Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1881, Page 2

‘THE PLAN OF WASHINGTON. How It Struck S:ranzers a Century Ago—A City of Charming Prow ts,and With Everything Graud, mventent and Beautif Nearly a century ago a book was publisaed in Edinburgh, entitled “Tue New Universal Gaz- etteer; or, Modern Geographical Index, a con- cise description of the Empires, Kingdoms, Cities, Towns, Seas, Rivers, &c., &c., in the known world; the government, manners and religion of the Inhabitants, with the extent, boundaries, produce, revenue. trade, manufac tures, &c., Of the different countries, with stx elegant maps.” The second edition was pub- shed tn 1796. In this curfous old work ts to b> found the following description of the pian of Washington, as made by Major L’E afant: Washington, a city of North America, now buliding for the metropolis of the United States. It ts Seated at the junction of the rivers Po- tomac and the Eastera Branch, extending about four miles up each, including a tract of territory scarcely to be seeded in point 0° convenience, salubrity and beauty, by aay in the world. This territory, which ts_ called Columbia, lies partly tn the state of Virgin and party tn that of Ma d, and was ced by those two states to the United States of America, and by then esi idisved 19 be the Seat of government after tue year IS plan abInes NOT only convent Jarity, elegance of prasne t anda froe tion of air, but everythin: wi and beauttft that can be Introdied It isdlvided Into squares or graud d streets ran ing due north and south, asd east and west which form the grout wort of the plan. Hy s— | ever, from the Capital, the Prestdent’s Honse, and Some of the important areas tn the city, | Tun diagonal streets from one material cb] to another, which not only produce A VARIETY OF CHARMING PROSPECTS, | but remove the tnsipid semenes3 which renders | some other great cities unpleating. They were | devised to connect the separate and most di:- | | tant objects with the principal, and to preserve through the whole a reciprocity of stght. These great leading streets are all 169 feet wide, in- | clus & pavement of 10 feet, anda gravel walk Of 30 feet. planted with trees on each side, | which will leave S0 feet of paved street for car- ‘The rest of the strects are, in general, 110 feet wide, with afew only 90 feet, except | North. South and East Capitol streets, which are 1) feet. The diagonal streets are named after the respective states compostag the Union, | While those running north and south are, from the Capitol eastward nawed East ist sireet, | 2d street, &., and those west of Itare, {i the same manner. called West ist streei, West 2d street, &. Those rnaning east and west are, from tie Capitol north- ward, named North A sireet, North B street, Xe, and those sonih of it are called South A street, South B ,&e. The squares , or divisions of the city 1 2 ta from | from 40 to 50 feet in front, about 110 to 300 feet, the square. The trre} by the diayonal stree but generally tn val acute points are all 1 that no house In the cits corner. All the houses i stone. The area for the the legislative bodies) ts siLuated upoa the most Deautiful eminence tn elty, about a inile from the Eastern Branch, aud not much more from the Potomac, commanding a full view ot | every part of the city, as well ag a consite extCLt of the count TRE PRESIDENTS HOUSE will stand upon a rising ground, not far from the banks of the Potomac, possessing a delish’. ful water prospect, witu a commanding view oi the Capitol, and some oiher material parts of the city. Due south from the President's House and due west from the Capitol, run two great Pleasure parks, or rolls, which intersect and terminete upon the banks of the Potomac, and are to be ornamented at the sides by a variety Of elegant buildings, houses for foreign intnis- ters. &c. Interspersed through the efty, where | the most material streets cross each other, @ variety of open areas, formed in various re ures, Which, in great é S 5 s 8, a & kK r divisions produced are some of them small, ble situations, ‘Their | off at 49 feet, so will have an acute | t be Of brick oF | pitol (or house for a; nt only to . DAL as proper 3, Ode1SKS,0F C1 ive einines' Where a line due Uumas, to the memory of tie med. Upon a sinail eminenes, West from the Captioi, sad President's House would inte an equestrian statue of Gen Presiaent of the United States. ip = are marked out for otaer pubife buflaings, as a marine hospital, with its vardens; a general exchabge. and iis puolle waiks; a fort, maga wines aud arsenals; aciiy hail, churctes, col- leges, market hou: 2 c Gent of the United Siate the city prevalied upoa soil to ede a certain porti situation, 3 fn t Within ihe clly. ‘This ge 15,000 lots, and wih erect the public be conduc city, and to pays S, Whica will save a heisy | ther eittes. and conseq ; stderabiy more valuable. The Eastern Branch of the Potomac ts one of tie satest_ and most dons Barbors ia for the la about four iilles above its mou anbel les Clore aloog ti ede: end ig abundapil ‘ dns 3 feet to Lear the upper end of the city, where it 3 15 aud 2 feet deco. THE C:TY BEING SITUATED UPON THE GREAT POST ROAD exactly equi-distant from the northern and | southern exiremittes of the union, and nearly 30 fem the Atlantic ocean to the river Oht9, upen the best navigation, and in the midst of the richest commercial territory in America, commanding the mos? extensive internal re- Sources, is by far the most elivivle situation for | the residenee of Consress, aud It ts now press ing forward, by the paoiic spirited enterprise, bot only by the people of ti Caited States, Dut | also of foreigners ‘Phe iniand navigation of | the Potomsc is so far advanced that craft | loaded with produce now come down that river | aud Its several br from UN vard Of 180 | miles tothe Great Falls. wai) fre within 14 talles Of the eliy. By ux of the canals 4! the Great and Lite the mavigatta entirely opened be water, head branches o~ ;, 2 communter” so, Be a > vbacaly, for up of the most vast abuud- hemp, ludian | in, with fruit ar to America, ia vast TE LANDS UPON THE PoTOMAC, above the city of Washington, all around {t and for sixty tiles below, are high and ar, aboundl.g With tounersbie ugs of excel- lent Walter and well covered with large Umber Of various kinds. A fey upon the banks of the Pou ible mow Td ot le public eai i Above the city, also river, are immense «1 limestone and marble, The Ts be Ss. Of bt ¥ are now bulldog. fhe Danks of the 30f excellent co: bite slate of tue whica ts tue pria rt am thab passes throug the elty, 13 to ve collected in a grazd r-ervolr, beside the Capitol, whence tt will be carried in pipes to different parts of toe city, walle tts surplus Water wil fall down in ‘beautiful casead-s through the public gard-us weat of the Capirat into a canal. The plan of Uils ety was formed by Mejor L’Enfant, and tus founding of ft in such 4 dle slluation, upon suck a Uderal and elegant plan, will in firure generations be considered a5 2 high of of the wisdom of the resent Presizent of the Untied States, while ie Dame will Keep fresh tu the minds, to the end of time, the obilgetions they are under to | that Mustrious characi¢r, e 2 ALEXANDKIA, A TOWN OF VIRGINTA, sa North Ameries, om the svith bank of thé | Tiver Potoimak, The situation ts elevate’ and pleasant, but the water 30 bad that the inhabt- fants are obliged to send nearf: for what is drinkable. “The origto out the 7 lies wide, Bi YATHOR. the seat of" the tks Gi ashington, Alexsedria 15 100 iw! Aehmong. tatles north of Colorado Net — dor tava- Is The climate of Co!srad> {3 not one sutied tor auinvalia. We } freqiently beep asked cue question, end have seco and rebearsed numberless examples of of Cal orado atmosohere u90n Gd: s. ‘The atmosphere is very dry but It seems to Ive npon rather taan feed them. Jose frora one-fiftn to om the first season ia Coloraa 3 nS ve and light, Ussin3s of the body ordinary man wilt of “his, weizat " pao (gin em e that & man cannot endure elther oan or physical !abor a3 well a3 ta.a heavier cate aud p mospliere. Dogs are said to + short lived in Colorado. ‘ani other animals are easily ex- hausted of tuelr strepgih. An entirely erro- neous opinion bas gone abot about the desir- sbleness of Colorado clipa'« for consumptiv ABO Wery of this class have too late fou thelr mistake.—Chicago Inter-Oc7ean, , Thoraas Law, , Watterson, Edmund Law, Benjamin Ho:aus, beech made.” | the sald Columbtan institute; on the nortn by | to the United States, as he: | Of the society fere carried + follow ing m: Lnted States | gress, ABOUT THE BOTANICAL GABDEN Its Origin ai Progress. Judging by the drift of the enquiry of Con- gressman Le Fevre’s committe, in regard to ‘the Botanical Garden, it would seem that there isan idea afloat that, like Topsy, 1t never had any parentage, and that Its whole misaion 1s to furnish boquets to Congressmen. The follow- ing will show that it bad a definite birth, growth and object in life, and issomething more than @ mere boquet manutactory : A number of the citizens of the District of | Columbia, impressed with the importance of | forming an association for promoting usofal | knowledge, met on the 2th day of June, 1516, | ized under the tftle of the “Metrop > | nd appointed a com aitive | to frame a coastitution ror their government. | Ata meeting heldon the Sth of the followlag | ey cae to publication, the committer appoin' as aforesaid reported the draft of a constitution, which was uuanimoasly agreed to, after having changed the name of the assocla- Uon to that of “The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences.” The objects of the institute, as provided for by the constitution, wes ‘to collect, cuttivate and distribute the various vegetable produc- Uons of this and other countries, whether medi- cinal, esculent, or for the promotion of arts and manufactures. To colle:t and examine the various mineral productions and natural curi- osttles of the United States, and give publicity every discovery which they may have been en- abled to make. ‘To obtain Informatton respect- ing the mineral waters of the United States, their locality, analysts and utility; together with sueb topographical remarks as miyat ald valetudinarians. ‘To invife communications on agricultural subjects, on the management of 3’ ock, their diseases and the remedies. To form a topographical and siatistical history of the | different districts of the United States, noticing articulariy the number and extent of streams, iow fer navigable; agricultural products, the imports and exports; the value of lands; the climate, the state of the thermometer and ba- rometer; the diseases which prevall during the different seasons; the state of the arts and manufactures, and any other information which might be deemed of general utility. To publish annually, or whenever the Institute should have become possessed of a sufficient stock of impertant information, such communications as mnight be of public utility, and to give the earltest information, in the public papers, of all discoveries that might have been made by or ; Communicated to the institute. The President of the United States for the time being, with his permission, to be constd- ered the patron of the institute. The officers to consist of a president, four vice presidents, secretary, treasurer, four curators, and a gea- eral committee of fourteen resident members, elected annually. The general committee to be divided Into four sub-committees on corre- spondence, mineralogy, botany and agriculture, and general subjects. The committee on botany and agriculture, among other duties, were charged with the superintendence of the botan- al garden, and the curators were to have alge of the specimens which were not to be cultivated In the botanical garden. Any gen- | Tleman distinguished for his kaowledge of any of the objects of the institute might be pro- Posed and elected an honorary member, pro- vided be did not reside within the limits of the , District of Columbia, but no obligations were to be required of him. At a ineeting on the 7th of October, of the same year, the Officers of the soclety were elected as follows:— President, Edward Cutbush; vice-presidents, Andrew Hunter, J. Fred. Schaat, Joseph Anderson; treasurer, Overton Carr; secretary, Nathaniel Cutting; curators, E. Bb. Caldweil, John Law, R. C. Weigh'man, Robert Brent; general committee, Samuel H. Smith, Wililam Tnornton, James H! Biake. J. A. Gunton, Dr. McWilliams, B. H. Latrobe, Walter Joues, Henry Hunt, ‘George William Seaton, Joseph Mecuiin, Latham, and a ‘committee appointed to walt upon the President of the United States to ques him with the proposal of the Institute that ihe President of the United States should, ernficio, be considered as the patron thereof. ‘rbis committee reported on the ith of Novem- ber feliowtng, “that the President of the Uaited States, after making some genera! remarks on the tipportance of the uudertaking, was pleased to reply that he would with pleasure contribute Towards the institute, ard cordially assent to the wishes cf its members.” The society was incorporated by act of Con- gress approved April 20, 115, section 4 of which act provides: “That the said corporation may procure, by purchase or otherwise, a suitable bullding for the sittings of the sald tastitution, and for the preservation end safe keeping of a library and museura; and also a tract or parcel of land for @ botanic garden, not excceding five geres: Provided, That the ‘amount of real sud personal property to be held by sald corpo- sksli not exceed one Rundicd thousand | 1 c subdseqrentiy provided this tract of jand fer the use of the soctety, as we flad by reference to the act of Muy S, 1520, whica pro- vides: “That there be granted,’ during che pleasure of Congress, to tne Columbian [as tute for the Promo ton of Arts and Setenci the use and improvement of a tract of land in the city of Washington, not exceeding tive res, to be locxted under the direction of the President of the United States, for the purpose of enabling the said Columbian Iustitute to effect the object of thelr incorporation: Pro. vided, That Whenever the said institute shall be dissolved, or cease to exist, or to erploy tae said tract of land fer ti Tpeses afc! all right, Utie and interest hereby gr. te the same shail revert to and vest ta The Ualted States, a3 completely as if suck grant bad nev. THE PRESENT sir2 ass tne authority of this a. Gsep Und » & portion 0° | the “Mall,” near the Capttol, was assigaed ty | the use of the Institute, by the President of the United States, who appears {terest fa Its operations, ugh its sucesss WSs Colstantly hampered by a flack of funds and @ Want of public epirit among our owa citi. ZebE, 1 being evident [rom the data Db2fore us, that more interest was taken tn its prospariiy by non-residents, than by those who were near at hund and abie to enjoy the pleasures it afforded them. It can be seen, however, that a cel2in progress was made in the right al- rection, a9 it appears tue tract of ground author- ized to be granted them was actually occupted and used by the soctets, since an additional Tuct_ Was set spart for their use by an act of Congress, approved May 26, 1324, - Vides, “That there be granted,during the pleas- ure of Cougress, to the Columbtan Institute for the promotion of the arts and scfences, the use and improvement of the tract of public ground in Washing:on city, which 13 bounded on the east by the Botanteal’ garden, In the occupancy of o have taken much Pennsylvania avenue; on the west by the Tiber | apd canal, andon the gouth by the Maryland avenue:” Provided, “That whenever the said | msiitute shall be dissolved, the land ghal! revert | re. The operations ; on, more or less : successfully for several years, and 1t 1s to be deeply regretted we have not more knowledge Of is results than are now attainable, Durlig | ig existence quite an active interest, was taken | by prominent botanists in the development of | Unis brauch of seleace, aud io thts connection the | LOt prove entire! | On the 6th of September, 152 Jar Was issued by the Treasu sebt lou portion of the © the following e! "The President of causicg to be Introduced into the | fates all such trees aud pluuts from other countries, not heretofore known tn the 43 may give promise, under ation, of flourishing and bécominz jor artettes of | Te 2 it ts Toper to add that no expeuse can at present | P authorized 8 relation to it. [64s possible, however, that Congress may not b to provid is 2 5 g an Ofictal Gi ‘a- departinent ant ig of the Vale acted the com, vessels of the United States as at your port 19 (Signed), " __ Ricuarp Res lached to this cirentar are elaborata dire: obs for putting up and trausmitting seeds aud plants. in Febiua 1832, Dz. Henry Perrine, U. s. Consul at Campeachy and adjacent ports in Mexico, petiitoned Congress for a grant of a land ta Fiorlda, for the purpose small tract of vi establishing thereou an experimental garden for the Introduction and promotion of the cul- ilvation of tropical plauts, and the scate of Florida granted an act of incorporatioa to ths “Tropical Piast Company of Florida” for this burpose. The reports 04 the petition of Dr. Perrine are well worthy the atteation of Con- Gress at the present ti In 1836, John Mca. of Philadeiphia, a noted botanical and landscape gardener, and the proprietor cf a large collection of forelza and indigenous plants, {na memorial to Con- } proposed to self ‘the same to the govern— ment: Six thousand dollars. His patition was referred to the committee on public bulld- ings, and in 1837 they made their report, in which they say, “The public which are fuel Within te Peunaylvania’ aed Maryland avenues, the west Capitol square and 3d street, offer an admirable altuation for a bo- tapie They are at present an uncultt- vated waste, offensive to the eye, and injurious to the salubrity of that part of the city which ts adjacent to the CapitoL The physicians of Washington have memorialized Congress on the subject of these grounds, and have urged the necessity of thelr enclosure and cultivation tion of plants and log to heetgp ies Se cana ie thes ace amined judges, for of aecerteining chet value; the whole ts be submitted to House at its next session.” LAIR OF MALARIA. The condition of that portion of our city at that period may be inferred from tne follow- ing: “To the Congress of the United States: “The unde physictans of the city of ‘Washington, respectfully represent : That that portion of the pubitc nds Stiuated between the Pennsylvania and Mary- land avenues, and 2d and 3d streets west, 13 80 ‘situaved, On account of its broken and unculti- vated state, as to cause the accumulation of Stagnant water and other filth, and thereby to Be @ source of fever, and more especially luring the spring and autumn. They therefore Pray that said grounds may be so enclosed and cultivated, as hereafter to prevent the existence ot the nuisance complained off, which endan- | gers the health of strangers who may have oc- casion to pass those grourds, as well as those who reside in the vicinity. All of which ts respectfully submitted. (Signed)—Thomas Sewall, Alex. McWilliams, Frederick May, Nath’ P. Causta. Hakvey Linpsixy, President Board of Health,” Washington city, January 4, 1836.” + In 1836 Congress made an appropriation of $5,000 for conveying the surplus wacer of tho Capitol to the Botante Garden, maklag a basin, and purchasing a fountain of Hiram Powers, and $3,614.04 was expended on this account. “The National Institute for the promotion of Sctence,” incorporated by act of July 27th, 1-42, became the residuary legatee of the “Columbian Institute:" and by permission of the Secretary of State tts collections were deposited tn the Patent Office. By direction of Congress, the safe keeping and arrangement of such objects of natural his- tory a5 were delivered to the government after the return of the ‘Wilkes’ Exploriag Expedi- ton,” were oo under the control of the “joint committee on the library,” and the bo- tantcal collection was provided for by them in the space now occupied by the Patent Oilice, the enlargement of which in 1851 necessitates the removal of this valuable collection to the site of the present botanical garden. By the act of May 15, 1550, an appropriation of $5,000 was mude for the removal of the pub- ie greenhouse, and the botanical collection thereat, to some suitable side ou the public |, grounds, end for the erection of such other greenhouse as may be deemed necessary by the joimt committee on the library, to be expended by the direction of the sald joint committee, and under the supervision of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.” The orlvinal greenhouse first erected on the Pateat Oflice grounds, and removed under the above authority. is now used. for the collection of “extra tropical plants,” or such as require an extra di of heat, and mrany of the original plants brousht home by Commodore Wilkes still rematn to this house. In 1856, the valuable collection of plants brought home by the Japan. expedition under Commodore Perry, was placed here, and adal- tons thereto are being made anonally by a ju dicious system of exchanges with the most prominent botanical gardens of the world. Tue propagation of new piants and seeds, resulting trom the careful management for the past thirty years, and a wise distribution of these valuavle specimens, has been the means of incule sting a strong desire fora more extensive kaowledge of botany in the minds of many, and we hope to see a more Mberal system of appropriations on the part of Congress, in order that {ts use- Tulness and value may be increased and more widely known. An Idyll, L know a spot, Where she I love oft spends her lonely hours All spangled ever with forget me-not And other flowers. See! this and that Upon my brow, all bumps that have been made Of late; the freauent and ferocious euat Infests the shade. Aauiet nook,— Suvefor One little silver ring of sourd, he baby chatter of a tiny brook, Als silence round. With hopping gait ‘the uvely frog provokes a female scream ; Iburry to the rescue, but too late He passeth as adreain. Bend, branches, bend, Entwiue in leaty cahopy above, Let not a single raindrop e’er descend Opou my love. This really is Inf—slightly damp, love! dost not find it so? And J am subject unto rheumatiz. 1 think we'll go! THAT FROZEN PIPE. ‘he Queer Habits ana Workings of the Piumber, (Detroit Free Press j When & plumber plumbs a new house ho mak+s provision for the freezing of the water Pipe at some point under the bouse. It is always al some point which can be got at by opeaing a Wap door and crawling jess than haifa wis through the darkuess. You begin the winter with the feeling that yon will Leiter porrow nor lend @ pall of water, but will stand ready at it times to sympathi geis Up ip the morning to find bis pipes as dry asabene. Just as this feeling vezins to put fat on your 113 you go hom: to dinuer io bz met by the Cook with the remark: “I guess the water has all ran out of the tiver, for 1 can’t get a drop to cook wits.” » )OF TUT the faucets this Way aad that, «cere is Lope that she docsn’r know héw to draw water, although she hag been In the house for thrce years, There {x a sighing in tke yipes, as if they had met with some g°2at or Qown tu their depths but no water appears. vnder the circumstances {ft takes only ten Minutes to come to the conclusion thas the Pipe 1s frozea somewhere. ‘Ten minutes more spent in de-p refivction will conviece you thar the guilty heey 1s under the addition, rea ne P)pe leaves the ground toenter the All you need to do 1s to get a candle, a ham- imer, @ nall, a pine stick. audsa hot flattron. After you have crawled unger and bumped your head on the brick columnas and raked your vack on the joist and barked your knees on the old fron hoops, which always take up lodgings under a house. you pat the flatiron to the coid Walsr pipe. Il is ho use to try to iron the wrinkles out of a water pipe. The most you au do fs to heat the pipe, and no man waséver known to persist in that idea over tea minutes before adopting the other. Take your hanmsr abd drive the nall into the pipe. By driving next to the floor und close to the ground you cau tell { the pipe is fozen between. The nail holes are easily plugged up with pine, When you have come ag Near as Inay be to tie frozen Spot, hold the | Hatiron on the pipe and settledown for tea minutes of meditaiton. You won't have tray— vled down memory’s lane over half a mile be- fore someting will happen. The pipe will barst exactly Ou a lise With your eyes, and you will have cause to wonder ail the rest of your fe how a gallon of water could have collected st Ubal one point tor your benefit. Some men can clo=3 a burst 1a. a lead pipe by | use of ahaminer. You can't, aud go you must crawl out for rags, Crawl to to wiad them over Lhe spot, yell for string, whoop for the water to be shut off, aud crawl out with icleles hanging o your eais and a ragiog desire in your heart © shed blood. And yet, when you come toshake ‘ Sour tist under the plumber’s nose and offer to tek him for two cents, he kindly replies: “Burst in the pipe, eh? Weil, Vil nave a men ihere the first thing next week.” -Off-Color Washingtonians, iNew Year's Letter to Chicago Tribune.} Toe old residents kept up the customs of heir fathers, and bad bountitully spread re- | Loren tables, with huge bowls of apple- lay of eggnog. These hospitable spreads course, well patronized, and as night were "ame on It Was Necessary to have a trusty man | vutside the front doors to help the callers dowa the steps. The leading restaurants also kept open house for their customers, although they save the grand American bounce to the impe- cunious but thirsty bummers who at ted to avail themselves Of the gratuitous hospitality. What with the cold without and the wara beverages freely imbibed, there was a deal of austeady walking as nignt approached. Then, too, sheltered by the darkness from umpertinent observers, the young bloods and some of the old fellows paid what are calied tn the cloak-rooms at the Capitol and at the clubs off-color calls, the recipients being ladies who are handsome, often very smart, and yet who have no recognized piace in society, unless it is on the outside of it. ‘There 1s quite’ a set of these ladies here, some of them holding clerk- hiss, others prosecuting claims, and slightly off-color, yet asserting their right to ba ‘reated with distinguished consideration. They ike to be taken ro the theater, they are always well-pleased when invited to e of a din- ner Or & supper at a first-class restaurant, they adore boating, they are foud of driving, and they have an insatiable appetite for chocolate caramels and an woqueacuadle thirst for cham- pagne. At the door of one of them, just atter twilight on New Year's Day, stood the carriages of several diplomats, wile officers of the army and Congressmen cams and went. She is really beautiful, with a wealth of golden hair and love-biue eyes, aad her bril:tant conversa- Uon sparkles with wit and wisdom, while her thoughts have the freshness of young flowera. Two years agoshe came here from teaching a district schco! to accept a clerkgotp in a depart— went; but she re 1a about three months, and bow leads a life of elegant leisure, A Troy JourNal has an anecdote of a ‘sealthy manufacturer residing in an adjoin- ing village, who recently gave $1,009 to the chureh of which he 13 a member, bit deda3ted from the week’s pay of one of the mechanics ‘ bis employ 2 cents for five minutes Jate at work One stormy morntag, d2spite the fact that the man worked fttsza minuces at oon to make the lost time good Some men will work for two days to get carpet tacks at the wholesale privo and thea pay twenty-five cents on the yatd more for carpet than it is worth. swith a neighbor who | RELIGIOUS NOTES.” —The St. Paul’s Universalist church, Chi- cago, have paid their debt of $50,000, and Dr. Ryder willremain with them. — —The First Congregational church of Wash- Ingtor ropose to pudlish an eight-page mont P parochial Paper, to be called the Pu- grim Press. — Rev. Dr. A. B. Atkins, at onc time rector of St. John’s church, Georgetown, has been appt inted assistant rector of St. Luke’s church, Philadely hla. —Rev. Drs. O. H. Tiffany and Jacob Toda and Mr. James Long will be the Philade!pbia det egates to the Ecumenical Methodist Congress in London next September. —The Rev. Father Tracy, S. J., ordained a Woodstock, Md., about a year ago, has been appointed to the place in St. Aloysius parish made vacant by the death of the late Father Sumner, 8. J. | —Rey. John T. Craig, pastor of the High | street Baptist church, Baltimore, some weeks | since tendered his resignation to the deacons, io take effect April 1, 1881. Tne resignation bas been accepted. — Rev. Dr. McIntoch, of Belfast, Ireland, de- clines his call to the S2cond Presbyterian | church, Chicago, on the ground that tae differ | ence between this climate and that of Ireiaad | ‘would be too great for him. | —Dr. Pusey, who is now 80 years of age, ha: | announced that he will commence a course of lectures, as Regius Professor of Hebrew In the | University, at Christ Church, on Wednesday, | Jan. 26,0n “Propnetic Psalms, and other Pro | phectes of Christ.” —The Methodist papers state that Bishop Foster, during his iate visit to the south to | preside over six Conferences, was courteously | received by the ministers and people of Un Cburch South, by whom he was invited to preach in southern pulpits. —Lfeutenant Conder will be at the heador | the expedition which the Eagtish Palestine Exploration Fund hopes to send soon to East- tern Palestine to do the work—which our American society has falied to complete—of thoroughly surveying the region east of the } Jordan. —Mr. Beecher 1s almost a3 much at home at the Catholic altar andin the Jewlsh synagogue as upon the platform of Plymouth Church. A few days since, he practically told an audience of Catholics, at a fair, that his reifgion and theirs differed only in the unessentials, walle, the present week, he has been at a Hebrew fair calling the Jews his “brethren.” — The numerous friends in Washington and Georgetown, and espectally in St. Aloysius par- ish, of Rev. Denais A. Keily, S. J., for several years attached to Gonzaga College, and ocea- sionally assistant at St. Aloysius church, will be sled to learn that ie was, at last a¢counts, ine at the point of death in Jeraey City, whither he was sent November last from Fred- erick. His disease ts reported to be pneumonia, Prof. Norman Fox believes in progressive theology and emphatically says in concluding an article upon the subject: “To deny that there 1s a progressive theology in the prozres- sive unvelling of nature aod history is, in effect, to deny the presence of God in nature and history. It1s the blankest materialism; a denial of creation; a denial of proviaence;' a denial of the very being of God: —Gen, Garfield, the president-elect, in a Speech delivered in the House of Representives, in June, 1874 said: “The divorce between church and state ought to be absolute. It ougut gto be so absolute that no church property anywhere, in any siate or in the nation, should b3 exempt from equal taxa:ion; for, if you exempt the property of any church orgaqization, to that extent you impose a cure tax upon the whole | community.” | —Key. Dr. Howard Crosby, of New York, has been elected to fillthe place of Dr. Wi. Mam Adams on the Version Committee of the American Bible Society; and the Rey. Dr. G. | | K, Crooks, of Drew Seminary, to fl'l the 2 | | of Dr. Jobn F. Hurst. The committee now | Slands as follows: The Rev. Drs. Theodore D. | Woolsey Join Cotton “Siaith, Talbot W. Chambers, C, P. Krauth, Howard Osgood, How- ard Crosby, and G. R. Crooks, | —Dr. Prime, of the Ovserver, says of 1950: | ~The year has been pre-eminently marked by a revival of orthodox Christianity, and the fa- Vigoration of evangelical reltzgion.’ I ata post- | tive lt issoin the Uuited States of America; | perhaps not so clear is the case of Great | Britain. But the old truth as it fs in the ; Bible, the eee of Jesu3 and his Apo3- | tles, was never held by so many souls at_ any one time a@s to-day, and the bow of promis> | was never brighter fo thesky.” | —A good Methodist asked John Wesley | | what he thought as to his marrying a certain | Woman well known to both. Wesley advised | him rot to thing of it. “Why,” said the other, | “sheds a member of your chirch. tsu’t sue?? | “Yes,” was the reply. ‘And you think she ig ‘rely a Christian womin?” “Yes,” satd Wesley, “T believe she 18.” “Well, then, why 1ot marly | her?” “Beeanse,” replied Wesley— | my friend, the Lord can I | people that you and U can’ ri | —The Christan ai Work has bee asking | Postal card optators from various clergymen 35 | to whether miracles are now tobe looked for, Of course, the general optafon ts that miracles | Dave ceased, thouga Dr. A. J. Gordon of Boston, with a few others less certatuly, holds that the reraise Of signs following those that believe for the “hurch of all time. Dr. Howara i eroehys yeply was afte: this remarkable fash- jon: — i Murscler for 70 yeara in time of Moses and Jovhus. Miracles for 70 yeara in time cf Elijah ana Klicha. jiracles for 70 years in time of Christ aad Apostles. No others, Miracles Are marks and evidences Of a new dispensation. — The interest In the Moody meetings is as great as ever. People have to go early to get seals, even on theratniest nignts, and his in- quiry room ts always full; but in speculating upon actual results there are a number of things to be considered. Mr. Moody ts called a revivalist; in the true sease he {s a revivallst, but in tke common one he ts rot, or else with & tact that amounis to mental sleight-of-hand he adapts his temperament to the atmosphere. For instance, one evening after reading a very | touching request froma heart broken mother to pray for a wayward son, he sald: “What do you allow your sons to grow up in that way. ‘or? Why don’t you put them tn a church when they are children and bring them up christians?’ Why do you ruin them’ and then ask them to be prayed for?” And nothing seems to disgust Mr. Moody like a religious whine. He seems to divine hypocrisy, and he gives an inaudible gruntof disapproval whea it exhibits itself sentimentally.—San Francisco Sor, Sproupield Republican. Cigarettes. A few years ago cigarettes in their present | ‘crm were unknown. Cigarettes, so-called, were of Spanish make, so loosely rolled that they required rerolling by resident smokera Then was In vogue, and 18 now to aless extent, the practice of making one’s own cigarettes. Prop- erly shaped and sized papers were furnisned, | mm wiich ‘Turkish tobacco was rolled by the | ostentatious young smoker. Then sprang up { Wabufactories of Cigarettes ready rolled and | prepared for the smoker. The increase in manu- j facture has hardly kept pace with the demand, for it 1s said that during last summer the sup bly at some watering-places fell short. Ciga- reties are used more In summer than In wiater, | as he bare hand finds 1t uncomfortable and the | gloved band comes clumsily te the business. At irst cigarettes were simply rolled and papered later, mouthpieces were added of pasteboara, } Weed, cqyu husk and glass, the latter | heing 1. year's addition. Factories are in New York, Baltl-aore, Rochester, and | clsewheie, and the larger ones empluy frum | five hundred to one thousand operatives in roll- | ing cigarettes, One cigaretie-making firm has an automatic machine that performs the labor of many operatives. Paper and tobacco are fad |‘ at one end, and from the other come o1t arettes reagy for use. perique cigar- ettes are made in Louisiana. Perique tobacco grows only in certalu parts of this state. [cis put into rolls and allowed to remain until cured, and sxturated to the requisite state of biack- ness and strength. The wooden mouthpteze cigarettes come from Virginia; those with glass ends are made in Baltimore, aud the brisk variety in New Orleans. Turkish tes from Dresden, 8t. Petersburg and Odessa and be wedded tohis cigar, butin his momentS of brief leisure, or short interim in business suggests the quickly consumed litile cigar, un- jess heis like a noted literary man who collected stumps, and a made it flee) to Les so ‘many cigars and 80 many stumps per day, un 14] the stock of the latter was consui Th objective point of the anti-tobacco soclety should be ch , for they have aided, a nothing else has, to make youthful smokers After a diet of sweet fern the boy paszea to cigarettes. From smoking a full-power cigar he 1s likely to le under the fence for tha greater part of a day, but the cigarette is not so mas- tering, and in time the young smoker passes to the strongest Of tobacco stimulants.—Provi- dence (R. 1.) Journal, Ton BCT ENJovasLR BR‘GHTNESS, — Insbman is indifferent to climate, and peo easily in London or Lt ts verpool, under smol fog, as in the exhilardetog air of California, or the thin but enjoyable bright 6838 < New York or Philadelphis.- Specta- or, | mon school system of tweive grades, after find- | | able rented rooms, ill-ventilated and dai | but leaves the trust | of the two amounts to a bulldng for the high ‘The Public Schools. BAttor Star :—It the resolutions passed at the Seaton Building meeting had been more gen- erally published, their object would not have Deen misunderstood and certain newspaper articles would not have been written. Their object was not to secure $200,000 for a large school building, or the erection of shot towers, or to express any views whatever on architec- ture, or to get up a collegiate institution, or a | school for a few, or one for the rich. It was to | prevent a well settled policy in regara to the | public schools from being disturbed. H Afier some 49 or 50 years or struggle to secure the establishment in this District of the com. ing for that length of me Caer cause subordl- neted to every oiher municival demand —to | bridges, police, sewers aid street improve ments;—after being foreed by lack of funds to piace eight or niue thousacd children in miser- arous, to health, the friends of ed'ication obtained three years ugo, by understand:ng between te Dis- trict Commissioners and school trustees, on une one side,aud the Congressional committee on the oiher, tke establishment of a setiled poiley appropriation for the erection of school build- ings for the lower grades. They am of $106,000 was to be given for the purpose. Kor each of the iast two years, that sum has been appropriated and applied as agreed, and six years more of the policy would house those gtades well. Within a short téme past thts policy has been seriously eudangered Its friends have feared that, instead of the usuai appropriauon limited to lower grade buildings, ope, without Maita- ilon, would be substituted, appropriating | 325,00 for bullding school houses and direcuing | thé application to the same purpose of the lot- tery school fund of $12,000 —a fund already belonging to the District and avallab'e without appropriation, Such a ¢cleuse makes no pro- vision whatever for low-grade school butidings, | s tree to apply the whole | grades, if they should choose to do so. Tne Coustruction at the Secoud Comptroller's ofiles of this substitute would probably make the Dist ict contribute its $72,000 fund and halt of the $28,060, a total of $6,000, loving the United States to contribute $14,000.’ The regular policy | would reduce the part payable by the District to $50,000, Impose an equal amount upon the | United States, and leave the District in control of its large lotiery fund; and if thists applted | to municipal purposes the United States should conuibute an equal amount. Tu suori, the oid policy ought to give to the District for schovl uulldings $122,000; the substitute would prob- | ably give it only $14,000. Financially, 1 ts etter not to innovate upon present arrange- ments. Let things be as they are. A very bad effect of the proposed innovation would be to throw into the board of trustec3 the question whether the lottery tand should | be used for low-grade buildings,—a question of & nature lo array the members and the commun. | nity into parties of hostile views. The old , maxim, ‘Do pot wake a sleeptag Hon,” Is per- | Unent. That fund has iong been inteaded for a high-grade school bulidiug, and very mao: citizens would oppose a diversion of tt fo a dif. ferent pury Among them would b? found the men who now Insist so strongly upoa the regular appropriauioa for the iower-grade bulidings. A few words now to objectors. { . “Do not use the lottery fund eo One says: building. “Keep it at interest.” Answer: Jields now $2,625 yearly. If puc into a con alous butiding, it wil ve more than $3,000 now thrown away for uilserable reuted scilool rooms. 2 Another objects that “the’ higher grades are for the children of ihe rich.” If this’ were trae, what of 11? Who has a better right thin the rich to the benefit of schouls, pald for in great part by their taxes? But 10 Is not trae. Of about 225 pupils ta the two high grades which now exist there are not haif a dozen wiio belong to wealthy fatalies, Some of them have worked out of school hours for thelr sup- ort. Of the 500 Who ought to be In the four tien rades, and wilt be in them as soon as established, nine tenths will be from families to whom it would be Imposstbie or oppressive , to educate their children at private Seiools, If, however, the children of both rich and poor can be seated on the same Schou! benches, both classes will be beneflited ia many wars. The best talent Is not distributed with any partten— lar reference to parental wealth; and the chiid | ofarich man, it will be conceied evea by dem- agogues. nay become a useful citizea. #, A third objector to the bigher crades says that “a collegiate education would be given ta . them to a few.” As much value as I attach to a thorough eda- cation fn the higher branches of icarni such as can be had at few colleges ali optional und special courses,—I should deeply regret seeing the commen schools abandoning ‘heir proper sphere, But there is no danger of it, In the scheme of common school educa- Uon, twelve grades, there are onty about 2,: actual school days. These barely suilice to give a chiid of average talent a thorough training in the branches neces=ary to his preparatioa for practical Occupations. The urgeni need is to have the last two common school grades estab- lished. At present, lads get throuzh the tenth | grade when they ‘average fifteen or sixteen | years of age, They are obliged to quit just When they save begun to appreciate and bene- ft by their instruction; just when thetr int | lets are matured cnough to comprehend bust- | bess forms, accounts, the principles of me- | chanics, soclal and political institutions; and | when they are beginning to acquire a simple | ane strong style in thelr mother tongue. Tney | must quit at an age when one seai’s scl is worth four in the lowest grades. quit when but half prepared to win their way | in life. Now, if after establishing ali the com- | mon sckool grades the school trustees should | propose acoliege or untversity, th? discussion | of it will be in order. It is hardly worth while | {0 cross Black river before we get to it. | —__ UNCONSCIOUS AUTOBIOGRAP: How Every Writer is Making a Por- | Hau History Without Knowing A writer in London Society treats the subject | of how every man writes his own memoirs, aud makes, among oihers, the following tnterestiag | observations: It is simply impossthi- for a great writer to avoid an autobiographical element in his writings. This 1s very clearly seen in the | thrte great writers of the Victorian epoch who | have leit us within recent memory—Lord Lyt- ton, Mr. Dickens and Mr. Thackaray. In tne case of Lord Lytton, it is remarxable that time, which generally tuins the reputation of great men, has gene far to advance his. I: 13 carious that he always steadily protests against id-ati- fying bis own life with that of hia be.oes, yet the identification is thoroughiy compiete. Some. | limes, indeed, he 1s ready to adit the “soft | iuppeachment.” He denies 1t in “Broest jaltravers”—the work whica Mrs. Brown- ing loved so well—wh'ch nevertiieless is very autobicgraphical in character; but in *Dev- ercux” be aims at the real, and confesses that bis work has some of the characteristics of an autobsography, It is easy to see that he was « Very industrious Man, and when hc tells us that be spent so rauch time in the pursvi! of scholar- ship and metaphysics, 1¢ 1s quite easy to credit {t. It isthe fashion to laugh at, what is called lie “high-flown portion of bis writings: but there is no other writer who Las interwoven so much thoughtfulness into his fiction. His son, Earl Lytion, ts a better t, Dut he would be utterly incompetent to write one of his father’s stories. It is interesting to note how Lord Lytton, 10 @ 8911 of fashion, is alsvays biuting at 5's Wh themotrs. Of course, one does not wish, through any personal stories or tittle-tatile, to identity him with any of the incidents which he delineaies, But one or two curious, Layee may be roted. As Lord Lytton gets on fu the world he makes his heroes mount the social tree. At the commencement of “ My Novel,” Audley Everton 18 a Minister of State; “he Is not a Cabinet Mia- ister, but just below the mystic line whten separates Cabinet Ministers from other mtnis- ters. But before the conclusion of the novel, Audley Is supposed to be one of tic raliog spirits of the Cabinet and their spokesman to the country, The explanation is that Lord Lytton had gone up in the world aud nad be- come a Cabinet Minister himselz, Similarly a3 Losd Lytton gets old the heroes of his love stories become ever older end older. The sue- cessful lovers of his later fictions are middie- aged mep, who are becoming old men. He has & Chronology of fiction which corresponds with the chronology of his own life. He identities himself with his heroes and his heroes with himself. Mr. Thackaray was steadfastly op- posed to the idea of ever having his memoirs written, but none the less he has been a writer of his own memotrs. ‘AMR. MAGUIRE, of a Kansas town, was clected constable asd the local paper w th op} nim said: “‘Mr. Maguire will wash himself be- fore he assumes the office of constable.” The other places, made trom tobacco grown in both | notice maddened Maguire and he cailed on the Asiatic and European Turkey, have limited | editor to complain. “You object to that state. sale, owing to the increased cost, which is a | ment?” asked the editor. “I isd lied Ma- bundied per certum greater than American | guire. avery well, Pu fetract it.” id the ed olgi tor, and then aj state- ‘The sale, a8 already intimated, tnereases. AW | ment that he wished to retare his sono wee Classes smoke cigarettes. ‘The old smoker may | ment that Str, Mas ui would wash himseli Tnilitons throughout Until rao amounter propergy exempted ‘by tay int amount of pro} C4 from taxation has pecome Sufficient, were it to bear its proportion of taxation. to reduce the ped of the people nearly one-haif— Winsted e388, SrRaxce Comcipencen.—Henry Pur employe of the Richmond and Aliegi _— isa pres, Roe kitiead by = ender at Richmond, Va., yesterday. Puckelt’s brother Joshua was killed some years a locomotive e> ion. AGG Alt daughter of Joshua, by belng run over by an ago iss Laura Puckett, afterwards -cutter would cali a ‘regular proportton’ is | Reged, tn LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Light for the Crypt. Editor:Star: WM not Taw Stak let a ittle light into a dark place by calling the attention of Mr, Architect Clark to the Crypt of the Cap- ttoL_ ‘The Crypt ts an ortant thoroughfare between Capitol Hill and main part of the «ly. it is kept so dark that few ladies will enter It, preferring to Ping around the Cap ol, and men comin; ‘the outside glare Nop about like bats and are tn terror, If not actual danger of falling down stairs. Tuere are not even bandralls to give a Wayfarer con- fidence in going down stairs or to help him agelnst a fal’, A SUFPREER. High and Low Schools. Eiitor Siar:—I tpiuk a large portion of the people of Washington will heartily approv your views so well and forcibly expressed in your issue of January 10, In referer ce mo ment for raising $200,000 to establish a H School 1 will not repeat your well ta points, but I wish to emphasiz them and ea! the attention Of your readers again wo your article. But I wish to make a few statements which, 1 think, are reievant tothe subject, and will saz gest a way by which I belleve the great Of children in the lower grades ¢ better training (hau tbey now re. beiter opportunity can be given for training EsPS@ DUuMwers, hO cannoli vow find atmit {once vo public schools. Without <1 Ume 4 Getalied seconnt of the met Which Ube above restiis cau De s only Say that there Js a beller sy metheds of tratut hich be and a generaily used, byw. Faved out of the school Iife of eblidven; @ children wit pars of training under Luts system of m) Will be more inieliigent and better prepar leave School, {f becessary, than thi ave aiter attending School four or tiny Sear: aod they will be much better prepared to with sdvavced studies and higaer tr bev their minds will be properly #7% a:d prepar d to acquire knowledge them (4) the teachers Will be better pleased with tt Work of teaching, and the culidren will have a Ereater love for school; (5) there need ve Lo additional expense to introduce the system while three yourths of the usual exp os bocks required during the first four sears can be save so frequently made Dy many writers, and by patrons agaipst public schools, will be removed. 1 migut add, however, that when these results are realized, as | am sure they can be, the chief objections to the estabdlishmeat of High Scaools will also be removed. Yours, & TAILOR-MADE MEN. Mow Nature's Crooked Ways are Sometimes Made Straight by Sar- torial Art. “The fact is that there are very few men who are formed regularly. What a professtoual Ricttarps. measurement of 36 inches to the breast and inches to the waist. But those measurements are seldom met with.” This was sald to a Sun reporter in reply to inquiries as to the shapes that are encountered by tallors who make cus- tom clothing. Experienced cutters say that Uhey are obliged to make allowance for peculiar forms in almost every case. Maay men have one shoulder uigher than the other. This ts parucularly the case with Uiose who do much Jeft Show acpreescd. To remedy this slight deforaity, the expert cutter must resort to padding. “Talk about padding,” said an old cutter, emen are really padded as much as the men. Put your hand on the shoulder of the Hirst toap you mect; you will find probably that iusteed of a bony shoulder blade you will Teel a sort cuskion. “Watch the men walking on Broadway. You will notice that maay of them ng their arms under eaves of padding. Look at the padding in the breasts oi coats and vests. A tallor finos a man ‘caved tn,’ aud bas to batid bim out, That Is the reason se many hich Vests are Worn. A low vest would expose tne Hat, plucked chest.” iow about the legs?” ‘The culter WhO Cannot conceat fections of @ man’s legs ts unworthy of imper- is pro- fe-sion, Tf anan is tandy-legged, wie cutter Fill make bim wide aud roomy pautaleons, in Which bts crooked limbs may Wander witnout cetectic f he ts short legged, the cutter 1 Will fit him snugly, so that his uetier extreiai- les I hot Soffchd the eye. If he is long- cutter adds a ite to the length of bis body and brings him apparentiy into pro- Portion. it ts a very common occurrence for a man’s right leg tobe a itte louger than his left. Otten one arm isa tue ionger than tue ober. Voty often a man’s occupation gives him a stooping position, so that, ke seems at- most humpbacked. ‘Tie expert cutter attends to ail these peculiarities,end sees to it that they are. as far as possibie, concealed. “Do you think that men are as particular about tlicir dress as women?” “ When they care at all tuey are more fastidl- ous, ‘he trouble with men fs that 10 Bot always kaow What they want. Women are more apt to know exactly what they want, because they wake a study of dress. They think of it from childbeod. — Ti J hing they Uke and say, ‘Make it } know how goods will luok when made tmaoy men up. areubreasonably fastidio1s, One t A TUll Dreasts m1 and swells out to undue proporlioss. Whea the coat ts finished and he tries it on le says tt don’t Nt, when the real trouble is that he does not swell himself ous a3 he did when he was measured. If a man is punctitlous avout a very neat, Ciose fit, the chances are that he will com- Plain that his clothes are too Ugh when he irles them on. Then the man who says he ainks he bas ‘watts them easy and fs not particular about | the NU 15 to be feared. When he gets bis clothes | home his wife or his sisters or his fellow board oot Mail Eerntingze pie «—- 1ck tothe Mie by their wives as to the cut aud material of their clothes?” “Influenced? Why, str, it amounts to slavery in many cases. I have bud mea make me cou- tract to please their wives 1n the cat of a coat. ‘They come bere filled with instructions. They haye orders for the style of cloih, the style of cut, the style cf buttons, the Mntng, trimmings, and price. When I cuta coat for 4 married man I krow that, in most cases, I have got to piease the wife. Frequently a man goes away per- fectly satisfied with a garment aud comes back the bext Tuning over with compiaints. Then I know who has been criticising the work. Sometimes, when 1 know there is nothing wrong, | put the garment away In a closet, bever touch it, and when ! send 1t back Inatew days i ts pronounced very much better and all Tight.” ‘the military tallors are the greatest adepts in building up unpromising forms to become inodels of Soldierly appearance. They will take a lean, scrawny, ate a clerk and tura him out in a uniform that makes him quite a formidable as well as a prepossessing person. With skillful appropriation of haircioth ging and batting, Inanage to manufacture well-rounded torms in almostevery case. AS for the theatrical tallors, their work 1s otten a qearvel of art. Actors with natural grace ul- Bess of form have sometimes served as walking advertisements of fashionable taliors, Actors whose line of characters requires many changes of fashionable dress are irequeutiy’ asked to introduce some new styles. “What does it cost to dres3 a_man tn the height of fashion?” was asked of 4 Vitth avenue tatior, “About $700 a year,” was the reply, “But if | @ man 13 to indulge in $500 fur coats and a Varlety of fine silk neckties and &n_ assortment OT fancy Paitalovas his billy will run up much Bigher, Notwithstanding all that is sald of tae extravagance of woman’s dress, it costs quite 88 wnuch to furnisb styitsa Clothes to mea as to Women. The reason is that a man caunot have his clothes made over a3 2 womancan. If his Clothes get Out of fashion they are useless to m. But the clothing of women can be mad over to suit new fashions year after year. Taeir laces and ribbons, feathers and trimming of all kinds, reappear constantly in new forms. If a women has a splendid weddiug dress, for ta- stance, she keeps it tor years and wears It on state ‘occasions. But a man's wedding suit must be worn out before it goes outof fashion. Among the poorer classes the women always dress better than the men iu thesame station fa life. They will selze upon a fashionable style aud make up old materials in the new shapes withmarvelious aputuge. Men do nothing of this kind, and that Is the reason why, as a rule, they do not follow the fashions as scrupulously as women.”—N. F. Sun, CREMATION.—The cremation of James Hamil- ton, of Greensboro. Greene county, Pa, spay chmod Six friends of the family of e deceased accompanied the remains, The corpse was brought in a sleigh to wi ‘on, Pa. At9 o'clock Thursday morning the was placed in the retort, and in a few hours the work Was done. Two YEARS oF THEN SUICIDE.— ye! years ago John Shaika, a Bohemian. Uved in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He sold a and i 7 8 3 i 52 ERs F z H together, and cover the cloth. ‘This will prevent out, and will also enable quickiy by placing it in the of the stove. After once beg Hm you as En i : 3 8 } HH es a ABER i g i ; bot ‘The sand holds the heat a long tims; Out hurting ‘the evade We 1% goo! plat to out hurtin; we inves. Tt tan ato Haka two oF three OL ine bags ‘and Koop tea use, (6) and finajly, the chief obtections, | » When you ineasure him Le pulls , “Do you find that men are much infiuenced | How and When the Ey cutive Der partments Were Cre Sted. SOMR OLDEN TIME CUSTOMS—HOW THe PRESIDENT USED TO READ HIS MESSAGE TO CONUNRSS, The first cf the executive departments of this government created by law was the State do. Partment. The act of Congress providing that “there shall be an executive department to be | denominated the department of foreign affairs, * was approved July 27th, 17%, and the annua salary of the Secretary was fixed at €1.59), | The War department was the next createt, by an act Of Congress approved August 71h, fis» and the Salary of the Secretary was fixed a $5,000, Next came the Treasury department created by an act approved September 24, 1.~9, the salary of the Secretary Delng fixed at & Se! | These Unree were the only execuilve depart ments Which existed in the early days o. our government. In an act of Con . ANProVed Plember 2th, 1759, “to establish the ja ticial courts of the United States,” Une following pro. | viston 13 found: “And there shall also be appointed a mot person, learned in the law, to act as Attor: General for the United Sites, who stat os sworn or afirmed to a falthfal execution of 1 ofice; whose duty It shall be to prosecute a conduct all sults In Uhe Supreme Court tu wh | the Untied State give bis xdvice and opinion upon aw when nq red by the ir artments, aad for bis ser. oruey Gene xed by tha chief jastice of the U. " Bxdate Justices, t judge he at 1 some of the |, Provided at th nt, to be denominated th Was pasted, and LOO raat sso The oMears ative department , elevated to Cabinet ty the execu live Gepartm that “ihcre shail be an exeemtive departre “ni etc, This lapguage was not used tn crea tay the Offices of attorney General and Postmast r General. In those early days uf the covernm 8 lars mileage for every Uwenty uulles Uraveied in golng Wand from Weshington. THE cou NTRY OF THE moons, ous Mixture of Nationalities ia It. Eight “Million tiuhabitants, This country, shut in by the Mediterraneaa, Algeria, the Desert of Sahara and the ocan, crossed by the great cbain of the Atlas; bathed by wide rivers, opening into tinmense Dials, with every variely of climate; endowed with Ivestimable riches in all the Unree kingdoms oi nature; destyned by Its postion to be Che great commerctal bighroad t a Con. trai Asla—ts now ovcuy: inbabitants—Berbers, \ grees sud Europeans—spri ¥ast extent of country taan Unat of Franca, The Berbers, who form the basts of the tudt- genous poputation—a savage, tarbatent and incomt'able race—live In the in ioces=1ble mogn- tains ct the Atlas Iu almost complete in Pendence of the Inwerlal authority, ‘fh Arabs, the conquering race, occupy th platos— 8 Nomadte and past ot entirely da. generated trom the ter, The Moors, ood, sre in agreat part | Moors of Spain. “und thi iu their b a ured+ and coram ; “tthe coutiry. ‘The blacks, abuat 90.000,0r% nelly from the Soudan, are gen rally servau's, | laborers and soluiers. “7 , almost eqnal | tw number 3 | part trou those who were extied trom E | In the Miadic Ages, and are oppressed, | | | ds the wealt Persecuted here more than in any her country In the world. Taey exercise va- ricus arts and trades, an¢ in a thousand ways aispiay the ingenuity, pliabiity and teuactiy of their race, floding in the possession of moaey torn from Lbeir oppressors @ recompense for all thelr woes. The Europeans, woom Mussulmaa intoserance has lite by litle driven from tay | interior ef the Empire to the coast, nusaber less than 2.000 In all Morocco, the greater part ia. Lebitieg Taugicrs and living uuder the prov he consular flars, ton 01 IST OF LETTERS RE L 2 EMAINING IN THS W4sINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, i Saturday, J ary 25, ESSE. + £8" To obtain any of these Letters tho ap a call tox “ApvEbTisep Lerrkes,” an r of this List. $9772; vot called for within one month they will be Sut te tae Desd Latter Offices. Lavlie’ LIST jen Caroliue Eizabeth; Anderson Lilli» Mis; Arden is Mrs; Aciustard Baral, 8D Mrs. Bu Beowa & Biss, Birch sarah Aun; Browu usin Lelowsy " Annie: Cleeget Coraeila; Oy te: Oorders Franoes E; Corbin Johann. ; Cook Mary E : Christtons M'm 1; Outte Olive: Campbell 8 Lon: Maria Mabel Eee ‘fe: Gorcon Mary ,Guynun Mary #4—Huve Aunie J; Hamilton Chariotie: Gatioy unie: Hunt J M Mrs: Harrison Mi«s: Handy 4 Hickey Massie; rd Mianie; Harcis Hardmond sa iy ur Saat ows ts ics Alice M: Jones : Jones Laura B, uneon Win U dire 3. — Kelley Annie; Ketcham A A Mrs; Kelly Gora Keteher Katie G. ud —Lonsx Julia; Lout Jane Mra; Lee Mary P; ker. Lewis Naney E; Lewis Sarah: Lillwen Lucy Morse Jennie Mrs: Miter Lu C; Madisoa Ally; Moran Siiss; Mitcbeil Nancy; ‘Morsisos talieR: Mason Thos Mrs: Mason Thos Mrs. MicCattrey M ¥ aM: Antonio; Nichols Ella; Nicholson Ie Kate ©, 2: Oxlesby Mattie. elon Betze; Parker Carrie; Piqutits cd Matthew Mra, 2: Ray Berdie; Richart EA Mrs; Kuser ¥ M Mrs; Eheam J A Mra. ei Litticis ; Rucken Lula; Khodes Mavais B. S—Sheperd “Annie: ‘Snumous ann; —Steafer Cusriot; Swearinger Fauuie J: pmailwood Grace. Shepard Kste; Stewart L Mre Swaha Msra: Seott Mary’ Mrs Throp Annie; Thompson Annie Mra; Treat bomas Belle; Pb: Adna A; Towles Anna; Ove, Tonanoe € | Harriet; Chores J Thompson J; Tam sephiine: Tertiwux Margaret, 1) ie; Tut- Ue iary Mrs; LaylorS A iia. Walter A | Mrs. | Propk Mrz. { Alice; Waleott Addie; Witdarns | caver GH Mire; Walsh Kate; While di8 4 Mars Weewins Marcaret, iol Wilkes Margaret; Wheel A_-Andereon J J. 25—Dooue Charles . Baldwin F ; Bandiwin4d Baus Boks Benry; Butler Isase. Bentan Junn d Becker F Bu; burge 8 3; Bark W4, Bloor WF Canon DJ Glack Albert Ool? Ohapman 4 Suxtus Chas ¥"; Cleveland a ; Cumpdell Geo; Cox Henry Cobbin Jno Col: © fucass Nelson: Dresed Werner. ir Wei Kaira wor. ; Foster Fisher A; Fotta FP; Flanirg James; Few Oliver; Flvod Vincent. G_-Gocdwi Clifford or Goodwin Harry: 7 en Georve S General; Glover Wim L, 2; Glass GW Ht—banc.ck B'F; Harris Benjamia F, Be ry Charies; Bubb Olandos; Harris Henry; Hev oa Janes Hoge T Edgerton Colovel; Harbisoa Wr J- ‘S—Jobuscn Charlie: Jones ©. 3 John om Frank B; Jackson Johu; Jones JW, Joun .on s. —Kammer Adolph; Kingsb: Joho; Koni, aYeraey" hidase Bros; Kenny Michael: Pia) velie Anthony ; Lazzore BL; Ladd J.0 M Daa ‘a: Me So ‘Sohne x 7 5 Pauls Anirew: Packscd CC: Peat 4B Sol: Perham Jee; Poimiers T'Ocl, barker Jim; Pagal a4; Peale TK, 2. N. Thos G-pt; Iien TK { orsor; Slayer 5 : fies «fiteehoestey Bis adaison: “Sade Eine O: Btelahaner C; Soov ils C at; Southwick ‘ ‘Truitt 78, 2; Thomas Lewis; ea ee teibod WE: travoreWim Be Dur: Lieut ‘uddell Jno H Dr, x LETIERS REMAINING IN GEORGETOWN (D. OG.) P. U.. Jasvany 15im. a LADIES —Olements G Mra; See Mauna Mira: Moby it ire ies: Smuth aucie Mine. GENTLY MEDS LIS i homes; tage DW Lp rE AINGED, Postaster. EE ee ae —