Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1882, Page 2

AND OTHER VEGE- ¢ FROM DENMARK PROM CANADA —PROSPECT OF ASON, city markets has not materi- within the past month except in @ tendency in the prices of farm ading poultry and game, and with © sales of best quality of live stock. to be a more general demand for farm products sir the cold weather and | heavy snows have p led. noted in the best grades of butter, whi ever, dues not appear to ailect the lower grades. THE FLOUR MARKET is at present quiet, but the prices remain firm, with a prospect ofan advance. A correspond- of quietade is also observed in grain, Emited and not much ap- bei i. WAY AND STRAW are dull, except for choice timothy, clover and mixed, which meet with ready sales at fair Mill feed continues steady and in good amption of hay and straw is the number of horses increase, and good hay parent dema and othe «lof good quality find a ready market in Washinst POULTRY IS NOT SO PLENTIFUL as was the winter, and, as @ conse- advanced somewhat. n jobbing lots from Live poultry nand, and bring better prices. shing into market of large quantities of ry y part of the winter is thought to be the canse sent scarcity. It is Stated by dealers that there has been consi quence, Dressed t als in the n ding it with the Mueh to market und crops filled with has thus by ed, with upy of lower nd but little prospects opens. CorNTRY PRODUCE : »ption of onions, to be an upward tendency in ible sold in our markets, with ling that this state of things will shout the year until new crops IRISH POTATOES haye taken no material rise during the past 1ew | weeks, but the prices remain steady. Dealers price would not have been less tian $2 per bushe potatoes continue to arrive in New York and ether port: 3 of the country by out for their seed potatoes, e being seenred for this curly Rose and Burbanks appear wand for seed and those brow sred. It is thouzht, 'y will equal the demand eed. A much larger be planted the coming season than nee of the seareity this year not yet appeared in the maxkets ome have arrived in New York. and the be purpose. Ti to be most in d hat the sup; both for table use and fe quantity wt! ever, in Bermudas here, althou cal s the prices the reac to 50 mpensate for this scarcity ° quantities of kale and n harvested and is com- i very rea so a few lots of c imported from Denn s have been | which have sold at £20 | per hundred. The seareity of cabbaze has created quite alively trad I carloads have bee: d Canada, w pme i many and France. teen-zallon tubs of s each, forty galions at at $4. portations have al Elzh- nt krout are sold at $5.50 $13 and forty-five gallons TURNIPS AND BEE e CROP OF Swi holds out much better than was expected, but the good yellow sell for $4a4.50 per barrel, and Nortii Carolina yams $3 per barrel. Some fine tomatoe: hay meet with ready sule at $3 to $6 per box, con- taining one bushel each. THE FRUIT MARKET. te market is quite uncertain. The sup- searce and defective as to qualit a eeting with ready sales The damp and open wint zing to fruit stored in this | ers say that the apple trade has been enerally. @ very fine Northern have occasionally been shipped | vhich have sold readily at $6 city. 1D a bard one winter p here from I ne Floridas seem to be the ey are the largest and sweetest. is fairly © favorites They set! from 100 Messi: - smaliler und H0a$3.00 per box. ce, and the almost all the prices kinds of always up are of excel: hh $16 per Darrel eis not utich sale at this rate. It is thousht they will svon be cheaper, as more are now expected. Lemons are worth frum $3.5024.00 per box. MEAT MARKET Beef continues nt that bulk breasts, 105 b tonsues, 3 ned —in tubs 13 cents, tierces SH HAVE BEEN SCARCE rT has set in owing to the inereased dittculiy in the catch. Fresh shad are broucht here from North Carotina and retail at €1 per pair; black bass are getting more plentiful in the Washingtun markets; they,how- ever, sell readily at 12:4 ceuts per pound: white yellow perch, 25 cents; fresh large rock tish, 10 cents per 0 pound; feesh cod, ts buneh; haddock, 10 cents per } Teents; white fish, 15 cents per pound; fresh hailio 25 cents per pound, 2 cents. The fishermen say that the Prospect fora good shad season in the coming spring never looked better at this time of the year. OYSTERS ofa mediura and inferior quality are arriving in abundance and sell from 25a60 cents a bushel; large oysters $1.25a31.50. Fine oysters are Searcoin the market here; the oystermen say that the best ones all goto the Baltimore mar ket where they con:mand better prices: 2 “Why are you 80 ¥ 2 ‘ery pre- of tel remarks that no man can afford to makes fool of himself. contemporary however, that some ‘are uiterly Of expense — Clason (ig) Tene. aiaial dit not been for importations the | and are imme- | ely arrived from Florida, and | .50 per box containing | THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1882-DOUBLE SHEET. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. "R | THUS PROCESS OF MAKING A MUSRUM—THE GEN- | PLA: OF THE EXNTBITION—WORK Now SS—INGENIOUS CONTRIVANCES FOR SHOWING EXHIBITS—SOME IN- TERESTING FACTS GATHERED BY A STAR REPORTER. IX PROG! ‘The National museum, In its present state, | affords the curious an opportunity of seeing how a great museum is made. | the museum now islike taking a glimpse behind | the scenes, when a great play is in preparation, pt that everything is real and earnest. | When the plan of tie museum is fully carried | out, it is proposed to offer for popular instrac- | tion an innumerable series of object lessons, touching upon everything relating to man and the globe which he inhabits. Now the great | first lesson that the visitor learns is how to make |amuseum. The vast building erected for the | accommodation of the museum has been open | to visitors for some time. Here and there cases | stand in place. filled withexhibits, while strewn about the halls are enough rare or wonderful ob- Jects to repay a visit made simply for curiosity’s | | sake ine of the large hails, or corridors, are protected against intrusion by temporary fences or partitions of wood. Within these enclosures the geologist, the entomologist, the chemist jand the naturalist are industriously at wor wh lt je vast stores of curious things from every of the globe are there packed away. There is such AN ACCUMULATION OF MATERIAL for the museum awaiting classification that econ_ | omy of space has been one ot the chief ends in | view in planning the arrangement of the build- | Ing. Another building, as large as the one just completed, could easily be filled. In addition to | the collections already deposited in the building there arein Philadelphia twenty car-loads or more | of some of the Most valuable material belong- ing tothe museum. A Srar reporter had the | good fortune of visiting the building, in com- pany with Prof. G. Brown Goode, the gentleman | to Whom the practical work of the museam has been intrasted. ‘“Here is something new,” said the professor, as soon as the reporter had stepped into the vestibule at the main entrance. The took from the hand of the doorkeeper t like a silver watch in size and he said, “is AN AUTOMATIC REGISTER.” At Vienna and Paris visitors had to pass through a turn-stile, which was sometimes very annoying. Since the doors of the building Were thrown open to the public, though the | museum is not by any means ready for visitors, there have been an average of 2,500 visitors a week. * Every time a visitor enters the door the | doorkeeper presses a little spring on his anto- form. | about 175,000 a year. Upon entering the mu- seu building at present among the first objects that strike the eye of the beholder after he has ceased to wonder at the vast spaces and grace- tul arches of the building itself are four tall col- | umns of wood that rest st the piers about | the rotunda. The: umns consist of gro- tesque shapes rudely carved and colored, one . They stood once before the ereat chiefs among the Aborigi- vifie slope. ‘The ancestry of the | chiefs was told by these columns. ‘The one that asted had the tallest column. A few paces from the door is a case filled on one side with masks worn by the performers at a musical festival in Japan, and on the other with curiously or- namented panels of wood from the Japan. On the opposite side of the corridor are cases, on whose shelves are arranged rows of life-like figures in miniature. Thes Japan, China and other Asi ir exhibition is to show the ions of different classes of fous countries from emperor are mandarins, court ladies, of each, are shown among the little men and women in the cases at a glance. Here is a miniature monarch trapped out in silk and tinsel, and near by him a carpenter. adze in hand, attired in a plain blouse of coarse fab- ric. The figures made in the countries whien they represent are specimens of skilful model- ling, which in themselves well re} inspection. The museum building is to bedivided into POUR GRAND SECTIONS or departments. One section, in the southwest corner of the building, will be devoted to min- eralogy and econemic geclozy; the southeast quarier of the building will be assigned to econ- omie natural history, the northeast quarter to American ethnology, and the northwest quar- ter to the industrial arts. One of the spaces in the northwest section of the building is being fitted up as a lecture room. This is intended for the use of the National Academy of Sciences, and such other scientifie bodies, national in character, that may choose to take advantaze of This Jeoture room or hall will be used for the first the on the 21st inst., when the Ameri- | can Institute of Mining Engineers will assemble j there. The hall will seat about 600 persons. The sides will be used for exhibition purposes, and here will be shown objects deposited for temporary exhibition, er objecfs that may be | received ‘that are especially interesting and have not yet been assigned to their proper de- artim: Though the immense halls intended for exhibition purposes seem at first sight to take up all the spaces in the building, still, there are besides these, ONE MUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE GooD sizED ROOMS distributed abont the structure at the sides of the entrances, and in the turreted corners, insuch a way that every inch of space is economized, and one cannot help wondering how they got there. In these rooms are administrative offices, reception rooms, laboratories, assay works, photograph galleries, and all the adjuncts of a £ museum. One corner is occupied as the headquarters of the geological survey and the Si an bureau of ethnology. One apart- the ground floor is used_as a library. Another larze room has been styled the archive jr Here a complete historical and descrip- | tive record of every exhibit will be kept, num- | bered, lettered and filed, so that any informa- , tion can be obtained ata moment's notice. Prof. Goode has undertaken a TEM OF LABELLING volvinga great deal of patient labor, on to the visitor, Not only the name of each art'cle andits nation- ality will be presented, but a brief history and description of it will be given, together with references that will be valuable to the specialist. In ption fails, photo- | s will be shown, iilustrating of the articles. Some of the upper re used for work rooms, where busy aged in preparing ‘objects for of th rooms in which Tux re Was enough mate- floor and on the work good sized museum. Here large number of wooden masks used he Pacifie coast Indians. By accident d near this collection a spangled mask im. A lady was at work at one bench some fantastic Chinese kites that had red a little damage in the long Journey from the flowery kingdom. Another portion of the room was filied with MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, of strange fasiton. The Kin or Lyre of Con- fucius found itself in company with the tom- tom of the South Sea Islander, while the Asiatic prototypes of the guitar, the zither, the plano and the trombone mingled with rudely fash- ioned conques and gourds, keyed and tuned, ready for some Feejee nymphs; or to furnish us music for a wild war dance. Prof. Goode said that a prom- inent New York house had undertaken to make a collection of modern musical instruments such | a8 are in use in this country. According to the j plan of the museum, instead of comity articles by the countries or nations whenee nd came, the articles devoted to the same use — Sie ee be ae side side, so that comparisons made. Thus the masks made by the North i together in The collec- ich, by the way, ever agsom- | which, w es to fit out a | were | in the lyric performance mentic tion of musical instruments—wh! will be one of the most iiesial musie. ‘The toy-maker mental t profit the toys of other nations. side with those his own shop, WHAT CAN BE SEEN IN THE BUILDING. | An hour spent in | in with his train of ae strange sds by every ARRANGING THE EXHIBITS. The work of arranging for the proper display ofthe vast amount of material to be exhibited has been no easy task. Prof. Goode has hit upen a plan which, while economizing space and rendering a rearrangement of the entire contents of the museum practicable in an in- credible short time, brings out every exhibit to the best advantaze. The unit of measurement in the building 1s 4 feet 4 inches, the width of the piers that support the tiers of arches. The dis- | tance between the piers is 8 feet 8 inches. So in arranging the cases regard has always been had to the unit of measurement. Cases 8 feet 8 inches long haye been constructed to fit in the openings between the piers. These cases will | be 9 feet high, and when all are in their places will form partitions between the different hall ways. The cases to be placed in the center of | the halls are smaHer. They combine lightness, strength and durability, with the most ingen- ious contrivances for making the most of space, and exhibiting every article to the best advant- age. The panes of glass are so arranged that every pane wiil present a complete picture, relieving the eye of the hardship and annoyance of being obliged to look around a partition in order to study the contents of acase. Prof. Goode has introduced in the cases backgrounds of dark, maroons, browns, and greens, which afford a pleasant relief to the eye. The exhibits are then ought as near the eye as possible, and the lighting of the building is so effective that there will not be an exhibit in any case which will not be brought out clearly and disiinctly. Some of the cases intended for the exhidition of such | articles as can be best shown by being fastened toa flat surface, are fitted with sliding panels, which may be removed at pleasure, to make way for other panels. In the spaces’ between the upright cases will be table cases fitted up with sliding drawers or panels where a large amount of material, for which there will be no room in the upright cases, will be kept. As these draw- ers or panels will all be made on a uniform scale, they will be interchangeable, and will also fit the exhibition cases provided with moveable panels. When the museum is completely fitted it will contain 1,200 cases. It is expected that there will be within a month 250 cases in Aheir places. All of the cases are constructed 86 that little trucks, made for the purpose, may be | placed under them at a moment's notice. means of these trucks a case may,be rolled in a few minutes to any part of the building, and the whole museum could be REARRANGED IN TWO DAYS. in one apartment of the building is a col- lection of boat models, said to be the finest in the United States. Every form of sailing ves- sel, from the canoe of skinsto the modern screw steamer is here represented. In one of the large halls is now displayed an immense eanoe made ont of the trunk of a gigantic tree, while in another hall stands a whale boat of approved model, equipped with oars, harpoons, aud all the necessary paraphernalia. THE COLLECTION OF BUILDING STONES, which occupies a large space in one corner of the building, and was made under the super- vision of Dr. Hawes in connection with the census, is undoubtedly the finest in the world. While the famous quarries of Europe and “Asia matic register and the record is made by means | have not been neglected, thisexhibit isdesigned of figures on the d The averace number of | chiefly to exhibit the products of our own visitors to the Smitasonian Institution has been quarries. Here are on exhi ion over 3,000 | cubes, representing every variety of | | stone, each cube showing the appearance of the stone, both when rough and when polished. The re- sults of microscopic and chemical analyses of each specimen is presented with each specimen, together with mechanical tests demonstrating the amount of strain each will bear. The department of American ethnology under Major Powell, will be a inost interesting part of the museum. The best results of the labors and researches of various exploring expeditions will here be presented in tangible form. The contents of the museum, while fall- ing under a few general heads, will be as varied as are the objects of human effort. Each de- partinent will present a study in itself, edifying and instructive to the casual visitor and most valuable to the specialist. It will be A VAST KINDERGARTEN for popular instruction. No department of human investization, no matter how trifling it may appear, will escape attention. In one case, for instance, will be presented as exhibits the water, caseine, febrine and other constituents of the human body, in their proper proportions. Another exhibit will show the amount of dai waste, or wear and tear of the body. Next will ‘come models—so natural in appearance as to make one hungry to look at them—of a beef- steak, a loaf of bread, and other articles of food, showing just how much a laboring man should consume daily in order to repair the daily loss. Men of qgdentary pursuits will also find their requirements set forth in the same practical way. Each article of food will be accompanied by a statement of its nutrient value and other ful information concerning ft. In the indus— trial exhibition not only results will be shown but processes. The art of printing, as practiced in different parts of the world, will, for instance, be illustrated by the exhibition of the type and the processes. THE GENERAL PLAN. In the arrangement of the museum, man is regarded asthe central unit to which every- thing is referred. He is considered as a apect and his anatomy and physiology will be fully illustrated. Then his abode—earth—will re- ceive anologous treatment. Its relations to the solar system will be set forth In an astronomical museum and its geology, and physical charac- teristics wil! be told mutely but eloquently. The natural resources of the earth and the various industries by which men gather them will be pictured; then the elaborative industries and the uses to which the products of earth are ultimately applied will be shown. Then the social relations of men, government, trade and commerce, ceremonial, music, games and amusements, will be described in these eyer- expanding object lessons. “The people,” said Prof. Goode, when the re- porter had made tie rounds of the building, and stood again at the entrance, where the door- keeper with the automatic register stood, “don’t know what a magnificent collection there is here. We have aiarge amount of material on hand, but it is not in shape, and will not all be in shape for years. The exhibits of building stones, food, materia medica, the fisheries, and North American ethnology are strong, and are being pushed vigorously to a state of perfec- tion.” ‘THE IDEA OF THE NATIONAL MUSKUM was conceived by Prof, Spencer F. Baird during the Centennial exhibition, and it is through his energy, and rare executive ability, that the museum has been brought into existence in sucha state of perfection as will render it at once a formidable rival of the most famous museums of the old world. Its loca- tion here, is very appropriate, not only because of the national character of the city. but from the fact that Washington 1s now probably the most active center of scientific research on this side of the Atiantic. When the classification and arrangement of the exhibits are completed, it is proposed to Keep in the exhibition halls, in he Smithsonian building, only the collection of antiquities, and such other Collections as are connected with the scientifie work of the insti- tution. ————— z nging in Chains, To the Editor of Tux Eventna Srar: The published statement in connectign with the Guiteau trial ‘that the old-English law em- powered the judge to order the body of a man condemned to death to hang in chains,” is Incor- rect. The inference from this would be that. the judge had power to order the bodies of all persons condemned to death to hang in chains. ‘The facts in regard to the English practice of hanging criminals in chains, are, that during the last century all persons charged with the crimes of mutiny and piracy on the high seas were tried at the Old Bailey, in the city of London, and if condemned to death were hung with a hempen rope at Execution Dock, at Wapping, on the river Thames, just below the tower of London. After hanging the usual time, one hour, the bodies were then hung in chains on gibbets on the banks of the Thames, below Woolwich dock yard, in full sight of tiie ahipping passing up and re the river, as a warning to mutineers and All other condemned criminals were hung at the Old Bailey and buried within the precincts of the jail. The writer hereof. about the year 1825,saw the last men who were hung in chaina, which consisted of a series of iron hoops, bolted together with iron rods, forming a kind of cage, in which the body was placed and could be seen through the openings in the iron frame. The bodies Lob piled until < le Lip de- composed out wi and ex) sure to the elements. This relic the barbatity of ish criminal Jaw died the out about: same time in the first quarter of pee phrrraet cent when the pillory and the mill were ished. Facr. ——_—_~-o--____ . Tuose Horn Protists.—“How brutal!” ex- claimed Miss. Fitz) about the Sullivancityan hibition of “ike d marked Me. By | THE ICE CROP. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR NEXT SUMMER—WHAT ICE MEN SAY ABOUT IT—REPORTS FROM THE ICE REGIONS. The recent storms and variable weather have dismayed the ice men, who have seen their growing harvestsswept away. At present there are indications that there will be an unusually small crop harvested. Before the season ends, | however, conditions may arise which will im- | prove the situation. THE REPORTS FROM THE KENNEBEC. “The prospects,” said Mr. C. B. Church, of | the Independent Ice Company, “who has just returned from the Kennebec,to aStak reporter, | “are very gloomy. I don’t like to say anything about them just now. Our company began cut- ting ice two weeks ago last Wednesday, and worked night and day; but on account of inter- vening snow storms have worked only about 8 days. There has been no such year since the season of 1870-71, I think it was. ICK LEFT OVER. “We,” continued Mr. Church, referring to his company, “fortunately had a supply left over from last year; that makes us all right.” “How will the present state of things affect | prices next year?” asked the reporter. “It would not do to make any prediction as to prices now,” said Mr. Church. “We might have a cold snap between this and the Ist of March that would change things considerably. not be over a two-thirds crop harvested on the Kennebec.” THE TROUBLES OF THE ICK-GATHERERS. The ice men on the Kennebec, according to Mr. Chureh’s representations, have met with un- usual difficulties this year. Owing to the drift the ice was frozen together in such bad shape as to require touch chiseling. Only here and there could spots of clear ice be found. The ice has been planed, ‘‘scuiled” and “culled,” requiring @ large expenditure of money. ‘We spent =4,000 before we honsed a pound!” exclaimed Mr. Church. ‘We had a clear place on the | West shore, in front of our house, and when we got a chance went at work on it, night and day. We may fill our houses yet.” THE ICE CROP ELSEWHERE. According to the reports of the ice men there is noice in Pennsylyania. New York men are going to Lake Champlain and to Canada for ice. New York and Brooklyn, it is stated by ice men here, will be supplied with ice that is half snow. Many of the ice men on the Kennebee, Mr. Church says, have not gone to work yet. “If I should offer a selfish prayer,” he said, referring to the good fortune of his own company, “it would be that things should remain as they are.” THE GREAT FALLS ICE COMPANY also represents the outlook to be gloomy and unsatisfactory. Those connected with the company say “ice willbe ice and a luxury, unless an unexpected spell should come on.” Mr. John Van Riswieck, the president of the company, left tor the Kennebec river on Monday, the 30th of January, and was on Mon- day last at Booth bay, where preparations had been nade to harvest the crop. alling on Capt. Ben Johnson, of Johnson Bros., a STAR man remarked: ‘Mr. Van Riswick is at the front, is henot?” Captain Jotnson.—‘Yes, he is onthe Ken- nebec.”” Q.—*What do you hear from him?” A.—‘The last was a postal dated Monday, and the prospects were gloomy, the outlook blue. “Getting some ice are you not?” —Oh yes, some.” “Good ice?” A.—*Yes, some good ice measuring from 12 to 14 inches. The snows have interfered with it. There was a heavy fall of snow, and the ice on the river and ponds were covered. Harvesting had to be be suspended, and the force set. to work clearing the snow off. The force were at work ail Saturday night. ‘The weather up there is 1eported to have moderated. Q.—*Then there isnot anything like a crop sayed yet?” A.—*No, nothing like a crop—not even the semblance of one.” Q.—And the season Is passing on.” A.—"Yes. It is now getting too late to ex- pect any freeze that will make ice for a crop.” : “There has not been much cut in this sec- AL little, long. Q. “No The butchers cut and put away very and that is so tain that It will not last “Then we may expect high rates?” —“You'll get them whether expected or not, and sooner than perhaps agreeable.” What will be the prices A.—“Oh! we can't tell that. The price effects the public very little now. The price at the wharf at present is 4 per ton. and I would not. be surprised if ice did not command that price now on the Kennebec. The fact is that there never was such a demand as at present—de- mand from dealers, I mean—for there has little or no ice been housed in and around New York. A few days ago a gentleman from Maine told me that there werecrowds of Hudson River and other men there looking for supplies. I haye hever seen such a gloomy outlook for the trade, and unless, as I have said, there should be an extraordinary freeze, ice will be a luxury.” sees ‘The Removal of Columbian University + From the Relizious Herald. Iseeby an item published in Tu Evgnive Star, of this city, that, ata recent meeting of the Trustees of the Colimbian University, lo- cated on College Hill, D.C., it was stated that the Hon. W. W. Corcoran had (in addition to his former and princely gifts) donated a very valuable lot at the corner of Vermont avenue and L street, northwest, in the city of Washing- ton. A gift munificent of an eligible lot, in the most valuable and aristocratic quarter opposite the attractive park (McPherson). This lot con- tains about 9,400 square feet, a fair value at 33.00 per square foot would make 23,200—a generous and valuable donation. It was also stated that the Trustees were contemplating the sale of the valuable property on College Hill, and using the funds in erecting a University building on the lot above alluded to. As one of the individuals claiming this institution as my Alma Mater, I raise my voice against the sale of the land and buildings on College Hill— a spot of dear associations to al! of its former pupils and graduates. Stoughton, Chapin, Ba- con, Binney, Sampson and Welling have’ hon- ored and hallowed it during their presidencies ; reward. It almost seems sacrilezious to dis- pose of the property, which, by location, is the most valuable for its size of any now surround- ing the boundaries ot the city, easily accessible hy good paved streets and foot-walks, with a street railroad to within two hundred ‘yards of its gate and now about to be extended to and beyond its entrance. ‘This institution has now the means t#® amply beautify its grounds and erect an additional building of ample size, of modern architecture and appliances, by selling its city property on Fifth street, between D and E streets, north- west ; the Trintdad farm of 150 acres; the Me and Fourteenth streets, northwest, and other small properties which | cannot now recall—de- tached properties, with little surplus ground beyond the buildings upon them, except the farm above alluded to. I estimate the entire value of the same to be at least $150,000, in ad- dition to the recent donation. I have lonz | lived in this clty, and am somewhat familiar with values, and think Ihave not oyer-estima- ted the values of their properties. Why not dispose of these valuable and separate proper- | ties, and erect upon old College Hill a building, “a University Building,” which shall be a crowning glory to its early founders and a mon- ument of the generosity of its latter friend and benefactor. Change its name? Let it be ** Cor- coran University,” a name honored and to be honored in all time to come as a patron of learning, the arts and sciences, an almoner to provide a magnificent home for the friendless and the loveliest cemetery in the land for the dead. I speak as one who, from the long asso- ciation of his ancestor with the institution, feels no diminution in his love for his old home on College Hill, ‘the healthiest place in the Union.” . Trustees, spare and save the old seat of learning, and future generations will bless you. . Washington, D. 0. A Horse That Vanderbilt Wants. Sensation, since the departure of Tom Ochil- tree, is sole monarch of the stud at Westbrook. Mr. Lorillard values him very highly. Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt not long since came to look at Hi with a view of negotiating a purchase for a estern S Well, what will you take for your horse, George?" thousand dollars.” wl consider it.” Tit Even if there should be such snap there would | the four first haye lonz since passed to their | ‘al Building on H street, between Thirteenth | THE NEW LIBRARY BUILDING. THE PROJECT IN A HOPEFUL CONDITION—ALTER- | ATION IN THE PL&NS—A MAGNIFICENT BUILD- | ING CONTEMPLATED. Under a resolution of Senator Voorhees the last Congress appointed a joint select commit- tee to inquire into and report upon the subject of additional accommodations for the Congres- sional library. That committee performed the work assigned to it with diligence, and it was not its fault that a library bill was not parsed. Early in the present session that joint commit- tee was continued and reappointed. consisting of three Senators and five Representatives, Mr. Voorhees being chairman on the part of the Sen- ate and Mr. Rice. of Massachusetts, on the part | of the House. The committee has had several business meetjngs. They found their labors | very much simplified by the work of the former | | committee. The present committee has taken | hold of the vexed question of the overflowing | library and proper accommodations for it with energy, and there is a prospect that IN THE COMING SPRING ground will be broken fora new library build- ing. The progress made already thus far by the unanimous agreement of the committee, in their report submitted lately, gives the best augury of a successful issue of the library prob- lem at the present session of Congress. The first question considered was the site, and the committee taking the emphatic vote in the Se’ ate last February in favor of the squares * EAST OF THE CaPrToL, as a practical settlement of that questio agreed, therefore, to report that bil substant ally as it passed the Senate. The bill provides for taking the squares from north B to south B | in one direction and ‘rom Ist to 2d east in the | other at an appraised valuation, not to exceed, | in any case, the aggregate of $1,100,000. It is | said in favor of this site, that it is hi salu- | brious, perfectly level, near the Capitol and with the best surroundings on all sides; that it furnishes not only abundant room fer a library to contain | TWO MILLION BOOKS, and a gallery of graphic art, with abundant space for the addition of wings when its capacity is reached in the remote future, but also plenty of ground on the other side of East Capitol street for A JUDICIARY BUILDING, for the U.S. Supreme Court and the Depart- ment of Justice. This building, it is claimed, will be imperatively needed before many years, as the two branches of Congress require and must haye the space now occupied in the tol by the Supreme Court and its offices, for legislative purposes, including many more co’ mittee rooms than the present crowded condi tion of the building can afiord. It is fouad, and the report of the committee dwells on’ this fact, that while the squares preposed to be | taken embrace about 450,000 square feet, the | squares and avenues connecting them, and | which it is proposed to occupy (with the excep- | tion of East Capitol street) measure a consid- | erably larger area. This by the streets and avenues, will, of course, be | obtained by the government free of any ex- | pense. WHICH SHALL IT FRONT? As there might arise some difference of | opinion between the two houses as to whether | the library should be located opposite the Senate wing or that of the House, the matter is left to the President of the United States, to locate the building at his discretion upon the | ground proposed. The weight of opinion in | the committee and apparently among Congres- | men, is in favor of locating the library opposite | the Senate wing, and it is believed the Pres dent will o direct. leaving the space opposite | the House wing for the judicial building. THE BOOM OF THE BOOKS. The annual count of the books in the Con- | gressional library, recently completed under | great obstacles from its piled and over- crowded condition in all its departments, show that over 20,000 volumes have been added during the calendar year of 1881, carrying the present ageiegate coutents of the library up to | more than 420.000 values. besides about 155.000 pammphiets. The business of the copyright department has been greater than im any pr ceding year. In fact. the library is constantly being enriched, without a dollar of expense, by the addition of the product of the America publishing honses. | CHANGE OF PLAN: The joint committee, after due considera- tion of the matter, decided to alter the pian adopted by its predecessor, or rather to adopt a new plan for the proposed building. In view of the fact that the existing government buildings are all of the classic or renaissance type, afford- ¢ no example of Gothic architecture, the com- | ittee came to the Conciusion to favor, for the | y library building, a composite or MODIFIED GOTHIC STYLE. - This order ofarchitecture is especially adapted to institutions of learning, and many of the finest libraries, universities, aud art galleries of Europe present beautiful examples of this style of more or less painted architecture. The plan adopted, with some light modifications, yet to be determined by the committee, is that of J. L. Smithmeyer & Co., of this city. '!t embodies an edifice of the dimensious of 450 by 300 fect, two central spires and corner pavilions, with numerous arched windows in the facade. SECOND ONLY TO THE CAPITOL, The building, as far as can be judged by the perspective and photographs, will be, after the Capitol, the most stately and impressive of the public buitui f Washington. cbse sha | A WEDDING OF THE OLDEN TIME, A Gorgeous Father-in-law. The complaints of our moralists in regard to the constantly increasing demands of modern necessities of life are, like most of these lamen- tations over the indulgences of the present age, principally fousded upon an utter want of knowledge of the past. What, for instance, was done in the way of wedding extravagancies in former centuries, and not only amongst princes and people ‘of high rank, but even amongst the plain, humble citizens, almost defies ceeon lie: A report of the marriage of the daughter of a baker, which occurred in the city of Augsburg, Gerinaay, in the year of 1493, gives the following particulars: The bride wore a blue silken dress, the single parts of which were sown together with gold laces, and over this a skirt with a seam made of broad gold band. A second heavy gold band served as a waist-ribbon; the bracelets were set with pre- | cicus stones, She wore shoes with heavy silver | trimiin: the garters were woven Of solid gold threads. Afte: marriage ceremonies had taken place, the guests were dined at sixty tables. There were invited altogether nearly 800 persons. The wedding festivities lasted more than an entire week. This festive week demanded from the bri 30 deer, 95. pigs, peacocks, 1,006 geese, 515 game-birds, and 15,000 fishes and crabs. Who nowadays can boastof a father-in law, who would supply half as muci? oe The Doubt Resolved. | | Aco | that could be desired, but whether this be | promise, with careful taining, most excellent | two-fifths were accepted, the flattering compli- | quality of his work it will not be surprising. | Wate: | the edge “Presented by Mr. West ‘to the Right To go or stay I scarcely knew, Perplexed by mandates twain, For while my love pronounced “Adieu,” Her aspect sald “+ Remain.” *fwixt what I saw and what I heard, My judgment wavered quite— Whether she meant by glance or word ‘To part us, or unite. But now each lover T advise, Like me, to make hts choice; In duty to his lady’s eyes, To disregi ard her vi ART NOTES. Tt is reported that the the late William M. Hunt’s large painting of Niagara Falls has been gold in Boston for $10,000. —Elibu Vedder, the painter, aud Daniel C. | French, the pioneer of this city, were | recently elected memiVtrs of the Society of American Artists. —Thirty-one Americans are registered as | students at the Academy of Arts in Munich. | Only the Bayarians and Prussians outnumber | them. —The death is announced of Anatole Vely, the | well-known French genre painter, who bas been an exhibitor in the Salon fur twenty years, ob- | taining a third-class medal in 1874, and one of the second-class in 1890. Mr. Vely was the | painter of “The Talking Weli.” one of the best- known and most popular of the minor pictures | in the Corcoran Gallery. —A new artistic organization has been formed in Paris—a “Society of Animal Painters.” | Charies Jacque is the president, and amenc the well-known names upon its list of members are those of VanMarcke, Jean Goubie and the Bon- heurs. The first exhib! will be held during the coming spring, a little in advance of the Salon’ — Mr. Max Weyl has taken and will shortly | occupy a studio in Vernon Row,—a move which, it may be remarked, will doubtless prove to bea doth for Mr. Weyl himself and for the locality he has chosen. “It is already the abiding place of several artists who are at once his warmpersonal friends and great admirers of his work. —Mr. Williaa Garl Brown, who has long oc- | on Row, has changed his location. He is now to be found in the building one deor east of his former quasgers. | During his absence last summer Mr. Brown made a number of landscape sketches and | studies in North Carotiua, om which he hepes | to produce sume finished paintings at no distant day. Mr. Thomas Moran will send to the Royal | lemy Exhibition in London the coming spring a painting called “The Cliffs of the Upper Colorado.” It will be a larze and striking can- vas, calculated both by its subject and treat- ment to display to the best advantage the pic- torial qualities of Mr. Moran's style. Mr. | Moran will also furnish, by invitation, some | etchings for Mr. Hamerton's Portfolio during the current year. —A couple of oil paintings in the window of Morrison's bookstore, sent home by young Mr. Birney from Munich, where he 18 now prosecuting his art studies, show very marked improvement | i that zentleman’s wo! Their color is not all | fault of the artist or his subject cannot termined. In drawing and treatment, however, they evince a vigor and breadth of style which results in future. —No surpgise is manifested in Washington at the announcementdin a New York paper that a portrait by Sir Peter Lely was lately found in a dirt-obscured condition, and bought for a song, in one of our old shops. This sort of thing has pace. now occupied | been going on for years at the national capital. | ‘2 the morning and the pray Old masters representing any desired period or school haye always happened to come to the surface just at the right time, and in lots to suit: | and there is no danser that the supply will fail | so long as any demand for them exists. As things go, the find of a Lely is a quite insignifi- cant affair, We rather wonder that it wasn’t a Rembrandt or a Titian. —Out of six drawings sent by Mr. W. H. Holmes, of this city, to the winter Water Color Exhibition, now open at the Academy of Design, no less than five were accepted by the commit- tee on selection and assigned to good positions. When the reader is informed that out of the whole uumber of pictures sent in only about ment paid to Mr. Holmes’ talents by the action of the committee will be understood. For a gentleman who classes himself as an amateur, only, the result may be considered a most srati- ne, but to his friends familiar with the —Among other etchings on the walls of the nlor Exhibition now open in the New York Academy of Design, those contributed by Mr. E. H. Miller, of this city, have been very favorably received by critics and connoisseurs. Not this alone, but learn that nearly all he seut have beeu sold at the prices fixed, and so | readily, furthermore, as to leave no doubt that they would have brought considerably larger tigures than were asked. Mr. Miller, it will be bered, had equally gratifying success at hibition in Boston a year or 80 ago, and since that time he has added largely tothe num- ber of his subjects as well as greatly improved in the quality of his work. — Mr. Ross Turner is still in Rome, where he is busily engaged on work which he expects to send or bring home with him in the spring, and for the greater part of which he has positive or conditional commissions. In the windows of Chapman’s book-store may be seen a couple of his water-color drawings representing Venetian scenery, lately received. Like some of Mr. | Turnet’s other later pictures, these are quite | taking at first sight, but they are too sketchy i and careless in treatment to beup to thestandard of his best work. They indicate a desire to produce popular and showy effects, rather than | @ purpose to conscientiously Interpret nature. One of them, in fact, resembies a northern winter Scene more than a Venetian lagoon. Mr. Turner j | } | can and ought to do better work than some he | ing round terms: has lately sent home. — At the recent meeting of the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dr. J. M. Toner, of | 4 | ton (old) Cathedral of the vi this city, presented to that institution an ex- | (98 (Cid) females ot that day, said that “they quisite bronze medal of Benjamin West, Presi- dent of the Royal Academy, prepared by that body. It has on its face a fine profile bust por- trait of West, in strong relief, and around it “Benjamin West, President of the Royal Acad- emy, 1815.” On the re are the names of forty persons, and surrounding them the words “Respectfully to perpetuate the names of those who, in 1811, subscribed to purchase the picture of ‘Christ in the Temple’ for the Gallery of the | British Institutign.” In the center of the names | are the words “Under the Regency,” and around | | | | | Hon. Earl Spencer, 1815.” For this rare gift Dr. Toner has received a yote of thanks from the Trustee He purchased the medal during his it to Europe. — At Barlow's may be seen two gy three char- acteristic examples of the work of Mr. M. J. Heade, which have attracted much and deserved attention. Mr. Heade has recently taken a studio in Corcoran Building. and, while he does not expect to find here a market for all he 1s | able to produce, he has yet received such encouragement since his arrival as will probably result in permanently establishing himself in Washington, which he regards of all cities | as the im delightful for residence in the | inited States. Mr. Heade paints nearly all | subjects, but those which the publie seems te prefer, and in which he also greatly excels, are | represeutations of trepical scenery, birds and | flowers, and also long low reaches of salt marsh, with peculiarly rich atmospheric edlects. these classes are the tures at Barlow's, re- ferred to above, and he has many others of the d_as well as of various other subjects in his studio, which he will gladly exhibit’to those de- sirous of seeing them. All Mr. Heade’s efforts, it may be added, are marked by great refine- ment of conception, delicacy of treatment, and purity of color. — Mr. Richard N. Brooke has nearly ready a large and important off painting, which he intends to send to the spring exhibition of the National Academy in New York. Its title is “Swi Dogs.” In character it is some- what similar to, the picture entitled “The Pastoral Visit,” which he sold to the Corcoran , though of course different | priete | city and its sabur RELIGIOUS NOTES. —Rev. Dr. Paxton, of the New York avenne Presbyterian church, hax concluded to accept the call to the Presbyterian chareh, New York; feeling that he has so far committed himself to the New York congregation that he cannot properls the Invitation. He will leave Wash in March. —The first number of The Cathotic, a hand- some, well-tilled family newspaper, issued in this cit y by Henry M. Beadie, editor and pro- inade its Appearance to-day. — Fifty Chinameu form a part of the Central Congrevational chnreh in Brooklyn, N. Y. Messre.; Waittle and MeGranahan are still engaged in revival work in San Francisco, and are meeting with signal success. — The famous “id South” Congregational ebarch in Boston, Mass, has voted an annuity of $4,000 to Rey. Dr. Manning, a pastor ia dil h ng as he liven. - The Reformed Presbyterian charch (Cove- nanter) has inthis country 107 ministers, 123 zregations, 8% re Prom the revival reports of the first two; sof this year the AeCiodis( draws Uhis lesson w “Methodist: is stilla revival, and we succeed tt 8 n promoting conversions than in keepin onverta.” ~The revival movement which originated in St. Paul's Met st Episcopal church, Cincin- nati, under the ministrations of Mr. Harrison, has extended to ~— ali the churches in that The anew F needed for the establishment of diocese within the bounds of ese of central Pennsylvania has subscribed. Over $830,000 has been ‘ed for the new See, to be erected out of ion of Williamsport. —There is a rumor at Avignon, according to the Monileur, of tne contewplated return of the papacy to the city which remained under ite al- ce till after 1789. Mysterious visitors n Italy have tiely exainined the edidices formerly oecupied by Uke papal court. —An organization was formed jasi. week in Boston which is intended to become the nucleus ofa larg@vlub of Unitarian laymen, and to hold toward the Unitarian denomination a position similar to that held toward their respective -churche: the Congregutional club and the Baptist Social Union. —The Baptist Weekly says: “If Dr. Guthrie e yet in the flesh and could revisit many American churches it is to be feared he would find it hard vo restrain his anger on the question of music: “For rayself,” he said, “1 know noth- ing more revolting than to see a fine lady sit down at a piano and warble out the fin music, who, when she comes to the house of God, sits mute, as if God's praises were not wortliy of being sung.” —Itis reported that in a certain village in Suffolk, England, eversince Mr. Green has been imprisoned, the vicar has carefully omitted the prayers for the Queen, royal family and parlia- piseop the present dio. been we and at the commencement of the Litany all conditions of men in the afternoon, he announces that the prayers of the congregation will be offered on behalf of Rey. 8. F. Green, who has wronztully ried Sy in prison for doing his duty in the chureh. —Because Mr. Moody is repeating In Scotland some sermons which he preached tn this coun- try, the Presbyterian Journal asks “how would you like your pastor to repeat himself so But the cases are not similar. Re ing a sermon in one pulpit, and repeating it in several pulpits, are two quite different things, Indeed, there is no good objection to having vood discourse repeated anywhere. if it hae true merit, it will bear hearing twice. —The whole controversy is frivolous and wholly barren. Neither Ingersoll’s objections nor Dr. Talmage’s answers have anything new in them. The whole carpet has been worn threadbare. If Ingersoll has done harm by re- hashing the old bones of objections, older than the first Lord Shaftsbury, Dr. Talmaie does no less harm by diverting Christians from their prayers and duties to engage in a controversy tor which they are unfit. Js the Bible alw to be a bone of contentionand a rock of offence? And what is it that the sacred page requires of us but “to do justly” and to “love merey and to walk humbiy with God?”—Brookiyn Kagle. — Commenting on the depressing influence of church debts upon the clergy, the Freeman's Journal remarks: “In most cases it is the weight of an enormous debt that makes the priest a mere collector of money in the eyes of his people. The necessity of paying interest upon interest is ever present to him. How can such @ man give ghostly counsel with a tree mind? How can he console the widow and give hope to the orphan? How be a faith- ful and careful shepherd to his flock, with the vision of the officers of the law ready to seize his fold? His preparation in the seit was not for haute finance. It was for the hood, in which the affairs of this world are thought to be the lowest consideration: and yet the exigencies of his state in this country force him to be financier, builder, superintendent and teacher of schools, collector—Jack of all trades. How can he nourish the spiritual life when un- paid bilis are the most frequent book-markers in his library?’ — Father Scully, of Cambridge, Mass., de- nounces the church fair business in the fullow- “Godless schools and most church fairs are only fit to give us a race of monsters. Tweuty-live years ago the present learned Bishop of Portland, speaking in the Bos- young could be known on the streets by their my esty.”. How is it now? Who would dare face any congregation and repeat that sentence? urch fairs, by reason of their religious cloak and parental sanction, do more surely and more swiftly the sad work of demoralizing our girls than the very lowest theaters. The eburch-fair book is the passport that take the girls where they please todo as they please. It is only « few steps from the virtues of the home to the mes of the streets. Armed with the fair book every girl can keep on deceiving her parents and resist their authority by threatening them with the displeasure of the pastor. Nine-tenths of the money is now made and collected by these young girls, weeks and months befure the fair opens. Thousands. of tive-cent and ten-cont | cards and little books are in the pockets of the very youngest and most innocent children, who go into the very bar-rooms soliciting chances and yotes. They banish home, church and school from their minds, and think only of fair; and, when it opens, they must be there every nfght till the last moment.” What Are the Wilde Waves Saying ? — I was greatly amused the other evening in a street car by hearing a Giseussion on the part of three very unesthetic but respectable men in regard to the meaning of the word esthetic. Some very queer and some very fanny opinions were expressed, but two of the party were si- lenced by the authoritative statement of one that he “knew” it meant “putting people to sleep!” Somewhere ina crevice of his brain anesthetic had lodzed.—Detroit Free Press, Moribund husband (to esthetic wife)— ‘Weill, Jennie, the doctor says I must soon leave you. Do not grieve have provided handsomely for you in my will. You will k my memory green, wont't you, my love Esthetic wife (sobbing)—“Dearest, I will; and I wiilsee that your grave is kept green also (refectingly), but not one of those horrid colors. A nice olive-gray green, with an gould tombstone. will look too awfully lovely for anything.”—The Town. — The latest agony: A very recent agony is for a young lady to forward by district tele- graph boy a tiny sleigh bell to a well-thought- of This signifies, “You can poy, last year, from it in subject and That showed an interior, with the negro visits pastor- tor at the dinner tabie of his host, by whose family he is put one hand in my muff this evening if you will only bring out the sleigh.” How cooly Utter. —New Haven Register: ‘The nearer we adore; . pouting, ps, e bravely stilled, vill banish us no more. ~_—London Spectator. surrounded; this represents the ‘ial of a negro cabin, with the mamies or the fam- Ir ALL DErenps ly occupying as) variously di: isn’t it snow ail about.” ° 8 g: ite ie