Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1878, Page 2

THE AMETHYSTS. [TRANSLATED FOR THE STAK FROM THE GER- WAN OF JOHANNES YON Dev att] beanttiful a. who "many, Olt made mischief enowz rs when she tripped lightly poards or dashed al le crowded amo over th promen. She er £ ra good = fe Amos’ the many who worshipped the fair prima donna was a young merchant, Mr. amanof good family, who had bita few ore married a very lovely young wi - B. had flattered Senora some time iis and sweet words, he saw plainly mitst use greater means to make an. 1 he apression on her. Although much in love M B haaye lett not to allow Se- nora’s blac play toogreat havoc with nis purse. arefully considering the e days b® came to the conclusion nd just tive hundred thaler ne Dit of jew matter for that he we and nom No sooner thought than he se complish it. He went to one of the tinest clersin the elty (under the Linden, of cou! and looke A Set of stgn of viovets with dew drops on tie bat, alas, the price was far abov 1 willing to He raised a sideration. for these could not fail to y then a little more and more—but the jeweler would not take a cent less than eizht hundred thaler, After hag- ling a lor ¢ while to no effect Mr. B. at length Took up hi-hat a little impatiently and said he Would cons der the matter and com azain, In what way ot wind of this was | never elewly know unguard itt 1 ean T do for you, Mad Salesman. with a bo + Oh, only a tri and one ot he * Senora, with p “Will you tell tm. around hastily, ential wir mer” asked the lied with a smile } mean 5 about ft years old. has | trom tw Drown ha Lull be Z Ard did he ger: ge Weliftiat Jams rry te Seat, Mad: Vey willingly. tell vou now | 1 never pu-ehase any jewelry. t is always done for ine. But to return to Mr. have not guswvered my question yet. j sired f still rezard your reply a3 conti Well t | ¥ yourself, Madame. For this | deantt of workmanship [asked him | enly eight hundred tha’ and six lund. ! was li lighest Did. Just observe these | © exquisite dest abominably meant He thot Why, fi is incomprehensit 2 You wt Wha mild cow 1 He buy unis do ait Tean | | next day six Mr. I hundred fu" was her first. qi “He Madame,” re- plied the jeweler, nand “¥ d what of tt “ Pregret tosay [stil e The jewe Six huade y. but my 2 frown, yking! How much did he Six hendred and fifty tiraler,” And the set costs?* T cannot afford ne a moment finvatieatiy n. famsure Mr. I. T am very desirous th: these jeweis. You unde Ceitainiy, Madame.” Sencra drew forth he while foot tapy i rar} Will e9: aud pareha nd counted out some money. “I hav proposal to make. Here, I will pay you a hundred and fitty thaler— | Tie difference When Mr. B. comes give him the | set for six hundred and titty. What do you say | to that?” “ What can Tsay” The jeweler was so sur- | prised at first he hardly how to take it, but after a moment's r jection to the pla Very well the: On, sir courteous. One gianes of her fan, and she laid down the money and left. ‘The next day Mr. B. came for the third time. He loosed a little Worried. | ave consid he began. | eiteve you have a set of turquois ther “What, Mr. B., the tunquois,” cried the jew- “Impossible. 1 can never sell you then thy st Just consider — | ply witha frown. “Tean- | id What iny umstanees allow. Six hundred and fifty thaler, if you only | think of Sun unheard of price. The | quois 0} hundred.” | © But, you had better take the | amethysts. i} “No. 1 will not do so. : , PIL telt ve thought it ov son between | “Certainly not, bui “Lwill let you have the hundred and fifty. altho them. However, hope thereby t custom inthe future. He fifty, and no more “What? Do vou me Joyous surprise. “Certainly I do, sir. I | member me in the future.” sald thé : Shutting the satin box. Mr. B. paid his Six hun- | dred and fifty and started off triump! sts for | y six lose on | hundred and cried Mr. nly ask you tc aphant. with the beautiful amethysts. He looked about for & carriage, tn order to drive to Pepita, and lay the jewels at her feet. But just at that mo- ment there was no coach In sight, and it began to sprinkle slightly. Mr. B. went into a con- | fectioner’s, near by. in order to save his new | hat. He ordered something, and while waiting | drew the box from his pocket to gaze o: the fair jewels, How lovely the: hundred and fifty t) large sum for a present. | fe thoughtfully stirred his chocolate. Yes, | 2 was really a great deal of money to waste on % pretty dancing girl who had struck his fine Really asinful waste. Mr. B.'s conscience gan at length to twinge. “Humph, humph, nothing but a pretty danc- ing girl who has tine ankles, and knows how to useher eyes. And you, Gustave, old fellow you who have a dear, sweet little wife at home, So faithful and true to you—why she'd weep her eyes out ifshe knew this! Bless me, but ow lovely these amethyst violets would’ look | against her soft blonde hair, and thea the | pretty eyes she'd make when sie saw them, my sweet little Olga! And to-morrow —yes, to-mnor- row isher birthday ! Unly twenty-one! Besides, people are besinning to uotice my infatuation for this dancing woman. Here, waiter, my bill—one cup of chocolate!” Mr. B. hurried home from the store, and be- fore 4 meaner impuise could again get posses- ‘sion of him laid the jewels, not at Pepita’s, but | ‘Olga’s feet. Olga was unspeakably happy. and 80 was her husband. especially, though: in x a lucky escape he made rom acting the tool. oa aa Not so selt-complacent and content was Se- nora. yes, & week went by, and adorer and Jewels falied to appear. Ai the weeler. ee Ulength she went to * Hasn’t he been here yet: she Mt Sime, he washer st Tersny” res, e, he was here last Tu we «Well, and my jewels — : “He for Unem and took them away. “Took them. But, my dear sir, he has never been near me! This is incomprehensibie.” Very incomprehensible, Madame.” «Can you rstand it at all?) What has ke done with them?” “T haven't the faintest idea. 1 am greatly Surprised that they are not in your possession.” «Ha, the old miser,” cried Senora, working ‘up some temper, “I will—I will—what can I do, sit the jeweler. “I am convinced he will take thei to you, Madame; certainly, he will, cer- tainly. ng | have patience. As I said, he has the jewe's. You see the purchase entered here.” Seugra glanced hastily at the book and | door, and before over the ne | have invente | hei | we sue | to be | | passing a proper resolution, | reached Danbu | now with the pre | came | the eure your | I | the work. | degree advise you to wait patiently,” counseled | were. the store. fut the next day she caine in a gen- she cried, white with an- w, Sir, what that man has in wild wonder, friend of mine saw her with “ a ite eats e told ine of it, aad them on last evening. rannot do that.” « And my hundr fifty thale Jeweler shrugged his Shottiders. “This {ts regular cheate T have been robbed in the meanest way. I shall goto the police!” cried Senora. “Don't do that, fair lady, the less noise you make about this affair the better for you. ‘The tangh would all be at you.” “Ah, the wretch,—and my hundred and fifty all gone?” “TF regret, in the tradi Senora arose, a sneer from her ruby lips, a scornful glance from her flashing eyes, and she vanished. Poor Senora, she lost her hundred and fifty, the jewels, and Mr. B.’s smile at one fell swoop. Not long ago I attended a wedding where Madame Ii, was one of the guests. She wore ‘he beautiful amethysts, looking lovely beyond compare. The sweet little wife has no idea that Senora Pepita paid in part for those Jewels. it Lama merchant and —— ee How to Punish a Plagiarist. [From the Detroit Free Prees.} Je-faced mother dropped in to see if Bijah suit. for damages or an arrest for false pre.enses, and, when invited to unfold, she sa| You don’t know my daughter Mary, I s’poss yell, Tdon't care to ‘brag about the smartness own fanuily, but J will declare, and stiex to it, if It kills me, that Mary writes better poei- ry than I ever saw in the papers.” “Do you take the Chinese dailies 2” softly in- quired the old man. “The other day she finished some verses,” continued the mother, without noticing his meaness. “I never heard such poetry! The rhyme was just as soft and sweet and nic? as J anything In Shakespeare, and the lines’were | about an orphan child who didn’t have anything to eat or wear, and finally became an angel. She read it over to me 19 times, and I cried every time, and her father, he cried and sald she must sell It to some paper for $50.” of cour: and she took the corset, some ban- idn’t,”" was her indignant reply. to read it to the Woinan next lark that woman was goin’ all ghborhood with the verses written, ek and claiming to n! And when we disputed he called us liars and plagueyaurists, all the foiks think my Mary stole the verses from that deceiving woman — that woman, sir, who never saw an angel in her off in perc ay?” same man as she stopped 50 times, and I s been played on me jow What the feeling 1s.” nd our nothing but Ue on the lounge and Idok across the room under the bureatt as if her heart would break. + Jess so—used to look right there nd what can wedoabont if, Mr. that woman for damages, have her arrested for false pretense: a who will steal poetry is a dangerous character large. isn’t she? “¢ iy she Is—very dangerous, but I don’t tink the law can touch her. It's false pre- tenses of course, but Fim atraid you can't con- viet hee.” And ts she to escape “Not entirely. When you go home yor want ass the following resomti 1 tion of Mr: ter Mary’s poetry about an orpha arved to death’ and then becaine el, is hereby ¢ Helous in the highest degree, and she is he imanded fn the most empha manne a shining racterized as brutal:nd m4 m, and you'll fix he: he exclaimed, as the nder T didn't think od! FOOK tears left her eves. aw 1 that before, but I was so bu ing that I couldn't think of every Madam, let this little incident ¢ remember forevermore that there is you to othing like jah. Whe tam int kies darkens—I at once pi Tam ail rigit and makin; ey hand over fist, and it affords in- chet. m a thankful woman, and my I knit you some ¥ 4 took her leave stant r By Mary mother, as sh tocateh acar. What His Sentiment Amounted To. When the news of the Adelphi’s explosion a citizen whose wife had sailed from New York that morning by way the boat, took the first train for Norwalk. ‘The t the best been a very loving coupl were eminently respectable. He had | pursued his way and she had gone hers, each | finding pleasure in characteristic channel". But ve of her death upon him, th which he had won her the old tenderness wi He could recall with patn- ful distinctness every help he had ref her, every cross word he had given her, every col ness he had shown her. All the little acts gov | erned by petty selfishnéss of which he had been guilty, and which had passed from his memory | in the doing, now rose up before him asdeeds of | monstrosity at whose presence his heart sank trembling aw As the last train reached Norwalk, he hurried out on his wretched search, asking here and there for intelligence of her, his white lips and tre his anxiety. At last his search was rewarded and he found her. Not dead and mutilated, bit alive and unharmed. It was happy meetinz— not demonstrative, because both were sorely out of practice In that, but he was relleved of a ter- rible weight on finding her as he did, So you are all right,” he said. * she answered. ain’t hurt a bit, but 's Your satwhel ? think it must have been blown overboard, Didn't you have it with you?” “No; I left ton a bench, and had gone tothe front of the boat to look out on the water when plosion came.” That was dreadfully . I don't see what you could have been thinking of to have gone off and left your satchel like that.” “Why I never had a thought the boat was going to blow up, did 12” “It don't make any differezce,” h Some one would have stolen it net, if the boat n't blown up. no sense tn it any and it a foolish thing todo. I don't suppose there’s is any use to go looking for it now.” «| Know there ain't,” she answered, sitting t where the boat because It was warm there.” * Well. it can’t be helped, I suppose, a. ¢ Hext time you go av show more sense, T hope, than to go ing allover the boat without your sa (Danbury ‘Teaching Sc because lowed out, ‘hoot Girls the Geometry of Dress. : General Coburn, in an address before the In- dianapolis school board, says: It is proposed to begin instruction in cutting, sewing and fitting dresses, in eleven schools, in which it is esti- mated that some si Le aries receive ft. Itis thought best to make it a part of the recular | course rather than leave it optional, since this willenable the board to witness a fair test of It fs proposed to employ the special teacher of this system three months, at a salary of fifty dollars a month, to give instruction to the pupils and to such teachers in the schools | aS may be able and will to revelve it, so that in time a sufficient number of these teachers may impart the instruction to the scholars, re- ceiving a slight additional compensation for so doing. I believe this a step in practical educa- | uon that, with inconsiderable expense, will de- | velop into great usefulness. The tendency of our present system is to take the student awa’ from practical life, to by tastes at war witl useful labor, to breed a = Se of the patient and practical drudgery to which the most of us have to submit, sooner or later. After all, true education is but a training for a useful life, and the Me A means we take in part thwartsour pur- pee wany girls grow up without a practical jowledge of the elements of those employ- ments they must pursue all the days of their lives, and if this plan, now proj can in any _ the door to them, I will be well sat- isfled. Many Of those who go out from the higher grades of our schools, do sounable to make or fit their own dresses, or even the sim- pliest_ article of underwear. If we can by this method impart a knowledge or these and beget a taste for them, no one ought to com- lain. The system proposed may not be the est, and no one supposes it ts perfect, but the adoption of the principle will lead to new meth- ods of instruction. Hawkeye Hits. —The New York press went into ecstasies over the beauty of Princess Louise. H’m; you should have seen her when she was seasick, in all that the term implies. —If Mrs. Lorre wasn’t a real prirc23s you Wouldn't catch her going around resistering eet Plain “Loutse.” would call herseif —Well, after all, colonel, Moses did a great deal better than the most of us. He made such accurate mistakes that it has taken the world Several thousand years to discover waat they of M the reason the Lora Fin whos uo ak could ever find b's grave was to students from ita the tae oat fore it was cold, ue —We suy ‘kK to him, and durmg that longand | | dreary ride to the sea-side his thoughts were | busy With the past. bling frame testitying’ most eloquently to | BISMARCK. What He Eas to Say About Himself A FIRM BELIZVER IN CHRISTIANITY —SUPERSTI- TIONS—WHAT HE WOULD DO If HE WERE SOv- EREIGN—POLITICS AND SU: S—His WORLD- LY AFFAIRS—THE KITCHEN—PUBLICATION OF THE CONVERSATIONS MAKING TROUBLE. {London Times’ Review of Dr. Dasch's Diary } Gn his religious belief he draws aside the veil by most men jealously guarded: *T cannot concetve how a man can live with- | out a belief in a revelation, ina God who orders: all things for the best, tn a Supreme ze from whom there 1s no appeal, and ina If T were not a Christian I Showid not rein at ty post forasingle hour, If 1 did not rely on Ged Almighty I should not put my trast in princes, [have enough to live on, and am sut- fictently genteel and distinguished without the charcellor’s office. Why shouid I goon wi | ing Indefatigabiy, incurtt rouble and anns | ance, unless convinced that ‘ me to fulfill these duties? If i were not per- suaded that this German nation of ours, in t divinely appointed order of thi to be something great and good. up the diplomatic profession this Orders and titles to me have very momeat, » attraction. T! firmness I have showa in combatting all main- ner of absurdities for ten years past is solely | i | derived from faith. Take away my faith and | you destroy my patriotism. But for my. strict | and ilteral belief in the truths of Christianity, but for my acceptance of the miraculous groand: ork ef religion, you wotlld not have live: to ee the sort of chancellor Lam. Find me a sue. sor as firm a believer as myself and Tw ‘once, But T live in a geaeratio Thave no desire to make prosely' ain constrained to confess my ful a Tg there is : mong us any self-denial and de to king and country, it 1s a remnant of retizious belief urecnseiousiy clinging to our peopie trom the days of their sires. For my part I prefer 2 rural life to anyother, Rob me of the f th t unites me to God, and I return to Va < vevote myself industriously to the production of rye and oa! Prince Bismarck's personal view of Garistia ty 1s still more accurately defined in a tralt corded in these memoirs. When fetehed in hot Napoleon at Sedan, dry devotional books and tracts were founc scattered about his sleeping apartment. Am them was the Moravian conceived In the spirit of the doctrine of ¢ Brethren congregations, they tinuous inspiration. ‘They admit dally mi and the immediate and momenta ence of the Deity in our thoughts andact assert the Divine inituen certain days of the year, views So far as to assert the g Providence in the yerse the eye fi onopening the Bible for counsel, the Prince—as his valet de cuambre told oar author—habitually reads at nizh In keeping with this nighUy stwly is the Prince's avowal of his observance of divs and dates. He objects to sitting down t! dinner. He will conclude no treaties on Frid, convinced that they will not prosper. not even negotiate on the ammiversary of the e of certain texts ove’ ey carry mystic uding hand of lights upor T ever seen lls progeny thrive. He confesses hy ing objected to his own elevation on tais ‘ and is not quite at his ease even now. He knows the year of his death, deeming tan mystic import tn his family. After these r superstitions, we must not be startled at he. ing the Prince deseant upon effect of having one’s hair cut v fs on the wane. To judge trom the Prince's tansnre, following the opposite practice Is no ther. by side with his praise of have thé most skeptical remar dom of crowned men and women. November 9, 1570, the conversation ran upon tle influence “ladies” were supposed to exercise In postponing the bombardment of Paris, Anotuer day, the 4th of December, 1870, the non-bom- bardment being again on the tapis, the Prince observed: «Oh, if I were Sovereign! T should know how tobe hard, but lam not Sovereign. * * * 1 am not consulted, or I would go and hang my- if rather than consent to all these seatiine: 1 measures. And again, on December Chief or tion as a Cabinet Minister and never getting ances and petty Ve: aman may submit to 2 good di to be well treated in the main. It this explodes Prince Bismare! about the superiority of absolutism sovereigns, he is equally averse the Cabinet. On October 15, 1870, he at a table: “It is most tiresome that I have to disc | every plan with five or six pe 8, WikO S. } Umes know very little upon the subjec | bsolutism, we about the w One evening, must listen patiently and refute courte st is just.as reasonable as if, knowing novi military matters, I were to attempt to te officer how to construct a battery ssage illustrates the Chanc Tinces too pointedly to be | over. On September 15, 1870, somebody at tea vesks of the Prince of Hohenzollera, whose «lection to the Spanish crown caused fhe war. Prince Leopold was then with his reziment | dghting the battles he had unwittingly conjured ASKS, hearing his name. The answer being | ‘able, Bismarck goes on: | . “Tam glad to hear it. [concetved a good opin- | lon of him when he communicated is elestion tothe Spanish throne to the commanding of- licer as a matter of military duty.” Stock Exchange Is a topic on which Prince B: marek’s opinion is worth having: “A diplomatist’s forecast of coming events 1s very linperiect. Even if an event does fail out as he anticipated, its effect upon the exchange is frequently retarded by other circumstances. In no case can the date of the reaction upon the | Bourse be calculated with certainty. Of course, it makes a difference if a man stoops so low a3 to create an alarm to make quotations fall. The Frenchman G. used to indulge in these dishon- orable transactions. He has doubled his for- tune. One may almost affirm war was made for the purpose. The French Comte M. (full name in the original), it {s said, also speculated, hot indeed for himself, but with his mistress’ fortune. The thing beginning to ooze out, he » died under very suspicious circumstances. if a Minister 01 Foreign Affairs wished to profit by his position in t y, he must get officious subordinates at various Legations to accom- pany official political telegrams with dispatches | upon the state of the money market. Political telegrams having priority, some twenty or thirty minutes are gained for turning them to account on’Change, A fast-running Jew might do the business in the interval. If report speaks true, there are those who have acted in this Way. From £200 to £2,000 may be easily real- ved perday, After a couple of years, it comes | up to a pretty sum. However, my sons shall have no cause to blush for their father. If ne- cessary, they may get rich in some other wa Prince Bismarck’s integrity has never beea doubted. A man of strict honor in all Lis per- sonal relations, he is @ good husband, a loving father, a friend to his friends, thougi perhaps afiercer enemy to his enemies than is quite compatible with avowed convictions. ilerr Busch tells us he iles awake at night revolving and resenting injuries received. Judicious in all worldly transactions, he is equally so in money matters. Looking at Baron Rothschild’s Chateau Ferrieres, near Rheims, where he is quartered with the king, he breaks ow ery costly and very uncomfortable. 1 should not like to have it, were it only because itissoover complete. After all, the highest enjoyment consists in creating. The necessity of economy adds fresh zest to the joy of making things oe under your hand. If a man has to calculate whether.he can afford 5,000 or 10,000 thalers for an Se peg the ultimate grati- feation 1s greater and purer than if he has enough and more than enough for anything he may plan. There is nothing that palls sooner upon the appetite than a superabundance of money.” | The least attractive part of these memoirs, though by no means occupying the smallest | Space, is that which refers to personal incident, predifection or antipathy. | As may have been noticed, the Prince’s con- | versation Is always personal, referring elther to + himself or to others. The personal incidents | Tecorded in the book are numberless. From | bis student days he has had no end of duels, He has beaten topers in beer houses with such a glorious sense of manly elation that he takes two to recount his victory twenty-five years afterward. He has been over and over again in peril of his life, from the old Russian days when a sentinel offered to shoot him, to the entry into when a fierce looking indi- vidual was by the Prince's coolly ask- ing him for a light. He has jum over abysses in the Alps, with a fair burden in his arms; he walks it alone at night in Ver- | sallles, revolver in pocket, ready to Kill and die; and to excel his neighbors in everything, does not by to tell us that he is the most accom- Plished diplomatist of his age, so he can also challenge assembled humanity to outdo | him in point of drink. So terrific are his achievements in the Une that dreadful day Kin; iia atnire life. | 40d has ordiined | ki p ‘and for the Herranutes or | | it books | te witl | batties of Hochkireh and Jena, tf being a blacs day in the Prussian calenda He insists that nian nobleman created a Count Las | The connection between polities and tha | treaty he must be fed with the viand ralen spiration, it 15 not to be con- cetved ¢ pertaits One of his principal as- Sistants to be abstemious. Columns might be flied with the culinary lated to work | Lefore us. The inteliizent Prince dilates upon every imaginabie variety of fish contained in | ceean or river. He lays down the law upon crabs and iobsters; discourses freely npon ezgs: | and lates the honor of being a he tven seat benefactor to Aix la Chapelle, havisz taught the benighted cit*-ens how to fry Hts discrimination i caceses 1s perfec ful. He can hold forth by. the h and on a dire oveasion, spirits becoming in the tents, causes.a desperate appeal to be tele- graphed hotne as to the strong need of a supoly. of gin Incontinently. Always wood natured dinner, he threatens corporal punishment. to the steward of Baron Rothschild for refusing to bring forth win king when every boitle | ds paid for. Nay, albeit a soyal subject. he al- lows the rumor t6 circulate he has killed a brace of pheasants in M. Rovhs- | child park, contrary to the express prohibition of his sovereign. His excuse. it appears. fs the | paramount duty of self-preservation, the winzed victims having been the first to begin the affray, However, on some subjects the Prince 13 as silent as the tomb. Though a German, he hard- ly ever alludes to philosophy, philology, his | tory, poetry, science, and the like popular triflés. For transcendental aspirations, lie Contents himself with the doctrine of Herrn- hut, and in the matter of literature disposes of the leading poet of the day by the one word sentimental.” On philosophy he has one ob- servation to offer with refeceace to its practi- cal uses. Ii ts quoted for Its rarity rather than tor its depth: “When in the first form at school, I wrote and spoxe Latin fairly. I not doas much now. Asto Greek, I have rt I cannot conceive grammar and trouble to acquire hat the study of Greek ts exe ipline, to learn Russian wou i mor. and ai the same time etically use ‘Twenty-eight decienstons and the innume: niceties by which the deficiencies of conju th ade up for are something to exere nory. And then, how are the words changed! Frequently nothing bat a single | letter of the original root remain So fertile in its com plomatic hero of the diary can not fail to drea. One > Princess aign, the Se r ude to his wife and e significant quotation will s Tites to the Prince iu Noveade Tamatraidy Tam going to ) j May read in it the propheey r | French, ‘T say unto you the wicked destroyed,"” | Even a month be! | Duke of Meining French extermin excepting the little ¢ nd you the F the Prince wife would hav , root and brane, 1 ildren, who eanhot be held responsibie for having such atrocious pa- rents. Why these cogitations of the illustrions lady have been repeated by the Prince, chron- d by Mr. Busch, and printed, we must c | cinde, by both conjointly isa question wh | night be appropriately extended to a goodly portion of the book. There is pport that some of those who are unceremoniously dealt with in it have addressed the Prince upon the subjeci. | Glaciers in the Wind River Woun- tains. HAYDEN. are, no true So far asTam now a ever been di: of the United States east of the Pacific coast, until the past season, when a division of the irvey under m} ge_observed one on the st side of Witid River Peak, and two on the side of Fremont’s Peak. The glacier on the east side of Wind River Peak has all the elements of a true glacier. It Is about 200 breadth. arc dome-shaped, mv grooved or Seratclied, showln the action of glace! 1 forme niimber of Jakes are seattcred pressions among proofs of their glacial origin, | onthe east side of Fremont’s Peak are the most, important, and are examples of perfect gla- clers. An’English gentleman, Mr. J Who has spent most of lis suramers for ti fifteen ye we Alpine glance prononfced those Tuature glaciers. ‘The upper one, base of the peak. was estimated’ as covering a base of about 147 square miles; the lower one, of a square mile. We nained thea Upy i aciers. remont’s Peak is om Teet hikrh, exte nphitheater sturrrouy al Wall Of gneiss, 1 upper portion of slaciers had ards in length and 500 in averag. of the mountains in the vicinit nh moothed, and in some ery clearly But the glac side of § i, abov to 200 feet high, th shows the marks of erosion in ancient times by ihe enormous ma: ot ice and snow that ex. isted during the t glacial period, of whic! the present stall forms are only insignitic: remnants. The upper portion of the larger ctends up the side of Gh mposed of snow aud ic base the upper portion secu from the lower, forming a large c! vass to 30 feet across. The middie portion was formed of solid ice, while the lower was covered with snow. On’ the sides were sinall moraines, aud also a terminal moraine. The stream that flowed from beneath was full of nud in suspension, as if placer mining were go- Ng on at its source. The lower glacier is connected with the up- | per, but there is a descent of 10 or 12 feet to | Itfrom the upper. They are separated also in the middie by alarge mass of gneiss, so that | they may properly be called by different nam: On the west side of Fremont’s, there fs an | phitheater about 10 miles long and 4 wide, ered all over With glaciated granitic rocks hundreds of small lakes, from a few rods toa mile in extent. ‘there are the marks of the old glacial period. ‘These proofs are most conspicuous along the western mar- (ed of the Wind river range, from South ass to Union Pi a distance of eighty miles. There are no unchanged sedimentary beds older than the Wahsatch group, while the entire western half is covered with’ enormous morainal ridges. In (eres times there must have been one vast glacier extending 60 or 8) tiles from north to south, and at least 12 miles in a direct line from east to west, while the arms or branches extending along every gorge or channel of a stream, to the divide. But I shall not extend these remarks further, as I hope at the April meeting to read two papers on the geological structure of the Wind River mountains, and another on the old mo- raine: {S of those mountains and the Tetons. nce News. A Whistling Corpse. Science explains some things which for the sake of bereaved humanity were best left unex- plained. How many mourners, who have gone the Valley of the Shadow and then parted com- pany with the departing spirits, nave derived | consolation from the expression’ of peace and calm—heaven’s very impress, as 1s so often said,—settling upon the loved face and seeming to betoken rest and felicity after life’s weari- ness and pain! But science makes it clear that Unis peaceful expression must. come to every lifeless face, for it is the natural effect of the relaxation of the facial musc! There are some things about corpses, however, that need to be explained, and one of these phenomena is the dead man’s whistle; for there are departed gentlemen that can whistle. A correspondent of the Syracuse Courier relates an experience of his which bears upon this point. He and his friend Nick—a young and not an Old Nick, by the. way—were setting up to watch over the dead body of an old gentleman. Nick lay down on a sofa for the first nap and his companion Later up and down the spacious library where the body was laid out, occasion- ally stopping to change the ice-cloths on the tace, All was silent as the tomb save the trick- ine water as it dropped from the thawing ice. Suddenly the corpse began to whistle, and every hair on the watcher’s head bristled in horror. “Nick, come for God’s sskel_ The old man is ae up!” With these axclamations on his fae the startled watcher siammed the door be- him and ran home as fast as his legs could carry him, leaving Nick to face the music, as it were. But the scientific explanation is very simple. Gas had formed in the dead man’s stomach and the jarring, caused by the fall of pieces of ice from the forehead into pails be- neath had allowed it to ore through the teothless and wrinkled mout So the dead man whistled like a school boy. ATOMIZED SEA WATER IN BRONCHIAL DIs- EaSES.—Prof. Mann in an Italian med- ical journal, states that he has derived great advantage from the employment of pulverized or atomized sea water in cases of chronic non- ‘fic itis, obstinate chronic phary: itis, bronchial catarrh from chronic bron- chitis with or without bronchial dilatation, the first and second stages of phi caseous pmenmonia, and ere Le Soweto different forms accompante prot nchial expec- toration, and various forms of scrofula, He ve ar Upon wine, could | covered to exist in the territories | ak | prit which | with cherished companions to the entrance of | DIPHTHERIA. | Growth and Spread of the Disease in | | knowledge dispiayed in the memorabte wors | treat Britai: DIPHTHERIA A MYSTERY —THE vr TWEEN IT AND CROUP—NOT CONFINED To MAL. & RIOUS DISTRICTS. | (From t.e Loadon Times, November 1 The simultaneous occurrence of sev: fatal idness in many members of st hold is an event whi ver fails to forth lively sympathy with the sufferers and with those to whom they are most dear; and the se- of stich a calamity, sadly familiar as it rendered by siiccessive epidemt=s of ia, is brougat home t with pe- entiar force whea it falls upon Nitec ess only of exalted stat i io That 3 tion has be dorned by public and private virtues. » British perpte would in any case be deeply 1 by the d. ° Sorrows Cf any of he Queen's descendants the Princess “Alice. by ‘her untirt promote the welfare of others, “country of her birth | tion, has in an essential manner gait symipathiesof all. The melancholy int hather husband. her sou, and four of hy danghters have and that} M cs and house. f to like in the nd in that of her ado9- gest dangitet of four y will be received every- profound rezret; and the victim to the ma where with the ms! bulletins of each day will D. iety, as well in Kaciand as | latest reports which have reach | hope that the worst the Princess may be iy now hi pared the orde. i Hiction. disease by whieh the suffe atticsed is one of which the nd the methods of diffusion ai d in bsenrity. “l by physic ier more than twei where considerable m esti ned by what w at ci lozne sore throat” The disease soon vis- nglazd in an unmistakable form: bu’ sab- sequent inquiries discovered that t 1s not st outbreak Amons Us, and that Years aco, ality was. rst described as (he ‘on that the two maladi ed to each other, and that dip my indeed, b> only a variety of croup ty whieh some unknown conditions had imparted a clar- acter of contagtonsness which the original torm of the disease had not possess question whet hy mp and diphthe . | fdentieal is one waich has been ¥ ied. and which even now is 1K letermined, although the-e can b he existence of a growing te: i sans in favor of a re When diphtheria first attracted notice, 1 elto be diffised by con ale facts afforde? no support to a belief t Heacy among iy in the affirmative, | cceurrence was even promoted by con prehen: ively called “insanitary of living,” sueh "as exposure 10 Sey r nOXiOUS inten: 1s been am: ical Sanitari of diphth defects of the a | trictsin Which they have ocenrred AM that | can De said to be inly known wpon this part f the subject is that the hizh cont | diphtheria ts controled by an ap | ors: pubi ity on the p ot | People, more espectatly of adult pens that more than half the cases oceur in children between the ages of tyo and twelve years; and that it has never been distinctly traced to any specitic contamination of air or water, or known to coincide precisely with the rea Of any infected sewer or water cour: iffering totally, therefore, from typhoid f in doth of these respects. There are some a mal poisons which are kaown to increase tn the <everity of their action by stceessive in etta- Uons, and to this class it seems probabie that the infectious matter of diphtheria may with the arent abse ice nmibers of when it ha >- Dr. rne-Thorne, of the Welsh valleys have be has recorded that the epide: lenee of diphtheria was preceded by a demic sore throat of a less fe. the probability that t te kind, and su pr may have b: development of the ey affection piph- theria certainly differs from many other epi- j¢ diseases in not con ny posit fiamunity from subsequent a and if | any pertoa « | it soon The the formato: ir pa but lon nger is past a fatal lnay be determined by tue production of rremediabie changes in vitalorgans. Exitus- dion of the pow ife iS 2 common cat x » survive often suf sly from musealar In the Carly part of tie prese aur certain | portions of the north of London, in the par- and Hampstead Ww: of diphtheria of ¢: led to the formation of a i Uhe duty of Invesitga- f the affected districts, ting th nd of stimulating the local sanitary authori ies to more energetic action than Was Deileved to be habitual with them, We have already a paper which was read before the So- lerce Association, and which contataed ription of the drainage of the parishes coneerned, It was shown that nearly all the in the area over which the disease was alent were open to the invasion of sewer ind it was inf nnaturally, that ust be some connection between the de- ‘ective drainage and the epidemic. It would be ible to say that persons habitually breath- T gas Inay HOt be brought into a state ness by this vitietion of their atmos- nd that they may not thereby be ren- able to resist the poison of diphtheria, or of any other contagious disease to which they be Exposed; but there Is no reason to be- that sewer gas, per se, is capable of pro- ducing a definite malady, whether diphtheria or any other; and it is certain that sewer gas does not produce typhoid fever, the disease chiefly associated with Its presence, unless the sewer as has itself been contaminated by the specitic poison of that disease. To attribiite a specitic efiect to a vague and widely diffused cause is nota course likely, ina general way, to con- Guce to the advancement of knowledge, but it is one which may even retard the recognition of the truth by directing vigilance into wrong channeis. We are informed that some recent researches, conducted independently tn ditfer- ent localities by skilled observers, have tended Loconnect epidemic outbreaks of diphtheria with | particular sources of milk Supply, and to do | Unis with a closeness and exactitide which ap- | proach very nearly to absolute demonstration. | it would be altogether premature, until the | facts have been thoroughly investigated, to | draw any conclusions from them; but the de- tatls of the cases referred to will shortly be | made public, and it cannot be denied that what 4s already asserted about, them ts af a very | startling nacte There are wel! ascertained | Instances of the diffusion of typhoid fever and of t fever by milk, but in both these cases the mode of diffusion has been simple and in- | telligible. ‘The typhotd has been spread by con- taminated water used to adulterate the milk, or, in the language of the dairymen, to “rinse the pails,” and the scarlet fever has been spread by the personal agency of the searcely ‘scent distributors. In the case of diphtheria wwe Cannot assume the existeace of either of the | foregoing conditions. There ls no evidence at diphtheria has ever been spread by Infected water alone, and therefore, a fortiori, there is none that it has been spread by mingling in- fected water with milk, ‘There is no evidence that, as constantly happensin searlet fever, the active contaglousness of diphtheria extends to a period of convalescence at which the accus- tomed duties of life can be resumed. It isa mere matter of speculation that the cause of the disease may eventually be traced to some at present unknown condition of the milk itself; but the een Tests upon a sufficient basis, and is of a sufficiently ve character to call tor the most anxtous inquiry on the part of those by whom the truth must ultimately be ascertained. The Franklin Search Ex, ition. The Franklin search party, under the com- mand of Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, of the United States army, which safled from here on the schooner Eothen tn July last, has been heard from. A letter has been received by Chief Justice Daly, president of the American Geographical Society, from Lieut. Schwatka. The letter states that expedition landed at Depot Island, Hudson’s Bay, At 8, and Would remain there for the winter. One of the Nachillas from whom Captain Barry received the information about the Franklin relics is dead, and the other was reported to be at Whale Point. As soon as mush along the coast of Fox Channel. He aso ads that the natives’ accounts show ae eae Portion of the cl 1 ex- nected, hh Madson's Bay and with the Gulf of Boothia by the Hee Sea — is also a Cumberland Inlet, by a river to Lake Kennelly, thence by another river flowing inlet, which empties into Nor- This latter perme forms an island out of the Meta Incognita Land. De- t Island is about half way between Cape rton and the mouth of rijeid Inlet, and the for about 100 miles ia length 1s z surveyed. Ae is represented oa the Ad- straight line, dotted with a i i} LADIES’ GOODS. SPECIAL OFFERING | ____ DRY GOoDs. 719 | FELT HATS. i TRIMMED HATS AND BONNETS, 719 SPEctaL INDUCEMENTS At 817 Market Space. Until Jannary Yat we shall oflor extra in tocomen | toceeh purchaters-om we ene ot CLA KS { a NETS, and about o Qndjess. for a few days, to make room for Holiday | Phe of ime FRENCH. NOVELTIES jae Ct At | WM BKOWN, Corner Sthetret. | _dec6tr 827 Market Space. | Cras: CLOAKS! STOCK of FANCY and MILTINERY Goons, | wok TWO-TONED RIBBONS, VELVETS. TRIM MINGS, FRINGES, and NOTIONS. fail and com ee en hho Tactory, plete, at lowest Market prices, Oe Ean Zee ee SEONY, S, 6 s. of = aioe 84, $5, $5, 87. $8, $10 UP j 719 Market Space, CASHMERES, CASHMERES, Sect-iw Le. Corner sth strat AN the lending colore, ME. L. P. JEANNERET, or Batre nae: N Soca cn Thendaa, Redamier aca Frow 3€ Cents Pee Yano. Unumday, Dee 8 tangs, a | iment o ; FANCY DRESS GOODS. ROUND HAT: ptlakgsap eas. é self in Panis, at N : a 200 different styom, G BRAND WINTER OPENING From 12% Cests Pen Yann. > On THURSDAY NEXT. Deo. 5th, aS CLOTHS AND CASSIMERDS, WINTER HATS AND PON For Mon, Youths and Boys Wear, ann 50, 62, 75, 87, #2 FRENCH NOVELTIES IN MIT CARPETS. at Mus. J. P. PALMER" Closing out our stock, 1107 F strect, between Mth and t Froxe 15. O, 27, 59. 62 Care BF No Canps. decdtr ARE ATTHACTIONS FLOOR: OFL CLOTHS, ry xX THE LADIFS. At CH. RUPPER’ 403 7th street ner. i Now in store a magnificent stock of pew and beaa- | titel Styles Emm Sip | and Cushions, landsome de ; | | Work and Roitted ods of all descrip ns. picte outfit for Infanta, Fine assortment of Mac. ‘Thread and Polat Lace Tramming. Ber yrs, German and American Kuittine ‘ | nfown Wool. the best «piality: and ood Ww BLANKE | jowest prices, and the lunst attractive ste Houdey Goole (0 Detound in the ety” Daat f Immense stock oa hand, oe 403 7th street m From $2.50 Pon Pam Ur 2 §F-No Brasca Stone. novos} DOUGLAS! ©. M TOWSON, 636 Pennsylvania avenus, nth strect. Rovs0.tr | (PE CREAP 1 Wamsntta Cotton, Androscoggin Cx mptly the v nd will oF cali or send address, and the goods will be | sent to them. Splendid Yard Cotton We invite attention to our new | Peautiful Dress Goods “CUIRASSE COR ‘a } Back Siik The best and most t fitting medium priced | net & & corset ever placed upon thi ks ck nd, ii igi ss ‘DOUGLASS, One case Wool Blankets nov27-tr Ninth and Fstrerts, Full tine of Shawis, F! ae rea = terproof and Gloaki LADIES WINTER BoorTs. Nap kins, Comforts, 8 Lace. Exeelient bu TERMILYA is selling Ladies Buttoned BOO’ Be LL, & WINT a Dis own make, at 85.00. a 30 Penna. ave. ‘The best in the city for the money. | (HEAP DRY Goons aNnp caRPETs. nov%-tr 610 9th street, opp. Pateut Offic. | _All-woo! Dress Good: 62's. wool Camel's Hs: Holf-woo! Boureits, 1. ce stock Dress Gi “ench Novelt \jAosa= HUNT, se Nos. 691 and 623 D street, \ ost and Black Gace Will open on Bho vember 26th, a Elcoant ok Silke fe 3 f 1 i ine vay ag vy hh ; oN Cheapest house for Whit RECHT OU RETA: | Good Gre Blankets as |ow as Best Lowell fugrain Oarpets 7 Good Ingrains 25, 37,0 now23-tr sof Washington and vicinity are respect ed to call and exam! MADAME M. J. HUNT, Nos. 621 and G28 D sirect. SELMA RUPPERT, : 614 Ninth street, . NNAUDAIN, 709 Market Space. SPECIAL BARGAINS a VELVETS. nov25-tr M2: Opposite Patent Office. szeeial attention to two tote of VELVET z reocived, which we are coing to of ares SITTING YARNS. bervaine to offer as xreat GOODS. Asood BLACK TRIMMING VELVET at $1. A fine MANTILLA VELVET, 2 inches wi asnortment of VEL % BUY ONLY AT iM . We are able to sail it less than their valua, Pull line of COLORED VELVETS always ou hand OUNNOLLY'S, 5 DERs, TED WORK. | ME THREAD. , TRIMMINGS, BUTTONS and in erent variety. GERMANTOWN WOOL, first quality, 10 cents per Biss. Agent for Frank Leslie's PAPER PAT- nove-Sm : 608 Ninth street, Wwe AND BLACK BERLIN ZEPHYR | _nov23tr Opposite Patent OMon. Sete. per oz. > = = Solored Berlin Z; pyr. es -lets. per oz. ]ASPSOME DKESS Goops. Split Zephyr. 1 cent hisher.. do. do —— ire Silk and Wool DRESS GOODS, wide doubie reduced to $1 fit! Silk and Wool DRESS GOODS, reauee4 pure wool. wide dou CB CASHMERE: ORED SILKS, CHECKED | MPED ST to $3 ar sest Germantown Worsteas 10 cta. do. do. oven PRICE'S. 510 9th st. note. ‘Upc GOODS. We have just received, CLOAKS al Cloths, from Black al s Fre Silke fron ty 150, our $1, 8 Silke are ape Beautiful Styles of Shawls, Damasze Silke, in oF and $1.60 Black Sikes are spe- Black and Colored ; Silk Veivets, elties in Dress | cial boracns. Ks ao0ds, Kid Gloves, Fancy Hosiery, & CARTER'S, 711 Market Space. W. W. BURDETTE & 6O., PIANO COVER: e handsomely en. sovlttr Nos. 928 7th st. and 706 K st. n.w. | broidered with milk, from $5 to £15. fine quality, handsomely em- AKS. lance assortment. from $5 to $26. QUQCHE SHAWLS, very lunge assorunent, trom A CARD. We beg again to call the attention of the Lailier to aur Cloak Department, whuck ofere at tho present | " novEitr ERS, 711 Market Space. @ i a rate, and extensive stocl — nd of the latest Parisian aud New York shapes of EX 7Raonvivany paucaws. BRQDHEAD & CO., 959 Pennsylvania avenue, be- tweet and Jiu etierts, offer tne followin Bet. class and popular GOODS at lees than market valne Best make all-wool French Cashmores (original dye and double width), 50c. per yard and up, "Beautitat LADIES AND CHILDREN’S CLOAKS. 1 We employ RIGHTY persons in our work room on shese garments—perronally superintend the manu- | Lyons Navy Blue and Seal Boown Silk, Tho. jor facture of them ; the workmanship and uttirg be- | yard. worth $1. Lyons Gros Grain ‘Silks, in- under the supervision of Mr. C. W.Taannard2, | cluding Bonnet, Guinet, Bellons and Ponsons oel wbe bas uo superior a3 au artistic desiner and brated makes. $1 per yard and up. Black Cashmere mod Shawls of the best make and finish in the world $3.75 and np. Courtauld Black Crape, from $1.35 to$5.50 yard. Lyons Silk-face Black Velvat, $1.50 In addition to the merit of the Quality, Style ana | per yard and uj... Black Satin, $1 per yard and ip of price of our CLOARS, we commend ths | Wameutta 44’ Bleached Cotton, 1c per yard fact to the attention of the public that our efforts to | Clark's best (200 yards) Spool Cotton, Sen (6 epovls employ pergons resident here deserves recognition | for 26 cents.) an ipport, especially when we offer them better BRODHEAD & CO, Sort rifacture, whch “are made without |< oe ae Nortbern manufacture, which are without | ———— eee - any know! a6 to who is to wear tiem, whileours | QIX FINE DRESS SHIRTS acing direct to our own friends and patrons, sll |} “Made to order, of Wameutta Muslin and Extra -nterest alone would prompt us in seeing that noth. | fine Linen bosoms, fi ly to put on. 6 for 87.50; res Finest DRESS SHIRTS ‘made to order in the most elegant manner for #2.25. Ou” MYSTERY” SHIRT, unfinished, at mace of Wameutta Muslin Extra nue nr ** “eas 75 cts, finished, at tery” Ae tail Pact: yuoLmALE Prices, and Six of thes is a tloe Ohtat mas Gift, The GREAT SOUTHERN SHIRT, Ores Frost, at 90 cts. 18 made of the same wuaterial as the * Mya. tery.’ Gur $1 Shirt, ready to put on, has been rednosd ing that would tend to sscape our attention. Prices Ranae Frou $2.50 Ur. We respectfully solicit a call. LANSBURGH & BRO. 404 and 406 Seventh st. WILLIAN OFFERS SPECIAL AT- TRACTIONS 18 their worth should novil-tjanl M. CLA: ane, DOLMANS, JACKETS AND OIR- | yocie aps wen ule ie manne, "but. we LARS, c jelled fice Stock ‘at our Facts, in.which be ie showing a very, large and complete | Tate‘more as we aro about to build sles ehaton thereto, and desire to carry less Stock whilst the building is in oe MAGINNISS, 1009 F strect m.10 novSr ie j NE CASE OF CALICO) 4 yard (0 MLACOES, te met ind disyonal cloths, and several fabrics new this MISSES’ CLOAKS. M. WILLIAN, ote 907 Pennsyivania avenue. M*®*- Cc. V. SMITH'S FASHIONABLE MILLINERY. Ladies who wish the very latest selected PARIS STYLES Should call and examine my stock of BONNETS AND ROUND HATS. | OUB PKICES ARE THE LOWEST Oue case of Caliooes, Cashmeres, from 25c. to #1 yan Faluinco! Biaatemiuc Gontypettom 81.35 e Jomfor 5 a Mme. Demorest's relintle PATTERNS. 308. B. BAILEY, octl8te Cor. 7th and F ets. 6.10. HOUSEFURNISHING Goobs, We tnvite apecal atiention of to ont full and yicte stock of HOt GOODS, which we have just OCR eT { | | } | for Making and Trimming, and all work done by us | are prepared to offer at low prices, viz. iswusranteed to be satisfactory. A call is solicited | Axminster. Moauetta oir iene, We show our Goods with pleasure. i Tapectry Brussels and tngrain pets, in all the MEG. C.V.SMITH, | Sens verters fae Bike tone Pee = a O18 Beh street mene. | Brite ond suas Curio, conan Sw ‘an Sa (CH and kind of ORNAMENTAL OPE PEaS Seed ce aaiacuret ots tite United States Patent Office.” mye LAD ENGLISH JACKETS, LADIES’ OVERCOATS, LADIES’ OUT AND MADE JNO. M. KEELER, Aztist Taor, Pennsylvania avenue, po so! arin novié-im 411