Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 May 1890 — Page 4

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TERRE HAUTE, MAY 17, 1890.

Ko money la literary work, you say? "Well, here Is George Augustus Sala getting §10,000 a year for four editorials a week in the London Telegraph. And only an English newspaper at that!

J. K. EMMKIT (Fritz) is said to haye •cleared §90,000 the present season. Sam Jones, the revivalist, sometimes makes as high as §2,000 a week. Sacred and «ecular comedy appear to be on .about the same footing in these days.

IT is noted that Edward Bellamy is going to lecture on social theories before the Chautauqua Assembly for merely having his expenses paid while Mr. Talniage demands §500 a lecture before the same body. It is not necessary to point out the tail it points itself.

Mn. Tt'iiNEu, business manager of the New York World, is credited with having invented a process by which two different colors can be printed on one page of a newspaper at the same time. This is something that printers have long been wanting and if Mr. Turner has successfully solved theproblemof printing in colors at one impression there will be a fortune in store for him.

STIUKKS are an expensive and unsatisfactory way to settle labor questions, but after all they are not wholly useless. It is found that during the five years ending with 1889, New York wageworkers engaged in 9,384 strikes, of which 4,432 were successful, with an estimated net gain in wages of §10,5S0,145. Arbitration is much better and

cheaper

How will this everlasting'tariff question be settled anyhow Days and weeks and months of discussion only seem to make tho manor more mysterious and inscrutable. Both sides are equally emphatic and obstinate that thoy are right and that tho country will go to the "domnitlon bow-wows" if their views are not adopted. Meanwhile the averago voter, not to say average Congressman, is hopelessly befogged. If this thing goes tin much longer tho poople will presently get

so

disgusted with the

"whole matter that they will pitch the ontire tarll! system overboard and Bee what will com© of It.

IT is rather a novel thing for the citizens of one nation to petition the ruler of another to modify his methods of government. Yet that is what is being done just now in this country. It Is proposed to send a memorial containing the names of 1,000,000 Americans to ihe Ossar of Russia, asking him to investigate the condition of the exiles in Siberia and suggesting that in the punishment of some of her subjects Russia is not In harmony with the humauliilng sentiments of tho one. It is safe to say that this memorial will be signed by most poople who have »n opportunity to sign it, and there is reason to hope the document will make some impression on the autocrat of tho liussias*

CmoAoo is now fairly feoltng the impetus of tho coming World's Fair. Real estate values are going skyward, enormous sales are made weekly and the boom is on. There is no end of projects to build great hotels and other buildings. Among tho big project* is that of erecting a mammoth 12-story structure on the present site of "The Fair," Ufetwtxm State, Adams and Dearborn streets 11 cover tUsSOi) square feet and cost $2,000,000. The value of the land la §3,000,000, making the entire structure the largest in Chicago and the largest In the world devoted to the purpose of a retail store. The amount of floor space, well on to a million square feet, far exceeds tho great Bon Mhrcht, of l*nrls.

A I)khvkR genius proposes a great underground palace for the Worlds Fair »t Chicago. It would be excavated out of the rock 800 or 1000 feet below the surface, have pillars of the various marbios of the world, with tunnels leading off as in the rati mines and showing the metal* aa they are found In nature. This is the greatest scheme yet suggested but we apprehend most people would rather so a thousand feet abor* ground, getting the magnificent views of the landscape

thus obtainable, than to go that far below, even to viait a subterranean palace. But they might have both. And by the way, since they are moving Libby prisons and other such things to Chicago, why not move the Mammoth cave of Kentucky, the Natural bridge of Virginia, and perhaps a mountain or two up there?

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and should be generally adopted.

Now "here's a state of things." At the recent city election in Olathe, Kan., a full female ticket was chosen and municipal affairs turned over to the women. These favored dames tried their hands at the refractory machiue but a few short weeks appeared to have satisfied them, as they are all going to resign the management of public atfairs to the men. After all is said and done there area good many drawbacks to tho life political. ________

THE Chicago Sunday Herald has agreed to send one of the lady school teachers of that city on a summer tour or Europe, paying ail her expenses. All the Herald **~nate tVieTT'4clujlce o^~fhe^toacher who In to enjoy this groat luxury by voting on tho ballots printed in the paper. Nothing liner than this has been undertaken by any newspaper and we trust tho boon will fall to some hard worked toacher who is specially in need of such a trip.

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of the Worlds Fair at Chicago will be on the lake front, extending from Randolph street on the north to 12th or 22d street on the south. The necessary space, required will be obtained by filling in the lake as far onfc as the government breakwater, at a cost variously estimated at from two and a half to five million dollars. It is estimated that the land thus obtained wouFd be worth sixty million dollars after the fair was gone. It would take a year to do the filling and pile driving. The scheme is a great one but not impracticable in the opinion of civil engineers. One objection is that it would leave so little time for the erection of the necessary buildings, but to this it is answered that the plans could all be worked out during this time, the materials got together, contracts let, etc., so that little if any time wouid really be wasted after all. It would be a beautiful place for the great exhibition and the chances are that this plan will be adopted.

deal has already been done

with electricity, but it is the opinion of experts and scientific men that the wonderful medium is yet in the childhood of+fcs development. It is predicted, with a good deal of confidence, that inside of ten years there will not be a horse railway in operation in this country. The electric motor for street-cars is driving even the cable out of St. Paul and Minneapolis, an'l the cable has long been considered the perfection of street-car service. We will all be glad when the poor horse and mule is relieved from the tireless monotony of trundling streetcars, but electrical propulsion will not probably stop with street railways. There are those who believe it will eventually succeed steam on railways, and that when it does our transportation will attain a speed hitherto undreamed of. Whether or not the traveller will ever be able to stop on the cars after breakfast in New York and eat a five o'clock supper the same day in Chicago, may be doubtful, but there are men enthusiastic enough to make such "predictions.

THE Louisiana lottery is up for discussion in that State, the company having offered the State one million dollars per annum for the privilege of carrying on the swindle. It is amusing to hear the arguments which are made in support of granting the franchise. Gov. Nichols has strongly urged the Legislature not to legalize the lottery, but he is opposed by nearly all the New Orleans newspapers on the ground that tho bank-

from the lottery octopus will justify the continuance of the swindle. In other words the people of Louisiana are told that as they need money to run the State government, they are justified iu 11 inching it from the people of other States through the medium, of the lottery swindle. This is a fine argument to make! The citizens of other States pay taxes enough to defray the cost of government and in addition to that they are to be called on to help out Louisiana by paying enormous sums to its legalized lottery. It would be much cheapor, as it would be infinitely better morals, to pay what mouey i.s needed directly to theState. But if Louisiana can't support her State government without calling on other parts of tho Union to pay a portion of the expenses by means of a lottery aide show, she would better go out of the business altogether.

IN AFRICA.

The Eastern question, which troubled Europe for so many years, seems about to be- shifted from Turkey to Africa. Tho nations mainly involved so far are Germany and England, but Portugal, France and Belgium are also claiming slices of tho pie. The two former powers already have large interests in the Dark Continent, the English possessions extending from th® Cape of Good Hope far up towards the equator, while Germany claims tho Nile north of Victoria Lake. Both nations, through tho agency of Suiuley and Emin Bey are pushing their claims to larger possessions in tho interior of the continent, and are preparing to build new railway lines for the purpose of strengthening their positions.

This rivalry cannot but inure to the benefit of Africa* There is no eivilixer like the railroad, for it carries all other civlHzimg agencies with it. It is not doubted that Africa contains undeveloped resources of the greatest value and it seems certain that the continent is destined to become one of the greatest ones 4f the earth. It remains to be seen whether the efforts of other nations to gobble it will lead to war, as has been the history of such efforts In the pasU

"PfSTERF&G OUT*"

There la no need to worry about how long the world Is going to last. The trouble is that man isn't going to last. He la getting smaller and smaller all the time and presently there will be nothiug left of him at all.

A smart Frenchman hast figured it all out and of course we hare to believe him. It appears that the original Adam was 16 feet 9 inches and from that time there was a gradual "deeeent of man." At the beginning of oar era the average height of men waft about 9 feet, which had fallen oft A incites by the time of Charlemagne. In 1610 the average height of the European race* had dropped way down to ft ft. 9, in 17B0 to & ft. 6 and in

1820 to 5 ft. 5. At the present time it is only 5 ft. 3% inches. From nearly 17 feet to a little over 5 is an awful drop in the stature of a man, and of course if this diminishing tendency is to continue it is only a question of centuries when there will be nothing left. According to this Frenchman, in 2,000 years more the race will be only 15 inches high and the little fellows can't last so very long after that. Sad, for the little fellows, isn't it?

I PERSONAL AND PEC ULIAR.

There are 100,000 in New York city who read and speak French. A herd of forty-seven elephants were recently captured in a single drive in the Gard hills in India.

A collection of postage stamps belonging to one of the Rothschilds was recently sold for §60,000. §1^

ANew York tailor makes a living l^y making over pantaloons that have been turned inside out.

Grasshoppers are being caught in great quantities in the fields near Lake Erie, and apple trees are in full blossom.

Depew estimates that the North, traveling in the South, leaves in that section about $8,500,000, and,, that at least ?6r

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000,000 is profit. The returns of the pensioned veterans who fought under the great Napoleon, who now receive §50 a year, put their number at 112 instead of 180, as in 1888.

There are 62,000 women in the United States interested in the cultivation of fruit. Last year one woman in California made a profit of §1,600 by raspberry culture j||g 'g

Not one of the 56* children b'orh "to Brigham Young was halt, lame or blind. They were all perfect in body and of sound mind, the boys especially being a sound, healthy, industrious setof men.

A recent letter from Austria was addressed: "To the Right Honorable Lady Elizabeth Katie Stanton, Care Governor of the State of Kansas, United States of America." The letter reached Mrs. Stanton.

A western clergyman recently announced that he would preach a sermon on "Looking Backward." He kept his word, for he delivered a discourse on Lot's wife to the great congregation that assembled to hear him.

It has been estimated that at least §1,500,000 will be needed to erect the necessary buildings and properly endow the new Methodist University at Washington. An appeal will be made for funds to the Methodist church at large.

Here is a rare tale. A Colorado rancher for weeks suffered from what seemed a huge carbuncle on his heel. When it broke a rifle bullet passed out. The bullet was received between the hip and knee at the battle of Antietam.

In a librarj' in Paris, tne largest in tho world, is a Chinese chart of the heavens made about six hundred years before Christ* In this chart 1,460 stars ar«

orated by scientists of the present day. Wilkie Collins direoted in his will that he should be buried in Kensal Green cemetery, at a cost not exceeding §125, that no scarfs or hat bands should be used, and that a plain stone cross to be placed over his grave should bear only the inscription which he had prepared.

President Harrison likes a good cigar, and smokes one after Iqpcheon and one after dinner. The ladies of the family do not have to withdraw when he enjoys his treat. Mrs. Harrison does not dislike the aroma of a good cigar, although she is like Mrs. Cleveland in detesting the odor of a cigarette.

An electric light of two million candle power, the most powerful in existence, has been put in operation in a lighthouse at Houstholm, on the dangerous coast of Jutland. It is mounted on a tower two hundred feet high. It is estimated that It can be seen at a distance of thirty-five miles' even in rainy weather.

Sixty-five cardinals have died since the present Pope became the head of the church, and the sacred college is cow composed almost entirely, of new men. Only sixteen of the present cardiuals were there under the late Pope, and one of these is seriously ill, while several others are over 80 years of age.

A curious little paragraph has been going the rounds of the press to the effect that the widow of Gen. Grant was to publish tyvolnmn of the dead warrior's love letters to her. There is no truth in it. Mrs. Grant i* possessed of all the letters written her by her husband, but she is not the woman to make such delicate missives public*

Seethe fine line of couches and fancy rockers now on exhibition at F. C. Fisbeck's, 311 Main street. It surpasses anything of the kind in the city.

Ice Cream, Soda Water

made from best cream and pure fruit juices at Eiser's.

Have you been troubled with doll headaches since the weather begun to get warmer? If so the explanation is very easily found. Yon are wearing the heavy hat that you wore all winter. No .wonder you have pains in the head. Cast it to one side immediately and get one of the lighter spring and summer styles. Yon will find the trouble gone, a Loeb has a larger and better stock this treason than eyer before, with all the latest and best styles. Corner Fifth and Main streets.

One Fare Bound Tilp, May SOtfcu To points in Minnesota, Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida. Tickets ate good returning thirty days from date of sale. Call at 690 Wabash a venae for tickets and information in detaiL

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Where is another store in this State selling goods at the prices we dd? Nowhere. Not one in the State. Every day some traveling man or other says, "Yon are selling those or that or this pretty cheap, aren't you? In Evansville and Indianapolis they ask this for it in Ft. Wayne they abk that for it"- And so go the expressions. To this we say, "Is there another' store in this State of our size doing the business we are?" Guess not from the looks of things.

We'll Continue for We Have an Object in View.

Will start the third week of our great May Sale, and to say the least, we look forward to a very busy week. For we'll have attractions you'll see nowhere else.

This space reserved for a special burgnln which will be announced in to-morrow (Sunday) morning's Express. Will surely inteiest you.

Referring to the above, we wish to say that the goods we intend to announce in this space are not yet in our house, but we expect them this afternoon.

Our May Sale.,

Of P. D. Muslin Underwear has been a very successful one and no doubt has pleased all who partook of the excellent bargains offered. The line was quit© broken up to Wednesday this week, but a recent arrival' makes this department replete again. In addition we received quite a line of very beautiful Muslin Underwear Sets, Gowns, Drawers, Skirts and Corset covers to match Would be pleased to have you call and see them Take elevator for second floor.

Ombre Chalked

We'Will offer Monday for the first time, a new thing in the way of "Ombre Challies," a beautiful wash fabric, soft and fine, and has all the appearance of the very expensive French Oliallie DeLaines„. The price we decided on will be 12Ac a yard.

We will also show a very large collection of 5o Challies, the styles of which have so far no equal in this city. Our yard wide Challies at 15c are still ft wonder.

You never saw such a collection of American Challie DeLaines a& we are showing every new shade and pattern is shown, price 8^c yard. Our half-wool and all-wool French Challies are prettier every clay, so some of the ladies say. Perhaps because wo have so many to choose from and the prices so low. Cheap, aren't they, at 49c yard, former price 68c.

Scotch Zephyrs.

We start Ginghams at 5c yard, for apron or dress ginghams, then we show better ones at 6£, 8 and 10c, but when it comes to real choice Zephyr Ginghams we can draw the line that will lead you to our store. We have 'em, John Anderson's, the finest made, 75 styles to choose from, all fast colors, will boil, and the price is 25c yard High Novelty French Damasse Zephyrs from 35 to G8c. They are simply sweet

Our Cashmere Ombre Sateens are 12£c yard. Exquisite styles. Sateens at 5, 8 and 10c Lawns at 2£, 6 and 8c half price.

Best Standard Prints are 5c. Then we have prints at 2£c. We are headquarters for wash Dress Goods. We are. The daily crowds are the best proof.

Lace Curtains.

May is the month when housekeepers are looking for Curtains, Lace Curtains and Portier Curtains. We want you to see ours before buying elsewhere and remember you as we have many who purchased their Curtains of us. Wo show everything from a cheap Curtain at 49c pair to the handsome Brussels, Tambour and Point Curtains upward to $30 a pair. Curtain Fixtures in all brass and all the natural woods complete from 19c up. Lower than elsewhere. Up-

Terre Haute for 25c.

\fci We show the prettiest French Embroidered Handkerchiefs in Terre Haute for 25c. The prettiest line of Ladies' and Misses' White

Aprons at 25c.

-V vi."* The best $1 Black Gro Grain Silk in Terre Haute. 4/V? The handsomest line of Eeal India and Shanghai "f Silks, both plain and fancy, at the lowest prices. .. 1 Our great May Sale of Mtuslins and Sheetings will

Continue during May, starting with the best 5c Mus~ lin ever shown in this or any other city.

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