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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-30
nR s11LlMIg uyLocKs TIE BASEMENT D0oR

In relation TO the closed basementdoOr az Columbia
College, which caused meeting OF the students last week
on a rainy day Charles A siman. chairman OF the
Committee Buildings said last night that personally
he willing have the doors opened although 1t was
question that might have 70 he decided by the trustees
W Humphrey member Of the junior class. called on
him the day after the meeting obtain permission 20
have the door unlocked Mr. silman wrote on the back
OF that Mr. Humphrey handed him directions for
superintendent Porter 10 unlock door when should
he necessary, Mr.. silllman taking the responsibility
instructed Mr. Humphrey TO tell Mr. Porter his Opn-
ion OF H. This done and Mr. Porter unlocked the door
requested.
Mr. siJman explained to the reporters that the build,
ing designed was not intended 10 have a general
passage way this Obeced 10 by DR. Barnard ana
Others who considered that the passing 10 ana lrO OF
students would interrupt studies The room had been
closed aud used sort OF storeoom until last summer
and since then II has been suggested by the Building
Committee that II should be used way and
partition 6e built for that parpOse If necessary.
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OBITUARY..
DIP John PURDUE GRAY.

UTICA. Y. Y. Nov. %. Or John Purdue Gray, snpsr
inteudent Of the State Lunatc Asylum. who has beer
sick for some time, died this afternoon.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-30

General Order: Members OF the Cincinnati Society
requested 20 attend the funeral OF much beloved
worthy member Walton White Evans rom Calvary Church
@thave and ZlstsL "Wednesday morning next
al 10 O'clock wearing the usual badge OF mourning
HAMILTON FISH, President
JOHN SCHUYLER, Secretary.
New y ok NOvemDef 20. 1856.
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Who're America Excels.

The Graphic tells how America surpasss
the world in making toothsome speciality +,
In the matter of CONNECTIONS, by the way,
New York, speaking after the manner OF
men, beats the world. They hardly know
what candy is in London, where still OBJ
tains the antique and exploded superstition
that it is sort of pap peculiarly suited to
and designed for infancy. A country
where ice cream Is rare and novel COM
pound, sold ct fabulous prices and by the
wineglass full, presents to the American
Imagination difficulties in tho why OF court
ship and marriage which might be expect.
cd TO seriously check ths natural increase
Of the population but the untrayelled
Englishman has never yet learned that
sweets to the sweet is the proper method Of
bombarding maiden hearts, and he seems
TO get the necessary preliminaries settled
some way in q goodly number of cases I'M
assisted by any softer gastronomic infu-
ences than are shed by his own indgestible
plum pudding. The candy shops there are
small and humble places where the proprie-
tor gladly exchanges portion OF his sim
pie goods for a penny, or even fraction
thereof, instead Of refusing, as do our bril-
liant and lordly confectioners. to negotiate
for less than half q pound Of compounds
ranging from so cents to 81 pound. The
idea Of snch airs in such business would
be laughed to scorn. In Paris they are IL
these respects somewhat more civilized, and
indeed 1t was from Paris that we learned
our early lessons in the workshop Of sugar,
but we have now outstripped our teachers
both In the number and splendor Of The
shops and in the expensiveness aud varsity
Of our confections.
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TWO OF HAscocK's TRAITS.
Careless la Money Matters, Hut Method
cal In His Records.


An intimate friend OF General Hancock,
IN speaking OF the dead denerais personal
peculiarities, says : " In most things the
General was the soul OF eIaetness, but in
money matters he was laughably thought
less. He would frequently come over to
the city without cent in his pocket On
discovering his moneyless condition look
of helpless surprise would come over his
face, and, winking his eyes In that peculiar
manner usual with him when he was puz-
zled, he would say Well, declare 1
haven't got cent. Win you lend me some
money! OF course the poeketbook OF
everyone was open to the General, but he
would only accept quarter or at most o
half dollar and gassa up town "a happy
Is SCHOOL Doy' ne anyways gave the loose
change IN ms poc.e' 70 peggafs OF organ
grinders ana was lucky II ne saved enough
10 get hi"seii Gown 'own asa'n. one aas
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In one OF the secluded rooms connected
with the House Of Representatives is most
elaborate waskstand, with nickel plated
faucet arising from the centre. During the
lunch hour colored attsndent Is kept busy
washing and wiping delicate glasses, which
he keeps arranged in perfect order around
the washstand. happened, says q CORE
spondent, to go into this room the other
day, and saw sight which is worth describ-
ing. A well-known Congressman entered
and asked the servant for glass Of water.
The attendent turned the wheel Of the fau-
Get and filed the glass full Of hot water and
handed 1t to him. The member slipped 1t
slowly, and while doing so two others came
In and went through the same performance.
The servant tells me that would be sur
prised to know the number Of Congressman
who are taking the hot water cure. There
are two or three dyspeptics in the House
who regularly take three or four glasses q
day--one before Congress meets at noon,
one before lunch, an hour or two later, and
one after adjournment. Since they have
been taking the cure they claim that they
have been troubled very little with their
complaint.
The water looked anything but inviting.
II was muddy, and one not initiated into
the mysteries would have supposed 1t had q
large sized stick in it.
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Krupp lln M "a ere.

There is a curious personality in hmm.
mers, and workmen like to give them
names. There are eighty-two steam ham,
mers in the Krupp works, Of from 400
pounds wei ght to fifty tons. The largest ID
Fritz" whose fifty tons fall on AN anvil
and anvil-block weighing together 1850
tons, these resting on a foundation 100 feet
deep. The next in size is named Max"
II would require a poet like him who sang
the Song of the Bell rightly to describe
the action Of Fritz" and do not wonder
that the emperor, on his visit here, present
ed the worker of this hammer with watch.
observed Fritz " for some time at work
upon the steel stem of an Austrian iron.
clad, the Ferdinand Max. The metal wa
from one casting, without seam or weld,
forty-ive feet long and OF twenty-five tonf
weight. Four men with long clamps man.
aged this rsd-hot mass, swung over thu
anvil by crane. They turned it readily
this way and that, the foreman at each
pause utterins signal which Fritz /" un-
derstood, answering with soft tap, or .
gentle pressure, or with an earthquake. I
was curious TO see the, anvil-block which
supplemented the ability Of the earth to
sustain such shocks through q length Of
time, and was presently shown one which,
after twenty-one years Of humping, had
cracked straight through from top to bot
Tom, possibly beneath some gentle stroke
which was the last feather to break it's huge
back. Krupp does not make plates for iron
clads, but only such parts IS might be
needed for ordinary ships.
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srArrsrrcs WOULDN'T r.rn.


A young English statistician who was
paying court to young lady thought to
surprise her with his immense erudition.
Producing his note book she thought he
was about to indite love sonnet, but was
slightly taken sback by the following ques.
ton:
How many meals do you eat day %
Why, three, of course but of oil the
oldest questions !"
Never mind, dear, rlltell you all about
il in moment
His pencil was rapidly at work. At last,
fondly clasping her slender waist
Nov, my darling, I've got it, and If you
wish to know how much has passed through
that adorable little mouth in the last seven-
teen years, l can give you the exact
figures"
Goodness gracious! What can yop
mean"
Now, just listen" says he, land you
win hear exactly what you have been OBJ
liged to absorb to maintain those charms
which are to make the happiness OF my
lifen
q But don't want TO hear"
"Ah, you are surprised, no doubt, but
statistics arc wonderful things. Just listen.
You are now seventeen years old, so that in
fifteen years you have absorbed oxen and
calves, 6; sheep and lambs, IA; chickens,
s27 ducks, 20l geese, IA; turkeys, 100 (;
game Of various kinds, 824; ilshes, 1G0 /;
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She Never Gene. !. Lat. Now.

Manager Mcconnell Of the Columbia
Theatre, Chicago, says there is one lady in
that city, who, when shs visits the theatre,
always comes before the audience is seatt d
She used to have q bad habit of waiting TN
Ill everybody else was settled for the eyen-
ing, and then coming in and raising com
m ,tion in getting to her seat. One evening
she came in as usual, and after standing in
tie aisle long enough 70 show an elegant
new cloak, disturbed q whole row Of people,
who had to move to let her pass to her seat.
When she was comfortably seated, and
everything Was quiet, q little woman in the
next row back said to her companion in q
sharp whisper that could be heard through
out that portion Of the house Poor
thingl Is'pose they made her stay and do
up the supper dishes"
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Charnctsr In Eyebrows.

II is common thing for men to Judge OF
9th irs by the expression OF the eye or gen.
eral makeup of the face, but some men
have fixed ideas which depend upon smaller
things than these. know man who
judges every one by the curve or slope Of
his eyebrows. In his estimation heavy eye
brows denote strong character, while light
brows indicate a weak or fiippant tempera-
ment. II the brows nre straight and square
they show direct and earnest character.
II they have mn uncertain curve he esteems
the owner wayering. The eyebrow with
the beautiful curve and graduated ending
he assigns to persons of an imaginative and
amiable disposition. II they turn upward
at the ends the owner is Of curious turn
of mind. Tho mnn who frowns from under
oyerhanging eyebrows he looks upon as &C.
centric and penurious, while the broad,
smooth eyebrow betokens meditation, and
that with the raised tuft in the middle
humor.
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,LAwyERs SMART CLERK.
A Man and womnn's Marrow Escape From
Committing BiGamy.

A New York lawyer tells story OF re-
cent occurrence in his Office by which his
boy made $25, but came near getting two
people into very unpleasant predicament.
A plain-lookiDg man and woman walked
into the Office one day In the absence OF the
attorney. His boy greeted the callers cordi-
ally and asked what they desired, adding
that Mr.. was out, but that he attended
TO matters in his absence. The man explain
cd that he and his wife did not get along
very well and both wanted to be released
from their married relations.
oh, TINT can easily be arranged" re.
marked the whilom attorney, and looking
wise he ostentatiously examined lot oil
law-books, and after n few minutes proceed
ed to draw up an agreement between the
man and his wife TO disagree. He framed IL
in the language Of the law, putting in the
saids, (" greetings and aforesaids, as
well as an alarming array Of references to
"parties Of the fist part and "parties OF
the second part" and even to "a 0inculo
matrimoaio," the latter being intended to
properly impress his clients. Large seals
were added to the documents, which the
boy Endorsed with flourish and gills Of red
ink then the agreement was duly signed,
manwas very grateful, and asked what the
fee was. The small boy said $50, and to
the plea that this was q good deal to pay for
80 little work, answered " But see what
have done for you, and, anyhow, we never
scratch q pen here for less than $50" The
man had only 1915, but he paid that, and
promised that he would return in few days
and pay the remainder. The following week
he put in an appearance, and the boy being
out, saw the attorney himself, and remark
ed cheerfully that he had come to pay $l5
ON account.
On account of what 2" asked the attor-
ney.
Why, the agreement had drawn up
here last week." replied the client.
What agreement p asked the attorney.
The man produced the paper aud handed
it to the lawyer, and, as the latter read it,
his eyes grew like an owls at night. When
he at last reached the clause "Know all
men by these presents, that John 49, and
Mary 49,, having agreed before me as a
witness, they are free to marry again in this
State" the cold perspration started to the
lawyers brow as he blurted out: For
heavens sake don't tell me you are mar
ried |"
"No," answered the man. "Pm going
TO be married next week and Mary will be
married tomorrow"
The lawyer quickly explained the case TO
the man, and two trials for bigamy were
saved from our already overcrowded courts.
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THE PARIS GENTLEMAN.


Every nation, in judging of other nations.
takes as its standard that which Ia best in
itself. The English Judge Americans by
the London standard the French Judge all
foreign persons and things by the Paris
standard, for Paris is tho flower and fruit
OF all the best in France. II is hardly fair
to foreigners to be SO judged, but it ia the
French metric system, and that is all that
can be said about it. Tho Paris gentleman
Is the social fruit and flower of his nation
not in the chivalric sense, exactly, for II
one were searching for the fearless and ir-
reproachable Bayards IT is not among his
class that they would be looked for He is
q person of great elegance, we'll made, Of
we'll rounded person, and having small
hands and feet. He is often handsome,
though not necessarily so, and he is invari-
ably we'll dressed, his garments being of
fine material and having that quality, quite
unusual in the dress OF Englishmen, OF
looking as II they wore made for him. His
hair has the fighting cut. His face and
hands are irreproachably clean, his ears are
sfaultlessly put on and his nails trimmed to
the true arrow head point. His linen is
well laundried and his jewelry simple, ele-
gnnt and in good taste. Add to this be-
coming completeness of apparel silk hat
OF the latest style, so carefully brushed that
not fibre OF the silk swerves from the gen.
erll direction, shoes having mirror-like
perfection of polish. gloss that seems to de-
velop each day perennial freshness aud
newness, and an umbrella or cane as much
above repro,ch as the rest of the costume,
and the picture is complete. The careless
reader might possibly infer that an object
SO exqnisitely made and so perfectly pro-
portioueil might have the brittleness OF
glass or the unyielding quality OF metal J,
might, in fact, be bent, scratched or shat
tered by tho rude touch of the irreyerent
hand. But such is not the ease. The Paris
gentleman is really graceful and flexible
being, moving about the street with ease.
bowling to all his friends, male or female.
with scrupulous and refined courtesy, and,
when not in public view, diligently attend
ing to his private business mercantile or
otherwise, or engaged in pleasures of the
table or other senses, from which it is not
necessary to lift the veil. Though there is
much that Is artificial, as indicated by the
portrait, this outward seeming covers often
character in which there is much that IL
good and honorable in the social and bust
ness world and kind and amiable in the
family circle.
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BOARDING HOUSE KEEPERS.
Trials They Are Compelled TO Underse..
DIsagreeable Boarders.

The lady who goes into the boarding
house business for pleasure as we'll as profit
Is liable to be badly left, especially on the
pleasure II she could select her boarders,
or change them at will, she might have q
real good time, but her necessities almost
invariably compel her to accept any who
apply, and she has to make out with them
as best she can.
The most trying ordeal through which
she has to pass is to calmy and silently lis
ten to the uncalled for grumbling and fault
finding Of her boarders. She dare not open
out and give them as good as they send, be-
cause they would straightway take mp their
grips and seek another boarding house. She
needs their money therefore she must keep
her mouth shut, at least until she gets back
in the kitchen, beyond the reach Of other
ears than Bridget's. 1t may be little rough
on Bridget, but she is hired to aid the mis-
tress, and she can scarcely do 80 more
efectually than by allowing herself to be
used as scapegoat occasionally.
A great many boarding house keepers will
not take women, either married or single, to
board. They say they are too troublesome.
One would naturally be inclined to believe
exactly the reverse; supposing Of course,
that each lady boarder would contribute
something toward making the place appear
home-like. II appears, however. that very
few are inclined to do this, but on the con-
trary, are more exacting and more hateful
than men.
Married women are more undesirable than
single ones. This is probably due to the
fact that they are lacking in domestic taste
and prefer boarding to keeping house. They
evidently know very little about domestic
affairs or the difficulties which surround the
mistress Of q house, and are, therefore, in
capable Of approaching the efforts she makes
to please. We're they in her place. the prob
abilities are they would do far worse and
complain more loudly than she.
What nerve it must require to sit at the
head Of table surrounded by q lot Of nifty,
sullen boarders, chatter cheerily, smile
sweetly and pour out the tea without q
tremor Of the hand, while one il turning up
her nose ut the biscuit, another snarling II
the toast, another showing the butter out of
sight as though it offended her olfactoriss,
another whispering hateful things loud
enough to be heard and another finding
fault with the meal a. whole.
What is to be done?
She dare not get up and smash one over
the head with the tea pot, throw pepper in
anothers eyes, or clear the platter at one
fell swoop by ordering all who do not like
II "to git up and git" Better to be blind
and deaf to all that is disagreeable, and all
cara and eyes to what ID pleasant.
The ordeal is trying one, no doubt,
especially to those who have been we'll rails
ed and are sensitive. II may be the cross
that has been appointed for them to bear.
II II Ia they viii be rewarded. This, how
ever, does not give the satisfaction that the
privilege Of occasionally making few re-
marks would.
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FACTS FOR wOULD-BE COWBOYS.
A Very Heniihfni Occupation II One cal
Staud IL.

TO any one who contemplates trying q
seasons riding would say this You will
build up your constitution for life, you will
meet rough fellows, hear hard swearing,
and zee some, fighting, but you will hear
fewer indecent stories on the range than you
will in the average club smoking rooms.
Yonr outfit" or bed, clothing, and equip
ments. will cost you about half your earn
ings, and il you smoke freely and do not
try TO save money the end OF the season will
leave You neither richer nor poorer. You
will ofhp have wet bed, and thank Heaven
for getting to 1t wet as it is; you viii al
ways be up before daylight, and generally
two hours out Of the night as we'll you
will eat coarse food, everything fried in
lnrd you will be in the saddle from twelve
to eighteen hours every day you will often
suffer for the want Of food and water dur
ing long days work In the hot sun; you
will expose yourself TO some peril Of life
and more of limb; yon will be for much Of
the lime rs absolutely cut off from the civil
lied world M II you were on n vessel In
midocean; you will vow three times day
that when yon strike the ranch again you
will quit you will be soro and bruised,
cold at night and scorched by day, wet TO
the skin one hour and parched with thirst
the next, and for the rest OF your life you
will look back TO your life ON the range
with longing thoughts Of its charms. Very
few men are rich enough TO indulge their
taste for riding by keeping more than two
saddle horses. A "puncher often rides a
dozen, and does much of his work Mt full
run. lie brentbes the finest air ON earth,
cats beef NJ freely as an ordinary working
man eats cabbage and potatoes, and fancies
the class to which he belongs are the aris-
tocrocy Of labor. He is generous, always
quick to appreciate pluck and kindness in
others, chiyalrous to the few women he secs,
ever ready to help hang horse thief, and
undergoes more hardship and danger than
q dozen soldiers.
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YOUNG rnYslcrANs.
The Hard knocks They Receive 10 TheIy
kndeayors to Work mp Paying
Practise.


A gentleman who occupies an executive
position Of great prominence in enc Of our
New York medical colleges, while chatting
amiably about young physicians, said |:
The most keenly enyied man is not the
one who exhibits profundity of textbook
knowledge, unwonted skillfulness at the dis.
secting table or quickness of wit or memory,
bat the fortunate possessor Of big beard,
an impressive physique, or a matured and
solemn face. Indeed, l think the most
amusing of all the characteristics of the
average medical student is in the assamp.
ton of dignity and thoughtfulness as grad.
uation day approaches. As the young men
draw near the close of their terms every
day sees closer contraction of the eye
brows, more pompous and ponderous
pursuing up of the lips, deliberate steps, slow
movements, and elaborate courtesy toward
one another. The cock-lofty and infinitely
superior air Of the ordinary college eradu-
ate sinks into abject and lowly humility
cotsaared to the manner Of the medical
student when he starts out in life. The
distrust Of very young physician is wide.
spread and perhaps natural in the human
breast, and the first ten years Of most ply.
sicians lives are spent in frantic efforts to
overcome this unfortunate prejudice. To
force the beard TO grow upon beardless
cheek, to cause the observer to look upon
him with awe, and to impress men with
whom he comes in contact with his pro-
fundity of thought, is the ambition of his
earlier years. On this account he assumes
manners, and, worst of all, he tells tales.
There Is something really pathetic,
though the public never seems to think so,
about the early struggles of most young
doctors, particularly in New York. Poor
chaps, it is almost painful at times to think
how brayely they keep things moving year
after year on incomes that would be looked
upon with contempt by an average street
laborer, and all the time they keep up the
bluff, to keep up the expression of my
Western friend, with undiminished cour-
age. They may be half starved they
are usually quite destitute OF all means OF
paying for amusements but they veal
their thread bare frock coats with undimin-
ished dignity, and talk constantly us though
they were being carried onward in Their
profession on tho top-moat wave of pros.
perity. wonder that the dramatists and
noyelists, who complain SO of birth OF
good lay figures on which to lay the lines
of their novels and plays, do not take up
the career Of some one of these brave and
courageous fellows WIG struggle so long
and SO hard to gain recognition. Their
lives are filed with pathos and humor.