Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1879, Page 7

| “gether, and be to each other faithful, loving and MARRIAGES BY TELEGRAPH. the Matrin« ial Knot is Tied mewn by ul ‘ire. ¢ INSTANCES IN WHICH THE DISTANCE OF RQUPEW HUNDRED, MILES penne ereaeSae ‘WITH THE UNION OF LOVIN "Tae click of the telegrapif@as sometines been ressed into other service thaa that which the immortal Morse conceived to be {t# sphere. Beyond the mere tran=mission of news and messeges of social and business import, there has been developed a somewhat sensational feld for the operation of electricity. The pro- gressive spirit of the age has proclaimed mar- Fiages by telegraph as the order of the day. Matrimonial ailiauces at sea, marriages by proxy, and balloon weddings must now take a Position in the background of romance. A few months agu, Mr. W. H. Story, the sig- alservice operator at Camp Grant, Arizona ‘Territ , became et to Miss Clara B Ch of San Diego, Cal, 650 wiles distant. Being in the service of the government, and the only operator at Camp Grant, he could not ‘obtain leave to make so long a journey for his 80 Miss Choate went out to him to Arizona. The young man received her with open arms, and engaged rooms for her at the only accessible lodging house in the place. The next morning she found upon inquiry that there was no minister in the entire county. In this extremity the plan of impressing the tele- graph into service was decided upon. Ar- ents were perfected by which a minister was’ to by stationed at "the San Diego end of the line the following even- ing, and a beso party of the family and fiends of the bride gathered in the office of the telegraph operator. Rev. J. L. Mann of the M. E. Church wus promptiy on hand at o'clock, and everything being in readiness, Camp Grant Was asked ff they were ready to’ proceed with the ceremony. oun parties prompuly respond- ed that they were. Key. Mr. Mann rose and said they were now about to attend the marriage ceremony of two friends. They could hardly hear the words spoken standing so far apari, but could speak with the telegragh wire audibly enough. He then said, Operator Blythe repeat- ing ‘the words with te tustrument. “1 am duly authorized to uulte tu holy matrimony William H. Story and Clara B. Choate, who ‘now pre- sent themselves for tuesolemnization of thisan- cient and honorable rite. Do you, both of you, we yourselves that’ you will live od’s ordnance in the holy state ; that you will love, foster and de- fend each other in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all otlers, keep you only to your: selves, So long as you both shall live?” Answers: “I, do—William H. Story.’ Clara E. Choate.” “As a token of sincerity you will please join your right hands.” Answer—It is done. The clergyman then repeated the words, “Whom God hath joined together let no man putasunder. By virtue of the authority in me vested, I now pronounce you husband and wife. May you be happy forever. Am In order that the services should be exactly given, Rev. Mr. Mann bad previously written 1t out. Several congratulations foilowed over the wire, to which appropriate replies were sent. Upon the visit of tue happy couple to San Diego the officlating clergyman Was made the reciptent ef a handsome present. i Up six flights of stairs of the Western Unton ‘Telegraph building a reporter yesterday found a veteran manipulator of the électric Keys. He was sitting at the Newark wire in the midst of 200 whirring and clicking instruments, convey- Ing their burdens of intelilgence to every quar- terof the globe. Taking a chair by the side of his instrument, the reporter asked him: “Do you have many instances of matrimony performed over your wires, Mr. Walcott?” “Not many thus far,” he replied, laughing. “The fact is, It is a rather tn A few weeks ago Mr. G. our best operators, was Pa., to take charge of that station. He had just bought a fuil~iress wedding sui ir of white gloves, and an immaculate shirt front,which we ed him abouvas belng paper. ‘It's all right, ys,” he said, *I can get married tn it just the game.’ He fully expected to start that evening for Brownsville to meet Mrs. Lida Culler, a ‘Western Union operator stationed there, whom be had to take for better or for worse. His onial designs on the handsome widow were suddenly cus short, however, for anager Downer ordered him to Waynesburg without delay. We all thought that the poor fellow would be seriously disappointed.” “How did he get out of the scrape?” “Why, his native ingenuity got the better of the circumstances, for he resorted at once to the use of the telegraph. On the second morning after his departure the girls in the operating room here were thrown into a ilurry of excite- ment by the receipt of the following m: from Division superintendent Kow Al ‘ys, one of ‘aynesburg, busi. ness must be suspended on this circuit five minutes before 2 p. m. to-day, and be kept closed until after the marriagé ceremony by | telegraph, which takes place at 2o'clock.” At the very moment appointed the tick, tick, tick announced that the novel ceremony had begun. Every female operator in the place gathere: about it to listen to the story of the wedding.” ~ Did you keep any of the correspondence?” “Yes; here it ts,” and the operator displayed manifold slips containing the following dis- patch: (Brownsville to Waynesburg.) “Tell the Rev. Mr. Scott we are ready now.” (Waynesburg to Brownsville.) 5 TG. Sontt Jofreys and Like C dle, B-owasville, Mari fs an ordinance of God, for the wel- fare and happiness of the human family, tnsti- tuted at the creation and union of the first pair, by which He ordained the unton of one dan with one woman in bonds of pure and holy wedlock for life. The parties to be united at this Ume please to join hands. (Signed) J. W. Soorr, Minister of the Gospel. (Brownsville to Waynesburg.) It ts done. (Waynesburg to Brownsville.) Do you, cause Scott Jeffreys and Lida Culler, who hold each other by the hand, take eaoh other as lawful and wedded companions for life; and do you solemnly promise, before God and the witnesses present, that you wiil live to- true, a3 husbind and wife, tlil Ged shall sepa- rate you by death? (Signed) J. W. Scorr, Minister of the Gospel. (Brownsville to Waynesburg.) fe We do. OTT JEFFREYS, R. ‘Waynesburg to Baownsville.) In tue’ name and by qnowuthority of God I ronounce you husband and wife. Whom God as joined together let no man put asunder. And Inay God the Pager Son and Holy Ghost Diess the union and y@@selves individually and personally, now Ame! Signed) forever. J. W. Scorr, Minister of the Gospel. (Brownsville to Waynesburg.) ‘Thank you. SESFREYS. “So Jeffreys got married on time, after all,” concluded the operator. “Do you know of any similar instances? “Weil, there was Miss M. E. Buddington, who was married in Milwaukee on the f last to a gentleman whom she had never seen Dut once or twice, and who was at the time m Owatona, Minn. "I have been in that place my- self, and it is a dreary, God-torsaken region. ‘There used to be a clergyman there named Tif- fany, but he had moved away a siiort while pre- vious. So the bride found It necessary to supply the clergyman herself. The Minnesota ollice then propounded the importint question to the Owatona end of the line, but there was a dels: in the response. Superintendent, Haskins sug: gested that the operator at the other end of the ‘Wire was nervous. The bride entered into the spirit of the affair, and remarked that it would be rather embarrassing if he should say no. An irreverent lounger in the oftice suggested that he had gone out for something to steady his nerves. Ten minutes elapsed, and then the answer ¢: Ido, and o pledge her my love and protection. Lew W. WaLkeR, “The clergyman pronounced the benediction, and the bride, who was still a little nervous about the resuit of the affair, left the city on an evening train to join her husiand.” An eminent legal purveyor was appealed to by the reporter for an opinion regarding the jegality o: these He was informed that a couple were marmted with one of the con- ersoting : thea and the clergymen in Milwau- kee, and the other party seat in a telegraph office in Minnesota. " “Tush! tush!” he exclaimed; “will you please ‘telegraph he oe Mig eee lady that that Was no marriage at a) you have any regard for the welfare of those young people Yourhad better warn them before it is too late that they are hot very much married.” ee is that?” “Why, you say the ¢! an Was statione at Milwaukee? Very ane the gr = in Minnesota only the bride Is sarried., m ‘Take down that copy of the Revised Stati Les and turn to section 2,351; you will see that an ordained minister's authori mar only ‘throughout the states? Digna ears “But, suppose there had J aenp tan been a minister at “There might have been a dozen, Would be void. The parson ts oot ged to give to each of the parties a certificate of the time and place of the What 13 the r en that efther of the nis Baace te les to this Edison’ i ais nd Lopphelorel see cnet other, what heritance ay E aw a Ply? Or supposing live, Dut ne ci nv Ver meet each ‘The reporter gave it up.—{N. F. Star. —<$<$<$<$<<____ £7" The Leadville Chronicle - caaville says that a com. Se Akad from an Ezstern state. bs = §#"Charics Matthews and John intoan altercation in Chattanooga last ‘4 when Matthews shot Redding three - ang him instanUy. Bota are core ee Short Cuts to Learning. f one were asked to name the class of pubil- ca'ions most characteristic of the present pariod there would be littie hesitation in giving the first place to the primers and compendtums and other short cuts to learning which issue from the presses of this country and England in an endless stream. Knowledge is sugat-coat nowadays, and is administered in easy doses. There is somuch to be learned that nobody can be ex} to learn it all for himself, and accordingly some specialists must be employed 16 pd out all that 1s known upon any given subject, 220 ree eae Oe In this way we are provided with ‘primers’ of history, of selence, of the finé arts. Condensed biogra- phies of the world’s great men are prep: for us, to save usthe trouble of studying their lives for ourselves. The great writers of all times and of all countries. poets, his‘ ori: novelists even, are served up in convenient: so that one may learn to talk glibly of Euripides without know- ne a word of Greek, and of Horace without being able to scan a Latin verse. The wonders of modern science, of astronomy, of geology, of chemistry and J fete are in a like manner brought within the grasp of every one.andthere 1g none of us who may not, by the expenditure of afew small coins and a few hours snatched from business, qualify ourselves to discourse on the co: relation of forces or defend the doctrine of evolutioa. There never was a time when nig was such a simple thing. Formerly, it req) years of patient toil to acquire a knowl- edge of classical literature or of ancient history, even as then understood, or to qualify one’s selt to have an opinion even in the elementary science of those days. But in these days of the railroad and the peeeaph we have changed all that. The ascent of Parnassus is now made by express, and we have only to buy a through licket at the bookseller'sand we are whisked away to an elevation from which we may luok down with lofty scorn upon our plodding ances- tors. “All this is very delightful, but one cannot help questioning whether the pleasure ts likely to endure. and whether the multiplication of books really has so great a help to knowl as it seems. It will hardly be dented that, in spite of all our modern Improvements, an‘ not- withstanding the indisputably wider diffusion of knowledge among all classes, the proportion of really educated men and women fs hot larger, if as large, as it was in the time of our grand- fathers. There is, however, a reason for this in the vast extension of the field of human inquiry. Our grandfathers were better read than we, but. they did not read as much nor have as much to read. If they knew Horace and Demosthenes, they did not Know Huxley and Darwin; if they studied Shakespeare, they were Ignorant upon the subject of the Lake Dwellers; if they read their Bible, they had few newspapers to read. It 1s a fact that a man needs, or thinks he needs, to know so many things now that general heen ¢ is becoming very rare. branches oi research are falling more and more into the hands of spe- clalists, by whom the work 18 done, and who only present the result of their labors to the world. This is what makes the soe scholarship and genuine science of our lay So complete, and enables it to achieve such really great results, and the man who knows one thing well may be content to accept what other men have learned on otherthings. The trouble hat the most of us do not know anything well. We let others do not only a part but ail of the work, and we calmly appropriate the re- sults In fifty cent primers and flatter ourselves that we are “educated.” Herein is the weak- ness of all this primer business, that It tends to destroy all habits of real study and to substitute a superficial smattering of universal informa- tlon for a well-grounded, because patlently-ac- quired, knowledge of some one helpful thing. ‘The primers are all very well if they are rightly used as helps to reading, not as substitutes for it, but a man will find more progy frem reading the book for himself than from having some- body else read a dozen for him.”—{ Philadelphia umes, The Derivation of the Word Money. ‘The derivations of the words relating to money and commerce are interesting and instructive. “Pecuniary” takes US to the times when value was reckoned by so many head of cattle. The word “ money” is from moneta, because In Rome coins were first regularly struck in the Temple of Juno Moneta, which again was de- rived from monere, to warn, because it. was built on the spot where Manlius heard the Gaals. approaching to the attack of the city. “Coin” is probably from the Latin cuneus, a die or stamp. Many coins are merely so called from their weight, as, for instance, one pound, the French livre, Italian lira; others from the metal, as the “aureus,” the “rupee” from the Sanskrit “rupya,” silver; others trom the design, as the angel, the testoon, from teste or (ele, a head; Mthers from the head of the state, as the sov- ereign, crown; others from the proper name of the monarch, such as the daric, from Darius, the Phillip, Louis d’or or the Napoleon. The dollar or thaler is short for the Joachim- Staler, or money of the Joachims Valley, In Bohemia, where these coins were first struck in the sixteenth century. Guineas were called after the country from which the gold was ob- tained, and the “franc” {3 an abbreviation of the inscription Francorum Rex. The “sou” is from the Latin solidus. The word shilling ap- pears to be derived from a root signifying to divide; and in several cases the name indicates the fraction of some larger coin, asthe denarius half-penny, farthing, cent and mill. The pound was originally not a coin, but_a weight, and comes from the Latin pundus. Our pound was originally a pound of silver, which was divided into 240 pennies. The origin of the word penny is unknown. Some have derived It from the word pendo, to weigh; but this does not seem very satisfactory. Our word Sterling” is sald to go back to the Conquest, but the derivation as been mué¢h disputed. Some have supposed that It was first attributed to coins struck a Surling, but for this there 1s not the slightes evidence; ethers, that the name was derived from the coins a star on the obverse, bu no coins which could have given rise to such a name are known. The most probable sugges- tion fs that {t has reference to the Easterling, or North German merchanta— (The Niwetaenth rntury. Washington Fifty Years Ago. (Maj. Poore in January Atlantic. ] Pennsylvania avenue—the Appian Way of our repubilc—was graded while Jefferson was Prest- dent, at a cost of $14,000; he personally superin- tended the planting of four row3 of Lombardy poplars along that portion of it between the Capitol and the White House—a row aiong each qurbstone, and two equi distant rows in the roadway, Which was thus divided into three parts, like Unter der Linden at Berlin. In the winter and spring the driveway would often be full of mudholes, some of them axle deep and some of the cross streets would be almost impassable beds of red clay, worked by passing horses and wheels’ ino a thick mortar. On one occasion, when Mr. Webster and a friend undertook to go to George- town in a hackney-coach to attend a dinner ah the vehicie got stuck in a mud-hole, and he driver had to carry his passengers, one’at a time, to the sidewalk, where they stood until the empty carriage could be puiled out. Mr. Webster, in narrating this Incident years atter- wards, used to laugh over his fears that his bearer would fall beneath his weight and ruin his dress suit. John Randolph used to call Pennsylvania avepue “the great Serbonian bog,” and descant on the dangers of a trip over it, to or from the Union Hotel at Georgetown. in large stage with seats on top called the ‘oyal George.” Love and Romance. Sometimes in this ultra-practical world of ours there occurs a romantic episode as beauti- ful as anything in Tennyson's poetry. Even here J” ,rcedy Paris such charming events do occa: ‘oually take place, and when we hear of them it makes us feel as if there were some dls- interested creatures in the world after all, and as if life Were worth living—a proposition,’even when we are in the enjoyment of a good liver, We are often inclined to doubt. Only think of her Grace, the Duchess of Newcastle, makin up her mind to lay down her proud title ‘and ke, instead, that of plain Mrs. Tom Hohler! Only those familiar with the enormous social barrier which fences out the whole rest of the world from the sacred persons of the higher grades of English aristocracy, can conceive what a marvellous concession to the power of love this is. The Duchess, although she has a Son, the present Duke, about fourteen years old, is still very young, and excessively handsome. {suppose we may conclude that her marriage with the Duke was, on both sides, one of inter- est. She marri apr for title—he, per- haps, formoney. She is the heiress of the great banking house of Hope, and the family country Seat, Hopedene, is one’ of the grandest castles England boasts, among her many such. ‘To make a long story short, they separated, every- body in London knowing that the Duke's friend for many years was Kate Santley, the blonde ries ng actress who played in the “Blacd Crook” In New York. There, were differ- ent stories about this alliance, some saying that it was the Duke who took theatres for Kate Santley in London, so as to keep herup as a Star, and others averring that he was Poor, and that It was the burlesque actress who Supplied him with funds out of her professional earnings. Meantime the affection which had g| rung up between the Duchess and Tom Hohler, the tenor, was also a matter of common observa- tion, though not one of scandal, because their conduct was discreet and noble.” One day last winter the Duke died suddenly, in his bachelor’s Tooms, in St. James street, and Kate Santiey paraded the for a month in widow's weeds. I suppose the widow’s year is about to ipse, SO that now the engagement between be announced. other day. She utsitely dressed. HP pins Are We m Art? ‘The lu_arranges colors for a fabric with the same certainty of intuition that a bird weaves his nest, or a spider its web. His blues and greens are as harmonious in their combina- Uons as those of nature herself, while the “edu- cated” lishman is now introducing every Species of atrocity in form and color wherever he goes, the beautiful native manufac- tures by instructions from his superior *stand- int.” £01 the workers to commit every under which he does himself at home. in order to adapt their fabrics tothe abominable taste of the middle classes in England. Even the missionariés, male and female, cannot hold their hands, and teach the children in Schools and harems crocket and cross- stitch of the worst designs and colors, per = the Cpr native Cae ery e Arsenic ns, and gas-tar Ges are introdtced by order o} the ‘merchants into and cashmere sbawls; vile colors and forms in ry and bad lacquer-work are growing up, by command, There seems to be no in China and Japan. check or stay to the irruption of taste Which is swamping the whole world Dy our in- fluence. The Japanese have even been a= | Teco! mended to make a museum of their own beauti- ful old productions quickly, or the very foereld of their existence aad the manner io whic! they were made would be lost. It iscommonly supposed that the taste of the French 1s better than our own, and the pretty, the bizarre, the becoming, may indeed be said to belong to their domain; but high art 1s not their vocation. A ceitain harmony is ed by quenching ” the “ Bis- le, se,” the “Celadon” of the Savres china, all elghth and tenth di of dilution; but pure color, like that of Persia and of the’ East generally, they never now dare to dip their hands into. The goreeons effects of their own old painted glass, he “rose windows” of the church at Rouen and in many other towns of Normandy, are far beyond their present reach. The stained glass of all countries in Europe, indeed, belonging to the good times, is a feast of color which none of the modern work can approach. ‘There is a “Last. Judgment,” said to be from designs by Altert Direr, which was taken In a sea-flighton its road to Spain, and put ina little church at Fairford, in Gloucestershire, which dazzles us with its splendor; and the scraps which are still to be found all over England in vill churches (many of which are now believed to be of home Manufacture) are as beautiful as the great Flemish windows 30 feet high. At the present day, the pisments used, we are told, are finer; the glass is infinitely better rolled, atl the man- ufacturing processes have made wonderful pro- gress, as we proudly declare; only the results of ft are utterly and simply detestable—the colors of the great modern windows in Cologne Cathe- dral and Westminster Abbey set one’s very teeth on the temptation to use a stone (if it had come under one’s hand) would be frightfully great in front of that at the east end of Ripon. There lies before mean old Persian rug, all out of shape and twisted in the weaving, but full of subtle quan- Uutles in color, perfect in the proportions of its vivid brilliancy, and a ind new Axminster carpet alongside, of faultless construction, with a design as hideous as its colors are harsh. It isnot only now with productions destined for the English market, but the d tion of art is inning to spread all over the world—the standards of Si eh jan taste’ are vitlating the very well-sj o vutital ol work. The Smantilla® of Seville, and the “tovagiia” of the Roman peasant, are su planted by frightful bonnets; the striking old costumes are ise ppesting: alike in Brittany and in Algiers; in Athens and in Turkey they sire giving way to the abominations of Parisian toilets for the women, while the chimney-pot hat is taking the piace of the turban and the kalpac for the men.—{Lady Verney, in the Con- temporary Review. Bridal Costumes of Fernando Po. As with us, the Fernando Po bride is clad in white—not the gauzy, flowing robe, however, but a plastering of earthy paste resembling plaster of paris. She wears a bridal vell, too, composed of tiny white shells, strung together, and which covers the face from forehead to chin, while her plentifully pomatumed tresses are surmount with an enormous _hel- met made of cowhide. The Fernando Po bride- groom tseven more elaborately decorated. It iS a work of time as well as of art to make the young gentleman ready to take the necessary vows before the two mothers—his own and his intended’s—who act the part of priests. Like his bride, he is thickly plastered over with the white ‘ola paste, and he wears on his head an enormous disc of tine bamboo plait skewered to his hair with long pins with blue and red beads for heads. His marriage raiment is of strung shells, and it being notorious that the instant a young man commences to make himself ready for marriage malicious evil spirits are in close attendance, and on the alert to baulk his lauda- ble intent, as an antidote against their ma- tevolence he carries in his hand the whole time, and never takes his eyes off, a plece of a yam shaped like a heart, and in which the red feather of a parrot is stuck. ‘The marriage ceremony 1s the essence of simplicity. The mother-priests place an arm of each round the neck of bride and bridegroom, and deliver a short address to them on their respective duties, after which the valabash of palm wine ts produced, and the con- tracting parties ratify the condition by drinking the one to the other, after which the officiating mothers-t«-law pledge each in the remainder, and the ceremony 1s at an end.—{ The Globe, AN INTELLIGENT AND OBSERVING AMERIGAN who has been spending several years in Eng- land says that one of the objections he makes to that country {s that the queen’s subjects, espe- cially the educated and refined, tl talk and act just alike. He asserts that the average Englishman does not appear to have more than 200 words in his vocabulary, and these he em- ploys continually with exactly the same intona- Uon, until a sensible person, accustomed to any variety of speech, is nearly driven distract- ed by what Falstaff terms damnable iteration. It “Quite right,” “Yes, thanks,” “No, thanks,” “Great fun,” “Tremondously clever,” “Fancy now,” “Really now,” “I say,” “Awtfully jolly,” “Rum,” “Nice,” “Beastly,” ‘You know,” *! dear Boy,” “Do, please,” “That sort of thing,” “The proper thing,” and afew other phrases were taken away from him, the American be- Meves that he would be reduced to absolute si- ience, There is a deal of monotony, beyond doubt, in English society, because the English are not as @ people very quick witted; they have little fluency; they don’s want to talk, and they are hostile, socially, to individu- ality or anything like it. The English, on the other hand, think we talk too much, make too much noise, and are, asa rule, perfectly irre- pressible. Perhaps a medium batween the two. would be desirable, and ts likel; are learning something from stantly.—{. F. Times. Hew a Tramp Talks in Kentucky. A man whose garments appeared to be in the last stages of decomposition, whose hair was unkempt, whose shoes were worn, and whose step was’ weary, shuffied up to the rear of a Kentucky residence and, ing the hired girl a a smile that looked like the crack of doom, an: Thave this day arrived on Kentucky soil “Bad for Kentucky soll,” interrupted the girl. “T have, I say,” continued the stranger, “this day arrived on Kentucky soll—” “You weren't expected, sir!” “To reagh here, ny good woman, I have trav- eled along distance. To this spot from the clime where the Sierras lift up their minarets of snow, like white hands held to Heaven, is no day’s jaunt. My boots show that. No. This journey, like Rome, wasn’t made ina day. required weary marches and counter-marches; rides by stealth on cattle trains; hours of sus- nse from the rear axle of an emigrant wagon, ringing to mind many scenes long gone by, when covetous companions cried to the unsus- peeene farmer to ‘whip behind!’ But at last I am here—” “Much as we can do to scratch for ourselves.” “And that I am here, I thank the gods! The rivations and misery of my long journey ther! How bitter had been my lot. it not been sweetened by the anticipation that I would one day stand where I now stand—upon the historic soil of the grand Old Commonwealth, where Clay and Calhoun——” m “We hayen’t a bite of cold victuals in the jouse.” “I dare say Iam barely a stone's throw from the famed blue-grass region, where the heavens above are mirrored from the meadows beneath, and where, in turn, the meadows catch their blue from the eyes of the fairest women beneath the sun. Nay, do not go. It isnoempty com- pliment. Heaven knows I mean it. Looking into the depths of your liquid orbs I have the proof as strong as Holy Writ. Ah, thanks, fair maiden, thanks! Sitting here on the sunny side of the dog house, I will partake of this rabbit ple, these doughnuts, corn-d and what- not, and when I get down to that apple-jack I will drink it to the one who gave it, and sweeter will it be than Amontillado sherryl”—{Cincin- nati Enquirer, C. Epwarps ae is living in retire ment in New York, tells a correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal of a great “beat” (as news miei oss mg Whee tet Sac le. en Piereo was no: ted, Mr. Lester to come, forwe ne another con- and steamed down the bay. ‘On down he dictated in phonograph a bwoceney, letter to the London Times. The appeared in the Thunderer two weeks ahead of any other European journal. The Ti draft for ive hundred guineas. iinctnrrene de laeecen oan 400,000 mac erican 000 sewing machines were made in last , apd many shave been aa pmconeney, The London Daily News’ Lahore h, dated Dec. 25, announces that Gen. Go! bas Found “I saw a funny sight in the strest just now,” satd Mr. Patterson to his friend Mr. Johnson, in the Fifth Avenue Hotel barber shop, last Mon- afternoon. “I met an elegantly dressed carrying in her hand an old horssshoe cov- ered with mud. I presume she had just ound it, and was carrying it home for luck.” ‘Good luck,” replied Mr. Johnson. “Don’t talk to me about old horseshoes and good luck. | Abou a month ago my wite and I were return- ing from church one Sunday, when, justin front of the new Roman Catholic cathedral in Seth street, a horse which was being driven ata aprely galt threw a shoe, and tt went ring- along the pavement. ‘Go get that shoe,’ said my wife, ‘and we will keep it for good luck.’ I picked it up, utterly rut one of my Pores in ‘SO, a8 It was Oovered with mud. This I was ig to wipe off on thecurb, but my wife cried out, ‘Oh, don’t do that; for if you do, you Will wipe off all your luck.’ So Ih the old thing all the way home, and over the door we upg it, mud and ali. The next morning I went down to the store wondering what my first Streak of good luck would be. Before night ; 1 bad_a misunderstanding with my employer, with whom I have been for several years, we both got hot and the result was that he gave me hotics that after the first of next January he would dispense with my services. A few days afterward my wife went out to do a little shop- Ping, and lost her pocket book containing all the money we had n saving for a long time to spend for holiday presents and amusements. Tn fact for about two weeks everytl seemed togo st me, and I was in hot water all the time. nally, I said to my wife one day that 1 believed it was that confounded old horseshoe that was to biame for it all, and that I was bound to take it down and put it back in the Street, Just where I found it, and so I did. “The very next morning my employer sent for me to come and see him In his private office. Me said he bad been mistaken in the matter about which we had differed, apologized for what he had said, hoped there would be no hard feelings about it,'and wound up by en; me for another year at an increased salary. I went home that night feeling better-natured than I had for weeks. I told my wife of luck, and then she took from her pocket a letter which she had that day received from her father, noti- fying her that he was going to send her a check for $500 for a Christmas present. In fact. I have had only good luck since I threw away that old horseshoe. They may bring luck to some folks, but my wife and I don’t want any more horse- shoes in ours, you bet.”—{N. F. Sun. Dot Leedle Loweeza. (From the Detroit Free Press.] How dear to dis heart vas my grandshild, Lowaeza, Dot scheet leedle taughter of Yawcob, my son! I nefer was tired to hug and to ahqueeze her ‘Vhen home I gets back, und der day's vork yas lone: Vhen I vas avay, oh, I know dot she miss mo, For vhen I come homevards she rushes bell mel, Und poots oup dot shweet leedle mout for to kiss me— Her * ‘darling old gampa,”" dot she lofe ao vell. Katrina, mine frau, she could not do midoudt her, She vis coech a gomfort to her day py day : Dot shild she makes efry von habby aboudt er, Like sunshine she drife all dheir droubles avay ; She holdt der yool yarn vile Katrina she vind it, She pring her dot camfirv bottle to shmell;" She fetch me mine pipo, too, ven I don't can find it, Dot plue-eyed Loweeza dot lofe me so yell. How shyeet ven der toils off der veek vas all ofer, Und Sunday vas come mit its quiet and rest, ‘To valk mit dot shild "mong der dsisies und clofer, Und look at der leedle birds building dheir nest! Her pre ht leedle eyes how dey shparkle mit least re Her laugh it rings oudt shust so clear as a bell; I dhink dhere vas nopody haf sooch a treasure As dot shmall Loweeza, dot lofe me so vell. Vhen vinter vas come, mid its coldt, shtormy ve er, Katrini und I must sit in der house Und dalk of der bast, by eer fireside tozedder, Or blay mid dot taughter off our Yawoob Strauss. Oldt age, mit its wrinkles, pegins to remind us ‘Ve gannot shtay lony init our shildren to dwell; Buat soon ve shall meet mit ter poys eft behind us, Und dot shweet Loweeza, dot lofe us go vell. (CHaRLxs F. ADAs. Zadkiel’s Direful Predictions. Ihave laid out a penny in Zadktel’s Almanac, and I am filled with terror at the various trou- bles which are predicted for next year. In Jan- uary “wars and rumors of wars’ still afflict the British people and do Injury to their trade and commerce, for Mars was setting at the win- ter solstice and afflicting the ascending, planet, Venus, by opposition aspect. Ireland will bé disputed, a of violence will be perpetrated in the Emeraid Isle, and epidemic disses will be fatally prevalent therein. Saturn is still slowly passing through the Aries, hence old England’s troubles be thickening, her death- rate high, and her enemies numerous. Denmark and Germany will be far from prosperous, and the state of Russia will be lamentable. Poland will be disturbed, Persia, Asia Minor, Cypi and the Aronipelag will be scenes of mart deeds and mi epidemics. The 11th of the month brings Mars into an evil configuration with the place of the sun at the birth of an Enz- Ush Prince, warning him to beware of accident end overexertion.” In February, “at the moment of the new Taoon on the 10th instant, the luminaries will be in a square aspect with Mars. This is evil for the ruling powers, and forbodes a determined onslaught on the government; nevertheless, as Jupiter will be strongly posited in the eleventh hour, the government will weather the storm.” In March, “the Divorce Court will be busily oecupted, and many cases of cruelty to women will brought before the police courts, for Venus opposes Uranus on the 2th inst.” In April, “the presence of old Saturn in Aries will involve this country in some trouble, but he 1s shorn of most of his power to do mi left Low that Jupiter hastens to overtake him.” In May, “excitement will be at fever heat in New York, and the marshaling of troops will move the martial instincts of the American peo- ple.” while in London ‘‘a metropolitan theater is threatened with destruction, for Mars transits the place of the moon at the vernal i1 a But in October the outlook is especially bad for us. ‘Holders of foreign bonds must look out: for squalls, for at the moment of full moon Mars will with thesun in the second house, and Saturn with the moon in the eighth. These evil-omered tions indicate a turbulent con- dition of tics as well as of the weather; and asevere will be placed upon the revenues of Great Britain.” The curious thing connected with all this nonsense 1s, that there are numbers who believe in its prophetic wisdom, for Zadkiel’s Almanas bas an enormous sale.—{London Truth, Dec. 4, What the Anti-Vaccinationists Ale lege. It is charged in these statements— 1, That several terrible diseases, such assyph- lis, cancer, consumption and scrofulous eases generally are widely scattered and com- municated by vaccination. One vaccinator of twelve years’ expertence is made to say, had the desire to describe one-third of the vic- Ums ruined by vaccination, the blood would stand still in your veins.” Another, “I have seen hundreds of children killed by it.” A med- {cal journal 1s quoted as saying that consump- tion has widely spread since the introduction of vaccination; which 1s very likely also true as regards lawn-mowers and pedestrian matches. A physician to the London Cancer Hospital de- clares that many of the cases of cancer treated at that institution originated with vaccination! A physician testifies before a Parliamentary committee that eleven out of thirteen children whom he vaccinated becamesyphilitic. Another declares that a latge proportion of apparently inherited syphilis is really impai through vaccination. large number of cases of vari-' ous kinds are cited with full and harrowing de- tails, some of which have been subjects of dis- cussion in medical circles during the past twelve cr fourteen years. 2, Itis chi that vaccinnation does not protect its subjects from smallpox. It is pro- nounced “not only an illusion but a curse to humanity;” ‘“‘the greatest mistake and delu- sion in the science of medicine; ” a fanciful il- Tusion in the mind of the discoverer, devoid of sclentific foundation.” It states that, out of 22,000 cases of smallpox treated in five London hospitals in five years, 17,000 had been vacei- nated; and, furthermore, that since compulsory vaccination had been established, the deatlhi- rate from smallpox had more than doubled. Such, in brief, according to these very remark- able sateen Late been the results of vac- cination in England, and itis in contrast. with these statements that the results of vaccination as practiced in the city of New York are here presented.—[Popular Science Monthly. LEARNING THE BALLET.—To learn how to dance on the stage requires considerable time. A et is first taught to turn her feet out by standing The next thing is to give her =a polut ents ie Ly ive her “a This is dope by seating her on a form with one lez ‘pped to it at the knee-joint, while a er steps she be with her feet, ‘Of whatever curves she ay make with her her body fs in as Erupts tmanetandReR™ Se oates MISCELLANEOUS. == WISE GARNETT, METORNEY-AT-LAW, Fifth street, between Dand E ty3!-6m =. F. A. VON MOSCHZISHER, FICE aT 619 10th st. m. w. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO DISEASES EYE, EAR, THROAT, LUNG, OHEST DIS- ASTHMA. EASES, CATARRH, Te whom tt may 4 ‘We, the of take pasesre ia. that Dr. F. A. VON sKER has been a resident of oity for some years, during which he has acquired a shed pomntaiioe me a peactitiones ia eens Eye, Ear and Throat. luring some time been Professor and Clinical in one Medio 1 Institutions. ¢ duction from gentlemen of cl ‘The; treal treat 8 phy on him at asant o jent of of the Respiratory Onvans, and of his ion and oxperiencs, 1 a of in all cases which admit of cian of but: Shunt tribute to who need his medi . von Moschzisker brit chly of his skill and iseases of the Eye and hy sicti his treatment. Ear, and th ‘attainments of a caseunder think he can give Honatio SerMovs. RESTORATION OF HEARING. WasHinaror, Oct.18,1879. I {Senator D. W. you very sin {gon Dr. von Moschzisker operated very my eyes and restored my sight.{W. ered {Gen. Kilburn, U. my hearing.—{C. L. KILBuRN. Voorhees. thank corely Yor the rélief T reostved sevloaaly trod, tho result of ak Gresuaieh vere cold. {D. W. VoouEEEs. excessively se- of Gov. Bishop, of Ohio.} ‘successfully on S. Brsxor. j. 8. AS Under Dr: yon Moschzisker's Soatitent I nal FAEw4eBD & HUTCHINSON, 317 Ninth street n.w., Give special attention to REMODELING axp Mi PENG DEFEO- in cif LAN’ M. GRA’ and BRASS GOODS. itor is the cra TIVE PLUMBIN residences. and ‘sell ‘TES, FIRE-PLACE STOVES, own the patents for manuf s™ ‘OVES, HEATERS, &c. BUY THE BEST. om thing in that in Gide Sanatectiring: TL INAGES "RANGHE, ‘Dr. agua, Hagia Porous Bi rs an zx! deck Bibb’s New Baltimore and New Silver Palace. Parlor Sun and Sunnyside New Home Delight, the it. King Cabinet and splendid Ran Magic Light Plum bi Tint Rooting, Jobbing, ke. Latrobes. best Parlor Stove, nd Magnet and other Heating Stoves. 1d Gasitiing. Orders by Telephone promptly attended to. JNO. MORAN, dec22-2w 2126 Penn. ave. BENSON'S CAPOINE POROUS PLASTERS Have received the greatest number of unquestiona- bly reliable endorsements that any external remedy ever received from physicians, druggista, the press and the public. All praise thera as a great improve- ment on the ordinary porous plasters and all other external remedies. For Lame and Weak Back, Sciatica, Lumbago, Rheumatism, Kidnoy Disease, Neglected Coughs, and all Local Aches and Pains, they are the best known remedy. Ask any one who has used them, or any good physician and he will confirm the above statements. Sold by all Drug- sista. Price 25 cents. decl3-1m AUTHORIZED BY THE COMMONWEALTH GF KY = These dra authorized by ture of 1869, and sustained by afl the courts of tucky (all frau adi ts of othor tery companies who claimn tho sole ownership of “all 15TEL PorvtaRm Moxruiy DRawine oF THE Commonwealth Distribution Oo., AT MACAULEY'S THEATER, In the City of Louisville, on DECEMBER 31, 1879. idulent adv the grante in Kent se contrary, notwith- standing), month ¥ Ti sket-hold be Every Ticket-holder can call out his number and 800 if pl 16 management call attention to the grand - tunity presented of o| 33, andof" e office.. Remit by bank draft or nd nara ‘by express, can be sent at our ex- jindays excepted), and are t otate officials. THE FOLLOWL his own. laced. on the last day of every » supervised by Tn tho wheal.” at E 100 e810, 000 G0." BU each 10; 1,000 0: 000 10,000 008 | _ 600 do., 20 each 12,000 1,000 do., 10 each 10,000 Orders of 85 of drawing published in Louisville Cou- parcJoupal and New York Herald and mailed to all New '. J. CO! » ing, Louisville, Ky., or No. 163 York. jolders. For tiokets and information address arier- J¢ . Journal build- ae MPORTANT PROFESSIONAL Prin NOTICE. DR. L. J. KAHN, 61 EAST 10TH STREET, New York, etpal of Dr. Kann's Musrum UTHO! OF ANATOMY, OF ‘‘ NERVOUS EXHAUSTION,” and other Medical Works, Be to inform his friends, patients and those ae desirous of consulting hunt Wont ho nae OPENED AN OFFICE IN WASHINGTON, D G. ar 608 13th street northwest, ‘Where he may be consulted EVERY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, FROM 10 TIDL 2 AND 5 TILL 8. devoted 30 rears to the feryous of the Ne OBSERVE THE ADDRESS— 608 13th st. n.w., Washington, D, O. Ovvice Hours: on receipt of ‘TUESDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS ONLY, UNTIL FURTHER NOTIOR, dectt-1m —* From 10 a. m. il 2 p. 5 p. m. till Lz" JOHNSON & CO., Bankers; ‘WASHINGTOX, D. 0., MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS, EV! ¥ ONB WHO HAS HAD ANY USE FOR LUMBER DURING THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS, WELL ENOW THAT WILLET & LIBBEY SELL LOWER THAN ANY DEALERS IN THE DISTRICT. BUT FEW KNOW THE SIZE OF THEIR STOOK. oR EXTENT OF THEIR BUSINESS. a THEIR YARDS, SITUATED IN THE HEART OF THE CITY, COVER MORE THAN FOUR ACRES, AND THEY d HAVE CONSTANTLY ON HAND THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE SB00K IN THE DISTRICT. CONSUMERS NEVER GO TO BALTIMORE NOW TO PURCHASE A BILL, BUT INSTEAD, GO TO WILLET & LIBBEY, AND SAVE MONEY. THEY WILL SELL 100 FT. CLEAR SIDING FOR.... -81.00 100 FT. VIRGINIA BOARDS FOR. ~Le 1,000 WHITE PINE SHINGLES FOR. - 1.75 100 FT. WHITE PINE BOARDS FOR....... 1.09 ‘WILLET & LIBBEY, CORNER SIXTH AND ¥. Y. AVENUE 3. W decli WaseIncton, D. 0. MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT KID GLOVES MUST BE MADE IN EUROPE TO BE GOOD. A TRIAL OF THE *CIS-ATLANTIO’ THE NEW KIDGLOYE, FOR MEN'S WEAR, WILL OONVINCE YOU THEY ARE The Best in the World. Mane By FISH, CLARK & FLAGG, AND FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. nov25-eoTt I[AKE NOTICE. —since January, 1878, Ihave repaired from 3 to 4 watches a day, at ices va SUUGIEPEAY a te St aged promise to return every dollar for ‘work hot satiss has ovor been required. N. SENSEN, 913 Boansyivanis tres" novls D® GOODS REDUCED. Pure Wool COLORED CASHMERES and Pure Wool BLACK CASHMERES reduced to 25c. Very wide and very heavy Wool SHAKER FLAN- NEL reduced to 20c. OOVERS, handsomely Embroidered with Bik 89.76 up 0 812 75 LADIES CLOA Excellent Broche Shawls . Good GERTON FLAN: Neb Im) assorti imense ent of C) ‘boys’ wear, 25c. to 81.50. 340. 'H for men and CARTER'S, T1l Market Space. Bleached TABLE DAMASK, 50c. to $1.50. e Wool vs Te reduosd from St down to 62. 0] . Biack and Colored SILKS », 75, 8Tc., 81, $113, 81.25, Leb ep eee Large Size Double White BLANKETS, $2.50. Very fing all Pure ML PLANE ETS 04-00% 812. as k 2340. to $1.28. double width, Todueed ftom Bix. down OARTEWR’S, deol 711 Market Space. J. AMBLER SMITH, . . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Firra AND D S2REnts. All United States Claims and Patents attended. novl5 FRISDRICHSHALL BITTER WATER, ‘A Bure Remedy for Constipation and Headache. GENUINE VICHY WATBR From the Springs. GEarDe @ — Specific for ‘Disoasos of the HOPITAL—Bpecific for isorders of the Stomach. ble Wine Merchants, Drug- ‘To eetee of Bespectal its, WAsHineton AND NEW YORK STOCK AGENOY. d_ direct Telegraph Wires between mere Washington and ‘Kew ‘York offices. H. H. DODGE, A.G. WOOD, No. 1, Willard’s Hotel, Washington, D. O., AGENTS FOR PRINCE & WHITELY, Srook Broxens, 64 Broapway, New Yorx. 3,2: FRINGE. | General Partners. W. BR. TRAVERS, Special class Securities Bought and Sold_on Stade tae Bon nt St ce an Washington. ae Orders in COTTON executed. nov yee GREAT EXTERNAL REMEDY a “SAPANULE,” £ & “SAPANULE,” # OURES BY ABSORPTION. RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, MALARIA, “*SAPANULE,” the WONDERFUL @LYCERINE LOTION, Isa positive cure. It has never failed, “SAPANULE” has no equal for Chronic Lame: ecrry norparr Ecoes it Bheut Humors of and all who suffer study | from local difficulties find immediate relief, and a Systouy, eat cure by using SAPANULEY Used ‘cure ie {ook bath ressoves all sorences and feet. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Sold by all druggists. Price, 50c.and 1 per bottle. Send for illuminated circular and cards. SAMUEL GERRY & COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, decl8-e0 237 Broadway, New York. . SIMON WOLF, 509 Tth street, Second ational Building, has bean, éppointed pet igor our Company foe the District of Co- All premiums aro tobe paid to him horeaftr. We icit the of body, of the public, guarantesing dec26-8¢ Of Now York. ‘0 MIDDLE MEN. ¢ from my own Grove, on the St, IGES direct from n own Homa Goons. -ARFS—Large invoice reat latest ete ? ‘tay Just ived of GLOVES—A finestock of Updorgrats make: full line of leading manufastacer — UMBRELLAS—Best dollar Umbrella in the olty UNDERWEAR and HOSIERY— Be? pair for 25; Heavy ‘All woot Undecwee HANDKERCHIEFS—Piain and Fancy, and Linen. = —_ ‘ARF PINS, RINGS and SLEEVE BUTTONS of inteet patterns. 1 to $2; Ready- SHIRTS—Mado to order; from 3 ri : 75 and 0 in ae and 75 cents un! Sins ‘THOMPSON’S Sarr Factory, 816 F st. n.w., opp. Patent Office, GPECIAL BancaIns FOR THE HOLIDAYS. N AND BOYS' ULSTERS AND ULSTERBTS M™ STRAUS’, 1011 Pennsylvania avenue. decid DIFFERENT 8TY! OVEROOA’ 10 worth $12, at STRAUS’, 1011 pny USINESS SUITS, the variety, at ex- B tremely low prices, at A. NS a sao RESS SUITS, made equal to Custom W. Wworth 830. Gall and see thems at A. OTRAGS XTRAORDINARY BARGAINS to be im OVEROOATS of all styles, at A. STRAUS". Buss AND BROWN BEAVER OVEROOA’ 12, worth $18, at STRAUS'S, 1011 Penn. a1 HAs YOU SEEN THOSE NOBRY CHIN- CHILLA OVERCOATS for $15? If not, yeu should see them, as they are the cheaper you can find in the city. To be had only at A. STRAUS". OUBLE-BREASTED SQUARE-CU® BROOK COATS and VESTS, handsome paar large assortment. Call and see them, at A. STRAUS’. STRAUS’. . U ies? WITH WHOM MONEY IS AN OBJECT should not fail to visit STRAUS’ before going eleewhere, as you can save from 20 to 25 per cet. on all you buy. 2 A. STRAUS, mem™*7011 Pennayteania avenue, nov25 QRECTS OF BEAUTY AND TASTE, FOR GIFTS, MADE OF SILVER, GOLD AND DIAMONDS. SAML. KIRK & SON, dec2? 172 West Baltimore street. EW YORK SHOE STO N 605 Pennsvibanta ave. ae PRACTICE WHAT WE Ovum Goops Are THE Bi EACH.” iE HRAPEST| 118 SIDE oF New Yore ene with the prices you (aes Bae Misses’ Custom Goat Button, warranted: Misses. Solid Leather Shoes - t's French Calf Boot! Gent's Frexch Calf, Hand-made, Button, Com- om frene oF Lae in any aeuse 83.00 to 5.50 Seo FMCE GEO. MCCARTHY. Booxs AT HALF PRICE. We have a Iai number of BOO! suitable for Sunday School presenation at half price. Tee ae BED LINE POETS, full gilt, PRAYER BOOKS and HYMNALS, in sets and fine bindings. at equally low prices. M. E. BOARDMAN, BoOksELLER AND STATIONER, doclé 529 Fifteenth I 4M AT IT STILL. I AM STILE AT IT. T. B. CROSS, JE., Office, No. 819 Market Space, = (Board of Trade Booms, ) DEALER IN LUMBER, WOOD AND COAL. sia Principal Office, Wharf, Dopot and: Plani Foot of ath street east. eot-OF Qrecr4y 7] Oe PLEASANT VALLEY SWEET CATAWBA WINE, Beer IN THE Crry. $1 PER Gatton. “GREAT WESTERN” CHAMPAGNE," UNSURPASSED BY ANY IMPORTED. OAR LOAD OF CHOICE NEW YORK @IDER. xcellent Sherry wine per gallon. 82.00 5 Ibs. Choice M: Tapes. - 1.00 TE Greener ait ig oa vr | 1 Sox London Layer Raisins. .-.- 2.50 French Cream Candy, Bo 1213 7th st. and Cor. H and 4th sts. n.w. decid LMEAD & CO., Hoss? STREET, (opposite Ebbitt House), Are offering to the Holiday Trade Decorated Dinner report et Setts and Fancy at the Lowest Prices, and‘purchasers are invited to call andexamine. Also, a fine line of OHINA, CROCKERY and HOUSEFUBNISHINGS, at lowest figures. Btore open until 9 p.m. deck? FPNEST DRESS SHIRTS TO ORDER, We lead fhe trade, and we give you as fine and as aSHIRT, made to order, and guaran make at any suit you for $1.75 as any map can price. i tlemen ; well, we almost silk is for 25 and fine 8: Scarfe dec4-Im TS LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK OF CARRIAGES in the city, cot of 2 Landaulettes, 4 Coupes, pole anc shafts, 6 close-panel ete of Now and Second hand OAR ry of New an ‘ RIAGES On hand at PD. SOHMIDT Pennsylvania avenue. - all-] ‘in, STi ae in tho finest custonn manner, only $1. Leave your orders with us for Fine Dress Shirts. fe never fail to give a perfect ft Elegant Shirts to order Fine Drose Shirin fae Fine stock GENTS FURNISHING for Holiday dt Rd (0. 1112 F st. 00. eRe ere WINE. ND- ORES eee a re aan 4) ERRD "oe between and 7th streets ee SY Lo Et Look! 513. NOTE PAPER SELLING FOR 81. WANT OF Call st OPP! special todupemants to