Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1883, Page 7

* OLD STAMP COLLECTORS, Gathering Tiny Pictures from Letters, Match Boxes, Beer Kegs, and Wine Bottles. From the Philadephia Times, “Will you sell me a lot of unused stamps at reduced rates if I promise to paste them in an album and neyer pat them on letters?” hesitat- i Angly asked a queer little man the other day, as be poked his bead half-way through one of the WinJows in the post office. ispenser of Diaukly at the the use of his ton Clean-eut The matter-of-fact settes of presidents gazed + and for a moment lost made a sharp, | the little | Then he jist bet.” poetically responded the em- | sr at the stamp window of the post office, | eply to. the ‘y of a Times reporter ions were common. ed by stamp coll ered under the delusion that post o uid procure for them postare stickers . Th en asked for Unite inct, and sometimes y could not be sup- win. One mal recently proposed | wn nuuber of government oflicials | Should be kept constantly at work detaching | stamps from that passed through the | and mark to show that the post- | i he stamps thas detached | ir proportion among ors. The logic of | © manhad no use for | y might aswell be turned the connoisseur, who had. He | ors, Stamp-c occ ing used to be a mere school boy sno longer so. The man spoken | of to the post office om-hole wore Whiskers, and it is of the devotees of the st K are past middle ave. Persons whe want tu good coliections must tamps, and this in itself the reach of ehildren. le book of stamps was 10,000, and many per- ollections worth much ‘The number of different + which it is possible to get is about 6,250. there are some kinds entirely controlled asts, who refuse to sell them. In 1852 euch government issued two different ots of cheap stamps for the Reunion Isles, veh are now valued at €50 cach. ‘The rarest American stamps are probably the old pation. han $1,000 each. bas Bue! Whi re not purticular, but seize long. Firms having exten- are the most troubled fn this way. Kequests from abroad to consuls At tis port for complete sets of stamps are Ire- quent. ORGANIZING A CORNER IN STAMPS. Innumerable etforts have been made to mantp- Ulate the stamp market. A gentieman in Phila- ia Is at the present tine engaged in secur- ing all the late department stamps possible. He pays very good prices for them, and he usands. He thinks they but must increase in’ yalne, rhe hopesto make about | y. Agreat | cendants some profit, but that he himself { of revenue stamps ch boxes. With They fumble | nce, scrape off | stick thein te “mateh-stanip fend and tries to find stam Which he has not already in his collection. No- body has ever exactly siain a stamp scavenger, but he fs not at all liked in places where matches are sold. A STORY WITH EVERY BOTTLE. ‘There Is also the individual who collects labels from champagne, beer,ale and lemonade bottles. He desptses hisfellow man who loves match-box Stamps, for he can show labels enouzh to stick @n every bottle in the wine cellar of a king and he can generally tell a pleasing incident con- Bected with each label. It has always been a mystery where wholesale Stampdealers get their foreizn material. Thereare Rone but retailers in thia city and they get their stamps from New York. It is known that some stamps are sent from abroad by correspondents, but it is also said that quite a large proportion ofthe “European” and “southern” ones sold in this country are manufactured “out west” or in the land of the wooded ham s ti from barrels of beer and m ——_____-e-___ ‘The Motto in a Wedding Ring. ; the street, where no omnibuses pass. The nelgh- | M. Claretie is an indefatigable observer. | dinner.’” When the slender youth was out of. } proclaim A FRENCH LITTERATEUR. M. Jules Claretic—His Literary Career and His Domestic Relations. Edmund Yates in London World. “M. Jules Claretie (pronounce tee,) author of Monsieur le Ministre, dramatist, novelist, critic, historian, polygraph, and above all, journalist, lives in a comfortable suite of rooms on the third floor, No. 10 Rue de Doual, at the quiet end of borhood is artistic and literary. Itis in the midst of that movement of modern life of which | Hard | by live Ludovic Halevy, Rochefort, Paul Meu- ascore of other painters and men of letters; northwards, towards Montmartre, is the land of studios; southwards ts the Cafe de la Rochefou- cauld, rend he Meissoniers and Bon- nats of the eastwards is the wonderful ‘abaret du Chat Noir,’ a tavern fertile in stupe- factions, not least of which is the vivacious weekly journal Ze Chat Noir, in which aspiring and original wits and poets dnd hospitality for cir lucubrations, The house is oldish, somber, and tranquil. Claretie never even knew the hardships and struggles which generally accompany the besinnings of those who ters. His parents were w in the Rue Paradis-Poiss destined their son for m he preferred law; then he tried vainly to keep his father's books, and finally chose journalism. His parents did not cross him; on the contrary, they. fitted up a cosy little stud him have his own and in due time married hir iy who is now Madame Clar ular and exenip! of our hero. Indeed, M- Claretie’s y was one of the ures that most ved his coilearues of the pen next to his | precocious talent, and all of them have queer f his frst appearance in the news- Paris. In 1858 he is described x the Gaulois office one morning in , Slender, delicate, r olored, timid, and utterly beardless, with’ an umbrella under his arm, and his nose awry, inclining leftwards, as it still does, ‘Messieurs,’ he said, saluting with ease and grace the assembled editors, ‘1 have yentured to bring an article for your es mablejournul.’ The editors glared through the smoke of thelr pipes: the visitor became con- tused, dropped his umbrella, and laid the manu- seript on the table. It was poem in prose, called ‘Verziss mein nicht.’ The chief editor read It. ‘It will appear next week.’ ‘Next week!’ cried Claretie, in an ecstasy of delight and gratitude that threatened to end In syncope. ‘Will you take a cigarette?’ said some one. ‘No, thank you; I never smoke.’ Then, nervously consulting a handsome watch, he continued: ‘Pardon, messieurs, my family expects me to a-dealers They had | to the charm- | ie. Nothing than the a hearing the assembled editors cried, ‘He has an umbrella!” ‘A watch!’ ‘A tamily!’ ‘He dines!” ‘And he does not smoke!’ and then, in chorus, ‘He will never come to anything!" -In spite of his perseverance In the habit of dining every day, and of not smoking, M. Clar- etie has arrived at an enviable position in con- temporary French literature. He ts successful and he deserves his happiness. His home is elecant and comfortable. The salon is a fouillis of plush, Oriental stuffs, carved cabl- nets, screens, Japanese bahuts an ic nick- ; for Claretie, like his friend Sardon,loves to poke about in bric-a-brac shops. On the chimney-plece is a bronze bust of the master ot the house; on the opposite wall {8a fine por- trait dedicated ‘a mon am}, Jules Claretie,” by Carolus Duran. The walls, hung with somber red paper, are Hterally covered signed by Le Roux, Vereschas ville, Detaiile, Cazin, Her Jules Dupre, who ts Claretie’s cousin, re, Millet, Corot, &c. Adjoining | salon, where the flowers and ULibelots the supremacy of ‘Madame,’ is a narrow long room, the ‘cabinet de monsieur,’ by no means the best room in the house. The furniture is of ebonised wood, very simple. By the side of the fireplace Is a bookcase filled with books and gocuments on the French Revolution, bound in tricolor vellum, red, white and blue, | for M. Claretie isa patriot above everything else. Amougst these volumes is a Cicero which belonged to Camille Desmoulins, and which has been annotated by the celebrated revolutionary. Then there are-more book-shelves; and then along one wall an office-table strewn with books and papers, conspicuous amongst which are a traveling clock, ticking in its leather case, and an agenda, with the day's and the week’s work laid out in red and blue pencil. The walls of the etudy are nung with pictures, and the panel over the writing-table is filled with @ multitude of small studies and sketches by all the noted contemporary French painters, many of them tributes of affection or gratitudeto Claretie the art-critle or to Claretie the bio- grapher, But where are the books? ‘Ah!’ ex- claims Claretie, ‘in these Parisian houses there 1s no room for books. We have to stow them away where we can;’ and, opening the door, he | shows us a long dimly-lighted passaze, some Ith pictures | 2, Ribot, De | Raphaelll, he er gave the wedding ring 0 the goltsmith’s hand, rave me.” he seid, “a tender thought Noda thls golden band.” ‘The gobi ells rang gladly out, nd sald, “O wife, Will share the grief, ines of life. 0 thee |. my heart, i Death us part.” "Twas she that lifted now his hand (© love, thet this should bet), ‘Then on it pliced the golden band, Ana Wh sper d, tenderiy “Ui Death us join, Lo, thou art 1m And I am tine My bon! T And when De: ‘Shiatl k jo'ns we never more bS BO power trot: will be thes and me fown the hit i sears > happlaes ear Last Alast That Deatl Such love can But one sud day she stood alone Beside his nurrow bed; Dering from Off her hand, tatth sai: ouz other words for me: ux j He took taken In Philadelphia to as- vortion of the youns men who les are native Amer: The in but t tes do. — in the Tn nearly all the trades ¢ ices were found Lo be much i ‘e. They But wh land. e rw they are wu and p e, Shere The printer 3 y hie boy. it app and writers « something fe never be! we you holda gu Fecellect the ke i band. Also run tow counts as mneh as high. tf it tsonly a tramp. ¢ devil has stocked the cards, but jist play ‘ema honest, and when It comes your deal yer beun’ ter wet a winnin' hand every ti : phit-hed Jist have tojump the look after a softer snap. Also, if you happen to turn Jack call It lucky, but don’t reulember that turr ing Jack is uncertain busine=s and'il never do to bet on.” “Dwo vos schoost enongh, tudt too ry," remarked Hans, w asked him to take her mother alo: the dance. ” ve was 1 bis girl im to. twenty feet long, lined on both sides from top to bottom with the major and minor French litera- ture of the last twenty years. Then thereare the dossiers for which a special set of drawershasbeen | made, the dossiers in which M. Claretie arranges | alphabetically his facts and notes about every- | } thing and everybody of iniportance, for_use in his weekly arti esin Ze Temps and L’Iillustra- | tion. Then there are books all over the house on all the tables, in all the rooms, on all the | pieces of furniture, and quantities ‘of English | bevels here and there, for Madame Claretie is | aninsatiable devourer of English fiction. In| the summer-house at Virotlay there js the same happy mean between order aud disorder, with | perhaps @ balance in favor of order—books and | papers every where,and toddling about amongst | tiem Monsteur Georges, the hope of the hou-e, | 4& young gentleman of some seven years of axe, with long © surlounding arosy face such as | Reynolds loved to paint. “But how does M. C retle manage to do so 2 Teview article: tof actice and | Tu the morning health ts tuken care of on rising by half an hour’s vigorons and four hours devoted steadily every writing, exclusive of the time devote ing, nol ing, and researches, suitice amply lucing the necessary amount ot ‘copy’ of nd: y M. Claretie is a manof medium aly and correctly dressed, and wear- ing the red ribbon of the L yn Of Honor in | his button-hole. He has hair, a black beard rather thinly planted, an amiable expres- | , and a broken nose, with a certain flatness ards the middle, which has enabled the cari- caturist, Ly a series of transformations similar to those which changed Louis Philippe into a pear. to arrive at a Claretie in the figure of a sleep, with the redeeming motto— * ‘Pour la douceur un mouton, Mats pour le talent un aigle.’ ” ~ 0 is Copper Poisonous After All? From the St. James’ Gazette, In this aze of rehabilitations one is hardly surprised to find the poisons—or what were deemed to be polsons—meeting with partisans. | M. Galippe, a French savant, has undertaken to | clear copper from the unjust imputation under | | which it has labored of possessing toxie prop- erties. He has been experimenting since 1875 | upon dogs with yerd!gris—bluestone and varions s of copper, and he has come to th an that “copper cannot cause fatal poi nd on its being objected that tl t he courageously proceeded Heuts on himself, cooked In. cop; erdigris, and he f Yurthermore, he has 0 ad copperif the liv of persons who have died fro: and his anaiyses of wheat, ch tury ihinitesine composition. Ti should not be lost ts OF are facts, he says, which zht ot in making post mor- se death has been attributed iz, and he believes that as led to more than one ——<+es—__ ays a correspondent, when the srvants was much reduced, two en and twenty, went to Villaze to “hire out.” The lady to they applied asked if they could cook. vin, we ain't never bin cook none.” “Can ou Washi ‘No'om, we ain't bin wash none ither; Aunt Sally, she wash.” “Can you clean | house, then?” “No’om, least we ain't never bin clean none.” And so 1 went through the whole , list of qualifications, receiving always the same | nesative answer.’ “Well, what In heaven's ne,” said _T, at@ast, “have you been accus- | tomed to do?" Lucinda’s dusky face bright- | ened. “Sukey, bere, she hunt for master’ sp and I keep files off ole miss!” . A estern paper says that the greatest war | since the time of Frederick, called “the Great," | Which Germany has undertaken, is Bismarck's | War‘against the American pig. | Fencing Js all the go in Paris just now, for ies as well ag mem, ‘ladies | railroad, ts of eit | where It cla | with bolts . | truss below in a great U shaped hook of A TRIP IN MID-AIR. A Triumph of Engineering—The Great- est Suspemsion Bridge in the World. “‘Gath” in the Cincinnati Enquirer. To-day I went over the Brooklyn bridge, which is not to be opened for about two months, and Is just passable for an adventurer. I am not sure that the figures about this bridge which I possess ate exactly correct, but they are the elder Roebling’s, who designed it. It is a suspension bridge, the span between the towers being 1,600 feet, or nearly a third of a mile. The approaches to the New York bridge supported by the cables are 940 feet long each, but beyond the anchorages there are huge causeways above the two cities of about 1,300 teet long on the New York side, and about 850 teet on the Brook- lyn side. The whole bridge, therefore, as I walked it to-day—going in at the gate in Brook- lyn. which ts rather on the top of @ hill, to the gate where I came out opposite the City Hall te New York—was 5,654 feet, or considera- ly more than one mile. No suspension bridge in the world bears any proportion to this East River bridge, either in length, weight, cost or general character and appearance. It is a gigantic moument, orrather tivo such monuments, connected by a stupen- dous net, and approached by tremendous yi duets. The approaches, eapectally on the New York side, are magnificent, being made of gran- ite and brick, the parapets’ in hewn granite cut in great sizes, and the galleries hewn out of the solid stone. The principal problems before the bridge- builder were to get his plers down Into deep water, and to raise the money out of two Jeal- ous and rather corrupt cities to carry on the work. Great coffer-dams had to be made and caissons sunk, not only through the water but through the quicksand and other deposits on the bottom to bed rock. I think that these two huge towers, which now seem to be connected with the shore, but were not so originally, etand something like eighty feet under the level of the tide, while they rise above it about 270 feet. The towers, therefore, are something like 850 feet high from where they bexin under the river to where they end, higher in the air than al- most any steeple, shot-tower, flag-staff or other object in either city. ‘ Each tower, as it stands up and down stream, is 134 feet long at the bottom by 56 feet wide. This is a prodigious mass of masonry. The bical quantity of stone in the two towers Is said to be nearly 63,000 cubic yards. The towers are not built solid, but hollow, and at their summit, 350 feet above their foundations, they are 120 feet wide by 40 feet thick. You could, therefore, raise on the summit of each ot these towers two houses side by side, each 20 feet wide and ex- tending backward 120 feet. Over these im- mense towers run four cables. It is said that the cables, with the bridge they suspend and all the people, railroad trains fully loaded, teams, &c., will weigh 4,758 tons, or in the neighbor- hood of 10,000,000 pounds. In short, an army of 75,000 soldiers, ready for battle, would weigh about as much as these bridge towers have to sustain in their extremity. The New York bridge floor 1s almost eighty feet wide, divided into five spaces. The engi- neer sald of this bridge when he designed It, six- “It will not only be the greate ge In existence, but it will be the great en- gineering work ot this continent and of the age. Its most conspicuous features, the great towers, will serve as landmarks to the adjoining cities, and they will be entitled to be ranked as na- tional monuments. As a great work of art and a successful specimen of adyanced bridge enzi- | ng, this structure will torever testify to the enterprise and wealth of that. Gommu- y ich shall secure its erection.” The bridge floor Is said to be 118 feet above hizh water. There may have been some changes in these figures, but I think not much. It fs also hard to into popular description the technical de- scription of engineers. In order to get on the bridze T had to wa! up a steep hill from the East river to 4th or street, and turning in there at the top of the hill Tcame to a huge ornamental iron house, the skeleton of which is Just up, and which seemed io me to_be something like 100 feet long, and Is to be, I suppose, the depot of the railroad company crossing the bridge. A much smaller depot is on the New York side, and not so far advanced. These cars are to cross on a second story of the bridge, so as to be above and out of the way, and that elevated railroad portion Is but partly finished. I gave pass at the gate, and was instructed to keep in the middle of the bridge on an asphaltum walk, till I should come toa ladder, and this I was di- rected to descend, and then take a half-finished board walk on the right and look out for holes. ‘The first hole to which I came before I got on the bridge proper at all gave mea view of peo- ple and wagons eo far down below me that I saw comparatively little of the bridge for some time, being engaged in looking for more holes. Although the ascent seems very gentle, It is like any reformation tn life, however alight, if continued long enongh ft carries the man to a retty high altitude. In a very few steps the own, whose level I had left, began to sink down, and very soon its hichest roofs were far below me. As I approached the river what seemed to be long and broad wharves I found to be the pebbled roots of warehouses and facto- ries. I had walked, it seemed to me, a third of ile before I discovered the cables at all, they pping below the bridze in order to get the proper dip toscale the towers. At the place * the ladder descended I found a crude n walk, Intended, I. tt r vehicles, the ontside of t! AsT un- dere! he ontside plac two spaces next within middle walk for pedestri Tailroad goes over the top of middl A wood: oc while the cable everything in the urge number of men were at work on the ter I left the viaducts and struck that Arnly suspended: yet from below tt had if nobody was t charcoal men ¥ bolts bine! fires alive to heat bolts to e driving, stants were supporting the blows. A multitude of nicn were paintin tion; and all of this bridge, except the tem- porary planking aud the wooden ties for the | er iron or steel, ron being used in enormous girders in the approaches a1 to span the streets. There was also a little | ariny of carpenters at work at temporary things. The bridge has been painted in the modern taste, with olive parapets, variegated with red or black. When I finally came to one of the great tow- ers it seemed even loftier and grander when I was within it than it looked fromthe ferry-voats on the river. ‘There are two magnificent Gothic arches in each tower, and the stone shaft be- tween them has to support two more cables. To stand within that huge arch of what seemed to be solid stune and look up at the lofty keystone made me dizzy, yet effectually destroyed the last lingering impression that there might be some- thing unsafe about the support. The towers looked as if they were almost eternal. The cable which so gracefully streamed out above seemed merely links of sausage strung between the houses of friendly Dutchmen. Indeed, the iron pendants from the cable seemed so slight and indifferent to their responsibility that Tlooked at them In some wonder, Near the towers, of course, these rods, which I presume to be also made of wire, were very long, and seemed to have the heicht of a very tall tree or flagstaff; then they gradually shortened as the bridge floor rose to the center, and the cables descended until one could examine the entire pendant from ved the cable like a ue while the! steel, on the threal of which the nuts had been worked dow or three teet. To look at the boats of all descripti ing underneath n some cases to the length of two NS pass- was to feel at once timid and have an ated sense of distinctness. Every ¢ on their decks, every function of life, “the moving of a cat or a dog, the long stride ofa sailor or the width apart of the feet ofthe man at the tiller, seemed very curious, while there was yet a propensity not to look. ‘The big steam ferry boats, which always seemed so still before, were now ‘seen to rock as it they were on a high sea. The movement of the top of a mast asit rolled with the vessel seemed to describe an are of remarkable length. Large schooners went underneath, and their masts yet seemed to be nowhere near, Another world was exposed from the center of the bridge. The prominent objects which J lad been familiar with in the two cities were hardly visible on account of the distance; while the larce sugar refineries, nianufactories and institutions I hardly knew of arose prodigiousty. Yet so broad, solid and sub- stantial was the work that he who kept his eyes off the water below him felt as secure there as if he had been in the middle of some turnpike. 1 observed with what diligence and fore- thought the telezraph people had stretched thelr cables of different kinds and telephone encasemeuts amid the open iron work of the fioors, where they seemed to be a portion of the structure itself. “The trains of cars are all built, 1 am told.which are to be run on the cable rall- Toad. The Brooklyn approach, J noticed as I came near New York, was of a different design trom that in the main city. ‘The New York par- apets are more claborats, but not so graceful and delicate in design. Although this bridge has cost something Tike €14,000,000, it shows very much of that money, particularly when one Considers that in the two cittes something like taroe-g of @ mile of the most le | pants were Urial Driges ] to the width of. to one hundrea foot had to be bought guSIERE fer apn After I came of the western tower and somewhat entered into New York I felt that I must have apy kind. The magnificent hegnt ofthe baild- ings in New York struck me at once as com- pared with the plain edifices of Brooklya. I seemed _Jike one who had come down a ravine, and suddenly foind himselt surrounded y tall mountains. Although I weft over this bridge in March weather, I did not percetve that the air wasat all strong, and it occufred to me that it would make one of the most beautifal promenades in the world tor persons wanting air, good sunlight, and freshening variegated scenes. From that height the river below becomes as blue and soft as Italian mountains, and every change In its surface made by river craft is some delicious variation of the tint, while the forms of boats, the sails, the fiags, the infinite variety of forms attending the river craft here give the mind a reat holiday. co. ‘The Soda Remedy in Burns and Scalds. It is now many years ago that the author, while engaged in some investigations as to the qualities and effects of the alkalies in inflamma- tions of the skin, ete., was fortunate enough to discover that a saline lotion, or saturated soiu- tion of the bicarbonated soda in either plain water or camphorated water, if applied speedily, or as soon as possible, to a burned or scalded rt, was most effectual in immediately relley- ing the acute burning pain; and when the burn was only superficial, or not severe, removing all pain in the course of a very short time; having also the very great advantave of cleanliness, and, if applied at once, of preventing the usual consequences—a painful blistering of the skin, separation of the epidermis, and, perhaps, more or less of suppuration. For this purpose all that is necessary 1s to cut a plece of lint, or old soft rag, or even thick blotting paper, of a size sutMetent to cover the burned or scalded parts, and to keep it con- stantly well wet with the sodaic lotion so as to prevent Its drying. By this means it usually happens that all pain ceases In from a quarter to halt an hour, or even in much less time. When the main part of a limb, euch as a hand or tore- arm or the foot and leg, has been burned, it is best, when practicable, to plunge the part at once into a jug or pall, or other convenient ves- fet fillea with the soda lotion, and keep there until the paln subsides; or the limb may bo swathed or encircled with @ surgeon's cotton bandage previ- ously soaked In the saturated solution, and kept constantly wet with it, the rellef being usually immediate, provided the solution be saturated and cold. Whatis now usually sold as bicarbonate of soda is what I have com- monly used and recommended, although this is well known to vary much In quality according to where it is manufactured; but it will be found to answer the purpose, although prob- ably Howard's Is most to be depended on, the common carbonate being too caustic. It is be- lieved that a large proportion of medical prac- titloners are still tnaware of the remarkable qualities of this easily applied remedy, which recommends itself for obvious reasons.—F. Pep- percorne, in Popular Science Monthiy. —— ——++-____ Marriage of an Aged Couple. From tho Lockport,Journal, March 19. The marriage of an aged couple was per- formed Saturday afternoon on Bouek avenue, near Niagara stieet, Black Rock. The partiel- a respected cltizen of Tonawanda, 81 years of age, and Mrs. Bedell, mother of Ossian Bedell, superintendent of the western divi years old. This is Mr. Driggs’ third wife, he having been left a widower twice. The bride and groom have known each other since child- hood, but there was no interchange of sentiment before their first inartiages, although they were always very friendly. Mrs. Bedell and Mr. Drigas were both deprived of thelr first spouses at about hesame time, and ashort courtship followed, but the widow then thought it best not to marry so soon after her husband's death. The widower wedded again and Mrs. B dell ved on alone until yesterday. The groom having again become a marringeable man, the courtship was renewed and ripened into marriage. As one of his daughters said: ‘This {s father’s second love but his third mrrriage.” ze —<—— The Mzxryland Colony. ‘T. W. Higginson, in Haeper for April. The men ct the Maryland settlement also called themselves, like those of Plymouth, “Pilgrims,” but the name had not come to them by such arduous experience, and it has not at- tached itself to their descendants. The Roman Catholics and others who came to “Mary’s Land” in the Ark and the Dove in March, 1634, under Leonard Calvert, named their first settle- ment St. Mary's In honor of Queen Henrietta Marla, and they called themselves “the Pil- grims of St. Mary's.” The emigration was made up very differently from those which John Smith recorded in Virginia, for it cousisted of but twenty gentlemen” and three hundred Ia- boring men. They came under a charter granted to George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, who had for many years been trying establish a colony, which he called “Avalon,” much farther north, and who had grown, In the words ot a letter of the period, “weary of his intolerable plantation at Newfoundland, where he hath found between eight and nine months’ winter, and upon the land nothing but rocks, lakes, or morasses ke boga, which one might thrust a pike down to the butt-head.” But he died be- fore the new charter was signed, and was suc- ceeded by his son Cecil, the second Lord Balti- more, who fully adopted his father’s plans, and fully defrayed the cost of the first expedition, Zz 440,000. sts a graphic account of the yeyage Maryland éettiers by Father White, their chapixin, in bis report to his religious suc periors ai me. He describes with delicht his first ascent of the Potomac river, ot which he says, ‘The Thames itselfis a mererivulet to it,” and when he reaches the St. Mary’s river. where the colony was founded (: 27, 1684), he says. “The finer of God is in this, end He pur- posessome great benefit to this nation.” He might well say that, for the career of the early Maryland colony was peaceful, tolerant, and honorable. It was the most nearly independent and self-governing ot the early colonies, the King asking nothing of it but two Indian ar- rows each year, and one-fifth of its gold or silver. It was called “the land of the sanc- tuary;” a!l Christians were tolerated there, though it did not, Ike Rhode Ieland, ex- pressiy extend ts ‘toleration beyond Chris- tianity. By degrees it passed under the charge of Puritans from Virginia, who proved them- selves less liberal to Roman Gatholics than the latter had been to them. But ail working to- gether laid the foundation ofa new communit; sharing in some respects the pursuits and desti- nies of Virginia, but more peaceful, and at times more prosperous. How They Swent the Boys. From the Philadelphia Record. “While Iwas in Washington a few days ago and sitting inthe court where the star route cases were being tried, I was curious enough to inquire how the lawyers for the defense of Brady, Dorsey & Co. were paid. That fs, how inuch each man received for his smartness and the cute remarks which are telegraphed all over the country every day. I was paralyzed nearly when Isaw the ficures, and it takes great deni to paralyze me. Bob Ingersoll has pocketed £50,000 already. Wilson tol!owa him with 10,000 1 Dayidee, the funny man, hax scooped In $80,0¢ and Gen. Henkle, who fs the president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, fights for his clients with a fee of $40,000 in his pocket. Now, are not such fleures as those enough to lead a, young man on? It ia about feven times more than;the smartest editor or reporter in Philadelphia receives for wearing out his life ina cood many years. But now you ask a pointed question when you Inquire how a lawyer rates bis fees. There 13 no rule. He gen- erally gauses the size of his client's pocket- book. Why, the defense in the star route cases has ‘cost more than €200,000, and the lawyers and their followers have gobbled the most of It. If the defendants are convicted, Ingersoll and the rest will shed a few teare, shake the men by the hand, bid thein an affectionate good-by and leave them at the cell door. At the same time Bob will turn on his heel before he leaves them and quietly inform the convicted men that a few more dollars will carry their case toa higher court. |. Any one who has been unfortunate enough to deal with lawyers will see the force of this remark. Ags drowning, men catch at straws, so do lawyers jump at fees. No reflec- tion upon the men of' the bar; it is their bust- hess, and if they win their reputation grows. ——___4, ‘Trath Fresh from Alabama. From the Monroe Journal. It is of the gaming table we would speak. Tt makes thieves. It makes defauiters, It makes suicides. It breaks hearts, wrecks char- acter, blasts hopes and destroys manhood. —————roo——_- x: “Brown-eyed daisies ee a fleld of cream” is what a western poet freckies on the face of a pretty girl. a boat of jon of the Erie canal, who is 75} FRANK AND CLEAR, Having Admitted the Stremgth ef the Evidence, an Eminent Physician ‘Takes Logical Action. ‘The following letter tells its own story. The signa- tare will be recognized as that of the Physician-in-Chief of the De Quincey Home, and suthor of ‘*Drugs That Enslave," ‘* The Hypodermic Injection of Morphine,” “A Manual of Nursing," and many other popular and valuable special medical works: 191 West Texrn Srxecr, New Youx, August 11, "sad. ‘Masens. Stacey & Jonxson: Gentlemen: Like most of my profession, I am cau- tious about pinning my faith to any new medicine or curative agent. But your BENSON'S CaPCINE POROUS PLASTER has broken through the barners and won {ts way to my good opinion, My attention Was first oalled to it some eight mouths ago by « patient ef mine. Although I was well acquainted with the superior excellence of your other plasterand antiseptic dressing, made especially for the profession, the Ben- son's was comparatively new tome. I had heard, how- over, of its merits as a remedy, in cases of Lame Back, Loca: Rheumatism, Nouralzia, Congestion of the Bron- chiai Tubes and Lungs, Dyspepsia, Torpid Liver and the like affections, and have since begun to experiment with {t personally. I find BENSON'S CAPCINE PLASTER an exceptionally cloanly plaster to use, and rapid in its action, Many tests of its qualities, made in my own family and among my patients, have convinced me that there is no other single article so valuable for popular use, nor so helpful in the diseases I have named. Should you desire todo so, you may use my name to that effect, Very truly yours, H.W. KANE, A M., M.D., The genuine have the word CAPCINE cut in the cen- ter. Price 25 centa, Seabury & Johnson, Chemists, New York. mh24 Asrovsprxe Discovery. McKEONE'S GREAT LATHER 80AP. ‘This Soap has been examined by the best analytical chemist in the United States and pronounced by him = marvel in soap-making. ‘He was surprised at its purity and extraordinary qual- ity, and even with all Lis knowl-dge of chemistry, won- ders how we ever produced such a supremely perfect article. We shall be pleased to furnish any person with his name and a copy of the ana'ysis upon application. ‘The very appearance of McKzons's Grear LarHEen Soar will indicate to the least experienced person that it is different from anything they hayeever wecn. It will do three times as much work as any other soap; dues not melt or waste away in water; dries immediately upon being taken out of the water, and is the most eco- nomial soap you can use, Send at ones to your grocer and get acake of McKgonr's Gagar LaTHER Soar, and givo it a fair trial, bearing in mind the fact that you are using an article the like of which was never pro- Guced before, and be careful to note its peculiarities, For full and special directions for the use of this Soap read carefully the circular in which each cake is wrapped. Mannfactured by THE CHAS. McKEON? & SON SOAP MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, Wholesale depot in Baltimore: WM. H. CRAWFORD &CO., 77 Exchange Pace. 10-s&ewTt = New Dyscovrry Tx Meorcrve. [PORTANT NOTICK. ‘Will curein 48 boetea Geen of the orcans in either sex without inconvenience otany ind, GRIMAULT & CO.,8, Rus Vivienne, Paris. ($a22-whkaly Pore Asp Isvovrara. : ‘Those who may wish to purchase, elther as a delicious beverage or for medicinal purposes, an unadulterated Whiskey, are invited tomakea trialof The celebrated U OUPppPP PPP FER TTTT ERE NN W bbe Ee kat p Pre vw Ww Tl sS85g K EFR Y Y¥ We"w oH HT Sess8 Bc Eee F ‘This Whiskey, upon an analytical examination, bas proved tobe FREE from Fusil Oil, and indeed of any of the modern ingredients which are used to give a fio- titlous age and flavor to this popular drink, For sale by BROWNING & | BARBOUR & HAMILTON, J. B. BRYAN & BRO. ana | “emlaston, D. C. B, W. REED'S SONS, | H. & H. W. CATHERWOOD, THILADELPHTA, $al8-78t BOLE PROPRIETORS. Ligquvors. HEALOUARTERS FOR FINE OLD RYE WHIs- EYs, MARYLAND CLUB A MONTICELLO °77, BAKER, OLD GROW, KOYAL CABINET, IRISH AND SCOTCH WHISKE, BEDFORD BUM, JAMAICA RUM. PIPER HEIDSIC CHAMPAGNE, BASS ALE ON DEAUGHT AND BOTTLED, GUINNESS’ POR- TER ON DRAUGHT AND BOTTLED, YOUNGER'S SCOTCH ALE, BOT- TLED, HOLLAND GIN Wan). E. C. KNIGHT, 2732 Pennsylvania avenue, Das G. Hare & Coxrasy, NO, 934 F STREET NORTHWEST, SOLE AGENTS FOR LOW’S TILES. A LARGE STOCK CONSTANTLY ON HAND, mh9-2m fels Gas Cooxixe Stoves, FOR SALE AT THE. GASLIGHT OFFICE, TENTH STREET. ou) Buszors Casrnonrse, Ui -enres CHAPPED, ROUGH SRDS, chageth TEATION, ancsenasre tee Skin Elastic. Sold entirely ite merits. it, and if not pleased return the and hyve your money refunded. “Price 250. per bottie, L. C. BISHOP, Droggist, f10 780 Oth street. corner Hi strest northwest. Now Reavy. SPRING STYLES, GENTS" DRESS SILK HATS, at $5, $6, $8. ‘New Shapes, Derby's and Square Grown HATS. JAMES Y. DAVIS’ SONS, 21 Pennsyivanis eveaus, AUCTION SALES. THIS AFTERNOON. Boourt of the Disteioret Sean tn couse Rea . AUCTION SALES. JDPPCANSON Bnos.. 4 i ON @ STREET NORKIHWEST, ON WASHINGTON. STREET, ON M STREET NORTH, DELAWARE AVENUE, TRIRD STREET BAST, ON K STRERT NORTHWEST, ON M STREET SOUTH, AND ON H STREET NORTHWEST. virtue of a deoree of the Supreme Court, D. oj rqly Cue Se Lont veo" ine et al. we will well 2 Sy pee we henry hyd “> Boone ncarate ad geatars, ee Bande aes Bie | Prowse a te kicee flee 7 equare No. S18. fhis Lot fronte 176 teet te on Street northwest, opposite the new Pension and wii be eo.d ib seven courenicut paroals, each 252100 feet. And on FRIDAY, the SIXTH APRIT, at FIVE P, M., in front of the jteminee, we will sell Lot No. es ‘the sub of lot 3, in This ot fronts on wore a wil Le sold tp te pam inxton etreet 146 1 ccls, each SX100 foot, On SATURDAY, SEVENTH APRIT. at FIVER. ju front of the preinises, we will sell Lote Now. & 6, 11, 12, 19.and 14, in square 748, on M north, avenue and on Sd treet east. ag ‘the Th ‘seul irt Of maid aquare, recorded in Be folio 319, one of the records in the of the District of Columbia, ‘Terme of sale: One-thi one and two the el, Sonrersue re B18, ‘chaser’s cost. |ARRY M PAYNE, Tr fy z = 452 Louisiana avenue, DUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. mhl7-10t HOS. J. FISHER & CO.. Real Estate Auctioncers. TRUSTER, SALE OF BOXLES HOTEL, Nos. | | On TURSDAY, TENTH APRIL, at FIVE P. 3. 52 AND $4 C STREET NORTRWEST, AND THE | frout of tne premises, we will moll Lots Nos Sh, ADJOINING PAOPERTY, NOS. 58 AND 68 C | Lots Nos. $7 to 4l inclnrive, apd Low Now aa b> STREET. clusive, in the *quare No. 769, ob By virtue of a deed of trust, recorded tn Liber, on alley in au No. 8:8, folio $17, of the land ‘Teoorde of the Die ware. +VENTH PRT. st tbe wont ball ofot Ne trict of Columbia, anc at the juest of the holder 3 of the note secured thereby, T will sel at pute auction, the buildt om, on in front of the premises, on WEDNESDAY, the | aineet north, tl 4th streets west. and TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH, 1883, at F'VE | SIX O'CLOC WE DAY, tn trout of pret O'CLOCK P.M., allof Lot No. 10, in square M43, with tle tmprovemelta, om tn the city of Washineton, D. C., with the i dnt. and Menta, consirting of two three- Buildings | Ou THU! iWHE PIM APRIL, at FIVE Peed ens Hoel, which will be w0.d sea whole, aud two | M-- the wear 5 f lowe Now. 8, @, 10 and 1, im Frame Dwe'lin, be sold separately. subdivision of jot No. 4, in square S18, with improwe. ‘erms of sale: ‘h, and the balance at TATELY THERFAPTER, lot ‘and twelve months, for which the notse of the 517, with the improvements, on Ser, with interest from the day of sale, secured of trust, and policy of insurance on the a ‘will be taken, or ali cash, at the option of f 3 A deposit of $500 will be required at time of sale from the purchaser of the hote) property, and of $20) from the purchaser of each of the other poroels. and assessments will le he purchase money. If termes of sale are not comp! with iu seven days the Trustee reserves the right to resell the prop- erty, ou five days! notice by advertiseiient, aud ost of the defaulting purchaser. at cost of the purchaser, mbi-s, tu, thisds Sur UNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. TRUSTEES SALE OF IMPROVED PROPERTY, ON TWENTY-SECOND STREET WEST, BEL WEEN By virtue ot s dead of ¢ tise dite the 158 day of, Virtue ot a deed of trust, di s aly A. D. asta and duly econied in Liber Ne feq., Of ict of Columtia, and by direction of the party red at time of sale, whiten tof » deposit of $109 &e., ut purchyte t. 7H. JESCP MILLER,? _mb23-dkae ALAN A. DALY ) (UABLES W. HANDY, Real Betate Age PUBLICSALF OF THF BRICK DWELLIN: Xo. 936 E No. STRLET SOUTHWEST din fet of Cumbia wie for mieten {SRE pride Froth ground lying tn Washineton « ity, D.C. a fromt of the premises on | number twe 25), in aqtiare nun 6 NT TA DAY OF | bundred and eich 89), with the improvem AE Tue HOUR OF FIVE i Hinge rave Bina sal a ak balance tn — ‘- 5 of » the following extate, | dw: cont situate inthe city of Washington, Dintrict of Columbia, | “Yerantof mains neti aed towit: Part ot Lot numbered ten, in square number Stalments at xix (6) and twelve (12) months, seventy, beginning for tho same twenty focteightanda | tharertesive his, unten Yor the adelee it at Ralf inches north of the southwest corner Lot; | hearing invert nt x par cent aud s-cured bp ¢ ded trust on the property. $00 down at time of sale. Game ee thence running nth twenty feot eigit and sb Anches; east one hundred and sixty-two foet five inches to an alley; eouth twenty. feet eivht and a half inches, and thence west to the Place of bexinning, improved by two story dwellings in front and rear. Veyancing at cost of Et NE CARUSI, Avatj 3... COLDWELL, Auction. hah kas ‘Terms of exle: One-half of the amo nt to be paid in . = canny the balabice Si Dotes at 8 ex and twelve son IHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. Tie Gis eavatty or anak Stas ee ane | Seneveze sare oF ValnAerae reat mere Ontion, Adejoutof #5 willbe rcqurelat thetime of | | ON THE NOKIN Sila Ul Mate sul. If terms of sale are not compiled with insrven | = BETWEEN SIX OH AND SEVENTH STREE Gays from day of the Truscess reserve the rurht to WEST, AT AUCTION. at the risk and Cost of the defauiting purchaser. All conveyancing gnd reconting at purchaser's Oost, By virtue of a deed of trust to the underst; pearing cute Mur: 1834, and duly reeorded im Liver No. 743, GR of the lend recorder of the District of Colurt at thereby secured, we wil of the premuines, SIXUH, A 2508 G street nortliwest. ml4, 16, 19, 21,23, 26,28 TO-moRKow. ALTER B, WILLIAMS & O., Auctioneers. TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF FIN THS, CASSTMERES AND SPKING BUL G, AT AUCTION jaxT00% ne assortine Spring Suiting French Cloths, Cassimeres, of the Intest and most desirable patterns, being the stock of = Tr wit are not compiied with le the Truxtoe * from date ielit to Tencll the prope Cefoulting purchaser on fi anciaa: chant Tailor retiring from busi. ess, and worthy the risk and cow! i Sand private buyers, as the stock will notice in « Star, Convey ef to. purchaser's cost. cust. MAHLON ASHFORD, mh6-A8tkeokite JUHN I. MITCHELL, § Trosteas, f#- AT RFQUTST OF THOSE INTERES’ suit. B. WILLIAMS & CO., Aucts, JD EXCANSON BROS., Anctioncers, EN’, YOUTHSY BOYS AND cHIEDrENS | MATH Seaman BONDS, AE EN"! *, BOYS’ AND CHILDREN és S83, watne hour and ENE TOUTS THING ASUPOKD & MITCHELL, ‘Trustows, AT AUCTION. Qn THURSDAY MORNING, NINTH, at TEN O'CLOCK, wo will sell, within our Salerrooins, 9th and D streets northwest, ‘stock of the mh, 31kap7.9 MARCH TWENTY- » to which attention of buyers is called. cane Court of the Di t 1 will well at UCTION SALE OF FORFEITED PLEDGES. | fale, for cus ytd court house aver Dietriet a op TURSDAY, THE THIKD DAY OF APRIL, Qu THURSDAY, MAUCH TWENTY-NINTH, and | at TWELVE (CL CK M~ all the right tite clei FRIDAY, MARCH THIRTIETH, 1843, a} 7:30 p.tn., int f th ndat FRIDAY, M TH Bie oi ad interest Of Que slofendiiut in aad to the followiuge eke all pledges forfeited by non- ytlou, oonuist- a singular a — ents there Jewelry, Diamonds, Silver and Plate’ Ware, B." Anderson, to satiety execution Ne, aE, Guns and a Ginesen, Pipes, Valiso, | at law, jeury ley, res, Lastest and Geuts Ciothing; | StA™. tt favor of Henry C. pieces Sicnaen CLAYTON onl ICH THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. 1 ‘will please take notice. STEINEM BROS. For Other Auctions See Sth Page. KR, Auctonecr, —=— = gop byt FAMILY SUPPLIES, | 66 AVAGES, WAGONE HutaSt, ce CEH Ere | Warne Swax. iG Day, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNING, SDEMESGIRG, diaten O'CLOCK REGARD: Constantly on hand and at private rale a large stock of | THE. HIGHEST GRADE OF MINNESOTA SPRING Now ang Second band Bugyies, Carriaves, £x- | © WHEAT PATENT PROCESS FLOUR MADE jagons, ‘advances on consignments. “fs an IN THE WOKLD. Give ita trial, = GEO. E. KENNEDY & SON, 1209 F STREET NOR(HWEST. (OMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. IMPROVED PROPERTY ON WEST SIDE OF EENTH STKEET, BEiW. He CHORD | We make @ specialty of “01d Government Jaw STREETS NORTHWEST, AT AUCTIO On MONDAY AFTER SOON, APEAL SELOND, ped bd 1883, AT FIVE O'CLOCK, in front of the I shail eeil lot 45, in square 110. Improved by a frame dwelling, located as above. 66 or rr Tx New Nonrawesr= Terms: One-third cash; balance at oneand two. ae with notes interest and secured by .m deed NEW Enterprise. NEW Store. NEW Goode, trust. £100 deposit will be required at time of sale. All| NEW Clerks. x Custeacers. NE Sy conveyancing at purchaser's cost. ‘This property rents NEW Yetrigernt for $10 per month, and is wold clesr of all encumber: | An immense eivck « shoes, P mbi7-dkds THOMAS DOWLING, Auctionser, | ““Ad@ new to 0! a eae The nest ie td & Loves 3 URTEEN PUF- | m3 20 Tr STREKTS NORTHWEST, aT avo | =2™ sen To TION. ‘ S, ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH THR, 10 Cars Besr_ Scoan Cor: TIETH, AT FIVE O'CLOCK, Wwe will sell in fro. I5ibs. LIGHT BROWN Stale of the premises, 13 Ibs. TURKISH PRUNE LOT T, IN SQUARE 211, having a front of 20 fé:ton Lhode Iniaud avenue, This Jot is in one 0: the znost rapidly improving rections or city, and parties ig tO oF for investuent shouid attend the sale. ‘Terms: One-third cash: balance in one and two years, ‘Rotes to bear int y of trust on terest, to be secured by deed vrem'ses, OT all at option of purcharer. Poult of $100 required at Conveyauct Tbs. BEST ITALIAN MAC 21 dhs. WHITE (A) SUGAR, 4 Ibs) CHOICE ROAST COF n " Bebb. FATENT PROCESS PLOUL vi GEO A. O'HARE, Grocer, 123 1213 Tth etrect northwest, bet. Maud N, purchaser's cost. | Term fo be comp ied w ¥ B C a my otherwise the right reser resell at pur- ston Orcvsn otherwise, the rig fs OST CUMBERS, DUNCANSON BROS8., Auctioneers, DPNCANSON BOS. “Auctioncers, TRUSTEES SALE OF CHURCH BUILDING AND Lots, ON MIMIBESTH BERD ETE Bate PARP Q STRESTS NORTHWEST, ar avc ON. aby {ittic of m deed of trast, dated March 10,1881, duly recorded in Liver No. 964, folio 341, Br cad one of the iand records for Washi: Boston Tomastoos, Boston Lettuce, Filadelphia Capona, Fresh Salmon, ‘Freel PALACP MArEET, FEANK J. TIBBETS, NOTICE TO HOUSEKEEPERS: ERR avle hve years atter drte. ‘Terune of sale: $1,860 and interest at 7 per cent. from Jone 10, 1882. Taxes and expenss of aie balance in one and two yorrs from diy of sale. bear interest. and to be secured by deed of trust on veyancing, &o., at cost of bd with im oven dave from acy of ‘seven ¥ the right to resell the t at the rie and coat of the d-fauiding yurcharer ore : in Waahingion, D. 6. WILL ALWAYS MAKE BCAUTIFUL ROLLS, ¥F. E. MIDDLETON, Be Wholeate Deo READ ARD BISCUITS. holesale Depot, coruer let street and Iu Miana avenue, jel WM. M. GALT & Co. ‘Trustee, [\HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. Fre: MUT TOS, Sonwen Bree a“ ABPLCIALTY. "7 s) Pten 629 and 620 Canter Market, 9% etrest: VN a “ Ls end0e suk 508 ‘Rertheca Ibert aiscten ee hale Oriole 63 tad 68 Foon Tete} ieee Beet Bee Th. City Kost Omtice. Sige of Trederiek winect, by a deyth cf 107 fect tn 24 a, Gsheesd sent change > etuertet an street, iuuproved by a two-story aud mansard rick | HY welling, containing ones, ee, ge ys — oe a hleneice ae rp Mavcorennea te with lace brick wa sa PROFESSIONAL. ——— ‘SLYUL FEET PROMOTE HUALTH AND LON- ence the thousands from far and ‘establinbt BITE" mii7-d&ds NHOMAS E. WAGGAMAN, T Pale other compiaiuts of foot. . Hahod 1861, Iueters to te ont sachet esa an TRUSTEES BALE OF VATATABLE miprovep | Sai Ofice foe $1 ger vasit tory WES, AND No: 10S FESNULLVERA ER Ce . ny NORTHWEST. i al S.Vecn, — rrexen coxrecrioxerr, se pasa, pON-BONS and CARAMELS manufactured from Poe «cp day at ve