Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 January 1885 — Page 9

SELECTED PORTRAITS

Of IiBHngini.slnsl Persons of GetioraJ Inteiest.

THE LATE REUBEN B. SPRINGER, Iii the death of Reubon R. Springer, Cincinnati loses one who filled a position in that city analogous to that of George Poabody, in London, W. W. Corcoran in Washington, or Peter Cooper in New York, as an intelligent and generous benefactor. Though the extent of Mr. Springer's public benefactions uro well known, amounting to iit-arly one- half a xftillion dollars, the amount ho gave in private charity will never be icwn. He was born 84 years ago in Kenu: kv. and began life as clerk on a Mississippi s, :i !i oat in 1821. At his death hi* fortune w.is estimated at $50,000,000. Mr. Springer died a Roman Catholic, though ho was not born in that faith.

Why Her Glasses Glowed. [Burlington Free Press.]

"Now," said the business man to the prim Boston girl, whom he had engagad to do his type writing, "address this letter to Messrs. Jonas & Jones, Amsterdam, N. Y." The types clicked for a moment and thi-n the fair operator stopped and blushed till her glasses fairly glowed. "I cannot swear, sir," she said, timidly, with her soft Athenian accent. "May I not write it 'Amsterdash?'" Tho merchant leaned for ward as if to imprint a fatherly kiss upon her chaste brow and touched the keys. "There," he said, "I have written 'dam.' Now you go ahead."

A Prominent Democratic Senator*

ARTHUR P. GORMAN.

Thirty-two years ago Arthur P. Gorman was appointed a page in the United States senate, lie continued in the service of the senate until 1866, when he was postmaster. Fourteen .ars later he returned as a senator from MiiiyhtnJ, and is now one of the leading lights in that august body, and is spoken of for a cabinet position under the incoming administration, as it is generally admitted that his individual efforts contributed very' largely to Democratic success. Senator Gorman is a native of Howard county, Muryland is 45 years old and had a good deal of legislative experience before entering the senate, having served several terms in the Maryland state legislature and senate. He is a jovial host, his house at Washington is next but one to Senator Bayard's and is the meeting place for Democratic pow wows this winter.

A New Style. [Whitehall Times.]

The coat was a very bad fit—too full in the back. "That'll never do," said the customer "it's like a shirt on a beanpole." "Dot coat, mein frent," replied the dealer, "ish a very stylish garment. Look at dot back. Mein gracious, it is lufly. See dot beautiful puffing—der latest style, and don't you forget it. It was made on Fifth avenoo. it ish der Fadder Hubbard style, and is actually worth so much ash five tollar more for dot cut." And five minutes later the delighted customer left the store with hia Father Hubbard coat.

Poet LanrAtte of'Freemasonry.

ROBERT MORRIS.

There was recently performed in Masonic Temple, New York, a ceremony that has but a single precedent in the annals of Freemasonry the crowning of Robert, Morris poet laureate of the brotherhood. The other poet similarly crowned was Robert Burns, which coronation took place 100 years ago. Burns had written but one Masonic lyric, while Robert Morris has written several hundred, his best known poem appearing as early as 1854, entitled "The Level and the Square." Mr. Morris is an enthusiast on the subject of Freemasonry, giving his whole life to travel, lecturing, and research in the interest of the order, and promises from his appearance to continue this service for many years to come.

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THE .CHANGE IN TWENTY YEARa

Twenty yearsi liow lull of Sorrow, O'er tliis gontlo head have pji Days so dark that no to-morrow foivujht redemption from the la-.t. What a ehnn^o from all the glory,

All the pomp and 'all the pride! ft Lik a Roman pair in story, E II press by your husband's sidel

Lift the curtain, see the show, Paris, twenty years ago!

Twenty years I Look back! Romrimbsiy Cheers wero borno upon the breez With the 'man of dark December'

Throned beneath the TuilleriesI Scorched with lire, with cannon shattered, Stands the palace, hushed the song Luxury and beauty scattered,

Swept away the giddy throng. Such was hie—an empty show, Paris, twenty years ago!

EMPRESS EUGENIE.

[From portrait made twenty years agx[ Wf ir, with hideous devastation, War, wiih cries and crimes .accurst, Scattered doom upon nation,

Gave you peace at Chiselhurst. Not for long, tor Death, the traitor, Laid your love and husband lowl Death, the coward, waiting later .*•.••

To inflict a fieicor blow! Patiently you bore it, though, Pride of twenty years ago I

Gentle lady, all must love you, For your pain that bitter day, When you prayed, and God above you

Took the son you loved away. Every heart of English ther Felt your pang of widowed grief, Asking Time your loss to smother,

Beugiug prayer to send relief 1 So work on the wheels of woe, Started twenty years agol

EX-EMPRESS EUGENBS. [From a recent photograph.]

Calm, impassive, royal lady, You are with us—that is best Where the trees are green and siiady,

Iu an English home at rest. All the bitter past is ended, All the fever and the fret Least that's said is soonest menied

Draw the curtain, and forget Flowers c£ life and sorrow's snow, Hopes of twenty years ago!

The Completion of the Washington Monument.

APPEARANCE OF THE UPPER PORTION OF THE MONUMENT ON THE DAY OF ITS COMPACTION.

On December 6th the last or capstone, weighing 6,300 pounds, was placed on the Washington monument, thus completing exteriorally this structure, commenced in 1848. There were present at the ceremony, besides CoL Thomas L. Casey, the government engineer in charge, and his assistants, one of the master mechanics who assisted at the laying of the corner stone over 36 years ago and the old watchman who has guarded the structure continuously from that time since.

The site for this obelisk was marked on the original plan of the national capitol, as designed by Major L' Enfant, which plan was approved by Washington himself. The corner stone was laid on July 4, 1848. la

TERBE HAUTE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY IV 1885

the six years foil owing the shalt reactiea cue height of 175 feet, when the funds gave out, and the work was suspended until about six years ago, when work was resumed. The structure' has cost $1,130,000, $900,000 of —hicli wa-i Appropriated by congress. A ••otiible fact, iu the construction of this stupehiious i-iv is the fact that not a single 'Ztv litis' be' ii lost tlirough accident. 'tie

Turning Over that New Leaf.

THERE IS AN ANCIENT BUT VERT LIVELY PERSON AGE WHO STRIVES TO PREVENT IT.

A S O [Bill Nye.] .**•:' .. An old-timer once said to me: "I've about decided, Bill, that the west is a- matter of history. When we cooked our grub over a sage bush fire we could get fat and bunt Indians, but now we fill our digesters with the cold pizen and pewter of the canned peach we^o to a big tavern and stick a towel under our chin, and eat pie with a fork, and heat up our carkisses with anticrist coal, and what do we amount to! Nuthin' I used .to chose Indians all day, and eat raw salt'pork at night, bekuz I dassent build a fire, and still I felt better than I do now with a wad of tin-can solder in my stummich and a homesick feeling in my weather-beaten breast "No, wo don't have the fun we used to. We have more swarrees and sciatic and one bloomin' thing and another of that kind, but we don't get one snort of pure air and appe» tite in a year. They're bringin' in the blamed telephones now, and malaria and aigue, old sledge and fun might as well skip out. There ain't no frontier any more. All we've got left is the old trantler joose and rheumatiz of '49.

The Diary Season.

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This is the time when the maiden com mences a new diary, in which is recorded all the silly longings and youthful fancies of her giddy mind.

For the Lime-Kiln Clnb's Museum. [Detroit Free Press.] The keeper of the Sacred Relics reported the receipt of the following valuable relics during the past fortnight:

A small looking-gl ass said to have beeif the property of John Quincv Adams, and hiving his initials cut on the back. The train has a hook at one end by which John could ban it up iu the woodshed when ho dssired to shave

A bust of De Soto carved from a block of bass wood by an Arkansas boy fourteen years old. Any one who ever met Da Soto would recognize the bust a glance.

A tobacco box supposed to have been carried by Piato for many years, its original cost was as much as fit teen cents, proving that the old man never minded the expense when he wanted anything.

A small piece of marble supposed to have been chipped off the tomb of Herod. This was passed around the hall and such members as had rheumatism licked the stone and declared they felt better.

Resolutions.

IfMW TEAR RESOLUTIONS ARE LIRE POI CRUST, EASILY BROKEN.

A Male Brute. [New York Graphic.)

They bad been quarrelling. "Before we were married," she sobbed, "you would go with me anywhere." "Well, what of itf "Now I don't believe you would even go to my funeral." "Ah! wouldn't I, though?" .tureland (Ore.) News: An Idaho editor, having received 600 pounds of potatoes on subscriptions, asks bis friends to call around with salt and pepper and board with him. Thus the generous heart of the good man gets away with him.

Bob Burdette: Young man, you may "turn over a new leaf." That's very easily done but the gall of it is you ean't tear out the old one.

The New Orleans

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PRESIDENT ARTHUR STARTING THE MACHINERY BY TELEGRAPH. The opening of the great world's fair at New Orleans on the Dec. 16 will mark the commencement of an era of prosperity in the business interests of the southern states. And in a more marked degree will it undoubtedly increase the importance of New Orleans as a port of entry and export.- The time chosen for the inauguration of this mammoth exhibition ot the world's products is exceedingly opportune, now that the mouth of the Mississippi river has been improved so that the largest vessels may enter. The proposed reciprocal treaties between this government and the neighboring governments south of us will be another factor toward making the exposition of timely importance. So that when the president in company with the members of his cabinet and Gen. Logan, at the head of a committee representing both houses of congress. and the foreign officials assembled in the east room of the White House for the purpose of witnessing the novel method of opening the exhibition by telegraph it was an event of historical importance.

Our illustration is of the scene which oc-J curred when President Arthur pressed his^ forefinger on the telegraph key and thus started in motion the machinery of the exposition, 1,300 miles away. (Jen. Logan had just finished reading the address from congress. A prominent figure and minute observer of the proceedings was the aged historian Bancroft.

DIRECTOR-GENERAL BURKE DELIVERING THE OPENING ADDRESS. It was a red letter day in the history of New Orleans. The day of the exposition opening dawned bright and revealed the elaborate decoration which covered nearly every building in the principal streets. At 1 p. M. the inauguration ceremonies in the Music hall opened with a prayer by the Rev. Dr. Talmage,.of Brooklyn, N. Y., in the presence of numerous representatives of foreign governments as well as state governors and legislators. When Director General E. A Burke, the editor of the Times-Democrat, rose to make the presentation address, it was evident from the tremendous applause that he was the lion of the day.

Our illustration presents him during the. delivery of his address. At his right sits Edmund Richardson, the president of the exposition, and the wealthiest cotton planter in the world. At his left is the Rev. Di Witt Talmage. and behind him the present mayor of New Orleans.'

PLAN OF THE GROUNDS,

A—Main building. f-A B—United States and state exhibit* C—Horticultural halL D—Mexican building. -i E—Art eallsrr. F—Factories and mills. ty—Live stpek stables, etc. .y

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H—Restaurants and refreshments. I—Grand fountain, 80 feet high. J—Live stock arena. K—Saw mills and woodworking machinery.

N—Wharf, Mississippi river. The grounds embrace the space of 241 acres, bounded on the north side ly St. Charles avenue, on the south by the Mississippi river. The buildings front east toward thf^main portion of the city.

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4-Si?CTeXaS Siftin«8"l

"So the Arabians go to lodges and coma home as late as you do?" said Mrs. Mannerly to her nusband, who was of a convivial turn of mind. "I don't know," he stammered. •'But I know they do, for I read in a paper that when an Arabian eutyrs his house be removes his shoes and keeps on his hat. That is what you do when you come home late from the lodge." „,r, .,f

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»g to Little Girls that Treat Their Dolls Badly. (IlluFlrated London News.] I W-'i

Kuskiu's Cousin's Baby'* Wooden Sp««k [London Fun.] tin quite as singularly incomprehensible fidelity of sentiment, my cousin's last baby has fallen in love with a wooden spoon. Paul was not^ more devoted' to Virginia. The two are inseparable all about the house.

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trol, pliant as a reed, under the slightest threat of being parted from his spoon"—[Mr Ruskin, *'St. Mark's Rest" ""v

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ifr. Ruskin has a cousip, and that has a baby, A strong-willed little mortal, as babies are, you know. But doubtles3 'tis as merry and as innocent as maybe,

And probably its ma delights po listen te its crow. This baby, it appears, prefers a wooden spoon to play with— ps

It hugs the toy both morn and night, and even afternoon Now, methinks we bigger babies have some toys that we are gay with,

Of not much greater value than that baby's wooden spoon.

Ambition—that's a toy" of ours, a "gailycolored rattle, Ofttimes a fav'rite plaything with us babes of larger growth Delightfully we ciasp it, as we struggle through life's battle,

And though it often disappoints, to part with it we're loth We fancy that it whispers, to us promises of glory,

Declaring fame and fortune will be in our pathway strewn And we passionately clasp it (though it often tells a "story,")— 'Tis to us like Mr. Ruskin's cousin's baby's wooden spoon!

There's pleasure—how we cherish it, and te our bosoms hug it is When used in moderation it is useful in its way It is sweeter to the heartsore than a Callfornian nugget,

Get entangled in the silken threads it spins from its cocoon And we love it, though from duty's path our hearts 'tis sometimes leading,

Just as Ruskin's cousin's baby loves its little wooden spoon.

For, in its proper place, it serves to make vv our spirits gay. But some of us, too apt, alas! to think it all we're needing, (1

There's avarice—some men, alas! to that are much addicted, |. Yes, money is the idol that they worship day and night, Notwithstanding that with poverty some hearts may be afflicted,

The golden toy allures them, 'tis so dazzling and so bright. This toy affords most pleasure when'tis us4d to soothe one's neighbor,

But when 'tis kept and hoarded, all ita blessing faded soon, So do not hug that plaything, wasting on it life and labor—

As though 'twere Mr. Ruskin's cousin's baby's wooden spoon.

There's love—that's scarce a toyV' perhaps, though cynics thus define it, For what, like love, can purify the heart and soothe the brain? Yes, what were man without it? and what heart would resign it! 'Tis better than ambition, pleasure, avarice or gain. To be good, love should be lasting—not each day a fancied new one—

Faithful love for wife, for children, is, indeed, God's greatest boon, No, love's a thing worth keeping (if 'tis bat a pure and true one)—

Just as Ruskin's cousin's baby kegps Hi iiircie wooaen esccz.

Whitehall Times: Small sins an the dots of character.

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