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A LION IN LONDON SOCIETY.
A Glimpse at Rider Hagcrard , Eng-
land'B Weird Romanoor.
HIS ECCENTRICITIES OF MANNER
, How Ho Ixwks , Lives and Acts
Hbaplng Ills Romances While
Walking and Riding
Teacher and Preacher.
Written for the Sunday fye Copyrighted.
Last season the lion of London liter
ary salons was Rider Haggard. While
the Pall Mall Gazette was daily printIng -
Ing several columns to provo to the
world his plagiarism , ho was being feted
at dinner and high toa.
There is a prevailing idea among the
general public that the writer of "Sho , "
"King Salomon's Mines , " and "Allan
Quartormain" must bo ono of these
mysterious creatures living in a state of
artificial exaltation , and evolving these
vrclrd fancies from a. chloral-hoatod
imagination. ToQrealizo the desperate
fallacy of such a theory , one needs to
moot and observe a man who lends no
external indications of importunate in
sight : hot one of those nervous , fragile ,
unearthly entitles , such a typo as our
Edgar Allan Pee vlvidlv furnishes
forth.
forth.When
When I first mot Mr , Haggard I was
impressed with his simplicity of appear
ance , his self-poise , and air of speechless *
Bolt-appreciation. I saw in a throng of
thrco hundred authors a tall , slender
young man accepting the worship of a
deity with scarcely a propitiatory Bmllq.
Ho impressed me as ono who had be
come familiar with applauio rather than
gayety. . *
His figure is interesting and entirely
wanting'in eccontrlcity , but not , it is
true , wanting in a certain kind of dis
tinction that is almost plainness.
Ho is a blonde type of man , with a
prevalence of these tints known as
ashen , A sallow , colorless skin un
it lighted by warmer hues ; hair darkened
| l only by the mingling of the deeper drab
Bhados. and a dull , blue eye which
physicians are wont to associate
with the anaemia temperament.
His forehead is square and
strong , hU Hps firm , his ehin
resistive , and his eyes full of clear ,
docp , concentrative force. An unemo
tional face , implying none of the
lighter , tenderer moods ; a face utterly
lacking iu strong pigment , but rich in
puissance of modeling. In stature
pymmotrJcal , erect without pomposity
, a physical structure held together and
given motlvo power .by Sinews of spring-
wire expressing sturdlness , endurance
and elasticity. His voice in speech is
low , measured and melodious.
Ho passes through a great drawing-
room in a mood of complete absorption
and complete abstraction , looking over
iho heads of people. When ho is intro-
lucod to an hitherto unknown admirer
and'thoro is at all times a galaxy of
tiumblor satellites waiting to join the
evolving circle and catch a glint from
ils splendor with a vague manner of
fkvell-brod ennui ho listens to the ful-
Borae and over-full allusions to his
books.
Whoa ho is In London ho lives quietly
in bachelor artlossnose ; a figure at re
ceptions , banquets , and lawn fetes , yet
never making his presence in great
throngs too cheap. Ho belongs most pre
eminently to that easy and brilliant
* orld , from a social point of view ,
Vnowu as Upper Bohemia , In social
status Mr. Haggard is not at the apex
lot ono of tnoso artists in the drama ,
wcildorsof the brush , spthners of verse
vlio have sons at Eton , houses in fash-
ornvblc quarters , villas on the Thames ,
a moor rich in grouse , and a river
abounding in salmon on the other side
> f the Tweed , horses , carriages , visiting
.isits , find friends whatever , in fact ,
lends distinction and financial respect
ability to life.
When ho deigns to reveal hlmsolf in
a London drawing-room ho is recog
nized and pointed out as Rider Hag
gard ; one who has bccomo a personage
by right of superior gifts and the im
portant place ho has suddenly leapt into
among famous men of letters. Never ,
bo It recorded to his honor , has ho sug
gested the exclamation , "Who is that
erratic person ? " Ho is. a man without
a personal fad ; possessing a nature free
from the ' taint of that pernicious species
of grote'squo advertising , so generally
resorted to by gonju.8 In these days ,
when to wear the crown of eccentricity
points the swiftest and surest method of
pleasing the fancy and impressing the
memory of society.
He has not appealed to the vision by
cultivating the Whistler lock of hair
sprouting like a silver feather amid
dark tresaca , nor has he sought to cre
ate a sensation by endeavoring to give
some professional bonuty the golden key
to those cipher black-le'ttor Inscriptions
of Amenartas. After , the fashion of
Oscar Wilde , who made considerable
reputation by teaching Mrs. Langtry
Greek , before ho founded the worship
of the pining Illy or the leonine herb.
He neither invites nor docs ho cor
dially entertain discussion of his theo
ries and their successful resultsyot Is not
invincibly silent on the subject of hlm-
solf. Nor is ho ono of those who , when
once detached in conversation from his
special subjects , his -methods , his su
perior revelations , and himself , have
nothing to say. He places a fair esti
mate upon himself , and his adorers pay
homage accordingly.
Barely cordial to strangersho cannot
bo classed among these brilliant rccon-
teura whoso epigrams wo are wont to
associate with the names of Fox. Sheri
dan , and Dr. Johnson in London's social
annals of the past , and withLabouchoro
and Yates to-day. Bu $ when Mr. Hag
gard Is the nucleus of an appreciative
few at dinner ho is a cornucopia teem
ing with plums of curious anecdote.
Those tales ate reports of personal ex
perience gained in these bizarre coun
tries where ho has traveled and laid the
groundwork of his romances. '
He himself is as different from Sir
Edward ArnoldMr. Brownlng.or Philip
Gilbert Hamerton , as his work differs
from tbo poignant paragraphs of these
editors I have named. He is not only a
facile scribe he is a priest of mighty
mysteries. A writer by profession , ho
is also a teacher and a preacher. Ho
is in literature what Edward Burno-Jonos
is in art. His work is an evangelism
which it is given only to a-seloct minor
ity of initiated votaries of Oriental lore
to understand aright. There is a subtle
symbolism in every romance he , submits
to the public. How many of its readers
I ask , have penetrated the rare gospel
so deftly wrought out in "She ? "
He has been particularly fortunate in
not having these domestic embarrass
ments which handicap the most exag
gerated genius in man or woman. While
Mr. Haggard's productions may appear
inspirational and visionary to the super
ficial reader , in reality they are the re
sult of painstaking labor and studious
research. From early boy hood ho pos
sessed intuitive ken of eastern knowl
edge , and the current circumstances in
which ho soon found himself placed fa
cilitated his studies of mediaeval dia
lects and the rust and secret traditions
of Arabia. Ho Is a profound student ol
, he scriptures , interpreting thorn in
iiarmony with the teachings of Rabbi
nical wisdom. Wizar-llko , ho evolves
unique and startling plots from tho. oc
cult emblems engraved ou the cartouch
of Thoban Bcaratkci.
Truly it may bo said of him , all tlmo
his hour and all place his workshop.
Whether ho is walking , riding in 'mi
omnibus , or waiting in an underground
railway station , ho seams oblivious of
the external phases of lifo. and is ever
busy with the looms and the yarns from
which ho weaves his fantastic fabrics.
He carries a slender cano and switches
aimlessly objects right and left , as
though the motor forces wore stimulated
with an-energy in concurrence with his
unbridled conceits.
"Sho" is not a recent composition , as
many suppose. But not until dav before
yesterday was popular taste in the least
degree attuned to the relish of pabulum
spiced with the secret forces which ani
mate the world. The dual personality ,
the Interminable chain of reincarnated
good and evil , the laws of reversion to
type , and lifo the gift of life are pre
cepts a old as the eternal hills and as
fresh as the dawn.
I hoard , in conversation , a lady object
to ' 'She" on the ground of vulgarity ,
and when I onked her to point to thoeo
offensive passages which had failed to
send an extra thrill of warmth to my
face , she explained that there was too
much stress laid on the physical beauty
of the divine Ayosha. That the descrip
tion of that dazzling loveliness of brow ,
throat , and thigh , strong in love aiitt in
immortal youth , which could have rev
olutionized society and changed the
destiny of generations , was a vicious
doctrine.
Still , again , I stood nigh when a wor
thy dowager remarked of the much-dis
cussed and insuftloiontly-una'erstoad
"She. " "What a lowless , imagination
the man possesses ; it is absurd ! " „
I wondered if neither one of thoso'
well meaning persons had caught a ray
of that higher morality , those god-like
truths whioh lie as an everlasting foun
dation for the emblematic eloquence of
every chanter.
Ye tfodsl and these are they who read
and sit iu judgment on Rider Haggard.
E Pi.V.
SINGULARITIES.
W. D. Porter , of Jefferson , Wis. , has dis
covered a two-story meadow-Lark's nest with
a brood Iu each flat.
In the window of a Bowery Jowoller Is dis
played a eeqtion of an elm tree about a foot
square , shaped by some process of nature
into the form of a perfect human car.
There is a man in Georg a who bad a pure
white hen. Recently she became molting
and every white feather that dropped out
was replaced by a black one , and now she Is
clad in deep black from bill to tall.
A Garden City ( ICas. ) man is the proud
possessor of a Jet black rabbit which has In
stead of an ordinary nose a protuberance
shaped like an elephant's trunk , which it
uses 'sometimes to convey food Into .Us
mouth.
A Greene county , Mo. , paper says that a
local stock dealer who was starting to St.
Louis to take some cattle and hogs to market
told his wife that ho would bo homo on the
following Wednesday. A shepherd dog be
longing to the man heard the conversation
and at the appointed day was at the depot to
meet his master.
The Enterprise of Palestine , 111. , Bays that
William Corbin pkskea up In the street in
that place a relic of the Mount Vernon cyclone -
clone in the shape of an excuse blank used in
the Mount Vernon public schools. Palestine
Is nearly ono hundred miles northeast from
Monnt Vernon , and in the path in which the
cyclone traveled.
During a religious revival at Waverly , O. ,
Lizzie Long went into trance. On coming
out of It , she told her friends that one year
from that night she would die in child bed.
She was then single and not even engaged to
bo married , but within a few weeks she
married a Mr. Long. A few days ago eho
gave birth to a child , and four days later ,
lust one year from the date of her premoni
tion , she died.
The engineer on a Georgia railroad while
running at the rate of twenty-five miles an
hour , was startled by a noise mailo by some
thing ou the pilot of his engine. On reaching
the next stopping place ho found cozlly
nestling on the pilot an old red-headed buz
zard which had been carried a distance of
ten miles. It was then taken off bv the train
force and lot looso. It walked away as If
nothing had happened.
Here is a , story tliat comes from an Ala
bama town. Marion Merrltt and his sou-ln-
law each lost a cow. After searching sev
eral days they found them dead in a field.
Their heads wcro jammed together between
each other's horn so tightly that they could
not bo extricated , and the surface of the
field was all torn up , evidently by their dcs-
porato struggles to got opart- During the
struggle the hair of each cow had .turned
gray.
gray.A New Bradford , Mass. , citizen pas a cat
that goes sliding on the ice. * After picking
out a bice , smooth place the cat would go
back and take a good run and slide twenty
feet or more. It Would return to the starting
point again and again and go through the
Btttno performance. It would bo a great boon
if some of the cats in this neighborhood
would devote more attention to tobogganing
and less to operatic sinjjDig.
While some workmen wera making an ex
cavation at Pueblo , GolTrce-cnUy , they came
upon a petrified snakojwally different from
any known species Iouui la that part of the
country at present. Itwas tound eight feet
from the surface. From its appearance it
would seem that the m ko had been caught
between two rocks by 'the ' , , tail ages ago , its
peculiar position oloijupntly expressing its
agony. Instead of decomposing , the body
dried out so porfcct&that no taxideinist
could hope to equal nature's work , even the
eyes being perfect. Ii&
Mrs. James , of Syracuse. Kan. , discovered
her boy ' around in
five-year-old 'stirring a
basket of old clothes that had been placed in
a corner of the woodshed to bo out of the
way. Upon the child looking up and hastily
leaving , Mrs. James concluded to see what
ho was about , and to her horror discovered
a nest of rattlesnakes. Hit your g ones and an
old ono wjth eight mitre's. A scream brought
Mr. James to the sodno'and bo hastily dis
posed of all of them. , Questioning the child
it was learned that he had been caring for
tbo snakes since warm weather. He could
handle the young reptiles as ho pleased and
the old snakf never objected.
George Mitchell , of Liberty , Mo. , was out
squirrel-hunting a short time ago when ho
discovered a squirrel in a tree a little ways
on. Ho hastened to the tree and was closely
scrutinizing the top branches of the oak ,
where he had seen the game , at the same
tlmo walking slowly backward with his rifle
ready to quickly throw to his shoulder , when
lo I the weapon went off accidentally. This
urprlsod him greatly , but he was much more
astonished to see the squirrel drop Out dead ,
U having run down the trunk of the tree 'bo-
low where he saw it first , by chance getting
in range of the rifle , Just as it accidentally
fired at the right moment.
RELIGIOUS.
A determined effort will be made in tbo
Episcopal churches during Lent to secure
the million-dollar fund for missions.
Mr. Spurgeon's resignation ( when he Jiad
resolutely declined to withdraw ) has been ac
cepted by the Baptist union , of London.
Ilov. J. B. Thomas , D. D. , of Brooklyn , N.
Y. , has recently been elected successor of
the late Dr. Hcman Lincoln , at the Newton
Theological seminary.
Bishop Bedell , who has been in poor
health for a year or more , is about to retire
from active oervico ia the Ohio diocese oj
the Episcopal church.
Chicago only has thrco clergymen who
have been settled there twenty years or
more : Dr. E. C. Goodwin , who has Just en
tered the brief list ; Bishop Cheney and Ilov.
Dr. Locke.
There are no protestant missionaries m
Belocnlstan , Afghanistan , in the French
possessions of Auam and Tonquin , or in Si
beria and the adjoining countries under
UuHtlan rule.
A remarkable revival has Just taken place
In the Wllberforce , Ohio , university. Recita
tions were suspended for two days , and 00
per cent of the students are professing
Christians.
Rev. Leon Harrison , rabbi of the Temple
Israel , in Brooklyn , with the approval of his
congregation , will , In the future , hold servi
ces on Sunday moimlugs. for. the couvctjienco
Of those who Cannot attend tuo rugurlar ser
vices on Saturdays. '
The Advoptisti of Battle Creek , Meh. , bo-
ll.cvo that the end of the world is near , and
have discarded all their Jewelry. . At a re
cent meeting Kt,000 , was turned into the
church in cash and (3,000 in jewelry , to l > devoted -
voted to missionary purposes. . -
The Baptists Of Wales posaoss 701 chapels ,
.which provide accommodations for 240,90-
persons. The number'of communicant is
given at 75,413. There are in connection -with-
the chapels 8,535 Sunday school teachers aqd
77,913 scholant. The ordained pastors num
ber 367. ' . '
The Roman Catholic1 church -has In our
country 154 hospitals , with80,000' Inmates j
830 asylums , with40,000 Inmates ; cares for
30,000 orphans ; hos'121 Jcsutfaud other colleges -
logos and Institutions of high grade , . with
19,000 students ; has G77,00a students of all
classes undor. instruction , and. its church .
buildings and other edifices number about
4,000 , , with a seating , capacity of 3,000,004
'
Rev. 'Gcorgo p. Baru.es , 'the Kentucky
evangelist , conspicuous among -his kind as
the one who ddos'not make money by'his
calling , is in real fin'aucial straits , and is be
ginning to feel the bitterness that flows from
a conviction that he is uot' appreciated. Ho.
writes strongly Of his noglcct by his people ,
and says that If be were to die ho has no
doubt u thousand-dollar .monument would bo
erected to his memory.
Dr. McGlynn denies that ho has appealed
to Rome for a rehearing of his case , thbugh
ho admits that ho has hopcs'ia that direction.
Ho tays : "I have no quarrel with the doc
trines pr the sacraments of the Catholic
church , but In the best interest of the. Catho- .
Ho religion I make clear distinction between
these things and the policies and politics of
churchmen , which policies trndpolitics may
be uot only blundering but criminal. "
The University ot Wisconsin has gradu
ated a larger number ol women tban any
other co-educational institution.- '
New York city educates about throe hun
dred thousand children annually , in 131
school buildings'cgverinsr an- area of-tUirty-
flve acres. . . _ " .
President Holdon at the California fltato
pniverslty , receives a salary or | B,000$5,000
as president , and 98,000 a director of the
Lick observatory. ' .
John T. Alien , wbo' 4104 at Oalvtiston ,
Texas. January 24 , bequeathed bis fottimo
$150.000-rto the city of Galvcstonor the
establishment of an industrial school.
Mrs. M. F. Townsoud , of Canton , 111. , has
been appointed to tbo chir of modern
languages in the Ohio university , from Wliich
position Mrs. Ebcrt recently resigned.
Ono year ago the Value qf tUa Methodist
colleges and ecminarica in southern Call- '
fornia was $1,400,000. At present their total
value is $3,050,000 , making an Increase in one
year of | 3,3oO,000.
A school teacher , In Franklin-county , Kan
sas , insisted that his pupils should couiq to
school with tUoir hands and faces washed ,
and the outraged parents rose in their indig
nation ana "Urea" him.
The scholarships established by Cornell
university four years ago are now , for the
first time , all tilled. There are thus thirty-
six students receiving the benefit of these
scholarships which ' amount to fJOO a year
each in money'
Ono of Denver's public spirited citizens
proposes to erect and equip a first class ob
servatory for the Colorado university. Dr.
Howe , formerly first assistant in the obser
vatory of Cincinnati , is preparing plans tor
the building.
The Gammon School of Theology , which is
a part of Clark univorsitvy , at Atlanta , Ga. ,
has just received a gift of f 180,000 from Uov.
. II. Gammon , ot Uatavia , 111. , through
whose efforts mainly it was established. It
has fifty-six students.
Itov. G. L. Teed , of the Auburn , N. Y.
theological seminary ? who was recently mar ,
ried at Antrim , N. II. , to Miss Alice A-
Gould , will soon sail for South America ,
having accepted the presidency of tko Boliv ,
Ian Institute La Paz , in Bolivia.
Kentucky University at Lexington , is In
trouble over the theatre question. The fac
ulty threaten to suspend every student who
attends a play , . and 100 students announce
that they will leave the institution if they are
to be interfered with in that way.
Pi1)f. Swift , ot Plateau acadcuiy.Montreal ,
lias bccomo. insane from overwork. Ho had
mastered twelve languages and was consld'
ered the" finest. Shakespearean scholar .In
Canada , yetbis mental power ? huvti been
completely wrecked by- the strain 'to which
ho subjected them. . . , .
Teachers who bring enthusiasm to their-
work , who magnify their vocation , ontorlng
upon'lt as a. career and riot as a makeshift ,
would doubtless bo more , numerous If a pub
lic : sentiment could bo aroused wbluh would
remove the school house from- all Influences
which tend to cheapen pr degrade it.
The college publication known as 'Univer
sity has made a list of the United States sen
ators and congressmen who are college men. '
There are 195 out of 40-1 , but a good many of
theI'JSaro "duplicates. " This Is , . Senator
Evarts , of New York , for instance , counts
ono for Yale and on.0 for Harvard , whcrp ho
was graduated Iu the law school. These mca
represent 103 institutions *
1 Rcv.'John H. Vincent , D. D. , chancellor of
thaChautavqua university , lias engaged Dr.
William R. Harper , , ot Yale , to spend- six
weeks at Chautauqub next summer ; also
Profs. Adam ? and Ely. of John Hopkins Un
iversity , o.ud Dr. J. A. Brpodu , * , of Louis
ville , Ky. , to bo present In , July. A long list
of names pf well-known speakers ami teach
ers nro announced to bo present. The un- ,
vcrslty has 000 cornDsporidcnco students , and
the theological department ' 50. More than
100,000 persons are now pursuing the Ohnu- '
tauqua readings o.nd studies making ( Jhau-
taunua the largest- university Tn the
world. .
During the 'present term thcroare 20.945
Gorman gtuaouts at the German university.
Of this mimbov 0,701 study theology , 6,7 9
law , 0,650 medicine , and 8,784 belong to the
Philosophical faculty ; 1,044 students are
foreign. Tha Vienna university has 333 .the
ologians , 2,509 law students. 1,505 mcdlqal
Students , and 634. of the Philosophical fac
ulty. In Graz there are 1,305 students , and.
in Innsbruck Bd3. Prague Ua9 3,605 , Cracow
1,234 , Lomberg 1,11 ? , and Czornqwity'359.
At Berne university there are 037 students
Cl theologians , 158 law studentss 2S7 medical
students , and 141 physical science students.
'At Zurich there are 70 female stu cuM , 40
being medksal. .
When.Vnsaar had a preparatory school
under her own management In the college
buildings there wvro many girls , from alt
over the country who attended the school
forayedror two , -and then left to pose a *
Vnssar college students and graduates. They
may not have intended any wrong , but some-
bow or other the people with -whom' ( hey
came m contact got the idea that the erudi
tion of the. VassaT aluuoiai must bo rather
limited if these slips of womanhood were
specimens' This and other reasons induced
the trustees last year to abolish the prepara
tory school'in'the college , and have there
only tbo college students la the academic ,
scientific ; and sueclal courses. . " '
CONNl ) BIALITHS9 ,
' Fourfrlrls'Jn ono family at Atlanta. Ga. ,
have ono after the other cloptdto got mar
ried.
ried.Two
Two youths in Newark , N , J.-played a
game of whisky poker for the hand of an un
decided maiden. She married the looser.
Lill Lohmann , the German prima donna ,
WAS married to Paul Kallsh , the tenor im
mediately after his arrival in New York last
Friday.
Edmund Szczopankicwickz and Fannie
Kuzlnska were married in Philadelphia the
other day. Mr. and Mrs. Piodalphabot have
our sympathy.
George Holmes , a jockoy. eloped with Miss
Mary Morris , of Kansas City , and created a
sensation until if was discovered that
Holmes' father was a millionaire.
It is stated that General John M. Palmer ,
ex-governor of Illinois , and Mrs. Hannah M.
Kimball will be married April 1. Mrs. Kimball -
ball is fifty years old and General Palmer is
in his seventy-second year.
A well-known old Philadelphia gossip was
counting on her fingers the other day some
of the fashionable people whoso marriages
wcro the result of runaway matches , and in
not a single instance had they turned out
well.
well.Fair
Fair Matron Won't you let your wife take
a chance in this lottery } Husband Oh , no ;
she never draws anything worth having.
"Well , you know , marrlago is a lottery , sir. "
"Yes cr that is well , put her uamo
down. "
Rafael Luna , of Guanajuato , MCK. , al
though ninety-nineyetiisold , baa married a
girl of twenty-five.1 Ho induced the priest to'
trust um ) for his ago and taking everything.
into conskloratlod his neighbors say that ho
Is an old lunatic , ' .
J. K. Pprrluian , who is under arrcaf'at
Grand Unnjds , Mlcb. , for bigamy , put In a
very novel defense ; Ho says that bo is sub--
, Icct to flU of aberration of the mindnud that
if.be over married more than ono wouiau ho
has forgotten all about the matter.
lief pro tho'wcddlng day he vow * and pro
tests that his dearest core will bo hqr-bappl.
ness aqd that there Is > io sacrifice too great > .
for him to muko to secure her .comfort ,
Three months after they ijit-o married , she1 '
lias to tack the blankets to' the side of thd '
bud to keep him from rolling himself up la
all the clothes. . . ' .
On a recent night about fifty guests wora * v
assembled at the homo of Thouias Pbufcr ; .
of Philadelphia , to witness the macrlago ol
his daughter Ida to Sherman Hufforq. There
liad never been any objection to tire match )
and as both youngpcoplo hod money a happy
future was looked forward , to. A tour min
utes before thd ceremony was to occur , Huf-
font in full dress entered tbo room in which
most of- the guests were and chatted choor-
fly wltb several. . Finally ho turned to the
youngest sister of tbo to-be bride bud said-
'Well , May , our wedding causes a brocro ,
don't It ? ' ! The eirlUughlnijly rcpllci 'Yc3.
"Well , I'll make it a whirlwind , " ho said ,
and Instttntly drawing out a revolver , blow
oijt hls'bralns. ' TJie blood flow m the face of
the bride , who had Just that moment stepped
into the door. .No theory can bo found to
account for the act. ' ; . . . .
The Mutual Lifo Insurance company
is the greatest lifo company in the
world. Moreover , m every point of ox
reliance in'which each particular cpnv
poUtor.takcs pridesthe ; Mutual shows a
satisfactory average. No company can
exhibit a steadier o-veragb of dividends '
paid t6 policy holders for a long aeries.
of.ycaus than this company , and tbo
rates of promlura charged' the ineurod
have been kepi at minimum figures.-
Thp Mutual Life issues a liberal policy ,
and offers the public the kjnd ofinsur *
auco that there is n , demand for. ' , ' .
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Electrical RrcTlttc * . . ' * ' ,
Though little ia being done in San
Francisco in the matter of electric rail * "
ways , tieighboriog towns and' cities are
active in this matter. The Daft 'rail
way in Los Angeles is giving .complete
satisfaction. ' Ban'Jose is also looming
up , and representatives of an Eastern '
company have just petitioned 'tbo pak.
laudcitycounc.il for a franchise to lay '
rails and conductors through the'streets '
of the garden > sppt across too bay.
' Berlin will soon be the most brilliant *
ly illuminated city in Europe , 'ftio
.electric light is being fitted-all along
the Untcr den Linden , and the Loinzi-
gor strasse , which ia upward of a mlle
in length , is already illuminated
throughout by electricity , which i to bo
introduced into all the principal strpota
and squares.
A low estimate puts the number , o (
persons supported by all tbo forma of
employment furnished by electricity at
6,000,000. ,
- The instances of electrical phenomena ;
accompanying the opening fury of the
Btprm and when at its height arpnumer-
ous. At the residence of John McChos-
ncy , west of Fargo. Dak. , sparks flow
from a steam pipe in such volumes that
precautions were taken to protect the
woodwork from fire. Another family
had baked potatoes for dinner Thurs
day , and found each potaso a email dynamo
name , which omitted throe-tined flames m
as they wore tukon from the oven.
The ordinary guarantee of life for
Edison's incandescent electric lamps
is 600 hours , but ono lamp in the To
ronto Globe has just gopo out after a
most extraordinary life , It woe put in
about the end of NovemboJ , 1834 , when
the Edison syetom was installed in the
ofllco.It has continued burning ever
since on the average five and a quarter
hours every day , ix drys a week , mak
ing a total ot 6,292 hours.
SACRIFICE SALE of PIANOS and ORGANS for One Week
Commencing Monday , we offer the following Pianos and Organs at pricps never before quoted , to make room for spring stock now on the way
SQUARE PIANOS. UPRIGHT PIANOS. ORGANS.
HAINES BROS , and CUTTINGS Piano , 7 octaves , rosewood case , with KIMBALL ORGAN , 8 etops , walnut case , stool and book $ 88 01
stool and cover $ 40 00 PEERLESS PIANO , ebony case , 7 octaveitool and plush scarf $123 00
8TODDARD PIANO , 7 octaves , rosewood case , carved legs , with stool and HALL & SON PIANO , tricord , full agraffe , rosewood cage , stool and plush EASTERN COTTAGE ORGAN , 7 stops , walnut cose , large size , stool and
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cover.- CO 00 .
160 00
HALLKTT & CUMSTON PIANO , 7 octaves , good tone , rosewood case . scarf A .k- KIMBALL ORGAN , style SO , 6 stops , music holder , high top , stool & Look. 48 Ot
, , Bca\o , full ,
A. HOSPE PIANO 71 octaves full overstrung and agraffe
with etool and cover 73 00 PALACE ORGAN , 0 , 2 knee swells , tnll case , fine 65 Ol
HALLETT & CUMSTON Concert Grand Piano , ( or large hall or school stool and plush scarf . . . . . . . . . . .t. . . . . . . * 175 00 stops very
KIMBALL ORGAN , 8 stops , 2 knee swelU , warranted 6800
purposes 150 00 KIMBALL PIANO , rosewood case , 71 octaves , full agraffe , stool & scarf. . 100 00
LEMUEL GILBERT PIANO for beginners M'OO KIMBALL PIANO.a little bettor i. ' . 22509 KIMBALL ORGAN , style 201 , walnut case , used very little , elcgaut case ,
AMABA DEXTER PIANO , fine rosewood cuso , 7 octaves , in elegant tune * * stool and book 62 09
KIMBALL PIANO , size larger , 2-5000
complete 75 00 one ORGAN , , , finest and best toned ia-
KIMBALL style 302,12 stops CUM organ
CHIOKERING PIANO , full scale , overstrung , beautiful tone , set up 16000 EMERSON PIANO , stool and scarf , . . 23500 ,
{ EMERSON PIANO , in fine order , carved logs , 4 round corners , ivory kuya strument ever put on the market , with stool and Look only 83 00
tool and Karl 240 00
For Cash or Easy Payments. For Cash or Monthly Payments For Cash or Monthly Installments
Every instrument fully warranted and guaranteed to be worth fully double the price set opposite and cheaper by 50 per cent than other dealers
will sell them at This sale is for this week only , and we have what we advertise. .
A -HOSFE , Jr. , 1513 DOUGLAS STREET
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