Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1883, Page 7

FASHION WRINKLES, Mu FOVLE CLOTH —REDINGOTES POPTLAR— SPRING BONNETS — WALKING AND HOUSE DRSSKES — SEASONABLE NOVELTIES — NEW SHADES, ETC. Dress BoxNeTs are medium size. Gray id to be the coming color. Cuitprex’s CoLuaRrertes grow larger and larger. For:e Gtoru is the rival of tweeds for Spring. Hoxeystcste YeLiaw is the latest tint of that color. PeLeRINES AND SuovutpeR Cares are greater favor than ever. ReprNGoTEes AND PoLoNalsEs in a score of forms are highly popular. Porsrep Bopices grow more and more fash- u feather trimming is used on hand- fome mantle Lesr lilies and ferns form the corsage bou- Quet of the season. Sore of the new bonnets haye the crown of one color and the brim of another. Trimurxes of spring bonnets will be massed In clusters on the top. Tue new foule cloths come in all shades of new colors for street wear. Reenes and chicorees around the bottom of the skirt remain in favor. Orvoman silk and satin de Lyon are combined In ne ring costumes. s New raglans are cut with Japanese and dol- man sleeves. New grenadines come in beautifal Sp lace designs. ENGiis# yy panish n Jackets are tailor made, and Very plain. Herren metal buttons appear among new Gress trimmings. Ps.stps, in duil, dark colors are made up for traveling suits or for simple house dresses. Daxk Bice JackeTs are worn with bright plaid skirts by young ladies and little girls. Bests and even snail hoop-skirts are worn, but not by the greater number of women. Axper and tortoise-shell pins appear among @ew millinery ornaments. To Dress WeLt. requires thought and expe- Fience even more than money. ont Vistres, very handsomely trimmed will be much worn. New [HaveLocks have several collars and one deep cape cut in dolman shape. Ti havelock and raglan are the popular Cloaks tor general service this spring. Lace cloaks,unlined but handsomely trimmed. come among other lace Importations. Tux furor for gros grain silk has extended to trimmings and sash ribbons; skirt loopings and ped effects”are now more used than rics. Tue shelving p. e, worn over the top of the ng to young ladies, and is them; aside from that,smali bonnets are the rule for full dress. Rr nd garnets are again very fashionable. Amber is worn by brunettes; the new styles are Feally lovely; combs, alzrettes, necklaces, brace- ts, ants and hairpins are among Piyvxis Hessotkore, amaranth, and scabi- euse, dark red purple shades, are termed Judic. Lace Poxss, with brims of lace pleating, are Been among spring novelties in millinery. Waixixe Dai remain short, but house dresses and toilets of ceremony are demi-trained Bnd trained. ssut of yellow in the toilet, on the bonnet, househoid decoration is the fancy of the PoLonatses grow in favor and are made ofthe bandsomest materials, with little drapery, but Bich trimmings. Tur Greutze bonnet, with two rows ot box- Pleated wired lace for the brim, will be much Worn in the early spring. Hessar Jackets and basqne-cut bodices of Jersey cloth will be much worn with skirts of Woolen piatds In the eariy spring. In Pants they are wearing very large bonnets, but the American importations are as yet in Medium sizes for the most part. Beacrtrut and dressy spring costumes are made of satin rhadames or Surah combined with Droche or embossed veiveteens. Norsanpy Valenciennes, an improvement on Italian lace, will be the popular trimming for ung girls’ and children’s white dresses next mer. A New lace, the Helvetian, has a reseau of heavy square meshes, Spanish lace designs for the borders, with patches of Brassels ground,on Which are duchesse flowers. Hawenep silver buttons are used on gray, pale bine, and rose-colored costumes, bronze buttons on olive, green, and brown suits, and old guid on tan, brick, and terra cotta dresses. ELasoxatTety braided Jerseys will be very much worn with skirt@of tweed or cheviot. The Bewest patterns in braidwork resemble rich pas- — iteries, being wrought in close, elaborate jesiz AxonG New Suapes or Coton are Cordova leather, Russia leather, deerskin, oak, antique blue (which Is a deheate blue tinge with very ale ereen), a pecntiar pink called “heart of the ea-rose,” @ dark bluish gray called orange, and Malatesta, a warm rasset brown. Tue CHaNous IN THE STYLES OF DRESs-MAKING are not positive: at least they are not noticeable to those who have watched the premonitions of comin fashions in new features introduced in robes and costumes during the midwinter for those who were able and willing to pay for advance styles. Sruixe armares come in all the colors, aad serges and basket cloths are In plaids or irrezu- Yer designs, including several colors, either blending or in drabe, browns and ather sober colors, illuminated by lines of bright hues. The Bew shepherd's plaids come in wide stripes, alternating with equally wide plain satin atri Or otten the satin stripe is shaded or streal With several colors. AoNG other seasonabie novelties there are fabrics with alternating shot and plain satin Stripes. or mixed and plain stripes of satin, and again mixed stripes and streaked ones, the for- Mer being in some dull tint and the other in bright colors. Then there are motre stripes of one color alternating with streaked. checked or shot stripes, both in silk and woolen fabrics. Never were the self-colored tissues so fine and variously tinted. Those for spring in cash- Mere, muslin delaine and cloths ere heavier than the Importations for summer, but the Medium, as well as the light weizht all woolen D stont come in over one bundred hues and ones, embracing dark, rich plain colora, neu- tral shades and delicate tints. Nun's veiling, crapes and *ftken tissues are now used for even- fng tollets and tn summer will form combina- tions in costumes tor day wear. Gexos VeLvetsex in dark ruby, deep wood green or sea! brow makes very serviceable and stylish spring suits for children, the most effect- ive costumes being those having kilted skirts with panels lined and p'ped with gay piaided furah. The tiny badet coat opens overan inner Walstcoat of the surah, aud the outside Jacket ts trimmed with very nacrow bands of fur, with Glensarry cap to match. These suits can be Comfortably worn until Jur: Tur Race for embroidery bas not at all di- nilnished. Onthe contrary, not only are cash- meres, nun’s vellings and crepes for spring thus Gecorated, but there are robes of satines, zephyr and other cotton fabrics embroidered In the new and a @esigns. Not only kris foes good. thus dinished, but the embroidered dress itiern: ra puso thea SS on flowered ea, ze} and in & sheer materia! in irregular stripes and particolerea Ohecxe. Tue Young Ladies’ Journal anys that the skirts oF spring costumes are made short and geant, but with & good deal of drapery arranged over ther. In some skirta the drapery is allowed to fais diagonally from the tert he. where tt is raised Nay? ia the full upward reaching 'o the trimming on the etige of the skirt. ee which et a a. aoe it neces sary ve more fatinces re uy of With the skirts te “podices ars in en, poluted corsages, and often tn some one of the Iate fancy styles. ——_—_-2-—_____ The theory of Romberg that neurelzic is the Breyer of the suffering nerve tor healthy biood more of it, le now gouerally received by Dbysicians. ES : “/ |THE MYSTERIOUS’ SEMPSTRESS, AN EPISUDE°OF LIFE IN RUSSIA. dare say I can shop better than you. Will you lend me your shawl, your furs and your over- shoes?” * Before I could say a word she had them all on. Then she laughed for the first time and curtsied me. “Sister Mary, Sister Mary!” she cried in great glee, “our copartnership begins from to-day. I am to be capital and you brains. Little sister good-bye. 1 shall not be gone more than a quarter of an hour.” I was so astonished as to be speechless. Ina trice she was back, loaded down with packages. She had a loaf of bread, a piece of cheese, a pot of preserves, a breast of smoked goose, some Salted Cucumbers. “I have a samovar, but it Was too heavy for me to carry. The man I bought it of will bring it here at once. It is a second-hand, but as good as new. I see you have a tea-pot. My only two extravagances were some good soap and a pound of the best tea. Come let useat. I can arrange anything. lam to wait on you.” Then up came the man with the copper ura What was I to do? Never was a woman placed fn such a pitiable condition. ‘I had been brought to Russia by a New England sewing- machine company to run their machines at an agency of theirs in —~— street in St. Peters- burg, where a handsome shop had been Tented. One blustery cold day toward the clost of Octo- ber I found the shop door closed, and learned to my dismay that our agent had disappeared and the machines had all been seized tor rent and debts. What was to be done? Ali the money 1 had in the world was about equivalent to $12. What was due me I had left in our agent’s hands, and I felt sure It was lost. I thought of everything In the 25 minutes which elapsed be- tween my heart breaking when I found | and charcoal and she madethe fire and prepared the shop door closed and my rapid perpen atts cane Se eo . walk to my lodgings. _ Fortunately, | When we belong to the people, and we my room had been hired tor the —tonth, { People, but swallow it in tumblers.” Though I and had been paid for In advance. I had at least a root over my head for a few weeks. An idea suddenly struck -me, I had been making an evening on the machine for a Russian. lady who spoke English. She had some idea of buying a machine. In order to expedite the work I had taken to my room the body of her dress, and, having a machine there, had sewed on it ofnights. That machine I would certainly keep; it would go very little toward the pay- Went of the debt the agent owed me. I hurried home. Perhaps there was a letter with some money init. There was nothing. I must find the lady—but how? She had left no address, Ske had hardly spoken to me. 1 thought I heard her say tint che-wonid come again, and 1 rbeheved thet she had fixed on this very day. !T:cre was but one chance in a thousand. I must a in the street and wait until she ap- peared. Per hasteniéd beck aiid took up my position near the shop. I seanned every woman pass- ing by. It was bitterly cold and raw, and the wind chilled me. I was faint with anxiety. Had I only known more of the language I would hage asked a policeman to take me to the American consul, to the minister. I was in despair. Suddenly a carriage drove up, a foot- man opened the door, and a lady elegantly dressed alighted. 1 tore across the street; it was the Russian lady. With my heart in my mouth, I told her my pitiful story and begwed her tohelpme. It she wanted a servant, would she only try me? I had a sewing-machine, and would make her dresses for nothing it I could only stay with her until [ could write to my people at home; they would send me money, and Peould get back to the United States. My words must have had bat little sense in them, I was 80 broken-hearted. for at first she hardly seemed to understand me. “Tam without a friend in the world here—a poor American woman, thousands of miles from her home.” She looked steadfastly at me, then opened her porte-monnaie. “No, no,” I sald, “T want no money. I can- not beg. Iam not yet so poor as to ask alms, But you not remember me? The store 1s | elu The man who kept it has ran away. I the machine was worked.” she scanned me quickly; next cross- questioned me sharply. : jow could a youa: sat down at the little table with her I ate spar- ingly, I was so much confused. “Before I conclude my first day’ . Sister Mary, let me ask you something. Did you ever read the ‘Arabian Nights?’ It isa book, I sup- pose, all the world has read.” “It is quite well known In the United States, All children read it and ‘Robinson Crusoe.’” ‘So I thought.” ‘You want me to remember Aladdin?” ‘No, not all. The st. about is not half: |, the si ot. Pleasant, . it ig about . fare oid man ape he could | BCs wet Fid of. You are the sailor, sister Mary, and I am the ugly old man ape,” and sne made so comical a grimgce that I could not help smiling. “T assure you that is my character,.and you. never will get rid of me until you break my head. Sister Mary, will you share your supper with me, your bed with me to-night, yourbreak- fast with me to-morrow; not for that day, but for the next day, and the day after that?” ‘She satd this very quietly ae she took my hand in hers. I was at a losa how to reply. ‘“Weare-to work together for our living—only Sister. Mary, make me proficient. I will be so diligent.” “But, Madam.” ‘o—Sister Eliza.” “Sister Eliza, how Is {t possible that a lady of means, whose acquatntance I made but yester- jay, who awed me with her grand manners, her carriage, should wish to become a sewing woman?” “Ask me no questions. This, however, I pro- mise you. The story of the old man ape il aes tially true, but there isa limit to your endur- ance. In a anente tea es I swear to you, your passage home shall be paid you, and, sides that, there will be given you a handsome sum for you to start life with in your own coun- try; only, for God’s sake, remember that just as you threw yourselfon my mercy I now throw myself on yours. I believe you have character and courage. No harm will cometo you. I want a refuge, and haye found it. Teach me what you call the tension, how to tighten the band when it slips, how to guage the stitch,and what to do whez the thread breaks.” In a day I learned to love that woman. All the haughty, proud manner was gone. She waited on me. She was the first up in the morning. She was always busy. The porter of the house evidently mistook her for one of the girl trust herself alone in this strange country she as! two girls who hadeen in the employ of the ‘Il wasnot alone. Two other young women | Sewing machine company, for one or the- other came trom the United States with me. Two | of them had often been in my room. Some Weeks ago they were sent home, and the miser- ll extra compensation was given him for the able ti new loder. never spoke save in English, a1 in charge induced me to sta: y. prom- ing to give me money enough at the end of | 8adhercoming to me had been so mysterious nth for my trip home to the United oe I felt quite certain the porter was en- | Might not th : y Ignorant of her condition. y it worried me a great deal. More ice I ventured to ask for an explanation, would place her hand on my mouth so my speech was interrupted. It distressed ie to see how hard she worked, for I felt sure ce look up the mat- the lady asked impatiently. Not all of it. The skirt is In the shop, the body, the waist, is in my room, almost finished.” It seemed to me dreadful that in my agony she should talk about her dress. “Where do you live?” she inquired abruptly. I told her. et into the carriage,” she said. Idid so. When we were off the main street she opped the carriage, got out with me, and we walked to my lodgings. I opened the door. On the table was her basque. It did not seem to interest her. She picked it up, however, glanced at it a moment, then threw it down! She examined the sewing-machine. “How long would it take me to become pro- ficient in working this?” she inquired as she sat down betore the machine and tried the pedals. 3 it fatigning?” No, madam. Oh, would you buy it? It is mine by rights. The money for it might help me to leave st. Petersburg.” “How long did you say it would take me to become proficient?” “Two weeks—perhaps leas.” “Would it distizure my hands?” She took off her gloves, showed her well-cared-for hands, her fingers glittering with rings. our beautiful hands would hardly be spoiled.” “Well, then, give me a lesson at once—at once. I will pay you for your trouble.” lexoressed my gratitude with almost tears in my eyes. “I have no material here—but any- thing will do,” I said, as I opened my trunk and took out an apron. “I will rona tuck across the bottom—it will do no harm?” aos Take the waist and begin on at." “But it 1s quite finished. and any extra stitch- ing would spoil this delicate, cream colored silk. ‘Give it to me,” said the lady, taking“up her Seissors and deliberately cutting the waist up the back. “* Now sew upthis,” she cried. I took it, and as carefully as I could ran the machine, sewing up an ugly gash, but, of course, the waist was spoiled. ‘Now I will try and she sat down, ani under my instructions worked for an hour. She was wonderfully clever with her fingers, and seemed to seize the peculiarities of the ma- chine at once. “At this rate of progress, Madam, you would become quite a good workwoman in ten days,” I said approvingly. She made no reply, but worked away for an- other half hour, crossing and recrossing the bod: witl. stitches. “It Is not so tiresome after all,” she sald, ‘but I have had enouzh tor to-day. To-morrow I will call, and you will then take the machine to pieces and show me how it must be put together again. You will oblige me very particularly by ndt going out to-day. Ihave to thank you for your patience. Keep my visit silent. “I hope you have learned that in Russia it is better tu keep a quiet tongue. Do not re- turn to the shop. Pray take this for my first lesson,” and she placed on the machine table a plece of gold. “Tam very much overpald,” I sald. F oe are you from? English or Amer- ican?” “Am from New Hampshire.” “New Hampshire! Where is that?” “One of the New England states.” “I never heard of it. You area good repub- that from her pallor. If anything more than another made me feel sorry it was for her beau— tiful hands. She seemed to take infinite pains in spoiling them. “They are filthy—horrible.” she would say, “‘and still I think I care for them more than I should—if I only could get a thick, red, rough skin on them.” As she had said, the owner of the store was only too glad to sell mea machine. Eliza fur- nished the money. Work came to us in a mys- terious way—left down stairs with the porter. By and by a fashionable dressmaker, who made dresses for the court ladies sent for me and gave me work. As what we had to do was well sewed, and we were always prompt, in leas than three Weeks we were doing a good business. My companion, save for the daily purchases made in the immediate neighborhood for food, hever went out. No one called on her; she never received a letter. A few days over the month had passed, when one morning as I was running up a seam in a piece of cloth my needle struck something. It wasa piece of paper. “‘Isit forme, Sister Mary?” said Eliza. She took the bit of paper, held it to the stove, appeared to read something, and then opened the stove door and burned tt. I did not question her. She worged on cheerfully all day, chatting on indifferent subjects. * That night when we were In bed, taking me in her arms, she sai ‘Poor Mary, your trou- bles, your anxieties are now over. To-morrow early apply for your passport. It will cost you to go from here to Ltverpool, say, £40, and the Passage from Liverpool to the United States as mich more; that makes £80, and you will have something to spare. I wish it could have been more, but you will have altogether £300, which. after deducting your traveling expenses, will leave you some money to begin your life with again. From me—who have learned to lovea singularly honest and simple-minded woman— you shall have this ring,” and she slipped on my finger a ring, “but don’t wear ft, the diamond might betray me. So far, Mary, you have run no risk, but next week you might be ruined for- ever, for you have harbored—’ 1 was speechless with terror. “Only @ woman,” she continued, ‘whose own 1'fe—or the life of any one else who stood in her way—she would care no more of taking than would the cook who wrings a chicken’s neck. Do not be shocked, be I shall sleep as sweetly to-night—as If deathdid not threaten me. My story, a8 far as relates to you, Is soon told. It became necessary fur me a month ago to dis- appear. The simplest chance in the world threw youin my way. Had you been of any other nationality than an Aimerican, I wo Rever have trusted you. You might g0 out now, M: and sell me Judas-like for asum of money which would make yon rich for life.” se Convulsively to her and bade her be quiet. h my veins, child, there runs the best ussia; but every drop of it I will shed for the cause. Thank your God for your lowly estate. You must go away to-morrow, and now good night.” I begged her to come tothe United States with me. She said: “No, my place is here. I should be useless there.” ‘Then she com- plained of lasettude, and presently went to sleep. I looked at her, her face pillowed on her arm, vidoe ti Fon calmly as an infant, and thought her the loveliest woman I had ever seen. Next morning out of a pact rough materiai she produced, as if ry magic, a roll ot notes, which, without counting, she handed to me. ‘Later in the day there ought to arrive some furs for me, for poor Mary must not get cold. Now, se Ageia you.” Her old manner had returned. ‘Get your passport. Go by Bremen to England, or.the ice will de! you. Donot wait.” Stil I wasirresolute. could not bear to leave her. I sobbed as if m: heart would break. Then she knelt to me, ani implored me to go. At last I consented. My Passport was given to me at the police head- quarters without a word. I returned to our room. AsI stood at the landing the cheerful clatter of the machine was heard. Eliza was bending ing some plaintive air. asked, very quietly. ‘See, come.” They I felt very much Inclined to She looked cold and haughty, but my heart was so full of thankfulness that, overcom- ing somewhat the awe I felt. I ventured to take her hand in wine and put it tomy lipe. She did not withdraw it. ‘Poor child,” she sald; do not look more than twenty, and at your te be tn such trouble! This must be a ex- perience for you. Gond-bye, and until to-mor- Tow.” She gazed at me steadfastly, as if she would look me through, and then, bowing, left me. I did not, would not, silow myself to be dis- heartened. I sat down and wrote two letters— one to my motherat Amherst, the other to a sewlng machine company in New York. I ex- plained my pitiful condition. | Next moruing early there was alow knock at my door. Tupened it and a woman, plainly dressed,entered. She did not Say a Wo! She placed a bundle ahe held in her hand in a chair, | 8nd at once went to the machine, tock up the bodice, and commenced pth A “You will kindly forget the lady of yesterday and know meas Elise, elmply, or rather,as Elise is French, we will say Eliza. ‘I want to learn a trai Itts a whim of mine. Do you hink that ina month l could earn my bread this way? I offer you a partnership. Ican find the fands. The contents of the shop will prob- ably be sold out, and you will De able to buy one ofthe machines for me. Now, will you take this one Be cad Thad nota word tosay. Ibrought a wrench, screw-driver, an ol! and unl the working parts of the machine. She took the ofl-can and -bent over the machine, studying It. I noticed that she touched with her wi or iy all the grimy parts, until her hands were “Tt ls by no means as complicated as a re- volver,” she sald. 1 made no comment as together. She was | tly on some coarse brought with her. I set noar jher what todo. She worked on until it was ~ on “Is It not time now to eat some- ng?” “It is," Jreplied; “would Madam partake of wy suinple meal?” “Modam! 1 am Elies—and Dante is Mary. share your weyea have not of some do now without you.’ “You do not love me, Eliza?” I cried. “Not love you—my sister! I loved my hus- band—he was shot. I loved my only chi iny of my his ier Was sucked | ory I wish you, to. think | that this new life was hurting her. I could see | portance ee eee ‘One of the chief actors in the Sine Peis Busstan Pri was taken, but only ree killed one police. ee ee iy she had hitherto baffied the pol ‘The Chesapeake Beds in Danger ef Extermimation. At an entertainment:given to the Express- men’s convention,’ Im Baltimore, a few days since, Mr. A. Booth’ sald, among other things, that the oysters were debreasing In Chesapeake bay very rapidly, sad that though the oyster business of his city had been and is immense, yet he could not say how long it would continue. He is engaged largely in Baltimore and in the west in the oyster trade, and has one of the largest and best equipped establishments for the tion and shipment of oysters in this region. His trade is immense, and tas been for y: and he has seen the Industry at its best, an has had occasion to note its pr advance- ment, or decline, as the symptoms of elther occurred. And he bears testimony toa fact to which public attention has been more than Ofce. called and for which a remedy must be found. In printing his remarks, the Evening News of that city said> Millions of bushels of oysters are annually taken from the Chesapeake bay and eaten, transplanted to foreign waters ur sotned and shove away. Vessels and tools of every.kind tnd character havé been employed to take oys- ters from their native bede, and at no season are the bivalves safe from the rapacity of man. The tongmen pick.them up—what is left of them on the bars—and the dredgers sweep up and down, day and night, year in and year out, while fish and crabs destroy and devour the spawn andthe Tefuse of cities poison and kill them, until the consumption is greater than their natural in- ¢rease,and year by year finds the delicious shell- fish closer and closer to extinction. It is true we have laws,and an oyster police force to enforce them, designed no doubt to protect the oysters to some extent, but really they pro- tect only the tongmen, for It is only in their in- terest, and to that extent are the laws enforced. The time was, not many years ago, ‘haps a decade or two, when a large portion of the pop- ulation of our state earned comfortable livings by oystering upon the bars with tongs. They were an independent class, composed of industrious ‘nen, who owned or hired small boats or fished for themselves. On many favorite points could frequently be seen whole fleets of these little boats, canoes and skiffs, each with its crew of two, aman handling the tongues and lifting up the oysters while a boy or partner “culled,” that is knocked off the small or young oysters attached to the clumps brought up, and throwing such small ones Mack into the water to grow for a future crop, while only the choicest ones were retained for market. These were hardy men, and earned a comfortable livelihood for themselves and tamilies. But they have almost disappeared. Despite the war they waged with the dredgers, the se- vere penalties enacted alnst dredging in shallow water, and the vigilance and vigor with which the county authorities inflicted them, and despite the diligence of an oyster police fleet, the dredgers have done their work until the oyster flelds are being fast depopulated, and the favorite bars, where the tongmen worked, have been swept clean. Back and forth the dredges have been drawn, scraping the bars and leaving them barren, dragging the deep water and te: ing open with theirruthless teeth the feedin; oysters, burying others in the mud to die an scraping up all the rest, trom the mammoth hardly formed. The tongmen are few to what they once were, a large and thrifty part of the | populations of every town and village along our | bay shore, and the “cullers” are scarcer still, for the hungry tongman now sells the smell oysters | for “seed” for some distant “bed,” because he annot afford to throw them back to their na— tive elements. » Thus it is, as Mr. Booth says, our oysters are disappearing, and there is no telling how long s ereat and valuable industry will continue. Its failure would be a calamity to this city as ell as to the thousands in other parts of the state to whom it farnishes employment. Some- thing should be done to arrest the destruction clearly going on. It would be better that tl business be suspended, or restricted temporarily, than that it should be permanently destroyed. The General Assembly must either forbid all oystering for a few seasons and give the bivalve a chance to in¢rease and grow, or positively pro- hibit, under the heaviest penalties, all dredging with any kind of machine whatever. At least, the present system of taking oysters must be restrained if not entirely stopped. Protected from the dredger,the prolific bivalve would soon. } restock our waters and renew our splendid !n- duatry. If something !s not done in this direc- tion, it Is only a question of a few years whether exhaustion will not permanently destroy one otf our most valuable resources. echinacea Slaughtering by Electricity, “Death by electricity” is becoming a favorite subject for letters to the dally papers, and one such was published ina contemporary yester- day. Asa humane means of inflicting capital punishment there is much to be said in its favor, especially after the two recent cases ‘of {| bungling at the hands of the hangman. But {none of the humanitarians who advocate elec- tricity as a substitute for the butcher's axe seem alive to the disadvantages attend- ant thereon. That a “large amount of terror and | that die that we may live” would be avoided by the proposed change 1s obvious enough, and has been often pointed out; but what are the compensating disadvantages? tried on sheep at the now defunct Polytechnic Institution with the enormous galvanic coil made by the Messrs. Apps, with the following results: The sheep fell immediately on the dis- charge of the current, to all appearance dead. In some cases, however, the animals showed signs of life after a short interval, sa that it be- came ‘difficult to tell whether a shock was or was not sufficient to effect the purpose intended. This difficulty could be got over, no doubt, but when killed the carcass was always found to be more or less damaged in market value. Dark lines and spots were found in different parts, which were thereby rendered entirely unmarketable, Again, it is commonly supposed that meat exy thunder storm becomes. “tainted;” and we have vo proof that such would not be the case with electrically killed cattle. The objection that the process of slaughtering by electricity would be attended with danger to the butchers {s less valld, for all such danger could easily be obviated. A few practical experiments, carefully conducted, ‘would test the proposal.—S¢. James’ Gazette Se ee The Latest Society Idiocy. From the Buffalo Express, A new idiotic craze is thus desoribed by a ‘‘so- Clety paper.” “Can you draw 8 cal ts the moss-back to the young bulb with its shell | suffering to the poor beasts | Some years back a series of experiments were | THE TEN CENT PIE OF THESOUTH. AUCTION SALES. ____ FUTURE DAYs. ALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers, NG LOT, STING. 0 a SEWEES WARD ON ETS 0. TUESDAY, nt, having 34 feet front, ‘thereof. Am Overdrawa Picture. ‘From a New Oricans Paper. The principal feature about the common run of eating-houses south of the Ohio river is the plain, unassuming little apple ple which they set forth. Youcan buy the little pie for only ten cents, but It is seldom that a passenger eats ‘orfolk VALUABLE BUILDING “ih Pet) 5. ENTH & ET, a 4 i dene ——— fee ALFRED WOU at B. ‘at boat See'y 0. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & ©O., Ancts. . ope more than one ina life-time. After you have moascer, § aE SOCTRe FT. MONKOB eaten it and drank one or two glasses of water, | WY ALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers. ic Stead at Canipany + the'ple gets sociable, and gradually impresses | VALTABLE BUILDING LOT FRONTIXG street wharf « TURD A YS and THURS. Ppon your mind the fact that you will not be} Sans AVENCE AND M STREET MOREE. ant = lonesome as long as it travels with you. WEST, NEAR ASCENSION CHURCH. b ied with aon, Fae The strangest thing is you never do. About fif- | On WEDNESDAY, MARCH SEVENTH, ae! a ce pina y arom ee teen minutes after you have made its acquain- | HALF-PAST gg OCLOCK P.M. we 4 : Stee Set tance the walstband of your pants cannot meet | having 23 feet front Sires feet in Freeney are ae = u > Biparma, on. its note, and,demands an extension. Ahalf hour} Terms: One-third cas’; balan: ‘and . Supe later, when you retire to your berth in the sleep- | eighteen, months, 1B cwnolil sale, and rec 7) wT cas; 108 ix, twelve and for notion bearing interest from day nt on deed of trust ing car and fall intoa troubled slumber, the pie not me porcaaae com. 9100 down: the car, and you hear the smothered cries for help of the man it contains. The swelling in- creases, and you Imagine that you float upward and bump against the roof of the car like a toy balloon which has escaped from the ero or « child. This feelin=” taste for gome time, uv gnddenly you swell until you fill the interior of the car and suffocate the passengefs, when you explode and the train “is wrecked. Opening your eyes, you find the porter trying to pry your knees from under your chin with a crowbar, while a Rumber of passengers, aroused by vour sep chral groans, stand aroundin theirnight clothes and want to know it you feel sick. This tickles the little pte, and it kicks up its little heels with delight. and makes you frothat the mouth and howl like a wolf. The ten cent ple is proud of the fact that it has taken e of an order of the Supreme Court of the term a0 SDA cing Mt VERNON! MT. VERNON! being at all sleepy, concludes to have some fun. nade. = Bh, fe ‘bork grainy cline I to th marae J)UNCASSON Bos. Auctioneers, STEAMER W. Ww. CoRcoRAN own Iy ly Swelling into the shape ot NSON = 4 Ww aballoon. The balloon gets larger and larger 3 SALE r Leaves “th etreet wharf datly (excevt Sunasy’ wm until it pushes the upper berth to the top of | ADMINISTRA TOMS SAL OF HOUSEHOLD FUR- | Vernon at 10 o'clock & i. ; —_ i reaches Washing ict of i date Court. T will sell at public aucti stir DAY OF MARCH. at TEN aycicl aveae OT NApcaiioh Dros, southeast SE and Defreete west, « lot of Household * Terme tech, JOHN BECK, i ‘ua TERDAM. RO Fgh 8 City, Nd, ectiaty every alternate. mirterdam, 0) JP OXCANCON BROS., “Auctonsors, EIGHT CASKS OF WHITE AND YFLLOW WAR: See Bea eA bee Siiréoss Cuamprke: Ate Webs, TEA POTS, ko., ko., AT AUCTION. ‘On MONDAY MORNING, MARCH FIFTS, at TEN fots tothe trate, sight corks of the abone waa tae hich ry « the attention of the trade is called. mih2-2t UNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. ie Live Berwere New Yor, Sava, AMPTON AND. Bre ‘antl LUERY SAT. ‘aes SS porch Satan ‘oa . pil EL, cece! Reagent Wf WE °0., 2 Bowling Green, hold of a strong man, who had been oy &.CO-. 925 Peunayivania avenue norihwest Agent shot through and never murmured about It, and the ani H 10 public suction Mtiction roome of Duucanson Bros’... corner of 9 ts northwest, on WEDN EF: ES! at bh Detreet DaY OF MAKCH, A. D. I doubled him up until his spine cracked, hurled him from one side of his berth to the other, and 5 E vboren: made him bellow for paregoric like a child. | a1, the following Stock ipeva Siew Toe a oe. yyy — This is the style of ple prepared by eating- 100 shares Fit June 30th, 1883. = houses in the south for the benefit of travelers. Fasrage Tickets by all Atentic Siegmers. Special ta It weighs four ounces, contains three dozen full- Insurance Stock, OUST Ti METS for eetaniel ereeeers tm Bhi wn cramps, and can always be purchased for ‘i Home Plate Glass tnew at reduced rater, RSIONIST. with Maps and full pan ticulars, by mail 10 cents, Address THOS. COOK & SO! : byw ‘he small sum of ten cents. ——___-o- _____ Intermarriages of Diseases. From the London Standard. ance Stock. eee porman ttional {inion Fire Insurance Stock. ormula for making *‘Onsapadentine,” - ebrated tooth powder. NAOMI UTERMEHLE, mh2-4t — Fxecutrix will of Dan’l Kolb, decessed. 7pOMiS DOWLING Ancboed £21 -whaS4t 261 Brondway, (OMAS DOW! uchoneer. — — A disease, like the individual in whom it 1s T OM@ArauEm A“ LINg. localized, has a genealogy. It hasan ancestry ‘ALG! TO AND FROM of “morbid conditions” all commingled, and of s collection of BOSTON AND BALTIMORE, LIVERPOOL, QUEENSTOWN, transmitted from sufferer to sufferer, antil, “by MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, inherited dispositions, accumulating and com- ° Many of them Rare, Crrious, and Finely Mustrated. . bining In definite proportions,” altering for good Just Received Direct From London, Engiaud, GLALGOW, LONDONDERRY or evil according to the soil on which It grows, Per Steamer “CIRCASSIAN,” and GALWAY. anew oneis produced. This, ina few words, and to be Sold Prsosy may, Wyong ep for Friends and Relatives oe 2 d Country, ¥ railron stripped of its technicalities, and deprived, un- AT aUctTIon, doat landing in the United Sites, ‘The only fortunately, also, of the wealth of illustration > Passengers dirvet from Galway. i mk with which It is accompanied, is Sir James | on WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY EVENINGS, | Je" are unsarjassed for safety Paget's ingenious theor: Its attractions are endare fitted up with all improvements conducive the consfort of re. Cabin, $9), $70 and $80. undeniable, its plausibility great, and though MAECH SEVENTH AND FIGHTH, 1883, Intermertiate, $49. BStrsrage, lowest rates. the author, In addressing a professional audi- At 7:30 O'CLOCK, to JAS. RE ence, forbore deducing a moral, the lessons AM, S35 cane. which it irresistibly suggests are too patent to {escape notice. That children inherit the | courage, cowardice, prodigality, frugality. face, | figure, complexion, tone of voice, and talents | ot the parents is, of course. a truism. It is | equally certain that diseased parents bequeath | their frailties to their offspring. Scrofula, cancer, consumption, epilepsy, rheumatism, gout, insanity,cretinism, and albinism are | among the Bios AT MY SALESROOM, ave. Southwest Corner of Pennsylvania Ave. and Iith sts. Books Now Ready for Examination. 28-7 THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. NITED STATES MARSHAL’S SALE. By virgne of one writ of venditioni exponas and two writs of Beri facias, insned outof the Clerk's Office of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and to me directed, I will sell at public sale, for at wing's auction rooms, southwest corner of st. & ‘ALDEN, ost familiar of the diseases of de- sylvania avenue and ith ‘strect northwest, on fects which ‘run in families." A craving for al | SAACRDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF MARCH, i, w cohol is a recognized “morbus,” hanaed down et Spey nia. We “Wet. Apel from father to son, while listlessness, sloth, Im- ba property. to witi Ona lot Underwear and | "sii guy GeONESDAL CRON ROW Coke practicability are as readily transmitted and G00K8, consisting of \ ee ee Suet ‘Rare o1 ~ } 88 a capacity for work and a clear brain! inre t-reeus Comer: Home Gite oe ey al ofl, $80 200 £100 for ommoevtations. | from one generation to another. A prudent per- | levied unon and condemned as the property of Isuac ar pet fee hveaymae p Rot cartcak Hoon | son hesitates to marry a consumptive, or amem- | Orpenbeimer, to sate fy executions No. 24 101, at aw = eee ee — j ber of a family in which insanity has appeared, | 4, Tys"s¢Foutzan, © Marton: No. 24,141 and No. | TEN Gen ie of teden given for Relfast, Stason thus acknowledging the soundness of the data "CLAYTON MeMICHAEL, U.S, Marshal, | Ra's Autwern and other ports ou the Continent mentioned. Consanguinity is believed—and f2H-10t_| For freight and yamare at the Company's officg, justly so—to intensify the risks of transmission, 0, # Bowlin Gren, or. f ; though only because there Is a chance of no a OF VALUABLE IMPROVED ne. aie . aaa eS N ss elativ he | TRUSTEES’ ALUABLE a. 5 X . SN A er act a Saturna lame PROPERTY, Nv AR TENNALLY LOWN, D.C. Orto Moser. OTIS BIGELOW & COs same fauily trou! TEE Me caret EAREN IO) ee Een ec xu es avoid dangerous “inter-marriages of disease,” to | day of Septentber, 1880, and a Searing Cate He in —— use the phrase which Dr. Benjamin Richardson ; BEF olig 68, Eco of the nnd records for tee | FTAMBURG LINE. has so happily coined. District of the um ped Ts If both parents have a tendency to the same malady, the children ; 9,,‘B WEERLY LINE OF STEAMFRS, can scarcely escape. But if ‘cancer and | anit LEAVING NEW YORK EVERY THUGHDAT consumption wed, there Is hardly a hope | ton county, NOON, ot the offspring “escaping early ‘death or BOs ENGLAND, FEARGE AND GERMANY, . < 32 perches, more or Jess, aa the same is indicated and For Passage apply’ to Iitelong misery from cancer.lupus,consumption, | described in a survey and plat dated May, 1652, be q j tuberculosis of the brain, epllepsy.diabetes from | Lewis Carbury, surveyor of anid District bounced oo piece iver’ one nervous injury,or some variation or combination | the west by the new road of said District, on the north a ¥ by the land of Washington Hurdle, on the south by the 61 Broadway, N. ¥. of all three. The intermarriage of rheumatism | land of Mra. Ariana Lyles, and on the cast by Lot No. | Or to PERCY G. SMITH, and consumption is productive of hydrocephalus (eS yc peepee emo ped 1351 and 619 Pennsylvania avenue. and diseases of the bony framework of the body, | Poe Norm subject to a sere tong Bist and survey 88 Send for ““Tourist Gazette.” wt such as the hip-joint disease, so common among } way 17 fect on the northern line between said Lot | —— = =—S—= weakly ehildren. The state does not in modern | No. 8 and the land of said Wesbington Hurdle for the RAILROADS. Denefit of ali the owners of Lots Nee. 1, 2,3, 4.5, 6, T e sae, times, as in a more heroic age, exercise a con- and 8 on said pist and survey, improved by a = — ——* = trol over marriage. It is therefore, all the more frame dwelling, slaughter-| ice-houre, stal BALtivore & OHJO RAILROAD. i . &o., located near Tennallytown, D.C. THE MODEL FAST, AND THE ONE mnSa Tye On those who are swayed by sume | See the residue in twoequal pay- BETWEEN THE MAST AND THE regard for posterity not to neglect In marriage | ments at elx and twelve miontha with motes bee W. iGTON. DOUBLE Ti every consideration save those of atvection, forest ent. secured by 8 deed of rt, OF < coal atthe SANNEY : STI Bal wealth, position or social fitness, when their ion of purchaser. conveyancing, &c., ua own future sorrow and that of another genera- chasee'comt S iaart eT = = x sumpet ve WASRENGTON tion are involved in their neglect of the laws of | £23-dts JAMES L. DAVIS, 5 oe. bar m4 Cinemnatl and 1st ous I Frat ae nature. USTES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED | 5.00% sott City aid Way Stsbons. ——_———_+e-—_____ KOPERTY IN MT. PLEASANT, KNOWN AS | t6:30—BALTIMORE EXPARGS A Philesophic Car Conductor. & P. BROWN'S HOMESTI AD. 6:60—Baitimore, polis und Way (Ph tres pwn and Way, via Relay.) He was holding a stump of a dead cigar in his 4 eRe y re Une. * Niatt mouth as he stood on the platform of a Shaw- | folio49 et naa. ou 8:10—PHILADELP UTS, NEW TORK AND BOSTON, mut avenue car going south, and he suggested | the notes secured therei EXPRESS. “Parlor Cars to New York. the payment thereof, I renee. on SATURDAY, TH ARCH, 1883, at HALF-PAST FO! all thet certai 8:40—Stannton and V 19 ; to « fellow-passenger who was takingthe out- j side air after a 22d of February domestic dinner, | that It was @ shame that smoking was net per- mitted, concluding his criticism with, “Don't | you think so?” “I do,” said the citizen, who was trying to remember the special period in George Washington’s life when he belonged to the democratic party. “I suppose one of these days,” continued the stump puller, “that they will have special cars for smokers and special cars for men and special cars for women, and alley Ex) own and at Post oF UI Me : acres of land, was conveyed recorded in tat Ha is NE a Ganatt and St. Lous Chicago. * SE nday ouly f: )—BALTIMOR: ESS. {2:55—BALTIMORE EXPRESS. 3:00-Baltimore, Pi special—” “Well,” interrupted oe conductor, big ta —e “when they have special cars for men and i it Frederic| wn, Wine special cars for women, : I want to stegior and ay Stations, (Un Sunday to Paint of ran elghteen hours aday on the men’s car in | te wale are within ten 6-43} TIMOR (Martiosbane preference to twelve hours on the women's | azutee toserves the right to re-sell af the costof the Relay. ‘aud Laure car.” “Why so?” inquired the individual. The BENJAMIN P. SNYDER, Trustee. ra conductor was about to reply, but the car was| J.T. COLDWELL, Auctoneer. N2T-eokls OR] diverging trom Tremont street to enter Shaw- TPENCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, TRUSTEES’ BALE OF TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSE ON M STREET, BETWEEN TWENTY-THIRD AND TWENTY-FOURTH STREETS NOKTH- WEST, AT AUCTION. & deed of trust duly recorded in folio 247 et. we Pie ian 2% 24% ay a th bite on. ARCH, A.D. mut avenue (why one Is called a street and the other an avenue has not been settled as yet by the savants of the Boston society) when the bell was pulled violently. “Conductor,” shouted a female, one of a trio who had rigen simultan- eously from their seats, “don't this car go up ‘Trem ‘No, madame,” replied the conductor, with the suavity of. Chesterfield. “‘And why didn’t you tell me so?” she screamed. “TI did not know where you wished to go. You stopped the car, if serves me, with- out asking our route.” “Don’t talk to me, sir; don’t talk to me.” “Impertinent feliow!” ex- Claimed the second. “Just as he didn’t know,” chimed in the third. The trio bounced Goh ‘and at the Sherabys we latest social question, and you are immediately or se! lady I know has what she call ket,” wherein she keepe all the wild at- tempts of her friends to draw a feline. It ts as- tontshing how few pe really know what a cat looks like. four friends to draw a cat. they make. oe Not Loxe Since, Mr. Clemens, alias Mark Twain, attended a ptivate ‘lecture in Boston, at the house of one of the most learned of all the learned .ones of this, good town. The subject treated by the able lecturer was the Pythago- Tean hypothesis of the ition of the audience Iitoned, intently, bat none ere more absorbed in the discourse than was the distinguished author from Harttord, who bent his brow andconcentrated his £ the lecturer. At ¢he conclusion of the paper the thouse in company with the invited him to be present. ‘The ronetnaaibey car Saas Ing the y in w! had fallen, refrained from asking film hie opie fon on the lecture. Finally, however, he ven- tured to ask how Mr. Clemens had en} occasion. “Oh, reply. ‘Ihave my fe; it has my life haunted me, and been able. to fathom. Now all-is clouded eyes. Now the, en! elouds have rolled away, the mists we been dispelled, my shud hich Keen gaze | tl into. the street. The conductor, without any evident excitement, pulled the bell, and the car moved on. “I asked you a question just now,” sald the stump-holder, “but you :t answer it—I see, I see!”—Boston Journal. The Use and Abuse of Bathing. Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, medical director of the Union gymnasium, gave the fourth in his talks on physical training at the Union hall last week, taking for his subject “Bathing: its Uses and Abuses.” He gave general rules for bathing as follows: ‘A warm bath, with Mberal use of cas- tile soap is best for cleanliness, and night the Dest time. Twicea weex is often enough, Too juent warm baths debilitate the system. A cool ge or wet cloth bath should be taken dally for is tonic effect and always in a warm Toom. If oar ‘end vigorous, the best time is hot strong, the cold had the sveatly fatigued, take aq beth, buat rab down’ wisrously wit a dry towel, If thoroughly ed take alt, except when bathing for Cleaalines. "A Ting ts preferable to cold bath after a Yigerotr ccna those sh Pp unne ;, those shor medical cases. Skin disorders are frequently much cone Although general roles for tathing ald be ian must be guided hu ows vyeloal condition and bis eosupation agers uri t Sis dar ugtn to ASOT AGES, BOGE A [URSDAY AND SATURDAY Mi AT TEN 0" ‘REG, Cigaretse Smokers Warned from the] ,, OU.00% Sf S01 0d Woy cmmrite soe acmaniiaraie. ‘Mill sed Depot, Tth-street Wharf. 3 /___Oftics, 8. corner 13h: Aw. _. @LIVE BUTTER