Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1882, Page 3

ACTRESS! How They Sit for Their Photozraphs and Strive to Conceal their Age. Something About Celine Montatand, Suilic, Bianche Piersoa, Sarah Ferahardt, aad others. A Sprightly Woyden of Forty. 1.]—When Paris for the expected | hat an ing ans to see how s! Jane annual sprinse toil nm of Americans, it is 30.—{S) mey ss whieh I 1 mone | sof I r | first communions, only with | at the latt er for A ts old and grim, this annual 1 charms is curious for a rea- those to whom ft Is new f the si ispected t le with the > girlisix This is a faculty—; ed by our Am Eytinge is a xy conceal it on nother, and her | middle e's phe crapher can ago she rince, to wh nm the conrse was a Russian two children. Russian noble but to le the ve the known to be Celine to look at ntograph of this spring one would it must be of the daughter and not mother. Four or five actress hearts of so many Fi dreacde suit br it against the actress by her * for serv id. and her defence that although she had taken draughts and potions enouzh to kill an ox, and had worn herself out with fiercest gymnastics. she was not a shade more ethereal than when the quacks took her hand. BLANCHE PIERSON 4s another ofthese clever women—clever enough to outwit time. She is particularly distin- guished for her elaporate and costly dressing: | she is 42 and looks 22, at least on the stage and In the shop windows. She is not very pretty— & dim sort of blonde with commonplace features and simpering expression: but she lives in an elezant apartment surrounded by costly objects of art and fantasy. insuch luxury and splendor ‘s could not be paid for by a most laborious life ofa dramatic genius. Blanche Pierson has not genius and does not work hard. She paints etill-tifes for the salon, drives in the Bois, and devotes herself to keeping age at bay, with triumphant success so far. She is not fat. but Jusdic is so fat that, remembering her forty years, one is more puzzled than ever to imaxzine how it is that these hard wordly women never suzxest “fat and forty” even when they are forty und fat. Judic has made a large for- tune with her petit genre, which is neither genius nor art, bat a gift for making faces, and for ex- pressing volumes in nods and winks,and isabout to build a magniticent hotel in a fashionable quarter. M. Judie appears as a party in this business transaction. although -ever otherwise Anvisib: Mme. Judic has several children, and is said to be devoted to them, although her yul- Ear face shows no comprehension of the high duties of maternity. features, iry-looking, roll heavy eyelids, and © somehow manages young thing. and to ct that her figure is that of a pillow be | Croisette’s phe i ctor” forbids It—he = erhaps she is | idition to the | theatr y is gone save + that of ner br wailowed up. ingulted | in a waste of flesh, and of all the stagery throng | she looks the most az: She has two ch e half royal, althe differ- in luxury quite retired er preset companion, biood is Oriental and whose nose is de- Hebraic. SARAR RERNHARDT plis this season, and, oh, mar- n in misty laces or en decoilete (the first photo- een of her not swathed to id thus, whether by accident or oves all inthe lie who have ever sald that she was—q-u-1-t-e—as flat as a board. The Record of ner aze as given by herself at the con- hows her to be39 years, but her last shows her to be 24, even although son Maurice ts old enouch to be serving his time in the French army husband, 'Y, neither ele- ignited, and without the least his profession. One would | him sooner for a prosperous busi- | mess man, and the world ix not yet done! wondering why she married him and why he | married her, in spite of the strong and almost | Bnanimous efforts of newspaper critics to see some dramatic capabilities in him. The tact ts, is puzzled. and nobody dares write | Sarai’s young man down as an ass, because | Sarah took him, and surely she knows an ass | ‘When she sees one. Old age is worse than death to these women. | and we cannot but pity them in realizing how ¢lose axes creep after us all. And how inevita- | ble it is, no matter how cleverly it is evaded, and how long many may remember, from age was brou; by means of a tr: . althouch not y this terrible shrinking | to the notice of the world edy as Parisian as it was hor- Mile. An ex-actress who had been living in | quiet luxury, although playing wildly at the | bourse for some years, returned one night from a ball with her lover, an officer inthe army. Just as the couple entered the eorridor of the woman's house somebody Sprang from out the darkness and coy- @red the young officer's face with vitriol threwn from a bottle. The young man was horribly burned, and in agony was conveyed to the actress’ rooms. There she tended him with | but excessively | grand mond j of her hair was th | whieh now be; | world; untrodden except by the Indian or the by some. A few years ago, as | pl those temperaments that make lamis-like women and that are almost universally so allur- ing and so fatal to men. This woman was known by her Paris theatrical Co ata to be at least thirty-eight years of age, but HER “STYLE” WAS SO STUDIED aad she was so thoroughly a Freuch actress that she really was of no age whatever and was as se- ductive to young men asto old. She was dark, with biack hair and y eyes,neither handsome nor evea pretty, not theatrical In appearance, “stylish” in the manner of le Someiow in the course of the ical treatment of the youag officer, who by icion of the physi- y examined the poul- was continually dres ion they dis- the wounds, at -red that to each ot the pontties: to the mutilated to if put y upon” uni this : discovery the d by this youth, almost youn son; but she knew also that it was a love that could not last Ic creepi pon he aud crow ne insidu: y about trusted in the ro e the raya- y in her deliberately anned eve this dreadful deed should be done at her door so that the victim would be carried jato her rooms and not to his own, whe: she would eare for him with such deve tion that, fluaily blinded, — mutilate: horrible to look upon that no other suld marry him, he would make agent she had ed in this nefarious i hers, a_man of low e jealousy helped hi:n to do the deed, and who was also as com pletely under her spell as bird under basilisk’s. The woman was thrown into prison. While e she begged piteously for a certain hair- as refused, the supposition being that | to poison Her ap- | ‘arance upon her trial was a horrible reveia- | nto those who had known her in her stylish tion. Her cheeks were . her 3 cous, | nning device of t age- f a them from th hi a air was as white tiis spectacle had her head, always s curled, was seen to be only where the white hair lay upe dressed streaks, 1d not bees any of her us al lo 4 officer 1 he live: woman ard | The und it y zsh not more t ngs of feliow-coavicts sowever, are | attracts much } tention, and sents a han ‘ haired and mustached gentlem: to overtiow dren, not more than 1 ars of age, all w stilor suits and avid ais rolling away from their | with the efect of the golden halo on! Is of aints. The ¢: packed just as full as it ean possibly be » this you nily. and oe face: h 5 not apper with r children, perhaps because there urriage for them. Mme. de Le: a te woman. very careful of her fizu and to whom t maternity can be the pride and joy 2 follows tl 8 of Aus- to the last point of human ingotherthan pun silk fitting to the figure from throat to ankles, tight like the skin. ee ees The New Northwest. T. E. Prendergast in Harper's Magazine for August. Far away in the northwest, as far bevond St. Paul as St. Paul Is beyond Chicago, stands Win- nipeg, the capital of Manitoba, and the gateway of anew realm about to jump from its present state of trackless prairies, as yet almost devoid of settlement. to the condition of our moat pros- perous western states. Here, bounded on the south by Dakota and Montana, west by the Rocky mountains, north and east by the great Peace river and the chain of lakes and rivers that stretch trom Lake Athabasca to Winnipeg, lies a vast extent of country, estimated to con- tain 300,000,000 acres, or enough to make eight such states as Iowa or Illinois. Not all of it is fertile, it is true, yet it may be safely sald that two-thirds of it are available for settlement and cultivation. In fact, the extent of available land in these new countries is apt to be underestimated, for if the traveller does not see prairies waist deep in the richest grass, he is apt to set them down as barren lands; and if he crosses a marsh he at once stamps it as land too wet for cultivation. Those, however, who remember the early days of Illinois and Towa have seen lands then passed by as worthless swamps now held at high prices as the best of meadow-land. This is a land of rolling prairies and table-iands, red by navigable rivers, and not devoid of timber. Its climate is hardly such as one would se- lect for a lazy man’s paradise, for the winters are long and cold, and the summers short and flercely hot, though their shortness is in some measure compensated for by the great length ofthe midsummer days. Nevertheless, it is a land where wheat and many other grains and root crops attain their fullest perfection, and is well fitted to be the home of a vigorous and healthy race. Manitoba, of which we hear so much now Is but the merest fraction of this ter- ritory, and, lying in the southeast corner, is as yet the only part accessible by rail. * Over this vast region, and indeed all that lies between it and the Arctic ocean, for two hun- dred years the Hudson Bay company exercised territorial rights. Till within a few y itwas practically unknown except as a preserve of tur-bearing animais; and prior to 1870 it was hard to find any information as to its material resources or its value. The company discour- aged every attempt that threatened to interfere with the fur-bearing animals or the Indians who trapped them; still it became known that some of this vast region was not utterly worthless for : the soil looked deep and richin places, and in the western part the buffalo found a winter subsistence, for the snows were seldom deep, and in the pure dry air and hot autumnal sun the er instead of withering, dried into The early explorers, too, had brought back reports of noble rivers, of fertile prairies, of great beds of coal. of belts of fine i But what cared the company tor these? The rivers, itis true, were valuable as being the homes of the otter, the mink and other fur- bearing animals, and furnished fish for their em- ployes, and highways for their canoes. For the rest they had no use. At last, in 1870, none that they could no longer exclude the worl from these fertile regions, the Hudson Bay com- pany sold their territorial its to Canada, n to see its way to a railroad across the continent, to link the colonies from Nova Seotis to British Columbia. * * © ow it is evident that the growth of this jon will_be rapid, probably more rapid, in- i. than that of our own western states that lie beyond the lakes; for In them there had been a slow but steady increase of population from a comparatively early day, and when the railroads bexan to gridiron the country from the great lakes to the Rocky Mountains, the states east of the Missouri already possessed a consideravle population. In the new northwest, however, we see a land that has remained isolated from the rest of the trapper, pitieaty thrown 0 for settlement, and on terms as liberal as those offered by our government or land-grant railroads. The Canadian Pacific railway ts already com- leted 150 miles west of Winnipeg, which is a connected with ournorthwestern railroads, and it Is hoped, not without reason, that another 500 miles will be completed toward the moun- tains the present year. To build two or even three miles a day across such a country as this faculty of § 7 cS and wide trying toinduce settlers ‘. purchase ANECDOTES OF SKOBELEFF, its lands and furnish traffic for ics lines. The ——tes It two rallroads are not tar a) and the Cana-| Steries About His Personal Valor and dians have quite as good, if not better, lands to Daripg. , offer. Will they be as energetic, as Fe as their cousins across the line? HIS UNIQUE PLACE AMONG RUSSIAN GENERALS— ae climate be tae region is far ee ee AN IDOL OF HIS MEN—MIS EXPERIENCE WITH would expect from its northern latitude. le “i OU! ie can not be said to be entirely safe from early THE KHOKANDIANS—A @ONSPICUOUS FIGURE. rosts as far north ag Dunvegan, in latitude degrees, there is seldom any from the middle of | From the London Times. ed May till September, and even the tender cu-| No military commander of the present gen- cumber attains inaturity, Wheat, barley, and | eration has succeeded in Zainin the enthusias- vegetables ripen every season at the various | tic attachment of his soldiers in anything ap- posts along the Pearl river. Wheat ripens even | poaching the same a3 Gen. Skobeleff, < , 2 as far north as Fort Simpson, in latitude 62 de- and, indeed, he appeara tb hava been able to ex- grees, while wheat and barley from the Lake Ativabasea district took a metalat the centen- | ercise as compléte a fastination over all who were brought into co ‘ith him. The nial. These ‘crops, it Is true, have been raised on the bottom-lands along theriver: and though | military annals of Russia ducing’ the last tea ie table an eae or nee eh ty cat vers Te | years are fail ot aneclotes of iis personal valor from those and early frosts every-| and daring, some of which were highly ere prevalent on low-lying bottom-laads. haracteristic, while they all contributed to nance OR GNUE. ¢ him the idol of his men. The general feel- ee eee ing of his soldiers. toward hit was one of in- tense p rsonal attachment and devotion, which irresistibly remind the reader of the sentiment felt by the veterans of Napoleon toward their great chief. In thls respect Skobeleif stood alone among Russian generals, and this unique position, which was growing stronger every day, becanse the feeling of admiration on which it was based was passing from the ranks of the army into the hearts of the people, seemed to warrant a bel! play a foremost part in the crisis when the house of Romanoff. brought to its long-threatezed Lilitated In popular esteem or We propose to briefly record some of the principal of these anecdotes, as throwing light upon the character of one of tlie few heroes of our time. Skobeleff found no opportunity of special dis- tinction until the time of the expedition against Khiva. He was appointed to the command of a regiment of Cossacks in the column sent from Kinderly Bay, on the Caspian, to join the corps underthe orders of Gen. Verefkin, which operated from Orenburg. The sufferings incurred during this march were dreadful. and have been feel- ingiy recorded by Lieut. Stumm, a German otticer attached to it. Several times it seemed the absence of water would entail not merely the failure of the expedition, but the | destruction of the whole force, and a rapid | retreat to the Caspian seemed to afford the only ofescape. During this critical time iT was alway and it was his A Mongolian Millionaire of Utah. AM SAY, A WEALTHY CELESTIAL—NOW TIE MADE MIs M0: GLANCE AT THE I RICH CHINAMAN'S HOME—IIIS ILy. A correspondent of the Kansas C writing from Evanston, Uta, says: While going down the main street of this busy little railroad town I recently encountered an old friend in the person of Charley H.,a most valued agent of — insurance company. In reply to my query as to what earthly business broazht him so far from Kansas City he told me he was just about to “write up” Ah Say, the superintendent of the coolie labor of the Union Pacific railroad com- pany, and one of the most remarkable men of his race In the U t y kingdom, and_a_ subfect. I presume, of ty. brother of the sun and moon. San invitation I could not ne ad without further ado I walked along witli the insurance man, who. not content with the opportunities afforded by 000 American en, venturé nent of y rich Chit sacks, imen, and ag ne, of ¥ large eo ions from a strouger cconiplisth food on country, | body of Tu ns that gave the troops the i 2 | first encouragement they had met witi durin their march. In the operations be! town of Khiva, Skobeieff took a more promi- | Neat part than his rank warranted, owing to € ne Veretkin being incapacitated by a wound. lage in the case of Ah ~ay) is Indeed, he may be said to have effected the weehiteh). AUG. ORALGAPY CIES for, having battered down , he made his way, at the head of a thousand mea, to the palice of the | Khan. He effected his purpose. but, on | learning that Gen. Kaufman had entered the town by another gate, he at once withdrew, the Governor General the nominal credit tory. Before the Russian trocps cressed the Oxus, Skobeleff, on the prin * adventures are still for the ady made the opportunity of gaining tresh ¢ tion. The difiiculties of ‘the desert, which lad nearly proved! too nach for his own ale had completely bafiied that sent under Co svon fanght Iiim that apply oepe ton Chikist success, or even one f-inade, Ah Sa button, in his native has no reason to be ash: When first he ga; of his pauper | usual humble wherewithal to | Ks going. He had a cl supply keep the domestic chon: nthein inan Aj dustry and ecouo is natural ted in diszrhee anil disaster, s often expressel to axe f had pers made hi ain whether, pt. he and the anized himsel! with a Chinese i sosphere iti h an of ths This was the task to which, when the 7S" | operations of the war ¥ set himself with cha ri sed in Turcoman costume. and accompanied b: three Turcomans attached to-his person, h rode for ten days through the desert, ceeded in ng th ! ‘amination to establish the fact that Markogof had had no choice save to retreat. This adventurous jour- hey, in the midst of a creel and infuriated en- emy. sp and his exploration ot the old bed of the Oxus was acknowledged to be the most intrepid feat of the war. In 1875 the outbreak of disturbances in the Khanate of Khokand, where the people rose up [against their Pritice, Khudayar, resnited in the: dispateh of a Russian expedition into that state, and Skobeleff was intrusted with one ot the principal commands. It was mainly due to his valor and to the energy with which he followed: up the beaten detachments of the enemy that the Khokandians were so speedily disheartened. At Makhram he showed for the first time the capacity of a leader of men in out-manceuyring a greatly superior force of his opponents. He obtained the reward of his merit in his appoint- ment to the post of first governor of Ferghana; but, having exposed something of the corrup- tion prevailing throughout the public depart- ments, he made powerful enemies, and found himself obliged to hasten to St. Peteraburg to meet and refute the charges brought in retalia- tion against himself. He was still under a cloud when the Turkish war began, and the utmost favor he could obtam was to be appointed en disponibilite to the staff of the Grand Duke Nich- olas. Neither the jealousy of his brother gene- rals—for Skobeleff was now a major gencral, and decorated. moreover, with two crosses of St. George—nor the disfavor of the court could keep such a man in the background when rep- utation was to be won by valor and skill shown in face of the enemy. The first act of the war showed Skobeleff in the character of the Bayard of the Russian army. He attached himself as alde-de-camp to the gene- ral commanding the advance guard, and, while the rest of the troops were crossing the Danube in boats, he swam his horse across in view of the whole army. The Danube at this point is twice the width of the Thames, and the effect of the act was to bring home as a vital fact to the army in Europe Skobelef’s reputa- tion for gallantry, which had been up to that an Asiatic production. What this passage of the Danube showed the later incidents of the war confirmed. In the second battle at Plevna— that fought on the 30th of July—his skillful ma- nipulation of the cavalry checked the Turkish advance and virtually saved the Russian army from annihilation. But it was at the struggle of Loftcha that he shone to the most conspi uous advantage; for the results of that battle, which was fought on the lines he sketched out, were that Osman Pasha was cut off from his communications with Shipka and constrained to hold on to his position at Plevna. The Grand Duke Nicholas acknowledged that Skobeleff was ‘the hero of the day.” The struggle at Loftcha being successfully concluded, Skobelef hastened to take part in the desperate assault on the Gravitza and adjoining redoubts, which resulted in, perhaps, the most awful slaughter of modern times. It will be remembered that Skobeleff, at the head of 18.000 men, succeeded in effecting a lodgment within the line of Turk- ish red oubts, but that he was driven out on the and he didnot neea hieken to 8 ver read D'Israe! hat that author ‘that the successful man is he who is ready when his opportunity e: es fhe opportunity cawe in the shape of the Union Pacific railroad. ‘That eo ad need to employ thou: of coolie laborers in. its construction. The management felt that it would be of infinite advantage to both parties to have in personal contro! of this large body of men some one man who was of their race, language and religion, and yet who was sufficiently enlightened, educated and/liberad to act concert with the interests and other ofticers of the road. Where was such a rare combination to be found? I am no firm be- liever in the “mute, inglorious Milton” theory, and have noted that a place is always vacant for practical genius to earn its bread and meat. Ah Say’s light was under no bushel. He was chosen as superintendent at a yearly salary of 12,000 per annum. His staris at its zenith. and this American Chinaman can safely draw his cheque for something over $230,000. He is not wholly American in domestic life. His house, a neat, substantial and unpretentious place, is American enough outside, but when one enters into the atrium he literally encount- ers the Lares et Penates of a thorough China- oa the ent Ah man. As lentered the door I was astonished, and when iny first feeling of unskilifully repressed amazement had subsided I was gratified to find myself on the hearth-stone of a veritable wealthy Celestial. Without speculating on the relative degrees of civilization to which Asian or Caucasian have attained, nor how far above the almond-eyed Asiatic the European now isin the refinements of social life, I could not resist ahalfhumorous admiration of the economy of an arrangement whereby the sitting-room, cab- inet, sanctum, chapel and office were all dexter- ously arranged in one common chamber, and yet the building was as commodious as any average American house. Entering the door you are struck with what in my ignorance I supposed was a tolerable speciinen of Chinese statuary placed upon a kind of prie-dieu, or small altar, I hardly know which. This was, however, the Joss or domes- tic god of the proprietor. The furniture was by no means a disagreeable mixture of Amesican and Chinese work, and was simple, but elegant in material and floish, Here Ah Say received us | pleasantly and in fair English, rising as he did | 8o from his desk at which he had been working with his secretary, an American. Foi Mao, his wife, sat a little distance off in a rocking chair, singing a Chinese lullaby to one of her childre It was a pretty picture of domestic enjoymen The walls were covered with some few indif- ferent works in oil andanumber of genuine Chinese chefs d’ceuvres, and what was very singular, a vast number of little strips of tinted paper, which I was informed served the admir- able purpose of being a journal of notable events of each passing day. The death of a rel- ative, a domestic, or public incident of more than usual importance was written on one of these scraps and pasted chronoloyically on the wall, making it one vast scrap-bool Ah in person, is of mediuin stature, pleasant countenance, and one indicative of Teal native enerzy and force; he is of middle {f that the young general would | sto the front with his Cos- | fj fortunate capture of a} re the} | cab driv e conduded, Skobeletf | nd suc- ead the fame of ‘Skobeleff’s gailantry, | How the Pestiferous Insects. are De- stroyed in Hotels and Restaurants, From the Philsdelphia Times. “Squeeze a little lime Juice into mine, Jim,” remarked the landlord to the gentlemanly artist on the other side of the counter. Then, turn- ing to a reporter, he said: “I've just bounced a fly-trap man. He was the third I fired this afternoon. Well, you would think there was a good many of ’em if you had a restaurant in fly time. 1 tried half a dozen kinds of traps and got left every crack.” “That's what they, call the ‘Annihilator patent,’” he said, pointing toa fine wire cage that stood on one of the counters. “The man who sold me that declared that it wou!d catch a quart of flies an hour. The flies crawi in at the nd are supposed to stay there, but they don’t. No, sir-ee! They crawl in, look around and crawl out again. At any rate I was stuck for half a dozen Annihilators. Then I tried the funnel traps, with a hole in the top of each to let the files in. The files Just pienicked in and around those cages, sleeping in’em at night.and coming out in the morning to prey on the customers, Last year! bought a lot of fans that worked by clock-work, and the shadows st by the arms were expected to frighten the from the table the fan stood upon. They worked admirably until the flies discoyered that the shadows never hurt them, and when that discovery was made the usefulness of the fan was at an end. The flies roosted on the fans | after that, and the arms, as they went whirling around, belted so many people in the face that I threw them away. The fan experiment cost me just sixty dollars. “We've got the files down fine this summer, though. Come in on Sunday night and see us catch a bushel.” Between eleven and twelve o'clock last night all the furniture in the big dining room was taken out and-the myriads of files upon the walls and ceilings were dusted with insect pow- der blown from large bellows. At the end of an hour not a fly could be seen on the walls or ceil- ing, but the floor was literally covered with them. They were to all appearances dead, bat it appears that the powder only stupifies them and a little sunlight will bring them back to life and activity. ‘They were swept up and sealded, and their bodies filled an ordinary w bucket to the brim. This plan of des’ is pri din all the large hotels and When I first tried the powder, andiord who invited the reporter to see ly-Killing, last night. “I thought it kill the flies at once and they were swept up thrown into Jayne street. Next morning, when That was a ing for the bald-headed men who there, but it taught me a lesson. I rouble since the Life in Calcutta. Correspondence of the Brooklyn Eaxle. | Never did a stranger in a foreign land open his | eyes with more ot wonder and curiosity than T did when I awoke the morning after my arrival | in Gaicutta. The sua lad risen over the Ghauts and cast his light on the opposite shore of the river, covered with cocoanut palms, and on the | forest of st: that lay peacefully on the tranguil . Here were ships from all parts of the world, not only from E: vd and Amer- fea, but from every port of Asia and Africa, and | from Australia, When I first entered the city I was greeted—not by New York expressmen or —but by a crowd of bare-footed and bare-legged Hindoos, ciad in snowy white, with mountainous turbans on their heads, who were ambitious of the honor of driving m riage. or gharri dlsome equipage. ng lat- janquin to adinit the air ; box, oblowg ced windows like a p | and shut out the sun. | A HINDOO TURNOUT. Mounting into such acarriage our Hindoo cabman gave rein to his steeds, and I was trot- ted off Into the heart of the city. The streets } seemed endl of course; the population is fly native, and this itis which excites my mstant wonder. An old Hindoo, whom I saw sitting against a wall with his legs curled up under him, seemed more like a chimpanzee than man; they have a way of sitting on their heels, a posture which would be impossible fora Eu- ropean, but, which a Hindoo will keep for hours. One thing which amused me very much was to seea little native: boy entirely naked carrying a parasol over him. Truly, I never was so bewll- dered since I left home. kohama seemed strange and Hong Kong stranger still, but Cal- cutta strangest of all. The streets are swarm- ing with life as a hive swarms with bees. The bazars are like so many ant. hills, but the crea- tures that go In and out are not like any race that [have seen before. They are not white like Europeans, nor black like Africans, nor red like our American Indians, but are of a dark brown color, the effect of which is even greater, as they are generally clad in the garments which nature gave them. CALCUTTA STYLES. The laboring classes go half naked, or more than half. It ig only the house servants that wear anything that can be called a costume. The coolies or common laborers have only a strip of cloth around their loins. They have nothing to hide the swarthy breast or limbs. Those of the higher class who wear clothing show their oriental fondness for gorgeous ap- parel by wearing the richest silk turbans and flowing robes. The women find a way to show their feminine vanity, and are decked out in many colors, dark red, crimson and scarlet, with yellow and orange and green and blue: the mingling of color produces a strong effect as one rides through thé bazars and crowded streets which gleam with all the colors of the rainbow. The effect of this tawdry finery is heightened by the, gew-gaws which they wear. Earrings are not sufficiently conspicuous for a Hindoo damsel, who has a gold or silver ring hung through her nose, which is considered a great addition to female beauty. Heavy bracelets of silver adorn their wrists and ankles. Almost every woman who shows herself on the street, although of the. lowest caste and barefooted, still gratifies her pride by having huge silver anklets clasping her naked feet. But these Asiatic faces, strange as they are, would not be displeasing but for artificial disfizurements. If men did not chew the betel nut, which turns their lips to a bril- liant red,and did not have their foreheads stneared with paint with the signs of their dif- ferent castes, the effect would not be so unat- tractive. Imagine a whole city crowded with dark skinned- people, thus dressed or not dressed, or half naked, walking about, and one may have gome idea of the picturesque appear- ance of the streets of Caleutta. We never sit down to dinner but with the punka (fan) swii ing over us, andthe “punka walla” (the man who pulls the fan rope) is a recognized institu- tion. Now the hot months have set in, they are kept swinging all night over us. following day. His loss amourited to 8,000 men, but instead of his soldidrs beitg disheartened and disgusted with him personally by this dis- astrous failure, they worshipped .him more than ever as the general who had shared all their perils and who had perfornied almost incredible feats of valor. J Skobeleff received his reward in being raised to the rank of lieutenant generat, with the com- mand of the 16th division; whictr he at once set himself to work to make ‘the most efficient in the army. His attention to the comfort of bis men was unfortunately not so much as attempted to be imitated by any othe#Russian commander. ‘When the war was conch he advanced out of his own pocket a sum of monéy to enable his sick and wounded to age and a deliberate and unimpassioned talker. 2 The Bug Exterminator. From Texas Sifts. In thespring of last year a smoothed-tongued, glib-mouthed young man who had gone through the lightning-rod ¢ourse and graduated In the book agency business, passed through Washing- ton and the adjoining counties, introducing what he called the “bug exterminator.” He was very fair and reasonable, and ashe was only taking orders for his invention he merely required one-third (50c.) cash, andthe rest he would collect in the fall when he passed through. In case the exterminator failed to kill every bug upon which it was used, accord- ing to accompauying directions, he would re- fund the money. Nothing could be fairer than that, so he was well-received everywhere, and went away with about $300 in his pocket. ‘leay- ing his address with every purchaser in case he should neglect to send the exterminator. Well, in due course of mail, every farmer received a neat-looking little package labeled “Bug Ex- tine without signature” ete. Upon opening i uine withot ature,” mm opening the Sener Sap two, ‘ato goth little juare blocks, containing the following direc- ton on No. 1: ‘*Place the bug on this block;” and on No. 2: “Strike the bug violently with this block.” The tarmers were ready for him when the time came for him to but I] the need not say the time came on alone. ———— enna ‘Our Tombstone correspondent writes: ‘The stands over 100° in the shade every as them owed Heer lives. On the ae bape ie expected from them in,return great self-sacrifice and the pee unquestioning obe- dience. This they willingly gave as they found he never asked them to inenran¥d: he was share. His pursuaded that he would not come out of canipaign alive. Like Nelson, he always care for the day of bat- tle, and one of his friends and: Lieut. Greene, of United States army, woe division traverses would be no extraordinary feat in modern railroadi Branches, north and south, will be ra not to accommodate existing but to cre- ate it. Now it seems as if nothing short of some imerican Poultry Adviser | financial panic, some gross blundering or stu- aren comets Os lity, could delay the construction pid ‘the ratl- Toad or check the flood of im that Most assiduous and devoted care, so that the Safferer used to cali her his “guardian angel.” and refused to be removed from her care to that of his own family. The woman was of a sort of must surely in. Can it be with the government Canada fully as sera’ as ay Gere h is the ee here.” Ifsome mines there would only go somewhere figurea!— Boston Transcript. near those The Ameri is the name of this week. We personal characteristics some gathered of Jn this vicinlty | the man. ‘The hlstarieat sherestera to witom Ne bore most resemblance to hay Charies X11, of Sweden, and the eocentrie that “he went into battle in his form and fresh monet will advise the poult: to lay freaher eggs.—Lowell Death of Washington—“When did George Washiogten die?’ asked an peroneal en ir RE oper astonished ol HOW THEY KILL TIME. Morning in the tropics is delighttul; there is a PROPOSALS. FAMILY SUPPLIES ALS FOR FUKi. LBS. GOOD ROASTED RIO COFFEE. BOECS ae. ANSP ORD RO Gk inert late eg-Or rice Der, 7 bettie... eet Orrict or DisbUsSING CLERE AND SUPT. or Dununarne Lage amp 1 BOX GOOD CIGARS (S00). with tarsceean chetean ‘ BOTTLES BROWN STOUT OR POR- TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON "on WED AUGUST SIX) EENTH, for furni Post-Oftice ut, as follows: For the delivery and storage of five hundred (| more or less, ‘yo pounds to the ton.) of best = of White Ash Furnace or Steamboat Coal, te 01 screened and freo from siate,and to be de- red on or before Ooctober 31, 1882, in the ¥aalta of the Department building before the contract- varty will be paid therefore. ete samples of the coal must accompany esch bid, end the contracting party must exhibit satisfactory oe! from shippers that the delivered to him from evened or cars is the kind required by the De- partment Also,for the deli and storage of twenty (20) cords ‘of best Baker's Pine Wood, tw be delivered and corded at the Department building as may be required, within ten (10) days from date of contract. The whole to be weiglied or measure? by inspector appointed un- ovisions of Section 8711, Kevised Statutes of d States, ‘The Vis will be opened in the office of the Snperin- fendent.in the pre: fo atendd on Wedneed . he awards will be made on or before August 19th: NATURAL MINERAL WATER IN GLASs. B.W. REED’S SONS, 1216 F STREET NORTHWEST. TRADE SUPPLIED. Notice TO HOUSEKE By The F riment reserve the right to reject all or any part of the bids received, if deemed for the best luterest Ss | Of the Government so to-do. | A mats CCG FFE RRR | exceated and fled within five ()) daynafter the award os k ERE q8Ry is made, for the faithfal Sooo arte es Cone 3 EE oO. K Dirbursing Clerk and Superintendent Pos Err partusent. Jy22-Lawie IT EER Knew ST OF VARIOUS E CALIES OF WASHINGTON ee OW RR eRe & Orrice oF THY Em Comnrrsstoen., RRP £ Wasninctox, D.C., July 25th, 1882. RRR be LC Bs direction of the Board of Commissioners, sealed KORE OL proponals will be received at this office until TWECVE R KERR ULLL | OCLOCK"M. “on SATURDAY, AUGUST FIFTH, | GGG. 00. TE 1882, for the improvement of various streets in the ooL ities of Washinton and Geonsetown- The principal | @ - OO E ms and approximate quaht.tics of work contemplated | G_GG under this advertisement are as fo'lc s6G “00 LLUL Dov Asphalt pavement, $1,926 equace yards. Granite Hock pavement, 6280 equare yards. Granite block gutters, 7.204 square yards. Asyhalt block pavement, 14,140 square yards, Grading, &e., 8.500 cubic yards. rave! square yards. Blank forms of proposal cud spe- ifications can be cb- WILL ALWAYS MAKE BEAUTIF BREAD AND BISCUITS. ice upon apy te for, togethes . aur ‘ul necemary informa ia and bids Uihon' these | Who'esale Depot: Corner Ist street and Indiana avenue fo jone be considered. ¢ ‘The right is ‘reserved to reject any andall bids or | _Jel WM. M. GALT & Co. (Signed) G. J. 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Among the principal buildings in the city are the Government house, the residence of the Viceroy of India, the post office, the tele- graph building, the college and general hos- pitals, Duff's college and the Calcutta Univer- sity; all are large and ot eat veal The English residents are shut up dari e heat of the day, but as the sun dectines the English out for a drive. number of dashing and servants in livery, city, all dashing hither and thither on the esp! a ee of an evening I len In another part dens are all the habit 709 WEMAREE a eDuoNsTON. 799 AS USUAL WE ARE THE FIRST TO REDUCB PRICES. ‘Markets received through our wires INSTANTLY ai- rect from the New York Stock Exchange. al HOUSEFURNISHINGS. E°PY REFRIGERATORS, WHITE PINE INCH SECONDS DRESSED PORCELAIN-LINED COOLERS, @) SIDES, $40 PER THOUSAND. WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZERS, ICE PITCHERS, KETTLES, JELLY TUMBLERS, FRUIT JARS, &. 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