Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-27
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the northwest has been discovered by Mr..
Charles u. Grifith, Of Montana, while pros
pecting at the mead of Belt canyon, He dis.
covered n stout pillar of stone round which
was clamped a sheet OF copper bearing AN I'M
PRECISION OF the arms OF France under the
Bourbons. The Montana Historical society
is about 20 take steps for the possession aud
care Of the metal plate which MIR. Grifith
did not disturb. a member Of that assoCia.
ton suggests that this must have been placed
where IL was found by the FrCnch explorer,
Nerendryc, who took possession of all the
lands in the uamc of the French king in l143,
in the belief that he had come to the head
waters of the Missouri, though in reality he
was following the Yellowstone. The Sioux
massacred most Of his party and Ncrcudryu's
account was supposed 10 be chiefly fabulous,
but it is now asCcrtaincd that he really did
what he claimed to have donc, and that he
was the first white man whc ever planted his
foot on the soil of Montana
The mission of the Chicago paper is to
teach everything to everybody, for IL IL
nothing if not educational. The western
world owes to it the discovery of the Italian
poet Dante, who had never been heard of
until the Chicago paper, rummaging in the
limbo of obscurity, discovered the Divine
Comedy, and announced the fact to a listen.
ing, awc-struck world. A club was immed-
lately formed to do justice to the occasion,
| and 10 disseminate DantcsQuc knowledge
among the ignorant, but it has not done what
II expected to do, in consequence of dissen.
sion among the members upon a point of
pronunciation. The question was, how the
name of the poet should be soundcdf Should
it be Darnt, or Dant, or Dan-tcci In the
/ aAtxl .l-N .,-l "A
feeling was created that the usc.of the Dante
club has been provokingly curtailcd. Aud
now the Chicago paper has discovered John
Keats, and it is probable that "A Keats club
will shortly be announced. AS he was an
Euglishman, there can be no difficulty about
his name, and the prospects of such an or
ganization would be bright. There is one
little circumstance which it is important that
the Keats club should know; he had a
special and particular way of drinking iced
claret, which should undoubtedly be adopted
by any association bearing his name.
The present craze of wealthy people is for
orchids-air pldnts-and astonishing sums
are being paid for rare specimens. Jay
Gould in this country and the duke of Mari
borough in England are the most renowned
for their orchid houses, but the center of
pptl 10 illuNi < III 'NlI IaiIN' j u
are florists there who have dozens of
travellers in their regular employment, whose
business it is TO wander through the eternal
forests of South America and Africa hunt
ing for these extraordinary creations of
prodigal nature. The finest specimens come
from Brazil, and especially from the forests
that are liable to iuundation from the ANA
zon. Here the orchids are not found on the
roots of trees, or upon the trunks, but hang
from tho upper branches like rare jewels, 50
that the discoveries have to be continually |
gazing upward. 1t is in orchids as in every
thing else that collectors are crazed about.
The most valuable ones are those that are
rarest, not those that are most beautiful.
The Cattleya is really one of the most ex-
quisite flowers OF the floral kingdom, but it is
not dear by any means. The duke of Mari
borough has his own travellers, and whenever
he gets anything particularly rare it is sold
to a dealer after a short exhibition season at
Blemheim. He recently sold one for a sum
only a little short of Il thousand dollars, |
which had been sent In by one of his orchid
hunters. |
The state Of Nevada has been famous in
the past for its silver mines, but they are
fallen from their high estate and the people
are turning towards agriculture very gener-
ally wherever water can be obtained for
irrigation purposes. Unfortunately tho west
ern boundary of Nevada was established by
congress IN 1864 in such an arbitrary fashion
that the head waters of all the streams
available for irrigation on the western side
are in California. The 120th meridian fixes
the line of the state from the north to the
center, and from that point it runs back at an
acute angle until the l14th meridian is
coa,hnJ Thnrn hna paan n ,pnunppnpt IL, |
Nevada in favor of agitation for the adop-
tion of the crest of the Sierra Nevada as a
proper boundary, 80 that all streams running
to the eastward shall belong to Nevada. The
legislature of the Silver State has appointed
a committee of seven members to confer
with the legislature Of the Golden State upon
the question, and if Barkis is willing, then
the aid Of congress is TO he invoked. But if
Barkis is not willing, then it is difficult to
see what Nevada can do in the matter. The
people of Nevada propose to compensate
California by giving to that state the whole
of Arizona, but it is to be observed that Cali
fornia has no laundering alter Arizona, and
Arizona is looking steadily towards indie
pendent statehood, which must come, and
p. d. q. for the matter Of that. Arizona viii
some day astOnish the world with raisins and
figs, Just as San Bcrnardino county has sur
prised the rest of California.
Miss Julia MarlOwe is creating a real SEN
sation, and her performances of Juliet and
of Rosalind in one of the leading Philadel-
phia theaters have confirmed the good
opinion which competent and unbiased
critics had formed of her. It seems now an
accepted fact that she is the great actress of
the time, and veteran stagc-goers predict for
her a career far more brilliant than Mary
Anderson's. There always was lacking to
the approximations of ''our own Mary" the
fire of genius, but her elocution was so won
derful, her voice so musical, and her face 50
beautiful that people who heard her were
grateful for getting so much, and criticized
under their breath if they criticized at all.
Miss Marlowe is undoubtedly Il genius, and
has been most carefully trained by her aunt.
a veteran actress, so that there are no draw
backs TO her performances, ana her acting IS
not married by faults Inseparable from a
stage noviciate. She is young, she is beauti-
ful, she is gifted, she is well trained, there
fore she will go far unless untOward acct
dents in The theatrical world has
been aching for q great actress, and Is thor
n,ph1V tira5 of thp IonptrVg and thn rnttprS |