Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1878, Page 2

N_ AND HISTORY OF DIES. The following interesting note upon the appears in the attress b ntain Medical Associat this city. It sap: many facts curious and new The origin and history of dress or raiment isasubjec tof much i na study of Progress of our a matter of course, and which and usage now eonirol in civilized coma tries, as seareely ever to excite an iaquiry as to whether there was a period inthe history of man when he did not wear it. If we accept the theory that the human race has emerged from a state @f savagery, this condition cer- tainly existed, and with it a moral sense so feeble as not to recognize shame, and unable to controi any desire on ethical grounds. Itis evident that the purposes of dress among such a people would different from that which governs civiized society at the present time. From a study of the habits and usages of the unciviized races, it is prob able that dress originated more in a ne- cessity to proteet exposed parts from injury and annoyance, than from any mentalor moral conception of its propriety. Tt is undoubtedly true that climate as well as the productions of a region and the methods adopted by races for Drocuring food, may to some extent determine Whether the whole body or a part only be cov- eied. For instance, the Esquimanx, from the riger ot the climate, covers the whole body as a defence ayainst the extreme cold ; while races living within the tropies, where clothing is not required for this purpose, are found to dwel! in a@ siaie of almost compleie nudity. The hunier aud trapper, living by the chase, would naturally need and wear moccasins, the breech- haps leggings, while those living t be rather inconvenienced by American Indians, and par- living in the southern parts of es at the time this continent d by Europeans, were found to live in nearly a nude state, or to wear little more thar anapron. Farther nocth, tribes de- pending on game for subsistenes wore in cold jot only moceas zings, but an additional large dressed skin or skins which they suspended from the shoulder and wrapp around the be ouch . fa ife is to proviv gainst the att atural th et clo! would ronsileration exesnt for pro ue that eivilization muiti- of rapa- a a sense of sham elothing the body the mind. An in nting the y tooing, anointing, and by decora- ws wearing beads and strings o ious kinds around the nec . is practiced by all primiiive rac pr kilt is often used 1 or motive. y » tribes to decorate the head, and ge the hair in afanerful manner. Frequently the h » ck ave dressed withelaborate « rest of the bedy is left entire The avron is general imes behind » arran rtw>,ol m from the sides, and fre. tomeet in front and in the Wwever, that the ug» of an ut of some kind is amon the earliest artictes of next in order is the s articularly by male y the chase. The uneivilized races in tropi entirely without clothing. 1 About the age of uberty, and more from a desire of decorating | RE he body than from any sense of propriety oF shame, the apron is put on, but its use is not considered a matter of consequence or its omission an in propriety. The two sexes dress nearly in the same manner. It is generally Known that among the Chinese and Japanese, and inde r ‘ance has taken plac of dress since the advent of ( but it cannot be denied that m love of dressis due to the mental delight and satisfaction it affords ratner thin to any oxeoneriag sense of mod esty or necessity. Doubtless there are many factors which assist in determining a prefer. ence for the material used and the form and number of garments to cover the body in dif- ferentcountries. Christian civilization has re- quired distinctiveness in the dress of religious and privileged classes, and particularly of the Sexes. The development of the idea of the de. sirablenessas well as the manne the lower limbs of men separately in pantaloons that reach the feet has been a matter of slow growth and accomplished within the memo- Ty of persous now living. Improvement in the convenience of the dress of femaies has not Reprod = with the opposite sex. The ear- examples of the body 30 clad a3 to permi> free use of the lower ex'remities as well as the upper is to be found in the seutpture fi ures dressed in armorof Egyp ian and Pheeni- cian origin. The line of progress and invention in dress throughout the Greek and Roman civ ilizations is pretty well known. Changesin na tional pecu-larlties of cost seven in mod ern times, are very slow, so that the taste o ene age is frequently shocked by the lingerin characteristics of a preceding on. This, how ever. 13 as true of popular sentiments and be havior of a people, or of an age, as of the mate rial and form of their dress.’ And. it shoul be borne in mind, reirogression in either is a natural as progress. I will give one instance showing the tenden cy to retrogression in dress, al hongh thare ar> many that conld be cited, within historical times. The following fact is recorded in the notes of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Doddridge, pub- lished in Samuel Kereheval's History of the Valley of Virginia, p. 339: ‘In the latter years of the Indian war our young men_be- ¢ame more enamored -of the Indian dress throughout with the exception of the match coat. The drawers were laid aside and the leggings made longer, so as to reach the upper the thigh. The Indian breech-clout his was a piece of linen or a_yard long and eight or nine inches broad. is passed unter the belt be- fore and behind, leaving the ends for flaps, hanging before and behind over the belt. These belts were sometimes ornamerted with some coarse kind of haha psig rk. To the same belts which secured the breech-clout, strings whieh supported the long leggings were ar. . hen this belt, as was often the case, passed over the hunting-shirt, the upper vart of the thighs and part ef the hips. were naked The young warrior, instead of being abashed by this nudity, was proud of his Indian like dress. In some few instances I have sen them go into places of pub'ic worship in this dress.” ENGLISH AND AMERICAN Parks. — The difference between the American and the English parks is great. The American park is more a production of art, and dotted over with notices—" Keep off the grass :” while the English park is simply a bit of woodland land- seape, and especially designed for the purpose of furnishing green pastures for the rest and refreshment of the tired citizen. Hyde Park, the fashionable London resort, is as different from the New York Central Park as well could . The greater portion of it consists simply in 0] elds, thickly set with grass, wherein visitors are allowed to roam at will. It is simply a bit of nature set in the midst of the city. Kensington Gardens adjoin Hyde Park, and through the entire length, the twostretchos avenue and fashionable drive, Rotten Kow. Kensington Gardens has several fine avenues and groves of gigantic elms; and with Hyde Park contains only seven hundred acres—a hundred aeres less than Central Park. Mass mestings, are bg ed held in Hyde Park, notwithstanding the known objections of thé authorities, for whom the people on such occasions show but little respect. Their meetings usually break up ina row. Imagine @ mass meeting in Central Park and the police authorities absent! With all its eladorate adornments, its ariificial lake, its useless and costly bridges, i iry-like bowers and un- substantial ornamentations, Central Park is Not the pleasure to those whose pleasures are few that Hyde and other Eaglish parks are. it was here that Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen’s poor Norwegian, who fell asleep from fatigue and hunger, was robbed of his money and va- lise, and arrested as a vagrant by the polica. { Courter-Journal, —_— HOT SHOT FROM GLADsToNE.—Finally, Lam selfish Laem g to hope, in the interests ot my country, that in the approaching conference or Congress we have, and may use, an oppar- tunity to acquire the good will of ‘somebody. By somebody I mean some Nation, and not merely some Governmert. We have,I fear, for the moment profou ly alienated, if not exasperated, eighty millions of Russians. We have repelled, and, I fear, estranged twenty millions of christians inthe Turkish Empire. ‘We geem to have passed rapidly, and not with- out cause, inte a like ill odor with its twenty millions of (ol medans. It is not in ¥Franee, Italy or Germany that we have made any conquest of affection, asto make up for Buch great defaults. Nor is it in Anstria, where every Slay is_ with the first twenty mil! lions, and every Magyar with tie secon. Where is all this fp, stop? Neither in personal nor in national life will self-glorification sup. ly the place of general respect or feed the unger of the heart. Rich and strong we are, but no people is rich enough or strong enough to disregard the priceless value of human Sympathies. At the close of the year, should 80 account be taken, I trust we may find at id a lessim: r store of them than eage: Wineteents at ee —[{Paper in the B 5 to he restrictive clause allowing persons to set thee a may have on deposit against at 4 the bank may hold on their property. "8" infront | and ihe other behind, while others wear two | t | dashing blondes, ai | seen before—(what a pity some | dic in general eff st, who is now ia jowing lively de- tion of Carnival time amongst his profes- sional br The Art Academy, as usual at the the Carnival season, the annual * a sort of a fancy dress. aff actly a bail, but What we ‘m America a “regular grand s everybody seems to do as he pi grand time. The “Aneipe” was never xotten up on a grander seale than on this oc- s d never proved a greater success. ua large concert saloon, Kaown 2s “Kil's” Colliseam—a very fiae room, with pe eer ante-rooms, galleries, and a large daneing floor. The decorations were very elaborate and extensive, aud combined to make a spectacle long to be rememberd by all who had the pleasure of seeing them. Each of the schools had some especial attrac- tion to present: The “ Deitz” school a circus, where a select programme was offered, which could not a g pleasing all tastes. The ‘*Loeff's” school a meuagerie, “ Managrie Loefizowsky's.”” In the collection were found many new and rare specimens of the animal Kingdom. The “Lindenschmidt” school rep- resented an old Bavarian soldier company, with guard-house, &. An old “ Clois.er Beer Celiar’ was another school. “Bock Beer Gar- «dens,” &c., weut to make the whole more at- tractive. The first glimpse one had of its general uspect was in the cloak room, from the Professors the antique scholar and the art world of Munich, attired in every way, shape, fashion, and fancy vould dicta: , Were Nere—eiegant and ragacdl ‘rom wi-hin came a roarof the din and tumult of student life let loose ; the crowd moves in a constant stream of novelty—and whata sight, and what a noise! Besides the regular or- chestra of the establish several burlesque bands, dru fact, everything that would make a noise seems to be brought into use at this moment an: full operation ; and from the erowd came also a faint buzzing which in nowise made the alarm less in vol ume. It was truly stunning in more than one sense; it was a bit of the October “fret” transplanted, only more absurd and laugla bl le. To the left, on entering School Circus. From the s iu front were so much like Solomon as Eve, perhaps; marvellous ah lelies in muscular development, dwar! ot the . @ red girl of ti brated Indian rider from, Colorado, skins, iron jewelry, &c , harangu We ‘will “not attempt eribe performance: it was one of those ridic:t things ‘which are always $9 enj nd indescribable, from tlie young li cefully, and jumped the carefully on the sawdust, to Dui alo the rede so g¢ the great dou- » world leayy 8 side by side. Me did it—the horses were of wood: the pla house sort! The “American Fire Eater d burnt cotton—not burning able trained Arabian steeds were exe t, with the exception of their legs—they wore pintsand old. boo At the “Bock Beer dens” opposite, beer Was dispensed to thirsty visitors by lovely a a voices. ure ¥ interesting specin of whieh had mot of them we: pot secured for some of our American tions)—the * cornered eg the tent Was ed, the lil ne aly lighted, : containing a ver ily” of Barnum’s fame: th terror of the desert enraged ate his parents;” to the monkeys wh: persisted in trying to get out, and m animals uncomfortable. the “colicsi} turile” w: specimens of dried herrings and shacks from the Indian ocean, (in tubs,) wi also yery good. The * Bi thing, was nd on either side able “happy fam viden Lion, the villa, that when ed ai bass drum piayed the most im Next comes the “Linders witha guard house, wa not only perfect in appearance The seu ) They Bavarian soldier: order, had a dres then marched 1 }, and arrested disorderly characters. This kept up an inter. est: their appearance was the signal for a mob to commence their fun. One of the best things was the “Cloister r Keeler,” where beer was sold to the monks. The interior was furnished with great care—furniture of old German styles, &c. ‘The long tables, filled with patrons inevery style of dress, made a charming picture in itself.” The monks were dressed in white, and sustained their characters well. In one corner was a lot of straw anda camp of Bohemian and Eastern gypsies picturesquely grouped. The gentler sex was well represented ; in- deed, nearly half were counterfeit females, and in many cases the ladies have just cause tor being envious ; one would scarcely see in all Muuich such stunning blondes and modest brunettes as graced this assemblage. The characters were so admirably taken as to qui.e defy all suspicion, save alone, perhaps, in the guallty of the voice. All varieties of female life, from the Fiji Islander to the most elegant demi monde, or the regular Dinah of plantation memories, to the Tyrol girl, were there; all nationalities ai were seen and heard. Pompey and were there in abundance, and well taken by the American colony. A very funny sight was presented in one of the large ante-rooms—1 couple of jolly Americans from Richmond, Va., and San Francisco, on a large table, dai ing a regular Old Virginia dou veri well danced—the crowd of Old World's 'resi- den's enjoying the New World’s sport. Not the least sti ange was the number of languages, with few exceptions, all of the European dia- lects were spoken, and all well represented, and mostly in genuine earnestness, and everybody in the best of humor; no fizht- ing or quarrellipg, but everything as jolly as could be imagined. Amidst the tumult and din—the fun and absurdity of art ‘ife—the night moved rapidly towards the early morning, aud about three the crowd be- b to move towards the café. The Café robst presented in hours later a curious spec. tacle; the tables occupied by a crowd, no two alike, and che stream of new comers adding tothe variety. A young man ina long ulster, aslouch hat, changes from a chrysalis state of black cloth toa brilliantly attired baliet- zirl, in pink and silrer. But ‘could you imaz- ihe a funnier sight than a very corpulent spe. cimen of a Bavarian, as Bacehus, tn flesh-+ ored tights, playing billiards with a regular Old Virginia field-hand, a genuine “nigger wench,” with a shining black face and yellow turban ? J By six a.m. the café is crowded; by eight many have left; some to renew the “Kneipe,” as to morrow is the end of the carnival season, and they can enjoy their “katzengammes,” undistur' for six weeks, and so while we drink our coffee, the academy Kneipe for 1873 draws toa speedy end. but will live in many pleasant recollections for a long time to come, 3. Death in the Disheloth. A lady correspondent of the Rural World pot Mespo Startled by typhoid fever in her neighborhood some time Sao. gives the follow. ing good advice about dishcloths: ‘If they are black and stiff, and smell like a barnyard, it is enough—throw them in the fire and hence- forth aud forever wash your dishes with cloths that are white, cloths that you can see through, and see if you ever have that disease again: There are Sometimes other causes, but I have smelled a whole housefull of fyohoid fever in one ‘dishrag.’ Thad some neighbors once— clever, good sort of folks—one fall four of them were sick at one time with typhoid fever. The doctor ordered the bingy ord barrels white- washed, and threw about forty cents’ worth of carbolic acid in the swill-pail and department. Iwent into the kitchen and made gruel—I needed a dishcloth and looked round and found several, and such ‘rags!’ I burned them all, and called the daughter of the house to get mea dishcloth. She looked around on the ta- ble. ‘Why,’ said she, ‘there was about a dozen here this morning,’ and she looked in the wood box, on the mantel piece, and felt in the cup- board. Well,” I said, “I saw some old blac! rotten rags | ae around and I burned them, for there is death in such dishcloths as those, and you must never use such again.” I took turns at nursing that ren bod weeks, and I believe those dirty disheloths were the cause of all that hard work. Therefore, I say to every housekeeper. keep your dishcloths clean. You may only brush and comb your head on Sundays, you need not wear a coliar unless you go from home—but you must wash your dishcloths. You may only sweep the floor when the sun gets right: the windows dont need washing, A ape can look out of the door, that spider's web on the front porch don't hurt anything—but as you love your lives wash out yourdishcloth. Let the fox-tail grass g-ow in the len (ihe seed is a foot deep anyway), let the holes in the heels of your husband's foot- rags go undarned, let the Sage go ungathered, let the children’s shoes go two Saudays wich: out blacking, let the hens set four week; on one wooden egg—but do wash out your dish- cloths. Eat without a tablecloth, wash your facesand let them dry, do without a cur‘a’n for your windows and cake for your tea—vut for heaven's sake keep your dishcloth clean. 47 Twelve years ago a thief hired a horse at a livery ‘sable in Natiek, Maxs., and the owner did not see either the man or th» beast again until recently, when they entered the village. They looked older, but were recos- nizable. The thief claimed that he was on his Way to return the horse, but his explanation was not accepted. 2 es was the * Deitz” | - | by Pete the ecowd. | ky” was very in. | was improved | "7 preserved | hour, and pi ETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Equality of Assessments. Hon, 4.8. Witiam , Chairman Con } mittee on Distri Sir:—In relati : ‘now pending before your committee’ for a proposed relic tion from the annual assessments of a certsia property calied “ Edgewood, ‘i i 61 Coluinbia, the property of Mrs. spi beg respectfully to present the followin in their relation to two ing direct application to | in the case at issne : | Peter Peppert is owner of certain reales tate in square No. 779, Washington, D. C. This property was placed and left by the late Board of Public Works about fifieen feet above the grade of the street, in whitch condi- tien the improvements and property was | made inaccessible and worthless, and the rental of the property fell off from $30) per annum to nothing. | Your memarialist, as agent for, and on be- half of the owner, appealed to the Board of Assessors, D. C., within the time prescribed i by law, for an equitable reduction of the an- | Dual assessment, affirming said facts, and | alleging as an additional reason for the reduc- | tion, that the owner was ready and willing to sell the property for one-half ‘the amount at | which it was assessed, but said appeal was in effectual, for the alleged want of power. rederick Bates is owner of certain real estate in square No. 619, Washington, D.C. | T is property was placed and left by the Board o Public Works and District Commissioners n itly twenty feet above grade, with roads «ft nished and impassible. In this condition Property was inaccessible and unmarket- tle, except at a sacrifice. Your memorialisi as agent for and on behalf of the owner, 2 aled to the Board of Assessors, D. C., setting Tth above facts, and praying that until suca tme as the roads were compieted, and the property rendered accessible, that the annual assessments be fixed at three cents per foot, ai at which price the lots alternating in same sure have recently been sold, although they were assessed (as were those of Mr. Bates) at i the amount of sae; but this ap was also ineffectual on like grounds. Your memorialist presents these cases as illustrations of some others of like character, ing sunilar hardships and inequaliy oi assessments, and humbly prays that i | measure for the reduction o! | ments may be made general in | to the end that all parties lta | exacting justice; or if such gene: isla | is impracticable, that an amendment be a to 8. B. 1012. directing the Commissi D umbia to readj ssessments upon squares 7 Peppert and Fred spectively, upon_a basis not e: eof S ¥, five cents t thre hh: he priaciple iavutved in the jot, and for eeuts per square 619 xeeeding: square foot. |, Respectfully, | JAMES MCKENZIE, Washington, D.C. No. 601 P st. v., M: 1878. How to Deal With Sewer Gas. Editor Stur:—For years I was tormented in my house with “sewer gas;" so offensive gt | | times as to compel thorough ventilation ot ali | the rooms on the same floor with the water closet. Observing, however, that the conn tion of the water closet with the main sew. was the ordinary 5 inch iron pipe and that trap, or curved portion, was perfect, I bi satistied that it was utterly impossible f gas or efftuviu from ‘the sewer to | through the trap. I then took a vessel ho! any ass fing Y | alout’a gallon of water, and, filling it with | water, poured the same’ dowh through the valve ol the seat into the trap from as great hight as 1emuid hold the vessel, opening the alve with the other hand. e@ that day I e bad no “sewer gas” at any season of the r to annoy my family, as [makeit my daily to pour from to 6 gallons of water down into the trap as above described. Tie entire ditficnity lies in the trap; all odor comes | from it, aud there is no water closet in the | city but can be completely cured of its stenches , | by the daily use of a few gallons of water vio- | léntly poured into its t But no servant | ternal vigilance’ requisite demands tke seif-interested hand of the head of the house. Liserry. | Unsightly ‘Teiogs About the City al Editor Star:—Being one of the people, I | send you this letter for our column, to inqalre | why the north wall of the City F is allowed o go in such an unsightly condiiion. Judi- eiary Sauare is becoming a very pretty park, and a handsome fountain is now Seine added to its other attractions. Now, [submit that a; | view of the aforesaid dingy wall ‘ked below | its windows by falling contents of spiitoons, te.,is not at all calculated toenhance any | ‘sthetic influence eurposed to belong to the k. Let us have it painted, or whitewashed ; | and, ‘too, let the drinking fountains at the | | park-house be supplied with water. B. L. M. Hint for the Labor Exchange. Editor Star:—6,495 men and boys, more or less, can at once be employed at permanent and’ remunerative Wages in furnishing dogs to any enterprising citizen who will erect the necessary works for utilizing the fat, boues and hide. The capital required will’ not be more than General Muzzey estimates for his anuing factory, and the number employed 10m 40 to 1,000 larger. A standing advertise. ment in THE STaR_ will excite the ambition of he needy and destitute, and secure a constant ‘ of this indigenous and inexhaustible reduct at a price that will pay a handsome (. “Hitz” worthy of consi oralion. OWL. Cinchona vs. Whiskey. Some of the Western journals have been be- guiled into giving many thousands of dollars’ worth of gratuitous advertising to an ingen- ious, and perhaps ingenuous, physician of Minnesota, who claims to have discovered a certain cure for the disease of drunkenness. As we are not in the gratuitous advertisin; line ourselves, we need only repeat a few o! the things that this worthy physician. says about his new cure for one of the greatest evils of modern times. He is good enough to tell piainyy what the remedy is, and to give the ormular for‘its preparation ; but he adds the discouraging information that success will not follow unless the drug used be perfectly pure, and that he does know of a chemist in the United States who will supply it in a pure state unless he imports it specially for a cus- tomer. This is what the ingenious physieian— whose sands of life, we trust, aré not yet nearly run out—found himself compelled to do, He has an ample supply of the magical ar- ticle any one else may get it forhimselfif he | can; but the Doctor warns every one that the druggist will not give the genuine drug unless it is Specially imported for the customer. The story that the Doctor tells is this: Eleven years ago he was called in tosee “a forty yeu old toper,”” who had been given up to die, because quinine—the only remedy for ase—" wouldn't work, except injur- jously.” Ina fit of desperation, the Doctor, under the impression that in the’ red bark of cinchona “there might be possibly something | More than quinine, * and happentug to have sone genuine red bark in his office, made a very strong tincture of it, administered it to | bis “patient, and awaited’ resuits. The man | got well, but found that he had acquired ao invincible dis'ike and hatred of whiskey and alt other alcoholic drinks, and from that time was a total abstainer. Startled by this dis- covery, the Doctor tried his experiment on | others, until he became convinced that the man who takes a few doses of pure cinchoni | will never willingly taste whiskey again. Bat | he goes on to explain that it is diMeult to ob. tain pure cinchon. as for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The tincture from the yellow bark wiilnot do. This bark costs | only thiriy cents & pound: it yields less than one-twetfth of cinchona and two per cent. of 3; while the red bark is worth $5 a ud yields from two to three per cent. a and only one-half per cent. of qui- nine. Not one druggist out of five hundred, the Doctor says, can tell the difference be: tween the true red bark and its counterfeits, and there is no article so diMcult to procure as the genuine cinchona eubra. Howeve: you do not get it, and wish to make yourself ‘orever after tncapable of enjoying a whiskey punch,.here is the Doctor's formiult: __ The manner in which I coneoct the tintture | of cinchona that I use in my praciice is to make a pint out of one pound. I get the burk in the “quill” form mostly, and pulverize it just before the displaciug operation is be- gun. Icover the pulverized bark with water and keep it over night (or twelve hours) thus saturated, afterwards using diluted alconol, filtering slowly until it a pint is obtained. If the tincture does not look 4 very dark reddish brown, I refilter until it does. The dose I ad- minister is usually a tablespoonful three or four times a day, or as often as the patient craves a drink. In some cases, where the party is strong and vigorous, and when the nervous system has not been too muzh shat- tered, I fncrease the dose to two and some. times three spoonfuls. Very rarely do I use anything else, excep!, it may be, where there is great restlessness and insomnia, when I administer full doses (ten to twenty grains) of the bromide of Perhaps it would be well for the medical gentlemen attached to our institutions of chavity and correction to put the Western doc- tors discovery to the test. Taey ean procure pure red cinchona if any one can, and they would be at no loss for patients on whom its virtues could be tried.—[N. Y¥. Graphic. PEOPLE who traye! much on railways wil be grateful for knowledze of this simple meth- od of removing cinders from the eye. It is merely, By the use of one or two grains of flax seed. They may be placed in the eye, it is said, without injury or pain to tha: delicate organ, and shorily they begin to swe'l and dis- solve a Flutinons substance that covers the ball of the eye, enveloping and foreign sub- stance that may be in it. The irritation or ene of the membrane is thus prevented, and the annoyance may soon be washed out. 4a-Russia’s time is pretty much occupied nese Mad thay Rtoegs wi Ly ay yy around try- ing to borrow a dollar.—[st. Touts Jour. | shores are European territor | sister of charity from the hospital ‘ r | fessional stor | murmuring, a sound of voices, gutte LIVING CONSTAN FINOPLE Panorama of the Stamboal Bridge. (From * Constantinople," by Rdmondo de amicls} To see the population of Constantino; s well to go upon the floating bridge, about one quarter of a mile in length, which extents rom the most advanced point of Galata to pposite shore of the Gol; Py i n Hh great mosque of the Sulta Vatide. Both ; but tue bridge may besaid to connect Asiato Europe, be eause in Stamboul there is nothing European ye the ground, and even the Christian sub rbs that crown it are of Asiatic charac er and color. The Golden Horn, which has the look of a river, separates two ‘worlds, like the ocean. The news of events in Europe which circulates in Galata and Peraclearly and min- utely, and much diseussed,arrives on the other shore confused and garbled, like a distant echo: the fame of great men and great things in the west is stopped by that narrow water a3 by an insuperable barrier, and over that bridge, where every day a hundred thousand people S, not one idea passes in ten years. Standing there one can see all Constantino-| ple go byin an hour. Whatever can be im- | agined that is most extravagant in type, cos- tume and social class may there be seen with. | in the space of 20 paces and 10 minutes of time. | Behind a throng of Turkish porters who pass | running, and bending under enormous Sue. dens, advances a sedan chair, inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl, and bearing an Armenian lady; and at either side of it a Bedouin AetbelY aye in a white mantle and a Turk in muslin turban and sky-blue caftan, beside whom canters a young Greek gentile- man followed by hisdragoman in embroidered vest, and a_ Dervise with his tall conical hat and tunic of camel's hair, whe makes way for the exrriage of a European ambassador, pre ceded by his Funning footman in gorKeous livery. All this is only seen in a glimpse, and the next moment you find yourself in the midst of a crowd of Persians, in pyramidal bonnets of Astrakan fur, who are followed by a Hebrew in a long yellow coat, open at the sides; a frowzy-headed Gypsy woman. with | her child in a bag at her back; Catholic | priest with bre and staff: while in the midst of a confused throng of Greeks, Turks and Armenians comes a big’ eunuch on horse. back, crying out, “Larya!" way!) and ding a Turkish ze," paluted with flowers and birds, and. filled with the ‘adies of a harem, dre F wud violet, | ind wrapped in’large white veils: behind a t Pe African slave @ ab- it, and what strange to the new-comer, people pass each other without a crowd in London; and_not a sin tride of ‘his eaparisoned ass, th: pompously two loug strings of canie! aind an adjutant of ‘an imperial prince. mounted upon his Arab steed, ciatters a cart ‘led with ail the odd domestic rubbish of a Curkish household; the Mohammedan woman afoot, the veiled slaye woman, the Greek with her red eap and her hair on her shoulders, the Malteese hooded in ber b'ack faldeita, the He- brew woman dressed in the antique costume of India, the negress wrapped ina many-co! ored shawl from Cairo, the Armenian from Trebizond, all veiled in. black funeral ippatition’ are seen in single file, as if placed there on purpose to be contrasted with each other, It a changing mosaie of races and retis hat is composed and sea'tered en: y areety fol ng to look only at the pwsing rapidity tha: the eye can s. ow. Itisami eet and see vo by, from that of Adam up to the late-t fashion in Parisian boots—yellow Turkish. ba nouches, red Armenian, ble Greek and bl ies Jewish sandals, great boots from Turk- estan, Al n gaiters, low-cut slippers, lez pieces of many colors, belonging to horsenen irom, Asia Minor, gold embroidere 1 shoes, Spanish alporgatos. shoes of satin, of twine; of wood, so many that while you look at one you catch a glimpse of a hundred more. One must be on the alert not to be jostled and overthrown at every step. Now it isa water carrier with a colored jar upon his back a Russian lady on horseback, now imperial soldiers in zouave dress, and step ping as if to an assauli: now a erew of Arme- nian porters, two and two, carrying on their shoulders immense bars, from which are sus- pended great bales of merchandise: and now a throng of Turks who dart from left to right of the bridge to embark in the steamers that lie there. “There isatread of many feet, a ¢ notes, aspirations: interjectional, incomprehensible and strange, among which’ the few French or Italian words that reach the ear seem like | iuminous points upon a black darkness. figures that most attract the eye in ail this crowd are the Cireassians, who go in groups of three and five together, with slow steps, big-bearded men of a terrible countenance, rearing bearskin caps like the old Napoleoni guard, long, black caftans, daggers at th girdles and silver cartridze-boxes on th reasts; real figures of banditti, who look as they had come to Constantinople to sell a daughter or a sister—with their hands imbued with Russian blood. Then the Syrians, with robes in the form of Byzantine dalmatic, and their heads enveloped in gold-striped hand- kerchiefs ; Bulgarians, dressed in coarse serge, and caps encircled with fur; Georgians in hats of varnished leather, their tunics bound round the waist with metal girdles; Greeks from the Archipelago, covered from'head to foot with embroidery, tassels and shining but- tons. From time to time the crowd slackens a lit- tle; but instantly other groups advance, waving with red caps and’ white tucbans, amid which the cylindrical hats, umbrell and pyramidal headdresses of ‘Europeans, male and female, seein to float_borne onward by that Musselman torrent. It is amazing even to note the variety of religions. The shining bald head of the Capuchin friar, the towering janissary turban of an Ulema, alternate with the black vell of an Armenian. priest, Imaums with white tuaics, veiled nuas, chaplains of the Turkish army, dressed in preen, with sabres at their sides, Dominican riars, pilgrims returned from Mecea with a talisman hanging at t necks, Jesuits, Der- vises, and this is very stranze, Dervises that tear thelr own flesh in expiation of their sins, and cross the bridge under a sun-umbrella, ail pass by. If you are attentive, you may no ic? in the throug a thousand amusing incidents. Here is a eunuch, showing the white of hiseye at a Christian exquisite, who has glanced too curiously into the carriage of his mistress there is a French cocotie, dressed after the latest fashion plate, leading by the hand the Hegloved and bejeweled son of a pasha; of 3 'ady of Stamboul, feigning to adjust her veil that she may peer more easily at the train of a jady of Pera; ora sergeant of cavalry in full uniform stopping in the middle of the bridge to blow his nose with his fingers ina way to jive one a cold chill; ora quick, taking his fast sous from some poor devil, and miing a The cabalistie gesture over his face to cure him of | so1e eyes. Some! mes there passes a mighty pasha with hree tails, lounging in a splendid carriage fol- lowed by his pipe- bearer on foot, his guard and one black slave, and then ail the Turks salute, touching the forehead and breast, and the , horrible witches, wita inufiled faces and naked breasts, ran afcer the carriage erying for charity. Kunuchs not on service passin twos and threes and fives to- kether, cigarette in mouth, and are recog ‘y their corpulence ; thelr jong arms aud the Wack habits. Little Turkish girls. drease. like boys, in green full trousers. and rose or yellow vests, run and jump with feline agility, pening Se y for themselves with their henaa- ed ands, Bootblacks with gilded boxes, Varbers with bench and basin in hand, sellers cf water and sweetmeats cleave tl.e ‘press in every direction, screaming in Greck and Tur- hish: At every step comes glittering a mi lary division, officers in fez and scarlet trou- sers, their breasts constellated with medais; rrooms from the seraglio looking like genera 's ofthe army gendarmes, with a whole arsenal at their belts; zeibecks, or free suidiers, with those enormous baggy trousers, that make them resemble in profile the Hottentot Venus ; imperial paaras, with long white plumes upon their casques ayd — gold-bedizened Lreasts; city guards of Constantinople; guards, as one might Ly ( juired to keep pack. the waves of the Atlantic ocean, The contrasts between all this gold and all those rags, between people loaded dowa with gar- ments ]-oking like walking bazaars and peo- pie almost naked, are most extrao-dinary. ‘he spectacle of so much nudity is alone a wonder, Here are to be seen all shades of skin colors, from the milky whiteness of Al- bania to the crow-blackness of Central Africa and the Diuish-blackness of Darfur; ches's that if you struck upon them would resound like a huge bass, or rattle like pottery; bicks, oLy, stony, full of wrinkles and hairy like the back of a wild boar; arms embossed wih red. and blue, and decorated with designs of flow- ers and inscriptions from the Koran. But it is not possible to observe all this in one’s first eney sd over the bridge. While you are exim- ning the tattoo on an arm at guide warns you that a Wallachian, a Servian, a Monte- hegrin, a Cossack of tne Don, a Cossack of | Ukraine, an Egyptian, a native of Tunis, a prince of Imerezia is passing by. It seems | that Constautinopie is the same as it alwa: was; the capital of three continents, and the queen of twenty vice realins. But even this idea is insufficient to account for the spectacle. aud one fancies a tide of emigration, peodae if by some enormous cataclysm, that has over- turned the antiane continent. Seckers afler the beautiful or the horrible will here find their most audacious desires fulfilled ; Raphael would be in eestasies, and Rembrandt would tear his hair. The purest ty pes of Greek and Caucasian beauty are min- gled with flat noses and poolly heads; queens and airies pass beside you; lovely faces and faces deformed ee disease and wounds; mon- strous feet, and tiny Circassian feet no longér than your hand, gigantic porters, enormously corpulent Turks and bi Sticks of skeleton shadows of men that fill you with pity and dis- gust ; every strangestin which can be present- ed the ascetic life, the abuse of n OK: as i the foot coverings in the wor d | quite natural, but appears | | following le:ter addressed toa treme fatigue, the excess of opulence and the | misery that kills. Who loves colors may here | have his fill. No two figures are dressed alike Here are shawis twisted around the head, sav: | age fillets, coronets of rags, skirts and un der-vests iu stripes aud s like trarle uins, girdlesstyck fullof the arm-pits, Mameluke trousers, ers, skirts, togas, traiiig sheet med with ermine, vesis like gold. sleeves puffed and hed, habi's and habits covered with gold lace, mv like women, and women tiat | like men; beggars with the port of princes, a ragged elegance, a profusion of colors, of fring»: tags, and fluttering ends of childish and thea trical decora ions, that remind one of a mas querade in a mad-house, for which all the old clothes dealers fu the universe have emptied | their stores. The first amazement over. the festive colors fade; it is no longer a grand carnival proces. sion that is passing: it is humanity itself fling by_with all its miseries and foliies, with all the infinite discords of its belief and its laws; it is a pilgrimage of adebased people and a fallen race ; an immensity of suffer to be helped, | of shame to be washed Sut 0 chains to be | broken ; an accumulation of tremendous prob. lems written in characters of blood, which can only be solved by torrents of blood ; and it is all horribly sad. JOHN M. BINCKLEY. His Disappearance_A Remarkable Letter Explaining his Intention: (Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribane. } MILWAUKEE, May 6.—The people of this ci’y | tly shocked Sunday morning tolearn | M. Binekiev had prob«ply commt He had lived hese only about a but, having Jong been a resident of | ington ci-y, and taking an ae ive port in | po. tics, he was well known by sight to.a'mo | every citizen of Milwaukee. He was for short time editor of the News, and was a’w. a prominent actor in the greenback move Before he came here he was a write lead ing editorials on the Nationa Intelligencer and during the administration of And:ew Johnson was Assistant Ati luck seen‘ed to follow hin News he attemp éiaw, but with rguceess, About a year ago he’ had som - trouble with his wife in Chicago, and sent a Giend of hers a challenge to morta His wife returned to her friends in K Tenn., and he came again to this city. Ou Saturday. night he called at_ two drugstore and procured a large quaniity of law he took, but the overdose ing instead of the death tha ted. Yesterday his coat and cane were found upon | the Jake Shore with a note that he intendet drown himself. as he no doubt has done. Ta friend indie Wes the frame of mind that_he was in at the timo, | and also something of huis intellectual eat. | r ‘If their father had been exceptiona’ly i domitable under trial, the recognized "fa wou'd be a great encouragement tu my iittl: boys; theretore, if my end shall seem ty ob sere it, but not'in any event otherwise, ‘he disciose this statement, viz: Longevity 1 inherit, and, through traditioy exceptionally remote on both side, no di mcutal or bodily. Lam but just matured vut bavkruptey, without a gray hair, strung nerve, a disease, a bad habil, a scent, or a stain upon my poor n: I n down as might be My business condition, desperate, is now tolerab’e, and i - spects good. My plans ‘are workiaz | never in my life saw an hour of tort -r- now, eclipsed cheerfulness et, With coup y and persisteney dis inetly reiufore and experience, Tam about 0 Lay « my ashes. Wh: * Tcannot tell.” Not because I do not know, but language does not grow for that kind of truth which is stranger than fiction, and let no person inquire furtier Wao Would n tr dea trank man’s grave. There is « sterner tr hanever bled. There is deeper verity than ever spoke. llooked up at noon and the sun i from the sky. T have since not been rash, am slain by the invine bility of deceis. | My inotives ave quite extinet. For months past 1 haye been but trying to prevent the col!apse of a suddenly ruptured balioon. 1 do not kill bat bury myseif. Tam a mill whose stream has been diverted—a clock whose weights have year: Washi | said that all the resources of modern scienc been taken out. At best I am_ sentenced for tife to the basement of my constitution ‘o the inaccessible attic. Neith tittle boys whose mansion I am. good exclusively for their am. EQ Bo. longed to myself, 1 would have powerful motive to live. If my passions were in control. no doubt my love of life would hold its own with the rest. am not now suffering much. I am simply ta tional; I judge that I ought to disappear. though only God kuows that I am intent as an egg. My intellectual life has always appeared to others incoherent. To me, it always seemed to have an integrity of stages, tending towa a useful, symmetrical outeome ; though suffer- ing, toil, and friction should my streagta hold out. Observing that varied extreme and pro: ‘onged trials had rather strengthened me, and that I had a growing faci'ity of organizing my deeper thoughts, I came latterly to think was approaching a time when I could dize: the memoranda of many years into a dura) work, but a thunderbolt rifled me. It is no a consolation to reflect tha:, after this may have been a mere conceit, though it grew with time. From resources of my own, I provide for al! debts, legal or honorary, to the last cent. Ida mest heartily forgive all who ever injured me. But injuries to my children is not mine to for- give, yet give my love to all men, for so I fee!. JOHN M. BINCKLEY.” MILWAUKEE, May 6.—There seems tu be lit Ue doubt that Hon. John M. el -istant Attorney-General of the United State: committed suicide on Saturday evening by lrowning in the lake near St. Francis Semina- ry, near thesouth end of the bay. He left sev. eral letters addressed to different parties in his city, the contents of which show conclu- sively his intent to suicide. All efforts to re- cover his body have thus far been of no avail. The immediate cause of his rash act is attrit- uted to mental aberration, brought on by do- mestic troubles. Mr. Binckley’s family con- sted of a wife, from whom he was separated, ae four chi'dren, and are now at Knoxville, ‘eun. GOVERNOR CuRTIN, once Minister to the Court of St. Petersburg, is writing an interest- inh series of articles on Russia for the Chris- ‘ian Union. The statesmen who immediate- 'y surround the Czar’s throne are, in his ju: nent, the equals of any in the world. Go chakoff, the leading spirit, has more power than is represented by the Chanceilor of the zerman Empire, or by the Prime Minister in Fngiand. or the chief Cabinet officer of the United States, and he enjoys to a wonderful extent the confidence of the sovereign. H> is also very popular with the nation, from the fact that the Russian people believe, and just- too, that he was a very firm advocate of the nanumission of the serf’ He was anxious for i he had the sagacity to understand, ifter the Crimean war, which resulted very disastrously to Russia, and which exhausted the nation financially, that it was not politic for tla: Government to carry on another war against so many nation¢ unless they had a middie class, Next to Gortschakoff in impor. tance is Ruytan, the Finance Minisier, who has been for a long time in the place. He is from the Baltic provinces and is, as his name indicates, of German descent. In religion he isa Luth in. He had made finance his study ; he travelled in this country many years betore he came to his present pos itlon, and is a very able and liberally educated man. More before the public than Ruytan is Ignatieff. He is the son of a very dis ingaished Russian General. That he is regarded as one the lead- ing men in Russia is indicated by the fact of iis many years’ of residence in Constantiuople ts Ambassador. KILLED BY A JEALOUS RIVAL.—A special dispatch from Mendoia, Ill, May 7th, says: A young lady named Carrie Loomis, of very pre- bossessing appearance, has for some time been receiving the attention of several young inen of the city. The matter of choice, so far as Miss Loomis was concerned, laid between- a young man named Wm. Mahon and another youn man named Cyrus Price. It seems hat Price has been endeavoring to ingraiiate himself in the affections of Miss’ Loomis by re- citing little stories about Mahon’s dissipation, recklessness of character, fickle love, etc., Miss Loomis grew cold in her affections t)- ward Mahon, and soon requested him to dis- continue his visits. The rded lover was led to believe that the cause of the difficulty to efforts by Price to fet rid of him They met this morning, and fired with ieee ,, Mahon drew a revolver and fired three shots in rapid succession, the last tye taking effect, Price dying about two hours after. 4a- Yes," said a man as he bent his elbow to raise the twe.tieta gia:s of beer, “it is over-work that kills.” aa-“ There is no truth in men, " said! “they are like mu teal tnstruma: sound a variety of to ies.” i er Wor is, madame,” said a wit, “you believe that all men are lyres. ” 4#2-Protessor—“ What was the state of French affairs at this tim 7” X : “The majo: ity ruled the minority, and ¢on- was owin, asa rival. lady: which squently the miuority was ruled by'tie major- ity, as it were!” fessor (sternly): “Sit down, sir!”—[ Yale Record, 4a-A tutor of a college lecturing a youn; man on the irregulari'y ot his conduct, Xaed with great pathos: “The report of your vices will inte your father ’3 gray hairs bag ve. ig "Tad replied ‘ihe pupil; “ my father wears o ig.” 4##-Student: “Now, professor, do you not believe that relations of honor should exist be- tween pupil and teacher?” | Prot 3 SCIENCE LEARNING ECONOM The recent meeting of the my of Science, at Washington, in many resvects, Dut ¢ that our sctentifie men hay nomy. ne for that bol ‘arly all departments of se well repre ied by prominent s The Acade .as fust been enriched by the liberal con pi ivate citizens which is known A the Joseph Heaty fa 4, Dut the income of this will not probably be applied tothe pro- sof science for several years. The cur netion of many of our legislators is that Len any considerable number of gentle gather together at Washington, it is. wit direct or indirect intention to obtain som concessions from C money out of the p Academy has met, an 8. its membel relates how great saying was fec’ed in certain work which the Government pays for—that of the Coast Survey, in deep sea sounding. Another tells how we may hope to save millions of dollars by our betier knowledge of the habits of the Rocky Moun- tain locust.. Another suggests a means by Which five-sixths of the heavy expense of ex. pecditions to observe the Venus transit in 1882 dd asks—not may besaved. No doubt each of the sages had his pet project which he cannot afford ‘0 pay for, but thinks that the Government oaght to; yet at this meeting nothing of the sort was re. commended. Every member recognized that this is not a time to ask the nation to spend | money. The proposition to forego transit observa- tions in 1882 must bring a sigh to the lips of the oldest votaries of astronomy. Those expe- ditions to the turthest isles of the sea and to Are‘ie and Antarctic zones, to witness the passage of Venus over the disk of the sun, are part of the rom eof science. The last sion ol the sort called forth the assistance he nations that hold the lead in modern civ lication, and secured the aid of the finest ‘ent astronomy can offer. Large sums of t money were spent; great efforts were ma severe hardships endured. It may be prop: were employed. There was great congrat tion upon the t fe return of ali ditions, when a general account was taken, and it'was found that nearly every one of hem had succeeded in obtaining its record Ever since then, the computers have been at work, under the guidance of eminent chiefs, and by various methods, to obtain the fin: result. At last, as one’ by one the calc: tions approach completeness, the me! trath begins to dawn upon the astr The observation ast transi leave quite as wide a margin of er t previous ones. The figures prove nothing WwW v just what we did before. and spect of adding by this means ta to our present knowledge. The wide of une y whieh aiends similar strated on y results and numei = the transit of Mercury. Yet that was se Where the astronomers were f eral; ith whiel y familiar, and surrounded duce for the task. weomb quaintiy remarked, lity about the parallax. stronomers of eminence (one of tn working for years at the sentially different method: same resul’ within a trifling fractic coincidence might have settled any other question in nee. But it has since been found that neither of these results was trust- Soria, and when both were ¢ proved discordant. The Astron Eng mer Royalo his com ns on the es for the ed years ng in the ery. nsitof Venus, certain fix sun's distance which were discar ago. Already his results are mel sharp fires of eriticism applied to t brotherastronomers. Professor a few years since, assigned cert. hear approach to the solution ; «hem chiefly by the considera from all good sources and methods compromise was generally accepted country. Atthe recent meeting of the Acade. my he expressed his doubts on the point, and named a different value as the one which he thought would proba’ decid uj Professor Young thereupon stated that he just learned that a fresh computation, by another astronomer, had obtained from the Briti-h observations exactly the new figures wi Professor Newcomb had just said he was willing to adopt. Here was another ex Waordinary coleos lence; and yet, alter all, it proves nothing. The chief source of all this trouble is prob- ably in the sun itself. This is one of the strangest things of modern discovery. The sun is believed now to be a mere ball of glow. ing gas, of which the outlines are constantly changing. Its edge may acquire a “bule,” Dr. Young says, of perliars athousand miles in a few hours, which woul nder worthiess all calculations based on observing the instant when Venus touched or left iis outline. This would secm to settle the question as to the usefulness of sending observers to tae antip- odes or the polar regions to witness a tran Chere are simpler and far less costly means for solying the problem at home, and there is more chance of discovering something useful in experiments on the velocity of light than in boarding parties of observers at government expense on distant and desolate {slands. At all events, the astonomers are entitled to credit or themselves proposing to relieve the nation of a heavy expen: LN. Y¥. Tritune. a this How Edison Amuses Himself. CF onrthe Cincinnati saturday Night.) Edison, the phonograph man.is wretched un- es- he invents half a dozen things every day. He does it for amusement, when regular busi. ness isn't preeain: - The other day he went »ut for a little stroll, and he thought out a plan “or walking on one leg so as to rest the other before he had gone a square. He hailed a milk wagon and told the driver of a litle invention that had ped through ‘or delivering his head just at that moment { muk without getting out of his wagon or even stopping his horses. A simple force pump, with hose attached, worked by the foot, wouid do the business. Milk men who dislike to halt for anything in their mad career bec: ause it prevents trem running over as many children as they might otherw! ise do, would appreciate this improvement. Edison isn’t sure but that sausage and pigs’ feet could bedelivered in the same Way. , He stepped into the hotel office, and observ- ing the humiliations which the guests encoun. tered in seeking to obtain information from t ehigh-toned ¢ erk, he sat down in the read- ing-room, and in five minutes had invented a hotel clerk to work by machinery, warranted to stand behind the counter any length of time desired, and answer all questions with prompt. hess, correctness and suavity—diamond pin on and hair parted in the middle if desired. Lounging into the billiard room he was struck with the needless amount of cushions required to each table. Quick as lightning he thought of a better and more ecomical plan— oushion the balls! He immediately pulled out a postal card and wrote to Washington apply- Ing fora patent. mbibinga maint julip’ in the saloon adjoining a brilliant idea flashed through his fertile brain, and before he left the vented an instrument that is likely to revulu- tionize the entire saloon business. It is a me- chine so constructed that when a person who has Just been partaking of spirituous beverages breath into it, the action of his breath upon a peculiarly prepared substance (also the in- vention of Mr, Edison) made to revolve slowly by means of a small crauk, makessuch an im- pression, that 4 again applying the lips and turning the crank the other way, the effects of the drink can be reproduced as many times as desired, no matter how great a length of time may have elapsed. A man provided with one of these instruments could prepare himself with cocktails fora long fourne, y simply for the price of one drink. son christened it the “toddygraph.” Of course the saloons will fight against it bitterly, as it must inevitably destroy the business of 99 out of 100 of them. A person can mix his drinks just to suit him: self and then stock his toddyeraph with a sup- ply of different beve: 8 sufficient to last him alifetime, And when he has drank himself to death with it his children ean bring the instru. ment out occasionally and revive tender recol- lections of their parent by turning th® crank and getting a whiff of the old man’s breath. A capital assistant the todd: ‘graph would be fo the temperance cause, Wives, whose hus. bands let on that they don’t drink, could have one ready to test them with when they come it. The genuineness of a ‘And how easy to expose tie expose the sata SRPeTtNee oe caren m d ve aren me of one. ” = ae en Edison started to go out he had pa barber sho) the 4 of e sii lace he had in- pass , and as he did so to think that with all his Hi creative imagination, he could ever hops to eqnal eo the tasor asa taiking ma- home and invented no more what ‘ay. ~ eet —— ACCORDING to Sir David Wedderbu: Epa a ust go to heithen ere men ne vse their temper, where women and children are alway ou leness, whi bow and beg pard: happen to ‘jostle accidentally, where popular sports i pr ne laber enfant, Myce sme Ey Peasiee Wedding of John B. and tral on Ciacianati, Miss wee, ht, fi ight, in Cent April £5, was aished rare Masoni citplg. "as the Ural yaray red dow te als! the altera calcium ligne was thrown upon them, and one hundred Knights Temp- anaren ‘ot swords Gene groom, The meeting was an | t | i] ings, all colors, at 20, 25. 3 yard. * Splendid s Linens, Percales, &c. 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Are now offering a number of ins, among. whith are to be eautiful Linen Lawnsat 1Sc, 26 inches wi Fine ard ee ——— Jameishatr, 47'yc; ‘amese Clo ‘s yds wide, c, PeBently Ft Lovely French Organdies a0. ulatitaes Couriauld’s all-silk Black Crape, $1.95 and ap: Ae ‘of Black Crape at $3 9%, 'suliable for volte, that cannot be matched a’ retall under $5; aug one wisbing to buy to sell again would do weil te secure Lyons Biack Gros Grain 81k value at $1: New Parasols and Son Androscoggan Th: mpson's perfect Glove-fi'ting Cons: Would be gooe Umbrelias very cheap; 4-4 Bleached Cotton 7» wn: Clark"s best 200-vara Spool Cotton, 8, 6 sp ils for + 2c; Buntiugs. 2c. : (best make al!-wool Bunting ‘B5c.) Ladies wishing bargains in first clase gu should call at BKODHEAD ar29-tr #39 Pa. are., bet. Sthand ¥ ** WE GREAT SOUTHERN SHIRT, T OPEN FRONT, Ready-made, with Linen Sieeve Rand: Linings to the Bosom, made of Wa twenty-one bundred Linen, realy and Linen ta Mustin “> pat on, for only $125. Our goods are maie by us and guaranteed as represented. C. GEO. MEGINNESS. Factory—75 W. Fayette st. Raitinore, _Branch—1002 F st. n.w., Washington.” ap?7-te 5™ STH STU STH oT FIFTH GRAND SPECIAL SALE or BLACK AND COLORED SILKS. 2 1. 1.25 for $1.10. rth $1 5 $150 for $1 2. la Silk worth x We sell a Silk worth $1 75 for $1 40. We sell a Silk worth $2 for $1.50. auctions ta New and Philadelphia. and we can aud w offer the greatest bargains ever seen in tls ¢ CONNOLLY's, a127-tr_ GOS Ninth street,opp. LACK SILK Plaid Bttks. Ch Biack Tamise, Black Sil* W A'pacas. and ‘undoubtedly the largest assortment of new and beautiful Soring Dress Goods in Wash- ington city. CARTER’S 711 Market Space, ‘The Popular Cash Dry Goods store. We are selling an excellent quality (Guinet make) Black Silk, satin finish, sub! $1.25. We have sold one thousan Me gince February 22. 1878. We are selling th vest Black Silk tn this clty at 81. We are sellin ood Black Silk at 62c. We have just receives large lot of Colored Silks in beautiful light shades, U pure wool, very wide, double width, fue qu: y Black Cashmere, 60c. This Black Cashmerets special bargain, only 60c, About $00 pieces of Cassimeres for men’s and boys’ wear; prices rang- ing from 87c. to $1.58. Reautiful Spring Dress Goods (wool. not cotton), 15c.; pure stik and wool Black and Colored Grenadines at the very lowest cash prices; four (4) pair of real English Stockings (woven seams) for $1 We are sel ling the very best Bed Ticking that is made, one-yard wide. double twilled, 2c, SPECIAL NOTICE.—We have placed a sign across the pavement in front of our store with our name (CARTER'S) written on itin gold listers, so that one will know where to find the chy an tassortment of Dry Goods in ‘Washington, apls-tr SPLENDID LI. VES. At Mow Manele Seou Es 60 worth Boe. re Prsoiied, FAMILY SUPPLIES. Fo EXCURSIONS AND PICNIcs. POTTED AND DEVILLED MEATS, CANNED CORN BEEF, CANNED SALMON AND LOBSTER, ‘¢ LB. BOXES CHIPPED BEEF, PICKLED OYSTERS, CROSSE & BLACKWELL'S PICKLES, LEMONS, ORANGES AND BANANAS, FRESH CAKES AND CRACKERS, JOHN H. MAGRUDER, 1421 New Yorkav.. near U. 8, Treasury Department. QTILL ANOTHER REDUCTION. 1 AM SELLING— $b. cans TOMATOS, 10¢ Ib. $s PEACHES, 37 3-1 2-1, 3-Ib. ** | PEARS, Chaidlee’s and Statlers best CORN, 1 Excelsior CORN, 12%, percan.* God PHILADELrHI a PRINT, 45 rr Ae myl0-tr 3 Ore r6 Fair “ 35: SPRING LAMB, Fore Querter, 1 “ in Best POTATOES, 75c. per buster, PALACE MARKET, Corner 14th st.and New Fork av. my9-tr FRANK J. TIBRETS, 10 2 5 Oo 60 lL 7 5 a 3 irgin ous A i ve i Gin Cid wha fen size. . a125 te 1913 Recenth st. moe bot Mand N, STUFFED OIL MANGOEs, East Ts Hitt x PICKLED {TINY Tims’ CHERKINS, ONION: M. wind area CLUSTERS, vORCESTERSHIE! BEEF STEAR, MUSHROOM, New crop SWEET O11? poms: B. W. REED'S B0NK, are-tr 1916 F st. n. we, ]2. © Mann, R. Stalls 638 abd 639 Oouter Market, CHOICE FRESH MEATS "AT ALL, TIMES The best BEEF. VEAL, MUTTO! BL LAMB the country tarde eT ene and the lovers of CHOICE BEEF, VEAL AND MUTTON. CORNED and SPICED BEEP s specialty, Marketing delivered free. Jom zB ae, '