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<tl)c €o$mic (Bale. PDBLIHHED WEEKLY AT IUKA, - - MISSISSIPPI. There is no other country in the world where the business of farming is so prt&table, according to skill and cap ital invested, as the United States. "Advertising ,1s to business,” says Macaulay, "what steam is to machinery, the grand propelling power.” And the way to advertise is to get your an nouncement printed in your homo Paper- T _ There is no placo where the ups and downs of life occur more rapidly than in Washington, and as a result the pawn brokers of the capital arc all wealthy. The house occupied by Secretary Vilas was built by a pawnbroker. In America wo have been treated pretty extensively to the sight of college students serving as waiters at the sum mer hotols, but in London impecunious undergraduates, in cap and gown, have appeared on the street as "sandwich men,” carrying nbout advertisements. Instruction in the use of tools is about to be introduced in all the primary schools of France. It has already been introduced in many, and has been suc cessfully tried at such schools in Man chester in England. It is found that ' the use of tools furnishes an agreeablo I relaxation. Apprenticeship schools, WHICH are tne next mgncsi. graue, are taking the place of the old apprentice ship system in Germany, France and Switzerland. Gruyerc cheese, which has been made by the farmers of jura, Switzerland, ander a system by which each in turn made a cheese of the milk of the whole 1 community given to him every day, is 1 1 sow made in a factory to which all the ] farmers take their milk, and the pro- , Juct of which is common property in- ' stead of each cheese being the individ- ’ aal property of the man who made it. f This makes the cheese moro uniform t and of better quality, and increases tho farmer’s profits. v i A Canadian surveying party which is * exploring the country adjacent to Alaska ( finds that a great deal of open grassy ! country exists along the streaths tribu tary to the Yukon. No areas of frozen 1 twamps, such as are to be met with in the interior of Alaska, have been dis- I on the Yukon River (which must he near the jasteru boundary of Alaska), Is believed to contain more or less gold in placer deposits. This would con ititute a gold-bearing region fully 500 miles in length by an indefinite width. Wild geese hunters are having fine iport on Dakota prairies. A sportsman writes from Newark, Dakota, that he frequently sees flocks of gees e extending over acres, giving the ground an ap- ^ pearanceof being covered by an immenso ] mow bank. A good way to approach them is by a horse and wagon; as tho ■ birds cannot see a man in a wagon they '• will not rise until the horse is very near. By urging the horse into a hard run, the hunter is carried directly under 1 the birds by the time they are fairly up in the air. Ho then hangs away with telling results. The Bishop of London has recently, made public some iateresting statistics on the religious life of the- great city. According to, his figures, the average number of communicants at communion services of tho established church was 47,714. At Easter tho number rose to 09,000. The average attendance at Sun day morning services was 200,890; at ouuuay evvuiug Dorvun» London is a remarkably church-going city, but this exhibit shows that it has about four million inhabitants who don’t attend the services of the estab lished church, and that those who do constitute only about one-ninth of tho population._ An autograph collector says that of the1 Presidential autograph letters, those of Andrew Jackson aro the rarest and costliest. This is because he seldom wrote letters; never when he could help it. The filet that his letters wero often both written and signed by proxy is known to collectors, and a paper of this ■art recently sold for $3. A full genu ine letter is worth from $25 upward. Washington’s autograph letters come next in value and rareness. Next come ■ the letters of Zachary Taylor, who wrote a bad band and bad letter. They aro worth from $15 to $25. Lincoln’s let ten come next in rareness, and range from $12 to $80.. Grant's aro high priced; not because rare, but be-jauso they are Grant’s; Arthur’s letters are scarce. They haven’t had time to find their way into the hands of strangers. Twenty years from now they will bo commoner. *- "■ - Work in the steel rail department of Springfield, Ilf., Iron Company has _n suspended, throwing 000 men out NEWSY PARAGRAPHS. A FEW ITEMS OF SOI TIIERN INTER EST IAKFDM.V (TLI.ED. The Condensed News liy Mail, Win And Otherwise. The Hot H/ont newspaper of Anniston, Ala., has been sold to vV. Jl. Edmonds, of Baltimore, Md. James ('. Clark, late president of the Illinois Central road, has been appointed by President Duncan, general manager of the Mobile A Ohio Railroad to succeed T. M. R. Taleott, resigned. The City Council of Columbus, Ga., adopted a resolution requesting the mayor to call a mass meeting of citizens at an early date, to take action on a proposed Exposition. The motion was received with enthusiasm. On the Lynchburg & Durham Railway, a colored man named Terry was thawing dynamite for blasting, when it caught fire. Terry ran from the shanty and was thirty feet away when the explosion oc curred, which demolished the house. One large splinter was driven through Terry’s head, killing him instantly. Dr. F. T\ Gary, president of the South Carolina shite board of health, and one of tlie most prominent physicians in South Carolina, died at his home in Abbeville. He was a brother of the late Gen. Martin W. Gary, of Edgefield, and Hon. W. 1. Gary, of Augusta. His death was caused by paralysis. A sensation was caused at Asheville, N. C., by tin1 announcement of the post master that the postoffice was robbed of over £800. On opening the safe in the morning the postmaster found the two drawers which contained the money broken open. The safe had I icon closed and locked again. The rear door of the office had been unlocked. Greenville county, S. C., by over 2,000 majority, voted a subscription of £20,000 to the stock of the Knoxville, Carolina & Western Railroad. This subscription, with £400,000 previously subscribed by Knox and Sevier counties, in Tennessee, md Haywood and Transylvania counties, n North Carolina, completes the sum re juiml to finish the road from Knoxville o Port Royal. Henry Wise, a farmer was frozen to leath near Austin, Tex. While he was eturning home with a team and while Tossing a muddy bottom he fell out of tis wagon, burying his head and shoul lers in the mud, in which position he ras found. His mules were also frozen till' while standing in the mud beside Vise’s body. This is the first death by reezing which ever occurred in that sec ion of country. A serious accident occurred on the Al bania Great Southern road between ippes and Livingston, Ala. A big land lide took place in a deep cut, completely overing the track. No. 1 limited ex iresss, which is the fastest train in the kmth, ran into the earth and rocks vhieh had accumulated on the track, and wo passenger coaches were thrown from he track and turned completely over. Sixteen persons were hurt, some of them seriously. Later intelligence says a I freight tAWL of eighteen cars, was | caught bj^Wr slide" and the cars badly ' demolished. Efforts were made all day* to clear the track, hut late in the evening another slide took place. The Ministers’ and Deacons’ Institute was organized at Albany, Ga., by the several colored Missionary Baptist asso ciations in session there. The object is the improvement of the ministry. The officers elected are as follows: Rev. R. R. Watson, president; Rev. W. W. War ren, vice-president; Win. H. Dempsey,, secretary; Rev. D. A. Moseley, treasurer. Meetings will be held monthly tit which he conduct of the several ministers will >c discussed, and if any corrections are lecessiry they will he made. Efforts vill be put forth for the reformation of irring brethren without publicity if pos ible. It is thought that this corrective issociat'oa will be beneficial. SENEIIAll NEWS NOTES CAREFULLY COMPILED. In Interesting Bmiget of General News For The Week. Lord Stanley, of Preston, England, has accepted the governor-geueralsliip of Canada, and will at once relieve the Mar quis of Lowusdowuo. The British’ steamer Newcastle City, Capt. Thornton, which sailed from New castle, England, with an assorted cargo for New York, foundered off the New England eoa~t near Nantucket. The crew was > iv ed. The t ate convention of the prohibit ionist party held in Topeka, Kansas, was attended by piohibitionists from all parts of the state. It was decided to begin a vigorous campaign and to put a full state ticket in (lie field. A desperate fight between C'nt holies and Orangemen occurred in the v.llageof Ivtllyliurn, near JNOoxstown, un.am. Stones, brie!:*, revolvers, etc., were free ly used. The house of a priest was com pletely wrecked, and windows and other houses were smashed. Aguadilla. a small port of Porto Kieo, lias suffered like Baracou by a huge wave. Fifty-three houses were swept away The wave destroyed the solid masonry in the cemetery, and eleven bodies were washed out to sea and lost. Many ves sels were storm-bound. The wave, like the one at Bnraeoa, was due to a norther. M. I). Babcock, inventor of tlie cele brated lire extinguishing apparatus, died at the alms ltou.se in San Francisco, Cal., aged 10 years. At one time he was in receipt of $150,000 per year royalty on his machines, but after selling the patent rights his money was soon spent, ami for some years lie wandered about in a desti tute condition. A new scheme has just developed in regard to the title of No Man’s Land. The national council at Talequah lias ap pointed a committee to press the claim of the Cherokees to that part of Indian Territory, on the attention of Congress. 'The c laim is liased on the treaties of 1828 and 1880, and the patent of 182!). signet! by President Yuli Buren. It is alleged that the title has never lapsed, and that it is clear as that which holds the territory around Talequah. Pabumsktehib and peltry stand first I among wrap trimmings. IN OKATIIS K.llllKA) K.^ FcnrI'iiI ICnilroail Uiuiiifr** of lhr Paul WrrcV In Several Plare^A Tho most disastrous collision {Sot ovor occurred on the Cincinnati Southern j . hoad, took place one mile north of worn wood, Ky. Limited i.\ I tress No. ‘J 1 ran into limited express No. 1, which left vSiuimiati, between tunnels 7 and 8, dc : inolisinng both engines, throwing every t ar from the track on train No. 2 except the two sleepers, and killing the follow I jng persons outright: l.ec Withrow, i baggage master on No. I; I,, (allan. baggage master on No. 2; M. I!. Powell, Baltimore & Ohio express im ssenger on > ; n Michael, of train No. tclls 11 story that would make the blood run cold in the veins of the strongest man. He was running down grade at a rate of sixty miles an hour and did not sec No. 1 approaching his train until it 1 was about fifty feet away, and without 'topping t > reverse his engine or turn on the air, lie fell out of the cal. window and lauded in a lot of bushes and finally dropped in a mud hole. One of his an kles was badly hurt by the fall. No 1 ! w as running up grade at the rate of thir ty-five miles |kt hour. Sam Bennett was the conductor on this train, and on meet ing (’onductoi Schrum, said: ‘•What does this meanSchrum replied, 'I had orders to run to Somerset regardless of No. 1, and here is my order." On taking it from his pocket he discovered his mis take. for it ordered him to run to Summit, i 1 he dreadful discovery was too much for lK,or Schrum. and lie has lost his mind. Ihree different times he succeeded in getting away from his friends, w ho were watching him at Somerset, Ky., ; ’ and started for the* woods. The accident occurred between tunnels 7 and 8, one hundred and seventy-four miles from ! Cincinnati. Both are curve tunnels, and 1 there is a distance of 200 feet between 1 them. Tile greater portion of this is a 1 fill, the valley being between sixty and 1 °ne hundred feet deep, i he sides of the fill are very steep. Had either train been two seconds sooner the crash would have ' taken place in one of the tunnels. The :l north bound train was a light one owing : ]' to delays on other roads entering Chnttu- ' nooga. It was what train men call a 11 “jumped up” train, formed at Chat a- " nooga. There was, at the time of the j *' accident, but one person in the smoker, 1 and that was the “butcher boy,” who j !l was badly hurt. The responsibility of i *' the accident seems to rest with the con- 1 ductor and engineer of the north boon I n train, and yet their mist ike was one that s! was quite natural under tie circum- *' stances. A fast Chicago express on the 11 New York,Pennsylvania A Ol ; Uiilro.ul, " consisting of two slecpe s am, live day " coaches, collided with a freight train n consisting of two engines and sixty cars, 111 three miles from Meadville, Pa. Five rt persons were killed outright, among whom was one passenger; thirteen others r‘ were wounded; nine of them fatally. Following are names of ^ the killed, so far as ascertained: j p William George, engineer, and Ilumes, ' | fireman, of the leading freight engine. E. P P. Swan and Arthur Irwin, engineer and rl fireman of the Chicago ■ express. Both traiusepresent a terrible scene of destine- ’ tion. When the collision occurred thu 8 fast express was making up lost time and. B going at the top speed. The I; said to rest with the freight train, who * were running on the express train’s time. ( and Chicago sixteen passengers. Among the wounded1 are: Joseph Boynton, of ' Meadville, express agent, seriously hurt and is delirious; Phillip Faulk, of San 1 Francisco, right arm fractured; S. A. 1 Malone, of Salamanca, N. Y., right leg t broken; Adolph Baser, of Cincinnati, both Jcgs crushed. The wreck was caused ' by the freight engineers leaving Mead- ' ville in advance of their orders. The 41 night [express train for Milwaukee that 11 leaves Chicago over the Chicago, Mil- 41 waukee & St. Paul, smashed into a ' freight train at Shermerville, Illinois, J during a blinding snow storm. The on- 1 gine and mail car of the passenger train were derailed, together with several v freight cars, making a wreck and giving 44 passengers a severe shaking up. No ” lives were iust, nut j^u^iucui jjuliu woo hurt seriously anil a fireman, name uu- 1 known, probably fatally. Another dis astrous and fatal wreck occurred on ' the liue of the Chicago & Atlantic rail- 1 road, six miles from Kontz, Indiana, near 1 the crossing of the Louisville, New Al bany & Chicago’, and the Chicago , & ' Indiana coal railroads, at Wildors, Ind., by the collision of two sections of the fast stock trains going cast. The engin- * eer of the rear section was unable to see the first section on account of a snow storm and his engine went crashing into the rear car, demolishing the engine and caboose. The rear breakman was burned to a crisp. POPE I.KO'X .lllllll.EE. Tlie Grandest Demonstration Ever Made la the Oily of Home. The pontifical mass at Rome, Italy, in commemoration of the Pope's Jubilee, was a great success. Sixty thousand nil mission tickets had been issued, and the cathedral was packed. The Pope entered at 8.J10 a. m., followed by the cardinals in procession, llis holiness was received with loud and long continued shouts of “long live the Pope.” Tin; music of the mass was deeply impressive, anil many poisons in the audience were affected. The Pope blessed all present, and left the cathedral at 11 a. in., the whole audience expressing its joy by clapping hands, waving hats anil handkerchiefs, and en thusiastic acclamations. Forty-eight cardinals and :>28 archbishops and bish ops were present at mass, and it is esti mated there were thiity thousand persons in the audience. The Pope prayed for a long time iu his private chapel, and then received the homage of the court of car dinals in the Bala jjucnle; While assum ing the sacredotal vestments the Pope was overcome with emotion, and fainted, and strong salts were administered, and lie soon returned to consciousness. He then ascended the gustatoriul, and was borne on the shoulders of the sediari, at tended by cardinals, into the cathedral. Just before lie was fully vested for the altar, he again fainted, remaining un conscious a few minutes. Mass occupied twenty-eight minutes. After pronounc ing tlic benediction the Pope again seated himself in the gustatoriul chair, and was borne completely around the altar to the capelin del sucramento, when he offered up the prayer of thanksgiving. During the ceremony the Pope wore the triple crown presented to him by the Emperor William. 1 Ww' s ’ . 'mil ’ \ \ V. ’M 1 SOUTHERN PROGRESS. (H It HROWTH III It I Ml THE YEA It .11 ST ENDED. Krnturky hi'nil* !W<* list s.ii!: Alnlnimn null 'I’rn iiokoit In I Inn 1 ng i’Iomi*—Aln limiiii iiIh'hil in Itnilwny ImprovrnirnIh. The year 1887, so far as the South is concerned, was, in many respects, the most remark able year in its history, as more was accomplished for tin; progress and prosperity of the whole South than ever before in the same length of time. From Maryland to Texas, progress was remarkable, covering almost the entire range of industry, and there is scarcely a line of manufacturing or mining business in the whole number of new enterprises reported during 1NS7, that is not more than twice as large as in 188(5. Of the fourteen Southern states there are only four in which the capital invested in new nterprises was not double the amount in vested the year before. The amount of capital, including capi- I al stock of incorporated companies •rganized in 1887, was: Unhand.$ 47,983,00(1 Uknnsas. 84,466,000 j Inrida. 2.986,001! teorgia... 15,361,000 ! xcnnii'kv. . 60.058,u« i .imisdim. 8,2t8.<XXt j Maryland. 15,187,(XXI Mississippi. 4.751,(XXI | N'lirtli Carolina . 9.767.0X1 knith Carolina. 895,00(1 Ponnessec. 85,861,(XXI Txas. 16,CX\(XX1 'irginia. :9,35WW Vest Virginia. S.2rXv(XX' Total.8 366.398,006 gainst #129,220,000 in 188(5. In in'IIoh nanufacturing there has been great i city and seventy-seven new mills hive ieen projected, many of them ls ing now mler construction, which is the largest umber of new mills ever reported in one ' • ».r. uiumi mins mv rcpi'inHi im' ig largely over sold (heir product a ] ml many old mills are being enlarged to f leet the demand for their goods, The ' lereasing diversification of > uthem in * ustries is illustrated in the bu t that M- s bama alone secured, during the y< nr, the icaiion of live large ear building plants * vo at Decatur and one each at llirming s im, Anniston and Gadsden. The A unis * >n works will cost $1,000,000. q^iplov s 000 mechanics and will turn out twenty miplete cars a day, from freight to pas tiger. parlor and sleeping cars, the cn- 1 re work, from making wheels to the e iholster lig, to be done in these shops. - ae of the ear plants at Decatur is being a dlt by the Louisville A Nashville rail ad. and the other will be large works, *| iw at ITbana, Ohio, which arc to be r moved to Decatur. D A tabulated statement shows the prog- J1 ms of industrial development in 1887 in ^ labamn, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, rntucky, Louisiana. Mississippi, North 1 irolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, 1 was, Virginia and West Virginia, as ® Hows: Agricultural implement facto- ^ *s, 22; breweries, 5; bridge works, 8; r works, 23; cotton and woolen mills, * 17; electric, light works, 98; flour and ^ •ist mills, 177; foundries and machine lops, 184;. blast) funfcices, 73; gas cura anics, 57 ; glass works, 17; ice factories, 1 0; mines and quarries. 504; natural gas ompanit#, 115; oil mills, 45; pipe, works, ( ; potteries, 12; railroad companies, 292; oiling mills, stamp mil Is and smelters, 43; steel plants, 10;Street railways, 152; water mrk,s,640; 135; wood working establish ments, miscellaneous, 804. There were or anized: In Alabama—7 agricultural implement orks, 4 bridge works, 8 ear works, 18 Diton and woolen mills, 47 foundries j iid machine shops, 33 blast furnaces, 43 , lining and quarrying companies, 17 nnt- j ral gas companies, 2 pipe works, 41 rail >ad companies, 10 electric light works, 1)4 wood working establishments and I 52 miscellaneous industries. ( In Arkansas—4 car works, 7 cotton and •ooleu mills, 2 blast furnaces, 82 mines Lid quarries, 40 railroad companies and 5 stamp mills and smelters. In the last amed branch, Arkansas also takes first lace. In Florida—9 tobacco factories, 4 cot on and woolen mills, 32 railroad compa ies, 11 water works, 42 wood working stablishments. In Georgia—7 agricultural implement forks, 24 cotton and woolen mills, 10 dust furnace companies, 2 glass works, 18 mines and quarries, 38 railroads, 22 treet railways and 92 wood working es ablishmonts. In Kentucky—4 cottou and woolen ...-lie A l.loof fnrniu-1's 35 mines and (uarrics, 34 natural gas companies, 3 tool works, (1 water works and 42 wood work ng establishments. In Louisiana—3 cotton and woolen nills, 1 blast furnace, 9 mines and quar ries, (i oil mills, 9 distilleries, 8 potteries, 1 rice mills, 5 sugar mills and 25 wood working establishments. In Mississippi—3 cotton and woolen nills, 1 blast furnace, 4 mines and quar ries, 3 railroads, 15 wood working estab lisluncnts and 23 miscellaneous. In North Carolina—12 carriage and wagon works, 27 cigar and tobacco facto ries. 20 cotton and woolen mills (the state calling in this branch), 81 flour and grist nills, 13 ice factories, 33 mines and quar •ios, 13 railroads, 9 street railways and 17 wood working establishments. In South Carolina—21 cotton and woolen mills, 10 mines and quarries, 8 water works, 1 rice mill, 0 railroads and I4 wood working establishments. In Texas—3 car works, 2 car wheel works, 19 cotton and woolen mills, 20 ■bi-trie light works, 51 flour and grist nills (Texas leading the South in this (ranch), 29 foundries and machine shops, 17 ice factories, 41 mines and quarries, 9 latural gas companies, 7 oil mills, 37 rail ways, 80 water works, 27 wood working ,‘stablishments. The year 1887 has surpassed all other pears in the extent of railway mileage ^instructed in the South. From a table, published by the Railway Age, showing the number of lines of mileage laid in the South, the following is extracted: State: Lines. Miles. (Vest Virginia. 3 53 Virginia..4 04 S'orth Carolina.10 184 South Carolina. 7 104 Georgia...'. 3 231 h'lori'la.10 193 Vlahama.15 515 Mississippi.5 99 Louisiana ... .4 05 rennessee...10 68 Kentucky...,.......*8 188 GOTHAMS CHURCH MUSIC. BINDERS AND THEIR SALARIES IN NEW YORK, Prices Ttocofyoil by Good Chorus Soloists— Tho Chorus Singers Not Paid—Singing at the Cat hedral. It is difficult to learn what salaries arc paid to individual well-known singers in New York church choirs, says the Sun. The singers themselves are gener ally unwilling to name any figure, and when they di) it can not always be dc depended upon ns correct. The tempta tion to exaggeration is great, involving, as it does, the singer’s musical reputa tion and opportunities of securing future good engagements. For soloists $1,500 is a very la'go remuneration. A leading organist in this city said he did not think a dozen singers in the city received as much, and none more. Emma Tliurs by probably received the largest salary ever paid to a choir singer. This was said to he $0,000. Musical people look dubious when this figure is mentioned, and say it is probably overstated Uv $500. Tho majority of soloists earn k.a tho neighborhood of $!,000. A considera ble number get $1,000. A very much larger number receive $800. A singer’s actual ineomo is often some hundreds larger that his salary. It is a favorite device of those who know their services are appreciated, to (tdl some friend in the congregation that they are going to leave because the salary is insufficient. This is told in confidence, hut of course it is widely circulated, as is in tended. The result often follows ihat some wealthy member of the con r rogation, who particularly enjoys the aorK of that particular singer, takes an •ar \ opportunity of seeing the singer and ivj, ng the truth of the report. The singer •i it her admits nor denies it, hut leaves the repression that it is so. Tho wealthy nember of the congregation then oilers ■eatident ally a certain considerable sum >er year if tho singer will remain. 'The in ter considers for soine days, and at An.vtU rvlIl’/ofdhHv OiUKiIIiIm 4 Iflnn t)in a mo singer will catch half a dozen in the atne congregation. Thus it is that many heir singers will tell an inquirer that liov get $i,00() or $0,50.* from such and aeii a church, it may be perfectly me, but it by no means represents their »ia lies. Chorus singers generally receive notli lg. People with good voices are only io willing to exchange their services for le benefit of instruction and practice, ow and then, however, a voice specially iapted to chorus work is paid; $401* is large remuneration. In the male choirs ttle if any money is paid out. St. rands Xavier’s does not follow this rule, at this church is an exception in having choir of able male soloists. Organist runo Klein has for his quartet Messrs. reuCebia, Franzel, Xaberti, and Wciu ch, all capable and well-knoYvn singers, hey receive liberal salaries. But the laneel choir of boys costs little. The' atholic and some Episcopal churches re mit their chancel choirs from the orphan lylums of their churches, and require irvices of the boys as a part of their uty. Most of the choir directors say that no articular class of solo voice commands ligher salaries than others, and they also 1 igrce that good voices of all registers ire equally hard to obtain. Organist A. I El. Mcssiter, of Trinity, however, says hat s&pranos are the most valuablo ■catures of a choir from a financial point if view. Musically, of course, one part n harmony is as important ns another, dr. Mcssiter says that $800 is good pay ’or a soloist as salaries run, and that many capable singers arc content to get illicit less, some salaries being as Ioyv as f:!00. He thinks the supply is vastly in ixccss of the demand, inasmuch ns an idvcrtiscment asking for one singer will irocure from sixty to seventy responses. 1'here is no reason, therefore, why the :hurches should not have the very best meal talent at their disposal. In this city there is room for every und of musical ability, as every sort of ;hoir is here represented. The best ■xamplo of complete church music irobably in the country is fouud at the ■athedral. There are two choirs there, the general church choir of mixed voices and the chancel choir. The church choir consists of a quintet and a chorus. Miss Eflie Stewart has been the soprano since last May. She took the place of Mmc. Martinis, a Peruvian lady once under Mapleson’s management. Mine. Martinis held the place seven years. She has now married and returned to her home m Lima. Miss Stewart is a Cleveland lady, well known upon the concert stage of Cleveland, Chicago and Boston. Miss Marie Grocbl has recently taken Mrs. Catherine Ford’s place as alto. bhe is from Balti more, and, like Miss Stewart, won laurels upon the concert stage before settling here, ller forte has been oratorio music. Charles Kaiser, the tenor, is an able musician. He was for years a pupil of Stockhausen, in Frank fort. His voice is clear, llcxiblo and light, materially differing from that of his predecessor, Charles Turner, who was a tenor robusto in every sense. ' Charles Steinbacli, the baritone, is the only mem ber of the choir w ho has been in the cathedral sinco its dedication. lie is the only one who engages in other busi ness during the week. His voice is a high baritone and very telling. Henry Schwicardi, the basso, was formerly known in German opera. He has been at the cathedral five years. There are usually about fifty in the chorus at the cathedral. Very few re ceive salaries. It docs not require distinguished musical knowledge to hold a place in the church chorus. A good voice and a fair knowledge of reading is sufficient. For the soloist, though, the exactions are severe. The singer must be able to render a difficult piece of music at sight, and remember it after one rehearsal. He must not only remember it, but be so much at home in the mechanical matter of notes and time as to bend his whole soul to the proper emotional rendering of the music. The ground covered by tho quintet at the cathedral is extensive. Mozart, Hajdn, Beethoven, Gounod, Bossini, Cherubini and, in fact, all tho masters of oratorio and sacred music form the basis. These are covered in all their works. The same selection is sel iom sung twice a year. Thought once awakened docs not ■gain slumber. 9 WISE WORDS. Custom doth make dotards of Hi A Humor doth double like the voice and echo. No thralls like them that inward bondage have. The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivo lous. The beam of the benevolent eye giveth value to the bounty which the hand dispenses. No life can ho utterly miserable that is brightened by the laughter and love of one little child. The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, are to bo observed in social or official life. Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of mind. Hypocrisy is much more eligible than open infidelity and vice; it wears the livery of religion, and is cautious of giving scandal. Consult with him that is wise and of sound judgment, and seek to be in structed by one better than thyself, rather than to follow thine own inven tions. Hew people recover from the neglect or obloquy of their contcmporaiics. The public will hardly be at the pains to try the same cause twice over, or does not like to reverse its own sentence, at least when on the unfavorable side. A Gifted Puzzler. Gilbert Stuart, the painter, was a rare humorist. Once, while lie was traveling in a crowded stage-coacli in England, his companions, curious to know the man who amused them by his witty remarks, questioned him closely. In those days gentlemen wore powdered hair tied in queues, and ladies built upon their heads pomatumed top knots. Stuart gravely replied to his first ques tioner: "I §paictimcs dress ladies’ and gentlemen’s hair.” “You are a hair-dresser, then?” said 011c of the company. “What! Do you take me fora bar uei . caciuuucu oiuun, iu u bunuus tone. “I beg your pardon, but I inferred aa much from what you said. May I ask what, then, you are?” “Why, I sometimes brush a gentle man’s coat or hat, or adjust cravats.” “Oh, then you arc valet to some noble man. ” “Indeed, I am not! I am not a ser vant; though, to be sure, I make coats and waistcoats lor gentlemen.” “Oh, you are a tailor.” “Tailor! Do I look like one? I as sure you that 1 never handled a ‘goose’ that was not roasted.” “What are you, then ?” asked half a dozen voices; for by this time all were laughing uproariously. “I’ll tell you,” said Stuart. “What I have said is literally true. 1 dress hair, brush hats and coals, adjust a cravat, and make coats, waistcoats and breeches, and brush also boots anil shoes.” “Ha! ha! A boot and shoe maker, after all!” “Guess again, gentlemen. I never handled boot or shoe save for my own feet. Yet I-Have wdd. i*.,txne.” “We may as well give up guessing^' said one of tlio company. “Now, gentlemen,” said Ftuart, tak ing a pinch of snuff, “1 11 not play the fool with you any longer. Upon my word of honor, I get my living by mak ing faces.” And he then so screwed his countenance that the stage-coach shook with laughter. “There, just as I thought!” exclaimed one, “the gentleman is a comedian.” “I never was on the stage, and Iscldom sec the inside of a play-house,” answered Stuart. The myst'lied ccmpany looked at each other with astonishment.. Just then the stage-coach stopped at the place where Stuart was to get off. ‘•Gcntlen-cn,” said he, “you will find that all I have said of my various em ployments is included iu these few words: I am a portrait painter. If you will call at my studio in London I shall be ready to brush you a coat or hat, dress your hair, supply you with a wig of any fashion, accommouutc you with coats or shoe*, give you ruffles or cravats, and make faces for you.” | --- Rich Colored Men. With the exception of New OrleanB, Philadelphia has more rich negroes than any other city. About $3,500,000 is re puted to be the combined wealth of the sable citizens of the Quaker City. Al though the leading and most prosperous vocation is that of catering, there is a pros perous class of coal merchants, real estate dealers, Hour merchants, second-hand furniture dealers and dealers in china ware. One real estate dealer, John McKee, is said to be the owner of 400 hou.-cs, besides property elsewhere. William Still, author of ‘‘The Under ground Ruilroa 1,” is a coal merchantmen a very extensive scale, llisconl yard is said to be the large-t in America. He is the owner of a number of coal cars, a large amount of real estate, is a stock holder in the Nation newspaper, being i one of the originators, and is the posses j sor of a fat bank account. He began business on a capital of $3. There are ! tw'i) men worth $100,000 each, one worth $00,000, two worth $50,000, one $45,000, five $40,000, seven $35,000, thirteen $20,000, seven $15,000, nineteen $10,000 i and twenty-two $5,000 each. There are a great many who are worth between $1,000 and $5,000 each.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. A Curious Nurse. In India, where the elephant is treated i by his mahout almost as one of the i family, the grateful animal makes a re j turn for the kindness shown it by volttn- • j tarily taking care of the baby. It will patiently permit itself to he mauled by | its little charge, and will show great j solicitude when the child cries. Some j times the elephant will become so at tached to its baby friend as to insist upon its (onstant presence. Such a case is known where the elephant went so fayt as to refuse to eat except in the presence of its little friend. Its attachment was so genuine that thcchild’s parents would not hesitate to leave the baby in the elephant’s care, knowing that it could have no more faithful nurse,* And the kindly monster never belied the trust reposed in it.—St. Nicholas. 6