Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1882, Page 7

MARKETING Vegetables and Groceries, Brem Our Continent. Vexetables are each year becoming # more @nd more hmportant part of the bill of fare, and @ven at remote dista from great markets canning has made it pessible for every house- keeper to supply her table with a variety. Where vegetables must be bought, whether in Inrge (owns or cities, the winter supply should Mf possibly be iaid in eariy in the season. Uviess, T iscec!t and dry there will be mop or warm one all ty beg er it better ec: rs |. Potatoes shou possible. as liht to sprout unseasouably but a! 3 Onions aad squashes should be a very dry re from the south are re- . and the price certa:nly hes But while Ber- muda potatoes are good our own old ones are more wesly, aud with care last pertectly well till July. when the new ones are in season. South- rn green peas command hich prices but lack the flavor and sweetness of northern ones. which if out of season may much more advantageously be repiaced by the French canned peas or petiis pois, uve can of w! is cnough for six persons, ‘and costs but forty cents. In the same way canned tomatoes will serve every purpose of the fresh ones, save as salad, and while there are Many who will buy forced vegetables, people of Moderate income who cannot afford such ex- penditure need never feel that they lose very se- Mously. By sending direct to the factory one ean be secured of freshiy put up fruit and vece- tables at s decided reduction, and especially Mf two or three families club together and tity Is bought. Fruit can be canned at better results than have yet been ob- n factory work, but tomatoes, corn and »ther vegetables are sure to satisty and ‘ost less than if put upat home. | Ail canned articles must be kept in a cool, dry SS aud if in giass darkness is also essential. jis implies a stcreroom of some sort, and such’ @ place s an essential, no matter how simple the houxexceping, as buying in driblets 1s not only in itseif a constant annoyance, but makes the cost of supplies fully a third more yearly. Ob- Jection to this Is often made by husbands on the grouwd that with a quantity in the house there isreckiess use and waste. This mizht be so were servants alloweil free access, but the care- fal housekeeper will never permit this. Sup- lies si:ould be given out each week, and a far knowledze of what ia actually required ‘by a family will be had ia this way than where the hap-hazard system of sending out for athing only when it is needed for use is adopted. Trou- Diesome as it may seein to settle definitely the average consumption of each week, it is an art s00n wastered and insurea dnally a wiser econ- omy and a better knowledge of what a fixed sam can do than any other method. Flour improves with age and costs far less if bought by the barre! than In small quantities. ‘The drier the place in which itis kept the bet- ter, a ‘ry, cool place being the standard rule for all stores. It there is room it is best to have two barrels. one of old process or St. Louis flour, the other the new process or Haxall. The latter packs much more closely than the old, ‘aud a pound will not measure as much while it swells more. It therefore makes a much harder edke or pastry ti the old, which Is to be pre- ferred for everything but bread, and in all cases aneighth less is to be taken than of the old. Thus in a rule for bread cailing for four quarts, but three and a half would be required, Graham flour shoald be good wheat, ground and unsifted, but is more often inferior flour mixed with bran. Various forms of “whole wheat meal” are now in the market, but to be had only at the best grocers’ or directly from the mille. Like flour, ham, if kept cool and ary, improves with age. Rye, on the contrary, can only be bought in small quantities, as in hot weather it speedily becomes musty. Indian meal, if made by the old process, will give the game tronble. By the new, the corn fs dried for two years before using, and is ground in such a manner that a granulated meal is produced which Keeps as perfectly as flour. Yellow meal 4s richer and thus more nutritious than white. Oat meal, cracked wheat and hominy all keep perfectiz, tin being the best for this purpose, as . Weevil ate more likely to zet into wooden boxes. Small cracker-tins are excellent for this pur- pose. Granulated sugar will be found cheapest and best for general use. Being perfectly dry there is more to the pound than in any brown sagar, ‘and it is also sweeter. It is one of the few things in which it makes but little difference whether one buys in small or large quantity, but a barrel at atime isa convenience. Where sirup is used it is much better to make it at home from suzar, as the “refined” sirups of various names are too often made up of adulterations, For ginzer- bread and veneral cooking Porto Rico moia<ses Is decidedly the best, but had better be strained before using, as all molasses contains any im- ties. Whole spice ot every variety ts as necessary as the ground, and better for flavoring all soups and sauces. A small bottle of curry powder will last years, and so with essence of anchovies, Hal- ford sauce or mushroom ketchup, all useful in flavoring gravies. The store-room should also have always on hand rice, tapioca, barley, dried and peas, macaroni and vermicelli, vin- egar, mustard and pepper, tea, coffee and choco- late.’ In buying coffee it may better be roasted. ‘as this is much more perfectiy dune in a rotary Foaster than at home, but it should be kept tightly covered and ground only as needed. Tea also requires to be kept from the air, and for both, if bought in smal! quantities, a seif-sealing glass can is the best possible thing in which to gore them. Prof. Rees, of Columbia college, New York, lectured a few evenings since on the moon's sur- face. The lecture opened with an exposition, showing that the moon wasthe smallest heavenly body visible to the naked eye. By diagrams the size of the moon, as compared with theearth and planets, was shown. Explanation of the phase’ ‘was made, and the fact that the moon shows us @nly one face was dwelt on and illustrated. “That tremendous changes are not going on Bow in the moon,” said the lecturer, “is very evi- dent to all students. That no change at all is taking place ts not proved. It is only within the last few years that fine maps and photographs have been takea, so that it is only lately that astronomers have been in good position tor study. Some authorities consider that the moon is a burnt-out planet, an arid and barren waste, in which no change can be expected. Newcomb writes that ‘to whatever geological convulsions the moon may have been subjegted in the past, it seems as if she had now reached a state in which no farther change was to take | esse unless by the action of some new cause. Mil not seem surprising tf we reflect what an important part our atmosphere plays in the changes that are zoing on tn the surface of the earth. The growth ot forests, the formation of Geitas, the washing away of mountains, disinte- ae 2 and blackening of rocks and the decay of dings. are all due to the action of air and water. the latter acting In the form of rain. Changes of temperature powerfully reinforce the action of these forces. but are not of themselves waflicient to produce any effect. Now, on the moon, there being neither sir, water, rain nor organic matter, the causes of disintegration and decay are all absent. A marble building man- ufagtured on the moon's surface would remain century after century. just as it was left. It is true that there might be bodies # friable that the expansions and contractions due to the great changes of temperature to which the Moon's surface ts exposed would cause the bodies to crumble, but whatever crumbling ‘would thus be caused would soon be done with, and then no further change would occur. Nasymth states, upon the strength of ciose ob- servation, continued with assiduity through thirty years, that he has never had the suspi- Gion suggested to his eyes of any actual change whatever having taken place in any feature or minor detail of the tuuar . Still there re others, equally good cbservers, who hold that pry ale minor details have been noticed. Many of supposed changes have been ex- plained by variations of iuminations. selves. A Lemon po hee ie eix feet ols nokes In diameter fall of detail. Schmid: affirms that Linne, 9 minute, bright crater, pre ~ented @ different appearance in 1866 from whai it bad in i841. and tuat these appearances could not be explained by any of the causes alluded tc above. bir. Webb. of England, though inciined to believe that there are no great chanzes onthe moon's surface going on now, is obliced to Ray that there is still a residuum of minute varia- whieh can be accounted for only by changes going on. Dr. Klein, of Germany, has found in the “Mare Veporum” @ erater that ke claims is a new one. Some observers agree with him, others do not. Now that they were In poe session of the drawings made by Schmidt and the photographs taker by Rutierford and Draper. of New York eity, they were better able to study tals question of chanze on the moon's surface, A Sa: ————— iggestion to Spelling Reformers. From the New York Tribane. A correspondent puts te the Boston Journal the following conundrum: Mu. Eprvor: Teli me why colonel Is spelit in a style so infolonel® Sued one ray of Wht On a sorrowful wight Who for years lias subscribed for the Jolonsl. We suspect the propounder or this question Is merely a spelling reformer in disguise, and, act- ing on that assumption, we have a suggestion to make to him and those who stand with him. But before making this sug<estion we may premise that it strikes up that this reform isa plant of such extremely slow growth that those who planted and have watered it must feel heartily discouraged. Up to date the revised spelling, like the revised version of the Bible, has not become at all popular. Here and there a newspaper drops the we at the end of words like dialogue, where the preceding vowel is short; drops the final ein such words as definite, where the preceding vowel is short; drops the final fe In words like quartette and’ cigarette: drops the final me in words like programme, and changes ph for f in phonetic, philosophy, and the like. But the journals that have adopted these innovations are so few and far between that their combine:! influence as spelling reformers, however great we may assume it to be, is, when compared with the counter influence of the newspapers which are not spelling reformers, tut as the small dust of the balance. It does, Indeed, take but a little leaven to leaven the whole loaf, but the leaven of the spelling re- formers will have sensibly to increase in size before it can feaven the current spelling of the English-speaking race. And now for our sug- gestion: Gentlemenof the American Philological Association, why not adopt a resolution at your next annual meeting to this effect: Resolved, That hereafter no member of this asso- ciation will countenance Irregul«rities in adject- ives or verbs, but will treat all such parts of 5; as if they were what they ought to be, amenable to the ruies which regular adjectives and verbs obey. That this resolution is simply admirable must appear to every spelling reformer upon a tho- ment’s reflection. They all present as their leading argument in favor of spelimg reform, that our pene as it-now stands presenta great. and entirely unnecessary inconveniences to those engayved in learning it. Says one of their leaders in a paper advocating the reform: “The Enclish language, from the simplicity of its grammatical structure, would be one of the easiest in the world to learn where it not for its abominable spelling.” Continuingin thisvein, he protests against the “illogical and tediousdrudg- ery of learning to read and write English as spelt at present.” Now we submit to the spell- ing reformers that where one person complains ol the difficulties in spelling, one hundred be- come broken-hearted in attempting to master the irregular verbs and adjectives. The mem- ber ofthe American Philolezical Association who rises superior to the existing order of things sufficiently to abandon tent and gone and to sub- stitute goed in their place for the past and per- = — of eee to go, or — resoately lop goodest respectively as the comparative and poe of good, will do more to simplify the English language and make it meet for the inheritance of those who are to come after us than dozens of his brother re- formers who go no further than “dialog,” “‘de- init,” “ fet” and “program.” The innovation which we hint at invites adop- tion not only on philological but on moral grounds. To say that an adjective or a verb is trregular is to admit that ft is not what it ought tobe. And if our alm in life is perfection in ail things, why should we go on year after year, decade after decade, century after century, con- doning irregularities in words, when we have it ia our power to cure those irregularities? Words are but the garbof thought. Thought is simply action in the making. Who shall say that to make light of an Irrecularity in a verb does not make an irregularity in thought and action seem less wicked than it would seem if we remem- bered that “‘it is the first step that counts?” We urge all progressive spelling retormers to ponder upon this suggestion of ours. confident that the longer they regard it the better pleased they will be with it. What an unspeakably grand thing it would be for mankind if a meet- Ing could be had of the philological associations of every nation and kingdom under the sun, at which by unanimous consent all irregular verbs and all other irregular parts uf speech In all languages should be reformed into regular verbs. Until such action is taken, in spite of the efforts of the philologists, the Tower of Babel will con- tinue to cast its baleful shadow upon those who fain would learn to read, write and speak correctly. —— 7 ‘The Legal Length of a Lecture. Archibald Forbes describes, In the May Century, how he came to be sued by a Welsh local agent for breaking an engagement to lecture. The lecturet had only an hour and a half to devote to the audi- ence, owing to the necessity of catching a train for London. Asthe ageat insisted on a preliminary ‘Speech of introduction, etc., Mr. Forbes refused to lecture, and was nearly mobbed at the depot. The ase was tried, with the following result: His contention was that he was acting In the interests of the Newport peoplein prohibiting the.curtailment of the lecture. Mine was that the lecture hour was eight, and that my lecture was only an hour and a haif long; when the pro- soodinen were t pee au was Lisorgae! un- punctuality and other people's oratory Inproof of my assertion I offered to read my lecture to the court, but the jury visibly shuddered, and the Judge said life was too short for this kind of evidence. However, he summed up in my favor, and the Jury tollowed his lead ; so that I won my only law-suit. The plaint!ff appealed toa higher court in London, and the case came on before —_ Coleridge, who made very short work of matter. “It is acknowledged,” said he, “by the defend- ant that his lecture is an hour and a half long, and it seems the plaintiff wanted itlonger. Now Thold,” he continued, ‘that any lecture is a common nuisance that lasts longer than aa hour, so I dismiss the appeal.” ——— 2 Unmanly Jokes at the Expense of the Gentle Sex. A down-east paragrapher says: “Whenever a milliner shail design a bonnet which shall neeg the direction, ‘The mouth must be worn shut with this,’ albmarried men will rush in and buy of it and ve happy.” Whereon the Indianapolis News thus fitly comments: There isa swarm of Jokes of this unmanly type always buzzing about in the press, and we ould like to see some fly-killer or fool-killer at work on them. Half of the jokes on wives that are deemed suitable for public delectation be- lit<le or malign them. One witty hint that wives talk their husbands into dally desperation. Another is a neat epigram on a wife's disposi- tion to waste money on dress. A third will slyly insinuate that wife is more given to gossip than house work. There is hardly any Phase uf wifely duty that is not the subject of | about continued satire in the shape of all wifely indifference. We believe it is all wrong. Scans Chaaicthes, 16'S) orton: beaeal as well as True It fs alla Joke. None of the wits mean anything by it. But ts the holiest relation this side of heaven to be made the subject of ever- lasting ridicule or disparagement without diminution of the general or that it asserts or Insinuates a less offensive infl- delity to duty than the abominable perversions of the wifely character in Congreve's “Mrs. Fore- sight” or Wickerly’s “Mrs. Pinchwife?” Is every wife an unsparing “gabble-gut/” Are all wives wasteful, or mad for dress or gossip? The jokes ee say 6o in one form of innuendo or another. Curious Phases of Cattle Diveascs, ‘From the Raleigh (N.C.) News, April 25. Jn 4 private letter from Judge Gilliam, dated at Waynesville, he says: “A curious fact has we do not mean “amusing physical experi- nents,” as we have Been the French phrase for conjuring tricks translated, but tricks in the worse sense of the word—may with advantage tarn to “Professor Hoffmann’s” translation, as he modestly calls it, of Robert-Houdin’s “Les Tricheries des Grecs,” which was published not very long ago under the title of ““Card-Sharping Exposed.” Houdin's book was first published in 1861, arid two years later an English transla- tion, since out of print, was brought out. Pro- fessor Hoffmann has done more than make a faithful translation of Robert-Houdin; he has down the work to the present date by means of consulting various subsequent works. The preface in which Prof Hoffinann sets forth these facta is not, perhaps, the least valuable of his.own share in the work. He says in this that some of the feats described in the pages of the volume might well seem incredible to those who had no. personal experience in the matter. He himself, however, has sometimes, when these feats have been deliberately performed in his presence, been tempted to ask “whether they have really been executed at all, or whether the professor has not this time played fair. and won by some happy accident.” If,he goes on pertinently to sk, this is the effect produced upon a person familiar with every general form of card-conjur- ing, and prepared for the particular manner in which the precise trick isto be executed, what chance has the averaye card-player of detecting unfair play at the hands of a practiced card- sharper? This is @ question which bears upon the case with which the average man can be duped by any one who has a moderate share of intelligence, and who is pre to take a moderate amount of trouble: and the fact stated by Prof. Hoffman more than sufficiently explains the success of the clamay enouh tricks which are constantly employed against their dupes by the professors of various forms of *mysticism.” The editor observes, justly enough, that, so far as card-playing is concerned, the true moral of Houdin’s work should be found In some such ex- pression as ‘‘Never play at any game whatever for stakes large enouzh to tempt any one to un- fair play.” On the face of it this may strike the general reader as a somewhat cynical view to expresa, or he may be Inclined to describe it at best in Pepys’ words as a ‘‘devilish saying, but true;” but it may be tolerably well supported by remembrance of the hardly doubted fact in connection with one of the very few existing public tables, that the heaviest losses, the only disputes as to fair or unfair play, and the most horrible cases of ruin are to be tound, not round the public table, but at the private tables which <s bot be discovered by those who seek them not far off. Lever in “ Davenport Dunn” was right when he said that gambling was one of the things which men would do as long as the world went on, and it may be worth while to point stil! more strongly the force of what Prof. Hoffman advan- ces. “Wherever,” he says, “the stakes are of such an amount as to constitute substantial gain or loss to any of the players, the risk of unfair play begins, = * * _ The most exclu- sive of clubs, the most watchful of committees, will never succeed in keeping out the Grecian element so long as the temptation exista in the form of high stakes. Granted that the great majority among the classes where high play pre- vails would play as honorably for thousands as for sixpences. So much the better for the Greek. ‘The less fear of hia market being spoiled by com- tition.” This, as a general rule—ot course ‘here may be exceptions—is hardly contestable ; and no doubt many of our readers will remember cases within their own personal experience which will confirm the ** Professor's” conclusion. Whether he. on his own part, is not too sanguine in thinking that retribution, sooner or later. al- ways overtakes the skillful “Greek " is perhaps an open question. Indeed. the curious history which Houdin gives of ‘‘Raymond,” the gambler, 1s a case in point, although it is true that he is represented as having taken to honest courses at the right moment. It is pleasing to turn to the story which Prof. Hoffman guotes from M. de Caston’s Les Tri- cheurs, of how Caston discomfited a professional sharper one day at Brussels. He was waiting somewhat impatiently for a friend of his (M. Delannoy, of the Vaudeville theater, Prof. Hoff- man calls him, but it should obviously be M. De- lannoy) at a cafe. when a stranger lounged in and presently proposed a game of picquet, 150 up, fora cup ot coffee. “I lost the game,” M. de Caston writes. ‘My opponent offered me my revenge. We then played for our luncheon and @ bottle of Bordeaux, which we had consumed in common, amounting only to some five or six francs.” It was accident then rather than the amount of the stake which led M. de Caston to watch his opponent and discover that he was playing unfairly. This was how he did It: “In shufilins he left the four aces at the bottom of the pack. WhenI had cut he coolly replaced the top half of the pack upon the other, so that he might very weil have spared me the trouble of cutting at all. Then he proceeded to deal;” and M. de Caston tabulates carefully the man- ner of his dealing, the result of which was that he dealt twelve cards to Caston and only eleven to himself. ‘He then separated the nine cards remaining into two portions, the first of five cards, the second of four; but this latter gave him a quatorze of aces.” This compelled his adversary’s admiration, but It seemed to him to be going alittle too far; so, In taking up his own cards he managed to give himeelf the four aces. When the stranger took up his hand he was so astonished that he lost his presence of mind, and actually exclaimed: “‘What is the meaning of this? You have rubbed me, sir. Where are my aces?’ ‘in my own hand, sir. My name ts Alfred de Caston, and I give my first magical performance to-morrow at the Salle Philbarmonique.’ My friend seized his hat and fled. Iam bound, as a faithful chronicler, to add that in the hurry of his flight he quite forgot to pay for his refreshment.” ——__+o-_____ She Was Kissed Too Much. From the Philadelphia Times. It isn’t often that a girl is kissed too much, ‘and less frequently does a boy suffer from too much of that sort of thing. It is so different from washing and froning and cooking and sweeping down the stairs that girls have been known to seek kissing rather than those things, and often much to the neglect of them. It has never. been sup} that any great danger lurked In kissing, even though a great deal of it be done, and if it has sometimes fatigued the yey ardent—for sometimes the very best things will fatigue one—it has usually been a fatigue which all were willing to accept. It appears, however, that there Isa great deal of danger in kissing which is not ey and decently done. A story comes through the English papers of an extraordinary young Ger- man couple who wagered to kiss each other ten thousand times in the course of ten hours. That seems easy enough, and probably there are thousands of young lovers who presume they have time and again done some thousands bet- terthan that. The wager was the result of a discussion about how long) ey could be crowded into a given time. e enterprise was undertaken with great vigor, the ea irawback being the presence of npectators. ithin the first hour two thousand kisses were exchanged, and the outlook was propitious. The record, however, did not keep up, only one thousand being added in the second hour. From thistime on the business lagged, and at the end of the third hour both broke down. The young woman fainted in the midst of too much of a good thing, and the young man’s lips were cramped out of their usefulness and It isn’t worth while expressing an opinion an extraordinary couple like that. They have their owa punishment in the tact that the matrimonial engagement bet girls. They don't public exhibition of theh kissing, and they are never known to faint at the end of the third hour. They are the kind of girls also who do Rot paralyze the young men’s lips, andthe young man whose lips don’t must be isn't worth much that way. ———__—_+o-—_ Decorated @ Coffin for Himself. ‘From the Cincinnati Enquirer, April 28, Out his iittle satchel From the closet tn bis bed-room, Rolleth uy his extra dickey, extra neck’ Extra cuffs, ‘and extra Packs them in bts little satchel Hiles him frcm the ancient city, ‘When upon his native heather Jn the county where he came from, ‘Where the brooks go rippling seaward, Where the peaca crop can’t be trust: Where the squ ish and yellow pumpin, Cnt doupe and watermelon, Grow to siz°s so enormous, Find thetr w.iy into the sanctums: Of the editors of papers, And are duly noticed therein— He is evorytaing to all men. Here the country legisiater Is at home among his fellows, ‘To the country store he hastens, Sits him down upon a barrel, Where the clerk has hung the sign out: “Cheap for cash” upoa 2 pasteboard., Gather round him then the voters Of the town and of the county, And he tells thein all the story’ ‘Of the session that has ended; it men gathered In the House and in the Senate; ‘Tells them how he passed the dog inw For their county, and the sheep iaw, And the fence law, and the gat: law, ‘Til they think hit, too, a great mar, And make up their minds that they will Send bin back to the next session, But there ts another chapter To the Tale of the Adjournment; For the country I tor, Does not dare to tell the voters All the story of the Cops He will never dare to tell them How he played the game of poker In the hotel near the St ite House; He will never dare to tell them - How he played it all the session, Played 1 week days, played it Sundays, Played ft nights and poons and mornings, Played it with the playrul members 0% the City Delegation. He could never tell the voters O¢ the county that he came trom How the lucky poker players Of the City Delegation Skinned him of his scant per diem, Won the watch he used to carry, ‘Then the chain and geal attachinent; ‘Won the studs upon his shirt-iront, And the ring upon his finger; ‘Won the full dress suit that cost him Sixty dollars tn the city. Would not even let him have tt ¥or the Governor's reception, He could never tell the voters Of the county that he came from, How the lucky poker players Of the City Delegation Won a mortgage on his farm lands, On his sheep and on his horses, On his cows and on the peach crop ‘That he hopes to raise this summer, | On ye country legislators, Tuke a warning from this story, With the luck porer players e lucky Or the City Delegation. gio Witt Mie eh SS WAR OVER THE TELEPHONE. ‘Trying to Prove that 2 Poor Pennsylva. nin Mechanic was the Original Inven- tor. - From the N. ¥. Sun. The war over the telephone, which has been In progress with remarkable quietness for near- lyayear, has reached one halting place. The antagoniste”are the People’s Telephone com- pany and the Bell Telephone company. The former company, when It commenced operations less than two years ago, was enjoined from further proceedings, on the application of the latter.on the ground of alleged infringement on certain patent rights. An order of the court was obtained for the taking of testimony to show why that injunction should be dissolved.and Com- missioner F’. M. Ott has presided at the taking of the testimony of 180 witnesses, completing late- ly the hearing of all that the People’s company had to offer. Time is now allowed for the Beil company to prepare testimony in rebuttal. The witnesses thus far heard all sustain the averment of the People’s company, that the original inventor of the telephone—not simply of its principle, but of every important or valu- abie feature or detail about it, as far as under the naine of anybody it has been made known— was Daniel Drawbaugh, a poor mechanic. li Ing at Eberly's mills, Pa. More than fifty per- sons testified that they had talked and heard answers through his “talking machine” as long ago us 1868-9—years before the telephone was heard of elsewhere. In fact, it was known to everybody in that part of the country. but was 80 universally regarded as simply a curious but useless toy that he could find no one who would back him with sufficient meansto get a patent on it. And he was in such a chronic state of impecuniosity that. he could hardly get bread for his little family and buy materials for his experiments. The battery cell for his first ‘talking machine” was made with a coffee cup In 1864-5, and that for his second with a tumbler in 1868-9. His first attempt at the con- struction of a “receiver” was made with part of an old tin fruit can, one end of which was open and the other covered with a diaphragm made out of a hog’s bladder, with an armature fas- tened thereto, an electro-magnet placed before it, anda tension spring on it. But a peculiar novelty ot that early apparatus was the “trans- mitter,” the glass tumbler, lined with plaster of Paris, covered by a wooden mouth-plece and & diaphragm ot tin, a carbon-holding cup of wood, two metallic plates from which wires Tan up as adjusting and connecting posts, be- tween the plates powdered carbon, and a con- ducting rod from the upper plate to the dia- puage. The powdered carbon is the distinc- ive feature of the “loud telephone” recently heralded from Boston as a new discovery, yet Drawbaugh was coploving, it as long ago as 1868. And so well did that crude trans- mitter work that, when tried in connection with one of Mr. Drawbaugh’s receivers made in 1874, it transmitted sound even more ioudly than the approved telephone in general use at the present day. This was demonstrated in the presence of the commiasioner In the course of the recent proceedings, when nearly a column of a newspaper was transmitted through it, between distant parts of a large palais an receiver used in oe demonstra- ion was, by > a poeta. it was simpl: 8 plain wooden box, four inches in diameter, with a diapraghm of thin black walnut wood, yet sounds came from It so perfectly that words received by it could be heard distinctly when it was held at arm's length from the ear of the person addressed through it. An interesting exhibit In the case is the col- lection of thirty or more separate and distinct telephonic apparatuses, marking the successive stages of development of the idea in Draw- baogh’s mind. Although all are made with neat- ness and care, the poverty of the materials employed and the ingenious make-shifts suggest the long straggle of genins with adverse cir- cumstances. When the man was working out his idea he was in the direst poverty, it has been testified bya number of witnesses, yet everybody respected and liked him as ‘an honest man, one who would pay every dollar he owed if he could.” “Every cent he could get,” one witness said, ‘that his family did not need for food went to buy materials;” and it is related that when his father died,a littledistanceaway, he was too poor to attend thefuneral. He went to the sheriff, in whose hands were then a number of petty judgments of trom two to ten dollars each against him, and asked the loan of $5. “That's barely enough tor you to go,” satd oe sheriff;e“‘better have $10 and take your wife ng.’ “No,” replied Daniel, “I can't afford it. The we dollars { can hope to pay, but theten I could not.” Nobody about him sympathized with him in what he was trying todo. He employed as his assistant to the apparatus — king through it and making sounds at it—his little daughter, then between 6 cause, as he said, “she wot aud was the only one who did_not langhat me.” Not only did ‘witnesses tes! held conversations ondred and 1874, covering mental work was steadil forvim afew months el P fannes of the pointed out in shaped piece of thin iron later, were corroborati AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES. a eee THIS AFTERNOON. Yom DOWLING, Auctioneer. SROVED REAL SETATE LoGeTS SON TRE Py EEN BAND OST rey SOUTH, AND OF SaWab Meteuety ‘Rast Oppose Ue, NAVY YAMD. t esta ‘i. to the follow! se real jazbiugton, in said Dis. SECOND, 1882, at SIX 2g & a s 4 On WEDNESDAY, MAY THIRD, 1889, at the ame hour, Lot 5, in square 802, having & front of 40 feet 7 « inchés on south M street, Funuing back that wiath 129 feot 11, ches to sn, alley 0, fect wide, and Bou west by another stley 15 f feot proved, and ts desirable f the Auaovstia and Potomac R. Ke street on which it fronts, and being fd $i diyof mie at six ror their e! seis 8 so be retained amount ‘money and ‘any purchaser shall fail to comp'y with the terms of sale corve the to readvertise a erret or a'l cash at hit Treeerve. ine and resell the property. at the riak and cost of such. defaulting purchaser. "The ‘will be offered in separate lots or parocls. $50 it OR ace; tance of bid. JAMES EDWARI T a20-cokds : = 03D my ceee rps. 3. eal Estate Auctioncers. SALY OF IMPROVED Lagi a oN H STREET, BETWEEN FOURTH AND FIF! STREETS NORTHWEST, AND VACANT LOT IN STREET. HONTING ON WASHINGTON On WEDNESDA’ 'ERNOON, MAY a | FISHER & CO.. AFT! at HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK, on the premises, ‘we shail sell Lot No. 6, it Now$18, al Lot No. 6. in square a ned running and one fourth inch; ‘south one fect; thonce west forty-four (44) fret one-fourth inet gud thence north one hundred (100) feet to the place ofa throes Shoes = = IMMEDIATELY AFTEK, on the we shall ell the east thirteen (131 foot of thorwentcrn Bal Of the of, lot numbered six (6), iu square num- bered five hundred and eighteen (518), and fronting on Wi street thirteen (13) feet and running to the Tear at that width one hundred (190) teet, with the fan (10) fost to the whole ai wi hin seven dai al of defs anys uotioe of ee ta ‘Sa Paper. 0 . HL 0 Town ‘3, EMMA J. BUCHLY, Executorsand Trustees Under the Will of Rudolph Buehly. ali-dads qsumas DOWLING, Auctioneer. TRUSTEES' SALE OF FOUR HOUSES AND LOTS HE BUREAU OF EN- dated March 18th, A.. D. 1875, and recorded in liber 777, folio 471 cram =| ‘one of the ‘Columbi + eH ieel eal iB EA g, 2 2 ef F H 3 : i z aixty three (263), the on: street, ‘anil a dey'th of 91 feet, the same by freme houses. Also, the weet i et +} ee apes Be 3 ry ] g Hf 308. C. G. KENNEDY.! rrasseoe ANTHONY HYDE, “§ Fe THE ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONTD IN GO! Requence of the rain until A N- WEDNESDAY, MAY IRD, SAME HOUB AND PLACE. By order of ‘Trusteos. a2T-dts ‘THOMAS DOWLING, Auct. TPHOMAS DOWLING, Aucuoneer. RESIDENT ARTISTS' BALE OF OIL PAINTINGS, WATER COLORS, AUTOLYPES AND OTHER BJECTS OF ART; THE WHOLE COMPRISING CTION OF GEMS. art sales room, ny, OMEN THIRD, 18 corner com is2, stroe! DS ESDA 18 and HALF-PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK, a ‘and rs, ‘ihere has ut 300 Brann’s autotypes, with a few fine enxravings and other art gems. N. B.—ihi by fur the most important art col- tection that offered at public szle in this cit fors ime, and should command the attention parties who desire to encourage home talent. Will be day and Tuesday, May t and 2, day and THOMAS DOWLING, Auct. BYLPING Ot ON TWENTY-FIRST STREET, NEAR CORNER OF M STREET NORTHWEST, BEING IN VICINITY OF BRITISH MINIS- TEK'S AND OTHER FINE RESIDENCES. On WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY THIRD, AT FIVE O'CLUCK, we wil sell in front of the in square No, 100, fronting 51 feet' street west, 1 and Mt following day at same. this sale abor DUNCANSON BROS., Aucts. WO TWO-STORY FRAME HOUSES, 18 AND Tro rwener secon STUREL BET WRER RENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AND’ I STREKT On WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY THIRD, at SIX O'CLOCK, we will sell, in front of the prem ives, the Lot 4, it ‘ALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers. AUCTION SALE OF A GOOD FRAME HOUSE AND LOT, No. 1308 FOURTH STREET NORTH- ‘WEST, BETWEEN N AND O. On WEDNESDAY, MAY THIRD, at 81 O'CLOCK P.M., nice home for a amail fsmily. moptha’ $50 depost requited ens ot anes re aired at time a28-8¢ WALTER DB. WILLIAMS &°00.. Aucts, ees DOWLING, Aucnoneer, GEAND AND IMPORTANT SALE AT AUCTION or GENUINE IMPORTED TURKISH AND PER- SIAN RUGS AND CARPETS, Comprising RARE AND RICH SELECTIONS 1 or PERSIAN, AFGHANISTAN, DAGHISTAN, OUCHAE, GEOBDEX, CIRCASSIAN, ARMENIAN, EHORASSAN, AND MOORISH BUGS AND CARPETS! Axao, JEDAZIENE, KELIM, AND BAGDAD PORTIERES! Boing by far the bandsomest collection, ot Textiles, in ‘Geaign and quality ever offered by us. “To take place at MY SALESROOMS, 8.W. CORNER PENNA. AVE, AND 11TH STREET, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, MAY EIGHTH AND NINTH, MORNING AND AFTKBNOOS, az ELEVEN AND THREE O’CLOCK. ON EXHIBITION FRIDAY AMD SATURDAY, MAY STH AND 6TH. Every article guaranteed genuine and imported. m2-6t THOMAS A THIS EVENING. LEY, Auctioneer, AUOTION SALE OF FOKFFTTED PLEDGES. bs AUCTION SALES. FUTURE DAYS. 1A DOWLING, /.ncwuneer. couRT OF VALUABLE IMPROVED es 334 gin rest ograma neiny SATURDAY: APRIL TWENTY MINT + 5 N b ean. This sale wil consist of Ladies and Gent" Gol Det Or Cae eet Peas “ ee. | $id Sliver Watzhes, Jewery. Ciotiing, Boots, Shooa, Socket 30, 1 will offer {ce sale, cm MUNDAT, Ay ‘Books, Guna & vere, Piated ore, Bo be KIGHTH, 1882, at SIX O'CLOCK P. M., eff of lot Sillcatinne RVENINGS, as SEVEN OK, until | 109, and the north 99 feet of ot No. 100, ‘a Tareas every . addition, and parte of Jots Nos. 65 end sone holding tickets, the time-on which having eX- | End Hawkins’ widition to Geonmctown = oo pired. will please take SOLER, Aaticare ‘The frat parcel fronts 60 fect on Payette strest, F. SELINGER, Broker. a Suppl pnd Sa acts ‘ant rune ack of Fah 120 fost, then narrows io i) font, wud exteuds fet farther, and is improved oe TO-MORROW. ft dwuidng’ hous, No: 1412 Payetse (or Sean LYGANT AND HANDSOME FURNITU a sesso elie ieailils abit Eases? cdi ra ke AORN ee tee eae es Doonan 3 IN HOUSE 1182 EIGHTH 81 KTH. | Balance ta, three equal on al ehn, tote Wes , CONSISTING IN PART OF ELPGANT | Duanee 19, three equal peyments af to be TARLGE SUE BAW SUK LSE MLM | eure oy wrasse dense ace NGS; La *y pay all ia ne DINING CHAIRS AND ALNUT | [Tat dtis in botinved to te perteot mand "chr wrens wi BS RUDOLPH WATRE dlk sr JARDINIVR — TABLES; KUG ‘ STATUETTE LVET CORNER Bas DOWEL ee =. ik x HOS. J. FISHER & CO. o NZE URNS, . DROOMATED DINMWuSE, (Vahy FIMEY, CUF ‘Real Estate Auchionoera, 1224 F etreet northwest, FAMBREQUINS WACSUT “Milton Mat | CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE UNIMPROVED ACK, ROQUET, “BRUSSELS AND, OTHER REAL ESTATE. CARPETS; WAL OT CHIFFONIER; WALNUT By vi 2 y CHAMBER 8U: PLATE GLASS MIRKOR | the District of Columbia, passed fn equi M.T. CHAMBER SUITE: WALNUT CHAMBER | No. 7.767, #1 pple ot al. are ANDTENNESSEE M. T.)VERY HANDSOME-OAK | and Worthington et al. are d fendanta, SUITE; BOX SPRINGS, HAIR MATTRESS, BED- | an at pune So A = UWS, | 0. NDAY AFTERN: ‘. MA’ BOLSTEnS; TABLES “RITGHEN UTENSILS, AT FIVE OCLOC &e. On THURSDAY MORNING, MAY FOUR’ MENCING AT TEN O'CLOCK, we will sell at ', (who ts giving up howse- hhorthwest, tho ent very handeome and ‘atteution of parties who DUNCANSON BROS., Ancts. dence of Louis a), No. 11: which are which we invite the ishing their mi-d . eo. Anernach aq. Lot 11 and vart of fot 12 front on New York aveni com- 7th recta resi. pth of about 7 feet, and com now, end to Be Leas: ONE DC BULTS AND O71 E ABOVE OU ( F:T. TH On Ti BENSINGER, Horse, FAIR ORDER FO! DUBLE U: BEB it reserie. B. BENSINGER, Auctioneer. MATERIAL COMPRISING | 19th and 20U1 strogt HURSDAY MORNING, MAY FOURTR, 1882, commencing at TWELVE O'CLOCK M., 1 will sell, at the Bazaar, 958, 940 aud’ 962 Louldana avenue the ee m2 ‘38 feet on north B detween 18th and yy eed a, andi fn Lots and (of sinclar dimensions amd tmmedi- ately in rear of aub loin 0 ana St between I ‘Of 208 feet to a wide alley. ‘AC HALP-PAST SIX GOTOCK, Lot 14, square 140, nting west 50 feet on 19th between 1: und ‘Mteots north, with « depts af INE BUILDING LOTS SI! LOCATIONS ON CAPITOL HILL, | BE CORNER OF MASS. ing 115 iF Al (CHUSE’ AVENUE. §IKEET NORTH AND SEVENTH STREET . Arso— ON SEVENTH STREET EAST, SYLVANIA AVENUE AND G STREET SOUTH On HURSDAY AFTE! FOURTH, at FIVE O'CLOCK, front of the premises, lot 1, in B tivo uortine anv 40 feat blic frontai Entec Geant acne ON “TCERDSY _AFTERNOO! TWENTY. ‘ x iN, MA’ 2 ett, amet heehee fol te on comes ron! on side Stassachusetis avenue, betwoon Tth and Bih strects cant, with f 102 feet 6 tt » - BETWEEN PENN- RNUON, MA’ ‘we will sell, int ‘Tth street east, the rear line of this Jot rannine street, between Ohio avenne and north, with & srenue to B etrest. and donth of 95 feet, improved by a amall frame house, No. ScLock. SAME APTER. |? 8 OR we Day, aT SIX OCLOCK, JON, we will sell lot 15, in square 87:1, fronting 61| Al! of square No. 645, fronting re-pectively om feet 1 ‘inch on 7th street i iwania | °1" and south ““K" btrects, aud Fist sircet Wek ood Tvoordlng at purchaner cost. INCANSON BIUS., Ancts, ‘Terms of sxio an prescribed by the decree: Ono-thint Pitas yp ey ep atelx a ve ix with interest at the rate of six om from day snnounoed on day of sale. chaser in complying with GS, PESSINGER 4 je Washington AUCTION SALE OF HORSES, CARRIAG &c., EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, DAY MOKNING, commencing at 5 attention given to the sales of Ba n ali consignments, (Jal! iuctoneer, Horse and Carriage v4 . Liberal advances je) 5. BENSINGER. Auct. terman the propert) ‘hich default has been made may be resid id'nt the Fiak aud cost of Use def re chaser, three days’ potice in The Evening Razaar, Fs ot Jonveyanel 938, 940 and 942 L ‘venue. re paver. a 3 Ay be at cost of the = 3 FOWL! ml-eokds. Webster Law But | pasar RBOS., Auctioneers. EL, BETWEEN FinST AND £ETS NORTHWEST, HAR, au TEN oR Ee By virtue of a deed of trust, trust records of the District of in front of TEENTH DAY OF OCL CK P.M. chinery now on and upon ‘Terms: For provements one: q:1al instalment cent interest, to be secured b deed of trust on, arty 01 tion. A deposit of $200 at time of sale. Con: purchaser's REGINALD FENDALL, Trnstee. cts. mid-dte DUNCANSON BROS., Au MPRUSTERS SALE OF PLANING. MILL, AD DOOR FACTURY AND MACHINERY. By virtue of of recorded the, lan ‘adeed Le cost. rem Bes, MAY. A.D. 1882, at the foliowing: waid a caulh for ground and im- fourth cash, snd the revidue in three ita at 6, 12 and 18 mouths, with 6 per le ete ‘s0p- veyancing sas | Liber, No. Bi, foo 7, et H g i gt 8 Es: di 3 Fr : iy is i resell ‘and cost of defi tfter giviog five days’ juitiio mosioe af pack, Feoaje in some newspaper published in W Abstract shown at sale, REGINALD FENDALL, at) a2t-d&ds Surviving Trustee. ‘T. COLDWELL, Real Estate Auctioneer. fRUSTER'S SAL" OF A DESIRABLE STOLY AND BAS! No. TREE’ 1227 N 8’ T EMENT BRICK DWI NORTHWEST. THREE- ELLING eatat wit: situate in the City of of original square num! northerly southwest corner east along said D™ EE ‘GLO BONS, A SATINS, SUMMER On Fki FIFTH A) DS,” ALPA' IDAY and SA’ AND DEY Gd ts G00! E LAWN! CASSDIERES, THREA! AND SIL; "ANCY A OUR SALESROOM: i BR fe i i Ar CS BROw., Ai corner 9ih and D streets northwest. DEY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, NOTION: uty cause Ne. 7 on on MON Da: SSE. HOSIERY, CO) LADIES" Di SWISS PRIN’ SoTioNs STOKE Ei AT AUCTION. AY MORNINGS, MAY mid ND SIXTH, at TEN O'CLOCK. MAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. OF VALUABLE UN INTMPRO’ TATE ON NORTH SIDE OF © ,, BE- TWEEN EL“ VE.TH AND TWELFTH STREETS NORTHWEST, IN IMPROVED Stneet AND sts IN ALLEY LE. STREET INTO CONGR! BRIDGE STREET, IN GEORGETOWN. r THE CITY OF ©. H. CRAGIN, Jz., Attorney. VED REAL Fs- WASHIAG- ESTATE ON EAST SIDE PROPOSALS. ABLE ANDCARNIAGE MOUSE | JpROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY. rene ADING FROM JEFFERSON | P 5 * ESS STRELT, Dsranruast o” rus Isrerron, t Pe Aver 18, 1682, unl 12 Scleck m.. THURSDAY, ‘May 18, 3on, for furnishing 8 forthe Department of the rior during the ‘Year ending Juno 30, 1883, Blank forms of ‘the items and es- fipated quuncites required, together with cirowiarre- ne | lsting thereto, will bef ‘0a epphoation to this Hous! WEEN 312 314. VEN’ EXON AND 31 for the TEENTH OF FIVE COLOOK P. T. COLDWELL, Beal Estate Auctioneer. UBLIC SALE OF THREE VALI -AN D-A-HALF STREET, yD SOUTH BELNG “NOS: Mal ABLE BRICK BE- 310, on WEDNESDAY, dnous dureoent toe ea 2s SEWING MACHINES, &e. W 4nted EVERYBODY TO CALL AND THE NEW ELDREDGR No ured in its us. Fa leita LED new Ko. 4 ‘MACHINES. b>} 5-2 ry iustalune nts. Las DESIRING TO BUY OR RENT A Liiemanee gaty ace Examine threading buying mon at