Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1878, Page 2

THE PoTom More Avout their Dect ‘ause Thereof. ALEXANDRIA, Va. Evening Star:—My sister handed me an issue of your paper, uniter date of May lith. containing an artic to Potomac fisheries, and aske not write something concerning | for your paper. assured that you would willinz!y lt bef, the readers of your valuable piper my ivan contribution to vthers’ weltare. | consented. Both my grandfathers were fishermen, and my father the oldest on the Potomac, nigh by the waters of which I was born, and from the time I was old enough to handle angling rod, unto this day I have teen enzaged in fishing and curing fish. Although vei ang. at the time, I well remember the season of 181, when 30 many fish were caught froin the waters of the Potomac that parties could not be found wh Editor were willing to pay the city wharfage of 18% cents per Mon herring and i8\ cents per € on shad, and vessel loads were cast again into the river. In 1837 my father and others were ruined through the quantities caught. From 180 our fish have, with a few exceptional years, shown a steady decrease: what the causes were that produced the decrease prior to the erection of our gas works I do not know of my personal Knowledge, but do know that a few days after those managing those works turned the refuse tar into tne river that the Whole cove from Point West to Dangerfield’s | Point was covered with dead fish of every kind common to our waters. The same was the case in many of our docks if not all of them; and remarked at the time that a continuation of that thing would eventually destroy our spring fisher In fact, I vigorously oe sed it: but unfort nately for Potomac fishermen and others in- terested in it, we have a city conneil that serves the people without compensation, and like all other communities governed. by cheap men, argument availed nothing, and the prac- tice has been adhered to until the present time to the great injury of our fisheries. There is scarcely a log, stone, spawning ground or stick that one can pick up on either side of the river for miles below this city, that is not more or less besmeared with gas tar, and not a parti- cle of spawn that touches itever matures. when I was a_ boy, the fish offal made the city fish rf by cutting fish was cast into the river, and around this wharf in sum- mer could be caught millionsof young shad and herring, but in the course of time the les sees of the wharf established the business of selling the roe and other portions of the fist cut off in cleaning them, for agricultural pur- poses, and gradually the business grew so great that the roe and offal is searcely out of the fish before it is into wagons or on cars for agricuitural and other purposes: and in the same proportion that this business has grown the young fish which we used to see in such numibers have gradually disappeared. is a rare instance where one around the wharf. A more mist not exist than that fish cannot be from the spawn of dead fish thal heen heated, or, in plainer words, § ‘ FISH PRODUCED FROM THE SPAWN OF DEAD Now it an be caught ken idea does duced FISH. They were produced in the rain hogshead of the late Richard €. Barton, from the cook's ing the knife she was accustomed to use ning fish for the table in said hogshead, and notwithstanding the reputation of Mr. Barton for truth some doubied it. [did not, from the fact that observations in eariier years, had impressed upon my mind that the | countless millions of young fish that I had seen in my boyhood around the city fish | wharf were the production of the Spawn that had been east into the river from the wharf during the season, Ne ad onstrate the matter beyond a doubt, on of May, perhaps the some shad roe taken from shad I was then having cut, into a hogshead we had sunk in front of our fishing establishment for the pur- pose of obiaining clear water to make brine of. After some three weeks or a month I stopped watching the hogshead and coneluded that the spawn was too stale to_ pro: sometime about the 3d of July T to go round where the hogshead was, my astonishment the spawn had di and in the water around the hogshe: |. which the tide would sometimes overtiow, (the men | having sunk it too low). there were hundreds of young shad, all seeming anxious to get in the ad. I watehed thein for some tint and I think about the middle of Septemb they stopped playing and disappeared. his thoroughly satisfied me that fish could be produced’ from tue spawn of dead fish that were not spuiled, and J attribute the immense decrease in the sup- ply of fish to the sale of spawn for agricultural Porposes and the salting and sale of the same ‘or table use. AS REGARDS THE GILL NETS I can state that I am not interesied in any of them,nor in hauling seines,either.atthe present time. 1 do not therefore propose that my notes in reference to either uf them shall be biased in their conclusions. As regards the destroy- ing of spawn by drifting gill nets, that is not true, in the sense that mauy apply their argu- ments against those nets. ‘ish spawn on logs, stones, ea. and sometimys sand, and over these the gill nets drift withoat ma:erially in terfering with the spawn. Nevertheless the do inealeulable injury to the increase of fis! by obstructing the lepers and forcing the fish into the lower creeks at ebb tide, and on the floods the salt water goes in and’ destroys the Vitality of the spawn as effectually as though it Was salted in a fisherman's stand, while the lead lines of hauling seines are ever destroy- ing it. nhs regards Maryland owning the waters of the Potomac, that might have deen the ease in colonial times, not e the establishment of the national government. Maryland might, with equal consistency, claim the national treasury as part of the high- my, of — comineres which “it maluly derives the revenue of covernment. Wi er to constitu'e fhe high seas, there is more in the Chesapeake Bay than in the Potomae, and more in the At- lantic than in the Chesapeake, and more in the Pacific than in the Atlantic. and under this state of affairs we would be unable to de- cide what really did constitute the high seas. The idea of Maryland's owning the channel. way of the Potomac, or any other state own- ing the channel ways of rivers running through or dividing them from some other, is an ab- surdity. The highways of commerce belong to nationalities, and not the subordinate prov- inces thereo: nd until the na‘ional govern- ment shall put On a revenue cutter and stop men from fishing the unel-Way, and states the inlets, and authorities the letting out of gastar into the river, and the carrying off of | ted | Spawn from the several fish wharves loc on the river, the experience of the past teaches us to know that all attempts at replenishment Will prove fruitless. Very respectfully yours, Future Hopes. May Day in California. The San Francisco Bivtietin of the Ist inst. says: “The vernal season usually begins in all the coast and valley districts of the state before New Year. The hills become green, the | i he warm | wild flowers begin to come out on hillsides, and with every fresh rain the face of the country assumes a more aitractive ap- pearance. After the slight fre vegetation is about as far advanced in the coast counties as it isin the northern states on the Ist of May. The winter rains having been abundant, the country never looked fresher onthe Ist of May than now. It is only six weeks to the beginning of the harvest.” Tue green wheat just heading out covers thous. ands of acres.” All the tillable fields are cov- h the maturing crops. As Jast year of the poorest ever known for néarly all kinds of vegetation, so this year is one of the most favorable which has been known in many years. The earth is garlanded witn a wealth of vegetation everywhere. The pastures, so scant last year on ac- count of the drought, aré rich in wild Fasses, through which the cattle wade half meeaied by the sea vegetation. Wild flow- ers are everywhere. Every garden silently heralds th Day ern’s holiday. zone out of i ity fo enjoy the day in subur- ban places. But the entire month of May is suital r picnies, and for at least 3) oss ears and ferry-boats will swarm with children on excursion parties. The weather, too, is be- hitting the tr: Sonal May # soft atmosphere, which even the trade wind eloes no! greatly modify. Ham; of strawberries have been comin, market to ‘luring the mouth of April—strawberries a Ht tle pale on one side, as if the season had been forced. But with the advent of May come the ripe cherries, and oranges from the southern counties are thrust a little into the back- sround. In lessthan a month the early ap- ples will be in the market, along a few days later, and then all the wealth of Summer fruit will fli the markets. ” Mrs. Epwarps’ Discover Hler_Hushand Attempted to Murder Hor— Op qhuraday morning Mi Frank C. Edwards, of No. 108 New st: ‘wark, wanted some money, and for the purpose of getting some she searched her husband's pockets. In one | of them she found a letter signed Grace Rip Jey, making an Sppciniment to meet her hus. band in New York on Friday night. She ‘sulted with her brother, and it was determin ertheless, to } d, in 1871, E put | bat | around that hogshead | Al first Dhesitated, but being | osts of January | Ty of Ma itis the ehild- | hi ‘robably 10,000 ehildren have | y Day—sunny, with | pers and chests | aches will come | —For Waich | ‘on. | 1 | head as though | aeighborboud, they never seemed to change. . THE NEW BAY HORSE. Transiated from the Gerinan, for The Evening Star. bv TM. FL] Some years ago there lived in Berlin a man well-known and highly respected in his com- munity, Major M. Every morning, at the stroke of niue, mounted on his bay mare Lise, away from his dwelling, on the Lin. trasse, to the Kommandatur. ‘Every midday, at eleven, he gave the parole to the hew guard, near the armory, remounted his faithful horse, and rode home the same way. Old Lise and the Major,—you could not think of one without the other. For twelve or fifteen years they had been seen daily to- gether. They were so harmonious in appear- ance, agreed So well in figure and tempera- ment, that it could almost be said of them as ot vy married couples that as time rolled on there Ex. an indefinite yet perceptible likeness between them. Lise was alittle heavy through the withers, the food Majar had also a short, thick neck and a large round head. Both were brown, (the Major wore a wig,) undersized and thickset, both had some- thing unusually fpodnatured in_ their appear- ance, and when Lise switched off the flies with her tail docked in the then fashion, the little black plume high up on the Major's hat moved to and fro with exactly the same movement. Lise understood her duties quite as well as her master. Punctually at nine o'clock she ; became restless and pawed the floor of her stall. When the boy opened the stable door she went out alone quieily—forshe on no occa. sion hurried herself—crossed the court-yard and stood before the house door. When the door opened she turned her eyes to the right, and if the Major came out she shook her head as though to say, ‘good morning,” and turned to him to receive the customary lump of sugar. The Major would then pat his old friend on the neck and smilingly contemplate her as she slo craunched the sugar. . Then the boy would hold the cheek rein with one hand, the stirrup strap with the other, and the Major seize the bridle. Thi done Lise would bend a little in order to facili- tate the mounting. The Major would fumble for the stirrup, make a sort of seesawing movement, once, twice, three es, and then spring clumsily into the saddle. The boy then pushed his right foot into the stirrup’ while the Major settled himself and martially stroked his moustache. Lise tripped a little and put on the appearance of a five year old horse, but in reality she was well nigh on to | the twenties. At last they started. “As soon as the first step was taken, regularly as the morning came, a little spanielzwith a fright- ened, anxious look ran out of the front door, barked a few times and then rushed back: Lise picked up her earsa little to return the greet! ng while the Major at the same moment glanced to an upper window of the house. “ Adieu, Pinchen!” he cried, bowing pleas- | | ul: replied his loving spouse from above looking after her lord. With his legs stuck forward, his plumed hat | onthe back of his neck, shoulders elevated, and elbows spread asunder, the Major sat on his little horse and rode step by step along the familiar avenue to the Kommandatur. His body moved slowly back and forward in tine | to Lise’s precise walk, the plume in his hat | nodded, the sword seabbared on the showy red and yellow housing, even the fron eross upon his breast followed every motion of horse and master. Lise stepped out very solemn’y, one footafter | another without ever stumbling or looking ide. Every youthffil folly had Jong “for. Tr. ‘always stopped in exactly the ace before the Aommmdatur and ‘nt a little to facil P stable. Thereshe took a litile nap it ile the Major went first to report and then to the Bureau, but she was instantly on the alert when she heard him coming down the stqps of the Aommandatur. While the Major gave the parole to the Adjuncts of the garrison and the music played she was led along by the rampart glancing oceasionally to yhere her master stood, and as soon as he eared her she forced the stupid orderly to a small stot “ar the gutter, and stood in’ wait- ing. The Major patted the faithful animalon the neck, and then she carried him step by | ack to the house. Thus was ove day like | year in, year out. The Major and | rew to be a perfect institution in the But some oue else changed, viz: Pinchen, the majors spouse. AS years passed she gradually looked after them of a morning less and less compiace ally, and at last she began to shake her head doubtfully, which is always a bad sign. One day, after a’ famous parade her thoughts found word: “I have something to Say to you, dear Con- rad,” she began. “Lise is growing much too old and ugly. You must look about you for another horse.” The Major comet his spoon in amazement, at this unlooked-for remark. With Sey had he often Shouens that the time woul come when Lise would end her earthly career, but he could bear to dwell upon it; and now, for his wife to speak like that! “ But, my dear Pinchen,” said he, somewhat hastily, “I do not understand...:. 1 must part with Lise?.... tt makes you think so, my dear?” Well, she had ten reasons at her finger’s end; all the people were talking about it. “Lise was much too old and ugly, something might hap. pen tohim while on her; she looked simply Fidiculous; the old creature had grey hair in her mane, and such a tail, ete., etc. The Ma- fore mouth was fairly open with amazement je had thought that he possessed the best and finest Joking horse in the world,.and that his wife shared in this opinion—buc now? Well, he defended his old friend with every argu: ment that suggested itself; but Pinchen, with true feminine art, if she found herself defeat- | ed, began anew that he must have a new horse, ete. To be brief—who will have the last word with his wif ie Major's spouse had her way and Lise was sold. A miller purchased her and by swearing to the Major that he would regard her as the apple of his eye to her life’s end he got her cheap—for twenty Thaler. It was a dark day for the Major, darker ones came, however. His Lise had been sold and now he had to look out for another, but alas, that was easier said thandone. The neigh: bors were astonished to see the Major go by on foot for the first time in fifteen years. “The Major's Lise is either sick or dead, for see how troubled the old gentlemao looks,” was the gossip circulated. When it was warm he took a coach, for he had several times taken cold by unaccustomed walking and had to ac- knowledge himself sick. Pinchen became quite anxious. “Get a horse as quickly | as possible!” she cried in alarm. But that was not so easy as she thought. To be sure there were horses enough to be got, but those that pleased her were iminoderately | dear, and the cheap ones not at all desirable | on account of numerous short-comings. They went to every horse-dealer in the city, out of | one stable into another; the Major had’several | hair-breadth escapes trying strange horses; they advertised in the papers—in vain ; months went by and they were not suited. The next winter passed rather miserably. The Major could not forget his Lise. None of the animals | he looked at pleased him half so well as his | rejected friend. | ‘coward spring an old Jew came from the | Charlottenburg horse market and preseuted | himself to the Major. He said he had read the advertisement in the paper and thought he had something to suit—a seven-year-old, sound horse, free from fault, well broken, and mili- tary in appearance. It had Patonpod to an officer in Magdeburg, and would cost only thirty-five Friedrichd’ar—a mere trifle, | as It was worth at least fifty. The Major was ready immediately to goand view the animal. It stood in a shed in Krausen Strasse. A jockey took it out, led it HE and down, and mounted it before our old friend. The animal Pleased the Major remarkably well at first lance. Not that it was exact : elegant, but it reminded him of his old Lise: it had almost the same figure and color, only that of course it was much younger and more spirited. Lise ad a white streak on the forehead, three white fetlocks and a white foot; while this horse was without mark, excepting a faint mixture of white on the left hind foot. The new bay, moreover, had an undulating mane and a wavy tail. The Major mounted the horse, and to his sat he found that its gait suited him admirably.’ His wite pleased with it, soa bar; ihe soe etna Seat iran the new bay went into the stable e into the same stall where Lise had stood so many years. The stable boy who led the new horse home stared with astonishment. “ Heavens—it looks almost exactly like our old Lise:” he cried. “How strangely the animal looks at you, Herr Major !”” sqy NODSEnse, Friedrich,” replied his master, “this horse comes from a very fine stock. Well, and so did Lise, that is —— Pan etait hater jor went up to his room vei much pleased at the un. At last he had & to the Kommandatur. ge to say, as the Major came out of the door the animal turned | his head and watched him. It startled the Major for a moment, but directly he shook his amused at his own folly. to say nothing about the discovery at that | “Nonsense,” he murmured, giving the bay ume, but to follow Edwards on F; . On | some r. He mounted—the horse made no Friday night Edwards was followel, and he | movement like Lise to facilitate that under- Ss Seen fo visit Grace Ripley. While away | taking, so there was some little dificu'ty in from home he discovered the ios of the letter, etting into the saddle. Well, he would soon and ou his return aeeused his wile of stealing | learn that. They started, the spaniel ran to ut. A quarrel took place, in the course of | the door and barked, the boy stooi below, hie ne. it is said, struck iis wife several | the wife at the window above, and looked nes, aud finally drew a revolver and Was about to discharge it at her, when his mother ;to the room and disarmed him. Yes- Edwards was arrested, and com mitzed, fault of bail, on a charge iS | did not notice how we after him. “ Heighday!” cried tha neighbors, “the Major has a new horse.” It was quite anevent. The bay went as straight as aa ar- row; the Major sitting proudly in the saddle ithe knew the way. At rrison he received the congratulations Adjunets. : soul, Herr. Major!” cried one of the | See y ‘hat is your old Lise int”? ? What? You are ii en, my dear Boursdorfl—where are your eyes?” cried the | two suits of flannel underwear, a chamois vest | upon you in | Hall does to Westminster Abbey. | ary to speak of these “tacts of worship” is sel- Major, somewhat viqued, and he turned his bake on him. Tl be hanged” said the fellow afterwards, laughing aside; “if that is not olf Lise, of | course itis:... Look, now, as the orderly leals | her to the stall.” | “But this one has neither Lise’s trick when | the Major dismounts, nor her white foot,” re- | plied one of the infantry. “That is nothing, Ehrenfels; a mere baga. | telle,” replied the cavairyman, smiting. “*I Wager you a bottle of Bitter water aginst twelve bottles of Canary wine that he has been cheated.” And truly the cavairyman was right. Early the next morning the stable-boy came and an- nounced that a white streak had appeared on | the forehead of the new bay. e Major | started off as though a wasp had stung him, | and rushed baek to the stable. Yes, the boy had made no mistake, and upon nearer inves- tigation a white foot began to show itself. “Good heavens!” cried the Major, with a mixture of Siomay vexation an jor: The animal looked at him sof ithfully and intelli- gently that conviction was most powerful. Yes, yond a doubt, it was old Lise! “But how can it be possible?” he cried, in great excitement. “I knew it at once, Herr Major; the animal looked much too familiar,” said the boy, hard- ly knowing how to sympathise. “But the miller gave me his word of honor never to let her go. “I have been there,and he says she ran away from him.” “And thirty fis Pieces gone to the devil! Oh, to be so imposed upon!” cried the major anew. een gnlonly Frederick, to that trader ov Krausen strasse.” ~‘Ah, he has vanished long ago, Herr Major. I have been there, and no one Knows anything o him.” The major stood irresolute, overcome by various emotions, while his old friend Lise Watched him reproachfully, as though to say, “Don't you know me? For what did I serve you ifyou sold me? Haven't I grown to hon- orable old age?” . “Go, Frederick, and call my wife,” said the major. Frederick had scarcely disappeared when the Major neared the horse and with a sus Picious moisture in his eyes threw his arms around the creature's neck. “My dear old Lise,” he cried, kissing her: “I ought never to have parted from you. The devil take that rogue and his money! My brave old Lise, how glad I am!” And truiy, from the bottom of his heart the major was happy to find his old friend. He had her again, and the resi can be easily imagined. A few years ago they could be golly seen together in Berlin. Now both are jead. oe -___ The Fresh-Air Idiot. He dregses in a manner peculiar to his tribe, does the fresh-air idiot. He wears two pairs o! woolen stockings and heavy cork-soled boots; Protector, a double knit jaket, a woolen vest, ined pi loons that weigh about eighteen ounds and are as impervious to air asa rub- T blanket ; a double-breasted coat, fur gloves and a sealskin cap pulled down over his ears. Thus attired, it is the aeuent of his one ideal soul to meet you some bracing September morning, and regard, with a fixed stare and wild howl of derision, Adee in your fall suit and light overcoat. “Oi with it man,” he yells, smiting his chest with his buried hands. “Off with it! Why. bless my soul, I haven't worn an overcoat for more than two years. What do you want with an overcoat? Bra inhale the fresh air; fill your lungs with it. it makes your nerves tingle with natural, health-giving, glowing warmth.” He bangs in your office. ** Whoof ! he snorts, ly around him. ‘*what an oven! looking wild Don't you Know you are killing here? “Whew! This air comes fri kiln. It dries up my lungs like par And he leaves the door wide open and a tor- rent of icy wind rushes in and bathes your slippered feet in a chill that doesn’t leave them. for a we he rushes across the office and opens a window on your back that makes you shudder hours after you are asleep that night; he closes the drafts and opens the stove door, and then sits close benind it, out of the draft | he has opened on you, and tells you how warm and comfortable he is, and how he never ver- mits his room to get so hot as yours was when he came into it. He deluges you with his twaddle about fresh air and ventilation, and | doesn’t go away and let you make yourself | comfortable until he has caught you a cold that will stick to you all winter, cost you $205 for medical services, and then kill you in the spring.—[ Burlington Hawkeve. The Dress of Children in the Sum- mer. This subject is practeany, and sensibly dis- cussed by a contributor to the Chicago [nter- Ocean. She considers that children dressed wholly in cotton are not sufficiently protecied against sudden changes of temperature. Chills and fevers result, and lurking seeds of disease are developed. On the other hand, swathing in flannel, in which the children seethe and swelter, impairs the vitality and the ability to repel disease. The writer further says: "Following the advice of a friend who had given much attention to the subject in her own family, I did not discard the flannel swathe across the the bowels till after two summers had passed. This can be made with shoulder straps, and if preferred, can be cot- ion across the back. I also provided a shirt and undershirt of summer flannel. At night every article worn during the day was removed, and a long loose night-dress of summer flannel put on. This some- times seemed too warm at night. but never in the morning. No injury resulted from throw- ing the bedclothes of faring the night, and the summer complaint and troubles incident to teething were unknown. Of course many other precautions are requisite tosecure health. Damp feet and extreme heat and ex- citement of any kind should be avoided. Pure air, pure water, simple food well cooked and fed at wear hours are the chief essentials, If fed a facially, too much care cannot be jiven to the articles containing the food, to eep them sweet; and, in any ease, be sure that the child has enough to eat. Nature can relieve an overburdened stomach—though that extreme should be guarded against—but has noappeal from an empty one, and too lit- tle food with a child-is seed for future disease, bring. like a weak spot in the foundation of a building.” SUNDAY IN ENGLAND.—The truth is that the claim now made on behalf of the working classes is only a very temporary version of the claim which the upper classes have long since advanced and enjoyed. In the course of the last ten or twenty years, Sunday, as a social institution, has been revolutionized in Eng- land. Of course it is still invested with the vague halo of traditional sanctity, but it is los- ing, one by one, the wanes which once marked itas a day not only dedieated to rest, but to religion. Society’s Sunday in London differs entirely from the Sunday which it knew less than two decades ago. It is true that society, or at least a section of it, still goes to chnreh with tolerable regularity once every Sunday in London, and with undeviating regularity once at least every Sunday in the country. But London chureh-going is a rite which, in the majority of instances, bears the same rela- tion to the religious sentiment as St. James’ It may be allowed that there is such a thing as a de- votional Jeon which is honestly and un- affectedly gratitled by the act of collective worship. But the tone in which it is custom. dom suggestive of anything which can by courtesy be called religion. Ladies go to chureh because “it is heathenish not to go;” because the service is generally good ; because the music is perfect lovely ; because the clergy- man says such droll things; because they see their friends there; because, in fact it is the right thing todo. Men goto church because they are unconsciously influenced by a healthy regard for the good old English idol—respecia- bility; becapse they consider that their posi- tion require it, even in London; because they have an idea that they are setting an example to their children er their househoid ; because, perhaps, their wives wish it. But to put tha matter plainly, however ugly the soun whic the words may have, church-going is for th most part an act which is atribute, not toGod, but to Mammon.—[ lon World. Tae New English NAvTicaL BaLLap “Nancy Leg."—The Second Life Guards marched it my window yesterday ia full uniform, to the splendid breézy, catching mel- ody of “Nancy Lee.” J expect tune and song have reached you by this time. [t has been the rage here for months. The composer is a vocalist named Maybrick. He took the song to the Chappells, music parishers. They claim to be authorities on all questions of mu- sical publications. Maybrick sung the song to them. He wanted $100at the time. ‘Give me a five-pound note for it,” he said, “and have done with it." No, they preferred to pay him a royalty; they did not think the song would fel. uae pe pest nautical balled rae has n published for years. Chappells have, up to the resent writing, paid Mayoriok 37,500 in royalties for “ Nancy Lee.” Theatrical mana- gers and publishers, as a rule, are fools. There are “sweet littie cherubs sitting up aloft,” in the shape of struggling artists who now and then force new works upon thei ; otherwise they would die in workhouses,{astead of living luxurious lives and dying with “heirs, execu- tors and assigns” in charge of han Isome prop- erties.—[ London Letter. LtTTL& notes from creditors, Litile bills on slace, ike the avera ze bank cashier Beohypothecate. (Danbury Neos. ‘s9- ‘There are peopie who live behind the hoy isan old German proverb which means. that there are other persons in the world be- side yourself, although you may not see them. *%~ Agricultural papers are howling to ner A ee shall we keep the boy: i fom Fea o1 Suppose you Ve clothes.—[ Bridgeport ‘Standart, x aa“ What he mised he tried to fulfill; but he promi too much. Moral to the foung—never bite off more than you kin thaw: . 2 MAUNA LOA. The Great Hawalian Votcano Visited THE MORTALITY INCREASING IN AN APPALLING by a Woman. (Feom the Woman's Journal. j an English womaa traveling for as just published two volumes about Austraia, New Zeland and the Hv waiian islands, in visiting which she has gained health and had many experiences only gesuted to brave spirits. In Hawaii, in company with an English gentleman,a resident of the islands, and two or three native guides and servants, Miss Bird went to the ‘op of the great voleani¢ mountain, Mauna Loa, being, it is thought, the first woman who ever made the ascent. Few men have ever reached the summit, the journey being a most fatiguing and dangerous one. Many people, residents and tourists, visit every ear the volcano of Kilauea, on the flank of Mauna Loa, and only 4,000 feet above the sea, but the vast, snow-covered summit. which looms 10,000 feet above, preserves lis mystery of solitude and fire. The only description of this | volcano of Mokuaweoweo that has been given to the worl from the pen of Miss Bird. iz their long, toilsome ourney through the snow and over the jagged lava, which made their horses bleed, she tells of their arrival on the brink of the vast crater, which was several miles around, and 800 or 1,000 feet deep, and speaks thus of the fire fountain that met their eyes:— ‘A thing of beauty, @ perfect fountain of pure yellow fire, unlike the gory gloom of Kil- auea, was throwing up its glorious incandes- cence to a height of 600 feet! You cannot imagine such a beautiful sant. The sunset gold was not purer than the living fire. The sound was like the roar of an ocean, mingled with hollow murmur of surf echoing in sea- caves, booming on, rising and falling like the thunder-music of windward Hawaii. When the sun had set, and the brief red glow of the tropics had vanished, a new world came into being, and wonder after wonder flashed forth from the previously lifeless crater. Every- After descril of fire rows li ; fires bright and steady, burning in e blast furnaces ; fires lone and isolated unwinking like plinets,or twinkling like stars rows of little fires marking the margin of : lowest level of the crater; flre in way: fire calm, stationary and restful : cent lake two mites in length ben tive crust of darkness, and whose depths on dare not fathom, even in thought. in the glare, giving light enough to read by ata distance of three-quarters of a mile, making the moon look as blue an ordinary Eaglish sky, its golden ‘gleams changed to a vivid rose cofor, lightening up the whole of the vast preci pice of that part of crater with a rosy red, ringing out every detail; here throwing cliffs and hights into huge black masses; there rising, falling, never intermitting, leaping in lofty jets with glorious shapes like wheat- sheaves, coruscating, reddening—the most glorious thing beneath the moon was the fire fountain of Mokuaweoweo * * * So, alone in its glory, perennial, self-born, Springing up in spareling light, the fire fountain played, as the hours went b * Miss Bird sat wi lish. gentleman, 1 ith her companion, the Eng- it upon the brink of the crater, until 9 o'clock ; . cold and weariness forced them to turn away from the magnificent spee tacle, and enter the canvass tent, which the natives had erected, and in which they were already lying asleep: Putting on all their ex. tra wr minds filled with sublime and exalted thoughts. When Miss Bird awoke, the ruddy glow of the voleanie fire: nged the whole tent with rose color, and, sitting up, she looked at her watch ‘by its light, and ‘found that it was just midnight. Lmpélled by a desire to see the yoleano, alone, at this impressive hour, she wn- did the flap of the tent—being obliged as she did so, to kneel upon the bod native guide. Passing out. hear the brink of the erate: star shivered above the frozen suminit, and a blue moon, nearly full, withdrew her faded light into infinite space: The southern cross had set. Two peaks below the pole-star sharp- ly defined against the sky, were the only signs of any other world than’ the world of fire and mystery around. It was | ht broadly vivid- lv light; the sun himself, one would have thought, might look pale beside it. ne were the only mo eyes which saw what is per- haps the grandest spectacle on earth. I felt overwhelmed by the very sublimity of the lonelin The moon herself, looked a wan, unfamiliar thing—not the same moon which floods the palm’and mango groves of Hilo with light and tenderness. And those Paim and mango groves, and lighted homes, and FERS, and ships and cities, and the faces of friends and all familiar things, and the day be- fore, and the year before, were as things ina dream coming up out of the vanished past, Would there ever be another day,and would the earth ever be young And gree n again, and would men buy and sell and strive for Id, and should I ever with a human voice tell liv. ing human beings of the aie of this mid- night? How far it was from all the world! “The fountain was a vivid rose-red, and the spray and splashes were as rubies and flames mingled. Forever falling in fiery masses and flery foam, accompanied by a thunderous music of its own; companioned only by the solemn stars: exhibiting no other token of its glories to man than the reflection of its fires on mist and smoke, it burns for the Creator's eye alone. A change occurred. The jets which had for solong been playing at a hi ght of 300 feet, suddenly became quite low,and, for a few seconds, appeared as cones of fire wallowing ina sea of light; then, with a roar like the sound of pathering, waters, nearly the whole surface of the lake was lifted up by the action of some powerful internal force, and rose with its whole radiant mass in one glorious upward burst to a hight, as estimated by the surround- ing cliffs, of 600 feet, while the earth trembled and the moon and stars withdrew abashed in- far-off space. After this, the fire fountain yed as before. The cold had become in- nse, and I crept back into the tent, these Words occurring to me with a new meaning,— ‘Dwelling in the light that no man can ap- proach unt. ps, they lay down to rest, th ith sublime ir rg e seated herself “Coldly the pole- THE PLEASURES OF MEDIOGRITY —The Frenchman who said of the English girl's sing- ing that it was “ magnifique, splendids, su lime, pretty good, ’’ had no idea that the last pee of the compliment was a bathus. Per- aps he was right, though the opinion of tne World has certainly gone against him. Per- haps a work of any sort of art which pretty good”’ gives no less pleasure, or more (and to ive pleasure is, after all, its end,) than any remendous composition in the grand style. tf t you don't care for the grand style, or know what it is, then, says a poet in the most devout wap, ‘‘moriemini in peccutis vestris."” To follow the grand style oily, to neglect what is “pretty good,” is to miss the sweet April mornings, ature. “1 think in my heart,” said Thacke. Tay before he was famous, before he was the author of Vanity Fuér, “ {am fonder of pret- PA third-rate pictures than of your great, thun- ering first-rates. Confess how many’ times you have read Béranger, and how many Mil- ton. If you go to the ‘Star and Garter, ' don’t you grow sick of the vast luscious Tandseape, and long for the sight ofa couple of ¢ ws, ora donkey, and a few yards of common?” ' One suspects people who do not enjoy the common nature, and the art which is not uncommon, of caring very little for either one or the other. {The Saturday Review. NOVELTIES IN PAPER.—A correspondent wants to know if it 1s really true that ear wheels are made of paper. We can assure him that itis. The paper is subjected to enormous pressur enclosed between thin plates of fron. Such wheels are found to have extraordinary elasticity and endurance, and are coming io be much used not only in this country, but in Europe. The latest nov- elty in use of paper appears to be for chim. Hey poe, They are made in Breslau, and are and durable. Before the paper pulp is moulded and compressed into the required shape it is treated with chemicals, which ren- der it non-inflammable. Specimens of paper and cloth made from the California cactus were recently exhibited before the Maryland Academy of Sciences. The cactus grows abundauitly in many of the Western statesand | territories, and it is found on arid soil where | nothing can be cultivated. The success that bas been met with in making pal er from this plant is so marked that the business will provably be attempted on a large scale.— Journal of Chemistry. How TO WRITE.—Most people desire to be clever writers, but don’t just exactly know how. The Acta Columbii @ magazine printed by the young men of Columbia college, X. ¥., lets the whole secret out, and a brilliant array of talented authors may be at once looked for. The rules are: “First let the writer, without any, research, put down his own ideas upon his subject. Then let him read and note the ideas of others. Then let him write his ideas as modified and developed by reading. Finally let him combine these three classes of ideas in an harmonious whole.” Ifa reporter would paste these rules in his hat or on his memory, and then undertake to write up accounts of a murder, a meeting of ward a oliticians, an art-gallery opening. a fire description of a phonograph an eenibitts a honor: runaway, and the biowing-up of a steamer, in one Srening, and adhere to that code of Herary laws, if would be interesting to note just what particular form of insanity would overtake him be! (Detroit Free Press. Mus. SCOVILLE. a young Chicago widow, advertised for correspondence “with a view to matrimony.” Tom Moore, a waiter in a dwood Hotel, wrote to her. Many letters Pasved between them, they exchanged photo. graphs, and at length agreed to mai The widow spent all her money in the purchase of @ railroad ticket to wood ; but Tom had told her that he was a prosperous landlord, and So she felt easy as to financial matters. On wood, fessed. he was only a waiter. She broke off the engage- ment instantly, and some generous persons gave her money with which to get home. 4@-There are even those who vote national expositions bore, and who would rather be in any year than this. so far as the writer knows. is | where through its vast expanse appeared glints | fore he completed his work.— | | | and howled at us When we drove them od from ; of whom not more than a hundred now re’ the indolent, easy pleasures of liter. | Jim was rather a bashful, reticent man, and | to withdraw their dej | tended a tem | ulary. The Famine in China. DEGREB. The accounts from the famine-stricken dis. tricts in Northern China represent the morta! ity as increasing and extending, so thxt no human aid can reach the sufferers in m them. The latest dates from Shausi a: February 10, and not only had the iuhadil suts there to suffer want, but the winter had been unusually severe. This appalling calamity is attaining greater dimensions than any one previously knowr in modern times. I send Pha an abridged account of the state of things wo months azo, taken from a letter of the Rev. T. Rich: an English missionary, living in Tai-yuen, the provincial capital, in’ which he reports what he saw in a fortnight’s trip to the southern districts. one dressed in gooi Jan. 30.—Saw two dead, clothes, who could not have been a poor min. Just beyond I saw one walking like a drunken man, and as I was gering out some money te. five him a puff of wind blew him over into the snow, “ Jan. 31.—To-day saw fourteen dead along the roadside, one corpse was so light that a middle-sized dog dragged it about. One body was covered with snow, a proof that no dogs or wolves had been near for three days. I was much affected by what an oid man said, while we were climbing a hillside together, out of the anguish of his heart: ‘“ Our mules and donkeys are alleaten up, and our laborers are all dead ; how is it that heaven lets us poor people die like thi: In the twilight saw two wolves looking out for the dead. “Feb. 1.—Traveled half the day. Met two brothers from 15 to 18 years old, each of them waiking slowly like aman of 80, leaning on his staff; and another youth was carrying his mother, Who Was at her last gasp. Saw two. | heads in cages: their owners had been thus | punished for robbing, and these were hung up to deter others. “ Feb. 2.—Saw twelve dead, all stripped of their clothes; in one spot three lay together, apparently a father, son and grandsoa. For miles on both sides of the road the trees were | stripped of their bark toa height of five, ten or twenty feet; it is ground fine and mixed with husks and baked into cakes. P. houses with their doors and windows he jars and other utensils were inside, nothing had been touched, for it could not be turned into money or bread; all the inmates were gone away or dead. “February 1,—This day wasthe worst of all. | I saw abundant proofs of men eating clay or stone, and bought three stone cak e stone is the same as Our soft-stone pencils. [tis re. | duced to dust and mixed with millet husks, in different proportions, and then baked. It does not look bad, but tastes dike what it is—dast. Also saw two men grinding something very dark and ascertained that they were makinga flour out of millet husks and éotton wad The people are pulling down their hou: fuel, as they have no money to buy co dead seems t day tonumber more th: evious day, for there were twenty-nine ia hteen miles along the road, and the cireum- nces were more frightful. In one vailey the branched into two, and my servant saw a v" n lying in aditch after being robbed of Ashe had, and still moving, though uncon. scious of any one passing by. Further on we Saw a man’s head cut clean from his body—a cruel murderer's deed. We saw also among the dead some wounded heads, but not done by the wolves, dogs or birds. The dogs barked the dead. Many of the corpses seen when we were going had disappeared, bat their places Were more than supplied by others. . To these details of what I saw I give you'a briefer account of what I have heard. Some men coming from Sz’chuen Provinee, on their way to penne. said that along the waole way they saw dead bodies here aud there. had fallen in Honan Province a foot deep, about eight inches in Shansi, to the west horthwest, and none further north in th Province. In all that region west of this cold had been unusual. “Phe soft stone is sold at from two to five mills a pound, and bark trom five to seven mills a pound, for foud. The roots of sweet flags dug, but they cause the face to swell. ‘Grain is three or four times the usual price, and turnips and cabbage tive or six times. Fiour is seven, eight and nine mills per ounce. In every city I passed through, the rej Was that’ tw ort uty, thirty, or forty were dying daily. At Ping-yang two great pits had been filled, and two carts were daily employed in carting the dead. One inn-keeper told us that one of his customers reported having counted 270 dead on the road in three hae journey. Whole families, old and young, die in their houses, and lie there unburied. Tu one district a third of the population are dead, and the eople maintain that in many towns fully one- half have porns they know villages where formerly dwelt 300 or 400, and even 5) peop! main. rain is sent to every district in Pu-cha department in the southwest of thi in i by carts or mules overland fora distance of over 700 miles, not to speak of what comes from Manchuria, more than 1,000 miles 1 that ten cents a month for each person is the lowest allowance given by the officials, and the highest is 30 cents; when grain iiself is doled out, two or three ounces a day is the quantity. . In the suburbs of this city, Tai-yuen, there are three large soup kitchens, where 20,000 are helped. In remote districis men eat each other; there is no doubt about it. No one ventures to go alone to the pits for coal, for they will be stripped and their beasts seized for food. The people of one hamlet dare not visit each other, such is their dread of being robbed on the way; whole families lie unburi- ed in their own homes.—[{ New Haven Corres- pondence. * SELECTING A WIFE FOR 4 FRIEND.—A tei tavellin; City hear gen- between Pueblo and Kansas IM conversation by a very Jooking miner, ‘who had n auriferous adventurer it country, aud who had “struck it rich.” He made ‘no secret of the fact that his visit to a certain town in Michi. gan was for the purpose of marrying the * girl he left behind him,” for whose future com- fort he had built and. furnished a house high up among the snow-capped mountains of Col- orado, But this does not interest the reader as will the balance of the story. He left in San Juan a partner, whom he describes “as uare a man as ever struck a drill,” with Whom he had cons'antly labored three long years as mere “prospectors,” and with Whom he now jointly held one of the most valuable properties in their district. Jim, too, desired to go East, but their mutual interests inade it impossible; he didn't know any one in particular East, but then he wanted to go. did not like to tell even his partner the pur- pose: of his coveted visit; but upon the eve of he departure of the latter, the purpose of whose visit was known, Jim made the request, in dead earnest, that he bring him a wife: “Will you do it?” hi * Do it, you bet!” to give in regard “Yes, he said, “Harry, Food honest, sensible girl, what there's no foolishness or show about—a girl what'll make an honest man an honest wife,’ and that’s just the kind 0, woman take out and the one that'll be Jim’s wife.” (Denver (Col.) Tribune. THE CATHOLICS AND THE SAVINGS BANKS.— A circular, signed by Archbishop Williams and thirty-one priests, was readin the Roman Catholie ‘churches of "Boston on Sunday, ad- vising their people to refrain from attempting posits from the savings banks under the preyailing panic. They say ‘hat they are satisfied that the present danger comes not from any change that has taken place in the workings of the savings-bank sys- iem, not from any falling off in the character or ability of the men who conduct it, but chief. ly from’ a weakening of confidence, which, whiie not without causes that may be traced’ is nevertheless for the most part unreasonable, or at least excessive. And in conclusion: “We appeal to you in the interest of the community at large, in behalf of the continued industrial development of our resources, and for your own individual good, to refrain from any need. less withdrawal of your savings from these in- stl-utions expressly organized for your use and benefit by the wisdom of the state, and con- ducted, as we believe, sokly with these objects in view, and that, too, gratuitously, by men of honesty, prudence and ability. We also think it well tu caution you against self-seeking spec. ulators, who, by playing on your fears, hee 4 seek to induce Phd to part With your deposit books at much fess than their actual valué.” A PETRIFIED WoMAN.—A_ singular dis- covery has been made on board ine leving, a ful-rigged vessel, recently arrived in England from Peru. The body of a woman was found imbedded in the cargo, which consisted of nitrate of soda. The body is in a good state of Perservation, and it is supposed to be that of a victim of an earthquake which occurred many years ago in Pera. The body is at pre- sent ying in the captain’s bath-room in a couchin, ition. Kings are inserted in the ears.—[ Chilian Times. Niwa Richardson, @ Richmond bell ie was asked. “Had he any instructions to the selection?” bring mea at- prance meeting, and pinned the emblematic blue ribbon on her breast She was led to this conspicuous action by the ar- ment that the example would do a great eal of os. That night she did not Sleep well, owing to the excitement caused by her ublic performance. She got out of bed | ina freak of somnambulism, down stairs, and was seriously injured. WHAT A VAST BOON to the slang slingers of -the country this whole Beecher business has been! Look at the contributions to the vocab- ed edge, true inwardness, ste; down and out, paroxysmal kisses, quicken terran sta thon afaica its onl . 8 m ado} sober use too.—{ Boston Post. id " gece ec '_2 SPRING FEVER. Iknow where summer woods are grece. dee) Where summer shade ts dark an ‘Where frondage forms a cooling screen, ‘Where widerleaved lites lie asiec And where the early b Tknow, I know, but cannot go, sums blow; I know where laughir g waters fall, Where Where merry spr are musical, ire Suaimer lakes are spread, And brooks wub fountains at che bead, And where the lordly rivers flow, 1 know, 1 know, but cannot go. I know where birds delight to sin Where squirrels chatter at their play, Where bees sweep by on busy wit Where fragrance Alls the dving day, Aud fireflies sparkle to and fro, I know, I know, but cannot go, 1 know where ocean airs are free. Where salt waves dash upon the Where bright sails glisten o'er the Where rock and sands st beach, sea, lessons teach — Rock dark as death, sand white as snow, I know, I know, bul cannot go. This wilderness of stone and brick Enfoids me still from day to dag ; My sou! Is sad. 1m: issick, | hd yet I eanact alip awa To pleasant places that 1 kn 1 know, I know, but cannot go, ees MR. STANLEY AT WOR: The London Publishers’ Circular following interesting account of Mr. te habits as a worker: ‘Mr. H. M. Stanley's and admirers, Colonel 7. Sun. ves the Stanley's two most ardent friends 1 Yule and Mr. Hynd- | man, not content with the praise, mixed, how- ever, with mild reproof, which they have felt t to bea part of thelr’ duty to him in the Paul Mali Gazette and al have now collected together their othe: ‘inaccessible’ correspondence and issued phiet form, as the ‘Record of a Pro- ident and council of the Society on account of the bestow aon other jou very Warm reception which that eminent soci- ety gave Mr. Sianley on his return to England. There seems, judging by the pre face, to have been no special unanimity between these two authors. ‘olonel Yule abhors the word oration, Which he derives from the word ovis, a sheep : and he declines to id, or follow, or mingle with a flock ; he sticks to his new found friend,” not because he is ‘absolutely agreed’ with him, but because he has ‘the courage ions,’ and has reproved the said face with becoming firmness an of his opin flock face to nd “modesty. The gallant colonel naturally admires pluel . Mr. and that is why he protes protests because the ‘great ac! which have shocked his own sensi failed to penetrate even the wool hearted flock. Surely these ‘protest too much.’ it is difficult to see wh it), an Hyndman hievements,” hisities, have of the tlinty- entlemen do The pamphlet is doubtless | expected to effect some good purpose (thouch | d will probably | have a very large gratuituous circulation. hil Meanwhile another of Mr. Sta: est friends and ‘admirers—his lan¢ unt. The burden of her com . that he eats ly tea, that he does noth {rom morning to night, and, as lieves. from night would form an nd airy, r of exereise : but chairs, tables, s« tees, and even the floor, newspapers, MSS. adinirabl dared to touch, much less t that chamber since it has b Hi and ch ist, ¢ greatest punctual and is frequently kept cooling ont lill Wo or three o'clock r, in a_sad state of mental an: ull morning. His ro ellent study for an artis! nd offers so: cham bermai nley’s warm. dlad xiely ¢ plaint is U notl ing but write she fully be pund’ by Way ofas and set ¢ laden with books, arts in most an artic occupied by the mposed of the | u think ot, is ity at tweive, he sideboard | ior both breakfast table and master are fully occupied with maps or otherdocuments, and cannot for so unimportant’ a inatter. then does perhaps, beign to th it is soon hurried off, and sumed, and his latfllidy, mest anxious to please hii sits all day long on a wicker stoo! inches high, and writes on a little of perhaps treble that height, just to hold an ink-pot, a quire of Toolseap, and t flat-bottomed meerschaum which panied him through Africa. jal cireular table is adorned i with an ornamental flowerpot ec ever-Dlooming heliotrope, which be disturbed When the ten- Is has cooled down to the Mr. Staniey, of tasting a little; but ipe and work re- who is proud of and m, isin despair. He 1 about eight round table large enough fie h has accom- The adjoining in the center pntaining an requires no tender nursing, for it is artificial. Tais table, like the othe , is laden with books, MSS., and letters in the utmest disorder, notwithsiand- however, be said th ing which in justice to it should any part of the room, ers during the any. th He Mr. Stanley, at he can always put his hand in a moment on anything he want: has numerous call , and is always arteous to his visitors, though with a preoceupied air, which says plamly, ‘I wish you would go, for'I long to be at my beloved work.’ Happily he does not as yet show any signs of the break- down which hi dicts in conporaenc of his har abstentious habits. On the conti is bright as ever, his voice and as cheer! Although t Is good hostess fears and pre- ‘d work and rary, his eye countenance ‘ul, and his step as firm and elastic. he book he is writing has expanded under his hands to at least a hundred pages more than was first contemplated, he does not despair of completing his self-imposed task in the promised time,and to this en with heroic determination. The first vol ich finds @ natural conclusion at the w of the expedition at Ujiji, he works on val , forms a complete narrative in itself of surprisingly interes ing and untold adventures. sing the Obelis| The London Times count of the manner obelisk will be lifted into its fut on the Thames embankment: “The plan for raisingmay seribed. The column will erful iron jacket as near the as is wanted, and this jac iron trunnions, just lil great gun. wrought iron the whole will ‘ket has irders of column being suflicient height, say a foot, it wi raised by a powerful balk of timbee sli: it. The otherend will and thus, slowlv but surely, it wil by foot, shored up with timber at taid in the way which will be: of the whole structure. ves the follow’ in which the Eg ig ac. Ptain ture position be very briefly de- fitted with a pow- center of gravity two massive e the trunnions of a These trunnions will rest on two great strength, and en resemble a mouster cannon op a slide without wheels. One end of the raised by hydraulic ill be kept su dd wader then be similarly treated, ll ascend foot every stage, ‘st insure the sta- bility 0 “The jacket, it is thought, will clip the stone sufficiently tigh tto hold it when ina vertical position; but in dealing with such enormous weights and a tapering column, it is as well to err on the safe side, so Mr. Dixon has decided to have a wrought-iron strap, ei; inches broad and more than an which will under the tothe jacket on the other side. during the few minutes it will vertically before bein; will stand in the ban neh thick, pass from one side of the jacket base of the monolith, and up again Thus, then, be suspended lowered to its vase, i as if in a stirrup, and the more its weight presses on the band the tighter it will mal umn, as we e the jacket gr have explained, wil horizontally, but when it has reache quired height the supports under be removed, and the base cess of the rest (two and a hal whole stone nion, till it ny simply turning on the taps of th presses. and the column will sink in about two minutes. A small base, moved, but when this up with granite block is done and 8, all will be tip. Tue col- ll be hoisted ed the re- the base will being slightly inex. | if tons), the ll slowly revolve on the trun- g3 direct over its appointed Spot and about four inches above it. tis then he hydraulic | into its base gap will be left in the center of the $0.as to enable the iron band to be re- | the gap dilled compieied.”” The Earth Not a Trne Globe. Our former P and cooling of the surface. Was Soft it was more or less yieldi the rotation of the earth to whie! ferred, tended to drive off, as it were, ter in the equatorial regious; so tance throu; the two sw the. earth which through, is rather between the two tothe surface. thatit must have the imaginary planet is not a true globe, because of its lastic condition before the formation Where the globe ng, and then hb T have re- the mat- that the dis iy the center of the earth between rfaces as far as possible removed from the poles of rotation, or those Parts of axis comes Uap’ than the distance nts where the axis comes — ronson of that fact, and en so, has been beautifully established by several experiments, ‘the earth was once hotter than it is now is there- fore proved both the irre; surface, and by its aha not imagine, however, one change. The mi: here; cle but after fie cath to rotate now about another. nin itua‘ed to what or more degrees, wi'! time any preceptible either land or water.” nature prevents catastro; ness of the scale on whic! man Lockyear in Good Words. Mbant as Bears Gay —Ooulda't e kin: Id be ted a phone or uatorial ail mark a polat » which has compelled ‘Mathematicians eoushieg 3 8 consider —— that the axis of the earth i oo times very: ee i at present, and, indeed, that “it might have I , Somiene gradually shitt: ities of its or dues ber- ina ed through hout at any sudden disturbance of Thus it ap; hes by Lhe Very h. h she works,—{.Vor- pears th Mr. Edison graph that on by the cry of an infant in woul act the night, so it would instantly grasp the cradle and rock Itke the tossiug billows on the ocean's breast? We have thought a great deal on this subject, and, in fact, have of machine that performs this a rude kiad labor with vol- erable Porn now, but it is rather com. zigvetan eae up, Me. Balson Tourtingion Hawke; ight robe d: “ it’ nuit, int er: Dill. ‘Spe: ye. That the | | Tourist and other Sui ___ LADIES’ GOODS. JUST RECEIVED : FROM NEW YORK, LFGHORN FLATS. WAYAL SHADE HATS, el Mrs. M. J. HUNT. G21 and 623 D Street, JEANNERET IS SEL HATS ang BONNETS: ~_ ‘and $15, former prices $20 and $35 5 also wi to inform her cus omers an the ladies tn general that all orders for ele- Saat Di st. ‘lan Dressinaking sent to 83 N. teachings Se weet Baas hed a to A perfect juaranteed. “i P. PALMER, No. A may6-u | M®*:2- . 1107 F street, Between Lith and 12th streets, Having just returned from New York. will open on MONDAY, May 6, an elegant ew stock of FRENCH MONTURES and ROSES, OSTRICH FEATHERS and POM PUNS, FANCY WINGS, TWO-TONED REVERSIBLE SATIN RiB- BONS, in new summer tints SATINS, SILKS. GAUZE. dc. French and American CHI'S, English and cy Straw BONNETS and HATS, Misso« and « dren‘s Fancy BAILORS and Leghorn HATS m _Special attention given to orders, y6-tr NEw STOCK OF PARASOLS, With Fancy Handles, $1 00, $1 25, $1.50, $1.76. $2.00. $2.50, $3.60, etc. IVORY HANDLES. ‘CH HORN HANDLRS, Im Plain and Twilled Silk. 18 inches, 20 inches’ 22 inches, 24 inches, at CM. TOWSON & C08, 636 Pennsyleania remie uth 3 myf-tr GPrciaL NOTICE. LADIES FINE BOUTS for Spring wear own make for sale at very reasousire Opposite T he Ladies Boots and Bhoes made to order at short Rotioa, mar30-ur ENCH ARTIFICIAL FLOW ERS, Received to-day, from importers’ immense stock of Nery fue FLOWERS auction, that we will offer at about ap%6-1m 608 Ninth D®te&rass Ninth street. Summer Merino UNDERWEAR, For Ladies’, Misses and Children, New Stock just received, And prices very low. Look at our new Grecian CORSET, Our Own Make. DOUGLASS, Ninth St., 8t.Cloud Building. WL WW has this M, Went year made a specialty READY-MADE DRESSES, and is now Constantly recelving invoices of Kiit, in all the desirable suades direct from bis house iu Paris, LSO, A choice line of Silk and Cashmere Mantiti fares, Circulars, T-inen Dusters, Mustin and Cale ico , Undergarments, P. Corsets, and new and exclusive dest, BO. FINE NNETS, MILLINERY GOODS and DEESS TRIMMINGS, ane verr ara Or PENNSYLVANIA AVE. _7 Cite Trevise, Paris, r ris, apliar — N RS. oxi RUPPERT, 614 OTH STREET, OPPOSITE PATENT OFFICE, Has just opened a large and select assortment ot INFANTS’ AND CHILDREN’S LACE CA\ and BONNETS, BOBES, ad 20-tr and materials, LONG AND SHORT DRESSES, And all Kinds of CHILDREN’S FURNISHING GOODS. Novelties in Lisle Thread GLO’ Black MITTS, LACES, LACK GOODS and MERU. net 4 . manda tn order, ore = RAILROADS. J4LTIMORE AND onT0 RAILROAD. THE GREAT UBLE TRACK. NATIONAL Bors 4ND SHORT LINE 4 NORTH, NORTHWEST. WEST AND soUTH- May 12, Pp. mm, EAVE WASHINGTON: Balt! » Bilicom City and Way —Baltimore Express. 6:60 a.m.—Baltimore, Annapolis and st tions, and Way Stations between Relay and Pe mont. ‘40—Baltimore Express, a.m.—Point of and Way Stations. 8:30 a.m Yor E zw TON AND BALTIMORE EXPRESS. to New York and Philadelphia, {8:35 a.m.—S8t. Louis, Cincinnatl, Chicago an Piusburg Express. om tor town, Valley Branch except Sunday, Cai urday, Through Car to Staunton, PARLOR Can to Grafton and SLEEPING Car to Cincinnati, Ge- Tambas, Chicago. J unction snd | Sandusky 00—On Sunday only, ore, Annapolis and Way Stations 30:00 4.in,—Baltimore Express. m.—Baltimore, Ellicott City, 1s tations. at Remon m.—NeW YORK, PHILADELPHIA 4nD Bostox EXrhess. On Sdnday to Ballimore and ‘ouly. .m.—Baitimore, Bladensburg, Annapolis tion abd Lesurel ‘Rpress. Frederick via Wolay 385 p.m.—Frederick, Polnt of Rocks, Hagers- bt Inchester aud Way Stations. Sunday to Polnt of Rocks and Way Sgations only, sd2:8 P-m.—Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Sta- 01 —Philade!phta. Norfolk and Baltimore Ellicott City. Passt NERS FoR BO 15:30 p.m. Express, FOLK TAKEN iN THE CAnS Dinkct TO BOAT a, CANTON. No conve ou Sunday for Noctuike Stop at Bladensburg and Laurel. :50—Baltimore and Way Stations. 47:15—CH1C7 GO AND COLUMBUS EXPRESS, SLEEPING ca *8:10 p.m. — Batti Express, *9.25— St. Louis. Cincinna’l, Loulsvilleand Pitts- burg Express, SLEEPING CArs to St. Louls and Pittsburg. No connection for Pittsburg Suuday. +9:30 p.m.—New YOuK, PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE EXPRESS. SLERPING CAR to New York, and SPECIAL SLEEPING CAR W Pui adol- phia ins marked (+) daily. * All other traius daily except Sunday, All trains stop at Relay Station. For further information apply’at Ticket Ofices at Depot, corner New Jersey avenue and © street; 485, 601 and 603 Peonsyivania avenue, aud 613 15th sireet northwest, Washington, and Masonic Tem- pie; High street, Georgetown, whore tickets cam y procured and orders Will be’ taken for baggage jo he fPecked and received wo hy f int in the city. y M. CL) a '. Master of Transportation. L. M. COLE, Genera! Ticket Agent. my13 GEO. 8. KOUNTZ. General Agent. 1878 rextifi¥ama 1878 TU THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTHWEST, bie T a Steel Bails, Splendid acenery, Equipment, 7 APRIL 4th, 1878. TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON. trom corner of Sixth and B streets, For Pittsburg and the West. Dar to Pittsburg with Parlor ‘and Sleeping O: from Pi rg to Cincinnat, Bt, Louls and 40 p.m. daily, Palace Car to BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. For Canandaigua, Rochester, Bui Ni ag ng