Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 1, 1894, Page 18

. \ HE OMAHA SUNDAY { i e e e - PART 11 MORNING, APRIL 1894~ TWENTY 19, OMAHA, SUNDAY ABLISHED JUNE THE COLUMEBIA 1, SINGLE Cory FIvVie CuNIS Mens' Suits. 75 MEN'S SUITS, ELEGANTLY MADE AND TRIMMED, A PERFECT GEM FOR THE PRICE, WORTH $10.00 AND $12.00, COMPELLED TO QUIT AT.... i Boys' Suits. A HANDSOME LI OF BOYS' SUITS, THREE PIECE A S 14 TO 18. IN A WORSTED, ASSIMERES AND CHEVIOTS, WORTH §6.00, AND $10.00, COM- PELLED TO QUIT AT...... . Childs’ Suits. IN ARE IS 1871, onn Wllson Bro" 100 CHILD'S 2-PIECE SUITS, Colored o ;\‘231:![';:;'1‘7;\‘ n 50, Percale aund | Madras Shirts, q;500 Worth 0 NS, 60c, Werd Ul ERY (og, = Ve VT, et Boys' Suits. 25 BOY'S SUITS THAT RANGE IN Mens” Suits. 180 MEN'S SUITS IN GRAY AND OX- FORD AND PIN CHECKS, WE ALWAYS GOT $6.50, BUT WE ARE COMPELLLED TO QUIT. Collars and cuffs at tached and dstach- ed, necktie includ- ed, elegant pat- terns, former price $1,60 NOW 1,000 PLAYED DOZ CHIEFS, DIS- Boys’ Suits. IN THE WINDOWS, LARGR BOYS' FINE WORS 12 TO 18 YHAR THAT ARE WORTH EVERY CENT OF $§1200, ARE NOW COMPELLED TO QUIT AT Men’s Suits. MEN'S BLACK TED SUITS, AG B1Z! HEMSTITCHED AND PLAIN, AND 20¢ Mens™ Suits. Py SUITS IN ALL THE DESIRA- /9C . s SHADES, WELL MADE AND | ™ HANDKERCHIEFS - . PRICE FROM $2.60 TO $3.00, AGES 4 TO TRIMMED, OUR REGUL $8.50 SUITS HANDK 8 o 56 4 YEARS, NOW GO AT THE COMPELLED ; 5C COMPELLED TO QUIT AT '0 QUIT PRICE OF....... i FORMERLY EACH...... SOLD AT 1LC R CHEVIOT SACK SUITS THAT WOULD BE VERY CHEAP AT $10.00, BUT GO NOW, BECAUSE WE'RE COMPELLED TO QUIT, AT. Men's §0 MEN'S SQUARE CHRVIOT SUITS, CORDED, NO LESS THAN $10.60, GO IN REST AT THE COMPELLI PRICB, ........ IS GOING Mens’ Suits. ABOUT 130 MEN'S SUITS THAT WOULD ORDINARILY SELL FOR $9.00, AND EVEN $10.00 GO NOW, BECAUSE WE ARE COMPELLED TO QUIT, AT. Boys” Knee Pants, 10c 3ES 4 10 14--ELEGANT PATT Suits. WE cuT BLACK WORTH THE QuIT Men's Suits. 100 MEN'S BLACK CORK SCR SUITS THAT WE USED TO RE §12.50, GO NOW B PELLI §4° Spring Overcoats. LOT OF MEN'S SPRING OVERCOATS, IN DARK BROWN, NICELY FINISHED, SILK LINBED. WORTH $10.00, COMPELLED TO QUIT, AT.. TO QUIT (56.50 Wilson Bros. and Wire Buckle Suspenders 50 . $ 4 REGULAR 26C AND 6C QUALITY. Boys' Suits. AN ELEGANT BOY'S SUIT, COAT, PANTS AND VEST, SIZES UP TO 18 YEARS, WORTH UP TO $6, THE MAKING BLONE COST MORE THAN OUR COM- ELLED TO QUIT PRICE " SACK FOR CCAUSE WE ARE COM- 5D TO QUIT, AT. Men'’s Suits. A LINE OF MEN'S FINE CASSIMERE SUITS THAT WE ALWAYS GOT $15.00 FOR,BUT WE CLOSE THEM OUT AT THE COMPELLED TO QUIT PRICE OF Men'’s Suits. A LARGE LINE OF MEN'S CLAY WORSTED SUITS THAT ARE WORTH DOUBLE THE PRICE WE ASK, GO NOW BECAUSE WE ARE COMPELLED TO QUIT, AT.... Men’s Suits. THE $26 SUITS THAT ARE MADE IN THR BEST OF STYLE AND OF THE FINEST OF FABRIC, NO BETTER SUIT ON EARTH, YOU GET THEM NOW AT THE ANOTHER $7.50 Boys' Suits, FHE FINEST KIND OF CHILDREN'S IM- PORTED CHEVIOT SUITS, DOUBLE BREASTE) OR SINGLE, ELEGANTLY TRIMMEJ, WORTH UP TO $8, COM- PELLED O QUIT AT $9.00 BEING compelled to go out of the clothing business forces us to make prices that will turn our stock into cash as soon as possible. The cut is deep and every depart- ment suffers alike. 'We will seriously entertain propositions for all or part of the stack, JOMPELLED TO QUIT PRICE OF. BUSINESS SRR For a Short Time at 18th and Farnam. The - -OColumbia «— Clothing - Co. _RAMOUS MARTS OF BELGIOM \;he Rich Old Oity Will Have the World's Fair of 1804, YO BE STRICTLY A COMMERCIAL AFFAI and dealers with an eye to a snap will consult their own interests best by consulting us. Money, Omaha drafts, or Postoffice Orders must accompany all mail orders. 1,080,000 square feet. They are steel, iron and ‘brick, finished In staff, and roofed with zink. The grounds comprise nearly 200 acres. Tt will be scen from those figures that the fair is to be of much larger proportions in comparison with other foreign exhibitions, THE AMERICAN BUILDING. The American building has every known modern improvement for comfort and for conducting business, The main court, to be illuminated by an electric fountain, is open to the dome, and surrounded by a broad gallery divided into rooms for the different states, with one somewhat larger, perhaps 40 by 80 feet, devoted to the United States government, ~ This gallery will be reached by two handsome stairways and two American elevators, themselves great novelties to Buropeans whose sleepy affairs in the way of elevators or lifts, as they are here called, resemble but very little the speedy American article. The main entrance is to the south, and approached by a broad marble stairs lead- ing into an immense, well-lighted, well- decorated vestibule. On the east side is another entrance for the press and com- rooms, where will be found every convenience. In this department may be transacted the business of exhibitors and a general exchange conducted. The build- ing is almost perfect In arrangement for the display of exhibits, as it has come Into being for stimulating trade, and there is no room for doubt that Americans will take a lively fnterest in the undertaking. This they must do if they would profit by their experlence of last summeyr. The many pos- sibilities of trade should stimulate Ame; fcan manufacturers, because rywhere the term ““American" 18 accepted as synonymous with utility, worth, workmanship, and all that is new and novel. The exhibition will not be so large as to overshadow or dwarf individual effort, whic! is Inducement for Americans to come foi ward with their innumerable manufactures and machines. Europeans were greatly sur- prised hy America and ber abilities as dis- played at Chicago, though they have long known her to be a wodderful country. But as numbers go, not even a handful of Euro- peans visited Chicago, while at Antwerp, a city so situated that a day's travel would in- clude almost 100,000,000 people, the Ameri- can exhibits will be seen and talked of by hundreds of thousands of the most intelli- gent of Burope. People, too, Who are anx- fous to accept new Inventions, new dfscow eries, every feature that will place th further along in the way of progress, lighten labor and facilitate trade and commerce, After London and Liverpool it would be difficult to name a city where are located so many forelgn trade establishments as at Antwerp, She has merchants from every country and her ships sail on every sea Her neutrality, long since declared by the great powers, readily places her in a supe- rlor light to any piace In France or Ger- many for the establishment of foreign trad- ing houses, a fact, too, that places her at tho commercial head of northwestern Europe. THE ANTWERP OF TODAY. Modern Antwerp has many fine bullding; some handsome boulevards, lovely residences, numerous large botels, & great bourse, museums, galleries, some of the richest churches in Europe, street transportations and immense shipping interests, all more or less Interesting to the average traveler; all of these, excepting the churches and one or tWo museums, partaking of modern charac- teristics that cannot fail to be of Interest But one must know her rich merchants, who buy gorgeous fabrics, unsurpassed metal ware, teas, coffees and spices from the far Bast; of others who already recelve great quantities of Ivory, woods and drugs from that great African empire. the Congo, to which country they send cotton fabrics and quantities of rallway, bullding and other materials; that here are merchants who re- tion with the priceless library of rich and of diamonds for the lapidaries here and in rare books in superior bindings, many il- marvelous old Amsterdam, not far away; from New Orleans they buy sugar and cot- ton and from Florida lumber; from Australia they get wools. All these things and others that might be enumerated go to prove what a cosmopolitan mart thls {s. This under- stood, one quickly realizes why country, loyalty, interest and all induce one to urge America to bring forth her manufactures, products of mine and soil and thus establish herself as a business factor, would she rightly fill her place among the world’s best. The people of the United States should not neglect an opportunity to compare with any country, whether in supplying or inventing, and should instantly reveal their master hand, their ability to take part in the world's affairs beyond the confines of thelr own great land, would they hold the station so_readily accorded them last summer. Since I propose in this letter to take a glance backward to the times when Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent and Louvain were marvel® ously rich centers of commerce, industry, learning and wealth, when their doings were chronicled by the rest of the world, only right to add that at the it is expositfon there Is to be produced a section of the old oity—exactly reproduced—showing the church, some palaces, her bourse. The first ) ability to manage thelr own a! the Bel- o glans in 1833, only three years after the luminated ip glorious colors, paintings, en- . great King Leopold Premfer had been placed | Rome in her palmiest day gravings, autographs of kings, queens and | gt their head, were the first in Europe to It was during this prosperous era, or about cardinals, alongside of rich old tomes in | undertake to build and conduct a railway | 1430, when the famous Order pf Golden Greek and Hebrew. All these nnl! more | system by the government at public ex- | Fleece was instituted in Bruges under for the scholar, not to mantlon therare ol'} pense. Their compact little country, with | Philm the Good, duke of Burgundy, the mansion of carved wood and sculptured the desire of uniting their principal commer- | rich we ring apparel of the people then stone, its markable windows and in- | cja] tow: soon proved their wisdom as, | being cause for wonder. numerable stairs, its tapestried walls and | with the sea on one side and the French and It is in this famous country where has countless souvenirs of untold value. After i prussian frontiers on the other, the scheme | been n %0 much of commercial great- these come the great paintings, those of | proved a | success from the first, giving ' ness, varied scenes of splendor and page- Rubens, who 1s looked fpon as almost | them unexcelled markets and extensive antry, grandeur of all kinds, In thnes ro patron saint of the old cky, ranking fir ' transit trade. Their railway fares are very | mote to ours, though not so far gone as to In the and . churches hero are | low, being from a half to a third cheaper | deprive us of an idea of thelr extrava found ne 100 of his best works, his | than elsewhere, and their travel, of course, [ gance, their taste, their achievements, many masterpiece, or at least theé one “"z"' adored [ conside ng population, almoest five times | evidences of 1l yet remaining for our de- by all, and which noble work, “The De- | what England can show. lectation, such as great city halls, with scent from the Cross,” he gave for the | “/Pie industrial side of life in this peculiar 1th of treasure in paintings, tapes- ground on which he built his house. is | region {s remarkable for its tries and jewels, old palaces now veritable found, In company of fegr others, in the | gplondid achievements. The manufacture | museums, rich churches and cathedrals, cathedral, whose magnififent interior, in | of \oolen goods one of their chicf | each and all properties now much prized gold and marbles and spiendid carvings, | pranches, their product being very superior | by the people of these times, is where will forms u lovely sctting fop the great wie- ' in quality. ~They use much of the wool of be held the 1894 World's fair. No doubt tures. This most mp¢rtant buildiug i Germany, Importing the remainder from many thousands of Americans will improve Antwerp I8 the pride of her cltizens, and | Kustralia, They excel In carpets and heavy | the occasion to visitJsome of theso. quoer Justly o, for it is ranked among the noblest | curtaiy goods, and are famous for linen | old centers, where . now active indt try buildings in Burope. It §s rich in every- | yanufacture, as well as silks, leather and | plods along in serious fashion as concerns thing that makes a great church splendid, | paper. ‘There s no lace superior to the | men's works, but where are many as gay above all rising its beautiful spire of more | Bryssels lace, made as it is from the | and merry people as can be found the than 400 feet In height, & spire once used | finest flax, for elegance, variety of design:| world over. ~The old time gayety, or some as a light house for home-boming mariners, | and gelicate fineness. In Amsterdam one | of it still lingers, and why not? and at another time as a Which tower dur- | goog into ecstacles over the diamond works, | =~ The love of music, testified ing the Spanish wars Its chimes, 100, | whero dafly are handled gems of untold | of the many sweet chimes are anmong the richest fh the world, & { vajue and where the work on the marvelous | their old spires and tower claim never yet _refuted, ~-because | yiones is ghown and explained. In Venice, | many as fifty and 100 are liwllmm'n Doasesses |I|;l-ru:;:m;|r"!l:- "‘\«ni!(‘l:‘”': that quiet center 80 alone in the world, one | marked characteristic of th understood by no othe . a8 eia | 18 charmcd by the lace works and glass | ple. The chimes® now ring out at nearly | the Manufacture ding 4 o World’ the pertectly wonderful chimes of antlque | gaogries, but in Brussels, where lace-making | all t of the day in rich harmony, yet | fair last summer. Sulicing | st tne CHeniS Bruges, Ghent and ””"'5_ of her famous Is carried on on such a large scal one it is true over som very oulet center yet cltios, All the churches gre. very rich. IN | yarvels, Here one may visit factories | remain as marvels of an art known to no fact but few citles, after Bome and Veulce, | wyore every kind of lace is shown, and sce | other people. These outward features are can boast of such yaluable embellishments | y)o \workers patiently toiling over the little | all preserved, and in addition we find every- and remarkable workssof art as are Mere | yelvet cushions, with pinsh bobbins and | wherg people full of love of music, song to be found, trom the hind® of such mastors | i read (where aiso you may see much of the | and dance. Their love of music i almost as Vandyk en, Tenlers, Probus "';"‘ work in country homes, where much of such | universal, and after witnessing a few of others. There Is also the fine ,”” dly ha work is done), some of the patterns show their handsome and most times very gay perfectly preserved, showing many treasu iug 400 bobbins to be correctly worked in | balls, there is great pleasure in going among In frescoes and tapestries, erected as V'j""% order to secure the perfect pattern. lmagine | the chiefly the Flemish, and wit ago as 1564, where may be xlv al halls | oqving 400 francs, or almost $80 for the flax, | nessing thelr Sunday frolics and amuse- In all the splendor of carviig and decoration, | poy"nound, from -which the thread is made, | ments, especially if at a ball where that made that rich age 80 notable, the | (ho spinning of which Is done In darkened | worn wooden shocs that they %Tan make hall of civil marriage being particularly | o5, g where only a ray of light is admitted, | merrily click In time with gay music. rich. The National museum, & perfect treas- | yyic"veine necessary der to preserve the In Antwerp and Brugeels many persons ure house, comes In for atténtlon as docs | yopinegs of the thread, then watch for the | speak h, but the Frenc and Flemlish the queer old castle and prison of the Steen, | pogult in a flour veil or scarf for some | are about even as to the state, though more and the palace of King Charles V. In fact, | pyncess or American queen, perhaps, com- | persons in Drussels speak wholly French the old city possesses nurgherless places of | {0 ¢ort) after elght or nine months, on | than in any other part of the state. Interest and instruction, furnishing ample | () worked from sixty to 100 and After Antwerp, with her commercial reason for desire to visit ere aud know for | gouetiines as many as 300 women every day, | wealth and Immenso shipping interests ono's self, as well as t4 be otisuch moment | otq M ee MTRE B O TNl rieh: | comes beautitul Brusscls, nearly three times hv-llww-”lh:: ‘:.‘.’.h,‘ he L«;‘d’"""‘l: """l:"“m‘\":l""l'“ ness of laces as family heirlooms as large. DBrussels is o gay capital, and is those of (heir peopla sent here to uplold ¥ CITIES, AR ounk e, RlAGe, SNINR Y ;.,If"‘.n‘ o 4 the honor and reputation of the Unitec 5 ! ol Bt T States, hor various products anddnnumerable it goes. EactMity has her pecullar | 85 at Paris and t i UALRE loselan halt " ) “ and governing ind Ghent excels fn | the prices pald ris, where most Amer- Inventions and discoveries feans will make their headquarters while PLUCKY @®ELGIANS. lin At one time Bruges, one of the b Ak IS haprdiariers, whil ho. Jiitia" state " offf Deigiups, About “an | Quainteat citics of Belglum, or for that mat. | FRURE. HI6 GXFOREON, | SSKe (ATS GO ghth as large as Great Brifain, has a | '7 ‘;’n,“l‘,‘”,’l‘l‘.'l_‘:\ :"“,"’l‘;‘l", ‘,",‘”'“,;}.f',"““‘["“"“,,’;f'," R s SR 0 |‘M th ‘:I”M % "“m“‘l_ UNAT | there have been times when as many !mmm, m;u‘l‘!' (A\\\H‘]U‘I“ ":."‘(".g.‘;".'mwu.m»n to the wife of General John M. Mitchell of merce and agriculture. her 'position s one | %000 ships at o time have walted their turn | Yropese WOEE WL P IREEITREC (AT | Columbus, and to- the wife of General Rus- of much Interest. It la ouly sinco 1830, by | 10 come to the wharves In Antwerp, the | 10 Uh8 FURL Sinctrle rert Tallviy syEtom 10 | sell Hastings of - Minneapol T8 aldar ovolution from Holland, that the state has | #8me g when Ghent gave cmployment | be obenad up In Burope. | e 1ine &n- | plat children are related to the Hayes fam- been established, before whieh time it had ( (0 100000 persons of her 116,000 population, | CUGLL Y EUL OF poulevards extant, The | 1 been under Spanish domimlon. repeatedly | 8 NEAERE G AP EER, R O e | is no discounting the Belglan capital in | The ex-Empress Eugenle, nccording to for- under Austrian sway, aud finally, “atter | fudrveled at the won hness U | beauty, interest, gayety, industry, or any [ elgn papers, has 1,0 liro as a belog many times conquesel, was in 1790 | fajHlEs Ihey, producel | to have | Other line, a few facts to bear us out being | bridal present to her nlece, Princess Eugenle date wher he great city of / werp began i, { s 8 . R4 resery or our ne etter - ¢ onaparte who b 10 engage 10 Fotriave soms of Wer kreatiseas wid o re- | continued for moro than 00 years, or until | Preserved for our ALL |I w :u‘“."’v-' :‘{nI‘uvh:‘ Xansimo 8. fow daya ‘tzm tncorporated with the Fremeh republic, a ut the middle of the fifteenth century ek The prince 1 old and the bride- ¥ W N hey commenced their rapid and al - ie princess 14§ heA AN a6 bride cover from her troubles. when they con v Curlous Facts About the Ermine. groom Princess Eugenie 1s the second most fatal decline The rich and powerful 4 mest: a4l ds laughter of Prince Charles Bonaparte, Her It was at the congress of Vienna where e i 5 The n the sad mistake of alloting|the country to v avagant In their dre and L eldest sister was married a few years ago to Holland or the Netherlands, was made, The | Style of living that depra od 4 Lieutenant B he Italian army. peoples 80 foined differed in religion, lan- | and crime followed. 4 A strange statement 1 do me, guage and character, and were not at all to | There . oda v er the animal's fur Mr narriage be reconciled. The Belglans felt forced into | Many painti q ¢ lled the ¢ y g woman, the distasteful unlon, and haing excited by | Molland, th Adish br but clreume natural, friendly look, cases, plates, cuts | the French revolution gon Inaugurated | read like fairy ontrol will on wood and of copper, and iunumerable | Insurrectionary moveme that resulted jn | VOs, 1 and a light y things as then used in a first-class print- | a declaration of independence being mad. The animal I ing establishment, all perfectly preserved, | and accepted, which enabied the Iit This ¢ most of them highly polished and cloan but ng days. Many of thelr festivals were inde- therefore generally regarded as distinct ani- seribably rich and , rivaling those of i mals. The fur of the ermine s much valued and is in great request. At one time it was a mark of royalty and the state robes of judges and magistrates were lined with it as an emblem of purity. The ermine {s 80 cunning in its ways that it is almost as difficult to catch as it is to “‘catch a weasel asleop.” In fact the only way to capture it 1s to mark its course from home and then strew mud in its pathway. When the dainty, fastidious little animal reaches the point In its path where the mud is strewn it will lle down and subjeot itself to capture and death rather than smirch one of its snow white hairs, ——— CONNUBIALITIE: First American Building at Forelgn Exp osl tlons-Uncle Sam to Be a Prominent Feature of the Show—Curlosities and Marvels of the Belgian Citles. ! ANTWERP, March 12.—(Special Corre- spondence of The Bee)—On this side of the ‘Atlantic for months past there has been gounding the unceasing wall of hard times, Au trade and unemployed labor, along with all sorts of rumors of trouble and expressed fears of something unusual to bappen that would disturb the peace of Furope. In the face of all this there has not been a day lost during all the long winter by the people and workmen of Antwerp, Belglum, the queer, rich, strong old city byfithe sleepy, lazy Scheldt, where is to be helll the World's fair of 1 opening Hay b and Temaining pen until November 12. When ouJ thinks of the frequency with which national and international fairs have taken place for the past few years and the promise to continug in the future, it would appear that the business were In danger of being overdone, were one to lose sight of the idea of extended trade redtions and national acquaintance that must result from those great gatherings. Here, in densely populated Europe, where transportation fs cheap, they aro always sure of a large at- tendance from their own people and rarely Vsappointed In the attendance of many .mericaps. Then, too, the merchants on his side of the Atlantic keep a careful wateh for forelgn trade. Anything that pnds to extend their commerce they give ik and prompt attention, herefore this World's fair or bazaar, 500n to open at Antwerp, cannot possibly oo looked upon in any other light than Ous.of pure business, coming, as it does, 80 800n after the greatest of all World's fairs. There will be here none of the architectural beauty, none of the artistic triumphs, none of the glorious light and colors, none of the enchanting exterior grandeur that characterized the great Co- lumbian fair, the prrises of whose unsur- passed beauty and marvelous proportions are still ringing. In Antwerp the buildings are large and tasty, but constructed solely with an eye to the display of exhibits, The grounds, the same used for the exposition of 1885, though much enlarged, are near the Reart of the city and easy of access, WIIl there be an American building and American exhibit? Yes, there s to be an American building, the first at any forelgn exposition to float the stars and stilpes. The American build- 1ng, conspleuously located, in 240 by 150 feet, ®0 arranged as to furnish, with its annex, \ 26,600 square feet of space, in addition to {Which the United States has been allotted 60,- 000 square feet of space In the main bullding and 30,000 square Teet in each of the ma- chinery and electricity bulldings. Five )hundrc-l Anerican_exhibitors bave already An Amerfean young man has eloped with the daughter of a milllonaire banker of Vienna, Austria, and has brought the girl and $30,000 of hér money to this countryl . Minnie—I shall never marry any man who drinks. Mamfe—Isn't that a rather risky vow to make, dear? What assurance have you that any sober man will ever propose to you? The engagement 15 announc Maud Howard, daughter of Joscph Howard, ir., to Francls D. Beard of Drooklyn, Mr. Beard s a well known social leader i Brooklyn, and is very popular. Major John E. Burke, of Buffalo Wild' West show fame, Is to marry, The lady Is sald to be Mlle. Corinne Le Coeur earller peo- | who was In charge of the French exhibit jn people to establish an exchange, their most prosperous days witnessing as many as 6,000 men as frequtenters, were the people of Antwerp. This feature of the exposition will no doubt be among the best drawing features of the whole fair. Of course, there will be provided every amuseinent and diver- sion of which the Buropeans are masters, but it will be very interesting to look upon this real picture of old Antwerp. But of Antwerp as an old stores of wealth to the travel torian, student or soldi ous little Belglan situated, I would fain speak. This one will see there Is reason for bition to visit the city, even were great exposition. REMINISCENCE A is claimed two centuries old when war took place. Certain it is that the student of history must find interest in the city of Godfrey of Boulogne, count of Ant- werp, king of Jerusalem, Willlam of Orange and other great heroes of those stirring days, not to speak of the long and awful struggles of the Spanish for possession and supremacy, against which tyranny the brave people 50 long and so flercely contended What soldier has not read of ‘the duke of Anjou's attempt upon the eity, of her two memorable sieges, and of the great fortific tions of Napoleon, many of which works now stand, among others of later structure, which constitute the city’s fortifications al most as formidable as those of Parls. It was a dream of Napoleon to make the old city the strongest port In Europe, and he spent fubulous sums to that end, and for other public improvements. Here the Catholic devotee will find far more devo- tion than in. Rome, and to the artist the ity is a veritable pilgrimage, for it is here are found the master works of Rubens, Teniers, Vandyke, Rembrandt and others, to say nothing of the great Plantin museun, which is nothing less than a stately mansion and great printing house combined. This .re- markable collection of valuables, Lelonging to one Christoper Plantin and his suce sors, the family Moretus, was purchased not many years ago by the city for 1,600,000 francs, and is really worth a long journey to se One s spell bound on beholding a complete printing office of the sixteenth cen tury, then renowned In Europe as the most perfect extant. There stand several presses, little, old and ous, yet. with a kind of by the fact found now in where often as found, was a Bill's Mrs. Linler Kent, whose marrlage to Jus tice. White of the United Stutes supreme court 18 announced for the ly summer, was engaged to the ex © some years ago, but somthing broke off the match and she married Mr. Kent, who was then a strugs gling lawyer. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson A. Sherman of Exe- ter, R. L, observed the scventy-eighth anni- versary of thelr marriage on the 17th fnst, are | Mr. Sherman is in his 99th year and quite to | feeble. He is coufined to his bed, Mrs. Sherman s in her 97th year, and is able to be about the house, “It I8 useless of you to urge me o marry you. When I suy no, I mean no.”” *Als ways?' “Invariably.” ~ “And can nothing ever change your determination when once you make up your mind?’ “Absolutely nothing.” “Well, I wouldn't rare to marry a woman like that."” A Loulsville magistrate decides that & man who glves up his business to court a girl fop another man cannot exact payment for his successful services, holding that L' ought to be *“dog-goned satisfied with the fun he must have had doing the courting.” This seems to be sound law Lucy Platt Hayes, whose enyagement to Rutherford Platt’ Hayes, son of the late President Hayes, s announced is half sister city, of her artist, his- r, and of the curi land in which she is done the am- there no masses, ND RELICS. of the It that the city Antwerp Trojan MOUS So ness, WILLARD. ermine 1s a queer animal 1s one secured sqace This bullding, however, is not erected by the goverument, but by the American Propaganda corporation, a con- cern intended (o be a permanent Institution, having the support of many American manu- facturers, working for the promotion of forelgn=trade. This organization hds been @ppointed the American agent It 18 claimed that the main buildings at Antwerp, 50 erected to be continuous, and another thing nor you al of namor just made hist s tal r r 8 8j It 1s ¢ 1 have state ge Is q lavishly u a as as well as scen f rich banque to entiflc pne ofter another, wil| cover not less than celve directly from South Africa quantities handsomely arranged, easlly dividing attem- all | 10 take her place on the map of Burope As it 10 prove thelr nroxressiveness. Lhaly feasts indulged in by twe reat of J necole, wnd ‘he ermine and the stoat are