Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1882, Page 3

THE NEW FOOD Fist. & Specimon Sent to the National Mu- scum—Hesembiance to the Norway Hinddock. From the New Yors Tribune. “What about the new food fish, discovered by Capt. Collins the other day while searching for tile fish? Can yor ve ine its nane and a ¢ Seription of it?” asked a Triiune correspondent Of Prof. Gourde, of t onai Museum. was tie reply followed Prof. neat of the f "and drew brown mottied of this fish in to 150 fat col the adalt 6. lent two to three anda tor Professor erally known | It is a matter of t the young of this * have just been talk » hanuts, and that the fish.” | “I wish you would me and look at preparing for the inter- ‘bition xt London next In about a half 4. exhibition were fi ses_ specimens for the cr. A Thrilling © Union ia the Career of a ific Couductor. biting off the tip ot @ match on his of railroad lite that’s the twenty years that tarting out right and hope= efore them, and the black-robed way to a new-made she must bury the idol of her Ione and pinehing pov and the merry of the joyous i with the despairing sigh of the i of life are familiar | y day the extremes of | the worid are meeting beneath his eye. e mutilated the ticket of maby a black- leg aad handled the passes of all our most emi- Rent deadieads. Idon't know what walk in Hf Is crowded with more thrilling incidents than m'‘ne.” Ver have any smash-ups?” < |. yes. Several. ever. zht not ins “There is one incident In my railroad lite,” continued the conductor, running his tongue earefuliy over a broken place in the wrapper of hiscigar, “that I never spoke of befure to anyone. [t hascaused me more misery and Wretchednes#than any one thing that ever hap- pened to me in my official career. “Sometimes even now. after the lapse of Many years, I awake in the night with the cold @rops of azony standing on my face and the rrible nightmare upon me with Its terrible surroundings, as plain as on the memorable Bight it occurred. ing extra on the Union Pacific for + who was an old friend of mine, and yae south on a vacat: l. Hi as near as I can remember, we ali comfortable one evening, | eteh of track ahead for ten or on time, and everybody | eriand travelers do whe are | other and feel congenial. | tealy slowed down, ran | nd stopped. I got out and ran ahead of the en- | gine to see what the matter was. Old Antifat, | the enzincer, gone down, and was on the | main track looking to where, twinkling | along about six or seven miles down the road, | Spparently, was the he: it of an approaching It was evidently ‘wild, for nothing was ¢ that we kuew of at that hour. “However. we had been almost miraculously saved from a frightful wreck by the enzineer’s watchfulness, and everybody went forward and | oid Antifat by the hand and cried and i st affecting seene i tnessed. It was as elad stopped at the very verge of a | bottomless chasm, and everybody was crying at onee, till it was a kind of a cross between a Tevival aad a picnic. ~Atter we had waited about half an hour, I id say, for the blasted train to come up and parently. she was no nearer, a | ¥ Suspicion bezan to bore itself Into | intellect. The more | I thought of it the more unhappy I felt, I almost | Wished that Iwas dead. Cold streaks ran up | my back, followed by hot ones. Iwanted to go home. [wanted to be where the hungry, prying eyes of the great, throbbing work-day world J not see me. “Tcalled Antifat to one side and said some- thing to him. He swore softly to himself and k cked the ground, and looked at the headlight etl glimmering ta the distance. Then he got on | d,“Allaboard! Ina few | ing again, and the gen- at the train ahead was Sed and waiting for us, although there | sn't a side track within twenty miles, except | une we had Just left. t was never exactly clear to the passengers ewe passed that wild train, but I didn’t I was too much engrossed neurhts. my own inferiority so much as I ht. Pnever so fully realized what a | eck man is upon the bosom of the uni- None, how- © beea worse. ling tip-top, as ted with vu T snrveyed the starry vault of heaven | ved its imitable space, where, be- | < oa aad on foreve * centers, around which * revolving in their regular or- 1 1. perhaps, with its the mind is | zhty thought; and | worthless, nductor, with | ide-tracked in the gather- | patiently waiting for the planet | > pass on the main track, there was | about the whole somber picture | has overshadowed my whole life and | me unhappy and wretched while others metimes Antifat and myself meet at some Tqnid restaurant and silently take eomething in luemory of our great sorrow, but never mention it. We never tear open the old rankling wound or laugh o the night we politely gave the | which she ga | hourly you would see something of in- terest on the streets, something partaking of ‘The Numerous Accomplishments Pre- served by Austrian Ladies of Rank. In Mrs. Pitman’s book. entitled “Europea? Breezes,” the authoress writes: ‘‘There are no jadies in the world so capable of doing many things, and doing them well, as the Austrian ladies. [ refer to those of high birth. An Aus- tian lady that cannot swim, or does not know how to ride a horse, is an exceptton. Needle work of every kind, even to the making of lace, is a part of every giri's education. Her pedes- trian accomplishments put us ouite to shame. Her efforts of memory are ansther source of wouder to us.- As linguists they are famous. it is only among the nobtiity“and that one finds these accompli burgher’s daughter will not conde: of dress: without thonzhts of its ng on her soc.al position. The higher the jon abroad the wore simple the attire in ic. The Austrian lady of station who does hot know how to cook, | may almost say does not e: A story is told by Viennese ladles of another who, having neglected this branch of her education, allowed at a great dinner party . two dishes of the same color to be served in succession, a fault for which she | was hardly to be forgiven. Tae princesses of | the royal households attend a course of lectures | from a chief cook entirely upon the order of serving.” ALEX. Hl. reth SPEECH. Ue States That Ie Hax No Cause to be Ashamed of His War Record. In his recent speech at Macon, Ga., Alexander Stephens, democratic candidate for gover- tizens of all classes—those e—ali I ask 1s, as did Tr me—hear me to- n me, do $0. Now Ve been made, that t. You have heard, part of that war record. Ihave heard intimations nitin the newspapers, that there was a con- y between Mr. Davis and myself which the confederate govern- lure of the contederate Se a general misapprehen- ton inthe public mind sbout that relation be- tween Mr. Davis and myself. I affirm here to- nicht that there never was an unkind word noran pleasint word of controversy between Mr. vis and myself from the beginning down. We did disagree upen some questions of policy, but when I pledged myself to the people of Georgia tn that secessi tion, in aspeech you may ean now read, that my fortunes In my we V », that pl been thorouz But mark you, when- ev rIdisagreed with the administration’ of Mr. Davis I went directly to him. I never intended to beachisinatist Tsubmitted my views. I saw, or W great danger from the superior ‘i naval power of the north that our lockaded. My idea was to get of cotten that we then had out ad before the blockade commenced, by e planters niue cents a pound in 8 per cent hat would have amounted to $200,000,000, ping tt abroad we woul! have, holding tt there in Europe at tity cents a pound, we would have a capital of at least $800,000,000. Now, T state briefly and reverently, that there never was any ference between Mr. if, We diff-re! upon several ques- did I obstruct his administration! anything to obstruct our soldiers in allmy Tibor was devoted to their welfare dnd to their safety, and at my instance three hospital the comfort an rgia’s soldiers. There may be some he did T not visit them, and my own house in Richmond was a hospital, where they were reveiving my dally a’ tention, with the attention of physicians, I stood by the cause to th did noteven flee from arrest. I was en to Fortress Monroe. If Thad seen fit to es- ape, I might have souzht it in that way. I bided my fate. Twas determined to stand trial if ever they brought it, and to vindicate the right that I pursued, believing that I had committed no offense against God or man In any connection with it. Iwas put In a dungeon, low down, damp, dripping with water, walls five feet thick; I was there for three months. There ts where Icon- tracted that rheumatism that laid me up and dis- abled > from walking for the last twelve years, That is apart of my war record. I intended to abide the results of the war. I was committed to it, and I stood by the flag as long as it was afloat. So much for that,” 4 Richmond in War Times. Mary W. Early, in the Philadelphie Times. Every Tuesday night, during the winter, we had a meeting of what we called “The Starva- tion Club,” our refreshments consisting of cold water; but as we had excellent music, high spirits, and youthrul buoyancy, we enjoyed these meetings greatly and danced away merrily with the young officers. I remember one of these who had won a golden spur. of which he was so proud that he wore-it to a meeting of our club, spreading havoc among the young girls, whose trains he ruthlessly tore. At other entertain- ments we had handsome and abundant suppers, even during the utmost stringency of the block- ade, forthe Richmond people could still com- mand fowls, game, and old Virginia hams, though imported wines and Java and Mocha coflee were scarcely more than traditions of the past. Our costumes, especially during the last aud most brilliant social season of the war. the winter of 18645 up to February, were “far from complete,” but as nearly ail of us (women at least) were in the same predicament, we were seldom made to feel badly by seeing our neizh- bors dressed better than ourselves, a test as fa- tal to female friendship as the one Cowper lays down: “The n: Tose hi Ne f arfbenymph mart lose her female friend, One’s envy was seldom excited by seeing our friends in “store clothes,” as backwoods people express it, exe a in some rare instances where persons in Ba ore or other northern cities would contrive to smuggle a trunk or box of things through the blockade to friends or rela- tives in Richmond. There was a striking pic- turesqueness in street life in those days even in and cooking, which | WOMEN SEEKING “POINTS.” Unwelcome Visits to Wall Street Mng- mates. THE DAMSEL THAT SOUGHT JAY GOULD—SARAH BERNHARDT AND EMMA ABBOTT AS SPECULA- TORS—A CHICAGO WOMAN'S AID TO HER HUS- BAND. She was a pretty little thing, and, like ll earthly angels, painted. But she rapped in vain for admission to Jay Gould’s tnner office. Moro- sini explained that the rich proprietor was “not ia,” and he emiled an acknowledgment of his bition to do himself anything and everything possible for the tair one. Oh, no; ft was Mr. say | Gould In person that she was seeking, and thous’ } she simpered in concert with the stalwart exile | from sunny Italy not a single word would she speak to him regarding tne object of her call. W:th a jaunty toss of her head and a violent rust- of silk attire she swept out into the hallway | toward the etreet; and there she chanced upon a ne per reporter and buried him in her confi- | dence. She wasconfident that she been deceived, was certain that her friend Gould was hidden be- hind the screens of his private office, and felt doubly sure that he could not always disap- point her. She was determined to see him, and an army of clerks couldn't prevent it. This wasn't the first time she had called and tried to see him. She wasn't disheartened by trifles; had a life time at her disposal, and she pro- posed to come again and again and again. It was a “point” on the market she wanted; Jay Gould could give it to her, and that was just what he had to do, too. Personally she didn’t know him, but she was dead sure, she said, that he couldn't escape. Yes, she had called npon other great Wall-street men besides ld. From some she had obtained what she desired, and from others she hadn't; generally she hadn't. Speculators, she thought. were rude, selfish men as a ‘rule; they wanted to make all the money themselves and didn’t care if the rest of the world was wrapped forever in poverty. As for herself, she didn’t believe that Providence ever intended her to be anything else than rich, and so she proposed to work Mr. Jay one and his colleagues for all they were worth. The little woman tripped out Into the street, clambered up the steps ofa Broadway stage, and started on an uptown Journey. This was some weeks ago. There have been few days since which have fatled to find her down town in the vicinity of the Stock Exchange; but she has grown taciturn, and whether or not she has yet been able to secure the much-desired inter- view with Jay Gould remains to the outer world a mystery. At any rate, she does not confine her calls to the Gould establishment. Her smiles illuminate other parts of the street aswell. Her clothes are new, and her bearing displays no marked evidences of bad luck or disappointment. She is a type of a large class. Wall street is overrun with women—women who are old and women who are young; women who are poorly clad, and women in rich attire; women who talk patly of the market, and can ring the changes on the Stock Exchange's melodious lingo; women attractive and women Tepuisive—all with an eye single to gain. Old operators in the street say that there has been a big change In this matter within the past few years. There has always been an abundance of the fair female who saunters by the Exchange about 3 o'clock every afternoon, seeking ‘papa’s office” and finally finding it in sume young broker's close cab. So far as these frail crea- tures are concerned, there is little, if any, de- parture from the old-time condition of affairs. But another and very different class of women has ventured down among the bulls and bears seeking a livelihood or pastime. They are wild with the speculative craze. Their ambition is “flyers ;” their methods most childlike and bland. Inthe list of these new habitues of Wall street are embraced members of some of the first families of the city, as far as wealth orsocial connections go. The popular actress abounds and is petted; ladies who wear crepe veils in memory of departed lords are numerous, and she who could find no profitsin engineering a boarding-house helps support the broker. Mot- ley regiment they are, but they have the credit of operating ‘boldly, and taking risks that would drive the masculine specu- lator wild. Stories were recently current tell- ing how Emma Abbott put thousands in her pursethrouzh lacky Wall street ventures, and on the Stock Exchange floors are told many stories of equally happy hits by Emma’s profes- sional sisters. One of the “fancy” stories told on the street, presumably for the purpose of fostering the ‘female desire for speculation, is the following: A Chicago lady, whose husband is a grain speculator, was in New York a month or two ago, and put her pin money inthe market. Just at this time came the recent famous corner in the Chicago Board of Trade. and the husband was badly caught, and over the wires to his wife came the neWs of his financial embarrassment. He was in a big hole and feared he couldn’t get out. Up bounced the stock upon which she had several thousand dollars were subject to her call. It didn’t—so the story goes—take her long to call it, and even less time to place It by tele- graph as ready cash tothe account of the em- barrassed husband, who was thereby saved. It is rather difficult for the average member ot the Stock Exchange to refuse advice to a pretty woman, and, everything being even, the information so put forth is quite up to the stand- ard of Wall-street rellability and accuracy. Se- crets are sometimes obtained by women which the ordinary man could not discover ina life- time, and for some inscrutable reason they flourish occasionally where men fail. When Sarah Bernhardt was in this clty she took chances in the market, and realized handsomely on mere than one venture. Sarah was unusu- ally successful, and her brokers were not mean enough to haggle over commissions. She vis- ited Wall street in person only once during her stay. Inher case Mohammed did not have to go to the mountain; the mountain was glad enough to come to Mohammed. Some of Sa- rah’s sex on speculation bent find it rather dif- terent. There is more than one man near the shadows of old Trinity who would rather lie to escape than face a woman seeking “points.” the unconscious grouping of men, with their showy uniforms and eager faces. Almost the nature of a pageant, a drill, a dress parade, @ procession, or something stirring and im. posing. The beautiful capitol equare was used as a drilling and ground for some time, and every evening at 4 o'clock the band would strike up and hosts ot young people who made the square their rendezvous eae thither. ‘The beer atiand Lets and “Twinkling Stare” were especially popular airs, played almost every evening by the band. The old fair grounds at the west end of Franklin street (now Monroe Park) were used for drills during the winter of 1863-4 Sometimes whole regiments would through the city on their way to Join one of our generals, and the pagen- try of fanerals was ‘a very familiar thing to us. I remember being ‘especially touched by the funeral of a young cavalry offi- Russell 8 ig never “in” to such callers. Gould 1s always reported “not in.” Keene slams the door and says he is busy, and Woeris- hoffer always decamps at the rustle of a dress through Exchange place, The demand for opportunities to speculate upon the part of women has caused the erection of many tickers in the fashionable parts of the city. Some ot them are connected with estab- lishments of somewhat unsavory repute, but there are others where all the proprieties are observed, and are really only what they purport to be—stock gambling houses tor women. As a rale these places are not well known to the pub- Nc. They havea profitable clientage and seek no notoriety. Ultra respectable ladies have the entree, and intoxicated with the Wall-street at- mosphere, they remain the day through hover- ing over the tickers,reading the tape, discussing the crops, the prospects ot foreign wars, grass- hoppers, Gould’s plans and intentions, ‘and so forth, on to the end of the chapter, Just as their cer,a Capt. Fairfax, I belleve, whose death occurred in December, 1862. e coffin was borne through the streets wrapped In a confed- erate flag. while the slain warrior’s horse was led behind. and the air vibrated with the solemn stirring strains of a funeral march. The largest and most imposing funeral I witnessed during the war was that of Gen. Dimmock in October, 1863. Still greater honors were paid to the re- mains of Stonewall Jackson as they lay in state in the capitol at Richmond. os Low Wages of Workin g Girls. From the Boston Globe, The advance sheets of the twelfth annual re- port of Miss Jennie Collins of Bofin’s Bower, the institution devoted to the welfare of the | working girls of Boston, has just come to hand. While every one may not agree with the theo- Ties of political economy expressed by Miss Col- Uns, surely no one can but deprecate with her the evil effects on the working girls of the rain- ous competition in the clothing and other busi- | ness. The meager sum paid sh in not a large and small Pe Emmons Piadibes the loubtless juently results, as she intimate in the pean a, ond and Dest! One prey young woman some two ——— rasa Telated her case as ie ttle present of $10. Use it to hej some on : Tt get where I am. Pad to I housework first. The family’s was beyond my th. I main track to Venus while we stood patiently on the siding. ~ see Autumn. From the Boston Transcript, The aster glows “ie falling #aves beneath, The en rod gleams by the hedgerow brown, 4s though the dying summer in the frost King’s. Had hurled her gauntlet down. ~~ ese Teach lites latest ‘breath, ‘us, and we ‘me soul eXuitant bids, @’en on the grave’s black Defiance unto death. ‘beyond death’s feeble, fleeting winter Teutahainiats ae ee ee w ise at months it would be ability. At the end of harged and another! pantalooned prototypes do down town. There ‘are other establishments where the lady's margin is accepted which are conducted on far less arig- tocratic principles. One much advertising firm has located in the center of the shopping dis- trict, and in big, bold letters informs the public that it boasts AN OFFICE EXCLUSIVELY FOR LADIES, Within the past months many of the best firms in Wall-street have opened branches up town. An idea has prevailed that this move- ment was brought about by the demands of lady patrons who were anxious to speculate but were unwilling to venture down town. This is @ mistaken opinion, however. There has lately sprung up among some of the big; operators ® disposition to remain out of the street and send down thelr orders from the up-town clubs and hotels. Osgood, William R. Travers, Addison Cammack, and even Jay Gould are ng class. Gould has private wires from his Fifth- avenue home to brokerage office. The special wires from Wall-street to up-town branch offices place the latter establishment: with their tapes and tickers, upon an alma equal footing with the offices close beside the stock exchange doors. ———$_-o-____ Rather a Slow Train. ‘From Drake's Traveler's Magazine. “Conductor,” said the Gee propos man, who had been craning his neck out of the window to learn the cause or the delay, ‘what's the “We're on a side track, waiting for the freight,” Teplied the conductor. ; “Are we tied to a tree?” demanded the gray- haired man. “What do want to be hitched up for?” inquired the retard somewhat disturbed by -haired man’s ns. placed her money, and profits to the extent of | 12th WEDDED AT MIDNIGHT. A Young W: Who Wouldnt be Married by a Man in Rebes. ‘From the Omaha (Neb. ) Bee. There have been many interesting and amus- ing episodes during the state fair week, but none more so than that which occurred on Thureday night. Among the visitors to the great exposition was a family from a thriving little city in the South Platte country, which will not be designated further than by saying that its name is a synonym for good chronome- ters. The family consisted of father, mother, and daughter—the latter a good-looking young lady of marriageable age. On Thursday evening a young business man from the same place came in, and having left his store in the hands of a novice, he wasin haste to return. Be- fore going he wanted to marry the young lady alluded to, and a traveling man for a popular wholesale drug store was deputed to hunt up a minister. It was late at night before the wed- ding was fully decided upon, and as the bride wanted to be married by @ preacher and in a church, the traveling man called on Dean Mills- paygh, who consented to have the magnificent new cathedral lighted up for the occasion. When the prospective mother-in-law was in- formed of the facts she objected to an Episcopal minister performing the ceremony. She wanted a hard-shell Baptist or some less ritualistic di- vine, and it took a good deal of persuasion to overcome her objections. At length the party pro- ceeded to the church, the brilliant illumination ofwhich at alatehour attracted the attention of many,and the Dean proceeded to put on his robes. The young lady then objected, and another council was held. At length, the bridal pro- cession started for the altar; but as they up the young lady broke away and ran out of the church, saying: “I can’t stand this. If you don’t get another Lane I won't get mar- ried.” Thereupon the lights were extinguished. The traveling man next called upon a young preacher, who was holding a protracted meet- ing, and, on getting him out and telling’him his business, was informed that the youthful divine was not yet fully ordained and therefore was not entitled to perform the ceremony. By this time it was midnight and the traveling man was inclined to give up the job, but the groom in- sisted that he must be married that night and get back to his business. The Rey. J. W. In- gram was therefore called upon, and appearing in civilian’s dress was allowed to tie the nuptial knot. All’s well that ends well, but the invol-* untary preacher-hunter says he would rather travel from Dan to Beersheba than go through the experience again. SS THE AMENITIES OF JOURNALISM. As Exemplified in the Rural Districts of Missouri. The amenities of journalism are not strictly observed in the rural districts ot Missouri. The Marble Hill Reflector refers to a rival as follows: “The ignorant, contemptible, mean, sneaking, cowardly, self important, low flung, dirty, out- landish, backbiting, self styled ‘politician,’ dead beat, whisky bloat, backwoods bummer, log cabin child of misfortune, beer inflated, big headed, soft skulied, overrated swamp angel, who claims to edit the swamp paper, thinks the editor of the Reflector terribly ignorant. Let him look at the twenty-seven mistakes In his last issue; let him remember the ‘blantant’ in the issue before; and let him not forget that he used ‘ardorous’ for arduous ina leading local in his issue of August 24. Oh, you dirty whelp, you poor, crawling, creeping viper; you dirty scum of the dirty, stinking, stagnated swamp; you mean, big jawed, slab sided, knock kneed. bow legged, bandered shanked pup; lost, as you are to honesty, to principle, to justice, to common de- cency; do you imagine you can rule God’s coun- try—the hills. Go back into the cesspool from which youhave crawled and there remain. Don't come out of your den to abuse respectable people. Go to achool, Kelly, and you may learn something yet.” Kelly's reply ts awaited with interest. +92 _____ VENNOR’S PREDICTIONS, ‘The Weather in October. FIRST WEEK (let to 7th). Some sharp frost this week in northern sec- tions about 6th. Altogether a favorable week, but there will probably be local wind and rain storms, 3d and 6th. This -will'be a very stormy month in Ontario and western United States. SECOND WEEK (8th to 14th). Will probably enter with severe wind storms and heavy rains east and west, marked storm period about 9th and 10th. End of week fine and calmer weather. Frosts may occur about THIRD WEEK (14th to 21st). Very stormy with snow, falls in western and northwestern sections, Southern Minnesota, and Eastern Dakota. Storms on lakes and at Chi- cago, Milwaukee. Storms will extend to Cin- cinnati. General snow falls 17th and 18th. Cold weather in Iowa, severe weather towards Des Moines. A terrible week of storms in all sec- tions. Snow in England. FOURTH WEEK (21st to 28th). About October 24th generally stormy weather with snow falls in Ontario and In maritime pro- vinces. Cold, miserable, wet and sleety weather or snow in New York. An unusually severe October. Storms in England. CLOSING DAYS (29th to 31st). Snow and rain falls in Great Britain and HeSYy gales, Very severe on east coast of Scot- fan Jiminy! From the N. ¥. Tribune (Wim. Winter.) Night, in Strattord-on-Avon—a summer night, with large, solemn stars, acool and fragrant breeze, and the stillness of perfect rest. From this high and grassy bank I look forth acrossthe darkened meadows and the smooth and shining river, and see the little town where It lies asleep. A few great elms, near by, are nodding and rast- Ung in the wind. and once or twice a drowsy bird note floats up from the neighboring thicket that ekirte the vacant, lonelyroad. Furtner off, Sramerng through the treetops, is the dusky spire of Trinity, keeping its eacred vigil over the dust of Shakespeare. Nothing here is changed. The same tranquil beauty as of old hallows this place; the same sense of awe and mystery broods ever its silent shrines of everlasting renown. Long and weary the years have been since last I saw it; but to-night they are remembered only as a fleeting and troubled dream. Here, once more, is the highest and noblest companionship this world can give. Here, once more, is the almost visible presence of the one magician who: can lift the soul out of the infinite weariness of common things, and give it strength and peace. The old time has come back, and the bloom of the heart that I thought had all faded and gone. I stroll again to the river's brink,.and take my place in the boat, and, trailing my hand in the dark waters of Avon, forget every grief and trouble that ever I have known. Why Barbers are Ialkative, From the New York Sun. ‘The German barber near the Cocper Institute had not been particularly talkative. Indeed, he had permitted his customer to get in a word more than once. It may have been a little unfair, then, for the customer to ask, as he did, “Why do barbers talk so much?” a “Dot vos all humbucks,” said he. ‘Der bar- bers don’t dalk much. Dem dalk choost enough. Pefore I vosa barber und got rich und gondended like I been now, I ves der whole vorld all ofer, und verever I vent der der same consdidushun of demeelyes. Dem all der time dalked. I found me out how dot vos since I been der peezness in- side. There must been. choost 80 und 80 ven der er is belng iis mout full, den Shafed und has tld soaps un der barbers dalks dwice 0 muek, vonce for him- self und vonce for der Barbers are less I find dis out choost like der rest der ven I cut about ’ newsbabers near drowned mit eo many dings ‘Thats 80 von head. ‘It vos shafed. Den: ist os based wea she uttons by his ven one of his bt ‘but ders wich Sheherselt vound his suspen Py hookey, che vent und gomblained led | GOLD IN TINY SITs, How the Precious Metal is Gathered lized. Fine Particles and U1 From the Brooklyn Eagle. In the manufacture of jewelry the tintest bits of the precious metals are gathered with the greatest care. After particles of gold have be- come imperceptible to the naked eye means are adopted by which they are accumulated, re- melted and worked over again. In some of the large factories, where gold is handled in large quantities, special floors are made. The flooring is double and made of the best material, and has laid between the upper and lower sections asphalt paper, covered with tar. Minute par- ticles ot gold find their way between the seams of the upper section and immediately adhere to the sticky tar. It is calculated that when the floor of a jeweler’s shop is removed the gold accumulated in the crevices and such places will more than pay the expense of a new one. Every possible particle of filing, scraping, grind- ing, polishing dust or engraving chips is pre- served for the assayer with as much scrupulous care as the shipping of the goods from which they had .been detached. The wheels upon which gold and silver have been polished, when worn out, are burned and the fire reveals parti- cles of the precious metals, which were hidden | to all but the chemist, Sweepings are quite valuable and would be & material loss to the manufacturer. if not saved, even after the workman has picked up every bit of metal that may have fallen on the floor. This dirt from the floor will sell tor $70 a barrel. A Jersey City firm deals in this pecullar dirt almost exclusively. The caps of the workmen are often burned, as are the aprons, after they have been washed regularly every week. It has happened that $23 worth of gold was obtained by the burning of an apron. Even the water in which the workmen wash, in the majority of places, is saved and run into tanka, where it is allowed to stand for a time, a sediment forming at the bottom. The water is Tan off and the muddy mixture handed over to the assayer. The men often find little chips of gold and silver in their hair or beard, but these do not amount to arything If not accumulated, It is told of a Swiss watch-case maker how he had a way of incessantiy stroking his beard while polishing the cases, and parties interested discovered that when he got home at night he as carefully and incessantly brushed out his beard, but saved the brushings. eee PAYING HER ASSESSMENT, A Scene in the Office of Pennsylvania’s Jay Hubbell. From the Philadelphia Times. At the regular republican headquarters yes- terday afternoon, while Secretary Taggart and half a score of clerks were busy at desks and tables in the main room, a young girl, about 18 years of age, of prepossessing appearance and plainly but neatly dressed, came in. Hesitating as she entered the room, in evident embarrass- ment, she asked: ‘Is Senator Thomas V. Cooper in?” “He is not,” said Secretary Taggart, rising and walking forward. “Can ido anything for ou?” y “T've brought my money,” said the girl, drawing out a well-worn old pocketbook and taking out two one-dollar bills. Secretary Tag- gart was at once himeelf again. Jumping into his chair at the table again, he asked the girl to sit down, while he opened a drawer and took out a book. In Senator Cooper’s private room at the same time loud voices and boisterous laughter were heard, and there came out and filled the main room’ thick cloud of smoke from fragrant Havana cigars. The smokers were Senator Cameron, who a few days ago, according to an enthusiastic and admiring Washington letter writer, sat betore a safe of the Guarantee Lite and Trust Company and clipped coupons for four hours, Secretary Quay, and a few boon companions, They were telling funny stories and laughing over them. Secretary Taggart, having opened his book, looked across the table at the young woman, who sat abashed, evidently unused to such scenes. “How much is it?” asked the secretary. “Two dollars,” said the girl, tremulously. “She handed the money over, the secretary dropped it into a drawer, turned the key, en- tered the sum on a book, and began to make out a receipt. (What's your first name?” he asked. “Emma,” sald the girl, timidly. Mr. Taggart wrote it out and handed her the receipt. “I suppose,” sald the girl, rising as she folded the receipt. * big Page helps.” “Oh, yes,” said Mr. Taggart mechanically. “and it doesn’t make any difference—my giv- ing it to you instead of Mr. Cooper, does it?” h, no,” eald the amiable secretary. “Good-by,” said the girl, bowing as she with- Ww. “Good-by,” sald Mr. Taggart, turning to his work. ————— ‘The Cigarette-Young-Man Again. From the Philadelphia Times, The cigarette-young-man has made his ap- pearance in London, where he displays the same characteristics that have made him an object of pity and contempt in this part of the world. The Lancet, whose authority on matters of med- icine and hygiene is recognized everywhere, has taken up the war against “the growing practice of smoking cigarettes,” and paints its delete- rious effects in most somber colors. It points out, what has been often dwelt upon in these columns, that the effects produced upon the nervous system by a free consumption of cigar- ettes are more marked and characteristic than those recognizable after recourse to other modes of smoking, and it refers to ‘‘a number of cases brought under notice during the last few months in which youths and young men who have not yet completed the full term of physical develop- ment have had their health seriously impaired by oe ences ‘of almost incessantly amoking es. cl, 't is an evidence of the powerful influence of this habit that its bad effects are not observed alone in the nervous organizations of American belied but in the more robust constitutions of inglish boys as well. It is impossible, ee forthe stron; constitution long to wit! the continual dep uy these mischievous little ‘‘whiffs.” Healthy men, accustomed to smokit reasonable number of cigars every day, find a very few cigarettes an overdose. How much more then must their bad effects be felt by the pallid, halfgrown youths who most affect this form of nicotine apace Ay the habit of We are glad to believe cigarette smoking is less prevalent in Phila- delphia at least than it was a year ago, but we have no such ill will toward England as to wish that the cigarette-makers should find a market for thelr wares in London. There the habit seems to be comparatively new, and it will run its course as it has done in this country. Many young men will be ruined by it in phy caland mental health, but its bad effects will become so apparext there, as they have he: that the instinct of self-preservation will} necessarily assert itself, and the cigarette- smoker being recognized, moreover, as a public Bulsance, common will eventually triumph over his vice. Heavy Bains, From the Philadelphia Ledger. The September rainfall of 1876 was thé heavi- est for that month we have any account of at hand, viz: 8.77 inches. But the precipitation for the last fifty-six hours of last week was more than that for the whole thirty days of that mem- (From the Charleston News and Courier.) T= USES OF CELERY ARE NOW MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST. The following is from an interesting letter written by that great Dermatologist, Dr. C. W. Benson, of Balti- ‘more, to a friend, an editor of prominent metropoli- tan aaily. “‘A combination of the extract of Celery and Cham. cmile, which has been but recently introduced to the profession and the public by myself, has produced such marvelous results in curing Nervousness and Head- ache, and especially Nervous and Sick Headaches, Neu- ralgia, Dyspepsia and Sleepleasness, that it has excited public attention and uewspaper comments, and there- fore I give the following information publicly to avoid answering hundreds of letters of inquiry. My Celery and Chamomile Pills for the cure of Head- ache, Ni are prejared under cure lervourness and Dyspenea, my supervision sad sre intended exprosaly to Headaches, and will cure any case where no organic disease of the brain oF apinal cord exists. Hundreds of gasen of many years standing have been cured. No matier how chronic or obstinate the case may be. a permanent cure is morally certain, This statement is made after years of experience in their use in the reg- Ular practice of mediciue. ‘These Pills are slso Yaluable for school children who suffer from Nervous Headaches caused by a0 over- Yrorked brain in their studies, and for all classes of hard brain-workers whore oyertaxed nervous centers need Tepair and sedation. Nervous tremor, weakucss aud Paralysis are being daily cured by these Puls. hey Sorrect costivencss, but are hot Sold by Prt x. me Md. By boxes for $1, or six boxes for $2.50, to any address, DE. BENSON'S NEW REMEDY AND FAVORITE DR. C. W. 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