Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1882, Page 7

frases F a —_ Bmmen lirea, is a fruitful eanse of 1 plate which forms t . floor of the tr 1 < cove w i heey ¢ the sneceeded by ae hnOW catarrh. | napkins to p: t« “ort ter the ey bowl on : th re © oF eera Tinen with th lik t ~ i be os the ‘ Willie nin will pre- Childish Children. From Harrer’s Bazrr. ‘There is, | know, a sour and sarcastic saying about bachelors’ wives and old maids’ children ways perfect. Still, in the face of this, to assert that old maids lois can at | once fairly and frankly judze the characters of children. To them only is any real independ- ence even possible. Each father and mother is too fail of fondness tor their child to see its Dlemis! while in tie children of other people il to fad the beaaties, throuzh the action ofthat unconscious jealousy which is a part of the parental instinct. With old maids there are no such drawbacks; and so, whether their Jude- ment be yight or wrong, it can not miss being n sort independent and unwarped by per- ve! Asan maid, then, lean ex. love for childish children, and my anx- . in fhe quick pace of modern rim of chil the very lifegf childiiood s! pzether. believes in th it Is now the has much sar -to be natural or acquired. ‘the youn; ks of all ages have ever done so from the be < over unless it is boil wiik or make ot milk in a vessel ng. A ginning of the world. It is, indeed, a blessed eee of immortal youth that it can live and the present and the future without even jes back to the days of becomes merely a mat- y. Itmay well be that each suc- generation has seemed less child-like preceding to t its growth. But all th i same, Ican not help aps with a woman's want ic, that tie present race of children are ly precocions, and that the badge of age is upon all the tribe.’ What we call progress is but pushing forw and it would seem as if this power of pus! - can not be acquired too soon if a good place is to be secured in front of the world. Even babies in the cradle are affected by the rush of modern life, aud look older than they were wont to do from the very | day of their birth. Whence come those wrink- les on the fair face of infancy? Can they be “ y the sharp struggle for existence | thronch whien their parents have had to pass? It is trne that, physically speaking. the strain of that strnggie has been Telaxed in these times; but. mentally and morally considered, it is harder than ever, and it can not fail to make its | mark on sueceeding generations. | Born, thea, with the old weariness of the world staniped upon its baby brow, what chance Jern childhood of sh? If it come of poor paren | whether boy or then, rl, the fact that the population tis often hurried by any s ing. by setting the e. [the vessel to be used in cook- «rubbed with a little butter ora bit will not stiek near so be much more easily AND Carrer Swe —I have ttoooms wet with boiling soap + ve along with it and & yard or £0 at atime, © and repeat until the room wioren Telegraph, eh 13 nonrish easily + ved in alittle coid into it. Stir th boil np on ne this pudiinc: One is and wine, bie or and and then is net to be en made of the over sto the table.— . CABINETS ie are : Th On top is placed a dai biecushi au evcucling embroid— + on the a © eubroud either point nd are ba narrow tring, pur. re.—To an enquirer, who proper for one invited to dinner to Aim alter dinner, the New York Sun “It 48 never proper for a suest to fold whether the dinver be formal or in- P even if he !s a friend of the taunily, ed in to t pot Inneh. A nap- aquest is posed to be used ve it has cone Po fold tie napkin away wi It is, ¢ guest te tet Hence | bowl = kin tw fad te wil a napkin doubly e Hixts yor Paxet Mereres.—In these days of de: ng lady, it | more or Some talented ones aking their knowledge beneiicial in many bitious. decor ases any fror ic ideas; or ti requisite article account of living great distances from Zo sueh zsest how, with a i outlay, pret el pictures y made tt amply re} ze for the time spent si a. Take to school slates: old oves will a@pswer ie purpose, provided they are not marred er broken. First paint in the back- ground ¢.ther of somencatral tint. or oneshaded ose from dark brown to the lightest | color are pretty and effective, using er and whit areful to shade it and eveniy as possible: the lighter loubtless Tequire painting several Flowera, on the whole, I think, make 1 pictures.’ Some ‘0 blue corn-flow- % golden rod and some purple chrys- anthemins on the other, would make a bright and ef-ctive pair; or a spray of apple biossums on one. asd a group of pansies on the other. i joden frames of the slates in some nz color, or else simply wild them with ad ; and you have at a trifling ex- pense # pretty pair of jauel pictures.—Country Gentleman. Frost Bites ax Probably no - forwe of aceident or injury come upon us ectedly as those due to excessive cold. thing we are not aware that a party en until the mischief is already is due to the fact that one of the d is to destroy the sensitive - parts exposed. Surgeons make use 2 mall operations and cool the parts al cold. The . the nose, some- cheeks, and the hands and feet are the paris niost liable to be frozen. One of the first « { freezing is to stop the circulation . and any part in which the cireuia- rd by other means is all the more » frozen. The old-fashioned skates, numerous tight straps across the Prous on this account, as to keep them in piace the straps are drawn so tizhtly to impede the eireulation in the feet, and frost bitten fect are often th - Thouzh the operation of freezing is painless, a suc thawim: is attended with inflamma’ a a. wine should be very " lation in the parts may be For this reason it is ad- - rub the frozen ts with snow, or in er tnaile as cold as Ut is said that in Russia, on polite ni of snow and apply it rnitte, even if he is In cases of severe freezing, rwlual thawing by the use of snow or an should be called, as it may be w | j aris a Tight or loving labor. Very soc | age, with all its care and cunning | tle upon the lead and shoulders, ldren become, mentally and morally, men | and women before they have left off bein boys a i What time e childish? what chance ing the sweet time of ja hi r lives long before they They may indeed often t they were ever born, as bilterly as parents, when they came to crowd the iwelline and share the scanty food. er-grinding mill of povert m for grace or beauty. All is A old: childhood has to be scrambled sh as if it were merely a few years of ex- istence that must be got over as soon as. po! ble, in order that the time of making money ay the more quickly come about. \ poor there is thus an unanswerable | for childhood and childisiness are far . But the well-to-do have r their condi Yet, for the there i | - Vain mothers and foolish fat } i ren be child-like, but s to little men and women. rn gitl baby is taucht to feel how fine in anew frock almost as soon as she is born. When hardiy able to toddie, and still | less uble to tall, in ith vice and «1 will coguettishly display her pretty e dress aad person to an admin eof friends and still phase of fol reproduced upon be seen in the dress al It is a pitiful and pitia- t, and one which to the philosophic VA not Isat be saddening. int chil- the tull play of their arms end yet they may be fund painfully strut Streets, tied up in the last new skirt, or our ane: onr turn comes to be ridiculed by posterity, there y ‘edly be ample food for mirth in “h our poor little pets of children sed nowadays. be weeds of vanity and the ke sake of display are sown in girlish bat id certainly they bar fruit a huadred- child is never allowed to forget her | own importance, and thus that unconsciousness which is the chiefest charm of childhood is | blotted wut by personal pride. She can to a party ittle children without getti | tated by that great question of clothes, which appears to be the first and only thought of The duties of dress and are impressed upon her as the two lead- loctrines of society, “without believing in | Which there is no chauce of being distinguished. | This is perhaps even worse among the middle than the higher circles, but it is bad enoush everywhere. There is, however, one comfort. G ren zo to school, and apart | fr foolish mothers they stand a good chiance of having some of their vain non- Sense shaken out of them or rit ficuled away. these schools there would, in too many be no time of childhood in the lives of modern girls. With boys the case is different— Staying at home is the exception rather than the rule, while the word “-prig” has acquired asting- ound and a sharpness of sarcasm that act with good effect upon every boys it would seem, indeed, as if the world were getting old, and that every being born therein comes under the influence of its age. Yet isthe earth forever fresh and child-like at each recur- ring i So should it be with our babies It sounds strange to say that t in the young nowadays,though | it seems to many a fact; and one to cause sad- | Hess rather than to raise rejoicing. Why need we hurry our little ones into the worry of the Why must their very cradles conform shion? Why should their infant intellects | be stuffed with scraps of science which can be of ari PRILLING SCHOOL CHILDREN. Case of Fire in ng. Preparations Made i = the init pila Press. e eccurred fa the Randolph mill, amonth orso agh, the attention of councilmen was directed to a statement made in the finance committee, to the effect that most of the public schools of the city were totally unprovided with any means for getting the children ont in safety in case of fi (r. Gatea, the chairman of the schoo! committee, who is also on that oa nee, said that the new school buildings were secure, and some of them had exterior stair- ways, built iva view of avoiding any danger ud the building be burned. In ers the stairways were built of stone, which was expensive and beyond the power of the board ofeducation to have constructed in every case for that reason. In the other build- ings it was asserted by others present the great- est insecurity existed, which could be safely averted 0 by coolness on the part of the teaghers, au This assertion adopted in the G sraimar sehool, located in the second section, where about a year ago a false alarm caused ascene of the greatest confusion, the children running pell-tnell down stairs and into the street. For- tunately, no one was injured; but tie occu ronce showed the principals of the several de partments that some guard should be adopted to prevent a recurrence of the scene in case of reai dauser. The janitor hit. on a happy thought which would enable the children to leave the building in an orderly manner at a given sigual. A large gong was pluced at the top of the buildin in the open space known as the well, with communication from each floor. The children had explained to them the use of the gong, and they were drilled jy the teachers so that they were to leave their Studies at the sound of three taps, fall into the regular places assigned them in the division line, and then march on a fast walk down-stair and into the street. This method of emptying the buildin: has worked to a charm, as was evinced a few days ago when a visit was paid to the school house. The three taps were struck onthe gong, and almost instantly the doors of the school | rooms opened and two by two the pupils of all ages descended with the teachers at_ the end of the line. Some of the children @xhibited signs of alarm on their countenances, but all re- mained in line until the street was reached. By { actual timing by the watch the building was emptied in one minute and a half. Each divis- ion has ifs own mode of descending the stairs, and a particular door by which it passes into the street. The drills take place once in each week, neither teachers nor scholars knowing the time ‘until the im is sounded on the gong. paar at eens Reported Cure of Cancer by the Appli- cation of Lemons, » the Pacific Rural Press, I knew Mr. St. C. when I lived in Massachu- setts. He tiad a cancer on his right hand, anda terrible looking land it was—as thick as four common hands, The cancer at the commence- iment resembled a wart, and they called ita cancerous wart. He had employed several phy- ns who tried everything they knew. Nitrate of silver was among the remedies prescribed ; but nothing seemed to be of any avail. He was finaily persuaded to go to the hospital, where th upposed to have doctors who oucht to fully rstand his case. But he hated to. go. He was getting quite old, and he felt as though going to the hospital meant being shué away from all his friends. Yet his hand was such a torture to him that he consented at last to go. His dauzhter went over to the hospital with him, aud the doctors got about him and looked at his hand. One wanted him in charge, and another wanted him, and a third thought he could do by him.” There seemed to be a hint at amputation, and the poor old man got frightened and beyeed his danghter to let him go home and haye his liberty. So home they went, and that evening his «randson was read- i "om @& newspaper and came across th Care for a cancer—lemon poultice.” “Why not try it for grandpa?” said the boy. “It couldn't do any harm,” replied his moth- er; ‘I think we will, Put on your cap and run cer’sand et a dozen lemons,” lemons were soon brought, and the n Was, how to prepare the poultice. As there was no directions she did tie best she knew how—took two or three squeezed out the des, removed the seeds and stirred in poun crackers to thicken it. Well, for three hours that man walked the floor in such agony as he never suffered before. But he would not have the poultice removed, and at the end of three hours the pain began to lessen. In the morning that poultice was taken off and afresh oue applied, which he kept on twenty- fear hours. In trying to remove the fourth poultice it stuck so to his hand the daughter feared hurting him when she tried to remove it. “Never mind,” said Mrs. St. C., “just puil it off anyhow. ” So she gave asteady pull, and out came the whole cancer. leaving a hole so large she could have set a coffee cup into it. The cancer was as black aaink; that might have beea caused by the nitrate of silver which had been used. ‘The hand bezan to heal right away, and in a few months was so well he could work as hard as other men of his age. He cut and split cord- wood for my husbaad that winter, and that, you know, ts pretty hard on the hands. Tiave writttn the above story of Mr. St. C.’s case very nearly as I lately heard it froma friend, hoping it might lead some sufferer to try the “lemon poulticeremedy” for themselves, asI know many give up in despair whea they find they are aillicted by that dread scourge— cancer. _ the plan Laura J. Daki —_——. Mourning Weeds Unfashionable. From the London Truth. Mourning is going out of fashion in England. A widow’s Is the only bereavement that must, according to the canonsof society, be symbolized by yards of crape and paramatta. All other de- grees of grief for the departed can, it seems, be amply expressed by a band of black crape worn round the sleeve, ‘This state of things Is, doubt- Jess, a reaction from the too apparent Inxury of woe preyulent till recently, but it has its disad- vantages. Once on atime we were protected from the disagreeable risk of inquiring after the heaith of persons who are no more by the inky blackness of attire of their surviving relatives. It is not pleasant to remark costal and cheer- fully to a young lady: ‘And your father, is he all right?” and to be morally bowled over by the reply, ‘‘He is dead,” accompanied by a reproach- ful glance at the strip of black which you have never noticed upon her arm. Stirely some com- promise can be inade between the heavy black that was once considered necessary and the serap of crape that is now thought sufticient. Social pitialis ot a distressing kind ought to be guarded against, and women are ingenious ciated only by master minds? Why, in rt. do we strive to push every poor litte z the path of prosress before it has ast idea whither it Is going? Those who are now past the prime of manhood, or of wo- anly beauty, look back often with longing and eyes to their happy scious childhood. To me it seems as if the children now growing up will have no such re- source in future years, for they bave had notime in which they were allowed to be childish ac- cording to their natu innocent, uncon- ould this be so, even the good may come to be regretted, thougi now ey are only Inughed at, as is the fauey of an old maid, who is so silly as to lament the loss of chiidishness in children. k tions are needed to prevent of the parts. It is not nece to be actually The circulation Is 1 the parts remain exceedin - zes of cold and hea! slight inflammation, to a breaks and even it cases require tal treatment. the intense {pain of ordin ains, a great applications have been used. An : uuphate of zine (white vitrol), in a pint 1 ounce of si! ammoniac dissolved cir and alcohol are he washes often used. it is stated on good autiority, thouzh ave not had occa gion to try it, that the application of ordinary hs Kerosen is very efficacious im allaying the Mehing and pain. —American + The Atiwnta Constitution says politics and er are 2 wood deal alike. ‘That isan abom- shar on poker.—Boston Post. v of the way the gallows 1s so often cheated nowadays. the proverb should be altered to “ Murderers will oat.”"—Boston Transcript. - Having learned that brown stoze for bui ding Purposes is not durable, we have changed our id the family residence shali be gricuiturist, +02 ‘The Smoke-4s-You-Please Young Wan. From the Philadelphia Times. Touching the matter of loud conversation in street-cars, private parlors and theaters Emer- son once hazarded the sage remark that every human ear has an inalienable right to a certain number of square inches of atmosphere sur- rounding it: but what philosopher, president or king will protect or defend the human nose from the ubiquitous smoker? A man can stuff cotton in hisears and defy the shrill, uncul- tured tongue, but be does not plug his nose in it ‘The nose fs man’s link with nature. The divine oxygen gets in by the nose. It shonld be at once the freest and most protected part of humanity. Alas! it is the most ex- posed and the most frequently outraged and tn- suited. What is a crooked nose.a pug nose, | even a mashed nose compared with an olfactory perpetually deluged with vile tobaceu smoke? A good cicar is a perfect panacea in Its place, doubtiess; but by comsnon consent the smoker is ruled off the front and rear platform of the street-car. Now who will rule him off the side- walk? The sidewalk is more democratic than the street-car. {It does not belong to the smoker, it belongs to everybody; yet the smoker monopolizes this, too. Itisnot only his smoke, but his ashes and his bad breath that tyrannize the common thoroughfares of the world, He never looks behind to see who or what is com- ing. He rans fore and aft, and there is proba- bly no relief except in some anti-smoke-on-the- Sek eee but who will take the pledge Mr. James C. Flood i Several benevolent being th ehouzh to devise some means of advertising be- reavement which shall be patent to all, and’ yet or ible with a becoming variety of costume and colors. ———_-+-_____ Brother Gardner on Negro Minstreis. “They bin axed,” began the old man as the mereury in the thermometer hanging alongside the stove began to boil. “I hev bin axed what relashun de negro minstrel troupe b’ars to de culld race. To return an off-hand answer, I should say dat it b'ars about the same relashun dat a hasty puddin’ does to a ten thousand dollar paintin’, If dar’ am any relashun what- ever, They neber bin able to diskiver it. De cull’d man may dance an’ sing; but he never trabbles on his ignorance nor on de J'okes an’ gars of de pas’ ginerashun. If 20 cull’d men should put on wigs an’ paint up to resemble 20 White men, an’ sot down befo’ de public an’ ask why an elephant was like a gimlet an’ what was the differeace between a clam on de sand and a sand on de clam, dey would be hooted off de siaze. Yet, de public will see white men dis- guise deirselves as negroes an’ applaud de ca¢s, an’ jokes, an’ conundrums dat te poorest African in Detroit would be ashamed to acknowledge. If de public bankers for sich shows, an’ mus’ hev em, let’em go on, but doan’ let white folks decvive deirselves or be deceived. Continer to call em negro minstrel shows, but doan’ look fur de negro in’em. He ain't dar. He's home in de busum of his family, warmin’ his fect, learnin’ de chiilen’ to read, an’ teliln’ de ole woman dat all flesh am grass."—Detroit Free ——— Burdctt-Coutts Affairs. ‘From the London Truth. I continue to notice allusions to a coming Taw suit between Baroness Burdett-Coutts and her sister, Mrs. Money-Coutts. There will be no litigation whatever respecting the settled estates devised by the will of the Duchess of St. Albans. A synod of eminent lawyers having Kesey heen Cel ess of ua get ited aay len (whie! way, was the opinion the tart of the late Mr uv wets con- fident that he was sant he declined to draw the setilement), Baroness wisely re- THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1882—DOUBLE SUEET. Steam Railway Petectives. WOMEN IN TUE BUSINESS. The Clevelund Press gives these points about a branch of the detective business: Daring the war of the rebellion thousands of bounty jumpers had defrauded the government, and a lot of detectives were employed to cireu- late among the newly culisted meu and enter into conversatien with those whom they su pected to be bounty-jumpers, The latter had become so bold that they usually hesitated but little In comparing notes with the urbane @etec- tives, who also represented themselves as boun- ty-jumpers. A detective having obtained proof that tie man to whom he was talking was a bounty-fumper, he would. in a confidential man- ner, lay his band ou the fellow’s stioulder. Fas- tened on the palin of thd hand was a plece of chalk, which made a small bué very distiact spot on the jumper’s shoulder. When he went out, intending to skip to Canada and enjoy his money, anofficer at the door glanced at Its shou saw the chalk mark and arrested him. tectives worked more than a scheme leaked out, and ever afterwagd the de- tective in search of bounty-jumpers was called a “spotter,” a name since applicd to t viduals who work up cases against railroad em- ployea. Asa rule, a woman makes the poorest kind of a detective; but Pinkerton has two handsome femaies in’ his employ who are most excellent “spotters.” They at one time worked the | western division of the Lake Shore read, pur suading conductors to allow thern to ride tre These ‘acts of gallantry caused the men their heads. A handsome woman always does better service as a “spotter” than one with plain features, but no face, however pretty or sad, would prevail upon Lake Shore conductor Parker to pass its owner. He runs between Cleveland and Toledo, and it is said of him that he never passed a person or missed collecting a fare. His strictness has not made him a favorite ic drummer. ce Car company employs a | lot of “spotters” the year around. The ln called “inspectors.” They are on the lookout | T | stil and for crookedness, not only in financial matters, but also carelessness aud any little failing on the part of a conductor. ———°oo—_______ A Fancy. From the Cottege Hearth. ‘The tide goes out and the tlde com: ‘And guils hang whitely abou Our ears grow used to the water's din, And We heed the birds’ quaint fight no more. The roses bloom and the roses fade, ‘The green leaves wither and brown ond fall; ‘The brook from its olf!-time course has strayed, And what does it matier, after all? We gather moss from the rolling wave: Or pluck a rose that 1s red and rere; While their comrades sink into nawele We lay these by with a eurcless care. And so with friends that We love them, ay! wit Fi But when tuey pass from our daily view Tis near—ah, mie! 1 It quite?—tue ont in, shore, S graves are dear and true— stor all come with sprins (han these by far; ses the waves will’ bring, shine tor our beacon star. wr, So what does it ‘count that the sun goes That waves roll ont, and the roses fall, That cyellds close over smile or frown? AY! What does it 'couut us, after all? JAMES BURR BENsEL. A Few Verbal Errors. The following examples of the more common | errors in the use of words are taken trom “The Verbalist,” by Mr. Alfred Ayres: Accord for give; as, “the Information was ac. corded him.” } ravate for irritate; to aggravate 1s to make worse, Aliude to tor refer to, or mention. As for Uutt; “not a8 I know,” fo know.” ot that T poniounds stor in da Absurily s. YS debuse, aisartt: mean on 18 Inerely lo belave oue’s scl, whether well or {iL Dirt, for earih or loam. Donitre, for gire. Execute, tor hang, as appiied to the er! residence, BOL th ithe, for Whuiesume; hy, Vu when you pi more healtiinessornaheal it inay or may not be whs lesuine food. is ness hough © Unt hin as an “article of | mo1 ity, for itt, Inangurath, for begin, Kids, tor kid @bves. Learn, for teach, Liable, tor tively or apt. Loan, tor tend, Pants, tor :xcntatoons, or (better still) trousers. Partake, tor eat. Plenty a8 0. Real, for wry; as “reel nee,” “real pre Resile, tor lice; residence, tor houses Retire, tor go to bed, ‘Seldom or ever, tor seldom Uf ever, or seldom or never. Some, for somerwhat; “she 1s some better to-da’ Stop, tor stay; “where av stopping?” This IS One Of the vilest of Brit ma oo) gon wit cou qui a ms (the verb.) a, Pulgar, for immodest or indecent, Withoul, for uuless, aS ee. “The Dangers of the Sea.” From the New York Times. Ifarevision were ever to be made In the Book of Common Prayer used by the Episcopal church, it is not anlikely that changes would be made in some of the supplemeniary prayers ap- pointed to be used upon special occasions for the purpose of bringing them into closer accord with the usages and conditions of the present time. Perhaps the prayer intended to be used for the safety ot those about to goto sea and that which reflects the gratitude of those who haye returned in safety from a sea voyage are as suggestive of ourchanged condition as any in the prayer-book. When they were written the perils of the deep Included risks which we can hardly now comprehend. “The dangers of the sea” at that time consisted in the relatives Gu, ignorance of mariners; in voyazing in- small | ini and poorly built vessels; in coming without charts deserving of the name upoa a ec where pilots and light-houses were unknown, and where, in case of a wreck, no reseuinz li! boat put ont, but the people on the shore only waited to plunder and possily murder those whom the sea hadspared. And then, too, what adark tide of recollection rises up with the words, *the violence of enemies,” recalling, as they do. s p riod less than a century remote, when the Voyazer on some of the great routes of commerce might consider hims elf fortunate if he escaped unchallenged by some piratical craft. It is only,a generation ago that American merchantmen in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea usually sailed under the convoy of some of our var. Atthat tlme these prayers must la signifleance to which our present <perience furaished no paralicl. It would be wrons, possibly, to criticise an instance of pro- found religious trast in Divine protection, but when, Sunday after Sunday during the last eight months, the congrezations inour various churches have been called upon to pray for the safety of some one whowas been making a trip across the Atlantic, or to offer their thanks- givingsforthe safe return of some one from such & voyage, the thought must have sug- gested itself to more than one that in these in- tercessions we are largely the slaves of custom. Tt would be thought sacrilegions to haye the prayers of the gpnrel offered for the safety of one about to mi a tripby rail across the continent, and yet we know that the risks attendant upon sucha trip would be about as great as those incurred in.crossing the Atlantic ina Cunard steamship. [t is true there is a deep-seated dread of the séa which cannot seon be eradicated, but it is: eertain that the ten- dency of later years has been a few ofits perils, and tothe ordinary transat- pizeons, the of the of Aft of thin of hi eall his Bent wou any a pl bis A ree his the uncertainty of | at tl greater than those which uman life we are called y) to encounter. Another Match Between Sexton and Schacter. Sun, lan he From the N. ¥. William Sexton and Japgt oMice of the Spirit of the , Tii yesterday and sigaed articles of it for a match at Dil. liards which is to take place April 27 In Tam- | doi! They were accom} their | and Bosal of St. and dru ser! lenry Stedeker of signed the property involved, and I believe that, her sister has made over to her of the’ - | cent paid § it be the she: ton—not s jag trici from a hy 3 no | distinguished citizen haying ‘olit youred: adjective, where plentiful is meant, | Oster eal Of a wh eighteen yards of blood-pud of a whoie hoz,accommodate would su Leger nursed him round, and then put him ting denounced hia as a sore eral, one of the lie! heels and ran. From the Eaeton Star. Capt. John B. Sykes. who for several year: al past has been running North Car shingles to the Choptank landi ago becaine greatly egamored of a marry her, wilting or anwillins. was committed to jail to Keep the to jail, but, not finding the jail as comfortable After reachi back again, and wrote to his b: coming back and must see thé lady at all risks. He arrived here Sunday morning, his bail sur- rendered him, and he is now in jail. he is inspired to marry the lady and must do ——_——_e-_ — custom to a Boston house. do well by you?” asked the New Yorker. believe 39." “Didn't we ship goods promptly?* ‘Yea te lantic travellers Its risk§ are now not much | Pinci?” “No.” “Did. yn almost every day | did.” “Then I can’t understand why you should leave our house all of a sudden, after buying of us for several ihe osna | SERgE Soe Rarer ae aes king it over the other day when mast fe immer wns in here, and ont. 4 is, who ape eo mean it?” MEN OF UNBOUNDED ST@MACHS. | A QUEES SILEIOVAMEE. | nee WS of ‘Posiny Scamyel Miller, the Kichest Man Vir- nnd of AU the Ages ‘Siat Are Past. | ginia Ever Predaced. | — i ac like Strne et SOME POISTS IN THR GA oF 4 PaoR Bor. | ho tone provinelal, no 4 | wae secawe THe Most st PUL MONEY | ried of t Int OL) DOMINION, } # glance Eis not v his not withont faterest. = of classical th wl and extraordinary ative of Virginia w nitlion doliz name of ¢ si prodiicy was the Jat or may Hine M exception aad eharac viking port: = at one banqnet . at one banqnet, hima but oe for a re as te tie shape of Ul 0.400 and washi I more costly, but th idiocy andy founder of the As ofa est any student of the peea- | in unequal number sts from ui de his supper coterminous with x f 0 sat at Itble twelve how n the county of Albo- aL there ve not in bed. dtl Do mm and no aoush this were the ¢ ) Can prove or disprove it—inherite from the connection besid a H-tanght Au, Wid ate forty pound alious of wine at a rey his size. Not sa the indeed, the moder W110) ate, Mr. add ya ur which aye so often tae peu joose birth or a proud aad sensitive n ther reserve nor y Ror eomsbinat devour twe devas ¢ shenoss, nor any On of disadvanta, jong trom Une reat so little e his instrace e hearty la- i while vet y emade a whole boiled pleie puddin: ed that he had nid his t in our institutions— the plow- ofthe harvest pe awspirit that did 1 tis calculations comm oirse, was his main materi al with wiltin, trsion into thy nach, 5 rma tshrink from To- n into eon the kind t be cited Mr. who on electic prutton, 18} he wast o erbors vity that—dis attorded by oF whieh deception and 4 t kept the even tenor of his way under aptacion of yet arieh N not the tript cath overtook about tity his home ia ay fr na G) fthe woods, with a hous j mto ay seek had less the Napoleon. i d thy wh ¥ short 1 in the cheapest and sold jin the dearest market. I. treated the question of glut ma nly. practical Bat this uch more no- ly Knows but those who will never tell. Aman with a million or two million dollars Is jotes related about him. Mr. escape these, and most of them Be was a rare compound of and this story is told about Ote of his nearest: neighbors and best so attended him O- 5 e non hanze py . but went his way and forgot ail a ext time he saw Mr. Miller, the latter souzht occasion to say that there was a tittle balanee in ti ‘or, in the last settiement | Of their accounts, Dr. T. said he did not remember it. don't you remember that you owed me five said Mr. Mil’ tor did remeny But the next di his wheat cut in tit awh re t ate a sheep at a ine: folk who: entlet, he ¢ “one that eat much as twenty mhot dy the work of one.” What w edone with Clout bushel of apples si ndered ace ies, 10. melons, 20 and 100 n, that distin | generous ar | him. with 100 ioay nes eeate of wine? Hard 5 honorably sinouth, thouzh 2 h four meals a anseil : ite eclip Paris ca! aries 1, ‘dn or the queer eustomer of *, aS On One oO ion he ate a Qed in| Westminster Mall for ard, his practice not proving his desserts and the 4 to content b I | F returning home, he found field 1. capped, and at tield vazht to be in a fairy tale. Aud ofcourse Mr. Milier had bad it Pdone, and of course Mr. Miller wouldn’t take he delutition at one | AY pay for it. There are many such anecdotes Dr at AAbENEr OF as this about millionaires, but this one is true. . af another of 84 rabbits, at a fourth ot | |, For Mr. Miller was. indeed, largely zenerous, viethial provided for thirty h of | though in this, too, he was provincial and spas- ‘sin | modie. A humble woman who lived near him With three peeks | being sick, the miiliouaire, becoming interested, 18. Master Nichulaz had on one | Seat his doctor to attend As she didn't Maat esate! | get better, he employed the best skill in Lyneh- Ne water poet, if he hud not been | Burs te consult. It eust him $400, and no scan MUSE Ta dibd EAE Sie ene ae | Bat he would not subscrive to the proposed : : colleze at Lynchburg, taking the zround that | there was plenty of rascality in the town already without any addition of college boys. During Hunter's invasion of winia, Mr. ier, though < ea ae a visit Irom a avus, offering to eat a pig roving band, which he had sad reason to remem- iis footing and when Ceneral Konivsnark | Bet, “Mis stocks, bonds, letters, sand account rer, voluntectud re vat | DOOKS were thrown around with a lavish band, off his sword and | ad hundreds of thousands of securities taken opening so larze a mouth that the gea- | AWay., Fortunately for him, the ravazers did of his time, tuok to his {Mot know the full value of these papers ; but one of them did recognize the glimmer of old gold in the artificial teeth of the Vinginian. “Get out them teeth,” easnally remarked the warrior, with a bayonet haudy to back the ap- And Mr. Miler, like a prudent man, got vut his teeth, and fared on soft diet for some: 0.con But, how. ne being damson plu stocks. ‘Two loins of mutton and one loin veil were but as three sprats to this ‘er ail, he Was perhaps outdone by ti ished boor who visited the: — = Inspired to Marry. oh en. time fact. he hardly ever _ate anything any- In His indigestion was of that’ kind that St. Michaels, and seemed determined to | made him loathe food; and he never had any She did ;- | particular tooth for strong drink. And so in id do. prudently 1569, in the inidst of all his treasures, and de- his persistent attentions, and tnaily | Spite the skill of the best doctors of the Pied- on her brother fyr protection. e | mont, the old gentleman died of gangrene, the ng that a lady cor captain could not be coaxed or driven of fro: | Pesult of abstinence and inanition. sate net rit i die | The dirst thing that befell after his death was Bereole Dean 8 my ‘A | of a piece with all the strange history. ‘Phecone itreman in Easton offered to go his bail if he | Sdential clerk of the most confidential friend of uld promise not to trouble the young lady | the deceased was sent out to arrange, label and more. He peremptorily refused’ aud went | Secure the papers of the latter, and to make a | schedule of the general effects. The clerk was lace as the cabin of his vessel, he changed | ue of the sinning hypocrites, net so familiar in mind, gave bail, and left for Baltimore. | those days as in these, whom everybody thought the city he changed his mind | to béa saint on earth. Me had three days tree 1 that he was | Tange In a jungle of bonds and stocks, and man- | aged to get away with at least $60,000 of them. | He found it convenient to leave for Californi: ; about that time, and still makes that stat | residence: though doubtless, like the late Col. Yell, his heart beats proudly for his native land. He is nent in California, too, under an arent name, of course, which is known to "| any people here. But what was that like to the damage which was done when the lawyers got in their spoons? Was tt not Mark Twain’ who told of the simple- {souled returning Californian who, naming bis get lower prices | wife with a house full of babies after his fifteen ‘o, I can’t say as I | years’ absence, was ued for him, He rays TRAVELER for a New York dry goods house tly arrived In a town, to find that one of best customers was about to. transfer fh “Didn't we alwa: ld we ever press you in a you ever he Boston house?” ” “TI know that some ex- nation is due, and I will make one,” replied merchant. “You know that Iattend church. re he at once sub- ten dollars.” “Ten dollars! Why, that's two kegs slit tes ns down for thirty lars cash, @ Dew for every season, a fall suit of clothes for the minister.” *-Do “Of course Ido; and if two-cent Ciristian from Boston dares sizn The match ts for #2,500 a | another five, Pl seud you down a $60 organ, cushion $5000 to it We area winker sy zeit da of The two ch ities endowed by Mr. Miller were. the Albemarle Manual Labor School, neat Char re we tly haps an {yet revive t ancwent in he; 193 tat naw mal ang remarkable ety of Lynetbarg e dately grounds thirty teet high rves the metuory of tof B1N,000, and on we $ the portrait of the ne. executed under uaty . A xranite sha! the that some unknown bog, pers the recipients of his bounty, will ® mystery, fordhe benelit of the A MEDICINE FOR WOMAN, INVENTED BY A WOMAN, PREPARED BY A WOMAN LYDIA E. PINKMAM'S VEGETABLE CoMPOUND Is 4 Posrrive Cree | For alt those Duin! Complaints and Weaknesses a commen to our best Female poymlation. Itwill at all times and under all circ harmony with the laws that govern chetal Debility, Sleepiesaness, Depression and tion. he feeling of bearing down, and backsole, is aways perma 2?-PHYSICIA! PRELLY. as and the consequent nal Weakness, and is particclarty adapted to the axes of Life. il diseolve and expel Tamore from the Uteras ia t. ‘The tunis maing pain, webght cared by ite use, ND PRESCRIBE IT Seat by mail in | the form of pills, also in the form af lozenges, on receipt of price, $1 per box foreither, Mrs. Pukham freely and torjudity ti 82” Soin by aut. Dave Th of the liver. | answers all lettors of inquiry. Send for paumphiet, Ad- | dress as above, ould be without LYDIA E. PINKHAMS, ietipaton, Lionas, ‘cents por box. See 3 PALAC! TBE GREAT LEADER OF LOW PRICES. WE ARE NEVER OUTDONEY ANOTHER MARK DOW! 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PALMER'S AMERICAN GINGER ALY, DEPOT: 1224 25TH STREET, WEST WASHINGTON, SAML C. PALMER. 73 Will call for and deliver WORK an: in the Dis- Geol roonived sand surged ty’ wail aad ‘express from, soccer aaarent ty a. and toall partso! the country. No. 1068 (OLD 49) JEFFERSON Lind Ey STRE! LD WINE AND OLD FRIENDS ARE KNOWN AS. the on the Et Note by Text, only between D and E “streets. auail prom, to ix JUSTH’S Oxi Stand kuown for Where first-clans . SECOND -1 se (ANI — tly stenies to. Lousiana STATE LOTTERY. PARTICULAR NOTICE. ASPL LOUISIANA STATE LOTTER' bt porsted in 1865 fortwenty-tive years by the lahire for Educations! sad Coartable purp capital of | $1,000,000—to which $5.0, 000 hae xince een added. overwhelming popular part of the 0 LENDID 01 FIRST GRAND J TUESPAX, 4. Morn Jer the exclusive (eucrals O. Tt: BEAURE SITY TO WIN A FORTUNE, Ita TOS. CLASS Ay T NEW OLLI ARY 20, 1582, ty DRAWiN. ERY COMPANY, MON ‘tia Coumiuinon adopeed