Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1889 — Page 8

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Melodrama Heightened by Fine Effects that Eeach the Limit of Realism The Dark Secretttithlts Varied River Scenes A Dram of Frontier Interest Underlined at the rar Plays and Players. After a run of a hundred night at the Academy of Mnsic, New York, and a successful career on the road, "A Dark Secret," will open at English's Opera-house on tomorrow night for a week's stay. Charles B. Jetterson adopted the melodrama for the American stage. The success of the play has been mainly due to the realism of its aquatic effects. The novelty of 5,000 cuhic feet of real water on the stage is certainly an innovation. It is designed to represent a river with real water on the mimic scene, and to introduce an attempted drowning, in which a woman is pushed backward into the river, in eome places eight feet deep. The broad stream of water with its steam launches, moving under a full head of steam and the fleet of pleasure boats is said to be picturesque, and the Henley regatta, with George Hosmer, the oarsman, pulling one of the shells, is about as exciting and as near nature as dramatic performance can attain. The original company, scenery and effects will be presented, leaving nothing undone to nmke the presentation here equal to that of the New York engagement. In the fourth act of the play. Captain Andrews appears in the little dory, with which he attempted to cross the Atlantic last year. This uoat measures only twelve feet keel and two feet deep, ami is the smallest boat in which anyone has ever attempted to ctosj the ocean. Andrews was out sixtytwo days and covered 1,555 miles. wen he was rescued, almost dead. The company, which is a very large one, includes such well-know people as J. 8. Thompson, Joseph L. Mason, Hudson Lest on. Clarence Heritage. Charles Cummings, Kobert Edeson. W. S. Evans, Clarence McElvey, Miss Lillie Meska, Miss lielle Jitokes, Miss Uabrielle Du auld, Miss Belle Stoddard and others. A Dark Secret" will be seen every night this week at English's, with matinee on Wednesday and batnniav. There is already a large advance sale of seats. The two peoplo who head the company at the Park this week, are, so far as genuine dramatic talent is concerned, much above the average stars in the so-called "popular priced" houses. Mr. James M. Hardie, wellknown here from his acting in "Child oi the State" and "Diplomacy" is a romantic actor of excellent powers, and much experience, and Miss Sara Von Leer, is well-known as a leading lady of unusual ability. Their play is "On the Frontier." which the Philadelphia Press says is by far the best Western drama yet produced. It is a dramatization by Annie Lewis Johnson, of Feuimore Cooper's novel L.at of the Mohicans." It is not a blood and thunder drama, but is almost entirely free from the unpleasant smell of gunpowder, which is so common in most Western plays, while the situations are said to be strong end startling. There are tifty people employed in the production, including the musicians, composing the band and drum corps, a band of Indians and the dramatic and specialty company. Special scenery and mechanical ett'ects are employed in the presentation. "On the Frontier" has been a marked success whereever it has been presented, and doubtless will be here. The engagement will begin with a matinee to-morrow afternoon and continue all week. To-morrow evening, the baud will give a pyrotechnic parade, starting rom the theater at 7 o'clock. Gossip of the Stage. Pauline Hall, it is said, will be the head of a light opera company very light. Up to the present time thirty-three opera and concert companies are still upon the road. Mrs. Langtry did not make a permanent success as Lady Macbeth and withdrew the rlay. Agnes Herndon has permanently retired from the stage. This is not too bad for the stage. Joseph Wheelock has counted a great deal upon the play that Mrs. Mary H. Fiske was writing for him. one act of which she had completed at the time 01 her death. Antou Rubinstein, the Russian pianist, is willing to make another tour of America for a nightly fee of 2,500, and Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau are thinking seriously about it. 3Iarie Burroughs will go starring next "season in a piece from the pens of C. A. Byrne and Arthur Wallack. The play is called Uwendoliu-" Miss Burroughs's contract with Mr. Palmer comes to a close May 1. John H. Russell has purchased from Donnelly aud Girard a new farcical comedy by A- D. Gordon and C. A- Brrne, called "The backer." It is probable that the piece will he produced in Chicago during the coming summer. Dramatic Doings: It will be remembered that George Jnue was with Kiralfy at one time, and when he left, Dolossy said: "June has one merit; he can put a three-sheet poster further up a dark alley than any other man in the profession." ' Eichard Stall has completed his second opera, which he calls "The Sea King." It will be produced spectacularly in Philadelphia next falL "did Pasha," by the same author aud composer, still continues to draw crowded houses, and will go to New York late this month. Dun lap's Stage News: Gen. Lew Wallace claims to have received no less thau sixty different requests for permission to dramatize "Ben Hur." To ail of them he has replied with a respectful negative, and the statement that he himself lias prepared a stage version of his novel. Among the many excellent theatrical attractions that are to be seen here in the next few weeks are the Two Sisters," by Denman Thompson, Carleton Opera Com pauy, "The Wite," by the Lyceum Theater Company, New York; Mrs. Alice Shaw, the whistling prima donna, Fanny Davenport, In "La Iosco,' Booth and Barrett and others. Campanint is in a bad way financially. After paying &00.000 for an estate in Italy he was unable to sing for two years, and triflVM his fortune. hv another rnnrrt. mm. rauy has cost him $5,000 or fcti.OOO more, home of his friends' xnouey has gone with his own. Tony Hart, who was recently discharged from the Worcester Mass., lusane Asylum, is now living at his father's comfortable home near orcester, which Tony during his more pro-sperons ilaya had provided for him. The physicians say that, Trhile Tony rr.ay never appear upon the stage, by total abstinence and a quiet life, he will probably never again be an inmato of a luuatio asylum. The procession of society women now on the stage is about to be lengthened by Mrs. "Rudolph Allen, who for some time ha been studying at the Palmer School of Acting. As Miss Gregory she was well known in society not only for fier beautiful voice and ballad singing, but for her success in amateur theatricals. In the earlier period of Mrs. Potter's career as an amateur Miss Gregory was her usual associate. New York World: One of the members of Hoyt's "Miduigbt Bell" company asked the author-m&nager how he ought to dress his part Mr. iloyt's advice was sound, lie recommended the young man to go to Foughkeepsie and get nitasured there for a swell suit of clothes, ou the principle that vhat Fongiiktepsie would consider elegant New York would smile at. Aud it is Mr. Hovt's fervent endeavor to make New York smile. MissJnlia Marlowe, the young actress, who is being talked abont more than all the rest of them put together, cornea to the Grand the latter part of next week. One of the tirst largo towus in which she apueared after her New York debut was Chicago, where, although the business was small, she was kindly praised. Last week she was again seen there at Manager David Henderson's Chicago Opera-house, and the building was not large, enough to hold the many who wanted to t.M the young girl that within a tew months has become one of America's greatest actresses. Chas. B. Jellei son has succeeded in organising the greatest comedy company ever , . tthrr. It will mcluae the emi-

me xuiru year oniy a imie. ine next year he brought Yerdfs "Otello"to America and loat fclivUXl. Aliil this kpahoiiV ttimnt to t

veteran John Gilbert, thnt no amount of

money could induce to travel during tne Wallack management in New York, "Old" Couldock and Ned Bncklev, and Mrs. John Drew, the greatest Lady Teazle, and Mrs. Malaprop. the American stage has ever known. Negotiations are pending with a leading lady star to play the juvenile roles in the comedies to be presented. Mr. Lawrence Barrett's new play fornext season, which has been written by William Young, the author of Pendragon," is called "Ganelon." The story is historical, and is located in the Island of Corsica, in the early part of the ninth centnry. Ganelon is a eon of that elder Ganelon who betrayed Koland at the battle of Roncesvalles under Charlemagne. In consequence of the disgrace attached to his fathers history the son abandons his homo in France and enters th service of Hugo, the Count of Corsica. The drama deals with the loves of Ganelon and Bianca. the daughter of Hugo, and the stirring events of the wars between the Saracen and the Corsican. In addition to unlimited opportunities for scenic splendor, the play possesses the unusual merit of having several parts almost as great as that of the hero. Mr. Barrett is now engaged in selecting a company from the best talent of this conutry to interpret what he confidently believes to be the best tragic play this century has produced. Frequently seen abont the lobby of the St. James Hotel. New York, these days, is a ruddy-haired man, with a ruddier face, whose deep lines are fnlly revealed by its closely-shaven condition. He is always the center of a wide circle of friends, who listen eagerly to his reminiscences of theatrical events and sporting experiences of many years ago. A score of years back he was best known to fame as "Lucille Western's husband," but now, from one end of the crintry to the other he is spoken of as Jini Aiead. the theatrical manager." He does not appear to be more than nfty years it hut tho occurrences in which he b?rc part reveal the fact that he is well advanced in the sixties. Seventeen 'years have elapsed since tho death of his gifted wife, who in many respects was one of the greatest natural actresses this country has pn '.uced. Mead's mode of life has changed radically since she died, and now he is the prosperous associate of David Henderson in the management of the Chicago Operahouse. SPRING FASHIONS. Striped washing silks in soft, dull colors will be used for blouses, and for entire gowns as well. The big sleeve has come to stay, and even threatens eclipse to the coat sleeve we had grown to believe an immortaL White and cream woolens, widely barred with a color, are chosen in preference to the solid colors for home and afternoon wear. Black will remain the leading color for headgear, with green next, and brown, leadgray, dull blue, old rose and copper shades about equal as thirds. The linen collar with chemisette will be revived this spring, and the pretty gathered chemisettes, finished at the top with a puff, will be made both in silk and in net. A fashionable draping of waists just now is to take the stuff in folds over a emoothlytitted lining from under one arm across to the other hip, and vice versa, quite covering the space of darts and giving the favorite empire effect. It is something of a joke to learn from the New York papers that the Empire styles are intended only for young girls. It was for herself and not for Horteuse that Josephine invented them, and she was not exactly a baby, even in the days of the consulate. In spring bonnets there will hardly be an appreciable change of shape. The Directoire aud capote are still the foundation styles, and they are tnrned and twisted, made larger or smaller at will, until no woman need wear a shape unsuited to her features, ago or complexion unless it so pleases her. A New York fashion, combining economy and effectiveness, is to give woolen skirts a deep plaited border of a color contrasting with that of the rest of the frock, and tp give the draperies a plain border of the same material. This furnishes au excellent opportunity to utilize remnants. Handsome tea gowns are made of Romanred satin, figured with black tlowcrs. enriched by wide stripes of black velvet. These pompadour-striped fabrics are very elegant in effect, aud extremely becoming. A gown made of this particular stripe opens down the front over a blouse and petticoat of black chantilly lace, through which gleams an underskirt of plain vididred satin. Among other revivals of by-gone fashions is that of wearing daiutly puffed undersleeves. There is a width of sheer or diaphanous material, which is gathered into two bands, and these are put inside the sleeves of fashionable gowns. They terminate near the elbow, aud may also bo seen worn near the wrists in narrower puffs, when the sleeves are quite loug in fact, justasthey used to be very many years ago, as the old fashion journals of that time will show any doubting reader. Slender effects in draping are very apparent amongthe newstylish gowns for spring. There are folds and drajpings. but they cling in close but artistic grace to the smoothly gored foundation skirt. This slendemess is not to be hidden beneath a metaphorical bushel of wrappings, for, with these gowns will appear short velvet, plush and cloth pelerines which will barely reach the waist. Some of these pelerines'have a large projecting Directoire collar firmly wired to keen it in an upright position. The Empire capes have pepliu ends, these handsomely ornamented from the throat to the extreme end of the pointed tabs. The Coming Ilonnet. New York Evening rost. The toque and the princess bonnet appear again among erly springmodels, in velvet, felt, and straw to suit the exigencies of our fitful climate. Some of the new millinery fabrics are exceedingly elegant and beautiful. There are among the novelties pretty little toques in moss green, mahogany, dahlia, aud other dark becoming shades, decorated with montures and half wreaths of arbutus blossoms, jonquils. May roses, crocus blooms, and sprays of pale pink hyacinth. Jonquils in clusters on a moss-green toque form a stylish little head-covering, the jonquils thinly veiled with pale olive tulle. Delicately shaded velvet violets were effectively arranged on a little princess bonnet of dark violet felt, trimmed with a deeper shade in velvet. These pretty little llower-crowned bonnets and capotes will be worn until tho warm days of early summer. They will be seen with costumes of faille, Henrietta cloth and camel's hair in light spring shades, and with white wool toilets further on. Short walking dresses in improved princess effects, will be popular next season, and en suite will be worn the princess bonnets just described. One wholly new French bonnet is perfectly soft, and is made of one piece of velvet. How this is done is most mysterious. However, high-class bonnet-making is a mysterious and occult art. There is a fulled crown, and the velvet is then fulled in close all around. The brim is simply of this velvet double, and ollly bunched into an artistic "hnddle" at one side. This is turned back to frame the face and hair, and is adjusted according to the fancy of the wearer. It looks as if it would suit nearly every face, but it is affirmed on tha best authority that only a woman who is smart-looking herself cau wear it. So it is verv often, alas! with these apparently "simple adorning. Where People's Tastes Differ. Kw York Independent. We shall see what we shall see at the inauguration ball, modern waltzing and decollete dresses. People's tastes differ as to what is decent and modest. An Eastern woman as she walks ma draw her robe up to her knees withoutimmodesty, but shame on her if she allows her face to be seen. Tho Western woman of fashiou must keep her ankles covered, but sees no harm in removing the veil from her face and shoulders. If our habits of civilization have so far sublimated the imaginations of men and women that the embrace of the waltz is no more suggestive of impropriety than a handshake, and if the "full-dress" of a ball-room is as icily null as the undress of an African belle, there can be no more objection to the one than to the other. The Way of It. TMIadoIpfclA Times. A really pretty girl was never caught chewing gum in public It is only the homely, cross-eyed and irregularly-banged ones who can afford to make suchspcctacles of themselves. Stop that cough. Browa'a Expectorant is

TIIE JOURNAL'S POETS.

Written for tne Indianapolis Journal. The Dennitlon. "What is lovo like,- deart Little girl with tlie Innocent eyes; It is warmth aud chill, aud hope and fear. And afcweet and sad surprise. It Is listening for steps that may not come, It is watching for istiuan's ring: TiK the glad chance meeting, the long walk home; And the peace the twilights bring. Tis the putting away of a rose and a note; Ti a Miy, guilty look at his likeues; Tis a bit of nbbon he rins on his coat; A Jane sky un.ilniuied in its brightness. It is blushes aud smiles and sancy wiles; Tis the forbidden touch of tlngew: Tis an aching heart, and jealous guiles; And a kiss that clings and lingers. Tis the quick, proud words, to cover pain; TU the grief and unrest when It's over Ti the rujth of joy wheu he comes again. Your handsome, blithesome lover. Tis a pit day-dream, and a tender thought; Ti a life-time lived in a minute; Tis thehaven of bliss,where all long to he canght, To he tortured after they're in it "What is love like." dear! Little girl with the troubled eyes; Tla a wouiau'a life, and a woniau's cheer; Her earthly and hcavculy prize. Since your heart would break without it, And you'll better be when 'tis oTer, May the gods be kind while about it, And tend you but one "true lover." Fannta Benson. IXDIANITOLIS. Written for tha Sunday Journal. To a Black-Eyed Susan. An Autumn Idyl. You are proud, bright maiden mine, Standing tbere With your dainty grace, and fine Regal air; And the dullest eye can see You are tall aud willowy, Aud. most fair. And the sunbeam ardent wool From above: And the wind of heaven snes For your love. Can it be, you vain coquette. That you know not even yet Which most dearl For you show to each a heartAre you sure that 'tis not art! Ah, I fear! When the sunlight, glinting low, Kisses you. All your face with happy glow Brightens too; And your lithe form trembling sways When tho wind about you strays. Lover true. 0 a heart's a precious thing. Clack-eyed maid! And not a toy away to flingBe afraid! There will come a time, I know, When the sun will colder grow, Rustic belle; And the tender breeze will chill. Though it plays aiut you stlU; Then ah, well! Why, your slender form will stoop, And your golden head wUl droop, O alas! Yon will tidnk. all shuddering, Life's a very wretched thingGazing only at your shadow iu the grass! E. II. R. Written for the Sunday Journal. My First Hook. A YillanelU. They sent it through the mail to mt A darling duodecimo, FuU-gilt and bouud so daintily. Ju?t how my pulses leapt to see Its pretty page, you ne'- hall know They f-cnt It through the mail to me. Of all the lounie bonks that be. My look it made the fluest show. Full-gilt and lxund so daintily. 1 spread it proudly on my knee. With trembling hand and cheek aglow (They sent It through the mails to me). And oil the critics did agree Tho book was choice, and wire to go; I'nll-fcilt and bound to daintily. Cisrars, I think, ore best to free One of the blues, when aa!es are slovr. They sent it through the mall to me, Full-gilt and bouud to daintily. James Newton Matthews. Masox, 111. FASHIONS IN JEWELRY. Jewelers Circular for March. In silverware for the table forms remain for the most part low and flaring. A pleasing circular brooch consists of n group of daisies in enamel set in silver. An exceedingly effective comb is of tortoise shell with a high top of faceted silver. There is a tendency to silver scarf pins, especially those of dull silver set with a single line gem. For ladies of quiet taste come all-gold brooches in oval form and embellished with applied wire-work. Hairpins 6iirnionnted by twists of dead ?;old, with and without gems, remain popuar, as do the ball hairpins, flower hairpins and tly pins. There is a fad just now for what is termed 'lucky jewelry, in which hearts, -wishbones, clover leaves, and similar objects are simulated. Watches for men tend to be flat and thin; many are open-faced. Monograms on watches run, as a rule, smaller than the elaborate ones of a few seasons ago. Ladies watches continue small in size. Wide license is permitted in the selection of cases, every style being fashionable, from the plain gold case to that incrustea with jewels. Where money is no object the diamond tiara naturally attracts patronage. One set in silver, seen recently, employed over four hundred brilliants and fifteen pearls of finest quality. Leather goods with gold and silvermountings are now considered staudard articles in the jeweler's stock. Change is noted in the making of pocket-books in the tendency to the square shape. The demand for enamel continues. Tho transparent enamel appears for the wings of insects, petals of rlowers, etc. The opaque enamels are in great request, especially in floral jewelry. Mexican onyx, one of -tho handsomest as well as lowest priced of ornamental stones, is made up in many pretty small things, such as jewel boxes, photograph frames, paper weights and inkstands. As in other personal ornaments, there is no stereotyped style for tinge r-rings. Solitaires, round clusters, gems set in square 6bapes or in a Marquise medallion, are all equally fashionable. The same remark holds true where the gems are placed in diagonal lines or in a straight row around the linger. The fancy for decorative frames continues, those for photographs and calendars being especially desiraole. These frames come m both silver and gold, and are frequently studded with semi-precious stones. Occasionally these frames are enameled. Numbered with the newer styles are those shewing rococo effects. Gem-set jewelry, much of which employs the colored stones now so popular, furnishes numerous instances in which good taste as to the proper harmonies and contrasts of colors is observed. Colors are frequently used together, which, on first thought, seem iucongruons. Our jewelers have learned, however, that each color may be made to harmonize with every other, by changing tints and tones and gradually bringiug these together. The Naughty Yassar Girls. Washington Post. Those dreadfully naughty Vassar girls appear to have been playing pranks again ou poor old President Taylor, u ben it was reported in the Kew York papers that eighty-two of the giddy girls had occupied scats at the Casino matiuee last Saturday. President Taylor at once wrote to the editors, saying the report was absolutely falsa. Now conies the manager of the Casino and, deposing, saith that eighty-two seats were reserved by telegraph for as many Vassar girls on that occasion and that they were occupied by that number of young ladies, "who, as he cautiously puts it, "we were under the impression were stndents of Vassar Colleae." As the opera was "'Nadjy," which is very nice and a little naughty, the preponderance of evidence seems to be on the side on which President Taylor is not. m Peculiarities of 3Iisa Candy's Trousseau. London Letter. When Miss Cardy. the Indian soldier's daughter who recently married the Duke of Newcastle, left her native India for England her Indian imrse accompanied her, and continued, whiie submitting to the English fashions as far as concerned her nurse

ling's frocks, to drvs her in such underclothes as are comurs'uly worn by the girls of Hindoostan. These were so comfortable, and such an iniprovennt on the ordinary Occidental wear, that fld'iss Candy has never relinquished them, .ut'd her expensive trousseau consists of .fhe lrrenchiest of French gowns over nn.uVrgarments cut in patterns worn by the Zeuaiia women for a thousand vears or more. Linens that are called in their picturesque phrase 'woven wind," are made up into garments wit h an unpronounceable Indian n a me. which extend from the neck to the kuce. lor the upper part of the body this mPPies a soft swathing without bulk, daeld on the shoulders and at tho waist wi.U' curiouslywrought antique ivory and ,t'd clasps. Below the waist it turns into Titr ki.sh troneers. which are clasped at the kntvs by more of these clasps, which also serve iV hold the silk stockings, doing away with tut' garter. 1 TIIE EARTH'S MOTION. -

Some Interesting InforiKation About tWBaU on Vfhlch We Live, Tooth's Companion. The earth revolves on her axi s in 23 ho vrs, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds. This time is inquired for one rotation from astarroutyl to the same star again. The revolution a therefore called a sidereal day. While the earth has been turning on her. axis, she has been advancing in her orbit, and it will take her four minutes on the average to cotue to the same position in regard to the sun; thus, adding four minutes to the length of the sidereal day, gives 21 hours for tho solar dav. The time of the axial rotation has not varied the hundredth part of a second in 2.000 years. It may, therefore, bo considered as invariable, aud is consequently adopted as a fundamental unit in astronomical measurement. The earth revolves in her orbit around the sun in SoS.Ub' days, giving another standard measure of time, the lenrth of the year. The velocity of tho rarth iu her orbit is almost incomprehensible, for the lingo sphere spins along at the average rate of eighteen miles in a second. Tho earth's orbital revolution and the inclination of her axis to the plane of the ecliptic cause the changes of the seasons and the varying length ot day and night. The earth has a more complicated motion known as tbe precession of the equinoxes. It consists of a wabbliug motion of the polo of the heavens around the pole of the ecliptic, in a small circle requinug 25,000 years to complete. It in caused by the attraction of tho sun and moon upon the earth at the equator. Consequently, ecliptic and equator do not cross at the same point, but the equinoctial falls back each year tifty sec-' onds of a degress. One effect of the movement is to chango tho polar star, for to whatever point of the heaven the pole points, the nearest star to that point is the polar star. The present polar star will no longer enjoy that distinction, 3,000 years heuce, and tho brilliant Vega will be tho polar star, lti.000 years hence. The earth is moving through space. The sun, earrying with him the planets, satellites, comets and meteoric bodies following in his train, is hastening toward a point in the constellation Hercules at the rapid pace of 20,003 miles an hour. It might seem that, traveling at this rate, the goal must soon be reached. Such, however, is the inconceivable distance of the stars that more than million j'ears must pass before our sun and his family, at the present rate of travel, have spanned the depths of space that intervene between their present position and the shining suns of Hercules. SCIENTIFIC SCKATS. It has ben observed that the Eiffel tower, now over 070 feet high, has been frequently envaloped in cloud at a height of 520 feet. Prof. Grabafti Bell says that the congenital deaf na.tes of the country are increasing at a groviter rate thau the general population. Recent elect ros(Vpic experiments fully coniirm former contusions regarding the origin of atmosphcjKc electricity from aqueous evaporations. In the severe earthquake shock that occurred recently in VogtJand there were remarkably loud subterranean noises, but no serious damage. The administration in .Brazil is going to fit tip all telegraph station suitably situated with instruments for making meteorological observations. . .Trip greatest mean heighis and depths of continents and ocean are fonnd m the northern hemisphere betwven SO and 40 and in the southern between 10 and S0 An area of 3,.rjO0 square miles in the drain ago basius of the Jeniea and Kio Grande has been survej'cd with nnicient detail to construct a map on a scale of two miles to an inch. The remedy against sore throat of wearing a few threads of Berlin wool around the throat is said to act by keeping up a belt of skin actiou, and so acting as a counter-irritant. It is said that .a fatigued eye recovers last the perception of the color by which the fatigue has been induced, and first recover the sensitiveness of the complementary color. . It was found that tho loss by evaporation from a large tank for supplying the city of Nagpur with water was, in the hottest season, two and a half times as great as the quantity supplied for consumption. An admirable textile matter, said to be 6of t, elastic, tonjrh and silky, md which can be chemically blanched withont losing these properties, has been obtained, iu France, from a plant called kanaff, brought from tho shores of the Caspian sea. .A building eighteen by twenty-two feet and fourteen feet high, macje of canvas and paper and built in sections or convenient transportation, has been made for tio Harvard South American astronomical party. A galvanized-iron cupola surmounts this structure. FUGACIOUS SCISSORS. An Instrument Which Disappears in the Most Mytterlons 3 tanner. ColUer's Once a Week. Tho apparently fugacious halutsof scissors have been noticed since the earliest historic period. They disappear with a celerity and secrecy wholly without parallel in tho history of lost objects. A woman is sewing and has a pair of scissors iu her lap. Sho uses them, say twice, and each time drops them again in her lap. The third time fhe. wishes to use them she cannot find them. Though she searches her lap, her dress, her chairand t he floor t horoughly, she cannot find tbe slightest trace of the missing scissors, and thereafter they aro never again seen by mortal eyes. Or let us say that a woman, in the very act of nsing a pair of scissors, is called from her work. She places the scissors carefully in her work-basket, goes out, locking the door after her, and returns iu ten or fifteen minutes to find her scissors gone. What is the more remarkable about the disappearance of scissors is that once having disappeared they are never again found. You may loose a tack-hammer or a comb, but .-oouer or later you find the missing article behind some piece of furniture, but a pair of scissors once lost are lost forever. There is scarcely a case on record of tbe final recovery of a pair of scissors that have been missed and have not been found within the next five minutes. That there is something peculiar in the disappearance of scissors is virtually admitted by women when tbey seek to prevent the loss of scissors by means of charms. For a piece of ribbon, which many women attach to tho handle of their scissors 'to prevent them from being lost," must act as a charm, or otherwise it would be valueless. How, in the name of science and common sense, can the mere fact that four inches of blue ribbon are tied to the handle of a pair of scissors keep them from being mislaid? In point of fact it does nothing of the kind, and in spite of women's faith in the blueribbon cnarin, it is absolutely useless. If, however, we assume that the origin of this custom was tho attaching of a bit of witchhazel to the handle of a pair of scissors, wc can understand it. The woman of the middle ages had a vague belief that the disappearance of scissors was due to the witches, and therefore called in the aid of witchhazel. The modern woman, ignorant of the peculiar efficacy of witch-hazel, fancies that anything tied to a pair of scissors will keep them from being lost, and she prefers ribbon to witch-hazel because it is prettier and more convenient. S. Many of Iler. Philadelphia Press. A fine portrait of the woman who was responsible for the death of the late Prince Kudolf of Austria is now in market In PaTis. II tho picture is a good likeness wo assume as a matter of course that her eminent Unenviablencss had herself taken in a group.

AMUSEMENTS.

ENGLISH'S OPEEA-HOTJSE

Ono week

. beginning To-morrow Night. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday, Jefferson & Taylor's GREAT AQUATIC SPECTACLE,

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PARK THEATER EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THIS WEEK.

A NOTABLE DRAMATIC EVENT. Special engagement of the Distinguished Artists, MR. JAMES M. MISS SARA HARDIE HE VON LEER In their Grand Melodrama Spectacle ON THE FRONTIER

A GREAT PLAY. SPLENDIDLY ACTED.

50-PEOPLE Df THE PRODUCTION 50 INCLUDING A GENU1NG INDIAN BRASS BAND. Act I. Departure of the Soldier Act III. The Massacre. Act II. Attack on the Settlement Act IV. JThe "Rescue. Act. V. Fight to the dcaih and arrival of reinforcenienU. Popular Prices ioc, 20c, 30c. Matinee Prices only 10c and 20c. THE CYCLORAMA PRIZE ESSAYS First prize avartlcd to Miss Gracs William?, 122 Olive street, $25. fc'cniid rrize tr Master Panl W. Mavlty, y09 College avenue, $15. The essays of Margaret Sale and Jesse Martin are worthy of special mention. Ko competitor tot toe third, prize. SEE THE BATTLE OF ATLANTA Sunday afternoon, from 1 to 6. Adoltm. 25c; children nnder fifteen year. 15c

T0MLLNS0N HALL Tuesday Evenins, Feb. 26, WICKHAM CONCERT For the benefit of ths FREE KINDERGARTEN. ArtmiMion. 25c.50c.75o and fl. No extra charge fcr reserves. See. the box sheet and seenra seats at oikce at office of C. Z. Co til n tCa,WE. Market St. GRAND OPERA - HOUSE MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 23, Ecats's Beautiful Poem, ST. AGNES' EVE IUnstrated by a series of animated tableaux. Scenee from Shaksiicare. Entertainment given for the ben etit ot ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL. Admission, .TO cfnts. Soatamay te reserved with, out extra charge Thursday morning aud after.

CHICAGO AET GLASS CO., MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IS STARED, ORNASENTAL and BEVELED GLASS. Memorial Ckrci Vdm a SycdaHy. EDWARD SCHURMANN, No. O Odd-Fllow' Hall. Designs and Estimates Furnished Free on Application State Agent. IXDIANAPOLT, TST.

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Donald McKay. tno wnito people in lSitf, ana tnis eirupio inama medicine has accomplished moro cures than any similar medicine known to civilization. Tho - OREGON 4- INDIANS first used it to eradicate tho Poisonous Blood Taints contracted from tho Tvhit adventurers. It cures DYSPEPSIA, LIVER COMPLAINT AND DISEASED KIDNEYS. AH druggists keep it It has been imitated and counterfeited. The genuine has the name blown in the bottle and a cut of the greatest Indian fccout, Bonali McKu, on We Wrapper, Red Letters.

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