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OUerpGid Singers.
TLondon World

As it is, the opera brings no money.
Long ago pointed out that Italian opera,
being no more supported by Italian COM
positions nor Italian singers with rare ex-
oeptions) is only just opera in Italian.
Equally often have I stated that do not
believe in the abundant profits of the
Covent garden monopoly, essayed to be
established by the closing of Her Majesty'S
theater. Now, whether in the combin-
alton or not, Her Majesty's
was practically closed last
season, so that Covent garden had the mo-
nopoly of Italian opera. How much did
their profits amount to? Was it Is per
cent. as promised? Was it 10? Was it l
per cent? Was it not loss, and consid-
cradle one? What now is done by puffs
and advertisements instead of the bona
fde value of the artists we all know. What
has not, for instance, been put in move
ment to drive up certain singers value.
so as to reach the prices of Nine. Patti?
A singer, like every marketable article,
is worth what he fetches. If a sing
Ser like Nine. Patti. barely announced. fills
Covent garden-if, through her instru-
mentality alone, e400 crowd into the
n0uSe-Sne Is cheap aI scZOO. II singer,
say Nine. Albani-I do not here discuss
her artistic value, and how far she may be
or not be great singer; I only speak of
her financial value-asks to be paid e10O
per concert, and her name does
not draw that sum, she is evidently over
paid. 1t so happened that for four
Brighton concerts she was paid e400.
The balance sheet showed a loss
of $500. At st. James hall
she was paid $50 guineas one orator.
night; the benefit of the concert was
brilliant by its absence At very recent
occasion she was paid 40 guineas at the
same hall; never were the expenses made.
Is that not proof that she is paid too
much, that her value is overrated, and that
concerts must become impossible in the
same ratio as the prices of singers go be-
yond reasonable bounds? The profession
Is thereby playing into the hands of anna
teurs and helping their own ruin. there
fore say, be careful; do not ask too much;
you'll eat the goose with the golden eggs.
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ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Buffalo Bill is seriously i'll with pneu-
monia at Newburgh, NY.
The governor general of Canada return
ed yesterday and was cordially welcomed.
The Rockaway Beach, L. l., big hotel
sold yesterday for $4,000. It cost $780,
600.
The Quebec carnival closed last night
with torch light procession by the Snow
Shoe clubs.
Edward P. Roe, author, and James R.
Roe, hotel keeper, of Newburgh, N. Y,
have assigned with liabilities of $4,000
The right to give sparring exhibitions
will be tested in the case of Mace and
Slade by writ certiorari in the New York
courts.
Kate Claxton was taken home seriously
i'll at the close of the performance at the
Park theater, Brooklyn.
Subscriptions for the relief CT the suf-
ferers by the floods in Germany aggregate
$4,000
The coinage during January at the
Philadelphia mint was $2,294,OOO.
Toledo has raised $4,000 for the
relief of the sufferers by the German
floods. 10000 marks will be cabled to.
day.
Special teachers and colored schools in
New York will be abolished and salaries
reduced to bring the expenses of the board
of education within the appropriation.
The Grand Trunk railway of Canada is
refusing freight from the Canada Pacific,
owing to the blockade.
Congressman Cox, of the Fourth district
of North Carolina, and Fanny Augusta,
daughter of Bishop Lyman, were married
yesterday at Raleigh, N. G.
The rubber works of s. Candee & Co., at
New Haven, Conn, will close on the 10th
owing to the high price of the raw ma
terial, throwing $50 persons out of employ
ment.
The fire in the Bear valley shaft at Sham
okin, Pa, is extending.
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CHRISTINE NILSSON.

Will She Mqhe Her Home in Anserica?
A Cincinnati Enquirer interviewer said
to Nine. Christine Nilsson:
''It has been stated in the papers that
you thought of making this country your
future home. Ia this true?"
"Yes,I have seriously contemplated max
ing America my home, and may do so. I
have NO ties to bind me to Europe; but 1
despise the ocean. never think of it or
a ship that 1 do not get deathly sick. If
I come to America to live no money can
get me to cross the ocean again. I have
every evidence of friendship from Ameri-
cans and my own people, the Swedes, and
think should be very happy here"
'Have you no family-nothing to take
your heart back to Europe, Nine Nils
SOM"
'No; have really nothing to bind mo to
the other side. I, as you know, come from
peasant family. 1 am proud of it. Ny
father and mother, who were Swedish peas
ants, are both dead. I am the youngest of
family of seven children. Seven years
elapsed between the birth of the child
older than myself and I. When was born
after the lapse of seven years, the good
peasants all around my fathers humble
home said, THAT girl will do some
thing remarkable or BAD Has the
prediction come true? Well, my brothers
and sisters are still alive. They are yet
peasants, fond of their free life,
and will meyer change. 1 can under
stand them, but with the change that has
taken place in me by education, unsteady
and otherwise, and by my association in
the world they cannot understand me. My
old home, the cottage in which was born,
1 revere and love. 1 have purchased it and
placed a wall of stone around the old
grounds and the dear old home that I can
now see as it was to me when was poor
little peasant girl. Not single or
board shall be disturbed except by the soft
touches of time. It is my monument to
my dear father and mother. They were
poor, bat they loved me and their children,
and think and speak of them even now
with tears in my eyes and heart. AS to
America, 1 think New York is the most de-
lightful city in the world, and would be
very happy if could live there"
In answer to the question as to how she
came to study music, Nine. Nilsson said:
"When 1 was little girl, eight years
old, L was passionately fond of music.
Father and mother needed my services to
help the family, but I found an old violin
and got possession of it, and before I
knew note of music was playing from
ear familiar tunes on this violin. 1 soon
commenced to sing and play my accom-
paniments on the violin, and wandered
away from home for a day at a time to
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STATE LEGISLATURES.
MichiOG1E.

DETROIT, Jan. 31.-First ballot in joint
convention of legislature to-day-Ferry,
40; Stout, 40; Burrows, II; Palmer, 4;
Willetts, 5; Lacey, >.
Second Ballot-Ferry, 48; Stout, IS;
others the same as first ballot.
Charges of a very circumstantial charac-
ter having been made in one or
more newspapers that the friends of Sen
ator Ferry and the managers of his can
vass at Lansing had approached various
members of the Republican opposition
with offers of postoffice clerkships, the
control of federal patronage and even
foreign appointments as brides to induce
them to vote for Ferry in the pending con-
test, the lower house of the Legislature
adopted a resolution this morning calling
for an investigation. Some important
developments are promised.
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ents' ball in aid of a German schul verein.
lU1UNDI Jan. 31.-Cetawayo has been
reinstated as king of Zululand. About
5000 Zulus we're present at the ceremony.
Many chiefs expressed great dissatisfac-
ton at the condition in which he was re-
stored.
BErL1N, Jan. 31-The Prussian govern
ment estimates the cost of the proposed
extension of state railroads at 76,125,2 200
marks.
Twenty five hundred Danes in North
Schleswig manifest no inclination to meet
Danish representations against the expul-
sion of men declining to enroll in the
Prussian army.
BERLIN, Jan. 31,-German codification
is advised of the New York and Antwerp
rules to prevent collisions at sea.
BERLIN, Jan. 31.-The reichstag is dis
cussing the proposition of the conserva-
tives demanding for trade guilds the ex-
elusive right of apprenticeship.
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FRANCE.

PARIS, Jan. 31.-Report is current that
the Orleans princes have drawn up man
ifesto in which they protest against the
charges made against them and declare
their readiness to sacrifice their personal
interests for France. 1t is stated that
should the necessity arise they will publish
the manifesto and at the same moment
quit the country.
PARIS, Jan. 31.-The report that the
French ambassador at Vienna has resigned
is denied.
A yellow-book on the Madagascar
question is published. A dispatch from
Duclerc, the then president of the council,
minister of foreign affairs to Lord Lyons,
British ambassador at Paris, dated Jan.
q. says the Madagascar ENJOYS have been
made sufficiently acquainted with the
legitimate character of the French claims
and extent of the concessions which France
could agree to that they cannot
have entertained any illusion in regard to
the consequences of their attitude.
Under these circumstances, while
fully sharing the feeling which
prompted the overtures of Lord Granville,
the 2ONCEuUuSub QOOS AOb OO1AONO any uoC-
full purpose can be served by communicate
ing fresh statements of its views to the en-
voys through the British government.
Ferry visited Fallieres, president of the
council, to-day, and afterwards had long
conference with President Greyy. The i'll
ness of Fallieres is likely to cause the
breaking up of the cabinet.
PARIS, Jan. 31.-Prince Napoleon's cor
respondence, found in two trunks by the
police, contained nothing of polite cal i'm
portance and was returned to him.
PARIS, Jan Glowing to the sickness of
Fallieres, Deves conducts the debate on
Fabre's proposal to prescribe pretenders.
General Campenon has declined the
ministry of war.
The preliminary investigation of prince
Jerome's case is concluded. No decision
is announced. The printers of the mani
festo were fined 400 francs.
PARIS, Jan. 31.-Thebandin has been ap-
pointed minister of war.
Gen. Motterouge is dead.
Favre's resolutions is expected to pass
by great majority. The effect the
cashiering of the Orleans princes is likely
to have on the army is subject of anxious
speculation.
MARsE1ILEs, Jan. 31.-The anarchists
are arranging a great meeting
to denounce the Lyons Tribunal.
PARIS, Jan. 31.-The Marquis De Rays
and six subordinates have been committed
for trial for breach of trust, fraud and
manslaughter in connection with the at
tempted colonization of New Iberia.
LIMOGES, Jan. 31.-Thirty five hundred
porcelain mallers are on strike. A COM
mittee wasformed under the auspices of
the anarchists to provide relief. Eng
lish tradesunionists sent 1000 francs.
PARIS, Jan. 31.-Prince Jerome in an
autograph letter thanked the ex-empress
for her visit. She replied, stating that in
future she would have nothing to do with
politics and invited the prince to visit her
when he regained his freedom.
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RUSSIA.

BERLIN, 31.-DeGiers, on reassuming
direction of the Russian foreign Office, is
sued circular to Russian representatives
abroad explaining that the result of his
personal exchange of opinion with the
German, Austrian and Italian foreign min
listers pas satisfactory and tends to the
preservation of peace.
ODESSA, Jan. 31.-A famine prevails in
the government of Kherson. Several per-
sons committed suicide at Witnessing the
misery of their starving families.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 31.-The car re-
ceived DeGiers to-day. Subsequently a
long dispatch was sent to London regard
ing the Danubian conference.
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by Henry Buehren, practical builder, and

by Henry Buehren, practical builder, and
E. Townsend Mix, architect.
G. D. Nash, president of the Newhall
association, then occupied the stand the
rest of the day. He had cotton or linen
duck hose on every floor, and sufficient to
deluge every room in the hotel; had 200
pals in various places constantly filled
with water. He had connected the hotel
with the adjoining bank building by two
bridges, and abolished the dark room over
the boiler as dangerous. Witness denied
Frackelton's statement in regard to the
bridge to the roof of the latter's building.
Frackelton had refused to consent to an
iron, as well as wooden, bridge. Witness
said he never applied to local agents for
insurance, but was often solicited. he got
insurance for IL per cent. in the Globe, OF
Cincinnati. Witness gave it as his opln-
ion that the fire was incendiary, and LETT
room for the inference that Scheller was
the party. He first refused to give lntor-
nation on the latter point, but being
pressed said: swell, sir, 1 have no conf
dence in 8 drunkard, gambler, man who
goes home at I o'clock in the morning and
cannot give satisfactory account of him
SELF The inquest will close to-day.
FIREWORKS FACTORY EXPLODED.
MArAa1oRAs, Mex, Jan. 31.-At the fire
works factory of Senior Meyra, in Ameca-
mesa, yesterday, a terrific explosion &C.
Cured, followed by flying rockets and
bombs. Meyra and four other members
of his family were burned to death and
others badly injured.
GAS THAT ExPLoDEs.
DAYTON, O., Jan. 31.-By an explosion of
cas- in the new Firemen's Insurance build
ing to-day about 500 damage was done
the building and Harry Murk was badly
burned while lighting a gas jet which had
been leaking all night. The gas was con
fined to a vault in the office; otherwise the
damage would have been greater.
ANOTHER CANUCK GONE WRONG.
MONTREAL. Jan. 31.-Richard Thomas
managing director of the Canada Manu-
featuring company has absconded, after
selling his shares in the company without
the knowledge of his copartners and con-
trary to contract. 1t is said some of the
notes cannot be paid at maturity and
will be cove red by the managers shares.
ANEBRAsKA BLAZE.
OMAHA.Neb., Jan. 31-A fire at Juniata
this morning destroyed five business
houses. Total damages $4,000.
4 TERRIBLE DUEL.
DENVER, Jan. 31.-At noon to-day Sheriff
Simpson brought to town Mongler as 6
prisoner, who is one of the parties that
took part in the terrible duel near this
place last night. He and another person
had been paying attention to the same
girl. In order to settle their claims they
locked themselves in a room and went at
each other with axes. The one brought in
chopped his rival in terrible manner,
severing his head from the body, while he
himself is terribly cut up, and cannot live
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"The Ceanest Place IN the World"
George H. Boughton in Harper's Magazine TO
February

"Ihe Clednest Place IN the World"
George H. Boughton in Harper's Magazine for
February.l
We were to drive past Brock, we'll
known show place. The Dutch themselves
smile verv broadly at the curiously exag-
gerated notoriety of this one quaint, clean
little village over all others in the country.
Years ago, it seems, some great authority
happened upon Brock. Perhaps he had
not ventured far afeld in Holland, and was
much struck by its rather obtrusive show
of tidiness, and he at once proclaimed that
it was the cleanest place in the world,
and worth going miles to see. He
had ventured into one of the cottages, and,
falling in love with some rare bit of old
and white china, had bought it for the
usual ''song," which fact he also recounted.
Ever since his time adventurous followers
have also gone to Brock, and have been
astonished at its elaborate display of
scrubbing and polishing. They have like
wise bought old china, although the ''song'
kept getting into higher key as time
went on. The dear old lady has been
obliged to restock her cottage over and over
again with her dear grandparents tea
pots and punch-bowls. She has made her
little fortune, and every day blesses her
discoverer. The present dear old lady is
probably not the original dear, but a
grandchild. She is no great fraud, how
ever, being fearfully and wonderfully neat,
and the china is scarcely dearer than one
may now and then find it in London or
New York. The mourning couch was left
outside the village. do not know what
would have happened to US if we had
trundled that impressive but dusty old
rattle-trap over the immaculate brick pave
ments of Brock. The few people about
who looked at US at all looked first at our
feet to see if we had brought any
contamination thereon. The place seemed
gone to sleep, but not in a healthy way. 1t
had INDUCED in most thorough scrub,
and then taken dose of some strong mar
cotic. There were few signs of business or
occ 1pation. The inhabitants are mostly
retired traders from the neighboring cities
who have come here to take their sLust in
Rust" There are several billiard rooms.
The most retired of merchants must do
something to kill time ere it finally kills
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them. Brock is well worth stopping
to see if one happens to be
passing by, but it is scarcely worth
going on purpose to see. Many
and many Dutch village we saw quite as
spruce and clean. However Brock has a
certain prestige, and if the traveller should
return without seeing it he is safe to meet
with scores of frsends who will tell him
that he missed the one place of all others
that he should have gone to-"that clean
little town where one picks up bargains IN
china Brock, Brook, Brock, or whatever it
is called" Perhaps, after all, the traveller
had better, for his peace of mind, go and
have done with it.
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California Sues the Central Pacific.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31.-Attorney Gen
eral Marshal has commenced action
against the Central Pacific Railroad com
pany to recover 100000, with interest
and cost, on the ground that the road has
refused to carry public messengers, luna
tics, prisoners, ETC., free of charge, in &C
cordance with the terms by which the state
granted aid to the company by guarantee
ing the interest on bonds, in conformity
with the act of the legislature of 1864.
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TORONTO. Jan 31.-A special cable to the
Globe says the bondholders of the st. Law
renee & Ottawa Railway company held a
meeting to-day at which the report of the
committee appointed to consider the offer
OF the Canadian Pacific syndicate was re-
ceived and discussed. A recommendation
to refuse the offer was unanimously adopt
ed by the meeting.
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No More Subsidies,

OTTAWA, Jan. 31.-The Dominion min
istry intimated that although the Souris 81
Rocky Mountain railroad charter may be
reviewed, no further land subsidies will be
granted to railroads in the Northwest. 1t
is rumored that the departments of rail-
ways and canals and public works will be
united and new department of Indian
affairs created at the coming session of
the Dominion parliament.
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RAILROAD NOTES.

StiIlman E. Dana has been appointed
general baggage agent of the st. Paul q
Manitoba road
W. c. HoIlister, paymaster of the North
ern Pacific, has returned. He left here on
the 18th of January and went out as far as
Livingston. He had no trouble except on
the Fergus Falls & Black Hills branch, and
at Anoka.
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TOPEKA, Jan. 31.-The house passed a
resolution to-day declaring it the sense of
the house that law should be passed by
congress to regulate railroad traffic be-
tween the states and to prevent extortion
and unjust discrimination in the transpor-
tation of freight and passengers.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

VIENNA, Jan. 3l.-Most members of the
chamber of deputies belonging to the Ger
many opposition abstained in marked
manner from attending the court ball held
last night. They attended instead stud
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The Ju,,ionapoEis e ST. Lo,tis.

ROCHESTER, Jan. 31.-The Democrat and
Chronicle states to-day that Vanderbilt has
secured control of the Indianapolis & ST..
Louis for western connections with the
Cleveland, Cincinnati & Indianapolis,
Terre Haute and Nickel Plate routes, in
stead of the Vandalia.
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NebpNSh,H.

LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 31.-Gen. Charles F.
Henderson, of Omaha, was elected United
States senator to-day on the seventeenth
ballot. The vote for Henderson was 10;
Sickle, 20; Boyd, II; Morton, IA; Brown,
5; Conner, l; Nettleton, 1.
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AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. 31.-The Legislature
today passed bill C reating board for
equalizing and assessing the rolling stock
of railroads operated in Texas.
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IN FOREIGN LANDS.
MEETINGS HELD IN ENGLAND TO
RELIEVE IRISH ST4RYATTON.

The Situation of Affairs in Frauce-The Or
leans Prisoners to Publish Manife-tO--
The Visit of De Giers the Russian Am
bassador, to Vienna, and its Significance
Other News,
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NeIr YOrk.

ALBANY, Jan. 31.-The assembly passed
a bill reducing the fare to five cents on the
New York elevated railroad.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-01

The president, cashier and bookkeeper
of the wrecked City bank of New Jersey
have been indicted.
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New Haven merchants are petition
ING for bonded warehouse i'll their
aitv
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-24
OMAHA GLEE CLUB.
Their Proposed Hunting Tour-Re'
hearsing for Decoration Day.

A meeting of the Omaha Glee club
was held Tuesday at Hospe's hall,
at which there was q full attendance of
the members and also about twenty.
Ave ladies and gentlemen from the
Paxton and elsewhere. The club sang
several of their finest pieces for the
entertainment of their visitors, and
Mrs. Buell., of the Paxton, at the re-
quest of the club, favored the party
with two beautiful solos. Among the
songs BY the club were those in re-
hearsal for Decoration Day. After
the visitors had departed the club
went into executive session, and q
committee, consisting of Messrs. A. ID.
Morris, Frank Smith and Mr.. Welsh,
previously appointed by the boys to
report on the proposed spring hunt
30 be taken by the club, made a favor
able report, and 1t was voted to carry
out the scheme.
The club will ON this trip go to Free
mont, and, taking vehicles, will drive
across the beautiful Elkhorn valley.
stopping to hunt and visiting the prin.
cipsl cities. They will give four con-
certs during the trip, and will make 1t
q ~memorably pleasant affair.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-24
WORK SUSPENDED.
It. fhornburgh Not to be Con-
struCt0d During the
Present Year.

Fort Thornburgh will probably OK.
list, In name only, for some years to
come. News was received Tuesday
ct the department of the Platte that
the building of the post has been sus.
pended by p~sremptory orders from
Washington, and that all arrange.
ments made towards facilitating its
construction, and the expenditure of
the 800, 600 appropriation made by the
last congress have, been revoked by
the same authority. The reason for
this sudden change of front ON the
part of the wal department Is under.
stood to be the failure to extinguish
title to certain portions Of the MILL
tary reservation.
The news comes at O rather inop.
perfume time when all the prepare
lions had been made for prosecuting
the work and details of officers and
men made for that purpose. Imme-
diately upon receipt of the informa-
hon the order for q battalion of troops
to go from Douglas to Thornburgh
was revoked. The order for Major
De Russey's battalion to construct q
road from Fit. Bridger across the
mountains has also been revoked.
All work upon the post will at once
be suspended, including even the
saving of logs and the getting out of
timber. The post will be abandoned
and troops and supplies withdrawn.
Thornburgh was the only post In
this department for which congress
made any appropriation of size, and
there is general regret expressed over
the unfortunate circumstances which
force Its abandonment.