Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1883, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. SATURDAY. FASHION WRIN. SPRING ODDITIFS—RIBHON® AND BUTTONS—NEW GLOVES—NEW SASH RIBBONS—AN EPITOME OF REAL FASHION, ETC. Tue new buttons are to be of metal and are flat and medium size. Dresses are now cut ovalshape at the neck 1n preference to V-shape. ‘Tue newest designs in bangle bracelets and Jace pins are in Mcorish and Renalssance de- vices. Brin orange and yellow pompons are very | fashionable for the fro much in vogue. Loors and ends of narrow ribbons will be a favorite trimming for watering-place dresses this summer. Tue imitation for lit tehel Pig's sk Bhacs Diack silk toilets 1 tween winter and Veny I Austrian the dark st i the costume. ‘Tne searts of plush with ends elaborately em- J are hang around marble clocks on mantels where no lambrequin is used, with very good effect. A Novet-ry in jace is the Pompadour pattern— & darned net, witha fine pearled edge and a raised ficure in silk muslin; the designs In flow- ers, such as fuchsias, lilies of the valley, and other pendant flowers, are very etfective. Soe new sash ribbons are very broad, and are particularly of plain watered motre, while the other half is covered with fine, brightly- colored, lengthwise strip of the little turban 50 Tr, ahappy transition b cost ashmere or tine ey cloves of shades to m: Others are halt vire brocaded In flowers, and half ef the pes. Eprom: be much worn for pri and elegant dinner toilets with white ete.; this SPRING ser ave mostly In Plaids, in ular patterns, and in quiet, neutral tenes of « pale cinnamon brown, enti Intersectine hair lines of some bright color. Broken ai emore in use than bloeks. t place In and traveling re cut in this fash! light cloth ion. It is made with littie trim- either reund ¥ without pulls, but buttoned at the bottom of thé&elbow seam, and reverse or a military collar. TAaILon-Ma ostumes are growl! more in favor. fection in the way of fit and finish. Some of the costliest of these have the bodice lining of soft and pliable. but exevedingly firm, ribbed silk. Promet costumes, more suitable for earriage and visiting use, are ne chewed for these stylish and more appre tweed, ladies’ cloth, cheviot and flannel. Tux Dinecrome, Marte Stuart, Queen Mab, | Corday Cottage. and close French capote bon- | nets all reap ain this season, with slight modif: e of the new bonnets round have the oddly more and of the brim, into wich 3 #oms and aking the : 3 net, with its ie’ window | Tne trimming Fate, yet are very ef of ottoman silk or gathered frills, m: 1 wide when finis their depth to these hav the lowe Iress skirts are not elabo- ive. To finish the foot ne skirts are four bias quite scant, an elghth of a | wi sewed on to lap bunchy rr summer silks | $ with three wide | ‘ ad floune not lap. and are | edand pinked in leaf pe There are also three deep box-pleated flounces on checked silk skirts, with on ribbon two inches wide border A Lapy Wairen Sv too exclusively fe have taken = trustworthy of simpler tastes. me comfort them by say elaborate costumes and thos for eveni theater and for balls. During the cially fur those whio are on toot, itis very poor te to wear any bat the simplest styles. The Materials of the costumes should be woolen goods, cashmeres and cloths without trimmings s: Fashions are written women with long purses. I ins, therefore. to. get from information tor those at present, let is to reserve the in light colors d. es. for those intended for the orning, which should be made very plain. These s aterials are during the present season combined with vel- vets and plush, as is also the mer- Yeilleux surah, with certain of the broche ma- terials now so much in fashion, and which will continue so during the coming summer. In the matter of color everything 1s fashionable, every- thing may be worn, evervthing Is pretty, if the materials have been properly combined. Plain goods are still much used, as are also goods embroidered with flowers either of the same or a different shade from the body of the material. Embroideries are to be seen on goods of all sorts, trom the modest cashmeres to the expen- sive velvets. plush and ottomans-so soft to the touch. In the patterns or designs there is great variety. In the first place may be mentioned large and small pansies, tulips, Marguerites and Foxes: then birds, the heads of cocks and owls and enormously large spots, which are called moons and eclipses when the embroidery shows the entire of the crescent or the circumference. ae ee = He Carried it a Little Too Far. From the Arkansas Traveler. A gentleman stopped his harse at a tollgate, and not seeing the gatekeeper went into tne house. Finding no one he began to search, and finally discovered the gatekeeper out in the field at work. Although the old man was quite @ distance away, the gentleman went into the field, approached the old man and said: “You are the tollgate keeper, I belleve?” “Yes, sir,” the old man replied, turning and Jeaning upon his hoe handi “Well, I want to go through the gate.” “ain't the gate open!” “Well, why don’t you go through?” business to be there. “Because I want to pay yor ‘And you came ail the Way out here to pay me five cents?” “Yes, sir, ing the old man in the eye. “Couldn't you have left the money on the table: It's my jd the gentleman, proudly look- es, but I wanted you to know that I paid ‘ou are an honest man.” ‘Yes, sir,” replied the gentiliman, while a pleased expression spread over his face. “You would have walked three times as far to have paid me that five cents, wouldn't you?" “Yes, sir, I would.” “Here, John,” the old man called to a boy that lay in the shade, “call the dog and go along and watch this feller till he gets away. Bet a hundred dollars he steals something “fore he leaves the place. —__—_—_-e-______ Parka Hovses are coming into use in Eng- land, where for some purposes they are found greatly superior to tents. Shooting boxes 12 feet square were found convenient both to use and transport, and the material being imper- vious to moisture, the littie cottages are satis- factory from a sanitary point of view. It is said that they will be used at the seaside during the coming season, not only for bathing-houses, but as residences tor quiet bachelors ef contem- Plative habits. ——____+e-_______ Kenton county, Ohio, furnishes the youngest couple that ever st 1 out on the matrimonial sea. The groom orge F. Kyle, aged four- teen years, and his bride, Lizzie May Hollings- head, aged thirteen years. The marriage cere- mony was performed by a Covington (Ohio) preacher. Alma Tadema, says the Portfolio. has “mas- terly veracity,” which the-Rochester Post says is only another name for lying without being caught at it. The St. Louis Globe says that Mr. Tilden is ke the lady of whom Byron wrote: “She has been dangerously ill, but is now dangerously well.” A Boston young lady who is disgusted with the “masher” at the skating rink says that she always thought that roller skates developed ealves. The New Orleans Picayune. in a sentimental mood, says: “Many a gay-colored liver-pad hides @ead heart.” old of buttons, come in all | They have now arrived at per- | iate suits of | fi lore | of riehn | was only wear, for dinner parties, for the | THE MEXICAN SILVER MINES, The Ratopilas District—Gov. Shepherd’s Mines—A Washington Company—U; Millions Coming to the Surface. From the Boston Herald. The prospect of an early completion of several lines of railway that will egnnect the most im- portant states of the Mexican republic with our j own ri y system is attracting more and more | the attention of the American peopie to that country, and the chances for profitable Invest- ment in the development of its varied and won- | derfal natural resources. One of the most won- |derfal of these resources Is comprised in [the rich mineral deposits ot Mexico, \¥ has been pursned—even greatest disadvantages—with ater profit to the operators of mines In the | pro xico has always been | pre-eminent, and from the time of Cortez to the | present day, the silver mines of that country onsidered the richest in the world. y worked by the Spaniards, with grand | Tesults, to the beginning of this century, when th olution of Mexico subverted Spanish rule nd created the Mexican nation. This revolu- | tion, and the internal convulsions which suc- jceedea It, caused a complete prostration of | mining and all other industries in Mexico for | many years. Only recently has the great mine- ral wealth ofthe country again been the object of enterprize. GOV. SHEPHERD'S MINES. Mr. J. J. Durham, of Boston, has spent thir- |teen months in the Batopilas district. He | brings very favorable reports of the progress | made in the development of the mines under | the management of Goy. Shepherd. Speaking | of the property he went out to see and settle certain affairs connected with the titles to it, Mr. | Durham. in the course of a free talk, sal {1 took from the Esperitorio mine, in the course of my workings to prove that it still A rie : native silver. I worked the old s at one timea bonanza, and wei ome 70 feet below the worked-out eb ruck some ve shaft, however, t of the distane | that is, the ore ranged in value from $20 to $200 a ton. That might be calied high-grade ore | elsewhere, but ina district where the ore runs up into the | THOYSANDS OF DOLLARS PER TON | it 1s low grade. The property looks well and | promising. The district is altogether an excep- tional one, and no man who could see it as I have would fail to be satisfed that it would yield the most handsome returns for proper development | and working. I have not the slightest doubts | asto its great prospective value. In the in- |terims connected with the business which brought me to Batopilas Thad ample time and | opportunity to study the whole district and watch the developments going On there, and I are simpl erful.” . Shepherd doin: prosecuting the work of. developing | the mines under his control—there are some ten of them—in the most thorough and hensive manner. You are no doubt ar with the city of Washington and wi it was before he took charge of its public works, and what it was when he completed his there. He was cursed and reviled for his | expenditure and the vast scale on which he carried out the various needed improvements. He was even charged with corrupt practices, ore ier mining the | from which he was, however, finally exonerated. | The pl people who eur ve lived to shi Tealize the vast benefits I may tell you that he his work at the mines of the sam grand = and Heis pushing in on yari- ‘ies of tunnels, which are to shafts, and thus secure jon for his I x these tunnels he has cut the veins on the various properties, and Imay tell you that he has succeeded in pening up some veins of the greatest promise ut he has not faltered for a moment in pushing forward the tunnéls to the proper distance to meet the shafts, When Gov. Shep- herd took charge, some tree years ago, there one of the properties which he now controls which had a tunnel on it, and that was | the San Miguel, which includes the old Carmen and San Antonio mines. A $200,000 sTRIKE. Since that time he has not only extended that tunnel, but has run in on the various properties some 10 to 12 tunnels, in two of which, viz., the Martinez and Roncesvalles (a Washington city company), he has made connection with the ap- right shafts. On the Roncesvalles he had spent | less than $4,000 when he struck a rich deposit of ni and black silver and silyer ore, from which he took out $200,000 worth of bullion. I haveno doubt that many ofthe stockholders inthe mines under his charge think v. Shepherd is moving very slowly, and is nut producing the results expected from the rich mines under his | superintendence; but he is doing a necessary | work, which, when completed, will not only insure a large and continuous yield, but a steady one, and, indeed, one that need only be limited by the number of miners employed. The tunnels will not only answer for the tracks over which the ore from the various workings can be drawn out. but are 80 constructed as to convey the water which will no doubt be encountered in the lower work- ings of the mines away from them, when pumped up into their sluiceways. As a matter of ex- perience, however, there has been little water encountered so far, but it will be reached by and by. When the tunnels of the various mines are completed, and as they are 80 com- pleted, the work of driving on the veins which have been cut across will be prosecuted. Then | will commence a yield of ore which, in | my opinion, will be simply marvellous. After ig in to an indefinite distance on the veins th sides of the tunnel, there will then be the stopes above to work out. The cost of min- ing will also be comparatively smali, from the nature of the gangue in the veins in which the ores are held. This gangue is largely calc spar, which is soft and easily worked, while the dior- ite walls are so solid that little timbering is needed in the mines. Everything. in fact, seems to combine to favor the explor: un of these mines ona Yast scale at comparatively small | cost. Goy. Shepherd has been doing ‘a large , amount of i DEVELOPMENT WORK, as I told you, and when he gets his mines in the right;condition to produce, an extraordinary pro- duction may be looked for. To give an {dea that even development work is not all ou'lay I may say that, from January 16 to February 28 of this year—that ie, to just before my departure—the Roncesyalles mines produced some $40,000 in iver. In one week of that time there was pro- duced some 4,000 pounds of ore, which’assayed from $1 to $12 per rane: There were 667 pounds which yielded 70 per cent of their weight in silver bullion. This I have a per- sonal knowledge of. There were two pieces— which in the vein were one piece—which measured 42 inches in length, § inches in width, and almost 7 inches in thickness. It weighed 315 pounds, and fully 70 per cent of its weight was silver. That mine has any quantity of low grade ore, ing from $25 to $200 a ton. A bet was made between Superintendent Clemo ofthe San Miguel and Superintendent. Walter M.Brodie of the Roncesvalles as to which of the two mines would produce the most in the month of January. The San Miguel was the Jarger mine, and had all appliances for mining and handling ore more complete than the other, and did produce more ore in the month, but the products of both mines were so nearly equal that the difference was trifling. Let me see— ba here I have a memorandum in my note ok of the amount taken out of the San Miguel mine in seven days from January 27 to February 23, just $23,000. The two superintendents re- newed their bet for the month ot February, but Ido not know the result. It must have been close. The San Miguel was producing rich ore and native silver from small pieces up to pieces that weighed 40 pounds. Some of these pieces were so pure that they were cut up with a cold chisel to put into the crucible to be melted and run into bricks. When leaving the mines I brought out to the city of Chihuahua about $95,000 in bullion, the product of the mines under Goy. Shepherd’s management for the month of February. For about two weeks before my departure the San Miguel and Roncesyalles were both ‘ous pro |econnect with proper vent runui the RUNNING INTO BONANZA, and producing rich native silver ore. The Mar- timas, San Pedro, Penesquita, Camuchin and Animas mines were also producing very rich silver ore, with every indication of bonanza. From what I saw and learned by personal inves- tigation I am convinced that the Batopilas min- ing district is, on the whole, one of the richest ever discovered anywhere, if not the very rich- est. Itistrue that some of the other mining districts of Mexico may be more fully developed, but this may be “accounted for from the fact that the district was comparatively re- mote one. And yet it must have been @ famous jace _in times past. I real- ized this w! I saw the trails whith in places were worn by actual travel deep into the solid rock. You can understand that, when from one mine alone. the old Carmen, we have accounts that #54,000,000 in silver were taken— and that only one of several in the district— there must have been a good deal of travel over these trails. Gov. Shepherd ts opening the old shafts of the Carmen, which have been closed for ninety years. There are large chambers con- nected with these, where the bonanzas were worked out. Goy. Shepherd has had many diffi- culties to overcome.among them being interrup- tions from freshets in the arroyos, but he has pro- vided against these by building walls of ma- gonry, etc., and deftecting their currents in such a way asto prevent damage to his workings. He has twenty stamps on his hacienda, and there is now an outfit of twenty-five more stamps on the way. He will, therefore, soon_be in a con- dition to provide for the disposal of a very large output. He is also utilizing the water power of the Batopila river by means of a diteh or can and will soon be able to operate his mills alto- gether by water.” “Do you return to Chihuahua 2” “Yes; in about a month I expect to return. I like the place. It is very healthy, My faith in it is very great. The outiook there is more flat- tering than I would dare to say; but I can tell you that, in my opinion, in the next six months the district will astonish everybody by the ex- tent of its production. There is no stock-job- bing connected ith it—no stock for sale—and that is a satisfaction. The enterprise of mining there will be conducted on sound business principles, and the result will be most satistac- tory to all concerned.” = es TELEPHONE RICHES. Hiow the Telephone was Invented— The Rapid Growth of the System— Facts and Figures. From a Wasbinztcn Letter to the Cleveland Loader. I met to-day, at the Riggs house, a man who is largely interested in the manufacture of the Bell telephone and in telegraphic instruments, and was much surprised at some of the state- ments he made in regard to the business. This man is so well known to the electricians of the United States and to the parties interested that he does not wish to have his name given. “The telephone industry,” said he, ‘Is growing like Jonah’s gourd. Within the past month I haye | been over nearly the whole of the Union, and | find the use of telephones increasing so largely that the manufacturers are unable to supply the demand. Within the last six weeks I have taken orders for our factory alone for 6,600 telephone bells, and 1 will sell ten thou- sand more within the next month. The demand for the coming spring promises to be the largest ever known in the history of the telephone. We have orders enough now on hand to keep us | busy tor two years, and we are Increasing our capacity every year. There are five other fac- tories in the United States making the Bell tel- ephone, and they are all doing well.” “‘Is there much money in the telephones?” I asked. “Well, I should say so,” was the reply. “I don't know of any business that pays better. Telephore companies usually make a dividend ot 15 per cent the first year, and this notwith- standing the cost of laying wires and putting in the instruments. After this the expense is com- paratively little and the receipts proportionately greater. “Nearly every man who has been largely in- terested in telephones.” continued this gentle- man, “has become wealthy. All of the original company of the Bell invention, with, perhaps single exception, are now millionaires. — Bell nif Was seven years ago a poor English- living In New I come from One day when he | messages he over the wires, and he con- ceived the idea of his telephone. I was with him at the time he made his instrument. and we geve the first exhibition of it in the hall of Yale Colle fore the students. Tt weuldn’t work, and we nee With the Impression that xperiment was a failure nd we & couple of fools. We how a few days later, | House at New Haven, and suc- ed'sowell that the Bell company was or- fat once. I think I established the first omipany using the Instrument. Geo. st electrician In the United | elf were in partnership. Our first exch ad eight wires, and they | ran to the houses of friends over the city. No one thouxht of using it for business then. We had no bel but used electric buttons like those for calling servants at the hotels. The suc created great excitementin New Haven, and we soon had twenty-five subscribers and had to put In thirteen more wires. We next made a board of 100 wires. Up to this time it had been used entirely for social chatting and for the curiosity of the thing. Then the business men saw the advantages of the invention and subscribers came in faster than we could put up the wires. It soon spread to other cities; first to Baston, then Lowell, Albany, Troy, and next to Chi . After this exchanges sprang up go rapidly all over the country that it was impossible to keep track of them. And from that time on the new business was a success, At present there are { more telephones in New York than in any other city in the world, and the number has been in- creasing at the rate of twenty a day for the last year. Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland and Cincinnati are now putting in over fifty new telephones every montli, and Nashville is increasing Its subscribers at the rate of two per day. The villages are establishing exchanges, and the time will come when the major part of | the houses will be connected by telephone. The business Is being pushed in Europe as well as in America, but foreigners are go slow to taxe up new things that there is not now one tele- | phone In England to one hundred in America. Tn France the telephone is used by some of the larger business houses, but as a convenience for the people it is almost unknown, In the other | countries of Europe it is much the same. The people didn’t seem to understand the value of the Invention, and they don’t take hold of it as the Americans do.” “What does it cost a man to havea tele- phone?” “The rates are different In different places, ranging from $3 to $20a month. When Coy and myself started the tirst exchange we charged $18 a year. Now in New York each subscriber within half a mile of the exchange pays $15 a month, and in Boston and Baltimore from $100 to $220 a year.” “What is Mr. Bell worth now?” I asked. “At least $6,000,000,” was the reply. “His income is very large, and increases every year with the extent of the business. He 1s a dark- complexioned man, between thirty-five and forty years of age. He talks with an English accen and has a keen eye for business. Attempts are being now made to break down his patents, but it is questionable whether they succeed.” “Tell me something about other men who have made money in telephones.” “It would take all night.” was the reply. “Nearly every man who has handled them has made money. One of the most notable instan- ces ig that of Thomas Watson, the old gtay- haired mechanic who used to help Bell in his experiments. He had a little shop in New Haven, and made electrical instruments. Bell would give him his ideasof what he wanted,and thetwo would experiment together until the pro- per result was reached. When thecompany was organized Bell made him general inspector for the United States. He is now a milllonaire,and his family are traveling in Europe. “Marshall Jewell was largely interested in telephones, and made a great deal of money by them. H. P. Frost, president of the Connecti- cut Telephone company, has lald up a million within the last few years, and George W. Coy is also a millionaire. Coy lives at New Haven, and owns a magnificent residence at Millford, near there. He has more electrical patents reg- istered at Washington than any other man in the United States. He has now sold all his pat- ents to the United States Telephone company, and has nothing to do with Bell's. The Bell men fear him, and awake every morning expect- ing to hear that he has perfected some new in- vention which will throw them entirely out of the market. Coy gets $5,000 a year for doing nothing. Hetakes atrip to New York every and then, and the United States company ask his advice as to electrical matters, and they pay him this money for what he tells them. He is by all odds the brightest electrician in the United State Wait Till You See Flynn. From Texan Siftings. Timothy Flynn was a tallor In the employ of Mr. Peters. The domestic affairs of Timothy and his wife were not conducted with harmony. Broken heads and dismembered articles of farn- iture frequently attested that fact. Last Monday Timothy did not come to work. On Tuesday Mr. Peters went to his house to see him. He met Mrs. Flynn at the door. A black eye, @ bruised nose and atriumphant smile were her most prominent features, os ae to have been having 8 devil of a fone ae 5 ol peed Mr. Peters; ‘‘you are all “Don't talk, Mr. My talk till ye sep ee Lord love ye, don't Our first attempt | © A MODEST WORD FOR AKOTA. Pat Donan, the “North Dakota Wind- mi.” “Dakota has been placed In the attitude of a professional beggar, shinning around in dirty lobbies, pleading and whining for her own in- tenable constitutional rights. I am tired of the hole business, and I think our duty now is to simply invite Congress to go to the devil, and set up independently on our own hook. Dakota has domain enough, resources enough, material ad- yantagea of soil, climate and mineral wealth enough to make an empire herself. She ought to hang the first fellow Who goes, or proposes to go, to Washington on any begging expedi- tion. With more territory than New England, New York. w Jersey and half of Pennsylva- nia combined; with more population then New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, Florida and Neyada; with more daily papers than any three southern states put together, and with more general intelligence among her people than is to be found in all the professional politicians of both parties at Washington, she has within her- self every thing necessary for a glorious home- Jand.” oo Depot Conundrums, From the Detrcit Free Press. “Yes, madam, this is the foot of Fourth street. The train for Chicago starts from here. It starts at the same time it used to from the foot of Third street. The tlme table has not been changed. The train for Chicago passes through Jackson. Yes, it stops at Wayne, just the same as it did when it started from Third | street. You can get your trunk checked clear through to Chicago. You will not have to change cars. The train is run under precisely the same rules, over the same route, and by the same time table as if it started from Third street. The price of tickets is just the same. Yes, Mma@am; that Is the ticket office. You can get your ticket there for Wayne. Step right into the waiting room, please. You will be notified before the train starts.” “What per cent of ladles. unaccompanied bi gentlemen, warm up your eure in that style?” inquired a reporter of the depot official. “One hundred. If one should pass into the waiting room without inquiring if this Is the foot ot Fourth street, 1 think I should faint. Yes, miss, this is the foot of Fourth street. This train goes to Chicago. It goes by the way of Kalamazoo, and always stops at. ” ‘The reporter fled, and as_a business specula- tion has taken out an insurance policy on the life of that official for a large amount. er Russian Prisons. St. Petersburg Dispatch to London Timea. As the state of the Russian prisons has lately been the subject of much discussion in the Eng- lish periodical press it may be interesting to notice the official report, now published, for the period between June, 1880, and the end of 1881. The recent extraordinary revolt of over 500 pris- oners in one of the houses of correction in St. Petersburg adds additional Interest to the mat- | ter, Jt appears that the outbreak in question was caused either through bad food being dealt out, or in consequence of a blow struck at the Starost, or elder, a kind of representative whom the pris: oners of the less dangerous sort undergoing sol- itary confinement are allowed to elect from among themselves for certain necessary communication with the prison authorities. A commission has been appointed to Inquire more closely into the matter. Two soldiers were wounded in guarding the outer gates. It was said that a leutenant of the watch Jiad Kept the prisoners at bay until three companies of the guard arrived, | but the officer turns out to have been a ser- geant only; and hence, in addition to the deco- Tation 0} Anne and other rewards, the gift of twenty-five hard rubles were bestowed hini by the Imperial Commander of the During the period of eighteen months, ‘1 by the report referred to, there were prisoners kept in Russion prisons that were crowding in general is considerable, but in | some localities, especially in Poland, ‘It is so great that anything like order’ is per- feetly impossibie. vince of I Piotrkomt the prison built tor 125 inmates no less than 65 in the Province souvalky there are 433 persons in a building intended for only 165; and in the Provinee of Siedice 484 oecupy the | space which would probably be allotted to 207. The disorder and {dleness which naturally re- sult are to be expected. It is impossible to em- ploy solitary confinement, or even separate the risoners at night when such overcrowding ex- ists. In the prison which was the scene of the recent revolt they are chained up at intervals fromeach other during the night. As to the idleness, from want of space and general organ- | ization, the report complains that in thirty-two prisons in which hard labor is performed the | produce of the work done during 1881 amounted only to about £15,000; so that the enormous burden of prison expenditure is not much light- ened in this way. The bare cost of transporting 16,199 criminals as_ far as Tiumen, in 1881, was 711,000 rubles; 1,352 prisoners effected their es- cape during the eighteen months covered by the report, and not, as was first stated, in the space of six months. No particular reference ap- pearsto be made inthe report to political offenders. —_—__+e-______ How She Takes fler Leave. From the New York Graphic, Did you ever notice how long it takes a wo- man of the always going and never gone order to get out of the room? Something thus: She has risen to depart, a matter which really won't be accomplished for the next half hour. She talks: ‘And asI was saying—” (steps towards the door) “she says to me, says she” (steps back again), “I never said anything of the kind” (steps towards the door). ‘What I did say was that” (steps back again and talks). You think it’s all ut an end and that she’s really going. (She takes three very slow steps to- wards the door.) ‘Why, no, I didn’t. If she said that she said what wasn’t so. I never said any such thing.” (Comes back. Starts in afresh, Apparently forgets that she has to go at all.) “Well, I Know. you wouldn't believe any such thing of me. I think she might—well, she should be more careful.” (Turns again to go.) “Well, [told him it wasn't so.” (Swings slowly around.) ‘Well, I must be going. No, indeed. You don’t say so. Do you? Well. I never. Now—(goes at it again hammer and tongs)—it’s always been the way with her in everything. Why, do you know, I’ve done more for her—helped her fix her dress—well, I must be going.” (Hand on the door knob. Keeps it there.) “Yes. Well, yon may just say it’s no such a thing. I wasn’t there and I didn’t say It.” (Opens the door.) “How much did it cost? I gave $3 for mine. Well, I_ must be going. Yes, [ know.” (Keeps the door open and lets the draught in.) “Why if he had been there I guessI_ should have known it. She don’t know half the time what she is saying. (Closes the door all but a chink and remains in- side.) “It isn’t likely that I would have gone and done such a thing.” (Swings door to and fro.) “Well, you can say this for me, that I never said so.” (She is still at. the door knob.) A Father Broken-Hearted. From the Atlanta (Ga. ) Constitution, March £0. Miss Lillie Wall, of Irwin county, was dan- gerously ill for several days, and the doctors quietly informed her father, Mr. Jaspar Wall, that his daughter could not possibly live. Going to her bedside, and viewing her sadly,the father said: ‘My darling child, you are obliged to die, but I only hope that i may die first.” Shortly after he went into convuisions, and was soon dead, followed three hours later by the death of his daughter. ~ Tue Last SLicut Accipent to Queen Victoria called out the usual remark, ‘but she ts so old accidents are of more account.” Here are some authentic figures of the ages of reigning sover- eigns which. with the current added, may be pasted in the prayer book of those who pray for the President of the United States and ‘ others in authority:” ueen Victoria... mperor Alexander. Empress Dagmar. .of England... Empress Augusta. Emperor Francis Joseph. Empress Elizabeth, King Humbert.. Queen Marguerita...- ‘ing Leopold... Marle Henrietta. SELSESASES ntended to hold only 76,000. The over- | For instance, in the Pro- | A Reminiscence of Olé Hickery. Asheville (N. C.) Cor. Nashville American. Mr. Bacchus Smith, an old and excellent citi- zen of this county, has giyen me many inter- esting incidents of the ‘‘days that are no more.” One of these is abuut Andrew Jackson. When Andrew was a young limb of the law, he hung out his shingle in Jonesboro, East Tennessee. Among the many distinguished lawyers that attended the court at Jonesboro was General Waitsell Avery, of North Carolina, one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde- pendence. General Avery always carried in one of the capacious pockets of his overcoat an old copy of Lord Bacon's Law Digest, carefully wrapped up in brown paper. In all important lawsuits this venerable law book figured con- spicuously, asthe old general would draw it out just in time to rout Jackson and the other young lawyers. One night, while GeneralAvery's | overcoat was hanging up ‘at the hotel, Jackson slipped Lord Bacon out and put a piece of tat | bacon the samo size in the paper and placed it in the pocket. Next day the young lawyers badgered General Avery very badiy in a law case, pur- posely to bring out the Bacon Digest as usual. He said: “May it please your Honor, Lord Bacon furnishes a precedent. that fits my view of this case precisely, and I will proceed to read it to the court.” With this he took the packet out of his pocket and proceeded to unfold it. To the surprise of the court, the delight of the young lawyers and the amusement of every- body the bacon proved to be fat hog meat. The old lawyer was hopping mad and challenged young Jackson, and the latter accepted, Col. Bob Love, afterward ot the place, being his second. The | seconds, unknown tothe principals, loaded the pis- tols with blank cartridges, and,ofcourse,no blood was shed. A grandson of General Avery is now holding superior court in this place, and I am told he is an able jurist. Mr. Smith says he went to Washington in 1830, when Jackson was President, and_his Congressman, Carson, took him up to the White House. They walked into President Jackson's private room, and the lat- ter was sitting before the fire, feet propped up against the fireplace, and a pipe with a long stem in his hand. He shook hands with young Smith when he was introduced as from Hay- wood county, and said: ‘From Haywood county, | eh? How are my old friends Bob and Tom ; Love?” When Jackson was reading law at Salisbury he served as constable, and was a good hand to ‘arrest wrong doers. ‘Atterward, when he be- came a judge in Tennessee, he left the bench one day during the court and arrested a criminal | Whom the officers could not arrest. England and Egypt. ‘Henry Labouchere in London Truth. The publication of Lord Dufferin’s report on affairs in Egypt will dispel many illusions. The inevitable conclusion is, either that we must practically annex Egypt, or that we must with- draw from that country, leaving the Egyptians to themselves. Whilst vast sums have been yearly collected, and sent out of the country to pay bogus debts, every public department has been starved. The dessert is encroaching on the fertile land; the canals are filling up; the fellahs are crushed by a load of taxation and by interest on borrowed money. Neither the Khe- dive nor his Pashas are to be trusted. As we cannot annex, we must adopt the other alter- native, and withdraw. In the meantime, Sir A. Colvin, as the representative of the old system of sacrificing everything to the exigencies of the bondholders, ought to be recalled. Itis becoming every day clearer that we made a terrible mistake in siding with the Khe- | dive and the bondholders against Arabi and the | nation; that our position is every moment be- | coming more utterly false; and that Egypt will | go trom bad to worse so long as we continue to | meddle, and continue to insist on a taxation | belng levied which isruinous to thecountry and to its inhabitants. This view of the situation may be read between the lines of Lord Dutfferin’s report. —_—___-o-_____ i Saturday Smiles. Why is a young man like a kernal of corn?” jasked a young lady. ‘Because,” said another, “he turn’ white when he pops.” | “Take care of the useful, and the beautiful | will take care of itselt.” This is what the fond and numerous father remarked when he mar- ried off his ugliest daughter first.—Puck. The papers are publishing a picture of Freddie Gebhardt among the “self-made men.” This is probably because Freddie has made an ass of bimselt. A Connecticut woman has sold out her milll- nery shop and opened a saloon. She concluded that supplying .women with head gear was neither as pleasant nor as profitable as fitting men with night caps. A RucerpT.—Lilly M. S., Monmouth, Illinois: “Would you be so kind as to give me a receipt tora baked plum pudding?” Certainly, Lilly, certainly. Send on your baked plum pudding, | and we'll send you a receipt for it by return | mail. Could you senda three cent stamp to cover postage ? B. Franklin says: ‘Time is an herb that cures all diseases.” Franklin evidently didn’t know much about “yarbs,” and was not at the head of the class in spelling, if he was printer. Thyme is an herb, but not being a patent medicine, It will not cure all diseases.— The Imp. “Doctor, can’t you tell me what’s the matter with him?” asked an anxious mother, whose son was undergoing a medical examination. “Humor in the blood,” replied the doctor. “I knowed it. I toldhim not to read fanny papers, but he would do it, and the first thing he knows it will strike his brain and kill him.” A Scotch person said, somewhat sarcastically, of a hard drinker, that “he put an enemy in his mouth to steal away his brains, but that the en- emy, after a thorough and protracted search, re- turned without anything?” A little boy being asked if he was dux of his class, replied: ‘I am where the head of the class ve te be, but the teacher has turned the class round.” The best fire-escape is when your wife gets up in the morning and makes “Sam,” said a jolly, fat darkey to his compan- jon, as they sat on the dock fishing for floun- ders, “why am dese yere suckers like our Con- g’essmun?” A ase dey tink demselves smart?” suggested am. “Go ’way wid yer nonsense. It's kase dey is 80 fond ob de bait,” was the answer. + A bachelor and a spinster, who had been schoolmates in youth and were about the same age, met in after vears, and the lady chancing to remark that ‘‘men live a great deal faster than women,” the bachelor replied: *‘Yes, Ma- ria; the last time we met we were each. twenty- four years old; now I’m over forty, anf I hear you haven't reached thirty yet.” They never met again. If you want to find a logician, go to your tailor. The other day one of these fractions of the human family was overheard to remark, “I never ask a gentleman for money.” “But sup- pose he doesn’t pay you, what then?” if he doesn’t pay me within a reasonable time I conclude he is not a gentleman—and then I ask him.”—TheJt A gentleman admires a charming woman over whose head the swarms of seventeen-year lo- custe have at least thrice. ‘But, I say,” says one of his friends, ‘she’s very charming, I know; still, you must admit that she is wrinkled.” <‘‘Wrinkled!” echoes the chivalrous lover. ‘‘No, sir. There may be the indelible impressions of a smile upon her face here and there, but that is all.” First woman—But, of course, there is no way of getting at her age!_ Second woman—Oh, yea, there is! Multiply it by two! It cast a gloom over the entire assemblage, nee aes church pait eee oe walked up to the grab-bag and prize cake and aakea that the game be explained to him before he bought any chips.—Atlania Constitu- tion, £ There was a servants’ ball at the Angel, and Mary Jane went. Pretty early in thé evening she fiounced in with an inflamed countenance. “Why, Mary Jane,” aaid the missus, “surely it’s not all over yet?” ‘No, mum, but I've been in- sulted! As I was comin’ out of the supper the baker's young man he says to me, ‘I hope, miss,” says he, ‘your program’s not quite tull,’ and me that had eaten hardly an; is A nice young man thought he had found some- thing pure and tresh in the shape of a laughing little witch of a girl, and was on the point of roposing marriage, when she scattered his font hopes to the winds by remarking one eve- ning, “You hug and kiss me more than - gentleman I am acquainted with, except Bill Wallace; and he is a baggage-smasher, and comes here only once a month.” A lady of mature age is consulting her lawyer about instituting lings for divorce: “T perceive,” says the lawyer. “you wish to obtain a separation because of his cruelty.” “{ wouldn't have minded so much being beaten,” sobs the lady, “if he had beaten me in an ordinary manner, he didn’t—the scoun- drel didn’t, sir, he used to thrash me with——” “with? Compose yourself, my dear mad- avewith husband's cane!” my poor, dear first cane! L®. OF LETTERS REMAINING IN T! WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1883. SF To obtain Of these Letters the re iians tele: Bell Netne Mareen Addie pairicree | Beer con Morey Daa lie EJ en ‘y Martha Binuvemer MV Mi Mitchel) Lizzie Brown Matilda Mane Mise Badeher Naunte Marshall Win Mre rown 1eging yors WB Mra Bell Kebecca MeLane Annie M Bultues Roberts. MeLavghiin hte son Sus Peley re Julia cet Radie foCdenan MA Carr AK McKee Saral Glastor Alios Meteague W Mrs Coleman Ac Nelson Mre Crait Clara B Runnelly Delta Sook Tala Och annie ry Annie G O'Sullivan Hanoria ° Eliza Page Angeiipa Gox Martha, Perry GW Campbell Mary Pat Clapp 8 Mre Peyton Mary Carty Suni Parkhurst Sarah Couch 5 J Mrs Han Aunie Dixon Ray Auna Den Ellen Roberson Berle Downy 1 Robinson Fannie Danton Mayxie Homan i Mrs Dorsey Op! Raney Ida Ellis Lizzie F ven. Jowie Ewing Martha Privcills ‘ox AW Mr Ford Matilde * Saunders Agnes Ford Mary, 2 ry Fitsxeraid Mary, 2 Stouffer Catherine Fobs Leana Btone CP Gochan AF Gasking Emily Green Frences Gusham J Hunter Lizzie oi Gorman Leila Glover Mabel Gasten Miss rill Mire Hoeftich Annie lexeulooper Carrie Henry 6M Hunt-r Hester r Hanis Julia ‘Tyler J Alex Mre Hamilton 3 Thomas Lydia House JC Mra Tapht Lizzie Kopkins Katie ‘Tyler Lizzie @ ‘Tay2or Mary. Turner Matida Hogg Laura od Mise Hart Maze Tucker Mre Hichew Mary Vincent Macia iyed Martha Webster Emma Hughes W B Mra Walker Fhza Johneon Lil Wilbams Helen James MA Wiliams Julia Johnson Mary Ifeld Linzie Jones Nelhe Woma Mary Jones Susan Willson Mies Jackson Suxan ‘Wems Susie A. Kenney Clara nite Sarah & Kennedy Fi Wilson Win Mrs MISCELLANEOUS. "'Qst. and Sherman ave,” Mount Pleasant GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Anderson M Robert Asker Bennard. Key Walter C ‘Adame PL Le Bland The Bishop A Tighthill AP Dr Barnes H- Langhores D Barstow AO Lewis David Capt Bonce Chas E on John D Braxton Carter M- Maxruder Alian Beale Forbes: M: Bradford Gershon M ‘Chas Bostick GH Moton Harry Bowen H C Moore Jan B Barber Jerry Morgan John Bebuske M Morgan James Brawner Pe Miller Julius B Bebuske Robert Manus James Baden WH Merrill John Jay Britton WN Joe MD Boles W Henry ett WL Culen & Co Clark AW Crain Alfred GoleCHon Sovington Geo P, Cunumings J ML rJD istock M y Compton Paul Nolle JB Golo 5 8 Cafit Oxden IO Carson Wi Outton Ju'ius Ss Cole WE berg Joun W ol Parkman & Co Pinkbsm AJ Major Poot MF Fendieton Muscoe eree Steward 0 jueen P Rowelia AE rd Doherty Patrick Dannent Ed 8 Dixon Frank English John Ehrlich Lee Fowler Ait Hobigron Nimrod Fremon Jone} ‘oot KT: Fowler Jorep Reynolds Surgeon BM Fowler JA Robinson Rove Fry Join A Rice Senator Faulkner Mr Rowe WH ‘ord MJ Smith Ambrose Farley Patrick Bnyder Chas © Fletcher Kobert Shaw Capt CH2 Green Col Bedwick Col Gerbardt Chas Scott Char Gaylord Dwight Southwick Emmet Spencer Garduer Gillyard Howard nes He Glenman J H Stewart HO Gray John Hon Snow HA Green KV les H Gilmore Thoa P Smith W BW pes Cl her Spear Wit Huniprhrey D ‘olley Arthur Techon Antonio Hunt EJ Tomas Robt Hulane @ N Towns tobt lolly Geo: ‘ay ior Hoga Yant itich’d Hughes GeoL Vasburgh WR Hildt GG Yan Swartwout Wm H Humble Harry Wade Alfred Hunt Jam Wiltiatne Master Clifford Hawkesville JM Winchell CW. i Webb Rev EB Hawley Lucian Weston FC toward Win Wakely G D Hoffmann Will G Woodward G Mt Harkins Wm. Wileon Jotmron # Ge Wood James? Ef z Walker KH Jones Luther Worthi 8 Kelly Kaward Wagner Wm © Keyes John Wi 8 Ma) WW Knoblacer J.C ates Jas W Kelly Samuel List OF LE’ REMAINING IN EAST TTERS CAPITOL STATION, Barunpay, Apnin 7, 1883, LADIES’ LIST. Cook Julia Jenkins Susie, 2 Harris Jennie lig Mary GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Reave Robt L Liney Thomas Robb Jno H LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE GEORGE- TOWN, D. C., POST OFFICE, SaTuRpay, APR 7, 1883. LADIES' LIST. Shoemaker Esther Brown Minnie E Little Miss Benton Mre A M it T. L. TULLOOK, Postmaster. New LOTHING House. ROBINSON, PARKER & CO., 819, 8. E. Con. 17H amp D.8r8, “Well, |. ENTIRE NEW STOCK or MEN AND BOYS CLOTHING, SPRING OVERCOATS 4 BPEcuLrY. ROBINSON, PARKER & CO., mbi16-8m —_‘819.8.E.Cor. 7th and D Sts. Taz Luaorex Enxcravine Co. 1425 =e avenue, ‘Fine Cuts for Relief or Plate Press Printing by Bend for Cirenlan =" New Proveme £20-2m Gas Cooxme Sroves FOR SALE 5 AT THE GASLIGHT OFFICE, TENTH #TREET. it must {ve the date of FP" if act called for within one month they will be sent | THIS to the Dead Letter Office. fi NE Danxz G. Hares & Comma, "_ ALARGE STOCK CONSTANTLY ON HAND, WEFK WF WILT OPEN BARGAINS IN ALD THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. GENTS’ FURNISHING DEPARTMENT. HHALF-HOSE. WORTH 80 CENTS, A! ATR ONLY. WHITE SILA SuSE MARGE RFRCHIEF, WORTH $1, At 88 CENTS 0: BALBRIGGAN UNDERSHINTS AT SO CENTS, THE CRLFRRATED C. P. CORSET IN ALL, \OLORS ONLY $2.38. ONE LOT MARE 0c WHITE GOODS AND TABLE ALL POPULAR BRAN SAT PRE IN TOWE CORSET DEPARTMENT, TISCENTS, WORT . i : fey mown oR Ds OF M CORT THE BEST BARGAINS FROX Ww To 25CENT DRESS TRIMMING DEPARTMENT. BAYING IN a r 1AM ES D i GAINS. ; y >A DOLe LAN A YARD AT ONLY 50 CENTS. HANDO SOME PLAIN APPLIQUE GIMP WORTH 824 YARD AT ONLY $1. EMBROIDERIES AND LACE DEPARTMENT: ANOTHER LOT OF RARE AND CHOTCR PaAT- TABS OTL EROM 224 TO 12 CEN C8 & P20 CENTS ONLY. | ONE LOT TORe CHON PACE ATS CESTS A YARDS NOTION DEPARTMENT. MACEAME CORD IN ALL SHADES, BOYS’ CLOTHING, A FUN, STOCK JUST RECEIVED. SAL SUITS FOR BOYS FROM 4 TO 12 YEARS A’ hy MELTS THE BEST ASSOKTMEN 8 FOR GOOD Goons, A U0 UT MM MM om anny aa U U MMMM 8 A wo Pa sy a 4 UU MMM Asss3 416 Irn STREET. oOr FAL Mende Gian, Crockery, OY ¥Y aAaL Wood, China, Leather, O VY AAL &ec., solid aa rock! Hard, O ¥Y AAAL A oo ¥ A ALL t vu Uv L uu tT vou L, uu LLL uu No Prenaration—Alwa: Mends M: St ite! Goods a and On every kind, Book Backs, Fart! everyt else with everlasting ineep T acity th Manufacturers of Gummed |. ‘ries. Five ™ nd Pianos and Cabinet Makers, Soro) Bawyers, supplied by gallon or barrel. 20.Cte. per Rottle: by mail, post-paid, 10¢. Mailed only bythe namafacturcen, 3. U. 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