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: n TOE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUKDAY , ' MAY 15 , 1887. TWELVE PAGESL PHtttVPTllIPIP Pt1\H1D O1ITT T7P SPRINGTIME S SUNNi SMILES , A Kansas Man Explains How to Achieve Tame and a Title in That State , ENTERTAINING BILL NYE. Dcliltu ! tlir. Times Trombone * Killed Jlllil Hulling Mnpla HHgnr Why n Ijcglslutor Voted for Woman e Witticisms. The Knrtncr. Oil Clfy Durtck. Once on n tlniu ho used to plough And rise nt dawn to milk tlio cough And drlvo wltli meiry somt mid laugh To pasture llrlndle anil her caugh. Then ( or the pips ho'd fill the troueh And for the maikuthn would bo ough ! Sometimes his marn would brulso her liougli Against a luncu-poit or a. lou li. And there ho'd switch her with a bough To tench herbettei anyhoutth ; Jle planted wheat to make the dough Which , lu a drought , \\aa haru to trough. In winter , when his work was through , A llttlu.Mportln lu > would dough ; lli''d wnnder with his gun and sliough ' And alia at crows ho couldn't knougti , Sometimes he'd hunt alone the dough For birds that do not Iho tnero nougli And shoot a sea-gull or n clou jh Which ho with joy would proudly stough. From watnpland , watered by n lough , He'd make good pasliiro for hlsstomrh By laying hem and there n tone ! ) , While persphatlon wet his brough. Sometimes a snake that shed It's aloush Would hcnre him so ho'd run and pough 'Till stuck knee di'ijji within a slough , Jlo'll jell until lu > raised a rough. 15ut nongh work makes the farmer cough And cureless hough much people scough , Jle lives on hoarders rough and tough Whough vough thelgh dough not cat enough. AVny Ucliltul. Wall Street News : They wcro talking nbout the progress of tlio country , mid liow It had gone ahead in the Just nftcun yenr.s , when the man in the corner ob- ecrvcd : "I ' with Wo can't quite ngrco you. could have gone ahead much faster. " "HowV" "Why , somebody might have discov ered fifty years ago that no hops wcro necessary to make lager beer , and that a peed 5-cont cigar could bo made of cab- Dago leaves. " Wind and Dust. Providence sends the wicked wind That blows our skirts knee-high ; But God Is good and sends the dust Thnt blows In the bad man's eye. Clear at Liast. Dakota Hell : "How nbout these titles nowv" said n new resident of Kansas tea a native ; " 1 want to know something about them , There's Colonel Wood- chunk , for instance , how did ho get his title ? " "Don't know , but ho registered tlmt way ut the hotel when ho fir.it came. HO wo suppose it's nil right. " "Ami Captain Duster ? " "lie's cup tain of a base ball nino. " "There's Judge { jiioozcnberryV" "Ho was judge in a liog-gtiessing match once. " "Commo dore Samlbarr ? " "Ho runs the ferry boat. " "How about Professor Bilk ? " "Ho'fi a pugilist. " "And Senator Mc- Tull ? " "Oh , ho gets mad and wants to light if wo don't call him th.it. " "And the Honorable McBribo ? " "He ran for " "And General the legislature once. CarpctbaggY" "Well , you see ho is a lending citizen , and wo kind o' give it to liirn in recognition of his public services. Oh , wo came by onr titles honestly. 'I hey call mo captain because I've lived in the state twenty-live years , and if you'll just walk around sort of straight bud EIVO it ont that you're a major it will bo all right. " _ Ho Couldn't Stand Everything. With calm resignation his nervous prostra tion Ho boio without grumbling or moan , lie swallowed his physic and suflcrcd the phthisic Without n complaint or n groan ; When tne medical lancer probed around for his cancer lie gave out no utterance of pain , And he actually urged on the hospital sur geon To probe to the base of his brain. Ills twinges sciatical wcro sharp and cmphat- Ical , Out ho made no moan or complaint , And the keen meningitis , the choking bron chitis Ho bore with the grace of a saint. lie lived through the asthma and through the mlnsmn , Malarial Ills ho defied- But ut last came his slayer ; the new trom bone player Moved iuto his house than be died , A VovfGoma of Composition. St. James Gazette : Gums of composi tion for aspiring Ixmdon school teachers undergoing examination : Walking My favorite walk is when I ilo not haye far to go to it. The Bountiful It is beautiful to Bit upon a stone in the middle of uoary ocean. Joan of Arc She was rather pious nnd very genteel. Samson Agoiostes Samson in agony. Ho dealt doles with the juwbono of a dead ass. Monastery A place for monsters. In the line from "Lady of the Lake , " "Fierce Roderick felt the fatal drain , " the last word was deline'd as "a newer or conduit. " _ Now They Do Not Speak. " 1 Mipposo yon blushed profusely dur ing tlio ceremony , " elfusoly said tlio liund-puinted beauty to the young bride hlin was congratulating. "Oh , no , " was the calm reply. "I never use rouge. " The conversation was broken off BO suddenly that the edges wcro sharp enough to cut stone with. Worth More. Wall Street News : An old-fashioned chap who keeps a dingy grocery in Cleve land. had about three hundred pounds of maple Biigar on hand in April , and one morning a drummer , who had been posted by the boys , entered the store and eaid : "See hero. I nm a man who RODS Htrnight to business. I'll give you 40 wnts a pound for that maple sugar. " "Forty cents ? " "Wolf , say forty-live. " "Tho old man turned white as death , lost his voice for a minute , and then hoarsely whispered : "You can't have it. War's broke out somewhere and that sugar is worth sov- c-ntv-Uvc. " Tlioy Drnw the Line ut Uuttcr. \Ve nvo having a < ; oed tinm licro in the South onjoyinu the climntu und miikinj' oxpi-rlineuU with thu butter proiluceu buro. AH warm weather npnroachea the mountain butter of North Carolina is KQt * tinu its hair cut nhort , nnd I can truth fully i\y , that , nithough I am no epicure us a general rtilo , 1 have hud my nalalo tickled moro since I cuuiu here tbuu 1 over did before. liuttor tuudo in the fastnesses of the bills in Buucoinbo county ia mostly of a Vixlo pearl gray , with a pin-stripe in it of ultramarine. This doc * not look b.utly , and it sots oil a hoccnko lirat-rnte. This butler is not uatun by the people who manufacture it. They tuo poor sometimes , nnd havotoeatmostanythlnj ; that will sustain lite , but they draw Iho Jlno at this butter , They nil know how It Is prepared. I wont out into thn brush hist uwk to load of wooii and 1 toot > : lea with a gentleman who lives In an onon-faced cottn o on the other siilo of tlio inoun- tiiins. 1 them discovorud that those peo- | ) lu do not cat thulr own litittcr. I illii not nojico any butter , but limy had uravj * as a substitute for it. Corn- dodders m nnd of Itself will not mult in the mouth , so I looked around for n means of lubricating my own. At that limu the wnrni'liuftrtcd und hospitable host made thu following remarks "Stranger , you musn't bo squeamish. Just waller your dodger in the dope. That's thu way wo do. " 1 then proceeded to waller. HILL XVE. The Weather Grumbler. The discontented mar. . He makes the uimk's uecp , Ho saj s the snow in diui- Uary U too deep. HeeiU'S a constant web Of querulous complaint , Ilo Bays the winds of FOB- lluary mnUus him faint. He says the storms of March Are xcry haul to boar , Tlmt they would inaku un Arch * HMiup cuihU and swear. That April winds have tun- Ueucles to colds and cough , And uioups and Inllmm- X.i pick all thu pcoiilu oil. Tliu llcltle silrs of May Ho calls a frai fill bore , Un them he'll ott exin- Tlato and Crumble sore. Thu "perfect" d.ijs ot Juno- Theme of thu poets' lajs Ilo s.iys no ono but lun- Atlcs would over praise. lie says that he nbntn- In.itcs and hatus July. And August makes him com pletely icslirnod to die. Ho a s the logs of Sep tember are worse than death , He'd rather suitor lep- Jtwsy or want of breath , After the equlnoc- ' 1 Inl storm IMS spent its fence The boivstly month ot OcTober - Tober bt-clns Its course. And then the cold Novoin- lipr routes with ley breath , And blusterlnu Dccum- Her makes him lomj for death. He whimpers like a babe , And makes a constant din , \ \ Ith him tlm an el ( i.iln liieloukl Kut as mad as siu , Gamut ofllicrt. Washington Post , Taklmr " 51,000,000 is called ( icnlus. " 100,00 " Shortage. " .10,000 " Utlcitlon. 44 2. " > ,000 " Insolvency. " 10,000 " IrreRidailtv. " 5,000 " Detalcntlon. " 1,000 " Conuptlon. " " 11 100 " Dishonesty. " r,0 " .Stealim ; " 25 ' Total . depraIty. " one ham " Wat on society , Wilbur Votcrt Ayp. Minneapolis JournalKverbody in Dakota knows Wilbur i . Steelo. ilu was a incmbor ot tlio log'uilature from Stcolo jottnty. Thuru is nu incident in Stuclu's cgislativo earoer that goes very far to show his characteristic regard for his wife , lie has one fault , however. Ilo akus no stock in woman sulVrage ex cept when he is obliged to. On the oc casion in question the woman sull'rago bill was before the house. Major 1'ickluy ivas championing the cause of thu fair jex in eloquent words when a call was nado for a vote , and thu elork proceeded : o call the roll.Vhcn Stccle's name was readied ho arose with the dignity of a DemosthenuH and commenced : "Mr. Speaker , I am sorry that I cannot upport this bill , but - At Unit moment a well-dressed lady was seen to bund over the gallery rail. In a loud voice she exclaimed : "W-i-1-b-u-r " - - - - - ! Ho glanced upward. It was enough. Ho turned and said : "Mr. Speaker. 1 vote ns'c. " The lady was Stccle's wife. Tuo Circus at tlio IJutto. Dahcta Uclle. Wo kinder calkilatcd-thet's Bill an' Ike an' me We'a nil go down to Sentinel Butte and hov a sort o' spree ; Thot day the Greatest Show on Earth were thar in one Die tent , dsod 'twere something in our line , so natur'ly wo went Insldo wo struck a table with a cur'ous sort o' erector , An' a sign as said his name were Fharioh Salt I'otur ; An' that ho was a 'Oyptlan king as long ergo went hunso The show had got the mummy at stupend ous expense ! Wo stood an' sized It up erwhlle. when Iko turned round to mo and sain : "It 'peers tor look erbout tor me. 'slf this Kuntloman were dead ; An' as I'm cor'uer I 'low without no further fuss , We'd better stop and BOO what killed the ornars cuss ! " Then Bill remarKs : "I reckon it'u'dbon good idee , An * 1 chimes in with : "An Inquest would list erbout hit mo ; " An' then wo sot upon the corpse of Pharloh Salt Peter , An' fixed a rog'lpr verdict : in surprisingly shot t meter I "Whereas this P. S. Peter , beln' thar layln' dead's a stone , Thoretoro , this jury finds ho croaked uv causes quite unknown 1" We 'lowed that tlfty dollars were what the job were worth. An' collected from the treas'rcr uv the Great est Show on earth ! Not Quito Alike. "Good morning , Mrs. O'Kuhcrty. Where hare von been so early ? " "Faith an' ' I've jist come from a bornin1 down at Mrs. Murphy's. " "Ah ! A now baby thcro ? " "Two , faith. She has two twins , and they bo so near aloiko that yo couldn't tell one from the other to save ycr loitu. " "Boys or girlsf" "One's and the other's " n boy a girrul. ICconomy Necessity. "J thought you wore engaged to bo married to Miss Bcuuti , who is HO di vinely tall and fair , as you used to tny. " " 1 was ; but tlmt was before the real estate boom began. I have married Miss Pottite. " That's the little lady scarcely four feet high ? " "Yes : j'ou sen , when a man's wife dies a grave must be bought for her , and with land nt present prices I could not afford a full-sized woman. " Postal Item. "la there anything for mo ? " said a sweet voice belonging to a charming young lady , whoso pretty face appeared at tlm general delivery wiudow of the poslofflco. "Who is mo ? " asked the prosaic clerk. "I'm Gladys Cumming. " "No doubt you're glad bo's coming - most young ladies arc but whut is your uamur" "My name , sir , is Gladys Uummlng. " "Uh , yes ; certainly. Beg pardon. " A Birmingham ( Mich. ) man putchatfd a SSU gun with which to kill spariows nt one cout a head. A Bix-months'-pld child welhlnsr only two nnd n half pounds attract * iRnyHilnri to' the home of Unvld Uliiifwd uuar Uapnv. Mich. ' A mountain rat ten Inches hlch nnd about a toot long , captured on tbt ? inland of Trim- dad , lias been addud to ( he Ceutul Turk ( N. V. ) nicnai'erle. A wren has built a nest under the cave of a car on a South Carolina tailioad. It Is tha best traveled bird in A tueilca , making four trips over the roaa every uay. A kind hearted resident of Westpoit , WIs. , picked up set en wild geese which bad fallen to itio around exhausted after a long flight. 11 * fed them and thou let them lly away. A Sloiu Fall * ( I ) . T. ) man exhibited to his friends a luf : | * picker * ! which tie bail cine lit. U nebbed - ' ouaU UKtnj-tUu'C ( < ( , was discovered that the fish hud been stuflcd with stones to Increase its weight. It never rains but It pours on the farm ot Myron lluskincs , of Staple drove , .Mich. Tlio other day Mrs. Husk lues cave iihtli to triplets , two of his ews to live lambs , aud thu family cat to seven kittens. Hov. John Webb and a big black bear met recently In the woods ot I'ocahoutas county , West , Va. Mr. Webb spent the next li\o hours In dodirlng around thu beast , and dually killed him with a pocket-knlle. At Da\lsvllle , Cal. , the wild ceeso pather In immense numbers on thu farms adjulnlng the. lulus , and their ravages are alnrmlne. Herders are ruculirlv emplojod on some farms to keep thorn oil by shooting at them. Tlio recent strlku of log-drivers nt Chippewa - pewa Kalis , Wls. , developed a no\ol\\ayof creating sentiment. Docs were turned loose bearing placards onhlcli wcro printed : "A mau Is a dog that will woik tor less than S3 a day. " One day last week a span of colts ran away In Portland , Urn. , and coming to a railroad bridge , ran out nearly titty feet on the ties , bi-foie stonpltiir. Then both went down In a heap , arid were aftorwaid pulled out tin- scathrd. Kadiw have played havoc with young lambs in ( Ir.mt county , Oregon , this spring. One farmer lost nliu- lambs in one day. The method ol thu eagle is to swoop iloun upon a helpless little lamb nnd knock him over , and then \\ith another swoop pick nlm up nnd cairy him away to be eaten at lolsuio. A clti/iMi of Beaver Falls , Pa. , has a dog that used to answer to thu name of Snipe. Once the family wont visiting and loft Snipe 'ocl.cd ' up in thu house. It was forty-tlucu da > H before they returned , but tlu-y found thudo alhu. Ho tucovured from his long last , and since then he has been called Tan ner. ner.A A car of porn was shipped from Tomplo- ton , In. , Maich 25.and lirst opened In Foil du hac , Wls. , April 10. In the car , \\lioutho seals were biokon at Fen du Lac , was found besides the corn a line Irish setter dog in a very cmaohtcd condition , but Inveiygood spirits. He had nothing to cat during his 'ong rido. A miller moth Hew into the car of J. U. Stall ) , a Wilmington ( Del. ) bakpr tlnee yeais via and was uotdblod.'cd till the other day , laving been .snugly ensconced just inbido the Irtiiu of the ear during tlmt time. Milk poultices and salt water baths drove the In- si > ct out and It lluw several loot buloro it dropped du.ut. A natural curiosity has been discovered nt holotlnirn , Switzciland. the center of a l.ugu \vatclHiunutacturing district. It Is the nest ot , i wagtail , Imlltliolly of long Bplral sti-el shavings , without the least part ot vegetable or nuimal liber used In its construction. The : iest has been preaened in the museum of : iatur.\l history. A mechanical expert given to cuiious in vestigations estimates that the tooting ot locomothps on the Now Yoik , Now Haven and ilarttnul rnllrnad , In an ordinaly dav's run , Imolvesa waste of .steam lequlnug the consumption ol 'Jso pounds ot coal to rcnuw. Hi ) estimates the wliistling expunses of that particular railway nt Jrll.OOO per > ear. Near Dolores , Argentine Itepubllc , there was iccontly a shower of atones. A tew mo ments nttet the plains wcro covered with the bodies of ITBPSP , storks and other birds and animals killed by the stones. One inhabitant of tlio place earned lorty-elglit head of gt-oso 'lomo In the space of half an hour. Grout oss was sustained. Manv animals weio cilled and crops nnd ITPPS wore destroyed. In Ib30 Amassa Olllott bought a Jot of standing walnut and whltcvtoud trees lu \Vnshttna\v county , Michigan , giving a bushel ot wheat tor each tiuo. He cut the reps and taftt'd the logs on the Halsin river it Clinton to bo sawed. Some of the walnut ois sank in the water anil remained there about hfty years , when they weio taken cut it'll louncl to be solid as thu day they were CONNUUIATjlTlES. Bayard Taylor's dauchter is rpportod to bo engaged to a joung plijsiclan of the Univer sity ot Halle. Fifty-one maniairos wore announced In one day recently in a Philadelphia paper. Those Quaker maidens me as piottlly modest and ( UiiiuiK ! asour Aunt Tubitha's cat , but they seem to "got there" just the same. A Missouri gill waved her hand at a stranger , nnd in three days they were mar- lied , Two days later the joiing lady waved n Jlatiron at her liu > liand , and the next even ing ho came homo waving a divorce. What are the wild waves saying ? A territorial editor says In his paper : "Yesterday woveio again married. It will bo remembered that both of our former wives eloped with the toroman of the oflico. To avoid any futuiu inconvenience ot the kind wo have this time mairled u lady who is licrsnlf a compositor , aud she will nut the typo while we hustle for the ducks who still owe on subsctiptlons. " Dakota Bell. A young eastern farmer was engaged to bo married to a neighbor's Imndbomu ( laughter , procured a license on the day set for the cere mony and proceeded to the residence of his atllauced. On artlvlng he Jcaiucu to his astonishment tlmt his Intended had been married a few months before to an old sweet heart. The happy groom had arrived trom tlioost that day , gonu at once to the lady's icsidcnce , gained her consent , procured a license and married her , all wltnln the brief space of tlneo hours. An eastern mau stands no chance at all alongside of an cuergotlc westerner. Some women are never contented. One of this kind has gone before a magistrate in England aud asked for a divorce on tlio ground that In forty ycais of her married lite her husband had bitten her every day , and that she was ready to swear to nearly Ifi.OOO ot Uiose love nips. A young woman of Detroit has retusrd thirty distinct oilers , and piefeisns yet the cold companionship other quarter of a million of dollars. In Maryland a blooming widow of thirty has just buried her sixth husband , and scores of eager suitors are yet willing to bo Immo lated on the altar ot liei beauty. That while there Is llfu them is hope lias been demon- stiatcd by a Massachusetts maiden ot seventy-two who got mauled last week , and by a Chicago husband who got his seventh dlvoice while In scaich of the model wite. Altogether , the matrimonial maiketls lively and stiong , Hukmiblmr. the native Indian lady , whoso wiorrgs aroused a general feeling of sym pathy in England and India , was married , Rccotdinic to Hindoo usage , at tlio ago ot eleven to a youth some \cais her senior. She remained at her patents' house.was carefully educated and ) , ruw up , according to nil ac- touuls , into a relined and highly educated lady. Some elchtoen months ago she pub lished In "Tho Times of India , " undei the iioin do plume ot "A Hindoo Lady , " a scries of forcible and striking lottois on tlio miseries entailed on liei sex In India by tlio barbarous customs of infant mariiaco and enforced widowhood. Last yeai her hus band tried to net her to live with him , and on her refusing he Instituted a suit for the restitution ot conjugal tights in thn Bombay high court The case was tried , and It liav- \us \ been proved that the husband was too poor to support her , was utterly Ignorant and uneducated in tact , a mere coolie , the judge expressed the opinion that It would bo a bar barous , cruel ami revolting thing to compel bur to llvt ! with such a man. Ho fur ther held that such a suit could not Ilo under Hindoo law nnd dismissed It. The hr.suand appealed , and the chief justice and A judge ruled tlmt the lirst judge was wroii In law and snnt the case back to the lower courts in lie tried on its rnciits. On this tiki It was urged as before tlmt the woman had never consented to the marriage , and had never regarded the man as her husband ; that ho wa * poor , htnorant and unhealthy : and that If ordered to return to him she should lie forced to dlscboy itnd take the consu- ( juoncos. bho was ordered to Join her hus band within a month or undergo six mouths' Imprisonment. Tlio case has excited much sympathy among the Anglo-Indian com munity. The F.ngluh newspapers are pub lishing letteis and artlc'es ' on the subjeet , and steps nr being taken in Bombay to raise a fund In her behalf. Among the native community , however , hardly a single voice , except that of Mr. Malavarl , a Parsee gentle man , lias lief n raised in Lcr favor , and the so-called reformers who ajltato loudly for rrprefentatlvo Institutions etc. , say no word for Ihe alteration of the cruel Jaw which the Bombay court has been reluctantly compelled tocnfotce. CDOCATIONAU The Mennonlle college for tue United Slates has been located at New ton. Tbo trustees of Columbia college have re fund to accept the memorial Hie placu the sen lor cU-.s proposed to place in the library of the college , The university of Uoettlngen Is to cele brate its IMtn anniversary In Aurust next , on which occasion the Kmperor William's nephew , I'rlnru Albrecht , will flourish as rctior tmtcnliio-ntlsslmuf. 'Iho University ot Michigan at Ann Arbor will cvlvbiaie it ) cvwl-ccutcuulal Uuuug the commencement week , Jnne 20-30. In- 5tcnd of the usual baccalaurcatn sermon , tlieio will be an address on thoCCth by Prof. Henry S. Frie/o ou "Tho Itelatlon of StaUs Universities to Hcllglon. " The morning of the U'Jth will bo devoted to aildres es by Austin Blair In behalf of the university ra gouts , nnd bv Principal Sill , of the State Normal school lu behalf ot the State Teachers' association. In the afternoon there will bo addresses before the various societies of alumni by Senator Palmer , Jus tice Miller , of the united States'supreme court and others. The university musical so ciety will sing Mendelssohn's "Elijah" in the evening. Commencement day Is tut * notii. and President Aiicell will give the commem oration address. Addresses from representa tives of other universities nnd colleges arc expected , either In connection with the exer cises or at the big commencement banquet In the evening. Portlier students of the university who wMi further Infoimatlon , should address J. II. Wade , Ann Arbor. In Russia there aio 'J2,000 schools , having each an average of IM scholars. This Is one school for S.UOO Inhabitants , at a cost of less than a cent a head of thn population , lu Austria , with 37,000,000 of Inhabitants , there are 'J'J.OOO schools and 11,000,000 scholarThu average number at each school Is 101. and thu cost per Inhabitant lOcenK In Italy lor 'JS.OOO.UOO Inhabitants there aiu 47,000 .schools , one school for every COO people , ut a cost of 17 cents a head. The aver.uo niindjcr of pu pils at tlm schools is 10. In Spiln incru are H.OOO.OUO scholars , 'J'J.OOO scliooK giving an aveiagu ot Ml in each school , and one .school for every COO Inhabitants , as In Italy. Thu number ot schools given for Kngland Is 6S.OOO , which is onu for every neO Inhabitants , with an averuae attendance of ft'J pel school , andacOit of ! ii ) cents. Thu Germans have a school lor every 700 , giving a total of 00,000 schools , with IGOimplls In each , ami 33cents per inhabitant. France has 71,000 schools being ouu lor every 60J , with 03 In eacli school. France would , theiutore. seem to have more schools than anv other great Eutnpoan country. Tlteso schools cost the country U'.t cents pet inhabitant. MUblOAli AND DRAMATIC. Ilavcrly pays the vocal corps of the Masto dons the neat sum ol Sj'wO a week. llenrv E. Dlxuy's burlesque on "Faust" Is said to bo in simpe for piodiiution. "Tho Black Flag" Is ono ot thu few Knellsh melodramas that holds Its own in tills coun try. try.Tho Princess Bcatilce writes music and plays the piano and oigan with matkcd ability. Mine. Pauline Lucca has received the medal for art and science trom the Prince licgent of Bavaila. The Thalia Opeia company lias made such a failure in San Francisco that it lias closed picmaluiuly. Pretty little Ida Mulle Is singing the put of Kose Mavbud In John Stetson's "Ituudy- " . " goro" company. Einest Legouve , the vclcinn dramatic author , is called tlio Dr. Olivet Wendell Holmes ol France. Chicago is to have a new theater called thn Ilaymarkct. It will hold ! JOOJ persons with prices to suit everybody. Colonel Frank Burr lias rewritten "Mlz- pali1 Fred Eustls' comic opeia , or.d thinks in at it will bo a success in its now form. Minna Clale will bo the leading lady of thn Booth-Barrett company next season , unit K. . ( .Buckley will have the leading juvenile roles. Emma Abbott sing In " 11 Trovatore" to the president and Mrs. Cleveland on Tues day night at the National theatur In Wash ington. It is said that Ell/aheth ( Jorewa.tlie famous Russian tragedienne , has been making ar rangements tor a tour in the United States next fall. llavcrlv cleared 5180,000 on the Mastodons thelirst two years the troupe w.is in ex- Utoncn , and his prohts this bi'ubon have been very lar.ro. LI/ztoMay Ulmer , the soubiette star , is looking lor an engagement for the ooniini : sea ion. In tne meantime sliu invites offers lei a new play. Charles Overtoil has cabled to America for tlm Kndlsh rights to Clay M. Uiuene's "Golden Glint , " but negotiations have not yet been onteied into. Billy Emerson , ot Havoily's Mastodon minstrels , Is said to have invented moio successul ! special acts than any oilier comedian In the business. Kmc Milan , of Servia. has taken to writIng - Ing plays and having them enacted on the putillo stage. Close upon thu hcols ot this announcement comes tlio news that Queen Natille has left her liege and will not live with him any'mOre. Miss Freda Nardyz , who was so succesful in the part of .Mathilda In "Led Astiay , " lu- contly produced by the Drew Dramatic asso ciation , will piny tlio part ot Mary Meredith In "Our Ametican Cousin , " at McCaull'o Opera house on May 20. Before the intei-stato commerce law went into effect Colouel McCaull could take his company tiom New York to Chicago tor about SSOO. Their latest trip from Chicago to New Yoik cost 81,000 for railroad tickets alone. This did not include sleeping car fares , which'tho members ot the company paid themselves. Henry Irving Intends to add to his icpnr- tory the character of liobcrt Landiv , In the drama of "The Dead Heart. " "The Dead Heart , " now about tnlity ycais old , has long lemained disused. The late Benjamin Web ster was highly distinguished in it on thu English stage , while in America it was thu chlot feature in the repertory of the late Ed win Adams. The Philadelphia Press states that "Tho Boston Ideal Opera company has KOIKI to smash alter a good old-tashioned row , in which every member ot the troupe took a part. The completeness with which this once harmonious and prosperous oiganizi- tion has been destiojcd by jealousy , bad management , aud general cusscdnu&s shows plainly enough that thn ago ol spectacular blundering is not jet over. " The clover people at thu Japanese Village , No. VJ17 Chestnut street , Phila. , have madt a hit with their purtoimanco of a real Jap anese play. It is certainly a mnst intereit- m. : atlair , as well as a truly novel exhibition. The play Is intcrmuted to tno audience .so that every onu can understand what It is about. The aclors wear torgeous costumes , and their pantomimic action is certainly re markable. The piece is quaintly put upon thu stage of Temple hall , and the Hceuety anil costumes exclto wonder and admiration The New York Mirror has this little anec- dota of n railroad man and a manager : "J. U. Wood , the eenorat passenger aaent of the Pennsylvania railroad , applied at tlio Arch street theatre , Philadelphia , for four seats foi the "Parlor Match. ' Hu was given them bj the house management and enjoyed the play , thoutrh Harry Mann states that ho woult have been refused admittance had ho known of It. In spite of the fact tlmt he liked the piece , however , the company were chaigeit an excess for bagcago on their tilp to this city. " Whllo Carl I5osa was working himself ui to the succcsstul position that he now occu Pies it was to bo noted as a singular coinci deuce that his principal soprano , prinelpa contialto and piiucipal tenor were all Ohio people. MI sGajloid , Miss \ orku and Mr Packard did not a little to put English opera on a linn basis in England. Naturally , Mr Hosa has conlidence in Ohio artists , and he has Indicated It by encaging Miss Amelia Louisa ( iroll , born In Cleveland and music ally educated in Cincinnati and Paris , tot his London season. Mine Bernhariit's jewels are probably mou valuable than any collection in the world both from a hnuncinl as well ns hlstoilca standard. She has pearls by the pint ; dla mends from every field and court in the in the woild and in every Imaginable style of setting ; blras , flowers. Insects and deslirns symbolic of ancient and medieval tlmoarr among the tieasured ornaments , und some o the most exquisite B | > ecimens of Egyptian Hungarian , Indian and PcrMnn woikman shlpaie used ou the "Theodora" costumes. Two new operas to bo produced in New York during the summer months bv Colonu McCaull are"Jacquetto" and "ThoBellman. ' The formnr under the name of "La Ber naise , " is the great sensation In Paris am London. The music is by Mossager. and thf English libretto by J. Cheovei Uoodwin "The Bellman" Is by Von Suppo. and ha been running In Vienna to crowded house for months. On the occasion of Its lirst pro duction the enthusiasm of the audience wa so great that the composer was forced to ap pear before tlio curtain twenty-one times iu response to repeated calls. The Traveler : Miss Fortesciio has talkeo n great deal to tlio nowspa ) > er leportors sine Bhu returned to England , and she has salt many sensible things. 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As If It wore a crlevlous sin on their part 1 They \yould not bo cnuajjfd by thn manacers It them were no need for them ; and why should there l > ua monopoly In arty The fact Is , the unmhiK fa hlon of Knullihmen of education nnd manner * taU- tn uptho st ? o as a serious profession Is hcloitiK us jtrcatly. Not that I bulleve In the nonsense nt Vlevatmu' the staie , but I do think it Is time that It was placed or. a plane with the other arts. Mrs. Cr.ibtrcc , Lotta's mother , may be been frequently Rdlns In or out of a Now Yoik bank , \Micre slio had rousldcnxhlo amount ot money on deposit Bite has the credit of be ing an exceptionally shrewd and dnrln ? business woman. JiHTcaMnK ye.iru do not imprde her ph > slcal or inpnt.il activity nt dampen her courage. A cmitlumauw \ ! M- > had dealings with her t-i\t > that she cunUiius her opuratlonn piincinally to IM ! f t.ito , a'ld that iho thinks nothlns ot dr.twlns sjiiwi : or 10,000 trom tlm bank to , tnalcn it tmrclnsu for speculative purpoM'S. "And she sulilom falls to i > rotit , " added the crntlrnmn , with lone that implied a mi-iiiorv of tnumacilnns with the lady In which he did not iinlo ; much money lor hiinaolf. Thn Scotch universities lm\c been mr proachcd by the musicians of cotiaud with reference to the KrautlnK o f dt-frccs in music. The matter has been under ronsid- orAtion for some time , nud tlieio i , It Is un derstood , some disposition to acrede to Iho general wish on the part of three out or llio lour unhcMltle.s. Onn of the iinUiir.sitloi , though possessed ol an endowed musical rhnlr. has lakpn no attlve steps In the mat- ler. Another having found that It Is empow cud to riuilnr honniary degress in mmdo.nas tu'KPii the Inllintlve , und , upon search being ntnde. documents showing piect-denth for admitting candidates to examination have , Itlsr-Md , been dlfcouirt'd , aud it is there from not unlikely that the wishes of tuo musicians will soon ue carried out. The uur-oaslng and almost embittered political of the daylii\e not tended ical cuutnnc-ittlos , \ i to help the observance of Luui this year lit j