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American Citizen
TOPEKA, : KANSAS.
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
TWO memorials were presented to the
Senate on the 2d, one in favor of special privi
lege* in regard to public office for honora y
discharged Union soldiers and the other against
traffic in intoxicating liquors. Senator Stew
art** resolution in regard to the death of John
Bright was laid before the Senate, which after
Quite a debate was referred. The Vice-Presi
dent announced that he would v cate the chair
during the remainder of the session andfSenator
Ingall* was chosen President pre tem. In exec
utive »ession the Senate confirmed all pending
nominations and adjourned sine die.
’ WASHINGTON NOTES*
On the return of the Post master-General
from the Cabinet meeting on the 2d it was
announced that he had removed 1 ostal
Agent Dimmick at New York for leaving
hi* Work to attend to political dutie* at
Port Jarvis.
Secretary Blaine has received a tele
gram from Consul Allen at Kingston,
Jamaica, announcing the sale by the
Colonial Government of that island to,an
American syndicate of the entire Jamaica
railway system. •
The will of the late Justice Stanley Slat
thews, made on the day of his last mar
riage, leaves all his property to his wife
and children.
The following department appointment*
have been made: James A. Vose, of
Maine, clerk in the Post-office Depart
ment; C. E. Clarkson, lowa, private secre
tary to Assistant Posftnaster-General
Clarkson; Hamilton Reeves, New York,
assistant chief clerk of the Pension Office.
The State Department at Washington is
officially notified by Chili of her accept
ance of an invitation to attend the confer
ence of American States at Washington in
October.
Robert T. Lincoln calle'd upon the
President and Secretary Blaine on the 4th
and formally accepted the English mis
sion. He will sail for England about May
15.
Wanamakkr has bought ex-Secretary
Whitney’s late residence in Washington.
Over fifty employes of the Government
printing office at Washington have been
laid off because of the adjournment of
Congress.
James W. Romeyn, Con-ul at Valpar
aiso, in reporting to the Department of
State upon the 1 trade and commerce of
Chili, comments on the fact that while the
import* into Chili in 1887 amounted to
$48,680,000 but $3,200,000 came from the
United States, and that while 15,000 ves
sels entered and cleared at Chilian ports
the American flag waved over only 221 of
them.
The cruiser Atlanta, now at Aspinwall,
has been ordered by telegraph to New
York. It is the intention to send the
Yorktown to New. York April 20, so that
the latest efforts at uaval construction
may be seen at the centennial celebration.
The President has appointed Joel B.
Erhardt to be collector of customs and
•Cornelius Van Cott to be postmaster at
New York.
Senator Plumb and Representative
Peters called on the President on the sth
in behalf of two Kansas men named Mil
ler and Woods, convicted of having com
mitted murder in the Indian Territory and
sentenced to be hanged.
Major Armes, who pulled Governor
Beaver’s nose recently at Washington, it
is thought, will be court-martialed.
The President has issued a proclama
tion for a National holiday on April 80,
the centenary of Washington’s inaugura
tion.
Secretary Windom has order, d the dis
missal of Captain Herbert Beecher, son of
the late Henry Ward Beecher. In 1885
Cleveland appointed him collector of cus
toms at Port Townsend, W. T , but the
Senate failed to confirm him. Secretary
Manning than appointed him special agent
at the same place. It was learned that he
was implicated in the Gardner opium
smuggling case.
A meeting of the Washington bar w’as
held on the 6th to pass resolutions com
memorative of the death of Associate
Justice Stanley Matthews.
President Harrison has appointed
Hugh B. Lindsay, United Slates attorney
for the Eastern district of Tennessee.
EAST.
Thieves broke into the old State House
at New Haven, Conn., the other night and
carried away the sword of Admiral Jouett,
held by the Historical Society as a relic.
It was a presentation sword, studded with
jewels and precious stones and valued at
$6,000.
The election In Rhode Island on the 8d
was uery close. Democrats at first claimed
the Governorship for their candidate,
Davis, but later figures showed he lacked
600 of a majority. The Legislature was
undecided as “no election” was reported
in several districts.
Edwin Booth, the actor, received a
stroke of paralysis while performing at
the Lyceum Theater, Rochester, N. Y., on
the Bd.
A TORNADO struck the southeastern part
of Bridgeton, N. J., on the evening of the
3d.
The complete vote of Rhode Island for
Governor gives Ladd 16,952, Davis ±1,350
Richardson 1.011, Chace 3,435. Davis lacks
MS of an election but has a plurality of
4,5& The Senate stands Republicans 21,
Democrats 11, with four to be elected,
vhile the House stands Republicans 23,
Democrats 37, twelve yet to be elected.
Tn change in the offices of Treasurer
aad Assistant Treasurer in New York will
BOOOMitate a count of all the moneys and
•MVities in both offices.
Downs & Finch, extensive manufac
turers of tine shirts, of New York, have
failed. Liabilities between and
P 90.000 The failure was caused, accord
ing to reports, by an attempt to Corner
the trade.
Florence Robins, of Wilkesbarre, Pa-,
tan years of age, had her clothes catch
Ere from a bonfire and was burned to
death.
Aulard & Sons, fine art importers of
New York and Paris, are accused of ex
tensive smuggling operations. A dis
charged employe of the fitm divulged the
crime and the New York manager was
placed under arrest, when evidences of
smuggling were discovered.
Downs & Finch, extensive manufac
turers of fine shirts, of New York, have
tailed. Liabilities between HuO.OOO and
IMO.OOa The failure was caused, accord-
Bag to reports, by an attempt to corner
Abe trade
Lewis Hatdem, after a lingering lllneM
with Bright’* disease, died at Boston re
cently. He was a well known colored man
and active tn the cause of the abolition of
elavei/V, having been himself a slave from
Kentucky.
Hubbarb’s axe and saw factory, Fitw
burgh, Pa., burned the other day. Loss,
$500,000. - ■ V. #
Four of the members of a Knights or
Labor Assembly have been accused by the
confession of a walking delegate named
Fitzgerald of using dysiamite on Steven
son’s brewery building, Tenth avenue,
New York, on the nigfct of February 8
last.
THIS WEST.
A SECTION of a Freight train broke loose
from the engine near Centerville, Ind.,
the other day and ran back on the second
section, wrecking the second locomotive
and nine cars and killing twe tramps.
Later reports of the destructive prawie
fires in Dakota show that several lives
were lost. The.farm property destroyed
was immense. A wind stbrm accelerated
the flames which proved so destructive.
Later returns showed the election of
R. L. Cofran. Democrat, for mayor of To
peka, instead of Metskvr, Republican, as
first reported, by 204 majority. A Demo
cratic councilman was also elected.
In a fight a few days since, near Flag
staff, Ariz., between a sheriff’s, posse and
robbers, who held up the Atlantic & Pa
cific express about two weeks ago, Ed
ward St. Clair and R. S. Wilcox, deputy
sheriffs, were killed.
The posse engaged in the evictions on
the'Des Moines river lands in lowa were
fired on by concealed parties with Win
chesters as a warning. No one was hurt.
General Jacob Sharp has resigned as
governor ef the Soldiers’ Home at Mil
waukee, TV is , and General Kilburn Knox
has been elected his successor, ill health
was the cause.
Forest fires have been raging areund
Courtenay, Dak. One hundred families
were deprived of absolutely every thing.
The loss reached fully $150,000.
TWO freight trains collided the othei
morning near Reno, Nev. Harry ilson,
a brakeman, and J. H. Mysegarder, a
farmer, were killed and fourteen can
were wrecked.
Ex-Governor Crosby, of Montana, re
cently threatened to sue Rdssell B. Har
rison, son of the President and in 1881
president of the Montana Live Stock
Journal Company, for libel. Harrison
promised to retract kbe charges.
packing house, Chicago, took
fire on the morning of the 6th, resulting
in a loss of $i“o9,000.
Daniel Baugh, a pioneer of Seymour,
Ind., has reached the age of one hundred
years. His health is almost perfect.
It is positively denied at Albuquerque,
N. M., that there is any truth in the report
of a deadly fight betwean officers and train
robbers in Arizona. The officers never
even struck the trail of the outlaws.
Lr is thought that ttoops will be needed
to suppress the settlers threatening dis
orders on the Des Moines river lands.
Bt an explosion of gas in Halliday’i
coal mine near Duquo.n, 111., the othei
evenlhg, several men and boys wer«
severely injured—two probably latally.
At the Mormon conference in Salt Laki
on the Ttsta the first presidency was organ
ized, with Wil ford Woodruff as president
of the chu ch and George Q Cannon and
Joseph T. Smith as counselors. Lorenzc
Snow becomes president of the twelve
apostles.
The anti-polygamous Mormons met in
conference at St. Joseph, Mo., on the 6th.
The doors of the First National Bank of
Anoka, Mmn., have been closed, P. F.
Pratt, the cashier, having fled to Canada.
His defalcations were put at $lOO,OOO.
The Miami Valley Paper Mui Company
of Miamisburg, 0., has made an assign
ment with $65 000 liabilities and $75,000
nominal assets.
THE SOUTH.
Bt a fierce wind storm at Chipley, La.,
the other evening, the Methodist Church
and other buildings were destroyed and
much other damage dene.
THE British steamer Falshaw reports at
Pensacola, Fla., having met the United
States man-of-war Brooklyn in a disabled
condition in latitude 23.42 north, longitude
68.37 west. The Brooklyn was short of
provisions and was proceeding under sail.
The Falshaw left a supply and steamed
away, receiving the cheers of the Brook
lyn’s crew, who were all well.
Mrs. Mary P. Terry, of Jefferson, Tex.,
has begun suit at Gainesville, Tex., to re
cover sloo.oo6Avorth of property at that
place sold Uy her husband without her
authority Milrty years ago.
A collision between freight trains oc
curred recently at Brown’s Cross Roads,
Tenn., on the Nashville & Decatur rail-
Faith In God.
Faith needs to be carefully analyzed.
It is possible to have as much faith in
our own wisdom ns we have in God’s
goodness. When we believe God wijl
do whatever we ask, we show that we
are satisfied with our own judgment as
to what is desirable and right True
faith believes that God will do what is
best for us, that He has plans for our
lives, and that in humble submission
to His guidance we shall not only find
security but peace. With such faith
we shall be assured that, though own
desires be thwarted, we shall be led in
a right way. We shall be dismayed
by no difficulties in the bringing to
pass of what is really best for us if we
listen to the voice of God's promises
and rest ourselves on his faithfulness.
—Christran Inquirer.
CHOICE
—Let we be of good cheer, remem
bering that the misfortunes hardest to
bear are those which never happen.—
Lowell.
—What are sciences but maps of
universal laws? and universal laws but
the channels of universal power? and
universal power but the outgoings of a
universal mind?—E. Thompson.
—lt is noticeable in every battle of
opinion that honest, sincere, moral
earnestness has a certain advantage
over more intellectual cleverness. —
Mrs. Stowe.
—Herein lies the great mercy and
love of God. that we may go to Him ki
our agony, even if we have never gone
before. Oh, if prayer were possible
only for those who have never forsaken
or forgotten God, if it were not possi
ble for sinners and penitents and those
who have gone astray—then, of how
Infinitely less significance would it be
for sinful and fallen man!— Canon Far
rar.
THE WOMAN’S ARMY.
Not with the booming cannon,
Not with the rolling drum,
Not with gay banners flying.
Or glist’ning spears, we come;
Not with wild shouts of triumph.
Not w ith the trumpet's blare;
You shall hear no shrieks of terror,
No w ailings of despair.
Chokus— For ours is the pure white banner,
The flag of love and peace,
And oh, we’ll sing hosannah
When the rule of might shall cease!
No field of the dead and dying
Shall mark our onward track,
No ill-starred hamlets blazing,
No ruins grim and black;
No harvest torn and trampled,
No scenes of death and woe;
We shall bring no desolation, •
We shall cause no tears to flow.
Chorus.
Our mission's one of mercy,
We bring but peace and joy,
We come to raise the fallen—
To save, and not destroy.
Then give us a kindly greeting
And a Godspeed on our way,
For, with Heaven’s help and blessing,
We are sure to win the day.
CHORUS —For ours is the pure white banner.
The flag of love and peace;
And oh. we’ll sing hosannah,
For the rule of might shall cease!
—Mrs. Frances W. Titus, in Woman's Journal
THE MARRIAGE SYSTEM.
A Better Law Demanded for the Govern
ment of Husbands and Wives.
My theory of marriage in its relation
to society would give this postulate,
gays a writer in the Chicago Tribune.
Husband and wife are one. and that one
is—husband and wife. I believe they
will never come to the heights of purity,
of power and peace f<»r which they were
designed in Heaven, until this better
law prevails:
“Two heads in council, two beside the hearth,
Two in the tangled business of the world,
Two in the lb oral offices of life:
Two plummets dropped to sound the abyss of
science
And the secrets of the mind.”
Poets are prophets, and the greatest
poet of our time has set the goal before
us only to be gained
“When reign the world's great bridals,
Chaste and calm.”
One-half the world for the wife—an
undivided half apiece for wife and hus
band; co-education to mate them on
the plane of mind, equal property
rights to make her God’s own free
woman, not coerced into marriage for
the sake of support, or a bond-slave
after she is married, who asks her
master for the price of a paper of pins
and gives him back the change, or, if a
petted favorite, owing her lease of
purse wholly to his will and never to
her right; free to go her honored and
self-respecting way as a maiden per
petuo rather than marry a man whose
deterioration through alcohol and
nicotine habits is a deadly menace to
herself and the descendants that such a
marriage must have invoked —these
are the outlooks of the future that shall
make the marriage system, never a
failure since it became monogamic, an
assured, a permanent, a paradisaical
success.
In that day the wife shall surrender
at marriage no right not equally sur
rendered by the husband —not even her
own name. Emile Olliver, that keen
sighted writer of France, says that it is
so much easer, for obvious reasons, to
trace ancestry along the mother’s line,
that historic records have incalculably
suffered by the arbitrary relinquish
ment of her name. Probably the French
have hit upon the best expedient: the
union of the two. Thus I recall that
in Paris my home was with an accom
plished lady whose maiden name was
Earjon and whose husband’s was Per
rot, her visiting-card bearing the in
script on, “Madame Eglantine Perrot4
Farjon.” The growing custom, in this
country at least, to give the mother’s
name to a son or daughter indicates
the increasing, though perhaps uncon
scious, recognition of woman as an
equal partner in the marriage sacra
ment and compact. But the tendency,
even among men of intelligence, to
sign themselves, “John Jones, wife,
child and nurse,” as we see it m the
registers of fashionable hotels, is a fre
quent reminder of the pit from which
vrives are slowly being digged. The
man who writes “Mr. John and Mrs.
Jane Jones,” may be regarded as well
on the road to a successful evolution!
The time will come when the mother's
custody of children will constructively
be preferred in law to that of the father
on the ground that it is surer and more
consonant with natural laws.
HOW WOMAN IS TAXED.
What Is Demanded of Women That Is Not
Demanded of Men.
One of the most marked characteris
tics of modern life, says the Boston
Courier, is the enormous increase
which it makes in its demands upon
women. It has always been true from
the dawn of civilization, that the role
of women in society and in life has been
more intricate, although less broad,
than that of men. It has always been
■asked at the hands of women that they
should be a thousand times more flexi
ble than men; that they should adapt
themselves to a hundred conditions
which men ignored or scorned, and
that they play in the drama of life a
score of parts to every one which was
undertaken by their fathers, and
brothers and sons. As life has con
stantly grown more and more complex,
this cL.Terence between the sexes has
increased rather than diminished. Life
to-day demands of a woman more
changes in a day than a man is re
quired to compass in a month. She
must, from moment to moment, be one
thing after another, the wife,
the mother, the woman of society,
the leader in reforms, sharet
in this work of charity, and thal
labor of intellectual progress, until it ii
a miracle that she is able to do any ol
1 the multitudinous duties imposed upec
her. Uf course, in a great measure.
this is due to the fact that women will
accept these burdens. Men escape
much by the simple method of refusing
to take it upon them. It is idle to ex
pect men to bend to all changes with
which women encumber their lives, and
so the lives of men remain more simple
than those of the other sex. Women
are, as a rule, sufficiently well able to
oppose their wills to personal opposi
tion, but the women are few and far to
seek who are capable of standing out
against circumstances. Perhaps the
difference is that a man argues with
himself and is satisfied with his conclu
sions, while a woman must argue with
a second person or her arguments are
apt to be as water spilled upon the
ground which can not be gathered
again. A man convinces himself that
he is right and that is the end of it. He
acts upon that conclusion, while a wo
man in a similar case would be apt to
find it impossible to be satisfied unless
she could have the confirmation of some
one else to assure her that she were
justified in her decision.
.
The Bostonian Society.
*
The woman question walks in at
every open door, and asks for equal
rights for women. The last place at
which it has appeared, at a late meet
ing, says the Woman's Journal, is in
the Bostonian Society of Boston, which
had a lively discussion on the merits of
the proposal to admit women, and on
the question whether it was beet to de
bate the subject at all. The matter
was relegated to the next meeting.
There had been a report made against
the admission of women. But it was
urged “that the Bostonian Society oc
cupies, free of charge, rooms in the
Old State House, belonging to the city,
and that it is sheer injustice to shut the
doors against one-half of the people of
the city. 1 ’ The Advertiser wisely ad
vises “such a change in the constitution
of this exceedingly useful society as
will do away with all distinctions in re
gard to sex,” and adds:
“A still more important consideration is that
the prosperity and usefulness of this organiza
tion depend upon the zeal wi:h which it is sus
tained by Bostonians, among whom are none
more enthusiast! and devoted to the study of
the city's antiquities and to the maintenance of
public interest in them than are many of the
educated, influential women in our midst,”
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The Rights of Wives.
While care is taken to protect the
husband’s life-long use of the real es
tate of his wifey says a writer in Wom
an’s Journal, w T e can not forget that
the wife has only the use of one-third
of the husband’s peal estate after he is
dead. If he outlives her, she does not
get it at all, and she can not will it, as
her right in it ceases with her life.
Here is a case: A woman before her
marriage owned a house and land. She
died, leaving one daughter. The hus
band married, and had three other
children. The daughter of the first
wife, now married and with children
of her own, greatly needs the property
of her mother. But the law gives the
use of it all to the husband, and he
spends it all on the children of his sec
ond wife. Is it not time further to pro
tect and extend the rights of wives?
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.
Mrs. Eliza Boyd, of Laramie, Wy
oming, was the first “woman foreman’’
of a jury.
Mrs. Clara T. Hoffman says the
best result of the local option law in
Miasonri has been to make suffragists
of the women.
Miss Maria Loomis, of Burlington,
has left $lO,OOO to the University of |
Vermont, the income to be spent in
buying books for the library.
Miss Emma Cons, a woman well
known and highly esteemed in London
for her practical philanthropy, has
been elected an aiderman of London by
the new county council.
Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore is the only
woman lawyer in Philadelphia- She
has an enviable reputation at the bar,
and there is not a judge in the city who
does not respect her for he legal
ability.
The right of women to practice med-
I icine in Canada has been established by
I the successful application of Miss
Mitchel, a graduate of Queen's Uni
versity, Kingston, for a license. The
Provincial Medical Board at Quebec
granted the license.
Miss Katfferine Lee Bates, of
Wellesley College, lately won the first
prize of $7OO, and Mrs. Caroline A.
I Mason, of Brockport, N. Y., the second
prize of $3OO offered by the Congregz>
tional Sunday-school and Publishing
Society for the two MSS. best suited for
Sunday-school books.
Miss Emily L. Grbgory, Ph. D.» has
been appointed a Fellow in the Biologi
cal Department of the University of
Pennsylvania. Miss Gregory formally
studied at the University of Goettingen,
Berlin, and Marbourg in Germany, and
of Zurich in Switzerland. In Zurich she
received the degree of Ph. D.
The women of the New Century
Guild, of Philadelphia, have been dis
-1 cussing whether women can tas carpen-
* tecs. The simple conclusion w'ai
reached that they can. Practical car
penter? who wore present said that ix
T the old time only the fine work wai
I done by carpenters, “helpers" doing tin
i. heavy work.
ij In South Australia tax-paying wo
! men have had municipal suffrage foi
- j man years, and an active effort is ii
I progress to obtain full suffrage. Wo
II men sit on the board of the Children'i
> I Hospital, and of the State Children’i
> Council. The leading newspaper
1 open their columns freely to cor re
I spondence in favor of woman suffrage
! and nine-tenths of them are said to sup
I port it editorially. The pr specta ar
) good.
•
PREJ U DICED VERDICTS.
Why Jurors Want to Decide !n Favor of
Poor Clients.
“You would be surprised how littte
the average juryman appreciates the
Importance of his position, remarked
a young man who was drawing, his pay
for a week's jury duty. “I m not
sufficiently well posted in law to say
that the whole jury system should be
abolished, but my experiences of the
last week tell me that it should be
radically remodeled. On Monday I
went to court and found 150 other men,
like myself, kept away from their
business. It was time for recess when
the score or so of excuses had been
made to the judge, and the court
hadn’t been reopened many minutes
before we were dismissed for the day.
The next morning as each case on the
docket was read off a lawyer would
get up and ask for an adjournment on
some trivial plea or other.
“The jurymen would then be dis
missed until the afternoon, and soon
after reassembling would be excused
till the next day. This dilly-dallying
was kept up the entire week, and
although we had nothing to do the
days were so broken into that none of
us could attend to any private busi
ness. The 150 jurymen were divided
into two panels. The one I was in
tried a single case, and I scarcely
think the other panel had any thing
more to do. The jurymen were paid
$1,500 for their week's work, while
the two cases tried were for
sums amounting to only $3OO. Law
comes high, and it seems that the
country must have it.
“I have spoken of how little serious
attention the average juryman gives
to a case. The one we tried was a suit
for $lOO. The moment we were
locked up in the jury-room one of the
men began to boss every thing.
•Boys,’ said he, Tm an old hand
at this business, and have been on
more juries than any other man in the
city. I'll show you how to go about
the case so as to decide it in a few
moments, and we can get home in
time for supper. I guess you’re all
for the plaintiff; she’s a poor woman,
and the other fellow has plenty of
dust. If we decide in favor of the
plaintiff, we’ll only have to agree as
to the amount of the verdict, and then
the job is done.’
*1 was the only one who held out;
but all argument was useless. The
mere fact that the woman was poor
seemed enough to convince the jury
men that she deserved a verdict in her
favor. The rich man gets very Little
fair play in the petty courts, as far as
the jury is concerned. The big bugs
have influence enough to get excused
from jury duty, and they leave the
box to be filled by small tradesmen.
These jurors a>re mostly men of such
pronounced socialistic tendencies th lit
it is utterly impossible for them to
see beyond their own pet theories.
They are no doubt honest enough as a
rule, but their prejudices are too
strong to allow them to judge in a
case where labor and capital form the
bone of contention.”
A lawyer, commenting on the same
subject, said that as the judge took a
directly opposite view from the jury
men things were rather even up. In
a case of poor plaintiff and rich de
fendant, whatever feeling the judge
might have was sure to be against
sending the matter to the jury. He
knew the jury would be apt to favor
the plaintiff, and that meant that the
defendant would appeal the case. In
that event the judge’s decision wai
apt to be reversed, a thing which he
would not be likely to relish. — N. Y.
Sun.
A TRAINED GOAT.
Its Wonderful Acrobatic Performance t«
the Music of a Reed.
A traveler in the Holy Land, says
Mr. Holder, was one day stopped on
the road by an Arab, who said he
wanted to show him how fiis trained
goat performed. The traveler, noth
ing loath at being entertained where
such a novelty was hardly to be ex
pected, expressed his willingness, and
the performance commenced.
The Arab dismounted from a miser
able donkey, spread a small carpet
upon the ground and called up a do
mure-looking goat that had teen
following behind. From a bag the
man first took a number of blocks, six
inches long, cylindrical in shape and
two inches across the top, and
four upon the carpet at a small dis
tance apart. The goat immediately
stepped upon them, carefully putting
a foot upon each block. Now the
Arab placed in his mouth a small reed
musical instrument and began to drone
a monotonous air that was evidently
appreciated by the goat, as it pricked
up its ears and assumed a position of
deep attention.
Without stopping his music the Arab
thou lifted one of the goat's forefeet
and slipped under it another cylinder,
and repeated the operation under all
its hoofs. In this way the goat was
gradually lifted until finally the
pillars of wood were four feet from the
ground, the patient animal preserving
its balance perfectly, and appearing
as if standing on stilts. That the
music, if it could be called music,
an important factor in this perform
ance, was very evident, for the mo
ment it ceased the goat began to
waver and tremble; but upon the
strains being revived the animal
seemed to acquire fresh confidence.
VV ben the music entirely coased it top
pled over and fell to the ground.
The next trick, if we may *o term it,
was to build up the columns in an un
even manner, so that finally they were
removed from under the forefeet, the
animal standing upon Its hind legs or
the pillars, three feet in height— bt,
Nicholas,
COURT PAGEHTa
Th® Cniveraal IMniwTZ*.
Pomp mm
The time seems fa®*
for the frequent gm>»
in which the royal
were wont to indulaa
now and then ™ Bi
gorgeous ceremonial J?
the state and show of
but they become more
as the age advances. W 1
Attention is called u Jj|
notable exception to it
eently seen at the
St Petersburg. The Rn
Year comes eleven dm &
ours, and is j
rules of the
very strict fast of six wm
all the pomp of the Import
displayed as the new
the last of these occasional
was observed with Quit®
splendor as in earthy
half European, half (>jS
costumes and uniforms wj!
and varied, and CircassZ
rians vied with Europe® a
the brilliancy and gorgm
their displays.
The halls of the Winter 1
a graphic account, **were <■
means of rare tropica}®
gardens of delicious
mellow sheen of thcmm
candles contrasted with th
of the electric light, shintat
heaped high with thecomj
and a background of m
was laden with n*tivt|
delicacies.”
Such scenes, which wR
uncommon at Europe J
now rarely presented aft i
the Russian court,
In England a gorgeous Hi
is in these days rare indß
occasion of her jubilee, a
half ago, Indeed Queen Vie
a brilliant celebration, at*
and Princes attended la i
flock; but even then it i
the Queen did not wear
crown of Britain, which,
Koh-bnoor gleaming in |
visitors to the Tower of I
inclosed in glass.
Paris has not wltaemetl
splendid pageant for asset
years. Parisians who rm
display of Napoleon 111,
1867, he was visited in tan
every crowned head of E»
at least one Asiatic polenta
nothing tnat has taken ph
equal it. Franco is Beps
since the downfall of the
become less ostentatious,
It used to be th® boast d
tbi court of Madrid was th
court in Eurtgw. **MH
corte” the Spaijardi uR
•declare in their musical I
the glories of the (di
have pretty much pemriai
is still a more stiff
indeed, at the MsMbM
any other, and a hoRMj
pass daily through affh
but even coronation SM
isms are performed fU
brilliancy of ceremony Ito
It is said that tbs RM
Italy lives in almost all
plicity as his father, vW
did before him. Centals
Rome rarely witnesses S
pageant, while it is 4eprl
extent at least, of thssh
made by the Poposs4 I
when he was the tsmpß
Eternal City.
The German pagesatH
day are, for the moot R
tary reviews and msß’
to set forth the armed 1
Empire, and the samel
those of the Austrian R
With the more demo
vanishing the old-time 1
play of royalty, as if B
such display is out of ph
when the people are ts
■hare in the Govern®
period, also, when im>
money are needed by tbl
order to keep up their
armaments.—Youth** V
English Waikiag
Jackets are so beco®
ures that they er® alw*f
I over dresses that are
1 redin gotes. Piping <*
color of cloth or else *
braid will edg® thR
Directoire revers, sbor 1
turned over at the to
vest of cloth of lighter
jackets, while others ba
revers extending to
fronts of the jacket *®
vest of lighter cloth I
with applique
esques, flowers, eU5 ‘/
darker shade and
braid. The *
inches wide is
of many jackets, db*l
the revers, and *
elaborately braided,
capes, or three deep R
reaching only to th®
on other jacket*, an
liked in dark green cl<
cloth piping or els® fj
edge of the c *P el ’/*
are used on drab
while silver braid eflff*
cloth.—Harper**
—The old lady w® l
for the first ti*®*
••Julius Caesar.** *
afterwards, -rvebe*fl
theayter were
wuss than bad.
to kill all them falM*
the aajienc*.
takjp to. Harper’s R