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THE WEEKLYTELEGRAPH-.1TUBSDA Y DECEMBER 18. 1888-TWELVE PAGES.
i-r TT^ A V THTTTlVra^ o returned to us again. We have banished
X tl W i it, to art galleries for years, but this Christ-
first Pickings From tlie
Christmas Trees.
QUEER THINC3 AND FINE THINGS.
Mourning Umbrella and tlie Matinee
* girl's Purse—'Trifloa Which the
Christmas Worker Can Make
at Home.
Special Corresponueuce.
Hew York, Dec. G.—The latest thing in
nurses is adapted to cash and candy. It
recognises the two wants of tho pretty
oirls It brings together, so to speak, the
end and means, sweets and the where
withal to buy sweets. It is a round silver
pon-bon box with the pretty girl’s mono
gram engraved atop and the meshes of
her change purse hanging in a silver net
work below. It makes tho pretty girl in
dependent of the world. It is a comical
little, absurd little purse, devised with an
eye to your foibles, you daintily gloved,
daintily shod, fresh cheeked, chattering,
candy-loving matinee girl,
Christmas is coming and Christmas
novelties are to tlie fore. One of tlie
newest things is tlie mourning um-
b.ella. These aro the days when
one matches, matches from top to toe.
Would the tall Pompadour crook in silver,
bright silver, set with pearls very proba
bly* would such aH umbrella comport
with crape, think you? The mourning
umbrella is just as tall, it touches your
shoulder, reaching the full bight of the
style. It fa just as Louis Quinze, for if
there are any women who aro particular
about their dress appurtenances they are
women who are in mourning. It is just as
bright as tho silver, but its brightness is a
dusky gleam. The stick of the mourning
umbrella is studded its full length with
the coaly specks of dull and shining jet
beads.
After Christmas the young girl will
wear a new sort of chatelaine. It is a
chatelaine of ribbons, grandmother used to
wear it, and of a snowy afternoon in win
ter when a caller comes to the fireside it
will give the young girl a charmingly do
mestic air. It is meant for a house gown
accessory, a bit of picturesqueness, for dec-
srative effect only, though it may be put
to its old time uses if any young girl
should be so prosaically minded as to
think on plain sewing. It should match
the house gown in color and be fastened to
the belt. It has five long pendants of
inch-wide ribbon, painted with birds or
butterflies, feather stitched with floss or
left plain. Sci&surs a eight One etreaulcr,
nee llebook hangs from one, pinball from a
third. An English walnut makes* nest
for the thimble at the end of tho fourth
ribbon, and dress artists differ as to what
should go upon the fifth. ,
Silver lias had its innings. Silver and
irorv is enjoying its turn. The silver
back'ed combs ami brushes and hand mi
rors, which suggested last winter the de
sirability of attending to its toilet to every
bowed down and unkempt Christmas tree,
are no longer the favorites as against the
field. Long odds may be laid on ivory—
white ivory or, belter yet, yellow ivory
veined with brown—carved as only Chi
nese know iiow to cat ii, nnu iwiiiKil it
an open-work frame of wrought silver or
silver filagree. An ivory comb, with such
a silver casing, has the oddest effect imag
inable, and the oddity is what takes.
Hand mirrors are somAimes gotten up
elaborately, with handle of ivory carved
with a pattern of daisies, and a handful of
daisies in enamel, instead of silver, joined
by the tips of tlie petals, crossing the
ivory back.
when one gives one’s pictures to one’s
best yonng man one gives him, not a pho
tograph, but a pastel. The colorless pre
sentments of tho sun pictures, so unfaith
ful since the progress of “retouching,” are
banished in the days or months of ro
mance, making place for delicate, poetic
laces rising out of soft gmy mists with
tender, shining eyes. If the young man
appreciates the portrait he is supposed to
set it in a frame of ivory cut into the
semblance of n wreath of flowers before
he expows it to view upon his desk.
Ivory picked out with gold is prettier,
ivory and silver go very well. A jeweled
frame of enameled flowers—lilies of the
valley rosebuds, Parma violets—corre
sponding to the tloral image under which
he pictures his inamorata, is the finest and
the costliest of all.
If it is the heat young man who has
given Iiis portrait to the pretty girl she
does not frame, it to stand upon her desk
st all. That , is no longer the way. She
encircles it with an oval rim of gold and
hangs it about her neck by a ribbon, not
m sight, mind you, in tlie good old love
making way.
Providence is kind to tlie woman who
petaiats in carrying her poeketbook in her
hand. Tlie immense wallets of leather a
THE SEASON'S NEW DANCES.
foot long have disappeared. Mew wallets
for winter promenading should be nearly
square and quite small. It still does
to present one with a tiny watch in
the corner, but the latest wrinkle
is a very small vinaigrette, fiat
*n shape and inserted in a ailver
medallion at the top, lor use in a malodo
rous horse-car, or, possibly, to cover one’s
grief or surprise at the cost of goods. A
poeketbook for the queen of one’s heart is
heart shr.pei], covered with chamois skin
pa.used u tsii m nig in of swallows, the
birds of good omen. It might be taken to
typify, however, the' modem connection
between love and money. A few of the
latest caah keepers are disguised as small,
daintily bound books to put the cash
snatcher off bin guarJ. They say that
Ella Wheeler Wilcox csrried the first of
these greenback volume', laughingly call
ing herself a woman of literature. Ilers
was bound in g'It and embroidered with
rosea, and all of them so far have been be-
dighl most fancifully.
In holiday bric-a-brac one should re
member that bisque, which is always with
u*, changes Its coler. each year. All of
t' u season’s designs nre in very light
tornmostly i:i white and golil. The
dark-colored piece* are leftover from last
♦inter. Ili-quc just now adapts itself to
Loui, Quinze furnishings
shepherds and shepherd.—
and gallants masquerade bef
oils!v. lli-aue I rankly and i
mas we snail invite it home. We have not
liked its smooth, positive whiteness in the
half tint of our aesthetically furnished
rooms, but it is tlie very thing to stand out
boldly against pink, Clue and gilt that
smile from wall and ceiling now. Marble
busts, marble heads of maidens, marble
groups for pedestals, marble centre pieces
and even such small articles aR marble
paper weights will be the art fashion ere
long. Take tlie back seat, is what marble
says to bronze.
We have reached tlie jumping off place
in realism in the holiday ideas for picture
frames. A group of babies placing with
flowers is one of the new tilings in pastels.
The chubby faces and diaipled fingers are
very pretty tangled among the posies, but,
from admiring, one begins to wonder at
divers spots that look like finger marks on
tlie mat and the pale blue enamell d
frame. From wonder one proceeds to close
inspection and, behold, tho finger spots
have been purposely contrived. There
are the prints of the infantile hands over
and again repealed, as if to convey the
notion that the urchins had fallen foul of
their own frame.
Picture and Iramr, in all new designs,
are closely allied. Young America on the
diamond is squared in oak with a baseball
bat carved in one corner of tlie frame.
“Sheridan’s Charg." has a heavy o.k
frame with the Stars and Stripe3 in colors
enameled on one corner, a knapsack carved
in a second and drums, rifles and cannon
halls in the other two. A marine piece is
framed in chestnut, with a life belt carved
upon the frame and lettered with name of
the ship. Around it nre ropes, oars, boat
hooks and all manner of fishing parapher
nalia. An autumn landscape has falling
leaves carved and enameled in colors on iis
frame. A young girl’s figuao has flutter
ing butterflies on the wood about it.
Pictures for white and gold parlors are
framed in delicato enamels or, less expen
sively, in painted woods. A sea view so
treated will have a frame of
pale whitish green where it abuts
on tlie picture, deepening
deep sea blue farther away. “Hope,” a
beautiful girl gathering apple blossoms, is
framed in pink enamel. The branches of
the tree are continued upon tlie frame,
making that an integral part of the pic
ture. The girl’s dress also flatters out of
the svater<*.color and upon the frame.
Around the inner frame is an outer one,
also enameled, and so carved under the
enamel as to represent a frill of
pink satin tied with pink ribbon
bows. Facet of girls and children
are almost invariably framed, as it
were, in lace or ribbon. A whim in fram
ing partially covers the oak or chestnut
which encloses a rustic scene with birch
bark. The silvery tissue is gathered just
as it comes "from the tree and
fastened irregularly, as fancy choses,
making an inner frame as country-like as
Luo luctuiG »t surrounds.
When the holidgy designer is at sore loss
which way to turn she invents a new
sachet case. It wouldjbe cruel indeed to
tell the pretty maid that tlie dear man ap
plies the irreverent term jinks to all such
dainty inutilities, and s.o,for lack of wr -n-
ing, slic will apply her pretty fingers to
seOi of four with which to bewilder him
ibis Christmas. One is forcravats, orefor
handkerchiefs, one for gloves, and one—I
beg its pardon, this one hasn’t any sachet
powder in it—for amateur photographs.
These new cases are of chamois skin, lined
with tliequilted satin which onchuysat the
stores. They are painted on tlie outside
with as humorous uesigua ns the amateur
brush is equal to. ’I he dear uian wrestling
with his collar, fighting with tight gloves,
chased by a savage dog when ho thought
to get a fine shot with a detective camera,
these and such like subjects enable tlie
pretty maid to sharpen her wits on tlie
dear man.
Another court of last appeal when one's
brain goes wandering is tlie cushion.
There is a fine field for cushions just now.
The foot cushion seems to he thought the
correct thing to stumble over in our half-
lighted parlors. Certainly it is less dan
gerous than the ottoman. Tlie foot cushion
is big and soft and puffy. It is covered
with brocatelle or lampas or old brocade.
Aou may mahe it of velvet is you like and
embroider it. Another chance for the
cushion appears with the huge iron-bound
oak chests whicli people arc falling into
the wav of having in their halls. These
have led to quite. a development of
cushions, long cushions which you em
broider in sober colored, conventional pat
terns and which you knot with fringe at
both ends.
A trifle which costs nothing and is pretty
is a big. round cart wheel of a b'ue silk pin
ball. It has ribbon bows on the flat sides
and it is hung up by long loops of ribbon.
The pins are left standing in a projecting
circle about the edge, suggesting if you
did it in yellow, instead of blue, a sun
flower. It is meant to hang conveniently
in one’s chamber.
And those bottles, those glass and crys
tal battles, which you have been so many
years swaddling rn fringed silk baby
clothes to stand on bureaus nml dressing
tables. Don’t do it any more. If you
must give somebody a toilet set, pai .t
ferns I.r f..r^i t-HH -ii.it- <.r .h. r on
the glass itself and then let it go hare.
Embroidered bcoks arc the latest of ar
tistic trifles. Hook embr. idery is sn old
art newly revived. Impatience with plain
covers for our library is one of the devel
opments of tlie I’ompadour craze. Velvet
is the material, velvet almost exclusively,
and the nattern chosen is spread upon it
with gold and silver thre.-d. A mono
gram or something as simple is appro
priate for a small volume, something more
aaitiitions lor a lolio. Toe art is one re
quiring care and nicety, hut it is not of
especial difficulty. Two essentials are to
work with perfect smoothness aud to leave
sufficient margin to make tlie binder’s task
an easy one when jrou send your cover to
be filled to the holiday Yolume.
Pretty things te embroider are hands of
linen or velvet for the housekeeper to
fasten about her fine naperv. These, also,
are given in acts, two hands for each of
the prized varieties in the linen drawer.
And so good luck to the Christmas shop
ping. Eliza Putnam Heaton.
Some of theTerpsIcliorenii Novelties Which
Chicane Will Indulge In. '
Now there are dozens of dancing mas
ters in Chicago who aro in the business of
breeding new dances, but the trouble witli
them is that the public does not tire of
THE EMPRESS KI CKMK.
BocrHiiry I lay art! Will Rent.
From tb.* Philadelphia Timet.
It pr.ibj!'!.' that Mi" Nelli.* Hi
the youngest daughter of the premier
not make her debut in Washiogtor
winter. It is hecretaiy Bayard’s inti
Ari uiian I to close his residence at Washington
urt ladies! March I, and return to his family .
us joal- at Wilmington. His present plan
Unhingly I take ;l r <-i from a long
the old ones quick enough. There are
brain capitalists, whose chateaus are by
the north river that the world will never
hear of, whose poetic foot fancies would
captivate a thousand Herod’s courts, aye,
even if eacli courtier were squint-eyed.
Who that affects allegiance to the lovely
Terpsichore has not heard of the dreamful
“La Bute,” or of the rapturous Spanish
fandango, “El Vafclla?”
A reporter for the Chicago Inter Ocean
sought to gain a point or so about the
season that was just commenced, and
called on Prof. Augustus E. Bourmique,
who, after needlessly enjoining the re
porter not to burlesque the subject, said:
“I am a dancing master, taking pride in
my art—for so I consider it—and an one
of seventy-five members of the American
Society of Professors of Dancing. We
draw from the inventiveness of this society
for whatever novelties the season may
iroduce, jealously guarding against the
ntroduction into polite society of any
thing in the way of a dance that would
offend good taste. This is a cardinal prin
ciple with the society. Thus we have
standard dances uniformly executed
throughout the country. The last conven
tion of tlie society was held in New York
in September. I am an examiner in the
society, which by the way, is composed of
the best teachers in the country.”
“An examiner? Pray explain.”
“Well, you see, it would not do to ad
mit everyone who rented a room and
called himself a master; so, to protect
ourselves and elevate our profession, it
was deemed requisite that an examination
be passed by the aspirant to membership.
This test !r a fixed quantity; each candi
date must measure up to it, or else we re
ject him. He must not only be an accom
plished dancer himself, but’he must pos
sess the faculty of imparting grace in the
matter of deportment to others. Now,
when you consider that there are five or
six thousand reputable dancing masters in
the states, you will judge by the paucity
of our numbers in tlie society that the
general proficiency is very high. I men.
tion this in order that you may see that
the evolution of each season’s novelties
comes from a source that is standard and
thorough. Suppose a member of the
society has'a new dance lie desires to
make popular. He waits until the so
ciety meets, outlines his novelty to its
members, illustrates it, and, if it is worthy
of adoption, it reaches the public in due
time. That is the manner in which new
dances are created. They are produced
simultaneously in all the large cities, and,
having tho.seal of approval set upon them,
so to speak, they readily become popular
is sscictv - that ir, society that is appreci
ative, and is cultured.”
“Name some novel dances tlin nre
in vogue this season.”
“The standard dances today are: : Tne
Diagonal Waltz,’ ‘The Reverse Glide,’ ‘The
Glide Polka,’ ‘The Four and Two Glide,’
‘The American Gavotte,’ ‘La Russc,’ ‘Th*
Military Schottlsclie,’‘The Galop Mazurka’
and‘The Berlin. 1 Of these ‘the Galop
Mazurka’ and ‘The Berlin’ are the two
new dances for this sea.on that society
recognizes. ‘Tlie Berlin is danced in
polka time, and *The Galop Mazurka’ is
danced in polk* mazurka time, ormazurk
music.
hey are extremely pretty. Ofe, no, -
cannot sketch them for you, because that
would rob them of their novelty and make
them common. I have introduced both of
them here in Chicago, and they are popu
lar alreadv. Then there is ‘The Yorke,’
which is danced to mazurka or polka re-
dowa time—they are about the tame
thing.”
GROWTH Of Tilt: SOOTH.
Rotative Increase or iiie Iflectorat Vote of
tlie sections.
From the New Orleans Tlrnea-Dcmoeriit.
ll m certain that the ."'.null, m the ; rec
ent decade, has grown much faster than
New England, tuan the Middle states, or
than what are known as the Western
states. Any material increase that has
taken place north of the Ohio eiver is re
stricted to the Northwest; whereas, in this
section, every state has grown, kept up the
average rate of increase for the union ; if
not exceeded it.
What was tho experience of eight years
ago when the census was takent
Electoral Vote.
1870. lsaJ. Incr.ase.
South................ tils 1d3 IS
North at 2M 17
Tout • r Tu n
The South increased its electoral vote 11
per cent; the North, although it added a
new state (Colorado), but 7.3 per cent;
without Colorado only G per cent. The
South during the decade increased its pro
portion of the total vote from 37.-1 to 33
per cent. It was a surprise to many peo
ple on the ether side of Ijje Ohio co great
a surprise that they demanded a recount
in South Carolina, which vindicated the
census. Since 1S80, the South has hap
larger representation and more strength
in congrcssjand the electoral college than
ever before; and it will be the same story
after 2890, and in the presidential cam
paign two years later.
We have already pointed out that the
state censuses that have been lately taken,
and such other official figures as are at
hand) show that the South is growing
more rspidly than the rest of the union.
Even if Montana, Dakota and Washing
ton are admitted, the Nortli will not gain
votes on us, but will actually lose them,
•; is MA in tom T.lrin s Ik. .Wnn-t
vote, and allowing for the admission of
three new elates, tlie result will be thesame,
on the basis of the present apportionment.
1S80l IfJO.
Booth U3 150
North 248
Total 401 407
We are not surprised that some of the
Northern papers should he predicting %
less of votrs and strength to the South by
the next census—the wish her* is father
to the thought—hut we are surprised at
seeing Southern journal- indorsing so ab
surd an idea, disproved by tlie last centos
and by every information before them.
This section i- certainly growing more
rapidly today than it did previous to] be
18S0, for the present great Industrial d
EDISON’S WONDERS.
ASad-Hearted Woman Who Ilaa Outlived
nil Those She I.oved.
Parts better to Pittsburg Dispatch.
Four times have 1 seen tlie Empress
Eugenie. The first was n few months after
her marriage, when she occupied, with her
husband, the imperial box at the Comedje-
Francaise, exquisite to behold in white
silk and pearls, the famous pearls that had
formed tlie Emperor’s bridal gift. I shall
not soon forget tlie slender, swaying throat
rising from the statue-lovely shoulders with
the grace of a lily stalk, the golden-lighted
tresses, the large, almond-shaped blue
eyes, with that mysterious sadness in their
depths that one sees in the portraits of
Charles I, shading their azure brilliancy
and not to be chased away even by tlie
sunny sweetness of the smiling month.
Ten years later I again beheld the empress,
this time in full court dress at. a gala
representation at tho opera, blazing with
diamonds, with the peerless gem, the re
gent, surmounting the classic-shaped dia
dem that she neverworc since except at the
penalty of an agonizing headache, so great
was its weight. Her delicate, flower-like
beauty had developed and. expanded into
that of a well-ripened fruit, tlie rounded
arms and finely moulded shoulders dimp
ling out of glowing draperies of rich red
silk. She sat like a statue or like some
gem-bedecked Indian idol, so motionless
that her diamonds flamed; they did no)
flash or sparkle. Next I beheld her
scowled upon by the Parisian crowd at tlie
view in 1870, a tired-looking, elderly
woman, with tlie dainty charms of her
youth and the glowing graces of lier prime
replaced by all tlie artifices known to tlie
inventors of French costumes.
And then, a year or two ago, I passed,
.a the Place Vendome, a sorrowful lady,
clad in deep mourning, with silvery hair
and an infirm gait, who was in tlie act of
getting into her carriage, aiding herself
with a cane as she did so. There was no
mistaking the sad sweetness of tlie ex
pression or the still inimitably graceful
carriage of the head and shoulders. It
was tlie ex-empress passing througli Paris
on her way to one »f tlie continental
watering-places.
Her health is good, with the exception
of tlie rheumatic aflection that has troubled
her for years, and that impels her to seek
annually the counsels and care of one of
the great physicians of Amsterdam. She
is wealthy, and in growing old sho has
grown penurious, so that her heirs, the
children of her sister, the Duchess of Alba,
will probably inherit one day an immense
fortune.
Like a ghost of the vanished empire that
gave her grandeur, and to whicli sho
imparted grace and charm, she flits from
one health-giving place of public resort to
another, alone on eartli with her memories
and her sorrows. She has survived all
those whom she loved—husband, son
mother and sister. Dead, too, are her
Tlie Mutest Extraordinary Performance of
the Phonograph.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Arion Kinging Society of Newark,
held a rehearsal a! Tlioma” A. Edison’s
West Orange laboratory yesterday after
noon and sang to the phonograph. Be-
lund tlie conductor, Frank Van der
Stricken, were three big funnels, respec
tively 19, 9 and 6 feet long, leading to as
many phonographs. Mr. Wangemann and
three other assistants adjusted the instru
ment", Mr. Edison being only a spectator
and listener. The phonographs, by inean3
of branched car tubes, repeated tho con-
liopes and her ambition-; they have van
ished like her world-rcr.uwned beauty, like
her quecnshii), like her long-hoped-for and
joyow-ly hailed uialeri ity. Often in the
watches of the night a storm of grief will
scatter the calmness of her resignation to
the winds, and she will sit for hours weep
ing before the portrait of the late prince
imperial.
SHE WAS nmlasll IN lTIKSIFK.
cert afterwards to 150 people “in blocks of
five.” This was the first experiment with
so large a chorus (sixty-live men), and the
result was very satisfactory. The vocal
parts were reproduced very distinctly in
deed, and every efiect of light and shade
seemed as cflective as when given under
Mr. Van der Stucken’s direction.
Ever since tlie more or less “perfected”
phonograph was given to the world last
spring, experiments have been kept up at
the laboratory. A substance more durable
than wax lias been found for tlie record
cylinders. Now the instrument is so sen
sitive that any gasp or yawn is recorded.
It will distinguish between the breathing
of a healthy man or a consumptive, and
record the beating of the heart. Oae of the
little wax cylinders details an interview
between two lovers, and persons of experi
ence said yesterday that the kisses wero
reproduced with tantalizing accuracy
and fervor. The instrument was
taken to a Thomas concert the
other night, and now one may hear
an entire concerto (with Joseffy at tlie
piano). Fossiblo facilities arc thus afforded
for stealing a new opera or for transmit
ting instructions as to the interpretation
of music and dialogue. Already Miss
Farren and Mr. Leslie, of the London
Gaiety troupe, have sung special songs to
thp instrument and the “phonograms”
have been mailed to the manager of the
London theater at his suggestion. The
ear tube is not nil indispensable adjunct to
the phonograph. The sound is trans
mitted througli a twelve-inch funnel so
loudly that a grand piano may be played
in duet with it. It provided music for a
private dancing party in London not long
ago. '
Tiro Royal Widows.
From the LondonStanilard.
Few more pathetic scenes have ever
been recorded in history, whether in pub
lic or in private life, than the meeting
whicu takes place today between the
Queen and her daughter, the Empress Vic
toria. Each .wears the garb and knows
the grief of widowhood. Each had for
consort a man of exceptional gifts and al
most unique virtues. One has long held,
the other for a brief while occupied, a
great and conspicuous throne. The sor
row of tlie widowed mother is of long
standing; the sorrow ef the widowed
daughter is still fresh. In many point*
there is a striking similarity between the
lot of parent and child. In one supreme
respect may lie found a great and striking
contrast. There never was a happier mar
ried life than that of the sovereign of these
islands, and if we are to look for some
copy and reproduction of it we must look
to tlie married life of tlie Princess Victo
ria and the Crown Prince of Prussia. It-
is only natural that the deep domestic
wound from which her Mayesty has suf
fered since she lost her wise and noble
husband, and which has been so long in
healing even partially, should be reopened
by the trying ordeal which lias to he gone
through today.
Manual nml Tcclinlcnl Training In Swedish
Schools.
From the rhlladclplilaTimas.
As regards education it took a very
practical turn in Sweden twenty-five or
more years ago, and what other' nations
have been considering and experimenting
upon tiie thinkers and educators of this
country have already found cut by ex
perience. Take, say, manual training in
the public schools. It is safe to assert
that nowhere else than in Sweden are edu
cators agreed as to what relation manual
training, or sloyd, shall hear to the
schools. As n means of fitting hoys for
the duties of life by teaching -them ths
elements, of trades, this idea lias been
abandoned long ago as quite impractica-
ble.
As for technical training, there isn’t a
town or city in Sweden that doesn’t boast
one zchool, and in some places there are
more than one. Stockholm lias two
technical schools that will rank with the
best in Europe. At one of theoe tlie
average daily attendance is 1,000.
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Ttxe Thrilling Adventure of a Saleswoman
In an F Street Store.
From the Washington Shir.
“You nee that her hair hasn’t turned
white.” That was a remark made to a
Star reporter at the store occupied by Mrs.
gjitsFinu) MIb Lanman, at. P."l F
street, this morning. The speaker ran her
hand lovingly through the Bliort, wavy,
brown hair of a pretty, rosy-faceu
girl, who stood heliind the coun
ter. It should he s’ateil that
tho speaker was a woman. A
Star reporter liad.droppcd in to ask about
an adventure which the rosy.faced girl
had last evening. She was locked up by
accident in a vault with a combination
lock last evening, and nobody around had
the combination. The story as learned by
the Star reporter, was as follows: There
is a fafe vault in the rear of the store
about 8 feet square. List evening
about 5:30 o’clock, as tlie preparations
were being made to close tno store,
tho clerk in question went into
tlie vault to put away sorao articles. An
other clerk passing by and not knowing
that the young woman was in the vault,
closed the door and turned the knob whicli
set the combination. Tiicn it was discov
ered that the youngwoman was locked up,
and there was consternation in tlie store.
Mrs. Slater had known tlie combination,
but in the excitement of tlie moment it
escaped her mind entirely. She applied to
her Lolsette system in vain. The open
sesame would not come. Meanwhile
the young woman inside tlie vault
was rnpidly breathing tip the few cubic
yards of air at her disposal. Her com
panions outside were fobbing and calling
upon her not to die right away. It was a
question whether to engage a"self-burglar
or to wait until Mr. ltoinaine, who rents a
portion of the vault, and who has the
combination, coaldfbe found. Messengers
dispatched for Mr. Romnine fai ed to find
tun. At last, when tlie friends of the young
woman were about to give up. Mr. (.’has.
E. Foster, the owner of the building, who
also had the combination, appeared. lie
opened tin-- .fe and the imprisoned girl
staggered out and fell into the arms of her
friend-*. She was locked up for m >re than
an hour, and was in danger of tuff nlion
when re!i--l (-ante. Mi-- l.eiim i., . ,, 1 ■.
morning that the girl’s courage and s’eadv
nerves had pulled her through all right,
■ad her hair'had not turned white, as is
usually theci-e in. urea of that kind
I-'oitml live
chrlitUrt Advocate.
Methodist preacher who
_ on heaven. The next
h going down town and he
veil thy members. This
preset er, and he (aid:
ached a good icrmon
. you never told me
am glad of
ing. I have
yonder. In
is a meinbe r of your
k in bed with fever; her
are side in the other
"t got a hit of c >al or
flour, or sugar, or any
11 go down town an l buy
worth of things,
and -end them up
Hl-.-j Custom of Kissing.
From the I-omloa Standard.
“ 'Tis certain,” writes Steele of kissing,
that “nature was its author, and that It
began with the first courtsliip.” Tracing
its history backward into bygone centur
ies, there is abundant cvidcnco to prove
that it is, of ail acts, aa universal aa it is
ancient, having been associated in most
countries witli various ceremonial riles
and customs. Thus, in early times, tlie
act of kissing was regarded os a sign of
homage or respect, and, in Homer, l’riam
■is represented kissing the hands of Achil
les when supplicating for the body of Hec
tor. Alluding to tlm nractirn in the old
Roman days, Disraeli, in his "Curiosities
of Literature,” remarks how “the great
respect paid to the tribunes, consuls, or
dictators obliged individuals to live witli
them in a more distant and respectful
manner; and, instead of embracing them
| as they did formerly, they considered
| themselves as fortunate if allowed to kis
their hands'. Under the_ emperors ki-sin
hands became an essential duty, even fo
the great themselves.” Like most social
customs, we find this one, under a variety
of forms, prevailing in other countries,
survivals oi whicli remain at the present
day. Some idea of tlie universality of tie
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prauitcv Swf w n-.-vi... ....... ..... ..
that in tiie literature of the past it is coil
stantly spoken of as an ordinary occur
rence of daily life. Thus, when Cav
endish, the well-known biographer of
Cardinal Wolsoy, happened to
visit a French nobleman At h
chateau^ the lady on entering the
room with her train of attendant maid
addressed him with these words: “For as
much as yo be an Englishman whoie cus
tom it is in your country to kiss all ladies
and gentlewomen without oflense, and
l although it be not io in this realm, yet
j will I 5« so bold to kiss yau, and so sliail
a*U trisl.lftna 19 Uv tllPflTlH wllPlvnf lie
Pope Loan Absiouiluiii L'uwi
From tho Pittsburg Post.
Like Napoleon, Leo XIII. doen a great
deal of work and takes very little sleep*
He rises at 6 in summer and G in winter.
Iiis toilet occupies a half hour, after which
he passes an hour in prayer and medita
tion os a preparation for mas?, which he
says every day in one of the private
chapels oi the Vatican. lie officiates at
the altar with exemplary devotion, and
there is an exceeding grace in all his
movements, whether in the sanctuary, in
his garden, in his library or when holding
public aifdience. A.t 8 o’clock the pope
his cafe an fail and - roll. Loe AH I
is one of the most abstemious of men, and
the entire expenses of his table do not
average more than $1 a day the whole
year round. It must he remembered that
the pope always takes his meals alone.
Itootli ami Itarrett to Part.
From tho New Orleans Times Democrat.
A member of Lawrence Barrett’s family
is authority for the statement that the fa
mous tragedian team will separate next
. Mr. Barrett is more ambitious
than Mr. Booth. The latter is not in
robust health, and he dislikes traveling,
lie wishes to put in his season in three or
T Ur
lio.
) lUw Jit CJLSC
_ my maidens.” By means whereof, tie
adds. “I kissed my lady and all her
maidens." As might be expected, the cus
tom did not find favor in the eyea of tho
conscientious moralists of the time, many
of whom denounced the fashion in no un
measured terms.
Mother of Peurl,
From the Boston Herald.
From a writer in La Nature it is learned
that mother of pearl is tho principal pro
duction of Tahiti; that this!* what atim-
nlates her commerce and gives rise to the
relative important exchanges whicli take
place in the far oO land of Occanica, and
that this is what attracts those vessels
which, fora century past, have been sail
ing among the desolate and wild island,
that make up the archipelagoes of
Taumotu, Gambler and Tuliuai. On ac
count of it* rarity, mother-of-pearl lias al
ways been an object of luxury. Before
navigators went to that part of the world
which is lost in the immensity of tlie
Pacific ocean, it was still rarer than it is
now; it had more value, perhaps, hut it
was assuredly neither more (ought for nor
more prized. At present it is much em
ployed in the manufacture of many objects,
and', like many other desirable materials,
new uses are being constantly found for it.
After ItUniurcW.
From the London Truth. _ v
Count Herbert Bismarck is absurdly de
scribed by the World as “perhaps the most
rising man of the dav in the field of
Euro|iean statecraft.” bo far is this from
being the case that I hear from a pere’.n
whole behind the —— -* II—1. 1. _.
Count Herbrrt’i days at the foreign olliee
are numbered, and that on the retiremrnt
of Prince Bismarck (which is certain to
take plica next spring) he will he prac
tically (helved by beiDg dispatched to
Iysndon as ambassador. The fact is that
Count Herbert, instead of being a man of
great political talent, is simply nothing
beyond 1 manly, agreeable German with
out bis father to guide him. Th
ri-ing man” In European politics is Count
Waldersee, who will be the de facto ruler
of the German Empire (in conjunction
with the Kaiser) before another year has
pawed.
Want I. th. Matter Hull
From the fit. Loot* Itcpubl
the Robert Elaemtre fallacy it that faith
i< a matter of knowledge; that with Intel
lecluol) ervon., at les-t, it is the hind
I'- is a very old fal-
licvcsSn going to the smalls? town,., where
there is the most money. Then again the
repertoire of plays in which the two actors
can appear together is very small, and
both arc pining more or !- -s lor freedom
and the cliancc to appear in varied roles,
Georg. Law's Costlj H|ir«s,
From a New York Correspondent.
George I/iw, the eccentric New York
millionaire, who created such excitement
rt Saratoga la-1 Miiamer by distributing
diamonds in a wholesale manner among
*,!;:- porting fraternity, has been at his old
trie k- mice more. Last Saturday he
stopped at the Hoffman House and deter
mined to repeat the diamond ]ierformatice.
Several thousand dollars’ worth of gifts
were disposed of in n very short time by
this remarkable character.
r uml George Fllol.
Herbert Mpe
From Life, Nov, 22.
Mr. Herbert Spencer ban derived j^reat
hie recent yUit to Mr. Grant,
bentu**.. *•— n - - ~
Allen, at Dorking, and ia now uuessj en
gaged with Iiis autobiography. It i» a
work which will he looked for witli lively
interest. One would be very pleased to heir
the other side of that Platonic* flirtation
with Gforge Eliot so vivaciously deHcribed
m the letters of the great moralist.
Something to be Tliitnkful For.
From the New York Herald.
\ou may abu.se Mr. iilaine a« much aa
y<* pb-.i-.’, but wi» ought t j be eternally
grtieiul there i.i only one of him. J«st
suppose for a tingle, awful moment that
he was a twin l (iadzooka, gentlemen.
A. Twilight ou the 31<iunt of Oliroa.
• ■ - ' ' M!h iiiUii.fr furl* d;
flit batteredahleld hung on the wall:
One great *tar walked the upper world
Alt purple rob* 4, iniUtely hull;
Some unseen rcapert gathered golden tihearoa
Aud heap* i the we*’.mott reach of burning
eavea:
ghtway unto thelrL.. ...
A captain with hi* band of men
Andimote bis poor, and well-nigh ilew,
.'iijrlug: “Hcute, ye poor! Behold the king thin
- . ;rth
delight ’
How begged they prone to ace, to hear!
But spake the captain angrily •
Ana drove them forth with sw<> <1 and fpear
And 8-hat the gate; and w hi p th** king parsed
through
Thefct lonely poor—they knew aot what to do
Lo, then t ioft-voiced itranger raid;
•‘Come ye with me a little pace,
I know where torches, gold and red.
• 11 r f i • • ... a place;
W;.‘ :« *■<•:.c *t*. i | « r: in;.- fi . t\.- re-tfut air
And men speak * arcc at . f«>r God is there.”
They peieed; they «aw agrfirtiTt hill.
••What kitg hath carp-: like to this?
What king bath music like the trill
Of crickets inid these alienees?
These perfumed tileno
lawn?
ilave of kn«
there lacy. The Komaa poet, tut.
brought yon I in tht afreet, propound* it b
jjipMk oi Mr I certainty that St will bounds
for a Bible. | explicit statement. “I have
rd malm, nod J bo a»y* at on# of the Intellec
t nttt Mid | the friend baa. “I in a li
before you ! one of the many,” he replies,
: e bill." j right to believe what he wii!
i vntor, 1 j wuboot rvzard to pride of in
n min it. a in « Wl r *: ’ . • : * r inu
i :tre !:*U
no relit
tual few
Ule wea
••Behold wh#t blentna
What benedictions in
These oUtc* lift their i
They turn their le
through.
vyoar beads! yn
p >r«:h of
• * m ddea kt
r turned, thor rn!-* :
in toe air
all oi these!_ _
gh.'p* of gold"