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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-10

One of the most pralsewOrtby schemes which
the directors of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art have been pushing of late seems certain to
be crowned with success. 1t is the exhibition
in New-Yo of the beautiful Watts collection
of pictures recently displayed in London. Mr..
Watts has consented to the proposal of the
Museum, and hundred of his best specimens
will be shown here during the coming winter.
Such display cannot help but increase the
appreciation of fine art in this country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-10

The price of gas has been cut down III many
cities during the last year. but in New YORK
the companies continue to levy tribute OF
50 20 per 200 feet. The people are struggling
for reduction in Boston, and in Buffalo the
local companies have agreed to lower the price
to 81 80 to prompt-paying customers.
In Chicago gas is supplied at 81.
New-York has proved an exception to almost
every large city in the Union so far as the OPP
Grafton of competitive gas companies Is con-
cerned. Increasing the number of corporations
has produced competition with lower rates
in other cities. Here the rate is just
as high with seven companies as 1t
was with one. The companies have
an offensive and defensive alliance, ex-
change gas when necessary, apportiOn the city
off into districts to suit their convenience, and
fix the price of gas by business combination.
There is a widespread feeling of discomfort
over this arrangement, and the companies
ought to heed it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-10

The statements of our London correspondent
I'm his cable letter this morning sustain tho
opinion expressed recently In TnE TRIBUNE
that Mr. Gladstone has abandoned his old piclu-
dccA and il resolved upon vigorous poioy
In Eeypt. which practically means M EnR,'Hn
administration of nlinira. Otherwise wnnt "oo'
the sending Of Lord Nofthbrooh TO caro- por-
tond7 He In 10 nce whit scheme OF government
IL possible. II II said. The achcmc IA ptopapE
olrcndy decided upon aud Lord No'ihbrooH ~
ia sec how best II can be- put In practice Mean
while tho fluctuations In the price OF Egyptian
bonds show the approval Of the bondholhcrs'
Mr. Gladstone Is forced TO please them, little
M he cares to do 80.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-10

We are in rerfec' sympathy with the coling II devo,
ton the uruci, for Which, " patty WIS organized
and Tor which 1t did 30 m'ch in The yg'r and pun of
ia youth put decline abs ujel' To admit that mat
feeling requires adhesion TO the present nominees OF hr
parity cN-YQra Tines.
While the late Benedict Arnold L. :. A., WAS en-
gagged in that little affair at West Point, fellow
soldier who knew what he was abort said 20 him ::
benedict, YOU ought to be ashamed of yourself
Whcrcupou Arnold turned upon his critic and re
phcd with mi, eyes full of corrohorltng tears.
Il am in porfcc, sympathy with the feeling of de-
yoiion TO the priacipl for'which the American
army was organized aud for which it did 50 much
in the yIgor and purity of It, youth, bat decline
absolutely to admit that that feeling requires adj
hesion to he present commanders of the army
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-10

The police scented murder or some other
dreadful crime from afar yesterday when they
lighted upon amalOdorOus trunk at the Penn
sylvania ferry. But instead of containing the
remains of a human being as was confidently
expected there was nothing in it but a lot of
star fishes and objects of a kindred nature,
gathered by two innocent sChOOl-teachers at
the seashore " down East" Next time these
amateur naturalists will understand probably,
that it is good thing to pickle such treasures
of the sea in alcohol if it is desired to keep
them through hot weather.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-10

Mr. Bright, radical as he is is not radical
enough for the voters Of Birmingham. They
do not want the Peers TO have even the small
privilege which Mr.. Bright would give them, Of
rejecting a bill once, but not twice They wish
TO sec the House of Lords deprived Of all
legislative functions. Tins shows the intensity
Of feeling which uDdcries the present reform
agitation in England. Apparently the Tories
are beginning TO realize it, for they have
ceased to disparage the movement and are
trying to meet it by counter demonstrations.
Whatever the issue may be in the main, it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-10

IN letter from an occasional correspondent
of The TRIBUNE, published on the third page
of this paper. under the head of "1hc Music of
Northland," will be found brief bat valuable
criticism on the condition Of music in America
which musical Amencans would do well TO lay
to heart. 1t is the opinion of the venerable DR..
Hitler, the wcll-knOwn German master, that
our chief fault lies in doing things, or attempt
ing TO do things on too large a scale in a word,
that we try TO " Wholesale " music. In view of
some of our recent and conspicuous failures in
the way Of gigantic musicfesti walls and gigantic
opera companies, the criticism seems especially
apt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-10

There is persistency about the last rumOrs
that America is to mediate between France and
China not easily explained, except upon the
theory that they are true; but rumors of tins
sort have been flying about 50 frequently within
the last year that until they are confirmed from
Washington comment upon them is unsatisfac
tory. They are important if true, as the remarks
of the English papers show. But it does not
look as if mediation were really intended or de-
sired by either party to the conflict since the
French have attacked and occupied Kelung
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-11

The politics Of a msnepolist 10
always the politics Of the winning
side. Like the chameleon, his skin
invariably assumes the color Of the
thing it feeds on.
Gould aad Vanderbilt have a.
ways been ranked ~ Republicans.
anil half Of the obloquy cast upon
the party came fron the fact that
, it was charged with harborimy these
tn . ing monopnlists. No sooner
however. did G,lld feel convinced
that Cleveland was elected than he
fastened to send him congratula
tory dispatch Vanderbilt followed
suit at oace. and nov the old bell
weathers have gone through the
hole in the fence, the rest Of the
gang will speedily be there. The
mnnopo!ist is always careful to b.
ea he Winning side. and no one is
more a lie than he in skipping the
fenc.. If, when the connt is made
Blaine COMES ont ahead these same
Y r5h;e; will hop back ~ the Re-
p blical side aeain. If they do it
Is to pe hoped that they be given a
cold reception as there is no doubt
that the real interests Of the party
would be better subserved without
them
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-11

A ten minutes speech from Ros-
Gee Conkling at any time during
the thirty days prior to November
4th, would have given Blaine New
York State beyond all doubt or
eavil.
Conkling has been head and
shoulders above all other party
leaders and ever since Garfild at
tempted to belittle him the party
has lost the aid of = man whose
name alone was . tower of strength
T. Republicanisn ali over the land.
Gafeld attempted to take from him
the Senatorial provocative allowed
By . ,urtesy to be exercised by all
Senators viz /: the controlling Of the
Federal patronage Of their ewn
State. This was done to conciliate
= dispicable set Of growing half
breeds. It gave Conkling an in
jr-y which he At snce resented and
when the Legislature At Albany
added insult to this injury, Conk-
ling said, I.see gentleu o., you can
get along without me-" The Re-
p b'ieans Of New York State decap-
itatsd their leader and if New York
10 lost they can thank their own
carbohydrates for it. Conklisx
has never uttered : word against
Blaine in this canvass, 10 has sim
ply said, II am out Of politics"
Conkling out Of politics has cost
the party in New York. q, 900
votas.
Oneida county, Conklils's home
vas ense Democratic 1900, Conk-
ling carried it by . majority Of &c.
90. These fKursS show his
strelgth in Z CANVASS. They ae-
eept his word there - tho true COS
pei. He has always been . man
Of fine instincts and high personal
homer and We d. not believe that
anything short of = Presidential
nomination will ever cause him to
come out Of his political retire.
Aent.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-11
He OWES THEN NOTHIOG

Congressman Woodburn owes
the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany nothing unless it be a grudge
for trying to defeat him last Tues
day. kilograms were received
here that day saying that the c. P.
r. R. was working for Cassidy. As
proof that this was the fact the
vote of Carlin, which is little else
than a railroad town. being the end
of division and the location of
their machine shops, will prove
easier than any lengthy editorial.
Tie vote of Carlin was: Blaine SO
Cleveland 43, Cassidy 81, Wood
burn 35. Mr.. Woodburn is free to
serve the people and to help them
all he can. We expect him to show
himself faithful to his trust.-
Reveille.
Mr.. Woodburn went through the
fight unfettered by any promises or
pledges. These are the kind OF
men Nevada has b gun to expect
something Of. These fellows, who
are 10, est in their promises to
~cinch the roads" are men who fail
the people always. When a man
is GU t.e stump talking about
tvisting the tail of the corporations
the r. r. vote il always solid for
him.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-11
URvIyAL OF THE FITTEST

The San franciscan pays S
thoughtful tribute to the journals
tic qualities Of the late Sam Sea-
bough. It calls to mind the fact
that he was king among his kind
in the early days, over a quarter of
century ago and when he laid
aside his pen and died his mantle
was TOO big to fit any of his profes
sional associates. The paper also
notes the fact that he is the only
writer of those early days who has
kept the track all these years and
not slccumbe to.dissipati,n. Ofthcse
early California writer's few remain
who are not mentally and physi-
cally wrecked Nv whisky.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-11

A London weekly springs this
upon u: Here is the latest Ameri-
can story about, Mr.. j. 7. Ray
mond. While recently presenting
tie trial scene in Colonel Sellers
two dogs began to fight in the Gen.
ter aisle. All attention was in
stantly diverted. Il move that We
suspend proceedings in this Court"
said Raymond, "and1l bet . dollar
on the white dog" TIL take you,"
said . man in the audience. The
white dog Won, the dollar Was pas
sed asrsss the footlights and the
acting resumed.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-11

If it is really true that Cleveland
it elected, there will b quite .
lively mortality in Democratic cir
clss. All the old moss-backed
Jackson Democrats will drink
themselves to death insile 81
thirty daysl
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-11

The Democrats were painting
Reno last night.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-11

Tin work Plum bling, Gas end Water
Pipe Fitting done bv competent and ex.
perienced work men.
Particular attention given to general
and special orders Will attend to
buying and filling 0rderS at . small
com m issiOn.
Call and examine goods and prices be-
fore purchasing elsewhere.
Goodn 1olA 1t Lowest Possible
Rates.
The Dickinson press., 1884-08-09
The Art of Rising.
From the Popular Science Monthly for Aug

From the Popular Science Monthly for August.
The proper time to rise, says the Lam
Get, is when sleep ends. Doing should
not be allowed. True sleep is the ag-
gregate of sleeps, or is state consist
ing in the sleeping or rest of all the
several parts Of the organism. Some
times one and other times another part
of the body, rs a whole, may be the
least fatigued, and sothe first to awake,
are the most exhausted, and therefore
the most difficult to arouse. The secret
of good sleep is, the physiological con-
ditions OF rest being established, so to
work and weary the several parts Of the
organism as to give them q proportion
ally equal need of rest ct the same
moment; and, to wake early and feel
ready to rise, a fair and equal stGt of
the sleepers should be secured; and the
wise self-manager should not allow a
drowsy feeling of the consciousness or
weary senses, or an exhausted muscu-
lar system, to beguile himinto the folly
of going to sleep again when once he
has been aroused. After a very few
days of self-discipline, the man who
resolves not to doze, that is, not to
allow some sleepy part of his body to
keep him in bed after his brain has
once awakened, will find himself, with
out knowing why, an early riser.
The Dickinson press., 1884-08-09

with eyes wide open as in a trance,
knitted brows, a death grin frozen on
the lips, teeth clenched; the chin, at
the extremity of the lower maxillary,
had been touched.
Velpeau bent down and whispered
into the right ear of the head the ques
ton agreed upon. Firm as were the
surgeons nerves, the result caused him
to start with a sort of chilly fear; the
lid of the right eye closed, the left eye
widely open, stared at him.
"Iu the name of God and humanity.
repeat that sign twice." cried Velpeau,
almost wildly.
The eyolids parted, as under the i'm
pulse of q supreme internal effort; but
the lid did not rise again. Second by
second the face became more rigid, more
icy-motionless. All was over. DR..
Velpeau gave back the dead head to Mr..
Hendreich, who according to custom,
placed it between the already s%tiffenins
egs of the corpse in the basket.
The great surgeon washed his hands
in one of tile buckets filled for the
scrubbing if the scaffold. All about
him the crowd was ebbing away,
Observation-Disclosures had recognized him.
He wiped his hands in silence. Then
with slow step and pensive brow, he
regained the carriage in waiting forhim
at the corne of the prison. As he got
INTO it he perceived the executioner's
wagon moving at q rapid trot in the
direction of Montparrasse.
The Dickinson press., 1884-08-09
The Noted American Beauty.

Few people know anything Of the an
tecedents of Miss Chamberlain, the
American beauty who has b,ens so much
admired abroad, and the following re-
specting her from the Buffalo Courier
will be read with interest.
Miss Chamberlain is the grand-daugh-
ter Of q certain Judge Wilson, one of
the pioneer settlers of Cleveland, who
had q large farm near what is now Eu-
cid avenue. His only daughter was a
beautiful girl, who is said to have much
resembled the wellknown picture Evan
geline gazing pensiyely into the dis
lance. She married Selah Chamber
lain, Jr., q young lawyer, the namesake
and nephew Of the old man who years
age built a railroad in Minnesota which
the state lodged paying for until about
five years since, when he returned to
Cleveland with q special car containing
q million or so OF hard cash. Mrs.
Chamberlain inherited her fathers farm
which has been cut up into building
lots, and upon the Of which
she now lives in England, having after
the fashion of many American women
of less patriotism than money, imbibed
o taste for European life while travel
ing abroad-posslbly because tho
neA of tile ~"peasantry" are less often
sive in the Old than in the New World.
Her husband divides his time between
the two countries. The children are
three in number-Mary, who married a
Cleveland iron merchant, and did not
inherit her mothers ambition OF beauty;
Jennie, the young woman who has at
tracted so much attention abroad, and q
SOD Of 1G, who is studying for college at
Exeter, N. H.
The Dickinson press., 1884-08-09
German Legends.
From the Saturday Review.

From the Saturday Review.
Though Germany has been more fully
explored in this direction than almost
any other country, it still possesses Pc
culiar attractions for the collector. The
peasantry in the center and south are
more easily accessible than English
farm laborers, and their minds are more
richly stored with the wisdom and fool
ishness of the past. Not that they are
more supersticious; the ancient rite has
become q mere game and the charm is O
jest; the old story is told oftener than
not with an incredulous smile; but even
the middle-aged are not afraid that you
will laugh at them for talking about
such matters, and the aged love todwell
upon them, together with the other
memories of their youth. Every district
too, has its own peculiar character. In
East Friesland the legends are dark,
stern, at times tragic; even when heath
en- in their origin, they have been re-
modelled by the spirit of a firm Protest.
ant faith. In Central Germany they
are brighter and more humorous, occa-
s%ionally more grotesque; the deepest
note they touch is a certain pensive ten
derness, and hardly a trace Of Christian
ity is to be found among them, though
here and there the memoir of q saint
now forgotten in the district may be
found q strange combination with other
materials. In the Austrian Alps, again,
they are more graceful, imaginative,
pathetic, and almost invariably strongly
colored by Catholicism. Thus the Frau
Berchta or Frau Hohle of other districts
here becomes the Wife of plate, to
whom the popular fancy has assigned q
sad but not ignoble fate III the world.
AS she confessed the truth and yet was
not baptized, her spirit is doomed to
wander through the earth till the Judg-
ment Day, and to her the souls of all
unbaptized children are gathered. OF
Summer nights she leads them through
the corn and flax fields, where they
pluck off the widowed ears and the
harmful insects and bear them away in
their little pitchers; but in winter, par
ticularly about Christmas time, the
strange procession will sometimes pass
through a village where an inconsolate
mother dwells, and then q little hand
will tap at the window, and when the
mourner looks out she will see her child
no longer the baby they carried to the
church-yard six months ago, but q little
bright-eyed thing who, if it had a living
body, one would take it to be three or
four years old. Yet she knows at once
that it is her own, and it says, Mother,
you must stop crying; all your tears fall
into my pitcher; it has grown so heavy
that l can scarcely carry it, and they
drip down on my clothes and make them
so cold and cumbersome that I can't
keep up with the rest" If the mother
glances down the street she will see
a form so bright chat you might have
taken it for Our Lady's," with a throng
of little children crowding around her,
"as if they loved her."
The Dickinson press., 1884-08-09
solomon's Stables.

A correspondent thus describes one OF
the most famous of the ruined monu-
ments of the greatness of Jerusalem:
Descending a fighto of stone steps, We
found ourselves in a most wonderful
series of underground vaults. These
vaults evidently boosted of antiquity Of
centuries anterior to the Christian era,
and yet were marvelously we'll pre-
served. In some places the rubbish was
SO deep that we we're within ten feet OF
the arched roofs, and again it was at
least forty feet to the roof, showing the
real altitude of the supporting piers.
We wandered hither and thither by the
aid of candles, sometimes in stygian
darkness on the brows OF greedy chasms.
and then again in broad daylight. I
suppose these magnificent vaults reach
over acres of ground, and perhaps
honeycomb the whole mountain.
Doubtless, further investigation would
bring to light discoveries Of great inter-
est. [ measured II of the stones, and
found it to be just sixty feet long and
perhaps four feet square.
Without much thought, incline tothe
belief that these really were Solomon's
stables, and therefore among the Won
ders which this Queen of Sheba inspect
ed. I reason this out Oh very simple
grounds. Solomon certainly had some
magnificent establishment Of this sort,
for we read in the twenty-sixth verse of
the fourth chapter of First Kings that
he chad $1,000 stalls of horses for his
chariots and 10000 horsemen." The
Jewish bevels on the stones throw these
vaults back to a very remote past.
These two facts dovetail together we'll.
Besides that, Josephus speaks of vast
subterranean vaults of the temple, in
which people hid themselves at the time
Of the investment ofthe city by Titus.
The Dickinson press., 1884-08-09
THE NILE I
A Queer occupation and its p~erfunctory
performances.

performances
From Harper's Monthly.
When the inundation approaches the
capital-usually at the end of June or
the beginning of %July-the Nile criers
Muna-di emily begin their work.
These criers are men, whose business
it is to call out, or rather to recite,
before the houses OF those who wish it,
how much the Nile has risen during the
last twenty-four ho6rs. The Oriental
does everything, no matter what it is,
gravely, slowly, with much dignity and
v%erbosity, and is never chary of his time
OF breath. Even the form of his greet
ing in the street is complicated cere-
mony Of words and motions which
usually takes some minutes to perform.
And in the same way this announce
ment ofthe rivers rise, which seems to
us such a simple matter, is a most
serious affair.
The day before the crier begins his
talk he goes through the streets accom-
panied by q boy, whose part it is to act
as chorus and to sing the responses at
the proper moment. The crier sings:
God has looked graciously upon the fields. "
Response: ooh! day of glad tidinss."
Tomorrow begins the announcement"
Response: May it be followed by success. "
Before the crier proceeds to give the
information so much desired, he intones
with the boy q lengthy, alternating
chant, in which he praises God, i'm
plores blessings on the Prophet and all
his believers, and on the master of the
house and all his children. Not until
all this has been carefully gone through
does he proceed to say the Nile has
risen so many inches.
This ceremony is carried on until the
month of September, when the river
has reached its eliminating point, and
the crier, as bringer of such good news,
never fails to claim his "baksheesh"-
sometimes humbly and sometimes, too,
very imperiously.
The Dickinson press., 1884-08-09
The Doctor Said I Could Not Live.

In April I commenced taking Burdock Blood
Bitters, and in July was curedby this medicine
alone. The stomach and bowels seemed the
first acted upon, after which I rapidly improved.
My appetite returned, the terrible sick head
ache left me, the hacking cough gradually
abated, and from the first bottle I could sleep
well at night.
I do not think there is a case of sick head
ache Burdock's Blood Bitters will not cure,
(they cured my sister, Mrs. Thos. J. Haley, Of
this city,. Those who saw me six months ago
consider my recovery a miracle. Twas no less
.astonished, and shall be pleased to reply to all
letters of inquiry concerning my case.
Mrs. ADELAIDE O'BR1EN,
372 Exchange st, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Dickinson press., 1884-08-09

In Evelyn's Diary the following oc-
ours, referring to a Dutchwoman who
lived in the seventeenth century: "To-
ward the end of August 1 returned tc
HARLEM. They showed us a cottage
where they told us dwelt q woman who
had been married to her twenty-fifth
husband, and being now a widow, was
prohibited to marry in future, yet ii
could not be proved that she had ever
made away with any Of her husbands,
though the suspicion had brought he1
divers times to trouble. EVERY Sat-
urday.
The Dickinson press., 1884-08-09

Mr.. H. W. Gilbert Of Albany, Ga. under date
Of May S, 1884, says: MI. Brooks near hero
HAS an eating cancer OH his face which had
nearly killed him-evcryonc thought he would
be dead in a short time as nothing seemed to
stop the ravagcs of the cancer. He com
ago, and it has had a wonderful effect on him.
He was yesterday so far recovered al to be
outat his work, and seems in a fair way to get
entirely well.
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