at 10:30 a. m. v school at 12 m. Class meoting at 6:30 p. m. in the lecture room, A cordial invitation is extended to strangers. Borean I t Church—Preaching by the pastor, Rev. T. . Thickston, at 10:50 a. m. nnd 7:30 p. m. to-duy, on Pacific avenue be tween Fifth and Sixth avenues. *Sunday school ut 11:45 a. m. All are invited irst Baptist—Preaching by the pastor at 10:40 a. m. Sunday school 12 m. Union prayer meeting at 6 p. m. In the evening there will be no services in this church, but union services condueted by the bpastors 1 tho Prosbyterian church at 7:40 p. m. Presoyterian -Preaching as usual in the morning by the pastor. Sabbath school at 12 o'clock. In the evening there will be a union rovival meeting at 7:30, and all arc asked to bring Gospel Hymns, No. 5. Union Revival Services—All are invited to attend the uni al services at the Presbyterian church at 7:30 p. m., and to bring Gospel Hymns, No. 5. Y. M. C. Special meeting for men, conducted by Joseph Wells at the Y. M. C. A., corner Broadway and Main, Sunday af- ternoon at 4 o'clock. Topic:' “Tne Gulf Spanned,” Luke 2:11, Good singing, short addresses by young men. Congregational—Services this morning, The pastor will preach a Christmas sermou, Bubject: *“The Star of Bethleheln,” Ap- propriate anthems will be rendered by the choir. Union services in the Presbyterian church in the evening. A cordial invitation 15 extended. Bothany Baptist Church—Corner of Bluff and Story streets. Services as usual at 10:30 a.m, and 7:30 p. m, Sunday school at 8 p. m. Rev. E. N, Harris, pastor §t. Paul's Church--Divine service to-day at 11 a, m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 12 Young men's bible class at 5. ermon topics, morning: ‘“Faithfulness. vening sermon: “Of What Use is the hrch to Our Business Men?' Young men and strangers always cordially wel- comed to these services, T. J. Mackay, rector, . Carrer Co. Ll bl By No war prices for roliable jewelry at Woolman’s, jeweler, 224 Broadw: Tllinois and Towa best soft coal, Glea- gon, 26 Pearl s e, Diamond rings, fine quality, no flaws, §-karet stones, $35.00. = Wollman, jeweler, 221 Broadway. — e Auction Sale, This afternoon at 2 o’clock and this evening at 7, will be sold a large stock of crockery, lamps, vases, toys, notions and Christmas goods of all kinds. These gooas must and will be sold regardless of cost, Go to No. 15 Maia street and get the greatest bargains of your life. bon'l. forget the time and place. e Mrs. Grover's Grievance, The alleged rape case of Grover vs MeNolty was on trial in Justice Schurz's court yesterday. The trial was conducted with locked doors, as the crowd desiring ad- mission was mueh larger than the size of the anted. The cvidenoe was not,of a articularly startling nature, and co rmed tho bolief that the case s one of malecious prosecution, clsely verging on persecution. The testi- mony of the neighbors showed that tie two familics hud lived on terms of intimuey since the allegod assault took place, on Nevember £0, und that until ten days ago, Mrs. Grover and her family bad virtually lived at the ex- vense of the McNoltys, by “their successful manuer of borrowing. ' Finally she borrowed the McNolty wash boiler, and damaged it severely, This was regarded as the last w, and the MeNoltys decided to draw the line at demolishod laundry apparatus. When next Mrs. Grover appeared she was faformed that henceforth the ways of the Grovers and McNoltys lay in different direc- tions. The heir of the Grover estate was next ordered off the McNolty domain, with threats of arrest if his trespass was repeated. Mrs. Grovor then took a hand, and intormed the neighbors that MeNolty had assaulted lier, and the case was then brought into court. The prosecuting witness bears a tough reputation in the vicinity of her home, and the chances of the charge being sus- tained are very slight. The case was contin- ued until L-worrow morning. s Read and Rteflect. N. L Tibbetts, the CASH GROCER, s sclling sweet corn Tc per can. Better &\‘mltny.fivuuu 25¢. Early June chu. per can; 3-1b can of tomatoes, 1 1b can peaches, 10¢, 15¢ and 20c; 8-1b oean pricots, 150 per can, Good prunes, Be por can; 7 burs soap for 8sc; Japan tea, Z5c perlb; maple syrop, 75¢ per gal. Fine catsup, 75¢ per gallon. I also have o full line of the celebrated Monarch and Curtic Bros', canned goods, which 1 am solling very low. N. L TInpETTS, No. 36 Broadway. - Workingmen The electric motor company has not taken any action iu regard tg putting on working- men's trains, early ilu the moraing, and in the evening, with n 5 eont fare. This sug: gestion has been made, but whother it will be adopted or not, will depend upon the amount of business. It is not likely that such trains will bo put on before spring. It is belicved that such trains, or some system of commutation tickots, uld greatly in :"»u-r'lhv-numlmr of regular daily patrons, The company jntimated that it would ma such arrangements, if allowed to charge transients more than 10 cents. The council refusiug this request, the matter of commu tation tickets is being held open for further deliberation, In time, no doubt, tho com pany will s¢ it to be for its interest to make a5 cent rate for thoso who have to use the line morning and evening. The public hope that this time may come soon, It will surely be of general advantage to the city, and as the city has donated very liberally to the en terprise by its special tax, it seems that the company can afford to make the cut for such classes of patron Fine holiday goods for twenty days at prices that will wurprise you. Call and be convinced, J. uart’s drug store, 630 Broad Dr., Ha block RGN VS All partics having work doue at my office will please call and gottlo for samo before January 1,1889. Otherwise speci- mens will bo sold for charges. Taxidermist. n, dentist, opora house Almost a Blaze. Early yosterday morning thore was an other narrow es pe from a serious confin- gration in the business portion of tho city, although the flames were extinguished with- out the assistance of the fire department. The blaze was caused by the falling of a lamp in the Turf. The flames filled the room, and caused considerable excitement. The burn- ing lamp was carried into the street, where it burned for nearly balf an hour. The f on the inside of the building was smothered with ashes and mud. Thé damage amonnted to about The blaze is directly charge- ablo 1o carclessiess, nidis i s J. G. Tipton, real estate Pickled tripe and pig bitts’, 345 Broadway. — The City Council. There were eleven members of the coun cil present last night when President Bechel called them to order, and the business tran sacted was only of a routine nature. A num- ber of estimates for local work were ap proved and ordered to be placed in the ap propriation ordinance for the coming month, and the council adjourned to mect again Cheistmas night. If aquorum can be ob. tained that night they will agsin adjourn to meet Wednesday night, December 2, when some important business will be brought up. S. B. Wadsworth & Co. loan money. Bttty Buy geoceries, stationery and Christmas £00ds of Kelley & Younkerman, 102 B'way. et > Sweet Charity. Miss Jennie Alver, ouc of Neola's bright teachers, was in the city yesterday, visiting friends, and did not neglect to do some very important work in the interest of a charity Christmas tree, whose fruits are to be dis- tributed to poor children at Neola Monday evening. Many lttio hearts will be glad- dencd on account of contributions by John Beno & Co., J. M. Phillips, Sargent & Evans, M. O.'Calef, H. A. Baird and others, —~— Assorted fruit in baskets for Chris mas at Palmer's, 12 5. Main st. Christian Business Me The morning prayer meetings, held by the business men, have proved so interesting and profitable that it has been decided to con- tinue them. They will be held each weck- day morning at 9:30 o’clock in the chapel of the First Baptist church. The committee chosen to have these meetings in charge con- sists of Dr. Hartupee, W. C. Stacy, William Joseph, A. Overton, A. D, Foster and A. M. Johuston, 27 B'way feet at Tib- X Tugeli o Buananas, Florida oranges, mixed nuts, malaga grapes, fine candies at Palmer’s, 12 S. Main stroet. g For Rent—Two new storc rooms in good location; Nos. 757 and 739 Broad- way. S. Saunders, 30 Pearl st. Personal Paragraphs. Miss Belle Sutherland, of Boston, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. C. H. Gilmore, on South Sixth street. Mr. Paul Tulfeys has returned home from Cornell college, at Mt. Vernon, to spend Christmas with his relatives. He will not return to school next term. Mr. Thomas Officer is able to be out again after his severe illness. It will be some littlo time before he will bo able to devote his entire attention to business, — Brackett Gives no wafly. A nine-pound boy arrived yesterday af- tornoon at the home of C, P. Shepher is the first boy in the family and * can hardly get accustomed to " his However, the youngster has come to stay and itis quito likely that he will strike up quite an intimate acquaintance with the old gentleman, The streets were crowded until a late hour last ovening with Christmas buyers. The stores were filled and the clerks were heart- ily glad when the last one was gone and bus- iness hours could be closed. ———— CROWNING OF THE SNOW KING. Gay Sights and Sounds on the Streets of Montreal. Most of the Canadian cities and towns can find their counterparts in the United States. The pcople do unot *hustle” quite so much as on this side of the line; officas open at 10 and close at 4; lawyers, judges, students and priests wear long, flowing black robes, the latter two on the streots; every town in the Dominiow is a dead town on Sunday, but aside from these and a few other significant differences, the cus- toms and habits of Americans and Can- adians are identical. Montreal, how- ever, the metropolis and great commer- cial mart of the Dominion, is unique. The city, the people, and their customs have all the quaint pieturesqueness of some old world seaport, and the visitor would not find it difficult to imagine that he had wandered into Normandy. There ave broad streets, stone paved, and flanked with rows of magnificent stone buildings; there are costly and beautiful ¢churches innumerable, splen- id hotels, spacious squares and parks and promenades everywhere. Before the city stretches out the broad, biue St. Lawrence, and in the rear towers up Mount Royal, with its broad drives and mauy stately residences, Here and there are courts, alleys aud nooks, breathing of another age and country. It is a city of churches, Millions upon millions of dollars have been spent in churches, convents, monasteries, priests’ colleges and other ecclesiastical structures, and the observance of the feast days and fast days, with their processions and bell ringing constitutes one of the most picturesque features of this most picturesque cit; French 1s the language of the people, of the courts and of the churches, o a great extent, Though the “saints’ days” are innum- erable, and all of them are holidays, none are celobrated with the solemnity and magniticence of Christmas, There is snow on the ground. Not an occasional drift of fine dust like stuff at the street corners, with bare spots between, but a great heavy mantle of whiteness on the streets and buildings and chimneys, clinging to every door postand window ledge,to every dome and gpire, weighing down the troes and burying the fences. In the squares the fountains spout up cascades of snow, and the statues are shrouded in mantels glistoning ghostly whiteness. Snow, snow, everywhere, masses and bapks of it. For weeks it has been softly falling in great feathery flakes, [till now the whole world seems to be burled in it, It is cold too, not the bitter kind of cold that congeals the marrow in one’s bones, but a clear, bracing, snapping sort which goes down into the lungs like g draught of the elixir of life, sending bloom to the cheek and a sparkie to the eye. In-doors there are Christmas dinners, of course, where everybody gorges, dri ng o little less r and a little more wine than in this country, but outside winter is king and holds high revel. Every one turns out on Christmas eve, ding, driving, walking, skat- ing, snow-shooing. filing the air with a babel of vol and the tinkling of mil- lions of sleigh-bells. All the windows are gay with lanterns, candles and ever- greens, mountains of confectionery and fruits. How they drive! Cutters and sleighs of overy conceiv- ablo description, four-in-hand, tan- dem, double and single, = with bells of gold, silver and brass, they dash up and down with the swiftness and recklessness of Russinns, It looks very dangerous, but if the pedestrian won't dodge too much he issafe; they are good drivers. The sidewalks arg throngedyold men and children, young menand women, girls in furs with the brightest of black ey nd the reddest of checks, ‘‘habitats™ in chapeaux and mocc with ay-colored sash about their waists, fair ladics in snow- white blanket costumes, snowshoers in their club uniforms, priests, monks and nuns innumerable in long, black robes and girdles, soldiers, sailors and lum- bermen, jostling and crowding, laugh- ing and shouting, and filling the city with their uproar. Down at Bonsecours, and all the other market houses, there is a gay scenc. There ave no buteher shops seattored over the city, but all have stalls in the market houses. Decorated oxen, pigs. sheep, turk geose, and all manner of tlesh, tish and fowl, strings of sau- ages, and all sovts of edibles are dis- played in tempting profusion, Thou- wids of those who buy and those who como to look on, crowd down through the long building, and the visitor must go with the tide. There is no turning ks are crowded. There are many of them—broad, glistening sheets of ice, roofed over with magnificent buildings, with galleries for tho specta- tors. coffee-rooms, lunch-rooms and waiting-rooms — where hundreds of vretty girls and handsome men spin and whirl or sail gracefully along arm in arm to the music of fine bands and in a blaze of electric light. Then there are the toboggan slides, where human meteors whiz ceaselossly past the spectators. The snowshoors, too, are out, ladies and gentlemen in blanket costumes skimming over hill and dale, and working up a zest for the banquet and dance which awaits them at some “tavern” in the country. The- aters, dance halls and music halls are everywhere in full blast, and all—ex- cept, perhaps, the very poor,and thoe chavitable have been good to them—are enjoying themselv Midnight comes. The great bell of Notre Dame—one of the largest in the world—boows out its groeting to the Child that was born in Bethlehem; a mellow-voiced chime —away out toward the mountains answers it; Notre Dame de Lourdes and the Jesuit silver-toned bell take it up, all the rest join them, and soon from every dome and spire of all the multitude of churches, convents and colleges there is pealing forth a wmighty chorus of “Glory to the new-born King.” he churches are crowded. All the altars blaze with thousands of candles, before them kneel priests and bishops in gorgeous vestments, the great or- gans and fine choirs of the larger churches are reinforced by splendid or- chestral music, and the walls and domes of the vast structures vibrate to the glorious harmonies of the old mas- ters. Nothing could exceed the mag- nificent splendor of the midnight mass. Christmas day dawns oyer a city on which has fallen a Sabbath stillness. The markets are deserted, the rinks are silent, the gay crowd which thronged the sidewalks has vanished. Here and there a procession of church- men files into the cathedral doors. De- vout Catholics hurry to morning mass or confession; the Protestants swarm into their various churches, Then the streets are given over to smuntering policemen and an occasional sleighing party. All the world and his wifo are enjoying the Christmas diuner. Svery country has its drawbacks, and cold and snow may be that of Canada, but it cannot be denied that Canadians know exactly how to make the best of it. s CONNUBIALITIES. Young Dr, Talbot, of Philadelphia, is a doubly fortunate youth. His fiancee, Mrs Anna M. Socken, died the other day, leaving him $100,000. He is twenty-three. She is eighty. The wedding of Miss Barrett, daughter of Lawrence Barrett, and Mr. Joseph Ander son, n brother of Mary Anderson, is an- nounced to take placo January 8 iu the cath- edeal in Boston, It is announced that Prince Von Puss, a German nobleman, is about to wed a young lady of Baltimore. How much of a portion the young lady's father has allowed the prince for pin-money is not stated. A clothes wringer was the rather odd pres ent which a Jersey City young man made his best girtl, The pair afterwards squabblee and he doemanded the return of the wringer and two other presents, but the girl refuses o give them up. A wedding has just taken place at Carlisle, Pa., in_scttlement of election bet, The £room is a republican and the bride is a dem- ocrat, and the condition was that if Harrison were selected the marriage should be sol- emnized one month thereafter. Another daughter of the late Matthew Ar- nold, and a sister of Mrs. Whittridge, of New York, is engaged to Hon. Armine Wode- house, the sccond son of the earl of Kim- berly. Miss Arnold is a bright girl, with oharming mareers, and bears a striking like- ness to her father. The wife of Washington Irving Bishop, the mind reader, has brought suit in New York for absolute divorce from her husband. This sensational httle family eould probably nave got along much better together had his wife been the mind reader und Le the one who carried around the mind, There are no divorce laws in the statutes of South Carolina, and such a thing as legal sundering of matrimonial bonds is unknown. Hut it is said that what answers to our Chica —our mnorther, divorce is managed in the South Carolina sand hills by a system of barter or trade among wive his 15 @ more economical system, and in some cases quite profitable to the shrewder husband of the two tradors, e Campanini's First Appearance. Campanini made his first appearance in London May 4, 1872, as Gennaro, in “Luerezia Borgia,” with Titiens, Tre- belli and Agoesi, and surpassed all ex- pectations. After ten or twelve days an agent arrived from America, and uot- withstanding his engagement to Maple- son for five years, offered him 85,000 a month, which was exactly five times as much as Mapleson was paying him. Thatoffer, coupled with his great suc- cess, completely turned Campanini’s head, and he became practically un- manageable, He remained, however, AN OLD-TIME GRANDMOTHER A Picturesque F' Out of re Long S8ince hion. GOSSIP OF THE‘YOMEN FOLKS, - Wise and Foolish*flchiovements of the Sex We AN Ij\vl‘ ~Two Who Climbed to the Top of a Derrick., The Grandmother of O1d. For The B Grandmothers are out of style. There are grandmammas now, to be sure, but is a vast difforence between the mmas of to-day, with their and bangs, and the sweet old grandmothor of tho high cap and specs who in the splint-bottomed chai the fireplace and d the family stockings, Yes, there isa vast diffe ence, and we know of some modern grand-dames who, while dearly loving their children’s children, cherish an in- ward spite against the fate which he- stowed upon them the title of grand- mother. And really one can sympa- thize with them, grow old fast in this rushing age,and worry and bring the crow’s feet about our eyes and ray hairs to our temples ere we have scarcely learned to live. The desire to look beautiful is as natural to every true woman’s heart as is the desire to live. Henco the dread of being a grand- mother, which is an_indisputable evi- dence of the approach of the sere and yellow leaf. Ages ago, it seems, I had a grand- mother. I can just remembor her pleasant face, wrinkled and white, sur- rounded by a halo of white hair which gleamed beneath the frills of her muslin cap. il n those d youngsters nd the Christ times we w the family winding ro s the Pennsylvania hills to grandmother’s house. Oh, the aroma of those days! No modern turkey or pie or pudding smells es did those which grandmother used to bake. I can close my eyes and imagine my- self onee mor a little girl in short frocks and pantaletts romp- ing with my brothers the great old-fashioned kitchen, I can the old firepl with its stone hearth, its soot-bl ned walls, the swinging crane and shining and--irons, whilc the hickory “back log” snapped and crackled in the flames. ~ And there was grandmother in her black alpaca dvoss and gingham apron, the Quaker cap and the snowy 'kerchief folded across her ample breast like the sur- plice of a priest. How she welcomed us with sweet, old-fashipned words of greeting, from her Avm chair in the cosiest corner of the bearth. How she sat and knitted and talked, and what piles of “sheep’s gray,” and *lamb’s wool” hosiery grew beneath her busy fingers. How the well-worn needles gleamed in the fireligh as she sat, Lile a misr with his righes, Counting one by one ha¥ stitches, With her ehair in ceaseléds movion to and fro Till her ball of yarn diminished, And tie baby’s sock was finished With a little tip of whitcness at the toe. There would she tell us marvelous stories. ~Stories of the long ago when she was o little girl aud lived across the big water. Stories that sounded to our young ears like tales of elf-land, and to Wwhich we listened until our eyes began to blink, Then some one would como and wash our sticky fingers and our faces, and, aftor gooduight kKisses all round, carry us off and tumble us into a great high bank of feather beds where soon we_ were living over our childish joys in dream: That was, I think, at least a century ago. Many merry Christmas and happy New Years days have gone sinde then, and we hope for many more; yet the remembrance of those days are the sweetest because the purest of life’s memories. = Modern grandmammas may be just as sweet, and modern inventions have done away with the necessity of the knitting the family stockings, and their hands which *‘toil'not, neither do the spin,” may find more congenial cm- ployment and busy themselves in deeds of charity and kindness, bnt the mem- ory of the old grandmother, with her saintly face, with the silver halo and the folded surplice will never fade while life lasts, though the old feet have long since tripped into the grave. JA A JACQUES. vs with what delight we Hniled the Thanksgiving as-tides, for at theso awiably tumbled into rledalong the Bucces:ful American Women, Boston Herald: About ten years ago a family consisting of mother and three daughters came to Paris from the United States for the purpose of edu- cating the girlsand giving them special advantages in the work which they had undertaken. The mother was Ameri- can, the father, then deceased, o Ger- man, but the daughters, who were very young at this time, were thoroughly Ameriean in pluck, and in their di termination to get on and make the be: of their opportunities. I will pass ove the years of trial and strugglo this brave little family endured before they began to experieinee the benefit of their many sacrifices, or before they began to meet with tho recognition their talents deserved. To-day, however, one daughter is a rising artist with a mucl praised pieture in last year's salon, for which she received “‘honorable men- tion;” the second daughter is the only woman_physician in France who has been admitted to the most famous sue- gical hospital here in Paris, and i3 now the wife of a distinguished young scientist, who takes her name with his own. The third girl— charming young woman she is, 100~ e astronomy for her profession, and 18 at this moment tho only woman employed at the ob- servatory here; in fact, the only one of her sex whe has been intrusted with the responsible position of an “observing” astronomer regularpy employed by the government. This s an uncommoi record for one family, especin.ly so in o country whera the progress of women in the higher professions is still viewed with surprise, and any advance outside of the beaten tracks/thought revolu- tionary, not to say u’nlemiuiuu, in the extreme. ‘ Fashionable Waitresses. A fashionable New York lady who re- cently feasted a horde of ragamuffing notitied her friends that she desired waitresses for the occasion from among the members of their families. Within three days the mumber of volunteers was ten times more than she needed, all of them rosebuds in fashionable soci- oty. It is said by ladies engaged in charitable work in New York city that there is never any difficulty in procur- ing any amount of personal services of this kind, How the Girls Dance. A foreign correspondent notes the differences between an English and an American girl in dancing. The Amer- ican girl-is a nervous creature, She is as excitable as a thoroughbred marve. ‘When she dances her eye sparkles, her cheek flushes, her face is lighted up, and every nerve is al teusion in the thrill of music and motion, The Eug- T o e DECEMBER 23, 1888~-SIXTEEN PAGES. 7 lish girl, on the contrary, does not alter her amiable torpidity in the least. She does not smile. She is as gravo as ever. She turns solemnly atound, without & vestige_ of abandon. Sho does. not dance, but trots. Caepontry omen. Inter-Ocean: One of the new reformns which are expected to revolutionize the world is the instryction of women in the arts of earpentry, An active membe of a committee of educated women in charge of alarge private school in the enst protest against the plan of teach- ing girls sewing in schools, while the “pleasant work” of handling tools is kept for the favored boys. It matters not if the girl’s ignorance of sewing will interfere with her usefullness, and consoquently with her happinoss all through life, while she may really need more knowlodge of tools than she ild learn in an hour—the old fashion orsof tyranny and must be abolishea. “‘Give the doll to the boys,” y i Willard, **and the jack-plane and saw to the girls.” The boys will pulverize the dolls incontinently, and the girls will cut off all their fingers with th planc the first thing, but the exy ment is worth trying. In the Women's Tramming College for Toachers in Cambridge, England, re- cently, a school of scientific carpentry has been started. One afternoon in the week the young ladies are trained in tho use of tools, There is no attompt to teach a trade, only an effort to de- velope a cortain degree of manual dex- terity on the part of the young ladies, and the effect of the exporiment has boen so satisfactory that Miss Hughes, the principal, thus sums up her estir of its value ns a means of training anot speak too highly of the educa- ional value of scientific carpentry. I am delighted with the result her though we spare very little time for it. The relief from mental work is im- mense, the exerecise excellent (one rule is, we learn to saw equally well with left and right hands, so as to devolop both sides of the body equally); the pleasure is ver great, and the powers of observation, accuracy, and common sense that can be devel- oped by this manual work are simply marvelous. Tt is also the very bes saining for a future technical dy who has scen this ss at work thus sums up the ad of their ide *“The whole subject is suggestive of new de- tures in our educational systoms. If sdle-work bo an indispensable ac complishment for the future mothers of England in the middle and lower class- es, would not a little elementary knowl- edge of the use of earpenter’s tools coma in useful? How many thingsin a house wear out or fall to picces, bringing un- speakable discomfort to the inmates, which a little timely mending would save! What mistress of a household, estling with economy and a limited income, does not dread” the necessity of sending for a ‘handy man,’ because of the bill that is inevitable, in which so much seems to_be charged for so little that has been done?” b Cambridge ol Darving Girls. Detroit Free Press: From Lewiston, Me., is telegraphed an account of Miss Belle Meader, of Norridgewock county, Me., coming to Lewiston and climbing the standpipe of the waterworks, which s to the height of seventy-five fect. 10 ascent is by means of an iron lad- der fixed perpendicularly against the side of the pipe. There lad i Arkwright, N. Y., M S. one of the estimable ladies of the town, who is proud of the fact that she has beaten this record. Muvs. Cardot’s ad- ventuve, as told by herseif, is unique. In 1878 she was Miss Dailey,and re: in Custer City, one of the booming oil towns in the Bradford field. She and another young lady named Kate I. Mil- ler, when out walking in the suburbs one afternoon, concluded, as a lark,that they would climb to the top of onc of the oil derricks. They accordingly pro- ceeded to do this, and in a short time reached the top. The height of the der- rick was eighty-four fect, the height of all derricks built in that countr On the top of this derrick the young ladies sat and enjoyed a tete-a-tete, while hundreds of persons gathered in the vicinity to witness the unusual spec- tacle, When the crowd below compre- hel d that the ladies had climbed the derrick simply as a bit of fun their nerve and coolness were loudly cheered. The young ladies did not expect any such sensation as vhis and they re- mained on the top of the derrick for an hour, preferring to give the crowd a chance to disperse before venturing to come down. Nine years after this there was some mention in the oil country ( of ladies climbing to the top of the derricks, and the Oil City Der- rick offered as an inducement a copy of that paper for a_year toany lady who would accomplish the feat. "Mr. Cardot said she had no particular desire to at- tempt the feat again, but she sent to the office of that paper proof that she had climbed to the top of an 84-foot derriclk, and, as a result, she is now receiving gratis a copy of the Daily Dervick. Mvs, Cardot says she experienced no dizziness in making the aseent nor after reaching the top of the derrick, Hor companion on this occasion was Kute J. Miller, now residing in Derrick City, MeKean county, Pa. Mrs.Cloveland’s New Social Departure Cincinnatt Comme Society gos- sip has it that Mrs. Cleveland proposes to inaugurate a brilliant innovation upon her former programme at the white house. She has, it is said,de- cided to keep two evenings in each week on which she will see her friends and the friends they choose to bring. She will also see people by appoint- ment. On these evenings her personal asso- ciates will have the entree at alt times, and there will always be distinguished persous present by invitation. This av- rangement will afford the lady of the white house an opportunity to see and be seen in surroundings more “lve to repose of manner than the umstances in which she is usually placed in her receptions, as the goinir and coming of persons is unremitiing, and 1o opportunity for conversation - lowed, Rich and dainty toilets will also show to better advantage in a room not thronged. 2 e ich of the Two. Chieago Tribune, 1 saw a woman beg in the street On Christmas day for bread to eat; The city’s chimes were ringing then Peace on carth, good will to men, W I saw a churchman, sleek, well-fed, Pass by the woman, and hie turned his head ; The crumbs that fell from his tablo that day Would huve away. aasted the beggar he turned Following the churchman came A woman whose brow was stamped with shame; F'rom out of Lier purse a coin sho cast, Aud the beggar blessed her as she passed. To the church the sleck man went his way; The woman of shame would bave blushed Lo pray; Yet which of the two the more blessed: will be: Magdalen, scorned, or the proud Phavisee! e No Christmas Table should be without a bottle of Angostura Bitters, the world renowned appetizer ?l‘exquhiw flavor. Beware of counter vits, ALONG THE TRON HIGHWAYS, Rallway Growth and Development All Over the World. 1 BIG AND LITTLE WHEEL ENGINES And Their Respeotive Mer ricnces of Rallway Men—Experi- ments and Inventions—Fast Runs and Slow Rtans Who Owns the Calf? An amusing state of affairs has come to light at the O. & N. railroad office in this city says the Owensboro (Ky.) In- quire and will eause no little amount of work to straighten out. Recently a farmer shipped his effects over the road, among them a cow. When the car reached Russollville a cow and calf were in the , instead of only a cow. The agent at Russellville reported the calf to the train dispatcher as property ‘over,” and wanted instructions. The train dispatcher reportea it to the con- ductor, the conductor to the agent here, the agent to Freight Solicitor Hughes, and the matter is now in the hands of the general freight agent for adjudic tion. The matter will doubtless come to the hands of Colonel Bavier, attornov for the road, who will have to decide whether or not a ealf born in transit boe- longs to tho owner of the cow or to the railrond teansforrving it. In the mean- time the cow and calf are together in possession of the owner of the cow. After tho Scalpors, Globe Democ The attention of railway officers is being turned ver strongly to the allegation that tho fro- quent demoralization of passenger ratos isdue more to the existence of ticket brokerage establishments than to any other cause, and the question is raised whether or not the existing laws cannot be invoked to stop the injury to tl railways which the prevalence of this irrogular form of competition involv One railway represcytative, at least, takes the ground that the selling of cut- rate tickets can‘be punished under tho head of “‘diserimination,” and recently addressed a letter to the interstate com- mission with tho question whether or not brokers who obtain their tickets from s, and by reason of recoiving a commission from the railw are ablo to and do sell the tickets to travel ab ss than tariff eates, are not therchy as agents of the common car- , who are amenable to the law. In other words, he asks, ro not the rail- in selling to the scalpers in such 1s to enable the latter to cut the yof the discrimination for- section 10 of the interstate bidden in law?” To this Commissioner Cooley ropliod as follow INTERSTATE Comvence Commission, Wasm- INGTON, Nov. 20, 188 Dean Sin: Thank- ing you for your favor of the 16t inst., I de- siro to say that the matter touched upon by you is a erying evil with which, to some ex- tent. the comuission intonds o deal in its annualreport. I wish it were clear that the ticket brokers were amenable to tho I They certainly ought to be, and where they are employed by therailroad officers to sell tickets it may in some s ‘be possibie to reach them, - I fear, however, that the sell- ing of tickets on commissions, where the commissions are not clearly in excess of a prop ation for the s is not. illegal. E rly demoralizing, to be made unlawful,and I'should be ve indeed to see legislation adopted that make it so. Very respectfully yours, T. M. CooLry. glad vould Creeping Rails, Tt is said that everything in naturo moves, except distrivt messenger boys! Stones roll, mountains crawl (the width of a hair once a century), while vast glaciers of solid ice have polished off whole continents of earth. In his ad- dress to the American Society of Civil Engineers, Mr. 1. C. Keefer says: “There is an interesting oxample of rail creeping on a highly elastic road bed on the division between Winniveg and Fort William, where the line crosses a ‘muskeg’—the Indian term for bog — causing it to yield about six inches to every passing train. With a heavy consolidation engine, hauling thirty-five cars, this track erept twenty- six inches in the direction 1n which the trai was moving. The rails creep for about three- quart of amile east and about half a mile westof assmall bridge at the foot grado in both directions. They p with every train.and in warm weather will often run twelve inches under an ordinary train. Track bolts break almost daily and repairs ave to the extent of a box of bolts per month. Cinder ballast keeps the track in line and surface fairly well,but does notin the least prevent the creeping of the rails, Lining and surfaciug are necessary at least once o weel On account of the flanges on the angle-plate spikes must be left eut of a tie on each side of these plates, otherwise the creeping rail would carry the ties with them and throw the track out of gauge. Three trains running in the same direction are often suflicient to open all joints on one side and close them on the other side of the bridge between. The wholc muskeg, when a train ing, show ] ves flve to six inches 2, rising and falling with the pass- ing load, and the rails can be scen mov- ing with the passing train. The gen- eral superintendent of the wescern divi- sion, Mr. Whyte, to whom I am indebted for the above, proposes 1o use twelve- foot ties, forty-inch angle pars and cut aslot in alte o sides of the rail at every ties a means of holding the rails in position. Reckless Railroad Competition, Commercial Bul Itis a startling fact in railvoad managemcent that, fol- lowing the ruinous competition which has | aging for months past amon the great ronds of the west, northwe and southwest, the so-ealled consery tive managers of the eastern trunk com- panies are allowing themselves to drift nto reckicss The interior group of roads roferred to rvepresent some $750,000,000 of capital, and the At- lantic group embraces an aggregate in- vestment of not less than $500,000,000. Theso great corporations are supposed tobe controlled by the highest order of managerial talent that unstinted com- pensation can command, The men who chietly own the roads arc our monar of capital, whose immense fortun are supposcd to be a guarant of their ability to conduct gre: enterprises upon prudent and stable principles, And yet, with all these pretensions to talent among offi- cials and to matured wisdom among the controlling proprictors, our great rail- oads are distinguished beyond every- thing else by the utter powerlessness of their administrators to control them in the interest of investors, Judging from the defenses generally put forth by these companies when they take the war-path, a railvoad isa sort of uncontrollable monster, subject to riodic spells of insanity, pending h it is capable only of senseless mischief to itself and its neighbors. We arve told that outbreaks of cutting inseparable from the kind of com, petition that exists between railroads that the neccssity on getiing business is supreme, and that rates are secondary, and vhat compacts, no matter how backed by peualtics, are powerless lor ‘ equalizing charges, becnuse the partiet to them cannot be trusted to maintain good faith, Wae have no doubt this defenso is put forth in perfoct sinceroty. But v\{\ni does it imply? And what has the in- vestigating public to say to such ox- cuses, Men of ordinary common sonse will not readily comprehend why it should be so much difleult for a railvond to conduct oompetition with prudence than it is for any other form of onter- prise to do so. It may be insinuated that there is all the differonce botween employing your own capital and admin- istering that of others: but are wo ready to accept the conclusion that the manas gors of our railroads could bo as recro- ant to the interests of thoir clients the suggestion would imply? If so, there 18 an end to all confidenco in rail- road investments: and yet the utter in- difference with which somo officials have persisted in pushing cutting to the verge of ruin s st8 o roasonnble sus- picion that the managers capable of wrecking their companies to pro- mote private speculations. It is not necessary to supposo that all or many managers are thus venal;y for one such may drive a whole group of companies into reckleas hostilities. Without con- veying a general stigma on railroad officials as n class, there is reason for supposing that motives of this kind are more responsible for railvond wars than is generally supposed. Injurions to His Rusiness, Chicago Tribunc: *Jane,” said Mr. Phur ‘what was the subject of the minister'’s sormon this morning?” @ Tho sin of betting on clections,’ re- plicd the wif Tt was, he ost IRev, My, Surpli replied the we dignantly. t sermon will just o $600 in pow rent althy hatter in g Becomes 1 wonnl. ribune: Your projudic against tobaceo, Marie,” observed Mr. Billus. lighting his pipo, “is unreasons able. God made tobacco.” “Homade a cortain animal, snid Mys, Billug sharply, openin doorsand raising the ‘Window afterward, according to Mose nounced it uncl Billus," AN ENGINEER'S RECORD Running Since 1874 and Never Had an Accident, Mari Chicago T t0o,"’ the “and ENGINEER, non the rond as an and now have engine No, i8 N0t aly 11 kinds u ong! asTie 4 ex= wnd Hften losing posed The ex- sloep nt o v easy, and as long 0 s twelve or fifteen ye Liad trouble with my nose and throat. These symptoms became niore Aggras vated tntil T conld stand it My nose would stop up, my ears would ¢ throat felt as if it was fill of phie ith every change of weather 1would have an increase of the trouble. Iread Dr. Jordan's cases from time (0 time (a8 everyone does, and decided that was the pluce 100 for relicf. 1 dldso and was not disappointed. Now [ Dreatho freely through 1ny wose wnder all ciramstinces, my thront feels natural, the ringing in my enrs has censed, and althoueh in fair flesh betore, T hava afned in che neighboihood of sixteen pound: n wejght., Dr. Jordan's treatment is mild and offective, and the relief and well feeling after each treatment mors than balances the incow venience and expenso attendimgit.'” Mr. Johnson resides at 2115 Burt street, DOCTOR J. CRESAP McGOY, (Late of Bellevue Hospltal,New York,) Bucceeded by DOCTOR Charles M. Jordan (Late of the University of New York Oity aud Howard University, Washington, D, C. 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