Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1883, Page 6

Win a frill of lace down front—collar and cuffs THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. SATURDAY. M FASHION WR! GACES PASHIONANER—THE PARIS BLUE—X WeItIncs—THE DOTTED VEILING — NOVEL— SIRS OF THE SPRING TRADE, ETC. KLES. Tuts Is to be a lace season. All kinds of laces are fashionable. Tuis isto be a button season. All kinds of buttons are fashionable. See the attractive novelties advertised in to-day’s Star. Brocavep silks have not gone out of vogue. Buttons are small for dresses, large for ‘wraps. Tue palm-leaf pattern crops out in all thenew goods. Comerxations in Vogue as ever. Sitveer spangled tulle is much worn in Paris for ball dresse ; costumes are as much in are made eccentric and irregu- lar In the draping. Postii.tox ba Fale in b: Sovracur, and passementeriecome out in new forms and patterns. New Khiba cloths of light weight come in fine checks in the new colors. Yetver ribbons are revived for trimming eashmeres, silks and novelty fabries. SEVERAL or two rows of small buttons down the front of the dress remain in favor. Tur new Freneh buntings come with silk brochee fizures in Louis XIII. designs. Tue ibis, lotus and other yptian designs are features 1m spring goods of the finest grade. Ciasrs on the collars and in the neck of dresses take the place of bryoches and lace 4. and points in front are the mes. VELVET waistooats let Into the front of silk and wool basques will be a feature in new su OnaNGe and flame colors in vanishing effects | are seen in many of the new silks and novelty goods. New mulls and silk muslins are dotted and figured in silk brochee spots, dots, diamonds, flowers and leay Tux: ibis, in sampler feature on the new Frene JACKETS of V Diue will be worn. tri and small gilt button: Tne lonz nurse apron front, with paniers above it a spring e teh embroidery, 1s a eambric rob of the new royal French med with gold soutache spring festal wear is of white veiling, closely dotted with silk brocade dots. New Cura Cra of the finest quality are red, by hand, of course, in Palm-leat and other Oriental fieurgy Waistcoats of all kinds, Dire XIV., Continental. and D’Orsay Louis in high re nd begli large dots on the dots in checked alrie in Oriental and | white or tinted gro’ effects woven into the artist lors. New Vertrxes comé in lovely shades eream and pure white, with dots, wheels, feathers, flowers, and leaves in small detached brocaded fle +A Hien Noventy flne wool and siik whieh the fi as to produce en in New York is a uu? called fabric, in e woven in such a manner ‘a vanishing effect. Tue latest importations of brocaded silks Otteman grounds with satin and plain silk de: nd conventional, Renes, with In- . Wurre Ixpia CasuMen f and other Oriental de- ashn reali signs, are out this s Tobe. Exanroere as bati-te, h eambri . ineludin np Ninen threads in all the Ori- of fine, strong at in the h beads of graduated » new colors combined with Hots: Dresses for ceremonious occasions, | wach as déjeuners a la fowrchette, five o'cloek | i teas, and we are made of the new Louis silks in Oriental | colors. with van trimmed with v A Prevry Far parts of Khiba el mired s vet ribbot intended for Jackets, and Suits ‘ists of the ad- checks in the Khiba cloth colors and ns for the crounds, while on the sur- small brocaded velvet leaves, in dark, Tich shades of maroon, green, olive aud brown. THe w Bu over which Paris has gone wild is a bright clear shade just one remove and about the color of the blue n by the Kings of England and France in the re ‘y V. of England. It is called royal Freneh bine, and is very beau- tiful, but not esthetic in the modern sense of the word. Tue newest Pekins have three narrow stripes of satin, alternatinz with a wide stripe of Otto- man silk. Handsome skirts are made of this | material, and they require no trimming unless | it be a doub! of ravelled silk, g' ME oj t to the edge of the skirt, | ctive and appropriate | when the ekins are in light evening tints, TRANSPARENT French mull is much used for handkerchiefs decorated with tied work and simply edged with a slizhly gathered rufle of Oriental lace. In one corner is a finely-em- broidered wreath of white-silk 8, andin the center of tis wreath is the initial, which must be worked very small, as large kerchief mono- | grams cr initials are out of fashion, and now | only congjdered appropriate for marking bed and ta! n. Tax Overskint is In vogue. Over a@round shirt. either with woven or embroidered designs—in the latter case being quite plain, and in the former laid in straight pleats—ts | worn & very full tunic, gathered or pleated at | the waist, and caught up again above the knee, | 8o as to form regular and bouffant pleats. This tunic is a little longer in front than at the sides, and behind is lost under the drapery of the = A broad ribbon knotted together, with z ends falling on the sides, forms the trim- ming. The waist, of course, is round, and is Pleated or gathered. Cnevior flannels, stripes or fine plaids, either of two shades of the same color or contrasting hues, wil! be as popular this spring for constant wear as the plain flannel and serges. The un- derskirt is laid in wide box-pleats, with the hem | turned up on the right side to the depth ot four inches, and headed with a piping of cardinal exactly the shade of one of the dashes of color in the plaid. The hem is pressed to lie very flat. 8 of the tunic are strikingly grace- ful, and above this tunic Is a jaunty little Moor- Jsh jacket-bodice, fastened with gold buttons in old medal designs. Somx of the new undergarments are lovely. In a trou recently prepared one of the night dresses had the entire tront formed of alternatins rows of fine French needlework on Mnen cam an inserting of linen lace. to match front. Angther had tucked front,with Jabot of lace down front and frill of the same on sleeves and in neck, loops of white satin ribbon. Watteau pleats were in the back of both of these Tux Latest novelties In artificial flower house decorations are palettes, shields and panels thickly studded. with small flowers all of one kind, violets, heliotrope, white jasmine or my- esotis, while on these ‘grounds, at points that are determined by an artist’s eye, are fastened one or two sprays of large flowers, a rose and | half a dozen cas | were told “to turn to the — QUID TREASURES UNDER GROUND. What isto be Seen and Tasted London W: Vaults. The wine vaults of London, writes a corre- spondent, are not to be seen every day or by | every person. The guide books give no ade- | quate description of them, and, indeed, their Listory, the methods under which they are run and their conduct are not to be learned for the asking. The other day I was fortunate enough to secure a “tasting order,” and I, id company with one or two others, made a tour of some vault. Isaw over 5,000.000 packages of port and sherry, over 1,000,000 of claret and 500,000 of spirits. They were in vast tuns, hogsheads, casks and barrels, and the total amount in stor- age was 260,000,000 galions, In fact, there were six and a half gallons for every man, woman and child of the population of Great Britain. Some of ft had been in store for years. The owners had forgotten about it, and the old and moldy had rotten away at their chines and had been several times replaced. One lot of 1,000 gallons of sherry had been in the vaults for nearly fifty years. It was brought from the south of Spain by its owner, who had allen dead in the vaults. The wine, along with his other property, had passed intocheneery. and the litigation, which has continued tor nearly half a century, is as far from being ended apparently, as when St began. But the wine has been yrowing old and valuable, and, if sold now, would probably bring five guineas a gallon. The fact is, that wine rarely gets as old-as it is credit ‘h, and there is but little sherry or age than 1879 to be had, very high indeed. The ority of still wines in common use are not more than two years old and a glass of sherry that has been in wood two years and bottled tive or mote is a rare treat. Tr PROFESSIONAL “TASTER.” All this we are told by the veteran taster of the London dock wine yauits, a man who grades wine in the same way and with the accuracy that a taster grades teas. His services are in continual demand, and he travels all over th British islands to respond to the calls for his labors. He can detect the slightest differenci in the qualities of liquors, and can locate every brand of. champagne in the country of its growth, He formerly exercised his wonderful faculty upon hard liquors, but tound that this destr¢ i his taste for fine wines. But more of him and hi later on. Let me explain that these vaults are si great cellars under the dock-houses. In create some thirty acres. xtend under the Tham one under Tower Hill on the other. They side and well They are about sixteen feet from floor to roof, and are by h asses bonde leave their propert They ‘nment, and owners in them as long as the without paying customs duties. The pac ages are accessible at any time, and tas quantities may be taken from any cas cost of tapping each package is eighteen ce, so, there! e, tasting orders are not left ying around. owner, who them coo only an Ei number of items, among npling, rating aud so on, as wishman Knows hoy agony of costs. The storaze is, of course, under the charze of government o but the ex- none the less oppre ecause they ach owner has space allotted to ng to his necessities, and hia wines are skidded upon each oth@r, tier on tier, to the top of the vaults. It is the boast of the vault hands that they can go direct to any part ot the uits and put their hands upon any eask that y be named, without looking on the barret for marks, I dares but my own exp their Knowled, and iocaliti tonishing. SUPPLYING 1,000,000 Daly WaNTs The tasting orde! admitted us were tor of sherr d port belong- to the stores of the ‘west firm of caterers ver their b at thre r of Teiis in London, to over 1,000,000 of wineand liquor, eraphy ot the different pa portation is much tmore than elsewhere, whisky, is the favorite tipple, bitter beer, gin and port be! ers in a little dark ty desk, to a dark-faced, <, who appeared to be st like his surround- toeach of usand we izht, down st: . A long, narrow flight of w ‘orn stone steps, that have been in constant use since 18¢ opened before our view, and at their foot we dim twinkling lights that flickered fittully, as if ina struggle to overcome the fumes of the wines that came up the stone channel like a | breeze from a distillery. It was warm, rich with the odor of the wines, and musty and | moldy. A sniff of It wasn’t half bad, but you will remember the tate of the Persian esthete who had his choice of death: “To die amid sweet perfumes,” he said. So they chucked him into a hogshead of ottar of roses and he ex- pired in great agony. THE GROTTOES OF BaCcuUS. At the bottom of the flight of steps the guide met us, a tall, broad-shouldered, ruddy cockney, who handed us each a lard-oil lamp fastened to a straight stick about eighteen inches long. He began by asking usif any one was a teetotaler. None of us were. ‘‘Because,” said he, “if you don’t take a drop of something on yourstomacn you'll get screwed because of the smell.” He drew a glass of sherry for each of us out of a big cask near the foot of the steps. It was a heavy, full-bodied wine, with a rich, nutty flavor. and an aftermath like leather smells. It had been hung in leather skins over one season, having been the last made and too late for the regular wine harvest, but it was good for all that, and ‘wery mellowin’ to the horgans.” Turning then sharply to the lett, the vaults spread out before us in vast underground acr we. Lights twinkled here and there, moldy were engaged in moving the packages at some places, and down the long passage under the Thames the polished steel skids for riding a barrel stretched in narrowing perspective till they joined -apparently in one, and flashed on under the line of lights above them. The air was uncomfortably warm, and the general im- pression was that everything wa3 musty. The air was moist and seemed to be filled with an impalpable mold that one could feel but not see. By this time we had penetrated the vault some distance. Above us on one side rolled thetraftic of the street; on the other we heard the plash- ing wheels of the Thames steamboats as, with mellow beat, they plowed the waters that flow over half of the vaults. The constriction of the first vault was irregular. At intervals of every twenty feet vast pillars, either of stone or iron, supported the roof. These pillars, where the are regularly placed, form great galleries which reach for halfa mile. The galleries are lettered, the vaults are numbered, but both marks are imperceptible to the visitor, 80 covered are they with mold. The guide knows them as a well- drilled usher knows his seats in a theater, and what appears remarkable In the way he goes to the first barrel on the tasting list is not at all so. He gives a few turns with a gimlet into the head of the barrel, deftly in: acopper tube into the hole he has made, and then before a drop trickles forth, he applies his lips to the tube and blows into it with great vigor, until we hear the liquor within bubble again. He is quite red In the face as ne holds his head up. HOW WINES ARE DOCTORED. ‘Then, reaching for the tray of glasses, he fills one for each of us. It is a new raw sherry; very rich, but too young. “Bless your heart, you will never get sherry like that for any money you may spend in England,” says the guide. “This is the sort of material they make brown sherry out of, by the addition of sugar and water—a good deal of water, too, I -fancy, for my part,”he added—at the same time with- drawing the copper tube and inserting a wooden plug which he drove in and cut off flush with the barrel head, with apparently the same deft blow—“for my part, 1 don’t know why people its buds, a calla, and a few lilies of the valley, adahlia or aster, afew nodding fuschias. A bow composed of Mops of sftin ribbon in two shades, or in contrasting colors, also artistically Placed, finishes the decorations. AN Avrnontry in fashions, who Is very much @pposed to colored undergarments, says in Le @ repose to the eye trom the colors worn in the @uier dress. It should be calm and candid. eannot be too snowy. White und jf the peetry of dress. gies Se man who unrobes herself over a cloud feels better pleased with herself and res; herself more than when she sees herself covered With colored underclothing. Journal des Modes that underclothing should be | all.”” purity that should encloud woman. Under- mixing a little claret, elothing is won an egotistie s: of white | give the mixture a name, drink brown sherry at all. Ladies like it, I believe. because it is sweeter, but it’s an insult to an honest palate to touch anything like a sweet wine. In my business I rarely let it Teach my li It 1s too sweet to pass away from the palate, which it leaves dull and heavy, and if I was to taste much sweet wine I would soon destroy my faculty of discriminating at “How do you tell one class of wine from It | another of the same kind?” “T couldn't tell you how I do, but I do, and I If you make it black, blae | can do it with unvarying regularity and accu- or red you deprive dress of all the delicacy and racy. They have often tried to itch me by well sweetened, with > a's own personal luxury; it is | full glass of port, but, although I have for an istaction, If you will, but a wo-4 instant been in doubt, I have never failed ty and tell its approxi- mate proportion as well. If you like, } will lilustrate to you later onhowlcandolt. I ever can tell you.” 3 2 | from St. Louis is opened he hesitates to pile up the | WEIRD SCENERY. Pushing farther into the vault, we were soon well under the water, and here we saw the wine vault fungus, which further back was weak in growth, swaying hither and thither in the most | graceful profusion. It Is lighter than cobwebs, and takes shapes like crystalizations. It grow3 sometimes like coral, forming pendants which j are swung by every zephyr, and are finally , brought in contact aud cling together in great | festoons. The ceiling or roof is covered with @ | £eia of the fungus four or five Inches in depth, | and out of this grows or gathers the most curi- ‘ous formations, the most interesting of which | are the round balls, like hornets’ nests, in color nd shape, or great gray sponges. | In the vaults where oil is used they soon get | black and dirty, but, when gas is burned, | they remain as white as snow for a long time, and are exquisitely beautiful. Ifthe ligh {held up to them, as soon as they feel its heat, they shrivel away with a sickening odor and dis- | appear. To the touch they art damp, unpieas- | ant and sticky. The vault men are very proud of them, and they dislike to see them destroyed, | although it sometimes becomes necessary to do so. Their presence is regarded as a proof of the adaptability of the vault. If they gather quick- ly over a lot of wine that has been recently laid | down, the wine and the cellar are both deemed to be good. Down at Lewes is what is said to be the best vault in the world. It was used in former times asa prison and torture chamber, and it reaches out under the sea quite a dis- tance. It is very lofty, and wine has been stowed there since 1814, over which the fangus hangs eight or nine reet long. When it gets filled with dust and becomes too heavy for the delicate fiber that supports it, it breaks away, and being too light to fall’entirely down, i | floats through the vault like an enormous bal- | loon, with the most extraordinary ghost-like effects. Our guide explains all this as we go from one lot to another, completing our tasting list.which | ranges t! aii the stlil wines you can name, | and he leads to one dark corner. where the fungus hangs in mushroom forms, and di | with a proper pride that that particular | has not been cleaned since the vaults were built | in 1804. Well, the corner looks like it; and now, hat we have spent two hours under ground, we re glad enough to come into the open air, | fogzy and murky though it be, and proceed to | the great store-house where our guide proposes | to test his skill at tasting wine. WHAT THE PALATE CAN TE) Hi. He blindfolds himself and there is poured | into a glass four different kinds of sherry. He takesa mouthful on his tongue and at once de- | clares a mixture of four cheap bar-room sher- |ries, two of which have been sweet | brown sugar and called py the abon of brown sherry. He Is right, and his next ex- | periment. is with port, whieh he correctly tests ! on each trial. But when a bottle of c |clares it a new one for him, but it isa good wine, with more brandy in it'than it ought to have, and he thinks it is from some northern grown grape. He was entirely nonplussed over some apple whisky; but when bottle after bottle of champagne was opened he named every | with great accuracy. In each case he it_a taste to his lips and spat it out again | almost directly. and then inhaled a breath er. | some ammonia-flavored w: he has an income ot nearly | this branch of business alone, | inordinately vain of his j leet ever: | wine crow isn’t it? | eS A CE RY AGO. A Picture of the ood Old Times” | We Head About. Lam told t 000 a year from but that he is jaculty that he will nex- thing to show it oif, and even buy the If to do it with, if he can secure a | admirers. From McMaster’s History of the Peoplo of the United States. It is pleasing to reflect that, while our coun- trymen lave been making such astonishing pro- | gress in all that administers to the comforts | and conveniences of lite, they have at the same | time grown charitabie and humane. There is indeed scareely a serap ot information bearing | upon the subject extant which doe: | prov da question that the which witnessed the revolution was 1 ful and tender-hearted than the generation which witnessed the civil war. {itistrue, put up a just o ‘brutal — tre: Our ancestors, | ‘y of horror at the | atinent ‘ot their captive country- |men in tke prison ships and hulks. great was their that money was to be stampe representations of the atrocities of wh they complained, that their descendants to the remotest generation might | hold in remembrance the cruelty of the British | and the suffering of the patriots. Yet even then the face of the land was dotted with prisons where deeds of cruelty wereedone. in compari- | son with whicn the toulest acts committed in | the hulks sink to a contemptable insignif For more than fifty years after the peace thi was in Connecticut an underground prison which surpassed in horrors the Black Hole of cutta. This den, known as the Newgate prison, was in an old worked-out copper mine in the hills near Granby. The only entrance to it was by means of a ladder down a shaft which led to the caverns under ground. There, in little pens of wood, from 30 to 100 culprits were immured, their feet made fast to iron bars, afd their necks chained to beams in the roof.- The darkness was intense; the eaves reeked with filth; vermin abounded; water trickled from the roof and oozed from the sides of the caverns; huge masses of earth were perpetually falling off. In the dampness and the filth the clothing of the prisoners grew mouldy and rotted away, and their limbs became stiff with rheumatism. ‘The Newport prison was perhapsthe worst in the country, yet in every county were jails such as would now be thought unfit places of habitation for the vilest and most loathsome of beasts. At Northampton the cells were scarce four feet high, and filled with the noxious gases of the privy vaults through which they were supposed to beyentilated. Light came in from two chinks inthe wall. At the Worcester prison were a number of like cells, four feet high by eleven long, without a window or a chimney, or evena hole in the wall. Not a ray of light eve penetrated them, In other jails in Massachue setts the cells were so small that the prisoners were lodged in hammocks swung one over the other. In Philadelphia the keeps were eighteen feet by twenty feet. and so crowded that at night each prisoner had a space six teet by two toliedownin. * * * “The misery of the unfortunate creatures cooped up in the cells, even of the most hu- manely kept persons, surpasses in horror any- thing ever recorded in fiction. No attendance was provided forthe sick. No clothes were dis- tributed to the naked. Such a thing as a bed wasrarely seen, and this soon became so foul with insects that the owner dispensed with it gladly. ny of the inmates of the prisons passed vears without so much as washing them- selves. Their hair grew long. Their bodies were covered with scabs and lice, and emitted a harrible stench. Their clothing rotted from their backs and exposed their bodies, tormented with all manner of skin diseases and a yellow flesh cracking open with filth. The death-rate often stood as high as sixtyinathousand. As it such torments were not hard enough to bear, others were added by the haif-madded prison: ers. No sooner did a.new comer enter the door of a cell than a rush was made for him by the in- mates, who stripped him of his clothing, and let him stand stark naked till it was redeemed by what in the peculiar jargon of the place was known as drink-money. It sometimes happened that the prisoners were in possession of a care- fully preserved blanket. Then ‘this ceremony called garnishing, was over for the yet more brutal one of blanketing. In spite of pray- ers and entreaties, the miserable stranger was bound, thrown into the blanket, and tossed till he was half dead and ready to give his torment- ors every superfluous garment to sell for money. With the tolis thus exacted, liquor was bought, a fiendish revel was held, and, when bad rum and bad tobacco had done their work, the few sober inmates of the cell witnessed such scenes as would be thought shocking in the dance- houses which cluster along the wharves of our great seaboard towns. ee Mr. Dana Explains. From the New York Sun, March 28, What isa tinker’s dam? Why should a tinker Want a dam, and of what use is a dam to a tinker, tn or out of his profession?—Grupnte. As our esteemed contemporary isin parsuit of information, we will reply that a tinker’sdam is adam of dough or other suitable material, constructed by a tinker to confine his molten solder to the business at hand, and that, inas- much as when atinker’s dam has once served its purpose It possesses little or no commercial value, the phrase has come to bea uently used and almost universally understood syno- nyme for worthlessness. ——_—__-o+—____ M. Fourmant has concluded a series of exact experiments upon trichine in meat. He finds that to pack the diseased flesh in galt for fifteen months does not kill the parasites; mice fed upon the meat died of trichinosis. The a oonnaes that score ire not be ventilat gratings, but only by pi; reaching above the itunes 80 that the fess may mingle with the higher strata of the atmos- phere. | not dull. Funny sort of vanity, | 5 in SOMETHING ABOUT CAMEOS. How the Cutting is Done—The Cost of Portraits—Cieepatra Before Casar. a ‘From the New York £un, “The onyx stone, on which the most valuable cameos are cut, is found in such plenty on the Uruguay river in Brazil that ships often take it for ballast,” said Louis Zocliner, the Broadway cameo cutter. ‘‘Some of it has been found in Germany, where much of the cutting Is done. The market is flooded with cheap and imperfect cameos, the work of apprentices, yet there is a fair demand for new work at good prices, espe- cially for portraits. The art of cameo cutting is very old, and some of the specimens of Roman work done 2,000 years are exquisite in tracery and design. They were produced by an extraordinary amount of labor unaided by the modern improvements in tools. Such work was then done for monarchs or very wealthy per- sons, and a cutting requiring a year was & com- mon thing. The same quality ot work is now within the reach of persons of moderate means. Three fair looking cameo cuttings, suitable for mounting as breastpin and earrings, may be bought for 28. But cameo portraits cost from $50 to $250. according to size, and the stone for the latter would be worth about $70. ‘A raised cutting on any stone ts called a ; cameo; when the device is sunk it is called an intaglio. The onyx is preferred for cameos above all stones, because it comes in layers of two colors. The combinations are black and white, black and cream, red and white, and dark brown, called the sardonyx. One adyant- age of a cameo portrait is that it will last for- ever. The stone is so hard that it can be cut only with diamond dust. The process of cut- ting consists of holding the stone up to revoly- ing drills, whose soft steel ends are covered with diamond dust, The utmost patience, and caution, and delicate manipulation are re- quired to grind off the upper layer of stone. A mistake is fatal to the work. No steel can be made hard enough to drill the onyx. Even chrome steel will not do it, and that is so hard that a drill made from it will cut through an or- dinary file. No acid will affect the onyx, and it will stand the greatest heat of the furnace if the heat is applied gradually, so as to prevent cracking. Some cuttings ‘went through the great Bond street fire, and were found in the ruins unharmed.” Among the portraits in Mr. Zeellner’s collec- tion are those of the late President Garfield, | William Cullen Bryant, Mrs.{Scott-Siddons and the Rabbi Gottheil, He has one cutting of the unveiling of Cleopatra before Ciwsar, which shows exquisite drapery, and even the figuring of tapestry on the walls.’ Although the faces of the figures are almost infinitesimal, the expres- sion put into them is striking. ‘The aid ofa powerful magnifying glass is required to see the beauty of the work, which has been done in the odd hours of years. The cutting is valued at $1,000. ———_+e-—____- Hints for the Dining-Room, From the Art Amateur for April. The general plan of the decoration of the din- ing room should be somber, but at the same time cheerful, or, in other words, deep in tone, bat It may have a painted dado of good dark tone, with stencilling or hand painting upon it. There should be a dado mould gr chair rail about 2 feet 9 Inches trom the floor, to prevent the chairs from damaging the paint. se, would have to be plugged i in order to get over the difficulty of the plaster, it had better be a flat rail ai ather than a bold_ proj if this is done, most of the injury to plaster would be covered by it. If there are to be many pictures, above the dado may be painted brown or chocolate color, s background for them; or, an all-over : blended. There would be the usnal pictur or rod with frieze above, which, supposing the room to be about 11 feet high, should not be more than 12 inches or 15 inclies deep. A_ran- ning painted or stencil pattern, with painted sor tiles at Intervals, will be found suit- a narrow frleze of this description. ‘The toneof the cornice should hter than the trieze, but darker than the ceiling, and picked out in colors to emphasize the mould- Sometimes one mects gener: enti In rooms under 11 feet high #will often be found betier to omit the dado, or. rather, to carry up the dado for about two thirds ot ‘the cht of the wall, letting the upper third form adeep frieze, which may be painted in dis- temper, and stencilled with foliage, birds, and ‘mals, not In one flat tint, or shade of tinting only, but in various shades and tints produced by mingling the col ors on the palette, and also by the dexterous handling of the stencil brush in laying themon. Another plan of treating a deep frieze ig to havea design painted on canyas and fixed to the wall; this, of co} , could be removed when occasion required. A good treatment for a dining-room is to have a dado of stamped leather paper of a dark redor brown ground, a wall paper above of a neutral blue, and a frieze of blue and white flock paper. It is very necessary, In choosing papers, to see them both by day and also by artiflelal light; the difference in appearance of some is extraordi- nary: as a rule, yellows look comparatively pale erably darker by artificial light. The wood-work may be painted in two tints ot brown, dark red, or green, harmonizing with the walls, and, where the room is papered, a good plan is to paint the panels of the doors the same tone as the ground of the paper, the styles and rails a darker shade, and to pick out the moulds in a still darker color, or in blue or black. The panels may be stencilled or hand- painted, but, asa rule, a very little suffices to relieve them, and it should be done in quiet neutral colors. Another way ts to fill in the panels with Lincrusta Walton. The floor should have stained and varnished margins, about 2 or 3 feet wide, but if the floor boards are not good enough for this, they may be painted and varnished. The first coat should be as nearly as possible the same as the finishing color, so that scratches may not be seen upon it. Allthe wood work should be varnished, so that it may be easily cleaned, The painted walls are also better varnished for the same reason, but when required as a back- ground for pictures, should be flatted. It is a good plan, in painting a room, if there is the least suspicion of damp in the walls, to start with two coats of red lead, and let it be worked well into the pores of the plaster. The ceiling may be formed into panels, with very light moulded wooden ribs, which can be screwed to the laths, if the latter are ordinarily strong ones, and a fairly good effect may be produced by this means very cheaply. The whole may be painted in oil, or distemper; if not white, then a warm gray, or cream color, the ribs picked out in one or two darker shades, and the panels may have a little simple stencilling, but the less that 1s done in this way the better, In plage of ribs the ceiling might be divided into compartments, or panels, by bold lines in distemper. with a stencil border inside; or if the room is small, a large scroll, commencing in one corner with leaves and flowers, may be painted over the whole ceiling. sole ah amr SASS ee = Tne fashions for the present season are to be singularly eclectic. Silk, satin, velvet, plush, peKin, faille, brocade, are all worn to some ex- tent, and are allin “good form.” So, too, with the colors; dark green, dark blue, garnet, ruby, bronze, olive, terra-cotta, and seal brown are all equally fashionable for street wear. Long cloaks are as much seen as the jaunty New- markets, and hats and bonnets can hardly be too larze or too small to be considered out of style. BLACK gros grain silk is now as popular as ever. Many newly imported costumes are made ene it, others are garnished with Jet: ap- lique bands and ornaments In new and beauti- 1 designs; but the majority, of them are half broche velvet or satin broche. The most fast jJonable kind of corded silk is the “Victoria” brand—as soft and pliable as merveilleux, but nearly as thick as Irish poplin—this silk, trim- med with broche and jet, makes an ideal cos- tume for middle-aged ladies, and looks well on A young man married the daughter of his boarding-honse mistress at Fort Worth, Texas, without coming to any understanding as to the pecuniary nature of his fature relations with the establishment. At the end of a week after the wedding the landlady presented a bill for twice the amount which he had previously paid, intending to charge him for both himself and. his wife. His view of the matter was wholly different. He expected to be boarded free. So he refused to settle. On returning from a theater with his bride he found the doors locked and their wardrobe and other effects pileg on the sidewalk, The strange report has been {in circulation in the country districtsof Hungary that the loss of the Cimbria was caused by Hun- garian landlords and_officials who hired an Eng- lish vessel for the of running the steamer down, thinking they would thereby.in- spire the pearantry with fear of the sea its perils; “but,” say the its, “we are not going to be hoodwinked by any trick like that,” om they propose to emigrate just as much as LIQUID COF AR¢GLST 180-DOUBLR_SHRET Ik Sraxvs To Ruusox ‘That when an article is made or treated on the Ades of getting all the good out of itand leaving the bed or useless portion, it must be superior to the old clumsy method of producing it any ‘way or any how by hap-hagard. QUESTION 1. What is Fels & uid Coffee? FELS & 00.'8 otis ast whet te eee LIQUID COFFEE. form direct from the entice bean. put up in bottles, and is, without exception, the most convenient Ss = FELS & CO.'8 — FELS & CO.’S QUFSTION 2. In what does tts FELS & 00.3 Sonar Over Sve Old method In the first place, Fela & Co.'s Liguid Coffee saves time, mnce only an instant is required to make one or more cups. It raves trouble and labor. aa no ariuding, . OF Rettling of the coffee 18 | necessary. ‘The coffee is always uniform, which is something that can be said of coffee made in no cthes way. Not one day strong, and the next day mild or butalways regular. There is no waste in using Liquid Coffee, as LIQUID COFFEE. LIQUID COFFEK. LIQUID COFFEE. only as many cups are made as FELS & C0.'8 are needed. ‘Ry the old process it 18 all uc very often much FELS & CO.’8__ more bein made than is needed, and the surplus is thrown away FELS & CO.'S and lost. Ag the bottom of a cap of coffee made from Ligntd Cof- fee bo rounds or sediment are found, as it is beautifully clear, and wil suit the taste of those Liking good coffee. LIQUID COFFEE. LIQUID COFFEE. LIQUID COFFEE. QUESTION 3, How is it made? Simply py putting into the cup two teaxpoonfulsor the Liquil.on which pour boiling water. | De. Gionscoffee isthrs made instantly, as many cups as are wanted. Use FELS & CO.’8_—milk.and suga> sa usual. Com- pare this with the old process and FELS & CO.'S give the new a trial. FELS & CO.’S A CUP of coffee early in LIQUID COFFEE. the mornmiuy before going out, or | late at night, or at any other ti LIQUID COFFEE. LIQUID COFFEE. can be made most cor and easy by using Liquid C ‘To how many people is tus a ben efit, since coffee is the great Invi. orator, and by the old process it ca: be made often enough or quick enough to suit the wants ‘and tastes of the many. FELS & CO0.’8 PRIVATE HOUSES and board- FELS & CO."8 ing houses very often have poor coffee because the Indy of the FELS & CO.'S house ham not tune to attend to mhaking it herself and leaves it to the rervants, who, in many cares, de'not understand it, Nomistake can be made in using Liquid Cor- fee, sinoé all that has to be done is to pour boiling water on the li- quid in the cup. One member of the family may waut a strong cup of esffee, and others milder or ALL tastes can be Liquid Coffee. one in the house ramesl. The le fro LIQUID COFFEF. LIQUID COFFEE. LIQUID COFFEE. coffee is cold or Deir i. All stich FELS & €O.'S__on the stove too lon grievances disapy earwhen Liquid * FELS & CO.'S i, a8 cach cup is and everybody FELS & CO."S_— made happy. LIQUID COFFEE. LIQUID COFFEE. LIQUID COFFE: TAURANTS very often offee, since they are keep coffee read: and pariof the carnot make it fresh three oF ror tanes, Bi FELS & CO. FELS & CO0.'S LIQUID COFFEE. A bottle will make thi than can be made by any ups of better coffee s. Itis therefore free. | | G STEAMERS. &c. GENTLEMEN'S GOODS. __ GTEAMER JOHN W. THOMPSON = > = Sam Ae Bivers axo Boansse Summa EVERY MONPsr, WepNespay AND SATURDAY _ ‘We have just opened our line of it ae al all ae landings as far down Inguire at General Office, 615 15th street or at boat. POTOMAC TRANSPORTATION LINE. The steamer SUF, Capt. W. C. leaves jensen’ wharf foot of 7th street every SUNDAY, s Bal every FRIDAY at § o'clock strictly first-class. i$ must be prepaid, and will be received on ‘3 only. at ‘anl Pas'ave. River SATURDA' 3 STEPHENSON & HE STEAMER MATTANO LEAVE = WASHING. AM TTANO LI = mi6-6m__ 7th street wharf and 12th st. daya, Ti at 7 for Potomac Kiver Landi Lands at wiiarf Sundays down and Wednesdays up; and Chavel Point Thureda: id Mon: sin Mattox creek (destination) Sunday and te, and Nomini an ii cee received (destination) Tueaday night L. SHERIFF, information given at offices of G. 328 and 1114 tenasylvania avenue. G. 1. JONES, anes it tb street wharf. 2 TRESS MONROF, NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH AND THE SOUTH. Inland and Seaboard Coasting Co.'s . LADY OF THE LAKE, leaves Gth street wharf evi MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 5:30 p.m, Sto} at Piney Point and Point Lookout going and Tetris. Coniecting in Norfolk with Boston, dence and New ‘ork steamer, and all railroad lines Old Point with the Cheaapeake & Ohio R.K. staterooms crn be secured at B.& O. ticket Pa. ave. ; St. Marc Hotel, at boat and general Sthet. ALFRED WOO, Sec'y & Treas. £3 T. VERNON( MT. VERNON! M ERNON( MT. STF. th Mt. MER W. W. CORCORAN eaves 7th street wharf daily (excert Sunday) for Vernon at 0 clock & m. ; returning reaches Washi ton sbout 3:30 p.m. 20 " L. L. BLAKE, Captain. wy id #t Old Point with the ¢ 1 etaterooma ean be esapeake & Ohio ¥ ed at Bs. 3. W, 1 itoea's Sons, a Hote}, ‘an fi |. HUDGINS, Gen. Supt. P. WELCH, Agent. mb19 | Traver To Ecnor:. ESTIMAT oF COST FOR TOURS TO ANY PART OF EUROPE AND THE OKUENT. TICKETS ISSUED and KELIABL INFORMA- TION EERFULLY GIV parties to foreicn land: with maya, rent Cl NGE 7 VELERS' vecial arranger Fall particulars rk. mb10-,t,th,39t_C. A. BARATTONT. Manager. &O. Ticket | ent in Address BUREAU, BICYCLE AND BOATING SHIRTS, Prices: $2.00, $2.60, $2.75, $3.00 and $3.25 each. WOODWARD & LOTHROP, 31 921 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. S. . evperr, svccrsson TO DUBREUIL BROTHERS, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE DRESS SHIRTS, GENTS FURNISHINGS, 1112 F Steeer Nonrmwest, Wasurnorox, D.C. Six of the Finest Drem Shirts to order. "338 50 Six kxtra Fine Shirts to order Six Pine Shirts to order... mh? Tuomrsors SHIRT FACTORY axp MEN'S FURNISHING FMPORIUM, 816 F Street, Opposite Patent Office. Shirts to order a Fine Dress for Teady made > finished, 75 ets, L finished, 40 ota." Full Ii Fine assortment of Scarfa, lerwear, oo SEWING MACHINES, &c. VOR NORFOL! ‘H, FT. MONKOE ESTIMONIAL TO THE 3 ). — AND THE SOQ@H Potomac Steamboat Com- | Al OTHER MECHANICAL pany"s popular stean’ EXC . C., March 7, ir. Avent Queen: Jeaves fin street wharf every TUESDAY Se Machine, cor.7th and if sts. Washington, D.C.2 DAYs, at 5:30 ¥ Sir: Mr. Leitch sy? about to buy Sewing Piney be it, ine, he had three or four different kinds rent to ae ing In Norfolk with Boston, Provi~ oure, (Wheeler & Wilson, Singer, Queen. Domea- d_ New York steamers, anc all ratirovd lines | tic.) ana ‘he, having confidenoe in my Judament as @. ical man, sent for me to give my opinion which was the best machine him to invest in. After a thor- mination. I unhesitatinely cave it ae iny cans Queen was the best, simplest, moat Sewing Machine that had b om best mechanical when, other nan, 1h 29 an me under tn lew and of b inte pater ed at the house f was decidedly in favor of om make. “K svectfally, DAVID MCKENZIE, Fo Columb & Brass and Tron Works.” Dp NOT BUY A SEWING MACHINE ti! you have examined and tried the HARTFORD Ite movemcnts are eo cary that ise it without labor oF ock stitch alike on both, fides and will sew from fine Swiss nainsook 10 heavy, not SEWING MACHIN tho most delicate AMS LINE. __ SUMMER SERVICE. Salling from QUEBEC to LIVERPOOL every SATUR- Bailing from BAL’ ter iN -) AGE. M LAND 10 LAND. ixtra Ships from GALWAY, LiMERICK, LONDUNDERRY and GLAS- GOW direct. ALWAY and LIMERICK, Only DIRECT LINE trom Accommodations Unegnalle Cabin $70 ana $80, Intermediate $40, For information, &c., apply t> LEVE & ALDEN, General Agents, * 207 Brosdway, New York. cot: G12 9th etrerts yivania avenue: ntx in Washington, D.C. | pyeseune LIN ¥ LINE OF STEAMERS, WwW YOR VERY THURSDA AT NOON , FRANCE AND GERMANY. to C, B. RICHARD & CO., General Passenger Agenta, G1 Brosdway, Or to PERCY G. SMITH, 135) and 619 Pennsylvania avenue. FOR ENGLA’ For Passage apy! to your interest to give it an unbiased trial, in which case you will become a «| omer. Your crocer keeps it or will obtain it for you. Adaress all letters to FELS & CO., Proprietors, PHILADELPHIA. generative organs occurs, from whatever cause, the continuous stream of ELECTRICITY permeating through the parts must restore them to healthy action. ‘There is no mistake about this instrument. Years of use have tested it, and thousands of cures are testified to. Weakness from Indiscretion, Incapacity, Lack of Vigor, Sterility—in fact, any trouble of these organs is cured. Do not contound this with electric beits adver- tised to cure all ills from head to toe. This is for the ONE specified purpose. For circulars giving full Send for “*Yourist Gi (Oh LINE. EN N, ORK A ULV CALLING AT CORK HARBOR. FROM PIER 40. 8. 2 NEW YORE Qed. Absit 46 1 Eavoni . fervia. Y FROM NEW YORE. 8 * do not carry steerage. rtures, including Scythia, tes of passage ford ith pri, 360, 48) an | $100, acbordns toraceom *” VidsNON A. BROWN & CO., New York; Messrs, O11S BIGELOW & CO. 5 7th street, Washington. EURoren Crto > jenl2 EUROPE COOK'S GRAND EXCURSIONS leave New York April 20th, June 1st, June 13th and “"issuge’Ticksia by all Atlantic Steamers. Special fa- re'Ticke nic XG 1D BERTHS. si information addrees— CHEEVER ELECTRIC BELT CO., mb3-skw 103 Wachington etreet, Chicago. Ganavir & Co MATICO LIQUID. ‘Where all other medicines have failed, this prepara- tion is alwayseffective. Rapid and extraordinary cure ofall discharwes, recent or <f long atavding. Itin ured in the Hospitals of Paris by the celebrated Dr. Hicon, and is found greatly superior to all remedies hitherto known. Sold by ali Druggiste. 22 y FPO! FRXING FISH AND OYSTERS OLIVE BUTTER Has no equal. More wholeso Lard, and is free from the pun, ing Oils, Cook Books con! r pal of the Philadelphia Cooking School, mailed free upon application. WASHINGTON BUTCHER'S SONS, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Jan22-wks [HE PUBLIC IS REQUESTED CAREFULLY TO NOTICE THE NEW AN! NLARGED DEN. SCHEME TO BE DRAWN MONTHLY, CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000. Tickers ONLY $5. SHARES IN PRoPoRTION, LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. 'Wedo hereby certify that we superviae the arrange- ments for all ‘the Montht and Semi-Annual Drawings of The Loutotana Sate heliery Company and. in per that the same are conducted with faith toward all. parties, Commissioners. for twenty five years by the Leats- oo. which = reserve of a of the it State Constitution adopted December: A. D..1879. pig only Letter éver voted on and indorsed by the peo- ef any State. It never scale Ine Gna Sincie Numsea Daswines take place FOURTH QEAND DRAWING, AT NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1567m Mowruty Drawtxa. CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000. 100, 000 Tickets at $5 each. in fifths, in pro- 1 yooee oe $75,000 } fe H ea 100 30,000 Ed 35,000 1000 28:00 9 96,750 500 iu S300 1967 Prizes, ae ‘For further dress. a Sooty order, x. of negt June oTOUIGT TICRISTS for mndividtes travelers in Ea- UGORS ERCURSIONIST wit Maps and fall par- ticulars, by mail 10 cents. Address THOS. COOK & SON, 261 Broadway, N.Y. f21-wkeSat a ae TEAMSHIP Line BeTweeN New Yorn, Haven, so tcamecn of tee eeteees ail eat EVERY SAT. r ners Of this company . Th URDAY from Breme : RD: en pier. foot of Sd erage: Fy ‘New York ‘Lon iad Betas at ole Gia ek of estima con $30; prepaid iim, $60; steerage, $30: rel ea “for freight or passage apply. to OSLRIGHS tg: ee ienrmta enter itive home ‘Washinyton. jal2 ; : this Line AMS ERDAM. ROTTER- EtRDAM, ZAANDAM. P. CA- 5 the U.S. Jersey City, dave gre eS Sen Rotterdam and Ameterdam, alternately. $70: second cabin, $50: steerage. General Agent, 27 Sovth William to G. METZERO’ Sureex street, NESDAY for First cabin, H. CAZAU; New Yor) &CO.. 9 MEDICAL, & ADIES, YOU CAN CONF Dr. BROTHERS, 906 B at. FIDENTLY CONSULT 8.w. Particular atten- Hon paid to all Diseases peculiar to Ladies, married or sinele. All irregalarities and Ovarian Troublee treated. ‘Thirty-five years’ expericnce, mb31-1m* Ginappointed of a cure of private ‘con- sult Dre. BROTHERS and GRAY, 906 B st. ew. Will furn: es, Guarantee a cureor no pay. 35 years’ experien Pym} ANHOOD RESTORED BY USING A BOTTLE or two of Du. BROTHERS’ Invigorating Cordial. i inal Weakness, Ni Diana’ Rigor impasie eee the il system. “900 Bat. aw. _ 123-3m" MAs#00p RESTORED. ‘covered by a America. Send a self-addressed envelope to the Rev. Josmrn T.INmax, Station D, ‘New York city. of-atu.th ake ly HAS REMEDY La- MADAME DE FoResT dies. complaints quickly’ Allfemste frou to9 o'dock p.m. with ladies culye” EAD! BEADIT Certain capotorat Unipary Decry ene &e. _Gonorrhos, in and Saturdays, from 2 to 9 p.m., at Cat.n.w. Refers tothe icading of Balti- ore. Main ofboe $0 N-Liberty st Baltimore Md 0 PROFESSIONAL. Hare, Coxnmonan, ‘tho’ BLOCK. 8 as G1l H street northwest. TIMORE to LIVERPOOL every al- AY. m1 Prepaid Steerage cotton orcioth and leather without alterations. We will fend the Hartford for trial to any addrew without charge. Cail or send to our office for descriptive eireu lars, &c. . 8. OPPENHEIMER & BRO., Popular and Reliable Sewing Machine and Fashion 628 92m STREEL NORTHWEST, St. Cloud Building. ER Piece McKENNPY, : ‘The old bie Sewing Machine man. T am @ dealer and not an. aent, and have been too long in the mh24 Dusiners to sell mean machines. 1 keep everything worth seling. Ke pairing, eee 28 iy northweat. SPECIALTIES. HE LONG-ESTABLISHED, RE- rvoyaut and Astrologiet, gives better fattefection tn all aftairs of life than any one in the pro- fesaon ; tells the past, present and futore destiny; elves Fdvice and ewiriaisce on all tuattere appertaining to ony. AL y- ALL IN Tau Consultation went. dies, 60 conts; gentlemen! WAKRING, kal, ASTRI can equal hina casita xpeody and in business tells consulters a at 0 #0, # and uses no cards of west, where she will ds and customers, pi ROBERT-ON, THE MOST RELIABLE SPR. ‘cialixt in thie city, with twenty years’ experiene cen be consulted confidentially every We Saturday, irom 2to9 n.m., at Nh northwest. Guarantess a posit rane the urinary organs and nervous system. Casex recently, contracted cured in 4 to 6 days. Refers to hading phy- ficians of Baltimore, his native city. Main oflice, 30 perty street, Baltimore, Md. Private voms for lasies. sa many tric 242 s rate rv dation. I i yes ME. BROOKE TELLS ALL THE EVENTS: carditis to arconmatatinn Pr eee) and $100, 96 | MD Tg imines eee Ladi aoe Ftecrage at very low rates. Bteerage tickets from Tiy- | Yemen 50 cents each, 403 L between 4th and pa aud Queenstown and all other partsof Europes: Sthetrests northwest. 28d ‘Through bills of laden given for, Belfé ia i = Havre, Antwerp aud other ports Gur the Contisent* cad WOOD AND COAL, Sor Teescaten| pee apply atthe Company's office, | 7 ae ae No. 4 Bowling Gi tee) a < y if BIGLW'SGS, Gob THER Wastes | Coat Axo Woon. We have Just received a large lot of Bakers PINE. WOO») ; ulso fresh mined COAL of superior quality for domestic use, all of which we offer at lowest market ‘The attention of consumers is respectf Pe not commomaore ta reap fully invited to STEPHENSON & BRo., mi6 ‘7th st. wharf and 12th st. and aP. ave. _ RAILROADS. ALTIMORE AND OHIO RALLRUAD THE MODEL FAST AND THE ONLY LINE. THE EAST AND Tiik WEST via WASHINGTON, DOUBLE TRACK! JANNEY COUPLER! SIEEL RAILS! Schedule to take effect SUNDAY, NOV. 12, 1882. Leave Washington, trom Station corner of New Jere avenue and C ‘Chics Louisville, and St 1 E m., 9:59 ‘or jucinnati, m.. 10:15 Qand 10a.m., 12:10, 7, 7:30, 9:40, 11:30 p.m. ‘For Baltiniore on Sundays, 6:90, 7:45, 9a.m., 1:25, or Annapo 6a. m., 12:10 and 4:40; on Sunday, i ‘or ons between Washincton ana B ltimore, 57, 9a.m., 12:10 p.m., 3:30, 4:40, 7, and 11-90 a For Stations on Metropolitan Branch, 8:10, 8-400 m-. SOS p.m- davy, excent Sunday, 445: p-m. daily for Staun ‘a.m. daily, except Sunday’, for lagers Md Frederick, 8:40 atm, 45 dan town ani io» 10:15, 4245 daily 1 a a.m, 5, 4°45 daily except ‘Trains arrive from the West daily, 6:20, 7:35 a.mu, 2:25, 9:28 p.m, From New York and Vhiladelphia, 3:55, 8-15 am, daily, -m. daily. except Sunday ; from Baltimore, 12:58, 6, 8:10, 8:15, 8:30, 11:30, m1, das 384, 7 8:30, 9:45 p rom Aunapolis,8:30 a.m., 1:60, 6:37 p.m. ; Sunday, 10:40 a 63T E si From Staunton, 2:16 p.m. daily, ex F. From ‘agerstown’ “and intermediate Points, 8: ™. 5 ick and stations, 9:45 a ‘m., 2:15, m. and 7:20 p.m. A ‘Bune Ti trains trom Washington stop at :00 a.m. mmom. 2 SURI S APSE IR ‘Creek Line, 6:40am, andé:40 p.m. dally, ‘a'a.m. amd 4:40 p.m. Gaily, exept 1 AER Wa ):24, 13:00 Rit FREER BEERS me | ‘the 6:30 anf 11:25 ’ For and om!