Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1882, Page 7

‘What Has Come of General Schenck’s Neat Little Hook on the Great Amer- ican Game, Vanity Fair, February 25. Excitement of one sort or another ts an abso- lute necessity to those for whom an unkind Providence has provided only the dreary oceu- Pation of “killing time.” For them each day must have its culminating point; and, satiated with dinners, the play, concerts, and countless dances, the pleasure-secking world has found at last a mighty panacea in the subtle mysteries o1 poker. For those who play only for the sake of amusement ne game could be better. It is far superior to “Napoleon,” which an American - friend of mine.once described to me asa game of “brute force;” for you either win or lose with each deai, whereas in poker, unless you are “ante” you can retire and bide your time. But when if is possible for any one player to raise the “ante” at his pleasure to an indefinite amount and when the “rise” is absolutely unlimited, then poker becomes a dangerous pastime. There are few, perhaps, who know what a pitch it has lately reached in several London houses. It is no longer a game; it is a serious business. “Lit- tle poker dinners” are now arranged almost nightly. The pious pretense of having a “low le and a “high” one is nearly exploded. Those whose modest means might induce them to play at the former are soon detected and sim- ply not asked again; while the Plunger is be- sieged with invitations and the “high” table is full to overflo Evervthing. of course, fees by comparison, and that which might seem low at “The Turf™ is high where ladies are con- cerned, and there are always ladies at poker ies. It is just their presence that makes po- er so dangerous. They get more excited than the men aad plunge more desperately. One in- teresting spinster of my acquaintance, after winning £73 the other night, was so elated with her success that she seriously talked of buying a rommencing active operations on the turf. Reflection, however, and subsequent losses have, Tam glad to say, somewhat daimped the ardor of her sportins proclivities. How immensely the love of play has In- creased of late may be judged from the fact that only two years ago a lady whose poker parties are now famous. was so anxious that the game in her house should never exceed the most modest proportions that she positively forbade anybody to bet more than ten shillings at a time; yet new the sums won and lost ina single night unde) the same roof are appalling. But it is only during the last few months that the | ker fever has arzived at a really acute staze. e Christmas a small party of poker- ad already gained a reputation for Unusually high stakes, sat down to play one evening at 10 o'clock. In a couple ofhours they had so far exceeded their former efforts that it actually cost a player £50 to “go in”—by which it must be understood that before anybody was allowed to bet, which is realiy the aning and the essence of the game, the sum of £50 had to be placed in the pool by each player. The Fesult was extraordinary from the tact that only £500 chanzed hands when the party broke up. Tam told by one who was present that he was surprised the final amgunt was so small, for at one time between £2,000 and £3.000 had been Jost and won. A peer with a large family must in these days be rich indeed if he can afford the Juxury of a younger son who contrives to lose £1,800 in one year at poker. But such has lately been the case. The youth in question is only just of age and rejoices in the handsome annual allowance of £300. Still he plays—and, to his eredit be it said, still he pays: but when the day of final reekoning comes, as come it must before long. some well-known member of the “persecuted race” will grumble, no doubt, at the meazre 10 per cent. awarded him in lieu Of his moderate 150. While the unlucky lose so much, some one more fortunate and with a better knowledge of the game must of course win. Two tho’ id pounds is the modest sum which report places to the credit of one successful player during the year of grace IS81. To pocket so large an amount as the result of post-prandial poker during a twelve-month would naturally produce in the human breast a feeling of good-will towards men; but it is not every successful Planzer who subsequently goes out of his way to present his less furiunate opponents with @ueh handsome souvenirs of the fray as peari ins, jewelled studs and enamelled sleeve-links. here are many, however, who rejoice at this moment in such sparkling poker mementos from the vreat winner of the past year. To General Sehenck, who less than ten years ‘ago first brought poker to England, and at the Fequest of the iate Lady Waldezrave wrote out sthe rules of the game, we are undoubtediy in- @ebted forthe present gambling menia in pri- (Nate life, which, as we have already shown, is doing such us injury to the poorer members of society. Surely it is’ possible to amuse one- self after dinner without trying to ruin one’s friends or enrich oneself! Poker in moderation Ss an excellent safety-valve no doubt for after- @iuner excitement, but carried to the length _Which it has iately reached it becomes a serious »Bocial scandal. “There are plenty of gaming Clubs and to spare for those who choose to fre- quent them. In the meanwhile it should not be posible to say that any hostess can offer greater ducements to play in a private house than ‘those provided by the keeper of a public hell. ee Decadence of Moderna Manners. , Theoretically, then, woman’s claim to the yeourtesy and homage of man is now admitted ,0n all hands; but practical experience makes it difficult to resist the conclusion that the Silvius ‘of the nineteenth century is not “all adoration, duty, and observance,” in his attitude to the other sex. Without reviving in fuil detail the Practices of the times when woman was “half wife, half chattel,” we are careful to keep alive the relics of their actuating spirit. In a ball- Toom, for instance, we may be seen appropriat- Ing their fans to our exclusive enjoyment. We “give” thea dances in our own lordly way, and if mistake arises in respect o1 @ {iance so “given,” we sometimes express our convictions with an engaging frankness which savors less of the retort courteous than of the lie direct. We Jeave their invitations answered or unanswered at our own sweet will (probably as a token of suzerainty); and we repay our hostess’ efforts to entertain us by the cracetul tribute of looking bored. Mr. Trollope has recorded a pro- test against the men and the manners that can endure to discuss ladies openly by their Christian names; but the prac- tice enjoys the strong growth of all ill weeds and thrives apace. Feminine views on the sub- ject of tobacco have of late years been so far Modified as to partially vitiate any comparison With the past; but it wouid be instructive to know how many men yet adhere to the graceful custom of removing the cigar from the lips on meetins alady. The easy grace of courtesy is too often replaced by a siang familiarity not seldom tinged with a strain of indelicacy, and in all ways there is probabiy less inward respect and certainly less outward deference to woman than an older ideal of manners demanded. It is sometimes urged that, whatever be the de- fects of modern manners, they contrast most favorably with those which prevailed in the “good old times” so often eulogized and so seldom understood. But here again we must take into account the different social conditions ofacentury ago. Modern taste may sicken at of speech and action which even of woman was not always effectual . but it must not be forgotten that iz to an when the culture of the average nan Was pr: ty nil, and that of the everaxe woman culminated in deportment and sampler work. Coarseness that would now be Fesented as an insult formerly passed as the merest_badinage, and, without defending duel- ling, it may be doubted whether intentional slights, especially to women, were not rarer in the days wien the ethies of courtesy had their @anction in the sword.—Saturday Review. <2. Satisfying the Majesty of the Law. ‘From Texas Siftings. There is @ justice of the peace out in Crosby county. Week before last he found a man guilty of shooting a bull that did not belong to him, and fined him $75. “Why. jedge,” said the doomed man, “I havn't got no $75: T can't pay Bo sich fine.” “The state of Texas puts me in this office to find out a way to make men pay their fines. You will cut cedar poles until you have cut enough to satisfy the majesty of law,” replied the justice. “But, jedze,what use has the state of got for cedar poles?” “The state of Texas hasn't got no use for cedar It’s this court who needs them cedar poles to build a fence. - I'll take the poles, and settle with the state of Texas for them. the poor devil is cutt cedar poles fi state of Texas now. — sgt You may say what you please about realism ‘and high art, but one of the most disillusioniz- things that can happen to a theater-zoer is to sit in an inside stage box at the Baldwin and Msten to Alice Dun exclaim in iF : “Great ieerene cannot berpeanaes injured child still loves her miser- mother!" and then distinctly hear ‘orty-two—and four are qHE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, a MARCH 15, 1882—-DOUBLE SHEET. Threats in Virginia. The Mahone campaign was boiling hot when I reached Winchester, and ft seemed just the oc- casion to secure information as to how the blacks were being terrorized. Thechance didn’t come until I rode out to view the battle ground. Then I found a negro grabbing out astump by the roadside, and began: “Well, how’s politics?” “Gittin’ purty hot, sah—purty hot,” he re- plied, and threw down his pick and took a seat. “Do the colored people have mass meetings around here?” “Deed dey do, sah.” “Do the white people try to break them up?” ‘Nebber knode ‘em to.” “And you all vote?” “T reckon we does.” ve the white people ever threatened you. 3 “Yes, sah, dey has.” That was what I was after. I climbed off the horse, sharpened up my pencil, and, getting out the old note-book, continued: “They have, eh? Now, my friend, give me one instance where the white folks have threat- ened you.” “Wall, sah, you see dat red house ober to’rds de Berryville pike?” “Wall, Major Williams libs dar’. He freatened me not ober day befo’ yesterday “He did, eh? How was it?’ “He freatened dat if my old mule broke into his sngar-cane anoder single time he'd turn two double-bar'iid shot-guns loose on him and keep shootin’ all day! Yes, sah, he did, sah, an’ if I hadn't tooken de (ee of grubbin’ out dis stump for two shillin’ ‘d like tosot heah all de fonoon an’ tell you how de white folks am workin’ all sorts of sich games to keep us down in de dust.” troit Free Press. gee Some New Arithmetic. A merchant bought four barrels of sugar, seven barrels of molasses and two barrels of meal. Find what percent of beans he mixed with his coffee? A beggar met two boys; one gave him seven cents and the other gave him eizht cents. Find the name of the third boy who hit him in the ear with a stiow ball? If one insect has six legs and another insect has seven, how many hornets does it take to lift a boy out of the oid man Sabin’s orchard? In one field there are eight sheep; in another field there are seven horses. How many men will it require to properly conduct a vill: dog fight? ‘A county officer ona salary of $800 per year purchased two horses for 2600; a carriage for 3400; a set of silver for $200; four silk dresses for his wife at $60 each, and played poker to the tune of #180. How much did he save out of his year’s salary, and what is the county going to do about it? lf a young man owns a little cane, a rat-and- tan dog, a pair of lavender pants, three flash neckties, a frail mustache and a flirtation hand- keret what will it cost to board six idiots at a first-class hotel for a year ? A bureau weighing sixty-eight pounds is to be carried up a flizht of stairs twelve feet high. What lifting power must be exerted to the square foot to get it half-way up A bureau weighing si. been tugged half-way up a flight of stairs twelve feet hig’ How fast must the old man travel to get to the foot of the stairs and take his boots off before the infernal old thing smashes him? Among the players in a poker-room are three merchant ‘wo aldermen, four clerks, two law- yers, one butcher and one grocer. A raid is made by the police, and all are captured. Find | how many of them “dropped in to see about selling the poker man a horse.” A phunber is calied upon to mend aleak in a water pipe. He sends an employe who survey: the leak; another who courts the servant girl; a | third who has forgotten his accordeon; a fourth to look after the other thre He sends a bill for $4.12. At this rate, how long will it the plumber to secure a mortga: hali? A asks B for a loan of #5 until Saturday. months later B reminds A- that he has not re- | turned that “V" yet. A denies that he ever borrowed a red cent of B, and offers to punch his head for insulting him. Find what B loses. Atramp gets two kicks at one hou: a cold ake at another, and a bite from a a hird. How long will it take him to get into the workhouse for sixty days? Thirteen ‘icans cross the Rio Grande into the United States on a pleasure excursion. They conclude to invest in a drove of Texas cattle. Three-fifths of the number meet with accidents and remain permanently on this side, while another fifth feel hurt about something. What is the exact number of those who got home | without feeling anything in particular? M. Quap. -eight pounds has Six —_—es___ Losi im the Fog. From the Burlington Hawkeye. Erasmus T. Rugzleson, a young man of Saxon lineage, worked on a farm out here in Yellow | Springs township. He was not rich, but he was industrious and just too pretty for anything. So was the daughter of the farmer for whom he worked. She was wealthier than Erasmus, but | she was not proud. When the chores were done in the winter evenings, she went with him to the singing school and she walked by his side to cburch. She loved him: she had rather sit at her casement in the gloaming, and hear him holler “po-oo-ey!” in Jong-drawn, mellow cadences, at the hour of the feeding of the swine, than hear Campanini sing ‘+ Macaroni del Vermicelli” from ‘ Handorgzhanni in Ven- ezuela.” And he—he was clean gone on her. Mashed past all surgery. When they foclishi let the old man into their plans for each other’ happiness and half the farm, the wrathfal ag culturist said if he heard one more word of such nonsense, just another word, he would lay that farm waste with physical havoc, and blight its winter wheat with the salt tears of his only child, and that was the kind of a father-in-law he was inclined to be. Naturally, the young people determined to fly Their plans were laid; the night was set. So was the ladder. At its foot waited the ardent Erasmus Ruggleson, gazing at the window for the appearance of his love. Presently the win- dow opened softly, and face he loved appeared. “Rasmus!” ‘‘Florence!” < es, dearest. Shall I drop my things right re Yes, love; I willcatch them. Let the bundle The glittering starlight of the clear March night fell on Erasmus’ glad and upturned face. So did a trunk, four feet high, four feet wide. and about eight feet long. It weighed about 2.700 pounds. It contained a few “things” that no woman could be expected to travel without, and Florence had spent three weeks packing that trunk for her elapement. Erasmus Ruggleson did not scream. He did not moan. He couldn’t. He had no show. Florence came down the ladder, having first, with a maidenly sense of propriety, requested her lover to turn his back and look at the barn. He may have beard her,but he didn’t look at the barn. He was busily engaged in looking at the bottom of that trunk, and thinking how like all creation he would yell if he ever got his mouth outdoors again. Florence reached the foot of the ladder. “Did you get my trunk, Erasmus?” she said, looking around for him. “Oh, yes.” said a horse mocking voice at her elbo ‘Oh. yes, he got it. Got it bad, too.” She turned, knew her papa, shrieked once, twice. again, and once more for the boys, and fainted away. “I never worried about it a minute,” the heart- less old man told his neighbors the next day, “though I knowed well enough what was goin’ on all the time. I've been married twice, an’ I've married off four daughters and two sons, an’ if I don’t know what baggage a woman car— ries when she travels, by this time, I'm too old to learn.” And, Frasinus Ruggleson! The Jury brought in a verdict that he came to his death by habit- | ual drunkenness, and the temperance papers beanies talk about anything else for the next six weeks. —++-— Leve and Ants. From the Buriinton Hawkeye. Below them lay the dimpling lake. touched by the earliest breezes of the spring time, and the long shadows of the March afternoon came creeping up the hill upon whose bold, bad brow they stood. He turned, moved by a sudden im- pulse, and seized her arrowy hand in both his own. ‘Do you know,” he said, ‘that in those first bright days of dawning spring I feel the— | the—ur an—soft—I feel the influences—I feel the—the soft, in short—ur ah—I feel the soft— soft—soft—” “Yes, Aurelius, dear,” she said pityingly, “I see yeu do; say no more.” He dropped her hand, and with a hollow, mocking laugh that told not one tithe of the bitter —— that gnawed at his bligated heart like a canker worm, he turned away, and hating the world and weary of life, weyt_and sat down on an old rotten stump and w: for the black ants to come out and eat him up. ++ —_____ “* What is a Junction, purse?” form. A janet Odean” “A junction, my bi ‘the alr of avery Her Paisley Shawl, From the South Jersey Advertiser. Each Sabbath, when with the devout Tsit inchurch to think and pray, ‘My eyes, that fain would rove about . ‘er all the scene in wanton way, Thold with resolute command On objects grouping near at hand. ‘There, just before ine, without fall, ‘Where the long sunbeams brightést fall, Sits a fair lady, tall and pale, Enveloped in'a Paisley shawl, Of that old style that never swerves ¥rom blended tints in palm-leaf curves, And while the preacher talks with force Of faith and life, of death and sin, Along each figure’s winding course ‘My eyes fo glancing out and in, Till every line above the pew Is linked with doctrine old and new. And every shade of color brings Some truth or principle to mind, Some plcture fair of heavenly things, Or peaceful thoughts of soothing kind And hope, and love, and virtues al Run riot o’er that Paisley shawl. nh, lady, with the quiet face, Sitting sercnely in your pew Fokling your garment to its place You see not half that meets my view; Nor know how it has come to be Prayer book and rosary to mel : LAURA GARLAND CARB, Curiosities of Will-Making. From the N. Y. Tribune. The journais of a year past have mentioned an extraordinary number of queer or contested wills. Are people tecoming more disposed to draw their own wills, without employing law- yers? There isno reason why anyone should not draw a will who has fair business-like abil- ity to write out the gifts. Common sense sug- gests that the paper ought to be headed as a will. And it is not dificult to learn by inquiry how many witnesses are required in the partic- ular state; this, by the way, is the state where the testator resides (at his death); a will drawn for a man on a journey should follow the law of the state where he has his home. Neither bad grammar nor misspelling in the body of a will vitiates it; if the judges can understand what the paper means they will order that done. Wills having nearly every important word misspelled “and almost destitute of punctuation have been accepted. Mainepa- pers say that a court has lately taken proof ofa will made in pantomime by a man who was deaf and dumb, and could not write or use the manual alphabet. But mistakes which obscure the meaning make trouble. A story last summer was that Mr. Matthew Vassar, when drawing his own will, meant to leave $7,000 to seven churches—i.e., $1,000 apiece—but in copying his rough draft he inadvertantly inserted the word “each,” giving the churches $7,000 each, or $19,000 In all. The general rule as to mistakes is that if the will is lucid and intelligible, and can be carried into effect as it reads, this must be done; the language cannot be altered because witnesses say that the testator meant something different from what he wrote. But if what is written cannot be performed, the courts will then take proof of what the man meant to write. Curious conditions are sometimes imposed. One testator declared in his that if any legatee should attempt to break it he should be debarred from all share. Another cut off any heir who should wear moustaches! Another said that each legatee must take the pledge be- fore receiving his share, and should forfeit a half year’s income for every breach of it. An- other left to his family ph: n £2,000 if tes- tator should live two rs, or £3,000 if he should live five; but unluckily for the doctor, the patient lived only a week. Whether con- ditions of this kind are operative depends on the circumstances; if they are lucid and prac- ticable the courts will enforce them, but many are so expressed that they amount to nothing. =| gatee should not receive nless he coinplies witha condition, in the will, and the condition, if not contrary to. law, will probably be enforced. But to make him give back the legacy becaus of breaking the condition after it has been paid may not be so easy. And do not mention your requests at all in the will (but write them in a letter s ately) unless you mean that, if they are not obe . the lezacy shall be for 1. Requests which are not peremptory conditions often ke trouble. When Heller, the ma cian, died he bequeathed his apparatus to be destroyed. In some instances a testator has di- orite horse pet should be killed, “lest it fall into unkind hands. It doubtful whether a court would compel an ¢: cutor to destroy property because the will so desired; wills are aliowed for giving one’s prop- that useful an 3 or articles should r public benefit. Direc- given in a will as to mode of burial, or for tion, are also subject to the sanitary law place. It is only when one designs to give his prop- erty outright in simple ways that he should draw his own will; for complicated trusts, en- dowing new institutions or tying up property fora future time, a lawyer's aid may be very needful. Even lawyers sometimes make mis- takes. A New York lawyer named Rose drew his own will, leaving about two million to be held for ve year's to see whether other givers would add $300,000; if they would, the whole should go to endow a “Rose Beneficent Asso- ciation;” if they would not, then his money to go to other charities. Now the law does not allow property to be held in suspense for a defi nite term of years; therefore his gift was pr nounced void. Some most absurd blun¢ rs | have been made by lawyers in drawing wills for themselves. It isnot obligatory to appoint an executor, but doing so is wise, and if a testator has enouzh confidence in the person named to direct that “he shall not be required to give security,” this may prove a great convenience. As respects signing and witnessing. wills of- ten fail for some informality in these; especia'ly in New York, where the form Is stricter than in most states. ’ A story of last summer was that a will was presented, written partly in black pen- cil, partly in blue, (a will is not void because in pencil, thouzt: ink 1s tar better); about half was written on one page, and the witnesses signed at the foot; the other half was written on the other page, and then came the testator’s signa- ture. This instrument was discarded, because the witnesses did not sign at the end of the will. Common sense ought to tell any one that any important paper ouzht to be completed before the signatures are affixed. The New York rule as to signing and witness- ing is that there must be two witnesses; the testator must sign in their presence, inform them that the paper is his will (he need pot tell them what is in it), and ask them to witness it; and they must sign their names and residences as witnesses at the end of the will. They usually sign below a brief memorandum certify- ing that these things were done; but this memo- randum is not strictly essential. Keep the will, when completed, in asafe place. In Massachu- setts, lately, a will was contested because rats had eaten the signatures. Lord St. Leonard’s will was lost, and was established only by the fortunate fact that his daughter was able to re- peat the substance of it from memory. eee A Grent Utilitarian Philosopher. For playing such a part as Mill's it was rather an advantage than otherwise tliat he should be deficient in the amiable qualities. Like Car- lyle, he inherited the rigid austerity of the Scoteh Calvinists; though, unlike Carlyle, he was more attracted by the logical than by the imaginative side of thenational creed. He took as little pleasure as the sternest Puritan in the ordinary induigences of life. From Professor Bain’s records of his reading at Edinburgh, it Appears that his mind was nourished from early life on metaphysical studies. He took to the “dismal science” with appetite, and was con- temptuously indifferent to poetry. He was limited even in his philosophy. He was, indeed, alover of Greek, and a careful student of Plato, enjoying, we may suppose, rather the dialectical skill than the artistic charm. But it never seems to have occurred to him that there was such a thing, for example, as Ger- man philosophy, and that any method could be necessary except to build upon the speculative basis accepted by ae | or Bentham. Though two years junior to Walter Scott, we can searcely imagine him as living in the same world “with the author of the “Waverley Novels.” Romanicism in politics or art was part of that nuisance of sentimentalism which was to be swept out of the world by the besom of political economy, Burke’s regrets for the wze of chit were idle whining, as trrele- vant in serious political argument asthe intro- duction of a song Into a treatise neg popula- tion. It is only in harmony with this tempera- ment that he should have been sryarenitiy un- \ ful of ainiable in private, and certainly neglectt the little attentions which are juired to lub- rieate the wheels of domestic life. He drilled his son's mind in Greek, logie and mathematics = sritomasieslly and apes he youla ave sharpened a razor ona grindstone, to the ka of the son's constitution. When is family fell into distress he seems (so far ag the details are ascertainable) to have behaved with baat deg sate, contributing to the Some Flerida Netabilities. Correspondence Atlanta Constitution. Florida has a live duke and a still liver duchess! About 30 miles above Rock ledge, on Indian river, is situated the famous Dummet orange grove. The simple country people liv. ing about there were somewhat mystified, but not a whit abashed, a short time ago by hearing that an Italian duke had bolight the grove, and was coming to Florida to take up his residence. In due time he came—the duke of Castellucci: and his American duchess. He is a burley sold- jerly fellow, good-looking and easy-mannered, but very much afraid that somebody will swindle the duke or hurt the duchess. He came to New York a short time ago and mar- Tied a Brooklyn lady of great wealth. It is said that she bought his title, but this ts not true. He inherited his title, and her money simply enabled him to properly support it. He livesin fine style in New York, and has one of the finest places in Florida. It was sold to Mr. Schuyler of New Jersey, a tew years azo, for #18,000, and he sold it to the duke for 244.000. It will Pay a pretty income on this sam, and the duke is not fixing it up with the lavishness that might be expected from an Italian nobleman, The duchess is a large, fair-looking lady, very fond of the duke. and, altogether, I expect they are as happy as common people. He's a great sailor, and had a fine yacht built but disagreed with the builder and refused to take it. The neighbors do not like the distinguished pair, claiming that they are stingy and proud; but suspect their greatest crime consists in being noble folks. The finest country residence in Florida is that ofa French count, Frederick de Bary. This gentleman is best known to the public as the American agent for Mumm’s ehampagne, from which he derives a princely revenue. The Count de Bary became interestedsin Florida about 10 years ago. He had a daughter of 15 years of age that he thought was dying of consumption, and he sought a softer clime that her last days might be made more peaceful. To his surprise she rapidly recovered her health, and is now happily married to an officer in the Prussian army. : Count de Bary bought two places near Enter- prise. One of them he determined to make his home. He built a house that cost over 250,000 under the first contract. It is supplied with wine cellars, billiard-rooms, gas, water, and is furnished in the richest style. Back of the | house is a beautiful artificial lake, and the tains, avenues and flowers. The main feature, however, is the grove. Itis simply ideal. Five thousand orange trees of the very best quality are set out with the utmost precision and fer- tilized into perfection. The grove is kept as neat asa parlor, and each tree is carefully clip- ped and attended. Thereis not a piece of stick, and scarcely a leaf to be found anywhere on the ground, and this grove stretches over nearly 100 acres. A competent traveler, who had spent five years on the Mediterranean, told me it was the finest grove he had ever seen. The house and grounds cost over $250,000, and make a maxniticent country seat. Nearly’ 50 people are employed about the place as cooks, grooms, sailors, gardeners, porters, ete. ‘unt. dis- penses here a princely hospitality. He is about 70 years old, and is fond of sampling the wines he deals in. His son. a cool and shrewd man of 35, has charze of the enormous busness in New York. This embraces. beside the wine and water trade, an immense cigar factory in New York and another at Key West. Besides all this the count has done a great deal for the development ot Florid He now owns the five finest. steamboats onthe St. Johns, making daily trips from Jacksonville to Sanford. The De Bary, built last y at a cost of $75,000, er put on the river. 1 trong believer in Floricu and spends He has finetpats, good wines, ny airs, sunshine and friends, a fine grove good cook in his winter home,and what can aman of 70 want that this earth can furnish. Mr. Astor, the New York millionaire, hasbeen an enthusiast on Florida fo: , but has in- vested very little money e groves. He has spent about $200,000 in city improvements in Jacksonville, and has bought a controlling interest in the queer little raiiroad that runs from Toeui to two land gra count is his winters here. ba cated. comes time. A few y of his winters money. tirely. ‘o he used to spend most and was lavish with his He has now given it up almost en- See ‘Thirtecn 2t Taple. A paragraph, says the St. Louls Republican, floating on the newspaper sea attributes to M- Quetelet a confirmation of a popalar super tion, that of thirteen at table one will die with- in one year. It is curious that go absurda super- stition continues to exist, but sti!l more curious t any one should for eof a distin- n to sustain the absurdity. M. Quetelet never asserted that the laws of mor- tality made it probable that one out of thirteen, of the ayes usua prised in dinner partiey, would not live one year. One or more out of thirteen, or a smaller numb but except the ayeraze age is an extre the probability is agaist the death. Aug. F. Harvet. actuary of the insurance department of Missourl, attacks the sup 8 the on and give tollowing scales for conyivial or Phanksgi parties, so that, haying the meaa age of t the memb ected to a li that one must di within a year to interfere with a hearty appetite or a thirsty throat: = may b Size of the dinner party or number out of which one wilt probably die in one Average Age of Guests. year, uccording to the— American } dockters. Combined Farr’s Mortality. Experience, Eng). 148 791 45 on 138 2u 129 101 119 oon 108 89 7 8 B & 54 4a 41 88 31 B Ey 16 15 ee 18 i8 oc 72 years, 6 months. 18 = : According to these scales, if the company ay- erages 15 years of age or lower the largest nam- ber may be gathered by depending on the Eng- lish table; if the average is 20 or 25 the supersti- tion may be charged to the actuaries or com- bined experience with the least danger; if the mean age is past 30 the American experience gives the best results; and by any of the tables the average age must be past 71 if the popular idea is to be proven true. If the host and his wife want to arrange a Thanksgiving dinner of 13, 30 as to make,-under the English (Farr) table, an even probability that one will die be- fore the next national gormandizing, and invite males and females, so that there shall be two ay- eraging 35; two, 40; two, 45; two, 50; two 55; and two, 60; the last’ guest, if a male, must be somewhere about 106 years of age; ifa female about 103. If the selection is made upon the American table the thirteenth guest will be 93 years and 10 months old. For all ordinary companies, however, there is_no observed expe- rience of mortality which will warrant the con- tinuation of the superstition here discussed. ag gees A Poor Opinion of Aliigaters. From the Jacksonville (Fla.) Union. “Dar’s a gin’rul idee,” said old Si last even- ing, ‘dat dis state am er kin’ ob nashunal hoss- pittle, an’ hit’s wah all detime twixt deth an’ de Instead of dat dar’s helth down heah an’ plenty ter spar. Dey sell hit from de markit house ter de kitchin-do’, and de only pl: vhar yer kant fin’ it is in er allygator’s mouf.” “Then your advice is that people snould come to Flori- da, but beware of the alligator?" “Dat's hit!” “I ain’t got no use fer er allygator—hit’s too much like er pollytishum—got mo’ mouf daa vittals, an’ mo’ hide dan honesty!” And with this epi- (eae the old man bowed himself out cf the sanc- um.” Patti’s Scorn at Presidential Wages. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. It isrelated that when Patti demanded $5,000 for each concert from Manager J. H Haverly he remarked that it would be equivalent to $50,000 smonth, and remarked, sotto voce: fred sagen sister, and : “The Pre- sident of the United States works a year for that amount.” “Well,” reed aie the diva, promptly, “get the President to sing for you.” AS Presiden Arthar sings g good bass the sug- gestion wasn’t so far out of the way. ——_—____—__+9, Hannibal Hamlin at a Ball Fight. ‘From the San Francisco News Letter. grounds are handsomely decorated with foun- | Previews Atempes at Amaminacion, | BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES. From Jastin McCarthy's 7. ary Our Owa Times,” we bd seosdiecines as ne es of the attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria: Estabtished 1800, THE FIRST ATTEMPT. Dealers ‘n He writes: The first attempt was made on TIN PLATR, June 10th, 1840, by Edward Oxford, a pot-boy of seventeen, who fired two shots at the Queen as she was driving up Constitution Hill with Prince Albert. Oxford fired both shots deliber- ately enough but happily missed in each case. He proved to have been an absurd creature, half crazy with a longing to consider himself a polit- ical prisoner and to be talked of. When he was tried the jury pronounced him insane. and he was ordered to be kept in a lunatic asylum dur- ing her majesty’s pleasure. The trial complete- ly dissipated some wild alarms that were felt, founded chiefly on absurd prem in Oxford's possession, about a tremendorts secret society called **Young England,” having, among its other objects, the assassination of royal person- ages. It is not an uninteresting illustration of the condition of public feeling that some of the Irish Catholic papers, in seeming good faith, denounced Oxford as an agent of the Duke of | Cumberland and the Orangemen, and de- | clared that the object was to assassinate the Queen and put the Duke onthe throne. The trial showed that Oxford was the agent of no- body and was impelled by nothing but his own | cracked-brained love of notoriety. The finding | of the jury was evidently something of a com- | promise, for it is very doubtful whether the boy | was insane in the medical sense, and whether | = he was fairly to be held irresponsible for his ac- | (PYHE STEAM tions ; but it was felt, perhaps, that the wisest | qHURSDAY. course was to treat him as a madman, and the | lantines, stom result did not prove unsatisfactory. Mr. Theo- | ® dore Martin, in his “ Life of the PrinceConsort,” | “i; expresses a different opinion. He thinks it | and ROOFING PLATE, SHEET IRON, COPPER, PIG TIX, SHEET LEAD, ZINC, BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. nt 606 PENN. AVE. AND 607 BSTREFT. pss ‘OILS WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS. JOHNSTONF'S KALSOMINE and MASURY'SLIQUID PAINTS, ready for use. (Send for circulars.) Estimates furnished to Builders. A full stock of AR- TISIS' SUPPLIES always on band. GEORGE RYNEAL, Jn. 48 Trn Street Nonruwest. ____ STEAMERS. &« m30 VER LANDINGS. Op and after NOVPMBER Sp, 1881, the ARROWSMITH will leave ber wharf, foot of 7M etowet, m. every MONDAY, THURSDAY ang SATUR- | for all m . On MONDAY as fi THURSDAY, Nomini and ~t. © .CoUton's and Howard's. d Leouanitown. an SOHN & om Woop ES NDAY, TUESDAY o'clock a.m., for Potom: gsin 5 vednesdays “‘up;” ret would have been well if Oxford had been dealt |-Monday, Wednesday and Friday aiternoous, | with as guilty in the ordinary way. “The best | OFMOPMABOB APPIN Soe. Agent, commentary,” he says, ‘on the lenity thus | [7 Teh street wharf. shown was pronounced by Oxford himself, on be- RK STEAMERS. | | ing told of the similar attempts of Francis and | NORFOLK Leary | Bean in 1842, when hedeclared that if he had TOE STEAMSR TADY OF THE TARE. been hanged there would have been no more Wilkaveher what, | shooting at the Queen.” It may be reasonably | doubted whether the authority of Oxford as to he general influence of criminal legislation is very valuable. Against the philosophic opinion of the half-crazy young pot-boy, on which Mr. Martin places £0 muei reliance, may be set the | fact that in the other countries where attempt’s | on the life of the sovereign have been punished by the stern award of death, it has not been | found that the execution of one fanatic was a safe protection against the murderous fanati- cism of another. THE SECOND ATTEMPT. On May 30th, 1842, a man named John Francis, | Son of a machinist in Drury Lane, fired a pistol | | at the Queen as she was driving down Constitu- tion Hill, on the very spot where Oxford's at- x p. i nut, Paint Looker Fortress Monroe, HOTRE BOSTON | MEES. @ AT NORFOLK WI GSS TING ‘Returning, les DAYS and. are T fel 28 14 ) ailiee, 1351 Yummy vans ave- al LFRED WOOD, Secretary. _ ier YORK ROTTERDAM. | tempt was made. ‘Thiswas a somewhat serious | «ayereeie Ae oe Stoners of tls Lina, attempt, for Francis was not more than a few “SCHIEDAM,” A. oo TEN," < “P. CALAND,”? an Carrying the U. 8. Mails to the Netherland eon Stor Brooklyn, regularly, YED AY. First Cabin, $60°$70, 2d Cabin, $50. Steerage, “$26. H, CAZAUX,, General Axent, 21 South Wluan tre feet from the carriage which, fortunately, was driving at a rapid rate. The Queen showed great compos x She was in some Hi. CAZAC <n e measure prepared for the attempt, for it seems | New Yor r pasango apply to WG. METZBROTS certain that the same man had on the previous, § SQigangeuussivania avenue, Waringion., oF Fe evening presented a pistol at the royal carriage, | corner New York avetiue and 15th street northwest. it. Francis was | 3 ‘i i; He was only twenty- | (QUNARD LINE. __ rs of age, and although at first he | ranks it out and put on a sort of SANSHIP COMPANY LIMGTED. le aspect. yet when the DRE gi LIVERPOOL. r high treason was passed oR Oe he fell intoa swoon and was carried in- | gern, ” Gai sensible from the court. The sentence was not j Farthia carried into effect. It was not certain whether | S¢sth the pistol was loaded at all, and whether the & Co. although he did not then fire arrested and put on trial. two ch. | Scythi NESDAY FRC OF PASSAGR. performance was not a mere piece of play $00, $80 RATES deadles * , $80 and $100, according to accommodations, done out of a longing to be notorious. | Fetuin ucce int mocoetame to accom! Ma herself was anxious that the death | Steamers marked "do not carry sentence steerage. Steerage at vi low rates, Sieerage tickets from Liv- eryool and Quecistowa aud sil cdier partsof Europe at | lowest rates, bills of ingen given for Belfast. Glascow, ntwecp aud other portson the Continent and | or Mediterranean ports. I c ty at the Company’s office Ft os compen e one, y Known another attempt or 1S BIGELOW & CO., Wo 7 should not be carried into effect, | and it was finally commuted to one of transpor- tation for life. THE THIRD ATTEMPT. The very day after this mitigation of punich- ment beezme publ No. 4 Bowling Green, or age, Os | I se eee ee ee VS GOODS. Tuourson’s DRESS SHIRT MANUFACTORY axp MEN'S FURNISHING EMPORTUAL, 816 F Street Northwest. NECKWEAR, FOOTWEAR, HANDWEAR Ready -mae SHIRTS at follow! ions Beet Wamsutta, unfinixhed, Tc. Hnislied, 906. Best ¥. of the I... unfinished, Ge. ; Priabel, sie. Be S. B. 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But it was made clear, and tive fact is recorded on the au- thority of Prince Albert that the lad I had announced his determination to. make at- tempt several days before the sentence of cis Was commuted, and while Francis was ac— Pennsylvania avenwe northwest, Agents for in E RATLROADS. 2p, 1 Mt SraTIoN, CORNER | FR oy Ort axp B Starkte as FoLiows: le g under sentence of death. With | For #ymusx and te, West, Chicagy Limited Express rancis himself, the Prince was clearly y; Fast Live, 9:30 z m. daily, wit to “Cinchinati. fail, wi ati. of the opinion that to carry out the capital sen- tence would have been nothing less tuan a ju- 1 murder, as it was essential that the ‘act should be committed with intent to kill or wound, and in Francis’ ease, to all appearances, this was nota fact, or at least It was open to ave doubt. In this calin and wise way did the husband of the Queen, who had always shared with her what ever danger there mi mnpts, arsue as to the manher in which they ought to be dealt with. The ambi- For Brooklyn, N, ¥., all through trai Or thes Cy with boats of Brockiyn tion which incite lv all the miscreants who sey Cit Annex, affordi thus disturbed the Queen and the country was Se ee ee {hat of the monntebank rather than of the as- | For Piviaselyhia, 1 10:30 a.m. {sassin. The Queen herself showed how thor- 9:60 end 30:20 9.20. E 10: oughly she understood the significance of all ulat had happened, when she declared, accord- ing to Mr. Martin, that she expected a repeti- =0, 33 tion of the attempts on her life so long as the and Rt ° Jaw remained unaltered by which they could be | For Pope’s Creck Line, 6:40 a.m. and 4:40 p.m., daily, ealt with only as acts of high treason. The | vor Aucehts 4 4:40 p.m., daily, seeming dignity, of martyrdom had something ihe en Poteet aecan = —_ fancinating in it to morbid vanity or crazy fanat- i icism, while on the other hand it was almost | WA‘AB ALE certain that the martyr’s penalty would not in | For Alexandria, 6: the end be inflicted. “A very appropriate change apeles in the law was effected by which a punishment at once sharp and degrading, was provided for mere mountebank attempts against the Queen— 4 punishment which was Certain to be iniiicted. $20 Rim, om A bill was introduced by Sir Robert Peel, mak- 2 a ing such attempts punishable by transportation | of 7She™.229 Information at the ofhoe 1 for seven years or by imprisonment for a term | tiou, where orders can be left for the checking of bag- not exceeding three ee colnet a te Saire to destination from hotels and res publicly or privately ‘Ww! ae often and in Genera such & manner 38 the court shall direct, not | _FBANK THOMPSON, General Manager. exceeding thrice.” Bean was convicted under this act and sentenced to eighteen months’ im-| P}ALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. prisonment in Milbank penitentiary. 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An Irish bricklayer, named Hamilton, firea a pistol charged only with powder, at her Ma- Jesty, on Constitution Hill, on May 19th, 1849, and was sentenced to seven years’ transporta- tion. ‘MO: yA) JAN- itso: '2:86—CBICAGO, CINCINNATL AND ST. LOUIS | Fast Mb. Sleeping Cars to Cincinnati, Bi Leniis aud Chicago. Bs jHoott City, and Way Stations. THE FIFTH ATTEMPT. G00 Bamtinore,, ADBapaiin” ‘and » Way (Piedmont, | 5 ‘Strasburg, Wine! and Way, via | A man named Robert Pate, once a lieutenant ns dere = of Hussars, struck her Majesty onthe face with | '%: faint of Wovke and Wy Bitton. astick as she was leaving the Duke of Cam.| #=-PINLADELPHIA. NEW YORE AND BOSTON bridge’s residence in her carriage, on May 27th, 1850. This man was sentenced to seven years’ transportation, but the judge paid so much at- tention to the plea of insanity set up in his 8:40-BTAUNTON AND WALLEY EXPRESS ( for Hagerstown and at Point of Hocks for > it Beltevi Apna: Sangin Manas Mec oe behalf. as to omit from his punishment the Connects for Annavods. whipping which might have been ordered. 00 BALTIMORE EXPRESS (stops at Hyattevite ‘THE SIXTH ATTEMPT. Finally on February 29th, 1872, a-lad of seven- teen, named Authur O’Conor, presented a pistol at the Queen as she was enteri ing Buckingham ‘ Palace after a drive. The pistol, however, | $)25-eaL MORE Lepr and War. proved to be unloaded—an antique and useless ‘poo aK ERPS CD EEPRTA sup aEW or harmless weapon, with a flint lock which | :90--Baltimore ana Way Stations, (Winchester, Frod- was broken, and in the barrel 6:30 RAL TORE ESTEE OD Lal BALTIMORE: BYATIVILLE AND 1 UREL 1 a piece of otis Junction.) 4: “A Be es Leki held a pepee a one and whieh was foun some sort i ‘Annapolis and Way Btations. tion on behalf of the Fenian prisoners. Hs fant of Meche, ecco Hegaraen, Wn, (Gn Sunday to Point of itt EAPRESS, See Eee ee 6:05-— 4 £1t—haltinore and Way Seok he came uprfor trial a plea of insanity was put in on hisbehalf, but he did not seem to be insane a0 ACAMOLe HYATTSVILLE AND LAUREL in the sense of being irresponsible for his actions orincapable of understanding the penalty they EERE aceite cae E- NEW YORK and BOSTON noe Iie ee naomeee E and ST. 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