Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1883, Page 3

AID FOR WOMEN DRUNKAR DS, Seciety Women, Actresses and Others whe have Become Victims of the Ap- Petite for Strong Drink—The Taste fer Opiates. ‘From the New York Sun. In east 57th street Is a large and handsome Brown-stone house, furnished like a private @welling. and called the Christian Home, for ‘Women who suffer from an inordinate use of fatoxicating liquors or narcotic poisons, and Who are not strong enouch to break up the abit without medical aid. Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Meylert are in charge gor the Women’s Chri tian Temperance Association. The late Wm. E. Dodge gave the building to the association, and stipulated th women who could give Feferences of go character should be admitted. The mn is sustained by the gifts of charitab! «i patients are not y for support and treatment nuwn tu be able todo so. Dr. of the institu- for treatment many nen who move in the dest known circles of s Benetit of such ed. Do not ima; €ome here of the he home was start- . that such ¥ d. Thelr frien there. Ofc tained, for they will e drunkard: at t t friends. is respect. Their fr ever, and ask me to receive the inebria: she goes on her next spree, for after her s she Is willing to go anywhere to cet relief. There are exceptions tothis rule. Here is one.” to his desk and picked up ing of a woman, ylert read aloud, nes in the reading, said that had conei the actre: Place where she could be watched and treated medically. She had just recovered from what hi manager believed to” be a serio a solitary debauch. e faintest suspicic for he Dat it was simp manager had not t eause of her sicknes With her for a new ¢ herself unable to troubles.” her “eu s lam willing to endure of the had ju it he ing. suffer any- Thad sunk into e resolvin have lost confidence in m: irresistible power has hold of me. “Now, that woman has dipsor Physician, as he folded the “She has utterly im- her own strength he has tried twice to commit suicide, and was prevented by aid. She would get Hquor when she craves it, even if, as Jefferson says in “Rip Van Winkle,” she had to cut off her leg to get it. But this poor woman is franker than any Tever knew. Most_ women patients Press them with ant you with hesita- <5 of wine at dinner, or in the street. they went ed for something. which be sin. But they did not know what the lerk was preparing— eertainly not. In fact. we eannot believe what y. We are guided by their friends’ tion that that. feeit toa druz store unexpectedly pro statements. “4 LADY FRIEND.” “A Boston of reat wealth wrote tome recently, de ngth the symptoms of “her lady friend. and asked if the lady could be ut. I learned that she was You would be astounded n the names of some well- ie n to the known women in s institution f Bociation k exces: gt families of the pat: They come he ting from their e outside of the ows their names. fully, and after a ould not rr , | that bore on their tace the evidence of matri- quor monial int Anxious fathers, at the solicita- liquor. tion of more anxiousmammas, have propounded when thes the most s 1g Inquiries about the financial the pain in standing, private character and antecedents of not one was prospective sons-in-law, residents at other "J cities. that al ites are en- not eaten any s¢ b 1 give pepsin, tonics. : and electri especially. with the b Why, that electrical battery on able would fell an ox to the floor when its stronzest current i di: bat a delicate-framed int stand it and ask for more. gives tone to the “The patients rest a Weeks, and wien they Tose the cravinz for drink the: occupations, it sobers her, and 1 sleep tor two or thre be and it iy Piet ary to add when I y are put on their ly was in this way recently sub- reat te ation. She called ona n busivess concerning her ner ina ine, and fused it. She lid not know riate asylum, He finished his Was greatly 5 had never refused it before. that she was i and he was wine alone. “HOW DO WoMEN “Often to drown a zhorance. One of m Patients int good ci and never known to take er than tea oF coffe jay by enone om an exploded lamp, tid Was burned to death before the Ss unable to sa it. shock to her She took brandy to relieve th feelings, and continued drinking it to exces That was thirte she said to me the other day: ‘My hing alive is always before m how after all these years. have not be ble to endure it. Si now is not glass I keep on has not touche Morphine was given as several years ayo. © syringe sear. She does not Want to be curea, but her friends have sent | her. “There is one cause for drunkenness or opium eating among women more common than many suppose. I mean disease and pain. The won- der to me is tha: more women who suffer great- are not ruined by alcohol. It is a blessing to em that they never tried it and found tempo- Yary relief, for when the habit is fixed they tind it linposslble to shake it off. I have in mind Bow a beautiful woman who was noted for all that ought to become a woman. Her husband ‘Was several years ago a prominent man in New York, but now he has given up everything to wait on her. More than ten years ago she was given chloradine by her physician to retieve pain, and the taste ‘and effect were so grateful she has continued to use the drag until her Ife has become a burden to her. “Drinking is a frightfully prevalent vice among wealthy women, who are frequently ‘not at home’ to callers. With these women the drinking habit is concealed from friends tor ears, and even from persons in the household. Tinew society women who drink and who sue- eced in keeping the knowledge of the fact even frorn their husbands, but I can't conceive how manage it. They have the cunning of the evil one. They do not send for a physician to re- Heve them of their torture after a spree as a man dees. They go off into a roon quietly wait until they feel better. e amount of iquor that some suc women will drink with- | out getting drunk is amazing. I know a mar- rieé woman who. when she craves liquor, will @ink a large glass o: clear whisky without wiaking. Then she will lie down and sleep off the effects. This practice would not have @scovered but for her increasing the doses lually, until onenight she got roaring druuk, the lace curtains, and banged the furniture aroand the room. Many women get drunk at night, es many men do, and wake up sober in the middle of the forenoon. “Sometimes I have curious experiences. One Right a messenger from a family whese name would recognize if I should mention it, oaeme to the bedside of the mother of the family. The husband and children were cryin; arqund the bed when I arrived. They believ. the woman was dying, and they had been try- -fmg to arouse her for a last good-by. She was nearly dead, but from nothing but alcoholism. ‘sald nothing to the family, byt gave the . and it was for the | led to go alone to some } {| mercantile persons and for mercantile purposes, tment the other day, and | ¥ aspot on her body which has | alone and | woman the | eae remedies, and to this day the tamiy almost worship me for raising the wife and mother from the brink of the grave. Pe does not reveal the truth, and of course I not.” ° —————_+2-—_____ “ENTITLED _TO MARRY.” A_Necded Insuranee Company That Will Prevent Deception, Scandal, al eartaches.- XO MORE MOCK NOBLEMEN—GUARDING UNsvs- PICIOUS MAIDENS AGAINST FUTURE ENOCH ARDENS. From the Philadelphia Times. There are companies in successful operation that issue policies of insurance guaranteeing the titles to real estate, that take risks on all kinds | of personal and real property, pledging indem- | nification in case of loss by fire or water, and there are corporations that make wagers on the longevity of mankind, after carefal physical in- vestigation. There is now orgavizing and pre- paring to spring into full-fledged existence, Minerva-like,a unique and remarkable company for the protection of society from designing per- sons who may contemplate matrimonial ailiances when they are not legally free to enter into such The corporation will be Known as Matrimonial Protective Insurance Company orth America, Limited, and its methods wiil based on those of real estate title insur- ance companies. As a cardinal distinction. how- ever, it will undertake to guarantee to a pros-* pective wife or husbands that the person with Whom he or she is about to make the matri- monial contract is free from entangling alliances. The project is a direct outgrowth of the recent disclosures in the case ot Major Nickerson, of the ‘ed States Army, who might have been spared @ great deal of trouble and scandal it Mrs. Nick- erson No. 2 had required from him some such a | certificate of insurance before she uttered the fatal “yes.” Smouldering in the daily unpub- lished records of the courts, but occasionally breaking into flaming notoriety, as in the Nick- erson case, are countless applications for di- Vorce. Cases of technical bigamy are becoming so frequent that tie projected corporation is likely to become exceedingly popular. . HOW IT WILL EARN DIVIDENDS. “The Matrimonial Protective Insurance Com- pany of North America, Limited,” will issue stock to the extent of half a million dollars. | Then it will open an office for business. Each | holder of a policy will be Insured for a specified sum against dgception when she or he proposes tomarry. The previous career of the person | will be carefully searched, and if the title be | clear the company will give the Interested per- son a guarantee. Thereatter, should such a polizy-holder discover that she or he has been decelved, and that there is another who has a | claim upon the husvand or wife, a specified in- demnity will be paid by the company for the person's support. The insured wili be tur- nished with a stamped certificate bearing the indorsement, in official red ink, Entitled to The great aim of the organization, Tr. will be to prevent all such complica: tions by obtaining satistactory evidence in ad- vance that intended wives or husbands have never been married betore, or at least that they have no living obstacles to their marriage. In order to do this it willhave tobe conducted ; Somewhat on the plan of the mercantile agen- cies, with an agent or correspondent in each of the large cities and a corps ot spesial reporters, | who will work up the cases. Kecords of the | marriage licenses issued from year to year will be kept in alphabetical order; lists of all nS | i ee ave a HV ENING THE PLANET JUPITER. A Fine View. From the New York Sun. In these fine evenings of early Jane the ama- teur astronomer should not neglect the oppor- tunity, which will soon be gone, of studying the only conspicuous planet now visible in the evening sky, the giant Jupiter. Jupiter is now getting so low in the west,and go near the sun, that his image in the telescope is apt to be a little indistinct, but with a good glass that will bear a ms nifying power of 200 or 300 diame- ters, Jupiter is still a spiendid phenomenon. His rosy belts and equatorial clouds and the constantly changing aspect of his satellite system never cease to be interesting, and whoever has seen them once is sure to wish to see them again, as often as he can. One of the great charms ofa telescopic view of Jupiter is the visible motion of the planet and his moons. In asingle evening one can see the huge globe rol: halt way over on its axils, the time of a whole rotation being only ten hours, and can witness the passage of the round black shadow of one of the moonsacross the face of the planet, or the disappearance of another moon as it goes behind the planet or is eclipsed in tie great cone of shadow which Japiter thmows far away into space behind him. It is difficult for one not ac- customed to astronomical observations to cuin- prehend the fact that those little shining globes which he sees moving so silently and smoothly in their orbits are actually worlds in size, and that they are removed hundreds of thousands of niles from the great planet around which they circle. If, as most astronomers believe, Jupiter has not yet cooled down into a habitable globe, heis, in some respects, all the more in- teresting to us on that account; for if he were aninhabited globe, no telescope man can make would be abie to reveal his inhabitants or their worksto us,and the very fact that he was In such a condition as to support inhabitants would preclude the possibility of any physical changes which could be seen at the distance of four or five hundred million miles. sut, on the other hand, if, as is believen Jupiter is yet ina very early stage of world growth, then the in- habitants ofthis earth can continue to watch with their telescopes, as they have been doing for the last 200 years, the changes of appearance which he undergoes, In other words, they can behold part of the geological development of a distant world, and, if the human race could ex- ist long enough and could hand down its rec- ords unbroken from age to age, it might at last have a complete history, based on actual ob- servations of the growth of Jupiterfrom a globe of gaseous or fluid matte to a solid and habi- table world like our own. Feeding Dogs. A dog should be fed twice a day. I pur- porely italicize the word “twice,” tor, although the breakfast should be but a light one, it is a necessity of healthful existence. If it be not given the bowels become confined: the bile is ejected into the stomach; the dog seeks grass, and relieves himself in a nature! way of what nature designed as an aperient. a bit of dry dog-biscuit, or a drop of milk a? a basin of sheep's head broth, is all my own dogs ever have for breaktast. A dog should have his principal meal—with a run to follow—at 4 p. m. in winter and 5 in summer. Variety and change from day to day are most essential. Dog-biscuits, dry or steeped, and tained 4 with the liquor that fresh meat or fish has been boiled in, with now and then oat-meal porridge, make a good staple of diet. Bread-crusts steeped may be substituted once a week. Meat should be given, but, unless the dog has abun- dant exercise, too much does harm. Boiled greens should be mixed with the food at least twice a week. but they should be well mashed, else our friend will edge them on one side with his nose and leave them. Paunches are good as | divorce proceedings; dockets of ‘the orphans’ | court, and even without a clue, but especially | with a clue as to the former residence of the as- pirant for matrimony, his or her whole-record | cam be brought to light and carefully scrutin- | ized. - A PERFECTLY PRACTICABLE SCHEME. The project is not so Utcpian as might at frst appear. The two leading mercantile agencies | of the country, Bradstrect’s and Dunn's, have long had to contend against the pressing destre | of their subscribers for this class of information. | Until lately they have had continuous inquiries The inquirers have sought to find ont how much such persons are worth, what their sala- | ries or incomes are, their future prospects, their habits, whether dissipated or not. On the other | hand, young men often made solieitous inquir- | ies concerning the amount of the worldly pos- | sessions of expectant fathers-in-law, and thore were cases where questions were asked as to the number of relatives the estate would have to be | divided among. This class of investigation for personal ends became so palpable that the agen- cies had to introduce in their contracts an | agreement that the inquiries must be solely for | and ti | printe: agreement now appears in all their Ks. PROTECTION AGAINST BOGUS TITLES. Why the general plan of areal estate title in- | surance company is selected for the new organ- ization is as yet a matter of speculation, unless | it be that the association between matrimonial | matters and questions of real estate grows | daily closer and more intimate. The real es- | tate concern divides the dangers that it has | to guard against into three classes: those | caused by defects in title, those caused by | errors in the search for incumbrances and those |eaused by liens and unrecorded — clalins generally. It is proposed that the new | association will “also guard against de- | fects In the title, make diligent inquiry as to | the existence of any incumbrances and aiso look | out for liens and mortgases. | @real estate Insurance company says in its cir- cular, “may exist in any and every title. , | greater the care and research the less likelihood | of undiscovered defects, but no certainty of their | non-existence. Loss may arise, not only from ct defects, but from those that are | ‘overed, but which are not deemed to besuch | y the examiner, for after every examination | that can be made is made and all that can be | learned of the title is briefed and tabulated, the | Judgment must be exercised as to what is’ the result of it all.” The same rule holds good in the estimation of the projectors of the new en- j terprise, concerning defects in matrimonial titles. A.SAFEGUARD FOR MOTHERS. Where there are so many young ladies with scheming mammas, whose sole aim is the cap- ture of the first wealthy argosy that comes along, whether he be widower or bachelor, there always must be a rich harvest of defective titles. Possibly in time the enterprise may be | extended so as to take in the examination of the genuineness of the tittes borne by foreign fortune-hunters upon whom American girls had | cast their affections. In every emergency aris- ing to invalidate the marriage tie or to interfere with Its happiness the Matrimonial Protective Insurance Company of North America, Limited, will prove a useful and beneficial factor, and the fact alone of the existence of such an or- ganization will do much to throw a damper upon the unjustiflable separations and illegal divorces that are being proc in so many states. The only anxiety among the corpora- tors, as disclosed to a reporter, seemed to be lest designing persons would conspire to make matches that subsequently proved to be iHegal. For Sleeplessness. A physician writing to the Christian Union on the subject of sleeplessness, remarks: Physicians who used to prescribe bromide of soda or potassium for sleeplessness now urge their patients to take beef tea instead. The | writer, after trying various prescriptions with little benefit, was at length so fortunate as to re- ceive such advice. At first, beeftea was used with some light bread or biscuit broken in it sipped from a spoon as warm as it could betaken. ‘Afterward, milk Just scalded, not boiled, was substituted, and, tomake it more easy of digest- tion, a tablespoonful of lime water was added to a half tumbler of milk. To facilitate matters, a pocket-stove with an alcohol lamp, or anarrange- ment for the gas-fixture should be at hand. If neither beef tea nor milk can be easily procured, hot water with an Infusion of hops or mint may be subtifuted, or even hot water aléne will quiet restlessness and induce sleep. A darken- ed room that the moonbeams can not enter, a little fresh air from an open fire-place or window, are valuable assistants in making the sleep con- tinuous. When once the habit of wakefulness is broken up, the beef tea or milk taken cold, but a change; so are well-boiled lights and sheep’s head and broth, The head should he boiled to a jelly, and no kind of meat shouldbe given rai, except now and then a morsel of bullock’s liver or milt, to act as a laxative. Never. give raw lights—they carry down air into the stom- ach and may produce fatal results. Potatoes, rice and most garden roots are good, and the scraps of the table generally. Much caution should be used in giving bones. On no account give-a dog fish or game or chicken bones. Milk, when it can be afforded, is very good for dogs, and buttermilk is a most wholesome drink for them. Let everything you give to a dog be cleanly and well cooked, and do not entertain the now exploded notion that anything is good enough for a dog. Whatever a dog leaves should be thrown to the fowls and not pre- sented to him again, for the animal is naturally dainty. If you want a dog to remain healthy great pains must be taken that bath personally and in all his surroundings he is kept clean. His food and his water shouldbe pure and tresh; the kennel he lie should always haye clean bedding and be periodically scrubbed and disin- fected. Even the inside of his leather collar | should be kept sweet and clean. He ought to be brushed, it not combed, every mor an ordinary dandy brush. This not on the coat clean and free from unsightly matting, but encourages the growth of the “ feather,” as it is called.—Chambers’ Journal. A Slighted Alcalde, From the Corpus Christi Tax Caller. “Some years since I was traveling in Mexico, and on invitation attended a party given in honor of one of the young ladies ofthe hacienda, After partaking of a delicious repast I was in- vited by the host to take a hand with himself and friends in a game ot monte andande (travel- ling monte), which is played the same as monte, with the exception #hat the deal goes round in rotation and the players bet at the game. All preent were wealthy, and the game proved to an interesting one, and there was no dispo- sition on the part of the players to stop playing, when notified to do so. by policeman. They positively refused to stop, and told the police- man to inform the alcatde who the players were. He returned after a short absence and said it was the order of the alcalde that playing should cease. They requested him to ask the alcalde what their fine would be. The policeman re- turned with the amount of the fine, ten dotlars apiece, which was promptly handed him by the players, and the host sent a card of invitation to the alcalde, requesting the pleasure of his presence. Not more than fifteen minutes elapsed before the alcalde put in an appearance, and the play waxed warm. Had the inyitation been accorded him sooner, it would have saved the party a fine, as that wasa gentle reminder that ‘he felt hted.’ ” — One of Carlyle’s Rampages. From a Letter of Jane Welsh Carlylo. Carlyle returned froma his travels very billous, and continues very billous up to this hour. The amount of bile that he does bring home to me, in these cases, is something “awfully grand!” Even through that deteriorating medium he could not but be struck with a “certain admira- tion” at the immensity of needle work I had accomplished in his absence. in the shape of chair covers, sofa covers, window curtains, etc., and all the other manifest improvements into which I had put my whole genius and industry, and so little money as wag hardly to be con- ceived. For three days his satisfaction over the rehabilitated house lasted; on the fourth the young lady next door took a fit of practicing on her accursed pianoforte, which he had quite forgotten seemingly, and he started up disen- chanted in his new library and informed heaven and earth in a peremptory manner that ‘there he could neither think nor live,” that the car- penters must be brought back and “‘steps taken to make him a quiet place somewhere—perhaps best of all on the roof of the house.” Then fol- lowed interminable consultations with the car- penter, yielding for some days only plans (wild ones) and estimates. Up went ali the carpets which my own hands had nailed down, in rushed the troop of incarnate demons, bricklayers, join- ers, whitewashers, etc., whose noise and dirt and dawdling had so lately driven me to despair. Down went a partition in one room, up went a chimney in another. Helen, instead of exerting herself to stave the torrent of confusion, seemed to be struck (no yeace) with tempo) idiocy, and my husband himself, at the light of the up- roar he had raised, was all but wringing his hands and tearing his hair, like the German wizard ser- vant, who has learned magic enough to make the broomstick carry water for him, but had not the counter-spell to stop it. Myself could have sat down and cried, so little strength or spirit I had left to front the pressure of my cir- cumstances. It was got through In the end, this new hubbub, but when my husband pro- ceeded to occupy his new study, he found that A SWEET GIRL GRADUATE She Meets the Horse Seporter, Who Pats Her the Bud of Promise Racket. From the Chicago Tribune. “Is this the place?” 3 A prepossessing young lady stood in the door- way of the editorial rooms and was gazing around the apartment in a friendly but some- what mystified manner. “Tt depends on what you want,” replied the horse reporter. “If you are on a wild and fruit-. tess search for a plece of plumb-colored satin to match a dress, or a new kind_of carpet-sweeper that will never by any possibility keep in work- ing order three consecutive days, you are joy- ously sailing away on the wrong tack; but if you would like an editor—” “That's it,” said the young lady. “I want to see an editor; I guess it’s the literaryeditor. I thought it would be nice to meet the literary editor and talk to him about authors and poets and everything like that. Don’t you think Elaine is lovely? It always seems to me—” “Now you're talking,” exclaimed the horse reporter, enthusiastically. ‘Five or six years ago, when Elaine beat the three-year-old rec- ord, I picked her out fora pretty smooth ar- ticle, and told the boys then that she was liable to beat 2:20 if her off hind leg didn’t give way.” ~“T don’t mean a.nasty, horrid old horse,” said the young lady; ‘‘I was referring to Tennyson’s heroine.” “Tam going to graduate next month, sir,” she continued, ‘and I’ve got to read an essay. Isn't it funny ?” “Perfectly sidesplitting,” responded the per- sonal friend of St. Julien. “and [ thought,” continued the young lady, “that perhaps the literary editor would give me some advice about the subject of my essay and the general manner in which it should be treated.” “The Bud of Promise racket is a pretty good one.” said the horse reporter. “The what 2” “The Bud of Promise racket. scheme for girl graduates.” “Could you tell me,” asked the young lady in a hesitating manner, ‘about this——" “Racket,” suggested the horse reporter. “About this racket?” “Oh, certainly. You want to start the essay with a few remarks about spring being the most beautiful season of the year—the time when the tender blades of grass, kissed by the dews of heaven and warmed by the kindly rays of the sun, peep forth, at first timidly, and then In all the royal splendor of thelr vivid colors, from the bosom of the earth that was such a little while ago wrapped in a mantle of snowy whiteness and tast-bound in the chilly arms ot hoary-headed old winter. Then say that as the glad sunshine leaps through the bits of follage that begin to come out and cast their grateful shade upon the earth they fall upon the buds that are lading the fruit trees, and soon on every branch the buds ripen and burst forth in a wealthof floral loveliness. Then compare the maiden just stepping forth from the precincts of the school and gazing with wistful, eager eyes out into the world with the ttle bud upon the tree, and say that she, too, by the ald of the sunlight which comes from education, will soon developinto a woman, that priceless gift of God to man, and ever cast about her the holy light of love. That ought to fetch *em.” It’s a daisy “It sounds nice, doesn’t it?” said the young lady. ‘ou bet it does, sis.” “Thank you very much, sir,” said the young lady, starting for the door. “Don’t forget to tie your essay with a blue rib- bon,” said the horse reporter. jo, sir, I won't.” “And tell your papa tobuy a bouquet to fire at 0 “Yes, sir. Good-bye.” “Bon soir. Come around when you fall in love andI will put you up to agreat scheme for making Charley declare his intentions seve- ral months earlier than would otherwise be the case.” ——_—___-e-___ THE BAKING POWDER TRADE. Whero Tons of {t Go. The baking powder business of this country has grown to immense proportions. The Cleve- land Press says of it: “An ex-councilman, who may be called Jim for short, used to handle tea and sugar and incidentally turned his attention to baking powder. When the merchants had sold off their stock they would say: “We'll have to order some more of Jim’s baking powder.” The name of ‘Jim's baking powder” was thus adopted as a trade mark, and the young broker turned his whole attention to the manufacture of the stuff. He rigged upa factory on his prem- ises, and to-day he rhanufactures a ton a day of baking powder. Hisis but one ofseveral firms that turn out immense quantities of the stuff. ‘Where does it all go?” said the manufacturer; “that’s more than I can tell. It is sold in packages welghing from four ounces to a pound, or in bulk. A famlly of twelve will use from one to two pounds a week. The people of the south use immense quantities of it because they are great lovers of hot biscuits and cake. We have one firm in Wheeling that sells from five to six tonsa month. Baking powder is used in mak- ing cake, pastry and biscuits. Formerly the house wife used to compound her own baking powder after a formula of her own, which was one teaspoonful of soda to two of cream tartar. Cream tartar, being expensive, was often adul- terated and the soda was not unitorm, The re- sult was that sometimes the soda would be too strong and the biscults would be yellow. Again the cream tartar would predominate, and the biscuit would be better. The plan of mixing these two articles on scientific principles was adopted and the compound called baking pow- der. It proved a success and a source of con- siderable profit. It sold at forty to fifty cents a pound. oe Shakspeare on Poker. Life has a short session this week with the poker question as treated by the poets. It at- tempts to show from Shakspeare’s writings that he had been “initiated.” These are Life's quota- tions from the divine bard: He makes ‘‘ Polonious” say ‘“‘ Beware of en- trance Into a [jackpot], but being in, bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.” Also says “Hamlet,” probably hav_2g raised the pot on four clubs and a heart— Now might I do it pat.” Then see the following: “I cannot draw.”—King Lear, v, 3. “This business will raise us all.”—Winter’s Tale, iv. 4. “I would give all my fame for a pot.”—Henry “Let him pass peacefully.”—2 Henry VI, 8. “You apprehend passing shrewdly.”—Much do, il, 1. “can draw as soon as any other man.”— Romeo and Juliet, il, 4. King John had evidently ran up against a flush with threes, for he says: “It isthe curae of kings.”—King John, vi, 2. Henry VI likewise must have had a dismal ex- perience when he was forced to call the dealer; “Thou setter up and plucker gown of kings.”— Henry VI, ii. 8. Then we hae several hinta ot the hands held In those grand old days. “T have a bobtail.”—King Lear, ili. 7. “These begging jacks”—Merchant of Venice, “We see these things effe ted to the full."—2 Henry VI, 1. 2. “Straight let us seek.”—King Jobn, v, 7. —— ‘Traveling Costumes Now in Fashion. From the New York Evening Post. Paris modistes are sending over anumber of handsome garments tor watering place wearand for traveling use. Among the first are evening wraps of tinted Spanish net, lined with mervell_ leux, and of white cealle velvet, with costly lace trimmings and linings of mauve or ecru satin. For traveling wear are Maintenon mantles of dark cashmere—green, brown or olive—shirred on the shoulders and fastened with elaborate pendant cords and frogs. For drivingare shown wraps in the same style, made of dark surah and trimmed with colored Spanish lace and los and ends ofsatin ribbon. Amo. an beside the piano; ‘it was all so strange to !” The fact is, the thing he has got to write— his long projected lite of Cromwell—is no joke, and no sort of room can make it easy, and he has been ever since shifting about in the saddest way from one room to another, like a sort of domestic wandering Jew! He has now a fair uty Re dad of Sane is ene effected in the original library; the yo next door having promised abstain religiously hide @ bit he could write in it any more h mg eccentric styles, to be worn out of town only, are Chinese dusters of pongee, gray or ecru, lined with bright red. ieee eee anak ‘Two Girls Poisoned by Locust Sap, ‘Huntingdon (Pa.) letter. Mr. Solomon Cook’s two little girls were seri- ously poisoned at their home, in Todd township, last Saturday, by chewing locust bark and swal- from playing till 10 o’clock, when the worst of the day’s work is over. Generous young lady! But it must be confessed the seductive letter he gained the heart not iced. If you are always a poor sleeper, it will be well to continue this late Supper a8 a permanent thing in your daily life. Provide for it in the case of aged and delicate persons who may be under your roof; and as the troubles of life ap most weighty when scanned in the midnight hours, you may be able to lighten the load for the rest of their Journey. wrote to her the piter day was enough to have f a stoic. The Penhsyivanta railroad will not give the stop toate Pa. ‘rent oor t inp there, and the ut claltn | that demoralize the workmen, swallow up ‘their earnings, and are-a nuisance, lowing the sap. James seta was hewing ‘and the young girls him using the seh he ‘would totenco, his exaeple -but instead of spitting out the succulence swal- lowedit. By the timely arrival of the family doctor their lives were saved. ~ ————- ‘The disclosures concerning gambling, and especially poker in the army are shock- ing to the editor of The Christian ‘Adooale, who age “With deep regret we see the name of an oid acquaintance and former parishioner in- vi SAY GOULD’S FAMILY. ‘The Six Children of the Millionaire and Mow They Live at Irvington. From the Brooktyn Eagie. There is a general impression that Jay Gould has only one son, because his wife never ap- pears in society and his children are almost un- known. It has got abroad that his son George is his solitary offspring. But he has a large and interest family. His daughter Nellie, who christened his yacht, promises to be a beauty and will bea great catch when she goes into society. Shes a slimgirl, neither light nor dark, with charming manners and studious habits. She has been underthe charge of gov- ernesses allherlife. There is a son Edward, who is olderthan Nellie and younger than George. I Imaginehe mustbe 17. He Is a shy, studious kort ofa boy, well bred and respectful. He thinks of becoming a civil engineer and has the same self-contained manners of his father. Howard, who is 14 years old, has been in delicate health for a long while. He knows almost nothing of books and his father keeps him in the open air at their beautiful placeat Irvington. Bell, who is in the neighborhood of 10 or 12 years, proml- ses to be the beauty of the family. She very much resembles Mrs. Gould, who at one time was something of a beauty. The “baby” is Frank. : Allthe children are living at Irvington and Gould goes up there every night from his finan- cial Cares. It is said that he isa boy eed his boys when he is at home. He drops all business thought and goes intoany sort of recreation that may be proposed with as much ardor as his younger son. The grounds are secluded and the millionaire can jump fences, turn hand- gprings, go in swimming, indulge ina game of “one old cat” or play the cornet without any- body but his own family being the wiser. ———_-o-______ American Contributions to the Fish- erles Exhibition. From the London Times, In variety and completeness of illustration the collection sent to the Fisheries Exhibition at |- South Kensington from the United States of America is not surpassed by that of any of the foreign contributors, and while the visitor whose concern with fish begins at the fishmonger’sand ceases at the dinner table will find much to sur- prise and possibly some things to amuse him here, the fisherman will see a great deal to in- terest him, and probably not a few exhibits from which, if he takes the trouble to understand their purpose, he may get useful hints for the practice of his own calling. Of the 43 distinct fisheries carried on in different localities of the country, and each by methods more or less pecullar to Itself, the most important in the quantity and value of the produce are illustrated in this court in various ways. The first object which attracts attention when one reaches the outskirts of the court is a whale boat, with masts stepped, sails up, and ail its fittings and appurtenances ready for the crew to st from the ship's side. One thing worthy of remark is the care which has been taken to save the visi- tors trouble and to make the exhibits interest- ing to the least learned of them. In this boat, for example, every part, every seat, each oar, cleat, chock, implement and utensil has its name painted on it, and every object in the collection willhave attached to it an explanatory label printed in large type, Near agroupot the Alaskan seals—valuablefor their fur—is a screen with a series of water-color drawings by Mr. W. H. Elliott, illustrating the mode of capturing these creatures on islands otthe Pribylof group. In one view, a gang of Aleutes, provided with a pair of bladebones of seals, which they use as clappers, are frighten- ing a drove of 1,200 or 1,500 seals along a shal- low lagoon toward a village on St. Paul’sIsland for slaughter, another shows how the seals are killed in “pods” of twenty to torty at atime by squads of the Indians, who are employed in this work by the Alaska Commercial Company. Other drawings give an idea of the abundance of these creatures, which drew from a lady visitor a remark of not unnatural surprise that seal skins should be expensive. ‘The setting and background of compartments in a case of stuffed birds should be noticed, for each bird ts mounted in a way to show its proper habitat and way of living. Here are four | species of Arctic ducks; the red-head duck, es- teemed by gourmets only second as a delicacy to the canvas-back; the Florida cormorant or snake-bird; the blue-wing and green-wing t the wood-duck, which makes its nest in trees over water into which it promptly drops its young when they are to begin life on their own account; and the summer-duck, which may be founda almost anywhere in the country east of the Rocky Mountains. The cast of a walrus head near by, with tusks nearly four feet long, isa curiosity. The elaborate, yet easily under- stood bathometric models in this part of the court sent by the United States hydrographic office show the configuration of the sea bottom of the eastern coast from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico. Returning to the examination of the fishing in- dustries, in which the last United States census returns showed that over 130,000 persons are en- gaged, of whom about 100,000 are fishermen, the visitor may first make the acquaintance of kinds of fish of which, untess he happens to be some- what of a naturalist,he may never even have heard before. On screens round the court arranged in families are accurately taken and painted casts of the cod and its allied genera, with the mackerel, herring, perch, and flounder families—some 120 species altogether; while in a glass-sided refrigerator, kept supplied with fishes of difterent kinds from the New York market by Mr. E. G. Blackford, are fresh speci- mens of the American shad, which is held in high favor across the Atlantic, the striped bass, the California salmon, etc. Passing now to the means by which the fishing industries are carried on and some $44,546,000, or not far from £9,000,000 worth of fish procured in a year, the visitor has models and pictures as well as the nets and apparatus used to enable him to watch the progress made from the frall coracle-like “bull-boat” of the Indian and the rude bone instruments be used to the well-found whaler and the highly finished appa- ratus used in sea-fishing now-a-days. On the walls are thirty crayon drawings made on the fishing grounds by the captain of a vessel, which enable one to realize some of the dangers and hardships of the fisherman’s work. There is also a set of twenty India-ink drawings of fish- ing scenes, and a series of 250 photographs, thirty inches by forty inches, enlarged from eight inch by ten inch negatives taken by the photographer to tne Smithsonian Institution, who spent several months with the fishing fleets for the Risa te of obtaining these photographs. ‘o of the New England fishing schooners, there are two sets of models—rigged models to show changes in the cut of sails and manner of rigging. and builders’ models, exhibiting the gradual improvement in the hulls from a tub-bowed craft of the year 1835, “too slow,” as a fisherman sald, ‘‘to get out of its own way,” to a fine-lined “‘sharp-shooter” of the present lecade. fisheries of the United States. in which much statistical information is put in a short article, appears in the Exhibition catalogue, in a preface to this section written by Prof. G. Brown Goode, assistant director of the National Museum at Washington and commissioner for the United States. The interesting exhibits of the United States signal service department and of the fish- hatching apparatus, with models of various Kinds of nt fishways for salmon, etc., exhib- ited by the United States fish commission, and sent over in charge of Mr. R. E. Earil, of that department, deserve a more detailed report than could be given at the end of this notice. ——__—_--__ They Went to the Matinee. rom the Providence Journal. | She is only about seven years old and resides on a street off Broadway. On Wednesday last her mother sent her with a kerosene can to obtain oil at the corner grocery. On the way she met one of her boy playmates and asked him if he did not want to go to the matine¢, and the response was prompt, “Yes.” “Comealong then,” sald she. Thetwo went to one of the theaters and she bought two front seat, tick pemeuny in payment a @5 bill. The ‘little gh formanoe Pogral Stes it era raiieen oo carryin; ie 1e Wa) "8 saloon, where she ordered ef cream and two chickens. The attendant tried to persuade the child that one chicken was sufficient, but she was firm in demanding two, saying, “We want enough to eat.” A‘ chicken was furnished each. girl demolished hers and cream, but the boy stopped at the chicken. The young miss settled the bill and the two trudged homeward. she illustrate the evolutioty A short and succinct account of the | Loos Sore I offer my entire line of Ladies SILK BUTTS in black and colored, lately made up of elegant Silk and beauti- ful Btyles, sold at $50, but now at $25. LADIES’ SILK JERSEYS, My own importation, in Black, Navy, Cardinal, Gar net and Sky Blue. LADIES’ WHITE SUITS. I offer my entire stock of White Lawn and Swiss Suits at marked down prices. CHILDREN’S DRES3ES AND ‘WRAPS. T have the best assorted Stock in this country, and my styles and prices speak for themseivos. Bi U UMM o Bh ako UMMM $0 RRAAD CMAN Gou.. BBBS 4 UU MM MO Giza Sew-Axxvar Crzanrxa Sare. KING’S PALACE, 814 SEVENTH STREET. 4A CHANCE FOR ALL IN SEASON. ‘We have concluded to close ont our extensive and fashionable stock of MILLINERY a month earlier than ‘usual, in order to give our customers a chance when in need of goods, TAKE NOTICE, THEREFORE, THAT FROM THIS DAY, Or until further notified, WE SHALL SELL, AND INTEND TO CLOSE OUT, Our Entire Stock of HATS, BONNETS (Trimmed and Untrimmed), PLUMES, TIPS, FLOWERS, RIBBONS, LACES, VELVETS, SATINS, SILKS, CORSETS, SILK, LISLE and KID GLOVES, LADIES’ and CHILDREN'S DRESSES, JACKETS, JEWELRY, LACE FICHUS and SCARFS, BLACK ENGLISH CRAPE; also BLACK DRESS SILK. DON’T FAIL TO ENBRACE THIS OPPORTUNITY. CALL EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. KING'’s PALACE, Je2 814 SEVENTH STREET. Was ox Hic Prices: aT THE MISFIT STORE, CORNER l0rn AND F STREETS, ‘We are determined to maintain the reputation of scll- ing FINE CLOTHING at lower prices than auy house in Weehineton, and offer our $6.50 Blue Flannel Suit, worth $10, at 5. Only a few left, and cannot be re? Placed. Our $10 Blue Flannel Suit, worth $18, for $8. Our $15 Blue Yacht Cloth Suit, worth $25, at $12. Our $18 Blue Yacht Cloth Suit, worth $30, at §15. Genuine Seersucker Suite at $12, worth $35. Fuglieh Seersucker Suits at $6, worth $10. Oda Flannel Coats at $2.50, worth $6. ood Cassimere and Cheviot Suite at $6, €7, $8 and $10, all wool, worth fully double. Black Diagonal Suits at $10, worth $18, Black Cloth Suits at $18, worth £40. Finest Black Broadcioth Suits at $25, worth $50. Fine Corkeorew Suits at $15, worth #2 Fine Blue Serge Suits at $12, worth $22. Brown and Black Tricot Prince Albert Coats and Vests at $15, worth #30. Black Drap d'Ste Sunta, Coats and Vests, in great variety. PANTS. : Dress Pants at $2, $2.50, $3, $4, $5 and $6—Bargs WORKING PANTS . 87 cents, $1, $1.25 and $1.50—sbout one-half ‘usual price. For Boys, 4 tol years old. Suits at $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2 and $2.50, worth just double. Ato2, suits at 4,worth 7. Sues Sworn & Buitsat 6, worth 10. For Boya from 12 to 17. ults at $3, worth 85. Suite at 4,worth 6. Suits at $5, all wool, worth $9. Suits at 6, all wool, worth 10. THE MISFIT STORE, Corner 10th and F Strecta, Like every success, has unscrupulous imitators. Be sure, therefore, and cone to tue COrMer of ATTORNEYS. J AMES 8. EDWaRi JOB BARNARD, & a ‘to 41 Qoart Tieeee Fane eee aie IRANCIS TOUMEY, ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW.—A’ Perea Meee ae ae = a myi-im DW. H. THOMAS, Kore Xo. & front oom, 4 entrance Warner Building, 916 F street northwest. mhi6-3m°_ A. Gaara Share Ate i dendea to without aay ms A. HALL, ©” Dustice of the Peace and Notary Public, ¥16 F street northwest, jat-6m? “Warner Building. NDREW ©. 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Cosz, Axo Woon. ‘We have just received 2. yer lot of Bakers PI: ‘WOOD; also fresh mined of ruperior quality: Gomestic usa sllof which we ofler at lowest nat