Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1882, Page 7

— THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1882—DOUBLE SHEET. ei: | Hard and Solt Water. You often hear of water for household pur- poses being called “hard” and “soft.” The Teason why especially water, to the mineral Rain water is never “hard,” because it is nearly free of solid matter. ‘The reason you had su an uncomfortable wash and shave this moraine at your friend's ‘house was owing to the water being largely charged with lime and magnesia. When the Soap is rubbed between the palms in water of this description. the stearic acid in the oll of the soap combines with the lime and Magnesia, and forms compounds which the water cannot dissolve; and hence the pro- voking curdiness you observed. For the lather to be a perfect one,compiete solution ofthe constituents of the boca A must take piace, and in ater this would bethe case. But some w permanently bard, while some are porarily so. Permanent hardness is When the water is charged with sulphate of lime and magnesia, and temporary hardness by carbonates of lime and magnesia. Pure water dissolves the sulphates, but not the car- Then how do the carbonates come to be in the water at all? The reason is this:—All Ratural waters, but especially spring and well water, contain more or less free carbontc-acid g™ inastate of absorption, and, when thus charged, are capable of dissolving ‘the carbon- ates; ut whenever this cas is expelled from the water, say by boiling it, the carbonates are at once ‘deposited; and this accounts for the nerustation in the kettle, and when this takes place the water be- comes quite soft. The boiling does not affect the sulphates to any degree In this way in water that is permanently “hard.” Temporarily hard water can be made soft by more means than boiling sione. If a tubful of it at night be stirred up with a little “‘slaked” lime and allowed to settle, in the morning there will be a white deposit at the bottom ef the tub, and the water will be found to be qui “soft,” because the lime added will combine a the free car- bonic-ncid gas in the water. and the whole of the carbonates will beconre deposited, In virtue of their insolubility in water without this gas. For drinking purposes, rain-water, after being Passed throuch a charcoal filter. to remove the organic matter it contains, is the most whole- some for adults. The general objection is its tastelessness. A pinch of salt will renedy this. For the young, however. solid matter in the water, of the right kind, such as lime and mag- nesia, is good. as these go to build up the bony structures ofthe child.— Chamber sJournal. —___—$<o-— ‘The Sale of Louisiana. Lientenant Colonel Jung, of the French army, has just published the first two volumes of a Rew work entitled “Lucien Bonaparte and His Memoirs.” Oneof the most interesting features of Lucien’s memoirs are reports of conversa- tions, In which the interlocutors are almost in- variably Napoleon, Joseph and Lucien Bona- parte. Lucien denies that Napoleon was un- communicative; as consul, he says, he talked a great deal and very well. At times, according Lucien’s account, the brothers eppear to have had regular quarrels. and Joseph, a3 the elder of the three, did not measure his words. There is one scene, apropos of the sale of Louisiana to tie United States, which ts highly comic. The cession of Louisi- ana to France by Spain had been one of the triumphs of Lucien's diplomatic career as am- bassador at Madrid. One day, in 1802. Joseph rushes to Lucien’s housé and tells him that Na- poleon intends to sell Louisiana to the Ameri- cans on his own responsibility, without consult- ing the Chambers, the object of the sale being to obtain money for carrying on war. And here, in a parenthesis, let us cite a sentence of Lu- ¢ien, who says, apropos of this incident, in another place: “I wish it to be clearly under- stood by my readers that I am not of the num- ber of those who believed, and who persist in believing, that my brother Napoleon made war against his own will at any epoch whatever. On this point 1 knew too well his innermost thor its, partienlariy at the time of which I am speaking.” However, Joseph aad Lucien determined to remonstrate with their brother. and to try to prevent this coup @etat. The next morning they called upon him. The First Consul bad just entered his bath, the water of which was clouded with an abr of eau de cologne. The conversation began wi talk about poetry, about Napoleon's early lite- Fary efforts, about Corsies, about Paoli, about the Concordat. Neither Joseph nor Lucien to broach the subject of Louisiana. At Jast Napoleon began the topic himself, still re- ¢lining in his bath. The discussion grew hot. Meantime the vaiet came in to aid his master in his ablutions. In the heat of angry debate with Joseph, Napoleon haif issued brusquely from the bath, slipped back again and splashed the water allover the room and all over Joseph. The valet. terrified by this Olympian perturba— tion, fainted. Joseph went home to change his cloties, and Louisiana was sold to the Ameri- ¢ans for eighteen million of franes, which enabled Napoleon to prepare that séries of wild and use- Jess campaizns whick ended in Wa:erloo. eet as gg ‘ferrible Powsibility. From the Detroit Free Presa. The increase and multiplication of the English sparrow in our midst is assuming pro- Portions which may well excite alarm. We are Rot arraigning him now for the offences whereof our correspondent in Germany recently ac- quitted him by unanimous vote in opposition tothe testimony ofall Americans familiar with the sparrow. We are not asking that he be condemned for driving away the song birds, the }, the martens. the robbins and the thrushes. 'e@ waive, for the present, ary indictment for his then and there, with malice aforethought, staffing the eaves and the spaces between the brackets with dirty rags and pleces of carpet, which render the house a loathsome object. Here and now we invite attention to him as the grim destroyer of the future, instead of the ineffable nuisance of to-day. Those who have kept pace withthe researches of the evolutionists must be aware that the mature of the hitherto peaceful birds Is under- going achange. In Australia one of the mild- est of the known species, the kea, or night-par- rot, has been completely transformed and be- come not only carnivorous, but predaceous. For some reason explainable only by evolution, he has developed a wonderful appetite for mut. ton and is destroying the sheep of Australia at a fearful rate. There is nothing to prevent just such a ehange in the English sparrow. Indeed, there is every reason, in what is known of him, to expect just such achange. He has always been a bloodthirsty bird in intent if not in act; and his following the evolutionary example of the Australian kea is merely a question of time. But in the case of the sparrow it will not be the mutton that will suffer when the carnivorous petite is developed. He fs a denizen of the ‘les where mutton on the hoof is a rare sight. ‘The sparrow, therefore. will content himself ‘with such flesh as the cities afford. In the first Place, no doubt, it will be the flesh of cats and dogs, to which there will be no objection. But when the cats and dogs are gone, what? Clearly it will be the turn of the horses; and then there wl be objection. But by this timethe sparrow will have become invincible and the Borses will follow the eats and dogs. And then? What can possibly satisfy the rav- enous rascals then but human flesh! Beginning with the cantankerous old fogies, who will not be missed, and following these up with the office-holders, whom they will be pardoned for removing because of the vacancies created, the omnivorous birds wili gradually deprive our eities of everything in the of humanity that ible. A few of the toughest may Far ip but their k liv ly escape, lonely lives will be a Beth aoe, : ‘Teo Religious. A young man with a very bad voice, but who firmly and steadfastly believed that in the arti- €le of voice he was the superior of Brignoli, en- gaged a teacher to give kim lessons. When asked how he liked his teacher, his reply was ‘Twenty Sons. In 1827 there came into old Mr. Gallagher's hat store a maa who asked to look at a cap. He was shown a number of capa, and; selecting one that suited, he stated that he would take four oftiem. The hatter was somewhat astonished to hear the man ask for four caps at once, es- pecially as he said he wanted them all the same size. “Have you four sons of one size?” asked Mr. Gallagher. “Yes, sir, Ihave; and I've got sixteen others besides,” answerea the man. “Where are they?” inquired the hatter, who Was now all torn up by curiosity at the raccorg iP iy strange Way ae down here at the market,” was the reply. “Bring them here,” said the hatter, “and I'll make them all a present of a cap each.” The man went out and shortly returned, chas- ing inte the store a drove of boys that looked something like the tamous staircase band you might see in the theater, if you ever visited such a place. - “Hyer they be, mister. These be my boys, they be.” ‘Well, well, well; 1 never! Doesn't that beat all,” ejaculated the old hatter, as he gazed in wonder at the Froup of eankling young fellows as they stood there in all sorts of awkward atti- tudea, some staring about in an absent ‘sort of way, others giggling like school-girls, and the rest getting all tangled up with each other in endeavoring to keep from trampling on the boxes and oil-cloth or matting on the floor. “Come in, boys; come in and make yourselves at home,” shouted Me. Gallagher, as ‘the string blocked up the doorway. And he wassoon busy “fitting” their pates with caps. “This ‘ere’s Thomas Dittimus,” sald the happy father, dragging forth the oldest of the gang. “He's the first born, and mighty good boy he 1a, too. He's about thirty-five years old.” He was speedily suited with a cap and told to stand aside. “This hyer one,” sald the stock ralser, “is the next oldest. His name is Christopher Holmes.” And the father grabbed another of the drove as though he werea big sheep. “Ef you'H notice, stranger, you'll see that the first boy has got lack eyes like mine, and this one has blue eyes e his mother.” It was but the work ofa second to slap acap on the blonde head, and he was pushed over by the side of his older brother, with the injunction not to get mixed up with the others until every fellow had got his new cap. “Step out here. Peter Dialander,” commanded the owner of the bunch of beys. ‘At this a third young man ambled out in front of the delighted hatter, who enjoyed the experience beyond de- scription. “Hyer’s another black-eyed boy,” re- marked the boy-builder. ‘You see every other one is blue-eyed, and the rest is black-eyed so far, and this helps to keep the runof them it you understand the system, but when you come to get through the whole string you'd get mixed after the first ten, as I'l explain to you further along. Now this one is Calender ones,” and making a dash in among the mob daddy brought out a fourth son and almost eld him up by the back ofthe neck. A cap was passed down over his head and he was assigned a position among his seniors. Number five was fished out of the regiment and introduced as Eecy Icy. He got his cap and went to join the others that was already fitted out. Then came Osy Neeshy, followed next by George Wampum, then Shawno Cato. “kind 0 sort 0’ try to keep em divided into lots of tive, you see, by giving them names of a different nature, yet something alike; for In- stance, Injan names all come together. But right about hyer I always get mixed when I try to pick the lads out according to their ages, "cause, you see, the eyes begin to change along about the tenth baby that comes. Commencing with the first, who, as you saw, had black eyes, the change of color keeps on black, then blue until it gets down to the tenth or eleventh, when there is a change right around the other way. For instance, the tenth veing blue, the eleventh ought to be black, but one of his eyesis blue and one is black ; then the others start out Just opposite to the way they first began. That is, you will notice, how strange that—let me see,” mused the father, trying to sincle out the proper one. “Yes, the twelfth, who should have blue eyes if the change had not taken | ory is black. Then the next is blue, the next lack, andsoontothe end. Onaccount of this change the first and last are black, whereas, if the alternation had been kept up as it started, they would have been opposite in color. In the same way the next to the first, and the next to the last are both biue, and so on.” The introductions kept on, and the boys were all fitted with a cap each, free of cost, by the good-natured hatter. The father stated that there were no twins in the party, and that they were ail the offspring of one wife. There was about a year’s difference in their respective ages, the youngest being about twelve. Rela- tive to keeping the run of the family the old man stated that his wife, the mother of the boys, knew them better than he dida greal deal —that is, she could call off their names and ages = having to stop to think, like he did, at mes. “What do you propose to do with your boys?” inquired the hatter, v4 of “Make farmers of’em. We're travelling through hyer now on our way to settle some- whar, but we dou't exactly know whar.” After thanking the hatter very heartily, and promising to name the expected No. 2i after ir. Gallagher, the father marched the twenty sons out of the store, without losing any them, so far as heard trom.—Zanesviile (0) tar to Cincinnati Enquirer. ——————_~+-—_____ The Star’s Husband’s Bebut, A TraGepy IN Tuareg Acts. Dramatis Personce—Sarah Bernhardt; her hus- band. ot Act I.—Before the Performances. S. B.—Oh, my dear, Ido hope you will make a hit! jo on her hands and prays fervently). cr Il.—During the Performance. 8. B.—Oh, my dear, you are making a hit! (Wafts kiss to him from wings). Act III.—After the Performance. S. B.—Oh, you wretch, what did you make such ahit for? (Hits him with a staffed club and goes into hysterics.) —Quick Curtain. ‘The Horve in Motion. George E. Waring. jr., contributes to the Jul; **Century” an illustrate | review of Dr. Sti 8 re markable book on the photographic stadies of animais in motioa, which were of Governor ‘Leland Stunf dt of these laceverion, for he ‘sof the horse asa resuil ene cisceveries, for 8 in motion, **We must see him’ ‘on the cai The method by which these photographs have been taken—the result of years of experiment— is substantially as follows:—At one side ot the track is a long building arranged for photo- graphic work, containing a battery of twenty- four cameras, all alike and standing one foot apart. On the other side ot the track is a screen of white muslin and a foot-board. The screen is marked with vertical and horizontal lines, and the foot-board bears numbers indicating seperate intervals of ‘one foot each. he instantaneous shutters of the caineras are operated Py electricity, and their movement is governed by such powerful springs that the exposure is estimated to be ut one fivesthousanndth of a second. The contact L Pipes the shutters are sprang is made by the breaking of a thread drawn across the track at about the height of the horse's breast, their being one th: for each camera. In his he through the air, therefore, he brings each of een cameras to upon eager oirgeecer when Lod eagere in front of . ani camera represents his position at that Instant. The series of Rat ns in- dicates the consecutive positions at each of tne twenty-four feet covered by the instruments. In a series showing a horse trotting st the spokes of the sulky are shown as distinct lines quite to the felloe of the wheel, indicating an extremely short exposure. In a fast run, the tutts of the horse's tail, as it waves with his stride, are clearly marked. * that he was a good master, but he was alto~ gether too religious for him. “How too religious?” “Why, while and down the room wringing his raving.” - is his er? «What does he about?” Pray pray “I can't exactly say, but I caught the words, ‘Heavenly Father! ee Ions must I endure this? ‘There doubtless something am practicing he — the matter with A Siam Who Was Somewhat Dry. Covington Enwerprive. j; A Covington, Ga., toper planted himself by , Our stove during the rain Monday and remained + *there perhaps an hour. We asked: “ @reyou dry? = “Dry? Thunder and lightning» yest Dryer than a last year’s soup bone. Don't ae Sa ae a of feat WOE OM HE hy oa that ink kee? its ps hours, Seced rogeed the cerwets ont of my droushty —, We arined him up with a dime end er Vaine of Local Histories. Anextremely interesting, and in all ways a worthy feature ofthe book-collecting mania of our time is the mania for local histories. If any form of the disease shall survive to remote ages, it will no doubt be this, and surely it ought to be this. Strong Interest in one’s na- tive town isa part of common human expe- rience, and, much as a man may roam over the world, and wide as his interests and sympathies may in lateryears become, he is, after all, inex- tricably bound to the scenes of his earliest ex- perience of life. Almost like the pine trees and the maples, he takes root in the first soll he dwells upon, and however much transplanted 4s never altogether free from his earliest sur- roundings. Forget them he does not, and wholly to outgrow them is altogether beyond his power. Local histories are prized solely because they are local histories. They are often the worst of literature in respect of style, of taste, and of skill; they are always badly printed, and as for their bindings, the best of them are, as Dibdin would say, ‘“murderousl: bound in calf.” The sale of such books is uni formly slow, and the editions are wisely small, and yet forty years after they are issued the prices of them advance igiously, Even in our own country this is fast getting to be true; in England, however, it has long been true, and with eacn year more and more impressive docs the truth me. There was a sale of such books in London last month, and the prices they Ladd may fairly well surprise even those who know the standard worth usually set by dealers upon local histories. Here are a few of the books and the sums paid for them: At- kyn’s “Gloucestershire.” which sold not long ago for $50, brought €205; Bloomfleld’s ‘Nor- folk,” with extra illustrations, $800; Dalla- way’s “Western Sussex,” four volumes, $875; Dugdale’s ‘-Warwickshire,” two volumes, with additions, $225; Hodgson’s “Northumberland,” $230; Hoare’s “Modern South Wiltshire,” six volumes, $340, and a collection of old London views, $725. Every one knows In this country how county and town histories are made to pay for the publishing; how the local magnate writes the sketch of his life himself and pa; liberally for this and for the portraits and the views of his mansion, and his weather-vane capped carriage house; how, moreover, and by what arts many a poor farmer is invéigled into subscribing $5 for the book, when his sons and daughters do not possess single volume by Dickens, by Hawthorne. or by Shakspeare—au- thors whom they might learn something ot for one-fifth of those tive dollars. But when our Jand has become an old one the heirs-at-law of these farmers may yet get their reward, at least inmoney.—New York Times. + Cremation in Europe. From the Pall Mall Gazette, The cremation of Garlbaldi, which Is to be carried out in accordance with his last will and testament, will tend to revive public interest in a controversy of which little has been heard for some time. At present the practice is not popu- lar; forthe most of us it is not even possible. Even at Milan the number of cremations does not exceed one hundred per annum. The re- port of M. Georges Martin on “the Proposition Cadet,” submitted to the Municipal Council of Paris, contains the latest and most eteietel information on the subject of cremation. Martin agrees with M. Cadet that cremation in a short time will be regarded as the only possi- ble solution of a problem which in great cities is ever increasing in urgency; but he contents him- self with proposing that for the present crema- tion shouldbe rendered optional. Thecrematory, however, is as yet but in an early stage of development. Under the stimulus of compe- tition it is probable a much nearer approach to perfection may be made than has yet been attained. The regenerative furnace of M. Siemens at Dresden only cost £250, and is one of the best yet invented. Combustion is effected by heated air, and the process is very rapid. The Brunetti crematory is complicated and slow. It takes four hours to consume a body, and necessitates a consumption of a hundred-weight of wood. The most ghastly of all the apparatus of cremation is the Kuborn, which is devised for use on the field of battle. In this dreadful machine as many as 12 bodies can be burned at one time, the operation lasting from an hour to an hour anda half. A dozen Kuborns work- ing day and night could dispose of 2,500 corpses in 2f hours, Thirty years ago it was proposed to dispose of bedies by passing them into gas retorts, and since then many inventors have sought to use gas as the agent forreducing them to theirelements. The apparatus of MM. Pollica and Clericetti, in which many crémations have taken place, is one of those in which gas is used, much on the principle of the ordinary gas oven. The process is complete in an hour and a half, and the charge is 20f. Onan altogether different principle is the crematory of Prof. Paolo Gorini, of Lodi. He professes to beable completely to destroy a human body in 20 min- utes. at a cost of 8f., by immersing it in a chem- ical solution heated to a high temperature. The composition of this solution he keeps a strict secret, but chromic acid is believed to be one of its chief ingredients. The best known crema- tory in Europe is that erected by M. Keller -in the cemetery of Milan. In this “monumental crematory” two bodies can be consumed at a time without producing any odor. The process, which is Cl bee in an hour, can be watched through small glazed openings, and at the elose the survivors can bots home with them four or five litres of fine ashes weighing about sixty ounces. The cost varies from 15f, to 25f. ‘The London Police. Although London has a police force of 10,700 men, the World feels called upon to express it- self as follows: ‘It is necessary to put the mat- ter plainly, and to say at once that, for the pur- pose ofthe prevention of crime, the protection oflife and property, the detection of criminals, the suppression of ruffianism, the London police are, if not impotent, scandalously inadequate. They are equal to the task of regulating traffic. They can keeporder on a levee or drawing-room day, and can turn back intruding carriages from their accustomed line of route in St. James’ Park withan imperious gesture and a peremp- tory tone worthy of a dowager duchess’ hall- porter. But when it comes to be a competition ofintelligence and capacity between the habitual and determined criminals on the one hand, and the guardians of the public peace on the other, the constabulary of the capital are literally not init. Can a single case be mentioned during the last two or three years in which the police have effected a really clever capture of a mur- derer or thief—a single case, in fact, in which the criminal has not escay seot-free—unless, indeed, he has played into the hands of the law? Lefroy and Lameon committed murders which were as clumsy as they were cruel. Yet the po- lice at first were strongly disposed to let Lefroy (0. Within the last eighteen months there are iy to have been eight murders—there have, of course, been many more of which nothing is known—whose authors are still at large. 'e do not go back as far as the Hoxton, the Eltham, the Great Coram Street, and the Euston Square tragedies. We restate our general peopontiog —that it is the exception for the myrmidons of Scotland Yard to unearth homicides, cutthroats, and robbers, who display addressand intelligence in concealing their crime. The machinery of detection and prevention Is pitted against that of assassination, outrage, and theft, and it can- not stand the strain.” a How the Judge Crossed the Stream. An Anecdote by General James Craig. Well, we were riding along the road one chilly day in November, talking about court business and legal talent, when we struck a small stream that appeared to be about thirty yards wide. “Hello,” said Judge Norton, of Missouri, “this is a new stream to me. How shall we cross it?” Taking advantage of his ig- norance I pretended to survey the situation, and after emerging fromthe thicket f solemnly inquired: “J nage, can you swim?” “Like a fish,” he replied, while his eyes twinkled in the expectation of displaying his ability in that di- rection. “I can't,” said I, “so suppose you strip offand swim across, testing the depth as you go, and give me the advantage of your ex- ience.” “Allright,” he sald, dismounting m his horse. Then he removed all his cloth- tied them together, fos his teeth and Confederate Clothes. ‘Mary W. Early in the Weekly Times of Philadelphia. During the war homespin dresses were a good deal used by Virginia country ladies for every-day wear, and I haye seen some of these dresses that looked really pretty and jaunty on fresh young girls. The dyes (as well as the cloth) were a home production. Ivy leaves, set with alum, made a pretty gray; sumac leaves and chinquapin bark made black; maple bark made a bright purple; and peach bark made a green dye. The men of the confederacy, those in the army, at least, fared much better with respect to clothes than the women did, the government providing them with uniforms imported from abroad, through the blockade. lonally, too, a woman would & prize inthe shape of a trunk or box of new ‘clothes smuggled through the blockade, in. which case her toilet woald be the Prag ee admiration of all her feminine friends. Persons: who had friends or relatives in Baltimore,! Phifadelphia or other northern cities would sometimes be favored with a box of “store: clothes.” I remember such a box being sent from-Philadelphia to ac- quaintances of mine In Richmond, who became, In cot uence, “the glass of fashion and the mould of form” A plaid)sibbon: in this box was lent by turns to various friends, who looked on it as a rare and dainty ornament, something almost equal to the ribbon of the Order of the Garter. The writer wore'it to an elegant entertainment in Richmond the last winter of the war. 6m 2 Merchants as well as individuals would occa- sionally receive goods through the blockade, but these were scarcel¥ opened before their eager customers would selzeen them and buy them up. Prices rose almost as high as during the Aidhaen part war of 1776. The last winter of the war the thinnest, flimsiest silk rose above $100 a yard. Dresses that winter were made with a basque anda full, plain skirt, ora flounced one,ssemi-long. Bali dresses of silk or other heavy material were made after the memorial fashion of a Grecian waist, with a full, plain skirt, in a train behind, and I do not think any of the changes or caprices of fashion have im- proved upon the beauty and simple elegance of this costume. Muslin dresses were flounced or puffed, and by dint of being carefully darned and laundried were made to do service. On one occasion a young lady of my acquaip- tance appeared in avery dashing costume of pink silk brocade, the design being so large and coarse as to cause a suspicion among her lady friends that she had improvised a ball costume out of an old brocatelle curtain, and a sprightly young lady, on the spur of the moment. com- poet & parody on Moore’s “‘Origin of the Harp,” ginning thus: ss ae Deo that this dress that I now wear-fur 188 e Was a curtain of old —.” 5 But the rest is too full of personalities for re- petition. Such transformsions and make-shitts were the order of the- day during the war. Nu- merous articles ‘contrived by turns a double debt to pay.” like the plece of furniture de- seribed by Goldsmith, “By night a bed, a chest of drawers by day.” A gentleman of my ac- quaintance had himself a ‘swell” suit made out of gray blanket shawls, anda lady in our neighborhood had an old piano-cover dyed (it was colored bright purple by means of maple bark) and cut up into a sult for her little boy, who appeared quite in royal style in his purple garments. . A very prevalent fashion in confederate days was what were called Garibaldi bodies. These were gathered full on the shoulders beneath a band, and were generaily made of white muslin and worn with colored silk skirts. Sometimes, however, they were made of bright-colored flannel or silk, with a row of gilt buttons up the front and on the shoulder straps. The Italian hero, Garibaldi, I may remark in y this connection, was high esteemed in the confederacy. Unfortunately, the fashions of those days called for voluminous garments and bonnets. Gores were not worn then, nor had it come into tashion to combine two mate- rials in a costume, else we might have combined the fragments of two dresses into one, and thus been somewhat relieved of our straits and per- plexities. The bonnets and hats were large; at one time the former were immense, prompting one to exclaim, ‘‘No more on this head!” Vel- yet bonnets were mostly worn in winter, but in summer straw hats and drawn muslin hats (the latter very pretty and picturesque) were worn. Toward the latter part of the war hats made of pleated shucks were very muth worn in country neighborhoods, a trimming: for the hat being also made of shucks. ‘The gentlemen and little boys of the family had to regort to home-made or country-made hats for common wear, and these hats, shaped by the awkward, inexpe- rienced fingers of améteurs, displayed many curious curves and grotesque indentations that imparted a rakish air to eyen the staidest old gentleman or most innocent fittle boy. Feather flowers were much in vogue then, not the fine, delicate, brilliant ones made ot Brazilian feathers, but coarse ones made of tie feathers of our barn-yard fowls, while eider and swansdown were simulated by a trimming made of goose feathers, Trimmings were, of course, as scarce with us as material to be, trimmed, and toward the close of the war persons appeared quite dressy if they could muster a trimming of dress braid; a quilling of this at the bottom of an alpaca or worsted skirt, and three rows of it ve, were considered a Stylish trimming. oes Were @ great difficulty'with us. Many a belle had to encase her daihty feet in clumsy, home-made shoes, and if the war had gone on much longer perhaps we might have had occa- sion to rescrt to the French sabot or wooden shoe. A country cobbler in my pene supplied the young ladies around him toward the close of the war with galters made of an old blue cloth coat, cut up and stitched with yellow silk. ———-e-—_______ Too Much Early Work. Professor Owen. All the nutritive functions and actions of growth proceed more vigorously and rapidly in childhood and youth than in mature life, not merely as regards the solids and ordinary fluids, but also in the production of those.imponder- able and interchangeable forces which have sometimes been personified as nervous fluid and muscular force. Using the latter form to am- plify my meaning, the excess ot nervous force is in the child most naturally and healthily reduced byits conversion into muscular force, andat very short intervals during the active or waking period of life the child instinctively uses ita muscles and relieves the brain and nerves of their accumulated force, which passes, by the intermediate contraction of the muscular fiber, into ordinary force or motion, exemplified by the child's own amusements and by those of some object or other which has attracted its at- tention. The tissues of the growing organs, brain, and muscles are at this period of life too soft to bear a long continuance of their proper actions; thelr fibers have not attained their mature tone and firmness. _ This is more especi- ally the case with the brain fiber. The direct action of the brain, as in the mental applica- tion to learning, soon tires; if it be too lon; feaeaned the tissues eo ar ee sit) the due progress of yw which sho have resulted in a fer ft for good and con- tinuous labor at maturity, Is interfered with; the child, as an intellectual instrument is, to that extent, spoiled by an error in the process by which tMfat instrument was sought to be im- ved. The same effect op the muscular sys- m 1s (pee ree in the racers that are now trained to or 83¢ years old for the grand prizes at oncaster or Epsom. The winner of the Derby never mes an Eclipse or fying Childers, because the muscu- lar system been oyet it two or three Leet Bees HS oes ae aeon fall de- velopment, w! levelopment is sto the premature over-exertion. If the a 4 not stimulated to work, but is allowed to rest, and if at the same time the muscles be forbidden. to act, there then arises, if this restraint be too prolonged, an overcharged state of the nervous system. It ls such astate as we see exemplified in the caged quadru| of e habits, when. it seeks to relieve it by conve r the nervous into the muscular force to the ¢ it permitted by its prison, either execu! a ee ayer of bounds against the prigon.bars, lke the agile ape: or Stalking, like the. lion, sullenly to and fro. If the active child be too long pre- vented from gratifying the t wo at in motion its limbs or body, mm nervous becomes overcharzed, and the relief may at last be got by violent amptions or called “pasion” oF “uaoghnems ending i he arse, Dey alee Whew While strolling through St) John Pearson's green-house a Jersey city reporter observed a handsome, fern-like that attracted his at- tention. ] how Breaking off a " See oe = LADIES’ GOODS. STEAMERS. &e. Wes J. P. PALMER, 107 F STREET NORTHWEST. ‘Most respectfully announces to ber numerous friends and customers that she isselling her large and carefully selected stock of FINE FRENCH MILLINERY ATGREATLY REDUCED PRICES Prior to her leaving for Paris. H™ FOR THE SEASIDE AND MOUNTAINS. We yk received the LATEST STYLEs, bie for the Seaside and which we will exhibit during the coming e10 PARISIAN: Nountain DOUGLASS’, Re a Ow, Seana a OO) ‘TS OF *"RE! STE! 25e. gine French Woven CORSET at $1, old at A Fine French Contille |-made CORSET, at $1. This corset is sold in other cities at $1.50. ‘We has special lot of Children's Regular Made HOSE in Cardinal, Biue and Brown, at 25c. Would be DOUGLASS’, RINT xD F STREETS mi . V. SMITH IS RECEIVING DAILY. infest sie ff MIDLINEEY, inct and BONNE’S CAPS a speciaity. “618 91 )PATTERN HATS AND FINE MILLINERY Goopbs; SILK AND CLOTH WRAPS; SILK, FLANNEL and CAMBRIC SUITS, and most dlorant: sasoctneut ia toe city, largest exclu- tively to my order. M. WILLIAN, 907 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. 7 CITE TREVISE, PARIS. als M= WASHINGTON, FASHIONAB) DRESSMAKING AND TRIMMING STORE, AL PENN: LVANIA Vie Hor atyle at ahort notice, "Ladies ‘can have Drososs Set and basted, and a perfect fit cuaranteed. 3 MES ANNIE K. HUMPHERY, STRRET NOR’ Plant, that it is the or snd he 480 TENTH ‘THWEST, Makes CORSETS to order in every style and inaterial, tnd guareniStLR BECTALTIEN AME French Hand-made Upderclothing, Merino and finest imported Hi Patent Shoulder and Corset: for wiles Mian H. jppecia area, tnd ra Corset, her own make, that for the prico cannot be eurpaneed. .B.—French, German and Spanish spoken. _ a3 FAMILY SUPPLIES. NOTICE TO HOUSEKEEPERS! BES N, OCG EER RRR s S88q oG EE ER, g Som Eh EF Beant sscg Tarr EEE Pet Ly BS “ao Bee 2 EO RRE HNNNG @ me PPPS Piece Sess8 Pf Exe BOB fran HS WN GOO T RRR EKEL It A NN N OCC EER RRP. I AA NN NC OR y ERRL& G TAANNNG ER RRE OL MAAAN NNO CE oy R RERELLLLUA AN NN OCC RERS GGG 00 L DDD KEE NN N G°GOOL DDE NNN G@ .9O0L PD DER NNN 66¢0 0L Dp DE NEN GGG 00 DDD EER N NN RHEE £ HOH OT LE rid £. & HOB OD Cou Luu 2 WILL ALWAYS MAKE BEAUTIFUL ROLLS, BREAD &ND BISCUITS. ‘Wholesale Depot: Corner Ist street and Indiana avenue. jei WM. M. GALT & CO. Fo EXCURSIONISTS. POTTED HAM, BRAWN, POTTED TONGUE, CORNED BEEF, POTTED BEEF, "TURKEY LIVERS, POTTED CHICKEN, SHRIMP, POTTED GAME, CURRIED OYST! LUNCH TONGUES, PICKLED OYST' WHOLE BONED HAM, PICKLED LOBSTER, WHOLE BONED CHICKEN, SARDINES in oil, TOMATOES and TRUFFLED WOODEN PLATES. PAPER NAPKINS. B. W. REED’S SONS, my 1216 F STREET NORTHWEST. Fe xcvssionists' SUPPLIES. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THIS BRANCH OF OUR BUSINESS THIS SEASON. Freeh line of CANNED MEATS, FOWL and FISH. FRUITS, CRACKERS, PICKLES, Summer WINES. At Low Prices. WITMER’S, m23 1918 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. OME MARKET, 1620 14vH STREET NORTHWEST, hy ie Es ith all the We havo Telephontc, Exchange , wi parts of ecomgence SUNDAY. MAY 28rn, to DELIVER Wane im all MEATS and FRvrrs purchased on Saturday “SUNDAY MORNING.” Sores ee eal es . FALL & LOVE, m23 Home Market, 1620 14th street. (Ceaser CLARET! CLARET We offer, as a specialty, THREE BOTTLES TABLE CLARET B ae BLISTER DOZEN. FOF $1 assortment of HIGHER GRADES OF onetee. which: off at low ‘oars, D PICKLES, 0 PANNED POTTED MEA’ OYSTERS, SARDINES, &c., &o., for and Ex- cursions. GEO. E. KENNEDY & SON, No, 1209 F STREET NORTHWEST. ‘UHN R. KELLY, Deaten LAMB, bier ‘0. CORNED BEEP Btalls 628, 629 and 630 rh street wing, and206 an 208 ‘Northern Liberty Miacket; oy Adie Box 71, Gity Bost Oftion ‘Marketing delivered free of charge to all partaof the etre * osc m5 E ARE RECEIVING DAILY EXTRA BLUE GRASS MUTTO’ PRIME STALL BEEF, ~ GAME AND FRESH FISH, Panay LPHIA [CKENS AND TURKEYS, BOSTON MARKET, LEON SCHELL & CO., ag 1719 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. HOUSEFURNISHINGS. 709 MTSE Ee 799 ‘We call special attention to our SIMPSON REFRIGERATORS; Blate Stone Shetves; Charcoal Packed. ‘Handsomely finished and strongly built. EVERY ONE GUARANTEED TO GIVE ENTIR Ba’ \TISFACTION, REFRIGERATORS OF OTHER MAKES AT COST. | WILMARTH & EDMONSTON, IMPORTERS OF CHINA AND GLASS, Je17 ‘709 MARKET SPACE. EFBIGERATORS (SOLID Wi AT Re Ts RED! PRICES, a flow ATER COOL FANS (ely Je16__ 814 Tth street, 5 doors above Penna. avenue. Dy eubed CELEBRATED REFRIGERATORS, WITH SLATE STONE SHELVES, HANDSOMELY FINISHED, MADE OF KILN-DRIED LUMBER, A first-class Refrigerator at a mall cost, (G2 Call and-see our testimonials. &. W. BEVERIDGE, 1009 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. Bole for the D.C. ‘et LA FLEUR'S EXCRETER. Z KNOWN. ee ead Saree nea in the of of it || No. 539 lSrm STREET, (CORCORAN BUILDING,) N** YORK, KOTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM. ‘The first-class full powered, Ciyde-built Dutch Steamshipe of this Lin» AMSTERDAM. ROTTERDAM SCHIEDAM, EDAM, ZAANDAM. P. CALAND. W.'A. SCHOLTEN. MAA! Carrying the U.S. Matis to the N Pany's Pier, fo0t of Sussex street, Sayer iy efery WEDNESDAY for Notierdam "cod as Prrrepee S23K2225R ‘Seaside Libraries. JAMES J. CHAPMAN, y : m1 PENSSYEV ANIA AVESUE, E STEAI “MATTAN 3 : 2 FAM OUN, VAN HOLTZ; | PRURAD, =~ fiver : Puller; $1.50, | jan ‘at landings in POTOMAC TRANSPORTATION Li and after MARCH 1 STEAI gente, ObUsH aa. gal nave EEE ERRORS WHARE, foot of Tth street, EVERY SUNDAY: at four FRANCIS B. MOHUN, 315. 1015 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. ARION HARLAND'S NEW BOOK—EVE'S BAISHTEAS AGS wang’ SENSE FoR An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, David, 5 vol. Rermous by Rey. Chacies Waaeworliy Dy B.S c, Croquet, Lawn Tennis and Archery. HAUNCEY J. REED, 433 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST, SoLm AcENT frrva Cc For the Matchieas HEINEKAMP PIANOS AND TRE SHONINGER CYMBELLA ORGANS, Offers the following unprecedented list of Special Bar- No. 1—One Piano, 7 octat ‘carved legs and lyre, nearly new, with em! ey 1 cost $25, and upholstered stool, made by ALFRED WOOD, Secretary. Farnest Tobler, and good as new, $175. No. 2—A celebrate’ N. ¥. Piano, with carved legs and lyre. handsome ‘and FA"B0Re Line. WEEKLY LINE OF STEAMERS LEAVING NEW YORK EVERY THURSDAY AT? P.M FOR ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY. a c. B. RICHARD &00., * General Agente, 61 Broadway, New Yor, toPERCY G, SMITH, and 619 venis Sed for “Tourist Gace ree ted for six and s great a great bargain, $150. No. 3—One muper® Unright Piano by ont of” the oldest JX, makers wed six months, will be sacrificed at ‘No. 4—One celebrated Stienway Piano in good order, A. H. Gale & Co., with om te, $90. ‘base and Tasdern improveme: ix Hel HF: Beatiy Orga, 21 stops, Cost No. 8-3} Bargains in Hetnekamp Pianos and espe area ‘Oncans. Bold on $9 month payment. el JREICHENBAGH’S PIANO WAREROOMS, PIANOS Of various makes for sale and Tent at fey @uced priess. "Win, Knabe & Co.'s World. renowned Pi d Repairing. TB Tieh nrect above Famutylvanis sveues’ Je8-Bm ENUINE DECKER BRO. PIAN AND BURDETT ORGAN! raEL ‘The best now made, “a se G. H. KUHN, 407 10th street, Sole Agent. EATTY'S ORGANS, 27 STOPS, $90. PIAN Beare. Factory renmine aay ood night. 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