Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1882, Page 6

HOME MATTERS. D Bawasas and oranges mixed with , with powdered suzar scat- | a det dish for the five | ck tea. “Mix a little carbonate of soda with the water | Which flowers are immersed, and it w | them for a fortnizht. Common sal choee red loaf eet of some with white of eges and pow , into a paste. Mould this i Dake them at a gentle heat on a Paper. ‘A TAGLESPOONFUT. oF StTRO- gravy of melted butter, “Be poured over beefsteak MMlavor to gravy and | “arch brown. | Commow soda is exe! | Will not scratch the t fenew. Apply with a pic per, polish with a dry p good substitute. Warerrncrrs: Satap.— fully pick over, | ) Wash and drain a quart of watercresse: with a tablespoonful of vinegar, three of | ‘talad-oil, a saltspoonful of sali and quarter salt- | ‘Speonfu! of pepper. Take a new flower pot. wash it / ima wet cloth, and set over but " itas hard as if on ice. Milk,if put an earthen | “an, oreven a tin one, will keep sweet along | “time. if weil wrapped in a wet clotii. | A Darsty axp Porviar 5 -pisit is made of | ‘Dananas fried. Remove the and cut the ‘it lengthwise; melt a lump of butter large | to cover the bottom of the fry fry the bananas in this till they are a own; add sait to suit your taste. Perstxe has proved quite successful in ward- | ing off'sea-sickness. As much pepsine as will Hie on the point of a knife is dissolved in a wine- al of water containing five drops of by oric acid. This dose is taken three times a " day, and especially if feelings of sea-sickaess threaten. news- | sare Wood ash a, wrap It | r, it will keep i ‘Yur London Builler attributes the marvelous ‘durability of mortar in Italy to the fact that the ime remains ina pit covered with water for “two years before it is used, whereas in England | Hime is sjaked and used the same day. Most Specifications even require newly- glaked lime. A Nice Breakrast Disu.—Remove the skins from a dozen tomatoes, cut them up in a sauce- add a little butter, pepper and salt, when ‘sufficiently boiled. beat up five or six eggs, and | Just before you serve turn them into the sauce- Pan with the tomatoes and stir one way for two ‘Minutes, allowing them time to be done tnor- To Prepare a Rettavie Paste for use in " Prescription books and labels dissolve half an ounce of alum in a pint of boiling water; to this add an equal weizht of flour, made smooth ina Ittle cold water, and a few di of oil of cloves, Tetting the whole come toa boil. This paste will Keep for months. Put it in glass or ordinary ~~ ointment jars. ‘Stains or Or. Paty sulphide of carbon; many by means of spirits of tupentine; if dry and old, with chloroform. For ‘these last, as well as for tar spots, the best way is to cover them wit! olive oil or butter. When _ the paint is softened the whole may be removed a treatment, first, with spirits of turpentine, | and then with benzine. Sricep BLaBKBeRntes.—To six pints of fruit © take two and one-half pints of suzar, one and ene-half pints of vinegar, one-half ounce of cin- Ramon, (ground.) one-half ounce cloves, | half ounce allspice and a little mace [Pol _ email pieces. [oil the sugar and vii Brgether, with the spices, putting the “muslin bags. Then put in the berries and let them scald, not boil. Suerxry Bisccrrs.—Take one pound of tun gugar, eight eggs,and a sufficient quanti sherry wine, beat them weil together, and tli _ adds pound of flour and half an ounce of cori- ander Pour the paste into buttered tins, and bake them at a gentle heat tor half hour; then turn them, and cover their sur- faces with some more exgs and sugar, and re- E eo in the oven fur another quarter of Every Coox knows how disagreeable it is to have the nutmeg or cinnamon which is added to | @eam and sugar for pudding sauce rise to the | top of the sauce. and when it is served to have the first spoonful taken out too highiy flavored and the rest without taste. To remedy this mi ‘the nutmes or cinnamon with sugar before on the cream: it will then be gradually ited through the sauce. Pour the cream little at a time, and the spice will tend to D Brrés ‘axp Strxes.—Apply instantly, with a goft rag. most freely, sp rits of hartshorn. The venom of stings being an acid;the alkali nulli- fies it. Fresh wood ashes. ineistened with ‘water and made into a poultice, trequently re- Rewed, is an excellent substitute, or soda or ‘galaratus, all being alkalies. To be on the safe ‘Side in the case of snake or mad doz bites, drink > brandy. whisky, rum or other spirits as free as | ‘water, a teacupful ora pint or more, according to the aggravation of the circumstances.—Jour- Hee’ | the time SUMMER PASTIME. Name Building—A& Favorite German Gane, in Which the Wisest Pays for Least seer. From the New York Sun. several resorts in the upper part of 1 are frequented only by particular ‘inans, and more nearly resemble club rooms than beer saloons. While some one plays the zither, the usual company assembles shortly after dark these summer evenings, and resolves itself into groups. A few play at chess, others at dominoes, still others prefer to discuss music, painting and literature over their beer and w Apart, in a far corner, sit a company of six or eight gentlemen intent on a game ch a tree translation might describe as **His- torical Puzzles.” The faces of the group are keen and critical. A few wear an intent ex- on; others look perplexed; one or two bask in serene contentment—these possess the The game requires few accessories. The essentials are ready wit, ability in historical roversy, a table, a bit of chalk, and a sponge. The gentlemen seated about this table are, without exception, experts in his- toric ntroversy, and to stagger them you my to your assistance a vast amount of The immediate object of the game is to | achieve some historical name, either that of a person or some event. Usually the game iscon- fined to names of persons. One of the party writes down a “‘nucleus” of letters as they foi- low in proper order in any name, and then each part in turn, adds, if he can, a single letter at one end or the other, until the full No capital letters are al- and the Christian and surname, if both ed, must be ran together. Thus ‘George ” if written according to the rules ‘game, will present himselfas “george- ston.” Taking the chalk, No. 1 writes “‘erco.” No. 2 takes thechalk. He looks at “erco” with a troubled expression. He has two minutes by eper’s watch in which to distinguish himself. He fails to do so, and the timekeeper cries “Schwam” (sponze), and drops that ar- ticle (the insignia of his office) on the table. The result is that the tally man gives No. 2 a “mark.” No.3 now grapples with the situa- tion. He has had the benefit of No. 2's two minutes, and has, besides, two of his own to draw upon. A light breaks in on him, a know- ing look comes into his eyes, and he adds an “1,” making “ercol.” No. 4, to whom the chalk is now transmitted, is still in the dark, and at the expiration of two minutes takes a mark. No. 5sees the problem open before him, and adds an “h,” thus—‘hercol.” No. 6 fails, but No. Tadds a “‘p,” and we have ‘phercol.” No. 8 also makes an addition, and thereafter it is plain sailing—“phercolu,”“phercolum,” “opher— colum,” until “‘christophercolumbus” stands forth. No. I might have begun with any other se- quence of letters composing the name. as, for instance, “chi ‘stophe,” “bu,” “rist.” ' The final period must not be neglected. It counts as aletter, and ts in order whenever it can be appropriately employed. It trequently acts like the “preyious question” in debate, and cuts off all controversy, at least at one end. Thus you have in mind the tather of your country, and write “ing.” The next man, to your surprise, adds a period. Your intended “Washington” is now spoiled, and there is no going beyond the period, all additions must be made to the left. inally the word turns out “Irving,” chelling.” or another name terminating in “ing.” Sometimes a name is completed, and needs but the period, yet so outlandish is it that none are aware of this fact except the person who adds the last letter; and it has happened that a mark on this account has fallen to all but the one in the secret, and that when his turn came he quietly added the period, to the intense sgust of allthe rest. Parenthetically, it may mentioned here that no initials are permitted. only full names, etther with or Christian name or names. Thus, or “William Ellery Channing,” but never “W E. Channii . When a name is completed he who has scored the most marks is entitled to start the next. If confident that he has hit upon a one it will be to his interest to put d many letters as possible without betray’ secret, inasmuch as his “nucleus” ma for any historic name to which it can be ad- jJusted. Let us take these letters—“obrah.” Shouid he omit the ‘“o” and write “brah” the result might be “abrahamlincoln,” which is sev- centuries beyond the period -he wishes to tinzuish with a selection. AIl go down be- each scoring mark. Now the original scribe adds an “+h.” thus, “hobrah.” Again all are in the dark, and receive another t the original inventor makes it Matters are still as bad as before, and mark follows mark perchance until the full Le is completed in order, as follows: bran.” name is set forth. lowed, zht happen, even in a fairly intelligent company—unless some member were astronomi- cally inclined—that none would recognize the name and add the final period, and thus all would reap another mark each. As ina game of “draw.” now and then some member will attempt to ** bluff” his way through. At a loss to make an intelligent addition, he will in sheer desperation add any letter at random, trusting that he has, perchance, made a lucky hit, and that the next man will see hi or himself induly se the original “bluffer” is saved a Should the next man give up the prob- em, however, and, perchance, suspecting a are not aware that glass can eut under water with creat ease to almost | shape by simply using a pair of scissors. In | to insure success. be kept quite level in the wate ors and, second|: cutting by takinz off small pieces ‘corners and along the edges, and so reduce t required. When | operation goes on well the glass breaks | from the scissors in siall pieces In a ae ght line with the blades. The two } eee shove. if strictiy followed, will alws i success. Scatiorzp Cavurriowres.—Choose a cauli- flower of medium size, boil in twenty minutes. into a saucepan one ounce of butter, half a of milk, and Gne cunce of "? i & a ad on it; break up the ft b the center, makin the sauce over thi mmbs on the top, and bake t “Core ror Scxsrroxe.—. patient take hold or Graz him or her in! I fa a sitting posture. v | with the feet a pon t ‘Bidewalk and extended in front of the bed: Water and a buitle of some stro ce of Ginger. Pour the ice water over the head copi- never mind the cloth Then put two _ OF three tablespoonsfuls of ver in about @ tumbler of water. Now it quickly. Ki Using a little of the ice wa dl in ease ther isnot much of a giow upon the body give mor t If this recipe is promptly used and “fully carried out in e' joard of will never have cause. It is no experi ly. It costs but a few cents and a haif hour or is by far the best to use, wiekly, twoorturee answer.—. we Ur the head e had q F drinks of brandy will . me — SMe. or Parxt.—To get rid of th “Jectionable odor in a chamber or a livi Slice a few onions and put them ina pall of iu the center of the room; close the leave the window open a littl ou the disagreeable smell will have stone. Another method is to plunge a tof hay into a pailful of water, and fet it in the newly painted room over a night is also eifectual. The forezoing have ant advantage of being simple reme- ‘as the necessary materials are always easily e. Yet auotler pian, but it is rather complicated. Place a rate of lighted oal on a piece ot faz or slate in the center of the room, and throw on it a handful or two er berries; shut out all ventilation from }@ room for twenty-four hours. Tie doorsand ean then be opened, when it will be that the nasty. sickly smell of paint has i The furniture may be left in the ing the process. and none of it will be California Architect. <= aioe pecans sceids his soa for his numerons: | to do but confess. of | pany goes down bluff, eal for “the word,” then No. 1 has nothing Any member, when his turn comes to chalk, can at any time demand “the word” from the man who made the last addi- If this one made a correct addition, and e to show that he was working t , and a new wordis begun. the detect a bluff, then the bigf a mark, while all the rest subtract each a mark trom his own score, unless it happens that none dt itis found that re ny is given to blui- be called tly, of the com- doubt- jag will they not suitice th: mple. might coz S been doing littie el turnin out historical characters ever was a bit of dry land. An English f the Bes’ e wust be inno sens ¢ lypereritical, H nder serious * ase. j | © would pass, if at all luded in bul : pany of eight, composed equally ricans, Germans, Frenchmen and frish- You as one of the two Americans present | ” It proves a. po: The entire com- | before it. You are fina! “sittingbail.” The name 1 of derision, especially an and Freach quarter. But the Hl y for the Sioux, while ribed as on the fence. as a subo: ia Custer massacre.” § there are Indian names. unquestionably of | toric rank, such as Pontiac and Tecumseh. As | to the historical standing of some living white men there can be little question, and the list is | not inconsiderable. |. During the game over which the reader has been keeping u watchful eye there have been figured practically only the players and a most accommodating waiter, and at the conclusion of the sitting the latter presents the bill for beer. The abiest mathe- matician of the company now sets to work and apportions the expenses according to the num- ber of marks each has to his eredit. have most marks you pay most. A Sensi! From the At!anta Constitution. Apropos of the late disagreement between two editors, a gentleman said. to mez, §*It’ View. very well to talic of the code and settling Putes at ten paces. E apocryphal. Among | frequent mysterious communications between | If you have no marks there is nothing to pay; but if you all ais- ‘Bat suppose BEN APPLEBY’S MULE. How the Conceit was Taken Out of Him. From the St. Louis Republican. Several politicians from the rural districts were seated in front of the Laclede hotel yes- | terday afternoon conversing upon matters and | things in general, and devoting a large share of the talk to polities, when the name of a St. | Louisan, who has held a public office, was men- tioned. In the group was a tall, ungainly indl- vidudl, dressed in well-worn clothes and having the air of a village lawyer. His nose had a pronounced flush, indicative of the bibulous habits of the owner, and his voice had a back- woods twang which showed that the greater portion of his life had been spent in the interior ofthe state. He was evidently a man of limited education, but he could talk glibly enough, and was not at all modest in advancing his opinion. He sat tipped back in his chair with his able- bodied feet and muddy boots braced up against one of the pillars in front of the hotel. When the name of the St. Louis politician, who may be called Smythers, was mentioned, he empti about a quart of tobacco juice in the gutter and broke out with: “Him? Dog-gone him, I haint got no use for him, an’ never had.” “Why, what's the trouble with him?” asked one of tie group. “Trouble?” repeated the first speaker, “trouble enough; he’s got the idee inter his head that he’s fust cousin to Goddlemighty, an’ is the greatest man this country ever perduced. He'll git took down some day ’s true 's you're born. never see him that I don’t think of Ben Ap- pleby’s mule.” “How does he resemble Ben Appleby’s mule?” asked one of the group, laughing. “Well, Pil teil yer. Ben had a mule as had all the points that Smythers has. He was one of the knowingest cusses you ever saw. I DUNNO WHERE BEN FOUND HIM, but one day he come drivin’ home with this mule hitched ter the tail end of his wagon. He was a innocent lookin’ animal, plump an’ fat an’ Jooked liked he was goin’ ter be good fer suth- in’. Well, the next day after Ben got ‘im hum he tried to hitch ‘im up, but he would’nt be hitched. He jest eeverlastin'ly kicked the wagon into splinters. He kicked one eend outer ther stable, an’ kicked ther stall down an’ kicked everything in sight. Ben took ‘im out in the corn-fleld one day an’ hitched ‘im to a plow, but he up an’ kicked that plow over inter ther next lot. He was all right under saddle, but ther minit Ben | tried ter hitch ‘im ter anything he jest Kicked ft outer sight. No matter where he was, if things didn’t suit *im, he jest let himself out an’ kicked. Nobody but Ben dast go near ‘im. Well, finally he diskivered that EVERYBODY WAS SCARED OF ‘IM, an’ he got the idee that he was the greatest mule in that section of ther country. He hada way of cockin’ one ear forrard an’ the other backards an’ winkin’ one eye when anyone came near ‘im, as much as to say: ‘Git onto me; I'm Ben Appleby’s kickin’ mule, and don’t yer for- git it. When Ben would be ridin’ ‘im "long ther road an’ they'd pass another mule, he'd jist git his ears in position an’ wink an’ grin as much as ter say: ‘I’m the only mule in this county. I'm a kicker, I am.’ He seemed to understan’ thet he hed the dead wood on Ben, an’ that nobody could hitch “im to no sort of a vehicle. He got chuck ram full of conceit, an’ useter parade hisself aroun’ the barnyard like he owned the place. Ben made up his mind as. how the mule wouldn't never be no ‘count till he was broke to drive In harness. He tried all sorts ‘er ways. He hitched "im to a mowin’ machine, an’ the result washe had ter get a new machine. The mule kicked it all outer shape. He broke up everything that Ben tried ter hiteh ‘im te. Bimeby Ben got mad. He swore he'd take the conceit outer that animal if it tak his hull farm. Then HE BEGUN TO STUDY UP THER CASE, till one day a man come along with one of them farm engines what they run thrashin’ mersheens with. Ben says to ‘im: -I'l give yer five dollars if you'll let me hitch my mule to that mersheen.’ ‘Git out yer mule,’ sez the man, an’ Ben led ‘im outer the stable. *He can’t pull it,) sez the man. ‘Never mine,’ sez Ben, ‘he kin try it.’ So he led the mule out in the road, an’ the mule he knowed ina minit what"was | goin’ on. He cocked his ears backards an’ for- rards, an’ grinned an’ sez to hisself. “*They'm goin’ to hitch me ‘tine ihe Dog-gone my skin, I'll kick it Inter theonext county. I’m Ben Appleby’s kickin’ mute, Tam. Watch me now an’ see how I do it.’ ‘Well, Ben an’ the man got ‘im hitched upto the macheen an’he began to kick agin ther boiler-head. He kicked an’he kicked an’ he kicked, but the macheen never budged. Ben an’ the man sat on the fence a watchin’ the job an’ the man a laughin’ fit to kill hisself. BEN LOOKED KINDER SATISFIED, but he never fetched a smile. Bimeby the mule settled down on his four legs, an’ swung: his head aroun’ an’ said to hisself: 7 “Wat kine of a dog-gone vehicle, is this, any how? She don’t fetch worth a cent. Maybe somethin’s ther matter with my legs, I'll go fur it agin, anyhow.’ “An’ he set his teeth together an’ begin to Kick agin. Well, sir, he hammered his heels agin that boiler-head till he was black in the face, but she never weakened. Then he'd stop an’ take breath an’ swear. an’ then he'd kick agin. Well, sir, he kep that up fur halfan hour, till he was as weak as a cat, an’ then he stopped and flopped both ears forrard an’ cried like a baby. Ben let tan there a little while, an’ ‘im an’ took ‘im back to the | sta The ne day he hitched ‘im up to a | buggy. an’ he trotted off without sayin’ a word, n’ to-day he’s as decent an’ respectable a mule as they is in the county. Ben’s wife drives ‘im mos’ every day in a fayton. If some- yd hitch thers to a farm engine, an’ let “im kick a while, he might git to be some account.” Somebody in the group suggested drinks, and there was a scramble for the bar-room. a Reminiscences of Garibaldi. Auberto Mario, in Maczniilau’s Maxazine. Toward the ead of June, as we were assem- y | bled on the terrace of the pavilion, where all the elite of Palermo used to gather in the eye- ning in the hopes of seeing the general, seven hazzard and emaciated youths asked for me, bringing a letter of presentation-from my. wife. were the surviving compgnions of. Pisa- d_perighed with three hundred of xpedition of Sapi S57.) aud Garibakli’s,, victories, had them from the. dungeonsof. Karignana, where they had, beea cantned for thres They were so changed that I'did not recognize any of them ey asked was to be allowed to thank . Garibaldi was at_ the mou vith the commodore of the United eves caressing Enrico Cairoli, then a youth, who had received a bul- let through his head at Calatafimi,.and .was killed on tae Monte Parioli in 1857. Tire eon- yersation was often interrupted by presenta- tions by officers of the stat of Palermitan ladies, hovering rouud fora smile, or for a word from the dictator. Profiting by one of these inte vals, I announced ‘The galley-slaves of Farig- nana!” “Where are they? Bring them to me.” As they entered he took the hand of each, and they silently. and many of them in tears, em- | braced him.” ‘The American commodore gazed vestments. At last Garibaldi broke the silence. | “Bravo! bravo! I am indeed happy to see you. Tell me of Pisacane’s gicrious end. If my | soldiers sleep in this palace, on the carpets of ki . the merit belongs in great part to Pisa- cane and his followers, who were our pioneers.” This justice rendered by Garibaldi to their be- | loved chief increased the emotion of the brave lads. Seeing them become paler and pater, Garibaldi conztuded, and ‘rizhtly, that the: were hungry, and bade me see to their wants. They were soon reated at the dinner- table of the staff in the pavilion, and finished off @ hearty meal with the confitures and sweet- meats with which Garibaldi’s nuns kept them constantly sapplied. Garibaldi then distributed some piastres to the men, who immediately asked him to enrol them in his ranks. ‘The undertaking which you say was commenced by us in 1857 we wish to finish with you a. We are trained sharp-shooters; will roll us in the corps of the CarabimeriG: ‘This was Garibaldi's crack eorpa, but 12 diately sum:noned the colonel, Moato, who, however, could scarcely be persuaded to accept the poor fellows, so weak and peulem did they look. But, of course, to Garibaldi’s demand he answered “Yes.” Out of the seven five fell, dead or wounded, on the battle-field of Milazzo. \ After the battle of to my involuntary which he had ex- in amazement at their wan faces and tattered | THE ALHAUB2A TO-DAY. aterful Jumble Description of this. of Bi =e Char‘es Dudley Warner, in. Martfsrd Courant. The Alhambra isa jufuble of buildings, with irregular tiled roofs and‘absolutely plain, rough, uncolored walls on the exteriog that gives no in- dication of the beauty within. Thus the Moor in his palace fortress masked the splendor of his luxurious residence as he concealed the beauties of his harem from vulgai eyes., What the chief entrance was we have; no means of knowing, for Charles V. pulled it <dowm, together with a portion of the palace, to make room forhis own palace, an enormous heayy mass, which obtrudes itself in the center of the Alhambra inclosure. The pseudo-Roman and Bramante construction is the eyesore of the grounds. The emperor drained his treasury on it and left it unfinished, and it is solid enough and ugly enough to resist earthquakes and the weather. Nothing could be in worse taste and in less keeping with its surroundings. Within the vast pile is an arena for bull fights. The Spaniard, who touched nothing after the Conquest that he did not de- grade it, replaced seme of the tile work In the halls and courts of the Alhambra with the rough and tasteless tiles of his own manufac- ture. He also roofed one of the lesser halls with heavy and vulgar celling. We can forgive his destruction and his negiect better than his restorations and substitutions. The beautiful stucco decorations of the walls can be reproduced with an approach to the original, except as to color, for it is not dim- cult to take impressions and make accurate casts of the old work. The new work, how- ever, is too sharp, and lacks the delicious tone that the old has acquired. The original stucco work, the designs of which are infinite in variet; and as exgnisite as the finest laces, was colo! in blue, red, green, yellow and gilt. These colors have been reproduced In some restora- eons ts the Alhambra, but the colors are too garish. What ts beyond imitation and beyond copy- ing, however, is the tiling on the dadoes. It is in endless variety of pleasing and never-weary- ing patterns,donein thesolid primary colors, bat all iridescent, shimmering in colors like an opal or the feathers of the peacock. I go day af day to feast my eyes on the splendor of this re- flected light and sheen, and I wander from hall to hall, and tower to tower. in amazement at ne eaillty of invention that never repeated itself. There are two or three incongruities in the decoration of the Alhambra which cannot escape observation. One of them is the rude, snub- nosed, ‘heraldic lions that support the fountain basinin the court that takes its name from them. Another is three roof paintings in the Sala de Justicia, off the Court of Lions. One of these paintings represents ten bearded Moors seated in council; they are in the true costume of the Grenada Moor, the features are Oriental in cast, but regular and noble, even beautiful; the figures are well drawn, and the colors are brilliant and fresh as any fresco of the best pe- riod of the art. There are other scenes of chiv- alry, of love, of hunting, with a background of trees, castles and animals, but all the subjects are in honor of the Moor, whose royal shield is seen everywhere, In one a Moorish knight un- horses a Christian warrior. These paintings are said to be on leather, nailed to\the ceilings. As the Moslem religion did not permit any carving or any decoration in {imitation ot any living thing, how came these lions and these paintings in a Moorish palace, which is elsewhere devoid of even an imitation of flowers or any natural objects? It is suggested: that the paintings were by an Italian artist in the fourteenth century, but why did the Moslems permit them? If they were executed after the Conquest, in this hail where the pious Ferdinand and Isabella first heard mass,and where the cross was first erected after their entry, would :not the subjects have been ecclesiastical? Certainly they would not have been in honor of :the Moors. The Hons iay have been the workiof Persians, who were Sunites, and made images and used animal forms freely in decoration. «But no Persian could ever have painted these pictures. Another puzzle is the famous Alhambra Vase, considering the place where it was found. This noble piece of faience is over four teet in height, and of exquisite proportions One handle 1s gone, and it is badly cracked. «It is kept out of sight inasort of lumber room called the mu- seum, lighted by one small window, and stands against the wall, so that it cannot be seen to advantage. It isa treasure that should have a conspicuous exposure, well guarded, where all ahd beautifully lustrous. ,The main color is a. light blue—a cerulean color, of which the Arabs seem to have had the secret. The decorations are formed by this color, with gold and brown and white. The sides are different. On each side, however, are quaint figures of animals, the conventional Persian story, The whole of the decoration in its feeling and character is Per- sian, and I haye no doubt in my own mind that the decorators were Persians. There is nothing else of the same character in the Alhambra halls or towers. I saw half a dozen wall tiles in the old Moorish Cuarto Real, in the city. They have awhite ground with gold scroll work freely drawn, and have every appearance of being Persian work. It isto be noted that the iri- descent tiles of the Moors have no resemblance to the superb glazed tiles of the Persians and of the Saracens in Damascus and in Egypt, and that the Barbary Moors developed, both in stucco and in tiles, a perfectly distinct and in- dependent sort of decoration. At least, it seems so to me. ee Opening Week at a Summer Resort, T’'ve been here a week. I've had just one ation, and already it is done. he gentleman was Mr. Harry May; We happened to arrive the self-same day. We got acquainted, had a quiet talk, And in the evening’ took a pleasant walk. He came as an advance guard, 80 to speak, Said Mrs. May was coming down next week. When he sald that I vowed my lady fine Shoutd find him kneeling at another shrine, ‘To flirt with single fellows 43 a bore, Unless they've other sweethearts to make sore, But when you chance to catch a married one, ‘To flirt is naughty. ‘Then it’s lots of fun, Especially if you can make his wile So jealous that she’s very tired of life. Well, during this past week I played each card ‘To capture him. T never tried so hard ‘To make a m: And great was my Success, He won’t get over it for years, T guess, And I was in the height of ecstacy To think how angry Mrs. May would be. ‘To-night she came, and I was all prepared fo show her she was hated. Somewhat seared At what inight happen thougit I was, Lown. Tivt him meet her at the stage alone, And it was after tea an hour or two Teefore he took me to an interview. never was so mad in all my Life, ‘The lady was his mother, not his’ wife. —Boston Post, —_—___+o-_, A Russian Concert Audience. latform, I found iences, the very Just imag- Madame Artot, formerly of the Grand Opera at Paris, who has recently been giving miscella- neous concerts in some of the remoter provinces of Russia, has had some extraordinary, but not altogether unsatisfactory, experiences among the semi-tivilized Inhabitants of those regions. Inja letter toa friend she ‘relates some of the incidents ot her tour in Fis! aku, and other towns in Transcaucasia, * he was assisted in her Performances by" eh band, the ope- ratic sifiger, M. Padilla, and pianist, Herr Sternberg. Writing of her, Aigst concert at Kis- lar, Madame Artot says: . “When I stepped on the ] before me the strangest ‘of a) | aspect of whom made m¢ ahi ine a large hall completely. in the most fantastic attfre wrapped in shawl, another muffled up faa thick fur, a third with an enormous in ‘on his head—all wearing broad girdles staddéd' with glittering rows of daggers, knives, ape pistols, and most. ofthem holding a lancg in their right hand. ie worn by our but when it was conclu} from his seat. We were In No little embarrass- ment as to what we should do, for this was a sort of public with whom it would not do to trifle. “My Seis M, eis), accordingty sang several ad 3 it; but still not a pie every time roared with and and escaped ftom, the platform, leaving and I escaj form, our accor pe tterr Sternberg, behind. At breakfast next morning he related his experi- ences. He had, he said, never had so much practice at night before. After our withdrawal py adios on) playing Presets first—waltzes, arches, inger exercises—and could Not satisfy bis eee till three o’clock in the tinues sadaue See care bo mere Patonic ad- inues: mirers of muaie, Aber the second concert a either of theke tén faa’ been: killed, ‘and you | seiff 01 sto toils, and ; t the monet ef separation. iatgking:leavenof. anita, He is to Amerca fo inhke bisfatvane. _ oe pay acdc deputation waited on and, in the name of the inhabitant 5 Mthe-wortd conld study it. 1 (shighly enamelled. (ts THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. SABURDAY, JULY 22, 1882-DOUBLE SHEET) THE HETCH-HETCHY. A Valley Rivalling the Yosemite in Beauty, From the San Francisco Chronicle. The Hetch-Hetchy valley is situated on the main Tuolumne river, about twenty-five miles west of the crest of the Sierras, and sixteen in an alr line northwest of Yosemite. Like that valley, it is but a widening of the bottom of the river canon from the common “V” shape to that of a “U,” and the substitution of nearly vertical solid granite cliffs for the ordi- nary slanting earth-covered sides of the Califor- niacanon. These two valleys are the only ex- amples of this rock formation to be found In the Sierras. and, in fact, exceed in height of walls, size, natural wonders and effect upon the ob- server any similar formation yet discovered in either hemisphere. Volumes have been written descriptive of Yosemite, but ot her sister valley, equally beautiful, and in some respects even more remarkable, our public prints, our books of travel, and, with one exception, even our guide books are silent. Hetch-Hetchy is reached from Colfax Sorings, @ small hotel at the toll-gate on the Big Oak Flat road to Yosemite, thirteen miles east of Garrote. This is a wild spot, being the junction of the middle and south forks of the Tuolumne with the main river. Half a mile west of the hotel the road winds along the canon 2,000 feet above the river, and in view of cascades on the south fork, and a vertical fallon the middle fork 200 feet in height. Further east I crept down a bluff at the junction of the two forks, and from R perennials: precipice 1,200 feet in height had a fine view ot the middle-fork cascades di- rectly opposite. The stream here falls fully 1,000 feet in a haf mile. From a rocky bluff a half mile down the canon Hetch-Hetchy comes first into open view. It is asurprise. The panorama isa noble one, em- bracing In one vast amphitheater all the most notable objects of interest of the valley. Yo- semite cannot produce ite equal. It is as if El Capitan, the South Dome, Sentinel Rock, and the Yosemite and Nevada falls were brought together in one picture. And then we must borrow Hetch-Hetchy's broad green meadows to equal the panorama presented from the rock on which I now sit. The meadows, level asa floor, traversed by the river, now swollen by melted snows, but smooth and placid, and fringed by noble trees, form the foreground of the picture. Now, imagine this scene enclosed on three sides by nearly vertical walls of solid granite, rising from 2,000 feet, on the extreme left and right, to a grand culminating dome in the center of the picture, springing 3.200 feet above the level of the valley. Paint these cliffs a velvety gray, relieved by patches of white, red, yellow, brown, and vertical bands of jet black. Then throw over the foreground of these cliffs two of Yosemite's best talls. Add California sunlight and sky and the remem- brance that you are miles away from the princi- pal objects which form this gigantic amphi theater of nature, and you have in your mind’s eye the first view of Hetch-Hetchy. The valley ig about four miles in length, and varies in width from 150 yards in the center to about half a mile midway of either end. It is much smaller than Yosemite, and, unlike that valley, its attractions are so grouped that nearly all may be seen in one panorama. The majestic cliffs of the upper valley are the highest, yet less remarkable than those of the lower, being more. slanting and less peculiar in shape. The highest I have named the “Great Eastern,” owing to its remarkable re- semblance to a mammoth ocean steamship in full sail. Its helght above the valley is up- ward of 4,000 feet. Just below is another cliff of nearly equal height, known as ‘Chimney Rock.” Directly opposite 1s another cliff of fully equal height. We have now approached the central and nar- often seen. aa kills a dozen or — every season, a one near his camp the day of my atival. “They will molest no one, however, unless first attacked, and need not be feared. ‘They are of the black, brown and cinnamon varieties, no grizzlies ever enter- ing the valley. Other game, such as mountain quail, grouse and deer are numerous on the mountains surrounding the valley. The river was stocked with trout a couple of years since, but angling will not be g for some time to come. W. P. B. A wian decn pe. From Turgenieff's Travets. A dead flat, hardly broken at distant inter- vals by a wave of the ground, by some long low ridge, or small scrubby knoll; interminable, muvnotonous woodland; not primeval forest, but mere young birch and fir, stunted and ragged, with here and there a bit of rough clearing, a patch of coarse pasture. Anon, great rye fields, stretching beyond man’s ken, checkered bere and there by more or less abortive attempta at wheat, barley or potato crops; the ground, as a tule, without hedge, fence or wall—nobody's or everybody's ground—open to the ‘oad of cattle; a sandy, salty, to all appearapce irre- claimable soil; a backward, slovenly cultivation the cattle neither well-bred nor well-fed; every- where a sense of loneliness; only at vast dis- tances log-houses and barns, mostly untenant- ed; horses, cows, sheep, turkeys and geese in flocks, unattended; and further off straggling towns and villages, with high-domed churches and tall factory chimneys; and near the stations great eo of wood, solidly ranged in rows of logs of different size and various colors, as high as houses, and not without some architectural pretensions and some artistic attempt at quaint, tasteful patterns. prourr ACTION 18 NEEDED WHEN CRAMPED. DON'T EXPERIMENT ON YOURSELVES. YOU NEED RELIEF AT ONCE! 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It slightly re- sembies, in position and contour, Sentinel Rock in Yosemite, but is a far more wonder- ful formation. Opposite Kolonah a sloping cliff {rises 2,000 teet. from the summit of which springs upward a smooth granite dome, lifting ‘}ead.3,200 feet above the meadow and are three in number, besides numerous ephemeral torrents which slide and | leap down the cliffs in the early spring or after heavy showers. At the upper end of the valley the canon divides, as in Yosemite, the Tuo- lumne coming down the right fork. Here en- ters what is known as Rancheree creek. Both river and creek are crossed by narrow sheep bridges, and we set out on a half-mile scramble up the rocks overlooking the Rancheree Cas- cades. Any one wishing to gain a clear and erfect idea of pandemonium should visit these falls, The-Rancheree creek, a stream forty feet in width, enters ‘a narrow gorge, with ver- tical walls from 7% to 175 reet in height. Down this gorge it plunges for nearly half a mile, making five distinct falls, its entire descent being nearly 600 feet. In this passage the stream everywhere fills its narrow canon, which, with its straight-cut, smooth granfte walls, would appear to have been rent asunder by some terrific action of nature. Such another battle of the waters against rock can, perhaps, be nowhere witnessed from so good a vantage ground. The cliff sides being perfectly upright, with clean-cut edges, allow one to walk with safety along the very verge, and look down into -the foam-lashed waters which fill the gorge be- low and roar likea lion in maddening pain. At the foot of every fall clouds of smoke-like spray fill the gorge, in which form miniature rainbows wherever the sunlight finds an en- trance to the scene. The wild beauty of these walled cascades I have never seen equalled any- where in the Sierra, and the ease with which may be viewed, even by ladies unused to fatigue, is not the least of their attractions. Below the gorge the creek spreads out upon a broad table of granite, and takes its final spring into the valley in a broad, fanlike cascade, in which may be seen spray effects of zreat beauty. From the summit of Gardiner Rock, about midway of the north side of the valley, leaps Tu-ce-u-la-lab, one of the most beautiful water- | falls to be found in the entire range of the ‘ras, It is at the lip about thirty feet in wi 5 and makes a. clear jump of from 800 to 1,000 feet. Here it strikes the cliff, and, dividing into smaller streams, finds its way down the sloping debris pile to the valley below. As it leaves the cliff it is clean cut and darts downward a few hundred feet. completely intact—a snow-white ribbon of toam. Then it separates into watery rockets, which run a mad race, as ifin haste to dash against the rocks below. These in turn are resolved into a beautiful, lace-like drapery of mist and spray—the buffet of every passing breeze. Ina fresh wind it sways back and forth @ hundred. feet across the face of the cliff. Ta-ee-u-la-lah is higher than Bridal Veil. pos- gesses more than the beauty of that fall, and far more of grandeur. Just east of Gardi- mer Rock, and but half a mile east of Tu-ee-u-la-lah is Hetch-Hetchy, or Wapama fall, both being in plain view from all parts of the central. portion of the valley. Hetch- Hetchy can scarcely be called a waterfall, being little more than a grand cascade or water chute. But as a cascade it exceeds anything of the kind Tever saw. Its height has been variously esti- mated at from 1,000 to 1,800 feet. Its position renders calculation by triangulation extremely difficult. 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