Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1882, Page 6

6 Book-world. (ames Macfarland, the author of the following fine oem, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1832, and, gow of a complete edition of his poems.) ‘When the dim presence of the awful Clasps in her jeweil’d arms the earth, Alone I sit beside the lowly light ‘That like a dream-fire flickers on my hearth, yith some joy-te-eming volume in my hand— peopled planet, opulent and It may be Shakespeare, with his endless train ‘Of seeptred thoughts, a giortous progeny Borne op the whirlwind of his mighty strain, ‘Through vision lands forever far and free: Hils great mind beaming through those phantora ‘crowds, Like evening’ sun fromout a wealth of clouds. It may be Milton, on his seraph wing, Soaring to heights of grandeur yet untrod; Now deep where horrid shapes of darkness cling, b lendor at the feet of God: Girt with the terror of avenging skies, Or wrapt in dreams of infant Paradise. Wt may be Spenser, with his misty shades, Where forins of beauty woudrous tates rehearse, With breezy vistas, and witb cool arcades Opening for ever in his antige verse: Tt may be Chaucer, with his drink divine, His Tabard old, and pilgrims twenty-nine. Perchance I linger with the mighty Three on lortous Cg th: — 10 bared the fearf ‘And soared to fame on pinions broad an strong: Or watch beneath the Trojan ramparts proud ‘The dim hosts gathering like a thunder-cloud, ‘No rust of time can sully Quixote’s mail, In wonted rest his lance Securely Hes; Still is his faithful Sancho stout and hale, For over wide his wonder-stricken eyes; And Rosinante, bare and spectr: Still throws gatmt shadows o’er their évery deed. Still con I robe me in the old delights Of Caliph splendid and of Genil grim, The star-wealth o€ Arabia’s thousand nights Shining till every other light grows aii: Or wander far in broad voluptuous lands By streams of silver and through golden sands. Sul hear the storms of Camoens burst and swell, His seas of vengeance raging wild and wide; Or wander by the glimmering fires of hell With dreaming Dante and his spirit guide: Loiter in Petrareh’s green, melodious grove, Or hang with Tasso o’er his hopeless love. ‘What then to me ts the gay sparkling Wine-purpled banquet, or vain Fashion's blaze, ‘Thus roaming through ‘the realms of rich Ro- mance, Olt Book-world, and its wealth of royal days: Forever with those brave and brilliant ones ‘That fll Time’s channel like a stream of suns, = SS aos STAR CHAMBER STORIES, Modes of Procedure Before that Infa- mous Tribunal, THE HORRIBLE TORTURES INFLICTED. This odious court, named from the ceiling of the chamber being “anciently ornamented with gilded stars, is not mentioned as a court of fustice earlier than the reign of Henry VIL, about which time the old titles of “the Lerds sitting in th ar-chamber,” and the council in the star-chamber, seem to haye been merged into the one distinguished appel- lation of “the star-chamber.” The judges, be- ore and subsequent to this alteration, were the lords of the council,” as they are still termed in the litany of the church service. The modes of proceeding before the coun- cil were by the mouth, or by bill and answer. After the sittings the lords dined Inthe inner star-chamber, at the public expense. In political cases, “ len reporte,” as it was called, is thought to have meant pri- vate and secret information given to the coun- il. The person accused or suspected was im- mediately apprehended and privately examined. If he confessed any offense, or if the cunning examiner drew from him, or he let fall, any ex- pressions which suited their purpose, he was at once brought to the bar, his confession or exam- Ration was read. he was convicted out of his own mouth, and judgment was immediately mounced against him. Upon admissions of material circumstances thus aggravated and distorted into confessions of guilt, the Earl of Northumberland was ited by word of Mouth in the star-chamber for being ry to the Gunpowder Plot, and was sentel to pay ® fine of £30,000 and be imprisoned for life. The star-chamber held {ts sittings from the end ot Queen Elizabeth's reign until the final ebolition of the court by Parliament in 1641, in apartments on the eastern side of New Palace Yard; the buildings bore the date 1602, and E. R. and an openrose on Gees: they cor- respond with the ‘-starre chamber” in Aggas’ 7 London in 1570. The last of the bulld- was taken down in 1836. Drawings were then made of the court, which had an enriched cefting; but no remains of the star ornamenta- tions, notwithstanding behind the Elizabethan ling the style of the chamber was Tudor- jothic. The remains are preserved at Leasome Castie,the seat of the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, in Chesire. Imagination can scarcely picture a more terribie judicature. This tribunal was bound by no law, but created and defiaed the offences it punished; the judges were, in point of fact. the prosecutor, and every mixture of those two characters is inconsistent with impar- tial justice. Crimes of the greatest magnitude Were treated in this court, but solely punished a3 trespasses, the council not having dared to usurp the power of inflicting death. Among the many abuses of the process was that in the time of Queen Elizabeth “many solicitors who lived in Wales, Cornwall or the farthest parts of the north, did make a trade to sue forth a multitude of subpeenas to vex their Beighbors who, rather than they would travel to London, would give them any composition, though there were no color of complaint against them.” The highest number of the council who attended the court in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII. was nearly forty, of whom seven or eight were prelates; in the reign of Elizabeth the Buber was nearly thirty, but it subsequently declined. The chancellor was the supreme and alone sat with his head uncovered. Pose important occasions, persons who wished “to get convenient places and standing,” went there by 3 o'clock in the morning. The gounsel were confined to a “laconical brevity;” the examinations of the witnesses were read, and the members of the court delivered their opinions in order, from the inferior upwards, the archbishop preceding the chancellor. Every punishment, except death, was assumed to in the power of the (cpa as terse Pillory, = and im ment, and wh! ing, Wearing of papers through ‘Westminster Ball, and letters ‘“‘seared in the face with hot irons,” were ordinary punish- ments. Henry VII. had a fondness for sitting in the star-chamber; the court was the great instrament for his ‘extort doynge,” and “the king took the matter into his own hands” was a star-chamber phrase; and ‘my attorney must — to you,” was a sure prelude to a meas e. Wolsey made a great show of his magni! cence in the star-chamber; he proceeded to the sittings of the court in great state, his mace and seal being carried before him; “he spared neither high nor low, but judged every estate according to their merits and deserts.” After his fall, with the exception of occasional interference in religious matters and matters of police, we seldom hear of the star-chamber.—Eztracts from Timbs’ Romance of London. ——___—e.__ ‘The Hest the Cheapest. ‘From the Detroit Free Preas. In a fit of desperation, says a correspondent, 1 went the other day down to Chinatown, which 4s another name for the lower end of Mott street, in search of aservant. I went into one of the groceries, and a grave and reverend Chinaman, who looked as if he had the wisdom of the centuries and the concentrated cunning of a thousand foxes twisted up in his pigtail, eyed round goggles and asked “ ” “ You want China boy for do cookee?” “Yes, and anything else he’s aaked to do.” “ How much you give?” “ Whatever is right.” ‘That phruse seemed wee and aa Saget = ‘on China boy— on you pay him thirty “Too muck.” You want China voy?” Yes.” Planets tm April. From the Providence Journal. Saturn is evening star, and deservesa high position on the list during the month, as it is his last appearance among his peers. He is rapidly approaching conjunction with the sun, and will be so near him at the close of the month that he will fade into invisibility, setting only about ten minutes later than the sun. This planet closes his course as evening star with a charming ell exhibition. 1t comes off i the early evening hours of the 19th, when he is in conjunction with Venus, who is just emerging from her seclusion in the sun’s all- powerful rays. The meeting of two of the larger planets is always an interesting event, but In this case a little flight of the imagination may endow the planets with a kind of con- sciousness as if the most magnificent member of the planetary brotherhood, as he made his exit from the evening sky, paused to congratulate the fairest of the stars on the grand event ofthe transit which is to close her present career of evening star, and vastly increase her import- ance in the eyes of terrestial observers. Thecon- Junction or nearest | aoa occurs at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th, Satarn passing en re degrees south ef Venus. if the weather favorable, the two planets wil) make a lovely picture on the twilight sky. Sa- turn sets on that evening about aquarter before eight o'clock, Venus five minutes later, andboth planets about an hour after sunset. At the time of the conjunction Saturn must be looked for about two and t arters degrees, and Venus about four and a-halfdegrees north of the sunset point. Both planets are one hour, or fif- teen degrees, east of the sun. An opera glass, a spy glass, or a small telescope will greatly aid the unpracticed observer iu picking up the plan- ets, forthey aretoo near the sun and too far rom the earth to be seen under the most favor- able conditions as to size and luster. Saturn passes the meridian now about 2 o'clock; at the close of the month. about eighteen minutes after noon-day. He sets at aquarter before 9 o’clock; at the end of the month he sets at eight minutes after 7 o'clock. NEPTUNE IS EVENING STAR, and draws nearer to Satugn as they travel on the same path to conjunction, passing the me- ridian now eleven minutes after him, while on the last day of the month there is only four minutes difference in the time of transit. It would seem asif the farther off the planets were, the longer would be the synodic period. But the reverse proves to be the case. and it must be remembered that in all observations of the planets, the earth ts constantly moving and complicating the process. The three important aspects of the superior or outer planets, in- cluding Mars, and the four giants of the system, are conjunction, Fe eutaindae and quadrature. Neptune, the most distant planet, requires the shortest time to complete a synodic revolution or pass from conjunction round to conjunction again. Neptune seems to complete the whole circuit of the heavens in about three hundred and sixty-seven days, so that it is easy to keep the run of ‘his conjunctions, that ot the present year occurring two days later than that of the last year. and soon. His apparent movement among the stars is very dif- ferent from his real movement round the sun, for it takes him one hundred and sixty-five years to complete a single revolution. As he was not discovered till 1846, he has completed only about one-fifth of his course since he be- came a known member of the system. On the 2ist, oe and Venns are in conjunction, Neptune being about a degree and a half south of Venus. The eonjunction cannot be seen, as the far away planet is never visible to the un- ided eye, and is too distant at present to be favorably ‘situated for telescopic observation. The event is chiefly interesting as a proof that Saturn and Neptune are apparently very near each other, Venus passing the former on the 19th and the latter on the 2ist. Neptune now sets a few minutes after 9 o'clock; at the close of the month, he setsat a quarter after 7 o'clock. JUPITER IS EVENING STAR, and the third on the list of planets clustering near the sun, though he stands first in brilliancy among his brother planets. He is traveling northward more rapidly than Saturn and Nep- tune, and seems to lag behind them, passing the meridian more than an hour later at the end of the month. He will continue to be a beautiful object in the April sky, shining without a rival in the west with some of the most beautiful con- stellations, clusters and stars in the heavens to him company. The Plelade, the superb Orion, the glowing Sirius are his attendants on Tyas pacer hee and eles and the dim- iy: bang ve him; Procyo: and ‘Aldebaran are not faraway. On the whole | apes! concave no more eligible locality could chosen than the one where the of Planets holds his court. During the fall and winter Jupiter has been admirably situated, not only to marshal the starry hosts, but also to show his superiority in color and size over the bright stars in his vicinity. Nearly twelve years must pass before he sweeps round to the sane position again among the stars, and twenty years must complete their slow circuit before Jupiter and Saturn again pass each other on the celestial road. Jupiter sets on the first of the month at 10 o'clock; at the close of the month he sets about twenty minutes before 9 o'clock. MARS 18 EVENIXG STAR AND FOLLOWS JUPITER; being the fourth planet traveling towards con- junction. Heappears to travel more slowly than his brother planets, the period of his synodic revolution greatly exceeding theira. It takeshim about 730 days to move from conjunction to con- Junction again. The earth therefore makes two revolutions round the sun, and then requires 50 days more to bring her to the point where she will be in a straight line with the sun and Mars. Two years and two months must be added for subsequent conjunctions or oppositions, and in this way fhe planet may be easily identified. There is but one event of interest on the record of Mars during the month. He reaches-his quadature with the sun on the Ist. This isthe half-way house between opposition and conjunc- tion, being 90 degrees, or a quarter of a circle, from each of these points. At quadrature he is on the meridian about 6 o’clock, and will there- fore have commenced his descent to the west before it is dark enough for him to become visi- ble. He is in the sign Cancer, and not very far from Castor and Pollux. Mars sets now a few minutes before 2 o'clock in the morning; at the end of the month, a quarter before 1 o'clock. URANUS 18 EVENING STAR, and the fifth and last on the list of planets mov- ing towards conjunction. He still retains his interest for observers, as an object of telescopic and naked-eye research, for he has just passed perihelion, and has not yet advanced very far from opposition, Those observers who have access to star maps or charts can mark hig posi- ind the corresponding among the stars. It is necessary to know his right ascension and declination to find his place on the map, for these, in matters celestial, are as important as latitude and longitude in mat- ters terrestrial. On the lst his right ascension is 11 hours 7 minutes and his declination 6 de- ery 29 minutes north. He will be found as a ittle star of the sixth magnitude in the constel- lation Leo, west of Regulus and about the same distance southeast of Denebola, the two bright- est stars of the constellation. A telescope will quickly prove his existence to the observer, for he pratipes develops a disc of a delicate sea- Neto view. ‘is positon hanes tines a lon changes th during the month. Uranus sets now a few pind utes before 5 o’clock in the morning; at the end of the mouth he sets about 3 o'clock. MERCURY 1 MORNIXG STAR, and worthy of notice for little else except the fact that he is the sole representative of the solar family in the morning sky, for he is too near the sun to be visible during the month, ex- cept, perhaps, on the first few days. He, like Venus, is an inferior or inner planet, and his elongation to his when he will pass to the eastorn side of the aun atrd ber peordipear ps dn He rises now about 5 o'clock; at the end of the month he rises nearly at the same time. ‘VENUS 18 EVENING STAR, and though we place her last on the list, she far transcends In present every mem- ber of the planetary family. The other planets are traveling from the earth and clustering near the sun, while she alone is emerging from his sets now afew minutes after 7 7 close of the month she sets about a quarter after 8o'clock. THE APRIL. MOON falls on the 4th. She holds the most honorable Position on the yearly list, being the first fulj moon that occurs after fhe vernal equinox, and thus determining the time when Easter Sunday shall fall, and ruling consequently the movable fasts and feasts of the church. The new moon, of the 17th commences her course with a bril- liant record. On the 18th, one day after her change, she is in conjunction with three planets, Venus, Saturn and Neptune, on the same even- Ing. Itis difficult to see so young a moon, for the crescent is but a slender thread. But it is possible; if the evening be exceptionally clear, the crescent will be tound about two degrees north of Venus, and three and a half degrees north of Saturn. The most beautiful exhibition of the month, and one that will be plainly visi- ble, will occur on the 19th, when the two-da; old crescent will be very near Jupiter, passine forty minutes of a degree north of him. Moon and planet will be above the horizon till after 9 o'clock, and the celestial picture will be fair to see. A SEASON OF PLANETARY ACTIVITY, after a long lull, is commencing. - Conjunctions of planets with each other, with the san and with the moon, will now be frequent on the dial plate that marks the movements of the sun and his family of worlds. The moon ranks first among the actors on the April sky, for she pays, her respects to three planets, Venus, Saturn and Neptune, on the same evening, and will charm every beholder as she hangs her bright crescent near the brighter Jupiter on another occasion. Venus commences her charming role by ing near Saturn and Neptune. jeptune and Jupiter cluster closely near the sun, and six pianos play the role of evening stars. But the noteworthy feature of the month is the grand combination of planets in the sign Taurus, for Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Venus and the moon are all found there together during a portion of the month. The meeting of so many celestial dignitaries foreshadows events of unusual interest, and students of the heavens will not lack employment if they follow the track of these wanderers among the stars. French Oysters. From the St. James’ Gazette. Twenty-one different places are now named in the commercial directory of France where the oyster business is pursued on a large scale, and the latest official statistics (1880) show that upward of 195,000,000 oysters are annually sent to market. The great objects of the grower or breeder of the oyster are, first, to catch its young, most of which would otherwise perish; when caught, to transfer them to a favorable place, and there to protect them from their natural enemies while they grow to marketable size. His ing-point is therefore the laying down of the mature oyster to produce “spat,” and for this purpose a spot must be chosen where the sea-water holds mud in solution for the food of the oyster. There must not be too much mud, or the oysters will be smothered and di Thus a current is necessary to sweep the bed of the park; so that, although it brings mud, it may also prevent it from settling to any great extent. That it should be a tidal current is also indispensable, as at the proper season the oyster prefers to eject its spat each tide when the inward flow has com- menced; and the current must not be too vio- lent, or it will carry away ali the young. Por- tions of tidal estuaries between the lines of the neap and spring low tides have been found to answer best to all these requirements. Here river water brings the mud and debris necessary tor food; and the sea-water gives the salts which contribute to the shells. In such posi- tions the parks are uncovered only at the lowest ebb of the spring tides; and the workmen can then do what istequired in examining or clean- ing the bottom and laying down the old or fix- ing the apparatus for collecting the young oys- ters. These ‘‘collectors” were long a difficulty; and, after endless experiments, the commonest arched house-tiles, covered with whitewash and fixed in horizontal bunches with wire on stakes about a ine long, or on wooden.farmeworks called “hives,” are pronounced to be the most successful of all. Ten million of these tiles are now said to be in use in the 4,250 tidal parks of Arcachon, formed on those grassy margins of ita basin, which are called crassais. The young oyster, with its embryonic shells and the machinery of haira-which keep it stir- ring in the water, drifts about with the tide un- til it meets with a surface proper for attachment. The tiles having been found to tempt them bet- ter than anything, the lime coating was added to*render detachment of the small shells easy afterward. It serves another purpose, too, in assisting rapidly to produce those protecting shells, nine-tenths of which consist of carbonate of lime. A short time after the spat appears the young oyster. if all goes well, may be per- ceived affixed to the tiles, and looking like tiny yellowish stains. As many as 1,700 have been counted on one very exceptional tile at Arca- chon—a very small proportion, however, of the one or two million which each mother oyster is said to produce. The apparatus of hairs soon atrophies, and the young fry in a few weeks reach the size of a lentil ora small split pea. Growth is thenceforward rapid enough, chiefly in the summer; and on the river Ter, in the Morbihan, they measure th juarters of an inch at eight months old, and an inch and three- quarters a year after being spawned. The next operatipn of the geower is to trans- plant the fags 3 oysters. They are taken off dexterousiy by women with a touch of a flexible knife; but slight injyries often occur, for the little molluscs have taken all the lime-coating for their shells and have thus got a firm hold of the bare tile itself, And here should be men- tioned an ingenious invention of Dr. Kemmerer. On the tile itself he first places a layer of Gemped paper, which the lime-cement, after- Ww applied, preserves from the sea-water. Paper and lime can both be removed entire with all the oysters; thus preserving for further use the tiles, which many growers used to snip with pines into little bits for each oyster, sooner han ran the risk or injuring the under shells with the knife. Soft mortar is often used in- stead of paper. The number of oysters which a park will yield is considerable. One of about ten acres at Arcachon gave five million young oysters in one favorable season from 400,000 old ones laid down thé year before. Here the gov- ernment maintains res rved Banks of 500 acres, which are fished only every three years, and in 1879 twenty-five oysters were gathered from them. —————+e-—____ ‘Typhoid Fever in Paris. ‘Mrs. Hooper's Letter to the Philadelphia T. The typhoid fever is very prevalent in Paris Row. One of its latest victims is the beautiful Mrs. Mitford, daughter of the late Horace Clark, of New York, and granddaughter of the late Commodore Vanderbilt. Her charms and her diamonds have rendered her a noted personage in the Parisian world for some yeas past. Iam told that she fainted at the opera a week ago; that she was carried home insensible, and that her physicians now pronounce her to be in im- minent danger. I am inclined to think that the regime to which she is said to have sub- herself of late may have had something do with her ilIneas. She used to be very stout but halite page sabe br ne has become excessiv , probably by going through a course of Bantinge I do not know the lady per- THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, APRI ve L 5, 1882—DOUBLE SHEET He,was her and her dear, dear lover, As far removed as the sun above her; aes ‘worshipped, i little =, ray many, and tears a few. the change drat ie je found her mere! a She was only the Now it was time he Time he should loose her tender hand, ‘Time she should tremble, and uni Would the soaring butterfly wing him down ‘To alight on the printed flowers of her gown? “ghall you rememiber the r, When the sweetness as of a hundred Junes Seemed gathered up 1n the simmer weather ? The day that it rained, and we chose to clamber And shelter ourgelves in the ‘The talk we talked mid the ‘While we wait ‘With up above us the roll of thunder, And the roar of the mill-wheel boothing under ? The day that we walked through the soft hay- stubble, Faint with the gent of the grasses dead 1” She lifted eyes of innocent trouble— “Nay—how can T forget?” Not a sound in the bush they heard, Not a breath through the silence stirred, But the hum of the wnill-wheel never stopping, And the play af the water, aropping, drop- Ah, the things that hts touch had taught h Like straws whiried by in the churning She was only the miller’ aangh ‘The nolse of the mull-heel drowned her dream. She stood a minute, and sighed, and The butterfly stirred, and fluttered onward— ‘The leaves of a jasmine star Were shed— “Shall you never come back—?” she said, —____-+-______ A Modern Witch, In this age of intelligence, and beneath the shadow of half a dozen schoolhouses and churches, one would hardly suppose that there is superstition enough te lead people to regard thesham mummery and clumsy antics of an old woman as being those of a witch. But such is the fact. There is now living in an alley ranning into Liberty street a woman who professes to endowed with supernatural power, and who: conduct is as gross as it is grotesque. She never enters her own house without leaping backward and forward over the sill of her door, and when she goes into a neighbor’s house she does the same thing. Sheisconstantly engaged in ineantation, when not employed at her ordi- nary work, and whispers ominiously of her power to spread or stay disease. Absurb as these things are, they have produced singular effects on some of the neighbors. A woman living next door to the witch actually believes that her children are more or less affected by her influence, as they have had all the diseases common to children, while other children in the same neighborhood, whom the witch likes, go unharmed. These ridiculous beliefs and fears are producing consid citement, and the witch enjoys her reputation. uathematizes and blesses such as incur her 13 in the fact that she ~ American Humor. In some respects, though in some only, Chas. Lamb's humor anticipates the type of humor which we now call, in the main, Ame When, for instance, he gravely narrated tle ori- gin of the Chinese invention of roast pig, in the burning down of a house—when he told a friend that he had moved Just 42 inches nearer to his beloved London—and again, when he wrote to Manning in China that the new Persian Am- bassador was called “Shaw Ali Mirza,” but that the common people called him “4 Noneense,” we mi; to Artemus Ward’s or Mark Twain’s mioute and serious nonsense. But for the most part Charles Lamb’s hamor is more frolicsome, more whimsical, and less subdued in its ex- travagance, more like the gamboling of a mind which did not care to conceal its enjoy- ment of paradox, and less like the inward in- visible laughter in which the Yankees most delight. Lamb dearly loved a frisk. And when, for instance, he blandly proposed to some friend who offered to up for him a bit of old cheese which he had seemed to like at dinner, to let him have a bit of string with which he could probably “‘leadit home,” there was cer- tainly nothing in him.of the grim impassiveness of Yankee extravagance. It might be asserted. persis, that. even if:the prospect of a great ture for English humor is good, there is still reason to fear that if must dwindle in largeness of conception, so’ that such massive forms of humor as we find, for instance, in “Gulliver's Travels” or the “Tale of a Tub,” are not Hkely to return. But even this we greatly doubt. Dickens—who as & humorist was probably not inferior in conception, and certainly more abundant in creation, than any humorist in the world—is wholly modern, and he certainly has by no means exhausted the field even of that sort of ‘hamor in which he himself was most potent, ‘The field of what we may call idealized vulgarities, which includes sketches of the Tact monthly nurse whose every thought and action breathe the fawning brutalities of the Mrs: Gamp species—of bea- dies who incarnate all beadledem—of London pickpockets who have assimilated all that is entertaining in the world of professional slang and nothing that is arate Rae boarding- house keepers whose whole mind is transformed into an instrument for providing enough food and gravy and amusement for their commercial gentlemen—of watet-rate collectors glorified by one ideal passion for the ballet—of rascally schoolmasters whose every action betrays the coward and the bully—or of hypocrites who secrete*airs of pretentious benevolence as an oll-gland secretes oil, is by no means exhausted, hardly more than attacked. And yet it promises a sort of humor particularly well adapted to this perlod of at once almost sordid realism and ingenious abstraction. Nor can it be denied that ‘Alice in Wonder- land,” especiall ich plaintive ballads as and the carpenter, pro- vide us with a ty a ee fancy almost cut free from the ities of life, and yet quaintly reproducing all the old human tend- encies under absurdly new conditions; nor that this promises well for the infinite flexibility of the laughing faculty in man. We quite admit that we never expect to eee the greater types of transatlantic humor reproduced on this side of the Atlantic. These, for the most part, imply a rare faculty for turning the mind aside from the direct way of saying a thing to ane that is so indirect as to you traveling on a totally opposite track, as, for example, when Bret Harte declares that one of his rowdies— “Took @ point af order when Achunk of old red sandstone hit him in the abdo- men, And he smiled a kind 'sickty smile, and curled up ie T And the subsekent proceedings interested him no ‘more;” or when the American blasphemer retorted that if his censor had but ‘jumped out of bed on to the business end of a tin-tack, even he would have cursed some.” This wonderfal power of suggesting misleading analogies taken from the very province which would seem to be least sug- ted either by analogy or contrast seems to » In some sense, Indigenous in the United States.— The Spectator. ——_$_-os______ Fast Train Between New York and Boston. From the Railroad Gazette. afternoons “We have lived,” he said, “by the stream to- er— stream! ponder- and American Vegetables. From the Pati Mall Gazette, The reappearance on our tables of seakaleand asparagus—oar only twoeatable greenstuffs— naturally raises once more the perennial ques- tion, Why have we in England no vegetables? To doubt the fact is impossible—at lesst to any- body who knows what real vegetables are like. jer fl sald an American stranger at a reatau- rant in the Strand one day, “Sir, this is the one thing you can raise in your country and wecan t in ours—a mutton chop; but then you never tasted green peas In all your life.” at antithesis puts the great vegetable qnestion ina nutshell. It is impossible in the same country to have good meat and good v. For the best and mutton area product of the soft, tender English which only exists In a few countries along the Atlantic sea- board of Europe, and owes its origin to the con- mene rainfall. sume causes which give us good however, deny us in England the possibility of good fruit vegetables. For while the herb- one copious rain, the fruits, seeds, pods, ers, buds and other miscellaneous objetts which we class from the culinary point of view as vegetables all require copious sunlight. That is why we have none of them. Our only good worries are such as very pone Suess — le, asparagus an lery, which are the blanched sprouting shoots of nial plants. These mostly come in spring and as they are none the worse, or even all the better, for a little wholesome soaking, they manage to sur- vive our elimate well enough in the long ran. But most other vegetables are more or less truity in thelr nature; and really to taste these one must As to America or Italy—for choice the first. Of thoroughgoing fruity vegetables—such asthe tomato—we in England know nothing. We never have sun enough to ripen them prop- erly; and even with all the appliances of mod- ern gardeners, they never get thoroughly red and soft thronghout in our gardens as they do in the open air under a Canadian or Italian sky. They always have a half-green taste, and are wholly lacking tn the true rich tomato flavor. Indeed, the tinned American specimens, though tasting of the solder of course, are better savored after all than our poor starved sunless English things. Asto purple egg-fruit and green chow-chows, we know them not at all; while the profusion of rich red-fleshed watermelons primrose-skinned squashes and golden pumpkins in a Massachusetts market would astonish Covent Garden, and set some nascent Turner to work with all the pigments on his palette to try his hand at a new and many-colored subject. These things require the sun to ripen them, and we see his face here as a rule for some two and a-half hours weekly, as duly registered at Glynde Place, Lewes. Then, again, there are the winter cherries, th potatoes, and, best of all earthly ve green Indian corn, eaten off fhe cob with fr butter, and likest.to nectar of all mo: deii- cacies. As for puise generally, our beans are all stringy; we have neither the variety nor the tenderness of the American bean. Our peas have some good points—for English peas; but they are not half so large or luscious, or melt- ing, as American peas. They take tuo long ing, and have got oldand hard before they meat, are big enough to pick. The delicious erinkly | eatable-pod pea would be impossible here; it would have got tough and sinewy a month be- | fore it was ready for cooking. We grow buck- wheat to feed our pheasants, but it nev ij as it ought, and buckwheat panca fast will doubtless be an unknow us forever. In the matter of leafy vecetables we can doa littte better, but not enough to boast about. We are strong in salads; our climate provides us with plenty of fresh green lettuce, and plent: z8, too, to hide in tts recesses. does not flourish; it is a serubby-looking plant in England; thouch we make up for it in cresses and the lesser salad stuffs. Our roots, too, are good; who will deny the British farmer the glory of his turnips, his beets, and his mangold- wurzel? When it comes to edible flowers, how ever, we are hopelessly left in the lurch. Our top artichokes are the hardest and poorest in the world; they contain a maximum of fibrous, uneatable, bract and a minimum of sott, starchy pulp. In the south of France, Italy and America you can often eat the whole flower-head, choke and all; in England youcan only extract a pitiful pittance of a soft mouthful off the base of each great leathery scale, If would be impossi ble to dress English artichokes in fried butter, as they do so deliciously at Florence; one might as well eat fried boots. Our cauliflowers and brocoli are not nearly a3 good as the Am- erican ; Cette neither so white norso delicate in flavor. We can grow cucumbers, (under glass,) because cucumbers are eaten green ; but what @ miserable farce are our vegetable mar- rows! What is true of vegetables is even more _AUCTION SALES. FUTURE DAYS J ATE. NESDAY AFTERNOON, FIFTH DAY OF O'CLOCK P. M. ‘basement DON, SIXTH DAY OF On WED: APRIL, A. D. in front of the No. 807 SORTHWEST, Twill sell at FIVE se parte of Lote 3 in No. $05, fronting 26° feet 11, tnchen, i RSDAY AFTERNO APRIL at EIVE O'CLOCK, I wilt’ sell, in fromt of the i CLOSE AN NINTH STREET and Square with epth of ° fee me and 0) N (0. 1328 G street northwert, part lot 18. Square 283, fronting 2&fect @ juches "with dept Of 96 feet, improved ty’ a two-story frame dwelling. IMMEDIATELY AFTER, at HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK P. M., in tront of the premises, No. 518 13th prect northwest; Iwi8 sell part of lot 28, equare 259. fropting 22 feet § uches with deith of 105 feet 10% ches, improved by a large three-story brick dwelling. All the above is to Le rold to clore an extate. years: notes to bear cured by deed of trust on premises | #0ld dL earh, at option of purchasers. A — of $1 required on each piece: attime of Convey ing and re- cording at purchaser's cost. Terms to be complied with in seven days, otherwise the in default will be re-sold at risk and cost of defaulting pr 3 after five days public sdv published iu Washington, DG. ‘ dk ALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers, TRUSTRES SALE QF VALUARLE REAL ESTATE. NEAI SORNER OF SkVENTH AMD ‘es vi cree of the Court Cee highest = att abs pa > n Sivh CEEVENTS ay ¢ oF Pay A. rt 1882, re Ol . Ml. Solow tie and the valuable imi thereon, true of fruits. To be sure our English hot- hqnse are the best in the world; but for strawbe , Taspberries, currants, cooseberries, plums and cherries we must go to America. Our hes are a success; our apples are a national failure; and our pears are a standing insult to thetiuman intelligence. But we may at least congratulate ourselves that with the aid of glass and stoves we can obtain heat and light enough to grow the best pineapples in the world at the moderate price of one guinea apiece. In Jamaica they usually sell at two for three halfpence. ss ia a nevcd Escaping Massacre to Die of Thirst an Island. From the Manchester Courier, March 21. The fate of Mra. Watson and her child has at last been definitely ascertained. The description was given a few weeks ago of the attack of the North Queensland blacks upon the Lizard Island fishing station, the brave defence made by Mrs. Watson and her Chinamen against overwhelm- ing odds, and the suspicion of the police that the survivors had been drowned while making, in a leaky little punt, for the main land. The finale of the sad tragedy is told by the last mail delivery. Mrs. Watson and her child had escaped murder and outrage from the savages, but were fated to a lingering death on a distant desert Island. The master of a trading schooner found three skeletons on No. 5 island of the Horwich group, and these are proved to be the remains of Mrs. Watson, her baby, and the faithfal Chinaman, Ah Sam. A revolver, full cocked and loaded, was lying by the mother and child. The dead Chinaman was found under a tree a few yards off, with a loaded rifle at his side. There was no water on the island, and the unfortunate castaways had no doubt died from the most ter— rible afiliction of thirst. Ah Sam had been speared in seven places, and the band: showed that Mrs. Watson, in the midst of her woes, had not neglected to dress the wounds. The presence of mind and heroism displayed by the courageous woman are now seen to be even ter than was at first supposed. The flight from Lizard island was made, not in a boat, but in half of an iron tank used for boilng down beche-de-mer. The woman, child and China- man set forth on their perilous voyage on Octo- ber 3, landed next day on a reef, and remained there till the 6th. Then they went from islet to islet in search of water, of which they could not have had a drop for at least five days. During this horrible period of suffering and suspense Mrs. Watson kept her diary, and never lost sight of her husband’s papers and account books. The extracts from the heroine's diary tell as much of the touching end of the harrow- ing story as will ever be known, but fmagina- tion will but too vividly indicate the closing scenes of this brave woman's life. The supply of water on hand had evidently lasted the fugi- tives during their earlier wanderings, but prior iehas of the first entry it had altogether The pencilings in the diary speak with pa- thetic three for themselves : Oct, 9.— Brought the tank ashore as faras le with this morn- ing’s tide; made camp all day under the trees. Blowing very hard. No water. Gave baby a diy in thn ache ig show! SALE OF BRICK* DWELLING ON ‘the GeriGReE® NORTH, NEAR THE PATENT | fullyayincnt of ‘the purchare money and interred 1 conveyances will y By virtue of a deed of trust, recorded the, 100 upon each lot is to, the ti - land records of the District of Galambia, tn fiber fee the tertus of saloace nesoumpied witht ive dayet qo 929, ae qo Ly 1 BURRD AY THE day of ale sce perty i be resold at the rink in_ fron e ‘on JRSDAY, cot of iting burchaser. THIRTIETH DAY OF MARCH, | 1882, VE | taco tee ee All conveyancing O'CLOCK P.M, part of Lot No. 17, in square No. 4% VASH. B. WILLIAMS, ning on H ‘street north 20 feet west from the north s0 ee, cast corner of said lot, and running thence 20 feet, FRANCIS P. B. SANDS. | Trustees, greta private alley in rear: Limprove by a threo.story S SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED Brick jouge with buck buliding (ho.618 Hstnetnors EAC STALE ON K STREET NOKTH WEST, “This deca o¢ | SECOND STREETS. Se es , on which tot ra | ured by jrfchaners id, wherein notes and deed of trust on the ~ Conves A Jon ‘ta Ing at purchasers cost. A sient ot $100 at Gaze of and’ Delilah “Ann Jones and others are deleud ale, JOHN 3, JOHREON. Lon THURSDAY, APRIL THIRTEEN T mi8-a&ds REGINALD FENDALL,} TFustece. SUFIVE O'CLOCK P-M., offer “aforyamie at public ance Ez THE ABOVE SALE 18 POSTPONED UNTIL | real’ estate, belonsime bo the’ rte WEDNESDAY, the FIFTH DAY OF APRIL, 1882, at | Jones, to wit: The : same hour and (2) ana the whole of Lot three (3) 3. 3. JOHNSON. } rrustees ty 3), a K ALD FERDALL, + | tween 2Ist and 22d streets, in the THOMAS DO’ |G, Auctioneer. m28-d&ds D.C. the ee Foe ee eitate Ageite and Aut “s ae TRUSTEES SALE OF 2 DESIRABLE BUILDING LOT ON IME SOUTH SIDE OF M STREE: WEEN VERMONT AV! AND FI " ET NORTHW e premii OPERTY a THE T. Sity of Washington, District of | _ By virtue of a decree in rt of the, to wit: Lot thirty-two (32) of George Ti District of Columbia, Fel 1882, vision in equare numbered two hundred ad 0; et fourteen (214), according to the plat of the aid city of ~ Washington, said lot having a frontage of 25 feet by a depth of 155 feet toa wide rs One-thira cash; in six, sf n months, with interest atsix per cer num, secured by a deed of truston the prope sold. or ail cash at option of the purchaser. A depoxit of $100 ’ | Tequired at the time of ssle, snd all conveyanc- | situate in the ing and recording at expense of mrehaer. If torms of | to wi Part of | ea! ope not come ied Lap in seven sare Spey coor —— sub erve the rirht to nese : e Tisk and | ninety-rev . | Sent cf Getaulbing: Dunehaner ehtoe ive dupe civecteas | asta inie citi net atx (0) fork thence wen ne me nix (26) foe: thence south minetysix (90) fects . 8 nee enat. twenty feet to ning, rE Corp west, } ‘Trustocs. Ze with the improven ita thereon. te WM. M. SMITH, 5: : ‘m3-eokds ‘orms “of sale: One- marchare money BIN eee cauh: the balance in equal payments th ix and twelve Wr _ THE ABOVE SALE I8 POSTPONED UNTIL | months after the day of sale, with iuterest thereon teams WEDNESPAY, MALGH TWENTY-SECOND, 1882, | such Gay, and to be secured by ‘of trust on the same hour and place. By order of the Trustees. hroperty sold. A deposit of $50 will be required on the . H. SMITH, } ‘Trustecs. oe tale. Yoo grep rd ol wy led with 208 SOLD WELL, within "seven days after the day's See oe Will be resold after ten da tdvertisensent, at tne rao '9- THE ABOVF SALE 1S POSTPONED UNTIL | and cost of the defaulting purchaser. All conveyanellgy WEDNESDAY. APRIL FLFTH, 1882, same hour and | at purchaser's . . place. By order of Trustees. JOR. B. THOMPSON, EH gorn ss} 5 505 D street j 23-cokan 3. 1. COLDWELL,5 Trustees. | DUNCANSON BROB., Auctioneers, 1 JNO: +: PRESCOTT, Real Estate Broker. ‘T. COLDWELL, Real Estate Auctioneer. — “ = TRUSTEES SALE OF DESIRABLE UNIMPROVED | AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED SikrH AND SEVENTH STREETS GOUTES Fis AND 730 FIRST S 1 BELWEES <! ene = H STREETS NORTHEAST. rtieof a deed of dated Novem! virtue of a dec 1818) and reccrden in Liber No. 49h too 26th day af Awrurt, ACD. 1879, of the land records of the District of Golum Land kiecords of the District y , I will well, at pub- | No, 922, folio 247 the premises, on WEDN 1882, at FOUR-ANI ~HALF My . Loft "6 subdivieion 2, fu square south of square No. 463, situate in the city of Washington, D. C. ‘Terms: One-fourth cash; balance in six, twelve and eighieen months; 6 per cent interest. $75 at time of . Conveyancing at expense of pi . ‘Terms eee ee Ae E: FRASER, ‘Trustee J.T. COLDWELL, Auct. " ~ m25,28,91, ap3.5-5t ___ TTS _ EVENING. 3 THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. ART SALE EXTRAORDINARY} ot complied ; Fy ‘enol on five (o) aya ‘purchaser. : Trustecs, RAMUS’ COLLECTION. 245, 2epl, 5,811 WATER COLOR PAINTINGS. % ‘Emissions and impot tency. joe of sexual power. It imy vigor to the sy: $00 1 street southweek m26-im D R. RICORD’S Now on exhibition at the Art Salesrooma, southeast VITAL RESTORATIVE, corner 15th and Hi streets, opposite Wormley"s, to be sae vs - sold at Auction Approved by the Academy of Medicine, of Paris, re ‘ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL FIFTH, | commended by the Medical Celebrities of the World ap At EIGHT O'CLOCK, and THURSDAY, the SIXT! speci jervous and physical debility, loswof at THREE and FIGHT O'CLOCK P.M Just ianporeet oar Siar ae kee from Italy, Spain, France and England. They are , eo, oe from the eatels of Artists of the highest standing, ‘al tly mounted. : s eordialiy duyite the attention of connoisseurs and | PrennGecnptve circulars : THOAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. | BFIP"S'H GeO SD ght ay aoa SSIGNEE'S CLOSING SALE. slo. — CIGARS, TOBACCO AND SMOKERS aRticLes aT | [)®, PON. THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED AND cmceece snd'@ to. All ‘Female Complaints and irerulartjea a om (Grithont reserve) in lots to suit, to close out the estate of | 3 M. GOLDS1EIN, 611 Pennsylvania avenue, ander Me- | PwcKly cured. Prompt treatment. Separate rooms tq — een ere hy ge — - at7p.m. Pri- vate sale during resrat f 33-36 8, BENSINGER, Auctioneer. P LEY, Auctioneer. Commencing FRIDAY, MARCH THIRTY-First, | _™ i we will eel at the National Loan Office, 1007 7 LADIES TARE NOTICE DR, BROTITERS HAS commencing at SEVEN P-M. every evening, a lars | Di hud 85'yeare’ experience in the ineatment of fe snd 'waried assortment of Unredosined Pledges cou- Dincases, frrerulaities, Lac ’ sisting of— r ‘omb) and Nervous Cos Gold and Silver Watches. Sultation free. Office, 906 B street eouthwert. ral6-Lm* inns oe ‘ADAME DE FOREST HAS REMEDY FOR LA- Turquoise, Amethyst, Topaz and Band dice. Ls Ailver aud Plated Wages oe ne J/)E. ROBERTSON CAN BE CONSULTED COMI D ) dentially by gentlemen and lad peed ice. every 2 PERMATORRH@A, IMPOTENCY AND ALL PRI ae deca, ke. No ‘oF ; teed. Gia bin st. nek.,bet. Band sts se (CTIMS OF NIC AND OBSCURE DISEASES Vigeeuen arama fo. . ‘ x ny Buffalo, N. ¥. cash. THOMAS DOWLING? Auctioncer. 7 Dace BENSINGER, Auchoneer, . lowe % Horse and S. Washington re and Carriage Bacaar, }OTION SALE OF HORSES, CARRIAGES, HAR. am &c., EVERY TUESDAY, THURSD, ler seal on recelstof price. __—m6_ oO goer ‘attention given 0 the sales of Gor MEDAL AWAEDED THE AUTHOR! Sa all comeemmente ENGINGEIL Auct: | Anew and grost Medical Work, warranted the bestang TP 4OMAS DOWLING, Auctonese. . ee SCENE OF TAFE SELF-PRESER- TRUSTEE'S VaLvaBte, TAYeRLY. [iim embomed : Tul ‘cone DENCE. O! GIDE OF NEW SERSEY | er SELT eas beautifal Steal iat Pre. AVENUE, BETWEEN H AND I SIKEETS < Price 25, sent six cents. 4 but have often seen her in the Bois or the Countess de Trobaland: and puede aortas lady's fancy ball, given just before Lent, in Heprvoted Cod —“h pliant od Treen es tleman who was present told her that the. char. acter she should have chosen was not that of Cupid, but his mother. Apropos of the fact that the highly cont A New York and Boston fast train is to be put on by the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford companies about June 1. The present in- tention is to mit the train to one car and four drawing-room cars, and to start it from each end of the Jine about 5p.m. The train is Lelenieteegeiner yo pine mgt at an average speed Of: miles an hour, at New ipems of thirst—and took a dip myself. Ah Sam and self very parched with thirst. Baby showing symptoms. Sunday, 10.—Baby very bad with inflammation; very much alarmed; no fresh water, and no more milk but condensed; self very weak. Really thought I should have died last night. seat. 11.—still all alive. Baby very much better this 3 self feeling very —— ee will co oe cashews very eavy quite s0 3 Do rain; re of fine weather. Ah Sam away to die; have not seen him Baby more cheerful ; have not i or Dz. x ‘tmnt Dawe a ae SESS 1—DR,