Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 July 1896 — Page 3

$ BHE JUMPED 152 FEET

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pEBFOBMAIfCE OF A

DARINli JfOUNO WOMAJf.p^,,..

\X Was Apparently Certain Death and an JEfTort Was Made to Stay It—TIm JResuIt a Mystery.

IAI week ago it was rumotiedi aJbourt "!£xndon that a woman lhad signed a contract to commit suitei'd'e at the- Westminster aquari'tim at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Wedtoesdlay, July 8th.. The "English statute known as the "dantjerou'a ^enformamce act" to not) very sj&rtotty interpreted and jBritiLsh audiences are ihloodtM'nsty, tout ifihie anoounjceaweat 'made by -the management of the great variety hall was ®o startling .that it iuardly seemed serious. "A flady," ea'Jd the aidwerttiseihiewt, "has undertaken to jutap from a ecatfiol'd reaneld forty feet albovte the axxruar'ru'm room to the wvxKJen floor of the building. The manatgemenit, 'however, •ioies not guarantee that t'he performance rwSE take place."

The aquarium room is 112 feet above the ifloor. IJy cutting a. hole In Che roof unld IbuiAd'Lng- a temporary tower albove i.-t the drop—as a hangman/ would cail

:hasfc the woman .would net only, (be who stood nearly under it could see the iiliied, but 'be shCcld-nigiy •mut-ifPa't'ed. At the Crciwn ^Tavern, near Waterloo station, a resort whiicih serves as a sort olf exchange and) employment agency for circus (performers and' aerooats, £50 forfeit was deposited toy a we'll 'known hall- age n't who wanted to

aqulariuim was more than a-mere hoax,

for the .London managers are serious

.people. The aquarium (in whicfti tJhere ceaseid yeara ago to 'be any fiah') is as iwell i-nanaiged as any pOalae of amusement,, 7:

.n the world, awd' 'its enormous size, especially adapt® it for all sorts o'f aerjal feats. It wais Ihere that Zazeil was Arat sihot out of a cannon. It was Tiere that Fuller dived from t'he roof into a ..Yarrow tank containing seiVen (feet of waiter. Buit t'he meet diarimg oif all past peitformianioes dcim-plared' iwitih t'he inoreidiible .foolhardiiiness of an attempt -0 junrup 152 feet and strike on umyield..ng ,plan)kis.

Two days ibefoire thie tJme flxied for :he jump a Lond'on evening paper publish e'd, "under adL reservationei," a, -•umor which purported .to exipl'ain t'he advertisement. The "tla'dy" in question .Vas, said the Echo, a second' raite 'bareoack rider irl'der named Evtans, who aad .'been deserted by /her huelband, •iiao a psnformer, and. iwho had pSianneii -his sensiationail suiicside as a mean© of aWracttag pmblic attienition to his mis-oon-duiat amd in this tway revenge heruelf.

Parliament Tried to Stop Her.

On the same evening a member of the bouse of commons rose in his place and asked if the attention of the government had been called to the fact '..hat a woman was about to make a (spectacle of taking her own life, and rvhet'her the police would be instructed lo prevent such an outrage against decency and disorder.

The home secretary replied that inquiry should be made, but, so far as could be 'learned up to the hour announced for the jump, the only result of the interpellation had been to give a great deal of 'free advertising to the aquarium.

On Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock '.he 'New York Sunday Journal correrpondent joined a knot of English newsDiaper men who were plying the manager of t!he aquarium with questions fiut there was no information to be had. "The advertisement," said the mana.jer,, "tells you all I know, except the naihevff the lady and any own opinion about her reasonsor undertaking the act. I 'believe myself that she is going to do it, and I expect her to 'be here within a quarter of an hour. If she doesn't come, the other turns on the matinee programme will go on as usual, "out, of course, I shall be sorry for your disappointment."

The disappointment came, and, no iloubt, the sorrow and everybody had 'drink, and everybody went away except the Sunday Journal correspondent, *ho .wanted very much to ifind out a tittle more about the woman whose Gia«i heart apparently failed her at the Hast moment.

There is a great deal in waiting, if a •nan only waits long enough, and at East the manager unbosomed himself. •"You know, there really is something in this," he said. "There was no use trying to talk to those chaps, but I really believed that the woman was ?o.jng to jump, and. what is more. I Relieve she will do It yet. You come hadk here at 10:30 tonight and see. The -.ruth is, I have had a wire from her big afternoon, and 'I believe she will tlo the jump tonight."

Muktnpr the Preparations.

When 10:30 came the aquarium was crowded to the -doors. For some myslerious reason the public, who had not come in the afternoon when the performance was to have taken place, saw tit to come in the evening. Perhaps Jhey cherished a vague belief that everything in London is always a little behind time.

When the regular performance was about half over I caught a glimpse of •he manager, and he nodded triumphantly at me. Then I set to work to ntudy the preparations which had been made for the drop.

I«n the middle of the aquarium floor, ft some stance from the stage, is a UttJe tanik, into which a diver, sewed Uip a saok, jumps every night from a iieisrht of about fifty fee't—"doing the 'Monte Crisio act," as it is called. Over ohe top of this tank attendants were aylng a oovering of heavy spruce jkinks, mot less than four inches th ick. uJtKMit as unyielding as any surface well -xmlfl be. The man who was superintending the work—a man with a ]ange: •watoh-chain—made a gre'at fuss abcui titling together, with great exactitude, f.-lhe e&ges of the boards, and when the rjlatifbrm was adjusted to his liking he .sprinkled over it a coating of greenish oowder, almost as fine as flour. He jeed tiwo paiMIuls of fhis materia.], and vs the plafform was only about twenty ifeet in lengith by fifteen feet in dth, iihe Jboards were nvuch more thickly covered than are those of a sanded bartwm flodr.

VP to the moment marked by this t.rlvial iasciden't, one has f^t no more \ihan. a. good nsiMJured interest in ihe

event of the •evening', btrt as that powder tMioke'ned oil the boards, until it concealed their

texture,

t»here began- to

(be present to ithe observer's -mind a. certain ser.ee of unwholesome® ess. One ha®

seen*

sawdust t'h-roiwni aibourt

the block at a Freach execution. Perhaps There lay. in that some association _i of ideas. There wa§ an unoanmlness, too, in the mere fact" that so great an audience 'had been convoked—at least •tfwtoe as many people as -usual. The tiresome vaudeville programme was drawing to a close. A reluctant bear had wrestled with a mangy Servian. If there was to be a thrill, there would not be long to w-ait for it, and hundreds and hundreds oif stolid London nr.ddile-ciass people drifted in and took their places about the platform.

A brief item in the evening papers had recounted the disappointment of the afternoon. There was no reason to believe t'hat the juimp would be made that nlgiht, but more hundreds, and still more hundred's "poured in, with a sort of gjha.me-tfaced a.'miessness upon them— each man disposed to ask his neighlbor why tha't neighbor had come there. When there is rioting in t'he streets of a great city, it is with the same look of •utter surprise that a mob recOgn-Zes i'ts own increasing numlbers.

The bear was led away and the curtain fell, and then the manager appeared and anode a little speech. A "lady," he said (for, or through it all, no more precise indication of her identity had been furnished), was going to be drawn up through a hole in the roof.

:.t—woufid ibe exten'detf to 1G2 feet. Litole Ham Ion's famous 'dive into Ithe ne't: Everybody looked up at the hole-far •it the Crystal Fialace was only ]135 feet, arid, with a net to receive him, he was killed after a few wieelcs. Without a net tiwenty fie&t lis quite hi'g-h, •jnougih for any one. Plalinly, the suggestion wiais a monstrous one. JSxper.enced showmen and igytoniadts all said'

above the vague network of cordage which supported the apparatus of the Ongar sister^, whose trapeze act had been one of the attractions of the even-r ing far albove the long hanging festoons of colored lights. The opening was no larger than a cellar door, but those

framework of the scaffolding above. IForty feet above 'this hole in the roof there was, the speaker said, a perch, and from this perch the lady intended to drop. "I don't say It will be done," said the manager. "For that matter I thought

wager £500 that no one could Juimp it vvas going to be done this afternoon, -fty feet totooards land then get up and'

and

walk away. (No one 'covered this wager, gihe is here now, and there is' a and yet every one knew t'hat this ex-

.inordinary announcement at the

she did not come here this after-,

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^fciajt runs over a pulley, and she

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hoisted up to the perch, and if

ghe wants

if she

to jump she will jump and

don't want to jump nobody will

push her over and all that I ask is that the audience will preserve strict siilence." And then he stepped back and

iad^." ppea"red.

•She was young and she was good looking—good looking after the circus fashion, if you please, "but by no means uninteresting. Her hands were rather large and rather red and very dirty, with that peculiar wealth of dirt that makes the observer wonder how circus performers keep to much dirt on their hands without it falling off. In

you'thfulne&s

her

and In the large bright­

ness of her eyes there was something so •pathetic tihat when she put her hands behind her back and looked up through the hole in the roof people began to feel that it was very serious.

A stout man near me cried "Shame. Shame!" and then blew IKS nose bashfully as he heard his red-faced voice roll down the long nave of the building.

She Jumped Gamely.

'A gVjod: many o'f us, I t'himk, began to feel that iff the gtrll: were going to die we ougtht not to be there to gaipe at her. I know that I quite forgot thlat I was there to make a report of what I saw, and perhaps my own .private emotion of the moment wus more pi'cltbrial than any studied description clouiid 'be. She put her foot in the loop ait the

end

c'f the long rope, andUas

slhe nose the litftle field of Uimeldght rose wlith her. The stsage carpenters crew were making quldk work of ho.sting her, but it seemed a lknig tu..T:e (before she glippeld through the square opening in. the room. From thlat height another plight was thrown upon her. Sihe stood quite aLone on the edfee of the simaJll percih, and witihrfny gliaEis I couhd see her hair move in the night wtod.^tfor she w'as quite out oif do ore up tihere.

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The mta.ri \\1ho hlad sprinkled' the powder on tihe boards—ithe man wi'th the wa'tich ohia/ln—came ar.:d looked at lit again, as if -tio i$ake sure that It hiaid been distrilbiuiteid. 'At t'he moat, d!b di'd. not lie more Chan an eiighitlh of an i.rt'ch in thiicknees on t'he platform it certainly seetmefei to 'be quite uselests, and! yett one felt t'tiait there lay in ilfs•mCnulte dietit.lbuition a iprecauition of grave impoTtonce.5 He stooped over and stnootihed. the suir'fece of it witih h!is hand, and then, looking up a.t tihe gdirfr, culfled cut: "Are you ready?"

For a mtamenft tthere was up answer and them a little, shrtil, hurried "No,"cajme dciwin. It ir.U'de one feeii thia.it there wlas a reluctance in the girl's? nuinid.

I t'himk no one of Uls would have•been sorry if we ihJad been told that the' jumip wla^s not to take place. The Eibouit man wliyhdreivv Ms umlbrella- from under hits arm and screwed it uip very tJight, but did not raOse his voice agiato. The la'diieis in tihe auldience began to be very nervK'ui3. I discovered- nexit day t'hat I had been bOtinig my nails. The quesl'ion, "Are you ready?" wa» asked ag'aiin. Tih's time there was aHlonger delay, but the answer Was "Y"os" when it came—.n'"t an eager affirmative, I thought. It seemed to be a submission rather thlan a s'tateimeint of fact.

If any one had at that moment proposed to lync'h the man with the large watch chaOn I should have seconded •the motion. lit seemed to me quite clear tiha't he exited an evil power. I wondered that I had nat seen that from the first.

She was dressed in white fights, and she dropped like a handSul of snow from the cornice of a root". I think I could have drank a glass of water while she was in the air. It seemed to me as Ions as that. I was leaning agacnot the e"uige of the platform, cny hand on the rough, unplaned end of one of the heavy planks.

Hody H»d a Rrokon Look.

She certainly did not weigh more than 140 or 150 pounds, but as she struck the noise and the jarring were oif amazing violence. A column of dust arose all of the sprinkled powder was in the air. When it cleared away, I saw her lying on the boards quite st.il, save for a, little twi'ibbi'ng motion' of her shoulders, and her body had a broken look.

A bird looks so when it has been shot at a height and has fallen With its wings cJosed.

Then they picked her yg?. The man with the watch chain took her under the arms another man took her uwder the knees, and they lifted her and carried her ajway. li was aJbout twenty yards from the pJatfform that had been built over the tank to the stage, and no one in the audience moved

or

spoke wihile the two

were talking their* burden there. A woman .behind me whimpered Uke a child left alone in the dark. That was the only sound except the sh?uffl ng of the flwo men across the floor. They made theSr way 'ttaratisih. the lit/tie

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 28,1896:

spajse betrwieea thc'^iurtiaini and the proscenium a-4oh, apd wrhcsn they bad passed out xf sight the a.n!dlence -^ae i^tCil quite silent.

A light still shone on tike little 1S2 "feet up in the air, and some^Httle scattered rings of EhV greent^h P^|4er Jay on the sunfiace olf the boards.

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-There was no apjjiause, no demonstration of amy kind, -ESvery ni€ knew that the management would make some sort of announcement from the ^t,age, and every one waited |to see what the amnounceiment would- be. After a Waft of two or three intoute'3 the orchestra played a ScotJoh air "wi'fh a bagpipe, effect iaferodtnoed and as the dronifcg came to-an end the "lady" wasi sulPported to the front of tihe curtain. ..

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She did not walk, but she was erect, or almost erect, and the two men srid her along. Stoe looked as sf she was ^'suffering from cJoncusslon, and no douibt from internM injuries," a's the reipotrts cf railway accidents say. 5ut she was alive at any rate tl^ere •had not been a tragedy. M|-

Hoiw ihad she survived so terrible a fall? The corresipor.d'£nt cf the S-unday Journal, who stood very close to the pl'atiforim—leaning ov-er -it, indeei thought he saiw. juet before she struck the planlks, something leave her hanas and fly up to the ceiling. It like a little hoop, and for an instant at hung over her head like a halo.

Was tihere a oountenwe'^ht wire, accu'mulating -weigli'ts before it P^^ed over a sheave to her, and measurably rtitardirjg t'he Iat'fer part of her aetcenit? Bf so, there had been a misca-l-ouiiation, for the ®hcck had" certainiy been a very serious one. •.

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TEACHING GlRLS TO RIDE.

Cupid's New Field for Practice and

Mrs.

Grundy's New Vexation.

There is one point in the presertt bicycle fad of

Which

little notice has been

«aken yet, at whtoh Mune. Grundy, who (has been aClmost olbCiged -to abdl-daf-e ibeJfore the lnivaeion of the wheel and the con-sequent independence of its votaries, looks wi'tih beetling brow and' (frowning face, and she wondens jjusit' iwhat move to make -gainst fn^ese imayaiuiders, who set every knotwn rule at .defiance.

Go uptown souwe pleasant night, ana one w341 see in the quiet side streets one of the prettiest glames Cupid has ever playflfl, O'bserv.eis the Chicago Herald. The rootle chap no longer needs wingte some time ago he came to the conclusion to be a wheelman, and has adioipted' tihe shining cycle ash mean® of tnavett. ,.

For the young man is now buBjIPy. engaged in teaching his "be^t g-rl, hoyv to ride. The dear thing has ioupu' ou» th'at tiimidflty is wbnid'erfully atr traciilve, and so she apes it, mulch ^to (the 'enijpyimient of herself and the aforesaid yiounig man. He almost lifts her on to the wheel, it will be noticed, and of course encircles her waist wilth his arm, and if tihe prelssure 'be a little more fervent th'an is actually necesBary, why who would be so meian as to maike dnviitdious comments,. espelciUQly as devotion to the wiheel, of course, im'UBt be the explanation for too ardent attention.

Then t'he poor girl is so frightened and there is something so reassuring in having "his" support.

Then the wheel is not so steady as it miigfint be, and so one hand is used' to hold the fair maiden on t'he tiny seat, while the ofther helps* guide the wheel,. And, as she giaiinis in sipeed, she -Ieiajis a bit ooniflfdiingly tow-lard the young imtam, and if t/he pair can get beyond, the seanchi'ng gleam of the potent arc light, who knowis what caresses rewiand Ms patience and attention.

Mme. Grundy may frown, buit t'he shining wheels are too much for her. 'For fun pure and simple one sihould. go some afternoon over to the BSisuok Bay Fenis, where lessons aire given in bicycle riding by h'ired instructors, and where all shapes and sizes o'f women make their initial' attempts ast mastering t'he silent steed.

The professional instructors are ajs a'titenitive as poisisiilble, but one can see that it is purely business' with t'hemv and thougih some of their pupils seeut to chat) very oomfidtngil^ with them it tlaiteis very liitltle d'is'cern.ment to se4 thlat t'heir retpdieis are purely perfume3 I'ory, and the ohlaititer is felt to be so.meiv thinig they must endure as part of thelf daily round' of toil. They are called Uipon to ansiwer all sorts of question.^ resiling. to almost everything un-det1 the.sun, aind ought to possess the wis-*' dom of the philosopher^ of anCienA' ^aime to be alble to answer them.

The women have their favorites, too,' among these teaich-eirs, an'd some will sit far a- long tOme waiting for their pet instructor to finish with some more iucky fecninine before they take their aiaaursitomed round. Of course, there 'iis no.iflirting aibcut i:t, but there.is, as ihas 'been netted, a good deal of em-all talk between pupil and teacher.

Yet it shoulld not be supposed that all would-!be Women 'bicyioli'sts are young and beaut'ifuil. A dreadful, proiilane N-eiw Yorker made a very dislaigreealble reimark aibouit the bicyiaie Con'tiingfenit the ot'her day, and wanltedl ,lto know if only old women rode the •wheel .-in -Boston.

That is whait a'll good Bostonians feel is the hatpjpy thing about the bicycle. It provides amusement, exercise and htappinees for that set of "anxious and aimless" women who lack a vccati'on and on wihose hands time has-heretofore hung heavily. They are a long tOme learning, tio be sure, and rely too munch upon thev/ifistrucltor &ome of them do not'*3it v^'iry gracefully, iperhlatps citihers have some Very awkwand falls, but the aft once acquired and the wfiiesl opens to them a new world. All} things take bn' a" blissful eicu-leur de rose, -wrinkdes 'disappear tfrom the face, years 'drop from their shoulders, and they are ready to cry: "'Long life -to the bicycle

Mary Sbadle7's Will.

The will of the late Mary Shadlev t?s filed for probate yesterday. Mrs. Sh-id-ley leaves to hor son, AlTxander Shadiey all of her real estate. Of her personal property she leaves -him two feather beds, two bed steads, twj blankets, fourteen quilts, four pillows, one comfort, one sewing machine, and one safe with glass doors, one extension table six feet long, one set of table 's$bbHs, one set of tea spooss, an'^ two carpets. The rest of her property she willed to her other children. •,

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IT WAS BRILLIANT.

THE OA8TEIXANS FK^S IN IHS BOI8 DBBODM&H&

An American Olrl's TrlumpU—There Were •s Three Thousand Guests ^^,, Present.

The Cbunt and CSountess of Castellane (Anna GouHd) gteuve a fete to Piaris aoctefty recenltlSy, whSch, to the m«agniiSoenice Of its. dettai-k surprised the people of the Flrencih capital. The splendid affair Us thus descnabed i^.the "CounieE dee Btets Unis: iNot'hing so brMianlt, effeotive and elalbocnalte in every piarticuSar was-ever baflore wtitneiased in the gay capCSUfl off •tihe world. The Bois de Boulogne iwas the scene o'f the feBtiwity. A more fllttiing frame for the gorgeous display oouM not ih'a/ve (been imagined' than the corneT of the slkatiing rink where it Was heM, and St Would have been equ^illiy useless to have at'temitted to icomosLva a more toteflligent employanent af the re sou noes of art added to Ohe adivan'tlageb of naitaere.

The. weather, which had been so unpleaeaa2.t vd)ur-ing the preparations for the a(ay, becajme more agreeaJbde itorsviard evening, and allowed the magnificent programme t'o be tiairriedi out without iany inconvenience.

Three Thousand Guests. &"f

I Nicltttvithsitankiling tihe 'thr-ea-te of a rainy day the 3,000 ilinviited guesits or miore of the C5oun and Cdunteeis'of OaE^JelJane were aiO, or nearly all, present. To name 'them would simply be t'o Write down a coimip&at^'vliett of t'he fa&Monafbile PtarMaa woH^tV' The toiSette, nearlyoif 'Wh^e^^^c «or Nile green, wfrre *'beaiutiflu!l, among ithe hats those wi'th btiack^br white feathers predbaniinaited. ".Particularly rto be adimixed was a -,«witaiBn|.-U)f white eli'k, crowned wi'th a spreading white Qiat wreathed aibout with'. iirtil^ as espealallly "a.pipr'opriiate to a which recalled those 'of the Louis Qutotorjse period.

The firs-t guest arrived"aiboat%o\:Iock. A -Shed or g'allery was p^ 0side t'he main pat'-h, having three, entraifeces, so that there wfere- nb waits,, an^ Jfie occupantB of 'carriag'es' ware ,'&-i&\£tpa,-r bled to eaufer wit'hout

a.nyV:^ra,ipv,\i^ris

upper vestiMe Was beauitdjfigii'fe v^corated, but. there was s.carce8y- time to notice its splendor' as one pas'sed im'madiae'tely through a carpeted w#/ along Wh'teh spread'a'double rank af footmen, with powdered hair and livery of white and gold. Through this living and liveried avenue the" guests piaesed •to the saltan, wh'ere tihe countess and her mother in law, the 'Marquise of ,Castellane, received them.

Mirrors Knhanced the Charm. This s'alon, Wh'Loh is very large and very high, Was decorated with arcades of' trellis worik, lit iby electricity and draped with white silk caught with golden, bawls. 'Mirrors placed here and there reflected the light and flowers, and prolonged the perspective indefinitely. Between the arcades the columns of t'he trellis were garnis'hed with roses, while over ail flowers added their color anri grace, and brougih't out the 'living green of I'heir 'background. These arcades and th'is trellis work foiimcd a division between them and, the yeetibule on the one side, wh.le on the other they opened on. to the lake, from Which •tihey were, separated by a simple balustrade. r'. ",'.1

A sjpace oif three meters by two w-'as reserved on tihis gallery for a small salon. It was a jewel of rare elegance, with a rustic bench on whi'ch lay sumptuous cushions, the (whole under a canopy strung with ivy, a Chinese,plant called glycine, and roses. The balcony •reaJched down- to the water, and frojai it, as well as from the neighbori'ng ardhes and from the drning hall, the guest were able to, see all the displays, if they did not prefer to sit on the, lawn.

When dinner was announced the guests passed into a dining hall that •ji$d been transformed with marvelous, irjt into scene of ravishing beautyu-'

It was entirely open on the side of the •a.wn and the lake, and a fairy like ^cen^ was ever present before", the eyes jf the banqueters.' Tli-e tables .-were beautifully arranged and ch'^rftri'i^iy decorated, four for a dozen persQaSjeA^Ji and nine for ten, in all 13S of which was designed artistica^Jiii#ia»ij

The Count and Countess of eaoh sat at the head of one of tiie. tables set for a dozen. At the hei^ M"'the other tables sat t'he Marquis an*d.:Marquise of Castellane and other fela,tiv^es of the Amphitryons. The banquet '^a.s served, wondrous to' relate, in l^fs:v^ari an hour.

ri nour. xx As to the service, it comprised^!!) sons. All the stewards vyere in. ptowde®-ed^-hair and wearin'g the -white an'^^:^ livery of the Count of Castellated. Twenty-four- yrere distinguisli^^ty their waistcoats of yellowish plu&h and black'bo'rdersand the other fifty-two wore white coats^^white waistcoats and short breeches. Then there were thirty footmen also in the livery of the Count of Castellane and a host of ushers.

On the arrival of the guests they were greeted' with sweet strains from or^chestras hidden 'behind bowers of plants and flowers, which continued to play throughout the banquet.

Counters Boautlfally Gowned.

A little ^before 10 o'clock carriages began to arrive, three by three, with new guests, whd'1saluted- .In passing the Count, Countess an'd Marquise of Castellane. The Countess' wore a very pretty dress of ecru bolting cloth, with colored jet embroidery and straw hat trimmed with flowers.

Presently an the gues'fe strolled ou-t •upon the lawn, and frequent and enthrusiiastic wore the exclamations of. adimirabton for the wonderful decorations, the Venetians lanters hanging on the fcreets and tihe brilliant electric •diaFB'ay. On the right of the dining 'ha.H they sa-w a found etiage, on whidi was stationed an orchestra 'benea»fh. a .huge Miay pole in the ba'ckgliound, graiid old ruins, •briiirian.tly 3-igihted up On the laite, a bucemtaur, 'bearing an orchestra that alternated its sftraflivs iwith, tCtose of the band on the lawn, and on t'he -other slide of the lake deejp, shadows, while tie basin itself looked «ke a haaf arch set off with a douitCe .row of tamps. Tiwelve '.swans, majeatCc ari^\spreaddng, gilded on the water.

Oriental Lnxurloosness.

jyhen the fairy dcene opened to view one mtigh't have expected to teee tlxChengrln ajppeair at any moment in h'is boat drawn by gwans. Around t!be laike flower-(bedecsked iron wire wis. strung, and on the Jawn and lanes large red oriental carpets were sipread. Three thousand decJoirated chairs were set aibout the Safwm and lanes.

The

eleotTic

OVJIOCQc.

dl^pQay began at 11:30

and from aK sides «the bnlJdaint

ftrewonloa shot forth simultaneoirsly, MghtlTig up the ertchanted palace and enJha-iseftng the toeaiities of Ks Uouis QuSatwrze «archMe*Sture. o&'tlia'MTOidS W tJwi pat

ace, Phoefaus appeared, holding In. her hand a flamiing torch, and everything about her -wtals brillda-nitly lighted up. TOen, as iif by ttlhe blow of a meugic wand, the naJn of fireworks ceased. The beauUflul MEe. Robin was Pheobus.

The Muses, dear to Apollo, neaJt appeared holding the symbols of their arts. Uranus looked triumphant in the middle arch. "Next two young girls de soended the double staircase, dressed in ancient Grecian costume :n white, nimble and graxjeful, with baie arms, playing ancient instruments,, the -lyre and the domfble flutes "of Pan, and a rosecolored light was thrown on them to typify their youth and tropes- They advanced slowly toward the terrace, on the border of the water, meeting and damcing slowly and softly in rhythmic step to the subdued strains of an orchestra and an invisible chorus.

Daughters of Hellas.

Presently the calcium turned and a trumpet of war was heard. Hurrah for the children of Greece! Are they going to conquer Crete or fight the Trojan war over again? No, those that .appeared were also beautiful daughters of Hellas, Who with swords and lances in their hand's and with the protection of shields manched around the god Who only has anno wis of gold, and, placed their arms at his feet. Then the light turning blue and danced about tlhem While a song of love was wafted on the air. ..

The light became while for the song df triumph, and ~Tn this turn, the fair warriors danced, the flute players a.ccomipanying them w-TTh their rhythmic tones, iWhi-le t'he flower-laden damsels t'oased their flowers toward the god, covering him under a 6hower of roses.

During this fairy enchantment the orchestra played and t'he chorus sang •the choicest selections from Handel and Lull! and Thorinot d'Atfbeau, an operatic piece of Raimeau's, a warrior song, a minuet of Handel, a gavotte of Bach, and the like. The effect produced by th-is orchestra'and these -invisible choruses parfook of the marvelous. -Gorgeous firdwonks bough't 4 he unparalleled exh'ifbKion to a close, and iwhen all Was over t'he rain began to fall again, bu't as the Prince of Sagan, rejoicing in the success of his nephaw, remarked it was then powerless to harm the hajppy outcome of the fete. ,,

WOMEN WHO HATE MEN.

,There Seems to Be a Large Number -Hi' of Them. ^V'hil-e St" woulld, off dourse, be unlfair to stuppose that all, or even the greater port-ion, of those women who eleict to lead a life of single blessedness are men hatens, s'tS'U there are some to Whom thalt destination fully appil!-eis.

Thwe is a lady residling in an Eastelm Doivvn wall known for her pronouinlced vi'awis regarding t'he sterner sax. Mian, if she knows it, is not aillowed, d'ireiUtlly or indirectly, to contrilbute to her wants in life. Males are sltriMtly flortoiidden t'he 'house, and' the lady decllines to have any dealings wiilt'h business carried on by men. iHeir btiker, grower, dairy dealer and tniBk delayer all are women, and, lb is said thlat meat has been' entirely obliterated from the eistiaitfi'lsihimenlt dietary giimply because tihere is not a femaile bultcher to be found in tihe neighborhood. Though decidedly benevolent in disposition, chari'table societies depending on male coLlddtors gelt no sufb-scMiiipti-ons, and the omly way the t*ax ico-Haot'ors can maike sure of his money 5s by semdiing his wilfie for it.

Another abominiaitor of men has acquired a terrace of house®, with designs upon obtaining the whole street, wli'th the olbject of founding a cai'ony of women occupiers. These tenememtls are ,of course, only let to femailes, and any tenant in a moment of weakness entertaining thoughts of entering tfl.e marrUfeuge stalte is promptly served.with a n»t'iice bo quit.

Alaconding to tihe Altaany Argus, the colony of women suffragists who hlaw a quiet suimmer houise on Oape Cod (do not go to these extremes, buit are content to exclude male callens, whether they are relatives or not.

A Chicago Woman not long since distfeyed her albhorrence of the opposit3 sex by re£u to atoccpt a legacy left her by a male connection. Anotiher, who was hersetlf rich, executed a wiil-l by whtoh, at her death, sufostanilial bitiues'.fe were letf't to her female rela.dveis. While the males inherited the paltry suim of $1 each. A third left a sum off money art her decease to be•expended in founding and endowing a hbm-e for women Who had at'tainedfc*a certain age without marrying.

Tihere is reported to be, in one of the .Western states, a society of women sworn to renounce the companionshiip oif man for lslfe. Each member registers a vow to remain single ail! her flays, but the regulations of the league 6IJ:'n0it require its adherents to wdthIdriaiw from the other responsibilities of tihe worOet. A menr.lber is free to have a ther, to own a br-clt'her or even possess an umdle—(particularly a rich one •Mbut a huUband or lover is entirely ta'booed.

A

woman whio died recently in New Orleans used to" boast that she had hot Igpokeh'tb'^i traan for thifty years, and ah^h-gt'itt -Fhiil'aidelphia was equ-a'.-iy julbilaht^over the fact th'at she had iived ip1 d-'tlwerity year's In ona house wiJtihouit evfer a man crossing the threshold. But prolbalbly the. bitterest niahhaiter of modern times wtas an Austrian Woman, -who, at the time o'f •her death, was engaged in deveilcip'ing pHan for the ultimate extiniction of the mall'e sex.

ForJtunia'tely all the women who at»cminate men are not of such a pronouraoed t"pe a® t'his. Some of theim, indeed, wear armor that is not always proof -agtainslt t'he onslaught of t'he enemy, as is evidenced by the case of the girl who, after initiating a violent crueade a-gtainst the either htai?f of human•kind, and getting a lot of recruits, suddenly fell a vSat'fm to the wiles of pressing young stwain and married hi'm.

!'V OUIDA ON ROYALTY.

Trivialities That Become Ludicrous—Em-.-1 poror William's Uniform.

The trivialities oif royalty Ibecome fkiclljcrous in an age in which these have lost such sym bUMam as tihey once possessed, says Ouid'a in the Forum- Their fiomfination of each other to honorary ocOonelcies in each other's regiments, their wearing of each other's military, dress, their dedication of regimenitis to hereditary

floes

.their fussing over rib­

bons and crosses and orders present 9. P'Wiure af silliness and artiiftclaii'ty fo£ tihe presence of which in it® midst the World is dhstirtotay the more, fcolish and also the poorer.

On the otfilbreak of war these honorary Colonels wouid endeavor to cult to pieces the foreign regiments they h«uve Commanded and the knights would try to fire machine guns art. their foreEgn suzerains but this absurdity does not prevent the solemn fiance of the tfoawinlartions and: the hweitm«ats from being gone through, year after year, eentury after century, in -the «ame potnjEpouB, yaipQdt and im-

b€*Rfe ptuaidta. The comedy fwpaMiea the actors in it with fredh uirifortnfi tih&t is a!& whtoh. dam- toe said for ids use.

The Bmtpenor WiSaatn- Kkes to cheung* Ms unrfonm haK a dozen times a day and has, is saad, more uoMtaims than there are dsayls In the year. From tiiia point of viiew, ibut from this alone, h'-S continual nominaittonB to the oomtn&/n<J of foreign regiments can be of use tb hum and to the guild of the army taalora. They show perhaps mora philosophy than they are given cared5* for in suspporting jt. Human, nature muE(t seem to them a very poor, mean, trulcfioHmg thing—a creeping thing of pliant spine, oildd tongue- and lnsatfble appejtite fbr favors. Only an imsnense vtanity like that of WUMam II. oif Hohenzollern can. make them contente wiitth xiheanteeaves or with their worshipers.

The barnden of the boredom at the world is iniinC/tely incirelased by the existence of rojiaiSty. It is tihe patron cf ennui. It is in 3tB very essence duill and pompoms it cannot be otherwisa wiltihOult losing caste. The rude pnactioai joik-es and' rouglh honse-pJay in Which certain living princes have taken delSfeiht are it

Is reafdfcion and rewiD

againdt t'he ted&utm of their ILves. To put a donkey in your friendfe bem may ndt be an inftellectiuel fonm of wifi but the dreary p3arti2tuides of royaa exisftemce miade the joke welcome to every one who is tenmed "the first gen* tleiman" of hlis country.

PLAYED THE WEDDING MARCH.

How a Rounder Detected a Newly Harried Couple In a Restaurant. A Ift'tle unrefoefairseid comedy in adc upto,wn hotel -during the dinner houx* on Sunday evening em/bfarrassed tiwo of the guests and''amused all of the others Who noticed i't, s-aye the New York Sun. DUr'ing the wanm weather dinners am served on t'he verandas thiait isurroumd an inside court, and for the enitertajr.fmenitof tliegue-srts an orohes'trai plays. (MJost of irTe tables were occupied When a- young man ajccompanied iby a young woman appeared, and, after several frigflifcened a/i'tempts tio secure a taible, were ta'ken in tow by a waiter, Who seated! t'hem mot far from the •music. Although, iti was an- extremely, •warm evening, the young man wore a conspicuously new frocfc coaJt of ruStfc out and a new si-Ik hait. He wias selfconscious and ill at ease, and it was apparent that ordering s-dinner in ai resitauirant Was a task t'hat worried 'him. The young woman wore a white gown that rustled with every move ^ha made. I9he was ako ill at ease. Th« unan and woman looked enough alike to have been "brother and sister, ar.y perhaps the resemblance was emphasized by the fact tihat their clothes seemed to bear the same country stamp. They were different from other peopla around them and they were accordingly tihe center of inquiring glances. "I'll bet a clare1! cup," said a man near them, "that th'is is a case of bride and groom." "I'll go you," 'said his companion', "It's brother and §ister. You can'H prove your sta'tement, anywiay." "Well, I am going to try," and sunv moning a waiter t'he man who thought he had detected a bride and groom sent a note to the leader of the orchestra. "Now, you Watch tfee.r facefs," he continued, "and I'll leave the deoision •with you."

Two minutes later the orchestra began 'to play the wedding march. The young -woman began to blush and hei companion- shifted' uneasily. Then they looked at each other and at theli 'clothi&s. The man shook his head in a way that plainly indicated 'that he •had concluded that QH^eption under the circumstances was impossible, and his companion 'bravely drew off her glove, disclosing a. new wed'ding ring. "You pay~"for the cup," said the man who had spotted tSclS^as br.de and groom, and his companions nodded assents

BRYAN IS A PLAGIARIST. •We called attention yesterday to the. apparent origin of Mr. 'Bryan's favoritej figure of speech, that of the crown of thorns. The iBoy Orator was present in the house of representatives on January 26, 1894, when his Republican associate, Mr. 'MoCall of Massachusetts, closed a speech on protection with an eloquent peroration containing this passage "Do you regard' your bill with reference to labor? Ready as you have ever been to betray it with a kiss, you scourge it to the very quick and press a crown of thorns" upon its brow."

This seems to have made a great impression upon Mr. Bryan's mind. He appropriated the crownofthornsandha® been pressing it upon the brow of labor ever'since. Hi? waited however, for eleven months, or until December 22, 1894, before he used iMcCaH's crown of thorns in the house of representatives, says the New York Sun.

Not so, however, with the kiss of betrayal. Four days after 'McCall's speech of January

26,

1S94. Mr. Bryan

undertook to reply to the Hon. Burke Codkran on the subject of the income tax, and he worked in the kiss of betrayal thus: *Y)h, sirs. Is it not enough to betray the cause of the poor—must it be done with a kiss? (Applause.)"

We should say that when the applaus® sounded. Mr. McCall was the proper person to stand up and make the bow..

Navigation of the MlssSSstpl-

The

ex

ten* of th« -work to &e done Iri

Improvise the naV?i?atilon of the Mississippi

riwr

is dlscDosed in t'he latest an-

Tual report of Msijor Hanibury, in charge of wo-rfc

on.

the channeS between the

IKin'ois and Ohio. AccordRng to tWs report, 2,979 snags were removed during the year. The work of the snag boatls mever ends. Next year as many or more snags will (bane to be removed in ordter to insure safety in nfaVgatlon. Major Hfcnbury reports -that in the work of destroying th/a causes of which smogs are the effect t'he snag boat crews had di?#tixyed wl'thin the year 10.&4S ka-nAng trees.

Indian Agent Injured.

'Bancroft, Neb., July 27.—Cap.lain Beck, Indian agent on the Omaha and Winnetego reservation was thrown from his carriage yesterday and received internal injuries of a dangerous nature. Mrs. Bancroft and Mrs. Wales also received painful injuries.

A Shield

rand

a protection against1

'cold and dangerous exhaus-' rtion is a cupof beef tea made with]

Liebig COMPANY'S Extract of Beef

Refreshing t-A Nourishing Satisfying