10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE * . SUNDAY MA * 22. 1887.--TWELVE PAGES.
JIAN'S ' PHANTOM OF DELIGHT ,
Woman Created For a Helpmate and No
a Biral of Man.
POSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND
{ Tlie Frinnlo A c I'Htslmrc'H Miss
Van Xaiult Women ns Itivjuitt-
ors Gossip Tor ttiu
Ladles ,
Wninnn.
JJ. A , A. , m 3'iwp'e nor. '
Most flattered ntid least ousted of tlio race ,
Dropt for u whim anil followed for a lace.
Loved for tlielr lollies , their duvollon
scorned ,
In presciico slighted and in absence
inonrncd.
Their heart > < , their characters , by men ntmsed ;
Wio nuvor think their help should ho re
fused ;
Heated by kinirs nnd trampled In the mire ,
The best nnd worst they equally inspire.
Cursed for their weakness , hated when
they're strong ;
"Whatever happens always In the * wrong.
Tact Is their Renius. Add jet one thliiK
more.
Woman Is lost , wlion woman proves a bore
9
Wmnnn , n Helpmate , Not n Rival.
London Queun : Tlio old contest re
specting the rnlutivo intcllectunl powers
of the members of two sexes lias been
revived in thn journals of the lust week
in consequence of a lecture on the sub
ject delivered lit the lloyal institute , Al-
uermarle street. It cannot be said that
tiny new light upon the mental distinc
tions between men and women by Mr.
Komanes ; but the careful consultation of
authorities and examination of evidence
necessary to the compilation of n lecture
on the subject precluded his accepting
the belief , now current in some quarters ,
that men and women are equal in mental
powcrsand that nothing but the tyranny
of custom and the inequality of education
lias established and continued the mental
< 11 He re n ccs associated with sexual dis
tinctions.
The natural distinctions between the
intellectual faculties of men nnd women
cannot bo ignored by any impartial ob
server. It is mere childishness or
fatuity to maintain , as is done by some
of tlio persons who wish to bo regarded
ns strong-minded women , that , if equal
educational advantages were bestowed
on the two sexes , and the result of the
long tyrannical reign eliminated , equal
intellectual powers would bo possessed by
equal numbers of the two sexes. It
would be no loss absurd to argue that
tqual bodily powers would result from
equivalent training. The distinctions ,
mentally and bodily , are the results of
natural causes beyond the control of man.
In those countries , such as Scotland , in
which boys and girls are educated to
gether , every experienced nnd observant
teacher knows that the girls have
quicker perceptive powers and learn
much more rapidly * than boys of a corresponding
spending ago. They are more pleasant
nd easy to leach , nnd are much more
satisfactory as uupils , but , arrived at a
certain age , this pro-eminence is at an
end , for , arrived nt adolescence , tlio
power of amassing knowledge isgrorter
on the part of the male.
In many intellectual pursuits , more
over , women in civilized society have ad
vantages over men of which they could
have availed themselves had they pos-
ecssed the power or the will. The num
ber of girls taught music is out of all
proportion greater than that ot boys.
v\o have constantly u vast number of
ladies who are brilliant executants , but
"wo seek in vain amongst the great com
posers for the name of oven a single
woman composer. Moznrt , Handel ,
licethovcn , to say nothing of scores of
others , can be matched with no names
of women.
Again , .women arc highly emotional ,
nnd lovers of poetry nnd poetic litera
ture ; hundreds have essayed the art , but
with a single exception , and that not n
ntrongly marked one that of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning none have ever taken
n position in the highest rank.
In one intellectual pursuit alone can
they be said to have equaled the other
sex as delineators of character in works
of fiction. As novelists women are un
questionably in the front rank. To say
nothing of the numerous lessor lights ,
Miss Evatis ( George Eliot ) and' Charlotte
llronto may bo placed alongside of
Thackeray andDickens.and lose nothing
by the comparison ; and at the present
time our most popular novels are in great
part written by women. This faculty for
writing fiction may depend upon two
conditions. The sharp , quick perception
of a clever woman gives her a great in
sight into character ; she appreciates
more readily than a man the hidden
springs which actuate motives , and she
delineates with greater accuracy the
liner impulses which escape the more
general observation of writers of the
other sex. Then , again , as portraycrs of
female characters women have the im
mense advantage that they understand
the motives which actuate their sex ,
which are. ns they say with -great
amount of truth , inscrutable to men.
Such characters as that of Mrs. Pqysor
could not have boon conceived or deline
ated , by a masculine writer. So well is
this fact recognized that if n female nov
elist of high class elects , as did Miss
Evans.to publish under a musculino title ,
the very accuracy of her delineations of
female character betrys her sex.
Hut the contest as to the relative intel
lectual superiority of the two sexes is
one 01 the most ynin and useless charac
ter. Nature never intended that there
should be this contest. Woman is the
complement , not the rival of man ; they
are respectively equal In their own
spheres. The one is thn holnumto of the
other , and it would be an evil day for the
world at largo , nnd for the happiness of
the human race , when men and women
were pitted against the other as rivals ;
( each sex would sutler , and it is dilHcult
fto say which would be tbo greatest loser.
Man is pro-eminent in bodily strength
and physical superiority , no less than in
strength of intellect and concentration
of power. Woman excels in quickness
of perception and in the hither moral
qualities of the mind , no less than in phy
sical beauty and grace.
Viewed as n whole the true nature of
woman is fully equal to that of man , but
it is on other tinea ; and those uro no real
friends of the sex who seek to place one-
bnlf of the human race in opposition to
Oho other , and to set up an unnatural nnd
jnpossiblo rivalry , which would only bo
niccittsful in aggravating the evils of lifo
that already exist in too great numbers.
Concerning iloumrkalilo Women.
Now York Sun : The best wishes of
hundreds of thousands of intelligent men
und women follow Miss Hose Eli/.abtith
Clovi'lnw ! from the editorial desk to the
schooh oom.
Miss Cleveland has won an cnyinblo
reputation in literature , particularly In
the department of historical criticism.
Slie has gained something better than
that the honest respect of everybody ca
pable of appreciating earnestness of pur
pose , independence of judgment and un
swerving loyalty to high Intellectual
aims. And she has earned something
better even thuu that thu sincere grati
tude and good will of a multitude of
readers who have come to regard her ns
almost a personal friend , without ever
having seen her face or heard her volco
Thi ) last is the best trcasuro within the
author's roach. This sentiment of per
sonal esteem nnd friendliness if. inspired
by no writer who dues not write from the
oul.
if it is trtio that Miss Cleveland's future
work is to bo chioll.y in the liolit of study
und exposition , whnruin she has already
ihoirn herself at her bent , wo cotigratu-
L > t the ) oung ladies who uiay now took
V
forward to her teachings in the lecture
room as a source of profitable ing truution
and keen intellectual enjoyment.
Hie Age of Women.
When rtors a woman cease to bo young ,
or rather to be entitled to that epithet ?
This is the delicate question which a
French prefect hastindertakon to answer.
Some years ngo a ceitain will left the
sum of 10,000 f rancs.tho interest of which
was to 1)0 given nnnuilly to a young un
married woman of the working classes ,
who , by her capacity and peed conduct ,
should be in a position to marry with the
help of a little money. In carrying out
the will , it became necessary for the pre
fect of the Seine to determine the exact
significance of the words "young wo
man , " and he has decided that they in
clude the period between 21 and 30. At
! JO , then , an unmarried woman may bid
adieu to youth , and resign her.salf to be
an old maid. This extremely ex cathedra
pronouncement may win a feigned or
forced assent from the candidates for the
Hiirbet-Hntitol pri/c , as this kind of prix
Monthyon is called , but it will meet with
only contemptuous rejection from the
sex at' large , ut least that portion of it
which has passed the fatal limit. A wo
man is ns young a.s she looks , just ns n
man is ns young as lie feels , and a really
capable woman is never SO until she is 40
or married.
Bliss Van Zanrtt.
Pittsburg has a nearly parallel ease to
that of Nina Van Znndt. During. the
trial of W. T. Lavellc , who was convicted
Tuesday of robbing the 1'an Handle freight
cars , n pretty girl named Vnnnio Hill ,
lila alHanccd , sat by his side in court
Yesterday she applied for a license to
marry him. The register refused the
license because Lavellc was in jail and
could not be present when the license
was granted. Miss Hill will now try to
secure a now trial for her lover , so that
he can bo released on bail nnd thus be
enabled to get a marriage license. Fail
ing in this , ahe will patiently await the
expiration of his term of imprisonment.
which , it is thought , cannot exceed three
years , nnd marry him then. She is
thoroughly determined to marry him
sooner or later.
Women ns Inventors.
New York World : The world has not
given woman due credit for her inventive
faculties. Few persons icalizo what an
important role she is playing in the de
signing of numerous articles , useful as
ornamental. Tlio records of the patent
ollico show that fully 1,1)00 ) patents are
claimed by women. Moreover , not n
small number ot patents granted to men
are really for ingenious devices and
ideas that have originated in a fcminino
brain. The women of Now Vork have
been granted more patents than their
sisters in any other state. The women of
Massachusetts , Ohio , Indiana and Wis
consin rank next in order. In machinery
women have done much. Almost daily
improvements in sowing machines corn's
from her brains. In the model-room of
the patent ollico , side by side with Elias
Howe's machine , is one made by a Miss
Uosputhal. It is n handy little contri
vance which can bo put inn lady's pocket
and screwed on to any ordinnry table.
It is so dainty it looks lit for thn work
room of a fairy. It will be a boon to
persons traveling where it is impossi- *
bio to take a largo machine. Ma
chinists pronounce it practically perfect
in construction , but it has not yet been
put upon the market.
The first submarine telescope was the
production of Mrs. Sarah B. Mather , of
Now York. Mrs. Montgomery shows n
section of a war vessel provided with n
series of iron plates so constructed as to
resist shot and shell. There is also in
the model-room an engine of olTenso as
well as defense , in the shape of a breech-
loading gun , credited to Miss Uuth
Goshan. Among the moro peaceful in
ventions by women are a car coupling-
pin and an improved railway for street
cars. A life raft is a contrivance of a
Mrs. licosloy. An appliance for raising
sunken vessels has been patented by
Mrs. Emily Tanoy , of Pennsylvania. She
has also contrived n syphon pump. Mrs.
irackolton , of Milwaukee , ' claims to
have made 200 women self-supporting by
means of n useful little portable kiln for
tiring decorated china. This can bo at
tached to any gas-pipe , and is an im
provement in the usual method of heatIng -
Ing , alibi ding a much more equable tem
perature. Miss Mary Bj-oughton , of
New York , discovered a new mode of
forming air chamcers in dental plates
for artillcial teeth. Miss Amelia- Bird de
sired to make a noise in the world , and
her genius soared to steam whistles.
Mrs. Caroline Brooks , of Arkansas , has
patented some lubricating molds in plas
ter. Mrs. Brooks will be remembered ns
the butter artist at the ccnntcnnial , her
lovely creation of lolantho attracting
much attention. She now has a studio m
New York.
Mrs. Sarah Ames , of Massachusetts ,
patented the bust of Abraham Lincoln. Of
what the patent right consists does not
clearly appear , as artists generally con
sider such things creations rather than
inventions. Mrs. Cornelia Beaumont , of
Ohio , has a patent lifeboat to her credit.
Mrs. Martha J.Boston has boon very suc
cessful with her pyrotechnic night sig
nals. She is an example of what pluck
and perseverance can do. At the death
of her hmband his papers were in a
chaotic condition nnd his designs not
fully perfect. Unaided she brought
them to a point where they were practi
cally valuable , and she remained almost
ten years introducing them in the vari
ous foreign ports. She has been rewarded
for her perseverance by a fortune. Among
the queer inventions is an instrument
for restoring facial symmetry by Miss
Fannie Batchelder , of Massacnustts.
The numerous patents granted to women
include lire escapes , dust brushes , baby
tenders , devises for killing mosquitoes
nnd other insects , window washors.glovo
fasteners ; food preservers , washing ma
chines , cow milkers , cooking stoves ,
corpse preservers , bustles , face lotions
and all Kinds of garments.
Gnnalp For the Ladled.
' Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is at work on a
woman suil'rago novel.
Miss Frances Willard will take up dress
reform at thu end of the temperance sea
son.
son.Mrs. . Mary Manes Dodge is graceful
nnd well dressed. She talks with great
Vivacity.
Miss Mary L. Booth , editor of IIarper'3
Bazar , is rather largo. Her complexion
is dark , and she is a deliberate talker.
Miss Jcanotte L. Gilder , the editor of
the Critic , is tall , dark , and masculine in
her dress and gait. She has u brusque
was of talking.
The Crown Princess of Germany is
very benevolent , nnd her chief delignt is
in promoting schemes for the education
of the unfortunate classes.
Queen Natalieof Sorvia.was accounted
the most beautiful woman in the king
dom. Her husband , from whom she
has separated , is a marvel of ugliness.
Mrs. S. S. Conant , who is the temporary
ary editor of Harper's Bazaar during
Miss Booth's absence , is rather stout nnd
dark in complexion. Shu is n pleasant
talker.
A woman teacher in the Now York
Normal college declares that she can feel
already the inlluenco of the appointment
of iwo women as commissioners of the
board of education iu the greater respect
shown to women.
There is n printing house still in pros
perous operation in Franco wjiion was
established in 163 1 with girls for com
positors. The wo * k is chiully on Greek
and LiUin classics. Twenty-four deaf
mutes are among the skilled type setters.
Miss Middle Moriran , live stock reporter
for thu New York Tiroes , is very lull and
slender. Her complexion is neither light
nor dark. She dresses with great plain-
, , * * * y ytfi <
ness , and \t \ a delightful talker. She
speaks French and Italian with a charm
ing Irish accent.
Mrs , Aguow and Miss Dodge , the lady
members of the Now York board of edu
cation , pay particular attention to the
sanitary condition of the schools they
visit. 1 hey attend especially to nil mat
ters relating to the comfort of the build-
intrs , and notice little defects which es
cape the attention of men. The janitors
are said to bo dismayed when asked to
show the cellars.
Harper's Bazar tells of n clergyman
dying who left u widow nnd two daugh
ters. One of the daughters was an in
valid , and the other undertook to pro
vide for the llttlo family. Hearing n
number of housekeepers regretting that
they coulrt not have nice fresh caken for
breakfast , she called on her friends and
took orders for muffins , for the making
of which she had a good rccelpo. The
mullins were baked and served promptly
in time for breakfast. Her orders In
creased , and she now has a largo estab
lishment nnd u comfortable income.
J1ONKV FOU TIIK liADIHS.
The bang , In hair dressing has resumed its
sway.
Large hoop earrings are again getting into
tavor.
Plcot-cdged ribbons excel all others In pop
ularity.
Corduroy is n favorable material for tailor-
made jackets.
Nobody who Is anybody wears lisle thread
gloves this spring.
There Is something very lady-like about a
hand o four queens.
The really proper reds are two only , Am
aranth and old Bordeaux.
Ladles shoes must match In tint the prevailing -
vailing color of the gown.
Malzo Is asserting Its claims to bo consid ,
civd a fashionable color ,
Miss Itoslna Emmet , tlio artist , is soon to
marry a son ol Mrs. John Shut wood.
Beads , or to speak by the card , jets , are
fashionnblo foundations for bonnets.
Velvet Is used either plain or In soft , irreg
ular folds on the brims of round hats.
Sttin-flnlshed , eros grain , gauze nnd taf
feta ribbons are much used in millinery.
Mrs. Springing remarks that she would
rather fool with a bee than be with a fool.
The newest additions to flower jewelry are
the "Bermuda Illy , " and the "New Zealand"
rose.
rose.A mother of male twins enthusiastically-
rcteis to her treasures as her "sweet boy and
boy. "
Indian's never kiss e.ich other , and no one
who has over seen an Indian can blame them
much.
Work and Leisure suggests rent collecting
a proper and remunerative employment for
women.
If you wish to see n crass widow In clover ,
watch tier when she grabs a rich widower by
the arm.
Pure always was an unbecoming color.and
rcchrlsteuiUK It "heliotrope" does not Im
prove It ,
It Is said that the tan shades of cloves have
lost their popularity , and that coal grays are
in favor.
Basques are declared notsultablofor young
women , and are consequently not woineven
by grandmothers
It Is said that a sermon Is always short to a
woman who wears a new bonnet at chinch
for the llrst time.
Skirt draperies tend to loner , limp nnd
straight liurne-Joneslsm poudes and watteau
are out of fashion.
Bonnet ribbons are coining In again. They
are not tied , but caught bow down with a
jewelled bar of gold. "
The latest novelties In bonnet nnd scarf
pins for ladies' wear are a combination of
pearls and diamonds.
The very latest thing In sleevollnks simu
lates the coffee bean : each bean must be ot a
different colored gold.
There nru fifty female school supervisors In
Maine , and they all perform the duties of
their ofllce In an efliclent manner.
Mine. Melba , the young Australian prlma
donn , has been engaged bv Max Btrakosch.
She has created quite a sensation In Purls.
The Bombay Gazette has broken the Ice by
employing sixteen Aimlo-liulinn giils as
compositors and a woman as proof-reader.
Ella-Wheeler Wileox wears no color but
white Indoors. She particularly affects
the Kate Oreeuaway stjlu of cut In these
gowns.
Women portrait-painters are becoming so
popular In Now York city that those ot the
other sex are preparing to seek more prolit-
able Holds.
Elizabeth Stuart Pholps' woman suffrage
novel is delayed by the 111 health of the
writer. Sue is troubled with Insomnia and
nervousness.
Although curious combinations of all sorts
of colors are allowable this spring , women
should not dress as 11 they were imperson
ating hartoiulns.
The man who reports tornadoes for the sig
nal service has just been married. Ills re
ports will be founded laruely.upon personal
experience hereatter.
A woman doesn't know half as much about
voting AS a man does about rocking a cradle ,
yet there are more women who want to vote
than men who want to rock cradles.
Ono of the strongest points In the loveabil-
ity of a woman Is that she doesn't whistle.
It Is the husband who has to whistle when
she hands him the -bill for her bonnet.
Mrs. WhlttiBV wears no jewelry except a
diamond comb. She largely regulates the
fashions ot Washington. She may make
the profusion ot jewelry unfashionable.
The Htioots of Canton are only three or
four teet wide and when a woman with a
bustle ou gets Into one of them she has to go
clear through before she can turn around.
The rage for silver handles for canes , um
brellas and parasols has reached such a stage
thai designers are almost at their wit's end
for new ana novel patterns to satisfy the
public.
The bigger the parasol the moro stylish Its
bearer. The parasol of to-day needs an
athletic to carry It. They should match the
toilet , even If to do so they must be made of
Scotch tweed.
Mrs. Susan Sullivan , who was recently left
a penniless widow at Pierce , Mo. , walked
from that place to Chattanooga , Tenn. , with
her nvo children , the youngest a babe , whom
she carried In her arms the entire distance.
A California woman , In trying to make a
cradle for her baby , hit on an Idea and in
vented an orange box. She now runs and
owns the factory which makes nine-tenths of
the orance boxes for the 1'acltio slope.
Miss Mary Tilllnghast , who has just com
pleted a woudnrful memorial window for
Grace church , Now York , was once paid
31:0,000 : by Vnnderbllt for designing an
orlglnlal tapestry hanging for his nouses.
The honored guest of the Women's Na
tional Press association at Its regular meetIng -
Ing was MIHS Uolley , the author of "Joshua
Allen's Wife. " The originality of this
writer's style is attracting considerable de
served attention.
When Jacob Schoelkopf , the millionaire
tanner of Buffalo , took his wife around to
look at ? 500,000 residence which he recently
bought , her only critlscUm was , that she was
ufruld that It she lived there sue "would
have to keep a girl. "
Fifty thousand copies of Mrs. Cleveland's
portraits have been sold Sucn is the rage
for them that the orUlrfal photographer has
a call for about two hundred a day. She Is
regarded ns the greatest beauty tuo white
house ever contained.
Hero Is a good word for the women : An
English statistician has discovered that mar
ried men live longer and live butter lives
than bachelors. Among every 1,000 bach
elors there Is 33 criminals ; ameHg married
men the ratio Is only 18 per l.ooo.
A youug married woman In Iowa goes out
t-vf-.ry moonlight night and takes lone strolls
\vltttliu trliost of a former lover , who "talks
ns naturally as he did on eartn. " Her hus
band llnils It Impossible to become jealous of
a thing he can't st > o ; so the posthumous love
at ! air means no trouble.
A Now Lisbon , Ohio , girl , while disrobing
recently , was pulling off her stocking with
considerable exertion , as her foot was damp.
It came oil unexpectedly , and her hand \ > as
released with such sudden force that U struck
her under the chin and caused her to nearly
blto her tongue in two. There Is a moral ro
this tragedy.
Mrs. Gertrude Garrison , editor of the
American Press association , Is of medium
height , and has a slender , graceful llyure.
She U Incllnoeu to be a blonde In complex
ion , Her eyes are dark gray. She is de
cidedly pretty , drevsfa well , and Is probably
the best "all round" wcniku newspaper
writer In the profession.
. Too newest styles la scarf-plus are very
small nnd Include fllU , spiders and others of
the Insect tribes , wltli' luminous eyes , wings
nnd backs of pearls , diamonds , or rubtM. A
dainty pin Is shown of { opals In a cluster of
diamonds. A brilliant pin nnd destined to
bo very popular Is sot , with jacinths anfl dia
monds. A most unlmtof'ln displays a floweret
ot moonstone sot with diamonds.
It Is nowadays quite the proper caiior for
young women to mak their own gowns.
The fashion obtains particularly In Knelnnd
and even extends to the royal family , the
princess of Wales herself setting the ex
ample. The > oung. princesses are belnic
trained to u complete uiitlerstandltii : of the
art , and not only make gowns but wear the
gowns they make. The , "Society of hndy
Dressmakers" Is luecllug with marked suc
cess.
MUSICAL AN1 ! ) DUAS1AT1O.
Miss Fanny Davenpoit closed her season
last nlnlit In Brooklyn ,
David It. Young hns written n comedy
called "The Ago ot Tally.1
Kdwln Booth played to 84,470 one night
last week In Indianapolis.
Harry Asklu has been cngaitod as box book
keeper for Colonel McCul.is' | season In New
Vork.
The sum of 84.3CO clear wont to C.W. Coul-
dockis the result of his benefit In New lork
last week.
Clara Morris travels with a doctor in at-
tciulauco. Nightly this physician Is on duty
In tbo wings.
Walters. Sanford. the star In "Under the
Lash , " Is n Philadelphia boy and a son of
the minstrel , Sam Sanferd.
There Is to bo a now conservatory of music
In Paris. Its funds will coma from individ
uals , not from the government.
' Her Atonement" will bo the Decoration
ucrk attraction at the National theatre.
Ihere will bo an extra matinee.
Mrs. Langtry has had her hair cut In boy
fashion. The experiment , In the opening ot
connoisseurs , has not proved a success.
Mlnnio Maddern's company recently gave
the lirst dramatic performance over seen In
Prescott , ArU. The receipts were STOO.
PiUtl Itosa Is the only soubrette Lotta ever
found sufficiently to her liking to cntiust
with her bright comedies , "Zip" and "Bob. "
Mr. Uobert Buchanan's play of "Sophia. "
based on "Tom Jones , " has passed its UOOth
consecutive representation at tUe Vundcvillo
theater , in London.
Emma Abbott will add "lluy Bias" and
"Alda" to the repertoire ot her opera com
pany for next season. The cnmpony will
not travel west of the Mississippi river.
Marcus Mayer will bo tendered a brncfit In
San franclsco during the engagement of
Sarah Bernhardt. San Francisco is a great
place tar Ireaks , and this Is one of them.
Although the season Is practically over and
tlio Inter-state commerce bill has reared Its
horrid front , tlioro ant 100 companies stilt on
the road the usual showing at this time ot
the year.
"Hypocrite" Is the title of n now comeJy-
urama written by Mr. Lawrence Marston ,
which Is to be produced at the Fourteenth
Street theatre In New York on Juno G , at the
cioso of the run ot the "Old Homestead. "
A proposition has been made In a London
paper that the words "vVay Out" be painted
in large letters with luminous paint near the
exits ot theatres to guide the audience in case
the lights should bo suddenly extinguished
Mine. Pattl has diamonds enough to adorn
half a dozen European sovereigns , but the
jewelry she wears with most delizht and
never parts from are two inexpensive bangle
bracelets , from wtilcfi depend small , colden
disks with Uebrewjvords engraved "there
. fl
upon. J
Genevlove Ward and W. II. Veruon have
nrrivbd In London. . Miss Ward Is nt tier
country house at 'Slmnldln , in the Isle of
Wight She will start on a tour of the pro
vincial theaters of England , in company
with Mr. Veruon , about the middle of
August. ' ' I
Eight principals of the company that Col
onel Mapleson has arranged for his season of
Italian opera in London are American-
Emma Nevada , Mine , llastreiter , Marie
Engel of Chicagoi ) Mlrtnlo liauk , Louisa
Pott I , Lilian Nordica , Tercsma Adams , and
Votta of Philadelphia.
Maurice Bernharilt , who was to have
Jolnok his mother at Omaha , and accom
panied her thence lo California , appears to
prefer the pleasures of Now York to the
dusty delights of a transcontinental trip. He
may be seen late every afternoon In Central
park riding In a hansom and Industriously
pulling n cigarette as he indolently leans
over the apron of thu vehicle.
Princess Beatrice , youngest daughter of
Queen Victoria , has composed n tc nival can
tata , "The Sunny Mouth of May , " In honor
of the fiftieth anniversary of her mother's
accession to the throne. This Is not tbo first
attempt of the princess at musical composi
tion. A "Kyrie" written by nor has been
given in St. George's chapel , Windsor , aud
fat , Paul's cathedral , London ,
Slgnor Verdi has been fullillllnq ; a promise
made to the children of 'St , Agatha his
country homo that ho would write sumo
music for their favorite songs and cames.
"It Is no easy task. " declares the veteran
composer , "to satisfy my little friends.
Many of the most famous passages in my
operas have cost me far less trouble than Urn
Doll' and tho'Little '
Song of the Soldier'
which I have Just finished. "
The Pall Mail Gazette makes the statement
that the melody known as "Homo , Sweet
Home , " can be found , note for note. In Cur-
zon's "Monasteries ot the Levant , " published
In 1848. Curzon was secretary to Lord
Stratford de Itedcllffo , when ho was British
minister at Constantinople , aud the air is set
down In the book named as an ancient Arabic
love song. Sir Henry Bishop's music ot
"Home , Sweet Home , " as set to John
Howard Payne's words , was published be
fore 1SW.
Mrne. Sellna Delaro , an artist who has won
distinguished success on both the lyric and
the dramatic stage , has been In falling health
and In want for a lone time past. Her
friends have been preparing to give a per
formance for her benefit , which will probably
take place at the New York Madison Square
theatre ou next Thursday. The play will bo
"Fashion , " a comedy written by Mine. Delaro
that has never been acted ; so the event will
have a double Interest.
Encouraged by his London season of Ital
ian opera , plvon at reasonable priceColonel
Mapleson Has prepared to come down like a
genial and mulling wolf ou New York city
next fall. He will brine with him the greater
part of the company which is now singing
in London , and will probably settle down at
the Academy of Music , where ho Intends to
give a season of opera ot two months' dura
tion , at prices calculated to draw the mass ot
the people. His hUhest prlco will be $3.10 ,
and trom this the rates of admission will run
down to 50 cents.
Over 115 women ami girls belong to the
ballet corps ot a Paris theatre. There are
three stars , ton llrst subjects , twentv-two
second subjects , three divisions of coryphees ,
or leaders , two quadrilles , divided Into four
sections , the ' 'walkers , " and the Infant class ,
or "rats , " The pupils receive 40 cents each
time they appear , thn young ladles of the
quadrilles tiom S20 to 840 a month , the cory
phees from $50 to S6) , the subjects , or those
who dance steps oqtslde the ensemble fig
ures , SfX ) to 8100 a year , the stars from 35,000
to 80,000 per year. Those last named
amounts are less than tlio salaries paid In
former days. The organization of the erand
opera ballot dates frerii 171' ! , and was do-
cieed by Louis X1N. The eranfl inonnich
even wrote the regulations' for the tlrst ballet
corps with his own hand.
S1NOULAK1T1E8.
The remains of a mastodon , of the largest
size has been discovered about twenty miles
from Atlanta , ( in.
It takes the tusks' ' of 75,000 elephants per
year to supply the world's piano keys , bil
liard balls and knife handles.
A bald headed Italian and a red headed
nciuo were amoncr thu curiosities in an Al
bany police court a few days ao.
A colored man , who Is UV5 years old , and
who once blacked Washington's shoes , was
discovered the other day in Nashville , Tenn.
The Santa Catania mountains In Arizona
are covered with petrified turtles , lobsters
nnd clams. The mountains are 10,000 feet
above the level of tlie-eei.
A monster shark thirty-five feet long ,
twenty feet In circumference and weighing
over four tons , was captured recently In
Monterey bay , on thu Pacific coast
A peculiar storm occurred nt Bedford , Pa. ,
one day last week. For litteen minutes hall ,
rain and grasshoppers fell together , and In
such quantities that tno earth was covered
over nearly a mile square.
In Chesteriield county , Virginia , recently
a colored candidate for ollico wa * defeated
because he wore a uhllo shirt. It was the
only Immaculate ra < of that kind In thu rtls-
rrlct , but It was too much for his fclloir citi
zens , and they scratched" him.
If a box six feet deep were tilled with sea
water aud allowed to evaporate under tlio sun
la C oHiing Co ,
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there would be two inches ot salt on the bet
tom. Tnkine the average duptli of thu ocuan
to bo three miles , there would bo n layer of
pure salt SCO feet thick on the bottom of thu
Atlantic.
Seventeen years atroMrs. Hossana Dennis ,
ot Tlflln , O. , died of dropsy. The other dav
when the body was disinterred It was found
to be thoroughly petrllied.wltb the exception
of the feet. It was so buavy that ton men
were required to move It. A plcco chipped
f loin the oody resembled flinty lunestono.
Uurlnc a severe btonn at Heels , 1'onn. ,
large flocks of wild geese and Uucks tlylny
noithward were driven down , and then they
were attracted by the light of the coke ovens.
Many birds fell upon the ovens and flound
ered around , dazed by the liijlit or sinned by
the heat and about teu yecso and twenty
ducks wore captured.
The Amerlcuj ( Go.Recorder ) tells of n pet-
rifled strawberry which was Kiown on thu
place ot the Messrs. Hoys , near that city , nnd
which was watched carefully by them dtirlnz
the stage of pcrtrllicatlon. After it had be
come hard It was taken to a jn\\flier's and
made Into a breastpin. It Is beautifully col
ored , and weighs two ounces.
Twenty years ago John Flynn shut himself
Up In his house near Marquette , Mich. , and
remained there for twenty years unril taken
out by ofllcera the other day. Ho lived with
his sister , and has a son who hasn't been out
of doors in nine years. The younc man was
hidden and couldn't be found when the
ofllcors searched tlio house. Flynn was un
kempt and dirty , and fought the pincers like
a tiger.
Au old cavalryman says that a horao will
never stop on n man Intentionally. It Is n
standing order with cavalry that hhould a
man become dismounted liu mut llo down
nnd bu perfectly still. If lie does so thu entire -
tire company will pais over him an i he will
not bo Injured. A hone notices whore ho Is
KOlnK and U on tno lookout for a firm founda
tion tn put his foot nn. It Is an Instinct with
him , therefore , to step over a prostrate ) man.
The Injuries caused by a runaway horse are
nearly always Inflicted by the animal knock-
Inn pcoplu ( town and not by hlsstepiiliiK on
them.
them.Mr. . Trotter of Charlotte , N. C. . reports'a
case of n cit adoptingOUIIK rabbits , nud c.ir-
In , ? for thorn as Iiorown oINprinij. Mr.
Trotter's little boy found a nwt of young
rabbits and carried thorn Into the liouso ,
when thuv were taken In c.iro by the cat
which had lost her kittens Uut diy : before.
This motherly fellnu nursed nnd nuturod
tnoyounir r.ibolts with as much caw us aho
had bestowed upon her own kittens , nnd
they seemed entirely at ease under the euro
of the foster mother. Unfortunately , how
ever , another cat about HID house found thn
young rabbits nnd killed them , Tile walls of
tlio mamma c-\t were touuliliiK for several
dayf alter the losj ot her adopted family.
Mrs. Atkinson , ot Alleidiany. entered her
nursery yesterday und was horrlhed nt what
she saw , The family cat had attacked her
.six-year-old child , who was lyinu' hick on the
bed. The cat was slttlni ; on the breast of thu
boy. Kach of Its fore paws was firmly hxed
in the child's cheek nnd Us mouth WAS clued
to that of the boy. He was fitruifgllni ; ns
rauclt as ho could , and with one hand was
trylnc to push the cat away.As soon as the
animal saw tbo laUy U allowed Uuht , It
scratched thu child's lace In a terrible msn-
ner , and springing upon the mother bit her
In the shoulder. She finally beat It oil by
Rtabbini : It wltli a palrof shears. The mother
found the rid Id unconscious , Her erica
broiuht assistance , and after restoratives
had been administered the child was able to
talk. MM know nothing except that the cat
had vvakrned him up , trvinjr , ns he said , "to
take my bientli. " The llttlo follow Id in a
UiuiMrlous condition.
Operates In Back Numbers , ' 3
Now York Tribune : Nearly cvcrvono
in Now York has heard of "IJack Num
ber" liudii , who puts nwny every day
lifty copies of ouch Mow York newspaper
to hull them to customers yours hence at
500 to 5,000 percent profit. It is reported
that ho once received $700 for n sln Io
newspaper. Recently liu was culled upon
by some Kansas mun , ninonu whom was
Senator InRalls , whoasUod his assibtnnco
In procuring n complete lilo of the Lenv-
c'liworth Journal for the two years that IB
wits under thu inanagoniontof John Hon-
dorson. during the notation that resulted
in tlio Luuompton constitutional council *
tlon und the establishing of Kansas as a
free Mate. The lilo was desired for the
Kansas Historical Hoclaly , aud they were
willing to pay 110.000 for it.
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