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Show IElEEL THE SALT BAKE TIMES. TiT VOL.5 12 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY. MARCH 7, 1891. -v 12 PAGES NO. 130. HE MADE FAME AND MONEY. Melaionler's Long mul Successful Omi s rainier. AmwiR the notable deaths of tho new year, perhaps the roost notable is that of Jean Louis Ernest Moissonier, the great painter, creator of (ho "Friodland: 4, 1H0T," and other u wrks which S'lL tftve attracted A much attention Vih United Wsi I f fl stat"s- - Nuoth ' il V-- M VU P,tni,er m md-- '' iW k"' Iloss'l,ly mine lit MHkI tfc-Jr- T time, has pro-- W l) .TOT1 dwd works V f U which sold at such prices. The MEissosiKR. contention over Millet's "Angelus" became an interna-tional affair, and M. Chanchord paid 7."0,000 francs (nearly .fl.lO.OiH)) fur it; but tho paine man paid $s"iO,000 franca for Moissonier's "lHll," anil at the A. T. Stewart pale in New York, in ins;, Mr. Henry Hilton paid $!(!, (UK) for Mcissonier's "Friedliind: 1807," which bo presented, with tlie painter's portrait of himself, to the Metropolitan museum. For many panels and small pictures the painter also received enor-mous prices, yet he was so lavish of money in prosecuting his work that he acquired bnt a moderate estate. Meissonier was born at Lyons in and at the age of 18 entered at Paris the studio of Leon Cogniot. tho classical and historical painter. Tho pupil soon de-veloped a purely original style, and for the rest of his life his fame was always growing. Ho seemed at the very height of his powers when attacked by tho bronchial trouble which in a few days ended in his death. Among his most famous paintings aro the "Charge of Cavalry," for which A. T. Stewart paid filO.Ooi); tlie similar painting sold to Mr. Probaseo, of Cincinnati, for (0,000; the "Information" (represeiitingi ren. Dosaix and a captured peasant), said to have sold at .m,0W); the "Ordinance," at the "Artist and His Wife," at "The Game Lost," at tho same price, and "The Chess Flayers," at fcSO.000. For the series of panels representing the Crimean and Italian (18."D) wars, paint- - eu w order lor jjouis mapoieon, no re-ceived 000,000 francs. He was deco-rated with all the honors artists can re-ceive, and was loved and admired by the French people. served. ThnonoinMaj.CliUierall'sYjos'- - ; session is exactly elovurt and: i&ne-ha- lf inches in length, and across its widest part, where the ball of tho foot lies, it measures four and one-hal- f inches. (While tho Father of his Country un-deniably had a substantial foundation it will lie seen from this that his foot was not too large for a man of bis stature.) The slipper is of rod morocco leather, but time has covered it with a dusty brown color, and a careless observer would place it in the rank of those cheap brown leather foot coverings which, however much of comfort they may pos-sess, cannot be allowed to have that styl-ish appearance which marks the slipper of the man of fashion. Originally tho slippers are said to have been lined with white silk. When the imagination goes back to tho time that these now failed WASHINGTON'S CHATn. pieces of antiquity were new, and pict-- I ures them in their original colors, tlm rich and elegant red of the morocco con-trasted witli the white silk, tho Haps, which somehow remind us of those old fashioned curled up skates that the Hol-landers used of yore, and tho deep wrinkles which lent to them their easy and comfortable air, wo must readily believe that these slip)erE presented a simple, rich arid elegant appearance. They serve in a great measure to show that the taste of this (Treat man tended toward simplicity, at the same time uniting with that refinement which al- - . ,1. . nr. 1 me w'mi An Obscure Bundle of Aptiqtiities Handed Down to Posterity Frqni the Archives of the Last Century. U A CORRESPONDENTS DISCOVERY. He Visits Major George B. Olitberald of Mobile, Whore Many Thine s of Inter-est are Unfolded. Not far from Government, on St. Emanuel street, in Mobile, Ala., there stands an unpretentious brick house. The curious stranger will be faintly re-minded as he enters the arcade of this homely dwelling, with its solitary occu-pant, of those houses which are coring n to some quarters of New Orleans. )f this, however, there is perhaps more about the air of the place than any real resemblance to those antiquated creolo quarters. As he entersf the parlor, with its central bay window?! hat juts out to the sidewalk, he will involuntarily pau.-- j before an ancient nna venerable book-case, and if he bo of 4 literary turn of mind will note with a more than pass-ing interest the heterogeneous mass of books that with all their variety of bindings crowd close to each other upou its time honored shelves. It was before this musty piece of fur-niture that I stood just about a year ago when I was in Mobile. Upon the top shelf was a chaotic piece of accumulated bric-a-bra- c such as you may see clus-tered together on the top shelf of any old bookcase, and among other things there was a brown paper parcel tied with a piece of old string, ami of such an unassuming appearance that if it were lying in the street it would attract scarcely a glance from the passer by, and yet it would be difficult to find a cluster of objects of such unusual inter- - est as this faded brown paper contained, It contained, among other colonial rel- - ics, George "Washington's slipper, a part of his vest, his Masonic apron and two silver spoons from bis camp chest. There were also copies of some old new-spapersThe New York Morning Post of Nov. 7, 1783, The Boston Gazette and country journal or ;uarcn -, mo, uu New England Weekly Journal (publish-ed in Boston) of April 8, The New-born (N. C.) Spectator, Dec. 10, 1 '.', and The Federal Republican (New! lern, N. C.) July 81, 1813. There was also a package of colonial money and an old time poek-etboo- To the right of the bookcase with its mahogany back leaning against OEOROE P. CIJTHERALU the wall, stood an old fashioned chair looking very much like those stiff kitch-en chairs of tho present day, albeit more elegant in appearance. This piece of an-tiquated mahogany is a bedroom chair which was the property of Martha Wash-ington, or, as she was lovingly called by Maj. Clilberall's family, "Mistress Wash-ington." Maj. George B. Clitherall, whose death has occurred since my visit to Mobile, was tho devoted possessor of these relics, and the last survivor of a family which stands among tho first in a republic that gained its independence through the im-mortal name of George Washington. The history of the Clitherall family in America on the maternal side dates back to the Rev. Richard Marsden, who was chaplain to the Duke of Portland, and who received from tho original lords proprietors the ownership of tho two plantations known as "The Hermitage" and "Castle Haynes," lying on opposite sides of the old country road, eight miles north of Wilmington, N. C. Maj. Clitherall's father, Dr. George other example of this the story of Wash-ington's watch familiar to every school-boy which lie desired should como to liiiu from France, of pure gold, but per-fectly plain, so that its smooth and pol-ished sides, had the Father of his ( 'oiin- - j try been a vain man, might have served the uses of a looking glass. Nothing remains of the waistcoat which has already boon alluded to but the huge hip flap and Mcket laps which were such an important part of this gar-ment during the colonial days. From this flap it is impossible to obtain a coin-- plete idea of the whole. It may lie said, however, that it is sea green in color, richly embroidered in siik with figures, and when new must have presented a very handsome appearance. Only one thing more remains to be said. Maj. Clitherall was, from time to time, in receipt of various letters of inquiry from different parts of the country bearing upon these unique and valuable possessions, and I have endeuv-ore- d in the present article to cover the entire ground, however briefly, and it is to be hoped that it will be copied widely ' enough to fall into the hands of all those who have been more especially interested j in the matters touched upon. j It was not without a feeling of vener.v tion that 1 said good-b- y to theso ancient relics, whoso authenticity cannot bo WASHINGTON'S SLIPPER. questioned, and paid a sorrowful adien to the courteous and scholarly owner of so much that is of historical value. Tom Massok. Other WasliiiiKtoiiK. There were two Washingtons in Revo-lution days who would doubtless have rilled bigger places iu history if they had borne some other name. Bushrod, nephew of George Washington, served ' with distinction in the cavalry and in the Virginia convention, and was ap-pointed justice of the United States su-preme court. Col. William Washington won honor in scverul battles, especially a, Cowpens. u. uuieran, was a ici.uive mm imi-mat- e friend of Gen. Ben Smith, of North Carolina, who died at Fort John-ston in 18'J((. Gen. Smith was a man of high social position and groat wealth, and married Sarah, daughter of Col. William Dry, who was colonial gov-ernor of North Carolina. During the Revolution (Jen. Smith was a volunteer member of Washington's staff and mili-tary family, and there always existed between them the warmest friendship. When Gen. Smith learned of the illness of Washington ho imnp dtately left bis home in North Carolina and hastened to the bedside of bis chief, where he re-mained until Washington died. Many of the personal belongings of Washing-ton were presented by his family to Gen. Smith, who cherished them as long as ho lived, and at his death they were be-queathed to Dr. Clitherall. Maj. Clitherall had but oiw of the slip-pers (the left) in his possession, tho mate having been given by his mother to the British Museum in "o. In 187IS the major presented one i f Washington's Masonic aprons (of which there are two) to a lodge in Philadelphia, and on the day of my visit he sent Washington's library chair to the Minnesota Historical society. With the exception of this chair, the right slipper and one of the Masonic aprons, the rest of tho articles were in Maj. Clitherall's The now famous slippers did not reach Gen. Smith in the same way that the other relics did. Gen. Washington, after his farewell address, went to pay Gen. Smith a visit at the residence of the latter in North Carolina, and it was here that he brought them. On re-turning home he left them behind him, and they were carelessly put away in an old closet, and laid there in neglect until their value came to be recognized. Since then they have been (Jiref ully 1! Down. CV" ) She My poor, dear father knew ' Washington so intimately, and I, my-self, was born on the 2Jd" of February, Bo of course 1 feel like like He (helping her out) Like a relic? From the death of Washington till the civil war it was an almost invariable rule that each new state should have a Washington county, and many counties in each a Washington township. N, of the thirteen , states without a Washing-ton county, six were too old and five are apparently too new. j If women go on with their clubs, councils and societies as they are doing they wi'u shortly care Very little whether j they are admitted to cieu's societies or Hot I witIfIilic men. Walter VMlman Searches Through Eec- -, ords Coated With Dust for Bright Sayings and Quick Eepartee. JOKES THAT TUBBED AWATWEATH The Line Dividing the Sublime from the Eidiculous Oftentimes Narrowly and Perilously Drawn, Washington, March 4. Special cor-respondence Times.1 In the house a few days ago we had a fine example or the narrowness of the border line which sometimes exists between tho sublime and the ridiculous. Mr. Lewis, of Mis-sissippi, in replying to strictures of Mr. Kelley, of Kansas, on the former state, said some people were continually going up and down tho land disturbing the I jieaeeM and culm and industrious with J'also cries of "Murder! murder! mnr-- . dor!" At this moment, when tho feel-ings of the spectators had been worked to a high pitch by tho dramatic manner of the speaker, old Gen. Spinola sung out, "Call the police!" In a twinkling tragedy was changed to comedy, and everybody roared. Two or three weeks ago, during a de-cisive roll call on tho election bill a critical historic moment, when senators and spectators were in a state of sup-pressed excitement Senator Dixon, in tisking a transfer of his pair from Sen-- j at or Ransom to Senator Hampton, de murely remarked tint after this ex-change of courtesies between the sen-ator from North Carolina and the senator from South Carolina ho could votean allusion to a good old joke which filled the senate chamber with merriment. Instances of sudden change from the ' sublime to the ridiculous are by no ; means rare in congress. Congressman i Bel ford, of Colorado, a few years ago was excoriating a fellow member with ill his powers of eloquence. "There he J fits," exclaimed Bel ford, shaking his fimrer at tlie obiect of his wrath, "mute. Nath&aiel Macon, of North Carolina, the wisest man I ever knew. But now, alas, his Beat iu this body is vacant, va-cant, vacant!" A delicious bit of ridicule was that which Matt Carpenter once aiufld at Mr. Sumner: "He so completely identi-fies hiuiself with the universe that he is not at all certain whether he is part of it or it is part of him." Two or three days ago there was a lively tilt between Senators Dawes and Cockrell, in which the latter ferociously demanded to know if he could not tell what a Democrat had sworn to under oath without slandering a Democrat. "I do not kuow about that," was Mr. Daweg' demure rejoinder, which was greatly enjoyed. In his prime Dawes was a good deal of a wag, and has in his composition a vein of quiet humor, which even now occasionally flashes out. When he was in the house, and was talk-ing about more light houses for the coast of Massachusetts, some one asked him how many light houses there were in the district. "Five," said he. "I was up there last summer, in vacation," rejoined tho questioner, "and I am sure I counted a dozen." "Oh," said Mr. Dawes, "they are double reflectors, and fierhaps you saw double." Puns on names are common too com--! won in the annals of con gressional wit. Once Mr. Archer, of Maryland, voted by mistake when Oakes Ames' name was called, and voted again when his own name was reached, whereupon two or three members sang out, "Insatiate Archer, would not one vote suffice?" Sam Cox once looked this matter np, and found that the same joke had been made on no fewer than three of the many Archers who have sat iu the house. Mr. Springer's pun on the picturesque member from Philadelphia, Mr. Ran-dall's successor, is not bad "Vaux populi, Vaux Dei." It is odd how jokes are perpetuated, worked over, reapplied, in congress. "Gentlemen will pass through tho tell-ers," by mistake for "Gentlemen will pass between the tellers," is as old as the house of representatives, bnt it always raises a laugh. Not long ago "Buck" Kilgore, who was serving as a teller, an-nounced, "Two more in the negative, Mr. Speaker," as Mr. Barnes, the giant states- - it, silent and dumb!" ' "Yes," shouted a wag, "and he is not saying a word." ; This was even neater than Gen. Spi- - ; rtola's call for the police. Gen. Spinola, by the way, is full of sharp repartee, j He is note! for his old fashioned high c liar, which tickles the lower lobes of liis ears. One day a rash young memlier made some sneering allusion to Spinola's collar, whereupon the old man retorted: "It would require a collar fifty times higher than mine to hide the ears of the ifeiit Ionian." Another member, or another occasion, attempted to make a pun;vt Mr. Spinola's expense. The old waniol having replied , rather . hotly to some reiiark, the pun- - ster said: Y "Oh, well, you needn't get your choler np." i Quick as a flash came Sp.nola's retort: "I always have my collar np; and I ad-Vi-tho gentleman to take care that the other end of the garment to which his collar is fastened is kept down." Ono of the sharpest bits of repartee wo have bad in congress in many a day was that of young Senator Wolcott to Sena-tor Power. Wolcott had just voted against his party, and Power was taking him to task. "It's a great mistake, Wol-cott," saiil he, "a great mistake. You have ruined your reputation." "You go make one," retorted Wolcott. Not long ago there was a little tilt be-tween Heed and Springer which brought forth a neat repartee. The speaker said something which Springer said 'le had failed to hear. "I think you can hear well enough to catch my idea," said Heed. "1 can't catch the sjieaker's idea," re-sponded Springer, "without hearing what he says, and frequently I can't catch it when I do hear what ho says." When congressmen become bitterly personal they talk about each other's "record." A "record" is a terrible ma-tter to a debater. It touches his integ-rity and consistency, ami often provokes fierce answer. Sam Cox used to tell a story about two statesmen from the Egypt district of Illinois who went at each other in this fashion: "You cannot assail my record," said one loftily. "No; I do not care to go into small mat-tors- ," was the retort. "That is where yon and I differ. I do go into small mat-ters, for I shall answer von." "Then man irom noorgia, juissen uuouii. This, too, is an old joke. It was first ap-plied to Mr. Baldwin, of Massachusetts, in tho Thirty-eight- h congress. It was also once proposed to subdivide him in j order to make a quorum. A few days ago a western member vociferously and persistently addressed tho chair. Finally the speaker turned to liim ami asked: "For what purpose does tlie gentle-man rise?" "To a point of order. I ask for in-formation" "The point is well taken," said Speak-er Reed sharply, amid general laughter. It was at least thirty years ago that a representative, speaking on the tariff! bill, exclaimed: "Mr. Speaker, I am a plain, blunt business man, who deals in facts and figures. I am tired of these theories. What I want is more practical common sense." "That's so!" shonted some one, and the honse was convulsed with laughter. During one of tho night sessions of the senate hist month Mr. Hoar, tired and sleepy, said, "Mr. President, there is no senate before the question." This was so funny that even Mr. Hoar laughed, but it was not as ludicrous as tho slip made a few years ago by Dr. Gallinger, who has just been elected to the senate from New Hampshire. The great doctor was in the honse then, and in control of time in a certain debate. "Mr. Speaker," said he, "I give three gentlemen to the minute from Kansas, Mr. Perkins." Kven Mr. Ingills, who is a stickler for form and etiquette, made a queer slip one day while presiding over the senate. His colleague rose, and the pre-siding officer, instead of exclaiming "The senator from Kansas," blurted out "Plumb." That was not as bad as Vice President Morton's endeavor to say, "The senator from Mississippi," when Mr. George rose. "The senator from Misviuri no, Montana Michi was the way in which he did it, with a very red face by the time ho had made this rapid circuit of the interior of the continent. The mistake of saying "The gentle-man," which is the house usage, instead of "Tho senator," as required by the rules of tlie senate, has often led to laughable incidents in tho latter body, discuss yourself and magnify little things." A convenient form of repartee or sar-casm is reference to the predecessor of one's antagonist. During the debate on the rules in tho last session ono of the Democratic members spoke of Speaker Reed as the man who rattled around iu the seat formerly occupied by John G. Carlisle, which was not happy, inasmuch as Heed is physically three times as big as Carlisle, and their corporeal was at once in every one's mind, not withstanding the member's ob-vious intention to compare tho men in-tellectually. Much better was Ingalls' subtle, deli-cate sarcasm a few years ago in the s:ue line. lie was castigating Mr. Hoar in a polite, parliamentary manner for that senat or's alleged devotion to Massa-chusetts cant. Senator Dawes came into the chamber just in time to hem-- few words, and, rising, asked if he words Wero intended for him. "I refer now," said Ingalis, "to tho successor of Charles Stuuiier and not to the succes.sor of Daniel Webster." This delicately cruel way of holding the two senators from Massachusetts up to comparison with Slimier and Wob-bler brought a grin to tho face of every one in the chamber, Senators Hoar and Dawes alone excepted. More vicious was John Randolph's use of tho same method many years ago. Randolph and Nathaniel Macon were fast friends. When .Macon went out of the senate and James Iredell succeeded him tho lat ter tried to curry favor with the great, the terrible John ..Randolph. But Randolph would have no intercourse with h'lii, and ono day iu iiKu.ing a speech paused ominously, l,Kjki d at Ire dell and exci.iiui jd, "This rMuadsjiiu of a remark once made by ( Senator uerry sposooi jir. juscock as "The gentleman from New York," and instantly corrected himself, saying: "I don't mean that. Pardon my error. Not the gentleman, but thy senator from New Y'ork," etc., thus going from bad to worse. "Gentlemen Mr. President no; I was addressing the senate, and inadvert-ently called the body 'gentlemen.'" This was the neat but malicious way iu which Senator Nye, an inveterate joker, made the same play on words. Jim Belf'ord once moved that the house adjourn bona fide, but this was after several visits to a committee room in which a large jug was kept as one of the literary treasures. Frank Lawler, on an-other occasion, moved that "the house adjourn sine die till at 13 o'clock." Scores of the brightest sayings known to the annals of congress are credited to Senator Edmunds, though many of his sharpest ut terances do not appear in Tho Congressional Record. At times ho keeps up a running fire of sotto voce comment, full of sarcasm and bitter irony. Once while bo was making a speech in general terms a senator inter-rupted him to say, "If the senator is firing at a flock it is a safe way of fir-ing." "Ono bird seems to be hit, at any rate," retorted Edmunds. Walter Wellman. The Arme of Appropriateness. Fair Pit tsburger What impressed yon most during your visit to my dear old city? Fair Chicagoan Tho eminent appro-priateness of Penn avenue, F. P. Please explain. F. C. It is lined with doctors' offices, and it leads to two big and populous cemeteries.-Ilttsbur- j Bulletin, . j WORK ON THEi'VoRLD'3 FAIR. The IMaces Are Yet Feir and the A.'iiiU cant Many. The first stake haa been driven, and work on the World's fair buildings is now fairly under way. Operations were begun at Chicago's Lake Front park the other morning by fixing the boundaries of the temporary administration headquarters of the construction department. A thou-sand men stood around to view the pre-liminaries, many of them eager to go to work. But their services were not yet required, ami the seekers after jobs went DRIVING! THE FIItsT STAKE. In this instance history is repeating itself. Just as was the case in London, in Paris, in Philadelphia, in Vienna still more recently in Paris the great army of tho unemployed is preparing to sweep down upon Chicago in' the belief that the preliminaries of the Worlds fair will afford opportunities for the employ-ment of their brains and their muscles. The advance guard h;.s already arrived there. The number is problematical. Some put it at 10,000, others at double or t reble that number. It is sufficient to learn that tho various charity organiza-tions are liesieged by strangers who know not where to eat or where to sleep, and that every afternoon the offices of the evening papers are the rendezvous of hundreds and thousands of able bodied men, who frantically grab for the first issues of the various editions in the hope that their eyes may light on an adver-tisement which will give them chance iUI ruij.i.iiuj (111 111. When the national commision, local directory or tho contractors are ready to use all possible available help, announce-ment of the fact will be made, so that it will reach tho Jour quarters of the coun-try. Pending such announcement peo-ple needing work, whether it be in dig-ging trenches or in keeping books ami expecting to find it through tho medium of the World's fair and its allied enter-prises will 1x3 best consulting their own interests in giving Chicago a wide berth. F:iiyNhMfTIIE MY. Oliver Harper Makes Some Critical 0bser " rations on the Styles of the Suasoa Saw Wash Goods, VARIETY OF STYLE AND MAKEUP They are Vory Cheap and Can be Tasto-ful- ly Made up Pretty House and Evening Gowns, v York, March 4 Special cor-respondence Times. I Today I stood in front of a window and looked with eyes at the pretty now spring goods arranged with so much taste over their frames, and took mental note that the dark mossy green sateens for thera are sateens after all, in dark shades, witU intricate all over patterns had double loops and ends of "faded purple" velvet ribbons, and the purple gixids had green bows, and so on. NEW WASH GOODS PRESSES. New challies in cotton are shown, an l are printed in tho prevailing patterns used in sateens. The challies are soft, , .4... 1 1 1. WllSJlrtOlO UIHl VCrV JHeil , HilU LUOU!l ko cheap (thrio and four cents a yard) they can be made np into very hand-some dresses, particularly for morning. Clioese cloth in pink, bine, cream and ecru will be used quito extensively for early morning dresses. They are to ba made with a blouse waist or a plaited corsage and plain full skirt, with two or three tucks abve the hem, a sailor collar of black velvet, cuffs and pointed girdle also of black velvet. Thus this inexpensive material becomes a very dressy littlo gown for a young lady. There are some really pretty cotton goods to which there is no came, bnt it looks like riercalo, all in solid color, either of tlie pretty wood brown or darlc . indigo blue. They aro pattern dresses, f and have a breadth printed in colors, itx -- flower pattern or striped with whito, to go with it. The pictures come with these pretty dress patterns shoving how they should be made. The dark bluo has tho waist and skirt of the dark blue, a pitfiel up tho front being printed with pi nk flowers and green foliage. On the right side is a deep drapery of pale blue, and the samo pale blue is brought for-ward fichu fashion and tied. Another is of wood brown, with panel opening which discloses a piece bordered with white stripes in clusters. The cor-sage is finished with a high, open collao and fichu drapery, which is very grace-ful. Tho front h;us wrinkled drapery, but is otherwise quite plain. Another exceedingly neat and dainty homo dress is made of figured wool bro-cade in metallic blue and seal brown and snuff brown cashmere. The skirt opens in front over the btocm'a, and side) forms reach to the bust. The waist and sleeves are of the brocade, and across the bust is arranged a pull drapery, each side edged with narrow gathered ruffles, There are three ruffles around the bot-tom, one extending up the front to the waist on each side. This makes a very dressy gown with littlo labor, and could be copied in almost any two materials. Ruffles, narrow and wide, gathered knife, side, Ikix or rose plaited, are de-cidedly "in" now, mid form a pretty finish to the bottom of a dress and fraina for the feet. Several very narrow ones are placed so as to overlap each other and have no heading, being sewn on the 6kirt by only a cord. Others have a bias rtlJed fold. ill lift pretty home and evenlno dresses. I almost forgot to mention an elegant toilet for a young married lady. Tha color and material is Edison blue chin; silk embroidered iu black chenille, with the front of the skirt and bust drapery of black crepe do Chiue. A small Mario Stuart collar, lined with lac, finishes the neck, and a ruffle of the sante is placed at the elbows and shoulders. The sleeves are left open from top to bottom. This is a good fashion to fcdlow when the arms we thin, for tho whole arm does not show, and what ono does not eeo one is apt to imagine beautiful. Around tho entire skirt and train are four narrow gathered ruffles, and every lady wears a little curl down the iniddlt of her forehead except Olive IIarpf.3. .. BRAZIL'S POLITICAL TROUBLES. Tim lifl'reuce ExinViiiif letwrn the I'rNilnt mitl llin l'li!urt. Brazil is just at present the scene of a good deal of political excitement. Among others Dr. Deuietrio Ribiero, the first DK. CONSTANT DR. RII11EKO. Republican minister of agriculture, has declared against the present administra-tion, and dissensions in the cabinet still continue. A few days before his death Dr. Benjamin Constant, minister of publ-ic, instruction, resigned in consequence of a disagreement with President Deo-dor-about the filling of some third-rat- t office. It is said that the ministers arc constantly exposed to mortifications by Deodoro'B interference in administrative details. If an office seeker consider: himself badly treated by a minister he goes to Deodoro, and very often succeed! in thus obtaining what the minister had refused him. Benjamin Constant had the reputation of having planned the revolution, anc ho was supposed by some persons tc. have secret ulterior views. He was the only minister who refused to be elected to congress, and many persons believed that he thought that the highest polit-ical honors in Brazil are not to be achieved hereafter by means of parlia-mentary success, ami that a few hun-dred resolute luen at one's orders are worth all the orators in existence, if these were really his ideas ho studiously concealed them from the public. Tlie Bride of an Astor. For the third time in its history the matrimonial fortunes of the house of Astor are linked with a Philadelphia family. WfUiam Waldorf Astor married Miss Mary Paul, and Miss Carrie Astor became tho wife of W. C. Drayton. Now Miss Ava Willing, a belle of the Quaker City, weds with John Jacob, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. William As- - V I HI MISS AVA WILLING. tor. The bridegroom is 24 years old, and the presumptive heir to a fortune of f70,000,O0O. The bride is somewhat younger, and has spent most of her life abroad. Her family has been prominent iu Philadelphia society for several gen-erations, and is Quite wealthy A New e'fll'ge President. Rev. Charles F. Thwing, tho recently elected president of Western Reserve university, at Cleveland, O., is 87 years old. He is one of the editors of the Chi-- ; cago Advance, and for the last four years has been pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church of Minneapolis. Dr. Thwing was born in Farmington, Me., and educated at Phillips academy, Harvard college where he graduated in tho class of 1870 and And over Theo-logical seminary. He was called to tho REV. CHARLES F. THWINa. pastorate of the North Avenue Congre-gational church, of Cambridge, Mass., which he held until four years ago, when ho went to Minneapolis. Dr. Thwing has published four books. Ilia earliest was a volume on "American Colleges," which appeared some ten or twelve years ago. Since then "Books and Reading," "The Family: An His-torical and Social Study" and quite re-cently "The Working Church" have appeared. Maggie IM.ln't Get a Warrant. At last one phase of the servant girl qnestion has been settled. The other day Maggie Laughlin young, pretty and excited applied to a magistrate at Williamsburg, N. Y for a warrant. She wished to seenre the arrest of her late employer, Mrs. Charles Purris, on a charge of cruel and inhuman treatment. The justice asked for details, and learned that the complainant had lieen dis-charged because she reserved choice bita for her own use before serving meals.' It was due to a discussion as to whether she should have the pick of everything ' or eat after the family had left table that she is now out of work. The justico ' gave Maggie some good advice, told her she couldn't get a warrant and sent her away. Soap and Silver Raved Him. Ready money will bridge over many difficulties. Recently a constable of Bay City, Mich., arrested a stranger who was shabbily clad and who, because of his raiment, was supposed to be a tramp. When taken to court the prisoner estab-lished his respectability and secured ac-quittal by producing $0."j in cash and a cako of soap. The wise judge declared that a man of cleanly habits and ple-thoric purse could not be considered a vagrant even if he did wear back num-ber clothes. The Spanish government has a decisive mode of dealing with patent medicines. No compound is allowed to lie sold until it is shown that it really cures the com-plaints for which it is recommended. A study of the sea bottom, currents, temperature and life of the Adriatic sea shows that there is a vast growth of marine alga at the great depth of 2,000 Sietcrti. An insurance man of long experience declares that milk is the best obta iuable fxtinguisher for a petroleum fire. II milk is not at hand flour will answtu nearly ad well for putting out the- - fLuue. j |