Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1880, Page 2

(Fo THE Stan.) BIEKDS OF SPRING. ©, Birde of Spring! Your free songs ring, ‘Throughout the depths of woodland mazes, The earth awakes—and Flora takes An outlook, thro’ the eyes of Daisies:— ‘The air is bland—the hill-tops «ren, All Nature emiles, and Spring is Queen! , Birds of Spring! Again you sing ‘The hera’/i anthems of creation— As through the land, God's bounteous hand Sustains the earth in glad ovation: Before our wants ate shaped in prayer, His lavish zifts bloom everywhere! O, Birds of Spring! The songs you sing Are rendered new, tho’ trite, amt olden, With witching art, o'er Nature's Harp, ‘Where’er you trip, the strings are golden, No added notes, no varied themes, ‘To break the charm of mem'ry's dreams. ©, Birds of Spring! With you I sing, But not as in the hours of childhood, ‘Those songs that vied long since have died In echoes thro’ the tangled wildwood :— ‘The faithful brooks still onward glide, With pictures borne to ocean’s tide! O, Birds of spring! Your restless wing Disturbs the calm of mortal being— Stirs in the breast, with strange unres A source before the sense of feeling :— In whose still presence Nature stands A helpless child, with upraised hands’ O, Birds of Spring! You usher in Perpetual Youth—Nature’s adorning. Is man a lie, that he must die, And ne'er renew life's radiant morninz’ small voice” answers from within— ‘Doubt is the curse in league with sin, Faith in oureelves, is faith in Hia!” O, Birds of Spring! With broogad wiag, My spirit ‘nesth your song lies dreamiug— Of violet eyes, in full-orbed skies, Whote light revealed celestial meaninx— Sing Birds of beauty, o'er my sweet, Ye will not wake her blessed sleep! O, Birds of Spring! Forever sing Within our hearts bright songs of beauty, And tho’ no more sweet days of yore Return with thee, let love and duty, Join hands with graces of the soul ‘To lead us as the seasons roll, Upward and onward towards the goal! Tosr. —— OUR PARIS LETTER. A DAY AT THE BEAUX ARTS—PLEASURING ON THE SEINE—FRENCH PATRONAGE OF AMERI- CAN ART—A GLIMPSE AT THE SALON—SPRING IN THE CITY—THE FLOWER MARKETS, ETC. [Correspondence of Lhe Evening Star.) Paris, April 6th. Lycole des Beaux Arts fronts on the qual Malaquats. It is there that one enters to sce the ordinary exhibitions,—the concours of the designs for gobelins, the sketches of the pupils who compete for prizes, &c.; but to see the gal- lerles, the schoo!s, the salon where the pric de Rome pictures hang, one should go (in company With artists, If possibie,) to theentrance in the rue Buonaparte “round the corner.” It 1s an old, narrow and crooked street, where many shops of engravings, books, old furniture, curiositie: Odds and ends of queer things, have had their dusty and cobwebbed windows for many a long year. A high gate of finely wrougut tron feaces the court of the Beaux Arts; a similar one stands opposite on the other side of thestreet making, when shut, a barrier to the passage of the rue des Beaux Arts from therue des Seine. Througa these gates I have often seen, at noon, a troop Of young tellows in blouses, with caps or with- out them, rush, whooping, leaping. singing, taking po: sion of the coats of passing work- men, knocking off hats, cutting capersatter the manner Of students of all arts and countries. ‘They are the students of the Beaux Arts—puplis Of the schoois of Gérome, Cabanel, Lehmaan,— Workers in the ateliers of the seulptors, the architects, the modellers, the gem cutters, wh give instructions tn this great institution. It absolutely gratultous—to young men—(if there Were only the same boon for women!) ‘Tne stu- dent who would enter obtains permission to work tn the lower workrooms, After a time the master in his particular branch examines the drawing from the antique, the clay model, the sketch in color; if it shows talent, the order 1s given to enter the higher classes up stairs. Each halt or quarter year, oreven each two Months, there is a concours (competition) among the students, and the worthiest are chosen for higher advantages and more caretul instruction. “Then comes, after years of close study and great excellence In drawing, the con- cours for the yP de Rome. The careful sketches and the fife studies are sent in by a number (perhaps forty) of the competitors, and the best ten are chosen. The ten chosen artists are then furnished with studios, canvass. paints; every facility ts given for ths fatshe. Picture. Only one can win each year tals hii. Prize which sends the student to Rome for fou. ens With a very sufficient income, and ever. centive to perfect himself ta his art. Each year the picture which has won the “grand prix” is hung tn the large salon of tu Beaux Arts. It ts, unfortunately, badly lt, a quite too full to permit one to see the picture, fairly, Dut there are some grand and bea itu Pictures there, and the whole collection im resses the visitor with the great taleat, tn ense labor, and the careful tratatas o. | French artists. | It Was very starting to go immediately trom | this exhibition of finished work into the | untidy and rudimentary atmosphere of Gerome’s Schoo. ‘The day’s fe studies remained on the easels, showing how the model, a sinewy male fortn, was treated in as many fashions a3 the different individuailties of the students dic- | tated. The walls were thickly embossed with | the scrapings of the palettes. Absurd carica- | tures Of the * bons caitrades” adorned doors | and sidewalls. Chatrs, bits of drapery, slouch hats, mail sticks strewed the room. Indeed, it | Was ot at all an Ideal sanctuary of the divine | art of painting: but at the Beaux Arts Gérome 4s the teacher most reverenced and coveted. It | 4s thought a great honor to stand wellin bis | ‘school. After passing through the beautiful court, With its precious remains of sculpture and archi. tecture, we went round to the chief entrance on | Quai Malaquais, and, ascending a short tight of Steps, entered the wide doors hung with por- Ueres Of precious Gobelin tapestry.” The lange salon fs Tull of charming pictures, studies aad sketches for larger works, It was a rather exhausting afternoon of sight- had taken us to the seeing, for our artist escorts Temotest sauctuims of the Beaux Arts; and we agreed with remarkable alacrity In the proposal Of one of our party to go down the great stone Steps from the qual. get on the quavering little floating station and ts step from it to one of the “mouches” Is the Parisian name for rush up and down the beautiful river incessantly. Two cents will give you a brass cheque, a lightiul breeze, grand city all al eastern €Xtremity to Auteuil or St. Cloud, Setne )aSS- ing the magniiicent bridge of the Point du Jour. ‘The grass Was just turning to a fresher green, Ube first buds swelling on Ilacs and sycamores’ The endless tents aud stalls and catch-penny games were about setting up thelr trades when turgy Webs ise We sat On the mouches and Ureathed the ‘hness Of spring's first airs. There is in Paris a genulne feeling of sympa- thy, a true esprit de corps, among art students, and those of our countrymen wno come here tor study becume in:bued With tt also; so when we knew that Mr. Mosler’s picture of ‘the Prodigal Son had beea bought by government and had gained a ple ip the gallery of the Luxem. Bourg, we rejok. i greatly. It was the first picture by an Ame. ‘can artist so honored. And Siuce then the same fortunate arttst has patated for Monsieur Tourq.°t, minister of the Beaux Atts, areal chef ane”. T went to the artist’s atelier, away over In the Clichy, to see the ptc- ture before its removal to the salon. It is need- less to say It fs a fine plcture,—a village shop In Brittany, and a group of peasants occupying It; Jeanne, the bride, @ “sousy lass,” as the Scoteh would say, handsome, healthy and happy, being of coursé the chief figure; tle old tailor of the ts measuring her for a dress of the daz- ziing fabric displayed on the counter; rose and green it is, in shining stripes.’ The mother and a gossip of hers are carefully finger- ing {t, looking with the sober judgment of age beneath the alluring surface for the real solld- ity and “wear” which alone will entitle it to be chosen as the wedding garment. Tne father of Jeanne leans over; he, too, would Ike to wrot side down, with the unpit down on nude nymph, bi remarks of the spectators, who spared nelther witticism nor criticism as one after the other by. eee eatin — bolder beth some more start! subject appeared ther: chorus of ‘Ans and 0-0-0-hs: of feigned unbounded admiration and de. Nght,—the worse the picture the more extrava- fant the applause, As the last hour dwindled ‘0 its last minutes the arrivals were more nu- merous and hurried, until finally four o'clock struck and the doors closed. All the pictures com there to be seen and judged by the illustrious art jury and recelve their acceptance or rejec- ton. It is now the last week of the three allot- ted for this important decision, and most of the poche are as yet in doubt as to the fate of their works. The delightful promptness with which our Spring has reappeared 13 a new deparvure for that coyest and most uncertain maidea. I be- Meve it ts the result of a vigorous determination to cut the ground from under the feet (uo pita 15 intended) “ot lachrymose newspaper-corner poets and sentimental s al lamentingly to tortured ears how their hearts are weary—weary waiting for the spring. To be sure, she had an unusually sound nap while our fierce northern winter held sway, ‘with icy thralls and gloomy skles, and so awoke to lustier strength and fuller iife. “It ts my turn now,” she ‘said, stepping on February's heels, and giving him a brisk shove with | Tesy elbow—“begone, old greyb Hh 2 @ moment she touched tree and bush, fy il grass with her eternal youth, her immortal Smaile. Nay, I am not a poet, and have no tater- est In “corners,” so that vein 1s not mine. But truly to see the coming of the green in the gar- bas the soft, grey, sun-warmed clouds, the appy paths of the lovely Luxembourg or Tuilie- ries is enough to brighten one’s prostest prose and give ita touch of poesy. And the Season is undeniably exceptional. During the whole of March there was not one disagreeable day, even in the “holy week” and Good Fri- day, which the faithful hold to be invariably somber and cloudy, the weather was beautiful. ‘Then, just when the need of it was perceived, we rain in abundance—beginning, sin: the Ist of April, with light showers, but in- creasing to a liberal drenching and most be- neficent down-pour. Now one sees the first fruits of it In the great bunches of asparagus, Uny panniers of red strawberries, crisp heads of lettuce and little radishes, made to look as pretty as bunches of flowers. ‘On the Place St. Michel and the Place St. Sul- ice the flower markets resume their important jusiness. We have grown wise in our flower buying, and leave our purchases till late in the day—then the “ladies” of the flower market are ured and willing to negotiate sales, “How much madame?”—we indicate a bunch each of white lilacs, narcissus, wall-tlowers and the more precious ranunculus. “Oh, we'l, mid- ame,” she answers, “a franc’—or half or twice as much. Promptly we offer a third less or even halt. “Oh, mon Dicu! No; imposstble.” “ But come now, les tus be reasonable. What és your price, madame: “See! I desire nothing better in life than to accommodate you! ” Intlexibility on the buyer’s part continues. and the fragrant spring blossoms are soon e: changed for the few sous. All this time coming, ull late in the autumn, the most modest ménaze heed never be without its sweet posy. The i mate and the immense culture of flowers all round about Paris keep the large markets sup- piled with the old-fashioned homely flowers, of pt one never tires. Mi — “ fins lowers (giro/lies) roses, pansies, pinks, daffodi jonquils, and a dozen more may be had fresii every day in the week. But during winter, although a few of the very grand shops exhibit rare flowers, there 1s nothing to compare with the abundance of flowers and hot-house plants to which the dwellers in our American citles are accustomed. Even at Easter, with the excep- Uon of afew plants in some of the churches, there was ho display or decoration such as we See at home. D. “LITTLE SNOW-WALTE.” An Interesting Story for the Children. Albert Tschautch. a German painter, is author of a handsome painting called Snow-White.” The story of “Little Snow- White,” or as the Germans call her, “Schnee- wittchen,” is that once upon a time a queen sat Sewing at her palace window and looking oc- casionally at the snow falling without. Tae Window frame was of ebony, and asthe snow lay Cn the sill {6 looxed so beautiful that she forgot what she was doing, and presently pricked her finger with the needle. Three drops of bicod fell on the snow and it look so charm. ing that the queen sald, “Ah, God! that I hada child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony.” Such a child was soon born to her, and she dled, leaving the little one to the King’s care. Soon, however, he married again, and the new queen was s9 proud of her baa ity, that she could not bear the thought that in ali the world was one more lovely than sh. Io her bower was a mirror, to Which she would say: ** Mirror, mirrorcn the wall, Fairest am I not of all?” and the mirror would teli her yes. Meanwhile Little Snow-white was growing up, and one day when the queen questioned her mirror it informed her th Little Suow-white was @ thousand-fold ler than she. Filled with Tage and anger she gave the little girl into the hands of a woodman, with Instructions to Kill her. The child's beauty touched him, and he Jet her run free in the forest, wnere one day She found a little house, upon entering which | she found a small table arranged for seven Persons. She tasted the food and drank a ttle wine, after which she lay down on one of the seven Httle beds, and soon was fast as! The seyen dwarfs who owned the house, and delved for the precious metals in the éarth, S00n came home, and seeing her beauty let her sleep till morning, when she told her stor. ‘They told her she might live with them if si> would be their housekeeper. She consented, and the dwarfs were very fond of her. e day the queen consulted her mirror and fouad that Little Snow-white was yet alive. She poisoned an apple and sent it to the child, who took one bite of it and fell dead. The dwarfs mouraed and-carried her on a bler for burial, but she looked so lovely as she lay there, her throat white, her cheeks so read, and her hair so black that they made a glass coffin and inscribed on it, “She was a king's daughter.” This, with the maiden in it, they placed on the mountain, where one day a prince saw it. He wept, and at last induced the dwarts to tet him bear it to his palace. As his followers were carrying it the jostling caused-the pl of the poisoned apple to fall out of the maiden’s throat, whereupon she rose as wel! as ever, and married the prince. The wicked queen consulted her mirror, and now It told her tuat a new queen was more lovely than she. To test the matter she went to the wedding ball, where she was astonished to tind the new queen to be for a place in the salon were in; { children crowding to play in’ the | RELIGIOUS NOTES. —A Western paper in announcing that a ee wen os i: “He e lurch can Doast of in the last seven years” —Of the 14,000 Methodist Ep! in this country there according to the Methodist, only eleven who have blots on their Ses oe of these have been condemned — The Virginia Bible Soctety is about to com- | Inence a canvass of the entire Iremeis with a | view of supplying every family with the Bible. Nearly 50 active Christians will be employed for the work, ata salary of $25 per month and expenses, — When a clergyman withdraws from the | Protestant Episcopal Church and enters an- other communion, if he returns he must spend | three years as a lay communicant before he can resume his ministry. An effort ts to be ade to have this canon amended,as it is believ- ed it works injustice to many and injury to the Church. | _—Mr. Moody while in St. Louls did not fail to | enlist himself in the cause of the Young Men’s | Christian Association, which wherever he goes always Se his attention. He has raised | forthe branch in that city the sum of $40,000, | Which will be used for the purchase of the | present edifice of the Union Methodist church at Locust and Eleventh-sts., that church being anxious to move into another part of the city. | —A correspondent complains of the wine | sometimes used on sacramental occasions, He | says: “If good unfermented wine cannot be procured, then there would seem to be eminent. propriety in getting fermented wine of such quality as will not cause communicants to have | thelr thoughts diverted from the solemn ser- vice in which they are engaged by the un- pleasant taste of the wretched apology for wine often served.”—Phila. Star, | _ —Christians of all denominations in Ceylon have presented to the Archbishop of Canter- bury a petition praying for the removai of a Copleston, who by the introduction of ritualistic practices into the churehes, has brought discord into them and made himself objectionable to the natives. His action has led to the entire cessation of ordinations in con- nection with the mission, and he has refused licenses to three European misstonarles. — The ladies of achurch in Portland, Me. have introduced an improvement in entertain- ments. They have invelgled a city photo- | grapher into aconspiracy with them, and ai- | Yertise a “baby show,” holding out to fond mothers and proud fathers such enticemants as these: “Portraits of the loveliest bables of Port- Jandto bethrown on a mammoth | means of astereop icon and the ‘Drummond light.” All sections of this city to be represent- Your baby may be there.” -—From the London “Zines”: “Young men and women of the present day no longer find | ritualism or {ts parent, tractarianism, the | Mould into which their theological tdeas spon- taneously run, as those of their parents may have done; if they think at all. or even if they read‘at all, without giving themselves the trouble of thinking, they find themselves sur- rounded on all sides by questions of deepest im- port, to which ritualisra not only affords no answer, put which In some cases it forbids them to ask or discuss.” — God help the man who has outgrown the relish fora hearty laugh. No doubt He wio made them loves to see the foxes tn their gam- bols on the snow and the lambs on their new- eines legs, and loves to hear the glee of the | little children at their play, and is not dis- | ly at the care-dispersing laughter of His | burden-bearing servants. Fiippant!. We had rather a man would be flippant, as the anti- smilers termit, six hours a day, than too sour to laugh at a ridiculous thing, of too digniti to cut across lots toa pic-nic.—Chicago Alliance (Presby.) — The Rev. Thos. Guard, on taking charge of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist churea, Baltimore, told his congregation that he would make it his rule to preach short sermons. He did so because the desire of the people in this direction had been made known to him. Mr. Guard was some years ago the pastor of the Mount Vernon Place church, and was famous for the length of his sermons. There are va- rious opinions as to what constitute a short sermon, and Mr. Guard astonished some of his hearers by the announcement of his tateation of trying to crowd all he has to say into fitty- five minutes. Some people would call this a very long sermon. Mr. Guard says that he be- ileves in sermons, and not in sermonettes. —In a fashionable church in Twenty-third street the pastor was, last Sunday, so flooded | with notices which were handed to him with a view of having them given out from the pulpit that he paused in mute astonishment. Then he counted the contents of the pile, and found that there were tbree times as many notices as he thought the people would be able to re- member. He observed that a majority of these notices related to affairs outside of the church, 50 he grouped those which pertained to church uiatters, and let the rest remain unread. He also ‘declared his intention of shusting down on notices as far as possible for the future. The evil has become one of great magnitude. Some ministers spend from five to fifteen minutes in making announcements maay of which are of no particular importance.—N. ¥. Sun. —It seems that the theological unrest watch is Low visible in Presbyterian Scotland is dls- turbing the Presbyterians at the Antipodes. The Preshylerian Review, the organ ot the Syned_ of,Victorfa, Australasia, has beea under Pp ion for laxity in doctrinal matters, and es have been brought and investigated of Ings. The Review detends itself The theological dialect of the seven- tury, as tis embodied in the West- ster Standards, doe3 not need, now and en, to be translated into the language of the uineteenth. We cannot conduct all our fight- ing in that old armor. Nobody among us preaches in the same way as the Presbyterians of the time of the First Charles and the Com- monwealth, north or south of the Tweed, preached. We have to face problems that those good forefathers of ours knew nothing of. Much has had to be altered or moditied.” —The first step to be taxenin Germany to provide for the restorationof a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical establishme: the admission or readinission, as the case may be, of bishops to the vacant sees. Of the t s, four are at present vacant, some by death, others by sen- tence of deprivation. ‘The former, 1 is thought, there would be no difliculty in tilling once a friendly understanding betweon the Curia and the government is re-established. The only ditti- culty lies in the readinission of deprived pre- Jates. Before giving its ent to a new com- pact with the Curia, the government will claim Some more direct proof of a friendly disposition than has been given in the Pope’s letter to the archbishop of Cologne—will expect a communt- cation of asmilar character from the Pope ad. dressed to its That done, and the sees hay ing been filled, since the Curia consents to the submission of the names of candidates for the priesthood to the government previous to insti- tution, no further dificulty ts apprehended in the way of providing pastors of the orphaned congregations. — Trinity church handsomely penstons its re- tred ministers when old age or disease may lay them aside. The Collegiate Dutch church makes a provision for its aged clergy, te }e Little Snow-white. They made her put her feet into the glass slip heated till they glowed like fire, and thus she had to dance till she fell dead with anger, pain, and chagrin. prince and Little Snov ‘hite—so the story runs—lived many happy years, were blessed with numerous good children, and, in short, lived in peace, died in Greece, and were burled in a cake of tallow. Brother Gardner on Astronomy. “ Dar’ am a member preseat,” began Brother Gardner, a3 he rose up and crossed his arm3 behind his back ina stately way, “dar am a member present who has lately bought hisselt a work on astron’my and started out to Yara de names of de different stars an’ planets, an’ soon. Fur de las’ two weeks he has dun nuffin but sot in de house oroa de fence and read bout Jewbiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus, Grampus, comets, an’soon. I met his fo’ chill’enon de street yesterday, an ‘dey looked like de las’ eand of a rag-bag. Las’ nite his wife cum ober to my house an’ said dey had n’ta fingin de house toeat. Now, I doan’ ax dat member to stan’ up whar’ ¥ kin all see but Ize gwine to talk to him all de same. want to See every cuil’d man in dis kentry able to read an’ write an’ cipher. I want tosee him posted on current topics, an’ able to argy a little if oc- cashun demands. When he has got dat fur he has gone fur ‘nuff. De cull’d populashun of know that the money for the trousseau will be well invested. An old woman sits sewlag busi- 1y—thinging, perhaps, of the choosing of her own wedding rs ar the brde ‘stanis the lweky young fellow who has won her, a s.nile on his pleasant face, a great Breton hat saading lis bronzed cheeks." It is a charmins gro19— of homely nature and hearty, hoaes. love. ue management of the background 13 particu- larly skilful, crowded as it {3 wita its many lors‘and forms; with tts high shelves full of is and pieces Of many-tinved stuf, aad the ark corners and beams of th ment. Beside this chef Minvere W of Mr. Mosler’s pictures which will appear at unis year's salon—a single fz Lt Ficus,” a Tul yet unaffected peasant girl at her 3] soning wheel. ‘The sun was pouring down rays hot enough fora Washington Mayon the 2th of March, «the last receiving day for the salon pictures.) when, with framed or in company with ‘thelr disjotni trames;—these, of unwiel ‘dimensions, <ould only be when the were hung. It was a most arhusing sight. Vehicles = — end agg po service, from tke great used the moving of furniture to the smart. ailbury elegant open of the aristo- carriage ca7a‘ic'and Wealthy artist. It seemed to me thas dis kentry hev got to work fur a livin,’an’ you kin sot dat down fora solemn fack.’ Dar am no places fur us in politicks, or banks, or stores, or offices, We can’t cheat an’ defraud an’ embezzle like de white folks. We has got man ie lies, 802” were heard from §2 Will the ice dealers again of ice, now that a stack of 10,000 tons into LakeChampilain? It would be as reason forarise as others that have en. clroulated; ra iphiet has been largely in Midianian, Scotland. entitled ‘Politica Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith.” It is yeunirey Wank mite ‘thirty pages. has B though not so substantial aS that made by Trinity, greatly mitigates the sorrows of age and the woes of disease. The Methodist min- isters, in their declining years, rely upon a fand which is provided from the profits of the Book Concern. This, to some extent, also relieves the widows of ministers. The Presbyterian church has a Board of Relief, which helps the aged and their widows. It has never become popular enough among the liberal givers to afford very large pensions te those for whose benefit it ex- ists. Among the other denominations there is not enough pecuniary help atiorded the aged or infirm to warrant young men in entering the ministry ony for the sake of pone sup- ported when old. The most poorly provided for are the worn-out city missionaries in all our large Cities. For the most part these men find, after wearing themselves out on meagre salaries, that they are turned off to die like worn-out and aged horses. There is room for reform re- garding these men. Many of them are not rilliant as Keg but plod along with an un- Uring industry which is worthy ofa far better recompense than they receive.—N. ¥. Sun. KELLY'S Wak ON TILDEN.—In an address in New York last night before the Tammany Hall general committee, Joun Kelly said: “It the national convention thinks for one moment of THE HOUSEHOLD. “LITTLE CHILDREN Ought always to have pretty dresses,” says the Cathelic World. Apr ts the favorite color in the newest silk goods. iscopal ministers |" EysromeRixa LINEN.—New lnen may be embroidered more easily by rubbing it over with fine white soap. It prevents the threads from cracking. To PoLisH Woop—Take a piece of pumice- stone and water and pass repeatedly o7 work until the Of the grain is Then take A rapt tripoll and botled linseed oll and pol the work to a bright surface. To ReNOVATE CRAPE.—Thoroughly brush all dust from the material, sprinkle with alcohol, ; and roll in newspapers, commencing with the poner and crape together, that the paper may ‘tween every portion of the material; allow it to remain in the -roli until perfectly ‘dry.— Aunt Julia in New York Times, STEEL ORNAMENTS (TO CLEAN.)—Dip a small brush into some paraffin and then into some emery powder (such as is used in the knife ma- chines), and well brush the ornaments, and all the rust will soon come off; polish with a dry Jeather and duster; it will clean any steel arti- cle proved.—The Queen. IN WASHING WINDOWS a narrow-shaped wooden knife, sbarply pointed, will take out the dust that hardens in the corners of the sash. Dry whiting will polish the glass, which should be first washed with weik Dlick tea mixed with a littleaicohol. Save the tea leaves for the purpose. ‘To RESTORE GILT FRaMEs.—#@'ake one ounce of cooking soda and beat it thoroughly with | the whites of three eggs. Blowoff the dust | With a pair of bellows, or brush it out with a | | | | feather duster. Then dip a small paint b:ush into the mixture and rub it all over the gilding, Into every tiny crevice, and it will rende- it fresh and bright. How TO CLEAN BENARES Brass,—These brass ornaments are so popular that housekeepers will be glad to know how, with all the intrica- cies of their work, they may be cleaned. Mix some cream of tartar with warm water to a thick paste; rub this well into the brass with a flannel and brush; afterward rinse off under a | stream of cold water, and dry with a soft cloth nominating Mr. Tilden for the presidency, so poodle tht penne ee hae be eo feated by the democracy of the country, as mute. be. Let it go forth from Tammany that we here say to the democracy of the whole country that if they make Tilden the nominee at the Cincinnati convention they must expect the united opposition of Tammany fall.” SURGENTS.: le comment was excli in Philadelphia yest y story that Tropic, owned arner, Merritt & Co., had from that port with munitions of war for the Cuban t nts. ie ish CO) ited the rey but notified the orities in Cul nt Montijo, of the Cuban society in Philadelphia, denies the say ey are not embarked con- ‘shows a cargo of A poe CHOKED TO Loree dead aes iss Jennie aged 25 yea st teaiman Reynol ot Columbas, Ohio, was found ina board yard in a promin2nt part of that city yesterday morning. Thare were Randel in front of the fire, polishing with a dry leather. Hark CAN BE PREVENTED FROM TURNING Grey by the application every five days of the following solution: Red wine, 6) grains; sul- phate of iron, one grain; boil them together for one minute and then letthe mixture get cold. Or else this recipe: the shelis of green walnuts pounded with Olive oll untilit makes a thin paste. These two preparations will also make red or blonde hair brown. There are dyes that act more quickly, but they alldo harm to the hair, making it brittle and sticky, and some- Limes hasten its falling out. He Parisian RUNNING THE MACHINE.—While a machine is a great aid In the sewing, every one knows that wearied ankles and hips are the result of pro- tracted use. I Was therefore greatly pleased when my husband wished to learn to sew, and am sUill more pleased that he can now do as nice stitching as myself. During a number of especialiy cold or stormy days the past winter, he oflered to sew, and I dropped my housework and spent such days in cutting and fitting. It Was quite wonderful how much we could ag- compiish,—Corwurg Gontlenvin, Waoorrme Coven.—The following remedy is said on good authority to greatly alleviate whooping cough, and if applied in the eariter stage will modify it so that the patient will suffer no more than from an ordinary couga. Evaporate slowly over the gas or a spirit lamp a weak solution of carbolic acid in the room (closed) where the child who already has t cough, or who may have been exposed to It at play or asleep, for half an hour, twice a day, while any symptoms of whooping remain. Tails cough is supposed to be caused by a fungus, and weak solutions of carbolie acid produce ronditions unfavorable to the formation and elopment of the lower organisms, whether vegetable or animal —y, ¥. Tribune. O1LED FLooRS.—All who have tried them, so far as I have learned, cordially recommend olled floors for kitchens, or other rooms where carpets are not used. ‘These are preferred to painted floors, because the color does not wear away and leave bare places. Some use Burnt Umber with the oil, and so give a darker color tothe wood. Others use ofl alone. Boiled Lin- Seed Oll is used, and it ts applied hot, with a paint brush, a scrubbing brush, or even with a cloth, Rub it in well, and henceforth have no lear of grease spots on the floor. Farewell to all scrubbing hereafter. ‘The oiled floor needs only washing (or mopping) with clear, warm water. Of course soap would only tend to undo the work you have done in olling. The hot oli should be reapplied occastonally. It comes in well as a part of each year’s house cleaning. CHESTNUT FOR FINISHING,—All woodwood will discolor, unless protected with oll, varnish, or some substance that will Mil the pores and glaze the surface. Good selected chestnut, well seasoned, will make a very fine finish for kitchen or dining-room, but the work should receive Uwo coats of raw linseed oll. Atter the ofl is thoroughly ary, go over the whole sur- face with beeswax, melted and mixed with spirits of turpentine, so that when cold 10 will be about the consistency of good, firm lard. A plece of cork 5 inches long, 3 inches wide, and 14, inches thick, covered with three tuicknes- ses of flannel, makes a good rubber to appiy the mixture. Put the mixture on very ligutty, and the inore rubbing the work receives the Hiner the finish. All plastering ought to b> completed before any chestnut wood-work 1s put up, as lime will stain chestnut very badly, Country Gentleman, HEADACHE AND ITS CaUSB.—Billous head icho, or such as arise from a disordered condition the stomach, usually affects one side of the head only, most commonly over one eye, and increases to an acute and often throbbing pain. It is often accompanied with a feeling of sickness and vomiting, producing languor and depression of spirits. Rheumatic headache ts commonly caused by exposure to cold, and the pain is Of a shifting nature, shooting from point to point, and 1s felt most at night, All kinds of remedies have been ased for headache. For headache arising from a weak stomach, a bitter tonic fs usually prescribed. Among tne favorite medicines, aud one that very. fre- quently proves effective it persevered’ in a month or two or three, is ‘‘quassia,” the woo: and bark of a plant that grows in’ some of South America, and was prescribed negro as a specific. Thechips are soaked in water, and a few sips of the bitter water are taken three or four times a day. Where the irritability and strengthening measures and out! door tise are to be adopted. In some ©: of headache cold applications to the head’ leeches to the temple, or cupping on the back & cs MUSIOAL AND DRAMATIC. — Mrs. Scott-Siddons made an emphatic sen- sation in Columbia, S. C., a few nights ago, by in the midst of a tation from ss ohn,” and telling a party of “swell” young men and women in a box that it was “cruel” to constantly interrupt her by “laugh- ing, talking and flirting.” Then she retired from the stage for a while, the audience applaud- ing her course. —It seems to be true that Joseph Jefferson ares go ben = = a eee and give himself up to his jon—painting. Thedtrieay PEON ay thine Laeeenoe Baek also talks of lea’ the stage, but it can be oad predicted that he will do nothing of the S01 Jumeaux,” in which Louis XVI and the man with the iron mask figure. — Blanche Davenport has left the Strakosch pees company, and fs said to be soon going abroad to sing at Naples and Milan. — It ts New York talk that Wallack has been making efforts to get first Henry Irving and later Sara Bernhardt for seasons at his theatre next winter. But Irving said his terms were $2,000 a night, and the French actress asked $1,400 a night, and board, lodging and carriages for seven people. The negotiations stopped right there. — Got, the famous actor of the Comedie Fran- caise, witl retire from the stage at the close of this year, his last part being that of Triboulet 1n Victor Hugo’s “Le Rol’s Amuse.” —Bartley Campbell will go to London in May to superintend the production of “The Galley Slave” and “Fairfax” at the Princess theater. “The Galley Slave” is to be brought out at Berlin in German, and has also been translated for an Italian theater. —The season has been anomalous In New York, for Lent was very dull, and instead of practically ending at Easter as usual, the the- aters now having the best business of the sea- son. —Charles B. Lewis (“M. Quad”) of the Detroit Free Press, Disclaims the authorship of the play. “Our Bijah,” recently produced at Phila- Gelphia, and attributed to hin. He says it 1s an old and worthless os , “the property of a ae actor who makes his head-quarters in De- troit.” —Fra Giovanni del Papa, the famous tenor of the Sistine chapel, is dead, aged 37. His voice Was of remarkrble beauty, and the London Hour thinks that had he not been a friar, he would have been one of the greatest, operatic Stars this age has produced. —Planquette’s ‘Belles of Corneville” has just closed a run of over two years at the London Theater, while “Pinafore” lasted but about six months. Shiel Barry, the miser, did not miss a night during the two years. "The “Belles of Corneville” 1s Said to be a much more interesting adaptation of the orginal than the “Chines of Normandy,” familiar in this coun- try, depending less upon the music. It will be brought out here next season. —‘The Belles of the Kitchen,” the musical travesty which brought the Vok amily fame and money, has been bought by Willle Edouin, Who will play it with his wife, Alice Etherton, hext season, —Offenbach is writing a new opera comlq1e, called “La Mere des Compagnons,” which will be brought out at the Parts Folies-Dramatiq: in September. An English adaptation of * Fille du Tambour Major,” which ts now runnin in Paris, will soon be produced at the Alham- bra in L i-year old brother of Mary Anderson, C. J. Anderson, recently made his début, satis- lactorily, it 1s said. —Steele Macka; lan, proves to be rathe He has been paying her $250 a week since he opened, and she hasn’t appeared on his stage yet. — Mary Anderson and John McCullough will play together at the New York Fifth avenue theater next season, under Haverly’s manage- men: lomas Keene, leading man atthe Boston ee will star next season in the legitimate ama. ° —Max Maretzek Is reported to be writing the Ieuste of a burlesque on Enoch Arden, which will be brought out before long. —A gentleman named Dr. Robert Roskoten, aresident of Peoria, Il., has written a heroic tragedy pee the downfall of Maximilian. A paper published in that city devotes two col- umns and a half to a minute description of its incidents. — The Chicago Inter-Ocean says of Chisago amusements : ‘There is something melancholy in contemplation of the success that has attend- ¢d the piffpaft order of entertainments during the past season or two. The reference 1s not to performances light and airy in character, for these are often good, sometimes exceptionally excellent. But there has been innumerable productions in this general class that in no re- — were entitled to consideration for intrinsic merit. —Ithas come to be pretty generally under- stood all over the country that the approaching festival at Cincinnati fs to eclipse anything had before, and the only question with (ie directors now Is, how to accommodate the crowds that are coming to attend it. — Miss Mary Anderson's just completed tour through Onto was very successful. During her engagement fn Zanesville seven hundred’ and nine reserved seats were sold for her perform- ance of “Parthenta.” —An actress about to marry, who was told that she ought to be satistied with being wed- ded to art, afterwards regretted that she did not heed the admonition, as Art never comes home drunk and abuses his wife, or squanders her hard-earned money on other women. —When Paola Marie, Angele and Capoul ar- ‘ived in New York from Paris, they brought over fifty-two trunks between them and filled with the most costiy stage apparel that can be purchase@. Paola Marie had twenty-nine per- sonal pleces of ‘age, Angele laid claim to sixteen, and Capot . Marie had with her 860 pairs of the most elegant French gloves, in addition to which there were 160 pairs of the finest textured silk hose, many yards of frilling, runtiing and as many of the most beautiful stage dresses that would comfortably fll a good-stz store. Mile. Angele was also plentifully sup- plied with the fernale millinery and other adorn- ments that are wont to delight the eyes of the gentle sex. — Haverly 1s going to be a busy man next sea- , according to one of his leutenants, who it he will keep his theaters at New York, San Prancisco and Chicago,and prob- of the neck, with a spare diet aad active aper- lents are effective. A very fruitful cause of headache is bad habits—being out late at night and overloading the stomach with food and liquids of vartous kinds. Some persons are afilicted with patns in the head whenever they diink malt or spirituous liquors to excess. To keep in good hea!th and mental vigor a eae should be industrious end regular in his habits. Bep SpREaDs.—Noticing an inquiry tor white bed spreads, and also an answer, I would sug- est a different way. Make a sheet of not too heavy unbleached cotton; if too firm, it will be difficult to pull the needle through.” Lay it on a table (or the carpet is best), mark tt all over with a pencil, and with precision. Beginning trom bottom, hem-into diamond cheeks about three or four inches square, according to gsize you wish the puffs or knots. By experiment on a piece of cloth, you can find out how near together and what size one would like. If too near together, the cloth does not whiten so well, and they make the quilt very heavy to wash. I prefer the puffs to be about the size of a quarter dollar, or a little smaller. Get the whitest and best wicking yarn; thread tive or six strands of the yarn into a five-ineh satl-maker’s needle. Make two stitches at every mark, the second stiteh to cross the other on. the under side; draw the four or gight strands core ne Srellssharpen ‘scls- and cut off evenly witl Sors, leaving about an inch, mere or less, as one fancies. When done boil in plenty’ of water, using Hurd’s mixture or pearline. Rinse thoroughly. The shi inking wil} tix the puffs firmly. Great care should be taken while dry- ing; shake often and pick it until dry. Unree such quilts in my younger days, and have one now that is twensy-tive years or more old. It is quite good and handsome now. It requires patience and perseverance and some labor to make them—perhaps blistered fingers; cotton floating about, getting into your threat and tickling your ‘nose—but we cannot have any- thing worth having without some trouble, and when made well, these spreads will be admired by every one.—Cowniry Gentleman. ATTHE ANNUAL SALE Of thoroughbreds by Gen, Harding, at Bellwood, near Washes, Tenn., yesterday, twenty-four yearlings by Bonnie Scotland and John Morgan ees thesum of $8,585. Eleven were purc! by Mr. Joseph Blackmore for gentlemen in New York, and netted $4,455, &2~A correspondent wants space in the Bos- ton Herald “to say a few words in favor of Christianity,” but it doesn’t seem to that that Chrisdanity needs from a person who doesn’t know that anony- mous letters are not printed by newspapers. stl acase of crus in ean amo eet teacher her “stand up” until E ably secure others at Boston and Philadelphia, thus having control of a circuit composed of the largest cities. — The venerable James E. Murdock’s return to the stage is fixed for May 3, at the Philadel- phia Chestnut-street Theater. — Berlioz’s “Damnation de Faust,” the very dramatic music which has made so marked an impression at_ New York the past wiater, ls to be brought out in London next month. — A theatrical boot and shoemaker says Mor- lacchi, the ballet dancer, has the prettiest and smallest feet of all the actresses. She wears thirteens, and uses up a dozen pairs of slippers ina fortnight. Alice Harrison, Ada Gilman and Emma Abbott, says the same’ authority, have little feet. Mary Anderson’s feet are not small, but are well shaped and proportioned. Rosseau has a small foot and wears the costliest shoes that cam be made, paying as high as $25 for a pairof them. Lawrence Barrett and Edwin Booth have the smallest feet of any of the actors. — Lotta says she does not like the “Little De- fective” any better than the crities do; but as long as the people like it and come in crowds she will continue: playing it. The dear child ought to be told that they don’t come to see the “Detective,” but Lotta. If she were to play “13, 15, 14,” She'd draw all the same. — Chicago has been delighted with “The Avenger,” @ five act drama, because all the actors were ked off by the’ avenger long be- Tore the curtain fell on the second act. — Miss Anna Warren Story, formerly of Wash- ington, has been coset as leading lady by Taarctice Barrett ant pears On ‘Monday night at St. Catherines, C: — Miss Bede Mackenzie, the original Hebe of Ford's “Pinafore” company, has made a great success as Henriette in “The Two Orphans” in the south ander Mr. Ford’s management. Miss Marie Bockel of the same company has pro- duced a very favorable impression as Louise. The Savannah News says: ‘In the scene where — Miss Mackekzie) attempts to rescue er sister chards, the encore was so enthusiastic as to compel her appearance before the curtain.” — Ia the new comedy of “Sharps and Flats.” as played by Robson and Crane, a most laugh- able incident ts where “Sharp” (Robson) re- eS from an attempt to clean out a newspaper office, — The members of the Great Oriental Dram- atical Combination that lately started on a St. Paull in hopes to ralod a stake tor atcoea Lu] @ stake fora Class ticket to Chicago. — The singing of the birds, the roar of the wild the crunch of the ut-eater, and «henutmog grater-reoea sideshow blower, me remind us Spring is at hand, and go are — “The Pirates of Penzance” is likely to prove ‘a8 successful in London as in the Uni tates, and in that case it will be as ar as" Pinafore” and “The 4 — Victor Hugo has written a play called “Les | §° HANGING BASKETS. ‘This graceful and conventent form of decora- ton increases in popularity from year to year. Many acity home which would otherwise be destitute of floral adornment is brightened by them, and in the country among people of taste and refinement they are becoming more and more common. MaTERIA1.—The baskets themselves are made of wire, terra cotta, or wood. The first named is the most usual, but the smali terra cotta baskets are extremely neat and él Windows or other interior sit ns. They possess with the rustic wood baskets the addi- Uonal advantage over the wire of retaining moisture longer, and thus suffering less from neglect of frequent watering. The wood basket ‘herally consist of a turned wooden bowl, covered over with twigs and roots to Five it a rustic appearance. When this kind of basket is care should be exercised to see there are a few holes in the bottom to permit drainage. The matter fs scarcely ever attended to by the makers, and florists who sell them Teady filled with pee are apt to neglect ft. ‘The consequence is that the basket soon be- comes water-i and the plants contained in it die of wet feet.” Where provision for drain- has bee neglected until after the basket 1s Milled, holes may be bored the outside, and the dropsical condition relieved. The ‘wire baskets are first lined with thick moss and afterwards filled with earth, Into which the growing plants are set. They must be watered every Gay, as the drying air penetrates them on every side. A new style of wire basket ts pro- Vided with a zine reservoir beneath, which holds a week's supply of water. These are con- ventent but expensive. SELECTION OF PLANTS.—The central portion of the basket should be flied with upright plants of a neat dwarf habit, and around the edge those of creeping or traiiinggrowth. But while a# basket tilled with any bright, thrifty plants of suitable habit of growth, ts a thing of beauty, it ts far better to make such a combination ‘of color as to present @ harmontous living picture. The colors not only of the flowers, out also of the follage Se AS Should be studied with a view to this effect. Our greenhouses furnish such a variety of plants with ornamental foll- age—crimson, golden, white, bronze, silverygrey—that almost any desired effect of col- or can be produced Independently of the blos- soms. When a less complicated style is pre- ferred, a basket may be made beautiful by its ver mplicity, In such cases a single plant ts sufficient, provided it makes up by tts luxurt- nee of growth for the lack of variety. We saw avery attractive basket recently, Which was completely wreathed with the rich follage and bright mauve-colored tlowers of an ivy geran- ium. A plant of Sazifraga sarmeniosa, com- monly called Strawberry Geranium, set’in the center of a small basket, wiil soon cover the surface with leaves, while the long tendriis and aissel-like stolons. aroop gracefully down the sides. Another useful plant in this way is the Convolvulus mauri‘aniens, a single specimen of Which will soon make the basket h mass of bright green follage and blue flow CoUNTRY BaSkE?s.—No one need be deprived of hanging baskets on account of the remoteness irom greenhouses or mability to purchase green- house plants. No baskets are produced more exquisite than can be made by judicious use of the plants found in the forests and flelds. The basket Itself may be made of woven twigs, the end of an old keg covered over with rustic branches and roots, or the stecl springs of a supcrannuated hoopskirt. Then for Ailing. the forest furnishes abundance of moss, rich, light soll, and ferns, partridge-berry, saxifrazes, and all the immense variety of other plants which love to nestle tn its shades or seek its open sunny banks, CARE GF BASKETS.—The first and most es- sential requisite for the health and even the life trequent watering. Their wants in wus re- spect vary, of course, with the size of the baskets and the material used. Wire baskets, in addition to being sprinkled every day and the moss kept fresh, are greatay benetitted by an occasional dipping in water. Wood and terra cotta baskets evaporate only at the surface, and therefore need less frequent watering. Partial shade is essential to the lush growth and luxuriance which are desirable in a hang- ing basket. If exposed ail Gay to the full glare of the summer sun, no amount of watering or care can preserve them from a parched and shrivelied appearance. Another requisite to the health and full development of plants in Those which are bought from the florist’s ready- made are almost invariably either overgrown or overcrowded. This is not the fault of the florist, for the public taste demands a rich, luxuriant appearance. No ble promise of future beauty and perfection can atone in the market -for the want of present thriftiness, and there- tere the florists are compelled, in order to meet the public taste, either to crowd the bas- kets full of poe pane, or keep them until ‘he plants contained have reached the utmost limit of growth in the greenhouse. In either case the falling off in appearance is certain and speedy. The only remedy ts for the purchaser tu choose those that contain an over abundance of vigorous young plants, and then thin out, re- snoving such superiluous ones as can be spared \v Ith the least injury to the general effect. The basket will look a MUtle scraggy at first, but the subsequent growth will soon fill up the vacan- ics. —Conntry Gentlema The Way They Do in Congress. On Saturday when “Big English” saw that it s going to be a lonesome day for the boot- 8, he set his head to work to devise some- thing to break the monotony. About 10 o'clock -he got a number of boys into the alley between the post office and organized the “Forty-fitth Congress.” “Big English” 13 a regular reader or the daily papers, and he 1s a great organi It took him but fifteen minutes, the House ard “Senate” running so smoothly that law- yers and others looke down from the windows with great interest. “Who's 4 liar?” yelled a white-headed boy as he jumped up. “Oh, dry up!” shouted Sixth Ward Tom. “Put him out—he wasin the rebel army!” called a boy from Grand River avenue. “Some one clubbed my dog fifteen years ago, and Ican never forgive him,” howled Straw- berry Bob. “Git out the records and less see who was loyal,” put In King’s boy. “ Big English” rapped on his box to restore order, but King Tommy threw up his hat and yelled: “I moves for the aizes and the noves.” wee gag me,” shouted a lathy boy from r. “Less havea salary grab,” piped a Congress Sus The peepul won't tand,”’ wh other “ The peepul n't st * whoo) ane r. ne ain't we the peepul?” aemantena boy on the railing. ee are, but you hain!” yelped Nickty Doesn't one flag float for us all?” continued ube Speaker. “It does about tax time,” screamed a cross- eyed youth from Ps Piel Somebody kici the honorable Speaker. He then struck the honorable gentleman from Wis- consin, smashed at the honorable gentleman from Georgia, and his hair stood up and coat ialls stood out. When the row had quieted down the honorable Speaker remarked: “It was pretty good for the first time, though you didnt abuse each other enough.”—Detroit Free: Press. nantes T. Conepox in his “Record of Fitty Years,” published in the New York frituu, uise (Miss Bockel) from the Fro- |: writes as follows of the first attempt at dress reform: O. the Isms which I have seen spring w and sprout and flourish and fade away! ‘There was the Dress Reform, for iustance,which ‘Was started by a lady bearing the efiorescent name of Bloomer, Inde “Bloowerism,” as per- haps the man of middle age may remember. Somewhere avout it was, IT think, that there came a loud-voiced protest against long skirts from the strong-minded wowen of the west above mentioned. She was a morai per- son, I believe, and therefore she could not have got her notion of costume from the vari- ety theaters; possibly she got it from the part- colored == but, poor dear lady, she wanted to make all ‘our American girls and, mothers too, I think, dress exactly like the Circassian. Beauty—Miss Sneveilicci or Miss Mortimer—in the six-cent show. Those who submitted. to this apparel were called ““Bloom- ers,” and as there Were not many of them, it Was a great amusement for the young boys to run after them in the streets, and for the old boys to peep slily around the corner at them. 1 was one of the middie-aged, took no notice whatever of these Zulelkas as they promenaded under their lovely umbrellas. ‘The newspapers were full of humorous allu- ‘sions to these fanciful dressers— ‘skirt color, or perhaps v: and then Of the Turkish variety, buttoned at the ankle. ‘This was the protest of '1853 against. long skirts! But the truth ts, the Bloomer abbreviation was } never in fashion. A Curious Court Sceng.—In Shelbyville, Ind., John Barnum has been declared by the Verdict of a jury to be the father of a child born by Mrs. Mary E Crim, she having charged him with the commission of rape. Mrs. Criu is a diminutive woman, not more than 17 years of While the ed were ae, the re- turn of the with their vel , the prose- prob ‘the court corridor with cutrix was ing her husbani was the the innocent cause of all the trouble, and which the Jury bas now decided belongs to the man con- victed. ‘SckEENS IN Bak-Rooms.—The senate of Mas- sachusetts has passed an to prohibit the ercetion of screens 1n bar-rooms. Henceforth the drinking men of preg e must face sun stonier glare heir fellow-citizens, or they must not driuk ab alt Svicipe FoR Love.—At Grove Hill, Page county, Va, James P. Carpenter, a merchant, commilited suicide Wednesday by him: self in the loft over his store. Mr, er had carried on business at Grove Hill for about He has been in spirits for some time on account of a love affair, urple and ,) of plants suspended in baskets, is sufficiently | baskets 1s that they should not be overcrowaed. | ] 5 7 i f : q a a8 i @ neighbor While I was ‘doing ue the o! called each other cheats. After sw a regular thi it, ee is thumb unjointed and went to jam and I sot up till she hit me with a stick of wood, and then I went to bed. She sot up alone till she got mad and drove the cat out- — ind upset the lamp. Do you hear?” “Well, next morning T caught dad cheating, and we had a little shindy. Then he caught mam cheating, and they had a shindy. Then the overseer of highways ng worked at it halt and he and I got into a row, aud he blacked my eye. We took it toa barn-raising, and the crowd had an awfat fight. We took it to a dance, and both fddiors Were almost killed. It has "been kicked over the house, flung down the well and jumped on in the middle of the road, and now T came In to see if 1 couldn't swap tt for something else. 1 cess I'S a sort of dander-raiser, anybow, and i guess, if you don’t care very’ much, Til tet (back and I'll take a telephone E Died from Eating too ‘inch W ding Cake, . {Onancok Virginian | We do not know who first invented cal cr upon what occasion, orin what age of the World it first became indissolubly associated with Wedaing occasions. It is, however, an incident in every day experience that a man on his way to a wedding, as tn the ontinary avocations 0¢ Ife, should hunger and wish to refresh the in- herman. This unhappily, was Lloyd Hopkins experience. Hopkins, who was a hale, hearty, robust young man, while on his way toa mar. riage feast a few Gays since, felt an everwhelm- ing desire for cake, and accordingly, stepping into a store, boasted That he could eat tweuty- mH eS cake. The proprietor, or som> tanding by offered to pay for that’ number, provided Hopkins would eat them, the latter to pay for all he should eat under that number. At fifteen Hopkins declared himself full: bat the pay being demanded. he persevered wotll the Whole twenty-tive were consumed. This Was charity to a fault on the part of the mer- chant. Hopkins then proceeded to the wedding, Where he further eat a hearty eapper. On his Way home he was taken Sica, laid out all U night, and on arriving home the next mornt | was taken with a congestive chili, and died sud- lenly. — Mr. Gladstone the New British P: mier. THE COMING CHANGES IN THE ADMINISTRATION, ‘The London Nevrs prints the following promt. Air. Gladstone kissed the hands of een on his appointinent rday as Hirst lord of the tn id chancellor of the exchequer, Nees also ss Beyond Mr. Gladstone's appointment and the probable | appointinent of Earl Granville secretary of for- r isterial arrangements have ladstone had some dimMculty S return to London in making his way | through an enthuslastie crowd. The S’andara si it is contidently anticipated that Earl Granville will be foreign minister, It ts under- stood that Mr. Goschen will not enter the min- istry and that Mr. Robert Lowe will receive a peerage. A Dublin dispatch to the Tines says there is no probability of Lord Kosebery becom- ing lord Heutenant of Ireland. The Drily Te: graph (iberal) says the anticipation gains ground in the best-informed circles thal the Earl ot Dufferin will succeed Lord Lytton as Siceroy of India. It 1s not unlikely that the Duke of Connaught will be lord lleutent of Im land, but if he deciines the Marquis of Lans- downe is a probable candidate. Right Hoa, Ww im. E ie reslected member of Parlia- ment for Bradford) ts likely to be chief secret for Ireland. . —_ b DUEL. ‘he Newark (Dew Ledger reporter claims to have seen the recent duel near that town between Dr. White and Mr. Adams, of Philadelphia. According wo that paper the pistols were loaded without balls, and | when the principals fired the seconds hit each duelist with a hickorynut. This caused them to think they were shot, and both fell senseless to the ground. It took a great dealof brandy and water to revive them, and when the Ledger reporter, who was located in an aajoin- ing tree, laughed at the scare, he was invited down to “take something.” ———— ine A SURPRISE POR TWO CANDIDATES. supreme court has decided a case from Jasper county wherein a greenbacker and an anti mon- Opolist agreed to take a county office for b<s than the legal salary, and to return the surp us to thecounty if elected. The decision is (wat the election was void and the offer a bribery of he voters, UT ch ‘The Iowa $2” Five hundred emigrants, tneluding alScotch farmers, leit Glasgsw for Ame ‘Thursday morning. S#~The greenbackers of Vermont announce _ ir intention to put a full stave ticket In the eld, —————_—_—_—_—_—_—— IST OF LETTERS REMA GIN THE WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, Saturday, April 24th, I880. #2 To obtain any of these Letters the applicant nuust call for “ADVERTISED Lerrens,” aud «ive the date of this list. 1f uot called for within oue month they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office. LADIES’ LIST A—Abbott F E Mre: Austin H A: Allen M: B_Bachus Anna Mra: Bushe Alice Mrs ford Carne 8 ; Bradley Fila Brinkley Fanca ‘Brini ley Fannie, 3; Bradiey FH Mra: Brown Fannie L: Beltz Lottie; Burk Bouiman Maxmie; Brown Sarah Mrs. €—Coleman Fanney; Cole Jane E Mrs: Capen Libbia ; Coliens Lanra ; Clyde Minnie; Cook Minity ; Carion Maryrett Mrs. D—Dyson C. Dorcey Lizzie Mrs. #—Fuleston Abby H. 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