Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1880, Page 2

{For Taz Stas. THE AGE OF CRITICISM. An English poet in preluding song, Seeking some cause or reason for the lay, Chooses before the world himself to wrong “The empty singer of an idle day :—" For such he seems when piping to the throng In care’s mad vortex whirling on, away, _ Reckless of treasures which to them belong ‘Whose hearts are young when heads are grow- ing gray. Mankind had leisure once to mark and hear Whén poets sang or minstrels tuned the lyre: Now the vexed ear of the great world doth tire. ‘The critic comes with Mephistophiean sneer, ‘And supercilious brow to take offence; And readers read with calm indifference. $ u. The singer fails in song-craft overwise. = Too curious in the art of building-word, he should soar above the tuneful herd, By the sharp critic's rifle crack he dies:— With wing unsteady, failing in the skies, He wavers, falls, and like a wounded bird In reedy silence maketh moan unheard, Though ali the air be vocal with his cries. Always the present singer lacketh grace. Surely, ye praise him not till he is cold! For wit like wine crows better growing old. But why should stuff and vapid commonplace ‘Pass then for wit or wisdom under names Which age has gilded with its lying fames? Jous SavaRy. THE RIVER FRONT QUESTION. Editor Star:—The engineer commissioner of the District, after great labor to reconcile the conflicting views of the Georgetown and South Washington wharf owners, has devised a plan for the improvement of the river, and it would seem to bean ungracious task to attempt to disturb the compromise between lon:s-time Delligerent sections; but for the fact that in executing this plan, the interests of a more im- portant section, the valley of the Tiber, wiH be sacrificed or serior affected. In reference to “Easby’s Point,” to which I will hereinafter refer by its former name, “Windmill Point,” it 1s but just to our George- town and South Washington friends to say, Whatever differences of opinion they have held regard to the several plans proposed by Officers of the government, they have beena unit upon the proposition to cut off Windmill Point; and you perhaps, permit me to say, tor myself, that my private interest will be pro- mot by cutting 1t off. The money damages to which the owners of that property will be fairly entitled would enable them to improve their water lots Delow “Braddock’s rock,” a much better location for business. I propose, however, to discuss this question without refer- ence to individual interests, and will endeavor to point out to our friends in South Washington the trouble they are preparing for themselves by beeen Major Ining’s plan, and to those whose interests le in the central of the city, the consequences that will follow its exe- cution. Our friends in Georgetown will not be affected. It will make no difference to them what change is made in the course of the river below their harbor; so they have a deep channel through which to approach their wharves. THE PLAN OF MAJOR TWINING embraces that of the board of survey above the Potomac bridge, with modifications, some of Which renders it more objectionable, but on Panerit has a very attractive appearance, lke hat of the board it proposes to cut off, Wind- mill point, but only to the line of the river bank. The effect on the current of the river, however, will be the same, as it will destroy the defence which nature has placed there for the Protection of tae flat part of the city below the point. The major proposes to erect a dyke the line next the city, of sufficient height to prevent an irruption of the Potomac into the city; to keep open the “city channel” below the and to connect it by automatic gates, with a “fi basin” t> be constructed on “Kidwell’s meadows.” He further proj to admit water into the flu hing in, from the town channel, through gates to be con- ‘structed in the dyke, and to construct a canal in a line with the B street sewer, to convey the sewage to the same channel. Above the canal to Wi it and below it to the Potomac bridge, _— pa exception of ee pled by the flushing basin, will b> a nearly to the height of the dyke. ol the mole around the fi basin he pro- poses to adorn with shade trees and flower —— Separated by serpentine drives. low the bridge the mole will be raised to two feet above a common The execution of the work on this plan will Cut off the whole front of the city below Tiber Creek from the flow of the Potomac, and will reduce the “city channel” toa tideless basin With all the repulsive features of the basin in Baltimore. Automatic gates or gates of any de- ‘scription less in width than the channel will be lequate to admit suilictent water to carry Off the daily accumulation of nauseous deposits: which will tind their way into the Washington Which will receive all the surface drala- eand all the sewage of that section of tac city ing east of Fourteenth street to Sixt: Street and south of Maryland avenue to the cor- ner of Sixth street, and from thence to the en-| Of Greenleaf point. Ali the offal from the sialp- ping will fall into the basin, and all the floatin: Buisances brought up by the tide to Geesvoro’ — oe astrong southwest wind will b- own into it and remain there festering in the sup until they sink to the bottom; and last and most serious will be fromthe upper Potoma = acd frcm B-street_ sewer (when a freshet in th > river fs not higher than five feet above a com you bigh tide, when higher than five feet the Sewage will flow back into the city), which will empty Its contents into the Georgetown channel, and with the dead animals, rot! timber and vegetables and aluvium will be cir- ried down by the current until it pass: lower end of the mole below the bridge, and will then be drawn into the basin by the coun- ‘oceu- “mole” ter current caused by closing the channel above | and by the rebounding of the waters from Gees- Doro’ point. T familar to require description. You have only to look at the accumulation of mud on the “oe” side of a wharf to comprehend that operation of hydraulics. All these deposits must be dredged OUt of the basin at an average annual cost of at least $20,000, and the “compound of villainous smell” which wiil issue from the operation of dredging wil be worse than that which now arises from the marsh, and it will become a ne- cessity in a few years to fll up the “city chan- nel” and carry out the plan of the board of sur- vey which all our South Washington friends. the portly old millionaire in the tm, followed by the whole population, in all its gradations, from the publicans and sinners to the church, have been strenuously and, up to this time, su cessfully opposing. TDE DANGER TO THE TIBER VALLEY. Our friends in the valley of the Tiber, although anxious for a speedy obliteration of the marsh, seem to view with philosophic indifference the Plan by which that object is to be attained, as Something that does not concern them. In the ordinary condition of the Potomac the river id flow efully on, even though it were contracted to one-third its present width; but when goaded to frenzy by the demon of the floods and rushing madly down it tnds its course diverted and its outlet obstructed, will Seek Others, and one of them through Penn3yl- vania avenue. Then the plan for the oblitera- ton of the marsh will assume an Importance to the people of the valley, even gi T than the removal of the hot-bed of disease, at its en- trance. A visit of the Potomac to the mer- chants, and to the numberless gay promenaders ‘on the avenue, would be literally *a visitation.” 1 of course acquit Major Twining of any Inten- tion to extend that courtesy to the river; but ‘his plan for its improvement is certainly a card of invitation ishing in its character that the stream which for generations has borne upon tts bosom, and thrown into the lap of the ity, the Feed of the rich valley through ‘which tt flows may accept with consistency the hospitalities tendered so frankly. Asa prelimi- Bary to the entrance of the river, the major pro- poses to remove the barrier at Windmill Point, ‘which dame nature has placed there to restrain her turbulent son, Potomac. Cutting off that — will turn the course of the current directly wards the mouth of the Tiber, and that fact isv admitted in the proposition to build a dyke above the highest freshets aloi whole front of the city, from Windmill Point across Tiber Creek to the Potomac bridge. He roposes to destroy the fensive work of na- belief that art can produce a peccae caer composed of logether by motal bands bound with Meniy which with constant mill a solid rock, tention, has resisted the freshets of ages. immovable by the attrition of water, th: ‘skilful Lon P peopirad labor can destroy Its soli Ache Penis Ps, tke that ot te oar P e that of ot Survey, ‘Will contract the river opposite the of the ‘Tiber to one-halt fts present ‘width, and labored calculation have been made ‘to show that the water course will still be suffi- Cient to carry off a flood without any material rise of the water; but the fact that TT REQUIRES WIDTH, Not depth, to disperse the flood waters opposite to and below the valley of the Tiber, seems to Eddies tn rapid currents are too | besa and ee aCe the valley, That SU RM ti stad oh the city channel and the B street sewer canal wide open to receive pe Heol of the pure to your mind the Avenue, some moi after a sudden. rise in the river the night preceding, the average” which the muddy waters would pro- duce, ‘among thé. silks, . velvets, and meaner fabrics Of the loom; among the teas, salts, sugars dnd vinegars; the lotions, drugs and chemicals, the jewelry, gold, and silver ware; and the humberless other products of re- fined civilization to be found in the stores! All would be reduced to a glorious confusion of equality, while the dilution of the “fire water” in the ‘deinking loons would reduce them to so low a temperature that the most pronounced t ice man might imbibe ad tihitum with- out fear of inebriation; and the fashionable peo- pe of the city, too, with the senators and mem- rs, the army of strangers, and citizens in easy circumstances, as they all moved down from their residences, which are principally west of the Capitol and north of the Avenue, would find themselves on approaching the “ Appian Way * confronted by a stream of turbid wafer, cutting off their approach to the national legislative halls, perhaps on a day when some exciting question was to be considered, and upon which some man of national fame was expected to en- lighten the country. As they assembled in par- ‘les on the brink of thestream of muddy water. their attitude and facial expression, their sertc- comic ensemble, would present a series of tab- leaux that would ecilpse the highest efforts of the imagination of an Hogarth, while the *G cious me's!” of the ladies, the ** Bless my soul's! ofthe reverend lobbyists, the decorous objur- gations of the grave senators and judges, and ‘he emphatic “cuss words” of the younzer aad less reverent members of the House would tur- nish a vocabulary of expletives which would be an infallible index to every emotion of the mind, hav ng their ofigin in surprise, perplexity, be- trayed confidence and indignation. And after the subsidence of the waters, what a “‘mess” of river mud would be left on the smooth streets and footw: a slimy and nauseous deposit, to remove, which in time to avert an epidemic, would tax the energy of the health department to its utmost tension. And the fair promena- de ough “distance lend encha ntment to the view,” would scarcely feel compensated for the Jabor and disgust of walking through it, by a sight of the far off ves and gardens, in ‘‘Kidwell’s Meadows” which the gallant major has doubt- less devised for their special delectation. He might meet the irrita' citizens and Congres- sional committee with unflinching nerve, but he must flee before the indignant glances of the fair descendants of old mother Eve, abs eskeurt sylvania avenue, their splendid promenade, will have been reduced to the slimy condition of Water street by his engineering experiments in direct antagonism to the laws of nature, by de- stroying the defences which she has placed on the banks of the Potomac for its protection. Now, come Mr. Editor to the top of Observatory Hull, and from that elevation look at the Poto- mac during a freshet, the scope of vision re- veals to your eyes the curves of the river ar- ran by nature to afford easy and free pas- sage to descending floods without injury to its banks or their surroundings; looking down the strezm your eye rests upon the causeway of the Pctomac re with which the folly of a past gen- eration has obstructed its course. Look up the stream, and you obserfe that the natural curves of the river above Windmill point are in har- mony with those below it, and demonstrate the law of compensation, which marks all the ar- rangements of nature; the sharp turn of the current at the eastern boundary of Georgetown is balanced by the sharp turn at Windmill point, and impinging against the southern end of Analostan island it makes a long and grace- ful sweep through the wide basin below the island, to the foot of Maryland avenue, spread- ing out its waters over the wide surface above the bridge and falling below the valley of the Tiber, and which, but for the obstruction of the causeway, would pass on without damage to property, and with the bulk of the alluvium which they hold in solution, and which is now deposited in the bed of the river. Now look at the Le fopoerenny of that part of the city which will affected by a change in the course of the river. Your position on the hill commands a good view. You observe that from the foot of 2ist street as far up as the eye can reach, the bank of the river rises above the highest floods, anda few hundred feet below 2ist street you see the mouth of the Tiber, the entrance to the low valley extending through the city, and nearly to the level of which the waters have arisen. Direct your eyes to the northwest—behold the terrible yet majestic mountain wave of the Potomac advancing upon the city with a speed of fifteen miles an hour. Its crest_is laden with icebergs, trunks of huge trees, wrecks of houses and bri It dashes upon the river bank at H street, which sustains and repels the shock, when almost “like a thing of life” the waters, maddened by the repulse. concentrate their powers and rush with impetu- ous velocity towards the mouth of the Tiber, entering which the whole valley must be del- uged. k, HOw, at the base of the hill upon which you are standing—your eye rests upon Windmill point. Nature's defence of the valley of the Tiber is arresting the flood in {ts freazied career, hurls the maddened waters against An- alostan island; their destructive energies are hi and falling by their own gravity into vide in below the isiand, pass harm- lessly on to the sea, and the valley Is saved from inundation. RESTORE THE ORIGINAL CHANNEL Now, spread before you, the map of Mr. Rives. Observe how very nearly he has delin- eated the original caannel, shown ctearly to your view by the course of the current passtag before your eyes; refer to his report of the soundings taken in the survey of 1857, and you will be ready to endorse the conclusion at which a very great majority of the scientific and ae tical men, who have studied the subject, have arrived: That the easiest, cheapest and only effectual way to improve the river front will b- to remove the causeway of the Potomac bridge and restore the original channel, upon which, } with the exception of a small sum last summer a that pari of it below the bridge, not a dolior as been expended, while large sums have been | Wesied in vain attempts to create a permanent channel in the barrow outlet fof the waters, cut by the great ice freshet in 1734. The accumu- lated deposits of a century have filled the bed of the original channel with soft mud; tuere is no hard substance to be excavated, and it can be opened at a less cost and in less time than would be required to cut off Windmill Point alone, without considering the magnitude of the rémainder of the work contemplated by the plan of the boar of survey or that of Major Twinlng. Away, then, with the causeway now impeding, and with the proposed dykes and moles which will further embarrass the flow of a noble river, restore the channel which nature had provided from the beginning of the post- diluvian world, for the outlet of the flood waters of the Potomac and the Shenandoah to the sea, and the problem of the “reciamation of th: flats” will be sdived, the harbor of Washington reopened, and the easy passage of the largest shi; s secured through an unobstructed channel filled with pure water, along the whole front of the city, and “bulkheaded” from Windmili Point across the mouth of the Tiber to the foot ot Maryland avenue, the metropolis will be re- Meved from the presence of a pestilenttal mars and all at a cost of less than one million dollar sum,W ee benetits, its expenditure for those objects will confer, not only upon the people of Washing- ton but upon the many thousands of the peo- of the states, who are annually called by ess or pleasure to the capital of the nation, sinks into insignificance. An eminent military engineer has eloquently and truthfully said: “Nature brooks no attempt to control her in her course, or to destroy her laws, which must be obeyed.” Disregard of her laws has rendered the harbor of Washington inaccessible to the rich commerce of the old world, and has covered it with a malignant swamp. Let us beware how we provoke the wrath of the venerable dame, disobedience in the future may be even more sternly rebuked than it has been in the = and she may teach us with more serious ipline, that she must be obeyed. HoraTio N. Easpy. January 7th, 1830, ‘THE LONDON CORRESPONDENT Of the Philadel- phia B Uetin, writing about Dickens’ domestic troubles, says: “The domestic discomforts of David Copperfield and Dora are no ex: : tion of the real miseries of the Dickens house- hold under the flaccid ment of its mis- tress. Things happened there which never could by any pos: have occurred unde! r any other roof-tree, as Dickers himself used to declare in Gesperation of spirit. I ee house icaded and garrisoned en RELIGIOUS NOTES. — Baring Brothers & Co., of London, have ordered a $1,000 bell for a church in Pogtland, Me., “ expression of friendly business re- tating during many years with the citizens of — The Nutional Baptis' makes a timely ap- peal to the churches in this season of ant R ‘to raise their pastor's salary to what it WES. the reduction made in hard’ times. — At the late Old South Fair in Boston no rat ‘was permitted at the table of the Church of Disciples, out of deference to the wishes of its pastor, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke. — The Presbyterian calls the ministers who have entered that denomination from others, late in life, “ministerial driftwood,” and en- dorses the Saying of Kev. Dr. Humphrey: “A life of hard study does not more than comven- sate for the disadvantage of not having a birth- right in the Presbyterian church.” —The “E; Almanac” for 1330 gives the following statistics in regard to that Church tn this country: Bishops, 62; priests and deacons, 3,196; parishes, 2,991; candidates for orders, 369; deacons ordained, 104; priests ordained, 84; bap- tisms, 45,476; confirmations, 26,903; comm«ni- cants, 324, Sunday school teachers, 34,000; scholars, 282,988; contributions, $6,532,979.65. — A religious newspaper reports that a clergy- man near Pittsburgh has been “afilicted in the death of his father-in-law;” — In Somerville, Mass., the Broadway Congre- gational Church is quarreling over the alleged neterodoxy of its pastor. The church is about equally divided. — The Reformed Episcopal Church has gen- erally set its face against the modern style of funny festivals for Christmas occasions, and has. confined its Sunday school jubilations princi- pally to the standard kind of addresses and dis- tributions of presents. The Church of the Cove- nant, in Philadelphia, has made an innovation on the old style. Its Christmas celebration treated the children to a series of Mother Goose representations, which were readered in good style, and which filled the children with wiole- some hilarity. —Sidney Smith used to say that the common practice of the clergy in his day was to en- deavor to draw sin out of men as Eve was drawn from Adam's side, by casting them into a deep sleep. —The Bishops of the Episcopal church, of Scotland, (in synod) have passed the following resolution, which bears upon the case of the Bishop of Edinburgh, who participated in the communion service at Berne, with the old Catholic ge tees Father Hyacinthe, a few months ago: it this synod declares, with- out reference to anything passed, that no Bishop of this diocese is authorized to recognize any body of Christians not by canon asin communion with ourselves, unless it be after deliberation and assent of the Bishops In synod.” — Dr. Withrow, of Boston, ts the latest inves- tigator of “the Moody converts” In that cit and he fi eo a committee has found for him, that, with very few exceptions, the co verts have returned to their former ways. This means that they have received spiritual injury, for an excitement which Is followed by relapse leaves a scar which is slow to heal. — “Religion,” the London Word says, “is now treated by its fashionable expositors from tho ulpit as a thing more or less apart from the ally life of humanity. It is studied from th2 artistic point of view, from the sclentifie, tri the mystical. But itis not presented to tas jonable congregations as embodying a code of ethical precepts which it is their business to translate Into the ppecice of dally life. The common sense and the right feeling of mankind have es often been superior to the doc- trines of their spiritual teachers, and the time has gone by when the conduct or the aspirations of humanity were controlicd by the dogmatic homiletics of the pulpit.” — Economy may be carried too far. Som> of the western churches are practicing it in the extreme. In a Presbyterial meeting recently in Missouri the remark was made that a certain church had not contributed to the board, and that it wasin arrears inits assessments for Presbyterial purposes This brought its min- ister to the floor in its defence. “Brethren,” said he, “this 1s one of the most economical churches in the synod, not only in its relation to the s, but also towards its pastor.” This statement produced enthusiastic cheering. — Remarks are often made Implying that the ministers are overpaid, or at least that such men fe eee ee Storrs of Cane agantly pal e following figures, given by the New York Tribune, are worthy of being borne in mind: Beecher gets $20,090; Edwin Booth $100,000 a year; Dr. Hall, of 5th avenue, and Dr. Dix, of Trinity, get $15,000, while E. A. Sothern earns over $150,000 as “Lord Dun- dreary,” and John E. Owens plays 30 weeks an- gually for $90,000. T: ¢ preaches for $12,000 and Joe Jefferson plays 40 weeks at “Rip Van Winkle” and earns $120,000. The scholarly and {ted Dr. Storrs has $10,000 and Maggie Michell earns $30,000 to $50,000. Dr. Cuyler works hard and faithfully for $3,000 a year, while Dion Bou- cicault finished a season as the “Shaugraun,” elc., at $3,000 a week, and his managers scolded him in the public prints because he would not piay longer at the same price. Dr. Potter, of Grace church, has $10,000 and a parsonage; the eloquent Dr. Tiffany has $10,000; the once vig- “Tous, now Venerable, Dr. Chapin gets $10,090; while pretty Miss Neilson makes over $159,000 a year, and Fannie Davenport earns $1,000 every week she plays. —Rev. Edward Rice, in the Sundiy S:hoo World, pats forth his views of Bible study and vangelical religion in Germany, ia which, from ireful observation and conversations had abroad, he comes to the conclusions: that not in the chief cities but in a number of German towns the Sabbath fs nearly, if not. fully, as properly observed as in some large cities in America; that reiigious thought 1s drifting in the direction of rationalism and away from evangelicalism; that while Dr. Dorner 1s a staunch supporter of evangelicalism, he is out- side the church, and can carry no considerable body of thinkers with him; that Dr. Christiieb 4s doing a good work, which, from the necessity of the case, {s limited, and that the hope for the future of evangelical religion lies as much in the Sunday schools—of which there are 2,000 with ek teachers and 160,000 scholars—as anywhere else. THERE WAS SADNE&s !n every eye as the mem- bers of the club softiy filed in and toox their seats. Each one had seen the crape on the hall door, and each one had been told that death had again invaded Paradise hall. “Gem’len,” began the president, as he rose up and looked down the hall at the vacant seat bedecked with crape, “it am my painful dooty to inform you dat Brudder Torpedo Hunt am no more on dis earth. He passed away las’ night arter an iilness of only free days. Torpedo was our brudder, an’ an earnest worker in de cause,” continued the president; “but if I stan’ heah yuiogize him, I mus’ not forgit dat he had his faults. If de troof can’t hurt de livin, it can’t harm de dead. Torpedo was a great han’ te git up atrly in de mawnin‘, an’ to work hard all day, but his chill’en went bar’ foot all winter jist de same, He was kind to his wife avd felt id for de ", but he nebber played yuker widout hevin’ two extra bowers up his sleeve. He didn’t get drunk, but no rail fence had any bizness widin a mile of his cabin in winter. He didn’t ingaige in rows an’ riots, but his enemies got hit wid brick-bats all ce seme. We saw him at church on Sun- day, settin’a good 'zample fur de young, bat he'd turn in next day an’ try to win de big prize in a lottery. It was about haf-an-haf wid him. When we say dat of any man we hev hit him pretty clus. When we hev given de dead all de praise dey sought to gain when livin’, no man’s mem'ry kin ask fur more. Torpedo was up to de aiverage, an’ he am dead.” Colonel Damson Brown took the floor, and said life was short and uncertain, and it behooved every man to have his house in order. He wanted to make a confession and clear his conscience. Six years ago he poisoned a dog belonging to Esquire Sinith, of Hastings street, a neighbor of his. Both were now members of the club, and in the presence of all he would confess, ask forgive- ness, and pay what the canine was worth. There was & 7 Clapping. of hands as he sat down. Then Esquire Smith arose, ‘smniles, and he replied that he distinctly remem- bered the dog case, but that the Colonel dida’t anything. The dog hadn’t been dead e killed and ate the Coionel’s goat, and stole half a cord of his wood, and he thought the thing was about even.—{Detroit Free Press, Seeking Lest Railroad Cars. age 7 hat draws near the eggtews nts are unting up stray cars. One ek the agents hunting cars in Florida, and the next may discover him in Maine. The rules [Sp th> business are that he must travel by daylight, ride in the rear keep his e: Open. Frequently, Dee a tack full Of cars he discovers one belonging ‘and by ‘becomes ct ‘his own com} road to send home his company’s car. Cars are ——— sent from one end of the continent to another, and sent back em} owner's Mark and number. A agentfor @ western road Ke hing for months for a car, ib ay out on the ee: THE HOUSEHOLD. CURE FOR SmaLt Pox.—An eminent lish- man affirms that the worst case of small-pox can be cured in three days, simply by the use of cream of tartar. Once ounce of cream of tartar, dissolved in a pint of water, crank at intervals when a he says, is 6 certain It has thousands; never leaves a never causes blindness, and avolls te- dious lingering. Mgrat MovnTsp Hate ‘phe gh and hand- lasses easily and often leave am un- beset Ser cee caapohen aoe es PD VOry possess neither of these disadvantages. Irts sarP THAT A CLOVE drop peeare it from moulding that any essen- oil will answer the same purpose. Russia leather which is perfumed with the tar of birch rarely becomes mouldy. A few drops of any essential ofl will preserve leather from mould. Corres CUstaRD.—Make a “good, strong ex- tract of coffe dripping ft as slowly as po3- sible—for 10 People Fou will want. two cupstul; take eight of the same measures of milk, an beat into the milk the yolks of six eggs: add three ounces of powdered sugar; mix {nto this the two cupetul of coffee; as coffee differs in strength, better taste to see that it ts sweet enough; pour the mixture into cups, and put the ‘u] a not toodeep pan with boiling water; the level of the water ought not to stand higher than half the cup; do not try axd boil the water too ha about 15 minutes of boiling is ne- cessary.—[V. F. Times. How 10 Sorren OLD Putry.—A friend writes from Hobart Town, Tas., that having to reset some eighteen squares of glass, he found the old putty, which had been in place for several years, very difficult to remove without injury tothe sash. A fellow mechanic suggested the data = ‘Take a heated iron, a soldecing ‘iron’ (which is copper) is the handiest, and rua it over the putty that fastens In the glass; Ina few seconds it will be found that the putty, though before so hard as to juire a sharp blow to take any effect upon it, will become so soft as to be removed with a common pocket- knife.—{ American Agriculinrist. A PRETTY AND EAasiLy-Grown Winpow PLANT may be obtained in the following man- ner: Soak a round piece of coarse sponge in warm water until it is thoroughly expanded. Alter squeezing it about half dry, place in the | openings millet, red clover and barley-grass seeds, rice and oats. Hang the sponge in a window where the sun shines a part of the day, and sprinkle it Ughtly with water every morn- ing for a week. ‘Soon tender leaves will shoot out and, wing rapidly, will form a drooping mass of Ilving green. If larly sprinkled it La later be dotted with blossoms of the clover into ink will ORNAMENTS OF EVERLASTING FLOWERS.—There are many homes where it is impossible to keep thriving, blooming plants through the winter on account of the’cold, or for other reasons. To havesemblance of bloom, some reminder of the beauties of the floral world, ornaments of ever- lasting Kosh) ~ French or silk mosses may el be made. ard or wire frames made io the desired shape furnish the foundation. The shapes are almost infinite. Harps, lyres, stars, sickles, shields, wreaths, crowns, anchors, crosses, pyramids and horse shoes bein among the number most generally adopt- ed. Very pretty baskets are made of rye or oat straw and filled with these flowers and S Vases fashioned of the same materfal are used for the same purpose. Some of the ba3- kets are quite large. As pretty and elaborate an ornament as I have seen of this sort was a ship made of the straw, with masts and riggiag, and filled with flowers. Ornamental grasses are very useful in this sort of work. I do not think it pays for amateurs to try to raise their own grasses, flowers. &., for this sort of work. Im- mortelles and mosses are imported in great quantity for this purpose. Heads of wheat and oats _and many sorts of grasses cut green and dried in the dark may be used.—(@erimantown Telegraph. To Fry FREsu Fisn, 80 as not to absorb the fat, or destroy the delicate flavor of the fish, is quite a desideratum. A lady who has attended Miss Corson’s practical Cooking Lectures con- tributes the following to the American Agri- culturist—derived partly from Miss C.’s advice, and partly from her own experience: Small fish are to be fried whole; large fish have the fleshy portions cut off with a very sharp knife, and divided into strips (fillets) of a conventent size for serving. When cleaned and ready for cooking, wipe dry, and roll them in powdered cracker or bread crumbs. (Cracker, ready pulverized, is now sold at most grocery cage under the name of “cracker dust.”) Dip the fish, or pieces, in well-beaten egg, and again roll them in the cracker dust or crumbs, removing any lumps so as to leave the surface smooth, Have the fat hot, and drop in tne pieces, watching them carefully until they cook to agolden brown; then lift from the fat and lay upon thick paper to absorb the fat. Fillets of fish with the bones in, may be treated in the . By this method the fish are well flavored and much more digestible for weak stomachs. Fish are nourishing, and not only supply good food for the muscle, but also fur- nish good brain material. CUTTING ORANGES AND APPLES.—To cut the orange, make two parallel cuts through the skin only, leaving a continuous band about an inch wide round the body of the orange. Ke- move the rest of the peel Cut th fh the band once, just over one of the natural divis- jons, and gently force the whole open, and out, leaving each section detached from the others, but still fast to the band of peel. Here is a good though not a new way to cut an apt ie SO that it will look whole and unmarked walle in the dish, but, when ere will fall to pieces: ‘Take a fine needle and a thin strong thread; in- sert the needle at the stem of the apple in such a way that the poiot will come out again away from the stem and a short distance trom the first insertion; pull the needlé and thread through very carefully, so as not to break the skin or enlarge the holes, leaving a few inches of thread hanging at the stem. Then put the needle back into the second hole, thrast it in the same direction as before, bringing out the point still farther from the stem, and again pull the thread through. Go on in this way straigit around the apple, and when the thread coms out at the stem, pull it by both ends very care- fully until it has cut entirely through and comes out of the apple. If now, the fruit would fall in halves; but, by working the thread round under the skin as before, at right angles to the first cut, and again pulling the thread quite through at the stem, the apple will fall into quarters. After a little prac ice the cutting c: be done so skillfully that only a very keen eye will be able to find out now it was accomplished. (St. Nicholas for January. VINEGAR Canpy.—This candy is recommended for colds. ‘Three cupfils of granulated sugar, half a cupful of vinegar, half a cupfal of water, half a tea-spoonful of butter. ‘Season with Jemon. Mix the sugar, water and vinegar to- ether, boll until the candy 1s found to be rittle, by dropping a little in cold water. Then add the butter and lemon. MARYLAND Recire FOR OysTER Sour.—Take two quarts of oysters; strain from them all the liquor; put, the liquor on to boll with half a pint of chopped celery, one smail onion, one or tvo blades of mace, pepper and salt to yollr taste, and one table-spoonful of fresh butter. When this bolls, add the oysters. Just before taking it off put in the thickening, which 13 a little Your mixed with sweet cream, then add one quart of rich milk or cream, and when it has come to a boil pour into a tureen, into which you have put some small squares of cold bread. Serve very hot. SraGuEttI.—This Is a favorite dish at some of the best restaurants. The macaroni used should be the best Italian, and must be placed to boil in a plenty of hot water. Let it coox ten or fif- teen minutes, boiling hard all the while. When done it should retain some of its elasticlty. It it les perfectly fat, or sticks together, it has been too much cooked. A sauce for it is made by all the morning a piece of lean slowly fg 8 beefsteak (half a pound will su‘fice for a small family). To this you add enough canned or other tomatoes, an hour or so before serving, to give the sauce arich red color. As much water only should be used as will leave the sauce rich and thick; this the cook will soon learn by ex. perience. Let every one sprinkle grated Par- mesan cheese on his spaghettt for himself. ‘WAFFLES.—O) CHEAP W. ne egg, One quart of flour, one quart of ‘To CURE Hams WITHOUT SMOKING.—Treat as usual as regards salt, saltpetre and sugar. them le for be weeks, and (Gees ces ee smoking, over with a solution of pyrolig- a hang up tocure. Paine lange hams and beat them well, Fe er peed ii (ery. ‘a stirring in sugar unt sweet (try one pound) ad i butter ake the dough about the stiffness of biscuit dough— ailow one pound and a half of flour, say. Koll ‘the pieces about as thick as your finger, and as rob ey ere be cut into strips, and then form into rings and double rings. Flavor with lemon or mace, and some- currants are in such Spee as is fancied. These cakes are fried, and as failure most oftem occurs in the frying, we cular directions in that reg: ready 8 round stew-pan or skillet half full of melted lard. As soon as it begins to bubble a ietle, drop a cruller into it, which will sink. Take an egg-whip, or som that will not hold the lard, turn it over; it will then rise to the top as light as a puff. Then let it cook till it is a pretty light brown. The older crullers i are the better a oe If you do not burn your lard it wi do to use a second time. and the above directions are to fry at one time as turn over.—{Harper’s OF BUILDING MaTERIALS.— has by gases, especially ; for, as shown by these experiments, icks of = e sewer aren offer but resistance of sewer gas, the winter e, at least, will be drawn up into a heated house more readily than it can work up through, (Sanitary Engineer. ‘The Last Peach Crop. Editor Star:—The late peach crop was fin- | a ; ABORIGINAL SHELL HEAPS OF SOUTH RIVER, MD. ished, and the season ended, somewhere from the 15th to the 2th of October. It was one of magnificent magnitude—too abundant per tree for large, fair, handsome fruit. generally, and for profit to the right man, the grower. Such an abundant set of peaches on the trees is always sure to result in small, inferior, and un- salable fruit. ‘The late crop has given to the grower some very remarkable facts, but whether they are all common to all or ot seasons, whether some them are peculiar to this onealone or not, Ido not | undertake to say. times have everything to do with git certain facts con- nected with a cro) . erally exhibit a kind of Ing Growers damagi avarice in this:—The trees may be loaded to the uttermost and they never pull any off, on the principle that every immature peach pulled off and carried to the pig yard ts an actual loss, re- bee feos crop just in proportion to the num- bers disposed of, when reason snd experience teaches that the overplus, that portion of the growing fruit In excess of what the trees can reduce of full sized, fair and finely flavored it, can be so dis] of advantageously. Such a Caylee f out will give an equal quantity with the overloaded tree, and probably more, whilst the quality of the fruit of the thinned out trees is incomparably better, and more salable. I pulled off bushels of small peaches from some trees, and yet. when matured there did not a) pear to be any lack of fruit on the trees, and it Was fair and excellent. OVERLOADED TREES. But inferior fruit is not the only dimaging circumstance attending the allowirg of over- loaded trees to mature all the fruit. Prop w the limbs as the grower may there will be seri- ous damage to the trees from this breaking of the limbs. Many orchards at, the close of the season looked wretchedly from the breaking of limbs. Frequently, trees which had but just reached their full bearing capacity, have not. a limb left. In such cases the only reparation is, new trees. Sometimes—I ought to state how- ever—sprouts_ will start out from the limb stumps and afford a partial restoration. But it would have been better to have saved the trees by a partial, or even for one season, a total destruction of the fruit. 2 It was currently reported last spring one year ago, when the late frost killed much the ver part of the peach blossoms, that the late varie- Ues blossomed first in the season and that the very earliest the last. Last spring the Alexan- der and the Amoden, the earliest peaches grown in this region, blossomed first. I can’t say whether the time of the biossoming of the vari- ous varieties with reference to one and another every season is uniform, or whether dependent on some peculiarity or condition of the season. T only know what was the fact last season. curculio the past season did their most tnjurious work to the earliest varieties. I did not sec many indications of injury to the peaches ripening in the middle of the season, and | did not observe any such evidences of injury to the late varie- ues. A PECULIAR PEACH ROT. With me during the middle portion of the sea- son the peaches rotted on the trees very badly. ‘They were white fleshed peaches, large and handsome; but just as the fruit was coming into season a litile rotten spot might be discov- ered on the peaches which spread, in most in- stances, over them entirely. I had but very few unhurt peaches during this portion of the sea- son. I did noPobserve any cause for this rot. In regard to this destruction of the fruit it seems to me that if the Department of Agricul- ture has a microscopist he might render almost invaluable service to the growers by investigat- ing the matter and if discoverable makeit known, and give the remedy if he should be able to do so also. The Hale’s Early a few years ago, the earliest of the peach family, but in the matter of the time of maturing now later than several other varieties, rotted as ae od as usual. This is a great misfortune, for the Hale where if does ripen sound is a magnificent fruit, of good size, beautiful, and delicately flavored. What is the cause, and what the remedy? The Department of Agriculture ae unquestiona- bly, make itself of indispensible practical ben- efit to all classes of wers and producers, floral, horticultural, agricultural, and st at once and for all time, the clamors against it from the country. I belleve in such Repare ment, conducted by a capable, experienced and practical man. THE PEACH BORER is the great destroyer yet to the peach tree. It is not so easy a mnatter to kill and keep out of the trees this destructive insect by the methods generally employed. It is a deal of labor to Clear away the earth and examine the trees two or three times in the course of the season, and then the examiner can not always be sure that all the pues taken out. What is need- ed is this:—A protection to the trees when first planted, that can be renewed if necessary, and continued through the entire bearing period of the trees, so that the insect shall not able to deposit it eggs about that portion of the tree favorable for the hatching of them and the growth of its progeny. I do not doubt but that this may be done. Indeed some growers of the more enterprising class declare now that they are able to do this. J havea plan of my own that I shall test the coming season. TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES NE! EDED. Generally, it may be doubted whether the late |° peach crop, 80 extraordinarily large, was any pecuniary benefit to the grower. Peaches rown, picked, packed, and transported to mar- et and sold at from 10 to 30 cents per box, there is no money tn, to the growers. Tne mer- chant, mechanic, in fact all sorts of tradesmen, and the book and newere De men, must see it to be a loss to them, also, In a business view, for the great purchasing classes do not buy goods nor reading matter when their crops do not furnish them money to buy with. If the region round about Washington is to be devoted to fruit growing mainly—and it ts adapted to an eminent degree to that purpose— transportation to market in the western and northern cities should be secured at once. Safe, quiek and cheap transportation for fruit ts what is needed, and we shall have no more such saeri- fices of the growers as this last season exhibited. It application was made to the railroad com- panies I think that they would come to satistac- Lory terms with the growers. SAL Falls Church, Va., January, 1830. Whe Capoul Bang. A new style of dressing men’s hair is raging at present in Paris, and has already shown signs of existence in this city. The new abomi- nation is called the “Capoul bang,” from hav- ing been first inflicted upon human sight by the reigning favorite tenor, in Paris—Capoyl. A few weeks ago an employe of one of the” Eng- lish banks in this city returned from a visit to Paris, and with his haircut @ la Capoul. Be- fore he could be killed he taught the style to a fashionable barber in this city. Slowly but surely, like the advance of all dread infections, the custom has been spreading, until there 15 great danger that unless some firm stand is taken, unless some warlike measure is resorted to at once, the presence of the Capoul bang, ac- companied by something in male attire, may soon appear unmolested at theatres and other places of resort. That it may be recognized at night and frowned down, a detailed description of the discaseis hereby presented as obtained from the barber, who is still unmolested spreading the seeds of contagion: The hair is cut short, very short, on the back of the head and up to the suture annexing the occipital with the par- jetal bones. That portion of the hair covering the parietal bones and the rear portion of the frontal is left com) tively long. The ex- treme front fringe of hair bordering the frontal bone and covering the seat of intellect (so called) oo cut. Serret Gow pcre q oe ened a yy medium between the length obtaining he occipital and parietal regions. The hair having been properly cut, the work of what of 1% remains a ee poesia rene portion is necessarily left uncom! olled to an appearance of silk and left pasted flat to the The long central section is then parted with geometrical correctness in the tke ad (For Tae Stas. PROGRESS. As the blue splendor of the cloudless sky To earthly dust owes its transcendent hue, The myriad myriad motes refleetins blue ‘To the fair earth beneath; while hidden lie The spectrum’s other glories; 80, will I Think, that humanity to God's far view Shows nobler aspiratiotis than seem true ‘When viewed ancar. The shadows we descry, But He may sce that, despite of shame and sin, ‘The world shows more of nobie life than mean; Ané@ the slow centuries that gather in ‘The ripened cheaves of progress, still may glean At each succeeding harvest, souls more pure, ‘Nobler in thought and deed, to truth yet truer. E. J. Loomis. Washington, D.C., Dec. 224, 1879. ‘The regular seini-monthly meeting of the An- thropological Soctety was held on Tuesday eve- | ning in the regent’s room, Smithsonian Institu- tion; Dr. J. Meredith Torer, M. A., in the chatr, Prof. Elmer R. Reynolds secretary Mr. J. D. McGuire, of Ellicott’s Mills, Ma.. read an elaborate paper on the aboriginal shell deposits situated near the confluence of South river and the Chesapeake bay. The article was illustrated with a fine collection of miscellane- ous implements from the author's cabinet, most of which were collected while exploring these riparion remains, The specimens exhibited embraced several patterns of grooved axes, polished celts, ham- mer stones and drills, arrows, spears and knives of chert and jasper. After a few introductory remarks the speaker stated that it has been doubted by some authors whether these vast accumulations of shells are the refuse heaps of Aborigines or whether they are not rather caused by the subsidence of the waters, and som» have even accounted for their presence by U.e assertion that they have been deposited in their present positions by masses of float- ingice, Even a cursory examination of any shell heaps would satisfy the most skepti- cal that they are the refuse shells from Abo- riginal feasts, for interspersed throughout these banks are foun! in quantities decayed wood, charcoal, the bones of fishes, birds, and mamunals, fragments of pottery and stone im- Pe nents, whose presence can be accounted for on no other hypothesis than that ancient man eae ee ned 5 ‘en the shells are ex upon the surface as if deserted but recently. Sometimes they are covered by a few inches of mould, but in- stances are not wanting of coverings of one or two feet of earth, from which trees from twenty tothirty inches in diameter are growing above the shells. This covering can only be caused by the accretions of centuries; how many, it would of course be difficult to state. THE SHELL HEAPS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY cover in certain instances several acres, some- times reaching to a depth of five or six feet and their depth is said to be frequently as much as twenty feet or more in places—none, however, met the author's observation that were more than twelve feet thick. Sometimes a small space is found covered with a thin layer of shells, while in the immediate vicinity great heaps occur. They are always tn proximity to drinking water, and asa rule are located secluded positions, ‘These accomulations of shells have as man; names almost a8 there have been writers. Kjé kenméddings, Mounds, Banks and Heap are the most familiar. The first, however, 1s more de- scriptive, for upon a close inspection it will genet be observed that these deposits are distinct heaps, although in many instances so intermingled as to be hardly distinguishable. THIS FEATURE CAN BE ACCOUNTED FOR upon the theory that the site having been se- ected, and used for a season, would be deserted in the winter (during the temporary removal of the tribe to the interior, for the purpose of hunt- ing) until the following’spring, when upon the return of the community, they would again lo- cate in the same place aud increase the heaps and this process would continue for an_ inde! nit: period, unless the oysters, as probably often vecurred, became exhausted when it would be- ccme necessary to select a new site. Many of the most extensive heaps are now plowed over and almost undistinguishable; but great num- bers have never been touched sinee deserted by their former occupiers, and here there for- mation 18 best observed. As a rule, they are circular oreliptital rings from twelve to fifteen feet in. , and show plainly that they are the sites of former dwellings. Thecenter is always lepressed and represents an inverted cone with the shells falling also outwards. When they have never been built ever naturally, they are more tinct than when they overlap each other two or more Upon running a trench through one of these heaps, we find a level substratum of earth, but he. ft wits a few scattered shells and ine in as it approaches the edge of the cone, to four or five feet; here they begin to decrease their center is ap- proached, often runnin; to the natural earth, and on the opposite ‘to the: apex and decreasing outwards. These hea would naturally be of this shape were the she! thrown out pi usly from & common cen- ter; but why not cone gS “ kitchen heaps, i as we understand such t be? ‘The only plaustble answer to question is in Thomas Morton’s work on the early Ameri Indians, in which he states in that “Indian houses are made of poles, with the large end set in the ground in a circle and bound at the top with the bark of walnut trees, covered with sedge sewed together with splinter bone of a crane’s lege, leaving sev- ‘al places for Coors, which are Covered with mats, which may be rowled up and let down at pleasure.” Would not such a house, being oc- cupied by these people, feasting on oysters, be indicated by just such a aay as just described? The shells being cast aside would gradually ‘orm almost a ee which being deserted and acted upon by the freezing and thawing of cen- turles, would fall outw: and toward the cen- tere 1s frequently observed in all old stone w ONE GROUP OF SHELL HEAPS was observed near the mouth of South River below Annapolis, different in one or two par- ticulars from the common types. They appear to have been either council houses, or possibly communal dwellings; they are about twice the diameter of the common heaps; are eliptical in shape, have an opening in one end, and have hearths in the center. Sir John Lubbock speaks of finding a hearth in one of. the Danish heaps —a curious analogy, evincing that people under similar circumstances resort to similar means. A curious feature noticeable in all shell heaps is that the shell themselves are seldom broken, as would likely be the case were they opened . With any instrument, therefore, it ts natural to infer that they were either pieced in the fire or in hot water until they could be opened readily by the hand. Throughout all the heaps charcoal is met with constantly; also fragments of wood, but so far decayed as to fall to pieces on the slightest exposure. ‘Lhe bones are mostly those of birds, but those of mammals are by no means scarce. They are invariably broken, presumably for the pur of extracting the marrow. As a rule the bones. are soft and easily broken, and it 1s oftentimes a Dost difficult matter to avoid breaking them while dislodging them from the surrounding ‘lis. Bone tools do not seem so numerous as generally the case in the clam beds of the north. Pottery is quite common, but always of the fish-bone or corn-cob ty] Nearly all of the fragments were’ tem) with calcined shells. The general impression seems to be that the implements from the shell heaps are always rude, The scarcity of implements in shell heaps is to be attributed to the fact that it would be somewhat difficult to loose objects of this Class among the shells, inasmuch as the axes, celts, mer-stones, etc., are almost invariably made of dark material. NEW CLASS OF IMPLEMENTS. Prof. Reynolds read an interesting paper on a sba new class of implements, not hitherto noticed by any archeologist, either at home or abroad. They are from four to elght inches in surface diameter, by an average of one inch in thick- ness. Some sroqntirely circular in shape, while others are pear shap Each being provided with a blunt cutting surface, they were made to be held in the hand when used, as is readt shown by the specimens themselves. In form- ing them stones were selected having two flat surfaces, situated at right angles. A Nake was then detached in such a manner as to pre- serve a fiat surface on the end, which, when used, the hand. N thi mens have been found on the Eastern Cl] near , and two at Piscataway, and to do little more than conjecture. Implements of this class are conventional—like many of the domestic utensils in ‘Tr: en As = sae 's a » OF teething, out. the tooth next in the rear of the . the first bi- en minutes afterward he recollected that his patient, 40 years of age, was still in need of a tooth, Notwithstanding the vacancy in the latter's jaw would be that of the second bi-cuspid and on the opposite side of the mouth, the doctor resolved to try the experiment of transplanting. He placed the feminine tooth in glycerine and sent for his patient. It was nearly five hours before he arrived. The glyco- ‘ine had kept at diood heat, and when the gen- Uleman came, the pulpor nerve of the tooth was. removed and the roots were filled with gold. ‘The gentler tooth, or what remained of t was therm extracted and the young lady's Was Inmediately transferred to his jaw. It was numly tied to the adjoining teeth’ and his Jaws udaged together for that night. By the third y the doctor was satisfied from the lack of tn- Imation and the freedom from pain that the operation would be successful. On the niath y the ligatures were removed and on the four- eenth the tooth was quite firm; from that time on it continued to grow firmer In its attachment: © the jaw until, at the end of six weeks, It was as useful for masticating as {ts neighbors. Iu color and size the matching was nearly perfect. Th» only difference between the transplanted tooth and the original one was In the shnpe of the roots; that of the latter was single while the former had a double root, but the socket could haidly have been better filled. Newspaper Reforms in Spelling. The Chicago Tribune parades its Innovations in spelling with too much conceit, as if nothing of the sort had ever been done before. Noah Webster started the reforms about which so much 1s said, and some of his chi have been used ever since, in America, at least, like Hh er the “u” from “honour” and words of that class. The Republican has for many years practiced several of the simplified spellings adopted by Mr. Medill, such as dro ping the superfious “me” commonly attached “gram and “pI ;” the superfous “te” from “quartet,” “quintet,” ete; it troller,” Instead of “comptroller. Tribune drops silent “e” and ends of many words, for instan gi? = it,” idemanoe it uses of “ph” in “alfabet,” “fantom,” ete.. Proposes to say shal, sil, ete., to lo awa with the provoking ““ughs,” spell “tut,” “tho,” “cof,” and 0 Ol All tiiese are in the Une of linguistic reason, and there Is also a con- sideration of economy of some moment in print- ing books, Mr. Mi that by the changes made in about forty wo! he saves about one per cent. of the cost of composition, But this is not quite correct. He might make that saving it educed the size of his paper; as it is, he only puts more matter into it. Iti a saving va the reader, not to the publisher. The change: are all, we believe, recommended by the philo- logical society, and are adopted by the Library Journal and some other sheets. The newspapers have the matter in their own hands, people and scholars are helpless, even Richard Grant White is !mpotent, though doubtless if the New York T.mes, when tt gets converted, should print an article of his in the improved fashion, he would never write another word for that journal, On the otner hand, Noah Webster may yet bea happy old spirit over the American ‘reform of the English language,—{Springfleld Republican, The Cloudy Weather—its Effect on Flowers, Tn more senses than one this winter season thus far has been a pecullar one. Not only as a rule has ft been warm, but the sky has generally been over cast with clouds. In short, during the past six weeks we have had but four clear, bright days. The cloudy er astrous to florists and lovers of flowel PI ot open their bright petals weather; the plants grow, the swell out n¢ y to the point of ‘his has freely in clou buds form an bursting, but do not open. serious Inconvenience to all the florists in this section of the country. Those who before had their houses filled with bright flowers redolent with perfume now present only adreary mass or foliage with an occasional sickly looking Hower. This has caused serious loss as well a3 inconvenience to florists and others. Belles who Wish to adorn themselves with flowers for gala occasions are compelled to pay dearly for a air ents. Sickly looking rose buds how met ly sale at 26 cents each and other flowers in proportion, The Chinese primrose ts the only ms at ail freely in this cloudy season. All hoy brighter days and mor Howers.—{Zroy Oe . “ . Wnen Sot, Surrn Rvsse11 was last in Detrott he thought to play a trick on the brush boy tn a barber's shop by offering the lad a twenty- doliar bill after the broom’ had done its wor! The boy reccived the money with his coun “thankee” and — the money in his vest pocket. “What did I give you?” asked Sol after alittle time. “Twenty dollars, sah,” was the complacent answer “And was that too much?” ‘Well, sah, when you handed me dat bill I posed you would be in for an extra brush ‘long dis afternoon and wanted tosave makin’ change? In case you gwine to leab town this mawnin’ Til get de bill busted up an’ hand ober your sheer!” It cost Sol half a doilar to get his bili back, and there is one gallery od ih this city ~ pal never applaud him again.—{Dejoit vee Pre: IST OF LETTERS REMANIING WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICR, a Saturday, January LOth, 1880. et ee Feb of these —— the applicant 01 VEBTISED LETTERS,” i the date of this list Sinema &#"If not called for within one m sent to the Dead Letter ‘Office. caneae wee 5 im Bailey E A za; Brown E F Mrs; Brown Mre; Brown Sarab. yim Emma; Cowper Han Mrs; Chidestor ary « ae Georgianna; Davis Judith; Dumas jennie. 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P Peabody Annie Pollara Ferlica Mrs; Pink- 3 rs. “Re hawines JE: Hidgdy MJ, 2; Randi —Rawliny ; Kidgely 2; i Mary; Richdson Sally Mra; Ramer Wma Mra Stuart Annie: Scott, Betty; Scott CS) Skeat Gertrude Mrs; Simms Jane Mra; Smith Lizzie; Swann Mary G: Swaine Sarah Mrs. T_—Turner Annie; Tilton ChasT Mrs; Thomas Clora; Thomas Lillie F; Thomas Mary Mrs; Tay- Jor Rogena. ‘U—Upton E E Mrs. Veney Rosa Mrs; Van In ¥ CA W_ Winchester, Constance: "We Mrs. ‘est Catherine; le Ellen ; Willis Fannie Mrs; Wil- james Lena; Walles Martha Mrs; : Whalen Mary. MISCELLANEOUS—Miaé Aner. GENTLEMEN'S LIST. fe ee ho ae land Aron : Butler ; Burr Frank; Bradley Col Jno M; Black ; Baley Willis Pe Gallatin Andee jon Chas; L; Beale ew; Cardarell E; Jno; coepenter an: i J ba) ‘Guibert Noten Y {Dunk “Aaron reise navn ete re on D0; : ‘ mA; Flewers Win, a etalen 5 : Ghallaghor peter: Gumey Hon De Gait BM; Curley Wile mn fama. Holman C; D K; Heilderman & Co. Helton, Frank erbere as aga PO, Hart Stine ee Hctig Shares Haywood WA: ‘2; Hooper Ww ichkiss Wm D. a. ‘K—Enefier Genl. L—Linpencott CE; Tock Frederich; Livermore 7 Leech J A; Lemons Jno R; Lanigan Stewie wm On [—Marvill E; Mickleson Prof Geo; Mi 3 Mery Geo: vg; Sisson Moses i Glarsie; Matther J H. ‘Me—McMahon Edward. ville; 8 ‘ ‘Major W M: Scofield Col W E. ‘Tackett Charles; Tholn ; Turpin Malt; Teft Gen'l Wm ¥, 2. = ‘W_Wills AW; Wiens ¥ B: ages Jonnn’‘Westool Semsaea ong ogi ia ZL er 5 3 LErTEns EMA Ji been a