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Advertising Rates. One Square* first insertion fl 00 Each subsequent insertion 50 Ten lines of Minion type constitute a sqtnre. All advertisements not contracted' ror vv.ll he charged a)*>ve rates. Advertisement* not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted wih be continued ■until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements be to occupy fixed places will Notice charged 25 per cent, above regular rates. in local column in inserted for five cents per line each insertion. solicited. Correspondence containing important news Address all correspondence to TIIE NEWS, Box 876. * Toccoa, Ga 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 \r: 'i s VI isTY’d i, s rj • /* i ! / i t -ST f ' & SPANISH GALLANT, 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 "*V^T V ' i : i.L / vJr / [gni 1 /, J • Knickerbocker BKAtb 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 &P ip§® m n H __ 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 y 9 • 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 _ * 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. _____■_. V^V ri ns \ \ Si ifi! mt mm H I W MOUERN LURE. f \ Si \ r. mss davis. 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 5/■ 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 ^ P ^ ; 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 . * , • 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 p;. m*' R .M \. M '•<> \^ f \ fw \ \ ^ ^ E ^ BKRT L - viele. 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 7 / Wi § r 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 % ^ wi i Si .f? 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 NO. 28. 5 ' ■ j r . j n n ,S. * SSgSj % £5 M. COQUELIN. TOCCOA NEWS JOB OFFICE We are Prepared to Print LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, NOTE HEADS, STATEMENTS, CIRCULARS. LAND DEEDS, MORTGAGE NOTES. MARRIAGE LICENSE, &C. of the performance. The bomb exploded in the hands of the assassin and what ¥ V 3* f?' im a MME. TATTI. 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