Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1882, Page 3

@Lreose FRAcD HOUSE DECOKATH Hanxuine Baskers—What looks more lovely than a plant suspended from a small rustic basket in the of the upper part of the window? nothing and noth- ent of thousands, marked te trailing « named rat plants are when gr ther position. SEENHOTSE PLAN will Keep in t cover until the w she oy be covered ap ti air nor water can Sex: water from es of the pit or flowe nts ft outsic of the Zixc axp Ou.cLorus.—Aunt Addie tells how to scour zinc,and 1 will give ting it down. I fold the eds three-fourths of an inch all thus mede much more under half to nds with its sharp and ~ Hf the dealer of whom it is purchased will not turn down the edges Square piece. it Piaee on the straight ¢ zine, let! the boar vor a strip of ard having a and sharp ny method of put- | corner; lay over it the | 1 inch over | and to the feelings of love which thrill the portion down with | breast at the season when nature wakes from | tai THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 a Tl, 1882--DOUBLE SHEET. It Origin, History, C@beervance and Literatare. SOME NEW DESI THE CUSTOM NS TO BE SEEN THIS YEAR— ‘ORED TO ITS FORMER RE- SATCHETS AND PIN The approach of St. Valentine’s Day, when our railway mail service. the efficient substi- for the more romantic carrier pigeon, will deliver thousands of sealed and anonymous messages of love, is heralded by bright display s | in many windows and by the gieam of expec- | tation In many a maiden’s eye. plants.— | The number and excellence of designs in Christmas, New Year's and Easter cards which have appeared thin the last few years have revived this an- stom of gallantry and lifted it above the i eof comic and often coarse messages into an expression of the purest sentiment. The origin of Valentine’s Day is lost in anti- n now ve only speculatively fixed. ‘hat it sprang from the ancient he Lupercalia, celebrated ry 15. This was at first a shepherd's nto the God of Fertility. As young ie grew, the festival became general among ull classes, and a coll S especially evoted to the service of the god was esiab- lished. When the Christian Chureh gained power an efort was made to abolish the heathen 3, which by that time had become am xpression ‘ov the date w ized soon after his exeention by order of the adius, about 270. He was a Chris- and he was male the patron of the because of the loving charity of his charac- Another theory is that the festival, in its utial if not in its precise date. is as old as » human race, being an expression of the nis| vernal impulse common to all living beings, dling it there is no | and which Tennyson sings in the familiar line In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burn- ished dove, ofa : ean be readily done at home, | 12 the spring the young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. References tothe mating of birds in the spring blows from a hammer, then tarn the zine over | her winter sleep, are scattered through all liter- and batter down the fold smoc putting down oiletoths do not for one or two cents ay nd firm. In ountry a cheap, sugar of Il made, y not be commerce. and, as re alness, it my ind them, but | partie half ineh | of spring. which is curiously like the opening This | lines of Chaucer's prologue: des | much more defsterious than ‘ordinary cane | sugar. StI it does produce and dyspepti vd its fet up fer: flatulency and paint What b ons of the bowe af the millions of pound ure back to the earliest times. Catuilu lar, has acharming | on the impulses Whanne that Aprilie with his showres swote The droughte of March hath perced to the roote, And smale foules maken metodic, ‘Phat slepen all the nicht with open eye. ITS ANCIENT CBSERVANCE. The ceremonies of what is now St. Valen- . in this view, became the expression great human passion, coexistent with the ace. Valentine was made its patron, and its was fixed by his birtiday,simply because his me is equivalent of ‘galantin, French for vovelace and a host of others have sung in th same strain. Herrick writes: ‘ pok how, my dear, the fexther’d kind, rs this line from “Mid- summer Night's Dream” is significant : St. Valentine's is post; Begin thes» wood-birds but to couple now. - It is tn reference to this, too, that birds so often form a part of the design of valentines. especially of the old-fashioned ones. Many of the modern valentines are far too ardent for any but engazed couples to exchange, unless they are sent anonymously. In some of these lines the poet makes the sender express his love in a thousand ways more extravazant than delicate. Many of these aggressively tender messages are addressed in a disguised hand and, indeed. at Wanamaker's there is a desk where sits a clerk whose sole business it is to address valentines for buyers, and to keep them to be mailed at any date specified. Some of the valentines, however. are inscribed with verses more delicate, and this article may close with one from a Prang card: ‘There is a swe | Wealth cannot bi ¥ it, 1 is'more than fame; | The rich and poor ff careth for the same, | And visits now the young and now the old. By lovers tt ts prized exeeedingly: “Tis named Hgant’s-ease: Oh, wilt thou give it me: ere eee OEE A Victim of Charity. | From the Brooklyn Easie. It was at a church fair, and he had come there at the special request of his “cousin,” who was at the head of tie flower table. He opened the door bashfully, and stood, hat in hand, looking at the brilliant scene before him, when a young sai eake. Come right over here. This way.” Blushing to the roots of his hair, he stam- mered out that “really he didn’t have the pleasure of knowing—” ‘Oh, that’s all right,” said the young lady, “You'll know me better before you leave. I’m one of the managers, you understand. Come. The cake will all be taken if you don’t hurry,” and she almost dragged him over to one of the middle tables. “There now, only fifty cents a slice. and you may get a real gold ring. You had better take three or four slices. It will increase your chances. you know. “You're very good, | net fond of cake—that is, I haven’t any use for the ring—I—’ “Ah, that young lady, “for now if you get the ring you can give it back, and we'll put it in another cake.” | id the young man, with a sickly ‘o be sure, but—" “Oh, there isn’t any but about it,” young’ lady, smiling sweetly. promised?” ‘ald the “You know you i Promised?” | “Well no, not exactly that. but you will take | just ons * and she looked her whole soul | into his eves. “Well, I suppose—” wed Joy, Worth more than gold; | | Iady rushed up, and grabbing him by the arm | “Oh, you must, you will take a chance in our | he stammered. “But I'm j ll be ever so nice,” said the} THE EARLY SETTLERS IN WASH- INGTON, ‘The Romantic History of John P. Van News. From the American Register. When Congress, during the latter part of the last century, founded the capital of the nation at Washington, there flocked to the city all kinds of people with all kinds of schemes. Much was expected from the capital of the infant re- public. It was to bea land flowing with milk and honey. Great investments, promising princely returns, were made. .From all the States, from Holland and London, there came the agents of companies investing unlimited capital in ample squares so beautifully subdi- ided into building lots, which in five years were to be covered with the homes of one hun- dred and sixty thousand people. But the am- le sqnares so beautifully subdivided, and the broad avenues and streets existed only on paper plats; In reality they were morasses, or hid away under great hills, as the gold is hid in earth, and so they remained mostly’ for up- vards of sixty years. The golden promises which the new capital gave she broke; the land flowing with miik and honey was but a mirage, and when, after ten years of existence, the city people, disaster, debt and misery followed. a, endless litigation began, and opulence became beggary. James Greenieaf, who bought six thousand lots on certalu conditions, shifted the fulfillment of them upon Robert Morris and | Revolution, and spent the balance of his disap- | Pointed life in writing communications to the Intelligencer, warning speculators not to bu: lawsuits in purchasing his property. Awa‘ | from India came Tom Law, the private secre- | tary of Warren ony with ample fortune and courtly culture, to invest his all in the new capital. His mind was fertile with a thousand projects for its advancement, and his heart beat responsive to his thousands of hopes, but he died embittered and sour—some said crazy—and poor, with schemes unrealized and aspirations unattained. Carroll, of Duddington, who owned a large portion of Capitol Hill, held his lots at fabulous prices, and saw the population finding the shore and sees the tide going out. He bor- | rowed large sums of money, mortgaging his property as security, for his hopes were potent, even as the auctioneer sang his dirge in the sale ot his lots. Sam Blodget. anticipating the increase of the city’s population by fifty years, built an im- mense hotel on the site of the present General Post Office. Init Congress held a session or | two after the destruction of the Capitol by the | British in 1814, and then it went piecemeal to decay, serving as a monument of ruin and folly, | while Blodget went into chancery, and died | there. ‘The property of the Youngs was mostly | sold for unpaid taxes, and the purchasers at the sales could with difftoulty find its location. By and by, with the flight of years the feverish speculators fled impoverished, and the great, magnificent distances of the capital, wild and | uninhabited, were leit in solitude to become the butt of the poet’s wit and the satirist’s pen. |retarned only a population of five thousand | i Pledges went unredeemed, contracts were | made a bankrupt of the great financier of the | homes in Georgetown, just a8 one stands upon | throat. a sudden, fixed stare in the eye as if it had suddenly caught a glimpse of something never seen before, a slight droppinz of the un- | der Jaw, and the story of one’s life ends for | evermore. No direet issue of John P. Van Ness surviving him his large property passed into the hands of collateral heirs. They were sensible heirs, who did not seek the intervention of courts and law- | | Yers for a distribution of their interests, put | ‘wisely and amicably distributed them them- | | selves. The law, however, was determined not | | to be entirely shunned. If the heirs would not | | go to law. the law was accommodating—it | | would come to them, and it came with a romance. A matronly lady, in mourning and with tear- dimmed j came upon the scene and claimed acquaintaice with the heirs, and in her largeness of heart | proposed to share with them the spoils. They | naturally inquired the name and adiiress of the | matronly lady in heayy mourning, and she mod- estly but firmly told them she was the widowgof the deceased, by virtue of a clandestine mar- riage which occurred in Philadelphia. The heirs were suspicions heirs, — and mistook her modesty for attempts at blackmail, and assnming this as a fact, they jaected as defendants in the suit whi she instituted. The trial is one of the cele- brated cases of the District of Columbia. It lasted upwards of a month. Eminent counsel were In it, and many witnesses came to prove the truth of opposite facts. There was no doubt | that Van Ness had known the widow, and had visited her, for love letters were read in court | from him to her; there was no doubt that some ceremony, sanctioned by a minister's presence, had been performed and assisted at by both | together, but the requisite formalities to consti- tute a valid marriage were not fully proven, and the jury disagreed. The matroniy lady in heavy mourning did not | | murmur; luck was against her, as they say. and she accepted her luck. She left W and never pressed her suit to a second tri | further harrassed the heirs. Thus the name of Burnes, by the marriage ot his daughter with Van Ness, was obliterated; thus the broad acres |inherited by the sturdy and crusty David by right of primogeniture passed into the hands strangers, descended from another race and | from another nation. So the oldest inhabitant sitting near this ruined mansion by the river tells us these incidents, embellishing his senten- ces with many quaint memories and many sizhs, for he too, like the ruin, is fast going to decay | and expecting nothing ‘in his earthly time t come: his delight is in retrospection and com: | | munion with the dim, shadowy, half forgotten | | past. ee | The Trotting Horse in England. | “Pendragon,” in a recent issue of the makes a very ju portation of American trotting horses into Eng— land and the smuggliag of them into handicaps and other contests as English-bred horses. He says: ‘Trotting just now is in a worse position so far as trickery and chicane go, than it was i ‘y suifting at t! | during the old Ponder's End’ period. Then T opened it rowdyism rampant enough, but the | the animal away t th | superior art of ‘ringing in wror was only pus grizzly stood bef | in its infan Within the 5 last couple of the nunver of American-bred hor. | sold whisky at 75 cents per drink. 1 have known wen to ti aqnarter of a mile af te being struck with that whisky before they fe yf 949,79 The Days Stacioe WS hisnent Heusen of tbe Pies Pioneer C.’s story: “I went to the mines early in ** T purchased in San Francisco -a | washing-machine.” weighing 60 pounds, which [ | packed on my back,over the hot and arid plain iy- | ing between Stockton and the Mokelumme river. When I got there T dug my first hole and planted my washing-machine by it. It wouldn't work. Pretty soon the ‘oldest 1 the mines’ came alon: says be, “Stra ow much d'ye charge for washing shir told hi was not there to wash s! wash out gold. He burst into a was beard as far as Murpl Says he, that’s a eontrivanc ¥ ot thar. They ve ta It was true. 1 had But | made a sw machine. fave up ¥ herwoman for the whole Cut-throat Bar by washimg shi at nt a, fie services T perfor nd “mak: ing b ‘y’ for the e a among the proud Judge B.'s story Francisco pened to have with Law business was j iv very dull. we out my shia expenses were $50 per day. An in seized me. I eceupied my spare time (which was ail my time) in making: haliers and se them to th ment of my humble with shame the had in building up tie state of “My “49 house in “Happy nt TE laid pt By day top up. and lived in ti 1 cut F appeared, put out my The bottle held my entire stock in trade. [ Those were gre: with me T bought more hy them out at #100 per week. California is a great country for bringing out a man’s full strenth and character. T should never have been half Fam but for my Californi Simy good fortane to h in building up that great and Tam proud of it.” “On the first night of my ental hotel, then land. Spl is and renied rri key the top floor ed, and with a sing ebound he oyerthres Tis the voice of the captamn, painter ! ‘The meaning poor Patrick can powise disor Ti se d, And down he x How yon sho: not think me ki ittes, It filis me with The painter s he does. at of many colors the painter children. he mixes | painier mixes in the best The painter Is not w H only to his work. as the saying is; James R. You 1 have . of some of these committee ‘The Painter. h the New York Gray hie Allesrs were told | From the Boston Transcript. ve) Tt ts an old story—you've heard i, may-be; That Milesta In the si SAlOr’s first voyage on the sa. mm lies the vessel (lhe shipmasterg> Lis awaiting to leave her huge site. hear the low: onler—even thunder were Let go, there, a> rm, ‘on the stern, eS Upon A ay lept quarter; by Pairk to the water. x pa the $s Moundering Id love: me. to show cenit mm De y cm one ofa did wt r 1 for yon to-day leve it i, Ja pointer, Ate ) work, sive nm iy ore is pointing a sign it « a sign be is Atnan of leiters. He is a wome Ow You specimens of found in ao dicti« v rere. ties with cate, Ne gave to his son do When they oseph € painte mate nes to your honses, paint ashe uses it. The iS * will sometimes come ly a clazier also. fhey t agley. sir. undeutite cany nate mainly Um isa color fore, let ms ching the importance | y ke.” P | trotti and was inthe room. With one stroke of count of tabor they have to perfor: ured In the west This derivation ts qaite reasonable, | 4, Po Pe sure, , There 18 your cake.” and she | Tom Moore, while on a visit here In 1804, pays | not as Americans but as English is simply | his paw he demolished wy spect eee boii cabernet ane tines ber It is used mostly as ane a >and | sipred a great slice into his delicately-zloved | his respects to the new capital thus: j astonishing. Lookers-on may suspect, but they | my set of false teeth and upset my © ne that w yer : ‘ange is found in *valliant” and | hands as he handed her a dollar bill. that | ‘In fancy, now, beneath the twiil | can prove nothing. Tbe absence of a trotting bottle. [had three revolvers and four y. in IST and both from the Latin valens. The | js too nice,” added the young lady, as she plas- | Come, Iet me lead thee o'er the batui-souke-=the Grantcof a. hard and tee ne ities ial that af in from the Lupereal has in | tered another piece of cake on top of the one |W! TilGn woula {was the clerk of that committee, the fact that it became a I just given him. “I knew you would ; fe sae pall Goon a Folie en eer ee and lens to write | ¢ least two chances.” and his ‘dollar bill eenaten singer ' rhames upon tablets, which were drawn j disappeared across the table, and tien she | econd-sighted seers, even now adorn | rout endeavor to expose fraud. e claws and threw it i ciher. were supposed to be devoted: te cech | citied,co,8 companion: “Ob, Miss Larkins, here Sate sYetunbora.” | and-by somebody will get an American horse | wit Shall [tell you how 1 fon ther Were sapposed to y y a gentleman who wishes to have his fortune | told.” “Oh, does he? original proprietors probably the only one whom the new capital really enriched There good enough to stand upon his own saved my merit: - him with my b fora certain period. A like ceremony Will you believe according to Misson, a learned traveler of the van tle of smelling ¥ . ” At the i Z . , Send him right over,” an- | was David Burnes, the Scotch farmer, Washing- naming and rede- ption of other “4 an | time he end of the seventh ru rly part ofthe last century, had been an | swered Miss Larkins. i , | ton had much trouble with him in laying out | horses will fall away from the ad it be | He wok Clerk Bail the forny \eboonp ete a your pardon, but I’m afraid you are | the ; and called him the “obstinate Mr. | admitted that all the best six to | down. 1 Scotland. on the eve of St. var i 1 don’t remember saying anything | Burnes.” Davy retaliated by speaking of | have been made by English hors tly | was kept up for the rev vay. He says: “An equal number of maids | about—” a Washington as ‘the man who grew great by | been 1 y horses that were imported.” | night until my supply of smell cers cle thiliitiar with rplersep eld dpa ot Seales oars a “Oh, Bu Mae Me Sue Are young, than ma ae me pidiy Custi: = uniter we law of Fe eeon not, however, let tie chatice | hausted. L called out to Lewis ve sy roe ig selina eigRet 2 sn useing at the youth’s arm, ** r Ss rimogeniture existing in Maryland, Dayy in- for a fling at anything American pass. In the | me up some more. le replied Uh: and perhaps also alittle tired of jars, vases, &¢., | lets, which they roll up and draw by way of lots, | of the cause. and yon won't refuse,” and once | Premosclt property, and while he was growing | same fi mnevinveato [bare anee Deora in the ‘etl ¢ of pottery painted in various colors and | the maidstaicing the young men’s billets, and | more the beautiful eyes looked soul(ully into | in riches his younger brother, it is said, contem- | come h Buy it at i He sei out of bi Govered witit decaleomanie pictures. Now | the men the maids’; £0 that each of the young | his. ‘Here we are. Now, take an envelope. | plated nature from. the poor-house ‘window. | best horses We, with the fin ihe rep! hitter Mr. there can be made vases in a similar man- | mea lights upon a girl that he calis his valentine | Open it. There: you are Soing to be married | ‘Tradition has it that he was dissolute and world to hand, do not breed and bi ner. with n -ater cost or trouble. which by | 4nd each of the girls upon a young man Whom | ina year. Isn't that jolly? Seventy-ve cents, | drunken. Poor devil! Under the curse which | for oateelvee id ho a sportsnis | drowned by the Using pictures of a Japanese character ean be | She calls hers.” By this means each has two | plea ‘This time tie youth was careful to : D the law had pnt upon him for th a younger brother, he had no crime of being . erte: rot ere be heard warns made to look valentines; but tie man sticks faster to the | metas | tiers Will Be beaks Saad and figees trom Russia decidedly oriental, and can a hand out the exact change aI Fat y gun or Tuueilaxe, and press it on the inside of the vase, | 4a) Abate rs Ee face outward, of course: be eareful to see that | ives a maiden’s cenfession that on St. Valen- hing else to do | here with a view to passing them offas record Ing up the steamship 1 A pastoral of hardly be disti hed, unless examined closely, | Valentine that has fallen to him than to the | “On, should just like to have my fortune | put drink and die, or wait for his elder brother | After. a somewhat lengthy and satirical” state—nia.” - | yo 4 ones. You will also find | Valentine to whom he has fallen. Fortune | told. “May 17” said the first young lady. to die childless and intestate. In a one-story | description of the high — steppers Gen. F aded on the shores of | and urges 1p them to mile them much more lasting and satisfactory. for hus divided the company into so many | “Ofcourse you may, my dear,” said Miss | cottase, near the river, the Scotch farmer lived. |i the parks, “Pendragon” continues by | the ¢ Alti ay WAE | grate t dist He says enor they can be dusted and washed with impunity. | COU) the v lentines give balls nd treats to | Larkins, handing out one of her envelop He had one danght an only child, named “One reason why trotting is but 15 minutes, [assisted mous sutas will be r hat purpose, Take vaces or j mmon sparent | thelr mistresses, wear their billets several days | “Oh, dear, you are going to be married this! Marcia, Her suitor were many, charred with | fenees a sport in the states is because © hanging ty glass, Will admit the | Wow their bosoms or sleeves, and this little | year, too.” Seventy-tive cents more, please,” | hier wit and learni AIL With Fem | eee ee hangings extranee of your hand inside. The pictures | t often ends in love jet | 2nd the poor youth came down with another | prospective wealth. Congréssman eagerlysouzht | horses. We const ntly tal that one of th should consist of pavodas. figures of men and Pepys’ Diary hich throws so much light | dollar note. “No change here, you know,” | her hand. and the on cottage Was en-/ as aimeans of improving tie general breed of | innocent. But he was an awful evatnple to the women, towers, butteriies. inseets. e. Cover | Upon the domestic life of England in the time of | added Miss Larkin . putting the greenback in! tered by at the Among ; he Ta hard fact it does noting for us ¢ guilty party, whoever he was, and who was the face of each picture with any cle | Charles IL, contains several references tothe her pocket. “Oh, come, let’s try our weight,” said the first young lady, once more tr preferred John P, nember from New York. hand- ° rw pared with what the trotting turf of America | neyer—ne, never— Our vessel The Comore san on ey | does for American horses. Here all a nobleman publis Van Ness, the sailed then immediat ‘Although 1 | Hiisdiat. sives ‘i : some and dashing, and the two were married. | or gentleman looks for is style. In | have ney tothe Rent cee en oe all the edz it securely to the giass. | tine’s eve she pinued five bay leaves to her pil- | hashful youth's leeye, and be David Burnes’ death occurred a few yeara after | pace is the quisition. * * * Bring state I ‘LADIES’ LIST. Arranze farce=t picturesfirst, and then cover, | low, sure that if she dreamed of her sweetheart | where he was he found himself stauding on the | the marriaze, in P. Van Noss be- | ters to Engla . till the humble part in which it was my’ glor- 3 &s entirely as you can, all the intervening | they should be married before the year was out. | platform of the scales. “One hundred and | eyed in the old F y maxim that the | like ious privilege to take in elevating her to. her spaces wiil: flowers and buttertiies, being eare- | Bhs to make it more sure, I boiled an ezg bard | thirty-two,” said the young lady. “Oh, how L ‘husband and wife are } id that the | of vusband is that one, for fter Burnes’ | na ss conveying to her | why Kout the yolk and when | went to bed, eat thout speaking or drinkin led it with salt; shell and all, It is needless pictures. Whez these int the entire surface of nail the pictures is one of the proudest. ful notto overlap the are all thor: Iry. the vase | should like to be a ¢ Jumped on the hundred and eighteen, vy inan like you, kea bird. “One . that is light. One Eagtish, and there is no reason whatever and sh nid net do with this materi During the spring of “49 le hae és 3 | bu i ition of a trustee, | Americans have done, Indians ased oft paint of @ pale green tea color. The pictures, | “ay that even the dixes ; dollar, please. i the property of which her father died seized te be S 5 | paae bets the paint, are | HSh country lass could “not withstand this at | "What aa ech aie tier bent erat teen : ee oe e vases cam be | fack.and sue dreamed other “Mr. Blossom.” | that pret ean, , | , With a portion of the fortune thus acquired, | speed should remain w ny | in the habit of sley ws. Thad neo any time without the | Gentle ten gave their valent pensive | “Oh, but you know,” said the young lady, “it | Jolin P. V: built at the fuot of 17 vet, | promise of spreading itself among the wealthier | arnis then but a pocket-pistol | had br vat | least fear of injury. se who would prefer | present e Duke of York once civing the | js for charity,” and another dollar was added to | on the Potomac. a hatdsome te sidence, costing | portions of thecommu Is Itnot sincularat | from the states. to ty iton a small seale at first, might take a | Duchess of Richinend a ring worth £500. the tr of the fair. 30.000, a big i se days. It was | a time when men possessed of money and | | did brother, jelly glass, arrange the pictures in the same THE NEW VALENTINES. ll have to go. I have an engage- | spacious and j e the pictures of a | are so an: hey Were eener- | Mnainer. and pain he same asbefore | ‘Ten years ago the observance of St. Valen-|™ zB __ | feudal ¢ hout the di Ataple | their fello ii ning in cousequence of | deseribed; when Saished, it will make a rather | tine's Day liad sadly dezonerated. Every one dh, but Grst you must buy mea boquet for | crounds, ¢ ed with all e flow- | names will be for lung ideatiti the repeated and furious atiacks from these pretty lamp or cixar lighter holder. You can | remembers the wretched penny sheets, ribald | taking you all around.” sald the young lady. | ers and trailing vines surrounded ‘should turn his attention Indians—and It Kept one man busy | improve it by ng the rim of the glass—j| and valear. whieh th disiizured windows, | ‘“Rizht over here,” and they were soon in fi nt | walks zig-cauged in directions, opment of an English trotting s ? Foraught | getting them “ls next’ day—at the | ii Mre Hi dbw Country Geniir and which were only intended to hurt the feel- | of the flower table. Here is just what I want,” | was inclosed by a brick wall. we see here to the contrary, it might be sup-; nearest groce1 were loaded from a ‘Raan Mrs dc Tus Atwosenens We Breatue is, tn its pur- | ins of their recipients. The day became a time | and the young lady picked up a basket of roses | it for aking. Entertain : posed that the American trotting horse isan | barrel. Those were wild old times, I can tell Sucth Mre J it ity, composed of twenty-three parts of oxygen | (F avenyineus insult and personal ridicule. | and violets. “Seven dollars, please. were inaugurated and inaintained in animal by itselt, and that it ible to pro- | you. Steyny Macy C Sout But of late the custom is returning to adezerved popularity among the better classes. This year's valentines, in particular, surpass in de- “Oh, Jack, is that you?” cried the poor youth's | “cousin” from behind the flower counter, “and buying flowers for Miss Gigele, too. Oh, I shall | song were heard within it, and ele: tinetion assembled under its hespi From its windows could ‘One day two wild Indiaus chased my \rother three miles. We saw him being pur- | and seven ‘n parts of nitrogen, but it | sued by them. That is, we saw him but never contains particles which do not naturally be- means of English half Remembering wh: | duce a rival to him ble roof. | breds and thorouslibre | | A geomet be seen ships from cen of late years among the | saw the same with a Jong to it. Inadamp day the air is fuli of <nand exeention any before made. Valen- | be terribly ‘ealous unless you buy mea basket, | Europe moored to the docks of Ale andria, | it » ; were pursued Huveral water or fog, it may not contain | tines were made only of yer and | too,” and she picked Uap an laborate affair. | while gliding by daily on the river beside it were for trotte: kes, but it isa singular fact that no one | Mr= mhore than t fa pint of air: and | tinsel. but now the greatest variety of the best | “Twelve dollars, please, Jack,” and the youth y as the atin ever saw the Feeth bacco . originality is the block in the wa: Vere the | People at the To this house oue day there carne for protee- | lead once taken; di the Dake of West-; tion and a home, Ann G. Wigitt, a cousin of | minster but appear driving a pair whose chief | C: Mrs. Van Ness. She was a runaway oun from ; claim and attention was not that they pawed | country where we mined. Nearly all of our | dohuston Misa the Convent of the Visitation In Georgetown | the air when going five miles an hour, but that | party eventually met their death at the hands | Joyce May and had been known in the community as Sister y | they could not trot mile in turee minutes—all | of these Indians and snakes. Whisky then was | Kit Florence Gertrude. No one ever knew rightly the cause | London swelidom would be agog to yet horses | $20 per gallon. Iteost us nearly all our earn- | Kom"! of her sudden departure from the convent. | like them. For a fame-seeker this would be a/ ings for ammunition. But, gentlemen, I am here is the thing which acts di nthe blood in the inngs, to withdraw hepurities which it contains, the purer the air is the more capable it 1s of ab- i the impurities .in the blood in the lungs. Hence, the purer the air the purer the blood, and the purer the blood the better the health enjoyed in all climes and countries. The purest air is akes save the parties pursued. rd- put down the money, looking ‘terribly confused as much as thouzh he didn’t’ know whether to make a bolt for the door or give up all hope and settle down in despair. “You'll excuse me, ladies,” he stammered, “but I must go. I haye—” “Here. let me pin this in yourbuttonhole,” in- terrupted his ‘cousin.” “Fifty cents, please,” and then the youth broke away and madea merchantien from the West Indies, laden with n, | work is to be found in eards, much like Christ- tobacco for the port of Georget mas cards in their generat effect, but of course having appropriate desigus and mottoes. New features of this year are, aside from the novel | designs. the unique mounting of many cards; the combination of putfed satin and fringe for borders, and the use of silk and satin sachets of delicate perfumes and elaborate inscribed, “Cupid pins my heart t ean never realize the t hips and perils endured by us brave, H ifornia pioneers. It was a very dangerous | 3.3 pin-cushions to thine.” OF nia, and all over the United States. - ¥ improvement needing all the available ‘The remark often made of Christmas cards. that | bas recently been introduced upon Fourth lake, | #ap 1 fish is an be encour- Giiteare Known to almost every physician in| the cheaper ones are often the most artistic, | which will probably be pretty generally adopted Bethe ead unite, mecematiated the ‘removal | co, Everyman who owns @ garden can easily Business in quills bas bec ver nk tteid: | hols good of valentines. Extravazance tn j that is, the use of'a small, somewhat kite-shaped | of the mausoleum ‘to’ Oak "Hill cemetery, In dig one, and as it keeps the surrounding ground | When other remedies fall get a Benson's Capcine tusiness.in quills has been very brisk this win- | sich a messave of sentiment is obviously not in | sail, which each skater holds for the breeze to | Georgetown, where it now stands. always moist. it will be found a most valuable | Plaster. Iecnted sad each Until, Dr. Foster had experl- | road taste. Like Christmas cards, they area | eatch and send him flying over the lee with 2 | Van Ness imscit enjoyed Ing that | heans of making garden truck grow. qucnted and tried. a number of times that the | Conrtesy. and should be “careful, bat not | speed scarcely by the lightatugelike | worlly oretament could’ bestiw._ By turns he | oor ot broweciiet wean eters oralngfor Naecine at last “took.” The first calf inocu | Coayy Hee bask, | shore astie cad be made almost any. | Wor Drecsens Of a bank! “ccmeraliaf Cpe salliti, | 5 Cvtast a Sonal of Gals the will tant, scmvons ae Sere acecneteny wen VALENTINE LITERATURE. size, but (orien! from six to ten | mayor of Washington Mibat not; he war! them, Really, it 8 something worth speaking Another, and so1on for twelve Sear to the pres: | , Valentine literature is almost ns old as Eg | feet length and per The ae saath | fart the’ tuk of mae UES eo abot ey hes y b i in “ ii. | at their w! part. They can be operat e 1 fa Eat time. | From one ealt as many as 700 quills | <i poetty. | Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Lyd- | St Men pet oat only with greater comes knocking, begzing‘admittance. With his a fect : Mrs. Loveap, You will be disappointed if you uss cheap Plasters, have been taken; it varies, however, with difer~ | Bee eat te pe eae Pi for they are held by the hand at fend’ | ample fortune, Van Nest was, short of | poushe a oy ree. ot eee: Tris a eh | attests Reaoes Rearend Mepeome topes f spreear Fo scimals are preferred, as | 0) 11 war cc! ‘ed in his tine as a valentine | Pefs0n urged over the ice by means of one | ready money. The shadow ofthe dunning cred- delicate grass To match the dress she | SEER tn |C Rasren uy came | oa eunaemay sta rencae [atari ee coe a ie ng Bt eet | | Feturned. The operation onthe calves is not 4 | With the spring mating of bitds was. formerly Dmorerne winter roses “the Pocech:| irteniatible na tis inn wag tesmaneing, tke sien, cro Merah ue dnshe daintily A SESETOORS aut BORON 18° fe” Smiealt ons, nor do theywatier and atterwani | More sronsly held than now. Drayton, @ post | £0 Cri ‘ti hare a Wit Tae tn who came atti a ae orray:| (pe den ot teasing ber Gaeyed & ESS die, as .many suppose. But, on the contrary, | 0f S"*<espeare’s time, wrote to his valentine: built, and soon a whole fleet of such salls may | With a smile and—his bill, en oe ofa do x Bes soe pn a Bilas Si A a a ces tke va Olina Sein te aa a i Ginated, for the process is the same, only that Whieh constantly abide” “A Philadelphia firm, a few days azo, Sef unblew apalaes: Er ineny el the calf has hundreds ot incisions instead of dn suet tet cokes their check for $6,787,706.75." It six, Ike the So may we two be true Lois rene a is year, nor change new, twirties coupled were. mast have cut e Some said it was disappointed ambition in not | bigger thing than winning the Derby.” Trot- | proud that 1, too, hada hand in making Cali- | [203 Jany out of doors. There is uo pure air within any | course, P cards are the leading favorites ; straight line for the door. being appointed snperioress; others, that it was ane as a sport is also likely to take x new step | fornia the great state she i Miller Jag four wails of ahouse. You may go into any | among Atte buyers. The claracter of his Weil, if I ever visit another fair may I be—be | @ cage of love, but she never told and the ladies | forward throngh the recent action of the Na- | —————————__—— Moden Mes Deliar oom, even if it is entirely empty, and a musty | card work is too familiar to need description, | d—!” he ejaculated, as he counted over his cash | of the convent were just as reticent. She be- tional Trotting Association, which at its recent Miller Mee Julia orclose smelt will be immediately observed; | and his valentines are equal in excellence to | to see if he had the car fare to ride home. came an inmate of the elegant mansion by the | annual meeting decided to do away with the VER 5,000 GENTLEMEN’: much more will there be impurities in the air of anything the firm has produced. Three cards ee Diana river and was a noted and brilliant woman of handicap system and adopt the time class sys- O ; Atchison WH Mic our dwellings in proportion to the decaying or | designed by Rosina Emmett, the winner of the alls al areer society. Alas! the change which comes with | tem, as in the United States. adn x odorous things in it, as stops, food, fruits, | fourth prize for designs for’ last year's Christ- | The etymology of the term ‘‘bear” is believed | the years, here and everywhere. The mansion see . Black Geo'A flowers and the like. That air is best for the | mas cards, are especially pretty. The three | tobe this: When a dealer in stocks, or for | still stands, but. it Is tet gone to decay. The Sam Suber’s Fish Pond. Bate Moran Win health whieh has no perceptible “smell” about | figures and scenes are all conventionalized, and that matter in merchandise, had sold more | Zig-zag walks are obliterated, the trailing vines} yr sam subers. says the Macon, Ga., Tele- DRUGGISTS Boyle Jolin Mefanzhlin & Oo The fracrance of the rose and pink are de-| the coloring and outline of the oblong pictures | than he wee conabieet delivering he was natur- | 8 gone, the parterres are turned into weeds, 4 ante vege Bow MeGhote due Le jelous s but if « person were to sieep in a close | remind one of a stained window. It Ia worth | {yan he was Seeareiele “audve wes naturally his | the scent of the flowers vanished, the brick wall | 974Ph, has fully demonstrated the fact that a Banke James MeCudden Jas room in which there were a great many pinks | noting that the Prang cards all have a reverse per pice that prices should faM in order that he | !8 broken, battered and tumbling. The river | small fish pond dug in the middle of a garden is oe Baldwin Morgan aoe AEE and roses he would be nearly dead next morn- | worth studying. and which is always in artistic anouia cases hi ‘engagements and be no longer | "P02 which commerce once was is now but ala source of much genuine satisfaction and —_ Bartholomew WL Nayle Dawiel ing, because the nature of the flowers is such | harmony with the design of the face. When the bare. From the adjective. the transition to the | ™@rsh, throwing up deadly and invisible profit. Of late years southern people have Caldwell DM Nesbit DM us partictes every inctant amd they Krieg oars | fuze OF scene modern it its elementer thor, | §wostantive of the same sound (bear) was enay. | malaria. Over all the bat and spider are com- | Girected much attention to this branch of in. GuntordGen a> 8 cles -y instant, ey often, while modern in its elements, thor- re nuning with decay. So the houses which men = e material. inore solid than the air, displace It. #0 | ouzhy Greck in spirit. The daisy, the open- | 2%¢.erowling bear being thus Saeeeue Nis | puild and which greatness inhabits, decay Just | dustry, If t may ve go called, and all over Geor- PAYSIOIANS cnet that in every breath t less air taken Into | eyed’ blossom, which, begging Oscar Wilde's dois tie Somewhat cuiions to find in| #8 the men who built them die, Just as their | gla can be found these miniature ponds of eam Tens — —— eC — Ale at substance of the "pardon, is quite a& decorative as the sunflower, | the popular mind a diffased notion that bulls | &teatuess Is forgotten. a water, in which are raised myriads of fish at a viedsre may be represented Us @ ple co aa ne? | Wafkequent theme for the back of these cards. | sro Hye mare vittuoes crema is some-| | The fruit of the union of John P. Van Ness | cost next to nothing. HAVE SIGNED OR ENDORSED THE FOLLOWING | Devey'¢ aed Fe ee THE IMPORTED VALENTINES. times a fallacy. The bull is usually a specula- | With Marcia Burnes was one child, a daughter, |“ pour y Mr. Snbers had his lttle pond Ded oats putt ito a vecel of dirty waters Writ | The imported valentines ihe year are better | tor hu proposes to sata merely hy "bret | Fete etter Une momtanhood, married and died & | age in tis garden at about the expeue. of Glee Es ee ee punsugedt atc take up more of that than itt was half full of | than ever. Marcas Ward sends over no mew | fuctnations, nd to fish in troubled waters. | Joni tice ler marriage, ere the fowers fa the ona crete Ties tet on aia ria Downey Jas E sir taken Into the henge will take Go eine | beauty, and the Gorman cards, While, eneanen | apirit beetiae te awaits ae anborteety bone Se reece ens 10Te tase was MOMMY, ANA | Pave w coltred usu two déliare to UHae tino aie Ee et 7 re up more of | s . 2 . vl er de: e Te . A; i D the impurities of the blood than it would have | fe In great variety. The e are so many Ger- | cheaply. ‘The cotton Sesnal ares nou cot ais never tertveron: ONeamnuarn of complaint | black bream from the swamp. Then he shut HIS | arcsons. Seabury & John, Manu/acturing Chemtets, | Det doue it it had contained or aborted a tare WAL manufacturers that there are many de- | tracts to sell cloth ia in spirit’ a bear of yarn | at Providence ever escaped her; shenever chafed | e¥e8, fr a year and a half, and waited for the Si ae eed hee Dickiuson WS amount of impurities before it went in. Hence | Sma. ees printed tn a aaa a eas ae erie te rene bought {12 rebellion at the Divine decree; she entered ee OO ene ren ere ie eanety Fox Chas N the necessity of arranging habitually to breathe | which are us Their GOLOEE tie, obo eule: 06 ton | LOG cel OF Git eas eriate Ta hte aut | the nigtit of sorrow bowed to earth with tts | cad te bas Lore ao tee oe Cateming Paw the purest air possible. The easiest way to do eee a eae oe h traded Boine aatiaat ot ulation | Weight. She abandoned all the gateties of the ; 284 he has kept up the program ata trifling | @eyt/emen:—For the past few yeurs we have sold va- a £5 this is to spend as much of our time inthe open ;Prouounced contrast. not being delicately | has over-traded. Some amount of speculation | world and laid aside her scepter and crown as | ©°*t. rtons brands of Porous Plasters. Physicians B air as practicable, and when we are indoors to | blended, make It a point te ing into our hous ne time: to have fire- have fresh out-deor air eom- | Printed. they are sometimes coarsely Exceptions to all these faults’ are jeriman cards, the main features of those pre Is no doubt good, wholesome, and necessary in business. It is only when the one party is inuch overpowered by the opposing party that queen of society. In the charity school and orphan asylum, y the bedside of the sick and When the fish commissioners came along with their canisters of German carp. and the papers _ and the public prefer BENSON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLAS- TER toall others. We consider thom’ one of the very Sutberiand : : ; ir execllent eating qualities, he | fey reliabie household a Pausch Sturdivant HL 7 sige heh . = ve | dying, and in the homes of poverty relieving its | Were full of thei H remedies worthy of confidence. | Grapes Win -agaen, kuce, or door or window m ¢ open ail | Whose design are airy maids riding butterflies. | mischief results. For years past the bulls have | 4Y | rocured a few to stock his pond. They dived | They are superior to all other Porous Plasters or Lini- Binsell John the time. day and night, but | in ao < oe = De la Rue’s valentines are all correctly and | had their own way in France, being able to bor- | Wats she was fgund to the day of her death. Re the mud. Btentig 3 not to come in with a draught.—Dr. Heatth at fvine. z are ‘The First Vaccine Eactory. From the Greenwich Probably the th vaccine factory established in this country is ina barn on the property of os Thar paeape at Cos Ceb. A number of in- Saw horses. some straps, a few razors.ga stool or two, quantities of quills, and ealves In @ pen are all that there isto be seen. One man does all the work, and yet from this barn vac- cine matter is sent to Japan, Europe, Califor- Foster's Haits | Svititedly drawn, | | and their coterinz, while brischt and fresh, is soft, well printed, and the contrasts are not harsh. Three of his pretty cards represent a Cupid in the midst of the sea. On one, the winged boy tugs at a net filled with hearts: on another, he stands on a waye-lashed rock, beaying a ring of hope, whose influence _ draws into happy union the wrecked hearts scattered through the water; and onthe third, he is sailing a raft and busily spearing the hearts which fill the waves about Lis chubby feet. ‘alentines of lace paper are still made in great variety. Some of them cost only one cent, envelope and all; othenreost six dollars. row money with singular facility, until a few months ago, when the aspect of ‘things began to show signs of changing, and this week the bears have been paramdunt.—Lowlon News, January 21. Ska ing With Sails, Fro the Madison (Wis.) Journal. The lakes which surround the city are at present in a very fair condition for the amuse- ment ot skaters and ice-boatmen, and large num- bers are availing themeelves of the advantages they afford. Anew means of locomotion on the ice ‘he was a sister of charity without the hoodand the serge. Death, at least, after painful days of suffering ended ‘her worldly grief. Her last words to her grief-etricken husband and friends assembled about her bedside were, ‘Heaven bless and protect yon; never mind me.” John P. Van Ness erected a mausoleum after the pattern of the Temple ot Vesta at a cost of $34,000, and placed within it his wife's remains and those of father and moiher. The state! pile stood in a large enélostire tor years on street beside the crehanteey which Mrs. Van Nggs richly endowed, and was an gbject of curi- ity to the stranger. Finally, the march of id his hitherto clean pond bezan to assume the appearance of a mud puddle. The | carp did not prove so yaluable an eating fish as | the bream, having much the flavor of catfish. | But the bream, of which the pond has millions, | is acceptable to all palates. The expense of feeding these fish 1s really less than feeding half a dozen chickens, to say nothing of having the chickens stolen. Mr. { Subers gave about twenty-five cents for a box | of old worm-eaten crackers, and they furnish ! excellent feeding. A few mulberries, with an | occasional treat in the way of corn bread crumbs, is all that is ne ecessary, and the fish go on grow- | ing and multiplying world without end. mente for external une, BENSON'S CAFCINE PLASTER is a genuine Phar- maceutical product, of the highest order of merit, and sorecognized by physicians and druggists. james IW