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ffHE AMUSEMENT EE VIEW. Fhe Various Attractions Which Will Be Presented During This Week. Bohn T. Raymond, C. W. Couldock, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Hart—The Dime Museum aud Zoo—Notes of the Stage. JOns T. RAYMOND AT THE GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. Mr. John. T. Raymond will begin an eneageBnf nt of three nights and one matinee, at Dickeon’s Grand Opera house on Monday evening. ‘The play will be “For Congress,” a political satire seen here last season, in which Mr. Raymond impersonates Gen. Josiah Limber, a product of Illinois, who has been a politician Bince he was thirteen years of age. When introduced in the play he is in search of a “dark horse." aud finds one in the person of Peter Wooley, an old man with plenty of money, but with little remaining wit and no political aspirations, who is ma 1 a candidate through the importunities of his widowed sister and the determination of Limber. When the returns come In, it is found that the rote is a tie, Wooley haviner voted against himself. As neither of the enforced want the office, they transfer their claims to Limber, who accepts unhesitatingly. This all affords abundant opportunity for ridicule, and a great deal of broad farce is humorously introduced. “For Congress” is anpouncod for the last time at the Wednesday matinee. “In Paradise” will be the bill for Tuesday evening, and the engagement ends Wednesday night with the immortal “Col. Mulfcerry Sellers.’' MR. AND MRS. TONY HART AT ENGMSH’S. Tony Hart, whose name has become famous the country over as a member of the celebrated partnership of Harrigau & Hart, and his wife, professionally known as Gertie Granville, will he at English’s the last three nights of the week in William Gill’s latest success, “Buttons.” Mr. Hart has no equal in his peculiar line of acting, and as he has not been seen in Indianapolis in many years will doubtless draw large audiences. The music is all new and especially arranged for them by Mr. W. L. Bowron, introducing peculiar characterizations, burlesque and operatic sketches and skits on the prevailing follies of the day. The company is first class, comprising the Boston queen of song, Miss Ada Cora Reed. The press comments give assurance that the lievj play “Buttons” is in every way worthy of Stbe artistic efforts of Mr. and Mrt. Hart. THE DIME MUSEUM. To-morrow afternoon and every night and afternoon during the week; George W. and W. J. with their popular and realistic drama, “The Gold King,” will appear at the .Dime Museum. “The Gold King” is not as sensational as the name indicates, but, on the contrary, is a play of more than ordinary merit, find the Messrs. Thompson have been remarkably successful in its production. It is full of stirring situations and incidents, but is clean and comparatively free from the usual gunpowder business in such plays. The leading lady in the company is Miss Lottie Forrest, an actress of ability and good reputation. An entire change ■will be made in the specialty people, and some of the best artists in tfhe business will appear. Lizzie Sturgeon, pedestrial piano performer, will be the only feature of last week’s curiosities retained. Nelton, the mouth-writer; Rose, the wild girl of Yucatan, and the giant family, father, mother and baby# will be the chief attractions in the lower hall. MR. COULDOCK IN “WILLOW COPSE.” Mr. Charles W. Couldock, tie veteran actor, whose Dunstan Kirke is better known and liked by theater goers than almost any other characterization on the stage, will play at the Grand the latter part of the week, in the standard comedy, “Willow Copse," which he has revived with great success, and in which he first made his reputation, as Luke Fielding. He is supported by Mr. A. S. Lipman, Miss Carrie Turner, Mr. end Mrs. Charles Wolcott, Miss Kate Tousey and other Madison square Theater people, under the management of Frank L. Bixby. This is an attraction that will be of particular interest to ©ld time theater goers, for it has all those elements which formerly so pleased them. AT THE NEW IRON ZOO. At the Zoo the attraction for the week will be the spectacular drama, “Satan’s Judgment,” by the Wbettony company. The scenery of the piece is said to be gorgeous. James R. Adams, the former circus clown, takes the leading part, and the other characters are taken by capable people. Notes of the Stage. There is no truth in the rumor that John Rogers “M. S- M. P.” is going to marry Queen ’Victoria. Thomas W. Keene, who by many is regarded gts the coming tragedian, will appear here shortly in “Macbeth" and “Richard III,” Edouin & Sanger’s “Bunch of Keys” company, with pretty Marietta Nash as the star, will play in Indianapolis shortly. Front. The new play “Lost,'’ with Dore Davidson as the star, is a strong success, the scenic effects being particularly new and striking. E. F. Thorne will disband his Heart and Handcuff company after this week. He will resume bis old part in the Black Flag company. Theodore Thomas’s grand orchestra of sixty .xrvnstcians and an excellent array of operatic talent will appear in Indianapolis during this month. Jerome Fidily’s “Weekly Squib” says of Stella llees, a well-knowp Indiapolis girl. “She is the coming Juliet. She is an American girl of great beauty.” There is a probability that Mrs. Leon Bailey, of this city, will become a member of tfie Lillian Russell Opera Company, which has made a decided hit Catherine Lewis was booked to appear at Englishs Tuesday and Wednesday next, but ©wing to a change in her route, she will not play here until February. Musels a more precious possession than goxitas John L. Sullivan, the Ajax of Boston, claims to have made $175,000 out of his exhibib:lions, of pure and unadulterated brutality. Marie Wainwnght will continue as leading lady of Lawrence Barrett’s company, although l>he desired to retire with Louis James, her husband, who resigned on account of a difference with Mr. Barrett Miss Helen Downey will opeu her season at the Lyceum Theater, New York, in November, in anew play by Bronson Howard, under the management of John liickaby and with Louis Ja<n*s as leading man. The Hanlon Brothers, William and George, have been in the cast of “Fantasma” all week at the Grand, under assumed names, and for the reason that they particularly desire to keep it secret, it is hereby given away. Miss Eloise Willard joined Gus Williams’s company last night, superseding Miss Morris as Betsy, the soubrette part Miss Willard has a good voice, is a pleasing little actress, and makes <jaite an acquisition to the company. Three “comedy" companies have ceased to bo fanny and gone up the flume. They are the “Bluff’ company, the “Excelsior Folly” company (George W. June’s) aud John Howson’s “Putting ©n Style,” which they are not doing now. The death of John McCullough is expected almost hourly. The physicians at the Bloomingdale Asylum say that he is liable to die at any time very suddenly. He has almost lost tne use ©f his lower limbs aud walks with great difficulty. Miss Ada Cora Reed, a principal member of Jlr. and Mrs. Tony Hart’s company, has lately been VBry ill, and was compelled to return to her home In Boston. She will rejoin the company beiw. Miss Roed comes of one of the best tamiin Boston. and is a niece of Congressman J?eed, of Maine. She has been studying abroad

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for some time, and is said to posaess a wonderful soprauo voice. Next season she will be a member of Mapleson’s Italian Opera Company. Being a great friend of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Hart, she travels with them this season, which is her first public appearance on the stage. The Willow Copse company is made up largely of Indianapolis performers. Mr. Frank L. Bixby is the manage* - , Mr. A1 S. Lipman. the leading man. and Miss Kate Tousey, the leading juvenile. The company, otherwise, is taken from the stock at the Madison-square Theater. John McCullough’s wardrobe is to be sold at auction as soon as the trustees of his estate shall have decided when to set the sale. A building is to be engaged in the vicinity of Twenty-sixth street and Broadway, and the entire wardrobe, which includes several hundred dresses, will be exhibited for a week before being auctioned off. Some of the personal costumes and trappings of McCullough himself are exceedingly rich and elegant. The lot of dresses includes complete costumes, armors and properties for the different tragedies in which McCullough used to star. A WAREHOUSE BURNED. Destruction of Bnrdsall’s Paint Warehouse Early This Morning. The frame warehouse adjoining the main building of Burdsall’s paint shops, South Pennsylvania street, was almost totally destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. An alarm from Box 57 was sounded at half past 1 o’clock, and was quickly succeeded by a second alarm from 63. The fire was discovered by the barkeeper in Moninger’s saloon, and before the alarm could be given the flames had spread until the entire structure, which is only a few feet in the rear of the main building, was in a blaze. In addition to the paints and material kept in the warehouse, a part of it was used as a stable, where the teams of the firm and a large quantity of hay and feed was stored. * The flames quickly spread to this part of the building, and before the fire department reached the sceue two mules and one horse had perished. The fire came near spreading to the main building, where the oils and paints were stored, but the firemen, by hard work, prevented this. The warehouse and its contents, however, could not be saved, and it is a total loss. A largo quantity of imported paints were kept in the building, and were destroyed, together with a valuable wagon, besides the burning of the mules and horse. The loss is estimated at aboist $3,000, which is, it is believed, covered by insurauce, but no definite information could be obtained this morning, as Mr. A. Burdsall, the senior partner, is in New York. The origin of the fire is not known, but it is supposed to have been due to spontaneous combustion. I. 0. 0. P. NOTEB. Metropolitan Encampment will meet to-mor-row night. The Sovereign Grand Lodge will meet in Boston next year. Indianapolis Lodge worked the initiatory degree on Friday night. Shelby Lodge, Sheibyville, had five petitions for membership last Monday night. S. P. Oyler, N. McCoy aud J. W. McQuiddy returned from Baltimore last Sunday. C. H. Randall, grand representative of California, spent several days in this efty during the past week. He left for home on Wednesday night Tho meeting of Fidelity Lodge, D. of R., last Monday night, was very enjoyable. The degree was conferred, and eleven petitions for membership received. The friends of Past Grand Sire Erie J. Leech will be pleased to know that he was able to be prese ni at the session of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, in improved health. The Past Grand Representatives’ Union elected the following officers at the recent session of the Union in Baltimore: Erie J. Leech, lowa, president; J. W. Smith, Connecticut, vice-president; and J, W. McQuiddy, Indiana, secretary. Anew encampment will be instituted at Sheibyville on the 15th inst. by Grand Patriarch Porter. The grand instructor has been requested by the grand patriarch to take charge of the floor work, and the staff of Metropolitan Encampment will be invited to assist the instructor. Forty-five candidates will be initiated, advanced and exalted. The order in North America now consists of 54 grand lodges, 44 grand encampments, 7,845 lodges, 1,934 encampments, 1,132 Rebekah Degree lodges, 516.230 lodge members, 94.257 encampment members, 49.943 Rebekah lodge members. There were 41,098 persons initiated during the year. Revenue of lodges, $4,736,836.30; encampments, $480,978.38; Rebekah lodges, $56,493.21; total, $5,274,307.89; total relief for the year, $2,111,926.86; total relief since 1831, $38,918,406.16. The following new'petition for membership in lodges was adopted at the recent session of the Sovereign Grand Lodge: “I respectfully request admission into this lodge, and in consideration of being admitted a member I promise and agree to conform to the constitution and by-laws #f your lodge and those of the Grand Lodge * * * and that I will seek my remedy for all rights on account of said membership or connection therewith in the tribunals of the order only, without resorting for their enforcement in any event or for any purpose to the civil courts. During the past year the Rebekah Degree has made friends rapidly. At the session at Minneapolis a petition for separate grand lodges was before the Sovereign Grand Lodge, but the committee reported adversely. This year twentynine lodges of Massachusetts again petitioned for separate grand lodges, and the committee reported in favor of the measure. The report was not adopted, by a vote of forty-one yeas to fifty-seven nays, but it shows the advances made by the degree, and should encourage the ladies to persevere in their endeavors, as it is only a question of time when their wishes will be acceded to by the conservative head of the order. The Sovereign Grand Lodge adjourned Saturday, Sept. 26. Anew degree, called the Patriarchs’ Militant Degree, was adopted, to take the place of the Uniform Degree Camp. It is a regular military system, of which the Sovereign Grand Lodge is the head, and the grand sire commander-in-chief. John C. Underwood, ex-Lieutant-governor of Kentucky, and a graduate of West Point, was elected lieutenant-general, and is really the active commanding officer. The subordinate bodies are called cantons and the members chevaliers. Tho uniform is changed, but cantons are permitted to still wear the uniform now in use. The secret work of the degree has been much improved, aud was exemplified by Excelsior Canton, No. 1, of Louisville, Ky., commanded by Capt. G. W. Northrop, with twentyseven chevaliers in line. It is hoped and expected that the new legislation will bo accepted as a solution of the difficulties which have existed for several years past. PERSONAL MENTION ELSEWHERE. [Concluded from Third Page.] by his brother, E. W. Shirk, formerly of Indianapolis, but later of Chicago. Dr. Marsh, who has been in ill health for some time, left on Friday for Mt. Clements, Mich. Miss Daisy Pugh started for Trenton, N. J., on Thursday morning, to attend school She expects to remain about a year. P. M. Grume and wife, Mrs. S. H. Cole, Mrs. L. C. Spencer, Miss Minnie Ellie and Miss Nellie Pofferman are visiting in Chicago. Mrs. Andrew Kimmel, of Wiconisco, Pa., who has been visiting at Geo. W. Deibert’s, on West Sixth street, the past two months, leaves for home on Wednesday. The dancing club recently organized is an assured success, the first dance, given last week, being attended by about fifty couples. The club is composed of the best people in the city. Grain for summer and roots and ensilage for winter are what will make the dairy cows yield a eenerous quantity of rich milk the year round. This is what makes them profitable—keeping up a good average flow of milk through the four seasons alike.

KAIMVAY GOSSIP. The railroads of Pennsylvania employ 70,000 men. The exports of railway locomotives last year amounted to $3,000,000. American Express stock is now up to ninetynine, the nearest to par it has ever been. Fred W. Sanger has been appointed Western passenger agent of the 1,, D. & S. road, headquarters Decatur, 111. Paymaster Shepherd, of the Wabash system, is again on his rounds, paying for August Slowly he is gaining time on the back pay. L. Goff, yardmaster of the Pennsylvania lines at this point, has resigned. His duties will be looked alter by J. W. Grennen, in addition to his duties as trainmaster. J. D. Baldwin, secretary of tho Order of Railway Conductors, is preparing his annual report, which will show a healthy increase in membership and in a financial way. William J. Leahy, who 6ince last spring has represented the West Shore road as agent at Niagara Falls, has been appointed assistant ticket agent of tho road at Syracuse, in place of H. W. Crate. O. M. Shepherd, who was educated on Western roads, is acting president of the New York, New Haven & Harttord road during the absence of President Watrous, who is now in Europe for a few months’ tarry. J. N. McCullough, vice-president of the Pennsylvania lines, can afford to spend the remainder of life in more ease than he has the last thirtyfive years, as he is reported to be worth fully four million dollars. Ford Wood, assistant general freight agent of the Indiana, Bloomington & Western road, yesterday returned from his bridal trip, and last eveuing was receiving hearty congratulations from his old-time bachelor friends. A number of delegates to the old reliable Conductors’ Insurance Association left last nierht for Denver, via Chicago. The Chicago & Northwestern road will this morning send out a special train to take the delegates through to Denver. The 1., D. AS., in connection with tie Wabash road, will on Tuesday next carry passengers to St. Louis and return from Roachdale and points west of there on their line at $4 the round trip, tickets good to return Thursday. First Passenger—“ Why does this train make such an intolerable creaking noise, whenever it attempts to slow up?” Second Passenger—“ln order to protect the passengers from the voice of the brakeman when he calls out the stations.” John Grabner, an old-time engineer on the Bee-line, now a successful business man at Warsaw, Ind., has been spending a few days with his brothers-in-law, Paul aud Buck Quigley, both of whom are now engineers on the Beeline. A railroad track to be laid without wooden ties is to be put down in Albany, running across the wagon bridge to Greenbush. It is to be laid by anew process requiring longitudinal sleepers made of iron, and called by the inventor a triple chair. It is said that the proposed passenger-pooling agreement will contain a clause authorizing and instructing Commissioner Fink to purchase any and all tickets that he can obtain at anything below tariff rates and return them to tho company issuing them, collecting the full schedule price from the company for all such tickets so returned. It is understood that under the consolidation scheme of the Red, the White and the Midland lines, J. H. Steiner will be made Western superintendent, and his territory will be considerably enlarged. Mr. Steiner has looked after the interests of the W hito line in this section for a number of years, and ranks among the most capable of the fast-freight line men. William Bole, who for fourteen years has looked after backing all the Panhandle trains into the Union depot, has been discharged for color blindness. As during this time no accident has occurred to a train, it seems like straining a point to discharge so old and reliable an employe. Railroad employes feel that this color test has been carried to an extent not called for. Two tiny boys, with good voices and clever mimicry, have been singing on Western railroad trains. They said to sympathetic questioners that they were working their way alone from San Fraucisco to New York, and one passenger estimated their receipts in a single day at S4O. He also discovered that they had a manager and treasurer in the person of their father, to whom they slyly rendered up the money. George B. Sherman, who has been appointed general manager of three of the consolidated fast freight lines, was a Connecticut boy. He entered railway service in 1865, and up to 1868 was clerk of the Merchants’ Dispatch at Louisville, Ky. From 1868 to 1871 he was agent of the Dispatch at Louisville. In 1871 he was appointed Southwestern agent of the Merchants’ Dispatch. •In 1877 he received tho appointment of Western agent; in 1882 that of general Western agent, which position he held until March 1, 1884, when he was appointed general manager of the Red line. His latest promotion is a deserved one. “We wait to see the time when strikes shall no longer eurse the land," said Grand Secretary Debs to the seven hundred delegates of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen of North America, in Philadelphia, Thursday last, and Grand Master Arnold also expressed himself very happily as to the relations of capital and labor. The men who work on railway locomotives have sound heads as well as stout hearts, and the influence of the Brotherhood of Firemen, whose membership is 14,689, is wholesome in many respects. A remarkable fact in the record of the organization is the payment, in twelve years, of $44,000 for the relief of disabled members, and $271,764 to the families of members who have died. Os late the Railroader has treated its readers to several well-written editorials, which, were railroad men to heed, they could profit largely thereby. The habit of treating, which is so prevalent among railway officers and employes, was alluded to in a recent number as follows: “It sometimes requires moral courage to refuse to drink whei* invited, and a still greater degree of this ennobling element of true manhood, to refuse to treat. This unfortunate practice of treating has probably done more than all other causes combined in this countr}*, to wreck the lives of good men and send them to the dogs socially, morally and financially. First of all refuse to* be treated, and. most of all, refuse to treat. Then, if there are those among your associates so thoughtless aud uncharitable as to misconstrue your motives, you can reply with this burning truth, that silences criticism and wins for you the respect of all right-thinking people, even among the intemperate. It is your highest and most sacred duty, first of all, to provide for those dependent upon you, rather than to administer to your associates the poison that wrecks their lives. Refuse to treat or be treated, and all men whose good opinions are worth having will respect you more highly.” Charles Watts, superintendent of the second and fourth divisions of the Chicago, St Louis & Pittsburg road. U coming into prominence on the Pennsy. vania lines, so ably is hi handling these divisions. Probably he is one.of the strictest disciplinarians on the Pennsylvania system, and for a time some of the employes were not pleased with his methods of doing business. He would not have a man about who drank, hung about saloons, gambled or ran after lewd women, and several men were discharged for disobeying his rules. Those who remained are now his warmest friends, and it is said to be a fact that men who had never laid up a dollar before Mr. Watts took the superintendency of the road now have quite respectable sums laid ud for a rainy day. Mr. Watts is forty one years of ace, of Euglish birth. He entered railway service April 1, 1867, was, to Nov. 1, 18/4, on Pennsylvania railroad, successively in the following positions: To fall of 1868. brakeman on local freight train; 1868 to spring of 1869, freight conductor; from 1869 to Jan. 1, 1872, passenger conductor; from that date to Nov. 1, 1874, depot master, Jersey City; from 1874 to 1882, passenger trainmaster; September, 1882, he was appointed to his present position. A Coronial Juke. Deputy Ccroner Rooker’s experiment in restoring to life a negro babe that had been recovered from a vault day before yesterday, did not, as far as the point of the story goes, meet with the commendation of Coroner Strat ford. The coroner said he called Dr. Rocker to aceount, yesterday, by telling him that his serv-

ices were no longer needed as a deputy. Hooker looked at the official in astonishment, which was not lessened by Stratford’s refusal to explain. In about three minutes the cause of the difficulty penetrated Rocker's understanding, when he blurted out: “Why—why, it died, anyhow, last night” The matter was amicably settled by liooker buying the cigars. WASHINGTON MILLIONAIRES. The Wealth of W. W. Corcoran and Inventor Alexander Graham Hell. Washington Letter In Philadelphia Record, There are very few millionaires in Washington. Indeed. I doubt whether there are more than two. The only two of whose right to the title there can be no doubt are William W. Corcoran and Alexander Graham Bell. Corcoran is the Irish shoemaker who has risen to be the chief banker and benefactor of his city. He is weli past his three score years and ten, a well-pre-served old gentleman, with snow-white hair and beard, cut short, who dresses well, and basA very distinguished air. He dates his fortune from the Mexican #ar, when he handled the government loan. Ever since then ho has grown richer and richer through the constant improvement in his investments. He a good deal of his money into Washington rSH estate. He is next to the largest real-estate tax-payer here, his real property being assessed at $891,964. He long since retired from the banking firm of Corcoran & Riggs, which he founded so long ago that the present generation knows the bank only as Riggs & Cos. But some of Corcoran’s capital is in the bank yet, and as he visits his office in the bank every pleasant day, the young men of Riggs & Cos. still have the benefit of his counsel. He is a very wise old financier still. There is a romantic flavor in the reputation he has won, for no one can think of him without thinking of his generous benevolence. He has given Washington Oak Hill Cemetery, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Louise Home for Gentlewomen. He has endowed the Columbian University and the Episcopal Church of the Ascension. His name is on every subscription list, and his private charities are numberless. Historical associations cluster around him. He has been the friend of the great men of politics, art and literature. His banking-house is the building long occupied by the Bank of the United States. He lives in the residence of Daniel Webster, winch fie has remodeled and embellished until it compares favorably with any modern house here. He was an intimate friend of Webster, and helped him out of many a financial quagmire. Living happily and peacefully, surrounded by attentive relatives, dividing his years between Washington and the White Sulpher Springs, he bids fair to be a centenarian. Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the telephone now generally used all over the world. Unlike most inventors, he is the chief beneficiary of his invention. A young teacher, poor iu pocket but rich in brains, and full of the fervid enthusiasm of the true scientist, he would probably have given the results of his laborious investigations to the world as a free gift, but he had in Professor Gardiner G. Hubbard a shrewd Yankee father-in-law who showed him how to benefit the world and himself at the same time. Bell is very rich. Hubbard is only less rich. So are all their relatives. Bell lives in a handsome modern brick house of his own design on Scott Circle. Hubbard lives in a similar house a few blocks west on Dupont Circle. Bell’s house has every modern improvement, including some of his own invention so modern that the general public has not heard of them yet. These are chiefly applications of electricity to purposes of convenience. He has a fine collection of paintings, water-colors and etchings, and a very good library. His laboratory, which he calls “the Volta laboratory,” is fuarther west. Just across from his home is the little cottage and gardens which he bought from Andrews, the artist, where he teaches deaf and dumb children. Bell is a wellbuilt man, of good height. His black hair aud beard are beginning to turn gray, but his face is as young as his heart. He is broad-minded, generous and gracious. I know no one who carries a great success more gracefully. Besides these. I know no other resident millionaires. George W. Riggs, Corcoran’s old partner, was a millionaire, but he is dead, and his estate is in the hands of his children. He was a little gray-haired business man, who lived in a large gloomy-looking brick house just in the rear of Corcoran’s. Next door .for years was the British legation, and so it is not strange that one of the banker’s daughters married one of the secretaries of the legation, Sir Henry Howard. Os course, there are dozens of millionaires here in the winter, in Congress and out of it, and there are dozens of residents who are almost millionaires, for, despite all statements to the contrary'. you can make money honestly in Washington—up to a certain point, say SIOO,OOO. A gr .at deal of money is made all the time in the real estate market. A dozen of the principal real estate men have made fortunes in the last dozen years. And real estate in Washington is still a safe aud sensible investment. Its cost is low, comparatively, and its value constantly increasing. But I don’t see how anybody can ever make so much money at Washington nowadays as Corcoran has piled up. A LADY’S DRY STOCKING. Peculiar and Interesting Scene in a Shoe Store with a Lady Whose Hosiery Was Damp. Rochester Post-Express. “Yes,” 6aid a Main-street shoe store clerk to an inquisitive customer a day or two ago. “we see all sorts of socks and stockings in our business, from silk to none ataiL” “None at all?” “Well, I don’t mean that many people come in here without any stockings; but it sometimes happens that naked feet are exposed to our gaze, and women’s feet, at that.” “How does that happen?” “I’ll tell you of an instance. One rainy day last week a very stout lady came in here and wanted to get a pair of shoes. After looking at several pairs she selected one to try on. I unbuttoned her shoe for her and tried to put on the one she had picked out, but, though evidently of the size she wore, I found it impossible to put it on. The difficulty was easily seen. Her stockings were damp, and I told her that it would be impossible to fit her foot while she had on .those stockings. “‘O, I thought of that,’ she said, ‘and provided myself with an extra pair,’ at the same time displaying a small parcel she held in her hand. “I told her she had better put them on, and retired to the back of the store to give her a chance. Hearing nothing from her, after a few minutes had elapsed, I ventured to glance around, and saw that she was in an awkward predicament. The fact was, she was too fat and too tightiy laced to put on her own stockings. Well, sir, it was a comical sight to see her ineffectual plunges in her endeavors to reach her feet, and the ludicrous sidelong glances she cast around to see if any one was watching her. I couldn’t help standing and looking at her for a minute or two, although my duty in the case was clear enough. You see I was there to sell this lady a pair of shoes, and if she bought them she mt*Ji have on dry stockings, and it was plain that if she wore dry stockings someone would be obliged to puf* them on for her. So, like a hero, I marched up to where she was sitting. What with her exertions and the mortification she felt, her face was the color of & well-boiled lobster, and I have no doubt my own beautiful phiz was no faint reflex of that kind. “Can I assist you, madam?” said I, in the politest tone I could muster. “ ‘Yes, you can assist me. Pull off those stockings and put on this pair, and be quick about it,’ she ordered, speaking quite savage like. “Well, I got her stockings off, and managed to get her feet into the dry pair; then I left her again. When I came back I got on the shoe we had tried before withoot any trouble. Well, she took the shoes —they were a $6 pair—paid for them, and flouuced out of the store as though we were to blame for the display she had made. “Yes," concluded the narrator, reflectively, “shoe clerks have queer experiences sometimes, and see more of human nature in its varied aspects than many people wot of.” Thought He Must Bea Plumber. Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. First Plumber—“l hear that Francis Joseph is about to rebuild the Castle of Buda, at a cost of $3,500,000." Second Plumber (meditatively)—“Francis Joseph?” “Yea.” “1 was trying to recall him; guess I am not acquainted with him. Where is his shop?”

QUERIES AND ANSWERS. [AH proper questions of general interest will be admitted to this colnmn, and answered, if possible. If the answers cannot be given the questions will be printed to invite replies from the outside. The column is for the mutual pleasure and profit of our readers.) BARBERS SION. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Will you please give the origin of the striped board or poet used as a barber's sign? I)E JONES. Sims, Ind. Anciently barbers performed minor operations in surgery, and, in particular, when bleeding was customary, it was to the barber that patients applied to be bled. To assist this operation it, being necessary for the patient to grasp a staff, a stick or pole was kept by the barber-surgeon, together with the bandaging he used for tying the patient’s arm. When the pole was not in use the tape was tied to it so that they might be together when wanted, and in this state tape and pole were hung at the door as a sign. At length, instead of placing the identical pole used at the door, a pole was painted with stripes in imitation of the real pole aud bandage, and thus came the sign. WHITE AND BLACK. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: (1.) Will you tell mo whether black is a color? (2.) Arc a black and a white horse consideied a match team? * W. A WOODGATE. Yedpo, Ind. (1.) Black is not strictly a color but is destitute of all color; on the other hand while white is not strictly a color it is a composition of all the colors. (2.) Such a team is called a “crossmatch team.” There are many such teams, and in large cities they are, when fine, considered stylish and desirable. ALMS. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal! From what ianguage is the word “alms” derived? * The word presents a curious example of the English fashion of shortening words in common use. It comes to our language from the Latin “eleemosyna,” which, in the form of the adjective “eleemosynary,” we still retain. The noun has, in course of time assumed the following forms—almosine, almo6ie, almous. almose, almesse, almoyn, almes, and finally alms. WEARINO BLACK. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What gave rise to the custom of wearing black as a symbol of mourning! WIDOW. It is said to have come from the circumstance that Anne, Queen of Charles VIII, of France, on the death of that king, in 1498, surrounded her coat-of arms with black in token of her widowhood, and clothed herself in black, in opposition to the then prevalent habit, which was for widow's to mourn in white. WEARING TWO WATCH-CHAINS. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Is the dude fashion of wearing two watch-chains an old one renewed, or anew one? LknO. ZIGNSVILLE. It is as old as 1770, when it was the fashion among the dandies (dudes) of that day to wear two watches, tho chains and seals of which dangled on each side beneath their waistcoats. Those were fob-chains. They now wear them across their breasts. SPREAD EAGLE. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please tell us what is meant by ‘ ‘Spread Eagle oratory. ’ Two School Boys. City. It is defined as “a compound of exaggeration, effrontery, bombast, and extravagance, mixed metaphors, platitudes, defiant threats thrown at the world, and irreverent appeals flung at the Almighty. WHO WAS HE? the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What general of the Revolutionary war, while in prison on a charge of theft, wrote “Memoirs of the Revolution?” DRUGGIST. City. We publish this question as we have failed to find an answer. AUTHORS. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: (1.) What American author is said to have never rode ten miles from his home? (2.) The works of what ancient classical poetess have recently been published? A Student. We have been unable to find answers to your questions. FOOLSCAP. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What circumstance gave rise to the term “foolscap,” as applied to paper? p. y. Kokomo. Notes and Queries gives it that the word “foolscap” is a corruption of the Italian “foglio capo,” a chief or full-sized sheet of paper. ALL SERENE. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What is the derivation of the slang term “all serene?” City. g. It is from tho Spanish word “serena,” which is used in Cuba as a countersign by sentinels. It is equivalent to tho phrase, iu English, “all’s well.” THE GRANT MEMORIAL. An American Walhalla—A Practical and Artistic Suggestion. Art Union. Let the Grant memorial bo made what that of Washington was intended to be—a hall of patriots aud heroes, of whom the Nation has cause to be reverentially proud. The most magnificent monument in the world is tho Bavarian Walhalla. In the Northern mythology Walhalla means the place of abode of those who fall iu battle as heroes. In modern reality it is a superb temple, erected by Ludwig I, of Bavaria, between 1830 and 1841, to the glory of his fatherland. It was intended as a temple of fame for all Germany, and it nobly fulfills its purpose. Tho design of the building was made by the great architect, Von Klenze, and the chief sculptors of Bavaria contributed to the execution of the plan. The Wulhalla is built on an eminence 250 feet above the Danube, at Donaust&uf, near Regensburg, a suburb of Munich, and cost 2,330,000 florins, which means half as mnny of our dollars It is built in the style of the Parthenon, is nearly the same in size, of marble, and is in fact a splendid hall, filled with statues, busts and other sculptured semblances of tho great men of Germany, and with carved memorials of her legends and history. The Walhal a is a place of pilgrimage for all good Germans and tourists, and amply repays the journey. It is in itself a noble art, gallery and an awe inspiring monument to the greatness of ono of the greatest nations on the globe. In the front of this superb edifice rises another stupendous memorial, the Bavaria. It was erected by Ludwig I, of Bavaria, from a model by Sch wan thaler, the greatest sculptor of modern Germany. It is a single female figure sixty five feet high, on a thirty-foot-high pedestal. Beside the figure crouches a lion. The statue was cast from Turkish and Norwegian cannon taken in battle. Internally it is as remarkable as it is externally imposing. There is a door in the back part of the pedestal which gives on a stoao staircase of Sixty steps. These lead into the figure, from which a side passage takes you into the body of the lion. Fifty-eieht more steps conduct into the head, where there are seats and openings for the enjoyment of the view. Thirtyone people can stand in the head alone. The bodv wascast in seven pieces and the lion in five. The statue was unveiled in August 1850, having taken six years to finish. It contains seventyeight ton3 of metal. The Bavaria is really part of the Walhalla, standing, as it does, in front of that noble structure, over whose portal it keeps steady and faithful guard. The cost of the Bavaria was about one hundred thousand dollars. What we would suggest is the building of a vast temple like the Walhalla. This should be permanently dedicated to General Grant, and his statue should be its first occupant. It should then be filled, as time goes on, with the statues and busts of our great men, and it should be so designed that extensions could be made without detriment to its architectural unity. Such a structure, so tenanted, would become a national temple, a place of popular pilgrimage, and its silent hall, peopled with the bronze and marble effigies of our illustrious dead, would make it the most sacred and instructive place in the country. Whatever monument may be raised upon the spot where the dead warrior makes his last bivouac; however striking and splendid this monument may and doubtless will be, it will still be rather a local than a national work. Let it serve to mark his resting-place, and remind the city’s holiday-makers of a true American and great soldier, who earned all the love and gratitude of th® land he helped to make illustrious. But in tho city where the Nation's government centers; where the official palaces of a free

people vie with the architectural splendors of aw imperial capital; which memory and tradition alike associate with the proudest exploits of the patriot and the soldier, there let the whole people erect its eternal testimonial to a leader without whom our history might have been divided by a sinister gap, and make his death the occasion far a noble and enduring national work of art, THE WRONG SIMPSON. An Apocryphal Chicago Story Abont a Society Entertaiment in Indianapolis. Chicago News. A gentleman from Indianapolis remember* and tells me a little story of 1875. for the truth of which ho sufficiently vouches. Major Simpson was the president of the Vandalia railroad, and had recently removed to Indianapolis. Mr. Russell, the soul of genteel manners, was a man abont town whose somewhat precarious business made him sometimes flush and sometimes very hard up. Mrs. Russell aspired to be a leader in society, but, though she was a very pleasing lady and a charming entertainer, her husband’s relations with the sporting fraternity hindered her grievously. One day Mr. Russell informed his spouse that he had made the acquaintance of Major Simpson, and that they had struck up a pretty warm and seemingly mutual friendship. “Oh, can’t you invite him and his wife tip some evening?” “I think so.” “Do so, and wo will give a little party in their honor.” “Well, I will.” Accordingly, the Major was invited, and tbs invitation was promptly accepted. A number of the best people in Indianapolis were then notified of the coming event and requested to lend their presence to do honor to the president of a great railroad. When the night arrived tha guests were promptly on hand in the beautiful parlors, which had evidently been refitted at no inconsiderable expense, and had been tastefully decorated with costly flowers. Soon the arrival of Major and Mrs. Simpson was announced, and a little subdued flutter ran through the assembly. Mrs. Russell requested her husband to see that the Major’s horses were taken care of and to invite the coachman into the kitchen out of the cold, but when Mr. Russell went out he found no horses, no carriage, no coachman. Major and Mrs. Simpson had walked up. How strange! How very eccentric! Meantime Major and Mrs. Simpson had been shown into the parlors, and one after another of the guests presented. What an odd man, to be sure, the Major was! Everybody else was in full evening dress, while he was in a very shabby business suit, and wore a frayed collar and an unmistakably soiled necktio. And what a fussy little woman M'rs. Simpson was! Every color of the rainbow had a place in her costume, and she was altogether a person who could not be tolerated in that circle if she were not the wife of a groat railroad president When tho folding doors were drawn, and the table in the large dining-room exposed to view, Mrs. Russell's triumph was at hand. The table was simply magnificent. Laden with every delicacy that good taste and money could provide, it certainly was - a pleasure to behold, and it seemed, as one of the enthusiastic guests remarked, “almost a sacrilege to disturb so divinely beautiful a picture.” However, it was made to be destroyed, so the guests were seated about the roomy board and Major Simpson, at the post of honor with his wife on his loft, lost no time r in preparation, but began at. once to break into the pyramids of sandwiches and other solids. From tho amount he ate the guests judged he had been too busy with important railroad matters to go out to lunch or dinner that day, and from the manner in which he ate they felt assured that he cared nothing for the conventionalities. When he spread jelly on his sandwich, daubing his knife to the handle, they regarded him as eccentric, but when he licked his knife from hilt to tip they were positively awed by his genius. W T hen the wine came Mrs. Simpson drank hers at a single gulp, and, reaching over the Major’s plate, took his wine from its place and drank that too, saying in an undertone to the gentleman at her left: The Major hasn't drunk * drop for three months, and I don’t want him to begin again.” ’Thus the evening was passed. At a late hour the guests departed, the ladies declaring that Mrs. Simpson was positively awful, and the gentlemen uniting on the proposition that the Major might be a good railroad man, but he evidenly had seen very little of good society. It was not until the next day that Mr. Russell learned that there were two Major Simpson’s in Indianapolis—one the president of the Vandalia road, and the other bis guest of the night before, a person who had recently come to the city to canvass for the sale of some two-penny patented arrangement. An Architectural Episode. San Francisco Chronicle. They were architects. You know what architects are. Men you pay to upset all the plans you have made for anew house. Nobody ever suggested to an architect anything he wanted put into his house that he did not immediately turn around and say it could not be done. Architects only build houses. You have to live iu them. That’s where they have the advantage. There’s only one thing will prove to an architect that the plans you propose are perfectly feasible. That is to threaten to take th* job away from him. Then he wiil put anything you like into a house, and when he finds it is a great improvement, or anew idea, he’ll take ali the credit for it. and make money and reputation out of you—and charge you for the alteration. I notice precious few architects live in house* they built themselves. It may be tho etiquette of the profession, just as doctors call on othe* doctors when they are sick. But I don’t know. It is queer—very queer. There were two architects met at the club the other night, and, although it is not often you meet two aebitects who are on speaking terms, those two got to discussing their business. They sat for several hours and the waiter was their frequent visitor, although they always changed the subject to whisky hot when he came into the room. About the middle of tha night they etarted home. On the road one stopped the other opposite a house. “There's the house I told you about.” “What house?” said the other, as they lurched over against one another “The house that fellow built,” and theycauglil hold of one another for steadiness. “You see that north side —there.” “Wot ye talkin’ about? That’s the south side. Ah. now; there’s the north side.” “No, that’s the east side. You wait a minute; the front’ll come round again.” “There’s the front now; no, it’s gone.” “Look quick! That’s the side I mean; tha back; don't you see? Hold on, there’s the east side cornin' round; then the—south; then the—west Now, see that’s the north. There you ftre. ” “I can’t see anything. Lot’s go home. The darned house is goin’ round so fast. I can’t tell one side from another." “Very curous—very curons. I never could build a revolvin’ house like that. That’s a great idea.” Then a policeman asked if ho could do anything for them. “If you please. Yes. Will you have tha goodness to go over and hold that houso steady for a minute? My friend and I want to examine it.” In a prize essay on the philosophy of pruning, Mr. J. F. Wilhite, of Boone county. Missouri, gives the following rules: Always leave an iuch of wood beyond the terminal bud, and let the cut be on the opposite side from the bud; always cut upward, and in a sloping direction; prune so as to make but few wounds, and cut the surface smooth as possible; in cutting out an old branch prune even to the stem, that the wounds may heal over quickly; prune so as to obtain the quantity of fruit desired from tha smallest number of stems. A NEW PROCESS. _ The Hendricks Truss and treatmentcures rupture in 30 to 90 days. Will forfeit SIOO for any case we accept if we ~~ All fail to cure. Does not prevent attending to I m business. Also. Hendricks’s Galvanic Belt ■ M will cure or greatly benefit almost all dis- m. Jr eases. Gall on or write, inclosing .stamp, DU. H. W. 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