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our New Minister will be the
bin nt the Grand tonight tomorrow
afternoon and tomorrow night II
n good. Wholesome pastoral piece
aud ~ drawing we'll.
Mnudc Adams will appear ON Fri
day and Saturday evenings In The
Little Minister" The similarity Of
titles Of the two plays means little.
no. MlHa Adams will jump over Into
the Highlands Of Scotland and con
vert the Grand boards into the land
OF the bonnie bfief bush.
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Ing Of property or money which be
haH in safe deposit vaults IN the
cltY. =
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THE CITY or NEW YORK;
THE city of New York. which Is
being ably handled AZ the Third Az
cnue. will continue through the
week n II attracting good crowds.
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n johnson. who f. staying At the
New Western hotel. has received no
information o. his missing son. ubo
saH last seen sunday afternoon II
Madison park playing ball The
father is % the opinion that his son
10 drowned. The boy vas 20 90 70
work for the Teaie-Hiii Furniture
Company. on Second avenue. Mon
DAY morning and was given mum
Der 81 trade tickets 10 distribute
None 81 these tickets has been re-
turned 20 the store.
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JNMEMH
WIRING
NV scrlsns News Assnl

FREMONT. y. y June 2i.-
When the Inquest into the Gen.
slaeum disaster was resumed this
morning Deck Hand Daniel oNeiu
awure that he never participated In
fire drili aboard the sloeum lie
denied knowing there had been a
fire aboard the sloeam the day pre-
vlaua lie told n graphic story Of
the fire aud declared that the fire
huae burst as soon as the water Was
turned on An attempt vas then
made 60 bring the deck hose into
use. he said but the coupling dld
not 1T lie jumped overheard and
swan ashore lie landed la a small
boat. which earalaed lie admitted
being warned By the man In the
small beat not 20 jump a. the boat
Nas full
Second Engineer nrandow swore
that he received no verbal orders
from Capt. Van schaiek while the
fire vas In progress lie remained
tn the engine room until the Hloeum
Vas fast aground There we're no
appliances. he said for flooding the
holds in case Of emergency.
NEW YORK. 1uns 2i-At 3
O'clock this morning twelve addi-
fional bodies Of victims Of the Gen.
sloeum disaster we're recovered.
making = total 81 re. slxty-fonr
unidentified bodies are at the
mnHKue
A severe thunder storm early this
morning caused the bodies % come
to the aurfare. eight being found
floating near where the steamer
Nas hsaehed
The relief fund nos stands ~
81 600 Two four-lnch guns today
wtii he taken ont on floats and mr.
cd along the river where bodies are
supposed 60 BE- sunk
The first of the damage suits has
ben filed by Mrs Kate Mattier.
Who toat four children. She asks
for So 600
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HE'S A HARD LOSER

Mrs Bessie Pickett. who waa d.
vorced from Foster Pickett = fsN
months REo. filed a petition IN the
superior court this morning asking
that lrsr "a husband be restrained
from annoying her. She claims that
Pickett. since the divorce WAS
granted has haunted her home. 3it
Ninth avenue. and has devoted
hours 20 peerinR into the windows
aud humping on the doors.
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TO MAKE THIS MOVE

TO MAKE THIS MOVE
Tor some time and when the merger
vas dissolved. his chance 10 begin
work came. Mr. Hartman MS
quick "a accept the chance lie will
not leave a single point Of vantage
open % hIa competItors and Vii in.
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A RIBBON OF DIAMONDS.

For the Duchess of Westminster a
London jeweler has produced a costly
ornament in diamonds. 1t may be used
as a necklace a hair ornament or a
corSage decoration. 1t is flexible rib
bon of diamonds and cost 100000. The
ribbon is formed on a foundation of
platinum hinges. The ends are fringes
of small stones. The ribbon may be
tied in a bowknot to be fastened to the
gown. Another way the duchess wears
the jewel is to have it intwined in her
golden brown tresses. The diamond
band, which is a foot long and two
inches wide. admits of many possibili-
ties as a hair ornament. Again, the
duchess may wear it tied about her
neck. London society wonders why
the duchess wants an ornament of this
sort. She has enough handsome neck
laces to fit out a half dozen women,
and her tiaras and demicrowns num-
Der five. The Westminster emeralds
are wonders.
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DOWRIES FOR UGLY AND GRIP
PIED DAMSELS.

Germany is the home of some quaint
charities. In the town of Haschman
prizes are offered yearly to the men
who will marry the ugliest, the most
crippled and the women over forty who
have been Tilted at least twice.
This strange charity was the result
of a great financier's discovery of the
exceeding power of beauty, and he
therefore made bequest in aid of wo-
men who are without it. He provided
that out of the income of the fund not
less than $50 should be given as the
marriage portion of the ugliest girl in
any year and that the cripple should
receive $50. The poor women over for
ty who have previously been Tilted re-
ceive $40 each when the funds will
permit, but the trustees can vary this
amount at their own discretion in order
to offer a larger prize to some man
willing to accept an unusually i'll fa-
vored or crippled bride.
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STUNNING BLUE SILK WAIST.


Van Hyphen sighted another steamer
coming out and cried with hysterical
glee, Catch that one at all costs!" In
a few minutes the steamship sighted
the tug alongside and, without stop
ping, of course, threw out, first, rope
and then after a few minutes a rope
ladder. Up this young Van Hyphen
climbed like monkey amid the cheers
of the passengers. AS soon as he could
break away from their enthusiastic
handshakes he repaired to the interior
of the ship, where he speedily ordered
and consumed a bottle of champagne,
and then, seeing a fellow passenger
whose face he liked he invited him to
join him in another bottle. By this
time he suddenly remembered that his
letters of credit. etc, Were on the other
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BEAUTY RECIPE.

Said her husband one day: 'FWill you tell
me, my Kate,
What makes you so young and so hand
some of late?
For long while-a month or six weeks,
should say
You've grown younger and handsomer ev-
cry day.
Il believe she said. smiling, ito tell you
the truth.
I've discovered the fount of perpetual
youth.
In the vale of the soul, like a wellspring.
tbs set
And contains equal parts of BE patient,
Don't fret! -
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the Sandyses of Cornwall, where they
have had the same estates 500 years or
thereabout That is whose wife and
daughter Lady Durand is, and that is
all required to be known of society
woman's history.
But Lady Durand is something OF
herself besides being an ambassadors
wife and having some of the Oldest,
bluest blood of Great Britain in her
veins. She is able to write good
story and has written an entertaining
one of her life in India during the fif-
teen years her husband was on diplo-
matte duty there. She is an accom-
plished, cultured woman, thoroughly
fitted to represent the social side of her
country's embassy at a capital which
the London Spectator calls the most
important station in the British diplo-
matte service" Furthermore, Lady
Durand has two handsome children, a
young lady daughter who is with her at
Washington and a son who is an officer
in the British cavalry.
ALICE w. MORTIMER
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pretty girls who. with Miss Roosevelt at
their head, were prominent in Washing
ton last winter again grace its social
circle. Among these are Miss Root,
daughter of the ex-secretary of war;
Miss Pansy Bloomer. the active outdoor
girl Miss McKenna. and Miss Fuller,
daughter of the chief justice. Other
charming girls in Washington the
present season are Misses Hill, Evelyn
Walsh. Marian Gallaudet, Theresa
Loughran and Catherine Chisholm.
The beautiful dashing and vivacious
Countess Cassini, niece and adopted
daughter of the Russian ambassador, is
a great favorite. The senior lady off,
cialy of the diplomatic corps is now
Sonora AspirOz of Mexico, but the fas-
cinating Russian countess is socially
the most prominent and impressive of
all the ladies of the foreign legations.
She is sprightly as a Frenchwoman,
whom she much resembles in her bright
intelligence and sparkling grace.
Countess Cassini appears to be about
everything desirable in the social head
of a legation. While perfect mistress
of the conventionalities, she yet-has an
originality quite her own and does and
dares things a prim woman would stop
at She dashes about the wide, beau
tifui streets of Washington in her own
dGlOfilCDlIe ana PROBABLY SPENDS more
money on her gowns than any other
woman in the capital. She understands
the art of dress perfectly. At the same
time this marvellous young countess,
who is only twenty now, can converse
in his own native tongue with either an
American, a Frenchman, a German or
even a Chinaman. Not much wonder
though The individual who has mas
tered Russian can learn anything. The
young lady has so much tact and adap-
tiveness that she is thoroughly popular
not only with girls of her own age, but
with grave and learned diplomats and
juriSts.
A newcomer in the diplomatic social
circle is Lady Durand, wife of the Brit
ish ambassador. Sir Henry Mortimer
Durand. Unlike Lady Herbert, the
British ambassadors wife who preced-
ed her, Lady Durand is not an Amer
lean woman, but thoroughly English
1t is officially recorded that in 1875 Sir
Henry NJ ortimer Durand married Ella
the daughter of Teignmouth Sandys of
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dyed brown lace relieved by embroid
cred cuffs and turnover collars of burnt
orange and ecru. The hat was of
brown taffeta and shirred bands of
brown chiffon. 1t was a French sailor
shape trimmed with two plumes, one a
deep brown, and the other burnt or
ange having shaded effect culminat-
ing in a pale tip. This hung over the
edge of the brim of the hat OH the left
side.
Now, this was a very practical cos
tune, and I will tell you why. In the
spring on cool days the lace waist could
be used with the skirt, and on warmer
occasions waists of ecru embroidery
would be very pretty. Then later on
the two plumes (plumes are such a
good millinery investment) could be
taken off the brown shape and trans
posed to a straw shape of a yellowish
tint. The same hat might also do duty
with a pongee dress worn with brown
shoes and a brown taffeta or fancy
brown velvet ribbon belt.
Brown, treated rightly, is one of the
smartest of shades, but it needs a wo-
man who carries herself well and
knows how 10 wear her clothes.
What an art that is, by the way!
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cessively pretty girl to whom he was
very attentive. Imagine then whether
the prospect made him happy.
The night before sailing he gave
little supper party and retired rather
late in consequence. The next morning
his man delayed waking him until it
was really late, and he had to hurry in
earnest. Unfortunately he had to go
to Hoboken, and when he reached the
pier what was his horror to see the
steamer in midstream. But he was not
daunted. Waving a ten dollar bill, he
screamed to the captain of a tug:
"Unhitch your boat and catch that
steamer if you have to bust the boil
ers!" He threw his bag and jumped
aboard. Away went the tug. and away
went the steamer The chase lasted as
far as the entrance of the harbor, where
the liner put on steam and speedily got
away for good and all
ITS no use, SPORT" sighed the cap
tain ruefully. And they had to turn
back. But just at that moment young
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In theatrical companies they are be-
wailing the end of the stock company.
don't know, l don't know, But if all
stock companies are like one I saw
little While ago. well, I'm not so sure
it is not a good thing they have disap-
peared. Did you ever hear of the
Crummles family? They appear in
Nicholas Nickleby." Young Nicholas
joins their theatrical troupe, and in ev-
cry play all the Crummleses have to be
cast first for all the fat parts regard
less of personal appearance and fitness.
Well. that was the way in this COM
pany. Papa, mamma and the girls
girls lang syne. 1 fear-had the bloom
ing and virtuous parts. while the other
members of the company. some of them
really pretty and attractive, took the
parts of old women. adventuresses. and
what not. The dresses were melted out
in the same way. To the favorite
daughter were given the large sleeves.
and every woman will appreciate what
that means. The next daughter had
renovated sleeves, mother had tight
sleeves with sausages of chiffon sewed
on the outer edge to make them appear
larger, while the other members of the
cast had gowns which We're too long.
too short too wide, and you could tell
by the way they were tight in one
place and too large in another to which
sister each gown had formerly be-
longed. I shall never forget the effect
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THE SEASONS
SOCIAL STARS
AT WASHINGTON

early girlhood she has attained a no.
BILE, womanly self poise. Not much of
the fantastic. giggling girl about such
young ladies as Helen Cannon and
Enid Shaw. Miss Shaw is a college
graduate. After she left the primary
schools of her native Iowa she took
five years course at Cornell college,
Mount Vernon. What is more, she took
the highest honors in her class. When
it comes to really solid and extensive
intellectual training this young mem
Der of our republican social court must
put to the blush almost any lady from
the court circles of the old world.
Their brains and bodies are preened
with the fancy trimmings. American
girls like Enid Shaw are adorned not
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EAR ago gay young girls ana
~ debutantes figured prominently
"A in society at the national capt.
n tai. Society was lively, as girls
understand liveiness, but it's
pace was so galloping that before Lent
arrived some of the matrons who were
chaperoning the Washington dancing.
calling, dining and tea drinking had to
retire for rest. Even some of the rose
buds who were the moving spirit of the
show broke down under the pace they
themselves had set. Several before the
season was half over looked like three
days old buds from a florists shop.
This winter is different. The social
gallop is quieter and more dignified.
This is owing largely to the character
of the matronS and maids who are the
social leaders.
Miss Helen Cannon, daughter of the
speaker of the house of representatives,
is the social head of the house OF Can
non. She is a representative of what
is undoubtedly the best and highest
type of American girl Danville. Ill.
the home town of the Cannons. belongs
to that part of the great middle west
where the characters of such men as
Lincoln were nodded, region not yet
infiltrated with foreign notions of gen
tility. The social atmosphere of the
Cannon home in Washington is that of
genuineness. Miss Cannon is eminently
refined. but she is still frank and hos
pitable, like her father, not attaching
too much Importance to mere red tape.
Hitherto Miss Cannon has not been
overmuch 10 Washington society.
While her father was distinguishing
himself in congress she was educating
herself in that solid manner which is
the glory of wOmanhood in America.
She is a young lady of broad culture.
She has Travelled much and knows the
world and its people with that knowl-
edge which makes the person of brains
kindly, tolerant and tactful.
For many years past Mr.. Cannon has
lived quietly at a Washington hotel.
the only occasions when society got
glimpse of him being when now and
then he was a guest at some dinner
and attracted attention from all by his
quaint philosophy and caustic wit
When he became speaker his daughter
decided it was time the Cannons should
show themselves socially inclined. She
hurried home from Europe, selected for
the Cannon home the large. old TINY
house of the late Senator Mcpherson
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A MAN AND HIS ULSTER.

~ HE winter was very cold. Mr. and
Mrs. Bensley Benslinger had been
invited to the silver wedding of
two friends in suburb. Mr. Benslin-
ger was fifty and stout. Mr.. Benslin-
ger discovered that he could not stand
the cold as we'll as he formerly did
Get an ulster said his friend Old
chum, the bridegroom of the silver
wedding. It'll keep the wind off your
back and your chest and all the way
down to your feet. You won't feel the
cold. Get a good long one while you
are about it and get a heavy, shaggy
one
So said. so done. Mr.. Blensinger got
one of the longest. thickest ulsters he
could find. He had. not worn it pre-
vious to the trip in the train to attend
the Oldchums' anniversary. There was
a gift of silver to be carried along, of
course 1t was a large and handsome
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4 little supper partu.

of one accordion plated pink gown
which must have belonged to the slight
figure of the rather Old maidish older
sister, for the accordion plating opened
out alarmingly over the stomach and
bust of the portly damsel who wore it.
Really, 1 was distracted from the play
as l contemplated these curious changes
in costumes and the different vintages,
if one might excuse the term, to which
the different gowns belonged.
1 certainly do love to hear foreigners
speak the English language. The other
day a Swedish nobleman visiting this
country was being entertained at a
friends house, and 1 was present. In
the course of conversation he wanted
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goods or chiffon velvet and decorated
with handsome enameled steel buttons.
The sleeves were excessively large. and
the cuffs filed in with Fittings. as they
have been this winter. And the skirts?
oh, they were very, very full, regular
1880 styles, with wide tucks and band
ings of velvet for trimming. My adj
vice to the girl with the small income
is never, never, to have a suit made by
the tailor. 1t will come out unsatis-
factorily unless she is absolutely sure
of what she wants, and not even then
always. Anyway, the cost is sure to be
greater in the end than if the same
suit were bought ready made, and real
" nowadays one can obtain very exclu-
sive models at comparatively small
cost, especially at this time of the
year. when seyenty-five dollar suits
are marked at fifty and so on down.
You have the advantage of seeing just
what your costume is going to be and
Of deciding whether you will look well
Ii II which is more than the tailor viii
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to describe a court festivity which had
taken place several years before, a sort
of an excursion into the country in the
springtime, and he described it as 1.-The
occasion of the outright of the crown
prince on his bicycle" 1 am sorry to
say. the picture presented to the mental
vision was hardly dignified, especially
as some of us remembered 'soutf1ights"
on our own bicycles which were any
thing but edifying to the onlookers.
Later on, referring to a rural char
acter, the Swedish nobleman spoke of
him as a "farmerous" individual.
think that adjective really ought to be
incorporated into the English language.
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BEDMAKING.
New York.

The greatest attention is given in
hospitals to the proper making of beds.
The nurses sometimes spend months
chiefly in learning to make a bed. One
of the hospital ideas may well he cop
led in every family where there are
invalids or weak people. This is to
stretch the under sheet as tight as pos
sible and pin it firmly to the underside
of the mattress with safety pins.
Wrinkles in the under sheet are a fruit
full source of discomfort to a sick and
restless person This system of pull
ing the under sheet taut and fastening
it so it will stay in place will prevent
such annoyance.
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steamer with his
friends and that
he only had $50
in his pocket.
The first thing
was to find the
purser, and to
that worthy he
cOnfided his
troubles and his
name. The purs-
er gave him a
berth. On the
journey over he
W on S eVeral
pools and one
or two games
of poker. AS a
result he was
"in" all his pa s.
sage money plus
$3.50 when he
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at once above most of the others. 1t
is strong, noble face, with a clear, di
rect eye, the face of one who cannot
only move affairs onward, but can also
endure and keep silence. It shows
woman of calm, sweet tempered, yet
forceful and intellectual, nature.
L find a character likeness to Miss
Cannon in the face OF Enid Shaw. the
debutante daughter of the secretary of
the treasury. There is the same type of
strong, reposeful face, sweet and kindly
too. Miss Shaw looks as if even in her
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only with these,
but possess a
liberal educa-
ton b e sid e S.
That is why
American girls
md women are
so much adj
lnired. AS to
her looks, Miss
Shaw is an at
tractive blond,
eth dark blue
G ye s, brown,
half curling hair
and u beautiful
rosy complex
ion.
Some of the
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JUST Ike HIS FATHER.

A schoolteacher has received the fol-
lowing note from the mother of one of
her pupils:
Dear Mss-You writ me about whip
ing Sammy 1 herby give you permission
to beet him enytime it is necessary to
learn him lesens He is juste like his IA
ther; you have to learn him with a club.
Pound nolege into him. 1 wante him to
get it, and don't nay no atenshion to what
his father says ''ll handle him.
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of New jersey
and furnished it
q u i e ly an 4
C O m fort a ly,
but with perfect
taste. 1t is a
house of twenty
rooms. Speak
er Cannon S
gra ndc h ildren
are with him
p a + t of t h e
time.
If you were
to see Helen
Cannon's pic
tured face in a
group of por-
traits of Wash
ington society
l a d i e S V o u
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A LITTLE roo PoLIrE-

Honest Fat did not mean to be i'm
polite. but he certainly came very near
to it in the following remark:
Lady Ito Pat, who has just rendered
his seat)-You have my sincere thanks.
Pat-Not at all, mum; not at all. It's
dooty we owe to the sect. Some folks
only does it when a lady be pretty But
1 sez, seq 1, 1.-THE sect, Pat, not the in
dividooal.'
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A FAMOUS DANCER.

The wonderful Spanish dancer La
Belle Otero is a strikingly beautiful
woman She possesses a magnificent
collection Of diamonds; indeed she on
one occasion made her appearance in a
bodice entirely covered with brilliants.
She dances and sings to perfection, and
she has also appeared in the role of &C
tress, astonishing everybody by her
powers.
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was of a deep
wn clio tn.
The skirt was
laid in plaits,
and the coat,
thre e-quarter
length, had a
snugly fitting
tucked back and
a bloused front
held in by a
shaped belt. The
cOuarless neck
was encircled by
a brown silk
cord. which was
knotted and fell
in two long ends
down the front.
Under this was
worn a blouse Of
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Spring Tailor Mades.

1t was my privilege to be shown to-
day several advance models of long
skirt spring tailor mades. The ma
jority We're in pale gray cloth made
with a short blouse pOuching back and
front over a wide crush belt of the