El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20

IN ~ IN IN IN M rs SIlSS :
enough brown velvet to accent the
blue and suggest jewel brightness.
Washington will not have washiug s
hung in front yards even If the Ger.
man ambassador does it. WASHINGTON
is very proud of it's front yards any
way. every home having it's green
space in front of the windows, and no
citizen is allowed to violate this beau
ty. Besides there is q prejudice in
back yard and so when the German
cbancellor's servants hung the Teuto-
mic clothes in the front yard to dry,
the neighbors objected and prayed the
city commissioners to request the Ger
| mans to quit and it was done.
1t surprises one to hear arguments
for the English sparrow, and yet in
Boston, where moneys were set aside
to accomplish his destruction. there
was loud protest. He eats caterpil-
lars forsooth: he is joy to the chill
dren and old folks; he stays in winter
when the oth err birds desert us; he is a
most conscientious scavengeran and helps
to keep our cities clean; if he drives
other birds away it is only to the fields
anc farm sides whore they are badly
needed. While five hundred enemies
have cried for his head, five thousand
have pleaded that he may live his
cheerful little life.
A New York jeweller tells of an in
terestipg case of the opal superstition.
man brought to bis counters one
day ring set with an opal and said:
Here, my wife wants to get rid of this
She has had bad luck ever since the
day she got it. The house has been
a6re, we can't keep a cook, the kid has
had measles twice, my Oldest girl elop-
ed with the coachmsn, the cat died,
burglar got in, took the spoons, and
gave her nervous prostration, and lesser
unfortunate accidents without number
have been her lot ever since she first
put this opal o." The jeweller carried
the stone to good light. looked at it
we'll and said: "Your wife can take
the ring back agsin-it's an imitation
stone"
OF all treasures and vanities o.
women none is dearer to their hearts
than lace. Other treasures may
these filmy fabrics are the very last to
go and only to- her daughter on her
wedding day will a woman willingly
give up of her hosrdings of lace. So
though Queen Victoria is old and has
lost her comeliness long ago, she
clings to her $500. 900 worth of laces as
10 her proud throne. The mourning
Empress Eugene with her sad eyes
her emperor, her son, her pomp of
If marvellous beauty within whose
threads is held the worth of
,l2o, 900 in gold: but the funny thing
S that Pope Leo XIII outdoes both of
hese danes in this particular vanity
or he possesses collection OF laces
worth a million dollars.
The announcement is made that an ,
ther of the Grant girls is TO make a T
oreign allisnce.- OF course, it Is no.
'ody's but the Grants business whom +
ng the plight that Nellie Grant was in
fter her wedding with the English
nan Sartoris and remembering the I
orrow that her unhappiness brought q
o General Grant her father, will Z
7onder why his granddaughter is al !
owed to betroth herself to Prince :
1ichael Cantacuzene-a Russian mill
airy officer of ros al blood and at pres n
mt one OF the military attaches at the r
russian Embassy at Rome. No one 7
hall say carelesely that the prince is X
OF worthy gentleman but no matter {
ow worthy he in particular may be h
he American girl rune a risk in mar d
ying fOreigner-in many ways Z
Iellie Grants, married. life, so entire
? nfortunate-through no fault of
err own as her English father e
Flaw always, acknowledged the T
nglish queen herself admitted by her $
ontsnual favors to the American q
oman,-was regretted by all of her C
.thers devoted frien"s. Now many
ltizens of her country are 10th that =
1e generals granddaughter should t
azard her happiness with foreigners,
However, one heartily wishes the ]
oung lady joy-if she goes into it-and c
etter luck. Ii