Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 1 September 1893 — Page 2

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. lilSCELLANEO V S NOTES.

THE WORLD'S FAIR

Philadelphia locomotives are used in Jerusalem. One-half the population of Mexico are full-blooded Indians. Two hundred women practice dentistry in the United States. Writing pens made from celluloid are coming into use in France. Two thousand varietiCvS of apples are raised in the United States. Rats avoid a house wherein a guinea-pig is allowed to roam at will. Photography on marble has been accomplished by a London artist. The organ-grinders in Vienna are permitted to play only between midday and sunset. Eyelashes of real hair adorn a marble statue of Ariadne, in the Roman Vatican. A net to catch whales has been patented in Aukland, and it is said to be a great success. Ancomarca. Peru, is 16,000 feet above the sea. and the highest inhabited spot in the world. Most of the centenarians in Eng

land have been lean people, small I

eaters aud very moderate drinkers. A Connecticut paper has an advertisement of i;a cottage to let, containing sLx rooms and an acre of land." A one-legged bicyclist rode all the way on his wheel from San Francisco to Chicago. His name is P. S. Beedleson. In the production of iron ore Michigan ranks first. Her product is nearly one-half of the total of the entire country. There are eight churches in Wahoo. Neb., and in them are preached twelve diflerent kinds of theology, in four languages. Grampuses, seals, and sea lions are numerous this season in the Antarctic ses, while there is an unusual scarcity of whales. While a baby was being photographed. In Leominster, Mass., seven minutes after its birth, it spoiled the picture by sneezing. Foal-skins make the best gloves worn in Russia. They are superior to kid, beCiiuse finer, more durable, and take all dyes better. Flies are so numerous and annoying in the streets of Colorado Springs, than many of the horses there wear veils as' a protection from the little pests. The smallest crack, rent or fissure in a mass of metal, such as a bell or a locomotive axle, can be detected by a little instrument called a "schisphone' A duck in Calloway county, Mo., has initiated a rew fashion "in the line of egfirs. All of the eggs it has laid this month have had shells that are pei-fectJy black. Scorpions are so numerous in Durango, Mexico, that there is a bounty of sixty cents a hundred for them. The people who arc legalized to hunt for them are authorized to enter and search private houses.

Seventeen children have been born I to Mrs. Ellsworth MiUer. of Cold! Spring, N. Y. She has been a wife' less than ten vears. and in that time :

has had three sets of triplets, three seta of twins, and two singles. Mr. W. D. Howells's latest onescene play is called "Bride Roses," and appears in Harpers Magazine for August. Unlike MrHowells's previous plays, there is an element of tragedy in ' Bride Roses." The action takes place in a florist's shop, and four characters are represented. The Chinese Six Companies 1 are making a bid for popularity and business in San Francisco by agreeing to expend 180,000 on a Chinese village as one of the attractions of the midwinter fair for which the San Franciscans are just now making a vigorous endeavor. Their popularity in this direction is likely to be somewhat counteracted, however, by the elaborate preparations they are making and the large fund they are said to be raising for procuring a second test of the constitutionality of the Geary law. It is an exaggerated rumor that they are ready to spend half a million dollars to break this statute. Here is one illustration of New York's currency famine: The messenger for one of the leading corporations' of New York, one which employes a good many thousand men, jpntered a Wall street bank and presented a check for $30,000. The company has a good deal more than fthat on deposit. The teller said to the messenger that he could not give 'it all in paper money, and after a good deal of negotiation and vexa:tion the messenger went away, carrying with him 10,000 in gold. O00 in silver and the balance in ,paper, and he was obliged to secure the heh of two men and the escort of a policeman as well in order to carry it away. They would gladly jhave paid him the whole amount in gold. It is said taat liw memoir: of M.Hyrvo.x, the chief of tiio private police oi Napoleon I1L, vill sooa published, .inless his evocators art; prevailed upon by ajcinbers oi the Bonaparte family uo; to reveal the in nor life of the Tailors during tho lifetime o! several of the people refenod to in Un

memoirs.

Orientals at Chicago Electrical Cooking How Johnny Worked the Gates, Etc, ORIENTALS AT THE FAIR. Harper's Young People. Among the young people who arc visiting the Columbian Exposition this summer are a Javanese baby, three Chinese boys of from two to six years, a pickaninny from Dahomey, a dancing Soudanese baby, a little Bedouin girl who dances in the Arab encampment a pappoose or two in the Indian village, and a half dozen Egyptian boys who belabor the tiny gray donkeys in the Cairo Street. As the readers of Younsr People have already guessed, these boys and girls did not visit the Fair to see the curious things in the wonderful white buildings, but to be a part of the show. They are there to be looked at, not to look, and thev

are among the most interesting of,

all the exhibits. The black babv lives in the Daho

mey village, which is supposed to !

look as if it had been picked up in Africa and set down in Chicago. In some respects it certainly does resemble the hot country about which Mr. Glave has told us during the past year. The ground is sandy enough and the sunshine hot enough for Sahara, and the reed-thatched huts which line the high board fence surrounding the village are uncomfortable enough in appearance to

Johnny is not more than ten years old, and is evidently a street arab brushed up and one with educational ambitions. He says he watches his chances at the gates to the grounds and to the various Midway exhibitions until he sees a motherly looking woman enter. He gets up close to her as she passes the gatesnan,

JOHNNY JIKATS THK RAIKKOAD. then he stops and appears to be looking around until the lady gets some distance away. He then claims that the lady is his mother and that he is under 7 years of age. Rather than get the boy lost from his mother he passes him in. Johnny says he has been doing the tine arts lately, and that he worked the Intramural and Illinois Central trains by means of a ticket which he had attached to a rubber fastened up his sleeve. He would hold this over the slot and let go of it when the rubber would draw it up his sleeve.

FROM SOUTH AMERICA. Uruguay though an American State, is comparatively little known

INHABITANTS OF THK RTKKET IN CAIRO.

satisfy the most enthusiastic explorer. In the middle of the village is a larger hut, open at the sides and covered with thatch, and in this hut the dwellers of the Dahomey village dance the war dance of their native count rv everv hour or two afor the entertainment of the white people who stroll in to see them All of these men and women are hideous in their gay calico clothing, with

strings of teeth and strange-looking

bits of stone and metal hanging about their necks and dangling from their arms and ears. But the pickaninny is as cunning as most babies are. When I saw him he was sitting in a puddle of dirty water with no clothing on to get soiled, watching his mother and an older brother scouring two or three brass and silver rings with a bit of rag and a handful of sand. The little fellow wanted the rings to play with, and when he found he could not have them, set up a howl that sounded very much like a white boy of two years crying because he could not have a porcelain clock or a circus wagon to play with them.

in this country. But today Uruguay will introduce herself to the public of the United States and to the world in a most attractive wav. Uruguay's exhibit is in the northeastern portion of the Agricultural building, and is most attractively and artistitica'ly arranged. Wool is the staple product of the republic, its chief export, and clippings and fleeces are displayed in the exhibit from many ranches. The wool is very superior long, fleecy and silky, and the output is entirely consumed in England for the manufacture of the finest cloths. All the known products of the temperate zone are grown in Uruguay, and its grasses and cereal exhibits are tirst-class. and complete in appearance with the best of like products in that country. But of this elaborate display, the most interesting is the

COOKS BY CURRENTS. One of the interesting exhibits in the Electricity building is the cooking done by electricity. The Ansonia Electric Company have an interesting pagoda, or several of them linked together, in the gallery at the west end of the building. In one of these on dainty tables are cooking stoves heated by electricity. A bright woman in charge will roast a chicken or a piece of beef, make a potpie, make bread, pie or cake, and tell just how much better, safer, quicker and neater electricity is for cooking than is wood, coke, coal, or gas. She will tell you and convince you with her proofs. Another thing new in the electricity exhibit is the turning off and on the light of a room by locking and unlocking of the door. It serves two puposcs; one to insure the enonomy of turning off the light when not in the room, and the other as a burglar alarm, if any intruder should succeed in turning the lock after you have retired at night. To wander around the Electricity building and study the different appliances and the thousands of recent discoveries makes one believe that even with all the wonders of the present age electricity is only in its infancy as far as our knowledge is concerned. Having done so much, there's nbthing that cannot be done.

HE WORKED TUE GATES. Chicago Inter-Ocean. A young lad who gives his name as Johnny Semple and his home at 321 Ontario street, was yesterday caught in the act of slipping into Cairo street. Johnnv claims to have-

been doing the Fair for three months 4

without costing him a penny. More than that he has ridden back and forth on the Illinois Central cattle trains all that time, too, and the rides have cost him nothing. If lie

hadn't been too confiding he might!

have kept up his iree rides and tree admissions all summer, but in a moment of exultation he confided lo a stranger whom he sat beside in the car his great success. This stranger was a Columbian truard in eituens

clothes. Yesterday this guard was I

on dut' in front of Cairo street when he recognized the boy trying to get in.

OID WHAMXG 1JO AT. fiOVKKNMKXT bVdG, educational exhibit, abounding in samples of the kindergarten work of the little children, and maps, drawings, penmanship, etc.. of the more advanced pupils oi the free school which the government fosters and the church superintends. The mine, liquor and beer exhibit, is one creditable to the industrial phase of lite in Uruguay. .Possessed of few manufacturing interests. Uruguay makes a good leather exlv'nt. and in the manufacture of boots and shoes has a great display, and provides at home for the employment of many people. When the Indians Ate Grasshoppers. San Diepin Sun. Salvador Changalogash and Senora Marcelina Blacktooth were among the witnesses examined this morning in the action begun by ex-Governor Lownev to remove the Indians from a portion of Warner's ranch. Both are very old. In response to one of the questions from Senator White, attorney for Gov. Downev. Mrs. Blacktooth said, through an interpreter, that grasshoppers were one favprite article of diet with the Indians in old times. To catch the agile hoppers in biil-of-fare quantities the Indians first dug holes in the ground; then they set fire to the grass, and the hoppers, to escape the fire, fell into the holes, where they were captured in numbers. The grasshoppers were usually roasted before they were eaten. 'Well, the Indians still catch and cat grasshoppers, do they not?M inquired Senatnr White. '"Not much now," was the stoical answer. "Why not?" asked the Senator. 44 Because there art1 not now many grasshoppers to eat." explained the aged witness. It has cost Edison nearly $1 .000,000 to defend his patents, so that aside from the incandescent lamps he is really out of money on all his inventive work.

THE AiK SEX,

HER When the shore wants cool Sunday stylish little will wear. 1 and made of In front it gown. Just

6UMMKR COATS. sm&U girl at the sea to go to church some morning here is the French noat which she t is cut Empire fashion beige color corded silk, does not quite cover the below ihe wide Dircc-

toirc rovers there are two odd little bows of chartreuse ribbon velvet. The velvet also forms a deep cuff to the much-puffed sleeve. In addition to this coat a small girl will need a jacket for every day wear. One which is jaunty in its design is made of dark blue lightweight whipcord. It is doublebreasted and bound with black satin. Big smoked pearl buttons decorate the front A JAUNTY ttOLKKO JACKET. A jaunty little bolero jacket seen on Twenty-third street is made of black broadcloth. 1 1 has a deep turned-over collar which extends down in revers and is edged all the way round with a gold trimming.

from which hang small golden bells. Its price is $19. It would look well worn with a ehiffron shirt front, 8 mass of billowy ruffles in delicate coiors. The same sort of jacket can be had in all the light hades ol broadcloth, elaborately embroidered in gold. They arc made in Constantinople.

CROQUET AND TENNIS COSTUME. t It being statutory that the garb of Dr. Mary Walker shall be described whenever that bizarre but worthy woman collides with a reporter, Dr. Mary took occasion to remark to one of the guild of Boston who asked her if she ever wore a sack coat: 'I did at one time, but I've worn a Prince Albert for a good many years, except that I wear a sack for an overcoat. But don't j'ou think it is about time that the newspapers let up on talking about my clothes? Thev alwavs have to sav the same things right over and over again. Just think how many thousand times they have said, ;,She had a Prince Albert, etc " The interviewer changed the subject, Kate Douglas Wiggin is in England, where she has been received with much attention. Lady Caithness gave a ball in Paris, when supper was served at 5 o'clock in the morning. A straw hat. plaited entirely by Queen Victoria, has been sent to Chicago for exhibition. The Duchess of York has taken a university extension course in Elizabethan literature.

BLUFFING THE SCRAPPERS.

How the Slim Young Man Intimidated Several Pugilistic Sport. Detroit Free Press. "I saw a funny thing in Cheyenne a few weeks ago," said a Detroiter who returned from a Western trip the other day. "I was wandering around town to see the elephant, and chance led me into a big saloon where all the trappers made their headquarters. Back of .the saloon was a building where a professor of the manly art gave instructions, and the 'pugs' thumped each other at exhibitions. They were 'trying out' a new arrival that day and I should say there were forty or fifty toughlooking chaps in the place. So after I entered a young man who had come through from Denver in my car dropped in. He couldn't have been over twenty-four years age. while he was over six feet tall and his weight only about 120 pounds. Fie was long-faced, thin and long-legged, and reminded you of nothing so much as a boy on stilts. Two men were getting ready to go on when long legs peeled oft his coat and vest, tie and collar, put them in my charge and climbed upon the platform." "That was a defi to the crowd?" ''Exactly, and id about a minute they put a man up to punch his head off. They gave long-legs a second and the first thing he did was to take the glasses off the young man's nose. The latter reached for them and said: il 'Excuse me, but I always fight with my glasses on.' u 'But they'll get knocked off er jammed into your face il 4Don't you believe it! It's never happened yet. and don't think it will now "The scrapper over in the corner couldn't make it out. Here was a man so sure of himself that he was going to put up his dukes with a pair of eyeglasses on his nose. He must, perforce, be a knocker-out from Knoekersville. and it was better to retreat than to carry around a broken jaw. He therefore retreated. Several others came forward, but when they saw long-legs seated cross legged in his corner with those glasses placed so jauntily they didn't want anything of him. Then he got up and said: u 'Gentlemen, there is no limit to weight. I always fight in glasses, as I'm a little near-sighted. I will, however, remove ray glass eye and false teeth if deemed best. Will your best man step up here for a couple of rounds?' ' But no one stepped. He waited a minute or two and then pulled off the gloves with a look of disappointment and got into his clothes and we went out together. He didn't look to me at all like a scrapper, and as I walked down the street I said: 'What sort of a deal were vou giving that crowd?' 4i 'A gigantic bluff, he answered with a laugh. " 'Are you a fighter?' ' I never struck a blow in my life, not evdn in fun." " 'But. suppose one of those scrappers had tackled you?' ik I should have backed down and asked 'cm all up to take a drink. But there was no danger. I've tried it half a dozen times before, and the glasses alwavs settled 'em

k 'How about the glass eye anil the false teeth?1 'I simply rung 'em in to help on the bluff. Haven't got a false tooth in my head, and both eyes are perfect. It's a bluff cf my own invention and works like a charm. Please don't give it away.' 'And that afternoon' said the Detroiter in conclusion, "when we took the train east there were a hundred sports at the depot to see long-legs off. and I'm a duffer if they

didn't present mm with a bottle of wine and give him three cheers and a tiger." PEOPLE. Dr. E. M. Hale, the dimatologist, states that Bright's disease is most common in New Jersey and least frequent in Virginia. "Uncle Henry'' Martin, who has been janitor of the. University of Virginia for fortv- five years, and who is said to trace his descent in direct line from Jefferson. its founder, can neither read nor write. The prince of all Hungarian gypsies, Ignaz Erelyi. committed suicide a few days ago in Buda-Pesth. He was one of the most famous violinists of his race and in his lifetime appeared in every country of Europe and in the United States. He had been ill recently, and it is supposed took his life to end his sufferings. Professor Nicholas Crouch famed the world over as the author of "Kathleen Mavourneeu' was eighty-six years old on July v51. He has lived in Baltimore for a number of years, but is now in New York awaiting theopening of the fall en gagement of ''(.ilen-da-Lough.' "Kathleen Mavournecn" is one ol the principal airs in this opera, and during its rendition Professor Crouch leads the orchestra. So fond are the Russian women of smoking thpt the czar's minister of the interior has ordered the lailwav

officials in the empire to provide ;

passenger trains with smoking compartments for the use of the fair sex. It is said on good authority that nearly all married woman in Russia smoke cigarettes, and that the habit has begun to obtain largely among the unmarried, with the result that .smoking cars are now as much of a necessity for traveling Russian women as for men.

OUR PLEASURE CLUB. A 0NVKN1ENT ARRAXUEMSN?. Puck.

Dunham I have come to collect this bill. Office Boy Don't yer see the sign up? Dunham That's been up every day this week. When do you take it down? Office Boy Sundays an' holidays. Bell Boy Dere's a young couple on de piazzy as wants you to send 'em some chairs." Clerk Is it bright moonlight? Bell Boy Nope: dark. Clerk Take the n this chair.

MISAPILIKD PRACTICE.

Judge.

Buttons No game to-day, sir? Doctor No, James. I didn't kill a thing. Buttons There was nine patients here to-day. You might better 'afe stayed at home, sir. 4 'How is it with you?' asked the editor of a subscriber who was dying in arrears. A11 looks bright before me," gasped the substrber. kI thought so," said the editor, 4iin about ten minutes you'll see the blaze'

Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Pope. "I got tired of riding home in crowded cars, sol bought a bicycle." "So vou are going to ride home oq that hereafter?" "Well, I don't know. 1 got it only yesterday, and last night I rode home in an ambulance."

a close suave; Parspi ration is now getting the drop on us. Forged notes can alwavs be properly classed among the gilt-edged paper in a bank. Customer Don't this shoe look a little small? Hastv Clerk Xo, indeed. How could it when it tits vour foot exactly? "Smith's business is going along like c ockA'ork' "Pooh, his place is in the hands of a receiver." k "Hat's it. oeing wound up.