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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Advocate, 1887-08-11, Page 3A WW1!4;1'4 IC'lEt.1!,IPT. Hnsnand,Hurdered by the Destroyer ef tne reace ,ofHle A Detroit .aeaPatoh Asp : Peter W. Bundle, a well:known locomotive engineer on the Michigan Central Railvvay, occupied with his wife and two children until last evening, a PrePY home on Indian avenue. Bursha Was a hearty, well-to-do man, and ,seemed altogether wrapped up in his family. He frequently spent hours playing with his children, a little boy aged 7 years and a little girl about 5, and the happiness and sociability of the Bershas was com- mented upon in the neighborhood. About a year ago they took to board with them Richard L. Landon, 20 years of age. He. is the son of a commercial traveller named Landon, who committed suicide in this , city a few months ago, who carne from Toronto about a year previous, and being unable to find. employment, in a fit of despondency ended his life. The young man was a friend of the family. His business was pedling teas and coffees. There was nothing par- ticularly attractive about him, and it never entered Bursha's mind he would be a cause of trouble in his household, Landon had lived there about six months when the husband coming home one even- ing entirely unexpected awoke to the real- ization that a place in the affections of his wife was occupied by Landon when he was away from home. Matters went from bad to worse, until Bursha applied for I. divorce. His wife, however, influenced him th with- draw the bill. Landon was dismissed from the house and the husband and wife ap- peared to live happy again. Landon left the house in January and rented a small cottage about two blocks further up Indian avenue, where be has eince lived alone. Though Lan on was forbidden to enter the house, subsequent developments show his communication with Mrs. Bursha, *though irregular, steadily continued. Bursha re- turned from a trip at noon yesterday. After dinner he left to collect the rent for 'house he owned on Michigan avenue. On returning home about 6 o'clock :he met Landon on the common. The men met first near the sidewalk at Vinewocel avenue, and had some words. They were evidently quarrelling. Persons were frequently crossing the common, but at this time no one noticed them except an old lady. She was returning from the direc- tion of Michigan avenue, and was .quite near the quarrelling men. They did not appear to notice her. Finally Bursha raised his finger warningly and shook it in Landon's face, and the men then parted. Bursha turned and walked toward. home. Landon started in the opposite direction, then stopped, hesitated a moment, then ran back towards Bursha. The engineer heard his steps and turned around. Almost simultaneously with his turning about Landon pulled a revolver from his pocket, and taking deliberate airn at Bursha, who was hardly three feet away, fired. The engineer threw up both hands and fell heavily to the ground. Landon looked on: him a moment, coolly turned from hisyroetrete victim and walked awiy. In three minutes Bursha was dead. Landon was subsequently arrested and locked up. He takes the matter coolly, claims Bursha has threatened him and that he was justi- fied in shooting. Died from asudden Shock. A car horse was lying dead on a track in Seventh aventie.on Monday surrounded by a crowd of men and boys. ' "What did he die of ?" asked one of the men of a passenger on the horseless car. "Why you see, he got balky, and the i driver, nstead of poking the car hook through his ribs, got off the car and spoke kindly to the horse, and the shock proved too great."—New York Evening Sun. . • A Use For It. 1^ Proud Father—Welcome back to the old farm, my boy. So you got through college, all right? Farmer's Son—Yes, father. , P. F.—Ye know I told you to -study up on chemistry and things so you'd know beet what to do with different kinds of land. What do you think of that flat medder there, for instance? S.—Cracky, what a place for a base- ball game! Fires Love's Flame Won't Kindle. "1 love you," he protested, "better than my life. I would die for you if necessary." "0, nonsense!" replied the prectical girl. "Swear to rne that you'll get up and make the fires arid I'll consider your proposi- tion."—Judge. A Novel Idea for Some Husbands. An article is printed on "How to Treat Your Wife." ' One good way would be to treat her as well as you did before you mar- ried her, but few married men do that.— Somerville Journal. They Seldom Do. Judge—The prisoner is discharged. Prisoner—Well, begorra, I didn't know Oi was loaded l—Burlington Free Press. The women's Jubilee offering to the Queen somewhat puzzled Burmese ladies who were asked to join in the royal gift. "Why should their sovereign want money," they inquired, especially so soon after the annexation of Burmah ?' "Has she no rice ?" and "Can it be that she has no tobacco?" were frequent queries. For, as all Burmese ladies smoke several cheroots daily, they beceme deeply sympa- thetic at the idea that their Queen should be without the solace of tobacco amid her State cares. In this poetic style a California land agency offers job lots of scenery and cli- mate: On this Wednesday afternoon'at 1 o'clock, at Louis' Hall, on Fifth street, we will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder, the Pacific Ocean, draped with a western eky of scarlet and geld; we will sell a bay filled with 'white -winged ships; we will sell a southern horizon married with a choice collection of purple mountains carved in castles and turrets and domes ; we will sell a heatless, bracing, warm,yet unlanguid air, braided in and in with sun- ehine,and odored with tho breath of flowers. Money,medals and testimonials are i pouring n on Arthur Robinson, the rescuer of nine of the Mystery's drowning passengers in Jamaica Bay. The colored hero hears his honors modestly. The imports of Canadian lumbee at the port of Buffalo from January to July amounted tp 4,831,00 feet. SHE sTAnvEP TQ DEATH. The Miserable End of a Miserly Dld Maid 4oWheeholrY• Mise Maxwell, daughter of Mr. Maxwell, who taught school in Montreal many Years ago, died at I:Tewkesbury, Opt., last week from sheer want of Proper food,. She had a good bank ccount and ample means in the house to Maim her comfortable, but Preferred to starVe• The father removed t9 Hawkesbury many years ago, and opened a school assisted by his daughter, this being continued up to the time of his death. Miss Maxwell has been living alone for eeseral years, carrying en a little business in period- icals, books, newspapers and music, Miss Maxwell was known to be eccentric and no one was ever seen in the portion used as a dwelling. Last Friday she was missed, and a neighbor ventured in—to find her lying in misery and poverty. The lady brought her something nourishing,but the docthr pronounced her to be dying from want of proper 'nourishment. A stove was found in the house, but without any pipes, and it is surmised she passed the winter in the same way,, A large quantity of wooden blocks were sept her, thinking she was in want, but these ere said to be still piled up in the shed. She lingered op until Satur- day, and search was made for some clue to her funds—when' much to their surprise, over $100 in cashwas found in the leaves of an old book, and various small sums were found in other parts, to- gether with a bank account of over $2,000. The Board of Health had her buried on Monday, and owing to the unsanitary state of the premises With dirt, it was found necessary to board up the house and have it fumigated. Facts have come to light since, showing that she must have lived entirely on bread and water for some time. The address of a young man in Philadelphia was found in a letter, and he was telegraphed for, but he replied that there was a nearer relative in Algoma. An inventory was taken of the various sums, which are held by a person appointed by the Board until such time as the heirs are known.—Witness. She Doted on Bagpipe Music. It was said of Lady Randolph Churchill that she came to England with the firm intent and purpose of Americanizing the British Empire. The same cannot be said of Mrs. Carnegie, who, though a New Yorker born and bred, has taken to the institutions of Caledonia, "stern and wild," with wonderful readiness. Most of her costumes are of tweed, and bonnie brown heather and broom are her favorite flowers. A few days ago, in an unguarded moment, Mr. Carnegie remarked in publio that his wife doted on bagpipe music, and that she had said that the only thing wanting to make her home at Kilgraston a perfect paradise was the presence of a bagpiper. The next morning the glen of Kilgraston was awakened at an early hour by the wail of the pibroch, the weird croon of the coronach and a thunderous notification that the Campbells were coming. By breakfast time there were 104 pipers playing away at Mr. Carnegie'spiazza. At last, in despera- tion, Mr. Carnegie chose one of the Mc- Phersons to be his bagpiper in ordinals', which very much incensed the other High- land musicians, who marched off snorting their dissatisfaction.—Cor. of N. Y. World. Cure for Ivy Poison. , A correspondent of the Philadelphia Record writes: "1 suffered from having been poisoned by ivy twelve years ago. I was completely covered with it, and I tried all of the old and new cures for it without any good resulting from them, until one day a druggist's clerk gave me ten cents' worth of sulphite of soda„dissolved in one pint of water, and told me to bathe with it freely. It acted like rankle; it allayed the itching and was very, seething, and I was well'in esweek. I have tOld es.great many peoPle'of it, and those ti,h6 used it have been invariably cured. I keep a bottle of it constantly mixed, and when I have been among the ivy, which I often am, I always bathe with it; and I am not bothered with poison after using .it once or twice. It is not poison, like sugar of lead and some of the other remedies that cannot be kept in the way of children." ' His Business Qualifications. Father—Well, what can you say for the young man? Daughter—He's young and handsome, and has good business qualifica- tions. Father—How doyou know anything about his business qualifications? Daugh- ter—Why, he has figured out for me time and again how nicely we could get along if you would make us a present of $50,000. • A Libel on the Sex. Wife—Can you tell me, my dear, why a widower is like a young baby? Husband — Er—er—because--because—. Wife—The first six months he cries a great deal, the second six months he begins to take notice, and he always experiences great difficulty in getting through his second year alone. Liked the Cockade. Barber—" Bay rum ?" Granger (whose shave has been supplemented by an appli- cation of the powder puff.ball)—" No, I'm ternp'rance; but, friend; ! you'd jest 's lieve pass that air cockade over my face agin you'd obleege me."—Tid Bits. Butter More Approachablei. Butter is being made n such quantities here that the price for the best samples has fallen from 50 to 30 cents a pound.—Sas- katchewan Herald. That Man Baird. They are nursing the man who has no niore right to sit In Parliament than a tramp off the highway. And they ask honest men to endorse this.—Montreal Herald, A Lost Secret. Her mother and his mother -in. aw— He's a brute; my dear, and don't cry. I wive you to him because he said he knew the secret of making you happy, Daughter —Well, he's kept his secret admirably. On the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee a baronetcy was offered to Mr. T. C. Lister, a rich silk manufacturer of Bradford, who also happens to be High Sheriff of York- shire, but he declined the honor. In New York, Philadelphia and some other cities the roof in the tenement -house district Wit general resort in hot nights. Sometimewhele families' camp out, 1),90,S IN THE 4'E1tEKA7( 14,-EUTe' 40W APS' are Drilte4 tn-Atet tie NieseengSrs for sentinels. A corrcsPondent of the NewYerk 2. Writes front Berlin: "Among the thonaand and ene irwenione, aPPlielleeS and wonderful uses of men and beasts svhieh German genius; has devised to defeat Frencein case of General Boulanger's sag- cessor becoming unpleasant, the dog plays a Significant role, employed as he is as meesenger and septinel, Experiments have been made for nearly a year now, and have proved highly eatisfactory. The dog manoeuvre of the Hunter Battalion was de- cidedlythe most interesting of the recent ParoPaign, Several regiments have been furnished with the German shepherd dogs, known for their wisdom the world over. Each one is attached, so to speak, to the pereon of a soldier, in whom the dog soon recognizes hie master, and who conducts his training. While doing duty, the dog is kept with the sentinel, and easily learns the requirements of his post. A few of the experiments performed before Colonel Vonder Goltz Pasha, who repre- sented the Sultan at the 90th birthday of the Emperor, and hae since remained to witness the reviews, were surprising. A soldier taking the animal from the sentinel marched off on a reconnoitering expedition. After writing his observations and placing them in a casket about the neck of the brute, the latter -was told to return to his master, which he did in an astonishingly short time. One dog employed in this service.arrived at his post ten minutes be- fore a mounted Uhlan charged with the same instructions though the latter rode at desperate speed,' But even more than this was accomplished. With a message tied about the neck, as in the former case, the dog wasiold to geek a distant sentinel and bring a return answer. This he did with great speed, carrying 'his methage directly to his master without fail. It is little wonder that Pasha Goltz was surprised at the success of the experi- ments given in his honor. And they are truly wonderful for the present, though i Bidding fair to become a commonplace n- btitution in that great machine, the Ger- man Army. The consequences and possi- bilities of the shepherd -dog service are apparent to all who know anything of military science, and make their citation superfluous. One thing is certain, that a future war between Germany and any of its neighbors will not beconducted without its dog regiment, whioh, though not em- ployed in concerted action, will perform service more valuable than the cath of ancient Egypt." A Startling Prediction. Two hundred years ago in China there was just such a craze about natural gas as we have in this country to -day. Gas wells were sunk with as much vim and vigor as the celestials were capable of, but owing to a gas explosion that killed several millions of people and tore up and destroyed a large district of country, leaving a large inland seas/known on the maps as Lake Foo Chang; the boring of any more gas wells was then and there prohibited by law. It seems, according to the Chinese history, that many large and heavy pressure gas wells were struck, and in some districts wells were sunk quite near to each other. Gas was lighted as soon as struck, as is done in this country. It is stated that one well with its unusual pressure, by induction or back draught, pulled down into the earth the burning gas of a smaller well, resulting in a dreadful explosion of a large 'district, destroying the inhabitants thereof. Lake Foo Chang rests on this district. The same catastrophe is imminent in this country unless the lnws restrict further developments in boring so many wells. Should a similar explosion occur there will be such an upheaval as will dwarf the most terrible earthquakes ever known. The country along the gas belt from Toledo through Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky will be ripped up to the depth of 1,200 to 1,500 feet and flopped over like a pancake, leaving a chasm through which the waters of Lake Erie will come howling down, filling the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and blotting them out forever.— Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. " A Trained Left Hand. Many are the advantages missed by the non -cultivation of the left hand. 00. casionally an artisan is seen who is equally able to handle tools with either hand. Such a one has constant advantage over his fellows, not only in the avoidance of fatigue, but in doing nice work and over- coming with ease difficulties that present themselves to those skilled only with one hand. The man who can use a hammer or knife or perform any other feat with the left hand at the same time that the right is busy will find frequent occasion to exercise his skill. Another and im- portant reason for training the left hand to act with as great ease and precision as possible is that if injury occurs to the right hand the left min exercise readily all the functions possible to one hand unaided. By training the left hand in youth one would be spared, in such a case, from spending much valuable time in educating muscles hardened by age and unaccustomed to obey the mandates of the will. A Faithful Dog. A faithful little dog saved a young boy called Maher, living in Douglasfield, N.B., the other day, from being gored to death by an infuriated cow. The boy was pretty badly hurt as it was. A Plea for Vacation. Ah I how the editor of a daily newspaper would like to be a beloved pastor or a faith- ful school teacher during this torrid summer. ---.Dayton journal. The Proper Thatch. Experience and hot weather have at length convinced the bald-headed man that a cabbage -leaf is less irritating than a brick in the hat.—.Pittiburg Commercial Gazette. The Fateful Haminoek Now is the time of year when love's young dream gets jolted all out of shape because the hammock lots go.—Iktercliant Traveler. Jacob Seligman, of Michigan, is a million - eke and. director of nine banks and four railroads. He is lees than five feet and went t& Michigan twenty.five years ago with less than $100 in his pocket. 'BENEFITS FROM FAIKS. How Exhibitions Provo nexPed the contarle Farmer. The fifth annual convention of the Inter- national Association of Fairs and Exposi- tions was commenced in Toronte op Wednesday. Between 30 and 40 delegates are in attendance. Mr, Thomas Shaw, of Hamilton, editor of the Live $tock ,Tournal, read a paper on "The Influence of Fairs on the Improve- ment of Live Stook." He rapidly reviewed the history of exhibitions and the great progress made in stock through them, and laid down the proposition that ex.hibitions have had a wonderful effect in the improve- ment of live stock, finding irrefutable demonstration in the facts; (1) Nearly all the substantial progress made in the im- provement of live stook in lands where exhibitions prevail has been made since their introduction. (2) That in countries without live stook exhibitions no substan- tial progress has been made in their improveraent. (3) That the progress has been most marked in those countries which have given the most prominence to live stook at their exhibitions. In support of these propositions these interesting facts were mentioned: The average weight of a dressed bullock at 5 years, in the Lon - den market in 1719, is given at 370 lbs., an average which is attained by many of our modern breeds sold in theshe.mblee at little more than one year, and there is reason to believe that this advance is equalled in other live stock lines. A letter to Lord Sumerville by Mr. Pitt, of Penderford, in 1799, in reepect to Shropshire sheep, said: " It requires eight fleeces and a half to the stone of fourteen pounds," and th•3 weight per quarter of the wether is given at from twelve to eighteen pounds, a weight that is attained by well -fel lambs of this breed now at 9 months, while the average un- washed fleece of good Shropshire sheep is ten pounds.iThe first Provincial Exhibi- tion n this Province was held in Toronto forty-two years ago. Then there were not a score of men who were possessors of im. proved cattle. Now there are 443 members in the Dominion Shorthorn Breeders' Association, most of whom are in the Province of Ontario, while there are as many Shorthorn breeders who are not members, making about 800 Shorthorn breeders in Ontario. The first Shorthorn cow on record in Ontario was im- ported in 1832. The progress is largely due to the exhibitions, of which there are over 500 in this Province. He continued: !;,,Our own Province has given much attention to the live stock departments of our exhibi- tions, and what are the results? Why, in one of our counties, Ontario, more than 200 pure-bred Clydes are to be found at the present moment, some of them of the first order. In another of them, Brant, from 200 to 300 pure-bred Shorthorns are to be found in one herd; and in another of them, Wentworth, is kept the most famous herd of Jerseys in the world, while we have many breeds ef cattle, swine and sheep and other classes of live stock of so high an order that they form a standing temptation to hundreds of our American cousins to come and pay us an annual visit. We are glad to see them come'and hope the day is not far distant when they may come whenever they please and get from us whatever they may choose without having to consult any one along their border. (Applause.) Twenty years ago we had next to no cattle fit for shipping; now we export 600,000 annually to Great Britain and 40,000 an- nually to our brethren south of Lake Ontario in the face of a restrictive duty of 20 per cent." A Fight Under Water. A diver 'named Quintree, says the Lon- don Daily Telegraph, had a remarkable fight with a formidable fish called the boultous or bondro, a kind of shark which infests the Breton coast, at Dociarnenez, the other day., According to all accounts Quintree had a narrow escape, and his own report of his terrible submarine encounter reads liken stanza from Schiller's famous poem, or a page from one offJules Verne's romances. The diver, an "old salt, was employed by the Government, and in pur- suit of his daily labor duly descended in a diving apparatus off the Douarnenez Pier for the purpose of laying the foundation of an addition to that structure. While he was at the bottom of the sea the men who were working the air pump in the pontoon boat above were suddenly frightened by feeling the alarm signal. They instantly pulled up and brought a large boultous, nearly eight feet long, to the surface. The marine monster's head formed three. quarters of his length and his under jaws were of immense size. Shortly afterward Quintree came up, his hand on the air pipe of his helmet and his diving apparatus somewhat damaged. It appears that when he went down to his work he had scarcely got to the last rung of the ladder when he saw the sea monster lying between two huge lumps of rock. He had in his hand only his stone chisel and a hammer, and he intended to go up for a crowbar at once, but the fish was too fast for him. It came toward him through the green water with its enormous jaws wide open. Without losing a moment Quintree managed to wofind the animal in the throat with his chisel, and then held it down on a stone while he drew his knife and made a hole in its body, through which he passed a rope and thus sent the fish to the surface. Had it not ,been for his quickness and dexterity the diver, owing to the rents which the fish would make in his apparatus, would have been drowned and then devoured. As it happened, it was the boultous thet was not only defeated but eaten, for its body was divided among the victor and his comrades, who made a capital bouillabaisse of its prime parts. Death from a Bee -sting. A Hartford, Conn., despatch says : Sarah McFarland, aged 19, daughter of the over- seer of the Rockville woollen mills, of Rockville, was stung on the lip by a bumble -bee on Sunday, The poison entered the girl's syltem and the body swelled to an enormous size. Last night she died in awful ageny. A. Stony Glare. "?a' inquired Bobby, wild was reading the paper," what is stony glare' ?" "It is the expression which coined over a isasn's face at church," ekplainisi the old gentleman, " when the contribution box is held before him and he hits neglected to provide himself With 10 cents in change." CEEISTPTE AT*8.59N A 4.01.1.1g• 714e c. 41411414 OPog1)4114'8 Drida Bsc'Wqr the Tr4ehionahl/ PietrIet ef .1-0449o! (04iYe XiPg44 44 044te YerlF Nall end EsPrees4 , The home of Christine NSW?), in Itnli- singt9P,Conrt is OPS of most 412011011S b011bealleres in London. It may really be looked upon as her bridal bower," for preylonsly she occupied a house inBelgra,vis which, though very flee and expensive, was not half so charming as the beautiful nest in which the nightingale now reposes. I made on of the diva's company a.t her last reception and passed an hour or two of that unalloyed enjoyment which it is oc- casionally given us mortals to experience. The world-renowned songstress received me with engaging and hospitable warmth at the door of her drawing -room, an apart- ment crowded with artistic furniture, richly carved and gilded, embroidered draperies and an almost indescribable quantity of rare bibelots. A gilded cabinet bearing her monogram is quite filled with exquisite ancient fans, several of which are historic, having belonged to queens and princesses; a (bickering concert grand piano is partially covered with an unusually fine China crape shawl embroidered in colors, trimmed with a multi -colored fringe and looped up here and there with rare old silver clasps. Sculptured ivories, burnished enamels, an ancient ormolu clock with its face set round with costly crystals, which sparkle almost like diamonds, a marble bust of the diva standing on a bald table under the graceful foliage of a palm, and at least a score of photographs of crowned heads, whose sovereign fingers have offered these tributes, with their autographs, to Christine Nilsson, are a few of the many interesting objects upon which the charmed eye of the visitor falls. The lovely Queen Mercedes of Spain, the Em- presses of Russia and Austria, the Qaeens of Greece, Sweden and Norway, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh and many other great ladies have given their photos with auto- graphs and phrases of admiration to the celebrated singer. Right well and happy does the celebrated songtress look. to -day in her dark blue gown of satin -faced surah; made without train, high neck and withthe elbow sleeves which show to such advan- tage the white shapely arms. A touch of pink ribbon and a voluminous cascade of fine old point lace formsm admirable back- ground for the wonderful panne of sapphires and diamonds with which her ears, neck,fingers and arms are adorned. She looks handsomer now than she did a, score of years ago when Cava'nel painted that ex- quisite full length of her as Ophelia which hangs yonder. "1 was young and poor then," she says, stroking her now plump cheeks, and by the use of the word " poor " In the sense et "thin" showing how great an influence her American connection has had in forming her English speech, for in England "poor' and " lean " are not considered identical in .meaning. With a hearty admiration that has truth ringing in every syllable, Chris- tine speaks of her fondness for America. and her gratification in the knowledge that , she belongs to the Scandinavian race, a people, who, more perhaps than any other, assimilate well with our natiVe.born population; and one can quite easily believe that if she were but one of the many Swedish women who inhabit America, instead of being one of the great- est prima donnas who ever lived, she would like, even almost as much as now she does, the free air and the socially noble institu- tion of the United States. The fair Christine is now the Countess Casa de Miranda, and I was interested in the personality of her happy spouse. The Count is a slender man of middle age, of about Nilsson's own height, with dark complexion, and eyes which require a rim- less glass stuck in one of them only. Im- measurably proud, and naturally so, the good gentleman seems to be *1 his re- nowned and fascinating wife; and the pleasant little daughter, who has brought them together, flits from one parent to the other, as joyous as a bird in the sunshine. She is quite Spanish in her coloring, and though she has fine black eyes would scarcely be called a beauty. With the joy of happy motherhood and wifehood gleam- ing brightly from her sapphire eyes, Nils- son herself is a beauty; and her voice is the angel's prayer it ever was. Am I not to be envied? I who write to you, sitting on a golden divan, by Nilsson's side as she sings Schubert's Serenade, Nettie Carpen- ter accompanying her on the violin and Gans at the piano I will hear no lesser vocalizing after that exquisite dream .of melody, and so departs down the Gobehn- tapestried oak staircase, past the dining. room in claret velvet, the dining -room in Spanish leather, the quaint hall with stained glass windows, in which stand three men servants in livery, and then out into the prosaic world of spoken speech, the Queen's highways of Piccadilly, Bond street and the Strand. False Economy. To do part of to -morrow's work to -day. Living cheaply so that you can dress well. Going to law about anything that you can compromise. To ernpley a botch because he doesn't charge isinch. Sitting in the twilight doing nothing in order to save oil. Buying things you don't want just be- cause they are cheap. Marrying your daughter to an adventurer so as to have her off your hands. To take your money out of the bank and invest it in a wild -cat scheme, Taking your boy from school and allow- ing him to grow up in ignorance for the sake of two dollars a week he can earn. . • A Social Event, Chicago Lady (to caller)—Did you know that Mrs, S. has obtained her divorce ? Caller -0 yea; we received cards yeater- day. "The best art patrons in Kansas City," the veracious Chicago News credits a Kan- sas Oity artiet with saying, "pay se much, a foot for pictures. A good pleb:ire—ono with plenty of red in it and desirably located—will bring $20 per front foot ; tho average price iii $12 per front foot. Our pictures are divided into two classes—im- proved and unimproved ; the one framed and the other unframed. When a gentle- man fanbies a picture tee let him Cut Off a wimple of it (just as they do dress goods) te Itake home with him to eee if his wife likes the pattern,"