Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1882, Page 3

THE EVENIN és “THE CHARMING CAPITAL” REINE’S SUBTLE REFLECTION, & New Pavement on Penusylvania Avenue—Street Manners in Washing. ton. The Comment of a Chicago Girl on a Play with an Odd Plot. Washington Corres; Wasur one. Overt om ten sky is clear and blue, and the From the Chicago Tribune, New York Tims. “Do you like Reginald 2” he day is a perfect | “No,” replied Reine MeCloskey, nervously pulling to pieces as she spoke a blush rose that fun shines so fervently that overeoateare eupeT- | nad a moment before fallen from the stem, “he fiuous garmer foot are dry paye-| makes me tired.” ments, es aote and secluded streets, | Reine and her best girl friend Pansy Perkins were standing In the conservatory of Constcliff ; castle this dreary November afternoon, when nia avenue shows | the skies were overcast with sulien looking of Congressmen,and groups of then | clouds whose presence foretold a coming storm. otelsdiseussing the eventsofthe | They had been friends from youth, notwith- with more interest than they sp-/ standing that Pansy had a seal skin sacque two the troublesome questions of the | winters before, gét on the right side of the revenue, and finance which are | Wheat market, and gave one to Reine. 2 7 bers of Con-| Theirs was indeed a deathless affection. ken up. members of Con-| Theirs : aus Arse Have you seen ‘Daniel Rochat?"” asked ders who come | pansy, suddenly changing the subject ot con- n to like the charming capital | yersation. from those of political import-; ‘* No, of society has its charm t right of things y et first and crowsa| equainted with i fi ‘nt in the | the coun- where a few patc »w linger to tell of the The throng of night are found a’ Fecent electic Pearto have i tariff, inter f00n to be «what Js It about ?” y. A man wants to marry a him terribly. They are mar- en the girl wants tae church. The : us is an infidel, but finally ii do as she likes. Then the girl says have him at all, and they part very fredo; [Tied by to hav with the oppe Way of drive: stories of snow- weather, to find unobstructed ‘ear, bright skies. The sno day night coy reets an 1 a mantle an inch thick, but. b y | play located 2” n of Tue sidewalks w fore noon o: from the str vements w is Kearce a vertig: Commissioners ot t & good deal of praise for having be: almost finisied a much-needed since the late This city, wit treet In Switzerland.” says Reine, a sigh of relief escaping Ah! “I thought no American girl would so far noth asphaltum | forget herself.” + Wednesday the snow had meited | he and To-« 2 The Decay of Literature. From tho Cornhill Maguzine. | About thirty years ago there were novelists of | the first rank; writers such that the announce- nd more of | Ment of anew publication by them sent a thrill y in country, is through every corner not inaccessible to circu- of sidewalks, @ | lating libraries. In the period from twenty to Its fifty miles, more or ars removed from us we had been ster- paved with asphaitum con- on either ae with brick the new power revealed, though not for ments, an th uneven, and uncomfor time, in “Vanity Fair,” and had eagerly part as to constrai accepted “Pendennis” and the ‘Newcomes” he road for comforta- ; and “Esmond.” A foolish controversy, Gig takione of ts ae come aeus Of stilt sometimes continued, was raging as iaplace the thing more eom- to the rival merits of their author and fort alk onthe the contemporary author of “Pickwick” side o: ue, from the and “David Copperfield.” Wiser persons Capitol west to pee enjoyed both, and there were few months in he Ux which one did not greet with delight the ap- nee of a number of one serial in the far yellow, and another in the equally fa- millar green. Then the whole literary world kad just been thrown into an excitement, never since paralleled, by the sudden apparition of “Jane Eyre” A greater writer was making a more gradual approach to fame by the pubiica- tion of the “Scenes of Clerical Life.” And be- sides Thackeray, Dickens, Miss Bronte, and 1 Georse Eliot, a number of writers, some happily 2 of keeping to the | stilt living, provided agreeable entertainment will tind that no in the intervals, and mig rgarded as at n by anybody | jeg: Lord Lytton—to ury toward | the dead—was publishing “My de of the ." and “The Caxtons,” which are at least nony into elient specimens of good literary crafts- he @reet by | nlp: daskell produced “Ruth” and and Kingsley wrote “Alton and “Hypatia,” and “Westward books which, if they will not bear the It is apparent that to | closest inspection in all respects, show at least the ladies who walk on! a vigor and ot it attraction, | he hard to produce a later parallel. for the w ct them as if they were | danserous pernes bean maznets, elbowing cach other out | of the way fron Window to window the length of the of the discomforts of crow ding or the danger to frocks or tender et. pleasant to walk upon as It would be a good | rs could learn how | n with the same ts and comforts of pedes- in New York and other nh who tries populous the ole to obe Tigh Buch se else. h rect of the sheps It is rather perhaps, to ask whether we have . But, allowing every reader to s s favorite or pair of favorites to be worthy champions of the moderns, he will find | it hard'to Hl up a list capable of doing battle | against their predecessors. “Haye we any coun- lancng considerations to suggest? Is | there any department of Hterature in which we | can claim a preponderance as distinct as our ir, who arrived on their | predecessors in this direction? us poetry, evymoon tr me “a S vater- _ Philosephy. fiction, we seem to have the worst Roney meen trip ati x erlelwated Scotch water) D7 a wien ta ver one Ghectenin Ghats ing-place when accor nuodations was at a prem- might make a stand. History should be a strong fam, had a mattress spread for them by a com- point, for in history we are approaching the passions n-keeper in one of his bathrooms. | scienWe fleld: and in history nobody can In the middle of the night the house was | doubt that we have made In some respects ks proceeding from the | C8ormous advances. ‘The Anglo-Saxon and vei. | Charlemagne have been nearly abolished, and the matter? Well, | that is understood to mean that we have made ning to ring for a) great advance in accuracy of research. But, nat she supposed it sharply. see A Bridal Coupic Doused. From the Paterson A newly from the literary point of view, it may be doubted whether we could meet without mis- iving snch a champion as Macaulay. The dif- ference is significant. It iseasy to point out Ma- canlay’s glaring detects; the limitation of his political views; the offensive slitter of his style; and, in that respect, at least one living historian seems to be justly his superior. Yet, when we read the “Essay and the first part of the “History,” we are less contident. The extraor- dinary fuliness ot knowledge, the command of jmaterial, the power of grouping events and forming them into a clear and flowing narrative perched like a monkey | are so undeniable that we are inclined to admit, uttering the mest lamen- | in of his faults, that he is unapproached good man was fumbling | by successors in the power which goes i tofind thedoor, | toa monumental work. Modern writers seem | to be sometimes the victims of an indiges- tion caught at the State Paper Office; some- times they are tempted to tack together a ! serles of brilliant pamphlets and trust to for- tune to make it a history. At present they seem scarcely capable of turning out work so Massive, so finely executed, and marked by such unity of design as their forefathers. And yet we may admit that, in history at least, we have the advantage of a serious and ener- | getic body of students really achieving good work, and at least accumulating the material of literary triumphs. caesiog a Te bance ei has ‘K cts the conclusion seems to be inevitable. Trae euasiaese SER ue fog terary, like the natural, harvest has been considered 'y by any stretch of | of tate blighted and scanty. We have passed nation. But Jf we burn a dead body to | froma land flowing with milk ard hon we do or neel do injury to nobody, comparative d As Johnson said when he is nothing unwholesome in the ashes, , Went from England to Scotland, we see the h may be preserved with reverent care SoWer dying away to the stalk. Ina utilitarian ered Felies, aud people who prefer to burn a th let them “lie in cold lave both sense and! Indeed, we have never cument against EY q E) use of cold water om the most de- Her husband, in ther cord on | ich, but the only liberal detuze of water, 'y The unhappy pai nedin unison. When id the floor of the ro: water, and n flooded with ion a Good Thing. World. There are only three ways in which dead bodies can be disposed of—either in earth, sea or fire. There are obvious objections, on the score of good taste, to sending our dead to be torn to pieces It is also certain that ards, with slowly imal matter leads to il being poisoned by the production of putref: ievement—so far, at least as literature is concerned—we have been progressing back- ebstructic ecience on their heard of anyt emation Belgium dead bod rot ward. Great names are scarce; there is hardly a leader left who can stir the enthusiasm of the young and make us feel that the torch of in- tellectual light is being deliy 1 into worthy hands. Ifwe would not flatter the time, must we not confess that we are at least crossing a barren zone, and at present without any distinet glimpse ot a fertile sezion beyond? eee might be preser death, lest it We do not si i aiter 1 ¢or analysis. | ror of those bishops | . think that crema- » pupular belief in the oF can we affect to ome secretary, who, - bruited in his pres- asied with korrer: “But, we do for burial certiticate nd has gone on atter the sac ; n the buriat chard Croxs, seems in the constitution of so- st_to be more difficult to esurrection ot a body which a | n and diffested than ot one re- daced to ashes in a funeral pyre. - Lady Billiardists. From the Detroit Poet and Tribune. | Abt ‘d table manufacturer thus alludes to the growth of love for this sport among the | ladies and its happy consequences: I know of | many ladies in first-class society who are very | fond of billiards, and, moreover, play very well. There is one case in particular df a lady who is one of our customers, who has been playing the game for more than three years. She Is the wife of a prominent banker living in Fifth avenue. She bought a table for her son, who was anxious to learn to play. It was a 5x10 table, and about ‘a month ago she asked to have it cut down to 4!¢x9, which 1s the popular size at the present time. She had become interested, and she played as partner with her boy. Iasked her when she called: “Well, madam, how do you like the game?” “Oh, it is just splendid!” she replied, enthusiastically. ‘I would rather give up my piano than lose my billiard table. You What pleasure my son and T have. playing “tor : wi ieasure my 801 Asopesti beeen ae gether. T Rave learned to play mee all he as Hamlet. “One of his legs,” | “ifficult shots. I can make a draw, or a follow, on kiss shot very easily now, and I could reported to have said, “ig | OT ” c. but it is not y to’ eay hardly strike a ball when I began. nan the whici is the more perfect poem.” ———_---______ 20. — Now and Then. From the Pittsburg Telegraph. Jas. W. Riley writes prettily ina recent poem, “The touches of her hands are like the fall of veivet snowflakes.” When James was, say 6 or Tyears of age, and had been naughty, he ex pressed himself differently and more ‘briefi simply remarking, “Jupiter, how the old lady can spank!” then, w fice of m Irvine’s Hamlets Legu Fron: tie London Globe. Oscar Wilde's erilipze of Mrs. Langtry's first | ‘appearance, says the Standard,is ‘a vapid paan | of beauty in the abstract and the concrete.” | “Abstract” beauty. we take it, is logically that | apart from the material Canes at the Opera. Anew fashion in Paris is that of spoon-shaped | bonnets. They do not stand up straight above the head, as did those of a similar form which ae some fifteen years ago. but the pets over the wearer's brow. So far et, with the fronts lined Another new fashion substantial | SENSATIoNIN 4 Curcaco Covrt.—A dramatic % ‘and startling scene occurred in the Sturla-Stiles ————. murder case in Chicago yesterday. The de- fendant, Sturla, went on the stand not long after | the openinz of court and the story of her relations with the —_ Stiles, she at last killed. It was a long recital of abuse mem the London Vanity Fair. ‘The hymnology of the poets of the Salvation Army puts the eforts of Pusey and Roundell Palmer in the siade. The newest thing in the shape of refrains is as WS: if you can’t get in at the golden gate, grew nervous When Get over the ganion wall.” to deseribe her walk into the city ——_— the rain from Sunnyside on the Wylie stands the abuse that has been | before the murder, she nhim with great equanimity, and a | hands and fell forward from the capacious smile iv said to illuminate | in hysterical convulsions which it Bis conntenarce wheoeve> be rade that he is a | a dozen mea to restrain. Wi Blockhead, dunee, scouxdrel, ete, im the atar woute journals. ty for which it would | “ANCIENT THEATERS, Pestgns and Management of Grecian ind Roman Structures—The Divisions of the Caver—Admission Tickets Made of Hone, Bronze and Potters? Warc— The Stage and Stage Machincry, There was evidently a remarkable sameness in the theaters of the various countries through- out the ancient world. for this is seen in the re- mains of the present day. That of Antioch, in Asia, is precisely as that in Pompeti. The Per- sian, Grecian and Roman theaters were all after the same general plan. Many of the thea- ters were so large that all the people could not hear the words uttered on the stage; hence were not an “‘audience” in our modern sense of the ‘word, but mere spectators in the spectaculum only. The reader may be surprised in reading this article at the minuteness of detail of thea- ters that existed thousands of years ago here given, but there is ample authority for all the statements, for some of the very “props,” to use a modern professional word, are in exist- ence at the present di Some of those found at Pompeii are preserved in the Museum at Na- ples. THEATERS AT POMPETI. There were two theaters at Pompeli—one de- voted to comedy, the other to tragedy. One was, or is, larger than the other, so they had their specialties then as now. The largest one is described nere, as it Is In general construction the same as those of ancient Greece, and will answer well, or better. asa model, betng the most perfect in existence, due to the peculiar manner of its preservation. There are three principal divisions of the cavem, or, as they are now styled, tiers. The lowest, as in present edifices was the most select—the orchestra chairs or parquet. There were only four or fire rows of seats in this tier. These were oc- cupied by the dignitaries of the city. These seats were more like platforms, one above the other, and here the spectators, servants or slaves brought thelr seats or chairs. These were usuaily the bisellia, or chairs constructed for None but the magistrates of the 'y were allowed these locations. Pliny gives a description of these sittings of the Theatrum. Nearly all the remains of ancient theaters were constructed against embankments, often cut out of the solid rock, as that of Petrea, Syra- cuse and others. Sometimes the upper tiers rested on arched corridors, so that the public could enter the inclosure directly from the strect level above. .These upper corridors were sub- divided into boxes, or, classically speaking, caver. A solid marble rail or balustrade sepa- rated one cavea from the other. THE DIVISION OF SEATS. The tiers collectively were called the hemicy- clium, and as the division of the individual seats were marked off, they formed a kind of wedge shape, the line of separation being drawn from the axis of the hemicycle, hence they took the name of cunei. The upper tier was for pbs, and, what is singular, for the women, although modern artists in depicting scenes and games in such places, have placed women with the men, as can be seen in the famous Roman race, a copy of which is the subject of the drop curtain at the Union Square Theater. As the dignitaries occupied the lowest or first tier, and the plebs, Women and slaves were on the upper tier, naturally the people of the middle class found ‘their seats in the intervening space. All of the tiers were separated by a marble wall or balusirade. They had tickets of entrance in anctent days as at present, or as they were then denominated, tessera. These were sometimes made of bone like a modern domino, sometimes of bronze or even of potter's ware. Many of these are in existence at the present day. There are algo some found in the shape of a ring, probably for convenience sake; they could be strung on a cord as received and more readily counted when “counting up the house.” The tessera also were sometimes cut in the form of the location they designated—the cunei, cave: or sedilia—-of the person holding it. The name of the drama to be represented was sometimes stamped on these tickets of admission. One has been found with the name of Aischylus, and no doubt he was the author of some play enacted, perhaps his “Prometheus.” THE PRICE OF SEATS. The price of seats was, as in modern times, “according to location.” Men were stationed at the entrances who proclaimed aloud the price of a ticket, unless it was a gratuitous fete given by the government or some magistrate, which was often the case. What the usual price was may be gathered from what is re- corded of Plantus, who is a famous ancient play- wright. This author, on a represention of one of his pieces said: ‘Let all people pay as aplece; those who have not got it retire to thelr homes.” As the ancient as was a unit in computation of money, and its value varied under different Em- perors, at the present day it would be rather difficult to fix the price of a ticket of ad mission to an ancient theater according to the modern standard. As a coin the as was copper, and, perhaps, in translation it might be called a penny, but this might be as far wrong as the old translators of the Bible were when they translated the denarius a penny. A denarius, as used in the Bible ages and there mentioned, was the full price of a day's labor, and so the Roman coin here mentioned may have been the same; so, comparatively, the value of agessera in ancient days toa the ter had its equivalent in the price of a ticket to au ordinary modern theater, viz., a day’s wages— that is, for the best location. IN THE THEATER. On entering the theatrum the tessera was handed to the designator, who passed it to the locarius. who found the seat it called for. These officers are now called ushers. If the sun was warm the velarium would be drawn over your head. This velarium was a large awning drawn with ropes and pulleys over the heads of the audience. In the early days of Rome these were ridiculed asa piece of Grecian effeminacy, but after a while luxurious Romans adopted them generally, and Ciesar had one of silk over his sedile. Nero, to exhibit his magnificence, went further, to have his velarium of the richest pur- ple silk, embroidered with gold. The yoluptu- ous Carligula, when the theater was fall, in order to amuse himself, would have the velarwm suddenly withdrawn of a hot summer's day and let the full heat of the sun upon the heads of the spectators. Sometimes the winds were so high these awnings could not be drawn; then, the poet Martial tells us, people kept their hats on. The rings in the wall of the upper tler that supported the poles‘from whence these awnings were suspended can be still seen at the theater at Pompeli. These valaria can be seen in the pic- ture of the Roman race. ORCHESTRA PRIVILEGES. The vestal viryzins, out of deference to sacred- ness. were allowed as a body to sit in the orches- tra with the dignified senators, but not indis- criminately. The orchestra was considered al- most sacred, so much so that foreign embassa- dors were not allowed to sit there for the reason that freedmen or sons of freedmen were some times found among them. The stage was about the same average height as in modern theaters. Below was the hyposcenium, where were the scene shifters and machinst. As there was no roof there could be no “rigging loft,” ‘as in modern buildings, and the aulaem or curtains descended so as to expose the stage and actors, and when the play ended it rose. The procenium was built up with architectural magnificence, with what would be called in modern theaters “practical doors” for the use of the actors as well as for the special entrance to the distin- guished personages in the orchestra. At the center door the Em r entered—that ia, in Rome—and the high functionaries in other cities. To the right the household and vestals entered; to the left was the entrance of guests and stran- gers. This architectural facade, as it might be termed by modern Italians, was technically styled scena stabilis. Behind the proscenium were the wings—or, as then called, scena duc- tilis—which appears to have been the only mova- ble scenes of an ancient theater, Sometheaters had what were termed tribunalia, where the priestesses and vestals sat. COMFORTABLE CUSHIONS. S Citizens usually brought their own cushions, but some took off their toga, folded it and sat on it, thus, while protecting it from the soiled sandals of those who sat behind them, forming acomfortable cushion There is a great deal '| more that could be said about the constraction of ancient theaters, of the scenes and plays en- acted, and of their authors. Many of their dramas have deacended to us of the present day. Even the names of many of the actora are known. Some of these names are still obsery- able, scratched on the walls, After the per- formances were over the vomilories were all Latta) open and the auditors would take their ve. hag seen a theatrical G@ STAR: WASHINGTON. TUES DAY. D’ 5, 1882-DOUBLE SHEET. j FRANK JAMES TURNED PARSON. THE KRUPP WORKS, ‘The Celebrated Iron and Ordnance Factory at Essen. He Pays His Respects te Hob Ingersoll in a Forcible Manner. From the Chicego Times’ Kansas City Special. In aa interview with Frank James, reference was made to Ingersoll, who, when here last week, said the criminal ought to’be hung. The prisoner denounced the Colonel as a blasphemer and a hypocrite. “Ingersoll,” continued Frank, “goes abroad denouncing the Bible, the most sacred of all books. He ridicules its teaching and the Saviour, and yetvamid all this he has hearers to the number of 2,000, while a man for using an indecent word whiledrank will be con- fined thirty days. My God! how can such a state of affairs be? Any man who would assail the sacred book would dare to do anything. The The firm of Frederich Krapp owns near Essen 3,250 good and healthy lodgings for families, in- habited by about 16,000 people. The various colonies are transversed by wide stréets, lighten by gas, and are supplied with good and sufficient water by the aqueduct of the factory. The an- nual rent for family lodgings of from two to four pieces (besides cellar and attic accommoda- tion) varies from 66 to 180 marks (a mark is about 25¢.) Single workmen can find board and lodging at a large boarding-house, capable of holding 1,800, at 80 pfennige (20c. United States currency) a man aday. For more expe- rienced and better paid men a_ special Lord is my helper. I care not what men shall boarding sae a= ent ut up, iy - | @ "y ive or one so okerle aanet me. Ingersoll is doing un- | tack 10 pfennige (273, cents United speakable injury sewing the ead of iniquity it our youth.” A visitor replied: ‘He is having @ good influence upon all. He ts causing them to think. He advocates adherence to nodoctrine. He is a lover and helper of his fel- low men.” James said, speaking to the visitor: “Even in you we have an illustration of evil in- fluence upon the youth. You area young man, and one, I suppose, whose mother endeavored torear in the light of Ciristian truth, but in your advocacy of Ingersoll you areon the down- ward path, and unless you turn from the evil way you will go to hell.” The visitor, endeay- oring to retrieve, said that he did not indorse Ingersoll, but believed in free thinking; that God never made manto damn him. To this Mr. James replied: ‘In man thereis anintuition which tells him there is a God, and any man who says to the contrary is atypocrite. He de- ceives himself. God does live, and he will some time strike Mmgersoll to the earth for his blas- phemy. How any man can live and have his being in this universe and say there is no God, {don't know.” Turning to the visitor, who said he would h to retire, he said: “If you follow Ingersoll you some day may be where I am now— in jail—and I know finally will bein hell; so turn aside. There is no one more lenient than the Creator, and you may yet escape the torments of hades.” —____~_+e-______ ‘The Monster Trees of California. G. F. Gordon Cumming, in the Gentleman's Magazine. As regards the wonderful size of the sequoia. that isa matter which does not at first fully come to one. The fact is that all the trees are 80 large that one falls to realize the magnitude of the giants. All have increased in propor- tlon. It requires a mental ¢alcnlation to con- vince one’s self that the transtormation is some- thing quite out of the common. It fs only when you come to walk in and out of the hol- low trees and to circle round them and take a constitutional by walking alongside of a fallen giant, or perhaps (if it has done duty asa chimney before it came to grief) by riding up inside the hollow for a considerable distance, that you begin to understand their size. You do so best when, standing on the ground beside @ prostrate tree lying buried ina ditch of its own making, you look upatared wall rising perhaps 15 or 20 feet above your head, bulging outward considerably and extending in a straight line for 300 feet along the ground, and tell yourself that it !s only a tree. The owners of the beantitul grove near the hotel have erected tall ladders to chan people to climb on to some of these heights and walk along the fallen trees as if on garden terraces. It sounds cockney, but it is decidedly pleasant to gaina view of the forest from an elevation of 30 feet. and itis not every one who can scale the red rampart without the ald of the ladders. It you choose to clamber along the upturned roots you may find an airy seat some 40 feet above the States currency) per head and day. There are 150 lodgings set aside for the foreman and off cials of the factory. There is also a common bakery, which turns out annually 130 tons ct d 2,100 tons of black bi ; a butchery, ne meat for the work people from large cattle and 1,500 smaller ani- m, besides shops of every descrip- 8-water manufactory, a tavern Essener Hof,” seven beer saloons with billiards. bowling-alleys, ete. The colony of Kronenberg has a daily market. The trading places, shops, ete., give employment to 270 per- sons, and their annyal transactions amount to 2,250,000 marks, all the sales being ‘‘cash.” On principle, no profits are to bemade, and thus far subsidies have been required every year, the management of the shops, etc., not being an association on the part of the workmen. but an undertaking on that of the firm, and conducted ‘on its account for the benefit of the workpeople. The cast-steel factory has a hospital, a house for contagigus diseases and a bath-house. Special ‘is taken of the schools. School- houses, with twenty airy school-rooms, are pisoed at the disposal of colony Altendorf; ronenberg and Schederhof hate a private school. conducted by one rector, eight male and four female teachers, besides two assistants, The pupils number about 1,000. For instruction in feminine handiwork there are two industrial schools, one for adults, the other for school- girls: the former under the direction of an in- spectre#s and eight female teachers to upwards of 700 pupils; the latter conducted by twelve female teachers, one-half of whom are widows of former workmen. ——_—_+-e-_____ School-Girl Manners and Street Ac= quaintances. From the Philadelphia Ledger. Another school-girl has disappeared in New York, and has been missing for more than a week. The advertisement described her as a richly-areased young girl, quite too old to be kidnapped or carried off against her will, ex- cept by some highly ingenious trick. If she bas run away to visit some relatives, as is suggested, it begins to be time that this was made clear. Another explanation, which occurs to everyone who has noticed the manners of somé, of man: young girls in tne street, is hinted atin the story which Jessie Maillard, another young girl, told lately Ina court of justice. The manners aforesaid are not peculiar to New York. They are probably not understood by the giddy, smil- ing young creatures who make street acquaint- ances for the fun of the thing, as leading to anything but fun and flirtation. The girls are innocent enough of any other meaning, they simply crave the excitement, the novelty of new acquaintance, of possible ad- mirers. American mothers do not watch over the minds ot ground. ‘rhis sounds high, but on furth-| their daughters in the street, nor is it neces- er consideration you begin to marvel | sary, if they watch over them at home. School how such extraordinarily —_ small roots gs. shop girls, factory girls, and all the pretty, can ever have formed a fit pedestal for so pon- | lively young folks that are left to take care of derous a weight. They have literally no depth | themselves and run the chances of street ac- and a comparatively small spread 80 that | quaintances, ought to know that no man makes they have merely asuperficial hold on the earth's acquaintance in the street of any girl whom he surface. Yet this slight support has enabled | means to respect. This is the story Jesse Mail- these huge bodies to resist the wild storms of | lard told: many centuries. All the big trees of the dis- “I first saw him on the sidewalk when I went trict are concentrated in two groves, namely, | into a music store to buy a piece of music. He the little forest gem of Calaveras, and a much | stood outside and dirted his handkerchief at me. larger belt known as the South Park grove, on | I was on my way to school. He joined me, and. the Stanislaus river, about six miles further. | after that we met frequently. In three weeks In the Calaveras grove all the sequolas Ile | he had ruined me.” within an area of 50 acres, over which space} To this silly, flattered child of fifteen, this altogether about 100 lie scattered singly or in | new acquaintance meant a lover in the new groups. Of these 20 attain a circumference of | found admirer. To the young scoundrel who about 80 feet near the base, and one, which Is | afterwards betrayed and deserted her it meant distinguished as the Father of the Forest, is| an intrigue—nothing more. Quite likely he found to measure 110 feet round; it now lies | concluded that a girl who needed no more in- prostrate, and has apparently done so for many | troduction than a flirted handkerchiet was 4 century, tor the well-nigh imperishable wood | equally advised with himself as to the is in part decayed, and long use as a chimney | only footing of such acquaintance. Un- had burned out its inside and destroved its sum- | fortunately the young girl is not so wise. She mit ere it fell. The portion that still remains is like a long mountain, and two large archways have been cut into the side of the sald moun- tain in order that those whose taste lies in that line may ride into the hollow trunk and come out by the further opening. It is estimated that the tree, when perfect, must have been about 450 feet in height. Ofthe trees now standing, four exceed 300 feet in height, and one meas- ures 325. About twenty-five are said to exceed 250 feet. One can, perhaps, better realize what these sizes mean by finding the amount of house room to be obtained within a hollowed tree. Several, such as “Miner's Camp” and “Pioneer's Camp,” have been used as tempo- rary homes. In the latter fifty persons can find aing room; others are used for stabling OT ses. she does not know. They do not stand upon a level. She sees only an * enzagement” of mar- riage ahead, if she looks ahead at all, to come of the “attentions” which are offered. She likes “ presents,” is flattered by even a car ride in such romantic company; accepts invi- tations to theaters, enjoys ‘being fed with sugar-plums or suppers. Her companion is perfectly clear in supposing she openly understands how he is rating her. She does not understand. It is a game at which one only is the loser. If the disappearance follows, who is to blame? __Is itthe mother or nearfriend, who has fondly fancied that ignorance or evil was the best eels for the free-going child? Is it the girl herself, who has read romances enough, in paper covers, but never dreams that they turn out quite differently in real life? Whether it is a Jessie Maillard, alive to tell the shameful story, or a Jennie Cramer, dead and flung up on the beach at New Haven, It is al- ways the girl who suffers. The street acquaint- ance that begins with flirting a handkerchief, ends with a soiled and tearful tragedy, the shreds of a wasted young life, thrown aside asof no account, or trodden under foot. Pretty school girl, pretty shop girl, thoughtless girls everywhere, that are left to manage their own lives, understand, first of all, how you are rated by the street acquaintance. That alone will put you on a level with such false friends. You may not be able to get bracelets. and necklaces, and amusements, and sweetmeats, and perfumery to your liking at home. They cost too much for you to get them? They cost too much, entirely too much, for you to have them by this new and easy way. ———_——_-e-______ Interesting Facts About Hair. Whether the hair should be cut I never could quite satisfy myself. As a physiological prac- tice, I seriously doubt the propriety. Every cutting is a wounding, and there is some sort of bleeding in consequence and waste of vital force, I think it will be found tnat long-lived persons most frequently wear the hair long. The cutting of the hair stimulates to a new growth, to supply the waste. Thus the energy required to maintain the body is drawn off to make good the wanton destruction. It is said, I know, that after the hair has grown to a cer- tain length it loses its vitality at the extremity, and splits or “brooms up.” Whetherthis would be the case if the hair should never be cut I would like to know. When it is cut a fiuid ex- udes, and forms a scab or cicatrix at each wounded extremity, indicating that there had been injury. Women and priests have generally worn long hair. Inever could imagine why this distinc- tion was made. The ancient priest was very often unsexed or devoted to a vow of celibacy, but I cannot surmise whether that had anything to do with it. Kings wore their hair long in im- itation of Samson and the golden Sun-God Mith- jas. I suspect from this that the first men shorn were slaves and laborers; that freemen wore their hair unmutilated, as the crown of a per- fect manhood and manliness. If this be correct, —__~-o.______ A Remarkable Deal in Whist. From the Cincinnati Commercial, Nov. 24. Yesterday afternoon, at the Cuvier club- house, Clay Culbertson, Jerry Ktersted, Alex- ander Starbuck,and E. G. Webster entered into agame ofwhist. After the first hand had been played, Mr. Webster, whose turn it was to deal, took the cards, shuffled them, and, atter they had been cut by Mr. Kiersted, dealt. Each player, as he arranged his cards, appeared to be laboring under some unusual excitement. Mr. Culbertson, whose turn it was to play, and who generally isevery prompt in placing his card on the table, delayed the play until Mr. Starbuck roke the ominous silence which prevailed by exclaiming, ‘Gentlemen, I have the most re- markable whist hand I ever held. I hold thir- teen hearts.” ‘And J,” remarked Mr. Culbert- son, ‘hold equally as remarkable ahand. 1 have thirteen spades.” “And I,” nervously sald Mr. Kierstedt, “have the thirteen diamonds.” “Ofcourse, [ hold the thirteen trumps,” quickly chimed inthe dealer, Mr. Webster. ‘To say the players were unduly excited at such an exposé of the hands but feebly expressed their men- tal condition at the time. The conversation that ensued relative to this unexpected event in whist among the players and meinbers, as they dropped in during the afternoon, was de- cidedly animated. No one had ever heard of holding such hands in whist. A case occurred in a Boston club a year orso ago where a player held the thirteen trumps, and algo a similar case in a New York club, but aside from these two No one could report even such hands as these. ae Storming a Bee's Castle. From the Gridley (Col.) Herald. * For nearly fifteen years past a colony of bees have had their quarters in a large cave situated on the highest bluff of the Buttes. They have occupied the place so long that the rock is gen- erally known as the ‘Bee Rock.” It is located about a half mile northwest of South Butte, and stands alone at the head of an extensive and picturesque glen. The rock is about 50x100 feet at the base, and is from one to six feet wide ontop. To reach the top from three sides it is necessary to climb a perpendicular wall from 150 to 200 feet in height. The top is accessible ‘at only one point, and thereby crawling through crevice barely wide enough for a man to pass. Then a bridge twenty feet long and oné foot wide has to be crossed. It is about 400 feet from the bridge to the ground beneath. On the 16th ot last month a party of men living in thenelgh- borhood of Pennington went to the place de- su] ler, i. with which to ‘assafl the stfonghold. the invaders had nerve en to cross the bridge, but three of them got over all right and fired a blast. Th be characterized by men unshorn as well as ‘women unperverted. I wish that our sclence .and our civilization had better advices for ing the integrity of the hair. a deformity, and pre- mature whiteness a defect. If the head was in health, and the body in proper vigor, I am con- fident that this would not be. Iam hen- sive that our dietetic habits occasion be bleach- ing of the hair; the stiff, arsenic-prepared hat is responsible for much of the baldness. Our hats are unhealthy, from the tricks of the hatters. I is sentimental, vain, utterly unbalanced, and | ON CORONATION EVE. The Preparations that Have Been Made for Crowning Alexander It Moscow. [Scexe—The Imperial Palace at Moscow — Personages—The Cezar, the Minister of Police. The Minister. , Lean take upoa myself to assure you that your life will be safe through- | out the memorabie day soon to dawn upon us. The Czar—Memorable day? Memorable day? | It’s a memorable day Icould very well dispense with it. (Sighs.) Minister—I assure Your Majesty that no pre- caution has been neglected. In the first place there will be nobody inthe streets. Czar—Nobody in the streets? But bless me, that will be rather duil for a coronation. Minister—Nobody but the police, I mean. I have detailed 10,000 mea, who, in assorted di: guises of peasants, moujiks and tie like, will surround and escort Your Majesty's carriage, | filling the air with joyous cries. Czar—But are you certain that there are no nihilists among them? Minister—I have provided for that. Each man is instructed the moment that he notices a | suspicious movement on the part ofhis neighbor to blow out that neighbor's brains. Czar—But, Tsay, I may be hit by one of the | fying balls, you know. | Minister—Then, Your Majesty, I will suppress: the revolvers and serve out daggers instead. Czat—An_ improvement—a impro | ment. | route ot the proc | _ Minister—They have been seen to and will be | duly locked and the curtains will be drawn, | Czar—But the fellows might pot_ me through | | the glass, you know. They wouldn't stazd at | smashing it—they have no respect for anything. | Minister—Then I will have all the windows | boarded up. | Czar. atl be expensive, won't mnignt be | down into their cellars and keep them there for | twenty-four hours. | . Minister—An excellent idea and one that re- | fleets great crediton Your Majesty's imperial in- | genuity. But twill permit myself to observe that if coniined to the cellars the population would have opportunities for tuaneliny —— Czar—By Saint Sergius, 1 never ught of that! Still we might put'a detective in each cellar to give the alarm. Minister—But if t! household of nihilist would be strangled bet Czar—Right, right! 1 fear we nust abandon | the idea and fall back on boarding up the win- dows. As to the chureh. | Minister—It has been rigidly inspected and the wails have been sounded. Czar—The pictures behind which a ni— Minister—I have had them taken down and | the organ pipes removed. The whole building !isas bare as my hand. There is not cover for a | cat, let alone a cons tor. | Czar—Still it is a pity to omit the musical | portion of the ceremon: t | _ Minister—We shall have a band from one o' | Your Majesty's most faitliful regiments. Cazar—Be sure there are no explosives in the brasses, and see that no nihilist conceals him- self in the dru | Minister— 1 post one of my trustiest men inside of it, Your Majesty. As for the list of in- | | vited guests, I shall go over that in person and give special attention to the delivery of the in- vitations. Czar—It seems tome that there is a good | deal of risk about that. A ticket migit go | astray or one might be forged. | _Minister—Ye-es, there's no denying that. Stil, [ don’t see how—bat let me see, is it ab- ; Solutely nece-sary that there should be any | | Spectator present? | Czar—Certainly not! | Minister—In that eI think it would im- | Part an additional character of grandeur to the ; ceremony were it performed without the | presence of a crowd to stare and distract, Sup- | | pose that we make it a mere tete-a-tete be- tween Your Majesty and Divine Providence? Czar—That is by no means a bad idea, and it has something majestic and autocratic about It, You may cancel the list of ényitations. The vaults of the cathedral have, I suppose—— Minister—They have been visited, Sire, and | the only mine; we found there has been carefully removed, so that there is not the slightest ground for apprehensien on that score. eo my carriage has been made iron- clad? Minister—It has, Sire; four inches of iron, with a three-foot backing of solid teak. All being seen to, I Czar—But, hold on, we have overlooked the greatest danger of ‘all, The crown! They might have a cartridge, or a spring-gun, or someting, in it, and blow my annointed head off! Minister—Your Majesty need not fear. I will | carry the crown ina hat-box under my own arm and give it to the Patriarch with my own hands. Czar—Tis well! All our arrangements, then, | aremade. I find them satisfactory, and will re- ward your prudent and loyal care. Good-night! | Ishall see you in the morning. (Exit Minister.) Now, let me see, who in thunder shall [ set- to keep an eye on him till to-morrow morning?— Translated freely from che French of P. Veron. ——— How Thurlow Weed Cultivated His Memory. From the New York World. Within the past month Mr. Weed, in the course of an interview, was told: ‘You seem to remember as well as ever.” ‘Better than I did once, I hope,” he answerea. “If I had not cultivated my memory I should have been a dis- | mal failure. Ihadto adopt a regular method, and I hit on one that was very eftective. Some of my triends hed thought I was ‘cut out for a politiclan’—that is, I probably impressed my views strongly on those about me. But I saw | at once a fatal weakness. My memory was a |sieve. I could remember nothing. Dates, | names, appointments, faces—everything escaped me. I sald to my wife: ‘Catherine, I shall never make a successful politician, for I cannot remem- ber, aud that is a prime necessity of politicians. A politician who seesa man once should re- member him for ever.’ My wife told me that I must train my memory. So, whenI came home that night I sat down alone and spent fifteen minutes trying silently to recall the events of the day. I could remember little at first; now Iremember that I could not then remember what I had for breakfast. Finally I fourd I could recall more. Events came back to me | more minutely and more accurately. After afort- night orso of this Catherine said: ‘Why don't you tell it to me? It would be interesting, and my interest in it would stimulate you.’ Then I began a habit of oral confession, as it were, which I followed for almost fifty years. Every night, the last thing before retiring, I told my wife everything that I could recall that had happened to me or about me during the day. I generally recalled the very dishes I had for breakfast, dinner and tea; the ple T had seen, and what they said; the editorials I had written, and an abstract of them; the letters I had sent and received, and_ the v language used as near as_ possible; when,! had walked or ridden—everything, in short, that had come within my knowledge. I found I could say my lesson better and better every year, and, instead of growing irksome, it got tobe a pleasure to Tun the events of the day in review. I am in- sion? it? | tage is that it gives opportunity tor ~ont, j confiding women to be betrayed by hearness’ And how about the windows along the | ¢! It f betier to drive all the inhabitants | to swear to the jesting purpose, |riage. The Brooklyn pair are not t in instances of a supposed husband tl Ris marriage ties because the priest was duly ordained; or the license was not issued due form; or the register wassigned in fletiti Dames. English law was formerly very iu such requirements, and stil ie — as essential. nike Policy prevails in several of the states. The advantages of it are that it facilitates ascertaine. | ing who are married, and ewer ps V3 idren, of support of wives, legitimacy of chi descent of property ; dignity of the mari: iso, that It enhances the relation. Thea sadvane libertines; for whatever the required ceremonies are, the man, if they are made essential to wifee hood, by a crafty imitation of them can reserve alegal right to repudiate at his pleasure the an Who has believed herself his wife. For this reason chiefly, 1any of the states, New York espectally, treat any actual agreement of competent persons to take each other in mat. riage as avalid marriage, no matter how ft ig expressed or how itis proved. Their laws do indeed prescribe ceremonies, perhaps require @ license, or a publication of banns, or the atten- dance of a priest « zistrate, or a record of the affair; if, he _ either of these things is neglected, the 0 is fined or possibly im- prisoned—the neglect forms no objection to the marriage, A judgment by Chief Justice Fol widely published a few years age trine in very sal ord in which most informal and irregular agreements of marriage have been en- force awedding solemnized by a mock an impromptu bargain between an en- vazed couple while riding by themselves in@ saman’sintroduction ofa womanataboard- ing-tiouse or atnong common friendsas his wife; and the like. We counsel the Brooklyn pair to © time in inquiring as to the clerical Character of the man who married them, That | they seriously declared themselves man and wife would be enough in New York state to make them so. + But there is another element. Was the affair practical joke? Undoubtedly the law rex a serious purpose of marriage. A wed- a fun is not a wedding in law. This has been several times decided; witness a New Jer- sey case in which young people onan exe ’ party arranged a mock wedding in sport, and! two of them stood up, and one of the older an@ graver jnen present Was asked to perform the ceremony, which he did. The jokers did not know that he happened to be a justice, and he did not know that the affair was a joke. But a! few days afterward, when the friends of the young lady heard that the justice was about to send notice of the marriage to be recorded, there was anxiety and consternation among them. By, means of an expensive lawsuit, lasting two or three years, by calling witnesses of the affair nd bya Ine bored argument in court, they succeeded inget~ ting a judgment that there had been n 7 2m earnest if their responses were made “only fun.” But this ts a matter difiucalt of proof, after lapse of time; hence It may be safely sald | that few of the sports of young people are sillier and more dangerous than a wedding In fen. : — = Finding Arabi. Papers. Letter from Arabi's Thestory of the finding of Arabi Pasha’s papers is as follows: On the evening ofthe 224 of Octo- ber Arabi sald to me: “My liteand honor are in} ur hands and in the hands of England; if you can get me an interview with my servant, Mus hamed Ibn Ahmed, I will give you all my papers which escaped Tel-el-Kebir and the looting of my house at Cairo, and they are by far the most important instruments for my defense.” Sir Bd= ward Malet and Sir Charles Wilson generously came to the rescue, and on the afternoon of the following day the negro half-caste Mue haured Ibn Ahmed, received his master’s orders, in the presence of Sir Charles Wilson, to treat, as brothers the English lawyers and surrender to them the documents he had so faithrally guarded, Arabi described minutely the differ- ent hiding places of the papers—in holes of the wall, behind the backs of pictures, and in his wife's dress; and the servant promised obe- dience. Muhamed In Ahmed has probably no other property in the world than a blue shirt and a ragged cloth coat to coyer it, but neither, terrors nor bribes could shake his allegiance to his fallen but beloved master, “Give me to- night,” he said, “to open the receptacles the Pasha alludes to, and to-morrow morning the papers are in your hands.” 1 slept little that? night, as I felt how much depended on the re- sult; the next morning I was very early with’ Arabi. From the window of the cell I saw his son and servant arrive. TIwent downto meet them. The news they brought was not en-/ couraging. Muhamed Tewsik’s powerful agents had sinelt'a rat, and palace emissaries during, the night had told the wife ot Arabi that on the’ morrow her husband would be surrendered to the tender mercies of Abdul Hamid at Stame! boul. She had fled to @ friend's house and taken the papers with her. “Your father's honor, and, perhaps, his life,” I told the son, lepends on your finding your mother. I con- jure you to lose no time. Three hours hence and it may be too late.” Mubaimed Ibn Abi Arabi is a slender, dark-complexioned youth 21, with one eye hopelessly destroyed.” He has al been his father's darling. He grasped my hand and said, I am sure [can find h grant me two hours’ delay, and I will joi ES at Shepheard’s hotel—with the papers.” Mu- hamed [bn Ahmed Arabi and his servant : peared. and I took up a post of observation the well-known and cool veranda of the Cairo hosteiry. Hardly an hour had elapred when a brougham was hastily driven to the door, re and iy friend Muhamed hastily descended, and, carry a large parcel in his hand, rushed up the steps and Into my room. Fiveminntes later. and 1 was deep in the exhibits of my client Ah- med Arabi. From a woolen cloth, the distine- tive feature of which wasa yellow ace of apades, the boy drew forth, one after another, father’s hidden papers. With Mr. Napler's as- sistance, I took them one after the other and: placed them in a case—firmans, letters from, men in high places at the Im Ottoman Court, decrees of the Ulema of Egypt, covered with hundreds ofseals and signatures, records of Cabinet Councils, and papers of every con- ceivable description. I must confess I never shook hands with any one more cordially than I did with the faithful Muhamed Ibn Ahmed. Two hours afterward the papers were in Het Majesty's Consulate, initiated and numbered by, Sir Charles Wilson and myself. Time will show, the value of my trouoailie. Phrases of Women, From the London Spectator. Wrinkles disfigure a woman less than {ile nature.—Dupuy. Woman is an idol that man worships until he, throws it down. Women love always; when earth slips from: them they take refuge in heaven. { The whisper of a beautiful womancan be heard farther than the loudest call of duty. There is no torture that a woman would suffer to enhance her beauty.—Montaigne. ‘ Of all things that man possesses women alone take pleasure in being possessed.—Malherbe. fore promising a woman to iove og, one should have seen them all, or only her.—A. Dupuy. We meet in society many beautital and debted to this discipline for a memory of some- what, unusual tenacity, and I recommend the ice to all who expect to have much to do with influencing men.’ An Odd Weddiug. From the New York Tribune. A story is current of an odd wedding in Brook- lyn. It seems that an aged colored man em- ployed as ‘‘packer” in a large china and art goods establishment, is also a preacher of the the new era of freedom, when it ever shall dawn, 4 Methodist Episcopal persuasion. On a@ recent tive women whom we think would make lent wives—for our friends. sions to clerical dignity, or in sober earnest, or ae | whether one may have acted in jest the other in ‘ ;