Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1883, Page 3

~~ ——— 1 BRIGHT FANCIES OF THE POETS. SraR. Ja the spring of creation, though fallen her state, Motner Eve bore the treasure from Paradise gate; And, in palace, or cottage, 1a satin, or Jean,— Bo the woman fair lady, or peasant wife, plain— ‘There’s a mystic halo, of earth undefiled, Round the thrice-bappy nurge of the God-given child; . While her soul-lumined eyes look unspeakabie bitss ‘48 she seals the Ufe-bond with a mother's first kiss. Oh, that love never falters, from cradle to grave, Though her pet drift away on Destruction’s wild wave; 2 Fathers, brothers, and sistera, may change, or grow cold, But the dear, holy, mother-love never grows old— Years of yearning devotion, in sunshine, and storm, ‘Leave the giow of affection refulgent and warm; Por at chure fF at school, at a picnic, or fair, Her own darling must ever be prettiest there. If the clouds of misfortune should alienate all ‘Who were worsiiping-iricnds till her {dol’s down- fail, ‘The poor mother, regardless of fashton, or pride, Is an angel of Hope at her stricken-one’s side: ‘Though the grave, or an ocean, for aye intervene, ut land of dreams she is still ehild- ueen, rings respond to the old luilaby. love like mother-love under the sky! With a sigh, we recall Many juventie freaks That brought sorrowing tears to her fair, pallid cheeks; Yes the patient, tormented, forgiving, good soul Tet us kiss off the stains of our broken parole— Bo, with reverence, meet for a saint, be it sald: Heaven biess her, 1f Uving! God rest her, \f dead! We may dote on a sister, or daughter, or wife, But the mother, alone, ts the pulse of our life! —Richard Qulahan Written for Tue Evewixe Stan. Forgive and Forget. ‘There are two words whose magie power Drives angry thoughts and looks away,— Which caims the storm of Posston’s hour, And lightens up the dreary day. ‘These words are mild, yet firm and strong,— ‘The kindest words one ever me ‘They say to harbor hate is wrong,— Remember thea—Forgive,—Forget, Altho’ "Us hard when tempests rise, Wien lower the storm-clouds overhead, ‘To follow words supremely wise And ‘neath our feet our anger tread, ‘Yet firm and sure our Lord’s command— Do thou, before the sun Is set, Before thy brother humbly stand And ask him to Forgive, Forget. Linconia, Va. —Cora A. Lewis. ae Written for Tar Eventne Stan. The True God. ‘There ts no height, no depth, no breadth, But that ts measured, fathomed, known By Him who hoids e’en life and death In His right hand with power His own. His power the universe o’erspreads; By His command the seas are held; Be speaks,—and with the storm king leads Heaven’s armed legions through the world. And yet this mighty Ruler, wise, His ioving watch-care o’er us keeps; yet His volce In thunders rise, now He'll watch while angels sleep. How terrible this power dtvine, ‘This omalpresent Betng ts! He knows our thowzhts; before our mind Had seareely formed them, they are His. Betore Hizn noth ‘Tne busy throng. or shadows deep. ‘That power ant care created worlds Whieh play In orbits day and night; $ sky, like banner rurled, Is rolled away from mortal sight His purposes He will unfolt, His init and majesty matntain: He will be known as THe Troe Gon, Who b And yet this mighty God of porer, Is ke iz i o'er all His own; He knows them, and In every hour He leads tem nearer to the throng, He ts a God of wisdom, might, A God of matchless, wondrous love; He sends us rays divinely bright From source so grand In Heaven above, —Mrs. J.C. B = 0 Darwinism. ‘Two lovers sat In a shady ncok: Steed seas sae open nee use: Intent was he upon her hatr ‘That crowned a face so passing fair. itcan be true? eyes So ” rapt, but hear me out—” F more charming pout—” Twin said, that we all deseend—” h roses and Iittes Dlend—” sure I don'tthink—” nged With the sva-shell's piuk—” “3 do, but of you Tam nat quite sa suro—” ©Graced a fair maiden so sweetly before?” “When you—when I say that now we have found The wissing link by wilen two hearts ate bound?” 4s * sie aw ‘Tio lovers sat In a shady nook, Forgotten was Darwin’s latest book; ont Mary A. Sawyer In The Continent, ee. The Duck and the Kungaroa. he duck to the kangisr “Good gracious! how Over ibe fe le water, too, Asif you Kel stopt My Iie is a te s!¥ pond, 5 world beyond: aa,” abg.akvo, ree a ride on you! ok” othe k rh * oh, a he kangaroo. flection. ght bring me luck; A jection; Which 13, if y ne Speak so Dold, Your feet ar> tly wet and cold, yiy eive me the roo- kangaroo. I sate on the rock er that completely; pairs of worsted socks, et neatly: olt, Pve bought a cloak; ar VL smoke: r trae angaroo, “I'm ready, moontight ps 2 me Well, d-ir duck, sit steady, ate ct the end Of my tatL”™ fo xway they went with a hop and a bound, And they tee the whole world uhree times round Aut who so happy, oh! who, As the duck ant the kangaroo? —Edward Lear in Chicago Inter-Ocean, eee Noblesse Oblige. Thole it the duty of one who ts gifted, ‘And royelly dowered in all men’s sight, To know no rest till bis lire ts lifted Pully up to his great gifts’ height, ‘He must mold the man tnto rare completeness, For gems are set only tn gold refined; ‘He wast fashion Lis thoughts into perfect sweet- ness, And cast out folly and pride from bis mind. For be who drinks from a god’s gold chalice Of art or music or rhythmic song, ‘Must sift ‘rom his soul the chaff of’malice, And weed from his heart the roots of wrong. For I think the wrath of an outraged heaven Swould rail on the chosen and dowere@soul allows a lump of selfish leavea, By slow fermenting, to spoil the whole, Great gifts should be worn Ike a crown befitting, And Not lke gems on a beggar’s hands; And the tot] inust be constant and unremiteto; ‘That lifts up we king to the crown's demanis, —Elia Wheeler. of the - Al os aie nay moe Py oe woald give $250, as Tasloakrod ber servives te the Angel It ts dtecided that of the tidependent witnesses | too Frenc! who gave evidence against the invincibles Alice | were the results of “La THE SUMMER FABRICS—RIBBON STRINGS—APRON OVERSKIRTS — NEW CORSETS — SUMMER MAN- TLES, ETC. Is THe world turning yellow? Spaxisn laces are no longer fashionable. Peart, silver and gold-headed pins are used to secure bonnet strings. Costiy satin fabrics, brocaded with clusters of walnuts, are imported. * Lovrs Quixze shoe buckles are now used in Paris to fasten collars as well as hats. Scotch PLam TwILtep SILK 1s again used in bias scarfs for neck-tles to brighten up dark dresses. Kip Suirrers are cut very low, and when the stockings are embroidered the sandals are plain and vice versa. Dotrep and @@mbour musiins, worn over color, with yards ot lace and ribbons for trim- ming, are among the prettiest of toilets for the seaside. Wortn’s Newest SLEeRvES have but one seam—that outside the arm. Coat sleeves, in order to be stylish, must now be fitted as closely as possible. Go.pD basket-straw bonnets, trimmed with flame-colored lace and fancy silver straws and velvet intermingled, are the newest fancies in French miliinery. To Keer kid shoes from cracking apply gly- cerine very lightly by rubbing on with a bit of flannel before applying any of the patent dress- ings used to give gloss to the kid. Wuew there are two; or three sets of narrow ribbon strings to bonnets, each set should be tied separately in order to make loose looking loops, and keep them from matting together. A Novery in lace 1s the Pompadour pattern —a darned net, with a fine pearled edge and a ralsed figure in silk muslin; the designs in flowers, such as fuchsias, Illlies of the valley,and other pendant flowers are very effective. Love silk gloves that are worn out at the tips of the fingers may be made into stylish mitts by cutting off the fingers entirely, and also half of the thumb. The top 1s then hemmed neatly, or else button-hole stitched around. Gavze balbriggan stockings of very light quality are worn inside colored silk stockings to protect the skin when the color rubs off, to prevent the unpleasant “creepy” feeling, and also to keep the fine stockings trom belag stained by perspiration. Svuumer Fans are enormous and more bizarre than ever. Red Is still the favorite color for both sunshades and fans, especially for the coun- try and seaside. Bright scarlet, however, is Jess in favor than such shades as fire, copper. nas- turtium, terra-cotta and crushed strawberry. Sprays of fine flowers, like forget-me-nots, Miles of the valley, mountain daisies, rosebuds and tiny green leaves, violet, arbutus blossoms and the like, made of precious atones made of a color matching that of the tlower they represent, are made into brooches and lace pins, and are taking the place of the jeweled-eyed animals, Insects and serpents so long in favor. A Parisian bonnet is made of primrose-col- ored crepe and myrtle-green velvet. The brim is edged with three rows of iridescent beads, their smooth. satin-like surface reflecting the delicate tints of pale green, primrose and color. Upon the left side of the bonnet is set a cluster of soft myrtle-green feathers. The strings are of myrtle-green velvet, lined with primrose satin. Iv Some -the dodices are tight fitting, but elther are made full, with waistbands. A few are cut square In front and filled in with cream lace or colored silk kerchiefs or with the dress material putin full. Some have straps fastened to one side, finished off with sinall fancy buckles or rosettes of cut ribbon, which are removed when the bodice needs washing. The straps come from the center seam in front. Sos of the new apron over-skirts on French dresses are made entirely without gores, the five breadths of which they are composed being stralght—not sloped—and they are thus as full at the top as at the bottom, in order to give the appearance of large hips and voluminous draperies. Indeed, some of these over-skirts have the upper patts lined throughout to give them greater size, though this lining fs of some soft stuff instead of the crinoline lawns. Potonaises, smartly looped back, arein favor. They are arranged with panters on the hips and long back-drapery, either bouffantor cut like a long-tail coat, with full pleats inserted down the center. The kilted or pleated waterfall backs look well In the summer materials and are usually worn under the postilion tailsof a tight-fitting bodice, pointed in the front. Some do uot reach to the waist, but are surmounted by a puff, which ts usually continued round the ps and put into the walst-bands in small flat pleats. ; Awuoxa the most costly fabrics for summer evening toilets are zephyr brocades and broca- telles, with brilliantly colored exotics on dark grounds; magnificent Indian tissues, woven with threads of gold or silver; heavy ottomans ip all the uew artistic shades; Inmpas, with satin stripes figured with velvet flowers, and damasks, with huge single flowers or bouquets in clusters, ralsed on sheeny satin grounds of rimrose, pineapple, cinnamon, and golden rown, tea-rose, shrimp pink, cameo, mauve, and endless shades of green. Scwmer Mantes offer but little variety in shape from those of last season; taey are demi- pelisse visite, and mantelette or scarf mantic. Some of the most expensive wraps are made of brocaded ey velvet, or of brocaded Sicilienne gauze, finished with marabout fringes, elegant passementeries, chenille bands, or with beaded embroidery, lace and satin bows. There are many very beautiful wraps for young ladies, in graceful shapes, and made of white lace, white or tinted cealle velvet, lined with pale-colored surahs and trimmed with pearl fringes. Amonc the list of summer fabrics are pale col- ored linens, silk gauzes, sateens, exquisitely tinted veilings, delicate French muslins, French foulards,always popular in Paris, Loulsine silks, French organdies, cambrics, and lawns, in all the beautiful new shades. There are also novel Pekin gauzes, with colored velvet and satin figures upon a diaphanous ground, and lovely tinted muslins, quite in the Jardiniere style, to be made up for lawn parties, a la shepherdess, with Watteau drapery, and lace and ribbon by the league, cascaded all over the dress. Harrer’s Bazar Says: Two kinds of corsets are now found in fasnionable shops. Modistes who follow French fashions commend the low, short, pliable corsets that give a drouping bust, and follow the outlines of the figure without undue pressure or tight lacing. At the large furnishing houses there are also seen corsets in what is called the English styles, that have the bust gores cut high to push up the flesh, and are very long on the hips to give the effect of a slight figure with long waist. For stout figures the best corsets are short above to let the bust droop, and are long on the nips. Tue most fashionable modistes depend prinol- pally on the drapery of the dress itgelf for giv- Ing the very large tournures which are now in vogue. There are, however, many who do not understand arranging theze intricate draperi and there are flat figures that need a amall bustle in addition to any dress. no matter how full. For these slight figures the newest bustles are made of eight narrow frills of barred muslin or bair-cloth very fully pleated ona V-shaped foundation piece of the same muslin, that is curved Into shape by strings tled across it—not by the objectionable bones or steel hoops. If iit boa ‘more is nee eee two steels are put in casings across the breadths of the dress skirt. ——___«e»—_____ + Music and Seap Bubbles, From the Philadelphia Times. Some interesting experiments were made at Franklin institute last night with the Holman lantern microscope, and the sympathetic effect of musical tones upon the film of soap bubbles demonstrated to the edification of a large avdi- ence. “Old Hundred” and the scale being played upon the cornet, a succession of dull, esthetic drabs and browns were reflected u| onthe cur- tain. ‘Comin’ Thro’ the Rye” luced a beau- tiful crimson blossom ands fine hi pur- 1e, while the globules went off into chromatic nity throt maudlin mauyes and tender emeralds at 1s” same source. the organ the red, ‘white and — i ‘From the New York World. That the possession of wealth,even of millions upon millions, does not always suffice to make life happy, or even tolerable, was never more conspicuously shown than In the recent suicide of the Cleveland millionaire, Amasa Stone. His act of self-destruction is by fio means the only one of its kind recorded in modern American an- nals, though it should be sald that very rarely has a rich man committed felo de s¢ upon whom there had not been exerted the severe compul- sion of complete ruin or supreme disgrace. Notes ‘upon some ofthe most noteworthy modern cases of suicide by wealthy persons may not be with- ont their interest for the readers of the World. GROESBECK. i Col. John Groesbeck was a brother of William 8. Groesbeck, th@ well-known Ohio politician, and upon his father’s death had inherited alarge estate. He served with distinction in the war, married happily, and with fine health seemed to have all that a man’s heart could desire. He was a lawyer by profession, but had turned speculator and was supposed to be doing well in Wall street, when in a flurry in ese fey stock In 1877 his fortune disappeared—disap- peared so completely that he found himself in absolute want. On the 12th of April, 1878, Colonel Groesbeck left the Fifth-ayenue hotel, where he boarded, telling the head waiter that he was going west. He visited Wall street, where he played friendly game of cards witha broker's clerk, seemingly in excellent spirits; in the evening he was seen up town; a few days later one of the waiters saw him at Fort Wadsworth, S. I., and noticed that he seemed to be in trouble. Afterward nothing more was heard of him ‘until the 26th of May, when his body was found floating In the Northriver. A loaded pistol and a bowie-knife were inthe pockets, but there was no wound or mark of violence on the corpse. Ih one pocket was an hap io envelope, the writing on which had been almost washed out by the brine. Nothing else. RALSTON. On the 26th of August, 1875, the great Bank of California suspended business. For elghteen months William C. Ralston, long its cashier, had been its president. On the following day he went out to a sea-bathing establishment on the North Beach. A boy near by saw the fallen financier, after donning his bathing-sult, sit down upon the shore, tear up some papers and cast the ents into the sea, drink off the contents of a vial and plage into the tumbling surf. After swimming out to a distance of some 200 yards, Ralston disappeared behind a vessel. Soon atter his body, with scarce a spark of life flickering in it, was seen drifting shorewards, lid and inert, and though it was soon brought 0 land and help was summoned, afd was all too late. In the bathing-house were found Ralston’s statement to the bank and afew dollars in cur- Tency. Ralston was one of the most brilliant and suc- cessful of the Occidental millionaires. Great as was his ability, bis ambition was still greater. Quick and bold to plan, as prompt and daring in execution, he had made himself a power on the Pacific coast, and aspired to make that power absolnte in politics, mining, railroad manage- ment, commerce. He had at Belmont a palace which it cost millions to build-and main- tain, and the bank allowed him $100,000 a year toward entertaining the scores of guests whom hundreds of blooded horses bore daily out from the city. His pride in the financial institution with which he was so completely identified was the strongest sentiment he had ever known, and when, after a series of unsuccessful specu- lations—like that in Ophir in which he lost €3,000,000—the fact had to be mage public that his finanelal wisdom was but folly, and he destroyed himself. RESTELL. In February, 1878, Ann Lohman, whom New Yorkers knew better by the name of “Mad. Restell.” was arrested In her fashionable man- sion on the corner of 5th avenue and 52d street, every stone of which, it might be sald, was cemented with blood. Her stout figure, dark, square features, thick black hair slightly flecked with gray, and small, plercing black eyes had been known to the residents of the city for a generation. Early on the Ist of April, as Mrs. Lohman’s chambermaid was descending to the basement, she knocked at the door of her mistress’ bed- room, and, receiving no answer,looked in to find the bed empty; but as its occupant’s night-gown was lying on the floor she concluded Mrs. Loh- man was in her bath, and so went ‘down stairs. Returning after a little while she was struck by the stillness of the apart- ment. and, glancing into the bath-room, was horrified to see the unclothed body of Mad. Restell in the bath, which was filled, it seemed, with blood. With a carving-knife which lay by the side of the bath-tub the desperate woman (who had been acting strangely for some days, moaning. lamenting that she would be cause- lessly persecuted, and insisting that her ene- mies were resolved upon convicting her) had severed the carotid artery. The parting of the soul had left no trace of agony upon the fea- tures, which were peaceful and composed. She left an estate of $750,000 to her grand- children, Charles R. Purdy and Mrs. Carrie Shannon. Two years afterward a report, such as was circulated at the time of Dr. Webster's execu- tion, was set about—namely, that. a corpse had been substituted for the woman's body, and that she was living abroad in luxurious safety, but it was disproved. LAFLIN. On the 24th of September, 1878, Addison H. Laflin, ex-Congressman and naval officer of the port of New York, having obtained possession of arope, despite the close watch kept over him by his family, stole notselessly up stairs to the garret of his house at Pittsfield, Mass., and hanged himself to rafter, where his still warm body was found by his horrified wife a few mo- ments atter his absence had been noticed. He was in his fifty-fourth year, rich and happy in his family relations, but he had for a year been possessed of the hallucination that he was to be overtaken by want, and had passed into a state of brooding melancholy. He had been ay pointed to the post of naval officer in 1871,when Mr. Conkling’s friends secured their crushing victory over the Fentonites, but only held it a few months, making way tor Alonzo B. Cor- He was not the only New York customs o~ ficial who had died by his own hands In the exciting days ot Johnson's administration the President appointed Preston King, a veteran free-soil democrat, whom the late E. D. Morgan had Just beaten for the soeanD to the col- lectorship, in the place of Simeon Taper, who had been largely instrumental in King’s defeat. This was on the Ist of September, 1865. The ex- citement of the administration and the difficulty of dividing the patronago so as to satisfy all the contending factions proved too much for King’s brain, and he went mad, filled his pockets with shot and threw himself from a North river ferry boat. His body was recovered six months after- ward, on the day that his successor, Henry A. Smythe, was sworn in. VANDERBILT. The circumstances of the self-destriction of Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt are too fresh in the memory of New Yorkers to need extended recapitulation. He had for some twenty years been subject to epileptic fits, and when, in tho winter of 1881-2, he went south, his physical and mental health had been enanaly shaken. On the 18th of March he returned to New York feeling better. and took up his reaidence at the Glenham. When celebrating his Ge eae dirth- day at Pinard’s he was in good spirits, though complaining of poor health. He took to his bed on Saturday, April ist, and remained there onthe morrow, showing some irritation and wandering. About two o'clock on Su n his companion, Mr. Terry, heard the sharp ring of a pistol from Mr. Van- derbilt’s room, and, rushing in, found a smok- = head. I clasped in its occu; id a stream of blood oozing Dhis és i God, what does this mean?” was wie tren ied e iin- juestion; but there was no answer. Soeuies aisee who never spoke, died after gering three hours. SADLER. Of modern suicides of rich men in the mother country, that which made by far the widest and OTHER INSTANCES. Among other notable-modern suicides of rich men in Britain were those of Samuel Whitbread, July 6, 1815; of Sir Samuel Romilly, November 2, 1818; of the Earlof Munster, the illegitimate son of William IV., and that lovely actress, Dora Jordan, who shot himself March 20, 1843; of Lord Congleton, Mr. Parnell’s great-uncle, who hanged himself to a ashe June 8, 1842; of Lord Cloncurry, who hurled himself from the window of his house at Kildare, April 3, 1869; of Lord Wallingsham, Earl Delaware, Dr. Butcher, Bishop of Meath, William G. Prescott, the London banker, &c. Upon the continent tne suicide of Baron Uchetius, the inventor of the steel-bronze cannon used in the Austrian army, in June, 1881, is worth mentioning, both for its cause—the ingratitude of the emperor— and for its following so close upon the death by his own hands of the American tactician, Upton. On Christmas day, 1890, one of the most prominent men in Switzerland, M. Anderwaert, just chosen to the presidency of the confedera- tion, kyjled himself on the public street, and a few days afterward arich merchant of Havre, M. Warenhorst, blew out his brains on a rail- road train at Rouen for a very tragic reason. He had espoused a widow whose husband was supposed to have been killed during the com- mune. A child was born and the happiness of the menage was complete, when, to the horror or every one, it was found that one of the am- nestied communists, who had returned in the Navarin, was this identical man who was sup- posed to have met with a tar different fate, and who now reappeared in this disgraceful character. The shock was too great. M. Wa- renhorst’s brain was unable to bear it, and it was while under the Inffuence of his first im- pulse of grief and shame that he put an end to is own life. ee PERFUMES FROM FLOWERS. Some of the Favorites and the Plants by which they are Supplied. From the New York Sun. “Good perfumes are made directly from flowers, and not out of cheese, coal tar, and so on, a8 people have been led to suppose,” said an up-town chemist. “Take the Jessamine, for Instance. That’s always a favorite, and is used in the make-up of many perfumes. Two dit ‘ferent specimens of the flower are used, but the perfume is made principally from the Jasminum grandiflorum. In France the cultivation of this plant forthe perfumery trade is an im- portant industry, though the plant issome- what difficult to raise. Very hot seasons are most favorable for it—the hotter the weather the richer the pertume. Old ladies take to lavender in any shape, and the lavender shrub produces a powerful volatile oil that is used not only in perfumery and for flavoring dishes, but in medicine also, Layender produces three distinct oils known to the trade. The poorest is commonly called spike ofl. Two other kinds are distilled from a species of the shrub which 18 common in England and the French moun- tains. The English oll is the best—worth ten times as much as the French. The villagers about Bedington and Wellington, England, and other places at one time ralsed the entire sup- ply. The supply is now growing less, and con- sequently the price 1s going up, and the busi- ness of raising lavender isa paying one. The English crop, if you can call if a crop, is gathered in Jul; id August. Then the flowers are in full bloom and do not require any clean- ing or trimming. Boys and girls pick them. and flowers and stalka are distilled together, every fifty Pounds giving about ten ounces of oil. Tre imported oll mostly comes from France, though a great deal comes from Algeria. and north Italy. ’ Al- though the English oll is the best, the foreign grades probably sell better in England and this country, one reason being the cheapness and the fancy names the French put on the bottles. Lavender water finds an enormous sale among barbers, many of whom make their own decoc- tions out of anything they can geta hold of. Real lavender water is made from lavender oil, mixed with rose and orange. water. A cheap kind is called essence d’asplc and is distilled from a wild plant and doctored with turpentine and camphor. “Thyme is an old-fashioned sort of a plant but thymus vulgaris, common in France, Greece and many countries; pies us a valuable perfumery oll. In-France they take from it two entirely different oils, red and white, the gathering being done in the summer months. In the same local- ities the rosemary {a cultivated and, being a pop- ular perfumery, is in great demand at a high price. Patchouli comes trom the oil of the ro- gosteneon patchouli, a plant collected by the na- tives of the Malay islands, It is extremely pow- erful, a little of It going a great ways when the wind’s fair. It is always in fashion, and is used with attar of rose. “In attar of rose there ts probably more de- ception than {n any other perfame. Certain kinds come from Turkey, done up in curious bottles, and I learned some time ago, on good authority, that these bottles and their contents were manufactured in a Connecticut town, and the profits were about 75 cents on a dollar. Even in the east, where the genuine attar of rose is made, it is adulterated with oil of rose geranium and the oil of a grass found in India, and so great is the cheating that the trade inthis grass alone fs an important one. The head- quarters of the trade are in Turkey. The gen- uine thing comes from Turkey and Bulgaria. Smyrna furnishes a great deal. The natives of the valley of the Ganges also produce a good deal for home consumption, and some is pro- duced in France. Any one who knows the busi- ness can tell the genuinearticle ata glance. To be good it should congeal at 55° Fahrenheit, and in appearance the crystals should be rich, clear, and partly transparent. If the bottom of the bottle contains a sediment, you may know that some handler nas adulterated it with paraffine wax, or spermaceti. The rose from which this valuable oil is taken 1s the rosa Damascena, and rose water is made from a decoction of the leaves of the same plant. The petals of rosa Gallica, grown in Asia Minor and various parts of Epginnd and Europe, are greatly valued, and the leaves also bring a high price. The same de- ception fs found in these, those imported from France being often dyed with some aniline. A drop of ammonia, however, detects the fraud. “The fanereal tuberose produces a powerful perfume, but the violet is most esteemed for its chaste odor. The viola odorata is the one we use, and in France its cultivation gives cee ment to hundreds of men, women, and children. The harvest of violets is from February to April. “Verbena was at one time a favorite perfume. It comes from the lemon-grass plant, common at Singapore. In Provence the cuitivation of the rose geranium is an important business, From this plant also comes the famous essence of African geranium, valued as an adulterant for attar of rose, it being nearly ag expensive, 3,000 pounds of the raw material producing only two pounds of the essence. “Mignonnette is liked as a persone, and is variously imitated. Bergamot also has its ad- mirers. The latter is an oil taken, not from a flower, but from the truit of the lemon—like citrus bergamia. In Sicily the trees are culti- vated in great numbers. The fruit is picked when green, about 200 producing six ounces of Cals of the oll is shipped from Palermo and na. “One of the most popular mes is helio- trope; but it does not core tom the flower of that name, as one might: suppose, but is made from @ combination of violet and vanilla. The beautiful lily of the valley is ly used in France for making ery. The daffodil, which is found everywhere, is also much used. The lemon also is used in. , and so is the orange.” “ Boarding and Breakfasting in Boston. From the Boston Post. There {gs no other factor in human happiness that can rival a cheerful temperament and the ability to look upon the bright side of every question and situation, A case in point: A friend of mine recently boarded for a short time at a house not noted for the richness or bounti- fulness of its fare. When asked how he liked it, he said: “‘Well—the are about the best I have found this season.” A Washi Os ee eho bi ag a gourmi fon, and while here spent tion, with one of the “ rich,” in line ‘of business as in 2 himself, at his fine A German Physiclogist’s Description of From the Paris Register. The Americans, the Yankees, as they call them, have become a fraltful subject of study for for- eign physiologists. One of the latest writers on the inhabitaats of the United States, the German eclentist, Dr. George Seelhorst, says: “The North American nation is of English orl- gin, but mixed with French blood in the north, with Spanish blood in the south, and with that of nearly all other European nations in every part of the vast country. In spite of, and per- haps on account of, this admixture, the race differs from all others, and is asserting itself as a decided and separate type. Its power of as- similation is so great that after a few genera- tions, sometimes after a sone one, the original character of the immigrant is lost and merged in the American type. I have frequently seen children of German immigrants between the ages of fifteen and twenty, who bad become perfect Americans in features, the projecting under-jaw, the slenderness of body, and more than all in their manner of thought. Even the most tenacious of all types, the Israelitic, soon disappears, because the American Jew feels him- self first of all ‘a citizen of the United States.’ Yea, one might say, the American had adopted many traits from the Jews, i.e.. from the In- dians, who have so much of the Jew in their physlognomy that among all the hypotheses con- cerning the origin of the Indians not one is more obstinately adhered to or defended with more acuteness and science than that which assumes the lost ten tribes of Israel to have been the original aficestors of the Indians. The first European discoverers noticed the Jewish type of the Indians, and Montesini called the attention of the learned Jew, Manasse Ben Israel, to the fact, who, in consequence, wrote his celebrated work, ‘La Esperanza de Israel,’ in which he en- deavors to prove that the Israelites were the original discoverers ot America. This question has since been frequently discussed and sup- ported by numerous analogies. Not only has a striking resemblance between the indian and the Jewish been believed in, but it has also been assel that many Indian words are re- lated to or derived from the Hebrew, and more pearly that there existed in the manners, ‘he religious views and customs of the Indians many points which rendered a connection be- tween these and the Jews highly probable.” ‘The Effect of Stock Dealing. ‘From Texas Siftings. “How old are you, Jacob?” asked the doctor of an aged Austin Israelite, whom he had been called to attend in @ professional capacity, and who is a broker whose mind runs on the fluctu- ation of the market. “I yash seventy-two years old,” was the reply. PYou may live to be eighty years of age.” “I vash afraid not, Mishter Doctor,” replied Jacob, ‘Vy should the Lord vant to dake me = elgnty, ven he can dake me now at seventy- wo?” ‘The Doctors and the Divided Skirts. From the Pall Mall Gazette. It is plain that the great “divided skirt”ques- tion will soon have to be referred to a commit- tee of specialists, sitting with closed doors. Without being prudish, it is possible to feel that the combatants are going into phystological de- talls to an extent hardly compatible with jour- nalistic discussion. What may be the verdict of the bie soaiag we do not pretend to say, but to judge from an article in the Lancet the “re- formers” are not likely to have the doctors on their side. “If women,” says the medical Journal, ‘please to unsex themselves in dress as in habits of life and silly exploits of possible, but not prudent, intellectual and physical energy, they may be left to compass their dis- comilture without more than an ordinary warn- ing; but when they appeal to the canons of health in support or defense of their vagaries it is necessary to show the appeal is inadmissible. But while deprecating the “divided skirt,” the Lancet is all for the disuse of corsets and the excessive weight of the clothing worn by women. On the latter point, at any rate, ail Persons of sense are pretty well agreed. The Sparrow Classified. From the Lancaster Farmer. This journal has distinctly demonstrated In several editorial papers during the past two or three years where the sparrow stands in orni- thological classification, and that his-place is not, and never has been, among insect-feeding birds. He is a finch, and therefore essentially a grain-feeding bird. Mr. Jonesby says he be- eves a sperroy would eat an insect provided youcould convince him that some other bird wanted it; and, in confirmation of this asser- tion, he says he once saw a bluebird about to appropriate a worm, but he was driven off by two sparrows, who greedily and heedlessly seized a short string Instead of the worm, and, after a stubborn conflict, one of them secured it and Immediately swallowed it, the worm in the meantime making its exit Into the ground. a ree ‘The Place He was Looking For. From the Laredo Times. Tuesday morning a man, evidently a stranger in this part of the country, entered a saloon on Main street, threw down an American dollar, and called fora drink. The barkeeper waited on him and handed back a Mexican dollar. The man looked first at the dollar and then at the barkeeper, then in a tone of surprise he asked, “Ts this all right, stranger?” The barkeeper answered In the affirmative. The man gazed around in point blank astonishment. “Is that the way you do business in this country he asked. Again he was answered in the aifirma- tive. “Stranger,” sald the man, “I’m going to stayhere. I’ve been hunting for this town, lo, these many years. This is the first place I ever saw where a man could swap dollars and get a drink. I’m going to send for my family and all my brothers.” ————_-+-_____ Colors Made by the Human Voice. ‘From the Philadelphia Press. An optical demonstration of the effect of sound on the colors and figures in soap bubbles was given at the Franklin Institute last night by Prof. Holeman. A film of soap was placed across the end of a phoneidosco) To bring the sound in direct contact with the soap a tube was used, A reflection of the film was thrown. on @ canvas screen, where it first assumed a blueish-gray appearance. An intonation of the voice, with the lips close to the mouth of the tube, caused a number of black spots to appear on the reflection. When these passed away a beautiful Nght green, intermingled with pink, remained. These two appeared to be the prin cipal colors caused by the sound. It was no- ticeabie, however, that while a certain tone would cause the same figure to re-appear, it had no control over the color. A tone, which, for instance, caused one solid color to appear, would bring out. perhaps, a dark blue at one time and a yellow at another. No difference was noticeable in the effect of the male and fe- male voices. ——_—__++-—______ Ghoughphtheightteeau. The posslbilities of spelling are illustrated by a professor in San Francisco, who declares that “Ghoughphtheightteean” ts a correct spelling of “potato.” He proves it thus: Gh sands for p, ‘8 you will find from tha last letters in hic- cough. Ough stands for o, as in dough. Phth stands for ¢,as in phthisis. Eigh stands for a, as in neighbor. stands for ¢, asin gazetto; and eau stands for o, asin beau.” ————— aa ‘The Chinese as Bridge Bailders. ‘From the £pringfiela Republican, ‘Those who are talking of the Brooklyn bridge as the most wonderful work of the kind in the world should remember that China fas a little’ affair at Langang, over an arm of the China some five miles lo} is hardly a mile), w pillar of each arch reclines a lion 21 tmade of one block of marble. way 70 feet wide, lerosity of space quite in polnt to ities building desth-trape on bridges. eee ATTORNEYS. JOS EOE manera? OD weyers. A. MILLER, AT N, “Saree Residence, 240 North Cayntal strect. . w a" SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1888. gt taaes tele sreeies Seba oes one month they will be sent “Contin Kndea fe'withont patie H.* "Putte of the Peace and Notary Publig, ¥16 F street northwest jat-6m* jarner NDREW C. 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