Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1883, Page 3

SENATOR SPENCE Eudignandy Denied by General Brewster, Dispatch to the Boston Herald. Wasnixoron, D.C., Dee. 31, 1882.—Attorney General Brewster was asked to-night if he had seen the Spencer interview. printed in to-day’s New York Herald. “Yes,” he replied, and, striking the table heavily with his hand, he added: “It is a tissue of lies from beginning to end. It Spencer is an innocent man, if he has been slandered and outraed, as he professes, why does he not come here and face his accusers, instead ot rushing off to Canada and vaporing in vS STORY. Attorney this ridiculous fashion? He dares not Instead of courting an Investigation, he avoids one by taking the first steamer y says, he will Nonsense! pn would not He knows well be worth the } lawyer understands thai, in under consideration. Why, sir, come to Washington and prove t tlen of any fair-minded ian ti Hatements about him are untre Bliss kicke York, is one get, and has 1 mirably fron 2 the fir we have | since, that before her acquaintance with her hus- elect he weakes! . y ° ve | selected the weakest casex. We have nothing | band she was married when filteen te do with that. The Post Office department | P#d : i is responsible for that. It 1s our business | Maryville, Nodbury county, Mo., to Ben Swixert, to try them. Then there is the silly talk to whom sne had two children. In Mareb, 1 about Spencer's end Rubbish, rubbi only thme Spencer bas be for months, un! before we wert we couid not us he could not be fo time and ine ors to be subp word of it in Washingion ss he were hiding, was long y for trial—when he knew n. Whea we did want hin, d. When he says we spent ey in sham endeavors fo find him, y untrue fe did try st to every off to find him. ve ‘amination which be cb we have heard th court of i last of him, unless it be in a e+ = Gambctta and the Fature of France. F-om 2. The popu: sult of a sudden eley or even of asuceession of happ arrived at the summit of put sant cultivation of a superior intelligence the effort of a resolute will, by the ‘ acharacter which rose superior to vul-rar temp- tations. Born poor and of aa impetuous tem- Perament. he combined in his youth two quali- ties of incomparable value. the thirst for knowl- edzeand a combative nature sustained y of of men and int sides, endowed with an sion and of ex i faculty of impul- udent, he sought sure from study the resorts where he might ventilate his ideas. His even- ings in these public haunts, for which he has been reproached as sonveuirs of dis- gipation, were tree conferences where were dis- eassed all ral opinions, al t S: within him. control his ¢ His most ardent ide: pered by retlection: he has never taken a politi- eal step without k exactly what he was doing and where he was going. and he has never overestimated bis influence upon others or his ability to lead them. To him prc »pped only at Utopia; his expectations w the possible. Like great captains, like Grant during the American war, he would not mai forward until he had fortified the positions he had already conquered, and from this arose that Teputation for readiness to meet emergencies which has been giwen—| me in seriousness, by others in frony—to his politieal tact. We will not here follow Gambetta through all the ph ot his iife after the foundation of the Fepublic which he, more than any one else, helped to establisi—more than any one else, that is to say. with exception of M. Thiers, who has a separate place in the history of this terri- bie crisis in which the fortune, the independ- ence, the existence even of the French father- and were almost overwhelm It ts rather the cha f the man of which we desire to speak than the facts in the development ot which it is reve: say a word of the his. latter ¢ know all the oscillations and the hesitations of parties in the heart of the chamber and the political Instability which resulted therefrom. This instability, whieh has already far advanced, and which has ever been the evil of the re- | public its origin, has engendered sand has ‘created many dan- external. Well, if there be a truth which is mcontestable to whoever has fol- lowed with attention and intelligence the pro- gress of public affairs in France, it is that Gam- betta the man best fitted to rally parties and to discipline them into forming a majority | forthe government. and at the same time the man best fitted to give to the national politics of France the force and diznity which they wanted. In this Eure was not decei She knew that f paratively obscure — post whieh held from the time of the fall of his ministry he did not cease to exercise upon the majority in the chambers and still more upon the m: ‘ity of the country a control whieh was energetic enough to assure th timid and to vive tothe birth of the gover if an impulse which it would have it not been sustained by his power- Gambetta removed from power than an authority; he was an animat- ing spirit. a vital breath—the expression of the true will of the people speaking with the voice of the most eloquent man in the land. Now that this spirit has taken its fight, this breath is extinct and this veice hushed, the French fatherland will not be less dear to its children hor its flaz less sacred; but there is a great heart less to love it and an energetic hand the less to hold the flag. We look around us and we look for a rallying point _ It exists without adoubt,and the people of France will know how to find it, we are convinced, in a virtue which has never failed in the day of reat trial— the love of the country and of liberty. _ — ARat Shuts off the Electric Light, From the Chicago Tribune, Dec. 29, A peculiar incident occurred on Saturday Right last at the store of Wiloughby. Hill & Co. The firm usea large number of electric Ughts in their building. At 11 o'clock, when the store was crowded with people, the light was suddenly turned off, and all were left in utter darkness. As rapidly as possible the gas- fets were lighted and everybody looked sur- | prised, none more so than the members of the firm. The engine was running as rapidly as usual, and the dynamos were working ele- gantly when an investigation was made, still no electric light was visible above. Under the dy- Bamo there stood a rat, with one leg raised up sifabout to takeanother step. The rat was ead and rooted to the spot. He had leaped on one of the copper couductors underneath the brush, and in stepping on the other closed the current so that it passed through his body, killing him instantly, the rat remaining nailed to the spot, while the entire current from a 40- ght Brush machine passed through him and Prevented it from ascending above. The ma- @hinery was stopped, the rat taken off, and then everything was all right again, for when the @achinery was again started the lights burned | ‘as well as usual. a A Yorxe Wowaw Protects Her Hoxor with 4 Deapty Suot.—Miss Shearer, living near Canal Dover, Pu.. on the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad. was repeatedly annoyed by a man gamed Rex, who at various times, it is claimed, made attempts to break in her apartments. Miss Shearer claims she warned him away fre- gents. and by her refusal to allow him to enter Foom he became enraged and juar- Beling with her. Last Friday the qi be- @ame animated. The man’s abusive language the anger of the girl to the highest |, and in an instant she drew a revolver and two shots in succession at her victim. Both shots took effect in Rex's chest, and he ~~ S feet of the young lady mortally nited to | THREE MURDERS CONFESSED. A Dying Woman’s Story of the Killing of Hier Husband, Her Child and a Seranger. From the Philadelphia Timea. Waterrorp, Onto, January 1. Mrs. Emma Stillwell, who lies on her death- bed in this small village, has made a most re- markable confession of crime. She states that she assisted in the murder of her first husband and her child; that she attempted her second husband's life, and that she killed a transient boarder in the family. The confession, which was tuken down from her lips, is so horrible that but for corroborating testimony it would seem more like the fancy of a diseased mind story of real life. The invalid, Einma rriyed at the home of her husband's . Stillwell, at Waterford, Nov rom Tung disease, accompanied by d, nine months old. Her condi- ig y, her -husband, a juetor on the Chicago, Burli railroad, residing at Ottui nd arrived hi ¥ following the wife in- wing herself to be a dying nfession to make, and im- ‘don, related her horrible taie. SING TO HER W xD. has repeated the statement She said, an assisted by her brother, Chester Hoard, and her mother. she murdered her husband, whom they believed to have had considerable money. w sted for the crime, but were discharzed pee, the general belief being to his death in a drunken tit. death of her husband the family kept varding-house at Maryville for some time, fe uiths after the firs | trio murdered a transient she was unah position was made ¢ wes thrown into a de Te was found near the town, ater, but that | STRANGL pany. | She married her present husband, then a brakemaa on the Kansas, St. Joe and Council Blutts railway, in January, 15 afier re ulo, Nebr: confesses that in May, 1880, she strangled their | fourteen-nonths-old baby named Gerirude, by | | the assi: Be ance of her aunt, a woman named umstine, for the reason that it was | and she thought she would have more Liberty if It was dead. She eescribed how the | horrible deed was accomplished, the aunt mak- | ing a strong tea from peach leaves, which she | poured down the baby's throat, while the un- mother held the baby, assisting In its strangling it with a. Stillwell further informed her horrified nd of making three different attempts to take his life, the object being to obtalu a small insurance he in her favor, and re- a » doubt in his mind 1 time by the merest n ‘e the terrible secret as long Then on Tuesday last | four of the best men of the neighborhood, in- | cluding a minister and a justice of the peace. were called in and the confession repeated to them, the wife signing the statement. mother of the woman received fatal injurle: a railroad accident in March, 1881, while trave ing from Ruio to Ottumwa, the Wife says, for the avowed purpose of concocting a plan to kill husband received by Mr. Stillwell from d, the woman's brother, dated De- in which he expressed the utmost anxiety to know if his sister was dead, and if she had told anything about him, saying he could not rest until he had heard. “The woman very weak, and can scarcely speak above a | d when reque: at her story ta were present to. ar ured that they were fi at he accide Upon nds she again story, and declared it to be true in | | of 1882. | ANOTHER COMPUTATION OF ITS ORBIT. The following éliiptic elements of the great comet of 1882 lave been computed by Dr. J. Morrison, of the Nautical Almanac office, from three observations made at the Naval observa- tory on the dates specified, Washington mean time: : September 19, 969786, right ascension, 168 34 minutes 44.1 seconds; declination, 34 Getober 8. .72045 grees | minute 37.9 grees 40 minutes | “December 11, y | degrees 5 minutes 25.3 seconds; decl | degrees 16 minutes 28.1 second: These observations wer for aberration and parallax by means of para- bolic elements previously computed from the | first and second of the above obs | one made on October helion passage 1882, Sept. 16, .9 , ton mean time, longitude of ascending node, | 346 degrees 19.2 seconds; distance from node to perihelion, 69 degrees 39 minutes 31.4 seconds; | inclination to plane of ecliptic, degrees | minutes 3.5 seconds, referred to mean eq! nox and ecliptic of 1882. Eccentricity. 9998963; | logarithin ot perihelion distance, 7.900692; | riodic time, 652.506 years. Motion, retrograde. = gee Work and Wages. The strikers at the Topton furnace, at Topton, | Berks county, Pa., on Monday night endeavored to prevent new men from taking their places, ; and a riot occurred. Two of the ringleaders | were arrested. The new employes went to work | yesterday. |" The hollow-ware glass furnace of Bodine, | Tnomas & Co., Camden, N, J., from which the | fire was drawn a short time since on account ot alack of demand for glass, is to be put into operation again in a few days, the orders which are coming in warranting the renewal of work. The river coal operators of the Pittsburg dis- trict have decided against the 4per cent rate for digging, and will insist upon a reduetion equal | to that ruling in the railroad pits, which is 324 | cents per bushel. Tie operators say the condi- | tion of trade will not warrant a higher rate. The reduction willafiect 5,000 miners, employed | in 74 pits, —————+0--_-___ Religion in Public Schools. At the meeting of the governor and executive | council of Massachusetts a few days ago, the by-laws and rules for the government of the State primary and reform schools reported by | the trustees were approved, the following in re- | gard to religious instruction having been added to the original code: “The superintendent shall have the direction of the moral and religious instruction of the in- mates, and shall have charge of the Sunday school. There shall be daily devotional exer- | cises and religious services every Sunday. He shall endeavor to exclude from the services and | instruetion everything of a sectarian character. He may invite clergymen of various denomina- tions to officiate in these general services, and | their attention, before engaging in them, shall | be called to this regulation; but special ser- | vices may be held by Roman Catholic priests every Sunday, and instruction given by them | once a week, subject only to the necessary re- | quirements of the discipline of the schools. All | these services shall be in accordance with the | provisions of the statutes.” ——_+>—___ A Three Days’ Bride Dead. From the Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle. Dec. 29. Last week Mr. J. W. Brown, of this place, | Accompanied his friend, Mr. John R. Chapman, | to Maryland, to serve him In the capacity of | “best man” at his marriage. The marriage took place on Thursday of last week, according to appointment, and on the following Sunday the bride died. +0 A Lap’s UNTIMELY EXp1Ne.—Christian Bess- ler, thirteen years oid, son of Gabriel Bessler, a St. Clair, Pa., carpet weaver, met with instant death Monday morning while playing with some friends at a ginJn use at a shaft on Mount Hope. The boys had wound the gin up, and while allowing it to run down young Bessler was struck by the handle and knocked down. His head strucked a rock so violently that his skull was ae and he died before he could be ome. right ascension, 157 de- conds; declination, 10 de- rwards corrected Se Seal E1cntrex Convicts Drowxep.—As_ thirty penitentiary convicts, mostly negroes, with two white guards, engaged at the Cowee tunnel, on the Western North Carolina railroad, in Jack- son county, N.C., were crossing the Tuckasee- gee river on Saturday, one of the convicts dis- covered that the flat was leaking, and gave an They | PHENOMENA OF DEATH. Some Strange and Start: garding the Last Hi Facts Re- THE PAINLESS NATURE OF DISSOLUTION AND THR CAUSES OF THE DEATH KATTLE—AVERAGE AGES OF DYING AND THE HOURS PARTICULARLY FAVORED BY THE GRIM SPECTER. Frem the Philadelphia Press. The necrology of the old year will be read with mournfu! interest by those who cross full of health and vim over the threshold of the new year. In the long list of deatlis will be recorded the demise of many a young and hearty man or woman-who on the Ist of January, 1882, looked hopefully forward to decades of happy new years and yet had to succumb to the grim spectre, stricken by sudden accident or horrible disease. A physician of this city has made the phe- nomena of death a special study; by careful ob- servation and lenzthy consultation with his brother doctors, he has acquired a fund of inter- esting facts andsuppositions regarding the fatal moment which all humanity sooner or later have to expertence. “One of the things of which Tam convince said the doctor in conversation yesterday, “is that death is painless. I mean that the mo- ment of dissolution approaches as unconsclously ‘3 sleep—the soul leaves the world as painlessly as it enters it. Whatever be the causes of death, whether by lingering malady or sudden violence, dissolution comes either throuzh syncope or as- phyxta. In the latter case, when resulting from disease. the struzute is long. protracted and ac- companied by all the visible marks of agony which the imagination associates with the clos- ing scene of lite—tin nched and pallid f the cold, clammy skin, the upturned ¢ the heavy, laboriou rattling respiration. Death does not strike all the organs of the body at the sae time; some y be said to survive others. and the Iungs are tie last to give up ke performance of their tunctions. As death | approaches the latter become gradually more and more oppressed; the cells are loaded with an increased quantity of the fluid which naturally Inbrieates the surfaces; the atmos- jere can then no longer come into contact with ninute blood vessels spread over the air- ithout first permeatin.t his viscous fluid— e the rattle. Nor is the contact sufficiently ct to change the black venous into the red arterial blood; an unprepared fluid consequently issues from the lungs into the heart, and is thence transmitted to every other organ of the body, The brain re nd its energies appear to be lulled thereby into sleep—gener- | ally tranquil sleep—iiled with dreams which impel the dying to murmur out th mes of friends and the occnpations and recoilections of past life. The rustic ‘bubbles of green fleliis,’ and the hero expires amid visions of battle. © ze, Chester, charge; i on, Stanley, on! tle last wo! farinion, of & LONGEVITY OF LIFE. “*A very large number of deaths are attributed to old age,” continued the phystcian, “yet few, even of the oldest, die purely from exhaustion or gradual decay; some positive disease, in most cases, overwhelms the small remains of vitality. Yet death from actual old age is not impossible and must be the sweetest death of all—a sleep indeed that wakes In eternity. In regard to longevity, it is asserted that the United States is more tavorabie to long life than any other country. If I cannot abide entirely by that opinion, I can at least agree that this country has and can produce ten centurians to any one of any other land, and I think Washington's body servants affirm my statement. The averaze of human life is thirty-three years. One- quarter die previous to the ae of seven years; one-half befere reaching enteen; so those | who pass their t enjoy a felicity refused to one-half the Luman species. _ In every 1,000 persons only one reaches beyond the ni ery 100 only six reach the id not more than one in 500 lives to years. Of the upwards of 1,000,000,- pitants of the globe one-third die every 24 every day, 3,730 every hour and | ‘y minute. Married p er than single: tall men longer tha their favor, previous to bei years of age, than men have, but fewer atterward. Persons who are born in sprins generally grow more robust than those who come into the world at other seasons. Deaths are more frequent by hight than by HOURS FATAL TO LIFE. “Have the hours most fatal to life ever been ascertained?” “Yes, toa certain extent, I have the data here of some very interesting conclusions ascer- tained in 2,880 instances of death at all ages. The examples are taken from all conditions of life and during a period of several years. If the deaths of the 2,890 had occurred indifferently at | any hour during the 24 hours, 120 would liave | occurred at each hour. But this was by no | means the case, There are two hours in which | in fact—namely, trom midnight to 1 o'clock. when the deaths were 88 per cent below the average, and from noon to 1 o’clock, when they were 20%; per cent below. From 8 to 6 o'clock a.m., inclusive, and from 3 to 7 p.m., there Is a gradual increase in the former of 231¢ per cent above the average, in the latter of 5} per cent. The maximum of death fs from 5 to 6 o'clock a.m., when it is 40 per cent above | the average; the next. during the hour before midnight, when it is 25 per cent in excess; a third hour of excess is that from 9 to 10 o’clock in the morning, being 1714 per cent above. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the deaths are less numerous, being 16!¢ per cent below the average, the hour before noon being the most fatal. From 3 o'clock p.m. to 7 p.m. the deaths rise 514 per cent above the average, and the fall from thet hour to 11 D.m. averaging 614 per cent below the mean. During the hours from 9 to 11 o'clock in the evening there is a minimum of 6!4 per cent be- low the average. Thus the least mortality is during midday hours, namely from 10 to 3 o'clock, the greatest during early morning bours, from 3 to 6 o'clock. “-By-the-way,” remarked the doctor as his visitor got up to leave. “I said just now that America could produce more cases of longevity than any other country. Iimust except the coldest | regions of Russia, as I understand there is a| level country of about 100 leagues square, sloping to the south on the borders of Siberia’ where a year rarely passes in the course of which some person does not die at the age of 130. I asked a Russian physician whether the report could be depended upon, and he says they are kept by une pues of the Greek Church, | who, for reasons of faith, are most rigid in regard to the exactitude of age of their dead. In one year, the foreign doctor informed me, 416 persons of 100 years and upward, died in the Russian empire. The oldest was 135 years, and there were 111 above 110 years old. I regret to own that an American record can be beaten in anything, but in this instance the land of the Czar walks over the course. Many happy new years.” An Edi on Early Marriages. From the Rising Fawn (Ga.) Gazette. Nine-tenths of the unhappy marriages are the result of green human calves being allowed to Tun at large in the society pastures without any yokes on them. They marry and haye children betore they do moustaches; they are fathers of twins before they are proprietors of two pairs of pants, and the little, girls they marry are old women before they aré twenty years old. Occa- sionally one of these gosling marriages turns out all right, but Is a clear case of luck. If there was a law against young galoots sparking and marrying before they have all cut their teeth ‘we suppose the little cusses would evade it in some way; but there ought to be a sentiment against it. It is time enough for these bantams tothink of findinga pullet when they have ralsed money enough to buy a bundle of lathsto build a hen house. But they see a girl who looks cunning, and fey are afraid there is not going to be girls enough to go around, and then they begin to get in thelr work real spry; and before they are aware of the sanctity of the mar- riage relation they are hitched for life, and be- | ple of the American Gibraltar were in the habit, | gates of the town to exchange commodities with j must be sorrowfully admitted that the bad FAITHFUL Ltcy. An Indian Girls Romance—Her Seoli- tary Home in Oregom—Long Years of Waiting. i From the Atlantic Monthiy. She was a California Indian. probably of the Tulares, and migrated to Oregon with her fam- lly thirty years ago. She was then a young girl, and said to be the handsomest equaw ever seen in Oregon. In those days white men in wildernesses thought it small shame, if any, to take Indian women to live with them as wives, and Lucy was much squght and wooed. But she seems to have had uncommon virtué or coldness, for she resisted: all such approaches for a long time. Finally a man named Pomeroy appeared, and, as Lucy said afterward, as soun as she looked at him she knew he was her “tumtum man,” and she must go with him. He hada small sloop, and Lucy became its mate, They two alone ran years up and down the river. He established a little trading post, and Lucy al- ways tcok charge of that when he went to buy goods. When gold was discovered at Ringgold bar Lucy went there, worked with a rocker like a man, and washed out hundreds of dollars’ worth of gold, all of which she gave to Pome- roy. With it he built a fine schooner and en- larged his business, the faithfal Lucy working always at his side and bidding. At last, after eight or ten years, he grew weary of her and of the country and made up his mind to go to Cali- fort But he had not the heart to tell Lucy he meant to leave her. The pilot who told me this story was at that time captain of a schooner on the river. Pomeroy came to him one day and asked him to move Lucy and her effects down to Columbus. He said he told her she must go and live with her relatives while he went to Cal- ifornia and looked about, and then he would send for her. The poor creature, who had no {dea of treach- ery, came on board’ cheerfully and_ willingly, and he set her off at Columbus. This was in the early epring. Week after week, month after month, whenever his schooner stopped there, Lucy was on the shore asking if he had heard from Pomeroy. For a long time, he sald, he could not bear to tell her. At last he did; but she would not believe him. Winter came on. Shehad got a few boards together and built herself a sort of ahut, near a house where ed an eccentric old bachelor, who finally took compassion on her, and, to save her from freez- ing, let her come into his shanty to sleep. He was a mysterious ofd man, a recluse, with a morbid aversion to women, and at the outset it wasa great struggle for him to let even an Indian woman cross bis threshold. But. little by little, Lucy won her way; first she washed the dishes, then she would timidly help atthecooking. Faithful, patient, unpresuming, at last she crew to bereally the old man’s house- Keeper as well as servant. He lost his health, and became blind. Lucy took care of him till he died, and followed him to the grave, his only mourner, the only human belng in the country with whom he had any tie. He left her his little house and a few hundred dollars—all he had— and there she is still, alone, making out to lve by doing whatever work she can find in the neighborhood. Everybody respects her. She is known as “Lucy” up and down the river. “I did my best to hire her to come and keep house for my wife,” said the pilot. “I'd rather have her for nurse or cook than any white woman in Oregon. But she wouldn't come. I don't know asshe’s done looking for Pomeroy to come back yet, and she’s going to stay just where he left her. She never misses a time waving to me when she knows what boat I’m on, and there isn't much going on on the river she doesn’t now.” +0 Engiand’s Bad I remember hearing, with astonishment, a dozen years ago, from an English gentleman of culture and high social standing, that it was necessary to remove the ‘gates of Quebec, “to sive more room for traffic.” I asked no ques- tions, but wondered inwardly whether the peo- ike the ancient Orientals, of resorting to the each other. On our arrival next morning the mystery was solved; it was travel, not barter, that my friend meant vy trafic. The word is continually thus misused in England, and it habit is now slowly invading this country as well. Other examples—as yet, happily, not naturalized in American usage—are: Famous, for excellent; bargain, for haggle; tiresome, for disazreeable; rot, for-nonsense; jug, for pitcher; good form, for in good taste: trap, for light wagon; tub, Yor bathe; stop, for remain: assist, for be present; plant, for fixtures; intimate, for an- nounce, and tidy for almost anything compli- mentary. ‘A London paper made mention the other day of *‘a very tidy bull,” the writer mean- ing a valuable animal, and by no means intending torefer to any particular neatness in the beast’s habits. English hostlers also—to get pretty well going as lowas do the compilers of what are termed Americanisms in their search for blin- ders—English hostlers sometimes speak of chill- ing cold water, meaning warming it slightly—an. extraordinary perversion of a very common and elementary word. It is not only, however. in their recent coinages and anomalous assigning of new meaning to the old terms that the Eng- lish have made reckless changes in the body of our speech where the American practice ad- heres to the former standard. They haveswung off in the opposite direction also, curtailing to no good purpose the significance of several words, A “young person” is always a girl in England. An Invalld is “ill,” pot sick, unless he happens to be nauseated, though it is re- garaed as perfectly proper to describe him as confined to a sick-room or stretched upon a ‘bed. A Briton is horrified at the idea of nq in a carriage, although he makes no scruple of riding in an omnibus or a street car. When you enter the vehicle at the side you drive; when at the end you ride. And ifthe author of ‘Macleod of Dare” is a trustworthy guide, the word up, used in reference to a journey in Great ' Britain, indicates not that the traveler is seeking a more elevated region or moving northwardly, but solely that he is going toward the capital; “up to London” and “down to the Highlands,” are, it appears, the correct formule. A third kind of variation that seems to have grown up in Great Britain to a greater extent than in this country is the habit of turning active and especially reflective verbs into neuter, as ‘don't trouble,” for ‘don’t trouble yourself.” As long ago a3 1854 Miss Yonge wrote (in ‘“Heart’s-ease”): ‘Theodora flung away and was rushing off.” Charles Reade, whom the astute Fitzedward Hall ranks among “the choicest of living English writ ers,” 1s guilty of such phrases as “Wardlaw whipped before him,” [Little] “flung out of the room,” and various others. These and similarly incomplete sentences certainly strike the American ear as decided innovations, and constitute a peculiarity of diction very rarely to be observed on this side or the water. The Eng- lish have also a practice, more pronounced by far than our own, ot sbbeccariog @ good many words in their common talk. They never call their consolidated government bonds anything but “‘consols.” The Zoological Gardens in Lon- don are the “Zoo,” and aseries of popular con- certs given every season in the same city are euphoniously denominated the “Monday Pops.” Hampshire is ‘Hants;” Buckinghamshire, “Bucks:” Hertfordshire, “Herts.” A similar liberty is taken with the names of firme; ‘Smith & Co.” is made to do duty, even in formal business letters, tor the established title, “Smith, Brown & Robinson.” In the con- struction of many sentences, however, an op- posite plan is frequently followed, the tser- tion of utterly superfluous words. Thus one oc- casionally hears English ladies ask. “Whatever are you doing?”—meaning, “What are you doing?” In Herbert Spencer on Education, we read that “in Russia the infant mortality is some- thing enormous.” Few Americans would have put in the “something.” And who fas not been dis- gusted by the innumerapie gor with which so many English pages fairly tle?—in places, I mean, where the author does not intend to con- vey the slightest idea of getting, but not only that of present possession. The general American dislike ot this word, and our practice, where the past participle of get must be used, of adopting the old and softer form (now scarcely ever heard in England) are not exactly what would be expected of a people who are ruining the I: .— Gilbert M. Tucker, in North American Review. fore they own a cook stove or a bedstead they have to get oP inthe night and go after the doctor, so frightened that they ran themselves out of breath and abuse the doctor because he doesn’t run, too, and when the doctor gets there there is not enough linen to wrap up a doll baby. ——_—___+2- _____ Why this Winter will be Sharp. From the Dalton Argus. “Yas, sah, I'se obnosdecates de mos’ ongree- able winter dat de oldest inhabitant ob Georgia can dismember,” remarked @ gentleman of re- hotel the other day. “Why so?” queried an interested bystander. “Well, sar, bdgs, de fact am, when de chicken he roosts in de ¢ tree on de souf side of de alarm, which created a ie. The men all rushed Fiat it down, immediately filled andsank. Only saved. twelve were house, clost toe front winder, yer can bet jer bottom dollar d ‘ine to be a hard win- ter. Der fact; dnf's a fact, shoab.” * Constructed privileges, in front of the National | ‘ ———_——-_____ A Womax Atrackep BY MaskeED BURGLARS.— At Phillipsburg, N. J., a masked robbery was committed Saturday wee by two men, who se- ae 4a in gauey ae a id. Shain, and serl- ously injured wife of Georze ayberger, & rallroader, Mrs, iad attended the Salvation Army meeting in Easton, and reached down in the social scale, though by no means | From “My dear,” sald Mrs. Spoopendyke, backing away from her refreshment table and regarding the effect with her head very much on one side; “my dear, what are you going to wear when you make calls on Monday?” “Clothes, I suppose,” retarned Mr. Spoopen- dyke, looking up from his paper. ‘Why, has the fashion changed recently about wearing clothes?” and Mr. Spoopendyke regarded his wife with an anxious look of inquiry. “But you should wear your swallowtail coat, by all means,” continued Mrs. Spoopendyke. “All the gentlemen wear swallowtail coats on New Year's day now.” “Well, if you think you are going to strap me up in a two tined coat and start me around this town looking like the head waiter of a dollar- and-a-half summer resort, you're just as badly left asa one armed man at achurch supper! I may be dod gasted ass enough to hop around to the various old hen roosts, wishing the contents happy New Year, but when you melt me into a clothespin jacket it'll be when reason no longer holds her seat in this dod gasted brain!” with which happy application of a trite quotation Mr. Spoopendyke settled himself back and con- templated his wife with a lofty glance of super- forit: “Ot course, if you don’t wantto,” replied Mrs. Spoopendyke, soothingly, ‘there won't be any very great objection raised to your business suit. Beside, now that I think of it, the moths ot into your dress coat, and I don't think it ts fe to be seen,” and she put a few finishing touches on her table, and admired it from an- other standpoint. ‘Let's see it!” demanded Mr. Spoopendyke, springing trom his chair and making for his closet, closely followed by his wie. “What's the matter with it? What's the moth got to do LADIES’ GOODS. FAMILY SUPPLIES. Nonce Turse Barocas BAURTS. ‘This week «reat reductions will be made in all my de- partments. Few I mention here: 8-BUTTON LENGTH MUSQUETAIRE, Shades, former price $1.75, now $1, 18, At BaUws. LANGTRY POMPADOUR LACE FICHUS, former Price 98¢., now Buc., at BAUS. COLORED BEADED GIMP, in Brown, Garnet, Navy Blue, worth $1.25, now 50c. a yard, At BaUwWs. RIBBON! RIBBONS! ! RIBBONS! RIBBONS which I sold as high as $1.25, 75c., and 50c., I now offer at only 25c. a yard—some fine Plush Kib- bons among them, At BAUM's. CLOAKS AND SUIT DEPARTMENT. ‘My stock is very amall, and some very fine costly gar- ments left, which I offera great deal less than cost price. Convince yourself and come. My object is never to carry old stock over. ‘At must be sold. BavU*yM, 46 Sevexta Srreer. a7 with it? Who put moths in It?” and Mr. Spoop- endyke rummaged around and fired his cloth- ing in all directions in his vain search for the particular garment. ‘Where is it?” he howled, scattering his wardrobe broadcast. *‘Have the measly moths eaten it all up? Didn't they leave even abutton hole? Show me my coat! © Bring out the split in the tails! If there's nothing else left. give me one last, fond glance at the arm holes!” and Mr. Spoopendyke kicked his best trousers to the ceiling, following them with a vest, which he supplemented with a pair of boots. “Show me the Great North American a7 Frowers: F, OWERS!! Entire Stock of FLOWERS et LESS than HALF PRICE. BONNETS, GLOVES, FANS AND NECKWEAR FOR RECEPIIONS, At MRS. M. J. HUNT'S, 1309 ¥ STREET. moth fodder! Fetch forth unparalleled diet for the measly moth! Are we a nation?” yelled Mr. Spoopendyke, Jamming his thumb in the door and hopping around the room with the Injured digit ia his mouth. “Dod gast the door!” he howled, bringing it a prodigious kick that bent his leg up under him like a school girl's. “Did you hurt yourself, dear?” asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, wringing her hands and dodging | For New Yra CORSAGE BUOLQU RS Receptions— XD FINE FLOWERS AND Bsss8 7 SEVENTH STREET. the flying boots and clothing. “Does it look as if I'd hurt the door any?” de- manded Mr. Spoopendyke, jabbing his thumb in his armpit and bending double with the pain. “Does that door give the impression of having smashed Its thumb anywhere? Why didn’t the moths eat the door? Hoist em out and give ‘em afeed!” And Mr. Spoopendyke caught the of- fending wicket by the knobs and tugged until he was out of breath. “Perhaps it isn’t so bad after all,” murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke, following him’ around the M RS. # lete Stock of SATE! FRINGES for Lam Tan NGS and STAMPING and PINKING promptly executed. 426 2 Sena Rorvenr, 608 Naxtu Sraeer, Orrostre Patent Orrice. ON ani rials for the ean Emporium for CREWEI., ARRASENF. BFADS, RIR- Bowen docwane Eat C BROIDERIES and all ma- FELT, end ine, ‘Table WORSTED and Fiano vers. in HOSIERY, GLOVES, TRIM- ND-KNIT WORSTED GOODS. room in a fruitless effort to catch up with him. “Pr'aps It ain't!” roared Mr. Spoopendyke, holding his thumb out at arm’s length. Spoopendyke sprang to his feet, kicked the chair Into the obnoxious closet and snorted aloud. “I didn’t mean yor thumb, dear,” explained Mrs. Spoopendyke, “I was talking about the coat. May be the coat isn’t In such a bad con- dition as I supposed it was at firs “Think they left a pocket anywher Mr, Spoopendyke, with a grimace, half pain and half auger. “Or pr'aps you think that since the moths eat the coat I can wear the moths! Bring them out! Hold ’em up while T climb into tie | ” inquired Dress Axp R 7c Doveuass’, di i “Pr’aps | Ninra AND. F STREETS, you've got some scheme for making it worse! Cost! COST! cost! Oh, go ahead! Don't mind me! Take the tng 45 aay. y article in our Holiday De- thumb, friend, and do your worst!” And Mr. een it bona i AT Cost.” Sapeneuae cae Spoopendyke dropped into his chair and | * ; ’ OVER THAT CAR groaned with wrath. “It's a good thing for | as oUk ASSORTHENT TS CELT COMPLETE this family that I can control myself! he BUYERS Wil HELE howled. “If I was like most. men the lot on OVP 5 which this house stands would be a good piace | ober att is PARLY. IN THE 7 SNE to build!” with which solemn prophecy Mr. | ARE NOT SO ChUWDED. DOUGLASS’, NINTH AND F 8iR prion Boxxers, SILE und CLOTH WRaPs, GIL} and HANDKER tENCH NECKW FREN AN Latest desizus in Dress Trimmings, fine French Flowers in vases, Jardi inieres, Baskets and Boquete at WILLIANS’, ite Trevise, Paris, 9 slecges! ‘That's your tea? s the notion | SS that’s been bothering you so long | D> “I don't know but what you can wear the; Mare. Payer, coat, anywayz" chirped Mrs. _ Spoopendyke, 1107 F STREET NORTHWEST. looking up cheerfully, and opening the door of her eloset, where sile had carefully hung the IMPORTER OF FASHION, coat after’ sponging it that very day. “You ton can look at it, anyhow,” and she brought it out, WILL OPEN ON looking as new and fresh ss when ie bought THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, “Then there’s something you don't know?” ONE CASE Or he grumbled, eyeing his rejuvenated garment o oN] with a critical eye. “If all you don't know could RECEPTION BONNETS. aie only be dumped in together, what an idiot asylum {tt would make for some young and growing territory. Taking you all in all, you only want an air pump and a glass side to be a ‘aricty of styles. PLATIING (Parisian mode) 3 INKING TWO CENTS PER YARD! 202 9th street northwest, corner of I. Special rates to Drossiuakers. per yard. Koee Trimming. Agency Mine. Demorest’s Patterns. dod gasted vacuum. Gimme the coat,” and Mr. | Drossmaking. ‘Miss BELLE LUCAS, 902 9th stu w. Spoopendyke grasped his garment, and threw | _®2 it over his wife's Work basket for safe keeping, and then went to bed, wrapped in a cloud of growls. “T don’t care,” murmured Mrs. Spoopendyk ‘4t was the only way I could have got him to wear the coat, and it’s no sure thing that he will wear it now. Anyway, I don’t think he will N formerly with Lord & Taylor's, New York; ‘0. 3 | atthe shortest ni Correct Pric ME VON BRANDIS, MODISTE, Wm. Barr & Cloaks, “Dolmanx and Suits made jotice, Perfect Work. Superior Fittins. ind Satisfaction xusrauteed. Evening . St. Louis, Mo. Pri ‘Trousseaus a xpectalty.. Penneyivania ave.. over M. Willian's, wear his new kid gloves I bought him unlesshis thumb gets better fast. and if he can’t, I can change them for a pair that will fitme,” and with this thrifty determination Mrs. Spoo- pendyke crawled into bed and dreamed all night of whole regiments ot callers, in swallow tails, with sore thumbs for hats and closet doors for From the Christian Weekly. Sextant of the meetinouse which sweeps Hungarian Yarns, all col Duateraich band! ‘Stasanin Hk. RUPPERE, NOB. 403 AND 405 7TH STREET NORTHWEST. BARE ATTRACTION OF NEW NOVELTIES, IN FANCY WORSTED WORK ef new fesiens for Embroidery on Linen, Mammoth walking sticks. end Felt Cloth. A iull ine of Worsted and Knitted eres Gceds, Child's Bonnets, Embroidered Cloaks, all sizes, A Apele for Are to the Sextant. ‘nd 4 general outiit for children, Ge ermantown and Zephyr Worsted, Gerinan, Spanii "All kinds: Embrotdering Ping Promptly executed. of And dusts, or fs supposed to! and makes flers, And lites’ the gas, and sumtimes leaves a screw In which case it smels orful—wus than lampile; And wrings the Bel and toles it, and sweeps paths; And for these servaces gits $100 per annum; Wich them that thinks deer let em try tt; Gittin up before starlite in all wethers, and Kindlin flers when the wether 1s as cold AS zero, and like as not green wood for kindlins, I wouldn’t be hierd to do it for no some;) ‘ut But o Sextant there are one kermodity Wuth more than gold which don’t cost nuthin; M's ANNIE K. HUMPHERY, ing id. a $1 Corset, het anda $1 ie Wuth more than anything except the Sole of Man! I mean pewer Are, Sextant, I mean pewer Are! O it is plenty out 6 dores, so plenty it doant no _HOUSEFURNISHINGS. What on airth to do with itself, but flize about, Scaterin leaves and biotin off men’s hats; In short its jest as free as Are out dores; But O Sextant! in our church its scarce ‘as pte Wich sum say is purty often, taint nothing to me, SEED mye aint nothing tonobody; but O Sex- nt ‘You shet 500 men women and children Speshily the latter, up in a tite pl Sum has bad breths, none of em aint'too sweet, Sum ts fevery, sum fs scroflus, sum has bad teeth And sum haint none, and sum aint over clean; FE OR New Years. ty, 4 - iu DINNER SETS, Scarce as Dankbils when ajunts beg for mishuns, | DONNER SETS, AFLER DINNER COFFEES, KE OYSTER PLATEs, GLASS WARE, ALL KINDS, FORKS, SPOONS, &c. FINE PLATED WARE, URNS, TTLES, | BASKETS, LADLES, M. W. BEVERIDGE, No. 1009 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. But evry one of em brethes in and out and out and Say oO times a minnet, or 1 million and a half Now how long will ‘a’cherch full of are last at that Task your Say fifteen minnets, and then what's to be did? Each one must take wotever comes to ci) bape doant you know our lungs is bel- lusses To bio the fler of life and keep it from. Going oats and how can bellusses blo without in And aint wind arer I it to your konsh« ‘Aros the same to us ay talk to babies, _ TO Taste AKD POCKET S88 Or Ee Ee Ps 4 Why then they must brethe tt all over agin, oh ure mF : vy And agin and 80 on, eacl as tool 3 - down $08 ? Tuokerk & ¥ > Atleast ten times and let it up agin, and whats more, A ‘The safle {ndividible doant hev the privilige UPHOLSTERERS' MATERIALS, STAPLE Of brethin his own are and no ones else, AND FANCY HARDWARE. F. P..MAY & CO, 634 Penna. avenue, near 7th strest. WE CALL THE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE OUR WHOLESALE PRICES IN CUTLERY. 5 Or water 1s to fish, or pendlums to clox, Or roofs and airbs unto an Injun doctor, Or little pills unto an omepath, Cc district court of Hamilton county, Ohio, decided ina her home about half-past 11 o'clock. Her hus- band was out with his train, and was due home about 2 o'clock in the morning. Mrs. berger retired, and was awakened hearing a noise. hy Saroiy bog was her husband, she went down st to him in, when two masked men ang upon her, choked and strack her, and w her into the cellar. They then ransacked the house. When Mr. Freyberger he found his house in disorder, arrived home recent cage that a telephone company is justified OLD WEATHER IS COMING. PREPARE for item first-class HEATING chasing a Gin oe are era ore, | Sue ant neces aa ace eonienemecent tetenomore-matan | Stier eeat Gee sane Aaa To let a leetle are intoour cherch tte Santas Lasitiee pete ee _ Aan then te ae wil come ino ele eee ome Afvind one dy uss tg rogetig | T= On0D8 AT Yow TST . WATTS, on ASABELI AW! EURNISHING STORE, No SwEaRINa BY TELEPHONE.—The Raed 314 7th street, 6 doors sbove Penns. avenue. SCRAP PICTURES. in shutting off a subscriber for the use of pro- fane . On several occasions Mr. Pugh, of Cincinnati, lost his because persons with Duly called wished = rie girpeneg were not ‘up, an “Damn The telephone at the operator. The ak oie ees nee, expressed the opinion and profane, and the manner and occasion of ita re on and insulti ak ages nai toncigeed 0] that it was a question “whether the use the word: ‘damn’ in # business communica- tion is sufficient ground tor dié-im G@. ©. GWYNK, ee Coe eres "a ners FISHER'S, scrber of is ight under hi genres © | , Mtg Puan devotes bastante te wnat , LES. PRENCI “ANI y, MI 2 LBs, FRENCH canpr, GEO. A. ORARE, 1218 Tth strest northwest, bet. Mand WN. —+ Goons F 0 Au Toes. . of 1860 Begins Mountain Whisky, of 1869 «nd marortatan vapd's complet pork Ge sherry. “Chame Willaiien, Newice Californie Brandy, Jamalee Rum” B.W. REED'S SON3, n2t an 1216 F STREET NORTHWEST. Fron Onax 8. ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING. DRY CATAWBA, $1.25 PERGAL. “AUNT ABBY'S" MINCE MEAT, And a full assortment of Holiday Gots, GEO. E. KENNEDY & SON, 1209 F STREET. cerven From Paravevema. FINE SOUTHDOWN MUTTON. ‘Now fs the time to engage CHRISTMAS TURKEYS, S°ALLOP LOBSTERS, ETC., AT THY PALACE MARKE’ 20 Sorner 14th strect and New York avenue. NOTICE TO HOUSEKEEPERS! Pee aaa a 9 go BSSSQ, 8 oc a m oc ERE E Een "sss? + SSS, ba a pal a Sessq gr Ree Sgss5 fT KEE R K WILL aLWave MARE BEAUTIFUL ROLLS BREAD AND BISCUITS, Who'esale Depot: Corner Ast street and Inds WM. M. aavente ABPEC) Steric 628, 629 and 650 Center Market, 9th street ing, Box 11, City Heat Once bre MAK: or Adres x TL, C . ‘Marketing delivered fresof charge to slipartaot the city muerte __ PIANOS AND ORGANS /HAUNCEY J . Reep, 433 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST, Dealer in the celebrated CHRISTIE & SONS’ PIANOS, ‘The Matchless SHONINGER CYMBELLA ORGANS, (the only Organg containing a complete chime of bells.) Sold on $5 woutly payments. GUITARS, VIOLINS, ACCORDEONS, STRINGS, sof MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS constantly lange quantities, dallkin on band in N. B.—The Christie Piano is strictly first-class, but ternis of the price is exceedingiy reasonable, and the payment very casy. Call and investicute. Cc. J. REED, 433 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. on EELS F D BBR Hi oe wk ¥, DvD BoP bn UFRIGHT AND SQUARE GRAND RR OA R AA RE AA gaa PIANOS. FRENCH WALNUT, EBONY AND GOLD, MAHOGANY, ROSEWOOD AND EBONY Cases of Rich and Artistic Desicns. All the latest Im- Provements Musically, FREEBORN G. SMITH, Manufacturer, WASHINGTON WAREROOMS, 428 1103 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. P450S, ORGANS, SHEET MUSIC. STECK & CO. PIANO, ‘The most Perfect Piano Made. EMERSON PIANO, ‘The Best Medium-priced Piano Manufactured. WILCOX & WHITE AND KIMBALL ORGANS Pianos and Orgen« gold on instalments, rented or €x- jrent arliea ote HENRY EBERBACH, 215 F STREET, Eliis& Co. a2 No Maragine vartner of the late firm G. L. WILD & BRO.'S ‘@ MUSICAL HOLIDAY OFFERINGS, 709 7th street northwest. The Stieff and the Kranich & Hach Pianos at spects Prices for cas. First-class 5-octave, 7-stop, @ub-bass and coupler ORGANS, $50. The wonderful Orcanette, Ladies’ Banjos, and the new hollow-rim Banjo Fianos, Metallophones, X3lophones, and other Musieal Toys and Novelties in great variety and lowest prices, ‘The popular F1v ‘eNT Music for 2 cents. ay Pianos for rent. Tuning ‘ally attended ‘to, 423 11th atrest ove Penn-ylvania avenue. ol2-3m. EATTY’S ORGAN! 27 STOPS, $125, PIANOS, Bees Eee ei SL ee eae ths atta wd ton, N. J. S, » ELLERy, 2 SUCCESSOR TO DUBREUIL BROLHERS, -ACTURERS OF FINE MANUF: ERS OF FINE DRESS SHIRTS 1112 F Sraeet Noatawesr, Wasmincton, D.O. of the Finest Dress Shirts to order. Arie onder tra Fine Shirts to Bix Fine Shirts to mart Tuomrsow's suieT fAcTORE ard MEN'S FURNISHING EMPORIUM, £16 F Street, opposite Patent Office. SB irta to order = Rix esd Shirts for ices: — A. $13.50. unt IMPORTER AND TAILOR, 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. For first-class work and artistic tailoring place yous ‘Orders with the leading house of Washington. om ee a pat Salts. doom 94, OS and OF up, age, 1S oe up. Dress do., Tia. Sine teet $1 School Button Show in the Distictot