Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-11
OF CURRENT INTEREST.

OF CURRENT INTEREST.
More than a year ago orders were issued
that prohibited smoking in the corridors
and elevators of the senate wing of the
capitol in Washington. This applies TO
every floor in that wing. OF course. smok-
ing can be indulged in in committee rooms
and cloak rooms. The disgusting cigarette
habit had become so prevalent in that wing
Of the capitol and many complaints
had been made. that strict prohibition
had become necessary. The rule was en-
forced with great strictness, and the i'm
provement was SO apparent that Speaker
Reed. who rules the remainder OF the capi-
tol. decided to institute the reform in his
domain. Within the past ten days notices
nave been posted in the corridors and eIe-
yators and Statuary hall. stating that
smoking is positively prohibited.
1t is estimated that 100000 worth of
linen Is imported to this country annually
for the making of collars. cuffs and shirt
fronts An American, writing from Vienna,
says there is no reason why the greater
part OF this expenditure cannot be saved
and new article produced by native re-
sources While in America manufacturers
of white shirts and makers of best grade
collars and cuffs use linen for the outside
coverings. in Austria, where linen is pro-
duced and consequently is cheaper than it
IS here, fully 80 per cent of all the collars,
cuffs and shirt fronts are made of what is
called Chiffon which is an ali cotton fab
ric. In appearance it resembles a very fine
linen, takes a brilliant gloss. and no ex-
pert can tell the difference, either before
or after washing.
That perpetual California lie is on its
travels that IS born out here yearly in the
degenerate breast of the envious tender
foot, says "Saunterer." in the Los Angeles
Times "A letter from the East states that
the writer regrets to hear of our orchards
OF frozen oranges. and thinks it must seem
strange TO US to have the snow lying so
oeep IN the streets of Los Angeles. Why,
bless your heart. dear friend. a snowflake
would feel as much out of place In the sun
filled air of Los Angeles as one of these
modern Ananiases would in Paradise. The
'Saunterer' has lived here decade and a
haif and never has seen a single snow
flake in all our valleys. The coolest thing
that we come in contact with is the cool
deliberation with which some of these col
ossal liars falsify their statements about
u.s."
The Prince of Wales Is said to have
learned in his youth to make stockings.
His son, the Duke of York, learned the
trade of ropemaking. His cousin. the Gar
Nicholas II, can plow. SOW and reap The
emperor William is practical typesetter
King Humbert is rot only an excellent
shoemaker. but cobbles also to perfection
Oscar Of Sweden handles the az with dex-
terity, like an approved woodman not
even yielding the palm in this respect to
NJ. Gladstone. Queen Victoria is exceed
ingly fond of knitting. Not many days
30 Nchn f~f,r, =
sented 1t to the oldest and most deserving
of the inmates of an asylum for disabled
working women in the Isle of Wight.
Consul General Bowen, at Barcelona. In
report to the state department says
that from April TO October last there were
AIS bullfghts in Spain. and 12lS bulls val
ued at $4,000. and $3.50 horses. valued at
100000. were killed during the exhibitions
The number of matadores was twenty
three, and for their services they received
upward of $225, ,000. The matadores some OF
them receive salaries amounting to up
wards of $4,000. One famous bull butcher
killed ia animals last season, appearing in
sixty-eight fights and receiving a salary
of SSl,o00 for about four months work.
MY father was my college. and I am
still going to that school, said Thomas
A. Edison, Jr-, in response to Chicago
reporters query. The wizards son is 20
years old and about feet inches tall.
He dresses plainly, sports a faint mus
tache and knows himself pretty well. He
is an early riser, being out of bed at s.
and. like his father, he sometimes stays
in the laboratory till in the morning.
Young Edison has invented hundred arti-
cles or more, but nothing that counts"
The Pail Mall Gazette says of ex-British
BlcEde Emily Soldene's memoirs: Critics
cannot say that the book is not amusing
For very amusing it is, partly from it's
unshrinking revelations of a life unlike
any other. partly from what some people
would call a surprising absence of female
delicacy here and there. Yes, but so sur
prising that we can hardly think it that.
1t must be something else; and that some
thing else must be some form of innocence.
because there is no other explanation of
it,
rye that are weary. be seated is the
inscription that decorates benches that a
philanthropic merchant in Morristown,
n. j., has placed long the front of his
building. where the heat arises through
iron gratings from the boilers in the cell
lar. He did it because he noticed so many
homeless wanderers gathering there for the
sake of the warmth. but the spirit of
perverSity" seems to have visited them, for
the benches seldom are occupied.
Nat Goodwin says that while he was
playing to poor BUSH ess in Adelaide the
manager tried to better things by going
across the street and inviting a party OF
twenty miners to come and see the show
free of expense. After some demur they
consented to come, but when they were
inside the theater thir leader approached
the manager and demanded of him how
much they were to be paid for their time.
Some one asked Vice President Stevenson
recently if he was not glad to be relieved
of the cares and responsibilities of his high
office. He recalled the tale of an old colored
friend of his, back in Illinois somewhere.
perhaps in Egypt Qll). This friend had
been converted, and he was asked if he
was not happy about it. He said: We'll,
not so doggone happy; just happy"
Speaking of operatic salaries, Jean dc
Reszke doesn't think he is excessively paid
when he receives 81, go a night as a guar
antee and 25 per cent of the gross receipts
over $500. it is the distinguished tenors
opinion that an artist should demand as
much as his managers are willing to pay.
Just as he should be content to receive as
little as his place can be filed for.
There is wailing and gnashing OF teeth
among the manufacturers of walking canes
because for some unexplained reason the
carving of canes has gone suddenly and
completely out of fashion. Men of tha
smart set are now never seen to carry