Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 16, 1890, Page 9

" PART TWO. » TWENTIETH YEAR. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE ~ OMAHA SUNDAY, MORNING, NOVEMB ER 16, 1800-~TWENTY PAGES. PAGES 9 TO0 16. - NUMBER 151, Mo;sa: Dry Gitsodsfl Co. Turkey Red Caliea, (0. 5,000 yards plain Turkey Red Calico, pure oll color, guaranteed to .uqmd the most severe washing. Our price has been 124e; our price for to-morrow is 7ic a yard, AQ 6.C. | 2 cases Dark assortment of inches wide and furd Percales, choice patterns; 30 down to 6ica Dress beautiful marked Dress Ginghams, HO. 100 )A'IL‘('P of Dress ( this special of our 10e and 12ic qualitics nghams marked down for e to 7e a yard. Carriage Lp Rbes S3. 50 Premium Indian Blankets and Car- ringe Robes, qualities sold formerly at 1 and $4.50, t-morrow $3 cach. 95 Cents. ‘We have about 100 Boys’ Winter Overcoats carried overfrom last season. They must be sold ‘to make room for newer goods, $2.50 and $3 has veen our prico. we offer them this week at 95¢ to close them out. IllEY RING THE BELL SOI’TLY: Because They Bear Missives of Sorrow as Well as of Joy, THE BUSY LETTER CARRIERS OF OMAHA. How They Work, How They are Paid and the Powerful Organization to Which They Have Attache Been 1f there is one place in Omaha where the common interest of the public. center that place is the postofice at the corner of Fif- teenth and Dodge streets, While every 5 zen feels that he or she has an interest in the running of this branch of the United States business, but little is known of the people who toil within the walls of the gray stone structure or how their work is ca on, Of these laborers the blue-coated lotter-carriers are important factors and are welcome at the door of every house in the ¢ It matters not whether it be the palatial residence of the millionaire banker or the humbie abode of the day-laborer, the mail-carrier is always come, There are forty-five letter in the city, but there were not always so many as now. InJune, 1573 Omaha was made a free- _delivery ofice, with James T. Allen clerk and superintendent of ca that time twenty-four of the familiar letter-boxes were seut on from Wi and located at convenient places in the bus! ness portion of the city. Hardly had the boxes been placed before the appoiutment of carriers was made, There were six of them, Willlam Alstadt, A. T. Dahlstrom, John Ahuanson, Georgre Hall, Luke Uusher and Harry Sper Of these men, Alstadt 1s now the general manager of Ed Maurer’s busin Dahlstoom 8 a clerk at the B, & M. freight ofice, Ahmanson is a practicing physician with 'an ofice in the Sheely bloclk, while Hall, Usher and Sperry have gone to other part ¥ In those early days the carriers had var- fous duties to perform. Besides delivering their mail they collected all postage on the newspapers, magazines and other publica- tions which’ they handled. Forall of this they recelved the salary of $100 per annum. Things ran along in this manner until | when two additiomfal carriers were apnointed and, annually, from that time the force has been increased, Now there are forty-five of them in the ranks with 175 mail boxes to gather from. Tn 1884, the business of the office having increased to such an extent that it became necessary to secure more help, James B Avery was appointed superintendent of car- riers and the delivery system was separated from the general delivery business of the maijn office. For two years Mr. Avery stood at the superintendent’s window, but’ at the end of that time he was succeeded by Puul Platz, who was appointed a8 a cavier in May, 15%. For fou years Mr, Platz has continually been on duty and s probably onc of the best posted mall men In the country, The duties of the superintendent are al- foost a8 numerous s the sands of the sea, as he has to make and certify to all vouchers, receive the complaints, look after them, look after aud keep an account of postage due, be- sides having a general supervision over all of the men in the carrier department, It a man has an inclination to become s let- ter carrier, ho makes his application and is then subjected to a civil .mrvlm examination fu arithmetic, orthography, reading, penman- ship and geography. 'he questions are seut IS chief At green shington from Washiugton aud on the day for exumin- LADIES' WHITE [ONBINATION - 1 the celebrated | Miller reform suits; very des We have all sizes, I, 2,8 and 4, at $2. o garment. These are UNDERWERR, A pood wool garment -equal to any quality we have ever sold at ¥1.50. During this week our price will be $1. CHILDREN'S Natural Wool Underwear. Wo have just opened a of childven’s natu ull the desirable s e invoice al wool underwear in 768, —WHITE Lamb's Wool UNDERWEAR A | t Tomorrow we place on sale 1 case of white Australian lamb’s wool under- wear, vests apd pants, at 81 & garment. Send for fall cata- logue containing 128 pages of nseful in- formation abeut the purchase prices of dry goods. Send us your name and we will mail youa copy free. our and winter and Morse Dry Goods Co. ation the printed slips are distributed among the candidates and as fast as the answers 1o the questions printed on the slips ure vwri out, they are gathered up and moreslips dis- trabuted. This continues until all of the questions have-been answered, aftor which the whole lot is returned. A fter being e: ined at headquarte ench cand is notifild of ~ the alt and as cancie occur, or increases a0 made, candidates are appoiuted in the order of their standing, the candid anking the highest in the examination being appointed fivst, Upon first being appointed, candidates are known as substitutes, and do duty when the regular carriers ave taking their aunual va- cation The substitute rec s a salary of #00 per year and gives o bond in the sum of £1,000. After the substitute has been on duty one year, if he has done good work and shown himself competent, he gets his ap- pointment as a regular carvier and his salary is raised by the postmaster, who recommend's all appointments and promotions. A carier stays on the force as long as he desires, if he his work well and attends to his busi- a city the term of a carrier oftice muy be virtually made for life, under the above conditions, In Omaha there are what are known as “‘horse routes.” There are six of these, all of which are on the outskirts of the city. The men who operate them receive £230 per year extra. At the present timo from one ot four deliveries are made each day, Sund excepted, the portions of the city the fa thest from the oflice receiving the least num- berof runs. Four deliveries per day are made within the following cirenit: Nineth to Sixteenth street and Howard to Dodge street. It is estimated that each car- pier in the central part of the city delivers 200 pieces of mail per day and collects 1,000 pieces. he total number of pieces handied by the carrieyy will not fall much short of 1,730,000, At the present time the carriers receive £000 and 8350 per annum, butas soon s the returns of the census department can be pro pared and presented to the postmaster gen- eral it is thought that Omaha will become a first-class office and that the salavies will be increased to 300 and 1,000 per annum, Should this increase come, all carriers who have been on the force for three vears or more will be entitled to the #1,00 apiece, which will include about two-thirds of the men employed. It is also thought by Super- intendent Platz and others in thority that fifteen more cal 'S will be added and that in all por- tions of “the city the service will be increased, so that localities that now have but one delivery per day will then have two, and those that now have two will then have three. To the people who see the uniformed men on the street, it is believed that the life of a letter carrier is one continued holiday, but it lacks much of being this, Every man i re- quired to report at the oftice at 6:30 o'clock in the morning. As soon as he enters the building his coat comes off and he at once plunges into the great mass of lettars and papers that havebeen brought in by the night and early morping mails. The letters are dumped into a long box-like table, around which the men gather, and for an hour the latter are as busy as beavers, The letters are all worked over, and as fast as a man finds any letters that are addressed to patrons along his route they are putinto a pigeon- hole in front of him. ~ This continues until all of the letters are worked. When a letter for the general delivery is reached it is put onto another table, where a clerk for the gen- al delivery presides, After the working process has been completed, each carrier mn[ylimhis pigeontole, taking the letters out and arrangingYhem for convenience in mak- iug his delivery The newspapers and maga- zines are worked in the sage mauner and at 7:80 p. m., when the cgrrier§leave the oftice, they are almost Wdden from view by the great mass of mail that fills their leather pouches and towers high above their heads, Go to the west doorof the government building any morning and you will see the boys startitig out to make the early deliy ‘They come out onto the pavement and arate, going in forty-tive different directions, They goup iuto the great beehives of trade, Morse Dry Goodfls Co SR PLUM $1.O00O Every desirable color, superior qual- ity imported plush, 24in wide, much used for table -seurfs, sofa cushions, hankerchief cases, glove cases, ete, itted Mo $1.00 Made of a gooi quality satin nnd neatly quilted. All colors and black, 22-in wide, only $l a yard, New Dress Gools 500 A large assortment of plaids and stripes. newest combinations” of colors, | 86-in wide. Onlys0cn yard. Trieot Fannels s0c 10 picces light and dark gray tricot flannels, 54-in wide. aregular The qual- ity; tomorrow and all week at (0c. . We are sole agents for Butter- ick’s patterns and publications, The subscription to the DELINEATOR The best fashion journal in the country is only $1 a year. Sin- gle copies 15 cents. out among the costly residences and down among the poor on the river bottoms. As soonas the delivery is made they retum to theoftice and at_once begin putting the ac- cumulated mail _inreadiness for anothe livery, and_so the work continues until 6 o’clock, with a short resting spell at the noon hour, Again lotters will come to “Omaba with- outany pa ng named on the enveloy “These the ¢ s designate as *nixies,” and at once turn them over to the delivery dlerks whoin turn pass them to avother clerk who 1s them to the dead letter ofice at hington. On Sunday, the worls is somewhat different as no regular’ delivery is made, but the mail is worked just the ‘same aud at noon the oftice is opened and continues open for one hour, at which time you can get your letters, Youdo not go to the general delivery, but fall in line and walt your turn until the lit- tlenumbered windows drop down. Then youwalk up and seeing your curier, give your name and your mail is handed out and away you go, while your faithful carrier works on until the last ‘man is served, after which the windows close witha bang and the Sunday delivery is over, Every weck hundreds of letters come to thepostofiice without any street number. If the parties to whom {hese letters are ad- dresced are known the letters are thrown to the carriers who take them totheir respective destination, but if not they go to the general where they are lield ten aays, if not ¥ g0 to theaead letter man, wman and child in t respect for the letter . riers, and as day after day they make their rounds they seém more like members of the family than like strangers, and on Christmas and New Years many alittle present finds ats intothe hands of the lette s pll of which helps to cer the ties of friénd ship between the carrier and his patron, Of the carriers now on the force, thirty- nine ar ied and_many own comfortable homes, while several are rich, or compara- tively so. In'1S8) the carriers organized what was known as the Letter Carriers Independent association, with Dan Brown president. He held theoffice until January, 1835, when he was succeeded by F. H. Monroe, who still occupies the same position. In August, 1880, the National assocl orgunized and Ouaha we being chartered in March, 1360, The officers of the association arcus follows: Pr H. Monvoe; vice president, Sam secrctary, . J. Corcoran, and treasurer, O. N. Burkeit, One of the objects is mutual insurance and by the provisions of the charter, each mem- ber while he is off duty on account of sickness is entitled to a weekly benefit of &1, Last summer a death cliim clause was added to the charter of the association and now members may take out policies for from#1,500 to Atthe age of twenty-eight years the assess- ment is at the rate of #1.06 per death on a poliey of &3,000. To'show that the occupation of a mail rier is a healthful one, it is only necessary state that last year there were only eight deaths,while the total membership was 8,745, The affairs of the association are m by three trustees, of which number George J: Kleffuer of the Omaha_office is one, The others are located, one at Nashville, Tenn,, and the other at Detroit, Mich. To the credit of the Omaha service, this cityis the only one in the west having a member on the executive board. Mr, Klefl- neorwas elected at the national convention held in Milwaukee in 1859, and re-elected at the convention held in Boston in 1860, The association takes in sixty-eight cities, and it 1s the intention to soon make arrange- ments 50 that carriers in smaller citiesmay be taken into the state jurisdiction and be under the control of the larger cities, gre The Federation. Samuel Gompers, president of the Ameri- can federation of labor, nasissued a call for the tenth unnual conyention of the federation tomeet in Detroit;®ich., on Monday, De cembers, The representation will be upon the following basis: Natioual aud intervaticual trade uuions, | Mich, LADIES! Fur Garments. We nre selling the best quality Alaska Seal London Dyed Cipes THE DE MEDICI, The latest fashionable shajes at #60, worth Wescll only the hest grades of Aliska seal, which our many cusfomers will verlfy. We' carcfully select and buy out- right every garngent we sell, und huve y et to Tecoive the firet Somplaint of unsntisficiory wear, 1t you are intending buying o sealskin garment, weinyit W to examine our goods and prices. We Ve tee stock hought previousto the ady all continue tosell then at the old figures Childrcg’g Cloaks This and other styles Children's Clonks, (n sizcs 1,0 and K yours, whish we have sold from 0.0 10 $10 Morse Dry G oods Co. one delegate for 4,000 members or delegates for 8,000; t four delegates for less e delegates for | five delegates for 64,000 ; and so on. * federations, central labor unions, trades assemblies, local trade unions and federal labor unions, tne each, re- spectivel _The main object of the convention is to de- liberate upon the question of shorter hours for the laboring men and to urge upon all labor org ious the. necessity of joining Upon this subject Mr, Gom- s “The recent movement begun to reduce the hours of labor has been crowned with such success, the whole column of ov- ganized labor has advanced with such rapid strides foz improved condition, and the trade unions have received such an' impetus from surroundiu imstances that the toilers of our countr become more and more con- vinced cf " the advisabitityand necessity of gothering within the fold of our organiza- tiou It is not likely that Omaha will be repre- sented, as the Kiights of this city are not in sympathy with Mr. Gompers owing to the tion e took a fow vears ago when the cigarmaiers introdueed the blue label, While the members of the Omaha assem- blies recognize Gompers as o knight, they do not recognize his right to call a convention of trades unions and state federations, Proposed Telegraphers' Strike, The Journal of the Knights of Labor, Powderly’s pape: s that the country will be startled at the information that the teleg- raphers of the United States are now formu lating a plan to inaugurate another gigantic strike in 1802, In speaking of this coming strike the Jour nal “Already a strong organization has been ef- fected in aquiet way throughout the west, northwest and the Pheiflc slope, and the pro- moters of the scheme,are working their wa; eastwird rapidly, visiting till the small towns at which the operator Is also the ticket agent, whose services are absolutaly invaliable to the several corporatiens by whom he is em- ployed. These men they hope to include in their organization, which will be largely made up of railroad relegraphers, elerks and mes- sengers, all of whons will be 6rdered out with the regular commeteial operators, thus par- alizing every railroad in the lani, including the freight and express départments. Profit- ing by the lessons learned during the strug- gle o1 1883, the men at the bead of this mov ment are religiously avoiding at present all the operators who arve credited with ‘‘stand- ing in,"” as well as those who proved faithless at other times. “The demands te pe made will provide that the salaries of all telegraphers shall be based upon a rate of:pay per hour instead of per month, as fow. This will, it is thought, win every country operator in the land,all of whom work from twelve to sixteen hour's per day, and receive absolutely noth- ing for extra service. They will insist that lady operators receive the same rate of pay, work the same number of hours and do the same amount of work as raquired of the men, “Instead of demanding increased asmlaries they propose to prepare ascale of wages, by means of which they expact to secure for each operator a rate of pay consistent with the amount of work they are called upon to perform. *At the present time there are no less than twenty beneficial socicties in the United States controlled by the telegraphers. All of these are wealihy, and efforts wili be madeg to consolidate them nto one grand ‘benelicial organization,’ which can be read- ily transformed into the.healthiest sort of an aggressive body, notwithstanding the fact that many high officials of the several compa- nies are included in the membership of these societies,” Laber Note Chicago steam fitters &re winning the de- mand for recognition of the union and #3 as the lowest pay for fitters and 42 for helpers, The striking Cornish miners at Ishpeming, are going back to England, whers ‘higher wages are paid and men are scarc [ The Brooklyn reliance labor club is cowm- Morse Dry Goods Co. Dressmgking Dept. Wo have s O expense to es- DIISh u first olass iking De- nt dn Oma- i, Our head fitter oetupled a similar Jostion In u Parls kers th doing only 188 WOrK ot price usually rged for poor k Making Dresses FOR $15 Each. No differonce whether your were purchased from us or not—bring them in. we Want to ke s ress for you, knowing we will have gained Astomer Tnonr Dre king De nitic tion of s Novelties. Single Dress Pattern Trimmings, & were Inported expressly for this depart and willhe made up very reasonable, were purehased in Paris by our he maker. and are THE correct styles, partment we have a nt. They | dress- Send for our 128-page Illustrated Catalogue. New Shoe Department Boys' School Shoes $2, $2.40 and $2.78. We shall open Monday dal boys' shoes, School shoes €2 spe bargain s in reg, price School shoes $2,40, rég. price Boys' dress congress $2.75. Regular pr >t pri shoe stores ask £6.50 for, Cloth T);)_Shocs, B4.85 Worked eyelets; a b London Plecadilly novelty with fine'serge topy controlled by our New Shoe Department. Second Floor. posed of marble cutters and their employers, An eight-hour day will begin in Febry The lowest, pay for cutters is fixed at and carvers #4. The threatened strike of the sl metal roofers in New England is bel vo been averted, thirteen firms having granted the advance of 25 cents per day and eight hour on Sunday. The differences between the ofti and the employes of their cluding engineers, fircmen and the conduc- tors of the air-line, were settled on Satur- day last to the satisfaction of all parties in- terested. A report from London states that ata meef g of sailors’ and firemens’ unions Tho) Maunn presiding, it was decided to federate the employes n all the shipping industries. The new federation will embrace nearly 300,000 men. Rev. Henry Kimball,the aged philanthopist who used to distribute bread and flour from the city hall steps, died recently in Brooklyn. He was a Knight of Labor, belonging to- L. Al healso was one of the originators of tho celebrated Spread-the-Light clab, The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacitic road company has finally concluded a ment with the firemen of their demand for a revision of the wages schedule. General Manager St. John said that the terms agroed upon were entirely satisfactory both to the company and the men, The final sessious of the Indiana mimer's statecconvedtion were held in Terre Haute on Friday 'he convention decided to stand by the contract signed in the spring with the operators and will not demand an advance in wage It is now believed that the dimculties in Indiana are settled until next year® A large number of French Canadians from below Quebec, with their wives and children, arrived at Montreal on Saturday on their way to Worcester, Mass., to gage in cotton weaving, They said that they were tired of the pc ty of farm hife. They wanted to do for them Mackey roud, in- rail- ettle- better and felt there was no chance in Quebec. The national convention of the brotherhood of raitroad trainmen closed its labors at Los Angeles, Cal., on last W sday. All the old ofticers wer elected and the federation was ratified. Boston was chosen as the next place of meeting. The question of the adop- tion of the master car builders’ conplers was not entertained. Thomas Rhoades, the only morocco manu- facturer in Lynn, Mass., who had not dis- charged his old help, on Saturday dismissed 167 employes in accorda with the resolu- tion of the national morocco manufactu iy S50 ion that all Knights of Labor should be discharged. These men refused to re nounce their allegiance to the ord At last Saturday’s session of the annual convention of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers at Pittsburg, Pa., the following ofticers were elected: E'irst grand engincer, T, 8. Ingraham; ond grand engineer, D. Everett; third grand engineer, Ash Kennedy of Winnipeg, There was no election for grand_chief engineer, as Mr. Arthur wus elected at the last convention for three yea — - Tourists should read the advertisement of 2xcelsior Springs, Mo,, today e — Edwin Booth’s manner toward those who treat him with undue familarity is said to be chilling, if not petrifying: in illustration of which the Buffalo Express reels off this nar- rative: On one occasion he was playing in the west, with an ex-pork packer for busi- ness manager, The theater was crowded on the opening night, and the impressario was in high spirits, He few moments before the curtain rose he went to Mr. Booth's dressing- room, and walked right in-without knocking. The great actor, in the robes of Richelieu, lared at him ferogiously, But the manadtr d ot seo the glibe and without 4 tromor, smacked the cardinal on the back and saia: “The house is packed; thereain't no standin’ voom left—now, Ed, old man, sail in and show ‘em what you cau do!” Mr. Booth's dresser dragged the audacious porkpackeg out before Ed’s"” wrath exploded: and the story-teller is unable to say what otherwise might have bappened. - Dr, Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg | Linen Depa{rtment. Hemstitched Uck Towels 28¢ 500 dozen extra large huck towels, fine quality for this week only 25 Hemstitched Tray Cloths 75¢ We have just consumateda large pur- chase of hemstitched cloths, and ‘offer one lot ut 75c; worth $1 Hemstitched Lunch Cloths $2.00 tables, hemstitched worth 37 We the one ete. from about Suitable for card closed out the entire line manufacturer’s agent, at third less than original cost. Hemstitched Center Pieces $1.78 7 Among the mauy bargains we offer at our linen department, we ask you to examine the center pieces at $1.75; they are worth $2.50. MorsefiDrry Goods Co. SINGULARITIES. A large banana tree in a greenhouse Flint, Mich., I bearing a small bunch fruit. Ottawa, Kan., 1 that it must be he! night. The largest be: at of asts of a rooster so large sed upon its roost eves skin in the world s in | sas City. 1t was taken.from an animal we ing 2,300 pounds Wabash, Ind, hasa midget, Store's girl babe, six inches in weighing a pound and a half. A Delaware cow didn't seem to feel well for u month or two, but lived on until killed by a bolt of lighty Then she was post nortemed and two pounds of nais and glass found in her stomach, and a ten-penny nail had also imbedued itself in her heart. The other day whilea Baltimore & Ohio freight train was near Dobben Station, W Va., the engincer saw an animal on the track, which he took for a dog. Theengine struck it and killed it after a race of a quarter of a mile, when it was found tobe a 140-pound be The story comes from Iflor that & man living near Astor, in cutting a big eypress fow days ago found therein a living aligator seven feet long, As the openiug in the tree was not half large enoughgfor the suarian to get through, the theory is that it crawled in when quite young and hved on other animals and reptiles that sought refuge there, Rev. J. H. Defferman, a Baptist minister, is conducting a revival at Basco, 11 Two weeks ago he announced that a strange pre- sentiment had como to him, which was in effect that one or two deaths would soon oc- cur in the village from accident. Within a weel two people were killed. A boy was thrown from a horse and a railroad man run over by the cars, A beckeoper living near a large hotel being built at Kingston, in Jamaica, recently found his hives in the utmost eonfusion, with many bees lying about exhausted and dead, Tho clectric light was used at the hotel to carry on the building operations by night, so th bees mistook the light for daylight, and went out to collect pollen around the neighvorhood thas illuminated. When they came home the day was dawning, and they “flew off again without any rest till they worked themselyes to death. In Japan there is a province—recalling the favmer Bingo. Near an old aple i this province an urn has been di covered of immense size, containing the mor- tal remains of a very large gentleman indeed The head measures two feet in length and is provided with horns and perfectly preserve thick black hair. The skeleton his been pre sented to the university of Tokio, where an igation as to what the thing exactly is will no doubt be very interesting. William Lee, an ccc s character and a fashionable shoomal o few nights ago in Cincinnati. He was very fond of dogs, and of the three he owned, Jack, a little black- and-tan terrier, was his favorite. Ev the death of his master, Jack has been in- consolable, He daily visits his maste shop, and not finding him there trots wea home again. He positively refuses to touch food and has become @ canine shadow Strangeryet, he has become gray, and his glossy black hair is changing to a pure white coat, W. P. Gould, the butcher,has had a strange experience of late. says the Georgetown Ad- vocite, While he was cutting meat about two months ago a cat’ ran up on his shoulder, He pulled her down and she scratchied the sides of bis finger and bit almost through it. Tho wound apparently got well, but about & week ago the finger commenced fo swell until it was four times its normal size, and he suf. fered inteuse pain. This was fiually reduced by poulticing, and now the arm has lost one- third its ordinary size,snd the finger has shed its skin and a new one has_formed, but there is no more eling in it than there would be in a wooden limb, notwithstanding the blood seems to circulate through it freely. ———— 0§ catar) - Mr: height and rily Dr. Birney Beo bldg London women do not seem to be what Jen- nie June calls “clubable? women, for, not~ MorsefiDr:y Gc;oas _Co: Men's Furmishings laundeied Shirts 3OC. All the latest improvements, continie ous band, extra quality muslin, a good, full sized man’s shirt, 39c. Men'sHandkereh Ts 12:G. 100 dozen Colored Bordered Heme stitehed Handkerchiefs, a20e quality, only 12ic each, Men's Scarfs 2006, 139 dozen Men’s All Silk Searfs, satin back lining, for one week at 25e, Men's KnitGloves 1o (@) We have alargestock of Men’sScotch Knit Gloves on et importis tion. Former pri salo price Men's Umbrellaé 150 Men’s 28-inch Silk Warp Umbrel= las, something that will wear equally as long us a pure silk, at just half the price, A large assortment of choice handles toselect from. withstanding the fncreasingly prominent in sport aud reereati rule unory pwded with too, when the r renteel canterin, The Row is each s triennes and in the winte ing is something besides © All manner of smart ponics and carts and jaanting cars go_the > continually, and last scason a lady a fourin-hand each awound the drive, her horses held splendidly in hand, LITIES. The Chicago divoree courts remind onethat love laughs at locksmiths How good a man is to0_his wife the first day after she hus caught him domg something wrong. little casket. T have preserved all vears the dearest remembrance of my noon. 1t is the hotel bill Customer—How _are you selling engage- ment rings! Salt Lake Jeweler—Mormon or ientile! Customer— Mormon, Jew Thirty off card prices by the dozen. Customer—I've been to every place in town ing to get, something to kéep my necktie ght, but it's no use. What would you advise me to dot Clerk—ry a matrimomal agenc The blushing bride-elect was the ceremony about to take plice expect you to giv “l'm afraid T ha veplied the old m Herbert this mor just like your mother Peckson—My dear, I trust you will not be jealous, but veally I have not encouraged Bridget's attention. Why she should send mo this lock of hair. Mrs P, (hysterically) —What! A lock of huir. ails! Peckson sonp. L. 1. Loyd of Baton Rouge, La., has he enamored of oneof the belles of south Louisis a beautiful Jewess. She refused to marry him unless he abjured his faith and emb; Judaism. For some time he held out, but finding her obdurate on the point ho gave in and was initiated into the Jewish fuith with all the ceremonics. In the way of prizo offering an Knglish paper stands at the head. The inducement is apretty wife with an endowment of £100 per year. Thelady is to beselected by the editor for her beauty, and she is then to have the choice of one of ten gentlemen, who will agree beforehand to marry herif such Lo her choice, A wedding trousseau is alsoto bo provided. Countess Elizabeth Koenigsmarck was cently wedded in a dress of red and whi the colors of her husband's regiment, It will be Lucky ifu warried lifo so martially begun does not advance rapidly to skirmishes, pitched battles, and_armed truces, und o de- sire on the part of the count thut she had ar- rayed herself in her true colors before her wedding d The marriage co practiced by the people of Borneo is very short and simple, bride and groom are brought out before the assembled tribe with great solemity and seated side by side. A betel nut is then cut in two by the medicine womau of the tribe, and one half is given to the bride and the other half to the groom. They begin to chew the nut, aud then the old womnan, after some sort ot incantation, knocks their heads to- gether, and they are deciared mun and wife. Jobn Mitches, @ draper of London, sued Joanna Simpson for 000 damages for o breach of promise of marriage. The action was brought in Glasgow and an award of $40 has been obtained by the plaintiff, The de. fense admitted @ breach of promise, but pleaded justification because on a salary of $00 ayear the plaintiff could not support a wifi ‘0 this the court answered that the defendant kuew what the plaintif’s salary was when she promised to wed with him} she had made the contract wittingly an sould now pay the specified penalty withous iplaint, ' hone; r— tr) bearsing: T shall me away, bapa,” she said, > done it already, Cavoline,” nervously. I told your ad a disposition The vixen ! She nust have sent it in the Notexactly. She sent it in the re- e 12 0 Dr.Bimey cuves catarch, Beo bld.g