Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 June 1894 — Page 1

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What a splendid occasion was that of last Saturday evening at the opera house, when our people gathered together for the purpose of celebrating the eightyfifth birthday of Col. R. W. Thompson. It was not a crowd that gathered out of idle curiosity, but every heart beat in it was in sympathy with the hero of the evening. It was a moat remarkable WM-...— •"gathering in many ways, but When Charley Duffiu. and "Bill" hopes that Mr. Thompson uiav be spared Ryan and Lein Hopewell strike Milwaufor many more birthday calibrations, kee next Monday, as delegates to the and he ventures tosaj* that each of lhern Nationa' I\ A wnvMition, with Curt can be made more rewoarkaole than its Black, Vory Grillhh, and Clarence Mcpredecessor. '*1 Connell as alternates, and with "Bob''

Q. V. desires to go on record as being parrjflgton

in favor of allowing any Vigo county

man away from home to have whatever

he wants, no matter what his politics may be. Edwin St. George Rogers, the farmer statesman from Honey Creek township, is tpoken of as a candidate for Congress from the Indianapolis district, and Q. V. hopes he will get the nomination. Edwin St. George was formerly a farmer, but dropping backward he became a statesman, and now has become an TndlanapoHs lawyer. In spite of thin, however, the man with the multiplicity of given names Is all riitht just as long as he doesn't write a card.

Having settled their county ticket, the Republicans of Vigo county are head over ears in business trying to decide among themselves as to who they want as a congressional candidate.' Nearly every other county in the district has a candidate this year, but this Is looked upon as a bluff, as it is tacitly agreed that if the Vigo county people can agree on one man the nomination will come here. For a while there were but two candidates, George W. Farls and Frank p. Sargent, but tills week another castor was shied into tlio ring, that of my young friend, Col. Thos. H. Nelson, who gets his title, not from his years, or his military service, hut from the fact that he is the most adept disci plw of Chesterfield now left ou the western hemisphere. The courtly colonel is a past master in the art of saying nice things, and if he gets the nomination for congress the honeyed words he will uso iu this district would make the sugar trust out prices to meet competition. The only thing that can bo used against the colonel Is his extreme youth, but It is possible that ho may be able to over-, come this objection by his plausible talk. Well the colonel is an avowed candidate, and he Is devoting some time to the matter. Mr. Sargent has labored under a disadvantage in the raoe, in that the duties of his oliieial position «s grand master of the B. L. F. have kept him out or tue city almost constantly duriug the past few months. A candidate for congress isn't expected to make a canvass from corner to corner like a candidate for city or county office, but it is well enough to be at the seat of war with your guns trained to repel a sortie of the enemy, or to turn a surprise into a rout. Herein Mr. Sargent has been at a disadvantage. A man's friends can do a world of good for him, but the magio of his jiresenoe, if he is anything of a politician, will doubly lnorease this good. And this is where Mr. Farts is getting In his work. He ha* many warm personal friends working for him, like Mr. Sargeut, but he Is here to superintend the work. It counts. It seems to be the sense of the members of that party, so far as Q. V. has heard them express themselves, thattbe Vlgocounty delegates should get together, find out which of the three men has the greatest strength and then pull for him. He has heard close friends of the three candl dates thus express themselves, as they realise that with three candidates from the county before the convention Vigo county will get what the little boy shot at—and that wasn't much. It is the first time for several decades ihal Vlgocounty Republicans havs had a chance to have a candidate for congress, and If they are unable to agree on one now the members of their party iu other parts of the district will make up their minds that they oughtn't have

chance for

many more decades.

tion has a newspaper, and the mean things one of them can't think to say tbe others will. Harmony up there doesn't waft Its sweet odors through the ambient air like the perfumes of Araby the blest, bat rather sends up a noisome smell like a garbage furnace out of kilter. It improves the chances, of course, of his Republican opponent, and that's why there are so many candidates this year where two years ago there were hone

Watson, Charlie Baur, E. E South and

Morton Clark Andrews Fred F. Hlldreth Bri James Oarll&le Holding. Edgar Franklin Robinson George Harold Winters

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Mr. Brookshire will, of course, be nominated, but with a Democratic majority of 1500 to 1800 in the district, he isn't sure of a re-election- Her* in Vigo ana a number ot prominent and influent tiat politicians who are not going to rend their shirts, tear their hair or alt up lat» o' nights trying to indue© Republicans to vote ror him, or even try to hold their own. They think, some of them, that he is booked for defeat, and the thought is fathered by a wish to see him thus treated. With an elephantine step bo has trodden on their dearest hopes, and with a pilo driver thud he has knocked the foundation from under their many}UUH14 imposing rostlea in the air. When the times to them seem propitious for a iarge-sised "dump" they are going to dump, while they smile and took pi essAnt, Even Orawfordsville, where Walter Huiot and several others look on him a littlehM*than a demigod, Mr. Brookshire has a fight on hi* bands. The Democracy there is divided Into three iactiona, "Ragged Reubens," "Silk 8lockings" and "Cuckoos." to Improve rt

TERRE HAUTE, END.,

assistants, the T.

people will follow the coon's ex-

wUfa Davy Crockett| andsay,

"If

that's you, Mr. Terre Haute, we'll come down." They are going up there de-

termined to secure the national convention for next year. Ibey will open headquarters at one of the leading hotels there and in the gently persuasive manner for which they are noted, they will leap the delegates ffp to the point of voting for Terre Haute in '95. Q. V. hopes they will bo successful.

Qui VIVE.

COMMENCEMENT WEEK The past week has been marked by the number of commencement exercises of Terre Haute's noted educational institutions. On Monday evening Coates College held its graduating ceremonies at Washington avenue church, when a very entertaining progfptnme was given. Miss Edna Josephine Mcfoavitt was the only [graduate. The baccalaureate sermon was given at the same place Sunday evening, by Kev. A. A. Pfanstiehl, of Lafayette.

On Thursday the graduating ceremonies of the Rose Polytechnic were held, and the class graduated in the courses named.

Bachelor of Science. ~4

ELKCTRlCAt ENGINEERING.

Warwick Miller Aiulersou Louisville, ky John Franklin Denehie Terre Haute Oren Roberts Heddon .... Robinson, 111 Sigurd Lund Houdrllcson .... Onicago, 111 David McUulloch Indianapolis Charles E. Mendenhall. Washington, Paul Mlschler Terre Haute Edward Roklel .... CloverporL Ky James Hamuel Roy He Terre Haute James Buck uer Speed ... Louisville, Ky Howard Maxwell atanton Indianapolis

Civil. RNGINEERINQ

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.ampioa, r« Terre Haute Earllngton, Ky

Lawn, O.

CIIKMISTRY.

Walter Moultou Blinks .... Michigan City E W am re a Edward Frohman Cincinnati, O Hubert Gorham Kllbourno Terre Haute Austin Van Hoesen Mory Manchester, la

MASTER OF SCIKNCE.

Hamuel Durflap Collett, BS Clinton Theodore Lincoln 'ondron, S Chicago, 111 William J. Davis,"Jr.,BS. Louisville, Ky Alouzo John Hammond Frankfort Waldo Arnold Layman .... St. Louis, Mo

Last night one of the largest classes ever graduated from the High school gave its commencement exercises at the opera house* The members of the class are May Gundlefinger, May Alexander, Nora Arnold, Margaret Baird, Jennie Dinkel, Blanche Barnes, William Rlppetoe.Jesaie Barr, Irene-Bensinger, Elsie Crawford, Chas. Kolsem, Jefferson D. Blything, Coralyn Brqpralee, Thes. Casey, Lottie Moorhead, Ansley Cowan, Pearl Ellis, EmeHa Freers, Wm. Freldenrelch, Clarence Reid, Frank Orth, Robt. Gibbons, Leona Hammeratein, Carrie Holmes, Maude Fidlar, Lillian Jones, Bertha Kern, Arthur Kidder, Chas. Kloer, William Shryer, Harry Likert, Chas. Leedham, Orlie Mahan, Clara Marlow, Chas. Mewhlnney, Nellie Paddleford, Warner Paige, Mabel Ryan, Beth Parker, Blrdella Smith, Ada Skelton, Kate Strouse. Joseph Weinstein, Mattie Williams, Ernest Williamson, Percy Williams, Anna Wilson, James Wharry, Clayton Park.

The Republicans nominated their county ticket last Saturday afternoon, as follows:

Representati ves—Louis Finkbiner and Or. T. L. Spaulding. Superior Judge—David W. Henry.

Prosecuting Attorney Samuel M. Huston. Clerk—David L. Watson.

Auditor—James Soules. Treasurer—Wilton T. Sanford. Recorder—Charles Denny, Sherifl—John Bmler. Coroner—Dr. A. T. Payne. Surveyor—Wui. H. Harris. Commissioners—First district, Thos. Adams Third district, Richard Cochran.

Now that the Republicans have placed their ticket in the Held, conjecture has been started as to who the Democrats will nominate for the various offices. There are not as many candidate® aa there were before the Republteaeeonvention. A Democrat who claims to be well posted prophesied this week that tha candidates would be named as follows:

Prosecutor—L. D. Lev«que»."f'-:.'.'^ Superior Judg»-Finl«y McNutt or Eiinir F. Williams.

Clerk—Uagh D. Roquet Auditor—G. A. Schaal. Sheriff—Louis Seeburger or Wm. R. Whitt.

Treasurer—John L. Walsh. Recorder—Fred Stlnotnao.

Several fmprovementa have recently been made in the Christian church, among them being a large exhaust fan which haa been placed In the auditorium ltilation.

BAB ON STYLISH GIRLS.

SHE ASKS WHAT GOES TO MAKE UP A SWELL GIRL OF TO-DAY.

How a Correct np to Date Damsel Should Dress and Behave—Beautj's Toggery Tends to Drain H« Papa's Cheque Book-

How the Old-Time Lady and Miss Spinster Begard the

Untra-Fashionable

Girl,

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Ranging with the other questions of the day there is one that may be countfid as quite as frivolous as the strawberry. And yet which is paiticulariy interesting to women. Though it is best answered by man. I started out to ask it with the intention of getting some typical answers, so I first applied to Mr. T. Green Olive, who, while be dresses well, inclines a little to the noisy, and one almost hears him comine:. Said I, "What is a Stylish Girl?"

He looked at bis patent leather shoes as if for inspiration, and then, after thinking a bit, he answered me: "A stylish girl is, to my way of thinking, a girl who is so well got. up that all the men stare at her as she passes by. Who wears the very latest color, who keeps her waist down to eighteen inches, and who would rather stay in the house forever than have to go out in a gown of last season. She is a girl whom all the men envy yon. She is fashionable i^ her slang and her dog, and when fox terriers are in she has got one, and when bull pups are counted smart, she has the fiercest looking specimen in town! That 1b my idea of a stylish girl." THE GIRII IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATK LIFE.

The next man I approached was the exact opposite to Mr. Olive, He clung to the old-fashioned name of his grandfather, and posed as representing the solidity of the country. His visiting cards have upon them, "Mr. Isaac Truthful, Third." It was over an after-dinner cup of coffee that I asked him the momentous question, and he said:

stylish girl is oue who is so perfectly dressed that nobody ever notices what she has on. She abhors anythiug that is loud, she would as soon put on trousers as smoke a cigarette, and she would prefer to swear rather than speak loudly. She is absolutely even, but never conspicuous. I think correct is the best word to describe her. That is my idea of a stylish girl."

Later in the evening, I met Tommy Tweedledum. Nobody ever called him Thomas in his life. At present, he is gorgeous in a frock coat that reaches to his ankles, and a hat with a pronounced bell crown and rolling brim. Tommy is an authority on everything in the fashionable world, and his smooth little face has some wrinkles upon it that prove there may be worries, even in ordering dinners or leading the ootillion. I asked Tommy the question. He looked at me, and then he said: "I don't like the word stylish, bnt as we have nothing better to describe that sort of girl, I will tell you what I think she is. She would never make the mistake of wearing an afternoon frock in the morning, or travelling in a shabby visiting oostume. She is trig in a tailor salt at 10 o'olock, wears a hat that has no flowers upon it, russetshoes, gloves to match, and her shirt is immaculate. It is made like mine with the collars and cuffs on. "In the afternoon,

A OCT DRIVING OR VI8ITING,

she is gay in a silk gown with a fanciful bat, an elaborate parasol and light gloves. Of course, this is when she is driving in a victoria if she is on the box seat of a coach, or if she is driving with some ohap in a high cart, then she is tailor-made to a degree, and it isn't the same tailor-made as the morning, for the shirt is omitted, and a bodice, which fits to perfection, that is buttoned, and without trimming, so that the outlines of her figure show to good advantage, is worn. She abhors an 18-inch waist which she considers an evidence of bad taste. Her shoes and gloves fit well, but are never tight. At dinner, her gown is always low in the neck, and if she is goiAg to a ball afterwards, it is unusually elaborate, so that she will not have to undergo being dressed again. The stylish girl is the one who is always fit. You know she is not going to make mistakes in her clothes any more than she does in her manners. She has learned the great art of wearing clothest which, if she did not understand it, would make all her handsome frocks useless.

MAXNKRS MAKE A WOMAN. 4tThen

there ia a style," you know in

manners, and I consider that part of the clothes that she assumes for social purposes. She knows just how to give a cool bow, and bow to give a cordial one, and she understands the drawing of line* eo well that she never, by any mistake, gives the wrong bow to the wrong man. Without exaggerating it, aher ia up to the last new handshake, and just now, while they are still being worn among us, she uses a monocle is a plain gold framing. She never ssys anything against anybody, because she knows that isas bad form aait would be to wear thoae hideous purples that are sold in the ahopa on the side streets. She buy* her toggery from the beet people, and ahe la certain that they will not make any mis

SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 16,1894.

takes, because much of their reputation feomes from women like her. Take her altogether, the stylish girl is the proper girl and the girl that does one credit Tommy's description wasn't a bad one.

THE NEXT MAN I STRUCK

was a dignified old gentleman, who asked me if by stylish I meant agreeable, or beautiful, or fascinating. I told hiip no I thought I meant the girl whose clothes were so successfully worn that she had a special air of her own. He said he liked to see a woman look nice but that he thought a great deal more of her being agreeable, and that when she was, he forgot all about her dress. Evidently the stylish'giil was an unknown quantity to him.

A woman said: "The stylish girl is that one who is as effective in ootton as in silk, and who, if she wore a meal-bag, with a string around the middle, would tie the string in such a way, and arrange the bag so successfully, that when she appeared all the other women would crowd around her to ask her who it was that had imported those exquisite bags, and those stunning strings. She is the sort of a girl whose veil is always fastened right, whose handkerchief always looks immaculate, and who has an air of never having known anything about haste In her life. Her hair stays in place, ,aud she is perfectly up in all the different ways of taking oare of herself. She has no special abiding-place for .•?

THE STYLISH GIRL IS BORN,

not fioade. I have seen her in a country town in a gingham frock, and somehow &he had an air of smartness, although she had made the frook herself, that was much more pronounced than that possessed by any of the city girls. As Tommy Tweedledum says, a styliBh girl ia a very comfortable girl, for you know she in always going to be a credit to

A dainty old lady looked at me quizzically,

vand

reminded me that in her

day thd word stylish was unknown. "Bur," said she, "there always are women who wear their clothes in such a way that the inanimate things seem part of the animate one, and I imagine that is what you mean by being stylish. There are women whose clothes seem to have pleasure in fitting them well women whose draperies cling to them, not only with grace, but with a sort of affection, and women who have an air of their own, no matter how simple the l^own may be that is worn. Many of the great beauties have not, I imagine, been stylish women but they have been women who appreciated the beauty and value of clothes, and utilized them to increase perfections and hide faults. The stylish girl belongs to this oentury, and to the last half. I think I like her, for her manners are good, and in fitting her to be a stylish girl her mother has taught her to 'do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.' iAjg w1! SHE 18 SELDOM A FOOL.

Learning early in life how to dress properly, she does not need to devote all her time to it, and so she is able to devote hours to reading, conversation and enjoying herself. She seldom poses as Wishing to orange the position of woman, for she is quite satisfied, but she oYten knows more than the women who clklm te be very knowledgable. Her little fads

are

amusing, and do nobody

any harm. Altogether, she is muoh to be preferred to the fast girl, or the girl W^O poses, or the girl who calls herself an Advanced Woman. The stylish girl is agreeable, and usually has cultivated her brain and her heart so well that when trouble comes she can face it in a womanly, straightforward manner. Yes, ipy dear, I like her, and I am knitting her a purse now."

And the needles clicked, and I looked up, and beside me stood Miss Anna Raphael. Dowdy in her yellowish Empire gown, and with her hair frowsily framing her sharp, sallow face, she had about her waist a queer Oriental girdle, and in her hand a tiny fan, such as pleased our grandmothers. "The stylish girl?" she said with disgust. "I despise her. She has such a having-solved-the riddle look. She is so suggestive of soap and water. She is clean until it becomes inartistic, and she would rather correct, from a fashionable standpoint, than from that great one of Art. She is too exact looking, and always, always, she makes me feel so conscious, so apery conscious, of her extreme neatntiib and you know as well as I do that nothing artistic ever hints of that," She went away, and I looked at my old lady, and we both smiled, and wished that the lady who dressed in the interest of art would see

the

advantages of soap and

water, and of neatness in some good hereafter, where dirt was really considered dirt, and cot made poetical by calling it the bloom of time.

SUCCESS IS DRESS.

To my mind, the stylish girl has not yet been fully described, for looked at from a proper point of view, she repre sente, in dress, success. She always reaches that happy medlnia, and has the -tang of a well-bred woman, A loud gown would be more offensive to her than a dowdy one* and too many |ewels worse than none at all. Like my dear old lady, 1 like the stylish girl. She is pleasing to the eytss, and she Is dainty. I can quite understand the charm that

she has for men, and I can fancy her now, counting her victims among the thousands during the summer. She is the girl of the day. She is interested in many things, and In whatever she undertakes to do she succeeds. She may spend the month down at the University settlement, but during that time she will wear the plainest tailor-made frock, teach classes in German, or go out and read the German Bible to sick old women. She is absolutely correct, and she is wholesome. She enjoys herself as every girl should—that is her right. But she is big minded enough to know that enjoyment does not constitute all of life, and that the days will com in which pleasure will have no part. She is oheerful and bright and happy because she is satisfied with herself, and this is a proper satisfaction that, if she were older, woula be called self-respect. HI SHE WILL MAKE A GOOD WIFE, for, knowing what is right, she will dress to suit her husband's position, and her children will not look like French dolls in silk and lace, but announce the good sense of their mother by their cotton and wool. Probably the best evidence of her good sense is thai she always takes an umbrella with her when it looks as if it were going to rain. True, it is ia smart looking umbrella, but it is a useful one, intended to bear the burden of rain drops. If I had a son I should like him to marry a stylish girl. For I believe, as I said before, that she is the best type^of the young girl ef to-day. *f'i tf

HER IMITATORS ARE MANY,

but one can easily detect the false from the true. There is always iu the get-up of the would-be stylish girl an inharmonious note sometimes it is a wrong color, sometimes it is a Jack of good grooming, sometimes it is an over-abun-dancfi of ornament, but it always exists and it can always be discoyered. lam old fashioned inasmuch as I rather fancjT drinking a toast so, "To the health of the stylish girl. God bless her! She is an American to her finger tips, she is as bright as she Is pretty, aa witty as she is well dressed, and as good as she is sweet and clean." I ask you to drink with ''h ®AB-

'TEACHINGTHE YOUNG.IDEAM

The List of Next Year'* Instructor*

1 City Schools.

^The school trustees this w^efc made the selection of teachers for next year, but have not yet made the assignment to the schools!. The following Are the selections made.

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J. A. Boyer' "Mary Duncan' Pauline Christman

Helen E. Tyler W. A. Lake Fannie M. Tlchenor Alice Boore Anna Buhl Alice M. Bebb Anna Hartung Martha B. Gllctt BeBsle E. Moore May Manlove Orville E.

Laura Ray

SlEuphem la 0. Lewis v!?^J3ortha Bradley A. L. Wyeth

Jennie Farnham Eir ma L. Merrlng El iee State Fannie M. Beach Mary G. Connelly •CMEmllie Neukom

Connor

Marietta Grover Martha Logan Sarak A. ward

Hae E. Wilklns

Elizabeth Crawford Herbert Briggs Adorah L. Knight Rose Reiss

Nellie Monroe Margaret Price Wm. Ward Anna Hanrahan Emily W. Peakes Kate Pardy Katharine Walsh Sarah K. Davis Harriet Bardsley C. Stokes Joseph Jackson-^' Mary Redlfer C. Probst Anita C. Osborne Emllie Meyer Lizzie Wiseman Fred D. Blake John Donaldson Mai F. Reeves JuliaC. Woodruff Idoletta Hardisty Lulu M. Hale Emily Wright Anna Katzenbach Mary C. Lewis Mary Gale Taylor Annie H. Hawtln Lucy F. Brokaw Delia Inks Louise Barbour Ellen G. Burns

a-Lllllan Smith lO? Clara Hardisty SpAletha Graves •sSSarah Scott fitJulia L. Carter ipferheresa G. Feldler wfcMay Henry ft Lnoy A. Flinn fVPau'lue Hennlnger

Ovid Lawrence

Addle M. Sparks--A Carrie B. Rupp Annie Thomas mRe becca Torner 41?«Ida B. Ecsey 'j&ll Alice W. Burnett i^W. a Blatehiey ,'A^Lydla Whliaker MMargaret B. Thompson if Charlotte M. Longman Jfrlnez Travioll Wff,Margaret Patterson fit,THlle B. Straus

Alice C. Graff j-* •%'Lenora Pound -llza F.Yates ary M. O'Bryan

Frances K. Schwedes Grace Rogers Jessica Cllver RoseB. Griffith Eva M. Thompson Elizabeth M. Wright Anna Bishop Edith MacLeau Mary B. Wilklns Catherine Denny Helen Scheurman Mary Klannlgan Nannie M. Hunter Anna B. Hoffman Mary S. Katzenbach Margaret Preston Rose Trueb Chester L. Fidlar Martha A. Blegter Margaret Kenney Elizabeth Messmore Elizabeth L. Blything Blanche Stark 'Jennie M. Ward Mary C.Purcell^ Lamg Kewler Anna Froeb ,:Ada F. Sammls W. E. Miller )®f$SFClova A. Lawrence Minnie Wagner Of el lie B. Harris

Mary E. O'Mara ||f||Emma A. Farrls Anna G. Scudder ^Margaret Wisely5 Elizabeth SolomonflgAnna Walser Eleanor R. Jaggers ^Bealah E. McCoy Lillle E.

Simpson .^ggglary B. Clatfelter

Eva Chester ^#fay Supera 7 CoraPJanett ^Allce i-Awrence W. A. Lake, who graduates frem the Normal this vear has been elected teacher of 1 *n to fill the place formerly held by Pui. Mariow.

WHEN A GIRL WANTS TO BE A MAN When her wet shirts flap about her ankles and her hair comes out of curl.

When she earnestly desires to use a word that printers express by a dash. When she hears some one say: "What a pity it Is that our girls are brought up to regard marriage as almost Inevitable as death 1" -When she sees how effectively men express all their emotions by posing with their hands in their pockets.

When she learns that there are spring styles in dogs as well aa dress. When she compares the price of a man's Easter bonnet with that ef her own.

When the queen of the kitchen abdicates and the daughter of the house has to take her plaoe.

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Twenty-fourth Year

PEOPLE AND THINGS.'

the Senators want is free sugar and free whisky. They nan get hot water almost any place.

A boy swallowed a revolver cartridge one day last week, and his mother doesn't dare to "wallop" him for fear he'll go off. ,.

Berlin had 6,500 Hebrews in 1810, 30,000 in 1870, and 75,000 iu 1890. It is estimated that they own 46 per cent, of all the houses In that city.

The oldest library in the United States is claimed to be the New York Socioty Library in University place. AS Its story is given, It was established by the Earl of Bellamont In 1700 in the new oity hall in Wall street, where the subtreasury building now stauds. New York then had a population of about 5,000.

The latest development iu the milk business in London is to drive the cows around the route and have them milked in the presence of tho customers. The customer is thus ab!o to judge for himself of the healthy appearance of the animal, and is sure of the freshness of the milk. The practice is a common and ancientone in Egypt

Robert Wluthrop. who is in his eightysixth year, has had a personal acquaintance with every president of the United States except Washington and Jefferson. He is the oldest liviug ex-speaker of the national house of representatives, the oldest surviving Massachusetts senator, and it is seventy-three years since he ,i. was a schoolboj' at Boston's celebrated m,r Latin school.

Senator Harris, of Tennessee, is sup^ posed to be the oldest man iu the Senate, although he will not disclose his age, and gives no statistical information iu the autobiographical sketches that grace the pagi*s of the 00agressional directory but by figuring out his publio service, any one oan discover that Mr. Harris is a very old mau. He says he commenced to practice law in 1841, which was fifty.three years ago, and if he. was only 21 years oid at the time he must be 74 votrs old now. He was a presidential elector in I^-J.S, when Zachary Taylor and Lowis ('ass ran against Martin Van Buren, aud In 1*40. lie was first elected to Congress.

Lotta

ia accounted the richest actress

in the world. She is rated at about $2,500,000. Joe Jefferson probably comes next, but a long way behitid. Booth left a handsome fortune, notwithstanding the large sums which he gave away before he died. Irving lives expensively and gives lavishly, but Is worth conslderably over £100,000. Few other actors oan count their wealth up to six figures. The greatest money-maker of the profession, except Lotta, was another woman, Emma Abbott, who left f8,000,000 or ?4,000,000, but her great wealth was largely due to the excellent investments made for her by her husband, who was not only a born money-maker, but ft most plucky and at the same time^ judicious speculator.

The Japanese have got the wrinkle in- fs to their head that their slanting eyes j? must straighten out like a white man's. The consequences is that a surgeon who was doing veiy little in this country is fast getting rich in the novel business, He has been there only two years, but he has induced several classmates to join him, and they are very fast compiling respectable bank account. The opera- -i tion for straightening* the slant in the Jap'B eye is described as comparatively painless. It is confined exclusively to the exterior corner of the eyelids. The

surgeon's sharp little blade is inserted under that part of the lid near the slant, an almost infinitesimal slit is made, a fine silk thread stitches the parts together and, presto, change! the Jap arises from the chair a happy man, with eyes as straight as those of any white man.^

CAPT. FITCH RESIGNS. Capt. A. B. Fitch, who recently returned from New Mexico, where he was engaged in the sliver mining business, has filed his resignation as City Engineer, to which be was elected by the new council. He has abetter position,

it is said, although he would prefer to ,i3 remain here jvith his family. The resignation will be presented to the council Tuesday night, but It is not likely bis successor will be named then, but the acting engineer, Harry Boaler, will be continued for the present.

VALE, WABASH CLUB. The well-known Waba«h Club is no more. At a meeting last night the club was disbanded, and an auction sale of the effects was ordered for next Friday night. Lack of interest is assigned as the cause of the disband men 1, but it is privately asserted that so many of the members are booked for marriage in the near future that the others are afraid of going broke buying wedding presents.

LICENSED 10 WED.

George F. Schaberth and Minnie C. Harris Patrk W. Moloney end Elizabeth C. Wolf. Alexander L.

Crawford and Belle Purdue.

Chas. Van Blyke and E. Gertrude Mam. Calvin Winters and Martha Larison. Chas. E. Dodacn and Ida Wlmer. Geo. H. Montgomery and Lesore Katzenhfteb.

Carl I* Sod brink and Mary Hardin. Benjamin Hodgem and Ida £. Bennett.