Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1882, Page 3

a THE EVENING STAR: “SAME OLD a” How an Elderly College Visitor Had sthe Memories of His Youth Revived. The Whitehall Revie relates the following: — \Four or five of us we joying our last pipe for the night in the sv mat Cralgfal- loch. We had had a long days tramp over the moors. and th tion lay chiefly between Jack Winstanley and Charley Vane. These two had been at Oxbridge a . thouzh they had ne ¥ had a lot of friends in common. began teiling each other who I . Who into the civil servie ¢ out life at an up-country who had got shot in South in colored * same time, and met ofr station in Indi Africa, and who h yarns. “Did you know Merton asked Winstan- nk I've met him. Wasn't he a St. Brid- if you fellow, if hi e , of Tell us the story.” Merton was really a good fellow, but it up at home. aily rectory; you understa serapes like th most irreproachat One term, Millbank’s eldest ly of some thirty summei with some after her arrival. wishing @ surpris afternoon. dear Wilt she ran over to see him early in the Of course he got a cup of ¢ her, and they were having a pleasant chat in his | sitting when the scout comes in with a ¢ard, ‘Mr. Edward Mandelay.” “The gen'man sends his compl and hopes it would be nt iments, r you to he 30, and |. I'm sure! I But, wait a mo- tha—" rill itleok edd for me to be here, dear? ». no; but you see, if the old gentleman BLOCKADE BUNNING, Protit Made by the Trim-built Confed- erate Cruisers, From the Detroit Free Press. The south had very few ¥essels fit for block- | ade running, but she had money to" buy them | with, and agents were kept in Europe to plek | up the sort of crafts wanted. Some of the most successful vessels were sailing craft, but after H he creat majority were sidewheel steamers | and propellers. Where the latter approached | the speed of the former she was taken in prefer- ence. After the first year the busine: Ss Te In the first z and this was a gres or. Inthe n was found to be After m Ja white tin: | could be adop it point in their xt place the color of the craft very important matter. Ay experiinents it was found that ed with blue was the best that . Runners thns painted have fi ra blockader at i half of the lookout to eateh, at all she was simply a and t steame Was f | ithe | r blur in his ey ent gleam, it generally Men even unt the chanees of capture and es- sly as they figured the cost of cloth. rmous. A suitable craft purchase: urope fr D nd, asa rile, one suc 5 show what | The pro | could t At Nassau it was | for a barrel of borax, which he sold | | in Charleston for 4.000 in the Same currency. | Again he sent outa bale of Sea Island worth a bale of women’s veils which 0. Merchants who bougit ard in disposing Of it at home for $7 an A pair of boots costing $2 brought $10 and $12 in Charleston. T which could be had in assau for forty cents per pound brought from ‘4 to £20 in the south. had COLD WEATH N RUSSIA. The Wiater’s Indications There. he will be tempted to sit down and | nd we shail lose morning. Here's ut’s closet. Runin, and Fil get rid of | Tean. | that Merton was so awfully ebaffed that he wouldn't have | rs on any account that a | aining a lady in| hy, and very had it com stranger had his rooms. | thy fine, biuit old fei little shaky on his y chop wh < Squire y. A omething over seventy, a | . ted face, white mutton- ntance, sir. seout told rooms — ab! ag y father was born, [ Tlooks like y : me old view into them: ne old view. walked round the room jing ame old mantelpiece!” Then of the seout’s room, ax turne, i “Same old 1 just opened the | door, wh flutter of a petticoat, ‘same old y well known judges of She made in initation of a large cabbae leat edt le with ard. Having finished the work ent it by her son to the kiin with a note directing it to be burned, The boy, part his mother’s enthusiasm. ha also becon thing of an expert as a worker fn clay. Marbles and slipy age, so that th When the burner opened th a loss to know what to do with th Heving them in some way to bel i Suddenly a thouzht struck him. The rept Must be a crocodile, and what more natural than to take the balls for crocodile te. anid he according! k them around the dish and | unlooked for addition to the piece of work was well | it ornamentation. Th burned. The boy couldn't possibly convince his | : iinprovement | ju: ne had gained by @rnamented at the expense ot hi << _ JAY GOULD’S MAGNIFICENCE. One of the Most Palatial Vessels Ever Bullt to be Constructed for the Rail- read King. having the di labor. From the Philadelphia Tin On Wen Bons, th sington ship builders, were awarded a contract for the construction of a yaeht for Mr. Jay Gould. When com- pleted this yacht will be one of the largest. and, it Is said, one of the fastest private boats of the | kind in the wor Nearly all the iron ship- builders in the country and a number of English firms were petitors for the contra The size and ¢ Lof the eraft was decided upon by Mr. ¢ o leaves the details of eon- structionto t rs.Cramp. There is anu expense is to be and power of o the speed The building of the The craft feet ania dey of Glasrow of sailed betwee outiit will be mpleted without regard to e: le decorations will be atten: and are not included in ins for this work will be itself pro- f the contract have not and it is not now possible to estimate of the cost of the yacht, mor has the name of the vessel been decided upon. The Cramps are the builders of the Cor- sair, now owned by Pierrepont Morgan, and the Stranger. owned by zood. GATHERING THE NEWs. Seen mate give a prope Dangers Experienced py a Reporter ‘Whirty Years Ago. The superintendent of the ship news depart- ment of the New York Associated Press says of an old Cape Race reporter of thirty years ago | and later news gatherer at Sandy Hook: “Far- Fell bas been one of tne most indefatigable and @onscientious news gatherers I ever knew. After he came here from Cape Race, and was Getalled to collect the news from incoming ves- gels at Sandy Hook, I have known him to go of ina small boat to meet the vessels when It would seem that he was defying Providence. You could hardly have expected a man to face guzh perils. This was in 1853, 1854 and 1855, Before the oc was then prepared on tissue paper, in nearly the swue way as our ship news is now mani- folded for the several papers. it was prepared and sealed up in a water-tight can before it left the other side, When the ship's wheels were heard through a dense fog, or when she was sighted in the distance, no matter what the Weather might be. Farrell would go oif in his boat, taking a cage of carrier pigeons with him, and, when close to the vessel, the cans were thrown overboard and then Farrell picked them p. After opening the cans he would take a the foo ot nt. The ¢ er of our winter is determined | not so much by ice conditions in the remote | polur basin as’ by the hur 1mOS- | phere over British Amer: \ it | favor the report of which ha: an cables were laid. The news | From the ¥. Herald. The early winter which, according to last | ; weeh's ble report, has set in in R remonitory ‘stern Europe. Peter ais ap- of a cold season over With freezing weather at vurg, a temperature down to ten ijnt-Novorod and navigation gsus- in the Volua and Kama rivers by drift | m the 16th of October, the outlook is boreal. The rivers of Eastern Russia, as the We St. ice kers, white hat, cheek tle—you know Kama and other tributaries of the Volza, | her the ordi freeze earlier than those of the Western s same latitude. But even as far east | Mountain ehain in October the tem- | moisture and storm the Atlan- | n are usually tracealile. Dr. Woeikot it is even October At- lantie storms as not yet f ion of storm 1 and ice len so | dt the rivers is correct the pr | the fight had spread ail over the town; some of ; the result of the encounter. DUELING WITH HORSEWHIPS. Novel Combat Between Two Plucky Enemies in Georgia, From the Jackson (Ga.) Herald. A novel duel took place In Harmony Grove, Jackson county, a few days since, between Mr. Hill and W. I. Goss. Hill was the challenger. and Goss said he didn’t care to fight with him with deadly weapons, but if Hill would not be satisfied any other way he would fight him with buggy whips. The distance and other rules to govern the fight were made, new bug: mark, about five feet apart, and operations commenced. The battle ground was In front of Freeman’s livery stable, in the heart of the town, and it was not long until most of the yens of the place were looking on at a sate c No one had interfered, and the com- vere making steady and regular licks other without flinching, and the of the whips could be heard several went whizzing through cks of the two men. » the other would back a but he would soon come up ch. Whenever they got tired allout to hold up for a'while and would take a breathing spell, and when 1 they would go atit again. The ficht | continued for ever three hours with short of rest. After the second round Hill 1 no covering on his back except ashirt, insisted that should pull off his cat, which | | he did. and they took both hands to their whips | } and went to work, By this time the news of the merchants etc was generally sus ed their stores and business | ended to see what would be | After they had worn out $7 worth of buggy whips and’ were completely tired down they agreed to quit, and Hill told Goss that he was Satistied. From parties who saw Hill’s back we learn that there was not a place on it that 5 place a silver quarter without touching the Welts that the whips had made, and he was ked all over in the same way. We learn Goss was not hurt quite so bad, and that he was able to be y; but Hill had to lay up, and it was rumored over this way that he was seriously hurt. os Disgraceful Snobbery. From the Art Interchange. The congregation of a fashionable New York church is just at present energetically discus: he question of “ought we to visit her,” a > majority of the members, It 1s reported, inclining to the negative. The “her” in the case is the mother of their pastor, a woman of irreproachable moral character and unob- | trusive manners. Although no fault whips were procured, and the parties toed the | A SPIDER SNARES'A SNAKE. The Siippery Victim Suspended by a Single Thread Until He Dies. From the Easton Gazette. Things are constantly occurring that cause the public to look with wonder and amazement, and it is supposed by many that no such thing ever occurred before, but very frequently such impressions are erroneous. Some weeks ago a | spider was found under the settee in Esquire Robinson's office, with a snake entwined in his | web. Many thought it a most remarkable feat Weil, it was, but | spiders in years past have shown just as much | iagenuity. We find in the Easton Gazetle of the following statement, which was copied from the Connecticut Mirror, the statement of a ‘y similar to that of I squire Robinson's One day last week the workmen in Mr. Peck’s machine factory, in Southington, di under one of the work b of the white thr inches long, if web of a spider, common house sort and When first discovered about half a foot trom the floor and had him hung by a sin- gle thread. The ingenuity and power ot the spider were truly wonderful. Passing rapidly down his line he would fasten his cordag around the neck of the snake, pass back to his own nest on the under surface of the bench, then going again down ‘cast a hitch” around the tail and returning to his nest would ayail himself of the contortions of the snake, alter- nately hanging up his lines so as to bring his game nearer home. In this manner he con- alive, but so complete! to be safe for the night. dead. exhausted and secured In the morning pe was HOW OPPOSING C DIDATES MEET. Gen. Slocum and ™ir. Carroll. From the New York Herald. Mr. Howard Carroll has met Gen. Slocum. The encounter took place on Park row yester- day afternoon. Mr. Carroll had been looking for Gea. Slocum at republican meetings, but had not found him. He saw his antagonist on Park Tow, and recognized him by the campaign por- traits that have been seattered broadcast by the de.noeratie state convention. “T have found you at last, Gener: Carroll, extending his hand. The General grasped the hand warmly, and said he kuew Mr. Carroll from having seen his campaign portraits. ," said Mr. be found with her manners or her moral: has in the past been guilty of that which deter- | mines a society of Christia ary courtesies of social life. Her | offense is that, in former days, n order to sup- > port herself anda family of children, she pur- | sued the ealli oman, and a people whieh wor 1 carpenter, re- fuses toextend s ‘nition to a worthy nwho by the faithful | has aided her sou to le position. is an illustration of the spirit exhibit t 1 women who are compelled to It is still diseraceful f ance of lowly | n his present I! ny society iupport the ther is pr ably due to unusually h ui wh er nter, ally the ca recent “fre ne weatner” reported from St. Petersburg, this is not phenomenal for the | period. as the average of th winter in connec ordi nditions which, Lin the Are! . the prob 1 intlue = to the orth that a norti materially are very str In the United dicate a cold tran: om re not pres: excessive or diminished fa¢ tinent: the most intense cold the northern part of the cont pronght from the far north by wind this year are earlier in s¢ country than they were ho indications that w ly cold winte _o eR THE RIGHT OF TRAV A Judicial Decision. and not Though tions of thi there are, as have an ex The decision, just reported. of the New York court of appeals in the Auerbach case is full of interest for those travelers by rail who ayail | theinselves, as so many do in summer, of “lim- or excursion tickets. The plaintiff, Mr. Auerbach, of St. Louis, bought a coupon ticket New York which bore upon its faee the con- jon that the purchaser should “ase it on or before September 26, 1877.” In the course of his journeying Mr. Auerbach used up one cou- pon after another until he found himself, on the afternoon of the 26th, on the New York Central train at Rochester with the coupon from that ity to New York. The coupon was acce er valid, demand and upon Auerbach's upon he brought suit aves. and it isthe fal decision in his just been pub- lished. The court holds that the of the ticket on the afternoon of the 26th, when he offered it to the conductor, was the © templated by the restric and app their rights are. It is intere in another as i. ence of the people in the theory, concerning which they haye been driven | into doubt, that “the law is the perfection of | common sense.” The decision is so palpably a common sense © hat it is not easy to see how an intelligent railroad conductor could bave created any occasion for making it | — WAKDEOBRES AT THE 1 , how- ive the hioned ‘TERS, Stage Costumes That Cost From $700 to as Much as $2,000. | New York Letter in the Troy Times. Every first-class theater has an extensive ; Wardrobe and a costumer for the male and also |for the other sex. The costumers attend to dressing the characters for the play, and it is only stars who provide their own outfit. The only exception is when men appear ina clvilian’s dress, which, being in the fashion of | the day, may come from their own tailors. In melodrama, however, or in tragedy, the cos- | tumer attends to the apparel, and hence a the- | atrical wardrobe isa very costly affair. Sometimes | the money thus invested equals $50,000. The | dresses are made so as to be easily altered to fit | each performer, and may consequently beadapted for some other person. The business of letting eat costumes is a | speeiaity pursued by a number of establish- | ments, but the large theaters are not depen- dent on anything outside of their own walls. Sometimes when the guests of a ball masque | are fitting for the occasion they may obtain a dress from the wardrobe of a theater, but to do this requires usual influence. These dresses are of course superior to the ordinary stock of the , costumer. Inside the theatricai wardrobe room anumber of sewing operatives are constantly busy makiag or altering dresses, and this alone forms a business of no trifling amount. For all 1h jt spt costly nthe most fim: few of the professions. the great body of working women soc! only snubs or at best condesce . Contempt — for tho: who ppear on the nd all this, that istuken for is sraceful (7) a fate led to support nner of un- s to secure out money, and | but to acle of a nonial intent to . the blame for the un- jould be laid at the door the woman who works. | see ‘The Late Presidential Cl: New York Correspondence of the Philad I coming out of Scribner's book store on Wednesday morning when I noticed a very old man getting out of acoach at the door. Idon't | know when [have seen a feebler or older old man. He was being assisted to alight by the driver of the coach, a common hack, without sistance he could not have made his | He was very thin, very pale, and his | andeyes were sunken so deep that I/ ed why aman fn his | allowed to <o about alone. or rather totter womanly exhibition of society, wh As he walked. his hand: Indeed, T was hh » but ‘ye which though he was he could mething shook with the | clined to offer him | Ke ca nore than this H ‘There was a wlan dd the corner expression that I had cer- burlesqued. Iw: a pile of books to see if T couldn't | r where [had seen that lock before. house a import mbling hand: Alexander H. well broken up. neat for the south uuldn't of the possible that that is—” “Samuel J. it was | as well let him. he Was. his one Couldn't be pretty as too No, the reply. T y himselt; but what a cha Worst enemy weald be melted at i Hy he is a complete y (is pretty clear, but I notice ms to for- nything hand nails of the lion have been pulled out. He is harmlessnow, un- less it be to hit a few pats with his maimed paw. I don’t believe it possible that he can be more head in polities, and I think that | caricaturist should see him he would think it too personal a matter to represent him as a galvanized corpse. —_—_—_-e-______ ‘The Real Capital. Correspondence of the Boston Evening Star. The charms of Washington as a winter resort are beginning to be appreciated. The climate is delightful and in spite of the Potomac malaria, which is so much talked and written about, Washington stands near the top in the list of healthful cities. As soon as the filling up of the Potomac marshes Is accomplished, for which the last Congress appropriated $400,000, there will be no reason why people here should ever die at all. The broad straight avenues, the pie-shaped pieces of ground rigidly reserved as the lungs of the city, the great public parks and gardens all contribute to make it the healthiest as well as the most beautiful city in the country. For there is no denying it, New York may brag, Bos- ton may boast, Philadelphia may sneer, but Washington is the real capital of the country. It has ceased to beasouthern village, and has be- come a great metropolis. It is unique in every a It is well known that the fathers located it with a special view of getting away trom trade, and consequently trade hasgot awa: from it. There is but one -business here that amounts to anything and that is the real estate s to withhold from | _ delicate condition | : ‘upon us all the ne | unknown, and where our departed brother now: tio’ means, y ful candidate together, somewhere The two candidates entered a Park row bar- room, and General took whisky while Mr. Carroll imbibed beer. nose we'll yote for eacit other,” said IL at parting. you vote for me and I'll yote for you,” ‘1 the General. Another drink was whisky and Gener Phe fi G ponded — the a iken; Mr. Carroll took cuin called for beer. ican men ated hk u uumittee venture night. to the noe An Onituary. A rather short ma y cheerful studied wrief that in fe contrast to the ruddy glow of his | food in the doorway and propounded y in a chee n old resident, and f inay say that for purity of—” “Oh, E know what In- . “You were about | rity of purpose, strict iples that ever guide the | coing to say, T had in| there ar Ss to be said edd. other thin He wa: said the h “He was rent, felt than within that spot where human love is e human sorrow eyer the mos ant—the sacred precincts of the domestic Ain't that it il, I certainly did intend to’say something e that,” replied the short man, “but that y Ta the hum—” s right,” again interrupted the friend of “In the humbler walks of life. where po ks, where crime is found, and wher niarks with its ant finger count- less victims, whose lives would otherwise be ht and joyous. our friend who fs now no more was often to be found, giving freely of the jneans with which a kind Providence had endowed him to alleviate the sufferings of those whom misfortune had ever held within its tron grip. Doesn't that about cover what you were if to tell me?” 8,” said the short man. h— But now that death has icy breath the heart that such a little time ago was pulsating in all the vigor of thal and iaid prone beneath his silent but tible blow the n that is aults of time, lid tenement lem of the proud structure so teaching to all of us with the sad lesson that in the | are in Milwauk: ‘no, indeath | this sad event should impres ity of being prepared to ain't it—should impress y of being prepared to summons that Irom a life of turmoil and trouble to one where white-robed peace stretches forth her broad wings, where sorrow and strife are nd, a kind s loss be more keen] hallowed tr M . ‘that’s something mournful midst of I T mean—and th: upon us all the ny Jump town—no, th sour coming.” How does that size up with what you were about to remark?” “Why, that's it exactly,” said the visitor, a sunny smile overspreaditiz his countenance. “You've got it down pretty fine, haven't. y “I should surmise that 1 had,” replied the horse reporter. dropped onto this’ obituary ‘acket early in the action, and if any body can ring one in on me he ean have the but “I guess I won't print this obituary,” said the visitor. “The deceased was only a New Jersey man, any how, and they say he never wore than half provided for his family, and went.to lodge about five nigits in the week, Some said he removed to this state from the penitentiary, but I don’t know anything about that. He’s dead, anyhow, and dead men can’t do any bedy much tinued his labor until evening. leaving the snake | | sele EX-PREACHERS WHO WORK. The Cross-Eyed Cat a Brother Seemed to See in a Baptist Conference. THREE HANDSOME HATS Which May Be Seen on Lovely Heads During the Bi-Centenniak PATERNAL AFFECTION. . Declared Insane Because He Was Impudenw From the Detroit News, | Aman named Keating has Just been release® | from the Ward's Island insane asylum, New | York, where he has been confined for 21 monthag | although he never was insane a moment of hi life. The story of his confinement, {Tit was noB & very serous outrage, would be ridiculous, | His father had him confined, and upon his neo lease upon a habeas corpus—which was sued out by a le friend who discovered the fact of | his confinement through a letter thrown out of a window of the asylum, and matied to him— | and his appearance at the trial, the affectionate old parent testitied He said his som it and off that is, he talked a magh—and was the pidest and ought to 1 was paying the rent I thought I should rule and give cor- tions, So T thouwcht Td make a charge From the New York Sun. In the Baptist ministers’ Monday meeting, the . Dr. Miller brought up a motion made a zo to amend the constitution of the con- ference so that the name of any minister who has quitted the‘ministry and engaged in secular business shall be dropped from the roll of the From the Season for Nevember. A new, original and very pretty hat, some- what resembling the distingue Amazon shape, has lately been introduced in place of the gen- tlemen’s round hats, which are rarely becoming | to the face. These hats consist either of the | usual fine telt or glossy beaver, with a tarned- conference. This motion, one of the brethren | Up brim on both sides and resting low on the said in an undertone to the reporter, was in- | forehead. The only ornament is a smooth piece tended to operate only on Brother Taylor, of | of corded ribbon tied ina bow in front. The Staten Island. smooth broad stand-up veivet collar, above “Is it going to hit me: | Which a white linen one is visible, corresponds retired and play croqne | with the style of the hat. Brother Brinckerhoff arose and said gravely A large becoming hat with high poke is lined “Brother Moderator, I seem to see in this ques- | and gathered inside with pale pink satin, while | ti 8 1 cat M that cc rof the room the outside consists of gathered dark brown | looking y and at me, and I can’t tell | velvet. The crown is covered smoothly with | whether it is going to Jump on you or on me. | velvet of the same color and ornamented on _ Tam aretired minister, and Ihave to work to | the side with two large brown and pink pom- | support my fam T am ready to preach. | pons. | * asked Dr. Eddy, “I've s follow sive against him, that the judge would send him to Now, if Lam to be expelied because I work, all | Instead of the poke-chaped hats with high | the Tombeur the lect or eat pend. him to ve got to do is to be a lazy man and let “my | brims for autumn and winter wear, the Cabrio- | [Ml r-thecsendhim ta creenw nee cthar with her needle in order that I | let shape, with wide brim almost hiding the cemetery than send him to that lan face, is preferred. Those covered with velvet | jare the favorites, trimmed with one or more ostrich feathers, the stalks of which may be hidden where they are sewn on by a W | fancy feather instead of a bow. it. But I want -to know what is a minister deserting his ministry— il know whether that cross-eyed cat mother. aw anything insay except may be it was that he was too near his passion, and wouid give a sulle civil question. again. his bad langua him, with ‘neauswer toa i'd be glad to see him at liberty Ofcourse T would, Butt won't stand for bad language is worse ent thing te knock a proper to use bad lan- then Iw is goi o. ans coal Watters’ Fees, “Gourmet,” a correspondent of the London Telegraph, has raised a discussion tn that paper | on the subject of waiters’ fees,“ Oxoniensis ” | | says: “Igo tar beyond ‘Gourmet,’ who, in his | letter to you, says that our waiters ought to be | siness or marble busi- ness then he deserts his ministry. Brother Taylor—This is not the first time the brother has alluded to my going into the whole- sale coal business. [ hola that he who has once been a gospel minister is always a gospel min- This is a drop resolution—it drops on tful illustration of parental and of the enlightened methods which me, [Laughter] Itts.@ proposition to make | feed. Thold that no waiter ought to be feed at | prevail inthe aduinisitation ofthe tow au the an ex post facto law. he United ates don't | ae: sil camara a e y | Empire state of the union. A man shut upin a allow such laws, and shall this conference? all) Way) ehould hotel keepers be) the oni | St F mad house for nearly two ye: daddy! or “sassing” bie | class of tradesmen in the world who expect the I have to live almost entirely in restaurants— Ham a Mournful | lunching, dining, and even supping there every Face. day—so that I have to contribute toward the = wages of other people's servants not less than A Miid Voice in the Corner of the Room—No, sir. [Great laughter.] | public to pay the wages of their servants ? The whole subject was laid on the table. | UeveUbleeewas aldign thet New Vork Markets, From the New York Tunes. The time to see the markets is unquestionably yin the morning: for, as we have said, it Dame Autumn From Chambers’ Journal. at foe Le 72 aniline aw Nope? fitine 35 | is then that business is alive and competition Summer 1s dead: too soon her radiant shapo y outrageous on the face of it. The truth | , : B o\lock sees the thenoaghe Beneath a humid pall of leaves 18 latd; is that waiters’ tees keen. At Fulton 6 o'clock sees the thorough are sheer robbery, sane- | tioned by long habits of concession, aud it is | fares near the market thronged with coupes, time that the monstrous impuder put | which bring the hotel-keepersto a consideration’ down.” “F. BL” re: “At acertain din- | of the needful supplies for the day. Scarcely a ing-room in-the Strani custom used to. ob- Too soon fs fled the swallow, t pe The biting wind, and winter's cruel shade, Summer fs dead: the weeping forest tree Repeats the cry amid its falling leaves; 3 ent el i" Ne b Past fs the cheerful hum of laden bee, tain of paying our tees —viz , the attendance in a fe ee sa sel cn aa pets! Vanished the meHow glory of the sheaves. the bill, the waiter, the collector and the | fem this early visit ef inspection. Al pure Now do grim sh carver,” and he goes on to point out that such | Chases for ho:els and restaurants are comy usher fn the night, devotee cases furnish the reason why That follows adows St More boldly doth th rench and Italian | by 8 o'clock; then the main business of the restaurants in e night-bird wing her flight, London are now extensively | stand-holders consists in putting up And croak deflance to the moon's wan ray. patronized, there being only one fee expected | mail and attending to those trans- in them. “W." writes: “Your correspondent | mitted by ph and telephon Now doth the peasant, hastening sadly home, ‘Trembling, recall some half-forgotten tale; How In the chill of evening, elf aud gnome, Sporting, ‘iold revel higi'on hill and dale, ‘Goi * very rightly complains of the unt: practice of tippling at the various in or near London. T have. a: excellent authority that the a r | staurants ned upon nof the telephon has incresed en es who forr | private tani age income | nearest tradesmen now tele} Up from the deep molst bosom or the earth, ot an ordinary Waiter is abont 15 shil- tral market. And this Ae vas pOeNy: sen nf lings a day. [ am couvineed tiat if @ | business would be still further ines And leaves dgy raarshes oF her birch large restaurant were started in a convenient | x up such communication here To soar aloft; a creature wondrous fairt part of London, where a cood dinner could be ting as it does $12 within obtained without these ¢ proportion of those requiri freshment would avail the tunity of 2 and unc as in the suburbs a tele. substanti elves of the ¢ of en unnec 4 A Waiter of Long thinks that the diMfeulty com- of would be got oyer were shwply su- nis appointed to dining-rooms and | lowed to pre: their own. bil “Viator” hopes “that some of your rs will suggest ar phone being that ried on at calls ai A good deal of lute rations in Fulton market, w the expense of the handsome ‘Kers faintly round her head, ‘kles on the tinted gc v o1 wings, Uiat to the 2 outspread Support her flight, yet scarcely seem to stir. Some of they devoted. spe- in the ais! fish. which is re in her eyes, iims her pai* bi out, appearance te the for the cow rari ae icnous, isto be f i as demand more than one tee, confide | the thought that the proprietors of tanrants t led will then we he evil thems: i the atte yn hands, and could quick! able alsies many ts vary ace stand. Ab stands are i ordins of the | And while the pattering rata m present tands occupy the side- i asele t_keeper as slow to ask for tip vs, await pletion of the central nd the Si rDIsS dium of hi $ hall, ‘which is to be the bleak darkness in her silent flight. | throuzh his ass! - “F. B..” whose experi- mpleted, will change the whole NS Close OF the Gounty Pair. ence of some city establishments Is not quite noe of the p of “Gourmet,” aud who finds that at many ; them “not only the ly to the wai 2ker and th mains open somewhat ati Fulton, which closes at 6, even on in Washington an enor- mous general business i we between that hour and 8 or 9. on > evenings. A very connection Pe 2. re about over for the r, and the prize pumpkin has been taid to in the bosom | of the cattle, bi use it was not worth a niece rize potatoes, a dozen large ones picked out of a hundred bush of | all oues, have beea cut up and fed to the ly se they w@Pe not fit for human beings to eat, owing to the.bla aiter who atte ats of the guests, b rne out by t to object to the s nksthat the “hard steaks and bad di he gets constitute a_gre: waiters’ fees. “RL,” ¢ of a long letter, dete t : ground that “the att large business carried suburbs and the in its stands: | Probably it is the world, and supplies steamships and Vast numbe but the wants who in a crowded neighborhood do their own marketing. All along ¢he ri front the thoroughfares are ith express wazons plying between Jersey City, a th listricts and. ered for 25 Some ofthe items of consump- cresting, as for example the fact that since frogs’ legs came into fashion as a delicacy ) pounds a day ave sold in sum- the demand for turues is largely on ase. Som lid specimens of the Succulent daint to be seen helplessly. ping in Fulton market, and weighing over “i food for amazement ly, however, it ie . aS was recently Hands off, for the The prize bres for the oceasi editor, who used a week. and’ the farmer's will not make any’ more such bread till next | sna fair time. ‘The big turnips that all admired, and = which were so pithy the cows would not eat =me Bett tiem, have been throws out behind tl all to rot. ‘The floral_hall, where the in- 9 pieced quilt hung on arope and the young man will no’ more lead his girt by dl he further hold rder than ¢ very low s trot those th one of the Earth. fn the wortd, n growing cutled, ake for If childhnooa were But only men and y No bat s fa tend No bavy blossoms blow Though men were stronger, women fairer, And nearer all deliziits in reach, And verse and music uttered rare ‘Tones of more godlile speech; the city fell efor will no more crowd the aged in order to hurry around behind hibition of church organs where a music teacher is hired for the week to play “Heaven is my Home,” when she lives on a farm four miles from town, as many a young man knoy has asked to see her home. This week winds up the duty of the committee who goes around with a butter-tryer tapping cheese to see if it is ripe, and ta: of the honey, the owners of which enter six pounds of strained honey, get a ten cent diploma for a premium, and don’t even get the jar back that the honey was in. The committee on poultry, composed of men and women who can't ’ tell a Berkshire hen from a Southdown gobbler, looks wise over a cage of ducks and gives everybody a diploma so that nobody will kick. The ever- sting rattle of the self-raking reaper, and the corn sheller, and the nickel-plated thrashing machine Is hushed for a year,andtheagents who ave button-holed farmers from Stillwater to Kalamazoo, and talked their arms off, have icen a furlough. The “grand stand,” of boards with slivers in, covered with a shanty, that has | been filled with granyers at two shillingsahead, to look at plug $ tire out a track by racing haif mile in four minutes, is to-day only inhab- ited by tobacco cuds, peanut shucks and cigar Sees Le = stubs, and a smell of Uver. Tueoratorsthatwere | e¥es- She asks in hardly distinguishable zib- ed for what they didn’t know about farm- | berish for a baby to eat, and makes effortsto get be Ing, and what they did know about politics, | hold of the children. The men, getting tired ot | heel of perpetual poverty which exists ve fired pene Get us ia the faces of the | the fearsot their wives, determined totryto catch | in the wealthiest and most poverty-stricken city candor Ee aaah and have zone Wome | tne ereature, and for the last week crowds of | inthe world 11. The farmers that hitched up the old mares | farmers have been daily and nightly chasing and caine to town with the family, the colts | her, without success. The first effort ‘to catch following, and who lost the colts in town when | her was made a week ago by John Roberts, a they got ready to go home, and had to let Hi- | blacksinith. The wild creature had appeared ram hold the team while they run up and down | Several times at a fire, which it was ae habit of the streets whistling to the ‘colts and swearing | Corey Moore, colored, of the neighborhood, to because the colts insisted on following off a |lzht after dark in the yard of his house team of strange geldings, have returned to | for the preparation of his meals. Roberts was the farms with headaches from drinking imita- | Put there to watch for her and she appeared tion cider made of dried apples and sugar and | Ven before the flatnes were well kindled. She water, and they have sworn that is the last | Presented such a wild look in the half lzht and fair they will ever attend. The man | asked for food in such @ wild fashion that Rob- with the patent churn, that can bring | rts was demoralized. He recovered, Fatah eight pounds of butter from a photograph of a | Made an outcry and attempted to seize the wo- pan of milk, bya simple turn of the wrist, has | man, but she allppea gta his hands and dis- packed up his churn and got a job, doing chores | appeared in the dark shadows of the wood. at a country tavern for his board for the winter. | Tuesday morning Mannar Steven Cawell caught The sewing machine agents who lied six weeks | *ixht of the creature and chased her across an about their machines, have got onto wagonsand | Open field. He was badly hurt in his efforts to are traveling about the country trading sewing | keep up with her and reported that ehe outran a buck @nd cleared four corn rows at a leap. machines for farmers’ notes. ‘The ‘busses that That same night she was in patioed thoes the Though the utmost of life's best hours Found, as it cannot now find, words; Though desert sands were sweet as lowers And flowers coult sing like birds, But children never heard them, never ‘They felt a child's foot leap and run; ‘This were a drearier star than ever Yet looked upon the sun. ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE. ————__-e-_______ A WILD WOMAN OF, THE Woops. ary to an up-town store, of the turt 5 eis in New York an almost entire absence ti atures of Lon- ‘ty life, and that is in the open-air markets: which are held in ail the crowded districts of the British metropolis once or twice a week. These mar! nist of open stali side of large proughfares, and police regulations, do an enor- Formerly something of the same kind existed in Sth avenue, and a few hueksters ‘en on the avenues on the east side of ity, but this bears no comparison to the hts to be witnessed every Saturday night in Ss mand the poorer suburbs. Every con- anes ceivable article for houschold consam For months past there haye been rumors of a | 4), cold in the street, and wares pi terrible apparition which has frightened all the | ¢"° women and children in Clear Creek towns! The women say that for two weeks they have | been subject. to terrifying visits, in the absence | of their husbands, from a creature like a shiny black negress, with loag hair and gleaming ‘Terror Inspired in North Carolina by a Baby-cating Negress—Attempts te Capture ier. pecial Dicpztch to the Philadelphia Times toite, N.C. oil lamps or tore es. There the cheap Jack reizt and there the saddest 1 ten enacted. nged districts ens drew his inspira: all who are familiar with them, Lay utterly absent from city ite on this si | Atlantic, where, let the pressure of hard times vhat i it can bear no comparison to the ung Lady. (Lucy as a From the Chicago Tribune. e kindness tothe little aon his tail you read the other day, had grown up to be a Young Lady she was quite good looking, and wore a creat many nice clothes. She had been to Boarding School, and when she came home again had for- gotten how to do any Work. Bat she could play the “ Maiden’s Prayer” and the “Battle of Prague” on the piano very Niceiy w did not seem to be satistied, tor he was a person of no Culture, who said persons ought to know: how to Cook and be of some Earthly Account around the house. He would say , w i god, ean they?” “Not a great deal,” repli the horse re- porter, © Linco: “Well, 60 long,” said the short man. “Bon jour,” responded the harse reporter, “I don’t know what bon jour is, bat I heard the literary editor say it the other day, and he’s far too fly to make any mistakes,” ———_+e-__,__ A Practical Police Regulation. The police of Paris, says the Pail Mall Gazette, do not appear to share the general'beliet of their London brethren that all people who are taken suddenly ill in the streets must be drunk. Instead of taking them to a cold police cell and leaving them alone to take their chance of life or death, they even go so far as to provide for medical treatment. Additional provision is now ran to the fair grounds as fast as possible, made sixty dollars oa killed a hundred’ ’ dollar | the gloom of the woods by the kindling of a fire horse, have been driven under the shed, ; ad was chased by thirty men without success. and the proprietors are figuring up the profits | Capt. Marsh Allen later in the day met her in as they whittle a shingle in front of their barns | the neighborhood, with her face torn and bleed- and chew plug tobacco and say, “Well, hang | ing and a long, bloody knife in her hand. The afair, anyway.” The fair ground is closed. | creature was naked and so unearthly and terri- The last bull has been led home by the nose. | ble looking to him that he says he is not sure it The last crate ot sheep and the last load of hogs | !8 a human being. Her hair reached almost to have gone to the farms, the last squealing | her feet, but was kinky, like that of the African. horse has pranced down the street with a card | It is not merefright which has caused thecountry tied to his bridle, and a proud farmer boy hang- | People to organize in their attempts to catch the ing to the haJter, and running to keep up, ex- ting every minute to be kicked in the ribs. ‘he hoarse lunatic that sells stuff to take grease 8 : ik i fF E 5 2 bi superintended the floral gratis have gone home wit! being made for such cases. Every police station is to be provided with portable medicine chests, to be used after the chemists’ shops are closed business. It seems to be definitely settled that anybody who aspires to be anybody must have a winter residence in Washington. Formerly the Senator or Representative who owned ahouse of this class the present season affords close = yment. ile speaking on this subject, one is naturally led to theatrical costumes generally, and Mr. Horner, the costumer, informed me ti it ed in the jat a dress chest style, theat- here was the rarest kind of a bird; now at least pew of them own or rent property in the Dis- Sree lag See “Now, my son,” said a father to his fifteen- enfoes boy, “it wie not be long before you will have to begin on your own what business at night, containin; medical and of twenty francs for attendance of one of these doctors is paid by the munici We in the first instance, and afterward recovered from such of those who har e required his services as are able pay. i api ‘ which are ranged « fl