Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1882, Page 7

A Visit to Swinburne. & ©. Stedman, in Harper's Macazine for May. Few will deny that rural England, when the @un really shines, and of a midsummer's day, Is the loveliest country in the world—all the love- lier because the sun shines so seldom. On such ® rare day I went down past Windsor to Henley- on-Thames to visit Mr. Swinburne, to have sight of and a talk witha poet whose earliest works had excited in me an interest that our correspond- ence had greatly heichtened. It chances that the Heniey station is some miles beyond the one at which the guests of Holmwood usually stop. So I iook a fly, and drove back over a delight- ful road, which finally brought me to the house. I found it a spacion= wilute sion of the H a garden divided from the inst which peach trees ed to face the sun. In the entrance hall was 8 qualat collection of old china, heirlooms of the fa:nily. The poet was working in his bedroom, a chamber plainly furnished, but with a glorious view from the windows—the Swinburne lawn, with fine old trees sloping from the forezroun table was covered with the manw @poem which he had been writing with the speed that Is transferred to his galloping ana- pests. It was the long. melodious, haunting “On the Cliffs,” consecrate to the memory eofsappho. Although I bad heard of Mr. Swinburne’s ill health, and that he was then in great retirement, it seemed that I met him at an auspicious time. Except for a chronic ner- Vousness, or what I shouid call OVERPOSSESSION OF HIS BODY BY HIS MIND, he was in health, voice, and spirits, and he read. ine what was then completed of his poem. It grew out of anight in Italy—I think he said in Fiesole—where he was kept awake by the sing- ing of the nightingales, and fancied thelr song bore a resemblance to a famous line of Sap- Pho’s. He read his lyrical rhapsody with a free chanting cadence, like the poet he Is, and as such verbal music should be read. At Tuneh, and in our long walk after it, for he in- ji nm guiding me to the station, we talked ‘h that it is not my province to repeat. is conversation is as noteworthy as his writ- ten te flood of wit, humor, learning, often enthusiastic, more rich with epizram and’ pithy © ai than the speech of other men. Some things that he said may not improperly be given to his many readers. Songs of the Spring Tisies—a volume published in 1880, and con- taining the nigh le poem—was dedicated to Trelawny, whose ehe was to write with- in a rolling year, as if to blend in with this pwan. In the dedication he compared his song to “‘a fea-mew on @ sea-king’s wrist alizhting,” for Swinburne’s honors, where he gives them, are free-landed as his scorn can be. ‘The book is of the sea throughout, and “Thalassius” is the title of the opening poem. The auth ke to me of his passion for the sea, beside whi his youth had been gested and apostrophized so constantly Verse. He declared that its salt must have been in his blood before he was born, for he could re- member no earlier enjoyment than being held naked in his father’s arms, then brandished, and shot like a stone from a sling through the air head-foremost into a wave, whilehe laughed and shouted with delight. He had been afraid of other things, but never of the sea. SWINBURNE UPON AMERICAN POETS. Our talk was by no means confined to litera- ture, although it is only of a portion of his liter- ary comment that I feel willing to make use. I had spoken of Bryant's “elemental” quality as the Important thing from which verse so abso. Tutely simple as his derived its effect, and had referred to Eschylus asthe highest exemplar amons the Attic poets of the power to work simply and imaginatively. To this he partly as- sented, In view of the grandeur with which #schylus depicts the elements of nature, yet thought his choruses anything but simple, terming one of them “the toughest nut with the sweetest kernel to be found in the Grecian drama.” He courteously referred to m strictures upon his estimate of certain Ameri- can pvets, declared that he appreciated the respective excellence of Bryant's “Thana- topsis” and Lowell's “Commemoration Ode,” but discovered few “notes of song” In elther of them. It was excellent good speech; but given | ‘as song, its first duty was to sing. The one, he said. was most august meditation, the other a Boble expression of deep aud grave patriotic ling on a supreme national occasion, but The thing most necessary, though it may be less noble, was the puise, the re, the passion of music—the quality of a ‘singer, not of a solitary philosopher or a patriot! orator. He said that even Whitman, whe. no: speak- ing poor prose, sings, and when he at all, sings well, his artistic fault being i ITOWw formalism. Deep as Emerson’s thought might be, he found no music in his verse, yet found Browning's always going to a recognizable tune, if not always to a good one. It was a poor thing to have nothing but melody, and be ‘Unable to rise above it into harmony, but one or the other, the less if not the greater, you must have. Imagine a man full of great thoughts and emotiens, and resolved to ex- Press them in painting, who has absolutely no Power upon form and color. These remarks are Printed in justice to Mr. Swinburne, as his ex- planation of the points to which I had publicly objected. My reply was, if I remember aright, that perhaps he too severely tested rhythm by his own brilliant and unprecedented method; that his measures, often anapestic, were swifter ‘and more buoyant than any heretofore known; that the long-wonted effect of English rhythm Was more grave and slow, but had its music also, and that it is this restrained and slower- moving melody and harmony, with its suggest- ive under-tones, which the lovers of Loweli and Emerson think to be not wanting in their In common with other writers I have noted the fact that incessant elevated music is some- times more wearisome than that which has even tame and feeble passages. Persistent sweetn cloys, and verse always fluent and melodious, ‘Troubles About Bowing. BR. Haweis in Belgravia. Ihave often wondered why Thackeray never wrote 8 “Roundabout” on “Bowing.” It isone of those dreadfui social—I had almost said— “evils,” which concern alike every gentleman andevery snob. “To bow or not to bow" Is of- ten an absorbing, even agonizing question. To bow Just In the right way to everybody, and do it right each time (suppose, forinstance, youmeet the same person six times a day at Brighton) re- quires so much presence of mind that absence of body is almost preferable. I asked Hawfinch, who goes everywhere, what he did at an “at home” when he met his hostess about a dozen times face to face in the same evening, he said promptly: “I never meet her but once; it I chance to come upon her again, I always say Tal ta!’ after which neither of us Beed speak or notice each other, for I'm sup- posed to be gone.” A good hostess is in a bet- ter position than her guests; she has her little hrase, which she says to everybody. I have en met three times in the same evening by a late lamented. tay of fashion with the same beaming smile, and she always said, “Tea in the next room!” This did capitaily; It enabled-you to hurry off in that direction. “Another hostess adopts the phrase, ‘“Oh!—— Is dying to know you!” and gazes vaguely for—. ‘is does well, for it enables her to hurry off in pursuit of the mythical——. But what are you to do when you meet a friend with whom your wife has had & row? or when you meet a lady who is not quite sure that you remember her, or worse still, a lady who ig not quite sure that she remembers ‘ou? and when you are doubtful, is it better to w? or when you have taken off your hat to the wrong person, or actually stopped to speak, what on earth are you to do then? Ifyou have a bad memory for faces, or are known, like most public men, to a number of people whom you don’t know, are you to bow right and left. and be thought insane; or are you to cut half the people who expect recognition, and be thought churlish? Ideclare I have lain awake worrying over these affecting problems after making some unusually bad mistake. gee Sa The Philesophy of Dining. From Nature. The two dinners which stand out in our mem- ory as events in our life were of very different characters. The one consisted of brown bread and lard, washed down with some rough counh- try wine, and was eaten in the middle of a Tryo- lese glacier. The other embraced every delicacy the heart could wish. Our appreciation of the first was due to compulsory fasting for some time previously. Our appreciation of the second was due to its intrinsicmerit. In it the dishes seemed to be so arranged that each one stimulated the palate for the one that succeeded it, and the wines given with each course were so selected as to inerease the appetite for, and appreciation of, the solids. We then, for the first time in our life, began to realize that cookery was a fine art. In speaking of the fine arts we generally include only those which appeal to the speacial senses of sight and hearing, such as sculpture, paint- ing, architecture, music, and we rarely think of appealing to the special senses of smell and taste. Yet the latter two are, perhaps, quite as closely connected with our emotions as the for- mer, and as capable of exciting keen sensations of pain and pleasure. Smell and taste differ from sight and hearing in beinz much moreeasily fatigued, and this may partly be the cause of their imperfect cultivation. Another cause is, probably, the closer connection which smelt and. taste have with the process of nutrition, and the consequent alterations which repeated impres- sions upon them may have upon the general well being. A man may pass long hours in a picture gallery or concert-room, receiving im- pressions good, bad or indifferent, without much effect upon digestion or upon circulation, but a bad odor would quickly excite nausea or sick- ness. The impressionable natures of Southern Italy object to strong fumes, even though pleasant. The sense of taste differs In one par- ticular from the other three, viz: that while the agents which excite them mayremain outside the body, the substances which excite taste are taken into the body, and thus have an action upon it independently of their mere effect upon the sense of Itself. In gratifying this sense, therefore, we have to consider not merely w! will give the greatest pleasure at the moment, but what will be most satisfactory in its after re- sults. Fortunately, pleasure to the palate usu- ally aids digestion, if obtained in the. proper way; but comparatively few people know the art of dining properly themselves, and still fewer know how to give good dinners to their friends. oe The Young Man and His Vest. From the Philadelphia Times. There are a seemingly large number of young men in this day and generation who have noth- ing else to do but contrive new things to wear and hunt up novel ways of passing time away- They are constantly visible on the streets, ex” hibiting the results of their labor. They are known at once. Not even Oscar Wilde, in all his glory, is arrayed like one of them. Just now they are unusually plentiful. At least hale a dozen are encountered or avoided on every block. Their latest device is in the shape of a Yest—a many-colored vest. So conspicuous is this portion of their raiment that the remamder of their make-up is only given a casual glance, and that which without the vest would afford unbounded amusement, with the vest is scarcely noticed. The vest is blue, green or saffron, as best suits the ideas of the dearly sweet and sweetly dear wearer. It is covered with polka dots, small dots or a mix- ture of dots and diagonals. It can be seen a long distance off, which is a matter to be thank- ful for, as the lestrian can cross the street in time or look store window until it has passed by. The vest is probably expensive. If it isn’t it ought to be, for the thought of their becoming common is enough to drive decent folk crazy. No free trade in them should be al- lowed. They should be protected and very full of concordant sounds and alliterations, after 8 while does not excel that which is less embar- rassed by its own riches. Whether the halting, irregular method of Emerson's verse is due to a wise restraint or to a lack of the music comes at times, and then, if only by con- trast, has a witching and memorable effect. ‘Those, however, who assert that Mr. Swinburne’s Werse and prose give us little else than exquisite sound are gravely in error. No modern litera- ture is more charged with pith, suggestive mean- ing, original thought; the remarkable technique 1s superadded, and to such a degree as often to make us neglect the thought and sentiment be- meath it. This poet, it may ve, Is at his best when employing those curiously intricate stan- zaic forms that act as a clog or break upon his fiery wheels. At present he refutes every inti- mation of mental or physical decline by being most fertile and industrious ofauthors. The volume of his work, as I have sald, is prodigi- us; nineteen books of prose and verse, besides eritical letters and brochures, within’ twenty luce In his own most impetuous Outgivings there is always food for t! ought, and never a lack of something rich and strange, his constant friends acknowledge that the one grace of restraint is the thing which can most add to his torino They know that in lyric splendor and enthusiasm he has no master, and believe that, as the greater includes ‘the less, the art to limit art is not beyond his ommand. A Tender-Hearted Emperor. ‘From the Parisian. Among the numerous curious trifles that 1s an old cavalry helmet, the special use of which ts one illustrative of his kindness of heart. Ever since he ascended the throne he has mani- fested a disinelination to affix his signature to sentences of death, and, indeed, to any penal decrees of unusual severity. Wheaever, there- fore, such documents are aid before him by his minister of state, he is accustomed to hide them Sway under the helmet. It has frequently oc- that officials, anxious to obtain his Majesty's sanction to the pronouncements the law, but not venturing to remind him of his is Eecaught sight ofthe detested posers panne poh ttl pee of their concealment. has quietiy ed them back again and foreborne ever thereafter from making any allusion to the incident. In such cases the ‘obnoxious doeu- mroyed. it beine obvious that his ould ever be Induced ae largely pte. or else taxed out of existence. How long this vesture will last is more than even Vennor can predict. It may survive the summer, but it is to be hoped that the first warm wave will sweep the vests away. If it is other- wise decreed, however, and country must needs bear the burden and endure the sight, there is but one expedient left for sensible ee and those troubled weak eyes. y must remain In the city. for it is certain that the wearers of these combinations will seek the resorts. The resorts are to be pitied, for only the color-blind can meet with fortitude the young man and his vest. a eee ‘The New English R. From the Phils. Ledger. Philadelphia has enough of good English stock to make its pronunciation authentic, but invi- dious persons occasionally let fall s remon- strance against the flat “a” and the guttural “r” of the natives, as distinguished from the nation that says brossis, instead of brayisis, when street, the New York ferry, without the “ Des,” is the nearest guide and tuning-fork to this im- ported pronunciation of the good old word brass and the broad “A.” The French B is either a rolling rataplan or no B at all, witness the travelled individuals who can only say when they want to talk about a Persian trifle for the floor. ish R used to be a clear and clean trill on the ip, beautiful to hear, and differing from the American B, which comes from farther back in the throat. A certain manner of Englishmen, it is true, said “‘vew-y” when you asked him how he liked ter- rapin. for instance, or Walnut street, on 3 Sun- day noo! Byes much”; and the drawling, nzuid style had its abundant imitators on side of the water. But the pattern is changing. Instead of the crisp keg Soe the German gut- tural has come into ion in London. ‘The Queen’s English, or at least that of her children, is, of course, much by the German,. famillar tongue in which Prince Albert and Vic- toria did their wooing ; and so it is hardly sur- prising that the Prince of Wales and hisbrothers [ridley “good .” “to-mohrow” and “vehry good.” the English of land chi where shall we look for' oom ot i & a { i: Mr. years been It wants to describe an aniron. Des Brosses | , The northern zone of the south, embracing Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Teaneeoet with the northern’ portions or Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas, is a region of vast extent, and has great interest for northern people accustomed to farming who may desire to emigrate to a country suited to this industry. There is much excellent land here, with soils adapted to the cultivation of most of the impor- tant farm products of the region lying between New York and Pennsylvania on the east and Towa aud Kansas on the west, aswell as to those of the south. The climate is favorable, not being so different from that of the states north of it as to cause immigrants from them any considerable inconvenience or dis- comfort. In the hilly portions of this zone there is cold enough for northern people, while the mildness of the winter and its brief duration render farming and stock-raising more profit: able than they are farther north, as the shelter and feeding of domestic animals require com- paratively small expenditure, The summers are of course much tonger than in New York or Towa, but the heat is not usually so great as it is in New Hampshire. With proper attention to sanitary conditions and requirements, this is a very healthy region, the proportion of malarious diseases for the uplands being less than in some of the finest portions of New England. There is much beautiful country, with pleasant scenery. In northern Alabama I observed a close resem! lance to the appearance of the hill regions of southern and central New Hampshire. By attention to the selection of seed of the most suitable varieties, and to methods of cul- tivation, some of the vegetable products of regions farther north, which are supposed to be unsuited to the south, can probably be made profitable throughout the zone now under con- sideration. Such acclimation of esculenta from other portions of the country would be a great benefit, and is especiall: lesirable for immi- grants from the north, who are apt to be im- pressed by the lack of variety in the bill of fare at the tables of the planters as well as at southern hotels. But many vegetables and fruits which belong to the south are rarely found on_ the table, or are In use but for a very brief portion of the year, simply because people do not care to take the pains to produce them. “It's too much trouble to raise ‘em,” is the usual answer, when I inquire about them. Little attention’ is given to gardening on most southern plantations. It is regarded as a trivial employment for the time and labor of men; entirely unimportant in com- parison with “the crop,” which is usually cot- ton, tobacco, sugar or rice. “We like a few messes of green things in thespring,” the people say, “but for sammer work we need something more substantial. Give us the old stand-bys.” These are commonty bread, bacon and greens, as the ordinary fare for laborers. SS The Tulpehocken Town Clock. Max Adeler in Our Continent. The Tulpehccken town clock is interesting to study as a piece of rather phenomenal ma- chinery. One of its characteristics is its va- riety. It has four faces—a face upon each side of the tower—and persons who are not satisfied with the alleged record of time upon one face can obtain another and wholly different record by looking at another face. The four sets of hands never, excepting by accident, tell the same story. HK willbe quarter past 2 onthe north dial when it is twenty minutes of 9 on the south dial, and at the same moment the east and west dials will range from half-past 6 to five minutes of 11. This would be perplexing to a stranger who wished to catch a train at the station; but the town folks are used to it. Generally, they regard the clock simply as an original kind of curiosity, not depending upon it In any manner for accuracy ; but it has been discovered that a Teasonable approximation to the correct time may be obtained usually by adding together the records of the four dials and striking a general average. The clock has what may be called {dlosyncra- sies. On the south dial the minute hand every now and then changes off with the hour hand, and cach performs for atime the tunctions of the other, with the effect to fill with complete bewilderment the mind of the oldest inhabitant who has made a practice of looking at that dial alone. The east dial works differently. Now and then the hands will come to a complete stop, say at eight minutes past twelve. After a few moments of repose. apparently to gather strength for a forward movement, both hands will suddenly whizz around and will slow up and begin regularly again at quarter to four. One wholooks at the east dial just before and immediately after the operation gains an im- pressive notion of the rapidity of the flight of time. Now and then the hands on the north dial decome interlocked, and for a day or two they revolve together, 80 that the meaning of their record is not very distinct,and it Is difficult to make a fair average of the four d! The hands on the west dial went backward every day for three weeks last summer, adding much to the interest with which the clock is regarded, and sucgesting entertaining reflections as tothe possibility ofa machine which might take up the spent moments and wind us gradually back into the eighteenth century. The clock has a striking apparatus, but, like the rest of the machinery, it is peculiar. It has rarely been known to strike the hour when any of the minute hands touched the twelve spot. Thus far no one has been able to detect any exact system In the striking, but some careful observers hold that when twelve is struck it Is fair to presume that one or the other of thedials marks ten minutes after two. This, however, is not yet verified. Occasionally the clock will not strike at all for several days, and then it will suddenly start up and strike two hundred and thirty-seven with such cepialey that the strokes can hardly be counted. The proposi- tion is that it gets in at one time or another the proper number of strikes for each year, so that nothing is really lost. It is held by some that it would be better to have the clock begin on the Ist of January and strike up ahead for the whole ensuing year, so as to get that much work out of the way; but the clock will never be pre- vailed upon to do anything so systematic and regular as that. name of the maker ts not knowa. It is thought he is dead, and there are those who urged that he overstrained and killed himself inventing and potting together such anextraor- dinary plece of mechanism. I often feel when T hear his clock strike thirty-four at a quarter to seven that I should like to have known that man; I should like to have a competent phreno!- ogist examine his cranial development. ee Permanent Result of the Skobeloff In- cident. From the Pall Mall Gazette. No one indeed who has watched with any care the effect produced by the “Skobeleff inci- dent” throughout Germany can possibly doubt that there exists in that country a feeling far more profound and serious than that excited by one of those every day ‘‘war scares” with which Lrtheeiyh ic ati Eas made mankind so a lar. mdents may see everyt! light to-day, as yesterday they paiuted the European outlook in the kest colors. It is their business to be always in extremes. What strikes the onlooker is that, though the immediate effects of the latest scare are away, as they always es elaborate ances of mutnai good |, the normal attitude of German feeling toward Russia has under- gone a forthe worse. There is less of ‘declamation which has charac- wars between the two but there is far more of quiet hatred. feeling that Russia was to be feared as a mortal enemy has been silently growing in Germany for some years, but men were willing to confess ee to them- Gabkis i representation and exaggeration of the public ress are those who are not satisfied unless heir most trivial acts and unim) it _move- are recorded in a the Peedi bbe) ker pe Mr. fellow was free this weakness, while pede loeayghorcdap doen’ did not hesitate to say were “Fray ‘both How a Mississippi Crevasve is Cloved. Correspondence of Boston Herald. The crevasse at Live Oak plantation broke | [] 0ST2TTER'S CELEBRATED through the night before we went down the river, and two days latet, on our return, we stopped toexamine the manner of closing it. A large supply of material, 8x4. and 4x4jo! inch boards, bales ofhay, and empty bags havimg been collected, two men hayinga reputation for Judg- ment, experience, and skill are chosen captains with dictatorial powers. These divide the forces Into two gangs, one for each side of the break, First, the broken ends of the levee are protected from further denudation by bracings of lumber and coverings of tarpaulin, and, when the nature of the ground will permit it, a row of stakes is driven outside the levee to prevent driftwood from washing through and hindering the work. Then, starting from points twenty or thirty feet from the break, so as to allow for accidents, four rows of piles made from the Joists are driven firmly into the soil. These rows do not project directly across the crevasse, but at an angle of 45 deg. the inner side of the levee. Between the first and second row, Fora quarter of a century or more HOSTETTER'S and between the third and fourth. the distance | STOMACH BITTERS has been the reigning specific is about three feet. while from the second to the | for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Fever and Ague, a Loss 0 third row is six feet. The piles themselves are | Physical Stamina, Liver Complaint and other disorders, driven three feet apart, and as fast as driven are Remiy braced together by boards spiked on la- terally and diagonally so as to strengthen them asmuch as possible, while loose boards laid upon these braces serve as platforms on which the men stand while at work. In this manner they feel their way along until the outer ends of the two cribs are within ten feet of each other, when the line fs driven straight gcross and the two are connected together, All this time great care is taken to allow free passage for the water between the stakes, and to disturb the bottom as little as ible; never- theless, it oftep happens that the treacherous soil gives way and a big section of the crib goes sailing off into the fleld. In time, however, the circumvallation is completed and holds firm, and the process of filling in begins. First, the space between the first and second row ofstakes is filled with armfuls of loose hay that is care- fully matted together and weighted down with bags of earth. Through this the water leaks as through a sieve, but the rush of the current is stopped. Next, the broader space between the second and third row is packed solid with bags filled with earth, and rammed down till not a drop of water can ooze through. Finally, loose earth is shoyelled and rammed upon the rear, until not only is the third compartment filled, but the bank slopes back fully ten feet beyond the inner row of piles; and notuntil then is the work declared safe and the crevasse conquered. It is now ten days since the Live Oak crevasse broke. It is not over thirty feet wide, and the surface of the river was not more than four feet above the ground level inside of the levee, yet already more than 60,000 feet of lumber fave been expended, and this morning 26,000 more feet were ordered, while nearly 100 men have been working at it daily trom dawn to dark. In the meantime the water has covered not only Live 0; ntation and the rice fields adjoining, but is spreading over the corn fields beyond. both up and down the river, carrying destruction wherever it goes. a +o, ypodermic Injections. “A recent painful case of death caused by a hypodermic injection of mor- phia directs attention afresh to the dangers of restoring to this most perilous mode of adminis- tering drugs designed to relieve pain. The public should be warned against the practice of employing remedies hypodermically. So fomi. dable a “remedy” should on no account be used except under medical advice, and when deem d necessary it ought to be given by practitioners. We have repeatedly urzed the profession to dis- countenance the recourse to injections under the skin, which is becoming general. It is a prac- tice of extreme hazard, and we are of opinion that surgical instrament makers should refuse to sell the requisite apparatus to lay persons, and that medical men should forbid their use.” egg Baccarat—The Latest Fashion in Card Gambling. From the Hour. In certain circles in New York baccarat has to some extent taken the place of our great na- tional game, poker. Baccarat is the fairest game that can be played against a bank. There is no zero and double zero as in roulette, nor is there the “splits” of faro. The banker has ab- solutely nothing in his favor except the “guess- ing” wilich his antagonist has to constantly per- form. There Is a general belief that it Is impos- sible to cheat at baccarat, but this is quite a mistake, although inclubs atid gambling places the possibility of cheating is reduced to a mini- mum by the use of cards with monograms upon them. Baccarat Is played in New York clubs with four packs of cards, and before dealing these packs arecarefully shuffled by the dealer. When the play begins the banker gives one card to the right, one to the left, and one to himself, and then he repeats the operation; court cards and tens count as zero, and it his two cards he can get nine he wins ail the stakes placed ome eo cards given to the players on the right and left. The cheating banker puts all the packs before him, with their backs to himself and their faces tothe players. Suppose that there isa three facing the players; the confederate notices this as the “banker” moves it tu the top of the packs, and so soon as@ six appears at the bottom of the pack the confederate makes a sign to the “banker,” who at once moves It to the top of the packs, taking care to place two cards be— tween it and the three and two cards above it. When he deals his own two cards are con- sequently six and three, making nine. He thus arranges a series of consecutive coups which he is certain to win. The cards are then handed to be cut, and by a trick, which consists of pinching some cards and slipping others, which, although impossible to explain, is not difficult in practice, he annuls the cut, rearing his series at the top of the pack, where he had placed it. An adroit cheat can arrange a series without any very lengthy shuffling. The player cheats the banker in this way: He puts a nine up his sleeve; when he ts given two cards he takes the chance of one of them being atenoracourt card. Supposing that he gets a ten and a three, he takes the cards up, throws the three up his sleeve and brings fromit the nine; then he exhibits a ten and a nine and thus wins. Any one with a very sinall practice asa conjurer can do this without fear ot detection. Quite recently an officer of the British army was detected ea cirrgring at baccarat ek tiie Does: club, He was in the habit of putting a five- pound note just outside the line on which the stakes were placed. If his car lost he with- drew the note; if it won he pushed the note within the line. The club expelled him, as did another club of which he was a member, and be killed himself. His previous losses at baccarat had been considerable. Sun Spots. From the N. ¥. Sun. A remarkable swarm of sun spots of all sizes, which give the impression of being entangled in the huge vell-like penumbra surrounding them, is now advancing upon the sun’s disk from the eastern edge. The motion of revolution will in few days them nearer the center of the a carry disk, where it is not im le that they will be visible as a black dot without the aid of a telescope. This group is not less than 60,000 miles in diameter. It is a wonderful-looking object in the telescope, and every increase of power brings to view spots not seen before, and complicated details of structure. the | there isa belt of smaller across the central pl Sr SES High Opinion of General Butler. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, who has been a dis- tinguished woman Game = oo for many yi speaks ent jast ly of the vate cuaraciee of Gen. Ben. Butler. She oe “T regard him as immaculate. In 11 different schools Is the opinion of of Buffalo. “They see,” it says, “theshealth of thelr chil- dren jeoparded in exertions to achieve results Hated peligro pin eor ean perceive ina ive and adispmmncied med aod are rether than an tron-bonndo inour and has been most emphatically indorsed by medical men asa health and strength restorative. It counter- acts a tendency to premature decay, and sustains and comforts tne aged and infirm. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally, apl FASstek WEEK OPENING. KING’S PALACE, 814 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. OUR EASTER WEEK OPENING OF NEW AND LOVELY PATTTERN HATS AND BONNETS COMMENCES ON MONDAY, APRIL THE 10ru, axD WILL BE OUNTINUED UNTIL OTHERWISE NOTIFIED. ‘We offer the following goods: 500 FRENCH ana ENGLISH PATTERN HATS and Bo; 'S, of the latest importation; 5,000 SCHOOL and DRESS HATS, in every style and quality, at manwfacturers’ prices; 5,000 LADIES' HATS, comprising the handsomest and cheapest assortment ever offered in styles and qual- ity—in Canton, Milan, Porcupine, Straw, Manilla, Satin, Braid, Tuscan, Fancy Straw, Real Chip, in all shades; in following shapes—Putti, Mary Bell, Cavilier, Thistle, Scarboro’, Anglo, Tyrol, Patience, Marchesi, Obelisk, Idlewild, Jovita, Vassar, Impo- rial, Esmeralda, and hundreds of other shapes too numerous to mention, at prices that will make them eel. BEADED LACES, FLOWERS, PLUMES, RIBBONS, SILKS, SUN UMBRELLAS; KID GLOVES—Keal Chamoise Musquetaire Kids, at ‘75 centa; three and four-button Kids, the greatest bargains, at 75 cents: elegant Lisle Thread Gloves, from 26 to 40 cents. Don’t fail, before purchasing, to call at KING'S PALACE, 814 SEVENTH STREET, THE GREAT HEADQUARTERS FORMILLI NERY oops. al0 L U U MMMM BBB REE RRR L UU MMMM BRB E ROR L UU MMMM BBR ER RRR L. UU MMM BB E ER w TILLL UU MMM BEE KRE B RY NO ADVANCE IN LUMBER WILLET & LIBBEY'S. SAME PRICES AS LAST YEAR. We have €,000,000 fect of Lumber, carried over from last year, and we will sell every foot of it at old prices. WILLET & LIBBEY, COR. 6TH AND NEW YORK AVENUE, m29 Ww: M ADAME ‘ASHINGTON, No, 1211 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. ANEW DEPARTOBE. DEESSES MADE AND MATERIAL FURNISHED AT LESS THAN NEW YORK PRICES. ELEGANT GOODS NOW IN STOCK. Ladies should cal atonce and leave their orders be- fore the assortment of elegant fabrics is broken. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. mi6-3m. MADAME WASHINGTON. B. ROBINSON & CO., le BOYS’ CLOTHING HOUSE, ols 909 PRWNSYLVAWIA AVENUE. DSS, REEEINCE FROM PARIS, WILL Cont Epson ts Pesach al sar ore and Teaideness. svening and morning classes. moderate. “Best olty references. Cail at 305 ‘street northwest. a13-6t" ENSINGTON rative Em! ideries taught after Sel , Pennsylvania avenue FRENCH LESSONS. _N.B_MLLE ¥, PRUD~ Fiitoatateg “testdonce removed to 1324 K street ‘orth wert. cseses for becinners Oral system April 19th, st 10 a.m. and 64 p.m. Papil« for other clarees can Lessons oin now. ths, pan nil continue during the ‘summer mont Cy OF ELOCUTIO } SHAKESPEARE CLASS WED: NGS AT 8 O'CLOCK, rR MACK (of New York), T29 13th street n. X. DE WOLOWSKI'S NEW 4 “4 Sin ne = Piano, forsee gc po faving years of practice for operas, concerts an Jor, at 807 Tit strect nordiwest, between Ht andl. mi21-1m_ QCHOOL. OF § SW. Fry: AM. iat) ‘3. W.’ corner &th and K streets northwest. Privately or in Ciass—Mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, German and English. ial attention to prep- aration for College, West Point, Annspolis and all com- titive examinations, Terms in aavance. mil Musee ACAD! 2721 DE SALES Sr.; ner. Conn. ave. axp Ifru Princtpal, J. P. CAULFIELD, ‘Mus, Doo, _ Studies résuined September 20th, “ay Dislonies 4 jomee vate and in a Tate and in classe, af rote _311-6m 18S AMY LEAVITT, OF BOSTON, TREACHER of Vocal and Instrumental Music. "Address 944 K street northwest. aus Je ER SCHERL ORGANIST, TEACHER OF PIANO ¢ and VOCAL MUSIC. Particular atteution to be- DB as well as those wishing to be qualified for Performers or Teachers, "734 12th street northwest. con at 2m EMONT (FRENCH TEACH- radenue de Paria. Leeone pri- bie terms. 12th street fer- ENCERIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE, CORNER #5 Ninth and D strects northwest, occupies’ it new and attractive ha!) in the handsome edifice known throughout the United States.as LINCOLN HALL BUILDING, Day and Evening Sessions for Ladies and Gentlemen. ‘Sons and daughters educated for real. life. ceived throughout the year. A_pamp an eloquent address to the students on. Buccess,” by James A. Garfield; also fall informstion concerning the Colles, will be sent free ea ‘oftice. i be obtained at the O SER, Principal. Mi ion by mail, or HEN SF RY C. R, . 8. EL. CADY'S BOARDING SCH mg Ladies. West Rad Instituie, N Eleventh year, Superior facili A |, GREEK, MAT! | Buenos and Finis, privaiely red for College and Con Prepeadaress BA. SANT 04-810, ‘ON COL and_Day Children, re-opens Sept : apply to Mra. Z, D. BUTCH LAS, Principals, 1023 and 1 SAFE DEPOSIT CO. ECURITY FROM LOSS BY BURGLARY, ‘THE re BERY, FIRE OR ACCIDENT. DENT. IONAL SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY, Corner 15TH StReET axD NEW YORK AVE. petual Charter Act of ai 224, al 1867. Capital. Re ral BENJAMIN P. SNYDER, CHARLES C. GLOVER, JOHN CASSELS, ‘Trea: ALBEE President. rot Riggs & Co., Vice President, surer. ERT L. STURTEVANT, Secretary. C.'E. Ni Asst. Becy. | E. Nyman, Seog. Benjamin P. Snyder, Charles C. Glover, John Cassels, Henry A, Willard, ANert L. Sturtevant ‘Thomas Evans, “Jonn G. Parke, no MEDICAL, &c. REWARD IF DR. BROTHERS FAILS TO $é 0) caro sny case of Suppressed or Painful Men- struation, Leucorrhom (or bites), and all Inter- Tuptions or Irregularities of the Me Periods; y ce. 906 Batreet southwest. al8-1m* 0] E URI GENITAL OR Na, 'Biood, Liver, Kidneys and Women, Bron: Gurek, Wau tine not ie’ Des SEREER cured. Write foi advice 8 Te Box 104, Buffalo, N. ¥. ‘alS-disk QPERMATOBRUG@A, MMPOTENC Yate Dineases quickly cured; also Ol Female Weaknesses, kes No calond or .. Office, 514 9th st.n.w., bet. E and F ats. 23-1" BOTTLE OR TWO, OF DR. BROTHEKS' IN. visorat Cordia! will cure any case N Debility, ‘Seminal Emissions and Imvotenry, tose of sexual power. Itimparts vigor to the whole mystera. 906 B etrect southwest. 128-11" MADAME DE FOREST HAS REMEDY FOR LA dies, Allfemale compiaints quickly cured. Can be Sonsuilted daily at 924 7th street northwest. Office hours Ti m., with indies only. mil-2m" E OLDEST ESTABLISHED AND most reliable Ladies’ Physician in the ety, can be Corsuited daily at 257 Penusylvania avenue, from 2 to & and 6 to 8. Female Complaints and Irregularities r pt treatment. “Separate rovins for ES" AN HAVE SCIENTIFIC TREAT- dy Cure of all Venereal Diseases, 237 Penneyivanis avenues, ct ‘Shane whate LEON, ions and advice free of any wer. im. A POSITIVE CURE _ Without Medicines. ALLAN’S SOLUBLE MEDICATED BOUGIES, Patented Ootober 16, 1876. One bor No. 1 will cure any casein four days or lees. No: 2 will cure tho most obesiuste ease, he ‘matter of J. C. ALLAN CO., 83 John street, New York. 311-tu, th.e-6m_ 18 WEALTH !—DR. ART NEEDLEWORK AND DPOo- | phool, d | Bui Point and r i, " and Weluesfays “ap,” Creck_on Suvdays, “Gown,” wed Mocdaye turning to Washington every Monday, Weduceday andl * Foraformation apply to ot. mis oracens TO EUROPE. 3, W. BOTELER & SON Are the Agents for the rale of Tickets in this Distriot of INMAN STEAMSHIP Co. Proposing to visit Europe can obtain allin- eriwetion LY apyssinx bo miT-3m 43. W. BOTELER & 80N. Potomac TRaNSPoRTATION LINE.” STRAMER 8) for Baltimore and itiver Lande All Kiver Freight must be Paopatd. arrive in Washington every Saturday night, STEPHENSON & BRO., Ackxt, mi6-tn %%h street Wharf and Cor, 12th and Pa. ave None. FOR POTOMAC KIVER LANDINGS. Op and sfter NOVEMBER 3p, 1881, ARROWSMITE, wil leove her waart, & at 7 a.m. every § foot of, THURSDAY and DAY for’ all. river Ia ‘On MONDAY Ferry. On THURSDAY, Nom. aL, Tronardiown apd St. Clonin:s” Bay. stone's Whark Colron's and Howard's, TURDAY. Curriomas “ns JOHN BR. WOOD, Agent, pAueune Line. - ‘WEEELY LINE OF STEAMERS LEAVING NEW YORK EVERY THURSDAY AT2P. uM. FOR ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY. For Passage sD 10 © 5 RICHARD & 00., General Passenrer Agenta, 61 Broadway, New York. Or to PPRCY G. SMITH, 1351 snd 619 Penmylvania avenue. | NORFOLK AND NEW YORK STEAMERS. THE STEAMER TADY OF THE LAR® her wharf, foot of 6th strect,every MO! ESDAX and FRIDAX, at 6 0'c! apt i) iney Point, Pont Lookout an ‘ortress Monre STING AT NORFOLK WIIM THE BosTO! | AND PROVIDENCE STEAMERS. | Fortress Monroe ‘clock p.tn. JOHN Nand E. 1GHT woh ren GIBSON and F. C. KN soll rymamne rest Pier 41, Fost River, New York, | BATURDAYS at Tour’ o'clock Pm, and every FRIDAY, at 7, o'clock aan. fy to agent, 63 Water street, ( thete covery fetropoliten ae B. S roech neat a5 ‘51 ton. ivaudia ave Os BU RTFRED WOOD. Secretary. NEW york ROTTERDAM. slurs Steamers of this Tina, ae “ROTTERDAM “AMSTERDA: “SCHIEDAM, “P. CALA the U. 8. Matis to the Ni Brook! hg $50, oes, Penney rani astnaton, oe Wa iia ‘oven ie g (omanp LINE, ‘RATE. OF Passau’ $80 and $10 se econ be ronan Antone. raten. liv. snot Murope' sh at Bteerage erpocl and Gusemetowe mad alt nineteen Havre, Antwerp sd Gtoer portson die Costinant to porta. NES ae aaa ast Ko. stoorace abd cabin ous Ws OO., 605 Tih strect Washington, 3S VERNON H. BROWX & 00.. Now York; yeni? — Gao Fin eiret, Washington. LLoyD— Between New Yors, Havas sail EVERY 8AT- Lah Er Coenen vania a1 Aurel NoetE, GERMAN Live REA’ PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE TO THE NORTH, WEST AND SOU’ DOUBLE TRACK. ‘SPLENDI EKL RAILS. 5 30, 9:50 30 em 6:400.m. and 4:40 p.m., daily, y om. and 4:40 p.m., dally, except 00, ‘and 10:40 p.m. For Pope's Greek Line, ‘EALTH NERVE AND iat Haat loan erect, Row Yoo, RO! ‘TSON CAN BE CONSULTED CONFI- Deeee Sete aecee se ofen, 30 N. Liberty street, Butmore ‘2m LAGEs BEER, THE BEST IN THE DISTRICT. 308. SCHLITZ BREWING CO.’S MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER, eee et aes Eh RB. BICOBD'’s VITAL RESTORATIVE, Approved by the Academy of Medicine, of Paris, re- commended by BALtnone a OHIO RAILROAD. ‘THE MODEL FAST, AND THE ONLY LINR THE EAST AND VIA WASHINGTON. *Biitet SCHEDULE TO TAKE EFFECT MONDAY, Jan. . ne OME Tie Battmore, Enicott city, Annspots and Wag