Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1892, Page 12

THE OGMA N PAGES, ——— e —— SHOR D. PT 1s located on the Iast Side of the store, and is filled with va. gains from S 1892+ 8§ Sun .Umbrella Department, Tomorrow morning we will §ffdr 200 heautiful Gloria Umbrellas) with Oxidized Silver or Natural handles for e 2 BOc ‘ LADIES' UNDERWEAR. 50 dozen ladies’ Lisle Vests, silk neck, only 25, Ladios’ Silk and Lisle Mixed Vests, worth $1.00, will sell for 65c. 8ic w'll buy our Swiss Ribbed Undervests DRY GOODN il B o SN o ] s el 9 N.RK Cor.Dodge & 15th Sts. NOTION DEPARTMENT. Corsets, MO0DY, ACKERMAN & WILLIAMS, s m—— Belts, DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. Dress Goods Department. This deparfmont consists of a fine selectod stock of bran new goods. Read prifas for W 1 weok, commeacing Monday. Best all wool Challis, only 47%c. SILK MITTS. | Fine Diagonal Beige s uitings, 19¢. 400 Silk Mitts for 250 L ’ REST A > N 2 21,25 genuine Kid Gloves, 506 Beautiful "‘.‘” wool Challis, only 13c., i Bt Tosse Glovel $1.0% & Lansdown, in all the latest shades, $1.25. Exumine our stock before buging. Best Dress Linings at lowest prices. Everything now and guarantood. N- B. Cor Dodge and 15th Sts. STATIONERY DEPARTMENT, 100 fino Mexican Hamimnocks, with spreaders, usually sold at 81.75; our price 8125, Best woven hammock with pillow only $1.98. 200 boxos paper and envelopes, good quality Flags, Nags, fags at the lowest prices. Orders taken for ongraved visiting cards, wotding invitations, announce- ments, ete. Northeast Corner Dodge and 15th Streets. - JEWELRY DEPARTMENT., We can save you 50 por cent in medium priced jewelry, Ladies' 50c breast pins, silver plate, 25c. Ladios’ 81 broast pins, gold plate, 50c. Ladics’ and Mon’s gold rings at just one-half price, Ladios’ and gents’ gold watches $12 to 825, Clocks, silverware, watch chuins, ete., ete., at reduced pricos, Northeast Corner Dodge and 15th Streets. HOUSE FURNISHING DEPARTMENT. Read and come and see for yourszlf. Bargains for this week: All Copper Nickle Plated Tea Kettles All Copper Wash Boilers - 0 All Willow Clothes Baskets, Omaha made Good Size Sprinklers - - Light Ruled Lap Boards Folding Clothes Bars, strong Fancy Flour c¢ans, large - - & Screen Doors, Screen Frames, Wire Screen, Poultry Netting, Tools and every description of useful hardware AND Ho0gE Fug- N, B Cor. Dodge and 16th Streets. HAT DEPARTMENT. Childron’s 50c Straw Caps only............. Rile Children’s 75¢ Cloth Caps. Boys’ 25¢ Straw Hats vs? 50c School Hat Boys’ Dress Hats from. ... Boys’ Yachting Caps, gold trimmed HAT DEPARTMENT ON SECOND FLOOE THE BIG NEW DRY the fpor to the ceiling. Wo offer for this wook: Ladies' §1.25 Dongola Oxford Shoe for 75¢c. Ladies’ §1.50 Patent Tip Oxford, 98c. Ladies' $2.00 Patent Leather Oxford, $1,25. Ladies’ $2.25 Button Shoe, Patent Tip, $1.50. We will sell our $3.50 beautiful Dongola, Cloth Top, Button or Lace, for $2.00. Gilt Edge Dressing only 13c¢, N. B Conr.:Dodge and 15th Sts. Men's Furnishing Goods Dep't. All This Week we will have a Special Sale in this Dep't. JUST READ THESE PRICES. Men's 75¢ trimmed nightshicts, 89¢ 0c balbriggan undershir Men’s $1 balbriggan undorshirts, Men’s $1.50 Li Men'’s 8 7 o shirts and drawers 50 Madras shirts, only 81.50. 85¢ all linen cufls, 16 Men’s 7ie nocktics, large size, 85c. Men's 75¢ jean drawers, 50 Men's $1 laundored shirts, 374c. Men’s A0 silk embroidered suspenders, 19c. Don’t miss the great underwear sale at the Bell this week Lowest prices and best goods. Northeast Corner Dodge and 15th Streets. HARNESS DEPARTMENT. We carry the most extensive and complete stock of first class Harness in the state of Nebraska. Read our prices for good goodss 50 Set ¢ 7.00 Single Harness (or - $ 3.90 35 Set 10.00 Single Harness for - 5.75 25 Set 15.00 Single Harness, hand made 8.00 10 Set 45.00 Surrey Harness, reduced to 28.00 20 Set 35.00 Hand Made Team Harness - 25.00 300 good Whips will be sold at - - 4¢ We have a stock of over 2,000 Whips from 4c to $4.00. Saddles $1,70 to $20. Everything proportionately cheap. Don’t miss this wonderful sale. N. B, Cor. Dodge and 15th Sts. $1.50 2.00 .85 .24 .82 45 .90 For Monday the following prices—rend: Best Standard Prints, all good patterns Best Lancaster Ginghams, choice styles Fino Scotch Ginghams - - - Best French Ginghams, all colors Good Q ity Towel Crash, all linen Challis, all protty patterns, good quality 0 inch Turkey RRed Table Linen, only The! are all new goods and choice patterns, and everything just as adver- tised at Tir Brry, N. E. Cor. Dodge and (5th Streets. W. C. Keifer, Manager. 50c $1 00 ALL THE LATEST STYLES IN MEN’S HATS AT JUST HALFEF PRIGE. N. E. COR. DODGE AND 156TH STREETZ2, GOODS STORFE--.L. Men’s 81,00 Straw Hats only Silk, all colurs, 5¢ per dozen. Men’s $2.00 Straw Hats only : Genuine 86-inch Whalebone, 25c. 100 dozen 25¢ Handkerchiefs will be sold for 12fe. 200 dozen 5¢ School Handkerehiefs, 200 yards all over Lace, worth $2, for $1. Ladies’ 20c Hose Supporters, only 7. B. Ribbons, Faus, islastics, Laces, Veilings, Crochet Cotton, Paris Bags, Trimmings, Ete, Bte, Ete. ALL REDUCED, N. E. COR. DODGE AND 16TH STREETS. 85 10¢ . 250 ..50c to 81 00 50¢ OPERA FESTIVAL FOR OMAHA Subscriptions Being Asked for a Season of Music in November. BUFFALO BILL WRITES OF HIS RIDERS C~wwacks Tryin Amert Bummer Opera Nearing Its Closo —Thentrical Notes, to Rival the Feats of the an Cowboys—The Season of Miss C. C. Tennant Clary is planning an operatic festival for Omaha to be held at the Boyd during the week beginning Novembver 7. Tho company is to be organized and re- bearsed in New York by Max Meretzok, and will give two operas, Tickets for the season ‘Wwill be scld at the rate of 6 for the first floor and £ for the balcony. Miss Clary is now in asking prominent Omaha and® is civizens to encour- age the euterpriso by subscrib- ing for tickets 1 $100 lots. She bas already raised over $2,0001n this man- nor from such representative people as Her- man Koantze, Thomas Kilpatvick, J. N. H. Patrick, H. H. Meday, I, P. Kirkendall, John A. McSuane, Mrs. T. L. Kimball, Frauk Murohy, Dr. §. D. Mercor, John Creighton, John I Redick, Mrs. R. C. Cushing, W. A. Paxton, Lewis Reod, J. M. Woolworth, E. W. Nush aad E. A. Cudahy. Outside of New York and Chi thero is 00 rogular season of legitimate opora in America, and other cities huve to depend on ocoasional traveling companies or bo satis- fled with that which passes as comic opera. The object of the proposed fostival is to prove the way for a rogular season of class- ical opera in Omaba. Miss Clary is of the opinion that Omaha is able to support suci an enterprise, and 1 giving. freely of hor Hmeand energy to demonstrate 1t. She promisos that the company will consist of sapable singors, who will give finished and thoroughly urtistic performances. Buffalo Bill's Wild"West is winning now iriumpbs in Boglaud, and Nobraska's fa- mous citizen continues to receive the dis- tinguished consideration of tho masses and tho classes. He bas added a new foature to us show by exhibiting wild riders from all purts of tho world thot their achicvements way be compared with those of our own wostern cowboys. 1u a lute lotter to the edi- tor of Tne Bex Hon. William 1. Cody suys thut o picture of ‘Uuk Bes buildiog orna- ments his tent and is wuch aamired, The letter continues : “My new addition to my wild ridors of the world are creating a wild and novel sensation, Another party from South America have just arrived. Inm gotting togother tho wild- 351, most novel, the largest show ever con- seived for the Worla's fair. 1 am ropeating my formor success here in tho motropolis of ine world.. Nebraska to the front ! Inclosed in the letter was a clippine from » Loudon paper describing some of the now rivals of the American plalusmoen. It con- tained the following broad statemonts,which are 100 indefinite to bo uccepted on thls side of the Atlantio without question : The cowbor has ut last fouud a peer in the matter of horsemanship. ‘Tho Cossack from tne oast bas come Lo contest the palm of borsemanship with the cowboy of the west. Yesterday a conungent of some tea Georgian Cossacks muade their bow to the public at Eariscourt, and gave & marveious exhibition, They aro even more picturesque than the cowboy, und are capable of greater things in the saddle. ‘Thoe performance began with what perbaps bad best e termed # musical ride, the borsemen can- tering slowly round the ring while they sang a strauge, weird refrain, which was at once harmonious aud barbaric. Tho strain they lifted was touched with & Chopiu- esque melancholy, and to the imaginative ear cloarly suggested tho sadness of the ilimit- able sbow-covered steppe. Some of our musicians iu search of fresh wotifs might do worse than “convey” these Georgian tunes. Desisting from their music, the horsemen en- tered upon thoso noble toats of horseman- sbip which have made the Cossack’s name wonderful. Tho Cossack scems to be part and parcel of the horse ho rides. e can do anything and everything upon the animal. He stands on his head, rides backwards, and generally proves that ‘horsebacic is to him a mere extension ofgterra firma. Omahn's summer “séason of light opern will close either this week or next. The Dodd company has made an engagoment to spend the vacation seasouy at Garfield Beach on Salv Luko, opening at that place on July 4. A summer theater is being built at the beach, and the engagement is for six weeks The westorn management wants the com- pany to put in the last week in June ut re- boarsals, but Managor Burgoss wishes to keop the company at the Farnam stroot the- ater until July 2. A great muny requests bave beon made for Piafore. The theater owns a set of scenery for tho old-time favorite, and Mr Burgess is anx1ous to give his patrons a re vival of it. The Dodd_ company has aiready been under the Crawford mansgement six weeks, and the engagement will have con- tinued eight if Manager Burgess insists on carrying out his plans, The music at Hanscom park this afternoon will bo furnished by tho Soventh Ward Military lowing sof Donizetti .. Arr. by Henleke 0 Twelfth Mass..... lozart tial, Religlous. el A user fosior ullivin CStrius fron om Gypsy Baron oduction Bridal ~ Chorus, third act Lohen rin, T Reminlscences of Moyerbeor L Are. by He Paraphraso—Med{oy in I... RUL Overturs Concerto. . Nationul Air... ieko toin Ad nzled Bann Gosuip of the Stage, A New York bevefit for Willlam Mestayer aid not pay expenses. Goorge H. Adams, tho clown, will be with “Fantasma” next season, Loie Fuller has bean engaged to do her serpentine dance in Berlin, Princess Dolgorouki, the Russian violinist, bas not been a success in Now York. In Philadelphia alone twenty-four places of amusement have been destroyed vy fire. Lolo Fuiler, who sued Minnio Renwood for imitating ber serpentine dance, has lost the suit. Robert Downing and his wife, Eugenia Blair, will bo seen noxt season in & new play eutitlod “Cross and Crow: Charlos Hanford has bougat the properties made for Lawrenco Barrott for a revival of ulius Cwsar,” and will starin that trag- edy. ‘Phe word hanjo is corrupiea from bandore, through negro prouunciation; and the instru- ment itsell 1s u representative American pro- duction, “The idea of Mr. . H. Sothern, an English- mau by birth and instinct. represonting American dramatic art at the Vienna exhibi- uon, should tickle our national sense of bumor 1. C. Chamberlain, whose admirsble work in the Dodd Opora company has been a feat- ure of the light opera season, is an old Omahan. Ho was in the employ of the Union Pucitic for soveral years, und about elaven years ago played in “Damon and Pythias’ at the Acagemy of Music, now the People's theater. Mr. Henry Abboy has signed & contract with Mr. Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry and their entiro company to makoe a tour in the United States in 1893, The tour will oc- cupy thirty weeks and the play that will be presented will be King Heary™ VIIL, which tas had a successful run at the Lyceum the- uter 1 London. " Lillan Russell when asked about the re port that sho was ¢olug to marry ber wmana- ger, 1. Houry French, laugted, thought for 8 moment dod then sald: “There is no truth in that. I am ot going to marey Mr. Freoch. As a matter of fuot Ynm not golug to marry anybody, Iam unot looking for & busbaud. Tdo mot wish to get married. You can say I am golng to bo a sister to Mr. French, bul ot a wife—a sister only."” Frederick Paulding, who 0 earuest and entbusiastio actor, has given up the idea of starriog again, aod will probably join ihe Support of some established sotor. Mr. Paulding’s production of *“I'ho Strugglo of Lifo” was an elaborate one, and he made an extensive tour in an effort' to force it into public success. But ke public is poculiar about meloaramas, aud this one did not take. Clowning has taken such complete posses- sion of the light opera stage of late vears that high, even respectable, musical perfor- mance has almost been banished from it. It is a groat pity. Itshould be the case that when a good tenor or baritone loses his vogue on the limited grand opera boards, whero mere vogue counts for so much, ho should step naturally into light opera whero ho can delizht many, rather than into con- cort where ho can delight few. In speaking of Mascagni recently Verdi mado this confassion: **We older musicians have been obliged to write intorminable grand operas, spread over four hours and a half, to lntroduce choruses which havo roth- ing to do with the story, to elaborate simplo situations, aud to write lengthy arias, with all sorts of accessories, instead of keeping to brisk dramatic action. And now wo see spring up a young composer with imwense talent and great facility of wvention to give us a serious opera in one act without all this tra-la-la, and in which the action never haits, Ivegardwvas a bappy innovation, and ani not surprised that our public have 'received it with enthusiasm.” b That the futuro of tho chorus girl is always hopeful has many 1nstances in proof. Our own divine Lillian Russell, today tho most expensively paid prima donna in the world, begzan only about fifteon years ago in tho chocus, and for a season Or two sho was sat- 1sfied Lo appoar almost in a chorus part at $20 aweek, Tho first porformanco that gave her any name was at Tony Pastor’s theater, whera she san sort of burlesquo Josephing in *Pinafore.”” Pauliao Hall was 8 chorus girl as short a timo sinco as 1552, Her last performance in that capacity was at what was callea tho Cosmopolitan thoater, whero now stauds the Broadway, in » performance of “Patience.” Sho began to attract a good deal of attention by bher unquestionablo beauty, and sho had tho good sense to have her voice cultivated and fit herself for the position of prima donna of the Casino, which nobody thought she was fitted for, but whish sho iilled satisfactorily. Another who i3 now well pald is Marion Manola, who sang chorus parts in England; and anothor surprising exumple of success is littlo Della Fox, who, up to three yoars ago, appeared in a ten-cent opera all over the country, aud whoso compensation was even burely that of 8 metropolitan chorus singer. Della Fox now gets §300 & week. Murion Manola, with less taiont, gets $400. Pauline Hall heads her owa organization and makes o great deal of money. Lillian Russell’s com- pensation this season hus been all tho way from §1,000 10 §1,500 o week, as sho has an interest in the receipts. Inuteresting facts came out in the recent English parliamentary bearing of the thea- ter managers' petition agalnst music halls. ‘There ure, it seems, about 300 music halls in the United Kingdom, employing ou au aver- age about ton “turns” each night. This 1s exclusive of pier pavilions and taverns, whero entortainments of the variety typo are given from time to time. Of the 4,000 odil turns in actusl employment, only about 400 aro engoged in London. Tho highes vaudeville performers are in London onl about half the year, having to travel tho rest of the time. It is the absolute free hand given to performers at these jhalls that brings out talent. Any one can, without great dificully, obtain @ rohearsal and on engagerent choose what line be finds @ostto his liking. On the regular stage it nay be years before an_actor gets cast for a part that brings his inherent ability to the surf * Instances of this are innumerable, Henry Irving, who has been foremost in the effort to curtail the province of the vaude villes, i3 himself a flue example of the earlier strugkies of legitimate actors. Most of the Eoglish music ball performers work hard and get fair wages, all things cousidered, Cases are rare where & salary of less than $10 & week Is paid, even a single-handed performer; and, aithough it is true that cor- tain big favorites—like Jeounie Hill, Bessie Bonohill, Marie Loftus, and othors—obtain almost princely pay during such time as they remain p)pul:r ot the average wagos throughout thé United Kingdom will proba. bly be about £5 & weok. Singers in the music balis must frequently produce fresh songs at & heavy expaiise for author's fees, and oven then few of the many songs enjoy @ long run. The majority either fail to nit the taste of the public or prove utter rub- bish. Thoy bhave DO sLage Accessories, suck as elaborate scenery, ballot, or chorus, to help them. e THEATERS. The Dodd Opera company has succeeded 1 pleasing the public to a greator degroo with “Giroflo-Girofla” than with any of the other operas that they have preseated. The.Sunday patrons of the Farnam Street theater have not vet had an opportunity of learing this bright, tuneful and_boautiful opera, and for that reason it wiil be sung this aftornoon and ovening. It will then give way to “Olivette,” which will havo its Hrst production here by this company at the nam Street theater tomorrow ovening, aud will be sung every night and at tho regular matinees until further notice. The season of this company is drawing very rapidly to its close, ana for that reason ail who dosire to enjoy summer opera at popular prices should avail themselves this weok of the opportunity to hear “Olivette.” Tao rendering of Schiller's Stuart,” which witl takoe bl opera house on Thursday, Jun @ 30, promises to bo an intellectual troat. The cast is com- posed of Omaha amateurs of unusual merit and being in aid of such an admirable insti- tution as the**Nebraska Homo for the Aged” tho house ought to be orowded. Tho play will be preceded by a laughable farce. “*Marie at Boyd's The Bijou Opera Company, including the popular Rinohart sisters, the handsome dancing twins, the Warren sisters, Frank Wade, I2d Weston, Carlborg, Shady, Shad- ricks and many others, will present the “Mikado" the first half of the weelkand com- menciog Thursday night tho ever popular opora, **The Mascot.”” Tho prices remain the same: Admission, 10 cents; balcony s 5 conts, and all down stairs 10 cents, lco water, electrio- fans, comfort, conven- ienco und safoty “vith tho bost opera com- pany you ever hoard at cheap prices ara the inducements offered by Manager Lawler at Wonderland noxt week. Performances at , 4, 8:30 and 9330, . “Lato to bed and early to rise will shorton the road to your home'in the skies.” But early to bed and “Littlo Early Riser,"” "tho pill that makes lifo louger and better and wiser. Idiosyncrasies 1o Count, Now York Herald Madam,” said the streot car conductor to a young lady in & blue calico frock, *‘you have o dog under your shawl and you must leave the car. " “What! Ledté the car,” vociferated the woman, “I have paid my fare and I'um goingZth stick right whero I am,” P *“Then 1 shall put you off,” replied tho disciplinarian j plue. All at once dddy voint came into the woman’s head, 1 “Give me back my fare,” sho suidd>MI got -in here in good faith, and when/I'paid my fave a con- tract was complebed, You must either carry it out or return my cash. I’m not responsible because your cranky diractors don’t tige dogs.” The street ‘gur official stopped the car and hailed 4 olicemun. Tha point was stated, and e thiof cateher, aftor pondering for al fow minutes, observed “Lain't no jullge nor Iain't no jury, but I claim to e some sense. “Under your systom you might make rules that passengors mustn’t wear red neckties or red noses or thres dollar trousers, and after they had paid fares show ’em the rules and put them off. “Thore 15 no end to the rules you might make to bunco folks out of their ride, and everytime a chap looked cross- eyed, you could turn to rule No. 824, providing that he mustn’t look cross- d, and then dump him in the gutter. The thing isn't fair. There ain’t no law to it, and it don’t go.” Turning to the young woman, he said: “You stay where you are, mum,” snd to the conductor, *'if you try to put her off without giving her back her face, I'll ub your head off.” ing went the boll and off went the car, dog, young woman and all. o citicnely DeWitt's Sarsuparilia 1s veliadle. NEW HOME OF THE SECOND What is Being Done in Preparing the Ground at Fort Crook. BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY SURROUNDING IT The Grand an From the Reservoir Hill-A Fine Supply of Water— How Secured. View in Directions At what particular dato in tho history of its Van Winklean existenco the little town of Hellovue was long enough awake to build asidewalk does not appear, uoris it par- ticularly clear why its somnambulistic energy found this particulac vent, since the sidewalk promises to rot silently away from lack of feet to wear it. But the sidowalk is thero and the visitor to Fort Crook will probably uso it in tho hopo of being thereby guided into a regiou of shops and stores and poople, and somo sort of a burcau of information which will airect him to where the meu uro working on the now post. This walk will lead him along a road which winds up the hill along the siae of a littlo ravine, whose sides are carpeted with a tangled mass of ferns and vines, and over wuich the long branches of olm znd ok and maplo interweave themselves in a cool, green arch. He will hoar no sound of ham- mer or saw. nor any human life, but such & 10us medloy of sweet-toned bird-songs as he never heard boefore. There are hundrods of thom—meadow 1aris, thrushes, catbivds, orioles, robins—all piping, whistling, trill- ing, tinkling in such tonés of such liguid swoetaess as belong to tho singers of no other country 1n the world, A quarter of o mile up this rond the sido- walk comes toan eud but the visitor has reached no town. There aro some large rambling two-story white-painted buildings in the middle ot large balf-kept gardens and shaded by tall elm troes which look like New Hampshire village hotels. Thero is a one- story building with wooden shutters for the ~ front windows whicn looks like @ desertod bowlng alloy, but which a weather-dunmed legend proclaims an em- porium for goneral merchandise. A littlo farther on there is another of similar aspeot, but two stories high, in which is the post- oftico and whore may be found among tho coatless loiterors somo one possessed with sufficient energy to poiut the way to the reservation. Boyond this is tho prairie, like # smooth shaven lawn, fading outinto the dim purple of the bluffs’ overlooking Platy taouth, Crowning a hill which rises bold up on tho right 1s Bellevuo college and scattored about over thoe level green plateau, on which is thesite of the Omaha which never came, aro about a dozen old-fashioned resi- dences pevping out through the vines which envelop them, wsud the trees which snade their lawns. ' Tuis is Bollovue, tho laziest, loveliest, dreamiest spot in Nobraska. Fort Croois s two mles northwost of the villazo and he who journoys thitner via Bollevuo will walk thoso Lwo miles, for a conveyance 18 not to be had for love nor money . ‘The work is at a particularly uniutaresting stage just now, butone may gather some ides of what Fort Crook will be when it is completed. ‘I'ho reservation, as nearly every one knows, includes 640 acres of land, which is now surrounded by high board fonce, decorated with signs which inform the pub- lio thut the land inclosed is the property of our Uncle Sam and thut no bunting I3 al- lowed thercon. On tho uorthwest coraer of tho reseryation, wiere the ground 1s low and is touched by the railroad and the wooded bauks of whe Papillion croek, is the site for the pump house, upon which work 1s just about to be veguu. Kive wells have boen dug hore something aver 100 foet deep, which will furnish an inexhaustiblo supply of water, & ono may surmise from a glance at the surrounding land, which is sprinkled in every direction with bubbling, gurgliog springs of clear, cool water. Should all these fail, there is the creek, which is never dry. From the pump house, which will be s handsome brick structure with @ chimupey seventy-five feot high, the water will be forced through pipes buried in places thirty feot under ground 10 the reservoir away over on the other side of tho reservation. This reservoir is circular, eightoen feet doep, built of stone and con- crote, protected by an iron roof, and will hold 500,000 gallons of water. Tt is situated on the sum:it of a_ hill, from which there is a magnificent view,not only of the fort, but of miles upon miles of country beautifully di- versified with_river and stream, woodland and plain, ravine ana bluft, Sweeping around under the bluffs on the cast, in a long, bold curve, is the river, a gleaming white band of silver. A littlenearer at hand are billows of foliage, among which twinklo the tents of the soldiers at tho rifie range. Through the green plain on the west 8 fringo of low growing trees twisting about ana doubling upon itself marks the course of the Pabillion creek, and a fow miles up the beautiful valloy of this stream a white smoke cloud indicatos the position of the South Omaha factories. IFor beauty of location tne government would bave sought a long timoe to have done so well. Just now the contractor for tho water works and sewerngo 15 laying bis pipes. He has sovonty-five men at work and is only de- layed by the failuro to securo matorial as promptly as he can use it. Tho trenches aro of an extraordinary depth and without somo natory nssistance tho visitor will iy make much out of them, The plans of the reservation contemplate a handsome paved roadwav around au oval shaped parade ground, with its longest di- ameter about a mile in length. On Lho wost sido of the parade groands are to be located tho barracks, & large T-shapoa building fac ing tho west. O the ovposito sido of tho parade grounds aud situated on the side of the bill, commanding & view of the vesorva- tion and the surrounding country, will bo built the officers’ quarters, facing two somicircular streots. The works system foliows the outside of this oval and is supplied with a numbver of fire hydrants, yard byarants, etc. The sewerage system of courso corresponds with tho water system and empties into tho Papil- lion. All tho roadways are to bo paved in accordance with such specifications us would astonish the Omaha Board of Puolic Works, Keefo & McGarvey, who are tho water works contractors, will soon have their work completed aund bids have been asked for on the roadways. e, CONNUBIALITI I felt so chean during the coramony,’ confessed the bride to her dearest friend. “Wny, my dear!” “Becauso pa €ave mo away." Cupid is gotting bow ana arrows roady for the summer seaso: uliarity of his shooting is that the moro Mrs. ao mikes tho botter tho girls uro ploased. Miss Cathorine Hastings President Cl day, in Ha fossor of new te lege. Almost overy young man wastos more or less timo in thinkiug just what he is going 10 say whea the tim) comes for him to p pose, but he never savsit, and a year after. Wards bo couldn't tell you what ‘ho did say. Ou Tuesday Nanaot, Mass., t of o pratty wedding, that of Miss Consta Cabot Lodge t Mr. Augustus Gardiner, It Was_ colebrated in the victuresque littie church and all of the fashiouable summer color Coanectiout, the “land of steady habit,” is not very steady in the matrimonial habit Tho divoree rerord for 1591 shows a goodly numover of misfits, In 1801 49) couples were divorced and 536 10 the previous year. T'ho report shows also that since 1500 over 2,000 persons Liave boen divorced in this sta An approaching London weddiug of - terost is tbat of Miss “Polly" Serger, ous of the prettiost girls of Philadolphia’s’ smart set, to *“Tom" Bradleo of Boston, son of Idr. Frod Braalee, prosident of the Somer. club. After & short honeymoon broad tho young couple will return to this country and spend the midsummer at the Bradleo villa at Nuhasot, A smart Doston weddiug ocourred on Weanesday at the quaint littlo vine-covered Enplscopal-chapel at Southborouzh, high noon. 1t was that of Miss Loulsa Hurnett, the fourth daughter of the millionaire Doer Fool furn owner, Mr. Joseph Buraett, and Mr. Charles irancis Choate, Jr., sou of the a nieco of ox od oo Thurs: Wood, pro- 70 col- 0 presidontof tue Ola Colony * railroaa. The it States, was the sceno | 000, great womau's there ure oo v attended in full foree. different collog, who have graduated aro distinguishing them solves by good work 1n the over 21,000 sl are in all the southern bride's broth formed the 3 Johu H. Mackoy and Miss Honriotta Poter, both of San Fraucisco, were marriod in Chit cago last week. Mackey’s name 1s familiar t0 most of tho people, but especiully $0 1 turt circlos, his father, John Mackoy, being man- r of John Higgin’s Rancho Dol Paso stud Sacramento, whilo he bimself 15 manager of Millionairo W. O'Brion’s MacDonoughs Menlo stock farm near Monlo Park, in San Mateo county, Cal. Tho brido, a charming brunotte, is a'daughter of Mrs. S. Petor of San Francisco. A good-looking, well-to-do and popular vouug bachelor of Silverton, Mich., was boing teased by the youug ladies of a club for not getting married. He said: *I'll marry the girl of your club whom, ona secrot vote, you elact to be my wife.” ' Each girl went into a corner and used great cau- tion iu preparing hor ballot and disguised the handwriting. The result of the vote was that there were nine votes cast, each girl roceivind ono. Tho young man remains a bachelor, the ciub 1s broken up and tho gitls aro all mortal enomies. Tho Engl seoms a rude interruption to the poesy of be- trothal days, is @ wiso provision for the sterner nccessity of practical lifo. By its onditions, neithor adversity nor oxtrava- gance, gambling nor bankruptey, difforences nor estrangewent, can affoct the wife's sottlement. 1t is inviolato from creditors and cannot be reclaimad by the husbau Many engagements aro hopolossly shif wrocked on this ook of tho MAFFIAgo por- tion, however, many o fair English maiden is loft’ fancy freo bocause of the droaded interview between oxacting fathors and impocunious suitors. - TION.AL. Waldo. Burnett, por« bb has Chicago university. Edinburgh university 15 000 of the ohiof medical conters in tho worid, It was founded in 1582, ‘The new law governing the consiruction of school buildings in New York City pro- vides that they must bo firoproof. A movoment 1s on foot which promises to result in the establishment at Kansas City of ono of the most extensive art schools in the west. Tho oldest aud largest modical school in America is that of the University of Ponusyl- vania. It was founded in 1765 and bas gradu- ated 10,455 men. Dickson county, Kansas, has a ocounty superintendent of schools who, when ho visits schools, tekes along a box of tools, saw, hammer, ote., and fixes all tho brofen soats, docayed aoor stops sud dilapidatod brooms ho comes Across. Dr. Charles Ray Palmor of Bridgeport, Conn., whose son Alfrod died just befors flushing his courso at Yale, has given to tho university, as u momorial of his son, B scholarship of §10,000, Tho sonolarship will pay the oencficiury’s tuition foos and give Bim §150 besides, England, with ninaty-four universitios, has more professors und 51,514 more stu s than the 360 universitios in the Unit The rovenuos of Oxford and briage represent a capital of ‘The University of iven $150,000 to the about §75,000,- Leipsic is worth nearly $20,000,000, 1t is loss than thirty vears sinco tho first collogo was founded, and 40,000 girls studying in the and sevoral thousand more various monts of art, litoratura and scionce. Thirty years ago thora was not a school in tnern states for colored peoplo, 4,000,000 slaves sot ut_1iborty only nd one-half 10 each 1,000 could read Toduy not 1ass than 2,230,000 colored pooplo the southern states can read. The United tate pmissioner of sducation reports jols for nogroes that form a ublic sehool system of tho south, wre enrollod more than 1,100,000 Attho preseut time thero slatos about seventy jnstiwtions o bigher education of Nogroos, where tho graduales aro propared Lo tonch thielr own people. lu these schools sro depart- part of the in which oys and girls. about 1,000 teackors and 16,500 pupils, -~ The complicated condition of storage bats tery litigation has been further entangled by @ racent decision of the Gorman courls upe uolding the Faure patonts, \ sh marriage settiement, Which § 7