Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1892, Page 10

INDUSTRIAL ~ RUSSIA! fomething Abont the Queor Business En- terprises of a Queer People. FROTECTIVE POLICY FOUND PROFITABLE All Tmports are Taxed and S0 Home-"ade Goods are Cheap. MANUFACTURING AMONG THE MUSCOVITES ""Home" Industrios are Literally Cultivated in this Great Country. WETHODS OF THE RUSSIAN METCHANTS rles in Commerce— In the Dandles, Onts und Can Importance of the “Ieon” Trade Bazaars — Another Enthusiastie Article trom “Carp," Moscow, Sept. 1.—|Special Correspondence of Tur Ber.|—Take a cup of tea with me Ia Russe while 1 tell you something about the queer business methods of this queer people. A barefooted boy brings in the Iarge brass samovar and we drink our tea out of glass tumblers with nothing but a bit of lemon and & gonerous amount of sugar to affect its flavor. The Russians do all their trading over tea, and this commercial center, Moscow, is fuil of tea houses called traktirs where these longhaired morchants sit and suck their toa through lumps of sugar which they hold between their teeth and dicker and bargain from morning till evening. There is no such thing as fixed prices or quick trades in Russia, It takesa man all day to come to n decision, and he always asks you three times as much as he expects 10 got. And still the business done is enor- mous. Moscow has some business houses which would bs n credit to Chicazo, and there are stores here as fine as you will find anywhere in Paris, The wealthier Russians buy the most extravagant articles of jowelry and wearing apparel, and the arcades of Moscow are unequalod anvwhere in the world. Just under the shadow of the Krom lin there is now being built a vast bazaar of six atories which must cover ten acres of ground, and there are many business blocks nere which cover acres, There is more economy usod in building than in Amorica, and some of these vast buildings aro cut by wide passages which are roofed with glass and out upon which open stores about twenty teet tront with zood show windows Thoso windows are filled with beautiful ¢oods, and the shoppers can spend hours in going from one store to another without getting out into the street, Kussin's Tarllt Methods, The goods sold ure largely imported and it is curious to see how the government watches the payment of duty upon them. Every im- ported article pays a tax and Russia has per- haps tne highest protective tariff of any country in the world. Every article has to have the stamp of the revenue ofiicer upon 1t and this stawp isin the shapeof a littie piece of lead as big around as a silver 5-cent viecs, to which are fastened two pieces of wire which unite inside of the garment sold. Itis impossible to get this wire oft without brealang the stamp, which is indelibly pressed into the lead, and whether you buy a necktle, & pair of stockings or a mece of jow- elry it must have this stamp upon it. To bacco of all kinds 1s heavily taxed and cigars are always sold in boxes which are wrapped around with rovenue stamps anda which have glass tops. It you buy ouecigarit 1sin o little glass box, and there aro boxes of two cIgars, threo cigars and of five, six, ten and adozen. Fach vears its appropriate stamp aud the bigeer the box the bigger the stamp. ‘The result is that all foreign articles are very high, and imported cigars cost twice as nuch as thoy do with us. Articles manufac- rured lu Russia, howover, aro cheap, and it will ba surprising to many Americans to know what Russia makos, Manufs turing in Russia ‘Thero aro over 1,3)0 factories in operation ubout Moscow, and you can see tho smoke- stacks standing like sentinels horo and taere over tho landscape, rivaling fn their height the golden spires of tho churches. These factories omploy a quarter of a willion of laborers, and they turn out about $150,000,- 000 worth of products every yoar. The city of Tula, which 1 & night's ride from Mos ©ow, has cutlery works which mako all kinds of iron and steel waro of the finest quality, 1 bought a knifo and a razor during my visit there a few days ago, and they are as fino ns anything that Shefield or Birmingham can produce. It 1s ut Tula that the samovars are made, uearly £5,000,000 worth ng turned out every year, sna there are large EUn factories bore which supply the Russian army. The cotton industry is mainly con- flued to Moscow. it has trevled within tho last ten vears, \d there aro cotton mills here which would be a eredit to Massach us otts, The woolen factories are also inerens ing, and tho duy will come when Russia will manufaciure most of the goods consumed by hor vast populution. At the preseut time # large amount of the mauufactures aro the result of home industry. Tho peasants do a kreat many things in thoir homes, und nearly every village has its speciaity of somo kind or other. Near Moscow there is n town which is noted for its boating of gold leaf, andthe peopie Of Lhis village beat tho gold out between caliskins, and the monthly wages of a good gola beater is about § ‘There are other villagns which make wire, othors which make wotaing but spectacls Trames, and down in Tula there ubout 2,000 people who devote themselyes to the waking of accordions. Some of the most beautiful ware turned out at Moscow is the lncquer pupior mache. This is sold all_over Europs, 1t has the finish of the Japanese lacquer, aud 1L is beautifully painted. This is done oy families who hiave worked at it for genori- tions, It was from them that the old- tasbioned snuffboxes camo, and they now mako sloeve buttons, tea caddies, book cov- ers and lucquor pictures, Business. srnkink of plotures, the icon trade is one of the great industries of this country, An 1con is & picture of a saint, the fuce of which painted, but the body of which 1s wade of carved gold, silver or brass. Iivery man in Russia has bis icon, and there is scarcely a room iu & Russian home which doos uot eon- tain one of theso sucred pictures, Thoy uro of all vizew and prices, from little ones no bigzer than a watch, and worth ouly a fow ceuts, up Lo great paintings the size of o barn door, und worLh tous of thousands of dollars, The Russivn says his prayers before them, ba looks upou thom ws the guardian angels of bis life, Thoro s no store in Rus- ala that bas aot ove of these icons hauging up in it, and if you wish to be orainarily wolite you will take off your hat, wheu you Onter the stdre, 1n honor of it, and if you are A Russian you will invariably cross yourself on coming into its presence. Tho baby of our consul general at St Peters- vurg fell sick during my stay there fow weeks ago, and its uurse said that 1he undoubted cause of its illuess was be- cAUSe there Was 10 fcon pioture in the room in which it was lying and she would not con- tinue to wmt upon the child untii ono was put up. In every railroad station in Kussia there Is a shrine of tuis kind wnd you cannot ket out of sight of & picture of ouo of the Iuts, of the Virgin or of the Savior. There are stores here 1n Moscow which sell-nothing but lcons and the pajuting of them gives work to thousauds. = 1n waking thom tho workmen get prices according to the size of the saints aud their bumber. A good wan can mako threo, each containing one figure, 1 & week and as b gets 50 conts & saint he akes $1.50 at this rate for & week's work Some of 1he icons ara very well piinted ana those in the churches are often studded with jewels and the motal work 1s of solid gold. Some icons are holier than others and the most sacred are kissed by the worshipers and candles burn constantly before vhem. tusein's Candlo Business. Speaking of candles, Russia vurns moro to ar populaiion than sany other country in arope. Sho uses about 60,000,000 pounds f oandicy year, and oue of the creat sources of income of the churches is their candlo sales. At the door of avery cathearal thero are candio peddlers, who have coun- ters before thom and who sell candles to the worshipers as fast as they can hand them out, These men are dressed in the uaiform of the church, and they take in pennies by the busbel. I watched a couple of them for along time at the ontrance of the Kazan ca- thedral in St. Petersburg, and in the course of half an hour I saw av least 300 men, women and children buy canales, It took two men to supply them, aud the candles they bought wera of various sizes and of dif- forent prices. Some bought as many as a dozen and others were satisfied witi one, 1 woudered what they would do with them and walked 1 bohind them. The iaterior of this church is as large ns the hall of the house of conuress. 1ts walls aro hung with golden icous, and there are jeweled icons on the pillars and set into tho solid silver altar of the back of tho church Before each icon 15 a silver candlestick with a stom as big around as Grover Claveland’s thigh, and ris. ing from tho floor to about the heizht of the spot on which President Harrison's hat rests, The tops of theso candlesticks are in the shane of a disc and each top has & num ber of holes in which to stick candles, The worstipers whom I followed trotted from one of these candelabra to another, light- ing a candle before each ana put- ing it up to burn before the picture. While thoy stood and‘crossed themselves fore the saints I saw other candlos being pussed up trom man to man, finally reaching the hands of the chiurch ofiicer whio presidod over cach candlestick, being lit by nim and put bofore tho saint. ' There were probably 500 candles burniog at ono time in this ono church and when you remember that this K#oes on all over Russia every Sunday and overy holiday ana during most of the day of the week you can see whero the candles €0 to, A large part of the caadles used are made in houses and not in large factorie and in fact the house industry of Russia seems 10 surpass that of the factories, It is estimated that there are 750,000 workmen in Russia who make things at their own horaos, and one authority states’ that these people turn out 50,000,000 worth of goods every year. These people in, many cases peddio their goods thewselves, aud in somo in- stances they work for the factories. Queer Trados In Russia, Russia nas in fact many queer trades of which we know nothing.” Along tho Volga there are colonies who raake a specialty of breeding and raising cats, which are sold for the fur und wiich are ustal.y disosed of to peddlers, The cats bring from b to 15 cents apieco aud tho peddler collects them in a bag, kills them as soon us he gets away from tho villages in which they have been bought and takes off their skins, which are shipped by bim to the fur centers of the cmpire. in avillage not faroff from the home of Toistol, in Tula, there are eighty families who do nothing elso but raise canaries, ana w Tam- UOft there is a section whero pigeons aro bred for the suke of their skins, wnich are sold at tue weekly bazaars and attho fairs. Tho featbers ure, of course, loft ou the skins and they eventually form i partof some tudy's cloak or bat. In ridiog down the Volga at every station av which the boat stopped the peasants would come to tho wharves with their wares for sule. At Kazan ragged, bare- headed, bare-legged Tartars trotted around with long bars of what I thought was bees- wax for sale, but which turned out to be a 0D which is much noted in Russia. Here Lalso found all Sorts of leather manufac- turos, from boots and slippers made of nittle pieces of different colored leather sewed to gother to leatber coats and traveling bags. I bought a pair of boots and a pair of slippers for 82, ana I was offered a very good travel- ‘nz satchel of tho tinest Russian leatner for 150, Some Wonderful Shawls, Ibought a shaw! in Moscow today which is 0 Jarge that it would cover the biggest double bed in America and so fine that it will go through a lady’s ring. It was made by the peasants of Orenburg andis of the kind known as ring shawls. It was mado entirely by hand, and the fine lace work of these [tussian peasants 1s wonderful, The volvets made by them are noted all over Europo and some of their velvels bring $5 a yard. They make curpets which ure equal to those of Persia and Turkey, and I met here at Moscow American buyers for Tiffany of New York and Bailey, Banks & Biddle of Philadelphia, who ure sent here to buy the wonderful Russian silver aod the bronzes, which are finer than those other partof the world. Thero is u factory here in Moscow which makes this gold and silver enamel ware which is so rare and 50 high-priced, and the tea sots which were given by the ezar to the sea captains who brought over the famine supplies woro mado here. One of the curious sights of the Russian streets is the. lock peddier, who walks about with his breast and back covered with locks, which are hung by strings over his sboulders, und this making ol locks is oo of the great peasunt indus tries. Tho locks are nearly all made by hana and they are of all sorts and s id of all pricés from a half cent up o me of them are so small that it takes 100 to make & pound and others so largs that thoy v, ould drown a cat if one was tied around its neck and it wos thrown into a pond. In the Bazuars. Every city in Itussia bas its grand This is known as tne Gostini Dvor and con- sists of a vast building containing muny acres and made up of all Sorts of shops, which usually open out upon covered corrido!s sep- arated from tho street by pillars, 5o that you can walk all around the bazaar wnd not be affected by the weather. Iho interior of one of these vist buildings is made up of courts and the stoves run from the arcades through 10 the courts and there are hundreds upon hundreds of stores in every bazaar, These stores are of all kinds and You can find in one of thess bazaars anything you wish from a bairpin to u seolskin coatand from a tooti- pick to a set of furuiture. There are jewelry stores and clothing stores Tor tho selling of houselold utensils, stores which bandlo nothing but leather zoods and other stores which deal in books avd pictures, The merchants as a rule are Russians in long coats with their pantaloons stuffed in their boots and their hair chopped off level with the neck 50 that it forms a sort of a brush as 1t hangs down from the crown. ‘I'hey part this hair in the middle aifd they are usually long-beavded men of the Russian typ Thoy are shrowd dealers, but are very suspicious of one another and o on the vrinciple that everything 1s faiv in trade, Some of them grow very wealthy aud somoe of the finost houses in Moscow baloug to the merchauts. Tho nobles looked rather down ou them until in recent ysars urd today tho mercuant elass s not as high as the offcial class iu Russia, ‘They are very superstitious wnd believe in signs and omens. Their boars of business are from about 9 in the morning until about 5 10 the afternoon, and though they are as anxious to make a good Lrude ns our morchants they take more rest thau we do aud they will not open their stores duriu the holidays nov on Sundays, IGverything is closod in Russin on Sunday, and St, Petersburg and Moscow at this time look much more like Boston than Pavis, It is in- toresting to wutch oue of these buzaar mer- chants close np for the night. In the first place he locks up everytning in the store and souls it shut. He then comes outside and closes his winaows and locks the frant doors of his shop with a great padluck. Ho then takes astring and ties the padlock to the staple and joius the two ends of the strin togethor uid puts sowe hot sealingwax on them. ~ This he stamps with his own soal, 80 that it will bo fmpossible to open the look witliout breaking the seal. He then stauds in frout of his closed doors ana crosse solf and says a praver before he leav the night, and ho will say another prayer be- fore he opons up io the morniug. This is done by every merchantand the crossing and souling of theso padlocks is eoing on all along the arcades atthe hour of closing, Queer Basiness Signs, ‘Lo Itussinns do not advertise a great deal, aud & RRussian business advertisement looks queer to Amoricau eyes. There are thirty- six letters 10 the Russian alphabet, and these letters seom to be combination of the Greok, Chinose and Arablo oharacters, A Rreat malority of the lower classes cannot road them. and the result Is thav it hardly 58 the merchant to adveriise. You see 0¥ posters about the oities, and the sand- wioh mao is abseut from these Russian streets. Mauy of *he peusants camnot read the signs oa tho stores, and for this reason nearly every sioro has pulnted on its walls bazaar, THE pletures of the articles sold within, I saw a barber sign theother day here in Moscow which consisted of a bare-armed man shav- 1ng & patient, who sat uright o one char, whilojust opposite him sat a lady, who was holding out her arm. from which a 'stream of biood was spouting, and upon which another barber was porforming the operation of bloodletting. In another part of the picture, ot A 8tool, was a man having a tooth pulled, and the sign intended to convey tne fact that the varber within was adentist, ashaver And asurgeon. A fecd store will have & bun alo of hay in a doorway, and on the walls at tho side of the door will be painted horses feeding and vows grazing, The dairv signs aro cows with maids or men milking them, and the tea signs are us- uaily gaudy Chinamen, who are sipping tea. Even the newest 1nventions, such as the typawriter, the bicyclo and the camera, are painted on ‘the siznboards in_this way, wnd someiimes tho wholo front of a store will bo covered by pictures, each of which ropre- sents some article €old by the merchant, Tho w va are fillod with samplos of tho goods sold, and not infrequently articles are suspended on the walls outside in ordor to show just what is offered within, Kvery merchant makes his ealoulations with & box of wooden buttons strung on wires, just as the merchants do in Coina, and only tho larger establishments keep book accounts. Littie business is dono by checks, and the banking methods of Russia are so full of curious features that | will treat of them in another letter, ERANK G CARPENTER, —— KDUCATTONAL. OMAHA DAILY San Francisco has sev asido §1,000,000 for the public schools for the current fiscal yoar. ago Theologieal semiuary 15 about to inaugurate a new department, designated Christian Sociology.”” Prof. Gratam Tay- lor, D.D., of Hartford, Conn., will conduct the dopartment. The twentieth anuual roport of the Cni- ago public library shows tho fostitution ranks secoud in tho United States, Boston only exceeding it in number of volumes, and that was established in 1852, while Chicago's was vegun in 1872, The total number of books on the sholves of the library is 177, an incrense in the lust year of 10,703, Womon aro slowly but surely elbowing men out of the work of primavy school teach- log in Great Britain, as they have done to a cousideraple extent in the United States, When Mr. forster’s act was passed thero were 22,542 pupil teachors, 1,236 assistant teachers and 12,027 ccrtificated teachers at work in the popular schools of the country. Theso numbers have now risen to 25,131 pu- pil teachers, 13,508 assistuut avd 47,52 ce tificated teachers. Professor Henry C. Adams, in an article on state education as exemplitied by the Uni- versity of Michigan, in the September Fo- rum, maintains that’ “an educational system which is part of state machiuery, provided the state bo democratic in form, can neve come to mean the education of a class, nor can a university which apnoals to the people for pecuninry support becomo a center from which aristocratis ideas or a plutocratic in- dustrial philosophy are disseminated." The report submitted by a committee of the Woman’s alliance on the condition of the public sehools of Chicago shows that there are 53,578 children 1 the eity who are witi out seats in the schools. Besides these wio aro shut out entirely from the public facili- ties for education, there are 14,340 half-day pupils, or children who receive but two and a half hours’ wstruction per day. In the cases of these- 14.34) a seat in the schoolroom ac- commodutes one pupil in the forenoon and another in the afternoon. IMCTELLES, New York Teibune: Rev. Mr, Gooa- euough—And now, children, who was the man who depended upon the ravens for his daily food? Johuny—David Bennett, Hill, Rev. Mr. Goodenough—Johin Tugmutton, I shall roport. you to your father. Johuny—Huh! Pop thinks so himself. He suys that Mr. Hili has boen_eating crows ever since the Chicago convention, * ®'e Somerville Journal: Tho minister who preaclies short secmons is generally popular with the congregation, and, after ail, there 13 no airect evidence that hls parishioners don’t get into heaven just as easily as those of the “'sixteenthly-my-brethren” kind. s Rev. Plunk in New York Herald: De fashnable churshes 'Ll soon be thrown opon again for de fail an’ winter, deah breddern, but it 'l bs some time before de cobwebs ob sin dat de dobble hez b spinnin’ ull sum- mer will be brushed out ob de souls ob de members ob de diffsrent congregashuns, Philadelphia Recora! A Kensingtor. gent who is too religious to swear hit his thumb with a tackhammer yesterday and ingoni- ously gave vent to his emotions without breaking tuo decaloue by exclaiming, “D—n the devil!"” Rov. Dr. Primrose’{ alw: both sides of a story. Brown—Then why don’t you preach a ser- mon about the gambler who wins big money and feeds his wife and children on tue fat of the land ! s like to givo The Rector—My dear young laay, I hopo I am mistakon, but I thought Isaw you talk- ing during tho sermon yosterday! Stray Lamb—Yon certainly ard mstaken, rector, Why, I never talk in my sleep. Wiggsy—I noticed you stick in the middle of yoursormon this morning. Dr. Longwind—Y wben I wrote that part 1 was just after dinping my pen fnto tho mucilage bottle by mistake, 1f any of the ministors wou any money betting on the Sullivan-Corbett fight, they undoubtedly putitall in the home mis- sionary box, —_—— THE BLOOMING KIDS, York Tribune: Warren, liad formed his idoas of wng their forms from the study of cert and told his mother if sho again be would “die and go right to heaven.” Being told that that was ensior sald than acne, and asked how he would geu there, he answered without hesi- tation: “Ob, 1 would pile up all the chairs and tables and boxes and ladders as far as thoy wonld go, ana then I 'spect an angel would come down and det me. And any way I'd a good deal rather go that way than have things scrowed into me."” New aged 4 and steel engravings, scolded him omerville Journal: TEvery Sunday school toacher knows that whon a boy comes into tho class wearing & partioularly clean and wido whito collar, with clothes conspicu- ously noat and his bair carefully brushed by a gentle mother's hand, ho 15 tho boy she will bave 10 100k out for if she wants to koep tie whole class out of mischisf, Chicago Tribune: ommy—Mamma isn’t it uwful slangy to say “get up and get” His Mothor—It 13, my son. it is very coarse and elownish. Tommy —That's the way it sounded to me when I heard you telling Betty this morning 1o get up and gev broakfast. \Why do birds in their little nests agrect” asked the pretty schoolma'm of Fraddy Fanglo. \ “1Cause they'd fall out if tley didu’t,” Freddy replied. g Tommy—Say, paw, Mr. Potts lost the use of his oyesight for cear an hour last might. Mr. Pigg—Whay, | never heard of that. Ho # dia it happor 1 ‘Tommy—The lec Little Girl (in the park) —'hose buttevflies 18 uwful mean. Mamma-—Why sof Little Girl—Quick a5 T goos to chuse 'em they flies off the walk onto the grass, ‘canse tioy knows | mustn't go there, “What do wn get fom plantiog potatoes ! asked a speaker ot Sunday schooi mass meeting fu Nobloboro, i and & small boy piped out Little Girl--What does your mamma do since the dog was stolen Liltlo Boy-=Ob, sho sort o' comforts her- L with th' baby. . A Brown—You shouldi't make fun of the old, mv boy. Littio Johnuy—Why, dad, the miuister said wo should humor'the infirmities of a; it il s Cook’s Lmperial Champagoo has stood the test for thirty vears. There is no better sparkliog wine made, Vs exira dry. BE: EVEN" | b0, wo-r RECK! A THIRD NOMINATION GIN.U.S. GRAN ' A VK 18 1892—TWENTY —_— 4IT TURNED HIS HEAD ComrtTirLY, TROVUBLL PICKLLD e —TE—— IN A PECK OF TROUBLE wrvay. Whitticr to Holmes, Lite Is indeed n Ay: therein Are want, and woe, und Death and its niniel Qur pitying o Thy hand, old friend! the sorvico of our days, In ifforing moods and ways, May prove to those who follow in our train Not virlueless nor vain. Faroff und tulnt as eclioos of a dream The songs of boy hood seem. Yet on our autumn® bouzhs, unflown sprin The evening thrushes sing. with The hour draws ngyr, howe'er delayed and late, When at thooternal zate We leave the words wnd works we call our own, And 1itt vold-hands nlone For love to fill. Our nikedness of soul Brings to that ato no toll; Gittless we come toHin, who all thing and live becausy e lives. CONNUBIALITIES. gives, Wedding bells announce the beginning of the autumn matrimonial barvest. Charles Anthony 'Bayer, tho Now York artist, was married in Chicako to Miss Men- erva Nowelt of that city. *“Miss Hobsou is so occentric.”” *In what way?? “Why, she’s golng %o marry a man because she's engaged to him." If a man can’t spell very well, and isin ove, he should avoid writing the girl alet- ter until she falls 10 love with him. After that, sne will not muko fun of his letters, It’s a seripus mistake for a young man to tell a young woman when he meaets her that he was just thiuking of her. That implies that there are times when there is no thought of her in nis mind. When a family man who elopos with a pretty servant girl gives as an excnse that ho wanted a wife that could do her own house- work, itwill be no easy matter to find a jury heroic enougn to convict him, Sentimental people like to think that every man thatdies a bacnelor had some love affair in his youtn, the memory of which kept him from mur ng. Mabel—l suppose vou have heard of sister Lou’s marriage! Sne's tuken a flat up- town. Miss Jellus—Yes, J heard she haa a flat but I didn’t know where she had taken him The marriago of Miss Alice Shea, second daughter of George Shoea, ox-chief justice of the city court of New York, to Chavles Erastus Glidden, jr., whose father was a judge of the supreme court of Ohio, took place at Brattleboro, Vt., on the Sth. The weading of Miss Mary Emm Ashley, daugnter of ex-Governor James M. Ashloy, of Toledo, to Edward Ringwood Cooper, son of ex-Mayor of New York Abram S. Howitt, took place on Wednesday at Mouroe Cottuge, Put-in Bay, Ohio, the summer home of tne bride’s parants, The postmaster, a justico of the peace, member of the town board, clerk of the health board, member of the board of edueca- tion, captaln of tho fire patrol, and secrotary of the fire department of Manaroneck, N took a day off and gov married His name is William A. Boya. Bishop Jobhn I. Hurst of the Methodist Episcopal chureh, was married in Buffalo Sept., b, 1o Miss Ella Apnes Root, danghter H. Root, tho leather millionaire me hant, Owine to the serious ulness of Mr. Root the wedding was strictly priva Bishop and Mrs, Hurst ovening for a short. wedding trip. 1 live in Washington. The wedding of Miss Minna thalina Giale, the actress, and Avenibald ushman Haynes, took pluco 1n Now York last week, The oeremony was witnessed by a large gathering. Miss Gale has been on the stago for the last eight years, during which time shehas beeu a member of companies under the managemant of Lawrence Barrett, Daniel Bandwmano und other prominent actors. OF Murat Halstead has just celebrated his 63a birthday. Who would have thought it! His editorial work has 1lig/vim, vigor and vinegar of . o **Wateh Doz” Holman carries his 1deas of econowmy s0 far, thoy sy, that he has signi- fied o willingness Lo accopt ten complunen- tary tickets to the bjdMiug exercises of the World's fair, A Kossuth, who will Do 80 vears old on thio first of next montn, {3 about” to publish the first volume of the'ineinoirs on which ho has boen engaged siuce snbrly after the closo of the Amorican civil War, MacDermot, Mr. Gladstone’s attorney eon- eral for [reland, i3 oneof the fow Irishmen who retain the old titles of chieftainey. IHe is the head of theancfent MacDermot family, formerly prirces of Moylurg. A aomocratlo digitnoo for congress in Texas has a mustaslié that measures sixteon inches from tip to tp, - Peffer will hide his diminished whiskersi whon e seus that Toxan pushing his uofteo stealnet up Pena- sylvania uvenue, 1 . Patrick Surstield Gilmore, the bandmastor, besides being a wonderful swify musio pon’ man, has tho largert- stock of orchestral scores in America, il uot tho world, The cash volue of bis musical library 15 osti mated at over $50,000, A man of fiote every way. Owen Chase, & Maiue huuter, kuows the forasts of the Pine Trec state vy heart, hay ing nunted and worked In them for uearly fifty years. He has killed beurs during that pariod, and entertains very little rospoct for bruin's courage. Ho suys bear 1s the most cowardly beast in the woods Hou. Joha P, St. Jobn of Kansas is still percolating through Lhe cumpsign in various parts of tho couutry for probibition and reve- nue only. Mr. St. Johu may nover accow- plish bis massive und begign scheme for pul- verizing the rum power by talking it to death, but ho will always be chorished as the lonesomost and most plstaresque polltical remiuiscence in our beloved land. Major J. W. Powell, director of the United States geological survey, was a precocious boy. Whou only 12 yenrs old he took chare of his fathor's business affairs on a farm of mixty acres, the nead of the family naving be- como so engrossed inabolition work us to neglect overything elso. Much of his carly study was conducted whilo driving ox teams with wheat to market fifty or sixty miles away. Theso trips were taken a dozen times a year, Conspicuous as was tue late francis Ker- nan of New York in his profession and as servant of the city and state, he was de- voted to his family and nover was so happy a3 when at bis own fireside. His wife and oight chiidren survive him, John D. Kernan, the eldest son, is a lawver und has served as ailroad commissioner of New York state, iire of the other sons are also members of the Oneida county bar. two are interested in a furnace manuiactory, and one lives in New York city. The daughter is unmarried and lives in Utica, Daniel Dougherty, who had seen Napoleon IIL. 10 the days of the empire, called upon tho fallen monarch at Chiselburst in 1872, Another Philadelphian, Morton MacMichael, was with him, and the ex-empress, Kugenie, assisted 1n receiving the visitors. They stayed over an hour, engnged briskly in con- versation, and, iu accoraanco with the usage at roval courts, the signal was given them which terminated their stay. Pulling a dainty watch from her girdle, the empress sad: “Gentiemen, you have just ten min- | utes to catch your train.” ot FACTS ABOUT OMAHA. Omaba has fivo public parks. Omaha tas sixty-five miles of paved streets. Omahahas ninety-two miles of sewors, There are sixty publio schools, employing 208 tenchers, Thore aro twonty-two church and private schools, employing 152 teachors, The school census shows over 30,038 chil. dren of school age, Omaha is a city of churches, having 115 houses of religious worship. Thero are sixty-five hotols. There are thirteen trunk lines of railway, covoring 38,233 milos of road operated from Omaha. One hundred and thirty passenger traius arrive daily. Omaha has the largost smelter world. Omaha is tho third largest packing center in the world. Last_year tho stock_reco) were: Cattle, 2,533,793; hogs, 7,10 sheep, 733,56 Omaba has the largest distillery 1n the world and three of the largest brewories in the Unitod States. Omahu has the largest white lead works in the world, Aside from the packing houses Omaha has 160 manufacturing enterprises with a com- bined capital of 85,035,000, Last year thoir products amonnted to 33,000,000, The principai siops of the Union Pacific railway are located in Omaha. They cover fifty acres of ground and revresent an out- luy of $2,500,000. They turnish employment 101,200 skilled mechanics and 200 day lavor ers, During the yoar 1391 tho real estate trans- fers amounted to $15,920.521, During 1891 tho clearlugs were §221,124,- The actual real estatevaluation is $230,0)) 000, whilo tho assessmont for taxation s based on a one-tenth valuation, Omaha has two ntybanks. of re national, eight savings and state banks, The postoition receints for the year wors $204,585.20. This department gave employ mentto forty-six clerks and sixty-six car- riers, Omaha has one of the most complate wator works systems in the world, The plant cost 000,000 ana has 170 miles of mans. The 1 capacit 000,000 gallons aaily. There are ninety-five milos of streot viil ay, maioly eloctric. ‘Pho systom em ploys G00'men and operates 275 cars. I'he monthly pay ooll is #40 000 Population in 1860 ‘opuliution In 1560 Populution in 184 Population in 1883 lopulation i mn the which threo nine are We perspire a pint a day without knowing it; ought to. If not, there's trouble ahead. The ob- structed skin becomes allow or breaks out in pimples. The trouble goes deeper, but this is trouble enough. If you use Pears’ Soap, no matter how often, the skin is clean and soft and open and clear. , All sorts of stores sell it, especially druggists; all sorts of people use it. PAGES BO YS, You CAN'T GO To SVCHOOL unless you secure a suit of our elegant, school clothir Our stock is brimful of the most beautiful outfits for school boys ever shown in this city, we have ever seen, and they ar boy happy for half a year. 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