Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1881, Page 6

MODERN USES OF OLD COINS, Popular Craze for Jewelry Made of Ancient Money. & NEW PHAZE OF THE ANTIQUE MANTA—OLD COINS AND THEIR VALUE—WHERE axD HOW THEY ARE OBTAINED—THE MARKET FLOODED WITH DUITATIONS. From the New York Times. “At this time of the year it is not possible zither in London, Paris, or New York to supply she demand for genuine antique coins in gold or silver,” remarked a zealous numisma ist to a Timez reporter the other day. “Why is that?” the reporter asked. “Because of the popular passion for jewelry made of old money. This paasion has created an unusually brisk market for snch coins, and thousands of them hav: been manufactared by jewelers in this city into various quaint and pretty articles. Considerable ingenuity has been dis; 1 in working them into wateh- cases, bracelets, sieeve-outtons, ear-rings, neck- laces, searf-pins and ring The coins which are principally in demand for this purpose are the most artistic ones belonging to the fourth century, B.€. These are Greek coins, and in ithe Stater is most frequently used, while in silver Tetradrachm and drachm are seen - oft becoine quite clever in matching the orna- of the settings with the bistorical character ry expensive 2” 1 real ancient coims.are used. Some coins cost agreat deal of mouey. as any coin eollector well knows. Lam acauainted with a gentleman whe wears on his searf a coin pin for which he paid $00. The value of an ancient coin is reculated first, by its rarity, and next by its dezree of preservation. Peopie very nat Tally attach more importance to the identity i vet authenticity of a coin than to its Some American coins are very vatua- rls cht af ter.” n is the rarest and most valuable of the American coins ?” ne silver half-dime of 1902 is the scarcest of erican coins, and [had a somewhat singu- all 3 lar experience with that coin when I came to this country from France: A day or two before 1 saile |. | received from a waiter in a restaurant ful of American coins in the way of ter I got on shipboard I found halt-dime among them. I put it care- away, and hatl not been in New York tefore [sold it to a coin collector for equently he disposed of it for a still present fashion of making jewelry from antique coins and medals had its birth in Prat where ladies of weaith take creat pride in displaying necklaces and bracelets of very old rare coins. me of these necklaces sest their owners thousands of franc Duchess of St. Albans, it is said, has s the most costly jewelry of this kind extant. The Koman coin called Aurel is now especially n demand for ladies’ jewelry. Greek coins trem the eighth century B.C. down to the Christian era, and Roman coins from the third century B. C. down to the medieval period, are used in the manufacture of jewelry, and they in price all the way from 50 cents up to Of course, by far the greater number ornaments made and country are of an inexpensive chat demen’s searf-pins, 210, are quite popular for Christmas pr year, and many retail Jewelers find it extremely difficult to obtain enough of them to meet the demand. During the past few months almost every ship that comes from France brings several hundred ancient coins, and yet the er: is for more. These coins come from Italy an Greece, and they are found in many different ways and many different places. Exe: tions for new buildings have brought to light & great many, and the construction of railways, particularly in Greece, where Quteerous cuts have to be made, has yielded a tich harvest to the coin collector. The earth, it aust be remembered, was the bank of the an- tients, who frequently buried large sums of for safe-keeping. It was customary even for armies to bury their treasure, and the fact thist such treasure was often left ‘in the ground by the army burying it being repuised or driven away, explains why many thousand ancient pieces of gold and silver are found together, sometimes by quite accidental causes. Ovca- sionally ble collections of Greek and Roman we been revealed by the uprooting of the wind, and some time ago the Times ia out of the discovery and beaut: i medallion of Constantine the Great in the roots ofa cab fe which was pulled up at Treves. it is always from the earth that ns are y who resides near be made for a cel ight feet from thy s found ne ». and about. i the Ia- rly a peck of Ke Cc. They were ut three-qni tique coins for $20,000. The t demand for ancient coins e net Bne but wh ar an intere: onte the Bible, uch, for instance, kel, the tribute 1 The latter was tb per coin in Jude: c the farthin teresting contains a widows mite of the period oi IL None i to have any Most of the of the rule imprint of a pa r 0ney. symbol ide and an ¢ or other device on the appears on any of the ut silver coins. [tis said thatthe milling first begun about the tin growth of the popular era by increasing the. det with cleverly ex ae ancient coin. The imita- as that are the most common are made by taking a moid of each side of some antique coin and then casting gold, silver, or bronze in the mold. These forged evins are produced ‘y country, and sometimes a great deal of ns is taken to bury them somewhere in and have them dug up again ity. An old dealer in antique with great pub articles in this ¢ of forgers of ancient coins somewhere in New York or New Jersey, for he has seen numerous specimens of their’ h A great many of the bracelets, ete. cient coins, and are sold g me of these imitations are se admir none but the most shilitul expert ish them from the genuine. T aids an expert in detect- t that, with the excep- lier Roman we colns were “stri and ern imitations are x fure have not the pressed coin. studying the distinctive fe: pric able t disti int that 1 forsed evi of a few heavy coins of the e: nt enti remark tere are mere antique gen Point, N. J., than most ‘There Were many genu- «thrown there with the rubbish that people are awa ine coi age warehouse. While in a few instances antique coins are elegantly set in gold or used in connection with US stones, usnal custom, in making them into arti weiry, is ta mount ther nly as pos order that the natural beauty and design of the coin may be displayed to the best advs Of course, these coins come in forms. Some are a quarter of an inch thick. and otners are as thin almost a8 a bit of card: some are large and round, and -y small and square in shape. The devices and pictures on the larger ones are often curious studies, representing, as they do, the prevailing styles of art for the different periods of ancient history. Some exquisitely drawn heads are found on many of the coins of the early Greek and Roman periods. One of the smallest coins ever made is a Greek piece called the Tartemorion, which is about twice as big as the head of a large pin, and is worth about 50 cents. The didrachtms-—silver coins first strack inthe eighth century B.C.—are used a great deal f i bracelets. They cost from $2 up t 0. Syracuse coins are in great demand for brooches, aud some of them have a warket value of $00. They derive their chief value from thelr remarkabie rarity and beauty of de- sicn. One up-town jewelry house has disposed of nearly 100 of these coins. mounted in differ- ent ways, within the last two of three months. ‘The most common style of setting for indies’ jewelry Is the plain gold tar or band used in Inuking lace-ping, neckiaces and bracelets. A qveint bracclet of mixed Greek and Komen Colne la said to have been soid in London sone ‘ime ago forthe enormous price of £900, or $4.000. Itcontained 10 coins--5 Greek and 5 Rouan—and each com represented a distiactive perio prior to the Christian era. The largest snd central plece in the bracelet was alone yal- Wed at §2,008, It Leing more than 4,500 yearsold of 1 thaa any others. Some jewelers | y thinks that there is a clique | »ved from the ruins of the Morreli stor-.| °¥° and of great rarity. Amusing stories are told of economical coin fanciers who, in anxiety save paying a commission to experts, endeavor to pick up good bargains in out-of-the-way laces—buy at first hands as they claim. in Europe are Sequels made the victims fessional coin forgera and swindiers who the classic localities of the ancients. A New York expert relates with great satisfaction how a wealthy Philadel who had refused to pay him @ reasonable com- mission for obtaining a desired collection of an- | tique coins, was swindled by a plausible stran- | ger who claimed to have personally found a lot of very old coins in various of Greece. The Philadelphian, proud of his bargain, exhib- ited some of his coins to the expert, and was considerably abashed when they were promptly | pronouneed forgeries, and, being placed beside original coins of the same kind, their inferiority was made apparent even to the purchaser's in- experienced eye. The most successful forger of ancient coins was a man named Becker, who lived in Germany early in the present century. He was an educated person and thoroughly versed in the science of numismatics. He is said to have accumulated a very fine collection | of genuine antique coins, but falling into dis- | sipation he impoverished himself, and took to | imitating the coins of the ancients to replenish his purse. He made several thousands of coins | | whieh were so, nearly like the genuine that even | | experts were deceived. He struck them from | pare silver, gold and bronze, and gave them an. antique appearance by placing them in a box filled with rusty nails and other bits of metal. | This box be carried about with him under his carriage, and the coins were jolted, tumbled about, and shaken up until they presented the worn appearance of very old money. |. The zealous coin collector delights in show- ing his treasures to {intelligent people and dis- | cussing their respective historical associations. He will show you one piece that looks as [though it might have en designed and | stamped by modern taste and skill, so artistic, clear, and beantlfnl do the figures appear, but this coin, he will tell you, was made 400 years | before Christ, and represents a degree of art | that has never been equaled. Another coin will | be pointed out as one that Demosthenes might | have carried in his pocket; still others that might once have lain in the coffers of Cleopatra, and on another tray your attention will be di- | rected to the small aad rude coins of Biblical | times; the sheckels, the tribute money, and pieces of silver which your imaginative in- | structor will say might have been a part of the ical money received by Judas for his treach- & ery ‘There are some very beautiful and costly pri- vate collections of ancient coins in this country. | As arule, the American collectors are found to beas liberal in the gratification of theirnumisma- tic tastes as the people of any other nationality. Probably the finest collection of Greek. Roman, and American coins in this city is owned by Dr. | Charles E. Anthon, of the college of the city of | New York. This collection contains a very large | number of rare and intetesting coins, ‘and it represents several years of patient work and thousands of dollars of expenditure. The most expensive collections of coins in the United ates are those of Mr. Appleton and Mr. Parme- lee, of Boston, That belonging to Mr. Patmelee is suid to be worth $30,000. It is purely the work of American industry, and is supposed to be the most complete and beautiful collection in the country. Furs. From the Honr. Many a pretty woman goes about wrapped to the dainty chin in fur, without even knowing to what comfortable animal she is indebted for her very becoming and cozy wrappings. There isa sort of ingratitude about this, a failure of the recognition of indebtedness, that a little infor- mation on the subject of furs and their original owners may assist inremoving. Although grat- itude, being ‘‘a lively sense of favors to come,” should fail in this instance, it is at least a sea- sonable subject. According to an English con- temporary, even sable is no longer inimitable. Furriers have discovered a mode of producing a comparatively inexpensive simulation of that winter dream of every nice woman, sable-tail. This cannot be distinguished from the real, ex- cept by closest investigation. Those who de- | tect the false without an instant’s hesitation are ‘the possessors of the genuine sable-tall, and | even they are apt to judge more from the style of the wearer and of her other garments than from any peculiarity in the far itself. Owners of genuine fur deeply resent these close imita- | tions, just as the possessors of good cherelures were annoyed when the fashion of wearing hair came in. ‘What is the good,” the = “of having the real thing when everybody can buy and wear the false?” Sealskin is very well imitated in the seal cloth now so much worn; a jacket of which costs from $15 to 335, not including making or lining, both expensive items. The test isin the odor. The seal-cloth being only a kind of plush, has no oder. Sealskin has one peculiar to itself, and not at all disagreeable, though far from being so pleasant as that of sable. The best kind of real the Alaska. Other species are those that | 2m, and are called after, Lobos Island, | Sea, Victoria, Soath Australia, and the sty The squirrela whose skins are used for ing mantels and jackets are of different. spe- and various prices. The most expensive is the Siberian squirrel, the usual color of which is blue, sometimes light, and sometimes dark. 7 arkest are considered the best, especially they show a red band down’ the back. are killed in Siberia. In they are taken in traps, Swedish squirrels are very larze. nt modes of preparing sqi tussian are cured with salt, nh dam iththe result weather the skins contract an ap- pearance of being wet. In Russia, however, Where the air is almost always dry,-little incon- ence attaches to this. In Germany, the are prepared by the application of fatty such as butter, a means that cannot be “din Russia, because the northern at- e acts upon skins cured in this way by wf them stiY and dry. The center of the lone in this process has long been in Sax- Leipzig has a considerable far market, lly at Easter, when the great fair is held. Hence they are sent’ to China, Russia, Turkey and Greece. Rabbit sking are commonly used to simulate equirrel, and many purchasers of winter cov have been deceived by un- | serupalous vendors. Needless to say that the cost of the rabbit skin is much less than that of | the squirrel. Every year great numbers of skins | of the common wild rabbit, of the well-known | silver grey color, are exported from England to | Rus whence they return as “Russian furs.” The white Polish rabbit is the i cheapest of this kind of fur. Nor does the “harmless, necessary cat” escape the hands ot the purveyor of fabricated furs. It dies a sud- den death at the hands pf the Parisian gavgo- tiers (where ignorance is bhss ‘tis folly to trans- | late word! ont look in the dictionary, ye who dine at eating houses), and, like many another martyr, is rechristened after quitting life. St. Rabbit in France, St. Marten in |, are some of its post-obit titles. In the | latter country cats sre fed ona particular diet | with a view to fitting their skins for the drying The Dateh keep this diet a secret, but guessed to consist principa'ly of fish. Black | ats are more highly esteemed than those of | and baif the glcesy black mufis | see encasing daintily-gloved hands belonged | originally to sleek and well-fed Dutch pussies. An erroneous impression has got abroad that rabbits and cats are skinned alive! This would be too horrible, and it is pleasant to be able to contradict it. It would be almost an impossi- | bility to skin a living cat, and the difficulty with the gentler rabbit would be very great. The operation is performed some hours after the | furry creatures receive the scientific blow which | has been found to be the most merciful as well | as the easiest way of putting an end to them. | | Cheerfuiness. | Ofall their surface qualities—I use the word | “surface” not as excluding “substance,” but rather implying {t—none is more noteworthy among the Japanese than their cheerfulness at | work. It isa quality shared by all classes and ‘common to all employments. The Japanese statesman dictates a dispatch or discusses a Cabinet question with a smile on his face; the tinancier, more astonishing yet, smiles over the intricacies ofa deficient budget; the preacher smiles during ey. pause in his sermon; the | Writer at his desk; the shop-keeper smiles while chatfering with his customer, the servant on receiving his master’s orders, the smith while forging the metal, the potter manipulating the clay, the hasbandman as he wades . in mud across the rice fields; the bargeman a pelling his clumsy boat against wind and tide, the coolie straining to lift the heaviest load, nay, even the convict at his forced labor by the roadside. And what is more, a very slight oc- casion will broaden the smile into a hearty jaugh. All this is true and genuine good hu- mor, based firstly, no doubt, on a diges- tion, but also on a ly el: tempera— ment, great courage, and the sound, good sense that everywhere and everyhow makes the best. of things. Had Mark Tapiey somewhat mere of a gentleman in manners he might have passed for an average Japanese.— Fort- nightly Review. treigint care subs fe fol jun ke trying one pele cars ctabnonnehe Chronicle Sera Books Hardly Wanted. As to the average Englishman, he simply hates buying books, will wait weeks for a novel which he is crazy to read, worries Mudie with prepos- terous demands, drives his fellow-members of the Book Club frantic with selfish recommenda- tion, and sometimes, in his eagernes to borrow performs acts of incredible meanness. We have known authors asked to lend their own copies by men of ten times thelr incomes, while publishers grow hard in their fights to prevent acquaintances ofall kinds getting their books without payment. Even the subscriptions to libraries are paid re- Tuctantt The custodians of large, serious Ii- braries know perfectly well that it is next to im- possible to prevent a dozen families from using a single subscription, and Messrs. Mudie’s books are lent from hand to hand with the coolest and hardiest defiance of ordinary Justice. The total result Is that the middle-class Englishman, as a Tule, does not buy books, and, except, the afore- said classic and professional books, he posseases scarcely any. The professional books he must have. and he buys them withont qualins, as he buys office chairs or foolscap, as part of the ex- penses of his business; and he hasa feeling that hot to have @ few classics, especially Shakes- peare. Milton and a few other poets. isa little boorish; but there his voluntary buying ends. In second-rate towns, book-sellers could not. live but for their stationery, and in one case we know, a leading book-seller did not receive or- ders, apart from Bibles, prayer-books, and books for presents, for 100 volumes a year. Wonld demand bexin if books were cheaper? We doubt it greatly. In the first place, the cheapness of the books would not diminish; but | perceptibly increase their disfavor as “litter.” There would be more of them, and they would be, must be,much worse bound. Cheap books may be strongly bound, but no possible change in the art of binding or the practice of publishing can give us five-shilling voiumes bound with the handsome leather backs dear to housewives and to book lovers. They will take up more room, if anything, than before, and demand. conse quently. even an increased watchfulness, And then will they be cheap? The Briton knows tn- | stinetively that if he begins buying books he will | never stop; that if he gives way to the idea that | they are cheap, mamma may want them, and the | girls will want them, and the boys will insist on | them; and four books at 5s. make a pound, the | price of two stalls for the theater, and—and— and Messrs Mudie will send you 300 volumes— six a weeks—for 3 guineas a year. No reduction of price will compete with that, and the lishman who rezds novels all the eveni never is quite certain that they are not dele ous, will, even, at 5s., avoid buying them; and for his serious books, read them, first, to see if they are worth buying, and then not buy, At least, that is our impression, as it is evidently that of the publishers, who, we tear, every now and then get sharp lessons from experience. We have abook before us as we write, in two octavo volumes, strongly and, indeed, attract- ively bound, perfectly printed, and on good paper. It isa charming memoir, readable by all edu- cated men, and received on its appearance with achorus of approval. Its wholesale price it 4s. 6d. a volume, and we venture to say with confi dence that 2,000 copies of it were never sold; and that if the price had been reduced to 2s. 6d., probably less than its cost, the sule would not have been increased by 50 per cent. Publishers are subject to conditions, like other human be- ings; and one of their conditions in this coun- try is that the English are not as yet a book- buying people. ‘They are educated up to the point of reading, but not of paying an appreci able part of their incomes for the privilege of pos- sessing books. There is chinato buy and wine, and books must be hired.— The Spectator. ie ses Virtue vs. Intellect. From the Denver Tribune. Once upon a Time there was a Bad boy whose Name was Reginald and there was a Good Boy whose Name was James. Reginald would go Fishing when his Mamma told him Nct to and he Cut off the Cat’s Tail with the Bread Knife one Day and then told Mamma the Baby had Driven it in with the Rolling Pin, which wasa Lie. James was always Obedient and when his Mamma told him Not to Help an Old Blind Man across the street or Go into a Dark Room where the Boogies were, he always did What she Said. That is why they Called him Good James. Well, by and by, along Came Christmas. Mamma said, You have been so bad, my son Reginald, you will not Get any Presents from Santa Claus this Year; but you my Son James, will get Oodies of Pres— ents, because you have been Good. Will you be- liev Children, that Bad boy Reginald said he didn’t Care a Darn and he Kicked three Feet, of Veneering off tne Piano just for Meanness. Poor James was so Sorry for Reginald that he cried for Half an Hour after he Went to Bed that Night. Reginald lay Wide awake until he Saw James was Asleep and then he Saidje If these People think they can Fool me, they are Mistaken. Just then Santa Claus came down the Chimney. He had | sof Pretty Toys in a Sack on his Back. Reginald shut his Eyes and Pretended to be As! - Then Santa Claus Said, Reginald is | Bad and I will not Put any nice Things in his Stocking. Butas for you, James, [ will Pill your Stocking Plumb full of Toys, ‘because You | are Good. So Santa Claus went to work and | put, oh! Heaps and Heaps of Goodies in James’ stocking but not a Sign of a Thing in Reginald’s stocking. And then he Laughed to himself and Said, 1 guess Reginald will be Sorry to-morrow because he Was so Bad. As he Said this he Crawled up the chimney and rode off in his Sleigh. Now you can Bet your Boots Reginald was no Spring Chicken. He just Got right Straight out of Bed and changed all those Toys and Truck from James's stocking into his Own. Santa Claus will Have to Sit up all Night, said He, when he Expects to get Away withmy Baggage. The next morning James got out of bed, and when He had Said his Prayers he Limped over to his Stocking, licking his chops and Carrying his Head as High as a Bull going through a Brosh Fence. But when he Found there was Nothing in his stocking, and that Reginald’s Stocking was as Full as Papa is when he comes home Late from the Office he Sat down on the Floor and Began to Wonder why on Earth he had Been such a Good Boy. Reginald spent a Happy Christmas and James was very Misera- bie. After all, Children, it Pays to be Bad, so Long as you Combine Intellect with Crime. Understanding Womankind. Pope, like Boileau, lacked one incentive to lyrical inspiration. Boileau by physical misfor- tune, and Pope by congenital physical infirmity, were not fitted to feel passion for the beautiful sex, and the ‘flne erotic madness that peoples the world was unknown to both of them. Pope was sinall, weak, decrepit—almost deformed; and although he could talk well, he thought, as Addison asserted, a great deal too much of himself. And the ladies of his day, as of our own, do not care oyermnch for the society of men whose admiration is concentrated in and on themselves,and who do not know how to flatter or to make themselves agreeable to women. John Wilkes, one of the ugliest men of his time, according to his own confession, took the hearts of women captive by. his flattering tongue, justas the serpent in the Garden of Eden made Eve forget his ugliness in the witeh- ery of his eloquence. Neither the French nor the English satirist understood womankind, or the art of pleasing them. They neither of them felt what the great prose poet Emerson finely calls “the divine rage and enthusiasm which es 2 man in his youth and maturity; which works a revolution in his mind and bo: ly, unites him to his race, pledges him to the domestic and civic relations, carries him with new sym- pathy into nature, enhances the power of the senses, opens the immagination, adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes, estab- lishes marriage, and gives permanence ‘to hn- n society.” Neither Boileau nor Pope under- it the delicious thralidom of love, and both ped the overwhelming mastery which Vol- taire declared to be the fate of everybody when he wrote: ¥ ‘tu sofs, voila ton maitre; nivest ie fut, ou le dolt etre.” —The Nineteenth Century, jorida in Winter. A correspondent of the Hartford Times writes: The weather is splendid for orange growers, and the trees are looking very well. We had a cold speli near theerd of November, which put the thermometer down to 3) de; but, it being a “‘dry freeze,” it did not do the Jeast harm—did not injure the most tender growth of the orange trees, and they are per- peay making new growth inevery month. e have little fear, now, of a killii until February or March, and are in hope to escape then. And ifwe do, our trees will just shine out in the spring. ‘The old fellow who wrote that letter to the Times about icicles here, and. a plantation of tube roses, is to all appearance a lunatic, He did see the tube roses. and, pos- sibly, the {cleles on the 30 degree morning, but: he in’t tell the truth. He came up from the » | GREAT ORGANS, | great organs in Europe. | Best was years ago appointed the organist of Keyes in the morning ané went back in the ‘went down to the old Hammock stumbled. Netable Imstraments in This Country and in Eurepe. One of the first, as well as one of the best, or- gans I saw in Europe, says Eugene Thayer in the Youth's rochial by Buchholz, one ofthe best and most eminent ol es Euro} walle. Sgeoe a init 8 ing, itis not one of tl organs 0! neg world, it is very large, and the best I have ever seen for the interpretation of true organ music. It is of great power, clearness and bril- fancy, and, it may be sald, that nearly every register in it is a master-work in itself. The organ Inthe beautiful First Church in Boston (built in Germany by Walcker, the builder of the great organ in Music Hall), much resembles it in all its main ies, although itis not over two-thirds as 3 At the old cath at Merseberg stands one of the ee and most beautiful organs ever made. It has the greatest number of pipes in its front that I have ever seen in an organ facade. The player.sits facing the instrument, and directlv back of. him (between him and the Ee Berean) is another smaller organ, com- plete in itself, with its own case or honse, standing 20 or more feet in front of the great | organ proper. The effect, both to eye and ear, | is very charming. Engel is the organist, and | the great Liszt has several times been here to | bring out some pieces for the orzan, harp. and quartet of brass instraments—a very wonderful | and beautiful combination. In the Thomas , Kirehe,, where Hanptman was then contor, or | music director, was the organ that old! Sebastian Bach used to play. Although it had | been renovated during Mendelssohn's tine, it | was substantially the same instrument. None | of the modern registers were to be found in it, although it had drums and bells. The touch was the hardest I ever played, and the tone so solid as to sound almost cumbrous; further than this, it did not seem a remarkable instra- ment. And now for one of the so-called wonders of the world, the famous organ in Freiburg, Swit- vzerland. So much has*been written about this organ that I was curious to examine all the claims that had been made for it. Everybody had been told so many times that it was the largest organ in the world, the best and the most wonderful, that I was prepared for a sur- rise. Iwas surprised. It is not only not the largest in the world, but it is not more than me- drum size as compared with the acknowledged And, astle from its having pretty good diapasons and powerful, though somewhat disagreeable reeds, it is not a remarkable organ at all. It has not even a full set of pedals. Its much-talked-of Vox Humana owes its effect wholly to its being placed outside the au- ditorium at such a distance that the illusion only remains. And here, again, for the next most famous organ in the world, the organ in the Haarlem Cathedral, Holland. This is certainly mueh larger and better than the Freiburg instru- ment cutwardly. Itis not unlike our music hall organ in size and appearance. Musically, it is more like it than any organ I have ever heard. This organ is about one hundred and fifty years old, and it 1s noted for having all its pipes (except twenty recently added) made of metal. The most curious organ in Europe is the great one at Weingarten, near Switzerland. It was built by a monk, the celebrated Abbe Vol- ger, who was an otgan player as well as a priest. It has 6,666 pipes, he having been paid a florin for each pipe, large and small. He was evidently not unmindful of earthly things, for the sly old dominie filled the organ full of very small pipes called mixtures. Ordinary organs haye from five to eight ranks, or rows, of mixtures; this one has over @ hundred. One would naturally suppose that the tone of the organ would be consequently yery shrill. This was not the case. however. The priest was musical enough to have them all voiced so deli- cately that the effect, although it cannot be called legitimate, was altogether charming, It wes as If the air was full of snowflakes of sound. Besides this feature, the organ has drums, bells, great and small, angels with drums, and all sorts of queer things; and its case is ornamented and colored in the most brilliant manner possi- ble. Large as it looks, it ig useless for real organ music, as it has only an octave and a-half ofthe clumsiest kind of pedals. The finest church organ (in the full sense of the word) that the world contains is in West-~ minster Abbey. By fMest, 1 mean the most devotional in its quality and effect. How much y be due to the acoustic qualities of the mar- velous edifice in which it stands I cannot say 1 have not heard its like, nor do J expect to this side of the heavenly gates. At the time I am speaking of, the most celebrated organ in Eng- land was the organ in St. George’s Hall, Live pool. This was built by Willis, the most emi- nent of English organ makers. It had four manuals and a great number of pneumatic com- bination levers, small knobs, by which the organist could nake a number of combinations without taking his hands from the key-board or in any way Interrupting his plaving. William the hal®, and twice a week gives regular organ concerts at sixpence admission. ‘The largest organ in the world is in the Royal Albert Hall, London. The magniticent hall’ in which it is placed is oviform or ege-shaped, the organ standing somewhat above the level of the lower floor. Above are three galleries and over these a grand tier of boxes extending completely around the auditoriam. The hall is capable of holding from 12,000 to 14,000 auditors (if I re- member rightly), and it will be seen that only an organ of great power could adequately fill so large a space. The organ case is massive and strong, although not of ornate design, and the front pipes are nearly of pure tin (ten per cent alloy only) aud their bright polish gives the or- gan avery beautiful an imposing appearance. This organ has four manuals and a complete pedale, In addition, it has thirty-two combination knobs (eight over each key-board), anda large number of combination pedals, by means of which an almost endiess variety’ of" effects can be instantaneously obtained. “All the bellows and blowing apparatus are placed in a large room by themselves, this room being always kept perfectly dry and of an even temperature. The effect of séme of the solo registers is very beautiful, and the tone of the fall organ grand and majestic in the extreme, when music which is adapted to so large an instrument is played. ‘The total number of registers (actual sets of pipes) is 111, and the whole number of draw- stops 125. ‘he next largest organ in the world (the Ulm cathedral organ) has just 100 registers. None of these very largeorgans can be calied success ful in the full sense of the word. When the full power is used, only music of avery slow and | massive character can be played, without. more or less confusion as the result. An organ of 60, or, at most, 70 cegisters, can furnish all the variety that can possibly beneeded, and, if more power is desired, the pressure can ‘easily be in- creased to any desired degree. Sixty registers (about 4,000 pipes) can be made to speak to- gether. ‘A greater number than this never did, and never will, speak with precision or clear. ness. Of all the great organs in our land, the great organ in the Boston Musie Hall is the most famous. It is about two-thirds the size of the Albert Hall instrument, and is justly celety as one of the most beautiful of the great org in the world. By this I mean that its sofier combinations are all of a most beautiful and | lovely character, and their tone of great purity and beauty. In the fall organ is the same old story of confusion of tone and slowness of speech. which is found in every one of the great organs. This organ has four manuals, 13 combination pedals, (all double acting), and a pedal which has not one, but three 32-foot registers. It was made by Walcker, of Ludwigsburg, Germany, aud was seven years in course of construction. The house, or case, is certainly not equalled in beauty by any of the other famous great organs. The size is about 45 feet wide, 40 feet, deep and 63 feet high, and the number of pipes is 5,353. The large pure tin types in the front weigh nearly a thousand pounds each, and a full-sized man might,easily crawl through them. The grand crescendo, pedal brings on, as slowly pe as mae peearea. all of bee registers, y one, up wer of the oi and then withdraws them as a similar manner’ ao ¥ a THE EVENING ‘STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1881—-DOUBLE SHEET. Must Hotel Cars Have ® License? From the Railway Age. ‘The novel and interesting question whether a railway dining-car is a liquor saloon and should be required to take out a license for selling liquors in every village and city through which it passes, is about to be tested in the courts. The village of Taylorville, Christian county, I, is a no-license town, and some of its temperance advocates, being troubled by the fact that the Wabash. St. Louis and Pacific company was Tunning through its limits dining-cars upon which intoxicating liquors were sold, sent an officer, who entered the dining-car while the train was at the depot and purchased from the conductor a bottle of beer. The conductor was the mn arrested without a warrant, taken from his train brought ” before a magistrate, who fined him #0 for violating a village — ordinance against keeping open a dram shop. He paidthe tine, but even then had not satisfied the temper- ance people, who caused ins immediate rearrest for violating the state law. and he was held be- fore the grand jury, which subsequently in- dicted him. The railway company proposes to test the question thus involved, and has, through the conductor, brought snit in the United States court at Springfield against the village authorities, claiming damages to the amount of five thousand dollars. The question | of allowing “travelling dram shops,” as dining | cars are styled, has been discussed in England | since the introduction of the Pullman cars, but we believe has not been _ practically raised in this country heretofore. In however, the objection to the sale of liqui route was not on the score of temperance, but was raised | epers, who objected to the competition of the railway companies in the liquor business. If the prohibitionists should join with the *saloon-keepers, who are also op- posed to liquor selling on hotel cars, they could | mnake the fight on both grounas, A aes = A Talk with Reade, the Novelist. ‘London Correspondence New York Times.] Tcatled on the veteran novelist and playright, | Mr. Charles Reade, last night. He has let his house & Knightsbridge for a year. He wanted change of scene from the dwelling place where "hehas been “*so happy and so unhappy.” He has taken a villa near the Uxbridge road, be- tween London and Hammersmith, and there I found him, surrounded by a few of his “house- hold gods,” supplemented by some new furni- ture, and reading the monthly magazines by candie-light. He looked much better than I ex- pected to find him. He is not well enough to out at night, as he is snifering from somet oes le very much resembling chronic bronchit maile all kinds of inquiries about America, ex- | pressed great interest in the progress of the in- | ternational copyright movement, though he said Messrs. Harper had always paid him hand- somely for his work, and therefore this i terest is not personal, but covers the of justice to others, both American and En The two great American and Scribner (now the Cenhi thonght, marvelously cheap. are so varied,” h nd they do not depend upon a leading story for their attraction. The last lew numbers of Harper are simply admir ble.” Tasked him if he would not soon begin | anew novel. He shook, his head and smiled | sadly. He has no longer any inducement to write—certainly not a work of any _ great | length. Once or twice he had thonght of con-| tinuing the series of short stories which he began’ some time ago. Rut he had not the | heart to undertake a great work. He reminded me of the great reading and research which had always been in olyed in his novel-writin: and now his method made fiction to him | serious and very hard work. He talked beneyo- | Jently 07 men and events in general, and not re- gretfully of anything, except once ‘to refer to the loss which shadows his life in these latter days. He wag sorry he could not go to the the- ater and see The Lights 0’ London, which, he gathered from the papers, is really a bona fide success. He is greatly surprised at the latest profitable revival of his own play, It is Never Too Late to Mend, which has replenished the coffer of the Adelphi Theater, where, I believe, Drink is to follow, Mr. Charies Warner being the leading man at this old home | of melodrama. Mr. Reade evidently thinks his | forte is the drama. He spoke with great mod- esty of his novels, almost deprecatingly of him- self'as a novelist. His heart is more in dramatic | works than noyel-writing. Many of my readers who form their opinions of Mr. Reade from his | strong epistolary contributions to public contro- | veray would be surprised at his gentle and | unassuming manners. He has in company some- thing of that self-abnegation which makes men so much at home with Mr. Gladstone. The | premier listens as if he yalued your opinion and on with a sort of pleasure that is eminently flatteri | Reade is an_equall seems to find instruetion in anything you have to tell him. [asked him about the prospect of the reproduction of hig iyllic play of Dora, and found that it had been under consideration at the Court Theater, the management, how ever, taking Mini in preference. Without any breach of coniidence or departure from good taste T send you these few notes about Mr. Reade, concerning whose health and whose re- tirement many inquiries are made and many sugzéstions offered. He it down to his desk again and with great results, but at pre ent he appears to consider that his missi life has had its chief fulfilment, though his tellect is still fresh and vigorous. pehaarean A Mistake was Made. From the San Francisco Chronicle. A young lady gave “her young man” a beau- tifully worked pair of slippers, and he acknowl- edged the present by sending her his picture, encased ina lrandsome frame. He wrote a note | to send with it, and at the same time replied angrily to an oft-repeated dun for an unpaid-for ! snit of clothes, He gave a boy ten cents to de- liver the package and notes, giving explicit di- | rections as to the destination of each. | It was a boy with a freckled face, and he dis- | charged his errand in a manner that should | give him a niche in the temple of fame. } The young lady received a note in her adored | one’s handwriting, and flew to her room to de- your its contents. She opened the missive with eager fingers, and read: “Tm getting tired of your everlasting atten- tions. The suit is about worn out already. It never amounted to much any way. Please go to thunder!” And the tailor was struck utterly dumb when he opened a parcel and discovered the ;icture of he delinquent customer, with a note that said: “When you gaze upon the features, think how much I owe you.” When the unfortunate young man called around that evening to receive the happy ac- knowledgnent of his sweetheart, he was very tiously shoved off the steps by the young lady's fath ee ee Sere Congressmen Washington Letter in the Providence Press, A member's life is fall of worries from the beginning to the end of his term. What with disappointments in committeeships and what with postmasterships, which slay more con- gressmen than any but the initiated know, and what with the difficulty of getting his bills passed, and with the extortions of Impecunious constituents tarrying at Washington, and with the immense amount of correspondence that cannot be neglected and the distribution of gar- den seeds, that annual bore, one wonders how @ member can ever care for a second term. Right here the remark of Sara Bernhardt seems most inappropriate, who said, in allusion to cer- tain newspaper charges of immorality: “I don’t know when they think I find time to be so wicked. I work hard night and day.” Con- gressmen mizht say the same in re’pense to the very sweeping imputations of immorality brought against them as a class by the rural press and puipit. Hume, in the introduction to one yolume of his history, says substantially this: “Let women read history and Jearn that men have other passions in life besides love— There is alsoa pedal,which Instantly gives or takes away the entire power of the instrument. It is blown by a e located in the bie ofgan were only dled renstocg Gee rere onl larly by a mas- ter organist it would, goon win, aid hold, the foremost rank among, musi te worl. mong, the ical wonders of ’ ‘The Violin for Girls. A correspondent writes to the Queen: I do not know whether it. made much way in the provinces. of which py, Scuuaintance and ex- perience are small, but in and about London for twenty miles round there is hardly a ily, blessed with an average endowment of in which one of them:is not learning or desti to learn the violin. E often attend the practices or concerts given by many amateur musical societies in and around find yor pares. all bab there is supetant evi e movement strong. violin dealers and bed ged London, and general A slight-of-hand indies among the ranks of fhe violin shooting trick at The favonedenstn The é | incor he story, trusted ngamlitar t averice and ambition.” The average public matt here is absorbed in his ambitions, large or petty, and in the claims they exact of him, and flirtations, legitimate or illegitimate, hold but a subordinate place in his time and thoughts. $$ ‘The Making of Peari Shells, ‘From ‘‘Progress.” The manufacture of articles from pearl shells is quite extensively carried on in this country, particnlarly tn Philadelphia. The pearls are Leads the pistol to a citizen of the | day, Mr. Breezy. | ing. y Shirts, From the Quincy Modern Argo. We lately saw an advertisement in 8 Boston paper offering for sale an assortment of fine shirts, among which are mentioned the “* busi- ness, opera, dress, party and wedding shirts.’ The suspicion that there might be a distinction without a difference is pea pie pasos fact that they are all listed and divi int such lots se weelt warrant a distinct individ- uality to each separate shirt. But it is hard for us to realize that such things can be. It is im- possible for us to believe that a “* business shirt’ materially differs from a ‘dress shirt,” or that an ‘opera shirt” would not be the most appro- priate thing in the world to wearat a party. And then, what exquisite torture it must be to a financier to be caught out in his dress shirt and obliged to transact: business unadorned with the regular business shirt. Tears come to our eyes unbidden and our heart is torn into kind- ling wood and tortured with first-proof sym- pathy for the wr wreteh arrayed in a dress shirt standing By the altar and promising to love, honor and cherish a fair and radiant bride for life. Married! And minus @ ‘‘wed- ding-shirt!” Clothed, but in a paltry “dress- shirt!” Surely that man should fiy from the wrath ot outraged society and call on recks to cover him. But the subject is painful. To us, perhaps, it presents manifold horrors when we realize the absolute impossibility of having our only shirt cut over into five distinct styles. No— no, it cannot—must not be. Let us rather fly this terrible nightmare of contemplation and seek a lodge in some vast solitude where the cruel forms of a too—too fastidious society will never intrude their baneful obligations. *“Busi- hess, opera, a party!” Ava: set and = esson in Humility. From the Brooklyn Eacle. “Dear me,” said Mrs. Breezy, hurrying into the breakfast room, and falling into her chair at the breakfast table, “what a bother this Christ- mas season is, to be sure. I am Just tired to death already, and the day hardly begun. I wish those stupid people at the stores could re- member anything five minutes at atime. Every- thing is all wrong, They hayen't sent home half the things I bought, and they have sent home a great many things that { did’n buy- - “And there is no health in them,” chimed in Mr. Breezy. “Ifyou intend that for a joke,” said Mrs. Breezy, “it is in very bad taste. If you haven't grace enough to belong to the church, you should at least respect it for your wife's sake, Mr. Bree: But J shall not be interrupted to- I've too much to do to bother with you, and for that matter so have you. I have a thousand commissions for you this morn- You must stop at several stores on your way to the ferry. Lean't possibly set out before 11 o'clock, and I have any number of articles | that must be changed at once. There, I shall not be refused. If you think anything of the | children and their happiness, you will be only | too eager to help me. But whoever heard of a man who cared to put himself out in the slight- est degree even for his own flegh and blood?” ‘But | haven't refused to do anything yet,” said Mr. Breezy, mildly. “No, you haven't, but you were just about to,” said Mrs. Breezy. “Oh, attempt to deceive me, Mr. Bree; lived with you for over fifteen years without knowing your face like a book. Yes, I under- stand. You are too proud to be seen with your arms full of bundles. Oh, I know your sex, Mr. Breezy, and you are no exception to the species. Dear me, the false pride of you men is simply absurd, or it would be if it wasn’t down- right wicked. Here I have been running about all the week loaded down like a pack mule, and you are absolutely ashamed to take a few pack- ages to—” “But, my dear, I haven't said that { was asha—" “No, but you are just the same, and it will do I haven't | you good to have a little of the false pride taken out of you. There is that baby carriage. 1 did think of sending It back by the expresstnan, but the quicker it is returned the better chance we shall have to select one to our fancy. and it will do nicely to put the bundles in. You may wheel it down to—” “Now, dear, I protest,” said Mr. Breezy, growing realiy alarmed. “ll go anything but the baby carriage. 'il—” “Youll ‘go’ the baby carriage, Mr. Bree7; anda little later poor Mr. Bree ed on his tour down town, pushing a baby carriage before him loaded high with bundles of every shape. “Quite the father of the family this moruins. Isee, old boy. “Confound the luck,” muttered poor Breezy as he welcomed with a sickly suile his stylish batchelor friend Brown. ‘The French Burial Law. Under the new French burial law the ofa Frenchman or Frenchwoman to choose his or her funeral rites begins with their sixteenth year. Until they attain tha age they are to be buried with the ceremonial of the church in which they were baptized, unless with the consent of their par- put a written h must be de- ie within twelve hours of de- bearing s Will be accepted, be doctors, mid- gion, nor mem- Strict provision is but the witnesses must neithes wives ministers of ir igious orders. ‘il funerals by the local authoriti deceased are liable to be proceeded against un- | der the penal code. The new law, which con- sists of twelve articles, is an interestiog speci- men of French legislation, securing to our neighbors across the channel that absolute lib- eriy of conscience in matters of sepulture which even the present House of Commons hasnot yet seen fit to concede.—Pall Mail Gazette. Lie ALWAYS ASK FOR FREDERICK BROWN'S GINGER, THE GENUINE—PHILADELPHIA, SIANA STATE LOTTERY. PARTICULAR NOTICE, All the drawings will hereafter be under the exclusive vipers and control of Generals G. T. BEAURE- GARD and JUBAL A. EARLY. ASPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE. FIRST GRAND DISTRIBUTION, CLASS A, AT NEW OKLEANS, TUESDAY. JANUARY 10, 1882, 140rH MONTHLY DRAWING. 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