Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1889, Page 7

BEYOND THE PEARLY GATES. Omaha Divines on the Rewards of the Blessed. HEAVEN IS WHAT WE MAKE IT. A Congregational Pastor Depiots the Incfable Bnjoyments Prepared for Minds Enlarged and Purificd Bliss Which Never Ends, The Fruits of Righteonsness, “What is your conception of heaven?” was the auestion asked by Bee reportersof a number of Omaha divines, While all agreed that it is to be a place of unalloyed happiness and that eutrance thereto can only be gained by right living, there was an interestivg dif- ference of opinion as to details, Rev. David R. Kerr, of the Leavenworth Presbyterian church, said: There will be neither poor nor aristocracy there; none too lazy to work, none too meat, none 0o rich; no soulless corporations, no protective unions, no svrikeg. Thero will be no saloons, no prisons, no almshouses. There will be prohibition thronghout the realm, prohibition will prohibit, and no Sioux City 'correspon ent or wish-father-to-the-thought-man_who will try to prove to the contrary. There wiil be no election to relocate a city hall. That will be settled before we get there. No fault will be found with the streets, side. walks, and parks. Kven the reporters will have no improvements to suggest. ‘ihe re- portors will be angels. There wili bo no Sudlday newspapers. Everyvody will like to R0 to church, Choirs will he reliable. Pews will all be free, and none will be empty, Preachers, in order to draw, will not need to advertise "“To Dry Goods Clerks,” “To Youug Men Awiy From Home," *To Daughters,” “How to Sclect Husbands,” ete, Preachers will not_take *“Robert Elsmere' for a text. Preachers who can't got a crowd will not feel jealous toward_those who can, but will quit preaching. No charity balis will be there. There will be there neither politician, lawyer, doet wcer, broker, rTeal estate nor louwn dealer; though some who have been such will be there, with occu pation gone, All will be Christians ther, with bodies like unto Christ's body after He was resurrected, and their character like Him as He is; with oceupation to know as God knows, to love as he loves, to honor as He descrves: with condition—satisfied. That will be heaven for me. Would you be lonely the Thoro's anothor plac Iev. Dr. Duryea, of the First Cougroga. tionai church, said: “As to locality and condition we know nothing. We only know in general that if christianity is pre- paring men for another world it must fit e for it, and 8o we can infer from their adaptations WHAT life will be. We know be social, and that so- ciety will be perfect because its members will be perfectly unselfish: that is, perfectly benevolent and Just, so that there will be co- operation for cach othier's welfare and happi- ness. To this there can be no limit, for Wero is no limit to personal development.” Reov. W.J. Harsa, of the First Presby- terian ehurch, said: ' *“The principal idea of heaven as presented in the bible is that wo are with Christ, and that_ his presence in- cludes all that we need in the way of happi- ness. And it is a place of reunion with our {riends who have died in the hope of the gospel, It 1s slso a place of enlarged Jnowledge. “There we will know even as also wo are known! There are some who suppose that heaven is located in the Pleiades. Tt is certain tha at constellation unswers one requisite of wen for there is no night there.” . A. W. Lamar, pastor of the First t church, said that duving the spring he exfected to give his ideas upon the sub- ject ex-cathedra and that for the present he MUST content himself with the assertion that if a'man bad not a little of heaven in Tiim on earth it was not hkely that he would have much of it i the hercatter. Rev. Dr. Zahner, rector of All chiurch, suid: +“The life everlasting is ¢ revealed in Holy Scripture, but the tions of that lifé are oniy incidentall voyed to us o the page of inspiration, orize on a_subject connected with which we have no direct information 18 simply in- dulging our own fancy. No uninspired mor- 1l could even understand the conditions of Jife in beaven, much less describe them. The distance of the finite mind from the infinte is too great for that. We might as well ex- pect the unborn child to conceive correct ideus respecting the green carth, the glorious sun and the ever-burning siars. Auy theory or hypothesis formed on a subject of this kind, low plausible soever it may secm, is and ¢an be no more thau i rational conjec- ture. Christianity cannot be comprouised in tho remotest mauner by the at- tempted estabhishment or refutation of any such speculation. Al that our Lord thought it necessary to teach on this subject, was the existence of a future state, the résurrection of the body. the life everlusting, and the conditions which will determine the final and cverlasting state of man, IT rovealed to us that that state of endless felicity to whici the glorified nature of man will be perfectly adupted. Forever free from sin, mun's best pacitics will be enlarged and _perfeoted. “The satisfaction of these capabilitics of our nature will be a never-ending source of Pleasure and happinass. The employments ieaven will bo directed to this end. ‘o its bliss. The desire for enjoyment ally implanted in the human mind. It constitutes @ law of our mature. We per- ully live under its influence. It is tho spring of mucn of our conduct, and this is not to be rogretted. It is tho wise appointment of & bencficent Creator, and it is iatended to produce un: mixed good, It does not do so in this life for the reason that the desive for en- Joyment hns become debasea by sin. In the next world 1t will BE enlarged and purified and w the fullest extent. We in the infancy of our boing; but we are growing in one of two directions—in the di- rection of the purified, the perfected, the ideal, the happy life, or in the dircction of the life that is deoased, nolluted and un- happy—the life that will become finally und forever roprobate, The earthly stuge of our existence is characterized by a severe strug- glo toward an_ideal, which, never attwned on this sude the grave, is fully realized in heaven, the realn of ‘spiritual perfection, tho created spirit, whether human or augeht, vecomes actuaily, what from the first it bears potentiaily—the image of God. 10d, last the mode of that it will nints 18 also will be on gratified are now and the glorified man entors upon the und highest form of his existenc Lev. John Williams, rector St. Barnabas Eniscopal church, said that the last two chupters of Rovelations expre:sed ideas on the subject and gave this extruct: “God n{mld] wipe away all wears from their An Charles W. Savidge, late pastor of ch in this eity,and now I at Grand Island, said: I belicve en is i real place. 1t is a city of magifi- aut proportions and of cxquisite beauty. ‘T'he book of Revelutions tells us that. Igis the busiest city within God’s dominion, for our Father sy They rest not day nor night, Thave no sympathy with that old sister who beeame tired of washiug dishes and sweeping, and smd when she got TO beaven she was going Lo do nothing forever nud over, Rev. Father McCarthy, of §t. Philomena Catbolic church said Heaven o the beatitie vision and love of The heatific vision the eclear knowledge of God as He is in Himself. A porfectand cousummato knowledge imparts ® perfect and consummate love, but the just would not bo traly and perfectly just, nor would they BE be in the full enjoyment of thoir end, if their will did not” attan its ultimate evolution und parfection through tho ex cise of diviug love. Therafore the love swhich the just in Leaven entertain for Giod follows the perfection of which they posses THERE shall bo no more death, neithor sor- rew mor erying, ther shall there be sny more pain; for the former tiing shall bave passed aw the knowindge | I PLUNGED IN A LAKE OF FIRE. Kansas City Preachers on the Tor- menta of the Lost. OUR HELL WITHIN OURSELVES. A Unitarian Minister Pictures the Horrors of a Guilty Consclence— 1s There Still Hope Beyond the Grave? The Harvest of Sin. RAxsas Crry, ‘Fab. 14.—[Special to Trs Bee.|—Is there a Bob Ingersoll says there is flot Most of the Kansas City preachers say there is. Tue Ber correspondent interviewed a large number of preachers and professors of various doctrines and finds that their ideas concerning this mythical place of punish ment vary from the allsaving grace of the Unitarians to the literal lake of fire and cternal damnation of the Mormons and Seventh Day Adventists, Rev. Daniel T. Sherman, pastorof the Seventh Day Adventists, “Wo be- lieve that all the signs prophesised in the scriptures nave now come to pass, and that Christ will appear again on earth in this generation. Immediately upon the second coming of Christ the wicked will be burned up with fire and the elect will ascend with him into glory. We beliove in literal hell fire, but the said: SINNER will not suffer in it forever. The punish- ment of the wicked is annihilation, total tion, eternal death.” David Winn, president of the reorganiz church of Jesus Christof Latter Day Saints, when usked his views on hell, said: “Al though there are some differcnces among Mormons in regard to Latter Day revela tions made to saints since Joseph Smiti's time (principally on the subject of a plu rality of wives), the Mormons all belicve in and preach literal hell-fire-and eternal damn ation for the wicked and the salvation of the Lord’s annointed. We have our belief onthe Bible, the Apocalypse, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Doctrine, and modern revelation. Rov. Harney, pastor of the Fricnas’ con- gregation, said: *“Lhe Quakers beliove that there will be a resurrcction of the righteons and the wicked. The one will awake to everlasting life and blessedness, the other to eternal misery. Rev. Sam Small, the Georgia evangelist: “1 will not waste the precious time the Lord has given me with fellows who are trying to dodge hellor be bribed iuto heaven. Iam not bothering myself about hell—I have no interests in that dircction. T am not bother- ing myself about heaven—I don't have ¢ 1f I do what Goa wants me to on earth, al will be well.,” Rev. J. . Roberts of the Unitarian church : ‘Have you ever seen & man with a secret sin_preying upon his mind, or one upon whose soul vice has a strong graspt How L starts at every sound. He is an exempli- fication of what the Psalmist wrote, “Ihe wicked FLEE when no man pursueth Can see remorse, sorrow, grief, aflliction which the stings of conscicnce ha ced upon him picturcd in bold outlines on his countenance? 1t is_because he is receiving the punishment laid down for his sins Is not this hell enough? ~ Part of our punish- ment_will be meted out upon this earth, God is 100 good to_immerse his children in lake of living fire.”’ Rev. T. P. Haley, D. D., pastor of the First Christian chureh, sald: “I have no view concerning futuré punishment otier than that contained in the bibie. The scriptures suy that it will be banishment FROM the presence of God and from the glovy of His power. That will be a hell as dreadful as I can possibly imagine.” Rev. J. O'B. Low the pastor of Calvary Baptist church, thought that the punisime in the next world would be_ spirituni rather than physical, “Suid he: *“Chie punishment hercafter is the product ot THE self-perpetuating and self punishing power of sin. The character of a man receives its impulse in this world, and I believe it follows that forever. 1 don't believe God makes hell; sin makes i rd would make it, did not hell exist alrcad Rev. William Jones, D. D., p: Summit street Methodist By believes in eternal pumshment, entirely the idea that the divine WRATH will take the form of a literal burning fire. Said he: *“Very few ministers ever did be lieve in literal fire and brimstone hell, and 1 know of none who do now. The word fire merely expresses the extent of punishment and not the actual punishment itself. As fire burns the human flesh, so does sin burn and will continue to burn into the soul of the unrepentant sinner."” Evangehst Potter, who has just closea his work in Kansas City, will go to Omana next week to hold a series of meetings. ‘I am going to preach Lteral hell up there,” said he. “Literal fire may be less hurtful to a connemned soul than some other forms of punishment. Itway be five, or it may be mental suffering. 1 do not know wlhat it will be. But what is the use of quibbling over the mutter, Idon’t believe in a literal fire, but there is a literal hell of some kind; 10 question about that.”” Rev. Robert Talbot, rector of Trinity Epis- copal church, said: “*My ochurch has hold several different interpretations in regard TO the subject of future punishment. None of us, however, believe in a_literal hell fire, ‘The punishment of the wicked, I think, will be separation from God, and 1o punishmert could be more keen." Rev. John C. Williams, of the Clyde Con- zregational church, said: “I prefer not to be interviewed on this subject, for it is one wo might better leave alone. it is infinitely bet- ter, however, to teach the song of the angcls, *uloy to the world the Lord has Come,"” thun to pieture the dire fate and sad calamity awaiting the transgressor. We are all trans- gressors, and our religion should be more of love, less of duty; more of happiucss, loss of punishment.” Rev. Stephen Hall, Universalist: “PPuturo punishment will not ' be eterual, for our is a wood and just God, and after a ce length of punishment man will bd for, for his sins, ‘L'he theil on the cross was for- given, and no one hus COME to our blessed Savior usking forgiveness and gone away emptybanded. Much of the punishment of kol is received on earth, and aftor death mun enters nfo a probation where his acts while on earth will re their due rewnrd, If they be good the happiness and joy will be eternal; if bad they will still baye chances of repentance,” Rev, O. M. Stewart, presiding Methodist Episcopal church: hell, but I don't thik it can that tne church ever believes in literal fire, Individuals did and so taught. No fizure, not even that of five, fully veveals the suffer- ings of a guilty, condemned couscienc either here or heréafter, Another minister, who desired to have bhis naue withheld, said: “I belicve that hehven and niell are both on the earth now in an em- bryonic state. My idea of the final destiny of the wicked is that they will be burned up, root und branch, sud vanish away like smoke. At the end of the world this earth is to be burned up. That is, it is o0 pass through a great change and bo renovated b, fire. While this s going on Go will iake care of the righteous in his own way, but the wicked will remain here and be con- sumcd with tho other class. I have no sym- pathy with the speculation now fashionable, that the words ‘fire,' brimstone’ and ‘tor- ment,’ as versed in the bible with reference o hell, aro tigurative. 1 believe the tire will be literal and awful. After this sinful ola globe Las passod through this torrible bap- tism of fire it will become the inheritance of the saint for evermore.” you not tor of the opal church but rejects or in the There is ve truly suid USES HIS RAZOR AS A TONIC One of the Peculiarities of Chauncey M. Depew. LORD BROUGHAM AS A PORTER' icrons Mistake at an English Sta- tion—Rubenstein and Van Bulow ~Webster's Test of Intellect— Readable Aaecdotes. L A Queer Bracer. Chauncey M. Depew came into his offios inthe Grand Central depot one day last weok with his chin as smooth as a billiard ball. He lay back in his chair, crossed his legrs and stroked his chin meditatively as he said . “I have given as much time to the subjeot of shaving as [ have to any other that I cau recall, including the making of speeches.” Several gentlemen who have devoted the greater part of their lives to the accumula tion of colossal fortunes looked up iusur- prise. They had boen considering some transactions in stocks to the amount of sev- cral hundred thousauds, and were a little put out by Mr. Depew's cala, ircevelant re- mark “Yes," coutinued the presidentof the New York Contral, “it's a great subject. 1 shave mysclf every morning the first thing after 1 getout of bed, and it is as good an eye- opener as acocktail. Frequently 1 wm up lute ut night, and sometimes have only three or four hours’ slcep for a number of days in suceession. 1 am brain weary, nerve weary, i out. Then it is that the cold steel pass: ing over my face acts hike a tonie, an invig- orator. It'sa grat thing. My face is ten- der anc T have to be very careful in shaving, A razor gets tired, you' know, and a man should have at least” four of them. | have twenty five. | have bought every kina of razor that was ever recommended to me. | find that the Swedish vazor is the best. You can't tell the quaity of a or by the price, though. One of the best I ever had 1 bought I paid £ for another and could use it only onee, “Did asked a New Oakford, “Yes, wus the reply, ‘and uuder very singular circumstances. I was cscorting Mrs. Semple, the daughter of ex-President Tyler, from London to Liverpool, where sho was going to cmbark for America. We took the train at Eustace station. After placing her in a car Iloft her to look after the lu gage, for you know they do not have the ad- mirable system of checking baggage in Europe that we have here. Iwas in a hurry, as [ did not like to leave the lady long in a car all ulone, and, entering the room, I saw a man writing at a desk, whom I thougat was the station master. 1 said to him: My good man, [ want_you to label my luggage, and I am i a great burry, for there is a lady wait ing for me.” He tarned around with a scowl and rudely orderod me out of the room, whereupon I naturally became very angry, and told hum [ should report hum if he did not instantly attend to my order. ‘Thereupon he jumped up and tried to force me out of the room. In the nudst of the altercation the station master came along, and I bey to complain of the iusolent official. The station master drew me aside,and whispored that | had made a dreadful mistake; that the gentlemian was Lord Brougham, who had gone into the room to write a letter. He was av that tim n old man, seventy years old at least. e wore a long brown coat,and ncither looked nor acted like a lord.” Lord Brougha of John meet Star reporter you ever York ‘The proposed Balzac monument gives rise to an enormous number of ancedotes apro Dos of the great writer iu the French press. Here is a good oue from among them: The late Baron James Rothschild was always on excellent terms with Balzac, who dedicated more thau one novel to him. Onge, when he was obliged to make a trip to Germany, and when, as often happened with him, he was n money difficultis, Balzac went to the baron, who, with his usual benevolence, ad- vanced him the sum or 3,000 trancs, giving him al30 a lettor of recommendation’ to lis nephew in Vienna. The letter was unsealed, according to custom. Balzac read it, found it cold, poor and unwortby of him, and never ook it to the nephew. Keturning to Paris, he weat to see Baron Rothsehild, W said the Initer, “have you seen my nepbew ! Balzac proudly said thut he had kept the let- ter, “‘lam s v for you,” said tne baro “Have you got it with yous” “Yes, parble here it 15.7 “Observe this little ~hiero glyphic below the signature: it would huve opened a credit of 25,000 francs for you at the Vienna firm.” Balzac bit his lip and said nothing more. “The most fiery of pianists and of orches- tral conductors, Dr. Hans von Bulow, has been pointing his baton at his old friend Rubinstein, to whose **Ocean Sympnony” he hus taken a sudden aislike. After airecting ata rehearsal the six_movements of Rubin- stein’s symphony, which is, indeed, “‘vast und illimitable” like the ocean, Dr. von Bulow, according 40 a not infrequent custom of bis, addressed to the members of the orchestra some disparaging remarks o the work they bud just been playiug, and ended by seying: “A symphony like this can be properly dealt with ouly by a conductor with long bair.”” [Dr. von Bulow wears his hair short.| On readiug the report of Dr. von Bulow’s little speech Rubinstein wrote from . Petersburg to the paper which had pub ished it, expressing his surprise that in the midst of his important and numerous oc: patigns the learncd doctor should hav found time to measure the lenuth of his (Rubinstein’s) hair. Ho also_inquired affec- tionately after the length of Dr. von Bulow's curs; wishing in particular Lo kuow whether they had grown since the evening whe after hearing Rubmnstein's opera of *“Nero! for the first time, he shook the composer warmly by the hand and even embraced him, At the hee! dinners, when mained—one a of oue of Daniel Webster's only two of his gucsts re- member of congress from Tennessee and the other a member from “Pexas —a discussion arose a8 to which had tho ereater intellect. Mr., Webster poured the lust drop of the last bottic into his own glass and settled the issue by o declaration that “‘the best test of o man's intellect is the quuntity of wine he can take on and stand up under it.” Senator Kenna is exceedingly foud of hunt ing and fishing and is 8o proud of the fine wountains ani beautiful streams of West Virginia that he has become un expert ama- teur photogruphier, and Lias devoted much of his leisure taking views. Not long ago he conceived the ideu of collecting a number of his handsomest pictures, arranging them in an album and presenting them to Mr. Cleve- lund, While bis work was in provress he went with Senator Blackburn to call uvon the president, aud during the interview the subject ol umateur photography floated up. *1 like scencry—mountain scenery partic ularly,” said the president, “but I don't car for pictures of it, and I don't see how sen- siblo man can go wundering around with u Lox on his back in search of mere perishable shiadows.”" Senator Blackburn agreed fully with the prosident and Scnator Kenua changed the subject. Wheu they were fairly out of the, White Houso grounds Kenna said emphaticaliy : “D-—n_ his appreciation of pholography. He shouldn’t have auy of wy pictures if bhe was dying for them.” Novertheless, a few days later, after the senator from Kontucky uad scen'the presi- dent, there came a good-humored messuge from the White House to Mr. Kenna which induced him to send the album, and now Mr, Cleveland will take it to his new home as & valued souvenir of lus administration. TDTckens used 1o @ STOTy Of meotmy with a clergyman lu a ratlway train who held forth to his fellow-traveicrs ever so long upon the novelist's private failings. *Dick- ©us 13 an athelst, 8if, as 1 happen to know; Lo isalsoa gumbler, and, I regret to say, drinks, and so on. ‘Dear me, Low sad, Have 'you ever secn him drink? asked Dickeus. *Well, not exactly drunk; no, but BROWNING, KING & (O, POPULAR AND RELIABLE CLOTHIERS, offer you a last call for BARGAINS IN WINTER WEAR, OUR SPECIAL SALES have far surpassed expec- tations, but we have something in bargains left. Ask your friends wko have bought of us. They will tell you that money is largely saved to you on this sale. Men, Boys and Children enjoy alike tne Sweeping Reduction. Remember these are all NEW, FRESH AND RELIABLE GOODS. DON'T FORGET OUR MOTTO, “Money Cheer- fully refunded if goods do not suit.” ONE PRIGE ALL GOODS MARKED IN and that the lowest. PLAIN FIGURES. BROWNING, KING & (0, S. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts., Omaha, Mail Orders Always Receive Prompt Attention, Iy overtaken by liquor.' ‘Have you n Lim sober? ‘Well, that 1s too much to say. Oh, yes, I have scen him so- ‘Often® ‘Yes, often.’ *No, sir; only You seo him now for the first time.’ Here is one of the latest stories of the greatvon Bulow. He was waikiug ono day in Berlin when he met a man with whom he had formerly been on intimate terms, but whose acquaintance he was desirous of drop- ping. The quondam friend at once accosted him. “How do you do, von Bulow! De- lighted to see you! Now I'll bet that you don’t remeinber wy name!” “You've won that bet,” replied von Bulow, and turning on his heels he walked off in the opposite direc- tion. Dr. Joseph Parker, the London sensation alist preacher, recently went to sce a popular bicce at a London theater, and at its con- clusion exclaimed: “God bless the man who wrote so useful and admirable a play! “That picce,” he continued, in conversation, simply a dramatic sermon of the most poworful kind as to doctrine, eloquence and spiritual effect.” Talking with him about his Macbeth, in advance of its production, a friend said to Mr. Irving: “Surely, Macbeth should be a stalwart, broad-shouldered man?” *Yes,” replied the great actor, ‘‘so I thought, unt, reading the toxt, I found the words, ‘Throw physique to the dogs.’ "' In appearance M. du Maurier, the artist of London Punch, bears a striking rescmblanc 30 Alma Tadema. This likeness hus given rise to many amusing complications. Some time ago at a dinner party he hapvened to sit next to a daughter of his host. *Ican not understand,” remarked the young lady, “how people can be so_absurd ns to mistake you for Mr, Tadema, To me the likeness is very slight.”’ A little later she said: “Oh, I bought yeur photograph the other day. Would you mind—er—putting your aut graph to it!” M. du Maurier oxpressed his willingness. and later on in the evening the young lady conducted him to a writing table and handed him the photograph for is sig- nature. M. du Maurier looked at it, sighed, and then laid 1t very gently on the table “That,” he said, “i5 Mr. Alma Tadem: portrait.” “Do you know,” said Rey. Dr. Hall, of the Church of the Holy Triuity, in Brooklyn, in his sermon one Sunday evening, *'I think the old Methodist preacher was about half right who remarked on reading that passage of the. Seriptures where David 18 reported to have struck his harp and said in_his haste ‘that all men are liars': Yes, David, and you might have sald the same thing at your leisure.” Why, there are reporters in New York and Brooklyn who would not be tol- crated in Texas.” The best joke that ever happened at Priuceton, writes Eli Perkins, happencd to Dr. McCosh, One day Dr. McCosh came into the mental philosophy cluss and said “Ah, young gentlemen,” [ have an pression! “Now, young gentlemen,': continued the Doctor us he touched his head with hls fore- finger, “can you tell me what an impression ist! No answer. “What, 1o one knows? No one can tell me what an_impression is ! exclaimed the Doc- tor, looking upand down the class, “Tknow,” said Mr. Arthur, “An imores- sion is & dent in a soft place.” “Young gentleman,” said the Doctor, re- moving his hand from his forehead and growing red in the face, ‘‘you are excused for the day.” Senator Ruay s huuting up a lost clection bet. A neighboriug senator, who lad heard the storios, about Quay's winuing $100,000, asked bim “How much did you win on Harrison'sf election " 1 won #24,500,"" suid Quay: “‘but there's a bet of #,000 which gol away somehow, and Louly netted #19,600." The §,000 bet had no cash up on either side, which accounts for the forgetfulness of the loser. One of Milan Obrenovitch's latest inde- cencies was 1o appoint M. Christitch minister to Berlin, He is the shumeless husband of that particular one of Kiug Milan's concu- bines whom that mouarch attempted to force Queen Natalie to kiss in pub\ic and treat with houor. *Kiss your paramous yourself," replied the queen, aud divoree followed. - BINGULARITIES. im An apple tree near Fresno, Cal., is reported to bhave borne one ton of fruit the past season. A foature of the late eclipse of the moon at Downieville, Cal, was a gorgeous rain- bow ring that surrounded the moon. In. closed were seven brilliant stavs of the first magaitude, A baby born in Youkers, N. Y., weighed only two and a balf pounds. The nurse's fluger ring was easily passed over the child's haud and wrist. The youngster is healthy and expeeted to live, An unknown species of bird has appeared on the Atlautic coust this winter, being of size of a goose, with a black body, red astand a note like the voice of the old n when calling a boy out of the bed in the morning. Perhaps the dodo has returned. Mrs. Eliza Striker, of Spotswood, N. ., was found dead in bed the other morning. She was cighty-nine years of age and was cutting & uew set of tecth, She had com- plained for several days of illuess caused by this remarkable occurrence. A Norwich, Coun., fawily owns a hen that shows great superiority” in matters of culture and cducation over others of her kind. Among her refinements is a custom of going up three stens to the front door, where she wipes her bill on the door mat after cating. A Danbury, Conn., man. who was found in'n snow bunik and pronounced dead, was taken to the station house. Haif an hour afterwards he arose and attempted to walk off, to the great ustonishment of policemen who was standing about. He expluined that while drunk he fell mto the suow and became unconscious from the cold, remain- ing s0 until thawed out by the beat in the police quarters. LI HONEY FOR THE LADL For evening zowns milk white is now wore b than cream color. Soft gray and shell pink will be a favorite combination for spring wilets. Spring mufilers are handsomely made in coubinations of black and steel gray. Among new ball dress fabrics ave to be scen ribbon-striped nots and gazes. Novel hues in_ strawberry, old rosc, rusp berry, mahogany, and rosewood are promiscd for the spring. Bonuet pins are larger than formerly and show many patterus of which many are floral in design. Sashes fringed with all the colors of the gown now come with the new box empire dress patterns. Lenten toile tical, but very b the modistes” shops. CGiolden-brown will probably be the leading fashionable color, (lish hue is golden terra-cotta or Cloth waists for we dark wool, silk or velve vers turned buck frow severcly plain and ecclesias- wing, are to be seen in sque. ing with skirts of long velvet vest of bright ~ Dircetoire long coats for utility uses during the inevitable wet and chilly auys of the spring scason, are stylish gar- ments. For “sccond’’ mourning silks are novel and quite will be trimmed with et and or cut steel passementerie, The short velvet jackets now worn with aressy bome toilets require full torcador vests of embroidery in soft wool, and of u delicate contrasting color, Hats just out from Paris have crowns so low as to be almost invisible from the front. As a muke weight there is more than u whis per of the ehignon’s revival, The stutely cloth civoulars, or Connemara cloaks, ure’ likely to bave a still gr lease of popularity than ever this and especially for ‘traveling wear. Charming little party dresses for swoeet sixteen have straight fill housemaid skirts, wide empire sashes, with noyel bodices that button on the short shoulder seams. Silk and wool costumes are exhibited with plain wool ‘skirts and long Grecian over dresses finished with a very deep hem, and with cloth juckets to watch the skirt, No steel circles are now worn in under- skirts, Their substitute is the very small Louis X V. cushion of blaci or colored satin, filled With down and trimumed witn luce, Low bodices of evening dresses are 1o be scen 1n 4 varicty of forms. Sowe ure cut en caur, some in oval shape, SOMC sGUAre, unda lurge number in the prevailing V shap We seew to be fust approaching the outlines of Greek dress in our most el and fashionable attire, Long softly flo folds appear upon artistic fowns designod more especially for teas und grand dinicrs. The hat of the moment is the low, soft- crowned toque. ifor morning it 18 made of cloth to mateh the swit; for afternoon driy- ing, receptions or the theater, of fine pale velvet or else black, with a tuft of violets nestled in its folds ‘The bustle has gone and the designer of new wraps and jackets arc hiuing consider able trouble in accustomivg themselves the new state of affuirs. Mantles will no have to be shaped so that uo Lerracing at the back will be required. Many novel printed portion of hunds me spring tilets with large bouquets, Is one of thesc, flow* ered bengaline another. The colors are meat varied, prominent among them being aurore, old rose, terra cotta, water gre and pale raspberry; and quité large fiow and foliage are Lavorite designs. A very pretty little house dress suituble for a girl of sixteen ks wade with an open Spanish jacket of old rose velvet, Lined with r-shot black ive. ‘They silver galloons tissues will form a Eolicnne, . ! | pink. The bishop sleeves extonding beyoud the pointed volvet ones, are of sea-green silk, embroidercd with little moss buds, and bencath the cutaway jacket isa blouse to match, likewise wrought. = An odd collar turns down at the back, this embroidered also and haf covering a sécond deeper onc of green velvet. 1CAL A e MU D DRAMATI Lotta bought another 20,000 house in New York the other day. “When Chung-a-Lung Reaches H Louis Harrison's new song in “The Pekin.” Hattie Deluro, who became Mr: of California, last summer, has ag from J. C. Duff’s “The Quecn's N pan, Minme Maddern 1s to have at “least ono new play for next scason. She will produce it in the autumn and then go on a tour of the principal cities. Mrs. Langtry will play Lady Macbeth on her road tour this spring, except in one uight stunds. There she will do elther *'A Wife's Peril” or “*As in a Looking Nin cault has been engaged to play the ing rt. in the reorganized *Harbor 1 which is to tour New Enzland under the management of Frank Curtis. Mr. Henry Barnes, seceded ' com- Irving's throat iswuite well again, and he is playing Macbeth every ening vefore the largest audicnces ever known in the history of tue London Lyceum theates Maud Harrison says she has some novol ideas us to how Rosulind in “As You Like It,” should be acted, and is anxious to show the public how well she can interpret the charucter. o Henry E. Abbey, when thought “Antony and Cleopatra’ would run in Boston, replied, jocularly: “If the police don’t stop it there'is no doubt that it will run the rest of the season.” “Blucbeard, Jr.,” is the name of the ex- ranza that will be produced at the Chicago opera house next summer. Some of the costumes will be made in London und Mr. Eustis will arrange the music, Bronson Howard has decided in the future to control his own plays and_become int ested in their production and management, commencing with “*Shenandoah,” i’ whichi play he retains the proprictorship through out the United States. How the prices for musical 1 bave risen during the jast sixt from o comparison of Pafti's £700 for performing once in London this season and Mme, Pustw’s 200 francs for u private musi cal entertainment in Paris in 1350, The sep: and his wi Wamwright, begin next season. They have found 1t impossible to wel plays in which both could appear to ad- vantage. Wainwright will produce a spec. tacular “Twelfth Night”” in Octobe At the latest reports from London it was thought thut Mr. Mausfield’s production of “Richard TiL" could not bo effected before the end of this month. Mr. Mansfield offercd an engagement to- Mrs, Arthur Stirling, but that well kuown actress dechined 1o aceept it. Touy MHurt, the actor, was discharged recently, according to a telegram, from the state insanc wsylum - Worc Mass, “His improvemont s said to larked, though the physicians do not positively say that he will ever be able to resume work aguiu., The ked how long he formances unnouncement that Mr. Lawrenc Barrctt hus actually cagaged Mme, M jesla to aot with My, Edwin Booth next s sou, in very good news, Sie will pluy Mucbeth, & character in_ which she ought to creutou groat effect, and Ophelia, which s one of the most exquisite of her Shuks| interpretations, ‘Ihere appears to be no doubt that the fg mous old Drury Lane, theator will coaso 1o exist in scven y us the duke of Liedford, to whom erty belongs, is resolved o puil the building down at the expiration of the lease, and devote the site Lo more profituble, if 1ess in teresting purposes. The course of “Macbeth” at the Iifth Avenue theatre, New Yok, is all but yun, and Mrs, Luugtrs’s ambitious attempt has 1in failure. “She v urnest, how and 15 deserving of sympathy. She will 'now fall back upen Rosulind, which is almost ay much out of her reuch wh the Lor: rible Lady Macbeth Mrs, Burnett's new play for the Lyceum theator, New Yok, which will be produced in April, 18 rapidly ‘approaching completion. 1t s comedy dratua, and will contuin parts for Nelson “Wheatero(t and Grace Hender- son, us well as Mr. iKeleey, Mr. Lemoyue, Miss Cayvan and ofhors wow aoting in “sweot Lavender, Mr. Daly {5 about to n a ‘new comedy cotied “lhe International Matoh," takon from the German of I von Schontau and is a “comedy of high L in four act said to be vers dainty o delicate in Miss Kehar, Mrs, Gii bert, Miss Lsubel Ivving, Mr. Drew and My Lewis will kuve the luportant parts. Two wore incideats have rcecatly boen added 1o Miss Claxton's fire record. How com. pauy was bookod Lo play ab the Graad Opeva hi uee in New York house, St. Paul, which was destroyed by fire the weck before the date announced for her opening. She went to Chicago, and was to have gone from there to Duluthi,but the opera house in Duluth isalso reported burned. It is stated on_authority that Mme, Mod- jeska will play with Mr. Booth next scason. Messrs. Nixon and Zimmerman had con- tracted to pay her $5,000 for a season of thirty weeks. Mr. Booth has paid 50,000 for a transfer of the contract. Mr. Joscph Brooks will have a share of the §5,000 real- ized by Messrs, Nixon and Zimmerman. Goodwin will produce his new “The Gold Mine,” in the Fifth Avenuo ter, NewsYork, in March, and if it suc- ceeds Ne will, jt is said, abandon the idiotic picces in which his ‘nbilities have been wasted, not to say disgraced, hitherto. Everybody will hope that he may feel justi- fled in attempting something more serious than buffoonery. The new play written for Mr. Lawrenco Barrett by Mr. Williin Youny is called “Ganelon.” “The scenc is laid in Corsica in the ninth century, and the cvents are con- nected with the wars between the Corsicans and Saracens. Tt 15 said to afford uncom- mon_opportunities for scenic displays, but thisis of farless immvortant than its | lite- rary and dramatic merit. Mr. Barrett has produced many good plays and his judg- wntis oot likely to lead him very far astray, Rosina Vokes has recently produced a new play i Philadelphia called “Ghastly Manor.' It is described as a “burlesque society molo- drama in one horror.”’ As Lady Tofant Miss Voles is said *'to die a la Bernhardt in “The Sphinx,’” with a clutching and drag- giug at the strychnne dewon in_her fair throat: struggles with her lover, Sir Crim- son F'lujd, a la Davenport in_“Fedora,” and finally dics a la Langtry in “As in o' Look- ing Glass," tearing down tho lace curtains and giving final agony on the floor within thenr filmy folds. P e CONNUBIALITIES. Oh, if you uly as | do you— both be erematad, 1 fe dride—“Will you love me in the next world, darling " Hubby—*That depends on what kind of un angcl they wale of you,” The era of sensations: Fdward —*And will you be my bride, Dollie?” " Dollie—*No, dar- ling; but Pl elope with you for the fun of the thing,” Well, 1 am glad that Rosalie's tastes are terary, and she is coing to marry a man of ctters.” “Yes, she's going to wed @ sign painter Au Ohio farmer mortgaged his fari to get, his bride some diamond oarrings, and sho lost one of them in the suds the very first wash day and attempted to hang herself in the barn. Mr. Swift, of Elkhart, Ind., stated that Miss Georgia Davis, his afianced, chewed to- bacco, She sued hit for slander, and proved that she siyiply chewed tar gum, and tho jury Have her a verdict for §300, 1L is now stated_that General Boulanger is Boing to warry a Missouri beauty as soon as he can get a divoree. This may account for the rumor that he favors a onstitution in France similur to that of the United States, A belated bridegroom on the way to his wedding was arrested and locked up in Bal- timore {or fast driving, Unless marriage 18 regarded as a failure in Baltimore one wouid suppose that he had o valid excuse for Laste, Miss Iissie Jenyns, a favorite Australian eLress was recently marr; t Newcastle, NS W, with o good dewt of adyertisin at. The people besicged St. Andrew cathedral and the marriage party had a struggle to get to the altar, the actrass faint. ing in her affiunced’s arms. Many ladies und children also fainted from the great jawm at the churel More than thirty-seven thousand people, in five duys, were sdmitted o view Mrs, Joseph * Cliamberlain's wedding presents, The Puritan maiden scems to huve British euricsity, or perhups sl o understand ways of propitias ish voter. That her portraits ave on view in the Birminghun shop windows is another evidence of her acceptance of pohtical cus- s, The emperor of China has presentea his bride elect with two beautiful mirrors for her attivingroom. ‘They are of massive for- eign gliss, over six feet long and five feet broad, set in roscwood, in frames nine feet high, with flowers carved ih relief. The pedestals for holding thew are also adorned with figures of foliage, animals, birds, o Kach mirror and each frame took eight men o carry iy and they were conveyed from tho palace to the house of the bride's father, The case of McCoy vs Horner, at Law- rence, Kau., in which o widower, fifty six yoars old, brousht suit for #10,000 daniuges agalust @ wide for breach of promise to yy Wiss concluded in the district court iitly. “Phe trial of the case attracted & great deal of attention, and the court room was filled to its utmost capacity. 1ioth of the parties have several childy The jury finally took the oase under consideration and were absent about two hours, and then brought in u verdict for the plaintiff, aasesse ing the dumages at §l ouly loved me s **Nellic—"*We would