Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1882, Page 2

a a 1 ? i ? é i t ? 1 9 SEW WEAR AT HAMPTON. the Seltiers? 5: p—The morint —trauks Who Aiinics Ward Libel the “t2eme.? un ie ne ng uatil snow s in of the getic covernor, Capt. P. T. to carry out the program pre ehirf event bein: the = ous New Year's din: d_ kitchen, with bi sccond story, wMfilst the z-roon is being fitted up for ent hail, which wili ed. Horatio volunteers. ‘y of the man to bestow his n rder to perpetuate the meme witely knew whe 80 that the ereate number, the e cers of the home ntial bri with li is the bstructed rehitectural * seen from in_and out Fi the with the build ents one of the ye could wish to To the present governor is due the bringing the home out of the desert found it in ISTE, when first assizned and inake com- , quarters, &e. duly ap- ard of managers and by all eutiful landscape to-day, before na neat but on of the men ations provided for jon of the managers, n the completion and wishing all a happy uiant Sands L s part of the Pr was not down in the _ bills, and much wonder was shown in the countenances of the men as they awaited the uel. Mounting a steol and coumanding y wipes out the ‘es all on an even race for nits of the home can ach pass is repeate in rezard to the conduct of inmates that altogether a more quiet, orderly be feand. Quarre as, are seldom heard. rever, Stalks in our mid uted only when he has a » to breed over. ponsible to some t for tin 4 should neg heed them. A Mexican VETERAN. SSS SE = THE JACK RABBIT OF TEXAS. Am Animal that Can Give Points m Speed to a Grayhound. ‘From the anstin (Tex.) Siftings. rabbit is an inhabitant of Texas and pther western states. He is often called mule eared rabbit.” and, by the cow boy, arly spoken of as the “muley.” He is Bot urebbit at ail. A rabbit isan undbtrasive littie animai, who is found by school boys ina hole in the ground at Inthe «now. The socalled Jack rabbit is quite @ different Kindo soup meat. He is identical with the British hare. t that he is larzer, ne end of along track his color and his ears much longer. His avoiréapols is about 12 pounds, and his ears measure, from to tip, about 16 inches. He does not burrow in the ground. He Hes under cover of a bunch of prairie crass. but is very seldom found at home, his office hours being be- He is to be found yy on the open prairie, on the tender shoots of the He is not a ferocious might beled to suppose mination of what purports to be his Tthe alias of “The Texian Hare,” * book. The jack rabbit has boy, who and the lewn, and tie gover- wed to, who libels him nor of in bis book WS of protecting himsei? + One way is to squat wi er and fold his ears is he often escapes is exposed. the s with the brown of Tae other plan, that he and pursued, is to. create nse ntion to this. matter, a sand 2 disturbed he unlim- Is his ears and. goes off rally stops after run- ds and looks back to ¢ the chase as much int he and then he leaves for nknown. There are many fast. thi vat to a note maturing in the ba ual th ek rabbit. An un- and pretty lively, but h him for two blocks. tries to expedite a a humiliating failure Temotenes In giving his When i whole pursuer is it route be mak esthe rabbit gentle exercise. The inder sion time to wity, urgent we only to Taylound he will “let hat would astonish a he is a rabbit that with a grayhound i start off at aneasy pace, but as he to wink derisively at what he supposes to rifinacy yellow dog he realizes that there ure hitherto unknown to him, astonishment, alarm and dis- a mile anda balf tong. e ime Luxury of New Orlcans, When the United states acquired possession of Loui and for many years thereafter, New Oricans was the most luxurious city on + the new continent. During the first half of this century a style of living was kept up in Louisi- ana which, in an attempt to picture it, beeomes simply indescribable. and which if described would not be believed. The best wines of Eu- Tope flowed more freeiy than beer dees to-day. ‘The eyuipages were the finest the worid could Produce. The Jewelers of New Orleans grew Fieh in « year ou their commissions, while New York aveats ransacked Europe for novel- ties in plate and artistic jewelry. The fine art< were larzely patronized, although the effect of the atmosphere of slavery Was toencouraze tastes more sensual and coarse- grained than were consistent with a high degree Of admiration fur pure art. There is a massive service of gol in the safe of the St Charles Ho- tei at New Orleans which recails the splendor of ante bellum Louisiana. Yet in all this lux- Urious display very littie money was handled. Immense bilis were paid at a time; but the transactions which took place on credit were @normous, and went on for years in some cases without involving the introduction of a dollar. Old business meu of New Orleans have assured me of repeated instances of this and of the utter @arelessness of these wealthy patrons in order- on credit. But when the accounts of the tradesman or merchant were finally nted, this carelessness was even exceeded by the in- GBerence with which the creditor met the Genntic total, and paid his debt.—Juternational and the public | aud his pursuer. | ocea- | eof @ jack | GTON, WEDNESDAY, THE EVENING STAR: WASHIN Mit. SPEER AND THE SOUTH. Ele Defines His Position. Planets in January. From the Providence Journal. Mars is evening star, and wins the place of honor during the present month, as well 2s the month that has just passed. His opposition with the sun occurred on the 26th of December, and he is therefore within a few days ‘of his brightest phase. Throughout the month-he will be the most interesting study the starry heavens present, and the opportunity for watching his movements should be improved, for his light grows dim more rapidly than that of Jupiter aud Saturn. The naked eye observer will quickly recognize the planet in the vortheast as soon as the twilight fades, for he rises now | shortly before sur His ‘color is fiery red, heneand Mr. Speer, but in spite of them. and he exceeds in astar of the first magni- | 4, NeW, for myself, 1 do not choose torest under | tude, yielding. the paim to only one star in the the iimpated crime of obstrneting the industrial | sk: i that the lordly Jupiter. It is well also ves of the South. Th is nothing in the | to note his great nortbern declination, and his record of tay public life which in any sense | change of position in regard to the twin stars justify this imputation. It is true. as Ihave | Casior and Pollux, as well as the ma- said, that I owe no allegiance to | Jestic grace with which he rises towards which controls my opinion of the propriety | the zenith, following in the track _of his of pnbdtic messures. Iam not elected by the or- | brother planets, and reaching the meridian as ‘on of a party, and therefore [ am not in | they descend in their western course. He is also | se obi, » obey the dictates of its eau- | In favorable position for telescopic study, and 1, however, to coneinde for ers who are privileged to behold his face ave iinpeded the industrial | in a telescope will have something to remember | for along tim We had a charming view of hbor through the telercope in observatory the night preceding A full moon rising through a ruddy | rly as large as our moon to the naked eye, was the aspect taken on by our ce! brother, as he almost filled the field of visio: nd gave forth a brilliant light, painful to the eye. The bright portions of his beaming face | were of a deep orange hue, covered in some | parts by a net-work of dark lines, varying great- ly intone and delicate as cobweb. Around the northern pole was a circle of glaring white, the orange, the white and the dark brown and gray tints forming a striking contrast, and presenting the celestial coloring inimitable by earthiy tints. Such is the appearance of the red planet Mars as seen in the telescope, at even the present unfavorable opposition, and astronomers have discovered a key to these strane markings. Eagle-eyed observers see in the bright orange portions of the Martian disc, continents and islands; in the neutral tints, oceans and rivers; and in the white polar caps, zones of ice and snow like those on our own globe. The explanation is, however, not en- tirely accepted by the most tious students, and, like many ‘other astronomical theories, waits for confirmation. Mars makes a far less distinguished appearance in the telescope than Jupiter and Saturn, but we see him on a much larger scale, and obtain a much better view of him than of any object in the heavens excepting the moon. This smail planet, only twice as large as the moon and half as large as the earth, is a | very interesting neighbor, especially when the | earth overtakes him, once in a little more than two years, and he tnras towards us his broad, round face, ilumining the sky trom sunset to sunrise. If the ancient astrologers had seen Mars as the telescope reveals him, they would have found no ill-boding influence in his smiling aspect at opposition. Mars now sets soon after 7 o'clock in the morning; at the close of the month he sets about 5 o'clock. Saturn is evening star, and develops but one feature of special interest, He reaches his | quadrature with the sun at 5 o'clock on the | afternoon of the 25th. This is the half way house in the progress irom opposition to con- junction, being ninety degrees trom each. He} then makes his transit at 6 o'clock in the even- | ing, rising about noon-day and setting about | midnight. The telesco; saturn is still lovely to | bebold. Even this bright moonlight has no power to lessen the beauty of this picture, as cradled in hisrings and surrounded by his | moons, this magnificent planet illustrates the exquisite handiwork that fashions the worlds which people space. Saturn is the first of the planetary quartette traveling towards conjune- | | As there has been much discrepancy of state- | ment as to the position and purposes of Hon. y Speer, of Georgia, in connection with the movement in the South. the follow- tion from him to the New York be read with later or of the World, ‘r of to-day contains a state- leave to deny. In your crit- y L. Nelson’s article in the Inter- ve you say substantially that the to the South of the Atlanta’! x position we ade possible not by Mr. Ma- lation which will tend to | evelopment of that section. of course, assume that the of the World who determines the indus- questions of the day has ever permitted | his mind to he & moment over any utter- ‘ance of # ty ne work of econoinic legisla- of the serious charge allow tion, but in me to call att In the last iy suth of cotton goods t for southern capital is found. By nature every condition is ailurded to make this seat industry profitable. Our snowy southern staple, of which we have the monop- oly, will flourish and produce at the very door of the factory. Pleatifuily supplied with water, the motive power of our factories is furnished by nature. When the streams of your northern rivers sre frozen from bank to bank and the wheels of the factories are clogsed with ice, under the influence of our genial climate the work of the southera cotton mill goes on unim- peded. And, sir, by some subtle law of nature | the cotton is spun and woven with more facility in that climate whici: is its habitat. In fr ichts, in transportation, in labor, in climate, in every- ing the sout! nufacturer has the ad— vantage of all othe hese are no conje:tures; \they are fa ‘are proven by the prices | of factory stock southern state | “There are few cargoes which are freighted | from the ports of our country whieh possess the merchantable vaiue of a ship-load of compressed. | cotton bales. A ship-load of wheat, orof bacon, or of iren are 9st worth so much. But, sir, if u would have forever the balance of trade In | favor of our country help us to manufacture in the south the cotton crop that is gathered inthe |south. Sir,in that way employment will be | given to our citizens. The wages that are paid to the artisuns of Manchester and the cotton manufacturing world will go to the working people of our own country. The profits of man- ufacturing the cotton will enhance the indi- vidual and national wealth of America. And, | sir, when you foot up the exports and strike the | bafance of trade you will find that a ship-load ot Mmanuiactured cotton goods is worth far more oad of compressed cotton.” obstructing in any ferm the in- $s of the south, [ have en- ored to so use the representative position I as to advertise its great natural resources t the attention of capitalists to the manufacture in th | best investmen = opportunities for investinent there. In | tion to reach the midway point. and afte a an article inthe American of 4 h 19 [ ven- | rature, » will be seen in the wi ! j + “There is one fact which, with the | sky during the evening, instead of th ef | diversified industries wise legislation will give us, will make us rich, d that is that no coun- try on earth can compete with our favored lati- tude in the growth of cotton. If, however, the , benedits of our production siall go to enrich the manniacturing centers of Europe 3 F the south will be like that impro’ who ii where he has reigned so long. Saturn sets now a few minutes after 2 o'clock in the morning; at the end of the month about a quarter of an hour after midnight. Neptune is evening star and follows closely in the track of Saturn. He is invisible to the naked eye, and dull and ill-defined in the tele- pe. But what can we on this little earth ¢ pect to see ou the face of a planet travelling on the system's remotest bounds, at a distance of | more than three thousand million miles from the It is atriamph of human skill that the ion of this far-away planet i rately deiermined that the astronomer has only to find its place in the Ephemeris, poiut his telescope | to the spotia the heavens indicated, when. as | if by mazic spell, Neptune's pale disc starts into being from the measureless depths. Nep- tune ‘sets now a little before 3 o'clock in the Wwident farmer poverishes his land by luxuriant crops ins the soil and restores nothi | serve its ferti But if the | es of the laborer, the profit of the manufacturer and the j increased value of the material in cotton manu- facturing can be added to our incomes, the day is not far distant when the condition of our southern states will be a subject of national congratulation wherever the flag floats and of | admiration to the rest of the world.” Allow me to say that so far from it being true | that the resuits of tie exposition have been “in | Spite of Mr. Speer,” (to quote your language.) | morning; at the end of the month, about 1 | the able patriotic men who designed and | o'clock ‘ orgauized the exhibit of southern industria Jupiter is evening star, following closely after enterprise elected ine as one of the vice presi-; Neptune on the celestial track, reaching the dents of the exposition itself. It is not yiolent | meridian about ten minutes after 8 o'clock in to presume that these men were well informed | the evening, nine minutes later than Neptune. ; and knew whether my “rhetoric” had been a | There is nothing noteworthy in his moveme | “hindrance” to the cause in which they were | during January. He pursues his wander engaged. Nor has my general conduct in Con- | path among the stars, approaching the sun gress tended to retard the prosperty of the | increasing his distance from the earth. | His southern states, Ihave been conservative, as | brilliant lustre is slowly diminishing, but the | Lunderstand conservatism. I knew that the | change is so gradual as to be scarcely percepti- people whom I represented, in spite of all that | ble. He still retains his proud eminence as had been said to the contrary, were devoted (I | leader of the starry host, the most brilliant star use the word advisedly) to the Union under | inthe heavens, and will continue during the j the Constitution, and if a different impression | month to attract attention from every ob: | of their sentiments existed in the minds of | of the heavenly hosts that glitter and twiak jthe northern people it was erroneous. I| on the azure canopy of night. Jupiter now sels 4knew, too, that logically a representative | a few minutes after 3 o'clock in the mornin: ai was thought to express the opinions of bis| the end of the month, not long after 1 o'clock. nstituents, and I knew that I could do the} Mercury is morning star until the 6th, when | People who sent me here no greater service than | he comes into superior conjunction with the | to remove, if it were possible, any distrust. of and plays the role of evening star for the | their fidelity to the government which might | rest of the month. His movements are of little remain on the minds of thouzhtfal and honest | importance on the mouth cord. Mercury ;forthern men. In furtherance of these views, | now rises about half past 7 o'clock in the mor:- | on many questions I have thought it my duty | ins: d of the month lie sets about half- | to yote against the conclusions of the demo- ‘t 6 o’elock in the evening. | cratic caucus. This was no “political outrage.” Venus is morning star, and so nearly approach- | | Aa overwhelming majority of the people of my | ing the sun that she is almost hidden in his all- | district and decided majorities in sixteen of its | powerful rays. Tie queen of the stars turns | | twenty counties have returned me to Congress | from us her beaming presence, but it is only for | and attested the soundness of my convictions. | a season, for when she emerges from her seclu- | This vote was azainst the nominee of what was | sion, she will become an object of intense inter- supposed to be the democratic convention and | est all over the civilized globe. Her path this in a district which gave the democratic candi- | month is‘uneventful. She rises now a few min- | | date for President over ten thousand majority, | utes before 7 o'clock, about a half hour before | The people who know me, it seems, do not | the sun; at the end of the month she rises a | think that the prozress of the south is “in spite | few minutes after 7 o'clock, and only a few min- of Mr. Speer.’ 1am, very respectfally, yours, | utes before the sun. Emory Uranus is morning star, and approaching vis- Washington, December 29, 1881. ibility as he draws near opposition. He rises Se now soon after 10 o'clock in the e ing; at the Am Arknasas Guiteau, close of the month he rises a few minutes after From the Little Rock Gazette. 8 o'clock. “Parson Tinothy,” said the Judge to a colored | Ch Ashes hal ane on the are ib is { i en arraigned, “ » | Rear Mars on the 3d, Uranus on the 9th and | TREE ERT CRN TEMES Soe Ne | Veniun ou the isthe he ten aon eet ae | Charged with stealing Deacen Thompson's wife. | jy in conjunction with Mercury on the 21 paee Known you for years, and had always | pays her respects to Saturn, Neptune and | considered you an upright man. And now, sir, | that you are arraigned on so terrible charge, with such overwhelming proof azaiust you, I | must confess that my faith in the colored part of humanity is greatly shaken by a severe chill | from the dark swamps of deception. As you | expect one day to be arraigned before a’bar | from which there is no appeal, tell me, are you | i Did you run away with Deacon Thomp- | and | Jupiter on the 26th, passing nearest to Jupiter’ and nearly three derees north. It is not a field day among the planets on the January record. Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, are aloue visible, but they are in superb position for | observation as they pursue the even tenor of their way among the most beautiful stars and | constellations that ever adorn the heavens. ‘The January sky on moonless nights will pre- sent studies of surpassing loveliness. The Jan- uary moon, in full orbed’ splendor, when she “runs high” in the heavens, may be pardoned | for putting out the stars, as she pours forth -her floods of silvery light over the earth, and etches with inimitable skill the shadows that diversify its frost-bound surface. ee A Slight Misunderstanding. From the Chicago Tribune. They were horse fanciers and were speeding | ateam out on the road to Grosse Point, and } after a long discussion of their favorites, one of | ther leaned back in the buggy, let the lines drop loose, and said: “Yon ought to have seen Suke? Ah! she were a critter to be proud of. She was a whole} team, and a boy to drive, I kin tell yon.” Broke to harness?” asked his friend. “Well, now, you bet she was? though once in a while she'd take the bits in her mouth and go it alone, but she was a high flyer, she was! I ain't got over her loss yet.” “Wauth much?” asked the otherman. “Wath her weight in gold to me. I declare 1 never come so near cryin’ as I did when I lost i | { replied Timothy. after several min- utes’ reflection, “it would take me some time ter spain dis matter ter de satisfaction ob de court. But I'll try. Lisa preacher, as yerself | ell knows, an’ has assisted many a man in findin’ the Lamb——" . broke ina witness, “an’ yer foun’ my sheep an’ stole it last fall, an’ 1 ken prude it.” “ Silence!” thundered the Judge, “or you will be stood on your head. ‘The prisoner shall be protected. The Constitution of the United | States declares in ialics that prisoners are en- | titled to the respect and floral tributes of every man, woman and child in the couatry. } “You are mighty Coufed. Jud. said the | prisoner. “As Twas goin to remark, it will take me some time to explain. I loye Deacon Visitin’ | | Thompson like a red mule loves oats. | his house gften, I seed dat his wife gib him a | Tseed sepenter some- | great deal ob ‘noyance. thin’ was done dar would be asplit in de family. | j Arter studyn’ de question seberal days I was inspired to remove de ‘oman. De mpulse was | | 8o strong dat [ couldn't shake it off. Affairs grew wusser an’ wusser. At last I went ober | the eraceless ¢: ii, and | 5: THE LAST YEAR’S BUSINESS. Statement of the Mercantife Failures im this Country and Canada, The condition of trade and the industrial pros- perity throughout the country during the year 1881 are discussed in the last number of Trad- street's, and comprehensive tables are published showing the mercantile failures in the United States and Canada for the past year. In gen- eral, the year has been very prosperous in every quarter. In the noevt bast- ness has continued good in spite of short grain crops. The presenf conditions are said to be so favorable as to iusure a contiuia- tion of trade and industrial activity throug! 188. and perhaps beyond. Great prosperity in manufacturing business has existed. and WOMEN'S WAGES. ess Women. Average Income of Busi From the Phila. Ledger. One reason why women might be easily caught by flashy advertisements for investing money, is thet they are very limited in oppor- tunities for “making” it. It is natural for ®& woman who has to support herseif to want to make as much of an income as possible. She has to give up all ideas of the sheltered and enshioned existence which shallow physiolo- gists and callow philosophers assign to her. This may be what was intended primarily, but judging from both heus and lionesses, in the wild and domestic animal creation, it is not. Both of these feminine exemplars have to scratch for their own housekeeping, and not even the lioness can remain home” | there are no signs of lessencd activity In any in the desert, but has to kill and ection." The year has brought great benetit= fetch her own marketing home. di to thesouth inthe shape of rapid railway © tension and the general developmeat of the country. Trade on the Pacifie coast is reported to Any book or e that the women eteenth century, a large proportion of essay which does not recogni of the ni them, have to work hard for their living, mar- | jaye been fairly good. It willbe remembered that | | Tied orsingle, mizht as well not be written at | the Pacific coast was the [ast to fee! the abound- all. We have to deal with facts, and the fact | ing prosperity of the country. At the sea- that even the gens eqs, the modern horse, no | poard cities,” : longer treads as he did at first, but does his | notably true of \ hauling, racing and other hard or artistie work ne toe at that, shows that the primary dispositions of nature have to_be mod- iied sometimes, and yet strength and beanty grow no less, The horse does its work, and has learned to move a ‘ally on its one toe as the bear does on i nted foot. So, saving dern’ woman work wilh no neces- general mer dented. exy consequent upon the short erops aad the speculation for high prices.” ‘a In speaking of the mercantile failures, it is coutinues to do her ne sary joss of gracetulness, and with some added | sugested that the fuet ofthe disasters bein in strength. But the strength is not always know!- | when the ede. activity of yes ered. “AVERAGE” INCOME OF BUSINESS WOME > natural when tr the fail are So many of them The mercantile £ vi as foliow Setting apart the incomes of writers and p! Sicians, artists, great milliners and dressmal whose business rate: pre that of men in the that the highest sal at about nine hundred dollars a experts in government emplo this. Some school teachers receive more, but the great majority of even skilled women have nuch leas, so that the nine hun¢ incomes are looked upon as the fo ‘z, | DUneToN: | three ye ly the same as | yxco 4 ties ‘were $48,906, 1 | ities wer . the actual as For 1880 the lis 5. . EF 36,542, and same occupations, we find | paid to women average | A few PTH OVL657 cent. It will be seen that the fi year outnuniber those for i£S0 by mary of the failures in the Unit tunate | few. Seven dollars a week is the salary of | year eudidg Dee many an experienced saleswoman in re- | the New En: sel tail“ stores, even for a forewoman who | lisbilities acer 11,695,885, actual directs pureh: shall be de, | amounting to 78, and nominal amounting to there In the midd valuable in th: have five dollars a week the reat are glad to get, wlth they well, it cando little more than pay fi clotiies, shoes, ear fares and lunches. The bi ginners are fortunate to start with the point of the cash-virls’ wages, three dolar week. Sewing machine operators, fine work- | women, can make nine dollars a week at th work that ki : dor of aggregs E ssets, and $13,020,040 of ai In the western states there have bech 1, ures. The liabilit ounted to 51 ) and ne states but hss. ho do the odds and ing machine work, see that ail thread are secure, sew on bi patent ironers, who'are paid by th . outside of Tro Y., where they have lear q to be quic! seventy-five cents a ing to ; nominal a New York e piece, ant a if » workers to make day. AS CLERKS, ROOKKEEPERS AND STENOGRAPHERS, where a man would get just double forthe sam work a woman can seven and eizht | hundred doliars a y ! tel clerks, in- | deed, in one establishment. the Palmer House, of Chicago, the head elerk—a woman—rec | | 000 a year and board: the second clerk $1,622,211; year and board; the bookkeep. aad in the pro board—equivalent to at least bilitie An ai is A novelty in oceupation as w s shows t ¢ seems to Work as well as it establishment. aps the bio model hotel clerk will be written ¢ yet! The salaries of telegraph operators, ax not depend on profi asa fresh hand, is | this to $8, 8 coufeetioners produce, cont boots and shoe: hardware dealei — aes Adulteration of week, or $40 to 250 a month, and exporienced hands can command from $60 to 590. Thus tie | highest average prices to a skilled woman tele- grapher just touch the lowest fizare of the in- experienced young man. 5 The city should make no difference in its sal- aries because the recipient isa woman, but the professors of the Boys’ High School re the ay aries than the t the Girls’ High School. In Government em- ploy, in Mint, Castom-house and Washington departments. with the exception above noted of rarely 8 stators it 1s good pay t hes the nine hundre dollar point, or seventy-five dollars a month This is paid to women who are as skilled in all matters of examining money, detecting false weight and bad paper as any bank teller. THE LIMIT OF IT. Among employments that are not constant, but nearly so, the highly trai who gets from fifteen to twenty dollars a week, with her board, is on a par with or superior to the ladies of the mint and the government de- partments generally i wages paid to at must save life self. The av: wages for trai: 10 a week—really amount to much 1m: board is included. “So the waxes of don. count up at the those of school teachers. vate school t who hundred dollars. ay thousand doliurs a amination” these found out. Gen ened with hot w: examined by vi jan blue and tale-powder. to tea 1s often “+ the sand turn give a green color. eed” with iam: leaves sometime: and these Black teration of a sample of ted ca nple process. This proc on of the tiv certaining xtracted from a contains from a half to tive pe fle way to procced in this new pro extraction isto weigh out about 180 1 | of the sample tea, and boil with two distilled ¥ in a glass beaker: 3 infusion to boil for five minute: the infusion a small quantity of 21 to a fine powe nesie 0: ition s (reduced dle. Keep for about strong v minutes, at the same time that few women outside the pr ith medicine, literature. or art can ever hope to and bai pass, if they reach it. Nine hundred dollai ay then must be the limit of most w: ‘The ambition, out of which to provide a plea ic ed three home for themselves and those dej with rectified ethylie ether by them, to lay by provisions for old age or bro It is rather surprising tha: and small ventures are not more frequent among women, instead of the great caution which distinguishes the most of them in letting go of their small surplus would be tie tost natural thing in the wo en's percolator. Tiree er four treatments with ether generally si imove all the theine. The last portions of the i i when evaporated sh These ethereal solutio and then allowed to « ina shallow dish of known weiht. apted to speculate, seein | remaining is the pure alkal ne. hundred and ninety-nine in a thous-} and its contents are now weiz least, can never hope to make | ofthe dish and the theine, minns the weight of na living in business while they are young and stroug. But they do not appear to porate The solid The dish the theine. From this the percent: ete ine beso dazzled asaruvle. Except in Caltornia, he original weight of tea can be ascertained wher nstresses and chamberinaids put their means of simple proporti If the per- wages » “margins,” and where there is! eeat is less than a half per cent., you may con- ; something in the alr that turns even house- | chide then the sample lias been either adulterated | keeping wives to ‘stock operations” and money | wii en leaves (which can easily be reco: klessness, the ; uinber of women who take | ch ventures absurdly small compared to the number of gullible men. oe = WINDOW DRESSERS, The New Trade of Arrnnging Shop Front Windows. From the New York Herald. To such adezree has the penchant for show windows been carried that at the present time some score or so of establishments employ the services of a special class of men and women who are known technically as “window dressers,” and whose sole, or at any rate chief, business it is to attend to displaying properly the goods in the show windows. These window dressers are liberally paid, one receiving a salary of $3,000 a year, and several rejoicing in the very respectable stipend of #2,500 per annum. These window dressers do nothing but dress windows, which ocenpation, as their establishments change the display in the windows once or twice every month, de- mands thelr entire working time. Others com- bine with their window dressing the selling of goods, and it is stated bya large retail dry goods dealer, as one of the results of his ex- perienced observation, **that any man who has sense and taste enongh to dress a window has and must have ability and tact enouch to make afirst-rate sulesman.” The preparation of an elaborate show window is often the task of many weeks. One of the retail dry goods and fancy goods houses begins to prepare for its holiday show windows on the 1st of Octo- nized by their botanical microscope) or the leay —Hariwicke’s Science Gossip. ——+2-—_____ A New Variablic Star. From the Boston Transcript. Anew variable star of the Algol class of yari- ables has just been discovered by Mr. Sawyer, a prominent member of the Boston Scientific So- ciety. A discussion of the observations which Mr. Sawyer lias prepared for publication in the technical periodicals devoted to astronomy shows ft to bi ‘dject to periodical variations in brightness. The amount of this variation is equal to about one-half of the normal brilliancy ot the star. During four-fifths of its period, the star remains at its maximum brightness,’ the entire decrease to mmimum and increase to maximum again occupying only twenty-four hours. Mr. Sawyer's observafions extend over the clear evenings from July 17 to November 30, and he has quite accurately determined the period and amount of variation. His opservations were continued until the close approach of the star to the sun rendered farther work impossible for the presents but in January they will be re- suined. ‘The discovery is an important one, as but five stars of this nature were known before last year, one being i . covery of this character was quite peculiar. The variability of the star having been estab- lished by Ceraski, an observer at Moscow, period was at first considered to be ten days, a series of observations showed it to be five days, and at Harvard College the true period was Ej | ter de deacon’s house and removed de ‘oman.” The prosecuting attorney then read several affectionate letters that had ioe written by the risoner. “Judge,” exclaimed the prisoner, “that prose- cuting attorney is a fool, an’ I owe the witness 10 cents for board. Me aye in the court room.) J was inspired to remove the woman.” “Were you ever crazy?” asked the counsel for defence. “I should remark,” answered the prisoner. “I flung a hatchet at ole master ‘fore de war, an’ artewards butt my head agin a beech-tree till it throbbed like a stone-bruise. Iisa high- toned bos eed Thadn’ come ter Little Rock I mizht hab staid away. Don't let bow- longed Ike testify, fur I borrowed @ shirt from - that critter; she was a worker, too.” eo gentle, I suppose,” suggested the r, “Oh, she'd ‘casionally kick over the traces,” remembrances of some lively scrimmages pre- sented themselves. “I allus kept the whip hand of her; the best uv ’em kick sometimés.” “Ever trot her?” asked his friend. “Trot her? What do you mean? Lord, man, T'm talkin’ about my late wife—did ye ‘spose I meant a hose?” he asked indignantly. They finished their drive ip silence. ——~~ oe “Lo” Tries it Om From the Austin (Nev.) Reveille. At his trial the other day Indian Dick, charged with the murder of Sleepy Jim, in Austin, some ures aes neeno sepa Pt anaes ae three weeks ago, was asked by Capt. Breckin- ner with a hoop-pole. in his | ridge, who acted as district attorney, why he excitement called the judge a liar. Recess was commiieted the toniter, His answer was: “Oh, then taken, during which time the pri oner ate | [ no-no. May be Laie Pe open ‘The in- — thee be Geek ae ree 60: adh gi Loran ed now! owed another witness how wad surprising to see ber. An importer of notions has made two bot to Paris in the course of the “evolution” of his display in his ,‘‘front of the house,” while a third establishment -has employed two men and a woman eight bours a day, Ronaay ineln- sive. for the last three weeks, to procure the de- sired results. Several points are of the most importance in dreseing a show window. The blending and the contrasting of colors must be attended to in every detail. Then the “back— grout rs of fie window 80 Fa , must re- ceive due at inno as to out” the “effects.” Then cave;must be takent to both "and “night” effects, as ay are the exhibits that one found to be just half of this, or two and one-half days. With a period like this, successive ob- servations at any one observation cannot be made, tor every second minimum woutd occur during daylight, and to all the varia- tions requires alternate watching at ol a several thousands of miles distant from each er. The type of this series of variables which is subject to a variation of magnitudes in So marked are i called, so to arretes will not interfere with the other. A show. win- dow has to be brilliantly illuminated light or electric light. as well as to be and examined by sunlight; and understand ne it is thing equally attractive by day and night. = matriage service uniting 9 ader ‘hele "JANUARY 4, 1882—DOUBLE SHEET. - thickness, Jeasth (horizontally) and asso , 4 ice to re- | hed: the weight ; the dish alone, gives of course the weight of | om pter Preacher. Mining for Gems ia North Carolina. “~The Seri s saeate ago, Mr. J. A. Stephenson, now | From Old-Time Reminies of Statesville, N.C., commenced to arge the | o, g certain oceasion my farmers of the vicinity of Stony Point, Alexan- meeting where a nual der county, N.C., to gather the specinens Of | recent and the opening serm< mincrals of that region, which he coliected. IM yan of acquaintan © of the Sond ty ae, mM WAR pray and fried, who _ 2 perlod of about six yeats a number of emeralds | 9 coo plantation, a number of | many years presched were found loose in the soil, none of which, however, were dark-colored or transpurent | paths to two quite lance c enough for use as gems, Mr. Wi “art are many thousands of people wh a, © rected to the | hear @ sermon from an educ matter, bez exp Pai ich | people have strong have led to present m' : ns m tl ’) ioeality, the only one probably where such wor - I the is carvied ont in this country. Mr. # gives | he Bible, ang the following account of the occurrence of | quotes a great de without atyre. Ste minerals al »propriateness dere carried y Point and the ei gard to its ap the text, they @ ineasure, southeast Ti untaius, sixteen miles northwest from |; Statesville. The contour of the country is low | Oy ocian rolling: the altitade something over a thousand | 1%) as the “1. The soils are mostly red, gravelly clays, | { not much fertility. The prevailing rock ts gneiss, with more of a feldspathic than micaceous nature. The geins and crystals oceur implanied, | and not dded in open pockets or veins of very extent, that are cross-fractures or fissures in the rock. These fissures are situated neariy perpendicular. There drift here the soils are neces- tf of decomposition and disin- | 3 spot. It is, therefore, an gasy | sk to tind the source of minerals found on the | m) towers, no places of 8s ation was withont a lower? “How do you know this iss A leatning. You haven't \$ far the gems have been found in a nar- | row belt ranning north west, and | seattered over a dist are . and it is a very common thing to find utile, tourmaline, etc, ete., scaitered over the surface. ion of the present imine was ob- A corps of men tained in the following manne! ee was eagazed to dig a series of deep ditches in | ™) A” wd be, “Sela was dizections that would cut the strata at diiferent | poac jes. ‘The site chosen for work was onthe | BON st abont the untowennd spot where at h a half-dozen pale emeralds mid been found. Not knowing then their man- nurrence, Mr. Hidden huped in this way wrthem. Five weeks were | 1880.) before any success depth of eight feet, ery small emeratds was ved outnunbering the emeralds Hits J the new emerald-zreen_mine- py Dr. J. Lawrence Smith, w was such a surprise and which was des to answer the sane | se as does the gem sought, and become | ity the main object of future It is not untowered generation, untoward. It Is, “Save yourself ward generation.” ” The preacher dropped his head, thoue moment, and then s e can't be about mi a that, e preached it that way more than g 'y reached the house w y found a ch led to to settle the matter. ~ verdict spoiled a favorite semoon! = > ee The Fox Sisters of Rochester, From the Rochester Democrat, Doc Late English papers announce w Alas, that tue he death of A His denth oo- Iness of three ch for emeralds at Stony Point i : a with my discovery of emeraid-reen | D. Jeucken, a London barrister. The two minerals oceur intimately curred November 20, after a brief ther, and while mining tor the | days, at the age of 53 years. Mr other is constantly found. This blind | 9 TC her of the Royal Institut enchen was af an my in yielded very handsomely of the new min- beets ene ade ‘but very sparii of ‘emeralds, and the | of the Reyal Geographical Societ ome Wor few found were too small to be nseful as gems, | 12 years ago he married Katie Fox. the young. ulthouch their color was very good. A tunnel | ext of the © 260 feet lon, inostly through rock, was cut © this vein, anda shaft eight feet square sunk | th down upon it. | Up to October the vein has been | 34 sears ago. Mr. Jeacken wasa | worked down to a depth of thirty-three feet, at Tapping phe Md wie ce +> whieh it has proved its pocket nature by a ae the various magnetic or oth through mediums and sensiti quently called before its sub-c expounder of the phenomena. two children, the oldest ot whom, ed, manifests in a marked degtee the sa | ers said to attend her mother. Mrs Katie Fox stais. | Jencken has not been a public medium since her nely | marriage, but the sounds, if desired, her fr yea dolomite. , apatite, me quite as freely asin be one instance a | days. The same is the ease with the « utifal snail | ter, Mrs. Underhill (formerly Mrs. Fish pvered Willi laige arse j Fork cit f — eyes w mavaliel to the basal y public way fo vecontained onty mica | ts sald the raps can be produced wit jorless beryl that hy derhill or Mrs. Jencken as readil uy planes. T. ly a8 30 years ago, but since the foand thas far ® have been devoted to domestic duties. » an in 2 | niy consented t ir the rape als contained ping and other attendant phenomena for the ir color was excellent, and they sional gratification of friends or for experi- | ments of scientific investiators. Both women 2. are reported to be decided spiritualists, and pro Bo They Read the Newspapers? | fess to be as unalle to account for the ‘piveiioine - [ena that has attended them, unless produced by disembodied spirita, as they were azo. The second | ried Dr. Kane, the Arctic exp | fore his death, did not hold a Fox sisters,” with whem the “Ro- chester rappings” origmated in 1548, ot gz out—ciosing to- ets have ens of pine Thus far twelve of these poc dl withia aa area of a forty-fout eraids, four of which poe fenite. All th sawe chara pockets were found that yield movazite and mica t Whose wails were covered wi < a oue sinall p woth ends t ‘nt, thouch somewhat flawed.” One of inte years was that of the forzer, W. E. Gray. | The son of aclersyman in hington who is eted, reared under the most | for some years after Dr. Kam , highly educated, ‘polished | sequentiy, however, she visited | and genttes his manners, he went to —. oo — Samay and for aod mod 4 = ars g ‘ years has devoted her time to mediumsh Now York, where ‘he made honte of tetends, | Toy York and other eastete cliten Shea, ake lived In excellent style, and moved in the best | jer sisters, clalins to have no power to produce business as a broker, | the sounds herself, but constantly asserts they ne iirm title of William y & Cv.. be | are the result of some occult agency. rd to be prosperi od Well on treet,” when the city was startled by the that he had been engaged in gigantic ad had fled to Europe. He bad ob- tained larze sums of money from two banks in .000 by one operation) by depos- collateral, bonds of New uaty fund lean which had been tom 31.600 to $10. | lowed to Lond CK but us criminal cases of | rope, gave From the Art Amuteur. In many houses ceilings have, until late years, been treated simply to a coating or two of whitewash; no trouble has been taken to make them anything more than clean. Most decora- - | tors have seemed to consider that with the walls © who caused his arre with remarkable all ornamentation must cease, and when at last he d from the police and went co | the idea dawned upon them that more was re- tz J. A few yeurs later he was avain |Quired at their hauds, it was the cornice that | arrested in London, but owing to the fact that | STt attracted their attention. This was conse- the extradition treaty between the United , quently picked out in all. variet red, and had | #2d still the ceiling remained a des B again set at liberty, | #84 uncompromising. The decoration of t he lived a fast fife in England for sey- ike a pic will be judyed asa whole. ears, apparently havi whole it is incomplete, until the ceilin and ape: it iy, until, in the spring of | bas been so utilized that it inay cont 1 surrendered full share to the color gradations of the d his scheme. The several ways in which it ns brought to bear out the conception claim therefore rs, | convicted, and seutenced to inprison- | for ten vears, | In rooms where the use us far Gray's history ought to be familiar | Pensable, the surface sl to every 3 | easily renewed; this probal name Was f sons that whitewash has bec | ae The addition of a little chrome to however, form a cream tint that is fa bie to the dead white. It will carry on th of the cream wall tints, and yet be -ulject tono objection on the score of ‘cleanliness. the Te newal of a cream or gray blue ing being as easy as that of a crude I the cornice is picked out with c rule to be observea is that b tried | me: ex- ex- ie at two subse- and his tinal surrender, were occa- incidents of his career were | and again. His escape throuch | tradition treaty was tie | uch discassign at Washington, and | to some very severe criticisms of the quent time: sions whe white. ul of the ‘State department at that | Wed on concave surfaces, yellow on re was any man in the country ms or undersides ofthe against whom the people had had the most ue Rey iby white. ample warni shi i, OF one whose very name it Hd seem would put people on their guard, man was William E. Gray. redible as it may seem, this same in tne styic on Fifthayenue, in New York, | that a radiant glow ing uo edort to conceal his name, and has | Style, is produced may be advai ed up a givantic scheme for consolidating | ployed: in this case the design wil : all of the electric lizht companies, getting in- rather more intricate. But t 4 te i in his wildeat scheme some of the most | that tncets us in the way of followin out such nent busi men in the metropolis, 2a |& decoration is, that these . t United States district attorney, papers are seldom to be olta’ tor Jones, of Nevada, and others, and has though they are now becomin< | used the naines of other even more prominent | deetees more — fashionable who had nothing whatever to ao | Subtle sage and olive greet with his company. and were not aware that. he-| Shades of bronzes and ur: had published them 28 directors. And what fs |". pall upon the obse more. his operations do uot seem to have | be enters bears the self-sa aroused suspicion until a reporter of the New |!OTe brilliant colors are gradually takit ings are papered, sity: most suitable, if too elaborate tly The ground may be cr dark, or gray blue; Seni. | boldiy | | York Zritune bezan an investigation wi | places. If each one would bo: strike resulted in a startling exposure SMM O88 | Oot a path for ‘Nimselt instead of ial It seems that Gray never went to the state | M™itating a @eighbor ‘who _ bap | Prison at all. Althou:h, on appeal, his sentence | Kv0w what is in yorue at the m irined, he was alluwed to lie in the Tombs | @ Charming conceit, a novel desizn, a | in New York city until last April, when Jude | fey, or a successful combi f — Brady declared tits sentence iliegal. yacated jt, | Would continue to be viewed with p! — and granted him a new trial. The evidence upon | Much longer period than is now poss which this proceeding was based covsisted of | Seeing it less often we should not sv soon weal affidavits made by Thomas P. of it and discard it for something newer ye i oe is in painting a ceiling that the at scope for showing his power. A center ornament aufords him an opportaal of arranging bis colors so that ayy lender magnificence lights up the whole ding a glory of color and gold arownd, aud re calling visions of the radiance and bn illiance of rabian art. Or it may be that the surrounding tints require a tender, softened tone to com plete the harmony. If the painted center 0 cupies a large portiot he ceiling, ne comer ‘Srumncuts ooo ate ate fdciicate. tint and the cornice # center be stuall, Hr » a ubtediy intended to sell the stock, have to thank a whose lance they were say. they must i He #3 il