Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1883, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY. INTERIOR DECORATE Eastlake and Early English Giving Way to the Hennissance. AND ELEGANCE SOUGHT FOR, AND AN- STUDIED — STAINED GLASS, SAND BIAS. From the Cine nnati Enquirer. A revolution backward In point of time is working in house-decoratlon. Eastlake and early English have Grace rators are turning to the Renalssance—espe- elally the Flemish tenaiseance—tor fresh inspira- tion. Oak and stamped leather are the favorite materials, and wainse high. Hi finish the ‘m coming m z is carried unusually 1 ceilings and friezes i tained glass is specially in the new sub- more ¢ tot f wealth o ui retinement find sem » than biue china alone. d symphon! of complimentary color rT This is seen int r as color enters: endale or Colontal style is some- in new designs for interiors, Is more antique. ess as la nang passing away. mples ometimes, making to be secure. ht cur they look very pretty, ot Washington in the times before our civil fort. a war. Mr. and Mrs. Green resided at “Rose- Gas Frees IN WROUGHT IRON AND BRass. | dale,” where their daughter Alice. married th 1 Wrought fron, others in all with flowing lines . and should vn the Tul. da ehh une kood thing for the taste tion: "ED T ATUPR AND LINCRESTA. T ofacostiy but be: terial which lends fself reallly to the ideas of the decorator, It ts costly In the mat th nship, for the figures be em hand, but this manner of work allows for unending varia- : or on the \ substitute for walls is the ial composed of and will nt losing’the sharp lines of i upon it. in whieh it It lacks the grain mah the luminosity of : imitated. Wilton, ground cork stand spons the pattern ws, besides s! 1 Furnitu fean onyx. of wi Bome of the slabs ' in sur- face. Wi it is desired to cut off the view ing light altogether, this translucent material is used. h it strains a mellow, Whitish Licht, 0 the eye. MATERIALS 2 Black walnut has b Past, and is so sath Bses of the de: workman, it is not likely to be totally superseded. but the favorite woods now for furniture are malozaay, eherry and oak, espe- | the Me: row FUE o largely tn the jal for the the tool of the ¢lally antique oak. The harder woods are more | Useful in the graceful designs in vogue for movable furnity For turniture are many of ers other than leather there Known materials in the ived designs of centuries | Bent-weod fui been |. Artiel ght, elastic and indestr any amount a ible, and will stand Many of the de- signe are ur zl sometimes the curves are carried beyond any relation to the use for whieh the furniture is Intended, and then bad taste is shown. <2 ee The Sorrow of the Sea, A day of fading Ight upon the sea; Of sea-birds winging to their rocky caves; And ever with lis monotone to me, The sorrow of the waves. ‘They leap and lash among the rocks and sands, White-itpped, as with a guilty secret tossed, Forever feeling with their foamy hands For something they have lost. Far out, and swaying tn a sweet unrest, A boat or two against the light fs seen, Dipping their sides within the liquid breast waters dark and green, And further still, where sea and sky have kissed, ‘There falls, as If from heaven's own threshold, Hgnht, 5 Upon faint hiils that, halt enswathed in mist, Vait for the coming night. But still, through ail thts life and motion meet, ¥ thoughts are wingless and life dead In me, Or dimls stir to answer at my feet ‘The sorrow of the sea. a San Francisco Cable Roads. The San Francisco householder, Cresus particularly, has “a station Ike the | case, the creature 18 undoubtedly a cyascutus, herald Mercury new-lighted on adieaven-kissing | bu.” How In the world, I have asked, does he der the cable road one of the vei been able to refrain till now ftom bringing It for- ward. It tsa peculiar kind of tramway. quite as useful on a level, but Invented expressly for the purpose of overcoming steep elevations. 0 cars, coupled together. are seen moving, at @ high rate of speed, withont jar, and in per- fect safety. up and down all the extraordi- Bary undulations of the ground. They Rave no horse, no steam, no vestiges of machinery, no ostensible means of locomotion. ‘The astonished comment of the Chinaman, ob- serving this marvel for the frst time, old as it fa, may be worth repeating once more for its quaint force: “ Meliean man’s wagon no pushee. Bo pullee: all same go top side hill like flashee.” ‘The solution of the mystery ts in an endiess wire cable hidden Jn a box in thie road-bed, and turn- Ing over a great wheel in an engine house at the top of the hill. The foremost of the two cars is provided with a grip or pincers, running under- Beath it, through a continuous crevice in the same box as the cable, and managed by a con- @uctor. When he wishes to go on he clutches the always moving cable and goes with it; if he Wishes to stop he simply lets go and pats on a Brake. Fortunately there is no snow and Ice in this climate to clog the central cretice, which, _ necessities of the case, must be open. system has been applied, however, with emendations, in Chicago, and no doubt could be tm New York. The great houses on the hill, like almost all the residences of the city, are found to be of | Church there. Ina sermon preached by him re- wood. It seems a pity, to the outsider. consid- q@ing the money spent, that they should be. ‘The fact is attributed to the superior warmth and dryness of wood over brick or stone in @ moist. cool climate, and also to greater eecurity against earthquakes. Whatever the Feason, the San Francisco Creesnses have Feared for themselves palaces which might be Swept off by a breadth, and leave no trace of Their existence. Their architecture has noth- img tocommend it to favor. They are large, her over-ornate, and of no particular style. The Hopkins residence, which is a costly Gothic ebateau, carried out, like the rest, in wood, may Beexcepted from this description. The ‘base- ment stories, } er. are of stone, and there ts: in these and in foundations which would build many a first-class Eastern mansion alone. To pr sites for habitations on these steep hills hia- an enormous labor and expense. The part played by retaining- walls, terraces, and staircases of approach is ex- faordinary. The merest wooden cottage is pre- ~ faced by works of this kind, which outweigh its ewn Importance a dozen to one.— W. Hl. Bishop, te Harper's Magazine for May, ee ‘Phe garden-truck raised about Norfolk, Va., (ils season will require 1,000,000 barrels in Which to market it. mbossed leather referred to is a revival | ach had their day, and deco- | and loyal a citizen of Mexico as ex-President of | was deposed by the turbulent people and ban- Is not so | © styles go the new gas Don A the stems that bear the | Judge . and if they | et | de : | one of the Plat il bea | four grandchildren, whom W iture. an Austrian patent, has | ©" in this style are | and the | the other side. then, by the cable roads. I | structu ry | of its peculiar one-stded development the gyas- foremost in the list of curiosities, though I have | CUtus is, however, adapted for living on moun- jalone, the garden of Eden is bt ‘The Grandson of « Mexican Emperor— A Story of Real Life which Reads Like a Homance. Among the passengers by the steamship Ger- Mania, which arrived at New York Sunday from Liverpool, was Don Augustin de Yturbide, the oldest lineal representative of the only North American imperial family, but, notwithstanding that relationship, quite as steadfast a republican Diaz, who Is a visitor in New York at the same time. The young prince, who has been visit- ing friends 1a Europe for the past six months, is prepossessing In appearance, and looks to be about twent Heis the grand- son of Au of Mexico, and of whom many dents of that | antry still speak as “the Liberator. e movement which freed Mexico from Spanish vntrol had the elder Yturbide for one ot its 1s, and it-resulted in placing bin on the . where he remained about one year. He thron ished to Ital: rned in the spring of 1824, was ar- ted. and was blicly shot July 1of that year on the charze of t on. Angel Yturblde was the second son of the Emperor, and it Is his son who isnow in New York. His mother is with him. The present Prince Is the only polit- ir of the F eror Maximilian, who adopt- asthe heirto the throne when he was two years old. On the maternal side young Don Aucustin isagreat vrandson of General Uriah Forrest, of the American revolutionary army, who lost_alegin the battle of Brandy- ¢ and was wounded again at Germantown, a delegate inthe Continental Congres in 735-7, and a Representative in the Federal Congress in 17034, and died in 1805 at his country house, “Rosedate,” neat George- town. D.C, Forrest's wife was a daughter of deorge Plater, of Maryland, president ot the convention In which the federal constitution. ters married Mr. John i-known in the society who was Green, a gentleman w Yturbide ing his diplomatic hington. On his mother’s side stints allied ith the Scott Key, the writer of 1 Banner,” whose uncle, Key, married one of Gen. and with the Custis famil the wife of Gen. Weshington, ers having married ene of her service cendants ter the death of ‘ustis, his aide- ‘yr contracted shis own m camp of Yorktown, edale” still is In the possession of the of Mme. Alice de Yturbide. Its site, ac- cording to tradition, was selected by Gen. Wash- perce for Gen. Forrest, who was his familiar friend. ts Killing Mississipi Mules. From the Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald, April 10th, It will be remembered t htly less injurl- ous than the flood itself, last year, was the inva- sion of swarms of znats that followed its reces- ion; attacking cattle, horses and mules that been debilitated by belng cramped up for weeks on mounds and rafts in the overflow, i th with such ilence that in a large percentage of in- fatility from the insects was leved, last year than ever before, and the severity of their ravages seems to have been most marked in the river counties and parishes of Louisiana and Missis It was | hoped that the deadly buifalo gnat would not pat in an appearance ihis spring, as it fs of ra vecurrence that his visitations are made in con- a ding tothe ances of For this reason, many were - and it will be a matter of regret and surprise to them to know that these fatal have invaded the valley counties at sev- nts above V and Inilicted not strous but s ye among the 'k of Several planters. igchborhood sf au in Bolivar count: The ist many old planter not on the alert ago few people knew much about ventilation, or, Indeed, believed much in Its im ce; and acrusade In favor of “fresh air” ught by the sanitarians. Now the tide runs the other way, and all the dul! people have learned the phrase ‘fresh’ alr,” and insist on having what they call ‘f and without regard to tifaes and pli en will come into the spact club; the air, though warm, is muc cooler by p purer, and re degrees, than the furnace-blast the streets that they have left. The incom- ers, are entirely comfortable until one of them notices that the windows are shut. Then they remember the formula “fresh air;” the win- dows are ordered open; In comes the heated gust from without, laden’ with the animat refuse that forms the chief ingredient of the dust in our large citles. These Intelligent gentiemen draw near the /“Alittle fresh air;” they have cleared their consciences, and are happy. And in traveling, what do we not suffer from this ignorant conception of “fresh air!” We have all seen the Indy who must have the window open im the railway carriage; in the & breathes the railway sparks and cl catches a severe cold on every winter journey; nothing short of pneumonia will convince her barrow ignorance that there are other things to think about in traveling than what she calls “tresh alr.”—T. M. Coan, in Harper's Magazine for May. nmer she and she ee Catching a Gyasci From the Marysville Appeal. Tom Clyma, of North Butte, captured by means of a steel trap a few days ago an animal supposed to be a marten. In some respect the animal resembles a fox and is quite a curiosity. The most singular thing about the quadruped, if report be true, is that the legs on one side of tte body are several inches shorter than those on Should such prove to be the utuK. an animal always exceedingly rare, and which has long been thought extinct. It is never found Jn other than hilly regions, its peculiar are unfitting it foralevelcountry. By reason tains and hills. [t can walk with ease on the side of a steep slope, where even a goat would have a precarious foothold. The animal's strange structure, unfortunately, Is in one respect a «reat disadvantaze. While it can travel around a hill from right to left with the utmost ease, it cannot retrace its steps. So long as Its left side is toward the hill the creature stands as firmly asatree, but If it is obliged to turn the other way its footing Js lost immediately and it rolls helplessiy to the bottom of the slope. unters of the gyascutus, whose fur was held in high esteem, used to avail themselves of this fact to capture the animal. It was useless to pursue @ gyascutus on {ts chosen path, as the animal’s locomotive arrangements gave it ex- ceptional speed. The hunters, therefore, adopted the artifice of traveling around the hill in a direction contrary to that pursued by the ani- mal, and meeting it face tu face had no dificuity in securing it. pe Homeless Because Wifeless. The idea that John Howard Payne was a vic- tim ot nature's retributive Justice will probably be anew one toa majority of readers. Yet it appears to be sincerely entertained by the Rey. E. H. Shepherd, of Shepton Mallet, Eng., the clergyman at whose suggestion and through whose efforte, while he was acting British chap- Jain at Tunls, the stained glass window in memory of Payne was placed if the English cently In his parish church at Shepton Mallet he referred as follows to the dead poet; “Poor man, It was from ¢he aching vold of his heart that he sang ‘there's no place like home.’ Though he lived in a ‘palace,’ he was homeless. Though he ‘roamed amid pleasure,’ he was an unhappy man. Those who knew him well have told me that in spite of his fine poetic instincts |it was a pain to converse with him, ; he was so misanthropic. And wh In his youth he disregarded the voice of God and nature. ‘It ts not good for man to be alone;’ and in his old age he fouad that, left ut a barren wilderness to dwell in. Having failed to make a home for another, by just, retributive nature he was deprived of home himself.” ————_e. Engraved visiting cards for pet dogs are the latest ridiculous touch of fashion in Philadelphia, and these are samples from the canine card-re- ceiver: “‘Spider—Manheim-st., Germantown;” “Topsy Bowow. and the Misses Bowow, THE DYNAMITE EXCITEMENT. The Convpiraters Defented— Their Plans Badly Arranged—Mr. Parnell’s Befasal to Come to America. From a special dispatch to the New York Sun. Lowpoy, April 14.—The general public appears to have been somewhat confirmed in its appre- hension of dynamite by the haste with which the new explosives bill was passed. Considerable less be rapidly dissipated as it becomes more ap- parent that the police have fully mastered the situation. Other arrests of minor importance willbe added to those already made, but the authorities are confident that the defeat of the conspiracy is complete. It is probable that five of the six prisoners, if not all of them, will be committed for trial next Thursday. They reflect, very little eredit on O'Donovan Rossa and his dynamite schyol if they are his pupils, having manazed their aduirs with the greatest stupid- ity, and afforded the police every imaginable facili insuring their conviction. The trial ot Brady has been watched with the deepest attention, and the result has been hailed with general gratification. There was a widespread beilef in Dublin that he would escape with the aid of the alibi which his friends made such strenuous efforts to establish, but it yan- ished before the cross-examination, and he will pay the penalty of his crime on May 14th. Ample company will doubtless be provided for him by that time. Daniel Curley, the manager will be the next to take his place Whatever the general teeling was in Ireland against Carey, it has been tenfold embittered by his cross-examination on Friday. Tiis admission that he was a regular attendant at holy communion during the time he was engaged in planning the Phanix Park murders was more than any one was pre- pared for, and shows him to have been a most atrocious villain. The general impression is that. the convictions will ensue throughout the whole list_of prisoners with very little delay. The evidence is completed In every part, and, from what the crown prosecutor says. every one en- gaged, directly or indirectjy, in the crime, has wanted to turn informer, except Number ‘One, and a few who, like the Rey. Father Murphy, escaped to America. Carey identitled two pho- tographs of Number One yesterday, a gentlemanly, heavy-bearded person in a militia uniform. Much attention has been called to the conduct of the Dublin populace In cheering I as the prison van passed throuch the streets, and interfering with and insulting the police’ accompanying it. It has produced a yery bad Impression here as to the actual condition of public sentiment in Ireland. Mr. Parneifs refusal to go to America con- tinues to be generally discussed, and various in- terpretations are placed upon it. The fifteen members who have represented the Irish party recently in the house have been as active as ever In their tactics, but they are heard with impa- lence, and they attain no practical results. Mr. Parne sreat strength was in the fact that he alone had had the power to arouse a really na- tional sentiment in the great Irish middle Class, and to turn its dormant sympathies into pollti- cal activity. The Dablin murder trials aad the mad proceedings ot dynamite fanatics have caused a reaction In Ireland as well as elsewhere, and Mr. /’arnell’s power, fur the present, 1s un- der suspension. , ee ‘Thiers us a Duellist. From the Loudon Echo, We suspect that {t will be news to most read- ers that even tie solid and sober Thiers once ylelded to the temptation which les in wait for every French publicist and statesman, and fonght a duel. The story is little known, but its narrator In the columns of La France guar- antees its truth. When he was twenty years old, and studying at Aix, he was hospitably re- celved by a local fa:ntly of some competence, and fell in love with the daughter of the house. He made her an offer of marriage and was ac- cepted, and though bis means were rot so large asthe father thought such a girl as*his might fitly claim, the young student was at last adopted as his son-in-law. ‘The marriage was delayed, however, until M. Thiers could show that he was capable of se uring an indepeudent position by his own fons. The future h torian of the Consulate and Empire betook him n order to attempt to solve the ful problem of success or failure in public The severity of the struggle cooled his passion for the iful Southe At first he wrote to her frequently, next at inter- vals; finally, not at all.’ The father of the maiden became indignant, and wrote to the ambitious young man reminding him of hla betrothal. Thiers made no reply. The young lady of Provence had become of no importance to him, and he was quite contented that she should take another man for her husband. The futher, however, was not satisfled with the silence of his daughter's betrothed, and Jour- neved to Paris in. order to see whether he was still alive, and, if he was alive, to bring him to areckoning. One fine day, having discovered the lodging of the young Thiers, the hotheaded man of the South presented himeelf to the falth- legs lover, and bade him choose between two alternatives—his daughter or a pair of pistols. Thiers was no fighter, but he thought it better to “spend five minutes with a weapon which he did not understand than to spend a life with a wo- man whom he understood only too well.” So says the narrator, who does not conceal the extreme selfishness of the ambitious young man. The duel took place. Thters, who felt that he was at heart the wronging party, shot purposely in the alr, and he hoped that the angry father after the Gallic manner, would be content with a similar pretense. But the futher was not a Parisian. Hoe was determined to revenge his child and himself. His bullet passed through the hat of the future President. If M. Thiera had not been so fortunate as to be one of the smallest men in France he would have been killed, or, as M. Prudhomme would have said, if Thiers had not been go little he would never have been the great man that he afterward be- came. ——— 7. Use of Hand Tools in the Schools. Speaking of the refusal of the Massachusetts house of representatives to pass to a third reading the measure which authorizes instruc- tion in the elementary use of hand tools as a part of the public r the Boston Journal f the true alm of tie school is in reality the preparation for active life, that alm cannot be accomplished by exclusive brain, de- velopment; for even in the most clerical pur- suits the hand must often come to the brain's assistance, and with practical skill be em- ployed In practical uses. How many of our graduates can drive a nail? How many can split flrewoodin the easiest way? How many can saw, plane, bore, glue, make a box? Many of our youth In the schools to-day, who seem fo lose their ordinary wits when a book 1s placed before them, Would become master workmen with tools, if once given the opportunity of their use; and even the most studious scholars would rather gain than lose with this power over inanimate things which Is won by the knowledge of the use of tools. Be- sides the advantage of manual skill, it has been shown by experience that intellectual training Ja aselsted by a carefully arranged and syste- matic Instruction in this branch of industrial selence. Undue attention to purely mental studies Is diverted, the intelligence 1s aroused, and‘a healthful and revivifying change is brought about by active occupation, The testimony of physicians has shown the advantage to pupils, physically, in the use ot tools. Ifthe couree of study 1s already crowded with different branches, there could easily be formed plans of either omitting a not indispensable study or of adapting the scheme of recitations to, the ad- dition of the tool practice. Results in Europe and in thls country have proved that this course of: elementary training 1s in nowise a burden, but a benefit to instruction in the regu- lar old time branches. As the edtcatjonal sclence advances, new ideas work an improve- ment upon old methods. It Is the spirit of the age to ennoble manual labor, and to teach the young to look bron citizenship through labor as aright beyond the right of birth or wealth. If instruction in the hand working trades cin assist in incuicating this true spirit of de- to supply the elements of instruction. know the dude by the way he sets his feet when he poses for the admirgtion of womankind; at right angles, thus: t Here is a story told to illustrate the efficiency of Russian police: Gortschakoif having missed a wallet with 80,000 roubles in it, informed the police, who promisca to find it Ina week. At the end of he time specified they brought the money, but sald they coutd not recover the book. The prince admired and praised the efficiency of the Police. Some days later he found the missing Wallet in another coat, with the money intact. Stiil greater admiration of the police! South—st.; “Prince, No. 831 South Saturdays—Bones.” That last suggestive word means that refreshments will be provided for callers. A manufacturer of potted meats has been ar- Tested In London for using donkey's flesh in his business. The franchise bill introduced by the govern- ment into the house of commons, at Ontario, enacts that adults, sons of qualified tarmers and mechanics, shall have a vote. It also provides for female suffrage, giving to spinsters and widows a vote on a Property qualification of uneasiness and alarm still prevail,but will doubt- | mocracy, it ls certalnly the privilege of sqhools | Learning from the Indinas, Edward Eqgieston in The Century for May. Notonly did the white man get tobacco from this source, but with 1t they borrowed the cus- tom of smoking by the rogdside,in token of friendship, which was formally interdicted by the Puritan lawgivers. The art of making maple sugar and the culture \of the maize were learned from the savages, who ;planted he corn in hills, grew beans round the stalks, and filled the intervening space with pump- kin vines, as old-fashioned farmers do yet. The great factories of fish manure along the northern coast are tracked to the advice of an In- dian given to the Pilgrims to put a fish in every hill ofcorn. Hominy, samp, supaun and pone are Indian words. and there Is hardly an approved method of cooking maize that the Indians did not know;even the western hoe-cake and thesouthern ash-cake were made by the squaw. Mats, baskets and shoes were made from corn husks by the savages, and from them white men took the hint of using husks for chair bottoms, horse collirs, etc. Their bark house was used asa temporary plage of abode by settlers in every colony, and its tradition still lingers in the bark camp of the Adirondack sportsman. The birch canoe and the dug-out, which played so import- ant a part In colonial Ife, and which are still used, were borrowed from the savages. The corn-husking “bee” and the house-raising as- semblage were Indian customs. The device of using hot stones to heat water Ina barrel at hog-killing time—a custom very common yet in the Mississippi valley—was adapted from the Indian method of cooking food. The first Vir- ginia settiers early learned from the savages to eat the meat of the snake, and a hundred vears after the settlement rattlesnakes were regarded. a3 a great delicacy by some of the planters. —_—___+o-____ Calling a Dog Through a Telephone. From the Chicago News. A gentleman in Danielsonyitle, Conn., whose favorite dog enjoys following his carriage, by accident left the animal some miles from home. The people, recogulzing the dog, shut him in the house over night. The next m a voice asked through the telephone: you a lost a dog?” “Yes; where is he?’ “Call him!” He did so. The telephone was put near the dog, when he recognized jis master’s, Ing the instrument, and Jumping avout; eazer to anawer the call. ee A “Warning” Machine, From letter to Macon (Pa.) Telegraph. Downat Jessup, while walting forthe train, I saw what appeared for the world like a gallows, built directly over the railroad track. Several ropes were dangling from it, and I was about to be- lieve that the enterprising Jesupites has moved the gallows from Eastman and stuck it up as a curlosity. While wondering If this could really be the case, a man caine up and told me It wasa “warning machine.” ‘The track runs under a bridge a few hundred yards below the scaffold, and when a train-hand ts on top of the cars and these dangling ropes strike him it warns him of the bridge and he stoops. By this means many lives are saved, but it is certainly a novel affair. SRS Defining “Div From the New York Sun, A visitor toa Brooklyn public school yester- day asked a class of boys to define the word “distributed,” which had occurred in their rend- ing lesson, One sald: “It’s something you give away,” and others similarly missed the mark. “Now,” said the visitor, “it I should give one of you oyster soup, another some salmon, another some roast beef, another somesalad. and another some pie and strawberries, what would you say Thad done with the dinner: Several gave answers imperiectly, but at j length an overgrown boy, with a hushy voice, raised his hand. “Well, what would “1 should say it wa: tributed,”” ‘ou say?” bully dinner.” A House Five Feet Wide. From the Chicago Herald. The narrowest house in New York clty may | be seen at the northwest corner ot Lexington avenue and 82d street. The building, which has ; been finished for some months, is five feet wide, one hundred feet deep and tour stories high. It | is divided into two houses, each fifty feet long, and the entrance doors are, of course, on the | avenue, as there is no room for a door at elther | end of the building. The law allows a building | at the corner of a street to have projecting bay | windows along the side, and taking advantage of this circumstance, the architect has managed to plan a house which, while pecullar in inside | appearance, and probably very uncomfortable to | live in, may find tenants: igs He Thought at First He Was Smart. From the Galveston News, A smart traveling man from Chicago tried to paralyze a dining room girlat Fort Dodge, Iowa, during the snow blockade. At dinner one day he ordered ‘‘sponge soup” and ‘quail on fence.” The girl went to the kitchen and got a quail and Bau a fence on the plate out of kindling wood. Then she got a piece of sponge and put it in the soup, and served his order in the pres- ence of several other traveling men, who gave hun the grand laugh. The landlord charged him a dollar extra for serving articles not on the bill of fare, and it cost him $6 for cigars and drinks to keep the matter auiet. SiS eS = Coining Money for King Kalakaua. Philadeiphia Evening Star. Designs for the dies for the coins to be struck off for circulation in the Hawaiian Islands have been prepared at our mint. The money has been ordered by King Kalakaua, and will be coined with the permission of the United States Treas- urydepartment. On one side of the coin will be the king’s face, and on the other a portion ofthe great seal of hiscountry. The denomination of the pleces will be indicated in the Hawaiian and English languages. There will be coins equal to our dollars, half dollars and quarters. There will likewise be dimes, but the name of that plece of silyer has not yet been translated into Hawallan. Assoonas the designs have been decided upon the dies will probably be sent to San Francisco, where the first batch of money, to the value of $1,000,000, will, it is said, be made. This will be at least the second time that money of another nationality has been coined by our government. A few years ago a large amount of nickel money was made in this city for Venezuela. The new five-cent nickels, with the word “cents” under the wreaths on the obverse side, have been placed tn circulatio ———_e5 Effect of Garlic on the Brain. From the Baltimore News. Garlic conduces to a species of brain trouble, the part of the indulger that he is possessed of valuable secrets which it 1s his conscientious duty to impart to others. This is manifested in the constant tendency of such persons to put their mouths close to the ears of their victims to tell them the most common-place things, and ey smother them with the fames of the vege- ‘able. Canvas-back Ducks a Drug. The canvas-back duck 1s domesticating itself in the inland lakes of Iowa, and becoming quite plenty. The duck is very common in Chesa- Peake bay, and ts very rare north of New York. ‘The Chesapeake is its favorite feeding ground, as the shoals of the bay abound in wild celery, on which the birds feed, and it fs to this peculiar species of nutrition that the largeness of the ducks, as well as the delicacy of the flesh is due. These Iowa lakes must Produce the wild celery, or else the ducks will not domesticate there. It has been a wonderful year for ducks in Towa, the creeks, ponds and rivers are fairly alive with them; and the luck and aport of the hunters have been so great that ducks have been a drug in the Des Moines market, and difficult of sale at seventy-five cents the dozen. For some voice, and, in his dog way, manifested Joy, lick— Deverted Oil Towns, Bardette in Burlington Hawkeye. But if there is a picture of desolation it is an oll town that has been left ; that has gone off by itself and died. The dismantled derricks stand about like so many tombstones. The deserted houses, with thelr shattered windows, look as though the crowd, flying away to new oil fields, had cruelly put out the eyes of the old town lest it should follow. The doors hang in cnppied fashion on paralyzed hinges; they have forgot- ten their old hospitality of the “ flush times there is neither welcome nor rejection in their half-open attitude, but they look as though they stood ajar to save the ghosts the trouble of hunting for the keyhole. The dismal creak of the walking bean issucceeded by aqulet infinitely more dismal. The merry song of the rigger has ceased, and the voice of the nomadic sluggler mingles no longer with the deflant shout of the rustler. The gin-mill has passed away and no longer runs even on a single shift. The ee topple over and wear the disheartened look of a hat out of season. Even the tramps shun the town, and there is a general look ofa linen duster in December about the settlement. Usually one or two of the poorest houses are in- habited by dejected families, who seem to wonder what they are staying there for. I have often wondered why the féw people who remain in the deserted ofl town did not move into the best houses, but they neverdo. They are usually people who are too dolefully poor to follow the crowd to the new oil fields, and when. they stay behind they remain in their own houses. "They take the fences and the shutters and porches and floors from the property of their absent wealthier neighbors for firewood, but it never seems to occur to them to move into the mansions and burp up their own hovels. T don't know what they do for aliving: I often wonder that they don’t start asaloon. That flourishes where any other business fails. And it requires so little furniture; Justa picture of George Washington and a half bushel of saw- just. ——______+s.__ Some Big Gold Nuggets. From the Sierra County (Cal.) Tribune. On the 18th of August, 1860, a large piece of gold was taken from the Monumental quartz mine, Sierra Buttes, which weighed 1,595 ounces troy, the value of which was estimated at from $21,000 to €30,000. The nugget was sold to H. B. Woodward, of San Brancisco, for $21,636.52. A fine specimen was taken from the Rainbow quartz mine, Chipp’s Flat, In i881. It was taken from a depth of 200 feet. "Later it was shipped to London and worked there. It Ylelded $22.000. In 1855 a nugget was found at French Ravine that weighed 532 ounces, and was worth $10,000. It contained considerable quartz, which is not calculated in its weight. In 1851, at French Ravine, a nugget was found which weighed 426 ounces, and was valued at 000. A nugget is reported to have been found in Minnesota valued at 25,000. In 1850a Piece of gold quartz was foundin French Ravine which contained 263 ounces of gold, worth $4,893. At Smith's Flat, in 1866, a plece of gold was taken from a claim which was worth $2,716, and weighed 146 ounces. At Smith's Flat, 1 1864, a nugget was found weizhing 140 ounces, and worth $2,605. At Little Grizzly Digzings, in 1869, a nugget worth $2,000 was found. From the Chicago Tribune. A novel and highly sensational breach of Promise of marriage case 1s on the call before Judge Gary. ‘The plaintiff is Fannie Austin, a more than dusky negro woman, and the defend- ant is Robert Little, a saloon keeper aud a burly lishman of the conventional pattern, about five to forty years old. In her declaration the plaintiff charges that fora long time shewas quite averse to the marriage, but Little, through “long-protracted supplication and protestations of fervent love,” overcame her maiden coyness, and on the first of December, 1879, promised to mnarry her in July following. Four days betore the promised time he gaye her a gold ring to symbolize the unending character of hls passion and then suddenly changed his mind the next day and refused to carry out his agreement. Frauds in Diamonds, The jewelers of Paris are Ina stato of alarm about the frauds perpetrated by some diamond sellers. The value of the diamonds depends on its color, or as It is technicaily called, its water, and a yellow tinge isa defect. In the case before the French court, the stones had been rendered whiter by the application of aniline ylolet to the back ofthe stone. This Ingentous application of the theory of complementary color in the pee has been patented by one Durkes, who ought the secret for $6,000 from a mysterious ersonage named Hetles, who Is described aa an gyptian. Some curious evidence was given. The expertcalled by the court, M. Vanderhym, achevalier of the Legion of Honor, says that it is customary for jewelers to endeavor to set stones to the greatest advantage. In stones set solid they use color to correct the defects of the coloration of the stones or to increase Its brilllancy. Another witness deposed. that, in the case of brilliants set open, the set- ters place on the feuilletis—that is, tlre fine part of the dlamond which joins the two faces—a touch of blue or black. The judge ordered the expert to show the process to the court. He dropped a little blue ink on the back of the stone, and wiped it off, the result being to give to the yellow diamond experimented ‘on the luster of the first a No Finh Stories, From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Any allegations of Mr. Arthar as to the num- ber and size of the fishes he lands in Florida should be received with all the credence due the statements of so ‘inguished an allegator. EELS Sad Fate of the Striped Stocking. Fro1 m the Brooklyn Eagle. Striped hose for ladies are passe. Solid colors are now considered the fashion. The newest shades are tan Bordeaux, mode, Ha- vana brown, sapphire blue, terra cotta, crushed strawberry and myrtle green. ~ ———so0—____ A shrewd fellow has away of taking a store in a western village, and filling it with cheap showy goods. At the end of a few weeks he 1s prostrated—for a few hours—by atelegram con- veying the sad news of his father's death in England, and urging his return at once to set- tle up the estate. He groans at being com- pelled to sacrifice at auction his valuable stock, which goes off like hot cakes, and then this en- terprising ploneer moves further afield. Maurice Vignaux is absurdly excited over his close defeat in billiards by Schaefer, and keeps on complaining of the applause bestowed on his victorious opponent, and asserting that the lat- ter made shove or push shots,—apparently not the symptom of which 1s an hallucination ong percelving that this isa reflection on the referee who certified tothe five games he (Vignaux) won, as well as to the one he lost. The military guard of the bank of France, which was discontinued some time ago, has been re-established. An indignant landlord writes that he adopted colle of fire escape rope in his bedrooms, and that three guests successfully wereped though there was no fire. They left unpaid bills. A Judge in Toronto, Canada, remarked that “the boy who would not peg snow-balls should be put under a glass as a uniquespecimen,” and then discharged the offending youngster. i. A boy ofelght years, In one of the Massa- chusetts schools, was asked by his teacher where the zenith was. He replied: “The spot in the heavens directly over one’s head.” To test his knowledge further the teacher asked: “Can two ns have the same zenith at the same timer” “They can.” “How?” “If one should stand on the other's head.” Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, advocates the Sweedish system governt sales of beer and spirituous tiquors. Under this system a city is divided into excise districts, the number of saloons allowed in each district is fixed by law according to population, and exclusive some years past the canvas-back has been grow- ing scarcer and scarcer In the Chesapeake, as the “pot-hunters” make great havoc of them. Thelr domestication, therefore, in Iowa will be hailed with delight by ali gastronomists. ————_e. As Useful a Person as the Dude. From the Louisville Courier-Journal, “There goes a stove-warmer,” said one of the knowing ones to a reporter yesterday. “What !s a stove-warmer?” “You see those fellows laying around the en- gine houses all day? - Well, they are all stove- warmers. You have gone into @ saloon and asked your friends to drinke You may have seen a fellow step up to the bar with those you have invited. He lays around the saloon all day. Set him down as a stove-warmer. He goes into a barber shop. He lays about there all day and reads the papers. You flod him everywhere, in the billiard saloons, in the pool rooms, in the gambling houses. Wherever men gather to spend money or time you always find thé’stove-warmer.” ————+e.____ Ten thousand people a week are passin, through St. Paul on their way to the great | northweat. rights to sell noe are sold at public auction to eat bit ,. the high Aremarkable pamphlet has Jast been pub- lished at Cracow, under the title of “The Polish Question.” It points out that the Oriental question has chan; its character, has taken the shape of a mortal ant nism be- tween Austria and Russia, which will have to be fought out in Poland, and in which Germany will = ina iat vrei seein: ol a acco! 0 is will secure Earns non a lodical renewal of this deadly- one pass han the ens ta Polis! ingdom under some en nce ao~ knowledging German or Austrian Pasompny. In such a.case all Poles should unite to support the two German empires, no longer listening to the deceitful accents of Panslavist sirens, who would lurethem to destruction by enlist- ing their sympathies for Russia. a 2 The lesson of Peter Cooper's life is as wel put by the Brookline Chronicle as -by anybody: “That noble man found better employment for his time than simply looking after his property and trying to avoid taxes.” “You are setting usa bad example,” as the algebra class said when the teacher wrote a hard equation on the board.—Burlington Free FAMILY FOOLERY. Brother Gardner Sets Hiv Foot Down on the Dudes and the Dodos. From the Detroit Free Prees. “Gem'len, I has a paintul bito’ news to spread defo’ de meetin’,” began the old man as he mo- tioned to Elder Toots to put down the alley window. “Nicodemus Pembroke Scott, a local member of dis lodge, has crossed into Canady an’ will not reappear among us. Fur de las’ three months I have bin expectin’ some sich climax, an’ dis mawnin’, when a messenger in- formed me dat he had disappeared, arter failin’ in an attempt to shoot hisself wid an ole hoss- pistol, I war not a bit surprised. He leaves a wife an’ two chiil’en an’ about fifty creditors. “What sent him off? De same reason dat am dally workin’ to bring about anoder panic—de Same reasons dat explain de hundreds ob biz- ness failures—de same reason datamcripplin’ de efforts of thousands of hard-workin’ men to se- cure homes of deir own—fam'ly extravagance. No, you can’t call it extravagance; foolery am a better name forit. Upto ay’arago Brudder Scott was jobbin’ aroun’ an’ makin’ a dollara day. Den he got asituashun by which he airned fo'teen dollars per week. He was poo’ off In de house an’ had debts hanging ober him, but heah was de chance toget eben. How was it Improved? In less dan one month his wife was rigged out wid a $20 dress, 12 shillin’ kids, a $5 hat an’ an opera fan. He had ne peace ob min’ onless he obeyed her. In six weeks she became too high-toned to wash an’ iron fur odder folkses. In two months she wanted a better house, wid a red parlor carpet an’ cane-seat cha'rs’ all aroun’ de room. In three months she had to have a black silk dress, guid bracelets, a tony bonne’, kid shoes, an’ gold fllin’ in her teef. “Dat foolery has reaped its harvest. De hus- band found dat he was runnin’ behind, hishome was bein’ neglected, his wife was bein’ ossiped about, an’ In deapatr he has picked up his feet an’ slid out. It was the nateral result. I tell you, my frens’, de tomfoolery of de women of dis kentry am strainin’ on de chalk-line till de ‘can’t stan’ mach mo’, an’ it am high time dat somebody sots his foot down. De man who airns $25 per week has somehow got de ideah Jato his head dat de world expects him to dress his wife as if he airned a banker's profits. Wives of men who can't keep up wid deir house-rent am canterin’ up an’ down wid sealskin sacques an’ $6 shoes. Wives of men who have to dodge de butcher an’ grocer an’ tailor am now selectin’ pring carpets an’ orderin’ lainbrequins. Wives of men who couldn't raise $50 at de bank to save deir necks am rushin’ to balls an’ parties au’ havin’ der expensive dresses discribed furde benefit of de public. x “De so-called society of dealge am composed of false hair, false pretenses, debt-dudging, an’ base decepshun. Our-rich people am distin- guished by deir plain dress an’ gutet manners. De snides an’ dudes an’ dodos do all the sw gerin’, rush on all de colors, an’ monopolize de bigxest sheer of de street. You walt! De man who lives fur anoder ten yars will h’ar suthin dap, an’ arter de drap takes place de thousands ot idiots who now feel ashamed to admit dat they doan’ keep but two seryant gals in de house ack to deir cook-stoves an’ wash-tubs an’ take deir proper places in de perceshun.” Stine attest a The Lies To! From the Pall Mail Gazette. Alexander Dumas has been coming out in the character of censor morum, and the theme chosen in the paper which he has contributed to the periodical rejoicing In the title of Nouveau Ae is the famillar one of the neglect shown by parents In the training of their children, espe- cially In very early years. The grand offense | of parents les in shirking the difficulties pre- | ented by the curiosity of children. The first beginnings of that inguisitiveness are to be seen, according to M. Dumas, in actions not generally attributed to any such cause, “When you see a child spoil and destroy immedi- ately and deliberately the playthings that have been given to it,pull off the petals of the flowers it has gathered, and even the wings of insects which it has caught. you say: ‘Children are destructive; childhood is merciless.’ It is a mis- take. The child is not destructive; it Is not cruel. It {s curious. It does not want to destroy, it wants to know.” But with the very first appearance of this desire for knowledge, with the first utterance ef the often embar- Tassing, but inexorcisable question “how?” and “why?” the gravest responsibilities fall upon the parent, and these responsibill- ties he either shirks or seeks to delegate to others. M. Dumas’ description of the latter process is very forcible. The mother, who has married not knowing why, and brought forth a child not knowing how, makes haste to hand over the care of it to others. The wet-nurse and nurse to provide for the body; the bonne, the governess, and the convent, or, in the case of boys, the tutor and the school, to train the mind; the minister, the priest, or the rabbi to look atter the soul—each teaching sometuing which the other calls false, and all equally cou- demned by nature, history’ and science — these are all Instances of that delegation of parental duty against which M. Dumasinyeighs. “And all this becanse the man and woman want to have all the pleasures, all the rights, all the recom- penses. of paternity and maternity, while trans- ferring as far as ever they can its duties and re- sponsibilities to others.” As the children i lelegation of parental duties is followed, in the case of the boys at least, by their abso- lute neglect. ae fe man’s desire to know the world Is allowed to lead him into all sorte of excesses, at which the parents wink. ‘Il faut que jeunesse se »,” and it Is only when the vigor and the freshness of youth have both passed away that the parents intervene to tn- duce him to settle in lite, in order that they may enjoy the luxury of being surrounded with erandcitidren. As for the girl, she is kept as carefully away from all experience asthe young man is reck- lessly exposed to all, and is allowed to grow up amid her dreams and those of her equally igno- rant companions, ‘until one day she meets, or is made to meet,@ man more or less young, more or less intelligent, more or less rich, more or less disillusioned, whose character, antecedents, morals, relations and health are all imperfectly known, and whom she marries, because she {8 of the age to marry.” If, after this highly Intel- ligent preparation of the young man or woman to meet the difficulties and temptations of life, these difficulties and temptations prove too much for them, there isa great cry of injured surprise. ‘How does this come about? [have given him (or her) 80 much. The child was wel! suckled by the nurse, well cared for by servants, well taught by masters, well grounded in mor- ality by the priest. I cannot understand it at all.” The difficulty remains that, as has been well said, the stupidest child can ask more questions in five minutes than the wisest man cau answer in a life time, The lesson of life, if it has a lesson, cannot be imparted. Each human being mu: learn it by his own experience. The problem in every case is how to give the child a provisional code to guide it while the experience is being gained, and to save it from losing all that makes life worth having in the of learning to live. And to the solution of that problem M. Dumas contributes very little. But there is one point on which he dwells which moralists do well to insist upon. It is the heinousness of the time-honored practice of lying tochildren. That practice has indeed, as we all know, the highest philosophic authority. But the iies that recommended were intended to embody the truth. The lies that most men tell to the to Children, perplexity occasioned by children’s questions are liesthat not only do not embody the trut but render a true and healthy attitade of mi faith of hia fathers. 5 To-day in Nebraska w “Arbor Day,” on which all good Nebraskians plant trees. BEATON PERRY, ‘Buccessor to Perry & Brother. PURE WOOL FRENCH XrNs y LIN ND 5 Kas . oe THE FASHION. COLOR, BLACK BROCADED LK FNADINES. BLACK BROCADED VELVET GkKENADINES. FRENCH TWISTED SILK HERNANTES. CREPE DE CHINE, CANTON CRE PRES. LUPIN'S CELEBRATED MOUKNING FABRE IN SPRING AND SUMMER WEIGHTS, = ELPGANT STOCK OF FRENCH WOOT, DI TEXTURES, FOR PLAIN A cOMBINATION viTS. SURAHS, LOVISTNES AND SUMMER SILKS. COMPLETE 3 GRAIN SILKs, RHaD, SOTTO. MANS AND & OOMTESSE DY BY THR BEST SILK ACTURERS AND SHFETING © AT LOW PRICES. PEW Ca01E Goons, Pram Frovnes, axo Conmpags ong SEATON PERRY, Perry Building, Pennsylvania avenue, corner 9th street. Fatabiiehed 1840, aple Srecur Banoarss rs Day Goons mood Rack Gros Grain Silk, Splendid Black Gros Grain St Striped and Plain Silke, 0c Lsate very superior full width 50 dor. Lisle Thread Gioves, 1c. a ney nels, Exubrotdered Pil w Shas T. T. Wirmens is now engaved os, all at low@yrices, with un. J. JOHNSON, aple 718 MARKET SPACER. Buace Goons Devavruenr. LANDOS'S CELEBRATED SILK WARP HEN- RIFTTA GE | LASDONS CoLEBRATED SILK WARP DRAP | N's CELFBRATED BLACK { S CELE BUATED Bi BKAT DAS. ATIN SOULES, LBA TRON. KAP 8. L. HEMPSTONE, 803 PEN: ANIA AVENUE. N PLAIN FIG ap Serixc, Day Goons. We are daily rece!ving our Spring and Summer py of Dress: Goods, compnaine a hit Une of Black Ban Mervellicus, Sit taventiaee Seay Hansa a leux, Silk Grcbalines, Nun's Vellnge Chudah Clothe in ‘all the newslades; French Woul St ‘gee, Peinted ‘and Fini Satteuns. Fd sattrenn ‘uehin Robes: Printed Linen Lawun. a eplenal Black Woolen ‘Drese Goods tn all the nem falitions Bil ad Thread : "mibrellan nee | sole, new gant line of LAr ectinne and athe | arian “ia i is armack by Towels and Toweling in of choice oods will do rehasing. Pepto x £9, Gy G6 ce U GcG “UU Have opened and are in full blast at NOS. 404 AND 406 SEVENTH STREET, ‘With a full and complete STOCK OF GOODS, Consisting of SILKS, in every variety; DRESS GOODS, complete; , LACES, GLOVES and HOSIERY, endless; LINEN DEPARTMENT, full; HOUSEKEEPING 60008, large stosty GENTS’ FURNISHINGS, LADIES’ UNDERWEAR, PARASOLS, SHAWLS, DOMESTICS, NOTIONS, &o., All bought for SHAKP CASH. WE ARE HERE TO STAT, and we offer our goods in every department at FAIE PRICES, which means that we will not be UNDERSOLD. Wehave ONE PRICE, which gives every one FAIB AND HONEST DEALINGS, When prices BREAK, “we will be there.” ALIKE WILL HAVE THE BENEFIT, ALB ma —$— New Sparse Dux Goons. TRUNNEL & CLARK, 81] MARKET SPACE, Are now prepared to show « plendid line ot DESIRABLE NEW SPRING DRESS GOODS. ENCH SATINES._ Cl Pa , Ottoman and Surah Silke. Good Prices” ‘The stock te full and complete in all departments, an@ apectius we solicit an in ‘One Price Only. MADAM BEC! = K, #0 long ms on the suleudid word at low known in this city, Boor, dot sccoud' Boor, ani TRUNNEL & CLARK, S11 MARKET PACE. a2? "BAUNFS FOR ONE WEEE OXLY! on certain subjects forever impossible. We are | NOTICE.—The season for the following goods being eet sperm Acpte ope) jons of faith, | very backward, we Lave resolved to make such redue* but ot plain physical facts, ofthe habit of excit~ | tons as will insure speedy asles. ing an unnatural curiosity in children by evad- ing thelr natural questions, of investing with a Sollee pcre rg eneacep lend “gird stent mastic = can ao it cept In lear Ladies’ Spring desirable shades, science. tadenyrs such lyl os ace Peduocd to hat pre, is that the children are not old enough _— ed wens paineed cos REDUCTION It. ° pa Sg At pT tl ® child. A child may have a more or less prompt REDUCTION m1. intelligence. It devel 96.50, formes or antipatis. But you will nover heart saya |2 22% ° Eadiew Spring, wrae pow silly thing (dire une betise) as long as you have not deceived it, as long as you have not told it alle.” There can be no doubt that of all the REDUCTION Iv, hum! ced in the world there is none 4 Discount of 28 per cent on ll Rrocedied, Ottoman Sh which on the whole is attended with more an ee _— ruinous consequences than the deception to — tat 8 pertectly rosa Bens hates to pay mye cipal the troublesome of children. “I am Sib Batt, which ocld at rae revolutionaries in the w of ideas, those who az have most horrified mankind, who have caused - the shedding of the most blood and the most ay . be bef peepee oo replied ey om to ions men ve aS have replied.” aa = = “A hore Shieticon ae mi to | 2! 416 Tru STREET NORTHWEST. 7 having a Presbyterian in the icctitor OR, is aps KNOWN AS 2 tion. He says he has brought up a hy . Methodist, and wishes to remain firm in the SO chen ' between 6th and to « Old Stand, No. 619 D B. 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