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THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MA’ CAPT. DRISKO'S GHOST sTORY. Hiow the Good Ship Harry Beoth was Saved frowe Wreck. ‘From the Boston Travellur, May 18. Ata meeting of religious reformers held in the house of Mr. William H. Banks, East Boston, a few evenings since, Capt. C. P. Drisko, who is well known as an able and ex- perienced shipmaster, spoke in substance as fol- lows: “In the winter of 1865 I commanded the ship Harry Booth, bound from New York for Dry Tortugas, with a cargo of government stores ‘and 200 mechanics and laborers to be employed on the fortifications then in the course of con- struction. When the ship reached the vicinity of Abaco the wind blew a fierce norther, «with heavy rain; the sun had gone down, and the we + svon became quite dark. To hau! off ‘Was impossible, the wind blew too fresh to carry sail. and the only rational course left was to incur the risk of crossing the Bahama banks. The ship drew 14 feet, and I could not expect that there was inuch more than 15 feet of water on some parts of the banks. A foot is very lit- tle to spare under a ship's keel; but I resolved totakethe chance, and accordingly squared away. that is, pnt the ship before the wind, and Island, teok my departure from feen everyihi chief mate, Mr. Peterson, a careful and trust- worthy officer, in chare, and went below for a little rest. At clear and fancitor!’ ‘Who are you? I demanded, and sprang on deck, for i was not a man to take orders from any one. T found the ship going along her true course. and everything as I couid wish. I questioned Mr. Peterson if be had seen any person enter the cabin, but Neither he nor the man at the wheel bad either seen or heard any one. Thinking it may have been haiin ion I went below again; about coat and slouched i, looking me straight we to go on deck and cabin deliberately. I heard his heavy tread as he passed before me, Onee more I sprang on deck and found the ship allright. Sure of my course! was not dis- posed even with this second warning to obey any man or anything else. no matter what ap- — it might put on. Again | went below, ut not to sleep, for I had everything on ready for a spring on deck. At 12:50.a.m. the same man entered the cabin, and more imperiously than before said: ‘Go on deck and ancior!” recognized at a glance that the speaker was my old friend, Capt. John Barton, with whom I had sailed when a boy, who treated me with vreat kindnes. I sprang on deck, rounded the ship to, and anchored her with 50 fathoms of chain. Ail hands were called and the sails |. Shortly afterward I felt the ship touch, but neither the mate nor any one else noticed it. A few minutes later, however, all hands feit it. 1 threw the lead first from one side then from the other, and found 5 fathoms (30) feet of water. Iwas perplexed, and asked myself what it could mean, when the same voice sang out, ‘Throw the lead over the st 2 I did so, and to my dismay found oniy feet. ship drew 14 feet.) I immediately mizzen topeail and spenker and backed her clear of the reef, azainst which she sheered every time she brought a strain upon her chain. ‘The danger was past; the ship rede clear of the reef, and sustained but little damage where she struck. A siip which spoke me in the early rt of the evening, and whose Captain was not initiar with the Bahamas, said that he would follow me. and for this purpose I hung a light over my stern. Watching my movements Closely. he rounded to almost as soon asI did, and thereby saved his vessel. No doubt the norther had shallowed the water on the banks, and if we had continued in our course we both might have been wrecked. Will those who assume that the spirits of our departed friends do not take an interest in us please ex- plain? What [ have stated is true. It was the spirit of a departed friend, Capt. John Barton, well known as one of the shipmasters in He commanded among others the nd and Superior, and was c¢s- y all who ever knew him. My voyage im the Harry Booth was entirely successful.” ae American Skill, When I was In Cincinnati bricklayers were @arning £1 a day, and the saime rate prevails in many other cities. But the work was far more exhausting than in Engiand. Here a bricklayer is reckoned a good hand if he sets 900 bricks per day; 1,000 is high-water mark. In the United States 1,500 is the average, and some smart fel- lows have set 2.000 per day. Now, at the out- set, most Englishmen find this rapid style sim- ply destructive. And there ts no doubt that it taxes the energy of the strong and clever. Yet such is the custom of the trade. For the weak and incompetent it means exclusion from first-class employment, and banish- meat to places remote from’ thriving cities, where speed is slower, competition feebler, and wazes lower. Although the standard is so Touch higher than in England, our immigrants, after a period of probation and “hardening,” are found equal to all comers. An iustance of this will be aproy A German master-builder Was erecting a block of houses, and hisemployes were exclusively Germans. Four young English Drickiayers applied for work. They were newly arrived, and met with several refusals. At length two were taken on trial. Lee the end of the week the four were engazed: the Gnglishmen carried the building to its com- pletion. Their power to work, quickness and Steadiness gave them a marked advantage over the Germans. But their deterinination not to be “ticked” was the real cause of their triumph. That British characteristic telis prodigiously in favor of the Anglo-American, and makes him fm princeps amid natives and strangers. hese young bricklayers told me they never worked so hard in their lives before, and were glad thata crucial test had revealed to them “what they could do.” After this breaking-In they were equal to the highest standard of American labor. One of them soon became an em- ployer. acd was making sure tracks for fortune when I last saw him. What I have said of the building trades applies to all others. Indeed, the higher dexterity, taste, and skill a business re- quires, the more does tie American workman Fepond tothe demand. The plasticity of type to which I have referred is nowhere seen so } pen as in the domain of the useful arts. fermans and Frenchmen haye given a finish to American manufactures that is wanting in our own. Besides, there is a native neat- ness, the result of a high ideal of excellence. This matter deserves the serious attention of British manufacturers who are losing many markets shnply from the clumsiness of their goods. There is rising in the United States, a Teee of artists, desicners, and artificers who romise to surpass these of ail other nations. he fervor of the climate develops the esthetic side of man; the clash of millions of , in- ventive minds is producinz a standard of excel- lence that is both novel and exalted: the possi- bilities of wealth are vastly beyond those of any Ecropean state, and the love of the elegant and the beautiful- pervades alt classes. The inevi- table sequence of these conditions must be wide spread, all«lominating art. It is seen in the gorgeous public buildings, in the exquisite Villas. in the light yet strong furniture. in the beautiful appointments of drawing-rooms and table-equipages; while every American lady, ea, thouzh black, is living evidence of an innate te in dress that makes the English suffer by contrast. Into every aveane of life this charac- teristic of taste zoes, modifying manners and behavior as much as architecture, furniture, = ornaiuents, and tools.—Chambers’ Jour- = The Worlds End. The belief that the world would come to an end in the year 1,000 was associated with, if not absolutely derived from, a much older beliet en- tertained by the earliest astronomers of whom ‘any records remain to us. They considered that certain cyclic periods of the planetary mo- tions bexinand end with terrestial there calamities being of different characters ac- cording to the zodiacal relations ot the planetary conjunctions. the aacient taught (according to Diodorus Sicalus) that when all the pianets are conjoined in us the earth is destroyed by flood; when they are all conjoined in Cancer the earth is destroyed by fire. But after each such end comes the teinning of a new cycle, at which time all things are created afresh.’ A favorite doctrine respecting these cyclic destruc- tions was that the period intervening between was the Annus Magnus, or great year, for the return of the then known to the position (of conjunction) which ‘understood to have had at the But it was ia evi of a thousand years, and the ordinate catastrophes were supposed to divide the great year Into sets of 20 many thousand yeare— ‘The Corahilt Magazine, Fan vias yy the end of | a fortnight. all the Germans were dismissed, and | Sunshine and Cloud at Tennis. SRS. beso pur outt® ‘The way thet they bounced abou” 1 ince puted when year oon ‘And took it told me It was only a ‘How could it fo heart when you Pd Detter stop outside the “You don’t wu the science,” inderstand What wonder, when you were 80 near? Love's science 13 ail too To leave room for another, dear. ‘The balls came so fast and so furious, Tnever was in the right : place; ‘The ground was as hard as a dear, ‘Audi tao sun shone tight ta oop foe ‘3 “Let's polish them off while they fight!” You know how I hte to be beaten; But beaten we were, and outright. one een reee my awry, {nto my Jacket, Fearing to at darling, 4s Thastlly lett the nels Enowing the might of love, dear, Fearing that wrath might yield. ‘Of course I meant you to follow; But when I turned my head, ‘You had climbed the steep, and taken ‘The road to the town instead. Oh. that weary homeward journey! Oh, those girls! how their chatter Jarred! For a clowi was over my sunshine, And life’s sweet harmony “Shall I see him agatn, I wonder?” I wandered into the wood: In the glow of a golden sunset, All in white still, there you stood. A few months ago, my darling, I could have passed you by With a careless nod and greeting, And coldly averted eye, Ani nursed my wrath till to-morrow; But now, as the minutes take fight, «1 feel that I could not exist, dear, ‘Without making it up to-bight. For minutes emnty of love, dear, If we only couid count the cost Are so many sunbeams wasted, Are so many joys that are lost, One glance into eyes forgiving, ‘One Kiss and tne cloud Is pr is past: Life is far too short, my darling, For a Uff like that to last! Lonaion Society. ——___se- LAGARTIJO, THE MATADOR. Madrid’s Pet Bull Fighter and His Wonderful Nerve. From the St. Louis Republican. Maprip, April 15.—The great matador of the day is a Cordovian, by name Lagartijo. He works the principal Spanish plazas, but lis ser- vices are retained for the capital on all great holidays. He is reputed to be temperate, very industrious, very saving, and, as a consequence, very wealthy. He was pointed out to me one day on the sidewalk at Madrid—a slender man, a little over the common height, perfect form, dark complexion, and having the ese of a hawk. His age Is given at 42 years, but he looks not over 33 or 34. He is said to be a wonder of litheness and nerve, and some marvellous sto- ries are told about his performances. This is on = At a combat held at Madrid ona great holiday, two or three years ago, when the amphitheater was crowded to its utmost, the bull had been turned over by the bandilleros to Lagartijo. who, for some reason not apparent, prolonged his play unusually. He touched his brute enemy re- peatedly with the point of his sword, waved the red flag perplexingly against his very eyes, and over and azain skipped back and forward, and hither and thither, until the bull had become fairly crazed with worry, pain and rage. The matador had at last described a great circle, and stopped. The bull started madly and in a straight line for him, when Lagartijo, by a sud- den insplration—mesmeric intuition: of power, likely—threw one foot firmly in advance, p! his flag quickly out of sight behind him with his left hand, and, holding his sword aloft with the right, stood immovable, like a statue ofdeflance, awaiting the onset. The stillness of death fell upon the great multitude. It was an act of madness. But the man’s instinct was true; the brute came only a few is further, when, again sighting the motioni bravo, he seemed to stagger uncertainly, and then actu- ally fell forward on both knees in his endeavor to stop! Such a shout as went up next from the breathless, watchful multitude—the like of it was never heard before, nor has it rang since from the plaza de torros. So eee Superstitions About Cats, From the Gentleman's Magazine. In Ireland it is considered highly unlucky for a family to take with them a cat when they are moving, more especially, too, when they have to cross a river. Mr. Gregor also tells us that, in the northeast of Seotland, if a cow or other domestic animal was seized with disease, one mode of cure was to twist a rope of straw the contrary way, join the two ends, and put the diseased animal through the loop along with a cat. By this means the disease was sup- posed to be transferred to the cat, and the animal's life was so saved by the cat dying. This, of course, was only one of the extensive charms of which the leading idea was that of substitution. A remedy for erysipelas, lately racticed in the parish of Locharron, in lorthwest Highlands, consisted in cutting oft one-half of the ear of a cat, and letting the blood drop on the part affected. Alluding, moreover, to the numerous other items of {olk- lore in connection with the cat, there Is a pop- ular notion that a May cat—a cat born in the month of May—is of no use for catching rats the house through bringing ito. Tt dangrecale the house thro brit into it reptiles of various kinds. “Mrs, Latham, in her “West Sussex Lge a hearoero gays that a May cat is supposed “to be inclined to melancholy, and to be much addicted to catching snakes: bringing them into the house. 1 had heard that this West-country beliet existed in our village: and, very lately, observing a moat ete looking cat by the fire in a cottage, said, in jost, * IT should think that cat was born in May.’ ‘Oh, yes,’ said the owner of it, ‘ that she was, and so was her mother, and she was just as sad-look- ing, and was always bringing snakes and vipers within doors.’” In Huntingdonshire there is a common that “a May kitten makes a dirty cat.” This supposed ill luck attaching to @ cat born in the month of May is no doubt founded on the old notion that May was an un- fortunate season for births of any kind, in allusion to which there is an old proverb which 5a, : Roo § chets Bad luck begets, According to a curious notion, still extensive! credited by our north-country peasantry, bl cats are supposed to bring not only good luck, but also lovers—in illustration of which we may quote a well-known rhyme on the subject : ‘Whenever the cat 0’ the house ts black, ‘The lasses 0’ lovers wiil have no lack. Mr. Henderson, speaking of this superstition, tells us that an old north-country woman on one occasion said to a lady, ‘It's na wonder Jock ——'s lasses marry off so fast, ken what a braw black cat they've got.” It is considered unlucky to dream of a cat, a piece of folk-lore prevalent in Germany, where, if one dreams of @ black cat at Christinas, it is an omen of some alarming illness during the following year. Equally unfortunate, too, is it for a cat to sneeze, act being supposed to indicate that the family will have colds. Thus, we are informed by Mrs. Latham that in Sussex, “even the most favored cat. if heard to sneeze, is instantly shut out of doors; for should she stay to repeat the sneeze three times indoors, the whole family will have colds and Lastly, there are many quaint traditions in which the cat holds a prominent place; and an amusing one, current in the north of we may quote in conclusion: A gentleman was one evening sitting cosily in his parlor, reading or when.he was interrupted by the pearance of a cat, which came down the aieaes and cried out,“Tell Dildram dead!” He was not unnaturally occul and when happened, her own hich accompanied exclaimed, “is Doldrum deade* be rushed A Fic numberiess to account for this e: most reasonable one appears. Doldrum had. been king of Catiand, Dildrum was the next heir. Ee WHAT IT REALLY Costs. fer Those Who ‘Want ts Get Marisees to get married?” A very short conundrum, the reader will observe, but one which required a deal of space to answer, as is attested by this article. The postal-card was turned over to a good-looking, girl-touched reporter, and he was ordered to get a full and complete reply on pain of having his salary cut down so low he could never hope to ask any woman to “go halvers” with him. Fortunately, the young man knew a gentleman, now well advanced in years, who had been married three or four times, more or Jess, and to him he went in his sorrow and told him what was wanted. “Well,” aid the gentleman, who shall be called Colonel B., “I've had some experience in that business, and if it is worth anything to you * Tis youn nme'ecpes die th grateful tears, he yor man’s eyes. wil and he silently laid his hand in that ot his kind- hearted friend and said with a sol “Tell me about it.” What do you want to know?” Eyerything, everything, so that the postal- card fiend may get Tull satiety.” All right, here goes. I was married four times, and I have in my desk over there receipted bills for all expenses incidental to each occasion. The first time was forty-five years ago, when I was young and green, and hadn’t a dollar but what I borrowed; and the girl didn’t have any more than I did. so it was necessarily a poor man’s wedding. Let me see (reaching into the desk for the papers), here’s the bill. I find here the following itemized account: One suit of clothes, ready made, $10; shoes, @2.50; shirt, 75 cents; hat, $1; yarn socks, knit by mother, no charge; no collar, no cuffs, no neckties, no but- ton-hole bouquets, no gloves, no carringe-hire; license, $2; preacher, 50 cents in money and four bushels of apples; no present to the bride, and no anything else, so far as I can remember. To- tal, $16.75 and four bushels of apples.” ‘Cheap enough,” said thescribe; “but do they do it that cheap now?” ‘Yes; pee of them, and some of them cheaper; but my wife and I were pretty re- spectable young people, if we were poor, and me eonene we were putting on considerable style.” or course; but how was it next time?” “The next one took place ten years later. and I was a little better off in the world and was clerking in a store at 240.a month. My bills on that occasion show the following result: One suits of clothes, $25; boots, only wore one, however), #2: 50 cents; necktie, 20 cents; ca on the shirt without extra charge; license, $2; preacher, $2.50 in gold; present to the bride, gold breastpin, $2; cotton socks, 15 cents; no carriage hire, no wedding trip; total, $43.85.” ‘That looks a little heavier.” “Yes, but it is about an average, and the thing is done daily now at a similar outlay.” , that didn’t occur until fifteen years later, and I was a partner with about $1,200 or $1,500 a year, and was a rising young merchant. Of course I was called on then to put on consid- erably more style, and the bills show up cor- remcnctety, as follows: Suit of clothes $50, underwear $10, boots #10, hat (plug) $6, gloves $2. necktie $1, buttonhole bouquet 25 cents, wedding ring $10, and present to bride, jewelry ($25) $35, carriage hire $10, license $2, preacner RG gold), incidentals $15, short bridal trip $100; total 1.25.” “Ham,” sald the reporter, thoughtfully, *‘that style costs a little more, doesn’t it ?” “Yes, they come high, but we must have them, and it is no more than is ordinary in that jon. care what are the incidentals specified in the “Oh, that includes a variety of unexpected items a man has to meet on a holiday occasion like a wedding. and cannot be definitely en erated. You will see what it means when you get there, but if you get married in a real quiet ou can avold mach of It janks for the advice. Now for the fourth “The fourth event happened at only a compar- atively recent period, when I had become a bloated bondholder, as it were, or, to put it milder, a rich man, I married a young wife. a8 most of us old fellows do, and she wanted 0 cut a wide swathe, so the bill was heavy. ‘he figures were thuswise: Clothes, from the skin out, hat and boots, $125; gloves, $2.50; neck- tle. $2.50, the finest in the market; boutonniere. Marechal Neil rosebuds, etc., $1.50; carri: (price chargod by statotory cuashmenbrsrenck ¢ charged by enactment); - er, $25; janitor at church, $5; gloves and but- ton-hole bouquets for ushers, $10; wedding- After Grizzlies. I was out with Cadott. Toward sundown, leaving me near aswamp, he went off on the we lost them. A few days’ after, one of our officers and “the ‘chief e1 to ee toward ‘the river, which was about half a mile away; they saw what they took to be a couple of lo coming to- ward them at a lope. Both prepared for a shot; but when the animals came close enough to dis- tinguish them the hunters recog them to be two full-grown grizzlies making fortheir post- tion. An animated discussion arose between the officer and the engineer as to what they should do. The engineer was for “lighting out” at double-quick, but the officer, be- ing armed with a Sharp's breech-loading rifle, was for a stand. As he prevailed, the engineer slipped off his boots and made ready to climb the tree. When the bears came within range he, fergetting his gun, made haste to mount the tree. The officer prepared to shoot, but being unable to determine which bear to kill, or possibly attacked with the ‘bear fever,” he, so the engineer said, dropped his gan and made good time up the tree. The officer claimed that he took his rifle up the tree with him. However that may be, the two monsters came on at a lope, and, without so much as cast- ing a glance up the tree, went on into the brush beyond. As these two gentlemen had been very severe on Cadott and myself for not attacking two grizzlies on the open prairie, we being armed with a small game rifle and a carbine, we thought that our valorous friends. armed with a Sharp’s Pippa ges, Bey and an army musket, might at least have tried a shot from their safe perch in the tree. Before the inven- tion of the destructive breech-loader, now in common use, the hunter never attacked a grizzly unless he had some great advantage, such as being on horsebaex on the prairie.— Gen, Hardin, in the United Service. = ses: Hunting in Burmah. From Harper's Weekly. People have an idea that there is very little sport to be got in Burmah, whereas the truth is game is far more abundant in that country than anywhere in the east, Assam alone excepted. In India most of the game is followed on foot; but #0 dense is the undergrowth in Burmah that ele- phants are necessary, not only to beat the game up, but to enable the sportsman to see it; the best shot in the world and the most enthusiastic sportsman might roam the wilds of Burmah for months without elephants, and get shots at a few deer only. The sport would not repay the toil; but with good elephants the case is com- pletely altered. To get good sport one has to learn the lan- guage of the country. Interpreters or go-be- tweens are of very little use, often more harm than good. Burmese are particularly sensitive. One can do a great deal with them by kindness, but they resent harshness, and, if roughly spoken to, they will oftenet misiead than help. Elephants can generally be hired from Burmese in most of the larger towns; bwt they demand five rupees (about two dollars ahd a half) a day. One has to provide his owh gaddies, gaddelahs and howdahs; in other words, his’ own elephant gear. No one, except he had® lived a lifetime amore the Shans, or Burmese, cotld shoot out of one of their cane howdahs? The 'Ueita ofthe Irra- waddy is not very good for rt. There are plenty of wild pigs, and the data’el(hog-deer), and the “thamin” (brow-antlered rusa); but during the rains the country is inundated, and of course animals which are not amphibieus can not live in such localities, and migrate. elsewhere, and are met with, sometimes in thousands, on an ring ($10), and present to the bride, diamon: (eau tie, incidental, $50; bridal ‘trip, $500; to which must be added a suit of traveling clothes and extras amounting to $100 more and we have a total of $1,113.50.” “Good Lord!” gasped the reporter, “how can a poor young man ever climb a hill like “He can’t, my dear,” replied the sympathiz- ing old gentleman, “but he can wait until he isa rich old man, then try it. But that isn’t any- thing to some of them. I know of one map whose actual wedding outlay was €5,000, and he wasa plain American citizen. Foreigners,you know, overgo that, but they have such an enormous amount of extras.” “Now, you've told me the cost to a man, me is it, state it briefly, on the other side?” “For the women, do you mean?” ‘Yes.” ‘Well, there's no telling. My first wife’s dress cost $3, and it was a mighty pretty- looking piece’ of too. I suppose her other fixings were worth @5 more, so that $8 or $10 would cover it all. My last wife's troussean complete cost $3,000, bat then her father was rich. I saw a little statement the other day about a New York girl who had sent to Paris for two dresses only, and the bill was $2,600. Other stuff to this would no doubt cost $5,000 more, so there is a wide margin on the woman’s expense. I might say here that my experience and observation have taught me that marriage, in more senses than one, costa a woman dearer than it does a man. A very fair wedding turnout fora girl in the average circle of society I think could be furnished from $100 to €300, and some very respectable people cut it down consider- ably below this.” Some farther talk was indulged in, when the reporter thanked his friend and went around to see some other acquaintances who were tows on the matter at issue. In the course of ig travels he ran on one man who had been married at an outlay of only eighty-five cents. ‘How did you get itso cheap?” he inquired. “Well, you see,” said the man, “Mary wanted to marry and so did I, and we fixed it all up in about ten minutes in the kitchen and slipped off to the and got @ license and saw the "Squire and ended it.” Sd the license cost more than eighty-five “Mine didn't, I only had that much, and I told the clerk my fix and that I wanted the other ten cents for a bridal street car ride, and he let’ me have the papers for seventy-five cents. Then I told the "Squire how it and Mary she blushed and looked so pretty that the old fellow Isughed and married us for nothing, except a kiss from the bride. But look here, young fel- low, if any other man had kissed that bride, you bet your money the wedding would have Cost a good deal more, and don’t you forget it.” The reporter promised not to feet it, and went on with his incratties until he found that figures top. and found too, bears if | surprised him. elevated oe Beyond Pegu, to the north, the country is somewhat higher, and between the Irrawaddy and Sittang Hes a range of hill almost mountains, the highest being some 2, or 3,000 feet in elevation. . This almost unknown: district harbors in its midst vast herds of elephants, ghiur, wild cattle, rhinoceros, buffaloes and various kinds of deer, bears, tigers and panthera.. Tite Yomahe slope toward the Tline to the west and the Sittang to the east. During the time (from about July to October) the plains are inundated, the game in & great measore confines itself to the hilly re- gion, nor does it largely till after the riodical fires have royed the immense un- Receconth of the plains and the young grass be- gins to shoot up. Shooting off elephants is a knack to be ac- quired by practice. sicmerengood ashot aman may be on foot, when he first mounts an ele- hant he won't be able to hit a k. After 1 had had many years’ T found I could shoot snipe nearly as well from a howdah as on foot; but at first I felt yey: awk and shot very badly. The shooting in Burmah is very va- ried, and in beating across country you can never tell what you may come across. In the open quins, which are, I think, spaces formerly culti- vated, but which have lapsed into waste lands, you will seldom find anything but dals’el,thamin, pig, and occasionally a tiger, but nothing else, asarule. Of course, now and then el ite and tsine, or wild cattle, are seen fe ing in them, the former in some marshy bit, and the latter browsing off the young ; but itis nearly impossible to get near enough for a snot. On the borders of many of the quins are park- ike aces with trees, un with = un- lergro' of coarse grass, averaging four to five feet in height. In this le concealed di the day numerous sambur, and two or three sportsmen advancing in a line on elephants will eS indle, when it for a day's sport, in India, wi ou. go out for a day’ you know generaily the exact kind of, fume you will meet, and you are armed accordingly; but. in Burmah one moment you may come across a tiger, soon afterward several varieties of deer, and further on meet buffaloes, bison and ele- phants. Thus you must be provided against all contii ies. The month for sport ts undout ay May. It is very hot then, and the game lies closer, and it is more‘ plentiful on the Plains that month than any other Queer Happenings. From the N. ¥. Bun. Frank Hall, of Hutchins, Texas, dfed of hy- drophobia from the bite of a skunk. A cow at Vi Miss., put her tongue through a lattice work, anda mule bit off four inches of it. Jozeph R. Toy, of Simsburg, Me., aged 72, has married the widow of his son, who un- Lizzie Moore, of Fremont, Ohio, 17 years of ‘age, has become totally blind. She hadrabbed aching arm. her eyes after to avi Edward V: Wis., felled a of Brookside tha hed @ hollow at ene in the, hollow, which tree —DOUBLE SHEET. a” LURIBER: LADIES’ GOODS. DOUGLASS, 4 LADY SaID “These Horrid Pimples! Ne, I Cannot Ge, Please Present My Excuses.” BOOPSEIRTS AND BUSTLES. OUR OWN MAKEOF THE FINEST WATCH SPRING STEEL, Sc. UP. 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MO) ‘Penneylvanta a gee Man sotabtiahment, : Kerr #600 SC Lola pie aid Bate, Si eens ase 81 A SENSATION ‘Has often been made by the discovery of somenew thing, but nothing has ever stood the tes? like Dr. Ben- son's Celery and Chamomile Pilis. ‘They really do cure sick headache, nervous headache, neuralgia, nervousness, sleeplessness, indigestion, par- alysis, and melancholy. Price, 50 cents per bor, two for $1, six for $2.50 by mail, postage free. Dr. C. W. Benson, Baltimore, Md. Sold by all dragzists, C. N. Crittenton, New York, is wholesale Dr. C. W. Benson's Remedies. Diieckand tte fn Diagonnlg Words, Greatest lack an ‘Tricote, from, At A. UB" - from S0 Penteyivanta ave moat Lith ot HREE AND FOUR-BUTTON CUTAWAY COATS , in numerous designs, TE At A. STRAUS’, 939 Penn. ave, SHORE, SKIRT FROCK SUITS (ENGHIS SVR of fig Bogs tater murmted and a cd. We 73 = A. STRAUS’, 939 Penn. ave. ‘HE NEW CHESTERFIELD SUITS ARE JUST the thing for persons of moderate means, as they can be worn either for dress or business. At A. STRAUS’, 939 Penn. aye. 10 MORE NEW STYLES OF THE BRIGHTON SACK sume. = 515, 7ru_STREET. REDUCTION! ano Hed perfect work, superior fitting; me yl SELMA RUPPERT, ‘Nixre Srazez, Orrosrrs Parext Orrice, Choice selection of Children’s LACE ant FURNISHING GOODS. a4 ‘an. 814 7ra STREET. REDUCTION! KING'S PALACE, 14 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. agent for It INDUCEMENTS EXTRAORDINARY! . C. Ve ITH I8 RECEIVING DAIL) ’ — Me Mien of MILLINERY, includin and't WRITS CALS s specialty. "618 5th otters ; PATTEEN HATS AND FINE MILLINERY Goods; SILK AND CLOTH WRAPS; SILK, FLANNEL and CAMBRIC SUITS, the splot elegant cascrtut in toe pak ~J order, = M. WILLIAN, 907 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. 7 CITE TREVISE, PARIS. alb M®s ANNIE K. HUMPHERY, Owing to backwardness of the season, we feel inclined to offer a reduction at this early stare of the season. To reduce our enormous stock of MILLINERY we offer ‘the following: Repeat PORCUPINE STRAW HATS, at 35¢c., 45c., +» 0c, and 75c., in ail colors and styles. CANTON AND MILAN STRAW, from 25c. to $l. Elegant CHIP at 50c., 75c., $1 and $1.25, all the leading ey HATS, for Children and Misees- BLACK PLUMES at 76c., $1, $1.25, $1.80, to $2 and Extra Long COLORED PLUMES at $1.25, guandeee = Elegant TIPS in BLACK at 250., 30c,, 35¢. to 50c. FLOWER: FRENCH FLOWERS, large sprays, at B5e.s fC. Boe. and Toe, = Sees tear ion, es] ‘our ent BATS AN BONNETS Will have wo bs sold Sven'ats sacrifice. RIBBONS, RIBBONS.—The greatest drive ever of- fered. Thousands of dollars’ worth of RIBBONS to be sold less than Importers’ prices. LACES, LACES, in cream, white and black, at prices Ghat ach covapeutions a Elegant English BLACK CRAPE, very heavy, at $2.25 $3.8 yard. SILKS, SATINS at remarkable low prices. LACE FICHUS and SCARFS and made-up LACE GOODS below market value, just recel iss 089 Fenn. ave. OOK Ar. OUR BROW: MMELTON SUIT—AT $10. any in the city. = SIAC A. STRAUS, 989 Penn. ave. 490 TENTH STREET NORTHWEST, Makes CORSETS to order in every style and material ne earn aE RPECLALTIES ARE rd Boeat Imports ad Patent Shoulder ‘and al Dress Reform Goods. French Corsets and Busties. “Hercules” Anda Gi Corset, hier ‘own “tnake, that for the Ende el Cocos. er own mad cannot be surpassed. X.B.—French, German and Spanish spoken, a5 ____ BOOKS, &e. _ NEW BOOKS. UST OPENED A NEW LINE OF FINE TRICOT SACK SUITS, in black. brown and blue, At A. STRAUS’, 939 Penn. ave. REMEMBER THAT OUR CLOTHING 18 EQUAL respect to custom made. Se ‘At A. STRAUS, 939 Penn. ave. GEETHE, OXFORD SUITS FOR YOUNG MEN, rears. i YRt'A. STRAUS’, 999 Penn. ave. E GRANITE AND WORSTED CUTAWAY \TS AND VESTS, with silk facing, will be very r ‘season. At A. STRAUS’, 939 Penn. ave. UR ENGLISH CORKSCREW SERGE SUITS ARE certainly the neatest and best wearing out, ‘We have them in brown. light arey and grab, At A. STRAUS’, 939 Penn. aye. = liam Rufos and Acces- vols. ).. . $8.08 Po) 18 CALLED TO OUR SILK- # NI sILE-FACED SACK SUITS, which » quality, fit, make, and price cennot be sur- Daseod. * Tally, AE US", 939 Penn. ave. DON'T FAIL TO CALL AT KING’S PALACE, 814 BEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. 814 7TH STREET. {m20] 814 77m StReer. ys Is THE WAY THE OLD RELIABLE NATIONAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE CO., OF WASHINGTON, TREATS ITS CUSTOMERS: Wasutnerow, D.C., May 20, 1882. N. D. Larnar, Esq., Secretary: Sim: We desire to express to you our thanks for the beams x Guide to Travel and Arta, Europe and Seaside Libraries. ao ee ne AES J, CHAPMAN, m1 FENSSYLVANIO AVENUE RTIGET COLORED CHEVIOT AND CASSIMFRE SUITS our aniely, is so immense that all tastes be suited, A. STRAUS’, 939 Penn. avo. ONES, 200, STILES, OF PANTALOONS IN ALL ‘AUABTRAUS" 999 Penn, ave. YOU .GAN, SAVE 25 PER CENT. IN CLOTHING in all you buy by At A. STRAUS’, 939 Penn. ave. ‘MPORTED BLUE SERGE SUITS, VERY STYLISH, At A. STRAUS’, 939 Penn. ave. UYS' AND CHILDREN’S SUITS IN ALL THE New Styles, ‘At A. STRAUS’, 939 Penn ave. We have the best reanlated, most convenient and Ightest clothing store in Washington: A. STRAUS, very prompt and satisfactory manner in which you set- miT 239 Pennsylvania ave., near 10th street. fled the loss at d by us on our stock in oot a ee of the fire in the old Post building on the 18th inst., the se == same being insured in the National Union Insurance OW READY, VOL. 2, SCHOULER’S HIS. — Company. Yours, &., Soorr & Sasse. of the United States, under LATEST NOVELTY. ‘above work baa. pas ‘Wasurxcrox, D.C., May 20, 1882, — ,_D. Larner, Eeg,, Secretary: PPP RRR IINN N CCC EEE Sre: I desire to return my thanks for the very prompt what Bg Ea of. OF and satisfactory manner in which you eettled, on bebalf | iseued wi £o PPE eS of WALES of the National Union Insurance Company, for the | pleted work P BR RIIN NN OOC ERR, damage done to my stock by the fire in the old Post | joweres ——— building on the 18th inst, Respectfally, youre, Hintry —— Ropeer C. Powr, | and SUITINGS. ‘New style, fancy check, elegant colorings, LEADING LONDON STYLE THIS SEASON. H IF YOU WISH TO BE SECURE INSURE YOUR PROPERTY IN THE NATIONAL UNION IN- SURANCE COMPANY. ASSETS... “J 5H alk i 9 : Silk Mixed Bannockburns, $250,000 Ne ih Spote or * theads,” ect re sn pie ‘Cheviots. OFFICE, NO. 643 LOUISIANA AVENUE, 228-1m on ‘teh. First door east of 7th street. SG in end Corks, nsured on the most rea, | F'EENCH BOOKS, ‘Weaving in male, . Feal and personal, on. rea- and Blue Tricot alot sonable terme, and fair dealing and prompt settlement Mixed Suitings, &. | of losses guaranteed. PANTS TO ORDER FROM $5 TO $10. SUITS TO ORDER FROM $20 TO $40, BATISFACTION GUARANTEED. FINEST STATIONERY, BLANK BOOKS, ETO, V. G. FISCHER, (Bucoessor to M. E. Boardman), SAMUEL BACON, President. FREDERICK PILLING, Vice President. NOBLE D. LARNER, Secretary. m20-6t — AGER BEE ‘00 L =: NNN IT o0O z L 529 15th Btrest, Opposite U.8. Treasury, Hee # oceo £ L “= eoeoloOoOoOo—_—_—_—_—_—_—_——_— NNN I 000 00 ILL LLL TF © — FINANCIAL TTITH HRER TTIT A IL 00 RRR 408. BCHLITZ BREWING 00.'8 = Tt HUBE, z AAHL 9 OBR W241" STREET OPERATIONS, ? i EER TA Alt tii. °00' B 3 MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER, ‘The old-established Banking Honse of 617 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, JOHN A. DODGE & CO., ‘No. 12 Watt Srarer, New Yous, three FOR SALE BY DEALERS AND THE AGENT. SAM'L C. PALMER, Wasuixeron, D. C. iu mi7-wks DEPOT, 1224 TWENTY-NINTH STREET N.W. “WEEKLY FINANCIAL REPORT,” =e Socata ee cco H H OOO m OCO KER E SPORTS. So gun 8 9° Ee O° 200! 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DODGR ‘Bonds, Stocks and Investment Securities Bought end ‘Bold on Commission, ‘Wo. 539 lira BTREET, (CORCORAN BUILDING.) Agency for Prince and Whitely, Stock Brokers, OLD STOCK WHISKEY. ~ For excellence, purences and evenness of quality, the 4 Baoapwir. New Yous. gboveare unsurpassed by any Whiskies in the market. ‘very ciass of Securities bought and ecld on comanis® don in San Franciseo, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Now ‘York, Boston and Washington. Orders executed on the ‘New York Stock Exchange at one-eighth of one percuns — guarantee to give PER- FECT 8A TISFACTION, and can be hat atall leading frocery stores at retail. H. & H. W. CATHERWOOD, STREET, 144 SOUTH FRONT which orders are executed on the Stock Exchanges — ‘tn thoes cities and reported back promp@y. Quotations