Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1881, Page 3

—_— THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON “a OTHER PEOPLE'S Fancies and Expenditgres of Well- Known Actors amd Actresses for Wige SOME HAIRY REMINISCENCES—A WIG-MAKER’S RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ECCENTRICITIES OF DISTINGUISHED CUSTOMERS. From the Philadelphia Times. “Talkin’ about wigs,” said an abdominous old actor, whose nose. fired by the generous fumes Of the jorum of “hot Scotch” that steamed be- fore him on the Continental bar, scintillated like a half-pound ruby, “I see on Wednesday they sold about forty that covered the heads of the wax figures in the Centennial buildings. The whole lot went for ten dollars, and they Were bought for Bunnell'’s Museum in New York. Biazing cheap wigs. I can tell you: but they couldn't have been made of real hair, could they, Buch ?” said the old gentlemen, appealing to the well-known wig-maker, who stood by. Mr. Buch said he thought not, and then the con- Yersation turned on hair, wigs, wig-making, fan:ous theatrical wigs and theirowners. Nearly all the theatrical wigs worn in this country are made by Myers and Helmer & Gluth, of New York, and A.M. Burch, of Philadelphia, although there are many actors, like James Deane, George Bostick, and J. W. Edwards, who make wigs more skilfully than professional perruquiers. This is notably the case with Mr. Deane, who re- ceived £500 from John McCullough for a King Lear wig and beard of white hair, which is thirty-two inehes long and Cost $75 an ounce. Two ounces and a quarter of hair were used, and the wig and beard when finished weighed & trifle over three ounces. WHERE THE HAIR COMES FROM. ‘The hair used in manufacturing wigs comes from ail parts of the world. The natural blonde is imported from Sweden and Norway. Dealers in the south of France supply great quantities of dark hair and thousands of pounds of black hair is brought from Italy to New York every ear. The cheapest hair comes from China, but is rather coarse and is used in manufacturing lower grade theatrical wigs and back pieces and braids for ladies’ street wear. By bleaching and dyeing, Chinese bair can be given any color that is desired. but it assumes auburn shades best, and, as these shades are now fashionable, an enormous quantity of this coolie hair will be used in ladies’ wigs before the reigning color craze is over. The Swedish hair is rarely longer | thar twenty-two inches, and on reaching this country is always dirty and teeming with in- sect life. The Preach hair is generally clean, | but the Italian hair, which comes to New York ] in one hundred pound bundles, is exceedingly i} filthy, and the workmen who clean it before it is purchased by the wig-makers frequently con- tract diseases from handling it. Dyed hair is called “dead,” and it becomes harsh after being Worn a short time. Chemicals are used to give | it a glossy appearance. In addition to the hu- man hair referred to, large quantities of Yak and Angora goat hair and Jute fibre are used. PRICES REGULATED BY COLOR. Natural hair varies in price according to the Prevailing fashionable color and rare shades of light and auburn hair, a yard long, costs from $150 to $175 an ounce. Clara Louise Kellogg has a blonde “Marguerette” wig, the hair of which is a yard and four inches jong and cost 150 an ounce in Paris. Four and a half ounces of hair were used and the wig when completed cost $700. She wore it halfadozen times and then sent it to a wig-maker in Chicago to have it dressed and he burned the-hair so badly that when it was repaired by Mr. Buch, afew months , $200 worth of hair was taken out of it. jair smuggling is very profitable, as several thousand dollars’ worth of hair may be carried | in the pockets of a vest; but the e: ience ofa | smuggler named Jansen, who had $5,000 worth ot blonde hair seized by the custom officials in New York in 1880,- had the effect of greatly checking the practice, but it is still carried on to some extent in New Orleans. The price of a wig depends entirely upon its style and the quality and quantity of hair used; but as actors thoroughly appreciate the value of first-class wigs, they are, as a rule, willing to bet pee Prices for what they want. J. L. Stoddard has over 300 character wigs; C. W. Couldock owns 140; William Warren, of Boston, has several hundred; E. L. Davenport had a trunk full; George Griffith has over fifty wigs for old men; Jebn McCullough travels with a trunk full of fine ones. Edwin Booth’s wigs number about fifty, Hamlet being the only part he plays with- out a wig; John 5. Clarke has several dozen, and the wigs he wears at night are always dressed by a professional wig-maker in the after- noon. Joseph Jefferson has but few wigs, but they are very fine. The light brown curly wig he wears in the first act of “Rip Van Winkle” weighs less than an ounce, and was made by Leon Perit, of Paris. The gray wig used after the sleep cost $150, and was manufactured by Myers, of New York: Rose Wood paid Buch $90 for a blonde wig inst year and Fanny Davenport has one that cost $150. Ada Gilman boasts of a beautiful red dress wig, which cost $125, and Marion Booth invested $100 last year in a blonde boy's wig, made of baby hair, that cost $50 an ounce. A COMEDIAN’S DILEMMA. When Sothern played the “Crushed Trage- dian” here for the first time his wig was stolen from his dressing room after the second perform- ance. The loss was not discovered until3 o'clock the next day. Buch was sent for. ‘I must have a wig made before 7 o'clock this evening,” said the comedian. “It is impossible.” replied the perraquier. “it isnot. Fix your own price for your but have the wig at the theater this evening But. Mr. Sothern—” “It must be there,” interrupted the actor. “I shall depend upon it. You are wasting your time now.” The Father of Railways. From the London Society. ~ In 1817 Edward Pease, in the face of strong opposition, appealed to the public to assist him in forming & company for the promotion of a railway between Stockton and the West Anck-. Jand coal field; but the public fought shy of the Project, and if it had not been that Mr. Pease’s own familysand immediate friends embarked in the enterprise with him, the title of “the father of railways,” which was subsequently given to Mr. Pease, would in all probability have had to be shifted on to some later projector. But Ed- ward , Ww once he had taken a thing in hand, and made up his mind that it was expedient and practicable, was not given to withdrawing from it; so, before he hadever seen George Stephenson, he had made his application to Parliament for sanction to his scheme, and would have had his railway in course of forma- tion but for the Duke of Cleveland's powerful objection that the proposed line would pass too near one of his fox covers. Parliament in those days was stronger on the side of the fox hun- | ters than on that of the railway promoters; and no wonder. remembering the apathy, if not open hostility, of the commercial classes—the people who were destined to derive the greatest nefit from the project. The Duke of Cleve- land, therefore, succeeded in getting his brother peers to throw out the railway bill in 1818; but in the following year, when Mr. Pease’ had | chalked out anew route for his line between | Stockton and Darlington, steering clear ot the j duke’s cover, Parliament was induced to ac- cept the scheme. In 1821, when the royal assent had made the bill law, the work of construction was proceeded with. It was at this staze that George Stephenson | came over irom Killingworth to Darlington and tried to interest the good Quaker in his new ma- chine, the steam horse. Up to this point the projector of the first railway had had no idea of providing any motive power other than horses; the rails were his leading feature; the locomo- tive had not even been thouglit of in connec- tion with the Stockton and Darlington scheme. When Stephenson waited upon Mr. Pease, however. and jin that North- umbrian dialect which never left him sought Mr. Pease’s adoption of the new en- gine for the new line, and when Mr. Pease promised to run over to Killingworth to see George's locomotive for himself, the first link in the mighty railway chain which was thereafter to stretch over all the countries of the world was forged. Mr. Pease went, saw the | engine, approved of it, and from that time the | Stockton & Darlington railway project began to assume, in the eyes of onlookers, a more chimerical aspect than ever. Edward Pease be- came @ convert to the locomotive, and an amended act of Parliament was obtained in 1823, empowering the company to employ locomo- tives on their lines, under certain restriction. From that time the interests of Edward Pease and George Stephenson were in a great measure identical. Mr. Pease assisted Stephenson—now appointed the engineer of the new line at a salary of £300 a year—to found his locomotive factory at Newcastle. and in many other ways helped on the mighty movement which both lived to see extended, with so much benefit to human progress, into every centre of industry throughout the kingdom. See Almost Nickel-Plated to Death. “Well, we came pretty near losing another old settler yesterday,” said Mr. Jacob Stouten- berg to a friend who called at his place of busi- ness, No. 525 Market street, yesterday fore- noon. ‘ “Ah! who was it?” “Tt was I,” said “Stout,” as with profound impressiveness he pointed to his own manly mn. “Indeed! How did it happen?” “Well, you know I’ve been kind of under the weather for a good while. Yesterday I went to take some medicine. The bottle was sitting on a table in my room along with some other. Instead of getting theright one I got the wrong one. I took the dose—a tablespoonful— and the first thing I knew there was a com- motion just beneath my vest buttons that fairly made me yell. What do you think I had taken? It was some nickel- ig stuff pretty near as strong as nitrate of silver. Good gra- cious, didn’t it burn, though! Well, my boy came. and I told him to get me some sweet milk double quick. He got it, and I drank about @ quart without stopping to breathe. In a cou- ple of minutes Ifelt relieved. Iam able to be around to-day, but I tell qe I came mighty close to having my bread basket nickel-plated inside, and the experience wasn't at all agree- able.”—St. Louis Globe. ———— Pleasures of English Railway Travel. The experience recorded by a Brightonseason ticket holder is unfortunately by no means sin- gular. The lawless selfishness of certain speci- mens of the daily railway traveller is one of the things that show how thin is the veneer of civilization even in the classes that would be most offended if they were called barbarous. The correspondent attempted to enter several compartments where there were vacant seats, but they were all “kept” by a newspaper or anu brella, and he was politely turned out. “No- ticing a number of other gentlemen coming down the platform in the same predicament looking in vain for seats,” continued the writer, “TI returned and resolved to ‘take’ the first unoccupied seat I found. I entered a car- riage in which there were three empty seats, but was immediately assailed by a volley of abuse from the three gentlemen already seated, ig it was a private carriage, into which | had no right to *foree’ myself; that I was ‘no gentleman,’ and mus monstrated, explai compartment without noticing the small card placed in the window, and stated that there was ho more room in the train, upon which I was told it was a ‘downright falsehood’ by one gentleman, and by another a ‘— lie.” These Bueh got a description of “Fitz Altamont’s” flowing locks and went away. Five minutes be- fore the appointed time he appeared at the thea- ter with the wig complete. “What is your bill?” inquired the actor. “Thirty-five dollars,” replied the wig-maker. “There is .” said Sothern, handing Buch that amount of money. “Now, never tell an — You can’t make a wig in three or four ours. The favorite wig of John Wilkes Booth, Presi- dent Linevin’s assassin, was made of the hair of his sweetheart. a Miss Becket, of Richmond, Va. She died of typhoid fever, but her head was shorn before death and her lover had the beauti- ful light brown hair woven into a wig. Clara is has a black wig that cost $120, and Rose zhian is happy in the possession of a light made and an 00. wigs, ef all kinds. Edwin Forrest had a splendid k of wiz and scores of pages of the old ks of Bueh’s business are covered with orders great tragedian. His last order was for a dark Roman wig in 1865, afew months before made his first to San Francisco. W, E. ridan has 31.000 invested in wigs, and John Gilbert has more than double that amount in- Vested in the same way. Charles Fechter. was a great admirer of beautiful wigs, and the gray wig he wore as the Count of Monte Christo wii Be remembered by all who ever saw it. This wig cost $140, and was pronouced the most per- fect piece of work of the kindever doue in this couniry. ARTISTIC HEAD-COVERINGS. Fine wics are now made on human hair net- ting, whieh is made in Paris and is so fine that at a little distance it is imperceptible. The net- ting used in one wiz costs from $5 to $8. Mod- em bald spots are made of 4 patent. substance Bot unlike cork, and it is light, flexible and has 8 natural co! Wigs made in this country are fully as good and natural as those made in Lon. don or Paris—indeed, many actors hold that for- eign wigs are inferior in appearance on account of the large quantities of hair many of them are adorned with. The wig in whieh Barry Sullivan played “Richard III.” in this countrya few years ago weighed five ounces. The class of of th $25 hair, bleached and dyed, Wigs of this kind are oe —7 erate hall Shporhomgee and wigs cost from €5 to 310 and are ful ob- when seen In the light of day. In wigs for either men or women cach hair is drat through the scalp netting with a needle, consequently the work is slow and tedious, when completed awig of this kind can be combed and dressed and ure ‘an cloth, hat plush selfish gentlemen-roughs are only acting accord- ing to the law of their kind, but one asks, Where was the station-master, where the inspec- tors? It is they who are responsible, and they ought to be madeto feel that they arego. A daily railway journey is now the fate of many thou- sands of people who pour into London o their business every morning, and yet there is no class for whose comfort so little is done. If any one wishes to see the abject confusion into which our “practical ” English yace © cope of falling, we commend him to pay a visit an: afternoon from 5 to half-past 6tothe dismal shed whence the Southwestern Railway Company despatches its passengers along the Loop line. As aspectacle of official helplessness,uncertainty, self-contradiction, and general disorganization. it is complete.— Pall Mall Gazette. Baroness Burdett Coutts. A correspondent of the Hartford Evening Post was not long ago present at a garden party given by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. She 5a) “Down the pathway walked a. tall, graceful lady, dressed in a soft, twilled silk, with cately shaded flowers sprinkled over its whit ground. On her shoulders she wore a white | Canton crape shawl, folded square like a fichu, and over her brown hair, in which no gray was | Visible, was a tiny bonuet of white lace and Iilac ribbon—a charming toilet, very becoming to a charming woman, the Baroness Burdett Coutts. | She stepped forward. introducing herseif to the guests, inquired their names, and in turn pre- sented them to her husband. With her great influence and wealth, her manner is easy, un- pretentious and unassuming as a child’s can be, and yet her gracious, quiet sympathy is so fine- ly expressed within her spbere that it is like the delicate perfume of a flower. She has a refined face with a slightly visionary expression, com- bined with @ look of aristocratic breeding and | culture. In everything but years she has the | advantage of her youthful b id. He might | have searched the world over and not found a more interesting woman or more lovely nature than that of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.” ge ee desire a piece of marble for a vestol cover the stone with a sheet of wax no. thicker than a Asiccsth (on Bis cut in the date, * marble under figure fal figures of all small WINTER DISEASES. Bheumatism. From ‘‘Food and Health.” Rheumatism ts certainly not only a winter dis- ease, but it is brought about especially by cold, draughty, damp and wet weather, and we have therefore reason to call it a winter disease. Rheumatism is a tedious and painful compiaint, | which having once taken hold of a constitution | is difficult to drive away. When the pain is localized in the joints, it is called articular rheumatism, and when it is distributed in the bones and tendons and muscles it is called gen- eral rheumatism. The one thing the patient wants to get rid of in rheumatism is the pain, but the one thing which has to be seen to is the state of the blood. There ate various phases of this ‘insidious and painful disease, the principal feature being, whether it i] ig accompanied with fever or not. Rheu- matism or rheumatic pains without fever, when situated in the joints, will sometimes be accompanied with swelling and some amount of general feverish symptoms; it then becomes a sub-acute rheumaticfever. Those who suffer from slight rheumatic fever, in one or more attacks, usually recover therefrom, and are not liable to prolonged rheumatism; on the other hand, rhea- matism may exist for years, aud generally does. without any attacks of rheumutic fever. A theugh the phases of the complaint may be dif- ferent its nature and the state of the blood are similar. The blood in rheumatic fever contains excess of acid; this is the key-note of all rheu- matic affections. In rheumatic fever not only is | the blood in an acid state, but the urine also and the perspiration, which has a sour odor. Therefore a great indication is here given for treatment, namely, the use of alkalies. Again, there is another indication in rheu- matism; the surface of the body, the joints and whole person are very sensitive of cold and wet, and the sufferer from rheumatism feels con- tinually chiily. Hence, warm tonics and warm drinks are very beneficial, and cold ones should be avoided. c An acute attack of rheumatic fever generally begins with asensation of coldness and chilli- ness the first day, accompanied with shivering. Next day the symptoms of fever become ap- parent in the quickened pulse aud the increase of temperature; loss of appetite, farred tongue, etc., occur with costive state of the bowels. The skin, at first dry, soon becomes covered with perspiration, especially during the night time, and together with the pain in the joiuts, pre- vents sleep. The joints begin to swell, either the knees or elbows or wrists or ankles; several joints are usually affected, but not all at once, for there is this peculiarity—the pain and swell- ing shift about, so that, as they diminish in one joint, they will re-appear m another. With this local symptom of swelling of the joints, the fever increases and may run up to 104 and 106 deg.Fahr. The perspiration is peculiarly acid and sour smelling, and will sometimes be excessive. The urine is also acid and deposits a copious sediment of lithates or urates; it has @ very high color. The treatment at this stage of rheumatic fever is most rational, when it embodies fluid food. alkalies with tonics and purgative pills. Fo- meniation can be applied to the joints with al- kaline and sedative lotions. Opiates should only be taken with very great care, when pain is excessive and restlessness prevails. Of useful drinks, warm barley water or sweetened lemon- ade can be mentioned. The chief care to be taken isto prevent inflammation around the heart (pericaditis) or within it, with deposit on the valves (endocarditus); therefore the slightest chill or check of perspiration should be avoided. Owing to the acid state of the blood. there is a constant tendency to “‘fibrination” or formation of fibrine, which is immediately de- posited in certain inflamed parts—hefice upon the valves of the heart, producing one form of heart disease; besides, there is in rheumatic ever a tendency to inflammation of all fibrous membranes, especially those of the yey and those around the heart (pericardium) and ofthe lungs (pleura.) Ifthe treatment is successful the symptoms of acute rheumatic fever dimin- ish after some days, the perspiration becomes Jess, the urine is paler and less sedimentous, the | temperature and puise are lower, coincident with and dependent yee) @ diminution in the pain and swelling of the joints. An attack of rheumatic fever leaves the pa- tient weak, and a good deal of after care is re- quired, especially continual warm clothing, more particularly flannel body-clothing. If the attack does not give way and pass off speedily, | it passes over into the subdued form of chronic | rheumatis:n. General rheumatism in which there is no fever. has for its chief symptoin pain. ‘The aggravat— ing pain in the joints is due to inflammatory af- fection and deposit in the fibrous membranes thereof, whereby the nerves are irritated and compressed; therefore utter a time the joiat be- comes stiff. It is possible to get rid of this by stirulating the surface ot the joint with lotions, spirits of turpentine rubbed in with flannel. or spirits of wine and camphor, or hartshorn and oil can all be applied with benefit. A great re- | lef and ultimate cure may be produded by wrapping the afflicted joint in new flannel. not one but several thicknesses, and in such a man- dL. ze ways ious strips. Bicarbonate of potash with iodide of potassinm in peppermint water isa useful remedy, rhubarb pills for costivene: The pains in the bones, tendons and muscles ar due to aslight inflammation and deposit of mat- ter inthe fibrous membranes surrounding the bones and muscles, making the whole body ache and feel stiff. .The three great features of dealing with gen- eral rheumatism are: To use mild stimulating remedies. To wear flannel underclothing in such a tanner, that bodily heat is not evapo- rated; to avoid chills and draughis; to take alkalies and warm tonics, or a mixture of sul- phate and carbonate of magnesia with col- chicum wine. Nothing is so much to be recom- mended as warm, nourishing food and drink, and nothing is so much to be avoided as wet and d damp weather and inflammatory food and rink. From the Inter-Ocean Down in a swamp where the alders bloom A weary cat-tall hung its head, “My heart is wrapped around with gloom; T'would, I wouid that I were dead! Lite here is never hilarious, And always somewhat malarious,” Said this discontented cat-tail. “Why am I not a fair moss-rose, ‘That a poct’s strain might tell of me, me to ber nose tenderly smell of me? in my huinble walk!” ‘ar trickled down the stalk Oh, how I be Anda large Of tae sorrowful, weeping cat-tall. “But since my lot with griet is rife, Since fate, cruel fate, so decreas, Til do my best, and the orange of lite I Will most thoroughly squeeze; And Pu litt my head—t will, indeed— nd put off tor a period goth to seed,” Said! this very virvuouseat-tall. So it pushed astde the green feaves that Surrounded it like a closet, And the neighboring plaints were astonished at Its great adi}ose deposit. ‘On other cat-tails it looked quite down, For none grew so plethoric and brown As this nobie-hearted cat-tail. Bigger and browner the cat-tail grew, ‘Till at last, one summer day, A maiden fair, with eyes of blue, Came driving along that way. ¢ had studied artistic decoration, And gave a delighted exclamation. ‘When she saw the noble cat-tall. She spared it not; in its noble prime She cut it shorton the spot; And It almost erupted {ts sleek, With its. pete gL and honest ‘This stout but modest cat-tall ‘The maiden showed to all her friends ‘Her te Ugiy People and Big Noses. Napoleon was not the first pereon to declare 8 preference for men with big noses. A century before his birth the author of “Nuge Venales,” in response to his own question, pronounced “the Viggest nose the best nose,” instancing the cases of the Roman emperors. Numa’s nose was halfa foot long, and earned for him the honorable surname of Pompilius. According to Wutareh, Lycurgus and Solen ran to nose, and | 8° did all the Roman kings except Tarquinius Supurbus, and he was dethroned. Homer's nose was seven inches long. “Big noses,” says Vig- neul Marville, “are heid in honor everywhere in the world, except among ‘the Chinese and the Tartars.” Titus Liyius, Ovid, Camong and St. Charles Borromeo may be enumerated among mea of enviable nasal development. Henri II1.’s brother, Francis, Duke of Aléncon, had his nose fairly cleft in two by the ravaves of small pox, a fact which inspired the epigtum, when in 1588, he made a perfidious atteim on the friendly city of Antwerp, concernin; ’O _noses befitting a double face. Cyrano de Bergerac had so huge a nose that he went about oy with his hand on his sword prepared to punish those who Stared at him. Mme. de Genlis had a model nose—at least she thoughtit to be such, judging from her frequent ailusions to itin her “memoirs,” and from the scolding she gave the artist who represented it as aquiline: “Is that,” she said, “the little nez retrousse celebrated in prose and verse?” and she went on to describe it in detail as most delicate, the prettiest nose in the world, with a Inmp on’ it. like most” noses of the sort. She thus anticipated Tennyson's heroine with her nose tip-tilted like the petals of a fiower. iz the ucly people famed in history may ioned Margaret, Couritess of Tyro!, nick- named “Sack’s Mouth.” La Tremouille, Mme. de Sevigne’s friend, who wien he turned his back ou one person to pay attention to another was said by the first to have paid her a compli- ment; Mule. de Scuderi, Delille, Florian, Gibbon, Grimod de la Reyniere, Mirabeau and Danton. Vauveraraues found himeelf such a picture of horror after recovering from an attack of small- pox that he refused to. appear in society, but oing info seclusion made the world his debtor for his books. fHiisenberg, the Prussian natu- ralist, was distinguished by the natives of Mada- gascar with the surname of “The Fright.” Becker haying denied the existence of the devil. was adiured by La Mounole to complete his good work and free humanity from all its terrors by suppressing his own portrait. Scar- Ton’s account of his phenomenal ugliness is too familiar to need mention. Heller, the Magician, and Cora Pearl. Crouch, the author of ‘Kathleen Mavourneen” and many other popular songs, is now a cabinet- maker in Baltimore, and has been there for years. Robert Helier's father was the organist of Canterbury cathedral, and in the little town of that name Henry Paimer (Robért Heller) went to school in company with a neighbor's little daughter, and as boy and girl they were little sweethearts. This early love of the great magi- cian was named Fanny Crouch, and her father was a musi*al genius who became quite aceleb- rity among his townfolh by his songs, attaining much fame in after time by his ‘Kathleen Ma- vourneen.” Heller had been before the public a long while when he drifted to Paris. There he beheld the dashing equipage and gorgeous cos- tumes of Cora Pearl, the notorious, daily upon the street. Being struck with something fa- miliar in her face, he followedher into a shop one day to obtain a nearer view of the celebrity. Suddenly she turned, met his gaze, and instant- ly came forward with outstretched hands. It was Fanny Crouch, his little schoolmate. In this country Heller came across the unhappy father and composer. He was working at the cabinet- making business, in Baltimore, where Heller's father-in-law resided. Crouch was not a tramp nor in poverty; he preferred the oblivion of a workshop in America to his old home and triends—no doubt through shame for his daugh- ter’s conduct. Those Canterbury people are a strange lot. In poor Mr. Crouch’s case the knowledge that Cora Pearl was a native of that stiff cathedral town was a thing to conceal and be ashamed of. But it was different with Robert Heller. He became famous as a mag- nificent pianist and the foremost magician of his time; that made no difference; his family were horrified at his career. One sister married a mutton-headed country squire and settled at Seven Caks, and when Robert died was wild with fear ‘lest the pumpy little Canterbury paper would get holdof and publish the fact that Robert Heller, lamented all over America, was one and the same with Henry Palmer, son of the Canterbury organist. It seemed very strange to me, with the eulogies and praises of the American papers yet in my mind, the famous entertainer’s greatness iresh before me, to hear a little bit of an insignificant old woman, whose husband resembled Solon Shingle, en- eat that no mention of the dead brother's identity with Robert Heller should be made,that the “dreadful secret” should be kept.— Chicago Tritrine. —Seeeres eels Queer Little Fishes with Legs. From the Great Bend (Kan.) Democrat. Last Monday we were shown a curiosity in the shape of a small fish about three inches in length, resembling a catfish as to head, eyes and body. But it had four legs; the front ones much like thos¢ of a young chicken, to r claws, and the hind ones six toes. Just above its gills were three prongs ding upward on each side,covered with short tur or dow: Its tail flat, broad, and long in proportion to body; the fish being destitute of fins, ¢ its propelling power, sending it throuzh the water with speed equal to the fastest of the finny tribe. Its feet and legs seem very tender and ble. but when it lowers itself down to the bottom of the water, it runs on them the same as a four-legged quadruped on land. course the buo: rendeys its wei of little consequence. It was drawn from the well of John Stenger, north of Blood Creek, last spring, at the time being but little iarger than an ordinary wiggle tail, and it seems to thrive in its glass prison. His well contains a great many of them, some of which » drawn every day, and he says the wells of many of his neighbors have them. some of whom have attained a much larger growth than this one. The one mentioned has bright, intelligent- looking eyes, large mouth, just like that of a cat-fish, 18 very tame, and, like coquettes of humanity, yery fond of attention. Mr. Stenger caught a very small one of the same species and dropped it in the glass with it one day, when it gobbled it up in a twinkle, leaving some doubts whether the victim would fare as well as did Jonah in his memorable excursion and free ride through the briny waters, years azo, or not. with fou SOUND PHENOMENON. Why Bells and Whistles Some- es Vary in Pitch. From the Providence Journal. “When two trains, going in an opposite direc- tion at a rapid rate, meet each other, with the engine bells ringing, or whistles blowing, a pas- senger of one train notices a marked variation in thepitch of the bell or whistle of the other train. When the sound first strikes the ear, the pitch is atits highest. Gradually it goes down asthe train dashes p&st, and the lowest pitch is reached when the last notes fall on theear. Why is this?” This question was propounded to an engineer the other day by an individval thirsting for in- formation. ~ “The question ts simple enouzh.” was the re- ply. “To start with. it is an axiom which needs no proving that the pitch of a sound depends on its number of vibrations. Thus, while forty vibrations a second produce the lowest sound 40,000 a second produce the highest. Pitch rises with an increase of the number of. vibra- tions. | “A certain number of vibrations are emitted by the bell or whistle during the time the train | is running a certain distance—say a quarter of amile. Suppose each train runs this distance in halfa minute. Then, as the one train ap- proaches that in which the listening passenger is seated, all the vibratfons emitted during the half minute will etrike the ear in less than half a minute (supposing, of course, that they can be heard over so great a distance). The reason for this is that the first will not be heard until more than two seconds after it has been emitted, asthe sound will have to travel half a mi while the last willbe heard the instant it is emitted, because the engine will then be within a few feet of the ear. Thus, 30 seconds’ vibra- tions will be heard in 28 seconds. When the trains are receding from each other, the vibra- tions emitted during the half minute will take rather more than 32 seconds to reach the ear, as that emitted when the train is half a mile off will have to travel to the ear.” “Can you illustrate thisto make it plainer?” the engineer was asked. “Certainly Ican. Suppose a man with a rub- ber hose stands ten yards from a tub. The capacity of his hose enables him to squirt a pint of water per second in that tub. But if during, say five seconds. he walks up to the tub, all the wh ilefllowing his hose to pour water into it. there will be more than five pints of water as the result of that fiye seconds’ work. There will be five pints plus the quantity contained in the stream which would have fallen to the ground if he had stood still andat the end of the five seconds turned the cock. shutting off the stream. By the approach of the whistle or bell of an engine, a greater number of vibrations meet the ear in a given time, just as a greater quantity of water reaches the tub from the hose by the approach of the nozzle. And, accepting as correct the axiom that the greater number of vibrations the higher the pitch, it will be seen that when the trains approach the ear gets more than its due share of vibrations per | second, and when they recede it gets less than | ts share. CATFISH. Many Varieties ihe Creature. “Look out, there!” yelled a round-shouldered, bronzed-faced old fellow on the Indian river bridge. We ducked our heads, and with a swing and 4 splash the old man pulled a much-be-whiskered catfish into the air and sent it whistling on the logs. ‘That's a five-pounder,” the angler said, cut- ting a worm intwo, “You may taik about your trout, pickerel, and bass, but as for me, give me catfish. They call me Catfish John all on account of my liking for’em, and what I don’t know ‘em isn’t worth knowing. I followed the sea | about twenty years ago, and have caught catfish | in about every water on earth. They did me a good turn once. I was out lumbering about twenty miles north of here, and you'd think it a queer idea for an old hand like me to get turned round; but I did get regularly lost, and for two days I didn’t eat enouzh to keep one of these ere biack flies | quiet. It was tvamping in the snow, too, but 1 | caught sight of the sun once or twice, and kept as near east as I could, and finally strnck a pond. You know a good many fish bury them- | selves, like a frog in winter. Well, I was up to that dodge; so I commenced to dig with my axe on the edge of the pond down through the ice and into the ground, and, as luck would have it, I ran across ey ae fifteen catfish frozen as stiff'as a rock, and | believe they saved my life. hing like ’em before or since. y; ed? No, ray 1 didn’t wait for the fire. Ever since I’ve been fond of catfish.” Look out!” the cld man cried again, but too late. A catfish came bearing downon me, the line fully winding around my neck, the | fish hanging in front like a fluttering necktie. “That's about as bad a fix as I got into once,” the fisherman said as he unwound the fish. “ took a young man over to Loon Lake, fishing, a year ago. He hada rig and pole that must have cost a hundred and. fifty dollars—split bamboo, gold mounted, and all—but between vou and me, he couldn’t land a fly within twenty feet of | acertain spot. He sat in the bow of tie canoe | and lin the stern. I hada rod cut along shore, and caught five to his one; but one throw he made landed the biggest sucker. He made a swing. I threw back my head, but I'm con- sarned if he didn't hook me in the ear as neat asa whistle. I tell you. there was some lively jumping around there for afew minutes; but he wasa kind of a sawbones and cut it out with hispenknife. They complain uphereabout guides costing so much. Why, it’s cheap at five dol- lars a day to have to go out with some of these fellers and see ‘em pretend to hunt and shoet. ‘The very trout laugh at some of ’em; and then to see a man miss a deer or a bird not ten feet from him. T tell you it’s tough,” and taking up his string of fish he started away He was correct in stating that a catfish is cu- rious fish, as they show greater peculiarities than any other family of fishes. They are found both in salt and fresh water. Some are perfectly smooth, with few barbels or whiskers, others have long attachments to the mouth; others again are encased in coats of mails covering the back and sides, while sharp spines are concealed in the soft and delicate-looking dorsal and pec- toral fins. The commonest North American spe- cies is the horned pout, found from New Eng- land to Virginia, and known scientifically as the Amiurus Nigricans. They grow toa large size in the great lakes. Other catfish than those mentioned by the old fishermen are blind, nota- bly the Gronius Nigralabris, found in a small stream running into the Conestoga river, in east- Garden Work fer December. From the Maryland Farmer. Not much to be done this month In the open garden work. Continue to clear up and put in order. Dig deep the clayey spots and leave them in the rough state for the frost to act on the stiff soil as a pulverizer. Make compost heaps. Mulch or cover with pine or cedar brush all tender plants, and such as spinach, lettuce, endive, strawberry plants, &e. Lerrvce—tin frames for early use should have air by raising the sash slightly each day when it is not too cold. Stir the earth occasionally and water the plants when necessary with water dy warm. Cabs. AND CAULIFLOWER—In cold frames should have the same treatment as lettuce. If the garden be a stiff ciay soil, cover it this month two inches of pure sand, which. when well worked in the soil, will make anice, loamy soil, easily worked and far more produc- tive. and suited to most plants, some will not grew in a tena soil. It there be reason to suppose that the gar¢ holds water and the soil has become hard and sour because of excess of water, by all means embrace the leisure afforded this month to an derdrain it and carry of all surplus and unnee essary moisture. A thorough drainage of a ga is equal to a heavy manuring and far more enduring in its beneficial effects. If the ground be not too deeply fro: shrab- bery and fruit trees can be set this month. Of course it is in the middle states rather late, but we have set them out this month inst ot “heeling them in.” with good effect. indeed they have done as well as if planted in October, although, asa rule, we would not recommend such late planting in the region of Maryiand. oes see teen “Old Man Bassick” came to America from the mining districts of Ausiralia several years ago. He was very poor, and upon reaching Rosita, Colorado, found it necessary to seek immediate employment at the livery stables. He did odd jobs, earning a few dimes a day, and his wife and daughters helped at the washtub to support the family. Everyone who knew him regarded “Old Man Bassick” as one of the world’s unfortunates. He had been a miner since his youth, and yet his hat was as full of holes as a sieve. Rosita, Bassick continued to search for silver. One day he wandered off among the hills. He walked for hours. looking for a point to touch with his pick. When he sat down on a hili- side to rest he scraped the earth mechani- cally. Atthe grass roots he struck mineral. Surprised at his unexp cted luck he began to dig. The result was entirely satisfactory. Returning to Rosita, he told a merchant the story, and offered half his claim for $25. The merchant pooh-poohed the idea. A few days afterwards people talked of the Bassick mine. In less than a week the “old man” was admitted to be worth several hundred thousand doliars. At the spot where Bassick idly drop) his pick is the town of Querida, named by Mrs. Franck- lyn, in whose Long Branch cottage the late President died. The population of the town is five hundred, and ft is about as prosperous as the majority of places of the kind. Some time ago Mrs, Bassick was at Canon. It was noticed that she frequently walked out upon the hotel porch as if looking for some one. “Do you ex- pect friends,” asked the obsequious Boniface. “No, indeedy,” she replied, “I'm expecting my phantom.” Her pretty phaeton, for which she paid £3,000, shortly afterwards appeared around the corner. Victor Emmauuel’s Widow. From the London Daily Telegraph. We learn from Turin that Rosina, Countess of Mirafiori, the late King Victor Emmanuel’s wiggw, lies dangeronsly ill at her Piedmontese country house, and is not expected to recover. Ever since her royal husband’s death she has lived in strict seclusion on her estates, and has never once visited Rome. With her step-son, | King Humbert, and his family she has held no communication throughout the | werlanee years. Before her marriage to the Ré Galantuomo she had borne him two children, a son and daugiter, who contracted alliances, durii their father's life, with illustrious Italian families. Count Miraflori formerly held a commission in the Piedmontese cavalry, and took part in the grand tournawents held at Turin and Florence on the occasion of his half-brother's wedding, some 1334 years azo. But his bound- less extravagance and unconguerable contempt for discipline rendered his stay in the Italian army impossible, and the late king, finding that no regiment’ could be induced to keep him, compelled him to resign his commission. Sub- sequently he became the hero of a highly dis- creditable adventure with an American adyen- turess, already notorious for the part she played in an imperial tragedy, and. asa matter of fact, was a permanent source of trouble and perplexity to his anzust father through the last decade of the brave and sayacious monarch’s life. The present king has steadfastly deciined to hold any intercourse with his half-brother, whose debts have been repeatedly paid by “Mme. Rosine.” Upon this lady Victor Em- manuel bestowed, at different times, grants of land and money of such value that the “drum- major’s daughter” became one of the wealthiest women in Italy. Upon her death her large estates and funded property will be equaily divided between her ecapegrace son and only daughter, the wife of a Genoese marquis. a Gentle Sex Who; ¥rom the Philadelphia Times. It would be interesting te know Just how many ladies in Philadelphia davble in stocks. The number must be larze, not counting those ewe-lambs who patronize the enterprising mid- diewoman, who offers to guarantee her custom- ers against loss for half of the profits, and who, if her guarantee was good for anything, could ruin every broker on 3d street by enticing away all his customers. There is probably not acom- mission house in the street that has not some patrons of the softer sex, comprising various degrees of wealth and social standing, from the fur-robed lady who calls her broker to her car- riage-door to receive her orders to her humbler sister who comes down on foot and sits ner- vously watching the indicator from 10 o'clock until. Some ladies speculate heavily who never come down to the street at all, but are kept informed of the state of the market by means of the telephone, which they also use in giving their orders. Charming, however, as the ladies are under almost ail circumstances and condition of life most brokers would decline, if Semething About the Members ef the Speculate. e creatures are unknown to any of our run- aing streams of surface water, and there is not ern Pennsyiyania. One of the most remarkable members of the family is the arius, a South they could, their patronage. Their presence in the office is an embarassment and a restraint upon the free and jovial manners of the bulls the least indication ‘existing of any subter- ranean streams or lakes in the vicinity where American catfish found commonly in Brazilan waters. During the breeding season, and as fast and bears. They must put out their cigars and they are found. et O14 Gray’s Ruling Instinct. as the eggs are deposited, the male catches them up in its mouth and carries them there until they are hatched, so that often in catching remove their polished boots out of the range of their own contemplation afforded by the office table. This makes the ladies’ presence rather From the Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise. Old Gray, the big horse who was at one time employed to haul the hose cart which is kept at the corporation house, was genuinely enthu- siastic in his business. He was always on time. istic was encouraged by the fire ray was trained regularly every day, and he soon came to know a8 much as anybody about what he ought to do. Hard work and rheumatism finally retired Old Gray to a furniture wagon. Three days after his retire- ment he was in front of Currie’s auction store, hitched to an express wagon loaded with furi- ture. All at oncean alarm of fire was sounded. Old Gray waited about the leneth of time it would take to hitch him to the hose cart, and then he started. The furniture was scattered from one end of the street to the other, but Old Gray reached the fire before the opposition cart, and, with a air, backed up to the hydrant. Next day he was returned to the de- His devotion to duty was sppre- 4 Mystery Explained. From the Austin (Tex.) Siftings. One of the most learnedi and dignified mem- bers of the Austin bar gots terrible rebuff from jon the cross-exami- “Now, Uncle Mose.” said lawyer, ny pose I was to tell you ea home ‘ my yard haifa dozen of that identical same (tck:* “What would I say, boas?” “Yes, what would you T've got that same kindof would them the young have been seen running out of the mouth in all stages of growth, and often- tentimes the young of other fishes that have either been caught up in the eggor have sought shelter in the great mouth that affords such tection to its own young. The same habit has been observed in an Indian catfish. Another arius was found at Panama that had a pouch on its ventral or under surface in which the eggs were stowed away; further examination show- ing that they were kept there until hatched, the young retreating to it for protection exactly as do the young of the kangaroo and all marsupial animals. The young of the fishes with por will also rush into the mouth of the male as well when alarmed. The arta, a catfish found in the Ceylon waters, isnoted as a nest builder, collect- ing leaves and catching them together by some mucous secretion, making a round ball in which the eggs are found gummed to the leaves. These fishes have ae iia once dc ele the a was so low leaving ie throngs moving along on the dry land through the holding themselves upright by means side fins. They have also observed digging in the mud in search of water. How they re- main 80 sre eerenrn water isa mystery, but it is evidently held in the head in a similar manner to the climbing perch. The Malapterus is a cat- fish that has the power of giving out electric shocks. It is found in the entire body except the fins and hi Sree. ares roui leads to the spinal cord. In taking up the the shock it gives can be unpleasanti; showing that it is quite ~‘icient defence. & CEBE irksome to the male customers and, by conse- quence, to the broker. But the objection of brokers is not entirely removed when the lady stays at_home and talks through the telephone. Most ladies are good customers as long as they win, but few of them can bear loss with equan- imity. Their gains are the result of their own shrewdness, but their losses are always the fault of the broker, and some of them have been known to make scenes, and in other cases @ convenient husband who had been kept in the background turns up to repudiate the contract made by his wife. The victim told us a day or two ago a sad story of his own experi- ence with acustomer of this sort. The lady wrote to him that she wanted to buy some stocks, and asked him to call and But, at | ___ FAMILY SUPPLIES. _ GE*seLateD SUGAR, ie. + BEST A SUGAR, Me. CUT LOAF (Old Styte) SUGAR, Me, POWDERED SUGAR, He. 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