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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SATUBDAY , JULY 16,1881. The Omaha Bee. Publlihed e\ cry morning , except Sunday , only Monday morning dally. TEKMS BY MA1L- Ono year $10.00 I Three Month * $3.00 SixMontlu. . , 5.00 | Ono . . 1.00 THE WEEKLY BEE , published ev ery Wednesday , TEHMS POST PAID : Ono Ye.ir. $2.00 I ThreeMonths. . fjO SixMontlu. . . . 1.001 Ono " . . 20 COnUESPONDEXCE All Communi f ! cations relating to News and Editorial matt - t ra chould be addressed to the Eniron or 5 I THE Bfn. : BUSINESS LETTEnS-All BusincM Letters nnd llemittanccs should bo nd- dresscdtoTiiE OMAHA runusiiiNfl COM PANY , OMAHA. Draftf , Checks and Post- office Orders to bo made payable to the order of the Company. , 1 flHAHA PUBLISHING GO , .Prop'rs . r. , E.ROSE-WATER , Editor. John II. Pierce Is In Charge of thcCircu- alton of THE DAILY I1EE. TUB president is sleeping quietly according to our latest bulletin nnd no change has taken place. Advice for the season Carry fan and an umbrella. IN Ohio the bar'l exorcises a great influence in determining the conven tion ballot , COUNCIL BLUI-T.S is ngitating the question of the electric light. Omaha should bo bestirring herself. nro itching for n fight against Homo of the flagrant abuses in the ' 1 in.inagonicint of our county t flairs , but ivo must wait until the thermometer cornea down a few points. I "WHY can't ' the city authorities purchase V chase or hire a sprinkling cart and place it under the control of the street commissioner ? Tliat will niako the work of sprinkling less expensive. llr.itK is another grievance for the ' oppressed and disfranchised. II women had a vote in this atato Governor Nance would bo compolloc to put at least ono woman on his Tin : orange and the green were very pleasantly intertwined at Now York on the 12th inst. Bishop Mc- Naniara attended the Orange picnic and delivered an address which was heartily cheered. WITH the death of Justice Clifford the last appointee of democratic presi dents will vacate the supreme court. 'Justice Field , who is now a democrat , was appointed as a republican , by President Lincoln. IT is nil very well that passenger rates are being reduced in the east , but why don't the Union Pacific and I ) . & M. magnates t/ivo us reduced passenger rates in Nebraska ? Four cents n milo is an imposition. CONKLINO called at the White House door and left his pilt-odgod pasteboard. Ho declined to como in , M because ho felt sure the president couldn't - HCO him , , .and . r .Mrs. Guriicld did not have -time for entertaining lilin. , ' ' OHIO women nro working in the harvest fields , owing to the great scarcity of farm hands in the state. This is a practical example of wo men's1 rights , which wo commend to the attention of Mrs. Colby and her , friends. OMAHA has n rod to pickle for Gov ernor Nance. His excellency made up his stall' and has ignored Omaha and her men in buckram entirely. Ux-Govornor Furnas gdvo us Quarter- ' inustor General Test , ' but now wo liavn't even a drum major , PENHIO.V COMMISSIOIJKII DODLKV makes a beginning with the now broom liy dismissing ono hundred clerks from the pension bureau. In less than ninety days Commissioner Dudley will -report his force at least ono hundred clerks short , and then there will bo an opening for his Indiana friends. Civil Borvico reform , you know. thousand emigrants will le18 ; Germany for America during ! ! < present year. This is n very ] ; jrg estimate , us since 1820 wo Imic : < ived but 3,000,000 Gorman emi- jpf uta , The Btatistics of emigrants ft to left for the United States during the months of January , February and llarch , 1881 , show an increase ol nearly 100 per centum over the fig < urea of the corresponding months ol President Garfield , in the legitimate exercise of his conatitu tional prerogative , appointed Judge Ilobortson collector of the Now Yorl custun house , with a dignitiod bul firm disregard of Senator Conkling'i ( Lreata , his course received our cor dial approval. In common with 1 republicans who eincereJy dowiro tlu y elevation of the public service nnd the downfall of bossism , wo hailed Mr , Robertson's confmnalion M n practi cal stop toward a much needed politi cal reform. Mr. Robertson's con firmation was followed by the struggle at Albany , and , for n lime nt least his failure to qualify for the collector-ship was excusable. It was announced that Mr. Robertson would enter upon the active duties of his odico with the beginning of the fiscal year. His commission wnsiccord- Ingly issued by the department but Mr. Robnrlson still lingers in his scat in the Now York senate. This , too , in violation of the plain provis ions of the constitution of New York , which forbids state officers nnd mem bers of the legislature from holding a federal oflico. The only object Col lector Robertson can possibly have in rot.iiniiig his scat in the legislature is his dcsiro to use his oflico in prevent ing the election of successors to Conk- ling and Platt , who nro personally of fensive or who affiliate with the fac tion headed by Senator Conkling. Wo cannot condone in Mr. Robertson what wo hnvo condemned in Mr. Conkling. Wo have denounced Mr. Conkling's effort to force a vindicaton of himself and a robtiko of the presi dent by personal bulldozing , and wo nro forced to condemn Mr. Robertson's course in exerting his official influence to defeat Mr. Conkling. Mr. Rob ertson could have served the president nnd the friends of the administration much bettor by assuming the duties of hit oflico at the New York custom house promptly with the beginning of the fiscal year. No matter what the outcome at Albany may bo , Mr. Conkling has utterly failed to rebuke the president for refusing to submit to his personal dictation in the appointment of n collector of Now York , and that ought to bo ample satisfaction for Mr. Robertson. When ho adopts Conk- ling's methods ho simply substitutes ono best ] for another boss , n now machine forllto old machine. And that is not what the country expected when it applauded the president's frame resistance sistanco to the arrogant dictation of the imperious Conkling. Dn. JAMn.s M'Cosn , president of Princeton college and ono of the most distinguished mental philosophers of the present ago , is spending Sunday in our city on his way to the Pacific coast. For nearly half a century Dr. M'Cosh's name has boon known nnd honored among philosophers and edu cationalists. Ho was born in Ayrshire , Scotland , in the year 1812 , and re ceived his education in the universi ties of Edinburgh and Glasgow and distinguished himself so signally nt Edinburgh that on motion ot Sir Wil liam Hamilton ho received the honorary degree of M. A. Dr. M'Cosh's services in the disruption of the Scottish church and the establishment of the Free church are well known. His subse quent career as n philosopher nnd ed ucationalist , his professorate nt Queen's college , Belfast , and his elec tion as president of the college of Now Jersey , at Princeton , in 1808 , need not bo recounted in detail. No man in America during the last thir teen years has entered so heartily into the work of advancing the higher education. As president of the third oldest and third largest college of this country , Dr. McCosh has shone ns brilliantly ua an executive officer as an instructor. Ho has brought to Princeton pvor two mil lions and n quarter of endowments , has doubled the number of instructors nnd students , nnd by his persona ] magnetism , eloquent addresses and nblo literary productions has awak cued a now interest through the cost in the subject of the secondary cduca 'iion. Nearly fifteen hundred gradu ates of Princotoh scattered tlirough every state of the union will boar willing testimony to his profound learning , his power of awakening enthusiasm thusiasm among his pupils and his untiring energy , in nil things that tended towards the welfare of' his in stitution. On behalf of the citizens of n com munity and a section who are vitallj interested in education , TUB BKK extends tends to Dr. McCosh and his cstima bio wife n cordial welcome to Omaha Two recent railroad appointments on roads far removed from Omaha have more than an ordinary intorcs to our people , on account of loca associations connected with the names of the promoted parties , Mr. W , U. Strong , who has boci elected to the presidency of the Atchl son , Topoku & Santa Fo railroad , is well known to many of our citizens His rapid advancement as a railroai man is marked evidence of his abilit and merits as an executive oilicor His first service was us n tolegrapl operator at a small railway station ii Wisconsin , on the iino of th Chicago , Milwaukee t Bt. Paul road From there ho wont into the service of the Chicago , Burlington and Quin cy road , accepting the position of gen era ! western agent , and dividing hi time equally between Omaha nnt Council Bluffs , nnd shortly nfterwort receiving the appointment of nssistan * general superintendent of the Chica go , Burlington & Quincy at Chicago A tempting offer secured him as gen rnl superintendent of the Michigan Central , A still more tempting offer jrought him again to the Chi- ago , Burlington and Quincy as enornl superintendent. Ho hold that > osition for two years , when ho no- opted the double oflico of vice prcsi- cut nnd general manager of the Atchison , Topeka & Santa Fo , under lie presidency of Thomas A. Nicker- on. Mr , Strong's energetic manage- nont and untiring energy hnvo done much to bring the Santa Fo road to Is present hiph rank among the rail ways of this continent. His success- ul career is an evidence that corporntions consult their own > cst interests when they secure the orviccs of the men of integrity nnd ligh professional and business ability , 'ho many friends of Mr. Strong will oin with the HUM in congratulating liin upon his elevation to his present josition. Another scarcely less grnti ying appointment to his many friends ii Omalm and Council Bluffs is that of ilr. Henry 0. Nutt to the presidency if the Atlantic nnd Pacific railway , 'ho franchise of this company is argoly in the name of the Atchison , ? opoka and Santa Fo , which latter ompany , jointly with the St. Louis nd San Francisco railway company , lurposcs to build n road from Albu- juerquo alontj the thirty-fifth parallel o the Pacific coast. The road is now n operation to n point in Ari/.ona tor- itory. When completed to the Pa- ific coast , it will relieve the Atchi on , Topoki and Santa Fo of its resent dependency on the Southern 'acifio railroad. Mr. Nutt for ftoon years was widely known n connection with transportation on ho Missouri river , and particularly n his relation to the Omaha Ferry company , in which undertaking ho ras brought in close business rola- ions with our merchants. During lis long residence in Council Bluffs ic was intimately associated with J. \V. Morse , now general passenger igont of the Union Pacific. Captain tlarsh , of our city , was also nn old rime partner of Mr. Nutt in the ferry justness , and scores of our citizens re member him warmly. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Every country of Europe with the exception of Turkey and Russia has ts two or more parties that , to jroator or less degree , direct its policy and shape its legislation. That Turkey will over change in this rospocl scorns not probable , but Russia hap nlrcady two pretty well organized mrties , that only await the inevitable [ jromulgation of n constitution con ferring upon the Russian poo- lie the same roprcscnta ivo form of government that the other nations of Europe enjoy , ii order to range themselves in fierce mrliamcntary opposition to ouch other. Clio ono is the Panslnvistic party which has just now , under Genera ; gnaticfT , obtained control of the gov ernment. This party dreams of n Brotherhood of all the Slavonic races rhoroin all distinctions of classes shall bo abolished , and the "old Rus sian'1 system of government , whicl vas really that of n communistic dum ocracy tempered by the-most absolute autocracy , have full sway. This sys cm is known in Russia ns the Mir system , nnd is of Aryan origin. It is jasod on the autonomy of the agricul , ural communities. Nearly' all the peasants -of Russia that is , abou .hrco-fourths of the whole populatioi live in villages , and each village ias its own independent ornan ization. The lands belonging to villngOv are periodically distribute ! among its households or families , am ho heads of these households trunsac all public business of the community jy a y > va V9C ° vote. The genera government of Russia deals only witl Jio village as a whole , the household on transacting all village business themselves , oven deciding nil minor oiyil and criminal cases that may bo jrought up before them. They also collect the taxes , admit now nnd dis miss old members , regulate the times of planting and harvest ing , nnd the division of all arable lands into three fields to secure n regular rotation of crops. Each house hold gets n piece of arable land , a meadow-field , nnd n piece of gardoi and house- ground , It will bo scoi that this system is essentially com munistio and democratic ; and th Panslavists nro inspired by the fixei idea that it is the mission of thd Bla vonio race to spread it over the whol world in course of time. It is in fac also the system of Sorvin nnd Horzo govinn. But it must bo romembora that this democratic government mont is only for the peas ants. Aloof from thorn stand th cities and nobles , the latter the grea landed proprietors , against whom th hnto of the peasants is mainly direct od. Whether Gen. Ignatioff is ii earnest in his taking up the cause o the Panslavistio party admits of groa doubt. Sure it is that no entrusts trusts him , It is quito possible tha ho may merely use the Panslaviati movement to busy the peasants uiu food them on hopes of political rofofm until the nihilists have boon sup pressed. The nihilistic organization recruit its ranks from all classes of the RUB sian people. As most of it nombora are cither free-thinkers r members of the various cctarian organizations that have pruug up in Russia , the Pftiislavistio arty has taken up the cause of the Established ( Greek ) Church , nnd vngos furious war upon the unboliov- rs and Jews. The Czar , though nt ircsont the tool of the Panslavists , islet lot altogether pleased with the role 10 is made to play ; and yet ho has so trongly committed himself to their aiiso by his recent manifesto that ho -nn not well withdraw. Besides , to vhat other party should ho go ? The Nihilists gave him n spondid chnnco o join their side ; but that 10 has rudely thrown nway. Mean while the German government which has not felt safe against Una- iian military ambition over since ho accession of the present czar , is joginning to grow quiet as the Rus sian government is turning its ntton- .ion to the condition of its internal nlfnirs. Still , the nihilistic party is ( rowing in a wonderful manner , and , as it has nearly all men of culture on ts side , it would , no doubt , in n free > arliamcntary body , soon get the bet , cr of its opponents. Franco is floating on the crest of a wnvo of speculation wilder than nny n Now York. Stock wntering is less easy in Franco than hero , but this lifliculty is surmounted in a way to put Wall street to the blush. The Credit Lyommis has recently doubled ts capital , raising it from $20,000,000 , o S40,000COO , the extra § 10,000,000 joing allotted to shareholders ; but , as the bhareholdorc wore generally without the money to pay for the now stock at par , the company loaned the nonoy and took the shares as as col .atcral. A purchase could scarcely bo easier or more disastrous all around when the crnsh comes. It is impossible to doubt that the outcry raised ngainst American meat n Germany on the ostensible grounds of trichimo , hog cholera and other dis uses of animals has its real inspira tion in the fear of our competition as 'ood producers with these of the con tinent. The Journal def Economislcs stated distinctly that the motive lend ing the French government to pro- liibit tho. importation of American pork was protection. The Gorman ; ovornment is now being pushed to adopt similar measures in behalf of native industry nnd of homo grown beef nnt pork. A lecture was recently deliver ed in Berlin by Dr. Roloff , director ol the royal veterinary school , so sweep ing in its charges ngainst America ! meat that his hearers must have bcei : in a state of wonder that the Unitec States have not been depopulated lon < , ago by the ravages of disease cense qucnt upon eating their own pork and beef. It is hardly doubtful thai the question of protection to homo industry lies behind this outburst o : veterinary science. The importation of live stock ant fresh moat at Liverpool , from America ca , for the week ending Juuo 4 , was the largest for many months. Twelve steamers arrived , bringing a total o : ! Jol2 , cattle , 050 sheep , 110 hogs , 10 , 724 quarters of beef , 852 carcases o : mutton and 110 dead hogs. A decision in England gives every passenger in n public conveyance right to a scat , The right to a scat in this country is not questioned , The trouble is to got it when everbodj wants to go in ono car nt the same time. ' The Irish flax trade shows a grad ual decrease. From the annual re port it appears that in 1880 there was total number of spindles in Irolam of 011,111 , which in 1881 had decreased creased to 870,835 , The exports o : linen yarns in 1880 , compared witl 1870 showed a decrease of five per con in quantity and nine per cent in val no. This year the flax crop is likcl ; to bo less than last year. TUB traflio of the Suez canal is steadily increasing , The total receipts for the year 1800 amounted to 41 , 820,809 francs , nnd the expenses , in eluding five per cent on interest on the shares , amounted to 21,841,803 francs. This highly satisfactory re turn allows n dividend to bo declnrei of 15 francs , 51 centimes per share and of 7 francs 49 centimes per foun dors' part. During the past year 2 , 020 vessels , representing a tonago o : 4,34-1,510 , passed through the canal M. do Lessops in the above report furnishes the particulars of the nogo tintions carried on between him am thoJiEgyptian government for th construction of a fresh water cana from Port Baid to Ismailia. A capi tal of 8,000 has been subscribed foi carrying out preliminary investigations tions , and the total qxpenso is cstima ted at about 1,200,000. The nogo tions are on the point of coining to a favorable termination. The census of Ireland just taken shows a population of C,1DO,840 , boinj , n decrease of 252,538 since 1871. Th population ia composed of 2,522,804 men and LC37,035 women , The do olino of the last ton years was uprcai over all the counties except three Antrim , Dublin , and Kerry. Th rv'ligious distribution of the popula tion was-3,051,388Roman Catholics 635,070 connected with the Church o rclnnd , 485,503 , Presbyterians , 47CCO ifothodists , nnd the balance was made p of nil other denominations. The ccrcaso of the Roman Catholics in ho ten years wns 198,070 , of the Protestants 32,328 , nnd of the Pros- > ytorians 12,145. During the last ton rears dwelling-houses have disappear- d to the number of 48,010 , while mildings used as ncccssories to farms and for business pursuit ? in towns invo increased to the number of 15,228. Permission has boon given to Gen eral Turr by King Goorgc , of Greece , o cut n canal through the isthmus of 'orinth. ' The work will bo under- akcn by n company established under ho patronage of the indefatigable M. do Lessops. who , it scorns , has long md his eye upon the isthmus of Cor- nth as affording him another oppor- .unity of gratifying his passion for great canal enterprises , The com- : > any will begin work upon the canal n the spring of 1882 , and expects to finish it in flvo years. The isthmus of Corinth is about nine miles in width , nnd the expense of building .ho canal is estimated at about 312- 000,000 , The qnestion is , where the ships , which , by passing through the canal nro going to niako it a profitable undertaking , are coming from. Ships ing between the Adriatic and the eastern ports situated north of Smyrna would save from about eight to twelve lours by passing through the canal. Ships plying between other ports west of the Grecian peninsula and the shores of Asia Minor would not save enough time to make it worth their while to submit to the canal toll. It s , therefore , not extremely probable ; liat the Corinthian canal can bo mndo profitable enterprise. Not nt Half Must. Ware hiijli ! wave hfehl thou gallant flag , To zopliyr lireezo or blast ; Wave , symbol of our country dear , E'en ntthe topmost mast. Wave high ! wave high ! thy folds display , Nor down our spirits cast ; Unfurl thy beauties tothu air , But not at the half-mant. High , luRh , I see thcc waving yet ; Oh , Father , hear our prayer ; Up to the topmast let it wave , And keep , oh , keep it there. Symbol of life or clue in death ; The crisiH soon will pass ; Life , with the flag at the topmost head , Or death at thu half-mast. Lifet life ! a suppliant nation cries ; Oh , Father hear our prayer , Life , with the flag at the topmost head , Hope , joy , and nnt despair. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Dora Stuart will be with Gus Williams again next season. Effio .Ellsler appeared recently in San FrancUcq as Ko.-talind. Mr. Frank Chanfrau will open his sea son at the Boston Theatre. Pauline Mnrkham is playing in the "Babes in the Wood" in Boston. Sarah Bcrnhardt says she is sick ol comedy , and will play it no more. Mr. Lawrence Barret will return to this country on the Arizona realy in August. It is stated that Boito's "Mefiisofclo1 has already been produced at 3'J opera housed. Gilmoro'n band is the chief attraction n | Manhattan Beach. The music funilshcti is among the best that can bo heard in America. Aland Granger's husband , Al. Follin , is going on the stage. Ho will play the Scotch tourist in 'The Galley Slave , " next season. Miss Annie Louise Gary has declined offers from Messrs. Mapleson nnd Strakosl to sing in opera. She intends to accepl concert engagements only. Mr. Wallock'H company will perform in a series of old comedies dnrini' their com ing Boston engagement. The first of these will probably be "Tho School for Scandal. ' AVhen a Ueodwood actor fails to give satisfaction to nn audience they simply shoot him , have the body dragged off the stage'yell "down in front" an J the play goes on. The cable has already announced that Mile. Hhen ; a favorite actress In St , Petersburg , will make her npiwarance ir this country next autumn. One of her chief parts is Adrienne Lecouvrcur. MisH Clara Louiao Kellogif , who returns to America in August for a short visit after an absence of over two years , has re ceived an offer from , the manager of La Scala to sing in Milan during the carnival season next year. It is likely that "Michael RtrogofT" will bo nrodnccd at Niblo'H early in August. Thiii theatre is now closed In deference to the president's condition and to the pub lic's lack of regaul for the latest version of "Uncle Tom'tf Cabin. " Miss Mary An dcrson will add two new plnvs to her repertory next season "Pyg malion and Galatea" and "Tho Daughter of Itoland. " The second of these is nn adaption-of M. do Hornier' * drama , "La Fille Itoland , " Both selections po art ) ex cellent , Mr , nnd Mrs , W. J. Florence , who sail for NewYork on the 23d of August , will bring with them three new playn "Home Again , " a drama in three nets , by II. A , Jones ; "The Macaws"a three act comedy , by Mr. Yardley , and "Tho Captain , " a three act comedy , by G. K. Siuiim. Thov are all said to be first-class and full of promise. The Florences open nt the Globe Theatre , Boston , in September. The New York Herald's London correspondent pendent interviewed Mine. Patti , who taid : "I uhall not delay niyunit , which has been long projected and anticipated , I wish to visit the home of my youth while my voice is still at Ita be.t. They will then hear what I nm the present moment , nnd judge for themselves tne truth of what has been said about me. I would not like Americans to say Patti has como mere'y to get money , I w nt to go , back whilu my powers of voice are unimpaired , " Colonel Mapleson hai arranged with the impressario Neumann of Berlin for the representation of 'W gner' Trilogy in London next May'with the Gorman artis tes. Herr Wugner' * ] > enunal direction of the orchestra i * hoped for , Mr , 11. J , Sargeant has engaged M'lle. ' llheo , the principal actress at the French Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg , for ft tour of thu United States , commencing In No vember next , to piny in English Adrienne Lecouvreur , Camille and other charac ter * . The many admirers of Mr , Rafael Joeeffy will bo interested to learn that he has decided to become oil American citizen , Ho haa already taken the preparatory utepa to this ecd , having received from the court his & et papers in the process of naturaliza tion. Mr , Joaetfy , it U understood , has completed a work on which he haa been engaged for soiije time past , hit first piano concerto , with orchestra , and will produce it during the coming Mason , the summer t Darein , Conn , , tudrlng ft number of compositions which he will add to his already extensive repertoire. Mis * Minnie Hnuk has been playing ft remarkably successful engagement of , \vcnty nights In Holland. She win orig- nally engaged for only two nights nt the Hague. Anuterdftm nnd HottenUm , but ihe houses were no crowded and enthusias tic that the term wns extended to twenty nights. Her Klsa was so admired th t < he hod to repent it five times at Aimtcr- lam. Mr. Carl Jlo n hai offered Miss llftuk an engagement for his English topera eaon in London ie\t winter , nnd Mr. Mapleson wishes 'icr to come to America. HONEY FOR 1HE LADIES. Pink tinted mils arc fashionable , Flower i.ccldets nre still fn vogue. Delicate monse-fray kid shoes arc In fashion. A nnw device for n lace pin Is a cow lumping over the moon. Delicate jet cornl fringe is very pretty on black grenadine for light morning. Corsets for summer wear nro made of net , and nleo made exceedingly short. Flesh colored silk stockings embroider ed with crimson rosebuds are very fashion able. able.A A live canary bird tied to n bouquet Is ; he proper thing to gi\e to a. young ; ndy fn 1 ow Pork. liraccletsmade of old silver medals ; link ed t > gcther with silver bends , are the fancy of the moment. Tinted satin sandals embroidered with tiny pearl beads nre greatly favored by young ladles who dance. White Ilussinn lace and bows of ( py satin ribbon from the most effective trim ming for cotton gatine costumes. The "humble field daisy" ia lust now creating quite n furore in the fashionable world and is worn l > y the million. A young lady ia giving whistling enter tainments In the oil regions. Anything to raise the wind during the dull season. Bridget being told to put a little nut meg into the rice-pudding , picked out the smallest ono in the box nnd threw it in. Black velvet bracelets , fastened by tiny buckles of French paste , nro again fashion ably worn with delicate eniug dresses. Jotsey Blty servant girls catch ( burglars by the hront and hold 'em for half an hour without extra charge to the family. Some of the new pins and bonnet orna ments sh iw grifhn , sphinx or medic ! heads in bronze enamel nnd Itomnn gold. The newest lace-pin is a miniature peacock - cock in profile , made of real peacock feath ers and mounted on gold , with ruby eyes. A f ew daring young ladies have appear ed on the streets with the dainty walking canes wjiich are carried abroad by English girls. girls.A A female undertaker thrives In Phila delphia. Gradually all professions nnd means of making u living are opening up to women. A New Jcrsy widow could only earn six dollars per week at the washtub. but as soon as she became a clairvoyant her in come increased to sixty. Plaster of paris cats are no longer con sidered tony enough for mantel ornaments , but they must s'cat ! nnd give place to crockery dogs with yellow eyes. The small old fashioned shawls of white china crape embroidered with heavy silk floss in ench corner , nnd edged with white nettled Bilk fringe , are again in vogue. Spanish jewelry showing large leaves end flopers tinted in colors of pale pink anil emerald green and studded with fine spark ling gems is just now in great demand. The latest French extravagance in hosiery is silk openwork stockings , hand somely embroidered and having delicate lace tops tinted a deeper shade than the color of the stocking. If it makes a white woman bewitching to stick a piece of black court-plaster on her face why wouldn't a. piece of white coin t-plnster mike a black woman appear positively charming ? There are five women to one man in Hoi- yoke , Mass. , and the poor men have to enter ice cream offices by way of the back window , and they have to carry revolvers when they go to picnics. A Manchester lady bequeaths a surgeon 25,000 on condition that ho should claim her body and embalm it , and "that he should once n every year look upon her face , two witnesses being present. " Vassar has one smart girl who will in the hereafter be heard of in women's rights societies. She described "straw" as being a hollow thing with a ten cent man on ono end of it , and a twenty cent drink on the other end. Some of the latest French hats are ac companied by long gau/o veils. They nre to be drawn over the face , pinned at the back with some pretty ornament , the ends crowed , brought around to the front again and caught together with a flower. "What a rough fellow that Sniggins is ! " petulently exclaimed the Hopcdale girl after n struggle with the aforesaid Snig- gins at ' Copenhagen. " "He nearly smothered me ! " "And did you kiss him for his fcinothpri" asked the other miss , naively. "Aro you engaged ! " said a uentleman tea a young lady from Mnrysvillo at a ball the other evening. "I was , but if that Pete Johnson thinks I'm going to sit hero and free him squeeze that fieckled-faced Wilkins - kins girl's hand all the evening , he'll be mistaken , solitaire or no bolitaire ? " The gentleman explained , and went out to get air , A New Yoik girl stuffed the sleeve of nn old coat with straw and placed it around her waist an nho sat in the bay window wrapped in the soft Juno twilight. It looked all right anil natural from a dis tance , nnd broke the neighbor girls all up with envy , but the satisfaction she derived from the hug was about as thin as strained moonshine , A pretty and graceful style of hairdressing - dressing has a bow ot hair falling low on the neck , in the centre of which is placed a silver buckle set with brilliants. In front the hair falls in soft light rings over the forehead , nnd is dressed in waved bands and caught up on ono side with a small knot of hair held by a Hunt aigret e of white feathers tipped with silver. A San FrancUco woman refused to i cept a portrait which an artist had painted for her , on the grounds that it did not do her justice. For revenge he heightened the bad points by retouching , so that the picture became a caricature , thouph re maining a likencsx. The work wan then put on exhibition in a store window on a principal street. A suit for damages is to be brought by the woman. AH beaded bonnet crowns are now very fashionable , and the handsomest of them , ore rather expensive , many ladies who have time prefer working their own. Tulle or ailk lint is used for the found > ti < n. The design to be used mutt first bo traced on transparent paper or linen , and the net tacked over it , the pattern being worked in fine cut beads of either jet , gold , amber , emerald green , or In the delicate shades of heliotrop , china blue , or wholly of pearl and crystal beads. IMPIETIES. A revision of the birth dates in the fam ily registers of the Bible would make the book more popular with uiaideiu of uncer tain age. "Where arts you going this summer ? " ia the query at the head of a religious tract , and just as tha reader makes up hit mind to go to Long Branch he discovern that ho ia on hia way to Brimstone Bay , It's kind o'mean to hit a man under the ribs that way. way.The The following , writes a correspondent from Little Hock , Ark , , ia g&id to have originated there ; "A minister called upon to open the senate with pr yer repeated the Jx > rd' Prayer , Whereuixm one gen tleman turned to another and laid , 'He stolfc thut , nnd 111 bet on it , I heard the- wvme idea expressed two years ngo nt a funeral in Eureka.1" An unctuous-looking fellnw with a white choker , nnd hi * face in the bluett bloom of clean having , Is filling his pockntuery fast in Central New York by selling copies - ies of the Old Testament rebound , for the New llevfeion. It is * nid ho ropes them all In except the editors , A young lady who wad enamored of a member of a church choir in nn adjoining village took A friend to hear him sing. On the way home , after the services , she ven tured to nsk what he thought of him. "I think ho would make n splendid auc tioneer , " was the nnswer. Timpklns pays his church ought to or ganize a base ball nine. They have n man who b.iwl-t first and'docond base. The or ganist can always get a short stop on the prg n , whllo the minister , sco'ng he has a good field , pitches Into the congregation , who have to cntch it. [ Harvard Lampoon. A congregation in Indianapolis owing a debt of ? 12Ti , but having no real estate ex- ccpt n cemetery , the sheriff has mode a levy on it. It I * advertised for onlc nnd will probably be put up at auction. Secondhand ond-hand tombstones and hearses have been put on the market ere this , but second hand graveyards nrc an absolute novelty. A Chicago firm is Bending out circulars offering to furnish nennons "printed on fine , clear , white paper , with bold face type , " etc. , to ministers nnd students who will Bend their address. The firm sends n specimen sermon nnd proposes to furnish "others to order from a lUt of 300 dis courses , on dilfcient subjects nt the low price of thirty ccnte each. The sermons are warranted to be non-denominational and to be so g-nt that two ministers in tha same section will not have the same scr- ons. " "Sweet budding rerin of dawning man hood , " the new pastor said , holding out hla hand to the youngest BOH of hm hostess. "I love the innocent sunshine of childhood that plays over his candid face like the dawn of n summer morn. " And just then the child laid down its slab of brend.buttcr and molasses and swabbed off its dimpled hands on the pastor's new pearl colored cassimeren , nnd mopped its candid mouth on his Prince Albert coat ; and the pirl who let the minister out says tdiu is willing to take after davits that hesuelled dawn with an r as lie went down the steps. It may be. We are all human , except Bob Toombw nnd JcfT Davis , and such things cannot bo and not overcome us like a mimmcr cloud. What , ho ! Mazurkn , bring hither the juinbleM ] > re and a pitcher of hot water nnd n lenv n and three glasses. It's time wo shaved. [ Burlington Hawkeye. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. Ex-Secretary Evart's twin sons are graduates of Harvard and Yale. At the rceent examination nt Princeton college 122 new student * were admitted. Largo numbers of young men and women are becoming teachent in England , nnd n great reduction in salaries is Baid to be imminent. The degree of "Master in Pharmacy" is hereafter to be given at MiclnVnn Univer sity to those graduates of the first degree in the school of pharmacy who show special ability in original researches. The Hawaiian free schools have about 7,200 scholars , 2,800 of whom are natives. There are fourteen select schools , within attendance of 1,300 , in which the English language is used and a tuition fee of $5 charged. The boa'd of regents of Michigan uni versity have established a Kchool of politi cal science , in connection with that institu tion , with a three years' course of study. JuJgo Cooley , the constitutional writer , will be at itB head. The authorities of Victoria TJnnersity at Manchester , England , have decided not to insist ntion classical knowledge , except for the ordinary degrees in arts , and have made divers new regulations for degrees in science and law. West Virginia , which in 1S05 had only 1805 school districts , 133 school houses , 387 teachers and an attendance of 15,1'75 pu pils , has now 3.120 districts , 3357 school houses , 4224 teachers and an attendance of 142,730pupilH. In ' 03 only twenty coun ties of the state had any fieo schools. A new course of study has been adopted in the public schools of I'tica , N. Y. , which reduces the time required from six teen years to twelve. Thopiimary grade in to take two years instead of four ; the intermediate grade three years instead of four ; the reduction in the advanced school course is from four years to three ; amHho last change is the establishment of distinct courses in the academy , for two , three and four yearn respectively , with corresponding ; diplomas. Latin and French are to be dropped from the course of the Female High School at Louisville , Ky. , and drawing and book keeping substituted. A normal depart ment for the training of graduatesaa _ teachers is to bo added. In the Male High School French and Greek have been dropped - ped , and only BO much Latin w ll be taught as can be managed by the principal. In the place of the branches iriven up a chair of mechanics arts will be established. Th& salaries of fourth grade teachers in the col ored schools have been raised from $31 to S35 a month , An enthusiastic young lady ( saya a late writer ) who , long before the days of cdu- _ cation codes , established a private physio logical class for girls , received from the mother of one of them the following com munication : "Miss , please do not teach my Man * Ann any morn about her inside , It will never do her no good ; and it's rude. " This was a very darkened mother indeed , and the Hght of modem KClencp lmn taught us that not only in HOUIO acquaintance with our ! nuiden good for us , but thut it ia compatible with perfect Dolitvness , Still it it a long and difficult study to mnko thoroughly , and it is one in which only a little learning , about na much as n child below thirteen could cnrry , might prove more dangerous than useful. Fred , Amos , Tyler street , Itochriter , writes ; "Your Si'HiNO BLOSSOM Is won derful ; I never used nnvthingthat acted so well on the bowels , and nt the same time was : no free from the drastic properties of medicines usually sold for the purpise , " Price CO cents ; trial bottles 10 cents , DYING BV INCHES. Very ottou wo see a person suffer ing from Boiuo form of kidney com plaint and is gradually dying by inches. This no longer need to bo so , for Electric Hitters will positively euro IJright's disease , or any disease of the kidneys or uriniary organs. They nro especially adapted to this class of diseases , acting directly on the Stomach and Liver at the same time , and will speedily euro where every ' other remedy haa failed. Sold at fifty cents a bottle , by lull & Me- 5 Million. (3 ( 1 Notlooto Contractors. ! Sealed jiroposals > \ 111 ue received by the . ' Board of County Commissioners o ( Doiiglu * Comity , Nebraska , until Wednesday , July SSTtli. A. I ) . , 1831 , at' ! o'clock p. m. , for the erection of of a court lioiiso building at Omaha , In said county. In accordance [ wltli plans and spccincatfons made by E. K. ilyew , architect of Detroit , Michigan , and now on file lu the county clerk's olllcu at Omaha. , , , Kach bid must be accompanied by a good and sulllclent lioiul In tbi ) snin of ten thous and dollar ) , ( $10,000) ) , conditioned that the bidder\\lll enter Into a contract , and given , * T good and sulllclent bond , should the contract Ji be awarded him. , . , , , * A copy of the specifications will be for- wardcf upon application to the county * clerk at Omaha , > > b. , and In all caiM inuit | " ' 'fheboaWreservM the right to reject any f or nil bids. , liy order of the Board of County Comralsf sloncra. OMAHA. Neb , , June 25th. 1881. 1 JOHN It. ilAJiCllESTKB. '
