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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04
CANDY TRADE IN NEW YORK.

Paris No Longer the Center of the Con-
fectionery Business-Our Exports.
New Workers have sweet teeth all around
both jaws In no city in the world does the
ANDY trade flourish TO su an extent Paris
once had the reputation OF being the confec-
tiOnery center of the world. 1t has the
.eputat!on now, hut without ground
Partisan chilirrn have robust appetites for
bonbons. dIogee and caramrls but the % II is
age in France Is the age OF youth. In NeN
York it reaches away into the time wheL
store teeth take tie Place Of those supplied
by nature New York spends $1,000 for
candy every day.
There is u class of candy that the Frcn b
keel III Their fruits are not approached
y any other nation Their boul Is are
luscious Th"ir choco a'eS are toothsome
Gut New York produce, u,t go d There
are tn ,se who think better.
There is a singular thing in connection
with the New York candy trades growth
and Development We are exporting candy
right into Paris the very birthplace Of fine
confectionery. In England tn re is
verltable craze for American candies. and
g cry steamer takes ovr Il ton or two as
part of her cargo Engli and French
eople who are over here try our candies
and ship home sample boxes to their friends
Then they 60 back themselves and We put
them down Tor regular customers
There are 'NN retail con ectonery stores
in New York, but they repre- eut merely
speck on tie hig blottinE paper of the New
York candy business, Tor tOD drug store,
and 4,15O retail groceries keep large stocAs
OF lus ions sarcharine, and sell it. too New
York Journal
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04
Funny Ideas in a Mtlliner'. Store.

Selling hats and bonnets is, think, one
of the hardest pieces II work that can be
found Ii is surprising 10 notice the num-
ber of ladies that really don Z know what
they want when they come to buy a hat
They will look at this and look at that, and
and paw and pull over your entire stock
looking for something and they don't know
what Sonnet mes tho sale of a hat all de
lends upoI a feather or an ornament A
Ia ly will fail il love with some part of a
hat, but she doesn't like the other part, and
then the whole business has to be taken
apart and put together TO suit her. II you
show a lady nice neat and stylish hat
nine times Ou. OF ten she won't have it and
will fling it la K at you with the remark
that it is too loud or too tiaShy. Then again
| have taken out a cheap affair and asked a
fancy price for it, and the person would buy
1t without further dis IIssion and go away
entirely satisfied.
| have shown hats that nearly cost US SIS
or so to fashionable ladies and they
wouldn't have them, ant | have turned
right around ami sold them IS or IS hat
for the same price that | asked for the good
ones They have no Judgment as regards
trimmings | remember once had bright
yellow bird ornament lying around for
nearly two years l couldn't sell it; no
one would have it l had offered it time
and time again for =, and | remember on
one occasion tried t. dispose Of it for 81
and faiiei One day a lady saw the bird
and lie anne at on"e struck on il. She in
qui Ell the prize, and l told her would let
her have it for Sli, and she purchase it at
once with the remark that 1t was cheap
'qlesman" in Globe Democrat
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04

OF the late VI. Labche one of the authors
of the comedy. lie Voyage de y. Peril
chOn." it is related that while he was its
mayor in 1870 the village OF Sauvigny was
entered by a Pru,sian cavalry reg .nIsnt the
colonel OF which demanded ratiOns and
ley Of e. go LabIche refused to give
either. Then have you carriage" Yes
~tjet 1t ready and follow me to the com
mand ant" WHAT for" To be judged,
condemned and shot. Hurry up The car
riage was brought. and they set out
LAbiche was smoking cigar As they
drove he offered the colonel another and
then said: M le colonel, If anyone five
years ago had told ms you would do this
"oIld have been incredulouS" Why man
said the colonel, you are dreaming.
now see you for the first time" Pardon.
for the second tina | had the pleasure of
dining with You and pouring out wine TOR
you, too.' w here.' AT the German EN-
bassy. | hal the honor of sitting at your
right We conversei like friends. Your
amability charmed me l exclaimed to my
self What fine fellow He will make
a mark in Berlin society,"" But it was
not l. No, Then it must have been YOU
brother. You have the same beautiful
mustache, the elegance, the same distinction,
the same Greek profile. Come, my dear
colonel! No false modesty, wasn't it you"
The PrusSian unused And you say your
town can not support nv regiment" Alas,
no" Your word of honor!' The most
sacred Back went the carriage, and the
regiment marched on, and the colonel, press
ing Labichs's hand in friendly farewell.
said: 1t was l. But devil bit of you
should have remembered Chicago Tunes.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04
Persian LadIe. Consulting "a Doctor

while after troop of veiled women,
stately in the long mantle which mu He'd
them from head to foot, visited the camp
They had learned that a physician was one
of our arty ami desired to consult him
Improvising IA medical Office at once under
a tree, the do tor sat on one of the roots and
proceeded TO fell puls.s and examine
tongues Their faces he could not see. 1t
was a novel sight to observe this group of
ignorant peasant women, in parti-colored
garb, seated in a circle before him on the
grass giving him an account of their all
ments
The traveller in the east is often asked to
prescribe for the sick be he a tually
phvsi, ian or not | have been r peatedly
re Iuasted to Sc We in this capacity, and
since e V hope that the lit of III 'rtalIty i'll
non CT ristian lands has not be on thereby in
creased
Lu, kily neither coroner nor municipal
records exist in the happy ORIENT The
physician however, Iabors under pc, uliar
disadvantage in Persian practice, even II
his qualifications are not too carefully
examined for he is not permitted to see
The face OF his femala Iatient, AMI is thus
deprive of ons OF tn. mpst important points
in forming a Il a nosis
The native doctors require no other
diploma to enter on the profession of
medicine than a supply of infinite assu :ance
som times Gale cheeG. They are generally
itinerauts who 80 from village TO village
and annOunc' their profession on arriving.
ENtraordIn Try remedies are given Hav-
ing prescribed, the physician decamps before
the results become perct ptib.e, aware that
common Segupn j. death Fortuna ely
for them, this rcsIlt is generally quietly
accepted a. the fiat of X lsmet or Destiny
S. &. W. Ben amin in Ths Century.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04
An English Journal en- "Fads. g"

The difference between e fad and cause
is as great as that betw, en- fuss and en-
thusiaSm- The marx of a faddist is that h,.
is eternaliy cumbersd about the infinitely
little; whstever deeply interests himself is
eniar- ed out OF all proportion TO its sur
roundings by the magnifyIng glass OF bis
own self esteem.
Never, assuredly, was there a time wheI
50 mauy paople We're abandoned TO this sor
Of folly. Fadiists are found everywhere
in politics, in art in dress, in sociology; II
medicine they are to be heard of and make
themselves felt The aesthetics fade hAe
their own compleXions, their suntiOwers, am
their sage green dressing gowns; bu
straightway generation with undyed gar
ments from Germany cometh up-a sect OF
wool gatherers they may not unftly be
called. Do you encounter a man with
coat cut in a style that would discredit
rse-clipper-a man finished off with tabby
boots that would have shocked Necker
You learn that this attire is part of b.
sanitary creed-St James Gazette.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04

communication from Memphis an
nounred the fact that Sir Arthur Bascom,
an honorary member Of the club, had passed
from earth away. His death was produced
from lead poi oning, and the said lead was
fred into him by a gentleman in the
suburbs, who found Sir Arthur trying TO
unlo, k his smoke house door.
Samuel Shin moved that the usual reso-
luton Of sympathy for the family OF the
bereaved lie passed and forwarded
Shindig Wat,on Oh Jected II member
of the club fooled with other people, smoke
houses, he must not only take the conse-
quences, but any resolution of sympathy
was a hollow kerry
De cha r decides dat Brudder Watkins
pint am well taken" said the president
While it might be possible dat de late de.
Ceasei was walkin in his sleep, or dat he
mstook dat smoke house for an orfan asy-
lum, de chances am dat he got tired Of
chic en- an wanted to change fur bacon
We will hang an emblem of mOurnin' ON de
dOah knob fur ten days an let de case rest
rig ht dar. Lime X lin club
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04

A discovery of high interest from histor
ical, architectural, arch Biological and other
points of view has Just been made in very
peculiar circumstances at Roma With the
difference of couple of feet in the tracing
of line on an engine RS plan, extending
over an area measuring two miles in length,
1t would have been lost perhaps, forever.
While dressing the left perpendicular side of
the cutting, which passes near the remains
of the Emporium, the workmen laid bare
the front of an ancient tomb, facing exactly
on the line 1t is perfect in every respect,
excepting the cornice, which is wanting
1t stands at q depth of some twenty feet
below the modern level, embedded in
solid mass of accumulation, which risss
above the upper part OF it fully ten feet.
As seen now, it looks like part Of fnn
architectural pansi sat into the clearly
dressed side OF the trench, and was evidently
the monument of Servius Sulpicius Gaibs,
who was consul in the year IA B. c.
Chicago Herald
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04

When Edwin Forrest was playing at the
old Bowery theatre, in New \ ork city, his
piece was followed by an exhibition Of lions
by their trainer, Herr Driesbach During
their stay there Forrest remarked one day
that he never experienced the emotion caused
by fright-that he was never scared in his
life Driesbach heard the remark, and one
evening took Forrest home with him They
entered house, and, after passing throu- b
long and devious dark passages, Driesbacb
opened door and said: This way, Mr.
Forrest"
As Forrest entered the door was slammed
behind him Forrest felt something touch
his leg in the darkness, and reaching down
his hand touched what he thought was a
cats back, which he gently stroked A rasp-
ing growl greeted the motion, aud he saw
two fiery eyeballs glaring at him. Are you
afraid. Mr.. FOrrestF asked the lion tanner,
who was invisible in the darkness Forrest
replied, Not a bit when the lion tanner
said som thing, and the growl deepened and
the back began to arch Forrest held out
for few minutes, when he exclaimed: Now
let me out, you Internal scOundrel, or III
break every bone III your body" The lion
king kept b IN there, and he did not dare to
move finger. while the lion kept rubbing
against his leg. Forrest finally promised
champagne supper if Driesbach would .
him out whi.h wa done. and tie bet Wa
Immediately paid-Unput Iishel Biography.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04

When l came back to America at 2S
years of age continued Mr. Howels, Il
worked on The New York Nation anu sol
my Erti les wherever coul t. then got
an average Of about s. column Shortly
after this | went 10 Boston to be Mr. Tulos
assistant, and in time be 'ame the editor o.
The Atlantic. As to the prices have re-
ceived for my various novels, do not think
it is right for me to say, in justice to the
men with whom the contracts were made.
There is no doubt, however, that Mr.
Howells gets very high prices for his present
works 5. S Mcclure, Of the library syndi
cate, told me that Howells short s:ories
were worth 500 or 800 apiece, and it is
said that Hsrper's, who have now engaged
him exclusively, and to whom he give, all
bis writings from now on, pay him a salary
ranging somewhere between that of the
supreme court Judge ami the president OF
the United tstes All Of his novels have
been great successes, and | imagine that
Harper's MagaZinr, in the engaging him.
did it to Offset, if possible, the great su cess
Of the war articles of The Century Carp"
In Cleveland Leader.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04

President Eliot, at the recent Harvard
dinner, made some sensible rrmarGs on the
subject of college rivalries Whatever of
fun there NAV be in the rivalrits between
our colleges, he said. real antagonism
between them should be avoided The total
number OF men r,Surting to the colleges of
the country has not kept pace with the pro-
greSs of the population This is not true of
Harvard: hut Of the great mass of the col
leges together it is true and think that
the antagonism between colleges, working
on the public mind, is responsible for this.
As to numbers. wish to say in behalf of
Harvard that We distinctly repudiate num-
bers as test of success when applied to
colleges Prank Leslies Illustrated
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04

About four weeks ago said farmer on
the market the other day, Il concluded TO
get rii of several old Stumps near the barl,
and came in purchased some giant cart
ridges Next day forenoon | went at the
100, and had Just got cartridge tamped
down in the first stump when | saw man
drive up to the house That was nothing to
bother over, however, ami lighted the fuse
and run around the harn TO waiC for the ex
pIosion. had only got in place when |
neard a voice calling:
All. there, sharp, want to sell you
tie best washing ma ehine ever male
1t was the chap who had driven up, and
my wife had sent him out to hunt ME up
He was with n ten feet OF the stump when
he called | la two minute fuse on the
cartriige when | heard his voice, and i
called ba X:
"'For heavens sake, get out O. that
~'Oh, I'll get cut after have sold you a
machine. Sharp, where are youi
Well, sir, you can have my ears If that
internal idiot didn't walk up and rest his
elbow on ths stump, and he was there when
she exploded. He took rise OF six or eight
feet, came down spread eagle fashion, and
then scrambled up and made for his wagon
with slivers sticking out all over him When
Re went by the house my wife asket him i.
ne marh rhine saved 10 per ,ent in soap, bu
ae never answered nor came to a halt He
,ust sailed over ths forewheel to his seat on
the wagon, gave the horses a cut with the
whip, and was mile away when went out
to the roai to in Iuire if his machine
was full ieweled Detroit Free Press.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04
AN ACTRESS POWERS DESCRIBED.
4 Subtle Psychic Influence That Hasn't
Been AnaIyEed-A Strange Chapter.

Clara Morris, who has been playing here
phenomenon of our day She deties all pre-
cedents, violates all rules, overturns ali
criticism People still 40 k TO see her and
pa X the theatre TO suffo alton, but | defy
any one Of them to tell why In fact,
nobody has yet tod US why Clara Morris
wlelis certain uncanny fas ination
She is not gool looking She IS
not strong She is not artistic
She is not heroic or tragi' or yer
satIle She is gaunt and almost ghastly
Her voice is weak Her face is drawn with
the lines OF pain Her action is slow and
roustricted and stealthy.
But in spits Of all this she is the one act
ress on our boards to day who wields the
strange, mysterious, magnetic influence that
holds an assemblage in a spell and from
which no one can escape It's a subtle
psychic influence that hasn't been analyLed.
| can not help thinking that it is the sam-
morbid feeling that makes wom crowd
round a coffin and peer into the white mys
t.'rv OF that frozen silence,
Clara Morris plays her best in a sort OF
trance She goes out OF herself into tine
character She is possessed for the time be-
ing and then she reminds you of those
claIrvoyant sybils who with distraught air,
do the bidding Of some unhealthy power
beyond themselves. To those who know her
her life Is great a mystery rs her art She
has been an invalid for years. She lives on
air. Nobody ever saw her eat hearty
meal The late DR. Beard, who gave his life
to the study of morbid phenomena, once
told me that she WAS the most magnificent
example he had ever seen of tho superiority
of invalidism to art
And | think she opens for US a strange
hapter in the study of acting wOmankind
| have seen enough Of these strange creatures
not to know that some of them can do with
their hysteria what intelligence can never
do with its histrionism And | shoulI like
TO ask some psychOlO ;ist if it may not hs
possible after | that the mimetic power
is only form of hysteris.
Clara Morris is one Of those strange human
Cryptograms that nObCiy can read, and if
she would only tell her experIenoe in a
moment Of candor, we should get book to
which the strangest marvels Of science "b Id
Look like +, tion-Nym Crinkle in New ork
" WOrld
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04
DECORATION or MIXING STOOLS.
Maidens Going Into Raptures Over Their
RenutN When y Craze starts.

II was a Little room filled with pretty
>nt OK kuaCk> and nov elite, Of all kinds in
wool There were wa ,te and work baskets,
'lock and jewel rase tOi.ct cases, lastly de
igned and ezec.t,d, tu' all ulain and un-
40 nod. this bn.ng tie Ci arm that made
hem salabie, o. 1t l. only that >he may ex-
a else he taste II iXIu- up AMI decorating
such { c.s with gilt pa Mt and bright
'Olure ribbons that a " man VIII purchase
III. ami then, a. IN reporter learned
lfterwar IS It l. II 50 much in tn simple
little WOO len articles lem el es that the
Tea er, make money as III the materials
which tn Ir purchasers re IuIre for decor
atng.
On the end Of the tal le stool dairy maid
stool, although II Is "A question If genuine
tarlrymalI woull have known what IT was
for had She been presented with it The seat
was co, ervd with hlue plush, and on its top
was eabOrately worked design in silk
The legs wers gil.ed and around each was tied
broad bow Of richly y-cuorei rib on The
three maIdens whom the rel Orter had met
in the elevator vera gong into raptures
over its b autics when he entered, and Just
too love,y for anything was usel at the
rate OF forty time. a minute Waiting until
the delighted trio hal departed, each WITH a
sLtNll uhNIcl ilci al H. tlFS Nuo
man in charge As q ths probable use the
young women would make OF their pur-
chaseS
Paint them up and admire them, / pre-
sume,' said he. Its the new craze, you
know, dairy maid stonls, but it has hardly
reached here yet. The fair that WAS given
at the armorN last week has he,ped it some
but it is nothing yet compared with what it
is in New York and Brooklyn. | know of
one concern in Brooklyn that is selling 3OO
OF 4OJ month and that is only one Of many.
The women must Rave something to fix up
and decorate, you know, and when a craze
starts it is teri, bly, era Y while it lasts
understand that there is scar ely parlor in
New NurS " here there Is a woman in the
family that is not ornam nted with two or
three OF these trihe> prettily decorated
The idea originated. | believe, with a dealer
in Brooklyn last Christmas who hit upon
the plain stools as good means of selling
de Or'ttive mat It's Dread rapidly, but
has boen a long while in coming west We
can't tell one month what the women are
going to take fancy to the next Pug
dogs, hand-painted china, japanese fan
cies banjoS and mando!ins have all had
their little day, and now it's dairy maid
stools i wish -ome one could tell me what
they are going TO take a fancy to next lo
make Sfortuna "-Chica5o Tribune
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04

A St Petersburg correspondent of The
London Times credits the story about n
party of CosSacks i'll the Souian, who are
now serving un Ter the mahdis successor,
and of CosSack embassy OH its way to
King John OF Abyssinia. He says they are
free" Cossacks who Were efficient in the
Russian tranS-Caspian campaign, and being
disappointed in their hops of settling in the
Caucasus, went to Abyssinia under a GER
tain amount of official encouragement from
the Russian authorities, who consider that
region good place to plant Russian infiu-
ence Times Democrat
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04
YOUTH AND AGE.

Nora Perry in Youths Companion.l
"SC slow, 80 Slow" one cried,
The hours creep by"
$50 sw #. so swift" one sighed,
The short years fly.'
''Sn sweet, 80 sweet one sang,
These day of bloom"
$50 brief. So brief out rang
A voice OF doom.
One lifted as she sung
A summer face,
Guld-Crowned and fair and young,
With summers grace.
One turned a weary head
With back ward gaza.
Toward the sunset rel
or diving davS.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04

Are pri e fighters any less susceptible TO
pain than other people:" the old sport was
asked
Some undoubtedly are" he replied
Those who are SO are men whose nerv Gus
systems are Of low development naturally.
Then the training TO which they are sub
pectei to tit them for entering tn, ring
irings the physical being into the highest
possible condition of perfection and dulls. or
in great measure, takes away the super
sensitiveness that would be likely to belong
to a less finished animal Furthermore the
excitement of fight and the pride that is
cultivated i'll them that forbids all manifes
tatiOns Of sensibility TO pain, helps them
along mi i-htily. 1t is with good fighter as
with truly game bulldog. The dog, no
doubt, feels the pain if you lreaK his leg
while his teeth are clenched in the throat of
another dog, but he has to- mu,h grit to
show that he does, and, LesIdes he has other
business at the moment to occupy his atten-
ton. Just so with the man in a fight he
may suffer keenly, but there is no time to
complain of it He is there to win if he
can, and while there Is life there is hope -
New York Sun.
Artists are interested in a revival Of tns
81,
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-04

Prince Gunther, Of Sonderhausen, had
theatre but though a dramatist he was not
ute 50 modest as the king of Bavaria
since he insiste on all the court and the cit
liens in turn sit ing out the performance
In his box were clay pipes, Rhine wine, and
tobacco, that If the play was dull and
long the Wis to: doomed to witness it could
not complain Noticing a stranger yawn-
ing through the piece, he asAed him b Nv h.
liked it Being assured that it was delight
full. and his only regret was that it was too
sLo-t, the prince shouted to the actors
hey hey there Here's Prussian major
who wants to see the play again 80 act it
thr rough once more And acted through
again it was, the weary audience getting
home some time near dayhght-The Ar
Ronaut