Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1882, Page 3

CITY AND DISTRICT. THE NAVY VARD CHANNEL. Eugineer Menocal’s Pian for Improv- ing it x © SHE CHANNED THREATENED WITH COMPLETE EX- TINCTION BY THE ACCUMULATION OF SILT—A CHEAP METHOD PROPOSED FOR EANING IT OUT—A LECTURE BEFORE THE NAVAL INSTI- TUTE LAST EVENING. Civil Engineer A. G. Menocal, U.S.N., deliv. interesting lecture last evening be- ashington branch ot the Naval Insti- artment building. His improvement of the In the opening he said Washington navy yard. ‘that this channel does not, in its present condi- tion, satisfy t and so th requirements of the station, yard cannot satisfy the requirements ice. nel through wh! and even ships « feet dra it, in ci esults, it is in- ive: and unless ‘d_ for arresti: and for © the few AYAWE OR 4 FLATCOAT Will enter the Eastern bra The nemerous ImMated at imme ployed in the y terials for the use of the na wt the best ma- vy. and which m ’ useless and valueless. At the present time, only by th Moval of no less than a million of cubic gilt. could With the inne: station be attained ford but t about the tidal THE DEPE: Ss largely due to the Tess the existing physical condit fied with a view tot advan} Bow a serion: lost for the pi throush a judi @redzinz), and as a tion of the str tant day into a po basin of nani<eous fance of equal TION OF SEDIMENT nui- nferior In of the the navy show t n with the pree the charge of the riv partment during the « vd, plus owe the tidal com nd flood. In the tis but 0.006 of » mean velocity of wrsit of the ebb in’ the propor ve duration of the tidal flow, or as 121 nd as suring power of the cur- as the square of the velocity, vi be greater th tion of ote a const; to silt up the stream. The amount of material r ed to as being fransperted or de i quantity of eal susp mixed and moved up by the tidal ions, . first, the force of the current in thosestreams due to both the tides and land floods, and its power to hold im suspens 1 y matter: and second, the the two wate s. Unless the present men and conditions of the river are modified, the process of silting will continue and water communication with the yard will be greatly impaired or practically cus ‘Off within a Limited period. MR. MENOCAI’S PLAN TO SAVE THE CHANNEL. The method proposed Mr. Menocal for the improvement of the chaanel—for Its permanent ealargement—is based on a concentration of the flood-waters ina scouring basin, embracing a superficial area of 73.502.765 square feet, or 66 per cent of the total tidal portion of the river, and then to discharge the stored waters at a high velocity during the ebb tide throug channel where they may flow wi tional resistance, and pos: much greater than that of t zh the whole estuar; lieved. to scour and carry tary matter composing the bed of the river, so forming a deep and w hannel. and an equi- Bbrium established between the current and the material. It is proposed that the navigabie “Sehannel shall be contined on its southern margin by a@ longitudinal dike or bulkhead of sheet e flood-tide moving . Sufficient, it is be- y forward the sedimen- piling, extending from a point above the navy Jard to the end of the bend at Buzzards’ point, and on the north side by the yard wh: and e by short cect points ‘n ti ns of dikes coniec ¢ projecting “It ist ‘that the pres- | ent tort ctitied by cut. ting off its sharp be ud establishing instead a@more direct pas rom the yard to the F a radical change cannot, however, jous interference with the hts of lands at nor without i the propagation of the flood tide.” THE FLUSHING OR SCOURI 3 BASIN will be bounded by the dike on the south side @f the channel to a point opposite the saw-miil wharf, and trom this point by a line of gates to | At the upper end of the dike | Poplar point. above the yard, the channel will be in commu- Bication with the basin so as to permit the flow ef the waters in the main channel at all time. A moderate amount of water confined in a well H proportioned channel will be found quite ample to produce a current suffictent in bottom en- ergy to effect the object in view. A velocity of ane foot per second will suffice to remove the Ught material composing the bed of the stream, bat the current should be as uniform as _possi- Die, otherwise its effect might prove injurious instead of beneficial. 4 Tt is the object, therefore, to leave the basin aently open to the channel, both for the it and effiuent waters; or in other words, the channel will be an intezral part of, and may be regarded as an extension of, the basin, the flood tide the w! a Be je basin of the Eastern jar point will be filled as now, sthe waters moving to fll this reservoir through *asectional area of 11,066 square feet at mean ebb over the flats will be stopped by the gates, and the outlet will be restricted to the new navy yard channel, en- ¢losed by training dikes, and" having a mean tectional area of 7,308 square feet. With this sectional area there wil! be at each ebb tide an interval of $ hours and 50 minutes in THE BOTTOM VELOCITY will be between 0.989 and 1.687 feet per second, with a sufficient scouring power to lift and carry forward material as heavy as coarse gravel. It fa reasonable to expect that, withsuch a current, meting for nearly 8 out of the 24 hours of each Gay ina well-proportioned channel where the \ waters are confined and guided so as to exert their whole influence on the bottom and sides of the stream, no danger of additional deposits ftom any source need be apprehended. The bed < tof the river ls composed of sand and clay, and ‘this Hizht material once lifted by the current will Rot be deposited again in any portion of the @annel. A ‘ion of it may be deposited on fhe fats anh edites in the wide parts of the ‘ain river, and other portions may not find rest Rntil they have reached the sea. Asto the land floods their effect will be to mther increase than impair the efficiency of the n once floated the | the navy yatd niust | nt depo- | channel. The enlarged volume will cause a Pproportioual increase in the scouring, and the material brought down by the flood waters wili bet forward without injury to the chan- nel. THE cost of the proposed improvement Mr. Menocal esti- | mated as follows: For dikes and labor, $37,460; for gates, $23,913—total, $61,373: A certain amount of dredging would be necessary to re- | move indurated Iumps likely to be met with, | and to assist the scouring in giving the new channel a sectional area sufficient to navigation and the purposes of the yard, but he thought | $40,000 additional would cover all under that | head. To accomplish the object proposed by ‘he improvements by dredging alone, no less | than $250,000 would be needed at the outset, | and for maintenance of the channel an addi | tional annual expenditure which cannot be esti- | mated at less than $20,600, or a much larger proportion if the silt is allowed to amount in rae for a considerable length of time. | As to } THE PERMAN °Y OF THE works Proposed it may be said that for the first ten years they wili_ need little or no repalrs; after | , that length of time the wood above the mean level of the water may require general but inex- pensive repairs for the preservation of the dikes intheir proposed form. It is probable, how- ever, that after the equilibrium between the cur- | Feat and the material composing the bottora is | 1, and the channel enlarged to | j d_ dimensions, the banks formed by | | the deposits on the outside of the dikes will an- swer the purpose of guiding the water and will tribute to the maintenance of the channel. fle gates, being constructed of walvanized iron and submerged timber. should last for many years, and the occasional repairs that may be re- | quired from time to time can be provided for at zall annual outlay, It is believed that when | reaciied the dimensions proposed ing will be needed, the seour- nt for its preservati leading to the yard members of cd; but it 5 ng, that the ely to be derived by resull of tie proposed works ve tothe Uniontown side | niay be benefit the y as disenssed bya number of and the army, mperance Fair. iT AT ODD FELLOWS’ HALL. The fair for the benefit of the late “Bud” | temperance tabernacle on Czpitol opened last evening at Odd Fellows’ | Hall. Rey. Dr. J. E. Rankin opened the fes- | tivities with religious exercises, and made an | address paying tribute to the I The hall is very handsomely | ‘ated and the booths attractive. The fol- | named Indi incharge of the sev- | rpet and rug ancy booth-- ine, Mrs. I y iy | 1 i i: and Annie White Gertie booth Ki ju and Lillie assisted by ett and F + Kittie ted by Mrs, Daily. Toy Mrs. Dalton Flower Supper room Beron, M | Darnelle et | id others. Jones and Miss Collin », in Peter’ d square, M. Munroe to T. E. } . Truesdell & | - 620; 3625. W. Mrs. Pigeons Divorce Suit. A BELIEF GAINING GROUND THAT THE CASE | WILL R COME TO TRIAL. Aspecial dispatch to the Philadelphia Press from Richmond, Dec. 21, says: The identity of | Mrs. Henrietta Pigeon, nee Hodson, who figures as the principal in the celebrated divorce suit | ‘here, with Mrs. Labouchere 1s established | beyond doubt. Intimate friends of that lady in | New York have telegraphed here and confessed | that Mrs. Pigeon and Mrs. Labouchere is one | and the same person. Richmond soclety isin a delightful flutter of excitement over the devel- opments which have grown out of Mrs. La- bouchere’s visit to this city. Newspaper men here were apprised of Mrs. Labouchere's de- parture from New York on December 3 for this city and in vain watehed for her coming, the ap- pearance of the name of firs. Pigeon on | the hotel register at i ue to the pre: | ence of the Jersey Lily’s friend. During her sta in this city, Mrs. Pigeon, or Labouciiere, is not | know to have received or called upon the friends she claims to have in this vicinity. It 1s not | probable that under the present bill filed by her | | counsel that Mrs. Pigeon will be able to obtain | adivorce. Prominent lawyers who have in| ested themselves in the divorce suit declare th if Mrs. Pigeon wants a divorce from the court | here, she will haye to take up a permanent and | substantial residence within its jurisdiction. | Mrs. Pigeon, it is stated, was considering a3 far | back as October the propriety of instituting pro- ceedings in this state. The correspondence be- | tween her New York counsel and the Richmond | law firm commenced, it is understood, about | that time. | | ‘The New Archbishop of Caaterbury The Right Rey. Edward White Benson, D. D., Bishop of Truro, who has accepted the succes- ion to the late Dr. Tait as Archbishop of Can- terbury, is now in his 54th year, having been | born near Birmingham on July 14, 1829. He was educated at King Edward's school, Bir- | mingham, and at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he was graduated in 1852. Taking orders in 1853, he served for some time as an is | master at the famous Rugby school, and in 1858, | on the opening of Wellington coll pointed its head master. This pos tained for fourteen years, and in 1872 was ap- pointed a canon residentlary and chancellor of | Lincoln cathedral. By an order in council in 1876 the diocese of Exeter was divided, the county of Cornwall being set off as a new bish- opric, with the church of St. Mary, Truro, as a athedral, and Dr. Benson was consecrated in St. Paul's cathedral in April, 1877, as the first Bishop of Truro. The new diocese had income of 815,000, and the Bishop had tw eight livings in his gift. Dr. Benson Is the ai thor of several books, “Sundays in We'lington College lections of sermons. In church politics Dr. Benson Is known as a moderate highchurch- man. ———— or ‘The Contest for the Hagerstown Post- mastership. A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from Hagerstown, Md.,says: Friends of Representative McComas state that he has not filed any charges against Mrs. Logan, the postmaster at this place, but that he recommended the appcintment of Mr. Swartz for the position. A number of lead- ing citizens did, however, make compiaints that the mails Were carelessly distributed, and of other grave errors. Mr. Urner, when he rec- nmended Mrs. Logan for reappointment, de- sired that the efficiency of the office be inquired into. The department accordingly dispatched Mr. Henderson here to make the necessary in- vestigation. ee Horrtere DeatH From SMatt-Pox.—The Easton (Md.) Ledger says: “A muscular negro named Bill Moody, a-hand on Captain Hynson Jones’ vessel, in the lower part of the county, took small-pox in Baltimore. He left the ves- sel and went to atenement house about three miles from St. Michael’s, and went to bed in an. | up-stairs room of the house. There were about | adozen other inmates in the house, mostly chif- dren, who kept themselves aloof from the sick man. Moody had no doctor, no nurse, no medi- cine, no fire, no food and no attention, it is said, for several days. Dr. John C. Gibson, hearing ot his condition, started to visit him for human- ity’s sake last Sunday morning. Before reach- ing the house he got the news that the man was dead. _It is said he perished from cold and hun- rc It is also feared that the others in the use took the disease, and that the tenement house will be a regular pest-house.” Englisch Umterest in America. ‘The success of Mrs. Langtry in attracting au- diences In New York does not strike us as sur- prising; it is the English interest in that suecess which requires to be accounted for. By acon- sent which might be termed unanimous. but that Mr. Oscar Wilde thinks himeelf a critic of dramatic representation, and likes to stand alone In opinion, Mrs. Langtry is not a great actress, oreven @ good one, and is not likely ever to establish a reputation as an artist; but the Americans are naturally eager to see a very lady- like woman, who was pronounced by the highest society in England and by many artists excep- tionally beautiful. The provincial desire to know what the mother-country admires min- gies, In Mrs. Langtry’s case, with the instinctive wish to see, if not the most beautiful thing In nature—for women, however fair, have still ri- s in trees and lakes, and, as some artists pre- tend, in horses agg birds—at least that object in nature about the' uty of which human consent has been most universal and longest lived. Helen was admired before mountain scenery was. The audiences, therefore, are lnvge, and asthe Ameri- cans, who’ have among them some of the most beautiful fates In the world—though the special beauty of American women’s faces is not of Mra. Langtry’s kind, beingdependent on their charm when in movement,and not on their cuarm in im- mobility, have indorsedthe English verdict—we should not wonder if appreciation gradually rose, astheactress moves westward, intoa fiery enthu- siasm, such as followed Jenny Lind. Americans havea capacity for admiration which 1s very often ridiculed, but which is, perhaps, of ail signs of the freshness of nations, one of the very strongest. Men who can admire are your and that sort of receptiveness inarks peoples who havea future before them, and are not “experienced” until half their faculty of emo- tion is dead. Ii that is natural, and so far as we see, unok ple, admiration for a beau- tiful work of God being at least as innocent as admiration fora beautiful work of man; but what is the cause of the English interest in it at all? Why does it pay the journals to send long tele- ms about Mrs. Langtry and the audiences attracts, and the prices paid for stalls in her theater when they are put up to auction, in that American way which is surely, of all ways, the one least creditable to the land of equality? The French giye a blouse his chance, if only he will queue long enough; but the Americans that earth, including the pew #5 to the moneyed not forwarded ‘for ds only, for did they inelude all their pennies would hardly repay the rs expense, They must be intended public at large, the whole per buyers, and whom do susjiect that they interest a ny who do not say so, that they grams about Mr. Secretary Folger’s gold operations, and that they are iuuch longer remembered. a great many people are interested in gossip. to bezin with, gossip of any sort, if it is only about peo- f whom they have ever heard, and nearly as av “like to know” how Americans deport selves, in social affairs. The English er acknowledge the truth frankly, but they are as keen to know Americans do as the Americans are to know what tne Enylish do, keener to watch them, we begin to think, than they are to watch’ Parisians. They to hear of a Parisian rush for stails to see societ, propri to interest the of circle new st? Victor Hugo's drama “Le Roi’s .” pro- | hibited for iifty years; but they are re inter- ted In seelng the scores of New Yor ped out all night in ofa the: in order to be early enough to buy the mu sought-for tick: They have, we beliey grandfatherly feeling about th matter cf pleasure ‘ rd, perhaps, in their hands, ight and spending thousands to make sure that they will see a beautiful face. Chester did i aine thins —or was it Shrewsbury half forgotten the legend: |—to see beautiful Miss Gunnings and — Ch is great-grandmother — of | New Yor is of interest to note how, if wisdom lingers and folly pecially if the foolishne: not very narmful, is not at our expense, and exhibited by our descendants. One smiles then, and if there be a little seorn in the smile, there is also regret for one’s own i-paternal intere American is, we are convinced, quite genuine, and exceedingly deep, and will one d ke the fortune o| observant traveler Ifsome Mr. Pi mains as of old, é: book. temptation of English travelers, and the besct- ting weakness of most American visitors who, with faces brimful of humor and keenness, must still tell you how the free schools are managed: but the moment social facts are mentioned, the moment some charitable American girl explains why she has more af a “good time” in Phila- delphia than her sister has in Liverpool, how the indifference disappears! Dozens of 'com- petent persons with have reviewed “Democracy” i and most of them, no doubt, have done it well; but none of them hit the special interest of the readers without pens. who remarked unanimously that Mrs. Lee was obviously more tree from’ com- ment than she would be in England, that Miss Dare was intolerably vulzar, and that Gertrude, |in the “Europeans,” for all her separateness, was altogether a lad, London Spectator. sos z: A Novel Time Piece. From the Virginia City (Nev.) Enterpri A man who was appointed watchman at a mine on the Comstock had no watch. He did not wish to buy one, yet was desirous of know- ing how the time was passing. He borrowed the watch of a friend for onenight. On return- | ing the watch the next day he told his friend that he was all right now, that he had a time-keeper of his own. He then unrolled a strip of paper, some four inches in width, from astick and exhibited it as his clock. On this strip of paper he had marked down, as they rose above the horizon, all the stars and con- stellations within a narrow belt. Opposite each star was the time of its making its appearance— hour and minute. The watchman says hi watch 1s a fine time-keeper. He has regently improved it somewhat. The slip of paper now runs on two small rollers that are piaced ina ee which has a sliding lid of glass. As the 1 ears away and the stars pass over, he now turns the crank of his watch and looks at the time marked by the side of each. To wind up bis watch he runs the tape back upon the Initial roller. ee Lateral Curvature of the Spine. No deformity of a child’s body gives rise to so much alarm to parents, or is the subject of greater diversity of treatment among medical men, as lateral curvature of the spine; and this is due, I believe, to an imperfect acquaint- ance with itsorigin. Specialists are accustomed to treat lateral curvature, knock-knee and flat- foot as distinct deformities, while in truth they are all links in the chain of one deformity. Lateral curvature may arise in different ways, but in all cases it is due to the loss of the lateral balance of the body in the upright position, and isthe result of an effort ot nature to main- tain the center of gravity of the body and sup- port the head and shoulders in the position which requires the least expenditure of muscular effort. The paralysis, wasting or loss of a limb, or the shortening of one of the legs by disease ot joint, rickets, knock-knee, or flat-foot in growing children, will produce lateral curvature, and these are its chief if not its only causes. It is not a deformity arising from general debility, and I do not think it can be produced, as is often asserted by an awkward sitting position, as in writing and other school occupations. The curvature of the spine which results from these canses is antero-posterior, or what is commonly called round-shoulder (non-carious). The tend- ency of debility, whether local or general, is to bring the body into the prone or recumbent position, and not to tilt it on one side. Setting aside the cases of lateral curvature in children who have been affected with rickets, disease of joints, perairats or loss of a limb in early life, and which affect both sexes and all ages equally, what may be called the idiopathic or acquired deformity is rarely found in children of either sex under the age of nine or ten years, and very rarely in boys above that age. itis, indeed, almost peculiar to girls verging on puberty, and 1s as ‘often round in strong and healthy as in weak and delicately built girls, and most commonly in those who are too fat and heavy for (@eir stature and age. It is a deformity which is less common among the laboring classes than among the rich and well- to-do, and Is largely associated with a life of in- dolence and luxury.—From “+ ily Deformities in Girlhood” ty Dr. Charles Roberis, in Popular Science Monthly for January. At St. John’s, La., in and Causes jay, two old citizens m, quarreled. Coquin him to the heart with like | sitting up | ~ | healthy pei 5 | yanced dentists for some time. ; | person of w! ng | needed ju: Ealeon’s Experiences as @ Tel¢grapher. “What were the real facts of that Boston ex- Perince you had in fast receiving a good many years ago?” Mr. Edison was asked yesterday. “Let me see; that was in 1868, I had been working in Louisville, Ky., a couple of years, and went from there to Michigan. A friend mamed Adams got mea place here in Boston, and I came over, arriving here about 4:30 o'clock, and had to go to work at 5:30 o'clock. Although it was the middle of winterJ came into the office with a linen duster on, for I was very poor then. A fellow named Jack Wright, who knew me out west, thought to have some fun, so he posted the office and had New York put on an operator named Bagley at their end of the line, with a spe- cial of 8300 words to the Journal. He kad had my end switched toa table aboat the middle of the room, near the manager's desk. Not sus- pecting anything, I sat down and commenced taking it. Soon Bagley commenced to ‘whoop *em up,’ and, although IT was accustomed to keep six or eight words behind in copying, I thought best to close up; especially as_he commenced to send some awful sticking stuff, making I’s of his m’s und contracting his words, sending ‘imy,’ for instance, for ‘immediately,’ [ having to write it out in full. Happening to look up, I noticed fifteen or twenty operators grinning behind me. Then I saw it was a ‘put-up job,’ and my blood got upand I determined I would not break. Operators in New York asked over other wires if 1 was getting it, and would hardly believe the replies. When I thought he had reached the top of his speed I opened my key and said: ‘Don't go to sleep; shake yourself and hurry through this!" “The way I managed it was this: T had prac- tised all kinds of handwriting, and found that by a kind of print hand [ could write fifty-tive words per mninute, and I knew there was no man who could keep up that speed with a telegraph key, so I felt safe if I could only read the tick- Ing. Ihad no fears 2s to that either, as I had read all kinds of ‘clipped’ sending in’ the west. Another thing that was in my favor is, that I am a little deaf, so that the hum of an office does not disturb me, and I gaye my whole attention to the clicking of an instrume! “There isa little experience I had out tn In- dianapolis that may interest you. I was very | auubitious to receive ‘press report,’ and used to sit up until the 2a. m. ‘press report.” listening beside the receiving operator, until after awhile I could receive it very ni and then I wanted to recel press. myself. Naturally, when I had the real responsibility of taking It, I ‘bulled’ it bad at first, as they sent at the rate of forty words a minute. TI thought the matter over, and worked out a little plan to have the | ‘register’ Indent some tin foil as it came in, and | then had the boy turn it through another instru- ment, which ticked It off at the rate of about five words per minute, which I read and > off very easily. The only trouble was ‘30° (good night) from the east . While it was some time, an hour when we gave the last sheet to the newspapers. They commenced to growl after aw! and our manager dropped in on us one morning and discovered our little game in rt. he way, there were several valuable in- ventions wrapped up in that office triek. Talk- ing of the tinfoil reminds me of another incident. ‘There was a fast-sending tournament gotten up in which the judges were to be at St. and the fast-sending throughout the were to send trom thet respective offices, office inSt. Lous. Now, although putation asa receiver, [have just posite reputation as a sender, and when ered my name in that list to compete tt great *ha-haing’ over the wires. We were given a chapter in the Bible to send, and while the other men were practisinz sending it, I worked out the chapter on the tinfoil, and fixed everything ali ready to turn the crank at the rate of about fifty of fifty-five words per minute, getting our boys to k jet about it. For some reason the cont ver caine off, and I did not have the pleasure of carrying off the pri Boston Herald December 14. = Spo Grafted Teeth. LANTING THEM ON A COC WANTED. Transplanting sound teeth from the jaws of TRANS 'S COMB, UNTIL. who needed them has been practised by ad- operandi was as follow The individual with the superflnous sonnd tooth and he with the decayed molar were mated together and the | freshly drawn good tooth immediately placed in | the cavity made by extracting the other. But jit otten happened to be necessary to remove a sound tooth from a patient at atime when no om the fentist had any knowledge one. It would therefore be , lost, for on! ing” teeth could be made to grow inastrange mouth, and they died very soon after being tort from thelr parent gums. | Teeth are “living” so long asthe membrane covering the roots has any vitality. It has been a problem of great interest to dentists | throughout America to devise some means | by which the sound extracted tooth could | be kept alive indefinitely, until it should be | needed, and to a San Francisco dentist. belongs | the henor of solving the problem. Dr. W. J. Younger, of this city, says the Call, hag been ! conducting a series of experiments, which have resulted in the discovery of a means of presery- ing the life of the extracted tooth. It is noth- ing more or less than “grating” it, as soon as it is drawn, upon the engorged comb of a healthy rooster, and leaving it there properly secured, until if is wanted. Then it is cut away, the cock being placed under the influence of chioro- form, washed, and everything removed down tothe membrane, and placed in the freshly made cavity where it la néeded. A representa- tive of the Call was permitted yesterday to ex- amine the mouth of a gentleman tn which there was a tooth that had been planted there a week or xo before, and which was apparently as firm as those which had always been there. It had been kept alive on a cock’s comb for ten days, and had been taken from the mouth of a young lady, whose looks were benefited by the re- moval. such The Brain-Wave Theory. From the Baltimore American. Good citizens in whose minds has dwelt the impression that this is acountry of law and #| order, who haye gone peacefully about their business by day, and have laid themselves calmly down to sleep at night, must now be in- formed from two distinct and different authori- tles that this republic is on the verge of horrible events—civil war, assassinations, hand-grenades, dynamite bombs, the upheaval of society, the explosion of social volcanoes, and the evolution of cosmos into chaos. There cannot be the slightest doubt about it, for the doctrine of destruction was almost simultaneously set forth by Mr. Chandler, of counsel for the star route persons, and Herr Most, a fugitive socialist, who bas kindly consented to come to the United States and set forth to its benighted people the gospel of anarchy. We do not assert that Mr. Chandler and Herr Most have been in correspondence with each other, and it is not probable that they ever had a per- sonal meeting. The similarity between Mr. Chandler's speech in court at Washington on Tuesday and Herr Most’s address in New York on Monday night must have been the result of what is scientifically known as unconscious cerebation, or the occurrence simultaneously of brain waves in persons far distant from one another. Mr. Chandler was positive that the newspapers are laying the foundations of revo- lution and the disturbance of social order, and Herr Most attributed the same effect to deeper and more divergent causes. As neither gentle- man comprehended that he was making a lamentable spectacle of himself, there may be,| a future for them in doubling up as serio-comic lecturers. Chinese Cooking. Our cuisine would, I fear, have hardly recom- mended itself to western travellers. Pork in various forms is naturally the chief delight of the Chinese cook. Stewed pork, roast pork, pork sausages (terrible things they are), and pig’s foot gelee, are apt to pall upon the uncultured western palate. We had a hard struggle with our chef on this point, but eventually he gave way 80 far as to vary pork with dried duck and salteggs. Pi-tan, or sulphuretted eggs, we managed to escape. Nevertheless Chinese food -is by no means the horrible stuff Englishmen usually believe. It need not be urged that uppy dog, cat, and rat do not form items in the hinaman’s daily menu. Except for the terri- ble amount of pork, we were by no means so very badly off, though sweetened a ‘k-fat pat- ties are a trial to an appetite that | not got a very keen edge to it.—London Graphic. —$<—<$—<—<—_—__ +40 A daring forgery trated primarily on the National Bank ‘of Commerce in Cleveland, causes a loss to the Manhattan bank of New York. Aman giving the name of W. T. Wat- son bought a draft for $17.68 on the Manhattan bank. A few days later a draft for @5,679.48 was cashed In Buffalo at the Traders’ bank which eer to be the same $17.63 draft most re | ‘sons who could spare them to those | The modus | Beautifal Bed Hair. ‘From the Whit.:all Review. I shall be considered unorthodox when I say that next in loveliness of all the hair I have ever seen comes a chetelure ot golden red. Very red hair is orange, and orange hair Is far from beau- tiful; but the abundant tresses to which I refer were of the color of perfectly ripe corn, with that reddish tinge which makes the waving har vest fields so beautiful. Red hair, even it un- lovely, has its advantages in a practical age, when a girl or woman dares not be insignificant. “invisible,” on penalty of being nobody. The writer of a little book on the toilet sets forth as follows one of these advantages: “Enter a room in daylight (by artificial light red loses much of its ferocity) where there are women without bonnets or hats; and if there be one of them with bright, unmistakable red hair, she will stand out from the rest with a never-falling prominence, which, if she be a pretty woman— and red-haired women have often great beauty of feature, and very often lovely complexions— is of the greatest advantage to her, socially speaking. Another advantage les in the fact that the possession of red hair restricts the owner toa narrow but select range of color. ‘And you call that an advantage?” ery the phalanx of the red-haired sisters. Undoubtedly I do, and to prove it, I ask if, in your inmost souls, you do not adore pink and cherish the belief that it suits you? Of course you do. I never knew any one of your coloring who did not. Restric- tion as to color, if universal, and regulated on a basis of good taste, would make England more celebrated than ever for handsome women or poy girls, many of whom nowruin their looks y wearing wrong tints. And what may the red-haired wear? I wiil tell you. If you wish to be insipid and common- place, wear pale blue. That has been the heritage of the red-haired for centuri you would like to jump out of that deep roove, and wish to look a very poem, buy warm golden’ browns, orange tinted yellows, rud cream colors, with a flash as troin russet leaves upon them, terra cottas, and the whole range of such tints as are exemplified in primrose: tercups, marigolds, tea roses, Marechal Nei Gloire de Dijon, chestnut ‘browns, chocolate, dull wallflower reds and dull gold color. A beautiful rousse, who is a great favorite in Eng- lish society, wears a gold band in her halr, and s in the evening in yellow satin or gold-colored yelvet. She isa picture, indeed and in her walking gowns of chocolate. relieved with amber, or of tawny red and gold, is as pic turesque a woman as one would wish to meet. eee The Earth’s Inclination. EVIDENCE THAT SOMETHING BIG ONC @ -PENED TO OUR GLOBE. The Hartford Times, ina long review of Mr. Donneliy’s new book, “ Ragnarok,” expresses these ideas: In a few short, sharp and decisive chapters, the author disposes of the theory that the vast phenomena ot the * Drift” coald possibly have been produced by the action of ice, no matter ir the ice swept over the continent. His facts and their applicatfon are certainly impressi In fact his book is very original. “Ragnarol from a combination of word: sagas, and means “reign of du: “darkness of the gods.” The ai for ‘glacial scratches’ sweeping stones and g | rocks at the rate of “a mullion tile: | It must have been an awful blo Denton believes the present. inc earth was caused by the fail of a vi hitting it on top. near the n and leaying to-day its immense t shape of magnetic iron, ali land and shores. Mr. Dc further. He finds in the comet abundant caus to explain all existing phenomena, the tilting ot the polar axis included. Some 4 occur, ap atly; not.all of the exi ures of the earth's surface ca the slow action of time anc These have done much to modify thi the: e ently also some sudden or occurrences A thousand remains of the still preserved bodies of the phants up in Siberian ice are far trom being the only argument in favor of some sudden cecur- rence. war- ‘avel over th repeatedly hit by comets, and that one hit us lately—but gently; the mysterious p) of the great northwestern fires in \V and Michigan. and in Chicago, in October, 1871, he thinks derived their awe-inspiring peculiari ties from the impact of the last scanty remains of Biela’s lost comet; the fires would break out far ahead of the main conflagration houses, even people's elothes bu: into faraway from the advancing line pf fire. balls and sheets of flame ‘came from the sky.” But the ancient collisions were more solid and terrible. One of them inay have tilted back the globe on its axis, and changed its cli- mate from a general reign of summer to what we now have. ——__——es—___ A Meandering Brook. ITS DEVIOUS CoURS D ITS SOLILO QUY TO THE FLOWERS. R. J. Burdette. I wish I owned a farm just a few miles west of Cadiz Junction. I don’t care a cent for the farm, but there runs through it the crookedest little brook you ever saw. The star route busi- ness is straight as the golden rule in com- parison with it. Crooked? It goes wandering through the green meadow as though all the year were June, and it had nothing to do but kill time and loiter about in shady nooks and sunny beaches. Crooked? Not a silver-plated shiner that flashes his glittering scales in the sunlight down in the Jimpid ripples can tell whether he ts going up stream or down. The purple-plumed tron weed, and the bending golden rod, bowing to each other with stately across the singing brook, don’t know whether they are standing on opposite sides, or if they are on the same side, which side itis. All the way across the meadow it plays hide and seek with itself, boxing the compass in its erratic wanderings every hundred feet. It came into the meadow, I think, when the wind anemones were blooming in the lee of the hills that fringe the farm. “Oh, my beautiful darlings,” it said, “T will stay here near you.” But the wind flowers passed away and the violets opened their blue eyes and the buttercups shone in the grasses of the meadow. ‘I have lost my sweet- hearts.” said fickle little brook, “but the meadow fs beautiful since you came into it, and I will stay here till you are gone.” turned again and loitered to the north, where the wind flowers died, and eddied to the east, where a bank of violets looked shyly down at him with their great purple blue eyes, and he strolled to the south, where the buttercups, none abashed, laughed merrily in the golden sunlight, and he sauntered to the west, where the wind rose, shivering g little, was just try- ing on her new spring dress, which wasn’t long enough yet to cover her round, wine red arms. And by and bye the violets closed their dear blue eyes, and the buttercups faded, and the poor little brook, who had got back nicely to the place where ne ran under the fence to get into the meadow when he first saw the flowers, rippled slowly over to the wild rose again, who was now in full dress and wore her lovely pink bonnet, and had clusters of buds all the way from her throat and shoulders down to her waist. ‘Ah, me,” he murmured, friends are gone, and I was going to run down to the sea and drown myself. But you are so lovely I want you to stay here where I may see you. And so violet and buttercup were laid away with poor little bloodroot and sailor- breeches, and by this time the little brook had so many playmates that wild rose and sweet brier only saw him when he came around to that corner of the meadow. He ran about all the time singing down little runs with the most inimitable triils, babbling with a fam- fly of great hard. rocks that had settled on the edge of a pool and gone into the moss business, whispering to the blue flags clus- tered under the low bank, playing with the tall reeds that fringed the still pools, and linger- ing a long time with the groups of colt’s foot where the waters were shallow. There were 80 many things to see and so much to say in this meadow, no wonder the little brook ran about in it ali summer, before, at last, when the wild rose had thrown away the pretty pink bonnet and put on the little red winter hood, and the sores Senn owe a the colt’s rook eaered, and the golden was gray ant e purpl iron i fs plumed with tufts of feathery brown, it turned to the lower end of the mead- ow, and creeping under the fence, went hi [> ing away to the eye dear down to Ohio Mississippi before the winter Sought it and fastened it to the meadow for the five months. I don’t care very much to stray along the bank of a canal, but I would like to saunter along the banks of that little Ohio brook. And I think it would take just about a week to cross that one meadow. ————— ‘The Philadelphia jury in the will case of John L. Nelli decided that the codicil was invalid. is a word obtained by the author | . | by induction. This author believes that the earth has been | p And it | Humming Seunds That Affect Both Birds and Beasts. WHY WOODPECKERS AND BEARS ARE DRAWN TO THE POLES AND WOLVES AND ELEPHANTS ARE DRIVEN away. From the Edinburgh Scotsman. With the rapid multiplication of overhead telegraph and telephone wires there is a grow- ing opinion that it would be better for man and not worse for the wires that they should lie underground. The influence of antmal life on telegraph wires, and of the latter on animal lite, 1s no doubt comparatively unimportant ; but so far as it goes it seems to favor a like conclusion. At the instance of the secretary of the German post office, the question of the in- Jury done to the imperial telegraph lines by birds was lately Investigated by Herr Massmann, who has since read a paper on the subject be- fore the Electrotechnic society of Berlin. He finds that in districts more or less devoid of trees, the smaller birds of prey, such as crows and magpies, have taken kindly to the wires as roosting places, while such biras as sparrows, starlings and swailows alight on them in immense flocks. In a treeless country this arrangement, from an avian point of view, is doubtless admirable, and the extension of telegraphs through those districts has probably led to a considerable increase in the numbers of the perching birds. Beyond the unsightliness of the lines caused by the fouling of the wires | the perching of those small birds does not ap- pear todo any practical injury. It is different, however, when large birds, such bustards, storks, swans and wild ducks alight on the their weight being usually suMcient to wey bring two of these into con! Wires have also occasionally been found to break under the swinging motion imparted to them by the weight of these ponderons bi F swallows seek to eaves Where w1es runinto telegr: hus sometimes an rth” contact hed. The eaves of a window form a tolera tural site for the swallow’s nest. The same, however, cannot be said for th hosen in a On one what is “intermittent cross”—a most difficuit fault to detect—had existed for some time. The ‘al ins»ection found ne sary resulted in the discovery that it was du est of the Australian magp lt telegraph poles. In the ¢ their nests the ingenious bird all the odd pieces of tie-wit lett scattered about by the line rey nd these—to quote from the account of the occur- were twisted up tozetl singular manner, consideriuz that they bad no plyers but their beaks to work with.” Some of the pieces touched the one wire and some, sionally, the other, and hence tt ” complained of. This was sald to be y one of many attempts tiat had been late! noticed on the is ja | to build their nestson the px the Australian plains. It is unfortun birds cannot be intimidated into lea telegraph wires al soie such way | adopted b: , with an Asia ne of the Inde year thunder storms | rence, and th being insi the iy charged uxht about s. und then per- mount a i t gathering suaded one of the chiefs t 5 touch the wire.saying that the wire would itself, s it did, for on touching it th received such a s! and fr time forth the win and avoided accordingly. the stability of the pole is d to prevent the rotting ncies it is usual to h such substanc , he brow 8, of prime action of atmo: creosote, sulpt r well these may resist atmos- y do not seem to prevent acks of woody These birds feed chiefly on the larvie of in: which they find under the bark, or still d in the wood of decaying tree: search of which they are | continually “soundi the bark with ful bills. In ing their food the supposed by some to be guided by | the grub at work within the tree, and it has been surmised that the woodpecker is induced | to make the telegraph pole the f | cavati -kni | produced ia it | Which it mistake: sect life. belief the s to work, at lured on by the siren nds, it con- tinues Its unavailing task till {ts hopeless char- | acter is proved by the appearance of daylight from the other side. At the recent el teal ‘exhibition at the Crystal Palace a section was | shown of a telegraph pole, the wood of which, although imp h sulphide of coppe showed a hole 3 ches in diameter made right through by those birds. It ought to be stated, however, that Herr Massmann asserts | that the woodpeckers often find insects in the | telegraph posts, and he is, therefore. inclined to doubt the theory that the birds are at all de- ceived by the sound of the wires. ‘ From an interesting note written by M. Niel- sen, ot Christiania, and inserted in the above- mentioned exhibition catalogue, it would appear that woodpeckers are not the only animals de- ceived—if deceived they are—by the olian music of the telegraph. He had frequently ob- served high up on the Scandinavian hillsides the piles of stones used in fixing the telegraph posts to the bare rock scattered about. This he was unable to account for until he detected the marks of bears’ claws on the frequently pros- trate poles. Bruin, as is well known, is exceed- | ingly partiai to honey, and no sound’ gives him more delight than the humming of bees. It is not wonderful that the sound of the vibrating wires coming suddenly upon his ears should suggest to him the close proximity of a store of honey. ‘Following the delusive sound.” says M. Nielsen, “he at last arrives at the post, where it is lord - than ever, and, as he does not find tne expected bee- hive, he very naturally thinks it must be under the heap of stones, and then haying eet to work to scatter in all directions in order to find the dreamed-of treasure, he fin- ishes, that he may at least have the satistaction of destroying all the bees he supposes hidden inside the post. by giving the latter a tremen- dous blow with his paw.” The still more re- markable statement is made th . in certain parts ot Norway, after the great telegraph sys- tem across tle mountain plateaus and along the | principal valleys was commenced twenty years ago, wolves entirely disappeared, and has not since returned. It is possible that in this case other causes may have been at work to produce this desirable riddance; but the assertion gains some support from the fact that in wolf-tre- juented districts the inclosure of farm buildings uring winter with stakes connected together by ropes is usually sufficient to keep the wolf from the farmer's door. Nor is the wolf alone in dread of such flimsy barriers,for the elephant, according to Emerson, will not cross such a bar- rier to enter the most tempting rice-fleld, while the red deer,which will fearlessly overleap a high stone wall, willbe turned aside by a trifling wire fence. Probably in all these “pate the flimsiness of the barrier is suggestive of traps. While birds may occasionally, as has been shown, do injury both to the wires and poles of the telegraph system, it is an undoubted fact that birds are often themselves injured by the wires. Mr. Gray, in his “Birds of the West of Scotland,” states that when driving in 1870 from Girvan to Stranraer, he noticed upward of 20 dead partridges—all ina fresh state and lying at intervals of less than 50 yards—close to the turnpike road, along the side of which, he adds significantly, ‘three or four telegraph wires are conducted on poles.” These wires, he says, “are very destructive to passing covies of game, as I have many times proved in differents parts of the country.” The remarkable fact, however, is that such accidents only occur when a tele- graph line is newly erected. During the first winter after the telegraph wires were set up on the coast of Antrim, considerable numbers of starlings, that had belonged to ah gree’ flocks soning from Scotland, were found dead or dy- ing on the roadside, their deaths being attribu- to the flash of the tele- fh experience, and that the young elther f lowed slavish the lead of the old, or that decree of the: —. ma dvalanche will be at jan. 13, 1883, to wind up the former company. | QW. PLYNN, ____ EDUCATIONAL. ARFIELD Ki ai AND TBai School, Bioect 16th oor M™, LEPKINCE. FROM PARIS, AT 1038 1 at her own a puss” gentdcnos, Eventog Rhee" Roe i ial datas Rae nasa jock p,m. 8-30 Call at 5 ETHOD FOR PIANO AND SINGING. N™ pea mmor. . a Rtg os = cre reading music at steht, training Telons to the culture for operas, New stinging Err be, cghed a Prof De Wolown''s “Mena! ow at |. 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