Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1882, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1882—DOUBLE SHEET ABOrT COOKING CLU WORK—THE MICROSCOPE AT HOME—VARIOUS USEFUL RE- cies. Dark Statys.—To stain the white part of a Diack walnut board of the same color as the rest apply a thin asphaltum stain—asphaltam dis- solved in turpentine. ATTEND To THE TeEETH.—Some of the severest eases of neuralgia, temporal, facial and ophthal- mic, arise from impaired teeth, often In cases where the teeth themselves give no trouble, and None save the acutest med intellf&ence can trace any relation between theferce attacks in the eye, ear or temple, perhaps, and the carious tootli that gives no local trouble. CeMmNT Fox GLassware.—Por mending val- uable glass objects, which would be disfigured by common cement, chrome cement may be used. This is a mixtute of five parts of gelatine to one of a solution of acid chromate of lime. The broken edyes are covered with this, pressed together and exposed to sunlight, the effect of the latter being to render the compound inso- Iuble even in boiling water. — CREWEL How to CLeax Corsets.—Take out the steels at front and sides, then scrub thoroughly with tepid or cold lather of white castile soap, using @ Very small serubbing brush. Do not lay them in water. When quite clean, let cold water run on them freely from the spigot to rinse out the seap thoroughly. Pry, without ironing (after puiling lengthwise until they are straight and shapely), in a cool place. Recetrt rox tae CompLextox.—Make a linen bag large enough to hold a quart of bran; put ft in a vessel and pour two quarts of bolling water on it; let it -tand all day, and at night, on to bed. take the bag out and wash m water. In the morning with distitled rain-water. In it will make a coarse skin feel Stir five pounds of chioride of lime into two pails of warm water; dissolve ten pounds of Glauber salt (sulphate of im one pail of water; also four pounds sal in one pail of water. The contents of the four pails can be poured together and kept in any suitable tight vessel. Such a quantity as the above ouzht to last a long time, as a dipper- ful of it would bleach a iarge quantity of linen or other goods. How Bens are Mape Beavtirvi.—A great deal ¢ htened by dark brocade, that is across the foot of the bed. d quilts, and those done with gilt threads in tapestry designs. are especially handsome. Antique laces, combined with white im, are used over colored linings for bed spreads, with pillow spreads to match. A border of red plush, upon which the lace edge falls, is a pretty finish; when not lined, these lace spreads are used over down comfortabl t are covered with rose, blue, A Cutar ann ExceLLent Brvrse.—Bluing made from the following recipe has been in con- tant use in many families for several years. It does 1 trifling compared with any other bluing. The aantity here noted has been known to last a six pers year. Get one ounce of |, one ounce of powdered Chinese or ne (either will do), one quart of soft water, Put in a bottle and shake it well for two orthree days after mixing it; after this do not shake it at all. If any of it settles at the bottom, you can fillthe bottle after using the first water. If when you try it it is not pow- dered, ask the drugyist to powder it in a mortar for you. Unless the Chinese or Prussian blue is pare it will not be a success: it will precipi- tate and make the clothes spotted.—, s Monthly. Cotp-waTeR TREATMENT FOR BuRNs—A piece of linen or muslin wet with cold water wrapped around the burned part—be it body or Himb—will give immediate relief, and if cone tinued will effect acure. Three or more folds should envelop the part and be kept wet. It will exclude the air, relieve all pain, and cure the burn. Many persons from the effects of | time in English; the Germans jure the clothes, and the cost is | burns by fire, scalding water, or steam, have suffered intense agony for hours before being Telieved by death. The application of wet band- ages as named would have relieved their pain and made their last hours comparatively com- fortable. In case of injury from a scald the clothes next the skin should not be removed, as it would tear off the skin and flesh. Wet them thoroughly, and bandage them on the part or parts, and keep allwet with cold water. The ire will be extracted and in most cases the skin will not be broken. CooxixG Civss afford diversion for New York young women during the Lenten season. The American Queen gives this description of one: Several girls form such a club, agree to bring or send a suitable dish cooked by their own hands to each meeting of the club, arrange where and when these meetings are to be held, and then proceed to the difficult task of balloting for the men who are to be asked to lend their necessary and enjoyable presence, and who shall chiefly aid in demolishing the viands which shail be prepared. Meetings are generally held once a Week. and the different girls in the club take turns in holding the meetings at their respective houses. When the evening arrives the apticles are duly laid out on the dining-room table and arranged by the girl at whose house the club . These prepared articles may each be duly ticketed with the name of the maker, or may be sentanonymously. If the former course be followed, a vote is generally taken at the elose of the evening, and, at the last meeting of all. the fortunate possessor of the largest num- ber of votes receives a prize. Perhaps, thoush, the latter plan, where the articles are sent anonymously, is the more enjoyable, as it gives an opportunity for each person to guess who was the maker of this or that dish, for any ab- surd reason, and nich merriment is conse- quently induced. In many cooking clubs the girls attired in picturesque peasant or waiter— girl costumes serve the viands themselves, which ef course become only the more palatabie in con- sequence. Curwet-worx is a difficult embroidery, be- cause it depends for its success, not upon the exact putting in of stitches and their regularity, nor upon the time and labor bestowed upon reproducing @ pattern, but upon the absolute Mecessity there is for the worker to be something more than a copying machine; for her to possess the power of grasping and work- ing out an idea of her own, and being able to distinguish between a good or bad —— of the work are so few and so simple that when described they seem to be trifles, for after the broad rules of what to do and avoid are stated, ® written instruction is of little help, as it can- not give the subtleties of form and color upon which the work depends for its perfection, nor ean it convey to an inartistic mind the power of right selection between conflicting coloring. What can be learned from instruction is the manner of forming the various stitches used in the work. while practice will give a free use of the needle and the power of setting the stitches so that each one is put in with regard to its ape in the whole design, and is neither worked close to its neighbor nor too far frum it, bat by its direction beg rape the contour of @ line orthe form of a leaf. Just as in painting no master can inspire his pupil with his own gift of coloring, unless the power of seeing and deline- design or coloring. The technical difficulties of | ating is already possessed and only requires to be brought out and strengthened byinstruction, 80 in crewel-work the learner must have an in- Rate taste for what is true in form and color, to prose by the rales that are exemplified in the examples of needle-work.—Mrs. Julian Hancthorne be Harper's Bazar. Tue Microscore at Home.—In a lecture on the use of the microscope at home, by Henry Pocklington, the following directions are given for using the instrument to detect adulterated ary goods: Most people like to be sure that they get what they pay for. The microscope, in Many cases, places the possibility of certainty on this point within the reach of its owner. ‘p- pose, for example, that the lady of the house Wistes to know whether the piece of silk she has Set her heart upon for a dress isall silk, or a mix- ture with cotton, jute, or China-grass, and, if all silk, whether it has been loaded with dye and - The microseope will set her mind at rest. Take a pattern ot the silk, unravel the watp and weft, acd examine it under the quar- ter-inch ol tive. and you will, at an: rate, see whether the little fibers, of which the weft and warp are comprised, iook alike. That, of course, will not tell you whether the material is silk; but if you procure u piece of known silk good raw silk. and study its appearance, and ifferent aguin from the long con- sistent tubes of flax with their attenaated ends and marked walls. Take wool and hairs of dif- and exainine them carefully, noting —— will soon be able to MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, NEXT WEEK AT THE THEATERS—THE PASSION PLAY AGAIN—DIVORCONS IN ENGLISH—NEW PLAYS IN BOSTON, ETC. —Thatcher’s minstrels at Ford's next week. Thatcher ts excellent. —The Banker's Daughter combination appear on Monday night at the National. The cast isa good one. —Manager Albaugh, of the National, was in New York yesterday to sign contracts for a play to be produced in May by Brooks and Dickson in Baltimore and Washington. It is called “Her Atonement” and is a melodrama local to New York. —Miss Blanche Roosevelt, so well-known in Washington, appeared as Mabel in the “Pirates of Penzance” at the Bijou Opera house this week in New York. Miss Roche, who was the original 1, Jane in “Patience” as played at the Stan theater, takes the part Ruth. ‘The opera had the aid of new costumes and scenery. —Woolson Morse, who isresponsible for “Cin- derella at School,” has nearly finished a new opera called “Madame Piper,” whose story is based upon the ‘Mother Goose” nursery rhymes. — “Claude Duval” is to be played two weeks at the Boston Globe, beginning the 20th, and after that the Florences will have the house for a week, and possibly bring out the new plece written for them by G. R. Simms. — The Boston Herald says that the revolving stage at the Park, of which great things were expected, has proved valueless, and that a new stage will be built this summer. —The “Passion Play” ts squeaking again. Salmi Morse, its author, is said to have induced several rich Californians to form a joint stock company to produce the play in New York. — Adelaide Tessers, a niece of Ristori and an actress highly esteemed in Italy, will, it is sald, travel through this country next season under a “leading American er.” She is how add- ing to her purse and her in South America. — It will be learned with regret that Signor Rossi come to grief. His artistic success has been remarkable, and his financial want of suc- cess has been, curiously enough, in the same ratio. His company was recently disbanded in the west. It is not an impressive Byes this stupid public slighting of great and liant genius. — Sardou’s “‘Divorcons” was brought out at the New York Park Monday night, for the first have already played it there. Alice Dunning Lingard was the Cyprienne—the wife who is tired of her hus- band, but who fails in love with him again when his apparent willingness to help her to another husband arouses her jealousy. —The entertainment for the benefit of the building fund of the Néw York Press club, given on Tuesday: evening, at the Academy of Music, was an event of uncommon attraction. The principal artists of Mr. Mapleson’s opera company, Mr. Sternberg, pianist: Mr. Arbuckle, cornet player, and several popular performers, in&iuding Mr. Davies, ventriloquist; Mr. Livings- ton, magician, and others took part in the en- tertainment. 4 — Daly is said to have offered Georgia Cayvan the position of leading lady at his theater next season, in place of Ada Rehan, who will then travel with “Odette” under his management. Unless Miss Cayvan has a speciaily level head she is in danger of being spoiled by flattery. She has had a notably prosperous beginning; but she Is still little more than a beginner with a bright future. —It has been arranged to bring out Edgar Fawcett’s ‘A False Friend” at the Boston Mu- seum on the 20th. Lester Wallack will begin a season of three weeks at this house April 10, continuing till Rhea begins her engagement. He will open with “ le,” and will probably also play ‘‘Oure” and “My Awful Dad.” —Mme. Adelina Patti has appeared but twice more in opera in New York at the Germania Theater, on Monday and Thursday of this week. Lucia” was presented on Monday evening and ‘La Traviata” on Thursday. This famousprima donna goes to Boston fora brief season. The two operas selected for her final appearances were well chi —Car ani Hardy brought out their “Far from the Madding Crowd” at Liverpool a week ago. It was well received, but tne chief interest at- taching to the production lies in the fact of its singular closeness of resemblance to ‘The *Squire.” which Pinero is charged with stealing from it and the novel. —It will be learned with interest that Mr. Joseph Jefferson intends to act in New York early next autumn, at the Union Square Thea- tre. His engagement will probably last about six weeks. —On Monday evening next Mies Anna Dick- inson will come forth man-wise at the Fifth Ave- nue Theatre in the character of Hamlet—already meres by her in Western cities, and before large and wondering audiences. —Those whose business it isto keep the public informed about the various entertainments of- fered at the theaters have a task somewhat akin to that of a man who notices the new books. Not only is he compelled to waste a good deal of time upon rubbish, but he has to read and can- didly consider a vast number‘of books that do not interest him in the least, but which may nevertheless have respectable public of their own. —The May musical festival in New York prom- ises to be a brilliant one. gThe Philharmonic Society of this city may be present. Campanini, M. W. Whitney, Annie Louise Cary and Mrs. Osgood will be there and at home in oratorio music. The chorus will be 3,200 strong. — The Emma Abbott Opera troupe has been strengthened by the accession to its ranks of Mary Jones, of Lexington. Ky. The lady's name Is not In theleast romaatic, but she atones for it in the possession of a well-cultured voice. — Bartley Campbell's new play, “The White Slave.” will have its first interpretation April 3. The story 1s of a white girl who thinks her- self black and Is soid Into slavery, she gets a husband and turns out to be happy and white for the denouement. — Several French theaters have placed this warning on the curtain in view of the entire au- dience: “In case of fire, the greatest danger to be apprehended is an indiscriminate rush for the doors.” Such a judicious precaution would nog be a miss here. —‘Pinafore” will succeed the ‘Pirates of Pen- zance” at the Bijou,N.Y. After that the “Mask of Pandora,” libretto, by Longfellow, music by Alf Cellier. —‘“Taken from Life” goes on the stage of Wallack’s to open the season next fall. It will be played by the company, and probably asearly as August. Work is now going forward on the scenery. —The Hess opera company is meeting with Great success in the West, although there ig great rivalry. In one town of 8,000 inhabitants the four attractions in one week were opera companies. —The Holliday Street theafre In Baltimore is to be enlarged to a seating capacity of 2,000 this summer. It will be opened in the fall by Hart Jackson's new spectacular play. — Edward Irving Darling, the composer of the “Jolly Bachelors” (a new comic opera on the boards at the Windsor Theater, New York), is the son of Mrs. Darling of this city. He was = nineteen years of when he The libretto is sald not to be very strong, but the music is ite bright and seve the songs are Miss Jeanie Wii and cess init) Young Darfag lsat wera seater cess in ‘oun; ing is at work on anotl opera, to be produced next Beptember, —Oscar Wilde was introduced to an actress in BERIAN TRAVEL, The Journey Between Irkutsk and St. Petersburg. COL. KNOX ON From the New York Evening Post. Lieut. Danenhower and his comrades are about to leave Irkutsk for St. Petersburg on their way to the United States, and two officers of our navy have just been ordered to Siberia to assist in the search for Capt. De Long and the missing men. It has therefore been suggested tome that a brief description of the Siberian post road over which these parties will travel would be specially interesting at this time. In November, 1866, I left Irkutsk for St. Pe- tersburg. The terminus of the railway was then at Nijni Novgorod, 3.400 miles from the former city. Winter is the best time for travel in Sibe- Tia, as the roads are smoother than at other sga- sons of the year, and one is not annoyed by dust and juitoes. If you travel by the post ve- hicles belonging to tle station masters you must change at every station, and a transfer of your- self and baggage four or five times a day, with the thermometer below zero, is the reverse of pleasant. Consequently, most persons prefer to buy a carriage or a sielgn at starting, and sell it for what it will bring at the end of the route. I became the owner of a ‘‘kibitka” or half-open sleigh, which somewhat resembles a New Eng- chaise, greatly elongated. There was abundant room for two of us, and we could lie at full le on our furs and baggage, or sit half upright, with pillows enough to wedge us closely into our places. At night or in storm we could lower a hood at the top and fasten it to athick apron from below, so that we were fairly protected from severe weather is in flat valises of soft leather, and the bottom of the sleigh; the cavities and chinks are filled with straw, a layer of furs or sheep- skins covers the whole, and on this you sit or lie at your pleasure. It is judicious to lash it with ropes to pmevent its tumbling out on top of you in case of an upset. The post stations are from 10 to 20 miles apart, and from Irkutsk to Nijni Novgorod I changed horses and drivers 209 times, and was drawn by not far from 1,000 horses altogether. On arriving at a station you present your pade- Tojnia, or road paws, to the station-master, and demand horses; if your pass is of a high arder you will get them at once, but if there is no reason why he should expedite you, he may keep you waiting several hours, or until you bribe him into supplying your wants. The road pass is only obtainable from the authorities, and as horses cannot be supplied without it, there is no chance of an ‘irregular’ person traveling about the country. The pass states your name and residence, the number of horses you are en- titled to demand and pay for, and also states very explicitly your destination. The ordinary team is three horses, and each horse is to be paid for at the rate of a kopeck and a half per verst-sabout acent and a-half per mile. The driver expects a small fee at the end of his course, go that the expense of being drawn over a Siberian road is about five cents a mile for two persons, If the roads are good you are carried along at fine speed, especially it Rs hint that a liberal fee will be forthcoming. ‘t was not unusual to°make ten or twelve miles an hour, and not infrequently thirteen miles would be covered in that time. The per- formance of a Russian driver is sometimes rather trying to a nervous person; he descends hills at a break-neck pace and is utterly regard- less of shaking you up. Late in winter the roads are full of boliows or “‘dog-wallows,” especially on the hill-sides, and when a team is driven over them at a gallop the sleigh jumps ina manner a great deal more than exhiliarating. As long as the vehicle preserves its integrity the driver pays it no attention. This sort of thing brings ori what the Russians call the road fever; the puise is high and every bound of the sleigh forces the blood through the veins at a fearful pressure. Your head seems ready to burst, and the feeling at each jar of the vehicle is very much as though somebody was trying to drive a railway spike into your skull. ‘The fever generally subsides in two or three days, but sometimes it is sosevere that the traveler be- comes delirious and must take several hours of Test at each stage. I followed the Russian plan in preparing for the journey. I had fur socks over my ordinary ones, fur stockings outside the socks and far boots enclosing all. Over my ordinary clothing I wore a sheepskin coat with the wool inside and fastening tight around the neck. Outside of this was a deerskin coat that touched the ground when I stood erect and was large enough inside for a man and a boy; its collar was a foot wide, and the sleeves, six inches longer thanthe arms inside, were very inconvenient when I tried to pick up anything. Fur clothingin such amount ig a personal incumbrance, but without it the traveler would suffer from the severecold. The lowest temperature I experienced on the road was 40 below zero. A bottle of champarne became perfectly solid the first day of thesleigh- ride, and I discovered a tendency to crystalliza- tion in a bottle of poor brandy that belonged to my companion. Though the frost cannot penetrate a travel- er’s furs, It constantly assails his tace and con- geals the moisture of his breath; beard and furs frequently freeze together and render sudden movements inconvenient. A moustache becomes a double-ended icicle in a short time, and a lady will tell you that her veil is soon converted into a good counterfeit uf a wire screen. It was a season of fasting when I made my journey, and the stations could not be relied on for any’ pro- visions except bread and eggs, unless we in- clude hot water for making tea. ftussians drink vast quantities of tea while traveling, and many who are addicted to stimulating drinks while at home abstain from them altogether on the road and drink nothing-but tea. We carried most of our provisions in a frozen state and thawed them at the stations as we wanted them. Soup was in cakes like small bricks, and roast beef resembled red granite. We had'a bag of pilma- nia—a Russian preparation of little meat-balls covered with an envelope of dough—and this bag was our relfince. The contents were like walnuts the effects of the frost; a dou- ble handful dropped in a gallon of water and boiled for five minutes made a substantial soup or stew, and we found this article of sustenance more convenient than any other. Along the road there was a little change of scenery. The country is undulating, but not broken, and in some places there are plains that resemble our western prairies. The an 5 or rather the snowscape. ts monotonous and wearisome, except where it is crogsed by rivers and the few ranges of hills along the route. The containing the stations were from 10 to 20 miles apart, and generally built in a single street. Outside of nearly every village was a block-house where exiles are lodged on their way to the places of their banishment; the movements of these involuntary emigrants are so timed that only a given number are in any one house at the same time, not so much in consideration of the comfort of the exiles as through fear of attempts at re- volt and escape. While the horses were changed at the stations we had the option of enteris the house or staying outside; we generally di the latter, except at meal times, as the anes from several degrees below to 60 or 70 above is not altogether agreeable. The rooms of Russian houses are warmed by brick stoves, and among the peasants the top of the stove is the favorite sleeping place. At night we used to stir the drivers out from where they were being slowly bak elr toilets were quickly performed, as it ey included donning a aheep-skin coat, and buckling a belt around the waist, and then they bottled for = covert two or three hours rough an Arctic temperature. The most perilous part of the journey Is across the Barabinsky steppe in western Siberia, a plain a thousand miles wide and often swept’ by severe storms. The snow is:whiried in blinding masses, the wind, if blowing from the north, is [eo alli chllsg Leal Mine and horses perish. biopic tpiies Laas storms, snd sometimes those who vent to_brave them never reach their destination. Wolves abound here and many stories, are told of their ferocity, but they are less us than in western Russia, where the po} ition is more dense and game less abundant than in Siberia; even there they never attack men except in the severest winters when hunger has made them desperate. A Siberian journey generally Washington when he was here, whose power of | WHI be its progress, repartee is well-known. The esthece’s snobb- ishness—next to his long locks—is his chief! their rien on visit d, Miss N—,” “When you i——,” sald the langulsher after eimai” “and breathe the atmosphere of antiquity there for the first time, you will realize what existence Marrying a Beautiful Armenian. From the Chicago Times. A few years ago the editor of the Bombay Herald made a trip ‘through Asiatic Turkey and wrote a readable and instructive book about what heard and saw. In it he de- scribed the Armenian women as the perfection of female beauty, grace, loveliness, and virtue. He declared that they combined e: hing that was excellent in female person and character to be found in all parts of the world. A rich money- lender residing in Constantinople, Bekian by name, resolved to qne of the women who had been lauded so iy in the volume he had been reading. He sougit the society of Arme- nian people and soon found a girl of the race that exactly suited his fancy. She was bean- tifal as imagination could picture. Her name was not ae was Margaretta Amassin— but he did not care for that, as he resolved to change it as’ soon as he could get permission. And as her father bad no income except that derived from an office tnat paid a small salary and afferded no stealing, this-was easy to do. Madam was soon an_ excellent housekeeper and showed great love for literary work. In looking over her writings one day to find some pleasant reading to admire, he dis- covered a letter ready for the post. It was ad- dressed to her very dear cousin, whom she beereiha a kill Mrs Bekian tethe Bie obtain his property and live jer in happ! ness. Soon alter 6. received a letter purport- Ing to be signed by fixe refugees, which de- manded that he carry.a escusaad pounds ona given day and deposit it at a certain place in adorest. Failure to comply with the modest Tequest was death. ‘Mr. Bekian did not go out with the money. His loving wife, however, left the house and did not return. The matter was reported to theauthorities, who, caring nothing for sentiment or true love, condemned the two cousins toa long termoef hard labor. Mr. Be- kian does not read any more books of travel. He regard them as unreliable as novels. Indian Agricniture. From the Dakota Correspondence Brooklyn Eagle. One day at the Yanktonian agency, located on the corner of Poplar creek and the Missouri river, I besought a chief that he dicker with me for a head of lettuce and a few bunches of rad- iskes. I should say his farm was about 14 feet long by 7 wide, and looking from the farm to him, it was difficult to decide which presented the greater aspect of fertility. But he was a chief and a man of land, and must be approach- ed with mingled respect and alms. ‘No, comrade,” he replied, with an air of stately grace, ‘the Great Spirit has hold of the other end of those plants, and they don’t come up till he shoves them.” (Not his exact lan- guage, but a free translation.) I pointed out to him that the whole business was going to seed ; that in a few days longer they would be unfit to eat, and his whole crop of 98 square feet would be ruined, unless he dug it up and found a market. Thereat he knocked me down with an un- answerable argument :— “Comrade, when those shrubs started in they were small. You could have carried the whole outlying district in your mouth. They got big- ger and bigger, until they are what you see them now. Shall I pull them up and lose the interest? Nay comrade; they shall stup where they are until they are full size, and then there will be feasting in the tent of Potleg.” That's an Indian’s idea of farming. He won't harvest for fear his crop might grow larger if let alone, and he permits it to run to seed. The agents say that is the worst difficulty they have to overcome. After little bribing they can in- duce an Indian to plant, and tien he will watch his farm con amore. But to make him take in his crop has so far proved an impossibility, and so the seed goes to waste while we wait for him to educate up to a harvester. T told Potleg he was a great man, and asked him who owned the grave next to his. That be- longed to another savage, who was temporarily absent skirmishing for a hoe. The bargain was easily made. Potieg had no conscientiousscru- ples, and I made him a present of what few I had, and went back to camp with my pockets full of vegetables. Perhaps the other aborigine missed them and helped himself from some oth- er patch. I shall never know, but whatever he did made no impression on the sublime dignity of my friend Potleg, or his abiding faith in the effect of time on crops. About Flirtation. From the Whitehall Review. Diversity of age is no bar to flirtation, pro- vided it does not pads acertain point of maturity sooner reached by women than men, and a few years' advantage on one’ side often confers a certain power ; but the Iime must be drawn just within the boundary,when, though the knowl- edge and experiencé necessary are at their high- est point, the inclination to do mischief, or to confer benefits and mstruct youth, begins to fade. It is perhaps fortunate that the blood of seven- teen js rarely united ‘te the wisdom of sixty. Ah, ‘si jeunesse savail; si vieillesse pourait It may be added; that any benefit which superiority in age is supposed to give is pre- cisely the one which most feminine flirts would part with, if it were but possible. One of the first conditions to the particular relations which we are discussing is a certain amount of equality in social position; or, in default of this, some great and counterbalancing quality must not only exist, but be plainly’ spparent on the aide of the party where the deficiency occurs. Without tnis, there is always'a degree of condescension in the one, and a servility; or at least an embar- rassment in the other, which is fatal to a full and free exercise of their best powers. Their con- versation or interchange of sentiment is apt to degenerate into the badinage of a gentleman with a serving-woman, or the insincere and peremp— tory affection which a well-born and zealous wife displays toward her husband's constituents when an election is imminent. For this reazon— though, as a specimen of sedutous filrtation and the success to which it may ultimately attain, nothing has ever been written like it—the pro- vocations of Jane Eyre with Mr. Rochester have always struck me as being of a faulty and de- graded type. That gentleman was, indeed. greatly exercised by Eyre, but there was too much attitudinizing as master and servant, as employer and dependent, to make it an ex- ample to be recommended for the guidance of others. When that remarkable book was in process of demolition by those reviewers whose predestined fate it wasto have to eat their words, the most sensible remark about it was made by the wife of a Scotch minister: “The only grudge I have against the book is that since it was -published all the governesses have taken to imitate Jane Eyre, and the plainer they are the more they do it.” “What are the signs?” I demanded. “Keeping diaries, speak- ing in monosyllables and addressing all gengle- men ‘sir.’ Watch, and you will see.” I watched, saw, and was convinced. ——__-o-_____ A Queen’s Philosophy. From the Parisian. The Nouvelle Reoue has published, under the title of ‘ Les Pensees d’une Reine,” some reflec- tions and maxims of Queen Elizabeth of Rou- mania, who has attained considerable literary reputation under the pseudonym of “Carmen Sylva.” We translate a few of her pensces, chosen at hazard : «, Happiness is like the echo; it answers you, ‘bat it does not come. 4 f There is a kind of fraternity formed at first sight between those who have been smitten by isfortune. When you have long been in mourning you feel yourself al toward every black dress that you meet. , Love, hatred, Jonlonny, destiny are blind; the yes of justice are blindfolded ; one must then quit life in order to be able to see it. At is better to have a doctor for a ir than a) . Tell the priest that you detest men he willreply that you are not a christian. The doctor gives you some rhubarb, and straight— ‘way you love your fellows. Tell the priest that you are wi of life ; he will reply that suicide ‘a crime. ‘The doctor will give you a stimu- and itway you find life endurable. By dint of writing on the writings of others, we end by beli ourselves more intelligent ‘people were not convinced |, the: preachers would find that He had only moderate intelligence. Contradiction anisates conversasion ; that is e. Several gentlemem were standing on the cor- ner of Galveston avehue When one of the most fashionable Indies of “Ah!” exclaimed. one gentlemen, “what a complexion! There is nothing to beat it in Galveston. I aim proud of that woman, I |: am.” e ‘No, sir,” ae Ae: then?” + 5 ie ees aes fier ne it to her. I make itmyself.” ‘Western Frentier Tales. ° A man sitting in his house, eating a pie, heard a storm coming, and ran to the aoor. The gale first blew the house down, and then seized the man, carried him through the air a ‘hundred yards or #0, and landed him in a peach tree. Soon after a friendly board from his own house came floating by. This he seized and placed over his head to protect himself from the Taging blast, and finished his pie. There was @ man from Boston who would not confess as- tonishment at anything he saw in Nevada. As he was passing a hotel in Virginia City the cap blew from one ofthe chimneys, It was a cireu- lar plece of sheet iron, painted black, slightly convex, and the four supports were like legs. The wind carried it down street, and it went straddling along like a living thing. The Bos- ton man asked what it was “A bedbug from the hotel,” was the reply.“ By George, T never saw anything like that,” he began. and then added, ** outside of Boston.” A party of miners in the Black Hills compared eyes and ears over acamp fire. One said: “When I was coming to the Hills Llooked for Indians until 1 could see a mosquito a mile away.” Another said that his eyes were weak, but that he could hear gnats Janiping on the rocks four miles. The next man had listened for Indians until he had heard the mountain sheep light on their horns in the Big Mountains, three hundred miles away. The fourth, with his head on his_ pillow. had strained his care until he heard the Chinese nailing up tea boxes. The fifth, in crossing the Rocky Mountains, had found a ‘petrified forest, the trees turned into solid stone. As he loitered on the edge a deer started across the valley and was transformed in moment into stone. A bird flew past him, and perching upon a ‘re* begap to sing. Suddenly the bird was changed toktone. Thesong she was singing was also petrified, hanging down from the back of the bird—coid, cold stone. ——__-o-____ ‘ ALittle Teo Baa. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. It is related of an absent-minded young lady that, having been duly married, she started off on her bridal tour. The party stopped at a western city. So farso good. Sometime in the night there came a succession of terrified shrieks from the room occupied by the bride and groom, and the clerks, porters and em- ployes generally rushed up stairs, only to meet a frantic female figure, clad in white, fleeing in desperate haste from her apartment, crying: “Oh, there’s a man in my room !” The clerk rushed in and found the groom half disrobed standing in the middle of the floor, one boot on and the other in his hand, the picture | of amazement. He explained that he had just come up stairs, and wasin the act of undress- ing (his wife had previously retired) when she suddenly awoke with a shriek and fled. ‘What was the matter?” asked the clerk. “Damfino,” said the husband. Just then the bride, enveloped in a huge bed- spread, procured for her by a chambermaid, came back, looking very red and foolish, and in half a minute she explained the mystery by saying: “Oh, Fred, I forgot I was married, and when Tawoke I was so frightenea.” so Saturday Smiles. Miss Arminta Gushington speaks of the “solemn season of loaned She never could bring herself to say Lent. It is so painfully vulgar, you know.—Boston Transcript. Miss Dora Apple, of Chicago, is suing Mr. Stone, of Wisconsin, for breach of promise, de- manding $20.000. And it served him right. Mr. Stone should have paired his apple.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Patti is fortissimo. forte.—The Score. During the next century a companion story to “The Man Without a Country” will probably be written. It will be entitled “The Man With- out a Pension.”—Philadelphia News. A Wisconsin woman who was lost in the woods for three days says she didn’t suffer 80 very much, but was greatly annoyed by her absence of mind in not bringing along a small looking-glass.—Detroit Free Press. 8. B.C., "‘Whatis the meaning of the slang pl At least she is above San Antonia: jhrage “to catch on? That's an expression that cannot be under- stood unless youcatch on. Do you catch on? 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