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SWELLS OF THE PAST
‘
AS COMPARED WITH THE DUDES AND
DANDIES OF TO-DAY.
What Constitutes rt Uude—Tho Spanish
Courtier of tl»e Lust Century—The Grim
Furltan Dandy—Tlio Old Knickerbocker
Dudo.
Tho word “dudo” is in itself a satire so pow-
orful that it has almost extinguished the class
it deserf lied. Isolated specimens remain here
and there, because no species of animals dis-
a
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heck. Odd thing that, about tho neck wear
being so expressive of tho brain force; but it
is just so with women. You can accurately
guess a woman’s nativity by (he style in
whic h she dresses her neck. And the very
tiptop of fusliiou in neck wear, ns in the case
o£ tho male dudo, does not siguily great brain
weight.
The dandy of the hour cuts no figure be¬
side the dandies of the past. They had the
advantage of lace - ', ruffles, fantastic head
wear, sashes, knee hrceche swords, and no
end of frumpery. Our dandy must put his
time in on his bangs, his mustache, his eye¬
glasses, collar and necktie, and trifles like
tliut, and tae l the fit of his clothes is some¬
thing tha; taxes him greatly, for that consti¬
tutes liis Inim to an exquisite. Only a dudo
can wear^ otiivs that lit perfectly, because lio
could not k- c > nwa\ ever y wrinkle if he
moved :»i out i a natural way attending
to l.u i Cloth* .> are like faces; they
allow w (!;,-v nave been. A dandy’s
cloflie:-- i v morning and fresh
ever •• ..vi ) -e.
T >f the last century
was are , .1 existing dandies
\v • • ;i, -till more : organ as
than i "I l: 1. helicu’s day was
lie. 1 >r !i -\ i w,\ir, t!v- splendor
of h -if Li.i entire outfit—
It!! i;) • PVIS of the male
<• rc •■■cl v !r >>!'•(, S’l'GOllt of
tb !■ n
A fcp him a dude,
or by ni: 1 \ unit’ ii-> wtil smell as sweet
—makes >;< .'is to legs.
Tro.ir. : s ; 0 t !v*
Inorud < i:A Of
lieauty They .-a .vc
in wi:h the l’n o'.i
revolution. T h e
French peasant
wore a baggy leg
wear on tile tiOliver
plan. I* is cono
tion of democracy
Was to compel
•veryloiy to wear
the same kind of
clothing. Aristo¬
crats woro stock¬
ings to lho knee,
hen e the peasant
argued llitif- stock-
ings to the knee in¬
dicated t y r a n n y
and oppression, and
his kind of trousers
were symbolical of
equal lights lor all
men. And lie enforced Ins t heory- t»y rutting
Off tho heads of all who clung to stockings.
Naturally men found it to their interest to
discard stockings an«l put on trousers. Hence
wo liay-e trousers now, and find it Lard to get
rid of them.
Then there was the grim dudo of our Puri¬
tan fathers. II® was not n croaliuo of flip
pant mind, On tho contrary be devoted
himself to questions of deep religious import-,
and dressed accordingly. His high crowned,
wide brimmed hat, his well fitting storking*
and wide, immaculate co.lar made of him a
spectacle of severe fashion that would ter¬
rorize a child today. Like other dandies, his
face agreed with his costume It, was long,
doleful, awful. The friskiness of youth was
eliminated from his anatomy, and bo went
forth among tho fair sox conquering only m
tho straight and narrow way. His manners
were no jollier than his garments, Tor be it
known clothes are the expression of thought,
nnd always agree with the manners of their
•wearer. A Puritan bow was a
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thoso days had a good deal of trouble to sup¬
port their families. They took in odd job¬
bery to piece out their incomes. Dudes were
not plenty.
The original dude of New Amsterdam, the
swell Knickerbocker, was a gay, gorgeous
creature. It is even now whispered that
Hendrick Hudson was one. He wore extraor¬
dinary collars, rosettes on liis shoes, and
§ther garments of peculiar extravagauce.
appears from the
enrih suddenly and
entirelv. The dudo
of tho city is not
sustained by public
appreciation and
approval its he
when lie first began
to sw.u Ml "Hi the
fashionable avenues
und pervaile t ho
swell clubs. The
very word was
worn out when tho
class it was applied
to vanished, Tho
solitary remnants
of Ih s fiock wear a
lonesome expn-s-
sion above the cult
that encircles their
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rURITAN IjANPY.
that depressed
everybody within
sight. Long hair
w as part of a
dandy's outfit them
A n abomination
unto the Lor d
would have been
the closely shaven
beads of the pn?s-
ent day in their
righteous Puritan
eves. They had
the right idea of
hair. It was meant
as a covering for
the head, not as a
crop to be harvest¬
ed continually.
The barbers of
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VOL. XIV.
When gotten up with a view to heart breaks
ing experiences he was a creature to dazzle
and overwhelm. You will find him still.
done up in canvas and oil, on the walls of
his rich descendants in New York. Some-
times, however, he is very grand in the por*
trait, all ruffles and glory, when the original
snout his life in a butcher’s apron. Descend¬
ants have a pardonable habit of improving
their dead ancestors, and making them up
with the times.
Knee breeches for all men are threatened
and will doubtless arrive. The bicyclists are
already in them, and tho contagion, blessed
^ j ts namc> j s spreading,
The mo q ern ,j U( i e would’nt say overcoat
f or world; but he talks a good deal about
his “top coat.” And ho would hold no com-
munication with a person who spoke of trous-
ers a« pantaloons, though tho day has been
when that name was considered good enough
for the bifurcated garments of men, by very
respectable people. Even “prominent citi-
have made use of it without losing
their prominence. And no dandy who keeps
up wi th the times recognizes such a thing us
acarie{ J^ <)t ho. He “wears a walking
stick,”a thick, stout stick, very strong, club-
like looking, consequently very English.
The dandy of our grandfather’s d:iy, ho
who flourished at the of the
century, hold his
own with all of
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11S portrait ones
1*P s ««• oal ? d abou
the dear old days | of
«kophcity. Ilew.- s
a very particular
person about his
clothes, and ho was
quite numerous loo.
He enjoyed the dis¬
carding of the wig,
and reveled in liis
own lmir. Ilis
trousers wero long
and tight, and were
buttoned tiTTCmnd
the ankle. They
fitted the log to
perfection, and re¬
vealed its sym¬
metry, if it had any. The necic was encased
in a high satin stock, and the coat had a collar
that rolled extravagantly, and its skirts were
cut away in front. Rufilcs at the wrists of
course. Glittering buttons and dazzling
chains and seals helped to ornament tho
dandy of c^r grandad’s day.
Beside tT/eni, all our dandies nro feeble
things; both as to costume and heads. They
are working under troublous conditions.
“CHILD OF THE CONFEDERACY.”
Portrait of »T offer son Davis’ Only
Daughter.
Miss Varina Davis has again returned to
her father’s *ido at their quiet home at Beau¬
voir, Miss., overlooking tho Gulf of Mexico.
Miss Dnvis was born in the “White House" of
the Confederacy . , at , Richmond j? • . j while i i, bei ..
father iiresided over the Confederate states.
Era- sin™ the ,vnr she hns been at te,
fatber s side, Ins chief snpiwvt nn.l eoaso.a-
tion. lie educated her personally, gavo her
his views ot life and fashioned her in the
mold of the auto-bel,um southetn lady. Vet
trip north bus doubtless given her now ideas
° r the cities
she has^ lsited w ith
unusual social bon-
ors, and she proved
deserving of them.
a typ"°
Sho is just tail
enough to be com¬
manding in appear¬
ance, und lias a
willowy, graceful
form, which is clad
with a richness and
tasto that are sur-
prising when . it .. .
is
remembered that
this young girl has lived all her life in the
retirement of a country house. Her face is
long and somewhat inclined to leanness, but
its every lineament bespeaks tho patrician.
Her complexion is a rich olive, Her eyes
hazel and her hair black and curling. She
looks like a queen among women as she stands
receiving her callei-s.
It is said by those who know Miss Davis
well .that she helped her father considerably
in tlio preparation of his recent history of tho
w-ar. Her studies from youth had been di-
reeled in the line of southern war records and
political history, so that when it came to pre-
paring tho work she was a valuable assistant.
Her aunt says that the old Confederate leader
relied on her almost entirely in the matter of
collecting and arranging statistics of the war
and employed her as amanuensis most of the
time while preparing the work. Nothing
pleased her so much as hunting up fact- and
theories to defend the south and the policy of
her father's administration. Her favorite re-
treat at home is the big library, which con-
sista almost exclusively of war records and
histories of the United States. Hero sho
reads to her father several hours dailyq while
the fallen chieftain listens nods and dreams
tas temSme'dibd-caiuK.T tear 'to let her
out of hiss ght. It was only after a long
struggle that he consented to her trip to
Richmond anil the north. She seems
equally devoted to her father, for she has
enter to soothe his declining years by her
presence.
His Mind tYas Sordid.
Wife (enjoying her dinner)—What can be
more delicious than a nice canvas back?
Husband—A greenback, my dear, a green¬
back.—Tho Rambler,
Leri P. Morton says that Gen. Grant
possessed the faculty of remembering men
in a higher degree than any person he ever
met or knew. _____■_.
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Devoted to News, Politics, Agriculture and General Progress.
TOCCOA, GA., FEB. 1887.
JOHN RUSKIN i
Tlie Celebrated English Art Critic—Hia
Latest step*
John Ruskin lias done more toward the
renaissance of art than probably any other
man in this century. Liko the ancestors of
Newman and Gladstone, his forefathers were
business people; so that when the )*oung
Ruskin at the age of 24 essayed to the
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jonx ruskin.
one of the c i ass ies in art literature. It has
been considerably augmented since, and con-
teins illustrations by himself. Ho has been a
voluminous writer on art tonics since, but it
was his first work that marked out tho pur-
posoof his life—to broaden the views of a not
over artistic people so that they might see
beauty in all things.
Ruskin and Carlyle were for many years
tho two muitors of Er gland in matters
of taste. They wero « instantly probing
fieir sore spots, but Carly i bad a gruff and
cruel way about him tha irritated without
curing. Raskin’s method is illustrated by
the following: He was im »d to address tho
commercial exchange of a bustling city on
the subject of a building they were going to
put up. He told them that they had sent for
him onlv as- a respectable man milliner in
architecturo to toll them what was the newest
and sweetest thing in pinnacles. Ho pro-
ceedcd to say that the goddess they ought to
nut up over tho new exchange was Brit annia
of the market. He pointed out that all their
great works wero built to her. They had
ceased to build to any other deity. He
su'-ested r?T that they l decorate tho frieze with
puvses 7 tuo
sot all
England laughing while it admiral him, was
^ IIo probated it, as it were, in one
of . books ten years ago, became his own
cxccutoi - nnd proceeded to carry out its pro-
visions; a prudential and enlightened course
worthy of imitation, although somewhat
against the interests of lawyers and not con¬
sistent with tho liberty licirs liko to enjoy in
seeking for more than is put down for them.
For thirteen rears ho spent annually nearly
$20,000, including in that expends of
travel, the indulgence of liis splendid taste
as a collector and expensive habits as a nat¬
uralist, his princely gifts to many public
enterprises, and . his . . private . ., comities. He
i-esolved whvw to um invest i in consols enough tonffoid
bun a jcarl> mtoi _______ o o . $ , , w i„>h h«
1 ot jos/ioo - ■ toacousin and ante-
^ to other
Ej^or^ for .loin- this profoundly ^
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; the subject of caricature and badinage;
an ubo question was solemnly raised whether
such an example was not opposed to tho best
Tho latest rumor in regard to Ruskin is
that ho is preparing to follow Newman and
Manning over to the Roman Catholic church.
Tho three have been life long friends and fcl-
low graduates of Oxford.
FOR MINISTER TO TURKEY.
The Probable Successor of S. S. Cox at
Constantinople.
Egbert L. Viele, a representative in the
from New Yoric city, has
been offered, it is
said , the Turkish
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J? ”’ lt of ft v - ar
E ^ wiU ^
im 0 tant p0s t.
Viele is a na-
Waterford
in j^ ^ ew Yo he" kbtate,
w ere war
. b i xt v - t w- o
^ jj ewas
f rom
\y es t Point Mil'-
terv aca demy J in
H e i m
TOeiliately accep
commission and served in the Mexican
warand iu caa . pa i gn s against the Indians.
After g ^ x vears ’ service he resigned to
become a civi i a ud military engineer. Ho
appointed state engineer of New Jei-scy
^ JS 55 designer of Central park, New York,
^ 1856 and Prospect park, Brooklyn, in
‘j j n was appointed brigadier
of Ullited S f ates volunteers, and was
governor of Norfolk in 1862. Sfiuce
the war b e has given his attention to civil
enfrineering H e was connected with the
Columbia college ° school of mines for a time,
member of a11 tbe scientific societies,
In 18S4 he was appointed P^lent of the^
partment of pubhc parks of New \oih and
elected to congress that year.
London is full of unknown Americans seek-
ing to float bogus laud and other wildcat
companies.
_ . „ .
Ure ° ;.f eS '
Alleged Englishmen , with K an a cent , re-
vnth war nwis m flfp^nbLl tneii pov i.e^vere lounu
120 miles inside the Austrian frontier, and
can onlv explain by * saving * tbev were lost.—
"
Gbicago Tribune.
public some
instruction in art
matters he was
laughed at, as it
was considered im-
possible that the
u ofta shopkeeper
l !OU fl oro "
C»*l , mature capa-
bleoftompic en -
tho
J. 1 * r f ^ ° ^ 1^’ !* f
Paiuters » ’ vv ' ,c
appeared . l84o, ,
in
is now held to bo
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GENERAL FREMONT.
THE GREAT AMERICAN PATHFINDER
AND THE WORK OF HIS LIFE.
The Overland Wav from Sea to Sea—The
General’s Anti-Slavery Views—His ltec-
ord as a Soldier During the Civil War.
Mrs. Fremont.
Gen. John C. Fremont will be a figure in
history long after others now standing in tho
glare of popular interest shall have passed
nway. He was the first Republican candidate
for the presidency, and in days before the
O*
El MwJL
m pkJWy 1
general fuemont.
of his W career narrated with tho cliatm
of case and simplicity,
Gen. Fremont is known as the great
American pathfinder as well as a disUn-
pished soldier. \V hen quite young ho wen
to the South American coast. as teacher on
board a United States sloop of war. Ra¬
turning ho went as an assistant engineer of
the United States opographical corps for a
projected railway from Uiarieston to C l
cmnati, and later under the same commander
made a military reconnaissance of tho
Cherokee country in North Laioma,
nessco and Georgia. lio says: ‘The aeci-
dent of this employment curious ... y wgau
a period of > ears of like work for
mo among similar scenes, Here I found
the path which I was destined to walk.
Through many of the years to como the oecu-
Potion of my prime of life was te be among
S^A r £
l ass, and tho uriknoivn rp-ion be-
tween the Rocky mountains and the I acific
ocean that ho earned the name of the great
pathfinder. His book describes tae regions
traversed as they then were, when to cross tho
Rr.' ky mountains meant a long experience in
hunger, thirst, hardship, danger ami possible
death. His narratives of these expeditions
cover broad regions of country and half a cent¬
ury cf time. Millions of people now occupy
the ground where lio then encountered only
sviid animals and wild men. Out of these expe-
ilif ions came the seizure of California in 1846.
His iliird exploring party was merged >n a
battalion which did its part in wresting Cali¬
fornia from Mexico.
Gen. Fremont’s wife. Jessie Benton Fre¬
well known as a conti ibntor to
magazines, is the
daughter of the
famous Col. Bcu-
ton, whose sta'uj
in >'t. Louis bears
on its pedestal tho
prophetic words
which Fremont en¬
abled him to make
true, “ There is the
c;ist, there is
road to India.”
Among the
traits in Fremont's
book and hero r o-
produced, is one of
Thomas Jefferson,
copied from a copy of tho original by Gilbert
Stuart. It is given becauso Jefferson's in¬
tention to secure for his country the Asiatic
trade by an overland route across the conti¬
nent directly governed and colored the lives
of Fremont, his wife and Col. Benton, This
longheaded ness of Jefferson secured to us “tho
country from sea to sea—from tho Atlantic
to tho Pacific—and upon a breadth equal to
the length of the Mississippi, and embracing
the whole temperate zone.” Napoleon, fear¬
ing that the English would forcibly take the
French possessions in America, sold Louisi¬
ana to the United States for $15,000,000, a
sum less thau the revenue which has
since been collected on its soil in a single
month in time of great public periL Aecord-
ing to President Jefferson, Lousiana stretched
ns far to the northward as the Lalco of the
Woo»l:s; toward tho west as far as the
Rio Grande in the lower part, and in the up-
per part to the main chain of the mountains
dividing tho waters of tho Pacific from the
waters'of the Atlantic. The country thus ac-
quired today forms the states of Louisiana,
Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Minnesota, west of the Mississippi; Colorado,
„ 0f th of the Arkansas, besides the Indian
territory, and the territories of Dakota,
Wyoming and Montana, and it also secured
to us our possession of Oregon,
Fremont, after three exy^litions to
tho great west in a governmental c apac-
ity, resigned his commission as lieutenant
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THOMAS JEFFERSON.
them were driven to cannibalism. Ail of bis
animals and many of h’s men perished. He
finally discovered a icute which conducted
»ssiT£^ f ° r tbB T iU \u J be ,/ eSpfeCt, ! e
p m out drew the short term, ending March
4 ’ 1Rr 1&oL , Th». 1 e senate a remained remameu in m resaon <<-»'-ion but out
three weeks after the admission of Cahforua.
war he threw his
whole influence
against the exten¬
sion of slavery and
in favor of free
labor. Gen. Fre¬
mont has written
“Memoirs of My
Life,” and Bedford,
Clark & Co. have
just issued the first
volume of it. In
splendidly il-
lust rated and most
entertaining book
we find tho events
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MRS. FREMONT.
colonel, and in
1^48, started on a
fcurth expedition
at bis own expense,
Mith thirty-three
men and 120 mules
he made his way
through the coun¬
try of numerous
hostile Indian
tribes. His object
was to find a prac¬
ticable passage to
California. The
party encountered
horrible suffering,
and a of
During that time Fremont devoted himself to
the interests of the state ho represented. He
went to Europe and was received with dis¬
tinction Ly men eminent in letters and science.
Ho made another expedition 'to California
iu the fall of 1853, under governmental au¬
thority, enduring great hardships. This tinio
his party lived on horseflesh fifty days. After
his defeat in tho presidential contest of 1856
he again visited Europe, and when tho civil
war broke out be was made a major general
and assigned to the command of the western
district. Ho was relieved from Lis command
before many months for issuing an order
emancipating the slaves in his district. Three
months later be wa3 appointed commander of
the mountain district of Virginia, Kentucky
and Tennessee. He fought Gen. Jackson at
Cross Kej r s, in June. 1862, and soon after re¬
signed because he did not care to serve under
Pope, whom ho ranked. Ho took no further
part in tho war.
A small faction of Republicans, dissatisfied
with President Lincoln, met at Cleveland in
1861 and nominated Fremont for president
He accepted, likely but learning that the movement
was to prove insignificant, ho withdrew.
COQUELIN, THE FRENCH ACTOR,
Ho Is Soon Coming to This Country to
be Seen and Ileard.
Coquelin is to make his appearance in New
York in tho immediate future. Coquelin is
an actor from the Comedie Franca ise cele¬
brated in his own country to greatness, and
already in this to the point of being the sub¬
ject of seven magazine pages by Henry
James. One may read them through and
gather therefrom an idea that M. Coquelin is
no end of a figure in his profession, with a
repertory as long as the tail of a comet; but
as for getting any impression of tho man from
those seven pages, that is something nobody
can do, not even a Hindu adopt who goes
around in his astral body and finds out all
things.
Two things one can learn from Mr. James’
article, however. First, that he began to bo
educated in dramatic taste seventeen years
ago when he first saw Coquelin act. Second,
that Coquelin has a voice. It must bo a very
remarkable voice, because it isn’t sweet, but
it is extraordinarily clear, firm and ringing,
and seems to have a peculiar power to carry.
Mr. James says that as he wrote he seemed to
hear it ascend like a rocket (which goes up
with a long fizz-z-z, as everybody knows,)
to the great, hushed dome of the the¬
ater of tho Rue do Richelieu, and that
it then vibrated and lasbed tho air at a great
rate. It seemed to from some
mechanism still
moro scientific than
the human throat.
Surely a man
with a voice liko
that will bo an ob¬
ject of interest in
this country, no
matter what ho
says. NVe are all
much interested in
now inventions, and
some of us will be
greatly interested
i n fi n d i n g out
whether Coquelin
has put inside of
him a “mechanism more scientific than the
human throat.” If it should be discovered
that I 10 has ho will draw like a knockdown
between editors.
Coquelin, as lie is written about, is all art-
ist. If he is known to any one in the more
natural character of man and citizen, nobody
has said anything about it yet. In the begin¬
ning of his life ho was Benoit Constant Co¬
quelin; but he has dropped tho first name
and is simply Constant Coquelin now. He
was born on the 23d of January, 1841, at Bou-
logne-sur-mer, and his father was a respect¬
able baker. He is, then, 46 years old. Not
young as tho world rates age, and not old as
tho stago rates it. The land of the footlights
knows no old ago for its great people.
Genius can throttle Time, the enemy, and livo
to the last in an atmosphere of deathless
youth.
He laments that the beautiful art of the
actor is perishable—even more so than the
.painter’s. This ho calls the misfortune of his
craft, as it is cheated thereby of the supreme
consolation of unappreciated genius, the ap¬
peal to posterity. He says: “However, mis-
fortuno though it be, it is no degradation.
We are to be pitied for it, that is all. Love
us the more for it, dear, charitable public,
since you are at once our present and our
future, and our immortality dies with the
echo of your applause.”
M Coquelin has the sensible idea of genius,
too. He believes it is closely related to per¬
sistence and hard work, and that inspiration
is wrought out and not waited for. He saysi
“Nothing is more likely to produce inspira¬
tion than good, hard, preparatory work.” He
has carried out his theory; he has worked in¬
cessantly. He was admitted to the Comedie
Francaise when but 21 years of age, and be¬
came a societaire at 24, all of which meant
that ho had paid for these privileges in the
coin of eternal vigilance.
His claims to public homage, do not, it is
said, lie in the usual stock of famous actors.
He isn’t young, beautiful, or insinuating. It
is all a question of talent, of execution. He
doesn’t depend upon good looks, picturesque¬
ness of appearance, or splendid stage clothes.
He isn’t even romantic looking in any par¬
ticular. At first sight he seems formed only
for the broadest corned y.
Mr. Jatne3 says he is an image of success as
well as of resolution. It came to him the first
time he trod tho stage. He has yet to meet
defeat. He has an immense repertory, as
yell as a “telling” voice, and in the United
States ho will be likely to find plenty of elbow
room for both.
MME. ADELINA PATTI.
An Ananin Attempts Her Life and that
of John C. Flood.
In these days of dynamite ami cranks,
tell where next the combination
successfully as it did the other night in San
Francisco, p rQ „„:- f . 0 wDen . vPpn a a crann crank brouebt nrougm a a bomb to
tbo Grand opera house with the supposeil m-
teution of murleriqg Mme. I’atti at thfi close
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of the performance. The bomb exploded in
the hands of the assassin and what
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the past thirty years? A man must
have reached the superlative degree of cranki¬
ness to wish her voice silenced.
Though Adelina Maria Clotfinda Patti wna
born in Madrid, in 1S43, her family moved to
New York tho following year, It was there
that her early musical training v. a* received,
so she may bo claimed an an American. Her
brother-in-law was Maurice Strakosch, and it
was he who first brought her before tlio pub*
lie in New York, in 1859. She had sung in
concerts from the ago of 8. In 1SC1 she sang
in Italian opera in London, and immediately
won a success which has made her a prim©
favorito with tho English public since. In
1802 she captured tho Parisian hearts, and in
1870 sho visited Russia, and her voico so cap¬
tivated the emperor that he decorated her w ith
a title, and appointed her first singer at the im¬
perial court. In 1S6S Mine. Patti was married
to tho Marquis de Caux, but the noble was un¬
worthy of her, and they wero legally sep¬
arated.
Mme. Patti’s sister, Carlotta, is also gifted
with a beautiful voice. It is described as tho
highest soprano ever known, reaching to G
sharp in alt. Her powers of execution aro
also extraordinary, but owing to ft slight
lameness she has refrained from exhibiting
her talents on the stage and has confined them
to concerts.
Literature the Fashionable Fad*
Literature is the fashionable fad now, just
as art used to lie. The same women who, a
couple of seasons ago, wero going mad over
plaques and panels are now mooning their
afternoons away at literary classes or public
readings. The hric-a-brac craze has been
supplanted by a craze for books, and no
matter whether you have a spoonful of
brains or a bushel you must l ead the poets
and dash olF little things of your own now
and then, even if you have to copy them out
of the papers, in order to be in the swim.
A dreadful stir was created in what is
known as our literary society last week by
the appearance in Town Topics of a sarcastic
sketch called “Mrs. Turveydrop’s Reading
Class.” It purported to be a young lady’s
description of a meeting of a certain literary
circle which is just now enjoying great popu¬
larity. The subject was freely and caustic¬
ally handled, and under the names that
figured in it the originals were readily identi¬
fied. The humbug of these flimsy affairs was
adroitly and mercilessly stabbed by tho satir¬
ist’s keen jien, and the paper, which has won a
place of polite consideration and dread with
society for its merciless mockery of its foibles,
experienced an active boom in upper tendom.
The result is said to have been the dissolution
of several minor reading classes and the sta¬
tioning of sentries at the door of tho ono
specially singled out for ridicule, in order to
make sure that none of tho non-elect shall
enter.—New York News.
First Instance of Co-education.
Cushman K. Davis, the new senator from
Minnesota, attended Carroll college, an in¬
cipient seat of learning at Waukesha, Wis.
Carroll college is now a thing of the past, but
it once promised to be a large and famous
school. It was the first notable instance of
co-oducation in the United States. The plan
worked well there. Tho girls did the cooking
and the boys furnished the meat and gro¬
ceries, and if the good friends of the institu¬
tion had been numerous and rich enough to
provide salaries for the professors, the exper¬
iment might by this time have become one of
the marveLs of w estern civilization.—Detroit
Free Press.
Lorenzo Dow’s Novel Text.
Something like sixty years ago there ap¬
peared in Boston an eccentric character
named Lorenzo Dow. He professed to be a
preacher in regular calling, but he was
claimed by no denomination, although he
rather favored the Methodist persuasion. He
was a man of peculiar personal appearance,
very rough in speech, yet possessed of much
originality. On one occasion he was invited
to fill the pulpit of a Methodist church at
the North End, when, after surveying bia
audience quietly for a few moments, he an¬
nounced as his text the words: u lop Not,
Com o Down!” il Ls listeners were much
astonished at his text, and still more at his
sermon, which was a tirade against the pre¬
vailing fashion of gathering the hair into a
high knot on the top of the head. After the
sermon , quite a number of tbe principal
members came to him, saying: “Mr. Dow,
we thought you preached from the Bible,
and there are no such words in the book.*
He answered : “Please look at Matt, xxiv, 17,
‘Let him which is in tbe housetop not come
down.’”—Boston Budget.
Fate of Ex-Ballet Dancers.
Here let me remark that there is no other
class of artists in the world that so soon lose
every gift and grace of their profession as do
the ex-ballet dancers. I have seen aged sing-
ers whose method still lent their singing a
potent charm when the voice itself bad well
actr&ses nigh wholly departed, and elderly actors and
that preserved when reading or re¬
citing the grand art of their prime. But the
famous dancer ought to die, hke the butter¬
flies, when the summer day of her grace and
youth are at an end. Some months ago
Mme. Cerito was pointed out to me at a
morning concert—a fat, crippled old woman,
with her face distorted by the effects of a fall
from her carriage some year* ago, and with¬
out one the vestige left of the radiant sylph who
was latest to maintain the poetic tradi¬
tions of the ballet as created by Tagiioni and
Fanny Eilsler.—New York 3uu.
might have been a
terrible catas-
trophe. It was
Larned, after tho
badly mangled
crank was taken
into custody, that
lie had designs on
J. C. Flood's life r9
""ell ns on Patti's.
had been heard
to say during the
ncrformanco,
“Patti sings w ell to.
night, but she shall
never sing again.”
But why murder*
a woman who lias
brought joy and
pleasure to so many