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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-2-23, Page 3Tereato lifetime MewHon, "A.little noesense now anti then, It retished by the wiseet men,' 'll'oronte Rote beat every,day Byour reseintsin, band anti bay. Our trolley cars aro a delight ,And knock theirs highr than a kite ; Our vated road's a dandw And takes us o'er the mountain handy. And the. our Bach; Oh heavens our J3eth aster beyond Torento's reach; Our city water brightly g1i3anis Anil sparkles liko Castalia'e !dreams, "T'orontoSi is at present risky No drink, not halt as gtiod's their whilkey. Vur ourlers sap their Athole Broie " ;Led cook their lugs at a' their toes, Our cricketers can play a gaine WAlaich always adds unto their fame ; leur soldiets, the first prize can win ; There's no flies nu our 'Aldermen. Where's nothing lett by thorn to chance, !rhea, motto (what is't 7) "X advance "; And in futurity they seo The mountain drive that is to be. ',Their barmen still they keep unfurled Against the Empire, Globe and World., Believing that the vapors here AX0 worth juat twice as much a year. our police force and fire brigs de ..And members of our 13eard a Trade Are:WIC. K., and will compare 'With any others anywhere. ' Bach lovely Hamiltonian maid Van:put Toronto's in the shade, And our now Governor Aberdeen tiOne of our chews, s I ween), Iseenning here to dwell in state And to Toronto sons dictate, 'Toronto should come here 10 see 'What& "Queen City " oughtto be, When every man and mother's son Would wish he lived in Hamilton. N'ebruary, 1893. 4. IL WV, Two Little Babies. Two little babies were born one night lute this world of sin and Arife, Two little babies to years after, Crawled and jump- d in happy laughter; °nein a room ta) spacious and grand, With every luxury at band; ; The other was in a squalid room, ' 'With not even sunshine, all was gloom. One little baby on soft down lay, ; The other its weary limbs stretchr bay. One little baby awoke at noon, • Boon to be fed a ith a silver spoon. The other, it had nothing at all, But lay quite still on a ragged shawl. •Onele satin and gold reclined' The other on rags, by wear not refined, • (Me litel a loving, gentle mother, "Grown " sister and merry brother. ss The poor babe's mother was often drunk, And front her the lIttle mita always shrunk, One little babe got all the love It possibly coula, born home and above. The other yeatnea for kindness too, And of slaps got many, of kis-es iew ; Neither babe knew or the heavenly love, But 'twee given to both from above. Two little babes. so different M station, Belong to one God, in Hie designation; God's alone is each little heart, Thor here on earth they're so farapart, Both may nye and hold to God's hand. And both may meet in the better land. =OW PREFERENTIAL TRADE WORKS. The British delegation at Rio de Janeiro bas reported to the Govemment on the meciprocity treaty between the United States and Brazil. -Coder the treaty certain Vatted States goods are admitted free into „Brazil and a reduction of 25 per cent. is allowed off the duty on others, while some' Be:within products are exempt from duty in the United States. This convention, it is aaid, is regarded with disfavor by a con- •ziderable portion of the agricultural and ;industrial classes in Brazil, as well as by _importers of European goods. One of the clief arguments advanced by its supporters was the immense advantage secured by the admission free into the United States of Brazilian sugar, the export of which is roughly estimated at 300,000 tons per smonsa, or balf of the total exported. But ass this exemption applies only to sugar below No. 16 Dutch standard, the conven- tion has found little favor in the eyes of anger refiners in Brazil. Tbe conclusion of nu.sgreouient between the United States and '4WD, by which sugar exported from Spanish possessions is admitted into the United States on the same terms as those conceded to Braid, must have greatly fliminialted the benefit accruing to the bitter as regards this commodity. As Brazil has almost a monopoly of the United States coffee market, the free admission of Brazilian coffee into the United States would hardly seem to compensate for the exemption and reduction accorded to United Statea products in Brazil. Were a high tariff applied to Brazilian coffee in the ;United States, the consurner would probably be the chief sufferer. Canadian codti. h pays an import duty in Brazil of 5s 31,i per tub or case while that' from the United States is only charged fin ad valorem duty of la 50. Although, the production of ordain in the United States its net suffi- ciently large to enter ;into serious competi- tion with Canadian,. fish, the business is beieg actively developed, and it is feared -that in course of tinse the effect of the dif- • elerential treatmeny will be felt by Venadian producers. The convention does not appear to have checked the importation of British hardware. Although there has been an increase in the im. portation of hardware, from the United tates, there has been a much greater in - 10 imports of English and German bardware. The same articles are now im- ported from the 'United States as before the Customs Convention, but it is now found that cutlery can be bought cheaper in Eng- land. In spite of the drawback, there is no Inducement to buy euch goods as anvils, leather belting, bolts and nuts, iron chain, ,corrugated iron, files, wrought iron tubes, barbed fencing wire, iron wire, hoes, bar iron, pickaxes, iron rivets and steel vicee alsewhere than in England. Freights from Europe generally are lower than from the United States, and United States hardware as so much dearer than English that the difference in price more than counteracts theedrawbaek in duty. A bill was intro- duced into the Chamber of Deputies to =edify the existing convention and matera ;ally lessen the advantages conceded to Waited States goods. This bill was dropped, but, according to a atatement contained in She report of the alinieter of Finance the Braziliazi Minieter Plenipotentiary at Wash- Singtese is to negotiate a revision of the :convention. Good Nature at Rome. No trait of character is more valuable in a, wife than the possession of a sweet tem- per. Family life can never be made happy without it. Let a man go home at night, • /wearied and worn out by the toils of the day, and bow soothiog is a word dictated bye, &erect disposition. It le sunshine fall, 'tog on his heart. He is happy, and the vases of life are forgotten. A sweet temper has a soothing nfluence river the minds of the whole family. When • it is forind in the wife and mother you find bindntts and love predominating over the statural feelings of a bad heart. Smilee, kind words and looks characterize the chill - Area, and peace and love have their dwell- ing there. Study, then, to acquire and re-, tain a tweet disposition. Oh, What a Dimwence ' 1 bad an idea • that that little poem I •wzote was a very musical bit of versa. Pve )0:ginned my in md though." Idtby ?'" • it heard a proofreader read IV Islertaitma—Now, heel) is. a niece of good , , \ 'Oat rspealtS for itself., Uncle jiteyebed..— \ IVelli 'that wetildn's suit Mandy. She thee \ tte doter own talking. \ "My f." eald the •thr, as he bited ... \Weide ep in the air, "yen lore solid, ' as Yes,", paid Walt* prouldly„. " these isn't tlitc* plated *boat me." LAUGH AND LEARN. rarlartr Drown,s Conclusion. Won, the first Thema. about ein Was through some boarders we bad, Tbott talk ea about ik: nrobes and such things T 11 I owe I was fairiy scared. We've lived oath° farm for thirty odd year And been rniddiln' healthy, too • We've raised eight, good, smerechildren Which's as well as mot of folks do. But last summer we took some professors. ‘nd they made my Wood run cold ; For ghosts and goblins warn't nowhere Compared to the yarns lIwy told About microbes that swim in the water, A tui ily on wings through the air, That have feet to walk about wu It And can stick to your skin and hair. They peeked over the edge of the well curb To see if the bucket was clean ; And analyzed the pertaters, To find the Faris green That I put on the tops in early spring, Afore the pertaters was grovved ; Then how they thought, it eould get inside Was more than ever I knowed. They wanted eur Tomcat kept to home, Because one of 'em'd heard a case NS here a cat brought home a disease in its fur, Though there warn% one to ketch in the place. They went up into the pasha' To see if the cows eat weeds; For if th, y did, the milk we used Would be full of colic seeds. They peeked in the sutler, and aired the barn, Though I allure took pains to keep clean, A nd sprinkled (Seamenu powders around That smelt winen any old dreen, They hunted 'em fAithful all summer, Till I kind o' pitied the thiugs ; And thought to myself th o Almighty wee wise When on some of the kinds he put wings. Well, after they'd gone away in tbe Matilda she says to me— " The best thing we can do, paleb, In to let the whole thing be. ' So we came to this conclusion. No matter what microbes might bring, A. little bit of learning Is a mighty dangerous thing. A Georgia editor refers to his readers as VFanted—a steamer that will not break her shaft at sea. Lent will be here in a few days and then the discussien of hoops will have to be laid aside. Some men are so conscientious that the never put off anything till to -morrow but the bill colleotor. In spite of modern improvements it still takes the average young man a long time to put on a pretty girl's skates. It is curious how much faster a street oar bumps along when you are running after it than when you are riding on it. Mother—Do you know why your pa called Mr. Blowhard a liar, Tommy ? Tommy— Yes'm ; he's a smaller man than pa. " I'll be awful glad when paw swears on smokire again," said Tommy. "This is the fourth %Ain' I've got in three days." "How can I become a ready conver- sationalist ? " "Persuade yourself that you have a chronic disease of Borne kind." Layman—Is ib true that all lawyers are liars? Lawyer Brown—It may be; but it does not follow thee) all liars are lawyers. "Who lives in that old house now ? " " Nobody." "Why, it is ()coupled." "Oh, yes it is occupied; but the people aren't anybody." Mamma—Harry, why don't you try and have as nice table manners as Harry Jones? Johnnie—Well, 'ORM l'm at home and he's a viaitin'. First Traveler—I once saw a diver who stayed half an hour under the water. Second Ditto—That is nothingat alt; I saw one who never came tip again. The widow Jones has entered suit against us for $2,000 for breaah of proiniee. If she gets it we'll marry her on the spot and en- large the paper.—Billville Banner. "inn getting quite heavy," remarked the coal dealer. You don't look it," _rejoined the sarcastic person. "Haven't you been weighing yourself on your own scales ?" Mother—Is your Uncle John's wife a thorough housekeeper 7" Small Son (lint back from a visit) -1 gimes so, I was Just as uncomfortable with her sal am with you. All Froze lip. We're a-freezin' an' aGneezhe an' et<ivbeezia' fit to kid, An' coal has reached the color of a. green five - dollar hill; An we'll soon be burnin' o' the bricks, in' _warrnin' by the stones; It's the toughest time we everstruck, from Bill- ville clean to Bones. 0, for one breath o' Summer across the ley hills, To warm the rheumatism an' thaw the frozen • ; Won't never say, " This weather's hot !" for brimstone would be nice 'Longside 'o this here shiverin' spell o' Georgia Snow an' ice ! Come on, 0 blazin' Summer ! See' heat your 'ovens hot— Throw bushels of red pepper in the sirmin', whizzin' pot ! For we're frees& an' essneezin' an' a wheezin' fit to kill, An' coal hasreached the color of a green five - dollar bill. —.Atlanta Constitution. His mother—Willie, you will wear the life out of me ! Why can't you be a good little boy, like Harry Glasspy? Willie - 1 arpect he's been brought up a good deal better'n I've been. Her Father—I would like to understand clearly your motive in paying so much attention to my daughter. Her Would Be —Business, sir, busmen. Not pleasure. I wish to marry her. • James A. Bailey, the circus manager, began selling apples and peanuts, then became the owner of a aide show and went on until he ill now the foremost man in his line of public amusement. • Pedestrians beootne deeply absorbed in the pavement question just now. The care- fulness with which they pick their steps and seek the bare places on the sidewalks shows an intensity of feeling that has many amusing as well as eerious feature. . "Aunt Louisa" Eldridge, well-known to the theatrical world, frankly states that second marines are no marriages at all as far as eentiment is concerned. "Second love is like acting," said she, "always tee,- ing to make an imitation emotion seem like a real one." George du Maurier',the Eoglish "aopiety" artist, 18 authority for the etaternent that) women are growieg taller, broader and gen- erally healthier. This pleasing ohange 18, of nowise, ascribed to physical culture, and Ib ie being prophesied that in time women will become the ph yokel equals of men, as they have already become their intellectual Wanted—Veneta Men. God give us men! A thno like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and teady hands; Men wham the lust ot office does not kill; 'Men whom the spoils of 011100 cannot buy; Men who pOSS888 C.Ird/Ii0i18 and a will; IVfori who love honor—men who will not lie; Men who oan etsad before a demagogue, And bravo his treacherous flatteries Without 'winking! Tall men sun -crowned, :who live above the fog In public*duty and in private thinking; For while the 'rabble, with their thumb -worn creeds, Their large the professions, and their deeds* Wts hind, and waiting Justice mi,figsl.feeeinv se strife, lo 1 Freedom woepti; rOhR rule --.1. 0. Botanist, The belling cause( by careless persons leaning their beads againat a papered wall nitay be greatly leese6d, t trot quite oblit- erated, by laying a sheet of blotting paper upon the spot and patedeg ewer it a moder- ately warm fiat -iron, A 'night disfigure- ment of this kind may eametimee be re- moved by rubbing it lightly with a eon rag A dipped at prepru ed chalk, then dusting oti the chalk. Rubbing the spot gently with the soft edge of a thick sheet of eta% wheat bread will sometimes prove efficacious in such. a 0880 ; the surface of the bread ehoulci be cub away as Soon as it becomes Dint off the crumbs lightly with a Heft cloth or brush SAVED 1110 FINGERS. After Being Off Seven Flours They Again Drew On. An interesting and ourioue case, illustrat- ing the recuperative power of nature, hes just been recorded by a surgeon. A work- man while attending a machine need for cutting blocks off tin had the tips of two of the fingers of his left hand clean cut off with the knife. Seven houra afterward the man went to the hospital for treatment. The eurgeon determined to attempt to re- place the mitering portions of the fingere, although the prospect of getting them to unite seemed to be most remote. The wounds were carefully cleansed, and the en& of the fingers were restored to their places and fixed by sutures. In a fortnight firm union was found to have occurred, and when the patient was next seen, after a considerable lapse of time, the surgeon was able to note that both motion and seneation were perfect in the endiof the fingers. -- Manchester Guardian. • Of Loudon Stations.. The roof open of St. Pancras is 240 feet, Huston was built over a graveyard, whence the bones had been removed. At the Broad street statien a petrified gitstit has been kept for oheageis for years. At Waterloo the head switchman occupies a little hut, or crow'e neat, away up in the roof. A pair of oarriage horses was the largest "lost article" ever auctioned off by a rail- road company. The largest freight station in the world, that of the Northwestern at Broad street, covers seventeen acres. ' No London station is particularly beauti ful. Many are run in connection with mammoth hotels, which mask their fronts. St. Pancras freight station has twenty- two small private stations or compartments, eaoh of which is rented, comp ete, to a business firm. At the Waterloo a train once came in whose engineer and fireman were both asleep, ,standing at their poets. The train went throughout the wall and ploughed up the street. Paderewshra Invitation. The ;time of Padereweki, the famous pianist, seems to hang heavily on his hands. Be spends many idle hours'for instance, playing pool at the WindsorHotel, says the New York Press. A raillionaire society man, whoirequently met the pianist there, invited him to an afternoon tea, which the Wealthy man's wife was to give next day. The pianist rather coldly referred his in- tended host to hie agent at Ch%kering Hall. When the agent was seen the first question asked was : "I suppose Mrs. V. will ex- pect Paderewski to glay ?" "I suppose so." "Then Id. Paderewski will accept your invitation as an engagement ?" " Oh, very well, if you prefer to put it that way," returned the millionaire. "What are the terms 7" " Three thousand dollars for one piece, and M. Paderewski will coneent to a single encore ?" The terms were not accepted. It appears that M. Paderewski is really making so much money that he does not abate his terms one iota, even when tea and New Yorkai most exclusive eociety are thrown in. More Truthful Than Polite. "Here is an invitation from Dirs. 13., for a children's party, Dolly," said a mother, banding her little girl a note. "See how nicely you can answer it yourself without My help." The child went off and in a few moments returned with the following: "Miss Dolly A. cannot accept airs. Be. kind invitation, as she has something else to do that she likes much better.", "Now, how can I teach that child con- ventional lies ?" said the parent, laughingly, as she handed the produotion to a visitor. "Iaihould not call it conventionality, but consideration for the feelings of others. It is not necessary to be brusque to be truth- ful," rejoined the friend. "There is a great deal said about society's white lies, but lam quite sure that children are too genuinely honest nob to detect the difference between the false and the true, and there is no danger of a child's becoming untruthful by using the fornallas current in society. ---Nem York Tribune. • India Rubber Roads. New ideas in paving have lately attracted attention, says Sifting& Among these is the paving of a bridge by a German engineer with India rubber, the result having been so satisfactory as to induce its application on a much larger scale, a point in its favor being that it is much more durable than asphalt and not slippery. In London a section of roadway underthe gate leading to the departure platform of the St. Panoraa terminue has for some time past been paved with this material, with the effect of deadening the sound made when being passed over on wheels, besides the comfortable elasticity afforded to foot passengers. Another material which is being satisfac- torily introduoed for this purpose is com- posed of granulated cork and bitumen pressed into blocks, and which are laid like bricks or wood paving, the special advan- tage secured in this case being that of elasticity. I History of Hie Fuchsia. It is said that the first fuchsia was intro- duced into England by a sailor from Chili in 1746. A plant from this wad sold to an English nurseryman for over $400. Between, 1830 and 1840 hybrids became rather coin - mole The Modern race of fuchsias dates from the ifitroduction of fuchsia fulgens. The White eoralia varieties appeared in 1855. The raiser of them, dying about the sime that they were produced, left no knowledge as to how he obtained them. There are a large number of speoies in South America, many of them in many respeota far more beautiful than the hybrid varieties, hut not having been pushed by floristir, they have, int great measure, gone oat of cultivation. "You wish me to be your wife 7 Why, Ivo known you only 15 minutes!" "That is true, madame; but I wiahed to give one lady the opportunity of Eirayieg with truth : ' Thie13 tto sudden !' " When a than begins by saying, " Of coarse it is none Of. my hutuneett, bet—a" it inn Hem that he . is going to make it hits business, and adviee you what to do. The &eosin of ten goats and the week (if tie:Oral men for half.a year are required to make a genuine catihniere shawl a yard and a half Wide. ' TRE GAY CITY, Week's Moving Events in the Metropolis of Pleasure. About "Massenet," the Cornlimer-Parieitt giberian Frost—Horrible SuiPrings el the Poor — :museums and Galleries Crowded by Chilled liumanityfieehinS Warmth—An 11.yearqfftl Giri has a Daily Confolmlidien with the 'Virgin HarY—Any Excuse Tor a Dinner—" The Waistcoat Feast. Pants, January. mE trange thing h el 6- tory of the present ;rises. Throughout all he Panama scandals e are utterlywithout any traceoi a woman'e agency. Are women ss '' no longer factors in • politics in France, or are lady politicians only to be found in the Quartier Sb. German, or in the ranks of the Petroleuees ? The absence of the woman is the more remarkable because, when there ie money flying about in France, the woman is always the man of business. It will cer- tainly be a deplorable thing for the Repub- lic if the ladies desert it. The " Brav General" got all the funds for his agitation out of the ladies, and poor M. Flannel) had to fly to the Panama till. In the meantime the only personages who !mem quite unconcerned about the crimes they are alleged to have committed are the men who have debauched the political virtue of Republican France. M. Charles de Lumps appears to think that the Deputies who supported his scheme were legitimately entitled to their _pot de yin as a perquisite, and his accomplices, MM. Cuttu Eiffel and othere, evidently believe that they have been made the scapegoats, and flung like so many Jonehe to the hungry crowd of purists. In fact, the only interest that attaches now to the trial of the Panama directors is as to the greater or less extent to which they have assisted needy Deputies, impecunious Ministers and the sacred cause of the Republic. • CIVILITIES OP THE CZAR. M. de Lampe little thought when 'he conceived the plan of the Panama Canal that he was laying the foundation for a rapprochementbetween Germany, the enemy, and Russia, the much advertised ally of France. Yet is safe to say that the Pan- ama exposure at Paris has had something to do with the Czar's civility in sending his brother to the marriage of his niece to a Roumanian Hohenzollern and iu allowing the Czarowitz to visit the German Em- peror on the oocasion of the Princess Mar- garet's wedding. THE COMIC SKETCHIS'T AT WORN. Among the many jevx d'esprit called forth by the Panama business, there bad been nothing more amusing or more piquant • than some comic sketches by Caren d'Asche, the leading caricaturist of the day,which all Paris has been laughing over. The in- comparably clever draughtsman has never been in . better vein and his exceedingly clever skits in the form of cheques would move even a Panama shareholder to mirth. These are, of course supposed to be the fantous cheques with Which the bribing Wag done by the ubiquitous Hebrew financier, " l'Homme Protee," as Caren d'Asche calla him. There is La Cheque obsession—a man pursued by a demon cheque which growns :larger every time it is seen. The Teutonic gentleman with Ieraelitish features who seeks to bribe the virtuous legislator is eternally turning up under some new die - guise, his tempting bit of paper in his hand. At last when the cheque reaches $60,000 it is forced upon him by P Homme- Protee disguised as a nurse seated on a bench in the Pero Monceau. After some illustrations of the art of giving and receiv- ing cheques, Caren d'Asche winds up with a humourous conjugation of the verb toucher —the receiving of the cheques. PARIS ICE•1101IND AND SNOW -BOUND. Paris is becoming very much like St. Peters- burg. The Russian alliance may perhaps be blamed for this with better reaeon than Panama,. It is curious, however, that so warm a rapprochement in one gentle should have brought such frostiness Ine another. If the weather goes on as it is going we shall soon be ice -bound and snow -bound. The navigation on the Seine is completely stopped, and the ice -floss which now very nearly cover the surface may at any hour form a compact mass from bank to bank. No more wood and charcoal can reach the city by water—the cheapest mode of transit; cones quently the charbonniers have an excel- lent pretext for further extortion. TERRIBLE SUFNERINOS OP THE POOR. The condition of the poor—especially the poor who have too much self•reepect to beg or to apply to the bureau cle bienfaisance—ie simply terrible. The price of coal is be- tween ten and fifteen dollars a ton. It, is at this rate that small charbonniers sell it. Wood is still dearer ; in fact it is never burned nowadays by the struggling classes in Paris. No wonder that the akimbo) and museums are ao crowded at the present bine. It is Dot because people are growing more pious, or that the cold weather has aused them to take an unusual interest in works of art, that they throng the galleries f the Louvre and the aisles of churches. It s because they cannot ggt warm anywhere lse. The mute suffering that one is com- elled to obeerve on every side is most de - reining. What with frozen rivers and eep snow the appearance of France is now uite Siberia. MASSENET, THE musiora.w. Massenet, whose " Werther" has just been brought out at the Opera Cornique, Was once asked the ssaret of his prolific production. "Oh, it is not diffieult to guess," was his reply; "1 work while you are asleep." Be is of the same opinion as Emile de Girardin, who said that Paris belonged to those who rose early. Add to this a powerful will, and nebody will be ,surprised that he ie able to cornpoe0 an opera almost every year. For the vast thirty years he has rieen every morning, winter and summer, at 5 o'clock, and re- mained in his study till noon, when he breakfasted. These are the most fruitful hours (inns labor, during which hie deer is rigoronely clotted to all visitors, great as well as small, He is one of Sardon's neigh - bore. Has apartmente in the Rue de General Foy is a veritable museum. Like Sardou, he hue a passion for curiosities. But it is not here that he receives most of hie vieitore. They prefer to see him chez M. Haattnann, the publisher, in the Rue Vivienne, where they are more at liberty to talk over the musical events of the day. When he, is nob engaged in attending re - heaved& be passett the afternoon there, receiving a dontienotte flew of young artiets Who Some to beak his advice. In hie cabinet in the Rue Vivienne, nacre is net n %deg% bibelot and the furniture is Of the simplest kind—a piano, a pile of music end a few chairs, and a profusion Of portraits of auceteeful pupile, bearing such si APPLICATIONS THOROUGHLY REMOVES • DANDRUFF D. L. CAVAN. 'rmenise Mamma Amt, e sleei anetcananatis eeeremOieleever sr man, cleurt.-10, ardor' IP thdpIP1104(3-1nir SOO o 41)1diratoas Dot eala nen* re sa GUARANTEED ligialltha!ll'TA341,414woi24 rAlgi v d dr rrlar La Restores Fading hair to original colon Stops falling of halt, Keeps the Scalp clean. S' filakee hair soft and Pliable Promotes Growth. ' inscriptions' ati " Eternal gratitude," " It ts to you I owe my "To my dear muter," OIO. HAS A notroi TIME os r. Running away from home, he arrived at Lyons in a state of destitution. In paesence of euela a t esolution his parents consented to a lest trial and young Maseenot entered the claim of Bazin, who treated hie composi- tions as revelutiouary, and caused him to leave the c1asi3. He the entered the class of Reber and subsequently that of Ambroise Thomas, where in 1863 he won the grand prize of the institute, with his cantata of David Rizzio." Be next went on a tour- ing, visiting the Tyrol, Austria Hungary and other minutest) and finally after passing the neociesary stage at the Villa Medioie he returned to Paris. His first work for the theatre was his " Grand -Tante "a one -act coznie opera interpreted at the Opera Coml. q e by Mdme. Helibrorin and M. Capon] He followed up this with his " Mari Madeleine," a sacred opera. in four parte 'Thereon is the following story told': rAsismour CRITICIZES MARIE MADELEINE. One morning," says the publisher, " Maesenet and myself rang the bell of the apartment which M. Pasdeloup.oecupied on the Boulevard Bonne-Nouville, in the house of a baker and a tobacconist.. Paedeloup received us with that mixture bf roughness and good nature to which he was accus- tomed, and said, 'Just one moment to get rid of a pupil and I will be with you.' The pupil disposed of, Massenet began the intro- duction after having explained to him the object of bie visit. which was to listen to "Marie Madeleine." "Very good," he replied, "bub don't lose any time and play me it at once on the piano." At this moment a gust of wind shook the doors, smoke filled the room, and Pasdeloup opened the windows. Massenet continued to play, but at every moment Pasdeionp opened and shut the windows. Massenet paid no heed and went on. Paedeloup kept his mouth shut and attended only to the smoke which had filled his apartment. "TUB MASTER" EARNS HIS DINNER. At length Massenet played his last note, arranged his music and got up from the piano with hie eyes fixed on a portrait of Gluck hanging on the wall. Pat3deloup continuet silent. Suddenly he jumped up and, slapping Massenet on the shoulder, exclaimed : " Well my young fellow you must be hungry and haste well earned your dinner," and he led up to the door. Massenet went out and I remained with Pasdeloup to ask him what he thought of the work. " It is sitnply absurd," Walt his answer, " Madeleine sings—I hear the steps cf Chriat," and yet nobody hears them. It is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous ; "and he flew into such a rage that he nearly pushed me down- stairs. I found Massenet weeping in the street like a Madeleine. The opera was played at the Odeon, Mdme. Pauline Viardot filling the title role." •k ALL THE WOMEN MOVE HIM. '‚Werther " was composed in 1885. Massenet had just completed his "Old," and it was in the course of a tour in Ger- many that he conceived the idea, of writing O lyrical drama on Goethe's work. This task was accomplished in less than two years. It was at first intended for the Porte St. Martin, then for the Odeon, and finally tired of waiting, the composer took it to Vienna, where it was produced in February last. Massenet is a great favorite of the ladiea, who are constantly writing to him expressing their admiration of hi operas, and to ask him for his portrait o hie autograph. When he is in a good humor he grante their demands. What exa,sperates hire, however, are the applications for tickets which, on the eve of a new work, pour in from morning till night. All these he throws' into the waste paper baeket without mercy. • Although nervous and • shorb-tempered during the reheareale, he is always on the most courteous terms with hie interpreters, and if a word more or leas harsh escapee his lime he knows how to make it up by a kindly word, full of grace. " We cannot fall out with him," said one of the artists of the Opera Comiqtte, "for the rebuke is always succeeded by the coma plitnent." A DAILY CHAT WITH THE VIRGIN MARY. At Sakes, near Perpignan, there is a shepherd's daughter, 11 yeare of age, named Virginie Fabre, who pretends to hold daily conversations with the Virgin Mary. Every day she goes up on to a little hill near the village of Salm, followed by crowds of people from the vicinity and even from places a long way off Arriving there she kneels down, and goes into a sort of ecstatic trance, which lasts about an hour, and during that time the people round her join fervently in prayer. The girl afterwards gets up and says that the Virgin Mary has promieed that she will perform a great day when a chapel ehall have been ere ' on the hill. CARTEK8 ITTLE IVER PILLS. URE Sick Headep 0 and rel eve ail the ton* eaDdeizotnitngntoessoakbina,useainustise.tasillettrogow,fasithe• op.e remarkable suceess has been s train 1CK • tpey also c0nk0,t alt tar el late the r Even if they oily eu HIIMBEG THE =sum This has been going on for some little time and a great deal of money has already been received for the building. The Bishop of Perpignan, however, looks coldly upon the project, having evidently no belief in Virginia pretended pretended visions. Ile has issued O charge, couched in cautious terms, in which he seems to hint not obscurely at fraud. The events which , have' 'taken place, he declares have tone of the characteristics of supetnatural interval - tions ; on the contrary, there,are several indications that "they are due to action of a different kind, of which it is unnecessary to designate the nature and the ceases," REVIVAL OP THE "WAISTCOAT DINNERS." Oee or two members of the Jockey Club are pluming therneelves in expectation of a peculiar banquet to which they have been invited for the 25th inst. This periodical dinner, by name "diner des Gilets," was founded by Dyinna, an Ranee at the Menus Plaisire, who stipulated that every guest of • the masculine persuasion ahoulcl appear at the repast wearing a waletcoat of extreme originality. The Prince of Wales once par - teak of one of these dinner, which after having been given up for some time. are re- ' viving much to the or of the epicurean exquisite." Nobody knows what has be- come of the charming foundress. Midgley-,-Did the •atolliteet carry out your Iasi) plane? Parton—i suppose he Inuat have, for I don't 100 anything of them about the bent°, 11 it.lstrnothals eVerY bete has 111. Chance cotne biite itd his lifetime to tai truly greats it intuit cense tsti ,Most teen in their HEAD Ache they wouldel 8 who stiffer Wen • d gco t(11 f?" pbbuffets::li:ttitun nienp7tbs; here, and t H1)7 t at so rases- ware But after all sick he to do wAliout Is the bane of so many lives that hew is w e we make our great boast. Our oath it while others do not. CARTER'S LITEr.a ',awn POLS fl$4 v and very war to talte, Que or two a dose. They are not gripe or purge, but by Ea le please all who use them, la vInlo at ga five for $1. Fold everywhere, or sent by CAS= LiKSIEVE CO., rew Tcrit, 1111. bill Due, hall Pk ..mososo LADY WINDERHEHE'S:FAN. Some of Oscar WI1de,48r1ght Swing. Lad Sunday's„,New York Sunday Herald bas a complimentary sketch of Oscar Wilde's new play, with portrait of Miss Julia Arthur, of this city. The Herald • says of her: "The important part of Lady Windermere was taken by bliss Julia Arthur, who is not quite ;strong enough for It, but played prettily and in some scenes with an approach to genuine pathos." Looking through "Lady 17Vindermeres Fan " here, says the Herald, are the best of the remarks that Mr. Wilde puts into the mouths of his characters: Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. Men become old, but they never become good. As soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. Goa people do a great deal of berm in this world. They make badness of suah importance. So many people pretend to be good tint it is sweet and modest to pretend to be bad. Women like to find us irretrievably bad and leave us hopelessly good. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. All men are monsters. The only thing to do is to feed the brutes well. Many a woman has a past. This woman has at least a dozen. • Relatives are a nuisance, but they make us very respectable. I prefer womenswith a past. They have so much to talk about. Whenever people agree with me I feel I must be wrong. I oan resist everything—except to mp a tion There is nothing in the world like the de- votion of a married woman. It is a thing that no married man knows anybking about.: There are only two tragedies in life—not getting whatyou want and getting it. The last is the worst. London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them, they look so thoroughly unhappy. He thinks like a Tory and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays. She looks like an edition de luxe of a wicked French novel. I am the only person in the world 1 shou ld like to know thoroughly. Nature's gentleman—the worst type of gentleman. My own bueiness always bores me to death. I prefer other people's. Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That's the only difference between them. Scandal is gossip made 'tedious by mor- ality. A woman who moralizes is invariably A sentimentalist is a ;nen who gives an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing. Experience is the name a man usually gives to his mistakes At the Zoo. Mortimer—Isn't that; elephant too mail for his akin? 1 Mamma—I don't know. Why do you so?think Mortimer—Why, because his skin bags at the knees, "Why was the match spoiled ?" "The old man threw cold water on it. That would spoil any match." Friend of mamma (to little girl)—Lottie, if you drink eo much tea, you will be an old maid. Lottie—Oh, I don't belieVe that at all, Mr, Harold, Mamma drinks tea, and she has been married twice, lidie sise isn't an old maid yet. There are too many singers in the choir who do not know any more about the gospel they sing than the town pump does about the taste of water. "Take a little water after that medi- cina,» said the r)bysiciart to the Kentneky Colonel whom lie was attending at one of the hotels. " .Ah—ah 1" said the Colonel, "do I have to take the water 2" Powell--I3ut for your birth yoti would be my equal. Howell—Yea; if 1 had never been born I suppose I should be a notentity, too. A paper pipe hes been iavented by a native of St. Helene, She—Am 2 older than you thiek 1 ani or younger? He— Well yea look eider then I think you are, but you tire older than yoi look. "That was a shin game you plaVed Waggles Cemented to his wife When sho beat him at oheckera and won a 000 cape,