Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1881, Page 3

THE EVENING RE er” | ee ae SR PROFESSIONAL SHOPLIFTERS. rate Described by the Detectives. The St. Louis Glolke-Democrat publishes the following: Isee the merchants are under the impression that that there is very little saoptifting done ip the city. “What do you think about it?” a re- porter asked Detective Watkins at the Four Courts yesterday. The detective laughed and smiled. have read the interviews,” he said. P- lifters are the worst thieves that we have to deal with. Their work is going on all the time. There is no use saying that it has been stopped, or that it will be stopped. You can't stop it. Tt bet you that if you ask th merchants they Will tail you they get tie money for many @ parce’ ds that no bill i 1 tor. “+ How is ral classes of + to the best ey enouh to pay for y take: but, you see, the instinet tronely developed that they can’t 3 to do them good to steal, they or th ro what th ir he isnot ki that is mevin as diseovery is thr out witile the ot prize. “Do men ever appear in the role of shoplift- ers?” Astle of contempt overspread the face of the “iy-cop,” as if he wondered at the izno- ranece of a hand- a 1 plenty of cheek to mak fter, and the women have not aly ai It i nis. wet me s that’s not something else. Oh, th and so on. until the clerk cets Then the lifting be ‘What do thieves do with prope Vand fors é taken in times they put it under their clothes. t effective work is done with a box with a false end. They carry it under th nt, and when the opportunity presents itself they put the most valuable thing they ean tind into it. The b eend of the bex is so that when pressed from the outside it wn, and when the goods are disposed will take it into posijion azain. rk who has not seen the goods stolen has seen the man or woman enter with the box and never suspects that he has filled it with | goods almost under his nose.” = muck property been stolen lately 2” “Well, you know th have already stated the fuct that 300 worth of shawls were from Barr's, and that two or three very “aiskin sacques lad been stolen from Stein- the hatter. [suppose this property went then you know that a whole s carried off that nothing is said | “That's soz “Of course. You see proprietors of stores don’t like people to think their employes are so iat ing can be done there. and tomers to are watched. So they don't keep many private deteetives. The larger stores venerally hire a man who knows the s uard during a big.rush, as in the holiday time, and f tell you a smart man an save them a cart load of stuff.” “Why are so few arrests mad “Proprietors don’t like to p they have not cot the ike the Wi seeute, because time to lose and don't lenever any of th all—six on each lo not say a lady—entered Younger cirl. we her mine, Pres forward anid sai + Keep your seat, I paid for you.” This was a lesson in polite: nes t would probably determine the manners of the boy for life. The mother had just before accepted my seat, com- pelling me, a man twi telf, to stand up in an omnibus: ment when her little be kind to In keep his seat. tered the sta and fine-look side of it. Th but the mo- n had an opportunity to e interposed and bade him I was coming uptown, and en- in whieh five elexantly-dressed women were sitting on each ight be the lady patronesses of some soc’ There was room for another per- fon on each side, but not one of those ten wo- men moved to wake room for me, and I rode a nile or more while these ten women—I do not tay ladies—dectined to give me a seat, as they could have done any moment without rising or crowding. The most of them were probably mothers. But as the instinet of good manners— that is of politeness, which is simply the law of kindness—was not in the breast of one of the ten. what isto be expected of their children? They cannot teach what they do not know, and as they know nothing of politeness, their ‘chil- dren will be boors, and the mothers will never know it. —— Why He Didw From the Cleveland Herald. Isat behind her at the play, (They said tt was “Othello”); But who En ase or bow ‘twas done— Well, ask some other fellow. know an overture was pla (The same they played ba And, later, people cried, now the reason.) (do not Theard a sweet, ‘See the Play. reating voice, groan—a take nee That, I it, marked ‘The death of Desdemona. But this was all; I simply write inter ‘To some one, that I | Because I sat behin (It was the hs Cinci Griswold. “The Fat Contributor,” has never been Known as an #sthete, but has evidently now been struck by the wave of culture, and in his Saturday Night presents his readers’ with a choice lot of suggestions for the manufacture of bric-a-brac that will cone within the limits of i to make home de- | ‘A pretty conceit,” he says, “is that of mashing a fly upon a pie plate; the dish ma be screwed tothe wall back of the piano, where the deception will not be easily discovered, as ho gentleman or lady will climb over a piano, however anxious their quest for truth.” He also suggests a handful of mud (which can be found in any of our streets) thrown against the wall and allowed to harden. It will then for an oriole’s nest or a rare bit of lava, as ymay dictate. So an old fan may do ser- vice in the higl-art line by being covered with different colored canceled postage stamps and tacked to the top of a window frame. A “pretty loans * fora mantel can be formed with a -. of coal, a brick-bat, a corn-cob, and a 's shoe, over which shouid be sprinkled a of salt. “This will be very effective,” he says, “if covered with a giass globe.” We cannot find space to describe the various art contributions which he suggests, and only offer these few as coming from one who loves his fellow-men and would do hi best for their cul- tivation and refinement. ——+--__. He took aclove: Said Brown, who nad just returned from a visit outside between the acts: " lost exclaimed “Why did not you send for me sooner?” asked ‘a doctor of a patient. Vell. you see, doctor, I Mmake up my mind todo anything des- ¥ | retirement banks of dead and ra: as old as her-/ The Streets of Our Capital- BY F. L. OLMSTED. From the Gardener's Monthly. Washington has gained more in outward ap- pearance during the last half dozen years than it had before in half a century. It now has | forty miles of better pavement than can be | found in any other American town, and which | compares favorably with any in Europe. This | has made thorough street-sweeping practicable at small cost, and it resuits that, though the city is but poorly supplied with water, it is lit- tle afflicted with dust and is beginning to have a refreshingly clean aspect. But your readers will be more interested to know that on lines bordering these streets there now stand, fairly started, upwards of a hundred thousand well- formed nursery-grown trees. Maples of several species are tie more common, but there are representations (by the hundred) of at least six | different gene They are at present but club- hardly recovered from the . or fairly settled in and show none of the char- mature beauty of their several . their growth to be seen as they con- ectives of unifor on the city is a all goes well witir few years be a new and glorified city; a capital that “Americans may be proud of; Supreme at least in its street r monstrosities in building fate have in store forit. It can hardly fail in and May to become a great pleasure resort. But. more than this is to be said: the streets ston (“if all goes a 1] become ree-school, providing a ¢ incentive for the improv and hamlet in the land, and it id that if those able, as your presee the future i readers must genet value of this work, applause be heard’ by 1 nt enterprise nas it is well s The commission of chiy competent . (Smith, Saunders, al.) should be warmly and effectively sus- tained at every pertinent opportunity. They have yet avast barrier of indifference, ignorance and active prejudice to overcome— not objects or the results of their ; ainst the essential conditions of Any one who has watched the manly beauty, will und mean. elopment . large addition of more or less the greater part of Washington, out- of its public plan retains uch of its old ante-belluin character, as of a lovenly woman here and there bedecked with trinkets beth choice and rubbishy. Two of- fences to good taste are at this time particularly conspicuous, and all the more so because of th rig and genuine quality of most of the new brick, tile and stone work. The first results from efforts at cheap, tawdry and garish display in the embellishment of doo: yards and lawi the second from the necessity which has resulted in the recent grading down of streets, of leaving miles of formal earth- vee between them and the houses fronting on them. The fields about Washington are turfless, and good turf is only to be had by a tedious process, with great care and labor, and through the heat of summer only by 8 profuse command of water. There will soon thousands of houses here, planted on banks from four to ten feet above the sidewalk, with flat, formal, steep slopes, such as even in the climate of England, and with the best of soil and gardening skill it is hardly possible to maintain turf upon suitable to carry the eye upto a house of refined materials and workman- ship. The soil upon these slopes in Washington is Such as one seesin going there from Baltimore in the railway cuttings ; a cracking, brick clay and gravel, bearing naturally almost nothing but stunted “broom-sedge.” But were it much better, proper turf in such a situation in the climate of Washington would be out of the question, and nothing more incongruous with the cut stone and plate glass which often ap- pears behind it, or more positively dreary and forlorn than what now generally stands ‘upon them for turf can be imagined. It compares with true turfasa ragged and dirty door mat compares witha table napkin. As the arrange- ment has beea forced upon the people, and sach th cannot, in many eases, be now avoided | except at great expense, and as miles of them must be aught prominently o view toall visiting a ‘y American has a esponsibility, the question ‘of any generally ble, tidy treatment of them is one upon which good advice is greatly needed. early always it would be better, as fai here curving faces Next, a is desirabl Jone for decorative purposes. but for bean- tifuliy sereenit ix into background ed grass us in the form of low,closely-trimmed sestmizht be used. As Washington should ar well in winter they should be of ever- 1 patience, probably but it may be ob- at after an excepiionally severe win- } terand a fearfully trying summer both yews and retinosporas of all species and varieties are look- | ing very weil in Washington. | Afterall that can be done in this way, how | ever, should not the chief resort be to creepet In Europe such banks are sometimes seen cov- ered very perfectly and yet very snugly and daintily with ivy. They may be seen also dressed ith periwinkle. but it rarely in good order. Evergreen honeysuckle would almost. surely succeed, but might look too riote Has the evergreen Enonymus had a fair trial as a carpet, carefully spread and pegged? Could anything be done with creeping junipers? Perhaps in would do to make a facing of rough stone, to be generally overrun with hone} s nd clematis, but with breaks and niche | supporting sedums and other dry-rock plants, | and with outbursts of yuccas and drought-en- | during shrubs, as the smaller sumachs and mahonias. Suitable stone is to be easily ob- tained abont Washington. s another expedient that might be admissi- ble in some situations would be a trellis set at the base of the bank and of sufficient height to | obscure it without obstructing the view toward the house. The trellis to be covered, of course, !with vines. Wire netting stretehed on iron frames, with the simplest possible supports of iron, would be best. But one of cedar or sasen- fras poles might better be used than leave the banks in the present repulsive prominence. Such material is easily obtained anywhere about y it can be easily morticed and ther, and perfectly clothed with jeverzreen cirapery in fa single year. This would not be beyond thé resources of a third- class department clerk. a policeman or letter- carrier, especially if he had boys to help him after school. It would be of service to the republic if you, good Mr Editor, or if any of your experienced contributors would criticise these suggestions and name plants adapted to cover in a tidy way steep, high slopes, facing the sun, in the climate of Washington, and advise how, without much gardening skill, labor or cash outlay, they may be so managed as not to appear at any time of year unguitably faded, meagre, ragged or sickly. Se ee c © Rheumatism. Sleep with your head toward the north. Wear @ chest-protector. Take nitrate of potash. Sleep with a big dog. Use magnetism. Put on mustard plasters. Lemon juice. Sage tea. Wear sulphur in your shoes. Carry a plece of sulphur in your vest pocket. Try hard rubbing. Eat Seyret Wear silk, white flannel, buek- skin. ee ‘kiace by the sting of an Tmseet eos wear it next batho | muchasyoulike. Take camphor. Drinknothing- but beer. Do not drink an: but whisky. Drink no ardent spirits. Rep ty the homes one. Carry a piece of alum in yeur pocket. ‘Take Turkish baths. Bathe in hot water with lzsh In It. Bathe in cold water nently. Do not bathe at all until you are ain Ge to Arkansas Hot Springs; to Sharon Springs; to Saratoga Springs; to Berkley ge: to ings; to Florida; to Bermuda; to theSandwieh Islands; to California; to the south of France; | Mexic est- nut in your left-hand breeches pocket. Wear a potato in the right-hand pocket. constitau- Don't eat onions. Eat veretables. oiled High land is Wrap joints with cotton, and cover silk. Get out on the prairies. better for rheumatism; so is balm of life and magnetic salve. Rub with kerosene." Pet:nmns- tard poultice over the heart, Put on slij em Y If you don't effect a cure doug as. try something else, Fens Mor | tion water. - | heavy so as PEOPLE WITH NOTABLE FEET. Shoe Sizes of Actors and Sporting Men —Characteristics of American Feet. From the N. ¥. Sun. “I have the heaviest and lighest shoes for actual wear in any shop here that there are in the city,” said Thomas Maguire, a shoemaker well known among actors and sporting men. “Now, here is a pair of shoes that I made for Bob. Brettle. Don't recollect him? Well, he flourished before your time, but in his day he was a man who could stand up against Tom Sayers and Jem Mace. He beat Mace once.” The shoes were hanging to a peg on the wall. Their soles were more than an inch thick, and the heel was a great leather pedestal. Sundry bugles in the uppers had been slashed across to accommodate protuberances in the late Bob | Brettie’s fect. ‘the shoes weighed two pounds | and three ounces apiece. said Mr. Maguire, producing a pair which ed like low cut leather socks rather than shoes. “They weigh six ounces. I made them for Waldron of the Manhattan Athletic Club.” “Why do pugilists wear such heavy sioes?” asked the reporter. “Those are training shoes. They are made exereise the ankle my | When a pusilist has got used to taking long | walks in such shoes and to jumping about in them when sparring with his trainer, he feels as | if he was dancing in the air when he gets ona [pair of shoes of ordinary weight. When he | goes into the ring to fight he wears a pair of ordinary walkin: various processes by which nine-tenths of all | the street trees planted throughout the country are killed, stunted, Take a ride out—whenever you can get a free ‘rhe three spikes in the sole and one in the heel to | give him a firm | in delivering a I have made shoes for | Tom Allen, Joe Goss, and Billy Edwards. Bill | has a nice little foot, well shaped. He we: aNo.6. I made the shoes in which he fought | when he whipped Sam Collyer. Allen and Goss | both take a No. 9. Ned O’Baldwin, the Irish | giant, took a 12's, but then he was a big man. | Lused to buiid out the uppers over the toes so as to give him room without making the sole | too long. Pugilists generally have a flat, thick foot, and T have no doubt that is the stronzest make of foot and carries weight the easiest. Dooney Harris, the trainer, las, however, a pretty well arched foot, and wears only a No. 8. “Here lately,” Mr. Maguire went on, ‘I haye made a great many shoes for members of atlile- ic clubs. In ing a shoe for running the object is to make it fit like a glove, so that the | foot shall not slip in the shoe at all. It must be to brace the foot in the direction of ‘aldron’s shoes had no heels, but fol- lowed the exaet contour of the foot. ball of the foot was a piece of sole leather, in which wer | foot. “You see,” sad Mr, Maguire, “the strain | is as much outward and forward as downward |in running, and the shoe is built to brace the | foot tirmiy’in every direetion of pressure. In making euch shoes the measure is taken updn the naked foot, and the shoe is at least three izes smaller than an ordinary shoe. and as close. * People’s feet are as different as their faces. and you cannot make shoes in the same way for all. You have to give greater toe room than usual to feet with low insteps, for they tend to slip forward. Fechter had a long slim foot. but at the same time he hada high instep. I don’t think Tever saw a foot that flattened co much past the instep. He wore a No.9. The late James Wallack had a well-shaped foot, with an arched sole and a very high instep. He wore aNo. 7. I have made shoes for John McCul- louzh, although nowadays I don’t do as much work for actors as I used to. McCullough has a well-shaped foot, with nothing notable about any of its parts.’ He wears a No. 9. recollect Forrest’s foot well, and it was small and well formed, although he was so large a man. He had an arched sole, and a very high instep. He wore a No.8. I recollect that he once sent for me to come to the Metropolitan hotel to measure him. He had an idea that his left leg was a little shorter than the other and thought that he might need to have some cork put into make him .stand even. He had me make measurements of his body to see whether he was lopsided or not. I could not tind any difference in the length of his legs, and I think that he got the idea from a stage habit of draz- ging theright leg a little in his stride. He seemed to be so fixed in the opinion that the left shoe would have to be built ap a little, that I said that perhaps a little cork—a very little— would be a good thing. All 1 did, though, was to put in a thicker insole in that shoe. 1 often used to put corks in his stage shoes. The spangled gaiters that he wore in the last act of dack Cade had three-eighths of an inch of cork between upper and sole, raising him that much. “Take it for all in all the most symmetrical foot that I ever handled was Pauline Mark- ham’s. Her’s was a thoropzhly well-propor- tioned foot in ankle, heel, instep and ball. It | Was not so very small a foot, but there is such a thing asa foot being too small. I have made shoes for a lady who took No. 13, child’s size, but it was not. a pretty foot. I always thouzht Markham a sensible woman, because she would not spoil her foot by pinching it. She wore a No. 4, and most any other woman with her foot would have pinched it inte a No.3. Lydia Thompson's foot was no smaller than Mark- ham’s, but she wore a No. shoe. Lydia Thompson had an ordinarily good foot ‘and ankle, but nothing to compare with Pauline Markham.” Is there any difference in the mal feet here and in the old country? asked. ‘The feet of Americans are as arule of smaller and lighter build than the feet of Englishmen, and have more archand higher insteps. I worked in the best London shops before coming to this country, and [| know there are plenty of bie feet among the English aristocracy. The feet of American ladies are smaller than those of Eng- lish ladies, but the American ladies are apt to distort their feet in a way that English ladies do not. Now, by rights, the last on which a shoe is made ought to be three sizes larger than the foot. There are four sizes to an inci, so that would give three-quarters of an inch room to the foot. An English woman will take sucha measurement, but if you make shoes in that way for American ladies you will have them left on your hands. You cannot make the shoe more than from a size and a half to two sizes above the exact length of the foot. ‘Anything Ican get my foot in I ean wear,’ they say, and so we give plenty of width between heel and ankle, so (sat they can slip their feet in, and they don’t seem to mind how their toes are pinched together when the foot settles into the shoe. The result is that Engliss women have a freer, easier gate than American women.” 0. of peo- the re- From Blackwood’s Magazine. I sing the Hymn of the Conquered, who fell in the sme ttle bt te 5 The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed In the strife; ‘Not the jubilant song of the victors, for whom the resounding acclaim Of nations was Itfted in chorus, whose brows wore the chaplet of fame— But the hymn of the low and the humble, the ‘weary, the broken In heart, Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part; Whose youth bore no flower in tts branches, whose hopes burned in ashes away. From whose hands slipped the prize they had rasped at, who stood at the dying of day. With the work of their life all around them, un- pitied, unheeded, alone. With death swooping down o’er their failure, and all but their faith overthrown. While the voice of the world shouts its chorus, its pean for those who have won— While the trumpet is sounding triumphant, and high to the breeze and the sun Gay \eartasads rad waving, hands clapping, and hur- *_rying fee aging after the Taurel crowned victors—t ‘stand on the field of defeat In the shadow, ‘mongst those who aré fallen and e's vequiead low pines my hand on thelr pain Chi a low, place a ol amt notted brows, treathe a prayer. otted Hold the hand that ts hapless and ‘whisper, “They paghe the ht and have van- impta us within: the Tn nots high ny the that the worl on high: who bave dared fora high cause to suffer, resist, fight—if need be, to die.” Speak, history! Who are life's victors? Unroll thy Yong annals and say— ‘are ‘whom the world called the victors, who won the success of the The martyrs, or Nero? The Spartans who fell at Or the Persians and. Xerxes? His judges or Soc- rates? Pilate or Christ? : W. W. Story. ner, “pass on to cine with legis! authorized to prescribe for his moth the event of her sudden {liness, no other pee ible aged Certainly . nol fre admitte our profession, nm: \d,. and I feel sure you will ‘do it honor pb eg Seusines, "Doctar, te ood s was no kind of you to do It, bat even'if Iam to. marry -From the your daughter, a not to have | & Scere, eee ““Now, here are the lightest shoes in the { shoes laced up in front, with | and when he plaats himeelf | Under the | short spikes to prevent sliding. | The uppers canted toward the inner side of the | ‘A prop- | erly made running shoe fits a8 easy as the skin | A BURIED FQREST. Visit to the Delaware Cypress Swamp. From the Wilmington (Del.) News. Cypress Swamp, in the lower end of this state, isa place of interest at any time. In the fall, however, when the little attractiveness with which summer clothes it has became the with- ered leaves of fall time, its wide acres are posi- tively dismal. Last week I rambied over a por- tion of it. With the consoling thought that | Stakes and other creeping things, with which the soft turf abounds, were beginning to tose interest in things human, I gave freedom to my inclinations and had a tolerably good time. The rain of the twd weeks previous had extinguished the last smoking embers of the fire that had been burning through the summer and the atmosphere was free of the stifling smoke that a month or two before hung heavy over the tree tops. These fires occur frequently, and are caused by the carelessness of some one. The peculiar nature of Cypress Swamp at these times is better understood. For 10 or 15 feet below the surface the devonring element bur- rows, finding everywhere material upon which to feed. The soil is but decayed vegetable mat- ter accumulated through centuries. Sometimes these fires insiduously eat their way beneath the fields of corn which grow here and there on the | habitant, upon walking in the morning, secs these fields scalloped with holes big enough in some places to comfortably take in his grat The swamp isa mystery. At atime, with r gard to which even tradition lent, it had been a basin—a basin of consi breadth, for the Indians had set on its bottom, d upon clams and oysters, and indolent! smoked pipes in the shade of the cypress. The | shell strata found in many places prove this. The cypresses which had shaded these aboriginal epicures many centuries ago now lie, or did years ago before the shingle hunter came into the swamp, d s and acres of trees of another age grow- above it. The swamp is an allu- y In its depths creeks of Indian river bay find source, and the waters, dark with the soakings of vegetable matter, are carried by these on the one side into the Atlantic ocean, and by the Pocomoke river on the other ‘side into the Chesape: Bay. The theory is that the streams of water which are now mere creeks were the channe up which elements in the process of gradual formation were carried and deposited. The forest of cypress timber gradually gave way un- them, however, now lie buried; for almost a century shingle hunters have thrived in the swamp. Among the many things of interest I saw were the cabins of these men, The shingle hunting industry is now almost extinet. Those engaged in the business would go into the swamps and work there for weeks. In dry weather, such as that of last summer. the soil of the swamp would crack in many places, and with the instinct which experience gave, the hunters would search for these fissures. Every crack indicated the spot where was buried cypress timber. The sin rarely failed. After the tree had been resurrected then the “rivers” would come, and in a very short time the once buried trunk would be converted into a large pile of shingles, which were then more profitable than now. Almost all the old build— ings in Sussex county are roofed with these, and many thousands were shipped to other states. This being before the time of railroads the shin- gles were carted to Milford and other towns on dealers in large cities. Nothing now remains of this once lucrative business but the cabins in the swamp and the few gray haired rustics living hereabouts who made their dollars in this way. Old men around Lewes, Georgetown and Frankford have shot deer in the swamp, and many stories are told of phenomenally cold win- ters when bears were forced to the edges of ciy- ilization for food, and how babies were tied in their cradles to keep them from crawling into the mouth of a famishing beast on the door step. The swamp is about five miles square. It formerly belonged to Gen. Dagsworthy, an old revolutionary patriot, and a strong, personal friend of Gen. Washington. During the years subsequent to Dagaworthy’s death, the property was divided and subdivided, until now the acres of numbers of farmers extend into its depths. By this division much of it has been reclaimed. Ia few years, by the system of drainage which several farmers have introduced, more of it will be opened to cultivation, and eventually all ves- tige of the swamp will di ‘. Earnings by Lonéon Bootblacks. From the London Daily Telegraph, Thirty changeful years— ‘some have erept by and some have flown”—are now counted in the modestly useful career of the Shoe-black-Brig- ade, aspirations honorable to the concordant faith of humanity—in that never-to-be- 1851—a few philanthropist, noble beyond that of British peerage, set the red- coated society going, and it has gone remar! ably well ever since. “ragged schools,” to which the affiliated. Gradually, howe term “ragged” was dropped. invidious, but practically inapplicable. Some cheery statisties have “just been published, showing thatthe busy young polishers who were first enlisted to meet a special emer- gency, when London's proverbial mud was churned by the myriad boots of country cousins and fraternal foreigners, continue to flourish firmly in a trade that was deemed no more than a transitory stop-gap. Saffron Hill, numbering 66 red jackets, has earned in tte last twelve months between three and four thousand pounds. The total sum placed to the credit of this single society's e: ertions, in the thirty years of its industrious life, has exceeded £66,000; and as there are eight other similar societies in London, not all quite so prosperous as the one just particular- ized, but still holding their own, it is not sur- prising to learn that an amount falling little short of a quarter of a million sterling has been turned over in those boxes on which pedestrians of every social grade plant their feet in almost mechanical obedience to the chirping cry, “Shine your boots, sir! Se Uses of the Bamboo. From the New York Times. oeblacks were the distinctive s being not _ only ing to the American consul general at Shanghai. It frequently answers for both iron and steel. can be put; the leaves are worked thatches, umbrellas and screens; cutinto splints, the wood is woven into baskets, plaited into awnings, and twisted into cables; the shavings | stuff pillows; other parts icks for eating. beds for sleeping, brooms for sweeping, pipes for smoking, fuel for cooking, skewers for the hair, paper for writing, rods for whipping, tables to eat on, buckets for water drawing, and the tender shoots are highly es- teemed as a vegetable to be eaten. In the Chi- nese Empire, south of Yang-tze, about sixty varieties of bamboo are said to grow, although five or six furnish the principal materials used. At Foochow and Swatow, the large size grows forty to fifty feet high and six or seven inches diameter; on the Island of Formosa it is found even larger. The consul sends these particulars in the hope that so useful a plant—it might al- most be cailed a tree—may be naturalized in the ;southern states of this country. sort to it whenever he had occasion for small timber; he would need only to select the right ‘size, cut off the required length and it would in Rooting is the only di accomplished the plant Just before writing, the, Cqnsul twenty boxes of ‘a vessel Witich cleared for: also sent by the same a gon, (where the climate is guftable for them), P enty lange eran ak = Mongotan sev P the birds to ington. two more. for Eastern Ore-, sand grouse and Chefoo _be turned loose in Oregon and A Boston man at dol edge of the swamp, and frequently the rural in- | erable width and | fallen forest, with fifteen feet of tilthe trees became completely buried. This matter, which in time filled up the basin, has served to preserve the cypress. Very few of neighboring streams, and thence shipped to | Inthe year of peaceful triumphs and of + | also ens Those were the days of | One band alone, that of | The bamboo and the east are associated in our recollections of the geography, but it is a little surprising to read that the plant serves at least five hundred different purposes in China, accord- The roots are carved into images, lantern han- dies and canes; the tapering culms are used for evey" conceivable place where poles end ribs into supply chop- The farmer who had a grove of it could re— ; and after that is HIS LOT NOT A HAPPY ONE. Home Life of the Czar. “Notwithstanding the commencement of the winter season and the reassembly of the no- bility in St. Petersburg,” says the London Tele- graph, “the Czar remains concealed in the se- clusion of Gatchina. The ordinary sitting room of the Czar in which he transacts business is situated on the first floor of the block inhabited by the imperial family. It is.a comfortably. but ply furnished apartment. The style what betokens the character of its ‘occu A number of heavy German fashioned and capa- cious arm-chairs give it an air of ponderous | solemnity. Little elezance or ornament is noticeable, but a large writing table and other unmistakable signs denote that many ot the Emperor's hours are here passed in close application to the endless busi- hess that devolves on the autocratic head of a system of bureanerstic centralization is an early riser, and the labors of his di mence at nine in the morning. Till one 0” he is occupied in his study receiving the minis- ters, who present their weekly or and consulting with them over state. The reception of minister by the presentation of offici received important or with whom the Emperor, for so: reason, desires to converse. Oi ppointed ambassador or diple need to present his ered rarely ad ne or mo depntat obtaining an andi ially siniticant of the policy ir that while high officials have often a culty in obtaining an interview. His Majesty always acces vincial deputatio which composed of w | Kh arthy Kalmuks or Samoyedes and sometimes of illite nM peasants who desire to present a to their great father and to express ; option to his person. > ith astern di in most cases by leaves the s himself an of bis of the p are A autocrat and is determ: prerogatives, but to i | proach him that they ar | absolute, thouzh kind! f self-assertion was e character of the Emperor in his very earliest days. He is de- voted to music, and when a boy it was su: ed that he might deri part in the musical perfe orchestra. The then i ed at the idea, and it rem what instru: al nances of the pa apparent was delight- ined to be settled on ent he should learn to Characterist this imperious prince select the trombone as being the instrument w which he could produce the greatest eff lover of music thouzh he was, his performan appeared chiefly to consist in a well-sustained and fairly successful effort to drown the | der of the ors remain- “During the daytime the occupies a room onthe ground floor exactly below the vzar’s study, with which it communicates | directly by a small private staircase. The | Czarina’s boudoir is elegantly farnished, but in | simple style, and with no appearance of lu ury except such as is given by the presence of | certain-handsome pieces of furniture and objets @ art, which remain to testify to the more ex- travagant tastes of former occupants. The look- | out from the windows over the park 18 charm- lingly picturesque, but the —_ attention |is Somewhat distracted from the beauties | of the scenery by the continual pacing immedi- | | ately in front of the windows of the many sen- | tries who closely surround the house. | press is an admirable manager both of her time | and of everything that pertains to the household | | duties. Her great intelligence and sweetness of manner have given her an extraordinary influ- ence over her husband and ali other per who are brought into contact with her. kine Palace. which she occupied as C na, was a model of household management. and to her initiative are due the commencement of sweeping reforms in the administration of the other overgrown palaces. She is patroness aud takes as far as possible an active share in the management of half the charitable institutions in Russia, and particularly those which are con- nected with the protection of women and chil- dren. Every morning, while the Emperor is sy up stairs with his ministers, the Empress receives the reports of M. Delianoff, General Baumgarten and others, whom she intra with the supervision of the various societies | jin which she is interested. It is rare also | that any deputation or individual of import- ance is presented to the Emperor with j being sub: tly introduced to the E: is not affairs pertaining to her | ion alone that occupy the atte dl mothe itude for the safety of her husband nown, and it has been observed that she at ease when he is called away from ‘The educa = | Ss ne | home | son, the Cz: and resem: He is of . for his Rus: ployed by the imperia y but when the | sare with their teach speak French | and English on alternate days. Six hours a day | are devoted to study by the young princes, b their education isnot limited to sedentary alone. They are also practiced in riding and shooting, and the Czareviteh is, it is said, | already a good shot and rides well.” —— ‘The Race is Always to the Swift. From the Chicago Tribunt Night ina great city. The wind surged and | moaned with a mournful cadence through the leafless trees that stood like gaunt spectres of the night, ever and anon bending low their withered trunks and great black branches as if in mute appeal to thestorm king to not pros- trate them forever with his cold, merciless breath. Adown a street where gleamed the bright lights of wine bibbers’ haunts and the baleful glare of the oyster saloon fell upon the sidewalk, a young man strode with quick, nervous step and a wistful, haunting look in hiseye. At a corner where the crowd of eager, jostling pedes- trians was thickest he paused and looked anx- iously around. The soft, low tinkle of a bell ‘was heard. Clasping a bruised nickle in his left hand, the young man stepped briskly forward. saying softly to himself: “My heart has not de- ceived me; i am in time. Adelbert Quirk had caught the semi-weekly car on ‘Van Buren street. * * * « In the elegantly furnished parlor of a hand- some residence, a tall and radiantly beautiful girl sat silently in front of a grate fire, the flames from which leaped lightly up the chim- ney and cast a ruddy glow on all that came with- in the range of their lambent beams. Cleopatra | MeGuire was the only daughter of a father who fairly idolized the proud beauty who presided over his household with such stately grace—his wife having fallen into a wash tub and been drowned, within two y of their marriage. “Which shall I choose?” said the girl in soft, mellow tones, Shall it be the strong-limbed Rupert with his proud Saxon pedigree, or Adel- bert, who would deck his bride in jewels? My heart tells me that with Rupert ever by my side life would always seem a vleasant dream. | love him with a wild, passionate devotion that time can never change. But Adelbert is rich and powerful. As his wife I should shine in society. Oh, me! Which shall it be?” Suddenly rising from the ‘haempernd she said: “T have decked. Tohim wi here first this evening will I plight my troth. Fate shall decide.” * * . * * * The Van Buren street car was slowly wending Its way westward. On the sidewalk came with tread a sunny-haired young man—Rupert Gilhooley. Suddenly there fell upon the air the clangor of abell. Rupert breke intoa run. The bi began to open. He in get- ting across. The car did not. | Pulse duri fae EUTHANASIA. Consumptive Who Came to the Con- clusion Not to Await the Progress of Disease. From a Boston Special to Chicago Times. Hamlet mused long over the problem, “to be, or not to be?” and finally decided that suicide | would, in all probability result in a greater rather than a less evil than any of the slings and arrows which outrageous fortune may hurl at | | men in this world. A young man in the city—a man who, according to his friends, possessed “ great force of character, strong, sound sense, a high sense of honor, and remarkable selt- control. was quiet, reserved, gentle, unselfish, and untiring in patience and persistence ” came to a different conclusion yesterday and ecolly took his own Mi suicides are of daily and almost hourly 0: but this act de serves to a ture extia’ believe this to T choose the othe shall avoid . sand weeks of misery to useful 4 and labe ot pursue f there is not, and t is not only my: priv ytedo so. While nar with th i moment which of an incurat and [ ate, the rev body was not dis- it was caused. The friends are 1 was done in imed th The deed being so we and do likewise. Ne aes The Pulse. Not every one knows what a normal pulse is. [It is a variable element. The following table may be of interes Pulse in the newly born infant . 130 to 140 Pulse du 115 to 120 Wte NS Pulse during % to 100 Pulse during hy Ste Pulse during 14th to 21st y Tto 80 Pulse during 21st to 60th year. ° 7 ! Pulse in oid age......... 0 In inflammatory or acute diseases, the pulse may rise to 120 or even to 150 in the adult, and be come so frequent in the child that it cannot be vi Laccelerate the pulse.and,as ageneral ule, it is more frequent in the morning than in the evening. It is lower in sleep, and from the effect of rest. diet, cold or blood-letting. The pulse of a grown woman exceeds that of a man ofthe same age as much as 10 to 14 beats a minute, and, according to some authoritie less in the tall than in the short person, the va- ions being about 4 beats fur each six inc! t. Consolations From the Pall Mall Gazette. Life is hard in Germany—hard alike to learned and simple, to those who labor in the field or pent up in citic Ali who live amon the manly dignity which these daily proble: and is are met. nation Proudest, re perhaps, of all European nations, they bear nd set an ex- their burdens uncomp ample which at lea might do well to imitat i reer ningly, two _neicht 'y in their 1 lives rthy of respect. and . There is not, per ‘y more looked Lutheran church ina cet know of, a man ot the n town I me close this le lish folk about to travel in Ge any. They to mere wealth among ourselves and our French neighbors. Germans love a pedigree, and are sible to a noble nar tbe s they con: being, and ifhe is der the m of wealth — it is littie con- sideration he will receive at their hands. V ONDERFUL EFFECTS OF EXTRACT OF CELERY AND CHAMOMILE UPON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND DIGESTIVE ORGANS, AS INVARIABLY PRODUCED BY DR. C. W. BEN- SON'S CELERY AND CHAMOMILE PILLS, They have been tested time and time again, and always. with satisfactory results. This preparation just meets the necessities of the care. Let me st: made to cure, and what thes Neuralcia, N : Vous Headache, Dyspeptic Headac talysis and Dyspepsia. anes. Ni have an », Steen ‘These direukes are all ner ‘Nervousness embraces nervous weakness, ii fi pondency, melancholy, and a restless, rable state Of min Laud bods, indeccrsba TyOURDESS ‘These are nome of the eymptonns of ne to be fally restored to health and hay ue boon, and yet, for 50 cents, you can mat there ta cure for You, and f very furthest, that cure can be fully secured. is are ali they are represented to be, aud aw guurantecd to wive sutie- faction if used as directed. ber that they are pared ae eee to dsche, Nervous. yspeptic ivia, Nervournest, Paralyrla, Sleepless ia, and WILL CURE any Case. 106 Ne Entaw atre nOTe, L. ¥ wo ienendorgirer ais! boxes for $2.50, to any DR. BENSON'S NEW REMEDY AND FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION. DR. C. W. BENSON’S SKIN CURE ‘Is warranted to cure ECZEMA, TETTERS, HUMORS, INFLAMMATION, MILK CRUST, ALL ROUGH SCALY ERUP- TIONS, DISEASES OF HAIR AND SCALP, SCROFULA ULCERS, TENDER ITCHINGS, AND PIMPLES succeeded In the rear left-} hand corner of that car sat Adelbert Quirk. ‘and | child AGENT Fou ‘MOTT'S STAR FURNACE, MOTT’S SOCIAL LATROBE, And MOTT'S 8ST. GEORGE ELEVATED OVEN RANGE, (a first-class Hesting and Cooxing Range.) : Always on hand a larve stock of BLATE MANTELS, GAS FIXTURES, LIGHTS, LAMPS, GLOBES, &c. - Ea ee, and all kinds of Jobbing SAML. 8S. SHEDD, is | but there are consolations. | rman folks must be struck | with | will find there none of the subserviency shown | fate just what my | CONSUMPTIVE CANARIES, markable Deliberation of n Boston | Keep Them Away from Draught ané Cold—Advice for Those who Keep the From the New York San. “Yes, canaries often die of consumption,” the bird fancier said meditatively, ax he fed the | white macaw with a piece of apple. “They are also subject to many other lung troubles, and nothing is 0 common for them to have as asthina. Naturally are hardy birds, and if treated with proper care should rarely be at- tacked by disease. Consumption is not heredl- tary with canaries, but resutts from cold and the little fellows by the y netit of the san- jzht. If t ances to be p room becomes too warm, the window is pulled ace is in the is by ceasin, it Jown on its perch os ne notice of what is yolag on around it. Its owner sees it moping, and with the remark that ‘the dear the follow. low. Its cold ngs become affected. A 1 in the bottom of the i hept Ito too sudden room in which or he warmer than 6°, a, and trom that tee pes. The gapes can be t. ud ne) 1d often leads to disease known as thi st in the It te onstimy he fe yellow putt chests ‘heave convulsively, and pemes ty t not to 1 lung aftections, ken in hand in ti When singing and show signs of a room entirely free ed on seed and water, ste made pulverized er: ick birds which ts the tempena- for rmometer, ‘The trewt= ‘ isorder wivieh fects them. Pe in and that their birds do for them give as the p lask what they sh would be as physician would be who asiiand then asked him. canaries seem pilepsy results from too rich food. re ane two methods The first isto @ rd into cold wa nd is to bl T ting with a shears the 1 hup so that the blood will flow, and then holding the foot in w: the blood ceases to ran, of the results of cold, and is m struction of the nostrils. It is cured by dieting the bird and keeping it from draughts. Most of the other diseases are treated in this way. “To my mind there is the greatest similarity in_ the Iting of canaries and teething of ehildr oth suiler from fever and are pettigh and cross. The moulting usually takes place during the months of September and October. If properiy attended to, they should get through moulting in from four to six weeks. The tall is is done vy cut claw far e and wing feathers sometimes do not fall out, and in that instance they should be pulled out one at a time. LADIES’ GOODS. SMITH, NO. 618 NINTH STREET has on ‘hand a full stock of WINTER nd FAN OLD LADIES PANCY GOODS, wular Winter Openins of NETS AND ENGLISH HATS: tuke piace | THURSDAY NEXT, DECEMBER 8TH. N.B, V ERMILYA’S LADIES’ Boors, BARGAINS! BARGAINS of LADIES’ BARGA) ORDER, t. alunce etock 1 at z bean MADE. T Sb in every Tempe hs Chas | \ j 229-am JAS. H. VERMILYA, 610 Ninth street, Opposite U. 8. Patent Othe, ’ CLOAKS, DOLMANS, PALETOTS, JACKETS AND SUITS. CHILDREN’S AND MISSES CLOAKS. The lnncost and best assortment in the city. FUR TRIMMINGS in different widths, M. WILLIAN, 7 Cite Trevise, Paris. Kd) sr Mo WASHINGTON, ANY DRESSMARING ANU TRIMMING STORE, ND. ’ 1211 PENSVLVANIA AY Dresses, Suite, Cont ‘style at short notice Cioaks, &c., Tnade in supe. Ladies Can have Drewes cub Ivinted, and a perfect fit wuarantend. a8 UG S', NintH axp F Srarers, Ladies, it will pay you to & NSYLVANTA AVENUE, Hend-Kuit Worsted Goods, com a . ' AND MISSES’ CAPS, SACQUES, MITTS. AND LEGGINGS, AND LADIES’ LEGGINGS, MITTENS AND JACKETS, At 40 per cent less than usual prices, ‘Thisis a Special Lot at Special Prices, aud will remain | instore but a few days, We have also full lines uf the beat of MEKINO, FLANNEL AND WOOK, UNDERWEAR FOR MEN, WOMEN AND. CHILDREN, HUNDUED DOZEN uel, Double Reet ENGLISE: DSE, At 25 or etn. DOUGLASS, 9TH STKEET, NEAR FL LD WINE AND OLD FRIENDS ARE KNOWN AB i c¢ the best, so ix JUSTH'S Old Stand known for: | ax the only’ place where Bret-clase SECOND-HAND | CLOTHING can be sold xt respectable: pnd | orcall at JUSTH'S Old Stand, No. 619 D stree 6th and 7th streets northwest, or Branch Store, Ne. street, bet streets porthn ween D and E il promptly attended to, ‘ELT AND GRAVEL KOOFING. E Rooting Material, Charcoal, wnt ALKER’S, 204 10th street northwest. | Note by mail Lousiana stave Lorrery. PARTICULAR NOTICE. be under mipewson, tnd toate of Generale Ge D and JUBAL A. EARLY, SPLE} OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE, r Pst GMASD DIARIBUTIOS. ‘CLASS A, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1 fuera MONTHLY DRAWING? LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY, 1868 fc rf pain ieee Vint a! Sout ed im Isture om of the shor Bd, A De, I, Pri, smomnting to: a