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Show I I WOHLD'S FAIR MAT TEH. I Social C'lulis The Coming Election of I 9 Director A Ktutue for Itarrett. I 9 Special Correspondence.! I 1 CnifAno, -VUitorti of note aud I I distinction to the World's fair will 1)6 the I 9 rrcipjents of ur.itifyins; attentions from the I l'X'i'l weial duo, mid there are enough, of I m these to fully mahilain the reputation of I the Windy City for hospitality. Unless I 3 memory in at fault there were only two I M ooi -ml clubs in Philadelphia nt the lime of E f the Centennial, the t'niou League and the I 9 riiiladelphia Press club. Chicago, how- I a ever, has no less than twenty seven, and I ; the majoriiy of these, timler t he leailership I i of the I'nion club, have already handed to-I to-I j (.'el her in a movi-tnent to improve and I beautify th - city, aud generally to add to it a I ) attractions during the year of tliu fair. It, I ij is proposed lo aid the muiiieipul admiuis-I admiuis-I ' tratiou in enfurciun the ordinances, already I i part of the laws of t iie city, regard ini; street I 1 refill. itions, the ab.iti'inent of loke and li J ot Iicr nuisances, and alst to promote new I ; I lieNisiiies toward iiikitriiiK i lie cumfort, I tonveuieiice and saiety of bothcituens and I , visitors. I I'tider the auspices of the same move- nitii't also pnipcscil to erci t, eiiie- tr on siutues of V;ihiiiu'toii and (icueral j Cliant in two of the principal soiiares. Tho i Women's Press association has the honor ol hav inn -taken the llrst steps looking to . tile cut ertuiiimeut of itiemliers of t heir pro 1,1 j fe.-t ion tl-it. will he here in ''M. The Chi ll cajso I're.ss club will follow suit in due sea- t -on, and o will the liankcrs. (.'yclinu, Kur il r.-KUt, t 'anier.i and other clubs, the mcm- I 'J hcrsliip of which is distinctively profea- , 4 aion.il. 'J :,e social c;ubs, such as the L'niou ," I liC'ik'uc, the ( 'a lu met, the Illinois, the Chi- ' cat;o and the Stnndard, will likewise inain- I tain their record for bountiful hospitality, j even if tin y do not yn far Ik yond it. i I One week henee the annual contest for 0 I incmlxTship in the board of directors will take place. .Many of ihose who have served :,f io faithfully duricK the past ycarwill be re-: re-: elected, al! la v.:h there will be some new f faces, as well as new ofliccrs. So faith (: fully, however, has the present hoard at j tended tj tlie itiuantic interests iutriisteu j to it, that, its successor will find, upon ivi- ; J tainiitii,' the reins, that the most import aut ; j work lias already been mapied out, am. 1 j , that there will l,e tiothitu.' to stand in th3 J way of its goin ahead and letting the cou-p cou-p I tracts. ( I The call for a second installment of 20 I I per l ent, on the capital stock, and which j will liriir.,' in a round million of dollars I I . matures on June 1, and before that, date 1 the contracts for the principal buildings J will have been secured by the fortunata I bidders. In the opinion of experts ther I s no reason why all the structures thai J are now contemplated should not be com- pleted ami turned over to the commission I within fifteen or sixtei'ii mouths. The con- tractors will lie paid as their work pro- I presses, and consequently no less than ten I millions of dollars will Ih required within j that period. There will laj no trouble in petting it. Within forty-eiht hours after the sur-ge-tion that a statue of Kdwin Booth should form one of the feat ores of the main pla.a in Jackson Park had been made by a prominent theatrical manager amid n chorus of approval, his co laborer and, of lute years, his more than intimate friend, has passed away, and the American stage mourns the loss of one who has left a void '( that, for thepresent at least, cannotbelllled. ; Peculiarly appropriate, t herefore, is the re vised ruggest ion that, while doing honor to the greatest of living tragedians, a similar simi-lar tribute should be paid to the memory of that, in some resjiects, equally great artist who has gone before, Lawrence liar-Vett. liar-Vett. The hiatter is in the halidH of the profession of which he was so great an ornament. or-nament. Chicago managers are prepared to take the initiative, ami if, as proposed, the managers of onlyjine-half or less of the leading theaters-of the country donated a ' proportion of the net proceeds of a single entertainment toward the' project the pro-' pro-' fesslon will lie enabled to honor itself by doing honor to two of its menila'rs, the like of whom the country will not seeagaiu for many a generation. H exist M. Hum. lars and some small bills and clians''. Within half au hour a pale faced ; wojmiu apjieared at the oftice, asking I breathlessly if a purse had been recently found in tho shop. Tho well sbK-ked pocketbook was hers. She had not left the shop before missing it, discovering , her loss at an up stairs depart men t to ' which she had gone from the one where ! the purse escaped her. Her identifica- tion of the money, including drawer and drawee of the check, was complete, and it was promptly delivered to her. She thanked the snicriiitcndeut warmly, warm-ly, and was abont to leave tho ollica when that gentleman su'ested that sh owed tho recovery of lur money to the honesty of the little cash girl. ,-Do you think, miidaui," he said p linlcdly. "such ' honesty onht to go unrewarded?" Tiio j woman atoptici. "No, of course tint," j she said hastily, and opening the just re-' re-' covered purse she produced a silver dol-I dol-I lar, which she gave to the girl. Then oho departed with tho fi rtuiii' of whose keeping she was so careless, and of win ise finding she was so unapprcciative. licr Point of View in New York Times. tfoiirmilisiii In tliB KorUlc. Journalism in the broad bosom of the Rockies in midwinter is arduous. At this time, when tin boulevards nra wrapls d in the plastic embrace of tho snow-slide, and the inarch of communication communi-cation with the outer world is imaginary imagi-nary and impressive, the constituency unite in wishing that winter was gone-gone gone-gone with her laughter and love. The country scribe seeks ti e s.iowy wreaths of truth in silence and with uncertain step, as a search warrant parades tho realms of somnanibulistio slumbers in quest of a hundred typos to cope wit it the rush of business lit theolHee, wilict is left in charge of his satanic iii i,jet y. Now, what seems death is a change, when we look deeper down in the world's beautiful, and the blazoned optic sees not fruition but an altar in coercion of the tribute of nature. However, no ono can deprive hibernated vitality of this sphere of the felicity that across the vista of winter, with its fathoms of snows and frosts, April smiles, and the ntm'wtiliere rii'iis with fragrance and crocus dooms, just as over the gulf of death Faith sees tho glow of tho jeweled walls of heaven. N. IJ, Only lie in this issue. Rico News. Novelty of Window Dremdng. window was recently shown in ;l neighboring city, which, from its novel and pretty arrangement, attracted a good amount of attention. A framework frame-work making a drawbridge partly open was built. The floor of the bridge was made of striped dress goods, which made a good plank effect. Tho sides and the girders were made of fancy hosiery, the legs only showing, the foot Ix-ing carried car-ried under and hidden by tho floor of the bridge. A wagon heavily laden with boxes of b isiery, marked & Co., was on tho open draw waiting to get across. Lamp posts with red material ma-terial for glass made a pretty effect at night when lighted. A wax policeman preserved order among the half dozen pedestrians. Finger posts directed the public to the great hosiery sale at & Co.'s. Retailer and Jobber. llootli'ii Fortune. I am glad to say that so far as money Is concerned Edwin Booth has enough to keep him in comfort the rest of his life. Me was ablo to give iflUO.OUO to the Players' Play-ers' club, and if current reports aro truo he has invested in one of onr largo insurance in-surance ompanies a snm of money which insures to him an annuity of $15,-000 $15,-000 a year for life. He did this when nome of bis friends rather protested against his lavish gift to the club. I suppose that, notwithstanding the canceling can-celing of the Booth engagement hero, the great actor's name will rerr.in for some years to come a potent attraction to audiences, for Booth, even in his do-cadence, do-cadence, is still a man worth seeing. New York Cor. Charleston News and Courier. C'lioiie to 1H with His SwectheArt. Andrew Moore, aged twenty-one, and Miss Ollie Cox, aged sixteen, we- drowned in the Luxapaiia- river, at Kennedy, Ken-nedy, Ala., recently. This couple, together to-gether with Joe Kennedy and Miss Floy Cook, all pupils of the Kennedy high school, were out boating. The boat capsized, cap-sized, aud Mr. Kennedy barely succeeded in bringing Miss Cook to tho shore, but Mr. Moore waS unable to swim through the strong current with Miss Cox, and gave up his life rather than swim out alone. Tho young lady was (lie daughter daugh-ter of Representative Cox, of Pickens county. Mr. Moore nnd Miss Cox wer to have been married shortly. Col Memphis Apical-Avalanche. Huston Famous ChriKt Cliurcli. Boston, March 30. Somehow one always al-ways finds ringing in his cars the lines of lintlcr's "Huilibras" about "those who compound for sins they have a mind to by damning those they're not inclined to" whenever he enters Christ church, lloston. Everybody knows where and what Christ church is.' This is the church (immortalized (immortal-ized by LoiiKfellow's stirring poem) from whose steeple, it is claimed, the lanterns or Paul Hevere were hung out to warn Atlanta and Hancock of the movement uf the Brit Lsh troops on Lexington, where those patriots pa-triots then were; and though the matter has been long in dispute whether it wtu from tho Christ church steeple, or that of the Old North church, in North square (which was pulled down for fuel during the siege of Bostou), that the lights were Known, or whether or not they gave the warning a tablet on the front of th church, placed the,e Oct. 17, 1H7S, beara this inscription: "Th iignal lanterns of Paul Hevere, displayed in the steeple of this church April 18, 1775, warned the country of the inarch of the Iiritish troops to Lexington ami Concord." It is also claimed that the Paul Revere lights were hung out by the sexton of this', church, Holiert Newman, a young, act.v mid eon ra aeons fellow during those times, but by some antiquarians this claim is also questioned, and the assertion is as positively posi-tively made that they were hung out by Jaolain John Puling, a merchant of Boston, Bos-ton, and a warden of the church, and in! the conlidence of Hevere, Hancock, Adams, Viirien and the other patriot leaders Christ church is t he oldest church building build-ing now standing in Boston, located as it Ik on Salem street, al, the North End, and is one of tho few landmarks generally retaining re-taining its original apiiear.nice. Its old fashioned pulpitaml pews have suffered no material change; its interior has not been inoderui.ed; its present organ is the same (imported from London in 17, VI) that used to accompany the quaint, old time hymns ttiui resp inses; its Bible, prayer books and communion service, still in use, were given to it by K'::g tieorge II in 17:i.'J, and tho silver bears the royal arms; and the chime cE bells, the sweet cat and most musical the t,.wn bus known, which still sound their tncioilii us tones, was brought from England Eng-land in ITR It is said to be the first chime In America. The figures of the cherubim in front ot the organ and the chandeliers are greatly j prized oosHcssiotis. They were taken from a French vessel by the privateer Queen ot Hungary in 174(1 and presented to the church by Captain Grushea. As old chronicles chron-icles show, those little cherubiu were pre- wilted to a certain church aero .is the Caua- ; tli.-in border, lieing sent by cc tain of their j religious brethren in la belle France, un- luckily for the -Montreal religionists, but fortunately for those of Christ church, they were seized, as indicated, and with j the result tha th" have since remained ! fctrp. W. V. MiniiaT. j O-e llnllii-'l Worth of Gratitnde. i In one of the city's largo dry goods (hops last week a little cash girl brought ; to ono of tho heads of departments in the j course of the early afternoon hours of Tuesday a woman's purse. She had just picked :t nj). she faid. on the floor, near the counter, and she remarked as she passed it over tint, she guessed it was 'Vlurfed full." The rlowrwalker ojie.ned i and saw at a glance that her opinion was j,..-1 i lied. Ca rying it to the super-inrclidelit's super-inrclidelit's ofliee, lie, with that enon-., enon-., l oii'-.'rd the monev. The puree contained con-tained ". t'1'- There were leu five l:un-dred l:un-dred dollar bills, a check for forty dol- |