12 TBJBJ OMAHA DAILY BEE : TUESDAY , , OCTOBER 0. 188a SIXTEEN PAGES. H ave been compelled to take the adjoining room , wnich will be occupied by them about November I , 1888. This room will be devoted to Cloaks , Millinery arid The phenominal increase in their business since their opening , five weeks ago , has been unprecedented. GOOD GOODS LOW PRICES hava been the stepping stones to their succes and which have not failed to be appreciated by an intelligent public. We have just received MANY NEW ADDITIONS to our different departments , and among them " we call PARTICU- LAR ATTENTION to a lot of LADIES' , GENTS' and CHILDRENS' HANDKERCHIEFS manufacturers' Seconds of which we take , the entire production from Henry Matier , Belfast , Ireland , every year. These goods are the new patterns brought out by them next spring. We offer them to-morrow , at HALF THE PRICE OF THEIR REG ULAR GOODS. Childrens' All Linen Printed Border Hemmed Handkerchief , 24c. The Same , larger size,3 1-30. Ladies' Fine Hemstitched Handkerchiefs , fancy borders , xoc and i2 c. * Ladies' White and Fancy Bordered Hemstitched and Embroidered , Sheer Linen , 2oc. Gents' Hemstitched , Colored Borders , All Linen Handkerchiefs , 8 1-3 , IDC and 12 0. All good value at half the regular price. You will find our Handker chief Department the most complete in Omaha and fully one-third less in price. We do the handkerchief trade in St. Louis , and propose to do it here. In our CLOAK DEPARTMENT you will find many NEW STYLES just received , which we offer at our uniform low prices. One special lot of SEAL PLUSH WRAPS at $14. Good value for $22.50. In our SILK DEPARTMENT see the $ i BLACK PEAU DE SOIE , worth $1.50. In our DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT see the scinch Pin Check Cloths at 500 , worth $1. In our LINEN DEPARMENT see our $1.25 and $1.76 , Double Damask Napkins , worth $1.75 and $2.26. In our LACE DEPARTMENT sec our new Linen Ruchings from loc up , and many other novelties and bargains. Send for catalogue. Mail orders solicited. . Express prepaid to all points within 40 miles of Omaha. Wm. Barr Dry Goods Co : ; Sixteenth and JPouglas Streets. GOSSIP OF THE GREEN-ROOM. Anoodotoa of Plays , Play-Actors and P lay-Goers. MATED AND MISMATED COUPLES. Fashionable "Supers" The Kineand the Singer Bornhardt's Pecu liarities An EreniiiK at Uooth'a Home. FnHhinnahle "Supers. " Chicago News : Around at the Chicago cage opera houbo there is a heap of fun bain ? had over the applications that coino from society people for permis sion to serve in the largo company of supernumeraries required in the pro- 'duction of Messrs. Booth and Barrett's plays. It seems that wherever Mr. Booth appears there is a very earnest ambition among society folk to take part in Ills performances , just in order to be able to say they have "acted with Booth. " This harmless vanity has raged to a considerable extent hero in Chicago during the last fortnight. A largo number of distinguished homo folk have followed Mr. Booth through Shakespearean drama , sometimes as a Roman army and sometimes as the Venetian - notian populace. One of the ladies who \ have temporarily joined the list of su pernumeraries is the wife of a journalist of national reputation. But the "super" who has caused the most prodigious sensation is a certain young millionaire who moves in our most fashionable society and has figured quite conspicuously now and then in theatricals. This young man Srlvato up every night in his coupe to the stage door , dismounts , enters the theater , arrays himself in cheap tinsel , and joins the noble army of super numeraries with oven more enthusiasm than that of the average "super" who labors for his 50 cents an evening. "Whim the ploy is over the rich young follow reasbiimes his natural garb , finds his coupe availing him at the stage door , and drives to his club. Ho is por- ftjotly happy in the prospect of being able to say that ho h-is "acted with Booth. " There is no tolling what a splurge ho will cut when lie gets bade into polite bocloty once more. Early Dnya of Lester W attack. Scribnors : I hesitated long before ] made up my mind to become an actor : but when I finally did so , I determined that I should know my profession from beginning to end , and should depend upon it for my solo support ; and the cousoquoncs was that my poor mother often eriod in those early days , because I would not let her send mo a live pound note now and then , to add to my weekly stipend of twenty shillings ! I was resolved that whatever success I might make I would ewe to myself and not lo my father's name ; therefore as Mr. Lester I played the Karl of Koch ester in the town of Rochester , in a comedy - ody called "Charles II. , " by John Howard Payne. I had a vor ; , - good part the second part of the piece. Charles Kcmblo was King Charles , Fawcott playing Edward and Jones the Earl of Rochester tor in the original cast , at Convent gar den. The season at Rochester was abort bert one , aa my uuclo Henry Wallaok who had taken the theater as an oxixjrl inont , had it for only a few weeks. This was my first professional'engagement My Bulury was still one pound a week and I was paid about as punctually ai actors in small companies wore at Urn time. Three pounds a week was a good alary In a country theater , and live > ounds was enormous. When wo got to argo provincial cities salaries were a ittlo higher , but I very much doubt if any loading actor at Bath , Bristol , liivorpool , or Manchester over received nore than ton pounds a week in those days. The King mid the Sinner. Pall Mall Gazette : M. Lablache , the 'amous singer , has just given another jistuncc of the proverbial absentmindedness edness of great men. While ho was staying ut Naples , King Humbert ex pressed a desire to make the artist's personal acquaintance. On entering Lho ante-chamber of the puluce the lat ter found that the gentlemen present were Ml personal acquaintances of his , and asked thorn to bo allowed to keep nib hat on , as ho was suffering from a severe cold. A lively conversation was cut short by the entrance of a chamber lain announcing that the king would receive M. Lablacho at once. In the momentary confusion the singer forgot that ho was wearing his hat , took hold of another which had been placed on a chair near him , and went before his majesty , who at the sight of him burst into a lit of uncontrollable laughter. Utterly - torly confused , M. Lablacho aslod hum bly to bo Informed of the reason of the king's merriment. "Let mo ask you a question llrst , " replied the king. "Which is jour hat the one you are wearing on your head or the the one you carry in your hand ? " "Confound it all ! " exclaimed Lablacho , joining in the laughter , "truly , two hats are too many for a follow who has lost his head ! " Bcruhardt's Peculiarities. London Star : Madotr.o Bernhardt has loft London for Vichy , whore she pro poses to combine business with pleasure - uro by tno production of her familiar repertoire anO the enjoyment of what ever the watering place has to oiler. The divine Sarah is a woman of exceed ingly quick , not to say violent , temper , and those who saw her behind the scenes one night can picture to thom- bolvos the famous occasion when she called on Marie Colombior with a horse whip and broke everything in the house. The Lyceum curtain had hardly fallen on her tragic death scene in "Fe dora , " when she was storming and rag ing at an unfortunate actor , who had chanced to make some trivial blunder during the play , and she attacknd him with a vehemence that almost amounted to frenzy , utterly refusing to listen to his explanations. The tragedienne storms are , however , like thunder bhowors , violent while they last , but quick to pass away , and oven Mile. Colombior has now boon rohibtated in her favor. It is wonderful that with her unflag ging industry , and her magnificent re ceptions all over the globeSarah Born- hurdt should bo able to keep perpetually inn state of pecuniary embarrassment. She lives hand-to-mouth existence a sort of - - tence , possessing a genius for squander ing her money , whenever she has any , and utterly careless what the morrow may bring forth. Not long ago the bailiffs made a raid on her property , and among other things the notorious satin lined coflin , in which she often slept , was put up to auction and sold for between XI and 5. She seems to pos sess the gift of perennial youth , and her friends ayer that she will never grow old. She herself has said that she intends her real death scene to bo something peculiarly startling and striking. Sarah Bornhardt is a wonderful lightning caricaturist , and there is nothing she so much delights in between - tweon the acts provided , that is , that no contretemps lias occurred to rufllo her feelings as plying her pencil at the expense of her friends. She and they and Dnmala can often bo seen crouched together , makingoach other's wrjraits as fast as they can scribble. Damala has no notion of drawing , but 10 will often catch a likeness with .aughablo correctness , and then ho is in high favor with madaine , his wife. She often findstho pastime so outracing that she cannot tear herself away from it , and the audience have to Ixjgullo the tedium of the ontracto as beat they may. An Underhand Game. Open rivalry is honorable. But any effort to trade upon the reputation of peerless SOZODONT , by forcing upon the public , dentifrices represented as similar or superior to it , is an under hand game. Block it by demanding SOZODONT only. The Problem of a Flying-Machine. Popular Science Monthly. Wo must admit that a bird is an incomparable model of a flying-machine. No machine that wo may hope to devise , for the same weight of machine , fuel , and directing brain , is half so effective. And yet ; this machine , thus perfected through infinite ages by a ruthless pro cess of natural selection , roaches its limit of weight at about fifty pounds ! I said , "weight of machine , fuel , and directing brain. " Hero is another prodigious advantage of the natural over the artificial machine. The flying animal is its own engineer , the flying- machine must carry its engineer. The directing engineer in the former ( the brain ) is perhaps an ounce , in the latter it is ono hundred and fifty pounds. The limit of the flying animal is fifty pounds. The smallest jMJSsiblo weight of a flying- mchino , with its necessary fuel and engineer , oven without freight or pas- bongers , could not bo less than three or four hundred pounds. Now , to complete the argument , put these throe indisputable facts together : 1. There Is a low limit of weight , cer tainly not much beyond fifty pounds , beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Nature has reached this limit , and with her utmost effort has failed to pass it. li. The aplmal ma chine is far more effective than any wo may hope to make ; therefore the limit of the weight of a successful iying-ma- ) chine cannot bo more than llfty pounds. 8. The weight of any machine con- btructed for Hying , including tuol and engineer , cannot bo less than three and four hundred pounds. Is it not demon strated that a true flying-machine , bolf- raislng , sclf-sustnining , solf-propelling , is physically imposlblo ? Dr. Jofferis' remedy euros every cnso of diphtheria. No physician required. Mr. Edison's Joke. Now York Telegram. Odd stories are told of dolngb at Wizard Edison's homo in Orange. Ono of the most amusing occurrences there happened not long since when a stranger was visiting Mr. Edison. After an evening largely de voted to a discussion of electricity , the guest wont to bed. Ho had barely drawn the covers over him and settled down to sloop , when a voice , apparently from the clock on the dressing-case , said , in measured tones : "It in now 11 o'clock. " The startled guest throw off the covers , sat bolt upright , and felt hit , hair rising all over his body. Could he have boon dreaming ? No ; ho was wide awake. Arising , ho turned on the electric light , searched every corner of the room , ex amined the innocent-looking clock , and finally called in Mr. Edison. The latter assured him that there was no ono in the room , and with half-quieted fears the guest returned to bed. Half an hour had been consumed In the vain search for the origin of the mysterious voice , and the guests passed another half hour in speculating upon the occurrence. Just as ho had per suaded himself that the sound had been only part of a dream and was going off into a half doze , the same voice , in the same measured tone , culled out : "Tho hour of midnight has arrived ! Prepare to die. " There was no mistake this time , and the horrified guest , without waiting to turn on the electric light , rushed across to Edibon'a room. The wizard , broad awake and half dead with laughter , per mitted his guest to rap throe or four times and then responded to his call. "Mr. Edison , " said the disturbed sleeper , "there's something uncanny about this house. I wouldn't sleep hero all if ' the . " night you'd give mo place. Edison suppressed his laughter , heard his guest's story , and then , going to the the room , showed the stranger that there was a tiny phonograph concealed in the clock and so sot as to give forth its solemn announcement of the hours. The offending clock was removed and the guest slept soundly for the remain der of the night. When you need a friend , select a true ono. Dr. Jones' Rod Clover Tonic is the bobt friend mankind has for all dis eases of the stomach , liver and kidneys. The best blood purifier and tonic known. GOc. Goodman Drug Co. Why lie Quit. Chicago Times- Senator Cullom tolls a good story and not being given to practicing law much himself ho can af ford to do so of a prosperous store keeper in a small Illinois town , who once practiced law , but who has long since abandoned it. Being met by an old acquaintance ho was asked for all the particulars of his giving up the profession. "Didn't it agree with your health ? " "Oh " answered 'Uncle Joe ' , yes , , as ho was familiarly called by his friends. "Didn't it pay ? " "First rate. ' ' "Moot with sufficient favor from the courts ? " "All I could ask. " "Tlion what was.lt compelled you to quit it ? " "Well , I'll ' tollyou I was too honest. " A loud laugh from the bystanders aroused < fUnclo .Too' 'into earnestness , and ho repeated the strange statement and nailed it to hm shop counter with his huge list. But his cross-questioner won ton : i > > "When did you flndfthis out ? " "In my very last case. " "What was that'r1' * , "Ono In which I wa retained to prose cute a neighbor fen killing a dog. " "And ho was acquitted ? So you lost the case , and gavot up. your profession discouraged ? " > ' "No , ho was convicted. " "Then ho was pqilty ? " "No , ho was innocent. " "But didn't thoj-ovidcnco prove his guilt ? " "Certainly it did. " "Then why do you say ho was inno cent ? " "Because I had killed the dog myself a few nights before for trespassing on my poultry , and I came to the conclu sion that any business that would aid a man to convict a neighbor of his own crimes wasn't the business for me , so I gave it up. " All fine Liquor Stores sell Jarvis' boat. ClIlcHofthe United HtatoH. The United States will have , when the count of 1800 cornea to bo made , more great oitioi than any other country lethe the world now has or has over had. The will bo four of a inllUoc Inhabi tants or more. These are Now York , Philadelphia , Chicago and Brooklyn. There will bo bovon of half a million or more population. Those are the four mentioned , and Baltimore , Boston and St. Louis. There will bo nineteen which will harbor more than a quarter of a million souls each. Thebo will bo the seven mentioned , and Buffalo , Cleveland , Cincinnati , Detroit , Kansas City , Mil waukee , Minneapolis , Now Orleans , Pittbburg , St. Paul , San Francisco and Washington. There will be thirty cities of 100,000 population and upward , including the nineteen in the foregoing lists , and Albany , Allegheny , Indianapolis , Jer sey City , Louisville , Newark , Now Haven , Omaha , Providence , Rochester and Worcester. In these thirty principal cities of the country there will bo found a resident population of about , in round numbers , 11,000,000. "The 320 ( or thereabouts ) ad ditional cities of from 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants each which will appear in the census of 1890 will have an aggre gate population of fully 9,000,000 , mak ing the total urban population of the country 20,000,000 or upwards. If the country has been growing since 1880 at the normal rate as determined by previous census that is , an increase of 1S&\ \ per cent for each decennial period the entire population of the country In 1890 will bo about 07,000,000. If , however - over , as everything goes to show , the increase has been somewhat beyond the normal rate , and is likely to so continue for the remaining years of the census period , the grand and Inspiring total will probably bo near 70,000,000. If you've Rot a pain or ncho or a bruise , Salvation Oil will roach the coao instantly. Price 25 conts. Attention Voters. By resolution passed bv our loRislaturo , all good citi/ons are icqucst- ca to use Dr. Hull's ' Cough Syrup nnd recom mend the same as the pnoplo's remedy for cough's colds , etc. 25 cents Ho Knew. Detroit Free Press. Loungers about police headquarters were startled the other day by the siyht of a young and prettv girl of eighteen slipping into the chiof'broom with anxious face. "Oh ! dear ! " she began , "but someone ono is going to bo killed , and I want to prevent it ! " "That's very kind of you , " ' answered the chief , as ho waved her to a seal. "It's a a young man ! " " 1 see. Ho is going to hang himself on your account is ho ? " "Oh , no , Ho is going to fight a duel with a another young man on my ac count. They are to moot to-night. Ono will certainly bo killed. Please do something to prevent it. "There is no fear , miss none in the world. " "But they will fight. " "Oh , no , they won't. Before the hour arrives one will start for Port Huron and the other for Toledo. That's the Invarablo rule , and It won't fall in this case. " "Aro you sure ? " "So sure that if either of them shows up I'll resign my position. I'll have an officer on the watch. " Two hours before the time came ono young man loft by the Brush street depot and the other by the Third street station , and as the chief received the report no said : "Of course. Why not ? Poor , Inno cent girl. " How Gold Uln Are Made. Now York Graphic : The. workshop where rings are made isaourlous place , full Of ingenious moclianicul appliances. Gold coin is put in a small crucible with flux , and the crucible placed inside of a covered pot , which is subjected to the heat of a powerful flame of natural gas. To increase the intensity of the heat a btrong blast is produced by means of a fan , making a constant , even tem perature. The gold is rolled and converted into convenient shape for use , precisely as iron is worked in a rolling mill. It has passed through grooved rolls of various sizes , ono after another , until it is fashioned into nar row strips of the desired width and thickness. There are also other rolls for converting the ingots into sheet gold. For stamping the bettings for rings a screw press is used , dies of va rious sizes being inserted as required. A diamond ring is thick at the center , gradually tapering in size from the top downward. A piece of gold , after being - ing cut , is laid upon a metal die and a heavy hammer , working in a frnmo and operated by moans of a rope and pulley. Is made to descend , thus giving with ono blow the desired shape to this part of the ring. Hundreds of differ ent dies are necessary for the various styles and si/.cs of rings. After the drop-hammer has stamped the gold into shape it is placed in a thin metallic plate containing a hole , in which it fits exactly , and driven through bv a punch worked by hand , thus cut ting away the gold nhoring tothcedgcs , which pieces arc carefully bavod. All along the side of the room are workmen seated ut benches , some shap ing the pieces into rings and soldering them together , others inserting and fastening the btono bettings , and still others performing various borts of equally difficult work , all necessary in the making of a ring. In another part of the room is a curious bit of machinery " which ib called a lapidary lathe , and i"s used for shaping and cutting down stones when necessary. A round piece of metal bhaped Hko a small grindstone , is bet in a horizontal position and is made to revolve. To this emery is applied , and the btono being held against it , it is soon reduced to the proper dimensions. It is then polished on a similar appliance of wood coated with putty powder. Another interest ing object is the enameling furrwi'c. The article to bo ornamented , having been previously engraved for the recep tion of the enamel , is placed in u little oven coated with the enamel in the shape of a powder. It is then heated until the enamel runs , and is then re moved from the lire to bo cooled and fin ished. A peculiar process is that of gilding or electro-plating. The article to bo gilded is first thoroughly cleaned by a line brush of brass wires. A piece of gold is attached to the positive polo of an electric battery and tlio article lo the negative. Both are then placed in the same solution , and the electric current does the work , trannforringa portion of the gold to the object to bo plated , I cheerfully recommend Red Clover Tonic to those suffering from troubles of the btomach and Hvor. I am now on my second bottle , and it makes mo feel like a now man. C. M.CONNOltNushua , la. Goodman Drug Co. Retirement of an Knuiruhs Diwaijor. The Pokln Gazette contains two de crees , ono by the empress dowager , the other by the young emperor , relating to the retirement from public life of the former. The empress announces that when the emperor first assumed the reins of power she could not refubo nlm her assistance In his doubtn and diffi culties , and therefore she constrained herself to comply with the prayers of the ministers and to instruct him in the art of governing. But now th em peror has applied himself with such zeal and succose to tua tank that he U able of hlmiiolf to decide and regu late the affairs of ntat . M tkey coino before him. As soon as his riago is celebrated bo should co in pie to control of the empire and the board of astronomy is desired to select an auspicious day in the second , month of the coming year for the in auguration of the emperor's unaided rulo. The emperor himself dwells oo the unexampled manner in which the ( impress dowager gave herself to the severest labor , tolling day and night and knowing no rest. Seeing now that she is about to retire , his heart is filled with mingled sentiments of gratltudo and distress , but ho dare not disobey tno empress' commands. With awb and care ho will give his whole heart to the multitudinous affairs of the nation , hop ing to repay the love of her majesty , Ids holy mother , who nurtured and in structed him. But , as in those times of dilliculty , the weight upon hisshouldors will bo doubly heavy , ho hopes and trusts that the officials , great and small , will share his feeling of responsibility and continue unswervingly to afford him their most loyal assistance. In conclusion ho desires the ofllcors concerned - corned to consider carefully what coro- nionios should bo performed on the oc casion of his assumption of solo power What Jle Came For. Detroit Free Press : A couple of young farmers were having a dispute up Grand River avenue yesterday. The team was being hitched up when ono of them bald : "Well , Bill , what about that boer ? " "What beer ? " "Tho boor you promised. " "Don't remember. " "Don't you ? You wore driving along by my place this morning while I wai feeding the hogsV" "Yes. " "You asked mo to come to town. I said I had a chnnco to earn twelve shil lings digging potatoes and couldn't Hpnro the time. You said coino along and wo'd sue the sights. I said it wouldn't pay. Tlion you said wo might see a big lire. I said I'd seen 'em and didn't care. Then you said if I would eomo you'd treat to the boor. So I came. Where's the bcerV" "Ounno. " "Hain't you going to buy nnyV" "No. " "You hain't ! " "No. " "Then , Bill Simmonds , I want to say that you arc a durncd mean man. and don't you never have the face to asic mo agin to lose a whole day and ride twen ty-eight miles to accommodate you ! " Take no other , Jnrvis' Brandy is boat. A. Curloim Colnuldoiico. Detroit Free Press : "Just five years ago to-day , " said a farmer at the Cen tral Market yesterday , "I was oomlnff in with a load of potatoes and a bag foil off the wagon. When I mlsiad it I wont buck , but soin ono had gobbled it. " "Upon my soul ! " gasped a man who stood by , "but this is strange ! " "Why ? " "Just IIvo years ago this morning I found a bag of potatoes near the tollgate - gate ! " "It must have boon mine. " "Not a doubt of It. " "And and " "You'll settle with mo , of courao , I hold them four weeks , at a chargt of fifty cents per week storage. I aiuvor- tised them to the amount of 11.20. Tlion , as they were beginning to spoil , I paid and expressman 60 cents to cart them to an orphan asylum. I'll run into the office and make- out your bill. " Ho ran in , but when ho came dut the I farmer and his team had slid out anil were not to bo found. f