Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1881, Page 7

FASHION WRINKLES. FALL NOVELTIES—MENS’ FASHIONS. Fancy Jewelry multiplies in Paris. Snoortxe Jickers of dark-colored cardinal loth are worn on the streets in New York with black skirts. Panters continue in Paris. A Costume of seal brown cloth and Plush is the latest. Mapras handkerchiefs in London. Haswerep gold and platina is the latest for gentlemen's pins. ALL Sorts of felt. plush, and furry beaver hats and bonnets wiil be w but pokes are the first favorites. — = Troy-Rest is a new and fash fonable shade of Fed. Tnx fashionable fall hat for ladies is the large brim, half “slap up” with ostrich feather, gen- erally dark, and known as Le Rhea. StRai More is the name of a raw material designed for dress trimmings and millinery pur- poses. Grecian Baxps for the hair are made of silver, inlaid with moek gems. Two kinds of Polonaises are worn, viz.: those With paniers tied behind in a bow, and the very plain Margucrite style. Tue V frappe appears in three varie- ties. covered with floral designs, with watered tripesand with satin stripes: bnt the two last have not a happy effect, and they will only be paringly as dress and mantle trimmings. ques are even all around, but those inted in front are longer. Heavy Dovare bex-plaited rnchings adorn the bottom of the skirt of many handsome cos- tumes. ‘Tue SeLY-Coronen silks that are used as es are pulte de ngton taf Larce Cow. re worn In their teens, young ladie: erly wo t ’ Harts Tound-crowned De than ear S WITEN New Skints are round and cling- tog in effect the draperies are extremely bouf- ait. Buient-Coi.o1 stripes and checks are cain in favor. and thore who rush aiter every novelty will at once appear in zebra garbs, showing as many different hues as the ancient costume worn by Joseph himself. More 1s as fashionable this winter as Surah | ‘Was last, bat Surah is by no means discarded. Tue Suir Fronts chosen for all occasions for gentlemen, for dress as well as for general wear, are of plain linen of three thicknesses cut in | shield shape, and without any decoration in the | Way of pleats er embroidery. This shirt bosom is Rever visible except with the low-cut fronts | of dress-coats. when a few tiny tucks or cords May be stitched in th outside of th single large stud which is now worn on dress ‘occasions. Ir Taxes very little of striped novelty goods or plush to renovate a half-worn dress. CLoak CLasrs made of Roman gold and lapis Jazuli are very fashionable. The stone is of a dark-blue color, mottled with brown, it i from this that the much-valued pigzme Ultramarine is made. Tux “too too” in night wrappers for zentle- Men are of Japanese silk of very dark color— | brown, maroon, blue or green—lightly wadded 1 down and quilted; these cost £25 or $30, are less etfeminate-looking than the em- red casimere wrappers formerly used. Deer Coutans, gathered in Mother Hubbard fashion, are made of black and cream Surah and trimmed with Spanish lace; they are leng enouh to cover the shoulders. re seen upon many important ner dresses. men are stiff ler in the brim br. fs with gathered scarf panier draperies will be much worn. ATadinner party given recently in Paris to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, the lady wore an exquisite costume of blue velvet, with sleeves of Duchess lace. The corsaxe, as well as the entire skirt front, was a mass of lace. headed with bands of pale biue ostrich feathers. Her ornaments ‘were diamonds and pearis. Is Panis dark gray and dark green will be the ular colors for out-door costumes, and in the largest orders have beea for natural beaver and Kamschatka seal. Miss Faxxy Davenrort is having some handsome costumes made for “Camille.” The Girst is of white embossed velvet, with bine satin front; the second, of biue antique broeade, with copper colored (the new shade} moire petticoat; the third. a licht blue, with satin train, painted ith large green leaves, trimmed with pearl: the fourth, ite satin ¥ thereon large white camelias of in. Pespant-Poc of white satin and moire trimmed with Spanish lace make pretty addi- tions tu evening demi-toilets. Sars a foreizn paper: “It is to be regretted that young American society-men should have adopted the extremely nasty fashion (no other Word so well expresses the state of the case) of appearing at dauces and evening parties in the United States without gloves. “The touch of a bare, hot, moist han and a perspiring palm, always very unpleasant, essed azainst the ¢ 3 originate fashions she ore sensible and cleanly ustum is uadeniably an for women | Almost herve. are of ding | dyesses, as worn this at to fit as snusly down to the hips, with tit well down over the nods, Jackets are giv ch pe cirele ther Hubbard cloaks. Daesses for this season’s balls, as far as now ce to long dolmans, | and Pompadour or are, as a rule, puffy about the hips, ted bodices, which makes a ate the distinctive . pe. @ Pisin skirts of velvet will be worn | . coats and scarf draperies of | same ¢ the | ' lik he Albert dout of black or dark ne men prefer dark blue with lines; this coat is finished with ne cloth is weasted froc! twilled cioth. marked «i A Learned Barber's Observation Baldness, Is it true that civilization and baldness march side by side, step for step, and that the man of the nineteenth century crosses the bald line, so to speak, ata much younger age than did his lesscultivated and more leisurely ancestor of the eighteenth? Several ingenious writers have adopted this hypothesis and constructed inter- esting physiologice-philosophical theories upon it, but it seems to rest as yet on an insufficient statistical basis. It is possible that Herbert Spencer may haye collected data on the sub- Ject—he has about pretty much everything else— but. if so, he has not yet made public the re- sults of his Investigation. Perhaps Colonel Sea- ton, if the matter were put before him in the Vo tae light by eminent scientific persons, might induced to do something when the time comes around for taking the next census. Certainly very few questions come home more intimately than this to men’s hearths and crani- ums, vast majority of Americans of the voting sex are either already bald or afraid of becoming bald by and by. Witness the prolific brood of hair-invigorators and hair-restoratives that swarm in the advertising pages of our news- papers, and scramble in merry rivalry over fence and dead-wall, towering cliff and way-side bowl- der. Here and there a schock-headed, iron- bristled veteran of the Andrew Jackson and Peter Cartwright type laughs the comm peril to scorn. Here and there, too, a man may be found who says that he does not care a copper whether his hair sticks to his pate or falls off; but this man can safely be set down as either an unver- acious brazart or amoral monstrosity. It may be doubted whe any normal person ever reaches that melancholy station in his earthly pilgrimage. “When lfe, once past Its fortieth year, Wheels up its evening hemisphere ” without inward anxieties on the subject of bald- ness, and tentative attempts—futile, alas! for the most part—to avert it. We are indebted-to Monsieur H. Pujol, the learned Freneh’ barber of the New York Sun, for a brochure of unique interest and value which takes rank at once among the most illuminating of modern contributions to the ure of bakiness. Under the title of Monsieur Pujol bas re- to our metropolitan cotem- onthe art of taking care dresser to the Jockey Club the pen as gracefully as the iron, Monsieur Pujol is every way a person worthy of attention. Bald men will get but cold comfort, however, from his y: indeed, endeavor to cheer them up by reminding them that Socrates, Cicero and Cxsar were as bald as_biiliard balls, and by such transparent flattery as th Baldness, from my ly the men rior intelligence, such as ‘y men and inventors—in a the march of progress with the produets of their brains—who are bald. This is not the case with the unfortunates deprived endowed with su; philosophers, lite word, men who a’ of reason. 1, marked that abundant! like everybody else, have re- ith capillary tubes. 8 their hopes at one blow by say- ing that while hair that falls out after a sick- ness will generally grow in again without any aid in the nature of tonies,-hair that has fallen out from natural causes never grows in azain. He cites Dr. Baz formerly chief surgeon of - Louis hospital in Paris, who told him “0 that nothing could make the hair n baldness had come on gradually. is believe firmly,” says the learned bar- grow w Tl For, if there was anything of the kind, we would not see so many New York doctors with heads as completely destitute of hair as the | backs of turtles. I ain even persuaded that these gentlemen weuld follow the example of these Greek heroes who, under the leadership of Jason, made a voyaxe to Colchis to bring back the Golden Fleece. Modern Argonauts, th doctors would consider themselves happy if they could bring back from such a voyage the secret ‘of restoring the human fleece. I don't y that think [am far from the truth when I s during the past 25 years that I hay the profession of Ihave made the trial upon different bald heads of more than 500 different hair tonies. and Lam bound to adit that I never saw a single head the hair of which was restored after baldness. At the end of so many failures, lam completely undeceived as to. the value of all the preparations, and I would hot now recommend any one of them. Then, as though to quench the last_glimmer- ing spark of hope, he says to the bald bro! heod, who are invert in tonics and washe: with such pathetic persistency, these terrible words: “You would have just as much success ‘if you were to try to make the teeth you have lost grow in again.” To persons not yet bald, but fearful of becom- ing so, the learned barber gives a few practical counsels, such as these: If your hair is weak or thin; trim only the ends, don’t haye your head shaved, whatever you do; wash your hair with soap and water almost hot, rinsing after- ward with fresh water; never use any greasy preparation on your hair; don’t wear your hat in-doors. We commend his advice to the atten- tion of those readers whom it coucerns. As for our bald readers, we can only follow Monsieur Pujol’s example and refer them to the consolation of philosoph: ¥. Sun. A Friendly Game. ‘From the Brooklyn Eaxle, “Say, mister!” said a tall, sunburned man with a wide brimmed hat, as_he edzed his way into the managing editor’sroom yesterday after- noon. “Say, mister, do you know anything about keards?” 8,” responded the editor, “I know play ‘everiasting’ and ‘old maid’ and things of that kind; wh: “That's just what I want to ask about. Now in playing ‘old maid,’ suppose the man who holds the age antes, and passes on the draw, whose bet is it?” “That isn’t the way I play it,” said the edi- tor. “In my game the player who has a queen after the otner cards are played is the “old maid.” “Perhaps it’s ‘everlasting’ that I'm thinking of” mused the s “Suppose in ‘ever- teh an old maid on the en the rest of the keards was 1 you found you hadn't filled. What don’t see how that question contd arise in ame,” said the editor. “Maybe you are = of the zame called “poker!” Poker! what's that?” asked the stranger, looking up in innocent surprise. “That's Where they have ages and fulls and rt of thing. you know how to play it, stranger?” ne tall maa, drawing out a pack of cards, “Will you show me ho The editor ran over the cards and dealt two hands rapidly. a] rt ly. Now,” he explained, “two pairs beat one pair, three of a kind beat two pairs, a flush beats threes, aud four of a kind beat a flush. down a mixed hand and the r explained that it was worthless, as his own hand held a pair. - e deal "em once,” said the stranger, ng them off clumsily. “Five each?” replied the editor, seeing that he had id of a sharper and making up his mind to teach him a i nm. ‘Five each.” “ Now what do we do?” asked the sharper. v betting, I'd have to ante a dollar cover it with two. Then if I wanted | Td plavk apother dollar, aud o dollars at different times and I put latonce. That it?” and then we draw. it, once for fan, if you don’t mind,’’ ith unnatural eagerness. led the editor, table, which you say we draw. How many do I ‘es. ene Peuniy to Led por Hh the editor a i vas seen until ti dollars wagered, though there wen ae With dark neat stripes, usual gray effect. but no special color prevails for these. ‘The dress suit remains unchanged in shape, ex- the coats are shortened a trifle. "The his used up, beyond the ante. “Treckon I won't bet any stranger timidly—“who down four aces. “I beat you,” said the he laid down a straight flush. fifteen dollars.” More;” sald the beats?” and he laid ‘The Sky as a Cemetery. From the New York Sun. “Ihave been watching the star called the Winking Demon,” said the astronomer, as he extended his hand to pull the reporter upon the roof. “These autumn mornings are a little chilly, but the air is so deliciously pure and clear that one doesn’t mind if it bites a little. Besides, it is worth the risk of catching cold to see the Demon wink. You are just in time to watch him as he gradually reopens his eye. If you hadcome a few minutes earlier you might have seen him shut it.” “Where is this remarkable demon star?” “There, almost overhead at this hour. If you want to point him out to your friends you have only to observe that he is. little south of that bending row of stars that marks the constella- tion Perseus, and that thereis @ little group of smaller stars near him. Now, you eee, his light is pretty faint, but not so faint as it was a few minutes ago. In three or four hours his eye will be wide open again, and he will shine a3 a star of the second magnitude. - These winkings of Algol, or the Demon, occur a little oftener than once in three days.’” “What causes them?” “Ah, now you come to the strangest thing of all. Is there anything in the spears’ of the sky, all glittering with stars, that suggests to your mind that it may be a vast cemetery? No, Tidiculous! you say. Very well. You will not dispute that the earth we tread is, from one point of view only a vast burying ground, which contains the remains not only of countless gen- erations of men, but of whole races and tribes of various animals and plants. Just so in the heayens about us the dead are mingled with the living. Itisto my mind the most suggestive discovery of modern astronomy that the uni- verse is fall of dead suns—suns whose light has gone out, whose fires have been extinguished, and which no longer shed life-giving and life preserving rays upon the worlds that may be imagined yet circling in coldness and gloom about them. What nas this to do with Winking Demon? Why, everything. I believe it is generally conceded, though Prof. No comb seems to dissent, that the variations in the light of Algol are caused by some huge dark body revolving around it at a frightful rate of speed. There are other variable stars whose phenomena can be accounted for inthe same way. In the case of Algol there i shat the dark bod star, drawii tent of that catastrophe? Then, indeed, that terious dark body will become visible, blaz- ith the light of a hundred suns and unable to eseape from the fiery destruction that it has brought upon tive star.” “Are there any oth known to astronomers?’ Oh, yes: the great star Sirius is accom- panied by a huge body of the kind. It is not al- | together dark, for with large telescopes it can | occasionaily be seen glimmering faintly close to thestar. Astronomers knew it was there be- fore they got a glimpse of it, for it caused dis- turbanees in the proper m of the star. Another of these dark bodies which astrono- mera are sure exists, although no human eye ever saw it, is dogging the star Procyon, one of the brightest in the sky. You may see the star now low down in the east, north of Sirius and below the Twins. The invisible body that hovers about it is evidently of large size, for it causes considerable perturbations in the star's motion. Itmay once have been a sun as brilliant as | Procyon itself, but now not a ray comes from till, astronomers can point out the changes in its position; as its attraction pulls the star now this way and now that. “If space is filled with these mysterious dark bodies, collisions between them and living. or light-siving, suns are not impossible. You | know that our sunis in rapid motion, carrying his family of worlds along with him in his dight. So all the stars are instinct with motion. Our lives are so short and their distances are so great that we can hardly appreciate these mo- tions, yet they are swift beyond comprehension. Some of the stars are approaching, others rece- ding, all moving in some direction. The con- ions whose forms are so familiar to us are to pieces Ina tew | thousand years ti Dipper, no Orion with his club, no Southern Cross. The | heavens would look like a new universe to one | of us who revisited the earth in the ten thous- andth century. Now, ifwe suppose that there are as inany dark or dead suns as there are liv- ing ones, it is not di ‘i dark bodies like this n | eat, and yet some of the | that haye suddenly blazed out with astonishing brillianey and then disap- peared, may be accounted for in this way. To | show you that there is no exacgeration in | what I'am saying about the multitude of dead suns in the universe, see what Sir John Lub- bock said in his inaucural address at the meet- ing of the British Association in Aucust last: * “The floor of heaven is not only ‘thick inlaid with patines of bright gold,’ but studded also with extinct stars, once probably as brilliant as our own sun, but now dead and cold as Helm- boltz tells us that our sun itself will be .some 17,000.000 years hence.” “But we need not wander off in space in search of the sky's untombed dead. We have right at hand, circling about our own earth, not an extinet sun, but a dead world. The moon is dead, and has been dead these million years. There the astronomer, if he fancies himself the world’s surgeon, may study the effects of a malady that no surgery could cure. Even worlds and suns, like men and women, grow old and die: but ‘unlike men and women, they have no grave but the open and boundless heavens. ———— The Dreaded James Brothers. The home and rendezvous of the James boy: for many years past has been within fifteen miles of Bardstown, in Nelson county, Kentucky, on would be very, ver cases of sta the forks of Salt river, in aheavily-wooded recon, | | surrounded by rocky hills barred by steep ra- vines. Although within fiity miles of Louis- ville, the outlaws were perfectly secure in their retreat, and they made for it after each raid There their horses were trained, their booty di vided, and they were surrounded by friends, who punished an intruder with death and kept up a system of guards extending to Louisville. Any of “a detective campaign was | reported to the James part- Penz, sheriff of the district, owed his fife to the James boys during the war, and he would never goback onthem. The wife of Jesse James brought her children and took up her quarters last summer at Don Penz’s house, where she appeared from the neist schborhood about four di before the Winston train robbery. Shortly after the train robbery on the Chicago and Rock Island road, in last July, a party consisting of the James boys, John Jarrett, Ed. Miller, Jim Cummings and a man named Leith, were seen ig toward the Bardstown hills. Captain h, chief of the Louisville detective force, was posted on these matters, and on the 22d of August was told that the gang were in the Salt River Hills, contemplating the _ robbery of the pay’ train coming from Louisville to pay the workmen on the extension from Taylorville to Bloom@eld. The tracks were laid asfaras Smileytown, not far from which some armed men—the James gang— were seen asleep in the woods. Capt. Bligh determined to set a trap, and a pay-car was attached to the pas- senger train the following day. In it were placed fifteen armed men from the Louisville foree, and the train steamed down to the end of the track and awaited the robbers. They, how- ever, had beenwarned, and watched the train from the hill-toy The mission failed of its purpose, and the armed force returned to-Louis- ville. The gang, becoming convinced that it was unsafe to remain in the immediate vicinity, disappeared. It is believed that Governor -Crittenden had knowledge of many of the facts detailed in this account prior to his interview here withthe railroad officials, which resulted in the offering of the large reward some months ago.—St. Louis Republican. ee aes. as ‘The Boss Town. When she said she was from Boston, a dele- gate to the Woman’sConvention at Buffalo was asked by a hotel clerk, “Boston, where?” She had heard of the sublime impudence of the hotel clerk, but never dreamed of anything ual to this. ‘Boston, where?” she echoed. “Why, Boston, Massachusetts, of eourse. I know there was but one Boston!” “You are mistake street car company is bulld- ing @ new kind of street car, the principal feat- ures of which are a bay-window smoking r ry smoking boy ~ ‘The Lime-Kiln Clad. ‘som the Detroit Free Press. “Am Judge Cadaver in de hall to-night?” softly queried Brother Gardner, as “he looked ‘lown the aisle toward the stool on which the fat and juicy judge was uhanimously reposing. “If de judge am in de halt he will please step dis way.” continued the president, after a mo- ment of deep silence. The Judge slowly arose and meandered for- ward, energetically chewing: at a piece of slip- pery elm to hide his agitation. “Bradder Cadaver, I have @ few words to say to you to-night,” said the ident, ‘as_he looked down upon his shiny baldness. “Deodder day I happened to pass @ policy shop, an’ [ saw you gwine in. same evenin’.as I was gwine past a IT saw you standin’ at de bar wid a glass of whisky in your han.’ I kin also recall de fack dat I hey, not seen you at work fur de las’ month.” |, “Thasn’t been feelin’ atrietly well,” pleaded the judge. “You war well ’nuff to play policy.” “I_—I—didn't put up but ten cents. “And what about de whisky drinkin’? “T was feelin’ powerful weak, sah.” “Too thin—too thin,” replied the president,as he shook his head. ‘Now, den, I want to spoke to you. In some respects you ata. a good man. I doan’ believe you would steal, I hev neber cotched you lyin’, an’I reckon you am a good man athome. Now, if somebody told you dar Was a gold ring in de bottom ot de ribber some- whar’, would yon pay ten cents a chance to fish fur it?” “No, sah.” . ~Sartin, you wouldn't. Policy am a long, wide, deep ribber. De gold ring at the bottom ama five-dollar prize which some poo’ critter fishes out arter payin’ $10 or $15 fur de chance. You wouldn't frow money into Lake Erie an’ spect to git it back; but you'll frow money fato de pond of policy an’ spect to git out ten times as muchas you tossed in. Drap it—drap it, Brudder Cadaver, _befo’ you lose de title of Indze an’ get dat of Fool.” “Yes, sah: I'll drap it to once. “An’ you drank whisky. De man who goes into a saloon am no better dan de man who K {f [should axyou to put your foot agin a hot stove you would think me crazy. An’ when you burn your stomach, befuddie your brain and make a brute of yourself, and hev to pay fur de privilege besides, what shail 1 think you? God made Ge idiot, but it was ieft to to make de fool.” “An you hey bin loafin’ aroun’. Cadaver, all wickedness begins wifia loafer am as mnch despised as a drunkard. Wien laziness comes home pride goes away to visit de naybu: Vhisky may break a woman's heart, but laziness will freeze her to death, When you go home to-night spit on yer hands an’ ax de boys to grease yer butes. When yer turn outer bed in de mawin’ freeze hold of de axor spade or brush, an’ hunt fura job. Dis- solve partnership wid laziness, cut de neqnain ance of whisky, an’ de next time you tempted to play policy come ober to my cabia an’ ax me to kick you all aroun’ the duah-yard. You kin now sot down.” ee mz on Trees uear a ire. Some instructive facts in this connection have been brought to light by M. Montig: cent examination of poplars bordering | road in Belglum, between Rochefort and Dinant. The part in question is some 4 length, and runs westward; it is level for some distance, then rises gradually to a height of 61 Effects of Light through wood, toa plain. A telezraph wire raas near the row of Virginia poplars on the north side, and it appears that, out of ne lars forming this row, 81, or a si struck by light in the other r struck on th y Opry the wire. Comparing different portions of road, it is fonnd that in th none of the (i7)) trees show ¢ lightning, or at mo but as the road cases quickly mul plateau as many as nin or 64 per cent, have be: the propoi 2 e tinguishes three kinds of inju (1) the ‘bark torn and detached on a Tmited part ot the trunk; (2) a furrow straizht or (vareiy) sviral, made on the tree. from near the wire down to the ground; and (3)a peculiar oval wound, with longer axis vertical, and Ups_ col: brown. Now, the furrows, wi due to the most violent discharges, ar M. Montizny dis- | traveller, has visited Africa and Hayti, has re- | mai Malaria, Regularity ofhabit in eating, in sleeping, in exercise, is essential to good health; food, ua- tritious, clean and well cooked, is another es- sential; suitavle clothing and habitation an- other; cleanliness another. Boerhaves’s three rules for health are “keep the head cool, the feet warm and the bowels open.” The diffi- culty with most people is that they want to do exactly as they please, eat when they have an impulse in that direction, work when the fit takes them, wear what they fancy, zo without sleep, indulge in all sorts of irrecularities and Impuises and yet have good health ali the time. The thing can't be done. We are under law. and health and happiness can be secured only by obedience to law, only as we learn and obey law. Ifthe skin is kept warm, clean and ina healthy condition, one is in little danger of suf- fering from maiaria even ina malarious locality. The East Indian kindles a fire in the jungle of the forest, and clothed in flannel defiesthe ma- laria. It is the practice of physicians to visit A Peculiar Trait of Colored Women. From the Louisville (Ky.) Post. “ Admitting, as we must, that the negroes are more or less imitators, how are we to explain the fact that they never kiss, for I do not be- Ueve that anybody ever saw two negroes kiss. I have attended a number of negro weddings, and I never yet saw the bride kissed, while, on the other hand, a wedding among the whites, with its attendant reception without kisses, would be something so strange as to call ferth general comment. I have aiso heard that In- dians never kiss. Are we to suppose, thea.that kissing Is contined tothe white race? I have always considered kissing as an msthetic plea- sure, to be thoroughly enjoyed only by those of a delicate and refined temperament. ~ You will also find that among the lower classes of white women kissing is a rarity.” “For 20-odd years I have lived in the sonth, have had n in my house ever since I was a child, during my whole life I have been inter- mingled witn them, and never but once have | seen one negro girl kiss another.” “Then you have seea an exception to what you claim is a rule?” * Yes; but then it was done in such an-igno- rant, bungling manner as to be really laugha- bie.” “How so?” “J will tell you that, and, if ever you have an occasion to ‘dissertate’ on the art of kissing, you may find a place to fit itin. Oneoft avery bright mulatto, and stood insi gate; the other was a dark-skinned girl, appar- have eaten a ful meal and when the skin is in @ manner insensible, the blood being busy in the stomach with the process of digestion. For the same reason exposure to malarious influ- ences should be anticipated by suitable prepara- tion as to food and clothing. It is said one never “takes a chill” without first feeling chilly. As lo 8 the surface of the body feels warm and comfortable, there is little danger that the malarial poison wi absorbed by the skin. Nothing is a greates from ma- introduced the suffering anddeath frout cli- ies have greatly dimmished lai et girl threw her arfs around the nec! Ulaeker one, with the {ero angered politician, bumped their he Shel gether, stid “Goonby, and ran into the house. | * pet uvtens n. for She probably called it a kiss, and T have let it | Bess. | 7m maus, @ ion to the rule, but, in trath, it | Prevail, coffee is they were entirely . aud did not know or receive the blissfal boon. This, hardly a fair case, as one of the sr white than black. In all my hever seen two genuine negro women kiss, and I have often heard my father rewark the same thing. He was over 60 y old, and frequently told us it was a tradition through all his family the nezro women never kiss. “A friend of mine, who has been a great sda prevensive, and the dews of the ch ace considered fortified agal coffee th. was mere plai ignorant of th how to giv Rio is. preferred to rT varieties as being le: Sleeping rooms in a malarious y should be on the second or third floor, above the creeping poisonous mists that cling to the earth. Y. Tritune. see ed to me the strange fact women never kiss. nat negro Saut as 4 Proruy.actic IN DIPHTHERIA. Tn a paper read at the Medical society of Vic- toria, Australia, Dr. Day stated that, baving for many years regarded diphtheria, in its early stage, asa purely local affection characterized bya marked tendency to take on putrefactive decomposition, he has trusted most to the free and constant application of antiseptica, and, when their employment has been adopted’ from the first, and been combined with judicious ali- mentation, he has seldom seen blood-poisoning ensue. In consequence of the great power which salt possesses in preventing the putre- ive decomposition of meat and other organic matter, Dr. Day has often prescribed for diph- theritic patients livi = Se Origin of Some Socia! Customs, In primitive states, the conquered man sur- | renders himself, his weapons, and whatever of his clothing is worth having: hence, stripping becomes a mark of submission. Cook, for in- stance, relates of some Tahatians, “they took off'a great part of their clothes, and put them | on us.” In another tribe this ceremon; idged to the presentation of the girdie onty. Abyssinia inferiors strip to the girdle before superiors. A further abridgment i among the natives ofthe G. salute’ Euro; slizhtly removing their | robe from the left shoulder; but even there | | aid the frequent use of a garcle composed of a special respect is shown by completely uncover- | fabless » of salt dissolved in a j jug the shoulder. In other tribes they also dof | tyinbl ing children who cannot the cap. Hence, it seems t! “the removal of »onful or two to drink occa- the hat amonz E peoples, often re- ts to use the gargle as 2 prophy- d ves to touching the hat, i aie iy | most frequent on the plateau’ and on the | western slope, which the storms usually reach | first. M. Montigny is of opinion that. the lihtning, while provoked by the | wite, does not strike this first, then the tree, but strikes the tree directly. tion of the process is to the following erfect: Suppose a thunder-cloud charged with positive electricity. Along telezraph wire under it, thowh insulated, may acquire as. er: tive tension in the nearest part as if communication with the ground, and the t sion is greater the nearer to tie cloud. While the inductive influence affects the wire most, near objects, such as trees, share In the int fluence according to. their conducti The lightning, attracted in the direct wire, yet does not strike this. th ps presenting an obstacle to its prompt and rapid escape. Tt finds a better conductor to earth in a neighboring poplar, wet with: rain. From the facts indicated it results that of two similar houses, one built on a plain. the ot in a wood, and having a telezraph wire them, the latter is the more liavie to inju nsf, and the danger is greater if the ing the house be upon an emizence.— Lowion Times. ee ‘The Geod Influence of Building So- cieties. A noteworthy example of the good influence of building societies in encourasi saving was brought to light recent! turing of some building society stock of which insulat a poor (or otherwise poor) washerwoman held | twelve shares. For nine years and six months aid her dues promptiy each month, and her | “count at the close was clear of all fines. nount of her payments was $1,268, and e of 114 months she was entitled to €2.400. did not draw the money at once. an in- allowance was made to her, but this had The His concep- | | the | to be stopped after a time to compel herto take | her money from the society. She received alto- gether about 32,450, lit- x been earned at the was-tub, saved by frugality and by means of the buildi society acting as a sort of compulsory saving fund. ——_~-o-______ ‘The Germ of Malaria. Among the numerous other researches now being followed out on the Pastorian lines, I may notice two as likely to prove of the highest practical importance: those which, in the hands of Drs. Klebs and Tommasi Crudeli, seem likely to demonstrate that marsh-malaria derive their potency from organic germs (an idea that singularly harmonizes with the periodicity which is the special character of the varied forms of disease they induce.) andthose which, based on the orignal discovery of Villemin (in 1865) as to the communicability of tubercle by. moculation, are rendering it probable that this terrible scourge (including not only pulmonary consumption, but scrofulous disease in all its varied forms) really depends on the presence of a microphyte, which may be in- search by Dr. Schuller, of Griefswald, who has shown that e1 form of tuberculosis can thus be artificially induced, a characteristic micro- coccus Ing rapi in the blood gues of the animal thoculated with it, ‘saat en if, in an animal so infected, ahy joint is experi- mentally injured, that joint at once becomes place of | preferential resort to the ‘mlerococeus, and the specialor exclusive seat of characteristic tubercular fact the lower tribes | fect ie three or | A pur times a di: | __ BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES. J “W. KENNEDY & 60, ° (Estabtiehed 1800,) Dealers in BAR IRON, STEEL, TIN PLATE, ENG! ERS, MACHINISTS, COACH SUPPLIES, BUILDER'S HARDWARE. 606 PENNSYL |A AVENUE AND 607 B STREET. N. B.—Siore closed at 6 p.. PazATIO! Thik crand and beaut wn fet in ths orname «is the explanation of the hands. From kissing as a | fection, to kissing the hand as the transition i y and re- to have his own band Just as when | a room each of two fF give the other precedence nd there will resal preventing either from a of two tries to kiss the fuses to have hisown kissed, raising of the hand of each by vn lips: and by the other, 2 and so on alter- e between the ute is now ioned hearty ween the hearty at woukl resuit ch to kiss the hand of ihe E and MASURY'S LIQUID ‘ (Send for circulars. wates furnished to Builders. A full stuck of AR- ‘SUPPLIES always on hand. GEORGE RYNEAL, Jn., _ 30 418 77m Srever NontHwesr. L MARTIN & ae PULP MORTAR le L: Bricklayer’: Py ped Bad SRS Eta, Best in the world. Only black never fades. J. H. JOHNSON & CO., AcEnts, av27 12th street Wharf and 1202 F street STEAMERS, &e. MER Ts Ly Leaves 7th- POTOMAC RIV! days for Nomini: ing (Machodock |, isa natural expression | TISTS' “lit is curious te note the analo- ‘ations among animals and some of ofmen. A_ dog displays his af- his master by licking his hand. A ishes her lamb by the olfactory ly derives pleasure from its yne sense is used ainong inen to distinguish, as in the case of Jacob but also as a mark of affection, lon:ols, for instance, it is found as ‘k of pateraal affection, instead of embra- cing;” while the Burmese “do not kisseach other inthe western fashion, but apply the lip and vse to kK and make a strong inhala- — Chambers’ Journal. 2 Prepairing Holiday Presents. Immediately after the holidays every woman who hag endeayored to present each of her inti. mate friends (and the number increases at this What after the manner of the modera sehool) with a specimen of her handi- ves that she will begin next midsura- fattox Creek; on Sundays. for Mattawoman and Mattox Creeks: returning on alternate days, touching at intermediate ¢iven landings: go and returning; also stops at Mattawoman Creek jonday' id Fs Me pian en yr eg WoTicz. FOR POTOMAC KIVER LANDINGS. mer to prepare her holiday gifts, so that, allo’ On snd sfter NOVEMBER 3p, 1881, the steamer for interruptions aud delays, she may Nave | ANONSMUCH will eave ner whore. street, ya few days earlier the next Christ- woman, wherever she may be, wi glad to be reminded gentiy of this ad to have a few suggestion ‘ rd to some of the pretty thi hout too great an out Cin. ev DAY for elt river. lap: THU A) f za far Nomini Ferry, On u. On SATURDAY, mini and Crrrio- urricutan and Leonardtown. JOHN RK. WOOD, Agent. folk and Fort Monroe. ss fare to Fortrers Monroe and Norfé mas it Lookout... to Piney Point and Point Looxout..._ it r color, or trim with Hai son, or button-hole it with working- en trace some quaint figure on it, in the center or at one side, and work it in outline stiteh; the embroidering ‘may be done With markinz-cotton, or with soft, untwisted ik, but iirst tak A ickets and«taterooms for rate and information tnr- ed a: Bs. W. Reed's Sonn, 1216 # street northwest; 0, Ticket Pennsylvania avenue north= pee’s Cigar Stands, at prin- y Post OL ¢ sure that it will r be lost. Serviceable mt on the wall back of the wash- are made of linen momie cloth or com- ite linen: or Java canyas. Trim the with torchon, and work in the outline stitch; a border and centre piece, two figures like Jack and Jill, or Old Mother ‘Hubbard and her dog, are pretty. Hammock pillows are de- sirable.’ Make a cushion about half a yard or a trifle larger, according to your ; cover with eretonne of some bri:ht color, make a puif to go around the edge, and put it on 80 that the edves will make a little ruffle for aheading. The under side of the pillow does not need eny trimming; the upper angle may be ornamented in any way to suit your fancy. A simple and effective way is to put a handsome, Willleave her wharf, foot of 6th strect, ev x DAY and FRIDAY, at 5 o'c jckets and. stateroome general office, 612 15th street; mm the National Metropolitan Bank Building, or ai the office, 6th strect whart. THE NEW YORK STEAMERS JOHN GIBSON and E. C. KNIGHT leave Pior 41, Fast River, New York, every SATURD ie at, wide ribbon diagonally acrossit, and at each side | ata tere FRIDAY, ee tam Boe work some fancy stitches with silk, or you may | Pattculars app! tS eae eat town. work a borderand pat a monogram in the center. 022 613 iste Plat Rime! = noes. Table covers and scars are as popular and hand- some as ever. Elegant ones are made of bro- cade veivet or plush, with borders of different colored silks, satins or plush. A beautiful scarf is made of cardinal plush, with a border of green plush, with blocks of tan-colored silk with pansies embroidered on them—one pansy and two or three green ieayes on each block. Less expensive but really handsome ones are made of double-faced Canton flannel, with a border of ene richly colored and heavy ribbon; at one side applique work in the form of a bouquet, or (pusee LINE. 1P COMPANY LIMITED. 40. N. R.. NEW YORE. 6 Servis ei ed some quaint figure maybe put on; fringe is meened across the bottom. ef exercising a little ingenuity an appearance originality is given.—N. a Sar Jum Wesstxx to Rev. Aminadab Bl of the Austin Blue Light Colored Tal ‘I went to hear you preach last Sunday nigh! and while I was listenin’ ter yer eloquence, wished dat I knowed for cértain dat I was ‘ine ter die in your church.” Parson Bledso rs aku cl yx gues wo tee want: yer for?” “Bekase ef I knowed hit for oat. never go dar no moah.”— patients sick with infectious diseases after they | ‘ he | Jaria and also from bowel nm flan- ently a visitor just leaving, and stood on the |! : de of the gate, As T approached thes were | Mel. The British army in India wear flannel ng, when all ofa sudden the light-colored | the Year round ani Piha hb geckos roa | An } lias | to extract the bitter | ripe and more efti- | more a medicine and less | ¢ far away from medical | 19.63" E EXP! _ RAILROADS. SHEXANDOAH VALLEY RAILEOAD, THE ONLY ROUTE TO THE CAVERNS OF LURAY. ‘The Luray Cave and Hotel Company have fed this Compauy st they have intodeced tae, ELPOTRIC LIGHT into the Coverna, and they are now daily diuminated the aid of this powerfal sme ad = fo penetrate the ebscurities of there vast halis and «rottos or to property reveal thet MAGNIFICENT OKNAMENTATION. No similar Caverns are n clxewbere. Ne Caverns have over before been iliwasnated Hy the ad of ease weet the anticipation, and Dptesent to the eye viaions unattainable onder the NO OTHER ULLUMINATOR BEING ADEQUATE bterrancen ary tharrelonnly beatan which have. lewn beret Fegte ciaination pestis No extra charge te tance for the {fuminatién Electric Light, sud Guides are furainhed tree es tana LURAY INN will remain open at all seasons of the year, may feel ascured of procuring accommodation, Supercar ah Mutaiaas THROUGH TICKE areon eale by comectingg roads. JOSEPH H. SANDS, CHAS. P. HATA, Ruyerintendent, Jon"l Pawe'r As jaceretown, Sid. ___ Pidladely hia.” 620 PpALTMORE AND O10 RaTLRoAD. THE MODEL FAST LINE, Aap THE ONLY LINE THE EAST AND TH. “VIA WASHINGTON. DOUBLE TRACK! COUPLER! STEEL JANEY BAIL! SCHEDULE TO TARE EE FECT SUNDAY, MAY 22p, AND ST. LOUIS — Way Stations. w Sa oI nects for, Hagerstown and ut Feeders Annape ineheste EY EXPRESS (eon- Poiut of Rocks for only, for Baltimore, Annapolia and PRESS (stops at Hyatteville, Laure, Annapolis Junction . AGO, CINCINNATI AND P.M. 12:10-—Baltimore, Ellicott City, Annapolis and Way Ste i. On Sunday o AL TI MOK ¥ XP, 3:30—Baitimore sick, I 4:30-8AL AT ; cks, Frederick, Hagarste Win- pean erry y Stations. ESS, (Martinsburg and at HSattaville and Lanrel.) ay Stations. Baltinore and Way Stations BALTIMOKE, HIATISVILLE AND LAUREL TTESBURG, CINCINNATI and ST. LOUIS 0 —PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK snd BOSTON tI ew LATMORE, LUE aid LAUREL ESS. Stopeon kixua! or to let off paseeuxens at any station between Wastungtou aud Junction. tDaiiy. {Sundays only. Otber trains daily, except a trains from Washington stoy f further information u for baggage ty be mn the city. THE G ENNSYLY, le ta y point i 1881 oe 1A ROUTE. AND SOUTHWEST. EL RALLS. s vl T Neu EL FECT NOV siithic issl, TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON, trom Depot, comer 3 ‘Of Sixth and B streets, as follows For Pittsburg aod the West, 5 Hotel and %" at daily, with Sieoping Cars anoati, St. Las with Palace Cars to AND POTOMAC RATLROAD. laucua, Tochester, Builale, Nia Parior Cor to Watkins and daily, except Sunday .- urdaj, wath Paluce Cars to ins. For Williamsport, Lock Haven and Elmira, at 10:30 a m. daily, except Sunday. obk and the Bust, am. "Gi 15 00, 5:40, 9: a mand 4:60 p.m. daily, and 4:40 p.m. daily, except and 2:00, a a0%08 eek Line, Sees. For Ann: ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG ead AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHING’ 720,990, and 11:30 a.m. 4: 20 p.m. Sunday ) and 11:40 a.m.. and 6:20 p.m. For Richinond and the South, 6:40 and 11:20 am , ail it Sunday. 0 205 and J. R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent. FRANK THOMSON, General Managers wows MEDICAL, &e. Di HA PLUG CAN BE O¢ ‘all Chronic Diseases Wednesday of each: M street vest, fromm 8 a.m, oy R. ROBERTSON, THE MOST RELIABLE AND Jongest established specialist iu thin ci “ary experience, will eanran! Urinar; t Ne Pra Chntrect northwest. Refers, 45 thie leading physicians of Baitimore. Main office, 19 South: Eutaw street, tim Md. ol TARTLING DISCOVERY! Los Ma » Restonen. n of youthful tmprudeace causing Premature Nervous Debt ont ih Vain every know s re, which he wall mend 3. REEVE: TH 1S W NERVE AND for Hysteria, ache, Meutal De to mirery, decay recent cases, Each box contains one . One dollar a box, or six boxes for prepaid xe, five dollara, we will send the purchaser our written guar- antee to return the money if the treatment does nob acure. Guarantess issued by STOIT & CROM- LL, 480 Pennsylvania avenue, Washiructon, D. Co Wholesaleand ‘Agents, to whom all orders’ should de arddresied. 1, ths ENTLE: OF ment a nue. whatever. n1-Im EST ESTABLISHED AND PHYSICIAN in the city, tise ree K. ARMSTRONG HAS HAD OVER TWENTY Years’ universal success in diseases Of men exclu Bively. Charges for medicine « Basement office private, Puesitay, I hursday. NOoce?; NO PAY!—TO ALL AFFLICTED WITH Tewarded by vate Diseases, come at once, aud you shall be 8 sveely cure without ys BROTHERS, 906 B etrest south wert, 025-1m ERS 18S THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED prints in Washincton. Female I ties, Obstructions, ‘Lencorrbes quickly Oftice, 906 B stresbsouth west, opposite Smithsonian. charge for advice, . ald tin" ‘ADAME DE dics. FOREST HAS ‘tuil under seal on receipt of ‘price.