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GOSSIP ABOUT PARIS. I
-H2 KINO OF ANNAM’S CORIOLIS
PBSROOATIVF.
Msiicloua Gossip About the German
Eaperor - A Plucky Soldier A
Queer Criminal Case—Other Matters
of Interest.
(Copyright.)
Pabxs, Fe‘>. 13.—1 tis curious to note how
audience* of one race or nationality
differ from those of another in their man
ner 0 f manifesting either wild gratification
or positive satisfaction over theatrical per
fornMnc®*-
At Bayreuth the votaries of Wagner mark
their appreciation of the German master’s
vork by maintaining a deep, religions
silence. Italian and Viennese audiences
-iprcss their pleasure by'insisting upon
frequent recalls of favorite singers or act
ors M. Ernest van Dyck having, in Vi
enne, been recalled-before the footlights as
B auy os thirty times in an evening.
In Paris, the sharp rallying of the claque
dest.es in on real or imagined perfect notes,
or smart passages, in the hope of leading
the public into the ardently longed-for
••thunders of applause.”
According to a distinguished writer in
France, these matters are differently ordered
tn T nquln. He gives a most amusing
description of an Annamite drama tendered
in a pagoda at Hanoi, and at which he as
sisted. The performance was given in honor
of the French resident general, and an aged
visiting uncle of the Kiug of Anuam.
ty,„n the monarch and his illustrious com
panion and guest* had been conducted to
the places of honor, through a
salaaming multitude, a big bass
drum and a formidable drumstick
„ere placed directly iu front of his majesty.
The “comedy” began, and for one long hour
the audience remained sunk iu apathetic
aud almost for bidding silence. Then the
ra“larch suddenly arose, clutched nt the
stick, and brought it down with repeated
sml resounding thwacks on the drumhead.
The resident general promptly dodged, the
aged uncle bowed his head in grave ap
proval, and the audionce inclined their
bodies as one man. It appears, according
t) the writer referred to, that in Anuam,
custom insists that the king, and the king
aloue, ahull on such occasion* mark appre
ciation and furnish enthusiasm, both of
which he accomplishes by playing a dis
cordant solo on the drum.
In the present distance the royal hilarity
was excited by an Annameee joke, which
bad dose stout servioe many years before
Methuselah was born. All through the
weary, desolating evening this sort of thing
was kept up; the more antique tho mossy
jest, the louder and more prolonged the
monarch's appreciative and enthusiastic
solo; tho greater the colerity and dexterity
cf the resident general; the severer anil
statelier the acquiescent downward motion
of the aged uncle’s parchment face, and the
profoonder the salaams of tho never-smiling,
loyal Annamese.
AN IMPERIAL TARGET FOR SCANDAL.
Scandal, like death, loves a shining mark,
and the faot is not strange that the moral
character of the German emperor is among
the targets which have of late presented
th -niselves for its darts. Under the uusat
itf ctory but prudent generalization, "they
bay,’ a story involving William 11., which
bad for some time circulated in the imperial
court at Berlin, Is now being ventilated by
the Paris newspapers.
On New Tear’s eve, according to the gos
sip-mongers, the ambassador at Berlin of
King Oscar of Sweden, accompanied by a
lackey bearing a package, waited upon, and
was admitted to private audience with his
majesty, to whom the diplomat personally
delivered the parcel. This, on being opened
by tho imperial recipient, was found to con
tain a beautiful lamp shade, handsomely
mounted, trimmed with costly lace and or
namented with hand paintings of some of
the most picturesque scenes to be found
along the weetern coast ot Norway. In a
corner of the shade wore inscribed the
words: ''Beniemberances and congratula
tions from Christiania."
There was apparently nothing more by
which to identify the donor. Nevertheless,
it has gone forth on the authority, it is
said, of persons who accompanied the
emperor on hie recent Scandinavian tour,
that the gift was sent from Norway by a
lady whose society the young kaiser had
found exceptionally entertaining. It is ex
plained by the wiseacres that the lady did
not attach her name to the gift for the
reason that she was apprehensive of excit
iiig the jealousy of the empress, who, while
leaving to the august spouse the undisputed
enjoyment of sovereign honors; and the re
iponsibility of Imperial cares, exacts from
Urn unswerving fidelity to tho marital ro
lation.
There are a number of inconsistencies in
the narrative, not tbo least of which lithe
idea of securing secrecy by the employment
eaXew Year’s eve of the minister of Nor
*ay—Sweden as a private messenger to the
Emaeror of Germany. However, scandal,
t > be enjoyed, does not imperatively de
mand ns ingredients either foundation or
consistency.
H'SILADB RATHER THAN THE GALLBYS.
A private soldier of a line regiment has
raised a question of military jurisprudence
which Is exiting much attention, not only
from the big wigs of the army, but from
those cf the legislature and of the legal pro
fession.
The soldier, a man named Gugel, was
tried by a court-martial, which sentenced
him to death at tho hands of a firing party
for having attempted the life of a subaltern
oSoer. The president of the republic, how
erer, intervened and oommuted the death
sentence to one of imprisonment for twenty
years with hard labor. Instead of being
Eratuful for executive clemency, Gugel in
dignantly refuses to accept what he calls
ignominious punishment, and demands as
his right, both by virtue of bis quality as a
soldier and the decision of the court-mar
™i that he be shot to death.
iiie condemned infantryman, who pos
•erses s me intelligence, has formally pro
tested againt the action of President Carnot,
w ho has invoked the interposition of the
ccuncil of state to assure the execution of
1110 sentence of thesjnilitary court.
inere is, of course, great sympathy and
Jta, ration in army circles for a soldier
ho brefers peath by the fusilade to impris
.■.'hent in the galleys—even though the
“dtr punishment carries with it the hope
jtarduu many years before the expiration
1 1 “ 9 term of sentence.
l * not probable, however, that there
ywhere exists authority competent to in-
J er “ in s uch u case, with the edict of the
■-dial who is at once presidont of
republic and commander-iti-ohief of the
Oy.
MILLIONS OF FRANCS.
A curious ease, and one which involves the
i( ri°n of several millions of francs, is,
./considerable preliminary litigation, to
“hally disposed of by the court of assizes
'
“°y years ago M. Giroux, a wealthy
'■Ktor for public works iu Haris and a
j a . ,JOW 63 years of age, married a lady of
oi'tt means . named Martin. At the time
tv i!l ‘' rria (?o reciprocal wills were made,
tbit'"- ttrma of which man and wife agreed,
coot, 2 :ilf! evep “ of the death of one of the
: ' C | 1!1 R parties the survivor should be
cea?ei 8 9 e ' r to the property cf the de
ut.kV SS ' •' lme - Giroux died, after having,
win r K, ‘ to her husband, made a second
q u ' eVl,li i n g the former testament and bs-
Le,, ,J n * her entire fortune to her brother,
attt., a ‘ tln ' This letter will was notfmnd
wid ~t llrle °f Mrae. Giroux’s death, so the
lenet jLr <mtered immediately and unohal
estate ’ lDtu * Qe possession of his dead wife’s
Uj" months after the decease of
me*n p !le ' however, Marie Ravault. a do
ducovo 1 "- 110 Giroux mansion, accidentally
M 1 and Jh" second will—that in favor of
iriir, ° Q ,-'* arr in. hidden away in an ob
lee, v Gid Marie rush breath
huccv, “Jtin with the news of her great
6r >l Not by any means! She pro
needed with it calmly and resolutely to the
elderly and disconsolate M. Giroux, to whom
she agreed to surrender it only After he had
consented to espouse her ,as Mme. G.
No. 2. The astute old gentleman promptly
married the comely and ambitious maid
servant, and thus suppressed the belated
will
Tnen Mme. Giroux, nee Mile. Ravault,
talked and talked and talked—she talke i so
much that her gabble came to the ears of
M. Leon Martin, who, forthwith, had her
ard her husband arreated.
The trial excites extraordinary interest,
the oounsel for the defense i eing Senator
Demole, Deputy M. Julien Goujon and M.
de Neoreze, and the observers, all Paris.
GENEALOGY OF M. CARNOT.
The recent death of M. Dupont, an ex
officer of ttie French navy, and, on the
maternal side, uncle of M. Carnot, has
oaused the publication of a number of en
tirely erroneous or more or less confused
statements concerning the ancestral ante
cedents aud family relations of the
president of the republic. The facts are
as follows: Lazare Carnot, the famous
revolutionary war minister, and grand
father of the president, was married at
St. Orner, 1701, to Mile. Dupont, daughter
of Dupont de Lierdt. Hippolyte Carnot,
father of the chief executive, was united in
marriage in 1836, to the daughter of Fran
cois Dupont (brother of the Gens. Dupont-
Chautnont and Dupont de 1’ Estang); not as
certain chroniclers maintain, to a daughter
of Gen. Dupont.
Mme. Carnot, the charmingly amiable
wife of the president, is the daughter of
Dupont-White, the oelebrated political
economist, but the family is in no degree
related to that of her distinguished bus
band.
• By the way, the Gaulois asserts that it
has it from a very reliable source that M.
Carnot has definitely decided not to allow
his name to be presented for re-election to
the ortice of president of tho French re
public. Paul Db Barsac.
FEMININE FADS AND FANCIES.
Some of tho Queer Things in the
Social World.
(Copyright 1892.)
New York, Feb. 27.—" The married belle,
do I believe in her?” paid a famous
old dowager iu my hearing, at a
recent musicale. "No, frankly, I don’t;
of course lam in the swim; I have to be,
you know, and consequently put up with
her, but I tremble all the time for fear of
scandal.”
“ Why don’t you put your foot down,”
said her companion, "declare your opinion
and say you will not include these frivolous
married women on your visiting list?”
“Well,” very oooliy replied the dowager,
spreading out ctretully the folds of her
wine-colored silk and fanning herself vigor
ously, “You see I liavegranddaughters and
nieces of my own, and If I commenced a
tirade against the married belles, why they
would immediately cry ‘jealousy,’ aud get
these girls of miue into disfavor with the
gealleuien, so for fear of such a calamity I
keep quiet and just think.”
The good old days of domesticity are not
entirely lost to all women, not by any
means. The proof of this assertion is shown
by the unprecedented interest and popu
larity which embroidered table linen is
gaining; embroidered by the hostesses them
selves.
The 5 o’clock tea, an institution wholly
feminine in every particular, wmch origi
nated some two or three years ago, is some
what accountable for the revival of hand
embroidery and this love ot domesticity iu
some society women.
To begin with, a 5 o’clock tea means an
exhibition of tbs daintiest embroidered linen
the hostess possesses. Huok-a-back table
cloths, designed in lusterless satin, damask
diamonds, each diamond containing a
flower or leaf in silk ad gold thread, a set
of serviettes to inatoh, tray covers, fish
cloths, salad nappies and all sorts of linen
devices come into play. After the te the
guests quietly sic down and enjoy an hour
or so in pleasant converse and embroidery.
There is a 5 o’olosk tea at somebody's house
nearly every day, aud each vain female
gets a chance to show off the result of her
handiwork.
On linen the stitches best adapted for
wear and beauty are the long and short
Kensington, the convent-lap over and the
button-hole-adge. It is not considered good
taste to use many colors in shading us in
the washing of the article, the best of silk is
apt to run and disqolor the linen.
"It really is the most delightful wedding
gift Pve yet heard of tnis season.”
“ What is it. my dear.”
"A set ot real Cluny lace pillow shams,
beautifully mounted on brass rods, which
are attached to an overhanging canopy.
When the canopy is up the shams are on;
when the canopy is down the lace rolls
round tbffrod and the shams disappear.”
‘ ‘That is quite an idea. Were the shams
of plain lace or run with ribbons?”
"Perfectly plain, Only right in the cen
ter I noticed a very handsome monogram
embroidered in gold thread."
Two women were overheard conversing
in a Fifth avenue stage. One was confi
dently revealing thodist of presents at a
fashionable wedding she bad just attended.
It is only of reoent date that women have
at all interested themselves in gaming or
sports. Now that they have all the freedom
of men they are show'ing remarkable likings
for both the above pleasures. Whether the
new orazo on their part is for their good is
a query yet unanswered; but it is evident
that women are fast waking up to the popu
larity of sports and games for their sex. A
chess club, a billiard club and gymnasium
club have been formed among the society
women of the very best families.
The eldest daughter of Ansou Phelps
Stokes of Maduon avenue is heralded as a
superb billiardist. Mrs. Ormo Wilson,
youngest daughter of Mrs. William Astor,
is quite at home in a brisk game of bil
liards, and in her own charming house has
speoial gowns designed for playing.
It is not only iu billiard playing the so
ciety women are interesting themselves.
Report says that Miss Josephine Drexel is a
perfect wonder at chess, and that Vice
President Morton's eldest daughter, Helen,
oan swing the Indian oiub like an old sport.
It almost seemed when the season first
opened, that veils were to be entirely dis
carded, for on the imported bonnet not a
vestige of a veil could be discovered, l;ut
now the faintly-lined, thin, barege and Par
isian net half-face veils are declared just
the thing, aud no doubt they will be the
accepted face ornament. White veils, with
gold and silver polka dots are fast making
their way into the millinery windows. There
is nothing more mystic, startling or fascin
ating than one of these tinseled coverings
for the face. They are of tho same fabric
which adorn the historical headgear of tho
Turkish houris in the sultan’s harem.
A good example of an over-plump wo
man who can make herself look slim is
shown in tha clever and versatile lecturer,
Miss Ktae Field. She mndo a brief trip
from Washington to New Yoric a few days
ago, and during her stay occupied a box at
Daly’s theater one evening; she is net over
tall, ifttieed she is inclined to be too short
for her width. Her shoulders would be con
sidered quite broader than true grace would
allow, and her bipe are really out of
ail symmetry, but there are no proofs
of these disadvantages in Miss Field’s
appearance. On the occasion spoken of a
giove-fitting, well skirted Parisian gray
princess gown of spun cheviot, smooth over
the hips with paniers, demi traiue, long,
narrow plaited sleeves with high puffed
shoulders. comDletelv deceived the un
trained eys and reflected the pungent
journalist and lecturer as a flight, slim,
willowy, girlish woman in her 20s.
There’s everything in knowing bow. The
dainty pink moss rosebuds in the gray toque,
aud nestling at her neck and forming a gar
land round the front of her b**u. were
just the proper gladdeoiug hue to bring out
the daintiest tints of the eye and cheek.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY2B,IB92—TWELYE PAGES.
Every poet, prese writer and musical
composer has his day with womankind; j
becomes with her a fiery and intense craze
for a while, then, like the summer's wind,
gives way to a different current of thought,
another genius, who in his turn enjoys
success for a while and Is thrown aside in
neglect.
Just now it is perfectly right to be seen in
your private boudoir or sitting room read
ing Kosetti’s poems.
Gabriel Kosettl was an immortal Italian
fainter as well as poet, and consequently
Kosetti’s paintings form a part ot this new
fad.
A wave of Italian art seems passing over
the Four Hundred, and Kosetti seems to be
the chief priest.
One of the most successful hostesses in
Washington is Mrs. Levi P. Morton, the
wife of the Vice President. It is a pleasing
pastime to watch her as she flits in and
about her guests during a reception or dan
sant at her well-appointed and comfortable
mansion at the capital. A* to personal ap
pearance, she has ail the graces imaginable
to attract and hold the eye. Her raven
hair, now just showing its shadowy
silvery tinges, has a moonlight soft
ness of color, while the quiet reserve
and sympathy in her treatment of her
guests, reveals forcibly this same gentle
ness, aud lack of garrulous intention to
create impression. Her gowns are of the
artistic, mnt.ro ly, medium sort, neither too
dark or too fair. A wine colored surah, a
gray poplin deluged in honiton edge, a nile
green with black velvet and a cream crepe
with deep garnet relief, are some of the
choice combinations which she has worn to
my knowledge.
She has an easy swinging oarr age and
adaptive conversational powers. Her house
contains a little of everything, aud, conse
quently, something to please even the most
fastidious foreigners, who, frequently,
owing to her husband’s diplomatic position,
sup aud dine with her. Bhe is an American
all through and a credit to the sex of her
country.
An innovation in forniture has made the
clever hostesses stop and think a bit. An
instrument of light wood, which is liable to
show every speck of dust and every finger
mark, is euouzh to try the life ot any sin
cere housewife. It means the applica
tion of a dust rag and varnish a dozen
times a day.
Truly the piano has become quite an item
of worrimeut iu the household, but no doubt
all will bend to faahion in this instance as in
all others, and we shall be greeted every
where with au old frieud in anew garb.
The return of the old-fashioned square
shape, too, has caused no little comment
aud discussion. Musicians and appreciators
of music say it gives out better and fuller
melody, housewives say it takes up too
much room and has too awkward an ap
pearance.
Amelie Rives, the noted novelist, will
shortly come to New York for a lengthened
stay. She contemplates fixing up an ar
tistic flat and ga.henng a number of the
reoreseutative writers about her iu a weekly
salon.
Her husband who is a millionaire artist,
will meantime keep his brush busy in the
creations of his fancy.
Mrs. Foultney Bigelow, a nieoe of E. S.
Jaffray, the well known New York mil
lionaire, has blossomed into an historical
lecturer and writer.
Sne bos for some time together with her
husband, who is private secretary to a titled
German, been compling a history of Upper
Germany, which it is reported, will quite
astonish the world of letters.
Senator Hill, the possible candidate of the
democratic national ticket, is a perfect
woman hater. He is all business, hard, cruel,
business. At a recent reception in Wash
ington, however, he was taken quite un
awares and beaten at his own game. A
daughter of one of the chief officials is as
much of a man hater as he is a woman
hater, and so it happened that in pairing off
oouples for dinner, Senator Hill and the
young lady went in together.
The conversation, so the guests gathered
about them said, was most lively and enter
taining, the senator, indulging in his favor
ite aphorisms, needless to say aimed against
the fair sex, and the lady spouting her in
vectives against the men. It ended in the
senator forming quite an attachment for
the young lady, and society has already
commenced murmuring about a match.
Margaret Hamm.
A TEXAS GI6L IN WASHING TON.
She is Captured by a Guide and Hears'
the Echoes.
(Copyright, 1892. by the United Piers.)
Washington, Feb. 27. —I went up to the
capitol all by myself the other day, with
my very best Queen of Sheba gown on, and
iu my bag were cards of admission to the
private galleries of both the House acd the
Senate. These were procured for me by my
relative here, who was in congress several
terms, and whom we, at home, regard as a
great man,
I have gotten in the way of going places
like this alone, and find it much the best
plan. Friends who live in a place and take
you about to administer its sights to yon
have too big a per cent, against you. They
get altogether too much enjoyment out of
your little breaks. They find your most
natural questions entirely too amusing.
Fellow pilgrims—companions in .ignor
ance—are surely safe, you suppose. Don't
think it! I have more’than once caught
even 6uch "telling”—yes, and very likely
attributing their own most unspeakable
and degrading blunders to me. Bo I have
arrived at the somewhat misanthropic con
clusion that, upon this sort of enterprise, it
is host, all things considered, to go alone.
I had been iu the building for brief visits
—and under oonvoy—before; but, as I ex
pected, when I got inside the door and
looked around a moment, I knew absolutely
nothing. While I stood hesitating a very
distinguished looking person approached
me, aud, raising his bat, said in cultured ac
re its: "I beg your pardon; would you like
a guide to show you over the buildiug?”
I raid; "Yes, thank you; that is just
what I want;” and while I was expecting
him to go for the guide or tell rne where to
find one, he led the way to the first point of
Interest and began instructing me iu a sort
of professional tone, so that I saw he was
tho guide himself. He was a very much
finer looking person than the President, of
more distinguished appearance than many
: of the gmators, or even than ray relative,
the great man, at home. Boon my firtt
j timidity gave way before tho amiable
I suavity of his manner, and my secret
trepidation at the thought of offering such
a being money, was swallowed up*in tne be
lief that he would be found entirely equal
to the occasion when it presented itself, and
I enjoyed myself unrestrainedly.
I was shown the sculptures and bronzes
and frescoes. The famous Audubon birds,
on tho walls of one of the basement cor
ridors, looked (to me) very stiff and wooden,
and suggestive of a chromo Christmas catd.
Much of the other art about the capitol
which was meant to he entirely Berious
struck my mere barbarian fancy as very
funny.
VV’e stepped out onto the east portico to
look at the Munich bronze doors, represent
ing scenes in the life of Columbus, and here
the guide pointed out to me the heroic
statues ot peace and war, telling me how
much they coet the government, which is,
indeed, in the case of many of the works of
art adorning the capitol, the only possible
item of interest, since they were frequently
ordered, or bought, or “jobbed” m by
worthy, statesmen from the hack districts,
who wouldn’t know the Belvidere Apollo
from a cigar store indiau.
These statues me by some Italian fellow.
The Peace is a large-beaded, amiable look
ing female, not doing anything in particu
lar; War is an equally large headed male
figure, also amiable looking, and palpably
assuming a fierce and warlike attitude and
demeanor out ot pure obligiugne-s. Both of
their bland and well-meanlug countenance*
and their classic garment* would be im-
proved by aapolto liberally and energetically
apol ted.
My relative, great man, had told me
that when tbecepitoi was building Thomas
Jefferson said one day to one of the or am- |
teets, who was sup- rmte tiding the erection
of sine columns. “Why don’t you put T in I
soma American architecture here among
all the Corinthian ar.d lonic and other
kind*?”
"Why, Mr. Jefferoon,” the man replied,
"there isn't any American architecture.”
"Isn’t thereT’said Jefferson. “Wall, I’ll
make some.”
I wanted to sea this American architect
ure and the guide fund it tor me.
There are six columns which stand in a
little semi-circular lobby which used to be
the entrance to the supreme court room,
and is now the lobby of the most magnifi
cent law library in the world. The shaft of
the column is composed ot cornstalks, very
•lightly conventionalized; around theie,
near the top, runs a rope, above whioh the
ears, whose parted busks show the core
within, spread outward sufficiently to form
a graceful capitol.
In anoher corridor, somewhere in the
Senate wing, there are some pilasters also
designed by Jefferson, with oapitols com
posed of one tobacco leaf, two corn blades
and a rose.
On some ot the bronze chandeliers I
noticed grizzly bears. Indians, eagles,
corn blades aud other purely American
products.
In the famous statuary hall—which was
originally the ball of the House of Repre
sentatives—whore room is provided for two
statues from every state, there were two
things which especially struck my fancy:
Kosciusko’s nose, that is the nose upon the
face of the bust of Kosciusko, ami the won
derful echoes and acoustic vagaries of the
chamber. |
The nose is one of those things that teach
me the poverty and impotonoy of language.
It simply must be seen to be appreciated.
Its easy and joyous abandonment of all the
rules and conventioualitlee regarding facial
architecture, its unfettered and hilarious
originality, the reckless a- glo at which it
sai.s out from between his eyes, the gro
tesque wav it spreads its lower eud across
his under lip and the incredible shoot up
ward of its impudent and inquiring tip, are
just outside the power of words I It struck
me at once that about the time "Kosciusko
fell” freedom got her first squara look at
this nose, and thereupon shrieked her mis
apprehended shriek.
When at lsst I tore myself from the con
templation of this fearless and fascinating
nose, my guide put me through the course
of five echoes with a relish of my astonish
ment whicn repetition seemed not to have
dulled, and which in a friend or kinsman
would have enraged me
There are two large marble pilasters on
opposite sides of the room. 94 feet apart.
Oue of us stood ut each of these, away back
in a little niche or embrasure, and we car
ried on a conversation in low tones, the
crowd moving and talking between us, so
that we could not ordinarily have heard
eaoh other shout ,
He placed me on a certain square of
marble in the tessellated floor, in front of
the sculptured marble clock presented to
the United Statos by tho republic of France
before the coup d'etat of Napoleon 111.,
which (the clock) it over the entrance door.
Going back some 100 feet or more, and
witbio a lobby, he stood facing toward my
back, when suddenly a voice spoke in loud
tones from above the clock, saying: "You
see the clock, do you?” and discoursing at
length upon its beauty and value. Turning
I looked back across the crowd to where rny
guide stood. He raised his hat and smiled.
I could just distinguish bis features.
He came and moved me back a few steps
and returned to his former station, when a
tremendous voice came down out of the
dome and enveloped me in its sonorous tones.
Every word seemed to wrap rao about, so
enormous were the tones, yet nobody else
heard a sound of them. People passed all
shout me without so much as inoking up.
It is only at the exact point the great voioe
is audible.
I was placod in front of a statue of Gov.
Allen, and going across the obamber, the
guide stood where I codld tee him, about
seventy-five feet away. The statue m
front of me inquired abruptly in a severe
tone, "Now, what are you thinking
about?”
The illusion was complete; I started
guiltily, and was about to confess that I
waa thinking about my lunch, when I
looked across at the real origin of the in
quiry. He looked amused a* he saw my
start, and the statue before me laughed so
diabolically that rtiy hair stirred, and I
“moved on” hastily. When the guide oame
over, I said in aa aggrieved tone, "It was
only.my lunch.”
"O, was it?” said he. “I thought it wo*
a gunpowder plot, or somebody. Never
mind. They geborally jump that way.
Then he stood me very carefully on a
square near ons of the entrances, and went
so far away I could only see him fairly, aud
could scarcely have heard his voice In a
Yazoo yell, amid the surrounding move
ment and talk.
After a moment a whisper came up from
my feet, came vaguely stealing up from be
neath the marble floor, "Dust thou art, and
unto dust thou shalt return.”
I looked across at the guide, be waved his
band, and the whisper continued, "Not just
this evening—inter you known How do you
like this?”
"It’s rather crispy at first,” I whispered
back, then a bright thought struck me, aud
I added very low, "suppose you tell me
your name?”
“Ah,” he whispered, "I was eure you
would ask me something before I got
through that I couldn’t answer. Come, let
mo show you the central echo.”
So he put me on a square near the oenter
and t.ddme to talk aloud. I did so with no
unusual effect, but when I moved only six
or eight inches onto the adjoining stone be
side mine, and continued my loud talking,
the whole chamber wne filled with multi
plied and JmagnilledJechoesJof my voice, so
that I was much abashed. But my guide
proved to me that nobody heard the echoes
except myself, by standing upon the stone
himself, and speaking. When my head was
held close beside bis 1 heard all the shout
ing confusion of eohoes; but a foot away I
beard only Igs voice at an ordinary pitch.
When we had made the rounds and were
standing at the door of the Senate restau
rant, where I was to take ray lunch, I hold
ing inv pecket boik in my hand, ha said:
“Ah, tbere’3 a man servant to speak to mo.
Just go in aad give your order. I’jl speak
to vou in a moment."
He wont after the man. I want Id nnd ate
very slowly all through the programme, un
j til I felt apoplectic, ana there wasn’t a steak
left for John Sherman, nor a solitary crab
for Carlisle, but he hadn’t come back. I
might have been eating there yet if four
things hadn’t happened simultaneously.
The provisions, my capacity and my ex
chequer gave out, and it dawned upon ma
tuat be didn’t intend to como*
And I was so absorbed in the contempla
tion of this very rum go that I came all the
way home oblivious to the fact that I hadn’t
gone into the House or Senate gallery at
all- Alice AlacGowak.
MEDICAL.
Like a {Dead JPisl).
j I had terrible ECZEMA (or 18 years—
i was in bed six months at a time—body
i and limbs swollen and scaly like a dead
: fish. The itching was terrible, and
FINALLY LOST MY SIGHT.
After treatment by five physicians, and
other remedies without relief, I took
S. 8. S. and it cured me. Mv skin is
soft and smooth, and the terrible trouble
is all gone— R. N. Mitchell, Macon,Ga.
I know tbe above statement to be true.
S. 8? Harmon, Macon. Ga.
Send for our boiliiiD the Blood.
r CENTS geta tbe&unofty hu or tne stole.-
•J mo News. BOwur. and read It For sale
;at MULLKYXE’BI) lit JO STORK West Broad
i and Waidburg ilrMu.
I J'y Dear Sir:
Wt will be pleased to mail to you, seeurely sealed
- u and free from all marks , a copy of our treatise on
y , Irving Treatment of the Decline of Manhood
I w. Nervous Debility. Enclose stamp to cover
postage. Respectfully Yours,
Ll§ IKYING HOMEOPATHIC IJiSTITITE, 86 Fifth Atom. New Fork.
. DRESSMAKING.
The DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
at KROUSKOFF’S, H. A. DUMAS, Man
ager, is introduced to the ladies desiring
select goods and styles. It is our aim to
fill a long felt want where ladies desiring
Novelties in Dress Goods at New York
prices will always find goods to their taste.
We shall continue to improve the stock
and make itTHE DRESS GOODS DE
PARTMENT PAR EXCELLENCE, and
bring it up to the reputation of our Mil
linery House. We are now offering beau
tiful Spring Dress Fabrics in all the New
and Elegant Shades of Grays, Bieges,
Tans and others in the finest grades, im
ported Hindoo Cloths, India and China
Silks, Chevrons, Crepons, Swivels, Bed
fords, etc. We guarantee our prices as
low as any first-class house in New York
City. We also recommend our DRESS
MAKING ESTABLISHMENT in charge
of a FIRST-CLASS MODISTE from New
York, where first-class work and FIT is
GUARANTEED.
Dry Goods and Dressmaking Company,
AT KROUSKOFF’S.
MILLINERY GOOD*.
KROUSKOFF’S MILLINERY
ESTABLISHMENT.
The pride of Savannah, the reputation of which having
ceased to be local only, but is national, and its well earned
fame is due to unceasing labor and experience of over
thirty years in the Millinery business. The coming Spring
Opening will be inaugurated on the most magnificent scale,
as no money nor effort on the part of our European agents
have been spared to make the coming ODening
“THE OPENING”
To be remembered. Certainly not any store in the entire
south will show anything to compare, and many nqveltie3
ntroduced here will not be found in New York even.
The most exquisite novelties from Parisian and London’s most
celebrated artists in Flowers, Ribbons and Pattern Hats, and
many things that delight Ladies of taste and refinement.
We arc busy opening goods daily, many direct from
Custom House, New York. We have also made arrange
ments with distinguished artists to receive weekly such
models in Pattern Hats as are most attractive. In a few
days we shall announce Our Opening Day for the Spring
Fair in Millinery 1892.
S. KROUSKOFF.
FURNITURE. ETC.
Our Primal Aim sssxwbVTt
UUI 1 1 lUuiUui iiliil Public lon ago became con
a vlnced, too, that we never miss
. the mark. Here are a few shots
1J that hit the hull’s eye.
-/Uvph f\ j Aslong as they last we will offer
ODr Mire y i e Bf m
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES
I NE W M ATT IN G
■ P- A rrlvlng on overy steamer.
FURNITURE
. U -- ] n all grades and varieties.
I.BOLEY& SOI.
186, 188 and 190 Broughton Streat
I)KY GOOUSj.
GUTMAN’S.
. n PARASOLS,
IE! DRESS TEIIMMGS.
Our first shipment of New Spring Parasols and Dress
Trimmings has arrived. Come and see them. Special
Sale this week of Brocaded China Silks in light shades for
Evening Wear at
GUTMAN’S.
.Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castorla. \
MEDICAL.
DANIEL HOGAN.
SPRING*
SWEAR.
We have just received a lovely collection
of high claas noveltios in
EMBROIDERED
Bedlarß Cords
Being an exclusive and special Importation.
ONLY ONE DRESS OK EACH PAT
TEKN. Alto, a superb line of LIGHT
WEIGHT BEDFORD CORDS in the
Latest Spring Colors.
Also, full lines of low and medium
priced
Dress Goods
Have been received, and arc ready for in
spection. Ch uoe auortraents of LANS
DOWNEB and GLORIAS in all the lead
ing colors.
SPECIAL.
One thoumnd yards plain China Silk,
32 inches wide, in all colors, at 85o.; actual
value, tl 25. The greatest bargain aver
offered in these goods in Savannah.
WE WANT TO SELL
Carpets, Rugs,
Boys’ Suits,
And remaining Winter Goods generally.
ojujk
CEMENT.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
I am pleased to announee that my factory,
which I have just erected on the Savannah
river. Is now In perfect o[wratlon, producing
from twenty to thirty tons per dty of the cele
brated KINO’S ASBESTOS WINDSOR
CEMENT, DRY MORTAR and FINISH for
plastering wells and oeillnga. I am tbe sole
agent and manufacturer of this material for
Georgia, Florida, South Carolina end Alabama.
Though tbe Windsor uement has given thorough
satisfaction wherever it has been used os
directed, and the sales have Increased oyer 400
per cent, in tbe past year, experience hasshown
that It la advisable to insure perfect work by
mixing the cement by machinery ready for
use. By so doing tbe only thing left to the
ud gnu nt of the man at the mortar bed is the
right quantity of water, which any plasterer
can determine
I claim for this material:
That it makes walls and ceilings moreelastio
than any other material known for plastering.
The asbestos used renders tho material a
great protect,on against Are and deadens sound.
The extreme density of the cement renders it'
vermin and germ proof.
It. is anti rust.
It will not discolor any material. It Is trea
from acid.
It Is not made by any chemical process, and
no action takes place after setting, which Is a
matter of two or three hours only.
Froat or water will not injure the work after
it Is ouce set.
Experience has shown that ceilings well
soaked from any causo will dry out a* strong as
ever. Falling ceilings are unknown, and the-'
plastering will last as long os the building itself.
It can be finished In any way of which,
ordinary plastering is capable.
If directions are followed, I guarantee all we
claim. Walls and ceilings made from this
material are secoud to none; and, considering
the advantages named, the excess of cost above
lime anil hair Is a small matter It is less ex
pensive than any other patent plaster.
This material Is no experiment, and is Indorsed
by the beat architects and builders wherever it
has been used.
I shall be pleased to furnish any further in
formation.
ANDREW HANLEY
SAVANNAH. GA.
SEED POTATOES.
AROOSTOOK^
Early Rose,
Early G-oodrich,
New York State Rose
Seed Potatoes.
Texas and Kansas
Seed Oats, Oranges,
Apples. Onions,
Turnips, Etc.
Hay, Grain and Peed.
W. D. SIMKINS,
PAINTERS.
Broughton Bros.,
OESLKBS IX
Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes,
Glass, Etc.
Agents for F. W. DKVOE’S READY-MIX ED
PAINTS, House, Sign and Decorative Paint
ing, Wall Paper and Interior Decorations.
42 and 44 Barnard Street.
TELEPHONE NO. 188.
LEATHER GOODS.
NEIDLINGER & RABUN^
DEALERS IN
ROBBER AND LEATHER BELTING
Soa Lion Wrapping. Saddles, Harass*. Leather
&4VAXXAX, a*.
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