The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-11-24

It the crowd the savage show is rather one
4 qualification, the same kind of enjoy
nent some human brutes derive when
,ther human brutes or savage dogs tear
ZACH other TO pieces About the tombs OF
he prophets and saints he fingers with the
leyotion of devotee.
The most astonishing thing connected |
with this exhibition Is that the artistic por-
ion of II should be the work of one man
How did he fad time TO do it9 and whenP
for he is not only an artist but traveller,
and he has been soldier too, and braye
one. As an artist Vasselli Verestcbagin
fills the eye, for he is a strikingly handsome
man. The exhibition is full Of interest,
and would earnestly advise all friends
visiting New York by all means to take it
in. The Galleries are on 2Srd Street near
Broadway, and they are filed with splen-
did pictures that have not mentioned.
There have been two sales here this week
that would have deisgnted the heart of Mrs.
Toodles. The personal estates Of Joshua
Jones and the late Mrs. Hammersley now
Duchess of Marlborough, passed under the
auctioneer's hammer. Who is Jones, any
howP Why, don't you know JonesP Well,
I'll tell you: The original Jones was an
honest grocer who retired from business
fifty years ago with comfortable fortune
of 100000 He bought property out of the
city for $500, which in time became worth
millions. He was queer old Dick. He
had five children, three sons and two
daughters. The sons were queerer than
the father; they lived useless lives, they
were all bachelors, but saved their proper
ty, and each brother that died left all he
had TO the survivor, though they never liYed
together, or hardly recognized each other
while living. John Q. Jones had beauti-
full house on Fifth avenue, full of rare and
costly things, and dying he left it to JOSH
ua. Joshua kept il up in first class style,
and the servants had royal time as long
as he lived but he never lived there him
self, having suite of rooms at the Bre-
yooit House where his eccentric ways made
him terror; but as he paid hundred dol.
lars week he was tolerated for years where
q man with less money would have been
sent to lunatic asylum. He never made
any aequsintances. and for months at a
time never spoke word to anyone. He
died suddenl, few months ago leaving no
will, and now thirty-six of his poor rela-
tions who never expected cent will gel
several thousands each.
The sale of the bric-a. brac of the Ouch
ess of Marlborough brought an immense
crowd together, as the sale comprised man,
articles of vertu and art, that II would be
hard to duplicate There were magnificent
pieces of furniture of toe reign of Louis LIE
Grand, and beautiful old Goeblns worth a
Princes ransom. Many rare old vases and
some very fine pictures were in the collec-
tion, ihirgs that would have added interest
to the art gallery OF any prince or noble
man In the world. Why did not her lady
ship carry them to Blenheimp Is it possi-
BILE that His Grace the Duke has been TAX
ing fresh flyer at bacarat or faro, or mas
he been unlucky at Newmarket, Doncaster
or EPSON? Has the Derby damaged His
Grace's bank account, or has he any bank
account at all? or has he sunk the hundred
and fiftv thousand which his bride drew
from her late husbands estate to pay the
wedding expenses when she went awayf
The whole thing has very strange looh
upon its FACET is like Charles A. Surfac,
in "The School for Scandal" sellinga all hi
relations. The matter has made no end o
gossip, and people are wondering what il
4 Jerusalem she has done with all of he
money.
Among The various attractions of tn
week have been the Horse Show at Madi
son Square Garden, and the Chrysanthem
um Show on the corner of 14th Street an,
Union Square. Both of these exhibition
have been patronized by the elite four hun
dred which takes in all the blue blood Il
the city.
At the Horse Show many of the exhibit
were entered by our best society ladies, an
at the Chrysanthemum Show some of tn
. loveliest flowers there were entered by seN
en- or eight figures.
The equine exhibition was noble on,
though the trend of II seemed to be almos
exclusively to fancy stock-racers, hunter.
! trotters, &C., as they occupied most of th
r stalls; darling little ponies looking mic
! enough TO put in glass case we're ther
by the dozen; manyof them attended affeC
! tionately by their little mistresses an
: masters. Fine ladies in silks, satins an
: yelvets, hung lovingly around their pet,
! looking longingly to the blue ribbons an
2 medals, that were the rewards of superio
blood and breeding. The vast arena hs
been crowded all the woek. and a signif
! cant feature of the advance in public est
S mrlion of this kind of show is, that 1t cos
quite as much to see a horse exhibition 8
O., to see first class prize fight; this in itse
( speaks volumes.
!, The Chrysanthemum Show is now a rel
e ular institution here, and to the lovers
e the beautiful in nature il lie most worthy
attention. Specimens of this lovely Jap
!, nese flower have come to US from all par
s OF the country, revealing possibilities
J, Horticulture hardly dreamed of before.
i used 20 think the rose the queen of howe
: but there is scarcely flower that gro1
s but would pale in the presence of the
u wonderful plants, When l tell you tn
9 fifteen hundred dollars was paid for a 81
a gle pot, and two thousand was offered al
!. refused for another You may guess be
y they rank In the royal family of flower
e The American seedlings strangely enoul
d far surpass the finest japanese varietle
J. and II the Mikado really wishes an,thil
Is fine for the royal conservatory Of Yedd
II he will have to send to New York for it.
e As might be expected the Republica
70 have painted New York and Brookly an G
II cesdingly bright vermilllon for the pa
II week. The young Chairman of the Repu
'e llcan Kings County Committee, Mr.. win