Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1883, Page 7

* FASHION WRINKLES, TUE NEW GINGHAMS—NEW COTTON DRESS Goops— THE SPRING TY DA—THE LENOX JACKET— BiGit SHOULDERS, ETC. Scorcu Ginghams are largely imported. Cory bine Is a favorite color for new dress woolens. Jacky, ragged-edged flounces and ribbons are coming in vogue. TRREGULAR points called cocks’ combs edge the new Ottoman ribbons. Ivory Wurre Crips, richly embfoidered, gives a splendid style of dress decoration. Basgves and bodices with very sharp and Jong points back and troat will be much worn. OrroMaN SILK is exquisitely soft. It combines effectively with Spanish lace and embroidered ganze. Ciorn for pelisses is seen among new spring goods, with rough finish in the new shade of corn blue. As Maxyas six different colors appear in some of the new Ottoman ribbon cocks’ combs corsace bows. A Costeme of the “Oriana” model 1s very elezant disposed in dark ruby plush aud Ottoman Bilk of the same shade. New Cortos dress goods exhibit greater vari- ety in colors and designs than ever, while the Anish ts simply admirable. Jerrap Lack Ovexpressks are magnificent, producing a striking effect when worn over Tuby or amber-tinted satin. ‘Tue “Lexox” jacket is designed for spring wear. It is rather tizht-fitting. double-breasted, rolling collars, and large pateh pockets. New Brocapep “ttoman silks have for de- signs sprays of flowers with their fruits, straw- blackberries, plums, pears, apples, and Mandarin oranges. Tic SeRtNG tweeds are very attractive. The large checks are preferred. The shades are qi- versitied, including the darkest and the palest; alse medium hues are viven. Ficus of India muslin are simple in style, yet they are veryvifective. and are generally becom- ing to ladies of every type of beauty. This fashion of fichu is bordered with good lace of fome mode wannfacture. black satin boots with small Jetted buttons. The costume is made with court train, bodice With open neck a V shape. TueRe are startling novelties in the manu- facture of buttons for next season. One pat- tern shows carved wood, giving an artistic finish to the edge. Another design is gro- tesque he:is of animals in bronze, silver, and jet. Pxixtep Ixia pongees of light weight ap- pear in the new colors for grounds, with har- monizing tints in the designs, which are in a Variety of jarge and small flower. fruit, Oriental, and doscope patterns and a variety of polka 3 Woven S1Lk Draperies are brought out for early spring wear. This style of garniture is called “‘Newpert scar It comes three yards Tong, ai the ends and on the sides. Th and graceful accessory to a re, and are placed at the belt the bust and throat. The roses and chrysauthemams y from he deepest EVeNING waists ar ly made of sil Na pd with Use oil colors it still fashionable. They immed with lace, and roll cofers. “Ifyon ent plan to sque them from the tube: biotting paper the night be S absorbs the oil, and > there je silk be ng spotted.” ented and decorated with f their own hand-painting, either floral or | suspend from the waist by arrow ribbon. Into this don which is printed the order of dane’ Down the back of the case are fastened small loops of ribbon, which serve to hold a tiny pencil. Dewoxest for March says: “There are three shades of olive, which color, being se& in thes minor key, suits blondes y with brancttes transparent of com- It would be an error inart to set a pale face in @ frame of saddest olive. On the Other land. cheeks under whose delicate skin if the red blood ce and goes, each coming and ineffably from ‘n olive,” which nd they must not by ¥ weans let disappointment or anything else feed on their damask cheek, or, if they do. they must wear peacock blue or a warm seal brown, Rot ¢. Hen olive.” Hic, Square SHor.pers are now considered almost indispensable to beauty; but no lady, ‘unle i ormed,can anywhere nearly fill the de this particular. Dress- murce to pads, and the any lady who will con- ured in this manner becomes a in appearance. Gone is the and suppleness that is so attractive in nd in their place is stiffuess and a p look that should be avoided at any Every trae woman feels it incumbent on tive and as beautiful as But high, square e not utiful, th ed to men who ped at that affectation, and their should urase Women frou the truly nm Maxy of the principal dr smakers have v dress-skirts with a narrow instead of the ordinary plisse, and in any especially this seems preferred. particularly these of hand: arranged in several flated folds alternat- h plain sp: hese frequently covered dsome medallion crnaments. French tuches are in high vorue for white or Ik toilets where the dress is cut with a doubie rows of coquille ruches, ed one above the other ble modes of decorating m of the skirt. Inthe last mentioned trimming the sheil plaiting placed nearest the foot of the skirt has its lower edge turned up on the right side and “bbnd-stitehed” down. skirts, Materials, have “plis « | plasm. The upper sheil plaiting is fringed on each edge and caught ‘up to slow just half of the lower plaiting. Alarming Mortality in Russia. Frou: the St. Petersburg Dispatch tothe London Times. The ravages of diphtheria in Russia, which have #0 long defied the efforts of doctors and sanitary committees, have now been surpassed by the fatal effects of scarlatina, According to @ statistical paper just published, the mortality. in St. Petersburg from diphtheria and scaria- tina has continually inereased from 1878, until @nring the past year there were no Jess than 1,323 deaths from the latter and 1.146 deaths from the former, making the alarming yearly total of 2,469 deaths from these two diseases alone in ® population of about 800,000. From other official statistics it appears that during five years there have been 156.027 fatal cases cut of 465.015 p ns attacked by these two diseases In the empire. The Golos remarks onthe subject that no war has ever been 30 disastrous, und that, consitering the large per- centaze of young people among the victims, (9% per cent ) it is really the future of the coun- try that is in question. At the same time, the medical statistics do not extend. as a rue, be- yond the large towns. In the whole of Russia there are not more than about 14,000 doctors, so-called. The Empress has given par- icular attention to the inadequacy of medical aid in contending against the enormous spread Of disease, and receutly, when the government, instizated by the minister of war, determined Upon abolishing medical schools for women, a8 & precaution against female nihilism, her Majes- ty distinctly expressed herself against the meas- Ure. As svon as it was kaown that the Empress recognized the necessity of female medical edu- cation, large suas of money flowed in from all parts to support the threatened institutions. ACixerswatt Mu.tiver, who had just re- turned trom Paris. was asked what ‘was the strangest fashionable novelty: that she had seen. *-A dog with a natural handle,” she re- plied. ~The Perisian ladies are wild on dogs for pets. ‘The brute is led by a string and grab- bed up et Rage haeat beds carried gel the Wement. When shaggy dogs were in vogue habit was te pick them up by the hair, and they were trained not to yelp. Pugs ag smooth as new-born pizs are now the favorites, and of course they have no hair to be lifted by. But a clever surgeon cut the end from a little dog’s tail, made an {acision Inthe middle of his back, stuck in the tall tip, let it heal fast. and there was as handy a handle as could be wished tor.” ——————— “Pupils nowadays study so mach a they @on’t know anything,” says & member of the Massachusetts board of education. VALENTINES TO ORDER. By ANNIz ROBERTSON MacFar.ans. The rivalry of Professor Weaver and Mr. Frank King for the favor of Miss Violet Hazen began at a Sunday school picnic. Violet had just come home from Europe, where, broadly speaking, she had been receiving a liberal education for five years past. Mrs. Hazen has chosen to introduce her daughter to the village at this semi-mundane festival, partly to start her with the prestige of @ serious supporter of Presbyterian institutions, and partly to remove a prejudice cherished against herself for having educated Violet in foreign capitals. In making the experiment she had not been without some nervous doubt of the result, but Violet had been tactful, had made a conquest of the first deacon and his wife, and, through them, of the whole village. Late in the afternoon, when the mother and daughter had managed to slip away from the attentions of exacting admirers, Mrs. Hazen asked, “How do you like it, Violet?” Violet was curled up on a rock in the middle of a shallow stream, and shaking her wet hands in the air. A gleam of mischievous intelligence shot from her blue eyes. “I dén’t know, mam- ma. Is it not a little dull?” Mrs. Hazen looked equally tntelligent. “No. If there is anything a Sunday shoo! picnic is not, it is not dull.” As she spoke. the alder bushes behind them parted, and Mr. Hazen—President Hazen he was always called—stepped out, followed by Profes- sor Weaver and Mr. Frank King. From that moment dated a struggle for more than the privileze of carrying Violet's parasol, more even than that of pouring into a pretty and sympathetic ear personal joys, sorrows and opinions. It was.a modern contest a loutrance for the prize of a fair woman. For six months the village followed tte affair with unflagging interest. People said, and not without reason, that both President and Mrs. Hazen favored. Professor Weaver, and what scanty approval a New England village permits itself to give to any individual was civen to him. He might be alittle old for Violet, and perhaps his clothes were uot so stylish as a girl who had lived “abroad” would wish her husband to wear; but then his learning was profound. his private in- eome handsome, and his principles in them- selves were solid personal property. As for Frank King—well. there was nothing against Frank King except that he was young and suspected of being “set up,” perhaps about his good looks, perhaps about his offensively pleasant manners, perhaps about his second cousin having been Governor of the State. But If youth and manly beauty and winning ways handicapped a man in a village given over to the niceties of criticism, they seemed to Pro- fessor Weaver to give that man an adventitious start in any race, particularly the race for Vio- let. in the lace ot which his best running was ludicrous. Fits of self-disparazement and hopelessness often came over the Professor, most frequently when. by the light of the midnight oil, he was femonstrating on paper, let us say, the life that existed several millions of ages betore proto- They came with a swift rush of blood to the finzer-tips, with a resistless force which Grove him out into the wide deserted streets, j his mind a chaos tn which whirled women’s faces, all beautiful, and all alike. To King the power of love brought no storms of doubt, no unpleasant self-abasement. The effect of the passion was chastening, and with- out deliberate plan he found himself living a life above reproach, steadily, spontaneously graviating toward Violet. Asfor Violet, her sentiments and Inclinations piqued curiosity and defied speculation. — It is possible that she had not taken herself into her own confidence until the da: me whenshe had to answer two letters, received at the same time, and imperatively callin for notice. Only the concluding sentences of the letters which she that February morning dispatched to Professor Weaver and Mr. King need be tran- seribed: “I must ask one week for reflection, that is, until next Monday, St. Valentine's day. And now I am going’ to make a request which will seem to you both childish and abenrds but I am childish and I am absurd, and it 1s best suet you should seeme asIam. And I believe that if by next Monday I should still hesitate, a valentine in original verse, penued under the inspiration of the occasion and the pretestion of the Saint, would lead ine to a decision which would be for your happiness and my own.” Excepting the hour on Monday, the 14th, ap- pointed for the interview, one letter wasa copy ofthe other. The comments of the two men on these remarkable sentences were characteristic. Protessor Weaver saw in them the candor and truth which made Violet so dear to him; King detected the spice of audacious mischiet which was not the least of Violet’s charms for him. But to neither did an argument on the demand suggest itself. Violet must have an irresistible valentine. Never did a wider rulf yawn between require- ment and possible achievement. Neitlier of the men had ever written a couplet. In the treat- ment of the case each man was again true to his individuality. Accepting the spirit. of the request, Weaver denuded the college Hbrary of all the poets, from Horace down to Swinburne. Every moment that he could snatch from his necessary Work was given to the study of true poetry in its Idea and its form. On the third hixht, after struggles compared to which Wel- ler's, of world-wide notoriety, were feeble trifling, he perpetrated the following: “0 peeriess, pitiless Peri! © Circe, erue. and 00; © bapy, heart-by unt ‘he Hourit Jocund, Jingling Joy!" This was the best he could do, and when the dawn crept in throuch hiz lattice he knew it would not do at all What to him was the fame of his treatise on “Fossil Fish" when he could not write a simple rhyming valentine for Violet ? King at once faced his inability to write verses under any inspiration or saintly protec- tion, and therefore he must construe “original” as “originated by any one, if only specially ort- ginated for Violet.” Clearly, he need only trouble himself to find the man or woman who possessed a facile trick of rhyme. As his acquaintance numbered a dozen or more “literary fellows,” It seemed to him that the quest would be neither long nor fatiguing. An hour after receiving Violet’s let- ter he was on hie way to Boston, intending to do two or three hours’ work in hia office, then look up @ poet, dine him, and negotiate the val- entine on any terms. But he went home that night without having happened on that particularly desirable fellow. The second night and the third found hisliterary need still unprovided. He had, by that time, found and dined Smith, the very man for his di- of being seen in the vich of the valentine mart. Not till he had the key of his own room @id he take the treasure from his pocket, aad proceed to estimate its worth. Ashe read, his critical expression mellowed; a smile flick- ered in his eyes, a smile which tly bright- ened into the radiance of Joy. When he had carefully copied these verses of an unknown bard, and without scruple inscribed his initials in the corner, he seemed to glow with the serene complacency of the wholly virtuous man who by one bold stroke has removed himself from the temptations of an alluring world. On Saturday bere when the station plat- form was crowded with men walting forthe city train, King attached himeelf to fessor Weaver. Their intercourse had long been dis- tinguished by the punctilious politeness of men who recognize a mutual antagonism of a nature and In a clause which precinde open hostility. This morning all King’s formaltty vanished int thin alr; the Professor found him offensively familiar. vulgarly jocose. In order to get rid of King, Weaver had to forego his morning smoke, and, arrived in the city, he actually ran an took refuge in a street car. He did not know where that car was going; he did not care. When the conductor called “Car stops here,” Professor Weaver stepped off—stepped off, of course (why not ?), directiy in front of that thrice-bie: poster, “Valentines! Valentines! Valentines !"” The sun seemed to blaze out full upon this melancholy man, giving him generously of his brilllancy. The professorial tread became a hop anda skip. In five minutes the old gentieman with whom we are already acquainted had en- tered in his book: “Valentine in verse. Fanciful, with under- tone of sentiment. To Violet.” “Your price, sir?” peering quizzically at his shamefaced customer. “Anything you please. I must have a good thing. No alliterative trash.” ‘Peerless, piti- less Peri,” rang sorely in Weaver's ears. “Well, sir, the hour has come, as it were. For thirty dollars, though, you can have lines to a lady which would make Shakspeare or Fletcher, pretty clever fellows at their trade, too, groan in his grave. The Professor silently turned away. As he went down stairs his cheeks tingled, a great wave of shame sweeping over him—shame that he had even remotely introduced Violet into such a transaction. The torture which he en- dured that day. In scathing self-accusation, in feeble, contemptuous self-defense, few men know. When he received and paid for his val- entine he intended to destroy it at once. He had resolved to go Violet on Monday and say. “I can love you, and take care of you all my life, but I cannot write you a valentine.” So he put the valentine in his pocket, not sus- pecting the flame that was in it, nor how it could burn. It began to burn before he reached the street. On his journey home it seemed to scorch his heart, near which tt lay, and when after dinner he had retreated among his books, His snatched the thing then from his pocket, and held it over his wood fire—held't there tear- fully, as ifit were @ red-hot coal that ina mo- ment of madnéss he had pincked from the hearth, and on the white surface stood out om- inously black his number, 777—a lucky number, seven, therefore three sevens must be thrice lucky. Where had Professor Weaver heard that silly saying? Long ago, no doubt, for it came ringing down through weary years, like the echo of some sehool-mate’s laugh, some friend of his childhood, long dead, long forgotten— pmocking him too, urging him on to grasp this last hope, to grasp if even at the cost of decep- tion and perjury. With the instinct to seize whatever comes to hand in the crises where happiness or life Is at stake, the overwhelming impulse of selfishness which sweeps out of ex- istence debatable rights, Professor Weavi pre: open the envelope and feverishly read his val- entine. Ashe read, principle, intention, resolution, vanished—vanished and made room tor trium= phant gladness. He felt that if Violet could be won by @ valentine, he had it in his power to win her. So it came about that on the morning of the 14th of February two valentines lay by Violet’s breakfast plate. She opened that addressed in Professor Weaver's handwriting first. As she rapidly scanned the lines, her mother saw in her face a shadow of pain, which deepened, and, as she took up the other valentine, expressed’ It- self: “I am afraid that Frank is beaten.” So Violet revealed to her mother, and probably to herself, the inclination of her heart. She had barely unfolded King’s valentine when the tears that had been in her eyes dried, and an ang flush dyed her face. “Mamma,” she cried, scornfully, “I have hada hicky escape, and a narrow one. My valentine. caprice was an in- spiration, It has saved me from two worthless men. And. oh, mamma, I could not have doubted Professor Weaver's honor! And as for Frank, I can not—can not speak of Frank!” Before Mrs. Hazer could even surmise a cause for this tempest, Violet had swept from the room. - When, at the appointed hour, Professor Wea- ver was shown into Mrs. Hazen’s drawing-room he found Violet alone. The mother and daughter had been together all day, and the dismissal of both lovers had been settled. Asto the manner of dismissing Professor Weaver, Violet had yiclded to her mother, but she had reserved all rights in the treatment of Mr. King. As the curtains fell behind the Professor he crossed-the room to Violet, stanfling in the bay- windo' He held his hat in his hand, and said, gravely, “I have come for your answer. She answered, ‘No.’ Her cyes met his steadily, and the stinging negative struck his ears like a well-aimed. blow, sinking into his heart and thrilling through every nerve. After that there was a sileace in the room, and In that siience the girl seemed to the Professor to shrink into the folds of her long, soft dress, and to fade away from him into the purple light of the evening, away yond theJevel plains of snow. “Is it final ?” he asked at last. “Is there no she sald, and flung out her arm as if she would sweep him out or her sight. Profes- sor Weaver turned to leave her. At the door he glanced back. She was looking out the window, and stood with her hands clasped be- hina her, He put down his hat then and recrossed the room. ‘Miss Hazen, I am not going to trouble you to repeat your answer, nor indeed to give you any pain at all. But I must tell you that +I have loved as a woman a frivolous, heartl “Yes. It tg _dark, but—yes, that 1s my handoniting ate tas drawn hie together and squinted tt the }, Which coolness exas- perated Violes-still Yarther. 4 Ligeody ee Aone tet vas for me. Wait; wil 80 our eyes may not be injured: -Ske went close to the window, and read by the fading light: * "From « dew- mossy bed, Peo Halt of bi Ralf of earth, Picea teem aie, **¥et to him no word she bent her flower-like in wrath an Rn ext heads ae ante ‘Neath pose Bric 8 buraing ‘shall share . thiat kiss abe died. “Pale with misery and The ‘Sun sought refure | fini Weptand rustied ctr thelr china ‘ill she locked at them and smiled ‘Through tears of giist'ning dew. “Th brought her back to Vouung het forswocteet wie _ vo daring Syn; But by him who soft will woo her, And with humble prayer will sue her, ‘Violet may be won.” “Those are the verses I sent you,” he sald, as the last line fell quivering from her lips. “And you have added a great deal to the ‘rhyme of the poet by the beauty of thy voice.’” She was beside him again, holding up two val- entines now. She had aot noticed the careful wording of his reply. ‘Perhaps you will tell me that this too is your handwriting, and that to amuse and puzzle me yonsent me two coples of your original verses. Or perhaps you will tell me that by a singular coincidence two men were at once inspired with one idea and one tongue.” She threw her val- entines on the floor, and moved back from him, looking at him fiercely. “I should not be surprised. —oh no, I should not be surprised at all! There may be other pleasant fictions coming at this Moment readily to your lips. There may be other methods with which Iam not familiar— methods of tricking, deceiving, lying—” “Stop there!” he cried, and his hand grasped her arm, then flung it away. He had picked up the sheets of paper, and still held them. He had recognized Professor Weaver's handwriting, and seen at a glance that the verses were identical. He understood the situation, and the convic- tion that Violet had been tempotzing roused in him sage quick as herown. “Listen to me,” he went on, in a voice that defied resistance. “I have aright to be heard, and Itakeit. You asked for original verses, and I chose to con- strue original as written speclally for you, no matter by whom. I looked at the request as a whim, but I would do anything to gratify a whim of yours—anything in my power, that is; and asI could not compose a valentine, I had those verses written to order. Another man has had a valentine made to order, and, by great good fortune, the game valentine. Good for- tune, I say, because it shows me, and I hope it shows him, that a matter of life and death tous was only fan to you, I have made a mistal child.” * “Am [ that ?” she sald, in a husky whisper; “frivolous, heartless ?”—looking up at him as ff she were the guiltlest wretch in the world, and he an accusing angel. “I did not mean—I did not know- ‘Then, with a gesture and in a voice of despair, ‘‘What shall 1 do? what shall Ido?” she cried, and falling on her knees, buried her face in a cushioned seat. Just for a moment, King stood looking down at her slight figure, shaken with sobs. He was not thinking that in spite of the hateful valen- tine he had won, though he felt he had. He ‘was simply filled for once with @ consciousness of his own absolute unworthiness, his unfitness to touch or approach the girlon her knees be- side him. But, after all, he lifted her in his arms, and dried her tears, and comforted her; and know- ing well the advantage which tn this situation @ man has, he made full confession of his delib- erate deceit. He even expressed sympathy for Professor Weaver.» He declared, too, that for the Professor's sake, putting aside all question of a little personal satistaction, he would some day seek ont and destroy the infamous com- poser of ‘‘valentines to order.”—Harper’s Weekly. oes OBSERVATIONS OF AN OLD-TIME GEORGIA DARKEY. Old Si Makes an Important Observation. From the Georgia Major. There was evidently trouble on the old man’s mind when he entered the office Wednesday morning. No one paid any attention to him at first, and he took an unusual time to get things in order. Directly he sat down on the coal-box and sald: “Bout dish’ere facher bizniss, now. Kin sum ob you gen'lmens whar's got 'speeunce wid fuchers kinder ontangle de subjick so 1 kin git er grip on hit 2” He looked expectantly from one to another, but none of the force were willing to admit that they had any experience with “futures.” “Well, de reezin w'y I_ axed yer, ’kase dere’s er fresh case ob bankruptcy revelup'd hitser in Atlanty las’ nite an’ I don’t see nuffin "bout hit in de papers dis mawnin’l” “Who's busted: now?” quired. “Jest dish ‘ere nigger s'lety—de 'Halleloo Sons ‘an Dawters ob Zine’— "longin’ ter dat big chu’ch down in de Fif Wahd.” “How did it break?” “Too much fuchers. De tresherer ob de gang wuz de ’commerdashun husban’ ob de femaie president an’ he tuck de cash an’ los’ hit on fuchers—den yistidy he lit out fer Chatt’noogy.” was anxiously in- he valentine I sent you this morning wasnot—” “Spare yourselt she interrupted; ‘no ex- pinparion Is needed.” » 5 “Then I have only to say good-bye. ill you not shake hands with me ro i“ A “No! no! no!” she cried; and thus to Weaver the whole story of the discovery of his impos- ture was told. “it was a terrible temptation,” he exclaimed, answering all that her violence implied. .“And Tlove you. When a man like me comes to love ®@ woman asI love you he may ye torget the demands of truth, and yet not be altogether Jemma, but he had not been able to explain his Position. It was quite simple to imagine him- self saying, carelesaly, over @ bottle of Bur- indy : be: Look here, Smith, reel me off two or three verses—something sweet and fetchit ‘your very best—a valentine for a girl I know.” Who can describe the complex feeliig that tied his tongue in the face of ‘that sarcastic pete | Smith,” smiling so genially across the table King became conscious of a depression of spirits. On Thursday nicht cleep forscok him, and he took a very early train to the city on Friday morning. He never knew what Nog dap him to lift bis heavy-eyes and fasten them on a conspicuous notice staring at the public from the door of a house tn an obscure street. But he did so lift and fix his eyes, and standing still, swift, wonderful hope lighted his inner dark- ness. Valentines! Valentines! Valentines! Valentines to Order ! In Prose or in Verse! Not a moment did King hesitate about accept- ing the seductive invitation. He stepped in: he leaped up two flights of stairs, and stood breatb- Jess before an old man with an index book open on a high desk placed between him and an im- portunate ‘world. Very soon there was entered in this book: “Valentine in verse. Fanciful, with under-tone of sentiment. Violet.” “Ye . sit?” said the t, the verses ehould out presentable he would on throw himeelf on the mercy of whose rhyme was reliable, but whose jeers were dost Samir we }-4 ize so, and, if ible, more le presented himself end bis fore the unlovely emtssary of Cupid. “Hum! 550. Let me see.” ‘The old man took a handful of envelopes from a drawer, muttering large numbers as he ran his wares thi his “Hum! Yea, here itis. Y looked over tt my. self. 1 think you will find, sir, that Bea Jonson are Trew down his twenty-five dollars, Ds bi to the street, He was ia mortal H worthless.” “Then,” said Violet, coldly, “he must abide the consequences. since he has tried his method on a woman to whom a love that stoops to un- trath is a dishonor.” “You are eri sald Weaver; “but if you had Joved me at all you would have had mercy. Goodby.” “What sort of futures did he grapple with “Well, he bought too much co’n on de rise, an’ w’en hit went down he drapp'd de welf. Dat’s tersay, hegot drunk an’ wuz froze out in er game ob seben-up down at de Beever-Slide serloon! Dat’s whar meks me gay dat er ‘ligins s‘iety nohow oughtn'ter bet on fuchers ’ceptin dey’s six pints in de fone en’s sartin dey kin turn jaok widout gittin kotoh'd. ——__—$§_+2-____ How the Distance of Some Fixed Stars te Measured. Correspondence Hartford ‘limes, It is only within a short time that the dis- tances of some of the fixed stars have been de- termined. The process by which they have been ascertained is similar to that by which the distanoe ve hope rete com the a is ob- tained, and ts as follows: Suppose inJanuary an observer on the earth marked the position in the heavens of; ona of the nearest He went awaythen, and Violet watched him walk down the frozen road. Much hos there was even inhis heavy tread—more in the uneonsclously dejected droop of his head; and in his heart was the profound sorrow which when it strikes such @ heart, consumes. But Violet, who was tenderness itself, had no sense of her cruelty, had not even a passing thought for the misery she had inflicted on the man who. had just left her. She haa promised her mother to dismiss him kindly, and though she had not been quite able to do that, she had spared him explanations. But, after all, that leniency had not sprung so much from consideration for him as from preoccupation touching the coming !n- terview with King. She repeated the Profes- sor’s words, “It you had loved me at all you would have had mercy. Would she? How little he knew! Because she did not love him at all she had shared him. She was saving all her passionate anger for the ee eRe: deepenti hen Kit e twilight was ming when In. Violet could see that he had left his the hall, as if he had come to; . She saw too the easy way in which he: the room to came at In her, and the unusual shyness fh his eyes. “Violet,” he sald, then drew ® quick breath, as it there were more to ray oe took the nearest chalr. ‘Sit down,” she S 3 tol sel to her vet iy FE Bis i zk i f F S fixed stars, , im reference to another remote star, ;and.dn July made another observation on the game stars. Now, as the two positions of the thin January and July are the diameter of the earth’s orbit apart— Damely 186,000,000 miles—we might naturally expect that a displacement would occur in the heavens of the first star In respect to the second. This has been found to be the case in regard to several stars, -but the displacement is very small. The brightest; star 1n the constellation of the Centaur (Alpha Centauri) appears to be the nearest to ns; and its lax, or displace- ment, when viewed trom the sun and earth, is computed at one secqnd of arc. The distance,of this star 1s thus computed: Suppose two lines to.be drawn from this ster, one to the sun and.the other to the earth, and a third line also.drawn from their ends Joinin the earth and making @ right-angl triangle. The between the first and second lines is one’ second, the angle at the earth aright angie, and the distance of the earth from the sun is known. We have now & petient number of known parts of the triangie One of these and the star, star is from the earth, or about nineteen billions al NAVIGATION. ‘Why Shenld Net Men Fiy? Professor Baranowski, of Russia, hes invented anew flying machine, small model of which has been repeatedly tried with much success, it is said, In St. Petersburg. The apparatus is thus described by the Reowe Militarre, of Paris. It consists of a great cylinder intended to have the form of a gigantic bird. The interior is provided with steam machinery, having a power proportioned to the size of the apparatus, with space for working the same; It bas two lateral propellers, and one rear pro- peller; and thelr rotation determines the direc- tion of the machine, whether it shall be vertical or horizontal; at one extremity of the cylinder is seen a species of oar which serves as a rudder; two great wings, composed of strong mem- branes, give an ascending motion to the appa- ratus, and keep it afloat in the air; the part which represents the beak of the bird fs 80 ar- ranged as to permit the entrance of air to the interior ofthe cylinder, to supply the crew and for the combustion of the tuel ; the smoke, gases and steam issue aise the end, Near gle the structure passes through space, will give the appearance of the tail of a brilliant comet. From the underside hangs pendulum weight that keeps the apparatus in proper equilibrium. In respect to the general problem of aerial navigation by flying machines the ineer, of London, makes the following observations: It may be urged that there is nothing myste- rious about wing motion, and a simple up and down flapping will at least suffice to raise.a bird in the air. Why should not men fly? The an- swer Is that they are not strong enough. If we consider birds as machines we see in the first piece that they are all comparatively small. here Is no bird of flight which weighs as much as even a very light man; but there are many birds which are tar stronger than men. The albatross is, we believe, the largeat—we do not- mean the heaviest—bird of flight in ex- Istence. Its wings measure sometimes as much as 13 feet trom tip to tip, but the total weight of the bird seldom. if ever, exceeds 28 pounds, or one-sixth that of a powerful man. Bat the albatross can keep its wingsin motion for a whole day, while the strongest man would be exhausted if he had to keep beating the alr with them for half an hour. A great deal has been written from time to time about the effect of the wind on inclined planes in keeping birds afloat in theair. Those who have a competent knowledge of the laws of dynamics are, however, aware that the In- clined plane action cannot alone keep a bird from falling to the ground. The action Is at best Just that of the wind on akite; and the equivalent of the string must be provided or the bird will be carried away, just as the kite is when the string breaks. Birds, when sailing, are either going with the wind or are using up momentum acquired by previous rapid motion. The work done by the bird will Met d contin- ually; but it is strictly analagous to that of a swimmer, who, carrying a load, has to keep himeelf afloat by his own exertions. There is no way out of this. Nothing is got from the air in the way of help, save when upward cur- rents strike the flying bird; and that such cur- rents exist, every engineer who has seen the decking of a bridge lifted in a gale well knows. Returning then to our albatross, the work It does is equivalent to continually lifting 28 pounds. The idea that the bird is buoyant in the air is a delusion. If It weighs dead 23 pounds, it will weigh living 28 pounds.and the variation fn the displacement of the dead and living bird cannot represent. more, at the most, | than an ounce. In round numbers, 13 cupic feet of air weigh 1 pound. The albatross, there- fore, represents no less than 18x28—364 cubic feet of alr, while its entire displacement is | probably at most 4 cubic feet. An increase in | demensions of one-fourth when alive as when compared with the same bird dead would rep- | Tesent about 1-360 of its weight saved by extra ; buoyancy, which is nothing. The welzht of the bird ‘then may be regarded in exactiy the same light as the weight on a brake driven by a portable engine. The brake wheel is always trying to lift it up. The power expended is measured by the distance passed over by any point in the rim of the brake wheel in one min- ute, multiplied by the weight and divided by 83,000 per horse power. Now, if we could tell the distance passed over by the bird's wings at each stroke, and the number of them, we should, knowing its weight, be able to estimate the power expended. We cannot do this in the case of the condor or albatross, but bearing in mind the small specific gravity of air, we shall not be very far wide of the mark if we say that an albatross probably possesses as much muscu- lar energy a8 8 man. There is no engine in existence, certainly no steam engine and boiler combined, which, weight for weight, gives out anything like the mechanical power exhibited by, let us say, the albatross. It is simply for lack of muscular power that man can never fly. There is no combination of wings or arrangements of any kind which will compensate for this fact. Whether he can pro- duce a machine to supplement his own want of force remains to be seen. Such a motor can- not, we think, be driven by steam. It is, how- ever, not impossible that a machine might be tmade which would be caused to fly by means of a small electric motor run at a very high speed, and worked by the aid of a couple of wires trom the ground, This. however, would hardly be flying in the true sense of the word. Tat wings and such like things canbe made we have no doubt; and experiments enough have been made to prove that, If power enough be available, filght can be achieved. When a ma- chine can be made, each pound of which will develop as much energy as each puaed ofa bird, flying may be possible—not till then. ——— SLIGHT ODDs, Orfe Man who Knew his own Business. “‘No, my dear," said the venerable keeper of a coun- try store toe timid little girl whose head scarcely came up to the levelof the counter. ‘‘No, my dear, wo haven't any red flannel, but we have some first rate ‘New Orleans molasses.” Softly hinting that she didn’t think that would answer tha purpose quite as well, the child went her way in search of the article she wanted. “Have you BENSON’S CAPCINE PLASTERS?” asked a gentleman of a certain druggist whose name could be given were itdesired. ‘‘I am troubled just the Benson's Plaster seams to go to the spot almost as ‘00n as it touches the skin.” “Not at present, "replied the druggist, ganially, ‘but ‘wo have lote of plasters just as good. There is Allcook’s, the Capsioum and others—won't one of them do as well?” “‘My dear sir,” retorted the gentleman, with aalight show of temper, ‘‘Isay nothing against those articles, but I ama business man, and always ask for precisely what I want, and for nothing else. I may enlighten you, however, when I say that sometime ago, for anothor disease, of which the Capeine has since cured me, I tried all those you mention, with no appreciable henefit. ‘They are inefficient, “every one of them, the meanest act of the proprietors of some of them being this: that they make plasters with similar sounding names to deceive the unwary into believing they are the same thing. Experience taught me the difference. Ti go to the next man in your line. Goof day.” Be on your guard against imitations. The genuine has the ward CAPCINE cut cleanly in the middle of the plaster. All others are impositions, Seabury & Ichnson, Chemists, NewYork. {4 20° 0° O'MEARA'S LIQUID fl4-cokdbs -RUSTEES" z THIRD, +3 OF WASHINGTON, D.C. OF VALUABLE IMPROVED ING PREM! NO. NORTHEAST, IN THE # z 2 E iat = JOSE M. YEZNAG RICHARD E Patho, } Trustees, 1HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, TRUST! Pi ry ‘ei . located Terms: One-ini ton A Little Story with a Large Moral— - } 123-dts gis er'scosh AL e. rtue of s deed ‘of September, 1880, und duly recorded ‘of the iand records lo 388, &c., i RES’ SALE OF VALUABLE "ROFERTY, Neak T) i008 1883, A’ 8 survey and a ‘of Caronry, surveyor a to. ‘on the northern line between said Lot of said Washington Hurdle for the all the owners of Lots Nos. 1, said plat and survey, dwelling, Spar te ive Hee ‘house, IMPROVED ENNALLYIOWN, D.C. of tras date the 13th, hig in Liber St for the’ dersigued Trastees will pell on “TUESDAY, MARCH. THIR- \T HALF-. FO! sng plat dated May. 1822. by mia District, bounded on ‘on th east by Lot No. urvey, the said Lot bereby conveyed lescribed in said plat and survey es i an right of a reservation of a road or . 2.3, 4 5, 6, 7 improved oe ‘near Tennallytown, of dey ird cash; the residue in twoequal pay- ments at six and twelve months, with notes be SUrneukeney aneren ancl, = roped r ve) at pur- \dcpostt of $100 wil be required at Lise JAMES L. DAVIS, earing in~ GASSES. | Trustees. IHOMAS E. WAGGAMAN, Real Estate Auctioneer. TRUSTERS SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED -ROPERTY FRONTING A MENT Re in and twenty-seven feet, more or improy ts, consisting of a three-story brick dwellin . . re souri ‘aven' sale. 7 ue. ‘Terme of sale are: One-third cash, mainder in wix (6) and twelve (12) months: tale, or ali cxsh, at payments to be secured dred dollara ($100) must JAMES EING A THREE-S’ ‘NY RY BRICK ‘Ba ILD- A TWO-SLORY BACK BU lines finsourt toan alley 1@ ima} Known as No. and the re- Po option, toe acierred ‘s_option, fe deed of trist. One bun- posited on the day of urviving Trustes, eer. 123-28 purci by a BL GREEN. HOS. E. WAGGAMAN, Auctioneer. ntleman northeast, th which a BEDSTEADS, BEDDING. dec SP AND CROCKERY. < OCKE EBRUARY TWEN’ ENTH, BK A. M., we shall sell st residence of ining housekeeping, No. 17 K 2 above coliect is well worthy the attention of buyers, WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., 'D STAIR CARPET AND WASHSTAN! PILLOWS; CH ALL AN PUKE AUS WARE, Src. ‘f Hection of ‘Household Effects, Aucts, pou ‘AS DOWLING, Auctioneer. Ne RUA: by, year from March 2. Also, at FOUR O'CLOCK P. M., on between 7th and 9th northwest, a of (Center) and Privileges corporation of Bea sh st Docks Exorxeer DEPARTMENT, Drsrxicr oF COLUMBIA, Wasurvcron, February 20, 1883, WEN fort city of W, ry deemed eligible uniees situated at north aide of east and 14th street ‘Terma: $100 to be residue ie be paid nied ox allowel by’ ‘ashington, to establ landing, cleaning and sale of fish in the ish that on WEDNESDAY, FFB- TWENTY 1GUTH Tees. the Pah Wharves in the cities of Waxhington andGeorge- at ra . same day, on in front of the Washington Market, all Rights the laws cf the sh Wharves and dno wharf or dock shail Le cm noes eae on the ac iver between Iith sizect ‘to the highest bidder. Paid on the day of sale. and the within five days from the day af By order of the Board of Commiseioners, D.C. . J. LXDECKEL, Major of Engineers, U.8.A.. £22-dts Engineer Com: EREMPTORY SALE OF VATUABLE IMPROVED AND UNIMPROVED PROPERTY, BEING AT THE CORNER CF MAKYLAND AV! SIXTH STREET Fy DC STREET NORTH, BEING IMPROVED BY a TWO- STORY ‘AND 4’ BRICK COKNER SIXTH AND © ST! TORY PRAM. CORNER MA\ Ni y front 50 feet Tw iD AVENU AND "TWO-STORY \D AVENUE, IMENCING at P.M., we ives, all of Lots 4 an on 6th ‘si beirs. DUNCANSON BROS., Aucte. E AND 3IXTi FRAME ON TWENTY-FIGHTH FEB-, FOUR-THIKTY will sell, in trout of the prem-' a5, in ire No. 864; these ote 186 2-12 on’ Maryland ga by caderot te ~ best situated one PEI! COOK'S GRAND FXCURSIONS ‘ork April 20th, Juue ist, June 19th an ickets by all Atlantic ‘Special te GOD BLE} Hs. 1 unter Th Rits fo- individual trevelors in ae all routes, ced rater. COOKS ERCURSIONIST, ‘with end full ticulars, by mail 10 cepts. ‘aaa es 2 THOS. COOK & SON, f2l-wksSet ‘261 Broadway, N.Y. RESS MONROF, NORFOLK, POKTSMOUTR: SND okt soUT eS TARY OF THE LAKH lenven fh shart oer eae eg Cae New ork steamer, aud sil railroad South, and at Old Point with the Chesapeake & Ohio. Tickets avd staterooms orn be eccured st B.& 0. office, 1351 Pa. ave. ; Bt. Marc Hotel, at boat and, office, 613 18th et. ALFRED WOOb,Sec'y & trees. R NORFOLK. PORTSMOUTH, FT. MONROM AND THE SOUTH. ¢ Com ular steamer XCELMIOR, Capt. BoE. Tr en peage Por TUESDAYS and THURS: DAYS, at 5 p.m., and SATURDAYS at 5:30 p.m, ine at Piney Point and Pomt Lookout and Y am Norfolk with dence. New ork ani J-mne- riveretramers, and the folk and W Seaboard and Hoanake retire: 3 ‘Old Point with the Chena and Ohio Coasting Co.*« ning. eake uy ed dai ti 5 p.m. ‘a PWELGH, gt? "Lat HUDGINS, Gen. Bagh cacesenemell M T. VERNON! MT. VERNON RTEAMER W. W. CORCORAN eaves Tth street wharf daily (exoeit Sunaas) Vernon at 10 o'clock ®. Mm. ; returning reaches 30 p.m. ton about 3:30 “oo L. L. BLAKE, Captain, YEW YORK, ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDA| ‘The first-class. {nll powered, ‘lyde-| ips of thin MBE ERDAM. SGinepaM Teta AM, ZAANDAM, AM AND. W. A. BCHULTEN, MAA! to the Netherlands. ea Mails &CO.. 925 Ponn. aves, Abs Lise. ‘TO AND FROM BOSTON AND BALTIMORE, LIVERPOOL, QUEENSTOWN, GLALGOW, LONDONDERRY ané GALWaY. Prepaid certificetes for Friends and Relatt from the Old © y. touny railroad station or: boat lauding in the United states. ‘ibe only line passcneers direct from Galway. ‘The team unsurpassed for safety and and are fitted up with all’ imywovements ‘oomdudlee ecomfort of passenxers. Cabin, $0, $70 and Intermetiate, a Stewrage, lowent raten. BROSNAN, cro 9th sts W. MOSS, 225 rena = we...or LEVE & ALDEN, fae ry ‘New York, 267 Broadway Phitlacelpli, Pay Nk. ste., oF loca agente. YUxTH Gt RMAN LLOYD— brramentr Lixe Berwrex New Youn, Havag, Loxpon, SOUTHAMPTON axD BREMEX. ‘The steamers of this company will sali EVERY BAT. ina me pton Bremen, first cain Rtb, toca $0 ‘or freight CO, 2 Bowling & Cd., 925 Pounsyivaiia avenue northwest, Ageute Warthineton Ppesecne Live. WEEKLY LINE OF STREAMERS, LEAVING NEW YOKK EVERY THURSDAT AT NOON, FOR ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY, For Passage apply to . €. B. RICHARD & CO., way, Ni. He €1 Broadway, N. Or to PERCY @. 8) 1351 and 619 Penneyivanis avenue, Send for “Tourist Gazatie.” Cexakp LINE. apl NOTICE. THE CUNARD BT EA MaHIP COMPANY LIMITER, eA RH pee FROM PIER 40.8. 3X NEW YORE ~g,Wed., Feb. 28. | Pay Res., ia. rch 14. | Bothuis, Catalonia..Wed,, Mar. 21. | Gallia s AND £VERY WEDNEBOAL FROM AEW FORK. TR OF PARRAGE: and eli other parts of Fleerage at very Jow rates. Bisse tain (om Us i 1 porta. Gheen er Goth, sama ak eh COs» O05 Tih strook, ‘Washington VERNON A. BROWN & CO., New Yor; ‘Messrs. OTIS Bi ww Tah strech, Weaktagton, or ject & OHIO RAILROAD. PAST, A ut PHE ®t €:50—Katimore, Annapolis and Way (Piedm’ burg, Wi . wu and Way, vis. 17:45—BALTIMORE E: D 0S" ON. AND 1 TY-F WEST, AT AUCTION. By virtue of Liber, rds now with a touch of my old friend, the Iumbago, and ner JUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. TEES’ SALE. ‘M81 GRE’ No. 97: of OF TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSE » BE! WEEN TWENTY-THIRD ‘TH STEEETS NOKTH- ‘SHCPRICADERIATS, NEW TOI a EXPRESS. | Parlor Cars to New Xi P.M.—14:10—Balimore, bem TIMORE : ‘TIMORE 3 :00—Baiti FENNSYLVA’ THE oete, eat PE ‘Taare Lrave o% ei ening Son a eS DOUBLE TRA‘ 43 ow 6TH axp B Pa ri Bispig cameeg goo MAGNIFI IN EPFECT FIBnU ‘Wasurxatox For #ittmoury and the West, 2. f