Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1882, Page 7

eu opportunity for carrying parasols made en- ; % THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1882—DOUBLE SHEET. z E WEDDINGS. Brom Harper's Bazar. There is something exquisitely poetical in the {dea ot a June wedding. It is the very month for the softer emoticns, and for the wedding Journey. In England it is the favorite month | for weddings. We find in our own dear land | that it is growing im favor, although our sea- y is then apt to in the country at the pretty litt! ch lends its aitar rails graceful! Ao Fose wreaths, and whose Gothic windows open Upon green lawns and trim gardens. The bride and bridemaid can walk to church over the deli- ate sward without soiling their slippers, and it ly of flowers. But if it is too far to walk,the bride is driven to the church in her father's car- riage. with bim alone, the mother, sisters, and bridemaids having preceded her. ' There is in England an etiquette requiring that the bride and groom should depart trom the church in the groom's carringe. It is strict etiquette that the groom furnish this equipage, with which they Feturn to the wedding breakfast, and afterward depart in state, and with many wedding favors on the horses’ heads.and a huge bouquet of white flowers on the breasts of coachman and of foot- man. It Is in England also etiquette to drive with four horses to the piace where the honey-moon is to Le spent; but in the present state of Amer- fean distances the drive is generally only to the In almost the single | eville and Miss Yznaga,whose don English principles, bride away was c tothe groom, who, with his bride, was driven | out through the Park to a hotel near Fort Wash- | ington for the honey-moon. But if this plan is followed, as we hear that it is to be in some June weddings, let it be understood that this is | the only carriage which the groom furnishes. And we will also answer in one article many stions which have been addressed to the zaar by its kind patrons on one or two sub- Jects of etiquette, which seem to come in prop- | erly here. The groom does not provide the wedding breakfust, pay for the cards, or have anything to do with the arrangements of the wedding beyond choosing his best msn, and sending a bouquet to the bride, and one to each of the bridemaids. ‘These he sends individually on the morning of If he isto make presents to the .they should be all sent the day before And as to the best man. let us here give a sketch of his duties. Heaccompanies the m to the chureh, and stands with him, near aitar, until the bride arrives; then he renders him the trifling service of holding his hat, etc. He sizns the register afterward, and pays the clergy man’s fee, and any other expenses incident casion. ave had many Inquiries as to what sum be paid to the clergyman. Five dollars ig the lowest and a thousand dollars the highe: fee that we have heard of in New York. A sum between these is proper, It is said. The groom. of course, provides the wedding ring, and it should be carefully fitted a week or two before the wedding. Some men are so nervous that they carry two rings to church, lest o should fail them. Of course the groom Is priv- ileged to make his bride any amount of gifts in way of diamonds or other jewels. As for the ushers, the coming June weddings will see them come in after the bridal party, and take their places up near the altar in two straizht tines, like a file of soldiers, on either side of the latter. Their labors are first to seat the guests in church, and then to go back to the Vestry and arrange for the entrance of the bridal €ortexe ; afterward to go to the house, and to Btroduce the guests to the bridal pair. The number of bridemaids is, of course, op- | tional with the bride, but lately the nugbers have steadily decreased. The sisters or nearest friends of the bride generally officiate, and four 1s a more fashionable number than twelve. It is more and more the fashion for the bridemaids to } wear a color, and not to emulate the bridal | whiteness. And the pretty little jaunty hats ‘and bonnets so fashionable now are very much | in vozue for a June wedding. Nothing prettier than a little poke bonnet or a G Fough hat for a bridemaid in June. day and a June wedding In the country, the bridemaids should forma Tine near the door, and, standing near the church allow the bride to walk through this pret- alley-way to the doorway. Then taking her father’s right arm, the bride precedes her bridemaids, walking first to the altar. This is new. This is the coming fashion for June wed- ings. The relatives should have arrived before the bride. The om’s relatives place them- selves at the right ot the altar or communion rails, thus being on the bridegroom's right hand, and those of the bride on the left-hand side of the altar or communion rails, thus being on the bride’s left hand. The bridegroom and best man arrive shortly before the bride, and await her coming, ponsty| te on the right-hand side of the altar. The brie stands at the bridegroom's lett hand. Her father or nearest male relative at the bride's Jeft hand, a little behind her. female members of the bride’s family prefer to stand near the bride. They can place themselves Bear the altar or communion raiis, or at the en- france of the chancel, according to the chureh im which the service is celebrated. as in high ehurches the service takes place outside the chancel. All these things can be ar- ranged the rector before the service. The bride draws off her gloves at the commencement of the services, and gives them to the bri to hold with her eo The gentle ushers wear buttou-hole bou- or Ww favors. The m wears & wwer—but never awedding favor. If a bride bes widow, she must not weat orange bios- soms, or a wreath, or a bridal veil; nor must her dress be white. She can wear a white Donnet and a pale pink or lavender silk, and she should be accompanied to the church by her | em relatives or friends. She can remove she remind people of Theodore Hook's witticism concerning a tady who had been often married, that “her finger looked like a curtain rod.” After the ceremony the clergyman bends over and conzratulates the young couple. The bride takes the croom’s left arm and passea down the center aisle of the church, followed by her bridemaids in the same order as they had pre- viously passed up the aidle. The bride and bridegroom in America make a very hasty exit from church. In Engiand, they pos pose talk to their triends, smile and nod, exchange smiles. Which is the best way we do not pretend to say. After the bride arrives at home. the guests are taken up to her by the ushers, when they make their congratulations. ‘Tne wedding breakfast, at which speeches are made, Is an English fashion, which is becoming somewhat popular here. These festivities, of course. limit the number of guests. The invited provide their own carriages, not depend- [ope the bride’s family for this occasion. The itlemen leave their hats in the hall. The retain their bonnets. The gentlemen remove their gloves with their hats. The ladies do not take off their gloves until seated at - Before breaktast is announced the bride's mother, or whoever is hostess, informs the gentlemen whom each one is to take down fast. The nce is as follows: first the bride and bridegroom, the bride taking the bridezroom’s left arm; next, the bride's father with the bridegroom's mother, taking the arm, a3 do the other ladies; next in order t 's the bridegroom's father with the bride’s ; then the best man with the head bride- maid. The other bridemaids follow next with the gentlemen who are appointed to take them down. The other guests follow according to their rank. There we nine Se — just as fashionable, where everybody is helped ‘as froma buffet." For refreshments at a June wedding, straw- and cream, ices, light claret punch, zne, and salads are in ter taste than the heavier viands of winter. At country houses where there are pretty grounds, the breakfast is served Ina marquee. However, it is taste, at a sit-down breakfast, if the guests have driven far, to offer bouillon,chicken, game, mayonnaise, salad,pate de foi gras, jellies, . etc. No tea or coffee is served at these be in attendance to help to wine and to pass the dishes. Dinner napkins are used at a sit-down breakfast, but are not necessary at a stand-up after the healths are drank to put on her travel- ling dress. The head bridemaid generally ac- companies her, and the grests await their oppor- tunity to see her off, and to throw the prophetic slipper, and the married ladies should scatter rice over the head of the retreating bride. The practice of scattering flowers in the path of the bride will bea June custom. Two little girls in white, with baskets of roses, will precede the bride, and scatter them before her as she is walking up to the altar. This, if properly man- d, can be made a most gracetul ceremony. As we have had many questions as to the dress of the groom, let us once for all define it asa Prince Albert frock-coat, a pair of gray or pearl- colored trousers, a necktie of some delicate shade of color, with a’ plain gold pin in it, a pair of pearl-colored kid gloves stitched with black, and “very polished hat, which his best man holds for hh, and which is handed to him, after he is mar- Tied, at the church door. ——————-e-_____ ‘The Incousequent Querist. Oh, he sent off his watch to a plumber so bold, When he found ft was going too slow; And he summoned a b ith to iron 'his hat, And called in a cobbier to mend hts cravat, And a schoolmarm to shovel the snow. ‘Then he sent to the baker to make him a coat, And a mason to bake him some bread, And a horsecar conductor to do up his shirt, And a lawyer do piaster his head when it hurt, ‘And a Unman to build him a shed. Then he called on a joiner to pull out a tooth, And a hatter to make him a gun; And he summoned a pleeceman to give him a shave, And a practical barber to ig. him a grave, And a pavior to measure the sun. And so at the last, as you'll readily see, Ere he toppled off {nto the grav. e He called upon Huxley and Hacekel and Tyndall, ‘To tell him—not dreaming the thought was a swin- ie— If he’d ever a soul to be saved. ae Birds Flying in the Night. From the Worcester Spy. One of the phenomena which have been no- ticed in connection with the cold and stormy weather of the past four weeks Is the scarcity of some species of birds which usually make their appearance from the 1st to the 15th of May. Al- though ia the milder weather of the last month the early birds came thick and fast, passing on their way to the north, the tide ot migration has apparently been stayed by the unfavorable weather, which has retarded as well the growth of vegetation in some ways. Many of our birds which may be seen here regularly in numbers on certain dates every season have not appeared at all, or but few have been seen. It is well known tnat flights of birds occur quite regularly in autumn before the storms, and in spring after them. It is also well known that many birds in their migrations travel dur- ing the night, resting usually during the day. We were prepared onthe rise of the mercury Saturday evening to note a flight of birds dur- ing the night, and were not disappointed. The early hours of the evening passed, without much having been heard of the birds, except now and then the chirp of a warbler, or the noise of a small flock passing overhead. At 11 o'clock, however, bird calls began to resound high in the air and on all sides, and from 12 to 2 in the morning multitudes of birds were heard passing over head; some low, some so high that their notes came back like a faint | echo from the darkness. Occasionally a flock of warblers or sparrows would low that the rustling of their could be heard. Now and then a flock of some small song birds passed high overhead, making their call notes a continuous musical ripple through the night. From the regions of the upper air, high above all.came back the tones of the plover and other shore birds, all tending to- ward the north. teed maultitude of is continued to pass t out the night. The notes of many. such as the bobolink, tanager, Wilson's thrush, white-crowned spar- Tow, were recognized; during a walk Sunday morning these birds and many others were found in numbers, Those who wish to observe the smaller land birds, now on their way to the north, should be on the alert, for in ten days from this time very few birds will be found here Xcept our summer residents. This flight of birds, which is probably not local, may extend over the entire portion of the northern United States east of the Mississippi, or even further. Countless millions of birds are now spreading through these states, returning from their wan- derings in southern forests to their old homes in the north. ++. —_____ ‘The Actresses of New York. From the Chicago Tribune. Rose Coghlan keeps a house in luxurious fash- ion on a flat corner of 6th avenue and 52d street. She has her sister Eiley living with her; has her own coupe, and her floor decorated in the last agony of embroidery, plush plaques and ebony. Sara Jewett, on the stregt, is a plain, dark- haired, middle-aged looking woman, with a high nose. She keeps house with her mother in es- thetic fashion on a flat corner of 30th street and Broadway. It is rumored that she will marry very shortly, though her latest engagements with Mr. Palmer would point the other way. Maude Harrison has a mother, and together they keep house on 25d street. She is one of the demurest girls in private one ever met. Dear Mme. Ponisi, the lovely old woman of Wallack's, is the wife of Sam Wallis, a well- known theatrical builder. Sam isa great in- valid, confined to his rooms on east 14th street, and there the two lead a Darby and Joan life. Jeffreys-Lewis has rooms on west 10th street, over a French restaurant, and in company with a black-and-tan weighing just one pound gets on in great personal safety and comfort. She is a Welsh girl, and has her mother in this coun- try, bat the services of the old lady are required in the household of the other daughter, Cath- erine. Catherine Lewis has s husband named Arf- wedson, andtwo babies. Mr. A. is chiefly cel- ebrated as a kicker; his position in the family is that of the chronic kicker; he was never known to be satisfied with any combination of circum- stances, and managers now stipulate that Arf- wedson during the engagement, be kept at least four ks from the theater. Stella Boniface, who is not engaged next season at Wallack’s, is a quaint little girl living at home with pa and ma, and looking around for a play in which to go star. Laura Don has her mother and a cosy fiat on 42d street, where the actress paints to her heart's Content and finds a ready sale for her pictures. Kate Rogers has tour daughters, to whose education and welfare she is devoted. She has very handsome English furniture that she brought across the water some years ago. She takes a floor, and has a home established at a week's notice whenever her professional duties will aliow. The little girls, meantime, are at a school in West Philadelphia. Among the many actresses who have a great talent for decorative art Helen Tracy is at the head. She has taste, fancy, and industry. In her rooms on 34th street she devotes a great deal of time to painting; besides innumerable pictures, plaques, and tiles, she has lately com- pleted a magnificent dinner set of porcelain, and a black satin dress for herself in pond lilies, big, tangled masses of white lilies painted exquisitely in oil on the heavy black satin. As one turns into 16th street, off Union square, on the west side, they notice the tanbark laid thickly in front of a handsome house in the middle of the block. Here lies Gertie Granville, the popular soubrette of the Theater Comique. She stopped a car a few weeks ago, and the con- auctor started before she had fairly got on, giv- ing her such a wrench and start that she felt at the time a severe pain in her back. From that day to this she has been unable to move, lying dangerously fill with spinal meningitis. John Raymond, his wife, Courtney Barnes, and the baby, John Irving Raymond, have itched their tent at the St. James until such ‘ime ag they find a summer resort that John Irving may be suited with. Raymond looks anxious, and Courtney is a trifle thin. John Irving is only three months old, but it’s evident by the listless way in which Raymond matches half dollars that cares are weighing him down. ——_-+-+-____. Gambetta’s Future. From the Pall Mall Gazette. A well-informed correspondent, who has ac- cess to the best political sources, writes us as follows on his return froma recent visit to Paris: ‘The general impression I find to be that M. Gambetta is shelved for some time to come. M. Jules Simon Is almost alone in holding the contrary opinion. I am melined to believe that gel se, flying #0 THE TROUT FisHING EIAR. Limits to Ham: Belief. From the San Francisco Chronicle. “The trout Mar,” said Captain Herbert, ‘‘is the gem of all fishers. He is the saddle-rock liar; a moose among antelopes; Hyperion to a satyt; he is the long-tailed comet among the quiet twinklers. All men cannot be trout liars. The trout liar must be born with a peculiar fitness for the task, and then he must be edu- cated to it and devote himself to treat lies as a life work. “When David said in his haste ‘All men are lars,’ Saul and Abinadab. Doeg and Edmonite, had’ probably just returned from a trout fish down along the brook in the raey Elah, and were telling what they had seen and what they had done, and David, as he listened to them thundering the unarmed truth, naturally sup- posed there was no more truth left in the hearts of men in all the wide world. “The trout liar exceeds all other Mars, be- cause the man who has done any amount of trout fishing is, to a certain extent, a travelled man. It is his custorito sit on the veranda and tell his stories, crushing all competition, and putting his foot on the neck of all ordinary striped bass and land-locked salmon Hars. But if it happens just as he has told his masterpiece, an opposition trout liar comes in with a right bower, a genuine royal flush of a trout lie, the first trout liar is hurt to the heart; he is dejected and sorrowful, and says not another word that night. But, he draws new inspiration from the defeat, and the very next place he goes to he appropriates the lie that paralyzed him, and un- blushingly claiming it as his own, defiantly crushes down all rota competitors with a mow ning lie that only two days before crashed im. “There are several kinds of trout liars. The Nar of weight, who never catches more than halfa dozen trout a day, but they each weigh anywhere from five to ten pounds. Then there is the lar of numbers, who always catches so many dozen in one hour and twenty minutes. And there is the liar of places, who knows hid- den pools, dark and still, in the secret places of the rocks that are just boiling over with trout, and he takes you, under many oaths of secrecy, bystealthy and circuitous routes, to these places, and you fishin them for eight mortal hours with- out a nibble. “But you can never corner a trout liar. Arithmetic, fact, science, probabilities, prece- dent, general principles and the eternal fitness of things may combine in tabchfeete | array to prove him the awfulest liar in England or America; it doesn’t disturb him. He lies on calmly, confidently, enthusiastically, always locating the scene of his lies so far away he is pretty certain you will never go there. “There are limits to human belief,” the good Jester says, rising to his feet. ‘You may be- lieve what the candidate says on the stump; you may believe what aman tell you ina horse trade; pe may believe that the army lie; be may be- lieve the snake a liar; but a man takes the cigar from his lips, and, with a simple prefix of cbse and date, starts in on a trout story, bar, bolt, and lock and double-lock the gates of your be- lief when he gets to the place. Don't believe a single solitary trout, not though it weighed less thana pound. Under the shadow of the trout truth dies, and the man that fishes four days and only hooks one lone trout, so small that he loses it in his empty basket, comes home the biggest liar of them all.” Making Adobes. Monday morning we drove down to see them making adobes. They make an ‘‘acquia” by drawing the water through a ditch from the creek to where the adobes are to be made; this water, clay and chopped hay form the adobe material. The workers presented a picturesque appear- ance, the red handkerchiefs bound about their foreheads contrasting with their bronzed skins, glittering eyes and dark hair. They wore gay colored shirts and pantaloons that might have been white at the embarkation of Noah’s ark. These were rolled high above the knees. Two of the men stood knee-deep in mud, with which they loaded an oblong, wooden litter, trotting with it toa man on the hill above, who molded the bricks. He had a hollow, rectangular frame, three inches in depth, and divided in the center. Placing this on the ground, he filled it with mud from the litter, smoothed the mud even at the top, and Taising the litter, left two brick on the ground, while the two men trotted back and again loaded the litter. After these adobes dry on top they are turned sideways to harden in the sun. At night they are carefully covered with ulin, in case of rain, which destroys them if it ee they are perceret The exes: in building their houses, hollow out @ place in front of the building, where the “‘acquia” is formed to make the adobe, and when the house is finished use this hollow for debris. Pigs lounge about the doorways, and in eyery re- spect Chihuahua, although in Texas, is purely a Mexican viliage.—Exchange. oe The Two Dromios. Aman stepped into a West Madieon street confectionery yesterday, and, addressing the proprietor, said: “D-d-do you s-s-sell kick-candy here?” “‘Wh-wh-what do you t-t-take it for? A hu- hu-hardware shop?” inquired the proprietor indignantly. “N-n-no. asked you a sis-civil k-k-k-ques- tion, and w-w-waat a sis-civil answer, bu-bu- blast you.” eg yes, we s-s-s-sell kik-candy here. Tho bb-bbest in the town.” “H-b-how d-d-do you s-s-s-sell it; b-b-by -weight or m-m-m-measure?” “B-b-b-both ways.” “T-t-to the s-s-same p-p-p-purchaser?” “Wh-wh-what do you w-w-want anyway? D-d-do you want t-t-to git-git kick-ked out into the str-r-r-eet?” “N-n-n-no. A f-f-f-friend of m-m-m-mine ss-s-said y-y-you c-c-could stut-stut-stutter w-w-worse’? I could, and I w-w-wanted to 8-s-s-see if he w-w-w-was I-1-l-ying. “Y-y-y-your f-f-f-friend is a b-b-b-brute, 'nd y-y-y-your k-sk-sk-scoundrel. G-g-g-get out p. d. Pet rrr-right, j-J-J-Judge. I t wh-wh-wh-what y-y-y-you s-s-s-sald.” And the visitor went op the street whistling the “Magnet and the Churn,” while the con- fectionery man grew so enraged that he bursted the neckband of his sh-sh-sh-shirt.—Detroit Free Preas. The Digger Indians of California, and their Habits. When California was first invaded by the crowd of gold diggers in 1849, beyond the few thousands who had collected round the Spanish missions in Lower California there must have roamed over the wild region more than 100,000 Indians, living in a state of freedom and of nature, as complete as the elk, euielape or sage rabbit, which furnished their then by no means precarious livelihood. A headdress of feathers, with a scanty coat of paint on his face, was the fall dress of a brave, while a fringe of bark or grass suspended from her waist fur- nished a complete wardrobe for his ce To this day the males go naked aaeee: he sum- mer, if living at @ distance from the whites. ‘The men have no beard, this being plucked out by the squaw with a couple of shells as soon as itappears. They all wear ornaments in the ears—or at least did. The children had theirs GARIBALDI IN-Te8 NEW WCBLD. A Visit to His Former‘Humble Home on Staten Island, The following is a translation from the Italian newspaper Il Progresso Ilaliano-Americano, pub- lished in New York, under date June 5. It is written by a correspondent of the journal. He says: ‘‘After reading the telegram which an- nounced the death of Garibaldi I made a trip to Clifton, Staten Island, and knocked at the door of the humble dwelling of the general's former estimable and excellent host, Signor Antonio Meuccl. It was quite early, but I found that the old man, a thorough early riser, had gone out. I learned his whereabouts, and said to him: ‘Ihave bad news for you,’ at the same time handing him the telegram and saying: ‘Garibaldi e morto!’ The poor old man was overpowered with emotion and remained speech- less. He gave vent to.a faint lon of sor- row as I epee ‘He died dwelling on Caprera Isle at 6:30 last night of an att of bronchitis, which had been troubling him for a Shoe Meucei began to weep like a child. said: ‘I want to go up into the room where he lived and give his old red cloak one kiss.’ We went to the house and entered the room, rey- erently removing our hats. It was a small apart- ment, perhaps twenty feet lighted by two small windows on the north and south. Nothing had been touched or since he left It—more than twenty years before. It con- tained an fron a wash-bowl of iron, three chairs, a small table, and a toilet table with a hand-mirror over it. Qa this table was a checker board (ans) and a pair of scissors with which the exile was wont to trim his beard. There was no other furniture in the room. Mencci showed me a magnificent dagger with a velvet sheath and handle of bronze, which Gari- ate been accustoined to wear at Montevi- eo." The corréspondent describes with simple Pathos Meucci’s account of the welcome ac- corded by him to the wanderer. Era powra; Possedera soltanio il vestito che indorsava. *‘He ‘was poor; he had nothing but the clothes he stood up in.” Another touching tribute to the nobility of Garibaldi's nature is shown in a chi ristic anecdote of Meuccl’s. “One day soon after his arrival, having neither money nor work as yet, the general took a small piece of bread and a little slice of meat at breaktast and went out for the day. On his return at night he tendered to Meucc!'s wife, the Signora Ester, 1n part payment of his board, a small white rab- bit which a countryman-tad- fren him.” The same journal states that a subscription has been started, with $280 at the head of the first list, to erect @ monument near the spot where “‘Guisep- Garibaldi lived, brooded, tolled and suffered the new world. Sg Divorce, Ancient and Modern. From the London Globe. In that revolution the attack upon indis- soluble marriage in France was first success- fully made by a certain Dubayet, whose law passed the assembly on the 20th of September, 1792. By it the then existing system of separa- tion de corps et de biens, which has now been in force again for sixty-six years, was entirely abolished, and divorce was made the sole means of obtaining a separation between husband and wife. The decree of divorce was also made obtainable upon the most vague and easy grounds, including mutual consent, so that, practically speaking, the law allowed anyone who choose to quit the married state. In the two or three years following the time when the act was an innumerable multitude of married persons cast off the yoke on the most bored at an early age, larger and larger pieces of stick being inserted until the made was capable of taking in one of the bones ofa pelican’s wing—five or six inches long, carved in a rude style, and decorated at the en: with crimson feathers—which is worn perma- nently. The back hair of the men is fastened up inanet, and made fast bya pin of wood pushed through both hair and net, the large end being ornamented with crimson feathers, obtained from the head of the “ re” woodpecker, and sometimes also with the tall feathers of an le, The women, before the advent of the whites, wore no hair nets or orna- ments. Before being corrupted the rade gold-diggers and lumbermen, ne ‘Were not a badkind of people on the whole. The men were treacherous, but (unless ill treated) harm- Popes pep ntaiiotet Tee even con- ing—perhaps quite as much as young grizzl; beara. Bat pen the men always were fk praet items teatneToa eas ese very confiding to 8 when m infancy < walt man was the bug: used to frighten them into submission to the maternal will. Sly Old Hlorse. From the London Figaro. Anent “The Blues,” I have heard a story, illustrative of the wonderful intelligence of some horses. One oreng be officer on — hearing a noise in the les, concluded tose horse must have Sl og He there- fore went with a corporal guard, looking through a keyhole, horse lifting up the lid of munchii flimsy and absurd pretexts, and marriage as an institution was thrown Into almost complete discredit. La Harpe, amongst other Persons, got a divorce for “incompatibility ot temper” in 1798, and there were numerous in- stances of a dissolution of marriage effected simply in order to enable the husband to swin- dle the wife out of her dowry. The imperial legislature dealt with the subject in a way which has commanded as much admiration as any other part of the Napoleonic code. Judicial separations were reintroduced tor the ben- efit of those religious persons who shrank from divorce on conscientious grounds; but the latter proceeding was also rec- ognized, though only upon proper and sufficient grounds, and’ with effective guarantees against abuse. .The act, which was passed in 1803, had been preceded by a care- ful inquiry made by a commission; and the report ofthe commission illustrates in a strik- ing way the enormous scandals produced by the license of preceding years. So great was the influence ofthese revelations upon respectable society in France, that even the modified prac- tice permitted by the code was deemed a step too far in the direction of liberty, and when the bourbons were restored there was more satisfaction than disappointment, even amongst many of the revolutionary party, at the total abolition of divorce which occurred in 1816. Divorce was even in very early times a prac- tice inst which the French were prone to set their faces. Although it was practiced by Chari- bert, Chilperic and Charlemagne, these kings were thought to have acted rather in an arbi- trary than a legal way in repudiating their wives. Then several of the sovereigns of the Cay tian dynasty had des} uarrels with the Popes on the same subject. These altercations came to a head in the time of Philip II; and when that king, without rhyme or reason, repu- diated Ingelburga of Denmark, the kingdom was laid ander an interdict, and Philip was com- pletely defeated, after bringing upon his sub- jects a punishment which made them long shor the very mention of divorce. Outside nee, the laws affecting divorce have been extremly various. The Jews allowed it freely; and by a liberal interpretation of the Mosaic law Jewish husbands wereteft with 2lmost unlimited ores of “writing a bill of divorcement.” The edes and Persians permitted it ‘‘in order to se- cure the obedience of wives.” Greek ee might be dissolyed on the petition of either spouse, but in Rome tt was for a long time only the husband who could get rid of his wife. In the later Roman legislation, divorce meant dissolution by the consent of both, whilst “re- pudiation” was the word for a dissoution of the instance of one alone. In the latter days of the republic the practice had become extremel: common. Thus Bomey divorced his first wife 80 as to marry a granddaughter of Sylla, and on effecting a treaty with Cesar, got rid of her in order to marry the daughter of his new ally. When the pair of generals quarrelled, he in turn dismissed the Lady Julia, and remarried a young girl ofthe Scipio family. In the Imperial times, St. Jerome mentions the case of a woman who had had twenty-two husbands. The women men- tioned in Scripture as having had ten husbands is an example of the preyal- ence of the practice amongst. peoples—a practice which Christianity for the first time absolutely discouraged. It 1s not surprising that the ecclesiastical courts should, In the Middle Ages, have derived an immense deal of power from matrimenial cases. The prerogative of eanctioning a divorce, or rather annulling a marriage, having once been appro- priated to the Pope, became a aource of extraor- dinary influence in the Holy See; and it is a hackneyed phrase that the independence of England from the papal power was effected chiefly by Henry VIIL.’s grand dispute as to his divorce from harine of Aragon. The revolu- tion of the seventeenth century in England might have peer eweaes to legalize divorce by a temporal tril |, more ye ee ecd Milton had written one of his most effective works in favor of such a echeme in 1644. But the measure ‘was never adopted, and it was reserved for a commission appuletee in 1850 to advise the removal from the House of Lords of the monop- oly of dissolving marriages, and to afford the motive Lowe which caused the passing of the act of nity Prt Racteael present rather doubtfully advantageous system. Am other countries, the Carin wee the United States is often quoted as the best mod- ern instance of a facility in obtaining divorces. It is, however, a com mistake to suppose that states admit this laxity. In South Carolina, for instance, divorces’ are if not quite, unknown. In Virginia and Ken- tucky the legislature alone’ can dissolve mar- in and Ala- bama the decree for dissolution must be passed by the assent of two-thirds of each branch of the legislature and founded @ previous Judi- cial investigation, But in the other states a much greater latitude is allowed: prowrr ACTION 18 NEEDED WHEN GRAMPED, DON'T EXPERIMENT ON YOURSELVES. ‘XOU NEED RELIEF AT ONCE! Get it, if possible, by using the T# MISFIT STORE. 87.50 gre Pie Fianna satt, 6.4.28, cut, worth $10 rays Flannel Suit, G. A. R. cut, worth SLB SSF Ao Sat, rot $13 Sabian Se Me $7.50 sri re Sera 1. 8 OSE SPRT STORE: core tout ana Yate 1 fF 6099 ESP STORE ore tban ae for silk-lined French Cassimere Suite, worth $20 $40, atthe ar $15 Biers 1 4,50 RES G08 or SSP STONE, cor 10th and Fete. 750 ORE TORE ee for Custom-made Pant $5 MISFIT STO! goods, ‘ral made and lowe ‘MI: Our Motto:—No trouble to guaranteed. Open till 8 Fre WOOLENS, ‘The Best GOODS the Foreign Marketa 2an produce, LADIES’ GOODS. NE STEAMER “MATTANO” LEAVES Tre street wharf every SUNDAY, TUESDAY AND IURSDAY. at soven olclock a.m. 'for. P and :T, to the ae, and well- assorted stock of SUMMER MILLINERY, constanuy on hand at her ment. HATS AND BONNETS, in every abs ia Panama, | Chip, Milan Roush w, with « handsome variety of FEAT im all the New and Especial attention invited to her Ia and choice assortment of TRIMMED GOODS disp ‘tn, her new and elegant Show Rooms. RS. J. P. PALMER, 1107 F STREET NORTHWEST, 2 the ISFIT STORE, cor. 10th and F sts. ‘MISFIT STORE, cor. 10th ana F sts. at the sta. Fur information apply to « ¢.70mm, mys + Ti rect where, POTOMAC TRANSPORTATION LINE. MISFIT STORE. ‘cor. 10th and F sts, On and after MARCH 19th the STEAMER W. C. GI 8 Cassimere Suits worth $15, at the ‘Will Open on Me Te NS MISFIT STORE, oot. 10th and Fets, 3 remere, and Ri for Fine Flannel phen WEDNESDAY NEXT, May 24th, @'clock pum. for and River Landuige, , All River Freight must be Prepaid. 6 MISFIT STORE, cor. 10thand Fats. | Her Importation of fom for fine Black Suits worth $35, at the Beturaing, ‘sshineton every Saturday night MISFIT STORE poe 10th ond Fats, SUMMER BONNETS AND HATS, STEPHENSON & BRO., Acewrs, ml66m th street Wharf and Cor, 12th and Pa. ava, Note. FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. On and after NOVEMBER Bt the steamer ARROWSMITH will leave. rome ft ‘7th street, at7 am. every MONDAY, THUKSDAY and SATUR- On MONDAY asfar as Comprising all the latest shapes. ‘The last Novelties in Fabrica and rarest combina tion of ved from recel the leading houses of Eu Soyo. "Novcarda. 720 eek ‘and F ots, ‘Vests at $1.50. worth $2.50, at the MisPir STORE (Oth and F sts. DOUGLASS’, HOOPSEIRTS AND BUSTLES. STORE, cor. 10th and Fete. THE FINEST WATCH SPRING AY for all river landii BGO.50 fa BiBtets Gost snd Vert, worth $10, at EAS heel Nomini Perry. On THURSDAY, Nomint. Corrina, 2D the MISRIT STOUE, cor, 16s end ¥ ote. Goldtone and Howand'a: On BATURDAY: Gerviomes BQO wesre Piacenat Coat and Vest Blue or Brown | ¢,A,f and " HN B. WOOD, MISEIT STORE, cor 10t a Fine French Contille Hand-mafe CORSET, at $1. | _™8 ‘Agunt. This corset i $1.50. for fine py . sold in other cities at We one: jot idren’s Regular Made HOSE iy Cardiony, Biue aud Brown, ste, Would be is DOUGLASS’, xD NINTH F STREETS mld ‘RS. C. V. SMITH I8 RECEIVING DAILY THE latest of MILLINERY, including Round Bonnets, Flowers, Plum Old and BONRE'S ‘CAPS s specialty. "618 9th street north= see ____53}_| Ron tp fare cg Paney Fotntand apt Lockout. 3 PATTERN HATS AND FINE MILLINERY | "Teturning teeres Norfoik TUESDAYS, THUBSDA GooD! and SATURDAY: four o' SILK AND CLOTH WRAPS; SILK, FLANNEL and CAMBRIC SUITS, the largest eeeortment in the }, at the MISFIT'STORE, cor. 10th and F ets. for fine French Worsted Suit roth $35, the, “MISFIT STONE: cor: Tothand Feta.” worth $7, st the RE, cor. 10th and F sts, atthe 3 nee Oth and F ets. for Custom-1 worth $7.50, at the MISELT STORE, cor, lot and Feta, worth $10, at the at ‘ol ‘cor, 10thand F sts. THE NEW YORK STEAMERS it city, made exclu- ‘and most elegant Satiafs sively to my order. m. ; Sat M. WILLIAN, 907 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. 1 CITE TREVISE, PARIS. als ME. WASHINGTON, FASHIONABLE. [AKING AND TRIMMING STORE, suit Sivek in Costumes, made in supe. Hor style st abort notion, "Ladies tan have Dresses oat and basted, teed. 9 iT STO! ‘ALFED WOOD, Secretary. FAsBuRG Line ae WEEELY LINE OF STEAMERS LEAVING NEW YORK EVERY THURSDAE FINE WOOLENS, and a perfect fit guarant FINE WOOLENS, M/58 ANNIE K. HUMPHERY, aver FOR ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY. 430 TENTH STREET NORTHWEST, . IMPORTED UGH THE Hi Makes: ‘TS to ords and THRO (OUSE OF CORSE’ er in every style ‘Taaterial, For Passage apply to ARE— Underciothing, Merino Underwear ‘Dress Reform Goots. Corset, for which Miss H. ie eoetal oon a, $1 Corset, her own make, that for the price Cc ‘French, German and Spanish epoken. J GENTLEMEN’S GOODS. WWE ARE UNDERSELLING EVERYBODY IN W Unites savers’ C. B, RICHARD & 00., 61 Broadway, New York. Orto PERCY G. 1351 and 619 Pennsylvania avenue. Send for “Tourist Gazette” E. H. VAN INGEN & CO., OF NEW YORK AND LONDON. anda —— = “BCHIEDA’ 'P. CALAND,” an Carrying the U.S. Mails to the Netlierlan son Stores, Brooklen; rerulaty. $70; second catiin. $50) staorage, $26, Linen Collars, Linen Cuffs, Silk Neckwear, Cotton Qeneral Avent, 37 South Wikies Socks, Undershirts and Drawers. Keg Nore, | For pana appiy to W.G, METZERO; New styice of Percale Shirts, the very best quality, | SontsoN, ‘Awent, “National only $1. corner New Yor! Fine Percale Shirts, only 75 cents. Finest Dress Shirts to order, elegantly made, only $2. Six fine Dress Shirts to order for $9. Ail goods are guaranteed to give satisfaction in every way, at. ms MEGINNIBS*, 1002 F street northwest. which I am prepared to make up, giving THE BEST OUT, HAMPTON AND ‘The steamers of this company will sail E’ URDAY from Bremen pier, foot of 34 xtreet, Rates of From Now York to Hayre, DUBREUIL BROTHERS, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE DRESS SHIRTS GENTS’ FURNISHINGS. 1112 F Srreer Norruwest, Wasuixeton, D.0. apa) nt f L UTE. THE CUNARD 8T: HIP COMPANY LIMITED, BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LIVERPOUL, ‘of the Finest Dress Shirts to order. FS - $12.00 CALLING AT COR BOR. Sees Fine Shirts to order. ~ 9.00 Pata, een 7 40. N. R.. NEW YO! IN WASHINGTON. Bix Fine Shirts to order. =? \ 1Ta0xrs:0N5. °° 8») Wed.’ 28 June. | Servis ved. HOMPSON’S ‘Bteamars marked thus) hay eerie, T AND EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM NEW ORK. DRESS SHIRT MANUFACTORY Rate oF Passaar: $90 and $100 for passenger Gentlemen, Call and Inspect the Finest sree i very low rates. Steeraye tickets from Liv: iow ratea- Bineraye tckees from LA¥- MERCHANT TAILOKING MEN'S FURNISHING EMPORIUM, erpool and Queenstown and all other parts of Europe at 816 F Northy etme g poe were ‘bills of laden given for Belfast, Glasgow, NECKWEAR, Bi d other ports on the Continent and THAT CAN BE PRODUCED. FOOTWEAR, . For f1 itand at the kos Speen and pear: e Company's office, OTIS BIGELOW & GO., 605 7th strest, Washington, "|" VERNON H. BROWN & CO., New York; Orto Messrs. OTIS BIGELOW & CO. 605 Tth street, Washington. HANDWEAR Ready-made SHIRTS at following prices: Best Wi Tnaniehed Toe Bntaled. 900. Boye Wamseatea’ unetiapel Go : anlaed, She. 0 HOUSEFURNISHINGS. 709 JUST OPENED 709 RAILROADS. toplace itin very high position among the Materia Medion. For excellence, pureness and evenness of quality, the above are unsurpassed by any Whiskies in the market. ‘They are entirely free from adulteration, and are of na- ural flavor and fine tonic ‘These Whiskies are sold under guarantee to give PER- FECT SATISFACTION, and can be had atall leading grocery stores at retail. 114 SOUTH FRONT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, m9-3m_ An importation of English Foe RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG AND DECORATED TOILET SETS, ALL POINTS SOUTH, VIA RICHMOND, oco H H 000 n EER which we will offer at prices than cannot fail to be ap- ERICKSBURG AND POTOMAC RAILRUAD, 4 o Hae a o q S oa Preciated. An entensive assortment to select from. AND THE STEAMER EXCELSIOR, z ‘Sole ‘ta for the aid BEGINNING THURSDAY, JUNE 1ST, 1882. OcH HO ONT OGOOE agents for the spleni ‘The Palace Steamer EXCELSIOR, of Pototnsc cco H H OOO I OCU EEB SIMPSON REFRIGERATORS, cher wee ETS ‘Will connect at * Gharcoal packed. alate stone shelves, polished metal | the trainsiesving Washington at 11:25 a.m. and p.m. 000 ppp Hininga and perfect in construction. STEAMER LEAVES 1TH ST. WHARF AT9:904. ML. Qo OL DD WILMARTH & EDMONSTON, AND 3:30 P.. * o OL DD . (CKETS Ball GOOD Vid. AND VICE Oo. .90 bik oP _402 709 MARKET SPACE. pa aS = pa oat ™! _PPY REFRIGERATORS, seal whaid on nce marion, ee VE TT ss ROX WE WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZERS, | WM. P. WELCH, Agent. sah W HHH It Sgss, KK HI E ALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Guu HT 8883 EK. Ht El PORCELAIN LINED COOLERS, H HU Ssss8 & “K It Eee Sasg8 Dower ICE PITCHERS, &o. M. W. BEVERIDGE, ‘Inporter or Carta arp GLasswaRe, m0 1009 PENNSYLVANTA AVE. WITH ELAIN WATER EFRIGERATORS, try, Ponce wW. ey ty ey 17:48 BALTIMORE EXPRESS on ; 10—Point of Rocks and ‘We beg toinvite the attention of connoisseursto our | ICE CHESTS st low EEZER! THA DeESATS NEW SORT AND BOSTON fine OLD WHISKIES of the well- | WATER COOLERS nal BTN Re eee) . Parlor Cars to New York. each, vis: Gilray's Celebrated Lat CUR! N STRE’ Jed sina ams elb Wen stiest, S acces sboes Peoee cheomn. ae ss jatavlin, Anpapole Jucp Satations UPPER TEN WHISKEY. aoe eS 10.00-BALTINORE EXPRESS. cope et ‘Hyatteville VERY SUPERIOR FINANCIAL. oo Pitsburg, Cincinnati and St Louis OLD STOCK WHISKEY. GT0CK SPECULATION. Parties wishing to make money in Stocksphould com- ‘amunicate with the old established firm of JOHN A. DODGE & CO., BANKERS AND STOOK BROKERS, No. 12 WALL Street, New York, Who will send free full information showing how largo profits may be realized on investments of $10 TO $1,000. properties, H. & H. W. CATHERWOOD, Rocks and Way. 15:45 BAL TIMO! 38 |: 05 “Point of Rocke andy OUISIANA STATE LOTTERY. UNPRECEDENTED ATTRA ‘OVER HALF A MiLLTO LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY, in 1868 for twenty-five years by the | iakure for Educational and Obsciistie’ purposes wits Sapital of, $1,000,000—to, which & reserve fund. ot ce Been mado's pe ‘of the. prenent Stato Constitu December ad, 2. Ds Loo." — Look at the following distribution: AND THE EXTRAORDINARY SEMI-ANNUAL DRAWING, Under the Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD, of Louisiana, and Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, of Virginia. 00—Baltime Way Stations. PERSONS WISHING TO OPERATE IN Ye: PETTBBURG, CEEVELAND, eth DETROIE 5 SS PHILADELPHIAL NEW YORK and BOSTON EX ESS. ing Oars to New York. 11:30 “BALTIMORE AND WAY STATIONS. to the extent of $50 to $1, 000 or upwards, should writeto HENRY L. RAYMOND & CO., COMMISSION STOCK BROKERS, No. 4 Pine Street, New York. 10 it Stocks carried = <om = ‘Gur Junior partner is Ex and or- areas ION! (ON DISTRIBUTED! ‘Daily. 35unday only. Other trains Al from Washington stop st R Station. =a Olio ‘Ticket Offices Washington Statiou, GID and 1361 povniar vote its franchise was wenue, corner 14th street, where orders be annus, bagwage to be checked and received at ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS WILL | fon" 2 on . K. LORD, Gen. Passenger Balto. TAKE PLACE MONTHLY. WM, CLEMENTS. Manor of Traune Balbo my? IT NEVER SCALES OR POSTPONES PBIVATE STOCK TELEGRAPH WIRES GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT, uring which ‘take Dui Grd GRAND MONTHLY, BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORE. OF OTN Ax BSTaRETS, At FOLLOWe. For Pittsburg and the We Chicago Limited — of Puloan Hote and Seer ing. Care at " = ; Tocineinaael we wi AT NEW OELEANS, 4H. H. DODGR ‘TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1882, personal supervision and management of Bonds, Stocks and Investment Securities Bought and Bold on Commission, CAPITAL PRIZE $100,000. ‘No. 539 1irH STREET, (CORCORAN BUILDING,) Agency for Prince and Whitely, Stock Brokers, B28 3 4 Broapway, New Yous. a8 Eesenyy Every class of Securities bought and sold on commis sion in San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Washington. Orders executed on the New York Stock Exchange at one-eighth of one percent commission, Private and direct telecraph wires to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, through which orders are executed on the Stock Exchanges in those cities and reported back promptly. Quotations ofStocks and Bonds and information regarding the ‘Markets received through our wires INSTANTLY i- rect from the New York Stock Exchange. ol THE TRADES. Yee ei oo" arte 10°50 C 6:40am, and 4:60 p.m. daily, a For Annapolis, 6: am and 4:40 p.m. daily, except $32 S2SSse22e