The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1897, Page 6

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THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona_vacation * 1 ¥o, it {8 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left &t Business Office will receive prompt sttention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cents per monib | for summer months. The Mission Park and also the zoo will be t the right things if wecan get them in the right way To many of the Christian Endeavorers | the Oakland sandwich seems to have been as pleasant as the San Francisco sermon The dentists are not making as much public talk about their convention as the Endeavorers did, but all the same they have a pull. We are promised that work on the Hall ! of Justice will be hurried up a little, and it will not take much hurrying to improve on the present speed. Melba’s voice having undergone repairs is said to be better than ever, and now the madam is trying to prove the fact to the public by singing the praise of her doctor. In passing an ordinance levyinga tax of $1 on bicycles in that city the Chicago Counciimen have given the Mayor a chance to make a ten-strike by one blow of the veto ax. The Parllamentary commission ap- pointed to investigate the raid on the Transvaal has laid the blame on Cecil Rhodes’ back when it should have given it to him in the neck. The Trans- Mississippi Commercial Con- gress will of course listen io Mr. Bryan when he arrives, but before and after the dose, it is to be hoped, it will attend to business instead of politics. In many of the interior towns of the State our Eastern visitors will not only be made to feel themselves at home, but | to feel also that it would be good for them to settle down and stay there. Had the coal-miners of the East waited until the protective tariff set the mills working the increased demand for coal would have enabled them to get beiter wages without having to strike for them. The revival of the Panama canal scheme may be intended to embarrass the Nica- ragua plan or to make a profitable deal in Panama stock at the expense of credulous people, but there are no evidences in it of true business. The engineers’ strike in England is tar worse in its effects on business than the miners’ strike in this country, and, in fact, it has hit so hard that if it had been delivered a little earlier it would have knocked cut the jubilee. The statement of Senator Butler that the armor-plate of the Oregon is so spongy that the ship is unfit for warfare 1s inter- esting only as an illustration of what funny thingsa statesman can say after the silly season gets well started. The story that Gomez is willing to com- | promise with Spain for the purpose of putting an end to the war has been con- tradicted by himself. He stands out for complete independence, and seeing vic- tory in sight will accept nothing le A movement has been started in Ohio to form a new party with a new set of principles, and while it does not seem to be urgently called for it may yet £l the long-felt want of some man who has no hope of office in any other combination. In giving an account of the attempt at | arbitration of the strike in Pennsylvania the news columns of the Ezaminer said yesterday ‘“the arbitrators hve preicll, roonott. A and the arbitrators have practi- eally dropped it.” Isit any wonder they dropped it? If the meaning of Secretary Sherman’s Jetter ‘o Embassador Hay were trans- lated from the language of diplomacy to that of the street it would read: *‘Tell John Bull to quit bloviating over the jubi- lee and get in and protect those seals ac- cording to contract.” Although this is an off year in politics the annual convention of the National League of Republican Clubs has been well attended, and all the vproceedings show that the party ranksare firmly united and ready foraction in any contest that comes either in State or Nation. It will be noted that the only act of vio- Jence on the part of the striking miners #0 far was committed by foreigners. That is one of the bad results which have come to this country from the importation of cheap labor from countries where law is maintained only by the exercise of force. The events of the miners’ strike shows that one of the defects of all schemes of arbitration is that neither side will accept it as long as it sees a chance to win, and when either side shows a willingness to resort to it the other regards that as an evidence of weakness and fights harder than ever. AEER s The Government will pay $425 per ton for armor-plate for the three warships now under construction, but it will hardly do so again. 1t would be cheaper and more convenient for the Government to establish a plant on the Atlantic Coast and another cn the Pacific and make its OWD armor. l | political party. | appeals to the business and industrial in- FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, THE HALL OF JUSTICE. The North End Improvement Club has | conferred a benefit upon the City by the | protest made before the Buildings Come mittee of the Board of Supervisorsagainst the slack and negligent manner in which the work of constructing the Hall of Jus- | tice is being carried on. As was repre- sented by the club, the work is virtualiy at a standstili, and has been so for a long time past. Tue CaLy directed public attention some time ago to the unnecessary delay in con- structing this building. We attempted at | that time to discover on whose shoulders | should rest the biame, but found only that each person having any authority in the matter shifted the responsibility upon some one eise. The same evasion was made at ths investigation of the Build- ings Committee on Tuesday, and it is not clear yet who is to be condemned for a neglect which is rapidly assuming the proportions of a public scandal. The people will not care to discover the cause of the delay in the past, nor seek to throw all the blame upon either the archi- tect, the contractor or the sub-contractors singly, if they can arrange among them- selvi once. This arrangement, it seems, is in a fair way of being provided. The contrac- tor is reported to have said at the meeting that the construction had been retarded by the necessity of preliminary work on contiguous buildings, but that in a few days it would be prosecuted vigorously. From the general tone of the proceed- ings before the committee of Supervisors it seems evident the North End Improve- ment Club has achieved something by its protest. It has brought the subject before the public and has drawn from | the architect and contractors an explana- tion of the delay in the past. It has also impressed upon those gentlemen that it will be well for them to set aside ex- cuses hereafter and give prompt work in- stead. Every day that sees the Hall of Jus- | tice uncompleted entails just so much loss | upon the public. Itis just so much time more during which money provided for the construction of the building will lie idle in the treasury instead of circulating and promoting business in the channels of trade. It will be just so much added to | the public inconvenience of having that portion of Kearny-street pavement virtu- ally closed to the people. It will entail | just so much additional loss to the busi- ness of merchants in the nelgborhood. The prompt prosecution of the work, therefore, it will be seen, is & matter in which many interests are involved, and it is to be hoped there will be no further | cause of complaint by reason of delay hereafter. : REPUBLICAN COLUBS. The annual convention of the National League of Republican Clubs has been attended by delegations sufficiently strong from all parts of the Union to give ample demonstration that the workers of the Republican party are not resting in idle- ness since the great victory of last Novem- ber, but are holding themselves in readi- ness for the contest of the future. The convention has been heid at an op- portune time, since it gives occasion to Re- publicans to express anew dence in the administration and to coun- teract the effect of the complaining and | depressing oratory of Democrats and Populists by giving utterance to words of hope and cheer, which will materially aia in bringing about a return of better times by confirming the sanguine expec- tations of business men. The president of the league, D. D. Wood- mansee, In his opening address struck the keyrote of the situation and expressed the convictions of the great majority of the American people in saying: The Republican party is 1ight upon the great questions that concern the masses of our people and, being right, it is sure to win, Those who have been incredulous will allow the incredulity to melt away in the glow of promises that have been faithfully kept. The marts of trade will assume the busy air of bet- ter times. The merchant will be happy with his increasing revenue, the laborer and me- chanic with higher wages, and, indeed, all classes and conditions of men will beiifted up inio an atmosphere that breathes content- ment, the very safeguard of our iree institu- tions. The sentiment of these words is some- thing more than the rallying cry of a It 1s a platiorm which stincts and intelligence of the people, as well as to the political aspirations of Re- publicans. ditions can be easily practiced at this time, since it is well known to every man that as soon as the protective tariff is put into operation we shall be freed from one of the most injurious factors that brought about hard times. In a littie while we shall see not merely evidences of return- ing prosperity, for they can be seen on every side to-day, but we shall see pros- perity itself and realize its benetits. THE BOGUS BRANI); CASE. The letter recently received by Presi- dent kerr of the Manufacturers’ ana Pro- ducers’ Association from the United States Treasury Department concerning the adulterated liquor shipped from this City under the label of California brandy is a matter for mingled regret and congratula- tion. It is to be regretted that the depart- ment is 8o hampered by red tape as to be powerle to prevent the perpetration ot an outrageous frand, and it is some con- solation to be told thata proposition is being considered to so alter the regula- tions as to make such practices under pro- tection of the Federal Government im- possible in the future. The letter is naturally not pleasing to the association, and it will be displeasing to the whole State, especially to those peovls who are striving to build up a market for unadulterated California products. It is difficult for outsiders to understand the strength of the restrictions under which the officials of the Treasury Department must act, and those who have upon them the responsibility of official acts must often appear to move with tediously fettered iootsteps. We must try to give these gentlemen credit for per- forming their duties conscientiously and for going as far in sympathy for Califor- nia as their strings would allow them. The reason given for non-interference with the fraud is that ““there 13 no statute under which the cancellation of the ex- port permit may be authorized.” And, while this is no doubt true, it seems also true that the shipment was made with gross irregularity. While the irregu ari- ties may have been such as not to be challenged if accompanying an honest transaction, it seems a pity that in this case they could not have been used as a ground for stopping the adulterated stuff from going out of the country under a name calculated to cheat the foreigner and to give the State’s products a bad reputation. If technicalities must rule, one technicality might here have been employed to offset another. The remedy proposed by the Treasury Department, “to modify the regulations given to the bonded warehouses so as to require that shipments ome means of getting to work at | their confi- | Patience with existing con- i therefrom be ! marked in strict contormity tq the formula filed by the proprietor of such warehouse,” sLould be hastened, and other remedies added to it if it is not amply sufficient to protect our people from further evasions of the pure food laws of the State. It is a travesty on government if a good State law is to be antagon zed by Federal | authority—the two powers shouid in all good regulations strengthen and assist each other, PANAMA AGAIN. The report from Washington of the new | attempt to revive the Panama canal scheme by arranging for a combination | of capitalists in the United States, Great Britain and France will go far to renew public interest in that undertaking. It is not easy to estimate to what extent the new attempt is supported, and therefore it is impossible to say whether 1t marks the beginning of a serious effort to com- plete the work, or is only designed to boom the stock of the company and make a profitable deal for thoss who have bought it at low figures. The scheme as outiined in the dis- | patches is sufficiently vast to excite ad- miration. A cumbination of capitalists proposes to get the governments of the three nations behind them, and they justly claim that such an alliance would be the most powerful the world has ever seen. By way of giving an appearance at least of realism to the dispatch, it was announced that the promoters desire to add Germany to the combination, but that she refused or rather delayed her as- sentowing to complications resuiting from | the Greeco-Turkish war. As further evidencs of the truth of the storv it fs said the scheme of the | grand alliance had its inception “iin the brain of the house of Rotuschild.”” For several years, it is asserted, the stocks | and bonds of the Panama Canal Company bave been depressed to solow a figure that they actually represent a tangible value in the work already done upon the canal. It is then estimated that the work can be completed at a sum not to exceed $100,- 000,000, and it is significant either of the extraordinary wealth of the combination or of the untrammeled freedom of the boomer of the scheme that this vast sum is spoken of as of comparatively little im- portance in the general plan ot the enter- prise. | ‘We have seen such great combinations of capital in recent times that we cannot dismiss this project of a grand alliance of nations and capitalists as an impossibil- | ity. Nevertheless, the American peonle will put but littie trust in it as a business proposition. It seems to have been de- signed either to boom stocks in Paris, to embarrass the Nicaragua Canal Company or to make a sensational story for the | midsummer season. It is not likely the United States Gov- ernment will consent to become a partner in the deal as outlined, nor will many American cavitalists take stock in the movement. From all appesrances, the Panama canal project isas dead as the man who started it and as discredited as those vwho plundered the stockholders. Nothing can revive it, and the only fair | prospect for a waterway across the isth- | mus is that of Nicaragua under the direct } and exclusive conirol of the United States. | A LONG-FELT WANT. There are few wants of the American people haying their origin at any very re- mote date which have not been fully or partially satifiel long ago. As aconse- quence the “long-felt want” is one ot the rarest features of American life, and about the only thing rarer1s the supply needed to fulfill the demand. News comes to us, however, from Glouster, Ohio, that certain gentlemen have discovered in that section of the | country a long-felt want for a new politi- | cal party and have promptly set about to satisty it. They propose the establish- ment of a political organization to be | known as the Union party, which is to | serve the interests of the working classes, | and establih in the United States a pros- perity that will withstand all the shocks | of time and circumstan ce. | The Union party has a platform ot but three planks, and these are stated by the Glonster Press to be (1) Restriction of im- migration. Discontir.uance of the use of such improved machinery as caused three or more persons to be deprived of employment in branches of industry that are not materially dependent upon aid of this character. (3) Solution of disputed issues in speedy, practical ways. The first of these planks is not orig- | inal, and will draw no voters from the old parties. The second will appeal to men who are Cissatisfied with theexisting order | of civilization, and will therefore attract a sufficient number of voters to form a fairly good nucleus for a ward meeting, providing they can all be gathered from the various sections of the Union into a single ward. The third plank, however, is the one on which the party will prob: bly base its hopes of success. There is bardiy an American politician who will undertake to make a campaign against the “'solution of disputed issues in speedy, practical ways.” The Glouster Press in publishing the manifesto of the new party gave it a cor- dial and enthusiastic snpport, and went so far as to say, “In starting this new party its founders had a good idea of its future. It is not likely to die a-borning."” It adds, however, that if success is to be obtained it must be attained swiftly, as ten years more of the old parties will ruin the country. A more forcible appeal was never made to the American people. It | puts an end to ail tendency toward doubt, hesitation and delay, and gives the voter fair notice that he must support the Union party now or be forever lost. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Book Agent—Can Ishow you a new edition of the “Great American Conflict?” Alderman—What's the charge? Book Agent—Bound in this elaborate style it is worth $20. Alderman—Twenty dollars. Great Scots. That’s all I paid to see the real thing itseif at Carson City. Do you want the earth?—Chi. cago Tribune. “Doctor,” said the physician’s wife, *‘why don’t you take a good long rest? Go away somewhere, and enjoy yourself. You're working yourself into your grave. You haven’t been out of town for five years.” “My dear,” the celebrated practitioner said, “I do not dare toleave. If I did so most of my patients would discover that they could getalong just &s well without me, and my practice would be ruined.”—Cleveland Leader. Higginton—Come up and see us some time. stepperby—Awiully sorry, but I shail be en- gaged on that occasion.—Boston Transcript. In the great throneroom of peripatetic and irresponsible opinion & deep hush fell as a hoary graybeard advanced boldly and stretched his arm toward the scepter of rule. “1,’” he aunounced, “am the “Rumor-ot-the-ap- proaching-End-of-the- World.” Belore the majesty of his age the vast con- course fell upon their faces. All save one, who, on shaking Jimbs, tot- tered to the front. As he waiked his hoary head shook with the palsy of second childhood. ~1,”” he drooled, “am the Rumor-oi-the-Abdica- tion-of-Victoria- in - fayor- of - the - Prince - of With the shriek of impotent rage the Ru- | peared.—New York Press. mor-of-the- Approaching - End - of - the - World crawled into a crack in the floor and disap- PERSONAL. N. C. Hair of Spokane is here, Rev. G. A. Ottman of St. Louis is in town. Charles Knepper of Fresno is a late arrival here. The Baron Fritz Norff of Germany is at the Palace. Mrs. J. M. Robbins of Bacramento is at the Cosmorolitan. Thomas R. Minturn of Minturn is registered at the Occidental. Ex-Judge John D. Bicknell of Los Angeles is here on a business trip. John L. Truslow of Santa Barbara is among the arrivals in the City. H. B. Gillis came down from Yreka yester- day and is at the Grand. W. Kendall and E.Sharre of Portland, Or., are at the Cosmopolitan. E. M. Smith ana wife of Chambersburg, Pa., are at the Cosmopolitan, E. P. McGonigle, a Jumber manufacturer of Fiagataft, Ariz., i in the City. F. M. Diviny, s prominent young attorney of Sacramento, is at the Cosmopolitan. Colonel J. B. Hughes of New York, who owns mining properties in El Dorado County, is in the City. Lieutenant C. A. Clark of the United States steamsnip Thetis is among the arrivals at the | Occidental. T.J. McCauley of Angels, and who s en- gaged in mining there, is in the City. He is at the Russ, ¥. J. H. Bowker of Darwin City, in the Klon- dyke gold district, is among the arrivals at the Occldental. A party consisting of J. Parker Whitney, Parker Whitney and Vincent Whitney, all of Boston, arrived here yesterday. Among the arrivals at the Palace is R. E. Hyde, the rich banker and land-owner of | Visalia. He is here to remain several days. John B. Farish, George E. Farish and F. H. Minaro of Denver, all prominently known in minine throughout the West, were among the arrivals here yesterday. They are at the Pal- ace. J. B, Farish was here several months ago. He isin the City on mining business. Wilbur G. Zeigler is in the City of Mexico on | legal business connected with $110,000 life in- surance on Douglass Crosbie, a young English- man who died n Mexico five years ago. One policy of £50,000 has been paid, but the com- pany holdiug the larger one alluded to has re- fused on the ground of suicide, ons of the theories advanced for his death, the others being accident and murder. Ex-Senator Charles N. Felton has returned from Washington, D. C., and Maine, where he | has been for a number of moaths past. His | son, Charles N. Felton Jr., and several friends from Philadelphia are with him. The ex- | Senator was au the Palace last evening, but | met only a few of his friends. He was at his | home at Menlo for two or three days prior to coming to the City. The ex-Senator is looking well and said he might e here for some little time. W. A. Clark, the owner of the famous copper mines at Jerome, Ariz., and for many years | heavily interested in mining, banking, smelt- ing and other industries in Montana, was in this City for a few hours sesterday. Mr. Clark, | because of his vast enterprises, has offices in | many different States, le has recently come from New York, and was taking a look at his reilroad and mines in Arizons, and at an | enormous sugar factory which he has com- | pletedin Orange County, near Santa Ana. | Mr, Clark lelt in the evening for Butte, Mont. | CALIFORNIANS [N NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y, , July 14.—At the Plaza, J. Levv; Imperial, J. P. Dunne and J. R. How- ell; Astor, J, K. Mackenzie; Grand Union, M. Fitzgerald; Manhattan, Mrs. A, Skee and Miss Skee; Astor, 8. J. Lubin. HER CUNNING TRICK. +1 would I were the ribbon that she ties beneath her chin,” He sald, while gazing on the mald, so lonocent, fair; “How gledly 1 would be the bow she twists the streamers In: What bli:s (0 touch ber damask throat and coyly nestle there!” Ah, fate had willed it otherwise! No ribbon might he be To nestle there against her neck, so soft and white and slim: But oft she wound those streamers round her fingers, and was free, When o inclined, to do the same sweet little tiick with him} —Cleveland Leader. FIRST UNITED STATES CENT. The Fuglos were the earliest coins issued by the United States and examples of them are | now exceedingly rare. The illustration and | description is here reproduced from the New York Times. First American Cent—Reverse. It was in April, 1787, that the Congress of these United States autho the Board of Treasury to contract for 300 tons of copper coin of the Federal standard, It is presumed that this copper coinage con- tract was made as directed, for on Friday, July 6, 1787, the Congress adopted this resolution: “That the Board of Treasury direct the con- | tractor for the copper coinage to stamp on oae side of each piece the following device, viz; thirteen circles linked together, a smail circle le, with the words ‘United States’ around it; and in the center the word We areone.’ On the other side of the same_piece the following device, viz., a dial with the First American Cent—Obverse. hours expressed on the face of it meridian sun above, on one side of whicn is to be the word ‘Fngio’ and on the other tne year in fig- ures, ‘1787’; below the dlal the words ‘Mind Your Business.’ A very large number of these coins were mnde, ana although they all bear the date 1787 it is probable that they were coined each year after thelr first issue up to the_establish- ment of the Government mint in 1793. That mnny different dies were used in the coining s in plain evidence, impressions of no less than twenty-seven obverse and twenty-four reverse dies being known. These dies differ in most instances very slightly, The most rmmment points of variatiou are to be found n the order of the words “United States,” which are often transposed to “Siates United.” 1In one die, from which but three impressions are koown, “United” is above and “States” below. Lyman H. Low, the exvert in colns and medals, says that some of these Fuglo coins are yery rare and exceeaingly valuable. ——— THE DIFFERENCE. The Senior finds a 'most surprising change, ‘When tor the world aves his coliege hall. In college he had aiways ‘00 much work, But now he sees he can’t find work at all. —Yale Record. MUSIC AND MUSICIA Xavier Scharwenks, the Polish planist com- poser, has several times been bilied for a tour of the Pacific Coast during the last few years, but so far he has always disappointed us. Itis now announced that he wiil certainly come here to give a series of recitals in Octo- ber. Considerable interest will attach to his appearance, largeiy because of the familiarity of the pianoforte playing public with his compositions. Xavier Scharwenka has won considerable fame as a pianist, but the field of composition has hed irresistible charms for him, and the list of his works tc-day embraces over seventy-six numbers, among them a symphony which was verformed by Theodore Thomes with the Philharmonic Society of New York, and an opera, “Mataswintha,” which was performed at the Metropolitan NS, the owner of the land in Hartford upon which it stood had the wood preserved and caused a piano-case to be made of it. gigmund Beel, WhO Was present at the jubilee, has been playing with great success atanumber of fashionable private musicales in London. He has also appeared atseveral coneerts with Mme, Blanche Marchesi, daugh- ter of the Paris teacher. quite the most popular singer in London this season. SRR, Yordics, having quarreled with Grau Mme. and the De Reszkes, and failed in Paris, seems | to havo decided that there is more money in concertizing in America than in chas- ing operatic engagements in Europe. She has signed for a tour of forty concerts in this | XAVIER SCHARWENKA, Who Will Give a Series of Recitals Here in October. Opera-house last April by Damrosch’s com- | pans. The pianist, however, is much more | agement of R. E. Johnstone. generally known by his minor compositions, | such as his ““Polish Dances,” which are very p pular with pianoforte players. Schar- weuka’s home is in New York, where he took up his abode in 1891. Mme. Marchesi, the professor of singing who | is so much affected by American students in Paris; 18 to cross the Atlantic this winter, with an eye to American dollars. The lady’s project is certainly original, though to any one who understands the serious study necessary to be- come & vocalist it must savor of charlatanism. Mme. Marchesi intends to make a tour of the United States, giving lectures en route, in or- der to initiaie professors and pupils into her “marvelous” vocsl method. This “singing taught while you wait” style of teaching may line Mme. Marchesi’s pockets heavily with gold, but 1t is hard to telieve that & teacher of her experience can refrain from smiling in her sleeve at the ‘dea of initiating any one into | the “marvelous” art of singing in the course of alecture. Le Menestrel, in commenting on Mme. Marchesi’s coming departure, remarks: “Encore une idee nouvelle de la libre Amer- ique!” scarcely be commended. A few stray ide may possibly be gleaned from the Marchesi lectures, but the pupil or vrofessor who at- tempts to put them into practice will probably get the “marvelous’” Marchesi method hope- lessly jumbled up, and his last state will be worse than his first. Mme. Marchesl, who owes a great part of her success to a complete knowledge of the gentle ert of self-advertise- ment, has certainly taught many celebrated singers, but many of them went to her with all the foundations already laid. On the other hand, she 1s accreaited with overstraining and ruining a great many voices. Her reputation rests largely on an American foundation, The Paris justices have laid it down that you cannot keep & piano with impunity. Mme. Bertrami, whose pupils are well known at Covent Garden and in the Carl Rosa Opera Company, started a training-school in the neighborhood of the Parc Monceau. A gentle- man of geutle habits took the flat beneath ber. the Jadder-climbing of the voice which began at a “Ta” and after sixty-one vibrations would end at a “Ra’’—or something of the kind—if Mme. Bertram! did not stamp her foot and make the future De Re:zkes begin all over again. It broke the man's heart and he sued both his landlord and Mme. Bertrami. He won. The forti~th anniversary of the Handel festi- vals bas just been celecrated at the Crystal Palace, London. Itwas jn 1857 that the first festival took place, with the assistance of 2000 executants, and it excited generaladmiration, for never before had people teen so many musicians assembled in a concert-hall. The festivals have taken place regularly from that date, and at present the number of singers is 2500, with an orchestra of 500 executants. The conductor of the first festival, Sir Michael Costa, has been dead since 1884, and smong the ololsts the only survivors are ihe eternal tenor, Sims Reeves, and the celebrated to- prano, Clara Novello, who has jus’ entered her eightieth year. The celebrated Carl Rosa Opera Company, founded by the husband of Pareps Rosa, has been entirely reorganized in view of its next season,which will begin at Liverpool, England, on August 16, Mme. Thea Dorre, the Chicago prima donna, has been engaged as one of the leading stars. The troupe, which is greatly es- teemed in England, is to play several works quite unknowa in that country, among others Ambroise Thomas’ ““Songe d’une Nult d’ete” (“Midsummer Night's Dream”), which Beathie Kingston has adapted into English, making, itis said, s version quite different from the original. In order that the opera may not be confus:d with Shakespeare’s celebrated work it has been renamed ““ A Poet’s Dream.” An imposing musical performance was re- cently given in the antique Greek theater of ancient Syracuse, a building which is in an admirable state of preservation and can con- tain 20 000 spectators. The grand chorus of the “Toriures,” by Eschylus, was given by a superb body of voices. This work was first executed in the seventy-eighth Olympiad, that is to say, 525 years B. C. The majesty of tnis admirable musical monument is said to have produced a deep and lasting impression on those present. The congress of German musicians, held at Mannheim, has decided to publish & com- piete edition of the works of Franz Liszt, As these works do not become public property till 1916 the publishing-houses of Breitkopi and Haertel have been requested to treat with Liszt's different publishers in order to arrange for a sumptuous edition of the Weimar mas- ter's works. The association has pledged itself 10 purchase 200 copies of the edition, which it intends to distribute gratuitously to the musicians who have contributed to the propa- gation of Lisz's works. An fnteresting instrument was exhibited for the first time at the Music Teachers’ Na- tional Association in New York. It was a piano, the case of which was made of the wood of the famous Charter Oak. When the tree was uprooted by a storm in August, 1856, Decidedly the ides is new, but it can | From morning 1!l night he heard only | | | country to begin in October under the man- | Stavenhagen, who toured this country some years 8go a8 & pianist, has been appointed con- ductor of the Royal Opera of Munich, the post | which the celebrated Wagnerian chef d'or- | | chestra, Hermann Levi, was compelled to re- sign on accountof growing mental infirmities. The friends of Massenet and Reyer are com- plaining in the French press that during the seasons of French opera in New Orleans, San Francisco and Mexico no royalties were paid French composers for the rights of producing any of the cperas. Nicolini, the husband of Adelina Patt{, is so seriously ill that the diva has abandoned all | her engagements in London and has gone to nurse him at her Castle of Craig-y-Nos. Augusta Cottlow, the 17-year-old American pianiat, has created & sensatfon in Germsny, where she has been invited to play before Kaiser Wilhelm. Mascagnt’s eight-year-old son fs a clever | violinist, MEN AND WOMEN. Since he entered his 93d year James Martineau has publicly stated that his tavor- ite recreations are “rowing and walking.”” Prince de Joinville is spoken of in Parisas the probable successor of his brother, the late Duc d’Aumale, in the French Academy. deaf for some time. General Lew Wallace says that after a dili- gent search for a short name for the hero of | Mme. Blanche is | The | Prince is 79 years of age, and has been stone | great book he came across the name in the Book of Genesis, and by prefixing “Ben,” which means*‘the son of,” Le obtained | aname both short and odd. Mrs. N. M. A. La G of Bucksport, Me., hes the honor of being the first woman who enlisted asa private solafer. She served ail through the Civil Wa Mrs, Sara A. Wilson of Linealn, Nebr.. is the regularly nominated candidate of the “Lib~ 1y or Prohibition party of that State for Ase sociate Justice of the Supreme Court. | Daniel 0’Connell, youngest and last surviv: ing son of the liberator, has just died at Bed- ford, England, aged 81 years. He wasarene- gade to the cause of Ircland, accepting the { office of Income Tax Commissioner from Pals merston forty years ago, and subscribing reg- ularly to the Unjonist fund to fight home rule. Westley Richards, head of the celebrated Birmingham firm of gunmakers, died recently atthe age of 83 years. He was one of the invent~ orsof the Enfield rifle, and made the first cap- | ping breech-loading rifles and cartridges in 1858. Later he invented the top-lever breech- | loader and the falling block rifle, with the | metallic cartridge for Roanoke College mede an acknowledgment of the fact that a number of Koreans have been seut to it in order to be educated by con- ferring the honorary degree of A. M. on Pom Kwan Soh, formerly Korean Minlster to the United States, at its commencement last weex. Mr. Soh 1s oue of the most scholarly men in | Korea, being especially versed in philosophy | and psychology. | Princess Peuline Metternich, who became | famous as a leader of fashion in the court of | Napoleon I1I, where her husband was Aus: f trian Embassador, has changed her name, with | consent of Emperor Joseph, to Metternich- | Ssandov. 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