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r? GHASTLY RELICS. Novel Collection* in tlie Arm j* .TIedical Museum at lVaithiiifflon* There is one place in Washington that very few sight-seers visit. It is a museum with a ve y extensive and novel collection. composed entirely of fragments of dead people, and it occupies the old Fold's theatre, on Tenth street, in which Lincoln met his tragic death. The once gay theatre is now associated witliskelc tons and death. The lirst floor, where I the pit was, is occupied by the clcrical I force of ;he medical department of the | army. The dress circle ccntains the ' library and a few articulated skeletons, j while the peanut gallery, where the ; street arabs used to assemble at night to : applaud the acting and drop peanut hulls j and orange peelings on the bald heads j in the pit. is given up exclusively to the i collection of fragments of dead men. | There is seldom anybody in the museum j except the attendant. At the entrance j of the library a group of skeletons stand | grinning a sepulchral welcome, those in j front standing in a careless attitude, j "too naked to be ashamed." while those j behind jeer over tiieir shoulders with an air c' familiarity that is offensive to a person of delicate sensibilities. Near the door is a sign and an index finger, which tells the visitor that the museum is up-stairs, and these grinning, gibbering skeletons seem to feel a cyni- ! cal satisfaction in directing the way to j the upper room where are collected the ! relies of ruined men. One tall, tine- j looking feilow stands with his foot on a j skull. The rest stand with their toes j turned in and their long, bony fingers { soread out at their sides or twisted together. Some of them are young, spry,dandified skeletons.with head erect and polished white foreheads and a full set of pure white teeth, while others are J hollow-chested, snaggle-toothed, old j creature.), and others again are black and j shriveled up, like witches' imps. They all have that offensive familiar grin, which seems to say that they hope to ! know you better later on. Up-stairs there are rows of glass cases j all the way around the wall, and close ! together from cast to west around the j room, there are large glass bottles, like preserving jars. Some have human hearts in them; some hold the lungs and liver. Others hold kidneys, spleen,eyes, noses, ears or lingers of men who have been a long time dead. Among the spleens is that of Guiteau, which is a third larger than any of the rest. One case is devoted to arms and legs that have been amputated, and show how nice and slick the surgeon's knife and flttW V>C1IU cm II. vv'v/mu vi buv/u* i?4 v | all lacerated and torn to pieces by gunshot wounds?most of the exhibits are the scraps of men picked up olf the battlefield. One heart has two big ounce bullets imbedded in it. Another has a deep gash in it and j near by is a dirk Knife. Another case is devoted to h^;rib!e looking hands and feet put up in glass jars. All are swelled up and lacerated. Some have the flesh torn away and the bone and sinews left bare. A solitary thumb reposes in a ^ small bottle, while a little finger is i crooked up in another. An eye torn j from its socket by a musket ball is | soaked in alcohol; odds and ends and all sorts of fragments of dead people arc collected'there like the scraps for a crazy quilt. But the chief part of the collection consists of small fragments of bones. There is the section of the backbone of Booth in a glass case not many feet from the spot where he shot Lincoln. There are all sorts of human bones shattered *>y shot and shell. Skulls with crreat big lead balls sticking iu them; big bones with fragmeuts of iron shells crushing them into powder; joints broken apart by musket balls; there are skulls, ribs, legs, and arms shattered and shivered by all sorts of missiles of war, and in 8ome cases the lead and the bone have become welded together. There are over 9,000 specimens of bones fractured in curious ways by shot. There are plaster casts of different cuts of the human body that make the cases look like a butcher's stall. Then there are more articulated skeletons. There is the sjreat French ; skeleton, a giant in proportions, every bone as white as ivory, teeth all pirfcct like pearls, toes turned out, and palms of the hands extended with all the grace of a dancing-master. "Look at those teeth." siid one of the attendants to the reporter, "lie is proud of those teeth. None but a French skeleton could have teeth like that. You ??" ?lmnwo fnll 1 T? ron pVi ma n hv that. There's a Yankee. None at nil! Only one canine, and half,J;he jaw rotted away. That's because they use too much tobacco. If Americans knew how it * ruined their skeletons they wouldn't chew so much. A Frenchman has a right to be proud of his skeleton. I should be ashamed to be a skeleton without teeth. That's a mighty fine looking woman there," and he dusted the glass case that protected a set of delicately fashioned bones. ''She's French. See her teeth; like pearls. If you want to make a gtood skeleton take care of your teeth." These articulated skeletons are the ? ? _ -i. 4.1... ?. oniy aciors now on my Majje tutu, u?cu to afford amusement to Abraham Lincoln, and their bony fingers point out the spot where he met his death.? Wus/tington, Star. One Mail's Work. A traveler in Francc recently described a settlement on the river Oise, which might borrow the name of Rasselas' Happy Valley. It is the work of one man, M. Godin, who was born in extreme poverty,and obliged to work when a child from o o'clock in the morning until 8 at night. The oppression and misery of his childhood gave him one fixed resolve? to help the condition of the poor. By means of several inventions, for which he secured patents, he became a wealthy man. He bought a tract of ground in the valley of the Oise, and erected workshops on one side of the river. On the other side he built an immense house, capable of accommodating 800 people, lighted, aired and drained according to the most advanced laws of sanitation. The building contained a nursery, schools, baths, laundries, library, gymnasium and amusement-hall, lie has enlarged it year by year until it will accommodate 1,400 inmates. Five years a^o M. Godm formed all his work-people into a vast partnership, giving each a share in the workshop?, buildings aud library. The rooms in the home arc rented for less than the laborer would pay for a hove!. The tenant buys his fuel, provisions and other supplies at a co-operative store, in which he is an owner. His children are cared for in the nursery, then promoted to the kindergartens, and next to the school, /.noli flio nrtn nf fiff-nnrt wVinn 11 LI Hi LU<J V icauu C*^v^ V4 -. -w? | the boys are received into the shops, and | the girls take part in the domestic work J of the home. Each workman has free j access to the library and gymnasium. A pleasure garden of twenty-two acres is cultivated, filled with fruit and flowers.?Youth'1 s Companion. , MM VESSELS LOST. Instruction of the Fishing Fleet 011 the Labrador Coast. People's Houses Swept Away and Numerous Persons Drowned. Advices havo been received at Halifax, Nova Scotia, of a terrific hurricane along coast of Labrador. On October 10 the win J was high. Dunng the night it increased raj idly, and by 19 o'clock the following day it was blowing a hurricane. The fishing fleet in the neighborhood had no warning of the storm's approach, and being taken almost unprepared was almost entirely destroyed. The vessels sought such shelter as the inhospitable coast afforded, but vessel after vessel was blown from its moorings and driven ashore on the rocky reefs, there to be dashed to pieces. Wreckage is strewn along the coast for miles, and more of it is coming ashore every hour. The full extent of the damage cannot yet be estimated for want of communication, but from what has been learned so far from seventy to ninety vessels have gone to pieces, and only a few of their crcws had any chance to escape, as far as estimated some one hundred fishermen have lost their lives. Tho people 011 the shore, mostly women and children, are thus bereft of their sole support at a tiim when the entire coast is suffering from a dire famine. .Many of tho lost vessels are from other localities, and this add9 to the difficulty in getting tho list of vossols dasti oyed. The reason why this disaster is particularly felt by tho inhabitants there is due to the fact that the fisheries were a comp'ete failure. Every able-bodied man and boy had been f/% fnl.-ii o/lnonforra of loro*A Qr?l innlc nf mackerel which had suddenly appeared in those waters. For the same reason the vessels had all remained on the grounds somewhat later in the season to makd up for their jjast hard luck. There are now fully 2,000 persons on shore completel}' destitute. Their appeals for aid made a few weeks ago upon the strength of the fisheries have now become doubly urgent. A steamer is fitting out to go at once to their assistance with all the necessaries needed and then it is hoped that complete returns of the disaster can be obtained. The Dominion parliament has been called upon and a liberal donation is expected. The damage done,according to the reports, is not confined to the sea, but numbers of dwellings, many of them little better than huts,but still the only home and shelter these unfortunate Dersons nossessed. were leveled to the ground or washed away by the tide, which is reported to have risen to an unprecedented height within a few hours. In many instances the people were away from home, being down on the beach assisting some unfortunate craft ashore, and so, when the flood came they were not there to remove their effects ani consequently lost their all. The many thus left homeless are subsisting tli j best way they can either in the houses of lriends, in the oil factories, or in temporary shelters made up of old boats, pieces of canvas, etc., in sheltered nooks. This Is having a fatal effect on the many victims of the dreaded scurvy which. made its appearance some time ago. A number of bodies have bean washed up, s< me fifty being recovered so far, but so disfigured are they from the action of the water, or fivin having Oeen Deaten out or a'l human resemble nee on the rocks, it was possible to id nityonly a lew. They were buried in hastiiy-mado graves as soon as recovered, the inhabitants religiousiy accompanying each to the grave and seeing ihat some burial service was held. So violent was the surf that only little came ashoro from the wreck sufficiently intact to be utilized. Tho vessels were most of them small, so the loss in mone}- will hardly reach over but it is th-j fishermen's all. A later dispatch from St. John's, Newfoutidland, says: "A great storm raged off the coast of Labrador on October 11, doing immense damage among the fishing ileet gathered there. Eighty vess?ls were wrecked or driven ashore, and at least seventy men from the crews of the vessels lost their live3. Two thousand persons are now ashore in a destitute condition. The news created great excitement here. Steamers will be immediately dispatched to the scene of tho disaster with provisions, clothing and other comforts for the use of the castaways." Latest Reports. The Darkentine Nellie has arrived at St. John's. N. F., from Labrador. She brings terrible news of the hurricane that rocontly ravaged the wave-washed shores of that bleak and inhospitable country. Not only have the fisheries tailed the sturdy toilers of the sea, but the very elements seem to have a particular spite against them. With the beginning of the month the weather grew bad and frequent storms prevailed. On the 11th inst a hurricane came 011. It struck the coast quite unexpectedly, and the fishing vessels suffered severely. Many foundered at their anchors, and others were dashed high on the rocks and became total wrecks. The loss of life was terrible. Some of the passengers of the Nellie estimate the number at three hundred. Several women perished from exposure and starvation and others were drowned. At Esquimaux Point, out of n population of lf>0 families, only twenty have supplies for the winter. Thirty more hope to get enough from the merchants who usually make advances to them to pull them through. The remaining 100 families have nothing whatever with which to face the winter, and it will be necessary either to bring them oil tho coast or to send supplies to them. The failure of the fisheries was due to the action of the ice in tbo spring. The fall fishing has been poor all over tho gulf owing to rough weather. Prices of all kinds of fish are low. Over two thousand persons are destitute an I stranded on the coast. Five steamers have been dispatched to their assistance. Tho worst is not yet known, but sufficient information has come to hand to make it fully known tnas aire distress prevails on the coast. The hurricane blew with such violence that many of the rude huts of the fishermen were swept away. Hundreds of families are deprived of a roof, and seek shelter day and night under the scanty protection afforded by wreckage and tattered sails. Utiles* speedy succor reaches them many must die of exposure and famine. A HORRIBLE REVENGE A Woman Throws a Bottle of Vitriol in a Crowded Court-Iloom. A I'aris dispatch says that a very startling scene of vitriolic eloquence at the Palais de Justice has caused a flutter of excitement in the legal profession. The judge and advocates were about to proceed with the trial of a case concerning the seizure and sale of a small cottago at ilontreuil belonging to Mme. Laisier, a pretty widow. M. Galas, a commission agent, had been deputed by a group of Mme. Laisier's creditors to effect a judicial sale of a cottage for the bene fit of her creditors. M. Galas stood in the left corner of the audience chamber surrounded by several lawyers, when Mme. Laisier suddenly walked up to him, and opening a small basket that she held in her hands, took from it a bottle of concentrated vitriol and threw it at the astonished commission agent. M. Galas shrieked and yelled with agony, and fell senseless on the floor. His face was fearfully t urned and both eyes were destroyed. His ciothes were so carbonized by the fluid that they fell from his body like burned paper. Maitre Duclos, who stood next to M. Galas, had bis right ear burned off. Seven other lawyers were disfigured and the woodwork of the audience chamber was covered with the terrible liquid. M. Galas was carried to tho Hotel-Dieu hospital. Mme. Laisier was seized by gendarmes, who found in her bosket another bottlo of vitriol and a loaded revolver. Mme. Laisier managed to seize the revolver and placed the muzzle in her mouth, with the intention of committing suicide, but the gendarmes were too quick, for her and prevented her firing. Upon being questioned by the judge, whoso clothes had also been sprinkled with vitriol, she said: "I determined since yesterday to vitriolizo M. Galas, who was about to sell my cottage and deprive me of my only home, although ho has in his hands plenty of money to pay all my creditors. I only regret tnat I didivt kill him." news summary, 'i Famcrn and middle State*. b Edward Kanlan, for many years America^ champion oarsman, lias just been easily ji defeated at Albany, N. Y., in a three-mile a boat-race by John Teemer, of Pittsburg ci Penn. P Ex-Goverxor Joiin B. Paok, of Ver mont, died a few days ago at Rutland. He ir was born in 1*20, and o.ected governor in a 18G7 ami 1SGS. ? Five prisoners in the Wcllshoro (Penn.) - *? . 1- _ ,.,v.;,.i, TI jail took Kronen leave inrougu a nuit ^ Ihey had cut in the wall. ei "Josrr Billings," the humorist, was r< buried in Lanesborough, Mas.%, his native 11 town. P1 Ax engine ran into a coal train at Swartwood Station, N. Y., and William Brown, engineer, his fireman and a brakernan wero killed. Tex trackmen while being conveyed to their work on a flat car were swept off near . Oakdale, Alass., and all badly injured, one dying soon after and several others losing a u* log by amputation. Mrs. Bridget Farley, born in Ireland bo in 1781, has just died at Bridgeport Conn., leaving two children, twenty-five grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchil- hl dren. w A seat in the New York Stock exchange has just been sold for $34,000,the highest price \\ on record. Sarah Curry, aged nineteen years, a girl w of Scotch-Irish parentage residing at Dover, * N. H., has receive ! a cablegram announcing di that by the recent death of an uncle in Scot- so land she inherits ?1,000,000. 0f A Connecticut life insuranca company j.0 took possession of the water works at Evansville , Ind., on account of default in payment ^ of interest on bonds. William J. Best,who has been prominent at in New York business circles through his jj connection with various broken institutions as receiver, was arrested on a requisition of the governor of Massachusetts and taken to H Boston. He was charged with embezzling i in $>75,000 of trust funds belonging to the Pa- W| cific bank, of Boston, of which institution he had been a trustee. The charge is denied by n( Best. gi Notwithstanding the hubbub of an exciting tli election canvas the people of New York city have been greatly interested in the trial of Ferdinand Ward and the Jn appearance on the witness stand of in James D. Fish, late president of the nc broken Marine bank, and now an inmate of Auburn prison. Fish's testimony concerning | the financial operations of his former partner tl( t-t _ - ?...Ktt?no trA?*ir fJamntrittcr tfi fcfi Ill neucillg lub puuuv; koj vi j (. .. .g?o ? Ward. ac Robert J. Cook, business manager of the Philadelphia Press, bad his skull fractured bv a hatchet blow struck by Stephen Mac- &? pnerson, the colored janitor, whom he had re just discharged. Macpherson was arrested, pi and Cook,who is best known as a once famous ^ Yale college oarsman, was taken to a hospital. Ferdinand Ward's trial in New York for grand larceny ended in a verdict of guilty, *? the testimony of Fish, the imprisoned ox- n< president of the Marine bank, telling heavily cr against the head of the once famous firm of Grant & Ward. Ur to recent date the Grant National Monument fund had reached ${J2,500. 3 ci South and West* Mr. Parnell and other prominent Irish home rulers will attend the convention of _ the Irish national league of America at ei Chicago next January. n( A AVicjuti Falls (Texas) telegram states Cc that the Exchange bank, C. W. Israel & Co., proprietors, and the firm's bank at Hen rietta, have suspended, and great indigna- te tion has been aroused among the numerous vx depositors 0:1 account of alleged irregularities. Rev. Alfred Coffee, a colored preacher, beat his thirteen-year-old son to death at Madison, Fla., and was arrested. The first annual fair of the Mississippi colored State Fair association has been . opened at Jackson under favorable auspices. The opening ceremonies consisted of a civic Pi and military parade, and addresses by Gov- in ernor Lowry, Congressman Barksdale and ti Isaiah T. Montgomery, resident of the association. Every part of the State is represented at the fair by exhibits. John Thompson, who murdered James C. White, a merchant of Glen Alice, Tenn., was taken from Kingstown jail late at night . by a mob of 100 men and hanged. A bridge at East Saginaw, Mich., was SQ filled with spectators watching a fire when a, part of the structure gave way, throwing th about sixty people into the deep river below. w Une boy's ooay was recovereu, uuu oovciai m other persons were reported missing. bi The regular Democratic candidate for st mayor of Baltimore was successful over the cc fusion nominee in tha municipal election. A. J. Brnnvs, of Chicago, shot and mor* " tally wounded Mrs. Goode, a widow, and her *c I sister, Miss Lillian Walters. The ladies had ; been employed as type writers in a Chicago ?J mercantile "agency,and Burrus.also employed 8* there, had been discharged when he refused to apologize to Mrs. Goode for defaming her. cc Burrus then took this blood-thirsty method fc of "getting even." Uanbin^ton* S! Secretary Whitney has approved the report of the naval board constituted to ex- ?! amine the work and materials of thi unfin- j ished cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta, jV and to ascertain and declare the fair market u value thereof, including a reasonable and customary margin of profit upon the work; j" ani the naval advisory board has been . ? i. ot ordered to go on wnn mo wuj k. ul *,uu?ui uution. ^ Thk President has appointed Oscar G. C( Paisley postmaster at Wilmington, N. C. To n) be United States, attorneys, Joseph W. House, p for the eastern district of Arkansas.; Monti H. Sandels, for the western district of Arkansas. To be marshals, Thomas Fletcher, for ^ the eastern district of Arkansas; John Carroll, for the western district of Arkansas. sjIt is understood that Secretary Bayard se does not contemplate making any changes in ol the consular offices in the countries south of pi the United States for [some time yet. It is in the policy of the state department to cul- ai tivate more friendly relations with P Mexico and the South and Central American pj neonle. and to extend our commercial inter- ai course in that direction. For this reason the ce consuls who have already secured the good ct opinion of the people with whom they have m to deal, it is thought by the secretary will be ij of greater service just now than would new men. cc The court of commissioners of Alabama oi claims, which will expire by limitation December 31, is making rapid progress with its business. 1? Additional appointments by the Prosi- " dent: W. Lee Diukins, of Mississippi, to be United States marshal for the southern district of-Mississippi; Edmund B. Briggs. of the District of Columbia, to be United States consul at Santos, Brazil; Henry F. Weld, of Massachusetts, to be assayer in charge of the H assiy olHce at Boise City, Montana. riiERE was received at the United States treasury department the other day, in an envelope postmarked Newark, N. J., a ?i300 Unite t States note marked "conscience 11 money." Some days ago a contribution of CI ?200 to the conscience fund was received a ]a the department from a Washington clergy . luwl -if fhl'nntrll 1 ll<-> PAn lllUIl, ?? UV WUU IC*.ViTtU AV VU4WV>5? vw.. fessional. fr St Foreign* a Smallpox, which has been epidemic at w Montreal for s > many months ha; iinally p; appeared in Toronto. At Montreal considerabio '-e-iistanco is made against tho enforced w isolation of patients. C; Loun liOHXE, husband of Princess Louisa, hi was delivering a campaign speech at Brant- d< font, England, where he wa-5 running for 01 parliament, when lie was assaulted with at rotten eggs, his liat snmlied over his hiiad, tc and finally eompslle 1 to Ilea to the railway ai station and depart for Lon ton. Ax immense demonstration expressive of w sympathy for Prime Minister JSstrupp, whose fc assassination was recently attempted, has b? been held in Copenhagen, the Danish capital. a A forcf. of 0,000 Black Flags, Anamites and tli Chineso deserters Ins b?en defeated with ai heavy loss, after threo days of hard fighting, tc by tho French under General de Courcey. tl Hie French loss was cuirteen Kiueu miu u wounded. tc Mu. Hastings, proprietor of the Dublin Irish Citizen, a loyalist newspaper, has been 'V threatened with death, and his residenco has si been partially burnod for caricaturing the Panudlites. " A tsiain collision near Savanno, Manitoba, ^ was followed by the burning of four loaded freight tars, causing a loss of S10J,00X ^ BssinK smallpox, scarlet fover and diph- jsheria have become eoidomic in the vicinity a d f Montreal. Many schools and church? ave been closed. THEempre?sofBrH7.i| is suffering from a roken arm, received by falling down stairs. M. Pasteur, the eminent scientist, has jst furnished satisfactory proof to the French eademy of sciences that inoculation was asily practicable and had been successful in roventing hydrophobia. The GreatJEastern, the largest steamship i the world, has just been sold at public uction in England for ?20,200. She cost 00,000 in ISoS. Spain has received an intimation from the fifntac frnvommprit; tVlflt, if thfi fOl'm :'s sovereignty of the Caroline islands is ;cognized lhe American Protestant mission lust be respected and freedom of religion srmittod. LATER NEWS. President Noah Pohteii, of Yale college is resigned, his resignation to take effect jxt.Tune. The bodies of two more of the sixty porns who fell through a bridge into the rivor ; East Saginaw, Mich., while watching u e, wore re^ovareJ, miking three victim3, ith a number of people still missing. The President has appointed Frederick H. lllSEOn, Ol Illinois, LU uc luaii^Loi luoiuwiiu ul consul-general to Persia; William A* ahoney, to bo collector of customs for tli9 strict of Fernanlina, Fla.; George A. Hesn, to be surveyor of customs for the port Memphis; Walter Goddard, to be collec* r of customs for the district of Fairfield, jnn. Rear Admiral J. C. P. De Krafft died his residence, in Washington, on the 29th. e entered the service in 1841. The annual report of Chief Signal Officer azen. just published, says that tha courso of struction for the officers who prepare eather predictions has been enlarged, and >w embraces lectures by the most distinlished professors of meteorology in e country. An increase of stations the West and Northwest and i. A ??? waiiM furfliar UriWS II AIUCIIL'U IIUU1U lu. lprove the service. Of 940 cold wave sigils displayed during the year, 815 were jusfled. The number of stations now in operajn is 4S9. General Hazen asks that Lieunant Greely, who is unable to e igage in :tive cavalry service, bo made assistant to e chief signal officer. Ho also asks that Sertant Brainard, who with Lieut. Lockwood ached the highest latitude yet attained, be omoted, and that the other survivors of ie Greely expedition receive government nployment. The number of stations r the display of cautionary sigils on the lakes should be ineased. The total expenditures during the jar were $1,017,6'JS. The work of the ser ce is performed by 21 officers, 3 professors, junior professors, 5 JO enlisted men, and 14 vilian clorks. A Corsican fired at a carriage containing !. da Freycinet, the French minister of forgn affairs, who was returning from a cabi;t meeting. Before the would-be assassin >uld fire again he was disarmed and arsted. He asserted his motivo for the atmpted assassination was revenge and ii> jlitical. _______________ AT THE WHITE HOUSE :ene? During'a Providential Reception?Cranky Vlaltor*. Below is an interesting account of a day' )ings at the White House during one of resident Cleveland's receptions. It is given a Washington dispatch to the New York erald: The tri-weekly informal afternoon recepons which have been instituted at the White ouse by President Clovoland are now the ost interesting and attractive entertainents in Washington. The number who atnd them increase every week. This afterDon there were nearly two hundred perins in the East room when the Presijnt entered. Of this number more lan one-half were ladies . Tho people ho expect sensations to occur there are very uch disappointed. Indeed, the idea which is got abroad that the White House is con. antly infest?d with cranks is far from being irrect. ? There were two visitors of this class at the fhite House to-day. One of them wanted > talk on shipbuilding. He said snipjilding was more sacred than any ;her calling or occupation in which men eniged, and that shipbuilders should hava tqi'j possible protection that the government >uld give them in the way of bounties and swards. Bofore he had got very far be was >ld to submit his idea in wilting to the seoitary of the navy, who was just now investiiting the subject. They got rid of him. The other man wanted the government to jrchase of him a quantity of small crocoles which he said he could catch in a couple : days in the lower Potomac, and place lem in the basins of the fountains in public irks. He thought the antics that young id playful crocodiles would perform would i more amusing to the children, as well as ,hers, than anything else. Ho said there ere millions of crocodiles in the Potomac, id that he possessed a secret by which he >uld easily catch as many as might be ?eded. This gentleman was referred to the ich ram mission. The President makes all his visitors feel at jme. He seems to make everyone think lat he is specially glad to see them. Though > the ordinary observer it looks as if ho lakes the hands of all who present themilves the same way, he does not, an I many ' them go away with the im ession that they were speciilly favored . the way their hand was shaken. Ladies e always highly pleased with the way the resident receives them. Ho never seems to ly any attention to their attire or appear ice, all, rich and poor, b?ing cordially relived, though it has been notic-ed that in the en ?f n ra,\ inrliftfl and indeed aged men, he akes extra efforts to convince them that he glad to receive their calls. The members of the Utah commission spent msiderable time with the President talking rer the results of their labors. There is an (ipression in some quarters that there will 3 a reorganization of this commission before ng. At present it consists of two Ptepubliin ex-Senator*, Ramsey and Paddock, and le Democrat, Mr. Pettigrew. A STBANGE DUEL few a Toxcn and an Indian Kill.d I nch Other. The particulars of a rocent novel duel in e Indian Territory have just been published, lie affair come off at Tishamingo, in the iioctaw nation. Tishamingo is a small vJlrrr> whnm t-hn Tnrli<iTis rln their trading, and the frequent resort of hard characters oni Texas and other parts of the United ;ates. That region is full of outlaws. Among dozen or more outlaws sitting in a saloon as a tall Texan named Chalmers. An Indian lice oflicer namxl Brown entered th'j saloon ul Chalmers insisted on treating. As they ere about to drink Brown managed to spiil lialiners' liquor on the floor, telling him he id enough. This enraged the Texan, who miandcd blood, and pulled his revolver with 10 hand and his dirk with the other. Brown so drew his weapon, and a light was about i open, when tli3 spectators interfered and ttomptcd to settle the matter. Not hing would satisfy the wounded honor Chalmers but blood, and so the other hite men and Indians fixed up alight on the illowing terms: Tho two men were to stand " Jp" '-""l' Mm itiiddlo i\f Mlfi floOl*. At U-'H. bU 1K(V tv m uuv iii>uv?.w given signal each man was to run out of 10 room, the Indian through the front door id the Texan by the back door. They were > turn in the same direction after clearing 10 doors, and begin firing promiscuously, otla principals agreed to these terms and >ok their positions. The signal was given, id both started from the house, pistols in and. They faced each other on the north de of the house and opened fire at almost 10 same instant. Three rounds were lired i quick succession. Then the Indian began > stagger, and, running toward Chalmers ith a drawn knifo, plunged it into the Texti's breast just a3 the latter fired his last ullet, which penetrated the Indian's lir-art, illing him instantly. Chalmers died halt 11 hour after his antagonist. Over fifty In* ians and whites witnessed the duel. t "LITTLE MAC." The Sudden Death of General George B. McClellan. A Sketch of his Career as a Soldier and Civilian, C4eneral George B. .McClellan died suddenly at 3 o'clock a. m., on the 2Sth, at his couu; try residence, St. Cloud, Orange Mountain, | N. J. He was seriously troubled with neuralgia for the first time about three weeks previous. He complained of severe pains in tho chest, which he attributed to cold, and : for fivo days he was in bed, attended daily by Dr. Seward, of Orange. A week before his death he was so far restored to his ordinary \ health that he went out driving every day. i Then he had some reminders of the former trouble, and at Dr. Seward's advice remained ndoors. On the evening of the 27th he was so well that a dinner was given by the McClellans to some of the neighbors, General McClellan taking part and appearing to be in his usual spirits. The day before his death | he stayed in the house, reading by the fire most of the day. During the evening he was restless, but suffered no pain until about 10 o'clock, when he began to walk about the room, complaining of severe rvn r\n ivi in 4 Anil ViAl*_ I UOJ UAJ OUiO KJL jjaIII XII II1U U'COU U1IU UCigliUUl ~ i hood of tho heart. As ho obtained no relief I from tho remedies employed by Dr. Seward I in treating the first attack, the physician was sent for, arriving soon after 11 o'clock. By ! that time General McClellan was almost j senseless with pain; opiates were ad1 ministered with a view to relieving j the pain, and he sank into a comatose state, which lasted until he died at o:10 o'clock a. m. Mrs. McC ellan and Miss May McClellan, the only daughter, were at the bedside with Dr. Seward when ho died. The only son, a young manof twenty, astudentat Princeton college, arrived at Orange at 1 o'clock. So far as Dr. Seward knows Genj eral McClellan never was troubled with neu! ralgia belore tho recent attack. Dr. Seward thinks that, possibly, too much smoking may have weakened the action of th.> h?art. For the last sixteon years General McClellan has lived in summer with his family on the Orange mountain, overlooking tho town ! of Orange. His father-iu-law, General Marcy, lives next door. General McClellan also had a city residence in New York. Sketch of His Career* George Brinton McClellan was born in Philadelphia. Decembers, 18U(J,his father being Dr. McClellan,a celebrated member of the faculty of the university of Pennsylvania med ??' A of t>lia T T?i I AtV.U1 logc. ALICIX acuujlli^ av vao utarti.itv; of Pennsylvania, he was appointed to the West I Point Military academy, from which he was j graduated in 184'i. ranking second in a class i of fifty-nine members. Ho was then assigned tor the corps of engineers as a brevet second lieutenant. In the Mexican war ho served with much credit, and was. attar being comI missioned as second lieutenant, breveted first lieutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contrerus and Churubusco, and for similar conduct in the battles of Molino del Rey and Chapultapec. At the close of the war ho was detailed to duty with the engine.-r troops at West Point, and then, in 1851-52, was assistant engineer in the construction of Fort Delaware. In 1S.V2 ho was engineer of the exploring expedition to the soumw of the Red river of Texas, and was also made Chief engineer of the department of Texas, having charge of the surveys of the rivers and harbors on the gulf coast of that slate. He was the engineer for the exploration and survey : of the western division of the proposed ' Northern Pacific railroad through thj Casj cade mountains in 185S- -4. and in the former I vpnr was nrnmnfflfl to he first i lieutenant. After special service in j the collection of railroad statistics for | the war department, he was made a captain | in the First cavalry on March 3, 1855, and | served in 1855-5(1 as a member of the military | commission appointed by the United States | government to visit the seat of war in the | Crimea. His oliicial report of this \ i*it was ! published by order of Congre s in 1857, emj bracing remarks upon the operations in the Crimea, and upon the organization, instruc| tion, and equipment of European armies. ' i On January 1(5, U57, Captain McClellan re* | signed from tho army in order to accept 1 ho i position of chief engineer of the Illinois Cani t;*al railroad, of which he was made vicej president in the year following. In 1SG0 he i became president of the St. Louis and Cin! einuati railroad, and he was holding thus of| flee at the outbreak in 1861. On April ?5,1861, I lie was commissioned major-general of Ohio volunteers, and be was soon placed in com; mand of the Department of the Ohio, which i Included tbo States of Ohio, Indiana, and | Illinois, with the westerly parts of Pennsyli vania and Virginia. He was commissioned | major-general of the regular army on May : 14, 1801. In the following July he was j engaged in the action of Rich mounI tain, West Virginia, and by a forced I march upon the Confederates compelled ! the surrender of General Pezrain near Bev erly, in that State. The thanks of Congress ! were voted to General McClellan in the same j month for "the stries of brilliant and de| cisive victories" which his army had achieved i "on the battle-fields of Western Virginia.'' : On July 22, 1801, the day after the I Bull Run disaster, he was summoned j to Washington, and a few days later was placed in command of the Divii sion of the Potomac. He was made comj mander of the department of the Potomac on i August 17, and of the army of the Potomac i on August 20. Upon the retirement of j General Scott, on November 1,1861, General McClellan was appointed general-in-chief of ; the armies of the United . States. , The young commander was very ; popular with his troops, and ho was j compared to the young Napoleon. After the i general advance upon Manassas in March, ! 1802, General McClellan was in personal comi mand of tho Army of the Potomac during the Virginia Peninsula campaign. Yorktown having been besieged and evacuated, and the Confederate forces defeated at onil RnnnvflP CVllirt.-hnilfifl j General McClellan took up a posij tion on the Chickahominy and I opened the campaign against Richmond. I Finding his line too much extended, he ! changed his base to the James river, accomplishing a difficult flank movement by coni tinuous fighting for nearly a week. Among I the more important battles in which his forces were engaged were those of Fair Oaks aud Malvern Hill. After General McClellan had fallen back to Harrison's Landing, General Halleck, who had meanwhile been made commander-in-chief, ordered him to return with his whole army to I Fortress Monroe and Yorktown. After ! the defeat of General Pope, at the second Bull Run in August, 1802, General McClellan i was placed in command of the defences of | Washington. .In the Maryland campaign i from September 7 to November 10, 18i>2, ho | was in ccminand of the Army of the Po j tomic, being engagea in ine Dacnes or oouiu ) Mountain and Antfctam and in ! the march to Warrenton. His victorj' over L?e at Antietam onded I the Confederate invasion of Maryland, On j November 7 General McClellan was superseded by Gjn?rai Burnside, and placed on I waiting orders. General McClellan was not. afterward engaged in the war. On August 31, 1801, the i Democratic National convention nominated ! him for the presidency, and at the ensuing election he was defeated bv President Linj coin. He resigned his commission in the army on the day of election, November 8, 1864, and took up his residence in N. Y. city. A f terward ho ma-le n visit to Ruropo, from ' which he returned in 1WS. Tie then engaged I in practice as a civil flpijhoer. He had j charge of the construction of the Steven; 1 floating battery at Hobok^n, N. J., and was j superintendent of the construction of the j railway bridge over the Hudson at Poughj keepsie. He also served as chief engineor of i the department of docks in this city, re signing: in 1872. t- 10-r 1 ir,-?P1alln? win tlin Demo Ill 101 I uriiot Ui iuvviouuu ..^ - cra'io canflidnte for governor of New Jersey, j and wat elected by about 12,(^0 majority. Since the expiration of his term as governor > he has not held public office. In addition to his report on "The Armies of ! Europe" (which was republished in Philadelphia in ISfll), ho was the author of a transla j tion from tho French of a "Manual of Bay' onet Exercises,'' adopted for the use of the United Stitos army, 1S52; a volI umo of the government reports of the | "Pacific Fiailroad Surveys,'* 1854: "Regulations and Instructions for tho Field | Servico of tho United States Cavalry in Time \ * ^ ? .. '7 i..or war" "Europeancavalry,""Report on *dfl a Organization and Campaigns of the Army ol the'Potomac," 1804: and a recent contribution U to the Century war papers. Between 1853 and 18^51 he was chosen a member of several scientific associations. JJri At the time of his death, General McClellan was president of the Grant Belt Copper company. He was also a governor of the Soldiers' Home at Old Point Comfort, Va. Ho married in Mav, 1860, a daughter of fjnr> (rf?n. Rnndolnh B. Marcv. on whose staff he had been, and who later served on I his staff. For about twenty years Gsneral | McClel'an has made his summer home on the summit of Orange mountain,about two miles A 'rom the town of Orange, spending there a jj6W o.irt of almost every year since that time. In appearance General McClellan was a inter nj&n who would attract attention anywhere, succi lie was about five feet ei?ht inHie3 in height, ^hot with very broad shoulders, which supported p u a large r.eck and a well formed head. His 4* arms were muscular and his hands as hard as dogs a plowman's. The eyes wore gray, clear, and I'tsul gave no signs of any emotion that might be haps workiug witbin the man. He wore a mus- acad tacke and * imperial of a sandy serib color touched with silver, and his iron-gray rabb ha r uas brushed back, revealing a prominent of a forehead. He was very social and had many do?>friends, whom he entertained pt times pied royally in his Now York ai.d Orange resideuces. man The news of Goneral McClellan's death ond was received with manifestation of sor- been row everywhere. In Chicago, in Tren- latio ton N. J., where he lived many last years; in Wilkesbarre, Penn.; in than Brooklyn, and in many other cities the flags "f were placed at half-mast. la ixew i oris cuy * the Veteran Association of the One Hundred duce and Sixty-fifth .New York Volunteers (Second with Duryea Zouaves) met and passed resalutions bottl of sorrow, and Abraham Lincoln r'ost, No. man 13, G. A. R., appointed a committee to take the 1 appropriate steps. For A Washington dispatch, dated in the after- oculj noon after General McClellan's death, says: and It is definitely learned to-day that Major- tissu General McClellan came very near being days made a member of President Cleveland's not( cabinet; that he was tendered the Russian foun mission and declined it because of busi- ease, ness engagements, and that within the "A past twenty-four hours the Presi- Meis dent had concluded to offer him cami an appointment as a member of the Civil Past Service commission. Thn President has di- bitte racted the flags to be displayed at half inast suffe on all the executive buildings here until after took the funeral. He has also sent a message oi a sympathy to Mi's. McClellan. The war de- med; partment, in a general order issued this after- doefr noon, pays tin following tribute: "Tin name was and fame of this distinguished soldier expe and citizen is known and honored latio throughout the republic. As the organizer piec< of the Army of the Potomac he made it viru; capable of accomplishing great deeds, the the lessons he gave it wore never forgotten, and ~a n the spirit with wbi3h he animated it con- Now tinucd through all its erentful history. Sub- tor seque.itly, as its leader,he reudered great ser- treal I vices to his country. His pure and noble and character, his un-elfiah devotion, ana cne Decn duty he performed in the hour of r>eril will Alsa cause his memory ever to be cherished with was pride by the people of the United States. "j ON THE BRINK OF WAB, rEt ' "J PowLWiltf of a Collision Between sary Kusaia and Aumria. bits A dispatcb from Sofia states that "the ' Servians are invading Bulgaria, advancing Wf)U by way of Klissura. They crossed the fron- adjo tier at 0 o'clock to-night. A force oi Bui- ?^'at garians is advancing to meet them. The ?'jj Servians had been preparing for the inva- *v] ' sion for some time. The puolic is clamorous for war." * A London dispatch says: "The news that ,<(the Servian army had passed the Bulgariun j tl frontier furnished almost the sole topic of ij: discussion in the political clubs to-night. ^ Much anxiety is expressed, and it is felt that ^ a great war is possibly impending between t Russia and Austria. It is considered hardly j?. credible that Austria would have al- ^ lowed King Milan to move without ^ ' reckoning the chances, and with- f ^ " out being prepared to sustain his movement. [ ' An atiack on Bulgaria at this time can have L" but one object?that of enlarging Servian * territory at the expense of Bulgaria. If the attack succeeds, the most fertile section of "rv? Western Bulgaria will be added to Servia. J? ? ThiS will rob Bulgaria, insult Russia, and ir" cripple Turkey at one blow. It is believed that Turkey will be too wary to . interfere just now, because she * has "J" invited the powers to a conference about the general situation, and she would much rather have the hardships and costs of war imposed upon them than upon herself. If the 'clash of resounding arms' is swept by a northern breeze to the doors of the council chamber, it may lead to a more hasty settlement of the ***< question in order to localize the war. "The attitude of Englaud is foreshadowed Tt by the action of the cabinet council last Fri- pj.^ clay. At that meeting Lord Salisbury pro- .. posed that the English representative tne I should be instructed to support Prince Alexander and Bulgarian unity as much as possible, but to acquiesce in the de- Fc cision reached by a majority of the con- thet ference. This proposal was debated at some the length and finally adopted. It indicates a the purpose on the part of the present govern- of t ment to steer clear of Eastern complicatians, subsi and is in line with the waiting policy which has has been indicated by Bismarck." gene ence THOMAN RETIRES, p'bi ? of t! Another Civil Service Commissioner are' lte^ls'im. bold: Civil Service Commissioner Tiioman, in a ^ letter to the President tendering his resigna- jje c( tion, says: . will "While-thus asking release from so honor- a^ei able a trust, I desire to record my gratiflca- en(*: tion of the proved practicability and remedial Af effectiveness of the reform procedure. Tried dent veterans in political wurfaro view seek' with amazement the facile, though On * radical, departure from the fa- jnS miliar methods of tho spoils system of in t distributing patronage. Strenuous and sin- othei cere argument, and also deliberate perversion, ness; mark the opposition of different groups of 111 antagonists. And yet it must bo concluded m?re that a majority of the political leaders in ?^.e' either party is in accord with the Pondl-ton law, if its original enactment and emphatiendorsement by a subsequent Congress were honest legislative expressions, and not the *?-rT coercion of moral cowardice by popular senti- [J mout nor partisan legerdemain. if *' * Public appreciation of the fact that this re form does not trench upon sturdy partisan- A ship came late. It was sedulously maintained 50nS that the civil service was to be composed of ' Pa1 men who should abjure certain rights oi'eiti- Euro; zenship. With the gradual, but inevitable Italy, refutation of this false view, the outlines of ^ the reform at last stood forth in clearness. f0rmi It is a reform which views tho civil service a jjui as a vast business agency; its search is for . the beat obtainable merit. In business whi ^ ^ is not political ic enrorces no lasts ul i _l0?0 The President replied as follows: * | m Executive Mansion, ) tr A*?3 Washington, Oct. 34, 1SS5. t ?.y? Hon. Leroy D. Thoman, Civil Servian Commissioner. . My Dear Sir: I have received your letter "a f tendering your resignation as a member of QOOfci tho civil service commission, which is in An furtherance of an inclination expressed by the p trnn verxr snnn after mv inauguration occon "as President. The resignation thus curac tendered is hereby accopted, to Thi take effect on the 1st da./ of No- adopt vember next I congratulate you upon tb* 0f W1 I act that in the office which you relinquish into t you have been able, by sincere and earnest arm3 work, and by a steady ^ev.tion to tho cause jtaud tvhich you have in chai ge, to do so much in . tbe interest of good government and ire- wujev proved political methods. Yours sincerely, i? Grovkr Cleveland. a"t3' at rJri * "? J00, b A QUARRY COLLAPSES.' TlaUy Lirc? Lowt hy tlio Sink ins of a . ?EI Villa*? in France. *j?"so Dispat.-hes from Porigueux, Franco, state fama | that a frightful accident has occurred at the to pos I Chancelade quarries, near that town. While a large body of workmen were si0nal engaged in taking out stone the quar- ?<h rios suddenly fell in, destroying a village anms: situated on the ground above the stone-pits mana and killing a largo number of porsons. Many you t were buried in the ruins, and it was doubtful to out if any of them could be rescued in time to accun save their lives. Troops were sent to the the a scene of the disaster to aid in tlio work of re- there lief. th'.-se, Perigueux is the capital of the department ty, 15 " TX -J /vP TiVnn/ia Aflllnn CH uoruogue, *11 IIIU suutuiranb ul i n*iiv.u, c*nv* wim? is situated on tho i ight bank of tlxo isle, it ous li; has a population of and itschipf edifice who t is a cathedral of the fourth century. It has from a college, a normal school and a library of ty-livi 20,000 volumes. It was tho capital of the old these district of Perigord, and has Roman remains. ; in the A - .... - . . - : llfii FOR HYDROPHOBIA lliant Success of a French Koipntififfi Prnanimanfa Mvtviiiuu O JUApUl AIUVUbO? ing a Boy who Had Been Bitten by a Mad Dog. special cablo dispatch from Paris to the York Herald gives the subjoined most esting account of Dr. Louis Pasteur'* 5ssful attempt to find a cure for hydro>ia: fo more hydrophobia! No more mad ! Dr. Louis Pasteur's experiments havo Itod in a most brilliant success. At perthe most important sitting held by the emy of sciences, Dr. Pasteur thus deied the process of cure by means of a it inoculated with the fragment. tissue taken Irom the spine of a rabid* Thfl ir?niiKnt.ii">n r?P tha rmicrm nnnn fifteen days. As soon as the first rabbit llated was" dead a portion from its spinal row was in turn inoculated into a secrabbit, and so on until :-ixty rabbits bad inoculated. At each successive inocun the virus increased in potency, and the period of incubation did not occupy mora i seven days. laving ascertain: d that exposure to dried liminished tho virus, and consequently red its force. Dr. Pasteur supplied himself a series or' bottles of dried air. In these les he plated portions ot inoculated spinal row at successive'dates, the oldest being oast virulent and the latest the most so. an operation Dr. Pasteur begins by initing his subject with the oldest tissue, finishes by the injection of a piece of e whose bottling dates back only two . and whose neriod of incubation would ixceed one week. The subject is then d to be absolutely proof against the disL boy twelve years of age, named ter, who had been bitten fourteen times, 3 from Alsace with his mother to see Dr. eur. The autopsy of the dog which had in the boy left no doubt as to its having :red from hydrophobia. Dr. Pasteur the celebrated Dr. Vulpian and professor of the school oficme to see the boy Meister. These two ors came to ttie conclusion that the boyj*^ doomed to a painful death and might be^^ rimented upon. In thirteen days inocn^^ ns were male upon Meister with 33 of Spinal marrow containing s of constantly increasing strength, last being from the spine of ibbit that died only the day before. a hundred days have passed since Meisuiiderwent the last inoculation. The fcment has been thoroughly successful tho boy is in perfect health. He had bitten sixty hours and had traveled from. ce to Paris before the first inoculation performed. i shepherd boy named Judith,aged fifteen, bitten by a mad dog a fortnight ago and low been a week under treatment. Dr. ear is confident of curing him. Dr. Pasteur said \ bat it was now necesto provide an establishment where rabmight always be kept inoculated with lisease. In this way a constant supply >inal tissues of old and recent inoculation Id always be ready. Before the sitting was umed Dr. Pasteur received an enthusiastic ion, from bo li the academy itself and inbiic who w.-re present. Among those ant I noticed the Grand Duke Alexis,'' is a great dig fancier, and M. de Les, who went to hear Dr. Pasteur's report rsed by Dr. Yulpian. )ne of the leading doctors present remarklat the 'question was whether a man d of hydrophobia could suffer from a nd bite. In other words, whether inoculation of virus was a guare against hydrophobia. In answer Pasteur states that the malady ansmissible only by bite. If, therefore, ? ? ? 1 in^nnlnf mn rtf rir\fra gSlltirttI UUIIlJIUirJUl J juumiaiiua VJL UVK? ;everal generations dogs bad been made pable of hydrophobia, the malady would 5 disappeared and there would be no oc>n to ask whether inoculation had a perent effect or not. As to the origin of hydro)ia, Dr. Pasteur says nobody in the world explain its primal causes. As he re- . kod?perhaps out of politeness?his theory requiro study by the profession in order uake it practical, but he emphatically ni that the cure for hydrophobia bad i found." .'v OFFICE SEEKERS. i President Decline!* to See any More ol Them* le following has been promulgated by ident Cleveland for the information of rablic: Executive .Mansion, I Washington, Oct, 27, 1885. j >r nearly eight months a large share of ;ime of the President has been devoted to hearing of applications for office and determination of appointment?. Much ;he time thu3 spent lias unaouDcecuy srved the public good, some of it been sacrificed to the indule of the people in their natural insistupon useless interviews, and some t has been unjustifiably wasted. The ic welfare and a due regard for the claims hose whoso interests in the government entirely disconnected with officeing imperatively * demand that in future the time of the Presishould be differently occupied, and mfidently expects that all good citizens acquiesce i:i the propriety and reasonless of the following plan adopted-to that ter the first day of November the Prasi will decline togrant interviews to mose ns public positions or their advocates. londavs, Wednesdays, and Fridaysdurthe month, from 10 to 11 o'clock he morning, ho will receive such r persons as call on strictly public busiand on the same days, at half-past one ie afternoon, he will meet thos3 who ily desire to pay their respects. On all r days and times during that month he receive only cabinet officers and heads iDartments. SICAL AND DRAMATIC. nightingale that sings a charming is a new $65 toy in Paris. rri is soon to make an artistic tour of pe, going as far south as Austria and chorus ot fifty Russian singers, per- _ ing national songs, have just started on opean trip. authority on music says there are 000 professional and amateur piano rs in the United States. ere is only one theatre open in Monnnd that ij a 10-eent show, patronized sively by French Canadians. bani recently sang before Queen Victond received as a souvenir the queen's ''Some Leaves from the Highlands." edon'do, Fin., has a musical prodigy in erson of a four-year-old boy who is an iplished pianist. He can play with acy and precision any tune he hears, e Paris Vaudeville theatre has just > ; hi* moana ed a very never m VCilwv-m, wj 1-| , lich each seat can be at once folded up he thickn ?>s of three inches, rest for the and all; likewise a hat stand and a cane famous violoncello by Stradivarius, i belonged to the two Servais, father 3n, the violoncellists, is offered for sale ussels. It is rep rted that a bid. $12,as been made by Herr von Mendels* af Berlin, but that Mme. Servais has the price at J,000. itha Fuicke, one of the latest addito the Abhott Opera company, is a 11af Nashville, Tenn., where she won great in amateur performances. She is said isess a handsome stage presence and a alto voice of wonderful purity and ith. This is Miss Fricke's first professeason. ave you any idea of the extent of the jment business?" asked a well known ger the other day. "It would surprise o learn how many shows are out trying lertain the public, aud at the same time uilate the shekels. I have been polling ....?Eruj fi1Ki that CU'UL-WUiia vi* aro this week 370 organizations. Of 242 are dramatic, GO musical. 27 variemiustrel, 14 circus and eighteen mis. eous. This does not include the numerp-t>y-nights or the song-and-dance teams, ravel in pairs. An organization has a dozen to thirty, and sometimes sevenb people. You can form some idea from figures of the number of people engaged show business."