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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01

who is Madame's husband What Hauk'I
voice is to Hauk, what Hauk and her voice
are to the Baron, all this is Tavary to Mon
sieur. When Tavary sings he goes through
precisely the tactics that Wurtegg doei
when Mrs Hauk appears Tavary dancel
from one door to the other with one eye on
the stage and the other on the audience.
When It is unappreciative he frowns, and
when it is pleased he goes wild with delight.
As Hauk usually opens the week with
Carmen, her favorite and famous role, she
gets one ahead of Tavary, who retaliatea
by sending Monsieur Tavary TO the man.
ags5
band, ''sing in 'Cavalleria Rusticana' on its
opening night, or Madame Tavary will not
sing all week"
Of course this brings everyone
to time or to despair Madame
Hauk, who knows Tavary is ambitious to be
Carmen, gracefully valves her privilege and
permits Tavary to be Santuzza. Tavary says
she signed a contract to be the first prima
donna, and never knew that Minnie Hauk
was in the company. When she found it
out she subsided into tears and stayed in
them all day.
The Chevalier in . Rage.
There was . performance last Monday
night, to which only limited number were
invited. Minnie Hauk was playing Carmen
Tayary was in q box dividing the attention
of the house. After a while . well-known
critic dropped or was enticed into the box
where Tavary sat. She was relating to
him her successes, showing him her rings
and telling him what Carmen she could
make, when Wurtegg caught sight of them.
The plaudit-to-be was squeezed to death, a.
he convulsively doubled his fists
'Why was Tavary in the box; who had
sent the critic therej she should not be in
the box at all, he yelled at the manager
whom he had pulled into the house. When
the cheyalier appears In evening dress with
his silk hat on at the theater Madame Hauk
is in the leading role. On her off nights he
Is never seen at the theater.
The third husband is Edward Graham,
who married Madam Natalie. She as we'll
as her husband is an American. Graham is
q good fellow, devoted to his wife as his
wife, but steering clear of the pitfalls of the
advertising husband. He is never seen in
the theater. The existing jealousy is the
reason that Madam Natalie did not once
sing alone in Pittsburg.
The men singers have their jealousies too.
When Del Puente got to Pittsburg last
was only after a deal of petting that he
promised to appear Six weeks ago the
manager weighed ITO pounds and filled
every corner Of his wais.coat To-day the
same xaistcoat is in creases and 80 pounds
of avoirdupois has gone to the heaven where
lost pins and pennies 60 never to return.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
Ravages of the Grin in Enron.

LONDON, Oct. SL-The epidemic of infiu-
enza which has been raging in Moldayia,
Roumania, has reached Bucharest, where
the disease is accompanied by skin erup-
tion. Advices from Berlin state that infu-
enza has also broken out there in an alarm
ing manner, so much SC that the training
college has been closed on account Of the
prevalent sickness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
UPRIGHT PIANOS, S228.
Square Piano, $3.50; Parlor Organ, $50.

Square Piano, $3.50; Parlor Organ, $50.
An elegant upright piano, in perfect Or
der, of handsomely carved case, easy action
and excellent tone. This fine instrument
will be sold, fully warranted, at S225, with
plush cover and stool Also good square
piano at $3.50 and a frst-class parlor organ
at $50. A rare chance to secure an instru-
ment at low figure.
j. NJ. HOFFMAN, & Co,
537 Smithfeld street.
Agents for the celebrated Sohmer, Colby,
Hallet & Cumston, and Schubert pianos;
also, the unrivaled Pelrubet, Reed Pipe
and Newman Bros. organs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01

MY facilities for obtaining fine diamonds,
watches, jewelry, ETC., are such as to allow
me to sell goods at from Is to 25 per cent
less than any competitor. My stock is all
of the newest designs and latest styles It
will pay you to call on NJ. G. Cohen, Dia-
mond Expert and Jeweler, SO Fifth ave.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01

THE largest stock Of fine diamonds and
precious stones, watches, jewelry, silver
ware, etc, in the city, at NJ G. Cohen's, Sc
Fifth ave.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01

800 HORSES and mules will be sold at the
Manchester stables ON Monday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-14
WOES OF QUEENS.

The Queen of Roumania has two
serious troubles which preyed sadly on
her excitable, emotional nature. Her
only daughter died and her son and heir
never arrived. King Charles, her hus-
band, has adopted grown up nephew
to fill the state vacancy, but everybody
knows this is not the same thing to the
poor Queen consort, whose position is
never the same as when her own child
comes next in succession. The dispen-
satious which have fallen on other ex-
allied ladies should remind Her Majesty
of Roumania that SIZE has partners enough
in distress. The ex-Emprcss Eugene
for one, whose heir was greeted with a
whole nations enthusiasm, and after
ward perished by tie spears of few
dusky savages.
The Austrian Empress is in still worse
plight. Her only son met with dis
graceful end and barely received Chris
tian burial. Save for legacy of mis-
chief and heartburning he is as though
he had never been. The Queen of the
Belgians lost her only son some years
ago. A grand review of Queen Victoria s
descendants would very likely give Car
men sylvia a lonesome feeling, but she
should reflect that forty children and
grandchildren not only come expensive,
but can seldom be managed as droves in
a cage when once sons-in-law and daugh-
ters-in-laws and junior partners swell
the list.-Modern Society.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-14
A Novel Owl Trap.

Uncle Tatum Fullilove, of De Soto
parish, La, has in his yard, near his
poultry house, rather novel but effect
-ual owl trap. 1t is made as follows:
An old scythe blade is procured, two
holes drilled about four inches from the
butt, and the blade then ground very
sharp. The blade is then securely spiked
or screwed to the end of good, stout
pole some twenty or more feet long, and
the base of the pole set securely in the
ground. The blade should be secured to
the pole so as to stand at an angle OF
about forty-fve degrees.
When the owl lights upon it to take
observations (as he is almost sure to do),
he slides gradually down toward the top
of the pole, the sharp blade cutting his
toes meanwhile. When the pain is felt
he naturally becomes alarmed, and spreads
his wings to fly. In the effort he makes
to rise, still deeper CUTS inflicted upon
the tendons of his feet, and he departs
either hopeless cripple or an entirely
disabled owl, whose occupation as q
poultry thief is at an end.
The same trap may often serve to dis
able hawks, as they, like owls usually
select some high perch from which to
take observations before making an at
tack.-Farm and Fireside.
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A RUSSIAN WINTER.

The winter girl is as Russian as posi-
Bile. Her glove fitting gown will have q
band of fur about it, and she herself will
be wrapped up in furs from out of which
her pretty face will look like the fresh
rose that she is. The girl of to-day has
lost the rather dried-up look that the girl
of ten years ago had, and the reason for
it is this: Knowing that her home is
kept at summer heat all through the cold
DAYS, she dresses as belts that, and only
when she goes out doors does she assume
the very heavy furs and the warm long
wraps that she knows are desirable as
well as becoming. Walking out in the
fresh AIR, she gains all that is good from
it and doesn't grow cold, and when she
comes in and throws aside her coat she
is not too warmly gowned for the heated
air in which she exists. She has learned
that while the room may be warm, it is
also desirable to have it well ventilated,
and the consequence is that her eyes are
brighter and her skin clearer than ever
before Chicago Times.
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Story OF the Empress Frederick.

The Prince of Wales is not the only
one of his mothers children who knows
how to assert himself. The Empress
Frederick is ordinarily the most affable
and unaffected of royalties, yet nobody
understands better how to give digni6ed
rebuke when occasion requires it. Some
ten years ago, when, as Crown Princess,
she was spending the winter at Peli, on
the Riviera, with her three daughters,
they were in the halt of making excur-
sions almost daily, travelling by train and
taking their places among the other pas
sengers in any carriages where they found
places.
On one of these occasions a French
man who happened to find himself in the
same compartment with them, being
ignorant-or affecting ignorance-of the
rank of his fellow travellers, was proceed.
ing to light cigar in accordance with
the universal custum on that line, but
before doing so he turned to the Princess
and politely inquired: ''Docs madam OBJ
ject to the shell of smoker"
~ do not know the smell, sir. Nobody
has ever presumed to smoke in my pres
ence," was the crushing reply.
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The Old Battlef1elds.

General Butterfeld said the other even
ing, that the Count of Paris was very
much struck on his recent visit to the
Virginia battlefelds with the clearness
with which the lines of the contending
armies were still outlined. Everything
is as it used to be over twenty years ago.
The pine shrubs and oats overgrow the
bloody angle at Spottsylvania Court
House, but the earthworks are still intact.
About there the Count picked up many
Mimic balls, and canteens and saber belts
are scattered about in profusion where
Hancock's and Upton's men made one of
the most brilliant charges of the war.
The old McCool house, in the rear of the
angle is standing still, though all its
shingles were shot off during the battle.
New York Star.
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NEW IDEAS IN LACEs.

Brussels lace is costing less than it did
formerly, despite new tariff legislation,
because the flowers or "sprigs" are now
sewn on a ground of tulle instead Of one
made by hand, writes "Fedeliua" in the
New York Saturday Reoiew. This pro-
cess has not benefited the designs, of
course, yet nevertheless much of the new
lace, both that made with the bobbins,
"Aeurs en- platt," and that made with
needle, "aeurs en- point" is very beauti-
full. The love of fine laces increases con-
stantly among Americans, and it is q
worthy passion. Talking of laces, the
lace butterfly is favorite form for these
exquisite fabrics now, and it is to be-
come yet more popular rs the season ad-
vsnces. Lace butterflies are on bodices
and catch-up draperies of evening dresses.
They are worn on the shoulder, in the
puHings of skirt ruche, or the gather
ing of flounce, or wherever they are
most unexpected and so calculated to
confer piquancy on the costume. Some
of these are mounted on the slenderest
invisible wires.
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A Swiss Farming Village.

IA Swiss Farming Village" is the
subject of an article by Sophia Kirk, in
the atlantic. She writes:
The beautiful autumn weather will
have US all day out-of-doors. Early in
the afternoon the Jungfrau puts on its
croix federale, the shadows Of deep
hollow in its breast and of an opposite
mountain meeting in q perfect cross,
dark upon the brilliant snow. The sun
has shifted to the westward of the high
plateau, round which he seems to make
a special revolution as round little
world, and the shadow lengthens in the
yellowing grass. As the afternoon ad-
vances sort of tan spreads over the
landscape. The woods glow with GRIM
son and golden hues which blend in a
rich auburn; they are less audacious in
color than our New England woods, but
more harmonious. Little feathers Of
smoke curl upward here aud there from
the fields where they are burning the
potato vines, and larger smoke plume
ascends from an unroofed oven of stone,
over which some women are drying
hemp. while others are beating it with
rapid, cheerful noise, which comes
pleasantly to our ears across the fields.
At dusk these women go home looking
like corn shocks set in motion, with the
hemp hanging in stiff, dun drapery from
their broad shoulders. On all sides
pictures which seem to come fresh from
the hand of Breton or 1Iillet; for that
poetry which is everywhere in the con-
tact of soil and effort enfolds even our
prosperous zimmerwald peasantry, who,
little as they know it, are already on can
vas painted at Barbizon and in the Pas
de-Calais. In the green of the meadows
"a soft, indefinite green which takes on
beautiful tones at dusk-a slim girl, with
skirts looped about her waist, is now
ing, following in the wake Of two stal.
wart men, laying the swaths quickly and
evenly before her; then pausing-a
sculpturesque figure in the gathering
gloom-to wet her scythe. The hay
making was over long ago; these thick,
soft swaths are for ensilage, to keep
their sweetness all winter in underground
burrows. Farther on, between the earth
twilight and the sunset sky, man and
woman are hoeing potatoes with their
heavy, deep-bladed pioches, dusky sill
houettes in motion against the opal
light; giving their whole strength and
care to a STRUGGLE with the difficult dark
element below, while bathed uncon-
sciously in the peace and radiance above.
There is no Angelus to check their
labors, for we are in Protestant coun-
try, and they go on without pause into
the deepening of tho evening.
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DRESS ORNAMENTS.

Steel is as much in vogue as gold or
silver, and some of the ornaments made
of it are more beautiful than those fash
ioned of the tinsels. Tiny steel buckles
are very cute. Steel beaded or frosted
wire net makes some pretty bonnets with
gray tips and steel ornaments set with
turquoises; exquisite embroidery OF fine
" cut steel beads is in gray cloth crowns:
silver passementerie on white cloth, with
black astrskhan, is excellent; spangles,
nail heads, and studs of all the tinsels
and of jet and steel are dotted over vel
vet and cloth. Crystal and pearl passe-
menterie is seen, though less frequently
by far than that of other materials. The
crvrtal is a success on white uncut velvet
with snowy tips. The pearl is dainty on
the velvets of delicate tints. Dragon
Hy iridescence tips white feather aig-
rettes placed on white velvet theatre
toaues with birds of the same changing
Gghts.-Mttc York Times.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Our thoughts of to-day are our actions
of tomorrow.
Men need moral courage moro than
they do higher foreheads.
An ugly thing is ugly, and you can't
make it pretty by liking it.
A man who takes care of his youth is
apt to become wise old man.
No mans conjectures are right, but
sometimes his guess happens to hit.
A fact is as difficult to change as for
O bigot to be conscious that he is one.
He who chooses to be led will never
redeem the mortgage on his will power.
1t is interesting to hear two "scholars"
convince each other that they are both
wrong.
1t must be a very clever woman indeed
who can make the story of her illness in
teresting.
An elective government needs no au-
thority OF State superior to the will of
the people.
You cannot control the mind; you
cannot say, "This shall go in and this
remains out"
What seems to be virtue is derived
from an innocence that ignorance is
always blessed with.
You sometimes see people too old to
read and too old to write, but did any
one ever see a man too old to count
money!
Men rarely contend for liberty to do
that which is right; they usually fight
for the liberty that licenses them in
wrong-doing.
We can all tell the truth when it is
easy and praiseworthy to do so, but
when our telling the truth brings dis
grace upon ourselves, or favor upon our
enemies, it is hard for US to utter it.
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wife roses must take the place Of
orange blossoms and the tulle veil is
never again assumed. Heavy, white
corded silk, white velvet, white brocade,
white mousseline de sole are all shown
for the brides gown; but the real we'd
ding material is white satin. True, it
grows yellow with age, as does ivory; but
if love IS young in the heart there will
be the same delight in looking at the
folds in the wedding gown that there is
in recalling the wedding day.
A widow who is being married for the
second time may wear. any color she
wishes if she is in travelling costume, but
in full dress she must have either pale
gray OF mauve, or, if she prefers, some
other becoming color, but never white;
nor should she wear orange blossoms.
Roses, daises or whatever flower Is suited
to the shade of her frock are proper, but
the white, sweet smelling blossom be-
longs entirely to the young girl.
Somebody asks how to arrrnge a veil
and how far it should extend. You can
not buy veil by the yard; that is to say,
you cannot tell how much you need; the
proper way IS. to have the storekeeper
send n piece of tulle and then drape it on
the brides head. 1t should fall over
her train, though not beyond it and
should reach the edge of the skirt in
front.
The orange blossoms are put on so that
they are only visible after the veil is
thrown back, which ceremony should be
performed by two of the bridesmaids
when the newly-made husband leans for
ward to kiss the bride.
In all large cities there are hair
dressers who make business of arrang-
ing brides wells, but in smaller ones
these helpful persons are not always to be
found; so just remember in putting it on
that, while it is light as air, it must be
firmly pinned in position; and the orange
blossoms we'll in place, so that when the
front part is thrown back they will
present perfectly we'll arranged appear
ance.
f one wished tulle could be substituted
for the pearl decoration of the costume
pictured.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-14
A Tall Soldier.

Captain Won Plueskow, of the First
Regiment of the Guards, in Potsdam,
has long enjoyed the reputation of being
the tallest soldier in the German army.
This distinction, however, is no longer
his. A few weeks ago, a so-called
"volunteer" was enrolled in one of the
regiments of the Garde- u-Corps, who is
six feet ten inches tall, while the Captain
is ''only" six feet six inches in height.
The volunteer is taller than any man who
has served in the German army since
1880
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-14
W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
FEATHERS ALWAYS THE PROPER THING

FEATHERS ALWAYS THE PROPER THING.
1t always delights the female heart
when feathers are In vogue. This season
they are used on all garments, from the
tea gown to the outside wrap and hat.
This fondness for feathers is not to be
wondered at for they are always becom:
ing. A pretty girl in a large hat with
black ostrich feathels is twice as fascin-
ating as with any other style of hat, and
trimming of feathers about the neck of
an older woman softens all the lines of
the face. Mrs. Stanley affects large hats
and ostrich feathers. York World.
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The Boy Preacher and Ills Convert.

Mr.. Harrison then asked some half
dozen young men around the altar when
they were converted and they gave the
dates of various meetings. Pointing to
an elderly-lookiug man, Mr.. Harrison
said:
"When were you converted7"
"Two years ago, when ycu were in
Brooklyn" said the man.
"What converted you? How did you
feel2" said Mr.. Harrison.
"Your talk made me SICK" was the
response.
There was a hearty laugh from the
congregation, before the man added
"Your talk made me heart-sick and !
came to God and got cured. "-Me0
-Haoen Palladium.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-14
A PUBLIC SCHOOL COOKING CLASS.

The Chicago Kitchen Gardens Asso-
citation, composed of ladies, of course,
has instituted free cooking classes in the
Chicago public schools. Instruction is
given on three afternoons each week,
from 4 to $50 o'clock. A luncheon is
served after each lesson, it being the
privilege of the pupil most perfect in the
preceding lesson to serve the meal. At
tendance is entirely voluntary, and for
that reason, as pupils necessary deprive
themselves of recreation in order to be
present, the ladies feel that 15S girls on
the roll is very encouraging showing.
-Nep Orleans Picayune.
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Keeping Flowers q Long Willie.

When flowers are dear it is good to
knew how they can be preserved.
One way of preventing del
icate and sweet-scented flowers from
tagging is to cut them with several
leaves on the stem, aud, when the fow-
er head is placed in water, to allow only
this head to remain above the water,
while the leaves are entirely submerged; :;
by this means the leaves seem to help
support the flower, which will thcn last
for three days in a fairly cool ROOM
,New Yark Journal.
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The readers Of this paper will be pleased to
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that science has been able to cure IN all It's
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SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR brides.

From time immemorial the brides gown
has been white; and if one could only
have simple muslin frock it seems as if
it ought to be of that pure tone, because
her own heart is thought to be as clean
and white as her gown, writes Mrs.
Mallon in the Lal2ies' Home Journal. The
white gown and the orange blossoms are
the privilege of the bride, and even if
she has to economize and give up an
other gown I can quite appreciate the
feelings of the girl who insists on the
white satin, the blossoms aud the tulle
veil.
She can never wear this costume but
once in her Life, for after she has become
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The fifty largest libraries in Germany
possess about 12,7OO,OOO volumes,
against England with about $3.50, ,OOo
and North America with about 8, LOO, ,OOO
volumes.
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TAenAk s1ooor $1,000 Carefully I@nye.tsa @ here m!
Test m TlCO1i INVESTMENT CO., TlCOAl, WASH.
What We Are Made of.

Huxley's table of the weights of the
different parts of the average human
body, often referred to as most interest
ing compilation, has now been largely
superseded by table prepared by a
French chemist, which gives the pounds,
ounces and grains of the different ele-
ments in human body of the average of
154 hounds, It is as follows:
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All are entitled to the best that their money
will buy, 80 every family should have, at once,
a bottle Of the best family remedy, Syrup OF
Fioe, to cleanse the system when costive Or
bilious. For sale in toc. and 81 bottles by all
lea ding drup pists.