Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1878, Page 2

THE »>PEAKING PHONOGRAPH, s Acouuny church A counts) sermy’ ar pasience trl ass “b Yet, there an we t That ever thrilled from haman throats, And organ tones. fall. rich and rara, Came floating dream-like iu the air, ‘The musir ceased—alas, too soun, And I commenced my hap st! no But started when the text was -oared, And stared! at Beecher, Henry Ward. And as he pornded, Janghed and cried, The covniry people opened wide Shetr mouths in wonder, as they gazed, While I, tike them, feit much amazed. When baskets had been passed around, Ans ali with benediction crowned. I straightway found an honest deacon, ‘Whose fiery nose shone like a beacon, st And said: **Good deacon, tell me why This country church Is up so high, With music, and that preacher pay, When city churches cannot psy?*? He looked at me and laughed = Why, * nger, that’s a phi rima donnas, rare, We wire their latest opera air; ** And Beecher—mind, I tell you facts— Is but an image made of wat; With o her churches we exchange, Anu hussecure the widest range “OF pastors, eloquent and good, And save, both in their way and food! Rut Tilmage, fastened on a string From celiing, sv that he can fling +: The an‘ics of a jumping jack, 1. cated the best cardin the pack, These men of wax, so nice to handle, Have never yet made one wax scandal, y. Therefore they cause us no concern, For shining lights like these don’t burn. . : (Herwick @, Dodge, WIDOW COBB. The fire erackied cheerfully on the broad hearth of the old farm-house kitchen, a cat and thre» kittens basked in the warmth, and a decrepit yellow dog lying tull in the reflec tion of the biaze, wrinkled his black nose ap provingly. and turned his hind feet where hi hung several fine hams i beef. Apples were fes- the ceiling, and crooked neck d with red peppers i dried pumpkins in garnishing ea frame. There were plants, too, ¢ —horse-shoe geraniums, and dew plants, a monthly row just budding, to say nothing of pots of violets that perfumed | the whoe place whenever they took it into their pu ple heads to bloom. The floor was carefully swe had not a speck of dust or round; the long settee near the fireplace shone as it had its white face newly washed, and seemed to tick the louder fc 1 m-ehairs were drawn up y ce from the he: and each sther:a candle, newspaper. a pa of spectacles, a dish of re ked appl { a pitches of cider, fille le table between u —the chairs hem. In one of these chairs sat a comfortable- looking woman of abou? 45, with cheeks as red as the apples, and eyes as dark and bright as they had ever been, res ing her elbow oa the table, and looking very thousat the fire. This wis Widow Cobb Deacon Levi Cobb, who had been moide | with whe z Oi Bt wanderings. Now let me relieve you of those dishes; they are far too heavy for those little hands’ (the widow blushed): “now please sit down with me, orl cannot eat a morsel.” “Thad supper long ago, but really Ithin’ I can take something more,” said Mrs. Cobb, gently drawing her chair nearer to the little table. “Of course youcan, my dear lady—in this cold autumn weavher people ought to eat twice as much as they doin warm. Let me Fie you a piece of the ham—your own curing, are say. “Yes, my poor husband was very fond of it. He used to say that no one understood euring ham and drying beef better than [.” “He was a most sensible man, I am sure. I drink your health, madam, in this cider.” He took along draught and set down his S. gas: “Is it like nectar.” The widow was feeding Bowse and the cat (who thought they were en‘itled to a share of every meal eaten in the hou-e), and did not quite hear what he said. I fancy she would hardly have known what “nectar” was—so it was quite as well. , Lad ine dog, ma’am—and a very retty cat." Les They were my husband’s favorites,” and a sigh followed the answer. “Ah! your husband must have been avery happy man.” he blue eyes looked at her so long that she grew flurried. “Ts there anything more I can get for you, sir?” she asked at last. “ Nothing more, thank you kindly. I have finished.” She rose to clear the things away. He as- sisted her, aud somehow their hands had a Laetoli an of touching as they carried the ishes to the pantry shelves. Coming back to the kitchen, she put the apples and eider back in their old places, and brought out a clean pipe and a box of fobaeco from an arched re- cess near the chimney. ** My husband always said he could not slee after eating supper late unless he smoked, og said. “Perhaps you would like to try it sir.” Pr tif it is to drive you away,” he an- swered, for she had her candie in her hand. “Oh, no—I do not object to smoke ut all.” She put the candle down—some faint sugges. tion about “propriety” troubled her, but she glanced at the clock and felt reassured It Was only half-past 9. The stranger pushed the stand back after “Come, sit down,” he said, p! y. “Its not la’e—and when a man has be*n Knocking about in California and all s a for a berth i ured, pretty womar ag “California? Have you been in Cal aimed, dropping into the n to speak toonee fe chair at once. | Unconsciously, she had long cherished the idea that Sam Payson—the lover of her youth— n she had so foolishly quarreled, had pitched his tent, after many’ wanderings in that far-off land. Her heart warmed tx who wrapped in Sing-cowa, Jubb's sippers, and silti in ir beside Mt. Cobb's wife, ipe, with such an air of ‘and comfortably at Yes, ina ve been in California for the last six And before that 1 went into dust in the 4 than seven years. She was thinking of her | dead hus! aiid, possibly because a) he | being done, and the servant g¢ | sight © empty chair at the othe the table, and the silence of the reom, made her a litt oo ‘Seven y e widow's reverie “Itseemsas if it were more yet I don look it’s not having than af very old, either. Pe 3 hildren to bother my jife out, as other pe have. may say what | they like—clildren are plague than | profi: that's my opini my sister | Jerusha, with her six bo} 3 worn to a | shadow, an. though she The wido began I am sure th i never ownit. . took an app'e from the dish and it “How dreadful fond Mr these grafts. He never w them, poor fellow, for I dont s Lave apples where he has gone to. Heighy I remember very well how [used to throw ap- zs over my head when [was a girl, to Twas goin Mrs. Cobb stopped s nd blushed. For | did not know Mr. Cobb, and agerly to see i! the peel “> Her meditations lone it, Job) nsec de of took a new turn. “How handsome how much I used to der what has become m Physon was! and are about him. T won f{ him? Jerasha says he went away from our village just after I did, and no one has ever heard of him si And what a silly thing th it had no. been for that— Here came a long pause, during which the widow looked very sieadfustly at the empty arm chai y deceasel. Her fingers pla ith the apple par- ing; she toward her, and looked around the roo ia “Upon my word it is very ridiculous, and I don't Know what the neighbors would say if they saw me.” Scill tue plump fingers drew the red peel nearer. “But then they ean’t see me, that’s a com. fort, and the caf anold Bowse never will Know what it mea: Of cou.se [dat believe any- thing about it.” nee paring hung very gracefully from her an “ But still I sheuld like to try it;it would seem like old times, and—* Over her head it weat and curled up very uietly on the floor at a little distance. Old wse, who a’ ways slept with one eye open, saw it fall and marehed de.iberately up to smell of it. “ Bow-e—Bowse—don't touch it mistress, and bending over it witha beating heart, she turned as red as fire. This was as handsome acapital ‘S” as any one could wish to see. A great knock came suddenly at the door, Bowse growled, and the widow screamed and svatehed up the apple-paring. “It's Mr. Cobb—it's his spirit come biek again, because I tried that silly trick,” she thought fearfully to herseif. Another knoek—louder than the first, anda man’s voice exclaimed: * Hillo the house!” “Who is itt” asked the widow, somewhat relieved to find that the departed Levi was still safe in his grave upon the piil-side. “A stranger,” said the voice “ What do you ” baad night.” “To get a lodging for T jow deliberated. “Can't you go on—there's a house half a mile further, if you Keepto the right-nind side of the road and turn to your left after you get by “It's eried his ats and dogs, and I'm very delicate id the st r, coughi “Em wet to the skin—don't you think you can ae. commodate me? I don’t mind Sleeping on the floor ‘ “Raining, is it? I didn’t know tha the kind-hearted little door very quickly. ‘ome in, whoever you may be. [only asked yon to go on because [ ama lone woman Witt only one servant in the house.” The stranger entered—shaking himse'f like a Newfoundland dog upon the step, and seat. tering a te shower of drops over t floor. ant oman unbarred the 1 hostess and her nicely sw: “Oh—that looks comfortabl has been out for hours in a storm,” he sa he caught sight of the fire, and striding toward the hearth, followed by Bowse, w! sniffed suspiciously at his heels, he stationed himself in the arm-chair—Mr. C chair, which had be e memory for seven 3. The widow was horrified, but her guest looked so weary and Worn-out that she could not ask him to move, but, busied herself in stirring 2P the blaze, that he might the sooner dry his drippin, clothes. A new thought struck her; Mr. Cobb had worn a comfortable dressing-gowo during his illness, which still hung in the closet at the right. She could not let this poor man catch his death by sitting in that wet coat; if he was in Mr. Cobb's chair, why should he not be in Mr. Cobb's wrapper? Sie went nimbly to the closet, took it down, fished out a pair of slippers from a boat rack below, and brought them to him. “TI think you had better take off your coat and boots ; you will have the rheumatic fever or Something like itif you don’t. Hare are ome things for you to Wear while they are drying. And you must be hungry, too; 1 will 50 into the pantry and get you something to wat.” at. She bustled away, “on Rospitanle thoughts intent,” and the stranger made the exchange. He was a tail, well-formed man, with a bold but handsome face, sunburned and heavily bearded, and looking anything but “delicate,” though his blue eyes glanced out from under a forehead white as snow. He looked around the kitchen and stretched out his feet before him, decorated with the deacon’s slippers. Then he leaned forward and stroked the cat and her brood and patted old Browse upon the head. The widow. Lge in sundry good things, looked pleased a! attentions to her dumb friends. “It’s a wonder Bowse does not growl: he generally does if strangers touch him. Dear Mme! how stupid.” ‘The last remark was neither addressed to ‘the stranger nor the dog, but to herself. She had forgotten that the little stand was not $mbty—and there was no roomon it for the manage it,”’ said the ing up paper, candle; apples and (it was not without a’little pang that she saw them in his hand, for they athe dea- con's and were placed armchair, beside her)—aug Guest Uke, the uest, gather- Spectacles— | you see one quite round ne World—in a Whaling ship.” pd graci ious!” tranyer sent a pull of smoke curling ravefuliy over his head. It's very sirange, my dear lady, how often thing as you go wandering about ihe w i ts of odd places, cariig a xeneral thing, and o fling them away again reason. Youdon't ask me what it is! doubt you know already very weli.”” “TE think not, sir.” “ Because a Woman has jilted them!” Here was a long pause, and Me. Cody's pipe emitted short puils with r: A guilty ee needs no accuser, sdyed with blushes of the absent Sam. *T wonder how women mana: When they pt served im the same way,” said the strange! ‘You never meet then roaming up and down in that style.” id Mrs. Cobb, with some spirit; “if a woman is in trouble she must stay at home and bear itin the best way she can. And there's more women bearing such thing; ‘han we know of, I dare say.” “Like enough. We never know hands get pinched in a trap unless scream. And women are too sity. sible, which you choose, for that Low's y thought whose they to» sea- ee raster leasan Nord bet “St with think “Yes.” “Bravo! That is whatI wanted to come at. And now L have a secret to tell you, and you Bust break it to her.” Mrs. Cobb looked rather scared. “* What is itt” “I want you to go and see her wherever she may be, and <ay to her—Maria! What makes you stare so?” * Nething—only you speak so like some one T used to know, once ina while.” = ?"—well, take the rest of the ma3- sage. Tell her that Sam loved her throuzh the whole ; that when he heard she was free he began to work hard at making a fortune; he has gotit,and is coming to share it with | her, if she will let him. ill you tell her se nis? The widow did not answer. She had freed her hand from his, and covered her face with it. By and by she looked up again. He was ‘walling pecensty. Welle “T willtell her.” He rose from his seat, and walked up and down the room. Then’ he came back, and. leaning on the mantel-piece, stroked the yel- ide of Bowse with his slipper. “Make her quite understand that he wants he: for his wife. She may live where she liks s, and how she likes, only it must be with im I will tell her.” “Say he has grown old, but not cold; that he lovis her now perhaps better than he did twenty years ago; that he has been faithful to her all through’his life, and that he wili be fai_hfu) till he dies: 4 The Caliiornian broke off suddenly. The widow answered stili— “*T will tell her." . ‘And what do you think she will say?” he f sir eclge nd they lived vet ogether. There never was a hars! ‘ween them. _ inight she not have been happier Be honest and say just what you asked, in an altered tone. “ What can she say but come!” “Hurrah!” The stranger caught her out of her chair as if-he had been a child, and kissed her. “Don’t—oh, don’t! Sam’s Maria.) . Wel:—I am Maria's Sam! Off went the dark wig and the bl: whiskers—there smiled the dear face she had never forgotten. Lleave you to imagine the tableau—even the cat Pot up to look. sat on his stump of a tail, and wonde: whether he was on his heels or his hea little widow gave one seream, and the! But stop! Q people like you dear reader, who have got overall these fo es. and can do nothing but turn up our nose at them, have no business here. I wi add that two hearts were Rowse concluded after a right, and so laid down again; and that nota great while afterward there wasa weddins at the house that made the neighboriag farm flare. Widow Cobb had married her love! she criedout. “I am ck red The that a ers fiest An Old Man’s Melancholy. We were impressed not long since with a brief experienee of i good old man wio w.ts slightly intoxieated for one night only, as re. lated by himself. ashamed,” hes; hor- ror in anticipation of what my wife Sarah would say about it. I took oif my shoes aud hung them on the gatepost in the exe caution and timidity. I got into th “IT went home at id, “and half gone wit ry anc with marve'ous dexterity. and iato m Withow making the slightest noise. Surat, | always slept in front. foot board Was un- “Did you ever, in all your wanderings, | usually high, and I was neyer much of a gymnast, but ny success thus farhad impzess- ea me so that I felt equal to alinust any- thing.” His sad, t dness was such that his hearers were and one young person was so mue ag Lat his loug pause and jis deep si that he burs! forth, ** I see how it i ably fell and broke your neck.” “No, young friend,” replied the old man, “it wasn't that. I climbed that footboard slowly, painfully, and with the utmost caution and secrecy. You have heard, perhaps, how excessively large and threatening every noise is in the stillness of a dark night, particularly when you are trying to keep siill yourself ani naily straining your ears in fear of some sound that is nevertheless expected and pretty sure to come. That was what My heart beat like a drum, and th the room ticked as if it would ha‘ arouse the entire neighborhood. [ got down into that bed aud under the clothes. laughed to myself till the bed shook. My fea had given place to an unnatural hilarity. I grinned and chuekled and was exceedingly absurd, Tecan never think of that time without shuddering and wishing that somebody woud hand ine asponge wherewith to wipe itout. It struck me pudaenly. that Sarah was unnatural y still. I put my hand over to her side of the bed and, merciful heavens: “Was she dead?” inquired the young per- meet ay one by the name of Samuel 'Pay- jaw falling ms sont™ skal the widow. uneoIseraaate. | son, Me Jaw falling and nis eyes standing out rummaging er draver forthe Knitting Work | yygN°,4ouNs feller” replled the good ota and did not notice him. When it was foand | M42, “She was not there, | She had gone to a and the needles in motion, he answered her. | “Payson? Sam Payson? What! He was my most intimate friend! Do you kaow him?’ | “ A little—that is, I used to when I was a girl you meet him?” ling voyage T | told you of, and afterward to California. AW | had atent together, and some other fellows | with us, and we dugin the same claim for more than six months.” suppose he was quite wel: rene as an ox, my dear lady.” And—I happy? said the widow, bending close over her knitting. “ Hum—the less said about that the better— | perhaps. But he seemed to enjoy life aftera fashion of his own. And he got rich out there, or rather I will say—very well off. Mrs. Cobb did not pay much ‘attention to that part of the story. Evidently she had not finished asking questions. But she was puz- ied about her next one. At lastshe brought it out beautiful. “Was his wife with him in California?” The stranger looked at her with a twinkling eye. “His wife, ma’am! Why, bless you, he hasn’t got one!” “Oh, I thought—I mean heard”—here the little widow remembered the fate of Ananias and Sapphira, and stopped before she told such a tremendous fib. “Whatever pe heard of his marrying, was all nonsense, well, and he had no thought of the kind about him. Some of the boys used to tease him How? “He just told them frankly that the only woman he had ever loved had jilted him years before, and married another man. After that neigi.bor’s to pass the night, and, insuiferable idiot that I was! Thad forgotten all about it.” 4. towed his head in his trembling hands, and ly tears trickled through his fingers, and ran down his long gray beard.—[ Buffalo He- uo eSS. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS WoRTH OF HEATHEN CoNVERSION.—The old man_ was oiling the hinges of the stove door, and carelessly sing- | ing one of Beethoven's best, when a middle- fi about it—but he very soon made them stop.”’ | vide the dividend by the divisor, cut Off the | this quarferand convert ten'pounds o no one ever mentioned the subject to him | again except me.” Mrs. Cobb laid her knitting aside and looked thoughtfully into the fire. “He was another specimen of the class of menI was speaking of I have seeu him face death a score of times as quietly as I face the | fire. ‘It matters very little what takes me off,” he used to say; *T've nothing to live for, and there’s no one to shed a tear for me when Lam gone.’ It'sasad thought for a man to have, isn't it?” Mrs. Cobb sighed as she said she thought it <. was. “ But did he ever tell you the name of the lady who jilted him?” . “T Know her first name.” “What was it?” Maria.” The plump little widow almost started out of herchair the name was spoken so exactly as Sam would have said it. “Did you know her?” he asked, looking eee at her. Intimately?” Yes.” “And where is she now? Still happy with her husband, I suppose, and never giving a thought to the poor feilow she drove out into id Mrs. Cobb, shading her face a ae peaking unsteady. “ No, sband is deai.”* her But still she never thinks of Sam.” There was a dead silence. ** Does she?” “Howean [tell?” wate You stili friends?"’ “Then you ought to know, and do. Tell me.” “Lam sure I don’t know why I should. But if 1 do, you must promise me, on year honor, never to tell him if you ever mee’ with him bad bern what yousay to me never shall be re} 0 any Moi man, upon my: nor.” stot then, she does remember hin rr “ But how?” “AS kindly, T think, as he could wish.” “Tam giad to hear it for his sake. You and Tare the friends of both parties; we can re- joice with each other.” He drew his chair nearer hers, and took herhand. One moment she resisted, but it was a magic touch; the rosy quietly in his, and the dark $0 low that it nearly touched her shoulder. It did not matter much. Was he not Samuel Payson’s dear friend? If he was not the rose, had he not dweit very near it fora long, long ‘ime?”” mn It wasa very foolish quarrel that parted them,” said the stranger, sof: ly. “Did he tell you about it?” | “ Did'ne blame her muct?® bas ie blame her muc! “Not so much as himself. He said that his jealousy and ill-temper drove her to break oT the match; but he thought sometimes if he had only gone back and spoken kindly to her, me roast save ares = ee ae pit “T amsure she would,” sai » Dit- “She has owned it to me more than a SI 1, oNttve me” the table.ctoth “Give me cloth, my'am: read itas wellas any ‘woman: Tre a cas along with scores of other thingsin my thousand times. sa tin cactus “. is to #8; her husband— was very good and kind,” said the little wo- Than, thinking of the lonely grave on the Bill | | stitn ion they are clearly no! aged woman entered the station and begin: “Mr. Joy, are you agood man?” “Well, toler- able—tolerable,” he replied. “I never drop a bad nickle into the street-car box, and I don’t go fishing on Sunday.” “‘Mr. Joy, I am ean- vassing for money to buy Bibles, and so forth, for the African heathen,” she continued, as she exhibited a pass-book. “Are, eh? Does he seem to want a Bible?” “The does. He sits on the sands of his native shore and looks longingly this way.” “Does,eh! Sitting right there this morning, I ‘spose?” “Hi OW much will you subseribe, Mr. Joy2" “Madam, I've got to lift a mortgage before noon to-d ayy and ——” “You will certainly give something,’ she interrupted. “And I've got to meet fire and life insurance, pew rent, taxes, gas, and ——" “Put down what your noble heart die- tates,” she said, as she handed him the book. He reflected for a moment, and then asked: “Will five dollars convert a'hea!hon—1 gre xt, big. two-fisted heathen with sciff knee?” ‘-I— think so.” He figured with a pencil on the bot- tom of a chair, and said: “Five dollars into can assure you. I know him | twohundred pounds of heathen is forty pounds for adollar. That is less see—um—ten pounds for twenty-five cents, and none to carry. Di- cube root, carry nothing,and, madam, you take fhestiven for me. That’s all I can spare—no use of talk- ing—ten pounds—here comes His Honor.” Sha went away puzzled and amazed at his fizures, and Bijah looked after her and mused. ought to have taken a mortgage on my share of that heathen, but I'm just that careless ia business affairs."—[ Detroit Free Press. Corsets Not UNCONSTITUTIONAL.—The con stitutional right of woman to brace herseif up with corsets has at last been established by no less an authority than the supreme court of Pennsylvania, lady who was obliged to stand fn a crowded horse car fell down and broke her kneepan. She sued for damages— the company al eging contributory negligence on her part in not taking hold of the strap provided for Standing pi sSengers ; the lady re- piying that she could not reach or hold the strap without injury, owing to the fashion of stays which iadies Were now required to wea The court decided that she ought not to be ex- pected to reach up, under the cireumstances, and gave her a_ verdict of $5,000, which. upon appeal, was confirmed by the supreme court. Socarping eritics will please take note that although corsets may be iyo fous to the con- uncoustitutional. [Bugalo Courier. From Two Pornts or View.—Mr. and Mrs. Squibbles and the visitor were sitting in the parlor and the olive branch was sleeping sweeily in an inner room, from which a door opened into the parlor. “Yes ma‘am,” said Squibbles. ‘there is something about babies that appeal to the finer feelings of our nature: an indefinable presence which softens us and makes our hearts go out towards them; a sub- tle influence which recalls—for God's sake, Maria, go in there and strangle that brat, or do something to make it shut up, so that aman can hear himself talk in his own house.”— [Austin ( Nev.) Revili MORE co-operative associations exist in Paris than is generally supposed. Ata recent uet, twelve societies were represented, vi Furniture carvers, coachmakers, shoemakers, two societies of workers in tin, typographers, musical instrument makers, laundry workers, lithographers, spectacle makers, stonecutters, marble workers, joiners, opticians, house- painters, piano makers, tailors, clothing cul- ters, and two companies of file workers. * WHAT CHRISTIANS HAAE TO SUFFER.: Christians have their troubles as well as sii ners. When we die and go to Heaven because we haven't done lots of things which we wanted to do, it will just cut us to the quick to see a long procession of sinners coming in 8 5: ~ in- ho went to theaters and dances an ‘and then repented just i the nick of time.—[St. Joseph (Mo.) Herat ‘Tue FoLLowrne Norice is posted verbatim by a Frenchman in Peacham, Vt., as a warn- ins to persons inclined to trespass on his prem- o: One mans come on my place, fish One mans come on my p!ace, trap One mans come on my place, hunt; Ten dollars lose him. ae-No alleged wife ever come around claiming a poor man asa husband after he is Seat Remember this and stay poor.—[Cht- cago Jow re 4a-“T mean business,” said a burglar who red Mr. Patterson’s house, in Sterling, Tn So doi,” said Mr. Patterson: and shot him through the head. at | | | Bowse | f | board with THE CAMP AND PICNIC, Hints About Cooking. (Germantown Telegraph. } As it may be of interest to others in afford- ing them a hint,we give an extract or two from our “Library Notes,” of writers who, while treating upon their special subjects, contain aiso some yap erd adapted to the picnic, or cooking in the field or in the kitchen. PROVISIONS IN CAMPING. The author of “Superior Fishing” (New York, 1865) remarks that the ‘‘materials gene- rally at the disposal of the hunter or fisher- man on the coast and in the woods consists of fish, oysters, clams, ducks, Fame birds and venison ; while he will carry of necessity pork, ship-biscuit, salt and pepper, and, if possible. eggs, flour, sauces, Indian meal, and as many the minor aids of a good cuisine as his means of transportation will admit.” “Camping out,” we are told in the “Ameri- can Anglers’ Book,” (Philadelphia. 1854,) .“‘to be enjoyed with zest, should be attended with as few home luxuries as a person can well do with; still, some of those that pertain to his table add greatly to the edibility of the food he ets by rod or gun, when continual feeding on ft begins to cloy the appetite. A moderate as- sortment of such things might include vine- gar, Worcestershire sauce, salad-oll, essence of coffee or ‘caffeine,” solidified milk, a small quantity of desiccated meat and vegetables ‘or soup and pottage, and a box of claret, if it can be carried, for, as I haye before rem irked, there is no beverage like it with fresh fish. “The stores that go to make the real staff of life are pork, ship-bread, potatoes, onions, beans, salt, pepper, butter, tea, sugar, &c. It may be asked, Why such a profusion? or it might be said that fresh salmon (game) is good enough; and so it is, but one becomes satiated with it after awhile and longs for some of the common things he ate at home.” for oue alone, or accompanied by a friend. wit ihe pleasure that can be crowded into a day if they do not include a bake or roast at noon. io quote the words of the author at the angler who has never enjoyed mething to lire for.’ BAKED FIS “Small fish, for Sportmen,” “small fish or pieces of fisir red, scaled and seasoned, may be rolled in (buttered) paper and baked in the ashes; a whole fish unsealed, but cleaned and d aboy ithas Hi. | pliant rod or trusty gun, will fall short of | remarks the author of “Cook- | wiped dry, may be rolled in damp leaves and | buried deep in hot ashes. the skin and the scales will come oif alio gether.” A RUSTIC TROUT BAKE. When it is done, “Cateh your trout, put a pineh of salt in his | mouth, roil him up in a ‘few folds of n ver, dip the swaddled darling in the water, leh tre and place him in the emb ors, Whew the pa chars once, rejecting the THER KINDS © While “irout” are spoken of as above, most other Kinds can be prepared the same way, for all fishes of the same family, or having the same kind of flesh, can be cooked alike and require about the same seasoning. ‘A similar mode to the above is adopted in ihe South fora RUSTIC BIRD BAKE, Cover the bird in its feathers with a paste made of mud and water; dig a hole in the sound and build a fire in it; when burned down place the bird in the coals, cover and jeave it until baked. When th ste is re- moved the feathers fall off, } * the bird ady to be eaten. The entrails will be found dia asmaill ball, which ean be easily re- moved. SMALL BIRDS may be rolied in oiled paper, as above, and baked in the ashes until done. A RUSTIC DUCK BAKE. Dip a duck cleaned nor pic feath ed, in water whim on the fire or into the the feathers are pretty well and the skin, feathers and ed off togther. A duck needs thorough heating. A BIRD ROA Let the bird be picked and cleaned as for eat ing, then suspend ti ihe fire and made to revolve by twisting it up vecasionally. sto wet the KED SHAD—ALONGSHORE. @ Way tocook a shad or bluefish alongshore is to split. him entirely in two, and king the halves, se: and buttered, to shingles or short bo; , Stick them erect in the sand round a large fire and roast rapidly ; each one eats from his own hot shingles with butter, pepper, and salt. This is de’ licious. PLANKED SHAD—PHI N THE KITCHEN. about three inches thick a stand it before the fire till hot—indeed, almost charred. split down the back, clea diy and seasoned with sal a few small nails, the skin side next the board; place before the fire with the head part down ; as soon as the juices bezin to run turn it, with the tail down; it should be turned frequently in order to retain the juices. When done butier it and serve hot. Sead it to the table on the board. STRIPED BASS OR ROCKFISH—TO SoUsE. Boil the fish, with a little salt in the water, until thoroughly cooked. Reserve part of the water builed in, to which add whole pepper, salt, vinegar, cloves, allspice and_ mace, to the taste; boil it'up to extract the strength from the spice,and add the vinegar after itis boiled. Cut off the head and tail and divide the rest in several portions. Put into a stone jar and when the fish is quite cold pour the iiquor over it. It will be fit for use in a day or two, and will keep in a cool place two or three weeks, ___ DRESSING FISH. The Indians, it is said, bleed their fish as soon as caught, because the flesh is firmer when cooked. ‘The Duteh and French fishermen bleed the cod, which accounts for the better quality and whiteness of their codfish. when out for the day’s sport, it will l that the meat of the fish is not as good when strangled or killed by any slow, tormenting process, as when quickly killed by cutting the throat of each finny victim with your jack- knife as soon.as caent and letting them bleed freely, then open and take out the inside that they may not affect the flavor; trim off the fins, gills and tail, cutting well round the fins, and so taking them out. Some good cooks skin all kinds of fish, as the skin is just an ex- ereting surface for the animal and not fit to eat. ltis easier and more agreeabte to skin the fish than to scrape off the seales. If you pour boiling water over them the skin strips off quileeasily. Some kinds, as the sun- fish and such thick-skinned fish, hot water has little or no effect in Joosening the skin; it is easy to skin them without scaling or scaling. The best way to salt the fish is before cookir if you have the time, by letting them lie, DELPHIA STYLE. aclean oak board, ud two feet square, the board is very Have your shad ned, washed, wiped fasten it tot or other large bird, neither | tring from a twig near | ready dressed, in a pan of salted water over | night, or for au hour before dinner. Drain them from the sa‘ted water, or sprinkled salt over them if they Lave not been in salted water. When ready for BAKING IN THE OY N lay them in a clean dripping-pan, and put into | the oven. They need about half an hour's good | designed these figures. in these old lands there isa we baking, then pour over them a cup of rich | milk and set back in the oven for a few min- | utes. It is best to bake in a baking-dish that will do to set upon the table just as it comes from the oven. Mackerel and other kinds of salted fish are good freshened thoroughly and then baked and dressed with sauce as above. TO BOIL FISH, Dress them as above for baking. Wrap them altogether in a cloth, or better still, put them. in a clean bag (a small salt bag if there are not too many) and put the bag into boiling water enough to cover it. Let them boil half an hour. Pour over them when dished, eream-grayy or drawn butter, “Satis superque,” (enough and more than enough.) OHN H. KING. Washington. D. CHIEF-JUSTICE Case's Fattu.—A Wash- ington correspondent of the Cleveland (Ohio) Herald writes: “Judge Miller to day to'd me an interesting fact in relation to the late Chief- Justice Chase. .In a conversation with him at Edgewood only ten days before his death, the Chief-Justice expressed himself as a firm be- liever in the inspiration of the Bible and the plan of salvation as taught by the Saviour. He said that early in his manhood he had brought to the examination of the Scriptures all the owers of his mind, and carefully read all the leading arguments for and against the tru:h of those Scriptures ; that he had deliberately made up his mind that the Bible was the word of God, a divine revelation to man, and he had never through a long life wavered in his belief. He treated the subject as he would a question of law, and having carefully and fuliy exam- ined the subject, and settled it in his own mind, that part of the law became to him as an axlom not to be disputed or departed from. I was interested in hearing Judge Miller detail at length this conversation, as it confirmed in the fullest manner what the Chief-Justice had often said and written to me. I believe the Chief Jusiice died without a feeling of enmi' toward any man, and in the confident hope o| the Christian's future. A New MamMorta Cave has been ered in Wyoming territory. A fortnight ago a doven herders planted a windlass near the mouth of the cavern on Table Mountain, and a man went down with a lantern, clinging toa rope and spinning round a dozen times before he reached the bottom. There was a sheer de- scent of eighty-two feet to th a discov- e bottom, where 100 feet long led to subterranean | chambers and vaults of enormous dimensions, ‘The ceiling was fully sixty feet from the floor, and was's'udded with couutless stalactites of a few inches to fifween feet in was covered with cones and stal ‘ites, like inverted icicles. In many yaces the stalactites were joined honether, Wing the appearance of huge hour-glass +s, and forming a pumber of pillars frm floor to to ceiling, adding to the grandeur of the scene. Ae It is e3 ted that dresses in Paris will soon be mate of elastic, as nothing else is found sufficiently clinging. 4@-The poor man whose wife dealt him triplets the other day, looked at them and ex- claimed, “Three of a kind and nothing in the pot, just my luck!"—[N, ¥, Star. THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN. | What Gen. Grant Says Abont It_Ge “= d Ex-Secretary We! Taylor’ Detlarati Soon after Gen. Grant’s arrival in Paris a Herald sorresnondent called his attention to icle in the North American R view from Gen. Richard Taylor, saying i in Virginia against his own doing So had thrown away the lives of 100,00 also to the article in the Aantic Monthly from the pen of the late Gideon Welles, in which Mr. Welles arraigned Gen. the recent art men; and Grant, upon the authority of Gen. Wilderness to Gen. Taylor's arti is wholl of foundation. Gen. ing campaign in sueh campai, false, utter; ice Gen. Virginia was No such conference was ever h whole army against Richinond b; river. lor'reports Mr. Linco'n as saying that the g ernment required the iatereostion oF anarcmy Mr. between Lee and Washington, never said a word resembiing thi at all on the subject. me as saying that my own by the 10°,000 men. This i: the’ whole story lor says that the story comes | ted, and he has no doubt of is There are ouly three persot could authenticate such a story—Mr. L Mr. Stanton and myself. are dead, and I say th cation, and whoever voucied for it to G thent eines 8. Taylor vow-hed for thé memory of the any sentiment of self-vin this denial as emp! sible.” I remember,” sbi know 1 came in id niand of the armies. id not com 1 my flest interview with ation tu an order to 1 hadonce beea ther Gene al 1 Lincoln a fiction ef feel o) atic cl id General G eto Washin e Whole story i discussed eld, and no was ever discussed. General Taylor says that I insisted upon advancing my the Janes I never said a word to the President or Secretary of War,or any one else in author: ity, as to how I would advance. y ian we judgmen*, au ‘lor, for having insulted Lincoln's memory by attempt- ing to throw upon Lincoln his owa fruit in the 5 and other campaigns. In regard #rant said: ‘+1 have no doubt there are some true things in the article; but the part which refers (o me false.without a shadow faylor says that ia a cou- ference between President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton and myseif, in 186t, the approach- General Liueoin a young man, but otherwise it was my trip. Nothing cout have hearty than his treat: plans. Tel out. That you go to N Deas e upon i brown, cardinal, navy sht naturaily se-kK the con nce of a.duous duty of shopping. Tu e: f eae Steel coior, dark green ‘ lent. Now Mr. L of a geatie | -hopping has hitherto been weighted with the pe Ks. Checke and tender nature, apt to eoniide in Tutay | sorrow of foregoing hineheon, or, at b: Fg ent shad people and wha movements he m you + with whom he ha an intimate conversatiou.” Lincoln, auton, aan of m: manners. When the President 1 veating a story from a comic artic of the war. about Capiain Bob Saw Brigade, and the ana about generals in th much that he did not only to. know have all T requ . L how I did id he did 4 3. So long rmy he was pan he had down a map. ween two of the names of which h that I might move ¢ streams for suppli tion as the army of rless; Teould di rm to the other, Tast an Mr. Lincoln act sto: oin, Mr. command of the arm: plans and their w never af erward a subject of conver: If there were bluaders in nh the blunders were mine and seo They dia everything in the world to insure my success ! me alone must the Whoie re correspondence, that cam) hot those o} Linco! nd pon me ty fall. sponsibi The Statues of the Natlons at Paris. alice to note h represear che Here is Ou the terrace there ts eaie the colossal figures w: various foreign nati Austria, alittle and Slavie type. that he was forecast denied her a Teutoni nothing less than a e Mr. Linvoln oberve the same di irizing It_ was, as T remeint it or to exercise satisiied. ong though’ o He drew an imac I found Stanton cordial and wil do anything, so we suppressed ( been im ment of me. re to Know. u tell him Ani Says he, “General, 1 dy nut want oo know’ y me what you need to carry ih You will do well to t Mr. Li yt y More of your plan: rstand how y in fhe ROOM AT THE ror. ee Y_GOODS. Sever you mind the crowd, lad, 0. faney your life won't tell; — Foreten 28~. per The work fs the work for a* that G Ne. 2, 5°. per To him ‘hat doeth it well, 15 "te To, per ya d: nce the world a hill, lad; 18 20 25. $74. 5%. Te. per yard: All P sok where t Hons sto Tdie Dainask. 5c. per yard; Ho ey" You'll find the crowd at the base, lad; Busk « orset, guaaniee stcels not to break, 61; There's ale ays room at the Mwe. Demores: s reliable Paterna, _™)$6-tr_JO8. B BAILEY, cor. 7 hand F sts, Comrage and faith and paticzice, ere’s space iu (he old world yet: REAT BARGAINS AT BROOD. * better the chawce stand, lad, BAD'S. 195 Fst. between 19th and 180 urther along you ge". EEDLEs bc, 1c. : PISS, (A mort Keep your coal, tad, - = 100 yds, BLACK SPOOL r desy Se.. worth 10c.; Gool BLACK SKIRT Be sure that your path : best Hook and Ryes, 3 eonts a cand: oellan Shawls, 69 cents; 2-Buttm Kid ‘There's always room at e Lb (Harper’s Weekly, A Clab for Ladies. + Wameutta 4 4 Rivached C ten, rautiful Godfish Peari Buttons, Eegant Black Lyon Gros Grain SNKS, at 85e.. reduced from SLM: silt Clock at THE RUSSELL CLUB OF LONDON—OVER 500 3 Hose. 220. All-linen Crash for Tow MEMRERS. Deantiful ali-inen Duylies, 8T¥c., raw. The London News of a late date says: “The plat price, $1 25: example of the Albemarle club, in the street Deautiti io -5 Ble, $1.2 autiful Lines Lawns. 1c. ai 2c tiful wide Lawns and | | Cretonnes, of the very best. make and. tas | of that name, has been followed by the estad- | I1y-s: Paper commas sot goons one | {isbment of 4 somewhat similar stitution, beg Sf ower Rex Soh best goods, and & | ‘The Russe! ub,” in Regent stree' elp ‘ow is your tin ‘v by buying at | its predecessors to remove one of the grounds | ™%8-tr BROMH Satins HEADS st. bet. 12th & 18th aad rpue GREAT SOUTHERN SHIRT, OPEN FRONT, Ready-made, with Linen Sieewe Linings to of equality between the sexes which has formed a practical grievance. The Russell is caled a club, but it would be doing injustice to those tor whose comfort and convenience it is designed to attach to it the meaning which i Bands ’ om, male of Wamnsutea Masia the word caries in its accepted ap ‘the Bose ust | Clubs, as hitherto designed and conducted, pet pe tandred Linen, ready to put on, id their social character marred bY | Suatutedt serepoteg! ae inade by "an and rifishness pecwiar to the sex which has seen C GEO. MEGINNESS. ed them. Man's Factory—75 W. Fayette st., Baltimore. art. There are Branch—1002 F st. n.w., Washingzon. my28-t ersoval in th: ir charac! in iheir reewtence, when SPECUAL PRICES IN DRY fuvited to a elub, and ay the bay wind, - | mace sbour i will from now Having too large a stock, we cheap prices, to reduce stork. Stine thea Summer Silks, 880. up: Back Silks 62° up, 5 tds that the hospi ‘ dress Goods. 8,10, 12, 15, 18, 90. 25, ‘worth ' Ladies, however, are above prejudice | “Qt 7 nil Stan ¢ esiab.isa a chub they | pynte.Skirte at manufact satani | ya century of exciusion | Ladies Linen Suite chest rai | al wing of the building for Lawns 106. n en and Gutta Lit das to A portion of the club Pereales, 8 fa Lav us, 106. ap. from | in Regent street coutains vildiard, card, smok. | Calleoes’ 456. up +) (0 make | ingand dining rooms, set apart for Gclored Hostery cheap. Ut as pos- | men, and it is significantly enjoined PARES stock sacrificed, Maitings cheap, Casimeres for men and boys feart: TN. NavD 709 Market Space. no other part of the club will smo! | wilowed.” But, as we undersiand the ar- | Fangements, gentiemen being members of the | cluded from other and more | —— ——— . As the gentlemen ha | Pus Sen (500) PIE particular Wing, the iauies have tueir OAS, ust Face Fy private drawing room, sadred from the tread | {ruiight seaman Caer: black, nary bloe aud tea of man, But for the rest, the reading room, shaker i the wii ing room, the ¢ Muse room and the laiger ¢ ay be sed In ¢ m non sina | well-ordered hotel. Bui while gentlemen are not forgotten in | the arrangements of the Russell C aifes Who ae chiefly rememb p.inecipal object me vecn to supply a temporary tral position: for ladie ully cheap, . ate my25-tr tet dines, pure pure silk ax Black Silk au ex an + room: “4 pet make. wearing silk ip the world | are selling a real satin fir )at $1.25, This B BAnGAIN. Every day w rom BO te 300) CARTK cet Si, Colored Sinks, in GARTRR'S. Market Sper the | hunered pinces of Si sha ching a hasty and unsatista nered (100) pieces of Silk lowest cath price and we a tell to the next Seuatu: | a public restaurant. Members | very smmailent advan ston = i Ciub cut fora day's shopping, o1 » | 6800) pleces of Wool Cassine and Lines for tie was its cordiai and | or round of visits, may callin at tacie owa | men's, boys: ard children’s ‘wear, ‘pricts tancioy Ps F more so, Because | club, and feel a ch at home as if tuey haa | frem 25 to $1 50 ; ore i gracious | been dropped at their own doors. In point of | Gorrts. comiort aud. elegance, the Russel. Club will ana le si any as f ped me t ono Iw of it. The re id was nev. ne y- The que om or unwi In or Stanton. pas contributia, and’ have i ed at the plan, if had put my army ou cha fine L would be in miei the sams pos Late rutiuy over incoln T would consider the pian, ute Was an er mentioned as far as I can remember, the ex f the conference between Mr. Lin. Stanton and myself when I my jon or r comparison With the most favored home: ie tare al Quits, pure No expeuse has been spared uyou. the dec ie-twilled Bel 7 ard the app in ts. Etech room is a | Quilt, 60; new Parasols neh, 96 ino goa ne 1 of combined luxury and good vaste. | 4 » 24 luch and a6 h, beth twilled and 1 « 1e Ke the DART E! nia wwing-room woud Ui WS"511 drarket Space, ti amination. Under 7 1 of Mr. Bireh, Messrs, ed fo exile the mare ae aso aces a 1 Nosoiti have in this room accomplished what ck of DRY GOODS to be found He Wee h What Stanton hid sui— | they might be content to ard‘as their eu 7 antings, all colors, at 20, 25, 30 and 8D cents par are to know what Fwasiydy | ov wrre in the Way of room decoration. The | ard, Splendid stock of Howtettes: Sika teat hat T wanted: thai I shouti | syle is the now familiar Japanese, but the | Linens, Pereales, &c. Te wisned me to oeat | work Is carried out wich a@ compietenens and | A7t5 Madam Bownman one of themost taxhion= it was own da y lity Which make the drawin Teme for ber Dusting ee one Yorks occuptes not Know uly excep’ n obvious dittieulty in | KYtreet front. n Second fluor of Our sture, hing such asthe Russell is tuat | f keeping it seeret. This essential point is cared for by a commi on which are to be found the names of the veers of Aberdeen, Bist the Ven. Archdeacon Danbar, | W. W. BURD , No. 998 77m 8r.. BURDETTE #0. No. 706 K ST. Now. my9-tr “re GREAT SOUTHERN SuINT,” he V ob OVEN FRONT. Bry factris, the: Bey etan” | ts elegantly made of first-cias material, with Linen c terday, | Sleeve Bands and Linen lining to the Bose nee eraay, Anished only 90 cts.: Anished. BL. i e ol “The hois Sh ** oper ized by | material, and also has Linu ak, 18 OF the het wen lining and Linen Bands; is only 80 cts. unfinished, and 86 cts. fin- eo ished, Mr. Gladstone on the Economies of The cheay Shirt tn all the world ts \- a EB sthe sutta O, XX; ready to put on at BL1o, oT Wa Our “'Pruit of the Loom Shirt has been gorkze for a long time at @0 cts, unfluished, asd 35 7ts, finisbea, The wamentta O. XX Shirt is 75 cts, unfinished, snd 89 cts. finish Boy's Shirts 12," 12'; Wamsutta Muslin, and During a recent insp nof the Kensing- ton howl of Cookery in London, Mr, Giad- stone in the course of a speech said: “think a great deal of our cooking is most admirable, and that we have had no reason to. complain at all: but comparing country with and 13 inches, made of fine Len Bosoms, oniy all bOcen's. took | country, there is no doubt that some countries a ym of my | ate very much more economical than otiers. 1 | gga Si,Ltpen Coliars, 6 tor #1, dom was | am afraid it isthe truth that we are tie most ful people on earth. I remember once iing a curious ry worth telling of the Americans. I heard from a person who trav- eled in America that one day in the yard of his hotei he saw a great heap Of ox tails. They were thrown away as any refuse would be thrown away, and I was surprised at that, and ran to imagine, *Oh, oh! then there is one coun!ry that is more wasteful than we are,and that is America." That is the conepuee lL was a disp to draw, but afterward mar27-tr —— GENTLEMEN’S GOODS IREVIOUS TO REMOV. ET peta ‘stock, I will ae ‘8 few days, Best Four-ply LINEN COLLARS, 8 tor 81, LINEN CUFFS, 2 cents. pair, nh nave READY MADE SHIRTS, which have been so and 75 cents for the unfinished a: nulshed ae 1002 F street nw. 0. GEO. Ee wis ita at 60 ‘and 90 cides | American habit of throwing away ox tails is | cents: laundried, (ready to wear.) $1 up to $2. 1 wonder if the sculptor fau-ie. | an old English habit which they carried with Large stock of BOYS: SHRI is ay ic eg hee destiay when h | them from this country when the American | eles, DRESS SHIRTS made to onder, ic look. Nex: is Spain,» | settlements were forméd. But you all know ans gaa Cine cee eranteed, , brown with the suns of Aadilu- | that at the time of the French tevolutioa a | pets ge penal nag n sea-sides and Catalonian hilis. Aud he great pumber of priests and others came over TH Sint Factory, is China, a Celestial dainsel, Chinese as refugees. and were Kindly received in this | _my14-1m 806 Frat. n.ww.s opp. Patent Dine thing except the shape of ler eyes. which a hey spread their views all over the Esa STOCK — : ad n, a bright y, and I am told that these priesis, long | Os simentof Niphon; Italy, | after the American settlemens had ‘been or Vere, aud evidepily cape hatred maid with pu a pine, shy northern ‘sta ject of her most the antipodes, and wonderingeyes; Nor’ ment; Sweden, the tai nd half parted +2 girl tall as $a Mountain blossom, and Wiha r girt on her lustrous forehead Aud who is this daughter of the gods, who clasps to her breast a flag, as if it were the ob- a sci oll which she ere Seen and which Se1oll which she holds in one hand,and whic is labelled “The Constitution?” but America of the Norih? Beside her stands ure brow Who ean ic be formed—indeed, after America had been sep. arated from us politically—brought over the habit of making soup from ox tailsand taught ittothe English people. Probably the way would be this: They would see ox tails thrown away, and being people to whom the saving of farthing was important, they would buy and make soup for themselves. The people would imitate them, with the conse- quence that we get in that shape a most excel- lent soup, for there can scarcely be more excel- lent soup than ox tail, and thatis the very rea- STRAW HATS a For Gentlemen, Youths and Boys, just received, Perea assortment of Ladi ‘ SUN UMBRELLAS. at tino Iowrest meres UMBRELLAS and PARASO paited in the best manner: + OLS Covered and re- WALTER KER, Harter, Pennsyleania 1419 Avenue, apli-tr Above Willard’s Hotel, TRAW HATS. a full-lipped, saucy savage,with | son why in one point we are more econoinical IN GREAT ABUNDANCE, infinite bromise written upon her face. "Aus | than Americans. For men, youths and children. Celebrated Macki- tralia, the far-off and astounding. And the | “I believe it is also true that good cookery is | bay Straws, all grades. Sik Umbrefias, $3.60 twin sisters that occupy the last pillars of the | a “ facade, one hau draped like Italy, t ly beautiful and rieut, these are En; dare was much which robed with braving the heat to look at them. russia, Russia and Turkey here, y that I shall find them in tii Ind ia. ime. a it.—[Edward King, in Boston Journal. STRENGTH OF GRE! calsuperiority of the tary statistics of Xen EK SOLDIERS ante-Alexandr t illu: pho: hty and -unbending, and he other yielding, exquisite- all the luxury of gland and Ind they are, a memorable ane There galaxy, and it is worth I do not see although I There ower in the mind of the man who eed, everywhere ealth of imagi tion and of reasonable power of expression ‘artles one more and more in proportion as he increases his fainiliarity with e: ‘The phys- n Greeks tothe hardiest and most robut nations of mod- ern times is perhaps bes! Ss! rated by the mil- According to the Tik6 TAL Gr Gn ROT act great deal more wholesome than bad, and that it contributes very much more to health, well as to saving, than bad cookery. The rench are undoubtedly on the whole the best cooks in the world, and I believe it is also un- deniable that they are the most economical cooks in the world, and that with them of ail which can possibly be turned to account there i least possible waste. I hope we shall al- S be, as a people and as individuals, dis- posed to imitate our neighbors in those things in which we can improve in imitating them— I believe we have a great deal still to learn in this respect, judging in a rough manner from wha see—that things will be done more wholesome and soundly than now, even among peple who ean afford it; and that upon the whole the sources available to mankind for the purpose of food will be made to pro- duce more of what is food, and give satisfac- tion in the support of life.” up. Best Goods. Lowest Prices, STINEMETZ, Ha a my9tr_ 1237 Penn. ave., next cor. 13th st, GPOHGE F. SCHAFER, MERCHANT TAILOR, Offers for sale the balance of his stock at and below cost to close business, A call is solicited. mar8-3m_ 1111 Pennayloania ave. mv. a DUCED PRICES. The wo 8 Ne author of the “Anat the complete ac A THRILLING TALE OF THE SEA—The cast- | controitents. of as rian soldier, in what w away. W be pee from a rent by the sehoon- would eall heavy maiching order, weighed +r Carrie E. Long was reported, proves to bea | 8’ Pr DEPARTM! ounds, exclusive of the eam, ininiing and | Braziitan convier, who escaped with two com, [20ST OFFICE DEP. ae. ridge building tools, and the rations of bread gauions from the penal co lony of Fernando and dried fruit which were issued in weekly | Noronea. four hundred miles from the main instalments, and increased the burden of the infantry soldier to 9), 95, or even toa full 10) pounds. This load was ‘often carried at the rate of four English miles an hour for twelve hours per diem, day after da burning deserts of southern ‘Syria the eom- mander of the Grecian auxiliaries thought it n the usual length of a day's The gymnastic tests ap- 8, or recruiting officer of would appear even more pre- bosterous to the uniformed exquisites of a modern “crack regiment.” Even tall and well- shaped men of the soundest constitution could net pass the preliminary examination unless were able to jump their own height verti- eaily, and thrice theirown length hoi and two-thirds of those distances in fi 3 pitch a weight equal to one-third of their owa qgaria, and throw a jav- it they would not prudent to she march by one fourth. piled by the systarchu a picked corps, the: Ww a distance of twent: elin with such dexteri miss a mark of the size of a man’s head more than four out of ten times at a distance of fifty yards, besides other tests referin, pertness in the use of y that sword.—|[ Popular Science Monthly. More LocaL HypRopHosta.—The case of Miss Maiia Baldwin, of West Granville, who was bitten in ‘he face by aud last week since she was bitten ness concerning it, goin: x had also 6 usual. The and two ee One but the other an mad and been kill gave up hope, but would allow none of her fiends to come nd only in the ull armot South American coast, about the Ist of Feb. | ruary. Before they were two days out one of | his comrades was washed overboard and de- voured by sharks before his eyes. The second died from exhaustion on the fourth day. He threw his body to the sharks, thinking in that | way to cause them to quit following the raft, but after they had torn his comrade to frag- ments they only followed him the more intent- Vy. He dared not sleep, for fear of walking off | the raft into their open jaws. Water gaye out on the sixth day, and thirst was added to the loss of sleep. His only food was bread, which had become musty from long confinement in | the kerosene can, and the eating of which con- fequently enly added to his thirst without sat- | isfying hishunger. On the tenth day his suf- | about to cast himsel e 5] when the | Carrie E. Long hove in sight. Proposals will be received at the Contract Office Tar WALKS.—A late writer thinks that to | of this Department until 3 p.m. of Jovy 20, 1878, make walks with gas-tar as a component part MAIL LETTINGS. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. totheir en, | 1 the only effectual way fo exclude weeds, | for carrying the Malls of the United States upon - | short ot jand-picking. ut many tar walks sched the bow and the broad- | arebadly made In the first place the fonaig, | te FoUtes and according to the itil tion and drainage must be perfect. Orna- | rival and departure specified by the Department in altos he had always had do} inoculate them also nothing but administer o) Pp Bald- win 1s now either dead or at the point of — J ohn Kent She was 80 years old, ness of heart, and much beloved friends,and was a relative of Mrs. of this éity.—[Sprinaileld Republica &a-The latest idea tion is to it eats a ae ao @ woman of ican, in i yy & mad dog in April gave signs of hydrophobia, is peculiarly interesting as anoth evidence that the disease is not of the imagination. SI that no one need go mad from a dog bit showed no nervous- er and strong ther one about her duties as i ten two other dogs was killed at once, id the sheep have since gone illed. Moreover, one of the sheep bit a hen, and the bird also went m: near her, lest the saliva should ith the The sparen became more frequent and severe rough the week, the doctors bein; igple todo to the tem) he seeds of abst. mental tiles should be pl: at the sides in perfectly even lines, atsuch a level as to allow | 2 State of Virginia trom OcTOBER 1, 187%. to ree inches thick for the tar paving. Two JANUARY 30, 1881, inches of coarse tar-paving should be spread * first, made perfectly even, and rolled wish a heavy roller, so as to impart solidity. A fine layer is then on, one inch thick, with 'y held equal care as to evenness. gravel x fine- ite, and | ly crushed, stones for r inls Bas Se, mas | be r! clean, and wi mixed i sched the hot tar. ‘When hardened, the surrace ip | _ Taste et ponten, wh sebntrtvoet etete ian tp fainted over with tar, and a finish given with | partures, instructions to bidders with forms for ne wel or sl by with fhe roller TO anne Coes: made even Js and bonds, aud all other necessary in- ad, THE FENIAN MOVEMENT is stronger, and Samenion one “a showing its condition by running about wild! ndaut suc- | Second Assistant Postmaster General, | and icing at Mts fellows until it was killed. | Sos ioan ster belpien tine sae, Se. . But Miss Baldwin was not told of and | “skirmishing fund” has just built him a new | thought lightly of her own case until last Mon- | house and gone to the Paris exposition, and | gay. bs she saddenly sound herself copes secretary gave $20,000 for a mouse-color=d walls Tr was thrown horse Teeord e spasms, and foamed at the mouth, when she Ungton Bl wokeye tae oer: = D, M. KEY, Postmaster General. es most red their offspring, ject overcoming their Diack’ and wien the ten ned, that one was | WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10, 1878, the prize for beauty. ballot boxes were found to have been vi myll-Lawét