AMUSEMENTS.
AFAAA FRED K
T EBELLOWSSTOCKCO.
DUCA GREAT PLAY:100 PEOPLE ONSEE THE GREA
Bargain Matoof the Ascension. beginning December 1.Miss
Goodwin's work at SL Andrew'sChurch received much favorable
attentionfrom the musical people of the city. Pos-sessed of a
brilliant and powerful sopranovoice, he- solos alone will be quite
a fea-ture. Miss Goodwin has executive abilityof a high order, as
well as great personalmagnetism, which is a necessary adjunctIn the
forming and keeping together of alarge vested choir.The quartet of
Foundry M. E. Church is
now complete In its organization for thecoming year, the
following well-knownsingers having been engaged: Mrs. JosephChunn.
soprano: Miss Adelaide Lynham,contralto; Howard Butterworth
tenor;Charles F. Hall, bass.At St. Mark's Pro-Cathedral last
Sun-
day afternoon there was an Installationservice. wher ten new
choristers wereformally admitted to the choir. The rector,Dr.
Devries. delivered an address on theduties and obligations of choir
members.and the music was rendered by the unitedtwo male choirs of
the church, comprisingover for'y voices.The soloists of the
reorganized choir of
the First Presbyterian Church are: MissMary McKenzie Byrne,
soprano; Mrs. E.L. Williams, contralto; Frank E. Middle-ton and
George Lawrence. tenors; RandallCox. baritone, and Will E.
Hopki-ns. bass.George Lawrence is the director and PaulSperry the
organist.
RUBIES.
Relative Value of and Beauty of theVarieties Known to
Lapidaries.
Frm the Scotsnsan.In trade three classes of rubies are dis-
tinguished-rubles of the orient, rubies ofSlam and spinel
rubies. The different va-rieties called balass rubies, Brazil
rubles,rose rubies. rubace rubles, rock rubles, Si-berian rubies,
etc., cannot be compared atall with the preceding, of which they
haveneither the composition nor the constitu-tion. .Apart from the
balass ruby, which,from a scientific viewpoint, does not differfrom
the spinel ruby, all the others are,properly speaking, only colored
quartz orfeldspar. The ruby of the orient is thefirst of all
colored stones in beauty, as inprice. Its marvelous hue is.that of
thehuman blood as it jets from an open ar-tery, that 'f the red ray
of the solar spec-trum at its maximum intensity.The ruby Is one of
the most exquisite
products of nature, but it Is becoming moreand more rare to find
it perfect. It el.encauses astonishment to find an orientalruby as
large In size as the topases andsapphires of the same countries. If
itreaches a certain size it is almost alwaysfilled with defects.
Rubies of all sizes areput to use. The smallest, down to twentyor
thirty to the carat, are employed spe-cially for delicate jewels,
for numbers, fig-ures. etc. Many of the smallest are cabo-chons.
When a ruby exceeds the weight ofa carat it commands a high price.
A rubymay retch ten or twenty times the price ofa diamond of the,
same weight if it is real-ly of a superior quality.
it may be Interesting to give the figuresat which rubies were
valued fifty yearsago. They were much lower than today.A perfect
ruby of one carat was priced at240 franes. of two carats, 960
francs; threecarats. 3.600 francs; five carats, 14,400franes, and
six carats, 24,000 francs. Ingeneral the cutting as a brilliant is
alonesuitable for a fine ruby. The ruby Is veryhard, almost as hard
as the sapphire. Itwas but little used for engraving in an-cient
times, doubtless because of the difB-culty of finding those
offering a sufmclentsurface, a reason more plausible than
theexplanation that the wax ahered to sealsmade with this
substance. The carbuncle,to which the ancients attributed
fantasticproperties, was no other than the ruby. Itserved, as is
said, to give light to certainlarge serpents or dragons whose
.sight hadbeen enfeebled by age; they bore them con-stantly between
their teeth and laid themdown only for eating and drinking. It
iseven claimed that the carbuncle emittedlight in darkness, and
that the thickestclothing could not stop its rays.Without all the
exaggeration of such le-
gends it was believed for a long time thatrubles contained
luminous rays. The truthis that they have double refraction andsend
out the red rays with unequaled bril-liancy. Traversed in a vacuum
by an etec-tric current they are illuminated with ared fire of
extreme intensity. The greatestheat does not change their form or
theircolor. The most beautiful rubies comefrom Ceylon, India and
China. The mine,of Pegu are nearly exhausted, or but littleworked
today. The regions where they aresituated are dangerous of
approach; be-sides, in the states of the grand mogul theexportation
of rubies is forbidden until theyhave been exhibited to the
sovereign, whoretains the most beautiful. The large rubiesof the
orient, being excessively rare, are somuch the more celebrated. The
largestknown in Europe is said to be one that theRussian caravans
brought from China withother Drecious stones in exchange for
theirpeltries. and which forms today one of therarest ornaments of
the Imperial court ofRussia.
It is seen by the inventory of 1791 thatFrance possessed
eighty-one oriental ru-b!es, of diverse forms and qualities. One
ofthem remained for a long time in a roughstate, in coosequence of
two or threepoints which could not bie removed withoutinensibly
dimin=2shing the value of the stene;but a diamond artist wat able
to put thesedefects to use and transfomed the roughStone to a
dragon with outstretched wnsThis is the most beautiful oriental
rubknown.
Cholly (to CaMuo, aarobing for lest beD)--"What are you looeing
thee L0wf Why,I must have drives it Ufty yerse fustherthan
this?"The Dipleasatte CaddiE-"Bt inemesthr hit a mterno sir, and
hienes bait a
AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS.
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NOV 11th.(Grand Scenic Production
T IBEST YET.IPORTINGHESSTHE STAGE.T RACE. L e0==Wednesday==All
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The Omby T!e In Wasingat offering EriMISIvelyTMeican and
ferelgStWas of the First askNATIONAL E iF
JOSEPHJEFFERSON
lPM&ENT"'G ON4Monday,Tuesday andThursdayEveningsand
Satur.day Matinee,JW N L
Wednesday THE
Evenings, RIVALSCRICKET ON
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Evening, LEND ME FIVESHILLINGS.
Mo"'fl: SEATS THURSY, o,Ailnov.15, Oad-rs.TMR. RICHARD
MANSFIELDIn "BEAUCAIRE,"
An origInal Comedy In Five Aets, byBooth Tarkington and
Evelyn
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to
A Tall Texan. TNFMU EMNLEE-nonFrom the St. Louis Repubie.H. C.
Thurston, a Mount Vernon (Texas)AD
planter, a coneeaste veteran, the tallestman in the southern
army, gerred continu- fr r.Ensoualy with Parson's brigade of
Missouricavalry, and although 7 feet 7% inches inheight, he was
wounded only once in allLetthe campaigns of that hard-dighting
com-mand. His life haa been one of adventure.When gold was
discovered in California he £e~~1m n 1aroaleft his home in Morgan
county to become h mytaeiWaint oeigeeltnla soldier of fortune.
After prospecting a mecnadoeinSasothbtra.
Ne Orleans abor the seamerFucnATndLPL OIH A :who ran the
gauntlet of Spanih warships LAITMEnear Cuba. When the civil war
came he I1LEwas among the fist volunteers to enlist D LOIn the
confederate army. . He was withInaadpti oBehaRkI' ggneu
Gnrlaraue division of Parson'sThhemtoNarebrigade at Shreveport.
La.. June 9, 18A5.His extraordinary height made him a markfor
hundreds of sharpshootar.. but a happy ~ SasNwoaedestiny seemed to
guide .his movements.and the only injury he sustained was a
wound received in an active engagement p efroat Poison
Springs.
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THE CALIFORNIA BEAUTY,
MISS LENORE WHITE.AND HER .. .'. .'.
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-FUNNIEST BURLESQUE IN VAUDEVILLE ON EWttnby Jao J. McNally and
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AN ELECTRIFYING OL ANDMINER & VAN'S
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