Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 5, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 June 1883 — Page 3

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WOMAN GOSSTP.

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Three husbands vent, nmfflng. out Into the

street.

Sacb steerine a bee-Mn at 0190 t the

"Shades. Three -wives had been told that three husband roust neet Three men upot business urgent to trades. For men, after supper, grow restless If they oat spend with their wires one hour a day. And women most ever be jxowltag. Three wives followed after three husbands and

and JrteHriK and 'smoking. Bp

Them lac

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Around a osaall table, and playing at 'Oxaw, With business ends to business-way. " For women are curious always to know What business takes tired husband ont so. And when they find out there is groaning. Three husbands, unconscious of danger, were bold. Yet dreading three lectures they knew they'd incurred. Three furious women marched in, and behold, Three husbands marched out without saying a word. For none are so meek as are husbands when caught, And none are so good for a day than those, tanght By wires thai they, too most be. groaning; H. ft Dodge, l. : A. Fery Ignorant Man. As I have said, not many -women have thus far fallen into this style of shaping themselves, and those few are generally tall and slender, for no '. one- of taste adopts it if she is plump or little. Therefore we see the singular spectacle of seemingly immense hips on otherwise narrow figures an absurdity, as anybody ought to comprehend. By the way, a married friend of mine took her husband ont shopping. He was green, and gazed trpon the wares like a countryman at a fair. In one place his eyes fell upon a pair of cloth-covered, bran-stuffed articles, connected by tapes. He concluded that they were bosom pads; He whispered his disapproval of sueh artifices : ' Look at the shape of them," heK exclaimed; "they are square, unsymmetr rical, angular. No woman on earth was ever developed in that way, unless' file was deformed. What fools you are." "And you're another," replied his wife. "Those are for wearing on the hips. It's your treat, and Til take sodat with lemon and cream, quite sweet." Clara Belle. av2fc ahaariaaaaaa mt X am T ijiv Awranv uiim Of all the characters known at home and abroad for excellent good nature, sterling virtues and a marked differentiation of the feminine type, the American girl takes the palm. She is the special product of our schools and the independent life she leads, which gives her an air of self-reliance and enables Ler to be her own guardian when she is not under the immediate protection of near relatives. The respect with which woman is treated by Americans when she appears in public has had much to do with the. creation of th's wellrecognized typa. The practice that prevails among 11s of dispensing partially with the system of parental espionage and the little use made of the duenna has. also contributed to the development of the - character. We do dot allude, of course, to girls like Daisy Miller, who may exist, though they are rare, bat to that better class who are seen all over Europe, and. whom even Ouida," though she has drawn her coarsely, has placed in virtue far above her fashionable sister of other nationalities. San Francisco Chronicle. , ' Slave of the Cooking Stove. "Here are seven kinds of cake, nothing to eat," we heard a traveler remark one evening at a hotel in Vermont, when he came in hungry from fishing orrliake Champl&in. s That's just it. Seven kinds of cake and nothing to eat! He slight hare added, three kinds of preserves, a jar of mixed pickles and a pile of flip jacks. All this, and nothing to eat ! A man of sound digestion and healthy appetite would naturally wave these frivolous dainties aside, and ask for some proper human -food. Good bread and butter would answer his purpose. Add baked" potatoes, and he would rise from the table refreshed and satisfied, and sleep

his allowance of eighhours as unlike the proverbial 'top" as possible. What can a hungry man do with pound cake and pickles? But, ladies, of all the viands. ordL narily seen on tables, this trash is the most laborious to prepare. It is the eternal round of pie, cake and sweetmeats that wears out so many noble women in the country, who would rather die than come short of what they think is theirdotjr to their households. New York Ledger.

"trotted from one end of Paris to the other" in them. A cigarette often, a cigar sometimes, completed the oosbume. When she published "Indiana," her first important story written without collaboration, she was about 29, and, Henri Heine says, "beautiful as the Venus of Miloj Her features were regular, her forehead I6w, shaded' by rich bands of chestnut hair." She had her nom de plume in this way: She wrote articles with Jules S andean, and they published a novel, "Bose et Blanche," under the name of Jules Sands. When "Indiana" was printed Jules declined to take any of the credit for a work in which he had no hand, and by his advice she called herself George Sand. Before she had signed herself Arore Dudevant, her real name being Aurora Duplan. She watt born, in -Paris July. 1804. A few rain, utes before her birth her mother -was dancing, dressed in a rose-colored gown ; her father was playing the fiddle for his guests. Mme. Duplan left the room, and soon after the birth of the child was announced. "She shall be called Aurora, after my mother," said Maurice, the father. "Aurora is born amid music and rose-color," added the aunt. She died in the village of Nahant, on the 8th of June, 1876, and was buried in the churchyard there. Nothing marks her grave, for her injunctions were that only grass and flowers should cover her last resting place. During her latter years she is described as "a large, tran. quil-eyed woman, dressed in the simple Berrichon style, sitting indolently in the old hall of the chateau. She was never without a cigarette." She liked nothing better than to be forgotten in her drawing-room, listening to what was said, but not speaking much herself. As soon as her guests departed for the night she shut the door and fell to smoking, thinking and writing for several hours, sometimes until .daybreak. She says in a letter' to Mme. d'Agoult, "I pass long hours tete-a-tete with ' Dame 'Fancy ;' I never go to bed before 7 o'clock in the morning."

Oecrgv Sand. The man's costume in which George gandf dflignted was described in pswt by herself as "a long gray" overcoat, a woolen tie and and a pair of boots." The boots she doted upon. "I longed so sleep with them," she wrote. She V.. -

Woman Share in Courtship. . A man's quest for a spouse is limited only by his time and opportunities for looking around. He can try to win anybody, although a reasonable chance of success may attend him with but few. At any rate, he stands squarely .upon his cheek and his merits, and that is enough. On the contrary, society says a woman must never go a step out of her way to secure best and most desirable of mankind. She must simply sit and wait until chance brings the longedfor opportunity of speaking. In fact, it is said that young ladies pride themselves upon feeling as well as seeming

indifferent to all men until an effort is

made to awaken their interest. No wonder social reformers protest.

If young maidenhood did not so often

fell a victim to the first flight of Cupid's

darts, its range of choice would still be very small. As they go, rich and poor, pretty and homely, intelligent and ignorant, probably women would not, if they accept" none of them, receive on

an averag -nore than half a dozen

offers apiece, and not over three of these reasonably eligible. Suppose that' she is fortunate enough to win a score of suitors, a young lady is still terribly handicapped.' Like enough none of the twenty would be just to her liking, and meanwhile one she greatly preferred to any one of the others might

just escape coming under the spell of

her charms.

It is all very pretty, but this sitting

in "maiden meditation fancy free"-un-til some stray youth makes a vigorous

effort to deprive the aforesaid fancy of

its liberty, is a very unsatisfactory thing when critically examined. Probably it may never be advisable to put

woman on an exact equality with man

and let her go forth with a stock of caramels and valentines to her ideal, and put the motto, "if you don't succeed, try again," to a practical test. At all events, anything of that kind is in the far future. If, however, man is to

be robbed of his time-honored prerog

atives or forced to share them on even terms, we respectfully submit that adequate attention be given to his immense advantages in courtship. Cleveland Leader.

in cnmmooiys happx jiovrs. "Ah, dear' old grandmother J" said a

lady. "How good she was to the children! And how credulous! One day

while we were playing we broke a great lot of dishes. It was a terrible wreck. When grandma got home she was very angry. Grandma,' we said, ' it wasn't us, grandma; it was that bad, careless cat; we saw her.' Then grandma she grabbed the poor cat and such a terrific beating as she gave that innocent creature I hope no other cat may ever suffer. Poor pussy I Dear old grandma I"

AST IRISH JS UX.Z,. -i At one of the railroad stations in the North of Ireland the following notice was posted: "Hereafter, when trains moving in an opposite direction are approaching each other on separata lines conductors and engineers' will bring their trains to a dead halt, and be

very careful not to proceed until each

train has passed the other."

DRAMATIC AND M USWAL.

Mb. Windham has gone to England, but will return. He says he thinks too much pf this country to desert it, several thousand dollars too much. Nbxt season Miss Minnie Maddern will add "Fanehoir and "Little Barefoot" to her repertory, and make a bid for some of Maggie Mitchell's support. Tee report that Miss Fannie Kellogg, the favorite soprano, has become insane is a cruel slander, originating with a sensational New York paper, and Miss Kellogg has instituted a libel suit in consequence of it. She is in good health and living hap'pily with her husband. During a performance of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at Haverly's Theatre, Brooklyn, N, T., two Siberian bloodhounds, which are employed to track Ithe runaway slaves, George and Eliza Harris, added an unexpected piece of realism to the scene by having a desperate fight with each other on the stage. During their battle they rolled over into the orchestra, and much excitement prevailed for a few minutes. Finally the brutes were separated and Jthe play proceeded. Chbistote NrxssoN, in the North American Review, says that the Aniercans during the past twelve years have mode wonderful progress in the ability ,to appreciate good music. The people jof the Eastern and Middle States are more deliberate in their judgment than those of the West and South. She praises the opera-houses and concert halls, and considers the Aoademy of

Music in Philadelphia, in acoustic properties second only to the Grand Opera House in Vienna. Louise Montague, the so-called $10,000 beauty, says a recent Philadelphia dispatch, was victorious in two of the suits brought against Adam Forepaugh for breach of contract and for injuries received when thrown from the back of a vicious elephant. The juries awarded her $650, and Mr. Forepaugh appealed to the Supreme Court. Yielding to the arguments of his counsel, however, the circus man has withdrawn the appeal, and the beauty has got her money. A ceetain farmer of our acquaintance not .long since attended a theatrical performance for the second time in his life. He was very indignant next day, and we asked him what was the matter. "I'll never go to another theater as long as I live." "Why, what's occurred to prejudice -you against the theaters ?" "Well, I liked the first act first rate, but when it was neariy through I read on the play bill that the next act would take place in New York, and I -just got up and left," Texas Siftings. Mes. Langtry thinks of making the United States her home. Mr. Schwab, manager for the "Lily," the other day filled a check on a New York bank, payable to Mrs. Langtry, for $100,000 as her share of the profits of her seven months' season in this country. She will shortly recross the Atlantic and spend July and August iu England, returning to this country in September, when she will begin her second season at Montreal, where she will produce a drama written expressly for her by B C. Stevenson, of London. John Stetson thinks matters are working toward a crisis among the actor lcasses. Salaries are now so exorbitant, and show -such a tendency to increase, that he believes competing managers will burn their fingers so badly before long that they will have to stop the present ruinous rivalry and then what a fall there will be, my countrymen. Sarah Jewett jumping from $125 to $300 on bids, Lewis Morrison up ,to $350 from $150, Louis Aldrick, a few years ago getting $60 a week, now requesting $400, etc., is a fine state of affairs Mr. Stetson thinks. Season after season it becomes more and more impossible to keep up stock companies and train them regularly for Jiigh-class performances. The starring system has gained the day, and is ram-

jpant in the theatrical world. The man or woman that can, either by great histrionic ability, or by a handsome face and figure and a charming stage presence become popular, may dictate his or her terms to the manager, though these terms may make it impossible for him to engage adequate support for the star. Stars have, therefore, in. many cases, to become their own managers, and there is no doubt of it that this is suicidal to art. Music and Drama. A certain Western actress who plays "Camille" has arms so long that they are described as reaching twice around Armand at every hug, making him look "like a lost man in the power of a devilfish." She does not differ from other actresses in the practice of thickly powdering her visible skin. That brings additional embarrassment to Armand. "In the ball-room scene, " says the narrator, "where her dress was sleeveless, and he wore black broadcloth, she emphasized her first advance toward a reconciliation with a gentle laying of a hand on his shoulder, and when she took it away its white imprint was left

on the coat. Then she coyly draw him to her, and on. his turning his back toward tho audience two hands were sharply defined. Next she outlined her arms oi him, speedily criss-crossing those marks by a second demonstration of affection. It was like one of those, funny boxing matches between negroes, in which chalked gloves record each hit. We could see at a glance the exact progress of the endearment that is to say, we could do so up to the juncture where Camille, frantic with hopeless love and cruel, misunderstanding, threw herself madly upon Armand, wiggled and clawed in an agony of emotion, and finally slid down to a kneeling posture at his feet Then the account was irretrievably mixed, and the lovers garb became that of a miller."

BASE-BALL,. Sunday ball playing has been prohibited at Columbus, Ohio. Dairyhple, Chicago's heaviest batter, has been too ill to play for some time. Ewing, catcher for the New York League team, made two home runs in one game. The Western League clubs have beaten the Eastern teams badly so far this season. A Detroit firm gives each of its employes a half-holiday and a base-ball ticket on Saturday. No club in the League has three such swift base-runners as Williamson, Kelly and Gore, of the Chicago team. Chicago is to have a second inclosed base-ball park, where non-League clubs will play. Only 25 cents admission will be charged. In the base-ball grounds at Waterbury, Ct., the grand stand collapsed under a great crowd, injuring one man seriously and slightly woundingv several others. Some of the Boston stockholders are "kicking" on the mariner in which the club is being managed.. They talk of having no more base ball in Boston unless a change is made. They have got it so badly now in Detroit that forty business men will donate enough money to give each member of the home team a $200 gold watch, if the club wins the championship. At the end of the fifth week's play in the League championship race the standing of the eight contesting clubs was as follows: Games Games Crabs, won. lost. Boston......... 8 U Buffalo 9 10 Chicago 16 7 Cleveland....... H 7

Detroit 13 9 New York 8 12

Philadelphia i W Providence 13 0

In the American Association contest,

the Athletics were well ahead at the

close of the fifth week of the season,

with eighteen games won. The Metropolitans were second with thirteen, and the Cincinnatis fourth with twelve. The Eclipse and St. Louis were a tie with

eleven, but the others were far behind

Iu the Northwestern League championship race, the Saginaw Club was at the front with fifteen games won, Peoria being a close second, with thirteen games to her credit. Fort Wayne and

Grand Bapids occupied third and fourth

positions.

Philadelphia has got two nines of colored ladies, known, as the Dolly Varden No. 1 and the Dolly Varden No. 2. A reporter has been

out to see the No. 1 Dollies practicef

and thus describes the event: At 4

o'clock the woods were suddenly sta rtled by the yells of half a hundred ragged

little darkeys. "Here dey come hoorahj" they cried, as they rushed to the edge of the wood. Presently there appeared a group of colored girls gaudily dressed. One wore a calico scarlet dress trimmed with blue, another pink trimmed with white, another cardinal red trimmed with yellow, another blue trimmed with, white, and all wore red md white.

peaked caps, Some carried bats, some, croquet hoops and mallets, and one or two ropes, which impaired the stateliness of their triumphal progress. They marched down to a hollow in tha glade, where ground was marked out with a rope, and C'-apt. Ella Harrif placed her men as follows: "Cora Patten, you stand dar, 'kis we wants you to be our umpire.; -I'll stand hyar, 'kis I'm goin' to be short-stop ; Mollis Johnstone, you'll be fust base; Sallio Johnstone, you'll be second base; Lizzie Waters, you don't move away from dar, for yoh'se third base ; llhoda Scholl, yoh'll be de lef ' field ; Agnes Hollingsworth, yohse be de right field, and Ella Thompson, yoh'se be catcher d'ye eee?" When the ground was being measurod off, a knot in the rope was discovered. Gupt. Ella Harris promptly took a razor out of her pink stockings and out the rope, and the Dollies then amused themselves pitching the ball at each other. One lady got hit in the upper lip. Several got blows that would have doubled up a man, but none of the sable Dolly VardenB flinched.

OF 'MATCHES.

INVENTION

An Zntercmtlnff XiUt tcfth thv Mat Who Clalww to Rmm Invented Thvrm Fro- the Spilntdield Republican.! "Did I ever tell you what Charles Sumner once said to me about the manufacture of matches ?" queried Lucius C. Allin, the veteran armory foreman. "It was about fifty years ago new, when I was in doubt whether it would pay to ge into the business, and asked Mr. Sumner what he thought about it. He turned around quick as a flash, and said: 'Mr. Allin, how many pins do you suppose are made in a year?' I thought there must be a good many millions. 'And how many times,' he continued, 'is a pin used?' 'Perhaps twenty on an average,' I replied. 'Then at least twsnty times as many matches will be needed as pins,' he concluded, 'and of course it will pay.' Now, did even Charles Sunnier ever size up anything neater than that? I made matches several years and, not only that, but I invented them. It was away back in the thirties, when I was a boy. I was always fooling with the ingredients,, brimstone and the like, till finally I struck an idea. Then. I went to work and made a few matches, rather crude, of course, and showed them to a few friends, but they didn't think it would amount to anything, and I didn't either, at first, so I minded nothing about it till 1834, I think it was, when a friend persuaded me to apply for a patent. It. was quite a tr to Washington in those days, but in a few days I got word that a Chicopee man had failed in a jiimilar application a short time before mine arrived. I was satisfied that I could get the patent by fighting for it, but I didn't think thin that it would pay, and so I made an arrangement with the Chicopee man, by which I was to offer no opposition to his getting the patent, but could have the privilege of manufacturing matches on my own hook. He got the patent and I went into the business. I had quite an establi&hment on Walnut street, hiring about thirty hands, mostly girls, and kept it till '37, the time of the great panic. The Chicopee man was a drunken, peddler, and he went to Boston on a spree, and gambled the patent away to men who have made their fortunes out of it. I sold matches all through the country, but there was a good deal of opposition to their manufacture. The papers said it was a bid for incendiarism, and many shopkeepers wouldn't sell them. The railroad had got as far as Worcester then, but they wouldn't carry matches, and I had to hire men to drive dear through to Boston. There were some other matches in the market that would crack like a pistol when you lit them, and when we put some in a box and setthem afire it sounded like a small can

nonade. But my matches were like what we have now, and were the first ever made that I know of." CROCODILE STEAKS. It is difficult, says a writer in the New York World, to say what man does or will not eat through fashion, curiosity or necessity, though probably 'articles of food which are only consumed upon compulsion do not merit mention in a disquisition uponout-of-:the-way viands. Among the odd experiments in gastronomy that have "been recorded in the papers of late,

those with crocodile's flesh should have ,the most interest for American readers. ;The eminent French scientist, M. Paul Bert, regaled a select party with crocodile steaks,' which were voted excellent, with something of a musky flavor, and, on the whole, not unlike salmon. The tail is the most dainty part. The members of the Westplialian Zoological Society pronounce crocodile soup the best of eating, and fix.d the scent of the meat particularly appetizing. It should

be boiled for three Hours. A less enthusiastic account of crocodile meat is given by an English traveler, who describes it as tough, greasy and fishy "something like tough pork that had been fattened on fish" and a viand not likely to commend itself to the eater unless he was very hungry and couldn't get anything else. A scientist of Basle, who some thirty ye irs ago had an opportunity to taste crocodile flesh when the "specimen" now 'in the museum of that city was prepared, enjoyed it so much that, what he could not eat at that time hs salted dojwn for future consumption. He describes the flesh as the connecting link between meat and fish. It is worthy of remark that Herodotus, after describing the honors paid to the "sacred crocodile" by the Egyptians, adds : "But the people who live around about Elephantine even eat them; they don't think them sacred." The passion for gambling has assumed alarming proportions in France. New clubs are started in every city," and every ob of tJieni is a gamblinghouse. Bacc arat is played in them all day and all night long, and the theatrical managers ,in France say hardly a

young man of meatus is to be seen now

in any theater. ' '

The blossoms ot passion, gay -and

luxuriant flowers, are brighter and fuller of fragrance, ibut they beguile us and lead its astray, and their odor is

deadly. LongfeUov).

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" ;'ir"1 . ' ;iy',-J.i ' JuMm Thai VorolftuA hm HmkitHH JM. "When I was practising down Tombstone," said the lawyer,'' friend of mine had his ear chewed off ob4 evening in a dispute with a prominent citizen who dealt faro. After seeing the doctor he came to me, and under my advice he had the prominent citizen arrested tinder a charge of mayhem. Next day we had the man up for his preliminary examination. My friend was there, with his head bandaged, aad so were the prominent citusan and his counsel and the friends of both parties. The general public and it's a pretty tough general public in Tombstonecrowded the court-room.' The hour went by, but the Justice didn't-turn up. Finally, Gen. O'Brien, the lealer of the Tombstone bar, stuck his head up through a trap-door in the floor and said, in his solemn way: " ' Gentlemen, remove your hats. His Honor is here.' And he dragged the court up by the collar. He was limber drunk, and had been sleeping it off in the cellar. You never saw such a long adjournment from decency as that ornament of the bench was. A bath and a shampoo brought back some life to him, and he was able to walk without help to the court-room. Once in the chair behind his high desk, he looked all right, and we went on with the case.

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chewing of my friend's ear in the' Excelsior faro parlors, when Gen: O'Brien and Col. Stephens, both on the' other side, jumped up and objected to one of my questions. It was a law point, and we argued and quoted authorities for about half an hour. It was a pretty hot set-to, and we were all on our feet when we finished and turned round to the court for a ruling. Ke was looking straight before him up above us, as if he was sleeping with his eyes open. ""Your Honor said the General, after a long pause, 'we are waiting for your rnling.' "There was no answer. Then Z chipped in with: "'Your Honor, will you be good enough to give us your ruling?', " 'Wash tha?' he said, trying to bring

his eyes to bear upon me. " 'We want your ruling.'

. " 'Court's a'journed,' he said, trying to rise. . "We all protested, but his only answer was to strike his desk with his fist and cry out again that the- oourl was adjourned. "'Won't you fix the bail of this defendant?' demanded the General. " 'No, shir,' said the court; who, had got on his feet by this time, and was frowning heavily. 'Turn 'im loose. He'd oughter chawed the head off that tenderfoot, that's what he'd oughter dorte.' "Well, gentlemen, what do yon think the court 'did next? -'He just deliberately staggered over to the trap-door, lifted it, stepped down the stairs until only his head and shoulders were above the floor, and then, pausing to glare at the paralyzed crowd . of us, growled but: "Teh can all go to "With that he ducked and let the door fall, aud i suppose had his steep out on the dirty floor of the oellar." v. OX2 TIME POETRT. On a visit to the country .some .lime since we . were shown an old-time Hew England primer, written by Bev..Joh& Cotton, in about the year 1635, Irat it was used in Sunday-schools itt vthe West up to within tile last thirty or forty years. We cannot refrain from' quoting one page: In Adam's foil We sinned alL ' i My book and heart Must never part. Young ObadUa, David, Joslas, . - All were pIqus. . Peter denied His Lord and cried. Young Timothy Learnt soon to r. Xerxes did die, And so must I.

Zaccheus he Did climb the tree Our Lord to see' . -Poducah Journal.

"According to the testimony of the

witnesses you were caught just as

were getting out of the window,

the contents of the till in your ;

Now, what excu&e have you got," and the Judge leaned back in his chairvery complacently. "I know it, Judge, and I shall always be grateful to the man who caught me. When I have these sonmambtilisticfita I am in danger of falling out of windows and hurting myself." "That idea never oocurred to me, "remarked the Judge, pensively. "It has often occurred' to jae, re marked the prisoner, with unconscious humor. "That being the case, I will difeafc

thfi Sheriff"" MA,

"To turn me loose?"

' "No; but to have aa

across your cell windoy, fo fear 1, iMakM