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THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, > a4 THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1882-DOUBLE SHEET. A WEEK'S COURTSHIP. ‘Trot | the Hiet Springs He- Eamet br Marringe n'a Se Louis lote! From the St. Louis Giobe-Demoerat, April 14. ‘There was a quiet wedding at the Southern Hotel yesterday afternoon, connected with which are elemeatsofa romance. The groom was Mr. Michael R. Furiong, a young attorney of Springtield. Ifl., and the bride was Mrs. Ida B. Peynado, of Louisville, the widow of Ed- ward Peynado, a Spanish gentleman making Lonisville bis home during the last few years of his life, and Jeaving his wife a large fortune. Less than three weeks ago Mr. Furlong and Mrs. Peynatio did not know of each other's exi . He was just fairly embarked in legal career, and while bearing an honoraple Bame, and held by his friends to promise much, was not blessed with more of the world’s good’s than was wrestied day by day from the path of his profession. She was rieh, with a name al- lied with an old family, her cards, paper, and other effects all carrying the crest of the Pey- nados. It was at Hot Springs, Ark., two weeks ago, that circumstances threw them into each other's company. Mr. Furlong is physically in every way calculated to wina woman's fancy, be- ing tall, good proportioned, witn glossy black hair and mustache. Mrs. Peynado, a blonde, is an ornament to her sex The first week of their acquaintance passed. its end finding them with — troth. Then they parted, returning to heir respeetive homes. but meeting again yea- terday morning at the Southern, to carry out the vows pledged seven short days before. Mr. Furlong was accowpanied by Mr. J. Otis Humphrey, of Springfield, the attorney and as- sistant secretary of the railroad and warehouse commission, and Mrs. Peynado by her maid. She came thus comparatively alone to escape the objections and obstacles to ber marriage that would have been raised by her family and friends. But an unforseen obstacle arose, causing beth some dismay. Both were of the Catholic church, and the formalities demanded by that religion before the desired union could Rot be carried ou An hour's consultation re- sulted in the decision to call on the Rev. Dr. W. W. Boyd, of the Second Baptist ebureh, who consented to officiate, and at 2:30 o'clock ap- peared in one of the hotel parlors, where were also gathered Messrs. R. ‘f. Stillwill and M. O'Neil, of St. Louis, friendsof Mr. Furlong. In a short time the groom and bride entered the apartment escorted by Mr. Humphrey, Mrs. Peynado was dressed in an elegant Diack silk suit, with violets clustered at the throat; handsome white duchess hat, with white plume and spray of violets and she wore a Magnificent pair of solitaire diamonds in her ears. Mr. Furlong was arrayed in the conven- tional biack dress suit. The ceremony was short but impressive, Mr. and Mrs. Furlong Kneeling during the blessing by the doctor. ‘The party then retired to the ladies’ ordinary, where a dinner was served. Mr. and Mra. Fur- Jong left last evening for Louisyille, and will immediately start on a European tour. Young Virginians. From the May Atlantic. In Texas I saw many young men from Vir- ginia, sonsof the best families there, intelligent and of excellent character generally. In con. versation with one of them, I told him that I had recently been looking about in his native state, and that it seemed to me that allenergetic young Virginians were needed at home, and that there was abundant opportunity and reward for labor there; and I asked if he liked the life in Texas better than work in Virginia. He eaid he did not, but that it was not yet the fashion for young Virginians of good family to engage in hard, rough work near their homes in the Old Dominion. “It would not do for me to work by the month there for such as are here. It would be too much of on aitiction tor my family, and I should lose caste with my lady friends. Ifa man has no money he cannot be- Lied Virginia, — be Pope be classed With the poor whites and negroes, with Whom his work and circumstances would him into competition. But be can come out here and ‘rouzh it,’ and if he has no money he an work by the month at herding, or driving team, till he gets a start.” I suppose this is true, for I heard the same thing often in various —_— in Texas, and in Virginia and Tennessee parents of many of these young men gave me the same reason for the emigration of their fons to Texas. Perhaps these reasons would be equally potent with everybody, but at any rate I could see that many young men in the south-! West work harder, and live In far rougher and | more uncomfortable ways than would be neces- sary in the older states, and that they donot make 80 inuch money as they mizht there. There is, apparently, as too, as from any talk is everywhe “better country than this,” in Mexico and New Mexico, and one soon re- | ceives the impression that nobody is settled, or is at all certain of remaining very long, even in Texas. I found in every part of the south a led and extensive movement of the agricul- ral class, both white and colored, toward the | Southwest and west. In many cases, the prin- cipal reason for this movement, so far as I could diseover, is the improvement which is taking place in the older rezions of the south. When “the new order of things” begins to mani- fest itseif ia a southern community there are Many persons, of the poorer ciasses, who feel re- pelled rather than attracted by the indications of approaching change. and in their restlessness and discontent they leave their old homes, hop- ing to find more congenial conditions ip newer and more sparsely populated regions. Many of these persons depend only in part ‘upon agricul- ture for their subsistence. ey obtain some Portion of their living by bunting and fishing, and these cecupations are much more to their taste than steady work of any kind. These emi- grants often sa: "3 agoin’ to cost t.0 much to live hyur;” and they are undoubtedly correct in this conclusion. It will certainly require more money and more labor to live ander the im- | Pa conditivns Iu “the new south” than have itherto been necessary under the old order of things: and many southern men, of the classes referred to, reason. rightly enough, that for them the improvement and progress promised by the signs of the times are aot likely to bring an in- crease of happiness. <—— An American Supper in Hungary. From “European Broczes,” by Marwery Deane. One day we prepared an American feast for our Hungarian friends, who were curious to see | What some of onr dishes were like. “Yon must | give us Boston beans and brown bread,” said | one who had heard of these Yankee delicacies: “and a pie,” chimed in another. Our facilities Were not of the best, but we set a supper that had the virtue of variety if no other. In vain We searched the china shops for individual but. | ter plates and small sauce dishes; they were un- Known, and for the first we substituted color saucers, which are very similar in shape and size, but they proved a puzzle to our guests. They were quite shocked, loo, to see the food set upon the table. I grieve to state that they were not enthusias- | tic over this national meal, for it may seem to cast a reficction upon Its cooks. Most gingerly | they tasted our beantiful brown beans, remark- z casually that it was a pity to so spoil beans, when they made so excellent a salad. They ac- tually “tarned up their noses” at our delicious brown bread, which they were sure was heavy; the raw dressed tomatoes they set away, lest they poison the air; the chicken salad ‘they deizned to say might be good if the chicken had been left out. The American pie they thought might be eatable, had it been baked in small | Pans, and without a top crust; and our crisp, delicate, warm rolls they refused to eat for twenty-four hours, lest they perish at once. Our roast beef they declined because it had not been bolied; but the Saratoga potatoes! Budapesth may vet erect to us a monument, because we introd| there “Saratoga chips,” for they tickled Hungarian palate, and produced a sensation that satistled ns. But as a whole our American feast starved them. This they trankiy made known, and we adjourned to a neizhborit- ~restoration” to satisfy their hunger. This is what we had there: An ox-tail soup full of dumplings; a dish of green peas and rice boiled together. with grated cheese: salt “turoover” pies, filled pepper; a salad dressed with sunflower ofl; some sermmels (rolls) stuffed with poppy seeds stewed with milk and jhouey, and, to end with, a cheese, mixed on the table, made JOUBNEYING THROUGH SIBERIA. Sledging Over the Lary Seg bat Cheap Transit_The Route of Jules Verne’s Here—The Swamps of the Ba- The correspondent of the N. N. Herald on his way through Siberia to join in the search for Capt. DeLong, writes to that paper from Kras- noyarsk, Feb. 17th, a long letter giving an ac- count of his Journey to that town, from Omsk. He states that he left Omsk on the 8th of that month, having rested there two days after his long journey across the Ovenburg steppes. LIFE IN A SIBERIAN TOWN. He says in Omsk there is a theater where Russian dramas are performed twice a week; a cir cus, always a favorite place of entertainment for the Russians, and many private and public concerts. These amusements serve to make life comparatively pleasant to the inhabitants of Omsk, though Iam afraid a stranger would soon become dreadfully weary of the place, its everlasting cold and snow in winter, Its heat and dust in the summer. Foreigners there, es- pecially the Danish telegraph clerks, tell’ me that the first year of their Siberian life is gen- erally one of intense depression to them. They feel themselves removed entirely out of the world of life and beauty; they are attacked by a dreadful lingering melancholy, and many who cannot save money to get away are driven to desperation and suicide. The bitter icy winds seem at last to strike to the heart, and summer time brings no yoy to it. Vast, wearying, wood- less plains extend for a thousand yersts around and nature herself becomes terrible and cruel. Yet it is not nature's fault. Man has been the great cause of this monotony; he has felled the grand forests that once covered the country. I stood on the bridge over the Irtysch at Omsk for afew minttes one day and could see for twenty miles beyond the oasis of the city limits, and far as the eye could reach there was noth- ing but the vast, level; monotonous steppe, in winter looking like a great white frozen ocean. THE ROAD OF VERNE’S HERO. You may remember the rather exciting ac- count given by the celebrated French author of the adventures of Michal Stroghoff while he was crossing the marshes of the Baraba. The re- doubtable courier left Omsk on the 29th of July— therefore in the heat of summer—and on the following day he passed through the post sta- tion of Touroumoff and entered the swampy district of Baraba. “There,” says Jules Verne, “tor a distance of three hundred versts the nat- ural obstacles would be very great. bie These vast marshes of the Baraba form’the res- ervoir to all the rainwater which finds no other outlet toward the Obi or toward the Irtysch. The soil of this vast depression fs entirely argil- laceous and therefore impermeable, so that the waters remain there and make of it a region very difficult to cross during the hot season. There. however, lies the way to Irkutsk, and it is in the midst of \ ergend pools, lakes and swamps, from which the sun draws poisonous exhalations, that the road beg and one upon the traveler the greatest gue an: n- ger. * * * However fast he traveled, the horse and horseman were unable to escape the sting of the two-winged insects which infest this marshy country. Travelers who are obliged to cross the Baraba during the summer take care to provide themselves with masks of horse- hair, to which is attached a coat of mail of very fine wire, which covers their shoulders. Not- withstanding these precautions there are very few who come out of these marshes without having their faces, necks and hands covered with red ts. The atmosphere there seems to bristle with fine needles. and one would almost say that a knight’s armor would not protect him against the darts of these dipteralsa. Itisa dreary region, which man dearly disputes with tipulac, gnats. mosquitoes, horseflies and mill- ions of microscopic insects invisible to the naked eye.” SLEDOING ACROSS THE BARABA. In winter the traveler passes over this vast, ‘Unhealthy region, unscathed by fever or mos- quite. The snow and the frost have made out of the Barabaa vast white monotony, differing little from the endless steppes that we have been traversing so long. The only difference was in the goodness of the road, on which we made nearly 150 miles during the first 24 hours—a rate we could not keep up when we took to the rezular roads again, when endless tea caravans caused continual obstructions, and the hollows and abysses in the road give excruciating pain. These tea caravans are enough to drive the traveler crazy. They reach trom horizon to horizon, hundred er hundred of sledges, loaded with five or six chests of tea, driven by rascals who sleep at night time and allow the horses to wander on at their own sweet will, or, when awake, leave their horses to take care of themselves, while they assemble in groups on the sledzs to gossip. From Omsk to Tomsk we met not less than six or seven thousand of these tea sledges, which in about a month’s time will arrive on the frontier. My expenses for posting from Omsk to Tomsk, over six hundred miles, have been only sixty rubles for an average of five horses. This is cheap enough, and is, of course, only possible where horse feed costs next to nothing and a man can live on ten cents a day. EXCRUCIATING TRAVEL. At last you approach Tomsk. The forest ap- pears; wooded hills and broad and apparently rich soiled valleys take the place ot the unending steppes. You are driven along the broad valley of the Obi. and at last, on an elevated plateau which extends for miles along the water, you see the spires of the Greek churches of Tomsk, and know that you can have a night’s rest in one of the warm if intolerably uncleanly places yelept hotels. And I needed rest. Pleasant as was the scenery on the last 200 versta before reaching Tomek, sleep had been out of the ques- tion. The roads were execrable, the hollows Into which the sledge | pete every moment seemed little pitfalls, and existence had become almost unbearable. There were miles and miles and miles of roads on which the sledge plunged and rocked and creaked, while every moment you imagined that your horses would be unable to draw you out of the abysses. FROM TOMSK TO KRASNOYARSK. The journey from Tomsk to Krasnoyarsk Proved to be the worst stretch on the entire journey, although the scenery on the last-half of the road was in many places lovely even in its winter dress. Fora distance of over two hundred miles the great wide road passes through one vast forest of firs, spruces. larch and birch, which in sammer must be perfectly lovely. ‘Only at nizhts. after the sun went down, did cold make itself felt, and then most piereit But it was a great surprise to me to strike such charming days of sunshine in Siberia. The grand forested mountains over which we had passed seemed to have kept all the snow from the great plain extending along the passes around Krasnoyarsk. and it needed at last eizht strong horses to draz our sledye over the frozen ground into the city. Once or twice we stuck fast, but after placing pieces of wood under the runners for a short distance we seon got over the difficulties. This has been the greatest surprise of all on the ge oe ney thus far, to find a patch of fifty miles of | anowless roads after the long sledge journey of two thousand miles. Arriving at Krasnoyarsk T received a telegram from Lieut. Danenhower, who is still in Irkutsk, and I therefore leaye = ee for the Eastern Siberian capital. See Sarah Wasn't There. From the Detroit Free Press. Charley Shaw, of the Detroit Opera House, was grinning at the window of the box office the other day, when in walked a chap with an agricultural bronze on his face, and asked: “Does any oue perform here?” “Oh, yes. “This aiternoon?” BRADLAUGH AT HOME. How the Famous jishman Looks, Acts, ‘and Farce Cor. Boston Herald. Lonpon, March 31, 1882.—Charles Bradlaugh 1s tne Sarah Bernhardt of British politics. He is the best advertised man in Europe. He knows how to turn every little atom of public sentiment into a sensation for his own uses. He ee = Mg upon the oe principte ot joing what will get him into most apparent’ trouble and cause him the least actual inconve- nience. He goes around perpetually with a chip on his shoulder, daring the whole world to knock ft off. But he holds a club in the other hand with which to hit the fellow who accepts bis invitation. And if he gets a good chance to thump his man below the belt, 80 much the worse for the man. I found Mr. Bradlaugh the other morning in a big, square room over a piano store. on Circus road, St. John’s Wood. The aj ent was, perhaps. 20 feet square, and had four long win- dows, which ran from the floor nearly to the high ceiling. There were books everywhere. All four walls of the room were covered with them, in cases. They were stacked up in hea) on the floor. The desks held piles of them, till their legs creaked under the load. And in the middle of this chaos of volumes sat the gentle- man who bas been responsible for a similar con- dition in a good many parts of Great Britain. at different times. Before him, on the tup of a large desk, was a heap of unanswered corres- pondence, quite as voluminous and disarranged as the most ramshackle Bohemian could have wished or dreamed of. If men of genius are disorderly, or, rather, if disorder is an indica- tion of genius, Mr. Bradlaugh is a tower of men- tal strength. But, whether this be true or not, I should hate to pick him. up for a weakling and chance it. He rose and extended his hand as I threaded my intellectual way toward him. Tall and stout, with broad though sloping shoulders, a high but rather peaked torehead thinly thatched with rusty gray hair. hazel eyes, a small nose, round face and a mouth that opens and shuts like a steel trap with a smile on it, Mr. Bradlaugh impressed me as a singular COMBINATION OF PUGNACITY AND GOOD HUMOR, blended with a certainly uncommon amount of physical and mental force. He had been re- turned from Northampton a few days before my visit, upon the heels of his dismissal from Par- lament for having taken the oath in defiance of the rules of the House. His course since com- ing back to town had, to the public eye, been a singularly uncertain one. “What are you going to do?” I asked. “Fight,” was his brief reply, as he looked me in the face with an expression which indi- cated surprise that I should ask such a ques- tion. When I asked him how he meant to pro- ceed, he responded that nobody knew, except- ing himeelf. 1 was glad to hear it. Mr. Brad- laugh, like our own champion infidel, Col. Ingersoll, isamanof the most careful habits, personally. He drinks only occasionally, and then nothing but light claret. For many years he was an absolute teetotaller, and he began finally to indulge himselt in thin wine upon the urgent advice of his physician. Smoking he knows not. In dressing he is neat, not sandy. He wears black broadcloth, which bangs in the way that fabric usually hangs: a plain, pleated shirt with a scanty turn-down collar, no studs, and a slender watch-chain. He has earned a good deal of money In his time, but, upon the morning of my visit, he was almost at the bottom ot his resources, the last election having very nearly bankrupted him. But. a day later, a ay, considerable subscription from the admirers of stern and unyielding devotion to the task of upsetting ordinary theorles once more placed him upon his feet. He has some- thing of an income from the numerous books he has placed upon the market, but the expenses of ® parliamentary candidate in England are very ze, no matter how fruzal may be his personal habits. Mr. Bradlaugh has two daugh- ters and himeelf to support. Tat is the extent ot his family. His wife, who was for a long time an invalid, died some vears ago, and since. her demise the Misses Bradlaugh have, been to a great extent, reared under the supervisory care of Mrs. Besant, whose name has long been jinked with that of Mr. Bradlaagh in ways not grati- ‘ing. but, I believe, unjust to some extent. le spoke of her to me the other day with some earnestness and feeling. “‘T first met Mrs. Besant,” sald Mr. Bradlauch, “when I was editing a paper called the Reformer She had done and said some bold things it the same field of religious unbelief as that which I occupted, and I had a sincere admiration for her mental power. I accordingly invited her to write for the paper which was under my man- agement She did so During this time the gentleman who had been in the habit of pub- lishing her works and mine was arrested ona charge of disseminating improper literature The charge was based upon the republication of a pamphlet which, some forty years previously, had been put upon the market under the title of ‘FRUITS OF PHILOSOPHY.” This book: was written by a man named Knowlton and brought out by a publisher named James Watson. Our publisher bought the stereotype plates of this volume and a number of others from Watson’s widow, ana without ever reading the published new edi- tions. This resulted in his arrest, and, much to my surprise, he declined to imsist upon hs right to bring such a book ont, and proposed, in order to avold the trouble and expense of a suit, to acknowledze that the work was im- proper and tocallitin. I should, in all proba- bility. have declined to publish this book if the original manuscript had been brought to me. But my objections would have been profes- sional and not sentimental. ‘That is to say, the book was badly written, but its contents were not improper. Still, I could not allow the publisher of my own outspoken works to ‘rua away from this responsibility and take no hand in the battle myself. If I had it would have been ~ submit- ting to a virtual acknowledgment from him that my publications were also immoral. So I determined to reprint the book myse defy the authorities. Mrs. Besant same boat with me on this question, stood to her post with great bravery. ‘ou re- member that we were condemned to six months’ imprisonment and Gre payne «fa fine of £200, or $1,000. We fouzht the thing throuzh, how- ever, succeeded in getting the sentence re- voked, and even secured a return of the copiex of the work which had been selzed. Our next labor was to revise the book and put it upon the market, where thirty-eight editions have been sold. Had the authorities taken no action in the matter, the ‘Fruits of Philosophy’ would probably never have gone beyond the first. edi- tion. The friendship which these adventures produced has been of the most enduring kind. and people may say of it and of us just what they like. I do not fully concur in the very high opinion which Mr. Bradiauzh’s adherents have formed concerning his greatness. They would place hifn at the head of their forthcoming republic as THE BIGGEST INTELLECT IN ENGLAND. He is simply a strong man, a tenacious fighter, and a stickler for every one of his rights, no matter how trivial that right may be. He Is no charlatan, and would have made his mark in the world, even if he had pursued the prosaic path. Ast is. he made a wider mark by choos- Ing turbulent and excited methods, The nation may congratulate itself upon having made him. It they were to let him alone fors year, even now, to go In peace where he liked, to do as he chose, to haranzue and sit in parliament at will, they would destroy his influence sooner than they ever will by opposing him. An influence based on violence soon sickens in the atmor- phere of peaceful contemplation. The influence of Mr. Bradlauch would die of sheer tnanitio- under these circumstances. And I’m not go sure but the removal of all contention would be too @ shock for Mr. Bradiaugh himself. He lives peacefully enoug® at home, brings up his family in a careful, affectionate, and wor- thy way, and 1s deeply loved by them. His neighbors like him sincerely, and, atter all, there must be @ great percentage of good in a dearest by those who know Ricuarpeoy. a ee Pet Animals and Contagious Diseases. ‘The fact that pet animals can carry contasion, ‘and thus be the means of spreading fatal diseases, is not widely known nor duly appreciated. We have heard of authentic cases in which scarlet fever was communicated from DECORATING CITY YARDS, A Way in Which to Make a Thing of Beauty Out of the Few Square Feet of Earth Known as the City Back Yard. Tt looks hopeless, I know, but still it is pos- sible to transform the little city back yard into a blooming garden that shall be a suurce of de- light through all the hot months of the summer, and through all the crisp days of the autumn. Nature is very good to us; she provides flowers for all places, and plants that will grow under great disadvantages, if we only know how to manage them. At the outset I will make the admission that there are few places where flow- ers are grown with more difficulty than in the city back yard. But it is @ glorious thing to overcome ditcatties. There is @ happy sense of having conquered, in seeing that waste place, the little bin of earth, ‘all verdant and abloom. It does one good, and it does one’s neighbors good. And how can it be accom- plished? It is necessary that most of the back yards of cities should be used a8 @ place for drying clothes. This fact must not be lost sight of. The center of the yard must not be laid out in such a way that it cannot be walked on. The best way is to have grass in the center—good, sweet, even turf. Ah! but you say, “ny grass-plat always looks ragged; little tufts of unhealthy looking grass spring up here and there, and the rest is brown earth.” Well, have you ever looked into the matter to fin out the reason? Take a spade and turn up a few inches of the soil, and you will find that it has no depth. Examine the roots of the } bir and you will find that they only go jown an inch or two and then meet hard clay or gravel. Show the grass td a gardener and be will tell you that that kind of grass will not flourish in a partially shaded place. Now for the remedy. bend to the nearest stable for a load of the best rotted manure that they have. If theyhappen to be sweeping your street get somebody to carry into your yard a few baskets of the street sweepings. ‘Then hire a man to come with his spade, and let all the old soil be turned over and shaken up and mixed with the manure to twice the depth of the spade. Ifthe soil then seems hard, get a load of sand and have it mixed in. It is some trouble, and may cost you four or five dollars altogether, but you are doing it to stay. Now goto the seedsman and tell him you want a Grass seed mixture to grow ina partially shaded | place. Early in the spring or late in the fall | rake this mixture into your prepared bed, and rake It pretty deep. Give it a good watering— with the house hose, and let it be to We You will have provided a path about this grass-plat, and you must manage for a while to have yourclothes-line in a line with this path, so that your laundress may not be obliged to tramp over the sprouting bed. Presently tie young grass will be up. For awhile it will need Special care. It must be kept well watered till the roots 6f the grass have fouud their way into the deep soil that you have prepared for the ‘Then it only needs to be kept closely cut. You may nei care to buy a lawn mower; so buy a grass hook at 75 cents; and let me tell you that there is no way of getting the delicious smell of new-mown hay into the heart of the city so sat- isfactorily as to go out and mow over your back yard in the cool of a summer morn- ing. This grass-plat, if well attended, will be a source of delight to you—always a restful spot of green to look at. In the fall, give it a dressing of street sweepings, and if there comes a loug drouxnt, give it a good wetting down now and then. The center of your grass-plat will probably be the sunniest spot in your yard. It will be a good place for a garden vase or large rustic basket. If you have @ garden vase and want a great flame of brilliant flowers the summer through, plant it with nas- turtiums. The tender green,of the foliage and the varied yellows and reds of the flowers make & most attractive object. Or if you have plenty of money you can have your vase filled at the florist’s with plants of varied foliaze. Only give your vase plenty of water; it is surprising how thirsty vase-planta will be, and when the season is well along add a little enrichment to the water—a tablespoonful of guano or Bowker'’s “Food for Flowers” to each gallon of water. If you have @ grass-plat in the center and walks about that, you will naturally keep a flower bed about the edie of your garden. A good deal of this bed will be shaded, and you must not forget that tact In setting your plants. There are plenty of plants that bke the shade— or partial shade at The tuchsia thrives best where it has only an hour or two of direct sunshine daily. Thebezonias thrive well In the shade. ‘The pansy takes a cool! and shady place, with plenty of moisture. Ff aud some of the palms must have tue deepest shade in order to thrive at all. ‘These plauis will give you variety enough for the shaded parts of your flower beds, and you cau k suniy spots for the roses and geraniuias and the qiiex-xrow- ing annuals which are so little trouble and make so muci show: the a: the baisa:n, and the pure white candy- : border deep, inake it ric water. * If you have 1 ing p e your plants; it washes olf the plants ‘a chance to b: night. You may set your pias%s very close in your city borders; tuey will.uoi crow rampant- ly, aud it is desirable ‘to haye the ground cov- ered. About the edges and beiween the plants sow mignonette. It will iilithe whole honse with its delicate odor when the windows are opened on sumer mornings There are a few vines, hardy vinea, that grow weil in city gardens. Th ould always be kept closely trimmed aad tied up to prevent seragzy growth and that they may not make bunches of shade. Tie se Wisteria is one of the best of city vines, d the trumpet vine and honeysuckle thrive well even under the dif- ficulties of city gardens. If vou have a sunny exposure and & good, rich soil. you way have & running rose or two, but the condit! exceptionally favorable for the ros hardy Prairie Queen, to flourish. ‘There are two pests in the city garden that must be guarded just—the cat and the red spider. There is little circulation of air in acity yard, and much cuntined heat; conditions upon which the red spider thrives. But the insidious little insect can’t abide water. So if the foliace be wet daily he will soon be driven away. He dislikes sulphur too, and a pound of powdered sulphur blown over the foli; will generally banish iim from the garden But cats—cats are perverse and persistent. The more mellow you make your garden beds the better thi to dig in them. etimes | think they are en- dowed with a dreadful and malicious curiosity ; 1 have known them to dig up a Whole row of buried bulbs, apparently for no other object than to see what they looked like. Spiked fences, broken glass on the top of your fences, barbed wire barricades—these are dif- ficulties that the wily and graceful. the ecun- ning and clever cat loyes to surmount. There is but one way to keep the cat out of a city gar- den, and that is to surmount your fences with pickets sharpened at the top, so near tozether that a cat can't cwl through, and so high that a cat can’t Jump over then the cat will find some projecting cornice from which it cin jump into your inclosure, or some water-spout down which she can climb into your domain, and these feline vantage points must be watched for and euarded with special precautions in the way of bristling pickets. ‘0 suin up, here are a few rules for the man- agement of city yards, so that they shall grow sweetly and bloom glorious! 1. Muke the soil deep, rorons aad rich. 2. Give vlenty of water at the roots. 8. Keep the foliage cean, ememiéring thst there is Mauch inere cust in the city thun in the country, and Hast plate met breathe. ‘seein |. Keep the shady a: ots of your garden for plants that Ss the sunny ep.ts for plants that love Ss shade an n, 5. Hememter that the conditio.= of florioniture are aifieult in’ the elty, and be content with commou flow- oow rely, cm . stu of the cat and strive patiently to oument feaapeins ‘they will love you and fe j.. Love your aD love: cs 1n this, after all, is the whole secret of sucoces. —_—____-o-—_____ How te Detect Classical Music. Geo. Kyle in “Quiz " iw [ean giveyou a simple rule by which the most ignorant may know whether auy given plece of music should or should not be admired. If you Ss the | know at once wnat:it is all about; if It seems to be saying 1, 2, 3, hop. hop, hop, or 1-2-3, bang bang, bang, you may conclade ast once that you are listening to something of a very low order, ° which it Is your duty to But when you hear something that sounds as ifan assorted lot of notes hady put intoa and were being persistently stirred up, kind of harmonious el, you may know and may safely assume an interest. If the fo nave boon dropped by 2 CHO gers a> oS ae 000 LL DDD KK wwwyw Hr FER Wray bel Thos BEE = Wry HHH sect Ec Ht Bee PURE AND UNADULTERATED. ‘The peculiar medicinal qualities of Whiskies distiltea from the finest growth of rye in the renowned Valley of the Monongahela, have attracted tht attention of the Medical Faculty in the United States to such a dexree.as pas itin avery high position among the Materia Me 5 We beg to invite the attention of connotsseurs to onr celebrated fine OLD WHISKIES of the following well- known brands, LN CASES containing one dozea bot- — UNRIVALED UPPER TEN WHISKEY. VERY SUPERIOR OLD STOCK WHISKEY. For excellence, pureness and evenness of quality, the above are unsurpassed by any Whiekies in the market. ‘They are entirely free from adulteration, and are of na- ‘tural flavor and fine tonic properties, ‘There Whiskies are sold under guarantee to give PER- FECT SATISFACTION, and can be bud at all leading rocery stores at retail, H. & H. W. CATHERWOOD, 114 SOUTH FRONT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. m9-6m, L U0 U0 MMMM BBR RERB RRR L U0 U MMMM BB E RR foe Ue BER ee et EME LLL Us MMM BBB EEE BR RT NO ADVANCE IN LUMBER WILLET & LIBBEY’S. SAME PRICES AS LAST YEAR. We have €,000,000 feet 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 ECoxomicat AND SAFE. WEAVFR, KENGLA & C0.'3 LAUNDRY SOAP 18 FCONOMICAL, BECAUSE IT IS PURE; BEING FREE FROM ALL ADULTERATIONS, SUCH AS MARBLE DUST, SOAPSTONE, PIPE CLAY, SILI- CATS, &o., WHICH ARK USRD TO ADD WEIGHT AND BULK, AND WHICH QUICKLY Wkat OUT AND BOY THE CLOTHES. IT IS SAF: CAUSE IT IS MANUFACTURED FROM STRICTLY PURE MATERIALS, VIZ: STEAM REFINED TALLOW (PKEPARED BY OURSELVES), PALM AND COCOANUT OILS; WHILE ON TRE CONTRARY MANY OF THE SOAPS ON THE MAR- RET ARE MAD: THR CARCAS: THUS ENDANGERING LIVE AND HEALTA, PUT UP IN BARS, AND EVERY BAR BRANDED WITH OUR NAME. & BY GROCERS GENERALLY, ND WHOLESALE AT OFFICE, BaRBOUR & HAMIL- & EAKNSHAW. m3 ANITE WORKS. Dy MONUMENTAL, ASITS CEMETERY WORK. All kinds ‘Dine a special wosran h better and cheaper Polished Work then the District or city, as I have wot te only mechinery in Washington kot up for th. si-caas yarpose of polishing granite, Tkeep on haut RICHMOND, }ALUIMORE and MAINE GRANITES. Cons, Vault Sarcophagus, Monu- Can refer t Of recognized superior quality, now on sale at J. W. BOTELER & SON'S HOUSEFURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT, al8-3t 923 Pennaylvania avenas. “AC ” 709 MARKET SPACE. 7 09 REFRIGERATORS, ‘We have just received s full line of the SIMPSON REFRIGERATOR, ‘To which we call the attention of those who wish a per- fectly reliable CHARCOAL PACKED REFRIGERATOR, ‘They have SLATE STONE SHELVES and Galvanized ‘Iron Ice Racks, and lined with Polished Metal, ‘We also have the PERFECTION HARDWOOD REFRIGERATORS. WALNUT AND ASH DINING-BOOM Do. WILMARTH & EDMONSTON, Deslerxin China, Glass and House Furnishing Goods. alS-co 709 MARKET SPACE. LF YOU WANT A COOK STOVE OR RANGE Call and with Patent ott Setar az, Ba — Our stock of REFRIGERATORS, OTL and GAS STOVES is now com; . Of which, as well as Cooking Stoves, largest assortment tn the ci ‘Head and St. La snd W. 8. JENES & CO., al 717 Tth street northwest. EPP REFRIGERATORS. Just Received ALL SIZES OF THIS CELEBRATED REFRIGERATOR. They are strongly buiit, handsomely finished, and perfect in practice. Have Sisto Stone Shelves, and packed with a perfect non-conductor. For thirty-two yours they have received the nighest merit asa Arst- class Refrigerator. M. W. BEVERIDGE, 1009 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. Sole Agent for the District. __ PIANOS AND ORGANS. Cu (J.REED (SUCCESSOR TO SIDNEY T. NTMMO,) 433 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST, Sole Agent for the MATCHLESS HIEMEKAMP PIANOS pra And the Cetebrated SHONINGER CYMBELLOR ORGANS, Sold on monthly payment of from $5 to $15. N.B.—Parties leaving the city always find us with cash ready to purchase anything in our line. Thisen- ables us to keep in stock most of the time PIANOS from CHICKERING, STEINWAY and KNABE, and OB- GANS from ‘MASON & HAMLIN, SMITH AMERI- CAN and ESTEY, at less than one-half the usual prices quoted. _ Shop inthecty. Old Pianos 6 al Most complete Repair made new. GE WiLp g BRO. sole arentafor the STIEET snd Cay oa | & BACH PIANOS and ESTEY ORGANS. sible tinkers, al ALLET DAVIS & 60.8 ARDMAN UPRIGHT sew or YL POR HOLIDATS. L. SUMNER, SOLE AGENT, _4110-00 811 9ra Star Norrawast. JRAICHENBACH’S PIANO WAREROOMS. PIANOS of various: Te makes for sale und Guced prices. Wm. Knabe & renowned Pianos. Tuning and 423 11th street, above Pennsylvania avenue, £23-2m MEDICAL, &e. 50 REWARD I DR. BROTHERS FAILs TO JY cure any caso of Suppresed or Painful Men- 8 Leucorrhc (or ‘hites), snd all Inter- ruptions or frrecu'arities of the Menstrual Periods; 35 years experience. 906 B street couthweet. als-Im* Doon Giver, Kiincyn aud Womens Catt ave: ood, Liver, Kilneys and Women, ~ chiti, Dyspepsia. speedily ubd permanenty Box 104, Buffalo, N. Book free Dr. 8. "T. BARE, a QPERMATORRH@A, IMPOTEN IS rato Diseases quickly cured: sil Female Weaknesses,&c. No calomel or used. Oflice, 814 9th st..w., bet. and F ots. ee 4 i 5 AND ALL PRI- Lucorrhase and mercury BOTTLE OR TWO OF DR. BROTHERS IN- vizorating Cordis! will cure any case of Nervous Debility, Seminal Emissions and Impotency, itimparts vixor to hole sexual power. w 906 B street southwest. 8-1 MADAME (DE FOREST HAS REMEDY FOR LA dies. _ Allfemaie complaints quickiycured. Can be consulted daily at 924 7th street northwest. Office from 1 to 9 o'ciock p.m., with ladies only. mli-2in" R. LEON, THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED AND reliable Ladies’ Physician in the city, can work gasrantost. 2 consulted ‘at 237 Pennsylvania avenue, fresn 2 to 4 Ofhce and Feo: dgS and 10, New Yors avenno | andGto8. “all Female Complaints and Itrerularitios northwest veh 134 am reets, Washi ickiy cured. Prompt treatnant. Separate rooms for Bc. faeime | Tdiee ve mal-im 2D 43 POPULAR MONTHLY DRAWING COMMONWEALTH DISTRIBUTION CO., in the city of Loutrvilte, on SATURDAY, APRIL 297TH, 1882. ‘The Ui ing decision: @ Commonwealth Distribution Com- Secor trawinis are fair. ‘This company $112,400 ets, $2, half tickets, $1; 27 tickets, $50; 55 draft by lette~, or eend by ex- Bi REGISTERED LETTER or 2 Orders of $ and upward by Sricemenn ourier-Journi |. BOARDMAN, 509 Broad LAR Ne iway, iow Jersey avenue ia avenue. Lou- -teth ce FOR SOUPS, MADE DISHES AND LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF MEAT. Ap nvalusbio and palatable tonic ip all cares 4 boon tor which nations should feel i See “Medical Press” "Lancet ™ ‘Medica! Journal,” #e. we com anid Firs -AUTION—Genutneonly with the faceimite of “pion Liebig’s Signature in’ Biue Ink across LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF MEAT. To be had of all & and ‘2% Bushels Ordinary Coke.. +o 82.08, ‘For sale at office of the Washington Bee sop sey Cet a Ve yalti Dr. LEON, 237 yivania avenue. onnst Sao Se vant ¥ — ee ee A POSITIVE CURE ‘Without Medicines. ALLAN'S SOLUBLE MEDICATED BOUGIES, Patented October 16, 1876. One bor No. 1 will cure any case in four days or leas. Ho. 2 wit core iio most bstinste cane, nO matter of Ro astteoous dcsen of cubebe, or ofl of sandal- Brice $1.00. Sold by all druggists, or mailed on re- oo price. For further particulars send for cir- B. MOTT'S FRENCH POWDERS_CERTAIN CURE for Kidn Gravel snd all Urinary Diseases, . 5 we Nervous Dei jj Seminal Weakness, Imp ‘Giest speedily. ‘Gonorrheea_cured in 48 hours, HOUSEFURNISHINGS. ___STEAMERS. &e. JEWEIT'S REFRIGERATORS, B STRAMER SMATTANO™ LFAVOS. 1TH J ee — en Daese ot ie fini for } me ther SS nag & Jendanes omini on Lue~dage AD ae See, Synaral Sat ted pe fe ok ee Rags Creek on Sundays "do Re ee ee. oa ae — forunete Weshcnwtow every Monday, Wedueplay and ong WAT Gor. JONES, Acent, a = Teh ctreot whrt. ‘VovacERs TO EUROPE. J, W. BOTELER & S0¥ Are the Agents for the aale of Tickets in this District of INMAN STEAMSHIP CO. Partios propoxine to visit Burope can obtain all in- ormation by applying to mi7-3m J. W. BOTELER & SON. _ POTOMAC TRANSPORTATION LINE. after MARCH 19th the STEAMER SUP, SM GEUGHBOAR. wt Licaye SLETRENSONS On and tain W. C. Tr WHARF, foot of Tth street, EVERY SUNDAY. at four clock prun., for Baltimore and Kiver Landiaes. All Liver Freight must be Prepaid. ‘Returning, arrive in Washincton every Saturday night, STEPHENSON & BRO., Aarxts, m16-6m 7th street Wharf and Cor. 1: and Pa ave. Note” FOR POTOMAC KIVER LANDINGS. On and after NOVEMBER 3p, 1881, the siramer ww u ber whar?, foot of 7th «tre atiem. every MUNDAY, THURSDAY and SAT’ wor landinie. On MONDAY as fer as ‘omni Ferry. On THURSDAY, Neaun, © fawnntowa apd At Cle. 0 ~ Cotron’s and Howard's. On SATURDAY. Leonardtown. sy 20HN K WOOD, Aveut. eneees LINE. WEEELY LINE OF STEAMERS LEAVING NEW YORK EVERY THURSDAY AT2P. M. FOR ENGLAND, FRANCE AND © [RMANY, For Pessege aPly% © 5 RICHARD & 00., 61 Broadway, New York. Or to PERCY G. SMITH, and 6:9 Denneylvanta avenue, JNOBFOLE AND NEW YORE STEAMERS. THE STEAMER TApY OF THE LAKE Fill eave her wharf, foot of 6th street, every MONDAY, WEDNYSDAY and'¥RIDAY, at 5 o'ciock p.m., touche fer ae Pact Pet Pai (os ont abd Forirae Mune a iORFO! Be Bu NED PLONE SCE STREAMERS. 2 First-class Fare to Fortress Monroe what, DAYS and SATURDAYS, 'c.00k p.m. + THE NEW YORK STEAMERS JOHN GIBSON and E. C. KNIGHT 1. remo thelr time, eavig Pier 41, Kiver, New York, every BATURDAY, at tour p.m, FRIDAY, at 7, .m. att toazent, 63 Water street, Georzetown, ‘and staterooms can be secured at 613 15th etreet Nationa: Mc jaw +B. & 0. i hoe « BLE; Ss. Mare Hotel, and at oc Wea..11 June, io AY PROM New FORK. ORTH GERMAN LLOYD— a Srilouvon, Sovrmaurros axp Baaae, oe The steamers of this: URDAY from Bremen Rates of RAILROADS. ae ane = EE EARENN SYLVANTA ROUTE H, WEST AND SOUTHWrsT, SCENERY. For Cani » Carsto © For Williamsport, Lock Haven and Elmira, at 9:30 = am. dairy, Sut For New York an the FREDERICKSBURG RAIL. RIA AND WASHINGTON FRANK THOMPSON, General kianazer, BALtmone & OHIO RAILROAD. sale by WM. B. ENTWISLE, corer street and in avenue. Price $3 per box, Dynal andar eal ele of ween EZALTH IS WEALTH NERVE AND BRA) sent ‘m6 THE MODEL FAST, AND THE ONLY LINR THE EAST AND THE WEST, VIA WASHINGTON, DOUBLE TRACK! saNNEY COUPLER! STEEL N Cans + aS AST ) 10:00 ea san eee saabe, Me, ail stations. 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