Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1878, Page 7

MPHATI *\My Madeline! my Madeline: Mark my melodious inidnight moans; Much may my melting masic mean, ‘My modulated monotones. **My mandolin mild minstretsy, My men al muse’s magazine, My mouth, my mind. my m mory, Mas, wingiiog, murmur * Madeline! Muster “mid midnight’s macquerade, Mark, Moorist: maiden, macron’s mein: *Mongst Murcia's most majestic maids, Match me my matchless Muelive, **Mankind"s malevolence may make Much melancholy muste init: Many my instive may mistake. ‘My mouest merits much malign. **My Madeline’s most mirthful mood Mac rtifies my minds machine; My mourntuiness magnitude tecite—makes ine merry, Madeline! ** Mateh-making ma’s may machinate, Mai @u-T.. g Misses me Misween; More mouey mav make many mate My magic motto’s—Madeline! ‘+ Meet, most meilifiuous melody, *Midsi Murcia’s misty mounts iuarine, Mee. m by moonlight, marry me, Madonva mia!— Madeline! ** BIRD LORE. (Harper's Weekly.) The stork has always been regarded as the herald of spring. A’ very old tradition, re- corded as early as the thirteenth century, States that the storks only adopt the form of birds in Europe whither they wend their way every autumn they are buman beings, and mereiy undergo ap anr ual transformation into storks on visit- | ing n«riheru climes. The Swabian peasantry Say that i work had a tongue he would Speak, and he would betray every body's secrets, because he h ars and sees every thiag. Bowev as it is, he manazes to give notice of any sy occurrence by chattering with his beak. e birds protect the house from | Bent = $, aud therefore must never be dis- irbed. There is a theory in North Germany and ja that when a nest tured for f ork, which is occasionally done by ting up an old eart-wheel with boughs twi P Tound the spokes, he will testify his gratit to the owner of the house by throwing dow feather the first year, and the second year, d the third yearayoung stork. Then he pnees with the feather, and soon. auor of the stork on his first ap- e is very important. Should he be the Spectators will break a great kery during the ensuing twe!ve- f silent, he will be lazy:if flying, he be dilixent. Thus say the peasants of Inthe Altmark @ stork on the wing signifies toa maiden that . She will soon enter the bonds of wedlock ; but if stationary, she will be asked to act as a Sponsor. Whoever has money in his pocket fi the stork ‘will never lack i or will he suffer from tooth- will Hanover an! Meekleubu ache. The supers ition that the stork b children is current all over Germany lesia the flight of a stork over a house denotes the speedy arrival of a baby: while in the Island of Ruzen they say ess the stork lays eggs the fiouse wil hildless, and as the young storks thrive, so will th iL dren. Nobody dare shoot a’ stork in Rugen, for then he weeps large tears, and each tear Poitends a at misfortune. The story is Very particular about domestic peace in the dwelling wh he takes up his abode, and Strife soon diives him a wabian’ pea- Sants say that when the storks assemble for the winter misration, the males and females all pair off, anit should there be an old one, he orshe is pecked to death bythe rest. The Westphaiian= «1 that the o!d storks al- Ways throw one ef their brood out of ¢ if the number be uneven. In Ok isa curious t that the aniar ings of the re in reality meetings. pious moak Cesarius Von Hi k nD anci chronicle, sof conjugal fidelity, al¢ stork attempts flirtation than her lawful husband she is rks and if found with their iong F teemasons In olden days, at the time when the swallows Were expecied, a solemn procession was form- ed by the Whoie household to the sate of the farm ; then at first climpse of the welcome visitors the barn-door was joyfuily throw open forthem. It was beiieverl that the swal- lows took a great interest in domestic affail and examined e hing closely on their a: rival. If they found untidiness and misman- agement. they sang: **Boxes and chests were full when away we went, Now we are back, they are empty: all is spont.’} Various ceremonies must be performed the first time of deholding a swallow. In the Neumark the person must wash his face to preserve it from sunburn during the year. In Tyroi he must stop directly and dig with his knife below his left foot; he will tind a coal in the ground which will cure ague. When the swallows have been constant to one nest for seven years they leave behind them a smali Stone of great healing properties, especially for diseases of the eyes. Killing a swallow is a crime which brings its | own punishment; but the penaity varies. In the Pusterthal, ia, and the Lechrain, the slayer will have misfortunes with his cattle, for the cows will give red milk. At Nauders, in Tyrol, the criminal will lose his father or mother, and in the neighboring Telfs “the heavens will open, i. e., it will lighten. In the Ober Inn Vailey the murderer's house will be burned down: andat Sarsans, in the Oetz Val- ley, the destruction or remova. 0: a swallow’s | nest will cost the life of the best cow of the herd. The Westphalians say that the slaugh ter of a swallow causes four weeks’ rain; and if they are driven away all the vegetables in the gar: en will be cut off by the frost. Whoever bids farewell to the swallows at | their autumnal departure will be free from chilblair s through the winter. Swallows, also, have the gift of prophecy. In some goiey of Westphalia the pea-ants teil you te look un er ir feet on tue appearance of the first swaliow, for if there should chance to be a hair, it wii! be of the same color as that of your future w i swatlows over a Touse in the Unter Inn Valley signifies a death. The cross bill and the robin are likewise looked ou as iucky birds. Everybody knows the pretty legends concerning bota birds, and how the one is supposed to have eros bill, and the other reddened his br. deavoring to pluck out the naiis which fastened rd te the eross. act of piety i and goidfine! ben Christ for us on Go!gotha ve up His latest breath, nightingale aud guidfiueh sang ‘The mournful song of death.** In the Harz Mountains and the Tyrol the In Spain a somewhat attributed to the uight- ingale ¢eross-bill is highly valued, as it is believed that | this bird will take to itself diseases which would otherwise befall the family. He has possessed this virtue ever si release our Lord from the eri he presence of a cross-bill drives away gout and rheuma- tism, and even the water which he drinks or in which he bathes these comp Moreover, the Tyrolese eross-bill ¢ tcheralt. and protects a home from evil spells and lightaing. The rotin is likewise a protection against lightning, but woe betide the rash person who ventures to molest the robin or its nest. He Will either be struck by lightning, or, as in the Zillerthai, be will become epilepti Ober Inn Thal, his cattle will and even the water in his house ruddy hue. The despoiler of a robin’s nest will lose as many relatives in the course of the Year as t number of young birds stolen. Absam avd Schwaz are the only Tyrolese ex- ceptiol the universal esti: jon in wnich this bi.d is held. At Absam it is said that the best attracts the lightning,and at Schwaza robin flying over a house foretells a death. Il assume a Odds and End: —The ancient Pheenicians believed the Stomach as the seat of wisdom. That is Where David Davis got his idea of running for President. I he had lived in Pheenieia he would have been a postmaster.—[ Burlington | Havkeve. — The sermon of the best preacher in the | World wil! ).or make as much impression upon a congrexation as the sudden pattering of rain on the window panes of a church con- taining two hundred new spring bonnets.— {Troy Wh 9. —A little urchin being asked, ‘‘ What is Rhode Island noted for?” replied, “Tt is the ony one of the New England sta‘es which is the smallest. —Sidney Smith once rebuked a swearing visitor by saying, “ Let us assume that every- “thing and everybody are damned, and proc: With our subject Lea splendor, parade and tinsel lure 1 enthuse the rabble, but music = <i ntare [med their charm to him who 2 hind a “ . ces: ion.—[ Cine Bre jase Table ard aon — A deor-knob fitted to receiv x the photograph of the head of the house bas been invented. bey will probably have a slow sale until families can determine who is me head of the house.—[New Haven Reg- B Was Spox y ‘You never A writer it 3’. Once the s 0 1ge grew at the botton or spanges gre ‘age Shut gpttam ofthe se, Ages age, aud since then the sponge cummed to tint, and has lain covered by rocks and earth of many! i ds piled thick above it. Seen with @ microsewpe Hint shows the make of 1: its fiber sand sometimes you ean see bedded. in it the :bél s of the tiny creatures on which the spenee has fed. Now and then inside a, Hint will be found bits of the sponge not yet changed. That last proof settles it: but I must say it hard to believe—hard asthe fliut, almost.” but in the distant countries | il- | hours by the clock. ce his efforts to | is used as a remedy for | 4 sponge | | JOB SPINNING’S WORK. Mrs. Job Spinning was a round, rosy, com- pact, hard-working littie woman. Job Spin- bing Was a meagre, pale-faced, hard-working | little man. Mrs. Job was fretty, but quite ‘ood enough for this world. Job Was too good for it. By heroic labor, that laid out elsewhere would have made him a general, he earned a | Salary so small that I won't disgrace these columns by telling it; and Mrs. Job, who was | afinancial genius, stretched it, and met the | ends over the year; and there were three little Spinnings of that abhorred class ef infants who are pervetually taking every possible dis- | ease, or being brought home with the breath and teeth knocked out of them, or failing in | these, fall back on hives and sore ears; and Mrs. Job doctored and precepted these three litle Spinnings, made their clothes, made her own clothes, made fact, but flour, meat, coal and groceries, for | which she hadn't the receipt, all in the shortest | conceivable time, running the household ma- | eine with prodigious dash, energy and fric- | tion. | | The consequence was a pain in Mrs. Job's back every night, and a twist in Mrs. Job's temper. Then, as Mrs Job was a heroic woman, she suffered in silence, making the tea as if she | were dying, and laying the cloth as with her | last grasp, harrowing Job's tender soul by the | piteous spectacle. . There was also a family tradition that Mrs. Job was in feeble health, and only prevented from commencing a mysterious process called “running down,” and sinking into an early etaye by unwinking watchfulness on Job's | part. man; asoreiy tired man; turning the corner with a feeble step, and lingering heavily in his own door; but between the tradition and the piteous spectacle he found no chance to bring | this tired man in and rest him, but hung him | up with his coat on the hall peg, and came ina fresh, cherry, sparkling Job, to take the baby put the children to bed, and oil the weels gen | erally. By nine o'clock Mrs. Job's back and temper were apt to be comfortable, and Job was dead tired. One morning Job said, as he put on h “My dear, I see that you are runnin again, I shall be home very early this after- neo This was a formula, and signified a Spinning a fami-iar instituti family, ‘a finer thing, properly done, than you may imagine—and’a lunch ackers: therefore Mrs. Spinn’ what she called her “busy out of the Way, Scrubbed each little Spinning within an inch of its life, and tied her bonnet strings in a flutter, with the hand of the clock at three, for that was Job's hour on early afternoons, and Job had never disappointed Mrs. Job Since their wedding day. q a first time Sppotted, however, for all that can be said and done, and on this oe casion Job did disappoint his wife. He eame home late and looking gloomy, aud found Job pathetic. “should not have cared for my own disap- | pointment,” she said. “Iam used to that; but the childr “Disappoi g hurried repeated Job, absently. “Oh yes!” ided again into his gloomy thinkin: at was all the explanation that Mr. Spinning ever offered for keeping his | wife wa in’ bonret and sha’ two humor, nd answered Mrs. Job, who had been « him lately to insure bis life, so like a re—or, not tc be poetical, like oti og husbands when out of temper, that she dropped 1 never dared to renew the subject aghast, d it. On the next night he | came home late again—thing unprecedented in their married annals. On the next night he was lal After that he was regular only in being late. . Mrs, Job was a woman of energy, also a woman of some sentiment. When husbands ange moraliy, for the worse, knew that sd Wives make themselves physicians to the case, and, in home reading at least, always ef- feetacure. Mrs. Dr. Job resolved that she would try to touch Mr. Spinning’s better na- ture; and this is how did it. Job com: home, late as usual, found the cloth laid, the steak on the gridiron, the liitle Spinnings trying to keep their eyes open, and worryibg about the room, and Mrs. Job re- Signediy sewing. On Job's entrance she laid aside her work with a gulp, indicative of swallowing much undigested sorrow, looked at her husband with red eyes and nose anda watery smile, and set about the supper as one doubly enfeebled by the pangs of sorrow and hunger, but resolved to bear all meekly with- out complaint. In faci, rousing from his haggard stupor, Job did ask, with something of the old inter- est, “Was anything the matter?” Mrs. Job set her lips. It would take a week to tell in order ail that she thought was the matter: and then with a second edition of the watery smile, “No, nothing,” says the little woman, sighing, id with the look of one who is telling a noble Job rose abruptly and went into the ad- joining bedroom. 7 . “The brute!” she said to herself; “but I'll | show, him whether I am to be trampled on or not!” No talk now of appealing to his beit -r | feelings. The natural woman was in sucha vage that she could not listen to Mrs. Dr. Job, | unless that eminent practitioner should sug- vest some of the sterner modes of treatment. | Keep his supper for him indeed! Comng home on the fol owing evening Job found Mrs | Job grimly sewing, and the room wearing that | put-away-for-the night appearance so peculiar- | ly ageravating to hungry and tired folks, “Isn't it late?” ask d Job, glancing at the clock, wi h_ ome dismay. “We have had our supper, if that is what ut you 1 ‘ob, suddenly facing here is bread int e | pautiy, if y It;” still with her eyes on im, and biistling for bate. But Job did not | take up the gage, but looked at her with a ten- | der, scrrowful, pitying gaze, and, sighing, went | and found his crust and ate it without a word. When a physician finds a patient getting | beyond his skil he calls in a brother practi- er; and Mrs. Dr. Job, thinking the moral | symptoms of her patient more and more puz- | zing, laid the case before Mary Elien. Mary Ellen was Mrs. Job’s Sister, lived in | the lower half of the house, and never had | believed in Job Spinning. | “There is a woman in the case,” pro- nounced Mafy Ellen fortenioasiy. Mrs. Job fired. “ Mary Ellen, I don't be- lieve it! Job Spinning isn’t that man!” Mary Ellen smiled superior. “Men are men, and not women, Jane, and facts are facts; and if Job dont spend his time here, he does somewhere else. May be Job is ali right, and I don’t say he ain't; but the first question I always ask about husbands is, what do they do with their time and their | money? and then I judge according. ~ There's different ways of putting facts,” said Mrs. Job, much wilied, but still vaguely convinced of the monstrosi’y of Mary Eliea’s | conclusions when applied to Job; “and weal know you always were jealous about Job"— slipped off her tongue without intend- ud I don’t believe it, Mary Ellen, say what you like.” * None so biind as them that won’t see; and for jealous,” cried Mary Efien, very red, “I must first see something to be jealous of—not | lo say that you needn't be mad at me, Jane, 31 ain't the woman he’s after any how.” Teall that lo’ observed Mrs. Job, hastil; picking up her work-basket and retiring wit much dignity. Not for worlds would she have cried before Mary Ellen; but sitting by her own fire she could do what she pleased— and thea, her hysterical passion over, she still sat, watching the fire gleam on the wall; aud in the silence, broken only by the failing of a coal, or the measured ticking of the clock, came back to her a bright morning in thete wedded lives when Job had brought home that very clock aud set it up on the shelf, tell. ing her it would say, as long as it could ‘tick, | faithful for ever; faithful for ever! and Mrs: Job said to herself that the clock had ticked out many an hour that found her fretful. but | hever one that did not find him patient; and | minutes enough in which she had been selfish, but never one where he was not self-denying | and what was the use of his faithfulness, | _ Mrs. Job started and gave a little scream— Job, coming in softly, had touched her on the | Shoulder before she was aware—and starting | up, she faced him, hesitating and flushed. =" What, crying?” asked Joo in a troubled Way. | , No, not erying,” returned Mrs. Job, glow- ing between her recollections ‘aud’ Mary | Ellen’s spur and a new resolve; “or, if I was, | it was for myself, not because of you, Job ;for | I believe you are right, Job, though it all | Seems so. strange, because§ itis you; and I love you, Jub, aud I am pola to trust you till ie. speak out of yourself and tell me what It | between us!” crying heartily as she talked | and with her arms about his neck. “Between us! overus'” muttered Job; and | then a sudden and awful paleness fell upon | him—you couki not say he turned pale, he | was so pale already. And with the pityin tender, woeful lok that she had seen on his face before. * Poor little woman! poor Jane!” he said, stroking her hair that was still soft and bright; “pvor dear!” and that was all. | His mauner was very tender, and from that night he softened into many of his old ways; but tha: was all, went on into months, and one | The day morting Job proposed a spinning spree. He had not spoken the word before since that Fon, bam had changed him in such mysterious fashion, peeaat ke the esas ears,” pe Job. 01 Sinai © pinniugs were clamorou: bu. Mrs. Job was silent, ‘Her heart beat fast to the thought that to-day Job would speak out. She never thought where she was going orly when would Job speak out. The iron horse picked them 1 trudged +turdily off wih them to another—a raw little stan, where Mrs. Job looked about her bewildered. “i have a friend who has a house here,” said Job, giving her his arm; and she noticed that his breath came short aid his steps were uneven. Be going to speak, I know,” she said to self. The friend's nouse was a charming house. | with'a yard at the back and in tue font and at one depot, and Job's, made everything in Now Job came home from his work a tired | in bottles or oddly enough. the key of the front door in Job's pocket, who entered without ceremony. Mrs. Job entered, and, looking about her, grew red and pale by turas. There are large rooms above, said Job, watehing her. “It's our very house,” burst out Mrs. Job, “that we've planned a hundred times; and the carpet I was always coveting, Job, ing him by the arm, “whose house is thi: “It belongs to a bad man,” answered Job, “who never told his wife that his salary was raised six hundred and fifty dollars; and when she had been pinched on fourteen dol- lars a week made her do with eleven in- stead. ob!” cried his wife. * Being so bad,” continued Job, “he took to bad habits, too, and never came home till nine, and ten—” “* Doing overwork,” bursts in Mrs. Job, who is beaming. “The deeds are made out clear in your name,” said Job.‘ You will find them in my coat. They can’t take it from you, dear.” iz J name—take it from me!” repeated Mrs. Job, utterly bewildered. “Ihave had pleasure in every nailI drove and plank J laid,” continued Job, ‘because it will be my work over and around you, and it will keep me in your mind.” . b3 ‘And you never told me,” moaned his wife, kneeling beside him with tears and so! “To break your heart twice, dear! mured Job—| Phua Weekly Iiem. oe << Home Topics. (By **Faith Rochester, ’* in Amer. COMBINATIONS OF FLAV griculturist.) ‘ORS. A friend who has availed herself of unusual facilities for studying French eookery, has given me some of the results of her inquiries and experiments. In Professor Blot’s book we were told to usea “sprig” of this and a “pinch” of that, with an indefiniteness quite puzzling to the inexperienced. I have seen recipes for flavoring, which were poor guides for bezinners, or indeed for most house- keepers, because the proportions were all given in ounces and fractions of an ounce. One wishing to follow them, and having no seales, might possibly buy the exaét quanti- ties separately and mix them afterwards. But my friend has it all reduced to _teaspoon- fu's and tablespoonfuls, of the medium size, and made just /evel full. She says her pre- parations are those recommended by the most ebrated French cooks, only they give them by weight, and she has made them easier for our use by reducing them to level spoonfuls. A larger or smailer amount may be made at one time by doubling or halving the propor. tions. Perhaps it is best to begin with a small ntity. . The american Agriculturist gave, a while ago, directions for drying and preserving va- ‘lous sweet herbs, as powders, kept covered cans. Powdered herbs and round spices are those used in these flayor- ne combinations, aad after mixing, they should be kept from the air in the same man ‘e used in soups, stews, hashes, YORING MIXTURE For sou lespoontuls each of Parsle Marjoram, Winter Savory, Demon” Thym Sweet Basil: all dried and rubbed to ae powder: also one tablespoonful each Thyme, and Bay Lea of one teaspoonful, each, of Marjoram and Rosemary. . FLAVOKING FOR MEAT HASH MEAT. One tablespoonful each of Black Pepper, vayen r:tivo tablespooniuls cach of utmeg. Keep this mixture dry and closed from the In using it, take about the proportion of one pari of this tlavor- ing mixture to four parts of Salt—a tablespoon- fu: of the spiced salt for each pound of chop- ped meat. AND FORCE- KEEPING MEAT IN HOT WEATH at is the convenience of a good But m: who often cart for supp ‘e annoyed by the bother at comes of getting more beef or mut- ton on hand than they ean conyenientiy use up before it becames fainted. The most fool- ish waste, is to eat more of it than you need, with the idea of ving it; the doctor's bill that may result from over-loading the diges- tive organs is not so good a show of economy, as the fresh eggs you might coax from the hens by feeding them any exce The meat should first be wiped cie Some sprinkle it. w Others use black pepper plentif and wiping it well before using itto. remove -pper or salt), and then hang it in the place possible—some in the well, othersina cellar. Perhaps the best precau! tion is to Wrap it ina dry cloth, and ecoyer it rharcoal-dust. Some ay that wood ashes will answer about as well as charcoal, but I only Knew the virtues of charcoal will even remove a slight degree of taint. I am told that mutton is improved, as well as pre- served, for a short e, by wrapping it ina cloth wet with vinegar, and laying it on the bottom of a dry cellar. All kinds of meat, in- clvuing fish and fowl, may be preserved in brine for a longer or shorter time. GINGER-SNAPS, Boil together one pint of Molasses (Sorg- hum is excellent for this), one teacup of Short- ening (some consider Beef Suet the ‘snap. with salt. ly (washing st”), a pineh of salt, a tablespoonful of ginger. Le. it real’y boil for about two min- utes, then set aside to cool. When cool, two level teaspoonfuls of Soda, and beat all gether thoroughly. Add four to make a dough as soft as you can roll out very thin. Cu into shapes, and bake in an oven not too hot, as they scorch very easily. CARE OF CHILDREN'S FEET. Isympathize much with country-bred child- reu in their scorn of the notions of city-bred childien about going bare-foot in warm sum- mer weather. “It will make the feet grow large!” Thus the little feet, that ought to grow in proportion as the rest of the body grows, are kept in shoes that fit as snugly as possible, hence when the body reaches ma- turity itis really deformed, because the little feet dressed in “number two,” are not pro- portio ed tothe figure of medium hight and weight. The Chinese plan is the same, only more so, The use of iight corsets ison the same principle of false art. Sois the flat- board used by the. “Flat-head” Indians to “improve” the natural shape of the head. I 1am makiag no piea now for undressed feet, but I would protest against tight shoes for anybody—least of all for growing children. I know of children who have corns on their feet in consequence of this abuse. Children should not wear shoes that hurt them. A lit- tle girl, who turns in her toes when walking aeguired the habit by wearing, when three years old, a shoe that so hurt her that she could only walk easily by turning in her toes. Corns on the bottom of the feet are often caused by shoes with obtruding pegs, or hard bunches in the thread or leather, which press into the sole of the floot. Hixts ABouT WATER.—No water that has stood in open yessels during the night shou'd be used for drinking or cooking. By exnosure tothe air it has lost its “aeration,” and has ab- sorbed many of the dust-germs floating in the apartment. If convenience requires water to be kept in vessels several hours before use, it should be covered,unless the yessels are tigh Whereyer practical, all distributing reservoi should be covered. Filtering always adds to the purity of water. Drinking water should not be taken from lakes or rivers on alow level. Surface water or water in lakes, pools or rivers which receive the surface ‘wash, should be avoided as much as possible. Do not drink much water at a time. More than two tumblers full should not be taken ata meal. Do not drink between meals unless to quench thirst, as excess of water weakens the gastric juice and overworks the kidneys. Excessive peat ions, whether of watef or other fluid, re- ax the stomach, impair its secretions and par- alize its movements. By drmking little ata time the injury is avoided. A DESERTED House near Haverhill, Mass., has a singu'ar history. Twelve years ago an energetic young meéchanic was Sugeged to marry a young woman of that city,and worked hard to lay up money enough to buy a home to which to take his bride. One mening. he in- vited her to drive, and halted at last in front of a handsome brick house in the suburbs. He tock her in, showed her that it was nicely fur- nished, and at last told her that he was the owner. To her inquiry as to how he obtained it, he admitted that he had been fortunate enough to buy a pitey ticket which had drawn a prize of $20,000. She was a girl of strict principles, and declared she would never marry him until he gave back the money, and on his refusing, left him forever, and the house still stands tenantless. TROUBLE IN THE FAMILY.—They were in the arlor together. The light had gone out and ey stood at the window in the radiauce of the moon. He had his arm about her and was jooking dreamily at the queen of night. etparling Tain thinking how happly we will = rling, lam inking how ha we be in our home when we are married ou shall be its dear have a little parlor be a pretty home littie mistress. We and a little dining-room and a little kitchen for you to manage. We shall be there all by ourselves and we shall be so happy. darling.” “Oh, Henry,” she despondently uttered, “I thought we were Boing | board.” There were tears in her eyes for him to kiss awa’ pat he let her remove them with what facilities she could command.—[Dandury News. ———— 4 GONE TO MEET THE ANGELS.—We hate to have a lawyer die. Not that we think any more of lawyers we do of any other class of people, but_we know there has got to bea i Tg drag (ayn a in ww] irawn : out of Bight ‘and left there), and ‘ches made eulogizing the deceased, prin- rival attorneys, who hated him like known to say anything good Of hls unt "he nown to say an} of him e was laid ‘away under the ‘sod. Th olutions and speeches must the daily papers, and the commun! ers, when too Syphon) a jewel they among them.—[| in Saturday Night. HIGH PLA¥ IN PARIS. (Paris Corresponéeace Wilkes’ Spirit. } Proceedings have been very lively of late at the principal Paris cinbs. Winter is generally the season when the play runs highest, but this year very heavy gaming is sill going on, chiefly at the recently founded Cercle de la Presse, in Lepelletier.” The rooms of this new club are spacious, and splendidly furnished and decorated, and it bas become one of the most fashionable houses of Paris. It was open. ed afew months ago, ostensibly as a house of call for the pressmen, and moneys members are all the well-known journalists; but now | nothing but baccaret goes on here, and the heaviest gamblers of the city meet thereevery afternoon. Often, in the hour just before din- ner, a hundred thousand franes and more or hands, and in the evening play is re- sumed and kept up until broad daylight. It is a most surprising thing that in a town like Faris, where private pay is surveyed by the pets with such a jealous eye, establishments ike the Cercle de la Presse should be allowed to flourish unmolested. The gamiling clube of Paris are little more than public hells, for almost anyone of medium standing can’ ob- tain entrance tothe most high toned, and those of the lower calibre are the rendezvous of sharpers and blacklegs. The French author- ities have never entertained the oft-mooted project of founding roulette and. trente-et- quarante rooms, and their determined princi- pee in this respect are in contrast with the laxity manifested in the matter of the clubs. The state itself does not profit very largely by the baccarat houses, which only pay a certain annual due, and are, of course, the largest con- sumers of cards, which are the objects of a heavy tax. Certainly public roulette and trente- et-quarante rooms Would be a source of great revenue to the city, and it seems strange that one class of heli being tolerated, tue other should not be countenanced as well. Any one wishing to realize what a hold gambling has taken upon the French should 1ook in at the Cercle de la Presse toward six o‘clock in the evening, an hour before dinner, when the carriages are returning from the Bois, and the absinthe-sippers at the Boule- vaid cafes are moving away. The baccara’ room of the fashionable elub is crowded, and the table is covered with counters, of value valying between & louis and a’ thousand frai-es, which every minute change hands. It is curlous to observe the dexierity of the eroupier, who, armed with a long lathe, sits opposite the banker, to sweep in or pay out, ording to the coup, with one stroke of his “flapper,” as a young American friend of mine rather aptly denominated the instrument the other day, he carelessly passes the high-priced chee bout. never making the slightest mistake, however, and always right in his lightning calculations. The croupiers are the men who, apart of course from the proprie tors of the gambling clubs, realize the larges profits by the gam ve many way: of making money, st place, any one having had a lucky bank or two will gener- them over a bonus of a few louis. ain, the unfortunates who get. “d ke" during the game, and, like ers devoured by the hideous f 0 g, Would sell their souls for more money to lose, “are always glad to negotiate loans at a most lucrative rate of interest. A’ litth episode which T nessed a few days ago at one of the boulevard clubs will give an idea of the faciity with whieh the croupicrs amass coin. Ou st yor thirty thousand frances, with him, ad lost itin afew banks. He bi he can ain. Ivis a super. iat lent money brings lue ase the adage turned out to be true. The 5,000 franes were soon multiplied ten-fold. The negotiator of the loan was so delighted with this unexpected turn of fortune that in restituting Theodore his tunds he presented him with a present of ten louis. Two hundred franes interest for the use of 5,00 during ao hour ts a lucrative ation if frequently undertaken, and as ly every day in. the week the croupiers in the principal citibs do such iittle strokes of busi- hess, it will easily be seen that at the end of the year their profits amount te avi i figure, The frequenters of clubs amused to see croupiers turn out 2 on Sundays in dazzling sand bet their tuust, and tr stition wi of and “fillies” with the best. The life oft worthies is a very fatiguing one, for they rarely are able to knock off before’ the smail hours of morning, still monotonously drawling, “ #aites votre jeu, messieurs, riens ne vu pls,” and manipu- lating their “flapper” with the usual dexterity, at nine or ten oclock the next day; so tuey’ ally work very hard for their gains The Paris clubs area world in themselves, and a very curious one, too, though any one who has gone the rouud of these establish- ments, short of being an inveterate gambler himself, can not help regretting that they should be allowed to flourish and afford facili- ties for ruin to thousands ot people who would otherwise have kept clear of gambling. Bac- carat is such a teriibly fascinating game that, once one has fallen under its charm, the odds are that he will remain a slave to it thereafter. There are thousands of men in Paris, men of moderate incomes and medium standing in so- ciety (not to mention the members of the up- per ten thousand who have a fatal passion for the game), who waste their means and their lives at the board of green cloth. They all see and know how strongly the chances are against their winning, and yet they are con- stanuy led along by the hope of striking some great coup. Dozens of stories circulate among habitues of the clubs of great gains made under peculiar circumstances. All the baccarat bara in Paris are talking of acase in point which lately occurred. Some six months ago one ef the most destitute of the many poverty stricken players who, after having lost allthey could get at baccarat, still carry every lows they can raise to the table, happened to have a run of extraordinary luck one night, win- ning wiih fifty francs more than ' 1,500. The foilowing day, of couse, he resumed play on a larger scale than before, and in- stead of losing back his gains, as is the case nine times out of ten, furtune re- mained with him, and he won a large sum. He then launched out into heavy play, and for mouths was constantly lucky, playing an im- mense game, and never meeting with any re- verse. The shabby,cdissoluie lounger is how transformed into a man of pleasure and fash. ion; his turnout is one of the handsomest at the Bois, and it is said that during the last six months his winnings have amounted clo 6 u, on a million franes. Now would be the time jer this wonderfully fortunate gambler to with- draw from play with his large gains; but bae- carat has, of course, become such a necessity to him that until his dying day nothing but an accident willkeep. him twenty-four hours away from the green cloth. There are a good many other instances cited in the Paris clubs of men who from very small beginnings have found themselves possessed of large gains; but few of these men escape such reverses as those which have overtaken the celebrated journal- ist, Albert Wolff, who, a year ago, could elaim to have won 300,000 frances at bacearat, and now has not only lost back every thing he had, but has greatly compromised his brilliant pros- pects on the press by his fearful passion for shaming. On the whole, ihe more one sees of bac » the more thoroughly one becomes persuaded that it will be a fortunate day for french nation when a game having such dis- astrous effeets is abolished. The chief reason why gambling clubs are so numerous in Paris is, of course, the large profiis which are to be made by the owners of the concern. However, the proprietors of a baccarat club have no interest whatever in interfering with the course of the game. The source of their revenue is the 2 per cent. due, paid by every player takinga bank. In the principal ciubs the banks are rarely less than a hundred louis; and in the course of a day anda night's play certainly thirty banks are dealt. Consequently the daily receipts vari between two and three thousand francs, whic! swells into a very large pearly income. The percentage for the bank is a very onerous charge, Which deprives the dealer of a gest partof his advaniages. During a long sitting ho oue realizes how considerable a sum is ab- sorbed bythe house, unless in such a case as one which occurred a few nignts siuce at a Boulevard club, when one of tie players, after having held the bank all evening, perceived he was precisely fifty louis loser, Whereas not one of the punters had one. From curiosity the matter was looked into, and it was foun that the dues had swallowed up the exact amount lost by the banker. and very often are OUT OF THE JURIEDIOTION.— A 200d stor) told oi a Vermont ex-judge and ex-mem| of Congress. The latter held court in Essex county, when a long-standing case in which an especiaily sharp lawyer had been comeaod was heard. The Judge ruled the law poinis against the lawyer in question, and he lost the case. After tea the counseilor, who was stay- ing at the same inn in Guildhall with the i . approached the latter and invited him 0 take a drive, and the judge accepted. A few minutes behind a good trotter took them ever the line iuto New Hampshire, when the aitorpey turned to his companion and said: “ Judge, 1 presume, now we are in New Hain| shire, we ‘ave peers?” The court assented. “Well,” rej: ined the lawyer, “you blank old fool, how came you to dec! ide that case again t me?” and expending gent of his temper upon the innocent animal that drew Se carriage, he sped away-from the line of Vermont, in- Hae his vituperation with the distance e fiom the judge's jurisdiction. Fioally, ex- hausted, he turned his horse and drove b ick to Guildhall. As the horse’s hoofs sounded «n ie bridge mnie Beongns he riders again in e Green Mountain state, the now serene raised his and hope at some future o2casion .o havi the honor of @ drive with you asaiee . RELIGION is the tie that connects man with his Creator, and holds him to his throne. If that tie is sundered or broken, he floats away Auris aig, a'aaly ite Ped its whole future but darkness, desola- tion and death.—[. jet Webster. - eyers of the house had brought a large sum, | TRAPS. Next to piracy and fighting the Indians there is nothing so dear to the faventie heart as traps. From the mouse-trap up to the ele- phant pit there is no form of trap of which the small ‘boy does not read with interest and with a desire to pachcally toss its efficiency. Espe- cially is he fond of those traps which catch their game alive,and which are not limited, as are mouse-traps or rat-traps, to the capture of one particular class of animals. The large “figure 4 trap,"’ which, when properly made, catches so many different Kinds of beasts, is immensely popular in juvenile circles, and there is scarcely a boy living outside of crowde ed cities who has not’ made bie of this par- cular pattern, and set them with more or le: success. One of the leading boys of our coun- try in this line of industry is Master Samuel Sloane, of Clinton, Tl. “He has made traps without number, and has caught specimens of every kind of small game to found in the neighborhood of Clinton, including three babies under two years of age, and small pigs and dogs without number. So great is his fondness for traps that he neglects his studies and fails to carry in the wood and to go for the cows with anything like regularity. It was with the view of leading his mind away from the excursive contemplation of traps that Master Sloane’s father recently gave him a book of travels in Central Africa, and directed him to read it carefully. The boy did so, but unfortunately the book treated quite extensively of the Central African methods of trapping game. Master Sloane thus learned that when a native King wishes | to capture a young lion or a good-sized ante- ‘ope Le consiructs a slip-noose of thongs and attaches it to the top of a stout sapling. which is bent down and temporarily fastened to the ground. When the antelope, or other animal t) that effect, tangles his foot in the noose the sapiing is released, and, springing back to its original position jerks the game into the air, and keeps it hanging there until t King comes along, chops dowu thet and knocks the Fens ou the head. cription was read by Master Sloane with great admiration. In faet it was the only part of the book which he did re When he told his father that the book w: “Bust, bully” the pleased but deceived parent fancied that his son's dormant taste tor reading was at last awakened, and congratulated him thereupon. | A few weeks later he had reason to wish that he had never heard of Central Africa and that the native Kings, with their diabolical inven- tions, had never been born. Of course, Master Sloane determined to try the Central Africa tip without delay. There was a beautiful, shady road near the village, which was bordered with any quantity of sto it Saplings. It was just the place for 4 Central Atria trap, and Master Sloane had high hope that he would succeed in catching a cow or a horse, al: hough, of course, he ec hything so completely sati ion, tiger or antelope. 1 borrowed a hoistin grocer, under the pret. ed it for some intricate se, and si wrest ther need- and unintelligible par- ith its aid in bending great st: th and elastici- very simple matter to arrange the nd set the trap, after which the jugeni ent home to dream of finding a pair swinging in the air | of | | | | | ot beau ious of he a said she wa’ an illiempered, red-haired thing’ | but this was probably mere calumny. At all | events, so thought the young minister, who was | settled over the Seventeenth Con. church, and who was g: Miss Sloan That he v to see Miss Sloane on the very evening whi the reckless boy set his Central Africa tr. Was not strange, for he usually spent three or four evenin, y week at the Sloane man- sion, butat lence that on that pre- cise evening he proposed a walk, and led Miss Sloane toward the iden ical lane where the | trap was waiting for victims. How it happened that neither the young minister nor Miss Sloane noticed the beit sap- ling or the rope. no one can understand, 3 they were so deeply engaged in the di of theological questions that they ous to all earthly things. Still mor it to comprehend how they could & have stepped within the noose, which w: read out in the form of a cirele not morethan a fot | in diameter. It is possible, however, that tue lady was reading a hymn ‘book and that hor companion had approached extremely close to her in order to see if the hymn. was correet'y | printed. However this may be, the fact re mains that Miss Sloane’s left foot and the min- ister’s right foot were just within the noose when the trap sprung, and the elastic sapling suddenly lifted them twenty feet into the air, ere they remained hanging like two cher- ries in a rough storm, and expressing in lively tones their suspicion that something unusual had happened. Half an hour later the Clinton and Holmes- ville stage passed that way, and the driver and his passengers were astonished beyond meas- ure. For some time it was supposed that some new and curiously-complicated animal, con- sisting chiefly of zebra and black panther, was swinging from the top of the sapling; but just as one of the passengers was about to fire at it the driver recognized the minister, though he Was not able to recognize his fellow prisoner. The latter's voice was somewhat mufiled, but she was ‘inetly heard to revile the minister, and to assert that she never would forgive him, no matter how he might try to excuse himself. Six strong men finally bent down the sapling, released the viciims, and with rare delicacy assigned the duty of recognizing Miss Sloane to the two ladies who were in the stage. Fortunately, neither of Master Sloane’s victims were seriously injured, and they both were able to walk home on opposite sides of the street. The results of this affair were numerous. Miss Sloane left town the next day ona visit tothe East, and has not since returned. The minister was tried for indiscreetly hangin; from the tops of trees with young fadies, God thereby bringing reproach upon his profes- sion, but was acquitted by aclose vote. AS for Master Sloane, it is believed and hoped that his father has killed him. At any rate, he has not been seen, and the rumor that he has been sent tothe House of Refuge in. Chi cago is not generally believed Y. Times The American Display. Our own people have made much progress Ja terly:; and such marvels as the telephone, the phonograph, the electric pen, the harmonic th graphy, the type-writer, the cash-recorder, the time-lock, the air-brake, the scroll-saw, the Herring safe, the adjustable scale, gather crowds about them. The gentle exhibitor has forgotten or overlooked, as usual, the real manner of caring for his interests. | Very few atticles in the American section have any Jabels in French upon them—a grave error— inasmuch as even those people who read or speak a little Enpiish cannot be expected to comprehend all the colloquial eccentricities ef mechanics, or to catch at technical expressions in a foreign tongue. I not a little amused, a day or two at the conversation between a group of gentlemen farmers, who appeared to be Austrians, and an elderly American pre- siding over the destinies of a pyramidal dis- play of canned fruit. “How fine!” said the Austrial addressing our compatriot in French ; “are these fair samples of the sizes of those fruits in the United States?” The old gentleman looked at them with av air of in- tense commiseration, then, assuming a gaze of sternness,@e shouted out * Pheladeify “1 beg your pardon? what did Pau observe,” remarked one of the Austrians, blandly. “ Yis, they be frum Pheladelfy, too,” shouted the American; “come frum ‘there, all of ‘em,’a wuz picked close by there, too!” After ‘in- quires vainly of each other what he had said, ‘hey concluded that he was angry because they were blocking up the passage way, and moved on. A little translation and printing would prevent such adventures. Much still remains to be done in ouragricul- tural department, and in the too smail but peruy arranged space allotted to Mr. Philbrick for his educational display. Switzerland, Bel- sium, France, Sweden, Italy and Japan have made very elaborate displays of their school material and of the results of their various syeterns but the United States will maintain the high rank on this ground which it has always held in previous international encoun- ters. In the group devoted to drawings by pupils competent critics think that the Eng- lish contributions rank first. Jules Richa says that they are infinitely better than the French, and he ascribes it to the larger liberty allowed in England for choice of subjects. The Japanese schools have furnished some exqui- difficult i site specimens of skill in design, and Austria and Hungary are by no means to be criticised jor lack of progress.—[ Paris Cor. N. ¥. Post. AN UNJUSTIFIABLE ASSAULT.—Miss Kello; Says Dewspaper men are just like lemons—it only to be squeezed as much as possible, then tossed aside. You just keep your distan Clara Kellogg. Police! Police.—Buffalo Bz- ess. Fire! Thieves! Murder!—New York Commercial. Quit! He, he, he, ho, ho! Git vut!—Boston Giobe. Ah! Oh! Have done tom Olas xoulse, We had be idea you vere so strong in arms; wa u’ve tum’ led our necktie territiys, besides our wife to Spine Beton Certard a We i en, only one, now; sh-h—there, e all, Clara, you've waked the baby’ Hawkeye. Now WrExp the girls the mallet-sticks ‘With strange infatuation; And meanwh! play fantastic tricks (With loudest eachinnation: Their mallets colon the game to win, Regardless of the friction; Till suddenly one strikes a shi AB coasernabieg ata ern : Cie sack Republican, A NUMBER OF WRITERS are claimin, heaven will contain more than two-thirds pone Mes! they ree up there as much mm entertainment on eart! e few males will have a nice time Reporter. of it.—[ Turner's Falls 4z-Did you ever notice how surprised were when it your foot ainere % y a ‘ou the next slair | lowed to peep above ground, take breath, and | | builders use, | pastebe A FEW GRRAT TRUTHS. THE LEADING NEWSPAPERS, ** Farly to ded and early to rise Makes a man Loast in a way we despise," Beeanse it wasa litt he sire was dssppc His hopes—his fond Wer cruelly disjo: Ava tho* the Hitle Brought increase Tt not a jot contributed Unto the pop-clation . The boy stood on the burning deck Whence ali but bim Bad fled: **Because if I should sit me down I'd burn my pants,"* he sald. ( Yonker’s Gazette. isin ——_-~. To Suppress Running Weeds. A gentleman whose door-yard had become in‘ested with the running’ plant commonly known as “moneywort,” and to dotanisis as Lysimachia nummuiaria, remarked to us: “would gladly give two hundred dollars to boy i THE EVENING STAR. THE WEEKLY STAR. ted, ed dostres— 's birth nation The proprietors of THE STAR present to the public its daily and weekly editions, respeo- tively, as not only the compictest and best, but also the cheapest epitome of events occurring at the national capital, and of general news as well, to be found anywhere. How well the public understands this is conclusively shows by the exceptionally wide cireulation they doth enjoy, not in the City of Washington be rid of that weed, for it is driving the grass | alone, but throughout all the States and Ter- from the lawn, and I cannot kill it. Hoeing it | ritories, only increases the growth.” Another owuer In order that the reader not now familiar with the paper and its strong hold on the pub lic may understand at a glance upon what elements its great popularity is based, the opinions of some of its contemporaries as te its merits are appended. It is needless to ada that no person is so good a judge of the value of any given newspaper as the men who cea duct newspapers themselves. What Other Papers Say About The Star. Decidedly one of the best newspapers published in the United btates; has nothing in common wit up of a handsome residence said that one of the worst weeds he met with was the Vinca minor, or periwinkle, often called myrtle, which gradually spread over his grounds without his being able to check it. These are both run- ning plants, which root freely from their pros- trate stems, and thus the Whole surface is gradually covered by them, to the exclusion of grass and everything else. The owners have asked us for a remedy, and we propose there- fore to give a few general and particular di- rere, applicable to these and all other weeds of a similar character. All plants are killed if excluded during their growing season from air and_ lhght. With nearly all,a few months are sufficient. e the bid part: Pess., 11 kept constantly buried they are eflectuaily at this time unfortnately evento ken a ate destroyed in one season. But most people do of frankness, candor and fair dealing gives charac- the work at the halves; they are ' ept well under most of the time, but occasi ter to its articles and adds much to {ts dignity and value. Asa compendium of the current events ot the day, it Is without a rival.—Newhernian (NO), Has fairly earned its present pros by surrey tn obtaining news nd the a ity which ran the tone, s shown in the treatment of current topics. This was the reason | [ty solid merits are suiieleety wants eS mally al? toff again with vigor. A very few small es are sufficient to send new life down through all the roots. toe gentleman above-mentioned did not kiil his pateh of moneywort by hoeing. This is | ingron jourmaiens ae ‘improves ‘at Ite years ie. the reason thatso many fail in attempting to | crease, and Washington would hardly be Washing- dest ches of Canada thistle, snapdragon | ton without ft. Ballimors america and quick gra: The plants are allo to | Now the oldest paper La Washington city, am@ repeatedly recover what they have lost. Can- | one of the most vaiuaiie at sities nye ada thistles turned under deeply with the | Metropolitan and Congressional life: bag oarmed & Plow. by the Ist of June or sooner, and after. | Sentituous portance categee Uy samacions wards often enough to prevent a single green | © or por: ° —p wi Point from coming to the surface, Will be for. | QUiNing all Ves original compeors who were Teas scans : ss guer and effectually Killed by the! 1st of Octo. | Sure%{ 0.) Recorders on cuterprising.—sittie- ber, as we bave satisfactorily proved on more | “Gneot the mest tateroth best thah one oceasion. We have seen farmers at. country: Rives alte tear eek eee vt tempt the me treatment on quack grass, but isan they entirely failed for want of thorough i should be work. But those who have taken hold of rs citizen anxtous w nd kept it always und ne informatic the capital of oar ed Wi hout dific Parkershurg ing instances might’be cited. But in established lawus and door. plow and harrow cannot! be introduced. The work must be done by band.. The owner of a lawn wishes advice how to treat a pz ity, of which some interest ~ Va.) Times, ywhere recoguized as the leading newspaper -,as it is decidedly the most new: ‘bie, Its weekly dition is a rT, and is unsurpassed in variety and ‘wess of news by any paper in the United allatin ( Tenn.) Examiner, inveterate running weed which has Comes as near to being an independent paper as : fa portion of his handsome ¢ Is possible: the Jon party, but essentially Probably the easiest way would be to trencli | the organ of the District of Cotanibta su hrow all the plants, | has made ttself the favorite Washington newspa- roots,deeply tinder | Der, necessary to everybody in the capital Sete ip t will of y hot to allow a ed To escape, or else bad as ever. Ifthe roughly treated in face may be oved and carted to some place where no ‘an be done, and then the whole surface nly COV i felt, such as Lake (Utah) Hera TI ‘cus soocess of Washington jours able n w will soon be as t ; minds its own ntly, and makes mouey by it.— ling paper of Washington, and one of the table tn the country: uniter its present nt It is ably edited always bright aud uewsy.—Indianapolie Journal es Uta A newspaper that can thrive where two hundred and sixteen journais have failed since 1790, does nob need a certificate of good character {roi lts cos temporaries.—Baltimore Gazette, One of the neatest printed and most readable pers that comes to our table, The low subscript vice places it within the reach of every famnily,— arrenton (Va.) Free Index, prevent the weeds from pushing through. Then over this a coat ‘arth and a covering of turf may be laid. v be that some Kind of coarse paper or rd. not tarred, might be used in suffi: | ers to exclude the passage of the | nd to Tot by the second year and pre- yet the drouth which would ¢ wi i ious stratum a few inches belo A splendid newspaper; filled with everything of Sn . interest from the capital of the nation: so i In the early part of the present centy that every household tn th y can have tee when the Canada thistle was spreading i Brownsville (Tenn) Bene COUBty can have tt, ) Bee, tic, careful, plying ati some of the states where it was unknown be- | fore, it exci ‘ great ep iapeerns auto accurate news and present- very properly attempted to extirpate it before | ing eolun ¢ to the family elrcle.—Fred- it obtained large possession of their farms, | erick (Md.) Examiner. Lae They began by digging itup. But this process One of the best papers published in Washington only cut the Toots into pieces. each of which | city: we advise all our friends wishing the intest | news from the national capital to subscribe for Ite Surry (N. C.) Visitor, Full of good things, valuable and interestt and we hope that Its present proprietors will live celebrate {ts haif century anniversary.— Washing- ton Anvil, ‘The ablest and best conductad paper of the capl- tal, always presenting the very laest hows Tea fresh and attractive manner,—Staunton Vir= ginian public-spirited journal, sent up a new plant. Others resorted to plow ing, with similar want of success. It was dis. covered that the roots ran down into the sub- soi], in some instances several feet, and at tempts were made, with incredible labor, to dig down and_ follow every root. But some | were broken off and left behind,and the result | was failure. It would have been immeasurably | easier, and at the same time effectual, if the | weed had been smothered at the surface. | An old established paper: gives full and accu: Piowing under is better than attempting to reports of all events of pubite interes transpires destroy them with the hoe, because when | at’ the uational capital. Yorkeille (Ss. C.) Ba turned in deeply, some weeks are requ reach the surface, and if the plowing is re- peated in time, they are kept coatinually smothered. With the hoe, the surface only i3 reached, and the plants cut off to.day may be again above ground to-morrow, and_no pro- gress at all made in killing them. We have vever found any difficulty in destroying com- pletelly in one season, at a moderate cost, any patches or whole fields of these or other run- ning weeds, provided thework was thoroughly performed.—[ Country Gentleman. Two Little Girls Smothered in a Trunk ed to quirer. A good, reliable paper, which, besides the latest and freshest news from Gongrese, gives the cream f all foreign aud domesti = i au ier ign icnews, —Newberry (8, O) ‘Those who want Congressional and other national news directly from headquarters will find it to their interest to try it.—Amherst (Va,) Enter- prise A wide-awake, first-class eight-page paper: is of One of the test weak fered for only $2 per annum; lies in the country.—Cumberland ( Md.) Civilian, Notwithstanding its mutations, it has been s newsy and ent sti and gee bahar aia aoen ge runk. One of the most awful calamities ever re- | ,,Persons who desire to obtain a mblished at corded is that of the death of the two | {te camlfalof the Nation would do rel te aend tor daughters of Mrs. Amelia Moench, first as. | ‘SC Usvunteaty the techy eld sistant teacher in German in the Franklin | waaington: for a Bh a coer schoo!, by belity Suffocated in a trunk. The | jy recommend It. Wriminglos tS Cees little girls have for a year past been with their During the long period of its e: a tt ann father on a farm four miles from Dixon, Mo., | maintained its reputation as Aya ‘oe 138 miles from St. Louis. Mrs. Moench spends | Washington.—Monroe co, (W.Va) Mooteae her vacations on the farm, and was prepared to goto her husband and children immedi- ately upon the close of school. Gn Sunday evening she received the following telegram from a friend living in Dixon: “On returning home last evening Mr. Moench found both little girls dead in a trunk: lam going out to see. NEDC. F. WALTER.” uine place for itself asa Feprosmerity doservediy grows © th id (Mase) epublica = Paper at the national capital; containg 1s enterprising able, — Charlestown (W. Va.) Spirit of Persone Ali evidence of the truth that Inde pensense the talisman of success in the news- Mr. Moench had gone to Dixon on Saturday, | Paper press.—The State, (Richmond, Va.) and his little girls called cheerfully after him | | Unsurpassed hy any other newspaper in the coun to hurry back, and if he wrote to their mamma in anything that enters into the composition of to send their love. On his return he was sur- | 8 first-class journal,—Rockville Advocate. piised not to see them awaiting him. He called but received no answer. He went into the house and saw the tray of the trunk set- ting on the floor. A horrible fear flashed on his mind. He opened the trunk and found the two little girls; the younger, who was under- neatb, was evidently pat all hope, but the elder was still warm and limp. Not a neighbor was within half a mile. The father dashed Conducted mith great, energy and ability; one of the most successful and highly interesting journals of the COuntTY.— Predertt Votes We commend it to those of our readers desiring @ live and uewsy vaper from the Federal Capital,— Kingston Bast Tennessean, ‘One of the best pers in the country, richly deserves the prosperity it ¢m,eys.—Rich- mond (Va.) Whig. . ans ke Has the largest circulation, and is one of the best cold water on the children, then rubbed them paper wisket Y at with vinegar, and made every effort to restore | DPT Mn) Heralt, oe National Capital.— Garrett animation, laboring until after 12 o'clock, but invain. He then gave up in despair, and went to seek help from a neighbor. The dis- tance from the railroad station and telegraph ital new: A capi + and deserves which is evidently in ‘store for it,— National Union, Full of the latest_ domestic and fore! the ui Washington news and caused the delay by which Mrs. Moench was | doings about the National C ltal.—Keyser (Wy prevented from even seeing her little daugh- | Va.) Tridune. Cost er Le rs before their burial. it yua Want & first-class Independent paper from Their ages were cight and five years. It | the National Capital, try it.—Grayson (W. Va.) was learned that the little girls were in the | Clipper. habit of playing hide and seek, and had often One of the best and cheay Papers published tm hid in the trunk separately. Ithad been their | the United States.—Martinsburg (W, Va.) Inde habit to hide when they Saw their father re- | pendent. turning home, in order to enjoy the sport of having him hunt them. The trunk had no Those wanting a Washington r cannot better than by subscribing to It.—Leesburg (Var sprivg lock, and why they were unable to | 4¥frror. - i a The best T published at the national capital: raise the lid remains a mystery, and it Is sup contains all the Bewss BUitcott Gary cae es peed the heat overcame them immediately. heir faces gave no indication that they strug: . The irls were particularly bright, intelligent, , and the circumstances of their death gress. A wide-awake, in the country. — a y irst-class paper: one of the best ed ‘4 suffered, being calm and smilin: land (ud) Repubticnn, healt Those desiring a second to none showl@ subscribe for it. Piclorta (Texas) Advocate, are such as to awaken a sympathizing pan in every parent's heart.—[St. Louis pispaich | ,dverywhere recognized as the leading newspaper Tune 4.to cincinnate Inquirer. pe of Washington. ~ Grafton (W.Va) Seninel Ifyou want to ki on natic scribe for It. Brenkdm (Teas n_— The most popular and influential paper capital. Fapetleville (Tenn) Obes oe —me Alb and popular paper. which has great deserved suctess.— Kttetaurg Leader. © — Anexcellent example of alive newspaper. — Frost. burg (Md.) Mining Journal. An attracti both valuable cheap.— Frederickeburg'( ‘a.) Newer one tons dehinnd {0.y Timtcr, pease” in Washing. Concerning Certain Mines. “East Ledge” Crossman, grandfather of all bulls in the San Francisco stock market, re- turned yesieraay from a Hghtning trip.to the Comstock. As he is looked up toand revered, all over the country as the original discoverer and recognized authority on? all matters per- taining to the “east ledge,” whereon ore strikes have recently been made, his opinion of affairs at the front, at this critical juncture, will be eagerly sought for by all dealers. To opular 7 Satisfy this general desire for information the Wasnt Gorto ole ea Post representative this morning corralled ‘One of our spiciest and mo pinves crip = faucezing ~ ing eM Maury (Tenn.) ‘Sentinel ‘Welcome exchanges, lowing points on the instalment plan. We ively and int must first caution our readers, however, that | ,A lvelyand interesting newspaper, Send for tt, Crossman is an inveterate bull, believes | Lenotr (W. 0.) Topte. }, and from the bottom of his heart in appreciating Us (MGS Gasette, “Mnable exchanges, —Annape- property. What is the outlook?” A it (Tenn,) News. “Good ; Julia will be the first proposition, - The baby will be christened within ten days A he mage Paper.—Newmarket (Va.) Owe and will be known a8 ‘East bonanza.’” Church Paper. “ low about Savage? “On the eve of a development. The 1659. foot ieyel east erosscut is still in.low grade ore. The west cross-cut on the 2,000-foot level good ore indications. The 2,000 foot level east crosscut will reach the ore y comming down from the 1,650 foot level within thirt; A '. edited er. — WwW. Fad Po mid ably Faper.—Ritchte ( ‘a. No better paper.— Piedmont Virginian, THE EVENING STAR Is published every evening, except Sunday, at days. The chances are favorable for.a ric! ain Storing cutis: development. The water isundercentrol and | Per mail... is bow fo te below the 2,100-foot level.” Per fs a ” —_ Uncle Jimmy's pet will a his geaay. Thotieed the winze oa 7m = teen feet, as the winze was 5 copies one year for $9.00, and one the getter-up of the club. 10 copies for $15.00, and one copy to the getter-up of club. 20 coptes one year $20. *@-It is a condition of this offer that notes forthe ps Nie.” Arp there any other favorable features along the lode?” o faperial and Aly will be Srpequting soon foot level, with more favor- prospects forthe Anding ‘ofan ore body than ever “AER RR oe, Gong were obtained ogee yp from taken from the face of the r. The ‘east ledge’ lias been tapped.” :