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ART NOTES. The sum of £60,000 has been given to Princeton College, for the endowment of the Rew School of Art to be established in connec- tion with that institution. — Gen. Jubal A. Early proposes to be one of fifty gentlemen to subscribe and pay in one thousand dollars each for the purpose of erect- ing an equestrian statue in bronze of General Lee in some suitable place in Richmond. — Mr. Johannes Oertel, whose semi-religions and allegorical paintings have long been familiar to and popular with the public, has taken a studio in Corcoran Building, and will perma- nently locate here if he meets sufficient encour- &gement, as we hope he may. — A pen drawing after an engraving of Mu- Fillo’s Madonna, exhibited in Mr. Window on 15th street, attracts, as it deserves, much and favorable notice from passers by. is the work of Mr. Paul Schulze, and shows not enly great patience but very considerable artis- | tic feeling on the part of the person who exe- cuted it. —The paintings sent by Mr. Weyl to the @pring exhibition of the New York Academy ot Design were very favorably regarded by both artists and critics,—a compliment that is not Yery frequently enjoyed by anvbody’s work. Referring to the autuinn landscape, the Art Interchange says: “It ts a rather familiar ren dering of dying verdure, but a fine example of composition, in which [ht lines are skillfully set off against heavy masses—a most commend- able method.” — At Brentano's is to be seen a portrait of Chief Justice Marshall, which, both on account of its subject and its merits as a work of art, is worthy a place in some public institution. It is attributed to the younger Péale, and there is every reason to believe that it is not only an original but painted from life. We know noth- ing of its history, nor what it is valued at, but | we feel sare we do a kindness in calling to it the attention of those who would naturally be inter- | ested In a work of that character. — Mr. Wm. Gari Browne proposes to spend the summer in the Shenandoah valley, where he hopes to be able to do some sketching from na- ture, with a view to a little landscape painting in fatw and he may open a studio tempora- rily in N York next winter. though he by no means intends to give up VW of residence. By the way. a remarkably bright and spirited example of Mr. Browne's best work in portraiture has been on exhibition in Whita- ker’s window for some days past, where it has “Mttracted much attention. — Mr. Matthew Wilson, whose studio fs in Corcoran Building, will go to his summer place Fischer's | It} shington as a place | LITERARY NOTES. THE GENTLE SAVAGE. By Fowarp Emo. Bes: ton: James R. Orgood & Co. Washington Robert Mr. King takes a novel and rather an-Ameri- can view of the red man, in making the half- breed Cherokee hero of his story the impas- sioned lover of a beautiful and gentle maiden; and the average American girl will think it strange that one of their kind should be so des- perately in love with him as to come near dying for hissake. The story opens in Paris, whither the hero has been sent to prevent the negotia- | tion of some bonds based on a railway to be built through the Indian Territory, and the father of the heroine is the banker he Is to in- fluence. The thread of the story leads the reader through Switzerland, which is graphic- ally deseribed, and it entangles all sorts ere ple, including Polish Jews, Nihilists prima don- }nas, etc., before the end is reached. Whether written with that purpose or not, the story servesas an eloquent protest against the treat- ment the American Indian has received at the | hands of his white brother. | THE BONHEUR DES DAMES, By Eante Zora. Philade.phia: T. B. Peterson & Broz. Washiugton: A. Brentan The theme of Zola’s last story Isshop-girl life in Paris, and the trials and temptations which beset it; and, singularly enough, he has resisted beth inclination and opportunity, and made It | Rot positively indecent. On the other hand, | the heroine in this case comes safely through it all, and her virtue finds reward in winning as a | husband the wicked proprietor of the vast magasin where she is employed. The mam- moth mercantile establishments of Paris are de- | seribed with photographic accuracy In the place | chosen as the scene of the story, and all the phases of life connected with them are graphi- cally portrayed. One would think, however, that the women ot Paris who patronize these bazaars will hardly thank the author for paint- | ing them with such a mad love of display that they resort to thievery, almost habitually, and | are ready to sacrifice honor and everything else, in order to gratify it. B. Penrz Asad idyl is this, which tells the story ofa Poor and homely girl, who, for many years, has been the friend and hourly companion of a beautiful blind lad, well born, whom she loves ‘ with a passionate devotion. He loves her in re- turn, or thinks he does, uatil he gains his sight, | through a surgical operation, when hisatfections are won by a beautiful cousin, and he forgets | the poor creature who had been eyes and hands for him so long, and who finally dies of a broken | heart. The characters are well portrayed, and | the scenery of the mining regions of Spain, on Lake George as soon ashe has completed | bears the scene of the story is laid, is graph- ent and ex-Secretary | !eally described. upon which he is now engaged. The | OUTLINES OF THE CONSTITUTIONAT, HISTORY latter is not yet far enough along to enable one ee ee EPH tn hee to judye of its fidelity as a likeness, but the for- ton: Robert Beall. ° mer promises to be both a faitlitul portralt and 5 , a spirited and pleasing work of art. Mr. Wilson | - Porter's book Is‘ successtul beled no expects to return to Washington next fall, and | #7 ¢lementary work designed to be a beginning hopes to be able to find by that time alarger and | for all who desire to learn something of the better lighted studio than the one he now occu- | character and history of the Constitution. It pies. | explains the forms of government which existed —TheBoston peopie seem to have a good deal | before the Revolution, and the nature of the dif- ef trouble in getting a satisfactory model for their proposed equestrian statue of Paul Revere. | Last fall three prizes of #300 each were offered for the best three designs, to be sent in by April 19th, and a few days azo the committee on se- lection met for the purpose of making the reward. the pri awarded to Messrs. James E. Kelly of New York, C. E. Dallin of Boston, and Daniel C. French of Concord, Mass. (formerly of this city). It is by no means certain that either of these designs will be eventually adopted for the statue. as still others are to be submitted and considered before the decision is finally made. — People think there is & great deal of money invested in paintings in private galleries In New York; and so there is. Vanderbilt's collection 1s considered to be worth from $1,125,000 to $1,500,000, and there are many others valued at from $100,000 to £500,000, and several per- haps that would go above the latter figure. These sums look large, and they are large: but they seem insignificant when compared with the value put upon some of the private collections ewned in Europe. and notably in Paris. Some Of these are estimated to be worth the follow- ing figures: The Due d’Aumale, 215,000,000: the Baron de Rothschild, 210,000,000: i Wallace. $8,000,000; M. Tetan, $2,000,000, cluding thirty pictures by Meissonier; M. Defoer- Bey and th punt de Greffuble, each $600,000; Madame Cos: ,000,0¢0, and M. Edouard Andre and Mr. im Stewart, $400,000 —The contributions sent to the Paris Salon this year by Mr. Gaines Donoho of this city are both landscapes,—entitled, respectively, ““Man- vaises Herbes” and “Primroses.” The first is described in the telegraphic correspondence of the New York Herald as “a bravely painted, tangled mass of large spindly herbage, with middle distances of trees and level plain, dis- tant sky-line of trees sheltering houses and sky. A girl is leading some calvestowardsus through the weeds, following a delirious sort of path. The picture Is a harmony of green, somewhat too biuish in tone, and in execution is so un- conscious of littleness as_to fall into neglect of i Important foreground drawing. The artist's other work, of less importance as to size, is also a harmony of greens, full of coler and enthusi- astic in rendering, like all his works. A peasant girl in ataded green Breton gown. is walking towards us down a little valley of green stuff, picketed with thin poplars that border on a nearly invisible rill which suckles the primroses. She is hanging on to a siim sapling with one hand and carrying flowers in the other. Here, again, technical enthusiasm chases sentiment out of a handsome, breezy picture.” —__9s How Billiard Balls are Manufactured. From the Albany Argus. The manufacture of billiard balls from cellu- Joid and bonsilate is a peculiar industry from the fact that the only factory of the kind in the world is in this city. A large proportion of the balls now made are of celluloid, but only for the reason that the machinery is not as well adapted to the manufacture of bonsilate balls. The time will come, however, when all bajls will be made of the latter material. The cell laloid, which is received in large white sheets, is first cut into small square pleces about five-eighths ofan inch in size. These are Placed into moulds, previously heated by steam to the proper temperature. They are then placed in yea) gare: and with a pressure of from 1,500 to 2,000 pounds to the square inch are roughiy moulded, heat at the same time being applied. The ‘various positions of the blocks in the mould give the fan the peculiar Mottled appearance when finished. Experi- ments have been made by grinding the celluloid toa powder, and using it in that form, but nothing has succeeded so well as the present method. Afterbeing taken from the moulds the balls are turned absolutely spherical by an exceedingly Ingenions device. ‘The processs m the manufacture of bonsilate balls are quite different in many respecte. The material Is placed in the moulds in powder, and er being roughly pressed up, con- siderably larger than the juired size, are covered with rubber and tin foil, to prevent the material from being injured by water, and are | then placed under water . By means of this. which is the only machine of the Kind in existence, the balls are placed under & pressure of trom 3,000 to 4,000 pounds to the square inch. The water touching the ball at every point, and the pressure being equally transmitted, the result is a | safe pressed sphere, of just the same specific gravity In one spot as in another. Without this apparatus, the successful manufacture of billiard balls from bonsilate would have been impossible. A simple but ingenious contrivance {s also employed to ascertain when the bails are perfectly poised or balanced. They are first weighed and are then d in a flat dish of mercury. This subtle detects the slightest shade of inaccuracy, and the balis are put in the lathe and corrected until they are absolutely true. Not only billiard, but pooi and bagateile balls are made. The — balhdege — are sold are na below a tor ivory, ranging from $5.50 to 913.50 per set of four balls for billiards, and from €26 to $50 per set of sixteen balls for pool. ——-_—_+¢. Since Edward Holman was sent to jail in St. Louis a few weeks ago his fello os Yave admired his wife's constancy ald Wal envied him the ought him almost dally, devotion to gratify, she often explained, his extraordinary longing tor One day the jailer was mses to follow up what seemed an absurd suspicion and opened one of the bananas which the wife had brought. It contained a small file, and in cells of several prisoners were found six saws and three Laban hale Lo had in- genlously conv: fo her bus! in the same that frait. Out of a large number of competitors ~ prisoners fine bananas which she ferent clauses of the Constitution, with a brief review of the principal events of our political history from 1787 to 1881. An appendix con- idents of the Continental and Vice Presidents of the ie Cabinets, Chief Justices Supreme Court, Speakers of the House ot Representatives, dates of the admission of states and votes in the Presic -ntial elections. H CREATION. uy Avousrus Moxonepien, | author of ““Free ‘Trade and Euvlish Commerce, j With Introduction by Simon Sterne. New York: Cassell, Pettor, Galpin & Co. Washington: A. Brentano & Co. M. Mongredien advances no new views in this book, but he sets forth clearly and forcibly the | conclusions which have been reached by the ablest advocates of the doctrines of free trade, i | and very much as they would be set forth by an advocate, rather than by an impartial Judge. Nevertheless, it is to be commended, because the questions of free trade and protection are | bound to attract more attention than ever In this country In the next few years; and, In the | language of the author, “it is out of the con- flicts of discussion that truth finally emerges triumphan | UNDER APPLE BOUGHS. By HELen thor of **Phe Problem of the Poor.” 3 rk: Fo de, Howard & Huibert. We: | ington: A. Srentano &'Co. | Avery suitable initial volume for the new | series to be known as “Our Continent Lib- | rary,” is this daintily printed, cleverly illustra- ted, and pleasantly written story. The charac- ters and the author's analysis of thelr moods | constitute the chief charm of the book, though | It 1s not wanting in conception and development of plot, and it contains also not a little wit and wisdom, with some graphic bits of description. From G. P. Putnams Sons, we have, through A. Brentano & Co., the second part of Worthing- ton C. Ford’s “American Citizen's Manual,” which explains the functions of governments, state and federal, and points out to the citizen in.aclear and simple manner his rights and duties. It is a practical and useful publication. “Political Facts” is the title of a text book of | history of parties, etc.. prepared by Mr. George | Fitch, and published by John B. Piet & Co., of | Baltimore, which contains a large amount and | variety or information that must be of great ser- | Vice to politicians and public men, especially in view of the approaching Presidential campaign. From the publishers, Messrs. Dodd, Mead & | Co., New York, we have, through Robert Beall, | an attractive-looking little volume containing three stories entitled “An Unexpected Result,” “Christmas Eve in War Times,” and “Three Thanksgiving Kisses,” by E. P. Roe, the well- known and popular writer for juveniles. Messra. A. Williams & Co., of Boston, have recently issued a handsomely printed and ap- preciatively written biographical sketch of the late Miss Adelaide Phillipps, by Mra. R. C. Wa- terston, which the many admirers ot that pop- ular cantatrice will doubtless be very glad to | possess. A. Brentano & Co. send us a copy of an in- teresting and instructive little work imported by them explaining “Why the Shoe Pinches,” in t’g» form of an illustrated treatise on the | proper way of making a shoe, by Professor | Meyer, of the University of Zurich. The Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, which 1s in the press of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., will contain steel portraits of Mr. Weed, Mr. Seward, and other eminent men with whom Mr. W | held intimate relations, and many original tet- ters never before printed. The first volame of the new series of “ Plym- outh Pulpit,” which contains Henry Ward Beecher’s sermons, was completed with the 26th number, issued on the 4th of April last. The demand for this weekly pamphlet is constantly increasing. ——$_._______ ‘What His Uncle Said. Summerbee’s boy didn’t learn his alphabet | Very readily and always stuck at G. The “schoolmarm” tried to make him remember It, | but to no purpose. Finally am idea struck her. | She sald: | “Johnny, you were in the country during last vacation, I believe?” } ‘Yeaum.” i had some cattle, too, did he ne | “Yesum.” “Well, did not he say to bis cattle when he H ve them to go, = “Now do you think you can remember the letter?” “Yesum.” The next day Johnny in stumbled on ."and the teacher, to rarech his memory, sald: pars Johnny, what did your uncle bay to his lez” gohnny hesitated & moment, and then yelled at: “Haw, d—n you!” The teacher thought that Johnny had sud- | deniy learned the whole alphabet. o A Lady’s Burial Request. A young and sentimental !ady of Utica, who is very particular|where she is left to rot, has written this request: “Do not lay me down by the rippling brook’s side, lest babbling lovers may wake me from my dreams, nor in the beau- tiful cemeteries in the valleys, lest sight it-seera Leer 9 over thi cee distract me; but let my sleep be under is counter of th® mer- iscovery was made just In time | chant and the man generally who never to prevent a general jail deiivery. beige Snr There is the peace wi passeth $$ _ understani Three factories in the United States consume = eggs@ year in making a kind used by photographers, | of paper ding, and a sleep on which Be Seals acon weet neither the buoy fall of youth nor the pf tutte and’ dray of old age will ever in- | one Wie aT pe A harp-aeolian, finely strung,— ‘Swart plowman, deft and strong,— With genius, wit, and glowing heart, ‘That found their vent in song; All Nature taught the peasant bard Her wonders to declare, His “ Twa Dogs” uttered wise discourse More wise “ The Brigs of Ayr.” ‘The glory in his own rapt soul, Transfigured common things,— His nut-brown maids, his rustic friends, ‘Were more than queens and kings. = He gave new language to the flowers, That bloom near “ Bonnie Doon; ” ‘The songsters of the wood and fleld ‘He taught a sweeter tune. ‘The warriors of Bannockburn He brought again in view,— Led by the llon-hearted Bruce, ‘They fought that field anew. In his dark eyes there glowed the fire ° Of maniiness and power, Beneath whose glance the insolence Of haughty rank did cower. Glencairn! thy love for Robert Burns And his warm love for thee Will live, enshrined in deathless song, ‘When Earls shall cease to be. Over Scottish peasants’ humble homes A sacred light he threw, Revealing scenes that melt the heart And dim the eyes with dew: Homes, whence have sprung Old Scotia’s sons ‘Who've wrought her grand renown, In every ficld where mind can win Its right to guerdon-crown. He read God’s word with sacred awe, With trembling hopes and fears, The record of God’s love to man Oft melted him to tears, When griefs oppressed his tolling friends, And sadly waned the day, His kindly words and genta} wit Charmed all those gricts away. “The wounded Hare,” the Mouse forlorn, ‘Whose nest hts plow did rend, Saw only pity in his eye,— ‘Their champlon and friend, ‘The wondrous charms of Kden’s Eve, Source of man’s earthly bliss,— From falrer worlds transplanted here, To lend a charm to this, Burns found In Scotland’s cottage homes, Beside the Ayr and Doon, ‘The thatched abodes of modest worth, Whence prayer rose of aboon, He glorified that fatrer halt Of our proud human race By painting, with surpassing skill, Their loveliness and grac e, The rustling of their dainty robes ‘Thrilled through his heart and mind, As ‘twere the whir of angels’ wings ‘Disporting on the wind, More bonnie than “ the red, red rose, ‘That's newly sprung In June,” More charming than “the melody, That's sweetly played in tune,” Was the lasste of the harvest fleld Whose labors be did share, Who sang for him tn witeh!ng tones Rach dear old Scottish alr. “Sweet sonste la3s,” thy winsome grace First kindled into flame The stumb'ring genius of the boy, And wafted it to fame. In “wood notes wild” his bonate Jean Begutled his griefs and cares By wedding his tmmortal songs To Svotiand’s native airs, Born to a peasant’s life of toil, And doomed to peasants’ fare, Oa wings of love he sent above This prophesy and prayer. ‘Then let us pray that come it may— As come it will for a’ that— “That sense and worth, o’er a’ the earth, May bear the gree, and a’ that, For a’ that, and a’ that, Its coming yet for a’ that, That man to man, the warld o’er, Shall brothers be for a’ that.” Zenas C. ROBBrns, [Written for Tax EVRNING Stan, ‘The Old Mill. Och! Maggie, acushla, You've made me half crazy, Wid your ‘witchin’ blue eyes And your face like a daisy, Just the blue of the skies Of a June ’s in your eyes, And your heart-breakin’ mouth Is a rose trom the south. Shure the bee, if he sees you,— What I’m sayin’ te true— Will t@ke toll of your lips: "Tis such honey he sips, And I’m thinkin’ ‘ts taste He'll be showin’"—the baste— Faith I wish he'd stale just a bit of the swate, And give a poor hungerin’ fellow a trate, Do you moind the old mil, Where you sat on the sill; While the sifting white meal Crowned your hair like a veil, And your chakes kept a colorin’and biusbin’ Up 80, *TIll they looked lke two roses just peepin’ thro? snow. 8o I foind that the bliss of-anatchin’ a kiss, ‘Was more than a mortal Idlk me could resist, Och! that picture so sweet, shure it never can fade, ’Twill lighten me steps as they go down life’s glade, And whin me old feet totter slow on the hill ‘The last picture before me will be the old mill. Mre. H. Merzorr. The Oriole, To the Editor of Taz Evenino Sra, The beantifal lines to an Oriole, in Saturday's Stak, of which the author's name was requested, are by Edgar Fawcett. Perhaps your corre- spondent may love the bird as I do, and like to see the exquisite stanza addressed to him by William D. Howells: ORIOLE. “IT know his name, I know his note, ‘That so with rapture takes my soul; Like flame the gold beneath his throat, His glossy cope 1s black as coal.” May 3, 1883. A Lapy, 2 9 pp of Athens. Athens, we Ihear your father-—I musk stert He's broken of bis midnight Test; Disc i my ; va better Aw Maid of Athens, ere I go, Kiss ino once, for luck, you knows Your father’s foot 1s on the stair— None but the brave deserve the faire ‘The gas ain’t lit, Maid of Athens, just once more— Little ships must hug the shore; Hark! the dog has broken his chain, luck ag: Scott! I'm bit, : —Chicago Tribune. a A Miner’s Disagreeable Alternative, From the New York Tribune, While working at his mine near Tres Alamos, @ few days ago, John Lyons, ot Tombstone, Arizona, suddenly found himeelf in a most un- expected and unpleasant situation. Hehad put in @ blast, lighted the fuse, and just reached the top of the shaft when je beheld four mounted Apaches rapidly appréaching. Mr. Lyons hesi- tated an instant, aid then dro] behind a _ expl and 8 vol stones and debris flew into care with a than dering report. ‘The Indians, who had made eure of their victim, were so amazed and terrified at this miraculous interference, that they wheeled and galloped away, Hens, Mr. Lyons, who had not been the rocks which fell alt time to Tres Alamos, around him, made RELIGIOUS NOTES. — THE CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE. — The forty-hours’ devotion will take place at St. Patrick’s Catholic Chureh here on June 34. — The revival at Grace M. E. Church—Rev. H. -| 8. France—this week, has resulted in a number of conversions. — Rev. W. W. Hicks, of the Tabernacle, South Washington, has returned from a short trip to Florida, made for the benefit of his health. He is much improved, and will officiate in his pulpit to-morrow. — Rev. 8. F. Ryan, pastor of ithe Church of the Immaculate Conception, 8th: and N streets, has determined to make an effort to complete the edifice by erecting the steeple contemplated In the original plana and placing a bell therein. — The action of the official board of Mt. Ver- non Plaée M. E. Church, Baltimore, (Rev. Dr. Felton’s); in adopting lturgical services has caused some discussion among the ministers, and the Preachers’ Association of this city will dis- cuss the’ subject at the next meeting. — The Washington City Bible Society has se- cured, as the principal speaker at its anniversary at the Congregational Church to-morrow night, Rey. Dr. A. B. Jack, of Hazieton, Pa., one of the finest pulpit orators in the land, whose ad- dress last year at Boston was regarded as one of the best ever delivered there. —Last evening Bishop Pinkney visited St. Mary’s Chapel, on 23d street horthwest, where he preached and confirmed, the candidates being presented by the Rev. John F. Potter, M. D., pastor in charge. The rector of St. John’s (of which parish this chapel 1s a mission) was also present, with others of the clergy ot the Protestant Episcopal Church. — The Emory Grove Association has secured the promise of President Hood, of the Western Maryland railroad, that he would accede to the request of the association and would run no extra trains on Sundays to the camp ground, aithough he could see no wrong in running extra trains to carry persons to religious ser- vices on Sunday. The meeting will be held from August 9th to August 23d. —The North Capitol M. E. Church, which, for some time past, has been under a cloud owing to the discovery that they had no good title to the ground on which the church is lo- cated (North Capitol and K streets), is coming ‘up nobly. Finding that It was necessary to pur- chase the site over again, they have undertaken It, and thus far the trustees are promptly meet- Ing the notes. Rey. J. Clarke Hagey was sent to North Capitol by the Baltimore conference in May. Thecongregation has grown rapidly, and recently, even during inclement weather, the church has been filled. — Rev. R. R. Meredith, of Phillip’s (Congre- gational) Church, South Boston, has recelved a call to the Union Church in that elty. — The special meetings in the Congregational Church at Medina, Ohto, from February 1st to March 9th, resulted in about fifty conversions. —The Jackson (Mich.) Congregational con- ference reports about three times as many ad- missions to the church as last year. — Rev. Sidney Stone, of the Methodist Church, has Peceived a call from the Lebanon Congrega- tional Church at Lebanon,’ Mo. — The annual collections for the Pope In the archdiocese of Baltimore will be taken up on Trinity Sunday, May 20th. —An aged female member of Sharpsburg, Md., has given $500 to rebuild the M. E. Church at that point. — Rev. Mr. Wilkins has accepted a call to the Second Christian Chureh (colored), in Balti- more. — Canons Taylor and Beesley, of the Catholic diocese of Salford. England, arrived in this country on Wednesday. — Rev. Harrison Clarke has been installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Churches of Lewins- ville and Vienna, in Fairfax county, Va. The latter is comparatively a new church. — The fourth reunion of the Christian Com- mission, the Sanitary Commission and the Chap- lains of the late War will be held at Ocean Grove, N. J., on July 22d, 23d and 24th. —The London (England) Presbytery has adopted an overture to the synod of the Pres- byterian church in England, favoring a revision of the Westminster Confession of Faith. —The Bridgeport (Conn.) authorities have assured the Salvation Army that their in-door meetings will be protected, but they can give no assurance of protection as to the out-door meetings. . — At Saratoga, New York, the Presbyterian General Assembly will meet on the 17th instant, the Baptist General Assembly the 22d and the American Home Missionary society (Congre; tional) on June 5th. ul a7 — Rey. Mr. Jones, ot the Southern Presby- terian Church, has resigned his position under the American Tract Society, to accept the poai- tion of evangelist under the Presbytery of the Chesapeake, — The May meeting of the bishops of. the M. E. Church will be held in Pittsburg next week, (the 9th), and all of them are expected except Bishop Foster, who is now in Europe, and Bishop Peck, who is confined by illness to his home in Syracuse. —The Atlanta (Ga.) Baptist Seminary has 120 students enrolled this year, most of them dependent on what they can earn during the summer. All beneficiary funds are exhausted, and unless aid is even) @ number will be com- pelled to leave before the close of the school year. — Dr. Felton, in replying to some of the criti- cisms, says the Gloria Patria is in the Hymnal, the Apostle’s Creed is in the baptismal service, and forms part of the opening service of every regulated Sunday school, and the Psalter con- sists of selections of the Psalms of David, pub- lished by the M. E. Publishing House. — The Conference of St. Vincent de Paul, an organization for the relief of the poor, began the celebration of its golden jubilee of the order yesterday morning at the Cathedral in Balti- more. Rev, Thomas S. Lee was the celebrant OUNCES OF PREVENTION. ‘The Thermometer as & Mealth-men- surer, ~ — tae From Harper's Bazar. In @ last year's number of a popniar healtb journal may be found an article on “Mining in Hot Places,” the Comstock Mine in Nevada be- ing meant. In this article, which was quoted ftom a western journal, I came across the fol- lowing statement: “The temperature of the blood Js about 98° F.; therefore, when @ man remains in a hot place for an hour, or even half an hour, his vlood and his whole body become heated to a temperature of 115°, 120°, or whatever may be the temperature of the place in which he isat work.” This statement is given withouta word of com- ment by the editor of the popular journal in question, who writes A.M. and M.D. after his name. Let us hope that his readers, and also my own, are acquainted with a tact in physiolo- gy of which the learned health journal editor has perhaps never heard—the fact, namely, that the healthy human body preserves nearly the same temperature everywhere and under all cir- cumstances, whether in the hottest mine orupon the coldest arctic iceberg, and that a slight de- parture from that standard heat, whether pro- duced by exposure or by disease, means the speedy death of the sufferer. What is this standard heat of the human body? What isthe source and degree of this natural animal heat? Its source is the oxlda- tion or burning of the food taken into the sys- tem. The food is consumed as in a fire, only far more slowly, but with about an equal disen- gagement of heat as the result. Throw a su- gared almond into the fire—it will burn longer bably than you would think, some two or three minutes, throwing out a considerable vol- ume of flame. In the humah body the sugar, starch, and oll of the almond will give outabout the same amount of heat during the process ot assimilation, which may last many hours. Part of this heat is converted into force, part is radi- ated. The total amount of heat radiated by a healthy human body is estimated as equal, on the average, to that of two burning candles. Ten persons sitting In a room, that Is to say, would warm it as much as twenty candles in the same time. The degree of this heat, as indicated by the temperature of the blood, varies with different animals and classes of animals, but for each kind and individual it remains very nearly the same. Birds are the warmest blooded; their animal heat ranges from 106° to 111° F. temperature of mammals lies between equally narrow limits; that of the porpoise Is 97°, of the horse 99°, and of the ass and the hare 100°. On this point the cat and the rat.are in complete accord, having each a vital temperature of 102°. The sheep, the goat, and the sea-cow have the warmest blood of all the mammals, its heat Teaching 104°. But how small is this range. es- pecially In view of the immense difference in the natures, habits, and surroundings ot the different animals I have named! The temperature of the human body has been studied with great care. Its average height was first determined by the researches of Dr. Brechet. In health, as measured by an accurate thermometer placed in the armpit, it is 98.6° F., or37°C. The actual heat of the blood is about. 1° F. higher than this. ‘The differences between the temperatures of different individuals are extremely small, 1° or 2°F. The spontaneous variations inthe temperature of the same in- dividual during health are also slight, seldom as muchas one degree in the course of the day. Two or three degrees 1s the utmost range for health. Any range lower than 97.2° or higher than 99.5°(in the axilla) is very suspicious; more than this means disease; a little more means danger; still a little more derangement of the natural heat means death, In the large hos— pital practice of Dr. Wunderlich the lowest tem- perature among severe cases which yet recv- ered was 92.3°. At the other extreme there is no record of a life which has survived a- blood temperature of 113°. So delicate is the adjust- ment of the flame that we call lite! It is by the cilnical thermometer that we study the movement of these temperatures from the normal standard ot health upward or downward to disease. The instrument forewarns us of the danger and describes it; a barometer of health, indications so easily understood, that it should be familiar in every family. Far more clearly than the barometer foretella the weather does the clinical thermometer warn us of the ap- proach or foretell the close of the storm of dis- ease in the microcosm of the human system. The instrument as made by the best makers, is graluated by tenths of a degree from 95° to 110° F.—an extremer on of figures, 1 hope, than any of my readers will ever be called on to note at the bedside of a loved one. And what are the Indications, for better or for worse, of the hygeimeter, or health-indicator, as the clinical thermometer might properly be called? : 1. The standard of health being a tempera- ture of 98.6° F., a constant temperature. or one that varies in health not more than one-quarter of a degree either way from this norm in the same individual, is a proof of a sound constitu- tion. 2. And conversely, ‘ mobility of temperature under the action of external influences 1s a sign of some diseased condition ” (Wunderlich.) 3. A natural temperature does not prove health, though it is a presumption of health. But as I have said, any variation from the nor- mal temperature ‘that exceeds two degrees, either upward or downward, is to be taken as of the mass, at which many of the members of the conference from various parts the city were present. — The first Catholic services at Towsontown, in Baltimore county, Md., were held on Sunday last, Rev. D. Manly celebrating the first mass. The services were held in the armory of the Towsontown Guards, in whicha tempo! altar had been erected. Rey. D. E. Lyman, of Goy- anstown, has charge, and it is contemplated to erect a church at once, —The Presbylerian Observer, of Baltimore, copies an overture of the St. Louis Presbytery to the general assembly, to be held at Saratoga, asking that decided and unequivocal action be taken to protect the canon of Sacred Scripture (chap. 1: sec. 3), and says it isremarkable—an alarm of fire when there ig not even smoke con- veys a false impression and is an assumption that the assembly will commit an act of super- lative nonsense. — An agnostic is defined by Prof. Geo. F. Wright, of Oberlin, as ‘one who confesses sach & degree of ignorance concerning any proposi- tion that he is unable to form an opinion as to its trath or falsity.” His conclusion is that ag- nosticism is a help or a hindrance to Ch = ristian- ity according to the int to which it is di- rected. Ifit relates to fundamental ideas of religion, {t Paralyzes all effort to learn and accept the truth; but if it ‘only covers miner ob- Jections, subsidiary a es, and apparent dis- crepaneies, it clears the for piste — Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, who, at one time, was vicar of North Carolina, last week pald a visit to Bishop Northrop, of Charleston, who is now vicar of North Carolina, and last Sunday he officiated at St. Thomas Church, in Wihnington, N. C. He was accompanied Rey. Mr. Quin, of New York. On Thursday the sconpnon. was at St. Aloysius, in this city, ac- companied by Bishop Northrop. The archbisho) being indisposed, Bisho) Roestiroy offich 8 aad confirmed 660 lidates, said to be the number ever confirmed in the District at one time. — The centenary. of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland will be celebrated in Balti- more on May 29th at St. Panl’s Chuel. Bishop Lay. of Easton, will deliver an address on “The Early History of the Church in Mary! "and in the ev. @ soclable will be held man’s Hall. On the 80th the diocesan conven- tion will be held at St. Peter's, where Bishop Pinkney will deliverhis address in-the morning, At Christ Church, in the evening, Rev. Dr. Hi ton formerly of thie c . will make an historical 1, fe Coxe, of western New York, Rel enn by op Williams, of almost certainly re disease; while tem- peratures above 108° or below 92° F. are, with very few exceptions, fatal. ‘4. Each and every disease that Is well marked in its course and symptoms—that is, typical, in scientific phrase—produces in each of its stazes its-own effests upon the temperature of the blood, and gives, therefore, numbers that may be figured in curves which are characteristic of the particular disease. These latter details are for the physician to record and study; they are too complex for de- scription here. But any other person—even the patient himself, unless a child—can make the reliminary observations of which I speak, and the nurse should know how to make them in the absence of the physician. Even a single obser- vation with the clinical thermometer will tell us whether the patient 1s really ill. Two or three observations will inform us what the kind ot danger is, and will sometimes determine the probable mildness or severity of an attack. In most families illness is threatened, at least, not infrequently, and it 1s of great service to be able to know promptly whether to send for the doc- tor ornot. The general rule on the point, sub- Ject of course to slight modification for the indi- vidual, Is to call medical aid if the temperature rises above 101° or talls below 97°. 5. Influences which do not disturb the tem- perature of the healthy derange that of the sick. The occurrence of abnormal temperatures in persons who have been previously healthy points to the existence of disease. The ther- mometer indicates, tor instance, the existence of tuberculosis by evening elevations of three or four a . Such, in brief, is the clinical thermometer, the most recent and one of the most important a) liances that medical science has given us. use requires intelligence, but no special skill. It is only necessary to handle the instrument carefully, to keep It dry and clean, and in using it to leave it in the closed arm-pit for not less than four minutes. Read the result carefully and promptly, and note it down at once, with the day and hour, for the use of the physician. A permanent record of the tem; of each child should also be kept from infancy. It will rove serviceable to the physician, and will form a part of the physiological history of the child. Tirus Munsox Coan. American girls are much more popular abroad than on and for an obvious reason. They are more continental in their tastes. They live for dress, flirtation. Our young do our countrywomen They have peo Interests ay from ety. They tanize, sney work, they play lawn-tennis as if they meani riers : one ia. they, aie am ey explorse Sg oy ot pee fired tay they collect sea- beasts, y even study the peasants and their patois. They regard foreign young men as beings of another no 8 =more ‘than prompt Fee ete these reasons do not dress tq please oung men. xy wear paige ee aero very Alpine jan, seem ihe fre oi misters, Bealekts ‘They 00! Wear out ete od things. iy they introduce esthet! a popula- tion which never of Mr. It is The | it Is one that is so easily used, and in its simpler | lL IST OF LETTE! ‘WASHINGTON CITY POST SATURDAY, MaY 5, 1883. fe ieanes Beker orcs to the Dead Letter Of Di Dabacy Br Elite Bprice Mat Felter Lucy Bmith Mary Graham Emily wna Mary Grabam Hanuah Smith Mery Jane Greet Manearet Shorter Olivia at A Hamuton Ciers D Stepbens SS UI poens ire Harrison Julia Smile Willie Mre Hoge Laura, 2 Ts yee. 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A YARD. Fifty pieces Black Extra-heavy Spanish Lace. Our old stock at 68 cents a yard is no better quality; 80 the price for the 1ot now is 50c. A YARD. Beaded Crowns. Our old stock consists of thirty-three crowns, which we have been selling at 68 cents. Wecan'tsceany difference in the quality, 80 the new lot and the old are now 3 5c. EACH. Fifty pieces Beaded Laces, which are positively less ‘that half usual pricea, ‘TSc., 980., $1.19 PER YARD, ALAIS ROYAL. GARDEN TOOLS. ‘We are prepared to furnish the trade with GARDEN TOOLS, HYDEANT HOSE, and GENERAL HARD- WARE, Pp F. P. MAY & 00., 634 Pennsylvania apla H,.> sss IMPORTER AND TAILOR, 111] Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, * SPRING GOODs. fosde and irnmsed in the tase eed ane ot ts a 507 Proroz Froes 507 renee SoS es Mae rene oe jpeaae YOUR FURS AND WINTER CLOTH ING AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF MOTH. Berne Guu osnuon, ‘M0, PER POUND, - 4. G, BISHOP, Draggist, W190 Nh atrest. corner H strest northwest. | Branch Store: RS REMAINING IN THE OFFICE, vine Hand Called forwithin onemonth they will be sent E “OONSTANTLY TIRED-OUT" 20 often experienced is the reanit of Blood and consequence enfeebled vitality. Ayers Sane ‘sapariila feeds and eariches the blood, increases the petite, and promotes digestion of the food and the ilation of ite strengthening qualities. The system being: thus invigorated, the feelin rapidly changes to agrates ful sense of strength and energy. my3 Lievonse. MARYLAND CLUB. $6 per gation, MONTICELLO "77, $6 per gallon. ROYAL CABINET, $6 per gallon, OLD BAKER, % per gallon. OLD CROW, % per callon. GOOD OLD RYE, $3 per gallon, BOTTLE GOOD RYE, 80 cents. BOTTLE GOOD RYE, 75 conte. BOTTLE OLD CROW, #1. HENNESSEY BRANDY, 1865. GALLON SPANISH SHERRY, 8 GALLON OPORTO WINE, §: GALLON COOKING SHERRY, $3 GALLON MEDFORD RUM, $3. 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