Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1889, Page 16

FROM A CHAPLAIN'S DIARY. Bishop Newman's Remeniscences of Great Men at Washington. WHY GREELY OPPOSED GRANT. The Great Editor Wanted to Talk About Featon While the Presi- dent Stuck to Farming— Grant and Sumner, Knew Too Much About It was the special privilege of a roporter t spend one afternoon last week with Bushop John P, New.nan in his rooms at the Paxton hotel. The bishop is a arming man and just as ont nary conversation as when spe from pulpit or platform. Reforence was muds casually to the dis tinguished divine's long life at Washington and his knowledgo of public men. Being re- quested to relate some reminiscenses he Farmineg. aining in or Kking either hat calls to my mind a brief interview between Thorndyke Rics, late editor of the North American Review, and myself, shortly before his deatn. He found out that I had kept a daily dairy while in the national capital and was ex- tremely anxious to wet itTor publication; but I convinced him that such matter would not at that time be appropriate in print, be- causo some of the men concerned ure still lving. However, there are many litvle in- cidents, very interesting in their way, that have never been reduced to cold type and to which the same objection cannot be made.” “I dropped in one night to sec Schuyler Colfax, who was a member of my congrega- tion and a dear friend. He lived in the Sickles mansion on Lafay otte square. When 1 entered Horace Greeley was reclining in a high chair, with Colfax and other gentlemen sitting ubout him on lower seats, a picture of the disciples at the feet of Gamaliel, Greeley looked splendid; that glorious head never seemed larger nor the howe of a greator soul. There was a blandness about his full-moon face when in repose, and he was there amid those who paid him sincere homage, His conversation was rich and on all ivable subjects— philos- religion, rowmeat. foreign trayels, personal and especially the present asp administration. He was Colfax's guest and said to the latter: “I would like to take a cup of tea at the white house. *Colfax responded: ‘Mr. Greel range that, and will do it with pl “Colfax Slipped over to the white house, and said to President Grant: ‘Mr. Greeley I can ar- at my houso und expresses a wish to take' cup of tea with you.’ *‘Well,” replied Grant, ‘T'll invite nim to dinner tomorrow.” “Coltax’s face was more radient with smiles than ever, and bustening home he bore the welcome invitation of the great sol- dier president. It was at a ume when New York politics were in a confused condition, Conkling and Feuton were in the sentate, aud the strife was to control New York, Feoton was an astute politi- cin quet, sly, persistent, and in Greoley's estimation, one of the most hmxlllunished politcians New York ever ad, “But Roscoe:Conkling was a man of more positive personality. Thera was a sweep and majesty in his individual influence. He would brook no opposidion, he would have no rival; supremacy or nothing were the two things in his creed, “Mr. Greeley hud aright to expect that his opinion touching New York appoint- ments would be esteemed by President Grant, for he stood at the head of his pro- fession, the greatest of American journa- lists, and an_originator of the republican party; an ardent patroit in the war, and a sincere culogist of Grant as a soidier. But President Grant was inclined to Conkling; he had been prejudiced agamst Fenton. Groeeley was a Fenton man, and consequent- 1y could hope for little favor from the ad- ministration. ““The day came for the dinner; Mr. Greeloy was atuired in immaculate black, with white necktie, and never appeared to better advan- tage. He was received av the white house Wwith that precise and elegant courtesy char- acteristic of the Grants. He escorted Mrs. Grant to the table, and sat down upon her right. Grant sat opposite. 'Tho president “ used to tel) the story that, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, just as he was goingout ot his office, it occurred to him that Mr, Greeley was to dine that eveniog at the white house, and that the object of his coming was to talk about the New York appointments. Grant made up his mind thav he would not enter nto conversation on that subject, *‘But he was bound to entertain_his guest, and said to himself, *Did not Greeley write a book called *What I Know About Farming'{ Then 1 will talk with him on practical agri- culture, *'So at the dinner table the president intro- duced the subject of Mr. Greeley’s book, and the latter felt flattered that the president vaid him the compliment of an author, Grant bad been a farmer near St. Louis, knew something about stock, especially horses and cattle, and whenever the conversation lagged he would introduce some new fea- ture of “What I Know About Farming.”” **Greeley became impatient; he knew all * about farming that he cared to; ho wanted 1o know about the New York appointments, Grant determined .that he should not. At 9 o'clock Mr. Greeley abruptly said, “I must go.”” And go he In o few days thereafter he came out with his first edito) fal against Grant, *That was the beginning of the unhappy breuk between those two eminent men, Al though a friend and admirer of Grant, [ thought it would have been better for him had he paid Mr. Greeley the compliment to converse with him_thoroughly as to the po- litical conditions of New York, But he bad his own way of doing things, and his own opinion of men and events; yet he always held Greeley i high esteem. ‘At the time of Mr. Greeley’s death Grant. had promised to g0 to @ great banquet, and when asked if Le intended to go, his noble response was, “No, for my competitor is slecping the sleep thm; knows no waking.” » “1t was my good fortune to enjoy a ver- sonal ucquaintance with Charles Sumner, After my seconil brayer as chaplain of the nate, he greeted me in the most cordial . mannver and spoke of his enjoyment of the ~season of prayer. I used to linger in the senate after the aischarge of my duties, not only. to enjoy the debates, but also a persona scquaintance of those great men of the re- tullllm ‘The chaplain was assigned a sofa on _the left of the presidents chair, and Mr, Bumner in hours of leisure would come over and have a quiet chat. On one occasion the conversation turned on Lord Macauley's essays, He asked me which one I preferred. My response was ‘the one on Lord Bacon ' He then told me that in conversation with Mucauloy ho asked him tho question which of all his essays was his preference. Macau- ley replied that he was inclined to place his ehoice upon his review of the life of Bunyan, though there were times when be wclined to his essay on Milton, *‘But,’ smd he to Sumner, ‘there are tames when 1 become dissatisfied with all my essays, and coula I collect them I would cowmit them to the flames.’ And in the tenor of that remark Sumuer said Lo we the samie thing about his own writings; that the more ho worked on them the less satisfuc- tion he had in those productions. “'He was perhaps the most careful En- ish scholar in the United States senate, n framing bills it was his custom to weigh every word until the thought stuck to the word and word 10 the thought. He used to try the patience of his committee colleaguos by this excessive paiustaking; but Sumner will be revered by ail posterity ib our re- public for the high English standard of ‘Which he is the author in the legislation of senate, “During an illuess of his I visited him as his chaplain, aud after our conversation oun ullLlnul matters, we couversed on his books which were then forthcommng. He @ssured me that such was his painstakiog Mceuracy in everythiog that came from his pen, that he corrected the proof first, then ‘rewurned it to the printer for correction, aud mfih 10 the librarian of Harvard; and work s really the expression of | directly in front of her door. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, IDECEMBER three of the most competent literary minds in tho country. “In social life, Sumner was as gentle as a woman ; his kindness was excessive, Hour after hour he would show me the curios which ho had gathered in his foreign trav- els, and oxpatiate with delight upon the works of art, pictures, and statuary, espoctally those expressive of religion. ‘With all his apparent external austerity, there was a devoutness about the man which I liked, and it is a fact known to only a few that at 9 o'clock on Sabbath morning he taught a class of college students from How- ard university in New Testament Greek. He ted from them the progise, as the only compensation for his labor, that they would not make it _known. For he was content to have the approval of his own conscience in preparing these young men for the ministry, “1 wus his chapluin in the senato when he broke with Grant. Itis onoof the saddest pa Americau hist They had been ardent friends, Grant esteemed him a great statesman, and Sumner looked upon the president as the g st of warriors in ancient or m But there were those 1n the round the white house who were not friendly to Sumner, and who were unwilling that ho should longer be the leader of that body, Indeed, there was & combination against hun. His emment scholarship, his immense intluenc the na- tion, and the prestige he had as the cham- plon of the emancipatea, awakened rival- rics, *About this time occurred a little it in the whito house, which was the edge of the wedge that separated Grant and Sumner. The latter called ab the executive mansion about 11 o'clock one morniog, and the doorkeeper informed the president that Senator Sumner was in waiting. At that very moment President Grant was engaged with the commissioner of internal revenuo ov some frauds which had recently come to light. Being absorbed in this public inter- est, ho mometarily forgot that Sumner wished to sce him, and for twenty minutes the great Sumuer was kept in tho ante- room, restless as a lion, pacing to and fro, in utter disgust, while the visitors that crowded the room looked on with wonder. It had never been so before, “The announcement of Sumner’s name was always sufficiont to gain immediate entrance to the presence of the president. “Sumner lost nis temper, left in a huff, and never thereafter returned to the white house. “Grant is to be admired for his devotion to the public interests, as ho was then en- gaged; but I have always thought that had he invited Mr. Sumner in and explamed to hiw the condition of uffairs the breach would not have occurred. But Grant was 8o con- stituted that he kuew no man after the flesh when duty to his country was paramount in his mind.” ‘Chen came on the violent ussault on the part of Sumner upon the aaministra- tion, and those remarkable phillipics which he delivered in the senate and which re- flected little credit upon the greatness of his name, but rather a temper that could not be controlled and a disappointment that could not be brooked. “'Stravege as 1t may appear these two emi- nent men would indulge in_little gibes at cach other in private life, Some one said to Grant one day: ‘Sumuer don't believe in the New Testament.’ Grant replied, ‘Do you know why?' ‘No,’ responded the other party. ‘Well, the re 800 18 because he didn’t write it. “‘During this time I was in a street car going to the senate to perform duties, when Mr. Sumner entered. ‘The car was full of peopie. Sumner was in a rage about some- thil and at such times he was a loud talker. ‘furning to me, he said: ‘Doctor,you are in a position to do much good: you are chaplain of that man at the other end of the avenue who believes everything that 1s told him. He is like Dionysius of Syracuse who set up a great iron eav in his palace to catch all the slanders that were uttered _and then o for the victims, This man is a Dionysius,’ “*Well,’ said I, ‘Mr. Sumner, you should re- member that Grant is a soldier, and when- ever he is uttacked he fights back.’ " ent small ‘hese two great men have passed from the vision of the world. Their foibles will soon be forgotten, while the republic will crown Sumuer.as ouc of the greatest states- men and Grant as the savior of his country. *Once I was staying at a house of a friend in Boston. Opposite stood a _magnificent mansion, in which Coifax and Sumner met as rival Suitors for the hand -of a lady who lived there. You can imagine what a bril- liant contest that must huve been. With their wit, humor and fine conversational powers they started out to determine which should be the victor. Summer won and made the widow his wife, “Subsequently x married plain Jane Wade, daughter of Senator Wade, and later events proved that he made the happiest match, Sumner’'s domestic bliss was short lived. His wife finally left him and took u house next to Colfux’s in Washington. “Once when Sumner was a caller at the Colfax mansion, he extended his hand to the vice-president with this observation: “I congratulate you upon your escape. On the day of Sumners funeral the pro- cession passed Mrs. Sumners house, and owing to some accident the hearse stopped She and soveral friends were looking at the display f somber pomp when some one said 10 her, nt it magnificent, she replied : *0 yes, and how he woula like to be alive and see it” SINGULARITIES, A spring of petroleum discovered in the Wisconsiu 1ron raoge has been tested and proved genuine. Franklin B. Gowen had a marvelous mem- ory. After reading a long poem through he nuul? repeat it without the text, word for word, Farmer Hudson of Templeton, San Luis Cbispo county, al,, pulled a beet the other day that weighed 154 pounds., It was seven feet long. Mrs. Bennington of Xenia, O., is the mother of twenty-five children. She is un- questionably the greatest Buckeye raiser in the world. . A family at Wost Bethel, Me,, consists of a couple of eighty-five and eighty years of uge respectively, who live alone and do most of their worls, A highly eloctrical young man in Alliance, .. has only to rub his fingers, when small coin aud other metallic valuables stick o, them as if by magic. A Meadville, Pa,, man is authority for the statement that a rooster, seryed at his home the other day, had two fully developed and perfectly formed wishbones. A western paper tells of 4 dog that was caught in A nurrow aperture im a cave whilo pursuing & coon. 1t took just twelve days for the dog to become lean enough to escepe. What is known as the rhinoplastic opera- tion has been successfully 8erlorme~.l by a s100klyn physician, Last October he made an entirely new mnose for a woman, using the breastbone of a chicken a8 & foundation, ‘The lady has as gooa a nose as anybody. A peculiarly shaped rock was picked up by workmen on the foundation of a building near Morgantown, W. Va. It almost exactly resembles @ moccasined foot, and for A time It was supp 1o be the pedal ex- tremity of some t Indisn who chased buffalo and tomabawked his euomies in pre- historic ages, There was a very rare and beautiful sight in the eastern heavens presented to ‘Thomas- ville (Ga.) people returning from church Sunday night. The moon had risen about half way up to the zenith, and was shiuing brilliantly through a great expanse of the kind of ‘cloud known to meteorologists as cirro-cumulus. The cioud was @ very thin one, und the light coming down through it produced a magnificently perfect rainbow, ‘The wife J. 1), Cheever, & salesman, made the discovery of a petrified toad in a lump of coul several days since, and this relic of the carbonmferous age, which is now in the hands of Prof. Hambach of the Washington univer- sity, has created a profound seasation in the ranks of the swidents of paleontology who have veen favored with a view of it. The specimen is perhaps the most perfect of which there is any record, and 18 of & value to scientists that whl doubtless materially enrich the lucky finder. Oue of the most remarkable monuments in America is iv San Luis Obispo coul orn California, A great rock rises . above the plain of Cari; ll and in tho dis- tance looks rugged and forbidding, On near approach 1t s seen to bave on its eastern sl opening twenty-five feet broad, which leads uto an inner temple or court, with level floor 22 feet long and 125 feet broad ot its widest part. The ceiling is sixty to one hundred feet bigh. This great natural cathedral is & wonder to geologists, but it is wmore wonderful to archeologists, It was evidently used by prehistoric men as a tem- ple of worship or a capitol of government. PRETTY THINGS IN PARIS. A Love of a Dress and Just How It Looks. THE GAY WORLD ALL RETURNING Fashionable Birds of FPassage En Roate from the Summer Resorts to South—Tho Awierican Colony. the Sunny Parisian Chronicles. Panig,Dee. 11.—|Special to Tiie Bre.] —Winter is knocking at the door of the gay city of Paris. The fashionabie Parisians have already donned their winter robes of costly velvet and luxu- rious furs. The overpowering interest that all felt in the exposition is now centered in the chamber of deputies. The Spanish bull fights, the hippo- drome and Buffalo Bill's *Wild West” show have given pluce to the theatres and political soirees; the hunt and the chase to fashionable balls and recep- tions. The gay world have all rveturned to Janis from country residences, the mountains, consts and watering places for the short but brilliant social cam- paign which precedes the departure for the warmer climes of the sunny south. and Mme. Carnot have given several soirees to the of the chamber of deputies, the foreign embassadors and their friends, and others connected with the government. Mme. Carnot is quito a favorite in Pams, She dis- plays great taste in the selection of her costumes and understands the art of en- tertaining—two things near and dear to the heart of the French nation. Her name appears quite often in the jour- nals heading the list for some charita- ble object, or as having performed some worthy act of benevolence. She has just consented to allow the annual ball for the students of the first normal school, to be given under her patron- age. She evidently understands the political situation of the day,and it will not be her fault if President Carnot d{)lcs not succeed socially and politic- ally. The headquarters of the American colony is 1n the vicinity of the Champs Elysees. The Americans have hereto- fore been noted for the brilliancy and perfection of thewr social entertain- ments, but just now everyone seems to be awaiting the movements of the new minister. Mr. and Mrs. have been quite suce together the Amer: where sy seemed avoid each other, and have already announced a series of receptions for the purpose of making the resident Amer- icans acquainted. Some of the French journals have suggested thatsuch an arrangement would not be out of place in Paris, But what Mr. Reed intends doing socially the future will develop. One of the first salons to be opened this season was thatot Lovd and Lady Lytton of the English embassy. Lord Lytton has completely recovered from the serious malady that has kept him 50 long from Pavis, and I am sure that all of our American demoiselles will hope that the famous author of their favorite poem, ‘“*Lucille,” will live long and give to the world another work equally char Lord and Lady Lytton are great favorites in Parisian social circles, Last week they gave a brilliant dinner, at which the political, literary, artistic and scientific circles of Paris were represented by their bright and shining lights. Among the guests was Mlle. Jeannie Dumas, daughter of the illustrous dramatic author,at whose house Lord Lytton passed some days last summer. Notwithstanding the much discussed absence of the French minister from all the fetes given in honor of the Prince of Wales during his recent visit to Egypt. On his return®he, with his y.made u visit of four days in Paris en route for England. ed at the stavion by nearly all the members of the English’ embassy, with many others from the English colony here. They were driven to the Hotel Bristol and direct!y after breakfast the prince and his friends weni to paya visit to the English embassy, while the princess and her daughter drove about the city. AtH p. m, vhe prince and princess visited President and Madame Carnot. In the evening they attended the theatre at the Gymnase to_witness the new play of Alphouse Daudet, just now the most popular of the multitude of French romancists and dramatists. Apropo of Alphonse Daudet’s new play, “La Lutte pour la vie,” (The Struggle for Life” really ‘‘The Removal of the Strongest”), it has had a marvelously successful run, the thirty-four representations—including Sunday matinees — during the first month, November, putting more than $30,000 into the treasury of the *“Gym- nuse,” The play is magnificently mounted, and the costumes, even for Paris, are marvels of richness and ele- gance. There is aperfection and finish in the acting, even to the minutest de- tail that is found nowhere out of Paris, The leading characters are presented by some of the most accomplished and talented actors in the city. The monarchists of France are very much wrovghtv up over the misfortunes of Dom Pedro, and, even the republic- ans express much sympathy for him, This ex-sovercign has been their guest at two different times, and more than any other monarch, has held close per- sonal relations with the most opposite elements of Parisian society. He paid a long visit to Victor Hugo, and he dined with his colleagues of the Acad- emy of Sciences, but this did not pre- vent his being present at brilliant fotes %Vi\'uu in his honor in the Fouburg St. jermain, But it is the fate of Count d’En—the husbapd of Don Pedro’s eldest daughter, and a member of the Orleans family—which is of the great interest to that portion of Paris society that is attached to the Orleans family, Count d'En wasin Paris lust year, and made many friends, Heisa fine military commander, and obtained great honor during the war between Brazil and Paraguay, His friends here say that if the resistance to the insur- rection had not been utterly useless, he isnot the man to permit his father- in-law to be dethroned without making an effort in his behalf, Many of the papers here have an- nounced the expected arrival -of ex- President Cleveland, If Mr, Cleve- land receives half of the aitention 1a Paris that was given to Buffalo Bill, he will be feted, feasted and dined to his heart’s content, for Buffalo Bill has not only been followed and admired by the lower and middle classes, but has been courted aad royally entertained in the stately mansions of time-honored Faubourg St.Germain by the *‘ancienne noblesse,” in whose eyes he is the true and typical representative of the American nation, Weli, there is no denying that Buffalo Bill is haydsome, and one can forgive the ancient dames, They were, as well as the young ladies, for admir- ing his fine physique and classic fea- tures, and he mast. have o less suscepti- ble heart than bimagine he has not to be flattered by all' this attention. If 1 were he, I am sure that just to hear my name lisped in the soft, seductive tones of the Parisian \demoiselles, ‘*Boo-fa-lo Beel,” and to remd in their brilliant black oyes the admiration they are not allowed to express in any other way, even for the most **admirable Crichton” —until, after they are married—would make one as vain as Apollo Belvidero. Yesterduy I made the grand tour of the Boulevardes des Capucines and Italiens, Rue de la Paix and Rue de Rivoli, sinply to look at the holiday display in the windows, which is con- ceded to be the most original in design and the most artistic in effect to be found in the world. The fact that the more the brain is taxed the more fertile it becomes 1n resources, more perfectly demonstrated in the novel, brilliant geous holiday display, soon after the ingenuity and obig- inality of the Pams merchants had been so severely tried in the manu- facture and arrangement of goods for the expositions windows are mar- vels of beayty. No description would do them justice. They must be seen to be appreciated. srything ancient and moaern, novel and eccentri in jewelry, china, silver, pictures, , dresses, bric-a-brac of all kinds is put on exhibition in these windows which are constantly surrounded by a crowd of admirers, high and low, rich aud poor. Perhaps no store makes & finer display thun the Louvre. Every indow of this immeuse establishment filled to its utmost capacity with at- tractions, In many of them you rend on a card attached to some dainty and exquisite article, *The latest creation,” or **For 1890." The very latest crcation for party dresses for young ladies is plain tulle, either white'or in the very palest tints of pink, mauve, blue or green. The skirts ave round, plain and full, made over silk of the same shade. They are trimmed with ribbon about an inch in width and of the same color of the tulle. While some of the skirts have but one row of ribbon running round the skirt, quite at the bottom, others have “two, three or four, the lowest one being some inches from the bottom, The corsage and sleeves are also trimmed with ribbon of the same width. Some of these dresses have the silk underslip of one tint—for instance, pale pink, with the tulle of the blue or green and the ribhons of the pink. The charm of these dresses is their simplicity and daintiness. These lovely frail creations could be made at home by anyone with the least pretensions to skill in the use of scissors and needle. With the one underslip of silk two or three different costumes may be made quite inexpen- sive by having the different colored tulle overdresses. A vocabulary of adjectives as rich as Ouida’s would fail to portray the beauty of the new handkerchiefs which are made of a great variety of materials, in all tho delicate tints and all styles of embroidery. Some of the most beauti- ful are of silk mull, with the most e: quisite embroidery, and the hurmony of tints on the delicate blues, greens and pinks—which are not colors, but merely the shadow of a color—would make the soul of an artist thrill with jov. But the price of some of these *latest creations” are positively astounding. Some of these handker- chiefs are fashioned into butterfly bows and worn at the neck. Never was seen 80 great a variety of articles for neck wear, I think no fingers but those of a French modiste could turn and twist and throw together such marvels of style and airy elegance as are seen here in the shop windows. Tulle. or silk mull or lace, combined with velvet ribbon about an inch wide is most in vogue. The ribbon is satin on oae side and velvet on the other, so thag it may be twisted in any direction through the la I noticed one made of lace about four inches wide and white velvet ribbon. The lace was slightly gathered and fell over a band of the ribbon that went round the high collar of the dress and was tied in front in a bow with short ends. The lace formed -a cascade down the front of the corsage, the ribbon being wound in and out among the folds of lace. Those who have pretty necks wear these without the high collar to the dress, and very slightly pointed in front, so that the neck is nearly all ex- posed, but nothing except the neck, the shoulders being completely covered. Indeed, it is only leaving off the collar of the dress and cutting it away, per- haps, a half inch in front. An evening dress now on exhibition at vhe Louvre is the most beautiful gar- ment I have ever seen. The material is of olive green moire, silk and velvet. thesilk has gold threads interwoven, which, combined with the color of the silk, gives a peculiar lustre which is undescribable, but very beauatiful. It is a princess’ shape with a train of velvet. This tr: begins at the neck and forms the entire back of the corsage except the side pieces. At the waist line it is not more than four inches wide. It is not attached to the rest of the dress be- low, but grows gradually wider until about three inches helow the waist line, where there is a large box pleat under- neath,that gives the requisite fullness to the train. The corsuge is fastened in the back with invisible fastenings. The train is two yards long from the waist line. It is finished oun the edge in deep rounded scollops, deepest 1 n the middie of the back, and growing smaller gradually toward the waist. On the sides of the train the upper part of each scollop is about three times as long as the lower, but across the bottom they are regular in shape. Entirely around the train under: the 1lops is a very fine pleating of straw-colored silk mull. The scollops ame trimmed with gold braid. The fromtis in one piece from the bust where /it is finished in five pointed scollops, the middle one the largest, The 'bottom of Jthis front width is also rmished in five scollops, but rounded, the middle one being the lurgest. All the scollops are trimmed around with the gold braid. Thesides, backs and fronts@re finished at the bot- tom in square pannels, the seams boing left open about fifteen inches from the bottom, the mull pleating being under- neath, The =silk forms a short skirt under the train where there is some fullness, but the frontand over the hips fit like a glove, with not a pleat nor wrinkieé to be seen, The side pieces which form the panels are trimmed across the bottom and up ench side to within three inches of the v.aist line with the gold braid, * Nearly the whole front is a mass of embroidery, each of the poiuts, top and bottom, being the starting point for a design composed of bachelor buttons and their foliage in their natural col- ors, The design in the middle of the front extends from the bust six inches below the waist line, and from the bot tom up twenty-four inches, the two on either side are shorter, the outside one being shorest. In each of the scallops across the bust is but one flower with its foliage, and from the lower part of this embroidery, the gold braid extendas in a straight line below the waist line where it joius a similac design on the skirt. The braid, five rows, conceals the five darts thut make the perfect fit. The front of the eorsage is m'fZa in with than it is and gor- comng 29, 1889.-SIXTEEN the mull, the top being finished with the fine pleating which extends round the back of the neck. The sleeves or epaulettes are made of the silk, em- broidered in seven pointed scallops, the middle one being three and one- balf inches deep, the others diminish- ing in size on either side, Each scallop contains a flower and its folinge, ana is bordered with the gold braid. The sloeves stand up over the shoulde the points turned slightly inward to- ward the neck. The silk mull pleating two inches wide is put around the arm- seye. All the embroidery is filied and is very heavy and rich, Tt goes without saying that this droes is for a slender person with a long neck. AMY ZARON. Her Sceptre, Ella Wheeler Wilcor, Hesaw her, but sho passed and saw him not Ho followed, but she coldly turned asidef He wooed her, of her thought Tho draverios of her eyciids scomed to hide. He found no pleasure in the world in her presence; and with matchless art He woke the slumboring passions that curled On beds of dreams in hor white-curtained heart. whole wide lay She 'Illrned the key and opened wide tho door Upon ber pure love's treasures of fine gold. “All these,” she said, *“'are thino forever more, Naught do I keep and nothing do I with- hold,” He kissed her lightly and then turned away, In these fond words the scepter of her power The loss forever; henceforth from that day He held her as the plaything of an hour. ———— CONNUBL Morris Pike and M Klein, of Joseph Murphy’s combination, were recently war- ried at Rock Island, 111, Baron Halkett, who is renorted engaged to Miss Stokes, has arrived in New York for the Christmas holidays. A Michigan man has distributed 100 tick- ets to as many women, and now will draw a number and marry the woman holding it. The Elwell family of Northport, Me., con- sists of sevon persons, only one of whom is married. ‘The eldest is eighty-three and the youngest fifty-eight. Mlle. Valentine: Eiffel, daughter of the constructor of the famous tower, will shortly be married to M. Picecioni, a_ Corsican gen- tleman who is a clerk inthe foreign office at Paris, *‘One of the most graceful add mfted ac- tresses of the Hofburg theatre, 'says the cor- respondent of the London Times at Vi “Iraulein Marguerite Formes, is engage: be married to Baron Heinrich von Konigs- warter, Rev. Charles N, Gleason of Deer Isle, Me., announces through the local paper his deter: mination not to marry any more couples un- less the names of both parties to the trans- action are sent to him lone enough before the dato of the ceremony for him to act in- tellizently. 3 William Wallace, of St. I’aul, has drawn a wife. He advertised for one, and the cand- idates were to respond by numbers. The numbers were placed in a hat and he drew one. It bore the number ‘“seven,” and the name of the ambitious young woman proved to be Miss Annie Williams. It remains to be secn whether she will accent the result. A Harlem swain came to the determina« tion to propose to his girl on a certain _even- iug. Entering the parlor in considerable trepidition he picked up a book and glauced at the utle page. It wasa copy of “Don’t.” He didn't und on-the very next afternoon hlis girl consented to become Mrs, Somebody- clse. She—And that scar, Major, during an engagement! He (absentiy)— No: during the first week of our honeymoon. After a man has been married fourteen years he seldom gets vp more than three times in one night to light a match and look around the room because his wife thinis s he heard a noise. Charles Jenkins, a New York millionaire, sixty seven vears old, married his type- writer the other day and took her home to a palutial residence.” Ho says he wasn't head over heels in Jove with her, but he wanred to encourage other pretty girls tv adopt the profession and dispel the gloomy surround- ings of business offices. Mr. Jesse Breedlove was married at Cler= mort, Fla., a few Jays ago to Mrs. Lille Ludington by 'Sguire L. H. Todd. The bride was a widow only sixteen years of age, she having been married when' only twelve years old, Her husband died two and a half years ago. They will live at their new home, Mount Vesta. Theodore Carl Jourden, a New York so- ciahsts, induced a fortune teller to “foretell” to a rich widow that she would be married to a young man whose description fitted him exactly, By and by o came ulong and the widow recognized her intended husband. mained with her long enough to bor- 000 and tnen skipped. An Englishman who came to this country thirty years ago, leaviug his wife at home, to whom "he soon’ after ceused writing, was amazed recently at his boarding house, in Cohoes, N. Y., by coming face to face with her. ‘lhey eyed each other for a moment and thenembraced. Sho had been searching for years for him, going from town to town all over the country. He is a weaver, and went to Cohoes from Philadelphia. EDUOATIONAL. Did you get 1t Tho corner stone of a now academy buili- ing, associated with Baloit college, has been 1uid av Beloit, Wis. A New Yorlk school teacher compelled u Doy who was to wide awake to bo real good, to write the word *‘Chicago” 1,200 times as & punishment. >rof, Murray of Oxiord, England, who was married recentlyto Lady Mary Howard, 18 only twenty-four ~years of age, and is the youngest wman ever elected to a first-class chaic at any of o great English universi- 8. In the varions universities and technical academies of Switzerlund the total avtend- ance lust term was 2,412, of whom 196 were women. ‘The latter figures are a decrease as compared with the term before, when they were 230. Prof. Anderson of the lowa state univer- sity has gone to Siwonx City to deliver a course of three lectures on English litera- ture. From there he expects to visit Boston and be present at the meetings of vhe Mod- ern Lavguuge association, Bishop R. 5. Foster, LL. D., has been en- gaged to deliver six lectures before the Obio University at Delaware, O., the present col- lege year upon the Merrick Foundation. The subject of these lectures will be **I'he Phii- osophy of Experimental Religion.” The schoolma’ams of St. Paul not long ago were instructed to give occasional instruc- tion in piain and fancy sewing to the girls under their charge, and the horrible fact came out that few, if any, of the teachers couln do any kind of sewing whatever, Miss Latham, who hus recently been ap- pointed demonstrator to the chair of path- ology in the University of Michigan, is an Euglish laay, and one of the thren ladies in the United States who bave been elec Follows of the Royal Microscopical society, Parker K. Holbrook, of Onawa, la., has offered the Iowa State University an aa- nual prize of §25, to xpended in such way @8 may seem best caloulated to encour- age greater attention on the part of the stu- denis to the subject of English composition, A new upiversity bas recently been opened in the city of Bophia. At present only two faculties are at work, or rather two sections of one faculty, namely, the historico-phiio- logical and the physico-mathematical. The {)rulunurn are all natve Bulgarians, except WO, Throughout the northern states each child receives on an average for his yearly educa- tion about $15. Iu the south the pér capita expenditure is about $3.85. A rate of taxa. tion accomplishing what is~ desirable aud necessary inthe south would be nothing short of ruiuous conflscation. —— An Absolute Cure, The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT is only put up in lurge two-ounce tin boxes, and is an absolnte cure for old sores, burus, wounds, chapped hands and all skin arup- tions. Wil positively cure all kinds of piles. Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OIN MENT. Sold by Goodman Drug comuany @t 26 cents per box—by wail 80 cents, PAGES MAX MEYER & BRO.. 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