Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1883, Page 6

aeeeiies =— FASHION WRINKLES. @HE PUFFED SLEEVE —PAXTERS ON THR IN- CREASE—CROCUS WIITE—BONNETS OF STRAW FRINGE, ETC. Paxters are on the increase. Basket Bonnets crow in favor. Worre Dresses of all kinds are worn. Amber JEWELRY is again fashionable. Leg 0’ Mvtron sleeves are worn in Paris. Crocus Wuite is the latest shade for bridal @resses. Bonxets of straw fringe are the novelty for midsummer. Lace covers all in one piece are revived for handsome parasols. Tue Snort puffed siceve is coming in vogue for evening dresses. Tue latest novelty in parasols fs in the shape Of a tive-pointed star. Ontentat lace sleeves are now sold all ready to put into the dress. Gray is the favorite color for riding habits with New York women. Sortxess is a prominent characteristic of the summer silks and woolen goods. Leatuen Bee appear among nients for hats, bonnets and dresses. Put Skirts wora under plain fabric polo- Daises and overdresses are in high favor. Biack velvet necklets are worn high about the throat and fastened by diamond studs. Tue Japa: Frere in Paris has given an Impetus in the direction of Japanese costume. Is Pants the tournure is growing into crin- line, and often hoops are worn under short skirts Pixkep-ovt flounces of silk are used as a trimming for mantles, bonnets, gowns and parasols. Dank Rive and combinations of white and Diue and bine and red are the popular colors for bathing suits. Tu onis XV. costume and everything which pertains to the Pompadour period is more than ever in voru Wuex Tux Materrar. permits, the flounce sealioped into the form of dog-tooth moulding is most effective. Paxtens are short and full, made in every variety of shape, and often open over the middie of the front breadth. Back Drarexy must be ample, whether it de- scends below the larze pouf or falls straight to the bottom of the skirt. Tue oil silk mob cap fs the best protection for the hair when bathing, but above it the coarse straw hat should always be worn. Warsrcoars are again in tayor; they are made Just like a man’s, and over them is worn a little cutaway jacket with loose fronts. Unsperskinrs are made very simple. the most frequent trimming consisting of a simple pleat- ing or full ruche around the bottom. AKowor Sirver Beans ora dog collar of silver is worn very high around the neck, with stylish dark costumes of silk or wool. Lose wurre embroidered muslin polonaises, trimmed with deep bands and edgings of em- broldered musiin, are again in fashion. Liven Banp Coutars have two button holes near the upper edge, through wifich narrow ribbon is ran and tied in a long-looped bow. Pretty Tea Apronsare made of Oriental net, With ruflles of Oriental lace over strawberry rah, and also of ficelle lace over pale-blue iE Tue bridesmaids ata recent wedding in Eng- lish high lite wore butterenp-colored India mull over silk slips, with garniture of crimson roses. Six gloves in the popular jersey shape will be worn auring the summer, and are embrold- ered along the back of the hand and across the acm: Sine colored muslins, in blue, pink. ecra, apple green and lilac, and trimmed with lace and ribbon, form the prettiest of summer cus- tumes. Biacx, relieved with the merest danb or touch of white in the way of lace or flowers, remains the favorite costume of high ceremony with New York women. ‘Tue tunie, in every variety of arrangement, short in front or low enough totouch the border pleating of the skirt. raised high on the left side or opened in front. is much worn. One of the novelties in evening dress is the three-pointed train, and with it is the three- Pointed basque, which means that the corsage ends in three points, back and front; but this is not a pretty fashion. Ixvia Me is the bride’s dress of this season. The trains are made to fall ina Watteau plait from the shoulders, and _the veil is of tulle. the wreath and carniture of orange blossoms, buds and much gree foliage. Batu Cioaxs to put on when leaving the water are of white or striped furkish towelling, made very loose and long to conceal the wearer. They have pointed hoods, belts and sleeves trim- ned with gay-colored braid. Tipwer necklets or dog-collars of small Fosesqpple blossoms, forget-me-nots, pansies or daisies make a pretty and tasteful heading for a deep lace frill or collarette, but they are suitable only for evening wear. Tur: TraveLine C1oax for young ladies’ sum- new orna- fitted from neck to foot, with checks of mingled ecru, garnet, brown and olive. There is a pointed hood with garnet silk lining. ER of plain white lawn shirred across, with two soft puffs around the neck, fills the pointed or square openings of dress w: two putts also edge the sleeves. If embroidery is preferred it is flat inside the open space, aud there are two standing frills around the neck. + Civstens of three-jet beads, strung together like a three-leaved clover, make a pretty finish to the edges of the basque, neck and sleeves of the black silk or grenadine dresses. Dull jet beads are used in the same way on biack nun’s Veiling dresses for ladies in mourning. Barurxe Svrrs are now made all in one plece, covering the wearer from the neck nearly to the ankles. On the belt of this garment is buttoned a skirt that drapes the figure. The single long garment is made of two p MATERIAL like that used for horse covers Is preferred in Paris for travel- ing dresses. The make fs simple in the extreme, isting of a plain skirt without flounce or kilt, and the tuatcis gathered into a few natural folds, but without trimming of any kind. The only ornaments aliowed gre bands of velvet around the skirt. ————-e0—_____ GES. GORDON AND BARLOW. A War Incident. From the New York Tribune. The ex-Confederate Genearl Gordon told anin- teresting story about two interviews he held with General Barlow. At Sharpsburg, Barlow ‘was apparently mortally wounded and fell into Gordon's hands. Gordon took a liking to him and asked if hecould not do something for Bar- low. “I think not, general,” said the young man; “I shall be buried here, no doubt. I do not expect to live. But you cando one thing for me; here is a Packaze of letters from my wife which I wish you to destroy before my * Gordon, wlio was then a young man “0, took the letters and was about to destroy them, when Barlow, with a bubble at his throat, murmured: “Would you take the trouble to Tead me one of then: first? Any one will do.” Gordon opened one of the lettersand read it to the dying man—his last friendly words, perhaps, frem home. Then the letters were destroyed. But the incident touched Gordon so that he made a special exertion to have Barlow sent through the lines or to have his wife admitted to him. This being done, the two armies fell apart aud tiese men saw each other no more. Gordon considered Barlow to be dead. Barlow had also seen thata Gen. Gordon had been killed somewhere. They met again at a friendly table in Washington, but did not know each other through the changes of time. After some lapse G “General Barlow, are you a rela- at Barlow who was killedat Antietam?” 0,” said the general, “Iam the same man.” ‘Ate you any relative.” inquired Barlow in turn, “of tliat General Gordon who was recently killed on the confedrate side?” *“That was my cousin, Tam Jno. B. Gordon.” Then at the request the persons who overheard, Barlow told the tale amid tears and emotion on every side. eo Three stadents in Montreal took a policeman’s ap and club away from him early on Sunday morning and walked off with them. ‘The weapons used in a duel by W: and Burkhart. Missourians, were clubs, which by agreement were to be perfectly smooth and weigh four poands apiece. Burkhart was hit on the temple, and instazitly Lilled. 2 | mer journeys is = cheviot Newmarket, closely | fore of his nev ally hewien waee of DO ARMY OFFICERS GAMBLE? A Littl Game Wizard Toox From the New York Sun. “Do army officers gamble?” A well-known Indian fighter on furlough reveated the ques- tion of a reporter of the Sun with an air of grim amusement. “Well, sir, Ican only answer for myself, but I do not; and I may add tor your satisfaction that I do not beat my wife. In fact,” added the brave old major gravely shouldn't dare to do either.” “But you are familiar with the recent scan- dals—the case of Major Nickerson, whose wife seems to have beaten him in the courts, and that of Paymaster Wasson?” “Two wiyes, like three aces, are never safe to gamble on,” observed the major sententiously. nok pretty, but they confuse a man’s judgment ard are relatively weak.” “Is not poker playing very common among the officers of the army, especially on frontier posts?” asked the reporter. “| don’t mind admitting to you that this card playing for money is a very bad thing for the y. It's against army regulations, and con. to goed discipline, and it pl: the very devil with the youngsters; but, bless my soui, sir, you might as well try to cashier a blizzard or court martial a flood on the Missouri as to abolish cards in the army. Human nature is human nature, even when it reports for duty at Fort Sill or Fort Arbuckle, and tie days out there. especially the stormy ones, are apt to stretch out as iong as an Indian buck’s idea of his treaty rights. They will play poker, elr, hould play, too, if I hadn’t had i end of the war, just’ before Appomattox, that I got sick of cards. Poor , Who was in the er affair, and I were on our way to the front to be in at the death. We were both cap- ti i same regiment, and he was quar- “We had just left Washington, and sat quietly smoking, when two men on the car asked us to make upaneuchretable. Of course, the game drifted into poker in a short time, and after losing all I cared to risk I quiet!y dropped out and gave my whole attention to watching the two strangers, who, I suspected, were systematicatly cheating, but whom I could not detect in any unfair play. “The hands ran small, and the game dragged. Once, when all three were in, one of the strangers bet 50, and, when the captain re- fused to call, expd table with an evil langh. I noticed, though, that the other stranger did not indulge in like folly, neither showing his hand nor calling. “The next deal the captain received four queens and a small card. There was lively betting before the draw, and then he drew a king. I saw the king as he picked it up. The dealer drew cards, how many 1 do not remem- ber. and the other stranger, after some clumsy hesitation, decided to ‘stand’ his hand, hold- ing the age. “Presently the dealer, the man who had once bet fifty on a worthiess hand, raised the cap- tain a hundred, and the ‘age’ man, who had stood his hand, dropped out. Then ‘the storm that had been brewing broke; the dealer made no disguise of consulting with his moneyed partner, and the captain no longer tried to look as if he were bluffing. Out of their combined funds the strangers managed to make a raise of a thousand dollars. “Their cards lay on the table in front of each, the dealer's arm lying across the pack as he looked triumphantiy at his adversary. TI strangers had evidently gauged the captain's resources to a fine point. As the train stopped Ileaned over him and whispered a word of warning, while the scamp across the table scowled as if he would like to pick a quarrel with me tor interfering. ““ «Lay down such a hand as that? Nonsense,’ was all the satisfaction I got from the capt. but he held up his cards for my inspection, and T assur . Sir, on my honor asa gentleman and an officer, that, in place of the stray king I had seen him draw, was an ace, an ace of di monds, sir, flanking his four queens. Of course, | the hand was rot intrinsically worth more than before, but the whereabouts of that floating king had become an Important factor, and when the captain asked me to lend him money I de- termined to see the thing out, and empijed ny pockets as eagerly as he did. ’ Unfortunately, 1 had but se hundred. and, all told, we could only muster eight hundred. ‘Not enough,’ sneered his opponent with an insolence that made me in turn long for the row he evidently sought. Will youtake my watch and chain for the balance?’ asked the captain. “Not much; we ain't pawnbrokers.’ And his companion added, ‘We'll show you what we are, if you want to know bad, when the game is done.” “The pair had thrown oft all disguise, and looked just what they were, two fourth-rate sharps. A “Teall asight for the money on the table,’ and the captain’s voice showed the self-control of an angry man. The two gamblers broke into a loud laugh, and the dealer reached for the money boldly. ‘Stop,’ I said; ‘it Is acall for that sum by the rules of the game. “The h— it ts! We don’t play no such child's game. It’s play, pay or travel.* “Just here a benevolent, pions-looking patri- arch across the aisle, who had watched the game with a sort of ministerial interest in orig- inal sin, quietly handed a roll of Dills to the j captain, saying in ® sing-song nasal tone, ‘Friend, if thee will gamble, thee may use my money to thy salvation.’ “The captain hesitated, but the gambling fever conquered, and the peaceful calm on the His face fell, however, as he found only the needed two hundred, not enough to teach the gamblers their own lesson. With an air of disappoint- ment he flung the bills on the board. W an insolent leer the gambler turned his cards face up with one hand, while with the other he | reached to draw in the money—reached only half way, though. for his jaw dropped and his face grew white with rage and astonishment as he saw his own cards facing him. Three aces and two kings! The wandering king had found helter, and the ace of diamonds was a hostage r with the captain. Jim, you're a fool, a — fool,’ hissed the dealer's pal. ‘ How did tt happen?” “Happen!” shouted Jim. “I'd take ten years to know who repiened it! "Tweren’t you,” he said to my friend,who sat astonished at the out- rst, but watchful of the money, “or you.” he said to me; ‘‘yer don’t know enough, but the ‘as allright until—curse me. if I don't that canting old Quaker pl: d It on us. Who are ye, anyway?” and Jim started toward the old gentieman. ou don’t seem to care to see my four said the captain, showing his hand. yer four queens. Yes, I thought so. er get that ace—say, old man, do enerable stranger turned slowly. “I think not, friend: but, that thee may honest man by name, I give thee min Jim snatched at the engraved visiting card and read it in a loud, angry PRoF. ANDERSON, izard of the North. ‘With an oath the other gambler sprang to. ward the money, but the captain was too quick for him, and, seizing him by both wrists, shook the money from his grasp. My turn came, too, as his confederate attempted to draw a knife or a pistol, I never knew which, and did not stop to ask. The precious pair of rascals, however, came to the conclusion that a row ‘warn’t busi- ness.’ They were assisted trom the train, Jim getting an extra spiteful shove and kick from his own partner, and retorting with curses as the train moved off. “Only once afterward did I see either of the scamps. I was sitting in my tent one day when my orderly reported to me that my men were ‘serving out’ @ gambler. Stepping outside I clearly saw the face of Jim. The men had tled him up to a wheel and were giving-him ‘sol- diers’ law.’ I looked the other way, sir, at once, and left him to pay the penalty of his sweat board swindle.” ‘And the Professor,” inquired the reporter, “did he touch the cards?” “He must have done so, though I did not see him, and I thought I was watching the game closely all the time. I suppose, though, I was watching my adversary’s eye and not his weapon, an excellent rule in broadsword practice, if not in poker.” ‘And you say you dare not play poker?” “Yes, sir, dare not,” and the Major’s eyes hed. “You must know, sir, that I lost my head and might have lost my commission for that game of poker. The money I put into that game was not my own. I-had seven hun- dred dollars which been handed to me just as I left home to give to one of my men, and I Fx, you he epi ‘as an officer and a gentleman, drop it money on the table just as if it was mine. That was lesson enough forme. A man who doesn’t stop to think whether money belongs to him or not had better leave the army or leave gambling.” “‘And you think that Paymaster Wasson may have been careless rather than criminal in his gambling transaction?” ‘ “No, sir, { think nothing ofthe sort, sir. A man who will oe with government funds, manufacture returns, cook his pay ac- counts and then pretend he has been robbed aworthless hand on the while his atcaunts show him to be a thief, str. may have lost his head at last, but he lost his honor before, if he ever had any, and is unfit tor the society ot gentlemen and officers. But, sir, did I not tell you that I would not be inter- viewed?" Some Th A man who can sit in his pew in church when the collection plate is being passed, with his eyes riveted on the ceiling and seeming to be engaged in silent prayer, while his fingers are in his pockets syueezing a nickel till the finger naiis are bloodshot. has mistaken his calling. Such a man should rope in suckers to play poker. The most successful poker player we ever knew was a truly good man who acted as usher ina church. He could disguise his feel- ings so you couldn't tell whether he hada “ge- quence® or a pair of deuces. He would draw to a pair of queens and get two more, and then he would throw down his hand in disgust, but finally, as he thought it over, he would say that he guessed he would simply chip so he wouldn't lore his blind, and somebody would bet $10 to raise him out, and he would see and raise and come back with a roll andscare the man ont of his boots. He was very successtal, but finally cht charges against him for heresy, it west with Lis savings, and now owns a bonanza farm In Dakota. Poker is being played so largely in society that a man mnust be mighty careful how he sits intoagame. Notlong ago, a gentleman who had played some years azo was at a card party at the home of a friend, and he was invited to sit In with a couple of dudes and a couple of du- desses, and, being an old bachelor, he thought he would show them that he was no dude, he could play poker. The first hand he got three ten spots, anda girl drew one card and beta dollar. He raised her five, thinking she might have two pair, when she came back at him with a ten-dollar bet, and he laid down his three ten spots, believing she had filled. As she raked in the money she laid down her hand, and it was a bobtail flush. The bachelor said she played that bobtail flush as though she had fours, and there was not amovement of a muscle of her face, though she breathed hard, and there was a geal- skin clcak gleam in her eye that paralyzed him. On the other hand, she looked as though she had lost every friend she had, and seemed to be sick withennui, and her whole face, as she simply put up a chip, seemed to be pleading with him to please not bet high, as she was only a poor orphan; but he bet $10, tea to show her that he knew his business, and to get down her $30 and sald she would raise him 20, just to keep up the im- terest, and thinking of her bobtail tlush that she had blufted him on berore.he put up the money, and she threw down four jacks, as Innocent as a baby, and he had only a nine-spot full,and she, as she raked in the money, laushed so sweetly that the bachelor said he didn’t care for the money. The game of draw poker is fashion- able. and it is dangerous, unless a man knows enough to cut the cards. : ———+¢.-____ ‘The ladestructible Small Boy. From tue Burlington Hawkeye. The Early Peach came to 8 place where four roads met. He slapped his chest with his stem and looked to the east and to the west. " he cried, “1 am the boss, and I drive the ambulai e The little Green Apple came down _the long Toad from the west and heard him. He bowed to the north and he bowed to the west. “Tam the son of the cyclone,” he shouted, “and I travel with my own private coroner.” “By the camel ot Mahomet,” said the Early Peach, ‘I am the friend of the sexton, and I can knock you out in four rounds, Marquis of Tewksbury rules.” “Come to the wake,” shrieked the little Green Apple, “and you may call me the harmless p: paw of the wilderness if 1 cannot double up the man who planted you.” Then they looked down the four long roads and waited for some one to practise ot From the east came a fair young girl from Vassar col- lege and up from the south came a gray-haired African. “Take you the fair student,” sald the Early a said the little Green Apple; ‘‘I didn’t come here to attempt impossibilities. For nearly 10 years that girl has sat at surreptitious midnight lunches; she has broken up a score of young men with her ice-cream bills, and still she is hungry. But I will stand aside and give you a chance at the African.” “Tam not on the suicide lay this morning,” said the Early Peach. “I know him, and al- ready since yester-eyen’s sun there ‘haye re- posed beneath his untroubled vest a peck and a half of my brethren, and he 1s even now fam- ished. He Is knownas the destroyer of water- melons, and all my tribe fear him. Allah is great, but some things are impossible.” So they let many people pass by unharmed, the old, the tough, the wary and the I-sea- soned, But when the day was far spent, com- ing down the long road from the west they saw a ruddy boy, the pride and Joy of his home, and the torment of his teacher. Whistling a merry roundelay he came, his face as rosy asthe glow- ing west. bis heart as light as thistle-down. He was their meat: Early Peach and the little Green Apple set teeth, and breathed hard as he came near. “Now!” they shri . and livid with hate they fiercely sprang upon him. Intwo short minutes that boy had both of them down, and as he cracked the peach pit to it the “goody,” he said: jimmy jinks, 1 wisht I knowed where I conid tind a bushel of them fellars.” The Early Peach, with a dying gasp, turned and said: “We were taken In.” With a hollow groan the little Green Apple re- hed: ot corpse. But the boy slept soundly all that night, and came back the next day to look for more. ————o Saturday Smiles. Ruskin says no couple should marry until they have courted seven years. This would lead one to think that Ruskin runs a soda fountain.—Boston Post. Surprised eyebrows are among the new fashions. They are very becoming to a maiden when she suddenly he fat the ice creain has given out.—Oculist’s Oddities. The girl who hasn't a moment to spare when the dishes have to be washed thinks nothing about time when sheis trying to cqger an eighth of aninch pimple with a sixteenth of an inch piece of court plaster.—Syracuse Herald, Asiander: A wild woman has been captured near Louisville. She had probably read some- where that the ice-cream crop was blighted.— Indianapolis Journal. Legal: A French investigator has discovered that the character of a person’s dream depends ina great measure on which side the sleeper lies.” The dreams of a lawyer, then, who habi- tes on both sides, must be very much —Boston Transeri Three years constant study in Italy will mgke an American girl know too much to sing” in church, and too little to be useful in opera.— New Orleans Picayune. “Statira Jane,” said a fond mother, the other morning, to her daughter, ‘did Dantel Johnson kiss you on the steps last night?” “No, mamma, he did not.” If the tond parent had said mouth instead of steps, it would have troubled Jane to reply; although, after all, steps are things toa door.—Boston Courier. The Winterport correspondent of the Belfast Journal relates that little Josie was accused by her sister of telling a falsehood. She at first denied, but afterward said by way of extenua- tion, ‘‘Well, suppose I did lie; everybody lies but God and George Washington.” This same little girl was asked if she sald her prayers. She replied: ‘ Ihave to take Kennedy's medicine. and that Is enough without saying mny prayers. “Hot! Why, it’s five degrees hotter here than at home! I thought this was one of the coolest places in the country?” “My dear sir, this is an off year, you know! Every year but this we have had to keep up fires in July, and we shall probably have to next year in. Itis a sort of an extra session, you see,” “But where are those cool breezes you advertised?” “Oh, they are over on the other side of the lake to-day. You see, this is only one side of the lake, and we can’t expect to monopolize all the breeze there is. We must divide up and give the other resorts some of it.—Detroit Free a Twenty-five yearsago a young lady of this town had a singular dream. She consulted a dream book, and learned that she would have four husbands before she reached the age of thirty. This made her rather independeet, and she is now an old maid of forty-two, and has never had a beau. Some dream books are not as ee as they might be.—Norristown The Indian problem: Indlans are like sheep; they may be ruled by a Crook.—Buffalo Courier. John Howard Payne revised: Be it ever 80 sweltering there’s no place like home.—Augusia Chronicle and Constitutionalist. The warm weather brings the dogs to muzziin and summer pants.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. Watermelon-growers in the south estimate that ifthe comet had put in an The special correspondence of the Philadelphia Times from Long Branch says: A gentleman in this neighborhood, one of the directors of the United States National Bank of New York, of which Genera! Grant is also a director, has told ofa most Interesting meeting of the board of directors a short time ago. The narrator of the ineidenthad been reading General Sheridan's article on Lee's surrender inthe North American Review, and when General Grant entered, atter all the members of the board had assembled, he mentioned to him what he had been reading and asked him if he had any objection to gratifying those present by his personal reminiscences of that momentous occasion. For once General Grant was in the humor to talk and talked well for over an hour on ail branches of the subject, giving a clear, concise history of the days pre- ceding the surrender and all events connected with it. The narrator says all present were thrilled by the recital and the bank books were closed by the vice president of the bank, who declared the meeting adjourned to listen to this chapter of history. General Grant himself showed much emotion at times. In speaking of the meeting of himself and General Lee when the latter came to arrange with him the terms of surrender, he said that they shook hands as old comrades in the army and first talked over West Point experiences and those of their anny lfe at the samestations elsewhere In a matter-of- course way, asif they had metagain under ordi- nary circumstances. Then, when General Lee said to him, “General Grant, we come here, each representing our own country, to treat with each other.” “Not so,” firmly said General Grant, “we do not - represent two countries, but one.” He said that more than once, when General Lee used the same form of expression he interrupted him, insisting that but one nation was represented by both of them. His whole idea, as understood by his au- ditors, was to convey to General Leéthe im- pression that it was not two foreign nations that had warred against each other, buta pater- nal government. which haying sufficiently chag- tised a naughty child. was willing to forgive and receive the child again as a child on con- ciliatory terms. General Grant sald that he sat down at the table inthe memorable McClean farm house and wrote out the terms of the surrender, and that when General Lee saw them and ire (Gen- eral Grant) said to him: “Let your officers and men keep their horses; we don’t want them and they will need them, for it will soon be time for them to begin their farming and they will want the horses to help them; I want all of you to take your horseshome with you.” General Lee's eyes filled with tears, and he sald more than once, as he read the terms of the surrender “This will have a splendid effect at the south. General Grant further said to him: ‘‘Now this war should be all over. You, with your influ- ence?at the south, should see to it that not an- other gun is fired, not another life lost. After this a lite lost in any fight would be murder, and you can preyent it.” General Lee anz swered: ‘Well, I will speak to Mr. Davis about it.” General Grant, in telling the story, added: “Ifthat had been Jo Johnston instead of Lee. he would never haye said that. He would him- self have assumed the responsibility of declaring that the war should be over on his side, as I did on mine, but Lee did not like to take the re- sponsibility of making that pledge to stop the Ponting at once until he had consulted with avis." ——_——_+e-____ GOTHAWS BUGGY MEN, What it Costs in New rk to Bun Your Own “furnout.? HORSES THAT REQUIRE MORE TO SU! IN A MONTH THAN A LARGE 817 THE EXTORTIONS OF HOTELS. PORT THEM FAMILY— From the New York Journal. Keeping a buggy has become an expensive luxury the past two or three years, in New York city particularly, The prices charged by first-class hotel-keepers are outrageous and yleld them an altogether unfairly large profit. Where a man has a single horse and buggy he is compelled to go to a boarding stable because it would not pay to hire a stall to keep one horse, for it would mean the hire of a man as well to take care of it. Whena gentleman has three or four horsts, it pays to hire stalls or a whole stable, because the necessary coachman can act as hostler also. But it is also very ex- pensive. A well-known drive of fast horses has a stable of his own on 26th street, not far from 6th avenue. In this he keeps four horses; two for the road and two for carriage driving. The value of the stable and land is 220,000. He pays his coachman $60, and gives him rent and coal, pe latter at an average of two tons a month. bi Waxes, coachman and groom. Shoeing, repairs and harness. Feed at $10 a month, each horse $3,950 led the average loss of one horse in four per year, elther from being worn out, injured or dying.’ The gentleman in question pays an average of $1,200 each for his horses, so that the total cost would be about 25.150 a. year, including everything, or some- thing in the neighborhood of $100 a week, sup- posing carriages to be already there. In proportion it costs more to keep one horse anda buggy or pheton. Any uptown drst- class livery stable man charges £35 a month for the keeping of one horseand wagon. Six years ago the price was #20. In 1879 it was ralsed to $25, and in 1880 and 1881 the price of oats got to be so high that they raised the monthly board to $30. Last fall the livery stable keepers banded together and resolved to make the price . You had to pay it because no first-class stable would take your horse at less. Oats had gone down, but that made no difference. ‘They said they wanted to recoup on what they had made when oats were up. The $35 com- prises the storage of one wagon and sleigh if necessary and the cleaning ot the harness. An owner of a horse can go five times a day to have his horse harnessed if he wants to. There is no extra charge. The man who keeps a horse is, however, expected to fee the man .who takes care of it and the man who cleans the wagon. The groom can give extra care to a trotter in bandaging, and so forth, which is well worth an occasional dollar. The wagon washer, too, can put much or little time on a wagon. Beyond the #35, say #31n fees. Then there is the shoeing at $3 a month. A buggy is al- ways wanting something done—rubbers, washers, bolts, occasionally something is smashed, spokes get loosened, and the tires heed setting. This all costs an average of about €3.a month, if not more, so that the total of keeping one horse in New York—as a good horse should be kept—amounts to froin $40 to $45 a month, or $1.50 per day The actual keep of the animal does not exceed €8 a month h twelve quarts of oats per day,two armfuls of hay and straw for bedding. One mantakescare of four horses and he gets $30 a month,an aver- age of $7.50 to each horse. Rent at #4 a stall, other expenses at $5 month, and the actual expense to the stable-keeper on each horse is £24.50 per month, giving a profit of only $10.50 per horse—not too mnch considering that the risks involved, the care and attention, the know- lege required, and the fact that three months ot the yeat may almost be put down as a dead loss. It is a very large stable that will accommodate 200 horses. The profit on this would not be over $12,000 a year. ——_____ee____ 5 Sandikin Society, One of the most singular, Cousiderate and original benevolent institutions is undoubtedly the Sandikin society, of Berlin, of Israelitic origin, intended forthe rellef of indigent mothers immediately atter their confinement. The soci- ety has two collection doxea, one marked with the letter A (Aleph), the other with B (Beth). ‘The former is sealed, and can, in pase of neces- sity, be opened by the elders only; the other is always open. On the occurrence of a death in the Israelite community (be the family rich or poor), or on the confinement of a woman be- longing to the same, the open box, B, filled with money, as well as the sealed one, A, issent to thetamily, the head of which is free to appro- priate the money in B,wholly or in part; if only io part, he or she is required to put the remain- der into box A. Rich persons are expected to transfer the whole of the contents of box B into A, and to add thereto whatever their conscience or their means wili prompt or permit them. The messenger of the society calls after some days to retake the boxes. He, of cot finds box B empty, but nobody knows whether the money sent in the same has been used or whether more has been added to A. Meanwhile the indi; have been assisted without having felt embar- and the rich have done good without ostentation. The society has existed for more than a centary; its humane pu are said to have of late years been to lef of mothers only. An Indiana woman gave up a nia, sold her ticket for halt pri home from the railroad station, she could not have her pet dog car. the re- ip_ to Califor. and learnt with her 4 FLIRTING HEN. The Bad Boy Gets the Grocery Mian on @ String and Talks Poultry, From Peck's Sun. “Had a faneral in our house yesterday,” said the bad boy, as he took a pickle out of the tub and put it in the cat’s mouth and shut her teeth together on it. and then went to the show-case, while the grocery man, whose back had been turned during the pickle exercise, thought by the way the cat Jumped into the dried apple barrel and begat to paw and scratch with all four of her feet, and yowl, that she was going to have a fit. I hadn't heard about it,” said the grocery man, as he took the cat by the neck and tossed her out in the back shed into an old oyster box full of sawdust, with a parting injunction that ifshe was going to have fits she better go out where there was plenty of fresh air. “Death is always a sad thing to contemplate. One day we are full of health and joy and cold victuals, and the next we are acrewed down in a box. & few words are said over our remains, and a few "ars are shed, and there is a race to see who all get back from the cemetery first,and though We may think we are an tmportant factor in the world’s progress, and sometimes feel as though it would be unable to put up margins and have to stop the deal. the world goes right along, and it must annoy people who die to realize that they don't count for game. The greatest man in the world ts only a nine spot when he ts dead, because somebody else take: the tricks the dead man ought to have taken. But say, who is dead at your house?” ‘Our rooster. Take care, don't you hit me with that canvased ham,” said the boy, as the grocery man looked mad to Jearn that there was nobody dead but a rooster, when he had preached such a sermon on the subject. “Yes, how soon we are forgotten when we are gone. Now, you would have thought that rooster's hen would have remained faithful to him for a week at least. I have watched them all the sprit and I never saw a more perfect picture of devotion than that between the bantam rooster and his hen. They were constantly to- gether, and there was nothing too good for her. He would dig up angle-worms and-call her, and when she came upon a gallop and saw the great big worm on the ground she would look so proud of her rooster, and he would straighten up and look as though he was saying to her, ‘I'm a daisy," and then she would look at him as if she would like to bite him, and Just asshe was going to pick up the worm he would snatch it and swallow it himseif, and chuckle and walk around and be fuli of business, as though wondering why she didn’t take the worm after he had dug It for her, and then the hen would look disappointed at first, and then she would look resigned, as much as’ to s ‘Worms are too rich for my blood anyway, and the poor dear rooster needs them more than I do, because he has to do all the crowing,’ and she would go off and find a grass- hopper and eat it on the sly for fear he would see her and complain because ~she didn't divide. ©,I have never seen anything that seemed to me so human as the relations between that rooster and hen. He seemed to try to do everrthing for her. He would make her stop cackling when she laid an egg, and he would try to cackle and crow over It as though he had laid it, and she would get off in a corner and cluck in a modest, retiring manner as though she wished to convey the Idea to the servant girls in the kitchen that the rooster had to do all the hardwork, and she was only a use- less appendage, fit only for eoclety and company for him. But I was disgusted with htm when the poor hen was setting. The first week that she sat on the cegs he seemed to get along first rate, because he had a couple of flower- beds to dig up, which a press of business had caused him to neglect before. and a couple of neighbors’ gardens to destroy, so he seemed to be glad to have his hen retire to her boudoir and set, but after he had been shooed out of the garden and flower-beds he seemed to be nervous, and evidently wanted to be petted, and he would go near the hen and she would seem to tell him to go and takea POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. _ FAMILY SUPPLIES. Sreawen F. oR Corostat AND CLARK'S WHARF leave Ferry wharf SATURDAY, July 14, LAYS AT THE BEACH, returning Sunday 4:30 p. m. Fare, round trip, $1. Refreshments on board. j11-3t Besca 4:30 p.m., 200 POZes surEnion cLaner wing $3.80 TO #6 DOZEN. © 352. PERS oRIVER, LANDINGS — THOMPSON leaves ‘Bixtn-street DAYS, 7 a. m., Currioman, Howard, Coburn and Stone's ‘TUESDAY, making all river landings. STEAMER Whart ‘MON- going as far as Beal's Nomini, '¢; returning WEDNESDAY, 7 s. m., Lancaster, Bluff Point, Beal's Nomini, Abel's and Leonardtown; returning THURSDAY, making all river landings. FRIDAY, 7 & m., Curricman, Rowand, Coburn, Abelis, Stone's and Leonanitown; retarniug SATUR- DaY, making all river landings. each way, 25 cents, 29 STEAMER AnhowsMITH, Leaves 7th street wharf at Ta. m. POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS, ‘with Baltimore and Ohio R. RB. eo, at Alexandria with 7:30 a.m. urdays for Currioman, Leouardiown and landings, returning Sida s. a 2 for st" F returning Fridays: On Sat- hvermediate Lowest rane: 80 CENTS EACH WAY. POINT LOOKOUT, FORTRESS MONROE aXD NORFOLK. ONLY BOA STOPPING AT POINT LOOKOUT. Close cornection with trains for OCEAN VIEW. LADY OF THE street wharf, WEDN ruing MO ‘Lickets and tional Metropolitan Bank, 613 15th street. terminus of 7ta CADAYS ond 3 Uabay . DAY MORNING about’ Connection with steamer for Boston, New York and Richmond. LAKE, and 9th and FRI- ‘about 6 staterooms sectired at general ation, Be- Lo RARE! POPULAR STEAMERS. DAILY LINE!” UNITED STAT! Piney Point Poiut Lookout, Round Trip, a Saturdays at ‘Saturday N: Monday morning. ers. Freight received daily until 5 p. ¥M. P. WELC! seFittt-class accommodation cannot be furnished for Steamer leaves 7th-stroet wharf daily, except Sunday, $1.00 ht ..xcursionsa special feature. Return Round trip t.ckets good on either Leary or Exccisior. F-xclusive connection with the Boston and Providence mere. L. M. HUDGINS, Gen. Supt. eR M® VERNON! ur. VERNON! STEAMER W. W. feaves 7th street wharf daily fernon at 10 o'clock #, m. ; retu ton about 3:30 p.m. L. L. BLAKF, Captain. CORCORAN (except Sunday) for ning reaches Washing: Mt. FUR, Capt. W.C. arf tootet 708 ‘The ates: Stephenson’ Ak » for 1OTe an Balt at4 o'clock p. m. turning, lea p.m. ‘All accommodations strictly fi Haver freight must SATURDAYS only. STEPHENSON & BRO., PeTOMAG TRANSPORTATION LINE. Geogheran, leaves every SUNDAY, River Landines. itimore every FRIDAY at 5 o'clock rst-clars. ‘bo prepaid, and will be received on mi6-6m__Tthetrest wharf and 12th st: and Pa ave. IP}BE STEAMER MATTANO LEAVES ton on Stndays, Tuesdays aud o'clock a.m., for Potomac Kiver Lani days up. Brent's wh down, and Mond ‘Thureds} Inesdays up. Creek (destination) Sundays, Tuesdays and The WASHING. at 7 aint Th Mattox redays. ickages received and information give at offices of L. SHERIFF, 328 and 111. th street G. 14 Penni G. T. JONES, Ager, hart. _STEAMERS, AM N LINE-SUMMER SERVICE. FR, JOR Pennsylvania avenne, ‘T THE PALACE MARKET. os 1AM SELLING Bhiiver's best Tomatoes, 31b. cans... ‘orn ” = TRASK TIRD Ts, corner 14th and New York avenue. NOTICE TO HOUSEKERPERS LA RRR FER SR RFE £ Ke RRR J Sess, See BBE Bo Goo Ere R EB Ene Sgss5 > e858, TITT FRE RR! 4 TONS § oy Tt § i NN 5a°% wet t ELE RE HE Eco Sess8_ ean Eas tT RSS RREREL ot XN cA RPP TE Hd BS 89°C PREC E HARE kas RERRLUILMA aN XN Goo GGG oO LF DD ERE NN N G@eo°o Er NNN ‘Gua “vO Ker hh Hn DT 3 HO 5 HH foe To “ WILT, ALWAYS MAKE BEAUTIFUL BOLLS, BREAD AND BISCUITS. ‘Wholesale Depot, coruer Ist street aud Ln: jana avenue, Jel WM. M. GALT & CO. city. are — ree — ____ FINANCIAL. __ Tih. GREAT TROUBLE IN BOTH THE OLD constant wit: and ordinary Assessment the the HeaLTne TLVAL Kee N this great ati of permancnt a ki ise pas gues at wep up thelr payments than on any 0 Ish Wetreet. Tod KAIGHT. Manaser. 10 'T AND 1) Deposits receive subject to check. We pay SPECIAL attention to obtaining CORRECT and RELIALLE information regarding ont various city eccurities, and are prepared at all times to auswer tpqule Ties regarding same, HARRY C. TOWERS & CO., BANKEKS, BROKERS AND INSURANCE, my31 1420 F STREET NORTHW Ppetvate STOCK TELEGRAPH WIRES a WASHINGTON, BREW YORK AND RICHMOND. H. H. DODGE, Bonds, Stocks and Investment Sccnrition Bought and ‘fold on Commission, No. (89 i6ra BTREET, (CORCORAN BUILDING) 4eencs for Prince and Whitely, ®tock Brokera, (4 Buoapway. New Youn. walk around the block, because she hadn't time to leave her business, and if she didn’t attend toit they would have a lot of spoiled egza on their hands, and no family to bring up. He would scold, and seem to tell her that it was all foolishness; that for his part he didn't want to hear a lot of chickens squawk- ing around. He would seem to argue with her that @ brood of chickens would be a dead give-away on them both, and they would at once be classed as old folks, while if they were alone in the world they would be spring chickens, and could go in young society, but the hen would scold back, and tell him he ought tobe ashamed of himself to talk that way, and he would go off mad, and sulk around a spell, and then go to Quebec to Liverpool every Saturday, shortest ocean voyace. Only five days fi making the from land to land. Accommodations unsurpassed, Cabin—§70 and ‘$80 single; $135 and $:60 Excursion. Baltimore to Liverpool every alternate Tuesday, via Halifax and St. Johna, N. F. Intermediate Paseage, £40. Prepaid Steerage, £21. LEVE & ALDEN, General Agenta, 207 Broadway, New York; At Washington, D. C.: D. A. BROSNAN, 612 9th etreet. , 711 7th atreet, Pennsylvania avenue, jyll-w.s,m,6m_ formation regarding the Markets received through wires INSTASTLY airect irom te Sew York exchansr. RAILROADS. HE GREAT mM, 18S. Trarxs LEAvE WASHINGTON, FROM STATION, CORNER OF SIXTH AND B STREETS, ak FOLLOWS:>— a neighbor's hen-house, and sometimes he wouldn't come back till the next day. The hen would be sorry she had spoken so cross, and would seem pained at his going away, and would look anxiously for his return, and when he came back, after being out in the rain all night, she would be solicitous after his health, and tell him he ought to wrap something around him, but he acted as though he didn't care for health, and he would go out again and get chilled through. Finally the hen came off the nest with ten chickens, and the rooster seemed very proud, and when any body came aut to look at them he would crow, and seem to say they were all his chickens, though the hen was a long time hatching them, and if it had been him that was setting on them he would have hatched them out in a week ordied a trying. But the exposure told on him, and he went into a decline, and one morning we found him dead. Do you know I never see a hen that seemed to realize a calamity as she did. She looked paie, aud her eyes looked red, and she seemed to be utterly crushed. If the chickens, which were 80 young they could not realize that they were little or- phans, became noisy. and got to pulling and hauling over a worm, and conducted them- selves in an unseemly manner, she would talk to them in hen language, with tears in her eyes, and it was a picture of woe. But the next day a neighboring rooster got to looking through the fence from the alley and trying to flirt with her. At first she was indignant and seemed to teli him he ougnt to go about his business and feave her alone, but the dude kept clucking.and pretty coon the widowed hen. edged up toward the fence and asked him to come in, but the hole in the fence was too small for him, and then the chickens went out in the alley and the hen foliowed them out. I shall always think she told the chickens to go out, so she would have an excuse to go after them and flirt with the rooster, and I think it is a perfect shame. She ts out in the alley halt the time,and and I couldcuff her. It seems to me wrong to 80 soon forget a deceased rooster; but 1 sup- pose a hen can’t be any more than human. Say, you don’t want to buy a good dead rooster, do you? You could pick it and sell it to somebody that: owes you, tor a spring chicken. “No. 1 don’t want. any decased poulty that died of grief, and‘you better gohome and watch your hen, or you will be bereaved some more,” and the grocery man went out in the shed to see if the cat was over its fit, and when he came back the boy was gone, and after a while the grocery man saw a crowd In front of the store, and he went out and found the dead rooster lying on the vegetable stand, with a paper pinned on its breast, on which was a sign: “This ruster dide ofcolix. For sale cheep to boarding-house cou he He took the dead rooster and threw it out in the-street, and looked up and down the street for the bad boy. and went In and hida raw hide where he could reach it handy. Ingersoll’s Reflections on Death. From the New York World. The following lines are an extract taken from @ letter recently written by Colonel Ingersoll from Long Beach to a personal friend who had suffered a beréavement in the death of his mother: e “After all there is something tenderly appro- riate in the serene death of the old. jothing ls more touching than the death of the young,. the strong. But when the duties of life have all been nobly done—when the sun touches the horizon, when the purple twilight falls upon the present, the past and future—when memory with dim eyes can scarcely spell the records of the vanished days—then, surrounded by kin- dred and by friends, death comes like a strain of music. ‘The day has been long, the road weary, and we gladly stop at the inn. Life isa Sistows arenes and winding road, on which we travel for a little way—a few short ste Nearly forty-eight in the little town of (URTH GERMAN LLOYD— Sreamsuip Line Between New Yore, Haver, Lonbox. SOUTHAMPTON aND BREMEN. The steamers of this company NESDAY AND SATURDAY from of3a Hoboken. Kat York to Hayre, London, first cabin, $101 paid steer: second cabin, $60. certificates, 22." For freischi $30. o to OELRICHS & 2 Bowling t York, W. G. METZEROTY k CO. 93s Peuneyivania Cc northwest, Agents for Washinton. es of passage: , Rombampton and will sail EVERY WED. ‘Bremen » From" New : pre- passage + OF panmage dal: SP notre. THE CUNARD BT EAMsitt BETWEEN NEW YORK CALLING AT CORK H. iP COMPANY LIMITED, AND LIVERPOOL, CA FEOM PIER 40.8. 2 NEW YORE ea., Juiy 18. Aurania § July 25. 1 Bervia Bothnia.” "Wed. AND EVERY W! ates modation ED! {Nx Ot passaye—$80 ana $100, according YORK. ‘to accom- Eteerage at low rates. Steerage tickets from Liv- erpcol aid Queeastown and all othat pariaof Earopest ‘Through bills of Jaden given for Belfast, Havre, Antwerp and other porta Sn the Continent atthe Company's oflon, ‘Washington, ‘D ports. For freigiit and paseage Ro. 4 Bowling Green, or OLS BIGELOW & OU., 605 7th street, "',, VERNON H. BROWN & C0.. Jani? . New Messrs. OF15 BIGELOW & CO., 605 7th street. Washincton. and York, powered, ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM. — EW YORI Dutch Steamehips of this Ling, AMS(ERDAM. ROTTER- AM SCHIEDAM, LE RDAM. ZAANDAM. P. C, MAAS, carrying Am: ‘First cabin, $70: second cable, B. CAERUX, Genial ‘Agent, 271 se 'w York. “For passe ‘Co. 8 fatnston &CO.. 82: MEDICAL, &e. MA ANHOOD ii wy eae of early dility, Premature every known rei D. ‘To all who are suffering from the ‘discretions of youth, nervous weakness, Joss of mi de you, FREE OF GH. fellcaadscused envel 2 v Station D. New York City. iE. This, Twill eenda reciys that witl loser T. 2, ta, FOREST HAS REMED frour] to9 p.m., Y FOR LA- BS BROTHERS AND GRAY GIVE rescriptions and cend yon to some: fin who divide is NO FREE in fa cure of private BROT and GRAY, 906 B street southwest. ine, turniel years’ guarantee s cure or no pay. ‘:26-1m* LADIES’ | FRIEND—MOTT'S female, Ts, HOMEO- plaints, obstructions ti 6; no taste southwest. a rea Ly Wee Wve years’ experience. CONSULT ate treated. 3e16-1m* ‘ANT TO LADIES.—LADIES Tinccomtmod sted wth Board, before, family. lire street, Baltimore. Dr. ‘the Generative Organs, $ per bottle. ‘with Motleal Treatment “is ‘e Mrs. M. H. SLOANE, 116 North Car- Adgroee NE ‘orth Car MAY BE ‘and after for ‘RO! Cat. nw. ee api ‘ANHOOD RESTORED Mcrtwoot De. BROTHERS Wil eure any case of Seminal We system. 906 B st. aw. R™ BeaDU ‘Refers to 30 N. Liberty at., USING ‘THE MOST RELIABLE AND in this with 18 2 in. ‘Organs, Weeknem, etc. confidential, Can consulted from2 9 p.m. at his fice. $36 of Wednes- Balti Ma. Invigorating Cordis jeakness, Kervous De- a econo THE- TRADES. oe L. ee peed prices. EDGERS, JOUBS. fo Foe sty nae OTE Om For Pittsburg and the West, Chicaco Limited Express ‘of Talace Sleeping Care at 0-80 actus daily Pant 1m. « with Pleeping Car Pittsbur caro. Mail pret Pek daily, for Pitteburg and the West with . Palace Neemng Car ote ae to Sree “BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. Fm dali, extort Saturday. wit Phises Cone m. ly, except purday, wit! e Car, ritiugton t0°Canahdaigua, ad Harrisburg 0 Butaio. For Williamsport, Lock Haven and Elmra, at 9:30 a.m. daily, except Sunday, w dd the East, 62000. m., 1 and 10:20. m. On Sur m. 2: and 10: Parlor Cars, 9:50 a. For Boston without change, ‘On Sundsy, 4: m™. Brook .¥., all throneh trains ¥ with boats of Brovkiyn Annex, aff? direct transfer to Fulton strect, avoiditiy do itimore, 6:40, 8:00, 9-30, 9-50, 20:40 a. 1:36, 3:35, 4:20, 4-40, 6-20, '7:30,0.50 and’ } m. On dun 30, 10:40 a. un. 4:20, 6:20, 7:30, 9:50 and 10:20. m. For Pope's Creek Line, 6:40 a.m. and 4:40p.m. daily, ‘except Suni F Anuapolis, 6:40 a.m, and Dem. daily, except ANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RATL- WAY, AND ALEXANDKIA AND WASHINGTON RAILROAD. For, Alexadria, 6 gna9:10 p.m 8:00, and 10:06 a.m: 7-0 ‘Tickets and information jortheast cor- ner of 13th street and Pennsylvania avenue and st t Station, where orders can be leit for the checking Dagwave to destination from hotels and residences. ve General ‘Agent 1K. WOOD, al it CHAS. E. PUGH, General Manwer. 39 kTWEEN AST AND THE WEST. VIA WASHINGION. DOUBLE TRACK!) JAANEY May Leave Washington from station, Corner of Ne ayenueand C IsR3. Jere ‘or Chicago, Cincinnati, Lonisville and St. Louis gaily at 3:05 0. m.» 10-15 a. m., 10:10 p.m. with hrough Coaches aid Palxce ‘Slee Cars Dove points, without change; 10:15 ‘daily to pt Satu: 30 8. m. to Pitts 15 a.m. r, With wl for rol ‘Trains Tor" Philadelphia and New Vork st 6:10 a.m, Gaily exorpt Sunday ; 3 p. 49:40 p. an. daily, witle lor and Sleeping Care attached. imore on week days, 5, 6:30, 6. 7 nd Hk 1 320. 2:36, ‘oF stations on Metropolitan SEIY “Ter Bteuntocs 8:30" uaa, daity “etece day; joe Frederick 6:30a.m., 10:15 a.m. and 445 n 1035 sm. daily cxeept Sunday, 6:45 arrive from the West daily, 6:20, 7:354.m., 338, 5 9:25 p.m. From New York and Philadelphia, 2:55, 8:30 a.m, datiy, 8:10 p.m except >) ‘and 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. an tana aye commumers ta reepecttully invited to STEPHENSON & BRO., ‘Th ot. wharf and 12th st. and aP. ave, gr leans and ean be