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MWEU Hindoo women are forbuUleu to read or write. The Qaeen of Madagascar always dresses in Enropean fashion. It does not take much material these times to make an evening bodice. The first Berlin gymnasium for women has opened with sixteen pupils. The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland is ths "director" of a mining company. There ore those who say it is onlr a question of time when colonial wigs will come. . , It would seem to be the fashion for women to wear white kid gloves upon all occasions. Lady Frederick Cavendish has taken the field as a lecturer- against Welsh disestablishment. Russia has five female astronomers who have submitted papers to the Academy of "Science. Parisian hats increase in size from day to day and are laden down with flowers of all kinds. There is a rumor afloat in the world of fashion that lonq, heavy earring are to be worn again. The Empress of Japan is miusf all her influence to have her country wafnen adopt the American costumed. Girls of the period hide their eir with straight hair and curls a if tho-u features of the head were m dforinjJ. The Bank of Genoa, Neb., got into the hands of the examiner after running for one week with a woman as President. Having saved, up 603,009 crowns since 1890, the women of Norway are going to present their Government with a torpedo boat. Some of the Boston beauties, who are fond of athletic exercise, array themselves, just after breakfast, in half gymnasium costume andrun foot racs. The idea is being considered, to unit all the women's clubs in Kentucky i.t a stock company for the erectioa of a handsome woman's building iu Lexington. Miss Edith Van Buren, a New Tor girl, won the first prize for carriage decoration in the parade at this yd.ir'.s mid-Lenten flower festival at Nice, Prance. A colored women in New Orleans is about to take her degree in medicine, and will be the first woman to practice in that city with a degree won in Louisiana. The emblems of royalty of the Queen of Madagascar consist of four scarlet umbrellas, which are held over Her Majesty when she Bits in her palanquin of State. , Mrs. Gilder, wife of the editor of the Century Magazine, never pays calls. Jbe entertains a great deal and she says she would be killed if she had to make formal calls. Kate Field says she thinks that Worth made her the only dress that he ever made of American material. It ras American satin, and it took coax- - ug to get him to touch it. The Qneof the Belgians is usually attended when on horseback by one of her favorite dogs, of which she has a dozen, with a preference just as Queen Victoria has for Spitz terriers. .-Mrs. Frances Elock, of the Colorado '"Legislature, has introduced a bill in the House. providing, ior an industrial school for girls and appropriating 9io,uvu ior us esiaomnment . maintenance. According to Mr. Cross in his memoir of his wife the reason she took the name of George Eliot was as she explains it, "because George was Mr. Lewes' s Christian name, and Eliot was a good, mouth-filling, easily pronounced word." Mrs. W. B. Brown, of Washington, N. C, has given to the State Council of King's Daughters a beautiful home, which is to be used as a home for imbecile children. . The Legislature of the State will be asked to make appraplriations for its support. It is computed by a statistician of the curious that Queen Victoria's hand, which is said to be a handsome one, has signed more important State papera and been kissed by more important men than the hand of any other Qaeea that ever lived. There isn't any Sunday-go-to-meeting frock nowaday?. A lady wears the same outfit to church thai she does shopping or traveling. There is readjust one way for a gentlewoman to dress when she goes on the street, and that is in a tailor-made suit. The late Lord Bandolpn Churchill had six sisters, each one of whom married remarkably well, although they were by no means beauties. There is, perhaps, no record of six sisters, and plain girls with extravagant tastes and no money, haying been thus happily married. The lata Parisian dressmaker, Charles Frederick Worth, is describe.! as "a tallish man, with a big, clever head, brown eyes and very prominent forehead." He used to say: "If I had my way all women should be slight, graceful and pretty. Then dressing them would be an artistic pleasure." Mrs. Wayne MacVeagh, wife of the American Ambassador in Rome, whose residence is the magnificent Palazzo Plombino, is extensively quoted for the magnificence of her wardrobe. At a recent reception at the Embassy she appeared in a gown of lilac brocade with ornaments of diamonds and black pearls combined. Mrs. MacVeagh has quickly won favor at court, and has the social background of the several American women of title in Rome.

FOREIGN FLASHES. The NVw Boy" has completed its first year and been performed for the 427th time at the London Vaudeville. A man who is hypnotized and kept asleep for a week in full view of the public is one of the attractions at the London Royal Aijuarium. Captain Paul Boyton, who was corespondent In a recent divorce suit in London, was found guilty and ordered to pay 730' to the injured husband. At Narbonne a Roman mosaic pavement eighty-six feet square was recently discovered near the city cemeteryThe stones are black and white, arranged in beautiful and novel designs. In future no man under 3 feet 4 will be admitted into the British infantry unless he is under twenty, in which case a feet 3 will pass. The minimum chest measurement will be 32 inches. Bull fighting has received its quietus in France. The Court de Cassation, to which the, cases that arose last summer were submitted, has decided that a bull is a domestic animal and cannot be lawfully tortured. An international congress for the protection of infancy will be held at Boideaux next August. Besides the moral, legal and physical sides of the subject, it will discuss the decline - of parental authority and Its delegation into other hands.

Loie Fuller is to appear soon in Paris in a new tragic pantomime by Armand Silvesire, called "Salome." She will dance five times in dances entirely different from her former performances: one, the religious dance, is said to be an absolutely hovel curiosity. , . Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, says Le Figaro, intends to change the order of succession established by the pragmatic sanction of 1723. by which Maria Theresa became queen and to have the crown transferred to his only grandson, the child of his youngest daughter, Valerie, and the Archduke Francis Salvator. GEMS OF THOUGHT. A man that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Lord Bacon. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one. Simond. If thou canst not obtain a kindness which thou desirest, put a good face on it, show no discontent nor surliness; an hour may come when thy request may be granted. Fuller. To neglect God all our lives and know that we neglect him, to offend God voluntarily, and know that we offend him, casting our hopes on the peace which we trust to make at parting, is no other than a rebellious presumption, and ev&n a contemptuous laughing to scorn and deriding of God, his laws and precepts. Sir W. Raleigh. Malice sucks up the greatest part of her own venom and poisons herself. Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like n ulcer in the flesh, which Is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance, which is so much the more grievous by reason it springs within, as the cold or hot fevers are more sharp than those that only strike upon the outward skin. Montaigne. A uniform principle, which is interwoven in my nature, and which has hitherto regulated, and I hope will continue to regulate, my conduct I mean an utter abhorrence of all kinds of public Injustice and oppression the worst species of which are those which, being converted into maxims of state, and blending themselves with law and jurisprudence, corrupt the very fountains of all equity, and subvert all the purposes of government. Burke. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Americans took out 20,803 patents last year. Twenty per cent of the pupils in Eritish schools are said to be nearsighted. New York city has two places of worship in which the entire service is conducted in the Greek tongue. The Lenox library of New York possesses an unbroken file of the London Times from 1805 to the present time. Without the express consent of his wife, no married Austrian subject can procure a passport for journeying beyond the frontier. They are trying to invent a phonographic desk on which a speaker can record his own orations. This is to be tested in the German reichstag. There is a peculiar superstition attached to the London theaters which is not generally known; it is that should any one whistle in the dressing-room the actor or actress nearest the door willlose his or her position at the th,. The . ..tken bible, a copy of which hus just been sold in Boston for $300, was the first bible in the English language ever printed in America. The imprint is as follows: "Printed and sold by R. Aitken, at Pope's Head, three doors above the coffee-house in Market street, MDCCLXXXII." JETSAM. The name of Connecticut is derived from the Caniba Indian word, "kunateguk." meaning "long river." An educational qualification will hereafter be required of men seeking enlistment in the United States army. Berlin has a mysterious new malady which Professor Vlrchow attributes to the use of milk from diseased cows. An odd palindromic sentence one which reads the same backward as forwardis "Draw pupil's lip upward." Cotton-seed meal is fast gaining favor with Missouri cattle feeders as a cheap fat producer. It is a Missouri production. In the year 1677 the land upon which Philadelphia was subsequently built was owned by a man named Peter Ram bo. Bicyclists must first learn to ride fairly well before they are allowed to use their wheels in the public streets of Russian cities. Strange bed-warmers are used by Chilean women. In cold weather, when in bed, they keep their feet warm by placing them on a dog. There are five "tasters" in the sultan's kitchen at Constantinople. They taste every dish before it is placed before their royal master. It is said that moths will not attack green fabrics. Arsenic Is used in dyeing green, and the moths are wise enough to shun that deadly drug.

TO TEACH THE TRUTH. NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR THE SALVATION ARMY.

HullfUng from Which the American Force Will l'c Directed firoat Progress of the Mum Urigadtt Now Respected by All. HE GROWTH OF the Salvation Army in various parts of the world, and es-je-ially in the city or New York, may easily be understood by any person not blinded by prejudice. This body of Christian workers finds occupation in fields which nave been deserted by all the other churches. Under such circumstances the Salvation Army grows naturally in a congenial field and occupies the ground it was meant by its founders to cover without opposition from rival organizations. Indeed, the army now appears to have no rivals, as the other churches and the active workers of them have learned by experience to respect these men and womn who carry out the orders of their superiors in authority with an unquestioning obedience indicative of the highest discipline. Only a few years ago these soldier.? were attacked in the streets by' Idle ruffians, and therr meetings were broken up by disorderly intruders. The police made only a pretense of protecting them, and the police justices declared them to be disorderly disturbers of the peace. In other words they were persecuted. Tn ten years they have almost completely lived down this disrespect, and now all broad-minded persons regard the army as a great moral and religious force, an organization from which may spring a great

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people's church, to which the masses will gladly and profitably go. At the meetings of the army no bewildering ecclesiastical theories are discussed, and so far no officer of the army has been court-martialed for heresy. The army is military in its organization, and its operations are always against "the devil and all his works." Gen. William Booth of England is "commander-in-chief," and his son, Ballington Booth, is "commander of the United States forces." These American forces have garrisons in 430 cities and thirty-nine states, and the forces consist of 544 corps and fifty-eight outposts. The general officers number 1,782, "while the local officers and bandsmen number 2,6fi0. During 1894 there were held 138,040 open-air meetings, while those who attended the in-door meetings of the year which ended la-st September numbered 18,790,400. In New York city there is a branch of the army called the "slum brigade," especially organized for work where the people are particularly debased by poverty, misery and crime, says Harper's Weekly. When this work was begun it was found to be quite perilous, for the dwellers in the "slums" are usually hardened persons who have scant respect for anything save brute force. But even here the Salvation Army soldiers made their way by their earnestness, their directness and the unselfishness of their motives. When Ballington Booth made a general report last autumn he presented the statistics of the "slum work" for the preceding twelve months. Here are the figures as given by him and In his own words: Souls saved, 1.134; families visited, 31277; saloons visited, 40,513; tenements prayed in, 21,884; dealt with in saloons and streets, 72,110; meals given, 26,r;'.8; garments given or sold, 11,164; sick cases nursed, 1,454; children cared for, 3,792; hours mending and street work, 12,666; washing rooms. 126. This represents a year's work of a

small and devoted Viand, the members of' which have made themselves so much respected In the darkest places In the great city that anyone wearing the garo of the Salvation Army is free to come and go withou. fear of danger oiInsult at any hour of the day or night. Few but poor people, and those -,vho are uneducated, are particularly attracted by the methods of the Salvation Army exhorters. Indeed, these methods were not adopted to attract those who were free to pick and choose the church which each preferred. But the church was organized for the benefit of those who were not looked after by other churches, for those the other churches did not reach. There is, therefore, no necessity to criticise these methods from the standpoint of delicate refinement, but they should be judged alone by the results produced. These results are indicated by the figures given above, and the very general respect which succeeded the prejudice of a few years ago. Material prosperity in a religious organization may 6r may not be an indication of zeal and piety on the part of the members of it. When this prosperity Is due to the sacrifices of poor people who contribute from their scanty wages the mites which in the aggregate make wealth, then it is a fair inference that a mighty interest has been awakened. And, the Salvation Army seems' to be entirely prosperous. The headquarters of the army in the United States has just been established in a large new building In Fourteenth street, New York, built a an expense of $200,000 on land which cost $160,000. There is a picture of this building in this paper, and as will be seen, it is an Imposing if not a beautiful structure. The architect has endeavored to put up a house fitted for commercial purposes in the lower story, but with something of the feudal aspect of a fortress or a castle. The army occupies all the building save the two stores on either side of the main street entrance. Behind these stores on the first floor there is a meeting hall which will seat 500 persons. On the second floor there is a hall where 2,500 may be seated. The remainder of the

building, which extends through the block to Thirteenth street, is occupied for offices, dormitories, and so forth. The building was opened with ceremonies conducted by the highest officers of the army. THE UTILITY OF FLATTERY. Haggle Sized lp the Mail with the Intelligent Face. "Say," began Raggles, "you see before you " "Oh, I know what you are going to say," interrupted the man. "Your wife is sick, your children are starving, your house leaks and you yourself haven't had anything to eat for thirtysix hours " "You're on to me, ain't you?" "Well, I should say." "Been round a good deal ain't you?" "That's what I have!" "It's a pretty smart man that works you for a coin. I knowed that when I first seen you. I says to myself that a man with such an intelligent face as you has can't be fooled. But I goes against my better jedgment and tries it, and now see what a fool I've made of myself. 1 humbly axes your pardon," and Raggles made a humble obeisance. "Oh, you needn't feel so bad about it," replied the man. "Here, take this." and he deposited a quarter in Raggles' uncalloused palm, and strode on. "Flattery pays, and it don't cost much," said Raggles to himself as hestarted to find his friend Dusty, and tell him to head oft' the soft and shining mark on the next block . ioo(t KoikIh in (Jrci-cc. Greece at the present time has uvei 2,000 miles of wagon road, built, in many instances, over mountains at a cost of $10,000,000.

THE LESSEPS CANAL.

That Name Should Have Been Bestowed oji It l.oi'g Ago. M. Guichard's suggestion that the Suez canal should bear the name of 'Lesseps is the subject of negotiations and is likely to be speedily realized, says a Paris correspondent of the London Times. Surprise has Indeed been felt for years that this has not been done before, and but for the lamentable Panama affair M. de Lesseps would probably have had the satisfaction, while still in full enjoyment of his faculties, of seeing his name indissolubly linked with his work. Tt is strange that while Said Pasha has given his name to Port Said. Ismail Pasha to Ismailia and Tewfik Pasha to Port Tcwfik. nothing in Egypt bears the name of Lesseps. At the opening of the canal in 186!) in the presence of the Empress Eugenie everybody expected that some distinction would be conferred on him, the general opinion being that he would Ik- created Due de Suez. The empress was believed to have taken the decree for this purpose with her and astonishment was felt at his being merely nominated grand cross of the Legion of Honor. Th omission is still unexplained. Some think that, as M. de Lesseps had then no property, this stood in the way of his receiving a dukedom. Provision for himself and his heirs would have been necessary and the parliamentary opposition was already too vigilant xnd powerful for this to be ventured upon. Others think that, though the emperor had sent the empress to open the canal, its success was still too doubtful for a dukedom to be attached to it However -this may be, twenty-five years have elapsed and though the great waterway which M. de Lesseps created would doubtless long in common parlance hear the name by which it is at present known, it would only be a just tribute to the memory of "le grand Francais" to call it officially the Lesseps canal. LEAGUE BARS CLERGY. Philadelphia flub Resents Ministerial Interference with Politicians Philadlphia Special The board of managers of the ITnioi League met and rescinded previleges wnich for twentytwo years have been extended to clergymen. Political activity has debarred the gentlemen of the cloth from the clubhouse. .During the late mayoralty campaign in Philadelphia the clergy of the city first attempted to arouse public sentiment against Senator Boie.WV-n-rose, a presumably slated republican candidate for first place in the quuker city. They insinuated that personal character was at stake. Thus they greatly injured and ultimately gave the political leaders a chance to sidetrack Penrose, a prominent member of the league and friend of Quay. Not satisfied with this, however, the ministers engaged In united attacks upon City Solicitor Warwick, whom Quay's republican foes had nominated in Penrose's place, and who was elected mayor by a majority unprecedented. Warwick is also a member of the league. These attacks on the part of men who were using many of the privileges of the league gratis have been resented. The directors resolved that hereafter no clergyman shall enjoy the clubhouse bounty except upon petition of an active member, specially approved by the board. CHICKENS ON WEATHER. Their Actions Show When a Windstorm Is Coming Up, A grizzled and gray Montgomery county farmer formed one of a group of men who were dlscusiing weather signs in the Terminal market yesterday. "I always know when there is to be a windstorm," he said, "by watching the turkeys and chickens go to roost each night. In calm weather the fowls always roost on their poles with their heads alternating each way that is, one faces east, the next west, ana so on. But when there Is going to be a high wind, they always roost with their heads toward the direction from which It is coming. There are reasons for these different ways of roosting I take it. When there is no wind to guard against they can see other danger reetlons; but when wind is to arise they face it because they can hold their positions better. But the part I can't understand," he concluded, "is how the critters know that the wind is going to rise when we mortals lack all intimation of it." Philadelphia Paper. A Window Desk. One of the most conventional and altogether satisfactory contrivances qviite in the power of a young woman to manipulate is a window desk. Take a board about fifteen inches wide and saw it the length of the window sill, so that it can hang down against the under wall when desirable. Take a narrow strip of wood under the board near the front. ! edge. Resting on the floor and wedged I unilai' thin rlpnt there is a nroii of planed wood, slender and neat looking. You can put a beading around with small braids and stain It all cherry or some other color. The sill holds pens, pencils and inkstands, and a large blotter laid cn the board is a most desirable writing pad. This idea comes from an art student in Paris, who dotes on her wirduw desk. Wonderful Itao.vloii. Ancient Babylon may perhaps be called the most wonderful city of the world. No less remarkable were the hanging gardens referred to in the Old Testament and described by some of the early profane writers. The city itself was fifty miles iu circumference, its walls being 350 fool high and S7 feet i thick. The city was built in the center of a vast plain. The wife of the king came from a mountainous region, and did not like its barrenness. Hence the famous hanging gardens. They were suspended over 400 feet in the air and planted with trees, fruits and flowers. No less than 200,000 slaves were employed in their construction. All this to please his wife. Itraln on Cushions. The brain is not affected by the movements of the body, even though these are sometimes very violent, because tt rests on a basis of soft cushions between the bones of the spine. A Good Idea. Mayor Jewett of Buffalo, N. Y., suggests the utilization of the trolley railways for carrying all street garbage out of the city from collecting stations established at convenient places along the railway routes.

THE BOY MONSTER.

Jesse INuiieri'y'.H I ecu liar ties as a Solitary l.lfc l'rionr. I have been within ten feet of Jesse Pomeroy! Immured deep in the vast gray walls of Charlestown pt-nitentiary, the strange, warped human being who once bore that name is hidden away from the sight of man forever in a living death, unknown by the coming generation and forgotten by the passing one. He has a doubl? cell, much larger than the ordinary cell, into which the sunlight streams, says a Boston writer. His room is neat, and he himself is the personification of neatness. Upon this he prides himself. He wears a beard, which is kept neatly trimmed. He changes the style of it occasionally to suit himself, and displays as much taste and is as well aware of what Is becoming as the most exquisite man of fashion. "But is he well?" I asked of the one who gave me this information, and one who knows. "As well as you are," was the reply, "and he looks well." "People say a man cannot live without exercise. The only exercise he gets is in his cell, walking up and. down, yet no one could possibly be healthier than he is. So far as I know, he has never known a sick day and he has been a prisoner In absolutely solitary confinement for sixteen years. He la a great reader and student. He speaks three different languages. He does not want to work, but prefers his books." "Does he seem to have any curiosity about the outside world?" I asked. "Yes, I presume so, although he never asks. He does not ask privileges; no doubt he realizes it would be in vain. The only favor he has asked of Gen. Bridges since he has been warden was permission to keep the box his holiday things came in. This favor had been granted to him once before, and he used the cover to hide a hole he had dug in the wall. "If he gets a penknife or a spoon, the probabilities are he will commence and dig. The walls are so thick it is impossible for him to escape, and no doubt he does it to make the prison officials uneasy, more than anything else. He is a remarkably good-looking man, a fine-looking man, in fact. If you should pass his cell, ignorant of his name, you would comment upon his appearance and select him as a man much above the ordinary." It is said that either his hearing is supernaturally acute or else he is possessed of some strange sixth sense, enabling him to know things that have transpired before the guards themselves. One instance of this is related. A couple of years ago the prisoners were all assembled in the chapel awaiting the annual announcement of the governor's pardons. Before the convicts' cheers which greeted the lucky ones had died out, Prison Physician McLaughlin had occasion to attend a prisoner located in the same tier as Pomeroy. As the doctor passed Jesse's cell he called to the doctor, saying, "So the governor has pardoned two men," and giving their names. The doctor has never been able to understand how Pomeroy knew of these names. Not half a dozen people have seen him since he was a boy, and he has seen no woman's face but his mother's since his incarceration. HE LONGS FOR PIE. Away With Fore'gn Cooks Who Won't Serve Mince and Pumpkin. I must protest with great vehemence against the prejudice a consequence of ignorance sustained here by the chefs of first-class restaurants against the pie of pumpkin and the pie of mince. It is only on rare occasions that you may order and get a section of either pumpkin or mince pie at Delmonico's, the St. James, the Waldorf or the Brunswick. Every sort of fruit or cream pie makes its appearance from time to time on the cartes du jour of these restaurants, but that beautiful sunflower of pastry, the "punkin," and that bewildering apotheosis of American independence, the mince pie. seldom form a part of the Gallio collections, I trust that I shall always be able to eat and value the splendors of French cookery without peptic accompaniment or subsequent regrets, but, as an American citizen, I demand that the national discs of delight, the mince and pumpkin pies, be retained upon their pedestals and flashed under our eager eyes whenever our souls send forth a ery for them. I should make it a misdemeanor on the part of a restaurant keeper not to include these Xies in his daily menu, punishable with a fine and imprisonment. I have latelycalled for "punkin" pie at Deimonico's and the St. James, and at both places I was told they had only plum and cus tard. What a deadly Insult to offer an American! We can dispense with all the truffld intricacies known to the French culinary art before we can part with the props and buttresses of our constitution, the pie of beautiful pumpkin and its cousin of magnificent mince. Town Topics. Tough. "You embarrass me." A look of sadness cast its shadow over her radiant countenance as she contemplated the noble suitor at her feet. "You embarrass me," she repeated. She could not afford better than a baronet, and the purchase of his grace, the duke, must as she intimated, involve her in financial difficulty. Town Topics. A Frugal Cat. A cat in an exchange office has a unique way of disposing of any remains of food given her on paper. After she is done she patiently and carefully folds the paper enclosing the scraps, and will occasionally take the further precaution to remove the package she has formed to some out-of-the-way corner or nook. Sized Him Up. "Benighted men." exclaimed the missionary, "it Is my wish to make you better." The cannibals exchanged glances. "This," they whispered among themselves, "must be the avant courier of the pure food movement of which we have heard much." Town Topics. The Largest Camellia. Perhaps the largest camellia in existence is at the Piluitz castle, near Dresden, Germany. The tree is twenty-four feet high and annually produces about 50,000 blossoms.