Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 28, 1892, Page 9

G Iwm | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. —— TWENTY-S iCOND YEAR. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. HAYDRN BROTHERS. LERIINGEDOWNETHERRIGESY SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS OFFERED IN ALL DEPARTMENTS. Wool Dirress Goc_>ds. On sale Monday. Monday we place on sale a full line of :xlll dress goods in all the latest novel- ies in foreign and domestic goods. Wo lwould be pleased to have you come in Innd look through our stock. We can plense you in styles and prices. I" 40-inch lonly, 50c. 40-inch bl lonly $1.00. 40-inch all wool serge in black and Jeolors, 0. German henrietta in black k silk warp heuriotta, inch all wool flannel, 50c. nch very fine French novel 50-inch faney figured beavy I werge, 81,25 40-inch camel’s hair suiting, 50c. A) full line of half wool goods from 9c 25¢. ISpecial Bargains. Cream crinkled seersucker, 2}e. Shirting prints, Zic. Bedford cords, Tic. French zephyr, 74 i Here is a bargain which you cannot Kuplicate. 30-inch wide double fold all r\vnul filling grenadine bunting reduced to close to sc yard. Remnants of wash dress goods cheap- er than ever; they must be soid. Look them over. ; Remnants of hite lawn, checks and stripes, remnants of fast black dr Jgoods at extremely low prices. i On Monday morning we place on sale finished, unbleached. size 14 You F’(ln dozen huck towel; They are soft will find them on sale in main aisle, 16th treet building, at 5¢ each. The best argain ever offered by us. Only one pdozen to each customer. 400 chenillo table covers, 6-4 siz vorth $2.60 to $2.75, choice only $1.98 ch. Unbleached cotton flannel 8iec. Bleached cotton flannel 5e. Shaker flannel se. Remnants of straw ticking 5e. Remnants of tabloe linen und toweling ot prices that will suit everybody. Opening sale on blankets and flannels, The largest blanket department in tho Uniced Stutes open for your inspec- tion. Silks. Duchess of Marlborough silks, in black only, at 81.00, They are fully 24 inches wide, are elegant goods to wear, and have for many years maintained a very high standard of excellence both in Rurope and the New England states. We have them at nearly half their value. Best quality Motre silks, 50¢ Cheney Bro's celebrated China silks, 473c. Bonnet silks in black only at $1.35. They are well worth $2.2: Oil boiled Taffeta sil and colors 65¢. Jin black They are worth $1.25. Corsets. Corsets. 50 dozen corsets, odds and ends, worth 75¢ to $2, to bo closed out on Monday at 50¢ each. 1,000 Ibs. of very best quality of Ger- man knitting yarn, on Monday, 19¢ per skein. 1 lot of gents’ fine sateen negligee shirts, worth $1, reduced to 500 dozen gents’ import regular made: come in fast black, modes and tans; your choice of this lot 12ic or pa l.‘!“() pairs of fine steel laid shears, worth 50¢, on Monday 25¢ each. Ve are sole agents for the celebrated Vincent nnd Saxon Beauty kid gloves. Our ono dollar glove comes in all shades and has no equal. Every pair warranted. Spécial Sale of Hosiery FOR MONDAY. 1 e of ladies’ fast black cotton hose only lsc per reduced from 2sc. 1 case of children’s he: cotton school hose, fast black, on Our entive stock of boys' shivt waists to be closed out regardiess of cost. Special for Monday. We have just got through taking stock, and find we have a_good many ouds and ends in our ladies’ und gents' furnishing goods department. The same wiil be closed out Monday at less than cost. RUSSIA'S BABY FARY How the “Little Fether's” National Nursery at Moscow is Maintained and Conducted. SUPPLY THE REVENUE M.ro Than Two Million Tnfants Have Been Raised in the Institution, CARDFLAYERS ONE THOUSAND RUSSIAN MADONNAS Where “Bottle” Babies are Unknown and Mother Nature's Kethods Still Prevail, SCENE AT THE RECEIPT OF THE CHILDREN Where Infai pecially and § 1y Cared for—Yet Russin’s Infant Mortality is Erightfully High—What Becomes of the Foundlings, Moscow, Russia, Aug. 7.—[Special Corre. #poudence of T Bee. | —The biggest baby furm in the worla is here at Moscow. It costs §500,000 & yoar to run it and has an an nual crop of 14,000 babies. It hasa branch farm ut St. Petersburg whoich turns out a yearly harvestof 8,000 more, and sinco 1ts foundation it hus seat out into tho country districts of this empire more thun 2,000,000 squalling intants. 1 saw st week 500 babies under four wecks old In the St Petorsburg anstitution, and as I write this letter 1,300 httle ones ure sucking out their evening meal within the walls of the establishwent hore at Moscow. Tue Moscow foundling msylum is o imperial institution. It was founded by ('atherine I, one of the loosest and the liveliost of tho empresses of Russia’s past, and 1it1s keptup today bya tax on playiog cards. All of the cards used in Russiu are made by the government. Their fmportation is prohibited under heavy pen- sitios ana every gambler and every card patty bus to contribute to the support of this fustitution. The servants of the czarin the voval red livery stand atits doors and its mecounts are looked over by the officers of tho troasury department. It Is in facta model among tho baby hospitals of KBurope, and the szenes within it are such as you see JOow here else 1n the world, ‘Tbis big Moscow foundlicg asylum lies Wwithin a stone's throw of the Kremlin, where the most sacred of il Russia’s great churches stand, It is on the banks of the Moscow river and in the very heart of this €Ity of 800,000 peoplo. Tus buildings are vust four-story structures, built in the shapa of a hollow square about s gardea which contains, perhaps, un ucro of trees and lawn, 1010 which, on these bright summer aays, the children are brought to take their alring. 4 visited the establishment this afternoon. The gorgeous imperial sorvaut, la his red ond gold livery, took my card at the big frout door and a long-gowned shogk-beaded trim little lady of perhaps 25 years took me in charge and showed mo over the whole in- stitution, She spokea little Eoghsh and much German and sho talked about the babies as wo walked through the girden. This garden was cut up by long, wide aud well shaded walks, and theso walks were filled with the nurses ana their babies, A Thousand Foster Mothers, Bach baby has her own wet nurse, along each walk wero two lines of these nurses, each with a baby at ner breasy, and the whole garden was filled with such sights, There were hundreds upon hundreds of theso nurses—buxom young peasant girls of vears old and upwaras, all aressed in their best ciothes, for it was Sunday afternoon, and all wearing the picturesque caps of the institution. These caps are nurses’ caps of blue, green or red, which ara as full us Tam O'Shanter caps at tho top, but which fit tight about the fore- head, and which are set rather on the back of the hiead, 50 as not to tide the forehead. The dresses of these hundreds of muiden nurses aro cut low at the neck, and stauding avono end of one of these walks you look along a liue of 800 white necks shining out under tuese bright caps, aud bordered by white yokes from which full gowns fail s0as to show the swelling of these 300 busts. Half of the girls bave babies sucking milk from their milk-whito breasts, and the other half littie swaddled infunts who have had thoir filll and aro taking arest or sleeping in their nurses’ arms, AU first you cannot no tice the dresses for the interest you take in the nurses and babies aud their fecding, but a3 you grow used Lo this you uote thut each irl's dress is much e same, . ‘The sleeves, full at the shoulders, are short, and leave the arms bare Lo the bic 1 and hulf open ut the iront, and the skir gathered in at the walst, ure short, uud do uot reach to tho ankles., ‘I'he caps are of dif- foront colors, but of the sume shape, aud tho giristare of ull types of Russian beauty and homoliness. Hundreds of them ave blondes, and the flaxed-haired, blue-eyed beauties of the northern provinces are well represented. Hundreds have the rosy cheeks that you find ulong the Neva and upper Volga, aud hero und there you see tho davk eyes und brunette faces which aro found farther south, As I stood upon tho steps, at ono cud of the gar- deu, I could see fully 1,000 of these girls in the' garaen below me. Think of it! A thousand Russiun Madonnas—not fu ol or water colors, but in liviug, glowing flesh and blood—onch doing tho Madounu uct in earn® ©est and 1 truth; 1,000 babies performing thewr part in the picture; and all this under one of the brightest skies and in one of the pretuiest gardons of tho world, It was, lu truth, a sight worth comiug to Russia 1o see. How the Bables Are Cared ¥ As we walked through the guraen the nurses saluted us. Tle young matron bowed 10 them apd wo ruised olr huls as Wo entered one of tho walks, and at that moment the 1,000 red and blue caps bowed down to us. ‘I'ue girls bow from the walst und Lot with a nod of the head, us we do. They are uot asbamed of thoir businoss, und they kold up their pabies for us Lo look at as we pass. The nurses seem 10 be foud of thow babies, and [ would like to show 1€ I can just how one of these Itussian bables 1s carea for, Behiud euch nurse slong these walks stood a livile iron orib, d theso oribs are smaller than any baby cribs you bave ever seen. They stand on iron legs, but they are not 4s big as the average family clothes basket, and they are about two feet wide, threo feot long and two foet deop. Each baby bas & crib to 1tsell, and there were, I was Lold, 1,800 cribs standing iu the garden at the time I visited it Insowe of the crivs bables were lying, Thoy rested on soft waltresses with their livtie beads, many of which seemed to me no igger than & base ball, upon little pillows, and over them were drawn nets to shield thelr red faces frow the too ardent kisses of thewing. They looked most comfortabl was direoted to the door of the garden and s l 1 venture you could get nowhere in 'F(r)ys and Fancy d(;ods Opening sale of dolls at 5e, Te, 10,120, 15, 17¢ and 25¢, actual value 15c up to 50c. Finest bisque and French model dolls in greater variety than ever before. Doll buggies and boys’ wagons at sur- prisingly low prices. Have you a baby? 1If s0, why not buy a buby buggy? All the best makes at less than half price to close. Meinberg music stock from sherift sale to close regardless of cost 5,000 sheets standard music at 7e. Musical instrugients of all kinds atless than oune-half regular cost. Carpets. We have a fow of the bankrupt stoclk of carpets left to close out cheap. A good Brussells earpet for 50c. A Dbetter one for 65e. Our fall stock of the celebrated Lowell carpets has avrived and are the finest styles ever shown. Oil cloths and linoleums than ever. A good China matting for 123c yard. Curtains, draveries, and trimmings of all kinds from the cheapest to the best. Also a new stock of rugs. Art Dep’t. ye oy this week. Solid comfort worth e, 27 inch art plush in all colo worth )0, 24 inch plush center pieces, Monday only 79e. Variegated plush balls only 10c per dozen, worth 80c. Chenilie and tinsel avd. cheaper nsin the art dep't. sillkk headrests, , &t $1.00 cords only & h Se. 10 dozen nicely embroidered felt table scarfs at 49¢, worth $1.00. 5 dozen tinsel embroidered -fs, reduced for this week to $1 table at $1.00, $1.25, well worth 1. 5 dozen fine momie tray amped at 19¢, worth 8ac. ) dozen drawn thread end ull linen, nicely stamped at Iic well worth 40e. on stamped pillow shams, at 10¢ cloths, Cloak Department. CLOSING OUT PRICES. Black and white striped ladies’ waists, worth 1, vo close, at 50c. 85 dozen lndies’ waists, ranging in prl;es from $1.25 up to $2; your choice at 873 Black silk waists, worth $4.50,to close, at $2.19. Fine made dresses, worth $3.50 to $6. to close, at $2 50 elegant silk front tea gowns, new styles, worth #5 to 50, to close, at $3. Lvery articie in summer goods to close at less than balf actuul cost. Trunks and Valises, IN OUR WORLD'S FAIR TRUNK AND VALISE DEPARTMENT we are showing as fine a line of trunks and Dbags as any exclusive trunk house in the west., Trunks, iron bottom, zinec- covered, from $2.50 up. Valises from 83¢ up to the bestalligator bag made. We profess to carry A 1 goods in this line, and assure the public the price is than ordinavy. Picture Sale, IN OUR FURNITURE DEP1T. We are going to close.out a large lot ur pictures, and to.do so will reduce pictures zo Monday at 50c. our $1 pictures go at 75e. All our $2 pistures, a large line of these. go at . A fine lot of etchings [Remark] worth $2.50, go at $1.95. These pictures gener- ally seil at from $3 to 5. We are stiill selling all our fancy rockers ut prices to make room for our fall line of furnitur Another lot of those 95¢ oak tables, 18x18. as nice a centor table as there going at this price, and well worth $1.25 [ine line of eusels at &0c, 75¢, Yae, $1, Iixtension, 6:foot, $4.25, $4.50, $5.50, , #6.00y 87,50, $8.50. These are from’ 81 to $3° cheaper than else- where. Blogunt, late style oak chairsat 95c and $1, 8 s s of bedroom suits at $ $14.50, . $18.50, 819, up to $47. 3-piecce, lurge bed suits. 81 I PRGES 9 TO 16. l NUMBER 1. Hayin Bro., Bousht Hertzel's Meats, lard, butter, cheese and produce, and will be sold at less than seventy-fi cents on the dollas Woe will tell Hetzel’s butter for 12ic and 15¢. Remember this is fine country and creamery butter, His price was 20c, 25¢, 80c and 35¢, Hetzel’s full cream cheose 7e, 9¢, 10c. Stoves. Our cooking and heating stoves are now rveady for inspection, and we have the largest and finest line in the west. Our pr are 50 per cent lower. In heating stoves we can give you the foi- lowing: The Magnet as much, The Putman $5.15 The Coal Jr. Oak We also plendid Lmblem. In cooking stoves we can give you the | following: The Emblem $7, worth $12. The Hi i 11.48, worth 318, 8, worth § 3, worth $2: inest cook stove 95, worth $35. Jewelry, Double platea Malassa spoons, 25¢ per set, for tables or teas. ‘Fhe process of making these spoons and the material used, makes them the best wearing goods in the mark contain no brass, copper or oLhe ous metals. Any person after using them one year and becoming dis=atisfied can return them to us and receive an- other set or price paid for them. Special bargains in watches, clocks, silverware, solid gold rings.neck chains, cufl buttons, ear drops, gold spectacles, opera glasses, ote., ete. All goods gus anteed us represented. 95, worth three times worth $10. 5.45. worth $12. the P. P. Stewart, the matchless Cannon and The and the Tho Signal $1¢ | in the | Stewart, t world, ut injuri- House Furnishing Goods. Mason fruit jars 72¢ per dozen. Tin top jelly glasses 2ic each. Butter and milk crocks 2e, 8¢, 6e an 8¢ per gallon. Dinner plates 2¢ each. Pie plates 2¢ each, Cups and snucers 24c each. Tumblers 2f¢ euch, Flower pots from lc up. Fine decorated tea sets §3.25, worth $10. Tea ketties 15¢ each. Mme. Streeter’s patent flat irons, 3 irons, handle and stand, $1.05, regular price $2.25. New novelty lantern salt and pepper, in all colors. 2 for 5e. 0dd lot of all kinds of fine glassegs, cach. Covered tin pails 5¢ ea ch. Drug Department. Tomorrow's special prices in_this de- partment will raise it still another notch higher in the scale of popular favor. More people are realizing every day, the folly of paying the exhorbitant drug store profits on goods which can be bought for about half the money at our apothecary shop. Oriental crea Viola eream, Hind's honey Blush of roses, ac. Recamior crex m, $1.00. Ayer's hair vi 73 ir growe Pinoud’s brilliantine, Fig Syrup, 17c. Raby s or Lisbig heel oxtract, 20c. Carlsbid sprudel salts, 65¢, 23 1b. hox sen salt, 15c. Hires’ root beer 173c, 23¢. A complete stock of syringes, atom- | izers and rubber goods of eve sy descri tion, at about one third of drug store prices 1,000 babies all under four weeks old who would make less noise than these 1,000 odd Russian babics were making. Here and there about tho grounas [ noted tables on which the bubies wero laid when their nurses wished to rearrange their toilets, and [ noted how carefully the little ones were handled. 'Tho tavles, which were about four feet square, hud padaed tops, and as i saw the dressing going on I looked in vain for safoly pins and the other littio tortures which 1 have seen in American baby drossing. The baby is wrapped around 1n softlinen ciotlies, its legs being close together and 1ts Wutle red body swaddied up till it looks for all the world like u vig rag baby, with the exception of where its littie red face and its bright ©eyos peep out of the white linou. As I looked at this baby oeing aressed I asiced the young matron if thoy had any “bottle babies on the grouds aud 1f some of the babies wero not brought up by hand.” A look of horror and disgust came over her face, and sho re- plied that tuey did not consider such methods of baby farming good or right, and that each baby bad its own vurse. She had appar- eutly never heurd of our patent baby food: and the pretty faces of the boltie babies which appear as the result of particular com- binations in our maguzne advertisements would surprise her. The Russian babies of this institution know nothing of *ono cow’s milk,” of “Gail Hordew's cagle brand or barloy water, and thoy got throuzh their in- faney without veing’ experimented upon by doctors and parents. Scientific Baby Incubation, A great part of the establishmont 1s on the cottage plun. The babies sleep on the grovnd floor and at the end of cach nurse's bed stauds ono of thelittloeribs, They arenever allowed to sleep with their nurses and the greatest care 18 taken that all of the sur- voundings should be healthy. The rooms aro well ventilatea and thore are rooms in which prematurely born babies are kept, wiich are, as it were, incubatiog rooms, These are beated by steam and are kept at what I judge is about 702, It is the sams with tho hospital proper, and the babies are taken to cooler and coolor rooms as they recover from sickness. In the incubating rooms Isaw a 5c0Te or 80 0f babies in copper tubs so made that hot water ranmng around their double walls kept the wuterior at almost blood heat. In these wero babies born two or threo mouths before their time. These wero wrapped in cotton and thoy havdly seemed alive, ut I could note the quiveriog of their eyolids us tho matron opened the glass tops of the tubs. ‘The most of such cases are, I am told, successful, and 1 judge that if a baby hus auy chance for existence wheu she comes here she lives. The babies are washed once a day in bathtubs of copper, and I noted that in the bottom ‘of each tub thero was a pillow on which the baby was blaced and that its sides were padded with soft flanel. About fifty new baoles are received on the average by this institution every day, and all babies are taken and no questions asked. They are sometimes left on the steps of the institution, but more often uro brought by their wothors or some friend. 1f the mother 4 namo for the obild she writes it on & card and this name is giveo 1t, and at the sume thne it is registered with'a number and a corresponding number is given to the wotber. ‘Cois number is writteu on a little round tag of bone, and it 18 tied around the neck of the ¢hiid, and by this numoer it goes in the institution. If the mother wants it ugain sho can bring back her chock and got her baby, and sho cau claim it at any time up to the age of ten years, ghtful Infane Mortality, ‘Tho babies are kept in this iustitution only four wesks, and after this time the nurses who are in charge of them take them to their homes in the villages and there bring them up. KEach nurse gets $1 a month for such service, and she {s undar the supecvision of the doetor of tue district and has to report her baby to biw from time to time. At the 8ge of about six years the children aro brought back to the lustitution and are edu- cated, They are taught trades and at twelve £0 out Lo work for themselves. Sowe of the #irls aro taken back as officers and thoy are Lrained as nhospital nurses. Mauy of the boys go into the army asnd there are 150 of them suoouslly sdmitted to the la- dustrial schools of Muscow. If a girl gets married before she becomes of age the insti- tution gives her her trousseau, ana alte- gether foundlings ave better treated in Rus- sia than in any other country in the vrorld. Their treatment, howe ufter they are sent out into the viilages to be nursed is not 50 good as 1t 1s here, and the statistics show that fully balf of all these babies die before they are a year old, and the science of baby raising over the whole of Jtussia is in suca a ate that one-fourth of all the ba- bies born in the empire die before they are twelve months of agei Forty-two per cont diw before they aro fiye yeavs old, and still the vearly crop of ehildren 1s so great that the population of Russia, according to the statistics of the Statesman's Year Book,is in- croasing 8t _the rate of 2,000,00) a vear. In European Russia alone there are every 1,600,000 moro babies than there were the year before, and more than 4,000,000 babies ure born here every year. Russia'Las a bigh death rate, but these peasauts breed like Australian rabbits und they liko large faun- lies. Nearly evory woman you see in tbe country has & baby at her breast and tow- heuded young ones of all ages swarm in the villages. ‘Thie most of these babies of Moscow come from the city and the most of them are ille- gitimate. ~'I'hero are 10 per cent more illegiti- mute births in Moscow thau thero are in Paris, bulit is said that there Is little or no infanti- cido herc and the probability is the statistics of Paris do not reproseat theirue social state of that city in this regard. I am told that mothers often bring their babies to this insti- tution and afterwards apply to tho establish - ment fox places as wet nurses and thus man- age to get hola of their own bavies and get puid £ r feeding them At the Receipt of Childron, I watched tue bringing in of the babies and saw o number sent into the country. ‘The recelving room was about twenty feet square and in the center of oue side of it, be- hind a low table, sat an intelligont RRussian girl with a ledzer before hor. At ono side of her was u pair of lurge scales, for all tho world like a pair of gegcer's scales in which sugar is weighed,nnd before ber stood another of tho matrons with a tape measure thrown over her shoulder. ,As‘l stood in the room I 0ok out my watch mnd timed the taking i of ‘a half dozen Dbabies. ‘These were brought in within twenty minutes and it did not take moré than threo minutes at the outsido to rogister, wash and taio care of each of them. Their mothers, I sup- pose, brought the ba in. One wasa protty Itussian poaspat . ner bare feet with a oul . S Look this to the table ,aud bunasd aslip of paper on which was written the nuwe of the baby to the bookkeeper. She was asked the aate of its birth wad, was then given a check with & number ouit, and her baby was handed over to thegirl with the tape measure, This girl unwrapped the little oue in Jiffy and laidit. squuiling on tne scales, She then gaye its weight to the bookkeeper, and takimg. the tape measure from her shoulders ¥ap it around the head of the baby, noted the size of it and then measured its lengtu: from crown to sole. These fivures wero Tlldpwn aua the infant was carcled off, unked ns it was, into the pext room and twnded pver to the washer. Fivst, however, 1ts check of white bone bearing its nuniber was tied about its neck, wud it from LLis tine Jost its name and ve- came & numoer, Lot us follow ft'as I did and seo how it 1s w are of. In the pext room an old ludy was washing a baby that waus brought in five minutes enrlier. She speaks to tho @irl who brings the new bapy in and the baby is dropped geolly on & padded table und loft a second while number ono is dressed. It continues o, squall and kick as 1t Lies there for five seconds on its back, but tops suddenly g8 the old ledy picks it up. It Starts up again s she lays it lo the copper bathitub lined with flanugl. This bas warm waterin it and into it moge warm water is flowing. With soap the old lady quickly washes Lhe baby sud o ten secouds by my watch she bas cleaned every part of its body. 5he now raises it iu her hands and iays it on @ dry padded \abie. She dries its red hmbs with s soft towel and puts a little long shirt oo its body, Then comes the disper, which is much the sume as the article used by our babies at home, and_then the old lady wraps around it these swaddling clothes and the infant is comolete. It is carriea to its little iron crib and its lifo as a Ru foundling has bogun. Eight days later it will bo bap- tized by the pricst in a great silver urn which stands on the floor of the next room, and for the next four weeks it is sure of as good attention and as good food as sny baby con have. Its health will bo carefuliv watched and it will be vaccinated with mat- ter taken from inoculated calvos, which are selected for this purposo and which are ke in another partof tbe establishment. ‘I'he vaceine matter is transferved directly from the calf to tho child, and the greatest atten- tion is pnid to haviog the animals clean and healthy. FrANK G. CARPENTER, e CONNUBIALITIES. Marriageable men arc not scarce. It 1s the women who kunow how o go after them who are scarce. The Association of Married Women for the Control of Husbands is the title of a suciety in Berlin, Germany. Of a Philadelphia defaulter it 1s tersely written that ho took $10,000 aud @ preuty girl, Man wants but little here below. Thero is a case on record where a young coup e got seventeen clocks aniong the wed- aiug presents, aud yet three months after wards the husband “dian’t rnow what timo it was when he came home in the morning. A.marriage bureau has been started in a a New Jersey town withan interesting side issue, In case a person receiving o civeulor should be averse to marrving, or alieady married, the bureau offers him a*'fun list.” “I can ouly ho a sister to you,” said the girl irmly but geutly. “And why only a sister!” he pleaded. “Bocause,” she ex- plained, “a brother with $1,200 a' year is not $0 bad, but a husband with that amount is a avery different thing.” Mrs. Porou—There was one thiug that happened at her wedding that struck me as being rather bad form. Mrs. Wabash What was tbati Mrs. Porcu—Among the the old shoes thrown after the happy couple were & pair belonging to her divorced hus- band. Mrs. Sarah Steiner, a wealthy Toledo widow, contracted marriagewith M, . Muu- son through an advertisemont. Munson borrowed §1,000 from the ‘bride and kipped out. On investigation, Mrs. Steiner-Mun- son discovered her fleeing busbaud bad five other wives, Jiggs—DIid you enjoy vourself at Whistler's wedding? Jags—Well, partly; but I fear | made 8 sad mistake. Jiggs—How so! Jaggs —Why, you see 1 went there after I had been somewhere else, and when [ went up to congratulate Whistler I wished him wany happy returns. In Santiago, Chili, ves a most remarkablo old woman, who looks @ woll preserved women of 35, is spry as o guwl, ana & pro- nouncad coquetts, ~ but who is known to be wmore than 80 years old, She has o granadaughtor who looks old enough to be ber mother, dhe s still passionitely fond of dancing, bas a musical voice, golorious dark eyes, beauti- ful teoth, and among her mauy admires is o Chilian youta of wealth, to whom she is to be married, ‘e most interesting and remantic episode which transpired in the social world this was the marriaze in lLoudon, Eng- Miss Vesta Miller Westover, daugn- und Mrs, Westover of Chivigo, aud Mr, Harey S, Channon, on Monday, Aug 1. Tho youug p-ovle are well known ana most popular membars of Chiv beau jondo Miss Westover is unlversally re- cognized to be 006 of the most charming of the yeur's young debutantes on the North Side. Mr. Chanvon a Is member of & prom- inent business house of Chicago, Within a few vears a dozen of the belles and desirable youug women of Philadelpbia bave married clergymen. Much social inter- st is taken in the wedding of Miss Kuine- lander of New York snd Rev. Lewis Cam- eron, her bandsome partuer, which 0ok lace a week ago ln Switzerland. The pub.l ic apuouucemont of the eugugemont was made 1 April last, and happoned 1n this wise: Plilip Rhmelandor, the youngest sou, who is a student at Harvard, was U ill with _pneumonin during tho Easter v tion, Ior a week he lay at the point of death. As soon the voung ian was out of danger Mrs. Rhinclander was ordered abroud by her physcan, William Tod Hel- wuth, to get the waters of Carlsbad, Her hus- band ‘and shters, Fannio and Helen, I r, and at that time engagem len to Mr. Cameron was made public. Miss Ithinelander is 21 years of age, tall, aark, quiet, vetirine, de- vout, charitable and constant i her atten- tion to religious duti Mr. Cameron is four years her senior, hauasome, talented and ambitious. Prince Bismarck Las an income of §250,000 ayear. And ho owns a brewery. Coula earth afford nim a happier lott Itis swd that Ben Butler i with age, and that his massive come an unmistakable burden. Mr. Depew is_enjoying himselt in Europe and isn’t bothering” Fimself about the strike on his railvoad. He will lev the delegato do the walking. * Mr. Bonner is not content to allow Nancy Hanks to nave the world’s recora for speed without another trial of Sunol, He expects 1o bive Sutiol muke a trial at breakiug tho record during the fall, Among the oldest practicing lawyers in the country is said to be Rooert H. Folger, 4 native of Pennsylvania, now lving ut Mas- sillon, 0. Mr. Folger wis born in 1812 and was admitted to the bar in 184 Sir George Otto Trevelyan, who 1s secre- ¢ for Swotland in the new British cabinet, is & nephew of Lord Macaulay, and with hi motber, who was Macaulay’s favorite sister wrote the historlaw’s life and edited his lot- ters. Lord Macaulay thought a good deal of his nevhew und, first und last, dia muci for him, udge Gregrick of tho superior court of New York last week put to an applivant for vaturalization, an Austran, the quoi “Which would you fight for ina war be tween Austria ‘and the United Statos?” “Austria,” smd the would-bo citizen. *Go back there ! replied the judge, as Lo toro up tho declaration, Edward Blake, the brilliant Canadian liberal, who was regarded as a possible member of Mr. Gladstono's cabinet, declined the houor of knighthood offered by the queen a fow yours ago and hus sev his fuco aguinst the introauction of otd-world 1deas into tho Domliuion. He bas a commanding p a fine voice, and the courage of his tions. Rupert Schmidt, the San Francisco sculp- tor,has been awarded fivst prize in the compe- tition for the German monument at Mil- waukee, to be erected by coutributions from rmau-Americans in all pacts of this coun- try. Fourteen artists competed. Schmidy excels in heroic fizures aud in panels, e bas depicted the advance of German art, sclence and lite Fraueis J of Piusburg has tho reputation of beiug the tallest nowspay wau in Ameriva. . Kelly is almost seven foo bigh, 1o bas seon lifo in many variod phases, haviug served in the Liritish army squatted in Australis sod teaveled tw around the world, His frst oxpori Amorica consisted in_running a loc outof New York, Subseauently b a8 prigss agent to the Irish crickel te thencatrifted inlonewspaper work. Seuntag David, Bosnei il 1s having wost acliniiul time at Normaadie-by-the- a. Ho r fails o tuke his morning swim. ‘Tuahother day while in batbing, swimming aldyg at a good rale of spocd, he noticed that ayoung lady was outswimming bin. Toe tuchelor souutor endeavored to overtake the youhg lady but found that the task was too wuch for him, as the young lady was much the better swimmer. I'be imprompuu raco was witnessed Ly many of the hotel guests, and they bad the laugh on the senator whon he came ashore a dofoated man. The youus lady was much amused at baviug defealed Lhe senator, sadly bent ame hus be- 105 1 wotive wcted w, and Letting Down the Prices. Minneapolis best Superlative flour (warranted). 90c. A good flour (Snowfluke), 65c. Huayden Bros. best Superlative flour, $1 Best sugar.cured hams, 13¢. Best sugar-cured pienic hams, 10c Best boneless hams, 10e. Dried beef, 7e. Pigs feet, 8ic. Tripe, 8ic. Potted ham, per can, be. Doviled ham, e. Potted ox tongue, 5e. Just imported from Seville, Spain, the finest olives you ever seen, all packed fresh for us, per quart, 85¢. Imported chow-chow, 1. Imported mixed pickles, 15¢. We sell a good baking powder at 5c. Dried blackberries, e, Evaporated raspberries (new), 25¢. l_il'xlli(ul'niu evaporated apricots (new), 7ie. A ;\'c\\' California raisin-cured prunes, 2jc. 3-pound pail pure fruit jelly, 150. 20-pound pail pure fruit jelly, 65c. Large bottle blue, se. Corn starch, be. Laundry starch, 5e. Rolled wheat (some call it California Breakfast Food), All kinds of washing powder, 3}c. Bird seed (very fine) 8o, Look. Teas and Coffees at bottom prices. Choice Japan siftings 10¢ and 15¢ 1b. Green Japan 19¢ and 25 Sun dried Ja, Basket fired Japs and 456¢. Uncolored Japan 20c, 38¢ and 450, No. 1 spider leg Japan 60c. Coffees at ull prices to suit customers. Hroken coffee 10c and 124¢ per pound. Broken Java and Mocha ¢ and 19c. IRio coffee 20¢ and 2 Golden Rio nd 28c, Charm Java 80c. Best Mocha and Jav: 83ke, 8 1b for $1. These goods are guaranteed to suit you or money refunded. . 40 and 50c. THE LAND OF USED-TO-BE. James Whitcomb Riley. rple, hazy troes ran e of oyes 11ko thuse, he resch of the od gaze of memory, oro lies 1002 105t to me— The lund o sad-to-! A land onchanted. such s swunz In golden sens where sirens clung Along thelr drippin hrinks, und sung To Juson In thut mystic tongue That dazed men with 1ts melody; O. such w land, with such u sea, Kissing its shores eternaliy, Is the fulr Uscd-to-be. 1d where music ever girds r with bolts of singing birds. And sows all sounds with such sweot words, Thut even in the lowing herds A me b to me, iter ripples Hmpldly. From 1ips brimuicd o'er with all the gles Of rure old Used-to-be. 0, 1ana of love ana dreaxmy thoughts, And shining fields and shady spots, Of coolest, greencs! rassy blots 1hossed with wild for:et-me-nots, nd ull the blooms that cunningly Lift their faces up to me Outof the past; 1 kiss i thee “he 1ips of Usod-to-be, Iiove ye all, and with wet eyes Furned ghimmernzly on the skies, My blossin s 1ike your porfumcs rise, il o'er my soul i slicnce lies. Sweeter than any song to me, Sweeter than any mulu(lrv Or ity swoot o . (] threo— My dros Last year one colored mav gradusted from Harvard college. Tuis yoar three young colored men graduated from Amherst, Paris university is the largest 1o the world, 1thas 9,215 students, Vieona university, with 6,220 students, is second and Berlin third, Miss May Graham, a Wesleyan graduate and Miss May Scott, a Vassar graduste, are numed as the first young women to rdcelve Yalo fellowships. At the Grand Rapids Association for Uni- versity Iixtension tho treasurer's report showed thut the total receipts for the Lwo courses given during the first year amoanted to $410.51, It was decided to give three courses next year of six lectures eaoh. Bloomington, lil, has had for eighteen years 8 woman superintendent of schools, Miss 8. E. Raymond. Durlug ber regime the school facilities huve been greatly en- larged, no extravagant debts contracted, and no hint of scandal attacted 1o the manage ment. I'he names of three Bedford college stu- deuts appear on the list of candidates for the dogree of Mastor of Arts regently published by the University of London. 'They are Misses Aguos Ewart, Rebecca Wilson Wart, aud Anuie Dawe. 'I'he two former are pros- ont students of the colleve, having taken their B, A, degroes only nine months ago, in October, 1591, oo New York Normal college was estab- lshed in 1870, Since that tme 4,080 toach- ©rs buve beon graduated from the institu- tion. Almost half this vumber 1s now teach- ingin the public schools of New York. ven graduates bave become princips s0me first ussistants and others well kno writers oa educationsl aud scientific sub- jects, Since 1875 the Agassiz assoclation has spread from w school iu Lenox, Mass., to overy pari of the wovid. It has established moré than 1,500 brateh socioties in as many differens towns, with @ total membersbip of more than 20,000, The purpose for which the corporation is constituted is the promo- tion of solentitic education; the advancemens of scienee; the collection in museums of natura) and seientific specimens ; the employ- ment of observers sud tesche in the different departments of science snd the geuersl diffusion of koowledge., The place Within which the corporation is estabiisbhed or located 18 the city of Pittefield and county of Berkshire, within sald commonwenlih,