Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1880, Page 2

{For Tae EVENcxG Srak. - OPEN WINDOWS. Long weary months like a sick man in this Office I eat, or bird with folded wing, Drooping, dispirited, sad, half-dormant thing. Now once again I feel the soft air’s kiss, Fresh air of heaven, how sweet, how pure it is ! My sou! awakes with the awakening Spring, And life revives the wish to soar and sing, Buoysnt and vlad in all the joyousness (Of birds and children building bowors, in sooth, With bended twizs and woven osier bars Of the black birch and alders by the pool ; Or running rsces barefoot on the smooth Green veivet turf powdered wiih olden stara— Dandelions thick-sown by the way to school. April 14, 1880. Jous Savary. ———— <6 THE MARSHALL HOUSE TRAGEDY. Interesting Pnrticulars—The Death of Ellsworth and Jackson—Elsiworth’s Remarkable Ca- reer—The Inauguration of President Lincon— The Precautions for His S1fety—Peculiar Na- ture of the Orders Given—What Ellsworth Said to Col. John Hay—The Advance 0 Aleran- dria—The Death of Ellsworth—A Sirange Inci- dent—The Funeral from the White Honse— Letter of President Lincotn (o the Parents of Etsnrorth—Injustice Done to Elisivovth ina Baitinnore School Historie A few weeks since Capt. Frank E. Brownell, formerly of the N. Y. Fire Zouaves, better knows as “the Avenger of Ellsworth,” presented to Lincoln Post, G. A. R., a relic of the advance of the Union army into Virginia—a smal! porifon of the confederate flag which surmounted tir Marshall House in Alexandria which was iauled down by Ellsworth, and which he was bi Gown the steps when he was shot by the proprietor of the house—the Litter ve immediately killed by Capt. Browacll. Tui memento was attached to a card: Comraies of Lincoln Post. No. 3. Dep" * Pow tomac, (- A. R.:On the bottom of this sheet I have placed a sual portion of the revel flax taken by Cal. Elsworth at the Marshall House, Alexan- Sts, Va. May 24, ISG1- May ite presence evor Sted by the seutinicnt expressed in the motto which ‘was shot into the breast ofthe one who lost his life lowerins it om nobix set pro patria.” accept the same, with my best wishes for your future prosperity RANK E. Browse, Post 28, Chicueo,” 11. Captain Brownell, in making the presenta- tion, gave asketch of Ellsworth, who was born in Malta, Saratoga, N. Y., in May, 1> levt his home 1n 1551, and after living and working tor atime in ‘Troy and New York, he went to Chi- cago and eutered the patent business, in which for a time he was successful. He referred to his belief in 1555 that a war was impending be- tween the north and the south, that the north Was unprepared for such war, and he was in tended for some purpose in’ connection with such war. In the winter of 1555-9, he Informed his mother of this belief. and returning to Chi- cago he commenced laying out a plan for the re-organization of the miittia, iutending to study law, and supporting himself” by copying papers and draughting. Some space Is given for letters to bis father and mother. in which he expresses his gratitude for the dally bi he was receiving at the hands of 11 manner of living—his how to 10 three days each week, elght study, retiring at 10, and from 6to ii three days, devoting ten hours to study and copying. The organization of the United States zouay cadets in 1359, of which he was the captain, { allyded to as the most remarkable company tay woFid has ever seen, over one-half of them hav- bow oppo ofticers of different commands and being Killed during the war. He notices, too, that While intent on perfecting this company be suffered for the necessaries of life. The rules and lations of the corps were given with a_ hasty sketch of the six months tour of the company, which “fairly set the military on end.” On his return to Chicago he quietly formed a regiment in the upper counties of Illinois and tendered its services to Gov. Yates on his inauguration, “for apy services consistent with honor,” and ‘this, he says. positive tender of an organized force in defence of the Constitution. “Intent upon the flan of militia reform he went to Springfield, hoping in the success of Mr. Lin- coin to be able to establish in the War depart- menta bureau of militia, and he prepared a lan for such bureau. While nominally a stu- it in the office of Lincoln and Herndon he Spent the most of his time on militia reform, and made a number of speeches in the cam and prepared a bill for the organization Br the militia thin the state of the state,which Would have put im an enviable attitude for defence, but it was defeated. PRECAUTIONS FOR THE SAFETY OF LINCOLN. Mr. Lincoln having been elected President Col Elisworth accompanted him to this city, and the order of Col. W. S. Wood, of IIL, who was charged with the safe conduct of Mr. Lin- coin and suite, in hts circular to committees o. reception stated: nstence tate this you will confer a favor. by placius Col. Ellsworth in ¢mumunication with the chat +. and friends, Rave rarely ‘seomed ral talent in thst department I yet he was 80 signal; Social intercourse. El, two years tter half of the inte as intimate as the ay ree Se “ ages ia life, he meant for them in the hope that it may re address this tribute to the | memory of my young friend, and your brave a iy fall God you the consol early fallen id. May tion that is beyond all earthly power. ly your friend in ee ee Captain Brownell, after referrin, ner in which Mr. Lincoln receiv his death, read from a school burn and McDonald, pul account in which Ellswot rough and circus rider of Chicago,” to show the hecessity that_the facts of the career of the young Ppp pct should be brought out in sad end so gallantly wav no less than for himself. be no intrusjon upo: row, I have venti is styled “a famous Hazing Ungentiemanly. Editor Star:—In all the talk about the out- Tage on Cadet Whittaker, at West Point, I won- der that no one has taken up and exposed the | fallacy which accounts the profession of arms and the position of an officer as gentlemanly. The year after a freshman 1s hazed he ts ready to haze somebody e!se, and the same spirit con- tinues throughout his service. hazing him, unless he acts the K-Spittle, and he ts hazing all officers under bum. How a man can preserve any self-respect when, to keep clear of the persecutions of a capricious superior, he has to fawn and cringe, flatter and cajole, while inwardly despising hating, is one of the things a civilian cannot id. CIVIL SERVICE. Do We Live for the Postal Service or Does It Live for U Editor Evening Star:—On a senting at once paper, envelope and postage, aud all for one cent, Lan write somewnat of & letter, but to ask by mail one single question le word of reply (seeker paying ould) there must be used (and &c.,) tWo envelopes, one sneet ply’ possibly another) and siz Now, why can’t we have “ite- turn Postal Cards” with the address and natu- rally short query both on one side, the return address and reply on the other, a cent stamp on each side and the second one not to be available except on its own card? April 15, 1880. “The Tramps Abroad.” Mark Twain has tinished his book with the It professes to give the adventures of the author and a friendin a walking-trip through Germany, but it is safe to say that | Mark, himself, took no such walks as are here Postal card repre- | folded, &c., & eonts posiaue. One of the best things In the book is found in It gives the author's opinions of ge, and also some of his ex- fie says: the appendix. the German langna: periences with it. ) “I went often to look at the collection of curi- osities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day [ sur- prised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke tirely in that tan; tle was greatly terested, and after had talked awhile he said my German was very rare, possibly a ‘uniqne,’ and wanted to add it to his museum. known what it had cost me to acquire my art, be would also have known that it would break any collector to buy it... ; Surely there 1s not age that is so slipshod and sys- so slippery and elusive to the grasp. ‘One 1s washed about 1 thither, in the most helpless way last_he thinks he bas captured arule which offers firm ground to take a rest on, amid the general rage and turmotl of the parts of speech, e turhs over the page and reads, pil make careful note of the following ere p- He runs his eye down and finds that there are more exceptions to the rule than in- stances Of It. So overboard he goes again to hunt = Ararat, and to find another iy enough to read when you hold them before the 1doking-glass or stand ‘on your head, reverse the construction,—but I think that to Jearn to read and understand a German news- paper is a thing which must always remain an | Impossibility to a foreigner.” it, hither and Ingersoll’s Sunday Lecture. I heard Bob Ingersoll lecture Sunday night to cents a head, clearing, urse $500, or the sal ike his father for a I saw only one Senator whom 1 knew, Ingles, of Kansas, in the audience, but several Congressmen and many refined looking women. The audience was decidedly above the lecturer {n appearance. and curbs a tendency vo be coarse. He Is no the ologian and does not well know the Seriptures,as when he said that Christ never wrote anything but once, “on the occasion of healing a blind man,” probably referring to the case of [he wo- a large probably, for his private He is auimal-looking, ZoUr qsoort immediately upon the arrival of the The arrangement for President Lincs: suite in carriages was that we Pres Col. Lamon should occupy the first: 7 V Sumner, Maj. D. Hunter, Hons. NB. Judd and Davis, io the second: Col. Elisworta, Capt ti zara and Mr. Nicolay in the third; Rover T°. Lincoln and Jobn Hay in the fourth. The fact ts alluded to by Capt. Brownell iat on Elisworth’s arrival here he was tendered the captaincy of the Washington Zouaves (Co. D. W. LI.) and declined, but he cheerfully in- structed the ofticers—Lieuts. J. T. Powell, Bar- ana rett, and Irving, and drilled the company fre- | —— ‘Then he fell sick, and the news from | the south coniirmed his predictions of a war | which were more salutary than medicine. Col. Jobn Hay (cow assistant Secretary of State,) relates that one night he was conversing with Ellsworth as to the loyalty of the People, and he said earnestly, “I can only Speak for myself. You know [ have a great work to do to which my life is pledged. | Tam the only earthly support of my parents, poo dearer than my own; yet I could ask will find that patriotism ts not dead even if 1¢ sleepa” His organization of the Fire Zonave Regiment in New York in one week after his arrival, and its armainent with Sharp's rifles by his triénds, its departure trom New York and arrival tn tis city, Where 1€ was quartered, first to the Capl- tol, and then encamped near the Insane Asy- lum, are matters next referred wo. THE MOVEMENT UPON ALEXANDRIA. On the night of May 23d, 1861, between 1) and Ui o’clock, Ellsworth called his men Into line and thus addressed them:—“Boys, yesterday, [ understood. that a movement was to be made against Alexandria. I went to see General jansfield and told him that I would consider it a8 a personal effort if he would not allow us to have the right of the Mne, which ts our due as the first volunteer regiment sworn in for the war. Ail I can say | is prepare yourselves for a nice little sail and at the end perhaps a skirmish. Go to your tents, lie down and take your rest until two o'clock, when the boats will arrive and we go forward to victory or death. When we reach the place of destination act like men. Do no- thing to shame the regiment. Show the enemy that you are men as well as soldiers, and that you will treat tiem with Kindness until they force you to use violence. I wani to kill them With kindness, and no matter what may occur Uo-MOrTOW DOT a =.OL must be fired without or- ders. Now go to Jour tents and do as I tell When Secmy became quiet he wrote two letters—one to aMlanced—and the following to his parents: ** WASHINGTON, D. ** My Dear Father and Mother: ordered meet with. [ai inclined to the opinion that ous tested, as lam formed ‘a large force hi arrived there to-day. Should this happen, my dest parents, it may be my lot te be injured in some inanner. nittate wiever may hapien, cherisl thy eon polation 7 ole ! Gers performance of a of Tam perfectly content te accept whatever Fortune may be, confident that Hewho matte see the fall of a sparrow will have sme purpose evett in the fall of one like me. My darling and ever- loved parents, goud bye. God bless, protect and care for you. £.uxs." Capt. Brownell says: “Inthe dewy light of early dawn he occu the first rebel ‘town. ‘With his own hand he tore down the first rebel Nag and added to the giories of that morning ‘the seal of Lis blood.” ¢ A STRANGE INCIDENT. Not giving the details of his death, for Capt. B. says he can never describe it, he coutinues: “It was a strange incident that the bullets that laid him low, took into his breast a golden ‘Circle on which was inscribed the Latin motto + Non nobis Sed propatria.” ‘Not for myself, try,” and as he fell forward the ornament—a wreath encircling the letters &. 8.—which he had worn in triamph tae year it the whole land, from his to the floor, and was cap or his arts saturated with the ae. death from his com dear of terrible on he 2 wengeance n the whole city his ee ee aes = juentiy, jest President Lin- coin, they were laid in state at Executive man’ taken in adultery, wh | ground in the dust. | doctrines of the Gospel, nor show ordinary skeptical synthesis about its pers insists on the letter there in or His summary of the see allan aud Methodist, was novel a ut the Presbyterian sect was ovel does not know, perhaps. that they been advocates of an educated clergy an highest secular educat t fairly statethe ‘ literary model is Charles Dickens, who was, like himself, an exaggerator of the goblins he “making the meat is a real come- im manner, and the light passages | of bis lecture start genial laughter. | does not, however, surpass the late Joseph Bar- ker in caricature of the religious systein—and Barker died a clergyman—nor give any earnest igh massiveness of miad of Thomas Paine. He has taken the tide of Indifferentism and liberality at the poet nee = eed ae re p. | ho courage, as formerly, to e such attacks, SAAT Genrer came anal, whose happiness f re- | 86 that Lusink he velonge to the echoel at sokn ‘Tetzel and John 1. Gough, a more or less mer- cenary dealer in a marketable Abundant brute health and a trifling mind are probably the basis of his protitable diversions. Seience thanks no sich coadjutor, and prob- | ably classifies him with the commoner preach- ers he belittles, as an avaricious sentimeatalist. Almost as soon as I entered the thea’ TSoll was awaited, I saw the glossy locks of Frederick Douglass, the ed marshal of the District of Columbia, s back rows. Mr. Douglass has been a member of chure and without any deviati While Ingersoll was calling Calvin a murderer, Ferdinand and Isabella “infamous” (be must have included Coiumbus, logically) and described the Calvin as that ratedly attacked, he leeds on.” * no ‘tter death than to fall before Sumter next | week. I am not better than other men. You | alwi Methodist, I thi or novelties of meeting of Knox between famine and pest- ving us his substitute for Teligion—namely, bodily health and a cheerful | deportment—I found myself insensibly occupy- | ing Frederick Douglass's place, aud applying to it the lecturer's severe confidence in his plan of Salvation as So much better than elther that of Moses or Jesus. Ingersoll's strong sult—I use the word because the poker phraseology is that Christian’s pack, at nd profitably on their He leaves tt to 1 should call that point his right bower on the rostrum. Never has a man assumed more on the standard fact that he does not whip his wife. It reminds me of a visit I made fifteen years ago with a detective officer and some other journalists to the dance house of John Allen, called “the wickedest man in ¥ After this wretch had made his little son sing ahymnand take the prize for what even tile dance girls must have felt to be I said, under tone, to one of our worthless being!” A’ io Was at my elbow list- ‘Sir, you do him tnjustice. That man’s independently rich. He’s married to his “Gath” in the,Graphic, natural to his fami! least, sitting lightly backs—ts his domestic be inferred that he 13 1 a husband and father. “What a low, Which the detective, wh Eccentricities of European Weather The severity of the present winter is far from being entirely ant rivers are still Zirknitz, in Carniola, is a solid mass of Ice, yriads of fish being killed. Several largé lakes in Upper Austria are frozen solid, a phe- nomenon not witnessed since 1354. On the jlake ragenz, a newspal mnorate the “1 belng frozen over about while snow and ice Middle and southern , even Sicily having been ai- n been printed ‘to standing pen sun and the view, and the sleeves; only an occasion: nelts ag 8000 as the sun rise RELIGIOUS NOTES. — The /nierior says that a new book is needed «nthe evidence of Christianity, a book to do for this age what Paley did for lls age end Bar ler for his. ~ — It is stated that the French Jesuits are making 4mportant purchases in §| of old convents and houses, in yiew of their expulsion from France. —It comes kind o' sudden like, just as the cong) egation have finished singing ‘“‘Salvation’s free,” to have the preacher announce that “the collection will now be taken up.—Boston Tran- | script. — Mr. Gladstone, In his speeches in Scotland, | told the people that the disestablishment of the oe was ere oe sthe ee is) le. ey unmistakably expressed wish to | ave the kirk disestablished, it would be nt | done. —The Universalist and Unitarian papers in New England are having a rather sarcastic de- | bate as to which denomination has done most toabolish hell. Perbaps, remarks the Golden Rule, they had better wait and see how it turns out. — Five thousand strips of whalebone tipped With cobbler’s wax were found not long ago at the headquarters of a band of French thieves | who have long been making a successful | Specialty of robbing the poor boxes in the churches. = “— A Wisconsin clergyman has preached a ser- mon on whispering during divine service. His congregation, among whom are some of the ‘perers he attacked, were so pleased with the sermon that they had it printed for free dis- tril ution, —The Episcopal Bishop of Ontario has sus pended a clergyman for partaking of the com- munion tn a Presbyterian church. ‘The clergy- aged mother fs amember of that denomi- nation, and he acted thus to please her, going forward at the time she did. — How achurch fair pays achurch debt is thus described by a Presbyterlanelder: “Now, brethren. let_us get up a. wie and eat our- selves rich. Buy your food; then give it to the chureh. Then go buy it back again. Eat it up, and—your church debt {s paid.” — Christians who happen to reside in Turkey are just now having a hard time. The Turkish government shows a disposition to go back on its treaty promises to allow them to be unm9- lested. Great indignities are now practised on : he ERSREY Christians, and greater ones are feared. —The New England Methodist Conference lately refused to admit Anna C. Oliver to dea- the delegates to the general tonference to use their influence in removing all distinctions of | sex In the offices and ordinations of the min- | istry. cleryman recently said that many a man while apparently singing with all his might the ne ‘ere the whole realm of nature mine, ‘That were a present far too small, was diligently engaged with one hand in his pocket in scraping the edge of a three cent plece to make sure that it was not a dime. — The 50 colored theological students of the Richmond (Va) Baptist Institute have decided to quit playing croquet and base ball because some of the deacons of the colored churches felt aggrieved thereat. They said to the old de: cons: “We do not believe there can be aay in our taking such exercise; Dut if it hurts your conscience, we will play croruet and base ball no more while the world standeth.” — The will of Henry Ellison, of Kensington, London, which was admitted to probate last month, provides for the buruing of his body by the Cremation Society’s process and in the sim- pliest manner possible to a decent. regard for the oceasion. His ashes are to be disposed of as it may please his executors, but he suggested that they may “give them to the winds and rains of heaven to sweeten for further use in na- ture’s wise economy. — The Independent says. “Formerly every great revival was pretty sure to originate a new church, and every great church now exist- ing sprang ‘up in the midst of a revival. ‘The awakening 8) owed {itself in division and pro- voked mutual opposition among Christians. The churches could not be shaken without breaking, or reformed without dividing. Now all this is changed, or at least changing. _ Revi- valsare drawing men together Instead of sepa- rating them.” —Father Didon, the emtnent Dominican reacher at Paris, recently caused a sensation y a sermon in which he announced that the church must reconcile itself to modern society and with the spirit of the age, and that the sooner {t is done the better it’ will be tor the world. His theory ts that the time has come for Roman Catholicism to march hand in hand with free democracy, and not to disdain modern science and investigation. He declared that his ideas were known and approved at Rome. — The Baptist Weekly says: “One of the abom- Inations of Protestant public worship ts the no- uces given during the Sunday services. |W) people assemble for worship theirthouzhts ought not to be diverted by the secular asp2cts of re- ligious institutions more Uian can be helped. The hod hewspapers are so generally found in families that an advertisement in them ts al- inost sure to reach every one, and the p2ople who do not see a daily paper are not likely to pay their money for Mrs. Jariey’s Wax Works, even in ald of @ mission.” — it is{not strange that Dean Stanley has in ed M. Renan to deliver the course of four ard lectures in Westminster Ab! it an 13 not a Deilever in historical Christlan- In its supernaturailsm, no more, we sup- isthe Dean. We suppose, judging from zt he says and does not say, that to him the eriuen on the Mount exhausts Christianity, and that the miracles and the resurrection hé regards as legendary excrescences, {mpossible duntrue, ‘There is piace for such men in our but it Is di t to find tt in high ofti- aUion in the Christian Church of England. Independent, (Coi}.) — The New York Methodists boom for Grant. We suppose they have a right to their prefe ences. though their taste 1s more than ques- tonable, but what would be sald 11 a single Catholle priest ventured to express his politica ferences? Why, Unts would be sald: That Konie—tt 1s aways “tome” that speaks through the mouth of the obseurest clergyman—wi trying to establish the inquisition in Ame: ‘The dally and weekly press would be taken with spasms, and every old woman, or either sex, in the country would look under her bed thal night for a Jesuit armed to the teeth and come to rob her of ler family Bible. Being a Methodist boom, however, the matter ts passed by unnoticed, just as the hypothetical case we have supposed would deserve to were it not that romanophobia {s a disease that 1s very catching and very foolish.—B sion Pivot (Gitno- —In this column of last Saturday’s Star a newspaper report of the insanity of Rev. Thos. Harrison, the revivalist. was mentioned. A gentleman of this city who had_ witnessed the remarkable revival efforts of Mr. Harrison in Washington desired to get at the facts in the ease and wrote to the pastors of churches tn Philadelphia and Buffalo (where Mr, Harrison is now laboring) and received the following re- plies, calculated to set at rest’ the fears or the Triends of the youthful preacher: PARSONAGE, 1236 SOUTH 4TH STREET, ) PHILADELPHIA, April 14, 1550. f Dear Brother :—Yours of the 12th instant is at hand and contents noted. The report. of Broth- er Harrison's insanity appeared first, I think, in the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. Immedi- ately the Philadelphia /vjuiver sent a reporter to Interview Dr. J. I. Wright, a member of Wharton-street church, and myself on the sub- ject. ‘The result of that interview was pub- ished in the next morning’s issue of that lege ‘The Philadelphia Record’ also telegraphed to Buffalo and published a contradiction of the re- port the same morning. I have since received a jetter from Mr. Harrison himself, and a num- ber of my people have gotten letters from him. All these indicate that the good work on grandly, despite these silly and wicked efforts atdetraction. He is not so insane as the auth- ors Of such unfounded reports. ‘The revival in Wharton-street church, of -which I am pastor, was glorious beyond anything I have ever wit- nessed. Brother Harrison’s methods subject him to adverse criticism, and his exaggerations are wholly indefensible. Still, he has a marvel- ous spiritual magnetism that takes hold upon the people wonderfully. So far as I could see, from the most intimate relations during a six- month’s continuous meeting, there are no indi- cations of Present or prospective insanity. might not deem it complimentary, but 1 him asa genius, made up specifically for this Se Nee itn as Hi ms ee oe cal é out ability in any other direc tion 50 Brother Harrison 1s a revivalist prod- iP without special ability in anything else. lence, there'is no ground for fear as to ultl- mate or my insanity. I trust this hasty ‘scrawl will meet your request. Yours truly, ‘THEODORE STEVENS, BurraLo, April 15, 1880, Dear Sir an& Brother:—Your note 1s before contidence in Rev. conducting mee! at city. But, dear brother, you need not be at all disturbed by the rts which have reached you of his insanity. When he commenced here twoof our secular papers attacked his ways and methods very severely, and from their com- ments have gone the very wild reports that are bein; ‘carried. all over the coun! . Mr. Harri- son ie still with us, enjoying tne fect confi- {aboring, and, a8 usual, is Suooceding In lesaiag , and, aS in souls to Christ. He is conducting if ina Christ gentlemanly and we dis- cover in bis waysfor one who isin sympat his work to harshly criticize. It ita old cry of “Aye casteth out devils through Beelzebub, the prince at devils.” Mr. Harrison leaves us next Week, and opeas a meeting with . Ti in Brooklyn, April 26th. te {5 welt in body, d and soul. Yours , ‘T. J. Leax, Pastor Asbury Church. | pared by disso! THE HOUSEHOLD. EVEN THE WixDOW SHADES are now embroid- ered, sometimes with flower designs and some- toe in simple cross stitch. ‘THe Conzorsis is the flower that the green- house men are now, and its honest yel- low face is much for table decoration. ” ‘THE DIGESTIBILITY OF BREAD depends in great | Measure upon its being porous. If 1t is com- t and heavy, the | logs ‘upon it, and it faa in the alimentary | Canal a giving rise to those ble sensations OW as indigestion. It ts A BABY BLANKET that everybody admires | at the Decorative Art Rooms this week; a baby | blanket Uned with pink silk turned up around | the to make a border for the soft creamy | stuff of which the bianket itself ts made, and | having a spray of wild roses with aropplng pe tals worked upon it.—Boston Transcri How To MAKE THE RUG Lig FLat.—If a “Young Housekeeper” will buy some strips of ofl-cloth (not Linoleum), say six inches and sew it irmly with linen thread across the ends of her ae. rug, taking care that the stitches do not show tio n on the right side, she will find yu | that the will not tarn up, but le flat as long ag the oil-cloth lasts.—. ¥. Times. FLowERrs oF ONE Kinp are preferred to mixed bouquets for dinner decoration. It is thought | better to fill one’s house with the odor of one | sweet-scented blossom, to give all one’s gu | a knot of it and to connect itsmemory will ests that of the dinner, rather than to have a medley of | flowers on the table, and to leave a confused tm- | pression on the mind of beholders. SrarntnG FLoors.—After experimenting for | myself and others how best to paint floors ina good and yet inexpensive color, I found French ochre (yellow ochre) and linseed oil in all re- spects tbe best. If allowed to dry and get hard, it will last in regularuse3 to 5 years. This looks well, and is easily cleaned. Apply the first coat thin; the subsequent coats tolerably thick, {say about as thick as poor cream.— Country Gentleman. WRINKLES ON WOMEN’S FACES result fron various causes. An Idfot who thinks that It 1s advantageous to try to remove them tells of a | “wonderfully beautiful” woman who did as fol- r “he queezed Out the juice from the bulbs. ral white lillies until she had obtained seventy grammes of this liquid, to which she added an equal quantity of the best honey and thirty-five grammes of pure white melted Wax. Those substances; being well-mixed, formed a pomade, with which she delicately rubbed, morning and night, those parts of the | body where wrinkles show most.” conship, but afterwards placed {tself on record | as favoring women {n pulpits by tnstracttag | To RENOVATE BLACK Goops.—Take one-fifth of a pound of extract of logwood and one ou nee of saleratus; put in a boiler with 10 gallons of water, cold or hot; stand over the fire, and when boiling hot put in the goods either wet | or dry; let stand 20 minutes, moving about oc- casionally; rinse in cold water until the goods drip clear, and iron immediately. This will | be found a most excellent receipt for restoring black goods of any kind that have become rusty or brown—cloth, cashmere, a water- proof, worsted grenadine, or any material that will not cockle in wetting. Press on the wrong side.—N, Y, Times, ANTIDOTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES.—The benzoate of soda has lately been recommended as a superior antiseptic in all Izfectious dis- cases; it acts very powerfully, and it ts claimed that a daily dose of from thirty to fifty grains to a full-grown man will render the potson of diphtheria inoperaity The benzoate ts pre- ving crystailzed berzoie acid in water, neutralizing at a slight heat with a solu- tion of caustic soda, drying, and then allowin the solution to crystalize over sulphurie ack under a bell glass. Large «loses are satd not to appear absolutely necessary—good results may be obtained by the daily administration of about twelve grams. ViITIATED ALk.—Dr. Willard Parker, in a lee- ture before the students of the College of Phy- siclans and Surgeons of New York, used the folowing apt words: “If, gentlemen, instead of air, you suppose this room to be filled with pure, clear water, and that Instead of alr you were exhaling twenty times a minute a pint ot milk, you can see how soon the water, at first clear and sparkling, would become hazy and finally opaque, the milk diffusing itself rapidly through the water. You will thus beable to appreciate, also, how at fresh inspiration you would be taking ina fluid that grew mo- mentarily moreimpure. Were we able to see the alr as we are the water, we would at once appreciate how throughly we are contaminat- ing it, and that unless there be some vent for the air thus vitlated. and some opentag large enough to admit a free supply of this very valuable material, we will be momentarily poisoning ourselves as surely as if we were taking sewage matter Into our stomach3.” INFLUENCE OF SINGING Upon HEALTH.—The medical Wochenschifi, of St. Petersburg, pub- lishes an article on the influence of singing upon the health. It ts founded upon the ex- haustive researches made by Professor Monna- sein, of St. Petersburg, during the autumn of isis, when he examined 222 singers, rauging between the ages of nine and fitty-three years. It appears to be an ascertained fact from these experiments, that the relative and even the ab- soiute circumference Of the che-t is greater among singers than among those who do not sing, ard that it tncreases with the growth and the singer. While, too, mider forms of caiarrh are frequent among singers, bronchial catarrh is exceedingly rare. The -moriality of singers from phtbisis is unfrequent. Brighv’ disease, On the coutrary, 1s not untreq among them. Professor Monnasein conelades that singing 18 highly to be recommended as a valuable prophylactic for persons who are phthisically fnelined, and that tt 1s far pre ferable to ordinary gymnastics tor developing expanding and strengthening the chest. How to Dea wira Rars.—We clear our premises of these detestable vermin, writes a correspondent of the Scientific Ainerican, by making whitewash yellow with copperas ‘and covering the-stones and rafters in the cellar with ft. In every crevice where a rat miy tread we put the crystalsof the copperas, and scatter the same in the corners of the floor. The result was a perfect stampede of rats and mice, Since that time nota footfall of either s or Inice has been heard about the house. ery spring, a coat of yellow wash is given the cellar, aS a purifler, and rat exterminator; and no typhoid, dysentery, or fever, attacks the family. Many persons deliberately attract pl the rats in the neighborhood by leaving muiis and vegetables uncovered in the cellar, and sometimes even the soap is left ogen for their regalement. Cover up everything eat- able in the cellarand pantry, and you will soon have them out. These precauitons joined to the service of a good cat, will prove as good a rat exterminator as the chemist can provide. We never allow rats to be poisoned in our Cle Uhey are so Hable to die b> Uween the walls and produce much annoyances, IMPROVING OUR LAWNS.—At this season, when the grass is getting green, everyone's at- tention is drawn to the lawns and grass-plots surrounding their houses, and any suggestions for improving their appearance may be accep- table. Talking with an inteligent English gentleman some time ago, he expressed the opinion that much of the beauty of English lawns was owing to a persistent weeding out of coarse vegetation and weeds that might In- | terfere with the grass. We repliea that such was no doubt the fact, as it was the course we had pursued since possessing a lawn. Our English acquaintance also said tnat their lawns were regularly rolled after a rain, which closed the holes made by taking out the coarse grass, weeds, &c. We again replied that it wa3 the Way we had always pursued. In doingso we imitated no one. We saw the necessity of it and did it. Many gardeners now follow the same course, for without it a first-class lawn cannot be maintained. Wherea hole may be too large for this operation of the roller, or where from some cause there may be bare Spots in the lawn, take a wheelbarrow load of good soil and fill up these holes, and where the lace is bare first scratch with an iron rak? or ork, add a little oe Heke) i el iad lawn grass seed, which should always be ke; on hand, and run the rollerover. In a mouth or six weeks everything will look green and perfect.—Germantown Telegraph. ‘THE CARE OF CLOTHING.—A clothes brush, a wisp broom, a bottle of ammonia, a sponge, a hand brush, a cake of erasive soap, a vial of al- cohol, should form a part of the furnishings of every toilet. After all dust has been removed from clothing 8] may be taken out of Diack cloth with the d brush dipped in a mixture of equal parts of ammonia, alcohol and water. ‘This will brighten as cleanse. Benzine is useful in removing grease spots. Spots of grease may beremoved from colored 3 by putting on {hem raw starch made into a paste with water. Dust is best removed from by a soft flan nel, from velvet with a brush made specialiy for the [and ned If hats and bonnets when taken from the head are brushed and put away In boxes and covered uP, instead of being latd down anywhere, they will last fresh a long time. Shawls and articles that may be folded should be folded when taken from the person in their original creases and laid away. Cloaks should be hung up in place, gloves pulled out lengthwise, wraj in tissue ches wiae, rolled up tightly, and sewed to keep the ro)l in place, 1s Det than a cloth for Diack and colored clothes. Whatever iin wrol lore ite dry. ‘in wat Yorwnite clothing they no moth will Paper are equally if they are Uf and so franks and boxes Gosed wo ei that no 1638, olest even fura hung up in light’ rooms open toair and sunshine. NY. 7/ibune. 2 MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. — One of the most successful operatic seasons ever known in New York closed to-day, when Mr. Mapleson sailed with his troupe for Eng- land, to appear in London at the opening of the ext month. Signor Campanini attractions of the company, Few tenors have received a More eathusiastic welcome than the former. — The Emma Abbott troupe appear in Eng- lish opera at the National here for one week, comme! on Monday night. Mrs. Seguin and most of the old favorites are with them sul. *- Romeo and Juliet” is on the bills, for the first ume here. — The New York bulls and bears whoare dally Wont to shout themselves hoarse at the stock exchange have a glee club for the musical cul- Uvation of their superabun@ant lung power. Last Saturday evening the club gave a concert at Chickering hall, and a more Driliiant and fashionable audience is seldom got peor A more perceptible harmony, it is said, prevails oon, bi ess hours at the stock exchange since this musical club went into training. — Herr Joachim has just purchased from the Collection of a well-known Glasgow amateur a violin, which {s considered to be one of the finest ‘specimens of Stradivarius extant. It 1s extra- ordinary how the value of violins of the old Italian masters has increased of late years; £500 being by no means too high a figure fora Stradt- Mertens an oes or a Joseph Berean _ a “pedigree.” The “pedigree” of many of these Viollns can be traced almost down to the hands of the maker. — The Madison Square Theater has domesti- cated in New York what became slangily known in London a few years since as “« Monday pops.” Only in the New York case the “pops” come j Thursdays and consist of a series ot Py ular concerts, Last week Campanini and Mlle. De Belocea were ehief among the musical lumina- ries, and this week Miss Thursby and Angelo ‘Torriani were the centers of attraction. There is much jollity and frolic on the stage by actors and singers, altogether making a uniquely tree and easy entertainment. — “To Marry or Not to Marry,” and “To Ob- lige Benson,” will remain on the program at Wallack’s for the present. It will shortly be followed by Mr. George Hoey’s adaptation trom the French, the title of which has been chang- aon “Two Hearts” to “The Child of tie State.” — Byron's new play, “The Upper Crust.” was Drenene out at the London Folly Theater ou March 30. —‘“La Vie de Boheme,” Henri Murger's charming and ee play, is to be revived at the Parts Vaudeville. — The Parisian makes these comments on M De Bornier's latest ad |. Henri de Bornier’s new drama, ‘Les Noces d’ Attila,” 1s the great literary event of the season. It 1s & work of art in the truest sense of the word; it is a great work of art and ich it will be lasting. It ts not like a play of Sardou, of Dumas, or of Gondinet, whit titty rs hence, will be regarded as. curiosities of a past age; nor yet does It resemble the grand plays of Victor Hugo,which, whatever may be said, embody many eccentricities, and are, perhaps, tiner when read in the solitude of the tlreside than when played behind the foot- lights, ‘Les Noces d’ Attila’ Is a tragedy in verse, written to be acted, and written with a perfect knowledge of the exigencies and condi- tons of the stage.” —The Boston Musical Ties sums up its estt- mate of the composer of Pinafore, &¢., as fol- lows: “Sullivan’s larger works are not suffi- ciently strong to live, and his operettas deserve strangulation—in them he deliberately panders to the most depraved musical taste. We have failed to find one bold, original theme in all this Mus. Doc. Ox’s writings; bat he can be convict- ed of but few cases of real piagiarism, for he has usually appropriated the style rather than the substance.” —Mr. Joseph Polk and Mr. A. M. Palmer have had a difference of opinion. the result of which 48 that the former has left the Union Square ‘Theater. Polk opens at the Boston Museum in his new play, “A Gentleman from Nevada,” written for him by Mr. Jessup. — Mr. Daly describes the new play which he has prorupet at his theater, entitied “The Way We Live,” as “a oneniorancous comedy or society as it is and might be.” — Mrs. Clara Fisher Maeder, who is with the “Arabian Night” combination, occupies a greater place in the history of the American stage than any other actress living. She was playing tn the company of the Old Park Taea- ter, New York, as a star feature before either Forrest or Cushman had made anv reputation. At 12 years old Clara Fisher was “starred” in little pleces adapted to her age, and a great at- traction wherever she appeared. —The critics of the New York papers are a great way ahead—or behind—the taste of the thealer-golng public of that city. Their com- mendation is selcom beneficial to a play or an artist, and their disapproval rarely or never interferes with the success of either. They could tind little or nothing to praise in Miss Pixley, but much to condemn—nevertheless, sbe pinyin to crowded houses nightly there, ‘M'li:s” has scored a hit. They attempted 1t down” on “Hearts of Oak,” but it ts ccining money for its owners at the Fifth Ave- uue. Years ago they pronounced Lotta an- wortby Of criticism, yet she is one of the great favor-tes of Gotham. — Gus Williams recently presented Miss Dora Stuart, of his company, with a solitatre dia- mond ring valued at $20, as a mark of his ap- preciation Of the excellent manner In waich sbe has sustained the part of “Mrs. Dinkel” during the present season. — Miss Jean Vitta, an iglish protean ac- supported by her own company, intends 1o devastate the country next season with a play called “A Life's Wrong.” — Miss Kate Field's “musical monologue” 13 a light, agreeable medley of ig and satire, it Is noubing more and nothing less. It ts designed for popular entertalnment, and fulfills this pur- pose. Those who look to it for an earnest and arustic aim, or for anything deeper than clever- ness, Will be disappointed; those who are con- tent to be amused by it will be satistied, so says the N.Y. Tins, — Mr. Gilbert's dramatic satire, “The Happy Land,” the production of which at the London Court Theater, a few years ago, caused con- siderable excitement, has given rise to an angry debate in the legislative assembly at Melbourne, and the enterprising newspapers of that city have published the play in their columns. —This has been a bad theatrical season In the French provinces. Performances in Brest, Lyons and Sedan have generally been followed by bankruptey. At Kochefort, an excellent town, the manager has committed suicide. It is said that the system of “ papering” is ruining several Parisian managers, —tThe Tattlers’ Club are trying to solve this problem: Why does Lotta, who protests vehe- mently that she is not and never was married, always wear a wedding ring, no matter what character she is playing.—New York Star. —Sims Reeves, the well-known tenor; has de- cided to finallyretire to private life at the end of issi. His first appearance on the stage was at Newcastle, England, in 1339, he being but 18 years of age. — John A. Preston, a well known musician of Boston, has recently acquired a folio copy of the Parisian Gradvaie, or altar book of plain chant, used in Catholic churches, printed to Paris in 1753. Itis in the old-fashioned square notes, in red and black, beautifully printed on heavy paper. It came into his possession in a sipgular manner, having been found in a bale of foreign rags a week or more since. It was minus its cover, and is thought to pe a relic of the days of the Commune. —The May Festival program in Cincinnati has been somewhat modified since it was an- nounced. The change was adopted to allow two performances of Beethoven's mass. For this reason Rubinstein’s “Tower of Babel,” an overture by Cherubini and one of Miss Cary’s selections have been omftted. The Beethoven mass will be given on the second evening and repeated on the fourth evening. ‘The prize com- position by Dudley Buck, “The Golden Legend,” will be heard on the fourth evening and will be followed by Berlioz’ s overture ing Lear” and the same selections from the “Gotterdammer- ung” that will be performed at the next Phil- harmonic concert i New York. —The London correspondent of the N. Y. Musical Review says: “Carl Rosa will not come tothe United States this year. Indeed, he is not at all disinclined to allow the American people to have their cup filled with the bitter- Less of English opera, according to Messrs. Strakosch and Hess and others. On the other hand, it is not at all improbable that Miss Ciara Louise Kellogg may return in either Eaglish or Ttalian opera.” — Mr. Lawrence Barrett will produce his new blank-verse drama. entitled +Pe n,” in Chicago on September 27. ‘This play fs by Mr. W. \. Young, and is founded upon one of the Arthurian legends; it 1s satd to be highly inter- esting, well constructed, and equally well- written. The dresses for the leading parts have aiready been ordered in Paris. —At Chickering Hall, New York, Monday evening. a trio of humorists will come tozether ‘efore the public, namely, A. P. Burbank, W. S. Andrews and Josh Billings. This will be an especially mirthful event. —Mr. Edgar Faweett's play, “The False riend,” will shortly be produced in Boston. rehearsal evident that the actor was too fai sod to ener pe Rend his hands. “ We'll ave to cut it,” says the disappointed manager. Bgl Se 3 sctor, cheerfully, ‘1’ make wail right. _('u attempé to kneel afd then ory, a des) gesture, ‘Lost! lost! Seared knees teams ‘thelr office; I can no loager pray!"--Paris Paper, THE GIRL ATHLETE£’S FALL. Detalls of the Accident—The Scene 2 Circus Side Tent After- bead downward from a tra- Kesuip watehing the'tate wt tus wendore) De: the wondel a = eg cence of one — Pred en, ere going through their dart trapeze acts, above London ring. Miss Lucy Davene, who had just laun: herself from & pedestal nearly 20 feet high to make a swinging leap and De caught in the armsof her er, Who hung head downward fifty feet away, was ‘Seen to quit her hold on the bar of the fying trapeze and fall with a sickening thud to the ground below. Men ed and women shrieked and hid their faces. For am instant the poor girl lay stretched out upon the ground like one save fora slight tremor of her limbs. _It was only for an instant, and then a Stalwart athlete gathered her tn his arms as he tight a baby and ran with her all limp and Senseless {nto the adjoining tent, from which the performers enter the ring. rG child, my child: Let me down,” came a ery from the ilps of a Worthan in flashy Ughts and Dionde wig who hung by her feet from a high trapeze, and who In turn held by his feet Davene, who was to have caught the girl if the leap had been successfully performed. The woman for- gol that she “was a circus performer and \hat ten thousand eyes were upon her, ar d ony. ow that she was a mother. Davese to the groun and bis wife freed herself ta an Snored: ibly short time and followed him. and both al- mest Hew after the swift gymnast, who carried the bleeding girl out of the Sight of’ the horrified audience. While this was happeniag, Dr. Frank Muhienberg, of 1.909 Chestnut stréet, Dr. T. Hewson Bradford, of 5 Pine street, and Dr. Hu. Earnest G aN, Of 1.427 Chestnut street, ieft their places In the audience and disappeared beiind the curtain which hung in the passage- hrough which poor Lucy Davene had been d. All this occupied but a few seconds, and the audience had scarcely time to compre- Lend what had oceurred before Ford came out “She ts all right,” and in a minute more Fish and Melville were whirling around the rings in their lightning bareback acts, in friendly rivalry, and the performance went On as though noth- ing had occurred, so-far as the audience could see, But just behind the curtain which separated ihe unemployed pertormers from the public, on a rude stuffed tick, used for tumblers to alight upon in thetr prodigious leaps, lay the uncon- scious girl, tihg a sight which made old showmen turn away sick and shuddering. Her blonde wig wasgone and her brown hatr, drip- ping with ice Water, was brushed Back from he Iace, Irom which every particle of color had fled. Mier eyes were closed. and her breath came in short, quick gasps. On her left temple a great blue lump, Dearly as big as a man’s fst, had raised up, and to this one of the physicians was holding a lump of ice. In the back of her head (here Was @ great gash, from which the blood ‘owed freely until it was stanched by another physician, Lucy ts a litue, slight ching and as she lay there In her ring costume, which was soiled and bloody, she looked like a mere child, broken and dying. The mother, sobbing wlidiy and talking incoherently, bent over tne giri, bathing her head in ice water, while Davene was running around like one distracted. There was no lack of willing hands and willing feet | p to lend their aid to the relief of the sufferer. It | Was a strange and touching sieit to see the troops of performers, in their Sane tumes and horror-stricken faces, f+ around to offer their assistance. The gro- lesque painting on the faces of une clowns even could not hide the looks of sympathy and kindly solicitude. ‘There were many expressions of angerand indignatigp by the male members of the company that women shouid be permit- ted Lo attempt such dangerous feats. “By —, Said one of the Owns, “this whole flying tra- peze business should be abolished; some one is always getting crippled or killed by it. I can- not look at it. I have known so many accidents that the thought of it makes me sick. The only merit of a tiying t ze act is its di rT. It should be forbidden law.” | Many lar expressions were heard from other athletes and a Mmunasts, who were — about. It was a jong time before the cause of the accident was generally understood, even by the members of ihe company. Mi Said that the girl's hands were sweaty and Slipped. The truth, how- ever, is that as she sprang from the pedestal and went to throw her feet over the bar on which she was holding by her hands, her head struck, with terrible force, the pedestalon which her feet had stood a moment before. This knocked her senseless, and, relaxing her hold, she stiffened out and fell, without the power 10 make an effort to save herselt. After the first efforts at restoration had been made, and the flow of biood had been | the mattress on which pt pe dtd picked upand carried Into the ladies’ dressing room, | where for half an hour longer the physicians Kept up their efforts to rivive the injured gir) but without success. Many believed that ‘she was dying, and the word went around that the | physicians said she could not live. This was an exaggeration, though at one time they said that her Symptoms were very unfavorable and, that her pulse was very weak and uncertain. In half an hour six suong men again took up the muuttress, and passing out under the edge of the canvas bore Lucy, accompanied by the physicians, to her boardl: house, on the opposite side of Broad street. On the way sbe vomited freely, throwing up considerable bleod, After she had been placed in bed the physicians renewed their efforts in her behal, avd her symptoms improved grad- ually,” although she only partly _re- gained consciousness, and her face looked like the Jace of the dead. doctors said that her skull was not fractured, but that it was impos- sible to tell what internal or spinal Injuries she might have sustained. At one time she showed some symptoms of concussion of the spine. They said last night that they believed she would recover and without sustaining any per- manent Injuries, but Dr. Mublenberg said (hat spinal injuries often did not develop themselves until some time after they occurred. Printing Under Difficulties. The Will or the People 1s the ttle of the or- gan of the ninilists in Russia. It appears in the most extraordinary way in unexpected corners, and when least looked for. They say that it is constantly to be found on the tollet table of the Emperor and under the pillows of statesmen and generals. The manner in which this curious organ is printed is described at iength by the Si. Petersburg correspondent of the Maucbester Guerdian. The office ts a gloomy, miserable room at the top of a house ib a poor locality. On the door ts an an- nouncement of some ——., ‘pid log room is occupied by a poor wretch, formerly a student: it ig wretchediy. furnished. Tne bed oveupies pret ty nearly the entire room. Every- Uhing Is mean and squalid. The owner of tue apartment 1s editor, compositor, reporter, printer and publisher. Under the mattress of the miserable bed the type is hidden. Thence, when occasion offers, it is transferred to the multUitudinous ‘kets of his great coat. He goes out into the streets with a dimtnutive / note book, hangs about public buildings, { otis people in authority. whom he would il if a glance could murder, writes his “leaders” in a secluded corner ofa park, and roliseach page into a_ pill to be swallowed on the approach of a policeman. As soon as the work 1s finished he steals home, locks and barricades the door, gets out his type and sets up the paper, which he afterwards prints in a primitive manner, and distributes through the streets, and in’ cafes, and by all other means known oniy to conspirators. ‘This ac- count of the difficu!t, dangerous and paloful duty which that pour’ patient scribe performs under the direction of an inexorable committee, from whom he recetves little help. may or may not be in accordance with truth; but there re- mains the undeniable fact that under the very nose of the terrible Third Section, de- ‘spite all the vigilance pf the police, a sheet is printed, published and circulated, and no man Can put his hand upon those who thus contribute to the literature of revolution. Recipe for the Most Modern Success- ful Play. No plot. Or but the stub end of a plot. Song and air from “Fatinitza.” More airs from **Pinafore.” Parody on “Pirates of Penzance,” more or less. Songs and airs from everything. ‘Two good female dancers. One sacred melody to give tone. One male dancer. One male acrobat with India-rubber legs and arms. = Ladies all pretty and robust. One slang phrase to every forty-five words. ti ankies and fancy hosiery. ‘Tons of highly-colored pictures and posters. Printed ona ms of the “play” from United States ex-Senators and ex-United ters from Cape Town or the Short Cake South Pacific It Good for 10,000 ts and $10,000 per month proit.—. ¥. Graphic. Prince Bismarck has veh en rege ea he has a strong exceed two feet per second at any polut where effected either by het w the windows en to the habit of express oer excitement in somewhat irreverent Englis' | | been adopted by th up Mount Vesuvius. There are two lines of | an enchanting view is obtained not oni | Guilt of Naples, but also of th | Gaeta, each dotted with its tslands, Lucy A; Trent eee wh Cromwell John ; Ooupers James: C Mr; Cane Clarke V jenthan WG. (ol gers John; McWilliams Wa; McFariane jewnnt . ‘The Model Schoo! House for Cities. (New York Sanitary Engineer.) Committee of Award who have just a4- for the best plans for a pab- opinion, that schoo! erected in a lange and densely vs tMeaty Should possess the following “qi for which purpose they should be not ay anes Sian tree any te barldtnge i more than ae joors. Gecupied for class-rooms. " — II]. In each class-room not less than fifteen a floor area should be allotted vs ea pu IV. In each Class-room the window space Should not be less than one-fourth of the “Toor ‘Space, and the distance of the desk most re- mote from the window should not be mom Uhan one and one-half time the height of the nop arsee window from the floor. '. The height of a class-room slmuld never exceed fourteen feet. VI. The provisions for ventilation should be Such as to provide for each person in a class. room not less than thirty cubic feet of fresh alr per minute, which amount must be intro. duced and thoroughly distributed without crealing unpleasant draughts, or causing an two parts of the room to differ in temperature more than 2 deg. F., or the maxtmum temper ture to exceed 10 deg. F. This means that a class-toom to contain fifty-six pupils, twenty eight cubic feet of air per second should be continuously furnished, distributed, and re- moved during school sessions. The velocity of the tueoming air should no! It is lable to strike on the person. Vil. The heating of the fresh air should be er or by low pres sure steam, VIIL ‘The fresh air should be introduced near ; the foul air should be removed by tues in the opposite walls. 1X. Water closet accommodations for the pupils should be provided for on each Noor. X. The building should not cl than hair the lot a oe Wont Work. We are afraid the law against swearing, latety enacted by our state legislature, Is not des ‘ined to meet here, any more than at Annapolis, with universal observance. However this may be, a gentleman of Our acquaintance who ts giv- ing himself when wa ussing in our hearing the other day som republican short-coming, and after working himself into a p sharpiy upon the new act against swearing and berated it in terms—w ell, in terms unfamiltar rthodox catechisms, — Quoth our tr Passed a law have they agalasi swear- to Yankeerize old Maryland are they? TM curse when 1 — plack republicans in partic- « TAE AMERICAN DoveLx Li kork system has ponstrictors af the rallway rails, each provided with a carriage divided into two compartments, and capable of holding six persons. While one carriage goes up the other comes down, thus establisning a counterpolse which considerably economizes the sieam of the stationary traction engine. The incline ts ex- y steep, commencing at 40>, increasing to nd continuing at 59° fo the summit. Every sssibl precaution has been taken against aoci- and the railway itself ts protected against ble flows Of lava by an enormous wal. The ascent will be made in elght or ten minutes. To | obtain the necessary supply of water, large covered cisterns have been constructed, which in the winter will be mlled with the snow that | often falls heavily on Vesuvius. ‘This snow will | be quickly melted by the Internal heat, and, | besides the water thus obtained the trequent | ratnfali will also be conducted into t isterns. An elegant café restaurant, capable of accom- modating 100 persons, will be attached to tae | Station. Above the entrance to the latter ts an ample terrace supported on columns, whence if the of Bale and A VioLext Tory EvEcror tn London was made the victim of a practical joke on the eve of the election. He bad been on the rampage ever since the contest began, and had made Aimeelf so obnoxious that a few ardent liberals determined to pay him back. On the Saturday evening before the election the worthy citizen went to bed as usual, per! to dream of the tory majority of about 100 on which in his waking hours he speculated. Conceive his bor. ror, therefore, When on rising next morning he ‘ound that the front of his residence had been covered with liberal inviting electors to vote for opposition candidates. The victim's rage Was almost Titanic, and It was not assuaged by the fact that he was unable to get assistance to take down the placards, and found himseir obliged to leave them there till Monday or to take them down himself. He chose the latter alternative, and the public wending their way fo chapel and church were much edified with the sight of the unfortunate politiclan and on this servants assiduously scrubbing away at ihe placards, the paste of which had dried hard and fastened them to the wail with great tena- ‘ty. The job was not finished under two + ours. L87,02, LETTERS WASHINGTON CITY POST OF! Saturday, April 27th, 1680. §2To obtain any of these Letters the applicant ucist eal! for “ADVERTISED LETTERS,” aud ive the date of this list. 82° If not called for within one month they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office. LADIES’ LIST A—Angust AR Mrs: Ashley Julia P Mrs; Alday Kate B; Alday Laura, 2; Amos Mollie. B_Putcher Anne; Brooks Adline Mrs; Batler Mary Loviea; Bivelow Lydia A Mre; Baily LA ‘Mrs: Butler Mary Addie; Byrd Mary L; Bowyer Margret Mrs: Brooks Rose. €_Crouder Addie; Craig Mary § Mrs; Carter Mille; Cooper Mollie Mrs; Chase M/Anuie, Comp- on re. Lottie: Davis Nancy ? 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