Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1882, Page 3

SOME RARE COINS. 4Chat with a New York Nomismae tician and Archwologist. rk correspondent of tbat there is only one nu- to Gaston Feuardent of Lafa 80 skilled in kn e pe of ains, are Tuins ant but th: main f From the London Truth. w f Methodist, who were well re- 1 the city founded by Penn. s became a dentist, aud took a wife | When he was a very young man. He then came to Furepe to assist his countryman, Brewster, a asked to look after the teeth of -sident, and had more business aid well attend to. Evans was an little man. ‘0 neatly cut pretty character. An ressed hi in the best style. + looked the in oO he th the foremost are of Am is quiet 1 indepeader In smi ran he as tie new soon brought a it the Rue de la who dreaded be ». his nother his morning him 1.600 Iv 10 minutes by tinel. that ti was done entir thing fer anc any coins till t death of coins sked like play shot that had Wall. On one where the mer Piece of iron wh came the art of @high point « $s“'ls it trae.” I aske: fe the rarer it “Tt is not Feverse of in the y ter Which rose to an republic, iy not true, bui it is almost the the trnth. orld 2 that the earth wa Whenever th money th general of ed Roman army buried n encamy treasure: away, and tie mone Dy some cur or thousands thet not only the ‘nat and towns, and that they coined net once or twice. but constantly at short intervals. The Ewpercr Marius retzned only three d: Bis coins ere still common. Copper coins of Constantine the Great were found not many many. th recovered elver hundreds Remember, t ow so common only one cent! the year 400 B. eliefs of the time of Phidias then appear, making the finest imagi- Rable monuments of the numiswatic art. Some People say of these pieces, “How well these are struck for such an early period!’ This betokens either ignorance or gross affectation. So far fro: criticism, the coins of those times have never since been equalled or ap- Preached as works of art. The counterfeiter Seems to have appeared by the side of the first @Mficial enzraver. Almost every ancient coin had its counterfeit. and of some there are more @evnterfeit than genuine coins.” — —— ‘Whe Fiddler. ing man In rusty coat, y sixty winters seamed and bent, Still drawing a thin and wiry note From out a battered instrament. Beside the kitchen chimney place, Whose generous Yule Ir ¢ flickers wide, A link with lost and lavished days, He tastes the cheer of Christmas-tide. ‘The Loss He zh A halt! B of elder emptted thrice, lis pipe and tips bis chatr, gain, with narrowed eyes, He plays the Swift, fantastic alr. It guldes the boy without, who flings To left and right the clotted snow, Or snatches at the tune, and sings, And, hand on latch, forbears to go. Itserves the master's Jest, perchance, “The girlish Isugnter in the hall, ‘Or leads the ligt and seattered dance, A rhythmic ineasure’s rise and fall And through the crackling hemlock boughs ‘The hissing of the lighted tr It rounds the humming o ‘To fuller mirth and gayety. clashing strains repeat ow Tnusie Of the pas He pipes to greet the rushing sleet And whistles to the empty blast. house Across the worn and creaking strings ‘He feels a gilded passton glow, As young as yonder boy, who brings ‘The Christinas message througi the snow. Dora READ GoopaLE. — Oratory. - %. A. Froude in the Fortnightly Review. When I was in New York Wendell Phillips gave a lecture there upon oratory. When [was asked what I thought about it I said he had given a fair account of the business, but he had omitted one requisite—that the orator should have something true to say. I was answered immediately that the art, as an art. had nothing to do with truth. The less truth the greater the skill needed to produce the effect. Thos the Americans hold oratory in es- teem, but not in the highest esteem. They do not make their great speakers into esidents. Abraham Lincoln, the best President they have had since Washington, had sharp wit, but he never talked spreadeagle- fsm. Gen. Grant hardly ever stood on a plat- form in his life. A Yankee once observed to me, when he had been listning to a famous per- former, “A very small piece of sop vill make & deal of froth in the mouth.” Indeed, the truly great political orators whose speeches are ‘an heirloom of mankind, the most finished ex- amples of noble feeling pertectly expressed, have rarely understood correctly the circum: stances of their time. They felt passionately but for that reason could not judge calmly. Demosthenes stirred his countrymen with a wolce like a trumpet to fight Philip of Macedon. But his countrymen could not fight Philip of Macedon, and fell the harder for trying. If ing could have saved the Roman republic, fwould have been saved by Cicero. His orations ‘against Antony were the finest ever heard in or senate. But they were only modulated wind. We have killed the king, he was obliged Cicero, shouted the next as loudly for Augustus. Yo fight against fact might be very beautiful noble. The patriot, in his failure, could eeasole himself as Lucan did— “Victrix causa dels placuit, sed victa Caton.” Gato could still think that he was morerighteous the the gods had their way. stock 0] or, Siwin board, 13 pe afacturers of leather urers: ffarin Boston, have als falled. t Itis the | it the older a coin | k . jcouple wiio acted but | at riled to arrent s¢ eunt of trathful S tired of flat 3 if they wer throne, unable to habits, which were seen on the r re, Wien the ezar had a d sent fur Evans, Bismarek, King ucen of Holland. Prince n the ak of a royal or ly for him. a did not go he Doctor two cept He is ver} During the civil war i ye the north. Thurl the nt daughters, mn at the ad a Quakerly how and where to take the his the co- The He peror, ted in the Jecker affair, wanted the the southern ports to be broke: only fami 7 us r. The empress members of the » functionaries. Even 's, Who had often prof- ich was not heeded, but anner on the 4th o | her cou: fered good cou | who owed t of the Suez canal to her, | did not side. In her desolation when on quitting the Tuileries the ster put her and Mme. Lebreton ab, of driving to the house of Dr. E a was a happy one. Her majesty arrived in her dressing gown. Evans was at the seaside: the doctor was out Whea he returned, he saw the fugitive had | not been recoznized, and treated her as. if she | had be aching tooth to call upon himn at ate residence. The locks of nis wife’s clothespresses were forced to obtain a change of raiment tor the empress, who, with her lady,was taken by the doctor in his ow! riag Norman coast. A good friend in adversity to the imperial couple, Evans when they were triumphant, the cout them wholesome but unpala ing thoroughly the organization of the Prussian | army, he again and again warned the emperor and empress that in going to war with Ger- |many they would court ruin. The empress | probably remembered this advice when she bee sitting in his house awaiting his return ome. English Nov From the London Times. The work of the novelist or the poet seldom leads a man into the front ranks ot the world’s affairs; and in those countries where belles lettres have been the recognized road to office neither literature nor politics have profited by the con- nection between them. But, in revenge, the time-honored arts of im: native literature pen- etrate and influence life in ways which are all their own. The poet who puts into words our best thoughts and our happiest moments; the novelist who peoples our leisure with a world cities. of imaginary acquaintances and makes us rejoice or sorrow in their joys and griefs—these rule us with a sway which is unlike any other, and when they die our regret has an intimate personal note, a touch of gratitude and affection, hardly due from us to any other kind of benefact however great. of widespread affectionate remembrance it is Mr. Trollope. He will scarcely rank in the future beside the great novelists of the century. Seott, Balzac. Dickens, Georges Sand, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Thackeray, Turguenieff, these at least must be put in first class to which posterity will hesitate to admit him in spite of his range and facility. Neither, we believe, will it admit Miss Austen, great as she is. She and Mr. Trollope, and, perhaps, Mrs. Gaskell, stand at the head of the second order. From their labor has sprung a tribe of novels in which the ways of the English middle class are described with an ease, a humor, and a tender- ness of feeling which are only not the best ot what the novelist’s art can produce because there are certain rare and in-born gifts of gen- tus which as It were take the heaven of our praise by force and conquer for themselves a place apart whenever they appear. Miss Austen drew the middle ciass of the England of Napo- leon’s day; her country squires; her fashionable. ladies, above all her clergymen, are as real as they can be made by the most delicate observa- tion, expressed in style which for its mixture of crispiness, pliancy, and a kind of ripplin; gayety has no rival in English. Thirty eventfal years or more divide her death from the be- ginning of Mr. Trollope’s career as a novelist. But still his world is the heir of Miss Austen’s. There ts nobody with whom Mr. Collins may be better compared than with Mr. Craw- ley; and Anne Eliot, Catherine Morland, Emma, and the delightful Elizabeth Bennett herself, are conceived in substantially the same mood, allowing for the difference of two gener- ations, as Mary Thorne, Lucy Robartes, or Lady Lupton. The English novel seems at the f ies ent time to be entering upon a period of deca- dence. The number of novels written is as great as ever, and, to judge by the demand, the number of readers would seem to be increasing |rather than diminishing. But, with very few | exceptions, English novels present a spectacle of careless writing, Insufficient preparation, and | commonplace ideas. There are few people who | can write at all that suppose themselves incapa- ble of writing a novel. And yet, at the present moment. there is no harder task. The old situ- | ations, the old plots, are perilously familiar, and the work of the best foreign novelists is train- | ing us, year by year, to demand an increasing | accuracy and subtlety of touch in those who would rise high in English novel writing. ages The body of Chauncey W. Huff, the missing cashier of the Union steamboat company, was found in the canal at Buffalo, N. Y., yesterday. Whether he committed suicide or was murdered is not known. Benj.Squire, the member of the board of finance of the city of Rahway, N.J., who was recently convicted of embezzling city funds, was yester- day sentenced to three years in the state prison. The case will be led. Aaron Clift, 70 years, committed suicide at Woodbury, N. J., yesterday. Dr. Evans hails from Philadelphia. He Is of Yelsh extraction, and belongs to a family half as brewing at St. Peter . The for- + dentist ac ummoned to 1 in in: pitals ta I teeth. Unwit- | instance pushed | lish and Prussian orders | olution he inereased when the court | And if ever a novelist had a claim to this kind | From the Carnesville (Ga.) Registor. Many persons have heard the question, “who struck Billy Patterson?” without knowing the origin of it. I propose to enlighten them a little on the subject. William Patterson was a | Very wealthy tradesman or merchant of Balti- more, in the state of Maryland. In the early | days of Franklin county he bought up a great many tracts of land in the county and spent a } good portion of his time in looking after his in- | terests there. He was said to beas strong as a bear and as brave asa lion; but like all brave men he was a lover of peace and, indeed, a good, mous man. Nevertheless, his wrath could be excited to a fighting piteh. attended a public gathering in the lower part jor Franklin county, at some district court | ground. During th y two opposing bullies and their friends raised arow and a general fight was the At the beginning | consequence. 3 | of the affray, and before the fighting bean, | Billy Patterson ran ja the crowd to | them not to fight, but to make p friends. But his efforts for peace ‘vere unayail- ing, and while making them some of the crowd In the general melee struck Billy Patterson a severe blow from behind. Billy at once beeame fighting mad and cried out at the top of his volee: “Who struck Billy Patterson?” No one | ceuld or would tell him who was the guilty | party. He then proposed to give any man 2100 | who would tell him 0 struck Billy Patter- }son.” From $100 he rose to $1,000, but not | $1,000 would induce any man to tell him “who | struck Billy Patterson.” And years afterward, in his will, he related the above tacts and be- queathed 21,000 to. be paid by his executors to the man-who would tell. “who struck Billy Pat- | terson.” His will is recorded in the ordinary’s office at Carnesville. Franklin county, Ga., and any one curious about the matter can there find it and verify the preceding statements. Se sos = The Wellesiey Scandal | Lonon Letter. The case of Colonel Wellesley is one of the most interesting that has been published for a long time. Wellesley, at one period of his lite, might have been regarded as the spoiled child of fortune. In appearance he was a specimen of that splendid and almost faultless beauty whieh is sometimes to be seen in the men of the lish upper class, tall, thin, but muscular, aired and with features at once delicate and distin: shed. While still but a compa tive youth he had reached, through the in ence of his relatiy in the g at St. Pete E a to the position of a colonel Then he was appointed attache urg, at which place Imay men- tion he became an acquaintance and fri of poor J. A. MuacGahan, the celebrated American correspondent of the London Daily News, who passed through the an capital on his return trom his ride to vi After — this ie first military secretary at Vi- enna, aud then public opinion began to cry out against the extraordinary favors that were thus being heaped in such rapid succession on the | head of the young soldier. He had, meantime, married Lord Cowley’s daughter, a marriage ly suitable in ase, rank and tastes. -y paid a long visit the misfortune to ave already men- ¢ of London entertain- though not very large, nt institution of the Connie Gil- ooking girl o onsdale diamond ater Itself closes jonable and dis are now called, our ad ladies of the e or ten dollars four. Things v to London go to thi rs the I It is there that, when the and the stage-door opens, t sipated youth—or, as the: eunesse ‘stage-doorey—wall ballet, witha | a week, drive up THE ¥ 2 Kate Vaughan has long been the belle of this | theater. She has no histrionic ability. She has scarcely any yoice, but she has a grace in motion that may certainly be described as won- |derful. Before she met Wellesley she had al- | ready won many hea made her acquaintance for the first time, was on | friendly terms with another member of the a | tocracy. From the latter she agreed, after some . | persuasion, to fly with Wellesicy; and there Is a | funny story | of two special trains being sent from the Charing Cross depot almost within an hour ofeach other—the one bearing Miss Vaughan away with the new lover. and the other convey ing the discarded and disconsolate friend. The made no defense, and, of iately non-suited. "The story now goes that he intends immediately to make Kate his wife, and, if this be true, her fortune will certainly be a curious one. Col. Wellesley, if I do not mistake, is the heir presamptive to the Duke of Wellington, and the Duke is child- less and upwards of seventy. If all this be true Kate, the dansevse. will become Kate, the duch- ess. It is not the first time that the aristocracy has been recruited from the boards of the British stage. How American Girls Talk. An Englishman in the Manchester Examiner. singing, and in listening to the talk of Ameri- can ladies, that doctrine is very acceptable. At first the pitch sounds somewhat shrill, though Rot disagreeably, only unaccustomedly so. By and by you begin to like it. As presumably we should like any keynote coming from pretty lips. There always seems a note of interroga- tion at the end of the spoken sentences of Amer- ican ladies, and a sort of cosey querulousness, not so much plaintive as sympathetic, a splinter peradventure of the pity which is said to be dangerously near to love. Nevertheless, over the rows of lounging chairs on deck, ‘there seems to brood a sort of cooing sound as of well-contented doves. The young American ladies take the talking reins in their hands very early in life. At fifteen they ease thelr mammas considerably in that respect, and singularly enough, with their mammas’ consent. The Eng- lish mammas, at that age, would prefer conver- sationally sleeping daughters. About this early American talk there is no gabble. These young women rising sixteen | speak as deliberately and naturally as Mr: -Henry Irving, and without the mocking twinkle of having something in reserve which renders the talk of that eminent actor not unpleasantly irritating. English girls at the same age talk as it were with their hands behind them, as if to conceal a skipping rope. The Yankee girl looks | you straightly und serenely in the tace—we never ourselves shirked the ordeal—and screels off an easy bobbin of conversation; you may act as “piecer” if you please, but generally she does the “piecing” herself; you have sat déwn to talk to your companion as a child, and before the talk is over an interval of three years is sup- posed to have elapsed, and you say good after- noon’ to a self-possessed woman. Should any one run away with the idea that all this is un- natural or precocious, he should be undeceived. For us it was one of the pleasantest pastimes on the ship and when the sun was shining and the waves dancing there could be no more agree- able accompaniment than the unaccustomed chant of the New England dialect, with its note of interrogation at the end. snteieal a ae Childhood's Valley. It was a quiet valley, Set far from human ills, A sunny, sloping valley, Begirt by green, green hills ‘The white clouds softly knitted Gray shadows in the grass; The sea-birds poised and fitted ‘As they were loth to pass. A clear stream thrid the bridges, Blue, lazy smoke uncurled: Beyond its purple ridges the unqulet world. Under the ivied rafters Low crooned the sun-drowsed dove; While youthtul, breezy laughters ‘Moved on the slopes alpve. Where “mid the flower-clad spaces We children made bright quest; Sure as we ran quick races ‘The far-seen flower was best. Thus while the sun uplifted, And fii adown the The white clouds drifted, drift i In deep untroubled dream. Far shines that sunny valey, Set far from human ‘Our chilahood’s simple veliey irt with green, green Nor all the world’s mad riot Which we haye known since then, Hath touched this valley's quiet Deep in our heart’s own ken, —Good Words, onineetlieSee a hag ‘asaigned = abaltien @25,000, maser a, _ assets about £30,000. 3 On one occasion he | and, indeed, when hé We are told that talking Is only a variety of Won the Victoria Crows by saving Lucknow. at One of the bravest of the brave men to whom has been awarded the precious littles piece of gun-metal known as the Victoria Cross has just died, receiving scarcely a word of: notice from the English press. Thomas:Henry. Kavanagh's e is preceded by the, fatal, asterisk in O'Byrne’s chronicle of the Victoria Cross, pub- lished nearly three years ago, and a still more accomplished contemporary’ historian records that ‘Lucknow” Kavanagh “lost his life shortly his heroic exploit, im cbattte with the yet h he Mr. Thomas Henry Kavanagh, Assistant Com- missioner in Oudh,” we 5 ‘ovember, 1857, then serving under the orders of Lieutenant General Sir James Outram, in Lucknow, volunteered on the dangerousdnty From the Rising Dawn (Ga.) Gazette. The sparkers are looked upon by parents gen- erally as a nuisance, and often they are right. Nine-tenths of the sparking is done by boys who have not got their crowth, and they look 80 green that It is laughable for the old folks to look at them. They haven't generally a second shirt, and they are no more qualified to marry than a steer is to preach. And yet marrying is about the first thing they think of. «A green boy without @ dolar, present or prospective, sparking a girl regularly,and talking about mar- ng, is a spectacle tor gods and men. He should be reasoned with.and if he will not quit it ill he is able to support a wife, and to know whom he loves, and the difference between love and passion, he should be quarantined a convent erected on purpose for such ¢ for Six Deliars, You Knew. New York Letter in the Cincinnati Enquirer. A red flag and the gabble of an auctioneer drew my attention to asmall store on my return to Chatham Square. I entered what was in- tended to be mistaken for a bankrapt clzar con- ously on boxes and some smokers’ utensils were tumbled on a shelf. A burly fellow scruti- nized me covertly as I walked in, He was at the same time excluding some women ot a kind which were thronging the street. The place was full of men, among whom were a number ot stool-pigeons, for this sale was a frand. One ot the swindlers told me his regular lie. which was that the sheriff had seized the stock | was shamefully sa it. 7 ed to bay 12 boxes tiat I would bid the san of proceeding through the city to the camp of | the commander-in-chief, for the purpose of | guiding the relieving force to the beleaguered garrison in the Residency, a task which he per- formed with chivalrous gallantry and devotion.” In 1857 Mr. Kavanagh was a subordinate in one | ofthe government departments at Lucknow. Already two attempts ad been made to relieve the garrison of the Residency and to raise the | siege. Havelock and his devoted little army had succeeded in entering the place, but the muti- neers closed around it all the more closely, and the garrison found its numbers increased, but witha daily diminishing supply of food. “On one side,” ‘we read, ‘‘were only a small prickly pear hedge aid a narrow ditch; on another a low fence like that which ordinarily environ the common Indian compound, but the men who were behind these trifling obsta- cles never thought fora moment of flinching. | They were half starved, many were suffering from dysentery, more were wounded, the hail of bullets under which they stood was unceasing, they had nothing to cheer them except their | own grand spirits, relief could not. possibly come for some time, and every day made the f more numerous and stronger, but their courage | never once gaye out.” Sir Colin Campbell wgs | advancing, and it was of the greatest Importance. that the et position of the rebels and the best line of approach to their works should be eom- municated to him. But with the mutinee | round the Resideney there were a } jh 1 chances to one that any messenger undertaking —_the desperate Journ would be discovered, and —_ discovery | meant a brutal—probably a lingering | death. Kavanagh. who had been fighting in the | trenches among the civilians and had been } wounded several times, volunteered to carry | despatches to Sir Colin’s camp, trusting to his knowledge of the native language and customs | ji a Badmash, or swashbuck- | come from Oudh or Delhi to join | the champions of the good cause. Outram en. deayored to dissuade him from his mission by frankly pointing out its dangers, but Kava- nagh persisted in tendering his services, and | they were finaliy accepted. His features did | not lend themselves readily to his disguise, but he succeeded so well with the burnt cork and other limited materials at his command that, when towards sunset he presented himself at the General's quarters no one recognized him till he revealed himself, giving his costume and complexion a final touch, and hiding a note of introduction to Sir Colin Campbell in his tur- ban. Kavanagh set off at nightfall, accompanied by anative spy, Kanaoji Lal, bidding good-by Hardinge a ers edge. The 2 the stream and passed the in- nt sentries on the opposite “Itis a cold night,” said the sentinel as at last, satistied that they were friends, he allowed them to march on ‘Yes; but it will be colder by and by.” was Kavanagh’s answer. They passed the ordeal of the picket further on as successfully, after a rigid questioning, and pressed on, at times marching shoulder to: shoulder in the ran! vith theirenemies. Once again a guard w turned out and they were questioned narrow then they blundered into the enemy’s lines at Dillco Park, and improved the opportunity to count the enusand estimate the force; then they waded through a swamp for two hours and | crossed the canal, the Irishman’s feet being badly eut during the passage, and, after other | misliaps and labors, at 4 4m. they passed through the two rebel pickets and soon | were overjoyed at belng challenged by | an English sentry. After receiving a glass of | brandy from “the officer of the picket, | Kavanagh was directed to the commander-in- | chief’s tent. where he met an elderly gentle- man just leaving it, of whom he asked the whereabouts of Sir Colin Compbell. “I am Sir ‘olin Campbell, said the astonished | officer, eying th uniform from head to foot; “who are you, sir?” Kavanagh handed to him Sir James Outram’s note. “fs this true?” | asked Sir Colin, with some distrust kindling in | his keen eyes “Do you doubt me, sir?” asked | Kavanagh. “No, no,” replied Sir Colin, “bu lit seems very strange.” Kavanagh, who was worn out with anxiety and fatigue, asked that he might be allowed some sleep before recount- Ing his adventure—a request willingly complied with. In a tent darkened for the purpose he first thanked God for his safety, and then slept, while the flags sent back a “yes” to the signal from the anxious garrison, “Is Kavanagh safe?” Not until then was his wife, who had stocd by his side in the trenches and been wounded, informed of his deed and its success. During the advance and the severe fighting which followed until on the 17th the residency was relieved, Kavanagh was with Campbell, advising and fighting, and was the first of the rescuing force to reach his former comrades, The rewards of his heroism were the first Victoria Cross given to a person not holding milltary rank and the appointment: of assistant commissioner in Oudh, where a few slater, in company with Captain Dawson, he stormed, with a handtul of native police and civilians, the fort of Sandela, In which a large fores of rebels defeated at Lucknow had taken up its position. Mr. Kavanagh was later appointed registrar of Lucknow, and held that office at the time of his death. He went home on leave last spring, but | in such ill health that he spent nearly the whole | of his visit in hospital. He was on his way to India when he died at Gibraltar, and was buried with military honors. Of an old Irish family, “Lucknow” Kavanagh was born in the county of Cork. He, doubtless has relatives in this country, as his grandfather was compelled to fly to America after Emmet’s rebellion, in which he had taken an active part. 2 ——— The Mystic Christmas. John G. Whittier in the Youth's Companion. “All hail!” the bells of Christmas rang, “All hail!” the monks at Christmas sang; ‘The merry monks who kept with cheer ‘The gladdest day of all their year. But still apart, unmoved thereat, A pious elder brother sat Silent, In his accustomed place, ‘With God’s sweet peace upon his face. “Why sitt’st thou thus?” his brethren cried. “It 1g the blessed Christmas tide; The Christinas lights are all aglow, ‘The sacred lilies bud and biow. “Above our heads the joy bells ring, ‘Without the happy children sing. And all of God’s creatures hall the morn On which the holy Christ was born! “Rejoice with us; no more rebuke Our gladness with thy qulet look.” ‘The gray monk answered: “Keep, I pray, Even as ye list, the Lord’s birthday. “Let heathen Yule fires filcker red Where thronged refectory feasts are spread; ‘With mystery play and masque and mime And wait song speed the holy time! “The biindest faith may haply save; Lord accepts the things we have; And reverence, howsoe’er it strays, May find at last the shining ways. “They needs must who cannot see, ‘The blade before the ear must be; As yeare feeling I have felt, And where ye dwell I too have dwelt. “But, now, beyond the things of sense,: Beyond ‘oveasions and oven ra and pine. * “I listen, from no mortal tongue, ‘To hear the song she Seo . And wait within. Enywel wo know ‘The Christmas lilies bud and blow. “The outward symbols disaj From him whose inward ais ¢ And small must be the choice of days ‘To him who fills them all with praise! “Keep while you neod it, brothers mine, With honest zeal your Chtistinas sign, | 45,250,000, w Nine-tenths of the unhappy marriages are the result of green human calves being ‘un at large in the society pastures w yokes on them. They marry and h before they do mustaches twins before they are proprietors of two of trousers, and the little girls they marry old women before they are twenty year: Occasionally one of these gosling in urns ont all right, but it is a clear cas of luck. If there was a law against young galoots sparking and marrying before they li all cut their teeth, we suppose the little eusse: would evade it in some way, but ought to be a sentiment against it. enough for these bantams to think of finding a pullet when they nave raised money enougi to buy a bundle of laths to build a hen house. But they see a girl who looks cunning. and they are afraid there isnot going to be girlsenouch to ¢o around, and then they begin to get in theirw "y; and before they are aware of the sau or the marriage relations they are hitched for life, and before they own a cook stove ora y have to get up in the night and xo after the doctor, izhtened that they ruuthem- selves out of breath and abuse the doctor because he doesn’t run too. It isa youn ath-tub, and yoes whooping after t or her mother, he turns pale around the Ms hair turns red in a calls high heaven to w till morning, which he has doubis about, he will turn over a new leaf and never marry again till he i And in the morninis the green-looking “father” is around re a drug store is open, with no coliar on, h hair sticking out al? over, his eyes bloodshot, and his frame nervous, waiting for the cl to open the door so that he can get some sai fron to make tea, I h th was anywhere, but as he sits there in the ho: that morning with his wedding coat rusty and y, and his trousers frayed at the bottom, and his coat patched at the elbo: puts in his arma roll of flannel with a bab; in it, he holds it as he would a banana, and as he looks at his girl wife he thinks there is not provisions enouzh in the house to feed a canary, a lump comes into his throat, and he a: himself that if he had it to do over he would leave that little girl at home to grow up with her mother and he would wait till he had 26 to buy flannel and $10 to pay a doctor. ——— oe German Population and Emigratien. From the London Times, December 6, Considerable attention is being drawn by sta- tisticians to the great rate of increase both of | the population and emigration throughout Ger- many. The population of Prassia increased be- tween 1816 and 1864 fro1 10,350,000 to 19,260,000, while, up to 1875, inclusive, it had mounted up to 21,500,000, or 105 per cent in sixty years | time. From 1875 to 1880 the population of all the German states has been increasing at about 525,000 per annum. At the last ce: 2 cember, 1880, the number of inhabitants if maintained at the same rate, would be 60,000,000 in 1900. The iner as compared with that of France, is very remarkable, the French population during the last flve years showing an increase of only 389,000, while the increase of the German pop- ulation during the same period was 2.000.000, the birth-rate in the latter country being 3.91 per 100, whereas in France it is only 2. There is also this great difference between the two, that in France the increase has been almost entirely in the large towns, whereas in Germany the increase is general throughout the country as well as the towns. The number of emigrant that have left Germany during the iast sixt years is over 3,500,000, of whom the greater part have taken their departure during the last | thirty years, the United States having absorbed in 1881 no less than 248,323. Dr. Frederich Kappe estimates the amount taken away by each emigrant not less than 450 marks, or £22 10s., so that the capital transferred tothe United es during last year amounted directly to £5,587,267. And this, it should be remembered, is not ‘returnable to Germany in the ordinary ways of trade or commerce, as, in point of fact, the German emigrants to the United States be- come Americans, and, consequent tors with Germany, in agri trial pursuits, Dr. Engle considers that the cost of bringing up a young person of the lower or middle classes to the fifteenth yearis about £200, and he estimates that the loss to Germany during the emigration ot the last sixty years, in cash and valuables taken by each emigrant, at over nine milliards of marks, nearly twice the amount of the war indemnity paid by France in i871 ——______-e._ Beer in the Fatherland, From the London Globe, December 11. While the taste for beer seems to be gradually giving way in England before the growing at- tractlons of more ardent spirituous drinks, the robust appetite of the German continues with unabated zeal to patronize the malt lquor to which he has been so long addicted. The sta- tistics of the empire show that last yearthe con- sumption of beer within the Fatherland amounted to no less than 830,000,000 gallons. Ot this amount about 24,000,000 were consumed in Baden, 70,000,000 in Wurtemberg, ant 265,000,000 in Bavaria; the rest being provided for Prussia and the smaller states by 11,000 brewers which are there established. The taxes onthese places of business amounted, one way and another, to about £850,000, besides some £20,000 levied on exports of beer. The propor- tion in which various nationalities in the empire Indulge in their favorite drink is by no means uniform. Thus the general average is about eighty quarts a year for each individual, and inthe Kingdom of Prussia the average is rather less than this. In Alsace-Lorraine it de- scends as low as fifty quarts. But every Badener drinks on an average about one hundred and seventy quarts, or nearly a pint a day,and every Bavarian at least 200. It is necessary, to arrive at a fair estimate of what this means, to deduct from the total of consumers in the kingdom many of those who, living in the Palatinate, drink wine rather than beer. When this abate- ment 1s made and allowance also given for the women, who are not great topers, and such children as are not yet nurtured upon malt liquor, it will be seen that the adult male native of Bavarla who drinks beer at all ly has to account during the twelve months for some- thing not far short of halfa gallon a day. see OS Bae er ad inom Early Marriages in Lancashire. From Good Words, Early marriages are nowhere so common as in the prosperous manufacturing districts of Lan- cashire. Boys andgirls not out of their but earning big wages and having their feeling or independence prematurely developed by the absence of home life, get united in holy wedlock at a time of life when, in the higher ranks of so- ciety, they have not left school nor begun to think of acalling. Saturday is a favorite day tor getting married because it is a short one, and the ceremony can be got through witha minimum of loss—a thing certain to be con- sidered by a thrifty opera raded for a few hours in cheap tawdry finery of glaring colors, which can never serve any use- again; one of the ademas ence morning by the stroke ot 6 the newly pane col be found at their looms, in defiance in wife they are fathers of | body who wou!d perm It ts time | had done so F wow ald fake my 72. Imade yout the silliness of any: himselt to be fooled by That ed bad feel- rded out of the ark: | so transparent a trick. | ing, and 1 was loudly ou'd better not make anytrouble in there sald a policeman whor I had encountered be fore. “You had better stop their swindling,” I re- | plied. Pe Took here’? and is| acowisl (en he toyed with his clab, “I don’t allow 29 man to tell me my biz. | “biz” was to protect that mock auction. | A | From the Oil Ci | The ord upin ¥ sation just now | Which is eed a sensation. Columbus Brown, who liv nthe ward, in F @ay this week discovered a hoard of gold amo to $27.00. For many yea! has been a behet that dur Hin, ne: ubus Brox r where the old mania in re becom haunted hy ed of rich ) Mr. Browa hy about th but the most import night. Th that he was chest of gold, and that the earth at the fot So excited was he | dit alla dream, as! to the window, aad 1, st ofa tre that he | he put it } Sensible me bed and to sie eyes till he was at the ro id have done, and retir ~ lie had scarcely closed his | gain Inthe fleld and digging ofthe tree. He was informed in nn -y Uniform 0 if he would mea: acertain distance from the center of a rock in | the run, due north, and then measure thirty- | three feet due west from that point, he would find the treasure he had so often seen in his dre: I y morning he arose, and, pr ent and measured s What f ach and every surement brought himto the foot ot the chestnut tree in the open field. Brown did not | tell anyo: oat his dream, nor of the result | but during theday he went to Colonel Breakley, | Who owns the ground, and asked and obtained ome pretext, to dig near the dream. w im | chestuut tree. He and his son, a lad of sixteen, eommenced digging at the re .and at a depth of something over et, about 4 p.m., strack something almost under the center of the tree. which gave forth a metallic sound. A further clearing away of the gravel and stones dis- closed the sides or end of an iron box or chest. Wild with cxeitement they continued to dig until they had unearthed the chest or box, which was thirty-one inches long, twenty | inches wide and twenty-four inches deep, or | about the dimensions of an ordinary trunk. Their united efforts could only turn it over, but | could not lift it from the excavation. The young man was sent for ahammer and cold | chisel, and the lid was s removed. The | sight which met their gaze enongh to turn | the head of almost any man. The box was | nearly two-thirds filled with gold and silver coin, tarnished and covered with sand and | mould, but nevertheless gold. The coins are mostly French, but a number of English, Ger- | man and Spanish are among the lot. They bear | dates 1729, 1744, 1751, and various other dates, | the latest of which is 1754, which Is the same year Fort Macnauit was completed. On a brass Tuler found in the chest the name “Joncaire” is | | plainly stamped. It isa well-known fact that | | this was the name of the officer in command of | the French troops. A careful estimate of the | coins makes a total value coins were placed on exhibition at the banks, The fortunate owner has been offered ten times their value for a single coin. sacle Foreign adventurers, cern. Several show cases were piled promiscu- | (From the Washington Star.) SEVEN MILLIONS OF PORES OPEN, AND YOU LIVE AND BREATHE IN ATMOSPHERES WHICH POISON YOUR BLOOD, AND THEN FOLLOWS SEIN DISEASES. Nothing ts more dreaded than | which bas fully a dozen species, eoing under various panies, nearly ail of which defy the ontinary: destroy the hair, the skin and the flesh, and im many: cases death comes as a blessing. Scalp and ekin alike * subject to this, as well as to dandruff, tetter and other eesly diseases, producing baldness, eruptions, ulcers and other troubies, r at peojle rhould beware of taking palsone as Temeviies for this class of dixsases of the skin and noalp, arious remedies which are sent out by un- should be avoided as one would a placae. can be relied on, isan earnest of ne, but the result of i salt rheum oF ccpem@, nex the special diseases for w: the skin soft and wh te and « freckles, and moot, Ren let preparation in the » bottles in one paek- external treatinent. n, pure and free from all pote t mnay be relied upon by all those who wish to have pe: | of ¥ v Puupies or body. Prive One D wists have it for sale, | r Itchine on per A REVOLUTION in the trestment of nervons diseases is now taking Dr. CW. Be satimore, many yearw! I's Celery and Chamo-' da wonderful asle and sucedaa,4 re sick and? yh omamene,” and al nervons diseases. Al druggists keep them. ! ¥ s yer box. Two boxes for $1. six for $2.50 A receipt of price. Dr. C. W. Benson, ara maton, of New York, is wholesale #go Benson's remedias cw | THE SWEEPING REDUCTIONS Wnictt WE INAUGURATED DECEMBER 15 19 MEETING WITH EVE THAN VCCESS. Wr ANTICIPA‘ED, WE SAID WE WER NG TO SELL PILES OF CLOTHING BEFORE N°W YEAR, AND OUR SWEEPING REDUCTIONS ank DOING THE WORK. OUR WHOLE SHOCK OF CLOUEIN T DOWN IN PRICES FROM a To FORTY PER CENT. OVERCOATS AT LOWER PRICES THAN EVER BER NAMED. BUSINESS AND DRESS SUITS AT PRICES THAT WILL SELL TREM QUICK, BOYS AND CHTLD- RENS OVERCOATS AND SUITS aT SACRIFICING PRICES, AS WE HAVE TOO MANY ON HAND, TAKE NOTICE.—THESE REDUCTIONS ARE GENUINE, AND YOU ARE RE- QUESTED TO CALI. AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. s888gTTTTRRR A T KR AA Ssss, T rn, Aw Ses8 TR nae THE POPULAR CLOTHIER, ~ 939 Pennsylvania avenue, near 10th street, —- —— GLAUGHTER OF I ____ and 932 D etrwet. 4 OCENTS’ CLOTHING aT “ THE MISFIT STORE, CORNER TENTH AND F STREE18, FOR BOYS FROM 4 TO 11 YEARS. RUIPS at $3.00, worth $5.00. SUITS at worth 6.00, SUITS at 8, 15.00. . with or without Plush apes. 4, wot te, with or without Plash Capes. 5. wi Overconts wth of without Hush Caper, 6) worth Sizes i these woods are Leing rapidly broken, those wishing ceuuine barxa: in ye" Clothi better call zt once. Our stock of Boys’ Nuits aud Over ver- Paris Correspondence New York Times. I may tell you that an elopement was pre- | vented quite recently by the energetic activity of the young person’s mamma, an American widow lady, whose name you will permit me not to mention. Mrs. X. had passed the sum- mer with her two children, a boy of 18 and a girl of 15, at Ostend, where they had made the acquaintance of—accurding to his own state- ment—a Prussian officer, who, so far as the | mother knew, was not particularly attentive to Miss Arabella, but very nice and sociable with George. The season ended, the X. family re- turned to Paris; everything seemed to go on happily, when Mrs. X., noticing that the daugh- ter moped and lost her appetite, called in a doc- tor. “There's nothing organic to fear,” opined Hippocrates; ‘feed her well, and she will get over it; but evidently she has something on her mind.” ‘What's the matter, Arabella,” asked her mamma; “are you in love with anybody?” having hada considerable and varied experi- ence of that kind herself, the dowager touk the bull by the horns. “If you love anybody you shall marry him, even if he’s an | She distinctly sald “nigger,” declining its syno- | nym, “colored man.” Arabella burst and confessed that it was not a “nigger, German, the very identical German who had been so friendly with her brottrer, and that she had been in correspondence with him, via the conclerge, rendered willing by the bestowal of occasional pieces of money purloined from the | maternal beige and that it had gone on thus for a month, but she was penitent and would never do so more—no, never, never, never! and if) dear mamma would only forgive she would cease to think of Adelbert. Mrs. X. did for- give, but her eye was not shut up. Probably remembering sun experiences at Saratoga, Newport and West Point, five and thirty years back, she watched and waited, and finally pounced upon another missive, in which an ap- pointment was made for a fiight to Belgium, expenses for the same to be paid from the ma- ternal strong-box above referred to, for which = ee Re aaa seeulieg can poral, ined, wi pears to present some ties, ag in the “Rae de Lille, at em- army. Probably he will turn out to be one of the many chevaliers d'industrie who haunt continental watering-places and get into the society of traveling Americans, all of whom are supposed to be of the Croesus family. Their Their plan from the fact that mother's appeal to his man he eent a cl orth , Overcoats, with or without Plush Capes, $4 ‘aI t { coats tor boys from 11 ing the last few 4: enumerate, but what ‘ cot or value. In Men's and Youths’ Overcoats we have | a ood uésortusent, and will sell # fine Beaver ¢ coat at $20, worth $35.8 fine Chinchilla Overcout at w excellent Beaver Overcoat at £14, ¥ $25; an all-wool Melton Overcoat, an all-wool Melton Overcoat, worth fine reversible Overcont at $1 Silk facing SS ablack Di —— ve $25; a fine Chinchilia Prince Albert Overcoat ‘at worth $40: a good Chinchilla Overcoat et 16, Asubsizatial Overcoat at $8, worth $12, SUITS FOR MEN AND YOUTHS. sUry 5. 00. 18 had such a shaki ais, Ml, 5, at 0 1d Men's Gossarners at $2. Youths und Men's Gossamers at 8.00, worth 5.00, Youths aud Men's Gossamers at 3.50, worth 6.00. steel oom ate $4.00, $3.00, and $6.00, ‘worth fully’ dowbie. Satisfaction guarauieed to all purchasers or money, refunded. ‘OvE Moro: No trouble to chow goods, THE MISFIT STORE, CORNER 10TH AND F STREETS, Open every evening aaq i \OLD WEATHER IS COMING. PREPARB/ sgh RIC te tg, worth 3.50. 5, worth $4.00. a firet. 8' NACE. Our complete, and if you will favor us with a call we show for your inspection the largest assortment above an this city, teri alt dF Rey ea aes Mrntekand Grats, Phinting and Gan esting, Sobe ‘bing and promptly attended to. W. 5. JENKS & CO., = ‘117 7th street nortuwest. H, > B4B8, IMPORTER AND TAILOR, 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. . For first-class work and artistic tailoring place youn orders with the leading house of Washington. _oas_» OLIVE BUTTER! ‘ Cheaper and better than Lard for Cooking Purposes, BEQUIRES BUT HALF THE QUANTITY. Manufactured only by WASHINGTON BUTCHER'S SONS, ‘ n28-th, s&tu, 7 TEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF rs AE An 2 ee LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF pn | in apiece achat = ora Seti eae