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12 rHK OMAHA DAILY &EEi SUNDAY , OCTOBER i 1887.-TWELYE PAGES. MRS , GRANT'S ' OPPORTUNITY. Offered a Chance of Becoming a Social Lioness She Declines the Honor. VANDERBILT'S PRETTY WIFE. A Disappointed Soclnl Set-Our Ath letic GltlM Italics Who Don the Gloves Clnrn Hello's lie/tier. NEW YOIIK , Sct. | 23. I Correspond ence of the Hr.K.l Tlie widow of ( ieueral Grant has determined not to become a nodal power. I have no means of Know ing how much she was inclined that way nor how long she really considered the question before deciding it in the negative ; but it is certain that the Astor- Vanderbilt clique of wealth and fashion gave to her the opportunity , and that she has declined to come out of her itiiet | re tirement into social activity. The talk at Newport all summer and in Fifth avenue this fall was that Airs. Grant and the younger members of the Grant family would figure conspicuously in next win ter's swelldom. It was understood that Mre. Nellie Grant Sartorls and Mrs. Fred Dent ( Jrant were getting extensive ward robes ready for the campaign , and the tendency was to welcome those attrac tive ladies right into the inner circle. The historical distinction of tliU ( nants , their fair ( lu.gr.88 of wealth , and their nkr.Siint personalities combine ! to lit Ihein to slnno as acquisitions to "our best families. " The thing was regarded as being settled. Hut this week Mrs. Grant has put her Sixty-sixth street residence into the hands of a real estate agent to neil , and she intends to go to live in a Hfth avenue apartment house. Her es tablishment will there bo comfortable , even luxurious , but not suitable for the giving of notable entertainments. She might have become nl will a social lion ess in New York. She has preferred a calmer life. Bachelors have suddenly come to the front as entertainers. Two wealthy beaux are rivalling each other as hosts to Fifth avenue ladies and gentlemen. One is Duncan Cameron , son of Sir Roderick Cameron , who has just had a resplendent party at his father's residence , in the absence of his parents in Ktiropu. The other , Francis M. Jeucks , who has dem onstrated that money , adroitly used , will buy admission for any decent , polite fellow into what is considered an almost impenetrable circle. Jencks had neither family descent to bo proud ot , nor ac complishments above those of the aver age of educated young men. lie went into West Side real estate booming , and within the past live years cleared a mil lion or two. When a bachelor gets rich to that extent , and has plenty of time on his hands , ho is apt to get a hobby , iiencks decided to become a society man. He has no acquaintance in Astor circles. Hut ho went down to Newport , rented a fine villa , behaved well , but conttpicu * ously made his way slowly but surely at the Casino , and before the end of the season was "rccognjzod.1 This autumn he is the biggest social magnate at Lenox , where his house holds the most intensely stylish assemblages , and ho is a much- sought bachelor. All of which proves that exclusive society is ut very ex clusive. WIU.1K VANIir.ltllILT and his pretty wife are having a great trip around the world in eighty weeks. That is the time which they have allotted to the tour. Their ' start in a splendid iteatn yacht , as big'and complete a resi dence as the one they left in town , was chronicled three months ago. They are now stopping in Scotland. At an inn , do you suppose ? Oil , no , indeed. They have hired Lord Lovat's castle at Heau- fort for the autumn. The house is only threii hundred feet long by eighty wide and no more than thi > ! thousand acres of hunting lands go with it.The structure is a restoration and extension of that Castle Dunie which Sir Walter Scott de scribed in "Tales of a Grandfather. " Well. Willie has something like a hun dred millions , and his wife is the gentle boomer of the family. When they encir cle the world why shouldn't they do it handsomely V Courtico 1'ounds has come to New York againand the. hearts of susceptible girls from Madison square to Harlem are in a flutter. Ho is supposed to be a very handsome man and a sweet singer. Let us critically see just what sort of a young man it is that commands the admiration ot New York girls. 1 was at the theatre when lie ho made his lirst reappearance thu other evening and found myself in the thick of his admirers. He played the part of a French prince of the last eentury , n role that required most of all , grace and dignity of movement and the exhibition of the manners of a pol ished courtier. When ho made his entrance upon the scene there was a smattering of applause , and after that an unending cackle of gushing comment. "Isn't ho handsome ? " "How nice lie looks now that his moustache is shaved off ! " "Hasn't ho a beautiful ligureV" "What a lovely smile ! " "Do look at that lovely smile ! I do think he's just dread ful nice ! " These ciimo from all direc tions , only too audible , and those who uttered them were handsome , richly drenscd girls , whoso escorts sat silent try ing to Hiuilo polite agreement with the verdict. They were not of the immature school-girl type , but young Indies who had had plenty of experience in society to make them know whereof they spoke , Whether 1'ounds deserves the gush poured ont in his behalf everybody must judge for him or herself , but that lie is a weak actor , and awkward at that , is undenia ble. Considerably under the medium size , his beauty of liguro is more the proiluctof enthusiastic imagination than of nature's gifts. Ho has around girlish face with liquid eyes and a moutt. that is over ajar , like a ballet dancer's in a pleasant smile. He is given to assum < ing graceful attitudes , and when once he gets his limbs into repose the effect u well enough , but the transition from one pore to another is marked bv various awkward evolutions His favorite atti ttido , for instance , is onn that might he called gcntio horror if it were not for tin reassuring presence of his elastic smile He stands with the left foot forward am the right log bent at the knee and th < foot thrown so far back , that ho can leai nway in the same direction until i straight line from his head to the flooi would full tar outside his heel. His arm : are raised and half extended in eithe : direction , his lingers folded into his ham to express intenseoariiestno.ss-.though om of his hands usually holds a hat which hi waves picturesquely. After main taining this pee for a min ute or two ho drops his arm and his shoulders Hop as ho does so , In lounges forward on one leg and sidles hi weight from one hip to the other. Thei the hat hand comes up to a level with hi head again , he swings half around on hi hips , thrusts out his right leg , withdraw his loll , lifts the left hand to corrospom with the right , smiles , throws back hi body , and there ho is in the reverse o his lirst attitude. There are others , am he gets at them all in much the same waj The orchestra has to play softly when li sinus because ins VOIPK js TOO i.icuiT to be hoard above an ordinary accom . unniment : Hut ho is u strong : iird , fu thn girl * < ' ( > to inl him , - ' The character this reek jmt for wan > ; most sucL'osaflilly.'for , ) > ub.Ho udilicatlon. ! iii n now play. Ho is a vacuous innocent son of a rich father , and his time is spent in being a club mail , lie Is as innocent as a babe , so far ns amatory guile is con cerned , but he and similar chappies at the club wink knowingly over actresses picture * , which they carry in their pockets , or hang in their rooms ; he resorts to numerous other devices to make the impression that he is a devil of a dangerous fellow ; butte to the girl to whom ho proposes mar riage he confesses that his reputation is false that he is blameless. Thereupon she overlooks his deception and declares that she loves him lust as well as though he were wicked. Hut it is as a Wall street operator that ho is most amusing. His father cuts him oil' with half a mil lion. So he decides to go into specula tion to multiply his paltry fortune. He is ignorant' even the merest usages of stock gambling , but after a course of instruction in faro banks and roulette dons , he goes into the street. He makes all his moves there on the Illp of a coin , and that method proves . o successful that he soon beats Ins own father , who is a heavy and thoughtful operator , swells his own half million to many millions , and becomes known as the Young Napoleon of Wall Street. The town is laughing at this funnv personage of the stage. An unconscionable lot of nonsense is being written about what the doling men call OfK A1III.KTIC1 ( Jtltl.S. You would think that we New York women had given up housework and sewing - ing and shopping and reading novels and all the other feminiiio forms of exor cise , Including the consumption of candy , and tlir.t , wo tire all boxing and playing tennis in summer , badminton in winter , riding horses , fencing , swimming , walk ing ten miles before breakfast , and good ness knows what all. 1 have been read ing it again , and I made up my diminu tive mind that I would see whether what 1 have been takingfor padding in the shoul ders of so many gowns is muscle , after all , and whether tlin avoirdupois that I sup posed canio from general beer drinking and wine at dinner , was what the dear men call feminine physical development. Of course 1 couldn't go up to all the other women like a cus tom house inspector and say , "Madam , please let me see what you have in your sleeve , " or "pardon me , but I suspect you are smuggling stoutness in you'- dross and making bcliovo it is muscle. " I couldn't do that. Not even Inspector Hyrnes is enough of a detective for that. Hut 1 found out all the same. I found out that the lady has a .swim ming sehool.here three or four mouths in flic year ; that site has a number of little girls to teach though nothing like so many as used to crowd the baths along the river front before they grew common , say ten years ago. I found that a man on Murray hill has a swimming school and gymnasium for calisthenics which is also for little girls and docs not seem to be over-burdened with business. 1 found that there are two ruling clubs and six riding schools in town attended by about two thousand persons , only about one-third of whom arn ladies. 1 found that there arc two fencing clubs and two or three fencing masters , witli parlors for teaching the noble art of self-defense against a sort of attack now out of style and never resorted to by ladies except in a picture lirst hung in the Paris salon two years ago and now hanging in half the tobacco shop win dows. I went to these clubs ami fencing rooms , or rather to some. Others I know about because my faddish friends have tried that like everything else. Witli what result ? That there are not forty women learning to icnce in this town. Half of what there are seem to lie ac tresses' who think it clever and .stagey be cause male actors have to learn it. 1 asked one of my friends how she liked fencing. "Why , " she said ; "half a dozen of us all tried it with the same experience. We could not get our cjothes on the next morning. This feminine wrist , is built for gentler doings. One night's exercise rendered it as useless and limp as a dust- nig. Four of us girls arc in a club and have a Hat together , and thn morning after our lirst lesson all four of us had to stay in bed till the landlady came at noon to sec what was the matter , and learned that they could not put their clothes on. " It is just so witli all the talk about pc- destrianism. Why , the average Now York girl always rides from Tiffany's to the shopping stores and from Macy's to O'Neill'sthat's ' four blocks. She'd be all pains like a hot-house if she had to walk that far. Hut Airs. Langtry and her devoted and athletic admirers are said to walk live or ten miles of a morning , for health and beauty's sake , and so the. men who write about women take it for granted that all the other women do the same thing. It's utterly absurd. Mr. Kdison is a'great invontor.lmt I will defy him to take a modern pair of shoes , an average bustle , a glouMitting corset , the now-lanifleU stocking supporters and a tailor made gown , and build any kind of a machine inside that collection , that will walk live feet without breaking down. It takes a woman and a smart ono at that to walk at svll , now-a-days. As for boxing. Well , now , I consider that a little too silly for even a man to accuse women of doing. I know that men say that there is nothing a woman won't do if it is fashionable but some things aren't fashionable and never will be. Hexing is at the tip top of the list. There are women who bov.or rather who liavo tried it witli their brothers or their brothers' trainersbut it is a perfect farce in which no blows are exchanged. ' 1 hero arc only two places whnro a womr.u can be hit with safety her face ami her arms , and those are the very places slio cannot allow herself to be hit upon for a black eye would lie worse than death to one of our sex and what woman who goes to the opera or dresses for dinner , without sleeves , could afford to have her arms all blacked and blued ? I bate to spoil a good story , especially one so complimentary to our so\ ; that is , if it is complimentary to thins of ns as a lot of Ama/ous. Hut we are not mom athlotio than formerly. I do not tliinK wo are as much so as we used to bo The growth of population in cities , the in creasing tendency toward book cultiva lion among women , the constantly strengthening demand of our liege lords , the men , that we shall bo pretty and gen tie and dressy and witty , all arc tcuilini. to repress those impulses that make whai the world calls "Tom boys. " Let tinj man who has a si = ter or wife go honu and ask her to go through oven a dumb bell exorcise for him and see what she will say. I will wager a pippin againU : pair of gloves that she will say ' 'What in ono ot these dre-s-sesl Why.my dear , had to hang a picture to-day and in ordci to do it I was obliged to undress , " Wi women can't raise our arms in the clothe of to-day. Wo may bo angels but on wings arc pinned down. CI.AUA HF.I.LK. Fancy work is a "fad" with mint women Those who have not time for It sigh fur II Many who have so wa-tu it in miadlrectri elloitthat the proJuctot thnlr labors are ill tetly uiiadapted lor any purpose of use or or nnmont , and Ho nroiiud until ? ! ! demand fo rontrihutlnns fitint somochmch tair orolmrll ahlu ba/ar presents n welcome anil Mueil. . sci/ed opi > oiUtility to "get rid" of them. Mi , F. C , llan > ! K. w 1100 reputation ns n actor is well established , will begin a stnrrln season about Octobur 17. He Ims secured tli riu'ht from Mr. Lawrence Harnttt to produo Mr. Uokur's "t-'ianro aila Klmlnl" and Mi Ham-It's msion of Miss Mltford's "Ulon/.i. Krod Lubln proposes trToYon a Chines thcatro In New York city February 1 , with play by a celestial company callc ' 'Filial Love. " This Is in live acts and wl take twenty-six men and twenty-tor women and children live nights to g < through wth | Us adventuriw. If you spit up phlegm and arn trouble with nicking cough , use Or. J H. Mo Lean's Tar \Vno } ' Lung Halm , ' . ' 5 .cents boftlo. . . . . THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH , A Talk With W , H. Proece , the Electrician of the British Telegraph System- HOW THE WORK IS CONDUCTED Women.Kmplnycd In the Commercial Jlppnrtinoni Hcvlcxv or Otto or the Greatest of Government ICntcrprlics. LONDON , Sept. 23. [ Special Corre spondence of the HKK. " ] A few days ago I reported a talk with Mr. Lambe , second end assistant postmaster general , on the subject of Great Hritain's postal tele graph system , which congress proposes to introduce in the United States. Mr. Lambe told of the tarllls , the special lines } and something of the general opera tions of the system. Hero Is what Mr. W. II , Piccco , known as the practical man of the Hritish system , and the gen eral electrician , said about other fea tures : "In 1877 1 was sent by parliament to Amoiica to investigate the telegraph sys tem there , for the pin pose of improving our own. 1 visited the various sections of the country and the large ollices , and inspected their lines and their opera tions. With all duo regard to the ex cellent telegraph service in the United States , and the great amount of ingenuity that country possesses , I must say it is standing still in the matter of telegraphy. It is now just where it was a decade ago. One would think at the first glance that in genuity would be stunted wlen | the gov ernment nxsumcd absoluie control of thu telegraphs and made monopoly ot the system , and when the operators were given positions during good behavior. This is not so.Ve have made more rapid progress within the past fifteen years than any other country , and have greatly outstripped America. This , 1 think , is largely due to the fact that we have su perior operators and a superior system of telegraphy. We oiler a standing pre mium to\ho men in our employ and out side the service for Improvements. Pro motion , vacation and money are the in ducements. With the security that a life position attaches , you can see , if you will think of it a moment , that our system of employment will bring about more ad vancements than any other The opera tors in the employ of the Western Union Telegraph company or the Haltimoro iV : Ohio company the two big corpora tions of America have uo security whatever ; their employers dismiss them upon any pretext , and there us no stability about the organisation of the ' service in'its details. Here a man is re- taincd as long as he performs his duty well , and when nc attains the age of ( JO years , ho can retire on a pension , The pension Is about two-thirds of full pay , out is graded on a basis of years of ser vice. 1 have served thirty six years , and can retire in seven years. My pension would be in the proportion that 40 stands to 00. of full pay , or NMKMh of full pay. "Wo have a complete .system of olli- coring the telegraph service. There are seventeen general superintendents or engineers. Ireland has throe districts , located at Dublin , Belfast and Cork ; Scotland two districts , at Kdinburgh and ( Slasgow. The remainder are divided between Kngland and Wales. Each dis trict has sub-districts , with inspectors , numbering eighty. Thou each inspector's district is divided into 'lengths. ' Each lineman patrols thirty miles of line or route , and all messengers and govern ment employes are .specially ins'tructed ' to have a s'crntiny over the telegraph property An inspector isnext in rank above a inieman ; an engineer is over an inspectjpr and communicates to the gen eral postollieo department. "We employ the Whoatstono instru ment and are enabled to handle mes sages for the press very rapidly. Our ser vice is exceedingly prompt. Our general ollice here , employing ' . ' .000 operators , has handled i,0U,000 ! ( ) words of matter in one night. Male operators are in the ser vice for press matter , and female.s are < .iployed in the commercial department. Our employes get from two weeks to a month of vacation every year. \ \ o sup ply all our operators with medical as sistance and medicine , free. The hours of their duty are eight a day. There is extra pay for overtime. The gross returns from the hnglish postal telegraph system last year was , in American money , ! f,87 ! ) ,2K ( ) , which was if 1,8.)7.770 less- than the expenditures , but the government paid ! ? lli0OS5 : ! interest on the telegraph indebtedness , and franked for fe own service messages amounting to il : ! , ! > 8r > and lost about $1,000,000 from the press and other source * where exceptionally low rates were made and contracts entered into. It is seen , therefore , that the English postal telegraph system , exclusive of the ntorest on the bonds created to pay for he lines , is a very paying investment A gentleman expert in and experienced in telegraphy and telegraphic business says that the English rates to the nwse.s average something like 15 per cent lower than those in America and that 70 per cent of the burdens of over charges in America rest with the common people , those living in rural districts and small villages. In the Usual year ending March , 188(5 ( , there was in operation in this kingdom 170,11)0 ) miles of wire and : nir > : tri,8ii : mes sages were received and transmitted. The local tratlie in London is enormous , ranging from 12.000 to 18,0')0 ' ) messages per day In ISliS there were hero sixty ollices open ; bTU now theio are -180 of- lieos , handling an average of 15,000 mes sages a day. The pneumatic tube system , by whiel several ounces of telegraphic or mai matter ran be shot about the city o London at the rate of thirty miles an hour , is also under control of the govern incut and is a great success. It would bo immensely popular in cities like Chicago Philadelphia , New \ ork , etc. , where vast expanses ot business arc condiiftedf A great many complaints are heard in England even to this day about the price paid for the telegraph lines now owned by the government. Especially the leg islators hold that the .sum was extremely exorbitant. It has been suggested by several high ollioials in the general post- ollico department hero that the congress of the United States should iiass a law practically confiscating the lines by ap pointing a commission to appraise the property in existenceand by some means forcing the owners to sell at the price t-tipulated by the commission. 1 have ; observed in all of my conversations with the oflicers of the government here thai there is not that high sense of property rights that exists in America , and there is talk about its being the proper thine for the American government to force private corporations and individuals te turn over their telegraph property at anj prieo the government might stipulate. With the greatest impunity thu olll- ccrs in the postollieo department here talk of conliscatio'us for her nnjcsty'i ervico , and declare that sooner or latoi the American congress will lose it. ' squeainislincss in reference to taking forcible control of the telegraph. 1 asked one olllcial high up in the depart nictnt whether , considering the form ol government In America , ho would rec ommend the condemnation of privatt property for the public service , ami thii is what ho said , as near as I can remem ber. ber."Your goyornmnnt already doe * * thu thing. It has a monopoly of the malls & OMAHA CLOTHING CO SUITS. We have thli season the. Inrurst as sortment of suits In all ( trades crvr ntt an attic. If'c quote a few prices : lrt class serviceable suits jf4.oO A Up-top worsted suit , $7. A flue worsted suit , $1O to f'10. Our line of nobby chct'iot suits an't be beat , In style and price , $10 to $ JC.SO. 1308 FARNAM STREET Congress under your constitution can iiass a law creating a commission to ap praise telegraph property. That com- iiission can make a return of the assess ments , and the money can bo tendered to owners of the property , and thu uroporty can by force be taken charge if. The only question will be the price. if tlie terms "fixed upon by the commis sion are not liberal enough the owners can sue and the courts will determine. There will bo uo question of the legal icla under the constitution to do this liing. This we looked into before the government of ( Jreat Hritain took charge of the telegraph. You have recently mssed an interstate commerce law which > ractically amounts to tno same thing I > repose and wo took in regard to con trol of thn telegraph. " The telegraph service here is very T.uch more pcumpt than in the United States. I have Hied messasos from sev eral parts of thn kinirdom. and a number of times in London , for various portions of this vast metropolis. Ordinarily a .elegram tiled in any part of England will be delivered witmn thirty minutes. Ono which was sent over three circuits reached its destination within eitrhteon iiinutes , and 1 am told tins is jut an average time. There is 10 such thing as an operator being crowded witli work , out of the ollice , or saving ai > v one of the thousand -and ono excuses for not getting on" a message. Ami private lele < rrains have the same right to the wire and delivery as corpora- Ion or government service. There is no 'avoritism. ' There is complete uniformity. The operators are the. best in the coun try. There are no strikes , and no errors on account of inexperienced operators. J'he most capable men arc at the instru ments. In the entire system of large oflioos the Wheatstone instruments are employed , by which 400 or 500 words a minute are rushed through on a single instrument , and there is no possibility of error. I am told that so excellent is the condition of the lines that very sul'dom are the wires down , and it is remarkably infre quent that a report is delayed. Only the best of everything is used. Hut there arc drawbacks to the ser vice , and some of the most serious ones are encountered by the newspapers , which are the largest customers ot the telegraph. In another letter on the Eng lish postal telegraph system I will repeat a most interesting conversation I had with Mr. John Moore , the general man ager of the Central News , which is to the old world what the United and Asso ciated pro < -ses arc to America , and in which Air. Moore recites the advantages and disadvantages to the press service encountered in a system of telegraphs owned and controlled by the government as against a telegraphic service in the hands of corporations and individuals. I will also tell something of the practical workimrs of the wires and the postal telegraph ollices , applying them to or contrasting them with those in America. P. S ilnvTii. An Ivy vine has grown through the wall of the house ot Arthur We.stco.it , of Atlantic City , and ornaments his sitting room. Mi. . U F. Davis , ot Harrison. Kan. .a lady thirty-seven years old , had all her teeth ex tracted tlireu'months ago. and now nature is furnishing her with a third set. A Frenchman rode Into \VatervIlle \ , Ale. , with a big Xewtouudland dog hitched to a two wheeled cart which the animal had hauled In three days 150 miles. riicra is a white horse at Koscommon , Mich. , that visits a saloon daily lor Its class' ot beer and gets it. Another white horse at Hay City takes trips on a toboggan slide and enjoys them. Mr. H. 11. Freeman , of Toomsboro , Ga.Jias a moccasin snake that ho caiulit when young , placed It in a bottle , corked It up per fectly air-tight , and for two yeais it has had nothing to eat or drink and is yet alive. Thu tw oldest trees in the world are sup posed to be the ouu in Calaveias county , C.il. , that is supposed to be -M'5 ears old. and the cypress of Somma , in Lombard ) ' , Italy , that is 1'Jll ) eais old , or planted forty-two years H. 0. While a train load ot excursionists from Los Angeles , C.il. , was spending the day at Port Halona , a swordlish litteen teet long ventured within the Hues of thu broakets and was thrown up on thw sand. Within a fuw minutes the excursionists had carved up the big lisli with their pocket knives and tliuy all carried a supply ot swordlish steak back to town with tin-in. At a fox hunt near Tolona , 111 , the dogs forced a gray tex up a tiee. but thu hunters would not "shoot , preterring to have him taken by the hounds. A boy climbed thu tree to forcu Kevuard out , but when ho dropped lie eluded the dogs and found shelter In a hole. Ono dog lollowcd hltn , got the game by ttio nose , ana pulled him out. hut the fox watched his chance , made the doff lose his grip , dashed away , and made good his escape. A young gray squirrel found by a party of children at Ivoryton , Conn. , was cared for until It had grown large onomh to help Itsoll , when it was set at llbeity. The children had no Idea It would ever come back , but the same night the squirrel cams to the window and tapped upon the paue. It was ad mitted , and the next morniue whisked awav again. It Ins built two nests , using wiilcl ever it chooses in the night time , except when It rains. Then it always asks tor ad mission to the house. A real Yahoo girl Is at present on view In tint panontlcum ( dime museum ) at Cologne on-thu-Uhltie , Germany. It la a littlu "Kr.uu cirl from Laos , in Slam. Her skin , even that ot the face , Is covered with hair half us Inch to an inch In length , except on the sole of the feet , the elbows and thu insldu of the hands. She has bakuntaschen and thirteen dorsal vertebrse Instead of twelve. In oven other respect it Is like a human being will a common amount of Intelligence ami feel ing. The Kraos are a Siamese tribe , all.'o them , It seems , possessing the same peculiar Itlcs as this little girl. A gentleman walking on the beach near Oakland , Cal. . was struck violently upon the head by a haid substance , and , looking up was startled by a ghostly llutterlng of wings not a foot away. A great gray gull just es caped lighting on his shiHildurs , \ \ Ith a half frightened cry It rose in thu air. Lying 01 the sand was an Immense black mussel , ol which the gull was trying to make Ida din ner , The gentleman stepped a short dls tatice away , when the gull darted down o * Utd thu mussel , soared to a diwy heigh HATS , Our line of Itats Is live times ns , larye an It won last season , and ire show orer JOO different styles ofhnt * Tlte Jtnojo Itlock , Vouman's Miller and Dunlan at tliefollouilnt/ prices : Hans' Jfats , to to jl.itO. Crushers from fiOrfo $ V.iiO. l'"lnc Soft Ifats , 7 > c to fJ , L'lne Stiff Jhtls , $ / , V5 to $4. And ute fiiutrttntcc that our prices and ( foods gi > ahead of anythlny tn the market. and dropped It imon a roc ! ; , which broke the shell , and the gull descended and dined. At EnstSaglnaw , Mich. , Richard Hose , a well known farmer and bee ciiltiiristlias just been thiougli a singular experience. As he was taking up a lilvo of honey last Saturday lie was stung on the end ot the middle linger of the right hand. In a low minutes he be came insensible , while his linger and arm swelled up toeiioimous sl/e. Ills condition appeared to closelv resemble catalepsy , and during the succeeding twenty-tour hours all efloits to restore him to consciousness proved lutlle. At the nnd ot the time mentioned he legained his senses and about the same time the swelling began to subside and has now almost entirely disappeared. He feels pecu liar in thu hand and arm , but otherwise does not mind his exper once. He had been stung many times bctore , and experienced Ittle trouble. imiGUT I-ITI'M ? FOIjKH. Little Girl "Ma , was Ad-im the lirst human being' ' " Mother " \es , my dear. " "Well , who shoved him in his baby car- ilage'.1'1 Minister fmakinga call ) "And do you al way.H do as your mamma tells you to , Flossie'.1" Flossie ( emphatically ) 1 do , and so does papa. " A littlu boy who had been used to receiving hi ? elder brother's old toys and clothes , re cently asked : "Ma , shall 1 have to marry his widow when lie dies' . " ' "S.u- , maw , " Slid a studious little African , ' ( [ ( 'hlny am stialght down lie on de odder side , and we arc all whu/.ln' roun'aii roiiu' on dlslicr earl , what am de reason dat we nebber gits dliai' . " ' A six-year-old CMilcago boy , whoso fathnr Is a cornetlst , was very restless the other night and couldn't go to sleep. Finally , as a last esott , he called out : "Papa , please play our cornet ; that always makes me tired. " This Is the composition a new teacher had he pleasure of hearing read In a school not ar trom Concord : "Going to bchnol. 1 like o go to school when we have a good teacher. don't like to go to school this term. " A three-year-old Caiitoriiia boy who had lever seen a laige body of water except In the irrigating canals , was taken to see the ccan. Ho stood a moment in silent astou- shment , and then burst out with : "Who urned on ills water ? " A few mornings since at breakfast , In a Ich Clifton homo , a little tot paraly/od his uatenial progenitor by exclaiming : Mamma , I love you bjttur thn I love oat- iiKiil. ' * "Do you love that much , dear' " ' was ho tender lejoimler. "Well , 1 ain't stuck n it. " Freddy had been repeatedlv told lie must not ask people , tor money. Olio lay ho met Mr. Williams , who could never resist an appeal trom thu small boy. "Mr. Williams , " said Freddy , do you ever give live centses to little boys vhat don't ask for 'em' . " ' Ho got the money. Little Julia is in the habit of saying Amen" to the grace her papa asks at table , and she usually says it heartily and with motion. Hut she failed to say It altogether it breakfast a few mornings ago , and sat ookiug gloomily at the table , wh.ch had atlier less on it than usual , ami nothing that Julia liked. Some ono at the table asked why Julia was silent. "Pub. " she said , with ino scorn , " 1 don't think I'll say amen for such a breakfast as this. " UDUCATIONAh. Within the laU live months Harvard col lore has received gifts amounting to S.'t.OOO , UOO. ' Hazing" has been abolished at most of the larger colleges , but still survives at Princeton. In the freshman class at Yale are sons ot Senator Gibson , of Louisiana , and Evan gelist Moody , of Chicago. A college for women , modelled after Wel- leslev and Vassar.ls to bo established at Den ver. Colo. , us soon as passible. Eighty yeais ago , society In Turkey tor- bade women to learn to read. The sultan hits now started schools for women. A state university for colored people is to be built In Montgomery. Ala. Thu city has given S5.000 and three acres of land to the institution. John Hopkins university holds 17,000 shares ol Baltimore it Ohio stock , which has steadily yielded Sii6,0K : ( ) in Income. The in stitution may r ( ally be much crippled by the depreciation of this Investment. Among the recent graduates of the Women's medical college In New York city Is Km Yaniel , a Chinese girl , who had taken the highest position in the class. She Is an accomplished scholar , able to conversu and write accurately In live languages. The Vienna university was-attended dur ing the past summer .semustor by n.-JVl stu dents. 3,008 of whom worn on thu medical ( acuity , an increase ot ! l7t ! over last year. Thn number of forulgiieis studying In the university shows also a stonily lucieasr , thn United States furnishing 71 , almost all of whom attunded medical lectures. A college for the training of teachers has been opened in connection with the New York Industrial Education association. "As the law has Its mock courts and the medical school Its directing room to combine prac tice with theory , so this college will have Its model school. " Dr. Nicholas Murray Hut- ler. of Columbia , has been elected president. The anatomist , Wunel Gruber. celebrated recently the fortieth anniversary of his con nection with theunlversiU of St. Petersburg. Prot. Gruber is seventy-three years of age and a Hohemlan by birth. Hn is ono of the most popular teachers In thu unlversitv.t.av- Ing had moru than 20.000 students. Ilucom- plelelv reorganised the Anatomical institute and "although delivering annually iioo lectures found time to write morn than .Wl treaties and prepare numerous anatomical objects. He has dissected ' 0,000 bodies. MUSICAIj AND DUAMATIOAIj. Chin Louise Kullo g ! icturniiig from Calls-bad. Jolmmi Strauss lias written an opera called "Slniplli'lii" . " "Mine. Kursch-Miidl has been engaged for concerts and operatic performances , com mencing In Hoston , October 5. It Is almost sullied that Pauline Lucca will begin an American tour muter Henry L. Abbey's management next spring. Slguor Campnnlnl sails for Amenca on the ' 8th of next month. Thu company he will ' bring with him Is said to bo an excellent ouu. Alexander Strakosch , the greit German dramatic reader , has arrived In N < jw ' " city to begin a six months' tour ot this coun try. try.Itobert 11. Mansell beclns his second tar ring tour In Heading. Pa. , appearing for thn fust tlmo in a new romantic drama entitled "Monbais. " Sibyl Anderson , a daughter of the late Chief Justice Anderson , ot CaiiruinU. is to OVERCOATS 1'\ILL. A full line of llt/hf ii-clytil over coats , In ni'to nnbt > n ( fr.s/f/ i , , tlfilit , medium and dark color * . A ifooil tuni'ittcil coat fni'ffliJO , A fine mfli/mnv / cnnt from $ fito f / , . An ej-tru flue ctmt from 91 > toi > > . We cnn truly say our line of nrer- I'oatit ir $ ncrer Kitt'imnxctl , anil that otir nriccx are auiau ln'lott > other / m.ss , needs only tin inj > e.ciioii of our yooila toinwe It Is < . make her debut as Juliet In grand opera this month In Umbels. "The Legion of Honor , " one of the most powerful plays seen In this country lor many years , will in November bo biought out In great stvle at Korepaunh's theater in Phila delphia. Inire Klralfy's spectacular production of "Lagardcrc ; or the Hunchback of Paris. " with Its great cast , splendid scenerv and beautiful ballet , Is still crowding Nlblo's thcatie , New York. Marlon Hooth , who piavs the leading fe male role In "The Dominie's Daitghtci , " possesses much of the thoughtful expression of her uncle , Kdwin Hooth. She Is a daughter of .liiniiis Hrutus Hooth. All who lo\e good piano-playing will bo glad to welcome Teiesa Carreno on her tu- turu from South America. She is now mak ing arrangements for a series ot conceits in New York and other cities. The new plav that M. Sardnu has made for Mine. Heinhardt is named "Deborah , " and it will bn produced at the Porte St. Mar tin theatre , Paris , in December. It relates to thu period of the reign ot terror. Manager Gustavo Amberg , with the aid of William Stemway and a number ot wealthy Cciminis , proposes to build a theater in thn vicinity of Kitth avenue and Koity-second street , New \ork , for German plays. No detriment from the inter-stato law Is yet apparent in business on the load. Kmily Soldcno , Marie Preseott , Lillian Lewis , Lillian Olcott and others , whoso plans were doubtful during the summer , are at work. Maze Edwards , manager of the Levy Operatic companv , comprising Levy , the cornet virtuoso : Mine' Stella Levy , Llthgow James. Lulu Klein , Knrico Jiattistlnl and Max Illr.-clillrlil , will shortly begin a tour ot the country. If all that European critics have said ot Teresina Tun's violin playing Is just , her American debut at Chickerlng hall. New York , on October 17 , should prove to he ono ot the most interesting musical events ot a season big with promise. A "Lls/.t society" is about to be formed in Vienna , the especial object of which will be to secure the production in a befitting man ner of the master's works. It appears that of the 1,233 known works of Liszt , only'-06 , or about one sixth , have jet been performed in Vienna. Courted ami Herrmann will play Ludwlz Harnay 81,009 a night for thirty perform ances in this country. Twelve of them will bo in New Ymk. Thcie are eight or ten cities in the United States In each of which a large certainty can bo arranged tor by the manager of a ( ierman star. According to a late Pans pauerthe now Iron curtain ot the Theatre Krancals is a gigantic allair. It neither rolls up nor folds together , but ascends in a solid sheet into the upper rezions , which have had to bo height ened to make room tor it The ascent occu pies a minute and a quarter. Mine. Hma de Murska has been engaged by the bo.ird of directors ot the national con servatory of music ol New York as the prin cipal singing teacher ot that Institution. Mine , de Murska will lea\e London for New York on October 1. The engagement will not Interfere- with the artist's concerts. J. H. ( iilmour threw up his contract with Moiljeska logo to "Laardero" and the va cancy thus passed along to Modjeska has been tilled by the engagement as her chief actor of William Morris , a Hostoniau ot i twenty-seven or so , with a profound voice , a good "ph slime , and a graceful stage pres ence. Mauricn Strakosch Is reported to be very III m Paris. His newly discovered nilma donna , NIkita , for whom he prophesied a furture moie brilliant even than the career of Adellna 1'atti , has appeared in London at thepromenadocoiicei Is under Colonel Maple- son's management and gained a very mild success. One of the wonders of the season will bo Hoctl , Manager Ambt-rc's thousand dollar prize tenor. Ho is a short , sllghtlsh man , but ho can emit a high 0 with terrilic force and volume. In tills latter icspect he re sembles Theodore Waclitel. His social ante cedents furnish another point of resemblance lor , like Waclitel , lloetl only a tew jeaw ago was an ordinary "cabby. " Miss Emma Abbott says that her voice has grown strongiir and richer , that she has done with sowing wild o.its in the form ot "Lucia and Amina. " and that she will henceforth smgdramatic roles or nothing at all. For which reason she will s'ng ' "Kuy Hlas" in truly regal costume. She will also wear a crown that bla/.os with ton geuuino solitaire diamonds. She will also sing "EKa. " The lirst performance in Philadelphia of the Hebrew operetta company , which took place last night at Pythian hall , was wit nessed by a largo and very enthusiastic audience. The company Is composed of actors who recentlvcame to this country from Koumania , Uussla and Poland. I hey speak n Holuow-tierman dialect , which is common to all the Hebrews In Europe and America. The approaching American season of Henry Irving begins Novmnbci 7. Mr. Ir vine himself will airivo tlia ! Mth ol next month , or theieabouts , and bis company will be with him. The intervening two weeks will bo given to preparation and rehearsal. His New York nncauomont will be played as bet ore , at the Star theater , and w III last tor live weeks , witli "KAUSl" ns the sole attue- lion. Thoold tariff nfgi : a sn.it will hold. In his tour thiougli the country Mr. Iry ng will spend most ot his time In Hoston , Phila delphia ami Chicago. The mi'lograph of M. Carpentler , by which musical compositions are written down or registered , has been supplemented by a "melntropu" trom thu satiiu Inventor , which enables them to be played automatically In any kev. For this purpose the melograph hands are perforated , and caused to opur.itu the melotrope , an Ingenious Instrument which we need not Hilly describe , and which Is still In Its experimental stage , \\lththo melegraph and melotiopo It is now possible to register an Improvisation or a piece of classic music and reproduce It automatically. Wagnerites manage to enjoy consldeiable comfoit , notwithstanding the piejuillces of the time. Mine. Joachim , the gieal win- tralto. writes to the Allgemelnn Deiitscho Musik-Xcitung : "It Is leally high time that thn ruinous effect thi > silly notion concerning fect upon the VOTO ol Wagner's operas should h abandoned. I his itivoise is the truth ; and 1 mainutn that the singing of Wai-tier's operas tends to mcseive thn voice , because husbanding It. There Is no com poser who , like him , supports the singui by means of Ills oichestla. which aids thn voleii In every way , and e\en anticipates the draiiiiiticexpiusbion. Thuspectaciiiai melodrama of "A Dark Secret , seems to depend laruclj lor its suc cess upon Cioton w.itor. An enormous tank thureot Is placed upon the stage am on t us the simulated rwatti takeplace. . Into thii also the heroine splashes and thi > hem fol lows anil saves her llle. . is mt , . . , . ; . ol startling dntmatli ! novelty iibciil this , but the leal water and thu real splashing eaiijed not oul > tin ) aalluiy bat t u "olv ot tlu : UNDERWEAR ; This heading Includes every yrudo * of I'ndcru'car for I f 1.00per suit. $ I.V < - > irrsttlt. 1 .ft.no per suit. i , $1 ? , " > per suit. : $ V.OO per suit. j IfiH.aO per suit. | ! fjU,00 per suit. r < , J , V.,7 ( > per suit. | And up to the rery best of imported l/oods that can be purchased. house to howl with delight when the piece was pre.sunted In Philadelphia , ( 'harlua Jefferson , who has purchased an Intciest in thu piece , has some comical storitM to tell of. the tank at the Philadelphia theatre. HOW SO.MIO K.NOIjISlI KINGS 1)1 UD Kdwy died of gilut. Chailes 1. was beheaded. Henry 1. died ot oveieatlng. William Ktifus was killed by an anow. Uichard Cieur do Lion died of wounds. Eleanor , Itlchard 111.'s queen , died In i monastery. James II. abdicated by Might ami died in exile. Hardicanute died ot icplctlou at a mar riage feast. Harold H. wi\s kllUd after a nine-months' reliii ) , William III. was killed by a fall from n horse. Edmund 1. died from a wound iccelved in an atlray. Sophia Dotothea , wife ol George I , died in prison. Edmund Ironsldo was murdered after leigniug seven mopths. Lady Ell/abeth Giey , queen of IMwaid IV. , died in prison. Edward the Martvr wa nundcml by older of his stepmother , Klfrula. Queen Jane was beh ended alter nbrlcl reiKii , and when only soenteen years oj i. Edward V. leignod two months nnd thir teen days betoiu he was muideied. Henry VI. was murdered by Klrlmd , duke of Gloucester , in the Tower of London. K'chard 111. wns slain in the battlu ot Hoi worth Field. He poisoned his lirst queen. Anne , in older to make way for a second maliiagc. Edward II. was murdered. His queen , Isabella , upon the death , b > the gibbet , ol her lavorite , Mortimer , wa * confined for the rest ot her lilii in her own house at her own re quest. Itlchard II. was mnnleied. Ills second queen. Isabella , daughter ot Charles V. of France , was seven yeatsold whim ho married her. She returned to her lather when Hich- aid was deposed. Hcnrv Vlll. romidlated nud divorced his lirst wife , Catherine tit Arrairnn. and man led his second. Alum Holoyn. beforn the dhoreif was secured. Anne lioloyn , Queen Eliza beth's mother , was beheaded. Henry mar ried his third wife , Jane Seymour , the day after the executioner of her predecessor , whose maid ot honor she had been. Jane died in giving birth to Edward VI. Henry's fourth wife , Anne of Cloves was divoiced six mouths alter the man iage , and her suc cessor , the tilth wife , Catheiinn Howard , was beheaded : Catheilnu Pan , Henry's sixth wife , outlived him and mairlcd attain. IIOMK DKCOUATIOXS. India handkerchiefs ol rich high colors make most effective table covers it tc.stelnlly embioidored and edged. Palm-leaf fans make beautiful mantel and biacket backgrounds If handsomely palntud and enameled. The process will pleasantly oceup ) a git-at deal ot idle time. Embroidered scarfs ot India muslin look well draped over thu top ot oasnl-siippoited pictures. It you must diajiu hung pictures drape thu lower part of the frame. Any amount ot time can bo spent and beautltiiU'ffeeti produced by diawtng ( with a needle ) dusiu'iis in etching slllc on the gold- coliued muslin now so much in favor for window hall-cm tain * . Piano scarts are rather a waste of ellort just now. llotli square and upright pianos have laigfr draped covers. Onentul tin- selleu muslin , edg.-d with silk tassels mid graceidly ! diaped Is very effective. The regularly rural three-legged milking stool , hand painted , is a tavorlto support tor brass or porcelain Jars holding glowing greenery. The jars hide must ot thn paintIng - Ing , which , as a rule , is rather an advantage. Very handsome portieres can bo madu on the old "rag carpet" plan , but the rans must be of rich silks , caiefully airangod with a \lowtocoloretfect. A pound ball or the sewn silk rags ought to nmku a jard ot ma terial iiliout two leet in width. Other haiiilsomi ) tablu and piano covers can be madu ot silk sheeting ol a golden ecru tint , finished with a band ot nut-biown plush. Just above tills embioidor a band of. conventional scrolls in brown and yellow silks , and powder tiny sprigs ot the same embroidery all over the suit ace. Don't place an u.iright piano with its hack to the wall. Set It acrois a corner , the back to the room. Place a mirror m the back , diapcd on either sidu with ombroldeie.il Or tuilnl muslin. Gioupa collection of hand somely potted Oiieiital plants In trontot this and you will have contorted an essentially ugly piece ot furniture into a "thing of beau ty and a joy forever" to eveiybody but jour parlor maid. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ HEALTH. WEALTH. DR. OTTERBOURG , CJH. lillh and Doilgc Hte , Omaha , Neb. A ! tusiiitr ! < 'rii liiul % In McUifino anil * ] criul Pi-itrlUloiicr , Aulhori/oJ to Irout nil Cliioiiie , Noit.JU ttil l "SpnfuU l > i < ) ses. " ( WliL-lhorciiilteil by lippruilonoit , l.ieew or Contuirloni N-III nil Weuknu s , 'iiltflit limim l-exim ! DntulitJ.ilO'H of t'X'iill ' ( Hiwuri , NciV- oui Uelitlity , Illnocl Ui inliir-i , eti' . ( 'iiriioli i ui pimiatiteeil m innniij rofunilecl. ctmiir " 1Hr- I lioiisuiiiik dl cif-m curoil Ann mid \ rfiriMCO Hrr Important All nicillclncg ciiicrlully pro- I'Hrni ' lor fiii'li imllvUiiul riisu. > o liijiiriont or | oi iiiion Otiu- pOIIIMlk 1'M'll. Notlinn I'nt from biimm-s I'litlrm * ill ilibtiiiir.i IrOHliiiltir li-ttcr aixletpie- * Mp.li. IMU Bi-nt i crj whnni 11 o ' I" ' Ifu "r iT'-nkHKu. > o l t > ln > in rilliiiKOrrteri. K r t Lents m Mii'iipi. ' "il'iiiail ' lieu nil our nrllltuillltuititllie , miiln lU'inir R J-MHptoiiil 1st on which to KH u i nil H'stoi ' > ' ' " H' " ' .i' . "lc Slnli- your CHSB iiii'l n ml l"r n ri..s All " ask Mi trial. Seneuy o'.sc.vi-t elttiHi in pur- Kin or by mull. 01 ncr. not ; it * _ _ , , 5 to n. in..3l . -iMinl/to8p. m Si.aJaj ( la- tlu. ! cl. Consulting ruoui No. 4.
