Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1882, Page 6

* aT THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MARCH Hl, 1892—DOUBLE -SHEET. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. WHE SPRING YORK—EDWIN BOOTH GOES TO EUROPE, SEASON—ATTRACTIONS IN NEW ETc. — At the National next week. Raymond. — “One Hundred Wives” canbe seen at Ford's on Monday. Leonard Grover, formerly of Washington, is at work on half a dozen new plays for as many stars, all of which are to see the light next season. — Mary Anderson had to borrow a Romeofrom while playing in Boston last week. mseums always keep a cage tull of on Is Immense In New crowded at high prices, y applauded. Traviata” and . however, does not one. — Mapleson’s company, which was here last week, is ag its deserts in New York, where the shortcomings of Miss Hank and Campanini atti's opera s The houses ari performance She has “ Faust.” are expe Miss Hank was thorou gusted while here with her suppert in “Cart and for reasons quite apparent to the audience. — Mme. Modjeska is now filling a brilliant en- gagement in Warsaw. During act in London, and will have the chiet part in “Odette.” There i to think that Mime. Modjeska under Mr. Stetsc — Miss Blanche Rov here next season ment. who has been ring hall, New York, on Wednes- st, with an excellent support and to a crowded house. — The approaching Shakespeare festival per- formances at Avon will be under the dir Compton, who will be remeint supported the late Adelaide N | His own aracters will include Mercutio, Dronio of Ephesus, Touchstone and Mateoiio. — Ma herself a pri that west side place of amusement Mitchell. who has once more shown e favorite with the frequenters of | in New York, rand Opera House, will divide this week—t st of her stay—between “The Pearl of "and her new success, “The Little Opera “She appear — It is now de ely settled that Allani’s husband, (Gye, is to be the manager of the new | as not a] ity be heard | again in this countr 5 | —A three-vet f by c. Burnand, | (auther of ~The Colonel”), called “The Man- | ager,” was recently brought ont at the Lon- | don Court Theater, and G Tribune that “it was carefully mounted, cleveriy | acted and heartily damned.” It is said to b dramatization of “Marie la Debutante du Palais | Royal.” | to H.R. H. Princess | has written the music, and W. H- | | which, it is said, } — Oliver King. Louise.” Fuller, of Ottawa, the words of a comic opera called “The B will soon | vh the subject t polities and politicians of the United States. — Tony Pastor's iz, ‘Are You Going to the Ball This Evening?” done into Freueh, is being sung by Paurel in Paris. And the Frenchmen like it. A letter-writer suyests that Mr. Pastor would do a good thing if he returned the compliment and would sing Paurel’s latest "avais un bandean sur les yeux,” which ns “I was blindfolded.” —Nat Goodwin and Eliza Weathersby have been playing Sims’“The Member for Slocum” this week at the New York Park, and both peo. ple and critics enjoy it—mainly because the Principals make the farce so attractive and get 80 much fun out of it. This piece, bv the way, is still ranning at the London Olympic, though not to good business. — Manager McCaull has bought the American Fight to Strauss’ new opera, “The Merry War,” whieh is having a prosperous career in Vienna. and it will fellow ‘Apajune” at the New York Bijou. But “Apaju is having a run there which is once more teaching the critics the | wapriee lesson that the public largely deeides itself what is and what is not werth seeing. — Aman who was excessively addicted to to- bacco was asked by his wife at the opera. “What part of the performance he most resembied.” Upon confessing his icnorance she replied: ‘he over-chewer.” And he felt relieved, because he was afraid she had caught him winking at a Dallet girl. — “Odette” has met with unvarying public favor since the first evening of its production at Daly's New York Tueater. It has been an un- questionable hit. and despite the flaws in the Play and in the acting discovered by the micro- scopic eye of the critics, the public, for whom after all. it was written and is played, have de- elared themselves well satistied with Mr. Sardon and Mr. , and have given “Odette” their hearty support. —The Ford Comic Opera Troupe are in Pitts- burg. During the past week the performances | of the troupe have attracted splendid audiences to Heuck’s Opera House, Cincinnati, and the Enquirer says: “It is one of the tinest musical organizations traveling. and no troupe that they know of can equal its presentation of ‘The Mas— cote.” So favorable an impression did it make there that it has been engaged to reappear be- fore the close of the presenf season.” This is a compliment to a company organized in Wash- ington. — Adelina Patti will go to Boston for a short season on the 20th inst., and will sail for Europe early in April. There isa probability that she will return to the United States next fall, since in replying to a request from the Press Club of New York to sing at their concert she said that her present engazements prevented her from doing so, but that she expected to bé here again - sag fall and would be glad to sing before the ub. —Mr. Edwin Booth’s plans for the coming year are carefully settled. On- May 31 he will sail for England, and will spend the summer there and on the Continent. He intends to re- sume his London engagements, which were suddenly broken off not many months ago, and | will act during several weeks. In the autumn | he will perform in the English provinces. Then he will travel through Germany with a first-class German company. Mr. Booth has no intention to build or buy a theater in New York, nor does he expect to be in this couptry next season. —A play called “Monsieur Jack,” adapted from the French of Paul Meurice by Mr. Horace MeVicker, was produced on last Sunday evening in Chieago. It is rather warmly praised by the Rewspapers of that city, although the perform- ance was given, apparently, under discouraging circumstances. — The report that Mr. Edward Taylor, of | Washington, was about to sever his connection with Mr. Eric Bayley’s “Colonel” company was unfounded. He has had four good offers to Manage other companies next season, and may accept oue of them, but for the present will re- main manager of@fhe “Colonel.” The party finished a very successful week's engagement in oklyn last night, and will now go south, ap- ing in Norfolk. Richmond, Petersburg. and ynehburg, Va., this week. and in Greenville, N. C.; Columbia, S. C.; Augusta, Ga., and Charleston, S. C.. next. Mr. Bayley will re- suine his old part of Col. Woodd during the —Where they are:—Rose Eytinge, Willie Edonin’s Sparks, Maude Granger and the Boston Ideals were in Boston this week.—The Harri- sons in “Photos,” Chas. Thorne in “The Bank- ex's Danchter,” Hague’s Minstrels and “Youth” were the leading features of Philadelphia up to this evening.——John MeCullongh is in Alaba- ma and appears Monday in New Orieans._— Edwin Booth ts in Cincinnati and the houses are everflowing.——-Kate Claxton is in Indiana. —The new comic opera of “Claude Duval” Was brought out at the Bijou theater, New York, this week, and has been well received. The Work Is by no means on a level with its rival, “Patience,” and, indeed, takes an altogether different direction. quiet satire. it gives us a breezy legend, witn ar in this country. | © | Ye ever seated on the top rail of a fence when a | of his month’ inside of ten days. | back parlor and left the room, the doctor an- In place of allegory and! SOME SHAKES, An Old Stager’s Experiences with the Arkansas Ague. From the Little Rock Gazette. “Speakin’ ‘bout the Arkansaw ager,” said the man with the sandy goatee and squint eyes as he leaned back in his chair, “that’s whar you saw my heartstrings, in case I've got any left to saw on. Gentlemen, gaze on me.” The crowd gazed. “When I moved down into Arkansaw from Tennessee risin’ of sixteen y’ars ago I was purty—I was for a fact. I had a dozen skule- marms in love with me to once, and hang me up if every gal in the ball-room wouldn't break her neck for the honor of dancin’ with me! Yes, I was purty. and I was good. I was so purty that children cried for me, and so good that was taken fur a preacher on more'n a hundred occa- shuns. Whar has my purty gone? Why, I've got to be the infernalist ailigator in the hull swamp, and I'm growin’ meaner at the rate of a mile aday? Fact—solemn fact, and that can- tankerous ager is to blame fer the hull of it. I've got a squint to my eyes, my nose has bin driven back an inch, and what teeth l've got left have to be wedged in every Sunday with pine pegs or I'd swallow ‘em. Purty! Why, the sight of my phiz down in St. Louis kilied a Texas <icer dead’rn a door nail, and I was try- ‘© look handsome at that!” (ou said you had the ague.” ‘dso? Do you ‘spose all the other calam- ities in this hull kentry could have busted me up this way? You bet [had ‘er: I struggled with “er right along fur ‘leven straight y’ars without aletup. Gentlemen, let me harrer your souls with a few timely remarks. Your Michigan ager isa wrass-hopper, and one dose of kyneen knocks ‘er dead. Out in Iilinoy the ageris bigger—about ke a squirrel. In Missouri she’s about the size ot a woodchuck, and when she strikes down into Arkansaw, she’s a wolf three feet high, seven feet long, and built to take hold like a thousand siams! but what tussels I've had with that ere critter! Say, did ye ever ride in a one-hoss wagin over a stone quarry? Was hurricane moved it at the rate of six miles a minit? Did ye everhave a cyclone pick ye up and mop ye over forty acres of river bottom, wallop ye through ten acres of woods and use ye for a tool to knock down one hundred acres of cane brake? Well, that ain't the ager—not the rt w kind; it’s only the first faint prelimi- stopped to relight his cigar, and then con- tinned: “ hain’t long to live. and don't keer to stretch this thi Tellin’ the truth has allas bin my strong pint, and allus will be. Maybe ye'll get some idea of the Arkansawager when tell ye that I once unjointed both shoul- | a ', and it wasa light shake at that. | When I had on one of my rez'lar double-back action shakes I could jara juz of whisky out of the crotch of a tree twenty-eight rods off. body dast pile up cord wood within half a le of my cabin, aud that’s a solemn fact. I devoured kyneen just as you eat corn beef, and my hull system fidatly cot so bitter that ado who smelt ny leg coulda’t get the pucker out Gentlemen, L do not wish to prolong thisagony. My failin” is grub. Fast [ know I'll jump theazer and begin on Arkansaw skeeters, and when [get there I'd | harrer yer souls till ye couldn’t sieep for two | ks. We will now have some licker and I seek a few needed reposes.” . sos MAKING HANDS BEAUTIFUL. Cosmetic Gloves and Thimbles to Give ape to the Ends of the Fingers. From the N. ¥. Sun. In one of the side streets up town is the office ofa “Hand Doctor.” The exterior of the house has no sign or doorplate to attract the notice of the general public, but it is evident that the fashionable world has been informed of the doctor's whereabouts, from the number of richly dressed people who frequent the office. Curiosity induced a reporter to visit this place last week. The servant who answered the door bell showed the visitor into a front parlor, where a young woman stood ready to receive patients. The reporter pulled out an onesthetic-looking hand from a pocket and confessed a desire to have it made athing of beauty. She examined it crit- feally and said: “Your hand has been badly neglected, and in color, the will needs treatment. The skin is bad knuckles look dark, and the nails are dreadful. If you will be seated until the doctor is through with the patient he is now treating, he will attend to you.” While waiting, an examination of the curios- ities of the office was amusing. In a case on one side of the room were wax models cf hands of all shapes and sizes. Fat hands, thin bony hands, soine with long fingers, some with short —hands as they should be and hands as they should not be. Opposite thesea show case con- tained an assortment of soaps, salves, and lo- tions, and a lot of gloves, coarse and clumsy, that ‘seemed strangely out of place in a place devoted to hand beauty. The young woman said:—“They are cosmetic gloves. These are only a few of the kinds weuse. The doctor prepares others to suit the needs of different patients. These are prepared to whiten the hands. They are spread inside with a prepara- tion of yolk of egg, oil of sweet almonds, and tincture of benzoin. The double lap at the wrist effectually protects the cuff from being soiled. The gloves next to them are to soften the hands, and the lining is saturated with a mixture of honey, myrrh, wax, and rose water. The gloves in the corner are still more powerful. They contain as strong agents as can safely be applied to the hands, and cannot be used when the skin is chapped, scratched, or broken in any place. They are lined with a preparation of tar- tarie oil, lemon juice, oil of bitter almonds, pee Windsor soap, and some other ingredi- ents.” Some puffed-out bags looking like boxing gloves proved to be bran mittens, and the atten— dant expiained the use of a box of curious look- ing silver thimbles about two inches long: “These are finger tips for shaping the ends of the fingers. Tapering ffngers are not an impos- sibility. Ladies are willing to undergo incon- venience and injury ror the sake of tapering waists, but make no effort to improve the shape of their hands.” As a lady closely veiled came out from the nounced himself ready to attend’ to another patient. The treatment was begun by scouri the hands with fine white flint sand, soap, ‘and hot water. Then followed a bran bath, which is merely rubbing the hands with bran until thor- oughly dry. Stains and dark lines about the knuckles were then touched with some acid on a bit of chamoise skin, and the hands were annointed with cold cream and held in warm towels until dry. This process being completed, the doctor requested his patient to sit before a table near a window, and, seating himself oppo- poe Ge opening a case of ivory Instruments, e asked: “Are you superstitious about nail spots?” “No. What do you mean?” tt is an old belief that white spots upon the Rails bring good fortune, while black ones are considered unlucky. Both are ugly, however, and if you have no peefaaicns I will remove them;” and so saying he spped @ black, pitchy substance that smelt of iphur to eaca spot, and during the ten minutes he allowed it to re- main there employed himself in pushing down, with a dull ivory instrument, the skin growing around the base of the nail. When the salve was removed from the nails the fingers were dipped into a pink wash, and then polished with & powder and chamois skin brush until each nail shone like a conch shell. By this time it seemed as though a scribbler’s cramp had seized each finger, and a strong de- eobeeb felt to thrust the aching hands into the pockets. Character {s shown bythe shape of the nails,” said the doctor. “When they are long and narrow it isa sign of dullness, and when curved they indicate rapacity. Short nails imply goodness. You do not affect that, I see,” said be, as he tightened his grip upon the fingers and commenced filing off the nails at each cor- new leaving them as Sete) ere Pointed as the thumb nail of a scribbling ‘ish. The pr declined any further attention, and, paying the doctor a dollar, with his beautiful hands in his pockets. ye If argyment won't bring a man ober to your side oo de queshun, knockin’ him down won’t De man who can ran up a bill at de butcher's an’ dodge him for six months am not necessa- rily a statesmar. man who takes up de moas’ sidewalk am more romantic freshness and directness than in- ity of plot or wit and imagination of dia- . The whole piece sounds like an extract from one of Harrison Ainsworth's novels in ac- tion and set to music. The music, in conso- Bance with this conception, though notstriking- original or stronz. is simple, manly, and bright tone, with a perceptibie flavor of the baliad glee music of a century or so ago. Claude @ good song, ‘King of the Road;” Constance’ ballad, ‘The Willow and the Lily,” and eT yf 43 “gag” and promises to become Sower-girl chorus, tvo, is notebly not allus de pusson ob de moas’ consequence. A fifteen-ceat drunkard wants mo’ room in dis world dan a judge ob de Supreme Court. ites In Craig’s Universal English Dictionary the word “gob” is thus described: ‘A little mass or collection.” and the following passage is quoted from L’ », *“Do'st think I have so little wit as to Of | at the expense of the community. in tee sie ates J Saturday Smiles. Patients do more for doctors than doctors can do for patients. The patients enable the doc- tors to live.—WNew Orleans Picayune. When a sane has been debated upon at a ladies’ convention, and it is about to be put to the vate, they call it ‘‘ popping the question.” — New York Commercial Advertiser. “If I have ever used any unkind words, Han- nah,” said Mr. Smiley, reflectively, ‘ I take them all back.” ‘Yes, I suppose you want to use them over again,” was the not very soothing Teply.—Providence Star. Why should candidates for the crew be less than twenty-one years of age? Because miners know best how to handle the ore.— Yale Record. “Now,” said the book agent, In order to get the gentleman’s attention, “if you will allow me to read the prospectus of the work; it is short——” ‘So am I,” interrupted the gentle- man. “Good day! ”—Yonkers Gazetle. Neddy had eaten too freely of the Charlotte Russe, and his little stomach rebelled. ‘‘ Mam- ma,” he plaintively said, “don’t make any more of that stuff; I never want any more of it.” He hesitated a moment, and then added, as he re- membered how nice it tasted, ‘“‘not for a week, anyway.” ee Show Versus Comfort. From the New York Times. A social danger threatening New York to-day is that the rage for showy representation will crush out unostentatious dinner hospitality. Nothing can promote real festive enjoyment and good talk more thoroughly than eight persons who suit each other and like to meet, assembled around a comfortable, modestly appointed din- ing table, while perhaps nothing can promote it much less than twice that number who do not care a button about each other's society around a dining table, however gorgeous. But moral cowardice is prompting many to devote all they have to spend op hospitality to a very few gorgeous luncheons and dinners instead of to a constant stream of unpretentious but com- fortable entertainments. The money spent in the mere outside show of the state dinner would pay the additional wages to a good cook, thus rendering outside afd needless, and would enable the master of the house to bring home a friend to dinner at any time. It is really ama- zing how very few people there are here, even at this period of luxury, who are prepared to be taken unawares. At houses where a gorgeous show is made at lavish expense on company days the by-no-means-difficultato-please diner would find on other occasions a very poor sort of meal. A lady some time since hired a cook who had been living with a family who drove a handsqe carriage and lived in a big brown-stone house. Amazed to find how incompetent the woman was, her employer inquired as to the culinary ustoms of her former place. Well, you see, ; mum, the gentleman mostly dined down town and the ladies had a kind er lunch, and there were chops in the evenin.’” On Sundays there'd be a bit o° beef. or a turkey, perlaps, and when we had comp’ny it all come from’ Del- monico.” A Doctor on the yele. “4 Country Surgeon” writes to the London Lancet about the bicycle as follows: “I have been a bicycle rider fur the last fige years, with an ever-increasing delight the more proficient: I come. This summer I have turned both my horses out to grass, and have trusted to my cycle alone, doing on an average about fifty miles a day. I find I get through my day's work with less fatigue than on horseback, and without the monotony of driving. My work is done quicker; my usual pace is ten miles an hour, and Ican go at the rate of fifteen when pressed. A bicyclist’s steed is always ready saddled, and on arriving at your destination does not require a boy to hold him. It can be ridden with almost as much ease in wet as in dry weather, but it is not adapted for a very hiily country, though all moderate hills can be surmounted. Since I invested in my new fifty- two inch, I rode ninety-five miles in one day without unusual fatigue. I can confidently recommend all men who are fond of exercise without fatigue, and all who wish to curtail their stable expenses, to take the trouble to learn the bicycle.” ——_____+e-___ Oddly Hurt by a Sewing Machine. From the New York Auburnian, A Mrs. Fitzpatrick, of No.2 Wright avenue, met with a rather painful accident yesterday afternoon. She was engaged in sewing with a machine, when one of her children who was playing about came a little too near the treadle wheel, and as she turned to caution the little one to go back out of harm’s way'the forefinger of her left hand was drawn under the foot piece of the machine, the needle piercing through the thick of the finger. Word was sent immediately to the nearest naighbor, when Mr. Samuel F. Harris, jr., was obliged to take the machine to pieces, in order to alleviate the woman’s suffer- ing, before the needle could be removed. seo MacLean’s Punishment. From the New York Star. The Guiteau theory that an assassin is insane to attempt a crime, but sane enough to be pun- ished for it,is already broached in regard to MacLean, who fired at Queen Victoria. There seems to bea misapprehension of the English law concerning attacks upon the Queen, Form- erly, the offense was treason and punishable with death; but now this law is repealed, and MacLean, as he did not succeed in killing the Queen, is in no danger of death. A few years’ imprisonment will be his only punishment, un- less, as is very likely, the court should order him to be flogged. —+¢+—_____ The Latest Garniture on Pet Dogs. Fresh Fashion Letter. Now one of the freaks in which ladies take much delight may be tourid in the fashion pat- ronized by many of the New Yorkers, namely, their devotion to all manner of dogs. There is no end to the devices to which they resort in order to beautify their pets. Sometimes these animals are attached to chains or colored rib- bons and are allowed to run after their mis- tresses; again, the darlings are considered too delicate to walk, and are tenderly carried in state. Some fortunate pets are adorned with beautiful blankets to protect them from the colder winds, while others delight in lafge bows of colored ribbon tied at one side of the neck. —<—<-eo Black Birch as a Substitute for Black Walnut. ‘Toronto Letter. Biack birch is rapidly coming in favor. Black bireh is a close-grained and handsome wood, and can be easily stained to resemble walnut exactly. It is just as easy to work, and Is suit- able for nearly, if not all, the purposes to which black walnut is at present applied. Bireh is much the sume color as cherry, but the tatter wood is now very scarce, and consequently dear. It isa diMicult thing to obtain cherry at $50 a thousand feet, while birch wood can be had at nearly any saw mill for $1 per thousand feet. When properly stained it is almost im- possible to distinguish the difference between it and walnut. as itis susceptible of a beautiful polish equal to any wood now used in the man- ufacture of furniture. In the forests throughout Ontario birch grows in abundance, especially if the land Is not too boggy. There is a great dif- ference in the wood of different sections. Where the land is high and dry the wood is firm and clear, but if the land is_low and wet the wood has a tendency to be soft and of a bluish color. In all the northern regions it can be found in great abundance, and as the tree grows to such great size, little trouble is experienced in pro- a large quantity. curing Vicar (who, until last Sunday, has always preached himself)— “Well, and how did you hke my young curate’s sermon?” Mrs. Robinson—‘‘Oh, quite the best we have heard for years. We all said so!”— London Punch. Hemorine Customers. es,” sal customer, “these are very pretty; but haven’ you something more expensive?” The gentle- manly clerk took down another package of the same goods, remarking briskly: ‘Oh, yes, ma’am; here is something which will cost you a yard, but itis much finer, you Of course she took the highest coat plece, because it was the highest.—Boston Transcript. ida te | Se ee, Tue Peortx of Vail, Towa, have placed them- selves on record as being possessed of more generosity and warm-heartedness than the gen- erality of mankind give evidence of. Lately a tramp, an entire stranger to every one in the community, was taken sick with the The citizens at once made competent nnrses, who took care of him until he was completely recovered. Then he was furnished with a new suit of clothes, placed on the evening train, and transportation furnished him to the point fo which he desired to go, all Proper English. © why shall we say for Gatched, caught, pated ‘y for’ ed, caug] some say we Ought? How things be When this kind of teaching is taught: The egg isn’t hatched, itis haught; reeches arn’t patched, they are ht; John and Jane are‘not matched, they are maught; My door isn’t latched, it iaught; ‘The ple wasn’t snatched, it was snaught; ‘The cat never scratched, but she scraught; ‘The roof wasn’t thatched, it was thaught. If English must this be wrought It soon will be natehed-that Is a is feiss Deceit Light and Near-sightedness. Professor Pickering, of Harvard Observatory, points out in Nature that the color of gas-light has nothing to do with its painful effect upon the eyes of students and others. To test this question he had a tin: lamp-shade constructed, consisting of a tube six inches in diameter by eight in length. One end was closed by a re- flector, and the other by a piece of very light blue glass. Two holes were made in the sides, through which passed the glass chimney of an Argand gas-burner. By experimenting with a shadow photometer, a position was found wheré the light received on a bog was of the same intensity, and yery similar color, to that trpm a window in the daytime, at a distance of about six feet. A few. minutes’ reading, how- ever, was sufficient to convince him that the new light was far more trying to the eyes than an ordinary gas-flame would be, the ill effects being due to the intense heat thrown down by the reflector. And this, he thinks, is the source of the whole trouble in the ordinary gas burner. The heat radiated ‘by the flame, the heated chim- ney and shade, and refiected -from the printed page and all other white paper lying on the ta- le, dries the eyes, the lids, the forehead, and. temples, Temporary relief may be found by bathing the face and eyes in water, but it is on- ly temporary. The hot, dry air from the lamp isalso harmful, and no doubt contributes its share of injury to the visien. These evils may both in part be remedied by placing a pane of lass 80 as to intercept the rays about the lamp fore they strike on the book or the face. But it must be placed at such a distance from the lamp as not itself to become heated. The hotter the flame the whiter it is, and the more light is thrown off in proportion to the heat. Hence oculists are recommending such lights as the Student's and Moderator lamps, which burn with a small, hot and very brilliant flame as compared with that furnished by the Argand and fish-tail burners. Statistics, said Prof. Pickering, show how alarmingly prevalent near-sightedness has become of late among stu- dents, Hence anything which wili tend in the future to prevent this widespread defect will be a boon to mankind. He had great hopes of the electric light in this respect. In it there was the maximum of ight with the minimum of heat. Its ever-varying intensity was an objec- tion, but he thought we might look forward to the success of the light from the incandescent carbon strip, in the near future, as a remedy for “the most widespread evil that afflicts the hu- man vision.” ——-eo—__ Modern Caricature. The caricature of manners and of fashions is different from that which amused our grand- fathers. Once on a time, for a caricature to be effective, it was almost essential that it should be ugly. Gillray and Rowlandson are quite re- pulsive in their distortions of ‘the human form divine,” and in their flerce and not too cleanly yehemence. The caricaturist treated his vic- tims as so many criminals, and set them, so to speak, in an artistic pillory. Du Maurier and Tennicl give us types of male and female beauty, with just enough of comic humor fo make us laugh. And the laugh is only a little broader than the smile with which werecognize in Land- seer’s pictures the wonderful humanity of the dog. ‘The older caricaturists drew, in fact, for the tavern and the club-room; the modern for the salon and even the boudoir—in England and Germany almost without exception; in France and Italy only less 80, because the French, and, following French example, the Italians, take their subjects int prsrerence: from the lesshealthy side of modern fashion, and revel, as they do upon thestage, in the misfortunes of the de- ceived husband, or the flirtations of the gandin and the cocotte.—London Graphi = cea ih The Hindus. They are good-natured; honest among them- selves; prone to verbal quarrels, but easily recon- conciled; considerate, after their own fashion, in their treatment of women and the aged; carefu) of, aud kind to, their male children, but apt to be careless of their daughters; frugal in their habits, except on special occasions, such as births, deaths and marriages; extremely submis- sive to authority; industrious, with a somewhat fitful and desultory industry;careless and unsys- tematic in most of their arrangements; very prone to lying, and still more to what seems to be lying, but is often the result of imperfectly understanding what is said to them, and of a looseness of thought aud mental limitations which are beyond the conception of a European interrogator; ayerse to any change ot which the benefit is not very obyigus to them, and craying few boons of government except to be left alone as much as it can find in its heart to leave them. * * * On the Whole,alikable,even a lovable, though not unfrequently, a somewhat exasper- ating, people; difficult to understand, but well worthy of study; who will repay with interest the expenditure, by all who have to deal with them, of the whole of their available stock of the four great qualities which they most require and most appreciate—gentleness, patience, firm- ipa and thoroughness.—The Garden of Indian, rwin. Frenchmen Eschewing Brandy. From the London Daily Telegraph. Teetotalers will be delighted to learn that a temperance moyement of no ordinary strength has begun in France. The inhabitants of that country are not, it is true, forsaking the rough Bordeaux wine which is known by the name of “le petit bleu,” but they are eschewing brandy; and it is hoped by those who are sanguine that, having giving up the more seductive fluid, they may in the end be induced to surrender the less palatable drink. Posstbw this might be the case, but for one little difficulty, which does not seem to have quite presented itself to the temperance advocates. The real cause of de- crease in the consumption of brandy in France appears to be that so much inferior cognac has been vended of late throughout the country that the poanie. in sheer despair of getting anything better, have simply forsaken the bey- erage rather than be any longer deceived. There is, however, unfortunately, nothing In the way of wine that can really be classed as inferior to the terrible stuff with which it is the wont of the French peasant to regale himself, and thus all hopes of his being weaned from his wine, as he has been from his brandy, swiftly vanishes. Perhaps, if the teetotalers could offer him a bet- ter drink in its place, they might lead him to temperance. But that isa task which they do not seem capable of accomplishing. +e Science of Perfumes, From the Boston Herald. By a process known as enfleurage, which is the exposure of beef fat to fresh flowers in close boxes until it is thoroughly permeated and ebarged with their odors, the perfumes of six flowers are obtained, which could in no other manner known to science be preserved apart from the fresh petals, Those flowers are violet, Jasmin, tube rose, rose, orange flower and cassic ‘cinnamon flower.) From those six there are ifty or more combinations made for the simula- tion of the odors of other flowers. Sweet pea is made with jasmin and grange flower; hyacinth is counterfeited by jasrflin and tube rose; lily of the valley by violet and tube rose. But the resources of the perfumer are by no means con- fined to the pomades, as the scented fats are termed. He usés many’ essential oils, the prin- cipal of which are sandalwood, bergamot, lemon, rosemary, neroli' {made from bitter o1 owes ene atone of ere It is very last-named In a state, because its great-dost tempts to dlshcnest adulteration. Very often rose geranium oil is substituted for it. Musk is another important ingredient, entering, as it does, into almost all pee except! ywhich are actually im- fumers, “natural"-as for lnetanee hellokcoen ers, "—as,' tube rose, white rose and violet. = How the Girls'Say'Papa and Mamma. From Quiz. bei et Why can’t people say mother and father ina better way than they do? Words, cadence, in- flection and everything.else has got twisted and and wricgled outef shape. The New York Sr gat aeersS eke “ nose. The St. ia gaa amas the Boston girl says Mur-mur; the Beauty Mur-Mur and Pur-Par. The little Canadian Pa-ah he Apes girl says “! and and Ma-ah. and Morr,” Mah-ah. The Po-pow-ah you make'me . 3 A RE Progress in Russia, From the N. ¥. Herald. The Russian Empire, according to a statisti- cal table just published, is in several res pects the most prosperous and the most moral member of the European family of nations. Its popula- tion doubles itself in fifty-eight years. This re- sult is not accomplished in Germany in less than sixty-eight years. In Austria it requires ninety- five years, in Switzerland ninety-nine, in Itaiy one hundred and forty-one, and it, France one hundred and sixty-five. This is a remarkable exhibit tor a country where the conditions of existence are so unfavorable in comparison with nations like France and Italy. The ex- planation is to be found probably in the tables of illegitimacy, a crime which in Russia appears to be almost unknown. While in England sixty- one of every one thousand children are born outside of wedlock, in Italy sixty. in France seventy-three, in Germany eiglty-eight, in Sweden ninety-six, in Denmark one hundred and ten and in Austria one hundred and twenty- four, the ratio in Russia is only thirty, Tle lesson and the moral of these figures are ob- vious. They are the all-sufficient answer to the zealous organs and orators of some of the “civilized” nations of Europe who are in the habit of referring to Russia as a country plunged in barbariam and which resolutely sets its face against the introduction ot such “mod- | ern improvements” as infanticide. | “am Lite Worth Livia’ Far)? | From the Detroit Free Prees. | “What I desire to say,” began Brother Gard- ner, as the meeting opened, ‘am to de effect dat Professor Artichoke Huggins am in de aunty- room an’ ready to appear befo' us an’ deliber bh celebrated lectur’ on ‘Am Life Wurth de Livin’ fur?’ De professor am a resident of Arkansas, in which state he has won seben si! fur makin’ de longest jumps on record. rove heah from Chicago las’ night on a mixed train, paid a boy two shillins to show him de way to my house, an’ so fur as I can judge from his talk an’ de way he combs his he'r, de manam ascholar an’ a gem'lan. Sir Isaac Walpole, you an’ Giveadam Jones will put on yer white blue neckties an’ swaller-tailed coats an’ esco1 Professor Hagzins inter de hall.” The brothers mentioned retired to the dress- ing-room and donned their state apparel, and after the lapse of a few minutes they appeared in the hall with the professor betw hem. As he mounted the platform and was received L Brother Gardner he appeared to be a man about five feet ten inches high, prominent n reti ing chin, eyes about the color of ad dressed in faultless taste. A 8] rE troche into his mouth he bowed impr and begai > “My friends, it pleases me exceedingly to be- hold sich a vast sea of inteflectnal 1; me. (Sensation. seif lookin’ down t ber of de United De question, ‘Am Li j often been axed, an’ I believe that seve ties besides me have put de same query from | de rostrum. (Cheers by Samuel Shin, who had | the word r But 1 | | icle which wi = Cerrying the U. 5. 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De fust yar of n” wid pain and éorrow. have bad dreams. We am Our ircats am tunnels down ip. paregorie, sweet wish we was d Smith, who lately lost comfort does any boy or (Sobs_by Pickles grandfather.) Wh: gal take up to de age of 15 yar: De boys git licked au’ de gals ‘git dey fall doa stairs, have de chicken-po: boxed up vid de mumps an’ have to Wag clothes which have been cut ober an’ dyed. {Sensation by Giyeadam Jones as he recalled old recollect:ons.) From de aige of 15 to 20,” continued the orator, after pulling dow: love and jealously ar gwine to funerals, an” styin’ home fi 4 as a young man gits to thinkin’ dat he am happy he diskivers dat his sleeve-buttons am 15 seconds behind the style, or dat his butes am de hundredth part of an inch too long, or dat his coat wrinkles in de back. (Groans from Trustee Pullback, who remembered when he was lea ing the barber's trade in Richmond.) “From 20 to 30 we get mar’d,” continued the Ssor as a sad smile crossed his tace. “We an’ buy candy and marry. What,aim de result? (Groans from all over the hall.) We have to pay house © an’ buy wood, an’ go to meetin’ for groseries, an’ put up wid kicks an’ cufls an’ an’ a hull doah-yard full of mise- (Long drawn sighs from 84 members.), we grow old an’ we take snuff an’ smoke it on de ca’pet an’ jaw de chill’en . (Tears from Waydown Bebee.) Dat’s life and its eand. Whar's de comfo What have we foun’ wuth livin’ for? How much better if we had been trees or fence-posts or picket-fences! Life am a mad struggie. (Sighs.) We come up like a sunflower au’ atu cut deow! (Faint groans.) To-day we may win de big tu key at de raffle—to-morrow we may have to pawn our obercoat to keep the stove gwine. (Significant winks and nods. ly friends, thankin’ you fur your airnest an’ inexplicable attenshun an’ trustin’ dat my fe: ble remarks will be productive of oberwhelmin’ profit, I return you iny’heartfelt sympatities and Tesoom ay seat.” —_—___<»+_____ ‘The Death of Robertson. One night poor Keats gave a slight cough and said, “That is blood from my month. Bring me acandle; let me see this blocd.” Then, look- ing at it, he sald, with the utmost calmness, “ know the color of that blood; it is arte: blood. I cannot be deceived in that color: that drop is my death warrant. IT must die.” An equally significant circumstance befell Robert- son. A meinber of his congregation, a chemist, asked him to look at his galvanic ‘apparatu: He took the ends of the wire, completed the cir- cuit, experiencing the tingling. He then held the end of the wire to the back of the head and neck, without a single sensation being elicited. Then he touched the forehead for a second. “Instantly a crashing pain shot through, as if my skull was stove in and a bolt of fire were pang, through and through.” In the same letter he writes, ‘My work is done.” Some hope might have been entertained if he could have had a curate to help him with his work. But the then Vicar of Brighton, rather an un- sympathetic man, refused to let him have the curate on whom his heart was set. So he sank, unrelieved, into death. The dark secrets of the hospital of torture hardly reveal greater suffer- ing than Robertsun endured in those last hours. When they sought to change his position, he | L,00% FOR THE RED SI BOSTON AND NEW YORK FINE CUSTOM CLOTH- ING 723 Sevents ——_ supervision GARD and JUBAL A. EARLY, ASPLENDID OPPORT! TH duia avenue, Warhineton,, or Py i Agent, Nativnal safe Deposit Balding | corner New York avenue and 15th street northwest. jC NARD LINE. NOTICE! LANY ROUTE. MSHIP COMPANY LIMITED, LORK AND LIVERPOOL. Tt CORK BARBO) X. NEW be BIG BARGAINS AT THE GREAT SALE or thin” Week t Be) ... Wer. bs YF KOM NEWYORK. AT THE NEW STORE, erHwesT, BETWEEN G AND uarked * do not carry eteerase. ETS. 1 very low rates. Steorage tickets from Tiv> SE Bi Quecustown aud ©)! coher partsol Europe at Splendid Styles of Through ‘bills of iacen given for Relfast. ( = ps cnet Sportsos dae Continent call MEN'S, BOYS AND CHILDREN'S SUITS 3 For frekcht and passage ny at the Company's oftap, 0 . | No.4 Bowne Green, or bith steerage abd cals ARGAINS RU! ‘ ERNON H. BROWN .. New Forks BARGAINS RULE THE DAY. gr baa od inte baits Neon 05 7 etrvet, Washington, Most of out equal to CUSTOM WORK, and scdlng vat about ioe. Never sucha | KTORTH GERMAN LLOYD— we are selling it at about half the price. a chance to CLOTHE YOURSELF SO CHEAPLY and Nicely. The steamers ‘of this 00 URDAY from Bremen Pier, foot of Sd street, Of Pasnage:— From New York to Havre, outhansvton “and Bremen.” arvt cabin, $100; e:. ‘Vor freicht or parsage apply to OELAICHS & COs B Bowne, Green, Kew Nork: W. G. METZE Washington IMMENSE BARGAINS offered for this month. Large Stock of BOYS AND CHILDREN’S SUITS. lot_ of Men's CHEAP SUITS and WORKING PAN Be sure to visit the Great Sale at the New Store, 723 7th strect northwest, between G and H streets, LOOK FOR THE RED SIGNS ON WINDOWS. BARGAINS! BARGAINS!! BARGAINS!!! To TH AMIS BOT THWRST. aT DOUBLE TRA SPLENDID SCENERY, Cait la identi et. G any He | Teams Leave Wastinarox, FROM | eS STATE LOTTERY. or Gri any B Sree: PARTICULAR NOTICE. + | For Pittsburg and the ANI the drawinus will bereafter be under the excinsive Or ant contd of Generals Oo, BEAURES he 2Qaers ITY Te AKD GRAND DISTRIBUTION, PSDAY, MARCH ta I i42p MONTHLY DRAWING. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY, Incorporatedin 186s for twenty-tive years by the tare for Education: cl port, Lock Haven and Elmira, st 9:30 a y, exegpt Sunday. nd the tant, 8:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m. E p.m. On 1:30, 9:50 Cara, 9:30 4.m. <iaily, . a eee dint fer. across ER DRAWINGS WILL NTHLY. yes $9.20, wes mace rae Line, 6:40a.m. and 4:40 p.m., daily, = +0 a.m. and 4:40 p.m., daily, except War aN, ALERARDIIA AND WASHING , &: For Alexandria, 6:30, Pope's C 3 $83 S522225258 Rege Boowt. a BALtiore & OHIO RAILROAD. ‘THE MODEL FAST, AND THE ONLY LINE BETWEEN sald, “I eannot bear it; let me rest. 1 must die. fetiadicentr ‘iar the ice orecch Monthiy | THE EAST AND THE WEST, VIA WASHINGTON, ii ” i ing ts and yy izes in eucl NE is God do His work.” These were his last a ae ae ene ee Ptisw, DOUBLE TRACK! JANNEY COUPLER! S8TREL He was only thirty-seven years of age when F he died; an ate when he had not reached the cco H H 000 climacteric of his powers, or the full develop- go Res 3 ment of his character and views. He was in Bo HH oO that eager progressive stage of intellectual life Cco H H 000 in which some of his opinions had, perhaps, hardly crystallized into definite forms, and from. 000 L which ampler froit might yet have been ex o oL ed. The work which he has actually achieved 8 8t is very great. His work consists of some 000 LLLL eight volumes of sermons, expositions and lec- tures; or, if we add, as we fairly may, his cor- respondence, of some nine orten volumes. It is-an interesting circumstance that, after his death, an inhabitant of Brighton, who had stood aloof from his teaching during his life- time, read his sermons, and was so struck with the beauty of his teaching that in gratitude he placed a marble bust of the great preacher in the Pavilion.—. Society. <> —___ Peculiarities of Some Noted Horses. «The eccentricities of thoroughbred race horses are as peculiar asthose of human beings. Spring- bok was a perfect savage, and would allow no one in his stall save his regular boy, to whom he was as much attached aa he abhorred ont- side company. Checkmate is very fond of com- pany and likes to be made much of. He takes caresses with the sheepish manner of an ever- grown boy, glad to have them, but ashamed of being |. Paroleis a bit of a kleptomaniac. He has a fancy for handkerchiefs which he sees ‘truding from gentlemen’s pockets. He de- Eights, too, in rol ig She tacos who visit — for he has many—of their cloaks or other wraps. 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