Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1891, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 1. 189L.-SIXTEEN PAGES O THE REAL PAINLESS DENTIST We positively guarantee to extract your teeth without pain or danger. Come and try us and be convinced. We make a specialty of Fine Gold Fillings, Gold and Porcelain Crowns, Bridge Work, ete., at very reasonable prices. All parties having $10 worth of Dental Work done at this office,shall get their teeth extracted free of Charge by the aid of our new and only successful painless remedy. Sets of teeth from $8.00 on rubber upward to $75.00 on gold. 3 W e subjoin as an introductory to our advertisement an able article by the editor of a prominent Dental Journal, on the history of Mechanical Dentistry, its difficul- ties and its successes. He was induced to the writing of the following by a personal experience of the different kinds of work used for a period of over twenty-five years. oy Office--No. 380 Bee Building, Omaha, Nebrask Gold has been the kind of plate sanctioned and used almost entirely by the bost dentists until recontly. The modes of attaching the teeth are various, and to the dentist would fur- nish an interesting detail, but by the general reader would be considered unwor- thy attention. the revolting idea of wearing another’s teeth, in which, perhaps, were diseuse. The repugnance can scarcely be overcome. The teeth of neat cattie were also used by altering their shape, these, of course, being ftted by sawing and filing; but by the absorption and decomposition of the saliva they became fwetid, rendering the taste and odor very offensive. Teeth from ivory and tusks of the hippopotamus were next used, but these, like the last mentioned, were permeable by the fluids of the mouth and soon became obnoxious to the wearer, as well as to those who were in his presence. Porcelain teeth were afterward introduced by the French, butthese, too, were deficient in 80 many ways that they were not reccived at fivst with approbation. A Brief History of Mechanical Dentistry. Difficulties Besctting its progress and Its Final Success, The art of constructing and properly adjusting artificial teeth and artificial plates will not be without interest, even to the casual reader, for.the perfection to which this most useful art has attained, from the period of its crude and bungling eseays, is perhaps, unsurpassed in any other department and must afford pleasure t0 every true lover of progress. One of the most serious deformities and incon- veniences incident to age, and one, too,not confined to gray hairs, but common to the adult, and even to the youth, 1s the decay and final loss of those most useful organs of speech and mastication, the teeth. And it must be asort of gratification to every lover of progress, as well as every friend of humanity, to know that by the discoveries made in this art these deficiencies can be sofar remedied as that the loss of our teeth can be considered no longer an unalleviated afiliction, They can now be replaced by artificial ones 50 closely resembling the nacural as notto be detected without close examination and so well subserving every purpose as greatly to mitigate the inconvenience of their loss. It isa pleasure to record that mechanical dentistry nas arrived at such a state of perfection, which twenty years ago its most zealous operators never anticipated or dreamed of. But he who thinks that practical and successful dentistry can be performed by any one with almost no skill is greatly mistaken. He whowould be a suc- cessful dentist should unite an enlightened judgment with great practical skill. Ile should understand the anatomy of physiology of the mouth and be thoroughly gkilled in the various mechanical manipulations that pertain to the prothesis of these organs. Teeth can not, like coats, be furnished ready made to order. No one can be- como a successful dentist in vhis department unless he be a natural mechanic. Thero is now more quackery in this art than any other extant. Let us look briefly at its history. Last Great Improvement----Continuous Gum The Perfection of the Art Dueto the Americans. Work. Although the French led the way in this most valuable invention, it is princi- pally to American Dentists we are indebted for the perfection now attained in the manufacture of porcelain teeth. A want of resemblance to the natural teeth, in color and animation, was the great objection urged against porcelain, Such perfection has now been attained that fow can tell theso teeth from the natural. Their advantages over every sort of animal substance are numerous, They ¢an be more perfectly fitted to the mouth and are worn with greater onyenience and comfort. They do not absorb its secretions, and, if properly cleansed, do not contam- nate the breath and never change their color. These and other considerations entitle them to universal favor. But the ne plus ultra of the dental art, and that which should supercede all former practice, is that which has boen denominated the continuous gum, in- vented by Dr. 1len, formerly of Cincinnati, now of New York City. On its first introduction there were, as almost always happens, many practi- cal difficulties to be overcome. But all difticulties have, to the one skilled in manipulation, at length heen overcome, rendering the teeth, thus made, more durable, natural in appearance almost defying detection, and most effective in mastication, the most important function of tecth, and the one hitherto imperfectly attained. A set of continuous gum teeth has many advantages over those formed in any other way. And, first, there can be no counterfoiting or alloying of the metal employed for the plate, which is platinum, If alloyed it will not bear the heat employed in baking. The metalis not acted upon by the fluids of the mouth. The platinum plate being more compact and at the same time more pliable, is made to fit more completely every irrogu- larity of the mouth,and when flowed over with porcelain, becomes very much stronger. \in there are no interstices in which the food can lodge, rendering artifi- cial teeth, as ordinarily made, offensive and unhealthy. Ovportunity is farnished toadapt the verge of the gum more perfectly to the mouth, and thus filling out the contour of the jaw, rendering the face more youth- ful and natural in appearance. It is impossible to break the teeth off by proper usage. They are much smootber to the mouth, and persons who have used both say that the continuous gum is a support and it is unpleasant to be without them. Indeed, those who have used the gold plate, made in the best possible manner,and subsequently the continuous gum, suy there is no comparison. Methods of Applying Atrtificial Teeth. Here great progress has been attained in this art, as in the selection of the material for the teeth. The methods for applying the teeth are four: First, on roots of natural teeth; second, on plate, with clasps; third, with spring, and fourth, by atmospheric pressure. We need notdescant upon the com parative ad- vantages and disadvantages of these several methods The dependence upon atmospherie [rossuro is now almost universally re- garded as the most approved course, and the one practiced most extensively. The firmness with which teeth can be made to adhere on this principle render them the most desirable. There may be cases which might determine recourse to one of the other methods, but they will be found rare indeed. Substances Employed for Artificial Teeth. The qualitics which should be sought in artificial teeth are durability and resemblance to the natural organs. In the first essays of this art human teeth were employed. When these were sound and coated with a good enamel and were suitable in every respect they were esteemed preferable to univ other substance, But think of the difficulties presented here in the de fects of the material itself, deficiency of the supply, an A NNOUNCEMENT—I would respectfully inform my friends and the public thatl am prepared to perform work in the mostapproved style of the Dental Art. I refine my gold, manufacture my plates, and hesitate not to say that I am performing operations in a style to Challenge Competition. All work is warranted to give satis- Aw:tion, and 1 would here especially invite all, who have failed from any cause in receiving full satisfaction, to call and try work skillfully made. [ am also prepared to t Artificial Palates, and am warranted in assuring the public who may be afflicted with malformation or loss of this organ, whether congenital, accidental or occa~ B_ned by disease, that they will be successfully treated. ROOMS 348 AND 3850 BEE BUILDING. eral months. The FREED ON NEW YEAR'S DAY. ‘Warren Olough Will Today Bid Good By to Nebraska's Penitentiary. A PRISONER FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. e Was Convicted on Purely Circum- stantal Evidence—The Lincoln Street Rallway War and an Opinion Thereon, Neb., Dea. 81.—[Speclal Tele- ram to Tne Ber| This cfiernvon Gov- rnor Thayer listened to the appeals for the pardon of poor old Warren Clough, who has ‘been in prison fifteen years on the charge of murdering his own brother. The evidence that convicted Clough was circumstantial only, but sombody hiad to be punished for the crimo and on the brother of the murdered man the blame was laid, The old neighbors of Warren Clough in Seward have of late ‘begun to believe that possibly an innocent man might bave been punished. The testi- mony brought out in the trinl a decade and a half ago has been reviewed uud not only have his old acquaintai.ces, but the prosecuting at- torney that worked for s conviction, the fudge that senten ced him, and & number of tho surviving jurymen that sealed his doom, have all united in asking Governor Thayer to froo the old man. Warren Clough is a fine appearing man of sixty and his benevolent and kindly features 1ook strangely out of place above a convict's garb. He has been most exomplary in his wonduct during his long incar aration, and warden at the penitentiary and his assistants Rave nothing but words of praise for him. Judge Mason appeared in behalf of the con- vict and presented a petition for pardon wigned by over one thousand porsons living n Seward, York and Lancaster counties. Among these were the names of Judge Norval of the supreme court, tlon. E. E. Brown and Colonel J. R. Webster, Judgo Mason made & most eloquent plea for the imprisoned man, He declared that there had not been a scintilla of evidence pre- sented that would conviet Clough; that the couvintion wason ouly the siightestovidence; that the testimony which sent Clough to the mitentiary was,” in fact, not suficient to ind him over to the district court. Nobody appeared to even bint that Clough should not be allowed his reedom, and Gov- ernor Thayer, who has been carefully exam- ming tho merits of the case for soveral months, granted Clough a pardon. The humane action of tho ek M executive is uni- versally commended. Tomorrow Clough will step forth a freo man and will be greeted by his faithful wifo and son, whom he has not * seen for fifteen years and for whom he had 100 much love and respect to meet them in & gonviet's garb, THE TRACKS WILL BE LAID, the cases of John Sheedy against the jcoln city eleotric street railway company the Capital Heights street railway com- Judge Field this afternoon heard the catious of the plaintifl for a temporary ction restraining the defendants from & third track on O uad P strects. judgo said that it was his opinion that uncil had full right to regulate the of street car tracks to be luid upon reot, and that they had power o tracks to compel that compan. 2ot another use its tracks jointly \\!mxyu:g SWilor. The judge sald further that if Mr. R;,n 50 desired he would give him leave to tracks on Twelfth street and replace the vements, 5o that if the action should be pally decided in their favor after cold < weather set in they would be in shape to do n\.:u or hie would order them to remove oks laid by taem on Twelfth stréet and \ce the pavement as it was beforo they irbed it. Mr. Bush took the choice of tracks as Twelfth street be- started todo, under the order of the court that they were to run no cars thereon until the final determination of the suit Judge Field then enteved an or them to lay track on Twelfth stre O and P streets and replace the thereon and granted ar. injunction in favor of the plaintiff, restraining defendants from running cars upon the same, ————— CHARTER AMENDMENTS, A Property Qualification for Councll- men—The Assessorship Question. Nine of the members of the charter amend- ment committee met in‘Mayor Cushing's ofceat 8o'clock yesterday afternoon, The first thing considered was a petition from a number of citizens who protested against sa- loons and dance halls run under the same roof. Theso people wanted the suloons and tho dance halls at least 100 feet apart. Thoy also wanted dance halls licensed, but fn no way would they have tnis apply to halls used by socloties. The communication was laid on the table and may be considered at som e fut- ure meeting. *2 A section was adopted by which tho city's share for paving streets and laying sidewalks around parks shall in the futuro be paid out of the funds set aside for park purposes. For park purposes the council was given authority to purchase lands, and improve them, at any point within six miles of the present_ city limits. Park bonds are to be voted and paid in the same manner as paving and curbing bonds. Mr. Chaffee thougnt that in the future be- fore & man can bo eligible to the office of city councilman he shall be worth at least §3,000 above all debts, liabilities and exem ptions, A motion to Iay on the table was defeated. M. Poppleton was opposed to auy property qualification. Mr. Bechel thought that the line should _bo drawn at §£,000, and submitted his thoughts in the form of an amendment. The amend- ment was carried. A former proposition for the appolntment of an assessor for the city was reconsidered and again discussed. A charter amendment was at last adopted, by which in metropolitan cities the mayor shall appoint an assessor with a salary of £3,000. He shall give boads in tho sum of $10,06., and after being ap- pointed shall be confitmed by the city coun- il and the board of county commissioners, He shall a for state, county and city pur- poses, and his valuation” placed upon prop- erty shall bo taken by the state and covnty. A oftice shall be kept open during the entire year, where the hooks of the office shall al- ways be open. This man shall appoint his own deputies, who shall receive § per day while actually employed. The term of oftice shall be for tivo years unless sooner removed. This appoin*ment shall bo made as soon as the charter amendments are adopted by tho legislaturo. This, if it is passed, leg- islates the men out of oftice who were elected last fall. ‘T'he rate of intereston deferred payments upon city obligations was changed from 7 to 6 per cent. The next meeting of tho committee will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. iyt Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses wero 1s- suedby Judgo Shiolds yesterday: Nameand address. 1 Charles W, Hathaway, Omaha. | Surab Hipsheur, Omalin Samuel Hudley, Omaba. Ida Talbare; Omahu Wil 1 Ella King, 0 Harry H. Clintor Bridget Tracy, Omali... | Do M. Brown, South Omaba Lottie Fulton, Omaba. . {Brake W, Ellls Omaha Hattle M. Hender, Omaha § George R. Dec 1Jennle Johnso {Quarics O. . Curlson, Omabia Amanda Sewell, Omaha. .. {George b, Morris. Omana Nunule E. Badger, On > e gus =sen The Paul Site Fund. The members of the board of education held a ten-minute session yesterday after- noon, aud during that time they accompiished what thoy have boen working upon for sev- coting was called for the purpose of transferring some of the school money back to the Paul schoolsite fund, from whence it was taken_three years ago. A resolution to transfer $20,000 duced, and by a unanimous vote adopted. e d THE IMPOSTER HOPKINS, A Letter Which Shows Him His True Light. J. Austin Hake, the South Omaha com- mission merchant, is in receipt of the follow- ing letter from A. C. Hopkins, the man who recently created something of an uproar among the Indiaus by claiming to be the Messiah: CHAMBERLAIN, S, D., Dec. 20.—Dear Friend Aust: Iam just down from Crow Creek agency, and in the same financial condition I was when I was sentoutof Pine Ridge. Have asked threo acquaintances here for $ or $ and been refused. It's a little embar- rassing to bo the Messiah, but I like it first rate on the whole. Shall try to “touch’ Georgo Babcoke (our old Princeton and Ripon stage driver, you know) and if that fails there's one other man and a chance to pawn my ring and then “I'm up & stump.” Am trying to get back toCanton, having done Lower Brule and Crow Creek agencies. I'm so tickled I hardly know how to contain myself, and so_decidedly embarrassed that myself will hardly contain me. I suppose I could get used to being a beggar and a tramp, but I haven't really learned to like it yot. A beautiful day, with tho mercury at 655 or 70> and the river unsafe to cross, afoot or otherwise. Met H. aboard train coming be from Pine Ridge and ho took mo to dinner. It “knocked him clear out at, one knock” to know that I was the Messiah, but his pretty wife stood it first rate, I don’t dare stamp this for fear I'll have to use the stamp for railway fare. Will report later. Am deeply obliged for your honoring my draft and shall live loug enough or die rich enough to pay you, " Morning, 80th—Pawned my ring to George B. for &, and by fasting all day today I can reach Canton, Have just this stamp left, having given the other (one of two I had) for railway fare, That leaves mo with the poor “Lo Indian’ on a penny I have kept through the campaign, and whose head is battered very much like mine, Love to A. and the chifdren, A, C. H. Up in A A LR The City Printing. Suit was brought in the district conrt yes- terday by Edward Rosewater to restrain the mayor and the city council from emtering into a contract with the World-Horald tor doing the city printing for the year 1891, The potition alleges that the city ecouncil had no right to adnertise for bids, as the law provides that at the commencement of th year some daily nated as tho officl by the terms of & Herald that pa Fe spaper shall be desig paper of the city: that ontract with tho~ World- per is the ofticial organ until Is to do y until that date. The peti- tion further alleges that for the year 15%) the oficial printing has amounted to £2,500, but under tho terms of the pretended contract for 1501 it will amouat to fully 500; that in response to tho advertisement for bids the Daily Democrat submitted a bid that was much lower than that of the World-t{erald, but this bid was ignored. Ypon reading the petition Judge Doane issued a temporary restraining order and set January 7, at 10 o'clock a. m., as the time for bearing arguments why a permanent_injunc- tion should not be issued restraining the council from entering into o contract with the World-Herald. B — Reception at Y. M, C. A, Today the Young Men's Christian associa- tion of this city will tender its annual recep- tion to the young men of the city, together with all others interested 1n the work. Presi- dent and Mrs, Floming, assisted by the re- ception committee and 8 number of ladies, will receive from 5 to 6:30 p. m. Following this there will be refreshments and the fol- lowing programume in concert hall : Solo—P r. John Brown ifferent. W. W. Slabaugh 7 Mr. Derrlek A cordlal invitation 18 extended to the young men of Omaba and all friends of the assoclation to call auring the evening, LINCOLN'S STRIDE FORWARD. Proud Record of a Year's Progress of the State Capital, EXTENSIVE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. New Hotels, New Educational Insti- tutions and New Industries of All Sorts—Street Car Facilities— Transfers and Buildings. Lixcowy, Neb., Dec. 81.—[Special to Tms Ber.] | Lincoln has fourteen miles of paved streets at the present time and has con- tracted for two miles additional, which are now in course of construction, During the present year there were 66,- 875 square vards of brick paving and 15,590 square yards of codar block paving laid in this city at a total cost of $177,627.90, During the year there were nine miles of water mains extension laid ata cost of §33, 240,36, During the year 1500 2,472 lineal feet of storm water sewer were laid at a cost of £7,87, which, together with that expended for sanitary sewerage, makes §23,434 the amount expended in sewerage extensions dur- ing the year. The summary of public improvements is as follows: The past year has been a great one for Lincoln in the line of new hotels. ~ The most prominent is the splendid seven-story struc- turo on Ninth and P streets that will be known as *“The Lincoln” and will be in full tion before Sunday next, Its cost was 225,000, The Bond hotel on tho corner of Q and Twelfth streets, was opened for use in' May. The building cost §0,000. On Fourtcenth and P a new hostalry to be known as “The Western” is being bullt. It will cost $6, Across the street another hotel 1s undor ay that will surpass anything in the It will cost §333,000 and is the result G. E. Bigelow's enterprise. NEW COLLEGES. Tho year of 1890 has been a wondorful one to the college city of Lincold, No loss than four new colleges and other educational insti- tutions of the higher grade have decided to make Lincoln their ‘Home. The first was Union college, which is under the control of the Seventh Day A@¥éntists, The colloge building is a splendid structure, fivo storios high, Over §00,000 is being expended in building. Trinity Hall, an Episcopal college, was the next new institution. . The building being put up will cost §150,000. The Lincoln Normal university is another institution that will 168a% in Lincoln. The building which is being erected will cost $100,000. The Haish manual training school is to have its headquarters in a $75,000 building now being erected in University Place, NEW INDUSTRIES, Tho list of new. factories in Lincoln the past year has kept pace with tho growth of the city in other directions. Amang the more important is the selection of Hayelock by the B. & M. railroad company as a site for its car works. This plant will cost $1,000,000 and will employ an army of 1,000 men. The Lincoln stoye and far company, composed of prominent local capitalists, has been organized during the past three months and s alrady at work manufacturing down draught stoves under the Robbins patents The company has -r) authorized capital of state, of Mr, £100,000 and ‘in the spjing will begin opera- tions in a fine plant 0Jits own, A force of 100 men will be employed. The Hall stove aud' range company is an- other new corporajon. It manufactures stecl stoves and rangés. Tho plant now con- sists of a building 8x142, with an ell 40x feetin size. Therols also a foundry %0x50 feet on the ground, in _addition to colke sheds and other small 'structures, Twenty-five hands are now employed. One of the fea- tures of the establishment not often found vest of the Missouri river is a complete nickel plating plaut, ‘The Lincoln paper box company occupies a commodious building of its ownon North Fourteentn street and manufactures all kinds of boxes, The force of hands varies from ten to forty, according to the amount of business on hand. A young factory has been put in opération in the last few weeks by the Western mat- tress company, with a_capital of $10,000. Oniy a weekago J. N. Eldred of 'Lansing, Mich., formed a company here for the manu- fucture of an improved bed spring and a fac- tory that will employ fifty hands. Work al- ready has begun on a tract of ten acres, lo- cated south of South stveet and between the tracks of the Union Pacitic and the Nebraska railway, which will be the siteof the factory. The Lincoln Eelectrical company has dur- ing the past tablished a plant for the tric lumps and supplies Fifteen hands are al- ce company established in March has now six men on the road. The company has a capital of §50,000. IMPROVED STREET CAR 1TIES. i st year Mr. Bush and his son ic railway running from ew. The effect has been ngements are already being made to convert nearly all the mulé power tines into electric lines, and within a year it is probable that there will not be a hovso car in use on any lino operated wholly within the limits of the ity “The Lincoln preparations for ver house for the entiro on K and Eighth streets. This buildug is fast approaching completion. The dimensions 50 f At the outset it will be equipped with 3 ower steel safety boilers, four 125 horse power automatic com- pound ' engines, and four 125 horse power generators. The muchinery is so ar od acity can be easily doubled. The equipment will consist of at feast thirty and perhaps forty motor cars,sixteen and eighteen feet long, and provided with thirty horse power mot i PATE TRANSPERS. Tho realty record for 1500 began with a showing of 11,500 acres as the area covered by Lincoln and her suburbs and it with an increase of 2,610 acres, about ¢ cent, and a total of 14410 acres! In a act square this would represent a city of nty-two and two-thirds square miles, Seventy plats of additions and sud-divisions have been filed against fifty-one in 1 i so of about 40 per cent. The real ¢ transfors will show @ total of §,000,000, & gain over last year more than §1,500,000, or about BUSINESS BLOCKS The increas the ) most remarkable, and if these improve- ments were put in a line they would present a half mile frontage. Amony the more important sre the following : Young Men’s Christian association build- ing, T 000, Oyer & Cochran block, O streot, $50,000, Newman block, O street, &30,00. Mayer Brothers' block, Tenth $20,000, Bailey block, O near Twenty-first, $40,000. Oppenheimer block, 423-0 North Tenth street, $50,000 Coffman block, 1517-23 O street, five stories, 50,000, Hutchins block, 4415 Novth Tenth stroet, 000, and O, near O, block, Fourteenth oung block, O street, §23,000, Fisher block, §32,000. Crandall block, Twenty-fourth and O, ), 200 There have been besides a great many blocks ¢ ng from $10,000 to §15000, any one of which in a town smaller than' Lincoln would create profound public interest and pride. PRIVATE PALACES, Some splendid private residences have been erected during the year, the most expensive being the following : Residence of C. W Eleventh, §0,000. Residence of A. W. Jausen, Twenty-fifth aud N, $28,000, 3 Lyman, H, near costing from §,000 to $15,000. it S50 i) ANNOUNC. Today Corinne will present two operatic burlesques to the patronsof the Boyd. At 2:30 this afternoon the new burlesque on the grand opera of “Carmen” will be tho bill. In the evening at $:15 “Monte Cristo, Jr.,” will be produced for the first timo thly season, and will be continued during the remainder of the weels. DoWolf Hopper and his = 2d band of comedians and singers, pres. «dng Byrneand Korker's picturesque’ and tuneful opera, “Castles in the Air,” will be the aty raction at the Boyd opera house beginning next Sun- day evening, The comedian is at present laying a highly succecsful exgagement in ansas City, and the pross of that city speak in high praise of the charming opera and its surroundings, Mr, Hopper's reception at the opening night of his Chicago engagement was A most enthusiastic one, and_at the close of the second act his many friends and ad- mirers called him_ before the curtain again and again, until be finally acceeded to their 1s'demands for a speech which he de- in his own graceful and peculiar The presentation of *‘Castles in the Air’ in Omaha will be identic ery re- Spect with that giv . Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, and will include the same cast, the_chorus of sixty people, to- gether with all the original scenerry, costumes and stage effects, - ASLEEI* ON HIS POST, Story of a Soldier Boy Who Was Sen- tenced to Be Shot. Georgo Reed of Liberty, this county, foll from & wagon at Sersey Shore a low days ago, says a Wellshoro, to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. His neck was broken and he died instantly. At the hteen, in 1864, Reed en listed in the Two Hundred and Sev- enth regiment, Pennsylvania volun- Colonel (aftorward Genoral Cox. He had a peculiar in- firmity which attacked him at times, which took the form of an almost irre- sistible inclination to sleep. One night in December, 1864, Reed was detailed for picket duty. The regiment was in the P of the James, under General d fell asleep on his post. found in that condition by * the ¢ the day. 1 und and taken to Fortress Monroc tried by court-martial, and sentenced to be shot by members of his own company. The sentence was approved at headquarter Colon x, know ing the boy and his peculiar ailment, in- terested himsclf in his 1 and got the matter before President Lincoln. y the boy was to beshot Secre- tary Stanton returned the paper to thg r military authorities, commuting teed’s sentence to two s’ i ment in Auburn prison.” The w over a year and a half before Reed’s tence would have expired, and the case being laid before President Johnson he telegraphod a perdon to the young sol- dier, Reed’s death occurred just twenty- six years to a day from the night he asleop on his post. He was convie - The Vanity of Man, Men have few outlets for t) says Miss Maitland in the Budget. Tattoo marks ar adornment among the wealthy and indo- lent classes. Lord Charles Beresford has ta ttoo marks all over him, so have Lord Clifford and the son of the prime minister. Itis military and sporting men who go in for this decoration most- ly. Iwasin the workshopof Mr. Ma nonald, the tattooist in Jermyn street, and saw him at work on a gentleman’s arm. The latter was being tattooed with thestar of his regiment. Mr. Macdon- ald showed me hundreds of designs, but the dragon, the tiger and the snake are three of the most popular pat To have a large dragon on the cheset is the ambition of most men. This is a most difficult part of the body to tattoo; the arm takes the operation the easiost. The tattooist works in various colors—in red, blue, green, brown and dark violet, as well as in black. T asked him wheth- er he counted many women awong his customers. They wero in the minority he said, but he had tattooed a good many women at different times. With women the decoration is usually a bee, a butter- fly, a spray of flowers or a monogram, The ornaments are worn inside the wrist, so that they can be hidden by the glove if nocessary: Mr, Macdonald also produced beauty ~ spots. A short time ago he put two on the fuce of a lndy well known in society, Whether they aro really *‘heauty spots” is a moot question. They resemblo amole more thun any- thing else. e A City at the Bottom of the Sea, The city authorities of Rovigno, on the peninsula of Istria, in the Adriatio sea, have discovered a little south of the peninsula the ruins of wrgo town at the bottom of the sca, says the Now York Sun, It has been obsorved for years that fishermen’s nets were s entangled in what apy 1 to bo masses of masonry, of which frag- ments ware brought up from the soa bed. A year or two ago a diver declared that ts below tho authorities recently decided ate. They sont down a diver who, at the depth of eighty-five feet found himself surrounded on the bottom of the sea by ruined walls, He says ho knows they were the work of man, He is a builder by trade and he recognized the layers of mortar. Continuing his explorations, he traced the line of walls and was able to distin- guish how the streots were laid out. Hoe did not seo any doors or window open- ings, for they were hidden by massss of seaweed und incrustations, " He traced the masonry for a distance of 100 feet, where 'he had to stop, as his div- ing cord did not permit him to go further. He had proved beyond a doubt that he had found the ruins of a once inhabited town, which, through some strophe, had been sunk to the bot- tom of the sea, Some people think that they fdentity this lost town with the island mentioned by Pliny the Elder under the name of of Ciussa, near 1 a. This island can not bo found now, and it is thought the submerged town may have been ment on the island that so myst disappeared. Washing the Complexion sh my face,” Mme. Rupper W rk World man, *tw thing in the morning. Then 1 um facial- ly done for the day. Hefore I retire I luther my hands with a good unsc soapand rub it into my face with fric- tion enough to make the skin erimson, and wash it off with cold waten, That cleanses, In the morning a wash with v, cold wator During the if my faco y or gi i wipe it cirefully with a soft cloth, The comple isa delicate affair and ro- quires nice treatmont. *Hot water I consider bad for thisrea. son: There is a natural oil in the skin which hot water washes out of the pores or removes, just as hot water will clean greasy dishes, With cold water the oil thickons. It is just s0 on the face, The oil preserves tho skin, keeps its freshe looking und soft.” ion