Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 30, 1888, Page 4

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Braa special train, chartered exelusively by Tine Beg, for the of its morning cdition to its patrons between this city and Denver, will 1 by the Burlington & Missouri railrond at 4:30 daily for Plattsmouth, where it ING on Tuesday, January 1, ¢ conveyance ve Omaha will make close connection with the “Burlington Flyer” for Undertaken at an outlay of one thous Denver. and dollars per month, slusive of ex- press charges for the delivery of our papers at points west of Plattsmouth, the magnitude of this enterprise cannot fated. expected an be met by the profits from But Tue B being the first fail to be appre It is not ed sed circulation. has the of paper west of Chicago that hy to charter a daily orderto insure a more speedy distri- that the expense incur fucre ik sutisfaction s venfured newspaper train in bution of its circulation than could be had through the ovdinary mail service. Tue pugilists of America should fol- low the example of the actors in de- manding protection against foreign competition. The clean knock out of Jack McAuliffe at the hands of Jackson, the Australian giant, at Sun Francisco, is evidence that the home industry can- not stand up agninst the imported ar- ticle. Tr makes one’s blood tingle with pa- triotic emotion to read of the gallant way in which our brave Jack tars cleared the decks of the Galena for ac- tion right under the nose of Hayti's battlements. Yea, even though Hayti wero half her size, not a cheek would bave blanched in taking away the de- tained American steamer. UNDER the charter the new city coun- cil will have to organize on New Year's day. The provision relative to the ganization of the councl is embodied in section 13, which reads as follows: All councilmen’s tevms of ofiice shal), after 1887, commence the first Tuesday in Janu ary next succceding the day of election, upon which day they shall assemble together und organize the city council. OWING to the neglect of congress to pass in time the necessary appropria- tion, the navy department wiil not send out an expedition to observe the total eclipse of the sun wnich will oceur on New Year's day. The appropriation was not made until just before the re- cess, although it had been’ urged for some time, and as the oxpedition was to o to Novada, ten duys was too short a period in which to get together the necessary instruments and equipments ‘and make the trip. As a consequence of this congressional negleet, in a mat- ter involving an expenditure of only five thousand dollars, the government will have to depend upon private ent prise for a veport of this very impor scientific observation. —_— HAVING summoned the bureau of sthnology to his aid, Congressman Bpringer will propose to christen the territories that may becomo states with names expressive and euphonious. In this matter the chairman of the house committee on territories is likely to en- counter opposition from the people of some of the territor It is question- able whether a majority of those of South Dakota will be will be willing to accopt *Winona,” however poetically expressive it may be. There is a com- mercial value in the name Dakota which the pecople may hesitate to take the chance of impairing, af they can help themselves. It is even more probable that the peo- ple of Washington territory will vigor- ously resent the proposition to call the intended new state by any other than the proud and inspiring name of the tervitory, of which they are -war- rantably jealous, and which may also be said to possess n commercial valve, As torenaming New Mexico, the people of that territory would doubtless accept anything to secure statehood, but will the people atlarge think well of naming a state after a foroign barbarian ruler, Montezuma, who was by no means a beautiful character? Mr. Springer is getting a good deal of notoriety out of this territorfal business, but it remains to be seen whether he will achieve much lasting fame. or- 13 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY DECEMBER 30, 1888 — SIXTEEN PAGES. OMAHA IN 1888, Omaha has to herself at the close of 1838 upon an ex- hibit of No city ulation reason congratulate most subetantial Am point the ry of this year's growth, as re- fully and commer prosperity. in ica of equal pop- 1 Doy can to such solid growth during present year. The histc lated through on compiled mu nicipal fal statistics in this 1ssue of Tk Ber, affords the most gratifying proofs that Omaha now ranks with the leading commercial centers of the country, and is destined to become eat lakes the largest city between the g and the Pacific cons During the year just closing, Omaha has expended a grand total of $9.703,816 for mills, fac- tovics, packin build- dwelling public improvements, houses, school business blocks and This amount, 1,087,190 improvements for 978,066 for public rd by the county, $2,418,650 for public ments by panies, waterworks and gas compani rail- ings, subdivided, for undertaken houses, represents expended building and paid by private enter- prise, improve- ments car on city and improve- com- undertaken railway cable, electric and hors way, $208,800fc and hospital There during the year 2,880 buildings of every motor churches, school houses were construeted in Omaha description, of which 713 ave located in South Omaha, Tho most exact veflex of the volume of business transacted in Omana found in the the capltal and deposits of our banking in- The bank araggregate $175,166,170, which is & may be cleaving house record, and stitutions. clearings for the very satisfactory exhibit as compaved with the clearings of 1887, which aggre gated $147,414, 148,71, and those of 1886, which aggregated $03 ! Omaha has rvanked thivd among the pork packing of the United The South Omaha stock yards and packing For more than a year centers States. houses, established only five years ago, employment to thousand workingmen, and since trans- formed the of South into a manufacturing and thousand popu- have given several suburb Omaha trading center of more than ten lation. The jobbing trade of Omaha durin, the yo of theeity, and the productive region ar has kept pace with the growth The sales of our commission gregute tributary to Omaha. dealers and the whoiesale houses during $46,665,000. In year of the fact that in- dustrial stagnation always prevails in campaign year, Omaha can well afford to be satisfied with the progress she has made during 1888. view a presidential IMITATING FOREIGN PAGEANTRY. The preparations making for the in- augural ceremonies at the fourth of next March, promise that it will be one of the most imposing dis- plays everseen in this couniry. Thero parade. in which nearly every state in the union will be sented; there will bea grand inaugu- ral ball with a somewhat exclusive at- tendance, and there will be other inci- dents and demonstrations to distinguish the occasion, both extraordinary and extravagant. The cost of all this pomp aud pageantry in the inauguration of a president of the greatest republic in the world’s history. whose ox- ample to the nations should be that of moderation and simplicity, will be not 1ess than one hundred thousand dollars, Thus the republic will enter upon the second century of its constitutional ex- istence with an extravagant displa wholly out of character with its unde lying principles, justiied by no con- sideration of necessity or expediency, and repugnant to the spirit of republi- canism in being an imitation of the pageantry and extravagance of Euro- pean courts, We have noted one protest against this proposed display, and there ought to be many. Very likely they would do little present good, but they would show a popular reprobation of such un publican demonstrations and inexcus- able extravagance as might command respect in the future. We are steadi dvifting farther away from the simplic- ity, prudence and moderation which marked the earlier days of the republic and the tendency is pregnant with dan- ger. We cannot with safevy follow the lines of European governments in af- fairs where Buropean policy demands a display of sovereign pompand grandeur. The effect of such a course cannot be favorable to the growth of republican ideas, or to the enltivation of a true patriotism. The willions of our people to whom the struggle for subsist- 13 hard and Dbitter will think better of repub- wn government because it can vie with monarchies in public display and extravagance. If we do not soon put a check upon the course we are par- suing in this respect it may in time be- come & cause of popular protestin a form move foreible than words, Thomas Jefferson set an which it would have been well if all later presidents had followed. The ceremonies attending his inauguration were only those necessary to conform to constitutional requirements. Most of the earlier presidents were inducted into oflice with modest and inexpensive public demonstrations, But with the growth of wealth in the country there has grown a desire fon, pomp and pageantry, while the enlarged power of the presidentiat office in the bestowal of patronage has appeared to give the citizen who is to oceupy it a greater claim to grand and imposing demonstrations of the popular regard. Did not the politicians, however, expect to derive some personal advantage from such demonstrations they would be no- . Washington on will be a gr repre- example table for no such extravagance as has characterized them for many years. The president-elect cannot emulate the example of Thomas Jefferson, how- ever willing to do so he might be. He must, to a certain extent at least, sub- mit to the conditions as he shall find them. But it is not improbable that he foe]s as strongly as anybody that there this matter, and foremost in pro- isneed of reform in would be among the moting it. PROFESSIONAL PROTESTS. The appeal of certain actors for an amendment to the immigration laws providing for the protection of Ameri- cin Ac foreign professionals is i opposition from sources that must ma- terially reduce whatever little forcoe it at fivst poss Mr. Joseph Jefferson, at whose andorsemont has published a card in which he suys he regards the move as unwise and positively differs with its projectors. Mr. Florence in an inter- torview also disapproves of the appoal which he characterizes as degrading to American actors. A New York paper a few days ago devoted a page to interviews of authors, actors, “first- night™ playgoers, and others intevested i the drama, the consensus of whose opinion was that the authors of this ex teaordinary move had made a mistake which would bring Ameri actors into ridicule and contempt. It is not at all probable that the ap- peal will be pressed, and if it should be the chance of its veceiving any atten- tion from congress is extremely small. But it has not been without value in giving opportunity for a discussion of the relative merits of native and foreign actors, and of the meth- ods and condition of the Amevican and Buropean s It is hardly pos- sible that the discussion can fail to be of good effect, since it shows that the American stage is very much in need of improvement, and that the avt of act- ing in the United States is steadily de: It has compelled the ad- mission that foreign actors are better trained, are move diligent and pains- taking, and consequently do genorally better work. And the explanation of this superiority is found in the different method that prevails abroad, which re- quires that those who adopt the profes sion of acting shail begin at the founda- tion. The only protection that Amer- ican actors will get or ought to have is that which is derived from an equally high order of intelligence and ability and an equally conscientious devotion to their art with that of foreign acto Having this, with the advan- tage of nativity, Amc need fear no competition yrs against the competition of ing with an reported we ox- pressed surpris an res, generating. RAILROAD construction in Towa this year has been less than in any year of the past eleven, with the exception of 1885, but it has been larger than the railroads organs have represented it to be. These have claimed that there were but five miles of road constructed in Towa during the first half of the year, whereas the official figures show that there were fifty-five miles. It is esti- mated that at least an equal mileage was constructed during the last half of the year, so that the total increase in the state for 1885 will be about one hun- dred and ten miles. The Davenport & Dakota road is being pushed rapi forward, theve is a ‘‘belt projected at Des Moines, and in- dications point to the early construction of the Sioux line through the state from north to south. The extension of Towa's railroad system is not likely to be in the future as rapid as it has been, not because of any adverse legislation, but for the reason that the state is al- ready gridivoned by five trunk line systems. At the beginning of the year there was one mile to every six and seven-tenths squave miles of total area, or one mile to every two hundred and eleven inhabitants computed by the state census of 1885, Any marked in- crease of railroad construction in JToww in the near future is consequently not to be expected, but the organs of the corporations will continue to harp upon the decline of railroad building in Towa, THE newspapers of Chicago, Boston and New York have, during the 5t fow days, interviewed a large number of their local shippers and business men on the subject of the intersiate Muw. It is significant that the majority appear to favor its repeal. The reason for this is not hard to find. The opinions are far from representing the views of the business community at large. The. come principally from a class of ship- pers for whose special benefit unjust diserimination were so long practiced by the railroads before the interstate law forbade it. The Armours, of Chi- cago, the Standard Oil company, of New York and the sugar refiners of Boston were just the kind of shippers who were receiving rvebates and special rates from railroads at the expense of less powerful business competitors. Against this class the interstate law was especi- ally enacted. It is not to be wondered at that these favored patrons find fault with the interstate law and call for its repeal. THE total eclipse of the sun which takes place January 1, and which will be seen to the best advantage only in Californin, has excited considerable in- tervest in astronomical circles. The ob- servatories of Harvard and other insti tutions will have representatives in Cali- fornia to co-operate with the Liclk,astro- nomers in taking observations. The sci~ entific interest in the eclipse will bg to make a study of the corona, and to find out what forces counteract the sun’s gravity sufficiently to hinder the tongues of flame observed in every eclipse from falling back into the sun. VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. The Schuyler Hearld wonders ‘“whether our state legslature will reduce the present exorbitant freight rates,” The Wymore Reporter believes that *'Gage county should be set apart as a judicial dis- trict of itself. It will roguire the full ime of oue judge to keep the docket reasonably clear of cases.” ‘The Fairmont Signal booms Hon. John A. Dempster for speaker, and says: *“The open and manly stand taken by bim, and his excel- lent record, without a stain, in the last legis- Jn congross and lature has boFh&' abundant frait among the roprosentatives of the people. His integrity 18 unassailable, his ability unquestioned, and he is true to tha frople.” The Norfolk News probably thinks it tells the truth when it says that “Omaba will sce nothing but virtuo in the coming legislature if it will only give the poor metropolis that longed-for charter.” In mentioning the appointment of Judge Crawford as dissursing agent for the Omaha Indians, the Fromont Tribune accuses Pres ident Cleveland and Secretary Vilas with breaking faith with the Nobraska delegal the Indians. The Tribun ventures to predict that Mr, Crawford wi not hold the job very long after the 4th of Mazch The Nebraska City News makos gestion: “Prof. Billings will con timable benefit on Nebraska by innoculatn with his choler s each of the anpropria tion committees in the next legislatu His scientific results on the hog 18 in Se and Richardson counties duplicated on lators and huimsel would much ¢ make for former sins the sug ran ines The Grand Island believes that “All the talk the ‘unanimous choice of the mere nonsense. There are hundreds of in Nebraska, cither one of whom, -if to Manderson's position, wouid be equally as satisfactory to the people of Nebraska, The state will move along all right whether Man derson succeeds himself or not.”! According to the St. Paul Pre cations now are that the caming the logisiature will be the most extravagaat in appropriating the people’s money of any ever before known. There age already many “fine fat jobs' contemplated, and, if carvied out, the per cent of Nebraska improvements will be wbsorbed in the payment of high taxes and an increase of farm mortgages,” he Howells Journal doesn't believe the Union Pacifie deservos an extension of time upon its indebtedness to the government, and gives as a reason the fact that the road has “for years overcharged the people of this state, and has paid no regard to law or the Just rights of the people. For of the country traversed by the road, it is probably better that the time asked by the company should be granted.” The greedy seramble among the preachers to sce who can pray for the legislature this winter improsses the Beatrice Democrat as evide of the de generacy of the times, and it ‘‘recommends the Nebraska law makers to the Salvation army. The scramble among the ministers is onlv cqualed by the ure of the pretty girls who want to get clerkships, or the political strikers that want to prey, also, upon the state.” The Springti Mayor Broat Independont about Manderson being people’ i3 men s the “indi- sossion of zood one of the disgusting d Monitor notes the fact that @ has refused to permit contests in Omaha and commends him for the stand he has taken, “‘as these affairs ave but another name for prize-fights and should not be countenanced by the authorities of anycity. As long as they are looked upon with the least degree of favor they will con tinue to be patronized and men will continue to make brutes of themselves for the sake of the plandits of the depraved cluss of persons that patronize such places.” The Nebraska City Pross is suro there ‘s a fine chanco for some ambitious Nebraska legisiator to distingnish himselt by intro- ducing a bitll doing away with the pass sys- tem on railroads aud making it a felony for any state ofticial to accept a pass or froe pas- sage within the state limits. The general law has only to do with inter-state trans portation, rand there are very few, if any, members of the state legi ure who are not traveling free to-day, anywhere and on any road they please in Nebraska. Even if such a bill did not pass, it would be interesting to the peole to see what the vote on it would be.” — - Plenty of Them Would Take It. cw Yorts Journalof Commeree, ¢, experienced newspaper man would make the ideal postmaster general, DA One Thing That is Galeshurg Register. You may safely bet your buttons that when General Harrison sits with his cabinet his place will be at the head of the table, - He Knows What Hurt Him. Washington Press. The man who expects President Cleveland to issue a civil service reform proclamation is the tincture of freshnoss. The subject of mules to the person who was kicked to death by one loses its charm. -— By the Slow Freight. Philadelphia Press, The reports from Stanley arc encouraging, but they are also meagre and tardy. They are as much behind time if they had been sent by Don Dickinson’s demoralized postal service ——— They Need Prayer So Much, Too. Boston Herald, It is something of a consolation to chapiain of the house that he is blind, Oth- erwise he would feel discouraged at the small number of congressmeu who are on hund at prayer the - The Animal Mugwump., New York Sun. Ought the tariff duty on horses to be the same as the tariff duty on mules? Is it desir- able that mules shall be imported as frecly as horses! A mule is o mugwump. His rates should be prohibitive, - The Trust in Religion, San Francisco Alta, Why not unite all the big churches in a big trust! It is the fashion. Why not follow ivf If the trust is o good o thing in all other affairs, why will it not worlk in the most seri- ous of all human concerns ! — Admit Only American Terzitories. Cleveland Leader. As a people we can take warning from Ne- vadu and be carcful about admitting any more states into the union in great haste, New Mexico must wait until she can become an American territory in all that the word implics. - The Dying Year, By Isabel Hotehkiss. Over the strings of wy harp to-day Floats a song that is half a sigh, Like a sound of leaves when sweeps by, Like the sound of breakers far away, As they beat and sob, As they beat and throb, Till I hear a voice in the distant roar On that lovely streteh of sandy shore, tne wind Over the strings of my harp to-day Floats a song for the dying year— A song that thrills with an unshed tear Phro’ the winter twilight, cold and gray, As the breakers sob, As the breakers throb, And I hear that voice with its old refrain, For the days that never come back again. Over the strings of my harp to-day Floats a soug for my sweet, lost youth— For, O, I would give in very truth Riches and fame and power away To dream once more Those bright dreams o'er, *It is vain regret,” sighs that old refrain, For the days that never come back again, Over the strings of my harp to-day Floats a song for the dying yea: A song that thrills with an unshed tear, Like the sound of breakers far away— How they beat and sob! How they beat and throb! And I hear that voice with its old refrain, For the days that never come back again. CURRENT TOPICS. The advocates for rational dress for women do not scem to make much headway, They Lave never been able to enlist the services of any man, and have not done much by their own unaided energios. The divided skirt | may be all very well, thongh to the mascu lino mind it 18 suggestive of the peculiar garment of the Spartan women, whioh for | its indiscreet suggestions of loveliness left the costume of the Incroyables absoiutely in the shade, But it is noteworth it those who advocated the divided skirt upon the at it gives muacl greater sodom in their own persons prove utility I'hey are not f them are English count- American lecturers, e cosmonolitan adventurers he ground t of motion, do not its necessity or its workers, Some s, some of them ar T wood, papers women who chop and who ride won large ne f of these stat derfu and raisc crops of s Probably b ment nanufac as a stimulus eunerg at loast fifty percent of muscularity efforts to woma These miracles y do uot find v ied skirt, and it been an im divided mind ps tdo not care for | other arcidle, they have jety,and it aives cetpation, and are gen and indust line. wn certain that if 1 vould have mp had beew in the logical pedimer of But This being so, nt man, tl axo, those who maintain thing are e ch, they which 18 a with, They exhausted th asures of so them the semblauce of an L0 appearance of mental superiority, and o continue 1o pose as dress refoviners. All a right, as the renchman said, Amuse yourselves. There is o Barbers' union in Omuaha, but what it is for cannot even be conjecturad by anoutsider. It is certamn that th s no unity of action with rogard to the p shave, for some charge 10 cents ice of a 1d some 15. This seems a trifling matter, but it serves to show the chaotic condition of labor matters. There should be but one price, and itis for the Barbers' union to say whethe that price shall be 10 or 15 cents. At present the public mind a contlict, and_no one Knows whether the shavers or the shaved are muleted. If the price is fixed at 10 cents, then those who have hitherto puid 15 will 1 that their great wrong has heen righted, and if the price is fixed at 15 conts, those patrons who have hitherto paid only 10 will feel huppy that wved them so satisfuctorily in the past will for the future get what is due to them. Action on the part of the Barbers’ union also would have a stimulating effect on other trades unions that in the same boat, andhave allowed serious questions to remdin unsettled for want of moral courage to tackle them. At the same time wo hear of the most causeless strikes, for which the unions always scem ready, whilst they are ready for nothing else. is in no doubt the barbers who have s It secms that o n table utensil, the spoon, antedated the knife in the houschold of prehistoric man. As the ancient Romans used round spoons, the counterpart of those which are fashionable for the salt cellar, it would have been natural erough if the spoous ot prehistoric man had been of the game shape. But some which have been found recently in the Lacustrine dwellings in northern Italy, were p the shape used by ourselves, and of baked clay. Two sizes were found, one that of an ordinary ta ble spoon, the other of a pot ladle. The quastion arises for what purposes were these spoous made, and it is highly probable that it was for the consumption of hasty pudding or furmety, which was a species of cracked wheat. The Lacustrian foli were agricui turists, and possessod domestic animals, but their food was principally cereals, and their coudition must have greatly resembled that of a Slavonic communistic village of the present time. They had milk and they had meal, and they had the wild honey of the waoods, s0 that they did not fare very badly, One of their tables hus been found. 1t was the round section of a tree, a foot thick, and there were hollows in it burned out with fire, which were plainly the receptacles for the food, whatever it was. The spoons of the Aunglo-Saxons were made of wood, for the word means not only a culinary utensil, but it also meant a sliver of wood made for writing purposes. In the poem of Tristan and Yseult, it is expressly stated that the loyer wrote verses on light Luden spoon, in runes, and that he cast them in the river and they floated down to the loveress who gathered them in. There seems to be considerable difference of opinion with regard to the acts of the Aluska Commercial company, and some dis- interested individuals are making a stout fight for them. But the question is not whether they have made a practice of sell- ing whisky to the Indians, or whether the men in their employ have not torn young In- irls from their homes for the basest Those charges have been made by and they are the kind resorted to dian purposes, icresponsible parties, of false uccusation that would be by blackmailers who were desivous of eroat g public opinion adverse to the company. If there was nothing else ogainst the Aluska Commercial company than this it would be beneath the dignity of congress to take any notice of the matter. For common sense shows that this company under the peculiar circumstances in which it is placed, having to rely almost entirely upon the natives for its furs, and for its general labor, would be compelled to exercise the most rigorous supervision over morals of s wiite agents and its Indian servants, But the charges agamst the Alaska Commercial company, formulated officially in his report, and made by the governor of Aluska, were that they were endeayoring to create an ab- solute monopoly in the territory, and that they prevented the aevelopment of private enterprise, and that no man_could mine or taflic with the Indians, or buy lind, or do anything in short without their royal per- mission. That's wha the matter with the Alaska company, and the eneinies of monop- oly must not allow bogus charges to bo made thut wnay be triumphantly refuted, ana so cnable tie company to_secure u renewal of their contract with the United States. the Chemists go on saying that aluminium 13 the coming wetal, and that it will in time displace iron, but it docs ot come for all that, and ladies who interest themseclves in their kitcheus have begun to despair ofrever getting it. Aluminium presents itsclf to the ordinary cye as alum, and as aluminous clay, commonly called blue-ball, from its color, It is also present in amethysts and emeralds, and wn fact, is about as widely distributed as could bo desired. 13ut it is not easy to ob tain it in & metallic form, and at present it costs at wholesale 8500 a ton, The time has not yet come, therefore, when it can be util ized for pots and pans and kettles, which is the point desired, For it is absolutely the lightest of the metals, being not much heavier than water, and only a third the weight of iron, When hammered it becomes very hard, and it takes a high polish,jlooks ilver and does not tarnish. 1t would ofore replace 1ron most advantageously in the kitchen, and a young wife's heart would swell with pride as she looked around upon her aluminium utensils ranged in order, all Jooking as it they bad just boen brought home from the silversmith's, A steak broiled upon an aluminium gridiron, and served piping hot upou au aluminium plate woula reclaim the most Hohemian husband Fish boiled in au sluminium pot, would rve its natural flayor, and would bring tears to the eyes of an epicure. In fact without particularization, it is belibved that cookiug Wil be on & new plane when alum infum (s cheup. But when will it be cheap! the THEATERS OF THE OLDEN TINE The Actors Had to Labor Under Many Disadvantagoes. SHAKESPEARE, THE KING. His Gallantry Won Him the Favor of Queen Bess—Anachronisms in Stage Sottings and Costumes —Garrick as Macbeth, Picked Up His Sovercign's Glove, In the old-time theaters in England, Ihomas J. Bowditch in the Troy the intrusion of spectators on where they used to stand, lic says Iimes, the v sit, ereatly annoyed the actors and injured the appearance and effect of mance. This was the casc 1 Shakespeare’s time and later, personal anecdote, gonerally authentic, out of this very custom. It scems that Queen Elizak the theater she and her suite used to sit on the stago. being no place in front where they could bo well accommodated. On sasion. the tradition runs, Bliza- beth occupied & seat on the stage a lit- tle at the side. That day Shakespeare had to play the part of a king, and the genuine sovereign, who was personally juninted with him olving whether she conld put him out, threw her glove down at his feet just as he was speaking. Courtesy demanded that in case of a lady, and that lady a the actor should pick up the but propriety required that if this were done it must be with due re- rd for the assumed charvacter he was representing, Pausing in the middle of a h which he was uttering. Shakespeare said, introducing a new sentence of his own And thougrh now bent on this high entor: prise, Yet stooh we to take up our sister's glove At the same time, suiting the action to the words, the stage monarch picked the glove up, and presenting it on hend knee to the queen, received a gracious bow from her in acknowledg- ment at once of homage and the actor- author's quick presence of mind. Iu the theaters at that time the rule was that the plays should conclude at such an hour that the audience might be able to return home before sunscet, and at least before dark. There were no “reserved seats” in Shakespeare's time: that is o very modern innovation, more honored in the breach than the observance, introduced within the last thirty years, to draw extra money out of play-goers’ pockets, It is practiced by wenerally 1 our American thea- ters, opera Houses, concert halls and circuses In the old theaters, when Shukespeare acted a little and wrote a great deal, ther a single trusty person to receive the money at the door for admission. In 1614, when Ben Johnson’s “Bartholomew Fair” was acted at alittle theater ealled Hope, not far from the place in which Shak speare held several shaves, the price varied from 12 to 50 cents. FIRST NIGHT, On the first performance of a play the charges were higher than usual. — The public had to pay for the novelty. In the Fortune and in the Red Bull, which werve large public theaters, there were large galleries. in which seats were oblainable at fourpence each,— about 8 cents of our money. lven an Shakespeare’s time there were many leries insome of the London thea- ters, and standing places in the yard before benches were placed theré for the convenience of *‘the groundlings,” (of whom Hamlet speaks wmost dispar- agingly in his well-known address to the players), were obtainable at one penny each. In Shakespoare’s time (the close of the sixteenth and the carly vears of the scventeenth century) there were fourteen thewters in Lon- don (including that one of the princi- pal) within the Liberties of the Black- friars, on the northern bunk of the Thames, in which the Swan of Avon had a largo proprietary interest, and for which house, it is believed, ho wrote exclusively, That Kespenre had a leading interest in the Black- friars theater is a well-established fact. There vemains no detaiied deseription of that house, which was finally closed when the Puritans obtained power, in the year 1647. K SILAND FRENCH FEATURES. The price of admission to the best rooms or boxes at Shakspearc’s Black- friars theater was a shilling. Picked seats for well-dressed ladies and gentle men were eighteen pence. The charge for a seat on the stuge was an advance above these prices. Voltaive, writing about the abuses of the French theat in the eighteenth centurys suys th this stage-oeccupying systém prevailed in France, and mixed up the public and the players in amostineonvenient man- ner. There was little comfort in the practice for beaux and belles generally had to shift as best they could upon | tle three-legged stools, because chair would occupy too much space. Tho Globe theater, the great vival of Black- friavs, had two doors, oue for the audi- ence and one (in the rear) for the play- A row of strong wooden rails arated the stwge from the “yard” or pit, the occupants of which d aten- deney to geton the stage and get mixed up with the performers. The outer frame of the house, constructed of lath, plaster and timber, was square--- cight) feot cach way. There remained not quite thirteen feet each side of the quadrangie for the boxes, galleries and stairs in front of the stage and for the ‘tiring room and other apartments bo- bind it. The stage was 48 feet wide, which left 6 feet on each mde of it, and the depth was 40 feet, The vool was of tiles, but the yurd (pit), right in front of the stuge, was not covered in, but ex- posed to the weather. This wus one of the best of the Elizabethan theaters, and very shabby and inconvenient it must have been, st Pl receiv as avising th went to there S0 one « to soo queen, glov tleman Tewis" he was called in 1660--= took the part of Hippotitus, the son of Thesens, not in Greek costume, but in a silk jacket, knee breoches, tight boots and a court sword. Woodward, one of the old-time actors, played Mercontio in a gold-laced, throe-cornered, cockod a velvet cont, ld-buckled shoes and a muslin cravat, with point of Flan- ders ends. His laced waistos camo down over his thighs, and into one of his et pouch- pockets his hands, as, with a finger of tho other hand knowingly to his nose, hoe began the famous line, *Oh, then Tsee Queen Mab hath beon with you'!" As Macheth, who was a real his- torical person, slain about the year 1060, My, Garriek wore the dress of o general officer—red cont, white breeches, hoavy boots up to his knees, powdered Ramil- wig, cocked hat and regulation sword, belt and sash, Such we somo of the anachronisms in costumes in old times, In the London theaters in Shaks peare’s time the andicnce used to amuse themselves with veading. card-playing, drinking and smoking before and dur ing the performance. It is stated in “Hentyer's Travelsin England™ in 1850 *In these theaters froi such asapplos pears and nuts, according to the senson »cavvied aboat to be sold. as well ale and win Tobaceo was largoely used, oven by sitting o the reind even ladies sometimos smoked while they listened and looked. As for the nuts, the prologue “for the court,” before Ben Jonson's * ple of News,” speaks of lies stage sons st The vulgar sort Of nut-crackers, who onty come for sight - st Bad Enough er Republican, There is a one cloetrie trust in the United States, the power of which tho peo ple would like to see broken. It isthe West- Union Telegraph ny, which has fastened atself upon this country like a gi gantic octopus. 1t seems next to fmpossiblo 1o break its power. 1t absorbs rival com- panics and prevents legislation against it 1t would be unfortunate if another institu tion of this character were to grow out of Villard's scheme. ern comj - PROMINENT PERSONS, Alplonse Daudet is nearly sixty vears of e, but does not look it by at least ten years Tavriet Hosmer advises art students road to study sculpture ut Rome and t Paris, Harrict Beecher Stowe still continues in good physical health. She is somewhat ronger mentally than shie was a few weeks General Harrison, Governor Poraker ha ovary members of the Pittsburg. Mme. Marie Geistinger, the famous man actress, well known in this count reported aying in Klagenfurt, Switz I frow the result of an operation for cancer of the eye-lid. The Gorman empress wears an apron at home, us a token that she atteads to the chil- dren and the coole, and doesn’t. meddle with social and political questions, nor seck to win & place in the intellectual workl Attorney General Garland, whose he is seriously impaired, will se ton permancntly after his retivement from oftice. The genial climate of the capital was the controlling reason for this decision. Senator Sherman’s friends are erowing more sangzuine in their belief that he is to be inthe cabinet. Senator Stewart says I think that Mr. Sherman will be the next secretary of state. In fact, I have no doubt of 1t.” Iix-Speaicer Kcifer, of Ohio, says that office in the country could 'tempt him to again_enter public life. Still, it 18 to be sincerely hoped thatno temptation in the shape of a nice little offico with a fut salary zong s painting Senator Sherman anl been elected hon Americus club, of Ger- th no In Shakespeare’s time the high nobil- who frequented the theaters of which Queen [lizabeth and King James were personal patrons used to give their cast-off clothes to the payers, and thus the stuge costume wi Ld-fash- ioned and conventional. Shulkespe aid not trounle himself about dates or costume, There is no fixing dutes to plays like ‘“*Hamlet,” “Othello” and *Macbeth.” Th traditional Hamlet wore o Vandyke dress of the time of Charles L., “though the tragical his- torie” of his life and death, from which Shakespeare drew the plot of his play, was written in the twelfth century by Savo Grammaticus, the historian of the Danish kings and hevoes. Beiterton, the tragedian of the London stage two centurics back, played Huwmlet for fifty years, acting in the broad lace collar of the time. HOW THEY DRESSED. In departed days actresscs dressed rather absurdly. The noble Roman 1 dies and distressed wives and romantic heroinos of Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs, Yate and Mrs. Siddons wept and swooned in hoops, long stiff stays, piles of powdercd hair and feathers. ~ Loe Lewis--*'Gen- ched be left lymg arvound loose i his neighborhood. 7 *Within the room,” says a recent visitor 10 Mr. Whittier, * comfortable lounge, under the window, a huge cat with unusu- ully 1d soft yellow fur was sleeping. Mr. Whittier stood the creaturo on itd hind legss to show his great height and informed mo that this drowsy pet answers to the name of Jup Van Winkle, Van Winkle has livea nine years, most of whicih time he has de voted to sleeping, and to_sleening there on the lounge in the 'study at Oak Knoll.” Rear Collisions. The railway Gazette's record of train idents in November, given in the ent issue, includes 71 collisions, 70 ilments and 4 other accidents; a total of 145 sidents, in which 88 pev- sons were killed and 179 injured. The comparison with Novembe shows: 1887 1988, 1887 40 ) 21 19 10 2 Seee 70 a5 145 13 Roar collisions. . Butting collisions Crossing and othe Derailments. . .. Other accidents. Total accidents, ........... .. Employes killed...... . Others killed.... .. Employes injured Others injured......... Passenger trains imvolve Aver day: Accidents. ... Killed..... 5 Injured....... Average per HINE Lt baoRanoabnd 10 it B 1343 Rear collisions constitute the notoworthy class of aceidents this month. A large share of accidents un- der this head cvery month result, un- doubtedly, from the stoppage or slack- ening of a train on the open road, wheve either the following train is too close to it or the flngman is 2y about tting back; but in most 08 We can- not state this explicitly for lnck of full information. This month theve are nine es—about one every thivd day where a wain was stopped by o disabled engine or other sudden and unexpected cause, and o following train cume up behind and caused much damage. It hardly seems likely that all these nine traing were followed too closely, and at first thought one would say that the flaggman probably had enough time to ive an effectudl signal, but failed 10 Dnprove ity but again when we reflect that there are hundreds of these e gencey stoppages which occur to traing with twenty-five or tifty miles of eclear track hehind them and to entail no damage and ave never heard of, it is ap- purent that even so large a number 4s nine may still b but @ smull proportion of the total num- ber of emergency stops. The brake- men. as a whole, therefore, may be no worse than the engineers. A noticonble feature of rear collision records is the oumber of cases happening on roads whose traftic is so small that one won- ders how two teains happened to be upon the rond at the same time, Bub the explanation lics, of course, in tho fact that the very thinness of the trafic engenders habits amongst the men which all the more quickly involve them in trouble when a little rush docs come. It is as cortain as any inforen soning can be that such habits must be very common, and that if a road dis- graced by this sort of accidents had a rule to go back regardless of whether any train is due or not, that rule must be constantly violated. If left to them- solves, trainmen will modify their ac- tion according to the nature of the train behind them and its nearness. If it is desired to have them faithfully obe- dient to the rule they must be watched and teained by a person outside their ranks, who: feeling of self-interest doces not come in to warp his judgment or at least will warp it in tho ouposite direction, ceident: most £