Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1879, Page 7

sts oe THB LAND OF NUD, Last nicht 1 went to the Land of Nod ‘What do you think I saw there? abies in all the worl ed, dark-haired, frows} jack,'eome tawny, some fair’ # What is (!) way there?” On aud on Over the v pty sod; First you nd then yon go down, ‘And then \cu come into Shut-eye-town, faway in the Land of Nod, The honee® sre made of jujnbe-y Andt rs of phum-cake sl hungry by day or nizht, y #0 to the door, aud nibble a bite, v1..y and teed and spiced. % 8, you know, run lemonade, laying, it never stops; Fit raing in that fortunate town, oney and cream come down, nd chocolate drops. Torrents «f _ And lec ‘Oh, it snows white sugar and pink ice-cream, And it freezes lemon-ice ; Tall suv {hills all around yon see; And cookies and tarts ¥ On eve t ‘And they taste remarkably nice. “Tell you come more?” Oh, I haven't the time; But mast, ifeach little elf Will ru: climb into mamma’s lap, right down for a forty-winks’ nap, sce the land himself. (Alice) W. Bre in the Nurser y- How the Mohawks Were Used Up There is a very tender and touching legeud about these falls. I knew there must be. If there had been none I should have made upone, something I hate to do most awfully, because like ail my romances to have a dash of truth In them. ‘There was, on atime within the mem- ory of the oldest inhabitant, trouble among the Indians. The Mohawks, if It was the Mohawks, and the Milicetes, if that 1s the way you spell it, fel In love with each other, and each begved the other for a lock of his hair to remember nim by. A’d at the same time, the ardent suitor poor boon of being allowed to cut : himself. Moreover, to show that he meant business, he ground his little thomas vk and honed up his persuasive little sealp- and announced that he was in the , nO trouble to Show goods, a new crate Just opened to-day, orders from the coun- try promptly attended to. Well, customers came right along from the n was hung outon either side, and hments had all they conid do, The d equal to the demand, and the as steady and constant, with a rising tendeny. But after awhile it was evident that the Mohawks had the most and the best {on tbe road, and had got the deadwood suntry trade, aud vast quantities of hair was worked up at prices to sult the times. Things run on in this way until at Jast the .dilicete Indians were forced out of the Jobbi rade entirely, buying in small lots and manufacturing only home orders, all sales at thirty days, on a margin of about two and one- half per Cent. But the greedy Motawks put up aneh stores to kill off this stand, and were at last driven to little put- street business, hardly getttag rtorun the heading machine. , the demand in the Mohawk mar- ket for Milicete hair continued unabated, and rubbers f house were untiring in their ef- forts tosecure the new crops and whatever there was already in the stack or bins. And when t pped out of the country, tak- Milicete hair there was along with n their heads, the Mohawks got up, put wor paln, piled into thetr canoes’ and down the river in tierce pursuit. Night closed in alike on the pursted and the pursu- ut in word one day that the | ers, but it didn’t stop the circus a minute. ‘The Miliceies paddled til their backs ached, and | the Mohawks made the ripp right behind them. At length tue roar of the falls sounded in the ears of the flying Milicetes, and they turned to the shore: beached their light barks and st:uck for tall umber. All but one. A woman, as usital, was the last One in the train. A sqtiaw, whose aboriginal name | ¢itler forgotor never kuew—Mary Jane Johnson, maybe—was sculling along at the tail end of the procession. For two or three miles before reaching the falls she had made up her womanly or squawly mind that she would save her tribe, and at the same time avenge them. she lighted a kerosene lamp, or it may have na pine knot, and set {t in ihe stern of her canoe. ‘The pursuing Mohawks saw ft, thouzht it was the last act of sullen, hopeless detiance, and they howled till their corus ached trying to Teach tt. When the fugitives landed above the jalls Mary Jane Johnson landed, too, but she did nct strike for the woeds. she picked up her the rocks. From rock to rock she nimbly sprung aid lightly scrambled until she reached point far beyond them, where her ilaming sig- nal just lined the pursuing canoes with the "split rock,” just_ midway in the cateract. On came the Mohawks, their fierce eyes fastened on the flame that danced before them, thetr fiercer cries drowning the roar of the cateract, until suddenly the angry white foam leaps into thelr faces trom the swift and eddying rapids that catch their fragile barks, aud before their sav- age yells of hate can be changed to the notes of their death Song, the mad plunge ts takea, and the gorge ts so full of drowned Indians that the oftice is worth 0 a year for the next six weeks. It used the Mohawks up completely. They ‘Went out of business and joined the Sptritua- Usts. The Milleetes also, what was left of them, reformed, Went out of polities entirely, and the tribe 1s now settled in an Indtan village down below here a little ways, at the mouth of the Aroostook, where they live on the interest of their faxes. Mary Jane Johnson was highly honored by the tribe. They married her to the chief and granted her the free privilege of cut- ting weod and hoeing corn and cooking for her husband and fifteen children ail the rest of her iurdette’s Grand Falls (N. B.) Letter to a Hawkeye. psics in the United States. i T € at least 2,000,000 gypsies in Europe. Of these Scotland has about 109,00), England 60,000, and Ireland perhaps half the latter num- ber. The number of genuine gypsies in the United States has never been officially com- puted. Tne number now In this state is prob- ably not less than 400. Of men, women and ehiidren living in tents, or other movable habi- he number {s perhaps not more than remainder live, to all intents and pur- like other people, and are known to be les only by persons of their own race or vho learn the fact accideatally. At the present wilting there are few nomadie gypsies within the limits of San Francisco, but there are pernais 200 persons of gypsy lineage tn this | city who live in our very midst and practice their various callings just like other folks, and nobody 1s the wiser or any the worse therefor. Some of our best known fortune-tellers are of Sypsy origin, and most of them afiiliate more or less with their own race and kindred. Some of the many fruit peddlers who hawk about our streets are gypsies; but so far as the writer has been able to ascertain none of the “tins to mend” pedestrians by whom this city is af- Ilcted belong to this pec strange to say, our noun from the Scotch “tinker,” term for gypsy in the land of cakes. “Swap- ing” horses and telling fortunes seems to be heir clief provincial stock in trade. In various rts of Europe gypsies excel as artisans; but It does Kot appear that the same proficiency has been imported by them Into thiscountry. A Zew of the Oakland gypsies understand trade: Jearned in one of James Crabb’s trade schools. ‘The eldest son of Noah Is a basket maker, and mak agreat many clever trinkets from uts, cores, leaves andthelike These trinkets are sold throughout Oakland by his mother, Britannia, who varies the monotony of her rd by telling the fortunes of her pa- san Francisco Chronicle, ta! people; though nker,” 13 deriv which 1s the popular MExicas Hors Toi are bred in great umbe*s iit the different hactendas in the prov- inces, some of the larger estates having eighty or a hundred thousand cattle and fifteen or twenty thousand mules and horses. The pas- turage Is green all the year round, and the ani- mals receive no other food. Tney mulilply as the birds do, and with as litue profit to their owners. Generally speaking, they run wild unUl wasted, when they are Caught with a las- 50, hocdwinked and immediately mounted. For or 20 minutes they exert their whole » throw their rider, but, finding their Vailing, patiently submit and gener- ut little trouble afterward. Owing ally give to their Immense numbers. horses are sold very cheap. the average price for an unbroken herd being eight to ten dollars a head, with but little demand at that. It sometimes occurs that the government purchases a few hundred forthe army, but generally speaking, there are few oc- casions when they can be sold. Mexican horses, asarule, are not handsome, and are seldom more than 14 hands high; still, they have noth- ing of the peculiar bulla of the pony about them. Fed entirely upon grass, they yet en- dure more fatigue and are capable of maintain- Ing a rapid galt for a longer time than the Grain-fed horses of other lands. In the towns and cities they receive the scantiest of care and ‘the meaxerest allowance of food. Tied up the Whole day in the stifling court yard, they stand Patiently awaiting their evening meal. Fre- Quently they are turned loose together, when it ‘ use of a lasso to catch them. $9 rst) this tostrument do they become noment the animal feels the rope about. ean oe ie oom sui sehen without ft 1t se saddl [Corresyoncence New York Brenn ae pedi: A Prerity Rirvanisr Fasuso: Pondent writes:—“In your last number your allusion to promiscuous kissing among dissent. @rs remii ds me of a kiss called the ‘kiss of re. conciliation,” with which a very high Angitcan en ient but young and fair. He heard mt ise and so Bock into constant visits. her mother over to adopt the modern guise ‘mock turtle’ Romanism. Sb Nedg- * I inquired. Hei yh. no! of course decoyed his spiritual . She issuch a saint } juires 1c Sake at ‘—{From the Paris A corres. | 1 sealed his sentence of absolution. | a private oratory established in | . One of them talked | mi see, that she re- | respondents at a | proprietor demanded | which he had furnished. Kerosene lamb and trotted around the falls on | tc Youod “trot the woGte noe foaaia e Curiosities Fires and Fire me ce. ‘The president of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company,in arecent address to the National Asscciation of Fire Engineers, in Wastington. | hoted some curious facts, That a powder-in'li | Can be insured for a much less rate thamean | ice house will strike everybody as very queer, | | Why ts tt that matcues taste $0 much sweeter | to mice In over-insured buildings? Last winter | adetached tce house burned up tn one of our | New England towns. Tnere had been no work | done there for weeks. The local papers sald ext day,as there were no foot marks in the | snow around it, it could not have been set on | fre. Of course not. It costs twenty cents per ton to put the ice fnand it was insured for a | dollar, Mice chewlng Ice possibly, but old rats | we think—two-legged at that. | In regard to fire hazards, there ts perhaps no | fdea more thoroughly engraftea upon the un- | intulated public mind than that an ice house | must prove the best possible risk, and a powder miil the worst. The latter {3 so naturally, unt- versally and closely assoctated with fire that it at once suggests Ignition; while the former seems Its exact extreme—coid, cheerles3, in every way its counterpart, and remote from fire. Yet a board of New England underwriters, after an experience of both hazards of a quar- | ter of a century, fixed the minimum rate on ice houses at 2 per cent. and on Hazard’s powder mili, noted throughout the world—fire risk of course—at 3; of one percent. This fact 13 mor- ally suggestive. Tramps never hang arounda powder-mnill, smoking old plug In ciay pipes. Neither outsiders nor tnsiders are apt to pour kerosene oil over the floors, nor accidentally stick a lighted candle Into a Dottomless box and wait for it to burn out, until most unexpectedty they tind the place on fire. Men who work in powder milis do not smoke, nor leave their coat tall peckets full of matches. They do not Kin- die fires with benzine: they do not leave olly waste around on the iloors, and cigar stumps tn wooden spittoons are.scarce. No matter how well insured, both occupant and owner are care- ful, and even mice dislike the taste of matebes in powder mills, and are averse to the smell of powder. The same care agatnst fire which we find in a powder mill, carried into otuer hazards, would make your profession a compar- ae easy one, mine a pleasant and proiita- ie one. Some months ago, in passing a prominent pic- ture store in the city in which I reside, on a | Sunday, my attention was attracted by the ac- | Uons ofa voy, which seemed to betoken lunacy. He would stand with his back against the large show-window outside for a few minutes, then turn about and carefully gaze within;’ then again plant his back agalust the window. Curl- ous to solve what seemed to be the case of idiocy in a bright looking boy, I asked the cause of hi ange actions. Directing my attention discovered that the rays of thesun through the giass formed a focus and valuable chromo, which just commenced to smoke at this identical point, and would evi- dently soon bein flames. The doy stated that be was a Clerk in the store, but had not his key, and discovering the state of things, he planted himself as a patest living fire-screen, to pro- tect the picture from the sun’s rays. A well-known Hartford adjuster, while re- ig in his room in one of our finest business biccks, saw his silk umbrella, standing ver, quietly take tire and consui : fore his very eyes, and with no little difficulty i preading. Investiga- ght froui the concen ile | se a doubt, we do not und causes of fre, and numerous conflagrations are due to far different causes from those suspected or guessed at. In the case mentioned, had the fire occurred during the absence of the owner, and the block been consumed, as it might ezsily have been, it would have remained one cf those unsolved mysterles which surround so many fire Tow Two Foorish GIRLS WERE SERVED.—We have heard lately of two young girls of good character, but thoughtlessly foolish, who came Inte town one afternoon from their suburban home. On the street they were accosted by two young men. Instead of repelling them, the girls entered into conversation with them, and soon accepted their invitation to take tea at a prominent restaurant. After passing seme time here the young men invited the girls to goto the theater with them, and this invitation, too, was accepted. The young men went out, promising to buy the theater tickets and return at once. The girls watted until weary and then started to go home. But the ayment for the suppers They replied that the young men had invited them to te: ae im. that they had left the money with the girls, and as the latter evidently had none, he re- quired them to go down into his kitchen and wash dishes during the whole evening. This was a bitter thing to do, but, if the story be true, as we fear, it served them rightly. Of course the young inen were wretched sneaks, for whom a whipping would be too good. But such indelicacy as that of these girls deserves to be punished as thelrs was. We suspect that there Is a great dealof this “picking up ac- quaintances” in our streets, and it leads swiftly | tothe ruin of young men and women alike. Parents cannot be too careful how they train and watch over thelr boys and girls.—{ Boston Transcript A HARD MAN TO CaTcH.—They had a dime supper in the neighborhood of Pawtucket. con- celved and carried out by the ladies. The con- ditions of this novel supper were these:—For every word spoken by the gentlemen at the supper table a forfelt of ten cents was Imposed, but on the other hand (as duties are always compensated with rights and restrictions with privilges) 1t was agreed that whoever coula weather the whole supper, submitting to all queries, surprises and ingenious questions with- out replying should be ent tled to it gratuit- ously. Many and frequent were the ariifices and subterfuges resorted to by the ladies in at- tendance to entrap the unguarded, and one after another stout and discreet man went down before the constant volley of artful interroga- Uons. At last all fell out and pald the dime penalty save one individual—a queer chap— whom nobody seemed to know. He attended stricuy to business and passed unheeded these jokes, jibes and challenges. They quizzed him but all in vain. He wrestled with the turkey and grappled with the goose. He batledout the cranberry sauce with an unswering hand, and he atecelery as tne Scriptural vegetarian ate grass, and finally, when he had finished his nifth Le of ple, he whipped out a pocket slate, wiped it with his napkin, and wrote on tt, in a large and legible hand, “i am deaf and dumb!” A BooMERANG JOKE.—Capt. Broughton, of Portland, tells a story which we think too good to keep, which 18 as follows: Some time 1n '64 there Were a number of army officers stopping at a hotel in Washington. Among them was a Capt. Emerson. There was also a Capt. Jones, who was @ first rate fellow, a good officer and very pompous. Emerson and Jones used to have a good deal of jok'ng together at the table and elsewhere. One day at the dinner table when the dining-hall was well filled, Captala Jones finished his dinner first, got up and walked almost to the dining-hall door when Emerson spoke to him in a loud voice and said: ‘‘Halloa, Captain, see here: 1 want to speak to you a minute.” The captain turned and walked back to the table and bent over him, when Emerson whispered, “I wanted to ask you how far you would have gone if I had not spoken to you.” The captain never changed a muscle, but straightenett lp and put his fingers into hts vest pocket and said, in a voice loud enough for all to hear him: ‘Captain Emerson, I don't know of aman in the world I had rather lend five dollars to than you, but the fact is I havn't a cent with me to-day,” and turned on his heel and walked away. Emerson was the color of half a dozen rainbows, but he had to stand it. He never heard the last of it, and it cost him moye than ten dollars to treat on it.—| Lewisto 1 (Me.) Gazette. ‘ ARMENIAN WOMAN'S DescT INTO MIXED Soctery.—“I went the other day with the pas- tor to call upon a leading family. The master of the house showed us every attention and asked us to stay and eat oe with him. We told him that if he would bring all his family together to eat with us we would stay. You must know that no husband in this country, unless he be a Protestant, ever eats with his wife. But our host saw the point in our re- quest; and, after a little good-humored chat upon the subject, he agreed to our proposition. The food was brought in and set upon a table, the father and mother of our host entered the room; in came his five fine-looking chil- dren. All gathered around the table, and we were asked to ‘sit up.’ ‘No,’ we sald ‘your wife 1s not here. We want to see all your family,’ and we reminded him, laughingly, of his bargain. Off he went, and we heard him in the Lext room coaxing her to come in, just to lease us. At last she complied, looking sheep- ish and scared. Never before had that poor Woman been asked to eat with her husband. A blessing was asked, and all began to eat—all but three of us. The pastor had whispered to me that, although the wife sat at the table, she would not eat; and so it proved. So, when we | were urged to begin, we good-naturedly replied | that we were wailing to see Lucia eat first. Then there was more Coaxing. ‘We stood firm | and carried our point. Buta defeat was coming. resuming on victories already gained, we went asten further, Taking up a piece of sugar, the | pastor asked the wife what it was. But in the presence of the mother-in-law the woman dared not utter a word. We entreated, we scol we urged; but all in vain. Not one word could we extort from Lucia. The old mother-in-law said, in a half-warning. half-apologetic tone: | ‘She dare not speak.’ ‘You are responsible for this” sald the earnest young pastor to the older woman. ‘And itisagreatsin.’ That startled her a little, and she ap) led to me: ‘Is it a sin, Bodvelly?? ‘It is,” id I. ‘The Bible tells’a Wife to obey her husband, not her mother-in- law” But it was of no avail. The poor wife could not be made to open her Ups.”—[From a Missionary’s Letter. | —— §2The British | Havevas sh war office is c} bout to issue orders about military cor- is Dinner a Mistake? THE EXPEKIENCE OF ONE WHO TAINES HE HAS MADK AN IMPROVEMENT. Late tieatrical hours arise out of the trente- wx plata which the coef has scarcely ilme to prepare between tLe hour at which the d-jeuner is ended ard the diu:.er served; and it takesa coupi¢ of hours to get through now a rasnion- able menu, without gobbling Ike swine at a trough, Dinner tsamistake. I speak from the fullness of my experience, as a diuer in the house and out of the house.’ One's intellectual fat ies are clouded and mudd’ed after a 7 or 3 o'cieek neal, including soup, fish hore d'euvres, entrees, entrenets, rots, Salad, vegetables, sweet dishes and dessert. Trines light as alr, in which the real jo s of life are bound up, do not please; straws do not tickle when we rise from a too Well-furnished table. Brain and stomach can- not Work simultaneously. They are made to accomplish their functions lke buckets in a Well; and if the stomach has a heavy repast to digest and the brain a play to follow, or to get tbrough the celebration at the expense of which a live.y tonversation is carried on, both orgaas become disorganized. ‘The way to enjoy existence Is to risea little earlier than we do, to eat heartily towards noon and not too heartily when we get out of our bed; to take a sight refectior—a gouter—instead of an elaborate dinner, and to partake—for the closing meal should ‘be a soctable and never a solitary one—or a jolly supper, at which there ought to be enough and no more. Good humor will take up its aboge tn every house in which this alimentary regime ts followed, and many | stupid notions and customs will die out. We are Mabie to the Infection of dull absurdity when we are in the uncomfortable state of a boa-censtrictor which has just swallowed a jong-horned milch cow. Voltaire quitted the play when he was in /abttue of the Odeon The- ater ata litle before 10, and supped at 10:39 at the house of some lively woman of quality. The repast consisted of a potage gras, i.e., beef broth thickened with rice or some farinaceous pre- paration, cold fowl and a salad of raw or cooked vegetables. Fruit was taken sparingly. Taere were few vintages, and water was drunk with them. After the theater the throat ts very dry. I think Ihave improved on the elgateenth century and I am about to tell you how. When Igo tothe play Ido not dine. A pain fourre a ssrdine, with a crustof bread anda glass of wine and water, ts asmuch as I care to take. Linstruct my servant to have against my re- turn the cloth laid, some piscatory hors d’euvres aid very ripe fruit and cheese on the table, and in a small tin roaster, which can perform its functions at my dinlug-room fireplace, a par- tridge. a wovdcock, a wild duck, or qualis, ac- cording to the season. The fire isto beso at tended to that wnen ‘ come in it wlll be bright and ardent If alog 1s thrown upon it. My do- e go to bed whenshe likes. There is no weary watching for me, and 1 let myself In the middle of a large } at the lobby door of my flat. All I have to do is to add some dry wood to the fire, to hook on the roaster to the grate, and to transfer from it the bird or birds to the dish. Ina quarter of be @ partridge is cooked as game should Five minutes are enough for snipe; ten for a golden plover, which in December is a morsel for a Bnilat-Savarin. a Corsican blackbird is also a delicacy which I recommend to any one who may be tempted to follow my example. Do not trouble about bread-sauce. The succulence of plump game—and never buy any other—1s sauce enough. Law students at Lincoln's Inn or the Tempie will appreciate my system of reconciling the intellectual amusements of the thea’ er with dome: uugness and the pleas- wes of the table. The only supper wine, un- less there ts a raob to sup, when champagne the thing, ts Bordeaux, and in moderation. A petit souper thus composed and thus cooked is the most appetising of any, brings no bad diesm tu its train, and promotes ilvely conver- sauion. The worst of moderate indulgence in the pleasures of the table and the cheerruiness arising from it ts that one gets fat, whic impediment to the purchase of ‘ready-made clotles when one fs travelling, and an obstacie to long waiks. Your devouring Abaddons are the worst patrons of Banting. They are thin because dyspeptic, and morose as well. Your trlend Sarcey 1s @ supper-eater, and what a relish bas he not for tun and sparkling thougats! His humor could not be damped by the immedi- ale prospect of the giilotine. Pierre Veron is another supper-eater anda baddiner. The late Cham jooked upon dinner as a social corvee, and on supper as a meal which renovated mind and vody.—[Lonion Truth, Sept, 11. AILANTUS Woop.— Persons who know the ailantus only as a shade tree, with Its nauseous blooms and uncouth growth, will be glad to learn that {t possesses invaluable qualities of strength, durability, beauty of futsh and color for carpentry and cabinet work, freedom from warping and shrinkage, ease of belng worked without injury to tools and with little or no waste. It is a rapid growing tree, as all Know, upon poor soils as weil as good ones, in exposed situations on the sea coast and in the interior. It seasons readily, and when dry Is free from unpleasant odor which characterizes the wood when green. It has a higher value as fuel than most of the wood an general use. Experiments made in the French dockyard at Toulon showed that the allantus broke with a weight of 72,186 pounds, while the elm yielded toa welght of 34,707 pounds, and the oak to a weight of 43,434 pounds. ‘The small second growth 1s said to make very durable grape stakes, to which it seems well adapted. A set of furniture, made Of this wood, has been in use in Providence, R. 1., for about twenty years. It takes a high pol- ish, and may be cut so as to present a satin luster which Is very pleasing. It 1s regarded by some cabinet-inakers as equal to mahogany acd superior to black walnut in the matter of shrinking. For the treads of statrs, for floors of offices, mills and other buildings, where a hard, sirong wood is required, it is regarded by many as superior to most of the woods thus employed. Its warm color makes itan effec- tive finish when used with both lighter and darker woods, and as wainscoting Is again be- coming fashionable, the ease of producing this wood where other woods are not readily ob- tainble will recommend this style of interior finish, The trees grows more rapidly when youvg than when it has attained considerable age.—{Scientijic American, “low Lonc Have I To Live?”—It is not every one who asks himself this question, be- cause, strangely enough, it is the belief of most persons that their lives will be exceptionally lengthy. However, life-assurance companies are aware of the credulous weaknesses of those whose lives they assure, and have therefore Pie pes numerous tables of expectancy of life ~ for their own guidance, which are carefully re- ferred to before a policy is granted. The fol- lowing is one of these well-authenticated ta- bles in use among London assuranze compa- nies, showing the average length of life at various ages. In the first column we have the present ages of persons of average health, and in the second column we are enabled to peep, as it were, behind the scenes of an assurance office, and gather from their table the number of years they will give usto live. This table has been the result of careful calculation, and seldom proves misleading. Of course sudden and premature deaths, as well as lives unusu- ally extended, occasionally occur, but this is a table of the average expectancy of life of an or- dinary man or woman: # Age. More Yeara| Aye, More Years| Age, More Years to Live. to Live. | to Live, 1 |60. 14 lio. <o 20 221 (80. :4 Our readers will easily gather from the above tabulated statement the number of years to which their lives, according to the law of aver- ages, may reasonably be expected to extend. Tue SHAPE OF BELLS.—It is very likely that the shape of bells was suggested at first by the sonorous qualities of certain metallic vessels im household use, which when struck gave forth pecullar sounds. By different practical tests, it was found in time that the present con- ical form was the best adapted for the convey- ance of sound to a distance. In the catalogue of one of the bell founders of this place, it is stated that in the single department of church bells, the establishment has nearly one hun- dred patterns, extending from the treble tones adapted to the belfry of the wayside chapel to the deep notes that resound from the massive tower of the cathedral, The patterns which regulate the inside and outside contour of bells. aré known as “sweep-boards.” They are made of pine, and have that part of theiredge which comes in contact with the mixture of clay and sand which has been dried on the mould lined with polished steel or sheet brass. These are made to revolve on their pivoted ends against the core casing and against the outside casing, until by their scraping action they symmetri- cally fashion the mould coatings to their proper curvature.—[Troy Times. OLive LoGaN, ina recent letter to the Clncin- Latl Enquirer, writes: “I saw George Ellot walking in the Regent's Park the other day. How sad and ill she does look! I hear her phy- siclans sayshe must never produce another novel. This decree is a great loss to the read- ing world, and disappoints a number of critical analysts who were lying in walt to discover how much or how little she owed to geurre Henry Lewes in her productions. Exact! what his collaboration was—whether it was frankly co-labor or merely the keen criticism of an admirable judge—the world will never know; but certainly her reverence for her lover’s memory reaches the proportions of a te. I hear ske has not yet recovered from her indignation at the Saturday Review for having in its obituary notice of Mr. Lewes seen of him as 8 ‘litterateur” She claims that he was one of the greatest philosophers, one of the most original thinkers of the cen- tury.” WHEN HIS “best girl” leaves home for a write fait! boarding school, she promises to fully, be true as steel, and all that sort of non- sence. The first letter is a nice long one, breathing the very essence of affectionate ten- darling,” after about six weeks, when the men from the she drops him a note en- thes e mally descr! ing the rticular student e particular student that she has fancied, signing it “inclusively hboring academy have maae Seat of war, and civilian cor- ndents are a peut rules also to be placed undef string: 4 ours, etc.” He begins to feel a little queer, all ihe time expecting that ‘‘delusively yours” will soon be.coming; but it never comes. spondence is ‘The inished.—{New Haven Register. derness, and is signed, “Exclusively your own | young | Clearing-Up in the Garden, At this season of the year ple will b> thinking about preset ving various pet things that have been growing in the garden for th> Season, und which will suffer from serious frost. These will need to be lifted and put ia pots or boxes to keep in windows or cellars during the winier season. They must be takea up With as much earth as possibile, and afier potting receive a thorough watering to settle the earth well about the roota. The object now is to heep them from withering as much as po3- sib e, acd this is best done by keeping them tn a shed or some place where they will be safe from wind fora few days. If once in awhile they are sprinkled with water overhead it will be all the better. But often the earth falis away so badly in digging up, or in some way the roots aré out of proportion to the leaves and branches, thatthe withering of the follaze gceson. In this case the rule 1s to pick off some of the most mature leaves, and this seems torelieve the rest. Gradually the plants are brought to the ight of day, so that in a week or two they go on all right, But even atter ail bas been taken up that is desirable, there ts much left’ in the ground for which we have no use—lady-slippers, petunias, mignhonnette, marigolds, and many others which we leave out to continue blooming as long as frost will let them. Too often these are then left where they bloomed till the next spring, dry, shabby and in every way unsightly, when at the annual spring planting time they are cleared away. True, once in a while some per- son with the gift of neatness and order, clears allaway, and puts things to rights for winter, but these are the rare folks, whom it is one of the great events of life to see. Not cnly ts it due to neatness to have all refuse promptly cleared up; but it Is due to the manw’e heap without which it 1s almost tmpos- sible to have good flowers any more than one can bave good corn without fertilizing the ground. In every garden there ought 10 be a quiet corner shut off from the rest of the grounds by tan arbor vite hedge, into which weeds, leaves, grass, and other waste matter ought to gO. This at this season Can be materially added To by the falling leaves; and if these frost- killed leavings including dahlia tops, and refuse of every kind be added, there need never be any anxieties as to what to get to make the flowers grow. And then, best of all, the place gets a nice clearing up for the rest of the year.— [Germantown Telegraph. TESTING MACHINE FOR Fasrics.—The custom of testing Iron, wood, aud other bullding mate- rials, and testing wire, ropes, cables, ete., and using these tests as a measure of the come! cial Value of the materials, has proved to be so advantageous that the same idea is being ap- plied to woven fabrics of all kinds For testing lhe strength cf fabrics a new machine has been introduced, designed to report pulling strains from half a kilo up to 25) kilos, The machine consists of an upright standard, supportiag a horizontal holiow beam of tron, contaling scale levers with a brass weighing scale having a sliding weight and a graduated scale. Suspend- ed from the weighing apparatus is a clamp line with leather, and s0 arranged that when the end of the piece of fabric to be tested is clamped between the jaws the strains will be evenly balanced and distributed. Below this on the base of the machine Is a roller controlled by a hand-wheel, and round this the other ead of the fabric 1s’ wrapped, when, on turning the wheel, the strains are pppited; and by moving the weight on the scale-beam, so as to keep it continually balanced, a point is reached where the fabric is torn apart. This point shows the breaking strain of the material. ‘The percent- age of stretching before breaking may also be found in the same manner. If all fabrics were tested in such a machine. and on the breaking point efully noted and marked on the goods when offered for sale, data would be pro- vided which would place the money value of the goods On an exact basls.—[S ber. dner's for Octu- Poy oF ConsTRUCTION.—In ‘se operations of thinking It is not often the entire plot of a novel—the plot of a novel as a whole—that exercisesthe mind. Thats a huge difficulty; one so arduous as to have been gen- erally found by me altogether beyond my power of accomplishment. Efforts are made, no doubt—always out in the open air, and within the precincts of a wood, if wood be within reach; but to constructa plot so as to know, before the story ts begun, how it is to end, has always been tome a labor of Hercules,beyond my reach, Ihave to confess that my incidents are fabri- cated to fit my story as It on, and not my story to fit my incidents. I wrote a novel once in which a lady forged a will; but I had not myself decided that she had forged it till the chapter before that In which she confesses her guilt. In another a lady is made to steal her own dlamonds—a grand tour de force, as I thought—but the briillant {dea only struck me when I was writing the page in which the theft is described. Ionce heard an unknown critic abuse ny workmanship because a certain lady had been made to appear too freqnenuly in my pages. I went home and killed her immediately. J say this to show that the process of thinking to which I am alluding has not generally been applied to any great effort of construction. It has expended Iteelf on the minute ramiticattons of tale-telling; how this young lady should be made to behave herself with that young ees Uleman—how this mother or father would be affected by the tll-conduct or the good of a son or a daughter—how these words or those other would be most appropriate and true to nature if used on;some special occasion. Such plottings as these, with a fabricator of fiction. are tnfinite in pumber as they are infinitesimal in import- ance—and are, therefore, as I have sald, like the sand Gf the sea-shore. But not one of them can be done fitly without thinking. My little effort will miss its wished-for result, unless I be true to nature, and to be true to nature [ must think what nature would produce.—[An- thony Trollope in Good Wor. CIVILIZING THE Jaw.—Savage nations use their teeth much more than civilized. They feed on coarser and harder food, ill cooked or not cooked at all; they are compelled to masti- cate what they eat much more pore than is the case with nations which live mainly upon ground wheaten bread, boiled rice, or well- cooked flesh; they have no knives and forks to assist them in dissecting their meat, and they gnaw bones, cut tendons, or crack nuts with their teeth alone. They are often compelled to live upon small and hard unbruised grain, thick-shelled insects or crustaceans, and other solid kinds of food. Moreover, all their food-stufis contain a dares. Proportion of innu- tritious matter rejected by the higher proces- ses of preparation (as for example the bran in wheat), and hence they are obliged to eat much raore tnatter to obtain an equal amount of nu- triment. Lastly, they use their teeth to a great extent as implements, where civilized peopie would employ a knife, cork-screw, hammer, pin- cers, or hand-mill. Through all these causes the jaws of the least advanced savages still retain their original large size, being only so far decreased as necessarily results from their disuse as actual weapons. On the other hand civilized men have gone on making their cookery or other means for preparing food stand them more and more in the stead of mastication. They have learned to boll or roast meat; to extract the juice in soup, gravy and jelly; to dissect it with saws and carving knives. They have acquired the art of grinding and bolting flour, of baking bread, and of giving 1t ightness by yeast or leaven. They have rejected the coarser seeds and millets for the cereals, pulses, and_ poratoes: They have minimized the amount of innutritious matter mixed with their food. And sothey have given tbe jaw less and less work to do from gener- ation to generation, until at last its bones have become partially atrophied from abuse, and have assumed their present small dimensions. One of the distin; ing. ‘pecullarities of a good dinner, as civilized J le understand the term, ig that 1t imposes little work upon the dinner either in its mastication or digestion. The soup is clear; the fish 1s delicate; the cutlets are ten- der. the chicksns are young and well-dressed; the pastry is ight and melting; the jellies are smooth, and the fruits and vegetables are soft and pulpy. Contrast such a dinner for a moment. with a savage feast on half-cooked flesh and parched grain, and we see at once the reason for this enormous difference in the call- ber of the masticating apparatus,—[The New Quarterly Review. A SPECULATOR IN MINES.—Mr. Ichabod re- sides in the wild suburbs of a part of the city where donkeys occasionally “roam and howl.” Mr. Ichabod is quite a joker inhis way. Hehas living with him a niece lately arrived froma part of the Atlantic states where such an ani- mal asa jackass ts hardly seen ina lifetime. A night or two since this youny lady had retired to her sleepin; aparunents, after having duly and dutifully her relatives good night, but hardly had been absent three minutes be- fore she rusbed back into the parlor with ashen cheeks and widely djstended eyes. “Oh, uncle!” she cried, ‘did you hear him? Some one out in thestreet uttering such fearful cries? He must have been in horrible agony. ‘There he Gee again. Why, uncle, some one is certainly being murdered !” Uncle Icbabod now heard the long-drawn, wheezy bray- of an asthmatic jackass, and smiling reassuringly upon the startled and ex- cited girl, said: “Calm caret my dear, it is not so tad as‘you think. He fvill get over it in few minutes.” “Why, uncle, who ts it, and what Is the mat- of bim?” ter “Why, my dear child, how excited you are! It 1s only poor Nelgh- It is nothing—nothing ! bor Jones across the way. He'll soon own. “Calm down! But, uncle, why does he take . «Well, he is of a sensitive, nervous constitu- tion, and he has probably just heard of the $3 assessment on the Sierra Nevada.”—[ Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. In THB NEIGHBORHOOD where I once lived, gays a writer in the Philadelphia Transcript, a | man and his wife were almost constant @ boy, was generally present, and of Socne ror his father’s expressions. One | day when boy had been doing go: | Wrong, the mother, inten to chastise | ‘him, and said: « sir; what you do that for?” The boy, comp! fola- his arms and imi his mancer, replied: “See here, IT don’t wish to we aby words with you!” f Has the Moon an_ Atmosphere}— Photography's Testimony. Photography has borne no obscure part inthe development of the modern science of astrono- my. Its use is now suggested for the purpose of determining the cbronic question whether the moon has or has not anatmosphere. Con- cerning this interesting subject, the Hartford Times SayS: If our satellite possesses any atmospheric envelope, it isknown tat {t must be avery ‘Ubip, an ext ly rare and tenuousone. A parer which has been submitied to tae French Academy by M. Janssen, respecting some Tecent advances in the taking of exact micro- metric measures on the sun in partial eclipses, by means of photography, proceeds beyond the immediate subject in hand, and shows how celestial photography can be used. It is known that photographs will suow the granulations or “rice markings” on the sun’s Surface. Where a large photograph of a par- Ual eclipse is taken, these granulations, says M. Janssen, should extend to the very edge of the mooon, provided the latter is absolutely without an atmosphere. If the moon has an almospbere these granuiations will’ become irregular in shape, and the extent of thelr changes in form: will be a criterion of the den- sity of the lunar atmospkere. Photographs of partial eclipses will also enable astronomers to measure the heights of mountains situated on the limb of the satelite. But the most tnter- esting thing to be determined by the method here suggested ts this still unsettted question tiem | the existence of a lunar atmos. ere, Pit 1S @ curtous fact that astronomy, which has at certained the existence of an atmosphere, and of clouds and continents and seas also, on the planet Mars, which 1s removed from ‘our world by a guit of space fifty millions of miles wide, and even assumed to determine that the planet Jupiter, 400 militous of miles away, is cloud covered, has never yet been quite able to tell us Whether our Moon, only 237,000 miles distant, Is or has not any atmosphere. We Lever see but one side of our satellite, and with that side we ought to be, by this time, pretty well acquainted. It seems as if we ought to be able, with the splendid Spanos of modern astronomy, to ae- termine this question of a lunar atmosphere, and to ascertain absolutely whether the moon has air, aud with it water and vegetation (as forests). or if it is, as the astronomers believe, ‘a dead and burnt out cloder.” It is the be- lief of Prot. Newcomb, of the National Observa- tory at Washington, that the best view that has ever been obtained of the moon by a tele- scope, Is no better than one which would be obtained with the naked eye by a person sta- ticned at a point 500 miles trom the lunar sur- face. That does not present the subject in a very encouraging view, nor does it seam quite to comport with the alleged fact that we can with the best telescopes plainly see objects on the moon that are not larger than the Capitol at Washington. We certainly do see objects not much larger than that; though, we cannot, strange to say, quite make out the height and portions of the lunar mountains, nor the pth of the biack-shadowed lunar hollows and craters,. Nor can we be quite sure what the general surface of the moon is. It looks, in the Telescope, as much not like over-clean plaster- ¢f-paris as anything—or a peeled orange, with all the lines of the quarterings and sub-quarter- ings radiating from the spot, at the bud and stem ends, from which they start in the real orange. he Household. KEEPING FLowgrs.—It 1s very desirable to preserve gift bouquets fresh and bright as long as possible. A poor, withered bunch of flowers always makes me feeisad: ttreminds one of the beautitni human flowers that are eut down tn their loveliness, and left to wither aud die, A bouquet can be preserved a long time by changing the water every morning and drop. ping a little ammonia into the vase. When the flowers are taken from the vase, plunge them into a bath of cold water so that every part is wet; brush the water off by a gentle shake, and you will be astonished to see their cheery brightness restored most perfectly. Flowers in a house give a pleasant look to the rooms and asweet fragrance to the air. It does not require a large bouquet of rare exotics to glad- den a room; a bunch of pansies, or. a few roses are Just as pretty when surrounded with tresh, green Jeaves and prettily arranged; and they give a charm that no other ornaments can im- part.—[ Country Gentleman, To Keep GkaPEs.—Take full bunches, ripe and perfect; seal the end that is cut from the vine so that no aircan get in, or the juice of the stem run out, and let them stand one day after sealing so ag to be sure they are verfectly sealed, (if not they will shrivel up;) then pack in boxes of dry saw-dust, and keep in cool lpetd they wili keep nicely ali Winter without losing their flavor; in packing, do not crowd the bunches; sprinkle the saw-dust over the bottom of the box; then lay the grapes care- fully, a bunch at a time, allover the box, then saw-dust and grapes, alternately, until the box is full. A CaNnaRY BIRD WITH ASTHMA.—To cure a canary bird of the asthma you should hold him firmly in the hand and let him inhale chioro- fori until stupefied; when he comes out of the stupor he will be found to be entirely cured; this should be done in the oe before the ue is fed. The disease is caused by impure ir. How TO PEEL ONIONS —She came on board a3 pretty as a daisy, and as sweet and fresh as an elegant get up could make her. There was a chattering aft, on the yacht. what they would have tor dinner, and it was agreed, for fun, that it was chowder, each one was todo some- thing toward the same. “You have got to peel and chop up them onions,” says a dandy kind of fellow to the pretty girl. “. ,” sald she not wun a bit, and they all laughed and pitied her. When the time came for fixing up things, kind of w to it, I brought that pretty girla peck of the fierlest onions—real Ted-skin ones—you ever smelled. ‘here is going, to be a lot of crying,” thinks I; “if that would be the only sorrow in her life!” Says she tome: “Mr. Robert, do you haul me a bucket of water,” and I did it. “Now,” says she, “just you put them onions in that there water,” and {didit. Then she took off her white fingers a lot of rings, and put them in her pocket, and asked for a knife, and the onions being in the water, che peeled and sliced them under water, and nary a tear came, nor nee “Now,” says she, holding out the tips of her pretty fingers, “‘who will be gallant enough to kiss these?” Seeing was cook I didn’t like to be so bold, but there was a half dozen of the men who rushed forward, and of course I had no chance. That's the way I learned how ladles can peel onions, and not cry over them.—{ Bob the Sea-Cock, ALL ABOUT OYSTERS. OysTER Sour.—Put two quarts of oysters, liquor and all, ina pan, set them on the stove to heat, but don’t let them boll, or come very near to it; now drain all the liquor into your soup kettle, putin a pint of water and two juarts of new milk, half pound of butter, a lit- tle whole allspice and pepper; have the oysters all the time where they will keep warm, add them and salt to taste just as you are ready to serve the Soup; break up some crackers fine and put into the soup before the oysters are putin. Salt should always be put in the last ‘thing In any soup, stew, or fricassee when milk is used, as it is apt to curdle. Oysters should never be boiled, but only scalded, as it makes them tough and skrinks them all'up. If they are to be stewed heat them hot, but don’t boil them; always have the soup or gravy hot. OYSTER STEW.—Put as many fresh oys- ters, with their liquor, as you think you will need into a pan on the stove to heat, but not boll; drain the juice off into a saucepan, as soon as it boils add halt a pound of butter and some pepper; when this bolls add halt a pint or cream and thicken a little with flour; after this bolls up once put in the oysters, and more salt ifnecessary. Serve very hot. OysTER ToastT.—The same as for oyster stew, only no cream; thicken the Juice a little with flour; when the stew is ready have a few slices of toast laid in a well-buttered dish and pour the oysters over it. Itis best to heat the dish hot that you put your oysters in to send to the table, as they are much better hot than merely ‘wart. OysTER OMELET.—Whisk six eggs to a lght froth, then add by di one gill of cream beaten well together; season with pepper and salt. Cut the oysters in half; pour the beaten eggs in a pan of hot butter and drop in the oys- ters a8 equally as possible; fry a fight brown and zene hot. Omelets should never be urned, SCOLLOPED OysTERS.—One hundred oe small loef baker's bread, four hard bolled eggs; chop the eggs fine, mix with the grated bread crumbs; season with cayenne pepper and salt; cover the bottom of a deep with the eggs and crumbs, then a layer of oysters with two or three small / pats of butter, and so continue until the dish is full, finishing at the top with a cover of crumbs. Bake ina quick oven three- quarters of an hour. OysTER FRITTERS.—Make a batter of milk, flour, eggs, eream-of-tartar, saleratus, and salt in proper proportion. Don’t make any thicker than for cakes. Drop an oyster into each Spcon of batter as you dip it out, and fry in hot Jard; brown well on both sides. OYSTERS FRigD.—Drain the oysters well, roll in fine cracker dust and in hot lard and but- ter—two-thirds lard one- butter. OysTER Prs.—Line a deep basin with puff paste, fold a large towel and place inside to support the lid. roll an ornament out of a piece of paste the puton the basin and bake. slowiy; have an oyster stew made as.above, without ci and ‘fll the basin as soon‘as the paste is done. Serve immediately. Forest Firgs are fiercely in the vicin- ity of Norfolk, Va., E10) farm-houses, ‘bS, and farm property. Many of the roads @ impassable on account flames and from the west for 24 hours. There is no indication of rain, and the loss of the surrounding country will be very heavy. &@~Deacon Johneon fell asleep in a front gal- fery Lilien church at Chatham, Va., and fell pre way, turnipg @ somersaait in th er rail ie ‘and striking on Deacon Fuller with crushing HOUSEFURNISHINGS. *PLEXDID STOCK OF BEAtlau AND | ana A coding STOVES, Banget ant bs | L4™ES’ Boots. LB ogee opie oer pen Martanted soromascnted te uonay retina a ‘Come and see. GEO. E GAR TRY LL, eep26-lm 815 7th st. n.w., ber H and I. YE ARE NOW BECEIVING Fall Btock of BreamsHir INDIANA, ENGLISH OROCKERY Axp SEMI PORCOELAINE WARE. Some New and Unique Patterns, which offer at the lowest pres : hae HO! o0., Importers and Dears in Crockery, Chins and eeplitr 2343 F et,, opposite Bbbitt House. BexNTon's FURNACES. BEST FURNACES IN THE WORLD FCB HARD OOAL OR WOOD (WROUGHT OR OAST IRON.) ARE Mave By RIOHARDSON, BOYNTON & CO. Embody new 1879 improvements, never before adopted: Gontain more practical features: Are nore durable: Cost less to keep in order: Use leas fuel: and will give more heat and iaryer Heplace your old and poorly working heaters with one of these modern furnaces, which are popularand u Sold iversally successful. 0. G. BALL, aveico3m 1337 E st., near Willard’s. al T call the attention to parties that are building and want comfort, to cauland examine my PUsRACES AND BANGES. FURNACES AND BANGES before purchasing. It will pay. Estimates cheer fully furnished, WALTER D. WYVILL, anci8-2m 452 Penn A FINE STONE CHINA CHAMBER ave. nt BET, 11 PIEGES, $2.26. 56 PIECES STONE CHINA TEA SET, 84. A larze assortment of ROGERS' CUTLERY and PLATED WABE, which we will sell very low. J. W. SCHAEFER eugl6-te 1016 Berenth stroct .0, G 4S FIXTURES. GAS FIXTURES. THE LARGPST STOOK OF THE BEST MADE = GOODS IN THE CITY, from the celebrated factory of Messrs. Mitchell, ‘Vance & Oo. EET ALL OOMPETITORS IN THIS wae ‘OITy AS WELL AS OUTSIDE. AlLof our Goods handled by Practical Hands. Will ‘suaranteo entire satisfaction. E. F. BROOKS, sued Corcoran BUILDING, 15th st. AS COOKING STOVES. Gas Light Company have. at ‘an assortment of the SUN ‘The Wi their office on DIAL GAS LUMBER! LUMBER!! ANOTHER TUMBLE IN PRICES! POPLAR, 1 inch and 5-8, No. 2.....per 100 ft., $200 WHITE PINE BHINGLES, No. 2..per 1000, 81.75 OLEAR SIDING, % inch (without s knot), per 100 fteeee, @1.00 VIRGINIA PINE BOARDS.. per 100 ft., 95cte OYPRESS BRINGLES, No. 2........per 1000, $4.50 WE ARE NEVER OUT OF THESE! WILLET & LIBBEY OBNEB SIXTH AND Wy. Y. AVENUE 5.W OPPOSITE NORTHERN LIBERTY MARKET my29-tr Wasuraron, D. ad ECEIVED TO-DAY, ‘] LY KNOX’S FD avenve J FRESH SUPPLY ENC ig ETH E : Also, the New HAT for Young Men. now so popu- lar in New Yors. STINEMETZ, Hatter, oot "a, ave. ANTED—To purchase, a Brewstertop BUGGY ‘with side bars, in good condition. Pleate slate forms aid lowest caah price, of wa ‘Siaddtess Mr’ COORE, Box 96, Star office. oct2-st ABINI'S ACADEMY. E. 1879-80 NOW OPEN FOR RECEP- pemc TION OF PUPILS. Practicing Reunions every Baturaay, Evening, from 7 3g to 10, commencing SATURDAY, rena” Por iSata adnan eo Hovlare apply at the Academy. octl-14t CARPE’ AND HOUSEFUBNISHING F'evo en We now ‘have on hand assortment of all the newest di Sa OARPETS D jesizns Pert and HOU! GOODS, viz: MarBe Shure & cunts Tapestry, Garpets, Lon Hall & Bead, and Hartiord igor Ou frost variety. Also, Batins, Haw Bike dates, Mara Notdnaham, Bell aud’ Antique. Lave Gurtaine 2 Aheios atte Moulding, ‘Brass and POO er a Gold medai_ Bigelow Sanpete a ore [OOE & 00., ai BRO. Fst. n.w., near Bbbitt Hi BvschanD’s FAMILY SOAP. GOOD—HONEST—OHEAP! When you are tired of the doar bought and far. nds with which the market is flooded, tr SURCHARD'S. You willfind irreliable, economy, Tarot EES BAS EOE saany 5 [t is recommen: author It has points of absolute superior- wea ‘other kinds. of which I am prepared to prove. GROCERIES for sale ‘Allother FINE TERIES for alo by octl Pa. ave. and Four-and-a-half st. J. M. & RB. 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LEAVE WA! & 5:05 am.—tNew York, Philadelphia and Boston Pxpress, | Elucott City. "On Sundays to Lsitimors ‘only Stops at Shipley's, Laurel, Annapolis Jano- tion, Jessup's, Hanover, Kik Ridva and inane Breakfast at Relay Station. ss 6:50 na Baltimore, Aunapolis and way. (Pisd- mont, Strasburg, Winchester, Hagerstown, Frede rick and wsy, via Relay.) $8.00 am,—fBaitimore and Laure! Bx; Strasburg, 8:10 a.m.—Point of Rocks, Piedmont Winchester, Haxerstown and way stations. 8:30 a.m—New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore Exprees Barlor car to New York and iadely! 8:35 8. m—tSt. Louis, Chicago, Oolumbus and Pittaburgh Express. Frederick, lazerstown and ranch, except Sunday. Brough car to mo. Pullman Ours to Oincinuati, di . Graf- ton to Sandusky, daily, except Saturday. 1220808100 Sunday only —Baltimore, Annapo- ant ‘ay. 10:00 a. m.—Baltimore Express. Stops at Biadens- burg, College, Beltsville, Laurel, Annspolis Juno- tion, Jessup's and Hanover. 12:10 > m.—Baltimore, Aunapolis, Ellicott Gity ay. 230 mew York, Philadelphia, and Boston reas. Btope Bt MIME p.m ton Sunday only, Baltimore and Way. 8:30 p. m.—Baltimore and Way Stations. 4:30 'p. m—Baltimore, Biadensburx, and Laurel Express. ‘Frederick, vie Belay. Stops at Annapolis ranction. 4:35 p. m.—tPotnt of Rocks, Frederick, Hagers- be ney bn Senha 3 ‘and Way . 4:40). —tBaltimore, Annapolis and Way Sta ey Puig ]PELLADELPHIA, NORFOLK AND BALTIM( EXPRESS. Norfolk, except Bun- Gay, Norfolk Passcnwers taken in the cars boat at Btope at Bladenabung and Laurel 80 p. m.-Point of Rocks and Way Stations. 7:00 p. m.—tBaltimore and Way Stations. 20 (p.m BALTIMORR Ellicott City. via Belay. 8:16 p.n.—tOHIO4GO, COLUMBUS AND PITTS. & Gh” ari aa = z —— Ub he TNEW. YORE, PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE EXPRESS. | Stopa at Biadens- Pediat Mospine carte Puifsdaiphia. vw Com 80d SYf-00 p.m. TSt. Louis and Cincinnatl Express, +Daily. tSunday only. Other trains daily, except trains stop at tation. for further ito m_apply at the Baltimore and Ohio 2.cket_O: Ws ‘Station, 603, 619 and 1435 Pennsylvania avenue, where orders will be taken for to be: ‘and received, eae eet is tne iy: we Mt OCEMENTS. Stes Master of Transportation, Generr! Tick Geo, SHOORTE General Aeeet’ —_ myle rengiiVama _ 1879 Pittal d the West, 10:30 f, with Boe neat See epee ary rey BALTIMORE AND POTOMAO EAILEOAD, Batts Biagara ‘Falls and ‘at 6:20am. prog ay 2 fo day ero Bacardi, wile Lock Haven, and Eimira, at 10:30 am, daily, ex- rt day. For Now York and the East, 1:30 p.m. daily, exoopt Bundsy, ana 1U:1d p.m. daily, with Palace Osrs al Limited Express of Pullman Parlor Gara, 9:30 a.m. daily, except Sunday. Brool ..N. ¥., el through trains connect at ‘with boats "eres For Pope's Oreek daily, except Sunday. For Annspolis, 6:20 am. and ¢:20 p, m., daily, ex ALEXANDEIA AND FREDERI EA WAY AND, ALEZANDHIA AND WABHING: ‘7:15, 8, 9, 10, 11 1: 4 Ferg (and 1180 pr ‘Gu Bandsy bene id the South, 6:60 am. daily, and day Sy H 7:16, & at ‘Car 6. 7and Wp. and Parlor the 0! n. Alexar: tie and 18 formation, chee. for Ls a.m, and 6 pam Bleep’ PIANOS AND ORGANS. UST RECE!VED—A NEW STOCK OF THE celebrated KNABE & (0O.'S PIANOS. oa and Organs of other factories, at reduced prices. Tuning and iB REIOHENBACH’S PIANO WAREROOMS, sl7-lm 423 11th st. 2 few doors above Pa. ave. \NIFICENT NEW PIANO UPRIGHT PAR- “8 3 Bet Golden Toneue ‘Reeds; BBavscny PIANOS AND OBGANS. E.G. SMITH, Manvracruszs, Brooklyn, N. ¥. A ‘assortment of these & INSTEU- ea received for, ‘Tuning