Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1882, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1882-DOUBLE SHEET CHANGING THEIR COGNOWENS. ‘Legalized tenmpiion of New Names— Well Know Applicants, From the X. ¥. Gravhie. Tho cuanzing of waplexsant cognomens or ssawing fanily names, in order to derive pecaniary benefit and for many other Teasons, is now becoming quite a business of its own. Lawyers employed to carry the cases tirough the court ofcommon pleas reap a good harvest in the shape of fees, should their clients be rich, as they often are. The reasons assigned by the applicants are not only interesting but eart ing, as will be found in the | art of common pleas during the jr, clerk of the court of Jur applicants for having anzed are representatives of al- p on to the humblest and n rank of life. We lave physicians, dentists, stockbrokers, down to rman groceryman or the artistic consent of the providin forth th of debts whether nst him. on oath: to grant t Amon, plied du »plication, the amount ny. at that time, and ve been recorded If these questions are answered . the Judge seldom refuses F request. » prominent perso to assume new nd popular actor, John . Mrs. Frank Leslie, a son of Dr. ims, Napoleon Washington Green, the author, and ether lesser lights ‘The zronnd on which Mr. Raymond made his apptication was that his real name was John T. years old, and lived in has been an actor for ble reputation in the ‘or, playing under He claims that | be, if he assumed | this time, and he wished | ake bis stage name for various other | fon without | as made and that bis nam by her. Uni she would be <reatly injured in her business as | publisher. © Van Brunt granted the appli- on. Franees Haifner Rossbaech applied to Ju Daly to allow her sou, who is under age, to | e the name of Francis Haffner Ross, in place i yssbach. She claims her husband aban- | Juc waged im the lotte: tdisgrace upon . razed as a book clerk and is her support. Judge hought the ground of application d granted the application. b leon Wash with sue! 8 jon by Judge Daly to have his His ground of application was the author of several plays written and published by him under thenomme de guerre of Napoleon Green Washington. He says he assumed his name of N. W. y hat he is now engaged in writing other plays and works, and anxious to take up the assumed name of his writings. Request granted. Charles William Stuckenrath wanted his name ehanged to Charles William Stokes. He is an actor by profession, and has been playing under the assumed name since he was seventeen years eid. He claims that his original and proper name causes him much annoyance, and that his friends ridicule him whenever his right name is mentioned. This tends to disgrace him in the eyes of the public and friends. He is also obliged to sign his proper name to any legal document. Request granted, together with that of his wife. Edward Lehman asked permission to take the Dame of Edward Burger on tne ground that his mother’s name was Bunger. No marriage cere- mony had. however, taken place. His brother had informed him of the actual condition of aifairs and had threatened his mother that if she bequeathed any money or property to Edward Lehman he would contest his father’s will. It Being shown that his mother intended to leave Property belonging to her at her death, Judge Daly <ranted the application. s that of John Tovey, the pub- etorof the German and Ameri- Journal. He claims that he was idon, England, and after arriving Teporter on one of the morning and afterwards became proprietor of the ve hamed journal. The principal ground for s name changed to Alfred Egbert John ey is that he bas a cousin here named John causes him much annoyance in his business as publisher. Permission granted. Harry Lucas Sims is a son of Dr. I. Marion Sims, the well-known physician. He wanted » Harry Marion Sims, as he is father, and thaf if that ve great pecuniary benefit “s reputation. Application of the large progeny of the Smith family ‘Was another applicant. He claimed that he was a son of Th Ledyard Smith, of South is studying medicine and | w York College, and wan to be a leader in his profession. He said that owing to the large number of the Smith family, he wanted his name changed to Theo- dore Ledyard, by way of distinguishing himself. Carl Eriewen came from Prussia, Germany, in Previous to that he served in the 39th regiment of the Prussian army, and having bie with his commanding officer he fled to Under the name of Carl Newburg he try and served in company H | avalry regiment under imarried, naturalized and assumed name. He is well-known restaurant in Barelay that if he took his regular uid be ruined. * Green, a daughter of ston Green, applied for and was granted permission to chaage her name like her brother. Napoleon Green Washington, to C. B. Green Washington. e of John Watson was objected to on the ground that there were no less than eighteen nd that a great ments had been filed against one of i hin sed him much annoyance, ed tobe the party owing the money. hame was changed to Watson, the middle name being that of his mother. A novel request was that of an artist from Bavaria, whose proper name was Dressler. Since he has been in this country he said he had been apelled to paint inferior pictures to make a living, aud had aseumed the name of Dressler Turner. The zpplication being a novel one. as well as honest, Jude Daly granted it. One Hamilton too many. A curious ground of application was that of Nat! ie in partnership w is done be wil orace Hamilton. This gentleman is in a commission merchant's house in New York. His ground of application Is that when he went to schovl there was an older student of thesame Horace Hamilton, and to distin- guish one from the other the schoolmates added Nathaniel to his name. He does not like the pame of Nathaniel, as there is another Na- thaniel Horace Hamilton, doing business near m, the letters ot the firm were mixed up, which caused much confusion. His name was to that of Edmond Horace Hamiiton by Judge Van Hoesen. There were other applications, many of them betag by step or adopted children, the step- ehildren changing thelr names to that of their Siep-fathers or adopted parents, and uncles, and grandfatiiers or grandmothers. The number of applications this year was Rearly double that of 1880. ——ee-—____ A Kequest That Came a Day too Late. ¥>om the Troy Press, March 16. was killed near Fort Edward by the cars. It | | taries, and though he writes many letters in the Ginéstone in His Library. From Harper's Magazine. If Mr. Gladstone were given to the adorning of bis honse with inscriptions, he would have hul written over the door of thelibrary, “Aban- don conversation, ye who enterhere.” Without tue inscription, the injunction is understood. If people hanker after conversation, there are pleaty of rooms ajoining where they may enjoy themselves. In the library, it is understood, you read or write, but do not talk. The library has three windows and two fire- places. and is built about with book-cases. Here and in other rooms there are stored over 10,000 volugnes, of which theoloieal works form an app iable proportion. These are collected in oe particular corner of the room. Separate utuents are assigned to the works of Homer, Shakespeare and Dante. Unlike most lovers of books, Mr. Gladstone is not selfish in his affection. Since there is no public library near at hand, the library at Hawarden Castle is open to borrowers, no further security being taken than the entry in a book of the name of the borrower, with the date of the trans- action. There are three writing-tables in the libra: each having its distinet work as- signed to it. At one Mr. Gladstone seats him- when engaged in political work ; the second is reserved for literary labor and Homeric studies; the third is Mrs. Gladston “It is,” M stone remarks with a mournful smile and a wistful glance at the desk where “Juven- tus Mundi” was written, “along time since I at there.” In acorner of the room stands an Xe, a present from Nottingham. its long and narrow blade contrasting strikingly with the American pattern, which Mr. Gladstone prefers, and is accustomed to use. In the library the premier spends nearly the whole of such portion of the day as is occupied within doors. Here, with the busts of Sidney Herbert, the Duke of Newcastle, Canning. Cobden, and Homer look- ing down upon him from the book-cases, and with his old friend Tennyson glancing out from the large bronze medallion which lies on a table near, Mr. Gladstone has thought out an Irish church bill, two Irish land bills, and many budgets. The work each succeeding morning brings to the premier is enormous in quantity and uni- versal in interest. Mr. Gladstone is as method- ical as he is energetic. and no day departs with- out having its work fully accomplished. His correspondence, both private and official, is enormous, and is dealt with on a very simple plan. The secretary opens his letters, reads them, and indarses on the back of each the name of the writer and the purport of his tle, this last undertaking being accom- plished within a space that would suprise the writer, who has probably covered three or four folios. Mr. Gladstone sees everything, and in- dicates the nature of the reply, Where reply ap- pears to be necessary. If the letter be specially important, or peculiarly interesting, he reads it himself. But in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred he is satisfied with glancing at the precis. Before he resumed ofiice his irrepressible energy found some outlet in conducting his correspondence with his own hand. Any bore or ninnyhammer who cared to invest a penny | in a postage stamp could draw from the great | man a post-card written in the well-known handwriting, and with the even more familiar signature. Now, Mr. Gladstone ayails himself much more fully of the services of his secre- day, they stand in infinitesimal proportion to those that are sent out in his name. One de— vice he has hit upon is caleulated to soothe the feeling of his innumerable correspondents. He had a note in his own handwriting lithographed. in which he begs to thank his correspondent for his favor, and remains his faithfully, W. E. ladstone. This is so well done that the un- suspecting correspondent, not familiar with the appearance of lithography, may cherish the note under the impression that it has been written especially to him by the great minister. The Miserable ‘Turkish Bachelor. From All the Year Round. If he be a bachelor, church and state combine to make life miserable for him. He must live with his parents, and, whilst they still exist, the authorities content themselves with a general reprehension of his celibacy, But when they die, if they leave him homeless, his troubles be- gin. It is forbidden any householder to take a young man into his dwelling without permie- sion of the civil and religious magistrate of the quarter. Before this is granted, the lodger must undergo a severe inquiry, which takes in- to account not his personal reputation only, but that of all his kindred. The landlord more- over, must display his ability to have this young stranger waited en without offence to morals— that is, without employing his female servants, or the female members of his family. If the bachelor be rich enough to occupy a house, or to rent “unfurnished chambers.” he cannot possibly obtain that simple privilege unless he show that a woman of good repute live with him therein. Those who can produce a blameless mother or asister have no difficulty, when the identification has been thorougly established; even an elderly aunt is admissible. But if a young man have no kin- dred, he may go homeless for an indefinite time. The abolition of the slave trade is a grievance he warmly feels. In days when this edict was —- one could go into the market amd buy a female creature. white or black, ugly or beauti- ful, according to one’s means, and thus fulfil the law. Times have changed. It may proba- bly be the fact that slaves are still to ur chased by those who have cash enough. Many Turks have assured me it is so, though I have met with none who spoke or admitted that he spoke, from experience. But the cost is very ni; the merchant would not deal with a young bachelor likely to be thus circumstanced: and the transaction would surely be discovered. He has, therefore. to finda servant. If, for any reason, he will not or cannot obtain a Chris- tian, his case is pitiable. The injunction to wear a veil, neglected among the lower class ef Mos- Jem everywhere, and trifled with by the higher class in Turkey, is rigidly kept by women such as he is seeking. When there is a lady ruling the household, a compromise is permitted where servants, being few, must work hard. Covering the hair in presence of male members of the family is thought enough. But the muftis and the cadis, the imams, and the ulemas, would be horrified at the idea of such gross immorality if it occurred in a bachelor’s house. He must wait, therefore, living as he can, until some one will cede to him, for love or money, an ancient woman to do propriety ; or he may hire a chape- This essential piece of furniture secured, he has a domestic Py in nis house, who will re- port his every word and action, in the interest of the state and of public morals. A Story of Cairo. From All the Year Round. A great scandal occurs to my mind, as hap- pening gt Cairo in 1880. Scheikh Hamuda Berda lived in a quarter of the town less fashionable than is generally affected by weaithy saints, who have gained public recognition. With nrodest assurance he declared that Allah had personally granted him authority to cure all diseases. By the hand of Mahomet himself, the Merciful One confided to him drugs and lotions whieh restored the sight, repiaced an amputated limb, and so on. As for’ mere pains aches he removed them at a word. During many years’ residence at Cairo, a vast number of per- sons profited by his supernatural skill, but he specially laid himself out for female patients. In later times, the gaod man found his practice so large that he could no longer attend poor people. From every part of Egypt, Arabia and Syria, wealthy ladies came to ‘consult the Scheikh, and of course they brought a hand- some present. One day, toward the middle of last young wife of Izzet Bey, a colonel in tian service, proposed to visit nim for an = tion of the eyes. The Colonel sent her with a | ear, the a favorite slave, but never came out again. For some days her husband was not o demand how appears that the unfortunate had a brother vesidixg in the west ‘he parents and grand father of these young men died, bequeathing about $14,000, to be equally divided between them. Herbert, had been tapered kde buest, and expected tocome in ion of little fortune the day of his tragie death, and was on his way to this city for that purpose. A short time prior to his death he made known to jils fellow-employes the lezacy that had fallen to age eee adding EE ping shock the ‘What Our Barest Coims Are. . From the Providence Journal. The rarest coin in the United States is the existence, belonging to the cabinet of the United A QUAKERS SUCCESSFUL RUSE. Snved frem Rg Scalping Knives by @ Set o! From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Some time ago a Philadelphia Quaker, belong- ing to an Indian delegation, wascroesinga wide plain ina hostile country. The driver of the ambulance called his attention to four Indians on horseback, who soon surrounded the vehicle. A young brave in war paint made unmistakable demonstrations of hostility. The interpreter told him they were men and medicine mén. He replied that they must prove them- selves medicine men; of peace menthey had had too many already to steal their land and have soldiers kill them. “Be quick,” said he; “show us some wonder- ful medicine work, or we will kill you,” putting action to the word by handling their rifles and tomahawks. Herewasa dilemma! Pointing to the oldest one, a fine-looking Quaker six feet in his baer with white hair, who had been the first talker of the party, he furiously gesticu- lated and cried out: “Medicine man show! Medicine man show!” An inspiration seized him. He had a double set of false teeth on plates of flesh-colored ma- terial, and pointing at his teeth with hus finger and then tapping them with much grimace and correctness, he motioned for all the braves to come within sight, and when all were intent upon him he deliberately took out first the up- per set and then the lower set of teeth, and made a motion toward his neck as if about to separate his head from his body, when the braves wheeled their horses and je furiously away, and the party of peacemakers also turned their horses’ heads and ambulance fort-ward, rejoiced at their strategical deliverance. e+ Marriage in Stamboul. From All the Year Round. . Without intelligent sympathy at home, for- bidden all amusement and diversion out of doors, ignorant of boyish sports, even of riding, probably, the Turkish lad falls into dissipation. For any kind of vice he finds liberty enough at Stamboul. No Christian have I ever met so bold, even in imagination, as to draw a picture ot the dark places in that city. But several of these educated youths have assured me that the luxurious temptations of immorality in Stam- boul—not Pera nor Galata—are unequalled in their not inconsiderable experience of Europe. The state of society was revealed to me with rather startling force one day. I called upon a young Mahomedan whose English education has | made him one of ourselves in ailgespects saving that it has not shaken his religious fai He held in his arms a lovely child of two years old or so, who screamed with passion. A small Circassian boy, fair haired, blue eyed, was trying to distract her, but the apparition of tie “Chelebi” was more successful. The children were presently dismissed to the harem, and my friend observed: “I dread to thtnk of that boy’s departure. y baby has the temper of alittle fiend, and only he can manage her.” Knowing the small Circassian to be aslave I asked why he was leaving. “I must send him to Robert College soon,” was the reply, “and get another pityfellow for fhe child.” Robert College is the American school where 80 many middle-class youths are being edu- cated—well educated, too, though perhaps the training is not in all respects the bes Isaid: “The kindness of your people toward their slaves is well known to me, but I did not think it ran so faras to pay their expenses at college.” He answered, laughing: ‘Not as a rule, of course. But my intention is to marry those two if Ahmet turns out well. He is ciever and well disposed. The missionaries will keep him honest, I hope.” This was such a novel view of the relations between bondslave and mistress, that I dis- cussed the matter at length several times. My friend told me that such matctes, never rare in Turkey, are now quite usual. The state of morals is such in Stamboul, that parents do not willingly take a daughter or a son-in-law from families of their own rank. They distrust all the world. It has lately become a common thing to choose a #lave, boy or girl, to grow up under their eyes. The first expense averages, Fenaee: 40 pounds, and the femate child costs ttle. She is taught truthfulness and virtue, fine sewing, the mystery of coffee-making and of filling a pipe—the artsof a very simple house- wife. A boy is vastly more expensive, as in this cae he must be sent to school, launched upon some kind of employment, and provided for until the parents are satisfied that he wi!l make their child happy. Then the pair are married and the ex-slaye mes amember of the fami- ly, though that makes little change to him. My Mosiem friend is on such terms with me that I speak of his wife almost as freely as I should speak of a Christian’s. Remember that he was brought up in England and speaks the language as well as we. Many readers ac- quainted with Constantinople will know to whom I refer. To my question how the child's mother re- garded this idea, he answered that it was her own conceiving. And then he related various stories of domestic misery and crime within her knowledge, which had brought his wife to a fixed resolve that her daughter should not wed a Turk of Stamboul. Iasked what she proposed to do if this little slave died before marriage. “In that case,” said the tather, ‘‘we are deter- siined to look out a husband in Syria, where there are still honest men.” Such is the view which a Turk, educated in the real sense, expresses of his countrymen— not the elder, but the new generation, of whom 80 much is hoped. ———— A Carpet Pattern. From the Penn Monthly. Among the most curious of the discoveries of modern science are those facts which the mi- eroscope, applied to the inner parts of animals, has revealed, Thus has it been found that the animal may be a world In itself, containing within it vast migroscopic forests whost avenues of waving palms are trodden by innumerable animal forms of curious shapes, strange habits, and still stranger life-histories. It is not only in the larger, but more especially, indeed, in the tiniest forms of ordinary life that these par- asites flourish. Those insects which feed upon dead wood swarm with them. An ordinary millipede is a perambulating commonwealth, while our common white ant holds in her cay cious abdomen a kingdom whose population might in numbers put to shame even the Ameri- can nation. The brown contents of her in- testinal canal, instead of being chiefly composed of food, are a living mass of minute protoza. The world thus uncovered is of great scientific interest, and in the beauty of its forms may be even of esthetic value. One of the most popu- igns for American Wilton Kod re last year was based upon the forms ofa well-known inicroscopie plant, and future Americans may treat upon the effigies of lumble beings whose highest ambition heretofore has been to in one of the beautiful plates of a Leidy. pS 28 Heis the fighting man of the evolutionary party. He does not seek to conciliate, to com- promise, to win over opponents; his verdict is for open war, and he would smite the enemy hip and thigh in thelr own stronghold. Mr, Dar- win is careful never unnecessarily to rouse the prejudices or hurt the Leta aan of his readers; even Mr. Herbert Spencer adopts a tone of reconciliation when he has to deal with such soerions #4 the polation: of hed to religion; and the younger evolution! as a ple, strive either to minimize the points of difference, or else to glide lightly over the thin ice without exciting the fears-or doubts of the eer or nie ‘cegcenchie barat oe 01 wi im twenty years a xruee: Se caine or oon Was mals new stragg! ory, and he remains true even now to the tactios which were ne- ceasary at Gee rection, Reis, sumer er loloeiont anos: e sion. He is always ready to dash at ‘em, carries his mere force Testimony Against Rev. Me. Hixmay.—In Bev. Mr. Hinman's sult againet Bis pare re . coun- sel for the ee read the who was attached Santee Hin- Morphiomania. From the London Trath. When physicians discovered that pain could be subdued by inserting under theskin a small pointed Instrument provided with a tube con- taining morphia, they little thought that they were paving the way for a new vice. Yet so it was. There are in ourmerry England beings who are as wholy under the domination of morphia asever was Chinese under that of opium. Women have yielded by degrees to its fatal fas. cination, until at last they prick the skin a dozen times@ day with the tiny syringe that has such terrible results. The operation is al- most painiess ; the immediate effects pleasant. A delicious languor supervenes. _ Happy thoughts, bright imaginings fill the mind. Some see beautiful visions; others feel only a pervading sensation of comfort and well-being. Ona few, the effect‘of morphia is to excite to some intellectual effort,if effort that can be called which is pure delight, a glorious feeling of un- trammelled power, of ancrippied exercise of the highest faculties. It is as though the mind had suddenly developed wings. But at the very height of the enchantment the influence of the morphia begins to subside, The glory fades. The wings trail, and the feet that are their sorry substitute become weighted as with lead. As with the workers, so with the dreamers. The visions are obscured. The sen- sation of comfort gives place to one of discom- fort, irritation, even pain. The mental vision that had just now looked, through a rosy mist sees all things as throug a crape veil ora No- yember fog. Can it be wondered at that the dose is renewed, that the poison is absorbed again and again, .that the intervals become shorter and shorter between the reign of the potent drug? And theend? The punishment is terrible in- deed. By degrees the mind becomes darkened. Hideous hallucinations seize upon it. Self-con— trol is lost. Imbecility overtakes the weak. Madness threatens the strong. These are the personal consequences. There are others to be bequeathed to sons and daughters and to the later generations. These can be guessed at. The new vice has not reigned sufficienly long for the world to have seen them exeinplified; but a dark array of possi- bilities suggests itself but too readily. The heritage of insani will in future day tubes which hold but a drop or too, which men once looked as to a blessed means of relieving pain, forgetting that blessings and curses go hand in hand in a crooked world. Dipsomania has now a powerful rival, speedi in its results than its own revolting proces eventually as degrading. The name later-born sister-flend is Morphiomania, — of the Vivisection and th The mystery which eurrounds the origin, de- velopment, and course of many deadly maiadies of man and beast has ever proved a terrible ob- stacle to their prevention or e pesti- lence that walketh in darkness,” devastating the hearth and the homestead, the herd and the flock, and striking terror into the stoutest heart, has been aseribed to a miasina, a “some- thing’in the air,” as vague as itwas dreaded and uncontrollable. Other scourges, which, be of their constant presence and I general fatality, were not so ay nevertheless graye and harassing sequences and quite as obscure in th It is with these mysterious diseases u ? cially that experimental pathology has b catled upon to deal, and perlaps no astonishing chapter in the romance of sci could be written than that for which this branch: of investigation has already supplied — the materials. As I hope to show, the benefits which these experiments on living animals have yielded are already great; while prospectively the same method promises to change half the art of medicine, from a curative system, with all its digiculties and uncertainties, to & pre- ventive or protective one, applicable no less to animals than to mankind. How much pain and sickness will the world then be spared! How much loss, embarrassment to commerce and danger to human and animal life will then be averted The contagious and infectious disorders those which have ever becn most destruc and intractable. Some of these are special to the human race, others to one or more spe of animals; while some, again, are widely tran missible " from species" = to.—sgpec Many of those affecting the — lowe creatures can abe conyeyed to man—as rabies, glanders, anthrax, foot and mouth di: ease and probably tuberculosis and diphtheria. Th are also the pnrasitic diseases of animals, lof which may be transinitted to our- seives—as trichinosis andi those due to various kinds of worms and to vegetable parasites. The intimate nature of the infective materials, or contagia, of communicable maladies is a dis covery of almost yesterday; but it has thrown a flood of light on their phenomena, and, with tie aid of experimental pathology, will enable us in all probability either-to abolish them altogether, both in man and beast. or at least to render them nearly harmless. Tke agents in the trans- mission of conta:ious discases—proved in some cases, and probably present in all—are minute organisms, which need almost the highest mag- nifying power of the microscope in order to amine them. They are endowed with most m velous powers of multiptication, which enable them to act with deadly -enersy in a very brief. space of time. Theit disco’ yas lethal agen- cies was only, coubl only be, determined by means of experiments living animais.— George Fleming in Nineteenth Century. LADIES AS ANATOCIESTS, ‘Ten of Them at Work in a Dissecting Koom, There are in the Homeopathic Medical Col- lege, of Cincinnati, ten Iady students who are preparing themselves to practice the prefession on equal terms and in the same manner as the men. Areporter dropped into the dissecting room of the college the other night and was surprised to find several ladies awaiting the arrival of the demonstrator. They did not waste time, however. in the interval. One dainty creature was whetting her little knife. Our female knowledge-seekers were dressed for the occasion. Those who had no nonsense about them, and who meant business, had their heads tied up tightly in dark handkerchiefs to prevent the saturatton of their hair by the foul odors with which the room was filled. They wore old calico wrappers over their dresses fo protect them from contact with the putrid flesh and decayed animal matter that were smeared over every- thing. Others were disposed to be a little more Posten in their make-up, and had draped right-hued handkerchiefs around their heads, not forgetting, however, to let a few bewitching bangs and crimps escape from confinement. Their overalls were peeomlogly raffied, tucked, and shirred, and altogether their appearance ‘was by no meaus unpleasant, and was calculated to put a soul under the ribs of even oid Death himself. Evidently the gentlemanly demonstrator thought so too, for he seemed to enjoy the pretty chirpings and twitterings which greeted is arrival. le was to be envied that deaf ear which rendered such frequent contact of the scarlet lips to his right auricular necessary. The cadaver around which they were gathered had, judging from the way its anatomy was_punch- s holes through its physiology, suffered great- ly before shuffling off its mortal coil and had “long been ready for its funeral.” There was no tremor in the fair hands as they helped carve a muscle or pull apart a refractory rib which would insist upon getting in the way. “Associate with the wise, and some of their wisdom will cling to you;” and what the re- see learned that night shea: won plexus, occipita-frontalis, metacarpel bones, flexors, ex- te ” ete., would, he says, filla large demi- hn, ‘There was-no Squeamishness or affecta- jonof pradery displayed as the demonstrator explained the location of the different or; 5 All were deeply attentive, and looked as solemn as Sale One See ne SOW Was aed away at a hand, rem with asm Beciertty on if’ th rat tees the hoofs from a scalded pig’s foot. Now and then she would go for a nerve or tendon, aud ‘pull it up and exhibit itin triumph. Another, who looked as if she “might have been om ‘you it she'd, received ‘encouragement jolding heart, whlch had Resp pe oes her hand, and was it viclous Il ahs ana pokes as she ex- ed its recesses for hic wheels and ings by which this mystery life is car- on. ~ i aa Domestic Life in Texas. From Texas Siftings. § | “Tt wasn’t that?” excidlmed Mr. Sanders in- dignantly. ‘You see, I didn’t say a word at “How'd she find ogt, ttign?” asked one of the Lwent home, ant she nsked if it was ‘ook the BEAUTIFUL EASTER CARDS. America, Engtish, and German Design- ers Surpassing Previous Efforts. From the New York Mail and Express. With regard to Easter cards, those emblematic of the Passion and Resurrection are still in case or in course of making. At the wholesale card houses the writer saw a few specimens of Ameri- can handiwork in Easter cards that will soon be in the retailers’ windows. They excelied in beauty of design, taste. and execution many things of the kind introduced heretof 4 prevailing colors or shades are steel, or lilac for the background, with white, boic red, virgin bine and gold tints for the fore- ground and middle of the picture. A device takes the form of twelve blades forming a fan shape, each blade being decorated with angels and violets. A silver butterfly on a tiny sceated illow of maroon silk, resting ona white card ringed with bronze, is an On the c Among the simpler designs seen was 2 lilac card with “Christ in red and gold letters. A garland of pansies surrounding a gayly-colored butterfly on a dark background is another expression of quaint taste. Very simple looking is a large stecl-gray card with ornaments of pansies and passion flowers. English Easter cards for themost part present the same colorings seen in those produced here, but are less elaborate. The lily and sunflower are frequently used, while figures robed in me- dieval costumes, with ecclesiastical surround- ings. are very popular with the desizners. Apple blossoms and sprays of bluebell flow are used liberally also. One beautiful Eng card seen by the writerpresented a dark srouz on whieh was a calla! other showed a san- r, the center pre ._ Instead of the black disk, a series of ciycular pictures portray- ing scenes in pastoral life, conveying the senti- ment of peace, joy and simpl beauciful design represents a dove, two-thirds e, flying thronch the skies toward the 1 by a rainbow, and be- Yet shall ye be as the On the illuminated back are rman cards—one ed heve recently from it is not too iarge Very interesting are the G in pa ie Berlin, is te world of wonders that. at fi | parent. On the face of the |. magnifying gh | a mechanicial contrivance. consisting of a of foiding cards and papers, an oblong box is formed. You place your eyeto the aud in the vista behold a it of the two Marys to the sepulehr Ring Bem Chasm: Belis, LE REMUS. His & road tui er falnun De way m’gity lo: But De road mighty full But sinner kin que By drinking fuin de Oh, sufferin’ sinner, rise— Lis’ up dem *urbet ey Lissen w'at de Speret tells; 2, do git strong ‘Ou, sing, my Oh, ring en Polit Ring-a dem charmin’ bells! Wren den jark and col’, <iun roll, ks and swells! sonz— Oh, ring dem charmin’ bells! On, #ing, my soul! Oh, ring’en roll! Ring-a dem charinin’ bells? Atlanta Constitution, cero FLOWERS, Passifiora—Amaryllis—Fine Quality of Bloom—Spring Plants—-Pansies for Patti. From the New York Commercial. A few passion flowers have been cut in the conservatories this week. These are eagerly purchased, as this flower is greatly admired for its curious combination of colors, and also for the story of our Lord’s passion, which is repre- sented in its parts. ‘There are several varieties, the Passiflora Princeps being esteemed as one ot the crandest climbing plants. Specimens of itin the botanic gardens at Washington have made shoots over fifty feet in length. They bloom during the winter and spring months, producing racemes of flowers two feet long. ‘The color Js an_ exquisite blending of the blue petals and scarlet ¢ Another species, P. Alaa, or quadranzu fringed petais of blue and white, th alight shade of exrmine. ches in diame- ter. st suitable for altar decoration, and our florists are carefully hus- banding them for the Easter display. Amaryllis of magnificent colors are attracting considerable attention at present. This flower is named froma nymph celebrated by the poet Virgil. It is very handsome for vase filling, but its colors are so gorgeous it must be used with diseretion. Flowers throughout the week have been of excellent quality. Roses of all kinds appear in perfection: Jacquiminots are somewhat more plentiful than last week; hybrid roses are mak- ing a grand show—the Baroness Rothschild bringing its price, $1.50 Some Easter designs are shown. Gabrielson. has a stock of golden eg; which he will fill with jilies and_the most suitable blossoms for the season. He has supplied decorations for several mid-lent dinners, both at private houses and at Delmonico’s, during the week. Some lovely designs in ferns are arranged by this florist. Spring plants are arriving daily, and are pur- chased as fast as they come in.’ Every one is anxious for the fringy spirea faponteas, the pots of mignonette, the beautifully variegated aza- lias, and the heather with its shock of white or blushing bells. A few growing lilies are brought, but as arule growers keep these forthe Easter novelty, and are not now offering them for sale. —_—___—_-9.____ Patti’s Possible Return Next Season, New York Interview. Are you coming to New York next season? Patti—I have been offered the festival at Cin- cinnati, and they want me to come back to New York. Oh, I am offered sucha bewildering lot of engagements, don’t you know, that I haven't the slightest idea what will come of it all. I have splendid offers from St. Petersburg, Lon- don, New York, Nice, Monaco and many others. I shall let them arrange it all with Franchi. You will have to ask him. The strains of “St. Patrick's Day in the Morn- ing” were heard and Signor Nicolini rushed to the window to see the peed of the Irish societies.as it up avenue in front of the hotel. The Signor hummed the air like one who was entirely familiar with it, and Mme. Patti joined in. ‘That's reminds me,” said Mme. Patti, langh- ing, ‘that the Castle at home is filled with real old Irish whisky which some of our good send us. Nicolini lies it, but I°—with @ very wry face—“I abominate it; and gin— “T “Yea. I but fam prefer pe claret and cham » fal and Another |- DECLINE OF STAGE DANCING, is the Hace Premicre Danvenses | PROPOSALS FOR GAS FIXTURES. Dying Out. THE TRAINING AND TORTURE NNCESSARY TO BF, | COME A GREAT DANCER—WHY THERE ARE No GREAT AMERICAN DANSEUSES. Mile. De Rosa, the celebrated premiere dan- | seuse, who for six years has been the leading | attraction in all the Kiralfy Brothers’ spectac- | r productions, and who is now in “The Black | K,” has givea her views to the St. Louis , Despatch on the causes of the evident | a the st She “Our profession is. the hardest and least ap- preciated work of the stage. never seem to understand what a premiere dan- | doing. Eknow [have toiled unceas- torture to torce recognition, which has come by the slowest processes.” “Where did you acquire the skill and grace you now exhibit as a professional dancer? “At a school in Naples, where el ter, in Milan, when qu: child. Nobody can ine the amount and kind of physical tor- and bodily pain I underwem in the acquire- nt of my profes Day after day I was | strapped up to the tions, and taught the use of my toes. People who see me ¢ down toward the footlights on my toes cannot notice anything particularly dificult about it ; but let them undertake the task for a seeond Will shortly discover that it re- a certain amount of strength and endur- come after years of patient la- “Is the premiere danseuse a graduate of the ballet 2” ot by any means. I never was in the bal- let in my life. In fact the profession of a pre- i is strictly limited, and while adreds of American batlets, there never was and never will be an American pre- miere danseus » Why fs that n girls have not enough requirements of one who me adansense. ‘They do not eare to ruing the business, playing a sha ) become a real artiste for is the di bets y the reason | a pre- | do with our “No, indeed. about mode on earth re you a tative of Italy?” I was born in the beautiful city of Na- | ples ‘hud emigrated to New Y The American people and have less of it t She was with the | on, but left {had a censiant companion in my 1 rom whom 1 was never separated for half | si i ork, | and tay heart has been broken ever since. Mile. De Rosa's eyes filled with tears at the oof her mother, and for a few moments she could scarcely speak ; but presently she con- tinued “L have felt my loss so de ther, ply, and have grown so lonely, that sometimes 1 aun very melancholy, | but I try todo my duty.” “Dancing let costum ust be is it not on the slippers. The tights, hosiery, last well, and are enly worn out by y wearing upon the bal- re your slippers made Ip this country?” hey can only be obtained in Paris,where we pay $3.a pair for them. and we use one pair every Week, On such rouzh stages as you have ible to wear out a pair of slippe . it is given a few directions trom the master, then rashes on the stage, and learns to dance aft The Ameriean ballet is a great source of intefest to me. “But are not all ballet-masters foreigners?” “Yes, foreigners who have failed at every- thing eise and have taken to ballet instruction on the few crumbs of knowledse they possess, from possibly bad motives—Novissino, for in- stance, who would never be tolerated in’his own it probable that the great days of the danseuse and the ballet are gone for- for now the Italian schools no longer turn out ihe premier danseuse, and the race is likely to become extinct with this generation. Still, there isa sort of public fascination for euter- tainments of that sort that will always be val- and as yet the danseuse is a prominent She is yet able to command her What is that price?” Zenerally from 2500 to $1 cording to abili 01 a week, ac- S EVEN MILLIONS OF PORES OPEN, AND YOU LIVE AND BREATHE IN ATMOSPHERES WHICH POISON YOUR BLOOD, AND THEN FOLLOWS SKIN DISEASES. Nothing is more dreaded than salt rheum or eczema, which has fully names, nearly all of which defy the ordinary remedies, des:roy the hair, the skin and the flesh, and in many cuses death ccmes asa blessing. Scalp and ekin alike are rub-ect to this, s& well as to dandraf, tetter and other ecaly dieeases producing buldness, eruptions. ulcers and other troubles. 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