Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-20
AROUND THE TABLE.
A MELASoE or LrrERArURE, RELia.
rON. ART dND FASHION.
some Tid-isits ~ Interest for Reading ON satur-
day Night--How the Mahdi Raises Money
Fashions Idicy--Thc Mania for Pho
torrnphing Parts Of Bcdics.

Boston has her first Roman Catholic mayor
In Hugh O'Brien.
Lucy Stone rogrctrully admits that, while
women do most of the amateur playing ON
pianos, they compose scarcely any of the
music used.
Joachim saraconi, butler 10 Gregory XVI,
Plus TX. and Leo KILL, died recently. lie
had accumulated large fortune, and was
highly esteemed
II IL said that Durcr's famous portrait Of
Uieronymus IIolzschucr, tin lately preserved
In Nurnberg by the liolzschiier family, has
been purchased for the Berlin museum for
I,250, 600 francs ts25O,0oo).
Cedarcrofl, tho Pennsylvania home Of Bay
ard Taylor, has fallen into decay, and was
lately sold at price not equal to third OF
its cost.
There IL n movement In Chicago To- prose
cute some of the speakers nj recent anti
Christian meeting un the charge Of BIAS
phemy A test ease IL likely H. bo made of the
man who assailcd the doctrine OF Gods good
ness. When | was boy, he said, my
mother taught me To say oar Farther who
art in heaven and 40 far ~ know he has
never left there"
A proposal Is now before the Senate of Cam
bridge University, England, To require OF
candidates for honors, instead Of the addi-
tional examination in mathematics which has
been condemned, an examination In the
English language. The examination pro.
posed will include Il paper In English prose
composition, one on the grammar aud his
tory of the English language, and u third on
the explanation and discussion of passage
from selected English books
The Prince Of Montenegro has cloAcd the
Roman Catholic church at tctignc. lie has
also forbidden priests of that faith 10 leave
their residences without u written permit,
and prohibited the administration cf the
sacramento, so that the Roman Catholic resi-
dents of Cetgnc are obliged To 10 to Catiaro,
I'm nulmnin f1r hnlliSn a. uluTrinuN The
prince Is doing all this To mgratiaie himself
with the Gar who would be pleased 90 scc
the Greek faith established in Montenegro.
How the Mahdi Raises Money,
A correspondent Of the London Teicgrdph
with the Nile expedition has learned from
refugee how the Mahdi niscs funds From
time 20 time he appears before his people and
says he has been commanded 10 part with all
his goods, everything ho possesses-in short,
must go to the public treasury. or To the
.Bait at Nal" (chnTity box). Proilcrs are
made on all sides Ia save him from stripping
his household; but all these he res1iutoly
declines. saving. "rhc command u for inc,
not YOU" by and by their turn comes, when
the Mahd says he has had communication
from "El iladri' that such n one is to give
all he has 10 the 4" Bait 81 NAL They have
seen the prophet himself complying with
these directions of the Presence and how
dare any one else disobcy? Accordingly,
making n virtue of necessity, goods and
slaves all find their way to the 'charty box"
GtItfNlSt lflb llblllti : titNl. M ulNphlt'S
about goods or bctrothals the Mahdi quickly
settles by appropriating the goods to the
public treasury and the woman Ia his harcm.
He courts the poor and gives them free
license To plumber, and snutIs the sheikS
Fashions Idiocy.
Paris Letter to London World.
Even the ebony black aud obstinatcly per-
sistent wallow-iailcd coat threatens Ia pass, for
the gentlemen of leisure whom .Gyp' dc
ti,,hta t, tyainit,u grr,,ti,II i'm
campaign in favor of color The rcd coat
and breechcs were accepted last season in tine
ceremonial meetings of high society. This
season variety is to he obtained by the intro
duction of the blue coat and brass buttons,
white waistcoat and light gray trousers, and
powdered hair, which latter detail viii bc
considered eNtia-vain; and Ivy the brown
coat and brass buttons. shawl-Iatlern waist
coat, brown cloth brecchcs, gartcrs fastened
with n diamond buckle, and squarc-tocd,
higIi-heelcd shoes The black coat viii I've
worn by the pSchutteuN only at the theatre,
and in places where the uncallcd-ior-rcmarks
of the cads might mar the serenity of the
spectacle of contemporary calves.
PhotographinG rarts Of Bodies.
From the New York Mirror.
The craze for photographing sections of the
human form divine has not yet reached New
York, but it's bound to come | have been
looking over an English collection.
There were handsome Of them stuck
through holes in a dark screen aud clasped
and raised others were taken singly, hold
ing a flower others again, exhibited the
palm in such a way that fortune tellercould
- read the lines
There were bare feet. Ifany one ever saw
u bare foot that was pretty ON anything but II
baby, then they have seen Lizzie Wcathers-
by's (Airs. Nat. Goodwin). She has beau
tfful foot without hcmish, and might bc
justified in having hers photographed. But
the English feet that had been subjected to
this process that | saw were something
wicked. one, belonging to Lady Gladys
Lonsdale, was handsome but 1t was as big
rs the foot Of bill at Christmas.
Then the backs thatar takcn-just simple,
plain backs, with moles perhaps or without
and sections of shoulders and uapes oinecks,
scrufis of necks--scrags of necks, the mutton
sellers call Nor an ear, Just one detached
ear, for that ear is stuck through slit in a
sheet OF velyet
THE SNOWMAN.