Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1889, Page 12

FATHER OF THE EMPEROR. He is a Very Mighty Individual, HAS A VEIN OF HUMOR IN HIM. Fis Adventure With Cart Driver—A Visit to the Great Wall— Inconveniences of Travelling in Wheelbarrows, In China a Poor A Chinese Haroun Alraschid. ! PeriNG, Feb, 1.—[Special Correspondence of Tnr Bee.|—The seventh prince, or the father of the Emporor of China, has had to move out of his ancestral mansion, and it was sold o the government for a little over $100,000. 1t will be used as'a temple and the reason for the selling is that no Chinese sub. Ject can live in @ house in which an emperor was born, The boy emporor now outranks his fathcr and the relations between the two are very curious, The enfpress regent and this seventh prince still hold great influcnc with the government, and the empress re gent will probably still have her place be. hind & gauze screen whenever the emperor gives an audience. The vresent imperial family of Chinais stronger than usual. The prince Kung, who was regent in_connection with the last boy emperor, is living at Pe king, and the fifth prince, Kung's brother, issaidto be a man of weight. The fifth prince is the Haroun Alraschid of the family He delights in going about incognito, and many funny stories are told of nis practical jokes. Onc is as to a cart driver. The prince met the driver when he was in disguise and asked for a ride. The man looked at his poor clothes aod asked him to jump m. He did so and directed the driver to take him to Prince Kung's residence. The driver stopped when he came into the etreet of the great prince and said he feared togo farther asthe great Kung was nota Kkind-hearted man, and if he trespassed on his territory he would certamly get the bamboo across his bare legs, and he might lose his head. The ragged noble urged him onward, and, to his surprise, stopped him at Kung's door. Here a great retinue came out to meet him, and the man learned that he had been entertaining the imperial prince. He had been talking very freely during the ride as to what the people thought of the emperor, Prince Kung and the fifth prince, and he feared that his tongue would loso him his head. The fifth prince disniissed him and the next day sent tim him a lot of money and a new horse and cart. This seventh prince, as the father of the emperor, is now the mightiest man in China, and all the celestial world goes down on its knees to him, He rides about Pek- ing occasionally, and is by no means a bad looking Chinaman. He is well made and inclined to Tatness wears the brightest of im- perial silks and sports, at times, a hat for all the world like an inverted dishpan. His pony is a fine white Mongolian griftin and he goes about the city with a Tetinus of servants and soldiers. LIKE A GREAT CAMP, Peking is like no other city’ in It is essentinlly different from other cities of China, and is the most Asiapolitan city of Asia, Itis more like a great camp than a city, and its walls, fifty feet high and thirty or more feet thick, make one thinik of soldicrs and seiges, risingand falling empires. The thousands of do-nothing nobles in gor- geous gowps, who gallop through the vile filthy strects on ponies with hundreds of soldiers andeervaots dressed in the rafrgedest of gaudy liverles, carry on the 1usion, and when you adk the reason of the rags, you are toldsit is not poverty, but that the nobles dare not appear rich for fear the government would levy acontribution upon them. The chiof of these nobles are tartars, and they are taller and better look- ing than the Chinese who come to America.. Thoy form the greater part of the soidiers of the capital of China, and it is snid that there are 50,000 of them in the city. They are poorly armed with the oldest of muskets, ull patterns, and would avail little before one-fourth many Americans armed with Winchester rifles, China. all told, has an army of three-quarters of a mil- lion, and some of the troops of the provinces are well armed and are being trained by Eu- ropean offcc The country now has eight wrsenals uud our naval officers tell me these are turning out some guns which are equal 1o those of ISrupp, and also that the ritles made at the Shanghai arsenal are on the Spencer and Winchester pattern. The Chi nese navy has_wonderfully improved since the late war with Irance. Their northern squadron j& commanded by an Knglish naval officer and their ships built in England and Germany, urc among the best of the small men of war afloat. They carry the latest jmprovements in tho wuy of guns, and the bulls of some of their boats are of stecl They ure, I wm told, vow makin gun-hoats of their own, and they have cruiser of #,100 tons and of 2,400 horsoe power which thoy built not long ugo. The country has but 4 small national debt, amounting,say the statistics, to not _over £25,000,000, and b & Judicious taxation it could estublish a na: and army which wight zuke the rest of Asia tremble. TIE GREAT CIINESE WALL 1 have just returned from a irip to the Chinesc wall, and I have seen enongh to say that there is 1o doubt of its existence and Ats greatuess, Buiit 1,700 before America was discovered, when our aucestors, ki naked and altopether savage, W throughout France, Germany and Engl when itome was in’ the height of her lican formi of government, and when the Roman ompire had not yet begun to be, these massive towers stitl the paravets, snd the 1,600 miles of wall still stand, 1t inatwo duys ride by a dockey from Peking sud one goes through tue northern edye of the great plain China and meets it in the reat chain of mountains which separates China from Mongolin and Manchuria, Manchuria and Mongolia lie directly north of China. They are both subject te and are governed by China, and they equal in ize about one-tiulf the whole territory of the the world. the United States, Above them | ), and south of their w edge is Thibet and 11i, ‘which are also Chinese countries as to gov- erument. All are sparsely sottled and Mon gohia hus loss than two people to the square mile,while its wholo population isnot greater than the city of New York. AManchuria has twolve millious of people, but both countrics are fav move savage than the Chinoso, and Mongolians live lary i tents. ‘The trade of ail these people, however, comes north from Peking and pisses over the mountaing #ud through the great wall at tho gate which | have ever gone to Amncrici, aud fewer still I wisited, The wisll was built originally to | that they have been wirned to keep keop thom out, but thoy huve swarmed sonie of them sent buck. ‘The througi: in hordes again and again, and it is | are 870 Anericuns in Shangbal, about thirty ® Manthurias Chinese throne, HCEOF Lhal now sits upen the What a wonderful structure itis. It would | throughont the interior. 'The Chinaman, sxtond more than bll way across Amcrica | however, knows ot the difference between and it wust have consumed years in building | the American una the Enghiskian, the it. As I'stood upon its gawparts I could sce | I'venchnan and the German - He classes ftelimbing the mountiins and gong down | them ali as white foreign devils pod caunot lieys! ak fir w8 1y cyes could | discrimmate. The only ugly peoplo in Chiua 1t did gt difiuisly in strength | secw 1o be those of the south and the literati BOr $i20 ut Lhe VATIoUS petaty | visited, and | of Peking, The Cantonese mob burncd th its musonry would hate Been good work for | residence of the Chinese minister to Am u builders of to-duy. 1t is about | when the news of the expalsion law 3 feet high, L tho top it in 8o | ceived, and travelers il me | ut Lo earria, drive abreast | unpleasant way of throwing bricks at for- | along it, and the huls of oue would not touch wers and of spittiug an their faces whon hose of the other. " 1ts iuterior walls are of | they happen to travel wlong the streets of Blue brick of such u size thut they lock like ! their oity, * They wade some kiud of an muss.ve stones, and these ure lled in with | offensive demonstiation tho other day in eanth and paved with brick at the top, The | front of our consul’s residence and it i said aud g huss bhus now grown over the | that they ure very angry oves the n of this grcat wall. No o, wow yuard | 1 will visit Cauton within i w i, wnd it stands amid the saowy mourtains | Wil tien report th us they almond eyed wen who yewrs a0, sought Lo nro r descend- Jwenuune 0t of the us, L o ot he P%‘i‘}gl hose of th s for LI 10 comie, . Noove cun stand upon the ramyarts of this struetive aud not e fipressed With the greatness of the Ch matiin, Itis agreatar monum than pyramids of Egypt, built by seliis Xings for yoshl towbs, and its purpose was mobicr. 0 isa manuieut also of o great FTURD LRl Wikiie 4B dice, b wark ccoiiun, THE OMAHA SUL DAILY BEI: NDAY "EBRUARY 21, TWEL 1859, and that the lives bottled up here twea centuries ago exist to-day as does the hand that carved the Venus di Medici, the hand that wrote Shakespeare, and the Aeneid.and in a humbler, though no less effective way, the muscie that dug on the marble from the mines, of which the builders and _architects constructed the mighty cathedral of Milan. his wall is right in the mountaius, There are no villages to speak of near it, and the surroundins are the picturp of desolation The road to it, which was onco a paved high way, is now a m ain path filled with boul. ders and puddles, and it is impossible to get through with anything else than mule litters camels or donkeys. We passed camels | the hundreds, and our mule litter and two donkeys, which made up the outfit of the party, had often to stand aside for herds of black'Chinese hogs and droves of fat-tailed sheep which were being driven from the wild pasture lands of Mongolia down to Peking. Pouies and horses caw no more travel this road than they can the passes of the Andes, and the mule litter, in which my wifo rode, is a fair sample of Chinese m terior travel. 1t was a cloth-covered box about five feet long and four high, swung Detween two of the rawest, mangiest mules I have cver seen, It was hung upon shafts, and these m one in front and two behind, carried it in singlo file up the nills a gh tho mud. In passing through » of the villages they slipped and the whole outfit came to th ground. ‘The muleteer was a Molammedan, us are muny of these north Chinamen. He wis as stubborn as his mules and he de: cidedly objeeted when [ posed _putting e during rain. We two people into the litt carried our own cook and bedding with us and slept at_ Chinese inns on_dirty ledges of brick heated from beueath by flues. These ledges are about two fect high and they con- stitute half of the bedroom of a Chinese hotel. T'he inns were much the same, | juc the inns of Palestine in the days of the Savior. Low, one-story brick buildings ran around an oped court. ir which droves of logs and_camels slept. ‘The doors of the busiding all opened into the court and_ half of thew were open at the front und were as- signed to the donkeys and mules of the tray- clors. These brayed the livelong night and their munching of straw could be distinctly heard through the walls separating them from us. CHINESE CARTS. 1 paid somo calls yesterday in company with Colonel Denby, our minister to Peking. We went the minister's Chinese cart preceded by his mafoo or groom on horse back. The Chinese cart is the only car- riage known in Peking outside of the ele- phant carts, on which the emperor goes out to sacrifice at the temple of heaven. It is the rudest, cruelest and most unbending vehicle I have ever met with, It has no spring, and 1ts heavy wheels bump and jolt on a level road to say nothing of ‘the torture they produce on these streets of Peking, which are a continuous serics of ruts, holes and mud ponds. There is no window to the cart, suve a piece of glass about one foot square set into its side and its covering is made of blue cloth stretched over a frame, making it as close asa cob. The bed of this cart is level with the shafts, and the rich Chinaman or the noble China- woman sits_in it with crossed legs flut on the floor. There isno room for more thau one person in a cart, and if the grand Pek- ingese dame has a waid with her the s vant must sit ou the shafts beside the driver. It was on such carts that the hundreds of Manchu maidens, who were brought to the palace from all parts of North China that they might be looked over as prospective. in- mates of the emperor's harem, were carried, and it is in such carts that ull' thetravelling of North China, outside of donkey, pony and camel back and mute-litter is done. It is the only vehicle that will withstand the ruts and ditehes of Chinese public roads. These are everywhere bad and the statement in the geographies that China has more than 20,000 il roads, conveys no idea to the Amer- imp ican mind of the highways of this great em- pire. Many of the streets of the Chinese part of the city of Peking are too narrow for these carts, and there urc many cities in the empire where neithor four-footed beasts nor s are to be found. Hero in Pekmg the casicst method of moving from one part of the city to the other is by meuns of donkey which, not_larger than good sized X foundland dogs can go anywhere. The great part of the carting of the city wud all of the drayage Is doae by wen, Wiieelbarrows are the drays and these are pushed and pulled by stalwart, half-naked men. They carry sometimes as much as a ton, and I have seen three men and one don key harnessed to one of them. One man, naked to the waist, held the shafts of the barrow aided by a wide bund of camel’s wool rope, which stretcued from them ucross his shoulders, and two others walked in front harnessed to the barrow by like bands across their chiest, and stooping over and straining every muscle as they pulled at the lond. The donkey was also harnessed to the front of the barrow and he walled between the men. The load they carried was made up of a1 number of boxes lubeled with the name of one of the leading agents of the Stundard il company of the United St China uses a great deal of Awmerican kerosenc, and I sce this coul oil everywhere throughout North China. These Chinese wheelbarrows are entirely different from ours. The wheel is as bix around as the front wheel of & buggy and it comes up through the center of the barrow instead of bemg in front of it as in America. ‘The load is put on each side of the wheel and there 15 a sort of a frame work which runs up from the bed and keeps the load off the wheels, The handles of the barrow are very long, and the front part of the bed ends ia two sharp points, In s me parts of China, such as Shanghal, the wheel- barrow is the cab and street car of the Chi- nese, and each_burrow is expected to carry two passcngers. 1 have seen two pretty Ch nese maidens being pushed along the road in this way, and at Tientsin you find the streots often blocked with thése wheelbarrows loaded with coal, stone, wool, cloth, and a thousand and one things which are 'used in one form or another by the Chinese, In the great plain where the winds are very strong the wheelbarrow-carrier often hoists u sail to hielp him along, and the wind pushes with him as he go i these wheel barrow men pay a license, and not long_ ugo there was an attempt made to raise this from h0 cents to §1 per year, The men clubbed to- gether and struek to the number of some hundveds, and the result was that the in- crease had to be waterially lessened. THE CANTON MOL Our Asiatic squadron is now scattered along the coast of Chin; roofed with matting und is frozen in just op- | posite the big city of ‘Dientsin, This matting | has windows in it und the marines have | their drills under cover. Tt takes about two wonths 1o gota letter to them from New York, and thereis no possibiliLy of their being moved Lefore spring. The Omaha, the Essex and the Marion ure, at this writing, in the hurvor ut Shanghai with Admiral Chandler commanding. They huve periodi cal dritls, which, Tam told, send terror into the hearts of the celestials, and iti s said that the 70,000 drilled soldiers under Li Hung The hittle palos is Chang actually tremble when they think of Captiuin Craizz with his less than fifty of the Palo's crow. The reason of the brunging | of theflect to Clina was the apprehension | that the oxpulsion act might cause the | Chinese to retaliate upon our American | residents he 8o far, however, the only outburst has been ai Canton, and I doubit very much if onc nin ten thousand in North China kuows that any of the Chinese in Howy Kong, asmall number at Peking and a few hundreds of jissionaries scattered An Absoin NAL ABLETINE OINTMENT large tivo ounce tin boxes, o Lure for old gores, busi The OR W only put uj id 53 4 abseiy Grover Cleveland Kingsbury is a patient in the temporary ward of the new Long [ Not long azo at the Grand opara house in Branch hospital. He is a pretty curly ed | Pisa the premicre dansuesc miscalculated youngster of four years. His father is a [ fer distauce and mado o isoustte clo 3 ARBRNGE £5 WaT 280 i | the footlizhits into the erchestra, where she | Louse carpenter, who lives in Red Bank, | o} 000 40 wougds, chapped hands, wnd ll sidn crup. | ‘Au:.*[ \:‘I 1‘| )»;m-m\ ciize all kinds of TR | sk for MUGINAL ABIETINE QIN MENT. Soid by Sgtibt Goodiun Lrug Co, eais per Dox--by wail ¢ 0 couts, tleman was interested in the probable effect of Mr. MacNichol's skin upon his grandson He asked the ciergyman: ‘Wil this makea dominie out of him, he being flesh of your flosh | The child's father Some Strange Tales of Men and Other Animals, is an ardent demecrat One of the physicians is a deuiocrat, but the other isa revublican. The Rev. dr. Mac Nichol is a prohibitionist. 1 Grover lives to grow up and the grafted skin takes as good a hold on his political opinious as it does on b his back, he may be tho founder of a new order of mugwumps. HER GRAVE MID LIGHTNING RODS The Queer Fancy of a Georgia Wid- ower—An Epidemic of Lunacy — The Quake — One ible Revenge. “Did you ever shave a woman!" was the question put to a Pittsburg barber by a cus- tomer who was being shaved. ‘“Many a time," said the barber, who went on to tell of his experience m that li 88 “There are ladies in town who have quite a Corpse s Hol > of busi The Curiouns Side of Life A dozen Hebrews were before the mayor of Indianapolis recently for fighting in church | mustache, and others who have something over a prayer. A small congregation in the | like a chin beard. and 1 have operated on A e i s both kinds. 1 shaved the upper lip of a lady southern part of the city is known a8 the | VRl tia T rernoon to prepire hor o o oul Orthodox Jewish church, of which Simon | toa party. She keeps down the growth of assman has been acting as rabbi. He is | huir by clipping it, but she wanted to look opposed by some of the members, It is the | extra fine on this occasion. custom of the churchin a certain prayer for the laymen to take part up to a certain point, The citizons of Wallker county, Gaorgla, when a church leader prays. Harry Bero- | few miles from Chattanooga, Tenn., are stein had been appointed to this office, but | very much excited over existence of a when the time came Glassman claimed the | genuine wild man, who haunts the mountains A free fight cnsued, and the per. sonal beauty of soveral members was mar- red by bloody noses and blackened eyes, The defendants wero fined by the mayor for disturbing religious meetings, privilege. of the county. He is deseribed us being of gigantic stature, covered with a thick growth of huir, and he carrics in his hand a large knotted s He looked as if he might be the twin brother of Barnum’s wild man This modern Orson has cen scen by diff erent ties. Oue gentlenan bolder than the rest encountered the creature in a lonely part of the mountains one day not long since and at a safe distance endeavored to strike upa conversation. A perfect shower of ks grreeted his fiest words, and thinking cretion the better part of valor, he made rucks from the dangerous neighborhood. An old man living up in the mountains near Elijuy, Ga., has had his wife's grave sur- rounded by several ligntning rods. While tho old lady was living lightning struck the old man o often that he dreaded to think of even lis wife's body being struck, so he bought the rods. He's got ninety-five of his dead wife's dresses and thirty-five pairs of hershoes piled up in the nouse, and he | The remarkable result of a tidal wave in wouldn't sell them for anything. He is a | the province of Baunam,Java, has been a queer customer. He's got a hat for every | Ereatincrease of tigers. The land laid waste d ay in the weck, and the last one of them is | soon relapsed into a jungle affording wel- come cover to the tigers, which became so daring and_numerous that-wholo villages had to be abandoned. List year the tigers killed no less than sixty-one “persons there, To remedy the evil the government of Juva has raised the reward for Gilling tigers from 100 to 200 gilders a head. se_on Tuesday evening in acafe on the Boulevard ies Capuciues be- tween two young men, sia/s the Paris Gau- lois. Oneof them became furious,and finally cards were exchanged, s:conds appointed, conditions drawn up and the ducl was fixed outof style. He wears a beaver on Sunday, a white hat on Monday, u slouch hat on “Tuesday,a faded derby on’ Wednesda y,an old brown wool hat on Thursday,an old-fasnioned white derby on Friday aud i coon skin_cap on Saturday. He has forty pairs of boots and he is buying new ones every week or so. Another curious thing about the old man is that he has o mania for pocket knives and has 125 of them, and is still adding to his col- lection. He's a farmer, and every few days he brings a load of extra fine potatoes to sell. He won't accept any kind of money for them unless it's silver or gold. He wants hard money, ard will take no other kind for A discussion a his potatoes. He recently married a 16-year- | for the following ‘morning in_the Bois do old girl, though he's 60 himsolf S Boulogne, near the gun clb ground " 3 . The two adversaries weae placed in front A strange species of insanity has attacked [ of 'l*“;'.";ml”wr ata distune of thirty puces A ek b and pistols were handed to them.. Then, the pupils in the Soldiers' Orphan school | With NI sy ‘Warning, the young man. Wwho at MAlisterville, N. Y. It is most apparent. [ had been most violent tooc. o his heels a fled into the_bushes, leavig his encmy und the seconds in a state of bavilderment. five of whom were bright , twen The boys are and aiong the boy badly affecte havpy, but a day or so ago they began Jekip- John Wilson, living newr Astor, Florida, ing at thoir ciothing or at the clothing | cuta vig cypress tres in tie swamp north of of their fellow pupils, in a nervous sort | 4o en recently and found ir it a live alligator of way,as insane poople sometimes do in asyluins. \When engaged in_conversation they talked fast_enough, but unintelligibly. At last a physician took one of them aside aud began interrogating him. ““What is this 1" said the doetor, holdiug up a knife. “Tadpole,” was the reply. “What fruit do you like best! “Lizara,” the lad answered. Another boy was taken into a hall and his fur cap thrown away. seven feet long. As the qeniug in the tree was not half lurge enougi for the animal to get through the presunption is that it crawled in when_quite yoang and lived on other animals and reptiles that sought shel ter in the same tree. - Horsford's A For Wes Hysteria, and other di system. 1 Phosphate kiess, s of the nervous “Oh, why did you throw out my over- Ty TN T shoes (" was what he said, the sentence being MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. mumbled Melbourne, Aus., theates are, as a rule equipped with billiard tailes. It is said that Billy Emrson has rejoined Katie Putnam. Katieiso go to Austraila for a long trip in May. Maurice H. Barrymore will not write the comedy n whicl R Mason and Robert Hillard are to go starring The Hanlon’s “Voyage en Suisse” will be taken off the stage at ti end of the sousen. It was old when the chestnut bell was born. “Antony and Cleopara,” with Edwin Booth as Antony and mlme. Modjeska us Cleopatra, is the latest rumored production for next season. The new opera, **Oolab” which is to be produced at thé Broadvay theater, New York, is an adaptation of a French play. “The Jolly Persian.” Mrs. Potter's magnifient production of “Antony and Cleopatra™aas enjoyed a very successful_run of cighiwecks at Palmer's theater in New York. Mr. Francis Wilson, ti The children have vacant exp their faces andat times are worse t others. The symptoms of aphasia may be due to over-study. but it is a curious fact that many members of classes not at all studious are ai- fected. A strange sort of mental affeetion known as corpse-quake has often been found to exist among grave-diggers. It is no uncom- mon occurrence that a person employed in cemoteries for many years is suddenly af- flicted with a shaking similar to that ex- perienced by persons suffering from ague. A grave digger wio has been employed at the Cypress Hills cemetery, New York city, for fifteen years, said “Iknow of 4 number of such cases. Ten years ago we had three diggers hore who hal worked together for quite a while. One of the three, yvho used to be a very lively chap and always willing and ready to tell a comedian of the €ord yarn, became very quiet all at once. | Gasino o ; o, ; lug that 900 ivas .hot fecling well, | Joun Wilson, late of Abexloen, Scotland. let him alone. There was to be a funeral in Patti’s farewell Amer: e T the afternoon, and we went_over to dig_the | Pattis farwell Amerian ‘tour has beon grave. Assoon us Joo stuck his spade in | {ontracted for. It bogin at New York in the ground ho began to shake. His compan- [ Peceiber and aclydos cindmnati, Boston, ions tol¢ T'im to stop working if he didn’t feel well, but Joe paid no attention and con- tinued with the work until the job had been fiuished, Three or four more graves were made that day, and every time Joe put down ancisco Wagner's “Tannhause,” in_the version venit by the pose for the Paris per- formunce of that work, 5 shortly to be pro- his spade he shiook. - 'The other two tried to | duced at Carlsrube, undw the direction of wmake fun of him by imitating his shaking | Felix Mottl. while at work. A few days later Joe's com The success of Miss Narlowe at the Chi- panions had the corpse quake too, and a week later had tostop work entireiy. “Ithought that the three men had con- sted malaria, but, strange to say, n.«- never would Liave thit peculiar shuke' aw from the cometery. 406 came back to us,but ry time he would pick up a spade and try to work, that old trouble would come back. cago opera house ha the management hi Ariel Barney for a lowe will therefo Mareh 1. A Greek tragedy of Sophocles nover beforc preseuted in this countrs, will be given in the Lyceum theater, New'Yorl, at a special been so emphatic that wranged with Mr etur visit. Miss Mar. reppear on Monday. The ¥ in n of the whose to gre winds shelter brid A rec iven crew, lives. his surr matinee in the latter partof Pebruary,under the auspices of tde Amrrican Acudemy of Dramatic art. Woinsisted upon his giving up the job, s he was fal . He remaincd home for about n week, and b wifo told us thit Joo was getting botter again, when one day his boy mentioned the word ‘spade’ in his fath- er's presence, 1t was the strangest thing in the world—no sooner had the boy said spade’ than Joe took the corpse-quake again, He didn't last lone after that. He would be thinking about digzing graves all the time, At the Munich Court thater 106 perform i plare du ring the past year, the most important 1ove lties produced there having been Verdi's “Otello,” Web. ster’s **Die Drei 12 1ntos” wnd Wagner's eariy opera, *Die Feen,”’ I ances of opera too and this made him so sick that he died anz Rummel, the plnist, huving just shortly after. Idon't remember what be- | completed a very successfil series ot chum- came of the other two men, They had to | berinusic concerts at Brlin, has left tnat give up the job, and, I think, moved away | CAPital fora tournee in southeen Germuny P R S PR and Austria, after which ne will pay a visit to EEngland, previous to lis departire upon I read or rather had read to me the other | another artistic tour in the Scandinavian night o horrible stor fMths Wain. | countries. wright, says writer in the London Globe, Mazesllo “Toaplstho-Fell-kpown) wlolin T By e AT T steal. | Virtuoso, has recently arused the enthus o boolt whitton by un Austeal- | juquy of 4 Trieste audienc: by *playing with syman, and though the poisoner's | jn four minutes the Perpetuum Mobile, by name was not mentioued, there could be lit- | Paganini, a picce consisting of upwards of tle doubt of his identity. When Wainwright | 6,000 notés ' It is to be hoped that this re markable “artistic give rise to a in order to * Signor Rossi. May will bea great menth for S *achivement will not sueral rac: among violinists, U the record” established by was ased from prison it appears that for some time he acted as a kind of assistant surgeon ut the hospital, To this institution a man hated by Wanwright was brought in in a dying coudition, Just before he yielded ) Pran- 9yIng equait) h 3 g cisco, theatrically speaking. During that up thy e ~‘( o |I tmh.!»lm which, as un | ponth Booth and’ 83 serett will open the new SXAMPIO=0F Vnp ')A}w". 'IXI;.\r"l"f'_'{"llf“*‘- Sur- | California theater, Mary Anderson will be at b ing | huve heard before, the Grand opera house, wnd the Bostonians Wainwright gained admission to th e Ll at Baldwin's, ull under the direction of Al and Haymaun, who is rapidly forming a kind of & a piercing wi loud enough to be hoard by the ext pa thoatrical trust on the Bueific conet Miss sdid: “Listen! Thaveone word 0 say to [ ge oo ¥ S b St You before you die. Tha dying vatient, g | Anderson's scason opens Aprl 22, the sumne oty Oy | might that Sothern presents **Lord Chumley oy pyes | at Baldwiu's, if suddenly magnetized, lifted his w and stared at the person who addr “In five minutes,” said his malignant tor- Herr Nikisch of Leipsic, is an- mentor, *your soul will bs 10 hell and e | ounced as tho successorto Mr. Gericko s fore your body is cold my dissecting kuif conductor of that excellent organization, the will be in your entrails.”” Those who Boston Symphony orcicsira or Nikisch present could never forget the horrified o is now conductor of the Gewandhaus con pression of the man's face us his oying ear s in Leipsic, und has sory or 8oL time as fivst conductor of the Stalt the His mowmor caught the frightful words, and his dying yos took the impression of the gleaming phistophelian face bending over his death bed is said to be wonderful, allow ing bim to conduct the Wagzner eperas with - out a refd ence o the 8eo! and is hela 0. Hels forty-five in hign regurd as a atly to the alismay of the musi cians and with wuch damage to their instru ments. Oue of her lags picrced the big drum, two violins wera: smashed to match wool, and then ricoshetting she impaled horsclf upo . the apex of the buld head of the doub! Like another Grover Clov, ster had o fall last November. He missed the soup kettle, but lunded on his back in the five. The result was a large wound, which has not healed, It was finally decided to and, this young. bass player and only cscaped trans take him o the new hospital for treatwent. | ixion by the cxpanse of the musicians Dirs. 5. H, Hunt of Long Bravch and Baker | shoulders. ‘T'wo of e iperiormers w of Katontovn decided that skinggrafting was | slightly injured but the fair danspuse es necessury. The Rev. N. A, MacNichol, the | caped with'a few scratahes. hundsonie youny pastor of the Bishop Simp- - ~—— MetlLodist Memorial church, av Third A beautiful womananust be healthy, and Gartield avenues, offered to supply the | and to remain healty wud beautiful she necossury wmount of cuticle from his arws. | should take Dr. 4. H. MeLean's \‘f.,‘";-“'...1'.",{..».1" 3]\_1-:5;“31}1 jl‘d.‘;‘l‘““'“':f'r Strengihening Cordinl @ud Blood Puri- day's operations. . He closely watehed | flers Itimparts tone und flush to the Dhyaliiaus 4s- they carofully raised | Bkin, strength, vigor undl pure blood; is Pieces of skin from - the young | equully adapted for all ages, from the clergyman’s wral with @ delicate little pair | babe to the aged, and either sex, | neighb when b boat and scum-=be: an and er nation upon e populati from his A ROMANCE OF THE BOTTOMS. Pathetic Story of the Tenant of a House-Boat. A MELANCHOLY OLD RECLUSE. air Mald He Loved and Lost the Far-Off Land of the Pine Tree Faith- less Annie, Peter and Av dilapidated house-boat half house---aguinst mottled hulk the muddy w Missouri lap in summer poorly joined timbers are made k by the doleful north of winter, snuggling close to a pior of the Union Pacific lives Peter Jensen. lusive is Peter; not much to parleying with the motley epresentatives of nearly every rth,which constitutes the ion of the vicinity in which he half whose ters and ing soul As he and comes to and work he seemingly is lost to roundings., The children of the orhood seek their own doorstep e draws nigh; and yet the pale blue eves that occasionally glance from beneat) always nouv unkindly. \ the rim of the tattered felt hat, drawn low over the brow, are But seclusion always be- gots suspicion, and so it is with Peter. Never known to have addressed an unkindly word toa fellow being, or to have done aught that should brine him iny and con o disrepute, he is yet ostracised demned by the simple and igno- rant folk of the hottoms s on ¢ possessed of the d associat evil., jon ar and all One who to be s company hewed by es honest men, Upon this northern the long summer evenings of country, Peter is to be scen soated upon the deck of his habita- tion al 10 be ev northwa in ing, por time tw among winter, the star draw hi. quated cooking and and gazing into the litile ays tow lonely solituc His face is rds the novth and he scems er sturing at the stars shining ard of the zenith, fondly imagin- haps, that they are at the same inkling over his distant homa the tall pines of Norway. In when these communings™ with 'sare perforee stopped, he will s solitavy stool before the anti- little stove that serves him for heating purposes alike, open lose himself in retrospection. If you terested in Pe cerning country would tell you a story this, Less t within the boundaries let on the coust of Norway, a sisting of three persous: and son goodly m or debauching—one who in- n to inquiré con- should become er Jens him of who live sufliciently those from his own on the bottoms, they something like ago there lived of a small ham- umily con- father, mother . The head of the family was 1, not addicted to much drink han forty years ined his liv- g honestly, principally from the sea. He and his good wife lived in quiet con- tentment tistied to her from the great deep suflicient sustenance to meet their duily needs: content in their hum- ble home and the possession of thei only son, Peter. A sturdy boy was Peter, t: and not ul and st differing g ight like nis father, atly from the pines mbolical of their native land. Peter Biad grown from a babe in arms to the age of ten with but few of those iils that ave like an heritage to the young and an unceasing source of worry to mothers, The happiest day of his’ life was when, upon his tenth birthd his father simple ¢ ing. N the m return The mos gotten. against the” whi and saw placed him in the base of his raft and ok him along a-fish- 1y tale head he to tell other that night upon his of the adventures of the day. t trifling minutiae was not for- [n the lapping of the waves the sides of the boat; in the clouds, the flash of birds’ wings, te capsand the sky he henrd things that the more obtuse father had never noticed. He had now been attending the vil- lage school for nigh onto two years, and although he was ever at the foot of his class, the master knew that he was the superior of all. That the little mind could not content atself with the regime of study. When he had not yet attained his majority, eter met and loved Annic Olsen, A pretty. simple girl was Annie; | not given to breaches of modesty or possessed with forwardness. Anni t00, loved, wnd it was generally under- stood in the valley thatsome day the two wou la be made one, | | er beeame dis- | As he grew older 1% satisfied with the life of a fisherman, | and hearing of great opportunities in the it he bade all good soon, left, Annie and the 10 bring alter a s than are on the tho cit things ) disappointments two became inse s died which Ann bube earth a Luid at and futl Kindly 1 loss at o ta after spe, idle gos near th was fam he was gone that they Petd as agmin in overy d And deck of e Jensen, He was never 0 the villnge. I’s o simple tale, common enough to v life in this iniguitous world. Yo old Peter, sitting upon the time, gazes wistfully north s thou ) lapping of the [ wrec unts w Th I ji winter the amongst image of Aunic Olsen. New Y not by the me Augus by?! you thi you cuny “Then, Amelia, I love you! 1 gwoear it by my salury,’ | » - | All lovers of the delicacies of tho ! table use Angosturailitte 0 | good digestion, but Lhe genuine 1| manufagiured by D, Bicgert & | at all drugyists. scene. ind bring home were fruitless, On night o guiet young man appe fire, Swenr uable; something ¢ for stequiring money and fame, futher, mother and sweetheart -bye and, promising 1o return ' o enedk Rotaniayans neaat] weelkly letters from him seemed but little comlort to her, but time she grew more tranquil; cer with duvker haiv and eyes found in the north, appeared He had known Peter in snid, and told her many absent lover’s failures, and The ble, until one night leaving behind her a little took but one | it the nd then, too, died. 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