Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1882, Page 3

ny ge 4 b& EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY E@RTUNES IN RARE EXOTICS, MILLIONAIRE AMATEUR FLORISTS AND THEIR RARE EXHOUSE FLOWERS—PERFUMES: THAT RIVAL THE SPICES OF ARABIA —THE CRAZE ON ROSES. From the N. ¥ Star. “Flowers are the poetry of earth,” quoted the Star reporter from Mrs. Hemans, or somebody like her, as he leaned back In a hard wooden chair under the glass of a certain florist—“‘prac- tical” florist—of this city. Around him were flowers of various hues and smells and tough dotanical names, which the journalistic tramp could net have pronounced to save his life. ” softly commented atender branch with Y cost more than most and won't keep as long on the shelf, “Is there much doing in flowers now?" asked the Bohemian, with an air of a country stock specuiator inquiri er the price of Wabash. “The subject is too big for small talk, but I'll Just give you a packed facts. It is’ estima- ted that there are 500 florists’ establishments within a radius of ten miles from the city hall, and that the ea J invested In land. structures and stock, is s8 than $8,000,000, the pro- duct of which is mainly for this city alone. To show you how tie market for these tender touches i of nature New Year's day. ISH. mounted to hardly while now about £50,000 i flowers on New Year's day in New York. Probably flowers are id in proportion throushout the conntry. It is hardly to be doubted that in all the manual opera- tions necessary to horticulture we are in ad- vanee of Europe. The personnel of the flower business would make a chapter in bio; I won't give you the whole of it now. mention a name or two. Mr. David Hoscock started the Elzin Botanic Garden in this city in 1801, and in his catalogue for W811 nearly 3,000 species of plants were described, among which were 500 greeahouse exotics. The curator of the Elgin at that time was a Mr. Dennison, who as a florist in 1814. in this city, r where the ¥ Wilson wrote a book and was one of the horticultural society in of the great gardens owned the millionnres of the city at these s where they de , and, like ither sow ‘puts’ nor Edenie =p: the lilies of the reap the frnits of Certainly,” a ‘ed the flower merchant, patting a rose on its stem. “I'll tell you what i know. But understand, first, that gardens owned by comparatively rich New Yorkers are seattered freeiy all around the rural circle of Wich the metropolis is the hub, but the great and notable ones are not so numerous. Mr. John Hoey. for instance, superintendent of Adams’ Express company, has a mazniticent garden at Long Braneh, which has cost hie robably not less than $250,000. He has an enormons rt ss, fitted with every ap- pliance can si ¢ or money bay for rv Howers and plants. Under a bright sun these hothouses ¢ en like gems, | and to visit them lovers of God's Sweetest th the flowers. “said Mr. Peter Hen J brilliant parterre is situ ing the and in th from all the re nm roundabout knew it weil, for many a time ded there trom his boat, climbed the to the Iu of the sum- reat trees, while the per- fame of that garden entered his open nostrils like the spicy gales from Arabia. “And I suppose,” added Mr. Henderson, “that Dinsmore has about as much money in the or pastime. as has Mr. Huey. At zton, Mr. Jay Gould's hothouses, which were burned two years ago, have been rebuilt, With more than their original magnificence. The great speculator, hard and tough as he is to- ward men in business. has a soft side toward all beautiful and novel things in the growing world. {don't know the amount of money he = nds in this pursuit, but it must be very “Do these men, as a whole, really understand ‘the business?” e “No, they know nothing practically about it; they rely Whether th upon their gardeners for success. make a profit by it or pot is not . Fet it is eu rarded_ by them. her full quota of these millionaire florist: There are four in Madison, one in Summit and two in Oranze. one of the latter being Mr. Sam- by them in the prices at which—in of the flower shop—‘crooks’ —are quoted in treet in Lake alized, how do they put the money in?” queried th serantum leaf between his ained fiagers, ¥ goods merchant or a of a million dol- anet profit of 5 ub in- net profit of 25 per that a larger amount tal invested “will yield corresponding buy on a falling market. then, some- Just so. 1: fate nm i entered tiati green| yuilder in Jersey City to coustruct. at h Gener, sonie sixty miles fre hot water and less than $15,000. esent prices when suc- the profits are so ureat as to he present craze on the subject. You aderstand Lam taikiug now of growing es. here is arose craze, ther about—weill, it-runs in th vase in which roses once were dist— “Yes, there is a craze on roses.” went on this flowery talker. snubbing the reporter and his stale quotation, “and | shouldn't wonder if it would end exactly as the Morus Multicaulis did in 1S40 or the zrapevine fever in 1865.” Morus end?” asked v ‘The ue reporter, aitly, batly. Hundreds thought there were it, but found, to their sorrow, that were thou: All experience shows that in the perishable commodities of fruits and flowers, whenever an over-supply floods the market and brings down the prices below 4 pay- s issold than when they bring a “Do you remember. Mr. Henderson, the fa- mous discussion in Wilkie Collins’ ‘Moonstone’ Cuil. the great London gardener. H as to whether the perience to ow they are budded, es- the favorite roses grown in wii ‘Just now—for the fashion in roses changes like all other fashions—they are perie des jar- dins (yellow), niphetos (white), Marshal Robert . Catherine Mermet (carmine rose), souseuir d'un aini (de Hemand (pink), an These. however, ar Besides these there are many otfier “Are we ahead of Europe in all phases of hor- tieultural progress?” “By no means. In the ornamentation of our ublic grounds, for exampie. we are far behind urope. We have nothing to com with the Battersea Park. ion; the Garten o€ Plants, Paris, or the Pheenix Park, Dublin; and when comparison is made of the grounds surrounding the villas in the suburbs of these European cities with our suburbs here, the balance is still more against us; for there it is rare to seea neat cottage without awell-kept lawn, and good taste shown in the planting of its flower-beds. Here. so tar, we have hundreds of expensive mansions, particularly in the suburbs of New York, where the so-called gardens, although Fieh and costly, suggest the need of a better ‘school of horticulture.” “What does it cost a year to keep up such gardens as those of Mr. Hoey's, Mr. Dinsmore's “The cost, my a receivershi boy, would swallow your sala- tp does am insurance company— ,000 & year.’ aan wiser coney tesa Bereich 2 is cigar, Ww. ae aay pe ti “Whet isthe thing in gettiag upa big flower now--that is, if a ‘Banted to get cne style of decora- : the last ten the ¢ fea known as ‘rluuon lines, ot Smasainc t cob annually spent for | Fifth Avenue hotel | ¥ | sacred. I glow with shame when I’ see a beauti- city, and as much interest is | You know the | oss rose should be first budded on the dog | ors,’ has made great and Is well done in the public parke of Phi hia, Bal- timore, and Albany. We fail on it in New York, for the feeble attempts at decoration flower made by our Central Park, or by Prospect Park, ware ae tee eae eae TS aware such a t as — exist. Our commissioners are —— in this respect, but private enterprise supplements their ignorance and neglect.” “* How?” asked the bi mocha sententiously. “In this way: Llewellyn, Park, N.J., has scores of private villas unexcelled for floral i and besides the extensive grounds of gentlemen already mentioned, there are the | Places of William Sargent, of Fishkill; the late Judge Lathrop and William T. J. Slanghter, of Madison, N. Y.; Mr. Walter S. Gurnee, the banker, of Irvington, an d Mr. James B. Colgate. | of Yonkers.” “As to the proposed new Horticultural hall,” remarked Mr. J. Y. Mulkland, recording secre- tary of the New York Horticultural Society, | “thie project is waiting for something to turn up. About 260,000 have been subscribed, but we shal! want a bigger financial guarantee be- | fore actually breaking ground.” “Have you agreed upon a site?” “Not yet, although I think the building will be We ‘d somewhere between 14th and 42d stree “Isn't New York rather slow in this thing, as in some others?” “ Decidedly; Boston is ahead of us. The Hor- ticultural society was started in 1829. Its hall, costing about $250,000, was built in 1865, and the society has met with almost unvarying sue- cess. The Horticultural society of Philadelphia was begun in_ 1828. Its first president was the well-known Horace Binney, and its hall was completed in 1866, costing £221,000. The de- partinent of horticulture in the Cincinnati in- | dustrial gave 25,700 in prizes, and on the days on which there were special floral displays the receipts at the gates averaged $3,000 more than on other days. But we shall catch up soon, I hope and ex) i eee ‘The “Jolly Girl” in England. From The Pall Mall Gazette. The women who copy the ways of men at best sueceed in resembling boys. The special habits and interests of men, their athletic and sporting tastes, their melancholy experience of what is called “life.” can no more be appro- priated by a girl than our topboots and riding- breeches. She only approaches that unnatural monster, the boy who is aping a man. I am not so old or such a misanthrope but that T find | myself at times among young people at a dance {ora garden party. I see a handsome young fellow from Aldershot talking to a fine girl, the picture of youth and grace. “They are flirting, T hope, as they should be,” says a match-mak- ing old thing. Flirting! my dear lady, he has been telling her about that setae sony run | with the Quorn, don’t you know. And now she is asking him with an anxious look if it is really true that No. 7 is not fit. For an hour, as I sat | within hearjng on the bench, she has patiently | committed to memory the merits of barrack after barrack and station after station—a form ninine ewriosity which he has but languidly ed, thouzh he has no other topic with which to entertain her. Aldershot,” says he, “is such an awfully jolly place, don't you | know.” “Is it really?” says she, with feeling. T mean,” says he: “such a jolly place to get ay from.” And she knows who is bound to | win the inile unless Jigger Mowbray can | stand the training, which is not to be thought of. don’t you know. And so they go on, from mere habit, talking the talk of the smoking- | or so much of it as can be dribbled into ars of a pure young girl. By all that is ml woman thus put off her sex | tainly can never put on ours. What are they to gain, th favorites of the regiment and the hunt, that they thus humble theinselves, that. they ‘so disfigare and weary themselves in laboriously ceasing to be women? It is net husbands, assuredly, they are seekiag. Our young friend from Aldershot does not trouble hi elf to flirt with girls; he has not the remotest idea of marriage; nor, indeed, has his iair partner,at least with the like of him. She is hot thinking of fascinating him at all; would, indeed, that she were! Marriage is an affair of carriages and horses; for these she must look to older men, and she does not like older men. she is only filling her appointed part—the wwfully jolly girl—which her society expects her to be.” Dolly and Darling, Judy and Jo, have to do it, and so must she. 1 wonder if she knows how little men really care for t strange receptivity of hers. To the young fellow this girl with her manly ac- quirements just so far ceases to be woman without advancing a step toward man. She istens to him as the fag at school listens to the big fellow in the boat or the eleven. It is pleasant to him that the young ‘un wears skirts and has lips ruddier than a fag. It is pleasant to him; but not wholly to us elders and fathers. Girls iu my time expected us to treat them on the assumption that they were women, or that they very soon would be. If we could not en- tertain them as women all the world over love to be entertained they turned to one another and amused themselves, When we sat with a sweet voung thing in the veranda as the band played the last notes of Kathieen Mavour- heen’” we had something, I vow. to talk about besides cricket averages, the club cigars, and the right cut of a bulldog’s ears. And as we never saw cigarettes in the lips of our partners, it never occurred to us to smoke between the dances. I have no turn for satire. but I love to watch our social woods and to trace them to their causes and effects. I suppose the work bexan with that wave of athieticism which of late has | swept over the land, turning the heads of not a | few lads and importing some laughable cus- | toms; but. if its ¢ upon men was more or less manly and wholesome its effect: indirectly on women was perhaps a more doubtful gain When the gymnastic idol was set up, and the muscular type of virtue became the whole duty fman, there were found English girls to sup- pose it the whole duty of woman. Physicall: it may be, it strengthened those whom it not slaughter outright. Kut as the girl could aiter all only join in the new worship asa prose- lyte of the vate, she fell into the social position | of the “lower schooi” at a cricket mateh. The | Jolly girl, in fact. became a fag. When ath- | leties are the business of life, the tone of so- | clety Is naturally set by men. not a second cause at work in the triumphs of the famous American beaut: | fascinating bei I doubt not, on her own side | planted the germs of new | feminine There was nothing of the | play ground or hunt about her; her importa | discovery was the freedom of her sex. It mi be doubted if our ancient system on this side of the o is duly prepared for such dash, such originality, such angelic self-possession. The type, however brilliant, is a perilous one to adapt. For the American girl, who so_ startles us at home, has her own traditions and_ habits. | When she shook from her airy skirts the con- ventions of the Old World, she founded the con- ventionsof the new. At home she reigns still, and imposes her jaw on men, concerning herself but little about mess-rooms and gun-clubs. Young ladies, you who think of adopting her adorable freedom of manner, be sure that you also adopt her shrewd and original spirit. But, be the causes whatever they may, the result is a curious social inversi relative and women is reversed in this ziing world. Of old, the idea was that in things social the woman was mistress, queen and ieader. Men in her presence were to study hi ‘tes and submit to her law. Ifthey. could not exist without tobacco, they might go | elsewhere; if they wanted to be killing some- | | thing. toa shooting party; and the matches dis- | | cussed in a drawing-room had nothing to do with Lord’s. —— Why Printers are Philosophers, Printers are generally not only the most intel- ligent class of artisans or mechanical manual laborers, but they are aiso notable for their habit | of taking a philosophical, if not a cynical view | of human life and its ordinary and extraordinary belongings. A real old typo is rarely astonished or seriously disturbed by anything, ahd if there is @ hole in anybody's armor he is pretty sure to find it; if there is a flaw in the working of the human machinery the printer will detect it, and not seldom his comments thereon do savor ot cynicism. A writer inthe Boston Traveller, in endeavoring to this, says: “I stood within the composing room of a dally newspaper. There was nothing to del the eye—no pictures, statues or sum niture. Serous looking men were be- fore their cases so fixedly that nothing less the falling of the roof would have distracted their attention. -Scarcely a sound was audible but the faint click of type falling into place. I never before realized so forcibly the cause why newspaper printers are, as it is said, naturally cynical. To-day they set up the type that telis the world of iciugs festivit when she cer- THE LOSs OF THE JEANNETTE. A Survivor's Description of How the Good Ship Went to Pieces, Mr. Raymond L. Newcomb wasthe naturalist and taxidermist on the Jeannette expedition. He isa native of Salem, Mass., and wasappoint- ed to the position he held at the instance of Pro- fessor Baird, of the Smithsonian, for which ins- titution he was sent in 1878 to the Banks of New- foundland to collect specimens of natural history and for other general scientific objects. Mr. Newcomb is one ot the few survivors of De- Long’s ill-fated expedition and sends to the New York Herald from Irkutsk a graphic ac- count of the recreations of officers and crew during the long months on the ship and their subsequent hardships. He thus tells how the Jeannette went to piéces: “Soon after the return of the island party the jee about the ship craeked in a lively manner and on the 9th she was afloat. On the 11th the ice was comparatively quiet. The ship lay alongside the floe with ice anchors out. On the 12th the ice came together, the ship was heavily nipped and careened to i6 degrees, but the pressure relaxing she righted again. All hands were on the alert for duty. Between five and six p. m. the pressure was heavy, rais- ing the ship by the bow and settling her by the stern. She again heeled to starboard and the ship showed the pressure, groaning and shaking in the ice king's grasp. The humming sound throughout the vessel, with the cracking of deck seams and the dancin; of the whole upper works, was a evidence of the situation. T can neyer forget the manner in which the gang ladders leading to the bridge jumped from _ their chucks and danced on the deck like drumsticks on the headof a drum Inthe midst of this wild scene acrash was heard. A man came up from below and said: “The fee is coming through the coal bunkers.’ The old Jeannette was doomed. She had fought a good fight, as her battered sides showed, but this last ‘hug was too much for her. After the smash no sound save the silent rush of water. The silence after the unearthly humming was the saddest part of all. She had been stabbed in her vitals and was settling fast. The men worked with a will; everybody did; life hung in the baiance. Seaman Star, noble fellow. stood below with the water upto his waist passing out provisions until ordered out by the captain. To-day I know not where he is. The Jeannette contained many such men in her crew. Good seamen all. But ‘silence and ob- livion, like the waves, have rolled over them, and none can tell the story of their en After getting boats and provisions on the ice about midnight camp was pitched, a watch set and the tired party turned in_ soon to be turned out again by the opeping of the ice under the sleepers in the captath’s tent. All hands helped shift toa safer place, and about 1.30 a. m., June 12, turned in again. At this time the Jeannette was heeled over, so the yardarms were against the ice and starboard rail under water. About twenty minutes before the watch from our tent was called I heard a noise which must have been the ship as she went down. I looked out soon after and she was gone, her requiem being the melancholy howl of a single dog. Only a few floating articles marked the place. Insignificant as the Jeannette was in comparison to the ice, her disappearance made agreat change inthe scene. During her exist- ence there was always something animated to turn to and look at, but now all is a dreary blank. I have seen far heavier grinding than that which crushed the Jeannette, but the ship is not yet built that can stand such hugging. “Next morning our camp presented the ap- pearance of a family who had broken up house- keeping in a hurry, as in fact we had. But ex- cellent spirits prevailed. One of the sailors handed some stuifed decoys of mine to the cook for the captain’s party. He commenced pluck- ing the feathers before finding out the joke. Our life for the next week was spent in getting ready for our retreat. Much of the time was spent in sewing, and some droll looking but very sensi- ble costumes were completed. Our tents were numbered, and over the door of ours was the word ‘Welcome.” The boats and provision sleds were named. The first cutter was named the Jeannette. and bore a beautiful silk ensign. The second cutter, Mr. Chipp’s boat, was named Hiram, and Mr. Danenhower’s boat was named Rosy. ' Our sleds were named Sylvie, Etta L., Lizzie, and Maud. One other bore the motto, ‘In hoe signo vinces.’ In consequence of the stronger light.during the day it was decided to march nights and sleep daytime. This was ac- cordingly done, and proved a good thing, and many a comfortable sleep I enjoyed after a hard night’s werk, either dragging with the men or atterward with pick and shevel building roads.” = ae The Five Obedient Husbands. From the Texas Siftings. There were five of them together, and it was Jate. They had been drinking. Finally one of them heked at the clock, and said: “What will our wives say when we come home?” “‘Let them say what they want to. Mine will tell me to go to the mischief,” responded No. 2. “Pll tell you what we will do. Let ‘us meet here again in the morning, and tell our expe- riences. Let the one who has refused to do what his wife told him to when he got home pay for this evyening’s entertainment.” “That's a good idea. We will agree to that.”” ie party broke up and went to their re- spective homes. Next morning they met at the appointed place, and began to tell their experiences. 1 No, 1: ‘When I opened the door my wife was awake She satd, ‘A pretty time of night for you tobe coming home. You had better zo out and sleep in the pig-pen, for that’s what you will come to sooner or !at@r, anyhow. ‘Rather than pay for all we had drunk last night. I did what she told meto. That let’s me out,” Next! 2 cleared his throat, and said: ‘When I zot home I stumbled ona chair, and my wife called, ‘There you are again, you old drunken brute! You had better wake up the children, and stagger about the room for awhile; 80 they can see what adrunken brute of a father they are afflicted with.’ I thought the best thing I could do under the circumstances was to obey; so J woke up the children and staggered around until my wife hinted to meto stop. She used a chair in conveying the hint. That lets me cut.” Next! 2 No. 3 spoke up, and sal “I happened to stumble over the pan of dough, and iny wife said, ‘Drunk again! Hadn't you better sit down in that dough?’ So I sat down in it, and that let’s me out.” Next! No. 4 said: “Iwas humming a tune, and my wife called out, ‘There you are again! Hadn't you better give us a concert?’ I said, ‘Certainly.’ and began to sing as loud as I could, but she told me to stop, or she would throw something at me; 80 T stopped. ‘That let's me out.” ext! No. 5 looked very disconsolate. He said: “Treckon I'll have to pay. My wife told me to do something none of you would have done, if you had been in my place.” ‘What was it?” ‘She said, you thought you would come home at last! Now, hadn't you better go out to the weil and drink acouple of buckets of water Just to astonish your stomach?’ That was more ‘than I had bargained for; so it's my funeral.” How He Saved the Chairs, A tather of several girls living on — street put fashionable thin-legged chairs in his parlor, and was annoyed by the frequency with which the frail furniture was broken. He asked the girls about it, and one of them said : “IT was sitting in the easy chair by the fire and Charl—that is to say, Mr. Smith—was sitting on the sofa by the window, when suddenly, crack! down went the little rocking-chair that no one was sitting onat all. It must be the poor glue they use; or perhaps it was the frost. The father studied the subject a few days; then he gave to each daughter a locket plainly Inscribed with her name and we and eneach chair riveted a silver plate Ing the words: “Warranted to bear up 125 pounds.” ‘Calling in the girls he sald oN chairs broken, it is jow, if iageary bred de men EATING BEFORE SLEEPING. The Prejudice Against This Habit Un- grounded and Foelish. From the New York Journal of Commerce. 2g Man is the only animal that can be taught to sleep quietly on an empty stomach. The brute creation resent all efforts te coax them to such @ violation of the laws of nature. The lion roart in the forest until he has found his prey, and when he has devoured it he sleeps over until he needs another meal. The horse will paw all night in the stable and the pig squeal in the n, refusing all rest or sleep until they are fed. ‘he animals which chew the cud have their own | Provisions for a late meal just before dropping off to their nightly slumbers. Man can train himself to the habit of sleeping without a pre- ceding meal, but only after ‘long years of prac- tice. As he comes into the world nature is too etrgng, for him, and he must be fed before he will sleep. A child’s stomach is small, and when perfectly filled, f no sickness disturbs it, sleep follows naturally and_ inevitably. As digestion goes on, the ‘stomach begins to et empty. A single fold it it will make the jittle sleeper restless; two will waken it; and if it is hushed again to repose the nap is short, and three folds put an end to the stum- ber. Paregoric or other nareotic may close its eyes again, but without either food or some stupetying drug, it wif not sleep, no matter how healthy it may be. Not even an angel who learned the art ef minstreisy in a celestial choir can sing a babe to sleep upon an empty stomach. We use the oft-quoted illustration slumber of a child follows immediately after its stomach is completely filled with wholesome food. The sleep which comes to adults long hours after partaking of food, and when the stomach is nearly or quite empty, is not after the type of infantile repose. ‘There is all the difference in the world between the sleep of re- freshment and the sleep of exhaustion. To sleep well, blood that swells the yeins in the head during our busy hours must flow back, leaving a greatly diminished volume behind the brow that lately throbbed with such yehemence. To digest well, this blood is needed at the stom- ach and nearer the fountains of life. It Is a fact, established beyond the possibility of contradic- tion, that sleep aids this digestion, and that the process of digestion is conducive to refreshing sleep. 1t needs no argument to convince us of this mutual relation. The drowsiness which always follows the well ordered meai is itself a testimony of nature to this inter-dependence. —— ES Ee ‘The Center of Population. From the N.Y. Tribune. 4 A volume recently issued from the Census office, embracing a portion of the statistics gathered at the enumeration of 1880, contains, among many valuable maps illustrating the distribution, density and character of popula- tion, a diagram which shows how the center of population has shifted from decade to decade, since 1790, in its steady march westward. What statisticians understand by the term center of population, it may be well to explain, is the point at which equilibrium would be reached were the country taken as a plane sur- face without weight, but capable of sustaining weight, and the inhabitants distributed over it in number and position as they are found at the period under consideration, each inhabit- ant being supposed to be of equal weight, and consequently to exert pressure on the pivotal point in direct proportion to his distance there- from. The first census of the United States, taken in 1790, showed the center of populatio: to be on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, about twenty-two miles from Baltimore, and near‘the thirty-nigth parallel of latitude. From that point it “has moved westward at the average rate of about fifty-one miles ina decade, never deviating as much as @ degree to the north or south of the thirty-ninth parallel. By 1800 it had moved forty-one miles, and was found at a point eighteen miles west of Baltimore. In 1810 it was near the Potomac, in Virginia, at a place forty miles northwest of Washington, having travelled thirty-six miles during the preceding decade. Its progress in the following ten years was fifty miles, and in 1820 it was in the Valley of Virginia, sixteen miles north of Woodstock. The census of 1830 discovered that the center of population, previously a little north of the thirty-ninth parallel, had that line and was a trifle to the south of it, at a point in the Alleghany mountains nineteen miles west of Moorefield, Virginia, the progress westward since 1820 being eine miles. This was the most decided southward move- ment it has made in’any decade, and is ex- plained by the acquisition of Florida and the settlement of Alabama, Mississippi, Lonisiana and Arkansas. In the ensuing decade the center recrossed the thirty-ninth parallel, moved fifty-five miles westward, and was found at a point sixteen miles south of Clarks- burg, Virginia. Southern Michigan and Wis- consin and northern Indiana and Illinois had begun to fill up, and their population turned the balance to the northward. In 1850 it was still in Virginia, but close to the Ohio river, having moved fifty-five miles and being at a point twenty-three miles southeast of Parkers- urg. Again it was south of tite thirty-ninth parallel, but only a distance of about a mile, the deflection being explained by the anuexation of Texas. By 1860it had reached a point twenty miles south of Chillicothe, Ohio, and a little north of the thirty-ninth parallel, having made the greatest progress ever made in a decade, the dis- tance from the last point being eighty-one miles. This remarkable movement was caused by the settlement of the Pacific coast—twelve persons in San Francisco, by reason of their distance from the piers! point, counterbalancing forty persons in Boston. The next step was forty-two miles westward, and about twelve northward, which brought the center into Highland county, Ohio, about forty-eight miles east by north of Cincinnati. It is believed that the apparent northern movement during this decade was caused by a defective enumeration of the col- ered population of the southern states at the census of 1870. In 1880 the center was near the village of Taylorsville, Kentucky, about eight miles west by south of Cincinnati, the westward progress being fifty-eight miles and the deflec- tion tothe south about eizht. The census of 1890 will probabiy discover it in Jenningscounty in southeastern Indiana. If there is no great change in the rate of western movement of population, the central point, still traveling, as doubtless will, on a line closely corresponding to the thirty-ninth parallel of latitude, will not cross the Missis- sippi_river until 1950, when it will be found not far from the mouth of the Missouri. Kt is not improbable, however, that it will never reach that stream, but will remain nearly sta- tionary somewhere in southern Illinois. There are large areas of country in the far west unfit for habitation, save where deposits of the pre- cious metals are found, and other considerable areas where grazing, which supports but ascanty Population will always be the chief industry. ie increase of populatien in the trans-Missis- sippi region may not, therefore, much more than counterbalance the increase in the older settled portion of the country after the close of the present century. In estimating the changes and progress of the future we must not forget that, marvelous as is the growth of the New West, it 1s only a little more rapid than that of the great middle regton between the Hudson and the soshens de The state of New York, it must be remembered, added 700,000 to her pop- ulation between 1870 and 1880. Pennsylvania 460,000, and Ohio 582,000, The increase in each of these.old states would make a western state as populous as Nebraska. A Boy’s Blunder. Says the Hartwell (Ga.) Sun: Ben Evins was chopping sprouts a few days ago, and set fire to stumps ina field. Ben’s boy was plowing. He had unfastened his gallus, which, for economy’s sake, had the button sewn on its end, and could thus be used on any part of the pants. Just as the boy plowed up to the side of the stump a large snake, finding its quarters becoming er warm, ran out of a hole in the Btump toward the boy, who dropped his plow and dashed off at a rattling galt. The loose ipender floated out to the breeze, and the heavy metal button would strike the vouth‘on the of his anatomy at every jump... The, poor fellow, with terrified eyes, pianos baek over his shoulder This but increased Me oped aba agile ant nat iY e dashed by his daddy like @ eaten heres! “Snake! snake!” ‘The old finally: through cuts, to'stop the lad without running down with but it took him an hour to convince’ ited heir- apparent that the anale'was not a caudal appendage. . ing. They all satin Giggiers Row, having just a lovely time—just such a time as young female teachers have oceasionally. atmo girls, 'm going to the Choras—‘ As * Jemima—‘'To see Edwin Booth!” Choras—*@h, ain't that splendid?” ‘Tve got an Edwin of my own.” £ - Gra “‘He-he-he-he, ‘WOMAN RULES THE | by her beauty, not less than by her OF EITHER SEX, | aswell as of comfort, happiness aid health, are those “sleeping as sweetly as.an infant,” because this | diseases—t (From the New York Telegram.) CLEOPATRA on THE QUEEN OF SHEBA’S BEAUTY WAS BUT SKIN DEEP. The renowned of Bheba, with all her royal pomp, magnificen€pparel, and brilliant retinue, would that which is the crowning glory of the female pereon— @ skin unchallenged for its Oriental softness and its almost transcendental purity. Cleopatra, holding em- perors at by, and ruling empires by her word, had quickly lost her charm and power by one attack of | diotches, or of pimples, or of horrid tan and freckles. WORLD pasty of character. devotion. Indeed, men beauty in loveliness of itson and upseltis! the estimation of perhaps too man; ly takes precedence over every ot eanty thus forms an_ im) where they imovels are remeriees it ood. Hi where they move), less for great |. Hence ‘we ee not nly tie priety but the duty of every lady | preserving wil lous care that which to her is easen- Ual to success. and influence, omd usefulness in life. And since **beauty is but skin deep,” the utmost care mn to sua in it are for pro} wi and vigilance are required to guard it against the many ills that flesh is heir to, Among the great ani annoying enemies of beauty, pestiferous and horria in tetters, humors, eczema, (salt rheum, ) rough and scaly eruptions, wloers, Pimples, and all diseases of the hair and scalp. ‘For the cure of all these, Dr. C. W. Benson, of Baltimore, after Years of patient’ study and investigation devoted to dis- eases of the skin, at last brought forth his celebrated | SEIN Cone, which has already by its marvelous cures, gptabltshed lteolf aa the great remedy for all dineases of the skin, whatever be their names or character. Its Success Hag been immenseand unparalleled. All drus wo. iment gists haveit. It is elegantly put up, two bottles in one Package: Thternal and external treaunent. “Price $1, Sick headache, nervous headache, neuralgia, ner- Yousness, paralysis, dyspepsia, geepleseness and brain diseases, ‘positive y ‘cured by Di SW. Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills. ‘contain no opium, or other Sears it 2 eae nice cents Ox, $1 for two, $2.50 for aix, Dp. 0. W. ‘Betwon, Baltivore, May Tox, New York, is Wholesale Agent for son's remedies, $30,000 SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING, puinine, ice, 30 Rontaee five. |. CRITTEN- ©. W. Ben- ‘ml0 - TO BE SOLD REGARDLESS OF COST At the Great BOSTON AND NEW YORK SALE OF CLOTHING, AT 123 TrH STREET NORTHWEST, (Between G and H.) oie neat Sree }. 50 to. 1,576 Child: 's Suits, at $2.50, $3.50, $4, and $6. 3,769 pairs Men's ‘and Boye! Banta, toe. TB Tso, an 25. 86 Spring Ove $6, $7, $8, $9, $10 and $12. at Black Clottr& is, $18, $20, cd $25. Pity Sauna Wah Wott a ae, , worth $4 Dress Coat t $7, $10 and $12, Bive Manne! Salts s6's0 antstae Blue and Black Goods, ‘of all description. lish Corduroy Suite, for Gunning, &e., $16, worth ‘ are equal to the finest The Mane half the cost. of our Seg! custom Clothine, at jess than are here tobe sold. Many styles of Suits we are selling less than you can buy the Goods for. Only 37 niore of the $16 and $18 Cheriot Suita left. We are selling them at $10: they are reat bargains. Gent's Suits, $6, $3, $10, $12, $15, $18 and $20 Everything in the line of 1Q. 1882—DOUBLE SHEET. MEN'S, BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHING. At Great Bargains at the Great BOSTON AND NEW YORK SALE OF CLOTHING, 723 7th street northwest, bet. G and H ste, Look for the Red Sign@and the Great Sale of Clothing. J. H. SMITH, Formerly of Oak Hall, Manager of the Boston and New York Sale of Clothing. a2g L U U MMMM BBR EEE RRR L U U MMMM BB E ROR L U U MMMM BBR KE RRR L UU MMM BBE RR w» LLL UJ MMM BBB EEE RE RS NO ADVANCE IN LUMBER ar WILLET & LIBBEY’S. SAME PRICES AS LAST YEAR. ‘We have 6,000,000 feet of Lumber, carried over from last year, and we will cell every foot of it at old pricas. WILLET & LIBBEY, COR. 6TH AND NEW YORK AVENUE. m29 cco H H 000 mn oco &I oO HHO OR SS SoH HO SH Go EF cco H H 000 HM COU EER 000 L DDD Oo OL DD 0 OL DD 0 OL nD D 000 ELLL DDD Wow wH AT gss! K IT REE ,SS83 Wwwwn Bass bX FE g Wwwww HHH I Ssssq KK HEE "sss, W oW #H HU Sgss§ kK “K I ERE Sggg8 PURE AND UNADULTERATED. ‘The peculiar medicinal qualities of Whiskies distilled from the finest growth of rye in the renowned Valley of the Monongahela, have attracted the attention of the ‘Medical Faculty in the United States to such a degreeas toplace itin avery high position among the Materia Medica. We beg to invite the attention of connoisseursto our celebrated fine OLD WHISKIES of the following well- known brands, IN CASES containing one dozen bot- : UNRIVALED UPPER TEN WHISKEY. VERY SUPERIOR OLD STOCK WHISKEY. For excellence, pureness and evenness of quality, the ‘These Whiskies are sold under guarantee to give PER- FECT SATISFACTION, and can be hat at all leading wrocery stores at retail. H. & H. W. CATHERW 40D, 114 SOUTH FRONT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, m9-3m M ADAME WASHINGTON, Ho, 1211 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUB. DRESSES MADE AND MATERIAL FURNISHED ELEGANT GOODS NOW IN STOCK, ‘Ladies should call atonce and leave their orders be- fore the dssortment of elegant fabrics is broken, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. DRY GOODS. DRY GOODS. Siixks, nat LAss8vRen &@ BRO. BLACK AXD COLORED, POLKA DOT AND MOIRE, WONDERFUL BURAHS AND RHADAMES, BARGAINS FOR THE BALANCE GD m THE SEASON. FASHIONABLE SHADES AT POPULAK PRICES. TYLER & CHEWNING, 918 Irn STREET NORTHWEST. WOODWARD & LOTHROP GREAB CLEARING SALE ms E IN CONSEQUENCE OF REMOVAL TO OUR NEW BUILDING IN THE FALL. OFFER THE COMING WEEK AN ELF- GANT LINE OF B ECRU 0 EMBROIDERED BATISTE DRESSES, I I AT LOWER PRICES D may muey can BE poucnt exse- D WE OFFER NOW: ‘Ten Carce beautiful LAWNS, warranted fast colors, ts Figured and Polka Dot, 5 cents. E M B R 0) Three Cases BEERSUCKER, at 9c., worth 12. Five Cases finest French SEERSUCKER, 12\yc., wortli 250. WHERE, ‘Three Cases small PLATP WOOL DRESS GOODS, re E E duced to 125¢c. from 300, ‘One Care BROCADED DKESS GOODS, ip all the new R R E WE SAVE ALSO OPENED A FEW MOST E BLEGANT PATTERNS OF D D spring shades, at léc. One Case ALL-WOOL FINEST NUN'S VEILING, at 25e. These are very scarce. We just received them from the Custom House, having ordered ‘them in January, ‘Two Cases ECRU, only FRENCH BUNTING, at 160. per yard. These cost 350. to import, but as itiea Job lot and all oue shade, we bought them at asec WHITE EMBROIDERED LAWN DRESSES, D R E TO WHICH WE INVITE PARTICULAR ATTENTION, One Case FAILE RELIGEUSE, the finest Cloth ime ported, 45inchee wide, at G5e., reduced from $1.25, One Case double width NUN'S VEILING, at 50c., ree duced from 75e. iS ‘One Case6-4 small check ALL WOOL DRESS GOODS, std0c. Other merchants are selling them at $1. Six Cares ALI, WOOL FANCY BUNTINGS. tn Biaclt and all the leading Spring shades, at 25¢,, worth SOc. A great bargain. BOSTON HOBSE, E s 921—PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE-921, m6 nHennrBna oY BLACK SILKS. COLORED SILKs, eex™ BARGAINS. ‘Ten Pieces exaraordinary good BLACK SILK, at$l. Tt compares favorably with any $1.50 Silke. Now is Four time tobuy. It will pay you to lay it by until Fell, as itis a sure saving of 60c. per yard, Just received, a large lot of BLACK SATIN RHADAMES, At $1.00 per yard: former price, $1.25. These goods have ‘‘good body, fine finish, lustrous surface, and are rare ins. GUIPURE AND SPANISH LACE NETS. PLAIN AND EMBROIDERED INDIA PONGEES. CANTON AND JAPANESE CREPES. SUKAHS, FOULARD AND SUMMER '§ SCOTCH SYLPHIDES and ZEPHYRS, BLACK DRESS FABKICS AND GRENA- of FRENCH DRESS GOODS, in all the **Latest Styles” and atthe **Lowest Prices.” MBROIDERED PARIS ROBES, from $15. 00 to $50.00, T QUALITY LAWNS, in new desisn f BLACK SILKS, from 750, to $3. EMBROIDERED SWISS MUSLINS. TURES IN WHITE GOODS: Fifty Dozen MISSES SILK HOSE, in Pink, Bineand) Cream, at 7éc. @ pair, worth $1.25. Every article in our two stores reduced. We want to crowd our stores with purchasers, and we are content te make sacrifices to do it, pecial Offering” NOVELTIES IN) EW TE PRINCESS LAWNS. INDIA LINENS, EGYPTIAN LAWNS. INDIA MULLS. NAINSOOK! PIQUES, LAWNS, ECRU SWISS MUSLINS. NEW PARASOLS AND SUN UMBRELLA’ - SI Attractions” in LIN FINE DRESS SHIRTS, HOSIERY, GUAZE UNDERWEAR and HANDKERCHIEFS. "8" AN EARLY INSPECTION IS SOLICITED. §- ONE PRICE, AND THAT 18 GUARANTEED TO BE CORREUT. SEATON PERRY, (Svccessor To Perry & Broturr,) ‘avenue, corner 9th strect. Our building is going on rapidly, a drawing of which , can be seen in our window. We must open with s CLEAN, NEW STOCK, MERV. And shall sell every article én our present stores before \, removal. LANSBURGH & BROTHER, 404 AND 406 SEVENTH STREET. _EDUCATIONAL. ith and D streets ‘north of LINCOLN HALL BUILDING. m6 SG PECIAL ATTRACTIONS,” “AT POPULAR PRICES.” 1 Care LINEN LAWNS, 123. The best Bargain ever offered in this market. 100 Doz, FULL REGULAR MADE HOSE, . 25 Cents a Parr. 100 Doz. ALL-LINEN HEM. S. HANDKERCHIEFS, 123gc. each. $1.50 a dor. for instruction, or 4 the month or, F Seg Beal Pee rae tok wive from, ‘schools opportin buries training. Falldnformation given at the co aon SARA A. SPENCER, Vice Principal. Prin evenii LUPIN’S SILK and WOOL GRENADINES; many | JDROF. ALEX. 8. De WOLOWSKL PIANIST A styles not to be had elsewhere. PY bas opened new courses, for, Piano FOULARD and SUMMER SILKS, in great variety. 5 meted: shortest BLACK SILKS, COLORED SILKS, RHADAMES, Genuine SCOTCH GINGHAMS, 25c. INDIA LINENS, PERSIAN LAWNS and Genuine CALCUTTA SEERSUCKER. Stock in every department full and complete. ‘Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to inspect this stock and compare Prices and Qualities, as the goods are right in every respect. x “ONE PRICE ONLY.” TRUNNEL & CLARK. ‘secompani« highest culture for Operas, Conoert® and Parties, at 607 Letreet northwest. m6-27 SCHOOL FOB GIRLS AT THE NATION A CAPITAL. - Mr. and Mre. WM. D. CABELL will at the Ni Da ESD Mr. and Mra. w & cous of masters, and every facility will be afforded to exee, while the preparatory de- Ml recedve most attention students in advanced cla: partment wil m2 803 MARKET SPAGE. ‘The ‘uawres will form a nent feature MATTNGS,MATTINGS, —-MATTINGS. | faire hl FOr Rat ep CADE a m3-Im 1114 M street, n.w., Washington, D.C, ENSON H. PIER ENSOESSORS TN ELOCUTION, ORATORY AND DRAMATIC AkT. Building. 229-2W° \CHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND DRAMA ASHARESPEARE CLASS WEDNESDAY, NGS at 8 o'clock, Mrs. ADELINE DUV. (ot New York, ) 729 13th street northwest. BUY OF US AND SAVE MONEY. ‘We are offering the Best stock of MATTINGS in the city in Quality and Designs, at the lowest prices. of Pisin and Strii io Steamy Carpet Cleaning: Son ma ibaa delivered, G SINGLETON & HOEKE, Fae, ‘LESSONS. —N.B.—M = HOMME'S Residence ‘removed m2 801 MARKET SPACE. ek pri 19th, 0 id 636 pet. a.m. an x Gitesee can'join now: Lomons sil eonfia W SENG TON, CONSERVATORY OF NU ‘TIMMS’ NEW HALLS. oor. 7th ‘ Voice, Binet Victia advantages. 0. B. BU! . FLYXN, AM. We FLU comier 8th and K streets northwest. So BARGAINS IN DRESS GOODS, ‘Illuminated Drees Goods, widest double width, pure Wool, only 50c. Nun's Veiling, all colors, pure Wool, 30c. ‘Handsome Biack Brocade Silks, all pure Silk, $1. Colored and Black Silks, 50c. Black and White Striped Silks, 500, Black Silk Velvet, $1. Light Blue and Pink Cashmeres, pure Wool, wide double width, 50c. Checked Dress Goods—Blsck and White, Blue and Gold, Green and Gold, Brown and White, 25. Colored and Black pure wool, double width, 370. Studies resumed September TEACHER ‘Address, om 188 AMY LEAVITT, OF BOSTON, M ‘of Vocal and Instrumental Music, 8. L. CADY'S BOARDING SCHOOL FOR ‘West End ‘New yea [A ee as ee Rea eee ‘ASHINGTON, COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE. Boarding and Day ee ey me PIANOS AND ORGANS. Cmscncar J. REED'S, Cloth for Men’sand Boys’ wear, 87c. to $1.50, Black Cashmere Shawis, all Wool, $2. Pure Linen Dinner Napkins, 75c. dozen. Honey-Comb White Quilts, 75c. Black Silks, $1, $1.25, £1.50, $1.75, $2. One hundred pieces of Scotch Gingbama, and striped} 25c. plaid, plain CARTER'S, als 711 MARKET SPACE. L4cee8 BEER, THE BEST IN THE DISTRICT. PIANO WAREROOMS eee, 433 SEVENTH STREET, 308. SCHLITZ BREWING CO." ‘Bole Agent of the matchless MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER, er ee si ‘AND THE FOB SALE BY DEALERS AND THE AGENZ SAM'L 0, PALMER, DEPOT, 1224 TWENTY-NINTH STREET N.W. 59" Tetephonio connection. 08 ASBESTOS TQ ecoF RxD HORE) ASBESTOS CEMENT, FELT, WICK, PACKING, &. Sees = : sontuis frou peive : J. W. KENNEDY & CO., 4 cog Peumeyiveats ave. and 607 B stest nortnvesh. (Established 1200.) 3 W.