Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1882, Page 6

& SUMMER SEASON LACK’S 01 Tuk NEW ENING, success. — Laura Joyce and Dichy Bell have been en- gaged by John Me‘anll for the coming season at the Bijou Opera House, N. Y — Joseph Brooks, of the theatrical firm of Brooks & bic in the Long Branch railway disaste: Fecovering. — Edward Harrigan arri A lar, er Comiqu +. L. Stout with which the theater will — No arrangements have the production in 's petac Siberi: ar play, “ Booth’s Theater were in prog! fallen throu —A summer season will be commenced at not about the Is inary to the opening of the reg) Strauss’ opera, The oj ill be put upon the stage with a scenery and a strong chorus. — Gilbert & Sullivan's new opera will be pro- @uced simultaneously in New York, Boston, Wallack’s Theater ‘ust, pre! autuma and winters “The Queen's Lace Hani! it is promised, strong cast, ne MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. in on the 25th of = ce will be OPERA—WAIL- Aleaizar is a decided oT vy inj in New York a ¢ foree of men Is now at preparing for w Irish play, open for the season. et been made tor wv York of Bartley Camp- Ato ions in regard to its production at , but they have Philadelptiia, and Chicago during November. —It makes some people they are to «: — Henry Irvin: first performance 1888, in the ““Belis, his first great succ by Miss Eli company, erties. and dresses of the chief plays that wiil be produced. —Owing to defective Galatea will not be re: while Mary Ande which will be mad Tepertory next s ais studying the pivee de r —There are about thirty reputable combina- road. A few of these propose to remain out all summer if the weather will ajority will shortly re- tions ill upon the it, but the eres m to rest and re —The veteran John stage was never lower ths no life, no art, no pro about it is wrong and disy thing, after all, when one 1s In France, where men must work th ward, and wher e@ befoi stantiy a Comed ” —Patti, Nilsson, Saivini, Jeski, Aimee, and possibly Riste niz e in it: ul. pleted his pla: Wiki West. season. oes ‘Troubic. ings ed as boundary lin Most natura! thing in the world to fiver as a boundary line, henc Ratural boundarie | te quarrel about lin eal; but the sup at Manent institution, althouch, Roberts. it is always running. Asia, if out of doors. if wilt stay where More than you ¢ ft a lofty ra capped mountains upa . Such, at least, accepted this, as with all oth tion, and the exe 3 as the boundary line between the United States | elect a large | Ibert said recently nm it is now ; actor, to be Wyndham, sea-sick to go on board the vessel while lying at the docks that in for Europe, and Nat Goodwin gays it made him sick wien he bought his tick: the tragedian, will give his in this country October 29. the piece in which he made He will be accompanied chinery the yacht or some time. It is som be is slowly Mean- farie Stuart, stence of her SCENERY ON THE LENA. ¥Fravel on the Great River—Life in Si- beria. Yakutek Co ¥. Herald. The pleasure of a sledge journey of fourteen days and fourteen nights depends vastly on the pictaresqueneas of tne ri m which you are journeying aud on the accommodation and re- val cities, passing through romantic scenery and 9 find cosey hotels, at least for meals, would, I ney, bea rare delight. A bridal trip of this sort woulda] imagine, be as pleasant asit would be unique ; for one can build for himself a most nfortable nest of downy pillows and soft furs on the sled and sleep as soundly there as in the state feather beds of our grandfathers. But you st haye change of scenery, and if you are to re down 4 river at all you want to see roman- ‘ally situated hamlets and ruins ot ancient , Or least rock formations that can your imagination or satisfy your But the Lena, for the thousand or so down which I passed, was mon- otonous in the extreme, and monotony ten times pnotonous after all the dangerous places had been passed in safety. High sloping avooded mountains on either side you that irritate you bytheir sameness and con- Unual presence, that seem to look sullenly at you as you sink down under your wraps for the night, and as sullenly at you in tne morning when you awake before the sunshine has dissi pated the chill and the gray sadness of every thing. And whenever you leok ahead, morn- ing, noon or night, the road seems to be barred by a big, frowning mountain, that never seems to change in outline; to reach which your en- deavors are always directed, and which alwavs seems to recede as you advance along the way. Happily yon know that the grim monster, al- ways seeming to bar the road, is simply a delu- sion, and that he only marks the point where the river makes one of its many thousands of curves on its way from the Baikal to the sea. Inthe upper part of the Lena’s course, how- er, there are some magnificent rock forma- tious, but these I passed during the night. point the road lies on a ledge of cliffs just above the water's surface, while a mass of rock four or ftve hundred feet high hangs over you, seemingly threatening to fall and erash u at every moment. Lower down the river again, about two days before you reach kutsk, you meet a few miles of romantic rock ba he ed excite ne r ra, ar forms of ruined towers thie-roofed temples and hermitages crowning the clits, But these are exceptions that rarely oceur. Every fifteen or twenty versts you leave and the bh scampering up the ineline reach the bluif, whereon village and post station are planted, give youa tem- porary excitement, which is repeated when your sled is let down on to the surface of the ri cent of from forty to eighty feet. single horse is put in the shafts imes dangerous descent is safely though by far th when all your hor: tik thi ne~ PrN up- | boy postilion are in their p! them con- | hicle, gathering velocity at every sten, in spite of the efforts of shaft-liorse and men to check Mod- | your speed, starts down the remainder of the array of fore’ names for America t Season, and this without mentioning I —Colone! Rob men had common sense enou ps into communities, large rivers rm a goodly he comi try , 3 almost com- whieh will be called The Wild, It is to be brought out at the Arch- Philadelphia, during the early | BOUNDARY. Why the Rie Grande Causes so Much It ist It is possible for nations are merely artifi- a river isa like In Europe or ‘ou put a large river down anywhere ou put » 1 carry it off, any ze of cloud I put it into a hand- s been the generally npelling the ho hill at a terrific speed. ec r at sheer self-def and take you impetus full st a hundred ly accompl and only in one placb did we deem it prudent not to enter the sledges until the riy been safely res anner at least ter mt when the snow did fall it came down gently tmless as drifted down. The ings bro fter the seve nt upon the and twigs were most charming —that is, when the river's bed was yet narro: and the trees and shrubs and mountain sides were quite close to you. that had 1 ‘h up the wooded mountain sides nd sparkled in the sunshine like lace- work of diamon n fast to the tops of the ever; n The branches of the slender birch that grew in quantities among the sturdier pines were frosted over as if by fairy hands, and the two never ending row: fir tree tops planted for a thousand miles in to he ou chiks glittered with thespray flowers it had been scattered over them dur- it. What a pathway did it seem to |me at such times for old Santa Claus on his jr to the dwellings of men down through ng, lone rows of Christmas trees that lighted with candles every night to point out to him his joyous way! And the {candles would burn brightly enough, for, as a | rok a breath of wind reachés the surface of the river. (and Mexico. ness, and the color of its water its borders. Ratives is caused by the course of t whether the river has been induced / The Rio Grande is the most peculiar river in j the world. Words cannot describe its erooked- | are lexions of the horse-thleves who infest Whether the crookedne like un * river, » depart from the straight line of duty by the bad exam. + pleset it by the lords of creation who pro along its ban! tions we have soll of the iio Rande is Jar to that of the vall Fiver. 4, like a snake in water. ‘One of the consequences of this is that the | declared to be the mid- dle of the channel! of the river, is as unc Douvdary line, which is and as utterly unre of the Houston Post. For instance, John Smith. an hones’ xou rand of the word. costumbre de morning Smith finds that he has become, by an act of God, trious and unexceptional Ansle on the American side of the ‘an American jn the full The Rio Grande, accordi Paris, gets on a bene as Blackstone cails it, a Mexican. Th Une has ; ove around him durin: ic is one of those intricate ques- ot got space to discuss. The | uluvial, and very simi- of the San When it rains the soil dissolves into a soft kind of mush, and the river flops about on sett He Jol boundat ischt, ntonio ain able as a political prediction indus- In sledge traveling the roads through the for- | ests alonz the Lena are much to_be preferred to he surface of the river itself, if only for the | reason that in them you are sheltered from the | cold and have the mind occupied in looking at the constant succession of gurprising winter | views of the forest. All the pleasure of sleding | on the ice depends upon the speed at which you are being driven: but snow flowers and grandest ‘ock formations weary you if the horses lag or | the yemschiks by carelessness stick you fast in a snowdrift. But on the natrow roads through he forests you are taken among scenes that in ummer must be of paradisaical beauty; along | narrow avenues of firs and cedar and the green | Siberian larch, past cosey little settlements and | deserted summer huts of the Yakut peasants, and occasionally over a steep mountain, or along the narrow course of a petty tributary of the | Lena, where the trees of the primitive forests, | whose roots have been attacked by the surging | stream in its spring frolies and made to bend in obedience to its power, form with their summits | a natural archway that extends for miles and miles. And such an absolute stillness prevails on these forest roads when the settlements ari |lett: for on the long journey which I hav | completed we did not see the track of a single wild animal in the snow nor the flight of an | thing but solitary crows along the whole course | of river and forest. . | One of the most picturesque portions of the Journey was, I think, after the last station be- fore reaching Klrensk, where we crossed a high | mountain in order to avoid a long, roundabout to or i S is hn ry VEXED QUESTIONS IN FURNISHING. What May be Done with Ugly Mantcls— A New Curtain, Magerial Wanted— Practical Decorative Suggestions. From the Art Amateur. | ; Old-fashioned mantels are,often an eyesore in country houses. Take the tall, gaunt shelf, five feet high, in blaék or white paint, which may not be marred or changed without offence to the rigid ideas of the owner, and what is to be done? The methods of the best house artists suggest some ideas which ‘may be of use to people who have such' fixtures to deal with. In one instance a tall white wood mantel was allowed to keep its quaint original ornament of ovals of looking-glass, set in the flat pilasters and under the shelf and framed in narrow gold beading. Outside of these the wood was covered with maroon velveteen tacked on the sides of the upright, with very fine “invisible” tacks. The space under the high shelf was hung with a band ot etchings ina Jong flat gold and cherry frame of the natural light eolor, which harmon- ed beautifully with the velvet and gilding. The mantel scarf was maroon velvet, just fall- ing over the edge, with lace border three inches wide, of a brownish-cream tint, which went well with the decp red, yellow-white, and slight giding of the rest. The long ends were finished ith lace over fringe of maroon and gold-colored silks in pale tinges which repeated the effect of bullion. The summer drapery for this mantel Was wholly of antique lace over amber—silk? will remain long in good memory with the sur- vivorsof the Jeannette who have passed through and were kindly entertained by the Russian authorities, and especially by the governor, Gen. Tehernaieff, whose fatherly care of all of pest as of my own party, was so constant and kindly. ——_—+¢-—_____ Matrimonial Superstitions. From Harp:t's Weekly. There is no period in a woman's life that so completely changes her whole existence as mar- riage, and for that very reason she is apt to be more superstitious and fancitul at that thne than at any other; and while superstitions are fast be- coming a something of the past, there are very few women who will not hesitate before making Friday their wedding day, or will not rejoice at the sunshine, for “happy is the bride that the 3un shines on.” June and October have always been held as the most propitious months in the twelve, a happy result being rendered doubly certain it the ceremony was timed so asto take place at the full moon,or when the sun and moon were in conjunction. The Romans were very superstitious about inarrying in May or February ; they avoided all celebration days, and the Calends, Nones and ldes of every month. The day of the week on which the 14th of May fell was considered very unlucky in man; y parts of merry old England, and In Orkney a if ide selects her wedding day 80 that its evening may have a growing moon and a flowing tide. In Scotiand the last day of the year is thought to be lucky, and if the moon should happen to be fuil at any time when a wedding takes piace, | | t the bride’s cup of happiness is expected to be alway In Perthshire the couple who have had their s published at the end of one and are married ab the beginning of another quarter of a year can expect nothing but ends. The day of the week is also of great impor- ance, Sunday being a great favorite in some parts of England and Ireland. And sinongn an English lass would not marry on Friday, the French girl thinks the first Friday in the month particularly fortunate. Most of us know the old saying concerning the wedding day : “Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday ts the best day of all, ‘Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all.” In Yorkshire, when the bride Is on the point of ing her father’s threshold, after returning church, a plate containing a few square pieces of cake is thrown from an upper window of the house by a male relative: if the plate is broken she will be happy, it not she will not ex- pect to escape misery. In Sweden a bride must carry bread in her pocket, and as many pieces of it as she can throw away, just so much trouble does she cast from her; but it is no luck to gather the pieces. But should the bride‘lose her slipper, then she wiil lose old troubles, only in this case the per- gon who picks it up will gain riches. The Manx- men put salt in their pockets, and the Italians blessed charms. Itis an unhappy omen for a wedding to be put off when¢tie day has been fixed, and it is believed much harm will ensue if a_ bride; nds at the junction of cross-roads or b closed gate upon his wedding morn. In Eng- land it is thought to be a bad sign ff the bride fails to shed tears on the happy day. or if she indulges herself by taking a last g looking-glass after her toilet is completed: but she may gratify her vanity without danger if she leaves one hand ungloyed. To look back or go back before gaining the church door, to marry in green, or while there is an open graye in the chur rd, are all unfortunate, and the bride must be careful to go in at one door and out at another. When the bridemaids undress the bride they must throw away and lose all the pins. Wo to the bride if. single one be lett about her! Nothing will go right. Woe also to the bride- fthey keep one of them! for they will not be married before Whitsuntide or till the Easter following at the soonest. If the bridal party venture off dry land, they must go up stream. The bridemust, to be lucky, wear “Something old and something new, Something gold and something blue. Ifshe should see a strange cat or hear a cat sneeze on her ti will be ning she No, but plain sateen, covering the whole of the obnoxious woodwork, and deeply draping the sides, allowing the mirrors to be seen. The fire- place was filled with a huge basket of growing plants which hid the opening with a luxuriant ampelopsis, against which were placed such plants as were in bloom, amass of sweet alyssum, aquilegia or gailliardia, the latter torming a gor- geous center with its brave golden stars. The materials for this design were seven yards of velveteen at seventy-five cents, three of lace at eighty cents, one yard of fringe at two dollars, an etching frame at two dollars and a half, the flowersand the tacks. The summer arrange- ment cost about five dollars. The ornaments for the mantel were a Benares_brass flagon and vase, along tray of deep blue Nankin, and plain cylinder yases of yellow-pink modern glass, mounted on gilt perforated holders, placed there tor flowers, and because they blenaed the colors of the mantel perfectly. The room was a sum- mer chamber with a fringed mat of the new English tapestry carpet in “fade” colors and border of dark red and check matting, furniture of Wakefield rattan, 2 maroonrug forthe lounge, cushions in maroon and amber silk and plush, and curtains of antique luce over amber satee! bordered with broad maroon satin ribbon, and caught back with a large bow, to show the lin- the lower corner of which was embroidered and yellow daisies. For winter plaia curtains of yelyeteen were placed under the white ones, so as to be drawn entirely away from the giass when wished. The wall- per was a tea- with pale leaf-brown pen- cillings aud border of dark rose-foliage with some large d d petals. (I have been drawn on to give the full description of this room, because each feature harmonized so per- fectly with the others that one insensibly led to the whole.) Another obnoxious mantel was improved by an open-work screen of light cherry, sawed out of half-inch wood, to conceai the ‘entire front, fitting the arched fire-place, and standing on substantial block bi atthe sides. The strong frame was made to support irregular shelves each side, with dwarf vailings. A similar screen rose two feet at the back of the mantel, f i a bevelled oblong square panel of p crossed by an upright imirror panel in the mid- die. When seen with shallow giass dishes filled with pink Jaurel branches; under the velvet panel, the effect was very pleasing. A third forlorn, glossy old; black mantel was hway turned into an admirable decorative zirl artists who occupied a room in house. Stalks of golden and . Tusset, thitk-headed sses, and wild red lilies were painted on the smooth dark wood, and a lede fastened just under the frieze of the mantel to heldé brushe artist belongings, A nursery firey anese crape pictures under the shel ating with wider pdnels of a heayy-looking bronze material, which I grieve to say is not fashion drapery even, but cotton flannel of the best quality, thiek, smooth, and firm as Spanish Jeather, and good for all backings in such work. The pictures were carried down the sides of the mantel and a bright fan tacked in each corner above tie fireplace to fill the space. The colors of the crape pictures and fans were carefully chosen to harmonize with the ground. After experimenting to find the cheapest good material for curtains, I am quite persuaded that nothing fully answering the end has yet been made. A much-used drapery of double-faced Canton flannel fades in the sun, as proved by r, and the nap fades soon, looking unnece: sarily shabby. Jute looks well, but it frays and cannot be renovated. Wool curtains hold the dust, which is a permanent plague of all house- | keeping with the present system of heating and building. There are few fabrics which will take the beating necessary to cleanse them from dust without injury. Momie cloth, brocatelle, even turcoman will not bear a year’s dusting what woman of taste can tolerate a suspicion of st in her furniture or hangings, rich or poor? Give me grass mats sooner. — The old-fashioned blue and white check bedroom curtains of home- spun linen were of a material which answered well the use demanded of it. The round eyen thread gave fulness to the web and its folds; it was clean, durable and healtnfu Why cannot we have something as practical with better taste id variety? My ideal hanging for common use is a firm, softly falling linen, of half bleached hues woven with stripes of pale blue, light red. butt, deep blue, or dark red, all colors which w know by our damasks that linen receives readily and that never lose beauty. With broken stripes or damaskings of these colors variety could be gained for all purposes, decidedly better than anything we have now. A sott, thick, round- thread linen, ot a silvery grayish-brown, with wide uneven stripes of light blue, would be very pretty for simple rooms. A dark unbleached Town with red and amber stripes would be ser- viceable and pleasing in color, but the only things approaching it are German table linen in graceless floral patterns. Ihave been strongly tempted to take the German blue and red cot- ton for table-cloths, two yards wide, sew bands ace ha if alter- again on to something higher still, she will from | that moment rise in the world. For tis pur- | pose a table Is placed beside the bed, and if it | an stand near the dresser or something higher than it. then she must step from the table to that which is higher. But woe betideher should she fall! : In leaving the house and church, she must be very carefgl to put her right foot forward, and on ho account allow any one to speak to her husband until she has called him by name. To break the wedding ring is an omen that the wearer will soon be a widow; but “As your wedding ring wears, So will wenr away your cares." The London Police. The bill which the British tax-payer is called upon to contemplate, and to pay, is, no doubt, a latge one: but there are probably very few sources of public expenditure which bring about so obviously beneficial a result. The English policeman is a creature entirely sui generis, the like of-whom is not to be found elsewhere. His employment for the detection of committed crime is in great measure subordinate to his usefulffess In the preservation of order; and, if skillful criminals sometimes escape him, that is not so much his fault as an inevitable conse- quence of the unrestricted personal freedom enjoyed by our countrymen. The typteal police- man is less a representative of the majesty of the Jaw than of its friendliness to the well-doer or of its protection to the helpless. There would be a few more interesting sixnts, were it not that the interest is impaired by familiarity, than the skillful generalship with which gne or two police- men will marshal and arrange the carriage traffic of the most crowded crossings, as at Regent Cir- cus or at Hyde Park Corner, preventing obstruc- tion, preserving strict impartiality between the vehicles going in different directions, and often escorting some feeble or timid woman or some oung child through the bustling throng. The countryman who bas lost his way, the old lady who is in doubt as to the place where she will finda wished-for omnibus, the errand-boy who cannot read the address on the letter or parcel entrusted to him for delivery, all tarn to the is poor John Smith'to do? Rome you must how! Esmitee—that’s the way it. He wears a great big eigarittos, big spurs fincle at his he xis ¥, and so it i When you are in ith the wolve: short time John Smith has become Don Juan Mexicans pronounce ombrero, smokes In to mass regularly, and to inspire his Me comrades with confid horse. Ina tew yea: head and blonde freckles, nobody would take him to be an J Isall right as far as it xc time Don Juan Esmitee b gon carne and other Me: mandary line gets on ancther Back to its old channel, Esnitee hizh and dry on tly Th . Were it not for hi nd an oceasion pout t ing bend of the river. The ascent was made com- paratively easy, but the descent was almost | straight down from the top to the bottom, sheer down the narrow forest path for a mile and a | half, at an incline in places of at least thirty or thirty-five degrees. Each sled had a driver and | @ postilion, and the runners were provided with | a rude kind of brake, being & thick piece of rope coiled under the runners—very e/fective so long as the rope is not ent or worn through. As it | was, the velocity of the sledges increased at t | the steeper places to an alarming degree and in he one place almost caused a disaster. I was in and the second one was folloy . during one of these di perate runs, the leading horse of my team got a Juan | his hind legs entangled in the rope traces and je once was thrown, causing horses and sled to fall into or borders of unbleached striped linen to it, and hang for door curtains or archways. Only the association with ham sandwiches and the dull mustard-pots of cheap lunch-tables deters one. We want wide, heavy, unbleached and colored linens of a quality and pattern suitable for cur- tains and furniture. Needlewomen and housekeepers want, more- over, a wide two and a half yard crash, of the finest Russian quality, for embroidery and drawn work in hangings and bed-covers. The narrow crash is used, and the strips joined to- gether, but the work cannot be as satisfactory asif on wide cloth. Neither burlaps nor canvas nor any of tne slack-twisted race will answer for the purposes of house hangings, and if the manufacturers cannot or will not furnish such goods as are needed, the hand-loom must be policeman as to one who is certain not to fail them, and’all are met with ready clvility, and with as much information as it Is in his power to bestow. Servants who require to be called early in the morning, or intenaing travellers who want cabs before the usual time, find the policemen their most trustworthy friend: and he fact of his stalwart presence confers upon our thorouglifares the security which they ordi- narily possess. There is too much reason to know that outrages are even now often com- mitted in some of the worse lighted and less frequented parts, but ifit were not for the con- stant pressure exerted upon the rough by the policeman no street in London could be safely traversed after nightfall. Regarded as detec- tives, it is more than likely that our police may be excelled in other countries, where there are to feel at home. of his Mexican lingo to bis Ar OF as soon as he yields to his acqui stealing a horse, he has trouble of the riost seri- | In other words, he has ous character on hand. got to the end of his rope. ‘The same disaster betel gen by this extraordinary river. Then az: and the two twinsiste any boundary line whate' feare glad to see that President Arthur is conferring with the anthorities tn reta! o adjusting a permanent and unchangeable bound- | ary line between the two countries. step. it it does uothing else, will fool the Ameri- United States is not if to absorb Mexico, and thus do away with eans into believing that th necessity for any boundary line. ‘From the San Benito Advance. work. short distance aw: ; a to BS ! 4 ‘ked: child.” a eS 5 a Hi ra The Wife's Last Kiss, he fai “i nabit ¢ Mexican citizen, . 1s converted into again to a Mexican citl- in, in many places it goes dry entirely, republics are ieft without About a month ago A. B. Camp, accom- panied by his wife and child, came from San Francisco for the purpose of taking out goap- stone. Last month his wife visited him at his They were about starting for their . Mr. Camp was enter the tunnel to secure a shovel desired to take with him, when his at Such a Americans reclaim their land, and if | @ confused heap. The postilion of the second mitee does not move aw very first time he giv an brett ils | sled followii ny i wz close after, seeing the accident, swerved his horfes to one side in order to save himself, but in so doing allowed the shatt horse to dash directly into the back of my sled, and had I not had a little mountain of pillows behind my head I am att that I should not have es- caped without serious injury. The accident, however, was due entirely to the incautiousness: of the driver of the second sied, who should not have followed so closely in the wake of the one preceding. = In conclusion I must say that this little city of Yakutsk is to my mind the most interesting of all the Siberian towns through which I have Les ed. though neither modern nor beautiful. he phice was founded 350 years ago by the Cossacks, ad there remainsto this day portions | of the picturesque log-house fortress erected by thera as a defence and place of safety against the Yakuts. The fortress formed a large square, and was provided with several high towers,four of which are still standing, the logs grim and hard with age and bearing the indentations of the arrow-heads shot against them by the abo- rigines. The Yakuts were at’ that time a very harmless and helpless kind of people, and gen- erally fled when one of their number was shot & Cossack. Once they gathered together al ten thousand of them, and resolved to burn down the fortress. For this end the Ya- kuts provided themselves each with a bundle of dried grass and branches of trees, which they intended to pile up against the outer walls and then set fire to them. They made a Geapennie of bullets killing a ot tim ol all the Test. to flight. Eei? brought in again, and the scarce weavers will command their own price, as they do for the hand-woven linen sheetings sought py English ladies of experience in the northern counties of Britain, Our people have almost lost the knowl- edge of what good fabrics are, saye as they come in some imperishable fragment of India calico, or homespun check. A broad crash of the fine grays of the brilliant Russian flax, which is more silvery and lustrous than any other, would be invaluable for household purposes. What cool, easily kept bedspreads might be embroidered from it, what hangings, durable, graceful, and every way pleasant! For covers and cape it would only yield place to silk tor uses of lux- ury, thongh for intrinsic worth it must always be superior to silk as non-electric and non- absorbent. It is the luxury of the poor and the middle class to have their homes always fresh and agreeable with these pure, pliabie, stout hangings. = - I recall an hour oncé’ spetit in the house of a Russian farmer, a low mad hut on the wind- swept plains, where all the surroundings were of the rudest description. The walls were un- pest, the floor of beaten clay, but that lowly home held more of the essentials of com- fort and refinement than any smart mechanic's house you can find ins thousand. Warmthand ventilation were provided without smoke, dust greater facilities for watching the movements of suspected persons; but, regarding them as a body of men employed to maintain order with- out an undue assumption of authority, it is difficult to believe that they could be s1 . It may safely be said of them, on the whole. that they form a torce of good citizens, of whose efficiency, respectability and civility it would be difficult to speak too highly, and whose general conduct reflects much credit upon the manner in which they are selected and controlled.—Zon- don Times. ee ‘The Wrong Text by Telegrap From the Boston Congregationalist. The Maine general association last week had a surprise. Aware that the general association of Connecticut was in session at the same time, and being filled with brotherly love and zeal, it caused a telegram to be sent to Connecticut in which, with Scriptural phrases, it uttered its loving greetings. Not to be behind hand, the Connecticut brethren responded, and directed its committee to send to Maine this text: gamebabes a thee—-Numbers, ¥. 3" seaele, But when the good men who had sent it went operator uneasily said: “I hope there wasn't any mistake about that other dij went to Maine.” fifteen cents a yard, and will prove more satis- factory than anything yet recommended. Witt cotton colored indigo, madder red and brown, yellow and light ingrain blue, sufficiently good effects can be produced by combinations, em- broideries and appliques. A pair of unbleached curtains, sprig; in red and blue chain-stitch, imitating tambour work, is rapidly, and cheaply made, and with a deep red border to one and deep blue for the other they look bright and pretty. Much better will be the dull blue cot- ton curtains with cross-bands of lighter blue, worked in clusters of bluish berries in light and dark shades with touches of red, set on with dark red bars and bold cross-stitching of deep orange. Embroidery relieves another blue cur- tain with stars of brownish yellow radbeckia, two blossoms together with leaf and short stem in sprigs at wide distances, with scrolls of the same flower on the heading of dull wine-color. WIRLEY DARE. FINANCIAL. Stewart BROWN’'S SONS, 38 PINE STREET, NEW YORK. Government Securities, St cks and Bonds Bought and : Sod on Commission. Tayestment Securities a Specialty. L. RAYMOND & CO., COMMISSION STOCK BROKERS, No. 4 Pine street, New York. ‘Transact ageneral brokerage basiness with experience and excellent facilities. Railroad Stocks earned on ¥ to 10 per cent margin. Financial Report, devoted to the interest of investors mud operators, niailed free; also complete information. ORDERS ON SAN FRANCISCO EXCHANGE ALSO EXECUTED. £97 In offering our services to out-of-town investors we will, when desired, furnish prominent references, juding Bankers, 28 m13-8 ators and Merchanta. Stock SPECULATION. 4 Mito] Is BUT Parties wishing to make money in Stocks should com- municate with the old established firm of JOHN A. DODGE & CO., BANKERS AND Stock Buoxers, No. 12 Wate Streer, New Yor, Who will send free full information snowing how large profits may be realized on investments of $10 TO $1,000. ONE GENUINE ESSENCE OF 36 JAMAICA GINGER Peace STOCK TELEGRAPH WIRES BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORE. IN THE MARKET, H. H. DODGE, Bonds, Stocks and Investment Securities Bought 1) And that is Bold on Commission, FRED'K BROWN'S No. 589 15rm STREET, (CORCORAN BUILDING) Agency for Prince and Whitely, Stock Brokers, PHILADELPHIA. €4 Broapwar. New Yorn. Every clase of Securities bought and rold on commis sion in San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Washington. Orders executed on ths New York Stock Exchange at one-eighth of ono percent commission, Private and direct telegraph wires ty Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, through which orders are executed on the Stock Exchanges in thoee cities and reported back promptly. Quotations c{Stocks and Bonds and information regarding the All others are Imitations or made to sell on the reputa- tion of the Original, and may do harm, while FREDE- RICK BROWN'S PHILADELPHIA, will always be a Dleseing in SPRING, SUMMER, Markets received through our wires INSTANTLY di- AUTUMN, ana rect from Lee New York Stock Exchange. = nt 2 eee Al STEAMERS. &e. IN EES LIN: In all Patronized by Her Royal Highness Princess Louise: QUEBEC TO LIVERPOOL EVERY SATURDAY. STOMACH DISORDERS, Shortest Ocean Vorage—Only, Five Days from Land nd. For BALTIMORE to LIVERPOOL via HALIFAX, N.S, and Sr. JOHNS, N.F., every alternate TUESDAY. SLEEPLESSNESS, ASGOW, LIVERPOOL, ERY and’ GALWAY. For ‘The steamers are unsurpassed for rafety and speed, and are fitted up with all the comfort of passensers, improvements conducive to DRC RE EES Cabin, $70 and $90; Intermediate, $40; Stecrage, $28. Apuly to G, W. MOS BELLEW, 711 7th st.; own, D. Pennsylvania ave. ; J. |AS- XO. M. WILLIAMS, George. or c LEVE & ALDEN, General Agents, New York: 207 Broadway. Boston, Mass. Philadelphia, Pa." N-E. Corner Broa bts. & WHEN DRENCHED DURING THE EQUINOX, WHEN COLD IN WINTER, WHEN DISTRESSED IN SUMMER, EW YORK, ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM. The first-class, full powered, Clyde-built. Dutch Steaanalp of ts : see 5 oe Buy a bottle of your Druggist or your Grocer for 60 Cente, (insist on having the GENUINE giyen you— FREDERICK BROWN'S PHILADELPHIA,) and you will secure an article which will serve you well—ALL M the Netherlands. (octet Sues, fea ae THE YEAR ROUND. a | ‘recularly every W! DAY for Rotterdam end Amn sterdam, alternately HE PUBLIC IS REQUESTED CARE-| 1 CAZaUx, General Aerut dt Senin Wiles apreot, 2 S$ REQUESTED CARE- AUR, General Ament 31 Soni h Wilisns streo T @ k. For passage npnly to W, G. METZEROLT FULLY TO NOTICE THE NEW AND ENLARGED Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. SCHEM. ? BE DE MONTHLY. ae ae LS og MATTANO” LEAVES [rt 5? CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000. treet if every SUNDAY, TUESDAY AND TICKETS ONLY $5. SHARES IN PROPORTION. | THU! Y, at seven O'clock a.m.,'for Potomac river xs in Nomini on Tuesdays and ‘Tixiredays, Mattos Crock on Sunday’ and lutte, days, Chapel Point and Brent's Whart ys **down” and Wednesdays ‘‘up,” and Mattawoman Creek on Sundays ‘‘down” and Mondays *‘up;” returning to Washington every Monday, Wednesday aud Fr LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY, Incorporated in 1868 for twenty-tive years by the Legis- Jature for Educational and Charitable purposes—with a capital of $1,000,000—to which @ reserve fund oz £550,000 has sini m added. By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise was | *feruoons. made a part of the "Temeent State Constitution adopted | Fo" information apply to 5 December 2d, ‘A. D.. 1819. eae Bore tee ‘Tio chy Lottery’ ever voted on and endorsed by the | TSS __ oom 3 people of any mtate. TRANSPORTATION LIN: IT NEVER SCALES OR POSTPONES. | Bal ye ace oe pa ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS TAKE d after MARCH 19th the STEAMER SUF, Cap- PLACE MONTHLY. sir Wo GU GEOGHEGAN. il eave SEEERENSOR'S ASPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE. | WHARF, foot of 7th street, EVERY SUNDAY, at four O'clock pim., for Baltimore and River Lau Allliiver Freight must be Prepaid. Returning, arrive in Washinton every Saturday night STEPHENSON & BRO., AcENTs, mi6-€m 7th etreet Wharf and Cor, 12th and Pa. ave. ‘OTICE. FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. On and after NOVEMBER 34, 1881, the steamer ARROWSMITH will leave ber wharf, foot of 7th street, eM. OY N HURSDAY and SATUR- SEVENTH GRAND DRAWING, CLASS G, AT NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1882— 146th Monthly Drawing. Look at the following Scheme, under the exctusive supervision and management of Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD, of Louisiana, and Gen. JUBAL A, EARLY, of Virginia. Who manage all the drawings of this Company, both ordinary and scmi-anuual, and attest the correctness of the published Official Lists. CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000. 100,000 TICKETS AT FIVE DOLLARS EACH, DAX for all river landings. On MONDAY asfer as . Nomini THURSDAY, Nomini, . FRACTIONS, IN FIFTHS IN PROPORTION. | Peenardtow and'Ste Clements Dag Bones where LIST OF PRIZES. Coldron’s and Howard's. On SATURDAY. Currioman and Leonardtown. JOHN RWOOD. ” Ea Agen ORFOLK AND NEW YORK STEAMERS. THE STEAMER LADY OF THE LAKE. ‘of 6th BY ill Jeave her wharf, foot street, every MONDAY, 100 Pres of B00 DNESDAY and FRIDAY, st 5:300'c!"k p.m., tot 300 Prizes of $10 Ing at Piney Point, Point Lockout and Fortress Monroe, Boo briscoor se. NNECTING AT NOR: WITH THE BOSTON 1000 Prizes of $25. ND PROVIDENCE STEAMERS. * meresetes First-class fare to Fortress Monroe and Norfolk. APPROXIMATION PRIZES. Round trip tare to Fortress Monroe and. 9 Approximation Prizes of $750. econd-class fare to Fortress Monroe and Norfi H > ry $oR First-class fare to Piney Point and Point Lookout Round trip fare to Piney Point and Point Lookout. 2. Second-class fare to Piney Point and Point Lookout. 75 Norfolk TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS 1967 Prizes, amountingto.. Returning, leave Application for rates to and SATURDAYS, at four o'clock p.m. sic Umee of the Company in New Onieane. 1° 0 THE NEW YORK STEAMERS ‘or further inforinatio vs, - iS . C. KN yriher inforwation, write clearly, «ving fullad- | JOHN GINSON.and_E. C. KNIGHT will resume their New York, every dress. Money Order, and Geo addressea ONLY to M. A. DAUPHIN, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. leaving Pier 41, East River, — ‘Tickets and staterooms can be secured at general N.B.—Orders addressed to New Orleans will receive | office, 613. 15th street, National Metropolitan Bank Prompt attention. Jeli-whetw_ | Buildings B. & 0. Ticket office, 1951 Pennsylvania ave- nue: fare |, and at boat. ALFRED WOOD. Secretary. yews, LINE. WEEKLY LINE OF STEAMERS LEAVING NEW YORK EVERY THURSDAY HK. RUPPERY, NOS. 403 AND 405 7TH STREET NORTHWEST, HEADQUARTERS FOR THE WHITNEY CHIL- DREN'S CARRIAGE COMPANY, the cheapest for Beauty, Comfort and Durability in the ‘market. AT NooN. ARCHERY, FISHING TACKLES, CROQUET and : IAWN TENNIS, BICYCLES, VELOCIPEDES, TRI. | _ FOR ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY. CYCLES, WAGONS, &c., can be bought at the lowest | For Passage apply to manufacturers’ prices. ©. B. RICHARD & CO., al General Agents, 61 Brosdway, New York. OrtoPERCY G. SMITH, 1351,snd 619 Pennsylvania avenue. Send for “Tourist Gazette," ORTH GERMAN LLOYD— Sreamsurp Lise Between New Youn, Havne, NDON, SOUTHAMPTON AND BREMEN. ‘The steamers of this company will sail EVERY SAT- URDAY from Bremen pier, foot of loboken. Rates of passage: From New York to Havre, London, Southampton and Bremen, first cabin, S10); wecond CHR. RUPPERT. eas VEGETABLE SICILIAN HAIR RENEWER is a scientific combination of some of the most powerful restorative agents in the vexetable kingdom. It restores gray hair to its original color. It makes the scalp white and clean. It cures dandruff and humors, and falling- out of the hair. It furnishes the nutritive principle by which the hair is nourished and supported, It makes apl the hair moist, soft and glossy, and is unsurpessed aa a | Sat “steerage, $30: prepaid steerage ce lusir dressing, It is the most economical preparation | $21. “For freight ot paseare. apply. to -OPLANCHS ever offered to the public, as its effects remain along | 00;/,? Bowling Green, New York: W. G. METZERKOTT time, making only an occasional application necessary. Itis recommended and used by eminent medical men, and officially endorsed by the State Assayer of Massa- chusetts, The popularity of HALL'S HAIR RE- NEWEK has increased with the test of many years, both 25 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, Agents for jashinyton. jal2 enaee LINE. ZANE OUTER THE CUNARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED, BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL. CALLING AT CORK HARBOR. FROM PIER 40, N. R.. NEW YORK 19 July: | Parthia .... Wed Be; ‘Wed. 2 Say | Ga Woes ora a END EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM NEW YO! Rave oF Passace: ug. and $100 for passenwer accommodati Bteseane at Yery low ratea Gtoctioe taken hon Liv. erpool and and all other parts of Europe at Through bills of laden Havre, Antwerp and other gis BIGELOW S OOr, 605 Tis aire, Waakinerons “|” VERNON H. BROWN & CO., New York: to. Messre. OTIS BIGELOW & Oo.., jani2 605 7th street, Washington. THE TRADES. YCETT'S BINDERY, 1012 PENNSYLVANIA AV- Lit ana Fancy of every description done at reasonable rates. Baa’ Soks specialty’, (Bost of L+4¢22 BERR, _ For sale bv all dealers, Suze CURE FOR MALARIA. CAROLINA TOLU TONIC! Bure cure for Dyspepsia in all i ere 9A 6 Aus x RE. Coughs, Colds, Bronchit ‘Throat ‘and Langs; and only ates. This is a, SAM OF TOLU, ROCK CANDY, ‘other m¢ above’ for Belts Gn the Contivent’ apd given ports at the Company's office, iew York and fame, Whi irs Sole city. “HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., mt ‘Manufacturers and Proprietors. 420-tu, tts” FLCoNoMiIcaL AND SAFE. WEAVFR, KENGLA & 00.'3 LAUNDRY 804P IRFOCONOMICAL, BECAUSE IT 18 PURE: BYING FREE FROM | | | THREE BOTTLES 1 ls FAMILY SUPPLIES. Catawsa WINE, TWO YEARS OLD, $1.00: GALLON. OLD BLACKBERRY WINF. IMPORTED GINGER ALE AMERICAN GINGER ALE OLD WHISKIES YAND NAV¥ WHISK FL ARM Cc. WITMER, Pose Gnocanres, NOTICE TO HOUSEKE NOtCE TO He L 1. - tu. tat > WILL ALWAYS MAKE BEAUTIFUL ROLLS, BREAD AND BISCUITS. Wholesale Depot: Corner Ist street and Indiana avenue 4 LOBS WHOL SAKDIN| K K BON! HICK ES in off, TOMATOES and TRUFFLED WOODEN PLATES. PAPER NAPKINS. B.W. REED'S SONS, __1216 F STREET NORTHWEST. _ CLARET my (earer: CLARET! ‘We offer, as a specialty, LE Cl $3.75 PER Do; HER GRADES OP We have algo an assortment of Hi ET, which we CLARET, whi Meritue at low tures. POTTE ICKLES, OLIVES, PANNED. OYSTERS, S, &e., &e., for Picnics and Kax- ions. GEO. E. KENNEDY & SON, No. 1209 F STR! NORTHWEST. Cage kc. CORNED BEER A'SPECIA! 629 and 630 Center Market, 9th street wi 208 "Northern Liberty Market, of Address freoof charge to all parts of the mar24 Statie 628, and 206 an Box 71, City Post Otice, “Marketing delivered CEIVING DAILY E: B £ GRASS MUTTON ME Constantly on hand FILLAMILPHIS CHICKENS AND TURKEYS, BOSTON MARKET, LEON SCHELL & CO. 1719 PE SY) NI i SEWING MACHD AN INDISPUTABLE Fac ELDREDGE, OF KING OF THE SEWING MA- CHINE WORLD! THE STAR THAT LEADS THEM ALL! Unequaled for ease of me {is intrinsic merit makes ite pop Exery man woman aud cist sh Ful pie tion amongst of Sewing Machines, Come and bring your friends, to 8. OPP! 528 9th street northwest, St. ot 7E ADVISE EVERY LADY WHO VALUES 20 to the corner of 72 THE QUEEN SEWING fale from, tany < all kinds, an fo any. THE ? miechanisni simp puluts in the Domestic am with some important impre nts. Hence ite ity established by 30 years’ experi- iy lg wkd thread, neither haa al need. finieh, apyearance, quiet THB QULEN hae m0 has no equal, C. AUERBACH, Cor. 7th and Hf sta. Is the Sole Agent for the District. GREAT “HOUSE! ‘0 windy advertisement world ever saw for the mone or send to the office. = MCKEN. Renting and repairing. _RAILROADS. Lee FOR RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG AND A FORTE GO N proseonien ¥ an embodiment of the go: Singe at “Quantico” with ‘Q the trains Jeavi ington at 11-25 a.m. s See trains earn nes am, and 5 p.m, TEAMER LEAVES TTH ST. WHARF AT 9:90 4. Ma’ AND 3 M. TICKETS BY RalL GOOD VIA BOAT AND VICE For information, &c., apply st Compan: Th a apply ai vany’s office, * .;G@EORGE MATTINGLY, Gen. 81y P. WELCH, Agent” muy 20 ALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. THE MODEL FAST, AN: E BETWEEN THE lagerston EXP . PIA, NEW TORR AND BOSTON NEW YOR. ‘KRESS. Parlor Cars to New York. 8:40—Staunton and Valley Express, (connects for Ha- gerstown and at Poiut ot Rocks for Frederick.) 3 Ore, gg and Laurel Stops at Beltsville, Annapolis Junction, Jesup and Rte On Sundays stops at all stations. 10:00—BALTIMORE EXPRESS, (stops at Hyadeville and Laurel. ) 10:40—Pittsburg, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis . Sleeping Cars to Cincinnati and Chicago. Baltimore, Ellicott City, Amapolis, Way. 5—On Sunday ae Baltimore and Way. ‘Bi RE EXPRESS. ¥2:20—BALTIMO} 13:00 Baltimore, Philadelphia and Ex; ons, (Winchester, ick, whand Way, via Relay. $90 —Battimore and W 80—Baltunore, Hyutteville & ‘Laurel Express, (Fred- ck, 2 it 8:15—PHILADE press. Rocks and Way Stati 15:45 BALTIMORE EXPRE = ; ‘ORK and BOSTON Gisdunttl and St Louie’ F Cincinn any is pres, ire 3 Loujnand Chloamo: IMORE AND WAY STATIONS. *Daily. Zeunday only. Other trains daly, il in from Wastin spp at Hebiy Stat Fort information apply at the Haltimore aa Olio Ticket Offices, Washington Station, 619 and 1351 enbsyivania avenue, corner 14th «treet, where orders will eae to be checked and received a& any r ‘C.K: LORD, Gen, Passenger Avont, Balto, WM, CLEMENTS, Master of Traus., Balto. uy HE T PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE TO THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTHWEST. DOUBLE TRACK. EEL RAILS: 10:30 a.m. and 1: 10 oy 33 Se ase . Line, 6:40a.m, and 4:40 p.m. daily,’ yam and 4:40 p.m. daily, except For Sapir, ‘800,990 am; For Poye's