Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1882, Page 7

‘ARCH THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATCORDAY, M erg HION WRINKLES. WHAT To WEAR How To WEAT IT—NEW PLEATS RADUATES DRESSES—COMING CKINOLINE— LICHEN GKAEN, ETC. Ecarv tintsare still popular. Purrep Fiocsvns are stylish. SMALL aNp Lance PLatws will be worn. Potowaises are draped to form paniers. Wits Pivses tipped with gold are brought out. Featuen Taimnsas are introduced for early Spring. Exsnot Season. Unpaxssep kid gloves, decorated, are pre- ferred. Tue Lourstve Is the lar; Spring hats. vlored cashmere is something en- uny of all kinds is the feature of the st of the large tirely 2 Tne Meviem length dolman is the leading wrap. z will again be worn on ball dresses after Easter. Pantene Scaxvs made of silver and chenille are imported. CresiL.e in net trimmings and fringes is re- vived this spring. 2 is new for buttons and buckles eon stuffs. e so wide and long that no other is needed. The st dresses have numerous bows of ribbon or veivet on them. SILVER PAsseMENTERIES, tumes, are very effective. Warsts of Spanish lace, lined with satin, are worn with satin surah skirts. Tus Langtry belted waist is used for white muslin, lawn and print dresses. Hovse "Ns trimmed with feathers are af- fected by esthetit young ladies. Haxpsoms parasols have frills of lace, and others a bunch of flowers on the top. Buaxket Wrarrers, colored or white, are used for invalids and bathing gowns. Suorr Watsts, with sleeves in the “gig ot” form, are termed “Empire” style of dress. Some of the best Paris dressmakers have re- vived the large old-fashioned polonaise. Fienv Cares, made of open-worked, embroi- dered biack surah, complete new black suits. Ivory-wnire Worcester Ware forms the choicest exz-shaped boxes for Easter gifts. Wine Coitars of lace or embroidery, with eaffs to match, are worn with dark dresses. Laces in ali the fashionable and esthetic col- Ors are used in trimming hats and bonnets. Tue stylish bine shades are electric, porcelain, soldier and sapphire blue. Peacock blue is dis- carded. MasTu.Lasand mantels will be worn when the spring wraps, the delmans, and English walking jackets are laid aside. skirt drape for evening cos- Buk Costews remain in-high favor, al-, though the dry goods counters are filled with light ana bright colored goods of every kind. ELeGanr sinall bonnets in Fanchon, cotta directory, and capote shapes will be at the millinery openings previous to Easter Sunday. Very long stocking mitts in tan, lichen green, flesh and almond tints, and also in biack and white, will be much worn when the weather be- of nature in fields, forests. and gar- dens at all seasons ofthe year furnish the best, most practic: rful examples of com- bination « and bonnets. udine gauze woolen fabric repro- duces all the popular designs in Spanish lac It-is used for overdresses. Price of the real silk Spanish piece lace. Powosaise models that haye the drapery dis- posed after the fashion of an overskirt are con- Wenient and becoming te tall ladies. This style @f make looks well in all wool and silk fabrics. JacKeT bodices of velvet. velveteen, silk, bro- cade, cashmere, and novelty stuffs are fashion- able forthe demi-saison, andare useful for wear- hme skirts, the bodices of which are worn Youne Beings are arrayed in costumes hay- ing rather short waists; belts are seen with this style of dress. The materials used are lace and gauze. worn over a satin ‘“under- robe.” i Dark rep and gray cashmeres are given in some of the recently imported toilets for this season's wear. You will see gray combined with scarlet and copper tints, and blue with dark green. Buacx is always chosen for the dressiest ‘wraps, but very pretty and expensive beige, al- mond-colored and neutral-tinted light cloth Jackets and doimans will be much worn with Visiting toilets. Legapixe milliners say that large bonnets will be in demand for street wear, but for dressy toilets medium and smaller bonnets only will be worn. There is no telling, however, what direc- tion fashion will take. Dresses made of all-wool goods show con- siderable pleating. The “tudlilar” pleats are liked and so are the flat pleats. Both of these styles are employed by fashionable dressmakers in the manipulation of drst-class suits. Bayapereé Stipes are revived wool novelties with.serze effects. These will form skirts of costumes, the basques and over- dresses being of serge-woven silk and wool stuff to which the name of satiline is given. Km Warsts are still fashionable, and the Jersey is also worn. These models are very much alike, although there is a vast difference in the cost. former garment 1s quite expensive, while Je: come at various Tus Estuetic arrangement of hair demands & Very small knot low in the nape of the neck and a much friz: ng bang casti the ey deep shadow. Moditications of this style are seen in what is called the “best society ” York. Poxroxs WiLL be more worn this season than any other ieather. Almost every Paris bonnet ‘Up to date has among its trimmings apompon of ostrich tips with heron aigrettes. trimmed with long curled ostrich plumes’ in colors to match or contrast with the other trim- mings. Tur Erroxt to reinstate ecrinoline has not subsided ; it is only being pursued in a quieter and less ostentatious manner. The imprudent attempt to bustle of last season was met by so peremptory @ Fefasal that a retreat was effected in ood order. But a mere insidious attempt may meet with better success. Tux Costitest ptece of lace in this country, if not in the world, is seen at A. T. Stewart's, It consists of aflounce five yards lony anda int ever made. Intended for tie ex-Empresa Bugenia, it cost 220,000 a yard, or 210,000 for the entire tlounce or dress.” Of course it is not intended to be cut. great deal of taste In the making who can bestow time upon its construction, and means upon the purchase of the delicate material, must take unwonted pleasure in the | Possession of so much unseen beauty. There pleasure in the very contact with what is tine and dainty. and these are peculiarly the char- | acteristics of the newest underwear.- * Easrer Batt. Dresses are made of some thin, tissuc-like, silk muslin, or batiste over silk of the same color. A straight draped apron surmcunts two knife-plsited flounces, and is tied back with broad satin bows under | and over the puffs that compose the drapery at the back. The bodice is square at the neck, and the sleeves are composed of two puffs tied with satin ribbous. A black velvet throatlet, with pendant flowers in front, is worn with this style | of dress. ay Dumonest for April says: The favorite colors for spring suits are very dark shades of bronze, ‘green, brown, olive, prune and wine-color. The “new” shade is lighter, a dingy green, known a8 “lichen” ereen. Biue is also in the ascendant, & dull old china blue, w than the zendarme, but akin to it. Dark blue cloth ts nsed for walking, with deep coat basque, lined with red satin, red satin lining to enfis and collar, the corners to which are turned outward; red buttons. The very dark tones, and the rich Dlending of all hizh colors render it possible for ait colors to be made becor to all coi ‘There is no longer the same ditficn:ty as formerly when a few high erude colors were ; and blue was set down as the only es reread in pink, for biondes, while yellow, It is only half the | in silk and ; Hats will be | impose upon women the winved | . | ily credit. yard andaquarterin width ofthe finest Brussels | underwear nowadays, and ladies | ich is lower in tone | A DINNER CARD. “Madame est servie.” As the low voice of the well-trained servant fell on her ear, Mra. Atherton Huntley slightly turned her head and gave ene swift glance to- ward her husband. Mr. Huntley, whom long years of practice had rendered perfect in his metier of host, compre- hended the almost imperceptible signal, offered his arm to Mrs. Elphinstone, with whom he was talking, and moved toward the door. The com- pany followed in a softly-rustling proceasion, Mrs. Huntley bringing up the rear on the arm of Aleck Dent. her husband's junior partner, fresh- ly returned from China, and the guest of the evening. There was no confusion as to place. Mrs. Huntley had reduced dinner-giving to a science and each least detail was carefully planned and provided for. A nod, a blithesome smile to right and to left, the gesture of @ lilac- gloved hand, and each person was in his ap- pointed seat at the table—atable spread in the wondrous fashion of the day, and to whose adorning had gone all the resources and the lavish appliances of modern decorative art. The faintly tinted and heavily embroidered cloth was overlaid here and there with lengths of linen, transparently fine and edged with priceless old lace. A multitude of tapers, rose- red or green, each with its little lace trimmed shade, cast their pale glow on the tow bank of flowers which ran the table's length, on the alternate fire and iridescence of many-hued glasses, and the jeweled gleam of Salviati de- canter and salt-cellars. Beside each lady's plate stood an arrangement of choice roses in the form of a horseshoe; for every gentleman was a boutonniere of lilies; and upon the napkins 1a) exquisite dinner cards of white silk, hi painted and scented with violets. Such dinner tables are too common fn the luxurious life of to-day to attract special atten- tion from those to whom they are customary spectacles. But Aleck Dent had gone to China before the tide of modern luxury had risen to | half-flood, and was too lately returned to have grown wonted to its exhibition. He admired, and spoke his admiration — admired the arrangement of the flowers, the beautiful glasa, | the perfect adaptation of detail to effect; and | Mrs. Huntley listened to his eulogiums with pleasure. It was an old story to her, but | women do not easily weary of hearing their honseholibgods extolied. “What a land of luxury it has grown to be!” | he went on. “What pains are lavished on the | merest trifles!_ This card, even”—picking up the | one beside his plate—“why, it is a little work of art, really charming.” 4 “So it is,” admitted Mrs. Huntley. ‘Those people at the decorative art society Go have the | loveliest things. A great many of thelr designs | are made by real artists, you know!” “But I don’t know. -There was no decorative art society when I went away,” replied Aleck, still studying the silken painting intensely. As he looked a sudden thought seemed to come to him. Hiseyes gave out a swift sparkle, then set as though seeing avision. For a brief mo- ment he was oblivious of the very existence of his handsome hostess. This was the picture that Aleck Dent's mind was looking at: A room ina stately city house; a girl seated in a bay window shaded with amber curtains, painting towers at alittle table; himself, a raw. sensitive boy, seated near her, his hat on his knees—watching the sheen cast by the amber light on her satin- smooth hair, watching the long lashes which shaded her eyes, the slender fingers whieh played rather nervously with the paint-brush—strug- H gling with words which he had resolved not to speak, wretched at tie enforced silence, at the sense of coming separation. It was a picture which had frequently risen before his mind xtheten years of his absence; but what had revived it now? He studied the dinner j card to find out. Cyclamen! Yes, it was.a croup of cyclamen that Evelyn Morris was painting that last morn- i He remembered perfect] There was something in the grace recalied lier style—the choiceness and charm whieh seemed ‘inseparable from all that she touched or did. And just at that mgment two tiny letterscaught his eye traced in the sl of a leaf— M.” Could they stand for E— ble and yet— Ten years had tanght the raw boy worldly wisdom. His pause of retrospect took him much less time than I have occupied in the tell- | ing, a to his hostess. been followed by skillful inadverten ject of tue dinner card. “Who creates these dainty things, do you suppose?” he queried. “All sorts of people, no doubt. tell unless you ask, and perhaps not then; but i never thought to ask. I presume a great many of the things are the work of poor ladies who are glad to earns little something ‘under the Soup and chablis had h and entrees, before, with he returned to the sub- They don’t ‘rhese 3 —$18 the dozen—but then they are the prettiest leversaw. Therese, lease show your card to Mr. Dent. He has been so long in China that he isn’t used to such vanities as the rest of us are.” “Don't you use diuner cards in China?” asked Therese, otherwise Mrs. Denham, a handsome, sleepy blonde, with a fringe of oddly-colored hair falling above her eyes. She outdid her commission, forshe borrowed her neighbors’ cards left and right, and placed half a dozen pretty things within Aleck’s reach while she spoke. T suppose we must have something of the sort, but not like these, or surely I should have “1 them,” he replied, as he studied the | cards. The subjects were various—a spray of wild azalea; a woodbine tangle with an elf bal- ing: a lily with a sleep- a curve of jasmine framing In of pale sea and one tiny sail. Each and all bore the impress of the same delicate taste, and in every one—in the darkest leaf of the | tit he shadow of the woodbine swing. the crest of the breaking wave—appeared | the same faintly-traced E.M. Aleck Dent stu- ed them with an interest which made his neighbors smile; then, recollecting himself, he pushed them aside and the conversation shifted to other matters. It was not till the ices had come and gone that he ventured on the question which, through all the progress of the dinner, had been upper- Most in his mind. “* By the way, what has become of the Edward aoe Miss Morris married long ago, I sup- “The Edward Morrises. Let me think. = so long a time since I heard anything em.” “Are they not in the city, then?” “Oh, no!” Didn't you know that? Mr. Morris lost all his money, and they went away. Where did they go? I heard at the time, but so long since.” Mr. Morris! Why, they called him a million- aire. How could he lose his money?” >b, it was that horrid business of the—some | railroad. I never can recoliect such things. Atherton will tell you all about it. It made an immense disturbance at the time. And Robert | Merris—the other brother, you know—was | | found to have forged an immense quantity of | ste or bonds, whichever it was, and ever so ‘any people were ruined by it, or would have been, had not Edward Morris sacrificed every- | thing to buy up the forgeries and save the fam- But it took all he had to accomplish And after that they sold that lovely house of theirs, and went away to some little place— in Jersey, I think; or was it Connecticut?— | some little, cheap place, anyway, and therethey have been living ever since. I met Evelyn once at dinner; it was about four years ago, I think. She was staying in town tor ‘a few days, but I | forget with whom. She was as handsome as ever. It does seenga thousand pities—doesn't ?—that such a pretty girl should be shut up in : poky country village, where no one sees Mes It i nd you are sure she has never mar- ried?” ‘Oh, no; certainly not. What chance is there for a girl to marry in a place like that?” w Jersey, or was it Connecticut?” thought Aleck; but he noted a certain gleam of amused interrogation in his “hostess’ bright eyes, and having no desire to arouse or any latent suspicions which might be in mind, he | dropped the subject, None the less was he mindful to slip into his pocket, when they rose from the table, the silken trifle which might prove & clue to lead him to the hope relinquished :8o long ago. Evelyn Morris unmarried! He could hardly credit the tidings. That she would, must marry some man her equal in wealth and worldly position, become | the mistress of a splendid home and shine a star of constantly increasing magnitude in the sociad sky, had been a tixed part of his boyish creed. He believed it absolutely, and it had avalled to | Keep hin silent when his heart would fain have spoken. What had he to offer the brilliant girl at j Whose feet all the treasures of earth seemed laid? A pair of stron; heart that loved her, such good or evil fortune as might chance to be his portion—tiat wasall. He was very much in tove, this young Aleck Det of ten years ago; but he was Wise beyond the fervor of his years, and he had calmly reviewed the situation.” Why should he speak? should he trouble this exquisite creature with what must only j crm a pt appouhawaladcpone | + to the rooms ot the Decorative Art Society, and nd he recovered himself in time to betray | fa | waited, because I could do no less than wait— serve for illumination to a mud hovel, as to ask her to share his uncertain .. So he sailed away with no words en, and ee} in 3 ith him the bitter conviction that good , if it came at all, would come qnite too late for any hope of winning this one chief good which his heart craved. * Good luck came in its owntime. He stood again in New York, at 31, a rich man, prospered beyond his wildest dreams and holding an as- sured position. He hadliked many girls during the ten years of his absence; he had even been half in love with one or two; but the memory of Evelyn Morris had been a spell potent enough to prevent him leaping over the other half. He was free still—a freedom he had hardly rejoiced in till this day; when in his incredulous ears rang the news that his early love was still un- married. For two or three days after the Huntley din- ner he went about like a manin adream. He inquired here, he inquired there. Everybody was ready enough with histories of the great forgery, but no one could tell about the Edward Morrisses or their whereabouts. The Robert Morrisses were in Europe, living under a cloud, noone exactly knew where. what seemed fatality all the families whom he recollected as intimate with the Morrisses were abroad just then, or in Florida, or scattered by the changes which ten years had wrought. No one seemed to have cared to juaint themselves with the movements of the ruined family. The little rip- ple caused by their departure soon subsided. eople easily forget in the busy life of cities, and all this had happened nine years before. In despair Aleck Dent at last betook himself produced his dinner card. Could they tell him the name and address of the person who painted een He was anxious to—order some others e it. “I will take your order, sir,” said the busi- ness-like young secretary. ‘‘You will please give me your name and address.” But this was by no means what Aleck wanted. “Thanks; but I should prefer to communicate directly with the artist.” Then seeing a sur- prised dispieasure in the face suddenly turned upon him, he made haste to add, “The order will, of course, be given in the usual wa: through the society, but it 18 indispensable that I should have a personal interview with the de- signer.” The ‘etd secretary looked puzzled. She tapped her book with a pencil, and was silent for a moment, evidently balancing the propri- eties. Then, as the door opened, she exclaimed with sudden reli /h, there’s Mrs.Curtis now; excuse me a moment, and I'll ask her,” and hurried across the room. Presently, the new-comer walked straight up to Aleck Dent. “Miss Dunn tells me that you are desirous of an interview with one of our correspondents on the subject of dinner cards,” she said, ‘‘Personal interviews are not usual in suck commissions, nor are they at all needful—if the Is are really all neédful—if the cards are really all that you wish to talk about;” and the lady flashed upon him _a magnificent pair of Irish eyes, blue, | with black lashes, and full of the peculiar fasci- nation which sometimes accompanies the pos- session of short sight. *-I can furnish you with a set of cards on silk, painted by the same per- son, and exactly like these, but with different subjects, which we happen’ to have for sale at this moment. Will that answer your pur- pose?” There was a mingled archness and soft sweet— ness in the manner which was infinitely capti- wating, and which won Aleck to sudden confi- ence. No, that will not answer at all.” he said. “T don’t care specially about the cards, but I am anxious to see the artist, and verify a suspicion I have that she is an old friend of mine.” He was amazed afterward when he remer bered his own frankness of speech. The la ‘ned with an Intet which seemed to divine & meaning beyond his words. “I will be fran! my turn,” she said at last, her beautiful eyes full of the sympathy which a love tale, revealed or suspected, always excites in a true woman. “Evelyn Morris did paint those cards. She was a favorite of mine al and when this society was started I wrote, ur: 1 ~ her to turn her talents for paiuting to ac- unt throuxh us. They are greatly reduced in umstanices, as you may have heard, and she id to take my ad et life gives nis always sell, choice and so exquisitely done.” ool should think so. Where do the ive? i think I may tell you, though they prefer to keep their retreat a secret from most people. It is Neriton, a village in southern New Jersey. It is an out-of-the-way pla You have to lake three railroads to get_ there, and there is a long drive besides. I wish that you might have time to go down and see them. They have but few visitors, as you may suppose, and an old friend will be a treat.” “I shall certainly hope to do so.” . When you return,” continued Mrs. Curtis, “perhaps you will kindly come to see me, and tell me something about Evelyn, whom I have not seen for nearly two years, thouzh we are continually corresponding about dinner-cards and the like. “A thousand thanks,” taking the card she offer dhim. ‘It will be a great pleasure to do 80.” “You begin with the New Jersey Central, and change twice, but I can't tell you where; you will have to learn: that on the road,” went on his new friend. Then with a glint of fun in her mobile face: “Good-by, Mr. Dent; don’t lose yourway, Neriton, Ihave always heard, isa Very hard place to Teach, and an equally hard place to get away from.’ So, indeed, Aleck found it. slow, jolting, railway travel, with continual stops and frequent changes, ending with a drive of miles over sandy roads, brought him to Neri- ton; and oncethere, he was inno hurry to come away. Evelyn Morris at 29 was no whit less charming in his eyes than in the early bloom of 19. Nay, time had lent a further charm, a soft courage, a ripened gentleness, and amid the imple refinement of her surroundings her beau- ty beamed with added luster. Aleck gazed at her with a wonderment which he could hardly conceal. By what inconceivable good fortune had this lovely creature remained till 29 unmar- ried? It could not be for lack of suitors. Even if, like the poet’s star, “‘coniined in a tomb,” some eye, he was sure, must detect and covet the treasure. What happy chance had saved her for him—and was it forhim? That was a question which he longed to ask, but dared not y A long day of jet. Ina single week all the friendly relations of old times seemed restored. Aleck secured a lodging in the village, and spent as many hours @ day as he dared in the society of his love. Always the same gentle welcome met him as he sat by Evelyn’s side, and she wrought at her dainty handicrafts; their talk bridged the long interval of separation, and the old-time sense of intimacy revived. blent with a new fascina- tion as each recognized in the other the qualities which ten years had matured and unfolded. Day by day Aleck’s hopes strengthened ; but with the misgivings of a true lover he delayed, loth to break the blessed peace and certainty of the moment by a rash or premature word. At last he spoke, taking the dinner card for his te: ‘You see,” he ended, “this was my clue. It helyed me to find you. And now that I have found, I will not believe that I ever must lose you again. I have loved you for ten years, without daring to hope that I should ever have the chance to speak my love. Now, Evelyn dearest. tell me my fate.” She did not answer in words, but she put her hands in his, and her eyes were full of happy tears. He drew his arm round the slender waist, and as he stooped for his first lover's kiss, she murmured, -‘At last!” ‘At last?” he sald surprised. “At last?” she repeated, “Oh, dear Aleck, foolish Aleck, did you never guess that when you went away so long azo you carried my heart with you?’ then, while he stood amazed. “A Woman cannot speak,” she continued; “though her heart break, she may not show what she feels. When we parted that day. I felt that I must wait till you came back to me, and I have and you have come.” “Are youin earnest? Oh, what a blind fool I have been!” groaned Aleck. “I could have come back five years sooner kad I dared to hi Evelyn, we lost five years of happiness.” “Dearest, why talk of that?” You are here now, and we are still young enough to be happy for a long time togetner, if God lets us live our lives out. I am not old or wrinkled yet, and 1 see no gray hairs in that beard of yours,” rals- ing her happy ey. face. *“Oh, what a blessed little scrap of silk!” ex- claimed Aleck, apostrophizing the dinner card as it lay on the table; “where should Ibe now except for your help? How much I have to thaak you for! ‘No cards,’ indeed! Evelyn, when we have our wedding, we will haye hun— dreds, thousands of cards. We willsend them fying all over the land, and advertise our happ!- ness by whole reams of pasteboord, in honor of the fact, after ten years of mistake, we have found each other out, and are the happlegt people in the worid.”—Harper's Bazar. Imagine It, From the Boston Poet. Mary Anderson weighs one hundred and forty. two pounds. Young man, you can put aone hundred and forty-two pound bag of meal across -Mr. Charles 8, Wells, oneof the assistants in the ‘THE LATEST COMET. Characteristics the preaching ‘Twe Million Ap- the Earth at the Rate of Miles per Day. Albany Cor. N. ¥. Herald. At four o'clock on the morning of March 18, Dudley Observatory, discovered a small but very bright comet in the constellation Hercules. This comet bids fair to be the astronomical sensation ofthe year. On the morning of discovery Mr. Wells was able to-secure but few definite obser- vations, owing to weariness and the rapid ap- proach of dawn. He did, however, measure a rough position of it, and noticed that it had a small tail, equal to about one-fifth of the diame- ter of the moon in length. This tail was intensely bright, and there was the appearance of a star- like body in the head. News of the discovery was immediately communicated to astronomers and to the pall but.owing to unfavorable weather but few observations have thus far been obtained. At the Duilley observatory of course the new comet hes been the one topic of absorbing interest. The condensed brightness of the head, the narrow tail, and the slow appa- rent motion across the face of the sky, all served to heighten the interest which was felt, and led the astronomers in Albany to predict for the re body an ext: inary future. The night of March 19 was lear, and another ob- servation was made at the Dudley observatory by Prof. Bors and his assistants. The view then only served to intensify impatience for the time to arrive when the third: observation could be made, which is always Decessary before the future course of a comet can be predicted. On Tuesday night their eyes were again rewarded by a few brief glimpses of the new candidate for celestial honors. The comet had increased in size and brightness, but clouds and fogs con- spired to obscure all finer details. Allday Wed- nesday the Albany astronomers,.were engaged on the necessary computations for an orbit and table of future positions in the sky. Of course, with such slender material, extending over four days only, but little could be expected in point of accut But that little has been sufficient to excit je most glowing anticipatiens for the future. The new comet is now approaching the earth, or rather the comet and earth are mutually approdching each other, at the enorm- ous yelocity of 2,000,000 miles per day. Though the eomet is now invisible to the naked it cannot long continue to hide its light. It isnow nearly 185,000,000 miles from the sun, but it will go on approaching the sun at a rapidly increas- ing rate until about the middle of June, when it will pass its perihelion at a distance from the sun of tess than 10,000,000 miles. At present the comet is about one hundred and sixty millions of miles from the earth, and its distance from us will probably not be less than elghty millions at any time, though fur- ther calculations will be necessary to settle that point. But though it will not approach us so nearly as other comets have done, it may be ex- pected to make a fine display for a few days in the early part of June. Only ten comets have hitherto n known to approach the sun so nearly as this in all probability will. It is to be regretted, however, that its greatest brilliancy will occur at atime when it will be invisible to us, and seen only in the soutkern hemisphere. In this respect it will resemble the great comet of 1880. The present extraordinary intensity of its light, which comes to us from ihe enormous distance of 160,000,000 miles, proves that it has plenty of material for future display, and it will probably show a long and near ht tail of enormous dimensions to our antipodes. How much of the same sort it wil give us isstill some- what problematical, and can only be decided on the basis offurther observations. It_is now invisible to the nak and by a small telescope though it is readily seen, yet owing to its smallness it can hardly be dis- tinguished from the stars which surround it. After passing its perihelion it will probably be- come again visible in the Northern Hemisphere. It now appears in the constellation of the Lyre near Veza. It wit pass to the westward of that. star and about the Ist of April will stand within four or five degrees from it. It will continue on its journey up into Cepheus, when in i will make an abrupt turn and go piun toward the sun. The elements of the orbit of the new comet are: Perihelion passage, Juze perthelion place, 40 deg. ; longitude of node, 206 deg. 40 min.; inclination, 74 dey. 47 min.; peri- distance, 10,000,000 mies; motion direct. i rs to have no analogue in t. as no comet is known with elements at resembiing these to constitute reason- able belief in identity. The elements of the comet of 1097 somewhat resemble those of the present comet, but ¢ perihelion distance of the former is computed ta be seven times as ereat as that of t vo we ther observation will sery ) certainties which now exist as to the future of is comet, and these observatio HL unqu tionably be awaited with the greatest interest. —— As ‘The Railroad Lia Burdette in Our Continent. It has always been a source of wonder to me what arailway corporation expects to gain by keeping the movements of its trains profund eries from the traveling public, espe during periods of sudden emergencies, accidents and annoying delays. The passengers on the train, the waiting friends and expectant passen- gers at the stations are alike snubbed, misled by evasive replies, or directly and intentionally misinformed. All this makes the delag doubly exasperating to the waiting people, and it doesn’t move the delayed train a minute faster, and doesn't add to the popularity of the road. When the recent flurry of snow and boreal winds and Arctic cold swept over the land I waited at a great city station of one of the at est railroads in America tor a train due at 5 o'clock p.m. I suspected the train would be late. By diligent inquiry I managed to find five men in the uniform of the railroad company’s employes,who assured methat they didn't know anything about that train. ell, as a general thing, a railroad man is not expected to know anything about the trains on his own road I suppose. If that is 80, these five neatly uniformed men in the handsomest station in America filled the bill to perfection. That is what the brakeman Melias and Conductor Han- ford knew, and they have got into trouble and an indictment for it. But I continued my search, and unearthed one or two more uniformed specimens of colos- sal ignorance of all matters remotely pertaining to the railroad, one of the specimens, the one with the bluest coat and Urightest buttons, ex- pressing great surprise at learning there were any trains at all on the road that day. Presently I found a lar, who deliberately told me the ex- press was only forty-five minutes behind time. 1 afterward learned that he was not the regular lar, but was a supernumerary who was just learning his business, and only went on in star parts when the regular liar was sick. But on this occasion there were so many anxious peopie asking questions that the entire force of liars at the disposal of the company was on the stage at once, assisted by the full strength of the entire ballet. I met most of them. I found a light comedy liar who, when I asked him how much was “22” behind, said it was all behind the engine. The sarcastic liar finished telling a ner- yous old woman that the train would be in be- fore morning, and then when I asked him where it was now he said his watch had stopped, and went away to tell another eer, it would be along in 20 minutes. At last I found the pre- miere liar, who is never sarcastic, never evasive, always | ae always direct, and never ill-na- tured. He looked me straight in the eyes, and in tones earnest with conviction told me at 7:30 Pp. m. the train was only one hour late. He told me the same thing again at 8 o'clock; quietly and earnestly he repeated this declaration at 9:15 p.m.; at 10:20 he reaffirmed it; he stuck to it at 11; when midnight paused in the sky he called upon the stars to witness that what he said was true; he stuck to it at 1a. m.; and at last, at 3 o’clock in the merning, that train came in, ten hours behind time, and the premiere liar ‘was still telling the seen, People that it was an hour behind time. Now, what good did all this deceit and mis- re} tation do the raflroad etal It didn’t make ot of steam; it didn’t clear away a snow-drift; it didn’t deceive tne peti, who have come to disbelieve almost anything a station employe tells them about delayed trains. It would be some comfort te & man waiting for a train to know about how Jong he has to wait. If it is going to be ten he id start day jovrs, he will go home 35, 1882-D@UBLE SHEET A MEDICINE FOR WOMAN. INVENTED BY A WOMAN. PREPARED BY A WOMAN LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Is a Postrrve Curk For all those Painful Complaints and Weaknesses 00 common fo our beat female population. ‘It will cure entirely the worst form of Female Com- Uleera. It will dissolve and expel Tumors from the Uterus in an early stage of development. The tendency of Can- cerous Humors is cuecked very speedily by its use. It removes Faintnesa, Flatulency, destroys all Cra- vings for Stimulants, and Relieves Weakness of tho Stomach. 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ALLAN’S SOLUBLE MEDICATED BOUGIES, Patented October 16, 1876. One box ». 1 will cure any casain four days or leas. Noid eure tho met obeauaie Zaen, no matter of eiartome a auerom omegotna copetin of of cenlt ees : i ec ee es = eed price. a ‘ticulars send for cir- cae. ~— pap O. Box 1,533. )., 83 John York. ALLAN ©O., 83 street, New 4. tu, th, | R. MOT T'S FRENCH POWDERS_—CERTAIN CURE Des Diseases, Gravel snd all Urinary Diseases ervous 2 Seminal Weakoiens, Ln sreediy, aro. Gonperhs Saas houres "Yer | street 7 under: avenue. on receipt of price. 3, | Are the Agonts for the sale of | Nome i | THAT WE SELL | ‘ ‘TIN PLATE, ROOFLNG PLATE, SBEFT IRON, COPPER, PIO TIN, SHEET LEAD, ZINC, BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. £06 PENN. AVE. AND 607 B STREET. __ STEAMERS. «ke. V OFAGERS TO EUROPE. = BOTEL Rk SON ickots in this District of the INMAN STEAMSHIP CO. Parties proposing to visit Europe can obtain all in~ oration by applying to wl7-3m J. W. BOTELER & SON. poromac TRANSPORTATION LIN « aft EAMER SUF, Cap- 2h UGE UGUEGAN: wt LENO WHARF, foot of 7thatzect, EVERY SUNDAY, at four o'clock plm., for Baitimore and Kiver Landis, All Kiver Freight must be Prepaid. Returning, arrive in Washington every Saturday night, STEPHENSON & BRO., Aces, m16-6m Tth street Wharf and Or, 12th and Pa. ave. MARCH 19% thy FOR POTOMAC KIVER LANDINGS. VEMBER 8p, 1881. the steamer her whar?, foot of Tth streets THURSDAY and SATUR: ix. On MONDAY ae far aa Currioman and Leonardtown. K. WOU radia aye ry returning y and Friday afternoons. ti . For information apply to, ss , Ament, mm Listreet wharf, NoEronx AND NEW YORK STEAMERS. THE STEAMER TADY OF THE LARE be: ‘6th stroet,overy MONDAY, ESDA\ Xp... touch be dase Fare ty Foreees Monroe and Nortel @1-88 ceond-clise Fare ly, Fortress Monroe and Norfoik- #1. First-class Fare to Piney Point and Pornt Lookout... 1.50 Second-class Fate to Piney Point and Retu . Jeaves Norfolk TUE: DAYS and Saqtipat 'S, at four o' THE NEW YORK M GIBSON and FE. C. KNIGHT w ply to. Water Ge 4 Sy ery staterooms can be secured at Office, G14 15th street. Nat Metropolitan Building ket athe, 11 Lenn sp ivaula ave= BB. & ie : aa ieee y Marc Hoek PELED WOOD, Secretary. NEw YORK ROTTERDAM. sre earns EN,” eee AND. and “SAAR = PC. Carrying the U. 8, Mails to the Nether! eave fon Bio Brooklyn, regulary on WEDNESDAY. ¥ . Cabin, . eras, B ZAUR, General Agent, 27 South Wiltiagn . a ‘or parseyre apply to W. Gi. & CO., 925 Pounsyivanis avenue, Washington, . JORNSON, Agent, National Sato Deposit Bullitt w Yerk avetiue aud 19th aireet aorthwut. ARD LINE. RDA: - SCH - Wed., 1 AND EVERY WE " Re 209, nt $100, Ning te Steerare at very low rates. Stocrage gto) and Queenstown and sill other parteof Europe st io pills of tcen given for Belfast. Glasrow, snd other portson the Continentand ports. tand pasture apply at the Company's offioe No. 1 Bowne Green, or “Poth stecrawe ‘and cabin to QTIS BIGELOW & CO., 609 Tth street, W pg VERNON H. BROWN & CO., New Fork; Mest. U1LIS BIGHIA & 0v., jul 665 71h street, Washitgrdn. JORTH GERMAN LLOYD— STFANSHIP LINE BETWEEN New YORR, HAVRs LONDON, SOUTRAMPTON AXD BREMEN. The steamers ‘of this company will sail EVERY SAT- TRDAY from Bremen Pion, f Kates of Southampton and calin, 360: steerage, ui. “For freight P omting Gten hes 25 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, tickets from Tay. = = ate derty Hoboken. ansagre:— From New 5 i Brome. fimet cabin, $100; Tirepaia steerage cernncazes, ly t OFLRIGHS & 00. ort tes METZEROTT vé “Santa SPL in EELOT JaNUAKY 22m. 15 x 2, Tedass Leave WastttSaron, ruom Srariox, Comme or 6TH AND B StReETS, as FOLLOWS: For Pitteburg ‘amd the West, Chicago Linited Exprosa ‘of Pullman Hotel and omnes Cars at 9.308. m., ‘dsily ; Fast Hane, 9:30 a. m. daily, with: Care to Cincinnati. Ws Expresa, 7:90 p.m. daily, with Palace Care to and C |. Mail Exprems, 9:60 p. m. aay for Pitts and the Weat. iru: . But lacara, m. daily, except ‘Satu with: seats seins wl as For Willismsport, ck Haven and Elmira, at 9:39 & yank Siraict For Pope's Creek Ling, 6:40 a.m. and 4:40 p.m., daily, For SSiospolia, 6:90) a.m. and 4:40 p.m., dally, except For Alexandsin, 6:30, 7:29, 20, 5: 6:20, 8:00 20, 11:00 and 11:25 a.m.; p.m. On ), 114 11:30 25 a. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. THE MODEL FAST, AND THE ONLY LINE ‘TEE EAST AND THE W! VIA WASHINGTON, 5 TRACK! NNE UPLER! STEEL DOUBLE 7 col "KRESS. Parlor Cars to New York. eect Renae, a el 9:00_Maltimore, Hyattevilie and jayel SUR" Gains ee oa at os ei - at 00 SAETIMORE "EXPEESS cps ot Hysteria ETT SERS, Sn ame