Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 June 1889 — Page 6

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The Lady Guide at the French Expo, sition is Doing a Rushing Business.

LETTY LIND'S DANCING PETTI COATS IN DEMAND.

The Alpine-Handled Parasol as is Seen on tlie Promenade in. New York.

One of the new and interesting eights to be seen upon the outgoing European steamers which are leaving now three times a week crammed to the very hatches with Americans on their way to the French exposition, is the lady guide, •says the New York World. She is doing a rushing business just at present, and earning enough to support herself during the dull season. The idea of having these lady guides was originated in Lon don, and has been introduced here of late with great success. Amid the crowd of voyagers and their friends iB to be seen every now and then a party of women and chil dren, or single women, traveling alone or in pairs, who arrive upon the pier in cabs which are met by a business-like-looking person who opens the door, helps out the occupants, sees that their satchels, shawls and parcels, their fruit, candy and flowers are stored in their state-rooms, that they themselves are made familiar with the direction of their sleeping apartments, their steamer chairs 'hunted up and placed for them, and, if they have no friends or relatives to do it, this capable female stands on the deck and waves her handkerchief to them as they move away and gives them the satisfaction of seeing some one look regretful over their departure. This is the lady guide, and she is the joy of helpless females traveling alone. Those who are on their way to the other side without some male companion to look after them are particularly grateful for her services. Details having been arranged beforehand by letter, she meets at the station the incoming train from Portland, San Francisco, New .Orleans,or even Podunk, as the case may be, and the women unacustomed to traveling or to taking care of themselves while traveling, who are sitting helplessly in their seats not knowing quite what to do, are ready to fall into her arms when thiB trim, energetic female sweeps in upon the scene, carries them off to awaiting coupe, looks after their baggagechecks, deposits them at a hotel, shows 'them their passage already 'booked on a European steamer, aids them in whatever shopping is necessary as a preparation for the voyage, selects the best Bteamer chairs and the most useful wraps and rugs, has a carriage at the door at the appointed hour and meets them when they Btep out upon the pier, and leads them to their state-room, where they find all their belongings carefully arranged and the stewardess properly tipped and prepared to show them every attention. Then she leaves them with

where if they have not friends of their own to look after them, an agent of the London lady guides meets them in Liverpool and passes them on their way, always looked after and relieved from all worry and trouble. One guide can look after half a dozen people at once, and when the City of Rome

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Wednesday one of these guides had under her charge, and safely started, Beven different parties of women.

Letty Lind and Sylvia Gray are leaving their dancing costumes behind them when they sail for home. There has been a great rush among the society girls for these relics of the London Gaiety's beautiful dancers. The dancers have added very materially to their earnings in America by the lessons given to society girls in all the big cities, and they have given away so many of their pstticoatB that they will have to lay in an entirely new supply when they reach London. Not that they very much mind being despoiled, for these are the costumes they provided when they started out to dance their way around the globe, and they have pretty well lost their freshness with all the hard work they have ieen in Australia and America. They were very pretty petticoats to begin with, however, and will serve nicely us models for new ones to be made upon. It was not necessary that they should make presents of tights with these petticoats, for the Gaiety dancers wear only long silk stockings, such as any one could buy in the shops, and this they claim is one of the causes of the perfect grace and ease of their movements, which are not hampered with the terrible tighlacing of the belt to which the tights must be fastened to keep smooth and in place. Their stockings aro held by the ordinary patent garter, which fastens to the corset, and over these are drawn on the first of the petticoats, which is simply a divided skirt covered up to the hips with many ruffles of Fottingham lace not the coarse

that one is accustomed to see in curtains, but the fine pretty edging made by the beat English lace workers. This reaches to the knee and so does the other petticoat which covers it, another mass of lace ruffles. The Gaiety women never dance in the ballet slipper without heels and soft soles that the coryphees affect They declare it is disfiguring to the prettiest foot in the world, and they incase their %own in the dantiest of high-heeled satin affairs with pointed toes, toee on which they never make the faintest attempt to stand, for their dancing includes no attempt to perform unnatural feats. With all the talk about the small feet of

Air. ""^N&ne, Letty Lind found that none (ten to whbm she gftve her petIjnake any use of her dancjch she was quite willing aer, as the whole comlemselvee with new iyc London. The ^rs usually buy al costumes, ^r disposed seeps it iphs

Ind., to visit reli Mrs. J. W. Shaw and

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of Vinoennee, spent the Ball on Thursday. "TV Mrs. Johnwra and Miae Wells have re-f

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handsome theatrical wardrobe, and so has Miss de Wolfe, who gets her costumes from Worth. Virginia Dreher gave all her stage wardrobe to her actress friends when she was married, as her husband wished her to leave all reminiscence of the stage behind her when he took her to England. Ada Behan has a sister who is an actress, and to her she gives her costumes after they have finished their career in New York, and the sister appears in them the next season in the smaller towns.

Mrs. R. M. G. Brown, who is the wife of the lieutenant of Samoan fame, and daughter of General H. G. Davis, has been staying at the Fifth Avenue hotel for a few weeks pending the preparation of her summer wardrobe. The sudden distinction that has come upon her husband has in no way disturbed her, and she speaks of the affair and her family with great reserve. During the centennial celebration some friend presented her with an Alpine handled parasol, which article provoked so much comment as to the identity of its fair owner that Bhe was forced to sacrifice half the towering and ornate rod, but when she appeared, parasol in hand, for the drive or the promenade, heads were turned, eyee strained and but one inquiry voiced, Who is the lady with the ramrod parasol? Placed in a vertical position it was every inch as tall as broom, the metallic ball on the end of the handle reaching to the tip of her ear. Attached to a couple of silver pivots was a single loop of twisted cord with flying tassels, by means of which the parasol might be suspended from her arm, or worn quiver fashion at the side. With the wisdom of his craft the ingenious workman4iad provided for travel and here and there along the carved staff were ornamental screws, which being*removed, reduced the length to thirds. These La Tosca sun shades are quite the loftiest things that fashion has had to deal with in a century's time, and the danger of appearing feeble or mannish has brought them under the observation of artists in deportment. It iB easy enough to carry them open, but when there is no sun to coquet with, or along and circuitous round of interiors has to be made, a woman needs something more than ordinary grace to appear indifferently easy.

Mary Nevins Blaine walks about Washington square with one of those cloudpiercing parasols, and in order to surpass its height she has a trick of making the creeping plant on the brim of her chip hat change its nature and climb up and above the crown, adding from three to five inches to her stature. Talk about the happy-go-lucky life of an actress! Why, the ambitious young mother spent two weeks practicing between mirrors before she could carry herself and pomegranate and black silk parasol to suit the teacher from whom she is taking stage deportment. Another devotee of the staff-handled sunshade is Mrs. Potter, who captivated Chicago with her brown dress, brown .shoes, brown Cainsborough and brown parasol, \tdl as nearly the oolor of her golden hainas it is possible to have them, the trial of the now famous she took her constitutional avenue, and drove the envy and admiration by and off-hand manner

1. trem-bling pray'r Its fear ful load 3. this dread blight, Guide Thou my way

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Das Oebet des Busefertig

(SACKED SONG.)

3. Het-land,be tend zu [Dirflieh Mein Le bengleicht der fin-sternNacAt, DochDu hast Al les I. Dir mein JJerz lass wen den sich Ich fiel sehr tlef, fast hoff-nungs-los FieA' ich zerknirscht,vnd cres. dim.

1. let me come, dear Lord, "to Thee! So far I stray'd, so near dea-pair, My straggling soul In 3. sin-stain'dsoul would come to Thee My life seems black as hid-eousnight,CleanseThoumysoulfroin -I—

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8. Neu ge-macht, Und das Ver for' ne wie der-bracht, Ach Herr, zu Dir lass 1. zit ternd bios Bring ich zu Dir der La sten gross, Ach Herr, en Dir' last

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1. Lord, toThee! Its fear ful load to Thee would bear, O let me come, dear Lord, toThee! 3, Lord, to Thee! Guide Thou my way in Thy pure light, O let me come, dear Lord, toThee!

WITH THE J0VIALI0Y8TER

He In All Riglit at Thb Season—The Fallacy of the Popnlar Couplet.

"Am I taking my life into my own hands?" asked aNew York Mail and Express reporter,

he stood at a Fulton

market oyster stand devouring the lus cious bivalves as fast as the oysterman could open them. "It's the month of May, you know." "Young man," returned the oyster dealer with decision, "if people only knew it, from now on is the very best time to eat oysters. Folks leave them alone throughout the summer and start up again in September, when they're at their very poorest. "The reason of that is this. Throughout the cold of the winter the oyster Ties dormant he doesn't lose what little he gained in the fall, but he doesn't gain anything more. As the warmer days of spring come he starts in to feed. Now, the time for the spawning of the oyster is regulated by the warmth of the water. Roundabout here the water gets just right about the middle of June, and the spawning commences then. Now, having fed for several months just before the spawning, the oyster is in the primest and the best condition. Most people know nothing about thie. They don't eat oysters during the summer, just because of the old rhyme. Then there are others who know all about it, but have a violent dice against eating the

prej uspawn-

ing oyster. They devour the spawn or roe of a shad with the greatest relish, but that of an oyster you couldn't persuade 'em to eat. But within the last few years it has been discovered how to let a man eat his oysters in the middle of summer— and yet not those about to spawn. The way they do it is this: Afloat is made by joining loosely together a good many long planks, not taking any care to keep out the water. Other boards are fastened around the edges to form a sort of fence. This is towed down to the oyster beds, oysters taken off from them and thrown in. The float is then towed away to other waters. This process, as we oystermen Bay, 'washes out the spawn' and leaves the oyster large and in the finest possible condition. Oh, people make a great mistake in doing as they do." "Do you know how the old idea ever got started." "Well, I've been an oysterman pretty near sixty years. I was in the trade before the old Fulton market was'put up, and that was more than fifty years back. I remember how, somewhere about forty years ago, a law was passed for the city, and I don't think it's ever been repealed yet. It was that no oysters be sold in the summer months—on the same idea as the game laws, you know—so that the oyster beds shouldn't get all

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up. Now-a-days,

with the transplanting they have, there's no danger of that. But they used to be very strict about that old law. All during the summer the clerk of the market used to come peering around, keeping a lookout to catch somebody breaking the law. But oysters were sold behind the counters and on the sly, and the city officials found out that the best way of getting that law kept was making people believe that oysters were poisonous in the summer, and that was the way of it alL But nowadays folks don't believe so much offhand."

Trot Out Old 8carf-Pla.

The various sizes of aoarfs worn affords the man of many scarf-pins rare soope for the exploitation of hie

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CHAS. KUNKEL.

3. In gro ser Notk, auf mei nem Knit, JeM, I. Du Got'tc*Lamm,4ai?tarb JSr mfch, Zu Penitently.

-^4-/ rr-Tf-/J Thou Lamb of God who died'gt for me, O 3. With anguish wruuf on con-trite knee, My

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to Thee would bear, O. let me come, dear ., in Thy pure light, O let me come, dear

sions. It is permisaable to wear many of the out-of-date, large and showy designs—pins that have been shelved for many years—in the large folded soarfs that are the vogue at present.—[Clothier and Furnisher. ft 8WE1T PKAOJC IN LIFi.

How Mncli Happiness Can be Made by

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cious Manners.

Beauty hath its charms, but the charms of gracious manners far outweigh them, The manners that express a kindly, sympathetic heart, open to the influence of another personality as the flower to the sun, and as unconsciously giving back its own fragrance, area gift that far outshine physical graoes.

Who of us has not forgotten a plain face, says the Christian Union, or seen it grow beautiful under the witchery of beautiful manners, the expression of a well poiEed mind? Learning can be acquired, politeness may be cultivated, but manner is the expression of the nature, and brings the object to its own level, at least for the moment. Wego out from the presence of gentle manners at peace with the world. Some of us carry the ideal of perfect grace with us, aspiring but never reaching, saying with Petrarch: "I have once beheld on earth angelic manners and oeleatial charms, whose very remembrance is a delight and an infliction, since it makes all things else appear but a dream and shadow." Tennyson says: "Kind nature is beet," for he knew that offense could never come where the heart felt the brotherhood of man. What is rudeness but a disregard of another's rights? What is discourtesy .but a disregard for another's feelings? Who that loves his neighbor as himself ever gives offense? We think of culture as the highest form of the intellectual, but it is perfect only as the heart has kept pace with the head, and sees in its own development anew responsibility, a new debt to the world. Manners are the expression of our nature. Manners are nature politeness, veneering and he is a dullard who is not able to distinguish.

Let us lose tbe phrase, "Learn to be polite," and say rather, "Cultivate the heart and head that 'the stature of perfect man may be reached." True manner sees the limitations of another's temperament and opportunity, and leaves them untrammeled, knowing every man has his own code of morals and politeness, which only individusl development can change, feeling with Goethe: "We arrive beet at true toleration when we let pass individual peculiarities, whether of persons or peoplee, without quarreling with them holding fast, nevertheless, to the conviction that genuine excellence is distinguished by this mark, that it belongs to all mankind." Could we only hold fast to the thought of the divine in every man! Could weohly see that in acknowledging his right to his own nature, scarred or polished that in every act of oonoaasioU not involving principle it is "Jove nedding to Jove," how much social friction would be loet!

Bettor Halves Make Better Quarters.

An old bachelor, who was quite a wit, »lived alone in a very unoomfortablelooking place, and his apartments woe always in great disorder. "Why dont you get married?" said a friend one day.

Then you would have some one tofts up things here, and make it look homelike." "The fact is, I've never thought of it," said he, "but it does look reasonable that abetter heif would make better quartern"—[Rochester Herald.

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KYeS OF ANCIEMT MUMMIES.

The People of Peru Have Them Set in Gold and Wear Them as Ornaments.

A man called at the Phiadelphia Inquirer the other day with a handful of what looked like dull reddish-golden eyeballs. They were of various sizss. "Do you know what these are?" said he. "You will never guess, nor do I believe there are many persons who can tell you. They are taken from the mummies of the Incas of Peru. When I was stationed out there some years ago, when in the naval service, I got a whole lot of them. The mummies were thrown up and in some cases destroyed by seismic convulsions. Thsre are thousands of them about, particularly near Arequipa. These that I show you are tairen from the skulls and believed to be the real eyee of the Inoas, and are respected as such. The women wear them made up into necklace?, scarf pins, and other articles of jewelry. As a .matter of fact, however,, they are really the eyes of the octopus or devil fish. They are thoroughly desiccated or rather mummified by the air and were put in ages ago to take the place of the natural eyes, which the aborigines -found would not last in that climate, In having them set as apiece of jewelry you must be. very cautious. The workman in trimming them down must beware of getting any of the dust in any cut he may have. If he does so blood poisoning is sure to set in and the termination may very likely

"By the way," continued the ex-naval officer, "I'll tell you a queer thing that happened down there. I have no doubt you recollect the great tidal wave of about twenty years ago. The United States storeship Freedoms was sunk and the man-of-war Watertee lifted bodily and dep9sited several miles inland, crossing a railroad in its flight. Whsn it wss proposed to get her to the beach again the natives wanted such an exorbitant sum for cutting out about the railroad that the scheme was abandoned. Some time afterward another earthquake took place which lifted the Wateree bodily, carried her back over the railroad tracks, and deposited her on the beach. It was found, however, that her condition was such that it would not pay to do anything with her, so she was left to rot and be broken up by the inhabitants."

•/. A Novelty in Postage Stamps.

A novelty in postage stamps which will create a rage in tbe average collector, is announced by the legislature of New South Wales. Since postage stamps are eagerly bought up and exhibited in all parts of the world, the New South Welshmen perceive their utility for educational and advertising purposes. The two-penny

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2. Gott zu Dir Die SeeV in ih -rer Angst und Pein, Sic kommt *tt Dir, mein Qott, zu Dir.

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Lord, toThee, Withbleed-ing heart, in blind-ing tears, To Thee would come,dear Lord,to Thee.

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bear an engraving of an emu the fonrpenny is to have a vignette of Captain Cook the eight-penny will represent a lyre bird, and the shilling stamp will rejoice in a kangaroo.—[Cleveland Press

A Stake Through Her Bodr.

On the way from Brunswick to Harpswell is a point where four roads mast* Nature smiles on the spot, but it marks a uniquely eruel episode in the history of the New Eoglsnd colonists. In ITS! Ann Conner committed suicide in the old town of Brunswick. In aooordanoe with the old bine lawe ehewas buried at thisptaoe of tbe meeting ot the four roads, with a stake driven through her body. This is said to have been the only

tb. After the 2d sing the 3d Verse mthout an interlude to and finish with the CLOSE. CLOSE OF THIRD VEBSE. jt Adagio. 'i 3. Und das Ver lor' ne wie der-bracht,Ach.Herr. zu Dir Ims kom men mich! Herr, zu Dir.

Guide Thou my way in Thy pure light, O let me come, dear Lord, toThee! Lord, to Thee! Adagio.

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AcKwend^nieXtab den Ona-den-blickl FOr tolch ver-ruck-tes Le-ben met*

O turn not Thou way from me!

come toTbee, loath-some all my life ap-pears,

2. Trostjtn-det mar bet Dir al-lein Die 8eeT in ih-rtr Angst und Fein Sit kommt mu Dir, mein

My tor-tur'dsoul,'mid crushing fears,With bleeding heart, in blind Ing tears, ToTheewoukl oome.de&r

instance in which this old law was put into execution in this country.—[Lewiston Journal.

SECKBT8 09 THB TREA9UBY

Fortunes In Greenbacks lost and Hotting in the Government Vaults.

There is in the treasury vault a brown wooden box eighteen inches long, afoot wide, and eight inches deep, which contains paper money of the nominal value of several hundred thousand dollars. It is not worth a dollar, says a Washington correspondent of the Bas ton Herald. The queer thing about it is the manner in which it was collected. Every bit of it came from the dead letter office of the postoffice department. Some portion of it is counterfeit, but most of it was genuine money many years ago. The banks which issued it and the officers who signed it are gone and forgotten. It was all Bent over to the treasury department Bome years ago, and Assistant Treasurer Whelpley undertook to trace up the various banks and get as much as possible of it redeemed.

Occasionally he found descendants of some of these old bank offioials, themselves bankers, who were willing to redeem some of the notes for the sake of the signatures of their fathers, and in this way he succeeded in getting several hundred dollaro' worth of it redeemed. But of that remaining not a bill can be redeemed. A little of it is confederate money, but most of it is of banks, state and private, that went out of existence many years ago. The oldest notes are dated back as far as 1812. One package contained $51,000 and another 19,000. The mystery is how so much money could be lost in the mail. Neither the_ men who sent it nor the ones to whom it was sent could be found by the postoffice department, nor could Mr. Whelpley find any trace of them or their descendants. The 19,000 package was sent from Brandon, Miss., to Jackson, Miss., in 1840 and the letter accompanying it shows that it was sent in consequence of repeated demands. The most diligent Bearch fails to disoover the slightest trace of any such banking company as that at Brandon, Miss., which Issued the notes, most of which are of the $1,000 denomination. The notes are handsomely executed, as area large majority of those in the box.

Lord Bute's Fairy Mansion.

The largest and costliest private mansion in the world is that bslonging to Lord Bute, called "Montstuart," and situated rear Rothesay, England. It covers nearly two acres, is built in gothic style, the walla, turrets, and bale oniee are built of stone. The immense towsr in the center ot the building is 120 feet high, with a balcony around the top. The halls are constructed entirely of marble and alabaster all the rooms are flnithH in mahogany, rosewood, and walnut the fireplaoss are all carved marbles of antique design*- The exact cost of this fairy palace is not known, but it has never been eetimated at less than 88,000,000.

Cause and Effect.

"What's the matter?" the school-mis-tress asked. "Beck's sore, ma'am." "What made it swe?" "Pop pounded his thumb with tbe hatchet this morn in' and I laughed." [Epoch. ig-

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The Oldest Pair of Twins.

Samuel and John Wise, who are believed to be the oldest pair of twins in the United States, if not in the world, reached their 81st birthday yesterday. Both learned the undertaking and cabinet making business, and from 1828 to 1863 carried on that business at Main street and east Washington lane, Germantown. The site has been used continuously for that purpose Bince 1769. The two brothers resemble each other very closely, and even their relatives have got "Uncle Sammy" and "Uncle John" badly mixed up. Both are widowers, both were twice married, both have the same number of descendants and both are deaf. Their physical health is good, and they are two as jolly old gentlemen as one will meet in a days ride in a stage coach. It has only been within a few years that they have shown any signs of mental decay. Nither of them ever use tobacco or any strong stimulants. Many friends called to congratulate them yesterday.—[Philadelphia Press.

A Georgian's Snake Story.

Riley Bealey, of Chauncey.Ga., says that while on his way to Eastman to purchase a yoke of oxen he encountered a snake, the like of which has never been seen in this country. According to Bealey's estimate it was nine feet in length and six inches in diameter, and its skin was ornamented with a number of dark, diamond-shaped spots. Mr. Bealey took alight wood knot and approached the reptile, but before he got in throwing distance it suddenly reared itself in the air five feet, and with

flaming

eyes and

open mouth bid defiance. While in this attitude it uttered a half hissing and half grunting sound, and inflated^ itself to twice its natural size. At this exhibitien of defiance Mr. Bealey dropped his light wood knot and fled. He was

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overcome that he could hardly compose himaelf for some hours afterward. Mr. Bealey thinks the snake is of a species not known in this country, and has probably escaped from some traveling circus or menagerie.—[New York Sun.

Secretary Blaine's Vacation.

Secretary Blaine will take along vacation during July and August by his physician's orders, and by his own desire as well, as he is as well aware as anybody else that he iB physically badly shattered. He owns a fine houee at Bar(Harbor, and it is probable that the family •will go there towards the end of June or the beginning of July. Miss Hattie Blaine finishes her education next month. Young Jim left here a few days ago, and returned tothe maohineshop in Maine where he pretends to be learning a trade. The repairs on the Lafayette Square house which tbe Blaines are to occupy are well under way, and the family will be able to take possession early in the autumn, probably on their return from their summer jaunt.—-[St. Louis Republic's Washington letter.

Never Leaves Anything.

"Ah, ha," eaid Thomas Jefferson, glancing up from his Eagle, "accidents do not respect the property of great men, even. I see that last Monday the privatecar of Jay Qould left theside track." "Then," replied George Washington, who never uttered an untruth, "Jay was not in the car, else he would have taken the side traok along with him."—[Burdette.

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